Sheila Gunn-Reid warns Alberta’s coal phase-out and renewable reliance risk winter blackouts, forcing potential Wyoming imports despite 800 years of local reserves. Criticizing Trudeau’s EV mandates—like banning gas cars in 11 years—she highlights economic harm to Indigenous communities (e.g., Coastal GasLink jobs) and hypocrisy among elites, including Oprah’s mansions and Fonda’s past activism backlash. Oil Sandstrong’s work humanizes conservatives, from Shannon’s gas station to a disabled man earning $100K via energy training, while mocking "woke" performative advocacy. Trudeau’s $7M military "net zero" consultants and private jet use underscore policy absurdities, suggesting green mandates overlook practicality and infrastructure needs. Alberta’s fossil fuel pragmatism remains the key to balancing energy security and economic survival amid ideological overreach. [Automatically generated summary]
Albertans received an emergency alert to their cell phone this week about the power grid.
Is there more in store for us?
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Alberta, but most of the prairies are in an absolute deep freeze now.
Now, cold weather, nothing new.
Sub minus 40.
I've been here my whole life.
It doesn't surprise me.
Now, the length of this most recent cold snap is unusual, but it's nothing under normal circumstances that Albertans can't deal with.
We plug in our block heaters.
We let our diesels warm up a little bit longer.
We might have to drive our kids to school like I've been because the school buses don't run when it's this cold.
But very rarely have we received an emergency alert akin to an amber alert to our cell phone from the government in general.
But I think this is the first time we've ever received one about the potential failure of our power grid.
I'll read it to you right now.
Emergency alert.
This is an Alberta emergency alert issued by the AEMA.
The alert is in effect for Alberta.
Extreme cold resulting in high power demand has placed the Alberta grid at high risk of rotating power outages this evening.
Albertans are asked to immediately limit their electricity use to essential needs only.
Turn off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances.
Minimize the use of space heaters.
Delay use of major power appliances.
Delay charging electrical vehicles and plugging in block heaters.
Cook with microwave instead of stove.
For more information, visit the Alberta Electric System Operator website.
Receiving that emergency alert was shocking because Alberta is coal rich.
We are energy rich.
But because of tinkering with our electrical system grid by the previous NDP government, along with the support of the liberals in Ottawa, Albertan's grid is now at risk.
You see, the NDP government opted for an early phase out of coal, which is reliable baseload electricity, and contaminated the grid with renewables, which are unreliable in the winter and when the wind doesn't blow, leaving us to unplug our block heaters,
which keeps our vehicles able to be started so that we can go to work in the morning.
I mean, it was just outrageous.
We are wealthy with the potential for unlimited, nearly, electricity in this province, given that we have hundreds of years of clean burning coal under our feet.
But this is a consequence of green energy policies.
Now joining me today to discuss this, the very recent resignation of Alberta's NDP leader and former premier, Rachel Notley, the one who made these bad green decisions.
She's stepping down as leader of the NDP triggering a leadership race.
And a few other things is my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong.
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Joining me now is my good friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil & Gas World Magazine.
Robbie, just before I hit record on this, we're recording it Tuesday morning, news broke that Rachel Notley here in Alberta is resigning as NDP leader, triggering a leadership race.
She's resigning as leader of the official opposition.
We don't know yet because this is all very fluid and she hasn't even held a press conference yet.
That's going to be carried live later on today on some of the other networks.
However, we don't know if she's stepping down as an MLA.
I think she probably will because I think she has designs on the federal party.
But I just want to get your reaction because this is wild.
And she was the most anti-oil and gas premier in the entire country for a very long time.
Well, four years, it felt longer, in the most oil and gas province in the country.
You know, when it comes to Rachel Notley, I've often thought that I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I would prefer, I actually, you know, Tom Malkair, I didn't agree with his politics, but I respected him as an opposition leader.
I thought he was a good opposition leader.
If this means that Rachel Notley would go federally and she'd take out that lunatic, Jagmean, and we'd have an opposition, I might be okay with that.
Yeah, this is kind of shocking, but I'm also not shocked.
I think that, you know, she had her time.
She, it can make the argument was the most successful NDP leader of all time that she broke the gas or gas, well, the gas ceiling, the glass ceiling in Alberta.
