Sheila Gunreid and Lise Merle critique the Conservative Party’s Calgary convention, where a parental-rights policy was rejected despite grassroots support, and MP Tamara Cronus’s opposition drew ire. They expose alleged CBC pressure to delete a tweet mocking journalists’ disrespectful behavior during Pierre Poilievre’s speech, contrasting it with Rachel Thomas’s bold call to privatize the CBC. Meanwhile, Danielle Smith’s separatist-friendly stance in Alberta—backed by petitions on schools and resources—highlights Western frustration over Trudeau’s $90B spending spree, zero pipeline approvals, and foreign interference, while Poilievre’s emotional appeal to parents was dismissed as "cringy." Gunn’s refusal to denounce separatists clashes with Liberal attacks, underscoring conservative divisions over parental rights and media bias. [Automatically generated summary]
Depending on which part of this country that you're in, you're watching Rebel Roundup.
I'm your host, Sheila Gunread, and I'm joined by my very best friend in the entire world from Regina, Saskatchewan, Lise Merle.
And we are both sounding quite exhausted because we had a hectic, but I think consequential weekend in Calgary at the National Convention of Conservatives.
Lise, how's it going?
Well, good morning, Sheila Gunread, and good morning, Canada.
Welcome to what's about to be one of the most interesting Rebel Roundups in the history of Rebel Roundups.
We have waited our whole lives for a show exactly like this, and we're just delighted to be able to bring the tea to you.
And ooh, ooh, you guys.
Oh, you guys, we're coming in hot.
Yeah, it was, I think it was good.
I think this will put some fire in your belly to make sure that the conservatives stay conservative because of, you know, they passed a lot of really excellent policy, like policy initiatives over the weekend.
But the one that failed, I think, is the one that they need to be really distinct from the liberals on.
Man alive, do I look disheveled?
And we're both sounding a little bit under the weather, but I think it might have to do with exhaustion.
Anyway, we'll talk about it.
We'll tell everybody how they can get involved in the show because I think you guys are going to have some stuff to say about it.
I know Lise.
Lise does.
We had, I mean, she had to call me on the way home to Regina to just digest it.
We just had to have some emergency debriefs, I think is what they call them, Sheila Gunread.
And this is happening amongst everybody that was there.
Yes.
We witnessed it in real time.
Real time.
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So I think that's it.
Let's start with, you know what?
Let's get it out of the way and then we'll go back to what happened with Tamara Leach.
Let's talk about the thing that's really prickling Lise and me too, because I think the conservatives have to be exactly different than the liberals on this.
They have to be the party of families and children and empowering parents and supporting parents as they travel to navigate this weird, horrible world that wants to sexualize kids and undermine the relationship between parents and kids.
So let's go, Olivia, on the list of topics.
The video where we describe it as a sitting conservative elected official in Canada.
Who is it again, Lise?
It is Tamara Cronus of Nanaimo Lady Smith.
Nanaimo Lady Smith, conservative MP.
She said that opposing a policy that makes it easier for children to transition to a different gender is too divisive.
Now, there was a policy, just to give us some background, there was a policy platform, policy proposal that said basically, and this is not the exact wording, but the Coles Notes version, that parents should be empowered to seek the therapy advice that they need to help children navigate gender dysphoria without medicalizing them, help their own children.
Excuse me, yes, help their own children through gender dysphoria.
So, right now, in fact, it's illegal to what they call gender or what they call conversion therapy.
That's illegal in Canada.
Now, I, and of course, nobody agrees with taking your kid to a therapist and asking them to change their sexual orientation.
Like, that, like, nobody wants, like, to forcibly take someone and send them off to a camp to make them straight.
I, I don't, I don't think that is a thing that that happens, really.
But what does happen, or what used to happen, is you might want to take your kid who's struggling with gender dysphoria because of some horrible influence of some blue-haired teacher, that you should be able to take them to a psychologist like Jordan Peterson.
Um, or your faith leader, your faith leader to help guide them to the truth.
Yeah, to say, like, no, maybe, maybe this is just something that you will resolve as you go through puberty, as you allow the natural process to take place instead of putting you on hormones that block puberty and thus make that dysphoria worse.
You should, yes, that puts you on a that put children on a medical pathway to certain bodily destruction, destroying their fertility, their future, their opportunities, their sense of self, their identity.
Right.
Like your priest should be able to articulate Orthodox Catholic theology on the body.
Right.
Parents should be permitted to assert the biological sex of their own children.
Right.
So this is, let's go to the video of Cronus arguing against this very common sense policy, which is, by the way, what we do here in Alberta, right?
We don't medicalize kids in Alberta.
The conservative stronghold, where our premier, by the way, is poised to pick up eight seats that are held by the NDC in Calgary.
The NDP, if the election were called today, are going to be wiped out damn near in Calgary.
Why?
That is because Danielle Smith was brave enough to take this issue on.
Right.
This policy is a winner for conservatives because it's a 90-10 issue across all demographics.
This is the, oh, excuse me.
Sorry, Sheila.
This is the only issue that the Conservatives can beat the Liberals with.
We know that the Liberals, we heard Pierre Polyev say it.
The Liberals came in and stole their policy.
This is the only issue Conservatives have left in their deck that they can play right now and beat the Liberals.
They were widely criticized after the federal election for not being able to pivot.
And this is Pierre Polyev's moment to be able to put that to bed.
This is egregious, what you are about to see Canada.
This is egregious.
And we got way, way more on this later.
But watch this earthquake of a moment in Calgary.
Watch this.
I'm Tamara Cronis.
I'm the member of parliament for Nanaimo Lady Smith.
We are the party that believes that Canadians should be able to have an affordable home on a safe street under a plane flag.
We should not be adopting policies that divide us.
This policy divides us, and I urge you to vote no.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We'll go back to the S Mike.
Go ahead.
Okay, I don't care about safe streets and affordability.
If my kid can be put down a medical pathway behind my back, where the outcome is suicide.
I don't care.
Yes, I care about inflation, but the safety of children in this society is more important than all of those things to parents.
It is absolutely central to conservatism that we protect children, that we stand up, we consider kids.
And that in this moment, we reject this madness outright.
Tamara Cronis is five years behind the general culture on this issue, where places like Belgium and places like the UK are saying we don't do this to kids.
And she's calling it the visit.
Sister, you're five years behind the world on this.
This is what this tells me is Tamara Cronus is operating within a sphere of influence that allows these beliefs to take hold and nefariously hang on.
But let me be clear, there is no room for the advocacy of radical gender ideology in the conservative movement of Canada.
And of Pierre Polyev learned this weekend that he has a cancer in his party.
So what do we do when we are diagnosed with cancer?
Are we inclusive to the cancer, Pierre Polyev?
Are we inclusive or what, is it a, is it a, is it a, it is, it is, it is it a rare and special kind of cancer that we want to label as diverse or do, or do we.
Or do we cut the cancer out?
Or do we do that?
This is a critical moment in the conservative movement in Canada.
And it is one that will be examined for years.
Well, and as we all know, Lise cares deeply about this issue.
That's why she became a best-selling LGBTQ plus AI author on Amazon.
She's a book.
Oh, here we go.
There he is.
Here he is, guys.
Look, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.
Okay.
Triple number one Amazon bestseller.
We know that this is a winning issue because of how you guys made this book succeed.
And we also saw the shift of NDP voters back to the conservatives in the recent polling data that shows that Daniel Smith is going to pick up eight seats in Calgary.
NDP are going to be wiped out in Calgary because of the tackling of social issues in this province and not backing down.
So I see that Tamara Cronus, when she was called out by Tim Tielman, who I believe is still with 1BC, she says the existing policy clearly states that we believe in the right and duty of parents to raise their own children responsibly according to their own conscience and beliefs.
Okay, why are you acting cautiously policy?
Right.
Let's drill down on, let's drill down.
Pardon me.
No, it's okay.
I just want to give Olivia some advice to just open up those 73 comments because I want to see how we're going to read them out.
This is show and tell this morning, you guys.
We're going to see what Canadians have to say to Tamara Cronus.
Psychopathic ghoul.
Keep going.
Keep going.
It isn't responsible.
You read it.
It'll be therapy.
It's responsible to let confused children with multiple comorbidities play pretend that they were born in the wrong body or turn them into lifelong pharmaceutical experiments or to have their sexual organs cut off.
In my books, it is pure evil and it should be criminalized.
Natasha.
Okay, I'll take over from here while you come back together.
No, it's resign.
He says, I'm just going to leave this here.
And then he quotes Matt Walsh saying that, yeah, it's been foisted onto children.
Like it's overwhelming.
And this, in fact, was the only policy proposed that failed.
And the only one in Canada.
The only one.
