Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Liberals brand carbon tax skeptics as climate arsonists amid Canada's wildfire crisis

00:00:00.000 DC is burning, the north is burning, and the mainstream media and the liberals, but I repeat

00:00:18.480 myself, are taking this terrible opportunity to push their climate to religiosity, to blame

00:00:24.220 the fires on those who aren't in charge and who aren't making any policies, and a new poll shows

00:00:30.620 it is going to blow up beautifully in the liberals' faces, and I can't wait. It's August 24th, 2023.

00:00:39.100 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:42.360 You're ready for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:54.220 Former Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is being slightly unhinged again. I mean,

00:01:03.500 it's nothing new. It's just been a while since she's done it quite publicly. She's just called

00:01:08.460 anyone who opposes carbon taxes arsonists. Look at this. Bizarre tweet.

00:01:16.280 Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution. You want to make it free to

00:01:20.580 pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed, and their communities 0.99

00:01:25.240 obliterated. So what are you going to do? You are the arsonists. Real people are being charged with

00:01:33.720 arson in relation to forest fires in this country, but Catherine McKenna is writing their defense

00:01:43.880 arguments for them. You see, I'm the problem if I drive an SUV just a little bit too much, and you're the

00:01:51.420 problem if you reject carbon taxes as a means by which to change the weather. You're the arsonist, but

00:01:59.140 the fire bugs? Not so much. And BC, by the way, they've had a carbon tax for over a decade, imposed in

00:02:06.580 2008, actually. So when are the fire suppression benefits going to kick in for that thing? And

00:02:13.240 McKenna, she brought in one of her own carbon taxes not all that long ago. Well, five years ago in 2018,

00:02:19.720 when she was Trudeau's constantly embarrassing gaff-prone environment minister that I dubbed

00:02:24.840 climate Barbie, much to her horror. And again, I ask, when are the tithes to McKenna's church of

00:02:33.020 climate change going to satiate an angry weather god so that he stops boiling us alive or burning

00:02:38.620 our villages? There's no avoiding it. We must address climate change now to make life in Canada

00:02:44.260 healthier in the future. Extreme weather is already making us less safe. Governments must act. We have

00:02:51.920 to cut pollution and reduce the risk. One of the most effective climate change solution is to use more

00:02:58.300 clean electricity to power our lives. Today, more and more Canadians are using electric vehicles and heat

00:03:04.780 pumps for heating and cooling. Businesses are switching too, with everyone from steelmakers to

00:03:11.260 delivery vehicles going electric. When we generate our electricity using clean sources like hydro, wind,

00:03:17.980 and solar, we're on track to real climate solutions. In Canada, almost 85% of our electricity already comes

00:03:25.900 from clean generation. We can build on this success, but that means we need to invest in growing the

00:03:32.060 electricity system. As demand for electricity grows, we have to make sure supply remains affordable, reliable.

00:03:39.740 And just how many people, how many Canadians, cash strapped, struggling to get by Canadians, did

00:03:48.140 Catherine McKenna just call arsonists because they don't think taxes change the weather? 0.96

00:03:53.100 Oh, about 60% of Canadians, at least according to some very recent polling released by Ipsos on behalf

00:04:01.580 of the Montreal Economic Institute. Now, to be fair, the Montreal Economic Institute, they're a bunch

00:04:07.260 of free market advocates, but let's not confuse Ipsos for a bunch of conservatives, okay? They have an

00:04:13.660 entire page dedicated to their social credit ESG score. They're not exactly a bunch of hard blue Tories over

00:04:22.220 there. But let me show you these poll results because they're really bad for the liberals and

00:04:27.740 good for common sense. People, even in deep liberal strongholds and traditional left-leaning or liberal

00:04:35.340 voters like young people, well, they are all being mugged by the reality of Trudeau's inflationary policies,

00:04:43.260 including his carbon taxes and his war on oil and gas. Let's get into it.

00:04:48.380 Canada and Quebec's energy needs on behalf of the Montreal Economic Institute.

00:04:54.940 A sample of 1163 Canadian residents aged 18 years and over with an oversample of 408 residents in

00:05:02.140 Quebec was interviewed between the 1st and 4th of August, 2023. Let's get into some of the results here.

00:05:10.780 Half. 51% of Quebecers are in favour of extracting Quebec's own oil resources, while 3 in 10, 30% believe the

00:05:17.740 province should continue to import 100% of the oil it needs. What I find here is fascinating, but not

00:05:24.620 just in this result, but in results throughout this polling data. Young people, traditional liberal voters,

00:05:31.420 people who are traditionally against fracking and things like that are actually in support of Quebec

00:05:39.900 developing its own oil resources. 57%. Actually, it was the young people who are 0.97

00:05:46.940 the most in favour, perhaps because they want those well-paying jobs. Let's keep going. Over 6 in 10,

00:05:54.380 actually 63% of Canadians are in favour of increasing incentive measures for carbon sequestration to be

00:06:01.020 equivalent to those offered by the American government. A four point increase compared to 2022. Now,

00:06:06.300 I don't even think that people are in favour of carbon sequestration here. Carbon sequestration,

00:06:11.340 or taking the carbon from the atmosphere and just sort of hiding it in the ground until they figure

00:06:15.020 out what to do with it. I don't think they're in favour of that. They're in favour of any alternative

00:06:21.100 that doesn't require Canadians to pay extra money for their carbon emissions, because they can't pay any

00:06:28.460 extra money for their carbon emissions. And we'll get to that polling data further in this video.

