Western Standard - Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud on Trudeau’s record with strong women

00:00:00.000 Based on the column you'd written and you submitted with us, it's there on the Western Standard Online, with Trudeau and Tamara Leach.

00:00:07.120 And just Trudeau's kind of trend on how he deals with strong, outspoken women.

00:00:11.600 Yeah, it certainly is a trend for our Prime Minister.

00:00:14.300 So through Alberta Proud, we're a grassroots nonprofit organization, and we advocate for everyday Albertans.

00:00:21.940 We advocate for our energy sector, our resources, small businesses, farmers, ranchers.

00:00:27.060 And 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.

00:00:38.600 So 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.

00:00:49.840 Whether you agree with everything that took place, largely it was a very peaceful nationwide rally to stand up for personal freedoms and liberties.

00:00:59.540 I think we've all been a little bit on the same page with that.

00:01:02.460 And I mean, how she has been treated is worse than how a drug king has been treated.

00:01:07.500 So it's really quite incredible that it took a month to get a 49-year-old grandmother from Medicine Hat out of jail.

00:01:16.120 So we just took a really big stand on that, and we're hoping for a positive end for Leach.

00:01:22.340 She's just another name on Trudeau's long list of women, strong women, and he just seems to cut them down.

00:01:31.060 You know, whether it's Jody Wilson-Raybould or Jane Philpott, the list keeps growing.

00:01:35.140 Well, 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.

00:01:44.740 You 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. 1.00

00:01:51.380 I generally find it insulting when men call themselves feminist, and that's used as such a dirty word anyways.

00:01:56.060 But 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.

00:02:01.100 Yeah, 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.

00:02:15.080 Everything he possibly can to raise our cost of living and pressure our integral industries is something you wanted to talk about today as well.

00:02:20.980 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

00:02:22.560 So, you know, I like my props, and so my oldest daughter, she helped me out with this.

00:02:27.280 This is her summer project here.

00:02:29.100 So we are asking you guys to say no to Trudeau's farm fertilizer reductions.

00:02:33.040 So 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.

00:02:48.460 This is their whole goal to get to net zero over the next three decades.

00:02:52.600 The 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.

00:02:59.320 We're seeing how the Dutch farmers and what's happening in Europe, tractors blockading highways because there's going to be food shortages.

00:03:08.480 We're not going to be able to feed the world with these goals.

00:03:11.200 The only, the Trudeau government is saying that this isn't against farmers, but that is absolutely not true.

00:03:16.260 This is completely targeting the West. 0.57

00:03:17.820 It's targeting Alberta, Saskatchewan.

00:03:19.240 It's targeting our farmers because the only way for them to reduce these nitrogen output, emission outputs, is to reduce their use of fertilizers.

00:03:26.740 Fertilizers, plant food.

00:03:27.820 If you reduce that, you get a smaller crop yield.

00:03:31.260 So the impact is upwards of $50 billion on our farmers.

00:03:36.920 According to the Canadian Wheat Grows Association, just to give it, you know, bring it back home a little bit more,

00:03:43.500 for the average farmer who farms 1,000 acres of canola and 1,000 acres of wheat,

00:03:48.080 the average annual impact will be about $40,000 out of these individuals' pockets.

00:03:52.180 So it's ludicrous, and we're going to see what's happening in Europe is going to start happening here.

00:03:57.940 And we just can't let this continue.

00:04:00.800 We are the fifth largest exporter of food in the world.

00:04:04.000 We're going to have global food shortages, and we need to be there to feed the world.

00:04:08.040 And here we are with this ridiculousness.

00:04:11.200 Yes, and it's not a done deal yet.

00:04:15.340 That's the reason we really got to speak up on this right now.

00:04:17.360 I mean, it's proposed, it's planned, it's what he wants to do.

00:04:19.960 We know that this government can never come up with anything aside from either taxing things or banning things.

00:04:24.320 But they haven't said how they're going to reduce this yet.

00:04:27.080 We just kind of know.

00:04:28.380 But I mean, now there's still a chance, a chance to make people aware of this, to push back, write your letters.

00:04:33.320 I know it seems hopeless.

00:04:35.080 But it's not hopeless.

00:04:36.760 No, that's it.

