Ezra Levant returns after surgery to critique Alberta’s election, where NDP premier Rachel Notley—back from 2015–2019—faces UCP leader Danielle Smith, whom he calls "kooky" and linked to extremists. Media outlets like CBC downplayed NDP protests at a UCP event, where activists disrupted security, while mainstream press ignored past conservative restrictions. The UCP’s concrete plans—8% tax bracket for low earners, 25% senior cuts, and 1,400 credentialed nurses—contrast with the NDP’s reactive policies, exposing ideological media bias. Rebel News remains independent despite government-funded attacks, proving critical journalism faces unequal treatment. [Automatically generated summary]
Joining me live from Calgary is Adam Sosen from Edmonton, Sheila Gunrid, our chief reporter.
It's great to be back.
I was away for too many days.
I had some elective surgery.
Nothing too worried.
Don't worry about it.
I was just getting my mouth stretched so I can say bigger words and snack a little more.
Sheila, how are you doing out there?
I'm doing great, Boss.
Glad to see that you're better.
And I know my email was full of people concerned about you, but I did my best to reassure them.
And I think they're going to be glad to see you back in the baby chair.
Well, I'm glad to be back.
And it's nothing to worry about.
I don't want to give away too many personal details because, first of all, they're gross.
But, you know, I have no terminal illness.
I just, you know, it's just taking the car into the shop to get things tidied up a little bit.
And I know a lot of people have been really, really saying, Ezra, if you get some major plastic surgery, we will pay for it.
But I've always resisted that.
I'm just joking around with all these dumb jokes.
Adam, how are you doing out West?
Oh, I'm doing wonderful.
And it's great to see.
I can tell it's the Julia Roberts smile extension that you've gotten this day.
You know what?
By the way, I'm really, I have not had a smile extension.
I'm just telling you, like the Joker, you know, like I'm just making dumb excuse.
I had some oral surgery, but it was not to pretty fy me.
It was anyhow.
But I won't even talk anymore about it because no one cares.
But I'm glad to be here because holy moly, are we in the thick of it?
Alberta is having an election.
I really do think it's important.
Every election is important.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the thing is, Rachel Notley, the socialist NDP premier, who sort of won an accidental victory in 2015 and for the next four years just torched the province.
It was saved by Jason Kenney.
And then lo and behold, look what he went and did.
And so now there's a rematch.
Rachel Notley's back.
She has the credibility of, well, I was premier once before and you're still around.
So you can imagine me being premier and I'm the devil you know.
And this Danielle Smith, well, she's she's kooky and she's radical and she talks to extremists.
And it's true she has a different, Danielle Smith has a different style.
She's not, I don't think the word gravitas comes to mind when I think Danielle Smith.
I think interesting, interested, libertarian.
I think she's a great communicator most of the time, but it's those times when maybe she's not that get her in trouble.
And so oddly enough, Rachel Notley, the devil you know, I think has some advantages.
Of course, she has an enormous disadvantage.
She's a socialist in the freedom-lovingest province.
Adam, how long until Election Day?
What is the election day?
What are it?
18.
It's the 29th.
So we're closing in quick.
Two and a half weeks away.
I know you've been at events.
Sheila, I'll come to you in a moment.
But Adam, what's it like on the campaign trail?
First of all, let me ask you a question.
Have you even been allowed in to NDP events or did they keep you out because you ask prickly questions?
Well, you know, there's been a concerted effort definitely to limit people's access to that information.
And it's not just us.
There's journalists from left-wing outlets that haven't been able to get these media pressers like the Edmonton Journal.
They go out of their way to ensure that these locations aren't made public.
Even last night, I headed out to an event and the initial location I got there, fortunately, I always arrive at these things probably about half an hour early.
And there's a tiny little sign saying that they've moved to a different location because of the weather.
Well, you get to the other location, and clearly this was not a last-minute thing.
They've got stages set up, and everybody knows about this.
So they're going out of their way to ensure people don't get in.
Now, obviously, we know Alex, one of our journalists, was kicked out of an event.
People haven't been allowed to ask questions.
There's been quite a bit of scandal on that front, certainly.
But I was actually quite hopeful last night because quite recently, Rachel Notley said, No, no, no, actually, I'm going to be taking questions from everybody.
I think we might even have a clip of that.
But she's like, I'm going to take questions from everybody except Western Standard because there's sort of an unresolved issue there.
So I'm like, okay, maybe she's realized that there is such a backlash.
So I show up at this event last night.
I walk in, I ask where questions will be, and if a follow-up will be permitted, kind of making a joke about Danielle Smith not allowing follow-ups.
They tell me where I can set up my camera.
They're telling me, Yep, this is the spot you're going to go for questions.
Everything's great.
Then as the event's unfolding, it gets to the question period.
While I walk over to ask my question, an NDP person who's been working on the campaign, I don't know if he's a staffer, I don't know if he's a volunteer, but he's intentionally blocking my camera, knowing that I've walked away from it now.
And you actually have a CTV camera person giving him a bit of an earful about moving.
And he says he knows he's blocking my camera.
He doesn't care.
I go back to ask my question.
And right as they're about to hand me the mic, they just go, We're actually not taking questions from Rebel News now.
Apparently, now Rebel News is the outlet they don't take questions from.
And then they just say, No further questions from journalists.
And they end the event and Rachel runs out.
So it's not just the fact, we've seen this with Justin Trudeau before, that they won't take questions, but it's the fact that Rachel Notley is campaigning, saying Danielle Smith, who's answered half a dozen questions from us, they're saying she's hiding while Rachel Notley's pulling stunts like this.
You know what?
I saw that clip the other day where they said, we'll talk to anyone except for Western Standard because they have committed hate speech against our candidates.
Hey, I know a little bit about hate speech.
Section 319 of the criminal code defines hate speech.
I think they're calling any criticism, any political criticism, any skeptical journalism hate speech.
It's just so insane.
But even if we take that insanity at face value, okay, that's Western Standard.
You work for Rebel News.
They let you in, but then they physically block you.
You say we have footage of that?
So with setting up the camera, a Western Standard journalist was there and they filmed it and we're efforting to get that footage.
We do have footage of the person intentionally blocking my camera.
Take a look at that.
That's so childish, so passive.
Oh, we don't, I'm hearing.
Yeah, they're working on the editor right now.
This is late.
That is crazy.
That is a child's move.
Oh, you can come in, but nana boo-boo.
You can't hear me.
