Rebel News Podcast - What Conservative candidates really stand for： Facts vs. (Liberal Party) fiction (Guest： William McBeath)

00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, The Gun Show.

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00:01:05.420 version of my show. You're listening to a rebel media podcast. One week into the federal election

00:01:12.460 campaign and I'm wondering, does anybody actually care about the hard issues, about taxes, about debt,

00:01:18.140 about unending corruption? I know I do, partly because it's my job to be explicitly informed

00:01:25.080 about these sorts of things. But what about the average Canadian voter? I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:01:30.460 and you're watching The Gunn Show. Social media is fantastic, but at the same time, it's also an

00:01:53.940 immoral cesspit. On one hand, it connects us with like-minded people we probably wouldn't find in the

00:01:59.380 real world. And it gives us the ability to share information with each other without having to go

00:02:03.900 through the mainstream media information gatekeepers of old. But on the other hand, it's also a place

00:02:10.400 that displays the worst of people, where mobs are formed, where pitchforks are brandished and

00:02:16.040 torches are lit. It's where cancel culture was born. And now cancel culture thrives to enforce

00:02:21.200 ideological conformity in the public square. And social media has become an insurmountable legacy,

00:02:27.660 a catalogue of ideas and statements that good people, changed people, seeking redemption will

00:02:34.260 probably never escape. And so far in this election, more than any policy announcements, and far more

00:02:40.860 than Justin Trudeau's unending corruption, social media missteps from nearly a decade ago, where some

00:02:48.120 conservative candidate said something that might be considered impolite in today's age, well, that's all

00:02:54.340 the media wants to talk about. Is this the election that really solidifies this tactic of mainstream

00:02:59.840 media enforcing cancel culture on conservative candidates? Or is this the election where we say,

00:03:06.620 enough is enough. Just give us the information about the candidates, and then let the voters decide.

00:03:12.500 My guest tonight is William Macbeth from Save Calgary. He and I discuss this, and so much more,

00:03:18.800 including some actual, tangible policy announcements from the conservatives that will serve to make

00:03:24.460 your life just a little less expensive. But before I go on, we discussed some breaking news in our

00:03:32.520 interview that we recorded yesterday afternoon. At the time, Brock Harrison, the Director of Communications

00:03:39.680 for Andrew Scheer, said that the RCMP confirmed that there was an investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair.

00:03:47.800 And what he said made sense, considering statements made by the RCMP commissioner about quote-unquote

00:03:55.540 investigations. Let me explain. Yesterday in a press conference about the arrest of Cameron Ortiz

00:04:02.820 for espionage, Commissioner Brenda Luckey was asked if the RCMP wanted Trudeau to waive cabinet

00:04:10.320 confidentiality so they could further their investigation into the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Here's what

00:04:17.280 she replied. Today we're here for Mr. Ortiz's investigation, so I don't want to comment very

00:04:23.080 much. We do take all investigations very seriously and investigate to the fullest. Investigations.

00:04:31.120 So one could reasonably assume, and I know I probably would have from that statement, that the RCMP were

00:04:36.920 also investigating Trudeau's involvement with SNC-Lavalin. The RCMP though clarified later on in the day that

00:04:45.160 the statement was a generalized statement about all RCMP investigations. You'll hear William and I talk

00:04:52.680 about that breaking news in our interview because we were recording live, but we left it in the show

00:04:59.740 because I think we make some pretty salient points about whether or not the average Liberal voter really

00:05:06.560 cares about Trudeau's corruption. So now that that clarification is out of the way, here's my interview with my good

00:05:14.460 friend William Macbeth from Save Calgary.

