Wyatt Claypool and Angelique Toy critique Alberta’s book ban policy, where Education Minister Daniel Smith removed only graphic pornography—despite Edmonton Public School Board’s broader removals—while dismissing Margaret Atwood’s activist response. They also condemn the NDP’s exclusion of "cis men" from leadership signatures, warning it risks alienating working-class voters amid identity politics. Alberta’s TFW program is blamed for displacing Canadian youth in jobs like oil change shops, with panelists praising calls to abolish it by Michelle Rempel Garner and Jamil Giovanni. The episode ends by linking progressive policies to economic and cultural instability, urging a shift toward Canadian labor and energy independence. [Automatically generated summary]
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Our panel today is Wyatt Claypool of the National Telegraph and Rebel News reporter and behind the scenes doer of all other things related to social media, Angelique Toy.
Guys, thanks for joining us on the show.
Let's get right into it.
The activists and the journalists, and I realize that I'm repeating myself there when I'm talking about the landscape here in Alberta.
They just refuse to get this story right.
The so-called book ban in Alberta, where we've removed graphic materials from the elementary and junior high school libraries, sparked an overreaction.
I wouldn't say it's an overreaction.
I say it's a malicious obfuscation of the facts by the Edmonton Public School Board, where they then decided, if you're making us pull the porn off the shelves and the gender weighing nonsense, we're going to pull 1984, the handmaid's tale, and a whole host of other things.
And it has gotten so bad that Daniel Smith and Demetrios Nicolaidos, our education minister whose name is so fun to say, they've had to actually show these books in a press conference, realizing that like this is going to get us hit on YouTube if we show it, but we have to show it because you people won't stop lying.
So let's get into Daniel Smith first.
She says, I'm going to be more explicit than usual.
So there is no misunderstanding this policy.
Get graphic pornographic images out of school libraries.
Again, how is this controversial unless you're a sex activist psychopath?
Leave the classics on the shelves.
Nobody said get 1984 out of the classroom.
In fact, 1984 in every classroom.
And I'm really looking for someone on the left to read a book that isn't The Handmaid's Tale.
They moved on to Handmaid's Tale after they decided they don't like the author behind Harry Potter because that used to be the only other thing that they read.
And she said, we all know the difference between items one and two.
Let's not play any more games in implementing this policy for our kids.
I'm going to go to Wyatt.
Wyatt, I think it's absolutely outlandish that she had to do this, but I think it's a symptom of what she's up against in Alberta when it comes to dealing with the left and dealing with the journalists who I don't see a distinguishment between the two anymore.
You used the right word earlier on when you said malicious.
Specifically, what the Edmonton Board of Education is doing is engaging in what you would call either the practitioner's veto or more specifically, malicious compliance.
That they've been told to take inappropriate books off the shelves.
And so they're going to read between all the lines that are not there in the order and just say, well, we have to ban 200 books.
Well, we just have to ban all this stuff because there's something sexually inappropriate in it.
Even though leading up to the actual ministerial order being put out, it was clarified over and over again.
And common sense would have told you that, yes, maybe a child in grade three shouldn't be reading the handmade's tale, but that's fine for high school students.
What we want to get off the shelves is things that are overtly offensive, no matter what age you are to be reading, and things that are not age appropriate for children in elementary school or in middle school.
But again, you have all the journalists just reporting it straight, like, oh, this is a consequence of the book ban.
It's not a book ban.
It's like saying we have an alcohol ban because you have to be 18 years old to drink.
We have a driving ban because you need a driver's license.
You have to be over the age of 14 and 16 to get your learners and your full driver's license.
It's completely ridiculous.
And none of the journalists ever ask the question, why is this only coming out of the most woke school district in the entire province of like the Edmonton School Board is doing this?
Not central Alberta, Southern Alberta, Northern Alberta, Calgary.
None of the other ones decide to do this.
Only the people who are going to be most in line with the ATA did this.
You know, Wyatt, I appreciate your glass half-full attitude when you don't ascribe malice to the when you're just clearly describing idiocy to the journalists.
But I saw this firsthand on the day of this announcement.
We all got the embargoed documents well in advance.
We saw the graphic materials.
It was in the embargoed documents.
We were able to prep our stories.
We were able to look at this pornography.
And the moment those stories went live, they were wrong.
And the journalists misled the public from the very beginning, so much so that on the very day of the original announcement, they had to release another press release telling the media to correct their erroneous reporting that was completely misleading the public.
So I like, I wish that I could be like you, where I'm just like, no, they're all just pleasant little idiots.
I saw at firsthand what a bunch of sinister liars the media is.
Angelika, you're a little bit closer in age to all of this than I am, unless, you know, like I have one high schooler left.
Thank God she's almost done.
But, you know, like you're, you've been exposed to activist teachers.
And, you know, this is not something that the UCP are making up or blowing up and saying, well, we found one of these books in one school.
And so we have to write a policy about it.
This is very real and live and happening now.
Very much is.
I actually did a tour of my old high school a couple months back and I walked through the social studies wang and I saw new posters that were put up all over the halls and some of which were the communism poster.
And I immediately knew I definitely got out of there at the right time because these students are being indoctrinated.
100%.
Now, Lisa, I'll go to you on this.
Our education minister, who's been so good on this, at first he didn't say, he just said these books were found in schools, but that wasn't good enough for these people.
And actually, I'm kind of glad it wasn't good enough for these people because now we know exactly the schools that they were in, where they were found, and what books were found.
So careful what you wish for, jerks, because you just might get it.
And now we've got parents who can walk into a school and say, your school, my school's on the list, get your gender wang book off the shelf.
You've had a bit of a like a personal experience, or at least you've been somewhat aware of these materials being in Saskatchewan schools.
Oh, yeah.
And it's incredible that the government of Alberta has to go and fact check the mainstream media because they can't be bothered to get off their narrative train.
But when we're talking about purging inappropriate and explicit and completely, well, I guess inappropriate material for little kids, for every book that the government of Alberta is purging, there are at least a thousand digital resources that are floating through the system.
And so just to give you an example of this, I sent this to the team earlier yesterday, but during Pride season, this is a, I have an example of a digital library for pride season right here.
Okay.
So this was sent to students on an internal messaging platform.
It's a pride library.
See it?
It's just full of bright colors.
And, you know, this would, this would attract little eyes.