You can't hear.
I got my hands over my ears.
And I'm going to block your camera.
I'm going to block your camera.
I'm going to block you.
You're welcome.
Free speech.
Yeah, we respect journalists.
We're blocking you.
And you're saying CTV actually said, What are you doing?
So CTV was so grossed out by this, even they commented.
This is commonplace on the campaign trail.
There's been instances where they know the sort of rough ride we get.
For example, at the last UCPA event, I was about fourth in line, and everybody just took a step back and sort of waved me through as in, let's get you to ask your views.
So other journalists actually are so, well, that is an innovation.
I mean, sometimes other journalists aren't particularly friendly towards Rebel News.
But if you're saying that other journalists are so grossed out by this that they actually part like the Red Sea to allow you to go to the microphone is interesting.
Well, let me ask you one last question before I go to Sheila.
Adam, what you described suggests that there is some disgruntlement of even the media party who used to be gruntled and now they're disgruntled.
And what I want to ask you is if any of this is showing up in their publicity in their published work.
And the reason I say that is, you know, it's one thing for them to say, oh, we don't like what's happening to you.
But I think that's a legitimate news story.
It certainly would be if the shoe was on the other foot.
If it was Danielle Smith or Doug Ford or the old Stephen Harper who was playing those games.
So the other media are being nice to you because they're grossed up.
So that's the guy standing in front of you right now.
Yeah.
And towards the end here, right here, that's where the CTV guy, it's very quiet.
I'm sure he'll be able to pull it off our mics.
The CTV guy right now, when he leans out, is giving him a bit of an earful.
And then he says, oh, I don't care.
I'm not blocking an earshot, but I want to block his shot.
He said that.
The CTV guy looks at me with a look of just absolute disgust in his face.
And he says, I'm sorry, man.
I tried.
I raised my tripod and whatever.
It's not the end of the world.
But the CTV guy was just shaking his head.
Similarly, one of the other journalists who they kind of acted like they were going to hand me the mic and gave it to her.
She was a young lady.
I'm a gentleman.
Go first by all means.
But when she went to hand me the mic next and they grabbed it, the look on her face was of disgust.
On the Trudeau campaign, I think that there was, we did get some condescension.
Some of the camera people would look down at us when we were covering the federal election.
I think the media at that point was definitely still bought in.
But I think it's shifting.
But to your point, being a little bit sort of disgruntled, off the record, giving a nod, moving your camera rigs.
I mean, these guys will move their massive camera rigs so I can get my little cell phone in and get a shot at these events.
You can tell based on their actions, they're disgruntled.
But they're still state funded.
The bosses are still going to allow a message.
So to your question, Ezra, I don't think that there has been enough outspoken criticism.
We do see these rare instances where journalists will ask tough questions, where they will sort of push back a little bit.
I feel like the tide is changing, but we need more of these journalists to take a stand to maybe boycott a couple NDP events if they're not going to allow people to ask questions.
Because being nice to me, while that makes my heart feel warm and fuzzy, and it makes me realize that I'm not crazy and these people are the bad guys.
Well, it doesn't really change things.
It just makes me feel good, which that's great, but it doesn't really matter ultimately when we're dealing with an election that's, as you mentioned, two and a half weeks out.
Sheila, I know you've got a lot of things to say about this.
Let me invite you in and I'm going to, I'm just going to ask, actually, let me just spit out one super quick question.
Do you know the name of that NDP staffer who was blocking you?
Was that just like some ordinary NDP or was that like a press secretary?
Yeah, we don't know, but he, there's a gentleman, I don't know his last name, Mike, who is an NDP staffer and introduced himself as such.
I'm sure it'd be very easy to find.
He was talking to this guy quite regularly.
And when Rachel Notley, it's funny, when Rachel Notley was entering, he was the person sort of blocking people and ensuring that he wasn't.
So he's an NDP staffer.
He's not just some NDP volunteer at the very, very least.
Isn't that funny?
We will find out.
And he's so childish about it.
I remember federally, Terry Guillaume, who works for Justin Trudeau, physically slammed young Kian Bexy, who was working for us at the time, like elbowed him like the thug that he was.
So we call Terry Guillaume a thug, which he is and was.
But this little, you know, vegan, you know, he's going to come up with a bunch of left-wing insults, but I'm going to think better of that.
This low testosterone, passive aggressive.
Passive aggressive.
You know what?
I mean, like, he doesn't even have the balls to slam you.
I mean, I've seen you in person, Adam.
That would be a fool's errand to physically tussle with Adam Sos, who can bench press, I'm guessing, North at 300.
But so he just blocks you like a child.
So perfectly NDP.
All right, Sheila, I've taken enough time yammering.
Why don't you weigh in on these shenanigans and then we're going to show what happened to Danielle Smith yesterday?
Okay, but before I weigh in, I have to do some housekeeping because we are 60 minutes into the show and we haven't even told people how they can get involved.
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So, I think those are the nuts and bolts.
Now, to answer Ezra's question about me weighing in, I think it's really interesting that the NDP, like two weeks ago, they were losing their ever-loving minds, and the mainstream media were doing the same thing too about how it was an attack on democracy, an attack on accountability, an attack on the free press.
When Danielle Smith said, Hey, you know what?
These press conferences are getting a little out of hand.
We're going to limit the journalists to one question, no follow-up.
All journalists, not just the NDP ones or the, you know, the Trudeau colonized ones, but everybody's getting one question, no follow-up.
And I think it had something to do with the fact that CBC sends like a gajillion journalists, and then they send French-language journalists.
And Postmedia is basically in charge of the media here in Alberta because it's Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, National Post, and a lot of the smaller weeklies in your community newspapers.
Those are all post-media.
So, what you had was like all these journalists from these two companies showing up and asking the same question in English and French.
And so, nobody else is getting a question.
So, she limited them to just one, and everybody lost their minds.
Um, and so now the same journalists, now, as like Adam says, there's some pushback, but I think you would think you would expect there would be more pushback from the mainstream media who were bawling their eyes out on Twitter two weeks ago because Danielle Smith limited them to one question when they see time after time,
not only Western Standard, but Counter Signal and Rebel News being physically blocked, physically removed from these, being called out from the podium, accused of hate speech by Rachel Notley.
They should all be speaking up.
It shouldn't be just some silent cameraman who sees what's happening to Adam in person.
They should be whining and crying just as loud on Twitter now as they were before when they were limited to just one question.
