Western Standard - January 27, 2023


Ottawa Exposed: Danielle Smith says no to Trudeau's reckless lockdowns.


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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.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome again to another episode of Ottawa Exposed. I'm David Creighton, the Senior
00:00:15.480 Parliamentary Columnist for the Western Standard. And I'm really happy to be back here this week.
00:00:21.540 We've had some great comments over the week. And yes, I do read your comments because it's
00:00:28.700 because of readers and viewers like you but i'm on the air talking today and the western standard
00:00:35.740 is publishing and i'm putting out columns five days a week and it's very exciting so thank you
00:00:42.220 for your support keep watching and tell your friends about this because i don't want to be
00:00:48.220 just another talking head on youtube and twitter and facebook and all the other social media we've
00:00:57.420 got a lot of people up there today just saying nothing i want to say something that's pertinent
00:01:03.580 of interest and relevant to you so i'm going to start off today with my last column of the week
00:01:11.020 so far anyway i just wrote it this morning and it's about what danielle smith is going through
00:01:17.740 and i'm just going to briefly refer this is an incredible situation of course and
00:01:24.140 Daniel Smith just yesterday demanded an apology from CBC for stories they have been running
00:01:33.420 suggesting that she was emailing the Alberta Attorney General and either questioning or
00:01:40.620 demanding that cases that were caught up with the COVID-19 lockdown be shut down or reversed
00:01:47.340 or stopped or thrown out of court this is all based on some emails that the cbc allegedly has
00:01:55.420 seen now the cbc admitted it hasn't seen the emails the cbc admitted that this is all coming
00:02:06.140 from an anonymous source or sources within the alberta provincial government and this of course
00:02:14.380 is all a load of crap when you build a story like this that suggests the premier's doing improper
00:02:21.180 things wrongdoing things that could ultimately lead to the downfall of this premier and you base
00:02:28.140 it on anonymous sources i'm sorry that's not good enough that's not enough information to hang a
00:02:37.100 premier and what this is is a political lynching of danielle smith cbc has never liked danielle
00:02:45.340 smith because she has never told the line in terms of the covet 19 lockdowns she said during her
00:02:53.500 leadership campaign that she thought it was just terrible that people were being taken off the ice 0.76
00:02:59.340 shrink private parties were being raided by the city police ottawa the calgary police the
00:03:06.700 ottawa police and others she thought it was awful that people were having their rights
00:03:15.740 moan over in the exercise of these lockdowns and she made that quite clear i don't think
00:03:22.540 that sat very well with cbc the state broadcaster which is always there to bolster the federal
00:03:30.060 government read trudeau government narrative so they i believe strongly decided it was they needed
00:03:38.060 to get rid of daniel smith so this email story is just that now if there actually are people
00:03:44.540 sending emails to the cbc they need to come forward have some guts show a little bit of courage
00:03:51.580 if you think your story is so important in the public interest show a little bit of courage
00:03:58.140 and come forth and say hey i've got the emails and the cbc of course is saying that they don't
00:04:06.460 want to reveal the names of their sources because it might have professional repercussions
00:04:12.700 you're darn right it should have professional repercussions if these people are lying about
00:04:18.140 these emails they should be publicly exposed and fired this should not be happening and we should
00:04:28.060 not be seeing watching a premier hang in the wind over these baseless accusations and i think this
00:04:36.540 is all about politics as usual it's coming strongly from the federal government it might be coming
00:04:44.380 from disaffected UCP members I've heard that that possibility as well but I do believe this is a
00:04:52.540 federal story because I think the federal liberals are interfering through the CBC and they have a
00:04:57.260 huge effect on how the CBC reports its news and when they're going after somebody like Daniel
00:05:03.100 Smith they're going after them full throttle and if you read some of the emails that are going out
00:05:08.620 about this the cbc seems energized and almost joyful that they think they're going to bring
00:05:14.940 down a premier like daniel smith who's had the audacity to pass the alberta sovereignty act
00:05:21.340 and who has said she's not going to stand by and watch all of those who suffered
00:05:28.700 as a result of the covet 19 mandates and lockdowns to continue to suffer