Now we heard that there were, we heard that other people had, we heard from delegates.
It's okay, Lisa's going to get it together.
We heard from delegates.
Well, I'm good, girlfriend.
I am perfectly fine.
Excuse me, though, while I fix my makeup.
Thanks.
We heard from delegates that we know out of Saskatchewan that said that they had some difficulty voting.
Now, so if you had some difficulty voting on this issue and you're a delegate, I want to hear from you.
Send it to tips at rebelnews.com.
I don't know if this is an isolated incident or a systemic one that day.
I do know that they earlier had a problem with voting on another policy and they revoted.
So if you had an issue and you were that vote, this would have been the vote.
I want to hear.
This would have been about 4 p.m. on Saturday on the main convention floor.
Oh, you'll know if you had a problem.
Yep.
At the Conservative Party convention in Calgary, if you were there during this vote, we want to know your experience.
Again, that's info at rebelnews.com.
Please reach out and let us know.
Like, and you and I discussed this in our debrief.
Now, this is, I mean, they might have been out organized on the floor.
A lot of things could have happened.
There could have been a lot of delegates from certain more progressive ridings that sort of organize them on this because when they're voting, people are coming and going.
You're not, you know, like sometimes you just come into the room to vote for the thing you care about.
It's illegal.
Oh, the environment is like a beehive.
Like, just think of 5,000 bees buzzing around the inside of a beehive.
That is the vibe of the Conservative Party Convention.
And if you are outside, if you're outside when things start happening on the policy, they lock the doors.
So like when they say like voting's starting, close the door.
So you can come and go, but when the vote happens on the policy, they close the door.
So it's only the people in the room.
So there could have been some out organizing, but this is, I'm telling you, this is the only one that failed.
And we, here's my advice to the Conservative Party of Canada.
If you want to snatch some NDP voters, like Ms. Danielle Smith is doing in Calgary, you've got you, and I know you're getting into election readiness mode.
I know that you are because there are rumblings of a writ drop happening in March.
Look at yes.
All of the signs are pointing to an imminent election.
And I have my theories about why that could be and why Carney needs to do it now before the American midterms and whatever.
That's all just my speculation, my theories, and my staying up too late and having a busy brain.
But here's what you need to do, Conservative Party, to fix this because people are angry.
Like they're off the rev limiter over this and they're angry at Tamara Cronus.
She should not be your spokesperson on this, by the way.
Oh, I think some re-education is in order.
I think a correction is in order.
You need to be the party of empowering parents and not just to do what Tamara Cronis says, that existing policy states clearly that we've not good enough.
It's not good enough.
It's not good enough when the federal government has criminalized the theology of the body of the Catholic Church being communicated to young people with the explicit consent of their parents.
So send her an email, guys.
Be polite.
If you send her an email, no swear words, don't call her names, nothing.
Express your discontent and your desire for the Conservative Party of Canada to win the next election by being the party of empowering parents.
Because the only way to fix this is in your campaign platform to have a defense of parents' rights.
And not just insofar as you get to.
Yeah, I'll be polite.
You go ahead.
Defense of parents' rights in Saskatchewan.
We needed to wield the notwithstanding clause to protect parents from this kind of activism that Tamara Cronus is advocating.
Also, it's a notwithstanding clause.
Conservative Party of Canada, this is your notice.
You may have to use that notwithstanding clause on this issue.
This is your notice.
You get ready.
We're making this the issue.
In Alberta and Saskatchewan, two massively successful conservative premiers.
Those two could be conserved.
They could be premier for life at this point.
And they're winning on this issue.
They wielded the notwithstanding clause to defend parents.
It was not divisive.
In fact, the polling data shows out that it is the least divisive policy, that it's like a 1020 to 9010 issue.
This is an absolute political swish bang win issue.
Completely.
And the Conservative Party needs to decide right now whether it is going to be brave enough to confront it or whether they want to lose again.
Yeah.
This is how you steal NDP voters.
This is how you do it.
This is how you open the doors to the people that know that gender has gone way, way off the rails.
And you say, listen, if you think that the left has gone too far with the gender stuff, well, you're a conservative.
I mean, leave a light on for the people that are going to pour into the conservative tent.
Tell them to have a home here.
That's conservative.
This is what defines conservatism.
Right.
Open the door to those people.
Like, welcome home.
What are we conserving if not the children?
What are we conserving?
How do you conserve the future when you don't defend parents who are trying to do exactly that?
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It is impossible.
It is the exact opposite of what everything conservatism stands for.
The embrace and the promotion of this.
It is, it is, I got a lot of questions.
I got a lot of questions about how something as easy as this to identify as radical left-wing activism managed to take root within the Conservative Party of Canada truly.
Yeah.
Ruly.
How did this happen?
And, you know, if it's divisive, it's not divisive to the voters, but it might put you on the wrong side of those monsters in the mainstream media.
Do you know what this stuff?
And we know who you'll have to ask.
You know who you'll have to answer to, Conservative Party of Canada.
We know you.
We know you guys really love working with the CBC, but you'll have to defense an absolutely defensible position.
Okay.
There's nothing controversial about protecting kids and upholding families in conservatism.
But you will have to say that to your friends in the CBC.
And what we saw this weekend was staggering, you guys.
What we saw was staggering.
The Conservative Party of Canada basically ran a campaign to defund the CBC.
Their whole election campaign was full of crap talking the CBC and saying that we're going to defund it or make it self-reliant or whatever the promise was.
But long story short, CBC bat.
Yeah.
The Conservative Party of Canada works overtime, carrying water.
Sheila Gunread.
Sheila Gunread.
Well, and yeah, we'll read this actually because something controversial happened.
And I'm going to make a distinction here out of fairness and accuracy.
I truly believe the MPs dislike the CBC as much as I do.
Well, I can tell by the lines they were in to appear on their program.
Well, that's okay.
Like I saw Premier Smith just giving it to Rosie Barton.
So, I mean, okay.
Sometimes you get an opportunity to tell it to their faces.
And Rachel Thomas did an absolute bang up job calling out the CBC from the floor.
And that's, again, us Western conservatives are much different than the other conservatives of the country.
But this is just while we're on this, on this, on this topic, one of the biggest rounds of applause in the entire weekend was when some, a woman, and forgive, I did not catch her name.
If you're that woman, please reach out.
I just want to give you props.
But what she said was, hi, this is my name.
I'm delighted to be here.
And I've sued the CBC twice in the last six months.
Well, you should have seen the crowd absolutely on their feet upside down, delighted.
Like, like, to say that the CPC base is absolutely out of love with the CBC and the mainstream media is a wild understatement.
But it, I mean, the way that I saw this, the CBC, okay, being caudal.
Oh, they were prioritized.
They're so special.
And I went, if I were Conservative Party, the nearest the CBC would have got to that convention is the far away parking lot.
Okay.
They would have had to broadcast from their special satellite truck from the parking lot.
But that wasn't.
Honestly, I didn't mind having them in the building because I do think that it was kind of important for the base to see the CBC and their grossness.
You have to see it with your own eyes.
It's one of those things that you know it.
You know it in your heart.
But to like be able to walk by their riser and see it, it's really important.
And wouldn't you know it?
Tamara Leach and I did walk by the riser there to see the boiled potato panel.
So again, I'll make a distinction between the communications realm in the, as they say, OLO office of the leader of the opposition versus the base and the MPs.
There's like there's a big disconnect.
So I'll read this article.
It's on rebelnews.com right now.
Ezra wrote it.
Conservatives tell Tamara Leach to delete a tweet criticizing the CBC.
And so the request was justified by what staff described as a covenant of good faith.
What covenant?
Because that's not true.
Did you sign a covenant?
Sheila Governor, did you sign a covenant when you entered the building?
Because I certainly, like, maybe I missed that step in the registration process, but I never signed a covenant to play nice with the CBC.
Okay, I never will.
But like, pardon me, didn't Rosie Barton sue the CBC two campaigns ago?
Like, what covenant of good faith?
Anyways, despite the broadcasters' open hostility towards conservatives, and I kind of like Ezra struck, I think, the right tone here.
Like, it was like, is okay, this is the communications staffers.
We know how the MPs feel because we saw it from the floor.
And we'll show a clip of that in a minute.
But Rebel News is out in force.
Let's just go through Ezra's article.
Yeah.
Rebel News is out in force at the Conservative Party Convention in Calgary.
We had five reporters there, including our newest recruit, Tamara Leach.
It was great to see Tamara interviewing MPs.
And by the way, she did a bang up job.
And she must have had 500 people.
I think we've rounded down there because it took her like an hour to go out of the building to the health club to get back in because like what should be a five minute walk took an hour because she can't go anywhere.
She can't walk five steps in a crowd.
I am not making this up.
