Rebel News Podcast - February 29, 2024


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ The Liberal-NDP cabal only approves of free speech if its speech they agree with


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Will the Liberals and the NDP's attempts to censor the internet and free speech shut up pro-oil and gas advocates like Robbie Picard from Oil and Gas World Magazine? What do you think about the new proposed legislation that would ban all oil and gas advertising in Canada?

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00:00:00.000 Will the liberal and the NDP's attempts to censor the internet and free speech shut up
00:00:05.720 Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong? What do you guys think?
00:00:09.800 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000 Oil has always relied on the Big Tobacco playbook of delay and disinformation.
00:00:36.320 And so to tackle this immense threat to human health, we need to use many of the strategies that finally took down Big Tobacco.
00:00:44.140 In 1997, the Canadian Parliament banned advertising from Big Tobacco because of the clear threat to human health.
00:00:51.200 This is why I'm so proud to stand here today with representatives of Canada's medical community
00:00:57.400 to state that the time has come to ban all oil and gas advertising.
00:01:03.700 The Big Tobacco moment has finally arrived for Big Oil.
00:01:08.760 Bill C-372 will, quote, provide a legislative response to a national public health and environmental problem of substantial and pressing concerns.
00:01:18.040 The bill will make it illegal for Big Oil and the gas lobby or their front groups or paid influencers
00:01:24.940 to falsely promote the burning of fossil fuels as a benefit to the public.
00:01:30.640 The legislation will make it illegal to falsely claim that the use of one fossil fuel product
00:01:36.880 is somehow better than another fossil fuel product in improving the environment.
00:01:41.940 To claim that there are clean fossil fuels is like saying there are safe cigarettes.
00:01:46.280 We know that is simply not true.
00:01:48.980 Morgan Stanley points out that the damage from climate crisis for the North American economy
00:01:55.100 in just three years has been a staggering $415 billion.
00:01:59.620 And this legislation will target advertising that falsely claims that oil and gas are having a positive impact
00:02:07.060 on the global economy.
00:02:08.420 And we recently learned that toxic contamination from Canada's oil and gas industry is 6,000 times higher than officially reported.
00:02:18.700 This legislation will make it illegal for Canada's oil and gas giants to falsely identify themselves
00:02:24.960 with the health and positive lifestyles of Canadians
00:02:28.000 or with reconciliation of Indigenous people on whose lands the toxic contamination is highest. 0.69
00:02:34.360 The big tobacco moment has arrived for companies like Suncor, Imperial, and the oil and gas giants of Canada.
00:02:43.580 That, my friends, is one of the senior members of the federal NDP, Charlie Angus,
00:02:50.380 saying that he wants to basically silence people who are advocates for oil and gas.
00:02:55.400 Now, that would be a crazy fringe motion for him to introduce.
00:03:00.300 But, couple that with the Liberals' latest announcement of the online harms bill,
00:03:07.980 and it doesn't seem all that crazy or out of step with what's happening in Ottawa at all.
00:03:14.700 Now, for those of you who don't know, and I don't know how you couldn't,
00:03:17.340 it's called Bill C-63.
00:03:19.620 It's the online harms bill.
00:03:21.120 And what it will do is basically censor the things you can see and say online.
00:03:28.080 It allows for hurt feelings provisions to be added back into the human rights law here in Canada,
00:03:37.800 where people who hurt other people's feelings, basically committing online harms,
00:03:43.160 you can be dragged before the Human Rights Commission anonymously and forced to pay out $20,000.
00:03:49.740 The Liberals are also planning on encouraging people to drag others before the Human Rights Commission.
00:03:55.680 There will also be a new hate crimes law,
00:03:58.720 whereas right now, a hate crime is not really a crime at all.
00:04:05.160 It's a motivating factor at sentencing,
00:04:07.680 so that it can increase the sentence of an existing crime.
