Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Robbie Picard on the convoy protests and the hypocrisy of the politicians and the environmental left

00:00:00.000 Oh, hey, what's up, Rebels? It's me, your favorite rebel, I'm only assuming, Sheila Gunn-Reed,

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00:00:20.580 tonight my guest is Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong, and we are talking about the absolute

00:00:25.320 hypocrisy of the environmental left, the liberals, and the media, and I feel like I'm repeating myself

00:00:30.980 there because they are one homogenous group, aren't they, really? Anyway, they all seem to be really 0.67

00:00:37.480 outraged about civil disobedience all of a sudden, and I don't think they actually are outraged about

00:00:43.880 civil disobedience. I think they're mad that the right is better than the left at it, and that's

00:00:50.760 why they want to crack down on the truck convoy. They didn't seem to care when railways are blockaded,

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00:02:00.040 Robby Picard on the convoy protest and the hypocrisy of the politicians and the environmental left.

00:02:21.480 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:02:41.120 For years, environmental protesters have crippled the Canadian economy. They've withered the nation's

00:02:47.420 potential. They've chased away Canadian jobs and made Canada a less than investment-friendly

00:02:52.680 place. But that was all free speech. At least that's what the politicians, like Justin Trudeau,

00:02:57.820 told us. The protesters who blocked railway tracks and set fires on the lines because they opposed a

00:03:04.480 safe, job-creating Northern BC pipeline? All peaceful, the media told us. The cops protected

00:03:10.480 those protests. They didn't break them up. Rather, they acted as security for them. But now, when the

00:03:16.500 people on the right, as part of the convoy to Ottawa, are using some of these same protest tools

00:03:21.720 the left has been using for decades, suddenly obstructing infrastructure and inconveniencing

00:03:26.780 the public, well, that's been labeled economic terrorism. Free speech, not a chance. Try to make a

00:03:32.440 tone-deaf government listen to you after two years of having your rights stomped on, and you will be

00:03:38.480 treated like someone who provides material support to al-Qaeda. Your bank accounts and personal

00:03:43.940 property can be seized, and you, yourself, you can be criminally charged. Do these politicians think

00:03:49.760 we're all hard of remembering? We know how they treated the riotous BLM. The liberals gave them 1.00

00:03:55.460 grants after the American riots spawned by BLM protests. We know how they treated the rail blockaders 0.62

00:04:01.760 with kid gloves and kindness. Joining me tonight to discuss this outrageous hypocrisy

00:04:07.520 is someone who has been dealing with the radical environmentalist left for years.

00:04:12.200 My friend, Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong. Take a listen.

00:04:30.380 Joining me now from his home office in Fort McMurray, Alberta, is my friend,

00:04:34.800 Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong. Robbie, I wanted to have you on the show because I think

00:04:38.860 you have a unique perspective about the truckers' convoy and now the government crackdown. So

00:04:46.900 first, let me get your opinions on the record. What do you think of the convoy to Ottawa? And

00:04:52.660 then I'll get into your opinions about what you think about the government reaction to the

00:04:56.520 convoy to Ottawa. But first, what do you think about the convoy?

00:05:01.240 You know, I have been thinking long and hard about how when we did our advocacy for pipelines,

00:05:10.340 we always were kind of clean about it. We'd go make some noise, get some media headlines,

00:05:14.080 but we never did what the other side did. And that was essentially go there, stay and create

00:05:23.400 a stir of this level. And the thing that I really like about the convoy is the fact that

00:05:31.240 I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of enjoying watching Ottawa a little shaken up. I like the fact that

00:05:40.080 that they have, I don't know, they're talking about long term trauma, you know, horns really stress

00:05:49.520 them out. Because Ottawa is a recession proof city that exists off the backs of the rest of this

00:05:56.160 country. And for the first time ever in my lifetime, they actually were like, scared and people from that

00:06:04.280 they don't necessarily have that, I don't know, that guacamole toast, latte drinking lifestyle,

00:06:12.780 they're going to have a cookout with a barbecue and you know, and throw some meat on the grill

00:06:17.760 and set up bouncy castles. I really like that part of the convoy. The part that I'm very,

00:06:26.960 I'll be I'll be straight up, I'm fully vaxxed. Okay. Yeah. But I don't like the way

00:06:32.440 that a lot of people have treated the people who've chosen not to get vaccinated. And they

00:06:39.340 and when Justin Trudeau, our prime minister, our supposed leader, who's supposed to represent

00:06:44.140 all of us and have that calmer approach, and I'm not even going to brun up past prime ministers,

00:06:49.780 I'm going to say that he was elected in this sort of modern, I'm here for everybody kind of facade.

