This NDP premier just can't help himself!

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]You know, the LGBTQ2SL plus movement, I think they made a strategic mistake probably about 10 years ago when they really had total victory. I mean, gay marriage, gay adoption, gay pride month. The every last wall fell. I mean, a lot of it was done through the courts, so there was now democratic consent. But I think public opinion sort of shifted towards it and they they really won the cultural battle.

[00:00:28]But instead of declaring victory, the massive gay rights movement said, "Well, let's focus on the next frontier. Not just the LG and the B, but the T. Let's get all our energy behind transgenderism.

[00:00:43]And not just someone who in their private life dresses up as the other gender, but someone who wants to inject it in schooling, into girls sports, someone who's a real activist."

[00:00:54]And I think they went too far. In fact, even in the United States, you can see support for LGBT movements are falling.

[00:01:03]And it's not because of the L and the G and the B. It's because of the T. I think there's other movements that play their hand too far, go too far. And one of them in Canada, I fear, is that of indigenous rights. I think every Canadian believes that there is some moral debt we have to First Nations. At least I think so. And at the very least, we should attend to the social ills and the dysfunction of our own indigenous population. Perhaps before we bring in other newcomers or perhaps before we give foreign aid to strange countries, there are some problems we need to deal with. And I think Canadians are generally okay with that. But like the L, the G, and the B, when they go for the T, maybe they overplay their hand.

[00:01:50]And I think that's happening in British Columbia where land acknowledgements that were started off as a feel-good way to show respect to First Nations is being taken literally and they want their land back. And a combination of radical politicians and radical judges are making indigenous title a real thing. Recent cases in British Columbia have thrown into doubt whether or not homeowners actually own the land upon which their houses are. And this could cause tremendous dislocation. Many people, the home is their only investment. It's their retirement savings. It's what they want to bequeath to their kids. And now Canadians who have done nothing wrong to indigenous people are risk at risk of losing their homes to people who had nothing done wrong to them. It's part of a racebased system. And I'm worried that reconciliation has gone too far. That was the phrase a decade ago, truth and reconciliation. And who could be against those things? But you don't reconcile with someone by saying, "I want your house." And I think that they're making the transgenderism mistake of pushing it too far. And I think of Wobb Canoe, the premier of Manitoba, and in some ways it's wonderful. And he's got that big smile and he's got a jovial personality, and he says he loves Canada, and there's a lot of things to like about him. One of my favorite clips was early in the uh trade spat with Donald Trump. He said, "We'll never be your 51st straight, but we'll be your number one best friend."

[00:03:20]Here's a little clip of that. I thought that was a great line, and he delivered it well.

[00:03:24]>> Canada will never be the 51st state, but we could be your number one friend. We fought in world wars together. We defeated fascism and communism. We stand up for democracy. We have answered the call on fentanyl and on the border. We don't want tariffs because we're so close together. It'll only raise prices for all of us. We're a nation of hockey players. We know how to stand up for ourselves. At the same time, we know how to go for a beer together once the game is over. The winds of change can blow through politics, but they'll never change geography. We will always be neighbors, and we should always be friends.

[00:04:02]>> I think Wobb canoe, when he's at his best, can come across as really likable, and he actually can be some proof of reconciliation. But I saw another side to him lately that made me wonder if I was right about that. Um, you know, in recent weeks he's been going a little bit extreme, calling Donald Trump a pedophile. Now, where's the friendly jovial where your number one best friend canoe? I want him back and I want a little bit less of this conspiracy theorist. Take a look.

[00:04:32]>> Let me be absolutely clear. When I say the Epstein class should fight the Epstein war, I'm attacking Donald Trump.

[00:04:39]You're not talking about >> I'm attacking Jeff Bezos. I'm attacking Mark Zuckerberg. I'm attacking Jeffrey Epstein. I'm attacking Sam Alman. I'm attacking all of these folks who have articulated progressive views and yet bow down in the face of extraordinarily damaging politics today. Not a single Canadian should ever be put in harm's way to try and defend Donald Trump's foolish Iranian war.

[00:05:12]>> I'll go a step further and I'll say no American either.

[00:05:17]>> No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die >> in Iran.

[00:05:25]>> Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein war.

[00:05:28]>> I hope this war in Iran ends. These gas prices are too high and kids are being killed for no reason. Even the Trump administration cannot explain why they're at war in Iran right now. And I mean like the Epstein file seems to be as good of a reason as anyone else can figure out. So stop the war.

[00:05:45]>> Yeah. I don't think you're helping things. I don't think you're helping to have cooler minds prevail. I I think you're whipping things up and making it viciously personal. And frankly, if you know anything about Wobb Canó's Cano's own personal history, he shouldn't be digging into personal problems of the president. Let me just leave it that way. W Cano does certain things that are fun and friendly, but other things that are just weird and childish. The other day, the leader of the opposition in Manitoba was speaking, who by the way is a Muslim man, and I think he's doing a good job as a opposition leader. He's very sober minded, very thoughtful. He was making a thoughtful point in the provincial legislature. and W Cano just started barking at him. Here's a clip of that.

