The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - August 10, 2024


RCMP criticized for slow response to Alberta murder

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Isaac Lamoureux
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Danielle Smith Adam Seuss Pierre Poilievre Javier Millel Corey Morgan Marty Up North Demetrius Nicolaitis Marty Boulanger Edgar Edgerton Justin Trudeau Alberta RCMP Tariq Elnega Colin Hoff
“She almost got booed” - Is Danielle Smith losing support？ Danielle Smith agrees — immigration is too high

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There are killers on the loose in Alberta. The RCMP are continuing its manhunt after a young father was killed on Tuesday. At the time, residents were told to shelter in place at their homes. But the RCMP are now being lambasted for their response. They did not warn residents that the killers were driving around in a stolen city truck. And now, five days later, they still have not released descriptions of the suspects.

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00:00:00.000 There's killers on the loose in Alberta. The RCMP are continuing its manhunt after a young
00:00:06.460 father was killed on Tuesday. At the time, residents were told to shelter in place at their
00:00:12.200 homes. But the RCMP are now being lambasted for their response. They did not warn residents that
00:00:19.840 the killers were driving around in a stolen city truck. And now, five days later, they still have
00:00:25.740 not released description of the suspects. Let's dive into the details. I'm Rachel Parker and you're
00:00:31.640 watching the Alberta Roundup. Alberta RCMP have released a photo that is believed to be of
00:00:45.280 potential witnesses in Tuesday's fatal shooting that has led to a province-wide manhunt for two
00:00:52.160 suspects. On Tuesday, just before noon, two people were shot and wounded, one fatally, in an incident
00:00:58.060 that resulted in a manhunt for the two suspects who fled in a stolen vehicle. A Rockyview County
00:01:03.420 employee was murdered on the side of the road. He was a young father named Colin Hoff. A Fortis
00:01:08.840 employee was also shot in the arm at the scene of the crime. Description of the suspects still are not
00:01:15.440 available. On Thursday, RCMP said investigators are looking for help identifying the occupants of a car
00:01:20.680 that may have witnessed Tuesday's fatal interaction. It's a dark gray Volkswagen golf sport wagon,
00:01:27.080 potentially from between 2013 and 2015. You can see it pictured here. While Calgarians were told to
00:01:32.900 shelter in place, another controversy was erupting, that of the RCMP's slow response time. Western
00:01:38.780 Standard columnist Corey Morgan documented the RCMP's brutal response throughout the week. In a Wednesday
00:01:44.760 column, he wrote, yesterday while driving, my phone and radio station blew up simultaneously as an
00:01:50.620 emergency alert had been issued. The voice warned that two extremely dangerous armed individuals were
00:01:56.520 at large east of Calgary and that people in the area should lock their doors and windows while
00:02:01.520 sheltering in place. That was it. No description of the gender, age, size, clothing, or race of the
00:02:07.960 individuals. Just a warning to say how much danger people are in and that they should cower at home.
00:02:14.240 The situation didn't change for hours. People were expected to hide out and await word of new
00:02:20.280 developments. It sounded as if nothing was happening, but indeed it was. Details were emerging on a local
00:02:26.640 meta page of a county of Rockyview work truck being chased through people's property. They even posted
00:02:32.140 pictures of the truck and it was known, at least to the people on that group, that the violent offenders
00:02:37.440 were in that truck. Early in the evening, the RCMP reported that the scene of the crime was secure,
00:02:43.000 but that the dangerous criminals were still at large. They were confident the criminals had fled the area
00:02:48.380 and that people could again emerge from their homes. Nothing more. Corey went on, at the time of this
00:02:55.200 writing, the RCMP still hasn't let us know anything. We don't know anything of the description of the
00:03:00.840 killers, which way they went, what their motive may have been, or if there are leads. Why the hell
00:03:07.300 are they remaining silent? At the time of recording this episode on Friday afternoon, the RCMP still
00:03:12.480 had not released descriptions of the suspects. Moving into our next story here, a surge in
00:03:17.760 immigration has forced the province of Alberta to dip into its coffers to spend hundreds of millions
00:03:22.740 more on educating in the coming year. The Alberta government has approved an influx of $250 million
00:03:28.380 to be distributed through the province's school boards for the 2024 to 2025 school year. The announcement
00:03:34.700 follows Alberta's unprecedented population growth, resulting in a surge of new students. Education
00:03:40.320 Minister Dimitris Nicolaitis said the provincial government seldom announces funding outside of
00:03:45.040 the budget cycle, but the rising cost pressures caused by the population growth had to be addressed
00:03:50.320 immediately. He said, quote, I am confident that this new funding will help ensure that Alberta
00:03:55.780 students continue to receive a world-class education. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith previously told
00:04:01.480 True North that Alberta's unprecedented population growth of 200,000 people last year resulted in
00:04:07.360 over 22,000 new unfunded students. The $250 million in funding will be split up, with $125 million
00:04:15.320 allocated toward operational funding, and another $90 million meant for modular classrooms.
