Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Nova Scotians tell Trudeau： 'Take your carbon tax and shove it!'

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00:01:25.780 A lot of economists have been talking about the vibe session and the fact that Canadians just aren't feeling good

00:01:43.840 and that that is having real economic consequences.

00:01:48.820 And the Canadian economists making that point are right. 0.68

00:01:52.900 Well, there you have it from the woman in charge of the Canadian economy, Chrystia Freeland.

00:01:57.160 It's not the government picking your pocket and taking more in the form of taxes and levies than ever before,

00:02:04.740 leaving you struggling to pay your bills, cover your mortgage, feed your kids,

00:02:10.140 and maybe have a little leftover for some fun and recreation at the end of it all,

00:02:14.960 and maybe put away a dollar or two for a rainy day.

00:02:17.980 Oh, no, your problem is not big government robbing you every step of the way.

00:02:26.120 It's the feels.

00:02:29.240 You're having a problem with your vibes.

00:02:31.640 You got to get your vibrations up.

00:02:34.240 Is it any wonder that the Canadian economy is in a death spiral right now?

00:02:40.320 You know, if this is the people we have in charge and Justin Trudeau thinks that she's the woman for the job.

00:02:49.120 Joining me to discuss this, the Nova Scotia election and the message it sent to the federal liberals about the carbon tax

00:02:58.280 and the carbon tax rebate, maybe, sort of, kind of, that Canadians will be getting very soon

00:03:07.440 is my friend Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:03:12.240 Take a listen.

00:03:16.280 So joining me now is a good friend of the show and my dear friend Chris Sims,

00:03:20.360 the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:03:23.020 We're recording this on Wednesday morning and on Tuesday night.

00:03:29.080 Huge election victory in Nova Scotia for Tim Houston's progressive conservatives.

00:03:35.520 And I think it was not just a win for Tim Houston,

00:03:40.800 but an absolute, complete rejection of the Trudeau liberals and their carbon tax.

00:03:47.160 And that is evidence in the complete collapse of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.

00:03:51.540 Yeah, we thought so, too.

00:03:53.660 This was a really good indicator that even places like Atlanta, Canada, or the Maritimes,

00:03:59.220 they're kind of distinct areas, depending on your terminology, are rejecting the carbon tax.

00:04:04.180 And one of the reasons I was really heartened to see that, particularly in Nova Scotia,

00:04:09.460 I've got a lot of family there, a lot of roots there, they date back to the 1700s,

00:04:14.600 is that the politics there is a bit different.

00:04:17.260 In that, quite often, especially with the older set, you're kind of born into a party.

00:04:24.060 It's totally alien to most of us out here out West.

00:04:26.940 But there, not always, but especially among the older set in Nova Scotia,

00:04:31.640 you were either born into a Liberal, because your father was a Liberal and his father was a Liberal.

00:04:37.100 Same thing with the Tories, because your father was a Tory and his father was a Tory.

00:04:40.520 And you vote along those lines.

00:04:42.260 But this kind of jumped over that fence.

00:04:44.740 Also, as a taxpayer federation representative, I was really heartened,

00:04:50.100 because, of course, a huge chunk of Nova Scotians have gotten a suspension on their home heating oil fuel tax.

00:04:58.760 So, the Trudeau government has put in a three-year moratorium on charging its carbon tax against furnace oil.

00:05:05.240 Now, furnace oil is almost exclusively used in the province of Nova Scotia.

00:05:11.800 But you know what? They're not buying it.

00:05:13.980 It was fascinating.

00:05:15.300 So, they're still paying through the nose of the pump, yeah, for gasoline and diesel.

00:05:19.080 But they didn't buy the whole payoff of like, oh, well, you know, we're preview from your home heating.

00:05:24.500 They're like, nope, no thanks.

00:05:25.620 And we think that the carbon tax played a huge factor in this.

00:05:29.400 And so, we're definitely going to keep holding that provincial government to account, though.

00:05:32.800 Like, there can't be any funny business about a cap in trade.

00:05:35.900 They have to make sure their budgets are balanced.

00:05:37.580 They have to do all the right things from the CTF perspective.

00:05:39.860 But we're taking that as a win, as a rejection of the carbon tax.

00:05:43.220 Yeah, I looked at the abacus data top issues for Nova Scotians heading into the election.

00:05:51.900 And two of the top four involved the carbon tax.

00:05:56.600 So, over two-thirds were concerned about making life more affordable.

00:06:01.540 And 40% were concerned about reducing taxes.

00:06:06.360 So, the other two were the perennial fixing health care.

00:06:10.700 Another hundred years, we might fix it.

00:06:12.940 It seems to be an issue in every election.

00:06:15.480 And then the other one was improving housing and reducing homelessness.

00:06:18.440 But also, we know that, you know, affordability factors into homelessness as much as mental health and addiction does.

00:06:26.180 So, really, three of the top four are touched by carbon tax in Nova Scotia.