[00:06:28]>> Um, again, you know, it's uh >> I asked the premier numerous times to please be respectful uh while I asked a question for Manitobans.

[00:06:42]>> This is unbecoming of the premier. It is it is it is unfortunate. I'm just asking be respectful. I'm asking questions.

[00:06:50]>> Ask questions.

[00:06:52]And this is the behavior we're getting from him. It's, uh, it's unfortunate.

[00:06:57]So, uh, the premier knows he can do it and pass it. So, the simple question is, will the premier stop laughing?

[00:07:04]>> No.

[00:07:05]>> Nobody else.

[00:07:06]>> No. I'm asking about the budget bill >> and the answer is no. Yeah. Can I get the fun, jovial, positive, constructive Wobb canoe back? Not the childish, name calling, barking Wobb canoe, please.

[00:07:21]Anyways, uh the other day the premers had a get together, the western premers, and one of the issues raised was um the Alberta referendum. Of course, it was on everyone's mind, and Danielle Smith was asked about the court ruling, and I think she answered in a very mature, grown-up kind of way, but Wab Canu thought he would correct her and attempt to embarrass her. And I think he got his facts deadly wrong. But when you're taunting and tormenting, not sure if you're getting towards truth and reconciliation. Watch the exchange and judge for yourself.

[00:07:53]>> No, I mean the way we're going to seek clarity is through the court. Uh we think that the duty to consult is uh meant to be looked at through a lens of major projects and we take that very seriously. We had an an ind indigenous round table yesterday where we I shared with the premers how we're using our Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation to help uh underwrite major project participation to give uh revenues to indigenous uh nations and how we want to continue uh engaging with indigenous nations on that. But the the issue I think in the court is whether that duty to consult should apply to citizen initiated petitions. And that's where I I think that the court aired in judgment and I think it's also anti-democratic the decision that they made. But we'll we'll make the arguments in court about what the limits to duty to consult ought to be and we'll see how that conversation goes. There's a couple of rounds that we have to go through obviously to Court of Appeal, probably also to the Supreme Court of Canada, but we want to make sure that we have a very clear understanding of what the duty to consult really means and what it doesn't mean. And I think at at the moment there's a lack of clarity on that. and you've talked a lot about >> Sorry, I'd like to respond. Um, so I I think we know that that that is not correct. A lot of what you just said there, Premier Smith. Um, specifically, and we spoke about this, so I don't mind uh repeating this. Um, it is not up to the petition gatherers to fulfill the duty to consult. It is up to you as the Alberta government to fulfill the duty to consult. And in this case, when there is clearly going to be an impact on wellestablished existing hunting and fishing rights by putting up uh an international border, if some would have their way, the judge ruled, and I would agree with the judge's ruling, that that is going to infringe on rights. And so there is a duty to consult. Now, to take a step further, for the Albertan who's been frustrated over the lack of progress on pipelines, you've got the premier of BC announcing LNG. We're working on Churchill. We're working on northern uh trade corridors.

[00:09:57]This is a moment to get big things built in Manitoba. And I would say now is the time to work together. Why don't we hold off on this referendum talk for a year or two and see if we get these pipelines under construction? Because at the end of the day, we want Canada to succeed.

[00:10:15]We're all very proud of this place. I myself am very, very patriotic. And what I think it's important for us to say when we hear this sorts of discussion happening here in Alberta is for us to say, "Okay, thank you First Nations in Alberta for hitting the pause button on this. Now the rest of Canada, let's work together and show Alberta just how appreciated they are in the rest of this country.

[00:10:36]>> Yeah, that's what I mean. If you're celebrating the fact that a Trudeau appointed judge has invented a new right that you can't even petition your government if you're a white man until indigenous people have consulted and you can throw out the will of 700,000 people who have signed petitions. That's how many it is. It's not just the 300,000 for the independence petition. There's 400,000 for another petition. If you're smirking and rubbing it in and doing a kind of triumphalism because some newly concocted madeup right was just discovered that you can't do anything without indigenous participation. Do you see how corrosive that can be to the friendly reconciliation moving together as equals goal? I um if you can stop a referendum in the name of democracy, at a certain point in time, I think that you will start to take on water the same way that transgenderism has done for the gay rights movement. And I like the fact that Wobb Canoe is premier. I hate the fact that he's an NDP socialist. I hate the fact that he sometimes loses his grownupness and becomes childish.

[00:11:50]But I think he has the opportunity to be a great healer of race relations in this country. Like Obama had the opportunity.

[00:11:57]Obama squandered it. Instead, he leaned into the Black Lives Matter racial theories of Marxist Marxism applied to race. I think under Barack Obama, race relations reached an all-time low, even though his own election was proof that America had become post-racial. I'm worried that Wobb Canoe could do the same thing. If he continues to endorse indigenous vetos over democratic wishes, I think he's going to turn a lot of friends into enemies like transgenderism does.