Danielle Smith’s leadership debate clapbacks expose Rachel Notley’s misinformation, from debunking NDP claims about her alleged legal conflicts to rejecting "defund the police" rhetoric while touting Alberta’s $1.36B in energy investments—contrasting Ontario’s corporate-friendly policies. Tamara Leach’s book Hold the Line challenges convoy demonization, framing it as family-driven resistance, while Jennifer Johnson and Josh Alexander highlight clashes over gender ideology and free speech, from Antifa Bible burnings to school suspensions. Bill C-21 gun control and BC’s 814 overdose deaths fuel criticism of federal harm-reduction failures, with Alberta’s UCP touting First Nations-backed recovery programs. Legal wins against convoy fines and May 20th global rallies underscore growing backlash against government overreach ahead of Alberta’s May 29 election, where Smith’s sharp contrasts with Notley’s legacy may sway voters. [Automatically generated summary]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Daily Roundup.
Of course, I'm Sid Fizzard with Rebel News and Adam, my co-host today, both Albertans.
And right now, we're going through the midst of an election.
We're going to get to all that.
Adam, how are you doing today?
I'm doing wonderful.
I love the self-identification as an Albertan now.
It's truly taking hold.
Welcome home, buddy.
Thank you very much.
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Lots to get to today.
This is effectively our Alberta edition during this election period anyways.
But we're not just going to be talking about Alberta today.
We're going to start off talking about last night's debate and some Alberta issues for folks who didn't get a chance to watch our live stream last night of the election debate and all that coverage.
Then we're going to get into some very sort of topical things, including Bill C-21, the arrest of Josh Alexander, UCP MLAs getting ejected from the party, all that good stuff.
But I think first off, unless you've got anything else to add, maybe we can just start diving into some of these clips from last night's debate and discussing.
So we'll start with Rachel Notley's opening remarks from the debate last night, and then we'll provide a little bit of feedback.
This election is about trust and it's about leadership.
You know you can't trust Daniel Smith.
So my offer to you is this.
I will work every day to be the premier you deserve, creating jobs and diversifying for the future.
I won't raise your taxes.
I will cap your bills.
I won't fund a war room.
I will fund an emergency room.
And I won't ever make you pay to see a doctor.
I'll protect our health care, protect our mountains, and protect your pension.
And having learned today that Daniel Smith broke the law, I will also protect our law and I will never break it.
When I say something, I mean it.
That's the difference between Danielle and me.
You know, one thing that's really interesting is normal people, when they're looking down at their notes, it's to confirm like a specific, like, oh, the number, they're talking, they're expressing their emotions, and then they'll look down at their sheet and they'll come up with like 82,000 or whatever.
They'll come up with a specific number they had to pull from their sheet.
There's a couple of moments during the debate last night where Rachel Notley was like, as your premier, I will earn your trust.
Like it was so bizarre.
Like that's what you have to look down to read.
You know, Ezra did a whole stream about this yesterday, so I'm encouraging people to go back.
But just briefly, let's touch on this conflict of interest report.
For folks who didn't check out the live stream or who aren't familiar with the story, for weeks now, the NDP, CBC, a number of other outlets, all potentially up for litigation from Premier Danielle Smith, have been stating that she repeatedly contacted prosecutors, that she's been pressuring for Pastor Arthur Pavlowski for all charges to be dropped.
An in-depth analysis that included looking at millions of emails found that beyond a short conversation with Tyler Chandrow, she didn't contact or pressure anyone in any way, shape, or form.
So she was exonerated on those sort of allegations, which is what people were really upset about.
What she did do is have a five-minute conversation with her justice minister who informed her that what she was hoping for is not possible.
And then she dropped it.
And as it turns out, later on, Pastor Arthur Pavlowski was charged.
So for most people viewing this objectively, unless you wanted it to look really bad, all you can say is perhaps she should have had like a formal meeting instead of a quick phone call, but nothing came of this.
She accepted the recommendation that this was not something she could act on.
So this ruling was like, well, technically there was a conflict of interest.
I don't know how valid that ruling is.
Maybe it's a technicality, but there's virtually no consequences.
They're saying they're going to undergo a little bit of training to make sure that this type of communication doesn't happen again.
But this is not serious.
All the headlines saying, oh, egregious Trudeau level conflict of interest, those are not reporting what's actually taking place in this report, what's stipulated in this report.
What did you make of all that?
Report actually on a bunch of access to information documents in relation to the Coots blockade.
And as I was wrapping up that report, there was a final access to information document exactly about this.
Did Danielle Smith reach out to federal crown prosecutors, et cetera?
And the answer was no.
There were zero documents found showing that she had reached out or done anything like that that the CBC, I believe, had alleged.
So at the end of the day, what did she do?
She had a little conversation to be like, hey, is there anything we can do about this?
No?
Okay, next topic.
That's the gist of my understanding on that.
Is that yours as well, Adam?
Because at the end of the day, it's not like she called and said, hey, what can we do about this?
We're not allowed to do anything about this.
Well, we're going to do something about this change.
Like, you know, that didn't happen.
But this story does show that the CBC lied.
Yeah.
And the comparisons to Justin Trudeau, who pressured somebody repeatedly, had numerous people contact them and then fired them when they wouldn't cave.
This was quite the opposite.
It was, oh, we can't do this.
Oh, okay.
And they moved on.
So much ado about nothing, it seems here.
And if you read the report, it very much is a, well, technically you were speeding, but it was about by five kilometers.
So you're not getting any demerits.
That's what this amounts to.
Curious timing that it comes out the day of the leaders debate.
But on that note, I think that Danielle handled it very sort of effectively.
I think our headline says something in the fact that Smith smokes Notley.
It was interesting, though.
She beat her.
And I think even liberal outlets are saying that Daniel Smith probably won.
CBC called it a tie, which is a clear indication that Daniel Smith won.
But she didn't smoke her by attacking her personally, which is what Rachel was doing all night.
What she did was she talked about policies, talked about issues.
And I want to jump into her next clip as we transition now.
One of those key things that she's talking about is safety, supporting police, restoring order of law, and all that sort of stuff.
Those critical concerns for people living in cities who are seeing stabbings, shootings, all of this violence unfolding in cities where this did not traditionally happen.
So if the team's got it ready, I'd love to roll that next clip.
