Robbie Picard, from Oil Sands Strong, slams Justin Trudeau’s leadership as weak, comparing Canada’s $3T economy to the U.S.’s $33T while mocking his feminist focus over inflation and healthcare crises. Freeland’s removal from finance is framed as ego-driven, not policy-based, and Picard praises Pierre Poilievre’s integrity amid Trudeau’s scandals—blackface, foreign conflicts, and delayed border security like Dominic LeBlanc’s $1.3B reactive move. He contrasts Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s fentanyl intercepts with Trudeau’s failures, warns against Doug Ford’s threats to U.S. energy trade, and plans 2025 advocacy for conservative values, gun rights, and fiscal responsibility—arguing progressive policies alienate working-class Canadians while ignoring national security. Picard’s platform, unfunded by government or foreign groups, leans on social media and grassroots engagement, like his interview with "Santa Claus," who urged Trudeau to call an early election. [Automatically generated summary]
Trump tariffs and palace intrigue amongst the liberals.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Today is a long show.
It's a real packed pierogy of a show.
So I'm going to get right into it.
My friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World Magazine is joining the show today.
And he, well, as always, it's Robbie, right?
He's got a lot to say.
We're talking about Trump, Trudeau tariffs, border security, weakness versus wokeness, Premier Danielle Smith, and what is happening in 2025 at Oil Sands Strong.
Like I said, it's a big show today.
Let's cut to the chase.
Take a listen.
So joining me now is good friend of me, but also good friend of the rebel, Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World magazine.
And we're talking Trump, Trudeau, tariffs, border security, Danielle Smith making friends with the Western governors and what Robbie is doing in 2025, because he's always doing something exciting and holding the powerful decision makers to account, which makes him a bit of a rebel of his own.
Robbie, thanks for coming on the show.
It's been too long since I talked to you and I get the emails saying like, what's Robbie doing?
So first of all, let's talk about Trump.
At 3 a.m. today, he tweeted out, you know, that many Canadians would like to become the 51st state and floating these thought bubbles.
Now, I think he's just teasing, not us, teasing Trudeau in the middle of a crisis.
What do you think?
You know, I have, I'm a big, I've always been a big fan of Donald Trump.
I read his book when I was in my early 20s.
I watched The Apprentice and I'm a big fan.
I think when it comes to the art of marketing, Donald Trump is by far the best marketer I've ever seen in the world's history.
And I think years later, years later, when we're all gone, they'll look at Trump and they'll reiterate, and he'll be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in history.
I like his rebirth.
I like the fact that he's the most popular president now.
And I think it would have been a lot easier his first term if people would just not have gone against him so hard.
As far as that tweet goes, I have mixed feelings on Canada right now.
I don't believe if Harper was in there or Jean-Cretchent for that matter, any prime minister we've had to date, I don't believe we'd be as weak as we are right now.
So as funny as it is, and I mean, we're sort of like New Jersey compared to New York, right?
We're always kind of that smaller, we're up against, like, I mean, the most powerful country in the history of the world, you know, I believe our, we're like 3 trillion a year.
They're 33 trillion.
So it's very, it's an interesting relationship.
We're basically the same size of a country.
I mean, we're technically bigger, but we can't access it because it's a lot, we have a lot more north.
So it's a complicated, complicated, I guess, geography.
But what really Worries me is that we've sort of become a bit of a joke under Trudeau.
For a while, there, you know, we were known for having a decent military, that we were peacekeepers.
We had, they brought us into situations that were a little difficult for the Americans that we would go in and solve it.
Like, we took pride in that.
And now, like, I'm, I'm, you know, openly gay.
I don't hide that.
And I myself, if I had a daughter, I'd go to Taylor Swift.
But would I dance it up like that if I was the prime minister of the country?
Like all the moves and no, no, I wouldn't.
And when there's a riot happening in your hometown simultaneously.
100%.
So his bizarre midlife crisis has just become a joke.
And when he, like, I get it, like, from a sense, like, I mean, there's some good jabs.
If I'm Justin Trudeau, I'm supposed to be a prime minister of a G7 country.
You know, I report to the king of England and I'm, you know, this, this thing.
And then, you know, you got the Donald Trump, hey, Governor Trudeau, you know, the great state of Canada.
I get it.
But his response should have been, LOL, I'm prime minister, not governor, but I'm looking forward to building an amazing relationship.
Thank you for the amazing dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
Instead, he basically says, you know what?
I'm gay.
And that's essentially what Trudeau just did.
I mean, he said, going after, first of all, the Kamala Harris, I mean, you cannot vote someone simply because they're a woman.
I mean, she pissed away over a billion dollars of money.
