Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trudeau's separation a private affair – until public dollars are involved

00:00:00.000 i think i had documents which proved marital discord in the trudeau household in my hands

00:00:20.380 for about four weeks then robbie picard from oil sand strong joins me to talk about the phase out

00:00:25.760 of the oil and gas sector under justin trudeau's liberals it's august 2nd 2022 i'm sheila gun reed

00:00:32.760 but you're watching the ezra levant show

00:00:34.800 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:00:41.460 well big news that i think most astute political watchers knew was coming at some

00:00:55.580 point however i didn't think it would happen while he was still in the prime minister's office

00:00:59.480 but here we are justin trudeau has announced his separation from his wife sophie gregoire trudeau

00:01:05.080 here's the statement from the prime minister's office and naturally the social media prime

00:01:09.320 minister also made the announcement on his instagram which is so perfectly trudeau 2023

00:01:15.660 it's weird and off-putting but here's the pmo statement statement from the prime minister's

00:01:20.980 office today the prime minister and sophie gregoire trudeau provided an update on their

00:01:25.320 relationship sophie and the prime minister have signed a legal separation agreement they have

00:01:29.780 worked to ensure that all legal and ethical steps with regards to their decision to separate have been

00:01:35.520 taken and will continue to do so moving forward they remain a close family and sophie and the prime

00:01:42.700 minister are focused on raising their kids in a safe loving and collaborative environment both

00:01:46.940 parents will be a constant presence in their children's lives and canadians can expect to often

00:01:51.520 see the family together the family will be together on vacation beginning next week for the well-being

00:01:57.800 of the family we ask that you respect their privacy now if you've been paying attention you know the

00:02:03.000 trudeaus have been living apart i think for quite a while trudeau's wife and children have largely spent

00:02:08.040 much of their recent time over the last few years at the summer house of harrington lake

00:02:12.220 while trudeau has been largely holed up in rito cottage the couple's lack of contact with each

00:02:18.340 other was glaringly evident when sophie first brought covid home from a trip to england early

00:02:24.420 in the pandemic but trudeau didn't catch it from her and you would think a recently returned wife 0.64

00:02:30.000 to the loving arms of her husband would have given him this apparently highly contagious disease

00:02:35.500 and then when trudeau did eventually catch covid sophie was already somewhere else where she

00:02:43.040 wouldn't be in contact with her husband to re-contract the disease it was all just sort of weird if you

00:02:50.360 were paying attention now let me just stop right here i want to say the dissolution of any marriage

00:02:56.420 is an absolute tragedy even the dissolutions of the marriages of my political enemies particularly

00:03:01.980 because there are children involved i have to tell you that despite my glaring differences with the

00:03:09.020 trudeaus of course i always always cheer for intact families as the building block of a sane society i

00:03:17.920 hate seeing this although it confirms a lot of my suspicions but still this is objectively awful and it

00:03:25.100 changes the worlds of three innocent children who did not ask for these people to be their parents

00:03:31.460 and these children have done nothing wrong and we should remember that when we are talking about

00:03:37.340 the trudeaus marriage i realized something however in the news of the prime minister's separation from

00:03:43.900 his wife as it broke this morning i think i had evidence of this in my hands for about four weeks

00:03:49.080 i just really didn't know what i had at the time and i didn't have now the context of what i had

00:03:56.900 let me tell you what i did i asked for the flight manifest for the prime minister's vip travel

00:04:02.620 associated with the king's coronation ceremonies in the uk back in may of 2023 if you donate to a

00:04:09.380 website rebelinvestigates.com you helped me get access to these records and many other access to

00:04:16.160 information records we rely on your support we don't get any money from justin trudeau so thank you

00:04:20.700 for making today's monologue possible if you donate there now at the time i just wanted to know how big

00:04:26.040 the entourage was that canadian taxpayers were footing the bill for now on the department of

00:04:33.280 national defense's manifest which would cover the prime minister's challenger jet i could not see

00:04:41.200 sophie trudeau on his flights sophie must have traveled there separately because we know that she

00:04:48.300 was in the uk for the coronation i just know she didn't travel with her husband on that challenger

00:04:53.300 i thought it was odd and of course a poor use of tax dollars but now hindsight being 2020 it was

00:04:59.040 indicative of something tragic unfolding in the trudeau family even more strangely on the manifest we can

00:05:05.980 see that the nanny for the trudeau family sarah clark she was on the flight home with justin trudeau

00:05:11.140 now she wasn't on the flight over i'm just going to assume that sarah clark flew over to the uk with

