The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - Jason Kenny at #CPC18

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00:00:09.040 Is the Prime Minister actually saying that taxpayers should be on the hook when he breaks the law?

00:00:20.420 What is it going to take for the Prime Minister to have any respect for any laws in this country that may curb his out-of-control behaviour?

00:00:30.000 All these deficits leading to nothing but burying Canadians in taxes.

00:00:41.640 Good morning, fellow Conservatives.

00:00:45.560 Bonjour tout le monde.

00:00:47.500 C'est un grand plaisir pour moi d'être ici en tant que chef du Parti Conservateur Uni de l'Alberta.

00:00:53.160 It's great to be here as leader of the newest political party in Canada, Alberta's United Conservative Party.

00:01:00.000 Folks, the key word in the name of our new party is united.

00:01:09.960 Because united we stand, divided we fall.

00:01:13.440 That's what we as federal Conservatives learned over a decade of division when we handed office to the federal Liberals.

00:01:20.860 And that's what we Alberta Conservatives learned when we elected an accidental socialist government in 2015.

00:01:29.500 We know this in Saskatchewan.

00:01:31.500 We know it all across the country that we are stronger united.

00:01:35.280 And so that is why two years ago I launched a campaign with a grassroots army of Albertans to bring together common sense Conservatives, free enterprises, a big tent coalition on the basis of our shared values to present a united alternative to the NDP in Alberta.

00:01:58.200 And I'm pleased to say that free enterprises of all kinds decided to focus on what unites us and not what divides us, to move together united.

00:02:09.940 And 95% of the members of our two legacy parties voted yes to unity a year ago.

00:02:16.600 So friends, we've done that in Alberta and we did it federally.

00:02:41.420 But unity never happens by accident.

00:02:44.180 We can't take it for granted.

00:02:46.940 We have to work every day in our movement to ensure its unity.

00:02:52.420 Now let me tell you one thing about our friend, our leader, and our future Prime Minister Andrew Scheer.

00:02:58.000 I've known Andrew for nearly two decades.

00:03:00.900 I'm proud to call he and Jill close friends.

00:03:04.080 In fact, I'm godfather to their oldest daughter, Grace.

00:03:07.420 I don't think I'm a very good goddaughter, but she's a great goddaughter.

00:03:11.500 I'm not a great godfather, but I do my best.

00:03:14.240 Grace and the five kids, they are just, what a wonderful family they form.

00:03:18.620 But friends, I know this about Andrew Scheer.

00:03:20.140 I knew him when he was a young staff member on Parliament Hill, helped him with his first nomination,

00:03:26.120 and saw him perform as deputy speaker and as speaker.

00:03:29.300 Know him personally.

00:03:30.120 And I can tell you, I can think of nobody who I trust more in Canadian politics.

00:03:37.480 This is a man of profound decency, honesty, and principles,

00:03:43.020 and he, I believe, would make a great Prime Minister of Canada.

00:03:47.120 I know Andrew Scheer as a man of principles, a man of integrity who, I believe,

00:04:02.460 has given a strong, intelligent, intelligent leadership to us as the National Conservative Party.

00:04:10.440 And I believe that Andrew will be a great Prime Minister of Canada.

00:04:15.160 And we are all together to support Andrew Scheer as our next Prime Minister, right?

00:04:21.540 We are all united in supporting Andrew.

00:04:26.440 Friends, one of the reasons I am so grateful to Andrew for his leadership

00:04:31.480 is that he has been a tremendous ally for us in Alberta in fighting for our resources.

00:04:39.000 You know that Alberta has the blessings of nature.

00:04:43.280 We have the third largest oil reserves in Canada.

00:04:47.220 What a fantastic asset that has helped to turn Alberta into an engine

00:04:53.680 of Canada's prosperity in the past decades.

00:04:58.020 And we Albertans are generous.

00:05:00.380 Through federal transfers, we have contributed over $200 billion

00:05:05.820 to the rest of the Federation in the past decade alone.

00:05:09.920 And we don't mind sharing much of our wealth with other parts of the country

00:05:13.440 when times are good in Alberta, but they are bad elsewhere.

00:05:16.980 But what we cannot tolerate are politicians,

00:05:20.440 like Justin Trudeau and the Premier of British Columbia,

00:05:24.600 who stand in the way of the development of the resources

00:05:27.680 that are the source of that prosperity that we share across the country.

00:05:31.040 Because we have a value in our natural resources in Alberta,

00:05:47.920 which is the Canadian resource,

00:05:50.320 which is the third largest resource of oil in the world.

00:05:56.280 So here's the point, folks.