Well, every single one of the books on that bookshelf that you can see linked, okay, linked to a YouTube kids video that the kid could just click on and then have the pride book read to the kid.
And so this isn't just an issue of purging it out of libraries because we know libraries are infested with this kind of content, but it's actually taking a 360 degree look at the entire curriculum, how queer theory is being pushed to our kids.
We're talking in math, in science, in art, in Z, in every aspect of school and getting it out.
And I don't think that, I don't think that this look at library books even goes far enough because I don't think children should be exposed to content that their parent that doesn't align with the values and beliefs of their parents.
Okay, that's not what school is for.
So good on the government of Alberta on getting on this.
And I look forward to the government of Saskatchewan doing the same.
Yeah, me too.
Let's go just last item on this topic.
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, the favorite book of the oppressed feminists on the left, and they're LARPing.
She had the absolute worst boomer take of all because she didn't actually stop to consider that she should maybe fact check the journalists and find out that her book hadn't actually been banned, but teachers did it out of pout and spite.
So she released a short story.
She wrote a short story for 17-year-olds about two very, very good children named John and Mary Since her award-winning book was no longer suitable for some Alberta schools.
And let's be clear, that's because librarians and teachers were having a tantrum.
And she writes that they never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits.
They grew up and married each other and produced five perfect children without ever having sex.
And then she goes on to criticize Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who has been supportive of the book ban, again, not a book ban, and compares her two characters in The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian story that turned into a star-studded TV hit.
I'll go to Wyatt.
Well, and this is one of those things where, yeah, the media is being purposely obtuse by acting like somehow Margaret Atwood is actually getting to the heart of this issue in what she's doing.
Like, no, she's not.
She is frankly an old idol, actually, she's not even a boomer.
She's the silent generation person still floating around trying to like insert herself into a jury into Alberta politics when she has no clue who even banned the book.
She's saying Daniel Smith banned the book.
It was, why isn't she going after the people on the Edmonton Board of Education, the people who actually did it?
Again, this is malicious compliance.
They know that this is what happens to Donald Trump a lot in his first administration.
He gives an order and then people will carry it out either incompetently, they will slow walk it, or they will do stuff in order to make it seem this is actually exactly what happened to Ron DeSantis in Florida.
He was getting these books taken off the shelves and they're like, oh, this means the Bible has to go because there is sexual content in the Bible.
As if anyone meant that, not literal pornography being given to seven-year-olds.
And Lisa's right.
This is just a symptom of a greater problem.
The fact that you can put the books in the libraries means, like, in provinces like British Columbia and Ontario, and sadly, at times in Alberta, you can have school counselors counseling children on how to socially transition and how to get access to medical, like medicine and pharmaceuticals in order to medically transition.
This is a big deal in British Columbia because when people go after the books as the main problem, it's not the main problem because that's actually what I've experienced in BC.
Some people will be like, well, we just need to kind of clean up the library.
I'm like, the library is the symptom.
The good thing is, Alberta, we're finally cracking down on it so much.
We're getting to the point where it's maybe just the books that are the biggest problem at this point.
But yeah, Margaret Atwood again, Margaret Atwood sounding off was the whole point of the Edmonton Board of Education doing this.
They wanted to basically grow a bunch of celebrities so they were going to come out and get mad about it.
The celebrity buy-in is actually part of their process.
We've seen this time.
Sheila Dunbreed, who was the actress from Orphan Black who was in Vegina propping up the LGBTQIA shelter?
I can't remember her name either, but getting the celebrity onboarding is absolutely part of that process.
But like Danielle Smith now knows the school board that she needs to fire because they showed her that they're incompetent.
Okay, if they couldn't undertake this one little project without getting all bent out of shape, are they really capable of running one of the province's biggest school boards?
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I'd argue not.
Fire them all, Danielle.
Teach them a lesson.
Well, and it's so just sorry, go ahead, Angelique.
I just think what's nice of here is that they've actually weaponized parental concerns because parents have brought up that they are unsatisfied with what's being shown in these books.
And the school board has completely weaponized that and also weaponized the policy that Danielle Smith made to just, you know, all she did was introduce real normal guidelines to keep schools safe and education safe.
And they completely turned it around.
Yeah, they've it's so dishonest because the intent of getting this graphic erotica out of the hands of an eight-year-old.
Um, and nobody, nobody could actually confuse that unless they did it on purpose dishonestly.
And now you know who those dishonest liars are.
They work at the Edmonton Public School Board and parents should be on notice.
This connects too as well to when the province rightfully banned biological males from competing in women's sports.
And you will still have people today.
I'm just going to name someone who definitely knows better, Professor Dwayne Bratt, somebody who is a policy expert, who just says, oh, they banned trans athletes.
Do you mean that they are not letting males compete in female sports?
It's a different category of sports.
You don't let different types of cars drive in different types of motorsports.
It's almost like that there are advantages there.
But he'll just say, oh, he banned trans athletes.
Well, good job, Dwayne.
I hope everyone in your class is learning lots.
Yeah.
It's, it's so, and I don't think Dwayne is stupid.
I think he's being purposefully dishonest when he says those things.
I've taken multiple classes with him.
I know he is smarter than this.
Speaking, I'm glad you touched on this as a great segue.
This is from Sylvan Lake, Alberta, from our friends at the Western Standard.
Alberta football coach sacked for his views on trans ideology.
And student athletes are speaking out in support of their coach as volunteers resign in protest.
We actually have Sid Fizard from Rebel News out there talking to the coach today on camera.
It's Taylor Tej Johansson.
He normally keeps his politics off the field in the locker room, but his views landed him in hot water when a TikTok video of his found its way onto the screen of the school's principal.
He posts under anti-woke 55555.
It's a five-minute video that says trans ideology is being pushed on kids who don't need it, exacerbating their mental health issues.
Where's the lie?
He says this is creating a dangerous situation with mentally unhealthy trans and undergender and other gender confused people committing acts of violence, like the mass shooting in Minneapolis last week.
Again, where's the lie?
This is somebody who works with students, young people, all the time.
He's entitled to have an opinion on this.
And particularly when his issue touches on sport, and that seems to be the battleground for trans ideology here in Alberta.
This is just a good dude.
Like there are a lot of guys his age that are off doing other things and he's coaching other young people.
This seems to me like the symptom of COVID, where all the people who were moral were run out of town because they didn't bend the knee to the state.