00:05:33.100 Joining me now is my friend William Macbeth from Save Calgary. Now he's my go-to municipal politics guy,

00:05:40.480 but he is also a longtime conservative activist, both provincially and federally, and I think

00:05:46.000 way, way back in the Redford days. That's when you came on my radar as someone smart and someone to pay

00:05:52.020 attention to. So now that we're in the midst of the federal election, of course, I'm going to have my

00:05:57.560 smart guy William on the show. William, we're recording this Tuesday, morning, afternoon-ish,

00:06:04.600 and we just got word, I see from Brock Harrison. So Brock Harrison is Director of Communications for

00:06:14.020 Andrew Scheer, and he tweets out just minutes ago that the RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey, or Luckey,

00:06:20.920 I've never learned how to say her name, has confirmed there is an investigation into the SNC-Lavalin

00:06:26.600 corruption scandal. Now, you and I were talking off camera. This is great. We don't think that

00:06:33.300 justice should grind to a halt because an election campaign is on. That's hardly how things should

00:06:39.120 work. But I'm wondering, what sort of difference will this make to entrenched liberal voters, those

00:06:49.040 voters who, despite the pragmatism of Stephen Harper, voted for Justin Trudeau because they like

00:06:58.000 nice hair, socks, and sunny ways? You know, it's a really important question, and I'm sure it's one

00:07:05.200 that folks on the Scheer campaign and on the other ones are asking themselves, how solid and entrenched

00:07:11.940 is that liberal vote? So I would say there's a few things to consider. The first of all is we're still

00:07:17.580 pretty early in to this election. We still have about five weeks to go until election day.

00:07:22.540 What campaigns, you know, what a real campaign is about is trying to decide what question voters

00:07:29.980 will be asking themselves when they're standing in that voting booth, trying to make a decision about

00:07:34.980 who to vote for. And for Andrew Scheer, I think that question, he wants it to be, which party and which

00:07:41.300 leader do you trust to help you and your family get ahead? And for Justin Trudeau, he, of course,

00:07:47.660 wants it to be about which party and leader do you trust to keep moving Canada forward? Although

00:07:54.160 I'm not 100% sure I understand what that means. But, you know, this SNC thing has a real potential

00:08:00.980 to derail what the liberals are trying to communicate, which is under us, we've moved

00:08:05.940 Canada forward, we've made progress, despite the fact that they really haven't in so many ways.

00:08:10.980 And now people are going to be asking themselves on that, who do I trust question? Well, can you

00:08:15.280 really trust a party and a leader in particular, who has been subject to multiple investigations

00:08:22.260 for breaking the law?

00:08:24.600 Yeah, they're starting to number the investigations into Justin Trudeau's corruption. There's

00:08:29.620 report number one and report number two. And I mean, I anticipate there will probably be a

00:08:36.420 Montgomery style investigation, either after the next election, if the conservatives win, or when

00:08:45.520 Justin Trudeau is finally no longer prime minister, I think we'll see something like that, where

00:08:49.800 the onion is peeled right back. So we can see the levels of corruption of this liberal government,

00:08:55.580 because I think we're just started of sort of scratching the surface with it all.

00:09:00.600 No, I think you're absolutely right. And if you look back to the last time Canada was sort of in

00:09:07.600 this position, we were in sort of that 2005 period where a scandal plague liberal government was going

00:09:14.820 back to people asking for another kick at the can. And, you know, a breaking RCMP investigation in the

00:09:23.020 middle of the election campaign really was the final nail in the Paul Martin liberal coffin that time

00:09:28.840 around. So the question is, will people react the same way again this time? I think the complication

00:09:35.440 this time around is this campaign, while there have been policy announcements, really hasn't been

00:09:41.440 about policy so far. It's been about the theater of politics. And, you know, who was friends with who

00:09:48.600 half a decade ago? Apparently, who invited who else for drinks? As a liberal MP in Faith Goldie,

00:09:56.280 we just started having that conversation the last day and a half. So, you know, we really haven't

00:10:01.300 gotten into the meat of this campaign. And possibly, we never will, if this is how the media are going

00:10:06.360 to choose to cover the 40 days of this 43rd election. You know, I'm glad you brought that up,

00:10:12.340 because I'm not, maybe I am part of the problem, because I began digging into the social media histories

00:10:21.920 of liberal candidates back in 2015, way before I worked for the rebel, and I ended up nuking

00:10:28.100 Michelle Rempel's liberal candidate, they had to replace her, sort of in the middle of the campaign.

