Stand on Guard with David Krayden - August 28, 2025


Premier Smith UNLOADS on Carney Liberals ｜ Stand on Guard


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Universally Owned Ostrich Farms in Epic, B.C. has been fighting the government for years to protect over 400 ostriches from near-extinction. Now, the mainstream media is finally waking up to the issue.

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00:00:00.960 There has never been a strong business case because of the distance from the gas fields,
00:00:10.480 because of the need to transport that gas over long distances before liquefaction.
00:00:20.960 Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I am your host, David Creighton,
00:00:25.720 and I'm broadcasting to you live from the Ottawa area. Thanks for tuning in today.
00:00:30.840 And of course, you might remember former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing that there is no business case for liquid natural gas.
00:00:40.400 And of course, Germany is saying we're already buying liquid natural gas from the U.S.,
00:00:48.320 but it's Canadian gas that we're buying at a higher price than the U.S.
00:00:52.160 When we come back, we've got a lot to dig into today.
00:00:55.980 Thank you again for joining me, and we'll be back in mere moments.
00:01:03.240 The Prime Minister lied and his minions continue to lie.
00:01:12.520 We need political change.
00:01:15.680 So we also need to resolve to resist.
00:01:29.500 So we've got a lot to talk about today.
00:01:31.180 We're going to get into the Daniel Smith material momentarily.
00:01:34.880 It might have to start with a shorter clip because with a longer clip, we were still sort of waiting for that.
00:01:39.460 But before I get there, there's so much going on right now.
00:01:43.240 And of course, there's been some great publicity for the Ostrich Farm, for Universal Ostrich Farms in Epic, B.C.
00:01:50.800 We've had Katie Passatney, the spokeswoman for the farm on this show several times.
00:01:56.380 I'll have her back on again.
00:01:57.660 But it looks like they finally got some exposure, if you will, in the mainstream media is finally noticing.
00:02:06.320 Yeah, Bobby Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States, got involved.
00:02:13.240 Dr. Oz got involved.
00:02:15.060 We've got incredible action going on here, finally.
00:02:19.500 And here's a message Katie put out on her X post.
00:02:25.200 Sorry.
00:02:25.760 Katie with Universal Ostrich.
00:02:35.540 A big shout out to Lulu, the ostrich, and the crypto community for developing such an amazing coin.
00:02:43.100 Your community is helping us save these almost 400 ostrich lives that have so many more decades to live.
00:02:50.240 There would be so much change in the world if we had more communities like yours.
00:02:57.280 I just want to thank you from our farm, our family, and every animal that is standing out there and deserves the right to live the decades that they have left to live.
00:03:05.880 Thank you from Canada and on an international level for your garnered support and all of your love and all of your hard work to see these animals protected and live decades more.
00:03:19.280 Thank you, Katie, for your hard work.
00:03:23.840 And, of course, this has helped save Lulu.
00:03:26.360 They've actually got some cryptocurrency surrounding this.
00:03:30.520 And Lulu is a 30-year-old ostrich, and she's sort of become the, if you will, the spokesbird for the cause.
00:03:39.580 And what is the cause?
00:03:40.780 Because it's not just about 399 ostriches, although obviously that's the fundamental issue here.
00:03:47.460 Does the government have the right to walk into your farm and kill your ostriches? 1.00
00:03:51.380 No, they don't, especially since these ostriches have been disease-free, virus-free for over 200 days, as Katie points out.
00:03:59.000 We're going to watch this CTV report and rebut something the government says here in a minute.
00:04:06.400 But if you look at this message on this slide here from Biva Fry, he's saying, let's establish a Starlink connection on the farm.
00:04:14.160 There's media, there's people there supporting this farm already.
00:04:18.460 We need live coverage so the government doesn't come in in the dead of night, no pun intended, to destroy these birds.
00:04:27.260 This is quite clear.
00:04:29.360 And if anybody out there says, oh, I really don't care about ostriches, you care about private property?
00:04:33.400 Do you care about the right to your property, to your farmland, to the livestock on your property?
00:04:39.060 Is that relevant to you?
00:04:40.240 I think it is.
00:04:41.580 And I think that's what I have been saying from day one.
00:04:44.720 I've been covering this with Katie Passatne, and she has been on this show several times.
00:04:50.740 I think this is incredibly important because it is an issue that is larger than a lot of people even realize.
00:04:59.620 This is about your right to private property, and do you still have that?
00:05:04.720 And that, of course, is a 30-year-old ostrich.
00:05:07.700 I find this incredible.
00:05:08.900 And I'm so heartened because I've been pushing this story for months now, and it's finally getting some traction beyond those of us on the independent and new media and those of us on social media.
00:05:24.080 It's finally getting traction with the mainstream media.
00:05:26.540 And for some people, that has to happen until it becomes a real issue.
00:05:30.280 I don't agree with that, but that's how some people feel.
00:05:33.560 Let's have a look at this report from CTV.
00:05:35.060 These ostriches are getting some high-profile help from the man once trusted by millions for easy-to-understand medical advice.
00:05:44.200 We have an incredible opportunity to advance science, something that just was handed to us.
00:05:50.780 These birds were able to withstand this potentially devastating H5N1 avian flu virus.
00:05:56.560 And why would we throw away this unique wisdom?
00:06:00.460 Dr. Mehmet Oz previously offered to relocate the birds to his Florida ranch.
00:06:05.540 Another supporter, New York billionaire John Katsimat-Hedes, is calling for common sense to prevail.
00:06:11.160 You know what the problem is?
00:06:13.220 Common sense is not all that common.
00:06:15.020 These are ancient, iconic birds.
00:06:17.760 And now, I mean, they deserve to survive.
00:06:21.240 The ostrich cull was originally ordered last December,
00:06:24.280 when birds at the Universal Ostrich Farm in the B.C. interior tested positive for avian flu.
00:06:29.080 A few dozen of the birds died.
00:06:31.000 Close to 400 survived.
00:06:32.940 And the farm has been fighting ever since to save those survivors they insist are safe.
00:06:38.260 We have had no illness and no deaths on our farms.
00:06:41.420 For 223 days, they are thriving.
00:06:44.080 Our herd of ostriches is a living vault of immunity.
00:06:47.840 Oz, who is now responsible for U.S. Medicare,
00:06:50.740 says the surviving birds are now resistant to avian flu,
00:06:53.800 and their antibodies should be studied for the good of other animals and humans.
00:06:57.600 We have an opportunity to do something helpful for Canada,
00:07:02.740 for the United States, and the global community in general.
00:07:05.680 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has maintained,
00:07:08.380 even though the ostriches appear healthy,
00:07:10.280 they could still spread the virus.
00:07:12.100 And if they're not killed, the virus could mutate and become...
