Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is prepared to form a coalition with like-minded provinces to fight Ottawa's energy policies. We re also going to be taking a look at whether or not Danielle Smith was censored earlier this week. Meanwhile, Rachel Notley said she s going to take some time to consider her role as party leader. All that and more happening now on The Alberta Roundup.
00:05:18.400Okay guys, moving into a True North exclusive, I have been covering this story pretty closely
00:05:23.700ever since the Alberta provincial election. But Tyler Shandro and Whitney Isik have both decided
00:05:29.620to proceed judicial recounts in their respective ridings of Calgary Acadia and Calgary Glenmore.
00:05:35.880We know that both those ridings were decided by less than 100 votes. Of course, last week I brought
00:05:41.480you guys the official recounts, which increased the number of bouts for the NDP in both cases,
00:05:47.480but still both ridings were decided by less than 50 votes. In Calgary Acadia,
00:05:53.280it was determined that the NDP MLA elect Diana Batten had won by 25 votes following the recount.
00:06:00.880Over in Calgary Glenmore, the NDP candidate won by 42 votes. So still pretty close margins on both
00:06:06.920sides there. And the UCP has decided to proceed with that judicial recount where they will argue
00:06:12.400the specifics of each ballot before a judge in hopes of turning the tides in their favor.
00:06:19.240Now, I should also note that I have been told and Elections Alberta has confirmed to me that while
00:06:24.760they did undergo official recounts in both those ridings, because they were decided by less than 100
00:06:30.000votes, they still relied on the tabulators to calculate the advanced votes in those ridings.
00:06:37.920Some conservative strategists I have spoken with have said they would like to see each and every one
00:06:43.060of those ballots recounted by hand. The Elections Alberta said they use the tabulators to recount
00:06:48.700the advanced vote and that if a judicial recount is requested at that time, they would proceed with
00:06:54.220recounting those ballots by hand. So I suspect that is maybe one of the reasons why they decided to
00:06:59.640proceed with this judicial recount. I should also mention that people working on those campaigns
00:07:04.420have a pretty good sense of what those ballots look like. I did hear some reports that in some of the
00:07:10.480ridings, voters had actually written Rachel Notley on the ballot. You can write in the UCP or the NDP,
00:07:17.880but it gets a little bit trickier when a voter is writing in Rachel Notley's name because she was a
00:07:23.720candidate in an entirely another riding. So the argument could be made that that voter was attempting
00:07:28.860to cast a ballot for a different riding altogether. So I suspect these are some of the issues that we're
00:07:33.920going to see come up in the judicial recount. UCP spokesperson Dave Prisco also told me, quote,
00:07:39.380in light of the close election results in Calgary Acadia and Calgary Glenmore, the United Conservative
00:07:45.360Party candidates in those electoral districts have filed for judicial recounts. This action,
00:07:51.300taken with full respect for the electoral process, reinforces our firm commitment to complete
00:07:56.600transparency. It enables a thorough examination, especially of the yet to be reviewed advanced
00:08:03.440polling ballots to ensure intention of each eligible vote is accurately accounted for. So in his statement
00:08:09.780there, we can see him alluding to what I was referring to about the tabulators doing the recount for
00:08:15.220the advanced polls. The party would like to see those counted by hand. And I'm told this process is going
00:08:20.700to take about a month all in all. So I'll have an update for you guys in a few weeks. Moving into the
00:08:25.720controversy of the week here, the Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the case of a dying unvaccinated
00:08:32.920woman who has been denied an organ transplant. We have talked about Sheila Annette Lewis on a number of
00:08:38.880occasions on this show, and I have just learned that she will not be able to bring her case to the Supreme
00:08:44.840Court. Of course, she was denied that life-saving organ transplant because she refused to be vaccinated0.99
00:08:51.300against COVID-19. And it looks like she's nearing the end of her legal road. In an interview with
00:08:57.260Rebel News, Lewis said the Supreme Court of Canada owes her an answer as to why they won't hear her
00:09:03.000case. She said, quote, this is the highest court in Canada that doesn't want to do right by the people
00:09:09.480of Canada. Lewis was unsuccessful at both the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench and the Alberta Court of Appeal
00:09:15.780in 2022. With both levels finding that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to
00:09:22.440COVID-19 vaccine policies of Alberta Health Services, the Alberta hospital where Lewis would have received
00:09:29.580her transplant or her transplant doctors. Both courts also dismissed Lewis's case under the Alberta
00:09:36.540Bill of Rights. In November, the appeal court ruled that without a transplant, it is a, quote,
00:09:42.100virtual certainty and, quote, that Lewis will die. Lewis has now filed a negligence claim to Alberta
00:09:49.020Health Services. Under new lawyers, she was previously using the Justice Center for Constitutional
00:09:53.620Freedoms. She has now moved over to a different lawyer and she is awaiting a court date on that case.0.94
00:10:00.160Here's what she had to say about it in an interview with Rebel News.
00:10:02.940Well, it's my life. What do they want me to do? To sit back here in this place in my home and just die?
00:10:12.100Is that what they want me to do? Of course they do. They want me to go away. They want me to stop.
00:10:17.780They want me to shut up. That was the purpose of the gay court. Why? You tell me.1.00
00:10:25.420Nobody is saying, and no high official is even saying anything about it. The media will not contact me.
00:10:32.760The media will not cover my story. Like MSN, like CTV, CBC, Edmonton, CTV. Nobody. Nobody will touch this story.
00:10:43.560Why? Are they that scared? Because of what's going on?
00:10:48.120Why are people denied life-saving surgeries? Not just me, but all over Canada is people being denied life-saving surgeries.
00:10:59.620Some say the bubbles in an Aero Truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
00:11:04.380Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
00:11:07.860Rich, creamy, chocolatey Aero Truffle. Feel the Aero Bubbles melt. It's mind bubbling.
00:11:13.880Okay, guys, moving into what we're watching in the weeks to come.
00:11:17.940Does Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley have plans to resign?
00:11:22.060In a press conference earlier this week, Rachel Notley said she will take some time to consider her role as party leader.
00:11:28.220On May 29, the Alberta NDP secured 38 seats to Danielle Smith's UCP's 49 seats.
00:11:35.600That marks the second time Rachel Notley failed to form government since losing government to Jason Kenney's UCP in 2019 after just one term in office.
00:11:48.260Notley said she will consider a range of factors that will take too long to outline.
00:11:53.620She also said she doesn't know when she will have an answer.
00:11:57.400I do think it's interesting how little information Rachel Notley had on this process.
00:12:01.380I would be curious as to what some of the things that she's going to be looking at, for example, as to whether she should stay on.
00:12:07.660But that leads me to my question of the week.
00:13:01.960I cannot stand when I see a biological woman lose out on a medal that they have worked so hard for to a biological man.
00:13:10.260We know that bodies are just different and that it is not a fair competitive environment whatsoever.
00:13:15.440However, I also hope to see some action taken on this and I think that we are seeing a lot of frustration rise across North America with the gender ideology that is being so pushed in schools right now.