REBEL ROUNDUP mocks Mark Carney’s dull Edmonton campaign launch—met with groans and a Met Credit cease-and-desist over his logo’s Petro Canada resemblance—while tying him to inflation, COVID spending, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s opposition. Smith’s defiance against Trudeau’s export tax echoes past devastation: the 1980 National Energy Program quadrupled unemployment (3.7% to 12.4%) and slashed home values by 30%. Trudeau’s "no winners" trade-war claim ignores Canada’s vulnerability, with 35 U.S. states listing it as their top export market. The episode exposes media bias, federal funding conflicts, and a Davos-aligned council excluding conservatives, questioning whether Alberta’s economic sacrifice will ever end. [Automatically generated summary]
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Rebel News livestream on this a Friday, January 17th, 2025.
I'm David Menzies, my co-host.
Well, let me tell you a bit about my co-host, shall I?
Do you know, folks, today is National Popeye Day.
And while my co-host and I see eye to eye on so many things, not when it comes to Popeye licensing, which is to say, she patronizes the Popeye Supplements store because she's so health conscience.
I patronize the Popeye Louisiana chicken franchise.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta.
She is the sensational Sheila Gunread.
How you doing there, Sheila?
David, I'm doing great.
I got to tell you, though, you're looking great.
Is that a three-piece suit?
Your tie is beautiful as well.
Well, thank you.
And as the saying goes, it's fun to shop at Value Village.
And I am not joking about that.
Yeah.
Oh, my daughter is one heck of a thrifter.
You look great.
That is a fantastic suit.
And somebody else's donation was really fit for you.
What a find.
Good for you.
It is a three.
And I think, Sheila, honest to God, I think I paid 30 bucks, which, oh, it's a name brand suit.
30 bucks wouldn't have been the tax component at retail.
And, you know, I tell that to people.
You know, and by the way, there are treasure hunters that go to thrift.
Oh, I believe it.
My daughter's one of them.
Oh, you know, I once did a day in the life of a secret shopper, you know, the people looking for shoplifters.
And she told me that people phone in advance.
They find out when the new arrivals are coming.
And the cars are in the parking lot before the shop opens.
And some of those cars, Sheila, BMWs, Mercedes-Benz, Audi's, these are not people struggling to get by.
But I think everyone loves a bargain and it's the thrill of the hunt.
So when you get a Chanel bag that retails for $850 and somehow they don't realize what it is and it's selling for 20 bucks, wow, even the filthy rich appreciate that kind of money.
Although I don't think Mark Carney would ever be seen in the parking lot of a Value Village.
In his Rebels Royal Village.
Speaking of filthy rich.
In his Rolls-Royce, which was not his at all.
Is that his Rolls-Royce, Sheila?
Do we know that for sure?
No, that was some high-level trolling, though, by somebody who rented it to pull up, which is pretty funny.
Pretty dang funny.
Brilliant.
Yeah, I should tell everybody what we're doing here, but I have my own thrifting story to share with you.
So my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sandstrong, he is a thrifter.
Like his house looks like the inside of a 1970s whiskey commercial.
Like it is all just like oak and brown and rich.
And you can't find a lot of that these days.
So you have to go sort of in the decades of yore to find those things.
And to travel into the decades of yore, you have to sometimes go to thrift and antique stores.
And so we try to do that a little bit when he's in town.
We bought a jug, like quite literally a jug of watches.
I think it was like 20 to 20 bucks for a jug of watches because he's like, I bet you there's something good in there.
Well, wouldn't you know it?
I uh ended up with a Michael Kors watch, a highly collectible Michael Kors watch.
And it's, you know, like I like to go old school with my watches.
Uh, I don't like the technology of the newfangled watches.
I like an old school watch, and then I have my Samsung ring.
Cease and Desist Drama00:11:47
So I don't, I don't reject that.
But I found a very highly sought-after Michael Kors wrap watch with a big face, which I like, inside our $20 jug of watches.
Unbelievable.
Sheila, let me give you my favorite thrift story.
It didn't happen at a thrift store.
It happened at a garage sale.
It goes back to the 80s.
And I heard this story on the radio.
So I'm going to try to remember as much as I can.
I think it took place in Virginia.
And this lady bought a painting for $3.
And she took it home.
Now, I know everyone's jumping to the conclusion, oh, this is a masterpiece, a long-forgotten masterpiece, you know, and that kind of stuff does happen, Sheila.
But no, the reason she bought the painting was for the frame.
She had another painting that would fit perfectly in the frame.
So she gets out the X-Acto knife to cut the painting out and plop.
All these old dusty papers fall onto the table.
Turns out it was one of the original 13 copies of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
It goes to auction more than 2 million bucks later.
She's got a Chezhar Cat smile.
How do you like that?
And here's the ethical question: when you cash out like that, Sheila, would you go back to the lady who was having the garage sale and said, Listen, you didn't know what Burry Treasure?
I'm going to cut you a check for $100,000 because you're making over two.
Yeah, I think I would too.
But I'd love to know what our audience has to say, especially the cheapskates out there.
It's at finders, keepers, losers.
I know.
I don't.
I just, I don't know if I could screw over a lady like that.
You know, like she didn't know.
Exactly.
Yeah, I don't know.
But anyways, let's tell everybody we're doing here.
This isn't the antiques roadshow with David and Sheila because only one of us is an antique.
But this is the Rebel Roundup.
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We've got a lot to talk about.
I suffered through quite possibly the most boring announcement of an exciting issue in my entire life.
Wow.
