SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Canadians don't want to be forced into electric cars
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Justin Trudeau wants us all in electric cars. He never asked us what we think. But somebody did. And guess what? We don t like it. Guest: Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Justin Trudeau wants us all to be in electric cars. He never asked us what we think.
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Somebody did. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Justin Trudeau's government has banned the sale of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2035.
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Do you want to drive an electric car? I know I don't.
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I wouldn't mind being able to get to town in the wintertime for groceries,
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if anybody can afford groceries in the year 2035 or fueling up a vehicle.
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Well, in 2035, or for that matter, surviving the winter in 2035,
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if the Liberals remain in charge with their radical green energy policies,
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which continue to make life too expensive in this country.
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Now, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation actually asked Canadians what they think
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about this push to put us all in these green abominations they call vehicles.
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So joining me now to discuss the findings of the Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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and more, including last night's vice presidential debate,
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is my friend Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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I wanted to have you on, Chris, because we frequently talk about energy affordability,
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And I know you focus a lot on this and how climate policies just make your life so much more expensive.
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And there are all these sorts of pernicious little ways that these expensive climate policies
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are foisted upon and unwilling and unable to bear the burden taxpayer.
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So we talk a lot about the carbon tax, but that's just not the only way.
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One of the other ways is this push to get us all into these vehicles that don't work in our environment.
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Now, we know that the federal government has accelerated the push for electric cars.
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And they're doing this through expensive subsidies.
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Thankfully, the uptake on the subsidies is low for the taxpayers.
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But nobody ever asked us what we want, what we want with these things.
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So the Canadian Taxpayers Federation actually did that.
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You asked the Canadian public, the government is going to do this to you.
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So here at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we've noticed a pattern.
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So to give you an example, the Trudeau government isn't just paying off the mainstream media
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with hundreds of millions of your dollars, plus the $1.4 billion for the CBC.
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They're also trying to monitor and restrict your free expression online.
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And so with this one, again, here's the two sides.
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Yeah, they're trying to crush you with the carbon tax to make regular energy unaffordable
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when you have nowhere else to go, which is a huge financial punishment.
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But on the other side of the vice, they're banning normal vehicles.
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So they're going to ban, the Trudeau government is going to ban the sale of new gasoline, diesel,
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So anybody who bought a hybrid vehicle because they were trying to get around this nonsense
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while still having a vehicle that might work, they're going to get hit with this too.
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Yes, so they only want, for some reason, they've decided they only want battery-powered cars
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So if you've got gasoline, diesel, or some hybrids, some hybrids are getting in under the
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But the main takeaway is the normal vehicles that millions of us buy and we depend on every
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single year and choose to go purchase are soon going to be banned in Canada.
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And folks who are watching, if they think 2035 is way far in the future, that is about
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Because I was just about to say, that's about how long Prime Minister Stephen Harper has
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So if you remember that day clearly, that's how soon these gasoline and diesel-powered
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new vehicle sales are going to be outlawed in Canada.
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One, people should be able to purchase the vehicle they want to because, you know, we're
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We don't have enough juice in Canada to make these battery vehicles go vroom, vroom.
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Three, we can't afford the price tag that this is going to cost to build the new power
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plants, power lines, infrastructure, and charging stations for this thing.
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Very few people have realized this yet of just how stark this ban will be.
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But still, when the Taxpayers Federation, we hired a very reputable polling firm, Leger.
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This just wasn't something that we asked on Twitter from our supporters.
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Leger asked, are you in favor of this vehicle ban?
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Are you in favor of the electric vehicle forced mandate?
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When you remove the undecideds, so those who actually have made up their minds, more than
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And I would argue that's with very little information.
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Like, mainstream media isn't covering this super hot and heavy.
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You're not hearing this in the House of Commons very much.
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You have to be a super into it political nerd to know this is coming down the pipe.
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So even with all that understood, if you take away the undecideds, for those who've
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made up their mind, yeah, more than 60% of Canadians are saying, um, no, we don't want
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And for those people out there who say, well, I don't have a car, I, you know, pulling an
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But even if you say, like, I don't drive, I take public transit, I live next door to my
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Even if, even if all that is true, what do you think the increased demand for electricity
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when we haven't ramped up the grid is going to do to the cost of running your fridge and
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This has a knock-on effect all the way through the economy, and it will make everything that
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relies on electricity more expensive, including food.