00:06:31.600 Yeah, big time.

00:06:32.880 I just saw some, I honestly can't even remember his name.

00:06:36.860 Some member of parliament in the Lower Mainland with the Trudeau government who's paid,

00:06:40.000 by the way, backbenchers in Ottawa are paid $200,000 per year, plus pretty much all of their expenses are paid.

00:06:47.040 Like, their rent is paid, their travel is paid.

00:06:49.100 They don't pay their heat bill.

00:06:50.800 So, what I found interesting is he thought he was dunking on the idea of scrapping the carbon tax of,

00:06:56.400 oh, you get more back than you pay in, which is such a canard.

00:06:59.700 Like, anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that you can't give the government a 20 and expect a 50 back at no cost to you.

00:07:05.940 Right.

00:07:06.000 The thing here, though, is that he was missing the point.

00:07:10.300 He was only thinking about physically filling up your own vehicle with gasoline at the gas pump and not the farmer paying the carbon tax,

00:07:18.800 the trucker paying the carbon tax, and all of that layer cake from hell that is the carbon tax that is baked into your everyday expenses,

00:07:26.680 which helps make life unaffordable.

00:07:29.160 So, yeah, with all those polls saying that things like taxes, affordability, those elements,

00:07:35.300 they're all intertwined with this federal carbon tax.

00:07:38.600 And Nova Scotians have a right to be super ticked off.

00:07:42.140 Because before this carbon tax was imposed upon them by the Trudeau government, by Ottawa,

00:07:47.620 they had met their targets without a carbon tax.

00:07:51.520 They had a, you know, a very tiny one.

00:07:53.480 I think it was one or two cents per litre for gasoline in their own provincial form.

00:07:57.320 But that wasn't good enough for the Trudeau government.

00:07:59.660 They bigfooted them anyway with this punishing federal carbon tax.

00:08:03.420 So they've really kind of, I hope, voters are paying close attention and they've learned their lesson

00:08:08.900 that this is not about the environment.

00:08:11.460 It's not about meeting your emissions targets.

00:08:13.900 They just want to control you and take your money. 0.95

00:08:15.960 Well, and as you say, it is about controlling you and taking your money.

00:08:21.680 Because if it were about global emissions, maybe Justin Trudeau wouldn't tell you,

00:08:25.640 you need to pay the carbon tax.

00:08:27.320 Excuse me, I'm jetting off to Brazil to become the keynote speaker,

00:08:34.520 if that's what he was, at the Global Citizen Summit.

00:08:37.300 That's what he thinks he was anyway.

00:08:39.400 Yeah.

00:08:40.020 How much time do you have?

00:08:41.700 All the time you need.

00:08:42.600 So I watched this, so you don't have to, dear listener.

00:08:47.580 He was one of many world leaders that schlepped onto the stage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

00:08:55.160 I honestly can't even remember what the summit was called.

00:08:57.840 But on the stage, it had these gigantic lights that says Global Citizen.

00:09:03.360 And then you sit in front of them.

00:09:05.760 Getting a tan off these lights.

00:09:07.720 This is it.

00:09:08.360 If there were such a thing, I don't know, the Babylon Bee couldn't make fun of this

00:09:12.340 because it's just right there.

00:09:13.780 It's already parodying itself.

00:09:15.660 And so Trudeau flew down there, burning jet fuel, sat on stage to wax philosophic about

00:09:22.840 the carbon tax and about global warming and about emissions and up with peopledom and all

00:09:27.660 this stuff that you've heard of before.

00:09:29.680 But he went on for 21 minutes and 37 seconds.

00:09:33.640 God almighty.

00:09:34.440 And I listened to him twice because I had to get the clips.

00:09:36.820 Oh, you poor soul. 0.86

00:09:39.060 I know.

00:09:39.700 I actually, it's still here by my desk.

00:09:42.540 I kept my Pepto close.

00:09:44.560 But in all seriousness, what blew my mind was he was asked, of course, about, you know,

00:09:50.600 global emissions and all that stuff.

00:09:52.240 And what's super weird is that he seems to forget what he said back in like 2015, 2016

00:09:58.960 in Toulomba en Parle, that big talk show out of Quebec, when I paraphrase, he basically

00:10:04.420 said, we emit so little, about 1.5% of global emissions, that Canada could cease to exist

00:10:11.140 and stop doing everything.

00:10:12.160 And we wouldn't make a big dent in global emissions.

00:10:14.780 Again, he said it in French, but he said it.

00:10:17.780 And that's actually true.

00:10:20.120 Even if Canada stopped heating our homes and growing food and taking our kids to school

00:10:24.600 and running our lights, it wouldn't make a dent in global emissions.

00:10:27.680 But no, he didn't get into that, Sheila.

00:10:30.080 He actually started really getting up on his own talking points, kind of.

00:10:36.640 Yeah, he gets high on his own supply.