00:06:56.480 But when he basically insults the unvaccinated, and then kind of actually talks about hate

00:07:02.340 towards them and says that they're, you know, that they're misogynistic, that they're racist,

00:07:07.860 that how do you handle these people? It's very sad. And I know a lot of people that are far more

00:07:16.780 successful in life and business than I am, that I respect their opinions, and they're not vaccinated.

00:07:22.800 And these are people that run multi billion dollar businesses. And for whatever reason,

00:07:27.200 their personal choice, they chose not to. So to say that they're stupid and uneducated, 1.00

00:07:33.760 I don't agree with. And so I think the convoy is a real nice slap in the face to all of the 1.00

00:07:41.340 establishment in Ottawa, that a good portion of our country is upset and angry. So that part,

00:07:49.320 I really am I'm thrilled that no matter what happens with with Trudeau today, in the next few days,

00:07:55.820 at least now the people in Ottawa have an eye opening wake up call that there's another part

00:08:02.060 of this country who is disgusted with their privilege. You know, that's a great point. I see

00:08:07.520 a lot of what's happening with the convoy and then the liberals reaction to it and the media's reaction

00:08:12.200 to it. It's a class war. And you can see that in we're recording this Tuesday morning, but in

00:08:18.900 Justin Trudeau's announcement of his Emergency Measures Act, that the the left and the politicians

00:08:27.400 and the media, but I guess they're all sort of the left, I'm kind of repeating myself. They are horrified

00:08:34.640 that the working class is not under their thumb. They are shocked that these are living, breathing 1.00

00:08:40.980 people with opinions of their own and hopes and dreams of their own. And they're sort of taken

00:08:47.100 aback that they've decided that they are going to handle things their own way, that they're going to

00:08:52.880 have their own opinions and react in their own way and not listen to the fancy people on TV.

00:08:58.480 I see a lot of that, like the reaction from the mainstream media and the politicians as fear

00:09:05.660 that the working class has sort of figured out that they hold the balance of power in this country.

00:09:13.520 Well, I think that that is exactly right. And honestly, and I've said this for quite a while,

00:09:19.840 I don't, I know a lot of people that have been grown up and I blame us Gen Xers because I honestly 0.98

00:09:25.420 think we were shitty parents. We really are. We spoiled this Gen X. 1.00

00:09:29.120 But what I mean is we kind of, maybe not, maybe not you, but what I'm saying is that

00:09:37.480 there's a certain generation that just grew up that does not know before meat comes to your plate

00:09:43.980 that it's grown on a farm and that cow, that beautiful animal has to be slaughtered and taken

00:09:49.860 a bit apart and processed and packaged. They don't understand what makes that city exist.

00:09:57.120 They don't understand that oil has to be pumped out of the ground and processed to get their cars.

00:10:03.200 And even with this woke idea that somehow we're going to transfer, you know,

00:10:07.040 transform to all of these electric cars and all this green energy, it comes from hard work and

00:10:11.420 laborer people. And when a prime minister says they are extremists who do not believe in science,

00:10:17.180 they're often misogynistic, also racist, is a small group that muscles in.

00:10:21.620 And we have to make a choice in terms of leadership of this country. Do we tolerate

00:10:26.920 these people? Now, could you imagine if Stephen Harper said that about any of the groups that

00:10:33.540 protested? And let's just be clear, okay, this was not, this was not a violent protest. Yes,

00:10:40.380 it was some loud horn honking and barbecuing and, you know, and a few small pieces of civil

00:10:51.080 disobedience. Let's remember when they had the G7 conferences and all of that, when there was riots

00:10:56.160 in the street, you know, a few years ago when they were smashing windows. And I mean, and to bring up

00:11:01.040 the stat, I mean, this is ridiculous. Even friends of mine, they're like, oh my God, look what they did

00:11:04.880 to the war memorial. Look what they did to Terry Farks. I mean, give your heads a shake. It wasn't that long

00:11:09.360 ago that they were torching churches. 80 some churches were burnt to the ground on the other

00:11:15.320 side of this whole thing. Statues were torn down and beheaded and red paint all over them. And no

00:11:23.180 one seemed on that side to really speak out against it. So the truth is they were scrambling for things

00:11:29.760 to be upset about in Ottawa because the vast majority of this protest was extremely peaceful. And that is

00:11:36.900 what they don't know what to do. They were expecting riots. They were expecting all this.