Somehow, Beyonce dancing and Oprah, the world has shifted and they're sick of those entitled celebrities.
Elon Musk might have more money than all of them combined, but he's not a stuck up celebrity in that sense.
He's a disruptor.
And for him to respond that way to Trump, they shouldn't have voted for you.
They should have voted for the woman.
And I'm a feminist.
And then he kicks Freeland out.
Trudeau needs to, I don't want him to resign.
I want him to call an election now.
I really, I really, truly mean that.
I want him to call an election and get it over with and just give us, because we don't want, I don't want to go through parochial parliament.
I don't want to go through their leadership debate.
They have backed this guy for so long.
We deserve a mandate.
And Pierre Polyo, like him or hate him, he deserves a chance to lead us.
And I like his measured responses so far.
Does he get everything perfect?
No.
But Trudeau had a chance.
And I would make this argument.
Last time, I thought that Trump and Trudeau had a little bit of a bond.
I mean, it was sort of this, he was sort of like, you know, I don't know, Trump's sort of goofy, slightly gay brother in a sense, right?
Both kind of big, you know, big personalities, right?
And, but we, we deserve better than this.
I've, I, I, I've never been, I actually lost sleep over this last night because like I thought, do I want to be an American?
And all of the beautiful things that Canada had under Trudeau and seen that that guy is to be held responsible because he he's going on, well, all leaves are on the table, Mr. Maserati there.
Well, he had plenty of opportunities to overthrow the guy or to call a confidence vote.
We could have done that, but he didn't.
Right.
No, I wanted to, you touched on Freeland.
Yeah, and before we get to Freeland, you are completely right.
Instead of doing what Daniel Smith did and just responded to Trump by saying, I think Trump has a great sense of humor, which he does.
Trudeau decided to take a jab at Trump, which is an absolutely stupid thing, saying, basically, saying that those stupid American conservatives just aren't ready to vote for a woman, completely ignoring the fact that the most effective opposition for Trudeau in Canada is a woman elected by conservatives in Alberta.
But let's talk about Freeland for a second, because there are a lot of people who are tending to lionize her on even on the right, like saying, good for her, standing up to Trudeau.
And I don't think that's at all what happened here.
I think this is a clash of two egos.
It's like two cats fighting in an alley, except the alley is filled with garbage and crime, and there's a dumpster on fire behind them, and the alley is Canada.
I don't, she was told, I'm shuffling you out of finance on Friday, but you can stay somewhere else in cabinet.
Now, in fairness, she has done a piss-poor job at finance.
Look around us.
She doesn't deserve to stay in that position, but she kept a lid on it and then inflicted maximum damage on Trudeau because I think she stayed on as an MP.
I think she's making a run for the leadership.
She thinks she's going to survive this and Trudeau is not.
But here's my reason for not lionizing her.
And I wrote it on my ex and I, because I was thinking about it.
Her breaking point was her ego and not what's unfolding in Canada.
She was not moved by out-of-control inflation, debt, crime, homelessness, out-of-control immigration, endless ethics scandals, a civil liberties bonfire, intense censorship, housing and affordability crises, a crumbling healthcare system that would sooner euthanize you than treat you.
Her problem was she didn't want to present a report of the fiscal damage that she oversaw.
And instead, saw an opportune time to strike at Trudeau's job.
I think they're two sides of the same coin.
I agree.
I think that if you go back a few years, there's footage of her telling Trudeau off.
They didn't always like each other.
I think when they were the leadership, this was many years ago.
And I don't think, I think she, I have two schools of thought on this.
I'm not a fan of her, hers in general.
I don't like how she carries herself.
I found her kind of, I don't know, just sort of.
I think she's an idiot, not a great woman.
I think she's an elitist, that she's part of that sort of Laurentian elite that we hear so much about, right?
But I mean, in her defense, I mean, I'll give credit for the loyalty.
I mean, I don't, Louis is a mixed thing because like we, we were, you're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't like, because you, a lot of the people that stick with people, you're like, well, you stuck with them, so you're supporting their bad behavior, but then there's, well, times are tough, stick with your friends.
Do you think it is loyalty?
Do you think it was loyalty?
I don't think it was.
I think it was he served her purposes until he didn't.
That could be it, too.
I mean, I don't know.
All I know is the key people around Trudeau are no longer around Trudeau.
And we're like, I mean, all the ministers have way too big of portfolios now.
We don't even know what they're doing.
You have, here's the thing about the tariff threat, which I find hilarious.
Okay.
It's really not that much of a threat.
Get your borders in check.
It's a simple.
Do what Danielle Smith did.