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So anybody notice that when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cranks up the carbon tax, everything
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That's because when you increase the cost of energy, however you do it, in this case, the
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government's doing it through taxation, when you increase the cost of baseline energy,
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you make almost everything more expensive because it takes energy to make stuff.
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It takes energy to grow stuff, to truck stuff, and to get yourself to the grocery store to
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Even the stores themselves, of course, need energy.
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Quite often here in Alberta, it's coming from natural gas.
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You carbon tax natural gas up the wazoo, guess what?
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You're going to have higher costs of everything.
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And now if you're looking at this electric vehicle mandate, okay, just imagine we're in
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In 10 years' time, okay, picture, just for argument's sake, picture all of our vehicles
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So we know, of course, there'll be some people hanging onto their gasoline and diesel-powered
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What that will do to the cost of the pump and how those fueling stations will stay open,
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But anytime the government gets involved with things, it's usually a financial disaster.
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But let's just, for the sake of argument, say that, you know, midnight 2025, 10 years from
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In Alberta alone, Sheila, we would need three new big nuclear plants.
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In British Columbia, there's a really smart dude.
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He's a scientist, Blair King, in British Columbia.
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In British Columbia, just for the vehicles, not for industry, they would need nine new
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Folks, one of those big nuclear power plants, of which we would need three here in Alberta,
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that costs between $10 and $15 billion in today money.
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Well, and the more I think about this, you know, like you mentioned, a vice on both sides
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If I had to guess, they will bring down a vice on the top too.
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In that they would probably outlaw or grandfather out the sale of parts for gas and diesel-powered
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vehicles because they've got to force you off the thing that you can continue to tinker
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with as long as you possibly can to avoid buying a vehicle that doesn't work in our
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I think that's the next thing that's coming to shoehorn people into this thing that they
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don't want is to take away your ability to continue to repair the thing that you love
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And on top of that, so let's just play government monopoly here.
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What happens if you want to go to the States and buy a normal vehicle, say in Montana?
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Are they going to let you bring that across the border?
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No, they'll probably set up some gigantic wasteful government agency in order to stop
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Look, we couldn't even get people back across their own border into their own country during
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the lockdowns without them wasting millions and millions of dollars on the Arrive Can app,
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So just imagine what it'll be for something like vehicle importation.
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How they are going to swing this, by the way, with the auto pact agreements that we have with
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Like, I'm going to leave that up to Dr. Jay Goldberg.
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But for those of us out West, if you haven't lived in Ontario or that Quebec-Windsor corridor,
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you may not realize what a big deal the agreement is for auto manufacturing between Canada and
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Like, it is like, it's what makes stuff happen and go there.
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So how we are going to be able to fly with this vehicle ban starting in 2035 here when they
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may not have one in the States, that's just another humongous headache.
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Also, they could start coming after people for insurance.
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They could go after used car sales, you know, but as of right now, it's just the ban of new
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Now, I want to ask you about, and we didn't talk about this before, but the Alberta Bill
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of Rights, the three key amendments coming to the Alberta Bill of Rights.
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And I know that you, I know you personally care deeply about some of the things that are
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mentioned in this, but I'm not going to ask you about that.
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I want to ask you about, I know, because you're here as a representative of the Canadian Taxpayers
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So I want to keep it on track there, even though there are other things that you and I would
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probably be excited about and, and, and complain as far as civil liberties go.
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Um, but, uh, I wanted to talk to you about some of the stuff that has been a key driver
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of the issues of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the updated Alberta Bill of Rights that's
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coming along is the right of individuals to legally acquire, safely use, and here's the
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Um, and so I know that the Taxpayers Federation, um, looks at this through, you know, a government
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accountability, smaller government quit wasting our money sort of lens.