00:11:40.660 And that's probably why it lasted so long before he called the War Ministries Act. And we need to

00:11:44.040 call it the War Ministries Act because that's what this is. And they waited that long because I think

00:11:50.640 honestly they were wanting to be provoked and the truckers were, you know, were pretty smart about it.

00:11:54.300 They're like, no, no, no. We're just going to be here existing in this public space. And how can a prime

00:12:00.800 minister take such a turn? I mean, it wasn't that long ago when COVID started. He was thanking the

00:12:05.540 truckers and, you know, thank you very much. This is not about COVID restrictions anymore. This is about

00:12:10.780 like not the ability to admit I'm wrong or even just for the prime minister to pivot and say, you know

00:12:16.000 what, you know, I'm going to get rid of restrictions by this date. We've heard you move on. He doesn't have

00:12:23.380 that capability in his narcissism. Sorry about the Gen X shot. 0.97

00:12:27.280 No, no, that's a really great point because again, we're filming this on Tuesday morning. So we're just

00:12:33.380 digesting the announcements that came out on Monday, but it is true. There is a strong inability to admit

00:12:41.220 that he was wrong. For example, all he had to do was say, okay, here's the timeline for repealing the

00:12:50.140 restrictions. But instead for him, he went full police state, uh, confiscating bank accounts,

00:12:58.360 confiscating property, um, pulling insurances on trucks, treating grandmothers who donated to the

00:13:04.880 convoy, like they are ISIS brides now that they're giving material support to terrorism. He went full

00:13:11.640 police state and just, instead of just saying, okay, I hear you. This is the timeline because he couldn't

00:13:17.860 give that win to the normal people. No. And I think that that, I think that is going to be the real,

00:13:24.820 I mean, honestly, this might break the prime minister. And I mean, and let's just be honest,

00:13:30.260 a good, I know we don't, we don't think he's hot, but he's a good looking guy who is somewhat

00:13:36.220 articulate, who can speak. He's articulate. Sometimes. Well, he's really good. He's really

00:13:42.920 good at speaking like, uh, like actor, you know what I mean? Everything is an actor type thing.

00:13:50.600 He's on, like, I don't, I don't sense, I don't sense a ton of reality, you know? So even,

00:13:56.140 and you, sometimes the most intelligent people can, are like, I would argue a thousand points

00:14:01.180 like Gerald Butts or Hayden. He's smarter than Justin Trudeau. He calculates better. Um,

00:14:06.380 he's far more strategic. Right. But I mean, could you imagine him up there speaking? He sounds like

00:14:10.660 a buffoon, right? He's a bit of a doofus. He doesn't look, he's definitely not. You know, 1.00

00:14:16.040 like truly, I mean, I'm kind of, I'm about to be totally politically incorrect here, but

00:14:20.780 I totally picture, I was wondering like how Justin Trudeau became prime minister. And I realized

00:14:24.700 what it is. Justin was the good looking guy, get all the chicks and butts was sort of, you know,

00:14:30.560 the guy that, you know, you know, he definitely, he definitely would be the most popular guy at a 0.72

00:14:35.120 gay bar. Okay. He'd be like, you'd have, you know, your last choice of the night on, on the 1.00

00:14:39.840 world coldest day where you couldn't meet anybody else. Right. But Justin became his muse for what

00:14:47.680 Gerald Butts really wanted to accomplish in this world because he was, they wrote it on a napkin.

00:14:52.160 Apparently he plotted it all out at a wedding, the path for Justin Trudeau to be our prime minister.