00:04:11.820 But the Liberals are building in a hate crime into the Canadian Criminal Code,
00:04:18.240 which could have someone serve life in prison.
00:04:22.520 Now, all these new rules are designed to shut us up or scare us into tempering our language
00:04:30.760 when our language is that of the truth.
00:04:34.140 Now, joining me tonight is an oil and gas advocate, but also an advocate for free speech,
00:04:39.240 my friend Robbie Picard, to talk about these latest attempts to shut up anybody who strays from the Liberal Party agenda.
00:04:47.660 Take a listen.
00:04:48.140 So joining me now is a good friend of the show, good friend of me, Robbie Picard,
00:04:59.840 from Oil, Sand, Strong, and Oil & Gas World magazine.
00:05:02.840 Robbie, I wanted to have you on the show because, as I pointed out in last week's show,
00:05:07.280 Charlie Angus is a bit of a crazy person on this topic, but on a few others.
00:05:12.260 Although he's seen as one of the more reasonable grown-ups in the NDP,
00:05:18.160 which should be a testament to just how radical some parts of the NDP really are.
00:05:23.040 But you and I are going to have to learn some instruments because we're going to need to start a prison band
00:05:28.840 when Charlie Angus locks us up for being pro-oil and gas.
00:05:34.000 So what do you think about just the idea that oil and gas advocacy should be criminalized?
00:05:43.320 You know, at first you think it's a bit of a joke and you're like, this will never happen.
00:05:48.160 This is just a wacky thing.
00:05:49.920 But he is in government.
00:05:53.540 He's part of the Liberal NDP coalition government.
00:05:57.520 Now, everyone's like, well, they're not a coalition.
00:05:59.620 Yes, they are.
00:06:00.760 Pharmacare, all the stuff they're pushing.
00:06:03.020 They might not have minister titles, which has happened in the past when you've had those kind of, like, two parties working together.
00:06:10.260 So it's terrifying.
00:06:11.660 And the fact that he thinks that he can come after our freedom of speech, our freedom of expression,
00:06:19.280 to push his agenda, it actually kind of terrifies me.
00:06:23.220 And I'm not taking it lightly.
00:06:24.680 Like, I think it's a legitimate threat at our existence.
00:06:29.420 And we're in a really weird space.
00:06:31.840 Like, I can't stand Greenpeace.
00:06:34.540 I think Mike Hadima is sort of liably a saint.
00:06:37.920 You know what I mean?
00:06:38.700 I mean, Sapporo Bourbon is the most scary woman ever born. 0.99
00:06:43.180 I mean, her mere presence terrifies me.
00:06:45.620 But I've never once pushed for her not to have the right to push what she believes in.
00:06:51.480 And that is one thing I think that he just threatened.
00:06:55.100 More and more, we're finding out about that electric cars are not environmentally friendly.
00:07:02.200 The disaster that they are causing from multiple unintended consequences.
00:07:08.420 And I love it when Stephen Gabot has this little flip where he, well, you know, it's a new technology, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:15.340 So, like, they are going to put the world, I have a prediction, and in 15 years, 20 years time, we will end up in a weird position where we seem like those wacky environmentalists worrying about water, worried about all these things that they are going to be really affecting with lithium-ion batteries and mining, unregulated mining.
00:07:38.400 Like, I'm very worried about our future because I'm really hoping that both countries, the United States and Canada, bring common sense back to government and stop this insanity of ruining our power grid, ruining what's already working beautifully for unproven technology that somehow is going to make the world better when it's really not.
00:08:04.340 So, to kind of sum it up, yeah, he needs to have his head examined, and if he thinks I'm going to shut up, no, I'm going to fight harder than I've ever thought to stop this because this could become the norm.
00:08:16.680 If we treat ourselves like frogs in boiling water where they just turn the temperature up a little bit on us and we don't jump out, like, this is serious.
00:08:25.520 And, no, I think it's a threat that we need to take more seriously than just, oh, it's just a wacky NDP MP.