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And we have talked at length on the show here about just the sheer cost of, uh, Justin Trudeau's
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Um, I think this is great news and it's going to save the government millions and millions of
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dollars if Danielle Smith, to use the worst pun ever, sticks to her guns and lets us keep
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Um, so briefly on the other elements you were talking about in particular, I just wanted to
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The Taxpayers Federation, we came out pretty strongly against the so-called VAX tax.
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I don't remember, don't know if people remember that, but that was in the really kind of
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gucky days of say January, 2022, if I'm recalling that correctly, you know, Christmas time, 2021.
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Um, that's back when the Quebec government was actually floating the idea of creating
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Um, and so we wrote a national op-ed against that, Franco Terrizano and I saying, um, no,
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We also were opposed to the Emergencies Act invocation because of course, if you suspend
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our civil liberties, pretty tough to hold the government to account.
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Also freezing the bank accounts of people who protest you and disagree with you.
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Um, that's also not okay because our three pillars of the Taxpayers Federation are lower
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taxes, less waste, more accountable government.
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And if you're scared, the government's going to freeze your bank account.
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So we were really happy to see, for example, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, uh, and
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one of our, one of our former colleagues, Christine Van Gein, brilliant constitutional lawyer.
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So, you know, we, we touched on that as best we could, but we got to stick to our mandate
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Yeah, this is big overreach by the government and it's going to cost a heck of a ton of
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How do we actually make people safer when you're getting the police to go after and seize the
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And so we actually interviewed, uh, one of the head of the police unions here in Canada,
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and it was them that said, um, no, this won't make people safer.
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What will make people safer is to stop the illegal importation of illegal guns across the
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Don't go after, you know, the ranchers and the farmers and the people who own firearms
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And so we also can turn back in our own history as an organization to the long gun registry.
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And we were pushing, yeah, we were pushing back hard against that.
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And back then, I think the liberal, the then liberal government were guesstimating, oh, the
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After all the smoke cleared, no pun intended, um, it was about $2 billion.
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So we were super happy to see a few things coming from the Smith government, even before
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So if, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure she instructed through her justice minister
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to let the police know, um, yeah, don't waste your resources going door to door to people's
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That's not what we want you to do here in Alberta.
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Our chief firearms officer, really knowledgeable on firearms, really digging in her heels on
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Now with this update, this will just give, and if it goes through and everything's tickety
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boo and it looks good, this should give the province of Alberta another arrow in the quiver
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when it comes to fighting back against Ottawa, especially in court, for them to be able to
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say, you know what, this violates our provincial bill of rights for you to have the feds coming
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in here, seizing lawful property that could apply to firearms, but get this.
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I don't know if I mentioned it to you when we were hanging out last week and you also gave
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Not that I'm rubbing it into any of the other guests.
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This, I got this confirmation from the premier's office.
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They haven't worked out the details yet, but this can also apply to vehicles.
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Couldn't you apply this new updated bill of rights to saying no to the vehicle ban that
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the Trudeau government's trying to push through?
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So we were pretty happy with big elements coming from this updated bill of rights, especially
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One of the three key changes is the right not to be deprived of property without legal due
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We're embedding property rights that we don't have at the federal level into the Alberta
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We continue to be the bastion of freedom in this country.
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They weren't in the middle of the night, but they were a little panicked.
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So I'm really glad that I've moved here to Alberta.
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Having smaller, more accountable government is good for freedom.
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It's good for taxpayers because it usually winds up with people saving hundreds of millions
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of dollars because they're not overpaying a whole bunch of bureaucrats they don't need
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And they also don't get into major fights with the government all the time because the government
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The government doesn't have its own money to fight their own people in court or to fight
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But if they actually stick to their lane and they're small and accountable and they're
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managing to keep their budgets balanced and all that good stuff, there's just far less
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We really hope that these parts of these elements go through and that they're functional and that
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Now, I'm going to ask you about the vice presidential debate which occurred last night.
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Now, I don't know how much you can talk about this in your role as the Alberta Director
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of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, but I think there were some small government ideas
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And I think also, as an Albertan, to see the pro-energy stance of J.D.