A lot of people, I don't think, knew why they were there or who they were there to see.
In fact, the lady who introduced Mark Carney slash George Chahal, she's like, I just googled him.
So I just, here I am.
But they needed it.
They needed an old Indigenous lady.
So they're like, she'll do.
She doesn't know why she's here, but she'll do.
Just in case, Sheila, our audience thinks you're making a joke, a premature April Fool's joke.
No.
Let's dig it up.
Yeah, it's Canada Proud had it.
So let's, if you can want to find that, Canada Proud has it at the Mark Carney event yesterday.
Good grief.
That was probably the most exciting thing that happened.
Actually, that's not true.
Throwing out the independent journalists was actually the most important, exciting thing that happened.
Everything else was boring after that.
Really boring.
But they trotted out this Indigenous lady here to kick off the campaign launch to be the prime minister in Edmonton, which is a liberal party wasteland.
And it's no wonder they couldn't find somebody who knows who Mark Carney was because we don't care about liberals here in Canada except insofar as we don't want them.
But they found this lady who was willing to just take to the podium.
I guess maybe her bridge partner didn't show up at the senior center.
And so they brought her to the Carney event.
But this, look at this.
She has no idea why she's there.
I would like to say a special prayer for Mr. Carney because he's going to need prayers to be strong.
I just met him today.
I have never met him, but I Googled him.
I would like to say a special prayer for Mr. She's Googled him.
Sheila, this is a triple fail.
First of all, I think the lowest benchmark of introducing somebody, you should know who they are and maybe have actually met them.
And the phrase, he's going to need prayers, that's what you would say for somebody whose back is against the wall, kind of like a team in a best of seven series and they're down, you know, three games to zero.
Yeah, you need prayers because the chances of coming back from that are very remote.
And then, oh, I googled him, right?
I googled him.
The guy, he's not exactly an unknown.
This is member the outsider who advises the president, the prime minister of Canada, the prime minister of the UK, and the president of France.
I think that's about as insight as you can get.
And she has to Google that?
Well, that shows that she's not an engaged liberal operative.
So I guess that means she's a smart lady.
But this was the best the liberals could do.
And then they had George Chahal introduce them.
So they brought in the other liberal from Alberta because Randy or one of the Randys has decided to endorse Christia Freeland.
So he's the Edmonton liberal who will lose his seat, undoubtedly, will lose his seat.
He's going to lose his seat.
And he's already decided to endorse Christia Freeland.
I can't believe she wanted that endorsement, whatever.
And so they brought up George Chahal from Edmund to do the campaign kickoff in, they brought him from Calgary to do the campaign kickoff in Edmonton.
And as you'll recall, he's a porch pirate.
So he's the guy who stole all the lit from the conservative candidate in his riding.
He was stealing it out of mailboxes.
And then, oh, my favorite part of this whole thing is he starts listing off all the things that are wrong in Canada.
And I'm like, George, the phone call's coming from inside the house.
You guys did that.
Oh, memories of Black Christmas.
Sheila, by the way, sometimes we are in the position of breaking news on the live stream, and such is the case right now.
A posting literally a minute ago, and let's give credit where it's where credit is due.
It's from Joe Warmington, the ACE reporter at the Toronto Sun.
He has just filed a story.
If we can get the podium of the Mark Carney presser back up on the screen, here's the headline: minutes into launching bid for PM, Mark Carney told to cease using campaign logo.
He's received a cease and desist letter from Met Credit.
It's almost a mirror image.
And you know, Sheila, again, this doesn't speak of being cheap, I don't think, because Carney's loaded, but it speaks of incompetence that, you know, a lot of thought goes into or should go into a logo, especially if this is going to be your symbol for years, decades moving down the road.
And you see that to me, it's almost a little ripoff of the Petro Canada logo.
But there's a company called Met Credit, and they've sent a cease and desist letter.
So I wonder, does Mark Carney lawyer up or is that the last we've seen of that logo?
I'm not sure, but Met Credit tweeted to Mark Carney yesterday when he said, I'm in.
They said, okay, thanks, Mark, but we're a political.
Yeah, beautiful logo, Mark, but we're apolitical.
And then signed it, Brian Sommerfeld.
So someone who works.
And by the way, this like I'm in, that's just ripe for Photoshop.
Like I'm whatever.
Like you can, so not very bright all around from Mark Carney.
But yeah, like his campaign didn't do like a quick logo check or anything like that.
I'm actually shocked that they sent him a cease and desist because this is Mark Carney.
I'm surprised he didn't send them a cease and desist.
Great point, given the way in which banks are federally regulated.
And we saw the ultimate disgrace of the banks by freezing bank accounts back in 2022, which they did not have to do, contrary to what the Banking Association tells you folks.
The insurance companies were ordered to cancel the auto insurance policies of the truckers.
And they said, no, they haven't broken any law.
They're not defaulting on their premiums.
So no.
And okay, so the banks could have taken a principled and righteous stance and they did, but I never thought of that.
You know, good for you, Sheila, for thinking about what Met Credit might be getting into.
But at the end of the day, I'm looking at the two logos, Sheila, and they're very much super similar.
Met credit has a legitimate life.
Of course they do.
Of course they do.
And I can't imagine Met Credit wants their horse hitched to that cart as it plummets over the cliff.
I just, whatever, but like good for them.
Good for them.
Way to punch up, guys.
Let's get into the campaign launch because we are 60 minutes and we haven't really shown anything.
Carney told a very bored and unelectric crowd.
Like I've been to Polyev events and it is young.
It's energetic.