But yeah, no, I mean, I'm a little bit shocked, but I think that's good news for Alberta in a lot of ways because we need a really, really strong conservative government right now for what's ahead.
And I'm hoping that Danielle Smith stays as our premier for as long as possible because I am terrified about our future.
Yeah, you know, I do think she probably has designs on the federal party leadership and as a conservative, small C, not a big C conservative, but as someone who cares about fiscal responsibility and personal freedom, the Conservative Party wins when there is a strong NDP leader, as you point out, Thomas Mulcair.
I probably disagreed with him on almost everything, but I didn't think he was an absolute crazy person.
And he sort of reined in the more radical parts of the NDP federally.
We know that Jagmeet Singh doesn't do that.
And he's a complete and total Justin Trudeau enabler.
I think if Rachel Notley runs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm cheering for her to run federally because it'll crack the progressive coalition wide apart and the conservatives will just come up the middle.
And as you say, she was a successful NDP politician.
She did crack Fortress Alberta.
She's from the West.
She's a woman and seen as a more, with the NDP all things being relative, A bit more moderate than some of the wild-eyed parts of the party.
I mean, again, I say all things being relative, I do think Rachel Notley is an anti-oil radical and a social radical, also, but there are far worse than her in the party right now.
Well, you know, and if I was, I'm not, but if I was an NDP party supporter, I would want, I mean, what has Jagni done for them?
I mean, he's basically like he's bankrupted them, yeah, he's destroyed them.
And I mean, I always get a kick out of these champagne social, champagne socialists, like him with his, you know, dual exhaust BMW car and his expensive suits.
And his like, it's just such a joke.
And I mean, the country's workers' party.
That's the seat of our country with those two, like with Trudeau and him at the helm.
I mean, you know, I had a conversation with my uncle the other day.
My uncle's quite a successful guy and he's a little more social to me, which is kind of funny because he was, you know, done very well.
But he's also, you know, kind of leans a little bit more social causes than I do.
But also when, you know, when you're retired and you have a ton of money, you can pivot and, you know, become your set.
But what I found quite fascinating was, you know, we were talking about Trudeau and these electric cars.
And my uncle's the kind of guy that would have a Tesla.
And he's like, this is going to ruin us.
And most people that I know right now that are talking, like, like the notion that we are going to have electric cars in 11 years, especially after we had the coldest, you know, spell that we've had in 100 years.
And we have a warning on the power grid.
And him and Trudeau, like the damage they've done to everyone in this country.
If you're a small media company and you had Facebook, you lost that.
He has done more damage than anyone else I can remember, more than his father.
Like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet and their little coalition has really damaged our country.
And I mean, at this point, like, I really hope that Pierre Polyov gets in and I hope that we get some common sense.
I mean, could you imagine what would have happened if, you know, one, they didn't put out that emergency alert, two, the grid would have shut down?
I mean, this is what they're putting us into.
They're putting our country into a state of complete chaos where common sense doesn't exist anymore for their woke ideology, which isn't even, I don't even know why.
I don't understand it.
I mean, in Chicago right now, electric cars, they have only minus 19 and they're shutting down like crazy.
They're having a crisis from a little bit of a snowstorm.
And we're going to duplicate that across our country.
I'm just shocked and blown away by this pure incompetence.
You know, I'm glad you mentioned the electricity grid because I do want to talk to you about this because the NDP here in Alberta are trying to offload their mistakes onto the current government.
The crisis in our electricity grid related to the cold weather that we're having and cold weather sub minus 40.
You're from Fort McMurray.
I'm from Fort Saskatchewan.
That's nothing new.
We get it every couple of weeks all winter long.
This extended deep freeze spell is what's been very hard on our grid.
And the NDP, in particular, Brian Mason, a former NDP, you know, he was, he was the former NDP leader before Notley.
And he's sitting at home right now, or sorry, I think he's in BC.
He retired to BC, sucking up his pension.
And he said that the reason the grid is in danger right now, and we had alerts all sent to our phones, like Amber alerts, telling us not to plug in our electric vehicles and not to start cleaning the oven.
But he said it is the fault of the hillbillies.
He used that word for voting for the UCP.
And I thought, you know what?
You jackwagons.
You guys are the ones who took us off coal.
