In this episode of Ottawa Exposed, Senior Parliamentary Columnist David Creighton talks about what's happening to Alberta's premier, Danielle Smith, and why it's time for her to go. He also talks about the ongoing saga of the Co-Operation Cold Case 19 lockdowns, and how the CBC is trying to get rid of her.
00:00:00.000Welcome again to another episode of Ottawa Exposed. I'm David Creighton, the Senior
00:00:15.480Parliamentary Columnist for the Western Standard. And I'm really happy to be back here this week.
00:00:21.540We've had some great comments over the week. And yes, I do read your comments because it's
00:00:28.700because of readers and viewers like you but i'm on the air talking today and the western standard
00:00:35.740is publishing and i'm putting out columns five days a week and it's very exciting so thank you
00:00:42.220for your support keep watching and tell your friends about this because i don't want to be
00:00:48.220just another talking head on youtube and twitter and facebook and all the other social media we've
00:00:57.420got a lot of people up there today just saying nothing i want to say something that's pertinent
00:01:03.580of interest and relevant to you so i'm going to start off today with my last column of the week
00:01:11.020so far anyway i just wrote it this morning and it's about what danielle smith is going through
00:01:17.740and i'm just going to briefly refer this is an incredible situation of course and
00:01:24.140Daniel Smith just yesterday demanded an apology from CBC for stories they have been running
00:01:33.420suggesting that she was emailing the Alberta Attorney General and either questioning or
00:01:40.620demanding that cases that were caught up with the COVID-19 lockdown be shut down or reversed
00:01:47.340or stopped or thrown out of court this is all based on some emails that the cbc allegedly has
00:01:55.420seen now the cbc admitted it hasn't seen the emails the cbc admitted that this is all coming
00:02:06.140from an anonymous source or sources within the alberta provincial government and this of course
00:02:14.380is all a load of crap when you build a story like this that suggests the premier's doing improper
00:02:21.180things wrongdoing things that could ultimately lead to the downfall of this premier and you base
00:02:28.140it on anonymous sources i'm sorry that's not good enough that's not enough information to hang a
00:02:37.100premier and what this is is a political lynching of danielle smith cbc has never liked danielle
00:02:45.340smith because she has never told the line in terms of the covet 19 lockdowns she said during her
00:02:53.500leadership campaign that she thought it was just terrible that people were being taken off the ice0.76
00:02:59.340shrink private parties were being raided by the city police ottawa the calgary police the
00:03:06.700ottawa police and others she thought it was awful that people were having their rights
00:03:15.740moan over in the exercise of these lockdowns and she made that quite clear i don't think
00:03:22.540that sat very well with cbc the state broadcaster which is always there to bolster the federal
00:03:30.060government read trudeau government narrative so they i believe strongly decided it was they needed
00:03:38.060to get rid of daniel smith so this email story is just that now if there actually are people
00:03:44.540sending emails to the cbc they need to come forward have some guts show a little bit of courage
00:03:51.580if you think your story is so important in the public interest show a little bit of courage
00:03:58.140and come forth and say hey i've got the emails and the cbc of course is saying that they don't
00:04:06.460want to reveal the names of their sources because it might have professional repercussions
00:04:12.700you're darn right it should have professional repercussions if these people are lying about
00:04:18.140these emails they should be publicly exposed and fired this should not be happening and we should
00:04:28.060not be seeing watching a premier hang in the wind over these baseless accusations and i think this
00:04:36.540is all about politics as usual it's coming strongly from the federal government it might be coming
00:04:44.380from disaffected UCP members I've heard that that possibility as well but I do believe this is a
00:04:52.540federal story because I think the federal liberals are interfering through the CBC and they have a
00:04:57.260huge effect on how the CBC reports its news and when they're going after somebody like Daniel
00:05:03.100Smith they're going after them full throttle and if you read some of the emails that are going out
00:05:08.620about this the cbc seems energized and almost joyful that they think they're going to bring
00:05:14.940down a premier like daniel smith who's had the audacity to pass the alberta sovereignty act
00:05:21.340and who has said she's not going to stand by and watch all of those who suffered
00:05:28.700as a result of the covet 19 mandates and lockdowns to continue to suffer
00:05:33.740she hasn't done everything right but by God she's doing a lot more right than her predecessor
00:05:41.440who was part of the lockdown catastrophe put pastors in jail and had people arrested
00:05:48.680and you have to remember you couldn't go to church during the COVID-19 lockdowns
00:05:55.820you couldn't go to the gym to work out which made sense because the healthier you are the more the
00:06:03.140less likely you are to contract covet or have a serious effect through it but you could go to the
00:06:11.140liquor store every day and there were strip clubs open across canada somehow those places
00:06:17.940were sacrosanct and they were uh there weren't any germs spreading there but it's the hypocrisy
00:06:26.500of it all that drives you crazy and it's time for some real answers to why some of these decisions
00:06:33.300were made but the answer is not to go after daniel smith because she's trying to find out some of
00:06:37.940those answers i don't believe they're going to find those emails i think the scandal is going to die
00:06:42.900but let the cbc wear it let the cbc the state broadcaster wear it because that's where it
00:06:48.020should be going moving right along here my first column of the week was a discussion about