00:07:16.440 Ah, hold everything.
00:07:18.120 We did some fact-checking on this,
00:07:19.780 fact-checking on the federal government's claim,
00:07:22.040 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's claim.
00:07:25.140 And here's what Grok had to say.
00:07:27.460 And I know that Grok is not the final word on everything,
00:07:31.080 but this is an indication that the opinion,
00:07:34.880 the majority of opinion,
00:07:35.940 does not agree with the federal government's contention.
00:07:39.060 Birds that recover from avian influenza,
00:07:41.140 bird flu, are generally not contagious to other animals or humans in the future,
00:07:45.560 provided they have fully cleared the virus.
00:07:47.640 Clearly, they have fully cleared the virus.
00:07:50.520 Here's a concise breakdown.
00:07:51.960 Recovery in viral shape.
00:07:53.140 Once a bird recovers from avian flu, it typically stops shedding the virus.
00:07:58.260 These birds have been virus-free for over 200 days,
00:08:00.980 as Katie passed and they said that.
00:08:02.320 This is coming up to a year in November.
00:08:06.640 So, what more is it going to take?
00:08:10.580 And as John Castamoday just said in that report,
00:08:13.700 common sense is vacant from government thinking these days.
00:08:18.220 Now, before we get to Premier Daniel Smith,
00:08:23.280 I had to share this with you because I wrote this story this morning for Human Events.
00:08:27.380 Not this one, but a column which will be appearing in the next couple of days.
00:08:31.520 The mayor of Washington, D.C. admitted,
00:08:34.880 Mayor Muriel Bowser has admitted that crime is way down in the U.S. Capitol,
00:08:42.780 in Washington, D.C.
00:08:43.680 since Donald Trump sent the National Guard and immigration agents into that city
00:08:47.840 to work with the Metropolitan Police Force to stop crime.
00:08:54.740 Carjacking, the mayor says, is down 86%.
00:08:58.660 Carjacking has become a way of life.
00:09:01.720 It's like it's accepted now in Washington, D.C.
00:09:03.880 You leave your car out, it's going to be stolen.
00:09:06.760 It is epidemic.
00:09:10.440 But here's a reminder of what Democrats can be like.
00:09:14.460 And I just, I love this here.
00:09:22.200 Here we go.
00:09:23.120 Here we go.
00:09:24.240 Enjoy this because this is wonderful.
00:09:26.880 For some reason, Bob Hope was absolutely huge on X this morning
00:09:33.800 and talking about a film he did.
00:09:38.220 This is from Cat in the Canary, actually, in 1940.
00:09:41.300 No, 39.
00:09:42.640 But here's a great scene from him.
00:09:43.820 This is Mr. Montgomery.
00:09:44.980 I met him a few weeks ago in New York.
00:09:46.440 How are you?
00:09:47.040 You live here?
00:09:47.780 Yes.
00:09:48.280 Maybe you know what a zombie is.
00:09:49.480 When a person dies and is buried,
00:09:53.200 it seems there are certain voodoo priests
00:09:54.580 who have the power to bring him back to life.
00:09:57.800 Horrible.
00:09:58.660 It's worse than horrible
00:09:59.600 because a zombie has no will of his own.
00:10:02.300 You see them sometimes
00:10:03.380 walking around blindly with dead eyes,
00:10:06.740 following orders,
00:10:07.980 not knowing what they do, not caring.
00:10:10.280 You mean like Democrats?
00:10:12.880 Yeah, that is wonderful.
00:10:16.600 That's wonderful.
00:10:19.480 Yeah, that was brilliant.
00:10:30.040 I loved it.
00:10:31.680 But before we get to the Premier Daniel Smith,
00:10:34.200 I wanted...
00:10:35.220 Here's Doug Ford,
00:10:36.740 bellyaching again,
00:10:38.020 about something he refuses to take care of.
00:10:41.400 The high crime rate in Ontario.
00:10:43.880 And here he is saying again
00:10:45.200 that just outrageous what happened
00:10:46.440 to that poor man from Lindsay.
00:10:47.820 Although this is Doug Ford's province,
00:10:50.420 isn't it?
00:10:50.860 Can he not do anything about it?
00:10:52.520 Let's have a listen.
00:10:53.600 And by the way,
00:10:54.420 he's complaining about people robbing the LCBO.
00:10:57.760 But this is where Doug Ford decided
00:11:00.120 to unilaterally remove
00:11:01.580 all United States alcohol,
00:11:04.080 beer and spirits.
00:11:06.280 And that was complete contravention
00:11:08.260 of any sort of agreement,
00:11:10.520 trade agreement between the two countries.
00:11:12.200 Did the United States turn around
00:11:13.960 and take all Canadian liquor off the shelves?
00:11:15.960 No, they didn't.
00:11:17.360 But anyway.
00:11:18.380 Well, here's my little crime rant of the day.
00:11:23.400 I don't know if you've ever seen...
00:11:24.960 Did you see these characters on the news
00:11:27.120 last night that went into the LCBO
00:11:29.620 up in Kitchener? 0.98
00:11:31.940 They're brazen bunch of crooks. 0.97
00:11:33.740 You know, I have all the confidence in the world 0.95
00:11:36.460 and the Water Police Services,
00:11:39.220 Waterloo Police Services,
00:11:40.600 the chief, he's a champion, the chief.
00:11:43.020 We've got to catch these guys 0.91
00:11:44.300 and throw them in jail. 0.99
00:11:45.640 They just do not care.
00:11:47.840 They go in there,
00:11:48.820 they start loading up,
00:11:50.160 loading up and loading up.
00:11:51.980 And you know what's ironic?
00:11:53.540 It's the taxpayers' money, the LCBO.
00:11:56.160 And so they're stealing off the taxpayers.
00:11:58.060 But I have confidence they're going to be caught
00:12:02.580 and the judges have to keep these guys in bail.
00:12:05.860 Or the other one.
00:12:07.140 Did you see the gangsters going into the mall there
00:12:12.060 and smashing people's jewelry right in broad daylight
00:12:14.740 and just hammering away at it?
00:12:17.240 It's out of control.
00:12:19.440 And I love the one, I think it was a year ago,
00:12:22.180 when the guy in the LCBO,
00:12:24.020 just a customer,
00:12:25.280 he stood up and held him accountable.
00:12:30.000 I'd love to meet that guy one day. 0.81
00:12:31.760 You gave him a couple of slugs in the head, 0.99
00:12:33.080 they deserve a slug in the head every once in a while. 0.99
00:12:35.700 But anyways, 0.99
00:12:37.040 we've got to get tough on this crime.
00:12:38.680 People are fed up.
00:12:40.220 And I'm wishing all the best for our friend in Lindsay.
