00:01:23.040UCP leadership candidate pitching the Alberta Sovereignty Act. This is a very, very interesting,
00:01:31.360the minimum and interesting piece of legislation that she's proposing in her campaign to become
00:01:36.660UCP leader and premier of Alberta. We're going to talk about what that means because, boy, if
00:01:42.720something like that became law, it's going to mean big things, not just here in Alberta. It's going
00:01:46.500have massive national consequences. Speaking of the UCP, the United Conservative Party has cleared
00:01:53.900federal Conservative MP Michelle Rempel-Garner to seek the leadership of the United Conservative
00:02:00.680Party, clearing a major hurdle. I think we're going to see her in the race. We're going to
00:02:03.860talk about what happened there. And well, just another day in the life of the federal government,
00:02:11.300The Liberals and RCMP have been exposed playing very, very nasty gun politics using the massacre, one of the biggest mass murders, if not the biggest mass murder in Canadian history from Nova Scotia.
00:02:27.820you recall just a few years ago, new information has come to light showing the Liberals and RCMP
00:02:33.720in deep cahoots to exploit that strategy for political ends in order to build political
00:02:39.740support for banning what the Liberals call assault-style military weapons. These words
00:02:47.280don't even matter to them. And excellent news, the Western Standards Conservative Leadership
00:02:54.340debate is officially on June 8th. We're going to talk about that, what we expect when the
00:03:01.020Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates come to Cowtown to Duke it out here, because we're
00:03:05.840going to be talking about Western issues. Before we get in, though, we've got to thank one of my
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00:04:46.780Okay. Well, let's jump right into it. Danielle Smith pitches the Alberta Sovereignty Act. Dave,
00:04:53.100what is the Alberta Sovereignty Act? Basically, she promises if she becomes premier, she will
00:04:58.140introduce such an act that will basically disregard everything that Ottawa does that could hurt
00:05:05.340Alberta. Basically going up to the, I think you said it this morning, the line of separation and
00:05:13.260spitting over it uh very very strong statement uh certainly the strongest out of any candidate
00:05:20.940we've seen so far and she followed it up uh today with a vow uh no more lockdowns if she becomes
00:05:27.500premier she will not lock down anything if there's another pandemic churches will still go schools
00:05:33.340will open and life will be as normal uh so two very interesting uh proposals out of daniel
00:05:39.980in the first week, I think are certainly making her stand out from her rivals.
00:05:47.480Brian Jean announced some sort of program on lowering electrical costs,
00:07:36.160So we're trying that gambit here, or she would, or says she would.
00:07:40.860So essentially, it's just more or less the province refusing to enforce federal law.
00:07:47.340I'm a bit more confused about how this would go in terms of effectively having different law, actively doing something.
00:07:53.760I'm not sure, you know, we can't bring in stuff.
00:07:56.540We can't add things to the criminal code, for example, because the criminal code is federal that Ottawa doesn't have, but we can essentially subtract from it.
00:08:04.080So the way I read it as a very practical example is on firearms. That's very obviously relevant right now. The provincial government could just say section X, Y, and Z of the Firearms Act are violations of the rights of Albertans. We're just not enforcing it. And that means an Alberta provincial police force doesn't arrest people for it. Crown prosecutors don't prosecute for it. Effectively nullifying federal powers there.
00:08:27.460And I think that the what are you going to do about it part, I think really the only way I can see practically that if Alberta just refused to do what Ottawa says on these fronts, what option do they have?
00:08:49.160Yeah, but you can't make the government do it without, like, how do you force?
00:08:54.060And I'm emphasizing the word force, because the only way I can see practically is if a province just says, you know, crosses their arms and says, I'm not doing it.
00:09:05.600The only way I can see that is, I mean, Ottawa to declare Alberta to be in a state of insurrection and send the army.
00:09:14.420But, you know, I don't think she's putting in there anything that Quebec doesn't have, right?
00:09:18.980And the government has let Quebec get away with it for, you know, time in memoriam.
00:09:24.060So maybe that's what she's hoping, that if Alberta says, look, we're just doing the same thing as Quebec, what are you going to do about it?
00:09:31.120The thing is, we want to do it on different issues.
00:09:33.540Quebec likes to do things that violate the rights of the Anglophone minorities or Muslims.