00:08:32.760 Yeah, you know, it is an NDP motion, and so Lord knows if it'll be adopted, but we have never seen a more radical liberal party.
00:08:42.800 And, quite frankly, the liberals are beholden at this point to the NDP.
00:08:46.580 They're giving the NDP whatever they want because the liberals are so far down in the polls that if they break with the NDP, they go to election, and it's going to be an absolute blowout for the liberals.
00:08:58.700 Yeah.
00:08:59.220 In that the liberals are going to be relegated to, you know, a handful of seats in the Laurentian region and probably Vancouver.
00:09:07.840 Yeah.
00:09:08.120 So, we should be concerned.
00:09:10.840 As you say, it's a wacky NDP policy, but there are a lot of wacky NDP policies being adopted by the liberals right now in an attempt to hold on to power.
00:09:19.320 So, why do you think Charlie Angus wants to do this?
00:09:21.360 I speculate that he would like to do this because, as you say, we're learning more and more about so-called green tech, about just how bad it really is.
00:09:31.040 And so, what's the flip side?
00:09:32.700 Do you fix the green technology, or do you shut up the people talking about how bad the green tech is?
00:09:38.740 I think that's where Charlie Angus is.
00:09:40.500 We have to shut up people because they're getting a little bit too truthy out there.
00:09:43.820 I've had several debates recently with people who I consider quite well-educated on the other side.
00:09:50.760 And when you bring up simple arguments that, you know, it's not real rocket science.
00:09:55.160 You talk about, like, Chicago, how in minus 20, all the Teslas stopped working and they couldn't charge the power.
00:10:00.760 You talk about one CBC article that they just did where they tried to take an electric car on a small journey and they couldn't do it.
00:10:08.340 They just, they have nothing back.
00:10:10.480 They can't, there's very, all you got to do is press them.
00:10:14.680 They don't have an argument.
00:10:15.940 They have believed this falsehood, this sort of, like, religion of electric cars, and they're losing and there's not much to counter it.
00:10:27.280 They've ran out of stuff.
00:10:28.840 So, I think, literally, he wants to try and punish and shut us up and take away our rights.
00:10:34.840 And, like, yeah, like, I mean, he should be, he should be resigned from being an MP.
00:10:40.160 I think every MP has a serious responsibility to protect our rights, our rights of freedom of expression, our rights to disagree, and our rights to promote what we want to promote.
00:10:52.280 And so, yeah, like, I realize that, you know, I mean, honestly, Elizabeth May is a little bit less wacky than him.
00:10:58.320 And, I mean, she's the biggest whack job in history, you know, so, I mean, he's, yeah, he's a complete and utter whack job and he should resign.
00:11:07.020 I mean, that should not, he should not have been able to put that forward.
00:11:10.460 I mean, that's an attack on our rights.
00:11:13.460 And so, I mean, like, you know, I don't really want to go to jail, you know what I mean?
00:11:18.260 But that being said, I would, I mean, there was one thing I would do is I would fight, I would fight for the brand.
00:11:24.560 I would fight for what I fought for for the past 10 years because I believe in it.
00:11:27.320 And I think we have made a difference educating this country and trying to bring common sense back to the country.
00:11:33.280 I mean, I don't know how many plane rides he's taken.
00:11:37.080 Where is he, where, I mean, I should do more research, but where is he situated?
00:11:40.540 I don't know, in Ontario.
00:11:42.840 Well, he doesn't have to drive.
00:11:44.180 He still has to fly.
00:11:45.320 I'm sure he flies from, yeah, yeah, yeah, supply to Ottawa.
00:11:48.920 You know what I mean?
00:11:49.500 So, well, I'll be back in Ontario pretty soon with my, oh, my God.
00:11:53.280 I am going to take the Oil and Gas World Oil Sand Strong bus to his office.
00:11:59.580 And everybody in his riding, if you want to buy a T-shirt, no problem.