And you have never seen people open up their arms to her.
Yeah.
She, she, uh, she is beloved.
Okay.
Tamara Leach is beloved.
Yeah.
And it shows.
Yeah.
Ezra goes on to say, but something weird happened.
And I've sent a letter to the party bosses asking for an explanation.
The CBCTA broadcaster sent their two most anti-rabid anti-conservative activists, David Cochran and Rosemary Barton.
Cochran is infamous for trying to get Rebel News kicked out of the leaders debate last year.
And Barton actually sued the Conservative Party right in the middle of the 2021 election campaign during like it's wild.
During Pierre Polyev's speech, Cochrane and Barton couldn't contain themselves.
This, I should tell you, this photo was taken with my phone by Tamara because she didn't have her phone in her pocket.
And just to the other side, by the way, of Barton there, as we scroll down, was Jason Kenney, the absolute anti-independence-minded hitman.
He spent a lot of time.
He spent a lot of time in the CBC.
He sure did.
He sure did.
It was just like his private hangout.
You remember, what was it?
Sky Palace?
Like Sky Palace?
It was like that, but at the Conservative Party convention and with the CBC people, like disconnected.
So cute.
Completely disconnected.
As if anybody follows our former Premier Jason Kenny online, he's viciously anti-independent, but it's worse because he's mean, like absolutely despicable to the people of the movement, calling them fringe radical and basically discrediting their intelligence.
Just really quite arrogant.
Yeah.
And Premier Smith has taken a different approach.
She's saying, look, I don't discredit the grievances of, I would suggest, 2 million Albertans.
She says 1 million of my fellow Albertans, but that's still 1 million of 4 million.
And that includes men, women, and children.
That's total population.
So that's a lot of us.
And to say that those people are crazy is exactly how Jason Kenney finds himself no longer premier.
So I hope he never stops.
He's the greatest spokesperson for independence with his arrogance.
But anyway, during Pierre Polyev's speech, Cochrane and Barton couldn't contain themselves.
They visibly sneered at him, turned their back to him, and generally acted like unruly school children.
That's why we took the picture.
A lot of people saw this and snapped photos of this disgraceful conduct.
Tamara took a photo of their antics too and posted it on X. Here's, can you please zoom in, Olivia?
Can we zoom in on his eyeball?
Look at the unkindly, in the most unchristian of ways, called this the triple chin panel.
And look, I got bad angles too.
I should not be turning this way.
And like, thankfully, my hair covers a lot of it, but nobody looks good from like looking in your phone.
But anyway, no, this was the photo.
It's not a gotcha photo.
In fact, we should know there's like 4,500 people there who could have taken the same photo.
And actually, it was standing room only during Polyev's speech.
A lot of people, including me, I was standing back there.
And so it's not like they were like, we rushed into the grid room and took a photo where we came down the bathroom stall door.
They're literally on display.
Like, think of the CBC booth as a very well-lit China cabinet.
That's what they were sitting in a China cabinet.
We're in a purpose above everybody.
So you just saw them.
There's nothing obscuring the view.
Looking down upon the peasants, right?
This is where they were sitting.
And go ahead, continue, Sheila.
Ben Reed.
Ezra rightly points out it's not a gotcha photo.
It's not, in fact, it's not even that bad, but it shows the disdain those government journalists have for conservatives.
They are always on their best behavior when they're at a liberal convention.
But here's where it gets weird: a conservative staffer went to Tamara and said that Cochran had demanded Tamara's tweet be taken down.
Could you imagine being a political journalist, dishing it out all day, but being such a thin-skinned loser that when somebody simply posts a picture of you, you want to censor it.
Cochrane is a classic cry bully, but he lacked the courage to talk to Tamara directly.
So he tattled to the conservatives.
And in talking to Tamara this morning, she said, What should I do?
All they do is post unflattering photos of me coming in and out of court and saying unflattering things about me.
Yes.
Just calling her a seditionist, you know, an insurrectionist.
Yeah.
And all she does is return the favor once in a very public setting.
And they cry bully to the conservatives.
Now, that's one thing, but why did the conservatives go to Tamara?
The conservatives could have said this to the CBC.
That's really too bad.
Yeah.
Bye and left.
But what did they do?
They carried water for the CBC.
They became the CBC's errand boys.
That is what happened.
And if you think of this, just on a, just on a, just on a macro level, okay, if they're willing to do this for the CBC, what else are they willing to do for the CBC?
And look, we do video, we were working on the riser all the time.
People were taking pictures of us, probably 100 photos.
I probably took 100 photos with friends and supporters over the weekend.
For sure, we did.
We're working if people are taking pictures of you in a public place.
That's how that works.
By the way, a journalist, you should not have to explain to a journalist that photos in a public place are perfectly fine.
Are just going to happen.
It comes with the territory.
Especially if you're on a well-lit perch above everybody else, CBC.
In a gilded cage.
This is where it gets weird.
But instead of ignoring Cochran, the conservative staffer actually ran that errand for him, telling Tamara that the party had a quote covenant of good faith with the media about not taking these kinds of photos while live hits are happening.
Well, then that's a covenant of good faith between the Conservative Party and the CBC, but not us.
I have no good faith covenant with them.
Okay.
They lied about us on air and then called the SPVM in Montreal on us when Ezra simply approached Rosie Barton and asked for a right of reply when they spent the entire night lying about us on air, live on TV.
And we're literally standing six feet away saying, Why didn't you let us come on and tell our side of this story?
They called the SPVM on us.
And so Ezra told Rosie Barton she was eating her feelings and then invited her to join the fat challenge.
But whatever, we can keep going.
Do the conservatives really think that Cochrane and Barton and the rest of Mark Carney's CBC state broadcaster have a covenant of good faith with them?
The CBC despises the conservatives and the feeling is mutual.
Party delegates overwhelmingly voted to privatize the CBC.
We'll get to that in a second.
And actually, Rachel Thomas, Alberta MP, her speech about the mainstream media was an absolute barn burner.
She got it.
It was like it was so good.
She roasted them right to their faces.
So I'm, this is why I say the communications people disconnect from the grassroots and disconnect from what the MPs are doing.
Yes.
Amen.
Yes.
The grassroots of the party are strong, but it sounds like the party staff are falling back into the bad old days, like they have Stockholm syndrome.
I remember when Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole thought that by disparaging rebel news, they could ingratiate themselves to the CBC.
O'Toole even tried doing that with the Truckers too, which is what directly led to his ouster and Pierre Polyev becoming the new leader.
And then Ezra puts this well: We like the conservatives and we like Polyevin.
One of the things we like about them is their pledge to privatize the CBC.
But if they really think they have a covenant with the regime media, they're not going to do well.
Conservatives don't have to be afraid of the CBC anymore.
Fewer people watch them than ever before.
There's a flourishing community of independent journalists and online influencers who have a far larger audience than the CBC.
Hopefully, and time will tell, this is an isolated case.
People love and trust rebel news precisely because we're beholden to nobody but our viewers.
I'll keep you posted if I hear back from the party.
Ezra says the Conservative Party wrote back, claiming that the photo was unflattering, but said the request to delete it was voluntary.
What does that even mean?
The request to delete it was voluntary.
And look, Tamara was like, Yeah, I'll delete it because her God lover, her first instinct was to protect us as rebel news.
She's like, Well, I don't want us to get kicked out.
And she's like, I don't want to cause a problem.
Totally not like the seditionists, those potatoes that the CBC call her to be.
She was like, Okay, I don't want to cause a problem, which is her first instinct, unlike the CBC.
So these people on the CBC who talk poorly of her, she reacted exactly the way that a nice person would.
Right, right.
That she was, but that she was, that it was even brought up to her, that it was even brought up to her by a conservative staffer is the part that we're sticking on.
CBC's Propaganda Love Affair00:15:49
Okay.
That you shouldn't be carrying water for this, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conservatives.
Okay.
You owe them nothing.
They work every day to undermine us.
Why would you?
I'm sorry.
Why would you play nice with them?
Do you remember Stephen Harper?
Stephen Harper used to have such a like an absolute lockdown on the relationship with the party and the CBC, right?
Like it was, it was, he was accused of being stony and cold and standoffish and inaccessible.
Well, this is why.
This is why.
Otherwise, the CBC makes you work for them.
And this is this is a perfect example.
Let's now moving on from this.
I want to show you.
Now we've seen bad C or bad conservative reaction.
Let's show you the really good stuff because so many excellent things came out of this.
Delightful things happen.
Yes.
Yes.
This was one of my favorites.
Conservative MP from Alberta.
Take note, conservatives in the rest of the country.
Be bold.
That's how you win.
Why do you think the Conservative Party is so powerful in the West?
It's because we bring people like this to Ottawa.