00:10:34.100 Incidentally, because she had said something about Ezra Levant, like sending him back to Israel or

00:10:38.460 something to that effect. So maybe I created this monster. But this is now gone beyond telling a

00:10:48.060 Canadian born Jewish man to go back to Israel. This is about, you can't have been friends with 1.00

00:10:53.680 someone, you can't have known somebody socially, you can't have been socially polite to someone,

00:11:01.200 because now, every opinion of that other person that they've made since then, you suddenly wear like

00:11:08.420 a yoke around your neck. To his credit, and I've been critical of Andrew Scheer when I don't think

00:11:13.440 he's conservative enough. To his credit, he's sort of drawn a line in the sand. And I think it's a very

00:11:19.340 conservative ideal to have where he says, look, people have changed from the time where they said

00:11:24.860 something, maybe not as polite as we consider it today. If they've, you know, made amends and have

00:11:32.860 demonstrated, you know, good moral character since then, that's good enough. And as for me, I think

00:11:38.360 that's very conservative, because I'm one of those people who, you know, there were times in my life

00:11:43.920 where I didn't live very conservatively. And once I started be behaving more conservative, life got

00:11:52.260 pretty good. And I like to sort of preach that message. If you, you know, suddenly start making

00:11:59.120 good choices and maintain personal responsibility, things will get better for you. And I like to think

00:12:05.140 that, you know, as conservatives, we should be inviting people who may not have always been

00:12:11.600 the kind of people we would think are conservative today, we should really be inviting them into the

00:12:17.360 fold. Once they've proven themselves, and I'm glad to see Andrew Scheer say that he sort of believes the

00:12:23.780 same way. Yeah, I think, you know, digging into a candidate's past is an entirely legitimate tactic,

00:12:32.600 part of any election campaign. And certainly, I think, a candidate's past should be of concern

00:12:39.220 to the voters in that, in that writing. So I'd like to know who I'm voting for, I'd like to know

00:12:45.220 what that person has said and done. And I also want to know if that person has subsequently changed

00:12:50.700 their mind, or realized they were mistaken, or their views have changed on an issue. Where I think this

00:12:58.040 starts to go off is when we try and hold an entire political party and a leader of a political party

00:13:06.140 accountable for the actions of one of 338 candidates on the team, especially when a political party

00:13:14.880 leader, at least in the case of, say, the conservatives, does not have total control over who is on that

00:13:20.980 slate of candidates. Candidates are by and large elected by the members in their writing. And, you know,

00:13:26.920 Andrew Scheer, as leader of the Conservative Party, has a team of 338. But it's really unfair to say

00:13:33.280 that the entire Conservative Party and Andrew Scheer are responsible for what a single candidate may have

00:13:39.100 done in the entire history of that candidate's life. And I also think you make a really good point

00:13:44.360 about people do change. And to me, I think when people change, that's something to be celebrated.

00:13:51.460 It's how society, it's how we make progress on important issues. One day, people said,

00:13:58.400 I used to believe this. I now don't. I now believe this. Why? Because I've learned more about an issue,

00:14:05.320 or because I've, you know, had the chance to think about it, or I've seen how it's affected someone in

00:14:11.060 my life who I know and love. And because of that, I now think something different. So rather than

00:14:16.100 condemning people for changing their views, or for having once held views that were out of step

00:14:21.220 with what we think of today, we should be celebrating people for when they change their

00:14:27.060 mind because they have new information, or because they've had a personal awakening on an issue.

00:14:33.240 Well, and I think there's a vast difference, too, between somebody who's done something and then

00:14:39.720 lived their life a different way for an extended period of time,

00:14:42.760 or someone who has had, you know, held views, probably still holds those views,

00:14:50.260 and only apologize now because everybody found out, or has not even apologized. In the Liberals' case,

00:14:56.360 they don't seem to be all that apologetic. We've had two candidates from the Liberal side,

00:15:04.340 one turfed, one not, who've made anti-Semitic comments. We had

00:15:10.660 Hassan Gillette, or Gillette. He, Benay Breath accused him of engaging in a pattern of disturbing

00:15:19.640 anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements. And, you know, he hasn't really renounced the statements.