00:10:38.700 He did.

00:10:39.240 I'll let you say that.

00:10:40.620 That's exactly what he did.

00:10:42.320 And he got ahead of himself.

00:10:44.260 And he started saying really weird stuff.

00:10:46.980 Like, we know when people are in an affordability crisis, and they're in survival mode, and they

00:10:52.280 just need to hunker down, and they're worried about feeding their kids and paying 1.00

00:10:57.660 their rent, that they can put the environment, paying the carbon tax, on the back burner.

00:11:03.240 But we can't do that.

00:11:05.420 He kept repeating that, like, out loud with his face.

00:11:09.000 So, translation, Sheila, and all of your wonderful listeners, the Prime Minister of Canada, who,

00:11:16.220 by the way, was born wealthy, born rich, literally on Christmas Day, raised in a mansion at 24 Sussex,

00:11:23.780 who has never had to even wonder where his rent is coming from, or where his next bill payment

00:11:30.600 will be scraped together.

00:11:32.140 Never experienced that in his life.

00:11:33.700 He actually said, feeding your kids and making your rent should be lower in priority for you,

00:11:42.200 Canadian taxpayer, than paying his carbon tax.

00:11:45.620 It's mind-blowing.

00:11:47.040 But this stuff just doesn't seem to stick to this guy.

00:11:49.100 The challenge we're facing right now is that the direct pressures on individuals and households,

00:11:55.140 the affordability crisis, being kicked in the teeth by inflation around the world over the past few years,

00:12:02.640 the concerns around the rapid pace of change, the instabilities we're seeing, the shifting geopolitics,

00:12:09.620 the disruptions of the supply chain, have a lot of individual citizens, voters, families,

00:12:17.000 really worried that they're not able to make ends meet.

00:12:20.880 And it's really, really easy when you're in a short-term survive.

00:12:25.980 I've got to be able to pay the rent this month.

00:12:27.840 I've got to be able to buy groceries for my kids to say,

00:12:31.160 OK, let's put climate change as a slightly lower priority.

00:12:37.740 And that's something that's instinctive.

00:12:39.640 When the storm comes, you want to hunker down and just sort of huddle up and wait for it to blow over.

00:12:44.240 We can't do that around climate change.

00:12:47.400 And unfortunately, we have an awful lot of political amplification of the kind of narrative that is directly opposed to that.

00:12:57.160 It's, you know, some very, very profitable oil and gas companies and entrenched interests

00:13:02.580 that very much want people to, you know, put in opposition affordability and the fight against climate change.

00:13:10.140 And that's really the challenge we have to take on.

00:13:12.580 Everyone sort of understands, oh, yes, we need to grow an economy and protect the environment at the same time.

00:13:18.040 But when it comes to putting dollars in pockets for people,

00:13:22.720 they don't want to hear about, oh, if they, you know, if they just, you know, pay a little more for an electric car,

00:13:29.320 then that'll be protecting the environment.

00:13:31.520 They can't pay a little more for an electric car right now.

00:13:34.200 There's a sense that affordability is in direct contrast with our moral responsibility to protect the planet.

00:13:43.380 And that is something that, unfortunately, people have been amplified and used propaganda, misinformation, disinformation,

00:13:53.600 and flat out lies to scare people into saying, oh, no, no, no, no, we got to take care of our household budget and bottom line first and environment second.

00:14:06.920 And that's one of the things that we've really tried to tackle in Canada,

00:14:09.640 because ultimately, even as we talk about global collective action and responsibility,

00:14:14.360 we have a first primary responsibility to citizens in our own countries,

00:14:19.820 because if they're not on board with us stepping up to fight climate change, both at home and around the world,

00:14:25.960 they will withdraw political support from parties that are focused on doing that.

00:14:31.340 And that's the challenge we have to tackle.

00:14:33.300 I think it is sticking.

00:14:35.580 I think it is finally sticking.

00:14:38.380 I think people are seeing through the mainstream media and the liberal rhetoric on this,

00:14:43.060 because at the end of the day, you have less money in your bank account,

00:14:47.460 and people are starting to figure out why.

00:14:49.780 You cannot, as you say, give 20 bucks to the government,

00:14:52.300 and they're going to give you back 50 while creating nothing and cycling it through the hands of 100 bureaucrats

00:14:59.280 who don't work for free.

00:15:01.620 I think people are finally, I think, I think us Albertans, we figured it out a long time ago.

00:15:07.960 I think the other parts of the country are finally catching up.

00:15:12.060 And that makes me very happy.

00:15:15.480 Chrystia Freeland, though, she says, it's not, you're not really experiencing a recession.

00:15:21.020 You know, it's not that you have less money in your bank account than ever before.

00:15:24.000 You just have fewer vibes.

00:15:26.220 A lot of economists have been talking about the vibe session,

00:15:29.660 and the fact that Canadians just aren't feeling good,

00:15:33.580 and that that is having real economic consequences.