First off, we wouldn't defund the police.
Again, Ms. Notley has so many defund the police candidates on her platform on her candidate roster.
I've lost count of them as well.
The frontline services are demoralized, and we are giving courage and confidence back to our frontline officers.
We've embedded sheriffs in both Calgary and Edmonton.
We're adding 100 police officers in both Calgary and Edmonton because we believe that people have a right to take public transit and feel safe.
They have a right to go downtown and be able to have a nice dinner or see a game and not worry that they're going to be randomly attacked.
And they certainly have a right to walk past an open doorway without having to inhale secondhand crystal meth smoke.
We have an approach that is going to make sure that we crack down on public safety and crime and make sure that people feel safe again.
All right.
Thank you, Ms. Smith.
We've got about 90 seconds for this free debate.
Ms. Notley.
Well, I need to start by saying when it comes to defunding the police, the UCP actually defunded the police.
Interesting rebuttal there from Notley.
sure how valid that is.
Well, but Smith actually follows up in that conversation and she addresses that point about defunding the police and she opens the conversation up into the direction of how a lot of this was funding that went to the medical industry in a sense to provide that kind of mental health needs.
those kind of mental health needs and stuff like that.
It's not all police work and maybe the right option is to have police step away from a very intimate situation with a person who's clearly struggling with something.
I don't know if, you know, I think that's just the conversation that was had there and that's how it opened up.
It wasn't just a bang, you know, UCP defunded the police like, and I stress that because as we've seen across the step, especially in the States, like full units and divisions are being shut down because they don't have the funding because of these politicians who are actively defunding the police.
So it's funny that she would come back with that.
Well, and you see with the NDP, like they want to be pro-oil and talk about building pipelines while chasing businesses out of the place and all their rhetoric and candidates are anti-oil.
They talk about safety while a bunch of their candidates are defund the police folks who are all for certain types of protests, but not they want to wield police as a political arm.
So sometimes they're happy to call them to beat up protesters.
Other times they want them defunded.
So there seems to be this glaring duality within progressives where they want these people militarized, but they want them disempowered.
That's not how the world works.
It's sort of one way or another.
But there is, it is interesting.
And we're going to talk about sort of addictions later, but it was incredibly interesting to see at the recent UCP announcement on safety where they're talking about rampant drug usage and the need to get people not with a free safe supply of, as Mike Ellis referred to, perpetual palliative drug care where they're just giving these people drugs because violence follows that.
As you see these, whether it be overdoses, deaths, drug uses, mass consumption, you see crime increase in those same areas.
So the UCP, it's funny, it's very much a talking point to the left to provide social workers or helpers or additional venues that aren't policing to help people.
But it seems like the UCP is actually doing it.
So there's certainly a glaring contradiction there.
I want to talk about the addiction stuff now, but we'll wait till later because we have another story that ties into that.
We also have a clip coming up here.
And we've only got about four or five of these.
If you watch the debate, we'll be moving on soon.
Don't worry.
But Smith highlights some new investments coming in to this province.
And Sheila was impassioned about this the other night.
So interesting to see Notley talking about new investments coming in while under the NDP we saw so many head offices clear out of Edmonton.
And in the minds of many, that's one, there was oil price issues.
There was all this stuff.
There was talks about where you could extract oils cheaper.
But ultimately, it suddenly emerged all these concerns when you had an anti-oil NDP in government.
So if we've got that clip ready, we can jump to it.
I would say that we have increased the amount of investment that has happened in our province.
We have a $760 million renewable diesel project announced by Imperial.
We have $600 million that came in from McCain's.
Our Pathways Oil Sands Group is investing.
We have an increase in the amount of drilling rigs.
That is not a sign that people have lost confidence in our economy.
You know what it is a sign of that when you stand up to Ottawa and you tell the industry that you're going to you're going to stand up for them, they actually increase their amount of confidence and they increase their.
Except that we have fewer corporate headquarters in Calgary, in Alberta now than we did before in 2019, before you announced your incredibly spendthrift corporate handle.
You know, what's interesting is later on she goes on to say that we're not drawing as many investments as Ontario.
Like, that's not a thing you say when you're running to be the premier of this province, being like, we should be more like Ontario.
Listen, the facts and the record, and I know that this is almost a UCP talking point, but Danielle Smith is saying, look at her record.
The NDP is running away from their record.
If you look at the facts, if you look at the layoffs, the lack of investments, the fact, and this is the most glaring statistic because this isn't just a little anomaly, that the number of people coming into the province under the NDP decreased dramatically.
We saw that population growth decline effectively right as soon as they came into power because people got the sentiment that Alberta wasn't open for business.
Well, and especially a difficult thing to talk about or to diagnose in a sense is the last three or so years that we've had with COVID and everything going on.
It changed so many things.
I mean, we have a new premier because of the actions that were taken by government during that time.
And, you know, I can only imagine what it would have been like if Rachel Notley and the NDP were in charge.
I mean, they were calling peaceful protesters domestic terrorists, right?
And I'm kind of jumping around, but you guys, Adam and Sheila, Ezra, you've been in the game for a long time.
You've been Albertans for a very long time.
You know Rachel Notley.
You've seen her in action as somebody who's newer to the province.
I'm kind of coming into this fresh in a sense.
You know, watching Smith and Notley and Notley talking about, you know, the previous experiences of hers, it just doesn't seem like she has it.
She doesn't have that same confidence, and everybody knows what she did last time.
And I think she knows that everybody else knows.
And she's trying to avoid it, but she seemingly is unable to.
Whereas you see these new issues arise with Danielle Smith, it's like it's nothing.
I mean, these are really the smallest of issues that could be had with a premier.
So at the end of the day, as a new observer coming into this, hearing these remarks from Ms. Notley, it just doesn't seem like she's got that punch.
And I genuinely just, yeah, I don't think it's there for her.
Yeah.
Why Notley Lacks Punch00:14:58
And I think it's because Danielle Smith, and she's openly admitted this, an imperfect person who makes mistakes.
Again, I appreciate that she hasn't been entirely apologetic about comments she made on the radio trip, because by the way, when you're doing stuff like this, you just talk about ideas.
You can even propose ideas you don't agree with for conversation.
And that has happened sometimes.
But what the difference is, is the UCP far from perfect, certainly over the last few years under Jason Kenney, extremely far from perfect.
