Sheila Gunn Reid and Tamari Ugalini dissect Alberta’s rising separatism, contrasting Jean-Yves Blanchette’s cultural argument with their focus on autonomy and resource development, while dismissing Chief Alan Adam’s opposition due to ties to anti-oil activists like the Tides Foundation. They debate Indigenous treaty rights, citing the 1998 Quebec secession case and 1930 land transfers, but critics question Elections Canada’s ballot errors and Parks Canada’s Jasper wildfire mismanagement—ignoring beetle-killed pine warnings that led to $1.2B in damages. Meanwhile, Mark Carney’s Oval Office meeting with Trump reveals media spin over his "polite but firm" stance, leaving Canada’s sovereignty claims hollow amid failed trade leverage and ideological distractions like Nova Scotia’s RCMP land acknowledgment during a missing children crisis. [Automatically generated summary]
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Oh, hey, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, depending on which part of this beautiful country that you're in.
And I say beautiful country for now because the Westerners are popping off.
I'm a Westerner.
I'm your host, Sheila Gunnread.
This is our daily news and opinion show called Rebel Roundup.
And I am joined today by my Eastern Canadian host.
I don't know, Eastern Central Canadian, not Western, co-host, Tamari Ugalini.
On Terrible, as I like to call the general region that is reigned over by Premier Doug Ford, the progressive conservatives.
We need some actual conservatives in this province.
But yeah, hey, Sheila, thanks for having me on today for our Rebel Roundup.
And right off the top of things, we're going to get into that Alberta separatism stuff because it's really gaining traction now.
Well, it's always had traction.
I would say the majority of Westerners are like quiet separatists.
They're like if polite company asks us, yeah, yeah, yeah, go Team Canada, hockey, maple syrup, blah, But like in the back, they're like, we're getting screwed.
Something else has to change.
And I think this time it might actually be different.
There's a lot of momentum.
And we have a premier who is not a separatist.
Let's reiterate that.
But she's also not for silencing the views of Albertans who are sick and tired of this and who are not going to take it anymore.
And there's a bunch of different camps there.
There are people who are like, we're always going to be Canadian, no matter how bad.
They screw us.
Okay.
Then there are people who are like, we never should have been in this mess from the very beginning.
And they're like lifelong separatists.
There are people who are, I think, in the Daniel Smith camp who are saying, we have to work to fix this within Canada.
And then there are actually a fourth camp who are saying, okay, we'll try it one more time with Daniel Smith.
And then we're gone.
So it's, I don't know, it's crazy times.
It's funny to see the people saying, no, no, you can't go.
And it sounds, by the way, it sounds like Doug Ford got a little bit of a talking too because like two days ago, he was like, I don't know what's wrong with Daniel Smith.
It's so irresponsible, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then yesterday he's like, I'm good friends with Danielle.
And, you know, something's got to change for Alberta.
And it's like, I bet the federal party got to Doug and was like, Doug, shut your yap because don't make the westerners mad or you're in a world of trouble too.
So there's some of that happening.
But we should tell everybody what we're doing before we get into that.
And I will allow you the honors.
Thank you very much because my chair is suddenly letting itself go down.
Oh, no.
All right.
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And I guess without further ado, we can just get right into it.
We're covering Alberta separatism, CBC's skewing of the Kearney Oval Office meeting, and then we'll talk a little bit about Jasper fire mismanagement.
So, off the hop, we will get to a video here from block leader Blanchette, who basically says that Quebec can urge separatism because they have a culture of their own.
Okay, well, let's let him talk and then we'll come back and comment.
For the people in Alberta who want to separate, do you have any tips for them on how to actually get the job done?
Our success so far does not place me in a position to give them tips about what to do, but I could give them tips about what not to do.
Not now.
The first idea is to define oneself as a nation, therefore, it requires a culture of their own.
And I am not certain that oil and gas qualify to define a culture, but it's theirs to decide if they want to vindicate the right to self-determination.
I would never interfere in that, it belongs to them.
I would like us to be the first to do so, however.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure he would.
You know, this guy, uh, so he can't even agree with the fact that we should have our own self-determination like he does, um, without taking a sideways swipe at us.
Um, as the shirt says, and as our motto says, Alberta is strong and free.
That's our provincial motto, and it's who and what we are, it's why we exist here.
We do not have a culture that is just oil and gas.
Uh, Peter McCaffrey of the Alberta Institute, I think, said this best on X. If we can find his post, I think that would be wonderful.
Um, also, travel Alberta.
And I'm not one to say, like, yeah, the travel agency on behalf of the province of Alberta did a really good uh video describing who and what we are.
Um, but I did repost that this morning.
Maybe we can find that too.
It actually won a silver at Cannes, like a film festival for the quality of work and the emotions that it evokes.
And I watched that and I was like, Yeah, that's that's actually exactly exactly who and what we are.
Um, but Peter McCaffrey says Alberta's culture isn't oil and gas, it's freedom.
Freedom to think, to innovate, and be entrepreneurial.
I guess that's what's different between us and Quebec, right?
We don't want handouts, and we have an economy that will exist without the rest of Canada.
I don't think he could say the same.
Freedom to build without asking a million bureaucrats for permission, freedom to take risks and to succeed or fail based on merit, not government favor.
Freedom for everyone to choose for themselves how they want to live their lives.
Oil and gas is just one of the many miracles that freedom enables.
I'd say that's who we are.
I mean, oil and gas, yeah, but it is oil and gas is because somebody took an entrepreneurial risk.
Somebody saw bitumen coming out of a riverbank and said, we could probably do something about that if we thought real hard and worked extra hard and we could turn that into the thing that fuels the entire economy, not just of this province, but the entire country.
And so for Blanchette to discredit that, I would, look, I'm a lifelong Albertan.
I'm likely quite biased on this, but I say that we do have a distinct culture here in the West that is largely incompatible with the voting habits of the rest of this country.
