The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - The Blueprint with MP Warren Steinley

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm your

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00:00:26.820 Spotify, you name it, it is out there. Great show, as always, lined up for you. This week,

00:00:32.160 we're talking about two items that happened last week and a few other things as well.

00:00:35.980 One in particular, a minor to medium-sized victory regarding firearms. The other,

00:00:40.960 a very big negative regarding internet censorship. For all you free speech-loving enthusiasts out

00:00:46.560 there, us included, this is where it's going to hurt. So to talk about that, we have Warren

00:00:51.980 Steinle, Member of Parliament for Regina Luvan here to join us to talk about it. He's been on the show

00:00:56.300 before. It's been a while, but good to have you back on. Thank you very much, Jamie. Always a pleasure

00:01:01.480 to be here and looking forward to talking about it. I think it's a bit bigger of a win for guns and

00:01:07.660 for our hunters and our farmers that need to have these rifles. I think it's a big win for us and

00:01:12.840 I'm pretty happy to have a conservative victory already in 2023. Absolutely. So if it wasn't for

00:01:19.460 your riding name, if nobody caught that, I don't know what province you're from, but we have a new

00:01:23.600 addition to the studio, the Saskatchewan flag. Good of you to bring that. Yeah, so last week,

00:01:28.580 in case you missed it, but if anyone owns a firearm legally and likes to shoot, this is something you've

00:01:34.680 probably already heard already. The government backed off on some of its more contentious firearms

00:01:39.260 issues, really going after those used by hunters and sport shooters and kind of riled up and woke up

00:01:45.120 people that might not have been paying attention to this because Bill C-21 is still in effect

00:01:50.080 something else we have to work on. So a bit of good news, but still more work to be done.

00:01:55.740 Absolutely. The good news is they pulled the amendments that made a lot of the legal firearms

00:02:00.880 owners that they're going to make them into criminals, which we don't want. And the biggest

00:02:05.260 thing about Bill C-21 is it's just window dressing. It's not going to really address the issues that

00:02:10.640 the liberals are saying at will. It's not going to address violent crime that's been up 32%. It's not

00:02:15.680 going to address criminal activity by gangsters. It's up 90% under this government. So they're

00:02:21.960 really just trying to go after legal firearms owners and not fix the salient issue, which is

00:02:28.000 those illegal guns coming across the border, which we all know that's where we're going to have to put

00:02:32.460 our efforts, but we can leave our legal firearm owners alone.

00:02:36.340 Well, it's just that it seems to be a false sense of security that the government seems to play with

00:02:40.580 the emotions and the fears, legitimate fears that some people have, especially in areas in

00:02:46.320 municipalities where some of these shootings are taking place, where some of these increased gang

00:02:51.640 crimes are taking place. People are legitimately concerned. So this government comes along and says,

00:02:56.200 hey, we're going to ban guns. We're going to get rid of these firearms. And at the end of the day,

00:03:00.340 you're no safer.

00:03:01.900 You're no safer. And it's even worse than that. On their Bill C-75, they're actually reducing penalties

00:03:07.500 for people that are committing crimes with guns. So on one hand, they're saying they want to protect

00:03:11.980 you more. But on the other hand, they're letting some of these people go to house arrest and go

00:03:16.400 back into the neighborhoods in which they're terrorizing them.

00:03:19.580 So Bill C-75, as Warren did point out, reduced the severity of some sentences for violent

00:03:24.840 refeed offenders in most cases. So yes, you can actually use a firearm and get house arrest in

00:03:30.180 the proceed of a crime, which is absolutely incredible. So I think what we're seeing too in our

00:03:34.680 communities, we want to talk about bail reform because pretty much I believe every premier in

00:03:39.800 this country, territorial leader, has signed a letter to the prime minister saying the measures

00:03:44.680 that the prime minister put in place are not working. We have repeat offenders going out and

00:03:50.260 committing crimes. They should be behind bars for longer periods of time. And the government has

00:03:54.720 weakened those to the point where these criminals just have a revolving door. They just go right back

00:04:00.660 out. And we've seen the police officer that was fatally shot in Ontario just a few weeks ago in a

00:04:05.780 very tragic situation. That individual was out on bail. So this is a reoccurring thing that's

00:04:11.800 happening over and over again. We can go on to the incidents in Toronto as well.

00:04:15.620 Yeah. And we see a violent offender. The lawyer in Quebec said, the prosecutor said,

00:04:21.640 if it wasn't for these new laws, that person would be behind bars. So you're hearing it just from

00:04:26.340 everyday Canadians. And I think when you walk down the street and you ask, after eight years of

00:04:30.360 Justin Trudeau being in power and the liberals being in power, no one feels safer on their streets.

