Ezra Levant exposes the RCMP’s online entrapment campaign targeting Canadian conservatives, not actual extremists like Hamas or Iran-linked groups, despite a 70% rise in Calgary robberies linked to unvetted migration. At Alberta’s UCP convention, nearly 6,100 delegates reaffirmed support for Premier Danielle Smith—91.5% confidence vote—despite opposition from figures like David Parker and Jason Kenney loyalists, who spread misinformation, including Arabic pamphlets falsely tying her to Sharia law. Smith’s court-dependent policies risk challenges from activist groups like EGAL, while Lindsay’s sovereigntist push highlights deeper ideological divides. The episode demands transparency on unnamed parliamentarians accused of wrongdoing and warns of systemic threats to conservative leadership, framing Rebel News as a necessary counterbalance to regime media and cancel culture. [Automatically generated summary]
It's from the CBC, of course, but the story is even crazier than the storyteller.
The RCMP is starting a whole program about setting up fake personas online to entrap people.
Who are they going after?
Are they going after Hamas activists or Iran or Chinese infiltration or any of the crime wave?
No, no, no, don't be silly.
They're going after proud boys.
They're going after people who don't like feminism or transgenderism.
That is their crime fighting priority.
I'm not kidding.
It's amazing.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, instead of investigating actual criminals and terrorists, Trudeau is sending spies to infiltrate conservative groups online.
It's November 4th, and this is the Ezra Levance Show.
Shame on you, you censorious thug.
Hey, did you see this insane footage over the weekend?
Attack on a Hindu Temple00:11:51
It's an attack on a Hindu temple in Canada.
I think it's Khistani Sikh militants who are physically attacking the Hindu temple.
In my view, any foreign national who engages in violence in Canada, especially political violence, which I think can be properly defined as terrorism, I think they should be immediately deported.
By the way, it gets even crazier.
One of the alleged rioters is reportedly an off-duty cop who has since been suspended.
But it wasn't just in Ontario.
Here it is in British Columbia, too.
They need to leave!
They have no business to be here.
Listen, listen.
They have no business to be here.
That's crazy, but no crazier than the other foreign threats we see on a weekly or even daily basis in Canada.
I saw this just astonishing.
I mean, the new normal is this guy dressed up as a terrorist just standing there at the new TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University.
That's what they call Ryerson University now.
No problem, just completely normal.
I mean, why not?
By the way, that was Roman Baber, the conservative political candidate, tweeting that.
I think he might be the justice minister if he wins.
Hopefully, we'll get some real justice.
But this goes on every single weekend.
I mean, terrorist supporters in our city, my city of Toronto, go right into the heart of Jewish communities, flying swastikas, flying flags of banned terrorist groups, calling for a genocide.
No problem.
The police are their escorts.
There's a lawlessness in Canada now.
And I've just been talking to you about political and ethnic lawlessness, but then there's just the plain old regular crime wave.
We've talked before about the massive vehicle theft in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
But here's a recent story.
Robberies are up 70% in the past year in Calgary.
Don't think that is unrelated to mass unvetted migration from low-trust societies, by the way.
Really check any top 10 most wanted criminals.
Here's the Toronto Police website for their list of most wanted criminals.
Basically, Trudeau's new Canadians all the way down.
We have brought in the world's losers into our high trust society.
They can't believe how stupid we are, and we keep doing it.
Anyways, lots of problems.
I haven't even mentioned nonviolent political infiltration like what China is doing, the 11 parliamentarians they've corrupted, and perhaps India too, and certainly Iran, which has 700 agents operating in Canada.
So with all that in mind, look at this story in the CBC, naturally.
RCMP plans to go undercover online to trap violent extremists.
Internal documents says Mounties will use fake online profiles to pursue extremist activity.
Oh, that sounds good.
I mean, like Hamas activists, or maybe like some of that people in the Sikh versus Hindu fight.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Look at the very first photo here, and you'll see what this really is about.
Members of the Proud Boys shouted a group of counterprotests.
There's at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on October 21st, 2017.
Got it.
So seven years ago, a frat boy shouted something.
Nothing about terrorism, nothing about the shooting of Jewish schools.
This is happening every few months now.
Nothing about arson against Jewish schools and synagogues.
None of that.
I searched this story carefully.
The word Muslim or Islam does not appear once in the story.
Neither do the words Sikh or Hindu or Iran.
