SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ What does a Trudeau resignation mean for Canadian taxpayers？
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Justin Trudeau has announced that he will be resigning, eventually. Whatever that means, but what does that mean for his unpopular inflationary carbon tax hike? And what will it mean for the cost of living?
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Justin Trudeau has announced that he will be resigning eventually whatever that means but
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what does that mean at the end of the day for his unpopular inflationary carbon tax I'm Sheila
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Justin Trudeau announced this week that he is eventually resigning as the prime minister of
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this country or rather resigning as the leader of the liberal party now the liberal party is the
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governing party so the leader of the liberal party in our parliamentary system is the prime minister
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now Trudeau is staying on when a normal leader would appoint an interim leader until the liberals
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complete a robust leadership selection process so that could be months from now we know for sure
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that he has prorogued parliament to avoid a confidence vote until the end of March so
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Canadians continue to languish Justin Trudeau is still prime minister and the only thing we know
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for sure is that we will have a new prime minister definitely definitely by October 2025 now what does
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that mean for some of Justin Trudeau's more unpopular policies well we do know that some of his
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censorship bills and his pandemic laws died when he burned them all down by proroguing parliament
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to save himself and increase his party's fortunes in the next election but the carbon tax remains now
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I have some data out of the corner of my eye that I would like to share with you it's from Angus Reid it's
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from back in March of 2024 and now I think these numbers will have changed slightly since March because
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since that this was this data was taken we've had a carbon tax increase and and the inflationary crisis
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happening in Canada has been exacerbated and life is increasingly unaffordable now back in March before the
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carbon tax hike most Canadians currently say that the cost of living and their concerns about the
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cost of living should outweigh climate change concerns when making economic policy the criticism
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of the carbon tax is driven by a sense that it is ineffective at reducing Canada's greenhouse gas
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emissions and two in five Canadians say the carbon tax is making their life a lot more expensive
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and one quarter say it's increasing their cost of living a little while only four percent by the
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liberals line that it's saving the money that you're getting more back in return than you pay
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now liberals they could kill this carbon tax right now but they're not in fact there is an increase
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again set for April 1st so joining me next is my friend from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Chris Sims to
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discuss the looming carbon tax hike right on the cusp of the liberals returning after proroguing parliament
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and what the liberals could do now to well I don't care if they help themselves but to help Canadians
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so joining me now is my good friend and good friend of the show Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers
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Federation uh I thought I'd have her on because it's such a slow news week there's absolutely nothing
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to talk about happening uh of course that sarcasm uh there are a lot of implications for
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the cost of living unfolding right in front of us uh I think one of the main reasons the Trudeau
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liberals are plummeting in the polls is of course because of the affordability crisis exacerbated by
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his carbon tax and before we started rolling you pointed out um a very important timeline in all of
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this let us know what that's all about yeah this is a big deal and so for folks who are thinking oh yay
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ding dong the witch is dead you know the carbon tax will be over no no no no uh in the famous words
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of Rambo nothing is over this is not over this is just starting so what's fascinating about this
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timeline is get a load of this so right now the liberal party is going to be selecting a new leader
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and they got to get that done at lightning speed because they're going to reconvene parliament comes back
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on march 24th okay just after that because it's been prorogued they have to have a throne speech
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a throne speech is actually a confidence vote okay after that even if they for some magical reason
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didn't have a throne speech which of course they have to to reconvene parliament there's also a
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supply motion to keep the lights on to keep money rolling for the fiscal quarter so there's going to
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be just minefield after minefield for this brand new liberal party leader whoever that person is
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that first week so march 24th they reconvene shortly after that throne speech opposition says the
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government is going to fall then they hit the hustings they start door knocking april 1st carbon tax hike
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imagine being that newly minted liberal party leader and a member of parliament trying to regain your seat or
