Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Coal today, oilsands yesterday： Robbie Picard exposes the same smear campaign, as Avi Lewis takes the NDP further off the deep end

00:00:00.000 Today we're discussing the war on coal in Alberta. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gun Show.

00:00:22.520 If you've been paying even passive attention to the war on coal in Alberta, you'll notice that

00:00:28.740 it feels very familiar. A lot of the arguments against new coal mines in Alberta are directly

00:00:39.020 cribbed from the anti-oil sands notebook. They cite concerns about lack of reclamation

00:00:47.860 of the land after the mining is done, and they cite the dangers to our water here in Alberta.

00:00:57.200 Now, if you know anything about anything, you know that both of those issues are addressed in Alberta's coal mining regulations.

00:01:06.940 Just like oil sands mines, a reclamation fund has to be in place before any coal mines are approved.

00:01:16.480 So we can just forget that there's going to be environmental devastation and then the company just lines its pockets and then leaves.

00:01:25.300 That cannot happen here.

00:01:27.200 And then, of course, the water issues.

00:01:31.480 The Alberta Energy Regulator strictly monitors water anywhere there's any sort of resource

00:01:40.140 development.

00:01:41.880 And so that should not be a concern either.

00:01:44.840 But that hasn't stopped the lies and the activists from spreading these mistruths.

00:01:51.840 um and so today i thought i would bring on somebody onto the show who's got experience

00:01:59.460 in dealing with these sort of flat-out falsehoods when it comes to oil and gas development and that

00:02:07.640 is my friend robbie picard from oil sand strong and oil and gas world magazine he's seen this all

00:02:14.500 before and he's going to tell us exactly what he thinks in an interview we recorded yesterday

00:02:19.880 morning take a listen so joining me now is good friend of the show my real life good friend

00:02:26.820 and good friend of oil and gas families everywhere Robbie Picard from Oil Sands

00:02:32.700 Strong and Oil and Gas World magazine I wanted to have Robbie on the show because

00:02:36.600 I've been paying very close attention to the reinvigorated war on coal in Alberta

00:02:44.720 and i am seeing a lot of uh things that i've seen before a lot of deja vu in that a lot of the same

00:02:54.700 arguments that were made about oil and gas and i think successfully because we don't have a pipeline

00:03:02.160 and a lot of projects are stalled right out are being used on uh proposed new

00:03:08.740 i know my friend robbie has been watching this very carefully so robbie i wanted to have you on

00:03:15.240 to just uh tell us what you think well you know first off uh thank you for having me on we tried

00:03:21.800 last week and i was in the middle of nowhere and good fish broken down road at one point

00:03:26.300 and trying to get reception so i'm happy to be in my office today uh first off one of the things i

00:03:34.160 said last week that um i want to reiterate is that my biggest regret in my advocacy going back since

00:03:41.600 2014 um is the fact that when rachel notley shut down the coal mines in those small towns

00:03:47.920 and devastated those communities i i know people personally who were lost their homes basically

00:03:54.320 and had to completely change their lives and candidly particularly even parkland county it

00:03:59.440 took years to recover from one of my biggest regret was that we did not advocate for our

00:04:07.840 fellow coal miners and their families in that industry that industry is a booming industry

00:04:14.160 it's never not going to be a booming industry they are selling coal particularly steel making

00:04:19.760 coal all over the world and british columbia is one of the largest exporters of coal and i don't

00:04:27.040 know why in alberta we picked one resource over the other and allowed that devastation so part

00:04:34.400 of what i'm working on now is i've met with some families i met with some people who support the

00:04:39.600 grassy neuros project and um i've decided that you know what i'm going to fight for cool families

00:04:46.000 i'm going to do what i can so our coal gets to market because we need jobs we need stability

00:04:54.720 we need these things and um i think it's just a shame what has happened to that industry

00:05:02.400 yeah i mean our coal industry is going to be ashamed of it's actually something

00:05:06.480 something to be very proud of it's considered a strategic resource because if you don't have

00:05:13.440 coal then you can't heal then you can't build things and then you're reliant on supply chains

00:05:21.120 from people that we shouldn't trust like china a hundred and fifty percent and

00:05:28.480 i i i want us as albertans to become the energy mega superpower that we should be and coal is