I'm very concerned, though, that not that I'm concerned that there are a lot of new people in Alberta.
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Alberta's calling, move, come here for jobs and opportunity.
But I think Rachel Notley is relying on the fact that there are so many new people in Alberta that they don't have the same memory of her dark days in power that the rest of us do, including her attack on the free press.
Because I think it was early 2016, maybe late 2015, when Rachel Notley threw me out of the legislature.
I was going there to report on a joint press conference being held between her and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
I think it had something to do with the carbon tax, if I recall correctly.
She threw me out of the legislature.
And what ensued from that was an inquiry, which resulted in what's known as the Boyd Report, which basically told Rachel Notley, sorry, you don't have the right to throw journalists out of government press conferences.
She's getting away with it right now because she's not in government.
But if Albertans are paying attention, this is a harbinger of things to come.
If they send her back to the premier's office in some sort of bout of collective madness, she's going to be blocking everybody from her press conferences except for her favorites.
That's what's going to come.
She's going to do it again.
And we know from our treatment by the press gallery in Alberta that there will be nobody from the media landscape standing in our defense.
Yeah.
They're so authoritarian, they don't really hide it anymore.
They don't have to.
I remember when you tried to go into the legislature, you had permission to do so.
Rachel Notley sent a sheriff with a gun.
I had already, I had previously reached out to the head of the press gallery at the time.
It was Darcy Henton, who worked for Postmedia.
He said, yeah, yeah, just clear security and come on in.
Notley had different ideas because she knew that I was probably going to be the only journalist there asking her a critical question about the carbon tax and embarrassing her in front of Justin Trudeau.
So she couldn't have that.
They threw me off the grounds altogether.
But it's much different now because the press gallery doesn't even want us to join.
Yeah.
So we're not going to get the same defense.
You know, there was a brief period in time when journalists cared about independence and freedom of speech.
I mean, I know I'm very, very old, but when I published the Danish cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad in February of 2006, I think it was.
I know that sounds so long ago.
Okay, it was 17 years ago.
That's not 100 years ago.
That's not 50 years ago.
Every single journalist I spoke to for the following year, and I talked to 100, every single journalist except for one was supportive, including CBC radio.
Like no one was for my censorship.
And in fact, you might recall there was a pollster back then called Compass, which was, you know, quite famous back then.
I don't know if it's operating now.
They did not just a poll, they did a survey of working journalists.
Like they called up working journalists.
So it wasn't even like a general opinion poll.
And they said, what should be done?
And 70% of working journalists at the time said, not only should I and Western Standard Magazine, which I then ran, have published those Danish cartoons, but every media should.
Think of that.
In 17 years, we've gone from 70% of journalists saying, not only was Western Standard Ezra right to publish those cartoons, we should have done so also.
We've gone from that to woke, cancel culture, deplatform people we disagree with, block people.
In not even a generation, absolute mad.
And I ascribe part of it to the fact that they have been rented by Justin Trudeau and they're absorbing his ideology.
But of course, in 17 years, you pump out a whole new generation of woke journalism students.
I mean, listen, if the National Post, which was started, and I was there in the early days, I was there.
You want to know how old I was, 25 years ago, I went to work for National Poster just under 25 years ago.
It was right-wing.
It was led by John O'Sullivan and Conrad Black.
And now, a couple years ago, the majority of their working newsrooms signed a petition to cancel Rex Murphy.
Like they were not only, they were so cowardly they bent the knee to the Wokerati, but so brave in their cowardice that they were willing to publicly sign a letter condemning the star columnists of the newspaper because he said Canada is not systemically racist.
Every white journalist who signed that was terrified they would be canceled next if they didn't join the mob.
And it was such a disgrace.
That's how far we've fallen.
So why wouldn't the NDP be but before we move on from the National Post, let us not forget that they are the single largest recipient of Trudeau's bailout box.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, very, very frustrating.
If I may, I just wanted to also, obviously, I think Justin Trudeau is the leading contributing factor.
He's also a symptom of a society.
But I also wanted to point out the sort of double standard.
Like what Justin Trudeau has done to the media is what Rachel Notley is doing to the media.
And Sheila hit the nail right on the head.
They don't want real journalists there.
I want to remind people that I don't think anybody in this province held the UCP as accountable as we did here at the Alberta Bureau for Rebel News.
We were as critical as anybody.
We asked many of the tough questions that very likely contributed to the fact that Jason Kenney is no longer leader.
I drove a Shaman Chandra Trump truck up to his Stampede breakfast, pulled in and played footage of pastors being arrested.
And despite this, he understands that that was a point being made and journalism criticizing him for his failure in governance.
And now he's doing some good things on firearms.
So he will stand there and do an interview with me because he understands, as imperfect as the UCP is, he understands that that's the role of journalism.
That's the role of media.
It's absolutely shocking to see how far we have slipped and how these progressive media outlet, or sorry, these progressive political parties think themselves exempt from the criticisms of journalists.
Yeah.
If anyone thinks Rebel News does not challenge conservatives, they should ask the late Premier Jason Kenney or Doug Ford or Aaron O'Toole or Andrew Scheer, almost forgot his name.
I mean, we are truly independent.
And to this day, I think the MPs who are more scared of us are conservatives.
Liberals aren't really scared of us.
They just ignore us or block us.
Conservative politicians are scared of us because we have a strong connection with their voters because people trust us to be ideologically coherent and not to sell out.
We don't sell out to anyone.
We don't suck up to anyone.
Well, and they know when the criticism is coming from us, it's honest criticism.
It's not criticism that's been bought and paid for by Justin Trudeau.
They know that we are being honest critics of them because they are not acting like conservatives.
And so it stings.
It has an extra level of pain.
Yeah, when we criticize liberals, they love it.
They say, look, who hates us?
Rebel News, those crazy right-wingers.
It's a dog bites man story.
But when we criticize a conservative, it's a man bites dog story because, oh, how often do you see conservative media criticizing conservatives?
That's one of the reasons we're trusted, in my opinion, is because I don't think there's anyone in the country who genuinely thinks we are in the pocket of Pierre Polyev, Doug Ford, Danielle Smith.
I'm trying to list nominal conservative politicians.
No one thinks we're in their pocket because every day we prove we're not.
So that's 27 minutes of preamble for what happened yesterday.
Yes.
Because yesterday, and I don't want to overreact.
I don't want to be a nervous knowing the sky is falling.
