Sovereignty Act attacks
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Summary
In this week's episode of the podcast, we take a look back at the week's happenings in the premier's office. We talk about the Supreme Court challenge to the proposed carbon capture and storage facility in Edmonton, the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case against the federal government, and the upcoming trip to the COP 28 summit with the Prime Minister.
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she has now invoked it yeah um what does that mean that's a really good question what exactly
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does it mean i'm still trying to sort it out myself to be honest it was funny because she
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got the question at the press conference um from a reporter up in edmonton i couldn't see him
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because i could just hear him but it was kind of to the effect of like uh are you are you doing this
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for show just to draw attention to yourself she's yeah that's exactly what we're doing you know like
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um there's a there's not she wasn't quite so blasé oh she was she said no i want the courts to
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understand i want the courts to understand what we are about here when this comes before the courts
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this is the reasoning that we're going to give no i said like what are you trying to do draw attention
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to she goes yeah you know unabashed about it part of the point from that reporter which i think was
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kind of valid asking what is this empowering you to do that you didn't already have the ability to do
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and i'm not seeing anything i mean i'm seeing that it could be a useful act i'm not dismissing the whole
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thing but nothing new really is coming up it's just kind of perhaps packing it together into a
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uh a bill that can help take things to the federal government to the courts in one package rather than
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a few different efforts but well i think the idea is to get the federal government to go to the court
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and they've already said that they're not going to do it so that they're just going to ignore it
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so i don't i don't know what that means i i don't know if that you know if they're going to try and
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claim that it's against the law to resist these regulations which haven't really come into effect
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yet and weren't really supposed to come into effect until next spring sometime and they're still
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negotiating and you've got these ongoing negotiations and now you've got this cop 28 something happening in
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dubai you know where there's going to be a big uh head to head it's it's not just the bowl that's
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going it's uh uh francis philippe champagne is going and his whole liberal delegation and uh there's
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going to be a lot of uh face-to-face meetings and uh premier smith has been making announcements like
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every day this week monday tuesday wednesday she's actually had a hell of a communication strategy much
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much better than uh the the ottawa communication strategy i mean all you get is a sort of sour dour
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face saying you know we're going to insist on our electricity regulations you're probably better able
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to reel off the announcements than i am because it's your beat but uh what have we had here we've
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had the methane targets nothing targets carbon capture storage 8.8 billion so-called clean plastic
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cracker gonna make clean plastic straws you know those are the kind to have all right yeah and all
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this paper crap well it has been interesting though i mean something i've noticed recently i was thinking
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of writing and i haven't got around to it but it's felt this last two months almost as if we're in an
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election because the communications from the ucp have been like that they're driving the discussion
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is every week here's the conference here's the change we're making here's what we're doing the next week
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here's another conference whether it's addictions treatment or its energy or it's the sovereignty act
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but there's always something coming up and and uh i think it's been effective but you know
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former premier notley is always on her heels and reacting uh and the liberals are are kind of flat
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footed too like how do you deal with this and it's they're driving the agenda i guess that's my point
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actually is that as she goes off with the alberta crew to cop 28 i don't know how much of the rest of
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the world cares about what we do in canada but if they do they have on the one hand this this uh we'll
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just say that the federal government does not have a very interesting imposing or attractive appearance
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on the other hand you have got the charismatic let's face it she is charismatic i mean you may
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agree with her or disagree with her but she's not a she's not somebody who you can ignore so there
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she'll be in cop 28 she's camera fodder for the international crew and she's having a fight with her own
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government and as she has the fight she has got all of these things that we just discussed stacked up
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behind her all the good promising progressive we're really trying to get to do the right thing here
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all of these announcements and they don't and it you're you're it may or may not work but nobody can
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say that they didn't try and that the communications people and the premier's office didn't provide good
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advice and get it together when they had their marching orders this has been very well done she's
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uh in complete control of the agenda she's driving the agenda she's um coming at it within this
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framework of reducing emissions we're not reducing oil production we're reducing emissions um she spoke at
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an industry uh luncheon on friday and even there you know um the hosts are already describing her as a
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transformational leader you know like a once in a generation kind of person that's come along she's done her
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homework she's completely up on the issues she's on the file she understands it she knows people she's
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on the ground and uh i think was our friend tristan over at epac he made a comment there that it's
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actually quite surprising that she's managed to get all you know her horses well he is only surprised
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because he didn't know her before oh really but he's you know if you've ever seen it she's done so fast
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yeah but remember what she was like on the radio remember what she was like in the on the herald
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editorial board uh she had a grasp for detail and then being able to give it back to you in a form
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that you could receive it that just left uh hostile interviews kind of flat-footed and wishing they