00:15:38.140 And the Canadian economists making that point are right. 0.68

00:15:43.120 She's in charge of our economy, okay?

00:15:45.440 God help us all.

00:15:46.260 It could be, I guess, all things considered.

00:15:48.560 If we have a big thinker like that in charge of the economy,

00:15:51.900 it's by the grace of God things are not worse, and things are bad already.

00:15:56.040 Is it any wonder they've doubled the debt?

00:16:00.000 Like, really?

00:16:01.340 Like, this is why.

00:16:02.260 If anybody's sitting there late at night, like Plato, just sitting there thinking,

00:16:06.500 chin in hand,

00:16:08.560 how it is that this government has managed to double the debt in nine years' time,

00:16:13.260 it's because our finance minister of a G7 country says stuff like,

00:16:23.100 we're in a vibe session.

00:16:25.280 Yeah.

00:16:26.020 Repeatedly.

00:16:26.600 She didn't just say it once.

00:16:28.360 I think she said it three times in that little press conference she gave.

00:16:31.780 She thought she was so smart saying it.

00:16:33.360 Like, this is, so, this is what, this means, Sheila, that they focus grouped this.

00:16:39.780 Right.

00:16:40.940 That's what that means.

00:16:42.260 In my conspiracy side of my brain, I'm like, Mark Carney told her to say that,

00:16:47.280 to sabotage her because he wants to leave the Liberal Party,

00:16:50.620 and he wants to make sure that she doesn't even stand a chance in a leadership review.

00:16:55.400 But why does he?

00:16:57.620 I don't know.

00:16:58.420 Well, why?

00:17:00.400 Honestly, dude, go do banker stuff or something.

00:17:03.880 Go back to the UN.

00:17:06.260 Do that to yourself.

00:17:07.520 But, so, this is the thing.

00:17:08.940 So, this isn't the first absolutely absurd thing that this government has said.

00:17:15.020 Remember, we were all promised that they would grow the economy from the heart outwards.

00:17:20.880 Right.

00:17:21.280 And that the budget would balance itself.

00:17:23.200 And that we were in a, I'm trying to remember exactly what Trudeau said.

00:17:28.680 We were in a she-covery after a she-session.

00:17:33.180 Right.

00:17:33.780 Makes me just embarrassed.

00:17:35.540 Makes an ovary just cramp.

00:17:37.860 Is it hard to think of it?

00:17:39.020 Lone adults said these things.

00:17:41.540 Okay.

00:17:41.780 Our finance minister, our prime minister are saying these things.

00:17:45.100 And the reason why it's so incredibly frustrating is because it's so obvious that they don't get it.

00:17:50.840 And this finance minister, Sheila, I must stress, Krista Freeland has never balanced the budget. 0.59

00:17:58.360 No.

00:17:59.460 Not one time.

00:18:00.780 Not even by mistake.

00:18:02.360 And the deficits are eye-watering.

00:18:05.620 It's supposed to be around $40 billion.

00:18:07.560 I'm hearing, because our fiscal update is late as of this taping.

00:18:12.460 It's like a month late.

00:18:13.720 I'm hearing that the deficit is going to be closer to $50 billion with a fee. 0.87

00:18:20.420 So it's no wonder that we've got a doubled national debt because we've got the finance minister saying silly, silly things.

00:18:29.460 It's like we're in a vibe session. 0.51

00:18:32.120 No, we're not.

00:18:32.960 You can't pay your taxes in vibes.

00:18:34.520 You can't pay your rent in vibes.

00:18:36.300 Can you pay your Disney Plus subscription in vibes?

00:18:40.940 Freeland should try that.

00:18:42.340 Let me know how it goes.

00:18:44.000 You might be able to.

00:18:45.300 I don't know.

00:18:46.080 I'll find somebody who watches Disney and I'll get them in vibes.

00:18:49.040 You know, and it's just so insulting, like, as a woman, to hear them say stuff like she session and she covery. 1.00

00:18:57.040 Well, this she doesn't like paying 30% more for groceries because we've got a bunch of idiots in charge in Ottawa. 1.00

00:19:05.340 And, you know, Freeland, the last time she was in charge of something, besides our country's economy, which is chilling, she was the head of Reuters Next. 0.99

00:19:16.240 And there is no such thing as Reuters Next anymore because they put Krista Freeland in charge of it.

00:19:23.100 And so Justin Trudeau saw her and thought, that's the one.

00:19:27.060 That's the one for me.

00:19:28.860 Remember when we were warned that he would run this?

00:19:32.000 So this is one of our T-shirts, Shameless Self-Promotion.

00:19:34.780 It's support your local money printer, right?

00:19:37.740 So remember when we were warned that Trudeau would run little itty bitty deficits?

00:19:43.980 That didn't happen.

00:19:45.000 He ran enormous deficits.