None of that.
So who are they left to talk about?
We are in the worst violence in memory, but they know who the real enemy is.
Let me quote.
The RCMP is planning to conduct undercover surveillance online using fake personas to investigate ideological extremists in Canada, says an internal strategy document.
Experts in ideologically motivated violent extremism, IMVE, in Canada say the strategy is overdue at a time when online extremism threatens to spill over into real-world violence.
They warn that extremist activity in Canada could increase in the wake of the U.S. election, regardless of who becomes the next president.
Who?
What extremist activity do they mean?
Well, they'll tell you.
The term IMVE can cover anything from white supremacists and neo-Nazis to far-left environmental and animal rights organizations.
Really?
Is the RCMP with these riots and the anti-Semitic crime wave and these Hamas encampments, are they really worried about animal rights organizations or Stephen Gilbo's Greenpeace?
I don't think so, but that's what the CBC wants us to focus on.
They're, of course, talking about conservatives, probably talking about truckers.
I'm serious, here, they quote Canada's leading conspiracy theorist, Dr. Barbara Perry, who has claimed that there are 300 right-wing extremist groups in Canada, although she refuses to name them.
I laugh at anyone who would take her seriously, but of course the CBC does.
Barbara Perry, director of the Center on Hate, Bias, and Extremism at Ontario Tech University, said the strategy is overdue, and most Western countries are far ahead of Canada in countering IMVE threats.
She said there has been an atomization of the movement, with those attracted to ideological extremism now less likely to join defined groups than they were in the past, making them harder for law enforcement to monitor.
They're being exposed to these narratives, xenophobia, homophobic, transphobic, anti-feminist, anti-women.
You have it, said Perry.
They're being exposed to them online, offline, and they're adopting some of those pieces as a way to make sense of what they're seeing and how they're understanding the world without necessarily affiliating with a particular group, without joining or naming any particular group.
Okay, so if you're just an individual person who is against feminism, you should now be on a special RCMP watch list.
If you're anti-trans, that's a majority of people, by the way.
I'll keep reading.
Perry said Donald Trump's election as U.S. president in 2016 led to a surge in right-wing extremism while Barack Obama's election in 2008 resulted in, quote, a dramatic growth in white supremacist groups, unquote.
Really?
In Canada?
I'm attentive to that because white supremacists, anti-Semitic groups, they generally don't like people like me.
I haven't seen that, and I was here.
Have you seen that or heard that?
I mean, there is anti-Semitism in Canada now.
It's actually off the hook, but it's from this coalition of Islamist immigrants and woke leftists, usually from university.
I haven't seen any anti-Semitism from the right in Canada, and I hang out on the right, other than by one or two obvious feds and narcs, agents, provocateurs, like those Diagalon kooks, but they're so obviously fake feds.
We are in a sea of actual hatred and violence, an anti-Semitic crime wave and a regular crime wave.
What we saw yesterday appeared to be anti-Hindu violence too.
And the RCMP and the CBC and the official anti-hate activists want to go after frat boys who don't like feminism.
Let me give you a reminder of what has happened in the past.
In the 1990s, there was an anti-Semitic group in Canada called the Heritage Front.
It was in the news every week, terrifying people about how anti-Semitism was growing and Canada was a hateful place.
And they actually named the Reform Party as a source of hate.
But it turns out the leader of the Heritage Front, Grant Bristow, was a CSIS agent the whole time.
He literally built and led the anti-Semitic movement on taxpayers' money, paid for by the government, directed by the government.
They weren't fighting hate.
They were creating it.
They needed it for political reasons.
And then later, Richard Warman, the disgraced former employee of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, did something similar.
He worked for the Human Rights Commission, but he would go online, joining neo-Nazi groups like Stormfront or Vanguard, write hundreds of racist and anti-Semitic and anti-gay posts, and then anyone he talked with, he would entrap them and then sue them at the Canadian Human Rights Commission where he worked for fun and profit.
He made tens of thousands of dollars off that.
He was literally working for the Human Rights Commission, but he spent his time whipping up anti-human rights hatred.
He published it himself.
And if you think that's not crazy enough, I got a crazier story for you still.
In the 1960s, the Canadian Jewish Congress actually paid cash to a man to build up the Canadian Nazi Party.
I don't understand it.
Insane.
They all so badly want to tar this country as anti-Semitic.