00:05:36.880 part of that there is so many new technologies that makes burning coal more efficient it's also

00:05:43.520 affordable it's cheap and it's essential it's essential for making steel it's essential for

00:05:49.280 making you know new technology um it is one of the most important things and i think you know that

00:05:56.240 those so-called celebrities like that bizarre looking folk singer core blunt or whatever i

00:06:01.600 mean i love it how he's off to texas to tour but has no problem you know on canadian

00:06:08.400 jobs particularly in alberta with coal so um i think that the technology is great i also been

00:06:14.480 been doing a lot of research on the rich history of coal and a lot of edmonton has a tons of

00:06:20.380 reclaim coal mines everywhere that are been repurposed there's absolutely you can reclaim

00:06:26.720 the land you can do a lot with it and frankly coal is not it's not this evil thing and as long

00:06:34.260 as the world needs energy it needs to be alberta energy and we need to get our coal mines open so

00:06:39.400 We can provide good paying jobs that feed economies.

00:06:43.200 And I believe that coal and ranching can coexist perfectly.

00:06:48.060 I am doing a lot of research on communities with coal mines and ranching close by, and they can thrive.

00:06:54.400 They can help each other.

00:06:55.560 And not everybody that grows up on a ranch or a farm wants to be a farmer.

00:07:00.260 Well, that provides secondary employment.

00:07:02.800 Not every farm can survive all the time without secondary income.

00:07:07.040 That helps the farm.

00:07:08.420 so i mean this notion that the two can't coexist in a symbiotic relationship is

00:07:13.460 completely obtuse and i think we need to work on that um yeah i mean i'm a core blunt music fan

00:07:23.140 i want i want that to be clear um and i appreciate in the past past his advocacy for oil and gas jobs

00:07:32.980 I mean, his song, Roughest Night, is sort of an anthem of the working man of the oil patch.

00:07:40.100 So it is bizarre to me to see him now attacking coal jobs.

00:07:45.740 I mean, the jobs really are fossil fuel jobs.

00:07:48.740 They're one and the same.

00:07:49.500 They're the same kind of people who do those jobs.

00:07:51.480 And I think we have a unique opportunity here now because the UCP at their recent policy convention passed a policy to bring coal back online.

00:08:02.280 The membership did. And with the Strait of Hormuz being blocked right now, a lot of countries who went off coal are reconsidering not having that reliable energy source in the mix when there is oil and gas scarcity.

00:08:20.020 We have a unique opportunity right now. It's a strategic asset. It is essential, I think, to the safety and stability of the world. And Alberta can really step up and ramp up our production to be a part of making the world a safer place.

00:08:37.620 Absolutely. I, I, a hundred percent. And like, I just, you know, I don't know what is happening in the world right now with like, I, it's so bizarre to me. Do you have your kind of like your, your blue collar type workers who typically were the NDP and then you had the conservatives, which were kind of the business, right? And now, okay, I'm just going to say it. I grew up as an NDP person. Okay. I grew up as an NDP, right?

00:09:06.960 my dad was NDP, the, you know, the whole Saskatchewan, the Thomas, all of that stuff,

00:09:15.060 the founder of healthcare and all that. And I never really hated the NDP until

00:09:21.480 J meet. And it's because they just like, I don't agree with Tom Mulcair on many things,

00:09:28.380 but I enjoy Tom Mulcair in the House of Commons. I like Tom Mulcair. I thought, wow,

00:09:34.840 you're a gritty guy. I don't agree with you when it comes to oil and gas, but I thought he was a

00:09:38.860 very effective opposition leader. And that to me was like, okay, I can get behind. I can get behind

00:09:44.520 Audrey McGarland and Alexa. I can get behind all the previous NDP leaders. I don't have to agree

00:09:49.620 with them, but I remember all of them. I remember growing up and I believe they had the first woman

00:09:55.760 that was voted as a party leader, right? All of these things. But now all these people who would

00:10:03.000 benefit the most from blue collar jobs and jobs created from the revenue from coal and mining to

00:10:12.360 you know for health care and schools and all that i watched that convention and i was just like

00:10:19.080 what the hell like what has happened like there is just the most bizarre like point of privilege

00:10:27.480 um i've got a gender equity card but i'm black and hold up i don't have gender and i'm like

00:10:33.800 as a pretty open-minded gay guy i have no clue like i just like what is happening to us right

00:10:42.040 now like that was like i'm not making this up when when i looked at it i thought okay this is

00:10:47.960 like a skit right and then and then i'm like wow like i i cannot think of one policy thing except

00:10:58.680 for at the end when he won and he made a comment uh public ownership for everything and we know

00:11:04.520 how well that works public ownership right right like come on like i i have seen so many people in

00:11:11.720 power that are in a smaller scale. And it doesn't go equally like the free market system at all.

