Learn English with the United Conservative Party of Alberta s new Prime Minister, Doug Ford. Doug Ford speaks to a record-breaking crowd in Red Deer, Alberta at the 2019 Conservative Leadership Convention. "You can't rope the wild out of a mustang, you can't take the wind out of it, baby. You can't."
00:17:39.300well we can't start nobody said good morning are you guys awake good morning everyone
00:17:46.300good morning fellow conservatives how are you feeling today
00:17:54.820amazing if it was any indication from how well attended the hospitality suites were last night
00:18:05.380you guys had fun and thank you so much again for being here today you should be feeling
00:18:12.220not just good as my colleague often says you should be feeling great who's feeling great today
00:18:19.660this crowd this energy i have never seen anything like it thank you so much for coming and making
00:18:33.040this possible this is a very very good day in uh red deer it's a great day it is a great day
00:18:45.000We're here today, 6,000 strong, at this awesome, record-scended, unprecedented gathering of Alberta Conservatives.
00:19:00.180Because our United Conservative Party is the right party with the right plan at the right time, at this very important time.
00:19:11.340The UCP is the only party fighting to make life more affordable for Alberta families, to protect our freedom and prosperity in this blessed land.
00:19:26.380We're the only party embracing the Alberta advantage to create opportunity for ourselves and for our children.
00:19:35.960And we're the only party willing to stand up to the worst Prime Minister in all of Canadian history.
00:19:49.420Justin Trudeau and his incompetent and hostile Liberal government in Ottawa.
00:20:31.660It's now what we've been waiting for, our privilege to draw your attention to the screen,
00:20:39.820to introduce an individual who is intelligent and capable, an individual with great ability
00:20:47.980and capacity, who is leading Alberta to more freedom and prosperity, our UCP leader, Danielle
00:20:56.900she didn't stand up when energy east pulled the plug she didn't stand up when they brought in a0.99
00:21:07.440tanker van off the west coast for our product and she didn't stand up when the no more pipelines1.00
00:21:12.380bill was passed what we want to do is make sure that we're finding more opportunities for our
00:21:16.960products having bitumen be used more for asphalt so it reduces the amount of emissions having lng
00:21:22.680export, which creates a brand new stream of income for us. We know that as long as we keep
00:21:27.380our energy industry strong, we're going to keep Alberta's economy strong. Ms. Notley won't do1.00
00:21:31.680that. I will. The UCP will hold on to power in Alberta. The United Conservative government
00:21:42.160will remain in government. Global News is projecting the United Conservative Party
00:21:48.260will form the next government and it will be a majority the united conservative party emerged
00:21:53.700victorious winning a second majority thank you my dear friends thank you so much
00:22:00.280well to paraphrase our dear friend ralph klein welcome to another miracle on the prairies
00:22:08.800many folks uh wrote us off even just as recently as last month but you know what happened
00:22:17.340Despite it all, today Albertans chose to move our province forward by re-electing a strong, stable, united, conservative majority government.
00:22:47.340Today our government is introducing three pieces of legislation that will set up guardrails
00:23:10.440to protect the health and safety of Alberta youth.
00:23:12.920In an ever-evolving world, we must be vigilant to ensure the rights and freedoms of Albertans continue to be protected.
00:23:19.560That's why today I'm announcing the proposed amendments that, if passed, would strengthen the Alberta Bill of Rights and ensure our province remains one of the freest societies in the world.
00:23:29.620The chief was pleased to report that since we started this in mid-January, no one has died in an encampment in Edmonton.
00:23:36.980That's what conservative policy looks like.
00:23:42.920and rewrite the pages freedom's contagious yeah that's truth
00:23:49.000cause you can't rope the wild out of a mustang
00:23:53.240you can't die like a two freight train
00:23:57.600or you can't take the wind out of a hurricane
00:33:45.320for giving our women and girls a safe and fair opportunity
00:33:48.300to compete in the sports that they love.
