Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Danielle Smith Gives Trudeau Alberta's Line in the Sand ｜ Stand on Guard TAKE 5

00:00:00.000 One of my favorite topics, you know how in the United States, everybody made fun of the

00:00:11.000 Green New Deal, you know, Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman from New York, came up with

00:00:20.520 this thing over a weekend, basically, writing it on cocktail napkins, and it was, people

00:00:26.280 were laughing at it because they were going to phase out air travel within the decade.

00:00:31.320 Yeah, right, and everybody's going to start taking the train and buses.

00:00:35.180 Oh, no, no, we can't take the bus, that causes more greenhouse gas.

00:00:39.500 So anyway, people were just mocking the Green New Deal, not going to happen.

00:00:45.220 But of course, it has been happening under Joe Biden, they just don't call it the Green

00:00:50.400 New Deal.

00:00:51.800 It's been part of all of the trillions of dollars of spending.

00:00:55.180 They're implementing the Green New Deal incrementally, one step at a time, and it just gets more 0.93

00:01:00.880 and more ridiculous.

00:01:02.280 Nobody has a plan for this, and this is really what I need to point out here, is that what 0.91

00:01:12.200 happened in Canada is that Justin Trudeau came out with the just transition.

00:01:17.000 People made fun of that, too, because it sounded like Justin transition.

00:01:22.200 I can't stand the phrase just transition.

00:01:25.240 I've said this for years.

00:01:28.180 Just transition is a word that workers hate, and my constituents don't like, and so I don't

00:01:32.900 like it either.

00:01:33.620 So we tried anyway, within the bureaucracy and amongst ourselves, to say the word sustainable

00:01:38.080 jobs.

00:01:38.540 And a lot of people pointed out that I was one of the first actually to make that connection.

00:01:44.680 But it was all nonsense, and there was a secret memo associated with it saying that everybody

00:01:51.120 loses a job, a good-paying oil rig job, for instance.

00:01:55.460 Well, you can always find a job as a janitor.

00:01:57.800 Yeah, well, there's nothing wrong with janitors, but you might think twice if you're making

00:02:03.540 the big bucks in the oil fields.

00:02:07.420 You might not want to be a janitor.

00:02:09.840 So anyway, a lot of people pointed that out, and it's just classic, classic Trudeau nonsense.

00:02:20.040 But the conservatives have not been good on this either.

00:02:24.320 And I really want to point this out, because, you know, what has been going on here is that

00:02:30.600 the, you know, the conservatives under Paliyev and the premier who's fighting this, the hardest

00:02:39.660 and the strongest, Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, they want to put it off.

00:02:46.480 They want to say it's not achievable by 2035, you know, which is what, 12 years away?

00:02:52.300 No, it's not achievable.

00:02:54.120 But maybe we can do it by 2050.

00:02:57.320 Let's not worry about it in our generation.

00:02:59.700 All these people are going to be out of politics in 25 years.

00:03:03.220 So really what they're saying is that the principle is okay.

00:03:08.460 But I tell you, the principle is not okay.

00:03:10.940 And so I want you to listen to this interview, and I'll comment on it when we get back, because

00:03:20.600 I think it's extremely important that we understand exactly, you know, what's going on here.

00:03:27.820 We're talking about new projects and managed to get to net zero within a short period of

00:03:34.080 time, 12 years.

00:03:34.960 It's just not, it's just frankly not achievable.

00:03:37.040 We have to fight it with every power that we have.

00:03:41.380 Okay.

00:03:42.420 Up to now, this is great.

00:03:45.440 And we need to hear all the premiers talking like this, because this is going to be a catastrophic

00:03:49.900 job loss.

00:03:50.980 And we're talking not just tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs

00:03:56.760 loss when everything is added into the mix.

00:04:00.320 So continue, Danielle.

00:04:02.280 The Constitution is pretty clear that Alberta has the right to develop its resources in its

00:04:06.040 own way.

