Rebel News Podcast - January 23, 2025


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trudeau's successor will be another WEF puppet


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What do Rebel News viewers think about the Liberal Candidates in the upcoming leadership race? What do they think about Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney's chances of winning the next election? What do you think about their chances?

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00:00:00.000 What do Rebel News viewers think about the liberal leadership race?
00:00:19.200 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000 I should tell you today's show is pre-recorded and there's a reason for that.
00:00:42.860 If you are watching this, I am currently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
00:00:51.860 Yes, friends, I am finally going to the headwaters of the bad progressive ideas that have flowed
00:01:00.200 directly into our country over the last nine and a half years.
00:01:04.880 When Klaus Schwab said he penetrated cabinets around the world, boy, did he ever give it
00:01:11.120 to us because we had Justin Trudeau, who is basically a puppet of brighter people, although
00:01:17.960 he is just a empty progressive shell, you can put whatever progressive idea inside of
00:01:23.180 him and he would just barf it out the other side, you know, multiculturalism, post-nationalism,
00:01:30.740 feminism, you know, all that stuff. 1.00
00:01:34.620 That was Justin Trudeau, but all those ideas, they weren't his.
00:01:37.560 Do you think he has any brain cells to rub together to create a bad idea?
00:01:41.900 He just soaks up other people's like a sponge and by and large, the other people's ideas
00:01:48.220 came from the World Economic Forum.
00:01:49.980 We know that Chrystia Freeland, who was for so long Justin Trudeau's right-hand woman while
00:01:56.520 she's on the board of directors at the World Economic Forum and then Mark Carney also vying
00:02:03.300 to replace Justin Trudeau.
00:02:04.640 He was a long-time attendee at the World Economic Forum.
00:02:11.920 He is a bankster with the Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Goldman Sachs, and then he
00:02:19.440 went on to the United Nations where he engaged in debanking large-scale energy projects.
00:02:25.520 So there's that.
00:02:27.560 Oh, he's also been Justin Trudeau's chief advisor on his COVID overspending and then more
00:02:34.180 recently his just general economic overspending, which has caused an inflationary crisis here
00:02:41.500 in Canada.
00:02:42.460 So that's where I am.
00:02:44.820 But because I am gone and I owe our viewers a show every single week, it's not your problem
00:02:53.460 I'm gone.
00:02:54.200 I put a call out asking you guys what you thought.
00:02:56.880 So you sent me a pile of emails and I thought I'd go through them with you today.
00:03:04.180 Sound good?
00:03:05.080 Let's get right into it.
00:03:07.240 All right.
00:03:09.120 First one from Patrick Dennis L. Sears.
00:03:12.720 So Sheila, I believe I posted on the day that Trudeau removed Freeland from cabinet that
00:03:17.060 it was all a setup to enable Freeland to play the victim and thus begin her trail to the 0.97
00:03:22.280 liberal leadership.
00:03:23.460 Oh, you think Trudeau is playing 3D chess or 4D chess?
00:03:27.160 I don't know.
00:03:28.580 I don't know.
00:03:30.220 Again, I don't think he's that smart and she, although I think she might be that cunning.
00:03:36.720 I also, but the same time as he said he was going to step down with crocodilian tears,
00:03:42.440 the husband and fellow leftist Mark Carney would also enter the race.
00:03:48.980 That Freeland is far more intelligent than Carney is not even debatable.
00:03:52.200 I don't think that, but Carney has the deep staters behind him.
00:03:57.180 Having said that, I think Freeland will come out on top.
00:03:59.500 Do you?
00:04:00.660 Of course, they and the NDP will play the boogeyman card of Trump already happening to
00:04:06.360 persuade Eastern voters who share a dislike for anything American and they'll eat it up,
00:04:11.020 which in the general election will cause Polly of some grief, but he will still win from
00:04:15.500 your lips to God's ears.
00:04:16.900 Keep up the good reported.