00:09:37.960Sure, and they're big on immigrants.0.63
00:09:40.000Yeah, they want to beat up on Muslims and Anglophones.0.75
00:09:42.400That's kind of the popular thing in Quebec.
00:09:43.880Whereas here, it's more or less, we don't want to enforce federal law, which is, you know,
00:09:49.540maybe on firearms and restrictions and all sorts of things like that.
00:09:54.060is there, Corey, like, is there really anything Ottawa can do short of send in the army if we
00:10:00.100refuse to enforce federal law? It could cut transfer payments, but I would see that being
00:10:04.200the first step to Alberta saying, that's fine. We're collecting all our own taxes now. We're
00:10:07.380not sending them out to you. So now you can come begging us. And that's something Quebec could
00:10:11.460never really do because they're in that recipient. Yeah. So, you know, again, it's spoiling for the
00:10:16.960fight. It forces their hand. And I, I'm, it's very interesting. The thing I showed is concerned
00:10:23.080though on the show today and in a column i got coming is this is going to sell with the ucp
00:10:27.460membership i can see to a good degree but i'm not sure how keen the alberta electorate's going to be
00:10:31.620on this much of a in-your-face attitude that's what's going to see it shows you how little
00:10:37.100jason kenny did on the file and in three years you know he talked a good game but really didn't
00:10:42.180do anything well we saw virtually nothing from the fair like fair deal panel was weak enough in
00:10:46.940itself but it had some great ideas but it it really stopped short of a lot of what a lot of
00:10:50.760us were hoping for. And it still did virtually none of it, except for, and we're back to guns,
00:10:55.000they appointed an Alberta chief firearms officer. That was it. Nothing else. It held a referendum
00:10:59.840on equalization. And then did nothing. Yeah. Yeah. But that was the end of it. Should have
00:11:04.320been on the plane the next day. Okay, well, let's, since you open the door, Dave, let's,
00:11:11.800let's talk about what she said about lockdowns. And this is interesting. Obviously, there's
00:11:15.660tremendous frustration with the kenny government uh with lockdowns and mandates and things like
00:11:21.940that she said she'll bring in an amendment to the human rights act which would enshrine medical
00:11:26.300choice around the stuff she said uh a line i've used before which is i'm not pro-choice for just
00:11:32.240a single thing i'm pro-choice for everything and that's that's why i the exception of people like
00:11:37.860cory i just generally don't call these people pro-choice anymore because they mean one choice
00:11:42.340and no choices for anything else. So she's talking about choices around vaccines, but also
00:11:46.980an end to lockdowns. Even I'm, I know some of our viewers are going to be angry at me for this, but
00:11:54.780I can see a situation where we've got the next black death. The plague is here.1.00
00:12:02.140The kind of thing these laws were really meant to do for a pandemic with high casualty rates,
00:12:08.980not just among seniors with multiple comorbidities, but it kills the young, it kills the children,
00:12:14.440it kills the healthy. I can see a situation, you know, not that we've ever experienced it in this
00:12:20.440in many generations, but I can see in that kind of situation, a break glass in case of situation
00:12:27.060where a lockdown could theoretically be justified. I know some people are going to scream at me right
00:12:32.540now that I'm a lockdowner. No, I'm about as anti-lockdown as you get. But there is the
00:12:35.900theoretical situation where that, I think, could be justified. This throwing out the baby with the
00:12:44.320bathwater, or is this just a case of, yeah, maybe it's justified sometimes, but the government abuses
00:12:49.440the power too much. We just have to take away that government's power. Well, I think Albertan's
00:12:53.000frustration with Jason Kenney was he kept moving the goalposts, kept changing it. You know, best
00:12:57.560summer ever. No, we're locking down. No, best winter ever. No, we're locking down. I think what
00:13:01.620Danielle's saying is, okay, well, no more lockdowns for COVID-like pandemics, right?
00:13:09.300COVID, basically, severe flu-like things.
00:13:25.280You know, I guess we'd have to question her about it.
00:13:28.080If they remove that government power, that means it's not there then.
00:13:31.620True, true. But again, I think you're, you're talking hypothetical, hopefully something that never happens. You know, she has found future. No, she said never, never again. So, but I think in a case of the Black Death, she could say, well, you know what, I've changed my mind. Jason Kenney did a few times.