00:12:43.760 I don't know who it was,
00:12:44.680 but people are at their peak with this violence.
00:12:48.700 I mean, with the violence,
00:12:50.700 but the criminality
00:12:52.040 and they're just at their wits' end
00:12:54.720 that the judges keep letting people out on bail.
00:12:58.380 So we're going to hold these guys accountable.
00:13:01.660 And I will be all over the prime minister
00:13:04.680 about bail reform.
00:13:06.240 So thank you.
00:13:11.320 There he goes again,
00:13:13.160 talking about things that he could pee in a...
00:13:15.000 He won't do that.
00:13:17.520 And Doug Ford never,
00:13:20.980 never ceases to amaze me.
00:13:23.660 And before we get to the Daniel Smith clip,
00:13:26.520 which the producer will put on momentarily,
00:13:29.100 I wanted to show you this
00:13:30.200 because this is Germany
00:13:34.420 talking about liquid natural gas from Canada.
00:13:38.660 You might remember
00:13:39.620 our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau,
00:13:41.360 kind of famously said
00:13:42.280 there was no business case
00:13:43.660 to sell Canadian LNG to Europe.
00:13:45.920 Well, when you look at what the Americans are doing,
00:13:48.240 they sent 44 million tons of LNG to Europe last year.
00:13:51.540 They're obviously seeing a business case
00:13:53.620 for what they're producing.
00:13:55.120 Is Poland interested in Canada's natural resources 0.97
00:13:58.260 and LNG in particular?
00:13:59.960 Is that something that you would like to see advance
00:14:01.920 as these two countries get closer together?
00:14:04.120 Well, remember some of that LNG
00:14:06.700 that is coming from United States
00:14:08.440 to Europe, to Poland
00:14:09.880 is also Canadian LNG.
00:14:13.240 But it's being sold for a much higher price,
00:14:19.200 I would say, than when...
00:14:22.820 Yeah, I have to correct myself.
00:14:24.800 I think I said Germany.
00:14:26.120 This is Poland's ambassador to Canada.
00:14:28.400 I've got Germany on the brain this morning.
00:14:30.140 But if we can sell it to Poland, 0.63
00:14:32.640 and probably Germany too.
00:14:36.560 ...to sell Canadian LNG to Europe.
00:14:39.340 Much higher price, I would say,
00:14:41.220 than when it would come from Canada.
00:14:45.400 Yes, we are constantly interested.
00:14:48.600 We would like the Canadian LNG market
00:14:52.120 to open to Europe.
00:14:54.540 We would like to see the Canadian gas
00:14:57.140 flowing to the East Coast on Canada
00:14:59.700 and to the Canadian gas
00:15:02.900 flowing in European pipelines.
00:15:07.280 This is one of the energy topics
00:15:09.620 that we are working on
00:15:11.480 with Canadians for a number of years.
00:15:14.900 There are others
00:15:16.620 which are also very significant
00:15:18.540 and we are much more successful
00:15:20.420 in the other areas than gas so far.
00:15:22.120 But if you're able to make a push
00:15:26.200 in that regard,
00:15:27.140 that would be to the benefit of Europe
00:15:29.520 and that would be to the benefit of Canada.
00:15:31.120 It's like Justin Trudeau did not have his back straight.
00:15:38.080 What else is new?
00:15:40.000 Now, I want to get to the main story of the day here,
00:15:43.100 which of course is Premier Daniel Smith,
00:15:44.800 who is actually out talking to Albertans,
00:15:47.820 who is addressing issues.
00:15:49.020 And I have to say,
00:15:51.460 she is actually doing town hall meetings 0.65
00:15:55.280 where people are allowed to talk.
00:15:57.260 I'm not quite very impressed with the moderator here,
00:16:00.380 but clearly this is an opportunity
00:16:03.720 to have a discourse with the people in her province
00:16:06.460 and I think she's raising issues
00:16:07.700 and they're raising issues,
00:16:08.940 which are important.
00:16:10.960 Now, can we have that clip now, producer?
00:16:13.820 I go to bed and sleep so well at night
00:16:21.140 because I don't spend one minute
00:16:22.320 thinking about how to win votes
00:16:23.680 in Toronto or Montreal.
00:16:25.460 So I just think about how to win votes here.
00:16:32.700 We're over time, but here's what we're...
00:16:36.560 I should comment here.
00:16:38.680 ...is the lowest.
00:16:39.340 You can throw out that number,
00:16:41.420 but if you multiply 37 students,
00:16:43.820 by that amount,
00:16:45.360 there's part of the first problem.
00:16:47.460 There should not be 37 students
00:16:49.940 in any of those classes.
00:16:52.000 Second, is that once you take that number,
00:16:58.280 sure it may pay for a teacher and an aide,
00:17:00.540 who's paying for the principal,
00:17:02.260 the secretary, the counselor,
00:17:04.140 the heat, the lights,
00:17:05.840 the technology and everything else
00:17:07.640 that goes into the school?
00:17:08.500 It's not Alberta next, ma'am.
00:17:10.620 Like I'm trying my best,
00:17:11.660 but it's got nothing to do with it.
00:17:12.680 Let me linkage.
00:17:14.780 Let me do a linkage.
00:17:16.820 Okay.
00:17:17.320 You do a linkage, Premier,
00:17:18.600 but I'm not going to listen to somebody screaming.
00:17:21.500 What we're talking about tonight
00:17:22.540 is Ottawa over...
00:17:24.560 Do you want to hear the answer?
00:17:26.020 Ottawa overtaxing us.
00:17:27.660 I mentioned that at the beginning of the evening,
00:17:30.660 that our program costs are 70% of all tax dollars.
00:17:36.240 We only collect 40%.
00:17:37.780 Ottawa collects 60%,
00:17:39.600 and then they use political means to transfer it.
00:17:42.680 Alberta, year after year,
00:17:44.680 has 20 to 25 billion dollars
00:17:47.020 that is siphoned out of our system
00:17:49.160 to go to Ottawa
00:17:50.300 so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec,
00:17:52.920 but also in other places that vote Liberal.
00:17:55.380 We have been watching this for years.
00:17:57.600 600 billion dollars in the last 40 or 50 years
00:18:01.520 that have been taken out of this province.
00:18:03.320 You don't think we might be able
00:18:04.580 to do a little bit more on social spending
00:18:06.360 if those 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here?
00:18:08.980 You don't think we'd be able to cut taxes a bit
00:18:11.100 if those 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here?
00:18:14.480 It is $5,000 per Albertan
00:18:19.440 that every single year
00:18:20.980 gets transferred out of this province
00:18:23.260 for political reasons
00:18:24.680 so that the Liberals can continue to spend it
00:18:27.440 in places that vote Liberal.