00:11:20.920 So I don't know what's happening. I just know that Albertans need to put our energy first,

00:11:28.320 our oil and gas, our coal, our farming, our tech, and just, I don't know, just build. We have

00:11:39.160 everything going for us let's build it and get it to market because holy crap I mean if those guys

00:11:44.340 actually get in power like I work what my the people that I work with they've got these great

00:11:50.400 grandchildren and I showed her the videos yesterday on the on the tv and she's like oh my god she's

00:11:57.600 like she's 74 she's looking at her great grandkids she's like I am terrified because I won't be here

00:12:03.100 to shield them from this crazy you know the good news is though that the ndp has six seats in the

00:12:11.660 house of commons they are not a real party at the point they lost their northern uh mp in a floor

00:12:18.920 crossing and i think when normal people see that they just run with horror um you know they couldn't

00:12:28.760 even figure out where on the grievance totem pole they all fit because you had like these

00:12:36.120 people fighting with the black ladies and then there's a gender diverse uh lady with a hitler

00:12:46.020 haircut in charge of everything and again like you i don't know what sort of policies they were

00:12:52.740 advancing outside of Abby Lewis's communism speech at the very end, because I was so taken

00:12:59.660 in by the clown show that is now just an international laughingstock. And I think

00:13:05.200 people like Thomas Mulcair, or even Jack, Jack Layton must be rolling in his grave. Thomas

00:13:11.580 Mulcair must look upon the current state of the NDP with horror, because even though I probably

00:13:15.760 disagreed with him on 99 of into crazy person and though i don't know any in the ndp who isn't crazy

00:13:24.240 at this point you know like it's okay so for me like i've always been fair like i i the only thing

00:13:32.320 that i've ever publicly even went after rachel notley on his call because i think that was a

00:13:36.480 disgusting decision and her hiring support apartment but other than that because i do

00:13:40.960 believe she played a role in Guns Mountain. I kept it clean and I've always been pro-energy

00:13:46.740 and I'm trying to go back to that. I'm trying to find that happy spot. But I think when

00:13:51.920 Jaymeet and Trudeau had their coalition government, I think Jaymeet duked the entire country because

00:13:58.140 everyone was so worried about being racist and calling him out because of his appearance

00:14:02.580 that they forgot that they basically have a TikTok narcissist on there who's like, we

00:14:09.460 all have to use social media i understand that but i i want i look at the stuff today and it's like

00:14:15.840 the guy's not a serious leader but the problem is is that the aftermath of him as a leader it's

00:14:23.580 left this once decent you know work fighting party that was actually had some good qualities

00:14:29.660 to there was some good ndp members to just they're they're infighting over who you know what it is

00:14:37.020 just endless victimhood they're in fighting i'm a bigger victim you're a bigger victim and great

00:14:42.300 you guys can sit there and debate like i've been to conservative conventions and i'm not saying

00:14:46.620 that they're all perfect either but i've never felt that anyone could not speak i thought that

00:14:52.340 people were treated fairly um if there's a conflict they could resolve it um this is what the hell

00:14:58.900 like it was it was the most bizarre thing i've ever like do you need to make a point of order

00:15:03.960 because it there's a lineup and there's not enough pens for your translator like

00:15:12.520 you know like you can't just go to the front desk i i mean mind you you know she'll i've been

00:15:18.280 drinking these matcha lattes i'm all about these matcha lattes now okay and i have to admit when

00:15:23.400 i go to starbucks and my order is real simple because this is kind of copying you i get the

00:15:28.280 propane the protein milk and then seven scoops of matcha no classic syrup but i cheat a little bit

00:15:34.520 with a stevia for the sweet taste right okay okay and i get that but that's it's not really you