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keep your seat door knocking after you just hiked that person's carbon taxes good luck good luck
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it's almost like a leg snare laid out by trudeau for his successor uh i'm not even sure however that
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the liberals will have a new leader in place in the few short months between now and when parliament
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comes back or the prorogation ends because justin trudeau kept saying stuff like robust
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leadership selection process and robust to me means long and drawn out
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yeah but i this is the thing okay let's just speculate for fun because it's fun of it
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political nerds okay um so they're gone for they're gone now they're prorogued which of course as
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everybody knows that means that parliament is now on ice everything has been held all of the you know
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bills have died on the order paper as they say in extreme circumstances if something is super special
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you can bring back a bill at its current stage in a new parliament but they have to have all parties
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agreeing to that so that would be something special like a private member's bill that people feel is
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really important something like that okay so parliament is prorogued as of right now they're working the
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phones trying to get a new liberal leader i think it's 90 days that is within the liberal party
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constitution that they have to have for their leadership review for their leadership race that's
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three months they say it's coming back march 24th imagine if they don't have a liberal party leader
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selected justin trudeau prime minister justin trudeau is still the liberal party leader as of march 24th
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then what then there's a throne speech and then there's a confidence vote and then it falls and
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is he automatically then still going to run as leader like it's pretty crazy so folks within the
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british parliamentary system that like analyzing this of course will point out that we don't vote
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for a prime minister we vote for a member of parliament whoever forms the majority that party has their
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leader and that person becomes prime minister so this you're right this is not over and this is
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still a bit of a dog's breakfast but say the liberal party gets its act together real fast and they manage
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to have a newly minted person as leader in time for them to sit again they'll fall immediately from the
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sounds of it that's a big asterisk because we have to wait and see what the ndp actually does not what
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they say they're going to do then we have an election but the big roadblock at the end of this
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thing that they're driving right into is a carbon tax hike and the carbon tax is one of the reasons
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why they're at the bottom of the polls as you said before we started rolling and i've put it in our op-ed
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that should be coming out soon in the sun it's their millstone it's the millstone hanging around the
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necks of all of these candidates so they should cut it off this week like when they have their little
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emergency cluster meetings and stuff of oh my god we're gonna do they should announce they're
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scrapping the carbon tax the liberals should now you mentioned something i just want to correct you
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on this we you said um you know we vote for an mp and that mp if he is the leader of the party will
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become the prime minister but that is not always the case we saw a scenario exactly this in alberta with
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jim prentis he was selected to be the leader of the pc party and thus the premier of alberta but he
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at the time did not have a seat and so we could be faced with a situation where we have a prime
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minister of this country who is not a sitting mp and you know some of the front runners being
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touted by the mainstream media like mark carney and christy clark neither one of them are sitting
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mps wouldn't that be crazy yep so very like that is a good point so in the interim so what you're
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saying is before an election yeah so they they select their leader within their own party that
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person yeah would automatically become prime minister isn't that wild so in that rare instance you're
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right if there's somebody who is currently does not have a seat that person does become that which
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is kind of fascinating now it would be expected and or hoped that they would then capture a seat win a
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seat in the next election but what an absolute mess what an absolute mess and good luck finding a safe
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liberal seat these days you have a tough time finding one in toronto at this point in doubt but keep that
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in mind folks that was not on like the edges am i allowed to say fringe on this show i'm not sure
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yeah yeah i find it offensive um it's a swear it was not on the fringy edges of toronto that was in
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like the heart of toronto that bright red dot that was always there that is no longer there so yeah they're
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in deep trouble and i have got to stress a huge reason why it's not just because of trudeau as
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much as people don't like trudeau it's it's what they did it's the fact that people can't afford