00:15:29.720 He's actually just said, I'm not racist or anti-Semitic. But that doesn't negate what he said

00:15:36.540 before. He's not denying the views he held before. And in that case, the only problem the Liberals as

00:15:45.520 a party had with what he said was that Benay Breath didn't keep it under wraps. Benay Breath went public

00:15:51.620 with it. And that's when the Liberals decided to do something about it. Apparently, Benay Breath told

00:15:57.020 them months ago what they had uncovered their candidate to be saying. And then the Liberals have

00:16:05.960 just nominated. His name is Samir Zuberi. And again, according to Jewish organizations,

00:16:14.760 they say he's promoted conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks on 9-11. And said that his

00:16:22.560 bin Laden's role in 9-11 is still a matter for public debate. And, you know, given that Canadians

00:16:30.380 died in 9-11, I certainly don't want somebody who's in the House of Commons who's a 9-11 truther. 0.97

00:16:38.160 But the Liberals just nominated him and they're just letting him run.

00:16:42.660 No. And I think you make a really important point here. To judge a political party by what

00:16:50.520 a single candidate setter did 5, 10 or 15 years ago, but who has then subsequently changed their

00:16:57.140 position on it, I think is unfair. But there's a world of difference between that and then judging

00:17:03.460 a political party who is actively recruiting candidates who have problematic views about

00:17:10.480 Canada and Canadians. And the example that I think hammers at home is with the first candidate

00:17:15.760 you referenced. Well, after Benay Breath made public their information, the Liberal Party eventually

00:17:22.980 took action and dropped the individual as a candidate. But in his statement as to what

00:17:29.200 happened, he expressed shock and surprise because the Liberal Party had been working with him on,

00:17:34.800 to use his words, a PR plan to deal with his problematic comments. So to me, you're not really

00:17:42.860 sorry about something if you're in the midst of building a PR plan to defend it. That tells me what

00:17:50.980 you're sorry for is getting caught. You're not sorry for the views you held at some point in your

00:17:57.620 life. So what's interesting is Andrew Scheer has said that no blanket policy, we'll examine each one

00:18:05.820 as we go. But if someone demonstrates real remorse and offers a real apology for something, that's in

00:18:12.520 his mind a demonstration of someone who could still be a great candidate for the Conservative Party.

00:18:17.940 Like NDP leader Jagmeek Singh said virtually the same thing. He said, look, if someone wants to espouse

00:18:24.580 views that are not compatible with what our party stands for, with what Canadians accept, but that person

00:18:31.020 has apologized, that person's views have changed, and here's demonstrable reason for why we believe that,

00:18:36.660 he's also not going to force them out. Because otherwise, what will elections become?

00:18:40.300 Elections will become, you know, and in this round, we lost 600 candidates across all the different

00:18:46.840 parties. And at some point, once you lose a candidate, you just can't replace them. So do does that mean

00:18:53.000 voters in that riding just won't have that choice? You know, you're living in a riding, you know,

00:18:58.720 you've lost three candidates out of scandal and are out of misropriety or something they said,

00:19:03.680 you know, at some point in their past. So now you have to vote for the only one who's left,

00:19:07.740 because they're the only one whose name's still on the ballot. Yeah. And I mean,

00:19:11.960 on what level does this remove the local autonomy and local democracy of the local riding? You know,

00:19:19.620 if these candidates have campaigned, they've been vetted enough for the people who helped them win

00:19:26.780 the nomination. Why can't the local residents decide if they want to send them to Ottawa?

00:19:32.660 You know, when you are constantly removing candidates because the CBC doesn't like a social

00:19:37.720 media post they made eight years ago, or whatever it is. Why should Rosie Barton get to decide the 1.00

00:19:45.920 liberal that runs in my riding or the conservative that runs in my riding? That just doesn't seem

00:19:50.320 democratic.