00:14:57.840 So now we're stuck with this situation where we have a prime minister who really isn't necessarily 0.99

00:15:04.060 the one that should be there in this time and being prime minister, I don't give a shit if you're 0.96

00:15:07.460 conservative or if you're a liberal, there's a time where you have to find humility and you have 0.89

00:15:12.240 to pull people from all sides together, whether you agree with them or not. And that is something

00:15:17.440 that I don't think is possible for either of them. And you watch, I mean, Butts is all on the

00:15:23.360 Twitter now. He's all cocky with the passive, like talking about the Superbowl and then reminding

00:15:28.380 people of things. And this monster is this monster. I don't even know if it's really about vaccine 0.99

00:15:34.240 passports. I think it's about they're sick and tired of the Laurentian elite picking on them,

00:15:40.220 treating them like they're servants to their superiority. And that's the true thing. Like,

00:15:45.220 and I think that that's what this is about. And if he would have, first things he should have done,

00:15:49.240 he should have met with the truckers. He met with Teresa, Chief Teresa Spence when her fake 0.95

00:15:54.820 hunger strike many years ago, where she's the only person in Canadian history to gain weight on a

00:16:00.360 hunger strike, who is pretending that she was living in a teepee, but she had a luxury hotel 1.00

00:16:06.300 a couple doors down. He met with her. He's met with everybody. And no, let's just be honest.

00:16:11.540 You remember Clayton Kennedy? That's what the whole hunger strike of Teresa Spence was about.

00:16:16.560 So my point is, is that our prime minister right now is seriously, I think he, I think he's a kid.

00:16:25.740 I think he's a kid who does not know how to admit I'm wrong. Now, maybe, maybe like, maybe the truckers

00:16:33.900 could have, you know, made a move quicker or, or understood what they were up against. But if you

00:16:39.000 have that many people in Ottawa, and let, let the other thing to do, the truckers aren't broke.

00:16:43.240 These are people who, these people, the truckers, okay, they are successful in life. You can't own a

00:16:51.080 truck or a piece of equipment and drive there without having your shit together. That's what 0.99

00:16:56.260 people are. These, these trucks are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I really think that

00:17:02.100 there's an issue here with our government, that they don't understand the rest of Canada. And let's

00:17:07.860 just be honest, conservative, conservatives won the popular vote, and the liberals lost. But the way

00:17:13.040 our democracy is set up with the seats, Quebec and Ontario can choose who our prime minister is

00:17:18.400 over and over again. The West has very little say. And, you know, and then you get some 0.94

00:17:24.100 whack job from Greenpeace, you know, he's a minister now, who's telling everyone how, what to do after,

00:17:30.460 you know what I mean? He was the one that started this type of action when he scaled the CN tower and

00:17:35.960 did all the other crap. Yeah, Stephen Gilboa, he's the environment minister now, but he was with

00:17:41.780 Equitair. And he came out today and said, all Canadians have the right to peacefully protest

00:17:48.260 and express their views, but blocking critical infrastructure, I don't know, like the CN tower

00:17:53.620 and disrupting the lives of our neighbors is not right. Enough is enough. It's time to go home.

00:18:00.180 But I see him in a pair of orange coveralls here labeled Greenpeace. You know, it was perfectly fine.

00:18:08.340 Civil disobedience was perfectly fine when it was for his cause. But now that Canadians are standing 1.00

00:18:13.440 up to the government, he thinks that they should all go to jail. I think this is truly about at this

00:18:20.780 point, like you say, not about COVID restrictions or anything like that. It is about control. And the

00:18:27.420 liberals know who they can control. And now they know who they can't control. And I think that also in

00:18:32.900 that they want the data from give, send, go and the data from GoFundMe, they want an enemies list

00:18:40.200 because now they know a whole class of people they can't control, but they want that names. They want

00:18:46.620 to know who is an enemy of the state. And if they can't control you, they're going to destroy you.

00:18:52.100 And I think that's what the emergency measures act being invoked yesterday was all about.

00:18:57.780 And even in, even in that announcement, the one thing that really stuck out for me,

00:19:05.380 and I think it was, it's glossed over by a lot of people, but when they said,

00:19:10.000 if we can't get tow truck drivers to come help us, we will commandeer the tow trucks

00:19:18.060 and the drivers. So not just take the tow trucks, but also take the drivers. Again,

00:19:24.480 treating the working class, like they aren't living, breathing people with free will. Again,

00:19:30.200 they are only tools to be used by the Laurentian elite. It's like they're automatons and coveralls,

00:19:36.380 just like robots. And if you need one, you just grab one and they do work for you.

