Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Outgoing Premier Jason Kenney's long goodbye is interfering with the race to replace him

00:00:00.000 Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's long goodbye appears to be contaminating the race to replace him.

00:00:04.740 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:24.480 Alberta Premier Jason Kenney offered his resignation some time ago

00:00:28.740 after failing to secure two-thirds of the party's support.

00:00:35.020 But you wouldn't really know it because that was a long time ago, and he hasn't gone away.

00:00:40.080 And now, all of a sudden, he's injecting his unwanted opinions

00:00:43.580 into the policies of the candidates who are vying to replace him.

00:00:49.240 Now, Jason Kenney has said that he does not have a favourite.

00:00:53.080 However, Travis Taves, Jason Kenney's finance minister, seems to be the one that is the

00:01:01.380 establishment pick, which perfectly explains why Jason Kenney is criticizing a main policy

00:01:09.160 of one of the outsider anti-Jason Kenney candidates.

00:01:13.540 Daniel Smith has something called the Sovereignty Act, and it would ostensibly put a little bit

00:01:22.500 of meat on the bones to Jason Kenney's constant, strongly worded letters sent to the federal

00:01:30.160 government every time the federal government steps all over Alberta.

00:01:33.460 She adds the or what to the threat.

00:01:37.800 And Jason Kenney doesn't seem to like it.

00:01:39.460 He's called it nuts.

00:01:41.260 It's weird.

00:01:41.680 Who asked him for his opinion?

00:01:43.780 Nobody wants it.

00:01:45.240 Now, we're talking about that tonight, but we're also talking about the federal conservative

00:01:49.160 leadership race.

00:01:50.080 We're also talking about Justin Trudeau's gun grab that he is doing in advance of the passing

00:01:56.800 of his next gun control piece of legislation.

00:02:00.880 We're also talking about his nitrogen targets and how Dutch style protests could come to Alberta

00:02:07.880 farms.

00:02:08.340 And tonight, joining me from his Calgary office is Corey Morgan of the Western Standard.

00:02:22.380 Joining me now from the Western Standard office in Calgary is my friend, Corey Morgan.

00:02:28.040 Corey, I wanted to bring on the show because you've been a active political watcher for a very,

00:02:34.280 very long time.

00:02:36.220 And before we get sort of into the things that are sort of sorting themselves out federally,

00:02:42.020 because I think that's sort of a decided thing, I wanted to talk to you about the leadership

00:02:47.660 race to replace Jason Kenney.

00:02:50.820 And as I suspected from the very beginning, Jason Kenney's long goodbye is starting to cause problems

00:02:59.320 in the leadership race where he's sticking his nose into things.

00:03:03.580 He slammed Danielle Smith's proposed sovereignty act as just nuts.

00:03:09.700 Can you break that down for us?

00:03:11.780 Yeah.

00:03:12.080 Well, I mean, you kind of laid it out already.

00:03:14.240 I mean, if a person's going to stay in an interim role or a long-term lame duck role as Premier

00:03:20.680 Kenney has chosen to do, it's pretty much expected then you would stay out of the leadership

00:03:25.360 race.

00:03:25.900 I mean, it's not a rule, but it's a matter of convention and form and just class.

00:03:31.300 His chosen successor, the establishment candidate, is Travis Taves.

00:03:36.920 Who isn't necessarily all bad, but he's certainly the one that Kenney wants.

00:03:40.620 There's no doubt about that.

00:03:42.540 And Danielle Smith seems to be the presumptive leader at this point.

00:03:47.340 And I guess Kenney felt obligated to go in and take a swipe at her main flank, being that

00:03:52.860 sovereignty act.

00:03:54.120 And I don't think it helped as far as Taves goes.

00:03:58.420 I mean, it established Smith as the non-establishment candidate.

00:04:02.920 I think Kenney has turned this from a three-person race into a two-person race.

00:04:06.060 Brian Jean has been fighting for oxygen already as the non-establishment candidate in there.