00:19:53.520 No, and I think you raised the other key ingredient, political parties would not spend the kind of

00:19:59.580 time, money and effort they do, looking up the past history, social media posts of candidates,

00:20:05.900 if those were then reported breathlessly by national media outlets, as if the candidate literally woke up

00:20:14.420 that morning and screamed it from his bedroom window. So, you know, I think that the media do have to take

00:20:21.600 a look at themselves and say, look, you know, you profess to say you hate scripted campaigns, you hate the

00:20:27.880 talking points, you hate that you only ever get canned soundbites. Well, guess what? That means you cannot

00:20:34.560 also then do 48 hours of around the clock news on what a candidate said 10 or 15 years ago as part of

00:20:45.460 your election coverage. It's important to the people of that riding, absolutely, but it's not worth a day of

00:20:51.620 national news. And of course, that's what we've seen happening is is fairly breathless

00:20:56.340 reporting from national media about candidates who have said and done certain things and primarily from the

00:21:03.060 conservative campaign. Although one of the reasons I think the media also have done that is because the prime

00:21:07.900 minister was simply missing in action for two whole days of this campaign. He took the weekend off. And even though there

00:21:14.740 were reporters embedded on his campaign within seat of him, I saw it with my own eyes. Nobody chose to take

00:21:23.120 that opportunity to ask him a question. He described it as well, we're in the rapid riding movement phase. And as

00:21:29.980 someone who's worked politics for 20 years, well, that's not a thing. That's just campaign tour, moving from one

00:21:36.020 place to the next to shake hands and to flip pancakes or whatever the event is that's going on. You can easily ask

00:21:43.080 questions on the route. And let's contrast that with Andrew Scheer, who every single day of this campaign has stood on

00:21:48.660 his airplane and answered reporter questions until they ran out of questions to ask him. So who is really trying to hide and

00:21:56.040 cover things up in this election? A prime minister running from the media or Andrew Scheer who takes questions until there are no

00:22:01.660 more questions?

00:22:02.840 You know, that is a great point. I saw it with my own eyes in Edmonton after I was removed from the liberal event for being nothing other than a

00:22:10.600 conservative. He walked onto the media bus or the liberal bus, but I repeat myself, sat down, surrounded by

00:22:19.160 reporters. Since when do reporters need a politician's permission to ask them questions? It's our duty to ask them

00:22:27.940 questions, especially questions they don't want asked and questions they don't want to answer. I've seen, I don't know how

00:22:37.080 many hours of footage of Justin Trudeau walking around, followed by reporters, and then the reporters

00:22:44.460 complaining, well, he's not allowing us to ask questions. Give me a break. You're three feet from the

00:22:51.460 man. Ask him a question. If he ignores you, he ignores you, but at least you tried. And then to see reporters

00:22:58.860 complaining, I mean, it's just really quite appalling, especially when you, like you point out, contrast that

00:23:05.080 with Andrew Scheer, what Andrew Scheer is doing, but also how the media is treating Andrew Scheer. I watched

00:23:11.140 a CBC reporter chase Andrew Scheer through a parking lot and chase his car down as the car drove away

00:23:16.980 because she wanted her questions answered. Why isn't anybody doing that to Justin Trudeau while he's

00:23:21.940 buying fries for CBC reporters? Absolutely. You know, media outlets spend a ton of money to embed a

00:23:31.980 reporter onto one of those campaigns. It's, you know, something in the order of $10,000 a week

00:23:38.200 for a reporter for a major media outlet to be on the liberal plane or to be on the, on the conservative

00:23:43.720 plane. So you would think with that kind of investment, reporters would be using every single

00:23:50.020 opportunity they have to get questions answered. And I don't understand why we seem to be seeing one

00:23:58.080 set of rules for Andrew Scheer and the conservative party and another set of rules for Justin Trudeau,

00:24:03.280 you know, as prime minister, certainly during an election, they're both political party leaders,

00:24:07.860 both wanting to lead our country. What is this clubby, oh, well, we can't ask questions because

00:24:13.640 what? He won't give you your free poutine if, if you yell a question at him or, you know, he'll give

00:24:19.840 you a worse seat on the plane that you've paid for to be there. Like what's the, what's the downside

00:24:25.280 of asking him questions? You know, the prime minister will get mad at you. Okay. You'll live.