It's diverse if you care about those things.
It's like the energy in the room is, and I've been to a lot of political events and it is exciting.
And it is like old people, young people.
You can tell that people are rich.
You can tell that there are blue-collar people, people coming like straight from their job as a welder or whatever.
Like it's very, and it's packed.
This was nap time at the nursing home in Edmonton.
Strange Prime Minister Treatment00:13:04
Anyways, here's a clip of Mark Carney telling the crowd that the good times are all gone.
Now, he neglects to tell the crowd that who pissed away the good times, that would be the liberals.
And who advised them how to do it?
That would be him.
So let's show this.
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But those good old times, my friends, are over.
our times are anything but ordinary the system it's not working as it should And it's not working as it could.
People are anxious.
No wonder.
Too many are falling behind.
Too many young people can't afford a home.
Too many people can't find a doctor.
And then we're living through the two biggest technological revolutions since they split the atom.
And our climate is changing in ways that threatens livelihoods from Fort Mack to Fort Smith.
And then on top of that, as George just mentioned, in just four days, the United States will swear in Donald Trump as their 47th president, a man who threatens economic force on his closest, most steadfast allies, including Canada.
No.
Yeah, Jean, right?
Yeah, I wonder why that would be.
Maybe we're not living up to our NATO commitments and have no intention of doing so until 2032.
Maybe because the border is open for illegal aliens and fentanyl.
Not as great as the southern border, which is an absolute sieve.
And already Donald Trump, not even in office, is getting results.
And Sheila, you are right.
Nap time at the old folks' lodge.
Did you see that poor kid in the Oilers jersey?
I thought he was going to pass out.
He was trying to stay upright and he was slouching over and his eyes were going to the back of his head.
What, you know, who brought their kid to this snor fest?
I have two cups of coffee in my office as we speak.
And I brought them down here knowing that I would have to re-listen to Mark Carney because that was like having to donate blood.
It was like all your energy just left your body.
I called him an energy vampire suckling at me through the screen of my laptop.
And I had to watch it a couple of times because I cut the clips yesterday.
Boring.
But if you cut through the absolute snor fest of that, all the things he lists are things that he is responsible for.
The two major economic issues of the Trudeau government that have been mishandled by him.
COVID and just economics in general.
So if you're worried about inflation, that's his overspending.
If you thought the fall economic update was a disaster, that's him.
If you thought that the government overspent during COVID and it caused inflation, that's him.
If you are worried about the carbon tax making life unaffordable, that's him.
These are his issues.
He did this.
Now he's pointing out, yeah, guys, it's tough out there.
Yeah, I know you made it tough, buddy.
It was like you.
Trudeau is really an empty vessel, right?
People just pour their dumb ideas into him and he thinks they're good.
And then he repeats them.
The dumb ideas coming at Justin Trudeau, well, the headwaters of them that flow down to him are the World Economic Forum and economic forum people like Mark Carney whispering in his ear like some Rasputin.
Rasputin?
Rasputin?
I don't know how you say it.
But that's who he is.
That's who Carney is.
So if you think you're getting something different, you're getting more of the same.
In fact, I got to give the liberals credit.
If they pick Carney, they're just cutting out the middleman.
Yeah, that's a great point, Sheila.
But you know what?
The message stinks.
But more to the point, the delivery of the message also stinks because you, you know, where's the sizzle?
I mean, as much as Mark Carney was denouncing Donald Trump, he should tune into the Trump rally in D.C. on Sunday, the day before inauguration, and get an idea how it's done.
I mean, the atmosphere at a Trump rally is electrifying.
And Trump is just, you know, he's not reading off a teleprompter or script.
He's just, you know, speaking off the cuff.
He's making jokes and good jokes at that.
Donald Trump doesn't get enough credit for his sense of humor.
And it's kind of funny because as much as the Jon Stewart show, I thought, you know, was like, what's he doing there?
At least he came across Sheila as comfortable in that environment.
And he was making jokes.
What happened at this Edmonton presser?
You could have heard a needle drop.
There was nobody clapping, even at the times where they're supposed to clap.
I'm mystified at how that happened, especially since Carney has the resources to astroturf that room, have people come in like paid actors, plants.
You'd have to fly him in.
Yeah, well, he's got that cash.
Yeah.
At one point, he tried a joke.
Actually, he tried to, and the crowd audibly groaned.
He said something like, we're going to give a Polan, not slogans.
No.
Like, they were like, I just was like, just give me, give me something for the cringe and let me die.
Like, it was just so bad.
There's, he did take a swipe at Premier Daniel Smith, and I know Olivia wants to move ahead, but I think it's a pretty short clip.
He comes to Alberta.
This is a liberal wasteland to crap on our premier who's standing up for our jobs, but 550,000 jobs across this country supported by oil and gas.
Listen to this.
Let me tell you one other thing.
In these times, sending Pierre Polyev to negotiate with Donald Trump is the worst possible idea.
I can think of one other politician I might not send.
Oh, who?
It just came to me in the last 24 hours.
Oh, he means Daniel Smith.
I thought he was talking about Justin Trudeau.
No, he means Danielle Smith, the woman who is friendly with the Trump administration.
That's how stupid these liberals are.
They're like, let's send somebody that Trump really hates to see if we can get something good out of him.
That's how dumb he is.
You don't come to Alberta and crap on the premier who's fighting for our jobs.
Like that, just completely idiotic.
But I know why he launched in Alberta is because he wanted to be Alberta's man.
He didn't want Freeland to do it, who is now being forced to launch in Toronto.