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Vance versus the anti-oil and gas government administration that they have right now, which
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That's, I said it yesterday during our debate coverage, that's really my interest in all
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of this is, can Alberta have a reliable customer in the United States for our oil and gas?
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Will they let these nice people from above them sell them some quality oil instead of conflict
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Well, that's really one of the reasons that I would love to see a Republican administration
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I just, top line impression, taking off my CTF hat and just putting my full political
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I have not seen that good of a performance from a candidate since Reagan versus Mondale.
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So people probably remember there's a wonderful warm moment where US President Ronald Reagan,
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God rest his soul, is up there and they depict this in the movie as well, because it was such
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And he's up there on the debate stage and he's up against Mondale, who's younger than
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And one of the commentators says something to the effect of, you know, don't you think
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And Reagan, I can't do him justice, so I will just butcher it and paraphrase, says something
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to the effect of, no, I will not use my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.
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And it was so funny that Mondale cracked up laughing, like earnestly, genuinely laughing.
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So there were a couple of moments that weren't as funny, but there were a couple of moments
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there where you could just see JD Vance was lapping the track.
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And there was a moment even where he kind of is looking like this and he breaks fourth
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As far as Paula's brilliant debate performance, I think it was really one-sided.
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Although I will say it was really nice just as a human being to see those two men interacting
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with each other, saying, you know what, I agree there, or here's where we disagree, or
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my friend on the other side, that tone was largely congenial, which is what they used
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I think, sorry to interrupt, I think JD Vance brought that to the debate.
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Because I think that Tim Walls was ready for some sort of gruesome, scrappy fight.
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And you can see the tone immediately shift after JD Vance's opening statement.
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And Tim Walls is like, shoot, dang, I should have done that.
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He realized he wasn't going to get a bunch of personal attacks from JD Vance.
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He would get attacks on policy and on history of the last administration, of which Kamala Harris
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He wasn't going to get the sort of insults that he was expecting.
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And he had to sort of re-center his debate performance after that.
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You could tell he was completely caught off guard.
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He was discombobulated, for sure, having to do that.
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And I would give this advice to anyone who's going into a really intense interview or a debate
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or something like that, meet people where they are, try to match their tone, don't come in
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like a bull in a china shop, and really listen to people.
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There was a moment, and again, this has nothing to do with CTF, and I would just say this as
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a human being, and I would say this of any party, of any candidate.
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There was a moment where Walls mentioned that his son had witnessed a terrible act of violence,
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He went on talking for about three or four minutes after that.
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And what I found really interesting is that Mr. Vance stopped what he was doing when he
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I didn't know that happened to your son, and I'm really sorry that occurred.
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It was a real human moment there, and so I would just encourage people in this political
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arena that we're in all the time, don't forget that stuff.
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As far as the energy goes and policy goes, it's something that I've been harping on.
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So before I moved to Alberta, I lived in British Columbia where I was born and raised, and that's
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Then BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell thought it was a super awesome idea.
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He was in friends with then Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who thought it was a
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So it then morphed into this really vitriolic fight over the carbon tax for a long time.
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There were times where I would go on mainstream radio to say, you know what?
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It's not fair to punish people for driving their minivans and heating their homes and
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Called climate change denier, which is a disgusting term.
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And anybody who's called it, I think, should push back on that because we all know where
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What I, so I've been trying to say, listen, folks, please hear me out.
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If you really care about global emissions, global emissions, fight where the dirty fuels
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Why are we punishing people for driving a minivan or a pickup truck and eating and heating here
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in Canada when it doesn't make a dent in global emissions?
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Or in the United States case, I could be wrong on this, but I think the numbers do bear it out.
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I believe when U.S. President Donald Trump was in power, I think their emissions went down
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So it was the fracking renaissance in Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania and Ohio that drove emissions down because they were unleashing this cheap,
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So under Trump, more oil and gas, lower emissions, better economy.
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We do not have to go with this weird, myopic, one track thinking of just increase the carbon
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In fact, in British Columbia, like I said, they've had a carbon tax there and now they
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They were supposed to reduce their emissions by 2019, 2020 by more than 30% from 2008 standards.
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I was really happy to hear that language coming from Mr. Vance.