00:24:30.920 It's time to be brave reporters of Canada and don't just put up with, well, we're not taking

00:24:35.580 questions today. And certainly then don't cover the liberal photo ops. If they're not prepared to

00:24:41.660 also take questions, because then that's just free media, free criticism, free media for the liberal

00:24:47.800 party. Yeah. And last time I checked, Justin Trudeau already has a private photographer.

00:24:51.740 Somebody whose sole job is devoted to taking glamour photos of Justin Trudeau. We don't need

00:24:58.240 the entire media pool taking pictures of Justin Trudeau. I mean, and especially when the parliamentary

00:25:05.280 press gallery will not accredit our journalists. And I suspect our journalists are probably the only

00:25:12.980 one who would shout questions at Justin Trudeau over a plate of poutine. But they're controlling this

00:25:21.180 exclusive access to Justin Trudeau and then refusing to do their job. It's very bizarre. And it's really

00:25:27.660 quite shameless. You can see, you can see how they're treating Andrew Scheer versus how they're

00:25:33.960 treating Justin Trudeau. And Justin Trudeau, he knows he's going to receive that sort of passive

00:25:40.320 glowing treatment. I mean, he bought fries for a CBC reporter on camera and then said,

00:25:49.840 we know the Liberal Party of Canada always takes care of CBC. I mean, the gall of saying that

00:25:55.920 right in front of all those reporters knowing he really wouldn't get any criticism out of those

00:26:01.080 reporters for saying something so, you know, inappropriate, but honest for once. It's really

00:26:08.860 quite bizarre. And then we also saw Global News copyright struck that video of Justin Trudeau

00:26:17.660 giving fries to a CBC reporter. Then they took it down. Then they re-put up a version of it,

00:26:26.640 despite owning two versions of it. They re-put up another version of it that's less clear. And I

00:26:33.860 think it's to obscure sort of the reactions of the reporters because the original version of that,

00:26:39.400 you could see the reporters all there. You could see the reporter that Justin Trudeau gave the gift to,

00:26:45.900 and you could see their like happy, jokey reaction. The new version doesn't show that. And I think

00:26:52.460 it's really strange being someone who works for a media organization. If we owned two versions of

00:26:58.320 the same video, we would absolutely put up the more clear one. And boy, it sure looks like there's a

00:27:04.280 cabal at work here around Justin Trudeau. Reporters protecting journalists and reporters

00:27:11.320 protecting Justin Trudeau's bad behavior. Yeah. And you know, this incident has been so

00:27:17.860 interesting for, I mean, a few reasons. Well, first of all, we said, if you create a media fund,

00:27:24.840 a $595 million media fund to give taxpayer dollars to media, you will influence the coverage of politics

00:27:33.600 in this country. And in this case, I think you're absolutely right. And, you know, even if that

00:27:40.620 wasn't their intent, that is certainly what has come to pass. And the second thing is, of course,

00:27:45.940 is that it really hurts media's ability to say, look, we're doing our tough job, and we're trying

00:27:53.600 to hold politicians to account when you see this. And this incident in particular has had several

00:27:59.260 reporters. I saw one, I think, from the Globe and Mail today, retweet the CBC reporter in questions,

00:28:05.820 tweets about the not asking questions. He was the one who got the routine handed to him by saying,

00:28:10.620 well, how can you say this when Andrew Scheer is taking questions each and every day of this campaign

00:28:15.940 and Justin Trudeau isn't? And I thought, well, that's interesting. You don't always see division

00:28:21.080 in the ranks of media coverage. But I think it's because some media are starting to come to the

00:28:25.120 conclusion that they're about to suffer irreparable and irreversible damage to their credibility

00:28:31.280 because of how they cover an election in the face of all of this taxpayer money that is now going to

00:28:37.220 their corporate owners. So maybe you'll start to see more media pushing back against the clubby

00:28:43.500 Ottawa-based journalists who day-to-day cover the prime minister and national politics. But yeah,

00:28:51.060 it was a very telling, telling incident, the poutine to the reporter from the prime minister and the

00:28:56.300 comment that he made. Oh, it was so strange. Now, you did mention that there has been very little

00:29:01.780 policy being announced from the Liberals. I can't really, there's really not much of anything except

00:29:08.520 we're going to increase this amount of money that we're giving you. But Andrew Scheer has actually

00:29:13.420 made some pretty tangible policy announcements that will put more money back in Canadians' pockets.