00:06:56.500Justin Trudeau, and Pierre Paglia. Justin Trudeau, of course, our Prime Minister, Pierre Paglia,
00:07:03.680the official opposition leader, and the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:07:08.680Now, as I wrote this column, the Liberal Cabinet was just preparing to go into a retreat
00:07:14.500in Hamilton, Ontario, to discuss the year ahead. Now, I'm sure Trudeau brought up the possibility
00:07:22.500of an election in 2023. There's been no confirm and deny about that, but certainly Trudeau seems
00:07:29.940a little cooler on that prospect because apparently at this retreat, he heard some pretty bad news
00:07:36.260about the economy. Interest rates are going to have a negative effect on people's ability to
00:07:41.740buy homes, obviously. Inflation is probably not going to be going down, but might marginally go
00:07:48.320up and we're looking at a real recession in the offing now trudeau's down seven percent in the
00:07:55.840polls right now that could plunge even further if the economy gets worse and let's face it this is
00:08:01.760a guy who does not think about the economy very often he's doubled the national debt debt not
00:08:07.360deficit the national debt in seven years he's the guy who can't see a business case for selling oil
00:08:14.320to Germany or Latin natural gas excuse me to Germany but he's also the guy who thinks he can
00:08:21.580win an election on his charm and good luck Salone and I'm sorry I think that those days are over for
00:08:30.000you Justin Trudeau but what is the next election going to be whether it happens this year or the
00:08:35.200next it's going to be a fight not just between a conservative leader on on the right and a liberal
00:08:42.300leader on the left who has basically subsumed a lot of the NDP vote with it. It's going to be
00:08:50.460a battle between Trudeau's status quo and the new ideas and new freedom presented by Pierre
00:08:58.320Paglia. And I must say also the People's Party of Canada leader, Maxime Bernier, who is a good
00:09:04.660friend and I give him all due. And it's interesting that Trudeau is playing the same old blame game.
00:09:10.760he's looking at his popularity declining and he's saying can't be my fault can't be my policies it's
00:09:17.420because Canadians are racist I can't believe he had the audacity the craziness to even suggest
00:09:25.520that because I mean clearly it's got nothing to do with racism and but he always reaches out for
00:09:35.240this reason when the going gets tough he starts smearing canadians he starts smearing his political
00:09:42.520opponents and quite frankly it's it's this it's really disgusting and he did the same thing of
00:09:49.240course during the blackface scandal where he admitted he couldn't even remember how many
00:09:55.320times he had donned blackface to entertain his friends schoolmates the the folks at the
00:10:02.520college he taught at and who knows whom else uh whomever else was a part of this and
00:10:12.200but he's in i what i liked about what poly have said recently and i think this is very important
00:10:18.120because i don't trust politicians just because they say something i want to see evidence and i
00:10:26.840noted when Pierre Pauly have accepted the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada
00:10:32.040he never mentioned his promise to defund privatize the CBC and I and I was I was a bit worried because
00:10:41.400I think this is a very important promise that he needs to move forward on if he becomes prime
00:10:47.320minister but in a recent speech in Winnipeg he reiterated his promise to sell off the CBC and he
00:10:56.200He talked about making it into family housing, the headquarters of CBC and the family housing, moving people in.
00:11:02.560Now, that's something, of course, the Liberals' NDP would have difficulty arguing with because they're always saying we need more affordable housing.
00:11:08.500I have seen over the years that the litmus test for a true conservative leader, for a leader who actually believes in conservative principles and not in just attaining power, they will tell you they're going to sell off the CBC.
00:11:30.720It truly has become a defining moment for conservatives in this country.
00:11:36.720And if Paul Yev is still talking about it, I believe he will do it.
00:11:41.680And I think that's going to be a marvelous step forward because the CBC has become a millstone around our neck.
00:11:47.700There's no reason it needs a billion dollars in funding every year.
00:11:50.980there's no reason it needs to be the state broadcaster any more than the federal government
00:11:57.360should be subsidizing the other broadcasters in this in this country to the tune of 600 million
00:12:04.760dollars so i think that's that's a very that's going to be a very important election coming up
00:12:10.360i want to shift now to i think what's one of the stories of the month and i just heard today that
00:12:16.920is being picked up by the u.s media glenn beck just did it ran a story on this in the united states
00:12:24.200and it concerns the maskless woman who was at the toronto general hospital
00:12:30.920and her name is danielle stephanie warrener now danielle stephanie warrener i believe is a
00:12:38.440martyr for all of the idiocy the authoritarianism and the brutality that was wrought by the
00:12:47.880lockdowns during this covid19 pandemic she stands as a martyr for all of those who lost their lives
00:12:57.400their livelihoods who were forced to take vaccines who couldn't go to the gym who couldn't have
00:13:05.160friends over in their house who couldn't see their loved ones who were forced to wear masks
00:13:13.000outside who were forced to do things that were not necessarily wise or scientific
00:13:23.560certainly this woman's horrific experience at the Toronto General should have told us something she
00:13:31.080was held to the ground until she received a brain injury and she died she was killed
00:13:38.840now the guards involved in that were initially charged with criminal charges
00:13:45.960an ontario judge decided to drop those charges so the family of danielle is coming forth with
00:13:54.120civil action you might recall that's what had to happen in the oj simpson case
00:13:59.480after a jury found him not guilty in the deaths of Nicole Simpson and her friend.