But even though there was this quote-unquote pandemic, even though there was all these extremely difficult circumstances, the UCP still managed to do better than the NDP not during a pandemic, which is staggering.
It's unbelievable to think that.
We should be making excuses about how things were not managed well and how there's a massive fiscal concerns and how they accrued more debt than the NDP because of the pandemic, but we're not doing that because they did a better job.
So Danielle Smith, I think, is confident because she has the facts in her corner.
Rachel Notley knows she can't run on her record.
Their policies aren't as strong.
Danielle Smith often refers to them as gainsmanship, where if Danielle says she's going to try and build 15 schools, Rachel Notley says, I'm going to build 40, which is not realistic, but that's what she does.
So I think Rachel Notley is lashing out because she isn't confident in her positions.
I think that's also the reason she's not willing to answer questions from media outlets, even outlets like us that ask tough but fair questions of everybody.
Well, and that's a huge thing, right?
Like the next premier, who are we going to have?
Are we going to have somebody that we can actually challenge when they do things that the general public thinks is not okay?
Or are we going to have somebody who like Rachel Notley, who simply just tells all of the reporters asking the question she doesn't like to leave?
I mean, that's a very dangerous precedent.
And that's what she's shown during her run-up to this election.
Yeah, especially once they've formed government, like that, that's going to be increased.
It's another thing for the opposition at private campaign events to say, we're not letting you in.
You're at a private facility, whatever.
No, it isn't right.
It's morally abhorrent, but you're at a private place running a private campaign event.
Technically, you can say you're not welcome here and you're trespassing.
But once you form the government, you know, and we've seen it with Justin Trudeau, and it's completely unacceptable, categorically, and undemocratic in every metric.
That's what's going to happen here in Alberta.
And that's troubling.
Even the progressive outlets out here will have the opportunity to question Danielle Smith incessantly about just about everything.
And I think that's good.
Even though we may not agree with them, I think that the broad range of diverse opinions, assuming that they're law-abiding, they should be presented.
And the leader of a province or a country should be presented with those challenging opinions because that's how you stay on track.
If you're somewhere in the middle of the extreme positions, if you're being challenged on all fronts, that's a good way to stay honed and make sure that you're representing people more broadly.
If you exclude anyone who disagrees with you, well, then you get more and more radicalized government.
Yeah, and I'm certainly not looking forward to any radicalization of government.
That's probably the worst kind of radicalization.
But on top of that, we do have some more clips.
Do you want to pull up the next one here?
Yeah, let's hop on this next clip.
And I mean, this one's just factually incorrect.
This is Rachel Notley implying that Pastor Archipovlovsky was charged with calling on violence against police officers.
So, I mean, this is shocking.
I'm assuming Pastor Archer's lawyers have probably seen this, but let's play it.
Who was startled by bringing in the Sovereignty Act, an act that her former finance minister very clearly said was going to chase away investment because it undermined the rule of law.
That, of course, was before she was found today to have broken the law in an effort to support the private interests of someone accused of wanting to promote violence against the police.
All of that chases away investment because it is such a profound compromise to the rule of law.
Ms. Notley, it's you and the CBC who need to apologize for all Burtons.
You flat out lied for several months saying that I and my office had contacted crown prosecutors.
She said that is absolutely not true.
And she also confirmed that I did not direct or interfere in any COVID-related cases.
So that is, I'm sure, probably open to a lawsuit, implying peace.
Yeah, that's three times Arthur Polowski said peaceful during the demonstration during that speech he made in Coots.
And this is revolving around the Coots blockade incident, where Arthur Polowski a day later was charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
And there was a court case that recently happened.
Ezra Levant, obviously commander-in-chief here at Rebel News, he was in Lethbridge to cover this court case as well.
And yet, here Rachel Notley is alleging that Arthur Polowski was trying to have people commit violence in some way, shape, or form when his charge was a critical infrastructure charge.
It wasn't anything to do with him assaulting people.
It was all about him allegedly possibly convincing people to stay at the blockade, even though they had decided earlier in the day that they were going to stay at the blockade.
What does this have to do with violence, Rachel Notley?
It doesn't.
And particularly, like, as you mentioned, repeatedly stating peaceful and the charge being about not even blocking infrastructure himself, but allegedly, and this is going to be appealed clearly, inciting others to continue blocking infrastructure.
And that's clearly, I mean, we saw we were there firsthand.
They opened that road.
If there was like truckers with livestock or anyone needing to get through, they weren't actually even fully blocking the road at all times.
But what's wrong, what the problem is here is Rachel Notley will characterize and mischaracterize and misconstrue.
I don't know if she's misinformed here, which as someone who's spoken to this four weeks is embarrassing, or if she's overtly lying, but this is factually incorrect.
And it characterizes Pastor Arthur Povlowski in a horrific light to say repeatedly that he incited violence against police officers is unbelievable.
So it'll be interesting to see what comes out.
I'm sure there will be a response coming.
But I did want to highlight that troubling clip.
Two more clips, and then we're going to get into some more broader news beyond the election.
So bear with us.
I think the next clip that we're going to jump to is the clip of Premier Smith slamming Rachel Notley over her governing record and the massive debt that she accrued, over $70 billion, and her unwillingness to stand up to Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau.
I know Ms. Notley likes to show grainy videos of things I said while I was on radio.
And the reason she does that is she doesn't want to run on her record.
And the reason she doesn't want to run on her record is it was an absolute disaster.
She racked up $70 billion in debt, more debt than any premier, actually all premiers combined in Alberta's provincial history.
She talked about deception.
Did you remember her running on a carbon tax in the last election?
I sure didn't.
And that increased the cost of everything.
We eliminated it, but Justin Trudeau wouldn't let us keep it off.
And now Ms. Notley has not stood up to her boss, Jugmeet Singh, in Ottawa, and worked with us to say, don't increase that carbon tax any further.
And in fact, certainly don't increase it 300%.
No one has any credibility talking about affordability as long as they support a carbon tax, which is going to increase the cost of everything.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Like you look at, and we talked about this yesterday.
Like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are not popular at all here.
And it's incredibly interesting to see that, particularly in Calgary, that Rachel Notley and the NDP are potentially, according to some polls, gaining a little bit of ground.
It's unbelievable.