00:04:10.920 And now it's going to be Taves versus Smith.

00:04:13.040 And when you consider that half of the party already threw Kenney out recently, it's not

00:04:17.380 a place, it's not a good endorsement for Taves.

00:04:20.320 Well, and it, you know, when you look at some of the language that Jason Kenney is using to

00:04:24.640 describe the sovereignty act, you think, well, just six months ago, you were saying this stuff

00:04:29.140 on perhaps another issue.

00:04:31.140 So to quote him directly, he says, the proposal is for Alberta to basically ignore and violate

00:04:37.280 the Constitution in a way that is unprecedented in Canadian history, Kenney said.

00:04:41.060 I'm quoting from the Calgary Herald.

00:04:42.960 But here's where it gets a little bit, huh, Kenney?

00:04:46.340 Where he would probably argue with himself just a little while ago.

00:04:49.700 To not enforce the laws of the land, including federal laws, which include the criminal code,

00:04:57.660 which is nuts.

00:04:59.260 Didn't we get our own chief firearms officer because we were not going to enforce the federal

00:05:05.320 laws around the firearms laws because they violate what we think are the natural rights

00:05:13.580 of Albertans?

00:05:14.720 And yet he's saying that, OK, well, it's fine for us to do it on this one issue, but

00:05:17.880 not Daniel Smith's issues.

00:05:20.980 Yeah, no, it's ridiculous.

00:05:22.900 I think a lot of his fear is she's going to succeed where he failed.

00:05:25.460 A lot of why Kenney got pushed out by the membership was because he talked big and did

00:05:30.420 nothing when it came to Ottawa.

00:05:31.740 I mean, let's not beat around the bush with it.

00:05:33.420 We got sick to death of it as Albertans.

00:05:35.720 And clearly the members of his party did as well.

00:05:38.240 Well, we'll talk about provincial police.

00:05:40.020 We'll talk about a provincial pension plan.

00:05:41.720 We'll send angry letters.

00:05:43.580 We'll talk about shutting off the pipeline to the east.

00:05:46.060 He didn't do a single thing.

00:05:47.660 And Smith is looking clear that she's going to act.

00:05:50.960 And it's frustrated and upset him.

00:05:53.340 And now he's swiping over.

00:05:54.360 But as you said, yeah, the words are pretty hypocritical with some of the stuff he was

00:05:57.760 talking about.

00:05:58.540 But again, he was always talking.

00:06:00.200 Yeah, Smith, she'll probably act if she gets the chance.

00:06:02.500 Yeah, I think this is the or what that everybody has been looking for.

00:06:07.840 Jason Kenney's strongly worded letters to Justin Trudeau never got us anywhere.

00:06:13.580 And this is an opportunity to put some meat on the bones on whether it's unlawful or unconstitutional.

00:06:19.960 I think that is kind of besides the point when she is willing to do something, anything other than waste paper in another letter to Justin Trudeau.

00:06:29.900 And she really has established herself as the anti-Jason Kenney candidate.

00:06:35.640 She is the anti-lockdown candidate.

00:06:37.960 She's willing to apologize for Jason Kenney's transgressions as far as civil liberties goes.

00:06:43.420 In her very first press conference, when she announced that she would be running officially, she said, yeah, I'll go on an apology tour because Albertans deserve one for how they've been treated for the last two years.

00:06:54.220 And I think everybody at this point knows that she's the front runner, given how all the guns are pointed in at her.

00:07:05.280 We saw that during the debate as well, where everyone was saying, oh, well, you said this about cancer as though it's some sort of shock that lifestyle does affect all health outcomes.

00:07:17.700 But that was shocking. That was somehow insensitive towards cancer patients when she suggested it, although it's, you know, just common knowledge.

00:07:29.860 But, yeah, during the debate, all guns were pointed in at her.

00:07:32.960 And I think that indicates that everybody knows she's the front runner.

00:07:35.860 Well, and they entrenched her further as such.

00:07:38.000 I mean, I was critical of that first debate because strategically they didn't even understand what they were doing.