00:05:33.740 she hasn't done everything right but by God she's doing a lot more right than her predecessor
00:05:41.440 who was part of the lockdown catastrophe put pastors in jail and had people arrested
00:05:48.680 and you have to remember you couldn't go to church during the COVID-19 lockdowns
00:05:55.820 you couldn't go to the gym to work out which made sense because the healthier you are the more the
00:06:03.140 less likely you are to contract covet or have a serious effect through it but you could go to the
00:06:11.140 liquor store every day and there were strip clubs open across canada somehow those places
00:06:17.940 were sacrosanct and they were uh there weren't any germs spreading there but it's the hypocrisy
00:06:26.500 of it all that drives you crazy and it's time for some real answers to why some of these decisions
00:06:33.300 were made but the answer is not to go after daniel smith because she's trying to find out some of
00:06:37.940 those answers i don't believe they're going to find those emails i think the scandal is going to die
00:06:42.900 but let the cbc wear it let the cbc the state broadcaster wear it because that's where it
00:06:48.020 should be going moving right along here my first column of the week was a discussion about
00:06:56.500 Justin Trudeau, and Pierre Paglia. Justin Trudeau, of course, our Prime Minister, Pierre Paglia,
00:07:03.680 the official opposition leader, and the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:07:08.680 Now, as I wrote this column, the Liberal Cabinet was just preparing to go into a retreat
00:07:14.500 in Hamilton, Ontario, to discuss the year ahead. Now, I'm sure Trudeau brought up the possibility
00:07:22.500 of an election in 2023. There's been no confirm and deny about that, but certainly Trudeau seems
00:07:29.940 a little cooler on that prospect because apparently at this retreat, he heard some pretty bad news
00:07:36.260 about the economy. Interest rates are going to have a negative effect on people's ability to
00:07:41.740 buy homes, obviously. Inflation is probably not going to be going down, but might marginally go
00:07:48.320 up and we're looking at a real recession in the offing now trudeau's down seven percent in the
00:07:55.840 polls right now that could plunge even further if the economy gets worse and let's face it this is
00:08:01.760 a guy who does not think about the economy very often he's doubled the national debt debt not
00:08:07.360 deficit the national debt in seven years he's the guy who can't see a business case for selling oil
00:08:14.320 to Germany or Latin natural gas excuse me to Germany but he's also the guy who thinks he can
00:08:21.580 win an election on his charm and good luck Salone and I'm sorry I think that those days are over for
00:08:30.000 you Justin Trudeau but what is the next election going to be whether it happens this year or the
00:08:35.200 next it's going to be a fight not just between a conservative leader on on the right and a liberal
00:08:42.300 leader on the left who has basically subsumed a lot of the NDP vote with it. It's going to be
00:08:50.460 a battle between Trudeau's status quo and the new ideas and new freedom presented by Pierre
00:08:58.320 Paglia. And I must say also the People's Party of Canada leader, Maxime Bernier, who is a good
00:09:04.660 friend and I give him all due. And it's interesting that Trudeau is playing the same old blame game.
00:09:10.760 he's looking at his popularity declining and he's saying can't be my fault can't be my policies it's
00:09:17.420 because Canadians are racist I can't believe he had the audacity the craziness to even suggest
00:09:25.520 that because I mean clearly it's got nothing to do with racism and but he always reaches out for
00:09:35.240 this reason when the going gets tough he starts smearing canadians he starts smearing his political
00:09:42.520 opponents and quite frankly it's it's this it's really disgusting and he did the same thing of
00:09:49.240 course during the blackface scandal where he admitted he couldn't even remember how many
00:09:55.320 times he had donned blackface to entertain his friends schoolmates the the folks at the
00:10:02.520 college he taught at and who knows whom else uh whomever else was a part of this and
00:10:12.200 but he's in i what i liked about what poly have said recently and i think this is very important
00:10:18.120 because i don't trust politicians just because they say something i want to see evidence and i
00:10:26.840 noted when Pierre Pauly have accepted the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada
00:10:32.040 he never mentioned his promise to defund privatize the CBC and I and I was I was a bit worried because
00:10:41.400 I think this is a very important promise that he needs to move forward on if he becomes prime
00:10:47.320 minister but in a recent speech in Winnipeg he reiterated his promise to sell off the CBC and he
00:10:56.200 He talked about making it into family housing, the headquarters of CBC and the family housing, moving people in.