00:19:48.260 So that was wrong.

00:19:50.540 We should have built a bigger boat.

00:19:52.720 We should have built a bigger boat.

00:19:56.500 Let's talk about the GST cut.

00:19:59.580 Yes.

00:20:00.380 Offered to us by the Liberals.

00:20:03.100 They're saying, good gracious, Canadians, can't you take your pittance?

00:20:08.860 Saying it'll save us 200 plus dollars or something like that.

00:20:13.200 But in reality, it's much, much less.

00:20:17.080 Maybe, maybe 10 bucks.

00:20:18.780 Maybe two jugs of milk.

00:20:20.600 I mean, thanks.

00:20:21.700 I'm for tax cuts in all their forms.

00:20:24.880 Yeah.

00:20:25.120 Don't.

00:20:26.080 Yes.

00:20:26.640 Cut everything.

00:20:27.600 But let's not overstate the value of this nonsense right now.

00:20:32.160 Agreed.

00:20:32.500 So I wanted to start with the good news because I think it's my duty to do that.

00:20:37.720 It's always a good thing when people get more of their own money back.

00:20:42.580 Yes.

00:20:42.740 So that's a good thing.

00:20:45.360 I don't need to tell you.

00:20:46.960 You probably get the same emails.

00:20:48.820 We are seeing so many emails, Sheila, of people who are just tooth and nail.

00:20:54.740 Like really, truly.

00:20:55.920 Yeah.

00:20:56.480 They're crushed under the weight of government.

00:20:57.940 They're crushed.

00:20:58.080 And so I will never begrudge those folks getting, they're supposed to be getting 250 bucks in

00:21:05.840 February, like as a payment on top of them suspending the GST on groceries and essentials.

00:21:12.700 Yeah.

00:21:12.800 So I will never sniff at them getting their money back, even if it's 250 bucks that can

00:21:19.340 buy you a decent chunk of groceries that can, you can throw that down on your heat bill.

00:21:23.780 That said, so that, that part is good.

00:21:27.300 The problem here is it is too little and it's way too short and it's really short notice.

00:21:34.180 So three things.

00:21:36.280 One, it sounds like the feds did not get the provinces completely on board with this to

00:21:43.480 the point where the newly elected premier of New Brunswick apparently was barely consulted

00:21:48.740 about this and in places that have an HST.

00:21:53.180 So for those of us in the blessed land of Alberta, this is something foreign. 0.98

00:21:56.580 It's a harmonized sales tax.

00:21:58.420 So say you have a sales tax provincially in New Brunswick and you have the federal sales

00:22:04.500 tax, the GST that we have to pay here too.

00:22:06.800 Thank you, Brian Mulroney.

00:22:08.800 In places like New Brunswick, they harmonized it.

00:22:12.280 So it's now called the HST in places like New Brunswick.

00:22:15.480 When I lived in Nova Scotia, it was disgusting.

00:22:17.960 It's 15% on everything. 0.75

00:22:21.680 It's gross.

00:22:22.760 So shopping is not fun there.

00:22:24.080 Um, so in places like New Brunswick though, it was interesting because the premier, newly

00:22:29.360 elected premier there was saying, um, what about the provincial portion?

00:22:34.000 Like, are you saying this is now just a hole you're blowing in my budget?

00:22:37.660 And apparently the answer from Ottawa was, um, well, yeah, maybe.

00:22:42.660 That's blindsiding a liberal premier. 0.99

00:22:45.380 This is it.

00:22:46.260 And like, we, we rang on about bureaucrats and I still will.

00:22:49.900 We've added a hundred thousand of them or so.

00:22:51.720 They get paid too much, all that stuff, yada, yada.

00:22:53.480 There are occasionally within departments, adults in the room.

00:22:59.460 It has to, otherwise like the lights wouldn't stay on.

00:23:02.320 Okay.

00:23:02.900 What blew my mind is that the adults in the room in finance and in treasury weren't on

00:23:11.560 like, what's going on here?

00:23:13.380 How is it that they didn't work this out completely with places like New Brunswick?

00:23:16.860 And what I heard from folks who are still in Ottawa is that the bureaucrats were freaking

00:23:21.560 out about this, like freaking out.

00:23:24.320 Yeah.

00:23:24.500 And the liberals did it anyway.

00:23:25.720 They did it anyway.

00:23:27.180 So that's one thing.

00:23:28.780 So this is a schmozzle even within the liberal government, within the Trudeau government in

00:23:34.200 Ottawa, between the kratts and the politicos that are like, hey, everything's expensive.

00:23:39.340 Let's do something.

00:23:40.540 Right.

00:23:40.960 Two, two, GST isn't applied to most grocery items.

00:23:49.520 Great.