Yeah, I was going to say that when I think of Alberta as an Eastern, more Eastern province dweller, unfortunately, I think of freedom and independence.
Like those are kind of the two words that come to my mind when I think of what Albertans traditionally and typically stand for and what they're going for, especially now.
And obviously independence and separatism, the two are mostly hand in hand.
But even the Albertan people that I've met are so independent, right?
They don't want to be dependent on things like the state.
They're hardworking and they want to maintain their sovereignty and their autonomy.
And that is what I think when I think about Alberta and the people that make up Alberta, not just simply oil and gas, but, you know, obviously there is a massive backing there.
And that also facilitates and quite literally, pun intended, fuels the independence and that independent nature that Albertans seem to have.
Yeah.
I mean, it's why you couldn't keep us under lock and key during COVID.
It's why the restaurant rebellion was led here.
It's why the church rebellion was led here is because even when our politicians, even the ones that allege themselves to be on the conservative side of the aisle, said, you stay in your house and stay away from your neighbors, we're like, the hell.
The hell we're doing that.
And that's just who and what we are.
We are, as the documentary says, ungovernable people in that we are self-governing, that the state doesn't know what's best.
I want to show you this.
Olivia dug it up.
It's Travel Alberta.
So that is, you know, the state agency that advertises Alberta to the rest of the world.
But they talk about what it means to be an Albertan.
And like as an Alberta, look, I realize this is a government video, but as an Albertan, pretty on the nose.
Maybe let's show that.
What is it to be Albertan?
For a moment or a week or a lifetime?
Well, that's like asking, what is it to be free?
To be shinical wings in flight over mountain peaks or northern lights dancing till morning dawn.
To be glacial waters gracefully raging or unbridled horses charging.
To be perfect for a brief moment or to last longer than all of time.
Sure.
Great places will always capture you.
Alberta, she'll stay free.
It gave me chills.
Yeah, and that's why the control freaks don't get us.
Like we live in that, that mindset every single day.
And also, it's really something to look at the majesty that is Alberta and say, well, it's just oil and gas.
No, we do oil and gas beside all that beauty.
And we take care of that beauty while we're doing the oil and gas incredibly responsibly.
And so, yeah, no wonder Jean-Yves Blanchette doesn't get us.
Like, of course he doesn't get us.
Well, you said something interesting there, Sheila, too.
It's like, I recognize that this is a state, you know, funded or state compiled video.
But I think the difference in Alberta is that the state is actually listening to the people.
Like the people still have a say and the state is taking it seriously in Alberta.
Whereas, you know, in Ontario, it feels like you just have no representation anywhere you look.
And so, yeah, the state put out a tourism video that is really compelling, visually beautiful, and an accurate representation of the people.
Whereas here in Ontario, we have a government who's not listening to the people, who basically smears you if you don't go along with their groupthink, and then obviously doesn't represent your interests on that larger scale.
So there's a very clear difference there in the representation of the state when the people are being properly heard.
Yeah, it's funny how everybody seems so shocked that we have a government here in Alberta for all of its flaws and warts that listens to us in between election periods instead of just like when they're trying to get our vote every four years.
They're actually trying to put themselves closer to the people who elect them in the in-between parts and be more accountable to us.
Like this citizen-led initiative can be for recall.
Like if we want to recall the premier, the bar is even lower for that.
So it makes them more accountable to us.
And everybody is all just like, oh my goodness, that means separation.
It actually means that a government is forced to listen to us now, whatever it is.
Exactly.
Although, meanwhile, some of the chiefs and the bands are not happy with Premier Smith and the idea of separating.
We have this, I think, I thought it was a video, but it looks like it's just a photo of Chief Alan Adam of the Athabasca Chippewan First Nation.
This guy.
Yeah, he said, we don't want her here, he says, of the premier.
And he told reporters that if Smith continues to push separatism, she instead should just leave.
And so this comes from a reporter in Alberta.
Yeah.
So this Chief Alan Adam is a real piece of work.
So most recently, he was in the news for alleging police brutality against him while he was intoxicated in front of a casino in Fort McMurray.
However, when the 11-minute body cam footage came out, he was trying to fight cops in front of the casino.
And yeah, he said the insinuation was it was racist cops.
New Treaties, Better Say00:10:50
But no, he was the one trying to fist fight, I guess, an entire shift of RCMP officers in Fort McMurray at the time.
So that was a couple of years ago.
The cops just were, that was, I think, in 2020, and the cops were just cleared after a four-year-long investigation in 2024.
But Alan Adam is no friend to Alberta.
And I won't take any advice about who or what amounts to a loyal Canadian citizen from Chief Alan Adam.
And I'll tell you why, because when he is not trotting up Hollywood anti-oil hypocrites to Fort McMurray, like Jane Fonda, who was run out of town on a rail by my friend Robbie Picard, who confronted her down, I think it was at the Moxies, but he got word that she was there and she came to say how bad everything was in Fort McMurray.
And Robbie, who is Indigenous himself, said, no, what are you doing here, Jane?
Alan Adam is behind that.
He's, you know, one of those Greta Tunberg types, Leonardo DiCaprio type.
And he took $50,000.
Yeah, this is, that's Alan Adam with Jane Fonda in Fort McMurray.
He also brought up Leonardo DiCaprio and Neil Young previously.
Neil Young once said about Fort McMurray that it looked like Hiroshima.
And anyways, recently endorsed Mark Carney, by the way.
So, and as Ezra wrote many moons ago in the Toronto Sun, I think it was, Alan Adam took $50,000, $55,000 from the Tides Foundation to be a rent to chief to give cover to these anti-oil activists saying, see, see, the Indigenous people are on our side.
All the oil and gas companies, by the way, in Fort McMurray have partnerships with the Indigenous people.
