Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ UCP leader Danielle Smith defeats the media, the NDP and the flawed pollsters to stay on as Alberta's premier

00:00:00.000 Tonight, success in the ballot box for Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and success in drug treatment

00:00:20.880 as she continues to make Alberta the control group for a better way in dealing with the 0.99

00:00:25.780 opioid crisis. Then, Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins me to discuss

00:00:30.320 how the government agency tasked with affordability in housing is giving themselves

00:00:34.840 bonuses while houses are more unaffordable than ever for Canadians. It's May 30th, 2023.

00:00:41.660 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show. 0.72

00:00:47.980 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:55.780 Well, it's all over but the crying and a couple of recounts here and there, particularly 0.75

00:01:04.640 in Calgary. But it is true, Albertans have given our freedom-minded, tax-hating, gun-right-supporting

00:01:10.820 Premier a strong mandate to leave this province for the next four years. Danielle Smith is

00:01:17.540 the political and intellectual foil to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She might be his worst

00:01:23.080 enemy. She's the outsider replacement to the previously disappointing United Conservative

00:01:28.780 Party leader, Jason Kenney. And she was just given a strong, stable 49 seats in the Alberta

00:01:33.720 legislature of a potential of 87. It really came down to Calgary. Edmonton, as you've heard me

00:01:41.340 complain, is an NDP liberal stronghold and has been since the Ralph Klein era. Rural Alberta is

00:01:47.940 consistently deep blue, my common sense people. And Calgary is becoming more purple. But I'm not

00:01:55.500 sure it's going to stay that way. I think four years of what I anticipate will be a strong economic

00:02:01.140 recovery, scientific innovation, a return to the frontier spirit of self-reliance and smaller

00:02:07.160 government. Well, all those things can move Calgary back blue. I mean, the NDP and the Liberals can only

00:02:14.180 predict a doomsday scenario in healthcare and education that never comes for so long before

00:02:20.060 people start to leave the cult. That's how all death cults end, when the apocalypse prediction

00:02:25.660 continues to miss the mark. And the NDP predictions of devastation in healthcare and education, they will

00:02:31.680 miss the mark because they always do. Now, in the coming days and weeks, we're going to hear why certain

00:02:38.840 politicians lost certain ridings, like Justice Minister Tyler Shadrow, who's been so great on

00:02:45.360 gun rights recently. But I don't think he could ever recover from his mistreatment of pastors during the

00:02:52.100 lockdowns at the behest of Jason Kenney. We're going to hear why some pollsters were just so wrong,

00:02:58.700 why the media was also just so wrong. And we're going to hear from the left, particularly the Toronto

00:03:05.220 left, why Albertans were just so wrong to re-elect their premier. Now, it's our job here at Rebel News

00:03:12.760 to hold the government to account. And even though we have a conservative government re-elected,

00:03:19.340 our job's not over. In fact, it's just beginning. If Danielle Smith does what her predecessor did 0.86

00:03:26.120 and misleads Albertans or reneges on her commitments or refuses to stand up for us against Ottawa and Trudeau

00:03:34.320 and all those external forces seeking to keep us down, destroy us, damage our way of life and

00:03:40.060 disrespect our culture of liberty, she'll hear from us at Rebel News first, just like her predecessor did. 0.60

00:03:48.160 But insofar as the newly elected conservative government has the opportunity to teach Calgary

00:03:53.160 a better way for the next four years and alleviate the concerns of skeptical Calgarians,

00:03:59.320 I think the conservative government in Alberta has the opportunity to teach the rest of the country

00:04:05.620 a better way too, to alleviate some skepticism there. And it's on one very important, life-changing,

00:04:13.760 life-saving issue where Alberta is truly leading the way. And if you've watched me host for Ezra in the

00:04:19.840 past, I've talked about this very issue before because it's the one thing that is just so devastating

00:04:26.240 across the board to rural Alberta, to our inner cities, and even to our suburbs. It's the opioid crisis.

00:04:34.180 I want to show you this from the incredible folks at Black Locks Reporter just this morning.

00:04:41.180 The Commons yesterday, by a vote of 209 to 113, upheld Cabinet's, quote, safe supply drug policy.

00:04:49.460 The vote followed federal decriminalization of simple possession of cocaine, opioids,

00:04:56.820 and methamphetamine in British Columbia. This is not about encouraging drug use or turning a blind

00:05:02.860 eye to the consequences, addiction minister Carolyn Bennett said in Commons debate on the motion.