00:11:02.560 Now, that's something, of course, the Liberals' NDP would have difficulty arguing with because they're always saying we need more affordable housing.
00:11:08.500 I 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.
00:11:30.720 It truly has become a defining moment for conservatives in this country.
00:11:36.720 And if Paul Yev is still talking about it, I believe he will do it.
00:11:41.680 And I think that's going to be a marvelous step forward because the CBC has become a millstone around our neck.
00:11:47.700 There's no reason it needs a billion dollars in funding every year.
00:11:50.980 there's no reason it needs to be the state broadcaster any more than the federal government
00:11:57.360 should be subsidizing the other broadcasters in this in this country to the tune of 600 million
00:12:04.760 dollars so i think that's that's a very that's going to be a very important election coming up
00:12:10.360 i want to shift now to i think what's one of the stories of the month and i just heard today that
00:12:16.920 is being picked up by the u.s media glenn beck just did it ran a story on this in the united states
00:12:24.200 and it concerns the maskless woman who was at the toronto general hospital
00:12:30.920 and her name is danielle stephanie warrener now danielle stephanie warrener i believe is a
00:12:38.440 martyr for all of the idiocy the authoritarianism and the brutality that was wrought by the
00:12:47.880 lockdowns during this covid19 pandemic she stands as a martyr for all of those who lost their lives
00:12:57.400 their livelihoods who were forced to take vaccines who couldn't go to the gym who couldn't have
00:13:05.160 friends over in their house who couldn't see their loved ones who were forced to wear masks
00:13:13.000 outside who were forced to do things that were not necessarily wise or scientific
00:13:23.560 certainly this woman's horrific experience at the Toronto General should have told us something she
00:13:31.080 was held to the ground until she received a brain injury and she died she was killed
00:13:38.840 now the guards involved in that were initially charged with criminal charges
00:13:45.960 an ontario judge decided to drop those charges so the family of danielle is coming forth with
00:13:54.120 civil action you might recall that's what had to happen in the oj simpson case
00:13:59.480 after a jury found him not guilty in the deaths of Nicole Simpson and her friend.
00:14:07.980 They had to seek a civil solution.
00:14:13.860 Now, I ask you this.
00:14:15.440 Doesn't this situation of this maskless woman, 0.96
00:14:18.600 and there's some reports she had the mask on,
00:14:20.700 but it was just inappropriately being worn,
00:14:24.200 being manhandled by these security guards forcefully,
00:14:29.480 forcibly pushed to the ground so she can't breathe isn't the sound like the
00:14:36.160 incident in the United States in Minnesota where George Floyd the black
00:14:41.160 man who became a symbol for police overreach in brutality was unable to
00:14:50.840 breathe and died at the hands of those police officers had to face criminal
00:14:55.080 charges, and they were, in fact, convicted. So what happened here? Is this not a very similar
00:15:03.460 incident? I think it deserves a closer look. Certainly, if you watch the video of this woman 0.97
00:15:11.240 being wrestled to the ground, it's heartbreaking, because this sort of thing should never have
00:15:18.060 happened. You go to an emergency room, do you not? Because you need immediate medical attention.
