SOG12： Danielle Smith Stands Up to Trudeau’s Green New Deal aka ＂Sustainable Jobs Act＂+ more ｜ Stand on Guard ep 12
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Summary
In this episode of Stand On Guard, David talks about what Justin Trudeau has been up to lately, and why we should all be worried about it. He also talks about the Green New Deal in the United States and why it's not going to happen in Canada.
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Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard with David Creighton.
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We've got some great stories in the lineup today.
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We're going to get right at what has Justin Trudeau done lately?
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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Well, before we get into the guts of the program, I want to encourage you to support independent journalism.
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Subscribe, ring that bell, show me your support.
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I'm having a heck of a time bringing the news to you.
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The news does not stop because Parliament goes on summer break because these guys are always up to something,
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So without further ado, I want to get on to one of my favorite topics.
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You know how in the United States, everybody made fun of the Green New Deal?
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You know, Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from New York, came up with this thing over a weekend, basically, writing it on cocktail napkins.
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And it was – people 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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So anyway, people were just mocking the Green New Deal.
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But, of course, it has been happening under Joe Biden.
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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.
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And this is really what I need to point out here, is that what 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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And a lot of people pointed out that I was one of the first actually to make that connection.
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And there was a secret memo associated with it saying that everybody loses a job, a good-paying oil rig job, for instance.
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But you might think twice if you're making the big bucks in the oil fields.
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And it's just classic, classic Trudeau nonsense.
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But, you know, 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 the, you know, the conservatives under Paliyev and the premier who's fighting this, the hardest 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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Let's let, let's not worry about it in our generation.
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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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Because I think it's, I think it's extremely important that we understand exactly, you know, what's going on here.
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Go about new projects and manage to get to net zero within a short period of time, 12 years.
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It's just not, it's just frankly not achievable.
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We have to fight it with, with every, every power that we have.
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And we need to hear all the premiers talking like this.
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Because this is going to be a catastrophic job loss.
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And we're talking not just tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs loss when everything is added into the mix.
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The Constitution is pretty clear that Alberta has the right to develop its resources in its own way.
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And because I've set an emissions reduction target that's in line with the federal emissions reduction target of 2050,
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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 politicians,
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the fight was always how much additional wealth can be extracted from Alberta to benefit Ottawa.
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We've never faced a government that wants to shut our economy down and wants to shut down our energy industry
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and wants to phase out our oil and natural gas workers to their own detriment.
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The aspirations, the ideological aspirations that have been put on the table with targets pulled out of the air
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by politicians who know nothing about our local environment and how unachievable it is.
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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,
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we still, 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 enthused with climate change in February
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It's my job to make sure that they understand that it is unachievable,
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As I mentioned to the prime minister when I spoke with him,
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I said, when we do well, we actually generate a heck of a lot of federal revenue
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in corporate income taxes and personal 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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what 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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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
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and on climate change conferences around the world.
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The 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
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because everybody was staying home, not going to work.
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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,
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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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To stoke the fires of fear so they can pretend to solve the problem.
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Now, I want to move to another story here, which is really quite something for the RCMP.
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We have been saying for quite some time that the RCMP is becoming politicized.
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I think we proved that this week because there was an access to information request filed by Democracy Watch.
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And Democracy Watch released that access request.
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And there was two stories because they said on May 25th, the RCMP said that they were continuing an investigation into Justin Trudeau and former finance minister, Bill Morneau, chief of the Privy Council, and some staffers.
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Now, a lot of – some media reported on this story that day, including my outlet.
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At the end of the day, after being bombarded with questions by various media agencies, the RCMP put out a post on Twitter saying in response to numerous reports, the RCMP can confirm and is not investigating allegations of political interference in the trial of SNC-Lavalin.
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Which, of course, you might remember as one of the biggest scandals of the Trudeau era, took down two prime ministers, two ministers, and Trudeau's chief of staff, Gerald Butts.
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So there was a lot of blood on the floor after that.