00:06:36.460 And I'll show you where Canadians say we just can't pay any more money. But I don't think they're in favour

00:06:40.860 of carbon sequestration. I think they're in favour of saying anything, anything, please,

00:06:46.940 but taxing me more. Let's keep going. Almost 8 in 10, or 78% of Quebecers prefer to import oil from

00:06:55.180 Western Canada, consistent with last year. This warms my heart, but also makes me sad simultaneously,

00:07:03.260 because Justin Trudeau wants us all divided. He wants us Albertans to think that we are

00:07:09.740 butting heads all the time with everyday Quebecers. And I don't believe we are. We are butting heads with

00:07:15.580 politicians in Quebec, and we are butting heads with the federal government who wants us to believe

00:07:22.060 that Quebecers have a certain sentiment about us and our oil that they just don't have. Quebecers 0.99

00:07:28.060 want oil from Alberta. Albertans want to give it to them. The only thing dividing us is the federal

00:07:33.820 government and their anti-oil policies. And again, it's younger people, traditional liberal or left 0.61

00:07:39.580 leaning voters, 72% of them want oil from Western Canada. That's a devastating number for Justin Trudeau and

00:07:46.940 his liberals who continue to block pipelines from Western Canada. This next polling data demonstrates

00:07:53.820 the wholesale adoption of the concept of ethical oil as an alternative to conflict oil across the world.

00:08:04.940 In light of the war in Ukraine, 6 in 10, 63% of Canadians believe their province should extract its own

00:08:12.220 natural gas in order to export some to Europe and reduce its dependency on Russian gas. So this just

00:08:18.540 isn't about developing our own resources for us. We see our own resources as a vehicle for freedom.

00:08:25.660 And I think that is absolutely terrific. Now, this next number. These are Catherine McKenna's arsonists.

00:08:34.460 Those people she accused of being responsible for the fires, even though

00:08:38.780 her friends are still in charge in government, both in BC where the fires are, but also

00:08:44.220 in Ottawa, making climate policy since 2015. Somehow the people with no power are the ones responsible

00:08:52.940 for the policies of the current government. Okay. But anyway, I want to show you just how many people

00:08:59.900 she accused of wholesale arson. Six in 10 Canadians, 61%, can't or don't want to pay more in taxes to

00:09:10.620 fight climate change. 61%. And it's not that they just don't want to, they're saying they can't,

00:09:17.660 they don't have any money left to pay the climate tithe to Catherine McKenna's cult of climate change. They

00:09:24.380 just don't have the money left. And again, the young people. Oh, the young people. This is such 0.78

00:09:31.260 a devastating number for the Liberals. Over half of young people polled ages 18 to 34, 54% have gotten off

00:09:42.620 the carbon tax crazy train. 54% say they don't want to, or simply can't pay any more money for

00:09:53.020 no benefit with result to climate change. Six in 10 or 62% of Quebecers believe that independent

00:10:00.380 private producers should be allowed to sell electricity directly to companies to complement

00:10:05.580 hydro Quebec's offer. That's an interesting one. Indicates a strong adoption of the free market,

00:10:12.780 which everybody loves. Well, not everybody, but me. Two thirds or 67% of Canadians are in favor of

00:10:20.300 developing new oil and gas infrastructure leading to ports in British Columbia or Eastern Canada in

00:10:26.780 order to allow these Canadian resources to reach new markets in Europe and Asia. This is wholesale

00:10:34.140 adoption of pipelines in all directions to export Canadian oil. And yet one of the Liberals flagship

00:10:41.420 policies is a ban on tankers and a ban on pipelines. This is big, big trouble for the Liberals. And again,

00:10:51.820 look at these numbers from the young people. 68% of young people ages 18 to 34 want to build those pipelines

00:11:01.580 in all directions. It's a bold strategy for the Liberals as they plummet in the polls to attack

00:11:08.780 Canadian resources when so many Canadians as evidenced in these poll results want to see fossil fuels

00:11:16.700 developed and then export it, not only used by Canadians for Canadians, but then export it around

00:11:24.620 the world as a vehicle to combating tyranny. And yet our current environment minister, Stephen Gilboa,

00:11:32.940 he's working with the tyrants in China on climate policies. More on that with Post Media's Lauren Gunter,

00:11:40.620 up after the break.