00:04:37.640 The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

00:04:38.960 And so we're asking everybody to push back against us, share content on social media.

00:04:43.140 We have a ton of it through the Canada Strong and Proud Network.

00:04:45.900 Alberta Proud is a part of that.

00:04:47.760 We have reach of millions of people, namely through Facebook.

00:04:50.560 We're also on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, all the socials.

00:04:53.880 And we're just asking you to share that content, share those news articles out there.

00:04:57.360 There's there's share stories, share stories on TikTok.

00:05:00.240 We have a TikTok channel as well, you know, and stand with our farmers because this is ridiculous.

00:05:05.160 I mean, we've got we've got such pressures on on food banks.

00:05:09.940 We've got 50 percent of Canadians saying that they can't put food on the table.

00:05:14.240 We have one in four Canadians who are skipping meals right now.

00:05:16.920 So the thought that by doing this and and by impacting our ability to produce food is going to just drive prices at the grocery.

00:05:27.360 Store up even more.

00:05:28.560 And we can't afford it.

00:05:29.600 I can't afford it.

00:05:30.360 None of us can afford it.

00:05:31.620 Well, it's it.

00:05:31.980 And it goes beyond just pressuring farmers.

00:05:34.120 I mean, we feel for our farmers.

00:05:35.080 They're an integral industry in Canada.

00:05:36.740 They're part of what built this nation, particularly the West, which is no coincidence, which is why you target them.

00:05:40.800 I mean, if this was primarily targeting Quebec, we know what wouldn't be happening.

00:05:44.560 And, you know, we're not going to see a maple tax coming along anytime soon.

00:05:47.940 I'm certain.

00:05:48.600 But when it comes to cereal farming, and that's predominantly where this nitrogen fertilizer tends to be used or nitrogen is generated.

00:05:56.020 And it's not an issue.

00:05:56.960 But reminding consumers that it's not just the farmers.

00:05:58.940 Once the farmers get hit, we get hit because they have to pass the price along.

00:06:03.000 And our food staples, not luxuries, are going to go up.

00:06:06.480 Absolutely.

00:06:06.820 And all of this was done without any proper consultation with the players in the industry.

00:06:13.160 And so they are all rightly up in arms about this.

00:06:16.340 And we need to stand with them.

00:06:18.220 You guys may have remembered last month we stood really strong on Proud of our Alberta Beef.

00:06:22.780 And we ran a back off our beef campaign.

00:06:26.060 And we were part of that growing loud voices that stood up to Trudeau.

00:06:31.760 And now they have rescinded that for now.

00:06:33.920 And that was the whole thing, spectacle, about putting these ridiculous warning labels on our beef to deter people from eating it.

00:06:40.600 To suggest that, you know, lean ground beef isn't a healthy food.

00:06:44.320 I guess it's not as healthy as insects are or whatever they want us to be eating in their global agenda.

00:06:49.780 So just like that, we want you guys to reach out to us.

00:06:54.140 You know, be all over social media about it.

00:06:55.920 Share those articles.

00:06:56.800 Share your stories.

00:06:58.140 Stand with our farmers and get loud and get Alberta proud about it.

00:07:01.120 Yeah, that was a good point because Health Canada, I think it was, or was going to put a warning label on ground beef. 0.94

00:07:07.500 It was just absurd and ridiculous.

00:07:09.540 But once the public stood up, and that's what I like to remind people, it's not impossible.

00:07:12.720 It feels impossible.

00:07:13.580 But you know what?

00:07:14.300 Sometimes they do realize, oh, wow, we pushed it too far.

00:07:17.360 And they will back off.

00:07:18.640 And I think there's very much potential with this.

00:07:20.420 I mean, even though somehow people in Toronto quite often won't seem to realize what powers their vehicles or heats their homes,

00:07:26.360 so they'll still oppose energy, everybody eats.

00:07:29.820 And when they see that cost hit them in the wallet, they're going to get concerned no matter what part of the country they're in.

00:07:35.260 So if we could just let enough Canadians know, get up and stand up, this can stop.

00:07:39.860 Absolutely.

00:07:40.400 In fact, this plan does not help the UN's goal to end world hunger by 2030.