00:04:18.840 Sheila, only Rebel News and the Western Standard are worthy of a reader's time.
00:04:21.920 Well, thank you so much.
00:04:23.040 Perhaps the Toronto Sun on given days.
00:04:25.040 Look, we love Joe Warmington.
00:04:27.800 And then Patrick sends me his email.
00:04:32.680 Lauren J. Fortune says, I have a very bad feeling that Carney will win the election.
00:04:37.420 Do you think?
00:04:38.640 I don't know.
00:04:39.980 I don't know.
00:04:41.260 I think it comes down to conservative messaging.
00:04:44.020 I hope I'm wrong, but I live in Toronto.
00:04:45.960 I'm surrounded by woke communists.
00:04:48.020 Take care of Lauren.
00:04:49.180 I feel for you.
00:04:51.040 I'm not sure, though, because of all the places in this country hit by the affordability
00:04:55.780 crisis, the worst, I think, would be Vancouver and Toronto.
00:05:00.440 You can't get a shanty in Toronto for the cost of my entire farm here in Alberta.
00:05:09.400 It's astounding.
00:05:10.220 I don't know how young people make a go of it in Toronto.
00:05:13.920 I don't know how young people think that they are going to have a family, maybe have
00:05:19.600 a vacation, have a car in Toronto.
00:05:23.180 I just, I don't know how it's done.
00:05:25.160 And then have a little bit of money left over for savings or fun.
00:05:28.960 I just don't know.
00:05:30.200 So I think the conservatives must communicate to the rest of the country those bad ideas
00:05:40.580 that Trudeau forced upon us that led to our affordability crisis, you know, the carbon
00:05:46.840 tax, overspending, driving inflation, driving our dollar down, not able to get pipelines
00:05:53.500 built, which robs the government of revenue, all those things.
00:06:00.100 Oh, yeah.
00:06:00.500 And the immigration crisis that has driven down wages and up the cost of housing and puts 0.85
00:06:08.080 a burden on our health care system.
00:06:09.740 Those were Mark Carney's ideas.
00:06:13.000 Those were Chrystia Freeland's ideas by way of Mark Carney.
00:06:16.640 So they have to do a really good job of reminding people that Mark Carney is not different.
00:06:24.860 In fact, he's the brain trust that got us into these problems.
00:06:29.500 And how is he to fix them?
00:06:32.520 Right?
00:06:32.840 Like there's, he's got the Kamala Harris problem. 1.00
00:06:36.380 How do you be the person to fix the damage done to the country if you're the person who
00:06:42.420 did it?
00:06:44.260 Right?
00:06:44.820 So, uh, I hope you're wrong.
00:06:49.320 I think the conservatives have already started communicating that, you know, that carbon tax
00:06:53.140 that's crushing you, that's Carney's.
00:06:57.440 You know, the overspending that is driving up inflation and, uh, driving down the dollar?
00:07:02.980 Carney.
00:07:05.400 Uh, Val says, I don't believe any of the liberals will be able to fix Canada's issues.
00:07:10.300 I believe all of the liberals played a major part in this mess we're in.
00:07:14.660 We need to clear the house.
00:07:15.920 Yes, exactly.
00:07:16.860 And I think Canadian voters feel that way too.
00:07:19.680 I think at the end of the day, it, again, it's the same issue in Canada as was in the
00:07:26.080 United States in the election we just watched.
00:07:27.840 Uh, are you better off today than you were nine years ago or four years ago or 2021?
00:07:37.600 Uh, and I think Canadians by and large are not, you know, there are very few well-connected
00:07:44.260 people and government employees could be better off.
00:07:47.560 But the rest of us who pay for those people, we're not, uh, our dollar is collapsing.
00:07:55.740 We're in tariff and trade wars because nobody knows how to behave themselves and act diplomatically
00:08:01.540 with the incoming American administration.
00:08:04.660 They're just all prickly and fighty.