00:11:53.100 Well, folks, checking the traffic docket, surely some mistake here. I'm looking at a certain Chrystia

00:12:00.460 Freeland who proclaims that she gets around by either walking or cycling or taking public transit.

00:12:08.780 So what was the deputy prime minister doing in Alberta the other day cruising down the highway

00:12:15.500 in a fossil fuel vehicle doing 142 kilometers in a 100 zone? Yes, what indeed. And who better to address

00:12:27.580 this than our friend Lauren Gunter who just wrote a column entitled Cruising Chrystia,

00:12:34.460 just another example of liberal green hypocrisy. Well, Lauren, thank you so much for joining me

00:12:41.340 here on the Ezra Levin show. How are you doing? I'm doing well, and you? I'm doing great. Well,

00:12:46.540 Lauren, does it surprise you? Does it surprise anyone that what the liberals say and what they do

00:12:56.300 are two alien things? They're all about the green agenda, fighting climate change, reducing the carbon

00:13:02.460 footprint. And forget about Chrystia Freeland. Lauren, I've gone to so many pressers where

00:13:07.980 Prime Minister Trudeau shows up, typically eight vehicles, typically Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions

00:13:16.300 that also fuel eight cylinder vehicles. And whether it's summer for the air conditioning or winter for the

00:13:23.900 heat, they keep those vehicles idling. You would think if they're, you know, professing this green agenda,

00:13:32.220 they would at least get their butts behind, oh, I don't know, an EV or at least a plug-in hybrid,

00:13:38.620 but no, one law for thee and one law for me. What do you say, my friend?

00:13:43.340 I know that's absolutely what's happening. And, you know, that was confirmed in another way on the EV side.

00:13:49.500 About six months ago, Blacklock's reporter had gone through all of the, had done a bunch of access to

00:13:57.500 information, gone through all of the usage logs at the EV plug-ins at Environment Canada buildings

00:14:05.260 across the country. And, and most places were going three to six months without a single electric vehicle

00:14:13.260 plugged in to recharge at Environment Canada buildings. So, I mean, it's all for show. This, that is, that's the

00:14:19.900 problem with this government. It's woke, but it's all about virtue signaling. They don't care really

00:14:25.340 about doing anything substantial. It's all about how do we look, how do we feel about ourselves

00:14:32.540 in, in, in these important issues? And, and how do others feel about, how do our voters feel about us?

00:14:40.220 We don't care whether we're crashing the economy. We don't care whether we're actually reducing

00:14:44.860 emissions and we're not really. We just care that we are sending the right signals out to people so

00:14:52.460 that they know we're concerned. We care. And that, and that's all there is that this is with Freeland is

00:14:58.060 the same thing. So, you know, here she is. I, I, I suggested today in my column that what's missing

00:15:04.620 here with Freeland is not that, you know, she was increasing her carbon footprint by driving fat. 0.99

00:15:10.940 The faster you drive, the higher your carbon footprint, the bigger it is. That's not it. And I, and, and I

00:15:16.860 know she had boasted a lot in PEI about a month ago about how I only live 300 meters from a subway in

00:15:24.460 Toronto. My father is so surprised. I don't own a vehicle. What I wanted one of those reporters in PEI

00:15:30.860 to ask her was, yeah, okay. You don't own a vehicle, but there's your husband. And do you drive that?

00:15:36.540 You know, because it used to be common for families to have one vehicle. It was the family car that is

00:15:43.340 the, the, the Freelands have a family car. I bet you they do. And I bet you that she says that she walks

00:15:49.740 300 meters to the subway, but we know also that she uses a government executive car and a driver an awful 1.00

00:15:57.740 lot. So you and I don't have that luxury. If we wanted to give up our vehicles, we would really have

00:16:04.940 to change our lifestyles. She gives up her vehicle and there really isn't a change. She's just allowed

00:16:10.300 to boast that she doesn't have a vehicle. So yeah, it's exactly hypocrisy, but she put me in mind of a couple of,

00:16:17.580 of, uh, Western, uh, provincial cabinet ministers of the past, uh, a guy in BC in the fifties, who was named

00:16:24.780 fly and Phil Gilardi. Uh, he was the, he was the first highways minister in BC and he used to get stopped

00:16:32.700 all the time by the Mounties or by local police forces for speeding. And he would always tell them,

00:16:38.700 well, you know what? I'm the highways minister. We've been paving a lot of roads here. I'm just out checking to see how

00:16:44.140 the pavement is, if it's any good, but he got his nickname. Cause he also had a private pilot's

00:16:49.260 license. And one time a Mountie stopped him and he showed that Mountie his pilot's license and the

00:16:55.020 Mountie was a little puzzled apparently, but he said, look, I'm not driving too fast. I'm just flying

00:16:59.820 too low. And so he became known as flying Phil Gilardi. And then in Alberta, we had a cabinet minister

00:17:07.420 in the eighties back in the Getty government who was a doctor in Hinton and he would rush into Edmonton

00:17:14.300 for sessions all the time. And he got some, he got stopped so many times he got known as Speedy Reed.