00:07:46.040 Well, yeah, the UN's goals are a little hard to make sense of.

00:07:49.360 But if that's what does it for you, just remember that.

00:07:51.360 Yeah, 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.

00:07:59.920 But like you said, that's another bizarre thing.

00:08:01.680 I mean, we put tax dollars towards cricket farms.

00:08:03.540 And you see the articles from the usual legacy media outlets.

00:08:07.840 CNN keeps talking.

00:08:09.060 What was the recent one on cockroach milk?

00:08:12.380 There's this fascination with making humans consume insects that's been coming out on the mainstream media on the left lately.

00:08:18.320 And I don't get it.

00:08:19.780 Yeah, I really don't get it either.

00:08:21.640 I mean, the truth is that Trudeau is no friend of Canadians.

00:08:27.760 He is a friend to his global agenda, the global elitists.

00:08:32.060 And I think they just want this big homogenized society and we're all feasting on insects.

00:08:36.940 I mean, I just don't get it.

00:08:38.900 I mean, he keeps taking these stands.

00:08:41.280 He and his environment minister, we call him uneven Stephen, Stephen Guibault. 0.96

00:08:46.140 They just have these ludicrous, these ludicrous plans. 0.69

00:08:50.900 And it's just, it's always targeting the West. 0.79

00:08:54.020 And it's always like they continue to go after our best in the world Canadian energy, our Alberta energy.

00:08:58.960 And now they're going, they've gone after our best in the world beef.

00:09:01.500 They're going after our best in the world farmers.

00:09:03.120 So, 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.

00:09:12.360 And, you know, every society on earth where they traditionally consume insects, it was usually a matter of need, not preference.

00:09:19.000 I mean, sure, survival food, get out there, eat those bugs if you're on the verge of death.

00:09:24.260 But if anybody could choose, even in those countries, okay, steak, crickets, they're going to go for the steak every time.

00:09:30.840 You know, a Bear Gryllis would consume his own urine as a survival tactic.

00:09:34.840 Okay, but you know what?

00:09:35.640 If you've got water, you'll pick that first.

00:09:37.900 Well, yeah, my life is not an episode of Survivor.

00:09:39.880 I mean, with three kids, some days it does feel like it, but last I checked, it wasn't.

00:09:43.160 So I'll take the steak any day.

00:09:44.340 Well, 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.

00:09:53.560 And there's part of the problem, too, when you're talking about the world elite.

00:09:55.660 So, right, like Justin Trudeau, he's never had to worry about a grocery bill his entire life.

00:10:00.420 I 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.

00:10:10.820 He doesn't understand what these policies do to normal people.

00:10:14.660 He's disconnected altogether.

00:10:16.200 Well, he's disconnected just like he's disconnected from how much it costs to traipse around the world, right?

00:10:20.600 I mean, he went through more jet fuel last month and, you know, enough fuel to power another truck or convoy.

00:10:28.020 So maybe we should ask him if that's a fair trade-off.

00:10:30.320 Yeah, 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.

00:10:42.740 And all of his trips were all vanity trips.

00:10:45.020 They were all photo ops.

00:10:46.100 There was nothing critical.

00:10:47.320 There was no summit or, you know, important thing he had to go to.

00:10:50.780 He's not advocating for our energy industry or for anything to do with our own prosperity, you know, on these trips, right?

00:10:58.520 Where is he now?

00:10:59.220 Where is he on his vacation?

00:11:00.320 Yeah, he's in Costa Rica.

00:11:02.160 You 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.

00:11:08.960 I like to call it.

00:11:09.560 Cottage makes it sound small, guys.

00:11:10.920 It's a mansion.

00:11:11.900 He gets for free on a lake with security and a few acres, but apparently still not good enough for him.

00:11:17.040 He's going to fly to Costa Rica and hang around with the family over there.

00:11:20.800 Absolutely.

00:11:21.440 I hope he's having a good time on our time.

00:11:24.360 God.

00:11:24.860 And we've got to pay for the separate rooms for him and Sophie and everything.

00:11:27.820 I mean, it's just not an efficient trip all around.

00:11:29.640 Yeah, it sounds like a convoluted situation.

00:11:33.000 But it does get frustrating.