00:08:06.760 Um, apparently it's patriotism to burn down your economy.
00:08:10.260 That's what they're telling Alberta.
00:08:11.680 Even though we provide roughly 550,000 jobs to the rest of the country, the liberals are
00:08:19.580 doing that.
00:08:20.600 And I think there's, I don't think the liberals can get around that problem.
00:08:26.840 Um, you did this to us.
00:08:29.560 You should not be allowed to fix it.
00:08:32.000 Uh, Marie says, none of Trudeau's clowns, oops, my apologies, clones will make any difference.
00:08:39.680 I don't think you're sincere in your apology.
00:08:42.220 They will only continue on with Trudeau's plans.
00:08:45.080 They are a selfish, condescending government.
00:08:47.720 You better believe that.
00:08:48.620 Alberta's finding that out right now.
00:08:50.360 We need an election ASAP and elect the conservatives in order to save this country, which continues
00:08:55.280 to go downhill at the, at a faster rate every day.
00:09:00.640 This gong show is in office.
00:09:02.000 Thank you.
00:09:02.980 Yeah, I, I, I believe that too.
00:09:05.080 I think, especially with this tariff war coming in the United, from the United States, we have
00:09:12.700 somebody who is thinking he should be the point man for the issue, Justin Trudeau, who
00:09:21.020 is not running again in the next election, has resigned as a prime minister, but we're
00:09:30.020 in the middle of a long goodbye.
00:09:31.320 And the liberals are in the middle of a leadership race.
00:09:34.360 Nobody has a mandate to deal with Trump.
00:09:37.580 Could we call an election?
00:09:39.100 Again, the liberals can sort out their BS after.
00:09:42.620 That's not their issues with their leadership.
00:09:46.160 That's not the country's problem.
00:09:47.960 And the country is headed for crisis as I'm recording this in three days, because I'm recording
00:09:54.780 this on the 17th.
00:09:57.180 All right.
00:09:57.980 Bill says, the Liberal Party has put Canada on hold while they try to reorganize.
00:10:06.500 They should be completely removed from the political landscape in Canada.
00:10:09.960 How does our governing documents allow this?
00:10:13.620 Well, it is a quirk of the parliamentary democracy system that it, by default, the leader
00:10:21.560 of the party with the most seats is the prime minister.
00:10:26.320 And that person actually doesn't even have to be an MP.
00:10:29.780 Trudeau is quick to state we have no national identity.
00:10:32.160 Exactly.
00:10:33.300 So why is he so concerned about Donald J. Trump fixing this train wreck?
00:10:37.000 They are pretty quick to steer away from the illegals coming across the U.S. border with 1.00
00:10:40.280 the thoughts of terrorism.
00:10:41.700 Trudeau and the liberals should be sued for every nickel they have coerced from this country
00:10:45.400 and be tried for crimes against humanity.
00:10:47.840 You know what?
00:10:48.160 I think the best we can do is just unelect them.
00:10:49.960 And not let these people near the levers of power ever again.
00:10:55.500 Now, I'm an Albertan.
00:10:57.880 We will never let them near the levers of power if we have our way.
00:11:03.820 But the way things work, it's not up to us.
00:11:07.120 I find it fascinating, however, that the rest of the country is just figuring out how unfair
00:11:12.260 the Westminster parliamentary democracy system can be.
00:11:17.300 Albertans have known this for a long time.
00:11:18.960 For us, so often the election is over by the time the votes are cast in Toronto.
00:11:25.340 We can vote conservative.
00:11:27.340 So deeply blue that we cannot vote conservative any harder.
00:11:31.960 Some of our writings are coming back like 80% conservative.
00:11:34.500 And we still get saddled from, you know, Winnipeg west to the lower mainland of British Columbia.
00:11:45.680 We're blue.
00:11:46.440 But we are governed by Liberals.
00:11:52.680 And that's a quirk of the parliamentary system that we have been forced to live with for a very long time.