00:04:35.160 I think that's something that really resonates with people, everyday Canadians, and the fact that

00:04:39.580 they're seeing this government try and cherry pick a stat here and there and bring forward laws that 0.97

00:04:45.320 aren't, in essence, making their communities safer. So that's what happened with Bill C-21 and the

00:04:50.760 firearm amendments. That's what happened with Bill C-75 and reducing jail time and reducing bails

00:04:57.820 for repeat offenders. Lots of these offenders that we have seen taking our police officer lives

00:05:02.900 have been out on bail after numerous serious violent offenses with guns. And those are something that we

00:05:09.860 need to tackle these issues so that we can make our Canadians. The first job of any government is to

00:05:14.020 have their Canadians feel safe. And the liberals under Trudeau have failed over eight years in that

00:05:19.440 priority. And you can understand why people are getting frustrated, right? They're being asked to

00:05:23.800 pay more taxes. Everything's going up. Everything's more expensive. And the services that they're

00:05:28.940 receiving aren't getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse in many places. And so people are

00:05:33.580 getting a bit anxious, a bit uneasy about what is happening in this country because they are expected

00:05:41.400 to pay more. And then when people try to relocate to find a different community to live in or somewhere

00:05:46.080 else, they're almost looked down upon by the liberal. How dare you move out and try to find

00:05:50.680 a better place to live? Yeah. Well, I think our leader, Pierre Pauly, has said it perfectly is

00:05:54.960 you don't have to be upset that people are mad. You should ask why they are getting so mad. Why is

00:06:00.980 there that anger out there? And it's because people do feel let down. You can't get a passport. You get to

00:06:07.160 an airport now and you very rarely get to where you want to go on time anymore. So people are feeling

00:06:11.740 more and more let down by this government. And instead of taking that into consideration and

00:06:15.960 trying to fix the problems that Trudeau has created over the last eight years, he's just

00:06:20.080 compounding those problems again with poor legislation. We could talk about Bill C-11 as

00:06:24.640 well, the censorship bill for the internet. Instead of listening to why people are mad,

00:06:29.960 he's trying to shut it down so people that are of a different opinion from the liberal government

00:06:34.300 can't even have their say anymore. Well, what becomes hate speech, right? Anything against the

00:06:39.800 government? What does the government not like? Well, that's hate speech, right? They put these

00:06:44.260 filters on and pick and choose what you want to see. And this is what has been great about the

00:06:50.180 internet, right? This has been a great thing that new things keep popping up every single day. There's

00:06:55.080 a wide variety of things that people can watch or listen to that give them the best variety. And it's

00:07:01.360 up to industry itself if they want to compete to try to match or emulate what's going on in order to

00:07:07.080 get that viewership or listenership back. And by the government sticking its fingers into this pot,

00:07:13.720 you're going to actually slow down this creativity because viewers and listeners are going to get a

00:07:18.160 bunch of stuff that the government says is okay or what they should be listening to, but might not

00:07:22.600 actually be the taste of that individual. Well, you heard from many content creators where if

00:07:27.260 these new online platforms wouldn't be available, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, if all these platforms

00:07:34.100 weren't available, they would never be able to become the stars that they have become. So you

00:07:39.220 have to take that into consideration as well. As a government, it's not your job to regulate

00:07:44.440 everything to death. It's also there to take new opportunities and allow our entrepreneurs in Canada

00:07:51.120 to grow on some of those platforms. And that's what these platforms have done. And that's some of

00:07:56.320 what Bill C-11 is about is to shut that down. And with the government controlling things,

00:08:01.440 you don't get all of those different voices, the voices that might have something new,

00:08:07.660 something interesting to come into. And look at most cable packages, if you still subscribe to

00:08:13.480 cable TV. You have, from the garden channel to the home garden channel, you have every variety to

00:08:21.540 your old network where they have the sitcoms and the news, commercials in between. You have your

00:08:26.700 variety. You also have kind of the other kind, you know, Prime and Netflix and all of that.

00:08:32.740 But these choices provide opportunities for new people to get into the game, to be able to produce

00:08:39.620 that content. And if you look at the music industry specifically, something the government hasn't really

00:08:44.600 been in, look at all the varieties of music you have. And it's a great thing because the government

00:08:50.720 isn't telling people what to listen to. Yeah, I was going to say, don't give them any ideas, Jamie.

00:08:55.000 Yeah, that's right. The government should not get into music. But I think you're right.

00:08:59.720 You've got to ask yourself, why does the government keep on bringing more and more legislation forward

00:09:03.940 to clamp down on people and clamp down on what people can see, clamp down on what people can own,

00:09:09.460 what Bill C-21? Yes.