00:05:09.160 Really? Because it feels like you're encouraging it, and I'm not sure why we have an addictions

00:05:13.840 minister anyway, if we're not dealing with addictions, but rather enabling it. Anyways, I'll shut up.

00:05:18.700 Let's go on. It is about acknowledging the reality that people will continue to use drugs and that by

00:05:25.020 providing a safer alternative, we can minimize the harm and pave the way toward recovery. But I'll get

00:05:32.220 into that because that actually hasn't happened anywhere that they provide a safer alternative.

00:05:41.580 Opposition leader Pierre Polyev sponsored the motion asking that Cabinet immediately reverse its deadly

00:05:47.640 policies and redirect all funds from taxpayer-funded hard drug programs to addiction treatment and

00:05:53.860 recovery programs. Spending since 2017 totaled over $800 million, Pierre Polyev told the Commons.

00:06:01.880 In contrast, Alberta, from the very beginning of Jason Kenney's tenure, and much to his credit,

00:06:06.960 chose a different way forward than many jurisdictions, not just here in Canada, but also around the world.

00:06:12.200 We've even changed how we talk about the opioid crisis and treatment here in Alberta.

00:06:16.720 We don't really use terms like safe supply because it's not true. There's no safe supply of injectable

00:06:24.400 or smokable poison for which to slowly kill yourself. We don't use words like harm reduction to describe

00:06:32.660 government-funded drug dens with state-issued fatal toxins handed to you by some government employee.

00:06:40.800 In fact, we don't really use the word harm reduction at all anymore. I like the word that Alberta's public

00:06:47.720 safety minister uses instead. He calls it palliative care. You know, I've never heard the government

00:06:55.180 enabling of the slow agonizing suicide of the victim of drug use as palliative care.

00:07:01.720 But I think it's accurate. It really is. There's no way out of drug addiction except for getting

00:07:08.760 clean or dying. That's it. And the government and those around you can help you do one or the other.

00:07:13.700 In Alberta, we've chosen life, not just for the addict by opening up thousands of drug treatment beds,

00:07:21.200 but we've also chosen life and hope and freedom from addiction for the families of the addicts who

00:07:26.560 suffer alongside the addicted in a thousand different and small ways. You know, there's one

00:07:33.620 thing that came out of the leaders debate that truly revealed the dishonesty of the NDP who literally

00:07:38.980 right now, even still won't shut up about Daniel Smith allegedly making Albertans pay for health care

00:07:45.720 in all the NDP's dishonest and thankfully failed attack ads. Remember this ad?

00:07:50.760 So my friends, if I am your premier, we will stop these attacks on our public health care and

00:07:58.120 instead we will get to work on fixing it. We won't privatize it, we'll strengthen it. We won't fight

00:08:04.960 with doctors, we'll recruit doctors. We won't cut, we won't cut diabetes pumps, we'll fund them.

00:08:11.820 We won't blame Albertans with cancer or heart conditions. We'll make sure they get treatment

00:08:16.880 and care. We won't make seniors pay more for medical exams. We'll cover more of their medications

00:08:24.620 and yes, their vaccinations because we believe in science and evidence, not conspiracies. And my

00:08:31.360 friends, we will not, we will not make women pay for reproductive health care. We'll cover the cost 0.92

00:08:37.980 of contraception for free. I'm a very careful political watcher because it's my job, but it's

00:08:45.400 also something I'm really interested in. And I'm also someone who pays very close attention to the

00:08:49.840 addiction crisis. And let me tell you, I had no idea that the NDP had been charging the most

00:08:55.560 vulnerable Albertans and those trying to get clean $40 a day for a treatment bed. It came out in the

00:09:03.260 debate. Look at this. You know, one thing I'm so proud about with our UCP record is it's the,

00:09:08.740 what's being known as the Alberta model for a recovery oriented system of care, because we know

00:09:14.620 policing is only one side of the story. The other is getting people the help that they need. And my

00:09:19.980 chief of staff is one of the foremost experts on the recovery oriented system of care. We got rid of

00:09:24.860 the $40 per day user fee that Ms. Notley charged. We've added 10,000 treatment beds. We're building

00:09:29.940 recovery communities, some in conjunction with First Nations partners. And we are going to make

00:09:34.220 sure that every single person who wants addiction treatment has access to a treatment bed. Those two

00:09:40.260 things have to go together. It's true. The NDP was charging people with nothing. The most desperate

00:09:46.260 amongst us and their families, $40 a day for life saving treatment while flat out lying about the

