The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - Provinces push back against Trudeau’s gun grab

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00:00:37.280 great show planned for you today so let's take a look at what we're going to be talking about on

00:00:41.200 the alberta roundup three provinces have said they won't aid the federal government in its gun grab

00:00:45.840 scheme premier jason kenney in his final days in the province's top job is warning about the state

00:00:50.480 of conservatism as well 23 first nations will pay 1.12 billion dollars for an ownership stake in seven

00:00:56.720 enbridge pipelines and yet another city wants a plastic ban all that and more happening now on

00:01:01.680 the alberta roundup okay guys this is the biggest story in the country right now on monday the alberta

00:01:07.280 government announced that public safety minister marco mendicino wrote to the provinces requesting

00:01:12.000 their help in confiscating legally purchased firearms if you need a little refresher in may 2020

00:01:17.200 prime minister justin trudeau announced he was banning more than 1500 models of firearms including

00:01:22.160 ar-15s owners of these guns would have a two-year amnesty period to come into compliance with the

00:01:26.480 prohibition he said at the time of course that amnesty period has been extended the liberal government

00:01:31.120 has not yet confiscated the firearms they have said they plan on spending 250 million dollars

00:01:36.560 buying back the guns what an excellent use of taxpayer resources i'm sure you're thinking

00:01:41.360 on monday alberta justice minister tyler shandro said the alberta government will not aid ottawa

00:01:46.880 in its gun grab scheme but furthermore he said the province also won't allow the alberta rcmp

00:01:52.720 to be used as confiscation agents for ottawa shandro said there's about 30 000 guns that the federal

00:01:57.920 government is looking to confiscate in the province but alberta has no interest in helping

00:02:02.960 quote alberta taxpayers pay over 750 million dollars per year for the rcmp and we will not

00:02:09.920 tolerate taking officers off the streets in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearm

00:02:15.120 owners alberta also said they are going to intervene in six ongoing legal challenges of the trudeau

00:02:20.800 government's firearms ban but the story doesn't stop there on wednesday saskatchewan signaled that it

00:02:25.760 also will not allow its rcmp to help ottawa confiscate the firearms saskatchewan chief firearms

00:02:31.360 officer bob frayberg revealed that the province wrote to the rcmp saying no provincially funded

00:02:36.560 resources of any type including the rcmp will be used for mendicino's gun bans and buybacks

00:02:42.400 following alberta and saskatchewan's lead manitoba is the third province to tell the trudeau liberals it

00:02:47.440 does not want its policing resources to be used in ottawa's gun grab scheme manitoba justice minister

00:02:53.280 kelvin gurtzen said he told mendicino that the buyback program unnecessarily targets lawful gun

00:02:58.400 owners while having little impact on criminals he said the program cannot further erode precious

00:03:03.760 provincial police resources already suffering from large vacancy rates from focusing on investigation

00:03:09.520 of violent crime in a post on facebook he wrote quote we will be bringing these concerns along with

00:03:15.920 the shared concern of saskatchewan and alberta directly to the federal government next month in

00:03:20.560 meetings of ministers of justice and ministers of public safety of course mendicino responded and

00:03:26.160 he is not happy he said the kenny government is acting in a reckless way by telling the alberta rcmp

00:03:31.760 to ignore orders to participate in the liberals gun grab scheme he wrote quote the courts have

00:03:37.360 repeatedly confirmed that regulating firearms fall squarely within federal jurisdiction albertans expect

00:03:42.560 their federal and provincial governments to work together to protect their communities not pull

00:03:47.120 dangerous stunts this really begs the question whether mendicino thought it was reckless when he

00:03:52.640 told the special parliamentary committee setting the freedom convoy that police asked the federal

00:03:57.120 government to invoke the emergencies act of course as you all know the rcmp and the ottawa police later

00:04:02.880 said they did not ask for the emergencies act to be used and then of course there was a time that

00:04:07.840 mendicino said definitively that people charged with firearms offenses in the coots border blockade

00:04:13.040 were connected to far-right groups in ottawa during the freedom convoy and then he of course completely