00:19:40.120 They still can't get it through their head why people feel the way they do.

00:19:44.800 Well, see, and that's the, that's the real scary part about this is, I mean, I remember Christie

00:19:49.480 Freeland when they, when they realized that during COVID, a lot of people had a lot of savings and

00:19:54.400 the debt load of the country. And she was basically kind of, so we need to spend their money to 1.00

00:19:58.800 balance out the country. That was very telling there when Trudeau complimented the ability to

00:20:05.240 do whatever he wants with what, if he was a dictator, like in China. But the real scary part is that,

00:20:11.020 like, if the government deems your cause, if you're fundraising for whatever, and these tools,

00:20:20.060 see these tools like GoFundMe and Facebook and everything else have been nice equalizers.

00:20:25.360 It's allowed, it's allowed regular people to be successful. If they weren't born with a silver

00:20:32.180 spoon, like Justin Trudeau, to be able to have a, have a show or take on a cause or start a movement.

00:20:41.700 Raise money. And that is the beauty of what social media and, you know, GoFundMe and GiveSendGo have

00:20:48.060 done. And I don't think they know how to do it. Because normally, if you look, kind of you look at

00:20:53.380 the, if you want to delve into the sort of the social profit world, right? I always find myself

00:20:58.080 conflicted, because I know a lot of these organizations, they get millions from corporations,

00:21:03.640 and they check a box. But some of the smaller movements and the other things, like I love oil sands,

00:21:09.920 my organization stuff, and how we've managed to do things. It's very unorthodox. So this is very

00:21:16.240 scary what they just did, because they basically just crippled these, these, this other form of

00:21:22.520 fundraising for different things that are not necessarily your, you know, your immediate

00:21:28.200 thought, like the world is changing. So it's very scary what's happened in the last 24 hours. And I'm not

00:21:33.780 surprised. I always saw when he became Prime Minister that he would invoke the War Metrics Act

00:21:38.500 history as a way of repeating itself. And I, I, I've met Justin Trudeau, I hung out with him at a bar

00:21:45.420 and I met him multiple times before he was Prime Minister. This doesn't really surprise me. I have

00:21:49.960 him. And I'm a little, a little surprised at how he reminds me of, of this person I know in Saskatchewan,

00:21:59.880 who, you know, inherited a lot of money, and was the only boy, and got his way all the time. And that,

00:22:08.200 that, that to me is very, it's very scary, because I don't know where we're going to go with this. It's

00:22:14.520 not, I don't think it's going to end well. And I do hope, though, that the voters wake up. But

00:22:21.240 the problem in our country is like, like, okay, so great, you have an election, Trudeau's popularity

00:22:25.160 drops because it's a bad move. Who's going to be the Prime Minister? You know what I mean? Because

00:22:28.680 the Conservatives now are in a, in a leadership battle. Like, it's just very, it's a very sad day

00:22:33.160 for Canada when our, our Prime Minister has zero respect for opinion different than his.

00:22:40.120 Now, I want to ask you, because this is a common criticism that people who are

00:22:44.360 in support of the convoy are getting. And that is, well, you are against people blocking pipelines

00:22:54.440 and critical infrastructure in that regard. How do you reconcile that with what's happening

00:23:00.840 in Ottawa, or for that matter, at the borders?

00:23:04.040 Well, you see, and I, this, I'll admit to you, this is the part where this is a tough question,

00:23:08.600 right? Because you're right, because when they were blocking trains, and they were lighting,

00:23:13.000 trying to light trains on fire, and then when they camp parked out at Camp Cloud,

00:23:18.440 and tried to shut down the pipelines, and I could give you a list of multiple things

00:23:23.400 the other side has done that has just been horrific, right? What I will say is that

00:23:30.760 our side clearly is stronger and far more critical to the country's operation than these

00:23:37.240 weeners that are trying to stop pipelines. And I think it's just the level of frustration that

00:23:42.680 has been building for years. It's the dismissive nature of our Prime Minister, his superiority complex,

00:23:50.040 his narcissism. And the truth is, because someone said, well, you lost the election,

00:23:55.000 you know, boo hoo, it was on one of my posts. And I thought, well, hang on for a second.