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jack anymore and one of the main reasons why they can't afford stuff is because of stupid things like
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the carbon tax which punishes every single part of your life from heating your home to driving to work
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to growing food buying food you name it and the i i i still can't believe frankly they haven't had an
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announcement like if i were members of parliament within the liberal party i'd be gathering together
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some of the pointy heads in the party and saying we're having a press conference like today right
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saying we're getting rid of the carbon tax now that's one of the reasons i think the liberals are
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sort of looking outside the party for a new leader is because everybody is just so tainted by trudeau
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and their defense of the carbon tax to some like i see that they're sort of stuck in the same
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conundrum that kamala harris was stuck in how do you position yourself as a person to fix this mess
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when you are the person who got everybody into this mess either by uh running cover for justin trudeau
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or introducing many of justin trudeau's flagship policies freeland so you know they're they're
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looking from outside of the party for maybe for somebody with less political baggage but their
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two main names that they're throwing out to us are mark carney carbon tax carney and christy clark
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who i think if you roll back christy clark's uh public statements she is one of the reasons we
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have a national carbon tax because when she was the premier of bc she was saying look at the carbon
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tax in bc it's working it's revenue neutral we're strong supporters of this nationwide so how do you
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get around that how do you how do you bring forward to outside the party carbon tax supporters to sort
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wash away the carbon tax support within the party i think these they've really screwed themselves here
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it's just delicious so this is what i love about uh live shows so did christy clark make a statement
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against a carbon tax recently you said you're despite her public statement no no i mean what i mean is
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she has publicly stated um that she is in support of the carbon tax but now there she's sort of being
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polished by oh maybe we'll have a new female leader of the liberals but how do you get around
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the fact that she was pushing a carbon tax which is immensely unpopular nationally oh big time okay
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so for folks who don't know i'm from bc yeah so i was born and raised there and i worked there as a
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taxpayers federation director there as well so christy clark is literally a carbon tax cheerleader
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she's the reason we have one yes i think yeah yes big time so like that is the headline in the cbc
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like article from i think 2016 so this was not you know a billion years ago it was just as she was on
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her way out so the ndp for folks who don't remember the provincial ndp in british columbia
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unseated the then called bc liberal government in 2017 okay there was this whole foo for our about a
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minority blah blah blah anyway the bc liberals lost their grip on power in 2017 i will point out
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directly that carbon tax was not revenue neutral that bc liberal government can say until it's blue
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in the face that it was revenue neutral it was not if we have time got the original bc liberal
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premier who started the carbon tax was then gordon campbell to be fair when they did introduce the
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first carbon tax the first time they did do a corresponding income tax cut so mathematically
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and on paper one could argue that was revenue neutral fair it didn't take them long though sheila
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because government's gonna government they started playing with the books and we caught them playing
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with the books so what they were doing including under the government of then bc premier christy clark
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was this they would take the revenue from the carbon tax and they would place it in the budget on one
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paper one sheet they would list the revenue whatever it was for an argument's sake say it was one billion
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okay then they started putting a whole bunch of pre-existing and unrelated and in some cases old tax credits
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into that column like shoving it onto that sheet to take away the revenue making it balance out to zero
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like we're talking film tax credit converting farm property to school tax credit kids fitness tax credit
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like this was not you know in order to invent dilithium crystal charging machines right or to give
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people you know hydrogen powered vehicles or something no no no no it had nothing to do with
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emissions nothing to do with fuel or the environment they were taking old tax credits and stuffing them
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into the revenue column for years and making it balance out to zero so much so you know when you come
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into something new and you ask stupid questions yeah that's a good place to be because that was the
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first budget i was covering for the canadian taxpayers federation i noticed this immediately
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in their books i went to the deputies so don't go to the politicians right go to the finance