00:05:18.860 sophie on whatever flight she took one might wonder why trudeau would need a nanny on a flight when his 1.00

00:05:24.020 kids weren't on the flight with him because they weren't they were not on the return flight manifest i

00:05:30.020 can see documentary evidence of that at the time i want to reiterate i just thought this was all

00:05:36.680 sort of bizarre maybe the trudeaus had gotten into a fight it happens maybe sophie went early or

00:05:44.860 stayed later maybe the couple's schedules just didn't align maybe they didn't care about taxpayer

00:05:50.540 dollars i don't know it could have been a combination of many many things and i was just

00:05:54.600 left to speculate at the time but in the light of today's news a nanny on justin trudeau's flight with

00:06:00.680 no sophie or no kids what are we to think now and i want to tell you a divorce or separation is

00:06:09.220 it's really a private matter it's really none of our business except insofar as justin trudeau made

00:06:15.860 an announcement today sophie trudeau has really been out of the spotlight for years in fact she's

00:06:21.560 had very little public role whatsoever and i'm not sure i mind all that much when she is in public

00:06:29.060 she's you know kind of embarrassing remember her weird warbling that one time some people doubt

00:06:38.580 that little angels can fly and some people fight without knowing why

00:06:51.220 some people live without seeing the light

00:06:59.520 some people live oh no no no no but not quite and i know that good will prevail and i could conquer the

00:07:12.560 world with all the love that i feel when you smile back at me when you smile back at me

00:07:24.560 when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile

00:07:47.580 i love you my child but it is legitimate to ask if like the cheater john torrey the former mayor

00:08:00.400 of toronto who had an affair with an underling while his city was locked down but he had sent

00:08:04.320 his wife to the free unlockdown state of florida trudeau was flying around his kid's nanny on

00:08:09.960 taxpayer dollars when there were no kids with him to nanny at all and i can see in the records

00:08:17.000 there were no kids to nanny this is a question in the public domain because now it touches

00:08:22.680 on public dollars and i think the public deserves some clarity because while and i reiterate someone

00:08:30.900 else's marital strife is their own business and it kind of grosses me out to know about it because it

00:08:36.180 feels voyeuristic and creepy i also don't want to have to pay for it stay with us robbie picard from

00:08:43.540 oil sand strong joins us after the break

00:08:46.000 imagine you are in a federal industry and with the stroke of a pen the feds have decided to outlaw

00:09:05.260 what you do for a living and the money that you generate into the canadian economy well i think

00:09:10.580 that's what it feels like to be an oil patch ceo right now and to be someone who works in the oil

00:09:15.960 patch and yet when environment minister at the time stephen gilbeau was pushing his net zero green

00:09:25.480 transition plan two weeks ago he refused to meet with oil patch ceos to explain himself and what he

00:09:33.620 wants to do to the entire energy sector it's crazy i think it's a slap in the face and joining me now

00:09:40.680 is somebody who's been a staunch advocate for people who work within the oil and gas sector and

00:09:45.620 for canada's oil and gas on the international market uh my friend robbie picard founder of oil

00:09:53.880 sand strong he joins me now from fort mcmurray robbie thanks for coming on the show what do you think

00:09:58.500 about this uh stephen gilbeau refusing to meet with the oil patch ceos now gilbeau said that he

00:10:04.560 would rather meet with people that he doesn't normally get to meet with i guess like environmentalist

00:10:10.880 organizations um but but what do you think about this refusal to explain himself to the people whose

00:10:16.780 industries he plans to destroy i i think it shows you where his mind at from his past history from his

00:10:24.160 past activism like you know he's the guy that uh you know put solar panels on ralph klein's home or

00:10:30.440 attempted to uh i i think it's very scary but i'm not surprised it's a sign of the times i mean

00:10:35.620 they don't want our industry to be successful they want to shut it down there's a rush to shut it down

00:10:41.580 and um it's terrifying and i i truly hope that we have a proper change of government right now because

00:10:47.620 that the damage that trudeau is doing to us um i don't think people understand how severe it is i

00:10:54.400 mean it candidly you know i'm trying to be very hopeful about fort mcmurray but

00:10:58.760 if it's almost like they've put a kind of like a a countdown clock on our entire economy in our entire

00:11:06.820 future and it's very scary and um i'm i'm worried i'm worried about our future um i i think that he

00:11:15.520 should be ashamed of himself that he wouldn't meet with any of i mean when you're the environmental

00:11:20.120 minister you're supposed to meet with everybody and it was so it's about making the environment

00:11:24.480 better i do not believe shutting down oil and gas is going to make the world a better place it's