00:04:21.220 Finally, some good news for Albertans who are hoping for some relief in their pockets. Alberta Premier
00:04:27.080 Danielle Smith said that an accelerated tax cut plan is in the work for the province. Take a listen. This
00:04:32.780 is from my friend Adam Seuss at Rebel News. There is a plan for tax cuts, but I think what you're asking
00:04:38.360 is if people will see an accelerated plan for tax cuts. And I can say yes. From what we are seeing,
00:04:43.420 one of the things that we were concerned about was making sure that any tax cut that we do is not going
00:04:49.920 to put us into a deficit position. With the uncertainty that we saw in oil and gas prices, some of the
00:04:55.180 uncertainty about how other sources of revenue would grow with the growth in the province and the
00:05:00.000 growth in revenue, we wanted to be absolutely certain that this $1.4 billion tax cut wouldn't
00:05:05.880 put us into deficit. We're getting more of that certainty, and as my finance minister gets more
00:05:11.180 confidence, we'll be able to develop an accelerated timeline. And Adam did a full interview with the
00:05:16.700 Premier. You can head over to his X account or to the Rebel News website to watch that full interview,
00:05:21.720 which I absolutely recommend you do, as Adam is an incredible Alberta reporter.
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00:05:52.780 I'm going to try to get through this one without laughing because I know that some of you guys
00:05:56.620 are still living in Calgary and that this is just probably quite painful for you at the moment.
00:06:02.600 Turns out that there are 16 more sites that need to be repaired in Calgary's
00:06:07.960 major water feed main that burst earlier this summer. And we are going to be going back into stage
00:06:14.300 for water restrictions. Take a listen to Calgary Mayor Jodi Gondek.
00:06:17.980 There are 16 locations where there are stress points or weaknesses in the feeder main. And we
00:06:25.080 need to act in the short term to do those repairs. That's why we're giving people three weeks notice
00:06:31.060 to understand that on August the 26th, we will need to commence the repair work. And it will
00:06:37.160 probably take until about September 23rd. If we don't address this now, we could have another
00:06:42.900 unexpected failure like we did in June. We do not want to take that chance right now.
00:06:47.640 Obviously, this entire situation was incompetence from start to finish. They should have taken more
00:06:54.180 time to ensure that the feeder main was in working condition before they refilled it.
00:06:59.660 Now it needs to be drained and repaired again. We're basically just moving backwards at this point.
00:07:04.400 I do have the greatest amount of sympathy for the people of Calgary.
00:07:07.740 Let's just hope that next fall, you all take your anger to the voting booth and do something about it.