Hire sheriffs, report back to Trump and say, look, here's what we're doing on our side of the border.
We get this.
But by the way, this many handguns came in from your side.
What can you do on that end?
How do we make it so our borders function better for the largest unprotected border in the world?
The most peaceful existence of a country is in history.
Maybe there's a way we can actually open the borders more and deal with the crime.
And maybe like with this fentanyl, like my cousin, my cousin died of a fentanyl overdose.
It's brutal here.
I get it.
But I think that that's what you do with Trump.
So you meet him where he is.
This has never happened in history.
Where the hell is Biden?
You literally have Biden's kind of went to the home and Trump is president right now.
He literally, he's running the Mar-a-Lago White House and everyone's going there, billionaire after billionaire.
And I admire Trudeau for going there.
I don't know what the hell happened after that dinner that all of a sudden Trudeau decided to become the biggest feminists in the world.
I mean, he blew the dinner, obviously.
Do you know?
Yeah, Freeland wasn't there.
Well, see, I think if I, okay, here's another conspiracy theory.
Trump hates Freeland, by the way.
So maybe she needed to go no matter what.
I mean, she's always been bad at finance.
She's literally always been bad.
And that was never a firing offense until then.
I think a lot of it had to do with how much Trump and the people around him absolutely despise her.
Well, and I think that the thing is, is that I have a theory that Trudeau's sitting back and he's looking at Donald Trump and he's like, how did you do it?
You know what I mean?
How did you do this?
I mean, you got like all this criminal stuff, this, this, this.
And you come out of that and now you're president again with a bigger mandate and everybody loves you.
And Trudeau's wondering, like, how can I, how can I do that?
I really believe that that's sort of what was on his mind.
Maybe it had nothing to do with Canada.
He probably said, hey, Mr. Trump, President Trump, could you tell me how to do this?
Because like, I don't know.
But you got to, I mean, I'm not a Trudeau fan, but I mean, you got to give credit.
I mean, you tell me a more scandal-ridden person in Canadian history, blackface, India Trib, arguing with the president of China.
Then you have this fight with the Indian prime minister.
I mean, it's non-stop scandal.
Preserving scandals, fake Indians in the cabinet.
Like, it's just crazy.
It's one thing after another.
The fake, like, arrive scam, like everything.
It's just the weed charity.
Right.
Let's never forget that.
Like, there's so much, right?
So, but here's the real butt in the situation here.
It's like, this is where I admire Pierre Polya because, you know, Pierre Polyev is an amazing guy.
He has, he never left the Conservative Party when he lost the leadership thing and he just rode it out.
He, and now he's, you know, hopefully our next prime minister.
But he's not theatrical.
He's not dramatic.
I mean, he's getting a bit buff.
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You know what I mean?
He is working out.
He looks good.
Well, I gave him a hug when I saw him.
I was like, oh, he's got like these muscles there.
So he's like, you know, he's kind of toning up.
He's lost the glasses.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, he's like, you know, he's getting more sophisticated, but like, like, I like how measured he is.
And we didn't, I think we deserve to be taken out of the Kardashians of the Liberal Party and just have, hey, we're going to balance the budget.
We're going to stop.
Like, look how bad.
Like, let's just, okay, there's talk now about, okay, we're going to export our energy to China and all this stuff.
Like, if this terror thing will pivot our economy.
Why the hell did we tell Germany no when they came for natural gas?
Why did we tell Japan no?
We just, we did it to Japan twice now.
Twice.
Twice.
Last time Japan and Trudeau had a meeting.
Yeah.
Japan asked about natural gas, liquefied natural gas.
And this was just weeks ago.
And if you read the readout of the prime minister's version of their sit-down, natural gas was not on the list of items they talked about.
But if you went to the Japanese readout of the event, they implored Canada to send them natural gas.
So the population of Japan is what, 150 million?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah.
And they have no natural resources.
They need them from somebody else.
Yeah.
So let's go sell it to Japan, see if we can sell to Germany.
And then we're less reliant on the states, which gives us a bit of a negotiating power.
Let's beef up our military so we're not a joke anymore.
Let's stop the insane spending that we're doing.
The crime, the drugs.
Develop our resources.
Yeah, the crime, the drugs, the out-of-control immigration that's driving up housing and causing the healthcare system to crumble.
There's a recipe to fix this.
Justin Trudeau just isn't willing to do it.
Now, you touched on the tariffs and tightening up the border.
Dominic LeBlanc, who apparently is the public safety minister, but also the new finance minister, and God only knows who the deputy prime minister is anymore.
I guess like, who will do it?
Dominic will do it.