It is not.
At least 90% of it is not.
But Trudeau has recently brought in millions of people, completely unvetted, who come from places in the world where anti-Semitism and other ethnic hatred is normal.
So yeah, there is more hatred in Canada than ever, and some of it is leading to crime.
But it's not from some white kids reading Jordan Peterson now, is it?
It's from woke leftists and a new violent army of immigrants and foreign nationals who were let into our country without any vetting for cultural fit.
And that's precisely who this new undercover sting operation is not targeting.
Policies and Peer Pressure00:15:03
Stay with us for more from Sheila Gunn-Reed.
Over the weekend, I visited Red Deer, Alberta.
What a great city.
And I went to the largest political convention, I think, in Canadian history.
Now, I don't want to say that in such a sweeping way because there's a chance, for example, in the dirty 30s in Alberta, when the Social Credit Party was a response to the Great Depression, there's a chance they may have had 6,000 people meeting back then.
But other than that, I can't think of a political convention this big.
Now, I was there to visit my friend Sheila Gunrid, our chief reporter, and Angelika Toy, who were on the ground.
I did some schmoozing and said hi myself.
What a delightful event.
And here to give us the report on the facts, not just the feelings, is our friend Sheila Gunrid.
Sheila, how you doing?
I'm great.
Thanks for having me on the show.
Well, come on.
It's great to see you.
I really enjoyed being out there and a reminder that Albertans actually care about freedom and ideas.
And I don't know, I felt really enthused.
I was enthused by the reaction I got from ordinary Albertans who love rebel news.
And I thought Danielle Smith proved that she really is Canada's leading freedom-fighting premier.
I like Scott Mo.
I like, you know, some things by this premier or that premier there.
But I think all around, Danielle Smith is putting Alberta back in the driver's seat in terms of a freedom agenda.
What do you think?
Yeah, you know, Rebel News, by the way, I should say this right off the hop, really well received, not just by the people there.
There were nearly 6,100 people in attendance there, which it was Canada's largest political convention to date.
It dwarfed last year's Canada's largest political convention to date, which was the last UCP AGM.
But the MLAs and members of government and their staff had a lot of time for us at Rebel News, which might be unsettling to my friends at the company who live and work in Doug Ford's version of conservatism.
But Danielle Smith is really positioning herself as the leader of the political movement to protect civil liberties and to learn from the lessons of the bonfire of civil liberties of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government overreaction that followed.
I think her base was really energized by her slate of anti-transition for minors policies that came late last week, but also her entrenchment of civil liberties into our Public Health Act and the ensuring of in-person education during a public health emergency for kids.
So all the things that saw Jason Kenney ousted, she is doing her best to make sure that that never happens again in Alberta.
And that's exactly why she's the premier now.
You know, you said a lot of things there.
Let me react to the first thing you said.
Well, no, that's great.
You're giving us a lot of info.
I regard how conservative politicians interact with rebel news as a kind of litmus test.
You might think I only consider those factors as a matter of vanity or my own feelings.
Do I like the fact that I can banter with this politician or that one?
Well, I suppose, sure.
But that's not why it's important.
I think it's important as a proxy for will you let the mean girls of the regime media bully you if you talk to conservative citizen journalists who are not with the cool kids.
And because I think that if you're afraid to even talk to Rebel News or other independent citizen journalists on the right, if you're afraid not because there's something wrong with us, but because you're afraid what the CBC will say about it or what the Global Mail will say about it, and they'll do a story, why did you meet with them?
They'll try and do a cancel culture gotcha.
If you're afraid to do that, then you're going to be afraid of everything.
You're going to be afraid of your own shadow and you will be bullied out of doing the right thing.
So it's not so much that I, I mean, it is a wonderful feeling to be embraced by senior public leaders, but not for the vanity, but rather for the proof that they're immune to peer pressure.
And I saw some regime media journalists there, including, for example, the CBC.
And it's great to know that the CBC does not have the political leaders of Alberta in their thrall, as I think, you know, the federal conservatives under Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole and other conservatives.
I mean, you mentioned Doug Ford.
They're afraid of us, not because we're bad, but because they are too under the spell of the regime media.
Yeah, and just to your point, because as I said, or as you said, I did say a lot of things that you probably want to address, but it's not, I don't need to be liked by politicians.
I prefer to be feared by them.