00:17:19.420 So I think we have to call her Christia Freeland Cruisin' Christia or Fast and Furious Freeland or

00:17:26.620 something like that. She has to have a nickname that goes with, with this driving record. 0.96

00:17:30.460 Oh, I like the alliteration there with Fast and Furious Freeland. That's a good one, Lord. But you know,

00:17:35.740 something you said earlier, I think it's an example of how these liberals take great license

00:17:42.940 when it comes to telling the truth. You said she doesn't actually own a car, but her husband

00:17:49.020 evidently owns a car. That reminds me of John Kerry denying he had a private jet. It's his wife that

00:17:54.700 owns the private jet. I don't know if Christia Freeland's husband has a car, but my question as a

00:18:02.220 reporter standing in that scrum, my question would have been, okay, you don't own a car,

00:18:06.860 but does your husband own one? And do you ever drive it? Because that, that makes it,

00:18:11.580 puts a whole different perspective on all of this. Is it, you know, she can claim that she's

00:18:15.980 this, this climate crusader, this, this monastic figure on, on the green front, but she isn't really.

00:18:24.220 And, and that's what bothers me most about her. I mean, remember back in the last November,

00:18:28.620 she said, Oh, you know, I was looking through my monthly credit card bill. I know it's hard for,

00:18:33.260 for Canadians to balance their budgets, but, but I noticed we were using the Disney streaming

00:18:37.980 service still. And so I said to the kids, Hey, you're getting older. Do you really watch Disney

00:18:42.980 anymore? Well, she had no clue what is on the Disney platform. Disney platform now is as big as the

00:18:48.660 Netflix platform. It has Marvel. It has national geographic as the Fox, uh, the whole Fox studio

00:18:56.060 archive of movie. It has hundreds and thousands of movies. So it is as big on viewership now as

00:19:03.360 Netflix is, but to her, it was just Mickey mouse and the little mermaid or something. And, and she was

00:19:10.320 proving how, how intuitive in touch she is with the ordinary Canadian by saying, Oh yes. Well, we,

00:19:17.560 you kids are too old for that. Now you don't watch that with, this is how we can balance our, but

00:19:22.100 you know, that sort of fake, uh, every man, every woman, uh, play that she does all the time. It just 1.00

00:19:30.880 grates with me. I, I don't care. She speaks. I speak. I would be known as, you know, fast and furious

00:19:38.720 Lauren. Uh, I, cause I do drive with a heavy foot, but, uh, but for, you know, Lauren, but I don't

00:19:47.480 pretend to be a green crusader. I don't, I don't say I don't own a vehicle. I like, I let, I like to

00:19:53.900 let my SUV on a cold day. I like to let my SUV idle in the driveway because maybe it'll warm the

00:19:59.360 atmosphere a bit and the temperature will go up. It won't be minus 35 anymore. So, uh, you know,

00:20:04.820 Lauren, I'm an auto aficionado. If I had my way, we'd have the German Autobahn system. I mean,

00:20:10.860 one of the few good things Doug Ford did was raise the speed limit in certain Ontario highways,

00:20:16.020 uh, in the last couple of years to 110, uh, kilometers an hour, but you know, I'm, I'm so

00:20:21.400 happy you picked up on the idiocy of Chrystia Freeland talking about the Disney plus subscription.

00:20:28.520 As you rightly said, um, a lot of the catalog that Disney owns right now, it's adult entertainment.

00:20:35.080 I mean, you know, you know, it's not just Mickey mouse cartoons, the mainstream media seem to give

00:20:40.580 her a pass, but, and I could never prove this Lauren, but I would bet the ranch,

00:20:45.900 she never canceled that subscription. I bet you that is still coming in. I wish there was a way

00:20:52.760 to prove or disprove that, but I got to ask you the nitty gritty about this speeding ticket

00:20:56.540 in white Rose. Star Wars is the whole Star Wars catalog. So, you know, I've got a 28 year old son

00:21:04.440 who loves Star Wars. We have Disney plus. I'm not getting rid of it just because he doesn't watch

00:21:09.780 uh, Donald Duck anymore, you know, cause he's watching Star Wars. Yeah. Um, she takes liberty. 0.53

00:21:17.120 She does, uh, as Yoda might say with the truth. Um, but Lauren, I, um, what in the nitty gritty

00:21:24.520 perspective of that speeding ticket, 142 kilometers an hour. I don't know the, um, the provincial highway

00:21:30.880 traffic act in Alberta, like I do in Ontario. I can tell you if that was on an Ontario highway,

00:21:35.620 if she was just going eight kilometers an hour more, that would be classified as stunt driving. 0.84

00:21:42.760 She would have the car impounded a serious fine. I think it might be $10,000, a huge demerit points,

00:21:49.360 but I guess we, I don't know if that exists in Alberta, but, but there is demerit points to this.