And what a great gift it is, the oil in Fort McMurray.
It keeps our Indigenous people in their community and out of generational poverty.
But he took $55,000 from an American charitable clearinghouse that exists to oppose Canadian oil and gas.
So the jobs of his people, by the way, he took $55,000 from them while siding with the people who would unemploy the young people in his community.
He's a real piece of work.
He's fine with American money, but don't you ever consider that maybe Albertans want some of that too, in the form of, you know, maybe being the 51st state?
Like he's got no problem with Americans when they're paying him.
But you're a traitor if you muse about independence for yourself.
This, what a jerk.
And, you know, leave it to the Canadian media, the Edmonton Legislature Press Gallery to not tell you any of that, not tell you anything about what an absolute hypocrite Chief Alan Adam is or any of his history with the American anti-oil movement.
Of course, he opposes Daniel Smith.
She wants us to up production by 100%.
She wants to double production in Alberta of oil and gas.
So of course Alan Adam is like, oh, my paymasters in America won't like that.
Pay me and let's keep the young people in my community poor.
He's the worst.
Well, and, you know, it just the Indigenous community in Alberta seems to just be poorly informed about what separation actually means for people.
It's activists in any community.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
And we'll get to that.
Well, I wanted to play the clip that we have before we get to some of the correcting of the record that lawyer Keith Wilson does.
This one comes from Real Talk Ryan.
Ryan Jesperson.
He used to be with Chorus and then I don't know how they parted ways, but now he has a podcast, which is at least at least we don't have to listen to him on the terrestrial airwaves anymore.
We can actually choose to listen to them when you're in Combine jail, as they call it this time of year, tractor jail during seating.
But he said Alberta just can't separate from Canada, according to Grand Chief Greg Desjarlay, with a reminder.
Greg Desjarlay should talk to a constitutional lawyer anyway.
Let's play this.
Therefore, any citizen-initiated referendum.
Any citizen-initiated referendum must not violate the constitutional rights of First Nations peoples and must uphold and honor treaties six, seven, and eight, should any referendum question ever pass.
This is non-negotiable.
When you make that statement that the treaties will be upheld, then I'm going to hold you to task.
When you want to talk about building a bridge with First Nations, it comes down to respect.
You have to respect our governments.
It seems like what's happening is they want to steamroll over us, set up the separation with or without us and not listening to us.
We have our mandate, our position is to be vocal and to be heard.
The sacred treaties, as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, the river flows, that's forever.
And I think that what they're trying to do here is undermine the First Nations people.
Maybe we're in the way.
Maybe they think we're in the way.
We're both treaty people, myself and your ancestors, and we forget that.
So when we both touched our lips on that pipe under the creator's eye, that's a binding agreement, natural law.
Therefore, any yeah.
No one's trying to steamroll anybody, by the way.
Daniel Smith was pretty clear that any referendum would have to respect treaties six, seven, and eight.
And that's that.
But as lawyer Keith Wilson points out, he says respectfully, and I don't know if that's required.
He says, Ryan, respectfully, your post is misleading.
Now, Keith is, I would say, one of the leading experts in this issue when it comes to Alberta, and he has studied extensively how these issues were addressed with Quebec, and they were redressed.
That's what a lot of people aren't thinking about.
And people read parts of the treaties, but they don't read all of the treaties, like the seeding of the land.
That's an important word.
The process set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 1998 Quebec secession reference case directly addresses protecting First Nations rights, as does the resulting Clarity Act.
Nothing that the Premier has announced in any way reduces First Nations rights.
In fact, it gives First Nations more options for their future.
I was talking about this with Elise the other day.
Do they really, like, you really want to side with the residential school people?
You want to do that?
Or do you want to go a different way or have a say of your own?
Anyways, Keith goes on.
There are the details on the separation process and the First Nations right and the role of their treaties.
One, all eligible Alberta voters can vote in an independence referendum, including members of First Nations.
One person, one vote.
No special treatment for members of First Nations re-voting in the referendum.
That also means no special treatment for the rest of us either.
Upon a successful vote for separation, the province of Alberta, First Nations within Alberta, the other provinces and the government of Canada are obligated to engage in good faith negotiations to establish the terms of Alberta's separation.
Three, Alberta First Nations would have the following options at minimum, and this is the base to determine their post-separation status.
Their reserve lands to remain owned by Canada with treaties still administered by the government of Canada, status quo, nothing changes.
So they could choose to stay behind and just be governed by Carney in Ottawa.
But that also means that we're not going to pay for your treatment beds on reserve because we do that right now, even though that's a federal obligation.
The province of Alberta does that.
The province of Alberta also has a crown corporation that is like Indigenous business development.
We do that here because of our close ties with the oil and gas sector.
And it's just easier.
You do the stuff closer to home, even though that's a federal obligation.
We do it.
The reserve lands remain owned by Canada.
Okay, so they could just carve themselves out.
So again, you can stay, but you don't have to make the rest of Albertans stay if they don't want to.
You get to keep your reserve lands.
A request that the new government of Alberta assume the responsibilities of the government of Canada under existing treaties.
The only material change is which government administers the treaties.
So status quo, just they're being administered by the province of Alberta.
Seems reasonable to me.
Alberta is already picking up a lot of those responsibilities anyway.
So again, what would be the difference?
Except that you would be, you know, 50% wealthier because your dollar would potentially be at par with the American.
Or negotiate a new framework agreement with Alberta to replace and modernize existing treaties.
So a chance to have new treaties, better treaties.
What is the downside here to this opposition to the province and their own people having a say?
And as Keith says, importantly, the First Nations themselves would decide which option to pursue as part of the cessation negotiations, but they do not have a veto on whether Alberta separates.
Five, as confirmed in the map below, the government of Alberta owns almost all of the land and the oil and gas within Alberta resulting from the 1930 Natural Resources Transfer Agreement.