But yesterday afternoon, he made an announcement that they're committing $1.3 billion in border security to stop irregular immigration and illegal drugs passing through the U.S. border.
Why, after 10 years and a complete and total implosion of our immigration system, are they doing this now?
What I mean to say is, why did it take an outside threat of economic carnage caused by 25% tariffs to get the liberals to do the right thing, which is the thing that a normal prime minister who cares about his country and the safety of the citizens should have done in the first place?
It's outrageous when you think of it.
I think, and I'm going to be really blunt here, we have a narcissist at the helm of our government.
Yeah, buddy.
And it's not about what's, it's not about, like, I want politicians to be boring.
Like, it's unfortunate because theatrics gets you electric.
And yeah, Harper's boring monotone-ness and his ability to understand.
Like, he explained the U.S. economy.
I watched him speak a little while ago, and he explained the U.S. economy.
And he spoke more freely than he ever has.
Like, and it was really nice to hear him talk because he was in that room and he understood their economy probably better than they do.
And he understood our economy and he knew this, do this, do this to fix it.
And it's not like, I'm really sorry, but I really believe what is damaging the world right now is this wokeness.
And I mean, like, for instance, as a gay guy, I've been talking to a lot of gay people in my age range right now.
And there's a movement now to go back to LGB and get out of all of this because we fought for equality.
We achieved equality.
Okay.
I can get married.
I can live my life and I can do what I need to do in my house.
And I'm good.
I didn't, we didn't want exclusive rights.
We just certainly didn't want rights and bizarreness that doesn't make sense.
Trudeau chose this weird wokeness that, because I was talking to someone, a trans advocate, and I said, what do you want?
They couldn't answer me.
Good question.
Yeah.
What do these letters mean?
They don't even know.
And I'm like, and that I believe is where Trudeau and Biden to a certain extent took the country.
You know what I mean?
So I mean, like, I don't believe that I don't believe abortion is that big of a thing compared to people wanting to pay their mortgages and live in their houses.
This bizarre wokeness is killing the country.
You can settle your differences when it comes to domestic issues if you have a strong economy.
Right.
But when we're arguing about tampons in men's bathrooms and this weirdness that instead of like, how does this family pay their bills?
Right.
I mean, why are we taxing ourselves with a stupid carbon tax that devastates our families when the rest of the world is still pumping out more oil than ever?
When countries with bigger economies than ours come, please sell us natural gas so we don't have to depend on countries that we don't necessarily agree with.
Get us out of this.
No, we can't.
Like Trudeau really should be, he is the worst prime minister in history and he's an embarrassment to this country.
And it's just so bad that we're in this position.
And now, like, I mean, Trump's tariff threats, honestly, if they meet him where he's at, I think we'll get through it, right?
But now, and what weakness, the panic it's causing.
Tariffs, terrorists terrorists.
Like, like, no measured response from our government.
No, hey, guys, we'll handle this.
It's literally Mr. Dressup in the tickle trunk.
That is our life right now.
And it's kind of funny.
And we as Canadians always laugh at ourselves, but I don't know.
Like, I've never thought like we're the weakest we've ever been because of the jokers in there.
And it's unfortunate that we can't force an election because Jagmeet scene, this is his fault.
Sureness.
Because the Maserati, BMW, dual exhaust, like he, he's the biggest joke in Canada, and he's holding him in there.
He could get it.
If Thomas Malker was in there, he would be like, he would call an election.
He would put his personal gains aside.
I don't always, I didn't agree with him in everything, but I respected his integrity.
This, this is a very good thing.
I didn't think he was crazy.
Like Thomas Mulcair, like you, I disagree with him on 99% of everything except his opinion of Justin Trudeau.
I think he feels the same way I do about Justin Trudeau.
Yeah.
But I never thought he was crazy.
I just thought he was wrong.
Yeah.
That's not how I feel about Jagmeet Singh.
I think he's both crazy and wrong.
Yeah.
And he's another one.
I was watching his TikTok videos yesterday and it's like he's dancing with his wife in TikTok.
And it's like, we've got two TikTok stars running our country.
Now, no, Trump, he's on TikTok too, and he's got the Trump dance, but he's so measured in everything he does.
And he's like, you know, like, and he's loving this.
He's got our whole country.
Every time he tweets now, we were never the target of his tweets when the last go, right?
And now it's like his Trudeau's shown weakness.
You know, and it's, you're so right.
You know, we've got these two idiots, co-prime ministers.
One of them thinks he's a TikTok star.
One of them would rather hang out with Hollywood celebrities.
While we have Canadians in the North now, because of food inflation exacerbated by a carbon tax who are coming down with scurvy.
I don't know if you saw that.
