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

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 0.93

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 0.96

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 0.73

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 0.97

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 0.87

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 0.97

00:12:38.440 martyr for all of the idiocy the authoritarianism and the brutality that was wrought by the 0.95

00:12:47.880 lockdowns during this covid19 pandemic she stands as a martyr for all of those who lost their lives 0.97

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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Western Standard - January 27, 2023

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

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