00:09:52.640 intentions of the UCP for our healthcare system. But not only is what the UCP doing with drug treatment,

00:09:58.360 the moral thing to do by recognizing the dignity and potential of the individual and alleviating

00:10:03.680 the suffering of the addict and their families. It's the effective thing to do if you actually

00:10:09.140 care about what the left says they do. Overdose deaths. The left says we have to give addicts a

00:10:15.720 quote, safe supply of drugs. Otherwise, they're going to get dirty drugs and then die. So we'd rather

00:10:22.600 keep them alive and suffering on our drugs than have them die on their own. That's the theory

00:10:29.340 anyway. Though we do have now 30 years, so about one and a half generations of suffering on the

00:10:35.920 downtown east side, the Vancouver testing ground for these bad ideas, where society's forgotten people

00:10:41.560 are used as guinea pigs for these societal experiments, which proves that safe supply has

00:10:47.980 zero impact on overdose deaths and it might even have a negative outcome. Alberta's got early data

00:10:53.920 proving that our approach is saving lives. Look at this. It's by Michael Schellenberger in the National

00:11:00.300 Post comparing one approach from one province to another completely different approach in another

00:11:06.760 province. All indications are that Alberta is getting it right. From 2021 to 2022, overdose deaths in

00:11:14.060 the province dropped by 17%. In the same period, British Columbia saw a 1.4% reduction. In January

00:11:22.200 2023, the latest month for which data is available in Alberta, overdose deaths dropped to 111 from 172

00:11:32.340 in the same period last year. In April this year, BC counted 206 overdose deaths, a 17% increase

00:11:42.860 over April 2022. Should Alberta continue on its recovery-focused path, we should expect to see

00:11:50.840 overdose deaths drop drastically, while many more people with addiction find their path to a better

00:11:56.920 life and recovery. Friends, it's my hope that other jurisdictions in North America plagued by this

00:12:02.260 apocalyptic pandemic of death, crime, and human misery caused by opioids follow the Alberta example.

00:12:09.240 It works, and the numbers don't lie, and lives depend on it. And one of those things that makes Alberta

00:12:15.480 great and different is how we treat our people. We treat them like human beings, and I hope that never

00:12:21.600 changes. Stay with us. Franco Teresano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins us up after the break

00:12:28.380 for a bit of a victory lap. They got an entire government program cancelled. Up next.

00:12:39.240 While government bureaucrats and health bureaucrats were sending you home to languish in unemployment,

00:13:02.100 they were giving themselves huge bonuses. And this didn't just happen in one bureaucracy. It really

00:13:08.160 happened across the whole of government, and that's been evidenced in order paper responses across the

00:13:13.080 board. Now, it also happened in several government agencies, not just in ministries. For example,

00:13:19.660 new release from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation today notes that the CMHC sunshine list and bonuses

00:13:27.500 ballooned during the housing affordability crisis. So, while you're struggling to get by to pay your

00:13:33.800 mortgage, the bureaucrats who are in part responsible for some of this are seeing their bank accounts get

00:13:41.880 bigger and bigger. Now, joining me about this new press release from the Taxpayers Federation is Franco

00:13:49.680 Teresano. Franco, this is your work. Tell us about it.

00:13:53.600 Yeah, well, look, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, another crown corporation that is

00:14:00.460 rewarding itself for failure with bonuses and pay raises. Get this, folks. The CMHC, according to

00:14:08.580 its own website, has one objective, housing affordability for all. Well, guess what? Over the

00:14:14.580 last three years, either you couldn't afford a home, or if you do have a home, now you're worried about

00:14:20.760 your mortgage payments going through the roof. Now, if that's the objective for the CMHC, in what world

00:14:27.520 does it make sense for them to be handing themselves $93 million in bonuses and pay raises when Canadians

00:14:35.820 can't afford a home or during a pandemic when the taxpayers were losing their jobs, taking pay cuts,

00:14:42.440 when many small businesses were using the credit card to take out a line of credit just to keep their

00:14:47.960 lights on? You know, and you looked at this a couple of different ways. So you looked at it

00:14:52.860 from the viewpoint of the Sunshine List. So employees making over $100,000 a year. They have 931 of those

00:15:01.040 staffers in 2022. You also looked at the bonuses being paid out. And I've looked at this data in

00:15:09.700 other agencies and ministries. And I can't see how, what the metric is for paying out these bonuses.