You have ideological doppelgangers, whether it be Trudeau, whether it be Jagmeet, whether it be Rachel Notley or Calgary's activist mayor Geoti Gondek.
Calgarians oppose the ideas when they're represented federally, but then when you have radicals with those perspectives locally, they seem to get they seem to get elected.
I can't quite wrap my head around why that is.
I know municipally there was vote splitting and there were some sort of strategic concerns that may have contributed to that.
But what do you make of this sort of notion that someone who's espousing incredibly unpopular views in the vast majority of the province is actually threatening to form the next government?
It's a little daunting.
You know, like I can't lie, I don't know what to think of that because I got here, I actually got here and became an Alberta resident right as the restrictions exemption program was coming into place.
I thought I was escaping into salvation, yet, you know, that turned out to be otherwise.
But that was the UCP.
That was Kenny.
That was the Texas of Canada, right?
That was my vision of it coming in in a sense.
And to think about what it would have been like if Rachel Notley was the one who was taking care of business in that sense, I never would have come to Alberta.
I guarantee you, I never would have set foot in Alberta.
And if she gets elected, well, that's going to be a scary thing.
And I'm sure, like we saw last time, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of people that leave again.
I want to jump to this next clip as well.
That Danielle Smith, for some people during the leadership races, some of her opinions weren't necessarily popular.
And I had the opportunity to question her.
Don't worry, Tim, I'm not asking you to pull up the clip from that.
But I had the opportunity to ask her why she uses this sort of zero emissions language.
And it is interesting to see in her rebuttal, she's like, listen, we can work towards carbon neutrality towards 2050.
This close deadline is not at all feasible.
So perhaps not popular among everybody, but a more measured response.
So if we can pull that clip up, then we'll discuss a little bit.
Aaron in the intro talked about shifting away from petroleum products.
And I would say that that is the Notley view of the world.
That is certainly not my government's view of the world.
We believe that we are going to reduce emissions, not that we are going to reduce oil and natural gas.
We know that with all of the exciting things that are happening with carbon capture, utilization, and storage and all the green technology, we can continue to have a robust, vibrant oil and natural gas sector for years to come.
What we want to do is make sure that we're finding more opportunities for our products.
Having bitumen be used more for asphalt so it reduces the amount of emissions.
Having LNG export, which creates a brand new stream of income for us.
We know that as long as we keep our energy industry strong, we're going to keep Alberta's economy strong.
Ms. Notley won't do that.
I will.
Okay, we'll leave it there.
Ms. Notley, your rebuttal.
Well, you know, there was actually some elements of what Ms. Smith said that I actually agree with.
You know, I want to create jobs producing energy.
I want to create jobs upgrading our energy.
And I want to create jobs reducing emissions.
And reducing emissions is absolutely the focus.
It's not about reducing production.
It is about emissions.
The difference is, is that Ms. Smith and her caucus have spent much of their career pitting emissions reduction efforts against economic growth.
And when we do that, we fail ourselves.
Well, notice how she's talking about energy, not oil, not gas.
She's talking about energy.
That's her follow-up.
And that's her trying to placate the Danielle Smith.
She's chasing Daniel Smith because Daniel Smith owns it.
And Notley, I mean, what was another thing that Smith brought up last night was the fact that the just transition, was it the Just Transition idea or the one preceding that that Justin Schudeau was advocating for, he got from Rachel Notley.
It's really hard to see the credibility in Rachel Notley at this point from my perspective.
Well, and you know, what's interesting, and I love it, I've been at a couple like small town halls early on where there's 20 people there.
And Danielle Smith gets really excited talking about this, almost comedically so.
She's kind of a nerd for this super nuanced energy stuff.
Well, and I appreciate that some of what she talks about.
She's like, no, we're going to keep selling oil.
We've got the best oil in the world.
Let's keep doing that.
She's talking about actually bringing new industries in.
Like, we can do carbon capture and sell that while exporting the cleanest oil.
And I think that that's an approach.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead.
That's exactly it.
Why not sell the environmentalists the tools that they're looking for?
Yeah.
Right?
Okay, you want to do carbon capture?
Oh, look, I got the best carbon capture.
Looks like you're going to have to buy from me.
You know, I don't know if that's Smith's plan or not, but why not do it better than them just so that when they come back to you, you know, calling for the end of the world and whatnot because of global warming, well, you can say, look, we're the ones who set this whole operation up.
We know how to take care of our stuff.
You know, we know the smell of our own stink and you don't.
Yeah.
You know, fear-mongering is a tool often used by environmentalists to sell technology that isn't quite there yet.
We often refer back to the Chinese sort of leap forward manifesto, which actually resulted in the deaths of millions because the technology wasn't there yet.
Listen, I think every one of us probably, if it got to the point where for a very affordable rate, you could slap a panel on your roof and get free electricity forever, we'd probably all be on board with that.
If these ideas were commercially viable, they would take off.
And I think what Danielle Smith is saying is, let's be the place that gets these technologies there.
We don't want to completely abandon our industries.
There are countries all over the world, including Canada, because of our size, because of the climate here, that are going to need oil, that are going to need petroleum, that are going to need these byproducts.
Roads need to be built.
Plastics that result from the byproducts of these processes are needed.
These products are needed and will continue to be needed.
But Danielle Smith wants us, as not only says she does, but really what she wants to do is scrap all of our industries.
She wants us to use the wealth and opportunity generated to also start controlling, taking over, and dominating these other industries.
Be the place that everyone goes to for energy capture.
You can buy your energy from us.
We can pay to clean up the air, all that stuff.
And I think that those are opportunities that it doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum.
If it makes sense and if it makes money and if it keeps our taxes low, keeps houses affordable, creates jobs, people are going to be on board with that.
And I think on that note, we are way overdue for a quick ad break.
So if you don't have anything else, I think we'll jump over to an ad break.
Right before we go to that ad break, yeah, I just want to say, Adam, you know, the electric vehicle market in Alberta is just explosive, right?
With all of this cold weather, you know, there's just so many electric vehicles that really put in that work to get people where they need to be when it's colder than death outside, quite literally.
So, yeah, I want to thank all the electric car producers for all of their great work providing us with nothing on that end.
Let's go for an ad break.
Hear Tamara Leach's Story00:02:39
The media said that Canadian truckers were Russian agents controlled by Vladimir Putin.