00:33:51.940choice matters freedom also matters and we as alberta conservatives must lead the way on
00:34:00.780demonstrating this and we're doing so earlier this week our government led by our justice
00:34:05.440minister mickey amory introduced the greatest expansion of the alberta bill of rights since
00:34:10.340it was originally introduced by premier peter laugheed in 1972 amongst the many amendments
00:34:16.520in this bill is the right to lawfully own and possess firearms and the right to never
00:34:21.560have your property taken by government without just compensation because in Alberta we don't
00:34:31.960see someone's bank account or other property just because they're protesting unjust laws that's the
00:34:37.240Trudeau way it's not the Alberta way and that is why the amended Bill of Rights also expressly
00:34:48.380forbids any future Alberta government from implementing any vaccine mandates ever again.
00:35:05.740We all learned a lot of hard lessons during the pandemic and one of the things we learned is this,
00:35:10.220a person's right to bodily autonomy is sacred. Governments around the world should never be
00:35:15.900allowed to circumvent that right and in Alberta they won't be allowed to do so.
00:35:25.900The fight to strengthen our freedoms also means pushing back against federal
00:35:29.420government censorship and gag laws which means we will continue to do so.
00:35:33.580But it also means cleaning up our own backyard in this regard and that is why
00:35:37.100last week our government launched a review of Alberta's regulated professions
00:35:40.940like the Law Society and the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
00:35:45.900And we will bring legislative changes in the spring to ensure that all of Alberta's
00:35:55.140regulatory bodies are limited to regulating their members' professional competence and
00:35:59.700conduct, but not their freedom of speech or expression or belief.
00:36:04.200what alberta's own dr jordan peterson is being put through by ontario's college of psychologists
00:36:16.260for simply speaking out against a disastrous federal government should never be allowed
00:36:21.300to happen in a free and democratic society and as we see more evidence of these same
00:36:31.380kind of violations against professionals here in Alberta, we know we need to act so that censorship
00:36:37.300never gains a secure foothold in this province. Now, no discussion of strengthening our freedoms
00:36:43.820would be complete without ensuring that Alberta continues to be a national leader in economic
00:36:48.660freedom. Over the past year, we have helped create nearly 100,000 new jobs, mostly in the private
00:36:54.320sector, and Alberta workers are earning more on average than anyone else in the country.
00:36:59.120And that means that Alberta families are earning healthy paychecks that they can use to buy groceries and fill up their gas tanks and buy their kids hockey equipment or save for the future.
00:37:08.500Under the leadership of our finance minister, Nate Horner, we will be unveiling a plan this fall to grow Alberta's heritage fund to well over $250 billion by 2050 so that we, our children and our grandchildren can continue to live in the lowest tax province in the country
00:37:25.520and be free from future reliance on non-renewable resource revenues
00:37:46.540We're eliminating wasteful spending and ensuring that government expenditures
00:37:49.760are kept well below the rate of inflation plus population growth
00:37:53.260while focusing precious dollars on your family's core priorities like health care and education.
00:37:59.400And one of the main reasons we're working so hard in this regard is because our goal as a government
00:38:03.900is to help Albertans deal with the federal liberal NDP inflation crisis by implementing the full
00:38:09.960750 per taxpayer personal income tax cut promised in this past election. Now quite frankly when we're
00:38:18.380doing well we need to make sure that you're doing well. The money should be put back in the pockets
00:38:22.140of Albertans because you know how to spend it better than government ever can now there is a
00:38:33.260group of politicians that definitely does not believe that you know how to spend your money
00:38:38.080better than they do and that would be the Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh NDP liberal government
00:38:44.860in Ottawa in fact they believe they know how to run Alberta better than Albertans do they have
00:38:50.740thrown every imaginable roadblock in Alberta's way. They have done all they can to cripple our
00:38:55.920oil and gas and agriculture sectors. Whether it's C-69 or the emissions cap or their absurd freeze
00:39:02.760in the dark electricity regulations or the new green censoring law, they just have a general
00:39:08.820strategy of sowing endless uncertainty for international investors. You name it. Justin
00:39:14.860Trudeau, Stephen Guibault and their band of woke MPs have done everything they can to shut down
00:39:19.500canada's and alberta's most economically important industry as quickly as possible
00:39:24.860but guess what my friends they have failed
00:39:37.580alberta's economy is booming and we aren't slowing down for any liberals or new democrats
00:39:42.540in Ottawa or any new Democrats here in Alberta for that matter.