And Sheila, that is the question, right?
Do you buy into the narrative that this liberal leadership race is really a coronation for Mr. Carney?
Or with the announcement now officially, well, unofficially, she'll make the official announcement on Sunday in Toronto.
Now that Fraudline Freeland says she wants the gig, is this going to be a legitimate race?
I don't even care.
It's going to be whatever the outcome is, it's exactly the same.
It's more Justin Trudeau.
Like Freeland's son's godfather is Carney.
And Justin Trudeau's chief advisor on everything is Mark Carney.
So like it's a big incestuous triangle.
You throw Gerald Butts and his wife in the mix and both work at Eurasia Group.
Correct.
So, I mean, like, what's the difference?
Like, who cares?
It's just more of the same for Canada.
We want to talk about, I know we really want to bump ahead because we have a hard out at two, but let's talk about, let's talk about what happened to the independent journalists there.
So from what I understand, late last night, independent journalists accidentally got accredited by the Carney camp.
And again, this is exactly the same.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Justin Trudeau did it to you.
His security detail roughed you up, throws us out of events.
Freeland, the other contender, rough you up on the streets, no big deal.
Well, guess what happened to the independent journalists at Carney's launch?
If you think this is going to be any different going forward, do you think this is a guy who believes in civil liberties?
Definitely not.
I think Alberta is one of the freest places for journalists to work in this entire country.
We have a premier who believes in speaking to independent journalists and she believes in free speech.
And then along comes Carney.
Anyways, I'll show you this video from Kian Bexty, our alumnus who now runs Counter Signal.
Carney called the cops on him and Western Standard had a journalist there and True North.
So let's take a look at this.
Oh, that's, by the way, that's the Rolls-Royce that rolled up.
Yes.
Now, it was initially reported by, well, I'm not sure if Kian actually said that.
He just said a Rolls-Royce rolled up.
And then everybody assumes that it was Carney's, including me.
But as it turns out, it wasn't Carney's.
Nobody got out.
It was just a big, beautiful troll.
And which is, you know, the fact that everybody believes that Carney got out of it is exactly what we think of Carney.
So whatever.
But look at what they did to the journalists.
We've been advised usually.
By nobody who's identifying themselves.
They're just random already dude came up and said that.
This fellow as well.
If we have to leave, I'm happy to leave.
But nobody from whoever's booked this has told us that they're actually an authority figure, just people that I think don't like us.
Okay, you are trespassing.
Oh, okay.
Do you want to come out just so you don't want to come all that?
I don't know.
Sure, yeah.
Okay.
Happy to...
Yep.
Can I show you with us?
Okay.
What's your position in the campaign?
No, no, no.
Sorry, they're going to come through here.
Yes, okay.
Here, here.
Go this way.
This is good.
I'll see you.
I'll see you.
Hi, George.
Have you stolen anything lately?
Everything.
Back this way?
Okay, sorry, we're actually gonna go with this one.
This way, this way, sir.
This way.
This way.
That's Western standards right there.
That's the worst I've ever been treated.
If you want to keep holding that stuff, we're gonna be off the community project.
We'll have to pick up our car.
Is that okay?
Where is it?
It's just in the parking lot.
We can drive, but thank you.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
So the entire community center has trespassed us, or was it the campaign?
The private.
Yeah, the private event.
Okay, but they haven't booked this like playground.
No, but it is part of the property.
So we're going to get you to be off the property.
Okay.
You're free to film from there.
Sure, yeah.
Well, thanks for being so professional about this.
It's strange treatment from someone who wants to be the prime minister of this country.
Just right up ahead here.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's my car.
It's the stretch Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.
You know, it's too bad Kian wasn't given permission to go onto the playground.
What a photo op that would be, Sheila.
He's on the swing set.
And, you know, Kian Beckstee for the counter signal here in Edmonton in the playground.
On the monkey bars.
On the monkey bars.
Imagine that that's how your campaign launch in Edmonton starts off.
Kicking The CBC Out00:02:28
You know, Alberta is the home of independent journalism in this country.
Really, it is.
I mean, Rebel News is headquartered in Toronto and you do great work, but we have a government here that treats us with the respect that we deserve as journalists.
And then he comes in to treat us the way Ottawa does.
Isn't that just exactly the liberals, right?
100%.
Just come in here with their Ottawa attitude to colonize us.
But Sheila, here's the $64,000 question.
What was the ostensible policy reason for denying them access and calling the cops, especially since Kian and those other journalists were accredited?
They weren't crashing some private event.
They reached out.
They had got their credentials and they showed up.
Do we know at this stage what the official reason, well, we know what the real reason is.
Carney hates independent journalists as much as Trudeau and Fraud Lein Freeland.
Carney doesn't want to have to answer hard questions.
He's only going to get softballs from the mainstream media trained SEALs.
But they're not going to say that, of course.
They're not going to be honest.
So what was the reason for credentialed journalists being approved?
Suddenly, we got to call the cops on it.
Has that been reported yet?
No, no, and nobody's going to ask him.
So, well, that's not to say that nobody will ask him.
I'm sure Countersignal has probably sent a media request, but they're not going to hear back.
And you know, the mainstream media isn't going to ask that question.
They're just happy their competitors weren't in there.
And so they don't care.
Like, if I saw somebody booting the CBC out of an event, I would be like, hey, no, you know what?
They can stay.
They're journalists.
I don't like them, but they should be able to stay.
You know who didn't say a down word about them being kicked out?
The mainstream media.
Yep.
Yeah.
No, I've been in these situations and I once reached out to, it was every national brand of mainstream media.