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And, you know, understanding where people are coming from on the environment, totally getting
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it, and then saying, let's do something smarter, and then tying it back to affordability, tying
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it back to why we need affordable energy, because then all boats rise, including those of working
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Yeah, for me, I thought that was a really, really clever thing that happened very, I think
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it was one of the first questions of the debate.
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And you could tell Walls was trying to goad J.D. Vance into a debate on the science of climate
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And he just said, I'm not even going to talk about the science.
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Whether you believe in the science is settled or whatever, regardless, if you care about emissions,
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then you have to repatriate American manufacturing.
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You have to encourage the development of American fossil fuels as some of the cleanest, I would
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take credit for being the cleanest, but as some of the cleanest on the planet.
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So that's an argument, I think, that everybody, no matter where they stand on the issue, can
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And as you say, the result is affordability in American jobs.
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Um, and it's just not something the Democrats have been, uh, have been behind for some reason.
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I was also really happy to hear, um, I won't get choked up.
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I was really happy to hear a candidate talk about how he grew up.
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And he talked about how he grew up in a way that a lot of Taxpayers Federation supporters
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So we get hundreds of emails all the time from people who are trying to afford their heat
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And to hear JD Vance say something to the effect of, I remember when my meemaw couldn't
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We should have affordable energy in this country.
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And for him to speak for the working class in that way is really, really strong.
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And I read, I would encourage everybody to read his book.
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It's basically his own, like he said, an elegy.
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He did not expect it to take off the way it did.
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Um, and he talks about what it's like to grow up working class or struggling in North
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America, to be part of the flyover America or the Rust Belt.
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And I know a lot of Canadians, especially those who, those of us who've worked in the
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energy sector as families, boy, we can relate to that.
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Um, when I first moved to Ottawa in my early twenties was the first time I can remember eating
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real cheese because I was raised largely from what I remember on cheese whiz and slices,
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If you choose to eat that, that's totally fine.
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But it's such a cultural difference that unless you've lived it, you don't know it.
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And so to have that voiced on a national stage was pretty important.
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And to have him tying it back to, it is our responsibility to make sure things like energy,
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something as fundamental as energy is affordable for all people, that really spoke volumes.
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And I think it does here in Canada, especially with the carbon tax and our coming winter.
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I know it's just a stupid thing to remember, but I remember my very first store-bought egg
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Or new clothes, store-bought, store-bought new clothes, like brand new, new to you clothes,
00:31:36.440
Um, as I said to David Menzies on the show last night, Trump is very, whether you like
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Trump or not, he's really good at balancing out the criticisms of him with a good VP pick.
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So in 2020, or sorry, in 2016, you know, a lot of social conservatives are like, eh, I'm not sure
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And then the more recent criticisms are like, what could possibly this billionaire know about
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Well, then he just grabs JD Vance, who addresses all those issues.
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Um, so he's really good at balancing his personality with the, his VP pick.
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Um, and, and, and whether you like Trump or not, I think he does that brilliantly.
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Chris, how do people get involved in the work that the CTF does?
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Because not only do you not take government money, but you also don't even take preferential
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track tax treatment from the government, uh, to do the work that you do.
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Um, so if you want to sign up and support the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, you can go to
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You can make a donation if you choose to, but it's totally optional.
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What's really great about the Taxpayers Federation is that we have a huge army of tax fighters
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And so in order to get that ball rolling and become part of this real fellowship, it really
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Cause we respond to the emails all the time ourselves, myself, all of our team.
00:33:19.980
So if you want to scrap the carbon tax, if you want to defund the CBC, if you want to
00:33:25.620
Um, if you want to stop PST collection in British Columbia from thrift shops, I might've written
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that one myself, um, sign up because the next time that we have action on something like
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that or big stuff too, like capital gains tax fights, no home equity tax.
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Like we're talking billions of dollars here, potentially sign up to those petitions.
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And the next time we're taking action and pushing a politician to do the right thing,
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You'll be part of that email chain and you can help us push back.
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I know I sprung it on you short notice, but, uh, we always have stuff to talk about whether
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So, um, you are also speaking at rebel news live, uh, this Saturday in Calgary.