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Tamara is the best.
I think everyone should pick up a copy.
Go ahead.
I've never actually, like, I've seen her, but I've never actually had a moment to have a conversation with her.
So that is still something on the checklist for me.
Yeah.
Pick up the book, guys.
Really one.
I mean, she, Tamara is the type of person.
I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here, but she loves people so much.
She's not like a militant activist.
She's a strong woman.
Don't get me wrong.
But almost every time I see her and she sees somebody from the convoy or she's talking about something, her just her eyes well up with tears.
I'm used to it now.
Protecting Young Minds00:07:57
It's sort of like a running joke.
What are you crying about today?
She is such a kind person.
And she's such an emblematic figure of the rebellion that took place, that resistance, the Freedom Convoy, because she was a reluctant participant.
She was not a political activist.
She's not someone who set out to make a point.
She's somebody who has simply pushed too far and then said, listen, I have to do something.
So do go out and pick up that book.
I want to get into, we've discussed this.
We discussed it last night.
We're probably going to continue discussing it.
Certainly the mainstream media and the NDP want to discuss it.
But UCP candidate Jennifer Johnson was forced to apologize and then eventually was actually ejected from the UCP and will be running unless she's decided not to run, but I don't think that's the case.
We'll be running and sitting if she's elected as an independent.
Lots has been made about the sort of quotes of her comments, but we actually have the audio purportedly.
Someone posted this on Twitter saying this is an actual recording of the comments.
So if we could, I think it's about two minutes, maybe not even.
I think we just play those comments in their entirety so people know the context and then we can just discuss it briefly.
So for folks who haven't heard this yet, some of the comments that have led to the ejection of Jennifer Johnson from the UCP.
Enjoy.
I only put a teaspoon of poop in them, but it doesn't matter because you want a teaspoon in the whole batch.
You pick which one is good.
Yeah.
And they obviously put the cookie.
This is not a true story.
So the idea is we can be top 3%, but that little bit of poop is what wrecks it.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
And it is when we've got furries in the classroom.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
These kids who are identifying as cats and the teacher puts a litter box in the classroom for them.
And girls saying, I'm not a boy anymore when they're seven years old and transitioning at 14 years old and getting mastectomy, double mastectomies, and getting chemically sterilized when they can't even go to a liquor store and buy a beer.
And yet we're allowing them to be chemically castrated and sterilized.
This is more than a teaspoon of poop in the cooking batch, right?
And so it doesn't matter to me.
It does not matter that we're in the top 3% of the world.
Who cares if they got an 89 on chemistry 30?
Who cares that they're entering post-secondary if they're chemically castrated?
And by the age of 18, 90% of these kids who were gender, yeah, who were struggling with this have real, have grown through it.
They got over it just like I did when I was six and I had three brothers and ripped my shirt off on the farm.
And my mom said, put that back on.
At six, I didn't look any different than my brothers.
And I was, I pouted for a little while.
I was really mad at my mom.
And then I realized I should probably put my shirt back on because I said, well, I don't want to be a boy or I don't want to be a girl.
I want to be a boy like my brothers.
Well, you're not.
Now get your shirt on and go and play.
That was the end of it.
And I went, okay.
So I went and played and I'm pretty glad I did.
So whatever.
You know, we can cut there.
That's the core of the sort of part that was being quoted.
And it's interesting, before I had the opportunity to hear the audio, the way CBC quoted it was to suggest that she was saying trans people are feces.
That is not at all what is stated there.
And I think anyone for listening or reading skills, what she's stating is it doesn't matter if the entire school system is the best performing and everything about it is the best.
If they're pushing ideologies that are resulting in these outcomes, that's, and I hate the language used, but that's the poop in the brownies that spoils the whole pot.
So when I first read this, the initial comments, I really have no problems with any of her criticisms.
These are things that we know are happening that are problematic.
And most people would probably condemn transitioning children, double mastectomies, litter boxes, which they try to debunk.
But apparently even our own Kian Simoni in his small town in Ontario, there was a litter box in one of the schools for a kid.
So they'll try and debunk this and say none of this is happening.
Well, there's legal proceedings on this.
These things are happening right now.
And so most of her comments there, they've been characterized as bigoted or hateful.
Those are probably comments that most people would deal with.
And none of them are personal attacks on individuals.
It's an attack on confusing children.
The comment about poop and the brownies, which I hate saying, but in my opinion, from what that's laid out there, it clearly stipulates that the problematic ideologies that are infiltrating schools are undermining the value of the quality education.
What do you think?
Well, and I don't, you know, this is, I guess, a question that I have.
And I don't say this as necessarily a criticism of anybody's, you know, right to, you know, educate the child on whatever they might educate them on.
But in my head, if I'm going to, let's say, take my child to some kind of weekend class, you know, an hour a week, they get to learn karate, they get to learn, you know, business, they get to learn how to cook, whatever it might be.
Why would I spend an hour every week confusing them about sexuality?
Because, you know, there's the argument that, oh, you know, they're confused.
They need to support this and that.
Well, at the same time, they are being confused by these events.
And I think it's a very dangerous precedent.
And, you know, maybe it's a little cross to talk about it with such words as, you know, fecally related.
But at the same time, you have to make sure that children are protected because there's a reason why things become legal at 18.
Children just can't handle certain things.
They don't have the wherewithal to defend themselves against certain things or certain ideologies.
So at the end of the day, I think there is, there has to be some protections for children in regards to things like sexuality, simply because if you take somebody who is purely a blank slate, I mean, yes, you can change that and you can change their beliefs to be whatever you might want them to be.
But at the end of the day, is that going to be the best thing for them?
I mean, I don't know, Adam, what's your take on that?
Well, you know, just interestingly, I'm just reworking my way through The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis.
And there's an entire segment about education.
And he says something to the effect I'm paraphrasing of if you sent your kid to the dentist to get a cavity filled and he came home with a head full of Marxist ideologies and a hole in his tooth, you'd be pretty upset.
That's what's happening in these schools.
People, parents are sending their kids to schools hoping they'll get some basic foundation, some history, some hopefully age-appropriate education.
And what they're getting is a whole bunch of radical ideologies being pushed by adults who aren't addressing kids on an age-appropriate level and are very often, whether it be the parents, whether it be the adults, people taking their kids to these drag shows, whatever it may be, they're trying to like score some sort of imaginary social capital by being the most woke parent in the room, by being the most woke teacher in the school.