00:05:57.820 The world, according to all the experts,

00:06:00.800 has a growing global demand for hydrocarbon-based energy.

00:06:06.560 And of course, in the future, with technology,

00:06:09.100 we hope that will begin to change.

00:06:11.280 But for now, there is a growing global demand for these resources.

00:06:16.220 And that demand will be met.

00:06:18.640 The question is, by who?

00:06:20.180 Either that demand will be met by Canada

00:06:24.420 with the highest human rights, labour, and environmental standards on earth,

00:06:30.320 or that demand will be met by the world's worst regimes,

00:06:35.580 by the OPEC dictatorships,

00:06:37.560 by the Bolivarian Socialist Republic of Venezuela,

00:06:41.220 by Vladimir Putin's autocratic Russia,

00:06:44.180 by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that treats women like property instead of people, 0.97

00:06:48.500 or Iran, which stones gay men for the crime of their sexuality. 0.95

00:06:53.420 Friends, let me say this. 0.93

00:06:54.940 I believe the world needs more Canadian energy,

00:06:58.880 so we are less dependent on the world's worst regimes.

00:07:02.200 So yes, this is an economic question.

00:07:22.980 It's almost an existential question for us.

00:07:25.320 If we, as a country with over a trillion dollars of public debt,

00:07:29.680 with massive unfunded liabilities for pensions and health care,

00:07:35.640 if we want to pay off those debts,

00:07:38.280 if we want to pass on to future generations a standard of life that we aspire to,

00:07:43.400 if we want to have wealth to guarantee a level of life,

00:07:50.120 of prosperity, of social services, of public health,

00:07:54.820 if we want to do all these things,

00:07:56.640 we must develop our natural resources

00:08:00.040 in a way responsible for the environmental issues.

00:08:04.640 Yes, it's true that it's an existential question for the economy,

00:08:09.080 for the prosperity, for the jobs,

00:08:12.600 for Mr. and Mrs. Toulamand in our country,

00:08:14.660 but it's also a moral question.

00:08:16.960 It's a question of if Canada, with the best balance of the people's rights,

00:08:26.080 environmental rights and the workers' rights,

00:08:29.520 if we provide the future resources

00:08:32.560 or if we leave the world's worst regimes in the world's economic markets.

00:08:39.120 So yes, it is an economic question,

00:08:41.680 but it is also a moral question.

00:08:44.160 And those of us who defend Canada's oil and gas resources

00:08:49.040 and the jobs and wealth that are tied to it

00:08:51.520 are also defending human dignity, human rights

00:08:54.320 and the highest environmental standards in the world.

00:08:57.360 Make no mistake about it.

00:09:06.240 But, but,

00:09:07.920 mais nous avons un premier ministre qui ne sont pas d'accord.

00:09:12.160 Nous avons un premier ministre qui n'est pas d'accord.

00:09:14.240 Nous avons un premier ministre Justin Trudeau

00:09:17.360 qui, avec son homologue,

00:09:21.520 Jerry Butz,

00:09:24.160 fait tout que possible

00:09:26.480 pour nuire

00:09:29.120 à l'industrie énergétique du Canada,

00:09:32.000 pour bloquer les pipelines,

00:09:34.000 pour arrêter notre accès aux marchés internationaux.

00:09:37.680 Nous avons un Adonné,

00:09:41.800 qui est un peu

00:09:43.840 ennambé notre ROD,

00:09:45.360 qui a vraiment qui nearly aructure de l'industrie

00:09:48.080 dans nos investits que des millions de dette turqu Weil,

00:09:48.880 que des milliards de places que des commandesèrions demos.

00:09:51.760 Et cette histoire,

00:09:52.880 c'est ce qui n'a un-et- Але

00:09:53.760 réalité.

00:09:55.280 Qu'est-ce que сюда n'a pas été pas

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00:09:58.160 Energy East project and with it was a result of decisions by the Trudeau

00:10:04.160 government they decided to force that company to take responsibility for up

00:10:10.040 and downstream carbon emissions now folks a pipeline doesn't produce carbon

00:10:16.760 emissions a pipeline just ships energy and here's the perverse thing they put

00:10:23.480 TransCanada out of business and with it by the way the dream of energy

00:10:27.320 independence that would have allowed Western Canadian oil to supplant foreign

00:10:32.780 oil imports in Central and Eastern Canada and with it they have forced Eastern 0.99

00:10:38.960 Canadians can to continue to depend on Nigerian and Venezuelan and Saudi and

00:10:45.800 American oil as opposed to supporting our own economy this makes no sense but