00:15:40.600 know you probably you probably don't have a sweetener anymore do you at all do you okay well

00:15:45.560 whatever but anyway but i have to admit i have these moments if they get my order wrong or they

00:15:50.920 interrupt me when i'm trying to explain my order and they're like okay well hot eister

00:15:56.680 iced or hot i'm like you gotta be kidding me it's minus 36 why would i get an iced one and i get all

00:16:02.040 like diva like that's what it reminded me it's like a bunch of people ordering starbucks and

00:16:07.400 are bad about their order right and are don't understand how entitled they are how like how

00:16:12.920 my life is pretty good i'm ordering you know an 11 coffee and i'm irritated because it takes too

00:16:19.640 long right that to me was sort of what it was like all of the people there are in a warm building

00:16:26.520 their democratic right to speak is there in fact they got extra privilege because they got privileged

00:16:31.300 I don't even understand what those cards mean like it's I got my gender equity privilege card

00:16:36.700 so I could butt in line like what the hell is that like so you have all this and then you don't like

00:16:42.860 I don't there was not a policy that I like the only one that you know I felt I actually felt

00:16:48.520 that that one girl that was talking and she was expressing her opinion on the war in iran and

00:16:56.520 you know the opinion or not but it seemed like a valid point and then all of a sudden it turned

00:17:01.240 into misgendering the host and then you can't you can't say anything because you already said

00:17:06.680 it's like she gives this heartfelt speech yeah about her concern about the war and then it's

00:17:13.160 like whoa no no no um call me chair and i'm like holy crap and this is gonna be from a person that

00:17:19.720 has like you know i'm sponsor pride i i help people like i'm not i'm very open-minded but

00:17:27.400 that party looked like a mockery and it's i mean if any of our foes like putin or you know the

00:17:33.880 chinese president are watching they're just like sitting there i don't know if they eat popcorn

00:17:37.160 in china but the chopsticks are definitely going and like it's just like uh wow like wow

00:17:44.600 like it felt it felt like a portlandia skit like it didn't even feel real like it felt like i was

00:17:50.440 watching tv and not a convention well then i saw another ai edited one that came out right away and

00:17:56.840 it took me about 10 minutes to realize it was ai because i couldn't tell the difference you know

00:18:01.240 I don't know. I don't know what's happening, but it's just too much. And yeah, like, and as a guy

00:18:12.400 who, like, I actually, I have respect for, like, I actually like Jean Chrétien. I think Jean Chrétien

00:18:17.600 was a good leader. You know, I just think Jagmeet and Trudeau, they will go down in history as the,

00:18:23.460 I really hope I'm wrong, but I think that would be, Trudeau's legacy with Jagmeet is sort of like where Canada hit rock bottom.

00:18:35.980 I really believe that.

00:18:37.400 I think that they're the worst of the worst.

00:18:39.580 And maybe that's just a spin out from, I mean, Jagmeet, in his opinion, I suppose, wanted to keep Pauly about.

00:18:47.200 So instead of toppling the conservatives, he quickly made it so Carney could come in place. Right. So maybe Jagmeet thinks he's a success. But what he did in the meantime is he took the party that was pretty strong under Tom Mulcair and left it to like the party's an identity crisis. It doesn't know. It doesn't know what it is.

00:19:10.360 right i would say the same about many of those delegates actually um

00:19:16.140 now uh before i let you go uh i just want to get your opinion on mark carney's efforts to

00:19:25.400 i don't know advanced oil and gas development he's been in power for a year and we've seen

00:19:32.620 absolutely nothing i want to get your opinion on mark carney as far as oil and gas development go

00:19:38.660 because he's been in power for a year he said he was going to do things differently there's this

00:19:42.500 weird mou in place that actually means nothing and does nothing and none of the laws blocking

00:19:48.740 oil and gas development have been repealed so nobody's going to invest here but maybe you see

00:19:54.980 something differently i don't know okay so what i will say that i like okay and it's the bar let's

00:20:04.100 just be honest the bar is very very low right i mean the let's just so let's discuss let's just

00:20:12.100 pretend like let's take our personal political biases out of it and our right like our friendships

00:20:17.940 with you know politicians and people that we work with and let's just be objective okay

00:20:22.900 that ndp show that what we just witnessed in the most bizarre thing let's be honest a year ago