00:11:59.260 And now this is another quirk of our system.
00:12:03.420 All right.
00:12:03.960 Let's keep going.
00:12:04.680 Rayanne says, I want an election right now and will not be voting for any of the clowns in the liberal circus.
00:12:10.680 I hope a lot of people feel the same way.
00:12:15.980 Terry says, I know there are some diehard Liberals that will support another leader.
00:12:19.680 I prefer to get the Liberals out of power as they will continue with Trudeau's policies.
00:12:23.300 Yeah.
00:12:23.600 And, you know, like look at the top contenders.
00:12:26.100 I forgot to mention Frank Bayless right off the top.
00:12:29.160 I don't know how much of a contender he is, but he will have no problem coming up with the $350,000 as his entrance fee into the leadership race.
00:12:41.560 Why?
00:12:42.980 Well, it has a little something to do with the quarter of a billion dollars worth of ventilator contracts he got.
00:12:50.160 Untendered from the Canadian government. 0.63
00:12:52.220 Frank Bayless was an MP for the Liberals up until 2019.
00:12:56.900 Pandemic hits.
00:12:57.860 2020.
00:12:58.300 Guess who's got a medical supply company?
00:13:01.640 Guess who gets tasked to make ventilators?
00:13:05.180 Bayless Medical.
00:13:06.600 Guess who's making never tested, never approved ventilators?
00:13:11.700 Frank Bayless.
00:13:13.760 And the Bayless ventilators were about $10,000 more a pop than other ventilators.
00:13:20.720 And guess whose ventilators got sold for scrap at $6 a pop.
00:13:25.620 So $23,000, $24,000 they cost each.
00:13:29.580 They were sold for scrap.
00:13:31.020 Never used.
00:13:31.740 About 900,000 of them were shipped to Ukraine as surplus.
00:13:35.920 Just like, here's a donation.
00:13:37.400 You might need these.
00:13:38.320 Good luck trying to use them.
00:13:39.480 They're untested.
00:13:40.260 Who knows if they work?
00:13:41.840 And in the middle of this, for unused ventilators, Bayless Medical got a $4 million contract for maintenance on ventilators that were actually never used.
00:13:51.800 So it's a cute little thing he did.
00:13:53.560 He is, he was the first one in.
00:13:56.880 Again, because he obviously had no problem coming up with the money.
00:13:59.960 He's got lots of ours.
00:14:01.020 And then Karina Gould is set to announce.
00:14:04.020 So, you know, the woman who weaponized the Digital Citizen Initiative to fund people to malign the critics of Justin Trudeau called the Freedom Convoy far right while she's having her picture taken with Yaroslav Hanka, a real life geriatric Nazi. 0.61
00:14:25.100 In the host of Commons.
00:14:26.460 Can you imagine the gall of that woman? 1.00
00:14:27.680 And then we'll have Chrystia Freeland, who assaults journalists and just burned through our money like it was going out of style and cackled as she froze the bank accounts of protesters, peaceful dissidents in their own nation's capital. 1.00
00:14:47.760 And then we'll have Mark Carney, the guy who debanks energy projects for funsies.
00:14:54.360 Uh, Justin Trudeau's chief advisor on COVID, the guy who called the Freedom Convoy seditionists and who wanted to track down the money of the Freedom Convoy.
00:15:06.580 And then Chrystia Freeland did that. 0.98
00:15:08.880 If you're wondering where the bad ideas come from, he called them seditionists and then said to follow the money.
00:15:14.420 So she invokes a counterterrorism law, a sedition law, martial law, the Emergencies Act, and freezes the bank accounts. 0.56
00:15:24.340 See how that happened there?
00:15:26.100 And he more recently has been Justin Trudeau's advisor on economics.
00:15:32.780 Well, you saw the fall economic statement, how terrible it was.
00:15:37.020 That was him.
00:15:37.660 Yeah, that was him.