00:13:50.160Then you'd have to, if she outright takes away the government's power, and I'm very open to anti-lockdown legislation. Governments clearly have abused that power over the last two and a half years. They cannot be trusted with that power. I'm just worried that if we formally remove the power, if and when that, the real one, comes, we're going to be left without an appropriate response.
00:14:13.740Corey, do you think this, is it too far?
00:14:17.380And I can't believe I'm saying this because I always want politicians going way further than I do.
00:15:03.220So we've got to address how we're going to deal with it without locking down.
00:15:06.940So I think she's been pretty smart about this.
00:15:09.040But again, she's got to be careful if she treads into that anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine type camp, which they probably have a Bernier, you know, cornered, very strong supporters, very dedicated, but very, there's a solid cap on that.
00:15:26.220You know, then you get 10, 15% and you can't get past there.
00:15:28.780So she's got to watch who she's courting, but it's an interesting tactic.
00:15:34.180And I'll just mention before we move on, Brian Jean had something on this.
00:15:37.900I think much, much softer, but said, you know, after 60 days of lockdowns, there'd have to be
00:15:44.140a vote in the legislature. I mean, that's an improvement over now where there's just literally
00:15:47.360the cabinet says it and the legislature has no say and that there have to be an automatic inquiry
00:15:52.480after for this kind of thing. So, you know, more of accountability additions to it, which would be
00:15:58.220an improvement on the current system. But I think a fair bit softer than Danielle's more
00:18:15.340at least according to the sources that we're speaking with the standard.
00:18:18.920And all of those MLAs have endorsed, I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
00:18:23.380And they've all endorsed either Travis Taves, former Kenny finance minister, or Rebecca Schultz, who was Kenny's child services minister, although she's not really as inner circle as Taves was.
00:18:36.700Do you think there's any coincidence that these MLAs were saying she should not run?
00:18:41.640Yeah, no, the establishment doesn't want more candidates coming into the mix.
00:18:47.380Though I don't know if that's not, you know, strategically that wise a move.
00:18:50.920I mean, if we've got a lot of alternatives diluting that vote over there, it might leave a better field for people like Paves who have a solid but perhaps hard cap on their support or Schultz if she's trying to slide up as a second choice sort of thing.
00:19:04.460But they're fearful of Rempel or otherwise they wouldn't want to stop it.
00:19:08.000I mean, if it was a star candidate they really wanted, you know, they'd put a thumbs up.
00:19:11.020It's a rather arbitrary rule, I think.
00:19:13.020Well, I think in general, you only really will oppose them if they're going to be eating your
00:19:20.080votes and not someone else's. I think Rempel, I'm not sure if this will play out or not, but
00:19:25.100you know, the Wild Rose wing of the party has two former Wild Rose leaders running in it. So the
00:19:31.480Wild Rose side of the party has got a pretty crowded field right now. The more progressive
00:19:35.320conservative side, even though Travis Tabes wasn't a progressive conservative politician,
00:19:40.420I think he's viewed as coming a bit more from that progressive conservative tradition.
00:19:45.060Michelle Rempel, federal conservative, I think probably she's hard to peg.0.95
00:19:50.000Like on some issues, she kind of seems like a wild rose.0.82
00:19:52.140And other issues, she very much seems like a very progressive conservative, depending on the issue, depending on the day.
00:19:59.680But I think she's probably perceived as coming more from the progressive conservative side.
00:20:04.420and that would be eating into Travis Tave's votes because you didn't see really any opposition from
00:20:10.640MLAs backing Brian Jean. I'm not sure if there's any MLAs backing Danielle Smith in the caucus
00:20:14.720right now, but there's at least Dave Hanson, maybe one or two others who are backing Brian Jean.
00:20:22.180None of them were speaking against Danielle. You really only saw it from the Travis Tave's
00:20:27.020Rebecca Schultz side. Dave, do you think, is that it? Just that they want to keep the
00:21:02.900one of the wire services, maybe Canadian Press or Associated Press broke that
00:21:07.100the chairman of the Patrick Brown campaign has quit that to come and chair Michelle's campaign.
00:21:15.180She's totally in. She's not officially in, but she's jumped off the dock. She's underwater.