So the treaties are the ceding of the land and the reserves are theirs.
And we all get an equal say in this.
And whatever happens at the end of it, the people who actually get an extra say are the bands who get to decide, we'll stay, we'll go, we'll negotiate new treaties.
If indeed this happens at all.
But I mean, you don't get a veto on the rest of us.
This is the only way it's fair.
Yeah, and it seems pretty fair to me.
And it seems like there's a lot of reasonable options available to the indigenous communities.
And if it's going to be, well, complain, complain, complain, and we're not being treated fairly.
And there's all this and, you know, truth and reconciliation and it's not actually happening and it's all empty words and land acknowledgements.
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Well, here is a real opportunity to potentially get something different, to do something different.
And why that negotiation or that conversation isn't at least being entertained and instead is just shot down at every which way really speaks volumes as to whose interests perhaps some of these band chiefs actually represent.
We have, before we move on, a brand new pope, about an hour and a half ago, white smoke from the Vatican.
And so we've got Cardinal Robert Prévost or Prévo, depending on how you pronounce it.
He is both American and Peruvian.
So we have an American Pope, a second Western Hemisphere Pope.
And if you go by the AP, one strike against him, however, is that he's American.
And there's been a long taboo against a U.S. Pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.
Enough.
He's a Chicago native, but he's also a Peruvian citizen.
He's lived in Peru.
He was a missionary and an archbishop.
He's Augustinian.
That's his religious order.
So that makes me hopeful.
Anyway, he's also actually, yeah.
Well, I was just going to say we also have a super chat before we move on from the separatist talk.
Yeah, please.
From Suna Soul Silver.
Hope I pronounced that correctly.
Gives $5.
Thank you.
It's rich coming from the Block Party to say Alberta don't have culture when they are too busy eating caviar and foue gwa, I think, bought by Alberta.
Thank you.
This is, it's like a liver pate, I think, isn't it?
Fagua.
Yeah.
Anyway, duck liver.
Yeah.
Yum.
Yeah.
So they're eating caviar and I would say also eating poutine bought by Alberta money.
Yeah, the equalization payments, when you actually break it down and look at who is getting what, I mean, it's very clear why Alberta is so disgruntled over it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the thing.
We will, it's hard to take advice.
It's like your kids telling you how to live.
And it's like, I'm paying the bills in here.
Like I'm the boss.
And we don't want to be the boss except of ourselves.
And it's real rich taking advice from the likes of a guy who threatened separation or at least a province that's threatened separation twice only to get more stuff.
I don't think they were ever truly, truly serious about leaving.
Let's hit an ad break while I try my best, my Catholic best to digest a new pope.
I am this stuff is informed by the Holy Spirit, so I'm going to keep my opinions to myself.
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I was going to say, speaking of making Canada great again.
Yeah.
Carney campaigned on, you know, such a strong, he was going to fight Trump and the Americans was over, right?
Like we may as well be Europeans at this point.
Our relationship with Trump is non-existent and that's that.
And then he's like, thank you, good sir, for your leadership.
Thank you for having me in your very opulent home.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Like it was just ridiculous.
You boomers were had.
Oh, yeah, 100%.
And even there was, I don't know if we can dig it up.
There was a photo, or I think maybe it was even just a little clip of him and Trump in the Oval Office, or maybe it was just outside the White House.
And they were, you know, kind of standing side by side, posing for some photo ops.
And Carney's just like looking up at Trump.
And he's, it reminded me of a schoolboy looking up to their father for approval on it because he's just like, Trump is just towering over Carney.
And he's just, and they're kind of standing there and Trump or sorry, and Carney's looking up at Trump as, you know, what's, what's my cue here, dad?
The thumbs up picture.
For all those boomers who, and again, don't write me letters.
If you didn't vote for Carney, then this isn't about you.
But those public sector retirees from the greater Toronto area who were like, I'm voting for Carney because he's the best man to fight Trump.
And then there he is in an identical pose outside of the White House with Trump saying to him as the first thing, I basically got you elected.
So you must do what I say.
That was the unspoken thing of Excel.
And then they also do like the thumbs up outside, like the very Trumpy thumbs up pose together.
I think Trump spoke for 29 minutes and Carney spoke for four.
And the most he said was like, Canada's not for sale, but you're quite literally there trying to sell our goods and services to the Americans.
What are you doing?
And Trump is like, yeah, those tariffs are staying.
And then Carney goes on to say, we're working very hard on the negotiations.
Negotiating what?
Trump said those tariffs are staying no matter what.
And he said, that's just the way it is.
So anyway.
Yeah.
And we'll get to the CBC's biased take on all of this in just a minute.
But we have a clip here to share.
I think is it Steve Land Ambrose?
Yeah.
He posted this one.
And, you know, I liked his take on X, where he said the liberals just ran a fear-based campaign painting Trump as an existential threat to Canada.
Now they've dropped a slick tribute video basking in his aura and raped it in American pageantry.
The pivot from defiant to fanboy was instant.
It's another reminder for liberals.
It's never been about principles.
It's only about power.
And here's the clip.
I conveyed to the president today what our countries have long proven to be true that Canada and the United States are stronger when we work together.
We can get a better deal for our workers.
We can create more opportunities for our businesses.
We can build stronger economies across North America when we work together.
The question is how we will cooperate in the future.
How we can build an economic and security relationship built on mutual respect.
We agreed to have further conversations in the coming weeks, and we are looking forward to meeting in person at the G7 summit in Kananascus in Alberta.
How to say a lot without saying anything at all.
Yeah, he just said we're going to meet again in the future.
Yeah, I bet you are.
Like we're talking right across, we're right across the border.
Of course you are.
Like that's the dumbest thing ever.
And, you know, we're working on building a relationship.
I believe Trump just told you what the relationship is.
The tariffs are staying.
You got elected because of me.