00:11:30.060 going to make other countries richer and canada poorer what's it like in fort mcmurray what's the

00:11:38.240 sense in fort mcmurray because you know i think it's a surprise to nobody my husband works in oil

00:11:43.660 and gas and we're in a bit of a boom right now i think owing some of it to frankly the war in

00:11:51.040 ukraine that sort of always drives up the price of commodities like oil and gas but things finally

00:11:57.060 after a very long time are picking back up in the oil patch we're seeing mass hirings instead of mass

00:12:04.080 layoffs things have been hopeful especially with premier daniel smith's advocacy for canadian oil and gas

00:12:11.920 and then all of a sudden we have the feds just throwing this wet blanket over top of the industry

00:12:17.780 what's it like in fort mcmurray honestly like right now i'm not i'm not hearing about a lot of job

00:12:24.420 hires i mean i know that if you're in heavy equipment or an operator they're pretty short in that

00:12:28.740 department but um candidly i mean you're hearing about a lot of layoffs um you know especially at

00:12:33.760 suncorp right now so but i mean i i don't i don't know that could just be with the with some

00:12:39.060 decisions they've made internally to do some you know shifting that now they've kind of really taken

00:12:43.560 over syncrude uh but the the morale in our community sucks like it feels really kind of bad

00:12:51.840 and and uh there's a lot of empty buildings there's not a lot of investment i mean we have we might be

00:12:58.260 getting a super walmart but i think our community um has been hit with two things there's a lot of fly

00:13:06.820 and fly out people live in camps we've got like 30 000 people live in camps um and we are for

00:13:13.540 whatever reason the pariah of all things bad in the world so i do believe it's booming a little bit

00:13:20.620 but the feeling isn't overly optimistic right now i mean there's there's there's lots of houses on the

00:13:26.080 market the prices are dropping i think this interest rate hike has really hurt a lot of people

00:13:32.660 um i i think that that like the decisions that trudeau has made and the comments he's made it's

00:13:39.960 just really bad but i mean i want to be hopeful sheila but it's not always easy to be hopeful like

00:13:45.740 for what fort mcmurray has contributed to the rest of the country alberta and everywhere else it

00:13:53.420 we should have a lot more than we do right now and that part is a little bit uh kind of scary

00:13:59.400 yeah i mean you have to think about what these net zero policies and they say they want everything

00:14:05.880 to be net zero by 2050 that's really only you know 25 26 27 years out when you think about the time it

00:14:14.760 takes to build a major oil and gas facility it can take upwards of a decade and that's multi-billion

00:14:20.220 dollars of investment and that's just not going to happen here in canada with the sun setting on

00:14:29.380 the industry if the liberals have their way that money is not going to come to fort mcmurray is not

00:14:33.940 going to come to fort saskatchewan's upgrader alley it's going to go to places like north dakota west

00:14:39.740 texas kazakhstan nigeria places where it's safer to invest in the oil industry than in justin trudeau's

00:14:48.020 canada well and i think that's what he wanted and and uh i i think i think history like you know

00:14:55.220 people judge people by his history you can always make statements on that i don't i don't think

00:15:00.080 history is going to look very kindly on his effect on canada um and i think like the damage that you

00:15:06.240 know the damage that he's done to our industry i think will be paying for for a very long time

00:15:11.220 um you know for example example like if he would have decided to do something for lng and liquefied

00:15:17.940 natural gas and became a friend to germany a friend to japan that could have set our next generation up

00:15:25.120 for success but instead he said there was no business case for it yeah i think that that that

00:15:31.680 is the intention of the bigger plan it's just to you know just get the oil and gas industry to die a

00:15:38.640 slow death i i'm not really much of a conspiracy theorist but i do question so much of what's

00:15:45.780 going on right now and why it's going on and i i'm very worried um when it comes to fort mcmurray

00:15:52.000 like you know we should be the richest city in canada we should be booming we should have all this

00:15:57.340 amazing stuff and there's not a lot of new investment here right now and and i don't believe

00:16:02.520 it is lack of opportunity i i think it's just the the it are the way the government has basically

00:16:09.820 done the narration of our community that communities that rely on oil and gas are just going to be shut

00:16:15.300 down and i i i'm i'm worried because it's our morale and our future the house prices are dropping

00:16:22.500 interest rates of i mean so many people are upside down on their mortgages um you know there's only so

00:16:28.880 much people can take and then they break and that's sort of the feel right now i wish it was

00:16:32.860 optimistic i mean i do believe other parts of alberta are booming more than us but it just goes

00:16:38.100 to show you how the heart of the canada's energy industry isn't always the most loved yeah isn't that