00:21:55.780 And, and here's the question. Evidently, she's already paid the fine. Did she pay it or did the

00:22:01.960 taxpayer pay it, Lauren? I, I don't know that she was doing 132, uh, in a 100. But they bumped it 0.97

00:22:08.280 down, didn't they? 10 kilometers. No, no, it, there's, there was some confusion about, cause part

00:22:13.460 of that highway, the speed limits 110, part of it. Oh, I see. Okay. She was on the section that was on

00:22:18.160 100, but she was 32 K over in Alberta. If you are 51 K or more over the limit, it's

00:22:25.720 a court appearance. It's impoundment of your vehicle and a court appearance. So she was

00:22:31.180 getting fairly close to, um, uh, to having to go to court over this. But the thing, if it is,

00:22:40.280 I don't know whether we paid for her fine or she did, she's now been rightly embarrassed. She walked

00:22:46.020 it back this morning. She said, she's so sorry for what she, she's not sorry for what she did.

00:22:50.100 She did. She had to go somewhere in a hurry. It happens. Like I, I make a practice in Alberta of

00:22:58.060 looking for oil field service trucks when I'm out on the highway, because those guys don't get paid

00:23:05.200 if they aren't on site. And so lots of times in a hundred K zone, they're hitting 145, 150. I get

00:23:11.620 in right behind them. They're going to take the ticket. I'm happy. I will admit to that.

00:23:17.920 Uh, so that's, I'm not going to, I'm not, I can't be a hypocrite and say, Christy, you shouldn't

00:23:24.940 have been driving that fast. It's very dangerous here. You know, it, we had good highways. It was

00:23:29.200 great conditions on the weekend. It was clear. There's no smoke. There was, it was sunny. It

00:23:33.800 was dry. Go ahead. You know, somewhere to go. So I'm with you, Lauren, and it's not even a safety

00:23:39.480 issue. The engineers will tell you that these highways are designed for far greater speeds than

00:23:45.260 the speed limit indicates. But you know, speaking of, uh, car travel and fuel costs and what have

00:23:51.440 you, what I really found offensive was just a couple of days ago during the retreat in Prince

00:23:56.740 Edward Island, I was listening on radio to the media scrum of Ms. Freeland. And there were some

00:24:03.420 good, valid questions being asked. One journalist said PEI is suffering right now. Their biggest industry

00:24:10.000 is tourism. And because of the cost of gasoline, um, people that from other Atlantic Canadian 0.98

00:24:17.560 provinces that would come to PEI, they can't afford to as well as other parts of Canada for

00:24:23.120 that matter. I guess the, you know, the innuendo being what about taking off those carbon taxes

00:24:29.740 and other revenue, uh, creating tools in a liter of gasoline and her answer, Lauren, and I just

00:24:38.160 found it downright offensive was we believe in Prince Edward Island. We believe in Prince

00:24:45.840 Edward Island tourism. What the hell kind of answer is that? Yeah. And, and you know what

00:24:52.580 their response is going to be? It's going to be to give more money to promote tourism in Prince

00:24:58.580 Edward Island, not to make tourism more affordable. So people will go on their own, which they would do

00:25:04.180 if it was cheaper to live in Canada. Their, their point will be they'll, they'll find $123 million

00:25:11.020 to add to tourism PEI's budget so they can advertise more widely, uh, so that people who aren't paying

00:25:19.660 carbon taxes can fly to Prince Edward Island, you know, from Europe or wherever they are. But it,

00:25:24.820 you know, it's interesting. The Fraser Institute has a study out this morning, excuse me, that shows

00:25:31.260 of the 141 major metropolitan areas in North America, the highest, the, the, the Canadian city

00:25:39.660 with the highest employment income was Ottawa. And it's only at 53 out of 141. Edmonton is second

00:25:49.100 at 54 and Calgary's at 73. Now the two thing, the things that those top two Canadian cities have in

00:25:56.340 common is big government, big provincial government, big federal government and governments pay

00:26:02.760 exceedingly well. Of course, as we all know that the, the, the, the average government employee now

00:26:07.780 makes far more than his or her private sector counterpart. That's why the two highest paid

00:26:14.300 cities in, in Canada are big government cities. But what it tells me too, is even there, we're in the

00:26:21.400 middle of the pack. We don't even come close to most of the major American cities and Toronto,

00:26:28.200 Montreal and Vancouver are all in the bottom 10%, the bottom 10%. And that's because we have huge

00:26:35.360 government, high taxes, crippling regulations. We, we just have stifled economic growth in this country

00:26:42.460 to such a degree that we are now projected to be the slowest growing industrialized country in the