00:07:42.540 Every time they attacked Smith, they gave her another four minutes to speak.

00:07:45.720 And it accommodated that debate.

00:07:47.660 She got to speak for half of it when there were seven people who were all, you know, the other six were fighting to be noticed throughout this debate.

00:07:54.680 But every time they turned their gun at Smith, the way the format was set up, then she had more time to respond.

00:07:59.480 And likewise with Kenny.

00:08:00.600 Kenny has just brought Smith back into the headlines and given her another whole week to explain to people why she feels her sovereignty act is what's going to serve Albertans. 0.99

00:08:08.280 It's not harming her a bit.

00:08:10.320 Now, what are her membership sales like?

00:08:13.960 From what I understand, she is selling memberships, sort of akin to the way Pierre Polyev is selling memberships at the federal level, that she's engaging new voters and disaffected voters, people who said, yeah, I was pro-unity.

00:08:31.360 I voted for Jason Kenney because I thought he was the right guy for the job.

00:08:36.860 Then I sort of recoiled in horror from politics for the last two years.

00:08:40.660 It sounds like she's bringing those people back into the fold, too.

00:08:43.320 And it's odd because I would think that those people would maybe be Brian Jean voters with buyer's remorse.

00:08:51.860 Potentially, you know, and again, they're just not so much pro-Brian Jean as anti-Jason Kenney to a large degree.

00:09:00.120 And with Smith grabbing the attention and the fire right now, and she's been doing it strategically smart.

00:09:07.220 She came out and said she was going to reopen nominations where they were closed questionably and things like that.

00:09:13.120 Well, those were people who already basically sold thousands, potentially, of memberships on her behalf for the nominations.

00:09:18.120 The people who bought those memberships were furious. They never got a chance to vote.

00:09:21.800 She got herself instant supporters in there who already had memberships.

00:09:26.060 As you said, like Polyev, she's holding town hall meetings across the province and they're being very well attended.

00:09:31.660 She's being very well received. I mean, we don't know the numbers, but I can't imagine from looking at the other candidates that they're pulling in those kinds of numbers right now.

00:09:39.360 Now, shifting to, I guess it's a federal issue, but a strongly Alberta issue is the federal government's nitrogen targets.

00:09:52.020 They came along at a time when farmers are kind of busy.

00:09:55.100 So I don't think that we are seeing the sort of outrage that we would see and that we have seen with Dutch farmers rising up against these nitrogen targets.

00:10:06.360 And again, we've got another strongly worded letter from the Prairie premiers who expressed their disappointment.

00:10:13.540 But where's the or what there?

00:10:16.580 Well, that's it. And I mean, I think a leader's got to come up with, you know, what are you going to do about it?

00:10:21.600 We're going to the provincial police force. We're going with maybe even stepping in then with agricultural regulators.

00:10:27.400 Like the battle's got to come on. You got to start drawing the lines in the sand.

00:10:30.720 It's not a question of whether the constitution applies or not.

00:10:33.160 The constitution says we're allowed to take beer from Quebec into New Brunswick, but apparently we can set that aside when it's impractical for Quebec.

00:10:41.120 It's time for us as a province and other provinces to tell Ottawa to get stuffed.

00:10:45.620 And this fertilizer issue is a prime example of it.

00:10:49.840 It's a disconnected federal government that's stuck on an ideological, you know, nightmare of a train

00:10:55.820 that will think nothing of crushing the agricultural producers to make themselves feel better when they go to international meetings with the WEF or the UN to say,

00:11:04.280 oh, look how we fought climate change.

00:11:05.980 It's an absurdity, but they keep rolling with it.

00:11:10.000 So I'm surprised they've been as quiet as you said. Farmers are busy.

00:11:12.960 I mean, it's the middle of, you know, season.

00:11:15.540 They're starting to cut hay. Harvest is coming along.

00:11:18.440 But if these, if we start seeing regulatory limitations on these fertilizers, there's going to be a backlash.