00:18:29.400 That is what is happening in the province
00:18:31.600 and in the country.
00:18:32.600 Thank you.
00:18:33.140 Okay, let's go up here again.
00:18:34.620 If you haven't been to the mic yet,
00:18:36.080 go ahead.
00:18:39.060 So what's happening?
00:18:40.160 This is the welfare state writ large.
00:18:43.940 This is the welfare state as applied to provinces.
00:18:48.600 So $25 billion is going to have not provinces
00:18:54.120 like Quebec.
00:18:56.000 So Quebec can take Alberta's money,
00:18:58.700 can spend Alberta's money,
00:19:00.120 however it pleases.
00:19:01.720 So this is why they have more generous social programs
00:19:04.060 in Quebec because they're spending Alberta's money.
00:19:06.320 Is this fair?
00:19:07.100 Whoever thought this was a fair process?
00:19:11.180 Whoever thought this was somehow going to rectify
00:19:13.680 inequality in Canada?
00:19:15.260 All it's doing is encouraging have not provinces
00:19:17.920 to sit on their duffs and do nothing.
00:19:19.920 It's creating deadbeat provinces.
00:19:22.540 I'll say it again.
00:19:24.380 Deadbeat provinces.
00:19:25.600 And this has got to stop.
00:19:28.040 But I'm sorry to say it's not going to stop anytime soon,
00:19:31.580 even if Pierre Paule becomes prime minister,
00:19:33.700 because he is committed to equalization.
00:19:36.660 Why?
00:19:37.920 Because he is looking for votes in Ontario and Quebec,
00:19:41.760 which are have-not provinces
00:19:43.380 and are continuing to take Alberta's money.
00:19:46.380 And this is why Premier Smith said,
00:19:47.940 she's not campaigning in Toronto or Montreal.
00:19:51.200 She's running as the leader of Alberta.
00:19:54.520 She is governing that province. 0.75
00:19:56.760 So that's why there's a massive disconnect here.
00:20:00.980 Let's listen to some more of the Premier.
00:20:03.200 Since 2005, Alberta taxpayers have contributed,
00:20:10.640 on average, $23 billion more per year
00:20:13.860 to the federal government in federal taxes
00:20:16.000 than they received back in projects,
00:20:18.700 benefits, and other spending from Ottawa.
00:20:21.500 That's a net loss to Albertans
00:20:23.280 of nearly half a trillion dollars in just 20 years.
00:20:27.160 Most of those redistributed Alberta tax dollars
00:20:29.500 are spent by Ottawa and Quebec
00:20:31.360 and other liberal-leaning provinces across the country.
00:20:34.860 And part of that massive fiscal transfer out of Alberta
00:20:37.620 comes through the Federal Equalization Program,
00:20:40.880 which has seen Alberta pay over $67 billion
00:20:43.700 into the program since 1957,
00:20:47.040 while receiving back not a single penny since 1965.
00:20:51.480 In 2021, Albertans voted in a referendum
00:20:54.420 to remove equalization from the Constitution,
00:20:57.680 but Ottawa completely ignored us.
00:21:00.140 So what next?
00:21:01.360 Alberta can't stop these federal transfers on its own.
00:21:04.860 The Alberta government doesn't write a check
00:21:06.600 to Ottawa each year,
00:21:07.900 and we can't ask Albertans
00:21:09.160 to stop paying their federal taxes.
00:21:11.740 The fact is,
00:21:12.960 fixing this problem will require political support
00:21:15.660 from other provinces.
00:21:17.520 One option that would be appealing
00:21:18.920 to most other provinces
00:21:20.100 is to have the provinces
00:21:21.640 collect a larger share of overall taxes.
00:21:24.620 This is how it could work.
00:21:25.900 Currently, Ottawa collects over 60%
00:21:29.140 of all the federal and provincial taxes
00:21:31.280 that Canadians pay.
00:21:32.600 The Ottawa bureaucracy takes its portion,
00:21:35.520 with the remainder inefficiently
00:21:37.140 and unequally distributed to the provinces.
00:21:39.960 The dollars we do get back
00:21:41.320 have a lot of strings attached,
00:21:42.900 forcing us to run our provincial programs
00:21:44.880 and build infrastructure
00:21:46.080 the way Ottawa wants us to.
00:21:47.820 No provinces want that,
00:21:50.060 especially the big ones
00:21:51.400 like Quebec, Ontario,
00:21:53.260 B.C. and Alberta.
00:21:55.520 What if we cut out the middleman
00:21:56.980 and instead had provincial governments
00:21:59.160 that are responsible for delivering health,
00:22:01.380 education and social services
00:22:02.880 collect around 60% of all taxes,
00:22:06.020 with Ottawa receiving the rest?
00:22:08.460 Ottawa, in turn,
00:22:09.620 would be able to end most transfer programs
00:22:11.820 to the provinces,
00:22:13.000 along with all the strings,
00:22:14.300 bureaucracy and waste attached to them.
00:22:17.320 Quebec has already proposed
00:22:18.580 having the federal government
00:22:19.760 let provinces keep GST revenue
00:22:22.000 generated in their provinces
00:22:23.280 in return for ending
00:22:25.020 the federal health transfer.
00:22:26.720 Seems like a great idea.
00:22:28.620 Why not apply that same logic
00:22:30.120 to all federal transfers?
00:22:32.400 Less money collected and wasted in Ottawa.
00:22:35.080 Less federal transfers
00:22:36.140 with only a modest amount of equalization
00:22:38.420 for the smallest provinces and territories
00:22:40.640 that actually need it.
00:22:42.080 And more funds for provincial health
00:22:44.100 education and other programs
00:22:45.880 without strings attached
00:22:47.160 by Ottawa's politicians and bureaucrats.
00:22:50.240 That seems like something
00:22:51.200 most provinces could rally behind.
00:22:53.480 So what say you, Alberta?
00:22:54.920 Should Alberta take a lead role
00:22:56.820 in working with the other provinces
00:22:58.340 to reform federal transfers
00:23:00.280 and equalization
00:23:01.120 by having the provinces
00:23:02.500 collect a larger share of overall taxes
00:23:04.760 with Ottawa collecting less?
00:23:09.520 There's a proposal,
00:23:10.820 I think a modest proposal.
00:23:12.280 I don't think it goes far enough, though.
00:23:13.520 So I think equalization
00:23:15.020 is basically a bad idea from day one.
00:23:17.380 And it is a reason
00:23:18.860 there's a Western alienation,
00:23:20.380 especially alienation in Alberta.
00:23:22.380 And we've got to move on from this.
00:23:24.540 Just have to move on from this.
00:23:25.980 And so there's more
00:23:28.160 from this fantastic town hall meeting
00:23:31.760 with Premier Daniel Smith.