But what they're not doing is actually educating the kids.
I don't really care if you're a boy or a girl or trans or whatever, we can sit here and learn about history, we can sit here and learn numbers.
Those are things that should be focused on in the school, math, science, biology, all of these sorts of things, which the former UCP Hopeful talks about.
We need to get back to biology, we need to get back to basics.
I think at this young, young age, we can leave those conversations, those identity-forming conversations to family, to the home, and we can focus on education.
It doesn't need to be all, you know, what ideology has permeated so much of our lives.
Progressivism seems to be taking everything over.
But we've seen it, we've seen it happen in Ontario, we've seen it happen in other places.
The second you start pushing it on kids is when parents push back.
So, yeah, I'm hoping that they're and another concern, maybe perhaps election-wise, I'm hoping that this isn't the start of every candidate who's ever made any comment is going to get kicked out because the UCP cannot play that game anymore.
We've seen that federally, we've seen that even with the UCP before and prior conservative governments.
Burning Bibles and Assault Charges00:10:57
Some comment from years ago being dug up, or a comment that, frankly, probably most people agree with a great deal of resentment, though might have worded it more eloquently.
We can't accept that those positions, like let's not transition little kids, are radical and bigoted.
We cannot accept that narrative, and particularly UCP government cannot.
Speaking of radical, if you don't mind, do you have one more thing on that?
And then we'll jump to our next article.
Well, I was actually just going to say, there was an event that took place in Calgary recently exactly on this subject.
I was there as camera.
We had a reporter Alex Dywall and Kian Simoni and other cameraman there as well.
And it was quite an event, I guess you could say.
And this is pertaining around Josh Alexander.
Some of you may know the name, but maybe we can just pull up that clip and give you a little insight into the day's events.
Sorry, there.
There's three.
I think we can,
if we can cut the audio, we can start commenting as this goes, because it goes on for quite a while.
But it was pretty shocking.
I know from what I saw, and you can probably comment on this.
It seemed like a sort of a crowd encircled Josh, who was speaking.
For those who don't know, he was sort of outspoken on some of these trends issues and has garnered quite a bit of opposition for those perspectives.
I think he was suspended from his school, a Catholic school, for harboring shockingly Catholic opinions, though I don't think he's Catholic himself.
But that's an aside.
So this crowd, some of them I know, have assault charges.
A few of those people already have assault charges and a history with police.
And he was simply trying to leave as things escalated.
And then they started pushing him, restricting him, preventing him.
You could hear, I believe, Nathaniel Poblowski saying, why are you pushing people?
We're just talking.
Is that effectively what happened from your perspective?
So as Josh and Nathaniel and their group of a couple individuals, they were walking up to the school on the sidewalk.
And already the Antifa members had lined themselves up along the sidewalk in front of the school.
And they were just resting along the wall, basically.
And then Josh showed up.
They arrived.
And oh, we got the next clip up here.
Yeah, Josh showed up and they started getting physical with him.
They tried to prevent him from using the sidewalk and moving forward to set up where they had a speaker system.
They just wanted to set up shop on the sidewalk, I guess, and speak to those who may have come out of the school to hear.
And there were quite a few students that came out to listen.
But before they could get to that and before they could have a lot of great conversations with students that they had near the end of the day, this whole thing happened and the Antifa members and a few specific individuals from here got charged with assault.
Or they got charges laid after the event, as you can see, clearly shoving him around obsessively.
And it seems like he's trying to be very clear that he's not doing anything showing that the person you can see there is someone with a number of charges against him for going after people in the past.
We've had some encounters with some of these folks as well.
So I think I kind of joked on Twitter about the Calgary police's arrest the Christians and ask questions later.
So he was arrested, released shortly thereafter.
And then some of the other people ultimately were arrested and charged.
Is that correct?
Detained.
Josh technically, I guess, was detained.
He wasn't, you know, yeah, you know, whatever.
They put cuffs on him.
They put him in the back of a paddy wagon, whatever you want to call it.
And we've seen how they're antifa members.
So, yeah, yeah.
Although there were charges actually laid to some of the individuals that were assaulting him.
Yeah.
And then I want to get to, I don't know if we have the clip, but the Bible burnings.
So Josh was handing out Bibles to people.
If we don't have that clip, that's okay.
We can talk about it.
But I know they were on social media.
If they pop up, I'll stop and let those air.
But handing out Bibles and sort of good faith, having these conversations.
And then these individuals took to burning Bibles within the city.
Our own Alex Dollywall, I think, put out a tweet effectively saying that imagine if this was the Quran, this would be completely unacceptable.
But these people on Calgary streets, not to mention with a wildfire crises raging and a fire ban.
And in fact, we saw people burning Bibles in the city.
If that doesn't put the bow on the package of who the bad guys are here, I don't know what does.
It's just so categorically disrespectful.
I mean, I suppose you're free to do it, but is that the right thing to do?
And also burning books.
Is that the anti-fascist way of doing things?
Or no, I think it was the fascists who tended to burn the books, but hey, what do I know?
Very few comments from politicians condemning this.
Justin Trudeau, I highly doubt he's going to be making a trip to the location here to condemn these hateful acts.
As by the way, burning Bible is not the only thing that maybe not these people, but certainly some of their ideological counterparts do.
They also like burning churches in this country.
So yeah, extremely troubling, especially the fact this was the high school I went to.
These kids would have been my age a couple, I would have been this age a couple years ago.
And to see students from this school, presumably doing this, ripping up Bibles, burning it in the street, they're not making a point.
This is just pure wanton destruction.
It's really heartbreaking to see, to be honest.
Well, and, you know, as you see there, it was he lit it on fire.
He stomped on it as well.
They ripped up the pages.
And as you can see, Josh, he's just hanging out, having his conversations, right?
It's a bit of that turn the other cheek mentality, I suppose.
But at the end of the day, it's not going to stop him.
Where are these people going to go that, you know, they burn books?
At the end of the day, how far are they going to get in life?
Yeah, exactly.
Let's get to, because we're running tight on time here, this Mark Comendocino clip on Bill C-21.
Obviously, Bill C-21, extremely troubling.