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bureaucrats and he looked at me dead in the face during lockup he said yeah this has always just been
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an accounting exercise so that was that was not the case and keep in mind also when they first hatched
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the carbon tax in bc they told us that it was going to stop at 30 a ton that it was actually going to be
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revenue neutral that it would trigger a plethora of affordable alternative energies and that it would
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make emissions go down that they would make them meet their targets today none of that is true and
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you're right you're bang on because british columbia's carbon taxes there's two of them
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have been used as a template for the rest of canada trudeau directly went to british columbia
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he used the bc carbon tax as a template and that's frankly where you see christy clark at the time
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the premier being a cheerleader for a carbon tax talking directly into trudeau's ear about this
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so unless she has come forward recently and i don't know where she has disavowed her previous
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huge support for the carbon tax that's the reality on the ground in bc yeah i mean it didn't do the
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one thing that it was designed to do and that was reduce emissions if if you believe that that's what
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it was designed to do it just wasn't some revenue raising scam as these things tend to be and mark
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carney i mean carbon tax carney in his spare time he works for the united nations to debank and de-insure
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energy projects do you think that the no pipelines bill and all the gba plus nonsense shoehorned into
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our energy approvals process will disappear with somebody like mark carney in charge i think it's
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just going to get worse it'll be the prohibition by regulation and bureaucratic nonsense on any energy
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project going forward while our american friends are doing drill baby drill oh gosh you imagine and
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just juxtaposing that with the incoming trump administration i know every now and then just
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to amuse myself i imagine trying to do a pitch meeting with trump trying to sell him on a carbon tax
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can you imagine i mean let's be real if barack obama and joe biden right didn't do a carbon tax
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like like what are you smoking the idea that you would be able to convince donald trump the u.s
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president donald trump to have go for a carbon tax so to your point there's going to have to be some
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member of parliament who is so far in the back benches that they can try to say listen i was dragged
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along i tried my best i felt really bad for my constituents but this guy our former leader was
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just attached to this thing and i don't know stephan guibo was bullying me or so who knows
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right and have to come clean and say but now i've changed i've seen the light i'm against the carbon tax
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clearly like learning your lesson right because they're going to take a drubbing in the polls over
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this largely over this issue or it's going to have to be somebody that we don't know yet it's going to
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have to be some businessy person out of toronto who's never said anything publicly about a carbon
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tax it comes out vociferously against it like i just can't see the liberal party hanging on to this
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topic for a minute later i just i don't know how they jettison it after this was just their thing
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since 2015 i mean remember katherine mckenna just celebrating the kit like the canadian government
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signing on to the paris accord it was like their flagship thing so i don't know how nine years
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later they can turn around and say you know what that was a terrible idea all that begging and pleading
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you guys did that we didn't listen to we're listening to you now it'll just seem so insincere and i think
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that's reflecting at the polls uh i want to you know sorry go ahead just real quick yeah i'll just
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repeal to them this way even if you know you're going down it's never too late to do the right thing for
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people right it isn't i believe in redemption yeah um the redemption is there all they have to do is
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reach out and grab it i just think that nobody will i just i just that's where i'm at with these guys
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they could save people money if they if they killed it right now which they could because it's just a
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regulatory thing because it goes up automatically on april 1st they could kill it today and save people
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money instantly even if they're going to lose the election because that would be the right thing to
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do yeah i just so we'll see i'm not holding my breath but i would really love to see that happen
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as i said yesterday on x i firmly believe that justin trudeau has a congenital inability to do the
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right thing given how he resigned and he still didn't even do that sorry resigned you guys were one of
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the only ones that was pointing this out saying ah wait he's not going intends to resign and he's
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waiting until after the new leader is picked so that could that could be three months like that's
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that's a long time yeah and sacrificing the welfare of canadians to bolster the fortunes of the liberal