00:29:22.040 The two children's tax credits that were cut by Trudeau, I embrace these tax credits coming back into

00:29:30.780 my life. I've got some very active kids. They're always in something. And when Trudeau took those tax

00:29:38.340 credits away, it really made a difference in my life and a lot of other middle-class families' lives.

00:29:43.480 You know, it's interesting. The Conservative policy, you know, if you look what's been announced by the

00:29:50.700 Liberals and you look what has been announced by the Conservatives, it's two very different ideas of

00:29:55.820 what government can and should be in our lives. In the case of the Liberals, for example, the new

00:30:00.640 250,000 daycare before and after school care spaces, well, only even their own math suggests that only about

00:30:09.440 one out of every $3 of that program is going to go into the pockets of parents. The others are going

00:30:15.380 to be consumed by the bureaucracy, by government, by unions, and by the government-approved

00:30:21.680 childcare options that receive taxpayer funding. Where the Conservative approach has always been,

00:30:26.940 look, we will give you back more of your own tax dollars so that you can spend them in ways that

00:30:34.280 you see fit and best for your family. So in the case of the Child Fitness Tax Credit and the Child

00:30:39.500 Arts Tax Credit, it's saying, look, we're not going to tell you what sports, you know, or what artistic

00:30:45.280 pursuits are going to qualify. We're going to say it's a tax credit. You can enroll your kids and then get

00:30:51.080 some money back from that cost on your taxes. And it doesn't require an army of government

00:30:56.040 bureaucrats to administer a program like that. It's done automatically when you file your taxes 1.00

00:31:01.980 by computers. So to me, I think it's a much better way of addressing the required, the flexibility

00:31:08.560 that's needed for national programs. That's always been the biggest challenge of creating a national

00:31:12.880 program is a voter living in rural Newfoundland is very different than a voter living in downtown

00:31:18.680 Vancouver. And so how can you build a program that will possibly meet both of those needs if you're

00:31:23.740 trying to do it from a central big government standpoint? And the other big program that I

00:31:28.220 think is really great is the universal tax cuts that Andrew Scheer announced that would see the

00:31:34.800 lowest income tax bracket reduced from 15 percent to 13.75 percent, a one and a quarter percent cut

00:31:42.100 on that tax bracket. It is a real benefit to those earning the lowest amounts of money and to those

00:31:49.960 families who are getting by, you know, paying their bills but are struggling to make ends meet. It will

00:31:55.900 make a real difference. And it's a sharp contrast to the tax plan that the liberals introduced where

00:32:00.320 the benefits disproportionately went to people earning more than $250,000 a year. So I think that's a great

00:32:07.620 policy from Andrew Scheer. A couple of great policies have come out and it tells me they've really done

00:32:12.700 their homework on this whole fight for the middle class, which I think is coming to define this

00:32:19.520 election. You know, Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives with their slogan, it's time for you to get ahead.

00:32:23.480 And the you in this case is hardworking everyday families who aren't politically well connected like

00:32:28.700 the Irvings and like SNC-Lavalin and like Bombardier, who clearly are the first priority of the liberal

00:32:34.760 government. Yeah, it's been really great to see a tax credit that provides you choice. And like you

00:32:42.740 say, does recognize. It's so funny because the liberals talk about diversity, diversity, diversity

00:32:48.420 is our strength. And yet they design these cookie cutter programs that are, you know, they don't address

00:32:55.300 the fact that, you know, sometimes hockey is the only game in town out in the middle of nowhere. And,

00:33:02.320 you know, hockey is very expensive. And if you want kids in rural Canada to have the same access and

00:33:10.460 opportunities as kids, like you say, in downtown Vancouver, these sort of tax credits help, as

00:33:16.220 opposed to these behemoth cookie cutter programs that the liberals have designed that, you know,

00:33:21.800 everybody lives in a condo in downtown Montreal, and everybody goes to the daycare that's directly

00:33:26.760 underneath their suite. It's, we live in a far different world. And the conservatives,

00:33:34.020 they have tailored programs that are, have something for everybody, I guess.