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But the RCMP comes out at the end of the day and denies it.
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And today, Democracy Watch responded to the RCMP confusion by saying that they misled them and they did not want them to basically access most of the Freedom of the Access Information Act document they received.
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85 pages out of a 95-page document were censored, black pen, black marker through them.
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So they were unable to basically read very much of it.
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Why was this – why would they say an investigation was ongoing in May when it wasn't?
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And why did they suddenly, at the end of the day, respond to this, saying it's all over?
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Clearly, there's political pressure involved here.
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I mean, that seems to be pretty, pretty obvious.
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And I think we can – I think that's something we can agree on here.
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So, to put it – to put it mildly, there is a – there is a problem here.
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In relation to prosecutorial interference on the 2019 SNC-Lavalin scandal, my question to
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Is the Prime Minister, any member of Cabinet or their staff currently under investigation
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That was the last part of the Democracy Watch story, because the question came up in question
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period, Government House Leader Paul Holland gets to his feet and mumbles something, and
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the Speaker, who is always so quick to say, oh, stop all the talking and the chatter, like
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an old woman, he doesn't hear what Paul Holland says.
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The Prime Minister of Canada was throughout Julie Wilson-Raybould, because she didn't want
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Can the Prime Minister rise today in the House and confirm that neither he nor anyone else
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from his Cabinet have been investigated by the RCMP?
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The Honourable Leader of the Government in the House, Mr. Speaker, I've already answered
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Of course, the Conservative Party are trying to pick partisan fights, and I've already answered.
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And you have to see this to believe it, because Marco Mendicino, you know, here's the guy who
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just can't seem to get his story correct, you know, about whether or not he knew, when
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he knew Paul Bernardo was moving from a maximum security prison to a medium security prison.
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And it's not clear when he actually knew, but he certainly is not telling the truth.
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Because would you believe a public safety minister with all that staff wouldn't have been
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informed, and he wouldn't have fired a staff that failed to tell him?
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Well, I think there's definitely a problem here.
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To the chair of the Public Safety Committee, just before question period, members of the
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Committee were informed that the meeting had been canceled for this afternoon.
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We were told that all parties had consented to this meeting.
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None of the opposition parties have consented to this meeting.
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I can only think that the reason this meeting has been canceled on such short notice is to
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Like, Mendicino's been taking it all week for apparently lying about this Paul Bernardo
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issue, but here he is, ducking questions at the Justice Committee meeting, which they canceled,
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They had consent of all parties to cancel a meeting, and they didn't.
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Minister of Public Safety from a conservative motion calling on him to appear to answer questions
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Tell this house why they're going this far to protect the Minister of Public Safety.
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This shows you how bloody, devious, mendacious the Liberals are.
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They lied about who wanted this meeting canceled.
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And here is Mark goddamn Holland, standing up on his hind leg.
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But this is the Liberals canceled the meeting and pretended all the opposition agreed with them.
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Mr. Speaker, what we've seen, unfortunately, over the last three weeks, is a party that is bent on obstructing everything at every turn.
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No, they just want to turf your goddamn minister, who is lying about everything and has been caught lying every bloody time.
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The decision in question was made independently by corrections.
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And what they are covering up is the ability for this...
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Mind you, he doesn't address the fact that they canceled the meeting with a unanimous approval.
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Because they canceled this meeting because they don't want Mendicino to go through another harsh moment.
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Then that leads us into another really tremendous story here.
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And it's, uh, all week we've heard about the tremendous compassion the Trudeau government has for Bernardo's victims.
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But, and we're going to hear Trudeau say that in a minute.
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And I'll tell you what, the Trudeau government's suing the victims of Paul Bernardo.
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Maximum security penitentiary into relative freedom in a place where he can have access to other people.
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Where he has more comforts and more, uh, can put guards in danger.
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Now, the Prime Minister interfered with Corrections Canada's decisions by introducing Bill C-83 that allowed this kind of transfer to go ahead.