00:12:04.680 I will sell T-shirts and give out free stickers in front of his office.
00:12:09.040 That is what I will do, and I will do that in the spring when it's warm and I don't have to use too much fossil fuels to keep the bus warm.
00:12:16.560 But as soon as it warms up, I'm there.
00:12:18.580 The bus is presently in Ontario in a secret location, so I will definitely be taking the bus to him.
00:12:25.400 That's the first bus ride I'm going to do.
00:12:27.600 That's amazing.
00:12:29.520 That's amazing.
00:12:30.340 And you know what?
00:12:30.980 I just want to go back to a point that you made.
00:12:33.520 You made it offhand, but I think it was a really great point.
00:12:35.820 I think in 10 years, you and I are going to seem like the crazy environmentalists worried about the water and the air and dangerous chemicals.
00:12:42.900 Because I don't think that you and I are all that far off with some of the more useful idiots of the environmentalist movement.
00:12:52.260 And I don't want to say that I'm a useful idiot, but they have a genuine concern for the air and the water and the earth.
00:13:00.240 I really believe that they are genuinely sincere, like the low-level activists marching in the street.
00:13:05.720 But they don't have the facts.
00:13:09.280 I care about the dangerous chemicals of the rare earth minerals required for batteries, for electric vehicles.
00:13:20.760 I care about the enormous footprint of the wind turbines.
00:13:27.080 I care about that stuff.
00:13:28.800 I care about how green energy doesn't seem to work and is dangerous for the people who have to build it and create or at least find the components for it in the developing world.
00:13:38.560 I actually care about that stuff.
00:13:40.680 And I feel like the other people, they also deeply care about the earth.
00:13:44.480 They don't have all the facts at hand.
00:13:46.560 And I think in 10 years from now, you and I are going to be the, I don't want to say environmentalists, but conservationists worried about the state of the earth.
00:13:56.960 And that's the thing that I think that there's been a misconception about the oil sands industry and the oil and gas industry.
00:14:02.160 We actually really care.
00:14:03.560 We obviously want to get a resource out that provides jobs, that provides a better life, and we all want to have our businesses be successful.
00:14:10.040 But when you're in McMurray, we generally care about our environment.
00:14:13.520 We are surrounded by forests.
00:14:15.320 We're surrounded by lakes.
00:14:16.660 Like, I just went fishing in Fort Chip.
00:14:19.920 And, I mean, the fish that you caught in Lake Athabasca, I mean, they are beautiful fish.
00:14:24.560 I'll send you pictures of them.
00:14:26.060 I did ice fishing in Lacklebish recently.
00:14:28.180 Like, there is a lot of amazing things, and we care about the environment.
00:14:32.400 And when you strip mine to get, you know, all these rare earth minerals and all that, it's from this mass panic to make all these electric cars that are going to draw more power, which are going to put more pressure on the grid, which is going to, in turn, cause more carbon.
00:14:50.060 And you're doing it crazy without a real plan, for what reason, we don't know, when maybe, like, if you get all the countries in the world to simply just give a little piece of their farmland to wetlands and have, you can reduce the carbon footprint by simply repurposing some land that's already there.
00:15:10.140 And we don't need to destroy the entire planet in this mass panic for why I don't know why we're panicking.
00:15:15.960 So, yeah, I could see a flip happening fairly soon here, and it'll be interesting.
00:15:21.160 Yeah.
00:15:21.720 I even see some environmentalists making that flip once they see...
00:15:25.980 Yeah, well, when Michael Moore came out with that documentary, that was an eye-opener.
00:15:32.000 You know what I mean?
00:15:32.600 And it's like, when you have, like, China's making all these coal power plants to back up their so-called green power ones that only work part of the time, that means they're turning on the coal again.
00:15:44.900 So, like, it's just, it's just insane.
00:15:47.340 But Charlie Angus, yes, I'm going to bring the bus to his office, and I'm going to park out there.