00:21:22.080She just hasn't emerged to say, I'm in yet. But she's in. What kind of effect, Corey, do you think
00:21:30.620Michelle is going to have? How big a contender is she going to be to actually win this? Because0.94
00:21:36.000it's a pretty big field. That's a tough question. It really is. I mean, she's got some profile.
00:21:41.420She's definitely got some connections. I guess it depends. There's part of what the establishment's
00:21:46.260worried about too. I mean, there's a lot of shared support between the federal and provincial
00:21:49.360conservatives. She's going to be dipping into the fundraising pools of Taves and Shoals and
00:21:54.460others as well. I mean, they're the same people often you're going to. So she's going to split
00:21:58.180that up. It really depends on how our campaigns manage. It's so hard to speculate. I mean,1.00
00:22:02.160what sort of ground is she going to kind of corner? As you said, she's one of the hardest0.99
00:22:06.060ones to pin down. I mean, she's made some statements on Twitter that sounded like a0.98
00:22:09.900woke NDP-er. And on the other hand, she's talked about things like the Buffalo Declaration,
00:22:14.900where she sounds like the most conservative of Wild Rosers. So to try and see where she's going
00:22:20.020to land, she could very well be competitive, but we can't really speculate until we see what she's1.00
00:22:24.120going to do. It's an hard one. I think on name recognition alone, she gets into the top four1.00
00:22:28.820right now. And her political organizational ability is very good. Her writing, one of the
00:22:36.820top Tory writings in the country in terms of organization. So if she can, you know, use that
00:22:44.080organization to help her run provincially, she may have a chance. But just right at the start,
00:22:49.620name recognition gets her a lot of media attention. And I think it puts her, puts her in a good place
00:22:56.020to start. She's a contender. And she is a killer organizer. The mainstream media pays a lot more
00:23:03.940attention, I think, than we do to the, for this kind of thing, the regional issues within Alberta
00:23:10.020politics, Calgary, Edmonton, rural, really everything outside, so the north and the south.
00:23:16.840And that has had an impact in the past. Ed Stelmack was seen as kind of a rural northern rebellion that kind of being on the outside of the PC party. The conservative leaders traditionally come from Calgary, though. It's been dominated by, you know, Klein, Lougheed was Calgary.
00:23:34.080um this is not so no no but between uh getty getty was edmonton but then but other than getty
00:23:41.140it was you know laugheed calgary klein calgary um you had uh so stalmack rural north but then back
00:23:51.540to uh redford calgary prentice calgary and uh kenny calgary so it's very calgary dominant
00:24:01.700um also calgary kind of being the fulcrum of the politics of the province you have
00:24:07.040rural right uh edmonton left sorry edmonton uh and then calgary is where elections are decided
00:24:14.500and so you know and it's where the biggest money is it's where a lot of the political power is based0.90
00:24:19.540cory how big a factor do you think it's going to be that she's kind of the big so there's
00:24:25.380rebecca shoals here uh but really remple is going to be the big calgary candidate is that a
00:24:31.440how big an advantage is that going to be like do conservative members here think yeah i want a
00:24:37.280calgary leader or or is it or is it more it could also be well we need a calgary leader because we
00:24:43.300need to win the calgary seats i don't think the members think that strategically really as a whole
00:24:48.020i mean a few will but for the most part i think her advantage of being in calgary is just that
00:24:52.520you're in a spot with good strong conservative base anyways you're you're in person where you're
00:24:56.760It's a one member, one vote deal here.
00:24:58.580There's no regional waiting or anything.
00:25:00.340So a person can win by concentrating memberships in just one region rather than being forced to travel the whole area,
00:25:06.940which doesn't pay off in the long run in the general election, but for a leadership race could work.0.82
00:25:10.500Ed Stelmack won like half of his votes were just like Ukrainians scattered around the rural north.1.00
00:27:17.560All right, check them out. Okay, get ready to get angry again. So news broke, I think it was just yesterday that the federal liberal government, the RCMP, playing a little hanky-panky with gun politics.
00:27:33.600Give us the skinny on the little hanky-panky.
00:27:36.640What was the name of the Halifax newspaper?
00:28:13.660Get it to the prime minister's office and Justin Trudeau so they could basically play politics with it and get their gun laws passed and introduced.