And I think, again, learning from what happened to Jason Kenney, I think Danielle Smith realizes that a majority of her base look to us to properly report on her accomplishments, but also, as we did with Jason Kenney, properly report on her failures and push her in the right direction, because all the forces of the political world and the culture are going to be pulling her towards the center and the left.
And it's our job to ask, act as something to the right of that to make sure that she never becomes disconnected from the very people who sent her to office.
You're completely right.
You know, people sometimes say, Ezra, what's Rebel News going to do if and when Justin Trudeau is finally thrown out?
What will be your raison d'être?
And I say, are you kidding me?
It'll become even more important because it's easy to criticize Trudeau now.
Even some regime journalists are doing that.
But if, let's say, Pierre Polyaff wins federally, well, first of all, every single other force will be pulling him to the left.
We need to be a counterbalance and we need to hold him to account in good faith if he abandons conservative ideas.
And finally, we need to be there to correct the gotcha BS journalism that'll be targeted at him.
So we have worked with, quote, right-wing leaders before.
And in the case of Jason Kenney, he wasn't freedom-oriented enough.
So we criticized him in good faith.
And that had much more impact on, let's say, grassroots conservative activists in Alberta than if the CBC would criticize Kenny from the left.
So I feel that's our role with the Alberta UCP, United Conservative Party.
I like the fact that Danielle Smith comes on our show because I like to give that access to our viewers.
But to me, it shows that she's not a scaredy cat of the regime journalists and the mean girls.
And by the way, they were out already.
One of the important things that Danielle Smith announced is to put some meat on the bones of her transgenderism policy, which protects women's sports, protects minor children from getting irreversible surgery before they're old enough to make those decisions.
And already you can see the deep state in there.
They're appalled by this.
I saw Nahid Nenshi, the leader of the NDP, and I forget the name of the LGBTQ Janice Irwin.
Thank you.
They had a press conference denouncing Danielle Smith.
And the first thing I could think of was they don't have skin in the game.
Nahid is a confirmed bachelor.
And good for him.
You know, I do not care, but he sure is obsessed with other people's kids.
And it's really weird, a weird vibe.
People who are furious that men can't go into women's change rooms.
People who are furious that parents now get notice of sex ed in the classroom.
Why are you furious about that?
Especially if you don't have kids of your own.
Why are you trying to interpose yourself between a child and its parent?
There's something creepy going on, and there's so much peer pressure on this issue.
It's probably the most peer pressure-y issue out there.
This will test Danielle Smith's commitment to her ideas, don't you think?
I do.
However, I think she is doing her best to take a balanced approach.
And we all know she's a bit of a libertarian or a lot of a libertarian on these sorts of issues.
And she's saying, Look, you want to be an adult, do whatever you want, but you don't get to punch women in the face in the boxing ring, and you're not going to trans kids.
And while it seems peer pressurey from the mainstream media and the liberals, and I'm probably repeating myself by making a distinction there, normal people know what this is all about.
Like, normal people don't diverge from each other on this viewpoint.
And it is a viewpoint that kids should not be trans as minors, and that parents should know, and that men shouldn't fight women.
This is a viewpoint that spans political backgrounds.
And I see the liberals are already weighing in.
I see Marcy Ian, Justin Trudeau's DEI minister, weighing in on how she thinks that 12-year-olds should be given cross-sex hormones.
Well, Marcy, I hope you campaign on that at the door, go door knocking on that issue.
And we know that the liberals are already funding their culture war proxy groups like EGAL to drag Daniel Smith into court for the next five years to make sure that these policies are never fully implemented.
Because Justin Shoe can't meddle in education and health.
Those are provincial jurisdictions.
So he funds these proxy groups with Canadian tax dollars to do it for him.
Now, I had to leave the event.
I couldn't stick around, but I understand that you and Angelika went to the press conference.
Tell me what questions you two put to the Premier, and we'll show the clips.
Yeah, I did exactly, I asked exactly that question.
I said, you know, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan has already brought in very similar parental notification policies, and the proxies are already challenging him on this.
However, Scott Moe brought in the notwithstanding clause to shroud his legislation from legal challenges.
So the worst thing that can happen to his legislation is it is ruled operational but unconstitutional.
So it'll stay in operation regardless.
And so I asked Daniel Smith why she didn't do that.
My second question was along the same lines.
What professional consequences will schools or teachers face if they don't abide by this legislation?
