Danielle Smith Gives Trudeau Alberta's Line in the Sand ｜ Stand on Guard TAKE 5
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Alberta s premier, Danielle Smith, to discuss her opposition to the government s plan to phase out oil and gas use in the province, and why she thinks it's a bad idea.
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One of my favorite topics, you know how in the United States, everybody made fun of the
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Green New Deal, you know, Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman from New York, came up with
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this thing over a weekend, basically, writing it on cocktail napkins, and it was, people
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were laughing at it because they were going to phase out air travel within the decade.
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Yeah, right, and everybody's going to start taking the train and buses.
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Oh, no, no, we can't take the bus, that causes more greenhouse gas.
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So anyway, people were just mocking the Green New Deal, not going to happen.
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But of course, it has been happening under Joe Biden, they just don't call it the Green
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It's been part of all of the trillions of dollars of spending.
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They're implementing the Green New Deal incrementally, one step at a time, and it just gets more
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Nobody has a plan for this, and this is really what I need to point out here, is that what
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happened in Canada is that Justin Trudeau came out with the just transition.
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People made fun of that, too, because it sounded like Justin transition.
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Just transition is a word that workers hate, and my constituents don't like, and so I don't
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So we tried anyway, within the bureaucracy and amongst ourselves, to say the word sustainable
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And a lot of people pointed out that I was one of the first actually to make that connection.
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But it was all nonsense, and there was a secret memo associated with it saying that everybody
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loses a job, a good-paying oil rig job, for instance.
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Yeah, well, there's nothing wrong with janitors, but you might think twice if you're making
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So anyway, a lot of people pointed that out, and it's just classic, classic Trudeau nonsense.
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But the conservatives have not been good on this either.
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And I really want to point this out, because, you know, what has been going on here is that
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the, you know, the conservatives under Paliyev and the premier who's fighting this, the hardest
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and the strongest, Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, they want to put it off.
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They want to say it's not achievable by 2035, you know, which is what, 12 years away?
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All these people are going to be out of politics in 25 years.
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So really what they're saying is that the principle is okay.
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And so I want you to listen to this interview, and I'll comment on it when we get back, because
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I think it's extremely important that we understand exactly, you know, what's going on here.
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We're talking about new projects and managed to get to net zero within a short period of
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It's just not, it's just frankly not achievable.
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We have to fight it with every power that we have.
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And we need to hear all the premiers talking like this, because this is going to be a catastrophic
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And we're talking not just tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs
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The Constitution is pretty clear that Alberta has the right to develop its resources in its
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And because I've set an emissions reduction target that's in line with the federal emissions
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reduction target of 2050, then I believe that the Supreme Court will side with us.
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In the past, whether it was with Pierre Trudeau or any of a successive number of federal
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politicians, the fight was always how much additional wealth can be extracted from Alberta
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We've never faced a government that wants to shut our economy down and wants to shut down
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our energy industry and wants to phase out our oil and natural gas workers to their own
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The aspirations, the ideological aspirations that have been put on the table with targets
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pulled out of the air by politicians who know nothing about our local environment and
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And it's going to be unachievable until there's a solution to not using oil and gas.
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And that is the foundation of every modern economy.
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And we're not going to go into a green economy anytime soon because it's just not there.
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The alternative green energy is not going to replace fossil fuels.
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Now, if that answer is being smothered by corporations or government, let them be damned for that.
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But the point is, if we don't want to live in caves, we don't want to freeze in the winter,
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and we want to be able to drive to work or on vacation, we can't all switch to electric vehicles.
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And we're not going to find a green energy source that's going to heat a country like Canada in February.
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It gets to minus 40 in a lot of cities or minus 30 in Ottawa in every February.
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It's funny how, you know, people don't quite get as enthousal of climate change in February
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My job to make sure that they understand that it is unachievable, that it does not only harm us,
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As I mentioned to the prime minister when I spoke with him, I said,
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when we do well, we actually generate a heck of a lot of federal revenue in corporate income taxes
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The federal government has its own issues in trying to get to a balanced budget.
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There is no margin for them in shutting down our economy or shutting down our industry
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I've had that direct conversation with the prime minister several times.
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I'm going to have that direct conversation with ministers LeBlanc and Wilkinson today.