00:11:24.500 And, but the government should be preemptive rather than waiting.

00:11:27.140 That's part of it. It's always been reactive.

00:11:29.040 We've always been playing defense.

00:11:30.620 I think that's, again, some of the appeal of Smith.

00:11:32.600 She's saying, well, we're going to play offense. That's enough.

00:11:34.400 Yeah. And I think, too, they might get much of the same reaction as we are seeing in Holland,

00:11:40.000 where progressive city people are siding with the farmers because this is one issue where everybody's involved.

00:11:49.260 Luckily, in Alberta, people are still maybe one or two generations away from the farm.

00:11:55.280 There's still a lot of people who are still connected to somebody in their family that's farming.

00:11:59.720 I don't think it's like that in other parts of the country outside of the prairies.

00:12:02.960 But once you start seeing the price at the grocery store just skyrocket because yields are down,

00:12:09.560 because input costs are up, I think you might lose the public on this issue.

00:12:15.820 A lot of people who take public transportation for work or ride their bike or take an Uber,

00:12:20.700 for example, they don't really feel the price of the pump the way a carbon tax makes everybody else feel the price of the pump.

00:12:28.100 They don't immediately see it the way that everybody else does.

00:12:31.160 But I think when you are meddling with the food supply,

00:12:34.560 you're going to see other people who normally aren't involved sort of get engaged in the issue.

00:12:39.700 Yeah. Even progressives need to eat.

00:12:41.840 Yeah.

00:12:42.460 When they see those prices go up, they often are the first ones to go haywire and prices go up on anything.

00:12:48.100 And farmers make a much more sympathetic figure than oil company CEOs.

00:12:53.900 I mean, there's been decades of working to portray energy heads as, you know,

00:12:58.720 mustache tweaking evil monsters from the Monopoly board.

00:13:01.440 When you've got family farms out on the prairies, even if it's a couple of generations separated,

00:13:07.180 it's going to make a lot better news copy for people saying,

00:13:10.240 look who you're hurting that even progressives can relate with versus,

00:13:14.220 say, somebody then in a suit and tie in an office tower.

00:13:17.240 Now, on another issue of undemocratic government overreach, although there's just so many,

00:13:23.320 the Justin Trudeau liberals have decided not to wait until their law is passed to bring the law into force.

00:13:31.300 And I'm talking about the halt on the import of handguns.

00:13:37.340 So their law is set to pass in the fall, that's the timeline, whenever they decide to go back to work.

00:13:44.100 It will pass because it's going to be supported by the NDP.

00:13:48.280 It will cause absolutely zero effect in violent crime rates because it is not lawful Canadian gun owners 1.00

00:13:54.760 who are causing the rise in violent crime.

00:13:56.860 And I think it's up almost 6% in the last year.

00:14:00.380 But instead of waiting for the democratic processes to take their rightful course,

00:14:10.500 Justin Trudeau became Canada's best gun salesman.

00:14:14.960 So he had to put a stop to that.

00:14:16.720 He brought in the ban in advance of the law.

00:14:21.080 And it's another example of Justin Trudeau just doing things just because he can do them

00:14:26.680 and not being democratic about it.

00:14:29.720 I mean, it's so authoritarian, it's crazy.

00:14:32.840 Yeah, those orders in council, and I don't know if Canadians pay attention to it.

00:14:35.860 I mean, this last year, the amount of times that the democratic process has been suspended

00:14:39.600 ostensibly for the purposes of dealing with an emergency.

00:14:43.960 And I mean, this is a longer term plan what's going on here.

00:14:46.500 I mean, they had that legislation already crafted.

00:14:49.160 They were just waiting for the right horrific firearm crime to happen.

00:14:53.660 And that happened in the United States and Texas.

00:14:55.300 So they said, okay, now is the time to drop this legislation, Bill 21.

00:14:59.860 And then I think, as you said, it was twofold.

00:15:03.140 I mean, they realized, oh, wow, now we've got to run on firearms.