00:23:33.060 It's a constitution question,
00:23:36.780 but this is equalization.
00:23:38.320 I think he was also asking me
00:23:39.260 if I was going to run for prime minister,
00:23:40.780 to which I will have to say no.
00:23:44.580 You know, the joke that I make
00:23:47.040 is I go to bed and sleep so well at night
00:23:49.440 because I don't spend one minute
00:23:50.620 thinking about how to win votes
00:23:51.980 in Toronto or Montreal.
00:23:53.840 So I just think about
00:23:55.480 how to win votes here.
00:23:57.040 But there is...
00:23:58.540 The question is
00:24:01.760 because we've had historically
00:24:03.100 a pretty contentious relationship
00:24:05.180 with Ottawa.
00:24:06.260 So how do you ensure,
00:24:08.280 how will you ensure
00:24:09.140 that Ottawa is going to give up
00:24:11.000 this $140 billion
00:24:13.040 of the CPP
00:24:14.380 for Alberta
00:24:15.440 to start its own pension plan?
00:24:17.340 Well, I can probably get
00:24:20.060 some others on the panel
00:24:21.980 to talk about that.
00:24:23.260 But I guess it's because
00:24:24.880 it's the law.
00:24:26.020 The constitution gives
00:24:27.820 to the provinces
00:24:28.720 the right to have pensions.
00:24:30.920 The decision was made
00:24:32.140 in the 60s
00:24:32.940 for Alberta to opt into
00:24:35.720 a collective way
00:24:37.160 of managing that.
00:24:38.400 Quebec made a different approach.
00:24:40.020 Quebec decided to set up
00:24:41.460 their pension fund independently.
00:24:44.420 On top of that,
00:24:45.320 there's a statutory
00:24:46.960 and it's ruled by law
00:24:48.480 what the formula is
00:24:50.120 for determining
00:24:51.540 what happens
00:24:52.400 when a province leaves,
00:24:54.280 what their entitlement is.
00:24:55.460 We have a bit of a dispute
00:24:56.420 with Ottawa
00:24:56.920 about what that number is.
00:24:58.340 I think Professor Toome's methodology
00:25:00.640 was one that they seemed
00:25:02.120 to indicate
00:25:02.820 was one that they would
00:25:04.000 be more open to.
00:25:05.460 But this is the other fact
00:25:07.340 of the matter
00:25:07.840 is that if we continue on
00:25:10.280 in this plan,
00:25:11.160 then we continue
00:25:12.200 to overpay
00:25:13.500 into the pension.
00:25:14.440 Year after year after year.
00:25:15.260 We're paying
00:25:15.900 $9 billion
00:25:16.920 worth of premiums.
00:25:18.600 Our seniors get
00:25:19.440 $6 billion
00:25:20.400 worth of benefits.
00:25:22.420 So every year,
00:25:23.300 $3 billion per year,
00:25:24.520 year after year after year,
00:25:25.560 compounded,
00:25:26.780 we'll go to Ottawa
00:25:28.220 for them to determine
00:25:30.080 what the investment
00:25:31.620 approach will be
00:25:34.540 without even asking us
00:25:35.940 what our opinion is on it.
00:25:37.860 And so I think,
00:25:38.780 unfortunately,
00:25:39.240 the federal government
00:25:39.920 could have been
00:25:40.440 more responsive.
00:25:41.200 They could have treated us
00:25:42.100 a little bit more
00:25:42.760 more like a stakeholder
00:25:43.680 in this pension
00:25:45.020 and as a result,
00:25:46.280 maybe made some decisions
00:25:48.420 that might have been
00:25:49.040 a little bit different
00:25:49.680 in how they invested
00:25:50.480 those dollars.
00:25:51.440 But I would say
00:25:52.180 because it's established
00:25:53.000 in the Constitution
00:25:53.740 and in the statute,
00:25:55.520 I don't know
00:25:56.260 that I've ever seen
00:25:57.640 a federal government
00:25:58.540 that would just say,
00:25:59.540 sorry, we're not going
00:26:00.140 to do that.
00:26:00.560 I don't know
00:26:00.820 that they would have
00:26:01.320 the ability to do that.
00:26:02.600 I would think
00:26:02.860 the courts would force that.
00:26:03.820 But let me turn it over
00:26:04.540 to Trevor
00:26:04.920 and he can maybe respond.
00:26:06.740 I think that was
00:26:07.380 a great answer.
00:26:08.220 I'd only add
00:26:08.840 that the law
00:26:09.600 that kind of enumerates
00:26:10.540 what the formula would be
00:26:11.660 that pays out
00:26:12.320 to a province,
00:26:13.480 there's certainly
00:26:13.960 still reasonable disagreement
00:26:15.520 around what some
00:26:16.480 of the interpretation
00:26:17.180 is in the language there.
00:26:18.840 But it's a type of law
00:26:20.480 that Ottawa
00:26:21.360 can't just unilaterally change.
00:26:22.920 It requires two-thirds
00:26:23.740 of the provinces
00:26:24.480 representing two-thirds
00:26:25.680 of the population
00:26:26.600 to agree to change.
00:26:27.920 So they're constrained
00:26:28.760 in a way that's
00:26:29.500 somewhat unique
00:26:30.140 among other federal laws.
00:26:31.940 And so there might,
00:26:33.360 of course,
00:26:33.700 be disagreement
00:26:34.320 around the payout.
00:26:35.040 The video noted that
00:26:35.960 as one of the risks
00:26:37.000 and sources of uncertainty.
00:26:38.220 But that law
00:26:40.020 is on the books
00:26:40.660 right now.
00:26:42.880 So don't you wish
00:26:44.100 you had a premier
00:26:45.100 if you don't live
00:26:46.180 in Alberta?
00:26:46.780 Don't you wish
00:26:47.180 you had a premier
00:26:47.580 who is capable
00:26:48.840 of talking common sense?
00:26:51.120 She understands
00:26:51.820 that Canada
00:26:52.380 is a confederation.
00:26:53.940 Remember how we talk
00:26:54.700 about confederation
00:26:56.100 all the time?
00:26:57.860 And yet somehow
00:26:58.580 since 1867
00:26:59.800 until now,
00:27:01.060 the confederation
00:27:01.720 has been distorted
00:27:02.720 to somehow mean
00:27:03.640 strong federal government
00:27:05.340 provinces will do
00:27:06.600 what the federal government
00:27:07.680 says it will do
00:27:08.600 when in fact
00:27:09.800 a confederation
00:27:10.680 is the exact opposite
00:27:12.960 of that.
00:27:13.460 It means strong
00:27:14.280 provincial governments
00:27:15.780 that can make decisions
00:27:18.520 like this
00:27:19.060 about pension plans,
00:27:20.060 about police forces.