Like, that's wild.
People have scurvy because it is for orange juice in the north, you know, like the Costco-size 24 little guys that are like $18, $16 for at Costco.
$50 in the North.
Who can afford that?
$10 for a head of iceberg lettuce in a Callowet.
So that's the problem.
And the best this government can do is tampons in the men's room and no GST on your Christmas tree.
Like they don't have any solutions whatsoever.
No.
And that's the problem is you don't have grownups in there.
And I mean, I didn't love Bill Manon, but I mean, at least he was somewhat intelligent.
Paul Martin understood, like the Liberal Party, before you didn't agree with everything they did, but they didn't come at energy.
They didn't, I think what happened here is in order to stay in power, the Liberals have just moved so far to the NDP.
And the NDP used to be a good party.
They were the party of the worker.
They were the party of jobs.
They're not now.
So it's just, I want him to call an election.
If he has any moral compass, just call an election.
You had eight years as the prime minister.
You can take a break, go to the Agnicons or where the hell you go and go be with the rich people for a little while, regroup, and then become a public speaker.
Like he will recover somewhat and have a life after being prime minister, but allow Canadians to like try to fix this mess.
So anyway, none of my rants about that.
That's okay.
But I want to quickly talk about, you said there's nothing but weakness from the Canadian government up against Trump.
And I think you're right.
But to counterbalance that, our premier, Daniel Smith, has been responsive and not reactionary with this stuff.
She's not leaving the relationship with Trump up to Trudeau.
Thank God.
Immediately after Trump's election, she started making inroads with the Western governors, especially on issues of energy and trade.
So that we just take Ottawa and their inability to shut their effing mouths sometimes.
We're not leaving our economy up to Trudeau.
And she also brought in her border patrol.
And it's been something that's been in the works for quite some time because they're already graduating sheriffs.
And I already see the NDP saying, oh, this is, you know, this is just grandstanding, illegal drug trafficking at Alberta's southern border is no big deal.
But I think they caught 40 kilograms of fentanyl down there.
Now, Nenchi might say this is no big deal, but that's enough to kill every Albertan twice over.
Yeah.
I think that when it comes to border security between the two countries, that we need to pivot a little bit and take a more collaborative approach.
Because what you're, with the exception of illegal immigration, what you're dealing with with the border secure issues is you're dealing with both sides of the border, if they're involved in criminal activity, helping each other.
So it's not a simple like, well, those Canadians are doing this or those Americans are not doing that.
It's literally a collaborative effort bringing goods on both sides.
And I think that that is the main threat when it comes to Canada.
It's more like we're dealing with kind of equals in a sense, like the city of Toronto.
I mean, that's a massive, that would be even a massive city if it wasn't an American city.
It's a big city, right?
Population is the size of Alberta.
Exactly.
Just the city, right?
So I believe it's actually the third largest city in North America.
I mean, it's, it's, I think it goes Mexico City, New York, and then Toronto or the fourth, but it's like it's up there, right?
And then Vancouver possesses.
So I think what we need to do is just take a more collaborative approach.
And I think Daniel Smith is measured.
She's intelligent.
She's not taking the bait.
She's just okay, Trump.
Yeah, let's work together.
And honestly, like, she's a gift to Canada, the way she's handled everything.
She's a good communicator.
She's funny, but she's also measured.
And I know she'll be meeting with Trump and they're going to have some interesting conversations.
And I mean, she might open doors for Canada that let's just be honest.
I mean, that's Stephen Gabo in his tenure as the environment minister.
What damage has he done?
Like, I mean, and I think the rest of Canada needs to wake up and understand something.
Is an uncomfortable truth.
We exist because the United States is such a great country to be our neighbor, right?
We, we, we are protected because of them.
And I don't think we show a lot of gratitude all the time.
I mean, like, we have a great country, a peaceful country.
So, I think we need to show the incoming president the respect that he deserves and meet him where he's at.
We don't have to give everything.
We like we can negotiate.
We have authority.
I mean, Doug Ford knows Donald Trump.
Um, and he, you know, he they have a relationship and um, and they provide a different service to the states than Alberta does in a sense.
And they're, and I mean, Ontario, that's that's a that's the biggest province.
I mean, they're, 10 million people.
Like, our pop or our populate, our most of our population is in Ontario.
So, I mean, if it, you know, it's, but it's still a state.
So, but I do admire him.
I don't agree, like going hard, maybe it's not the best time, but at the same time, at least he's not, you know, screaming, oh, I'm a feminist and dancing around a Taylor Swift.
I mean, he's actually said we could cut off energy to the U.S.
No, you couldn't.
You absolutely couldn't.