And the same thing's happening here.
Wyatt?
Well, in the article he, the Western Standard had put out, they had mentioned that Taylor had even said that, you know, as a Christian, he doesn't want to see the principal, Alex Lambert, fired over, basically targeting him for his, you know, off-duty content.
Like he's not at work when he's making this stuff.
He's making it on his own time.
He was saying he wouldn't like to see her fired.
That would be my one area of disagreement.
If you're a principal and you are targeting somebody for their personal beliefs, frankly, things that, you know, happen to line with reality, you should be fired because this was malicious.
And how can any parent or student have trust in you as a neutral arbiter, which is what the principal is supposed to be?
The manager of the school who is supposed to basically play referee between teachers, between students and teachers, basically is supposed to be the most adult person in the room.
And this person is trying to start petty fights with an assistant coach or like a co-coach of a football team.
Somebody doing something, I believe it was like extracurricular, doing it for free for them, but that wasn't good enough because he didn't come with all the pre-packaged same beliefs that she had.
Yeah, and just, I know, Lisa, you're just itching to get into this, but this is collective punishment for the kids.
Now they don't have a defensive coordinator.
You know, like, what did they do wrong?
They are now being punished because their coach didn't toe the ideological line.
He's being accused of violating the Education Act, but nobody can actually say how exactly he did that.
Lisa, just you're itching to talk.
Well, this is what Wyatt just described is the exact reason why principals should be elected by the members of their community.
Well, just think of, just think about it.
You have a problematic principal who is doing everything against the values of the community that they work in, not necessarily live in, but that they work in.
They're importing their craziness to your kids.
And there is no mechanism to get rid of them.
None at all.
If principals were elected by their local community, if you had a bad one like this principal, and I agree with you, Wyatt, that principal should be turfed, turfed for this.
Named and shamed.
That's right.
If we elected our principals, there would be a way of identifying the bad ones and getting them out of there within a two-year term.
I mean, it's kind of in the new country.
In the new country, we're going to be doing a lot of things like this.
And no doubt there are great principals out there.
But here's the problem with a lot of roles like principal in schools is that oftentimes you actually get the most union friendly people pushed forward for these administrative roles.
Why do you think that MLA Janice Irwin, one of the craziest MDP MLAs in Alberta, she served as a teacher for about five seconds and somehow she became one of the co-principals of the school, one of the vice principals of the school.
It's because the most activistic union members in the ATA and the different provincial teachers unions are kind of pushed forward.
So if you make these people the administrators, the superintendents, if you make this person the counselor on the school, if you put this person in an HR position, well, maybe we'll be friendlier with you when really you're just stacking all of these administrative roles that are supposed to be able to keep, you know, things within the lines in schools.
You're making them actually very union friendly and they will always cave to them.
And all these people saying, well, you know, there's so much complexity in the classrooms these days with people with people who have, you know, the kids with autism or kids who have English as second language.
Blame the unions who keep incentivizing the bloating of these administrative roles in order to give these fake jobs to these loyal union members.
Obviously, like schools need principals, but 20 years ago, you have a principal and you maybe have a vice principal if the school's big enough.
Now you got two co-principals, you get three vice principals, you get two superintendents for the district.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, sorry, none of that.
Go ahead.
Sorry, just none of that is really in the best interest of the students.
I think we read in the story as well that the athletes were actually emailing this coach that was fired, and as well as the parents saying that they are really disappointed with this decision and that they're going to miss him.
So we can just really see that the school chose to take the ideological path instead of listening to the students again.
Yeah.
It's He says that the administration has been out to get him for some time, beginning four years ago when he spoke out against COVID mandatory vaccination lockdowns and school closures.
He says the principal is a far is far left and woke, despite Sylvan Lake's reputation as a stridently conservative community.
And that's so true.
And we see this all the time, where you have school boards, school administration, where they are completely not reflective of the cultural values of the communities in which they serve.
It's just constant.
And it's because of this cultural Marxism where you got to get to the kids and get them first if you want to change the culture downstream.
I liken these people to zombies or vampires.
They don't procreate on their own.
They don't replicate their ideology the gold old-fashioned way like Lise and I did with having a bunch of kids.
They just infect other people's kids with their madness.
You have to inoculate.
Yeah, we're at the place where we have to inoculate our own children against rampant radical leftist ideologies before we send them out the door to school.
That's what conservative parents have to do.
Yeah.
Let's jump ahead a little bit, Olivia, because I know we got to let Angelika go at 11.30.
Let's go to Michelle Rempel Garner.
She's our immigration critic.
I feel that she's been absolutely wonderful since the campaign.
And I think under Polyev's leadership, she, you know, she sort of was in the mushy middle there for a little bit.
She's real hardline on immigration, and I couldn't be happier to see it.
She's calling for the total abolishment of the temporary foreign worker program.
Murder it, get rid of it.
Canadian jobs should go to Canadians.
And she's published an article to that effect.
And if you follow her on X, every single day, she's posting jobs that should be Canadian.
Like every day, she's like, here's a job, $36 an hour.
It's in management at a Tim Hortons.
Should be a Canadian.
Tell me why they can't hire a Canadian.
I mean, she's showing you the complete and total abuse of the system.
And I think she's right.
The system is so broken, it cannot be fixed.
And the system doesn't serve anybody except the temporary foreign workers.
And that's not what it's supposed to do.
Wyatt?
I think someone who actually needs a lot of credit on this particular topic is Jamil Giovanni, because he was the quarterback who kind of, as soon as he got into office, back when maybe there was a bit more of a like, you know, the typical thing that happens after the Conservative Party loses an election is that the leader kind of recedes into themselves and they get, you know, passive and they're not really hard running on policies because it's like they lose confidence in themselves.
And I think Jamil, right after the election, really helped inject some confidence back into the party by immediately calling for an end to the TFW program.
And it's obvious.
Honestly, I think a lot of this, you have to go after the business community for having been so weak that I'm not anti-business.
I am a capitalist, but it's so sad seeing business owners begging for more TFW workers rather than putting pressure on the government saying, how about if you guys are actually, you know, elbows up patriotic Canadians, we have lower corporate tax rates than the Americans so that we can out-compete them.
Except instead, they tie one arm behind your back and then they just tell you to throw your other elbow up in the air and hopefully, you know, we'll be able to get through the winter.
Yeah, it's true.