We've got 800 years of clean, burning, reliable coal under our feet.
And the NDP sided with Justin Trudeau and started taking our reliable coal-fired electricity generation offline and polluted our grid with unreliable renewables that are operating at basically next to nothing right now.
We're trying to have our natural gas plants keep up.
And if we ever end up in a rolling brownout situation, guess what we're going to do?
We're going to do what we always do, buy coal-fired electricity from our good friends in Wyoming.
So for all of the NDPs preening and blaming hillbillies for the failings of our grid that they tinkered with, at the end of the day, we'll just buy coal-fired electricity from Wyoming.
So we're not really getting off coal and getting off coal jobs.
We're getting off Canadian coal and Canadian coal jobs.
You know, I always, this is the part that I find always perplexing.
I call them the pseudo-intellectuals that somehow think that they are superior to everybody and they don't feel need to call people hillbillies.
I mean, I, you know, I don't think that Brian is in a position to criticize anybody considering the mess that they left the province in.
And I have a friend who actually was a complete NDP supporter from Parkline County who told me the devastation that shutting down the coal industry did to that community.
This is stuff.
We produce 1.5% of all global emissions.
That's it.
It doesn't matter anything we do, period.
It makes a zero difference in the world's CO2 emissions, if you want to make that argument.
And we are destroying our economy, punishing ourselves.
This electric car thing is going to blow up in their face.
And you know what's really going to be funny?
Countries like China that are benefiting from it, it's just helping China.
It's not helping us.
The batteries, like, I mean, it's really destroying our country.
And why?
I mean, this is just a taste of a warning on our cell phones.
Okay.
You know, don't turn out your lights and don't use the oven.
Can you imagine when it gets real serious?
Like what happens to the state of our country?
I mean, this was nothing.
This is just a warning on your phone.
You get something to talk about.
But they are putting us in our, or they're putting our country in a position of weakness.
We're becoming a pathetic country with no military presence, with all these resources that we are not.
It's like that airplane.
What was that name of the airplane that we could have, the Avery Air Vote years ago?
Avro.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
We're doing that to our energy industry.
We're sitting back and we're becoming this stupid country.
We've had this bizarre narcissistic leader who won't leave.
And don't under, you know what?
And people are like, well, he's, you know, you can't underestimate Justin Trudeau.
You can make the argument that Justin Trudeau is the most successful leader in the G8 because he's the last one standing, you know, and I think we really need to take him seriously.
Like, I mean, what is he willing to do to stay in power?
I mean, buying the media.
Like, think about that.
Like it was really funny because I was watching at issue on CBC and I found it quite interesting what Andrew Cohen said because he said that even him, he made a statement saying that like the money that they receive, he wishes they didn't receive it because they've lost all credibility.
Well, how do you, you know, I have clients in my marketing company that are paying me.
Do you think I'm going to say anything bad about them?
Absolutely not.
They're the greatest clients.
Everything they do is amazing.
And it'll be like that.
That's what he's done for media.
He literally has made himself this election force, changing rules on Facebook.
And at some point, it'll blow up, but we're going to be the collateral damage.
You know, like I did a post the other day where I had a picture of, you know, Danielle Smith and I put feminists and I put fake feminists.
And then someone messaged me, well, you're chauvinistic because I'm calling Trudeau a fake feminist.
Like, Trudeau has like, he want to talk about trans as stealing women.
Well, Trudeau, I mean, look what he's done.
It's 2015.
I'm the best feminist.
I want to be called a feminist.
He literally stole, like, he did no different than anyone else.
He took that and he became this, he became a feminist because he couldn't handle women actually being feminists.
Tell me one female that Trudeau has uplifted.
Give me one.
I can't think of one.
Maybe Christina Freeland.
I doubt it.
But it's all about him.
Everything.
He's the prettiest girl in the room.
That's Justin Trudeau.
And it's just a mess.
And I want to say something else too, and I'm on this rat right now, but when I saw what happened to David Mendes, I was just blown away.
Now, it was really funny because I watched all the media.
And like, that was like the number one story of the world for two days, three days.
I mean, it was amazing.
But like, I know David and you know, and I, I, I kind of like, I don't see David as like dangerous ever.
You know what I mean?
No.