00:10:52.880 those foreign oil imports including those from the OPEC dictatorships well

00:10:58.340 they don't have to take account of their carbon emissions so this is actually a

00:11:04.100 policy by the Trudeau government to support foreign oil imports from some of

00:11:09.860 the world's worst regimes this makes no sense from a federal government from a

00:11:15.140 federal government that at the same time gives massive corporate subsidies to

00:11:20.480 companies that produce airplanes and automobiles that actually do produce carbon

00:11:26.300 emissions friends we Albertans are generous but we as Canadians want fairness in

00:11:33.140 in the Federation and simply the ability to share our energy with all Canadians from coast to coast

00:11:39.600 coast

00:11:45.060 and that's the reason why we demand that the Liberal government retire the

00:12:03.120 le projet de loi C 69 et C 48 you by the way by the way it wasn't just the

00:12:10.200 federal Liberals cancelling Energy East the very one of the very first things that

00:12:14.100 Justin Trudeau did was to to cancel an already approved pipeline the northern

00:12:20.900 gateway pipeline and now he has legislation before Parliament to make that

00:12:26.040 permanent with a ban on the BC northern coast for tanker traffic there's no ban

00:12:31.260 there's no ban on on foreign oil tankers coming into Canada but there is a ban

00:12:36.240 on Canadian tankers taking Canadian energy to the rest of the world this is

00:12:40.740 perverse and you know remember that the Keystone XL pipeline it was vetoed by

00:12:50.020 President Obama a week after Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister President

00:12:54.640 Obama and didn't dare do that when Stephen Harper was Prime Minister of Canada

00:12:58.020 Canada and Justin Trudeau's response to this American decision to block our

00:13:07.500 energy exports was to wave the white flag of surrender so he surrendered to the

00:13:14.140 cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline he killed the approved northern

00:13:19.240 gateway pipeline he is banning future exports from the northern BC coast he killed

00:13:24.520 Energy East and he is doing nothing to overcome the illegal unconstitutional opposition of the

00:13:32.920 socialist government in Victoria to the export of Canadian energy so friends let me be clear Canada is an

00:13:41.340 economic Union so it a la rave they found out of la confederation you lie son

00:13:47.220 cinquante ans c'était the key a nice past the libre-échange on order

00:13:52.460 amari to know may news over news ever made no in government provincial key pretender

00:13:59.760 wall the power a prevenir les exportations they produce energy to Canada

00:14:05.300 not to quote West so we now have a socialist government in BC which is claiming that it

00:14:10.940 has the right to determine what products we as Canadians can export from one of

00:14:16.820 our country's coasts well friends in the face of that Justin Trudeau has done

00:14:21.800 nothing except end up driving a global company Kinder Morgan out of Canada and

00:14:28.760 forcing taxpayers to buy a pipeline this is where we are now at and so friends this is

00:14:35.900 one of the reasons why we need a federal conservative government led by Andrew Scheer

00:14:42.320 that will stop these attacks on Canada's energy independence on jobs in our prosperity we need

00:14:49.100 a federal liberal federal conservative government that will undo these policies and that will allow

00:14:54.860 us to achieve the dream of energy independence to develop these resources to show the rest of the

00:15:02.360 world how it's done and yes to sell Canadian energy to the rest of the world

00:15:06.680 honne bezwende sa

00:15:07.780 so friends I also am so excited that Andrew Scheer has taken up exactly the same commitment that we

00:15:29.660 have made in Alberta for two years I've campaigned on saying that if we are elected as an Alberta

00:15:36.740 government next year bill number one in the legislature under a future conservative government

00:15:42.260 will be the carbon tax repeal act

00:15:45.560 I want to thank our good friend and ally Scott Moen before him the great Brad Wall for having led this

00:15:58.680 fight and I am so excited that we have been joined by Canada's newest premier Doug Ford

00:16:04.760 Doug and I had breakfast yesterday and I'll tell you we got the beginning of a bit of a bromance there

00:16:19.120 we were finishing each other's sentences I love it that common sense has come back to Queen's Park

00:16:26.160 good on you Ontarians

00:16:29.240 and I can't wait to sit down at the premier's table with Scott Moe and Doug Ford to say that we are going to stand up for common sense and Canadian taxpayers in fighting the Trudeau carbon tax together

00:16:47.240 so I'm so excited that Andrew Scheer has said that bill number one of a future federal conservative government will be the carbon tax repeal act because let's be clear these carbon taxes they're all economic pain and no environmental gain the proponents even admit that you know the fellow who invented the NDP's carbon tax in Alberta