Angelica, youth unemployment, you're one of the youth.
Youth, however, you are employed, but youth unemployment is out of control in this country.
And if you ended the temporary foreign workers program tomorrow, which we should, that's my dream, those jobs would go to Canadian kids.
I keep mentioning this all the time, but when you go to your local lube shop, Mr. Lube, Lubex, whatever, those jobs used to be done by 16-year-old kids, basically 16-year-old boys.
You know, they're taking mechanics at school or whatever, and this is their, you know, their way to get skills practice.
They're all temporary foreign workers now.
The food service jobs that used to go to kids who are in grade 11, 12, it's all temporary foreign workers.
What's it like for young people?
Is this just a number that we're seeing, or is it real life out there?
No, it is.
It is real life.
I have a friend who's been trying to get a job for months and she is unable to.
Everywhere that I go, where I regularly go, that'd be Tim Hortons or even just regular ice cream shops in the city, they're all being replaced by temporary workers, usually Indians.
Some of them I'm seeing now a lot of Ukrainians are popping up as well.
But I was actually talking to Sid just the other day, and he took a trip out to Jasper this last weekend.
And he said that majority of the stores there are now Indian workers.
So, of course, what we're seeing is these jobs being taken away from Canadians.
And in a small town like Jasper, a lot of those people who grown up are longtime generational Canadians in those towns.
So for those jobs just to be given in to new immigrants is honestly insulting.
It's, I mean, they have a large temporary foreign worker population in Dubai, but those people never become citizens.
There's no social security net, and everybody else is wealthy and they don't want to do those jobs.
So I guess importing a slave underclass, I guess, makes economic sense there.
But all it does in Canada is drive wages down.
Well, it does make sense if you are artificially creating the need for the temporary foreign workers.
So this is all just a hangover from COVID.
In COVID, when all the young people were given CERB, remember when they just got to stay home and collect their dollars and do nothing.
The government used that as an opportunity to say, well, look, but we have, you know, our labor force needs all of these employees that aren't available because they're all on CERB.
And they use that as a pretense for bringing all the temporary foreign workers in.
And what we're seeing now with Michelle Rempelgarner, Pierre Polyev, and mainstream conservatives saying is we need a correction to that terrible time of COVID.
Okay, what we did in that time, okay, what we did in that time, we did unprecedented things in those times, in those terrible, dark times.
But now what we need is a correction on immigration.
We realize the negative consequences of importing this many people into our country in this tiny little timeframe.
And what we need, what we need is to go backwards now, get our young people their jobs back and take the country back.
So anyway.
Absolutely.
And it's honestly, it's not even just a matter of our jobs.
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We're seeing them bringing their ways of life over here.
And I'm specifically talking about just how they treat their own country.
They're treating our country.
I was just in my area a couple of weeks back.
I was waiting for food just for takeout and I was leaning on my brother's car.
And all of a sudden, I see this vehicle pull up and I hear this rustling.
So I peek over and I'm watching as this girl of Indian descent or South Asian was dumping trash out of her car.
And I immediately look over, I start filming and I'm like, you know, like, guys, like, what's going on?
Why are you treating Canada the same way that you're treating your country back home, right?
We have certain standards here, and we need you guys to live up to these standards if you're going to be moving over here.
And then again, we saw a video that was very similar to that went viral on a few Instagram accounts for Calgary.
Same thing happened.
Indian people were dumping trash.
Then you have lakes shutting down because of high fecal matter.
Chestermere Lake was impacted.
Seldom Lake was impacted.
We're seeing this all over Canada.
Yeah.
What I like about that video is you're like 90 pounds and like five foot two.
And there you are yelling at this couple in their car.
And you've literally shamed them into picking up their garbage.
And let that be a lesson for all of us.
I know we've got to go.
I know we have to say bye to Angelica.
But before we go, Wyatt, I want to invite you to our birthday party in Calgary.
Well, I already live here, so that's good.
I know I seem like I'm born and raised in Alberta, but I do read like I'm from like Hartford, Connecticut a little bit, but I am here, so I'll be there.
Okay, perfect.
Do we want to bring up happybirthdayrebel.com just so I can tell everybody else and invite them too?
But now we have it confirmed.
If you stand us up, Wyatt, I'll be very, very upset.
We have our Rebel birthday party.
It's coming up September 18th in Calgary and in Toronto, October 16th.
Go to happybirthdayrebel.com for details and tickets.
You can come like a regular ticket, but there's also a VIP ticket that you can purchase too.
There's music.
Tamara Leach is our musical guest in Calgary and snacks and decorations.
And it's going to be a legitimate birthday party and it's going to be fun.
And I'm very excited.
I'm going to overdress.
I just haven't nailed my outfit yet, but I know that Lisa is going to look like a Disney villain, but also like a Disney princess all at once.
It's going to be wonderful.
I can't wait.
And Wyatt, we'll see you there.
And I can't wait to see the rest of you there too, including you, Angelika.
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Luckily enough, we've got Wyatt who's going to stay with us for the full hour.
So that's a real treat.
Let's go into this.
I thought this one would be the Daily Cringe, but I found a Daily Cringe that we can talk about at the end of the show.
I didn't get a chance to talk about it last week.
I've had some time to mull over my thoughts on the Daily Cringe, but this is so like chef's kiss NDP.
You know what I mean?
The NDP leadership is underway.
Nobody's paying attention.
So they thought they would do something particularly woke.
And so the party is limiting signatures from cis men.
First of all, I hate even using cis, like just men.
You don't need to give them a prefix.
Like there's some sort of other.
The prospective federal NDP leadership candidates will have to raise $100,000 and amass 500 signatures from members, most of which cannot come from cisgender men to be officially in the running according to the rules that were released on Tuesday with the NDP leadership now underway.
Candidates who are hoping to secede, Jugmeet Singh should be making themselves known in short order.
The winner will be announced in Winnipeg as part of the party's national convention.
Good grief.
March 29th, 2026, we're going to have to put up with this for like eight months.
My lord, I can't even imagine how crazy this is going to be.
But this is supposed to, according to the party president, the leadership race is an exciting opportunity for our members and for people across the country who share progressive values.
It will spark important conversations about the kind of future we want to build together, rooted in fairness, fairness, justice, and hope.
I hope, or I know our members are eager to take part in a contest that is democratic, inclusive, I guess, while excluding people, and inspiring for the entire movement.