00:20:30.740 that was closer to main street at least that has quieted down it and i with his 180 from the book

00:20:39.840 values which is has us terrified the one thing that i think is good at least now i just interviewed

00:20:47.620 uh premier um of the uh tim lewson from british columbia or not first public sorry uh i just

00:20:52.980 interviewed the Nova Scotia premier about getting L&D to work in Nova Scotia the conversation

00:21:01.080 pro energy that I'm hearing from all parties now is completely changed it's done a 180 now as far

00:21:09.920 as tangible shovels in the ground deals being made no I'm not seeing any and I'm actually very

00:21:16.920 terrified and i hope i'm wrong that we're not in a situation where it's the springfield monorail

00:21:23.360 one more time from the simpsons right right a lot of these smooth talking people and trust me i have

00:21:29.820 to deal with it all the time they come into our communities and they're going to be like oh we're

00:21:33.700 going to do this and oh we're going to do that we're going to do that and then the truth is that

00:21:37.080 they actually don't do anything it's about selling that it's this consistent sale and i really hope

00:21:44.300 that mark carney is not that guy um but i mean sheila if we don't build pipelines and we don't

00:21:54.060 get our oil to market if we don't change the system we're going to be in a very very bad space

00:22:00.700 um i i do like the fact that the conversation went from this bizarre 10 years of uh weird

00:22:07.500 wokeness to like hey we need to pay for our bills like here's my message to all the socialists out

00:22:12.700 there if you want social programs and you want government to have bigger influence right similar

00:22:21.340 to like sastel and saskatchewan or the all of these things you know you need a strong energy

00:22:29.980 base to pay for it you want more hospitals oil and gas you want more schools coal you want a

00:22:38.220 a community that has jobs if you don't want to if you don't want to work in a mine coal this like

00:22:44.780 i i really think that this note like i think if if they if a socialist could just do one thing

00:22:49.980 understand you want free shit you don't want to work you want to have endless excuses for existing

00:22:55.680 and compensation for every single backing that's happened in history get a strong resource sector

00:23:03.360 because i think we can all agree on that and that's what i find really funny it's like we

00:23:07.620 shut down all the oil plants but we want hospitals and schools like right and you know what like

00:23:15.220 people can say whatever they want about danielle smith i mean she's a lot less conservative than

00:23:19.300 i thought she was going to be she's not cutting programs there they didn't even have a balanced

00:23:24.020 budget now i'm sure the budget will be balanced now because i mean god oil shot up but alberta

00:23:30.100 is a is a province that is blessed with our natural resource which creates endless revenue

00:23:36.500 even when oil is low, it creates consistent revenue and jobs, embrace it. And if we all

00:23:42.260 can just embrace that, then we're fine. And so that's my message. Like, I really hope that

00:23:48.260 even Mark Carney, who wrote the book Values, who he understands that you need to have

00:23:56.440 revenue. Now, will that actually happen? I don't know, Sheila. What do you think? How do we get it

00:24:02.100 So we can stop having these conversations and, you know, talk more about the, I don't know, the crazy Democratic Party.

00:24:10.660 Like, how do we how do we actually build pipelines?

00:24:12.720 Because I'm I'm I'm doing my part for the advocacy.

00:24:16.160 I think just as someone who is a reluctant Western separatist, I think there is no way

00:24:25.480 within the confines of this country that we will ever be able to fully achieve our potential

00:24:33.600 as an energy superpower because we have seen no evidence that there is any movement from

00:24:42.620 of the liberals to allow us to do what we do best. And they don't care about the revenue because

00:24:49.700 they'll just continue to spend on the other side. They don't care about fiscal restraint. Mark

00:24:53.740 Carney's outspending Justin Trudeau. So that's my viewpoint. The longer it takes for the liberals

00:25:02.260 to actually move the needle on oil and gas development and repealing C-69 would be a great

00:25:08.480 place to start they haven't done anything like that uh it just fuels uh a crisis of confederation

00:25:15.920 so if they want if they want to look to see what's causing western separation to grow

00:25:22.560 uh the liberals just need to look in the mirror right no for sure now question do you what do you

00:25:29.280 think about um paulia's appearance on joe rogan and is that helpful is it going to make a difference

00:25:36.240 smooth and evil for them i think so you do i do i do and i think it made the conservatives look

00:25:46.320 like the reasonable grown-ups in the room yeah i think it strongly humanized pierre polyev it was

00:25:53.360 a wonderful change in tone to actually speak directly to the americans on the shows that they

00:26:00.000 watch in a manner that is not disrespectful and combative which is how we see doug ford talk it's

00:26:07.520 how we see mark carney talk it's how we see melanie joley talk um he was speaking to them about

00:26:15.760 shared issues and shared values and i think it will it might even benefit the liberals and that

00:26:22.720 that'll reset the tone between Canada and the United States.