And that's the end of it.
Like that was the entire meeting.
And so, of course, the CBC says that this is a win for Carney.
I guess when the bar is that low, okay, he didn't yell at you or get all like stern with you and release JD Vance, the attack goblin on you like he did to Zelensky.
And I say that in the kindest of ways.
I really enjoy JD Vance.
But I guess, I guess that's a win if that didn't happen.
But CBC, man, you would think that's gone.
Yeah, let's watch.
As the CBC's Aaron Collins tells us, Mark Carney was polite, but firm during talks.
Yeah, I mean, really, what a tough job Mark Carney had yesterday, right?
Like this is someone who just won a federal election arguing that, you know, he's the best person to stand up to Donald Trump.
And of course, you know, a big part of that is a response to his continued reference to Canada becoming the 51st state.
So then just, you know, a week or so later, he's sitting next to the president.
So he has to walk this super fine line.
He has to be firm with the president, specifically on any comments about Canadian sovereignty.
So we also have to be, you know, polite and cordial.
So not an easy balancing act to say the least.
So at the end of the day, this relationship, it's got to remain civil if Canada is going to be able to come out of this trade dispute with the U.S., you know, whole intact.
And I think there's this one exchange during yesterday's meeting in the Oval Office that really perfectly illustrates this kind of fine line the prime minister is walking.
So after Carney said Canada is not for sale, the president, he continues insisting that, you know, Canada could be had.
But just watch what the prime minister does here.
Now they're stepping it up, and that's a very important thing.
But never say never.
Never say never.
What?
What?
What did he do?
So you can see it's quick there, but he's very quietly mouthing the words never.
He's looking away from the president.
He's panicking.
He's careful not to insult the president while doing this.
So firm, but polite, no easy task.
It's a very Canadian strategy, Andrew.
Yeah, it was definitely on it.
Like again, this is CBC showing us a video and telling us not to believe our own eyes.
Exactly.
I saw what Carney did.
Trump was like, never say never.
And Carney's like, that wasn't like a very Canadian thing.
That's someone who's like, oh, dang, the boomers are watching.
Right.
I have to look tough here.
Well, it makes me wonder, are we living in parallel universes?
Because I watched that whole conference.
Me too.
You know, did they?
Because that was not the vibe at all.
Carney, there was, I don't know, at least a minute, maybe a minute and a half where he was trying to get a word in.
And he kept, you could see his arm.
He kind of kept trying to start and he couldn't quite get in there.
And it was like, come on, get a backbone.
Like, what are you doing?
If you're, if you're taking such a firm stance, if you've declared that the relation, our relationship with the United States as we know it is now done.
And he said that repeatedly, like this wasn't just a one-off, then you would think when you're sitting beside the president and you have your opportunity to take a firm stance and you know, elbows up, well, Mark Carney's elbows were like way down here and he's coward in trying to get a word in edgewise.
And it was really sad to watch.
And then for the mainstream media, the spin doctors to come in and just completely flip that on its head as though Carney was showing some sort of like, look at it.
He's so uncomfortable.
His body language, you can see that he's trying to get in there.
I think it was more towards the middle, right when they start talking about, oh, Canada, it will never, there are some realists, he says there's some real estate that will never be for sale.
But for like three minutes before that, he's trying to get into the conversation and he just couldn't because he's not strong.
He isn't brave.
He doesn't have this like rigidity about him.
He's weak.
And you can clearly see that on display.
Yeah.
He's looking down.
He's shifting.
He's fidgeting.
He's sucking on his teeth at some points.
Like he's like biting his lips, which means that he's thinking he should say something, but he just cannot.
I'm sure his lips chapped.
And he like he sat there while Trump did the whole like, look at my fancy gilded eagle.
And these are the new photos that I put up.
Like Trump was not taking him seriously.
And then Trump tells him all the thing that's things that's wrong with Canada and why we should be the 51st state.
And he didn't say a word.
He basically said, like, you've got fentanyl, you got a border problem, healthcare is a mess, taxes are too high.
And Christy Freeland is a horrible person.
And he didn't say anything except, wow, Canada's not for sale.
And Trump goes, never say never.
Yeah, that's right.
And he says that a couple of times.
Like, go ahead.
I like that he brought up how Trudeau said that tariffs would economically destroy Canada.
And he was like, and I thought that was pretty interesting.
So he's, you know, he's gleaning on his previous insights that were shared with him by former prime minister Trudeau.
And, you know, for whatever it's worth, he's keeping that in mind.
And that is an unfortunate thing that we had with a similarly weak and in like just completely incapable and a leader.
And then, you know, Trump reiterated, we don't want Canadian cars.
We are building factories right now to make our own cars.
We don't want Canadian aluminum.
We don't want Canadian steel.
And so, you know, Carney, I think then realized at that point, well, I don't really have any leverage here anymore, other than just saying some places are just never for sale.
And please buy our products again, I guess.
He didn't even go there though.
And to that, Trump goes, takes time.
He was just like, not like zero respect for Carney because he knows Carney got elected because of him.
So of course he doesn't respect him.
He like Carney kept saying, like, well, there's just some real estate that isn't for sale.
And you can, Trump just looks at him and goes, takes time.
Takes time.
That's right.
So it was a sad place for us Canadians to be in, though, when I see stuff, when you see stuff like that, it is very disheartening.
Yeah.
As a Canadian people, well, and simultaneously, the UK gets a trade deal with the Americans.
So, Carney goes there and does gets nothing except made fun of, really, saying, Yeah, to his face, we're going to make you the 51st state, plus your country isn't great.
Uh, and Trump listed all the bad things that Canada is dealing with after 10 years of liberal government.
But then he says, But I like you, and the reason you got elected is because of me, which is totally just like putting him under his thumb.