00:07:14.880 Finally, moving into what we're watching in the weeks to come, this is a happier story for those
00:07:19.580 of you living in Calgary and for the rest of Alberta, generally speaking. Alberta Premier
00:07:23.340 Danielle Smith says that the fall update to the province's Bill of Rights will protect
00:07:27.860 Albertans' personal medical choices, including the right to refuse a vaccine. Smith's pledge came
00:07:33.660 during a town hall in Bonneville with over 300 UCP members, where she discussed strengthening
00:07:38.800 residents' liberties and freedoms, lowering taxes, protecting the province from federal overreach,
00:07:45.040 and improving health care. She confirmed the plans in a statement to True North, saying,
00:07:49.620 In the fall, we will be introducing legislation to amend Alberta's Bill of Rights. Several amendments
00:07:55.580 are being considered to strengthen Albertans' individual and property rights, including an
00:07:59.980 amendment to guarantee Albertans the right to accept or refuse a medical treatment. Before
00:08:04.800 becoming Premier in 2022, Smith pledged to amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to prohibit employers
00:08:10.400 from terminating employees based on their vaccination status. But she ultimately scrapped these plans
00:08:15.720 after she was elected. At the time, she called Albertans losing their jobs for declining to take
00:08:20.940 the vaccine a, quote, human rights violation. However, the Public Health Act takes precedence
00:08:26.040 over all laws, except the Alberta Bill of Rights, meaning an amended Alberta Human Rights Act would
00:08:32.000 have done little to protect medical choices in the face of public health edicts. Finally, moving into our
00:08:37.620 weekly comment roundup, last week I hosted a panel discussion with Tariq Elnaga and Marty Belanger,
00:08:43.720 better known as Marty Up North, and they said that they are feeling a bit disillusioned with
00:08:49.220 Danielle Smith's premiership and that they hope she makes changes in the coming weeks so that they
00:08:54.140 can continue to support her as Premier. I'm going to take a look at a few of those comments from last
00:08:58.640 week's episode now. User Edgar Edgerton said,
00:09:02.400 The only other option for Alberta is the NDP. That would be devastating. The problem with Alberta is that
00:09:08.180 we are stuck with Eastern Canada's Liberal NDP co-conspirators. I wanted to respond to this comment
00:09:14.280 specifically because I saw many similar comments. I don't really agree with the idea that if you are
00:09:19.740 unhappy with a politician that you would otherwise support or who represents a party that you would
00:09:24.780 typically support, it means that you automatically want the opposition to win, in this case the
00:09:29.560 Alberta NDP. I think it simply means that you are holding that political leader to a higher standard
00:09:34.240 and you want them to actually push for the policies that they said they supported when you elected
00:09:39.600 them. So I think holding a politician to account and saying that you don't feel they've done an
00:09:43.820 adequate job as the panel was saying last week, I don't think it means that you are hoping for
00:09:49.080 you know an NDP win. Just as when we look at the federal conservatives and say oh you know we don't
00:09:54.600 like that they've done a good job on this. You know Pierre Poliev took a long time to come out
00:09:58.940 and say that he was going to lower immigration numbers and he was criticized that for a while and I don't
00:10:03.260 think that people criticizing him were saying oh you know it's better if we have four more years of
00:10:08.100 Justin Trudeau. I think that what they were actually saying was Pierre we need to lower immigration and
00:10:12.760 that criticism worked because Poliev eventually came out and said that he's going to drastically
00:10:16.800 reduce immigration numbers and I think that's what the criticism of Danielle Smith here is seeking
00:10:20.880 to do. It's saying listen Danielle we want an Alberta provincial police force, we want lower taxes
00:10:25.380 and I think maybe they've been effective in that. We just even today and we had a segment on the show
00:10:31.280 about tax cuts coming for Albertans. So I think it's misguided to say that to criticize a politician
00:10:37.060 is to desire that their opponents would be elected. User BB10 said quote no one was handed a bigger mess
00:10:45.980 than Javier Millel of Argentina yet he has made incredible progress in just seven months. He has
00:10:51.460 slashed the size of government, is running a balanced budget, and is effectively tackling runaway inflation.
00:10:56.780 Runaway inflation. Last month saw the first month in 40 years with zero food price inflation. Some
00:11:03.880 people were also arguing that Daniel Smith hasn't had enough time to make changes and this user is
00:11:08.600 arguing that some politicians are able to make strides within just seven months. He appears to be
00:11:13.180 arguing that that you know that point is not quite correct and it's true Javier Millel is doing
00:11:19.440 amazing things in Argentina. It's been quite amazing to watch. Sorry if I keep mispronouncing my words. I am
00:11:25.600 quite congested. I have a little bit of a lingering flu and I'm doing my best to get through today's
00:11:30.100 content so hopefully you guys can all understand what I'm saying. Okay and finally user at Blade797 said
00:11:35.980 quote I like this woman but I want her to dig her heels in regarding immigration and even harder 1.00
00:11:42.020 stance on trans ideology than her current one. So you know those were some of the comments that were
00:11:47.040 also raised in last week's episode which I highly recommend you go in and give it a watch give it a
00:11:52.780 listen and post your thoughts about it in the comment section below. Okay everyone that's all
00:11:57.740 we have time for today. Thank you so much for tuning in to the Alberta Roundup. I'll be back
00:12:01.460 next week with more content for you guys. Have a great weekend and God bless.