These are our people that we put forward.
Rachel Thomas lets the CBC have it, knowing that they are directly about 60 feet behind her.
Let's go.
Look, folks, regardless of whether you want to acknowledge or not, there is a love affair going on between the current media landscape in this country and the Liberal government of Canada, and we need to put a stop to that.
Currently, this weekend, there was a summit of all media, and this is a direct quote from the stage: Prime Minister, we have your back just as we know you have ours.
This is what is said by the mainstream media just yesterday.
Further to that, the Minister of Heritage has said that the CBC is responsible for social cohesion.
Folks, this is propaganda at its finest.
It needs to stop.
So that's her speaking to a winning policy proposal to force the CBC to exist in a free market.
Like they don't, then they can propagandize all they want.
And they can't be my problem.
They can compete with the rest of the independent media that has to do that by default.
They won't be able to rely on their federal funding to lie to Canadians, to propagandize, to inject our society with crazy ideological beliefs.
The CBC will have to tell the truth.
Yeah.
I mean, look, I think you all know that I am biased.
I don't think any media is unbiased, by the way.
I just know the CBC isn't honest about their bias, even though we can all see it, which is an insult to Canadians that they think that we can't see it.
And I just, I don't want to pay for it.
Like, at the end of the day, I don't want to pay for it.
Like, you watch us.
You can consume some of our content for free.
You have to pay for others of it.
You can donate to our causes completely willingly or not.
There are things that you can do to help us that are completely free, like share our content and engage with our content.
Subscribe to our channel.
We're pushing a million followers.
We just want as many subscribers as Camping with Steve.
That's really important.
We can't with Steve.
But no, like we, we have a, we work really, really hard to bring you stories and uh and topics that that we know are important to you, whereas the CBC is paid to bring up things that is live that that is important to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Like there is a there's just a mile-wide difference between their brand of journalism and our brand of journalism.
And the free market is showing us let it decide.
Yeah.
And just let the thing is, Rosie Barton can be as horrible and miserable as she wants to be.
I want it to not meet my business, but it is my business as long as I'm funding it.
I want to not care about Rosie Barton, but because the government gives her money, now I care.
Right.
That's all.
Like I want to be able to not give her a second thought in the world.
Forced participation in the corrupt mainstream media should not be something we're doing in Canada.
And yet.
And yet.
Do we actually have the clip that Rachel Thomas references there?
Let's see.
It's from Ryan Garritson.
Let's watch.
This is the media, the media buddies, all the government.
The government-funded media buddies.
It's the Canadian Media Summit in Ottawa.
And this was on CPAC, but it is no longer on CPAC now.
Isn't that weird?
CPAC.
Because what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Somebody was a little too honest.
They didn't, you know, like they get together in a group and they forget the cameras are rolling and they get a little bit too trusting.
And they forgot that the rest of the world would be outraged by this.
So let's watch.
Prime Minister, know that every person in this room and the 180,000 people who work in this industry have your back, just as we know that you have ours.
Did you guys hear that?
Mark Carney, excuse me.
I'm sorry.
Just to put this in perspective.
180,000.
Mark Carney has 180,000 corrupt members of the mainstream media doing his bidding.
Yeah.
How big is our team here at Rebel News?
35, maybe on a good day.
Hey, guys.
Hey, guys, now is a great time to support the work.
Subscribe, please.
Eight bucks a month, friends.
That's a coffee a week.
Yeah.
180,000 extra campaign workers.
Think of it that way.
Lee.
That you pay for.
That is staggering.
It is staggering.
That's an entire industry.
An entire industry of ideologically captured, unscrupulous mainstream media journalists who are selling their souls to do the government's bidding.
I don't know how you sleep at night.
I just don't.
I just don't know.
I mean, I sleep like a baby.
I sleep like a baby because I don't have to sell my soul to tell the truth.
That's wild.
Let's before we button this up, I think maybe we'll stay on CBC just one more thing.
Sure.
I have my suspicions about who was doing the communication in the Epstein files between CBC Edmonton of all places.
Oh, you guys, Epstein.
We got, oh, we got to cover what happened.
Because this is CBC.
And then we'll go into like Pierre Polya.
Okay.
Which is great.
It was fine.
It was, it was good.
But I will tell you, Danielle Smith was the star of the convention, just the star.
The bell of the ball, which was a question.
And all the conservatives from other parts of the country were like, we love her.
We wish we had her.
She's the best.
We love her.
Oh my God.
Another part.
Sorry, now that we're on Danielle Smith, just let me say this.
One of the most, oh, this is one of the most interesting parts of her entire speech was when she spoke fluent, beautiful French.
I was like, she is saying a thing without saying a thing, but rejecting.
She was taking French lessons two years ago.
Danielle Smith paid off.
That skill, that skill is one that will strike fear in the hearts of some very, very deserving fake conservatives.
Right.
Danielle Smith knows French.
You know what that elevates her to?
Prime Minister capable.
That's right.
That means.
Let's go, buddy.
She's just awesome.
You know what?
Iron sharpens iron, right?
That's right.
That's right.
Anyways, we'll go to, well, before we go to a break, we'll just show a couple of clips of Pollya, but we got to talk.
We got to talk about this CBC thing because I was like, oh, who is who?
Who did a documentary in the year that's mentioned here at CBC Edmonton?
I think I've pinned it down, but I don't want to say Because I don't want to get it wrong, but I'll text you off air and I'll tell you who I think it is.
Okay.
This is related to the Epstein document dump.
There is an Alberta, a Canadian, a CBC Albertan connection to the Epstein documents.
Crazy.
These are DOJ files from the United United States, recently released, like within the last 36 hours.
Newly released documents contained in the Epstein files relieve.
I'm doing that thing right.
My words don't work.
I have Bruce Willis disease.
Reveal an invite for Jeffrey Epstein to attend a dinner in Edmonton with an employee of CBC News Edmonton in 2009.
Oh, this, that's real.
That's super interesting.
When was Mark Carney photographed?
He was charged in, I think, 2006.
Like after he served his sentence coming and going.
Wow.
Didn't even have a locked cell door on the weekends.
Olivia, when was Mark Carney photographed with Gillen Maxwell at the Hedonism Festival?
Do we know the date on that real quick?
Would this be about the same time, 2009?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Hopefully we can figure that out.
We can do a timeline of Jeffrey Epstein and Canadian public figures.
Sure.
Sorry, Olivia, to put you on the spot, babe.
Yeah.
I'm just going to, I haven't, I have some other stuff on my phone and I should have put it in the chat.
The plot thickens.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
That's inconvenient for the CBC.
That is really inconvenient for the CBC to be named in the Epstein files.
Who would have thought that the CBC would be into the promotion of devious, gross sexual practices that are unforgivable amongst polite society?
Who would have thought?
Yeah, Wednesday.
Besides all of us.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, 6.59 a.m.
Dinner in Edmonton for charity.
Hi, Jeffrey.
How are you?
I thought it might be fun to send you this.
I'm hosting a dinner at a really great restaurant here in Edmonton for charity.
Jenny, what's the address?
Excuse me.
What's the date again?
Can you say it?
October 28th, 2009.
Okay, thank you.
Edmonton?
Yeah.
I want to know who else was at that party.
I want to know who else was at that party.
And I thought, well, you never know.
Bush was just here.
Maybe you'd need to book a good dinner in Alberta to use whenever you want.
I know how much you love restaurants and love is liking capitals.
Last year, I raised $2,000 for lunch for two, and this is dinner for four.
100% of the proceeds will benefit the United Way, Sign of Hope, Christmas Bureau, Edmonton, Celery Children's.
The United Way has campaigns against sexual sex trafficking.
Yeah, the Celery Children's Hospital.
This guy was a creep to young girls.
A special five-course meal.
Oh, gross.
I just feel like puking in my mouth.
Would love to see you bid on it.
Please feel free to forward this email along to any big bidder types you know who love to eat great food for a cause.
Auction ends soon this Thursday at 3 p.m.
Best regards.
It's redacted.
I've got my suspicions because the emails sort of give it away.
CBC News Edmonton, but we're not done yet.
Other ones.
Crap.
This is this is a, she look and read.
I'm sorry, but let me just conjure Nancy Grace here real quick.
Bombshell, you guys.
Jeffrey Epstein is now tied to at least five Edmonton big swingers, yeah, including the people at CBC.
Okay, we need to find out what happened in Edmonton on October 28th, 2009.
Yeah, when and where we can do this, people can do this.
I'm just gonna send Olivia a couple more photos so we can bring those up because I ended up at a very early morning rabbit hole.
Like, uh, just to say that we aren't sleeping, you guys, because we are on, I mean, a series of hot stories that will just blow your minds.