00:26:27.860 But I think it was, it could do nothing but help.

00:26:33.060 No, for sure.

00:26:33.940 No, I thought he did very, very well.

00:26:35.780 It was nice to see.

00:26:36.620 I wish he would have done it sooner in the last election.

00:26:40.620 But one thing that I would like to see too

00:26:42.620 is I'd like to see more grownups in politics,

00:26:45.200 like just talk it out, you know what I mean?

00:26:47.760 Like even today, despite the fact that like

00:26:50.620 you and I are being respectful of the spectacle

00:26:54.080 that we just watched, right?

00:26:55.700 We're still like, it's wonderful.

00:27:00.320 We hope that you get that, you know, like, I don't know.

00:27:04.120 I hope everybody gets actioning on your screen.

00:27:06.540 Like, are you depriving me because I'm dyslexic?

00:27:11.560 I'm holding up my gender equity card.

00:27:14.860 Stop it.

00:27:15.680 but that's that's like i'm all for hey sorry back to that but yes you should if you give him a

00:27:28.000 translator thing no problem at all but does that really a point of order that's a that's talking

00:27:32.440 to the manager behind the scenes right i like i i i don't know and even in our conversation right

00:27:41.160 now yeah uh you're gay and metis yeah but you're male i'm female but just a regular old run-of-the-mill

00:27:51.740 caucasian who which one of us is higher on the grievance totem pole i think you are right i think

00:27:59.020 so yeah i may as well be an asian man but but if you change how you identify them you can be whatever

00:28:10.220 you want so you can pull a card and that's that was that was embarrassing because you know what

00:28:20.940 it says it's it's i'm all for making the world more fair i really am i believe in that and i

00:28:27.820 believe that you like i i i do a lot of stuff like i i i help uh with the spca i raise a lot

00:28:35.100 of money for charity like i've raised up you know i have a lot of people lost i donate videos to

00:28:39.180 different causes and the amount of money raised because of our videos has raised over almost two

00:28:44.540 million dollars in the last four years so i and i try to do those things fairly quietly and you

00:28:49.900 know but i do i do try to help and i'm not opposed like uh one of my one of my staff one of my staff

00:28:55.660 that you know pops in and out right now he's got autism and we hire him all the time and i make

00:29:01.020 sure he's comfortable and i sit him at the table with us and i do all those things but i i truly

00:29:06.540 believe that you hit a wall where it's not you're screwing up the natural flow if i was an ndp i'd

00:29:15.180 be sitting there okay we lost official party status mainstream society thinks we're a joke

00:29:22.300 yeah um we have six seats and we're constantly trying to get a new leader a seat

00:29:30.540 what do we do to make our message better you know what i mean and that other guy did you hear him

00:29:35.500 screaming about eating the rich and getting off the menu yeah he looks like he had already eaten

00:29:41.820 he's not he's he looks like he's fine he's yeah he's fine

00:29:48.060 uh robbie before i let you go uh can you let people know how they can both see your activism

00:29:56.180 but support your advocacy for fossil fuel jobs here in alberta but also across the country

00:30:02.260 so go to oilandgasworld.ca and sign up for our newsletter and uh please uh just follow me on

00:30:09.040 facebook at robbie picard um we're doing a lot of cool stuff now i am traveling doing a lot of

00:30:13.900 interviews um we're gonna do a little bit of a podcast type thing um and uh yeah like please um

00:30:21.060 i'm gonna it's basically like three things so the magazine the activism but then there's also i'm

00:30:25.980 gonna start doing a little bit of political commentary just taking my own little uh you

00:30:29.940 my little take on current events and stuff like that because it's uh you know we uh it to me it's