00:09:11.040 So those questions are out there. And I think we need to have a more open and free country and give

00:09:16.600 people more opportunities and more choices on what they want to see, watch, what they want to listen

00:09:21.840 to, not less. And that's what you get with the conservative principles of freedom and having

00:09:27.220 access to more information instead of less. And I think that's a big contrast between where we will

00:09:32.240 go when we form government and where this liberal government has gone over those past last long eight

00:09:37.540 years. It's been a very long eight years. Now, there have been people who have been getting very

00:09:43.600 wealthy through this. There are a lot of people who are hurting, but the ones that are getting

00:09:47.760 wealthy are well-connected to government, well-lawyered and well-lobbied, right? You get

00:09:51.600 the contract to do whatever it is you're supposed to do, whether it gets done or not, doesn't

00:09:56.480 matter. But you are connected because you're making the right donations. You're making the

00:10:00.680 right friends. You're talking to the right people.

00:10:03.260 Well, we had a debate about this and we're talking about the McKinsey contract for $120 million

00:10:08.440 to well-connected liberal insiders. And I asked the question because outside consulting has

00:10:14.240 gone up a lot, hundreds of millions of dollars under this government. And the public service

00:10:19.520 has gone up about 30% under this government. So I asked Mark Gerritsen, one of our favorite

00:10:24.140 liberals that talks all the time in the House, have Canadians seen better services with all

00:10:29.240 this increase in outside third-party consulting and a larger public service? And he couldn't answer

00:10:35.780 that question because I believe Canadians have seen slower passports, way slower when

00:10:40.780 it comes to immigration and getting your files processed. Slower when it comes to getting into

00:10:46.740 airports and out of airports, which are federally regulated.

00:10:50.340 They are. As much as the government likes to say they're not, they are.

00:10:52.840 As much as they want to say it's not our problem, all these things do fall under their portfolios.

00:10:57.800 That's right.

00:10:58.220 And they continue to fail Canadians. And that's why it's been such a long, long eight years.

00:11:02.800 Especially when you're trying to get back to life, trying to get back to normal. And it's just every

00:11:09.940 roadblock, but it's the government and the services they're supposed to provide. And when you bloat

00:11:15.460 the bureaucracy like that, it slows down progress. It slows down innovation and job creation. When

00:11:23.500 there's more forms to fill out, more paperwork to get through, more regulations and rules to follow,

00:11:28.180 it slows down the ability to have this economic recovery that we actually want.

00:11:33.820 And we haven't even hit on agriculture and their 30% reduction of fertilizer.

00:11:37.320 Well, let's talk about that.

00:11:38.140 And all the problems that they put in, the roadblocks that they put in for agriculture producers.

00:11:44.780 Our shadow minister, John Barlow, just gave a great speech to the House of Commons and saying,

00:11:48.500 one thing that says is the biggest roadblock to success in the agriculture sector today is that

00:11:55.520 liberal government. Everything that they've done, whether it be tripling the carbon tax,

00:12:00.020 whether it be the fertilizer tariffs, first of all, then the fertilizer reduction targets they have,

00:12:05.060 it's hurting our agriculture producers. When the world right now is crying for a safe supply of food,

00:12:10.900 they're in a global food insecurity situation. Canada's the answer and their own government's

00:12:15.900 getting in their way.

00:12:16.560 Well, one way to bring down prices is to actually increase supply. So wouldn't we want more of our

00:12:24.380 farmers producing domestic food? Well, the answer should obviously be yes. But the reality is it's

00:12:31.780 not actually happening because of the rules, regulations from red tape being imposed every

00:12:36.140 single day on these farmers, on these producers that are making it near impossible to do business where

00:12:42.180 you have to have a second job off farm, or you don't get into it altogether because you just know

00:12:48.880 you're not going to be able to make a living.

00:12:50.380 Well, that and the uncertainty.

00:12:52.240 And the uncertainty.

00:12:52.800 Like this government changes the goalposts on our producers all the time, and they arbitrarily pick

00:12:57.760 different dates. If you've had good processes since 2018, you get credit for it in 2017, 2016.

00:13:04.760 Sorry. Our agriculture producers are the best in the world. Out of our total emissions in Canada,

00:13:10.480 agriculture is only responsible for 8%. Most other jurisdictions are 25% or higher for their

00:13:16.620 agriculture emissions. So we're doing a great job already. We just need the government to be proud

00:13:21.140 of our agriculture sector, proud of our producers, and champion what they've done so far on the world

00:13:25.760 stage. Because Canadian agriculture isn't a problem to emissions and global food insecurity.