Come on, don't threaten them.
Like, don't threaten them.
Start working with them if you want trade to continue across the Ambassador Bridge, because the worst thing that could ever happen in Doug Ford would be President Trump saying, We're going to incentivize auto manufacturing to come back to Michigan.
Yeah, that's true too.
Yeah, so you should check himself before he wrecks himself, is all I have to say.
Um, let's get into in the last uh few minutes of the show, what you are up to in 2025 because you're always up to something.
Tell us what's coming.
Oil and gas world magazine, my favorite.
So, what I'm doing now is it's going to be oil and gas world magazine in the corner.
I'm just going to have a little Robbie Picard presents.
And what I'm doing is, um, it's going to be weird.
I'm going to become the Martha Stewart of oil, but I'm going to do a little lifestyle section on conservatives.
And I'm going to go like Shannon Stubbs has a beautiful place out in Two Hills.
Um, if she ever actually lets me show up, and this is a message to Shannon, pick up your phone.
Inviting yourself to Shannon.
Well, she invited me, and then she's like, Oh, I got to go here.
Oh, I'm in Ottawa.
It's like, Well, you know, I'm busy too.
But anyway, I'm going to go there and film her horses and stuff.
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And I just think it's very unfair how I suppose the left has labeled conservatives with such a brush.
So, the next year, we are going to be religious.
This comes out probably the seventh of every month, gives us a little time to do it.
And I'm going to be traveling as well as all the stuff that I'm doing now, but I'm going to take time and get to know conservatives on a more personal level.
So, I'll be coming to your place.
You're going to make me pickles.
I am.
And we're going to, we're going to, I just want to tell the story.
So, I'm at that.
And then I'm just going to be hopefully doing more Rebel Lives and stuff.
But while I'm doing this, I want to go on a bit of a public speaking tour in the new year and go to big, big crowds, small crowds, bars, whatever.
And I want to reach out to Canadians.
We're going to film the whole experience with my film team and just kind of bring us back together as a nation.
Also, I've reached out to some big TikTok stars in the U.S. who support oil and gas.
And I'm heading to their mansions and they're going to show me all their Bugattis and their Lamborghinis and all that type of stuff.
And I'm interviewing them.
So it's going to be, I'm pivoting a little bit to other interests that I have, as well as protecting like, you know, the oil sands currently as well as oil and gas world.
But I just think that I'm hoping we have an election soon.
And one of the things that happens is that the conservatives really need to work on this.
And Pauli needs to work on this too.
Is conservatives actually have high moral values, are great family people.
They're interesting.
They're funny.
There's not one size fits all.
And the fact that you care about fiscal responsibility, less government, but a strong military and protecting your country's values is something that should be celebrated.
And we, so I, as a conservative myself, I think that one of the problems is that, like, you know, because I need to get my voice out there a little more.
And there's a lot of gay conservatives.
There's a lot of interesting conservatives that have a want to bring a kind of common sense approach.
And the liberals and the NDP, they don't speak on behalf of all gays.
We don't all agree on everything.
And frankly, the last few years, I mean, it trudos kind of embarrassed us as a people because we care about our kids.
We want, you know, I know a lot of gay families and my new, my two new bookkeepers.
Oh, they love you, by the way.
I got these lesbian bookkeepers.
And I mean, they're whipping my business into shape.
I hate talking to them because they're like, what about this?
What about this?
What about this?
It's painful.
But I mean, and one of the reasons they took me on as a client was because I'm on your show.
They don't take, like they're.
They were kind of choosy who their clients are and they're, oh well yeah, we got to take you on.
So it's like uh, that's an interesting take.
And we're being silenced.
Like even myself, like I'm scared.
I don't agree with a lot of what's happening in the whole LGBT movement right now and I vocalized that the other day.
I said to one of them.
I said I have no connection to you.
Like I, you don't speak on behalf of me, you know, and I'm a pretty open-minded guy and you guys have gone to the point where you're not making sense.
So you're gonna see us, a lot of us, speak up more because, like we, I think, as far as like gay and lesbian and by rights, it's never been more better than it is now.
I don't want to jeopardize that because some woke bullshit.
I you don't want the pendulum to come back the other way.
I don't, because I lived through that and that was not fun.
And so it's like, like I think what we need to do is a measured approach and I think what the premier did with her approach was pretty balanced.
In fact, I thought hey, that makes sense.
And I and look at, look at what's happening right now in in the UK.
The UK's labor government yeah, just completely banned puberty blockers right, the labor government right, that's not the conservatives.
So I all believe like, when you're 18 years old, you do you and you should have the right to do you.