Oh, Sheila.
Uh, and then it says, uh, this, we're going back and forth here between the two of them.
I don't know where to start.
Okay, um, again, you guys, we're just uh, we're covering some of the documents that were released yesterday by the Department of Justice in the United States pertaining to uh convicted and they've redacted, but CBC Edmonton of all places.
Um, then it says, Where am I in Edmonton?
It was snowing when I got back from the BVIs.
I don't know.
This is from Jeffrey Epstein to this is to Jeffrey Epstein from the CBC guy.
Okay, okay, so where am I in Edmonton?
It was snowing when I got back from the BVIs.
I don't know what that is.
Maybe some leaves will show up on the tree soon.
You can check out my broadcast.
Go to this website, then click on watch the latest newscast, and then it's that one links to a CBC.
We broadcast at different times these days because of the NHL playoffs.
So I will.
Oh my god, he's not gonna.
Sorry, BVIs is British Virgin Islands.
Oh, oh, oh, we will.
Oh, back up, Olivia.
Sorry, can we go back up?
Can we go back up?
Uh, British Virgin Islands, uh, British Virgin Islands, excuse me.
So, okay, okay, so he's literally promoting his work at the CBC to Jeffrey friggin Epstein.
Also, I know this is the six o'clock news anchor in 2009.
So, I think we all know who this guy is.
Oh, my God.
Recently retired, by the way.
Oh, um, then Jeffrey Epstein directly replies and says, Now, where till Thursday just looked up your island on the chart.
Nice going.
This is Epstein Islands.
This is Epstein Island.
Oh, P.S., you guys.
We discovered that the shape of Epstein Island is an almost, it is, it is an abstract, the Nickelodeon logo.
Nickelodeon, the children's film.
No, let's not go down that.
No, we do.
It is the same.
You turn it upside down.
I'm like, oh, there it is.
It's based on that.
The island was a big deal.
It was.
Then Epstein replies, My island sits between St. Thomas and St. John's.
Both Guana and Norman are owned by my friend Henry Yureki.
Henry Jureki's Island00:03:48
How much longer will you be there?
They're trying to connect in the British Virgin Islands.
I'll be back in North America in a few days.
My film is playing in Seattle Friday notes.
So I'm there for that.
Henry Jureki.
Oh, you guys love this.
Henry Jurecki is a celebrated expert American psychiatrist and entrepreneur.
He's 92 years old.
He's old creeps.
He's a German man.
He's excuse me.
He's a German-born American academic psychiatrist, entrepreneur, producer, and philanthropist.
The CBC News anchor in Edmonton in 2009, the six o'clock news, because he's talking about how his broadcast at the six o'clock news is being bumped for the playoffs.
He says, I'll be back in North America for a few days.
My film is playing in Seattle Friday notes, so I'm there for that.
And so, I then I put together just to confirm for myself: did he have a documentary?
If who I think it is, had a documentary playing in 2009.
I even know the name of the documentary.
Okay, so further confirming I know exactly who this is, and you guys can figure it out too because you'll just go and look and see who the six o'clock news anchor was in Edmonton in 2009.
He just recently retired.
Um, then back to work in Edmonton, brrr.
And then we've got another one.
This is unfriggin believable.
This is unfriggin' believable.
Then he says, Call so-and-so and ask for me.
Then it says, Sounds like you didn't see my doc.
So, this is the um guy from the CBC is getting a little hurt because Jeffrey Epstein didn't watch his documentary.
Jeffrey, you didn't click my link.
How come you didn't click my link?
I really wanted you to click my link.
Yeah, it's 90 minutes, it's 90 minutes long.
48 Hours does not have permission to air it.
Most likely, you saw their story about the case.
They did a one-hour and two-hour version.
I can't believe you have email access.
What is this?
What I can't believe you have email access.
What I don't know, maybe he's flying or something.
They go on to say, I believe it was in the middle of a 48 hours mystery.
Do you remember to happen?
Which uh, no, which channel larger question is: why is the CBC anchor so interested in promoting a certain story to Jeffrey Epstein?
What was that story about?
We need to dig into this.
Uh, do you happen to remember which channel?
I haven't sold it for distribution in the U.S. yet, trying to keep track of these things.
He's sending emails from his iPod.
2009 was a different time.
iPod.
Did you get it on TV or did you watch the DVD I sent ages ago?
So, his mailing address.
What?
Earth.
This is the best part.
This is the best.
Go to the next one.
It's the last one I sent.
Holy Hannah.
This is wild.
This is absolutely unhinged.
Wild.
Wild development.
The last one, the third one.
It's just the short one.
I've been thinking about you.
How are you?
And so everything sent from my iPod is the saw the documentary from my jail cell.
Ironic, no.
What was that?
What was it?
What was it about?
What?
Oh, we need to have a.
We need to start a group chat about the Sheila Gun Read with all of our rebels from crime people.
I want to see this guy's detail about this.
Oh, yeah.
I want his flight records.
I want his hard drive.
This is crazy.
Covenant of good faith with the CBC.
Remember that.
Yep.
Yep.
Don't question them.
Oh Give Sheila Her Moment00:08:21
What the CBC wants, they guess.
Yep.
Holy Hannah.
I'm like, I'm absolutely on fire about this.
This is what a great day to be in news.
What a great day to work in independent media.
My goodness.
And it rains in that one.
Of course.
I was busy over the weekend.
Then I was driving home.
And then, so I sort of missed it.
But I got up early.
I got out of bed early to make sure that I went through that stuff.
That was crazy.
Just to button up CBC being bad and the conservatives convention before we hit.
I mean, we've done an hour already, but we still have to hit a few things.
Olivia, let me know how long we can go.
I want to show you this clip from Polyv because we talked about Tamara Cronus saying we can't be divisive on a really popular policy that actually unites conservatives.
Polyev actually says identity politics, like the stuff that which I believe Tamara Cronus is willing to peddle in, divides Canadians.
Let's just show that clip from his speech and then we'll hit an ad break.
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Cancel culture and identity politics divide Canadians.
Separatist movements are reawakened.
After 10 years of liberal rule, Canada is more costly and crime-ridden, dangerous, and dependent and divided than ever before.
Now, why that is, Mr. Carney promised to change all that.
But here we are a year later.
You know, what's changed?
The words have changed.
The style has changed.
But what's changed in your life, really?
Well, let's go down the list.
The illusion: Mr. Carney said he would spend less.
He's spending $90 billion more, and he doubled the deficit that he inherited.
The illusion.
Mr. Carney said a country that cannot feed itself has few options.
Well, food inflation has doubled under his watch, and it's the worst in the G7.
Groceries will cost the average family an almost unimaginable $17,600 this year.
That's after tax money.
The illusion.
Build, baby, build.
The reality has been block, baby, block.
He hasn't got rid of a single anti-development law or bureaucracy.
The no-do pipelines law, still here.
And by the way, speaking of pipelines, how many of them are approved?
Zero.
It's true.
All those things are true, but you need to affirm parents' rights because well, listen, if we're going to count, if what I heard there was not a lot different from what I heard in the last campaign, which we all recall, if we can just put our thinking caps on, the Conservatives lost.
If you campaign on the same issues that you campaigned on last time, you will lose again.
There is a new opportunity for the Conservative Party of Canada and Pierre Polyev to absolutely bring it home, to unite the country under this one issue, and to stop this madness in Canada.
And they have one opportunity to take it.
Well, and we know the left actually doesn't care about economic issues if they do.
They absolutely do not.
They don't.
Like they don't.
Not motivated by it.
No.
They're not motivated by it.
Those Eastern boomers, again, don't send me an email if you didn't vote for Carney.
We're not talking about you.
No.
But they don't care.
They bought their house for a bag of cans back in the 70s, and now it's worth $2.1 million.
They don't care about economic issues.
That's exactly right.
And in Pierre Polyev's speech, he did say something really beautiful about families.
He said something along the lines of he would fight to protect the soft and I want to say it was like soft and strong bonds of family.
Yeah, I hope so.
This is your chance.
Show us.
Show us.
Also, I'm going to talk, which ghoul was it in the mainstream media that said Pierre Polyev's mention of his autistic daughter when he fought back tears to talk about how important it was to hear her speak for the first time because she has up until now been non-verbal.
And then I don't know which panelist it was, either CBC or CTV.
There was some panelists that they had on there and said how cringy it was.
Imagine being a parent of a child with a developmental disability and listening to those monsters talk like that.
You know, that really human.
Imagine what that feels like to those parents.
We can uphold those parents.
We can protect the most vulnerable.
Children with developmental disabilities are disproportionately more likely to be seduced by radical gender ideology.
And so this is the moment where we can protect those kids to affirm their families and to put an end to this madness.