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party to make sure that they are as close to election ready as they can be given the chaos unfolding
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in the liberal party um while canadians wait and wait and wait and pay we're the ones paying the
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bills and keeping the lights on like all the mps mps make backbenchers make two hundred thousand
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dollars per year while not working right now make three hundred thousand per year pardon me
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while not working right now yeah oh yeah they're still getting paid yeah and cabinet ministers are
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still cabinet ministers you know if aliens invaded we would need like the foreign affairs minister to
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go talk to them so she's still foreign affairs minister pardon i don't know if we want that let's
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roll out premier smith again thank goodness she's acting as our foreign affairs minister i don't want
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melanie joly negotiating with aliens i don't smith is actually into as an aside she's into sci-fi
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she's like super into it so she could totally talk to them she probably has a universal translator
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i bet that she has given this some thought now just quickly changing lanes sure to premier smith and
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alberta because much of your role is focused on alberta a couple of new taxes in alberta at the
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beginning of the year a a vape tax and then um they've raised the registration costs for electric
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vehicles now normally and i i think i'm doing this for the wrong reasons normally i'm against
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tax increases fundamentally speaking but those electric cars are using the roads i pay for with my gas tax
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and uh i don't think that's right right so as you said i'm with the taxpayers federation right
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so i am allergic to tax increases and new taxes so i have hives even saying these things
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right exactly i grind my teeth there's but it's so easy to increase a tax on something like vaping
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because it's essentially it's a sin tax right in the same way that you have increased tobacco taxes
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and so it's hard to defend um frankly you know government should be small enough to drown in a
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teacup and it should do less of everything so we shouldn't have these tax increases to pay for
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things that said the bigger one i thought was the electric vehicle tax which i found interesting so
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to your point exactly it's a taxation but it's a form through registration and it's two hundred dollars
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per year now they're thinking is this exactly to your point well you're not paying the provincial fuel
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tax which is used to maintain the roads and you're also apparently electric vehicles are heavier
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yes than conventional vehicles go figure and so therefore the thinking is they'd have more wear and
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tear on the road over time what i found really interesting is that when they made this announcement
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they did so at last year's budget in february in edmonton and it was weird because right there
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in the budget language they said yeah we're creating this or imposing this electric vehicle fee tax thing
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because you don't pay fuel taxes to maintain the roads although we do not use the provincial fuel tax
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i thought that was the weirdest thing and i've never figured out why they included that in there
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is it because they were trying to say that it isn't automatically dedicated in a fund for it or
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they pay more in road taxes than they take in in the fuel like it was it was something so or was it
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just a dig to me it kind of felt like it was a bit of just a dig right at ev owners saying yeah we
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don't make we don't make the regular car drivers pay through their taxes to maintain the roads but we're
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going to make you pay for it anyway deal with it is kind of what i gathered from that but i could be
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misinterpreting but yeah those are the two main new taxes here in alberto now with regard to the
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electric vehicles i don't even care if they have to pay increased registration i would prefer if we cut
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the subsidies to electric vehicles and then i don't care about the 200 getting them on the other side
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same same so cut the subsidies which is just costing us a billion dollars it's a crazy amount
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of money that taxpayers are subsidizing i will point out like mega international corporations
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right you are not helping your yeah you are not helping your local ice cream shop here
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no you are giving money to volkswagen and ford and a whole bunch of other major international
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vehicles yeah giving them and it's not just like millions it's billions it's billions and then they
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go broke or they hire temporary foreign workers from another country they don't even hire canadians
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and so we've got this three-headed gross monster here we've got the taxpayers money going to these
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mega corporations we have got a ban coming up on normal cars so the trudeau government in lost in all
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the chaos of the carbon tax and stuff the trudeau government is banning the sale of new elect a new
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gasoline and diesel powered cars so your normal cars new ones are going to be banned for sale like