00:15:16.560 I don't know if they're performance reviews. I don't know if it's just you showed up at work while

00:15:20.500 everybody worked remotely. I can't figure out how they're paying these bonuses. Tell us a little bit

00:15:25.540 about these bonuses. And have you been able to get to the bottom of what the metric is by which they

00:15:30.200 measure a bonus for a government bureaucrat? No, I think if you show up to work with the shoes tied,

00:15:35.380 you're getting a bonus if you're working in the federal government. But seriously, folks, Sheila,

00:15:40.380 I'm so glad you brought this up that it's across departments. It's all these different crown

00:15:45.020 corporations that are rewarding themselves for failure. Let me give you a couple examples.

00:15:49.560 Okay, the federal department bureaucrats, they can't even meet half of their own performance

00:15:54.880 targets, not even meeting half of their own performance targets. They've been getting bonuses.

00:16:00.140 Now, in the real world, you don't meet half of your own performance targets. Your boss shows you the

00:16:04.620 door. Your boss doesn't hand you a big fat bonus check. Let's look at the Bank of Canada, right?

00:16:10.440 They're the group that's in charge of keeping inflation in a low and around 2%. Well, if you've

00:16:16.080 been living anywhere outside of Iraq in Canada the last couple of years, if you've gone to the grocery

00:16:20.560 store, you've gone to the gas station, you know that the Bank of Canada failed to do its one and only

00:16:26.160 job, yet it handed $45 million in bonuses and raises to its central bankers. Let's look at the

00:16:34.280 CBC for a second, right? Everyone's favorite state broadcaster. Well, during the pandemic years,

00:16:39.440 it handed out $80 million in bonuses and raises to its employees. But here might be the craziest

00:16:47.500 example of all, Sheila. Destination Canada, a crown corporation that is tasked with marketing

00:16:54.280 Canada's tourism industry. During the years of 2020 and 2021, our borders were shut down. People

00:17:02.120 couldn't come to Canada for tourism. Many restaurants shut down. Many others in the

00:17:08.260 hospitality industry shut down. What does Destination Canada do? It also handed out bonuses

00:17:14.120 and raises during those pandemic years. It's shocking because, you know, you cite some data in

00:17:20.960 your press release here that one third of Canadians indicate that they think the government isn't doing

00:17:27.060 enough to deal with the affordability crisis. And that many Canadians who don't own a home,

00:17:32.720 I think it's two thirds of Canadians who don't own a home, just now have given up. They feel like that

00:17:37.580 goal is completely unattainable. And yet the government bureaucrats whose job it is tasked to make 0.80

00:17:43.360 housing more affordable for Canadians, they're taking home $12,000 annual bonuses.

00:17:49.780 It's outrageous. Crazy. If their one job, according to their own website, is housing affordability for

00:17:57.000 all, in what world should they be tapping themselves, patting themselves on the back

00:18:01.500 with these huge bonuses that average nearly $12,000? And again, the sunshine list, the number

00:18:07.420 of bureaucrats at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation taking home more than $100,000 in annual

00:18:13.600 salary, you have 931 of these bureaucrats. I mean, if the government was really worried about making

00:18:21.180 life more affordable, they would build more homes. And you could do a lot more to make houses more

00:18:26.540 affordable by having 931 carpenters, rather than 931 overpaid bureaucrats, right? The last thing that we 0.88

00:18:34.240 need in Canada is more overpaid government bureaucrats. What we actually need in Canada are more homes being

00:18:40.000 built. Now, this wasn't on the list of things that you and I were to talk about, but I want to talk

00:18:46.380 about this because I think this is the Canadian Taxpayers Federation win. You guys did this. I think

00:18:50.980 you should take a victory lap for this one. Because talk about useless bureaucrats. I don't know what the 1.00

00:18:56.820 Mission Cultural Fund did before, but I know what it does now. And I don't like it. And I don't want

00:19:01.640 to pay for it. And thanks to the exposure of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, they really don't exist

00:19:07.440 anymore. Tell us about, well, give us the PG version of what they were doing with our money

00:19:13.640 and what's happened to them since, if you wouldn't mind. Because this is a reason to donate to the

00:19:19.280 Canadian Taxpayers Federation, this right here. Well, thank you. And yes, we were really the ones

00:19:24.780 that were digging up all of this waste. Our supporters kept the pressure on the government,

00:19:29.300 so very proud of the work that our supporters did. But look, there was one of the most wasteful areas

00:19:34.620 of this government, which is saying a lot, is this little-known slush fund within Global Affairs