It fails to address the core issues of illegal gun trafficking, and it punishes law-abiding firearms owners who subject themselves to extensive training and daily police checks in order to participate in sports shooting hunting activities.
They're the most screened people in the country categorically.
They continue to be punished by this liberal government that gets soft on crime, soft on gun crime, soft on gun trafficking, soft on the porous border that's allowing so many of these illegal, already illegal firearms pre-Bill C-21 that are trafficked into this country.
This government is failing on every front, and now they're just continuing to punish those of us who have one or two sports firearms and are safe and go on occasionally on the weekend, maybe shoot some targets, shoot a deer or two.
Extremely troubling.
So if we can pull that clip up.
We just passed Bill C-21 through the House of Commons.
This is the most significant gun control legislation in a generation.
It's going to strengthen the national ban against AR-15 style firearms.
It's going to put in place permanently a national freeze against handguns.
And it's going to introduce red flag and yellow flag protocols, which will reverse the alarming trend between domestic abuse and the presence of guns.
And now we're going to take this bill to the Senate and hopefully get it passed there as quickly as possible.
This bill, Bill C21, is going to save lives.
What a joke.
AR15.
Absolute joke.
I'd love to hear him define AR-15 style.
People think AR is an assault rifle.
It's Armalite rifle, by the way.
But the lack of just information, the lack of understanding, the fact that as these handgun bans come into effect, we see gun violence and violence generally increase.
Not to mention, I saw a tweet from some MP, doesn't matter who, liberal MP, saying that, oh, this is what democracy looks like.
Well, actually, if you study the course of human history, disarming the population is very often the opposite of what democracy looks like.
It's what totalitarian regimes that don't like the potential of someone pushing back looks like.
And if you were to take one instance on its own, say Bill C21, well, that might be something.
But when you're talking about all the other legislation on the table, restricting what content you can see on social media, regulating what content is permitted on the airs, regulating who's allowed to ask questions, and now taking away people's firearms that aren't being used for violent crimes, there's a pattern there that becomes very hard to deny.
Well, and you know, on that point, you look at his face and what he's saying during that whole thing.
And I understand why somebody would be concerned about what he's implementing, but who actually cares about him implementing it?
A bunch of people who are misled about gun violence?
I mean, really, that's what it is at the end of the day.
Who cares that you're going to ban legal guns?
That doesn't do anything for crime.
When was the last time a bunch of gangsters made sure that all their guns were registered, right?
I mean, people can 3D print guns in their own home at this point.
And you're stopping people who are trying to, painfully so, trying to go through every legal hoop they can imagine or the government can imagine in order to obtain the firearms they have every right to obtain.
And that's the big problem here: this actually does nothing to stop crime.
And let's say, like, what, should there be a knife ban in Winnipeg?
Like, it's not the guns that are murdering people, it's people.
And those guns that some people are obtaining, generally speaking, if they're going to use them for nefarious activities, they're going to get them in nefarious ways.
This whole bill does nothing and should please nobody.
But at the end of the day, they're still going to push it.
Yeah.
There are two more key articles that I want to get to today before we wrap up, but let's jump to one more ad break.
Failing Addictions Programs in BC00:09:11
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Yeah, let's jump straight into this clip so we have time to get to it of Stephen Guilbeau talking about clean fuel regulations.
Very much in line as we talked about with Rachel Notley's comment.
These limitations will drive innovation.
I know that's the policy that most people believe in, imitation driving, limitation driving innovation.
Let's grab this clip right now.
Truth is that the Conservatives have absolutely no plan to do anything to fight climate change and will set our country back on making promises towards a cleaner economy.
When it comes time to ask the oil companies to reinvest their record profits in the innovative solution in clean technologies, the conservatives immediately back down.
We're proud to support the Clean Fuel Regulation, which, when fully implemented, is already contributing more than $2 billion in the last year alone, Mr. Speaker, to the Canadian economy.
Thank you.
The Honorable Member.
Truth is that.
Yeah, so some questions about the facts there.
What do you think of that, Sid?
Well, I mean, Greenpeace activist Stephen Gilbo, who once climbed the CN Tower and failed to criticize or adequately criticize the oil sands in any capacity.
I mean, why should I be bothered with his advocacy for environmentalism when that's exactly what it is?
He's not coming to this from a perspective of the World International Body.
Well, I can't even say that anymore because those are all corrupt, but he's not really coming at this through an in-depth logical perspective.
He's advocating for the same activism that he's been doing his entire life, and he figured out how to make money doing it, so he keeps doing it.
Yeah, and you know, these comments have been sort of criticized broadly.
The sort of fake news that's being pushed that this is going to benefit farmers, this is going to drive innovation.
Scott Moe actually weighed in on this schedule and premiere talking about much in line with the comments made by Daniel Smith during the debates that this 2030 narrative is not possible and that in order for this country to survive, in order for there to be affordable resources there available, that coal-fired resources will be needed.
So if we could just jump to that clip, that'd be greatly appreciated.
If where we've come to in this country is when individuals in this province or any other province flick their lights on or their furnace fan kicks in, that that's deemed illegal and cause for someone to you know someone to go to jail, come get me.
I mean, we're standing up for an affordable, reliable power supply here in Saskatchewan.
If where we've come to in this country is when you know it's, it's great to see politicians speaking like that, standing up saying no enough is enough.
This sort of fake news, fear-mongering by the liberal government, by someone who's like you've mentioned, I think we've been charged for his eco-activism, some might say eco-terrorism for a politician to say, you know what, come get me, I'll go down with the rest of these people who are just trying to keep the lights on, who are just trying to pay their bills if Danielle Smith is elected if if, if Mo is in power.
There's a sort of Western bloc developing.
We're going to talk about BC in a second, but there's a sort of Western bloc developing saying no enough is enough.
We've seen pushback on firearms.
We've seen pushback on the social media censorship the, the sentiment, even in public opinion and polls, is starting to turn, I think.
I think the liberals are in their death throes um, and they're trying to do as much as they can in the time that they have left, not saying Pierre will necessarily win the next election, but I know that uh, Trudeau's time uh, it's probably running short and I think they know that very well.
Just a moment ago, I talked about um, Bc and and their troubling overdose numbers.
If we can just pull up that Article.
We'll just look at it really quickly.
I'll pull it up myself here.