Um, and in the meantime, the UK cuts a deal with the Americans on tariffs, so reducing car tariffs from 27.5 down to 10 for 100,000 vehicles, eliminated the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, and made Rolls-Royce engines and plain parts tariff free and other agricultural provisions.
Thanks, Dave, for putting this together, by the way.
The UK removes tariffs on U.S. beef and agricultural products, so they're removing the reciprocal tariffs, grants UK farmers a 13-ton tariff-free export quota, maintains food standards, i.e., no hormone-treated beef, and eliminates tariffs on U.S. ethanol for beer production.
So, what exactly did Carney do anyway?
He looked good to the liberal spin doctors at the CBC.
We have a super chat here from Mike, who gives $10.
Thank you.
Why is this becoming a daily show supporting Alberta and separation?
I like the old rebel show talking about everything, not just how great Alberta is.
Just saying, yeah, we did start off on that foot, but we're getting into some other topics now.
Um, so hopefully, your view on that changes as we go on with the show.
Yeah, and it's it really is the biggest thing in the country right now outside of Carney getting absolutely emasculated by Trump.
Uh, you have uh like a province threatening to leave, and the premier saying, Well, we're gonna let everybody make their minds up on it instead of stopping it.
I don't know, I feel like it's probably an international story.
Um, but as other things come up, we do talk about them too.
For example, as Tamar said, we're talking about uh Trump right now.
Do we want to go into the ballot blunder, as I called it last night?
Yeah, I think so, and then we'll get we'll hit the um headline and then we'll probably run out of time.
Yeah, uh, yeah, Jasper Fire.
Okay, so last night, uh, quietly, uh, Elections Canada sends out a little notice saying that uh, nearly 850 special votes in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam were not counted because they weren't turned in, and because they weren't turned in at a very specific time, they couldn't be counted.
And these ballots are to be attributed to, I think, as close to 80 ridings across the country.
So, these are special ballots.
So, to give the College Notes version, if you were in Poco, as they call it, Port Coquitlam, you could vote in your own riding, even if you were there.
So, vote in your home riding.
So, say somewhere in Ontario, whatever.
Elections Canada would attribute your riding or your vote to your riding.
And so, these are people who happen to be in BC at the time, but don't actually live there full time.
And those votes weren't counted.
They were just tossed out.
Now, Elections Canada take this for what you will-did the very serious investigation of themselves and said, Oh, this is human error.
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It's kind of a one-off thing.
And this didn't hinge any election results.
So this didn't flip any ridings.
Okay, but this is just one riding that this happened.
This is just one riding.
How many times did this happen across the country that we don't know about that we're going to find out about next?
And look, I'm not alleging any election chicanery.
I can't because this is YouTube.
But this is a reason why people don't trust Elections Canada.
It's because of this stuff.
If people are electoral meddling conspiracy theorists, Elections Canada needs to look inside yourself, Rosemary, to see who the real culprit is.
They're really not making a very strong case.
And I see this post by Daniel Freiheit, Viva Fry's brother, actually.
So he's a lawyer and he goes by the Twitter handle, Lion Advocacy, and he posts a lot of really great stuff.
But he actually compiled Elections Canada's postings from yesterday, May 7th.
Right.
And it's really funny to watch the progression and the timeline of where they were at with purported, you know, misinformation around the election process and then coming out and saying they found, oh, by the way, we found almost 900 ballots.
So he says 10.05 a.m., basically, Canada.
Yeah, basically, Elections Canada says there's a lot of inaccurate information circulating about elections.
Then 4 p.m., they say the concerns over a higher than usual number of candidates.
And then 4.41, so 41 minutes later, they say there will be a judicial recount.
And then like not even 10 minutes or just over 10 minutes later, 822 ballots have been kept at the office of a returning officer.
And then he shares all of the posts on X that they that they, for example, about non-citizens voting, ballot boxes not being secured.
And so they're like, this is misinformation that ballot boxes aren't secured.
By the end of the work date, they're like, yeah, there were ballot boxes not secured plus somebody, 800 people were disenfranchised.
Oh, by the way.
And they start off their post too with, I heard that.
Some people say that.
I saw someone write that, like as though there's no credibility to these claims, right?
It's just hearsay.
And then, you know, fast forward to, I don't know, what, six, seven hours later?
They're like, oh, by the way, that actually was accurate.
And now we're doing a whole recount and issuing a press release.
And this is just like, it's such a joke, but this is real life that this is happening.
And good, good job to the public relations team, I guess, that's trying to sort through all of this and gaslight everyone into not believing some of the things they are hearing about what's really going on with the election process.
It's not a good look, that's for sure.
Yeah.
And you don't have to attribute sinister motives to just good old-fashioned government ineptitude, right?
Like you don't even have to think that they're like in it for one person or another.
You can just realize that these, this is a government-run process and nothing that government has ever done, they have done well.
And so it's okay for citizens to question how bad this was run, at least in some instances.
Like, yes, we can get election results by and large in a day or even in a couple of hours.
Heck, even before the people are done voting, as is the case with the CBC.
But this is, you know, a government agency.
And I think it's good to have a healthy skepticism of a government agency.
And I don't think people should be told to shut up about it because as it turns out, skeptics tend to be right these days.
Yeah.
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Or just wait a few months.
And then it turns out that they're right anyway.
Right.
All right.
Hitting the last headline topic.
Sheila, you wrote this one up this morning and it's about Parks Canada knowing that there was a real fire risk in Jasper and they did nothing to stop it.
Right.
So this broken by Black Locks, again, doing the good work that the press gallery refuses to.
Access to information documents obtained by Black Locks revealed that Parks Canada left more than 577,000 acres of beetle-killed pine standing in Jasper National Park, fully aware that it posed a catastrophic wildfire risk.
And they did absolutely nothing about it.
In the entire year before the July 24, 2023, it should be 2024 wildfire that destroyed 358 buildings and caused $1.2 billion in damages.