So those were my two questions.
And in a complete renormalization of Rebel News, we were the second question asker at the press conference.
All right, let's take a look at those clips now.
Thank you for taking my questions, Premier Sheila Gunrid for Rebel News.
My questions are regarding your slate of pro-child, pro-parent education policies that you announced this week.
Are you considering invoking the notwithstanding clause to shroud your recent policies from constitutional challenges the way we are seeing right now in Saskatchewan?
We are taking a bit of a different approach because we know that there is a section in the charter that allows for reasonable limits.
If you can use evidence-based to demonstrate that it's reasonable, we believe that the court is going to look at that as they're examining our policies.
We've attempted to be very reasonable, but we have lots of policies where minors have been restricted in their activities by government.
We have lots of policies where we affirm parental rights and choice.
And so I'm hopeful that the courts will look at these as we've done our best effort to be reasonable and we won't have to invoke the notwithstanding clause.
So we'll see how that goes.
But it isn't going to be implemented right off the bottom.
Policies are all well and good, but they don't really mean anything unless there's some sort of enforcement or consequences.
So, what becomes, or have you considered, what would become of a school or a teacher that didn't inform parents about a social transition that was happening at school?
Yeah, well, there's a couple of things.
I mean, we are going to regulate the medical practices for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and there's a disciplinary process within that regulatory body.
We will also have a separate disciplinary commission that we established a few years ago.
If a family found that teachers were violating the law, that would be a mechanism to be able to hold disciplinary hearings.
And then we'll work with the sports entities.
I mean, the sports entities have been asking for us to do this.
And so, we want to make sure that we have not only categories for biological women and girls, but also make sure that we can have some competitive categories so that all athletes can participate in a COVID category.
So, we'll have to do a little bit more work with the sports organizations, but we do have disciplinary processes in the other two cases.
Okay, so she basically said, I didn't invoke the notwithstanding clause because I don't want to close the door to legal challenges, sort of like, you know, taking her libertarian approach.
And I trust the courts to get it right.
Well, that makes me nervous because me too, because they don't get it right.
And the courts are, there's different levels of courts.
The provincial court is appointed by the province, so that has more of an Alberta sensibility.
But the superior courts are appointed by Justin Trudeau, and he is making more and more radical appointments.
So, to trust the courts, this decision will be made by a vote.
The question is, how many people will vote on it?
Will it be one judge or three judges on a court of appeal panel?
Will it be the 80-odd people in the Alberta legislature?
Or will it be, I don't know, the 5 million people in Alberta?
Like, it will be a vote.
The only question is how small of an elite clique will vote on it.
I think if you had a referendum in Alberta, this would pass overwhelmingly.
It's obviously going to pass the legislature.
So, why would you trust a handful of Justin Trudeau appointees?
There's a naivete there.
And I'm afraid that that's going to sink this because I have to tell you, throughout the judiciary in this country, they're being re-educated on trans stuff.
They're not even allowing dissent.
You know, entire law societies now require you to say your pronouns.
The trans issue, it's bad in the media, but it's even worse in the judiciary.
Judiciary's Trans Re-Education00:10:55
I hope that Danielle Smith reconsiders and does what Scott Moe does and invokes the notwithstanding clause, which, by the way, is part of the charter.
Some people say, oh, it's an attack on the charter to use the notwithstanding clause.
Really?
It's section 33 of the charter.
How can it be an attack on the charter if it's part of the charter?
Well, and I sat in on the legal challenge because eGAL and the likes that are ramping up to challenge Danielle Smith, they are still, regardless of the notwithstanding clause, dragging Scott Moe's government to court because they want the law ruled operational yet unconstitutional.
And what that does is it will give activist teachers an end run around the law.
Because if it's unconstitutional, then if there's that ruling from a judge, then it might give them a way around not facing professional consequences for not alerting teachers or excuse me, parents that they have been actively transing their kids at school.
So that's how vicious and aggressive these teachers' unions and these activist groups are.
And I am very concerned that Leaving this up to a panel of true to appointed judges will result in disaster, not just for the parents of Alberta who are relying on this piece of legislation, but for Danielle Smith.
Does she really want to give the radical left a win on this?
An embarrassing win.
I think it's a political disaster.
You know, New Brunswick's former premier, ex-Premier Blaine Higgs, took a very strong stand on this, had a bit of a revolt in his party, but he was never higher in the polls.