00:23:51.060 No, not to generalize, but us moms who do the big grocery shopping, we know this. 1.00

00:23:56.080 So I know that if I'm super rushed and I'm super busy and I have a little bit of extra

00:24:01.080 money, I will cut corners and I will buy my kids that cut up fruit tray. 0.99

00:24:05.640 You pay GST on that because of the work and the labor and the additives that have gone into

00:24:10.980 it.

00:24:11.260 You know, they've rinsed it in lemon juice, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:13.380 There's packaging.

00:24:14.240 There's a whole bunch of things that have to go into food.

00:24:17.100 Yeah.

00:24:17.620 Processed to make it processed, even though it's fresh fruit.

00:24:19.700 So you pay that same thing with, I believe, if it's seasoned rotisserie chicken, you'll

00:24:25.620 pay a GST on that.

00:24:27.420 So imagine convenience.

00:24:29.720 If it's super convenient and out of the box and it's been processed in a way, you're typically

00:24:34.800 going to pay GST.

00:24:36.560 The hilarious thing, Sheila, is that if you look in the background of Trudeau's announcement

00:24:41.440 with Christia Freeland, where he's like, no GST for two whole months.

00:24:46.260 And you look in the back, there's bread, there's big honking bags of pasta, there's

00:24:53.780 peanut butter, like stuff you don't pay GST on now.

00:24:59.140 It's because they don't.

00:24:59.840 And so it's just, no, Trudeau doesn't pay for his groceries.

00:25:03.000 I know.

00:25:03.880 The health goes and buys it and then we pay for it.

00:25:07.080 Right.

00:25:07.560 But this, I'm going to give free advice to any person wanting to go into politics.

00:25:12.960 I don't care if you're running with the blue team or the red team or whatever.

00:25:17.140 Don't do this.

00:25:18.660 Yeah.

00:25:19.120 Don't act like this.

00:25:20.340 Don't talk like this.

00:25:21.640 Always understand how much a jug of milk costs.

00:25:25.900 It was one of the best pieces of advice that the late, great former Prime Minister Margaret

00:25:30.480 Thatcher always had.

00:25:32.740 She made sure all of her cabinet ministers knew how much a jug of milk costs. 0.99

00:25:37.680 Because if you don't, you wind up doing stuff like that.

00:25:41.800 And it just doesn't ring true.

00:25:44.060 The other element, there's three other, two other elements.

00:25:48.340 Third element is that the retailers are apparently flipping out too.

00:25:52.920 Because now they're worried that everybody's going to hold their gift buying until after

00:25:57.020 the initiation date, mid-December.

00:25:59.720 And they have to change all their tills over.

00:26:01.760 And the other element is apparently they've left out most of the seniors.

00:26:08.000 We are getting inundated with email from senior citizens saying,

00:26:12.320 um, why am I not getting a $250 check coming up in February?

00:26:16.400 Why is this only for working people?

00:26:19.060 What was hilarious, did you see the response from the Liberals in question period yesterday

00:26:23.240 to that point?

00:26:23.920 Uh, I saw, uh, a clip from Brian Pastafoom, who I really enjoy.

00:26:31.100 Yes, me too.

00:26:31.660 We're at the National Post.

00:26:33.200 Canada's tourism minister insists the $250 checks are only for working people and that

00:26:38.040 the Liberals have already done just lots to help the seniors.

00:26:41.480 So can the seniors just shut up?

00:26:42.800 We've done a great deal for seniors and will continue to work hard to protect vulnerable

00:26:50.380 people.

00:26:51.000 The $250 check is to support people who are working.

00:26:58.040 It's a way of showing government support and it's a way of telling workers that we see them.

00:27:03.660 What about seniors?

00:27:05.820 The legislation we introduced last week is a GST holiday.

00:27:09.300 It's a measure that will help workers.

00:27:13.540 So again, free advice.

00:27:16.040 Don't do that.

00:27:19.040 Don't leave seniors out of things.

00:27:21.160 Okay.

00:27:21.700 Don't ever suggest that they're asking for too much than you're able to give.

00:27:26.320 Just don't do that.

00:27:28.140 Figure it out.

00:27:29.100 Work out your comms and don't anger those folks because number one, a lot of them are still

00:27:34.340 struggling.

00:27:35.260 Okay.

00:27:35.420 And number two, they're the ones that pay attention a lot and they vote.

00:27:42.240 They vote.

00:27:43.140 They're tuned into this stuff.

00:27:45.480 Cable TV watchers of political shows and news.

00:27:49.800 It's the older people. 1.00

00:27:51.640 It is.

00:27:52.300 It is.

00:27:53.200 They even pay attention to City Hall.

00:27:55.240 Yeah, they do.

00:27:56.080 These folks have got time.

00:27:57.620 They've got the time.

00:27:59.560 They have the time.

00:28:01.080 They do.

00:28:01.800 They're like the elder statesmen.

00:28:03.460 They're like the unpaid actual Roman senators that sit back and watch what's going on.

00:28:08.320 So yeah, huge mistake.