I don't want to be like those British soccer players, European soccer players, who someone looked at them wrong and then they do this dramatic thespian, you know, oh my God, I'm mortally injured.
Someone looked at me.
You know, I don't want to be like a European soccer player feigning an injury.
But let's show, Olivia.
Let's show what I think can only be called the storming.
Maybe not a hurricane category five, more like a category two storm, but it was storming.
These dirty tricksters stormed an event, and I'm going to watch it very carefully because I understand that they shoved a cop.
One was restrained by, like, this is not prickly journalism.
This is not journalism at all.
This is the premier of the province having her event stormed.
And you're not even going to believe what I'm about to say.
One of the stormers, De Sturmer, was an NDP candidate from the last federal election, Patrick King, I believe was his name, no relation to the trucker.
And another was Aaron, oh shoot, I just forgot his last name, a labor union organizer who has worked in the past on labor projects with Rachel Notley's husband.
So you've got a labor union organizer who knows Mr. Notley, Lou Arabs' name, and an NDP candidate from the federal election 2021.
Like these people are so brazen, they didn't even outsource this dirty tricksterism to some college kid.
They did it themselves.
Without further ado, take a look.
And let's play this once and then maybe we'll even play it and pause in key moments a second time.
Take a look.
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We saw your video about buying hospitals.
Check it out.
We've got a bid offer.
Yeah, this is a great opportunity for everybody in Alberta.
Man, anything to say?
Man, no?
You had a lot to say about this not so long ago.
Man, Vinyl?
Hospital for sale?
Anything?
Yeah, you had a whole show to talk about this.
We will not sell our arms and legs for hospitals.
Hospitals should be public.
They're going to cost.
That's not going to let me sell it though, aren't they?
You've already privatized lab services.
How does it end?
Video silence, eh?
That's all good.
No.
We got all day.
Yeah, we're here for a first era.
It's all for silent.
Where's the security?
Yeah, how did this go on this long?
Yeah, so basically what happened was security moved, because one of the big concerns is they pretty much rushed, and I don't want to get into gender politics, but one, the Premier of Alberta, two, a lady and intimidated her, both things I have problems with.
But security effectively enveloped her and moved her off to the side.
It should cut over.
If nothing else, I do have a shot, I think it's going to be here in a second, of them over to the side with the premier ensuring that she's safe.
And then basically at that point, it is shocking that they got in and they got that far.
I believe it was Becca Pollock at that point said, you've made your point.
Get out of here.
We're going to proceed.
Danielle Smith was saying, you know what?
I'm going to answer the question, but get out of here and then I'll talk about it.
At that point, yeah, there's a shot of me capturing the action.
But then staff from the hotel actually came in and said, we're going to call the police.
You will be charged with trespassing.
And at that point, they left.
So they clearly, these weren't just random people.
They understood that sort of nuance of being formally informed that you're trespassing.
At that point, they left pretty quickly.
They were saying, we've got all day, we're not going anywhere.
The second that language came up and the facility said this is a private facility, that's when they cleared out.
Yeah.
Can we watch it again?
And I don't know if it's possible to play it slow or if it just pauses.
I want to watch this thing from the beginning.
If you want to, yeah, play it at a quarter feedback, a quarter speed.
I just want to watch it.
Yeah.
I had a tough time seeing anything besides that guy's gut hanging out of the bottom of his shirt.
Okay.
So go ahead and play it at a quarter speed.
And then just let them go for some longer?
Just let him go.
Okay, so play it again.
I want to see the premier being whisked away.
Go back to the beginning, if you please.
Thanks for your help.
Go back to the beginning.
I just want to, what's the very first part we can spot?
Is she even at the mic at this point, or was she rushed?
It looks like she was not at the mic anymore.
Looks like they maybe whisked her away right away.
And some guy's running in the back.
someone who looks like security is pushing the the the bearded guy away but then oh so it looks like maybe the premier was yeah so you can see behind them they took the premier away and then they left them here so So thanks very much.
We don't need to see anymore.
So what we have here is a bunch of middle-aged guys storming a stage with, it looks like three women were there, the premier and two other women.
Apparently the other women defend for themselves.
They'll protect the premier, but those other women are expendable.
I think it is right to take the premier away.
I mean, she is the protective person here, but why did they let these other blokes free?
Listen, I'm not a security expert, and I suppose they were clearly not being violent at this point.
But why did that guy not escort him out of the room?
I don't quite know.
Well, you know, I think that go ahead, go ahead.
No, no, no.
I was just going to say, like, they tackle him and they just let him go.
Like, you don't even know what this guy has in his pockets, what he's going to do.
I found it, you know, kind of weird to see, okay, they grab him.
He obviously is willing to wrestle a cop.
Yeah.
And they just let him go stand by these ladies who are sort of, I guess, shell-shocked.
What I can tell you, though, is if you toss a little bit of gravel in the general direction of the prime minister, you're going to be flattened like a pancake and taken away in handcuffs.
And these guys were treated with kid gloves.
And I want to know why.
Yeah, I wonder if some anti-mask or anti-vax protesters would have wrestled with a cop like that if they would be caught and released within seconds and let go without criminal charge.
Yeah, you know, right now in Calgary, there's a pastor named Derek Reimer who merely for being near extreme cross-dressing, what's a drag queen story hour, has done what, three weeks in prison, just for being near them.
And here you have people breaking in, threatening the premier physically, wrestling with cops.
And okay, guys, no problem.
See you next time.
NDP.
Have your say.
They let them have their say and even argue back and forth.
Yeah.
And so, Shu, on the other foot, what would have happened had three Burley men stormed an event with Christia Freeland or what's her name, Catherine McKenna, the former environment minister, or right on the other side?
We don't have to wonder.
That guy in Grand Prairie yelled at Christia Freeland and they investigated him for a hate crime.
I remember exactly the case you're talking about.
They merely hollered.
He merely hollered at her, not disrupting an event.
NDP Activists and Media Coverage00:04:48
And it was a five-alarm fire nationally.
And that's what's incredible.
I'm going to do my show on this tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern Time for those who subscribe.
Point one is that these were not random people.
These were senior NDP activists.
Point two, this is how they're deployed to Danielle Smith's events, but you even go in as a polite reporter, as Sheila and Adam were saying, and you're not allowed to ask questions at all as a polite reporter.
Point three, the media coverage.
Do we have a clip of the CBC's coverage?
Why don't we play that?
I have not actually watched it yet, but I understand which of the media says it's a minor drama.