00:04:18.720 walked back those comments once he was pressured to answer about them actually we're going to play

00:04:23.840 that clip for you right now take a listen indeed several of the individuals at coots have strong ties

00:04:31.040 to a far-right extreme organization with leaders who are in ottawa we're talking about a group that is

00:04:38.880 organized agile knowledgeable and driven by an extremist ideology where might makes right there

00:04:47.920 you heard mendicino making those claims and just shortly after when he's pressured by legacy media he

00:04:52.560 completely walks them back take a listen i i want to follow up on marika walsh's question i think that

00:04:59.200 um we need to be certain that it sounds like you are making the connection between the rhetoric

00:05:05.120 of uh suspects who you know are accused of attempted and conspiring to attempt murder in

00:05:11.360 in coots alberta and the organizers here so is that what your conclusion is or is that something that's

00:05:18.640 backed up by evidence of an ongoing law enforcement investigation no i think you have it right i mean

00:05:24.560 i think the pattern that we're seeing here is in the rhetoric that is being used not only in coots

00:05:28.640 not only in ottawa but right across the country and um you know one i think can observe that very

00:05:35.280 plainly uh in the in the the similar messages that are being shared by those who are participating

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00:06:13.520 now at wealth simple.com that you know that that unified and focused message is one of concern and i

00:06:20.160 think does shed light on the ideological motivations of those who are prepared to move beyond just um

00:06:27.360 you know demonstrations in and crossing into a different conduct which which would be illegal

00:06:33.360 so then it's your your conclusion it's it's certainly i think the conclusion of many individuals

00:06:38.480 and canadians who are taking a look at uh social media and it's uh extremely concerning okay guys let's

00:06:44.400 move into our next topic alberta premier jason kenney has just a couple days left in the province's top job

00:06:49.760 and he's using that to reflect on the state of conservatism he spoke at the canada strong and

00:06:54.240 free conference and red deer last saturday yours truly was there as well i spoke on a

00:06:58.160 panel about conservatives and the media something i know a little bit about however premier jason

00:07:03.360 kenney used his time on a panel to warn about the state of conservatism which he said is becoming

00:07:08.000 populism with a snarl kenny warned that anger spurred by alt-right media social media and figures

00:07:14.400 like former republican president donald trump are constantly driving people into a state of agitation

00:07:19.760 this is not healthy for our society kenny warned adding that civility is good for canadian

00:07:24.320 institutions and society he also said the populism he's seeing could result in a situation where what

00:07:29.760 is winsome and appealing about conservatism could become a caricature of a kind of nasty angry populism

00:07:35.680 that's constantly losing at the pulse the premier also spent a fair deal of time discussing his work

00:07:41.360 as the former federal immigration minister under conservative prime minister stephen harper and some

00:07:46.480 people i spoke to in the crowd said they wondered if he was signaling intentions that he wants to

00:07:51.040 return to federal politics of course the premier has not yet said what he plans to do after stepping

00:07:56.400 down as premier on october 6 once a new ucp leader is chosen enbridge announced the sale of a minority

00:08:02.880 stake in seven of its alberta pipelines to almost two dozen indigenous communities in what's being

00:08:07.600 described as a largest transaction of its nature to date in north america the company said 23 first nations

00:08:13.120 and meaty communities will pay 1.12 billion dollars for an 11 stake in seven enbridge pipelines in

00:08:19.200 alberta's oil rich athabasca region a new entity dubbed athabasca indigenous investment will oversee

00:08:25.280 the investment here's what alberta premier jason kenney had to say about it today this partnership that

00:08:31.200 we are announcing between enbridge and a group of 23 indigenous communities with the support of

00:08:37.840 alberta's government is an historic game-changing deal okay guys let's move into the controversy of

00:08:44.160 the week we are once again talking about firearms the canadian coalition for firearm rights is clapping

00:08:49.520 back at a cbc reporter for trying to instill fear about law-abiding gun owners with a tweet criticizing