Like, like, even when he's like going after a story, like his treatment by, and I thought about this even more so because some people are like, well, you know, he was arrested before, but like, what has he ever done to deserve any type of the treatment he's received?
And you know, they, they were covering it kind of fairly, but I, I mean, I was watching, like, they were struggling to just say this is a reporter.
Like, they, they, they gave him, it was so pathetic.
And I thought, this is the world we're in.
They can't just take their personal opinion aside and say, you know what, we don't like Rebel.
We don't like David, but that is wrong.
I mean, and you know what?
I'll say something else too.
If you watch that video closely, the guy, that's like a basketball move.
He didn't bump into him.
That's a screen.
He changed his path deliberately to arrest him.
Yeah.
And you should do a play-by-play on that and kind of show.
Because, like, why would you be standing there?
He was waiting for him.
True.
But that's like, that's a move, right?
And that's somehow acceptable.
And Freeland, shame on her.
Like, unbelievable.
Even if she says, well, I don't handle it.
How about you just apologize?
Say, you know, this is excessive.
Like, she's a former journalist.
The woman won't shut up about how she supports the rights of journalists to speak truth to power, except when a journalist is arrested right in front of her.
Then she doesn't have a thing to say.
She can't even say, she didn't even have to say, like, my security detail acted in excess.
When she had the question put to her the next day, she could have just said, you know, I'm against arresting journalists trying to do their jobs.
That's all she had to say.
She couldn't say that.
And he just asked the simple question.
That's his job.
And that's the world we're in.
And that's what Trudeau's created.
And I think it's a shame.
Like, we're in such a bad position because of this, you know, this silver spoon spoiled brat narcissist that is our leader.
And I mean, look, I actually like Jean Cretch.
Yeah.
I could respect Paul Martin.
I could tell you good things of all the liberal prime ministers that we've had throughout history, including his dad to a point.
And I'm not a big Pierre Fran, but I can say certain things.
Tell me one thing that he's done for the country.
Give me one.
You make the wrong argument on the Trans Mountain.
You can make the argument on Trans Mountain.
Really?
He took something out of the hands of the private sector that was going to be built and then ballooned the cost 300% at least.
And it's still not in production.
Good point.
I got nothing.
Quick, another question.
Are we letting in the same amount of immigrants that the U.S. is?
I heard that we're matching it.
Like, we're letting the exact per capita.
Every single time.
I heard Ron.
What are we at with that?
It's a sane.
Like, why are we doing that?
Like, well, and nobody can give us a straight answer.
So, what they're saying are their immigration targets are probably twice, actually, what they're allowing.
And we just don't have the housing.
We don't have the health care.
We don't have the schools.
We don't have to go to the bottom.
Is he just letting in voters?
Is he hoping to let in people to vote for him?
Yes.
So that's the stage we're at.
Like, he buys the media and then he lets in people to the country so they can vote for him.
And then he's going to ban electric cars in 11 years.
And meanwhile, if you look at the transfer payments, the big transfer payments went to Manitoba and to Quebec from Alberta from our oil revenue, one way, whichever way you want to slice it.
And then they're going to hinder that.
Like this is not, this is not okay.
Like, and I, and I just, you're scared to speak out against it because you don't want to, you know, be labeled a conspiracy theorist.
You don't want your bank account frozen.
Well, you know, you think about that.
Think about that.
He had the, he froze people's bank accounts because they disagreed with him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's like, you know, wow.
I mean, you know, I mean, he could go to Putin and tell Putin to hold his beer.
Yeah.
He is becoming something that, yeah, and I just, I'm blown away by it.
But when I, when I had that warning, and, you know, the damage that this electric car thing does to us.
Yeah, we don't have grid capacity.
We don't have grid capacity for the cars, let alone everything else they want us to do.
But look what else he's doing.
Let's say you want to buy a gas-powered vehicle or a diesel-powered truck.
That is going to stop in about three years because they are going to gear up for the for they're not going to plan.
They don't build a car.
Right.
Like he's ruining our province.
So it's like, I don't know.
Like, I just, I'm at the point now where I just can't believe we're in this state and we've let this happen.
But what can we do in Alberta?
I mean, right.
Well, that's the thing.
We didn't let this happen.
We didn't.
But there's hope.
There's always hope.
And you know what?