Horn honking will throw the country under martial law because someone honked their horn meanly, in a mean way, and you can tell.
But yeah, oh, what was that?
Is that the Toronto Star there?
The Toronto Star called this a minor drama.
Why don't you get over yourselves, you guys?
What kind of a country do we have if you're not allowed to storm an event and drive the premier herself off the podium?
What kind of country do we live in if we're not allowed to do that?
Says the Toronto Star that called for the lockdown of 40 million of us because of some truckers honking.
Okay, yeah, I think you've got it there.
Let's take a look at the CBC piece together.
I haven't watched this yet.
Let's take a look at what Trudeau's CBC State broadcaster that can't shut up about microaggressions and genderizing things.
And what do they have to say about a couple of white dudes, middle-aged, burly white dudes?
Normally, those are the hated people in the CBC.
But let's see what they have to say today.
Take a look.
Oscar, never knocked.
Oscar not for sale.
Okay, so I'm not already.
I don't know if you're an officer sale.
We saw your video about buying hospitals.
Check it out.
You got a paid offer.
A UCB campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today.
Party candidate Pamela Rath was cut off mid-speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs.
One of them reading the Rocky View Hospital is up for sale.
The announcement was paused as the protesters were ushered off stage.
As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.
Thanks for staying up with us.
I'm Rob Brown.
So as you just saw, concern over the privatization of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out.
It stems from a video from a couple of years ago where Danielle Smith spoke about potential reforms to Alberta's health system.
Our Joel Dryden has the details in our top story.
We're right here.
She's going to say anything we should be interrupting.
Their protest ties back to an NDP event on Wednesday and a 2021 video of Danielle Smith.
It's a structure issue.
In the video, Smith suggests if AHS isn't meeting terms, then the province could issue a request for proposals for private entities to run hospitals while remaining publicly funded.
Fiona Clement specializes in health policy at the University of Calgary.
She says such an idea would be possible.
It's the same kind of model as the thing with the private surgical delivery system.
I mean, she's absolutely correct in her interpretation of what's allowable and what's possible.
Clement notes, that's not to say anything about how effective or controversial such a model might be.
So I should let you know that it was Danielle Smith who pushed them to do this.
That's what the CBC tells us.
Yes.
She caused.
Pushing them to act out.
They're just acting out.
Yeah.
You guys.
They should never have been provoked.
And by the way, they never disclose that these, quote, protesters are senior NDP activists.
I just sent you, Olivia, the CBC headlines you have there.
A group.
They also didn't do.
They also didn't do one other thing.
They said the NDP condemned the protest, but they didn't say that the NDP inspired it and tweeted out exactly the location so that not only protesters would go there, which I think they were already organized by the NDP, if I had to speculate, but they were hoping that other ones would go too, because the NDP tweeted out the location of this event and CBC also refused to disclose that.
You know, we're talking about very serious matters here.
Brian's Embarrassing Hat Incident00:08:19
It certainly would be a national crisis if the shoe were on the other foot.
Imagine if some dirty tricksters in their 40s and 50s from the UCP stormed a Notley event, one of whom was a former candidate, one of whom was a senior organizer.
Would it be treated in that way?
But I want to show you, see that guy there, Patrick King, and you see he's wearing that hat there.
I just can't let that go, that hat.
And Olivia, I don't want to play too much of it, but I have to show you a sketch by Tim Robinson about that goddamn hat.
So show the hat one more time that Pat King was wearing, if you'd please.
And I thank you for this indulgence.
Adam, I know you're more serious than this.
And Sheila, but you see that hat there?
See that hat?
No, yeah.
He's wearing that hat.
And you see that picture there of him?
That picture is a picture that he chose.
He preferred the one on the right.
He preferred that photo over others, and he's got the hat there.
I want to play for you one or two minutes of Tim Robinson telling you a little bit more about that hat.
I sent you the link in the camera inside a trading truck.
Inside a trailing truck.
Take a look.
Incidents to me.
Ms. Hovel, do you recognize these texts?
I do.
Vincent, it's done.
I talked to Dan.
We're good, Bree.
Loose ends.
Vincent, we're all good.
About to be way better.
Bree.
Smiley face emoji.
Vincent, did you see Brian's hat?
He's still fucking wearing it.
What the hell?
Bree.
Yes, I even saw two cubes in his pocket.
I think he has dice, but he's afraid to show them to anyone.
What the hell is he even talking about?
Vincent, L-O-L.
That is so sad.
Bree, so sad.
So sad.
So, sad.
Vincent, it's so heartbreaking, but I can't stop laughing.
Tears are literally streaming down my face, thinking about his dumb dice.
Bree, just wired the money.
Vincent, holy fucking shit.
Brian's hat just got him in huge trouble in a meeting.
God damn it.
Mr. Andrews made Brian take off his hat.
He said it was distracting.
He said if anyone disagreed, he'd let Brian keep the hat on.
Nobody said shit, dude.
Nobody said shit.
Bree, what did he do when Mr. Andrews made him take it off?
Vincent, he took the hat off and he hid his head in his hands.
You could tell he was crying.
He kept saying under his breath, you can't fucking do that.
Then Mr. Andrews said, what's that, Brian?
And he said nothing.
And then a minute later, he said, it's not a distraction.
The guy at the store said, I'm the only guy he's ever seen pull it off.
Mr. Andrews asked him how much it cost and he said, it's illegal for you to ask me that.
And Brian said, I'm putting the hat back on.
I don't care what happens to me.
Mr. Andrews said, just take the hat off, Brian.
No, I'm not taking the fucking hat off.
And he stood up and said, I've never fought for anything in my entire life.
I'm fighting for this hat.
He went to slam his hand down on the table, but he hit his water bottle and it spilled all over his laptop.
And then I swear to fucking God, he tried to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire, but the back flap got trapped around Rick's wheelchair.
And then it took him forever to get the flap out of the wheelchair.
He was fucking beat red.
I thought he was going to have a heart attack.
One of the flaps got wheel grease on it.
And he said, what the fuck is all this stuff?
You have to grease these wheels.
And Rick said, yeah, you have to keep the wheels lubricated.
And he said, yeah, well, I'm not supposed to get grease on this hat.
And Brenda was just sitting there slightly in his way towards the door.
And as he walked towards her, he said, move.
And right when he said it, he realized he had gone too far.
So he said in a jokey voice, who said that?
Don't do the voice.
Objection relevance.