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The Minister of Public Safety knew the transfer, his office knew at least,
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for three months while he claimed that they couldn't walk down the hallway and tell him.
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Mr. Speaker, we know how difficult this decision is for families of the victims.
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We share the deep concerns that Canadians have been expressing.
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The decision to transfer incarcerated persons is an independent decision made by the Correctional Services of Canada.
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Following outreach by the Minister of Public Safety, the Commission ordered an additional review that...
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You can see Mendicino nodding in the back there, saying, thanks, Justin.
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Rumor's out, though, he's on his way out, because three strikes and you're out.
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When you lie three times about pretty significant government policy.
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Mendicino has lied about the imposition of the Emergencies Act.
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And now he's lied about what he knew about Bernardo being transferred.
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And even for the scandal-prone, plagued Trudeau government, that's asking for too much.
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The Minister can actually order reviews, which means he can also issue directives to ensure that all mass murderers
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He could also adopt our law today, which would require that every mass murderer stay in a maximum security penitentiary.
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So we know how incredibly compassionate Justin Trudeau says he is.
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The Trudeau government fought the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffey in court
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to prevent them from obtaining from the Parole Board and Correctional Service Canada
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to prepare for the parole hearings of Paul Bernardo, who tortured and killed their daughters.
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The Trudeau government argued in favour of protecting Paul Bernardo's privacy rights, and they won the case.
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Then, to its everlasting shame, Senator Gould, the Trudeau government asked the court for these families
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to pay the government's legal costs of $19,142.27.
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Leader, a delayed answer table last fall failed to answer the question you were asked in 2021.
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Why did your government seek court costs from these grieving families, Senator Gould?
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I regret that the answer that was provided didn't answer that.
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I'll certainly follow up in an endeavour to find out why and what the answer might be.
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And why isn't Pierre Polyev banging on this drum, too?
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The guy's really a one-note sambo when it comes to criticism.
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I mean, he can handle one talking point a week sometimes.
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But he really should be getting on to this, too.
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If the Trudeau government is so compassionate about victims, why are they suing them?
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And why are they squeezing these people for money?
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And obviously, they had a lot more time and sympathy for Paul Bernardo's privacy
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than they did for the suffering and the victimization of these families.
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So where are we sitting here as Parliament recessed yesterday?
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No public inquiry in the Chinese election interference.
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But do you think they're going to get to a public inquiry?
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That has been one of the issues we've been grappling with here on Stand on Guard for months.
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We mocked the special rapporteur, David Johnson, for being completely the wrong choice and a special rapporteur being the wrong kind of office to investigate this.
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Not one of Trudeau's old family friends doing a little bit of private eye work.
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All he did was read the stories in the media outlets and report back about them.
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So 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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Can you imagine being left with nothing but CBC, your publicly funded state broadcaster?
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There's going to be a summer where people are going to have difficulty making ends meet.
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Because on July 1st, it's another 31 cents a liter carbon tax goes on the gas pumps.
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Now it's going to go over $2 a liter in many places in this country.
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And all because of this illusion that the carbon tax is somehow helping us in some way fight climate change.
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People still have to use gasoline, oil, natural gas to live.
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So that's the one drum the conservatives are banging successfully, passionately, and consistently.
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And they need to do that because this is a huge issue for every Canadian.
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There's a lot of other things they should be going after.
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We need conservatives to reopen the abortion debate because unrestricted abortion on demand exists only in places like North Korea.
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And it's unacceptable to say that issue is settled.
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It's also unacceptable to have drag queen story hours for little children.
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I haven't heard a peep of opposition to that from the official opposition.
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We need to get back to understanding how evil the truth of government is.
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It's destroying Canada in the name of the religion of fighting climate change.
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And it's incinerating our values and our morals.
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And Canadians need to know how bad this government is.
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So I tell you again, support independent journalism.
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It's very important because you've got to make this pay so you can continue to deliver the news in these trying times.
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This is an era of internet social media censorship by a very wicked government.
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I'll be doing some more Take Fives in the meantime.