00:39:51.180We will build new pipelines, oil and gas facilities, petrochemical plants,
00:39:55.340hydrogen plants and more because Alberta is an energy superpower and
00:40:00.060that's another thing we will not apologize for either.
00:40:02.940and let me be clear we are not phasing out any of our oil and gas industry in fact we're going
00:40:14.680to unapologetically double our oil and gas production and we'll lower the emissions the
00:40:25.780smart way through technology and by sending more of our clean oil and natural gas to Asia and the
00:40:30.800United States, and Stephen Kimbo can throw as many temper tantrums and concoct as many
00:40:36.260green schemes as he wants, we are not going to budge an inch, ever.
00:40:46.900We've already invoked the Sovereignty Act against Justin Trudeau's reckless and unaffordable
00:40:51.6802035 net zero electricity regulations, which we will not enforce in Alberta, and we will
00:40:57.340use this legislation against the NDP Liberal Coalition's pending oil and gas production cap
00:41:02.520if and when it's introduced. In fact, we will unreservedly continue to use the Sovereignty
00:41:08.260Act without reservation as a shield from Ottawa's damaging and hostile policies whenever and
00:41:13.900wherever Albertans need us to. And we are also standing up to the NDP Liberal Coalition and
00:41:24.740courts where to be frank we're also kicking the stuffing out of them we beat them on bill c69
00:41:30.420what we know of as the no new new pipelines bill and their foolhardy attempt to blend
00:41:35.540ban single-use plastics we have to take that one to the next level before you can get plastic
00:41:39.220straws back but we won on the first round and we announced yeah and we announced earlier this week
00:41:47.380that we've launched a challenge of the unequal application of the federal carbon tax in the
00:41:52.180the Maritimes, and we will be bringing additional lawsuits against the federal Liberal government
00:41:56.740in the coming months to shove the Liberal NDP coalition, Justin Trudeau and Stephen
00:42:00.580Guibo, where they belong, back into their lanes and well out of Albertans' business.0.99
00:42:12.420We are hammering the feds on their outrageous electricity policies, their energy production
00:42:17.460They are soft on crime policies and more, and we will continue to do so until Justin Trudeau is replaced by Pierre Polyev and his team in 2025.
00:42:32.460We will fight them for every single inch, every single day, because Albertans come first. Period.
00:42:39.460Now, my dear friends, like you, everyone of our UCP MLAs and I am here today because we love Alberta so very much.
00:42:49.460And we want to make sure the Alberta Advantage is kept alive and strong for generations to come.
00:42:54.460We are on the right path. Alberta is safer and stronger and freer today,
00:43:00.460thanks to the work that you and our United Conservative Government are doing together, and we've only just begun.
00:43:07.460So let us remain united as a party and as a movement.
00:43:12.200Advocate loudly through our party policy process and our constituency associations
00:43:17.080and hold accountable our MLAs, most especially me, to keep us on track.
00:43:22.620But let us not sink to the level of our opponents by attacking and vilifying one another
00:43:28.520or breaking into factions and working.
00:44:07.460Thank you. You're feeling it too. We are a family. We are a loud and raucous and opinionated family, but we are a great family nonetheless.
00:44:21.340Our opponents, whether that be in the NDP in Alberta or the Liberals in Ottawa, have no chance to defeat us when we, as a party, are strong, unified, and boldly governing our province.
00:44:34.220And that it made Alberta, with the values that we have, made Alberta a beacon of hope and freedom and prosperity to all the world.