00:15:52.380 I mean, yeah, that will be the mission.
00:15:54.760 That's my next trip.
00:15:56.400 So, thank you, Charlie.
00:15:57.340 You gave me a purpose.
00:15:58.340 Yeah, I mean, Fort McMurray is such a great example of reclamation and how those plans have to be in place before a shovel even breaks for a mine.
00:16:08.260 And then you contrast that with cobalt mining in Africa or how they treat coal electricity generation in China versus how we treat coal electricity generation here.
00:16:22.280 I mean, we're an example which leads the world, which is a testament to how much we care about the environment.
00:16:29.220 But, and I think you're right.
00:16:31.260 I think there are some people on the environmentalist side who are coming around to our way of thinking.
00:16:36.960 And, again, that goes back to Charlie Angus' desire to shut them up.
00:16:40.360 Because converts are sometimes so frequently the loudest voice.
00:16:45.620 I mean, it's really, I mean, sometimes I think, who's going to listen to me?
00:16:49.620 I'm a farmer.
00:16:51.280 You know, my family works in the oil patch.
00:16:53.400 So, I'm invested in this.
00:16:56.620 But it's the people who have been on the other side who come around because they actually did what we tell them to do.
00:17:03.260 And that's to look at the facts.
00:17:04.740 And then they come around.
00:17:05.780 Those people are really the loudest voice.
00:17:08.320 And, of course, that's why Charlie Angus wants to put some tape over their mouth.
00:17:12.260 Exactly.
00:17:13.300 Exactly.
00:17:14.400 Well, we will stand up to him.
00:17:16.140 And, yeah, so listen, go to oilsandstrong.com and buy a shit ton of hoodies, hats.
00:17:23.180 We'll send you some free stickers.
00:17:24.860 Go to Oil & Gas World, sign up for our magazine, and we'll mail it to you.
00:17:29.720 The magazine is doing really well.
00:17:31.320 We're going to be having, it's been hard.
00:17:33.120 Like, I interview everybody.
00:17:34.760 I do it all myself.
00:17:35.720 So, we're coming together.
00:17:36.840 But it looks like we're on a roll.
00:17:38.640 So, yeah, we'll double down on that.
00:17:40.300 And, yeah, buy a shit ton of hoodies and t-shirts.
00:17:45.700 We just made a big order.
00:17:46.880 Be patient.
00:17:47.940 We're not quite as fast as, you know, Amazon.
00:17:51.040 It can take a week or two to get the shirts, but we will get them to you.
00:17:54.700 And, yeah, support us because we are going to drive our big bus, and we're going to park outside Charlie Angus' place.
00:18:02.620 And we will, you know, honk the horn, but not too loud because I know that people get really worked up with horn honking.
00:18:07.800 It won't be excessive, but we will definitely let you know we're there.
00:18:10.880 And, yeah, I have a bus at a secret location in Ontario, and it happens to be in Northern Ontario.
00:18:18.640 So, what a spring wake up for Charlie Angus.
00:18:22.140 The Oil, Sand, Strong, Oil & Gas World bus is coming.
00:18:26.160 I can't, I can't, I can't wait.
00:18:28.560 I can't wait.
00:18:29.720 Robbie, you've touched on free expression.
00:18:33.000 That's one thing I want to talk to you about.
00:18:34.480 The Liberals are imposing the new online harm spell, and they'll do it with the help of the NDP.
00:18:40.500 And they made it a poison pill piece of legislation because they are saying it's to prevent sexual exploitation of children online.
00:18:48.600 But there are already existing laws that do a pretty good job, all things considered, of doing that.
00:18:54.740 So, they basically made it so that if you oppose the censorship of Canadians online and the punishing fines that will go to social media companies if they don't censor Canadians online, if they do harmful content.