This will there be an NDP party left after this?
What's happening?
Wyatt?
Well, here's, I love that stipulation that you can't have more than 50% cisgendered men because it demonstrates that they're just how anti-men they are.
Because they could have just said you at least need 50% people who identify as women.
They had to say, you cannot be, you cannot have more than 50% cisgendered men.
And if you know anything about the NDP, goodness, they do not have a problem with too many men involved in their party activities.
It's actually a very female party.
It's a party of, you know, of nurses and teachers and young progressive actors.
Effeminate weirdo men and Charlie Angus.
Yeah, and you have, and you have like Yves Engel anglers or whatever who comes off like, like if, you know, if Pol Pot was also a Nazi or something like that, where he literally believes in degrowth and he's super anti-Semitic.
So he's like anti-Semitic Pol Pot.
Yeah, Alexa runs into him quite a bit at the pro-Hamas protest.
My Alexa device always chimes in when I say her name.
I have to unplug it.
But the party rules about this leadership were actually even worse than what I just said there.
It said the rules indicate that at least 50% of the total required signatures must be from NDP members who do not identify as cisgender men, meaning a male whose reported gender corresponds to their reported sex at birth.
The party, wait, there's more.
The party also requires a minimum of 100 signatures to be from, oh my goodness.
This is a phrase I would never actually say in real life unless it were written in front of me for me to say.
Equity-seeking groups, such as racialized members, Indigenous members, members of the LGBTQ plus community, and persons living with disabilities.
I have a disability after reading that.
Like, it's so woke.
I love this for the NDP because welcome to the LGBT NDP or the DEI NDP.
After the election, we have NDP operatives saying, right, so latching onto the identity politics absolutely decimated us.
So what is the NDP going to do?
They're going to latch harder onto the identity politics.
I cannot wait until this party of harping, crazy, woke left academics and overachievers is decimated into the ground.
I just cannot wait until they are extinct.
You know what?
I read this like the NDP's obituary.
I am so delighted to see this.
Not only do the conservatives want the men, okay?
Hey, guess what?
The NDP doesn't want you fine.
Stay with the conservatives.
We love you.
We value you.
We appreciate you.
But we're also going to steal the common sense women that go along with them.
I'm going to disagree with you on a couple of points, and I don't normally disagree with you on anything.
However, I know what you're going to say.
Go on, say it again.
Yeah, I know, just because you know me.
I would not say they're overachievers.
I would say that they are overeducated, underachievers.
Thank you.
You know, they're just like the career student baristas, the Catherine Swampies of the world.
And I do not cheer for a decimated NDP.
I cheer for a rehabilitated, more sensical NDP.
The Thomas Molcair NDP is what I cheer for.
Why?
Because Thomas Molcair was Stephen Harper's best friend, splitting that progressive vote on the left.
But we're just going to see the left-wing vote coalesce around the liberals, the crazier the NDP are.
In my fantasy football world of politics, and I say this to someone who has written two books about the woman, critical books.
Her biggest critic, I would say, Rachel Notley, in my ideal world, is the leader of the federal NDP.
She checks all their identity boxes.
She's from a legacy NDP family.
She cracked Fortress Alberta.
She's a woman.
The left considers her like a prairie pragmatist.
In my ideal world, she is elected leader of the NDP and she's in the House of Commons as the leader of the opposition.
Not because I agree with anything the woman says, but because cracking the vote on the left only benefits the conservatives.
Wyatt.
That's why it's so stupid having that.
It's not even saying their rules.
I'm going back to the rules for a second.
Just bothers me from like, if you put me in charge of the NDP and you're telling me, okay, why, how can we get as many seats as possible?
And I'm like, how about don't restrict how many people you can sign up for the NDP?
Because what they're effectively saying is that if you happen to be mining a vein as an NDP leadership candidate and you just happen to be really connecting with blue-collar men in a very effective way, they're saying, stop.
You now have to go work even harder to sign up an equivalent amount of women so that your men aren't 50%.
Like, why not have a candidate who has, you know, 70% of his signups are men because he's a union Teamster's head or something like that.
And then you have someone else who's just the wacko progressive from a college town who's running, you know, or someone who thinks they're in Gaza at all times, like Heather McPherson.
You know, that person can go sign up all of the women and people from the long acronym community.
That's what that person's job is.
But the thing is, here's what Jack Layton understood.
In 2004, when Paul Martin was in government, the party that was holding them up was the block and the NDP, and the NDP tended to be the more reliable partner.
But when Jack Layton smelled blood in the water, he pulled the plug on the government.
And because he could expand the power of his party, what Jagmeet Singh did not understand as a leader, and what it seems like the current NDP leadership still do not understand is that your job when running a party is to get as much power for your party, regardless of whatever else happens.
You are supposed to get more seats.
And what Jagmeet Singh did, and of course, I'd rather the Conservatives be in government right now, but if even if I'm an NDP person, I would tell them, who cares if the Conservatives get into government?
You want 50 seats.
You don't want less seats.
What are you doing?
Like, if it just, if all you do is, if all you exist to do is keep the conservatives up, then go join the Liberal Party.
Right.
Why stop giving the NDP all the good ideas?
They might listen to you.
If I say it, it means they will do the opposite.
So exactly.
The more I talk about Rachel Notley leading the federal NDP, the less likely she is to do it, just despite me.
And, you know, we saw with the results of the federal election in Windsor that the NDP have completely abandoned the lunch, the unionized lunch bucket crowd.
Like they've just in favor of the gender wang, pro-Hamas, Evangelers, Heather McPhersons of the world.
Let's move ahead.
Just, I'm going to be a little bit out of order, Olivia, but let's go into this Black Locks piece because we talked about just now the unionized lunch bucket crowd.
And, you know, they have left the NDP.
And if you would listen to Christy Freeland, they ran into her loving bosom because she says that steel workers are actually personally, personally very special to her.
She told the transport committee.
And yet she made no mention of unemploying Canadian steel workers by giving those steel contracts to Chinese steel workers building ferries for BC ferries in a loan that is backstopped by the feds.
And also the Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola.
She said, steel and aluminum, they're foundational to Canada.
Steel And Aluminum Foundational00:12:10
Steel and aluminum.
And the people who produce steel and aluminum in Canada are actually personally very special to me.
My bonding moment was, you know what, I should have done that inner voice.