And I said, hey, guys, how about a little solidarity here?
And you know what they said?
Silence.
Nothing.
Couldn't even make the case.
You know, I would prefer, well, here's why we think you should be kicked out because I'd be educated.
I'd get some understanding why I'm persona non grata, you know.
But no, Sheila, it's so obvious.
Everything On The Table00:15:21
We're being paid by a federal government sugar daddy.
We're in a sunset industry.
We're losing viewers and listeners and readers.
We're losing advertisers.
Those who remain are getting ads at 10 cents on the dollar compared to what they charged 15 or 20 years ago.
And without the welfare, we are toast.
I mean, does a month go by when Bell Media is not making yet another announcement of more layoffs?
And that's with the government funding.
So the fix is in.
The second thing I want to say is because I'm one of the few people at Rebel News that actually went to journalism school back in the day.
And I have a journalism degree.
And I've taken all the courses and I've read all the media books.
And it's this.
In terms of ethics 101, Sheila, that's a conflict of interest.
How can you be expected to fairly and impartially cover the government while you're taking money from the government?
You know, if my old journalism professors back in the Ryerson days in the early 80s had seen this happening, they would pass out with a heart attack, Sheila.
This is so, you know, out of bounds.
But it's the new normal here in Canada, isn't it?
This is why I harden my heart to journalistic layoffs.
And normally when I see people getting laid off, I'm like, you know what?
Those are families.
Even if I don't like those people, they have innocent kids and wives and whatever, but I'm all out of caring.
I'm all at a caring for these people.
I've got an ad read.
We've got a bunch of chats to get to.
We want to get to those.
And then we've got to get on to the next topic.
And Olivia reiterates to me, heart out at two o'clock.
So positive.
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Okay, I'm just going to breeze through some of these chats because, wow, we're getting a few today.
And thank you so much for that.
Ryerson Gary gives us five bucks and says, U.S. dairy corporations, yes, corporations get monthly checks and after Monday from Donald Trump to overproduce.
Proportionately, they dump more than we do.
Wisconsin can supply Canada at no cost.
Quite frankly, I don't really care what the Americans do.
I care that Canadians suffer from inflated dairy prices.
And it is the poor who suffer the most because of the dairy cartel.
Okay.
Ware 403 gives us 20 bucks.
Well, thank you so much.
Carney is a pretty old guy.
So I wonder if he can, oh, gross.
I wonder if he can get it up to penetrate the government that Klaus Schwab and the WEF needs.
That's such a David Menzies chat right there.
To quote Andrew Robinson, the serial killer in Dirty Harry, please, I scare easy.
Yeah.
Good grief.
Ryer Singeri also gives us five bucks and says, when NORAD and the DEW lines were set up according to the U.S. Air Force personnel, at least in the Remoor base in Northern Ontario, there was only one reason a war with Russia would be waged over Canada.
That's why NORAD exists.
It's not the Santa tracker.
Like, that's why NORAD is there.
It's to realize that if there's a war with the United States between at the time the Soviet bloc, it would happen over top of Northern Canada.
It's why Alert exists, like the airbase.
And you know what, folks?
Sheila just showed again how young she is when she called the Dew line the DEW line.
I know.
Sheila, as someone who grew up in fear during the Cold War, everybody of my age knows it's the Do.
I know the tail end of the Cold War.
I know enough about NORAD and Alert.
Well, you got NORAD, right?
You didn't call that N-O-R-A-D.
That's fine.
What am I supposed to call DEI?
Die?
Yes.
Okay.
Schmengi.
Schmengi.
Yash.
Yash or Stan.
I'm Yash Schmengi and I'm Stan Schmengi.
Only SCT viewers will know that.
Carney will change the carbon tax to something similar.
I think so.
He said he's intent now on removing the consumer carbon tax.
Okay, that's a cute way of saying that you want an industrial one, which will ultimately be passed along down to the consumer.
Oh, wait a minute, Shelly.
You mean the producers and the sellers won't absorb the cost and the price will be the same?
You're kidding me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just you move it, right?
Like it's just you're just moving it up and down the supply chain like you're riffing on a guitar.
Here's a question.
If somebody in the mainstream media will dare ask it of Carney and especially of Freeland on Sunday, who's also talking about dialing back the carbon tax, isn't this a fair question?
Miss Freeland, you for years have been saying that Canadians benefit from the carbon tax with the carbon tax rebate.
So why would you hurt Canadians by taking away the idiots have been saying for years there's no business case for Canadian oil and gas, except insofar as you can use it as a cudgel against the United States in a business war?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess their little Ponzi scheme idea didn't play out the way they said.
You know, like you can give money to the government, cycle it through the hands of a thousand bureaucrats who don't work for free, do nothing to grow the money, and then say that it increased in value magically.
That's a Ponzi scheme.
Okay.
We've got one.
Oh, sorry.
To finish that chat, Schmengi asks, would you prefer Trudeau's underwear or Carney's?
What?
Well, there's a joke in there about Freeland's lack of in a certain photo shoot that we had to blur once upon a time.
Kian Bexti was involved with that one too.
So, but I dare not go there.
Poor Kian.
Just poor Kian.
I can't believe that he had.
You know what?
No wonder he went on to do his own thing.
We did that to him a little bit.
So University, five bucks says Carney had to speak.
Oh, this is funny.
Carney had to speak low and slow because there are a lot of elderly hard of hearing people.
Yeah, and instead of applause or laughter or booing at the right time when mentioned the opposition, the reaction was it was kind of akin to Kirk Douglas back in his later days.