00:19:12.480 And, you know, they're introducing things into the Human Rights Act, which people who say harmful things online, like you and I, I suppose, we could be dragged before the Human Rights Tribunal and face $20,000 in penalties.
00:19:29.000 You are online, you say things that might harm liberal sensitivities and hurt the feelings of environmentalists.
00:19:40.320 I think this legislation is targeted, while they say it's at preventing exploitation of children online, that is absolutely not true.
00:19:48.320 That's just a thing in there that for the Liberals to say, look, if you don't support censorship, you don't care about kids.
00:19:55.320 I think this is targeted at people like you and people like me.
00:19:58.640 Is it going to stop you from doing the work that you do?
00:20:03.060 No, but it ties back into Charlie Angus.
00:20:05.600 OK, so I think this is where we have to actually be intelligent about it and not even treat it as a joke.
00:20:09.960 So he's proposing something that will attack us.
00:20:12.740 They're proposing something simultaneously that will also attack us.
00:20:16.480 And look at what he just did successfully.
00:20:19.140 Let's just be honest.
00:20:20.420 He shut down all small media across this country with Facebook.
00:20:26.000 I have there's people in Fort McMurray that are part of little local papers.
00:20:29.580 You never hear from them anymore.
00:20:30.860 You don't have a clue what they posted.
00:20:32.280 No one's going to them.
00:20:33.560 You don't hear these stories anymore.
00:20:35.880 We have to get rid of this government.
00:20:37.700 We need to have a government that actually protects children, that protects them with legislation that is specifically on that,
00:20:44.300 that doesn't go into another thing that can hurt someone else's freedom of speech.
00:20:48.760 And there is an attack on our media.
00:20:51.060 I mean, there truly is.
00:20:52.960 Like, even, you know, Michael Cohen that sits on that panel on CBC, he said it, too.
00:20:59.340 Like, the liberals are going to do anything they can to shut anyone up who goes against them.
00:21:06.840 And they've done it for a long time now.
00:21:09.400 I've never seen anything like it.
00:21:10.960 So when the election is called, and hopefully it's sooner than later, we need to get common sense back into government.
00:21:17.460 I mean, you know, Louis Riel was Hun, okay, at a time. 0.53
00:21:27.000 And now he's the hero.
00:21:28.460 Maybe 20 years from now, the Freedom Convoy people will be heroes as well on a large scale from the people that doubted them.
00:21:36.640 The Supreme Court just ruled in their favor.
00:21:39.900 He has done so many things that have infringed on our right.
00:21:43.920 Think about the season of the bank accounts.
00:21:45.880 They did that.
00:21:46.840 That's what they do in Russia, supposedly.
00:21:49.880 That's what they do in countries that are – he's a scary individual.
00:21:54.300 He's not just – like, I mean, he's not just a good-looking, naive teacher, drama, you know, plastic straw somewhat box person.
00:22:07.020 He is literally a dangerous guy.
00:22:09.760 And we need to be more vocal.
00:22:11.900 And we need to fight it.
00:22:12.720 And we need to protest it.
00:22:13.760 And we have to stop him because what he – like, I mean, tell me one thing that he has done for this country that has made it a little bit better.
00:22:22.140 I can't think of anything.
00:22:23.940 No.
00:22:24.500 You know what I mean?
00:22:25.180 You know what I mean?
00:22:25.980 Like, I'm obviously more conservative now.
00:22:28.080 But I've always been kind of, like, work with whoever's there.
00:22:30.980 But it's terrifying.
00:22:32.320 So we need to fight it.
00:22:33.820 And we need to stand up for ourselves.
00:22:35.600 And everyone I know – I've never seen a scarier leader in my life.
00:22:41.020 And we need to protect our rights to do what we do because we do it better with less money.
00:22:47.980 Yeah.
00:22:48.620 I mean, I remarked the other day that I don't ever recall a leader who so dislikes the people he governs.
00:23:00.020 Like, I look back at Hillary Clinton talking about a basket of deplorables.