Hang on.
Steel and aluminum are foundational to Canada.
Steel and aluminum.
And the people who produce steel and aluminum and steel and aluminum in Canada are actually personally very special to me.
My bonding moment was during the first North American free trade agreement and negotiations.
Steel is about jobs and the people who make this deal.
You mean the people whose job it is to make this deal?
Honestly, she's just like filler words.
It's like listening to Kamala Harris talk where it's 90 seconds later and you're like, what did you say?
Nothing.
A great, great Kamal Harris moment would be something like, isn't there nothing better on God's green earth than a steel girder?
Don't you go to school?
You go, you drive to work and you see a steel girder and it makes me think of America.
Like, but no doubt, though, if I'm looking for Christy Freeland, I first check a steel workers union convention or the Boilermaker and Pipe Fitters.
It's either those two.
You'll always find her there because they're so personally special to her.
Yeah, Boilermakers.
You know, my son is a pipe fitter.
And, you know, when I ask him who his closest friends are, Christy Freeland, top of his mind.
Like, it's just the dumbest thing.
I'm going to go through that committee transcript and see how many times the woman says the word steel and aluminum because just looking at the poll quotes in this Black Locks article, it's a lot.
It's a lot.
And she just says it together, steel and aluminum.
We know in our transport industries, rail, maritime, transport, use a lot of steel and aluminum.
And we're really, really good at using the steel and aluminum.
We're so good at producing it across our entire economy.
Steel and aluminum, steel and aluminum, steel and aluminum.
Did she mention Doug Ford eviscerating the steel and aluminum sector by running his mouth against the Americans?
Did she mention that even one time?
No, I bet not.
I bet not.
All we're missing there is a Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker.
Let's I'm just going to touch briefly on this because I think it's kind of interesting, but not all that really because a liberal or two failing upward is not really all like news.
But Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering naming two sitting liberal MPs.
So they just got reelected to diplomatic posts.
Bill Blair.
God, why won't he just go away?
And Jonathan Wilkinson to diplomatic posts as rewards for their service as former cabinet ministers and as a means, this is how Globe and Mail puts it, to recruit fresh talent unencumbered by the Justin Trudeau years.
You mean get rid of them quietly?
So these guys were just elected and they're going to be shuffled off to diplomatic posts, big fat rewards somewhere.
Why even have signed their nomination papers?
Like what, what was the point?
Now we're going to have to run by-elections when these Yahoos head off to their golden parachute.
Well, the funny thing about this is that actually I find both the way he's been acting around who he puts in his cabinet, who he doesn't put in his cabinet, and now who he's going to be shuffling out.
And we can still recover this.
We could still send Goodale and Blair to like Tajikistan and Equatorial Guinea as their diplomatic posts.
But barring that though, it does say something about Carney being a very fussy person when it comes to personnel.
He likes people he likes.
That's why he made Nate Erskine Smith housing minister for four seconds.
And then right after the election, he pulled the carpet out from under him.
And he says, actually, I just want some random idiot that I like talking to on a personal basis.
Literally picked the dumbest.
That must make you feel bad as Nate Erskine Smith.
He didn't just pick somebody else.
He had that tantrum, too.
Yeah.
He didn't just pick somebody else.
He picked the dumbest possible person for that role.
The former mayor of Vancouver is going to be our housing minister.
So you didn't just get passed over.
Mark Carney says, I hate looking at your face so much.
I want the most incompetent person instead of you.
But the thing is that, like Justin Trudeau, really what it is, is that the cabinet becomes a friends club.
That Carney likes talking with his friends and he likes hanging out with people.
That's the thing.
He doesn't actually have business prowess.
I'm not sure if you guys ended up covering this a week ago, but the green banking lines, net zero banking lines, completely collapsed that Carney put together because much of his business acumen has to do with mining subsidies.
And as soon as Trump was re-elected, it fell apart because there's no more free subsidies for battery plants and solar and wind and EV manufacturers.
And that's like a good majority of the Brookfield assets.
It's just green.
It's just green stuff that relies on government prop-ups.
I'm so happy you brought up Brookfield, Wyatt, because what I see happening here is Mark Carney installing yes men into these positions.
Like whoever the outgoing people are in those ambassadorial ambassadorial roles aren't doing what Mark Carney needs them to do on behalf of Brookfield.
So what he's doing is he's going to install friendly people who are going to toe the line for him.
And so all of this is just very, very interesting, but it's not without cost to the Canadian taxpayer.
This is taking the Ralph Goodale track, who's now the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
He was a liberal insider for 100 million painful years in Saskatchewan and just managed to fail up and up and up.
We all see what's happening in the UK.
We all see what's happening in the UK.
And Mark Carney has his guy there representing the Liberal Party of Canada.
I know this isn't on the list.
Sorry, go ahead.
I think I accidentally said Goodale earlier as one of the two people he was considering.
Although maybe Blair is now going to end up being the ambassador to Brookfield.
You never know.
Do you know what?
I understand you confusing two old crotchety gun grabbers with each other.
So it's fine.
But speaking, just, I know this isn't on the list of things, but Olivia, I put it in the chat.
Just moreover the point about appointing people to things because they are Brookfield friendly.
So if you follow the old progressive conservatives in Alberta of your Jim Dinning types and all the NDP staffers who are gone into other things and the liberals, you would think that this selection of Don Farrell is the best thing ever.
So she is the former head of Trans Mountain.
But if you are from Alberta, you know more about Don Farrell.
Maybe, hopefully, maybe I'm just in the weeds on this stuff.
But Don Farrell, she's been selected to head the, whatever they call it, the major projects office.
And that's the creation under C5.
And that, so they're going to, she's going to be the one picking the projects in the national interest on behalf of Mark Carney.
And this is, this is why I think it's going to become Green Slash Fund 2.0.
Let me dial back a little.
Don Farrell used to be the head of TransAlta in Alberta.
She colluded with the NDP and the federal liberals to phase out coal some six years early in Alberta.
Were we ready for a coal phase out?
I don't know.
Ask anybody who gets the emergency alert on their phone anytime it's too hot or too cold in this province because we don't have capacity.
So she works with the NDP and the liberals to phase out coal.
We're dealing with that fallout now.
So she mismanages that.
Then she goes on to Trans Mountain because she did exactly what the liberals and the NDP wanted her to do with the energies, with the electricity sector.