00:23:58.360 Is there any way for the West to ever win an election? Right.

00:24:03.800 The West clearly is more conservative, clearly wants working-class families to be successful, 0.96

00:24:11.720 to have a better life. And you watch what's happening in places like, say, for Vancouver,

00:24:18.280 for instance, where it is impossible for someone to own a home now, unless you're born into a ton of

00:24:24.760 money. What the working-class lifestyle offers is opportunity for betterment of people's families

00:24:31.720 and for future. And what the Liberals offer, which I've seen more and more, is keep the status quo,

00:24:40.040 this false sense of equality. So equality, like, well, you know, we care about working-class,

00:24:45.080 regular jobs, we talk about universal income, but what that is, is it puts a ceiling on people's

00:24:49.240 potential? A truck driver can get a job and be more successful than anyone in Ottawa. In fact,

00:24:55.400 most of those guacamole, coffee-drinking people that are freaking out because the noise is bothering

00:24:59.960 them right now, don't have the net worth close to what an average trucker would. So my point is that

00:25:06.520 we have different values in the West. But for some reason, the Ontario, the elite, the Quebec,

00:25:13.160 they have this hold on us, and we never really get, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter who we,

00:25:17.320 we had Harper for a time, and then they attacked him, like, viciously for years. This is the first

00:25:25.160 time that I've seen, there's been, you know, we see it all the time, there's this movement,

00:25:30.360 I don't even know what it is, but there's people around me and they're angry. Oh, my friend Connie,

00:25:35.320 okay? I'll just say her name because she's all full on now. She owns MIB Moving, okay? You know, 0.62

00:25:40.680 I gave her a trucker of the little convoy that I covered, right? I named her Top Trucker. So long

00:25:46.360 story short, Connie, successful businesswoman, but she's sick of it. She's sick of feeling like she's 1.00

00:25:52.040 less because, you know what I mean? Because she has, and I think that's what it truly is about. It's

00:25:57.640 about, um, Ottawa needs to shake up, and our leadership, that if they don't like you, um,

00:26:05.480 they, they label you. Look how hard they try to label these truckers as racists, because they had

00:26:09.880 a few people, and I wouldn't be surprised if those people with the Nazi flags were planted. I remember

00:26:15.320 at one of the rebel events that I was speaking at, I wish I would have done more, two guys showed

00:26:19.880 out of nowhere, these signs, and they vanished. They weren't part of the event, they were not there. So I

00:26:24.440 wouldn't be surprised, but that's, and that's instantaneous the way everyone focuses on. And

00:26:27.640 I remember talking to friends of mine, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There's thousands of people

00:26:31.320 here that have flags, that have Canadian flags that are families, that are bringing their kids. You

00:26:36.680 can't, you can't just take the, these couple of, um, you know, Nazi protesters and say that's the

00:26:44.040 whole group. But that's the instant narrative they go to, like, when they're not winning. So you're

00:26:47.960 dealing with a bunch of spoiled children in Ottawa. They don't like the fact that the landlords

00:26:53.400 have come home and they're honking for their rent. So now they're going to, they're going to do their

00:26:58.520 own thing to try to get them out of there. And it's, it's very sad. And I think that,

00:27:03.160 I think people are waking up to this. And I think what, I mean, I think you really see the liberals

00:27:07.640 for what they truly are. And I mean, I've seen it myself dealing with them a lot, like even in

00:27:12.600 McMurray, some of this, this, what, what some of them will do to win is, it's insane. It's, it's next

00:27:17.880 level actually. Yeah. It's, uh, just going back to your comments about the camp cloud protesters

00:27:24.600 and the pipeline blockaders. I think the difference here is the goal and for the truckers,

00:27:31.080 they just want to work and not just, they just want to work. They're not asking for anything

00:27:36.360 special. They're asking for the country to go back to the rights and freedoms we had

00:27:43.160 in 2019 in January, 2020. That's all. They don't want anything unrealistic. Whereas with the,

00:27:51.240 you know, the camp cloud protesters, the Ferry Creek protesters, the pipeline protesters,

00:27:56.520 they want to kill jobs, kill economic activity and the truckers, they want to unlock it. I think

00:28:03.960 that's the difference here is the, uh, the goals at the end of the day. Uh, Robbie you're in Fort

00:28:08.920 McMurray. You're in the heart of it all. Uh, what's going on up there? What do you want

00:28:13.080 to talk about before we let you go? Well, if you could, um, well, things are absolutely amazing.