00:23:07.560 But she was really only referring to Trump voters, which, I mean, is revolting because you want to be the president.
00:23:13.020 You want to be the president of all Americans.
00:23:14.620 But I believe Trudeau viscerally looks down his nose at all Canadians, including the people who vote for him.
00:23:22.960 Because I think he thinks of the people who vote for him as a bunch of gullible rubes easily manipulated through fear. 0.99
00:23:30.100 And the other people who refuse to vote for him, he has such disdain for them because they can see right through his agenda.
00:23:36.940 I've never really seen somebody who really, truly despises the people he's supposed to be, I don't know, in charge of, caring for.
00:23:50.280 And I really don't want a government that cares for me.
00:23:52.680 But I don't want them to harm me either.
00:23:55.680 And I just – I truly feel like he hates Canadians.
00:24:00.700 I feel the same.
00:24:02.180 And I think that's a general feel when you're dealing with the Laurentian elite there.
00:24:08.480 They think that they are somehow better than everyone else.
00:24:10.880 And it's Canada's version of royalty, I suppose, and sort of like high society.
00:24:17.340 And they generally think less of Alberta.
00:24:21.280 They think that they're – it's not – and he's chauvinistic.
00:24:25.180 I mean, you want to talk about a guy who hates women.
00:24:27.440 Well, God, I mean, I mean, like any strong woman that has gone against him, he has done everything.
00:24:34.120 And they demoralize him.
00:24:35.760 And our premier, you know, Danielle Smith, I mean, like, I mean, the things they say about her and they try to demean her.
00:24:42.140 And it's just anyone that's a female that opposes him or stands up to him, you know, it's – they end up paying a big price. 0.93
00:24:52.300 And yeah, exactly.
00:24:55.480 So it's time to stand up to him and protect our rights and get our country back.
00:25:00.720 I mean, look, Canada could be the most powerful, richest country in the world if we had better leadership.
00:25:07.700 And if we had leadership that had a plan to grow our economy, to build it, you know what I mean, to get our resources to market, to, you know, put money into our military.
00:25:17.660 We – it's kind of sad what we've become, you know, and yeah, I think we need to seriously –
00:25:26.660 Yeah.
00:25:29.220 Yeah, it feels like society is falling into decay all around me.
00:25:33.580 And, you know, you look at the state of our cities with the opioid crisis that the liberals seem to think the answer for is just more opioids.
00:25:43.840 Catch and release bail, which is driving up crime.
00:25:46.740 You know, unfettered immigration, which is, you know, pricing people out of the housing market, including immigrants who are already here. 1.00
00:25:52.840 And then we have the inflationary crisis exacerbated by the carbon tax.
00:25:58.560 They're blocking our resource projects.
00:26:00.980 Our military is in disrepair.
00:26:03.880 Free speech is dying in this country.
00:26:08.140 It feels dystopian.
00:26:11.600 It feels like we were – we just were standing here and then all of a sudden we turned into some North Korean adjacent hellscape. 1.00
00:26:23.200 We're not quite there yet, but it's happening.
00:26:26.660 And if we don't fight crime and we don't, you know, deal with our issues and get to the issues that matter, you know what I mean, build our country, get people jobs, protect the citizens, you know.
00:26:41.800 We're in trouble.
00:26:42.720 And, I mean, even the notion, like, if you look in Ontario right now, they're talking about all this, like, they want people to live in low-income housing their whole lives and then go into seniors' low-income housing, which means they don't own a home, which means they have no net worth.
00:26:53.980 They can't ever do anything.
00:26:55.380 They live paycheck to paycheck, whether it's universal income or not.
00:26:59.180 And it's like the entire Canadian dream of having a better future and living your best life, whatever you choose to do, it's gone.
00:27:06.840 Yeah, and the sake of it, they give you made.
00:27:10.220 There you go.
00:27:11.060 Yeah.