00:15:25.080 because your life is in danger you don't go to an emergency room to lose your life
00:15:32.500 and certainly you don't expect that to happen in an emergency room it should be one of the safest
00:15:37.720 places in the world to be an emergency room is a should be a place of healing and medical
00:15:44.820 assistance for this woman it was not it was a place of her death and this incident must resonate
00:15:53.940 with all Canadians, and must remind us all that the COVID-19 measures, these lockdowns,
00:16:02.120 these mandates were often recklessly applied, not based on any science, but based on political
00:16:12.740 control. And that's why this woman died. There was absolutely no reason she didn't even have 0.95
00:16:19.360 COVID-19. And this is a complete atrocity. It should not have happened in Canada. And this
00:16:27.160 is something we should be very much aware of and very much condemn. All political parties should
00:16:34.100 condemn this, not just the Conservative Party, which has yet to do it, by the way. And I must
00:16:39.760 say, as bad as I said CBC is, at least CBC had the journalists, the integrity to show the video
00:16:47.340 of this woman being wrestled to the floor by the security guards.
00:16:51.960 And at least they have not denied the story.
00:16:55.560 Maybe there is a heart there.
00:16:57.540 But you know, these cold-blooded bureaucrats at Toronto General,
00:17:00.700 they didn't even tell Danielle's family for 11 days what had happened.
00:17:07.500 11 days, the family had no idea what happened.
00:17:12.380 Once again, ridiculous secrecy surrounding COVID-19 should never have happened.
00:17:20.600 I want to close today with, I think, my most comical column of the week.
00:17:28.220 It didn't get the response I wanted, but hey, there's always next week.
00:17:34.440 But we often talk about the just transition, especially in Alberta,
00:17:38.560 and that refers to how the federal government is going to make it easy or equitable
00:17:47.440 to go from the fossil fuel economy to the green energy economy so it's going to be a just transition
00:17:54.320 guess what they got it wrong it's really the justin transition it's justin trudeau's idea of
00:18:02.560 what is just and fair for people we've already seen leaked memos that suggest everybody in the
00:18:09.200 green economy isn't going to need isn't going to need green skills whatever those are they can
00:18:17.280 always drive the trucks carrying the solar panels and they can clean the latrines now i mentioned
00:18:22.960 this story in the past but it it just it strikes me as this is what trudeau's up to and he doesn't
00:18:29.040 have a plan for a green new deal in canada any more than joe biden u.s president joe biden has
00:18:35.440 a plan for the green new deal in the united states it just means stopping pipelines stopping
00:18:42.400 exploration for natural gas and fossil in oil it just means quitting the energy we have right now
00:18:51.200 that powers a modern economy and somehow moving to this nirvana of a green economy we're somehow
00:19:02.000 going to be powering our cars by electricity which by the way the electricity comes in many
00:19:07.200 cases from coal-fired plants there's not a magic source for it the batteries required for these
00:19:13.120 electric cars require minerals like cadmium and copper and these are hard to mine and china and
00:19:21.520 other countries are using child labor to extract these minerals from the earth doesn't sound very
00:19:27.200 equitable to me but it's okay if it's the green new deal because it's all about reducing your
00:19:33.600 carbon footprint except it's not it's about changing our economy changing how this economy
00:19:41.280 works for us and it's about reimagining our whole society do you think we're going to be powering
00:19:51.040 jet planes with electricity or something else within the next decade but that's what these
00:19:56.240 people are talking about phasing all of these things out by 2030 and it's madness it's complete
00:20:02.640 in utter madness and it's called the justin transition and that's what trudeau has in
00:20:10.240 mind for you and for all of us and i don't think it's going to work and i think the jig is up
00:20:21.360 more and more people are aware that this is something that is fantasy it's a fable the
00:20:28.720 The Green New Deal is nothing but a fable, and green energy is not going to unfold.
00:20:33.860 We cannot power a modern economy with windmills, electric cars, and solar panels.
00:20:41.760 And besides, China has the market cornered in solar panels.
00:20:45.920 So that's where we are. That's what we're dealing with.
00:20:49.580 And I think we've got to be realistic about the future.
00:20:54.240 So that's all for today.
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