The poll numbers are signaling hope.
And as Ezra pointed out the other day, the younger you are a voter, the more you actually dislike Trudeau because you see Trudeau as the reason that you are never going to have the things that your parents and grandparents have.
You see Trudeau as the reason that you might never own a home, let alone property.
The reason you might never get to take a vacation or own a reliable vehicle or be able to afford children or be able to get out of debt.
They see Trudeau as the hindrance to their future goals.
And, you know, it's reflected in the polls where Trudeau is consistently 10 points down from the conservatives.
But that's also a reason why he's going to give the NDP everything they want.
Because the second that coalition falls apart, he is off on a billionaire's island somewhere on a forever vacation.
Yeah, 100%.
And I think, think about this.
He's taxing us to stay alive.
Yeah.
So while you're already paying, like my doggy door broke, right?
So I've got a crisis.
It's minus 50 outside and I can't close my doggy door.
Right.
So I and I can't fix the door.
So I'm already burning more energy trying to like deal with that, right?
Well, now I got to pay tax on top of that.
Yeah.
He's taxing us to stay alive.
Right.
Like heating your home, it should be like as cheap as possible.
It should be a human right.
People that can't afford it should be subsidized for is a basic need to stay alive in Alberta and in Canada anywhere.
And I mean, you sure, he sure shut up about heat pumps, didn't he?
Like, you know, that's going to work, right?
Like, turn your air conditioner backwards and you can warm your house.
Like, it's just insane.
Anyway, always with my rads on him, but I just hit a wall today.
And I, the beauty, though, is everyone I know, and I have a lot of friends on all spectrums.
Sure, you do.
Yeah.
You know, so like, but everyone I know is on the same page with him.
They all think he's a narcissistic child who's never grown up.
But the cool thing, as you said, the younger people are seeing it.
And hopefully we can get rid of that, you know, that it's, I think he will be the worst prime minister that we've ever had.
I mean, he never balanced the budget.
He like, he is, it's just, he ruined the country and our morale.
And can't like, I do, the biggest thing I think, I was talking to a friend of mine the other, a young, younger person.
They're like, you know, universal income will be perfect.
And as long as I can get an affordable house, I don't need to own a home.
And I'm like, wow.
So that's what you want.
You own nothing.
You make just enough to sustain.
You own nothing and be happy.
That is not what Alberta or Canada ever was.
It's a place where people can have opportunities to own homes and build life.
And so your life is a journey.
And it didn't matter who you were.
You had a shot.
Right.
And now, I don't know.
And then the debt, like we're a small country.
And the debt load we have now, I mean, it's, I really hope that we come to our senses.
And maybe there's a shot.
We'll get the Keystone pipeline and maybe all of this nonsense will spin around and we'll treat the world like we should and burn clean renewable fossil energy, you know, from like fossil fuels, which is renewable.
At the same time, you know, I was thinking about this the other day.
It's like, where's all these trees he planted?
You know one thing I like that they do in Saskatchewan is they build wetlands in the ditches by the farmland.
That's shit we can do right away.
We can, we can, we can make our world better.
We can have clean air and fossil fuels.
We do.
You're not going to have it if you make all these electric cars and have these batteries that don't last, that they're going to ruin the planet.
You're going to have to like deal with that.
It's insane.
And we need to be more vocal and do something about it.
Yeah, it is insane when you think that, again, we have 800 years of clean burning coal under our feet.
We have the world's third largest proven oil reserves, natural gas just seeping out of the ground in places.
Coal, you could just chip it out of the riverbeds.
And we are potentially faced with rolling brownouts because of the green energy policies imposed on us by the NDP, who continue to blame the current UCP.
And if Justin Trudeau had his way, he would make it worse.
Because if we were in the future faced with a rolling brownout, nobody could get to work at the windmill farm of the future because their electric pickup trucks wouldn't start.
Like it's just a disaster upon another disaster.
But on that dark note, you and I have a reason to celebrate because it is an important anniversary this week for you.
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It is the week you ran Hollywood out of Fort McMurray and they never really ever came back.
No, it was on a very cold, cold winter day in front of Moxie's.
I'll never forget that text.
You're like, Sheila Jane Fonda is in Moxie's.
And I was like, the hell she is.
She's not in Moxie's.