00:28:10.420 And we know it just as a purely political theater watcher.

00:28:13.320 It's amazing that they left seniors out of this.

00:28:18.560 Like that is a rookie mistake.

00:28:21.880 Like again, I think they just rushed to this.

00:28:24.320 They were like, oh, dang, we're plummeting the polls.

00:28:27.880 We're going to we're headed for a wipe out in Nova Scotia.

00:28:30.860 Yeah, we have to do something.

00:28:32.440 Give the people some of their money back.

00:28:34.600 And I think they didn't think about the rest of it.

00:28:37.320 They didn't think about the economic implications for retailers in the lead up to Christmas.

00:28:42.600 They didn't think about the seniors.

00:28:43.940 They didn't think about harmonized sales tax.

00:28:45.940 They really didn't think about I was going to say the fine details, but I think any of 0.92

00:28:50.060 the details other than like, oh, shut up.

00:28:53.500 We're giving you some of your money back.

00:28:56.220 And, you know, at the end of the day, this is an acknowledgement that Canadians have too

00:29:02.700 high of a tax burden and the GST is part of that.

00:29:06.260 Yep.

00:29:06.820 Yep.

00:29:07.260 We just need tax cuts across the board.

00:29:10.200 The first thing they can and should do is cancel the carbon tax.

00:29:13.260 That will make everybody's tax burden go down. 0.99

00:29:15.920 And then we can start working on actually reducing the GST permanently and for a long time.

00:29:21.800 Yes.

00:29:22.820 The carbon tax is really a sales tax on just generally being alive in this country.

00:29:29.820 A production and sales tax on being alive in this country.

00:29:31.980 Yes.

00:29:32.380 Right.

00:29:32.980 It's cumulative, added every step along the way of the supply chain.

00:29:36.960 Now, before I let you go, because I know you have a radio hit to do, give us a quick rundown

00:29:42.980 on Alberta's challenge to the federal government's emissions cap.

00:29:47.140 Oh, we're fully in favor of Premier Daniel Smith putting the boots to Prime Minister Justin

00:29:51.740 Trudeau's government to defend our energy industry, mostly because this will severely

00:29:57.280 punish people.

00:29:59.100 It'll hurt them in their wallets. 0.79

00:30:00.660 It'll make everything more expensive.

00:30:01.940 And we are tired of Alberta being treated like this. 1.00

00:30:05.700 And it's very similar, we believe, to the No More Pipelines law.

00:30:09.400 And we are fully in support of the Premier fighting them like this.

00:30:13.660 When you work it out, it actually winds up being kind of like a fourth really heavy carbon tax

00:30:18.280 when they do an emissions cap or a production cap, which is really what this is.

00:30:22.240 It's a production cap on our lifeblood, which is energy.

00:30:25.400 So, yeah, it's definitely something that we support the Premier for doing.

00:30:28.860 Yeah, it's a cap on Alberta jobs, which will only drive up the cost of fossil fuel energy

00:30:35.460 in this country as they limit supply.

00:30:39.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:41.300 Okay.

00:30:41.580 Chris, I know I have to let you go, but please tell us how people can support the incredible

00:30:46.100 work that you folks do over at the CTF.

00:30:48.340 Oh, thank you.

00:30:50.360 Yeah, go to taxpayer.com.

00:30:52.560 All joking aside, you can get shirts like this.

00:30:54.960 You can get defund the CBC.

00:30:56.480 We have some funny stop the gun grab ones that you can get there, too.

00:30:59.900 I don't think we even make money on them.

00:31:01.280 It's just for fun.

00:31:02.100 The most important thing, though, is to sign the petitions that speak to you, that you

00:31:06.740 care about.

00:31:07.800 So, scrap the carbon tax, defund the CBC, that sort of stuff.

00:31:11.160 If it means something to you, sign that petition.

00:31:13.660 And that means now you're part of that army.

00:31:15.720 And the next time it's time to make a politician's life a little bit more miserable and send them

00:31:20.380 thousands and thousands and thousands of emails and make them think a little bit harder,

00:31:24.660 you're going to be one of the army.

00:31:26.420 Great.

00:31:26.960 Chris, thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:31:28.540 Thanks so much for advocating for just normal Canadian families like mine and like thousands

00:31:33.960 of Rebel News viewers out there.

00:31:36.200 We just admire and appreciate the work that you do.

00:31:48.920 Well, we've come to the portion of the show wherein, as always, I invite your viewer feedback

00:31:53.560 because without you, there's no Rebel News.

00:31:55.520 I say it every week.

00:31:56.380 It remains as true as ever.

00:31:59.280 Without you, there's no Rebel News because we will never take a penny from Justin Trudeau 0.95

00:32:03.960 to do the work that we do to hold him and his government and his crazy lying MPs to account.

00:32:10.480 So, we rely on you.

00:32:11.840 And because of that, I should care what you have to think about the work that we do here.