She goes over to Trans Mountain, Trans Mountain, $5 billion-ish, $7 billion-ish $7 billion-ish.
dollars pipeline.
Feds have to buy it instead of enforcing the law, simply just enforcing the law.
And she brings it in at about eight times over budget and overdue.
And then, oh, and in the meantime, when she was, so I'm skipping a big, huge point.
While she's at TransAlta, guess who she strikes a deal with?
For some green energy production.
Brookfield.
Brookfield.
Right in the middle of that.
So she's got ties to Brookfield.
I think it was a $700 million deal, I think, with Brookfield when she was at Trans Alta.
And then so then mismanages the coal phase out, mismanages Trans Mountain.
They're like, she's the right woman for the job.
They put her at C5.
So this is, oh, and just two days ago, Black Locks is like, oh, when she was heading up Trans Mountain, she was in violation of the law and not turning over records.
Does that sound like the Green Slush Fund to you?
Yes, it does.
So we are in for Green Slush Fund 2.0.
If you think pipelines are getting built, you got another thing coming.
It's going to be green projects and more hiding of documents.
And how is Brookfield going to get rich in the middle of this?
We await to see.
But this is, you know, this is exactly what's happening with these two MPs, loyal soldiers, but being shuffled off to other things.
It's who you know, not what you know, or even competence with Mark Carney.
Anyways, I'll take it away, Wyatt.
Well, this also, just with Bill C5 in general, with the like the Office of Major Projects, it's been 170 days now, and it's pretty pathetic that it was considered like they actually built this up like we were going to announce a major project.
And the big announcement is that we are announcing an office that may announce major projects in the next year.
And the game that Carney, I believe, is going to be playing over the next couple of years is he probably wants an election before four years is up because he wants a majority.
There's no time for him to actually build anything.
So what he's going to do is pretend to say yes to a lot of projects.
At the same time, he has actually no intention of actually getting them completed in the sense that he will say, I'd love to get this new pipeline built.
I'd love to get this new mine approved, but we're going to have to go through an Indigenous ban consultation.
We have another environmental inspection report before we can fast track anything because, you know, the way you do fast tracking is you do all the steps that you were supposed to fast track and then you fast track after.
So what he's doing is outsourcing saying no.
He's going to have the premiers.
He's going to have Indigenous bands.
He's going to have environmental groups.
He's going to have legal challenges all there saying, I'd love to say yes.
I'd love to stamp the document, say that this is approved for a fast track.
But this other person said no.
It's like, goodness, sir, you're the prime minister.
Just do it.
Right.
And we talked about this the other day.
Like you said, 180 days.
And I made everybody on the panel guess how many, how long it took to build the Alaska Highway.
And it was about 240 days.
If there's political will and a sense of urgency, you can get these things done.
Political Will and Urgency00:05:54
We don't have either in this country.
We're just paying lip service to it because, as you said, 180 days and we've announced a new bureaucracy.
Whoopity-doo.
Okay, we're at the top of the hour.
I think we hit most of everything that was in the headline, or at least the headliners.
Let's go into the daily cringe because I don't want to keep Wyatt too long.
And I have managers.
Somehow, the daily cringe was not the NDP's leadership rules.
Somehow it wasn't.
Somehow it wasn't.
At least I sent you this article last week with a big WTF, and that's all I said.
Or I think I said, excuse me, but what the F. Did you know that Canada's first queer-owned utility plans to give back to the Calgary community?
It's called Qtilities.
It plans to donate all surplus profits, whatever that means, to two SLGBTQ plus initiatives.
It describes itself as a social enterprise providing electricity, natural gas, and internet services.
What is unique about the model is a plan to donate all extra profit to the alphabet community.
So its founder, Chris, can everybody that I've talked to has been very excited.
They think it's a great idea and they want to get behind it.
Who?
Who did you talk to?
And what do you mean by getting behind it?
He says, I'm doing this to show that we're here as if we didn't know.
Proudly queer and trans, and we're going to support the community and be there to support the community, even when the messaging that's being given to us is that we're not important.
You have an entire season dedicated to you, every sidewalk in town and your own pride parade.
And now you tell me you're not important and you need your own segregated utility provider.
I thought we were against segregation, but here we are.
Well, that's actually where you're wrong, Sheila, because in fact, Mark Carney announced about three or four days ago that in fact, pride is for every day and every hour of the day.
He actually had this weird speech where he talked about, you know, we need pride.
You know, it's important not just in this month or this season, but every month of the year and every hour of the day.
And I felt like it was going to start turning into like a Monty Python sketch and where he's like, and every minute of that hour and every second of that minute and every nanosecond of time, whatever the smallest unit of time is that we all are constantly beaming with pride.
But it's like, yeah, this is how you build the modern economy.
You have your public utility companies not reinvesting the money into expanding capacity.
No, maybe if you actually bring in a surplus, you're like, well, maybe we can actually reduce rates because we brought in more money than we had to.
Get some bonuses for some people for doing a good job.
You know, give the workers an extra day of vacation, then we'll move on.
It's like, no, no, no, no, we're going to give it to a parade where people should probably be ticketed for how they dress.
Yeah, this is quite something.
It says, Qtilities has partnered with UtilityNet.
Oh, there's the middleman.
A Calgary-based energy management company through their Community Energy Marketer Program.
While the initiative does not directly fund new utilities companies, it helps them enter the market by providing support with billing and invoicing, procuring their own rates and customer service.
I just, I thought we were anti-segregation, but these people are the new segregationists.
I don't understand.
This is, I just want to know where the government money is in all of this.
I haven't found it yet, but I know it's there.
I just got to keep looking.
This is what happens when you invite DEI into private industry, like this exact thing.
And you know what?
I can't even fault the LGBTQ community because of the sponsorship.
Yeah, watching their sponsorships blow into the wind as all of these things are exposed and as sponsors realize how deeply unpopular it is to support these kinds of pride seasons and pride parades and all of the identity politics and DEI initiatives.
They need to get their funding somewhere.
Okay.
Those big parades, those season-long celebrations don't fund themselves.
So good luck to this guy and his eventual six customers.
I mean, all the best.
That's the thing.
It's like, okay, I get having a niche.
Like, I get having a niche, but this seems like a little too niche, too granular.
He, and you're right.