You know, what are you saying?
Okay, I should joke.
I'll be there one day too.
Karma's going to bite me.
One day.
Let's go into the tariff war and the 51st state issue.
And then I think that'll probably be everything we have time for today.
Okay.
We've got Trudeau once again saying everything is on the table when it comes to retaliatory tariffs against Donald Trump.
The Constitution called and says no, but let's listen to Trudeau.
Still getting it wrong.
As I've said consistently, if the incoming American administration moves forward with tariffs, we will not hesitate to act.
We will respond.
And I will say it again, everything is on the table.
Now, with the help of all of you, I hope we can avoid that outcome.
But if the worst case scenario comes to pass, we will need all your knowledge, insights, expertise, and quite frankly, connections with American business leaders and political leaders to make sure that they know that the decision to impose tariffs on Canada will hurt Americans first and foremost.
We need to respond in the most appropriate way to demonstrate there are no winners in a trade fight and to best support our friends, our neighbors, and our Canadian family who are most affected by the tariffs.
As we said on Wednesday, if one region or one industry ends up carrying a larger burden of defending Canadians, we will make sure that all Canadians step up to support that region or industry.
We're in this together.
We're doing all Canadians together across the country in every different jobs and industry.
No one area will be singled out to fight for all of Canada because all Canadians will be fighting for Canada.
Sheila.
True Canadians.
That's enough of him.
Sheila, I want to get your Western perspective.
I'm just going to weigh in.
I think I might have said this the other day, but I'm going to say it again.
The Prime Minister should be aware that everything is on the table is now bastardized language.
Thanks to his second Bahan Banana cohort, Jugmeet, Sell Out, Sing.
Everything is on the table, Jugmeet.
What about your pension?
What about stepping down?
Oh, no, no, that's not on the table.
In fact, that's in a vault under guard duty.
You know, it reminds me, you know, once upon a time, Sheila, I used to write a column for Marketing Magazine.
I remember talking to a marketing expert about the phrase new and improved.
And same thing.
That is now bastardized language because once upon a time, they would reformulate the cookies and it would be a new formula and it would be an improved taste.
Now new and improved is basically used by the packaged goods industry when they refresh their logo.
There's nothing new and improved about that.
So I just want to say the prime minister, for his own good, he should rethink these phrases because they are completely bastardized for those at least who are paying attention.
Justin Trudeau does not rethink things.
He doesn't even do the first thing, let alone to rethink.
Let's go into, I'm trying to breeze through these and then I'll give my comments because I'll let we'll show you what Danielle Smith says because this is all targeted at her.
They're saying that one industry should not be forced to carry the weight of Canada.
Yeah, we know, but we've been doing it in Alberta for since always.
Enjoy your transfer payments.
Oh, boy.
Right?
Yeah, we've been doing it.
So don't like say that Albertans aren't doing our part.
We've always done our part.
We'd love to continue to do our part, actually.
But anyway, Melanie Jolie, who the Trump camp hates, and I believe the feeling is mutual, she says they're going to retaliate.
Nobody thinks to just bring the heat down a little.
You know, like, why does it have to be so heated?
But these people just run.
Look, she's on CNN.
No, don't go on Fox.
Go on CNN.
Anyway, let's just wrong audience.
Exactly.
If Trump is going ahead with tariffs, he's starting a trade war.
And of course, we will retaliate.
And you know what will happen for all those watching us right now?
This will be a Trump tariff tax on Americans because this will have an impact on jobs in many, many states.
35 states have Canada as the main export market.
And at the same time, we know that we can do a lot to make sure that ultimately at the grocery store, at the pump, when it comes to the power of the power, not at the cost, not as we try to think to make sure that things are not as costly.
But if we have 25% tariffs against us, of course, we will retaliate.
And of course, that will translate into a tax on Americans.
Can you describe in any greater detail exactly how Canada would retaliate?
Listen, we still want to make sure that we get to a deal without any tariffs.
We think we can get there.
We have the USMCA, which was, according to President Trump himself, the best deal ever signed by the American administration.
We believe it was a win-win.
We believe that we're able to create jobs together.
And we know that we have to continue to fight inflation.
At the same time, we will continue to make sure that we fight back if there's a threat and everything is on the table.
Again, everything is on the table, even when it isn't.
And by the way, in terms of Jolie and previously the clip with Prime Minister Trudeau saying there are no winners in a trade war, you know, finally, some scintilla of a truism comes out of his mouth, Sheila.
But remember, there used to be a show called The Biggest Loser?
In a trade war between the U.S. and Canada, we, the Dominion of Canada, we are the biggest loser.
Yeah, they're 10 times bigger than us.
Like, who do we think we are?
The only thing we can do is, frankly, cut off oil and gas, but that only hurts Ontario and Quebec and Albertans.
It will collapse the Canadian economy, what's left of it when the tariffs come.
Let's go one more clip from Trudeau.
He takes aim at Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith, who is doing her best to fight not just for Alberta.
I want to reiterate this.
It's like almost 100,000 jobs in Ontario that are directly supported by Canadian oil and gas, which I mean, when I say Canadian oil and gas, read Alberta and to a lesser extent, Saskatchewan and British Columbia's gas.
It's billions of dollars in purchasing that the oil and gas sector does from the manufacturing sector in Ontario.
I forget how many billions of dollars in wages is paid.
Likewise with British Columbia, the lefties in British Columbia, they're being supported by and large by oil and gas revenues from their own sector, but also largely from Alberta.