I mean, let that fester for a year, and he lost because he didn't pull the trigger on it.
I think that the trans issue, especially Danielle Smith's fairly balanced approach on it, would carry the day.
And I hope she doesn't get stuck in a swamp on this.
In fact, the opposite.
If things are called to a question, I think she should have a trans election, making it the key election.
And you want to see a wipeout of confirmed bachelor Nahi Nenshi for him to campaign on what other kids can or can't do in secret is super gross.
And it's really creepy that Marcy Ian, I remember a while back she was tweeting, asking minor children to call her about their sexuality.
That is freaky, freaky, Epstein-y stuff.
But that's called normal in Trudofia.
Hey, I want to ask you about one last thing.
When I got there, I had heard that there were various groups who were opposed to Danielle Smith, and that's fine, but they actually wanted to have a leadership review, even though she just won a majority election last year.
And I kept on thinking, well, what is she doing wrong?
I mean, she's doing better all the time.
She's found her C-legs.
She's taking strong stands.
She's suing Justin Trudeau, my favorite thing about her.
And I couldn't find anyone.
I mean, I talked to maybe a couple hundred people, grand total.
I couldn't find anyone who was mad at the premier.
And I thought, what is this rebellion?
And I saw these anonymous pamphlets that were a little too clever by half.
Like there was one with a lot of Arabic script on it.
We support Danielle Smith, and then all this Arabic script implying that she was like a Manchurian candidate for the Islamist community.
And I just thought, and these weren't signed.
And I thought, this is not persuasive.
This just looks like a dirty trick.
In the end, she got a resounding vote of confidence, didn't she?
Yeah, it was 91.5% of the voting delegates voted in favor of Premier Smith.
I'm not sure if that's the highest ever received by a sitting UCP premier, but it is pretty darn high.
In fact, it's higher than Nenshi's recent electoral results at 86%.
And unlike Nenshi, Smith has the support of both the party base and the MLAs and caucus.
Nenshi only has one of those: the party base, the MLAs.
No one's stepping aside for him to run.
He has to run the party from the gallery of the legislature.
He doesn't have a seat.
And I can't see him getting a seat in the near future.
But yeah, there were some dirty tricks.
A lot of people were robocalled by something called the Islamic Academic Foundation.
But if you call that robocall number back, you can't get through to anybody.
There were pamphlets being left around, as you said, basically saying, vote for Danielle because she'll bring in Sharia law.
I mean, it was a bit of a psyop.
And it, frankly, a lot of the people there found it very insulting because it plays on the left's bigoted tropes about conservatives, that they're, you know, like anti-Muslim, they're Islamophobic, all this stuff.
And to sort of drive people away from Danielle Smith.
But as you said, they were unsigned.
People aren't stupid.
And I think at the end, it blew up in the dirty tricksters' faces.
I think the convention was larger than anticipated because people came to undo the dirty tricks.
I think people who probably might not have waited in that hours-long line to vote for Danielle Smith said, look, the dirty tricksters are out.
She needs our vote.
We're going to stand here for literally hours and hours.
I think it completely backfired.
They streisand affected themselves, and I hope they learn a lesson.
Yeah.
Well, I understand that one of the activists against Danielle Smith was David Parker of Take Back Alberta.
And I've been to a David Parker event.
He brought in Dr. James Lindsay to give a great speech in Calgary.
I thought that was a very productive, useful thing.
Hundreds of people came out for it.
I've seen Take Back Alberta do some very useful, civic-minded things.
This felt a little odd.
And I'm glad there are right-wing activist populist groups out there.
Absolutely, like I say, to be a counterweight against the left.
But I just think he was wrong on this one.
And he sent out a letter today basically admitting so.
Who were the other people behind it?
Let me ask you a question.
Were there any people who are holding out a candle, a flame, that Jason Kenny will return from exile and take over the party?
Like, you can't beat someone with no one.
So if someone wants to take down Danielle Smith, I guess they could be a secret agent for the NDP, but it's probably someone within the Conservative Party who thinks they can be king.
Other than Take Back Alberta, who would, like, qui bono, as they say in Latin, who benefits, follow the money, who would be behind the anti-Danielle Smith campaign?
Well, and I think that's the thing.
There's a lot of the people who are saying, like, who would do this?
There's nobody else.