00:11:34.400 I mean, you know, and if you want to get consumers to do things, I mean, you just walk the talk, right?

00:11:39.160 I mean, you're telling us to tighten our belts, telling us to take shorter vacations or stay closer to home.

00:11:43.740 And here's this clown, as you said, in one month, burning more fossil fuels than the entire trucker's convoy did.

00:11:51.940 Yeah, I know. 0.93

00:11:52.820 I love that because it just really puts it all in a nutshell.

00:11:56.600 Oh, and it's insane.

00:11:57.620 And it shows, too, we can't escape the, you know, the consumption of petrochemicals.

00:12:01.960 I 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.

00:12:08.380 But you can't because they don't exist.

00:12:10.400 I mean, that's where a lot of this problem keeps coming to as well.

00:12:13.620 Get rid of the fertilizers.

00:12:14.620 I know there's no alternative, but we'll just get rid of it.

00:12:16.340 We'll deal with how we're going to, you know, deal with it afterwards.

00:12:19.580 And 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.

00:12:27.440 It's a lack of foresight.

00:12:28.900 Well, we call them unreliable alternatives for a reason.

00:12:32.040 We 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.

00:12:45.800 And, 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.

00:12:55.520 We need to be able to fuel the world.

00:12:58.060 The demand for energy is only going up, not down.

00:13:01.260 So, you know, the sky is just constantly taking us.

00:13:04.780 You know, we constantly are moving one step forward and two steps backwards.

00:13:07.820 Well, and it also shows you can't appease the ideologues in this government.

00:13:13.760 I mean, the energy industry has done a lot.

00:13:17.040 They have, you know, carbon sequestering, separating, fine, sticking it in a hole somewhere or ways to convert it.

00:13:24.340 I've spoken to Colin Craig about how they've even made carbon-based vodkas.

00:13:27.400 They've reduced emissions.

00:13:28.680 They've done all sorts of stuff.

00:13:29.780 Do they get credit?

00:13:30.500 No, they just get more and more pressure to keep reducing production.

00:13:34.720 Likewise, with the farmers.

00:13:36.720 I mean, they have reduced fertilizer use just for economic realities.

00:13:41.600 Fertilizer is expensive.

00:13:42.760 Quick, McDick, McDick.

00:13:43.760 I don't know if you saw his video.

00:13:44.820 And he's fantastic, that guy.

00:13:46.120 You know, and he's a farmer.

00:13:46.880 And he knows, look, we have done things.

00:13:49.360 You know, there's different ways of bringing in field peas to bring nitrogen back into the soil in other ways.

00:13:54.160 But are they getting credit?

00:13:55.220 No, because the government still wants them to cut further from what they've already done.

00:13:58.080 You can't win.

00:13:58.760 You've got to fight back.

00:13:59.740 You won't win by appeasing these guys.

00:14:01.460 Yeah, and this, our provincial government has, you know, had enough foresight to invest in agriculture

00:14:06.380 and in agritech.

00:14:07.400 And that's what we need to do.

00:14:08.800 We need to invest in it, not move away from it.

00:14:10.880 So there's a lot of innovation going on.

00:14:13.060 And there's a lot of opportunity.

00:14:15.020 And there's just a lot happening right here in Alberta.

00:14:19.200 But we just have a prime minister who clearly hates the West, clearly hates Alberta.

00:14:23.340 That he does. 0.99

00:14:24.040 And, of course, he doesn't think much of those darn farmers. 0.99

00:14:25.840 Because, you know, rural areas don't tend to vote liberal that often either. 0.98

00:14:28.480 I mean, there's a bit of a rural-urban thing going on here.

00:14:30.760 Because to be fair, there are a lot of agricultural producers in, you know, the Maritimes and throughout

00:14:36.880 Quebec and Ontario that these fertilizer proposed bans.

00:14:40.020 It's going to hurt them too.

00:14:40.920 I mean, it's going to hit the West the most because that's where most of our agricultural

00:14:43.900 production is.

00:14:44.660 But it's going to harm people across this country.

00:14:46.520 It's going to harm the whole country.

00:14:47.360 And it's certainly going to hurt all of us when we go to the grocery store and it's $12

00:14:50.760 for a loaf of bread.