00:15:39.500 Now he's the guy to fix things?
00:15:41.460 Anyway, uh, yeah, I don't think, so all that is to say, if you are dissatisfied with the cronyism of procurement contracts going to the likes of McKinsey, Bayless, Randy Boasino's GHI arrived scam,
00:16:04.080 and on and on and on and on and on and on, uh, the green slush fund.
00:16:08.300 Well, then Bayless is your man.
00:16:10.260 Uh, he, if you, if you want more of that, sorry, I should say, if you're a liberal and you want more of that, Bayless is your guy, right?
00:16:16.500 Cause he, he's the beneficiary of that too.
00:16:19.360 I mean, who's going to endorse him?
00:16:21.740 Randy Boasino?
00:16:22.480 Actually, I think he's endorsing Freeland.
00:16:25.380 There's an endorsement you want.
00:16:26.740 Um, and then, uh, there's Chrystia Freeland, who has been Justin Trudeau's right-hand woman, whose son's godfather is Mark Carney.
00:16:40.040 And then there's Mark Carney, who advised Trudeau on the two largest issues in the last five years and advised him to mishandle them.
00:16:49.880 Oh, and he's running as an outsider.
00:16:55.840 He's running as an outsider.
00:16:57.320 Can you imagine the call?
00:16:58.860 Louise sends kind words.
00:17:00.100 She says, uh, you're the best.
00:17:01.360 God bless.
00:17:02.320 Keith says, stupid is as stupid does.
00:17:06.940 Uh, the budget will balance itself.
00:17:09.520 Trudeau's famous phrase must be music to the genius confidants,
00:17:13.140 Gerald Butts, Chrystia Freeland, and the amazing book and tax balancer Mark Carney.
00:17:21.620 Spending more than all the other prime ministers combined and overpopulating this country with immigrants has been their greatest achievement. 1.00
00:17:30.780 He and the rest of his entourage would be well advised to hang up their coats and say goodbye to their authoritarian regime,
00:17:36.840 as nobody is buying their excuses for ruining this country and creating the disaster we are all living with right now.
00:17:42.840 Yeah, I forgot the Gerald Butts connection, too.
00:17:46.240 Gerald Butts works at Eurasia Group, who also gets, you know, untendered contracts from the federal government.
00:17:53.440 You know, Gerald Butts is Trudeau's best friend, and he was an advisor in the PMO.
00:17:58.720 You know who works at the Eurasia Group?
00:18:02.600 Mark Carney's wife, who is also friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, noted sex trafficker.
00:18:12.360 Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:18:13.280 Like, it is all so incestuous for these people to paint themselves as hope and change.
00:18:19.700 I mean, it's ridiculous.
00:18:21.280 They're the same.
00:18:23.240 As I said before, Trudeau's the empty vessel, and all these people poured their dumb ideas into him, and then he just did it.
00:18:29.420 And I guess, I guess if we, if the liberals choose Carney, they're just cutting out the middleman.
00:18:36.680 It's the only efficient thing they might have ever done.
00:18:40.480 Bob says, get rid of Trudeau and get rebel news on the TV.
00:18:44.960 I'll tell you why we're never going to be on the regular TV.
00:18:50.840 I know, because first of all, a lot of people don't consume TV there anymore.
00:18:54.960 Older people do.
00:18:55.940 I get that.
00:18:56.540 It's, that's why the demographic that watches Fox News is substantially older than those who watch us.
00:19:05.460 And I guess if you want to talk to the young people, because politics is downstream of the culture, and we want to change the culture.
00:19:13.220 People who change the culture are generally younger.
00:19:15.160 We need to talk to them where they get their news, and that is on the internet.
00:19:19.060 So, there's that.
00:19:19.880 And that is why Trudeau wanted to censor the internet, right?
00:19:23.400 Get that?
00:19:25.940 But, if we are on regular TV, we are subject to certain controls.