00:28:19.240 So, um, I'm working on my bus trip to Ottawa, which I'm going to probably launch mid-March.

00:28:25.320 We'll see if I'm even allowed in Ottawa after this point. You're a terrorist now. Sorry, buddy. 0.97

00:28:31.640 I'm filming a documentary and I'm going to keep telling the stories of oil families along the way.

00:28:37.320 And the other thing we're going to cover is we're going to talk about this ridiculous just transition.

00:28:42.840 So a few years back when they destroyed the coal industry, they devastated communities in Alberta.

00:28:49.960 Now, a lot of these people were able to recover because, um, they were able to recover because

00:28:55.560 of oil and gas jobs, right? Because they were able to pivot, get a job. When they finally try and they

00:29:01.720 destroy the entire infrastructure of fossil fuels in this country, you were going to literally have

00:29:05.640 thousands and thousands of people who did not recover, will not have the ability to recover.

00:29:10.280 So there's a lot of, uh, people in Alberta, these small towns that like they've lost their homes,

00:29:15.000 they've been bankrupt. The coal industry was supposed to be replaced with all these new jobs.

00:29:19.320 They were not there. So we're going to heavily focus on one, the importance of natural gas and

00:29:24.440 the importance of keeping the fossil fuel industry going and start like, I don't want to have a gun to

00:29:33.000 my head telling me I have to buy an electric car.

00:29:35.160 Right.

00:29:35.880 And I think that's what's coming our way. I really, I really do. Um, I'm, it's like,

00:29:43.240 if you can look at throughout history, how, you know, horse and carriage, they all kind of evolved.

00:29:49.000 It's a natural progression. This, this is crazy. What I'm hearing, what's coming down the pipeline

00:29:56.280 with these electric cars. In fact, there's even legislation being proposed in the States now that

00:30:01.960 the government will actually tell you when you can drive. Because what's going to happen is they're

00:30:06.120 going to put all these electric cars, cars on the grid, the grid is not going to be able to sustain

00:30:09.960 it. Okay. And then, so they're going to be like, okay, well, you can drive for these two hours.

00:30:15.240 But after that, you park your car. And there's actually all this conspiracy theory talk is

00:30:20.120 actually starting to come true. So we want to kind of talk about that a little bit. Like,

00:30:23.400 it's very, I don't like where we're headed. I don't like being told, like, even in Montreal,

00:30:29.080 like during COVID, I can appreciate, let's just say you accept some restrictions because of COVID,

00:30:34.900 right? When they have police cars driving through the neighborhoods telling people they can't leave

00:30:40.540 their house at nine o'clock at night. What is that? How is that making COVID any like, okay,

00:30:46.300 fine, you shut the bars down, you shut the restaurants down. But if I want to take my dog

00:30:49.700 for a walk, say at like midnight, because it can't sleep, I'm not able to do that. So there's a real

00:30:56.520 problem here that's been happening. And I really think that we need to kind of start talking about

00:31:02.180 it. Because I don't, I don't believe that it's all about green energy. And it's all about solar power

00:31:08.460 and all this other stuff. It's about this

00:31:10.760 control, bizarre control on society that I think that a certain group of elites have kind of lost a

00:31:20.780 little bit. And, and it's funny, because like, if you just mean, just look at the power of social

00:31:25.640 media with that, how that social media has completely changed my life. It's how I have a

00:31:29.640 marketing company, it's how I advocate, it's my ability to stand up to narcissistic, multimillionaire,

00:31:36.220 plane banging celebrities like Jane Fonda. I mean, you know, the Mile High Club, you know,

00:31:41.580 you cannot have sex on a plane without fossil fuels, just to point that out. So those are things

00:31:46.480 that I think the hypocrisy that I've been able to point out, because of social media, and my ability

00:31:56.660 to be able to organize, that's changed my life in a positive way. Yeah. That's what's scary. And I think

00:32:03.280 that's what's scaring the, the, the, the Trudeaus, because they can't keep a grapple, get a grasp on

00:32:09.900 people, right? It's all of the, it's just, it's this notion that somehow they care about the smaller

00:32:15.500 people, but the truth is, they're keeping them down. And I think that's the heart of why Albertans

00:32:20.500 are pissed. They know the, they know the pipelines and oil helps build our country, provides jobs.