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And I'm hopeful that we'll be able to find the areas that we can work together
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because there's such an appetite on the part of our industry
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to be investing in the kind of technologies that they want to see that will reduce emissions.
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But the fact of the matter is there's a hard line.
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We're just not shutting down our oil and natural gas industry.
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We're not phasing out our oil and natural gas workers.
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I put forward our emissions reduction and energy development plan for a reason
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because I'm sending the message to Ottawa that we are going to chart our own pathway
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to meet our national commitment of being carbon neutral by 2050.
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I remember, along with everybody else, when the tinkling of the champagne glasses,
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thinking that when Peter Loughey thought he'd had a deal with Pierre Trudeau,
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and it turned out to be something very, very different than he thought he was agreeing to,
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and then he spent the rest of his time fighting to make sure that we got our resources back.
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We're going to make sure that we're always in alignment with what industry says is achievable,
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industry is investing in, and it is our job to be an advocate for ourselves and industry
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about how we're going to reach that target in a way that draws investment in rather than pushes it away.
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And I take my hat off to Danielle, who I've known for many years.
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I knew her when she was a journalist with the Calgary Herald,
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and I was writing for the Calgary Herald at the same time.
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Probably the gutsiest premier we have, but we cannot surrender facts to Justin Trudeau
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because the fanaticism surrounding climate change is so extreme.
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These people don't care if we're going to freeze because they're not going to freeze.
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They're going to still live their privileged lifestyle.
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They're still going to jet-set around the world going to climate change conferences.
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Trudeau's still got his government jet, his challenger,
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to fly around the world on his private vacations and on climate change conferences.
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Building up his carbon footprint all over the world.
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Just like Joe Biden doesn't see the hypocrisy of him being the elite
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and Joe Biden's climate czar running around the world in his private jet.
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But believe me, this is quite fascinating because what Tucker Carlson says in this next segment
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is exactly what's wrong with Justin Trudeau in Canada.
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If you don't have cheap natural gas, you can't run the continent.
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You know, if you've got a graduate degree and live in a city in the United States,
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You may have believed that fossil fuels were on their way out any day now.
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And you thought that because the Davos people and our own leaders assured us of that for decades.
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They told us that green energy was the future and the future is here.
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As recently as last month, the World Economic Forum claimed that Europe could save, quote,
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one trillion in fossil fuel costs by switching to renewables.
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But it turns out, and this may not shock you, they had no clue what they were talking about.
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They knew nothing about the subject, the subject they talked about endlessly.
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Fossil fuels remain what they have always been, the key to civilization.
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That has been true since Homo erectus started the first cooking fire in a cave nearly a million years ago.
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So-called green energy is not close, is nowhere near replacing gas and oil and coal.
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Anyone with eighth grade math skills could have figured out in about 10 minutes
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that we cannot replace fossil fuels with renewables or green energy.
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When they told you otherwise, it was just posturing.
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It was childish and destructive fantasy talk that apparently fooled millions of their citizens and millions of ours.
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And the people pushing the Green New Deal must have known that all along.
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They don't actually believe climate change is an imminent threat.
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If they actually believed climate change was an imminent threat, an existential emergency,
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the first thing they would have done, the very first, would be to ban private jets.
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To this day, Al Gore still flies on private jets.
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Barack Obama owns tens of millions of dollars of beachfront property.
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Because they know they personally will escape the consequences of their own policies.
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So when the French president announces that his people are facing the end of abundance,
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Macron and all of them understand they will always be rich and always be protected.
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Sacrifice is going to come from everybody else.
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If Canada achieves net zero and we're all living in caves,
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you think China is going to cease creating greenhouse gases?
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The carbon tax hasn't reduced our climate footprint.
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Yeah, the pandemic reduced our climate footprint because everybody was staying home,
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People still have to use gas and they still have to heat their homes.
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And they will with fossil fuels until further notice.
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And we need to be realistic about these things.
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Fighting climate change is a religion for people like Justin Trudeau.
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It's an ideology that is just all-encompassing.
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And they really have convinced themselves, I believe, that the average Canadian goes to bed at night worrying about climate change.
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They're worrying about paying for their groceries.
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They're not laying there worrying about climate change.
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And it's just being used by politicians to stoke the fires of fear so they can pretend to solve the problem.
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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.
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We might be cut off from social media news any day soon, any day now.
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And that's the direct cause of the government's meddling, of the federal government meddling.
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