00:30:36.980 very important that i want to have a little more fun and not always be like you know you live once

00:30:42.660 and i don't want to i don't want to constantly spend my time fighting right so i want to talk

00:30:47.380 about cool things like for instance i'm very into blue mountain pottery now and the entire interview

00:30:53.140 to figure out how the eagle would look on the screen and i'm not sure if this cat the cat kind

00:30:56.900 of takes away from the ego but the leopard

00:31:05.380 got a real zoo on the desk there

00:31:10.100 yeah i got my my parents kiki and cocoa and my turtle so wow awesome okay well i'm very much

00:31:17.540 yeah thank you for having me on your show and i i'd like to yeah i should come on more often we

00:31:21.300 we should do that yes for sure I think we should split the difference on some coal advocacy across

00:31:30.480 this province and giving voice to the people who are being hurt by these bad ideas that other people

00:31:36.580 don't have to live with Robbie thanks so thanks so much for the work that you do on behalf of

00:31:41.520 families just like mine thank you for having me it's always a pleasure thanks Robbie

00:31:51.300 now if you want to sign my petition against these liars spreading lies about our coal industry you

00:32:01.820 can go to albertadigscoal.com and add your name there now as always the last portion of the show

00:32:09.440 goes to you our beloved viewer at home because without you there is no rebel news so i really

00:32:15.320 should concern myself actually with what you think about the work that we're doing here

00:32:20.500 Now, there are a couple of ways that you can send me your viewer feedback, actually three

00:32:24.720 really good ways.

00:32:26.080 So first one is my email, Sheila at rebelnews.com, put gun show letters in the subject line.

00:32:31.720 And who knows, you might just see your letter read on air.

00:32:34.040 But the other two great ways is to interact with clips of the show or any of our stories

00:32:41.940 that you see either on YouTube or on Rumble.

00:32:45.540 That helps us in a couple of different ways.

00:32:47.700 So it, of course, gives me viewer feedback, which I want and need for this portion of

00:32:55.320 the show, but it also helps get our content higher up in the algorithms because the more

00:33:01.280 our content is interacted with, the more the platforms serve it up to other people.

00:33:06.900 So it helps spread the message and debunk the lies of the mainstream media and the activists.

00:33:13.680 Now, I don't often take viewer feedback unrelated to the show, on the show, but today I wanted

00:33:23.680 to.

00:33:24.320 My goodness, what's going on over here?

00:33:26.560 Today I wanted to do that because I recently did a video calling for a Tim's Boycott.

00:33:33.600 You can learn more at timsboycott.com and of course I'm talking about boycotting Tim

00:33:38.080 Hortons because Tim Hortons has lobbied the government for changes to the temporary foreign

00:33:46.240 worker program in an effort to make the participants in the temporary foreign worker program permanent

00:33:53.320 as in making the temporary foreign worker program a pathway to permanent citizenship but also to

00:34:01.180 increase the number of hires that they can have who are not Canadian and to increase the

00:34:08.080 amount of hours that foreign students can work while they are in Canada. Now, I think the problems

00:34:19.620 with this are obvious. Temporary foreign workers are just that, temporary. They're here allegedly,

00:34:28.100 which we know isn't the case, to fill a void in the labor force. And then when there are Canadians

00:34:37.220 to do those jobs. Those people are supposed to go home. That's the temporary part of the foreign

00:34:41.000 worker program. But we know that is definitely not the case. A lot of people are overstaying

00:34:47.820 their temporary foreign work permits. They're getting married to Canadians while they're here.

00:34:51.340 And there is the whole big problem with unemploying Canadian youth and Canadians in general. Youth

00:35:00.800 unemployment in this country, in some parts of the country, is approaching 20%. Food service jobs are

00:35:06.440 meant for kids or entry level jobs meant for Canadian kids. And really there's been a death

00:35:11.960 of the summer job in this country. Um, and like one in five high school students just can't find

00:35:20.920 a job. That's outrageous. This has problems for the economy going forward because you have a

00:35:26.580 generation of people who don't even know how to work. What do you think that's going to do to our

00:35:31.100 economy in 15 years. It's not just a problem now. It's going to be a problem of productivity

00:35:37.720 for at least a generation, maybe two. And then there, of course, are the problems with

