The Blueprint with MP Warren Steinley
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On this episode of The Blueprints, Conservative MP Warren Steinle joins us to talk about Bill C-75, gun control, and internet censorship. We also talk about the recent shooting of a police officer in Ontario, and whether or not we should be worried about it.
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Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm your
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Spotify, you name it, it is out there. Great show, as always, lined up for you. This week,
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we're talking about two items that happened last week and a few other things as well.
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One in particular, a minor to medium-sized victory regarding firearms. The other,
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a very big negative regarding internet censorship. For all you free speech-loving enthusiasts out
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there, us included, this is where it's going to hurt. So to talk about that, we have Warren
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Steinle, Member of Parliament for Regina Luvan here to join us to talk about it. He's been on the show
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before. It's been a while, but good to have you back on. Thank you very much, Jamie. Always a pleasure
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to be here and looking forward to talking about it. I think it's a bit bigger of a win for guns and
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for our hunters and our farmers that need to have these rifles. I think it's a big win for us and
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I'm pretty happy to have a conservative victory already in 2023. Absolutely. So if it wasn't for
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your riding name, if nobody caught that, I don't know what province you're from, but we have a new
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addition to the studio, the Saskatchewan flag. Good of you to bring that. Yeah, so last week,
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in case you missed it, but if anyone owns a firearm legally and likes to shoot, this is something you've
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probably already heard already. The government backed off on some of its more contentious firearms
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issues, really going after those used by hunters and sport shooters and kind of riled up and woke up
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people that might not have been paying attention to this because Bill C-21 is still in effect
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something else we have to work on. So a bit of good news, but still more work to be done.
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Absolutely. The good news is they pulled the amendments that made a lot of the legal firearms
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owners that they're going to make them into criminals, which we don't want. And the biggest
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thing about Bill C-21 is it's just window dressing. It's not going to really address the issues that
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the liberals are saying at will. It's not going to address violent crime that's been up 32%. It's not
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going to address criminal activity by gangsters. It's up 90% under this government. So they're
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really just trying to go after legal firearms owners and not fix the salient issue, which is
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those illegal guns coming across the border, which we all know that's where we're going to have to put
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our efforts, but we can leave our legal firearm owners alone.
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Well, it's just that it seems to be a false sense of security that the government seems to play with
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the emotions and the fears, legitimate fears that some people have, especially in areas in
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municipalities where some of these shootings are taking place, where some of these increased gang
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crimes are taking place. People are legitimately concerned. So this government comes along and says,
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hey, we're going to ban guns. We're going to get rid of these firearms. And at the end of the day,
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You're no safer. And it's even worse than that. On their Bill C-75, they're actually reducing penalties
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for people that are committing crimes with guns. So on one hand, they're saying they want to protect
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you more. But on the other hand, they're letting some of these people go to house arrest and go
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back into the neighborhoods in which they're terrorizing them.
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So Bill C-75, as Warren did point out, reduced the severity of some sentences for violent
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refeed offenders in most cases. So yes, you can actually use a firearm and get house arrest in
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the proceed of a crime, which is absolutely incredible. So I think what we're seeing too in our
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communities, we want to talk about bail reform because pretty much I believe every premier in
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this country, territorial leader, has signed a letter to the prime minister saying the measures
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that the prime minister put in place are not working. We have repeat offenders going out and
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committing crimes. They should be behind bars for longer periods of time. And the government has
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weakened those to the point where these criminals just have a revolving door. They just go right back
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out. And we've seen the police officer that was fatally shot in Ontario just a few weeks ago in a
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very tragic situation. That individual was out on bail. So this is a reoccurring thing that's
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happening over and over again. We can go on to the incidents in Toronto as well.
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Yeah. And we see a violent offender. The lawyer in Quebec said, the prosecutor said,
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if it wasn't for these new laws, that person would be behind bars. So you're hearing it just from
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everyday Canadians. And I think when you walk down the street and you ask, after eight years of
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Justin Trudeau being in power and the liberals being in power, no one feels safer on their streets.