00:14:52.180 And you're put on rations like they are in other countries.

00:14:55.240 Yeah.

00:14:55.700 You know, and that can happen.

00:14:57.700 Maybe there's a way, you see, one of the areas that I see that Trudeau is terrified of

00:15:00.760 is the dairy cartels.

00:15:02.040 So if we can remind them that feed is going to go up because hay is not going to grow as

00:15:05.780 efficiently without, you know, fertilizer.

00:15:09.040 And once the dairy cartels speak up, it's amazing how fast the liberals move.

00:15:12.580 It really is amazing how fast it moves.

00:15:14.360 And, yeah, they're not going to want to have to put down all their livestock, right, if there's

00:15:18.680 no way to feed those cows. 1.00

00:15:19.960 Yeah.

00:15:20.220 Well, keep pushing.

00:15:21.900 I'm just looking at alternatives and appreciate what you guys are doing with Alberta Proud,

00:15:25.160 because if we don't speak up, if we don't push back, we won't win.

00:15:29.300 And as you rightly pointed out, you know, on the ridiculous little thing with labeling

00:15:33.400 beef products and with this fertilizer thing, we can change, move the needle on this. 0.66

00:15:39.320 The government, right now, it's still an idea balloon stage.

00:15:41.720 We can stop this in its tracks.

00:15:43.120 Yeah, we do these kind of campaigns all the time.

00:15:45.100 And like I said, like our social medias, we have reach of millions every week.

00:15:49.940 We have email lists and we get out there.

00:15:51.740 We run petitions, all sorts of things.

00:15:53.280 So check us out, check us out on Facebook, check us out on all the social media platforms.

00:15:58.240 And while you're at it, we put up a post yesterday just asking everybody to kind of make a comment

00:16:03.600 on new T-shirts, new designs that we're coming out with.

00:16:06.360 So I'd love to see you guys vote, plug something in the comments there on which there's five

00:16:10.700 of them we're tossing around right now.

00:16:11.900 So please take a moment and vote on that.

00:16:15.100 Great.

00:16:15.360 Before I let you go then, just to remind everybody, where can we find information about Alberta

00:16:18.360 Proud and what you guys do?

00:16:20.080 Albertaproud.org.

00:16:21.120 We've got shop.albertaproud.org is our merch store.

00:16:24.700 We're moving.

00:16:25.100 We still have beef.

00:16:25.980 Look, if you want to back off our beef campaign, we're still going with that because, you know,

00:16:31.360 they've quieted down on that for now.

00:16:32.940 But it also ties in really well with, you know, back off our farmers.

00:16:36.400 And so these ones are available for sale and there's lots out there on our website.

00:16:40.380 We're on Facebook.

00:16:41.060 We're on Twitter.

00:16:41.800 We're on Telegram.

00:16:43.900 We're on Instagram.

00:16:45.560 We're on LinkedIn.

00:16:46.960 I think all of them.

00:16:48.280 TikTok, all of them.

00:16:49.640 Look up Alberta Proud.

00:16:50.760 You'll be found out there somewhere.

00:16:51.800 I know Facebook's kind of your most active area where you have a lot of people.

00:16:53.820 It is.

00:16:54.180 And I encourage people to DM me if you have any ideas, any advocacy, any things you feel

00:16:57.900 that, you know, we're not talking about enough.

00:17:01.200 Like, this is all for you guys.

00:17:02.620 So I'm going to hear from you.

00:17:03.720 Great.

00:17:03.960 Well, thanks for coming in to talk to us today, Lindsay.

00:17:06.040 And thank the kids for putting together the great props this time around.

00:17:09.860 Absolutely.

00:17:10.520 We can have fun with advocacy at times.

00:17:12.320 Yes.

00:17:12.700 Just a last reminder to say no to Trudeau's farm fertilizer reduction.

00:17:16.760 Stand up for farmers.

00:17:18.220 Well, thanks again.

00:17:19.180 And I'm sure we'll see you again soon.

00:17:20.820 You bet.

00:17:21.080 Thanks as always.

00:17:21.620 See you.

Western Standard - August 04, 2022

Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud on Trudeau’s record with strong women

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