And that's outside of the impact to the tourism industry.
Parks Canada conducted zero prescribed burns in mountain pine beetle zones.
In fact, over four years, they only removed 1,500 acres of deadwood, less than 3% of the known hazard.
That's not even a large farm in northern Alberta worth of pine beetles.
And we know Stephen Gilbeau said this was climate change.
Harjit Sajjan said it was climate change.
The entire left said it was climate change.
And again, look inside yourself, Rosemary, because the phone call was coming from inside of the house.
There's a reason why once the fire, like it got, it was in Jasper and it tore through Jasper.
And the fires outside of Jasper were well managed, all things considered.
And we are in fire season right now.
My phone is going off all day and all night about a fire just north of me.
And it's a seasonal thing, but the people who deal with seasonal fire seasons outside of the federal government here in Alberta are pretty darn well equipped to deal with it.
And a lot of that has to do with, as they call it, mechanical removal of fire load, logging.
They weren't allowing logging to be done in Jasper National Park because it would be ugly and people wouldn't like it.
Well, you know what's more ugly?
Burning down a town that is so important to Albertans and the residential part of the town burned.
And don't even get me started on the mishandling of the fire response, turning away trucks, having the wrong fire hydrants in there.
But this town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, right?
Oh, there's Ryan Jasperson again.
But this town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Somebody should have taken care of it that way.
You know, like they take care of the pyramids is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This town is on that level and it was burned because the feds didn't do their jobs.
And they were warned.
Well, and they, it seems almost like, you know, they wanted to have an excuse for more climate hysteria pushings.
And instead of having the insights to say, oh, you know what?
I mean, why would the government admit that they dropped the ball?
But they just tried to frame it as though this was, well, this is the effects of climate change and global warming.
And we probably need to tax Jasper even more than we already do to prevent it all in the future.
And instead of just upholding their duty to maintain this area, it's just the hysteria that ignites through the federal government and the scrambling to cover up their tracks when they're, you know, very clearly have done, have failed in their duty here.
But no one will be accountable.
No one will be accountable.
These people are re-elected.
Stephen Gilbo is still in government, even though he oversaw the burning down of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Imagine being able to keep your job after that.
Well, you've just imagined being a carney liberal.
Yeah.
And forestry experts were warning multiple forestry experts.
The local MP, who was a conservative, naturally, warned about this.
Everybody in the town of Hinton, which is just to the east, that's outside of the national park.
They, when I was there, and I had seen with my own eyes for years and years, yeah, there's a lot of standing deadfall here.
And this is just a recipe for disaster.
Our premier at the time, she's fighting back tears, talking about the destruction of Jasper.
They turned away water trucks.
They had the wrong fire hydrants that nobody could hook to them except for Hinton and basically that's it.
So if you had outside municipalities like Edson, just a little bit further up the road an hour or so, rushing in to help, they were no good.
They had parks people saying, well, you can't go to the river and suck up water because this is a national park to fight the fire.
So the water trucks that couldn't hook to the fire hydrants couldn't go to the river to suck up water to be useful.
And then the outside firefighters were told to stand down while the trailer park burned.
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It was just a mess.
And but Gilbo's got his job.
And if that's not cringe enough, we do have the final wrap up.
The daily cringe at the end of the show here.
I'm looking forward to this.
But first, there is a super chat from Leb who gives $5.
I really want to know if my vote was counted as I marked in pen, my lady as well.
Yeah, I mean, how do we?
Who knows?
Whoever knows.
I hope so too.
Okay, what's our daily dose of cringe today?
I think I saw it earlier.
Oh, yes.
This is a crazy story.
So just a little bit of background context.
I don't know if you've been following this story closely, Sheila.
Okay, I have in too deep.
I'm in too deep with this story.
Yeah.
So these two children have been missing in Nova Scotia.
Lily and Jack Sullivan, I believe.
Yeah, Sullivan is their last name.
Really weird circumstances.
They're four and six and it's up for debate whether or not they have some autism or other developmental delays.
I mean, a four-year-old who's wearing a pull-up.
Anyway, so the story with these children is that they went missing and the parents didn't get out of bed to be up with them in the morning.
And so they allegedly left through a screen door in the backyard and then have not been seen since.
And this was, I believe, a week ago tomorrow that they've been missing.
And so the RCMP ground search, there's been a whole team dedicated to trying to find, locate them in this area, which is extremely rural.
It's all forested, like deep bush.
And unfortunately, they haven't been successful.
And so the RCMP did an update yesterday and then researched.
And just to put this into context, I'm out here in Western Canada.
Tamara is in Ontario.
The world is invested in this.
If you go on YouTube, there are like body language experts and people just really, really, really trying to examine what happened here.
I have my own theories.
I'm going to keep them to myself until we know more.
But like the world is watching.
Just go on YouTube.
Like you'll just see like FBI profilers, former FBI profilers discussing the parents' behavior and all of this.
So this is the time for the RCMP to shine.
Right.
And to show their competency, right?
As like an agency that's supposed to protect and uphold life and liberty.
Yeah, there's some aerial footage now that just came out yesterday or the day before of their house and their backyard.
And just, you know, for the viewers that are interested, go and have a look at what these poor children were living in outside.
And, you know, maybe we can speculate.
I'm not poverty shaming.
I grew up without very much, but there, you can be both poor and not squalid.
That's all I do.
Disheveled.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So anyway, all of that to be said, yeah, the RCMP has a great opportunity to show competency and instill confidence and, you know, tell the public and reassure them, like, we're handling this and we're looking at all avenues.
before they even get started they begin with this good afternoon Sorry.
Good afternoon.
I am Corporal Carly McCann, Provincial Public Information Officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP.
Thank you all for being here today.
Bonjour, je suit la capitale Carly McCann, Étienne d'Impromation public collages ase a new casse.