00:04:07.040 And because I've set an emissions reduction target that's in line with the federal emissions

00:04:11.580 reduction target of 2050, then I believe that the Supreme Court will side with us.

00:04:16.080 But we'll have to fight it out.

00:04:17.180 And I'm prepared to defend our jurisdiction.

00:04:18.560 In the past, whether it was with Pierre Trudeau or any of a successive number of federal

00:04:26.280 politicians, the fight was always how much additional wealth can be extracted from Alberta

00:04:32.080 to benefit Ottawa.

00:04:33.780 That was always what the fight was before.

00:04:36.520 We've never faced a government that wants to shut our economy down and wants to shut down

00:04:41.100 our energy industry and wants to phase out our oil and natural gas workers to their own

00:04:45.800 detriment.

00:04:46.640 That's what makes this different.

00:04:47.880 The aspirations, the ideological aspirations that have been put on the table with targets

00:04:53.880 pulled out of the air by politicians who know nothing about our local environment and

00:04:58.460 how unachievable it is.

00:05:00.900 And it's going to be unachievable until there's a solution to not using oil and gas.

00:05:08.760 And that is the foundation of every modern economy.

00:05:14.760 And we're not going to go into a green economy anytime soon because it's just not there.

00:05:21.760 The alternative green energy is not going to replace fossil fuels.

00:05:29.160 Now, maybe there's an answer on the horizon.

00:05:31.540 Well, we haven't got it yet.

00:05:34.440 Now, if that answer is being smothered by corporations or government, let them be damned for that.

00:05:41.700 But the point is, if we don't want to live in caves, we don't want to freeze in the winter,

00:05:46.160 and we want to be able to drive to work or on vacation, we can't all switch to electric vehicles.

00:05:56.160 And we're not going to find a green energy source that's going to heat a country like Canada in February.

00:06:03.520 It gets to minus 40 in a lot of cities or minus 30 in Ottawa in every February.

00:06:13.920 It's funny how, you know, people don't quite get as enthousal of climate change in February

00:06:19.580 because it's freezing.

00:06:21.120 And they know they've got to turn the heat up.

00:06:24.160 So.

00:06:25.320 My job to make sure that they understand that it is unachievable, that it does not only harm us,

00:06:31.640 it harms them.

00:06:32.900 As I mentioned to the prime minister when I spoke with him, I said,

00:06:36.100 when we do well, we actually generate a heck of a lot of federal revenue in corporate income taxes

00:06:43.120 and personal income taxes.

00:06:44.720 The federal government has its own issues in trying to get to a balanced budget.

00:06:48.520 There is no margin for them in shutting down our economy or shutting down our industry

00:06:53.160 or chasing away investment.

00:06:54.980 And so I'm pretty direct and clear on that.

00:06:57.940 I've had that direct conversation with the prime minister several times.

00:07:00.920 I'm going to have that direct conversation with ministers LeBlanc and Wilkinson today.

00:07:05.420 And I'm hopeful that we'll be able to find the areas that we can work together

00:07:09.340 because there's such an appetite on the part of our industry

00:07:12.320 to be investing in the kind of technologies that they want to see that will reduce emissions.

00:07:16.440 But the fact of the matter is there's a hard line.

00:07:19.360 We're just not shutting down our oil and natural gas industry.

00:07:21.940 We're not phasing out our oil and natural gas workers.

00:07:25.080 I've drawn the line in the sand.

00:07:26.900 I put forward our emissions reduction and energy development plan for a reason

00:07:30.320 because I'm sending the message to Ottawa that we are going to chart our own pathway

00:07:34.140 to meet our national commitment of being carbon neutral by 2050.

00:07:37.700 I'm very cautious, though, too.

00:07:39.160 I remember, along with everybody else, when the tinkling of the champagne glasses,

00:07:44.900 thinking that when Peter Loughey thought he'd had a deal with Pierre Trudeau,

00:07:49.700 and it turned out to be something very, very different than he thought he was agreeing to,

00:07:54.080 and then he spent the rest of his time fighting to make sure that we got our resources back.