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real soon unless the government changes and unless the new government decides to repeal that ban
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so that's the second one the third one drives me crazy we don't have the energy to charge these
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vehicles so even if in my happiest star trek moment everybody got an electric vehicle like
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tomorrow it's a dilithium crystal vehicle right out there and you have to charge it using electricity
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say it was for free where's the energy coming from to plug it in like we don't have it like we get
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warnings every winter don't use your hair dryer in the morning because we're gonna have a blackout
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yeah like we have an energy right now and i sat down and did the math if everyone in canada if
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their vehicles were switched by a fairy godmother to electric tonight we would need 14 new can-do
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nuclear reactors not those little itty bitty ones that scott moe's talking about no no the big honkers at
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darlington nuclear in ontario the ones that are not building anymore the ones that take 10 years and like
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10 billion dollars we'd need 14 of them so yeah that's just sorry you got me on my bugger bear but
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no no no i i completely agree with you and i'm glad you pointed out that alberta with 800 years of clean
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burning coal under our feet and all the natural gas that we could ever ask for we don't have enough
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energy to run our furnaces when it gets to minus 40 and the reason for that is not just that they
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accelerated the coal phase out under the ndp but regulatory uncertainty yes caused by an ndp government
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in alberta and a liberal government in ottawa meant that either the retrofitting of the old plants
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just didn't happen or didn't happen fast enough and new natural gas plants weren't built nobody was
00:29:56.840
investing because when you have to worry about how it's going to make the ladies feel because
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there's a gba analysis plus gender-based analysis plus put on energy approvals the companies were
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like no thanks we'll just go to north dakota thank you very much and here we are energy starved in
00:30:13.620
alberta in alberta it was one of the craziest things i learned moving here so yeah that's another thing
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if pierre polio becomes prime minister that's the other thing on his to-do list to try to get done
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before launch on day one is to put an end to this nonsense because the very idea that alberta
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we're supposed to be the energy patch here in canada is lacking energy for our basic functions
00:30:40.540
okay is crazy like that has got to be fixed now lost in all the bad news and fake resignation
00:30:49.880
resignations happening over the last couple of days is that bill c63 died on the order paper so
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that's justin trudeau's censorship bill that would regulate what we can say and do on the internet and
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i know you speak to this issue as a former journalist but as a head of the alberta taxpayers federation and
00:31:15.140
part of what you do is try to hold the government to account when the government is censoring
00:31:19.560
citizens under the auspices of safety uh that makes accountability all but impossible um so
00:31:28.240
that's good news but the online news act remains the stream act remains and so we still have
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government controlling not just the internet but funding journalists and contaminating and polluting
00:31:41.540
their coverage yeah big time i've described it before as a two-side advice where we've got
00:31:48.240
government money taxpayers money government funding of journalism and to your point exactly not just
00:31:54.400
cbc which is 1.4 billion and the trudeau government at the last second announced they wanted to increase
00:31:59.940
that to 2 billion yeah per year by the way for the cbc before they were out of here um so we've got
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funding of the cbc plus tons of the mainstream media now on government payroll to the tune of when you
00:32:13.120
work it out between all the tax credits and the direct funding and stuff it's close to 30 000 per
00:32:18.720
employee in a media company it's unbelievable so there's the funding on the one side of the vice
00:32:24.880
and exactly right sheila we've got this censorship on the other side of the vice so we've got c11 we've
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got the online news act we've got them trying to regulate even podcasts and stuff through c11 now
00:32:36.480
which is crazy going after podcast providers for content etc and you're right though we should take
00:32:42.960
a little win there a victory with bill c63 because that was the stuff where they were attacking it on
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with harms right so i'll i won't be graphic but this government for reasons known only to them
00:32:57.800
for some reason took a bill that was supposed to prevent sexual abuse of children and the sharing
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of images of child sexual abuse on the internet i don't use the other word because it's disgusting
00:33:12.160
so they took laws about that which every decent person which would support strengthening like i don't
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know anyone that would know like yeah throw the book at them forever that's fine like all party will
00:33:26.840
pass it under the jail forever exactly yeah under the jail like that put them down there so they took
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that and they tacked on this like online speech and what people would consider to be harmful speech
00:33:42.140
and then we had all this crazy situation of the idea of having like a a human rights tribunally type
00:33:48.400
person some bureaucrat deciding whether somebody has to go on house arrest yeah for something they've
00:33:54.620
said that somebody else finds anonymously offensive like it was wild right and so and future crimes
00:34:01.500
you could go under house arrest for somebody complaining that you would cause them detestation
00:34:08.300
somewhere down the road for something you hadn't quite said yet yeah call tom cruise we're in minority
00:34:13.760
report exactly awful we were dealing with future crime and also past past crime yes so if you made a