00:19:40.140 Canada, known as the Mission Cultural Fund. Now, they dubbed this fund as a way to promote Canada's

00:19:45.880 foreign policy abroad. But when I tell you what they were spending money on, I think you're going

00:19:50.000 to be shaking your heads, folks. Okay, so one thing that they did, they spent $12,500 for seniors

00:19:58.300 to give their audiences a recount of their sexual histories. Oh, wait, I forgot the best part. No,

00:20:05.520 no, no. These were seniors in other countries talking about their sex lives. Folks, the government

00:20:10.640 was outsourcing old people sex stories in places like Taiwan, Australia, and Austria, where you actually

00:20:19.520 had tax dollars going to fund these performances where geriatrics in other countries would tell the

00:20:26.280 audiences their best time, first time, last time, worst time. Absolutely crazy stuff. One other

00:20:33.440 crazy example, a separate example from this fund, $8,800 for a sex toy show in Germany. Now, Sheila,

00:20:42.540 maybe I'm just a little old-fashioned, but if the Germans want to have a sex toy show, 1.00

00:20:47.920 maybe they can pay for it themselves, huh? 0.99

00:20:49.620 You know, that's something I never want to see as a German sex toy show, let alone participate in 1.00

00:20:56.880 the payment of it. And there's other ridiculous things in here. For example, the government was 0.99

00:21:03.240 using the slush fund to act as press secretaries and PR agents for their friends. For example,

00:21:10.760 $51,000 on red carpet photography exhibition for Canadian rock star Brian Adams. The guy's a

00:21:18.580 millionaire. Hire your own PR agency. Don't make me. Likewise with Margaret Atwood to promote a new 0.97

00:21:24.560 book in Australia, nearly $10,000 for a liberal feminist to help promote her book. You know, I'm 0.94

00:21:30.800 just surprised that somebody else is reading a different book than The Handmaid's Tale, but she's

00:21:35.960 got her own PR agency. Why did the liberals think that this was something that Canadians needed to

00:21:42.540 pay for? Oh, I have no idea. And you know what? Nothing in government is done on its own, right?

00:21:49.580 You always have these band of bureaucrats around a table who are all getting bonuses, I'm sure,

00:21:53.680 trying to decide what to spend the money on. Wouldn't you just love to be a little fly on that wall,

00:21:58.500 in the wall of the committee of bureaucrats saying, yep, let's pay for this sex toy show called 1.00

00:22:03.380 Whose Jim is this? Yeah, approved rubber stamp. You know, I would love to actually just have maybe 0.67

00:22:09.080 a coffee with one of these government employees. If you're listening to the show, please just reach

00:22:13.400 out to me. I would love to have a coffee and pick your brain to understand why you think that the

00:22:18.860 Canadian taxpayers who are struggling right now should be paying thousands of dollars for things

00:22:23.940 of this nature, whether it's the seniors talking about their sex lives in front of a live audience,

00:22:28.220 whether it's that art show, if we can call it that in Germany, or if it's whether it's just,

00:22:32.300 you know, handing tens of thousands of dollars for this photo exhibit, red carpet photo exhibit for

00:22:38.580 a rock star, or to Margaret Atwood to promote her famous book. Like, in what world does this pass

00:22:45.760 the test of sanity to be using Canadian taxpayers' money? Now, the Mission Cultural Fund is now defunct,

00:22:54.180 thank goodness. But I don't think that watching for this to pop up rebranded in another way in another

00:23:03.320 department, maybe under Canadian heritage, I think that there's a real potential here. So that's why

00:23:09.340 I admire the work that the Canadian taxpayers' federation does. And I encourage people to

00:23:14.380 support it because you're looking out for these things when the rest of us don't really have the

00:23:18.800 time. So, Franco, how do people support the work that the CTF does? Because you're like us,

00:23:25.580 you won't take government money. And how could you if you're trying to hold them to account?

00:23:30.000 We never have taken a penny from the government, never have, never will. Please head over to

00:23:34.420 taxpayer.com. Check out our newsroom for more information on some of these crazy stories and

00:23:38.760 how government politicians and bureaucrats are spending your money. Or check out some of the

00:23:42.160 petitions. I think we've got some great campaigns that your folks will admire and want to get behind.

00:23:47.280 Got some great t-shirts, too. I got one from Chris Simms, which I love very dearly. It says,

00:23:52.820 this is why we can't have nice things. And it has a picture of Parliament Hill on it.

00:23:56.420 Oh, she's the best. She's the best. I'm sure she's watching.