00:33:40.400 Yeah, no, it, you know, for people who do claim to celebrate diversity, their view of Canada is

00:33:45.920 very monolithic. It's very urban. It's, it's very affluent. It's very much people who depend

00:33:54.440 from when they wake up in the morning to when they go to bed at night on government and on government

00:33:59.260 programs. And it doesn't recognize the fact that we are a big, diverse country, lots of different

00:34:04.700 Canadians, lots of different circumstances, and lots of people who are struggling for one reason or

00:34:11.740 another to make ends meet. And certainly, the tax credits and the tax cut proposed by the sheer

00:34:17.060 campaign so far appear to be really hitting on that, let's make life more affordable for you and

00:34:22.560 your family themes. Now, William, you've been super generous with your time today. You're here talking

00:34:29.360 about the federal campaign, but your day job is in municipal politics as a municipal politics watchdog.

00:34:37.580 I want to give you a chance to plug the work that you do at Save Calgary and let people know how they

00:34:42.880 can support you. Well, thanks, Sheila. I did have to laugh. The mayor has made his demands of federal

00:34:49.060 political party leaders, and this becomes a big surprise. He wants more money from other political

00:34:55.280 parties. No, no. I know. What a shocking decision. What a surprise. So out of character.

00:35:00.960 And, you know, frankly, anybody who's paid any attention to Canada's fiscal situation will know

00:35:06.200 there just isn't money available to give to cities to fund whatever pet projects those cities

00:35:13.060 are demanding for this week. Certainly, you know, with a deficit that's still in the double digits,

00:35:19.280 and even under Andrew Scheer's, you know, the liberals describe it as austerity. Andrew Scheer's

00:35:25.860 plan still takes five years to balance Canada's budget from all of this liberal misspending. So

00:35:31.480 I did enjoy the optimism, though, or at least maybe the I don't care about the facts and reality

00:35:36.880 attitude of the mayor. I'm just going to ask for more money. So Save Calgary, we've said,

00:35:40.740 and we've made this pretty clear. We think Calgary has enough money. We think Calgary takes in from

00:35:45.640 businesses, from homeowners, through all of the fees, taxes, surcharges, and levies that they put

00:35:51.100 on to people. They have enough money to run the city. What they need to do is cut their spending,

00:35:56.000 which I know is sacrilege in the world, in the world of municipal politics. But it's time to take

00:36:01.160 a good hard look at how the city spends our money. So our website, savecalgary.com. You can follow

00:36:06.700 us through our social media channels. We put out a nearly weekly newsletter, which talks about some

00:36:12.520 of the issues happening in Calgary going on. And if you would like to come and check us out,

00:36:17.300 we'd really love it. We'd love it if you followed our social media, sign up for our newsletter. And

00:36:20.720 if you could, maybe after Andrew Scheer's universal tax cut, you could even afford to make a donation

00:36:25.360 to save Calgary. Fantastic, William. Thanks for your expert analysis today. And thanks for all

00:36:32.600 the work that you do for Calgary taxpayers. We'll check back in, I bet you, before the campaign is

00:36:38.140 over, if you're willing. Absolutely. It's great to see you again, Sheila.

00:36:41.420 Social media has really given humanity the ability to spread lies like never before. But it's also

00:37:00.120 removed the mainstream media as the wall citizens have to climb over to get the honest truth. At the

00:37:07.200 end of the day, no matter what the journalists who would allow themselves to be bought off for a plate

00:37:13.120 of poutine would have you believe, or what the pro-censorship Liberal Party says, the job of

00:37:19.800 deciphering what's BS and what's truth lies solely on the individual and never the state. Well, everybody,

00:37:28.280 that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here at the same

00:37:33.160 time in the same place next week. And remember, don't take fries and gravy from charismatic gropers,

00:37:41.320 and don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:38:03.160 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - September 19, 2019

What Conservative candidates really stand for： Facts vs. (Liberal Party) fiction (Guest： William McBeath)

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