But will the Conservative Party of Canada have the balls to do it?
I believe they will.
I have faith.
Oh, buddies.
Now's your time, guys.
Today.
Because we're a lot of people.
But a minute tonight will go mad about that one policy failing.
And that is, that's the thing everybody's talking about.
All your other good policies that passed, they were excellent.
But we're talking about this was hijacked.
This is a failing.
The convention, everything good in the convention was hijacked as per usual by an LGBTQIA activist and by radical gender theory advocates.
Yeah.
That's what happened.
Let's do an ad break.
Then we'll do an ad read and we will hit some Western separatist issues and see what we can get up to.
Time permitting.
Look at a great cringe.
Looking for a great cringe.
I haven't even seen it yet.
So I'm coming cold to the cringe, which is good.
I'm going to learn together.
Let's do an ad break and then come back on the other side.
I don't know how long we can go.
We're already past an hour.
Oh, give the people what they want, Sheila Gunn read.
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Okay, they are here for a show.
Let us give it to them.
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Okie doke.
Let's shift gears a little bit because as much as they tried to pretend that separatism wasn't a thing at the love fest, the Canadian love fest.
Yeah, like all the Western conservatives were like, you were separatists.
Like all the delicacies.
I didn't speak to a single person who thought Canada was a good idea.
I didn't.
Like if you were from the West, not a single one.
So a surprising amount of official types too.
Oh, Sheila Gunn Reed.
So I have a question.
I have a question that I ask everybody I encounter.
And it is on a scale of one to 10, where one means you are absolutely dedicated to staying in Canada and 10 means you have two feet out the door.
Where do you sit?
There is nobody that's under a six.
Most of them start at a nine.
Okay, many, many of them say 11, 12, 15.
Yeah, I met a yeah, I met a few 16s.
And they're like, you know what?
They're saying like, yeah, the conservatives, of course, we're going to vote for them because Mark Carney is destructive and blah, blah, blah.
But ideally, fantasy football becoming reality, we're out of here.
Oh, we're gone.
Like people are, people are genuinely excited about the prospect of going about it on our own terms and in our own way.
People are genuinely excited in Western Canada, which is something that I'm real sorry to have to report.
Like it brings me no joy to report this, but the Conservative Party of Canada can't manufacture that.
They can't manufacture that.
They can't bring in a whole bunch of like campaigners to rah-rah that out of the Western conservatives.
Right.
So, like, we're in a really, we're in a really interesting place in Western Canada.
Yeah, I mean, things couldn't be better.
People are.
We're out.
And Westerners are so practical, right?
Like, they support Daniel Smith.
They support Pierre Polyev, but one other thing can be definitely true and that they're separatists.
That they're done with Canada.
Yeah, that they're done with Canada.
Yeah.
And a lot of it is the fact that they really like Pierre Polyev, but they know that he will have a very difficult time getting through the eastern boomer wall.
He has a, he has this, he had he had a steep hill to climb, and every card is stacked against him.
But miracles do happen.
I mean, I'm not, I'm not, uh, I'm not shutting the whole thing down, but something like we're at a critical moment.
The conservatives have to do something.
If it's if it's not now, it's never.
So take your pick, guys.
Take a pick.
Chart your battle.
Choose your own adventure.
I love this video with our excellent Premier Daniel Smith.
Rosie Barton thinks she's going to do something real fancy here and confront Daniel Smith on, I guess, not hating the separatists.
Because Daniel Smith has said, look, they have grievances.
I understand why they feel that way.
I think there's a different solution, perhaps, but the people are entitled, they are entitled to have their say, which it's it, you can tell it really freaks out an Eastern elite to think that the Westerners mightn't be able to have their say on something for once.
That weirds them out.
But pay attention to Rosie Barton's aggressive body language and her like interrupting while Smith is getting the best of her.
Okay.
A little bit about it.
She's already like.
Is it appropriate, do you think, for members of the Alberta Prosperity Group to meet with officials from the Trump administration and to discuss money?
Well, I would put it the other way.
I mean, I think that it is up to the American administration to respect Canadian sovereignty and to respect that this isn't a decision that should be made in Alberta by Albertans.
And that if they have any official discussions, it would be with those who have been elected to represent the people.
Yeah, I mean, it kind of undermines you, does it not?
Well, I guess I don't feel so because I have a really good relationship with the U.S. Ambassador.
I've got an envoy in Ottawa as well as in Washington who is working every single day to build those relationships.
And so we're doing a lot of work on the ground every day, meeting with lots of people.
Did you talk to, I think you met with Ambassador Hookster last week.
Did you say something to him about how you would like him to the administration to follow the proper channels when discussing this issue?
It didn't come up.
But I did talk to my James Carpenter after I saw that it was in the news.
I did talk to James Carpenter, who is my Ottawa representative.
And he is, and I asked him to raise it with the ambassador, as well as my envoy in Washington to raise it with them in the U.S. Other premiers had a lot to say about this.
Premier Ford said you should denounce it and you did not do that.
Well, you know, there's just a lot of hurt people here.
I mean, we have, when I look at the movement, I see is 30% or more of Albertans have given up on the country.
That's distressing.
And that is a sign, I think, of a loss of hope.
And it's my job to restore hope.
But I'm not sure.
I'm not going to demonize a million people.
You can't demonize them, but why can't you say this is a million Albertans?
I just feel like it's my job to allow for a bit of a pressure release valve.
If people feel this way, they need an avenue to be able to express it.
So I'm going to watch and see how the petition plays out.
We'll know by the end of May if they have enough signatures to go to a vote.
And if so, then we'll schedule that probably for the fall.
That seems risky.
That seems risky to me, particularly at a time when there are real threats to our sovereignty that are coming from the outside.
Real threats.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know if you have the same conversation in Quebec where they're about to elect a party Québécois leader.
I think it's far more risky.
I ask questions there, too.
I think it's far more risky to have this question drag on for years.
If this is an acute issue that we're facing because of the last 10 years of being treated so badly by Trudeau, if there is a new government, there's a sort of a recognition of whether or not he's moving in the right direction.
I think he's doing many things in the right direction.
I think he'll do a lot more with the help of a strong opposition leader.
But that to me is a demonstration of why there's some urgency.
We've got to address the issue of getting the MOU implemented and getting to it and demonstrating that we're going to develop our resources again.
And we've got to address some of the big issues like the gun buyback, which is unpopular everywhere except for Quebec.
And it's a constant source of irritation.
The person who's leading the petition campaign is a gun shop owner.
And he has a federal government that has made him a criminal for part of his inventory that he holds, made his customers criminals with just the stroke of a pen.
And those are the kind of things that are unnecessary when we have so much we can agree on.
Let's go after the bad guys.
If we want to go after guns, let's get the ones that are legally coming across the border.
So I made that point to the prime minister as well, that it's not just one thing that is going to win Albertan's trust back.
There's a whole series of things the Trudeau liberals did that went not only against our economy, but also against our values and way of life.
And I think, and you correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the prime minister does get that.
I think that's part of what the MOU was about.
He's part of Alberta, I think.
Yeah, that's right.
So he's live to it.
But do you not think that you're in somehow enabling the conversation around separatism by allowing this to play out without you saying?
I'm not saying demonize them.
I'm just saying.
What she's supposed to do is I'm going to make things better for you as Premier.
Hang tight.
Well, that's what I have to say.
She is.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
She does.
I believe in that.
United Canada, a federal government that stays in its areas of jurisdiction, that honors and respects our areas of jurisdiction, treats us with respect, allows us to develop our wealth so that we can all benefit.
And you're also allowing the idea for a referendum to go forward.
Clearly, because I don't know what you think that once they have a kick in the can, the story will be over.
As you know, I inherited citizen initiative referenda, and there's a number of petitions that are going forward.
There's a petition that has gone forward looking at the funding of independent schools.
There's a petition going forward that's looking at the development of grassy mine coal down in southern Alberta.
I actually do believe the citizen initiative is a mechanism for people to address things that we as a government would not put on the table.
We as a government are not putting this on the table, but we're allowing citizens to demonstrate if they care enough about it, get 177,000 signatures.
We'll put it to a vote of their fellows.
Okay.
Premier Smith, we'll leave you there.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Absolutely wild.
Well, won't you, but won't you say something?
Won't you say something about it?
Won't you say, you know, not to say that you should, you should demonize them, but won't you say something?
Why would you?
Why would you?
Yeah, go ahead.
She keeps saying, like, why are you letting them do this?
Why aren't you demonizing them?
Why aren't you shutting them up?
Because she's not a tyrant.
Because she's not a communist.
Because she's not a vapid left-wing kleptocrat.
That's why.
I know that this concept would be foreign to Rosie Barton, who is accustomed to dealing with liberals in Ottawa.