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So I get to see Chris a lot over the last like two weeks, 10 days, which is really exciting.
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But if you'd like to come and see Chris speak about, I don't know what you're speaking about.
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I bet you're going to be prickly with the government funding of the media.
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You can go to rebelnewslive.com to get your tickets.
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We've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback, because of
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We'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau to hold him to account.
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I mean, how could we, and you should consider all your consumption of the mainstream media
00:35:01.080
Are they applying for the next bailout from Justin Trudeau when they report on Justin Trudeau?
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But because we rely on you, I open up the viewer mailbag to you.
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I want to hear from you and I want to let you have your say.
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That's one of the reasons we do the live stream twice a week.
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It gives you the opportunity to talk directly to us.
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Um, as we cover the news completely unscripted, I give you my email address.
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If you've got some viewer feedback about the show tonight with Chris Sims, put gun show
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letters in the subject line so I know why you're emailing me.
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Because I give out my email address, I get so many emails about almost everything all
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So gun show letters makes me, uh, have to work a little bit less hard to figure out why
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So today's letter comes to me about last week's show.
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It's from Mike Stewart and it says, Hey Sheila, love your work and Ezra and Alexa.
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I was interviewing Alexa last week, Alexa Lavoie, our Quebec based journalist on her
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buttonholing of Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, when she came
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to Canada to meet with a bunch of progressives here and shove her bad ideas down our throats
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because they've been so resoundedly rejected by New Zealand voters.
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Anyway, Mike says, love your work and Ezra and Alexa.
00:36:44.340
Would love to hear your thoughts on the no confidence vote.
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Um, so I guess maybe I'll give a little bit of a civics lesson.
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So the government can fall on a confidence vote.
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Now you don't vote to say I have no confidence in the government.
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You can attach confidence to a vote and if, uh, the government loses that vote, then the
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government falls on confidence and then you go to election and it can be on a number of
00:37:25.880
It can be on passing the budget that can be, well, that is a confidence issue.
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So if the government fails to pass the budget, then clearly you've lost confidence in the
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What the conservatives are doing right now is they're trying to attach a confidence issue
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Um, and really it's to try to catch the liberals off guard because all the liberals have to be
00:37:55.520
They have to make sure they have the support of the NDP and the bloc to make sure the vote
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So that's why the conservatives are working so hard, uh, to try to attach confidence motions
00:38:15.460
Um, I remember a couple of years ago, the government almost fell on a confidence vote because the
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conservatives last minute attached confidence to something that the liberals,
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didn't think that they would, there were almost no liberals in the house of commons at the
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And they all had to rush back to vote to make sure the government didn't fall.
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Uh, it's something that happens in our parliamentary system.
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However, I think not only are the liberals going to do everything that they can to make
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sure that the government doesn't fall because whether they go to election in six weeks from
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now or a year and six weeks from now, they are going to lose catastrophically.
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And so the liberals would like to hang on to power as long as possible.
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And a lot of them need to qualify for a pension.
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And so they moved the fixed election date, um, so that many of them could qualify for a pension.
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And they did that with the full support of the NDP because their leader Jagmeet Singh needed
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the election date to move so that he could qualify for a pension.
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So do you think the Jagmeet Singh is going to break ranks with the, and with the liberals
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to go to an election that his party is definitely going to lose?
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He probably won't be the leader after they lose that election and he's not going to get
00:39:47.820
Uh, Mike goes on to say, I've heard a lot of ads on other podcasts for things like the
00:39:53.320
wellness company where you can get emergency meds, such as Ivermectin in case of another
00:39:58.500
Do we have anything like that in Canada that, you know, if I cannot give you medical advice,
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um, I have ideas about where you can get prophylactic Ivermectin, a veterinary grade, although it doesn't
00:40:17.260
Um, I know the wellness company, um, sells a whole host of supplements, um, and some of
00:40:24.080
our sponsors on the live stream also sell prophylactic medications for other issues as
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I just don't think that I can, if you know what I mean, Mike.
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Um, well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
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Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes at Rebel News to put the show together.
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