00:32:28.340 And the, the, the, the, the energy workers and the, you know, I guess the working class Canadians,

00:32:34.620 they're, they're not overly complicated. They're just very much like, I want to earn a living. I

00:32:39.340 want to, you know, have a good life. I want to provide, I want to work. There's that drive where,

00:32:45.240 where you have these elites that are second, third, fourth generation, generation wealth,

00:32:50.200 who've never done anything, any work, any type of work, any type of real suffering. They don't

00:32:57.480 understand that. And I think that's the clash, but that's the real clash in Canada right now. And

00:33:01.120 it's not, it's everywhere because I think that the people are waking up and they don't necessarily

00:33:05.520 know how to articulate it. And that, and I think that that's what this, this is more about.

00:33:10.160 Now, Robbie, one last question. How do people support the work that you do and find the work that

00:33:16.040 you do? Because you do this largely without any huge financial backing. You just are moving from

00:33:24.180 one project to the next, um, sort of by the skin of your teeth sometimes.

00:33:29.940 Well, okay. So one thing that I, uh, I'll announce is that we're launching our new magazine.

00:33:36.200 Um, it's going to be a monthly, it's called oil and gas strong. I originally going to call it oil

00:33:39.900 sand strong, but now I'm going to oil and gas strong because the story is bigger and it's

00:33:45.980 both. Um, and so if you could sign up for that, there'll be like a monthly newsletter type thing

00:33:50.360 on our website, um, oil and gas strong.com. And then I like everyone that's watching, if you could

00:33:57.460 please, um, our Facebook page is exploding. We now have a 14,000, oh, sorry. Um, 114,000 followers.

00:34:04.040 I want to get to the 300,000 range. So please follow us and buy a ton of t-shirts, like buy shirts

00:34:12.380 like crazy, uh, because we're, we're going to be going to do our tour. Our tour is not going to be

00:34:18.700 quite as loud, but I promise it will be impactful. And we are going to tell the story of this country.

00:34:26.220 And we're going to stand up against this notion that somehow there's going to be this just transition to

00:34:32.300 shut all of our industry down. And we're, we're not going to let that happen. We're going to stand

00:34:36.780 up for it. And if nothing else, we're going to point out that this is not, we're not going to

00:34:40.720 adopt the language, the language of the, of the so-called environmentalist Laurentian elite that

00:34:49.040 are trying to destroy the lives of hardworking Canadians. Well, Robbie, um, I appreciate your

00:34:55.940 advocacy on behalf of families like mine, because you're describing a family like mine where they,

00:35:01.780 the government and the liberals and the mainstream media, this just transition is something they want

00:35:07.820 to do to you and not with you. They don't, they don't really care what you think. Um, so I appreciate

00:35:12.700 you, uh, telling the stories of the very real people, real Canadians, real communities that are

00:35:17.640 going to be hurt by all of this. Uh, Robbie, far too long since you've been on the show. Um, we'll have

00:35:23.260 you back on again, very, very soon. Thank you for having me.

00:35:31.780 You know what I think? I think the environmentalist left and the media and the politicians, but clearly,

00:35:43.200 obviously I'm repeating myself here because they are all part of the same group. They are mad that

00:35:48.380 the right is doing what the left has always done, but because the right are a bunch of useful people

00:35:55.760 with useful life skills, they found a way to do it even better and more effectively than the left.

00:36:02.320 And that's why the left wants to crush them. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank

00:36:07.700 you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next

00:36:12.580 weekend. Remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:36:25.760 thank you so much for being here.

Rebel News Podcast - February 17, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Robbie Picard on the convoy protests and the hypocrisy of the politicians and the environmental left

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