I'm like, that's just some other old lady with too much work done.
That's not Jane Fonda.
But it was.
Sorry, tell us about it.
You know, it was a great day.
You know, it was, we, I was trying to hunt her down.
And the funny part was, is that I was actually late for a meeting with my lawyer.
And so Suzanne calls me and she's like, Robbie, where are you?
And I'm like, oh, shit, I forgot about lunch with us.
I'm, you know, I'm trying to track Jane Fonda down.
She's like, well, you better hurry up because she's here at Moxie's.
So Maddish just set up a bit of a media squirm and she wouldn't answer my questions.
And my, of course, my cell phone was on like no battery.
And I had two seconds.
But that, I mean, that did two things.
It got me back in my advocacy lane, which I'm thankful for because, you know, I had that lesbian post.
I was kind of staying it there for a little while.
But after that, it, you know, got me back.
And I, you know, I am so proud of it.
The two things I'm most proud of is that I was supposed to debate Micadema from Greenpeace.
And he told the, I think he told the reporter that they, that they were scared to debate me because I was not scared to take on the environmentalists and they would have to get counseling after I was done with them.
And I was so, I was proud of that.
And I'm also proud that there has not been a celebrity visit to Fort McMurray since.
Yeah.
I mean, you could say Greta, you know, was here, but Greta lied so low and basically, you know, did she didn't do much.
But I, and I have, I'm proud of that because that's been quite a few years.
How many years has that been?
Seven, I think.
Oh my God.
Yeah, seven years.
Yeah.
So in my, you know, in my, my little faux leather jacket and freezing.
But it was a, it was a good moment.
And I'm proud of that moment because it was the time Fort McMurray fought back.
And it created such a positive reaction.
The majority of the Indigenous First Nations denounced her visit.
They wrote letters about her.
Chief Jim Boucher from Fort McKay refused to meet with her.
She was left in the cold in Mackay.
It also was an, we just said we had enough.
We fought back.
Even Notley spoke against her visit.
And it was just, it was such a perfect storm.
And it kind of goes to show you, like, because the other cool thing I'm proud of, but was that they were all going to come here for tech.
And I warned them.
I said, I'm here.
And I went to the tech hearings and Berman didn't even come because she didn't want to deal with me.
And so they're like, cause, yeah, because if celebrities come to Fort McMurray to bash the oil sands, I will track them down.
I will find them.
There's nowhere they can go that I won't get tipped off on.
I've got friends with helicopters.
I'll get a helicopter and track them down and I'll confront them.
And so like, and they know that.
And I give zero, give zero cares what they think.
So I'm happy, I'm proud of that.
I have some like regrets on the reach that, you know, like we've done a lot, like taking on David Suzuki, all kinds of stuff.
Like I'm proud of all that.
Tech, you know, that was a project that our community really could have used.
And they won.
They managed to get tech counseled.
And I think part of that was that Martin Machine, Jane Fonda, and all them, instead of coming here, they were supposed to, I believe, they canceled that and they did it at Washington steps.
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Yeah.
So, you know, if I had the resources, I would have loved to have just hopped a plane and gone to Washington to confront them because that Jane Fonda, like, I mean, and Neil Yarn and they knew they knew they couldn't have protested in your community because they would be faced with the people whose lives they were about to change for the worse by denying them their jobs.
And so next time, I think it is very important.
And I'll do everything I can to help you get there.
The next time these environmentalist Yahoos in their 50,000 square foot mansions and their private jets decide to tell Indigenous people they don't deserve a six-figure job to get themselves out of generational poverty, they are not going to do it unopposed.
No.
And I think bloodily, we need to, we got to understand like it's a whole frog and boiling water thing.
Like we don't, we, we, it's this electric car.
Like even the notion, like, well, you know, it's only 10 years.
Like they're not going to implement for 10 years.
How about I will drive a gas power truck until I choose not to?
Yeah.
That's my right.
Like who are they to tell us what to do?
I mean, you can make the argument.
And here's the funny thing about electric cars.
They're actually not new.
They're the fact that they're older than you look back.
They're actually older than the current gas powered, diesel-powered vehicles we have, right?
The technology just doesn't work.
I am not against like a golf cart at a golf course that's electric, right?
I have one.
I love it.