00:28:24.020For me personally, if the Aga Khan vacation scandal was a five, this is a nine and a half.
00:28:29.880This is absolutely unbelievable where you've got the nation's top police officer being politically involved, politically motivated for the PMO, for Justin Trudeau, for Bill Blair.
00:28:44.000Yet, unbelievably, there appears to be no sign of anybody running out of resignation left.
00:28:55.120The guns used by the Nova Scotia shooter, none of them were actually the ones that were banned when the Liberals brought in this cabinet order.
00:29:05.220Further, none of those guns were even legally bought in Canada.
00:29:08.560They were smuggled through the main border from the United States.
00:29:14.800But the Liberals still demanded that this be brought out and spun in such a way as to give political impact so that the Liberals could say,
00:29:22.520aha look all these poor dead people and we're banning the guns that did this so even that's
00:29:28.320not true um cory is there going to be any price to pay here is this finally the one i hope so i
00:29:37.200mean this is where the ndp and the conservatives should be demanding an independent inquiry get
00:29:41.280to the bottom of this i mean the quotes from the police officers said she promised the prime
00:29:46.260minister and bill blair that she was going to get this information for them she took over the
00:29:50.460communications broke protocol. And she didn't deny it. No, she did not deny this in her statement.
00:29:55.200And I mean, a politicized commissioner of the police isn't actually new. They're appointed
00:29:58.300by the prime minister. They might go to ribbon cuttings with them and show a little leaning.
00:30:01.900That's fine. But meddling with an active investigation, only hours after it happened,
00:30:08.000this is beyond the pale. Like this is putting it at risk. And that's what some of these officers
00:30:11.400are saying. Like they were trying to find the origin of these guns at that time. And they're
00:30:17.460saying, we've got to keep this tight because now we have an, it was an international investigation
00:30:21.020because they had found out there from the United States, we can't leak this stuff right now. We
00:30:24.800can't let it out. And she wanted to, and they refused to their credit. And she got upset about
00:30:30.400it. That's documented as well. And she was pressuring and twice it's mentioned that it
00:30:34.240was on behalf or at least pressured by the prime minister's officer, uh, office and the safety
00:30:39.980minister. Now this government loves throwing people under the bus. I won't be shocked to see
00:30:44.380lucky. Should be the one to go, obviously. But I think the stronger thing we got to be looking at
00:30:49.420is a prime minister's office that tried to interfere on an investigation. We're not talking
00:30:53.700about a carjacking or something. We're talking about the biggest mass murder in Canadian history.
00:30:58.340And we're not talking a year later. We're talking in the hours just after they'd shot this guy.
00:31:02.360Like this is incredibly dangerous political play. This is messing with a very important
00:31:06.780investigation. And we need to find out what the hell happened. 22 people get murdered in cold
00:31:10.560blood and the first thing our nation's politicians think about is how could we score some points on
00:31:17.780this one like i mean and you see this all the time and there's mass shootings in the states you know
00:31:22.420it's a bit more common there um people want to play politics right away and both sides can be
00:31:28.540guilty of that i think the anti-gun side seems to do it more but the pro-gun side can do it as well
00:31:33.860like oh well every one of those teachers should have had a gun like no stop playing a lot of
00:31:39.560people play politics with this right away but it's rare to see it behind the curtains like this
00:31:45.120we're seeing the sausage get made we're seeing it done in the real dirty right now um we're just
00:31:51.120within hours like so it was hours by the time it came down to the cops doing the investigation that
00:31:55.640means this must have been right away for the politicians uh bill blair possibly trudeau i'm
00:32:02.480sure we'll never really know but the politicians at the highest level must have immediately said
00:32:06.920aha, we can make some political hay out of this.
00:33:21.720I've, you know, the RCP officers on the ground in Alberta are overwhelmingly great men and women who I'm proud to have serve in the community.
00:36:11.080All right. Well, that's it for today. Dave, Corey, thank you very much for joining me as usual. And thank all of you for joining us on the pipeline. We love your attention. Please like and share the video. Get it out. If you're not yet a member of the Western Standard, sign up now. It's only $10 a month or $99 a year. Go to westernstandard.com. Sorry, westernstandard.news. Sign up and you'll get unlimited access to all Western
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