00:15:05.720 People are ordering and ordering.

00:15:07.160 We're going to have even more to deal with later.

00:15:09.000 Because the reality is they want to seize them later.

00:15:10.900 There's no beating around that bush.

00:15:12.900 So the more they get out there, the more work they're going to have ahead of them.

00:15:15.500 So they need another excuse.

00:15:16.600 They waited until the Montreal shooting.

00:15:18.220 Okay, that's it.

00:15:18.840 Now we're going to do an order in council and stop the legal firearms from crossing the border

00:15:25.400 while the illegal ones continue to pour across at the Akwesosne Reserve.

00:15:29.560 Yeah.

00:15:30.020 Yeah.

00:15:30.260 And that's exactly it.

00:15:31.320 There are things that they could do to address the rise in crime in Canada's progressive cities.

00:15:37.880 They absolutely could.

00:15:39.160 And one of those things is tightening up the border because that's where illegal guns are coming across the border

00:15:44.660 and ending up in the hands of gangsters in Canada.

00:15:49.040 They can also tighten up the border in a way that would stop the fentanyl from pouring across the border,

00:15:54.360 which is the currency of Canadian gangs.

00:15:56.280 But instead, they always, because they're lazy, they take the path of least resistance

00:16:00.960 and they go after the people who already spend all day long jumping through hoops and getting background checks.

00:16:06.080 Yeah, and it's an ideological drive.

00:16:10.020 It's definitely, we're seeing the march.

00:16:11.760 They want to pick up where they failed back in the 90s with the long gun registry,

00:16:16.420 which again, the only reason for the registry was because they eventually wanted to seize them.

00:16:19.880 They've got more strategic now.

00:16:21.580 Well, listen, the handguns, the legal handguns are already all registered.

00:16:24.320 As you said, these are people who jump through the hoops.

00:16:26.300 They're law abiding.

00:16:27.500 Let's target those.

00:16:28.620 Let's get after those. 0.83

00:16:29.480 Let's disarm everybody with those.

00:16:30.780 And then we'll move on to the long guns.

00:16:32.200 It's an ideological push and no common sense or reality.

00:16:35.080 Reality is going to change that, I'm afraid.

00:16:37.300 The goal isn't to fight crime.

00:16:39.580 The goal is to disarm the populace and they're going to move ahead with it however they can.

00:16:43.800 Yeah, and even though the gun registry was ended, thankfully, by Stephen Harper,

00:16:49.320 there's a backdoor registry already happening in Bill C-71 where retailers now have to keep the records themselves

00:16:58.200 and the RCMP can come just take those records and then if they need to do confiscations like they did with the Norinco,

00:17:05.880 like they did with the CZ 858 when they just moved that across classifications one night while everyone was sleeping,

00:17:14.260 again, through an undemocratic tool in the law.

00:17:18.240 Yeah, so those, whether it's the handguns today or the long guns in two years from now,

00:17:24.960 these things are coming for Canadian firearms owners.

00:17:28.000 And I'm not hearing a lot, unfortunately, from the federal conservatives campaigning on this.

00:17:35.120 They all sort of pay the standard conservative lip service to firearms rights because they know their base in the West cares about those things.

00:17:42.400 But I'm not hearing like, okay, we're going to challenge this in court.

00:17:45.340 We're going to do this.

00:17:45.980 We're going to do that.

00:17:46.920 I'm not hearing a ton of that.

00:17:48.760 No, it's because they're campaigning to Toronto and Montreal, you know, and lower mainland Vancouver.

00:17:53.440 That's the reality.

00:17:54.140 That's the battle, the wall we keep smacking up against in this country.

00:17:58.000 Those three cities dominate the seats in parliament and the rest of the country is secondary as far as that's concerned.

00:18:04.060 And whether you want to take it as a point of principle or not,

00:18:08.220 the conservatives are looking at it strategically.

00:18:10.500 They always do.

00:18:11.500 So, yeah, they'll talk to their base during a leadership race because they have to, because it's members.