00:16:44.540 the truth now i i want to pivot away from politicians who hate the oil and gas sector to politicians who

00:16:50.660 love the oil and gas sector and i think uh daniel smith our new premier is a true advocate for

00:16:57.740 canada's oil and gas sector in a way that we haven't seen in a very long time she has basically

00:17:03.140 obligated herself to fight with the feds anytime the feds encroach on provincial jurisdiction

00:17:09.900 particularly when it comes to energy and energy projects and energy project approvals um tell me

00:17:18.100 what do you think about daniel smith and her advocacy for the oil and gas sector i know that you had

00:17:22.860 discussed with her sort of as she was campaigning and before she even became premier the first time

00:17:27.720 around um uh what she would do for the oil and gas sector what do you think about what she's done so

00:17:33.480 far daniel smith i i think she's an amazing leader um i'm very impressed with the way she fights for

00:17:38.940 our community i stand by this she's one of my favorite politicians anytime i've met with her people

00:17:44.220 i've met with her she listens to them she's concerned and she's kept every promise she's ever made to

00:17:51.020 me and she's met with every person i've ever asked her to meet with so i i do believe she truly cares

00:17:56.840 um i hope people humanize her i hope that um they the conservatives you know learn from a lot of

00:18:07.520 their mistakes in the past um because i truly believe that their values are what alberta needs

00:18:12.800 right now and to fight for what alberta needs but um when it comes to the feds i mean i mean honestly i

00:18:19.800 mean they they have no respect for us they want us to shut our energy industry down uh even though

00:18:26.600 our energy industry carries them in their perfect recession proof lifestyle so it's quite terrifying

00:18:31.840 now before i let you go i want to ask you about what this means for indigenous reconciliation because

00:18:38.660 that's something the feds just can't seem to shut up about that they just keep talking about

00:18:42.800 indigenous reconciliation but the phase out of the oil and gas sector will directly affect the

00:18:48.180 indigenous population because i think there is no more an indigenous industry than the oil and gas

00:18:54.180 sector so you work very closely with the indigenous community in fort mcmurray you are indigenous yourself

00:18:59.320 tell me what what you're hearing in those communities they want the federal government to butt out when it

00:19:07.440 comes to getting in the way of oil and gas production in our region not just here british columbia as well

00:19:14.480 um and there's a lot of talk about the energy corridor the indigenous energy corridor which we're

00:19:20.080 working on right now um there's a lot of people that are disgusted that the way they shut down the

00:19:26.700 you know the they didn't support the keystone pipeline and then the there was the um the the gateway

00:19:34.700 the gateway pipeline that they shut down no no gateway pipeline so it's just honestly um

00:19:41.480 um i mean there's some hope i mean there's we're going to go to conference in a couple weeks i mean

00:19:46.360 i do i do feel like there is some hope but um i just think that our federal government if they

00:19:54.880 really believe in reconciliation and truly making up for the past um the energy industry is the best

00:20:01.280 way to do that the fastest way the most environmentally safe way um and uh they have they haven't been an

00:20:09.480 advocate for us in a long time so i'm hopeful but i'm i'm also coming from a place today that where

00:20:15.720 i'm i'm concerned that they don't seem to really care and they say one thing but their actions say

00:20:23.660 something else so i when it comes to advocating for alberta and my community justin trotto's probably

00:20:29.000 been the worst thing that's ever happened for us and now before i let you go robbie you basically

00:20:34.920 are up against the deep pockets of foreign funded uh green charities advocating for canada's industry

00:20:43.980 uh you do it largely on your own with you know you have a little tiny team around you but it's not

00:20:49.880 like tides or make way money or greenpeace money or um forest ethics or whatever they call themselves

00:20:56.780 these days you don't have that kind of money uh it's this is grassroots as it comes so tell me how

00:21:03.380 people support the work that you do and um how they can find out what you're doing next so please

00:21:08.560 go to oil sand strong um dot com and buy a couple hoodies that would really help out especially as i'm

00:21:15.140 on my way to go back and finish the bus tour the buses in sudbury right now and we're going to head

00:21:19.740 to ottawa next um and also if you can um you know participate in oil and gas world magazine at

00:21:26.620 oilandgasworld.ca um i interview a lot of different people and um if you can buy an ad or something that

00:21:33.600 definitely helps us out great robbie thanks so much for coming on the show and thank you so much

00:21:38.260 for working so hard to advocate for families just like mine okay thank you very much for having me as

00:21:42.740 well stay with us your letters to ezra read by me up after the break

00:21:47.500 well friends we've come to the letters portion of the show where we read your viewer feedback good

