The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - November 05, 2022


Premier Smith attacks “extreme left” climate policies

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Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Leach testimony
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Isaac Lamoureux
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Danielle Smith Tim Stevens Tyler Shandro Tamara Leach Alberta Sovereignty Act Steven Guilbeault Stephen Guibault Rachel Emanuel Gwendolyn Dirk Sonia Savage Jason Kenney Medicine Hat
Danielle Smith pushes Ottawa back Unvaccinated woman denied organ transplant

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has weighed in on ESG, Pastor Tim Stephens has been acquitted, we take a look at the UCP fundraising numbers, and Tamara Leach testifies. Finally, an Alberta Justice Minister is accusing the federal government of withholding information that would be embarrassing to Ottawa. All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.

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00:00:26.800 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:28.640 I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.
00:00:30.080 I hope you're having a great weekend so far.
00:00:32.080 Here's what we're going to be looking at today.
00:00:33.840 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has weighed in on ESG.
00:00:37.440 Pastor Tim Stevens has been acquitted.
00:00:40.000 We're also going to be taking a look at the UCP fundraising numbers.
00:00:44.000 And Tamara Leach testifies.
00:00:46.880 Finally, an Alberta Justice Minister is accusing the federal government
00:00:49.920 of withholding information that would be embarrassing to Ottawa.
00:00:53.280 All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:56.080 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has spent the last week campaigning in Brooks Medicine Hat,
00:01:00.160 where she's running for the by-election as you know. 0.95
00:01:02.800 That vote will happen next week on November 8th.
00:01:05.280 And in all candidates debate in the riding on Wednesday night,
00:01:07.920 Smith pitched herself to voters as someone that's in a decision-making role
00:01:11.520 and spoke about the need for healthcare reform.
00:01:13.760 The candidates were also asked about how they would improve Alberta's ESG rating.
00:01:18.880 ESG, of course, is the controversial environmental, social and governance.
00:01:23.520 And it's increasingly used as a rating that socially conscious investors consider
00:01:27.840 before determining whether they want to invest in a given company or region.
00:01:31.520 The NDP candidate, Gwendolyn Dirk, was the first to be asked
00:01:34.800 about how she would improve Alberta's ESG rating.
00:01:37.280 And she seemed rather caught off guard.
00:01:39.520 Take a listen to her response here.
00:01:40.880 After a moderator stepped in to explain what ESG is, Dirk was able to respond.
00:01:56.080 She attacked Daniel Smith's proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act,
00:01:59.200 and said it would chase away investment in the province.
00:02:01.920 She also said an NDP government would reinstate tax credits the UCP government did away with.
00:02:07.120 Second to answer the question was Premier Danielle Smith.
00:02:09.520 And I'll let you listen to her remarks for yourself.
00:02:12.080 You may have noticed that Saskatchewan just passed or introduced a Saskatchewan first policy.
00:02:17.600 So I think it's catching on the idea of standing up to Ottawa.
00:02:20.560 And there's a very good reason to stand up to Ottawa.
00:02:23.760 Ottawa's hostile policies towards us has been led by the most extreme left on environmental,
00:02:31.280 social, and governance ratings that focus so narrowly just on the issue of greenhouse gas
00:02:38.000 emissions and the demonization campaign that has happened against our energy industry,
00:02:42.560 which, sadly, the federal government with Stephen Gilbeau is aligned with.
00:02:47.600 And, sadly, the NDP is aligned with the Liberals at the federal level.
00:02:52.000 They have proposed a policy that would put a specific cap-and-trade program on our oil and gas
00:02:57.600 industry mandating that they would reduce their emissions 42 percent by 2030.
00:03:03.280 That is going to devastate the industry.
00:03:05.440 I've talked to industry players.
00:03:06.560 They would expect to see a massive decline in their share value if that comes through.
00:03:10.960 This is the reason we have to stand up to Ottawa.
00:03:13.760 It's because they have no right to regulate our industry.
00:03:16.720 If you go and look at our constitution, natural resources are the exclusive jurisdiction of
00:03:21.200 the provinces.
00:03:22.000 They have no business getting in this area.
00:03:23.760 And this is why Sonia Savage is going to COP 27. 1.00
00:03:26.800 She is going to go there to talk about the Alberta way of reducing emissions.
00:03:31.280 You know what the Alberta way of reducing emissions is?
00:03:33.440 Is let's export clean LNG to the countries in the world that are still using polluting fuels
00:03:39.040 like wood and coal and dung for home heating and for cooking.
00:03:42.400 That's causing 44 million deaths a year in indoor air pollution.
00:03:46.320 If we do that and get credit for it through the green transfer mechanism, we can reduce
00:03:49.920 global emissions.
00:03:51.040 Another thing that we'll be talking about is building out our hydrogen economy.
00:03:54.240 We are going to be at the heart of the hydrogen economy and that is going to reduce overall
00:03:58.000 emissions.
00:03:58.640 We are also a world leader on carbon tech so that we can capture carbon dioxide embedded
00:04:04.800 in products so that we can make them more durable or put it underground.
00:04:07.840 You will never see Ottawa or Stephen Gibault defending Alberta in the way that we are going
00:04:13.520 to defend Alberta.
00:04:14.320 That's how we'll stand up for our ESG rating.
00:04:16.880 Thank you.
00:04:17.920 Another big story coming out of the province this week, Alberta pastor Tim Stephens was
00:04:22.080 acquitted on charges of breaching the province's public health orders which required physical
00:04:26.240 distancing.
00:04:27.360 Stephens spent a total of 21 days in jail in regards to the charges.
00:04:31.200 In a statement, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom said Stephens was
00:04:34.400 illegally arrested for having allegedly violate public health orders which have since been shown to be
00:04:39.760 ineffective and harmful.
00:04:41.760 This decision sets the record straight about the justifiability of his actions and about the