00:18:15.260 But they're already hedging their bets and making sure they stay actually as publicly non-conservative as possible,

00:18:20.140 particularly in things like firearm issues where it's going to be difficult to sell in, you know, downtown Toronto.

00:18:26.600 And, again, that's where it gets back to the provinces had better really start stepping up their means of autonomy

00:18:32.780 because we're not going to see any good change in Ottawa.

00:18:34.680 You know, and it's weird because the conservatives don't have a problem talking about complicated issues like what causes inflation.

00:18:43.320 They do their walk and talk videos down the street talking about what causes inflation,

00:18:48.500 breaking down this big macro idea to how it affects your family.

00:18:51.620 They do it on monetary issues, but they never do it on issues of, well, ultimately, firearms issues or property rights issues.

00:19:00.920 And you don't see them trying to articulate the issues that matter to this whole chunk of Canada in between Toronto and Vancouver.

00:19:09.160 It's an issue that we care about, but you never see conservatives try to take that issue and make the people in Toronto understand

00:19:16.780 that these people who own firearms in the rest of the country, they're not your enemy.

00:19:21.100 They just have different hobbies than you.

00:19:24.120 Yeah, and it's a good way to put it.

00:19:26.620 I mean, if you can articulate something as complicated and dull as monetary policy,

00:19:30.720 just showing the statistics.

00:19:33.560 We've got the statistics.

00:19:34.920 The amount of firearms that are used in these crimes, they aren't long guns.

00:19:38.560 They aren't grandpa's duck gun from the basement.

00:19:41.120 They aren't registered legally owned handguns.

00:19:44.000 They are smuggled guns brought in by gangsters, used by gangsters.

00:19:49.020 And targeting the people who are legally owning these firearms won't do a darn thing about it.

00:19:53.780 It shouldn't be that hard to make that case, and they're willfully not making that case.

00:19:58.440 Yeah, and there's so much issue around or so much ignorance around the issue

00:20:02.360 that it's really easy to address it if you wanted to.

00:20:07.780 When you've got people like Chris, you're freelancing,

00:20:10.180 what do you need a handgun to shoot a deer with?

00:20:14.200 Where the hell are you shooting a deer with a handgun?

00:20:17.220 You know, but no, that's a really easy conservative attack ad to say,

00:20:23.280 like, these are the people making the laws.

00:20:24.880 They're really not.

00:20:26.280 They're not bright about it.

00:20:28.640 Why would we let these people who don't understand the law make the law?

00:20:31.840 But the conservatives don't come out on that attack.

00:20:35.460 No, they don't.

00:20:36.380 And it's not the government's place to tell me what I do or don't need anyways.

00:20:40.200 I don't care.

00:20:40.600 If it's a whimsical thing, if I just want to, you know, collect them,

00:20:44.160 it's none of your business.

00:20:45.320 As long as you're not breaking laws, leave me the hell alone.

00:20:47.720 But they do dominate that discussion.

00:20:50.760 And part of what they're doing is, as you said, it's lazy policy.

00:20:54.200 Looking like they're doing something, it feels more important than actually doing something.

00:20:57.800 That's why mask mandates got so popular.

00:20:59.620 It wasn't that they did anything to stop anything.

00:21:02.060 It's just that they can say, look at all these nice little drones running around with masks.

00:21:04.880 Look how much we are doing.

00:21:06.320 Look how much we are accomplishing.

00:21:07.360 You have a visible evidence of policy.

00:21:09.780 Even if it's not working, they want to make it look like it's working.

00:21:12.760 And likewise, oh, look, we just took 10,000 guns, 100,000 guns, a million guns out of a Canadian pan.

00:21:19.500 Look how good we're doing the job.

00:21:20.860 And then people aren't drilling down enough to realize, well, none of those guns were committed crime.

00:21:25.480 Right.

00:21:26.040 That's an excellent point.

00:21:27.260 That is an absolutely excellent point.

00:21:29.060 It's true.