00:35:45.000 housing shortages, wage suppression, because when you have a glut of unskilled workers,

00:35:52.720 it drives the wages down for everybody else. This has to end. And Tim Hortons,

00:35:59.380 which is not a canadian company but cloaks itself in canadiana is harming canadian youth and it has

00:36:07.260 to stop so if you agree with me you can sign that petition like i said at tims boycott.com but i

00:36:13.200 wanted to know what you guys thought about my video that i did on the issue of tim hortons

00:36:18.780 lobbying for if you cut out all the jargon higher youth unemployment rates for canadian kids

00:36:25.980 so mr mac3971 says if they all went bankrupt zero canadian jobs would be lost because that

00:36:37.700 was one of the things that they said in their lobbying letter was um if we don't get access

00:36:42.500 to this glut of foreign labor well then our stores will close okay okay don't care if you

00:36:52.980 have to build a business around slave labor and indentured servitude that

00:36:58.720 causes a cascade effect across the entire economy.

00:37:04.780 And oh my cat. And if your business goes under, if you don't have access to it, I don't care.

00:37:10.700 I honestly don't care. Then your business model was flawed. That's it. Republic of Alberta

00:37:19.120 w5p says it's not cheap canadian taxpayers are forced to subsidize their wages in some instances

00:37:26.000 that is true but it think about the cost to health care to housing it's not cheap you're right

00:37:34.600 i mean to the employer it's cheap and easy but to the rest of us the costs are enormous

00:37:42.240 is joey m zero six seven says it isn't just the youth having a hard time finding a job but people

00:37:51.980 in their 30s as well yes also true middle management positions at these companies are

00:37:57.320 also occupied by temporary foreign workers if there aren't enough canadians trained to pour

00:38:04.180 coffee, here's my advice. Train them. Invest in them. Try that. And that's what they used to do.

00:38:14.940 X Trickster 6556 says, effing disgusting what this country has become with this garbage

00:38:22.260 government. Wow. Where's the lie? Evil Stands says, funny how they were able to survive for

00:38:31.740 60 years before being bought by private equity that is the truth um but in the before times

00:38:41.100 they trained canadian kids but also i found it interesting in the lobbying letter that i showed

00:38:47.880 in that video that they never call for you know a drop in uh taxes something that would help all

00:38:57.080 businesses across the board that would make operating costs lower, stop the upstream carbon

00:39:04.640 tax that's hidden on your gas bill. None of that stuff. They don't call for any of that or a stop

00:39:10.320 to government spending that's driving inflation, that's making them raise their prices. They don't

00:39:14.780 ask for any of that. Common sense measures that would help every Canadian and every business

00:39:21.400 owner. They never call for that. They just call for more, uh, indentured servants. And I remember

00:39:28.760 when the left was against that sort of thing. Not so much anymore. Goodbye, kitty. Eric

00:39:35.400 put a fat three, four, three, five says we need to stop the subsidies. We just need to stop

00:39:44.720 these people. When, when I say these people, I mean, Tim Hortons and other businesses that abuse

00:39:50.620 it we you see it anywhere anytime you go to use some sort of service industry oil change whatever

00:39:58.200 it's not just tim hortons it's almost across the board with major franchisees in this country

00:40:04.180 every time you go there you're hard-pressed to find a canadian kid and you know stop the temporary

00:40:14.740 foreign worker program. Just stop it. Stop. If there ever comes a time where we have negative

00:40:21.600 youth unemployment, then we can revisit this. But this doesn't help any of us.

00:40:28.920 JW KM 3BY. This country is run by treasonous criminals from top to bottom, selling us all out,

00:40:37.060 destroying the country on purpose for the wef agenda it seems well the young people will own

00:40:45.860 nothing and be happy at this rate won't they well everybody that's the show for today thank you so

00:40:51.140 much for tuning in i'll see everybody in the same time in the same place next week hopefully without

00:40:55.820 my cat on the desk for the second week in a row and remember don't let the government tell you

00:41:01.060 that you've had too much to think

00:41:07.060 I don't know.

Rebel News Podcast - April 01, 2026

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Coal today, oilsands yesterday： Robbie Picard exposes the same smear campaign, as Avi Lewis takes the NDP further off the deep end

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