00:23:59.280 I'm sure she is. Franco, thanks so much for coming on the show. We'll talk to you very,

00:24:03.160 very soon. Awesome. Thanks for having me.

00:24:06.500 Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra read by me up after the break.

00:24:17.280 Well, friends, we've come to the portion of the show where we read your viewer feedback. Unlike

00:24:26.040 the mainstream media, we actually care about what you think about the work that we do here

00:24:30.380 at Rebel News. That's why we leave the comment section open if you've been to a CBC article

00:24:35.060 these days. Or even a tweet by a CBC journalist who, I'm reliably informed, is supposed to have

00:24:42.160 given up on Twitter because Elon Musk is mean. They normally close the comments or don't allow

00:24:48.320 comments. And, you know, it just speaks to how much they know you disagree with the work that

00:24:56.980 they're doing. And, you know, I actually welcome the free and liberal exchange of ideas. If you

00:25:03.060 disagree with me fundamentally on a point, I'm happy to hash it out with you. And so that's why

00:25:09.660 sometimes, like I did a couple weeks ago, I read hate mail to my regular Wednesday night show,

00:25:14.680 The Gun Show. Now, I think you guys are pretty nice to Ezra. So maybe this isn't going to be

00:25:20.320 hate mail. But on Ezra's interview with Aaron Gunn about his new documentary, Canada is Dying,

00:25:27.540 Iron Woman Canada writes, I used to work in a suboxone clinic. Oh my goodness. I'm just going to stop

00:25:35.480 right here. My producers didn't know that my monologue was on the Alberta recovery-based approach

00:25:42.560 to opioids. So this is fascinating that they sent me a letter about the drug crisis. Anyway, I'll

00:25:52.640 restart. Iron Woman Canada writes, I used to work in a suboxone clinic and 95% of the clients came

00:25:58.420 there addicted because their doctor prescribed them opioids for their injury or after their

00:26:03.980 surgery. One client, for example, was an accountant who tore her rotator cuff swimming and that's what

00:26:10.920 she was prescribed. She became hooked and when her doctor cut her off from her prescription, she began

00:26:16.440 getting them on the street. When that became too expensive, she went to the cheaper heroin. Doctors are the

00:26:23.200 biggest drug dealers. You know, there's a lot of truth to that. Doctors were encouraged to 0.94

00:26:28.120 prescribe opioids and downplay their addictive nature. I think both the doctors but also the

00:26:34.640 drug manufacturers did that and it has caused an absolute crisis. And as you say, once doctors

00:26:40.640 stopped prescribing, they didn't take the addiction away and then they turned to cheaper, dirtier

00:26:47.480 alternatives and then society decays around the addict. And there's never really been full

00:26:53.420 accountability for that. On Ezra's endorsement, our first ever as a company in eight years of Daniel

00:27:00.280 Smith. And he didn't tell me that he was endorsing Daniel Smith. I don't tell Ezra what to do, but

00:27:05.320 as editor-in-chief, he didn't tell me that he was endorsing Daniel Smith. But we're a free speech

00:27:14.580 network and this is something that Ezra did. Baskethound2 writes, I have since she took over.

00:27:23.720 You are right, Ezra. Canada needs more like her and all of Pierre's conservatives in Ottawa. Hard

00:27:29.220 for me to even type that name Ottawa. I've lost respect for any of them. Thank you for standing

00:27:34.020 up for Canadians when we needed you, beloved truckers. Yeah, I'm a firm believer in a strong

00:27:44.980 Alberta is a strong Canada. A robust, economically sound Alberta is the best thing for the rest of

00:27:52.160 this country. I just don't think our Prime Minister feels that way. I do know that our Premier here in

00:27:58.660 Alberta feels that way. And more than anything, maybe Canada doesn't want our help. That's okay.

00:28:05.880 But just get out of our way. Because Albertans need jobs and we need economic prosperity. And

00:28:12.180 even if the rest of the country doesn't realize that they benefit from it, why can't they just

00:28:16.700 leave us alone to do what we do best? And that's create energy and fuel the economy. Well, everybody,

00:28:23.380 that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody who works

00:28:27.240 behind the scenes in HQ in Toronto to put the show together and everybody who works

00:28:32.040 for Rebel News across the country. There are hands in multiple time zones working to bring you the

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Rebel News Podcast - May 30, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ UCP leader Danielle Smith defeats the media, the NDP and the flawed pollsters to stay on as Alberta's premier

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