Like, I know that this would be foreign to her.
But Danielle Smith sticking up for regular everyday Albertans and listening to what is important to them is something that she does better than any politician in the country.
Barnaby.
Yeah, I love how she took a run-up at Kearney with, and I don't think Rosie noticed it, but I sure did when she said, I actually have a really good relationship with Ambassador Hoekstra, which is something the federal government definitely does not have.
Well, and Rosie Burton's question, like, did you question him about that?
Did you put that?
Did you put that question to him?
Bitch, no.
No.
And why would I?
We can talk.
They can talk to whomever they want.
And then she also says, whatever they want.
There are real threats to sovereignty, as though what Alberta is doing right now is not a threat to sovereign.
Our threats are real.
Sister, you're going to find out.
Like the 11, like the 11 members of parliament who perhaps were colluding with some foreign foreign entities.
Maybe one of those.
That's a threat to us, Rosemary.
China, the IRGC, the infringements on our rights as Canadians.
Oh, Rosemary.
Just how she's just so shocked that Danielle Smith might let somebody have their say.
And then I'm so glad that Premier Smith pointed out, well, you seem to not have a problem with delegitimizing the separatist movement in Quebec.
You treat it as real.
Right.
The separatists in Alberta have chosen a different path.
They see this as a movement outside of party politics.
Right.
It is a grassroots movement.
This is just, this is getting done and catching on fire because regular Albertans have all just said at the same time, we have had enough.
We have had enough and we are done with this.
So let's get moving.
Let's go to Stephen Gilbo being an idiot because he got community voted on X.
He did.
He did.
Okay, so he said, because everybody's upset because people involved in the APP are reaching out to the administration in the U.S. directly.
But what are they supposed to do?
Wait for the people trying to keep Alberta in the country to talk to the U.S. administration about it.
That's not how it works.
Talking to the United States right now would play into a peaceful and prosperous transition plan away from the government of Canada.
These are conversations that you must have at this point in the process.
What is our trade relationship going to look like with the United States?
That they are forging those relationships is a good thing.
And to be completely honest, they can talk to who they want.
They don't talk to you.
They don't have to ask the permission of Rosie Barton or anybody in the government to have conversations with people in Ottawa or in Washington.
How preposterous.
One of the things that makes you a real sovereign state is if another country recognizes you as a sovereign state.
Like that's how Somaliland pulled it off.
Israel is like, yeah, we recognize you.
The U.S. is like, yeah, we recognize you.
And then so they're a real state now.
That's all it usually takes.
So why wouldn't we want our closest trading partner huge military asset to say, well, we recognize their sovereignty if they choose it?
It would, that's going to be part of the process too.
That's going to be part of the process too.
Stephen Gilbo put on his dunce cap and sent this post on X. Imagine one second that the Quebec separatist movement reached out to France to help with Quebec separatism.
People in English Canada would be rightly outraged.
This is no different.
David E. B. is right.
But didn't they?
Didn't they?
Quebec has actively engaged France in support of their separatist ambitions for almost 60 years.
French President Charles de Gaulle, when visiting the province on July 24th, 1967, made a speech where he specifically gave a shout out to the movement.
Oh, Stephen Guilbo, please, please go, please go to a please go to a climate conference and stop talking.
Aaron Gunn's Cringe Moments00:05:08
Remember that time that he was in charge of Canadian heritage and he didn't know this very important factoid about Canadian history?
What was it?
No?
Like right now?
Or was there another time?
No, it's this.
Like, remember, he was the heritage minister.
You didn't know?
You didn't know this?
This is like Gary Anandi Shanghai being in charge of the gun file and he doesn't know the difference between a pal and an R-PAL.
Just got, I've just gotten so used to liberal incompetence, incompetence, really, like gross incompetence that I, yeah, that this actually doesn't surprise me at all.
But of course, of course, Quebec was working with France.
Where do you think French came from, Stephen?
Yeah, if they leave, they're going to be part of La Francophonie, like the organization of French-speaking countries.
Nations, there's, yeah, there's a handful of them.
There's just a little handful of them.
You think they didn't try?
So, you know, the best part is he didn't delete it.
Like, so he's just still sitting there.
Sitting up still.
Oh, he's he's just rage baiting.
I mean, that's what he's doing.
He's, I know, I think he's that stupid.
Do you?
Yeah.
You think he posted that?
You think he posted that tweet and then went to a climate conference and he's going to get there and open his phone and go, oh, crap.
Oh, no.
He probably like, like most government workers, checks out on the weekend.
So he didn't see it.
Plus, an EDO, plus vacation days, plus, yeah.
Let's go to the chronic house flipper liberal MP, Talib Noor Mohammed.
Oh, he's a speaking of not bright, um, not bright individuals.
He because he's running up on Aaron Gunn, no relation.
Although I wouldn't complain if Aaron Gunn was uh related to me, conservative MP Aaron Gunn.
Cousin, cousin, cousin, wouldn't be, I wouldn't be mad.
Um, he says, uh, so Aaron Gunn is unwilling to treat Alberta and Western separatists like garbage.
He is unwilling to say that they don't have legitimate grievances with Confederation.
So he's a good human then.
Awesome.
Okay.
Um, and we heard that from MPs over the weekend too.
A Glenn Mott, uh, Tamara Leach's own MP sat down with her and said, like, yeah, they do have legitimate grievances.
No, I'm not a separatist, but yes, I understand why they feel this way and they have a right to feel that way and they have a right to have their voices heard.
Um, so Talib is angry that Aaron Gunn won't treat the separatists poorly.
And he says, I wonder if the good people of North Island Powell River know they may have elected a separatist interested in the destruction of Canada.
Care to clarify your petition or your position on separatism?
And then he tries again because Aaron Gunn was busy at the convention and not on X fighting with idiots.
So he goes, Aaron Gunn still won't denounce separatism.
Probably too busy denying the genocide perpetrated against Indigenous peoples at residential schools.
So I'll ask again, Aaron, care to clarify your position.
Is it okay to get help from foreign interests to break up Canada?
So he started, he started with a divisive question.
And then when Aaron Gunn didn't respond to him in whatever amount of time he thought necessary, he brought up like he brought, then he brought race into it.
Like that's why he was like, I am going to accelerate this up the oppression pool to make it more severe to the internet.
That's what he did.
Yeah.
But it doesn't go well.
Yeah.
And Mr. working with foreign interests to destroy Canada.
The Chinese meddled in our last two elections.
I'd like to introduce you to Han Dong or the victim of foreign influence, Joe Tae, who we met over the weekend.
What a delightful.
Oh, just a beautiful, like just a beautiful.
And it was so, yeah, it was just so good to meet him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or the IRGC radicals funding these pro-Hamas protests on the streets of Canada.
Probably nothing to worry about.
But yeah, allowing Westerners to speak to Americans is the real problem here.
It's the overarching threat.
But then Aaron Gunn came back online.
Let's go, brother.
Let's go.
He says, just found out that liberal MP Talib Noor Mohammed publicly questioned my patriotism and loyalty to Canada.
Well, while Talib was busy flipping homes in Vancouver and living in the United States, I was serving Canada's military.
And while Talib and his liberal friends were busy tearing down Canadian history, i.e., statues, I was fighting to defend it.
I'll take no lectures on patriotism from liberals like Talib.
Beautiful.
Try again, Talib.
There's the fight you wanted.
Let's Not Ban It00:02:41
There it is.
Don't start none.
There won't be none.
I think that's good.
I don't know what the cringe is.
Oh, allow.
You know what?
Let's do the chats first and then we'll do it.
Okay, okay, yeah, chats and cringe.
Yeah.
Oh, these, I can't wait for these today.
Okay.
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I actually think it's not left versus right.
It's right versus wrong.
Good versus evil.
Good versus evil.
That's how I look at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like Lisa and I talk about this all the time.
My politics were very much more libertarian.
You know, like I think, and I still do believe government is vastly too large.
That if it fit in a teacup, I used to feel like if it fit on a postage stamp, I'd be fine with it.
But if it fit in a teacup, I would be okay with it.
I don't want the government in my life.
I don't want to care about the government.
My problem is that the government makes me care, which I hate.
But now my politics are a lot more.
And normally I'm not like, let's ban it.
Like, if I don't like it, let's ban it.
But if it's bad for the kids, I ban it.
Let's ban it.
I want it gone.
This is how, and this is such common sentiment under or in response to the Conservative Party convention going on this weekend as it pertains to that one contested contested vote, I guess.
It is that as conservatives, we protect children.
That is it.
This is our litmus test.
It is a line in the sand.
It is a non-negotiable in the conservative movement.
Is that we uphold families and we protect kids.
And to help them.
Yeah, we're gonna.