So, Premier David Ebby says the latest overdose death numbers provided by BC Coroner's Service are profoundly troubling as the province continues to face the challenge of toxic illicit drugs.
The coroner's service said that they killed 206 people in BC in April, raising to 814 the number of overdose deaths so far this year.
People can check out that article for themselves.
But I do want to juxtapose and contrast this approach that has been taken in BC, that has been, despite Rachel Notley now trying to deny it, advocated for by a number of NDP MLAs.
This sort of harm reduction, safe injection site mentality that keeps people on a perpetual cycle of drug abuse, how it simply is not working.
And it also is not at all compassionate.
It is in concept, you can say, well, you're not actually affronting on anybody and you're not forcing anybody into treatment.
Well, I don't think any one of us for someone we loved, a family member, a friend, would advocate for just providing them with free drugs and letting them destroy their lives.
What the UCP announced at this recent announcement, and perhaps we can cut, use the social that was edited together of that powerful announcement after we've gotten through the super chats to wrap up today.
But the conversations that were had, Mike Ellis, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergencies, a former street cop, has seen it all.
He was emotional and teary-eyed.
I also spoke with Chief Roy Whitney, who said that these people who are on Soutina and on many First Nations reservations, they are human beings who deserve care, who deserve compassion, and who deserve to have their lives restored.
These general progressive policies that profess to be compassionate, but ultimately result in people dying from state-provided overdoses.
Well, that's not compassion at all.
And that's not what Alberta is about.
We stick up for each other, we stick together.
And I hope that this Alberta model that Premier Danielle Smith is so proud of, of actually providing care, cutting the $40 a day that the NDP was charging addicts, providing those opportunities and enabling parents.
Listen, if someone's dealing with a mental health crisis or is incapable of managing their own lives, there are interventions that can take place.
This offers that opportunity and extends that opportunity for parents, concerned friends, police authorities to intervene and help a person.
As these people who've struggled with addictions attested, at the time they were addicted, they didn't want this help.
As soon as they were recovered, they were so incredibly grateful, brought to the point of tears.
And that's why you had a stage full of people who've lost people or who have struggled to addiction themselves.
Outstanding in support for First Nations chiefs or elders and the community at large rallying behind this.
This, for me personally, is potentially the strongest and most critical issue because, as much as jobs matter, as much as all these other things matter, the fact that addiction has made downtown cities unsafe and the fact that these people are being left in squalor, these people are being left to suffer and they're being abandoned is absolutely unacceptable.
It is a test of the soul of Alberta.
And I think only one party presently has an adequate response that acknowledges both individuals' freedoms, but also the responsibility to care for everybody.
Yeah.
Well, and you can take care of the people that have been affected by these issues, those who have been struggling for years and are beginning to struggle with serious addiction.
But you also have to look at the cause for this.
And you touched on it as well, in part, the pharmaceutical industry and the kinds of medications and the kinds of almost enforcement in a way or pressure that they put on people to get to start using certain drugs that are extremely addictive and can be extremely dangerous.
And then the mismanagement thereafter once described these seriously addictive drugs, it's horrible.
And then they get cut off one day.
And then all of a sudden, the thing the doctor told them that they needed, they can no longer get, but they're still left with the residual effects, the dependency that they feel.
And unfortunately, a lot of them do seek that out in other means.
And if you really want to solve this problem, yes, you have to help the people that have gone through it and are going through it, but you also have to stop more people from having to deal with this.
And one way is, I think, to put big pharmaceutical industries in better check.
Rip Through Super Chats00:03:05
Yeah.
I can certainly agree to that.
Well, folks, that is all the time we have for today.
I think we're going to rip through some of these super chats.
Again, these chats or rumble chats, a way for you to interact with us, a way to have conversations, but also ultimately a way for you to support us, help us have the lights on.
We don't get those big handouts from the government.
So I don't know.
Sid, do you want to read these?
Do you want me to read them?
Sure.
Take up the first one there and then I'll pick up.
Wonderful.
All right.
So our first chat here, $10 from longtime viewer Fraser McBurney.
In the mail, I usually get junk mail or bills, but today I got a surprise.
Three letters from Hamilton Court dismissing the last three tickets I got.
It was like the sort of Damocles lifting off my neck.
Well, that is wonderful news.
There has been a lot of legal successes, victories, some of them through our Fight the Finds initiative, some of the legal efforts we've had on behalf of pastors, helping them fund their legal defenses.
So it's incredible to see that the courts, maybe not always, but often are getting these things right.
And tickets are just being dropped massively across this country.
thanks so much for sharing that incredible news um i think we also have go ahead yeah Yeah, go ahead.
No, congratulations, as I'll say in there.
Yeah.
Awesome.
I think Yan also used the Rebel microphone with a $1 donation around Yankee Pollock.
And that's a new Rumble feature you can access, correct?
I believe so.
Yeah.
So there's certain Rebel News specific emojis that you can use in comments on Rebel News live videos on Rumble, not YouTube or the other platforms, especially not YouTube.
They're just horrible, as you know, but Rumble is the place to be.
And with these new features, it is a little more exciting.
And we do hope to have more engagement on that platform.
Wonderful.
And then do you want to grab the last one?
Is that a, I see another one from Fraser here.
$5.
Saturday, May 20th, the world kicks off a worldwide rally.
If you live in Hamilton, shout out to studio producer Efron, who should join.
Join him at City Hall 12 noon.
Let's have some fun.
Awesome.
So I know Efron's going to be in attendance now.
No, I'm kidding.
I can't speak to these on the weekend.
Yeah, incredible.
Well, thanks so much, everyone, for watching today.
It's been a blast.
Do I encourage you again, look back to yesterday's live stream where Ezra Levan did a sort of in-depth with his sharp legal mind analysis of the ruling on Daniel Smith and that conflict of interest.
You can also look back and check out our coverage of last night's leadership debate.
As always, all of our coverage for this leadership election is at albertadecides.com.
A lot of conversation, in-depth analysis, interviews with some of these MLAs.
So the election's sneaking up on us.
We'll have, I believe, one more of these Alberta Edition election focused talks next week.
And then Monday after that, well, that's Election Day.
So we're looking forward to seeing you one more time.
As always, I want to thank you all so much for tuning in wherever you're watching us.
Special thanks to my co-host today, everyone in the studio.
And as always, we want to thank you so much for tuning in for Rebel News.