00:27:22.120 And that is what
00:27:23.140 Alberta is doing.
00:27:24.280 It's just asserting
00:27:25.400 the right
00:27:26.800 it already has
00:27:28.420 in the Constitution.
00:27:29.680 and people will say,
00:27:32.680 well,
00:27:33.600 Premier Daniel Smith
00:27:34.400 is only doing this
00:27:35.240 because of the threat
00:27:36.000 of separation
00:27:36.620 because she recognizes
00:27:37.740 that the Alberta
00:27:39.080 independence movement
00:27:40.000 is gaining momentum,
00:27:41.480 that it has
00:27:41.860 tremendous support.
00:27:43.480 You know,
00:27:43.800 I say with this,
00:27:44.880 she could just ignore that
00:27:46.100 and she could just say,
00:27:47.160 well,
00:27:47.420 you know,
00:27:47.680 it's going to work itself out.
00:27:49.300 It's just not going to happen.
00:27:50.560 So I won't bother
00:27:51.480 talking to people.
00:27:52.360 I won't bother
00:27:52.860 getting feedback
00:27:53.640 from the people of Alberta.
00:27:55.200 And that's the last thing
00:27:56.600 she'll do.
00:27:57.000 And this is why I say
00:27:57.920 she is the leader
00:28:00.820 of principled conservatism
00:28:02.520 in Canada
00:28:03.340 because that's what
00:28:04.980 she articulates.
00:28:06.720 One more little segment
00:28:08.000 here from Premier Smith.
00:28:11.800 Hi,
00:28:12.380 my name is Sarah.
00:28:13.740 Today,
00:28:14.120 for the first time
00:28:14.780 in my career,
00:28:15.580 I carried out
00:28:16.300 400 personally funded books
00:28:18.440 out of my classroom.
00:28:20.380 I'll be teaching
00:28:21.060 without books
00:28:21.700 for the first time
00:28:22.500 in over 20 years
00:28:23.580 due to the UCP
00:28:24.940 censorship.
00:28:26.700 Our school library
00:28:28.120 is now closed
00:28:28.820 until further notice.
00:28:30.640 Teachers are being forced
00:28:31.640 to out children.
00:28:33.640 This is not my job.
00:28:35.600 Many of us
00:28:36.200 have been teaching
00:28:36.760 in classrooms
00:28:37.340 where temperatures
00:28:37.900 climb to above
00:28:38.700 30 degrees
00:28:39.860 on hot days.
00:28:41.460 Our schools
00:28:41.940 are no longer safe
00:28:43.060 as a result
00:28:44.240 of chronic underfunding
00:28:45.340 by the UCP.
00:28:47.140 We are the lowest
00:28:48.340 funded per student
00:28:51.080 in Canada.
00:28:53.260 while you highlight
00:28:56.020 the economic contributions
00:28:57.140 of our city
00:28:58.120 makes to Alberta,
00:28:59.620 our schools remain
00:29:00.740 dangerously neglected.
00:29:02.840 So we'll...
00:29:03.880 I'm getting there.
00:29:04.800 Premier Smith,
00:29:05.820 if creating safer communities
00:29:07.020 is truly your goal,
00:29:08.480 why do you continue
00:29:09.220 to ignore the safety crisis
00:29:10.420 unfolding in our schools?
00:29:12.020 Thank you.
00:29:12.440 How can we trust
00:29:13.400 your policing goals,
00:29:14.560 pension plans,
00:29:15.720 and provincial rights
00:29:16.520 when you neglect
00:29:17.560 our most vulnerable,
00:29:18.820 our children?
00:29:23.880 Okay, so...
00:29:24.880 Well, can I...
00:29:25.740 Alberta next
00:29:26.160 is what we're trying to do.
00:29:27.960 Premier, totally your call.
00:29:29.180 I'll see if I can
00:29:29.860 connect it back
00:29:30.480 to the panel topics.
00:29:32.280 One thing I would invite
00:29:33.300 every one of you
00:29:34.100 to do
00:29:34.580 is to go online
00:29:36.140 and look at the graphic images
00:29:37.600 that we are
00:29:38.560 taking out of
00:29:39.480 elementary schools.
00:29:40.320 I wouldn't be...
00:29:41.880 Right back with that.
00:29:43.780 But thank God
00:29:45.200 this woman,
00:29:46.980 this teacher
00:29:47.600 is complaining
00:29:49.040 because pornographic
00:29:50.600 literature,
00:29:51.380 pornographic material
00:29:52.080 has been taken
00:29:52.560 out of the school libraries.
00:29:54.320 You don't want
00:29:54.940 a child at that age.
00:29:56.500 That is absolute nonsense. 0.97
00:29:58.820 Stop sexualizing children. 0.98
00:30:01.100 Stop demanding
00:30:02.100 that they grow up
00:30:03.040 at five years old
00:30:03.980 or ten years old.
00:30:05.520 Let them have a childhood
00:30:06.640 for God's sake.
00:30:08.260 But you can't do that,
00:30:09.240 can you?
00:30:09.580 And you're complaining
00:30:10.840 about these books
00:30:12.120 being ripped out
00:30:13.240 of the libraries?
00:30:14.180 Good for Alberta
00:30:15.700 for doing that.
00:30:17.360 I'm honest with you.
00:30:18.360 I wouldn't be able...
00:30:19.580 I wouldn't be able
00:30:26.160 to hold up an image
00:30:28.300 because we're broadcasting this.
00:30:30.200 I wouldn't be able
00:30:30.960 to hold up an image
00:30:32.580 without a warning
00:30:33.580 of graphic image
00:30:35.260 of pornographic materials
00:30:36.720 including detailed sex acts
00:30:38.800 because it would
00:30:39.940 offend our audience.
00:30:41.340 And if our audience,
00:30:42.580 adult audience,
00:30:43.240 would be offended by that,
00:30:44.060 a seven-year-old
00:30:44.680 shouldn't be watching that.
00:30:45.720 So I'm glad.
00:30:47.460 I'm glad that...
00:30:49.460 You're here.
00:30:49.840 Thank God there's some courage
00:30:57.920 in this Alberta government.
00:30:59.640 It's the same courage,
00:31:00.560 by the way,
00:31:01.400 that allowed Sean Foyt
00:31:03.500 to perform on the steps
00:31:04.860 of the Alberta legislature
00:31:05.960 despite all of this hysteria
00:31:08.240 that this was going to create
00:31:09.520 security problems,
00:31:11.880 that this was a bad thing to do
00:31:13.760 because he was a...
00:31:15.100 How do they put it?
00:31:16.100 A MAGA influencer?
00:31:18.700 Potentially a friend
00:31:19.740 of President Donald Trump?