I sneak up on people in it.
I'm familiar with that.
But what we all know in our hearts what they're doing is wrong.
We all know it.
Everyone knows it.
No one wants these electric cars.
Do you know who also doesn't want?
Do you know who also doesn't want the electric cars?
The cabinet ministers, because every time they open their mouths about this stuff, I pull what sort of taxpayer-funded vehicle they are choosing for themselves.
And they are almost 99% gas-powered vehicles.
And more often than not, not a sedan, but an SUV.
And if you pose the question to them, why are you driving an SUV?
Well, because I need something safe on Canadian winter roads.
And I say to that, me too.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And then, like, even the environment minister, you know what I mean?
He was caught driving, they were providing him with a vehicle that was gas-powered.
Like, it's ridiculous.
Christina.
McKenna drives a Subaru.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, what the hell?
Like, so, like, it's, I, I, I, I hate to say this, but something is, I really truly believe it's about creating a two-level society.
Yep.
You know what I mean?
That, and you're, you're happy with what we give you, and so be it.
And we can still, I mean, even the whole, like, you know, the cop conferences and all that.
I mean, what, like, they all take private jets to go feel important.
It's, it's bizarre.
It is.
Bizarre.
Uh, when they move off the beach because of the rising oceans, then maybe I might take them seriously.
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Probably not, but at least I would believe that they were sincere, however wrong, but they're not sincere.
They just are using this to control our lives.
How many homeless people does Oprah let live in one of her mansions?
Right.
Great point.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's, that's what I'm saying.
Like, how many, like, how many houses does one person need?
Yeah.
Right.
And like, I mean, if you want to make like, I'm a capitalist.
I'm all for you.
Work hard, do what you want.
Do what you want.
Yep.
But they're not.
But, yeah, well, that's, and that's my point.
Like, it's like, you know, how many homeless people are there in England and how many castles sit empty?
But the truth of it is the problem is a lot more complicated than that.
Homelessness isn't just always sad people that are down on their luck.
There's crime, drugs, all kinds of stuff, right?
We had a homeless encampment here, and everyone was dropping off food for them and all this stuff.
And then it turned out there was a major criminal raping women in that camp.
Right.
And he's doing it on a full belly, sounds like.
Yeah.
So it's like, it's kind of hilarious, I think, that these so-called woke people are trying to tell people how to live instead of just living their lives.
I mean, Oprah, have your billions.
Good for you.
You did well for yourself.
I support that.
But this infringing on everyone else's right to live, I don't get it.
You know, it's like, I remember watching when they were at some award show and then they had the, they showed pictures of Talia's Pond in Fort McMurray and that all these millionaire celebrities were dressed up in full talking about, talking about the tars, right?
None of them were here.
None of them understand anything.
I mean, like, and that's, I mean, at least that's one thing I will say I think we have accomplished.
When celebrities speak now, they get pretty destroyed pretty fast.
Yeah.
I think we have accomplished that.
You know what I mean?
Like we've managed to, there is a massive, like they don't want to speak like they used to without knowledge or, or, or if it's a cause, it's a cause that, you know, makes sense.
It's not a cause of ripping, taking a job out of an Indigenous person's future.
Like, and I, so I think that is a good thing.
But my favorite moment of my whole advocacy was not, uh, besides Jane.
I guess my second favorite moment, but I was in, uh, I was filming Chief Crystal Smith.
Uh, it was a really good video.
I finished interviewing her and then this kind of an older guy, like, you know, 56, not older, but like, you know, like middle-aged plus came up to me and he was almost in tears.
He said, you know, I just got a job with the Coastal Gas Link and I'm going to be able to provide my grandkids with a little bit of cash.
I've always worked, but I never could get that perfect job.
And they had some, I think he has some disabilities.
So he had to, they had to put him through some training and he did really well.
And now for the next 10 years of his life, he's going to have the highest paying job he ever had.
He's going to leave a little bit of money and it gave him a purpose.
That's what Jane Fonda takes from people with her bullshit.
And that's what all of them did.
And candidly, I mean, they avoid the avoid me like the plague.
So I, you know, that's, that's, if I was to say one thing in this anniversary of, you know, the Jane Fonda day, I'm happy that she's never come back.
Yeah.
And nobody else has either.