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I think that's something that really resonates with people, everyday Canadians, and the fact that
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they're seeing this government try and cherry pick a stat here and there and bring forward laws that
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aren't, in essence, making their communities safer. So that's what happened with Bill C-21 and the
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firearm amendments. That's what happened with Bill C-75 and reducing jail time and reducing bails
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for repeat offenders. Lots of these offenders that we have seen taking our police officer lives
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have been out on bail after numerous serious violent offenses with guns. And those are something that we
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need to tackle these issues so that we can make our Canadians. The first job of any government is to
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have their Canadians feel safe. And the liberals under Trudeau have failed over eight years in that
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priority. And you can understand why people are getting frustrated, right? They're being asked to
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pay more taxes. Everything's going up. Everything's more expensive. And the services that they're
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receiving aren't getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse in many places. And so people are
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getting a bit anxious, a bit uneasy about what is happening in this country because they are expected
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to pay more. And then when people try to relocate to find a different community to live in or somewhere
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else, they're almost looked down upon by the liberal. How dare you move out and try to find
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a better place to live? Yeah. Well, I think our leader, Pierre Pauly, has said it perfectly is
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you don't have to be upset that people are mad. You should ask why they are getting so mad. Why is
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there that anger out there? And it's because people do feel let down. You can't get a passport. You get to
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an airport now and you very rarely get to where you want to go on time anymore. So people are feeling
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more and more let down by this government. And instead of taking that into consideration and
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trying to fix the problems that Trudeau has created over the last eight years, he's just
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compounding those problems again with poor legislation. We could talk about Bill C-11 as
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well, the censorship bill for the internet. Instead of listening to why people are mad,
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he's trying to shut it down so people that are of a different opinion from the liberal government
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can't even have their say anymore. Well, what becomes hate speech, right? Anything against the
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government? What does the government not like? Well, that's hate speech, right? They put these
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filters on and pick and choose what you want to see. And this is what has been great about the
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internet, right? This has been a great thing that new things keep popping up every single day. There's
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a wide variety of things that people can watch or listen to that give them the best variety. And it's
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up to industry itself if they want to compete to try to match or emulate what's going on in order to
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get that viewership or listenership back. And by the government sticking its fingers into this pot,
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you're going to actually slow down this creativity because viewers and listeners are going to get a
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bunch of stuff that the government says is okay or what they should be listening to, but might not
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actually be the taste of that individual. Well, you heard from many content creators where if
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these new online platforms wouldn't be available, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, if all these platforms
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weren't available, they would never be able to become the stars that they have become. So you
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have to take that into consideration as well. As a government, it's not your job to regulate
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everything to death. It's also there to take new opportunities and allow our entrepreneurs in Canada
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to grow on some of those platforms. And that's what these platforms have done. And that's some of
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what Bill C-11 is about is to shut that down. And with the government controlling things,
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you don't get all of those different voices, the voices that might have something new,
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something interesting to come into. And look at most cable packages, if you still subscribe to
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cable TV. You have, from the garden channel to the home garden channel, you have every variety to
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your old network where they have the sitcoms and the news, commercials in between. You have your
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variety. You also have kind of the other kind, you know, Prime and Netflix and all of that.
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But these choices provide opportunities for new people to get into the game, to be able to produce
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that content. And if you look at the music industry specifically, something the government hasn't really
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been in, look at all the varieties of music you have. And it's a great thing because the government
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isn't telling people what to listen to. Yeah, I was going to say, don't give them any ideas, Jamie.
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Yeah, that's right. The government should not get into music. But I think you're right.
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You've got to ask yourself, why does the government keep on bringing more and more legislation forward
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to clamp down on people and clamp down on what people can see, clamp down on what people can own,
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So those questions are out there. And I think we need to have a more open and free country and give
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people more opportunities and more choices on what they want to see, watch, what they want to listen
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to, not less. And that's what you get with the conservative principles of freedom and having
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access to more information instead of less. And I think that's a big contrast between where we will
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go when we form government and where this liberal government has gone over those past last long eight
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years. It's been a very long eight years. Now, there have been people who have been getting very
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wealthy through this. There are a lot of people who are hurting, but the ones that are getting
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wealthy are well-connected to government, well-lawyered and well-lobbied, right? You get
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the contract to do whatever it is you're supposed to do, whether it gets done or not, doesn't
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matter. But you are connected because you're making the right donations. You're making the
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right friends. You're talking to the right people.
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Well, we had a debate about this and we're talking about the McKinsey contract for $120 million
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to well-connected liberal insiders. And I asked the question because outside consulting has
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gone up a lot, hundreds of millions of dollars under this government. And the public service
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has gone up about 30% under this government. So I asked Mark Gerritsen, one of our favorite
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liberals that talks all the time in the House, have Canadians seen better services with all
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this increase in outside third-party consulting and a larger public service? And he couldn't answer
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that question because I believe Canadians have seen slower passports, way slower when
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it comes to immigration and getting your files processed. Slower when it comes to getting into
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airports and out of airports, which are federally regulated.
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They are. As much as the government likes to say they're not, they are.
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As much as they want to say it's not our problem, all these things do fall under their portfolios.
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And they continue to fail Canadians. And that's why it's been such a long, long eight years.
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Especially when you're trying to get back to life, trying to get back to normal. And it's just every
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roadblock, but it's the government and the services they're supposed to provide. And when you bloat
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the bureaucracy like that, it slows down progress. It slows down innovation and job creation. When
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there's more forms to fill out, more paperwork to get through, more regulations and rules to follow,
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it slows down the ability to have this economic recovery that we actually want.
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And we haven't even hit on agriculture and their 30% reduction of fertilizer.
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And all the problems that they put in, the roadblocks that they put in for agriculture producers.