00:17:04.320 said that if other jurisdictions outside Canada don't impose their own carbon taxes it will simply lead our carbon tax will lead to quotes carbon leakage

00:17:11.320 which is what self-styled smart people say happens when investment goes to other parts of the world it doesn't reduce global carbon emissions it just reduces Canadian jobs

00:17:18.320 now let me be clear forcing widows queedy

00:17:28.400 now let me be clear forcing widows on fixed incomes to pay more

00:17:35.240 reduce global carbon emissions, it just reduces Canadian jobs. Now let me be clear, forcing widows 1.00

00:17:42.600 on fixed incomes to pay more to heat their homes, forcing working women and men to pay more to fill 0.98

00:17:50.040 up their gas tank, to take the kids to hockey practice, or to go to work, that's not an

00:17:55.320 environmental policy. That's simply a policy for more government control over people's ordinary

00:18:03.480 lives, driving up the cost of living when it's already too high, and that's why we Conservatives

00:18:08.920 are on the right side of history in saying that we will liberate Canadians from these destructive

00:18:13.800 job-killing carbon taxes. Friends, I just want to say a last word about my experience over five years

00:18:29.080 in Stephen Harper's government as a Minister of Immigration and ten years as Minister of Multiculturalism.

00:18:34.520 Notre chef a parlé, je crois, d'une façon très intelligente hier soir au sujet de diversité

00:18:43.800 et des valeurs les plus importantes dans l'histoire du Canada, celles de liberté. Mesdames et Messieurs,

00:18:52.680 les gens de partout au monde ne viennent pas au Canada pour vivre une colloque sur la question

00:19:00.520 de diversité. Ils viennent au Canada pour devenir les Canadiens et les Canadiennes, pour être les

00:19:09.800 héritiers d'une grande tradition de liberté qui a été créée par nos institutions et nos traditions,

00:19:21.560 par une certaine culture politique. Friends, folks from all around the world who dream of coming to Canada

00:19:29.320 don't want to come here to live a colloquium on diversity. They come here to become Canadian. 0.96

00:19:39.480 They come here to become Canadian. 1.00

00:19:45.560 To become Canadian, to be the inheritors of a great tradition of ordered liberty,

00:19:51.480 created by certain institutions like parliamentary government, like the rule of law, like respect for

00:20:00.520 human dignity. Our values, our institutions and our customs. So when Justin Trudeau says that there is

00:20:08.280 no such thing as Canadian identity or Canadian values, he could not be more wrong. The reason the world, 0.93

00:20:15.640 people from around the world, dream of becoming Canadian is because of our customs, our institutions,

00:20:22.680 our culture and our values.

00:20:24.680 We are the great champions of that tradition of unity in diversity. Canada was built by the underdogs of history. From our First Nations people,

00:20:31.720 we are the great champions of that tradition of unity in diversity. Canada was built by the

00:20:46.840 unity in diversity. Canada was built by the underdogs of history. From our First Nations people, who have

00:20:55.880 suffered great dislocation, but who have maintained vital communities in the northern half of North America for millennia.

00:21:01.880 To the United Empire loyalists who were refugees from the American Revolution. To the Highland clearance Scots who settled Cape Breton. 0.97

00:21:19.960 And to the potato famine Irish. To the Jews of the pogroms of Europe before the Second World War and the survivors of the Shoah who came after it. 0.99

00:21:28.920 From the refugee, the Mennonites who came here facing persecution and settled southern Manitoba and parts of northern Alberta.

00:21:39.960 To the Czechs of 1968 and the Hungarians of 1956. And to the refugees who join us today, like the some 20,000 Iraqi refugees who I welcome,

00:21:51.960 the people who were facing genocide and ethnic cleansing. To the gay Iranian refugees who have come to Canada's 0.97

00:21:58.760 safety as a result of a program that I created. Altogether, these people may have been the losers of history in their own countries, 0.89

00:22:06.360 but they did not bring to Canada a sense of resentment. They brought to this country a sense of hope.

00:22:11.800 A desire to look forward. A desire to be united. A desire to be Canadian. We are the champions of those people.

00:22:19.080 Of those underdogs of history. And it is our job to ensure that Canada once again presents to them

00:22:25.320 a future of equality of opportunity. The great champion of human dignity in world affairs. It is up to us to do that

00:22:33.640 in the year ahead. I hope you're up to the task. So let us get that done. Let us do the hard work.

00:22:39.560 Let us elect a majority Conservative government. L'année prochaine, un gouvernement majoritaire conservateur. Merci beaucoup.

00:22:49.720 Thank you for listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast.

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - August 31, 2018

Jason Kenny at #CPC18

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