Dollar sign emoji.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
That is based on the life story.
I think that's actually a dramatic reenactment of Pat King, the NDP.
Hashtag hat life.
Yeah.
I think the most poignant line there and what Patrick King was hanging on to was the guy at the store said, I'm the only person he'd ever seen pull it off.
Yeah.
We have to pull my mic audio from the event because one of the super serious, I think it was like CBC or Global Camera People was just roasting the dude's hat the entire time while this protest was unfolding.
Listen, I'm laughing.
That comedian, by the way, is Tim Robinson, and he's got a Netflix show.
I forget what it's called.
What's this series called?
Something like, Can You Please Leave, Sir?
It's got a great, it's got a great.
Let me just look that up.
Well, I've got tears in my eyes.
Are you sure?
And he's got so many little, yeah, I think it's called, I think you should leave.
And if you like that kind of humor, you will love that channel.
I am tempted to show you more, but I instead, I will just encourage you to watch.
I think you should leave with Tim Robinson.
There is some profanity, as you can see, but if you're fine with that, you'll laugh very hard.
Now, we've been laughing for five minutes because Patrick King of the NDP is such a loser.
I'm not saying you can't wear a hat.
My dear friend David Menzies wears a hat, and I think it suits him.
Cowboy hats, there's some people for whom it's a fixture.
I got good friends who wear ball caps all the time, and I get it.
Tim Poole, part of his persona is that toque he wears, or beanie, as they call it in America.
I'm not anti-hat, but when you are sort of a young guy wearing a fedora like that in that way, it looks like he got the safari fat flaps at the time.
Then I can mock you because you look at that picture of him.
Look at his official biography picture.
Did he think there were going to be elephants there yesterday?
Like, why is he dressed like that?
It was cloudy in Calgary yesterday, wasn't it?
Wasn't he to wait to keep the sun off his head?
None of that.
He's the only one he's ever seen pull it off.
Okay, I'm now going to stop with the joke.
Forgive me.
I just couldn't look at that hat without showing you that Tim Robinson sketch, which I thought was a masterpiece.
But that's probably a good spot.
I think the studio's probably screaming at us for a bit of an ad break, right?
Ad break.
Yeah, all right.
Well, you know what?
When we come back, I want to be serious, though.
I'm just laughing at what an idiot that NDP is.
Yes.
Because I'm laughing, because it's funny.
But I swear on a stack of Bibles, if the shoe was on the other foot, if it was some weird hat wearing, first of all, you'd hear the word incel for the rest of the time.
Oh, yeah.
If that weird hat wearing safari flap fedora guy with the dice in his pocket stormed a Rachel Notley event or any other event with a woman on the left, he'd be in jail right now.
And by the way, I've never been a prisoner in jail, but I've attended jail for other reasons to visit and as a lawyer once, actually.
They take the dice away from you and they take your hat away from you when you check in.
So Patrick King would not have his beloved hat, as we know from Pastor Coates, Pastor Arthur, Pastor Reimer.
When all the Christian pastors are thrown in prison for much less than that, they don't get to take their fedora with the safari flaps or their D ⁇ D dice to jail with them.
On that note, let's see some commercials and we'll come right back.
Attitude Matters00:05:40
Yeah, stick in that break.
Thanks.
Today, many journalists are really just advocates for woke ideology.
They don't report the facts and they simply don't care about our fundamental freedoms.
Well, we're doing something about that.
What happens when the journalists themselves are really bottom-made for by the government?
Can they possibly criticize the government freely?
The law, a food-based society, is the need for independent news.
Push back and get away with it.
I think that that is the key is to push back and call them out on the box.
Everyone kind of wants to be a YouTuber or a media star these days or whatever.
And people always ask me, you know, well, how do you do it?
What do you do?
What's the secret?
All that stuff.
No matter what type of journalism you're doing, whether you're doing the advocacy journalism that Robbie does, whether you're doing the investigative reporting that Sheila does, some of the monzo journalism that David Menges does, or whether you're working in fiction like CBC, no matter who, you are telling a story.
Oh, great.
It's very informative.
I learned a lot of stuff.
It's like so many notes, but it's definitely good to see the speaker.
Really appreciating the diversity of the speakers.
We all contribute really specific details on what to do as an inspiring journalist.
It's been absolutely mind-blowing from start to finish.
Firstly, beautiful hall.
We've been stuffed.
It's like Thanksgiving dinner every night.
So that's amazing.
But the only thing that beats that are the people, the people around us, the company, some amazing and unique individuals.
The journalism conference has been great.
I met many prominent figures in this field and I've operated by us.
It was a really good conference.
Very good to meet all the lovely people here to get some inspiration and some experience.
Our speakers, oh my gosh, it's been absolutely stupendous.
I've been learning so much.
So grateful to have been invited to come.
Thank you.
Hey, that's a great student conference.
I was there, and Sheila, you were there.
And we're doing it again this year with the Democracy Fund, co-sponsored by Western Standard, True North, Rebel News, Independent Press Gallery.
It's going to be super duper.
You know, let me just say this.
Sometimes I get emails, people saying, hey, Ezra, how do I get into journalism?
Or even, hey, can I work for Rebel News?
Attending this journalism conference is a good way to get into journalism.
And it's actually a doorway into Rebel News as well.
You might have recognized William Diaz Berthium from that conference.
That's where we found him.
Not only will you learn a few tricks of the trade, but listen to the groups I just mentioned, right?
Western Standard, True North, Rebel News, we'll all be there.
So if you're a youngster and you've got some talent, consider this a job fair, right?
I mean, I'll just tell you right now, I'm going to go there.
And if there's some bright young person from any background, from any place in the country, any, like, we don't discriminate.
In fact, I literally do not ask people.
People say, do I have to go to journalism school?
Other than David Benzies, I don't think anyone here went to journalism school.
I don't even think I, I mean, I'm curious what people did with their life to date, but I don't say, well, what school did you go to and what classes you?
I don't care about that.
I want to see, can you tell a story?
Are you a skeptic?
Are you a contrarian?
Are you willing to zig when the rest of the world zags?
And do you care?
In fact, being a contrarian is much more important to me than were you able to regurgitate back to a left-wing professor what they wanted to hear.
So if you are a young person, Sarah Stock, that's another young person that we found at that journalism conference.
So if you want to get into the biz, either with Rebel News or the other groups I mentioned, or just to learn some tricks of the trade, be there or be square.