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Our shadow minister, John Barlow, just gave a great speech to the House of Commons and saying,
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one thing that says is the biggest roadblock to success in the agriculture sector today is that
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liberal government. Everything that they've done, whether it be tripling the carbon tax,
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whether it be the fertilizer tariffs, first of all, then the fertilizer reduction targets they have,
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it's hurting our agriculture producers. When the world right now is crying for a safe supply of food,
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they're in a global food insecurity situation. Canada's the answer and their own government's
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Well, one way to bring down prices is to actually increase supply. So wouldn't we want more of our
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farmers producing domestic food? Well, the answer should obviously be yes. But the reality is it's
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not actually happening because of the rules, regulations from red tape being imposed every
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single day on these farmers, on these producers that are making it near impossible to do business where
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you have to have a second job off farm, or you don't get into it altogether because you just know
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Like this government changes the goalposts on our producers all the time, and they arbitrarily pick
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different dates. If you've had good processes since 2018, you get credit for it in 2017, 2016.
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Sorry. Our agriculture producers are the best in the world. Out of our total emissions in Canada,
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agriculture is only responsible for 8%. Most other jurisdictions are 25% or higher for their
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agriculture emissions. So we're doing a great job already. We just need the government to be proud
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of our agriculture sector, proud of our producers, and champion what they've done so far on the world
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stage. Because Canadian agriculture isn't a problem to emissions and global food insecurity.
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You have so many countries right now that are trying to figure out their energy portfolio. A lot
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brought into the green Marxist agenda into Europe. You look at many countries that had to stockpile
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energy just to keep people warm over the winter in Europe. And the process in which led to that,
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the steps that led to that. You had an energy portfolio that should have been A plus B. It was
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B minus A. And when you rely on technology that hasn't been fully implemented or tested to the standards
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that we need to the generation capacity we need, you get problems. And that's what's happening in Europe.
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They're going, begging other countries. The Chancellor of Germany came to Canada.
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Japan came to Canada. The Prime Minister basically said, thanks but no thanks, which I don't know where
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government decided they know business better than the marketplace, which is absolutely incredible.
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And then they go to Qatar and other countries to sign these deals to produce the energy that their
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company and their country needs. It is the fact that we can't get anything built in this country
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is hurting productivity. The lack of certainty, the lack of investment, it is hurting this country
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in a very big way. So when you take away the natural resource industry, what are we relying on?
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We're relying on real estate, really, to keep things moving. It is very scary.
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Well, I think that's the frustrating part with this woke prime minister and cabinet is they turn down
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energy deals for good, clean, environmentally produced energy in Canada for jurisdictions that
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don't have the same standards we have. So in essence, by them turning down deals with Germany and Japan,
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they've actually made the environmental situation worse because other countries don't produce it as
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environmentally friendly as we do. And I think that's the most frustrating point for everyone
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across Western Canada in the ag sector, in the energy sector. These woke cabinet ministers and
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prime ministers walk out and pretend they care about the environment and then don't allow the
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energy sector, ag sector in our country to do that job and lower emissions across the world. And then
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they let them get produced in other jurisdictions. And I think that's where there's a huge disconnect
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between what they're saying and what is actually happening in reality.
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Well, these same woke ministers are decrying wealth, decrying opportunity, but they'll have no problem
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hoarding it for themselves. They have no issues about taking from other people and keeping it for
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themselves. Or jumping on a plane, going to junkets and spending $6,000 a night in a hotel.
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Yeah, they have no problem. But they'll decry it if you have it, right? Wealth is bad if you have it.
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You should give it to me and I'll distribute it as I see fit. But I'll never stop living the good life.
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You think the people that went to Davos are eating crickets? No, they're eating the best
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cuts of meat. They're staying at the best hotel. They're having the best of luxury he has to offer
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while at the same time coming up with new ways to impose rules, regulations, red tape,
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I think they keep coming up with new ways to make people poorer.
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They are. This is like equal levels of misery, right? This is what they're all about.
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You let us super smart people figure it out. We'll have a handful of companies that provide
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certain services. There'll be no competition. We won't have to really adjust price and make
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it any better service for the people. And we'll just reap the profits, pay off government,
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and we'll just have this very happy, merry place where all the common folk just push it
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uphill and get out of bed and do their thing and we'll live high life.
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As our leader says, the have-yachts and the have-nots.
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And that's what it's come to, unfortunately. Warren, as you know, we have to get out here
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because the question period's coming up. But the guests always get the last word.
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Have at it. Well, I just want to say thank you, Jamie, for having me on. It's great to talk
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with all your viewers. And please keep listening because the Conservatives are going to fight
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for you every step of the way and make sure that prosperity is for all Canadians,
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Absolutely. And we need more. Canada needs more Saskatchewan.
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We appreciate the flag. We appreciate your time as well.
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That's Warren Steinle, member of Parliament for Regina Luvent.
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