00:31:21.880 This was an outrage
00:31:23.420 across the country
00:31:24.480 in the only...
00:31:26.100 Well, there were only
00:31:26.800 two places in Canada,
00:31:29.400 Saskatoon and Edmonton,
00:31:31.700 where he was allowed
00:31:32.680 to perform as scheduled.
00:31:34.440 Only one place in Canada
00:31:35.680 where he was allowed
00:31:36.520 to perform on the steps
00:31:37.680 of the provincial legislature,
00:31:39.240 and that was Edmonton, Alberta.
00:31:41.700 Thank God,
00:31:42.520 because of the Premier.
00:31:43.140 The Premier said,
00:31:44.200 look, I believe in freedom
00:31:45.040 of religion.
00:31:46.320 I don't even know
00:31:47.280 what Premier Smith's
00:31:48.120 personal faith is.
00:31:49.400 I've known Daniel
00:31:50.960 for many, many years,
00:31:52.080 and that's never something
00:31:53.280 we've ever discussed.
00:31:54.920 But I do know
00:31:55.700 she believes in freedom.
00:31:56.940 I do know she believes
00:31:57.820 in freedom of religion,
00:31:59.600 freedom of assembly,
00:32:00.800 and free speech.
00:32:02.000 It's quite obvious.
00:32:03.340 I don't know how many
00:32:04.180 Premiers in this country
00:32:05.440 still believe
00:32:07.180 in that concept,
00:32:09.240 but it's nice to see
00:32:10.560 that she does.
00:32:11.140 So I want to move on here,
00:32:13.480 and by the way,
00:32:14.080 I will be on Redacted
00:32:15.440 this afternoon at 4.15
00:32:16.960 to talk about
00:32:17.680 Canadian politics.
00:32:18.780 It's been a week or two
00:32:19.520 since I've been on the show.
00:32:20.520 They've been so busy
00:32:21.420 and running fewer shows
00:32:22.980 during the week,
00:32:24.060 during the summer,
00:32:25.260 but it's so great
00:32:26.820 to be back this afternoon
00:32:28.000 with Clayton and Natalie Morris.
00:32:30.200 They're wonderful.
00:32:31.120 I love their show,
00:32:32.020 and they give me
00:32:32.500 an opportunity
00:32:33.080 to come on generally
00:32:34.820 every week
00:32:35.280 to talk about Canadian news,
00:32:36.380 and I'll be on there today
00:32:37.500 talking about Canadian news.
00:32:40.020 But here's a story
00:32:40.860 they did yesterday
00:32:41.520 with Tom Paxton,
00:32:42.500 the Attorney General
00:32:43.620 of Texas,
00:32:45.300 about,
00:32:46.180 yes,
00:32:46.540 Donald Trump does it again.
00:32:49.300 Potentially,
00:32:50.420 RICO charges
00:32:51.360 against George Soros.
00:32:53.740 George Soros,
00:32:54.380 of course,
00:32:55.020 is the billionaire
00:32:55.860 who uses his money
00:32:57.060 to subvert democracy.
00:33:00.300 So I want to get your take.
00:33:01.880 We've got a lot of stuff
00:33:03.160 to talk about.
00:33:03.740 You've been very,
00:33:04.480 very busy
00:33:04.960 and doing a lot
00:33:06.380 of great work down there.
00:33:07.180 I want to just get your sense
00:33:08.500 of this George Soros thing
00:33:09.860 because every time
00:33:11.020 these protests
00:33:11.720 pop up across the country,
00:33:13.100 there always seems
00:33:13.760 to be some sort
00:33:14.940 of open society
00:33:15.900 foundation linkage,
00:33:17.420 it would appear
00:33:18.100 to me anyway,
00:33:19.300 funding of these
00:33:20.700 violent protests.
00:33:22.140 And what do you make
00:33:22.940 of Trump's push
00:33:23.920 for like a RICO play
00:33:25.800 to bring in him
00:33:26.920 and his son?
00:33:28.560 Look,
00:33:28.860 I like it
00:33:29.440 because George Soros
00:33:30.840 has been doing this
00:33:31.480 for at least a decade,
00:33:33.400 inciting violence,
00:33:34.560 violent mobs,
00:33:38.120 violent protests.
00:33:39.160 And look,
00:33:39.520 we believe in the First Amendment.
00:33:40.880 We believe that people
00:33:41.500 should be able
00:33:41.800 to protest peacefully.
00:33:43.340 That's not what
00:33:44.040 George Soros pushes.
00:33:45.600 And there's no reason
00:33:46.600 he should not be investigated
00:33:47.800 and potentially prosecuted
00:33:48.920 for inciting violence
00:33:50.340 around our country.
00:33:50.940 You can't do that
00:33:51.560 in our country.
00:33:52.240 That is beyond
00:33:53.020 the limits of free speech
00:33:54.780 and beyond the limits
00:33:55.740 of the First Amendment.
00:33:56.480 So I think he should
00:33:58.120 at least be investigated.
00:33:59.120 We ought to find out
00:33:59.620 what the truth is
00:34:00.220 because we are very,
00:34:01.540 we've been suspicious
00:34:02.140 for years
00:34:02.700 that that's exactly
00:34:03.620 what's going on.
00:34:04.360 And then, of course,
00:34:05.220 as you suggested,
00:34:06.220 he's also been spending
00:34:07.780 a lot of money
00:34:08.560 electing district attorneys
00:34:10.480 across the country,
00:34:11.220 including in the liberal
00:34:12.400 cities of my state.
00:34:13.660 And what that means
00:34:14.400 is more crime
00:34:15.120 because these guys,
00:34:15.940 these prosecutors
00:34:16.560 do not prosecute
00:34:17.680 many crimes
00:34:18.640 that they should
00:34:19.080 otherwise prosecute.
00:34:20.780 Well,
00:34:21.260 if President Trump,
00:34:22.700 you know,
00:34:23.060 if this doesn't move forward
00:34:24.260 at the federal level,
00:34:25.160 could you in Texas
00:34:25.940 go after him?
00:34:27.260 Would this be sort
00:34:27.920 of the catalyst
00:34:28.440 maybe that you would need
00:34:29.540 in Texas
00:34:29.980 to look at him individually?
00:34:31.820 One of my great frustrations
00:34:33.080 in my state,
00:34:33.760 and I've been complaining
00:34:34.400 about this for years,
00:34:35.540 for as long as I've been
00:34:36.440 attorney general,
00:34:37.160 which is 11 years.
00:34:38.500 A lot of states
00:34:39.260 have the ability,
00:34:40.120 the Texas attorney general
00:34:40.920 has backup jurisdictions
00:34:42.220 called concurrent jurisdiction
00:34:43.720 with district attorneys
00:34:45.240 or like in certain states,
00:34:48.080 like I know Alaska,
00:34:49.020 that AG actually directs
00:34:51.500 the district attorneys.