00:04:46.640 importance of respecting charter rights and freedoms.
00:04:49.120 We are pleased that the court has acquitted Pastor Stephens on the charges of not complying with a
00:04:53.760 public health order.
00:04:54.320 Meanwhile, the United Conservative Party had its best fundraising quarter since former Premier
00:05:00.000 Jason Kenney's pandemic crackdown.
00:05:02.240 Let's take a look at these numbers.
00:05:03.680 The party raised around $975,000 from the third financial quarter.
00:05:08.160 That's from the beginning of July to the end of September,
00:05:10.720 and it also occurred during the leadership race to replace Kenney.
00:05:14.160 Those numbers mark the most that the UCP has raised since the third financial quarter in 2021,
00:05:19.440 which ended just one week after the former Premier implemented a vaccine passport in Alberta.
00:05:25.040 Now, the UCP were still out-fundraised by the Alberta NDP, who raised over $1.4 million.
00:05:30.960 But of course, the UCP numbers don't include all the fundraising from the seven leadership candidates,
00:05:35.440 and that includes Travis Taves and Danielle Smith, who each raised over $1 million for their campaign
00:05:40.880 alone. This week, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Leach testified at the Emergencies Act Inquiry in Ottawa.
00:05:47.920 She said she was motivated to get involved with the convoy because there were so many people
00:05:51.840 committing suicide in her town that they stopped reporting them. Leach is, of course, from Saskatchewan
00:05:57.520 originally but now lives in Medicine Hat. Her testimony was incredibly powerful. Take a listen to her remarks now.
00:06:03.280 I was seeing families torn apart.
00:06:05.120 The suicides in my hometown were so numerous that they stopped reporting them.
00:06:19.360 Elderly people were dying by themselves in long-term care facilities and saying goodbye over iPads.
00:06:25.760 My grandma is 94 years old and she was locked in her little apartment by herself for two years.
00:06:39.680 And now that she can go out and do things, she's not healthy enough. She lost two years of her life.
00:06:44.960 My father is, I'm so sorry. Take your time. My father is a very social man. He is the Coffee Row Saskatchewan
00:06:59.200 father. And I remember him telling me one day that he went down to the local restaurant that he went to
00:07:06.240 every single day. And these are small towns where everybody knows everybody and he was asked to leave.
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00:07:49.120 And I didn't want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world like that.
00:07:55.040 I was becoming increasingly alarmed listening to my prime minister
00:08:02.960 and I found his rhetoric to be incredibly divisive. And I'm a believer that if you're a leader of a country,
00:08:19.920 you have to lead all of your people, even if you don't agree with them.
00:08:24.320 It's worth noting that this is one of the very few times the public has heard from Leach.
00:08:28.400 She was arrested for her involvement with the convoy in February while in Ottawa.
00:08:32.800 And her bail conditions have barred her from speaking publicly or even contacting other organizers at times.
00:08:37.760 Let's move into the controversy of the week. Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro says
00:08:43.040 the federal government is withholding official communication about a federal provincial territorial
00:08:48.400 meeting because Alberta asked the government to name the four provinces opposed to its gun grab
00:08:54.160 scheme. Okay guys, let's dig into the details here. The 2022 federal provincial and territorial meeting
00:09:00.080 for ministers of public safety and justice ministers occurred on October 13th and 14th.
00:09:05.520 Typically after these meetings, the federal government releases official communication
00:09:08.960 to relay what was spoken about and discussed. This is called a communique. However, in this instance,
00:09:14.000 Ottawa did not release a communique saying they could not agree on the language. But Tyler Shandro says,
00:09:19.680 no, Ottawa simply didn't release the communication because Alberta asked them to name the four provinces
00:09:25.280 opposed to its gun grab scheme in that communique. You guys know the details of the story by now.
00:09:29.600 Four provinces have told Ottawa they do not want their provincial policing resources to act as
00:09:33.760 confiscation agents as part of the Trudeau Liberals gun buyback program. They aired those concerns to
00:09:39.680 their federal counterparts at that meeting. And then Alberta asked for those provinces to be named in
00:09:44.080 the communication, but it appears that Ottawa is unwilling to do so as they have not released the
00:09:48.320 official communication. Let's take a look at what else Shandro had to say. Quote, the disagreement over
00:09:53.200 language centered on Alberta's request that provinces opposed to taking police officers off the street
00:09:58.240 to confiscate firearms be listed by name in the communique. Shandro also said that Quebec is
00:10:03.120 routinely listed in communiques as a province that disagrees to federal initiatives. Quote,
00:10:09.440 apparently a lack of consensus for the same courtesy to be extended to other provinces and territories
00:10:14.240 was enough for the federal government to decline to issue a communique. Alberta has asked over and over
00:10:19.920 again to be treated as an equal partner in Confederation on par with Quebec. The federal
00:10:24.480 government made it clear that it is unwilling and disinterested in even taking a small step
00:10:29.440 in that direction. What we're watching in the weeks to come Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has said
00:10:33.680 she's done with masks. Specifically she said she will not permit kindergarten through grade 12 students
00:10:38.720 to wear masks at school any longer. Quote, the detrimental effects of masking on the mental health
00:10:44.640 development and education of children in classroom settings is well understood and we must turn the
00:10:49.600 page on what has been an extremely difficult time for children along with their parents and teachers.
00:10:55.360 Her comments come after an Alberta judge ruled last week that a February order lifting the mask
00:10:59.840 mandate was unreasonable because it came from cabinet not the province's chief medical health
00:11:03.920 officer but Smith has said she's directed her justice minister Tyler Shandro to examine whether to
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