00:34:19.980
tweet you know 15 years ago that somebody now decides anonymously again i will point out yeah and for
00:34:26.120
didn't they have a chance of winning damages too yes oh my gosh so imagine this folks money it's
00:34:32.760
anonymous you have a chance of cashing in and you get to complain to some bureaucrat and try to nail
00:34:40.020
somebody you don't like over and over and over again in canada that's what bill c63 had in it it was
00:34:46.520
wild so yeah you're right we should take a w on that as the kids say because it's gone and the
00:34:53.500
conservatives have promised boy they have a long laundry list they promised so many to just
00:34:59.100
completely get rid of all of that so yeah i think the first two years of a conservative government is
00:35:05.060
going to be nothing but repealing and commissions investigations and inquiries we're going to see
00:35:11.580
like gomri style inquiries i think for the first couple of years especially with stuff like the green
00:35:17.520
when i was a little kid i'm misremembering because it was in the 80s and i was like a small child uh
00:35:25.580
but there was a moment i think it was the lou ferrigno hercules movie i think it's where he
00:35:32.280
diverts the river yes and it rushes through the stables it's going to look like that yeah so it's
00:35:39.500
going to look like that for the first year they've got so much to do oh i hope it sweeps all the nonsense
00:35:45.020
out to see similarly uh okay chris how did people find the work that you're doing and how do they get
00:35:52.540
involved in the very important accountability work that the canadian taxpayers federation does
00:35:58.040
for us the canadian exactly so i really have to hammer this point home it's not over like i can't
00:36:07.120
stress this enough as an observer of politics my entire life and i've been in the arena for 25 years
00:36:12.240
now is the time like we've got walking wounded members of parliament we've got politicians who
00:36:18.780
are scared they're not going to get re-elected if you want them committing to things to change things
00:36:24.260
do it right now email them now phone them now say if you think i'm going to pay one more nickel of
00:36:33.500
your carbon tax like you are dreaming in technicolor you've got to push them now and because this is when
00:36:39.300
they reform their new platforms and make their new commitments so if you want to go to our website
00:36:44.880
taxpayer.com click on the petitions page and there's tons of petitions there so if you want to scrap the
00:36:52.140
carbon tax you want to defund the cbc which uh pyaliev has also promised to do if you want to reverse the
00:36:59.120
firearms confiscation big time okay reverse the censorship laws all that stuff is in there sign up
00:37:08.240
and that automatically makes you part of our standing army and the next time i'm sending you
00:37:13.680
out a call to action which i'm literally doing today saying everybody email your liberal mp and
00:37:20.240
tell them to scrap the carbon tax this morning then you're on that army list and you're part of the
00:37:25.940
thousands of people who flood their inboxes and trust me it makes a huge difference that sort of
00:37:32.240
action played a huge role in making sure the conservative party woke up to its senses and
00:37:38.760
re-reversed itself on the carbon tax remember for a little while there was like a phase where they
00:37:43.260
were like wanting solar blenders and carbon taxes yeah so that action played a key role in making that
00:37:49.860
happen making that change happen so go to taxpayer.com sign the petition it's for free and you're
00:37:54.840
automatically on our army list and you'll get the call to action you know i'm glad you mentioned that
00:38:00.400
this is not just about the liberals this is also about keeping the conservative oh yeah conservative
00:38:04.900
uh ralph klein was really good at this he would say show me the parade that's marching and i'll jump
00:38:11.800
in front of it and lead it so what the taxpayers federation does and i think we do this here at rebel
00:38:17.060
news is we we get the parade going we show the decision makers or the wannabe decision makers right now
00:38:24.740
what the people care about so this is your ability to send a message to these people in between elections
00:38:32.020
that these are the issues that canadians really care about and they better damn well do something
00:38:37.360
about it to your point and this is the beautiful part poliev gets it oh yeah he said so on he said so
00:38:45.100
in his op-ed which he keeps sharing by the way put in the national post and he just said it to dr jordan
00:38:52.760
peterson yeah he basically said and paraphrasing i can't do this by myself if you guys want this done
00:38:59.740
this done this done you've got to mobilize your people make sure your factory workers your corporations
00:39:04.880
your unions your school boards all of these groups your mom's groups they need to tell me what they want
00:39:12.580
me to do and they need to push back when i'm running into cobwebs and and regulations so there's going
00:39:19.800
to be hey imagine if he becomes prime minister and he announces he's defunding the cbc like the sky is
00:39:27.800
going to fall all of the chattering classes are going to freak out all of academia is going to freak out
00:39:33.860
and all of us who want them to defund the cbc it's up to us then to push back on them we got to be
00:39:39.780
louder exactly do it more faster so to your point exactly khaliev has said directly that he wants
00:39:49.640
standing armies on these issues it doesn't even need to be with the taxpayers federation it can be
00:39:54.420
with rebel it can be with whatever group that is mustering the posse of the parade make sure you guys
00:40:00.100
stay in the arena it is not over on election day if and when that ever happens right and you know it is
00:40:06.480
so important to keep conservatives conservative hold them accountable to the promises that they
00:40:12.340
make to the people i think we did that with jason kenney we will do that with danielle smith when she
00:40:18.780
wanders into crazy country we'll do our best to bring her back i know you have been critical of her
00:40:23.560
when she's not bringing in tax cuts enough and now she is so it's important these politicians will
00:40:30.480
listen to you if you're loud enough and part of being loud enough is the petition process at the
00:40:36.460
taxpayers federation but also over here at rebel news yeah for sure and it's one of those human
00:40:41.580
nature things right they see that you're engaged yes if if you're just some person they've never heard
00:40:47.500
of before you're less inclined to listen to that person no matter what political ideology you have
00:40:52.380
but if you're showing up at the meetings if you're bringing the bake sale cookies and stuff and like
00:40:57.380
you're talking to them like that's a relationship you're building there and that's how you get change
00:41:02.540
done so yeah thank you so much for highlighting that it's a huge factor i really don't want people
00:41:08.140
to think if and when the election happens and if and when the government changes that it's tools down
00:41:13.100
no no no no like the rebuild starts that day and it's up to us to make sure it happens oh chris uh