And it's coming up in August, so it's not too far away.
Yeah, I thought it was great.
Just on the matter of the journalism conference, if you are, as Ezra said, if you're a young person who wants to get into journalism, I train the journalists at this company every single day.
And I must tell you, I don't really care what your background is.
My background is definitely not in journalism.
I only care what attitude you bring to the table.
I can teach you the skills probably better than Ryerson.
That's for sure.
Just come with the right attitude, a willingness to learn, and more importantly, an open mind.
Yeah.
Well, listen, Sheila, thanks for that.
I thank everybody for their indulgence as I played that clip from Tim Robinson.
I just think I just couldn't let Patrick King go.
You know, our alumnus, Gavin McInnes, says that there's a place for bullying.
And I'm not sure I want to go that far because bullying implies a cruelty and a malice and an unfairness that I don't subscribe to.
But I think what he means is just public peer pressure to jostle people back into some norms.
And if that's what Gavin means, I think that Patrick King needs to be given what would be called an attitude readjustment on that hat.
Yeah.
Just starting there.
Events Felt Drab00:02:36
Like a guy wearing that hat needs an attitude readjustment, just a friendly way.
And maybe he'll stop doing other antisocial things like storming events from women and shouting over them.
The hat's the giveaway.
I'll tell you right now, he's a male feminist.
If you are wearing that hat, you are a male feminist.
People who wear those hats don't actually go outside.
That's what I've learned.
Like you want to give the perception of being outdoorsy, but you don't actually go outside.
The guy at the store said I'm the only one he's ever seen pull it off.
If I may.
One thing that I did want to get to, and then we can do the haberdashery breakdown afterwards.
I apologize.
I just can't stop laughing.
But what do you add?
Take it away.
Make this a serious thing.
That was incredibly interesting here.
Listen, these people clearly are associated in the NDP.
I don't know if they were hired by them.
I don't know if Rachel Notley asked them to go.
They claim they didn't.
But whatever happened, they were clearly doing something inspired by the comments of Rachel Notley and the NDP.
That's why they were there.
That's why they were shouting those sentiments.
But I very likely think beyond the sort of evident point slip you're going to see in the NDP from this disruption, I think that they've awakened Danielle Smith.
few of these events, Danielle Smith has come out, issued sort of bland statements about saving 700 bucks on taxes, which is great, or a 25% tax cut on registries or cost cut on registry services.
Okay, wonderful, great.
These aren't sort of key critical things.
After that disruption, after those people burst in, and after Danielle Smith was pushed away, I think she had a bit of an adrenaline rush because when she came back, it was a little bit more rock and roll.
She was going after the NDP.
She seemed engaged.
I don't know if this is a conscientious UCP strategy to have her ramp up towards the election, but the previous events have not felt rock and roll.
They haven't felt exciting.
I'll give the NDP credit.
Their events, it was music, it was boisterous.
The UCP events have felt a little bit drab.
This is the first time I really felt like Danielle Smith was sort of speaking from the heart, wearing her heart on her sleeve a little bit.
And a few journalists that I talked to there shared the sentiment that they think this is a turning point, not just because of what happened, because those people disrupted the event, but because Danielle Smith and the UCP, who have been sort of on the defensive, who've been sitting back, are now saying, you know what, enough is enough.
It was interesting to see.
And I hope that continues.
Nazi Laughable: Violence Anywhere00:06:09
Yeah.
We've got about five minutes left.
Sheila, would you like to weigh in on anything?
Because I know the last 90 seconds of the show, I have something I'd like to say.
You know what?
Actually, our friend Rachel Emmanuel at True North has some vids.
Sheila, do you want to intro these vids?
Do you know the ones I'm referring to?
I don't, but I will say, I will echo Adam's sentiment that these people are being radicalized by NDP rhetoric and lies.
And I worry that it's only a matter of time before somebody is hurt thanks to just the superheated nonsense that Rachel Notley is spewing at these low-information voters who are on just a little bit too much CBC.
You know, that's exactly right.
I mean, I always thought this about the left calling Trump a Nazi.
Like, that's laughable to me.
And I think it's laughable to, it's laughable to half the world.
Another 40% say, well, we know he's not a Nazi, but we know what you mean.
10% say, yeah, I'm really worried he's going to take away all my rights.
1% says, well, yeah, maybe he really is a Nazi.
And maybe one in, maybe one in 10,000.
So 1% and 1% says, oh, he's a Nazi because these authoritative people say so.
I've never seen any rebuttal to it.
I think he's a Nazi.
And then maybe 1% and 1% or 1%, or maybe 1 in a million people says, oh my God, he's a Nazi.
And I have to stop him by any means necessary.
We all know the thought experiment.
Would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler if you could to save the course of the world?
And if maybe one in a million people actually believes that Trump is a Nazi, well, that's 300 and some people in America who would act on that if they could.
And I'm not saying, I'm not saying the leftist thing of, you know, words are violence.
But if you say something that insane, why are you saying that endlessly?
Right, Ezra, but more to your point, sorry to cut you off, but that is the problem here.
The left thinks that words are violence.
So if somebody is committing violence against you, you are now justified in responding in kind.
And that's the real problem here.
When Rachel Notley is saying you're going to sell off the hospital and privatize health care and people are going to die, what's your thought experiment?
If I stop this, I'm going to save lives and I'm going to be a hero because I'm just a useless oversoid man in a stupid hat and I've never done anything good for anybody in my life.
Now's my chance to save lives.
What's the next natural step except violence from these people?
Yeah.
And these are folks who reach for violence.
There is no right-wing equivalent to Antifa.
There's not.
No.
The left tried to make the Proud Boys into that.
Proud Boys is a pub crawl.
It's a fraternity friendly.
It's a drinking club.
Yeah.
There is no movement on the left like that.
And of course, Rachel Notley has never and will never condemn Antifa because they're her street teams.
They're her street gangs.
Last, you know what?
It's almost the top of the hour.
Adam, let's close with last thoughts to you.
You can either introduce the Rachel Emmanuel Vid or have your closing thoughts in general.
Yeah, Rachel Emmanuel, obviously, doing some incredible stuff.
I think that opens a whole different conversation.
There's some distinct questions there.
But I did want to say that ultimately, I think what this election will come down to is whether people believe the things that the NDP say or if they look at the albeit imperfect track record of the UCP.
And that's what Danielle Smith asked people to do at this conference.
She was saying, I hope that the media will simply be fair, present the facts as they are.