But when it comes to certain things I mean if, if I had a kid which I don't, and speaking about parents and you're not a parent, I get that too.
So, like I want to be careful, I stay in my lane on this, but if I had a child, I believe that I would make the best choices for my child that I possibly could, and I would fight for those choices.
I don't believe that people that are not in my family there's exceptions.
There's always going to be parents that are horrible assholes.
That happens sure, we have laws for that already.
Yes, on all sides of the spectrum right yeah, but but that being said, so I just think I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to, I'm just going to speak a little bit more about how I feel this year.
So that's the other thing.
I think you should, because I think you have lots to say.
And I think the normal gays are starting to feel a little bit like how women have felt this last little bit as the feminist movement decides to speak for all of us.
And we're like, no, no, no, we actually like men.
We like them just fine.
We don't hate them.
And we have sons of good things for this year.
The hypocritical should ask to stop.
Like, I remember, let's go back a few years ago when you were at a women's rights rally.
And Dion Bugs punches your camera.
He got hit in the face.
And then they're like, oh, that turned into like a bunch of that.
Was the weirdest situation.
Like, no, oh my God, outrage.
No.
And then I remember going to court with you that day.
And I remember looking at those weird granola chicks and they were just staring me down, shocked that you had a friend in the court, right?
Let alone a gay one.
Yeah.
But I thought about that more and more and more.
Your political views do not matter.
You're a woman at a woman rights march and you needed a bodyguard.
Like, what the hell?
Like, and that is the world we're in.
And that needs to change.
It's gotten a little better since Trump's been back in.
And one of the best things about Trump winning, it shut these stupid celebrities up.
I'm sorry, but beyond, like, that's the Democrat solution.
We care about the working people.
We care about the working people.
Here's Beyonce.
You know, you know, here's Taylor Swift.
I mean, Trump, Trump Taylor Swift.
I mean, that's hard to do.
You know what I mean?
And an Oprah, like Oprah, Harpo gets a million dollars.
I always loved Oprah, to be honest with you when I was a kid, but it's like there's another elitist.
I don't care if you're black or not, you're still an elitist.
Yeah.
You're a complete elitist.
And that sunny from the view, oh my gosh.
Sunny hostage.
And I used to like Whippy.
I remember that cop show, Beverly Hills Cop, or whatever she was on, or that movie.
She's gone crazy too.
And that's sunny.
I mean, uneducated voters and all this.
Yeah.
No, that's not what happened.
They're not a lot.
They're not stupid.
They have different views.
And Trump got voted in by a lot of black women and a lot of white women.
He made Hispanic men.
Yeah.
Because everyone is sick and tired of being talked down upon by these so-called elites.
That's the one beauty of social media.
It's leveled the playing field so people can have their messages out there and they can, you know, they can do, they can do shows, they can do things.
And I think that that is one of the reasons that the world is more like Elon Musk.
Like, I don't know, not a, well, you see, I saw a Tesla the other day.
It ain't going anywhere.
Right.
But, but my point is, like, you got to give him credit.
He opened, he opened the world up for freedom of speech, which they were trying to crush and destroy.
So I just, I think, I think we need to stop the pendulum.
We need to take a center approach on freedom and speech and just be like, the left can say this, the right can say this.
And we meet somewhere where we like, we got to stop that.
You have to stop doing this because it's just, it's too schizophrenic and bipolar for people to handle the way the world shifts on things.
Well, yeah.
Like, I think people should be able to share their viewpoints with each other.
And if you disagree, the solution is to disagree, not shut the other person up, which seems to be the way of the world right now.
People Support Sharing Viewpoints00:02:53
Robbie, how do people support the work that you do?
Because you're largely, I mean, you don't have a lot of big help coming your way, like unlike the green left who get all their money from the government and big foreign charities.
So, how do people support you, get involved in the movement, and find out what you're doing next?
So, please go to robbiebicard.com, oilandgasworld.ca, and oilsandstrong.com.
Follow me on X. I'm going to start doing more on X.
I always say that, but I'm going to try harder.
Just live stream there.
You should.
Just live stream everything.
Well, that's the plan.
Yeah.
Like, I got this whole setup and that.
But, and just, yeah, and then on Facebook, I'm big on Facebook.
So, oil and gas world on Facebook.
And then, or just follow me.
I've got, I think, 40,000 followers on my Facebook, personal Facebook now.
So, that's going good too.
But I'm going to be putting out a ton of content.
I just interviewed Santa Claus yesterday, and he made a message for Justin Trudeau, asked Justin Trudeau to call an early election.
Santa came all the way from the North Pole to my studio here in Fort McMurray.
So, you cannot ignore what Santa says.