00:32:17.580 And there's a couple ways that you can provide your viewer feedback to me.

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00:32:39.240 over on YouTube as well, if you're fine with the censorship over there.

00:32:44.120 Today's comments actually come by way of rumble comments, not on the show, but on a video that I did

00:32:55.240 calling on the firing from the Liberal cabinet and then the resignation in shame of Liberal MP

00:33:05.980 Randy Coquahontas Boissoneau for his many, many, many scandals, including faking Indigenous heritage.

00:33:16.340 If you want to learn more about that and sign the petition, go to firerandy.com and there you'll

00:33:23.460 understand why I call him Coquahontas. 0.94

00:33:26.580 So, let's get right into it.

00:33:27.980 Connie Marie 123 says, Trudeau never paid for a meal in the last nine years.

00:33:32.520 He has said that people should care more about climate than feeding our children.

00:33:36.380 Trudeau has completely lost his mind to say that to the parents.

00:33:39.920 How dare him?

00:33:42.400 Chris Sims brought that up today.

00:33:43.820 That, you know, people are struggling, people are hunkered down, and yet it's the most important

00:33:49.700 thing that we do to pay a carbon tax so that Justin Trudeau can go to Brazil on a vanity

00:33:58.340 trip to lecture us.

00:34:00.100 He doesn't believe anything about carbon emissions either.

00:34:03.360 If he did, that would have been a Zoom call, right? 0.96

00:34:07.420 Anyway, this is the mixed priorities of these people.

00:34:10.240 They don't understand how the other half lives at all. 1.00

00:34:15.500 Sam Hill 613 says, Randy, that's Randy Boissoneau, is the Edmonton version of Buffy St. Marie, a

00:34:23.500 fake.

00:34:23.880 Now, for those of you who don't know, Buffy St. Marie, Barbara Santa Maria, if you go by

00:34:29.440 her birth name, is a woman who masqueraded as Indigenous for her entire career, unbelievably, 0.94

00:34:39.720 she helped develop the Cree language curriculum in Saskatchewan, except all of it was untrue.

00:34:48.400 And I think it was CBC that was her undoing, which is only fair because they're the reason

00:34:55.000 she was foisted upon us.

00:34:57.300 She was on Sesame Street saying, like, I'm a real Indian, not like one of those fake ones 1.00

00:35:02.200 you see on TV.

00:35:04.100 Instead, she was just like a regular old white lady from the eastern seaboard. 1.00

00:35:09.580 Uh, let's keep going.

00:35:12.800 If an Italian woman, yeah, Beverly Santa Maria, can be a native singer for decades, then Boissoneau 0.99

00:35:20.540 can identify as a Cree, a green energy entrepreneur.

00:35:27.740 Funny.

00:35:29.100 MPO 400 says, so what?

00:35:31.880 We have men pretending to be women for scholarships and everything else. 0.97

00:35:35.660 We need to get a grip on reality again.

00:35:38.220 Isn't that the truth?

00:35:39.060 I mean, if a guy can just say, you know what?

00:35:42.420 I feel in my bones, I'm a woman, as if he would ever know what that feels like.

00:35:46.400 I don't even know what that feels like.

00:35:47.720 I just am.

00:35:49.220 But if men can identify as women, why are we protecting this class of indigeneity? 0.99

00:35:57.940 Either we believe in reality, which I do, or we don't believe in reality at all.

00:36:04.260 And you can just identify based on your feelings.

00:36:06.780 And I think the progressive have, they have to sort this stuff out.

00:36:13.160 And you know what?

00:36:14.920 Randy is not the only fake liberal indigenous person this week. 1.00

00:36:20.920 I think there's a by-election in BC where the local Métis nation has distanced themselves

00:36:29.940 from the liberal candidate there because they're like, we talked to her and she can produce 0.96

00:36:37.960 no proof of her indigeneity.

00:36:40.320 It's a real problem.

00:36:47.460 But this is the natural progression, right?

00:36:50.560 Like if you think that being a woman is a feeling, then why isn't everything else a feeling?

00:36:58.900 Why isn't your cultural heritage a feeling as well?

00:37:01.780 Or is that biologically encoded?

00:37:05.720 Because if that's biologically encoded, I believe this might be biologically encoded also.

00:37:12.400 They need to figure out what's going on because their ideology does not make any sense.

00:37:18.500 All right.

00:37:21.420 All right.

00:37:22.080 I think that's it.

00:37:23.280 That's a few questions, queries, comments from you guys.

00:37:26.020 Again, that's Sheila at rebelnews.com if you want to send me a note about this show or any

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00:37:52.000 Canada and beyond.

00:37:53.400 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:37:55.020 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:37:56.060 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:37:59.200 Okay, deal.

00:38:00.140 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you had too much to think.

00:38:08.920 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - November 28, 2024

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Nova Scotians tell Trudeau： 'Take your carbon tax and shove it!'

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