00:26:49.720 world. Out of 38 industrialized countries between now and 2040, we will probably have the slowest

00:26:54.860 growth. And that's all because this government a sends the wrong signals that it doesn't like

00:27:00.600 resource development. It doesn't like industrial development and B all of its policies add cost

00:27:07.340 to your life, my life, to business decision-making everything adds more cost. And so international

00:27:14.160 investors are now just walking away from them. And Lauren, does it come as any surprise? Because

00:27:19.200 to your point, in the last several months, we've seen the leaders of Germany, of Japan coming cap in

00:27:25.280 hand, begging to buy liquefied natural gas from Canada, one third of a trillion dollars worth for

00:27:34.380 each country. And Prime Minister Blackface says, there's no business case. Oh, that's a line of 0.52

00:27:42.560 idiocy right up there with the budget will balance itself. What did you, how do you connect the dots

00:27:47.740 there, Lauren? You know what there's no business case for. There's no business case for wind or solar.

00:27:53.940 Yeah. There's no business case for EVs. So, you know, this government likes to point it out and

00:28:00.680 directly to your point about exporting liquid natural gas. This government likes to point to

00:28:07.560 Norway as an example for electric vehicles. Norway put a lot of money into its charging grid. You can now

00:28:17.460 drive in the middle of nowhere in Norway and there's a class three charger so that you don't have to go more

00:28:23.680 than 50k without a charging thing. I mean, they put a lot of money into subsidizing people's purchases

00:28:28.880 of EVs. They have a huge EV network now. And this government says, oh, look, see, see, see. We need to

00:28:35.220 do that too. Oh, it's so marvelous and wonderful. You know how Norwegians pay for that? By selling more 1.00

00:28:41.060 oil to other countries and then taking credit because their oil is fairly clean. It's cleaner relative to a

00:28:48.960 lot of the other like burning coal to make electricity. They sell their oil to coal burning

00:28:55.760 countries and take credit for the savings on emissions. This government, our government in

00:29:01.400 Canada will not do that. There's such Boy Scouts on this that they refuse. So if we were to sell

00:29:07.420 liquid natural gas to China, which is building in the process of building 300 additional coal-fired

00:29:14.580 power plants right now, 300, more than the rest of the world combined. If we were to sell LNG to China,

00:29:21.980 we wouldn't take the credit for having stopped the construction of coal-fired power plants. I mean,

00:29:28.620 that's how asinine they are. But the Norwegians do exactly the same thing. And then they take the 0.51

00:29:34.540 credit for the emissions they saved and the money that they got from selling the oil and they pay for

00:29:39.080 their EVs. We're trying to do way more than the Norwegians on the environmental front without 1.00

00:29:44.260 anywhere near the money because we don't want to sell oil or natural gas. It's inexplicable,

00:29:50.600 Lorne. I think we might be the only energy-producing nation on the planet that has an anti-energy

00:29:56.860 marketing scheme. It's absolutely baffling. But even that example, looking at Norway, look in the

00:30:03.940 middle of nowhere, there's a charging station. The point is, we're the second biggest country in

00:30:09.120 the world. There's a lot more nowhere in Canada. So, I mean, the idea of putting these charging

00:30:16.800 stations in the middle of nowhere is like, I mean, I'm just thinking of what the investment would be.

00:30:24.760 And right now, the cupboard is bare, isn't it, Lorne?

00:30:27.660 Absolutely. It absolutely is. They're talking now about this clean electricity regulation. It

00:30:35.480 will be net zero electric grid by 2035. The latest estimate from their friends in the environmental

00:30:41.720 movement is that we would have to build the equivalent of another 150 generating stations in

00:30:48.760 Canada, powered by wind, solar, bug farts, whatever thing it is that they're going to use.

00:30:57.660 And we have to build 150. There are about 150 to 200 now. We'd have to double our capacity at least

00:31:05.940 to get to this net zero. Do you see any of these places being built? Do you see any nuclear power

00:31:13.940 plants being discussed for regulatory approval? No. So this gets back to my original point about how

00:31:21.300 woke they are, but it's all just virtue signaling. They bring in these regulations that scare off

00:31:27.560 investors. People are not coming to Canada now to invest in a natural gas plant because they're

00:31:32.480 afraid the government's going to shut them all down. But then they don't actually do anything

00:31:36.120 concrete on the other side to live up to their commitments. And so we're stuck in no man's land

00:31:42.680 where we have these woke promises that are scaring away investment and nothing to replace what's being

00:31:50.760 scared away. They are, they are without question in my mind. And I'm now an old man. They are the most

00:31:58.140 incompetent nincompoops in government that I have seen in my lifetime. And I first started working in

00:32:04.360 politics 55 years ago. Oh, and I see that criticism coming from even veteran liberal MPs like Dan

00:32:13.100 McTague who knows the energy file, like the back of his hand, he says exactly what you say. Um, you