00:34:52.420 In our state,
00:34:53.560 the DAs have full authority.
00:34:55.020 So in other words,
00:34:55.780 they cannot prosecute
00:34:57.040 or prosecute.
00:34:58.020 They can commit crimes themselves
00:34:59.680 and no one would prosecute them.
00:35:01.280 There's no backup in Texas.
00:35:03.060 I have insisted
00:35:03.900 that we should have
00:35:04.820 concurrent jurisdiction
00:35:05.640 for the attorney general
00:35:07.020 so that if DAs
00:35:08.320 aren't prosecuting laws,
00:35:09.560 which under certain laws,
00:35:10.800 we know that's happening
00:35:11.740 in Texas
00:35:12.200 and that crime is rampant
00:35:13.980 in certain of these big cities,
00:35:15.720 we would have a backup.
00:35:16.920 Right now,
00:35:17.720 the legislature
00:35:18.420 has not seen fit
00:35:19.440 to give the jurisdiction
00:35:20.500 to the attorney general,
00:35:21.740 but they should
00:35:22.440 because otherwise
00:35:23.120 crime is going to continue
00:35:24.300 to be ramped up
00:35:25.800 in these big cities
00:35:26.480 in our state.
00:35:27.360 But the president
00:35:29.300 is publicly calling
00:35:30.540 for RICO charges
00:35:31.840 and constitutionally,
00:35:34.160 a president should not
00:35:35.240 be ordering prosecutions.
00:35:36.900 These should be separate
00:35:37.980 branches of government.
00:35:40.780 So you are somebody
00:35:42.180 who could launch,
00:35:43.480 can you at least
00:35:44.220 launch your own investigations
00:35:45.360 even if you're
00:35:46.140 a little bit hamstrung
00:35:46.980 for prosecution?
00:35:48.300 And what do you make
00:35:49.380 of the president
00:35:50.500 making these open calls
00:35:51.680 for prosecution?
00:35:53.640 Look, everybody has an opinion.
00:35:55.020 He can give his opinion.
00:35:56.280 He ultimately has,
00:35:56.940 just like I can give my opinion.
00:35:58.120 I don't have the ability
00:35:58.720 to prosecute.
00:35:59.280 I can give you my opinion.
00:36:00.820 But yeah,
00:36:01.560 I mean,
00:36:01.840 if we had some angle
00:36:03.420 that we could investigate,
00:36:04.320 we'd be certainly open
00:36:05.300 to doing that.
00:36:05.860 We actually are investigating
00:36:07.540 one of George Soros'
00:36:08.600 organizations right now.
00:36:10.440 So we're in the process
00:36:11.260 of investigating
00:36:11.940 his organization
00:36:12.720 and Beto's organization
00:36:14.240 under our nonprofit laws,
00:36:16.240 which I do have authority
00:36:17.180 under to take away charters
00:36:19.040 if we believe
00:36:19.800 that they are being
00:36:20.940 inappropriately used
00:36:22.100 or deceiving consumers
00:36:23.660 about their donations.
00:36:25.200 So we are in the process
00:36:26.760 of investigating Soros.
00:36:28.520 My challenge is
00:36:29.420 I need district attorneys
00:36:30.420 who will actually prosecute
00:36:31.880 if we find criminal charges
00:36:34.000 and who will actually
00:36:35.140 investigate,
00:36:36.300 have their own investigations
00:36:37.240 and do their own prosecutions.
00:36:45.780 Yeah,
00:36:46.360 and that's the problem.
00:36:47.400 Of course,
00:36:47.620 George Soros
00:36:48.400 has positioned
00:36:49.120 district attorneys
00:36:50.580 in so many places
00:36:51.720 where they were reluctant
00:36:52.980 to prosecute.
00:36:55.100 So,
00:36:56.020 when we come back,
00:36:56.980 some concluding remarks
00:36:58.240 about why
00:36:58.940 Donald Trump's America
00:37:00.620 is succeeding
00:37:02.120 where Mark Carney's
00:37:03.520 Canada
00:37:04.200 isn't succeeding.
00:37:06.460 So we'll be right back
00:37:07.460 with that in a minute.
00:37:08.100 So we'll be right back.
00:37:38.100 We'll be right back.
00:38:08.100 We'll be right back.
00:38:38.100 So what's the problem?
00:38:40.220 We had nine and a half years of stalling and impediments from Justin Trudeau to pipelines.
00:38:50.320 So even if we turn this on right away, even if Kearney's serious about selling natural gas, liquid natural gas to the Europeans, to Poland, to Germany, to whomever, we don't have the infrastructure in place to do it now.
00:39:05.620 And it's going to take years to provide that infrastructure because we had liberal governments stopping pipelines for the last decade.
00:39:13.060 And that's why we are self-defeating at times.
00:39:18.880 This country is more concerned with a green energy plan that is absolutely absurd.
00:39:23.740 And, you know, we were talking last night on the Conservative Corner, and I encourage you to watch that at seven o'clock with my friend Nico.
00:39:32.900 So we talk about current events from a small-c conservative perspective.
00:39:38.380 And let me tell you, this country is so obsessed with the wrong things.
00:39:43.900 And why do you think Mark Carney pushes the green energy plan?
00:39:49.560 Because Brookfield Assets Management has so much invested in the so-called green energy scam.
00:39:56.520 And that's why he is pushing this agenda.
00:40:01.140 He'll continue to push it.
00:40:02.480 He might talk some days like a moderate.
00:40:05.220 He might sound some days like he's really not that woke.
00:40:10.900 But he is because he has profited.
00:40:13.720 He has enriched himself from woke politics.
00:40:16.740 And he will continue to do so as Prime Minister.
00:40:20.000 It's been a real pleasure joining you today on this Thursday morning.
00:40:24.280 We will be back again, hopefully, at the right time tomorrow at 10 a.m.
00:40:28.380 And we've got more to talk about this week because we are going to continue to resolve, to resist.
00:40:37.140 Thank you.
00:40:37.400 There has never been a strong business case because of the distance from the gas fields,
00:40:46.340 because of the need to transport that gas over long distances before liquefaction.
00:40:54.280 Yeah, we never really have the last word to Justin Trudeau, but he almost had it tonight there.
00:41:02.060 There he is telling you that it's just no business case.
00:41:06.140 And he was not telling Canadians the truth.
00:41:10.040 Thanks again for watching today.
00:41:14.260 I will be back again tomorrow.
00:41:16.020 And God bless this country.
00:41:18.680 God bless people who try to work for the betterment of this country.
00:41:22.720 And Godspeed to all of you.
00:41:24.440 We'll see you tomorrow.