00:19:34.660 There are certain things that we cannot say.
00:19:37.420 And so, we, and it is very expensive to be on regular TV.
00:19:42.940 First of all, you'd have to have cable.
00:19:44.500 Well, everybody's got a phone, and most people have internet, but not everybody has cable.
00:19:49.680 I don't have cable.
00:19:51.340 I have internet.
00:19:52.420 I have Starlink.
00:19:53.120 Hi, I'm talking to you, thanks to Elon Musk.
00:19:55.960 And then I just stream everything.
00:19:59.160 So, it's just the free or cheaper way of doing things.
00:20:04.720 And if we were on regular TV, I think we would actually be in fewer people's homes.
00:20:09.780 It cost me $1.70 a liter, $7.60 a gallon for diesel.
00:20:18.220 I've been on pension for 28 years, and everybody wants money.
00:20:20.800 Wow, hope Trump gets things better.
00:20:22.580 If you, I don't know where you are, Bob, but if you are in the eastern part of this country,
00:20:34.520 so let's say Ontario and Quebec,
00:20:36.140 those gas prices, those diesel prices are going to go up if Justin Trudeau, the Liberals,
00:20:44.980 and for some ungodly reason, Rob Ford, Doug Ford, sorry, not Rob.
00:20:49.660 Rob's the good one.
00:20:50.380 Doug Ford gets his way.
00:20:51.400 Because they want Alberta to self-immolate, burn ourselves down to heat the rest of the country.
00:21:01.200 They want us to cut off oil exports to the United States to stand with Team Canada.
00:21:06.440 Well, the best thing we can do for Canada is to continue to sell oil and gas to the United States
00:21:10.540 at a reduced rate, but that's a whole other story,
00:21:13.340 because of the jobs and economic wealth that it generates,
00:21:17.660 not just here in Alberta, but for everybody.
00:21:19.360 Because if we want to survive these incoming Trump tariffs,
00:21:24.200 and you better believe they're coming, we need at least one sector that's working.
00:21:31.240 And we're just not willing to self-immolate
00:21:35.960 because Doug Ford wasn't cagey enough to go to Mar-a-Lago
00:21:41.840 and have Daniel Smith, who apparently has a very good relationship
00:21:45.180 with the incoming Trump administration, to broker a meeting.
00:21:49.360 He wasn't smart enough to do that.
00:21:51.020 Instead, he saddled up to Justin Chateau.
00:21:53.160 But my point is, if we cut off the oil and gas to the United States,
00:21:57.240 which we are never going to do, we'll see you in court,
00:21:59.580 that also cuts off Line 9 and Line 5,
00:22:03.920 which is how Quebec and Ontario get a share of their oil and gas,
00:22:09.500 because those go through the United States,
00:22:13.960 from Alberta, through the United States, and then back up to Ontario.
00:22:20.220 And so, if you cut off exports to the United States,
00:22:25.600 you don't get oil and gas.
00:22:27.040 This is the unintended consequences of their jingoistic version of patriotism.
00:22:34.060 I guess, you know what?
00:22:36.220 They were going to phase out our oil and gas anyway.
00:22:38.680 This is just another way for them to try to get it done.
00:22:41.200 But we're, like before, we're having none of it.
00:22:44.300 Maureen says,
00:22:44.940 That's my problem.
00:23:08.060 I'm not against immigration.
00:23:10.640 I'm for controlled immigration 1.00
00:23:14.280 that benefits our economy.
00:23:16.080 But when we have illegal migrants flooding across our border, 0.82
00:23:20.220 and then temporary foreign workers coming in,
00:23:23.980 because apparently now the liberals are for a slave underclass. 0.95
00:23:28.820 I thought they were against that stuff.
00:23:31.100 It drives down our wages.
00:23:33.200 It burdens our healthcare system.
00:23:35.020 Drives up the cost of housing.
00:23:37.060 We just can't keep up.