00:32:20.000 know, and who knows, maybe they're just waiting, uh, Lauren for the discovery of dilithium crystals

00:32:25.200 to make us, you know, but last question, my friend, how damaging is that? I don't know if we can call it

00:32:32.340 a scandal, a speeding ticket, but how damaging is this for Christian Freeland? Uh, if I don't know when

00:32:39.640 the next election is going to be called, I think probably next year, uh, not this year and not as

00:32:46.380 far away as 2025 when it must be called, but at the end of the day, when Christian Freeland runs for

00:32:52.140 reelection in her safe, comfortable downtown liberal riding, uh, is she a shoe in to get reelected or does 1.00

00:33:00.560 something like this cost her? No, no, it doesn't cost her at all. Uh, of course she's a shoe in to get

00:33:05.920 reelected in her riding. She's also, I think still, despite this, this is a very minor, uh, this is a

00:33:12.480 very minor scandal. It'll go away in two days. Uh, but, uh, she's also, I still think the front 1.00

00:33:18.720 runner to take over from Trudeau. I know, but I think she is all the, all the grownups have left

00:33:28.160 the building. Well, you know what, Lauren, if your prediction is correct, I am now once again,

00:33:33.680 subscribing to better the devil, you know, Lauren, thank you so much. Your column is great. I urge

00:33:41.160 our viewers to check it out. Cruz and Christian, just another example of liberal green hypocrisy.

00:33:47.560 And wow, there really is so much of that. Lauren, thank you so much for your time. As always, my

00:33:52.520 friend, that dude, thank you. Well, friends, this is the portion of the show where we read your viewer

00:34:06.800 feedback on the work that we do here at rebel news. And normally we contain the viewer feedback

00:34:11.260 that we read to the show that you've, you know, given us the feedback on. So this is Ezra's show.

00:34:18.680 We would take the viewer feedback from you on Ezra's previous show. But since I'm pre-recording

00:34:23.760 this because Ezra is on a special mission and I, if you're watching this future, Sheila is on a

00:34:32.040 mission to screen her documentary church under fire, Canada's war on Christianity somewhere in the

00:34:38.140 beautiful province of Alberta with my friend and filmmaking partner, Kian Simone. By the way,

00:34:43.240 if you want details, if you want to come to one of our screenings, if you are here in Alberta,

00:34:46.500 go to churchunderfiremovie.com and you can, you know, find out where I am in the future.

00:34:54.580 Not right now. Anyway, our viewer feedback actually comes from something else that I,

00:35:02.580 I said while in the course of my work here at rebel news, it's from a clip from our live stream.

00:35:09.100 The other day we have more often than not daily live streams. It's called the rebel news daily

00:35:15.880 roundup and it airs at 11am mountain time. And we were talking about Alberta's premier,

00:35:23.880 Jason Kenney being a little less than self-aware about why he's no longer premier. He actually blamed,

00:35:33.320 I think me, although he described rebel news as alt-right and we're definitely not, I mean, we're

00:35:39.720 Jewish owned and operated and there's a certain connotation that if you are alt-right that you are

00:35:45.440 sort of playing footsie with neo-Nazis, it's definitely not us. I think we're just mainstream

00:35:52.300 conservatives who aren't tribalist in that we believe in holding all politicians to account,

00:35:57.960 but especially our own politicians, Jason Kenney. And Jason Kenney was doing a bit of whining. Anyway,

00:36:05.480 here's, here's what he said. And I, I think I've been credited through 25 years in elected life, 30

00:36:13.000 years in, in public life for being a pretty good communicator, a fairly persuasive, but I found it

00:36:20.100 almost impossible to persuade or even speak to some segments of the population in COVID. You know,

00:36:26.720 there were, and I'm, I know this is a non-partisan series, but I'll, I'll break this down and into

00:36:30.900 more political terms, which is to say there are large segments of the population that have broadly

00:36:36.740 come to distrust mainstream legacy media outlets. And I think mainstream legacy media are partly,

00:36:45.320 have some responsibility for this. Yeah. And, and so what's happened is you've had the rise of

00:36:52.320 alternative media, both on the left and the right. Um, and, and often their business model is the

00:36:58.680 monetization of anger. So I found during COVID that, uh, if I stood up at a news conference and said,

00:37:05.340 uh, folks, we're going to have to bring in some really difficult and painful restrictions

00:37:11.100 because we're running out of hospital beds. And, uh, we need to make sure that, uh, if you get into

00:37:19.560 a car accident or loved one has a heart attack, that there's a bed for them. So we're going to

00:37:24.560 have to slow a viral spread, um, in order to preserve emergency, you know, critical healthcare

00:37:32.320 capacity. So if I went out and said that a lot of people would hear it, they may not like it,

00:37:36.960 but they would understand at least what the motive was. And it was necessary. We have my quibble

