Sheila Gunn-Reed joins me on The Gunn Show to talk about the G7 Summit, the Alberta Republican Party, and the upcoming by-election in Alberta s Rocky Mountain House riding of Olds, Alberta R.C.
00:00:00.000I got home from the G7 summit late last night, did not have time to put together a show,
00:00:19.660so tonight, the guest is you. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000Avid Rebel viewers will know that Rebel News had a team of journalists at the G7 summit held in Alberta this week.
00:00:52.680Now, I was one of the team of journalists. I was also joined by my colleagues Angelica Toy and Sid Fuzard.
00:01:00.060Now, they are both based in Calgary, so they had a little bit of a drive to the summit from Calgary to Banff,
00:01:07.640where the media center for the Kananaskis summit was, but I'm like four and a half, five hours away.
00:01:13.600I actually spent the last five days living out of my holiday trailer, first in Red Deer because we were hosting a done-getting-screwed Independence Town Hall there on the Saturday morning.
00:01:28.980It was a full day affair, and from there directly, I went to Calgary to pick up my press pass and then to Kananaskis to see what was going on and then to Canmore to leave my holiday trailer
00:01:46.320and then off to Banff to catch up with Sid and Angelica, who were at the media center for the G7 summit.
00:01:55.460And so we were busy flat out, and I didn't have time to book a guest or put together a show.
00:02:04.080And I was going to do it late last night, but I drove home in a series of hailstorms, so that just didn't permit for time once I got home.
00:02:15.900But being the forward-thinking woman that I am, a few weeks ago, I put a call out for letters to Sheila because I was, once again, traveling, unable to do a show from my home studio.
00:02:30.100I filmed that show with your letters from the very same holiday trailer.
00:02:35.080In fact, I was in Regina then for another done-getting-screwed Town Hall because you pay for a show, our beloved premium subscribers, and what I'm doing doesn't matter.
00:03:47.060They might not like the threat of division on the ballot in the by-election in old that's coming up.
00:03:56.080You know, they're worried about a split between the UCP, the United Conservative Party, and the Alberta Republicans, who are a separatist conservative party allowing the NDP to come up the middle.
00:04:10.420I can't ascribe motives, but I do not believe at all that the Alberta Republican Party was created to allow the NDP to win.
00:04:25.860I don't think the NDP have a hope in hell of winning in old.
00:04:29.780It is one of the most conservative voting ridings in this entire province.
00:04:34.080Nathan Cooper was the former UCP MLA there.
00:04:37.660He was the Speaker of the House for a very long time, and he stepped down.
00:04:44.360And that riding also, a long time ago, did elect a separatist MLA decades ago.
00:04:55.380So if you were the Alberta Republicans wanting to test to see if the independence movement requires a party or if it is something that comes from outside the party apparatus system, I think that would be the place to test it.
00:05:17.260You know, if you wanted to win a seat to send a message, why wouldn't you try to run in the riding that once upon a time, a very long time ago, elected a separatist, Western Canadian concept MLA?
00:05:34.040Now, I don't know what the consequences will be of running, you know, two conservatives, one a Federalist and one a separatist on the ballot will be.
00:05:45.800But I don't think the threat of the NDP winning there is real at all.
00:05:56.360After 10 years of an incompetent and corrupt liberal NDP government who have created high inflation, created debt for Canadians for future generations, allowed mass immigration and fraud with the student visa programs, taking in fake asylum migrants, which are being supported by Canadian taxpayers, unaffordable housing for Canadians due to uncontrolled migration,
00:06:18.100sending taxpayers' money to Ukraine when there are more than enough problems at home in Canada that need to be addressed,
00:06:23.960electing Carney, who has a history of bad performance and is a mouthpiece for the World Economic Forum, pushing legislation to take away freedoms from Canadians, etc., etc., etc.
00:06:33.200I could go on and on enlisting all the reasons why the Liberals should not be running this country.
00:06:38.300But the biggest question is, what are the people of Ontario and Quebec who voted for this moron getting from this corrupt government, or are they just plain stupid?
00:06:48.100That is a question many Westerners are asking themselves right now.
00:06:52.520And look, the letter writer does preface this by saying the people who voted for Carney.
00:07:02.620So if you are in Ontario and Quebec and you didn't vote for Carney, this isn't about you.
00:07:08.920If you are a boomer who didn't vote for Carney, it's not about you.
00:07:12.900I don't get uptight when we talk about the women who elected Trudeau.
00:10:55.440Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that.
00:11:01.100Meanwhile, they have enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose.
00:11:06.200They have been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency,
00:11:13.280which is hardly a right-wing organization.
00:11:15.720It is one thing to want civilian nuclear energy.
00:11:18.280It's another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity.
00:11:21.680And it's still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations
00:11:29.080and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium.
00:11:34.560I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use.
00:11:40.980I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations.
00:11:46.820I have yet to see a single good pushback against the Atomic Energy Agency's findings.
00:11:53.880Meanwhile, the President has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.
00:12:01.680He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment.
00:12:06.280That decision ultimately belongs to the President.
00:12:08.200And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.
00:12:15.740But I believe the President has earned some trust on this issue.
00:12:18.900And having seen this up close and personal, I assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals.
00:13:13.060James, why is nobody talking about how the Fathers of Confederation screwed Western Canada by giving Quebec 78 seats, which takes 115,000 give or take votes to send an MP to Ottawa in Alberta.
00:13:29.220It takes 131,000 votes to send a member.
00:13:32.900James, I don't think nobody is talking about that.
00:13:35.100I believe that is one of the big drivers of Western separation, Western alienation, the representation in the Senate that unfairly favors the Atlantic provinces over Quebec, or excuse me, not Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
00:13:59.220Those are real things that people have been talking about for years.
00:14:05.320So, even, you know, even the fact that Alberta and Saskatchewan are separate provinces, they were initially proposed to be the province of Buffalo at the last minute, they severed us.
00:14:18.500And one of those reasons was because we could potentially be quite powerful if we were united one day.
00:14:26.260So, I disagree with your point that people aren't talking about it.
00:14:34.580I believe people are and have been for a very long time, 50 years, maybe.