00:22:04.460 bad or indifferent uh we take it just the way we find it because we live and die on the support and

00:22:11.240 feedback of our viewers at home we don't have a sugar daddy named justin trudeau giving us a bunch of

00:22:15.680 money to create content and do the news that nobody cares about so we care what you have to say

00:22:22.180 because without you there is no rebel news now we've got some letters from gary and sherry

00:22:29.880 shouston says hey ezra if alberta did separate from canada i would sell everything here in ontario and

00:22:37.400 move there i won't do it now because i have my family business and property here but when push comes

00:22:42.780 to shove i'm out of here now i'm not sure if um alberta will ever truly separate um it's a fantasy

00:22:50.560 football sort of ideal for me because i feel that we're sort of culturally incompatible with

00:22:54.960 vast swaths of this country and we have been treated fairly poorly since we joined confederation in 1905

00:23:05.660 along with our friends and neighbors in saskatchewan and i think there are parts of british columbia that are

00:23:11.520 culturally compatible with us here in alberta i think most of the interior seems a little bit more

00:23:17.620 alberton and western in their thoughts than for example the lower mainland or vancouver island

00:23:22.880 but the reason i don't think at this point separation is a real possibility is our new premier daniel

00:23:31.940 smith is giving the separatist movement a lot of the things that it wanted without separation

00:23:38.060 a lot of people expressed separatist sentiment because they were frustrated with how they were

00:23:44.720 treated by ottawa but also how our so-called conservative politicians were reacting to that

00:23:51.800 treatment of ottawa jason kenney our former premier would send a series of strongly worded letters to

00:24:00.200 justin trudeau who i don't think normally reads things without pictures and strongly worded letters

00:24:07.340 were not enough they have never been enough and all it did was well frankly nothing and it never

00:24:13.940 stopped the feds from overreaching into provincial jurisdiction our new premier daniel smith has

00:24:18.780 basically legislated and obligated herself to fight with the feds on all matters in which the feds 0.98

00:24:27.900 overreach into provincial jurisdiction it's called the sovereignty act and it gives the sovereignty

00:24:33.660 movement a lot of the things that it wants from our premier without actually having to leave the

00:24:43.000 country because i think a lot of sovereigntists are reluctant sovereigntists they see it as

00:24:48.400 the last resort and a lot of sovereigntists love canada but they just never felt like canada loved

00:24:56.440 them back and maybe this is the way to save that relationship by the way might i encourage you to just

00:25:02.180 move out here anyway if you sold your property in ontario your dollars to buy new property here in

00:25:09.260 alberta would go a heck of a lot farther uh you've just got some wildly out of uh proportion property 1.00

00:25:17.780 prices in ontario i don't know how young people ever think about living the dream of homeownership there

00:25:23.580 let's keep going on last night's ezra levant monologue about what if deputy premier and finance minister

00:25:34.260 christia freeland is worse than justin trudeau wow ezra bold proposition nicole heck writes she's on 0.53

00:25:44.660 the wef board of trustees major conflict of interest yeah you better believe that uh if christia freeland

00:25:50.960 is operating as someone who is on the wef board of trustees is she putting canada first how do and

00:26:01.260 how do we even know that's the problem she might be but the conflict of interest means that we

00:26:07.980 might never know we're just supposed to take her at her word for it and i don't take any politician 1.00

00:26:12.300 of their word unacceptable and deplorable rights um freeland oozes condescension and smarminess when

00:26:21.400 she speaks she comes across as even more phony than trudeau uh yeah she she does doesn't she she 0.92

00:26:30.220 talks to canadians as though she were speaking to a group of kindergartners which is insulting to our 0.85

00:26:36.320 our intelligence um and it is it's just so uh sickly sweet like she has this mother canada feel 0.94

00:26:50.660 about her like i'm just doing these things for your own good and you people are just too immature

00:26:55.820 to realize why i'm seizing your bank accounts for your own good i don't know she she very well could 1.00

00:27:02.100 be worse than justin trudeau i'm not sure depends on the bar by which you measure it doesn't it

00:27:07.480 well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in uh i think ezra's back

00:27:13.440 hosting the show tomorrow thanks for everybody's patience with me including the production team in

00:27:18.760 toronto and across the country viewers may or may not know but i did have some technical difficulties

00:27:24.500 today that through the magic of television you may never be aware of so thank you for that and

00:27:30.460 thank you for the hard-working team behind the scenes and as ezra levant always says keep fighting for

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Rebel News Podcast - August 02, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trudeau's separation a private affair – until public dollars are involved

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