00:07:57.520 So I'm not going to be naive about it either.

00:07:59.980 We're going to be industry-led on this.

00:08:02.800 We're going to make sure that we're always in alignment with what industry says is achievable,

00:08:07.100 industry is investing in, and it is our job to be an advocate for ourselves and industry

00:08:11.720 about how we're going to reach that target in a way that draws investment in rather than pushes it away.

00:08:17.600 Yeah.

00:08:18.640 I mean, right on.

00:08:20.300 And I take my hat off to Danielle, who I've known for many years.

00:08:25.220 I knew her when she was a journalist with the Calgary Herald,

00:08:28.540 and I was writing for the Calgary Herald at the same time.

00:08:31.400 Wonderful woman.

00:08:32.100 Probably the gutsiest premier we have, but we cannot surrender facts to Justin Trudeau

00:08:38.320 because the fanaticism surrounding climate change is so extreme.

00:08:44.020 These people don't care if we're going to freeze because they're not going to freeze.

00:08:48.800 They're going to still live their privileged lifestyle.

00:08:51.980 They're still going to jet-set around the world going to climate change conferences.

00:08:55.940 Trudeau's still got his government jet, his challenger,

00:08:58.400 to fly around the world on his private vacations and on climate change conferences.

00:09:03.580 Building up his carbon footprint all over the world.

00:09:08.800 And he doesn't see the hypocrisy in that.

00:09:12.460 Just like Joe Biden doesn't see the hypocrisy of him being the elite

00:09:16.460 and Joe Biden's climate czar running around the world in his private jet.

00:09:24.000 They don't see the hypocrisy.

00:09:25.840 But believe me, this is quite fascinating because what Tucker Carlson says in this next segment

00:09:32.860 is exactly what's wrong with Justin Trudeau in Canada.

00:09:38.260 If you don't have cheap natural gas, you can't run the continent.

00:09:43.800 You know, if you've got a graduate degree and live in a city in the United States,

00:09:46.720 you may be shocked to learn this.

00:09:47.940 You may never have heard this before.

00:09:49.160 You may have believed that fossil fuels were on their way out any day now.

00:09:53.000 And you thought that because the Davos people and our own leaders assured us of that for decades.

00:09:57.160 They told us that green energy was the future and the future is here.

00:10:00.600 It's here.

00:10:01.120 As recently as last month, the World Economic Forum claimed that Europe could save, quote,

00:10:06.420 one trillion in fossil fuel costs by switching to renewables.

00:10:10.900 But it turns out, and this may not shock you, they had no clue what they were talking about.

00:10:16.700 They knew nothing about the subject, the subject they talked about endlessly.

00:10:21.820 Green energy cannot replace fossil fuels.

00:10:24.420 Not now, not anytime soon.

00:10:27.240 Fossil fuels remain what they have always been, the key to civilization.

00:10:31.720 That is true now.

00:10:32.580 That has been true since Homo erectus started the first cooking fire in a cave nearly a million years ago.

00:10:39.680 So-called green energy is not close, is nowhere near replacing gas and oil and coal.

00:10:47.700 It's measurable.

00:10:49.300 We could have known this.

00:10:50.520 Anyone with eighth grade math skills could have figured out in about 10 minutes

00:10:54.720 that we cannot replace fossil fuels with renewables or green energy.

00:10:59.540 And of course, they must have known that.

00:11:02.800 When they told you otherwise, it was just posturing.

00:11:05.120 It was childish and destructive fantasy talk that apparently fooled millions of their citizens and millions of ours.

00:11:11.140 The Green New Deal means what it always meant.

00:11:15.260 It means poverty.

00:11:17.260 And the people pushing the Green New Deal must have known that all along.

00:11:20.920 They don't actually believe climate change is an imminent threat.