00:08:55.680 the alberta government's move to oppose justin trudeau's gun bans cbc calgary reporter and editor tom

00:09:01.760 ross tweeted a photo of four guns included in the federal buyback program which alberta will challenge

00:09:06.640 calling the challenge a waste of money ross wrote on twitter quote unless you are actively fighting

00:09:12.080 on the front line of a battlefield i do not understand why anyone needs to have these in

00:09:16.000 their home like most of the 1500 firearm variants the liberals banned by order and council in 2020

00:09:21.280 all four guns are semi-automatic meaning one trigger pull fires one bullet fully automatic firearms

00:09:27.120 have been illegal since 1977 in canada these guns require that magazines be pinned to limit them to five

00:09:32.640 rounds far so than what a soldier on the battlefield would have in a military-grade firearm

00:09:38.320 they also require a restricted possession and acquisition license which is harder to obtain than

00:09:42.480 the typical non-restricted possession and acquisition license our bow holders are subject to daily police

00:09:47.680 background checks and the application process involves screening for mental health family and financial

00:09:52.960 issues the canadian coalition for firearm rights wrote on twitter at worst tommy's deliberately

00:09:58.880 attempting to steal fear in uninformed canadians by creating a false narrative that he knows is

00:10:04.000 statistically incorrect okay guys what we're watching in the weeks to come you guessed it it's about

00:10:09.520 plastic as we've talked about in previous weeks edmonton city council is looking at banning plastics

00:10:15.440 and there's petition circulating to ban that proposal now calgary is also considering a like-minded

00:10:20.720 proposal only theirs is a tad more extreme the city of calgary's proposed plastic bans would fine

00:10:26.400 businesses 250 for offenses so what are those offenses you might be wondering well they range from

00:10:32.800 providing a customer plastic cutlery when the customer did not first ask for one to providing

00:10:37.360 a customer a shopping bag when the customer did not first ask for a shopping bag to providing customer

00:10:42.160 a shopping bag without charging a fee oh the horrors the city's proposed single-use items bylaw targets

00:10:48.400 plastic cutlery and shopping bags without minimum fines for businesses beginning at 250 dollars

00:10:53.440 and doubling or tripling with repeated offenses it's good to know this is what our cities are

00:10:58.160 prioritizing right now okay guys let's move into our ucp leadership race update this is my last update

00:11:03.440 for you next week on thursday we will have our new premier and ucp leader who do you guys think is going

00:11:08.720 to win of course many people have already cast their ballots they need to be received on october 4th

00:11:13.360 if you're sending them by mail and of course there's an option to vote in person on october 6th so let's

00:11:18.320 take a look at this poll that was reported by rick bell from the calgary sun it is a hamis marshall of

00:11:23.280 one persuasion poll and he used the actual ucp membership list he pulled 1 603 people and of those

00:11:31.680 who voted 45 percent have said they voted for smith another 28 voted for travis taves 11 for brian gene

00:11:40.240 six percent for rebecca schultz five percent for todd lowen and leila here and raj and sonny with lower

00:11:45.760 percentages so we'll see what happens on the 6th if you guys are going to be there in person come

00:11:51.040 and say hi to me i always love meeting my viewers and listeners and if you're not going to be able to

00:11:55.440 make it definitely tune into true north's live show you will not want to miss it of course as alberto

00:12:00.320 selects its new premier okay guys let's move into the alberta politics funny moment of the week

00:12:05.040 you guys might have seen this video circulating on twitter the ndp hosted an event with rachel

00:12:09.600 nollie in brooks medicine hat this week from what i've seen on social media it was likely their

00:12:14.160 largest ever event in the region with about 200 people but of course everyone is wondering was

00:12:19.280 ucp leadership candidate leila here in attendance to sell memberships of course i'm only joking what

00:12:24.480 a ludicrous thing to suggest we all know that leila here only attends liberal party campaign events to

00:12:29.200 sell conservative party memberships okay guys that's all i have for you today thanks so much

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The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - October 01, 2022

Provinces push back against Trudeau’s gun grab

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