Merci, devote present sor joji.
First, I acknowledge that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the traditional and unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq people.
I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched that part of Mi'kma'ki, known as Nova Scotia, for over 400 years.
Yeah, the proverbial land acknowledgement ritual that we must all engage in.
And how long the world is tuning in to find out what's happening with these kids?
And we get a 90-second land acknowledgement.
Yeah.
First of all, like, wouldn't you want to express your sincerest worries or your condolences to the family or your hopes and aspirations to find these kids safe and alive and warm and not anyway?
Yeah, I, you know, just to play devil's advocate, I can see it on one hand because it is being said online.
And I don't know if it's totally confirmed.
The grandmother is.
The grandmother is.
The children were Indigenous and from the whether they resided in the community there.
I'm not sure, but they were part of the Indigenous community there.
But regardless, this is crazy to me to start off with finding them.
I just don't know what that has to do with finding them.
There are two kids that are missing.
I have my theories.
I'm sure, Tamari, you do too.
But what does the, like, the world is watching.
And this is what you choose to lead with.
I hate it.
Yeah, it's just woke nonsense.
And like it's just ideologically driven when there is a real, there are real people, real small, innocent, vulnerable children who are missing.
And this is what we start first off.
I'd like to acknowledge the what, da, da, da, da.
I mean, let's talk about priorities here.
Yeah.
Also, that RCMP communications officer looked like she was going to puke.
Like, is she just the communications officer?
Yeah, exactly.
Is it because she's just bilingual?
And they're like, I guess you're the communications officer now?
I don't know.
I'm sure she's a good job, but I did not enjoy this.
I kind of wonder if the RCMP knows, like if they're doing some side investigations and all, you know, all the internet sleuths are out here and doing, you know, dissecting things that were said in the media and looking at the drone footage and the aerial footage of the backyard.
And I wonder if the RCMP has explored or is exploring any of those other avenues.
Like, are these kids, you know, did they actually wander off?
And what really happened to their scent at the end of the driveway?
And these things that have these lingering questions.
I mean, the public's confidence in your competency, it leaves a lot to be desired when you start off your press release six days, five days post these children being missing with a land acknowledgement.
Yeah.
And this press conference is basically them saying we're scaling back the search, meaning they don't have a hope of finding these kids alive.
Yeah.
And these are the photos.
Oh, yeah.
There's the aerial photos of their property.
And some people were online saying, oh, well, it was a completely fenced backyard.
So they couldn't get out.
But if you actually zoom in a little bit, I mean, that fence is pretty mismatched together.
And so there's clearly a lot of gaps in the fencing and just general unsafe information for kids, especially kids with autism or other behavioral issues.
They often love to climb and they love to get into like crevices and explore and go in.
Like there's no risk perception there as for children, but especially children who have certain afflictions and autism spectrum disorder is one of those ones where they have even less risk perception.
And so why you wouldn't be, you know, we can speculate, but why the parents wouldn't have been up tending to their children's needs at 10 a.m. in the morning, especially if they have special needs is, I think that tells you the kind of life they were living at home.
Yeah.
But not to speculate, we'll let the we'll let the super competent RCMP do their due diligence on this one.
Anyway, I'm sure the RCMP know more than we do and are saying less, but that, I mean, that does not, I don't know, when the world is watching and that's what you lead with, yikes.
Just like yikes.
Nana wake gives us 10 bucks and says, why are Canadians subject to a three month probation period at a new job, but politicians aren't considering Carney's performance, contradicted his anti-Trump platform.
And we haven't seen his financials.
Well, we're trying to see his financials.
That's why Ezra went to Bermuda.
Which, again, I remain shocked that Bermuda is only three hours from Toronto.
I'm further to Toronto by a bike lane.
I was like, what?
But yeah, we're doing our best with our little tiny, teeny tiny budget.
Ezra went to Bermuda to track down the bike shop where Brookfield has parked some money.
And he also flew to the Isle of Man to find the nice residential house with a old man landlord where Brookfield IOM, Isle of Man, has parked some money.
And of course, we know that Brookfield also was given that $157 million relocation contract with the troops, which they completely bungled.
That was Brookfield Relocation Services.
I joked yesterday that the whole country is just going to be branded Brookfield.
The people who are going to invest or investigate the green slash fund, it's going to be like Brookfield forensic auditing services.
We're just going to be like that Apple TV show, Severance, where the whole we're just owned by Lumen, but it's Brookfield.
Oh, crazy.
Yeah.
Brookfield echo.
Yeah.
But it's true.
Why aren't Canadians subject to Canadian politicians subject to a three-month probation period, right?
Like we need that recall legislation.
I thought that is such, that would be such a nice thing to have in on the federal level is to have an ability to recall politicians when they're not living up to what they campaigned on and their political promises.
Right.
But then crappy politicians and their even crappier enabler supporters and voters would be crying in the blues like they are in Alberta right now, where we have this legislation and they're like, how dare you?
Why Not Recall Legislation?00:01:10
How dare you hold politicians to account?
We can't have that here.
We can't have that.
We're polite people.
Anyway, I think that's it.
Yeah.
I think that's it.
We're all caught up.
Tamara, you and I have to head and finish some work and head into a meeting anyway.
So Olivia, thank you for working so hard behind the scenes to put the show together for everybody.
We know we ask you to do many, many things while we're on air and you always come through for us, or at least as best you can.
Tamara, thanks for co-hosting with me today and keeping us on time and over the target.
Just a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, we do our best.
Anyways, go to YouTube if you want to get down that rabbit hole of what happened to these kids.
Yes.
There's a lot of theories, a lot of theories.
And I'm not going to say any.
You guys can make up your own minds.
Thanks, everybody who chipped in to keep the lights on here at Rebel News while we go through the news of the day, even if some of you don't like the news of the day.
I appreciate your feedback and I will take it to heart.