00:11:24.060 If they actually believed climate change was an imminent threat, an existential emergency,

00:11:27.580 the first thing they would have done, the very first, would be to ban private jets.

00:11:32.320 Oh, but no.

00:11:33.300 To this day, Al Gore still flies on private jets.

00:11:36.740 Barack Obama owns tens of millions of dollars of beachfront property.

00:11:40.140 He knows the oceans aren't rising.

00:11:42.460 Come on.

00:11:43.460 So they're all in on it.

00:11:44.540 It's a scam.

00:11:45.640 But they don't care.

00:11:46.620 Because they know they personally will escape the consequences of their own policies.

00:11:50.740 So when the French president announces that his people are facing the end of abundance,

00:11:55.040 he's not talking about himself.

00:11:56.700 He's not facing the end of abundance.

00:11:58.480 None of them are.

00:11:59.420 Macron and all of them understand they will always be rich and always be protected.

00:12:04.020 They know that for certain.

00:12:05.680 Sacrifice is going to come from everybody else.

00:12:07.480 And for what?

00:12:09.600 If Canada achieves net zero and we're all living in caves,

00:12:14.320 you think China is going to cease creating greenhouse gases?

00:12:18.580 They're creating most of them.

00:12:19.580 We don't even make a dent in it.

00:12:22.280 The carbon tax hasn't reduced our climate footprint.

00:12:26.020 Yeah, the pandemic reduced our climate footprint because everybody was staying home,

00:12:30.680 not going to work.

00:12:32.220 Yeah, of course we produce less.

00:12:34.280 Now life is back to normal.

00:12:36.120 People still have to use gas and they still have to heat their homes.

00:12:40.360 And they will with fossil fuels until further notice.

00:12:44.880 So we need to make that quite clear.

00:12:46.700 And we need to be realistic about these things.

00:12:51.660 And this is a religion.

00:12:56.200 Fighting climate change is a religion for people like Justin Trudeau.

00:13:00.560 They put their faith in this.

00:13:03.240 It's an ideology that is just all-encompassing.

00:13:08.160 And they really have convinced themselves, I believe, that the average Canadian goes to bed at night worrying about climate change.

00:13:15.400 No, they don't.

00:13:16.260 They worry about paying the mortgage.

00:13:17.660 They're worrying about paying for their groceries.

00:13:19.520 They worry about making their paycheck last.

00:13:23.340 They're not laying there worrying about climate change.

00:13:27.240 It's a nebulous fear.

00:13:28.660 And it's just being used by politicians to stoke the fires of fear so they can pretend to solve the problem.

00:13:39.500 And they're not solving it.

00:13:40.820 But what we have to watch for this summer is what happens to our internet freedom as the liberal censorship bills start to cut in.

00:13:49.420 We might be cut off from social media news any day soon, any day now.

00:13:57.860 And that's the direct cause of the government's meddling, of the federal government meddling.

00:14:02.740 And that's going to be sad news.

00:14:04.140 Can you imagine being left with nothing but CBC, your publicly funded state broadcaster?

00:14:10.500 I tell you again, support independent journalism, support this station, support this channel, support this show.

00:14:20.880 I want to keep coming on here every week.

00:14:22.980 And we are on the verge of monetization.

00:14:25.680 It's very important because you've got to make this pay so you can continue to deliver the news in these trying times, in these days of censorship,

00:14:38.320 censorship, these, this is an era of internet, social media censorship by a very wicked government.

00:14:47.780 And we need to come against that.

00:14:49.860 So thank you for listening today.

00:14:52.340 We'll be back next week.

00:14:53.800 I'll be doing some more take fives in the meantime, but keep on listening and keep on supporting us.

00:15:02.700 God bless.

00:15:08.320 God bless.

00:15:09.060 God bless.

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - June 24, 2023

Danielle Smith Gives Trudeau Alberta's Line in the Sand ｜ Stand on Guard TAKE 5

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