In this episode of the Western Standard, we speak with Alberta Proud President and Editor-in-Chief of the Calgary Spectral Times, Jodie Wilson-Raybould. She joins us to discuss the trucker protest in support of Tamara Leach and her case against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his treatment of a woman who stood up to him. We also talk about the Dutch farmers and what is happening in Europe with regards to food shortages.
00:00:00.000Based on the column you'd written and you submitted with us, it's there on the Western Standard Online, with Trudeau and Tamara Leach.
00:00:07.120And just Trudeau's kind of trend on how he deals with strong, outspoken women.
00:00:11.600Yeah, it certainly is a trend for our Prime Minister.
00:00:14.300So through Alberta Proud, we're a grassroots nonprofit organization, and we advocate for everyday Albertans.
00:00:21.940We advocate for our energy sector, our resources, small businesses, farmers, ranchers.
00:00:27.060And we take issue with celebrities and politicians who get in the way of our prosperity and our way of life, which pretty much happens to be just about everything that our Prime Minister does these days.
00:00:38.600So I wrote this column last week, and we took a strong stance, our organization took a really strong stance on the trucker convoy and in support of Tamara Leach.
00:00:49.840Whether you agree with everything that took place, largely it was a very peaceful nationwide rally to stand up for personal freedoms and liberties.
00:00:59.540I think we've all been a little bit on the same page with that.
00:01:02.460And I mean, how she has been treated is worse than how a drug king has been treated.
00:01:07.500So it's really quite incredible that it took a month to get a 49-year-old grandmother from Medicine Hat out of jail.
00:01:16.120So we just took a really big stand on that, and we're hoping for a positive end for Leach.
00:01:22.340She's just another name on Trudeau's long list of women, strong women, and he just seems to cut them down.
00:01:31.060You know, whether it's Jody Wilson-Raybould or Jane Philpott, the list keeps growing.
00:01:35.140Well, as you mentioned, it seems, I mean, again, who knows, it's a speculation, but there's few men seems more insecure with strong women than self-declared feminists, actually.
00:01:44.740You know, they always talk big, but when they actually deal with a strong outspoken woman, they tend to lash out or deal poorly with it.
00:01:51.380I generally find it insulting when men call themselves feminist, and that's used as such a dirty word anyways.
00:01:56.060But the irony is not lost on any of us, I think, that he brags about being a feminist, and yet this is how he treats me.
00:02:01.100Yeah, well, he also brags about caring about the citizenry and our, you know, cost of living, and the little guy, though he's never actually been the little guy economically in his life, yet he's doing, you know, a kind of segue into the next topic.
00:02:15.080Everything he possibly can to raise our cost of living and pressure our integral industries is something you wanted to talk about today as well.
00:02:29.100So we are asking you guys to say no to Trudeau's farm fertilizer reductions.
00:02:33.040So this is moving ahead where it's part of the liberal globalist agenda to reduce fertilizers in their efforts to reduce nitrogen output, nitrogen emissions by 30% by 2030.
00:02:48.460This is their whole goal to get to net zero over the next three decades.
00:02:52.600The problem is, is it's absolutely ludicrous because the problems that are going to come out of this, and I mean, we're all watching the news.
00:02:59.320We're seeing how the Dutch farmers and what's happening in Europe, tractors blockading highways because there's going to be food shortages.
00:03:08.480We're not going to be able to feed the world with these goals.
00:03:11.200The only, the Trudeau government is saying that this isn't against farmers, but that is absolutely not true.
00:03:16.260This is completely targeting the West.
00:03:19.240It's targeting our farmers because the only way for them to reduce these nitrogen output, emission outputs, is to reduce their use of fertilizers.
00:07:40.400In fact, this plan does not help the UN's goal to end world hunger by 2030.
00:07:46.040Well, yeah, the UN's goals are a little hard to make sense of.
00:07:49.360But if that's what does it for you, just remember that.
00:07:51.360Yeah, the UN's here to save the world, except they want them to freeze and starve in the dark as we shut down all the oil and gas and food supplies for them.
00:07:59.920But like you said, that's another bizarre thing.
00:08:01.680I mean, we put tax dollars towards cricket farms.
00:08:03.540And you see the articles from the usual legacy media outlets.
00:08:41.280He and his environment minister, we call him uneven Stephen, Stephen Guibault.
00:08:46.140They just have these ludicrous, these ludicrous plans.
00:08:50.900And it's just, it's always targeting the West.
00:08:54.020And it's always like they continue to go after our best in the world Canadian energy, our Alberta energy.
00:08:58.960And now they're going, they've gone after our best in the world beef.
00:09:01.500They're going after our best in the world farmers.
00:09:03.120So, but, but giving us crickets, I mean, and I guess because they say, oh, well, in Mexico, they were consuming, you know, insects for a thousand years.
00:09:12.360And, you know, every society on earth where they traditionally consume insects, it was usually a matter of need, not preference.
00:09:19.000I mean, sure, survival food, get out there, eat those bugs if you're on the verge of death.
00:09:24.260But if anybody could choose, even in those countries, okay, steak, crickets, they're going to go for the steak every time.
00:09:30.840You know, a Bear Gryllis would consume his own urine as a survival tactic.
00:09:44.340Well, that's something in three kids or even just people living on their own, if it's seniors on a fixed income, food costs are a big part of your budget and they're important.
00:09:53.560And there's part of the problem, too, when you're talking about the world elite.
00:09:55.660So, right, like Justin Trudeau, he's never had to worry about a grocery bill his entire life.
00:10:00.420I said on Twitter the other day, you know, he just feels that magical food fairies will fill his cupboards so his chef can get in there and pull it out and make him meals and bring them to his table and his maid will clean it all up.
00:10:10.820He doesn't understand what these policies do to normal people.
00:10:16.200Well, he's disconnected just like he's disconnected from how much it costs to traipse around the world, right?
00:10:20.600I mean, he went through more jet fuel last month and, you know, enough fuel to power another truck or convoy.
00:10:28.020So maybe we should ask him if that's a fair trade-off.
00:10:30.320Yeah, that was Tristan Hopper who calmed that and Brian Passifiume who came up with that story, just looking into the numbers and realizing, like, holy crap, Justin spent only 11 days not flying in July.
00:10:42.740And all of his trips were all vanity trips.
00:11:02.160You know, and I was curious about that the other day because, I mean, we spent, I think it was $11 million renovating Harrington, you know, mansion.
00:11:57.620And it shows, too, we can't escape the, you know, the consumption of petrochemicals.
00:12:01.960I mean, even if he wants them for two signals, I'm sure if he could find a wind-up elastic plane that was reliable and he could get across the sea with it, he would use it.
00:12:08.380But you can't because they don't exist.
00:12:10.400I mean, that's where a lot of this problem keeps coming to as well.
00:12:14.620I know there's no alternative, but we'll just get rid of it.
00:12:16.340We'll deal with how we're going to, you know, deal with it afterwards.
00:12:19.580And get rid of petrochemicals and we'll worry about how we're going to fill that void later, even if solar and other alternatives are failing.
00:12:28.900Well, we call them unreliable alternatives for a reason.
00:12:32.040We have best in the world energy, you know, and through carbon tech and taking CO2 right out of the air and turning it into usable everyday stuff and things like we can win that race to net zero right through our own energy right here.
00:12:45.800And, you know, through the war in Ukraine and everything that's happening right now, I mean, Canada needs to become the engine of the world.