00:23:38.660 If you took all the temporary foreign workers away, 0.99
00:23:41.440 it would fix completely youth unemployment in this country.
00:23:46.820 And then there's the scam of the foreign students. 1.00
00:23:52.140 They come here.
00:23:53.800 They never attend school.
00:23:56.900 School.
00:23:57.540 A lot of them are fake.
00:23:59.040 And then they get here and claim refugee status.
00:24:04.520 Nope.
00:24:04.960 You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
00:24:06.840 Get, get, get, get.
00:24:08.000 We don't need you.
00:24:08.940 Um, it's, it's a liberal loophole that they are against closing
00:24:16.320 because, well, those people they think will vote for Justin Trudeau
00:24:20.740 eventually, or whoever is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:24:26.560 All right.
00:24:27.500 One more.
00:24:29.860 Gary Klassen says,
00:24:31.600 His replacement cannot be allowed to assume the Prime Minister's position.
00:24:36.120 Oh, they will.
00:24:36.880 However, briefly, they will.
00:24:38.800 That's just how it works.
00:24:41.160 PM has to be an elected person.
00:24:43.080 It does not.
00:24:44.680 Let me tell you a little story.
00:24:46.560 In Alberta, 2015,
00:24:49.240 we had an unelected Premier.
00:24:53.640 Yeah.
00:24:54.380 The progressive Conservatives at the time,
00:24:56.460 who thankfully no longer exist,
00:24:57.840 they were, uh, absorbed by the Wild Rose,
00:25:01.040 um, and then rebranded as United Conservatives.
00:25:05.060 What was left of them?
00:25:06.340 They had been in power for 44 years.
00:25:09.800 And what happens after 44 years in power?
00:25:13.460 Uh, everything in the province has been touched by them, right?
00:25:18.220 Every law firm, every consulting group,
00:25:22.520 every, just about every engineering firm, really.
00:25:24.900 Like, it was crazy.
00:25:25.540 Uh, they were the everything party,
00:25:27.860 but as tends to happen,
00:25:30.360 all the forces of the universe,
00:25:32.440 well, not all the forces,
00:25:35.240 but most of the forces of the universe
00:25:36.820 dragged the PCs to the center
00:25:39.220 and then to the left on some issues.
00:25:41.420 They were no longer really conservative.
00:25:43.760 Uh, they were like a pro-oil and gas liberal party,
00:25:46.720 which is why the Wild Rose,
00:25:48.860 a conservative party to the right of them,
00:25:51.100 popped up.
00:25:51.620 Um, and, uh, Alison Redford,
00:25:59.080 who was our premier at the time,
00:26:01.780 stepped down, resigned in shame,
00:26:03.760 um, because of a series of scandals,
00:26:06.140 including something called Sky Palace,
00:26:08.080 and also using the government planes
00:26:10.980 that we had a couple of them,
00:26:12.520 like minivans.
00:26:13.580 Just, just, why take, why drive
00:26:17.160 when you can just take a, uh, plane
00:26:20.880 from Edmonton to Drumheller?
00:26:24.740 Anyway, uh, she resigned.
00:26:27.300 The PCs ran a leadership race,
00:26:29.280 and they elected Jim Prentice,
00:26:31.780 who had previously been a Harper cabinet minister,
00:26:35.480 and actually a pretty conservative guy.
00:26:38.500 Uh, and I think it was his intent
00:26:42.960 to bring the party back to the right,
00:26:45.180 which was good,
00:26:47.140 but he never got the opportunity to do that.
00:26:49.260 Um, because, uh,
00:26:52.540 the NDP won the election
00:26:53.940 because of a fracture on the right
00:26:55.700 between the Wild Rose and the PCs.
00:26:57.220 But this is a very long story.
00:26:58.880 I'll get to the point.
00:27:00.540 Jim Prentice was elected to lead the PCs,
00:27:02.940 but he didn't have a seat.