And she asked not to be judged on promises that are unlikely to be realized by the NDP, but on the actions that she has taken.
I'm ever the optimist.
I tweeted the other night that I really do want to have a conversation with Rachel Notley.
I just want to ask her fair questions.
I want to have authentic conversations so that our viewers can have an informed opinion when it comes time to vote.
That's ultimately what I'm after.
Unfortunately, Rachel Notley is imitating the federal liberals.
Rachel Notley is engaging in very anti-democratic practices.
And for anyone in Alberta, wherever you sit, wherever you are on the spectrum, that should be extremely concerning to you.
So hopefully people will take some time to actually look at the issues, not believe the buzzwords, not believe the hype, the empty sentiment of love, tolerance, and sharing that the NDP profess, while everything they practice seems to signal otherwise.
So I urge people out there to just sort of take a strong hard look at the facts.
Yeah.
Well, Adam and Sheila, great to catch up with you.
The election is less than three weeks away.
The latest polling I've seen suggests that it'll be a modest UCP government.
I think that's probably right.
I think it avoids the self-destruct button that Rachel Notley embodies.
I think it gives Danielle Smith a chance to grow and to improve.
I think that she will be a more seasoned premier.
Obviously, she's never been premier before.
And she will hopefully be stronger.
Although, I must say, it's been more than a decade since an Alberta premier served out their full term and was re-elected.
When you think about it, Rachel Notley did not serve out her, was not re-elected.
Jason Kenney didn't even serve out his full term.
Rachel Notley succeeded Jim Prentiss.
Jim Prentiss, I mean, just it goes back.
There was so many stopgap.
Really going, I think you have to go back all the way to Ed Stelmack.
Yes.
So it's been.
Allison Redford resigned.
Yeah, that's right.
Alberta's Political Unrest00:03:42
And I'm not even listening to them all.
Anyways, Alberta is a funny place that way.
It's very populous, very unsettled.
Preston Manning remarks on this.
How many parties get their start in Alberta, including, it depends on how you define it, the NDP and the CCF.
On that note, let me thank everybody for joining.
Did we get any super chats?
I think we have one super chat.
Sheila, do you want to read it?
Just one, and it's from Abelist.
SL gives us five bucks.
Twitter users, this is a question for Ezra.
Twitter users are angry at Elon for hiring Linda Yaccarino.
I'm not sure if I'm saying that right, due to her WEF ties and woke BS, reasonably fearing she'll re-ruin the site.
Also, he says Kinsley, but I think he means Kinsey's child sexuality research is an ethical fraud.
On the last point, Jordan B. Peterson has an excellent podcast about that with a researcher who examined Kinsey's research into child sexuality.
It's very creepy, very gross.
I hope you have the stomach for it, but if you need more details, go there.
And I guess we'll let Ezra remark on Elon's suspected new hire.
Yeah, I don't like the fact that she's so deep in the World Economic Forum, but I think that she went there in her role as the head of ads for NBC Universal.
She went there to schmooze with other VVIPs in a sales capacity.
This is me trying to put the best gloss on things.
I know that she was one of the few people from the industry who had something to do with Donald Trump.
She sat on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, which is not, in my opinion, a very important or ideological position.
But it was, imagine how difficult it would have been for someone high up in the world of media to do anything Trumpish.
We know in Silicon Valley, other than Peter Thiel, there really was no one.
I think she's generally been pro-Musk.
I mean, listen, you can choose a political ideologue or you can choose someone, a really senior media executive.
And if she's being hired to work on media stuff, on deliverables, on getting the video going, on getting ads going, I think she's a great fit.
If she's being hired to bring woke censorship, she's a disastrous fit.
And I would hope that Elon Musk is not, as our writer says, re-ruining the site.
If I understand what he wants to do, he wants an everything app.
I think the analogy he uses is the Chinese app, which I think is called WeChat, which is payment and chat and shopping and everything.
And if Elon Musk turns Twitter into an everything app, then you need a woman like Yaccarino, if I'm saying her name right, Linda Yaccarino.
And you've got to think she was brought in to do that, not to do the woke stuff.
Let me say this.
Elon Musk put $44 billion into Twitter, fired thousands of censors, said he's for free speech.
I can't imagine he'd say, oh, let me just undo everything with this one hire.
I just have got to hope that's not the case.
Anyhow, it's 2.06 Eastern Time, 12.06 in the West there.
Thanks everybody for watching.
Thanks for the super chat.
Positive Ideas Announced00:02:54
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Until tonight, when I do my show, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters and in our Western Outposts, to you at home, goodbye and keep fighting for freedom.
Adam, so it's for Rebel News.
First off, I just wanted to thank you and the UCP for your willingness to answer questions from all media outlets.
It's not only the protesters who are providing semantics.
The NDP are providing their share.
Speaking of the NDP and some in the media, they seem hell-bent on turning this campaign into a tabloid-style American election where leaders' personalities, particularly yours, rather than the content of their party's policies, are the primary focus.
Why do you suspect that is?
I think the NDP don't have ideas.
Everything I've seen, it's either gainsaying what we do, saying, oh, we'll do that too.
We'll just do a little bit more, or it's reannouncing old policy announcements or saying that they'll continue on with policies we've already passed.
And if you want to continue with the UCP government, then you should vote for the UCP.
So that is why I think I think that they simply have not, they don't have any positive ideas for the future.
They don't have any creative ideas about how to address the needs of Albertans, whereas we do.
We've announced a health care guarantee.
We've announced a tax guarantee.
We're going to make sure that no taxes can be increased for personal or corporate income tax without a referendum.
We've announced an 8% tax bracket now so that we can benefit our lowest income Albertans the most, but all families up to $1,500.
We've announced that we are going to be doing foreign credentials recognition, auto-credentialing, which we've already seen some huge success in.
1,400 nurses have been announced that they have received the credentialing from the nursing college in the last month alone, which is more than we have seen in the last two and a half years.
We're already making progress.
We're going to do so much more.
We're going to have a graduation tax credit so that we can keep our graduates here.
And we're also going to have an Alberta's calling tax credit so that we can continue to attract people from around the country and around the world.
And today we're also announcing that we are going to make life more affordable for seniors, giving them a 25% tax cut or a rebate, 25% discount on registry services.
So every time we come forward, we have positive ideas to announce that will make life better for Albertans.
It will support job growth, it'll support the economy, it'll support affordability, and it will also help to improve our health care system.