He says, as a member of the queer community himself, Can said part of the reason he wanted to launch the company was now because he of what he sees as anti-trans messaging in Alberta.
So I guess he thought to the electricity grid and then dwindling corporate support for queer initiatives like Pride.
What are you talking about?
It's called the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
What do you mean you're not being represented?
Like, stop.
I know the way.
Go ahead.
How is it?
This just sounds like money laundering.
I started a company that's going to get a bunch of grants and get a bunch of subsidies.
Like he's just ESG mining on a utility company that doesn't need to exist.
And then he says, oh, also all the public money that I should just be putting back into like, you know, managing utility prices for people and, you know, keeping the, no, we're just going to dump it all into like the Calgary Pride Parade or something like that until the Hamas supporters disrupt it.
Mutually assured destruction.
Every time I see like them meet on the corner, I'm like, it's time.
It's time.
And it never ends.
It's called an intersectional car crash.
Bringing Back Working Class Support00:06:16
Yeah.
I just, I'm always, I'm like, you know what?
I'm just going to stand back and let these two groups sort it out without me sticking my nose in the middle or taking a side.
And then they never do.
They just sort of throw their gloves at each other and walk away.
Let's, I think that's it, Olivia.
Let's go quickly breeze through some chats.
Whisper in my ear, Olivia.
Okay, perfect.
All right.
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They can't hire Canadian workers as there would be no way for them to communicate with the staff.
Language barrier galore.
Yeah.
C. Bodwin 60 gives us five bucks and says, Sheila, you really need to look into what's happening with the Trans Alta generating station in Hanna, Alberta.
It's been offline for months.
That's at the old sheerness plant.
But basically, the ideas that Don Farrell pushed forward decimated the entire town there.
And so, yeah.
So the problems in Hannah, well, they are squarely around Don Farrell's neck like a millstone.
But don't worry.
I was slightly annoyed with the UCP when they got in and they decided that like we're not going to stop the phase out of coal.
Because my thing with coal is like just like let people use whatever energy they want.
Do you actually know that it would be, if you're an environmentalist, you should want a coal mining town to use coal for their power because it's close to, it is literally the physically most close and efficient thing you can use.
And this is not like London streets and smokestacks anymore.
They constantly recycle it as many times as possible to burn every single last ounce of energy.
Right, for sure.
We've got some of the best scrubbing technology for our stacks on the face of the earth.
And a lot of the technology was built for the oil and gas sector, but it has strong applications in the coal mining sector.
But yeah, we've got 800 years of some of the cleanest coal under our feet, like it kicks out of the ground.
And they say we can't use it.
And yeah, we talked about this before on the show.
In my dream world, where Rachel Notley is the leader of the NDP, the UCP would say, we're bringing back coal.
And we're bringing it back.
There's literally no reason not to do that.
As a matter of fact, props to high props to the government of Saskatchewan, who just announced a $900 million investment in the continuation of coal in Saskatchewan's coal country.
Because yes, we should be exploiting the natural resources that are right under our feet that are going to provide affordable and reliable energy to the people of Saskatchewan.
Why would we ever shut that down until the last ounce is mined out of the ground?
Let's keep going.
So I do find it hilarious.
The Alberta NDP is dedicated to shredding its credibility with working class people because they've made under Nahid Nenshi one of their like main two issues they talk about.
I don't even know what the other one is.
It's probably complaining about a healthcare system that they'd only make worse.
But they keep talking about trying to like ban coal mining and like in the Rockies.
It's like, yeah, that's a good idea.
That's going to get you back all the working class guys.
Just take their jobs away.
Tell them to go be teachers or something like that.
Yeah, go campaign on that in Grand Cash and see how that goes.
Yeah, I mean, we've talked about the nuclear discussion here before, and I'm not against nuclear.
But let's do nuclear after we've used up all the coal.
Let's just do that.
That's right.
Let's not overly invest in an untested technology when we have perfectly affordable and reliable energy right under our feet.
Like, let's not do that.
You know, I was trying to wrap the show up, but then we started talking about my love of coal.
That's what happens when you invite me on.
I overtalk.
Well, we all do.
Yesterday, the show was supposed to be an hour and it was an hour and a half plus.
Let's wrap the show.
Wyatt, thanks so much for coming on the show, sticking with us for the full hour.
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And then also, people can check out the 1BC party in British Columbia, where I'm the policy and comms advisor in the legislature to Dallas Brody.
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She's great.
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Couldn't do it without you.
Well, my pleasure, babe.
Anytime.
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For those that don't know, we literally had a working coal-fired boiler that was 97% clean, Genesee unit number three.
Yeah.
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But the coal era is sadly gone along with cheap, reliable energy.
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I don't agree.
Bring it back.
Bring it back.
Mine, just bring it back.
Mine, baby, mine.
Mine, baby, mine.
The coal is still there.
We could just bring it back if we had a sane government with the will.
And we have a sane government.
Just do they have the will?
I'm not sure.
Okay, everybody, that's the show for today.
I've got a couple of things to wrap before we get into my next meeting.
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The Liberals have to answer.
Why is it that they're shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited?
And let us say as well, the people, the individual temporary foreign workers, the workers themselves, they are not bad people.
They are not the problem.
They are being taken advantage of by Liberal corporate elites who want to use them to drive down wages.
And of course, we continue to support the dream of all immigrants to Canada, immigrants who come here to be Canadian, to get a job, work hard, contribute, and live a good life.
That is part of the Canadian promise.
And that is not what we're addressing here today.
We're addressing a program that temporarily brings people from low-wage countries to replace Canadians and drive down the wages of our people.
The time has come for decisive action to stop the Liberals from using our immigration system to pad the pockets of corporate elites and other insiders at the expense of Canadian jobs.
Again, the principle is very simple.
The principle is very simple.
Canadian jobs for Canadian workers.
Canada first, Canada always.
That's why Conservatives are calling on the Kearney government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas for any new temporary foreign workers coming into the country.
Under this proposal, existing permits would be wound down until the program is entirely eliminated.
Canadian jobs will go to Canadian workers first.
It's time that Mr. Carney took a serious, the job seriously of repairing the damage that his party has done.
Unfortunately, the immigration minister who destroyed the program and caused this mess is now Mark Carney's justice minister.
You can believe it.
He's now gone from creating a housing crisis as housing minister, an immigration crisis as immigration minister, to creating a crime crisis as justice minister.