00:21:29.400 It's the theater of public safety all over again with no real effect on anything.

00:21:37.360 And actually, frankly, I think it's going to get worse because on the flip side, the liberals are stripping away the mandatory sentencing guidelines for certain gang related firearms offenses.

00:21:47.480 So while they're cracking down on the people who are following the law, the recidivist gun criminals that are actually doing things to make your communities less safe, well, it's getting a heck of a lot easier to be a recidivist. 0.87

00:22:00.900 Yeah, I mean, it's just bizarre where you're lightening up on incarceration for the dangerous offenders.

00:22:07.740 I mean, our system is a mess, you know, and we've got a lot of people who are in for a bunch of minor property crimes and the system's backed up with that.

00:22:14.680 The courts are backed up, yet they seem to be going out of their way to find ways to release dangerous people among us.

00:22:19.840 And we see that with sex offenders, too, even if it's not related to the guns.

00:22:22.920 But how often do we see press releases coming across from police services saying, yeah, we're releasing this gentleman in the public.

00:22:28.540 He's a very, very high risk to re-offend.

00:22:30.400 We're just giving you a heads up because he's going to be walking among you soon.

00:22:33.820 You know, liberals really care about crimes.

00:22:35.440 Maybe they look at some of those press releases.

00:22:36.900 How can we actually maybe reduce these guys from getting out and harming people?

00:22:40.440 But that's not what they want to do.

00:22:41.500 No, they're too busy keeping little tiny Métis grandmas in jail for 49 days for the crime of being annoying in public. 1.00

00:22:49.180 That's right.

00:22:50.220 Well, for embarrassing the wrong man.

00:22:52.280 Right.

00:22:52.660 That's exactly it.

00:22:53.660 Yeah.

00:22:54.160 You know, and it's so interesting because I speak quite frequently with some people who work to at least alert communities about dangerous sex offenders who are getting out of jail.

00:23:05.100 And a lot of these guys are offending while they're on bail and then getting more bail for the offense they committed while out on bail.

00:23:15.760 And they are often released to the same communities.

00:23:18.400 And it's like an eight hour trip through the court system before they get in front of a JP.

00:23:23.500 They're out the door.

00:23:24.220 And that's the end of it because they say, yeah, yeah, no, I'll never do it again.

00:23:28.080 And that's good enough.

00:23:29.460 And they can get out the door.

00:23:31.480 COVID made it a lot easier to get bail if you're that kind of person.

00:23:35.100 But then you look at how Tamera Leach was treated, Pastor Art, whatever you think about him, nonviolent guy.

00:23:43.260 And, you know, they're held for 49 days and 50 days respectively.

00:23:48.400 Yeah.

00:23:48.960 The priorities are politicized.

00:23:51.240 There's no getting around that.

00:23:52.880 And they see those crimes against the state, I guess, as far as they're concerned, as much more serious crimes of questioning the state or standing up to the state than people who are literally harming people, assaulting people or, you know, even at their worst.

00:24:08.020 And we're seeing those cases molesting children.

00:24:09.540 It's just an absolute disaster.

00:24:13.840 And it really, again, something that nobody's campaigning on.

00:24:17.720 What else are you working on at Western Standard?

00:24:21.780 Can you give us a sneak peek of what's cooking down there?

00:24:23.980 Well, we're just working a lot on heavy coverage, of course, of the UCP leadership race.

00:24:29.560 This is kind of our turf as a Western publication.

00:24:33.880 We've got people inside the campaign teams.

00:24:37.160 But that's something that's always been a skill of ours.

00:24:38.820 We get a lot of good inside leaks and everything.

00:24:41.160 I've heard there's a big scoop coming.

00:24:42.400 I haven't even been privy to it.

00:24:44.040 But something's going to be coming out of one of the campaigns soon.

00:24:46.960 I don't know what it is.

00:24:48.560 And just, of course, more and more of the regular news coverage.

00:24:51.880 We don't have anything right on the edge.

00:24:53.520 We're getting into late summer.

