The Ezra Levant Show - April 13⧸2018
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Summary
Who are the most powerful anti-oil, anti-industry lobbyists in Canada? Well, that's easy: your kids' school teachers. Ezra Levant explains who they are, and why they're blocking Canada's oil pipeline projects.
Transcript
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Tonight, who are the most powerful anti-oil, anti-industry lobbyists in Canada?
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Well, that's easy. They're your kids' school teachers.
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It's April 13th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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So who is blocking the oil pipelines in Canada?
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Who is killing the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion right now?
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My favorite example, or least favorite example, I don't know,
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because it's so shocking, is this company called Total SA.
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It's a huge French oil company that pulled out of Canada's oil sands,
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and then chose instead to invest billions in Iran.
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Iran, a theocratic dictatorship building a nuclear weapon,
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threatening its neighbors, being threatened by Donald Trump,
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That same Iran, it's thought by cold-blooded, profit-oriented businessmen,
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to be a safer bet in which to invest a better risk-adjusted rate of return for their money
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I mean, you could obviously blame Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts.
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The Northern Gateway Pipeline was approved by Canada's regulators
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who actually got to own 10% of the pipeline project.
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Everything was set to go, but then Trudeau killed it with an executive order.
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Now, the assassination of the Energy East Pipeline was a little bit stealthier.
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Trudeau and Gerald Butts and Catherine McKenna,
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the environment minister, and Jim Carr, the impotent energy minister,
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they didn't want to be seen pulling the trigger this time,
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so they changed the rules for the Energy East Pipeline
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They said the pipeline would now have to answer for any oil
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The oil itself would be judged from a global warming point of view,
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which is a standard that has never been applied in the history of anywhere
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and would not be applied by Trudeau to oil imported to Canada
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So Trudeau and Butts and McKenna made it impossible.
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They technically didn't kill Energy East in the same way
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they just made it impossible for Energy East to proceed
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by changing the rules of the game midway through the game.
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So Energy East left, and Trudeau blamed them, actually.
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There were supporting actors there, too, of course.
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In the case of Energy East, there was Denis Coderre,
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the former mayor of Montreal, who demonized the pipeline
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Oh, and then Trudeau and McKenna added some more new, weird rules
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The project's decisions will be based on science, evidence,
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We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts
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Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts,
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we'll look at how a project could affect our communities and health,
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So if you have any industrial project going forward
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because you've got the best technology in the world
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oh, yeah, well, do you mean gender analysis tests?
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suspending the last pipeline project, still going.
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John Horgan, the B.C. premier, is certainly to blame as well.
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he actually has no real power to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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John Horgan has been advised by his own government lawyers
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As in, John Horgan knows he can't actually stop it
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Well, each of the people I've listed is to blame for sure.
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when Barack Obama killed the Keystone XL pipeline.
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according to this government and to the American government,
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we will give tens of thousands of Alberta jobs to Texas,
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When Trudeau killed the Northern Gateway pipeline,
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Prime Minister Trudeau is showing some extraordinary leadership today.
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not lifting a finger to go to promote the pipeline out east
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realizing it's really her only desperate long shot
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if she renounces everything she's ever said about pipelines,
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And if the rest of us are stupid enough not to notice,
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yesterday she actually attended a pro-pipeline protest.
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And look, there's David Egan, a cabinet minister,
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pretending he really loves oil sands pipelines too.
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to remember their lifetime of opposition to the oil sands?
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that we have no new approvals for tar sand projects,
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and we start to invest money into a renewable energy
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And look at one more photo in what Rachel Notley tweeted.
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for example, the monster who attacked the humble Broncos victims.
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So Unifor, as you can see, is pretending to support the oil sands now too,
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Now, for years, Unifor has spent its members' union dues
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denouncing it in press release after press release,
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and believe that they truly, truly support oil, really.
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who haven't ever built anything in their lives,
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But put them in the hands of political ideologues
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and they'll tweet that to you from their iPhone.
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That's one thing you've got to hand to the kooks at PETA.
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who shot up the YouTube headquarters the other day.