00:13:31.240 It's the answer.

00:13:32.380 You have so many countries right now that are trying to figure out their energy portfolio. A lot

00:13:36.980 brought into the green Marxist agenda into Europe. You look at many countries that had to stockpile

00:13:43.160 energy just to keep people warm over the winter in Europe. And the process in which led to that,

00:13:50.260 the steps that led to that. You had an energy portfolio that should have been A plus B. It was

00:13:55.580 B minus A. And when you rely on technology that hasn't been fully implemented or tested to the standards

00:14:02.580 that we need to the generation capacity we need, you get problems. And that's what's happening in Europe.

00:14:07.760 They're going, begging other countries. The Chancellor of Germany came to Canada.

00:14:12.260 Japan came to Canada. The Prime Minister basically said, thanks but no thanks, which I don't know where

00:14:19.220 government decided they know business better than the marketplace, which is absolutely incredible.

00:14:24.040 And then they go to Qatar and other countries to sign these deals to produce the energy that their

00:14:29.400 company and their country needs. It is the fact that we can't get anything built in this country

00:14:35.000 is hurting productivity. The lack of certainty, the lack of investment, it is hurting this country

00:14:41.360 in a very big way. So when you take away the natural resource industry, what are we relying on?

00:14:47.100 We're relying on real estate, really, to keep things moving. It is very scary.

00:14:52.720 Well, I think that's the frustrating part with this woke prime minister and cabinet is they turn down

00:14:57.440 energy deals for good, clean, environmentally produced energy in Canada for jurisdictions that

00:15:03.900 don't have the same standards we have. So in essence, by them turning down deals with Germany and Japan,

00:15:09.760 they've actually made the environmental situation worse because other countries don't produce it as

00:15:14.460 environmentally friendly as we do. And I think that's the most frustrating point for everyone

00:15:18.680 across Western Canada in the ag sector, in the energy sector. These woke cabinet ministers and

00:15:24.400 prime ministers walk out and pretend they care about the environment and then don't allow the

00:15:29.360 energy sector, ag sector in our country to do that job and lower emissions across the world. And then

00:15:35.680 they let them get produced in other jurisdictions. And I think that's where there's a huge disconnect

00:15:40.540 between what they're saying and what is actually happening in reality.

00:15:44.680 Well, these same woke ministers are decrying wealth, decrying opportunity, but they'll have no problem

00:15:52.820 hoarding it for themselves. They have no issues about taking from other people and keeping it for

00:15:58.200 themselves. Or jumping on a plane, going to junkets and spending $6,000 a night in a hotel.

00:16:03.000 Yeah, they have no problem. But they'll decry it if you have it, right? Wealth is bad if you have it.

00:16:07.840 You should give it to me and I'll distribute it as I see fit. But I'll never stop living the good life.

00:16:14.460 You think the people that went to Davos are eating crickets? No, they're eating the best

00:16:18.240 cuts of meat. They're staying at the best hotel. They're having the best of luxury he has to offer

00:16:22.100 while at the same time coming up with new ways to impose rules, regulations, red tape,

00:16:28.700 and restricting the movements of people.

00:16:31.260 I think they keep coming up with new ways to make people poorer.

00:16:33.960 They are. This is like equal levels of misery, right? This is what they're all about.

00:16:38.860 You let us super smart people figure it out. We'll have a handful of companies that provide

00:16:43.340 certain services. There'll be no competition. We won't have to really adjust price and make

00:16:47.260 it any better service for the people. And we'll just reap the profits, pay off government,

00:16:51.660 and we'll just have this very happy, merry place where all the common folk just push it

00:16:57.500 uphill and get out of bed and do their thing and we'll live high life.

00:17:00.780 As our leader says, the have-yachts and the have-nots.

00:17:04.220 And that's what it's come to, unfortunately. Warren, as you know, we have to get out here

00:17:07.920 because the question period's coming up. But the guests always get the last word.

00:17:11.680 Have at it. Well, I just want to say thank you, Jamie, for having me on. It's great to talk

00:17:16.260 with all your viewers. And please keep listening because the Conservatives are going to fight

00:17:19.900 for you every step of the way and make sure that prosperity is for all Canadians,

00:17:23.840 not the connected liberal insiders.

00:17:26.580 Absolutely. And we need more. Canada needs more Saskatchewan.

00:17:28.980 Absolutely.

00:17:29.580 We appreciate the flag. We appreciate your time as well.

00:17:32.060 That's Warren Steinle, member of Parliament for Regina Luvent.

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - February 08, 2023

The Blueprint with MP Warren Steinley

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