So, if you please see that video, please, I'm going to put it up on Twitter today too.
Please put it out.
And the next issue of December's issue is almost done.
We're going to put that out right away.
And yeah, and there's big things happening.
I've got a bunch of politicians coming to Fort McMurray.
We're going to be covering all that as well.
So it's going to be good.
Great.
Robbie, thanks so much for taking the time today.
And I know it's been too long since you've been on the show.
And in the new year, it is my commitment to you.
It's my resolution to have you on the show more often.
Thank you.
I love coming on your show.
It's been, it's a blast.
And I like to come on more.
I'm a big fan of what you've been doing.
I watch all of your really late election coverage.
So I'm a big fan as well as a friend.
So I watch that.
I tune in.
And I watched the Saskatchewan one.
And then I commented on the furniture.
So I'm a big supporter.
Thank you, Robbie.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Terrence's Gun Grab Complaint00:04:13
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So today's gun show letter comes to me from Terrence.
And Terrence writes, Hi, Sheila, out of my 76 years, I've spent 60 of them involved in the shooting sports.
During these many years, I have managed to rise to among the highest levels of shooting competitions, provincial, national, and international, in almost all shooting disciplines due to constant study and practice.
I have found all of the law-abiding individuals involved in these shooting sports to be extremely safety-conscious, dependable, and trustworthy.
All good salt of the earth Canadians.
Yeah, me too.
To have some faceless bureaucrat decide that we cannot be trusted with a certain class of firearms is a gross insult.
Thousands of law-abiding Canadians purchased semi-automatic rifles to compete in numerous shooting sports as well as hunting and predator control.
There was never any intention to harm their fellow citizens, yet the Trudeau Liberals banned what they call assault-style firearms and required they be locked up safely until the Liberal Gestapo decided to collect them.
Just way too dangerous for civilians to own.
Actual assault firearms are easy to define.
They are select fire, capable of both semi-auto and full auto operation, and use an intermediate level cartridge similar to those used in handguns.
Those have been banned in Canada for the past 50 years.
Yes, exactly.
Adding a few external accessories to a rifle to make them look like an assault rifle does not in any way convert them into assault rifles.
Makes them look cool, though.
Imagine, by the way, banning a car because you made it look cool.
Like your red car is legal, but your black car is not.
Actually, I like a red vehicle too.
But let's just say, whatever color the government decides of a car, you shouldn't own because it's too cool, too fun-looking.
They only seem to scare squeamish bureaucrats.
Now that confiscations have begun, we are now told that they will be shipped to Ukraine, where my guess is they will be distributed to civilians to use in self-defense to maim and kill Russians.
Doing this to fellow humans was never the intention when these firearms were purchased.
I also think it's quite ironic that my firearms can be used for Ukrainians to defend themselves in Ukraine, but I cannot use them to defend myself here in Canada when help is 30 minutes away.
Thanks to the Trudeau liberals, this is now the case.
It seems okay for Ukrainians to own and use them and exercise a right to self-defense, yet this is denied to Canadians.
This is a slap in the face to Canadian shooters and really adds insult to injury.
Amen, brother.
Are the liberals so blinded by their ideology that they can't see past this hypocrisy?
Short answer, yeah.
Or are they too preoccupied with establishing an Islamic utopia in our once-beloved country to realize their idiocy?
Terrence, in Lacombe.
Lacombe, one of the most conservative places in this entire country.
I'm not saying the liberals are establishing an Islamic utopia, but I think they are perfectly fine to sit idly by while radical Islamists claim the streets as their own, as is the case pretty well weekly in parts of Toronto and, of course, Montreal.
Terrence, thanks for the letter.
You succinctly summed up my opinions on Justin Trudeau's latest, I think this is his third or his fourth, gun grab.
Who can even keep track anymore?
Once again, these guns are so dangerous that they will once again remain in the hands of Canadians, I think, until the end of October 2025, where we won't have a liberal government anymore.
So I think that the amnesty period is an admission that the liberals know they aren't going to be around to implement this confiscation program in the future.
Liberals' Gun Grab Amnesty00:00:54
I mean, they must know that.
They must know that.
This is just, you know, there are two things the Liberals do when they need some help in the polls.
That is that they talk about abortion, and I think Canadians aren't falling for that anymore.
And they talk about gun control, which is really scapegoating law-abiding Canadians for the crimes of recidivist repeat offenders, normally out on bail in progressively run big cities.
Right?
So, and they hope that people will fall for it.
And I don't think they are this time.
I just don't think they are.
Thank goodness.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back in the same time in the same place next week.
I think it is a special Letters to Sheila episode next week.