00:37:41.700 about the policy, my quibble about the healthcare system, but they would understand

00:37:46.640 what we were trying to do and why, but I found in COVID, there was a whole segment of the population

00:37:51.320 that opted out of mainstream institutional legacy media who were only in one case, listening to,

00:37:58.040 uh, alt-right media and who just kept seeing stories about nurses doing TikTok dances in empty

00:38:05.240 hospitals. And that COVID was fake or massively exaggerated. And so those folks never heard what

00:38:11.720 I had to say. And, and, and so they thought that, that these restrictions were done completely

00:38:16.900 arbitrarily or for malicious reasons. So, uh, you know, that's an extreme example, but it's one

00:38:23.360 that certainly worries me. And then I said that he was completely lacking in all self-awareness

00:38:28.740 because all we did was report on his many, uh, problems with consistency, wherein he locked

00:38:37.460 people down, but had a boozy party on, uh, what we call sky palace here in Alberta. It's a private

00:38:43.780 sort of a venue, a top, a building on the legislature grounds. All the senior cabinet ministers were

00:38:50.600 there while it was illegal together. And Jason Kenney flip-flopped on so many things. For example,

00:38:56.420 he said he didn't know what a vaccine passport was, but then when he didn't know what a vaccine

00:38:59.820 passport was, he knew it was definitely, definitely illegal. And then, uh, he brought in his own

00:39:05.980 and he called it the restriction exemptions program. So he could be like, see, I didn't bring

00:39:14.200 in a vaccine passport. Just like when the NDP brought in a carbon tax and then called it a carbon 0.88

00:39:20.320 levy. And they're like, see, we didn't bring in a carbon tax, but it's the same thing. Um, and so,

00:39:25.460 you know, like, of course we held Jason Kenney to account. I expect the liberals to lie to me.

00:39:30.100 That's just all they ever do. I expect them to have radical leftist ideas and act like tyrants.

00:39:37.320 That's what their side tends to do. Ours is supposed to believe in freedom and small government

00:39:41.480 and personal, uh, autonomy and the rights of the individual. But Jason Kenney didn't in practice.

00:39:48.620 He said he did, but when he was forced to tangibly support those ideas and those,

00:39:56.360 that philosophy, when it was necessary, when it really mattered, it's easy to be a civil libertarian

00:40:04.340 when there are no civil liberties bonfires around you. It's hard to do it in a time of crisis. And

00:40:09.960 Jason Kenney failed completely and, uh, made it my fault for some reason for pointing out that he

00:40:15.540 failed. Anyway, Joseph Temple, 1667, makes an astute observation here in the YouTube comments.

00:40:25.820 He says, Jason Kenney never wanted to be premier. He wanted to be prime minister. I think you're right.

00:40:32.720 We were but a stepping stone, weren't we? He just saw Edmonton as a springboard to launch him back

00:40:38.560 into federal politics. He was largely seen as the successor for Stephen Harper. It is true.

00:40:44.520 But I think he blew that up for himself because if you don't have the support of Albertans,

00:40:51.100 you don't get to be the conservative prime minister of this country. That's how important we are

00:40:57.400 in conservative politics. As such, all of his decisions were based on what was good for Jason

00:41:03.620 Kenney's long-term political career and not what was best for Albertans. That's why he's all washed up

00:41:10.660 and extremely bitter too. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. You know what? I don't know anything

00:41:15.100 about Jason Kenney personally. I don't dislike him personally. Um, I know he's got a real problem

00:41:20.920 with consistency and I've got a, I've got a sneaking suspicion. He's got a real problem with introspection

00:41:26.800 because he's still trying to deflect blame outward. When I wasn't up in Sky Palace, I wasn't

00:41:33.180 locking down churches. I wasn't fencing off churches. I wasn't driving churches underground.

00:41:38.560 I wasn't arresting pastors like they were El Chapo on the street or protesters in front of the

00:41:44.500 legislature. I wasn't instituting vaccine passports and calling people names for disagreeing with me.

00:41:51.560 That was Jason Kenney. He wanted to be the premier of all Albertans, but what he really wanted to do

00:41:59.220 was be the boss of Ottawa and, uh, Albertans were it along the way and I didn't do that. He did. And

00:42:05.960 maybe he needs more time in the wilderness to figure that out because I don't, I don't think we

00:42:12.020 want to hear from him for quite some time. Follow Daniel Smith's lead. When you do something stupid

00:42:16.980 and betray Albertans, disappear for five or six years and then come back and say, sorry,

00:42:23.640 we might just forgive you, but don't blame us for what you did. Well, everybody, that's the show

00:42:30.320 for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody who works behind the scenes in

00:42:34.860 Toronto and across the country and even around the world to bring you the show whenever you want to

00:42:39.560 see it. And, uh, big thanks to the boss for trusting me with the big show tonight. And as my boss

00:42:46.340 always says, keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - August 24, 2023

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