00:27:04.440 And so, we had a premier
00:27:07.600 who was not in our legislature.
00:27:10.860 It happens.
00:27:11.740 It happens sometimes.
00:27:13.180 Not a lot,
00:27:14.220 but when the leader resigns in disgrace,
00:27:17.660 much the way Trudeau has,
00:27:19.220 uh, the way Alison Redford did, 0.98
00:27:21.360 this is what happens sometimes
00:27:23.340 when a leader from outside the party comes in.
00:27:27.660 So, anyways, I'll let go.
00:27:29.540 So Carney comes in,
00:27:30.340 and suddenly the World Health Organization
00:27:31.820 decides to declare a pandemic.
00:27:33.200 Carney hands the country over
00:27:34.800 to the World Health Organization,
00:27:36.700 and during an emergency,
00:27:37.740 can put an election off for another year.
00:27:40.640 I don't think he needs to hand the country
00:27:42.260 over to the World Health Organization.
00:27:43.700 He'll just do what they're advising him to do.
00:27:46.420 But I don't even think it's,
00:27:48.680 it's, I don't even think that's that complicated.
00:27:51.840 He could just say like,
00:27:52.720 oh, we're in an economic crisis
00:27:54.840 because of tariffs.
00:27:56.520 He can do this for any reason.
00:27:58.480 It must be made law
00:27:59.400 that a prime minister resignation
00:28:00.980 results in an immediate federal election.
00:28:03.200 I wouldn't be against that.
00:28:04.880 Meanwhile, Trudeau lives on a tropical island
00:28:07.400 off the billions he stole from Canada.
00:28:09.860 You know, he's wealthy as it is.
00:28:11.320 He comes from wealth,
00:28:12.680 unlike the rest of us.
00:28:14.400 And, uh,
00:28:16.840 he's got well-connected, rich friends,
00:28:19.720 including Mark Carney.
00:28:21.260 So, Trudeau's gonna be fine.
00:28:23.580 He'll be just fine.
00:28:24.260 Uh, you know what?
00:28:26.120 I've got to wrap it up here.
00:28:27.260 Why?
00:28:27.620 It's Friday and I've got to head into
00:28:28.920 the Friday live stream,
00:28:30.480 which, uh,
00:28:32.300 airs Friday at 11 Mountain,
00:28:35.240 1 Eastern.
00:28:36.080 It's also on Monday.
00:28:37.440 And I think we're going to test out
00:28:38.480 a midweek one too,
00:28:39.740 going forward,
00:28:40.580 just because there's so much news.
00:28:42.900 Tariff crisis,
00:28:44.540 uh,
00:28:45.040 sovereignty crisis,
00:28:46.400 or rather a unity crisis
00:28:48.560 as Premier Daniel Smith
00:28:49.640 calls it unfolding
00:28:51.120 and, uh,
00:28:52.560 terrorism across the world.
00:28:54.280 So, uh,
00:28:55.280 a lot of news to talk about
00:28:56.620 and we want to talk about it with you.
00:28:57.960 So, uh,
00:28:59.460 anyway,
00:28:59.940 if you can't get enough of me
00:29:01.620 and I feel like you might be able
00:29:03.080 to get enough of me,
00:29:03.960 uh,
00:29:04.520 you can tune in,
00:29:05.780 uh,
00:29:06.700 to the live streams on Monday,
00:29:08.760 midweek,
00:29:09.180 and then Friday.
00:29:10.600 Okay.
00:29:10.820 I got to wrap it up.
00:29:11.560 I got to get out of here.
00:29:12.620 Thanks for bearing with me,
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00:29:29.340 That's it.
00:29:30.120 Uh,
00:29:30.560 see everybody back here
00:29:31.660 in the same time
00:29:32.240 in the same place next week
00:29:33.160 and as always,
00:29:34.500 don't let the government
00:29:35.620 tell you that you've had
00:29:36.560 too much to think.