Like, I don't think Brian Gene wants the job.
He seems to be happy to be a minister in Danielle Smith's cabinet and be like a loyal soldier for Danielle Smith.
He used to be the perennial challenger for the leadership.
He's not involved in any of this.
Besides Take Back Alberta, there's something called the 1905 Committee.
And many of those people, there's a Venn diagram of them and your local PPC supporter that's probably closer to a circle.
There are some Kenny loyalists way back in the background who are just out there to sabotage the Premier.
A lot of people who are saying that she's not sovereigntist enough.
So some former Maverick Party members in Alberta.
So there's some of that.
But I think the fact that the membership voted 91.5% for the Premier should send all these people a message.
Look, you want to hold the Premier to account for the things that she's saying and doing.
Great.
But don't undermine her when she is the most freedom-minded premier in the country and one of the leaders of the political freedom movement, I think, in North America.
Yeah.
Well, I was very glad to see all of it, to see the huge turnout, to see the 91.5%, to see the fact that so many people there felt comfortable with Rebel News as a keeper of the ideological flame.
And that's how I regard ourselves.
I have a personal relationship with a number of people in high office.
I mean, I went to school with Danielle Smith some 30 years ago.
I, you know, Nahid Nenshi, I went to school with him too.
He was my debating partner for two years in university.
So I know some of these people, and I have certain degrees of affection.
I'm actually friendlier with Nahid.
I was friendlier with him than you might expect because we were, you know, we were a team.
We were in college together.
And, you know, I'm not close with him at all.
I haven't talked to him in years.
But If I want to be taken seriously as someone with political opinions and someone with a definitive ideology, I have to call it as I see it.
And let me tell you, if Danielle Smith gets off the path, I will criticize her, as I did very vigorously when she did that dirty deal with Jim Prentiss a decade ago.
But I call it like I see it.
Danielle Smith is the strongest freedom fighter in the premiers.
And, you know, don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
And I think a lot of her critics were just sort of like prickly porcupines who like to be prickly because it's a personality trait, as opposed to having an alternative plan.
I give you my promise, Sheila, and I know it's the same promise you give me, that if they stray on the path, you and me will be the first to criticize.
But that is not the case right now.
I'm glad the party had the wisdom not to go through a civil war over this.
Last word to you.
I agree with you.
And I think we've proven ourselves to be honest critics of fellow small C conservatives all along the way.
I was hopeful for Andrew Scheer.
I became one of his loudest critics.
I kind of like the guy again.
He's a better MP than he was a leader.
O'Toole, likewise.
I thought maybe he would be a true blue conservative.
You could not get a louder critic of that vegetable lasagna style politician than me, Jason Kenney.
I was a proponent of uniting the two parties to stave off the NDP.
I thought I was getting Stephen Harper's lieutenant Jason Kenney instead of globalist Jason Kenney.
And the second he strayed, you know, the honest critics were us here at Rebel News.
And we will, I promise, not just for the sake of the province, but for Danielle Smith's sake too, that we will be her loudest, most honest critics when she steps a foot out of line.
Yeah.
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Well, it's going to be very interesting times.
And I think that you put your finger on it when you say the resistance will come from a mutiny in the public sector teachers.
The only saving grace is that Alberta has a very vigorous charter school alternative.
And hopefully that the shenanigans by these unionized NDP activists, you know, dressed up as teachers who are actually political activists in the classrooms is that in Alberta more than anywhere else in the country, there is an escape hatch.
And it'll be interesting to watch.
I know you'll be on top, but Sheila, thanks for the update.
Thanks, boss.
All right.
There you have it.
Sheila Gunread, our chief reporter.
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Wes Waitchitchin says, release the names of the others.
What is Trudeau trying to hide or cover up?
Absolutely.
I don't know why they're keeping secret the names of these 11 parliamentarians.
If they're guilty, let's know about it.
If they're innocent, let's have them dispute it.
But we can't have them credibly accused working within the bosom of government.
That's insane.
Jeff Hilstead says, I am worried about the BC election, also the 2021 federal election.
Indeed, you should be.
And I'm worried about tomorrow's U.S. election.
Barbara Yamke says Mary Ng should lose her pension.
You're talking about the liberal cabinet minister.
You know, there were proud pro-Canadian Chinese Canadian MPs, but they were driven out by these Chinese activists.
It's a shame.
So, show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.