00:41:21.020
what are you up to next i know you've got um something coming uh yes tell us uh what's up next for you
00:41:28.060
so the next thing should be an editorial that should pop into the toronto sun newspaper chain
00:41:33.680
i'm hoping very soon within the next 24 hours and this is critical again the liberals are burned right
00:41:40.760
now those mps are freaking out we could get rid of the carbon tax this week this week the conservatives
00:41:48.840
don't need it they've got an entire army of caddies pulling clubs behind them at this golf course
00:41:54.340
that they can beat you know the liberals with they don't need the carbon tax club they've got a
00:41:58.860
billion other things that they can also run on but just imagine if we could get this thing gone
00:42:04.120
this week we'd be instantly saving people money so that is my laser focus right now well i'm glad
00:42:10.440
i'm glad for it uh especially as alberta is in the middle of a cold snap chris it is thanks so much
00:42:17.460
for coming on the show uh thanks so much for always taking the time to advocate on behalf of
00:42:22.260
just the regular people the forgotten people as you say the politicians like to listen to the
00:42:28.300
chattering classes and uh really the chattering classes don't get them elected it's us
00:42:35.020
as always i turn over the last segment of the show to you because without you there is no rebel
00:42:51.380
news it's my little way of thanking you because we'll never take a penny from justin show we rely
00:42:56.140
on your support to keep going here and you really did help us stay fighting and keep going during a
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time of intense government censorship that still remains and it will remain until the conservatives
00:43:10.620
root it out out of our government now you can send me your questions comments story ideas
00:43:18.960
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00:43:27.420
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00:43:33.460
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00:43:40.740
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00:43:48.300
today's viewer feedback comes to us by way of the youtube comments on a live stream that
00:43:57.680
we did on monday it was a live stream hosted by myself and initially the big boss ezra levant although
00:44:06.120
he had to poke off the show and uh do some outside media appearances because the americans are really
00:44:13.160
looking to us here at rebel news to break down what trudeau is really doing um with his resignation
00:44:20.660
which is not really a resignation at all and to explain a little bit about how our parliamentary system
00:44:28.340
really works so cut through the bs and the jargon to show that it is really just the most trudeau thing
00:44:37.240
trudeau has ever done the man cannot even resign properly without being some sort of malignant narcissist
00:44:43.840
anyway on that note um let's get to the youtube comments no dig bk mish writes thank you rebel news
00:44:57.720
i'm certain that your journalism played a huge part in justin finally admitting defeat and stepping
00:45:02.180
down well done i hope i never have to listen to his voice again thank you for making his exit speech
00:45:07.440
bearable uh what did i say on that live stream i said his uh neo-feminist emoting felt like someone
00:45:14.300
was licking the inside of my ear it was just gross um but we are going to have to hear a lot more from
00:45:22.880
justin trudeau over the next little bit because he's still prime minister and there's no timeline
00:45:29.280
for him to no longer be prime minister i mean as chris explained if they don't have a leader in place
00:45:36.460
and the government falls on a confidence vote by the end of march 2025 he could be the leader of the
00:45:45.680
party going into the next election so we are not even close to being done with him i don't know if
00:45:51.160
our journalism had a lot to do with justin trudeau resigning i i'm flattered that you think that it
00:45:58.420
did i think it was justin trudeau's series of scandals and our honest reporting on those series
00:46:08.840
of scandals versus the varnished version that you get from the mainstream media that may have moved the
00:46:15.600
needle for a lot of people and a lot of my journalism on this stuff is simply just covering
00:46:20.440
committee testimony or commission testimony the public order emergency commission on justin trudeau's
00:46:27.100
illegal invocation of the emergencies act or the foreign interference commission where you are just
00:46:33.140
reporting verbatim what is being said at these things and it really shows you how selective
00:46:43.360
the mainstream media is in their coverage of the same topic they are sitting there watching the same
00:46:50.960
committee hearings i do their coverage looks a heck of a lot different barbara corbett
00:47:04.160
tongue licking resignation resignation speech she says he is heartbroken because his luxurious world
00:47:15.320
travel luxury taxpayer funded groceries booze and accommodations his exorbitant salary and perks
00:47:21.580
for doing nothing his security detail non-stop photo ops and attention will all be grind to a grinding to a
00:47:28.460
halt this year reality is going to hit him hard i'm not sure i mean his chances of becoming
00:47:36.320
a world economic forum darling or a united nations darling have plummeted in the last year i think if he had
00:47:46.600
extracted himself from this earlier before he hit rock bottom in the polls and before the rest of the
00:47:57.840
world sort of realized what a foppish idiot justin trudeau is i think he could have maintained those perks
00:48:05.060
by joining a globalist organization but i think now he's even so unpopular and so
00:48:13.800
disrespected that his ability to move on to those opportunities is completely gone however we know
00:48:22.920
he comes from wealth and he's got wealthy friends uh let's see if his wealthy friends have abandoned him
00:48:30.000
i'd like to think that they have but who knows you know epstein had friends right to the end
00:48:37.300
too all right one more canadian citizen 4700 writes he never takes responsibility for his own scandals
00:48:48.240
dividing the nation breaking canadians trusting government or his overspending he just doesn't
00:48:53.920
get it shielded by his enablers fluffers and the media yeah every time that he did something wrong it
00:48:59.640
was a learning opportunity for all of us like i never did blackface i never groped any journalists
00:49:06.180
in british columbia he did that i don't have to learn not how to how not to do that he did but it when
00:49:14.600
he did something wrong it was our collective shame and we did when he did something right it was
00:49:24.220
his victory and his victory alone i can't wait i i can't wait till our national nightmare is over
00:49:32.380
but we're going to have to wait because as i said justin judeau cannot even resign like a normal person
00:49:43.540
just screwing us right to the bitter end well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you
00:49:51.080
so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week and
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as always do not let the government tell you that you've had too much to think