Like northern BC and northern Alberta, they function basically as one jurisdiction.
But anyway, Smith is fighting for all of those jobs.
And Trudeau wants her to just, I guess, burn it all down to heat the rest of you.
I think it was really important yesterday.
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As we met with first ministers from across the country, that premiers have an opportunity to express the interests of their citizens, of their industry, of their area.
Certainly, I don't blame Danielle Smith for speaking up for her industry.
That's part of her job.
But every single premier other than Danielle Smith then chose to put Canada first and say, but we're all part of Team Canada because what happens to any part of us happens to all of us.
And we will be there to respond strongly, to fight for Canada, and to do it in a united way that makes sure that it's fair across all industries, across all regions.
That was what we came together yesterday to do.
Sheila, I would actually like to point out to Danielle.
That's good enough.
Sheila, my blood is boiling because this is a new low for Justin Trudeau, even for Blackface, for him to infer, as he did in that statement, that Danielle Smith is anti-Canadian, that she's traitorous for speaking up for her constituents, for defending vital industries to Alberta.
This is a new low.
That is the most shameful thing this guy has said in this calendar year at least.
Yeah.
Apparently, as is always the case, because it's always Alberta, we have to throw ourselves on the bonfire for the rest of this country.
And it is not happening again.
As I explained in the staff meeting the other day, one of my earliest memories, I think it might be my earliest memory.
My parents worried about money because of the national energy program.
My dad worked in the oil patch, as my grandpa did, as my son does, as basically every male in my family has for generations.
And it was a way to supplement the farm income because of this, how, you know, like harvest and planting, it works alongside the breaks in the oil and gas sector.
And the national energy program hit.
My dad's job disappeared and interest rates went up.
And we almost lost the farm that we have had since 1903.
And a lot of us remember that.
And they are asking us to do the exact same thing again, where we are supposed to shutter ourselves in for the sake of the rest of the country.
During the national energy program, we were forced to sell at a reduced rate to the rest of you.
And it caused our investment just went away.
It went to West Texas and went to the Middle East.
And that will happen again because the world needs oil.
America needs oil.
Now, right now, they're getting it from us.
And they're getting it from us at a reduced rate because Justin Trudeau forced us into a monopoly with them by denying our export pipelines.
And so now he's using that monopoly against us and saying that we are bad Canadians because we don't want to lose everything we have because Doug Ford wasn't cagey enough to follow Daniel Smith to Mar-a-Lago to make the case for Ontario industries.
Oh, you know, Blackface, it's just the hypocrisy is off the chart, Sheila, for him to basically say to Daniel Smith, hey, take one for the team again.
Meanwhile, Trudeau has told the leaders of Germany, Japan, Greece, oh, no, you know, there's no business case for $1 trillion worth of energy exports to your nations.
$1 trillion.
Isn't that the size of the Canadian economy?
But then again, the budget will balance himself.
You'll have to forgive me if I don't know anything about monetary policy.
I mean, it is absolutely unbelievable that this guy who is behind a screw job of Alberta by not allowing your province to export all these trillions of dollars of wealth, Sheila, to other markets has the audacity to show up this week and say, hey, Danielle, take one for the team.
Just suffer and be a true Canadian.
It's despicable.
How dare he call us bad Canadians?
You want to shove us at a confederation?
This is how you do it.
We have stepped up for generations.
We have delivered our wealth to the rest of this country, developed our natural resources when other provinces, I'm looking at you, Quebec, refused to.
They took our wealth, lived high on the hog because of us, and now they want us to sacrifice ourselves one more time.
We're happy to contribute to this country by and large.
You know, it's a little too much most of the time, but we're happy to do more, by the way, than the rest of this country, to up the standard of living in this country.
All we ask is that you leave us alone to do it.
And they won't even do that for us.
And just to reiterate the points that I was making on the National Energy Program, for those of us who are old enough to remember it, and I, like I said, it was very early in my time on this earth.
And it took a very long time for my family to drag itself out of the mess created by the last prime minister, Trudeau.
But Daniel Smith tweeted about it this morning for the rest of the country, in case you didn't have to experience what so many of us did in Alberta when all we wanted to do was work.
This is what happened.
This is what she says.
This is what happened the last time a Trudeau slapped an export tax on Alberta energy.
Efron put it in the Slack tweet.
It's a tweet from Premier Smith.
Olivia?
Do you want to bring that up?
There we go.
Yeah, here it is.
Here's what happened the last time Etrudeau slapped an export tax on Alberta energy.
Unemployment quadrupled from 3.7%.
So anything under 4% is like constructive negative unemployment up to 12.4% as thousands lost their jobs and it damn near happened overnight.
Home values plummeted 30% and thousands of people lost their homes.
We had a little something called jingle mail.
You won't know that phrase in the rest of the country, but mail to the bank jingled because people were mailing in their keys.
And bankruptcies rose by 150%.
Tens of thousands of people left the province, plunging us into a multi-year recession.
Brain drain on the economy.
All of our professionals, the geologists, the technologists, they left.
The petrologists, just gone.
The cost to Alberta was between $50 to $100 billion.
As Daniel Smith said, our government is not going to sell out Albertans to another Trudeau export tax on energy.
His dad crushed the lives of thousands in our province.
We won't let his son do it to our people again.
Never.
So, you know what?
Let's rumble.
You know what, Sheila?
I wonder what Blackface would say to Premier Smith's tweet.
I wonder if you would dare say, oh, well, she's experiencing it differently, I suppose.
And, you know, and by the way, that breaks my heart about how your family was on the Oh, I'm not special.