Robbie, tell us how people can support the work that you do at Oil Sandstrong and how they can access Oil and Gas World.
Because as I always say, you're sticking up for a family just like mine, but your advocacy really does stick up for the men and women like that man you met when you were filming with Chief Crystal.
Go to oilandgasworld.ca and sign up for a newsletter.
And then we are going to be having some, if people want to like fund us a little bit or give us like 20 bucks a month.
We haven't really done that, but we're going to start now.
I've been, I've got a lot of projects.
I've got Live in Fort McMurray video series, which is the reincarnation of my Visit Fort McMurray series, Fort McMurray 1000.
And then on the bigger scale, Oil and Gas World magazine travels around the country and we interview people all walks of life.
We have some massive big hitter interviews coming up.
But one thing we do is we interview people all equally.
So, other than the cover photo, everyone gets the same treatment.
So, yeah, like, so it was a lady that I interviewed when I was in Uppsala, Ontario at her gas station, Shannon.
And that's what I, what I truly believe.
I believe that, you know, everybody has value and everyone's interesting.
And I, and the goal is to humanize conservatives and tell the stories of people that, you know, that are being drowned out by this fake wokeness that we are surrounded in.
Right.
Yeah.
I like that you gave that lady as much space in your magazine as you gave to the premier of Alberta.
I think that says something about you.
Thank you.
And merch, Robbie.
How do people get your merch?
Go to allsandstrong.com and buy a ton of merch.
Tuques, hats, hoodies.
Hoodies.
Yeah, we are doing a whole new branding thing that I'm actually teaming up with a friend Chris named Chris, and we are going to be taking the floating line across the world.
So that has been a plan.
It's just, it's kind of getting up staff now.
My marketing company is doing quite well, but it's hard because it's a bit of a one-man show.
You know what I mean?
I have a bus in a storage facility in Sudbury.
I got to figure out when I'm going to get my bus back on the road.
So there's always something going on.
Robbie, thanks so much for coming on the show and sharing this joyous day with me.
It's not only, you know, Jane Fonda Anniversary Day, but it's Notley Resignation Day.
Oh, it's been a wild, long ride.
Awesome.
Thanks, Robbie.
Okay, cool.
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And as usual, there's completely nothing happening here at Rebel News, just boring, trying to find things to talk about.
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All that is to say, though, today's comment comes to us from YouTube and not on the gun show.
However, it is on a story that I did this week.
Now, earlier this week, I don't know if you saw it, but I published a story about how the liberal government, and this is an exclusive story because we painfully watched the government contracts website, that the feds are blowing $7 million on consultants to advise them on how best to make the Canadian military net zero.
Now, I have my suspicions that I think the liberals' end game on how to make the Canadian military net zero is to not have a Canadian military at all through a crisis in morale and a lack of deployment ready equipment so that nobody ever joins.
And so the military just ends through attrition, people retiring, quiet quitting, as the youngsters say.
And they just, nobody ever joins.
So we just button up the entire department.
I mean, that would be what the liberals would ideally want.
No military.
Guess what?
Net zero military.
But anyway, I published that story this week and I thought, what are people saying about that story?
Do they are they concerned about the woke climate madness now infecting the Canadian military?
I mean, they're already infected with wokeness in the upper echelons.
I mean, now you can get feminine hygiene products in the men's room on Canadian forces bases and facilities.
Now we're worried about the climate and carbon footprint of our tanks and jets, if we can ever get some working jets.
Anyway, Joan H. 1952 writes on my video on YouTube.
First, Trudeau needs to have a net zero private jet fleet that he travels on instead of polluting the planet willy-nilly.
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There's always Zoom, which would reduce security costs and be good for the environment.
Oh, but you can't Zoom yourself to a luxury vacation on your billionaire friend's private island as the Trudeau family did for Christmas vacation this year, right?
And as I'm recording this, I know Deputy Prime Minister Chrissy Freeland is at the World Economic Forum.
She easily could have twitched her way through a speech via Zoom.
However, she didn't because who would give up a trip to Davos?
I mean, it's like bam.
It's beautiful.
And there are lots of high-end restaurants and powerful friends for you to visit and network with.
So it's tough to do over Zoom.
They only care about our carbon footprint, not their own.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week.