We've got Politicians Never Lie 501.
As hot as Polyev's wife is, his speech was lackluster and needs to be more specific and to the point on big issues.
I can't disagree with this.
I can't disagree with this.
What I saw was an attempt to manufacture a feeling that wasn't represented in the room.
That's like I felt like it was a little bit fine, but Danielle Smith was really the star.
Lloyd's Speech Struggles00:03:05
Oh, without question.
Without question.
It was like, I didn't hear anything new out of Pierre Polyev that would compel me to go, that's what he's going to win the election on.
There it is.
That's the big idea.
I didn't hear none of that.
Nope.
I agree.
I did appreciate his heartfelt moment about his daughter.
And that was really revelatory for me.
And he was on the mainstream media.
And my delight.
She is lovely.
They have a beautiful family.
Could you imagine how Canadian, how Canadians' image in the international world would change if we had this family as our first family?
It'd be all young.
They'd be such a great family.
They'd be such great ambassadors for Canada.
They really would.
Yes.
Lloyd.
Oh, God.
Sheila, your glasses.
Lloyd Zelensky, 4401.
Member for two months.
Well, thanks for being on board.
This behavior by the conservatives is alienating their base, not a good look if spring election happens.
Well, like we said, there's a quick way to fix it.
We know that we know that things can get done in 60 days.
Okay.
A campaign can be put together in far less time.
They can pivot into this moment and claim a win for the first time in nearly 12 years.
Okay.
They've lost, is it four elections, Sheila Gunrid?
They've lost four elections.
And they could win this one if they are brave.
Yeah.
They could win this one if they are brave on this issue.
This issue sways NDP voters.
It sways the centrists.
It sways the liberals.
Radical gender is just not something that translates.
It's not, you can't manufacture support for it, even though the CBC would have you think that there is wide support for this, that this is just common knowledge now.
This is what we do as a society now when conservatives dug in a long time ago and said absolutely not.
Like this violates all of our beliefs.
So.
Yeah.
Lloyd Zelensky 4401 says conservatives voting against parents is diabolical.
It will bite them in the butt come federal election this time.
Not unless they pivot.
They can pivot right now.
It's fixable.
It's really fixable.
And then Lloyd also says, Danielle Smith's years in media are serving her well against the MSM's gotcha journalism.
Rosie looks like an idiot against Danielle.
I also will also say, and I say this objectively, as not just as someone who likes her policies, but it is very difficult for women in politics who are strong on an issue.
And I say this for the left and the right.
If you are aggressive on an issue and assertive on an issue, you can come across as a bit of a B-word.
Oh, you think?
And she never does.
It is a miracle.
I don't know how she does it.
I should ask her.
I know that I can do it.
Like I end up coming off as a like a bit of a big B sometimes.
Aggressive Women in Politics00:07:05
I know it.
I'm not everybody's cup of tea.
You know, like, oh, we, we have a lot.
We give mama bears and nature a lot of leeway.
We know that mama bears are doing a really, really important job when they're protecting their cubs.
And I think that we need to give human mothers that same leeway.
Okay, Canada.
Yeah.
Because we're, yeah, go ahead.
But I was just going to say, like, further to my point about Danielle Smith and her years of being in the media.
She has found this impossible way to thread the needle of being just an absolute stone-cold conservative on all the issues and completely lovable and adorable on the other end.
Warm and friendly.
Yes.
Just like someone you think is just a genuinely nice person.
And that's why I think the left seems to fail in their efforts to turn her into some sort of hard ass monster because she's just not.
She doesn't, she doesn't take the bait.
She doesn't take the bait.
She determines the narrative, I think, which is really important in this.
She doesn't repeat their talking points and then try and defend them.
She creates her own and then puts them on their back foot.
I mean, this is the way, you guys.
This is the way.
Yep.
We've got one more from Alex Greer.
Gives us $3.99 and thumbs up, emoji.
All right.
Olivia, I don't know what the cringe is.
Okay, you guys.
Well, six months after, can I can I introduce Sheila Gunread?
Yeah, please.
I don't know what's going on.
Okay, ready, guys.
Six months after singer Chapel Rowan made the words Saskatchewan, an absolute viral word.
Do you remember?
So, Chapel Rowan is like the news.
She made me hear that song, and I never knew that.
We haven't recovered, but she is the new lady gaga or the new Madonna or the new share or whatever, you know, a scandalous new pop star.
And she's a big advocate for the LGBTQIA community.
She mentioned Saskatchewan six months ago, made it go viral.
And I just want to show everybody what Chapel Rowan was up to last night.
Sheila Gunread, I want to see her face.
Okay.
Sheila Gunread.
What on earth?
Is she at the Grammys?
So we're calling this.
Okay, they call this, they call this naked.
This is at the Grammys.
Sorry, Chapel Rowan.
This is Chapel Rowan on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards with the CBS logo right over her shoulder.
So they call this naked dressing.
This is a PR term for the promotion of fetishism, which is also real common in LGBTQIA circles.
And after Chapel Rowan's song, we're at about the same time as Chapel Rowan's song made Saskatchewan famous.
Saskatchewan was becoming a regional hub for LGBTQIA health care tourism.
So we got tourists coming to Saskatchewan to access our free and accessible health care because of Chapel Rowan's promotion of our province.
And I just want to ask you, Sheila Gunread, is Chapel Rowan a scene here in this in these photos?
Look, Sheila Gunread, look at it.
Is this a person that you want influencing your nine to 24-year-olds?
Because she is.
You know what I want to know?
You know what?
I'm just going to say this.
I wore a near-identical outfit this weekend.
You liar.
Who wore it better?
I'm going to post photos to my ex okay, side by side.
You guys can vote who wore it better.
But yes, this is what passes.
This is, you know what?
You can take it down, Olivia.
We don't.
Sorry, guys.
But this is what passes for progressivism in the United States.
Like people are watching the Grammys and they're getting full-on nudity.
So, so in, I guess, Chapel Rowan's defense, the gown has an extraordinary train behind it.
It's a sheer burgundy material.
And it actually like flips up over her shoulders and then cascades down and hides everything.
So she actually defrocked on the red carpet.
Oh, my God.
Like she took the train that was sort of acting as a cape and flung it off and then had it posted.
And then that's that is what the children are seeing on Instagram today and TikTok and Snapchat.
Watch, watch it.
Oh, yeah, here.
So very reverent.
Look, it comes in very reverent.
This is such a Madonna-type moment.
I mean, this is not new.
This is not new to celebrities.
This is certainly not Digital culture.
But yeah, I don't want my daughters being influenced by this.
I really truly don't.
This is public fetishism.
This is on TV.
Yep.
This is public fetishism.
That was on CBS, Sheila Gunread.
Good CBS ran the Grammys.
Yeah.
Anyway, mine was in blue.
That kind of stuff just makes me want to put on extra clothes when I see it.
And mine is made of fur also.
It's winter here in Saskatchewan where Chapel Rowan claimed to want to move.
No, she doesn't want to move here.
We got one more.
It's from Alex Greer, 7700279.
Great seeing you, lovely ladies in Calgary.
Well, thank you.
Thanks, Bud.
You too.
Thank you.
Yeah, we had the best time.
We had absolutely the best weekend.
We'll have way, way more to say on the things that happened to the Conservative Party.
We're still digesting them ourselves.
But I wanted to say it's going to be a really interesting couple months.
Yep.
All right.
I think that's the show.
We went extra long.
An hour and 35 minutes.
Lise is back here tomorrow.
We get Elise for three days this week.
Oh my God.
Triple the fun.
Right.
Triple the fun.
Can't wait.
Okay.
See you back here tomorrow.
Same place, same time.
Guys, thanks for joining us.
Yes.
And thank you, Efron, Olivia, for allowing Lise to get that out of her system because was she ever irked at the convention?
Did you guys have your finger on the beep button?
Did you even have a beep button?
No, we might have to beep something after the fact that said about Rosie Barton.
Yeah.
I think that's the show.
I've got a pepperoni stick to eat and then some more work to do.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks, Olivia.
Thanks, Efron.
Sorry we didn't get to everything on the list.
Sorry we talked too much about certain issues.
But good job, guys.
Control room, guys.
You're the best.
Thanks, everybody who pitched in a little bit.
Thanks for seeing what we saw out of that Conservative Party convention.
Sometimes you guys at home help us feel not crazy.
I know that we get told all the time we help you feel not crazy, but when you say those things in your super chats, it helps us feel like maybe we're not crazy.
Sometimes it's like, am I the only one feeling this way?
So the feeling is mutual, you guys.
Thank you so much.
Everybody will be right back.
Same time, same place tomorrow.
And as always, if you find us offensive, maybe don't find us at all.
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