I'm not special.
It happened to everybody.
No, everybody.
I can only imagine the stress.
Imagine almost losing the historical family farm because of politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa.
It's just unbelievable.
But you're on better footing now.
Your husband's in the oil patch, right?
Making nice money.
I know that, folks, because last year, Sheila mistakenly phoned my voicemail.
So I won't give the contract.
It was a taxation.
I got to know Sheila a whole lot more intimately, shall we say?
That wasn't that bad.
Anyway, anyway, in any event, if people want to support our campaign to bring awareness on this issue about Alberta's contribution to the rest of the country, what it would mean to you, if you weren't in Ontario, if Alberta cut off oil and gas exports to the United States.
Go to handsoffalberta.com and you can get involved.
You can sign the petition and we've got a plan to bring awareness to the streets of Toronto and Ottawa and other places too, if we can raise enough money.
But there I break it down.
I show you the numbers of what Alberta's contribution to Confederation means to you and why we are never doing this to ourselves again.
We are not in this suicide cult with the rest of you where only one of us has to drink the poison flavorade.
We're not doing it.
You know, I wish we had a different title for the call to action, Sheila, when I see hands off.
It just triggers me.
It reminds me too often of what Lady Menzoid says on the weekends, especially.
But anyway, where do we go from here?
Let's go to quickly, we'll talk.
We'll just, okay, I've got, actually, I've got a Rumble ad read and then we'll talk about who Justin Trudeau has chosen on his tariff, Team Canada Tariff Task Force.
Yes.
Which he didn't call it that, but it would have been more fun if he did.
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I've got, no, yes, one quick Rumble rant that came in.
20 bucks again, there, 403 says, and now an announcement from Justin Trudeau.
Quack, It reminds you of the meow mix.
Like, meow, Well, Sheila, as they say on the gridiron, two-minute warning because we have a hard out.
And by the way, I do hope my Detroit lions slaughter the Washington commanders.
Can't call them Redskins anymore.
By the way, what are they commanding?
Surrender?
You know, the woke mob telling you to get rid of your uniforms and nickname.
But I digress.
So you get the last word, Sheila.
Two minutes.
Okay, I'm going to try to see if we can get to both of these because they're both touching on Alberta.
So Justin Trudeau names his, I forget what they call it, the Canada-U.S. Relations Council to support the federal government as it deals with the incoming Trump administration's vow to impose tariffs.
And who does he name on it?
There's like not a single conservative in the mix, like not a single person that Trump would like.
Arlene Dickinson, not the other dragon that Trump likes from Dragon's Den.
Mr. Wonderful.
They picked the annoying one.
Linda Hassenfratz.
She's auto parts, CEO of Auto Parts Manufacturer Lindmar Corp.
Lana Payne, Unifor.
Flavio Volpe, Auto Parts Manufacturers Association.
You know him.
Tabitha Bull, President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business.
Sharzad Rafati, CEO of RHEI Holdings.
Hassan Youssef, Independent Senator, Independent Senator, and former president of the Canadian Labor Congress, Wes Hall, another one from Dragon's Den.
Like two dragons, and not even the one that Trump likes.
Martin Karen, president of the French president of the Union of Agricultural Producers.
Tim Gitzel, CEO of Cameco, and also Rachel Notley.
So Rachel Notley, who is explicitly anti-American and explicitly anti-oil and gas.
Well, she's on this tariff task force.
You know who they could have picked?
I don't know, Mr. Wonderful and maybe Stephen Harper, but no.
No, just a bunch of crazy leftist union activists and pseudo-celebrities from CBC.
Yeah, basically DEI hires.
I say that in terms of Kevin O'Leary.
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He went to the big time with that genre of show, Shark Tank.
And Stephen Harper talk about an elder statesman.
And come on, even you diehard liberals there, answer me truthfully the question.
Are you better off today than you were under Stephen Harper a decade ago?
Please be honest.
And I'm already disqualifying anyone in the pharmaceutical industry.
You don't count, okay?
I just can't believe they picked like two of the most annoying CBC dragons instead of Kevin O'Leary.
Like it's not, they're not even trying to save us from these tariffs.
I know we have a hard out.
Maybe we could show Nahib Nenshi, who is the leader of the NDP, former mayor of Calgary, basically saying, yes, we should shut in Alberta's oil and gas to please Justin Trudeau.
But we'll show that after we wrap.
So, David, you can wrap the show and then maybe we can just, if people want to stick around after we say goodbye, they can watch Nenshi selling Oda Alberta to butt-kiss Trudeau.
Yeah, and keep in mind, folks, this guy used to be the mayor of Calgary.
Calgary.
I'll never understand that.
Well, folks, it was a pleasure bringing you the live stream on this National Popeye Day.
I want to thank everyone for tuning in.
A special thank you to those generous donations by some of the viewers.
Thank you also to super producer Olivia and my lovely co-host, Sheila Gunread.
I will be back here for sure, I think, on Monday.
Sheila will be in parts unknown, shall we say?
No, we launched it.
We told people where we're going now.
I sort of mentioned it in the podcast version of my Wednesday show, The Gun Show.
I'll be in Davos.
Ah, or as we like to call it, Kearney Town.
Yeah.
So the lovable Sheila Gunread, she's going to be a Swiss miss.
See what I said there?
So until Monday, as always, have a great weekend.
Stay safe and stay sane.
Hi, I'm Naheem Menshe, leader of Alberta's New Democrats, coming to you from Fort McMurray.
This region is so important to Alberta and so important to Canada.