00:27:11.800 So, I mean, we need to seriously—I don't know what we need to do, but what we need to do—here's what I'm going to do.
00:27:19.840 I'm going to double down on my advocacy.
00:27:21.700 I'm going to tell Charlie Angus to shove my magazine right up his ass, and I'm going to go take my bus there and honk my horn, sell more T-shirts.
00:27:30.040 I'm going to get out there and defend the oil and gas industry like I've never defended it before, and I'm not going to be intimidated by Justin Schroeder or any of them because I can't.
00:27:39.720 What a great way to leave the interview, Robbie.
00:27:44.180 Thanks so much, as I always say, for sticking up for families just like mine and thousands of other families just like mine all across this country.
00:27:51.800 We're happy to have you in our corner standing up for our rights to have a job and pursue the Canadian dream.
00:27:59.140 So, I appreciate you so much, and we'll have you back on again very soon.
00:28:03.520 Thank you.
00:28:03.880 It's always a pleasure.
00:28:04.580 Thank you.
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00:29:54.740 Now, my letter this week actually is from the Rumble comments.
00:29:59.640 So, please, leave a comment over there.
00:30:03.280 YouTube, Rumble, I read them.
00:30:05.260 Sometimes you people are saying crazy things.
00:30:07.740 But I read them anyway.
00:30:10.460 And it's on my show with William Diaz Bertayom on a similar topic to this week's.
00:30:17.140 And I wanted to talk to, like, a younger person about Charlie Angus' crazy comments about whether or not that would, you know, intimidate them into being silenced or what they thought about that.
00:30:28.020 And today I wanted to talk to one of the, as they say, OGs of oil sands activism, my friend Robbie Picard.
00:30:35.940 And some of you may recognize William from his incredible work for us here at Rebel News.
00:30:41.560 When he lived in Ottawa, he struck fear in the hearts of liberal politicians, making it unsafe for them to wander the streets of the nation's capital without a skeptical journalist asking them some tough questions.
00:30:55.540 And William was great at that.
00:30:58.140 You know, I'm sure you've seen some of his happy little walk and talks with uncomfortable politicians on the street.
00:31:03.600 He did great work.
00:31:04.600 Then he moved to Alberta, fell in love with Alberta, and decided that he's going to fight for Alberta jobs through his new career in oil and gas advocacy.
00:31:13.220 So I wish him the best of luck.
00:31:14.520 And a lot of you had a lot to say on Rumble about William and Charlie Angus and this desire to shut up anybody who might be telling the truth, contrary to the liberal NDP government agenda.
00:31:29.900 And today's comment comes to us from Woofious, who says, speaking of criminalizing oil and gas, I take it that the NDP and their supporters have removed their gas-fired furnaces and switched to wind and solar to stay warm in midwinter.
00:31:44.500 Yeah, as Robbie pointed out, Charlie Angus has a heck of a commute to work and back, greater than most of us.
00:31:53.320 I mean, my commute is just down the stairs to my little studio in the basement.
00:31:58.100 But he would call me a climate criminal because I am a farmer and my family works in oil and gas.
00:32:03.500 So I'm the climate criminal with my itty-bitty commute, but he is the warrior for the environment with his flights back and forth to the office.
00:32:16.660 Yeah, these people are just a bunch of hypocrites.
00:32:18.960 As we saw with my friend David Menzies, when he ran into the environment minister out on the street and followed him back to his vehicle in the interest of journalism and discovered that it was not a fully electric vehicle the way he would like the rest of us to drive.
00:32:33.980 So, you know, obviously, these people are hypocrites and the hypocrisy, it starts at the top, as they say, a fish rots from the head down.
00:32:43.280 There is no more climate hypocrite than Justin Trudeau and his use of the Challenger jets like the family minivan.
00:32:55.340 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:32:57.240 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:32:58.320 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
00:33:01.260 And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:33:13.280 I'll see everybody back here in the same time.