00:24:54.520 So we're looking forward to the big stuff coming soon.

00:24:56.160 Yeah, we're still in the heart of boring barbecue season.

00:25:00.300 And predictions on the federal conservative leadership.

00:25:04.740 Is it, I think it's a runaway for Polyev.

00:25:07.600 It is.

00:25:08.680 And I guess, you know, the biggest concern there is just how unified that party is going to be when that race is over.

00:25:13.800 So Polyev wins it in a first ballot.

00:25:17.340 Fine.

00:25:18.220 Something that was concerning, though, and she's working, Tasha Carradine.

00:25:24.940 I had her on my show and I spoke with her.

00:25:26.700 But she spoke along the lines, too, almost hinting that if Chiray doesn't win, it's time to form another progressive party to take those disaffected conservatives in.

00:25:35.780 And I can't think of a more effective way to keep Chiray in for another term than to split that party up. 0.86

00:25:41.600 So we'll see what happens.

00:25:43.360 Yeah.

00:25:43.880 Causing division where there was none.

00:25:45.700 That's great.

00:25:46.880 Yeah.

00:25:47.200 What a great strategy.

00:25:50.300 Corey, thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:25:52.660 And we'll talk very soon.

00:25:54.720 Yeah, you bet.

00:25:55.600 Thanks.

00:25:55.920 Well, this brings us to the portion of the show where we welcome and invite your viewer feedback.

00:26:09.140 If you'd like to leave me an email or a note that you want to have read on the show, best way to do that is to send it to my email.

00:26:18.480 Sheila at rebelnews.com put gun show letters in the subject line so it's really easy for me to find because I get, frankly, hundreds of emails a day.

00:26:28.880 But also, do not hesitate to leave a comment on the videos on rumble.

00:26:34.640 Well, I go poking around over there sometimes and looking for interesting comments.

00:26:39.000 And if you want me to find them, you got to leave them first.

00:26:42.040 So, today's comment comes to us via email.

00:26:45.700 It's from Bill who writes to me.

00:26:47.560 Sheila, would not the Trudeau administration meet this definition of toxic?

00:26:52.520 What is toxic is defined under Section 64 of SEPA.

00:26:56.180 Now, SEPA, for those people who don't know, it is the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

00:27:02.660 And let's see what Bill has to say.

00:27:06.760 A substance is toxic if it is entering or may enter the environment in a quantity or concentration under conditions that

00:27:14.100 A, have or may have an immediate long-term harmful effect on the environment or its biological diversity.

00:27:21.220 B, constitute or may constitute a danger to the environment on which life depends.

00:27:26.240 Well, you know, Justin Trudeau making nitrogen targets, which make it difficult for farmers to grow our food,

00:27:35.860 sure seems like that's dependent on life or C, constitute or may constitute a danger in Canada to human life or health.

00:27:43.860 I'm also willing to hear those arguments about Justin Trudeau.

00:27:46.440 But I think it's interesting that Justin Trudeau and his liberal government would probably fall closer under a toxic definition under SEPA

00:27:56.220 than my good friend, single-use plastics.

00:28:00.800 Justin Trudeau, for some reason, has listed single-use plastics as a Schedule I toxin,

00:28:07.100 along with the likes of lead, asbestos, and mercury, which is absolutely insane to think that this government thinks your plastic straw,

00:28:19.840 your takeout fork, or your plastic bag at the grocery store, by the way, into which you put your groceries.

00:28:27.820 Justin Trudeau has decided that that is something as deadly dangerous to human health as lead.

00:28:37.920 It's a good thing he drinks out of those drink box water bottles sort of things.

00:28:42.240 We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of, water out of, when we have water bottles,

00:28:50.060 out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper, like drink box water bottles sort of things.

00:28:59.100 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:29:02.300 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:29:05.940 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:29:12.240 I'll see everybody back here in the same time.

Rebel News Podcast - August 18, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Outgoing Premier Jason Kenney's long goodbye is interfering with the race to replace him

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