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EZRA LEVANT | Over 300,000 Albertans sign petition calling for an independence referendum
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The success of the petition — 300,000 signatures collected by grassroots people with no big money, no big media, no major political backing — is sure to mobilize activists in Ottawa, including the media.
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Hello my friends. Big day in Alberta today. More than 300,000 people sign a petition. I mean, not just an online click petition, but actual signing a petition to have a referendum on leaving Canada. We'll have the whole story for you and what the regime is going to do. The empire will strike back. Plus an interview with our friend Mark Morano on King Charles and what he had to say about climate when he was in Washington tv. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News plus, that's the video version of this podcast. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month, which might not sound like a lot to you, but it sure adds up for us. It's how we pay the bills here because we take no money from the government. And it shows one more thing.
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Tonight, more than 300,000 people sign a petition calling for a referendum on Alberta independence. It's May 4, and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bu. Under Alberta law, 177,732 petition signatures is what's needed to trigger a referendum, that being 10% of the number of people who voted in the last election. So about 1.77 million people voted. So 177,000 petition signatures. Today, the chief petition gatherer submitted what he says are, well, nearly double. 301,620 signatures. Now, if that's the case, it will be more than enough to survive any audit of signatures to check for their validity. What a grassroots effort with no political party behind them. No institutional support at all. Really. 301,620 signatures. That's a little bit more than the 299,000 votes that mark Carney got in Alberta in the last election. Isn't that interesting? Now, the referendum, which is tentatively scheduled for October 19, may have a lower turnout than last year's general election in Alberta because it's not piggybacking on a general election when you have a half a dozen parties mobilizing their votes to go to the polling station anyways and months of media attention now, I don't know if this referendum will have more or less turnout than an election. It really is high stakes in a way, so I can imagine it being higher. But you never know. There's the question of litigation. Also, extremist Indian bands who are worried about losing billions of dollars from Ottawa have taken the province to court claiming that a referendum is illegal, or at least the petition gathering process is. Yeah, no, the Supreme Court itself said it was legal and so did the Clarity Act. We know it's legal because Quebec got to have not one, but two referendums. And there are major aboriginal populations in Quebec. Quebec may have more independence referendums. Their separatist party, the Parti Quebecois, is neck and neck in the lead for their upcoming provincial election. But you see, the Blob doesn't like Alberta independence. The political class, the media class, the pundits, lobbyists, lawyers, the judges, every institution, I get it. A lot of them would be out of work if Alberta were its own country. They'll do whatever they can to stop it. And what's Alberta going to do? Sep, right. So 300,000, a pretty good effort. But you know, that's 17% of the number of people who voted in the last election. So you see my point. It's enough to start the job, but it's not enough to finish the job. By the way, I think the point of saturation, the point of the saturation of anti independence media coverage, plus the indigenous nuisance lawsuit, I think it was to demoralize those who were gathering petitions and get them to abandon their efforts. As I mentioned the other day, our third party group called act for Alberta commissioned a massive 3,000 person poll on this very subject. And about 60% say they would vote to stay and only 28% say would vote for independence. 12% were undecided. So there's a lot of persuading to do. Here's some video of what it looked like today though, when the boxers were dropped off at Elections Alberta sealed because of the court case. Here are some remarks by Mitch Sylvester, the volunteer organizer.
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Read you the letter that I have for Premier Smith. Dear Premier Smith, on behalf of the Stay Free Alberta campaign, I'm pleased to advise you today that we delivered TO Elections Alberta 301,456. Initiated under the Citizens Initiative act, well surpassing the required threshold set by Elections Alberta this process shows that Albertans are engaged and this is an issue people want to have a say on from all perspectives. There's been significant interest, discussion and participation demonstrating that this is a matter of province wide importance. It also reflects the role of direct democracy, with citizens engaging the legislative process in a lawful and meaningful way. This effort was about participation in democracy, plain and simple. It was not easy. As you are aware, there were significant administrative and legal hurdles that delayed the process and increased the cost. Despite these obstacles, we remained focused on the goal and continued to push ahead in good faith.
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Amen.
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This effort would not have been possible without the dedication of thousands of volunteers, including over 7,000 patients.
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And of course, here's the lovely Rebel News. Big beautiful billboard truck in action. Holding the ground,
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Keeps holding the key.
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He paid the bills, we fight the fight. Every decision gets lost in the light.
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Do you agree that the province of
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Alberta, Now Mitch Sylvester and some of the other activists, framed their challenge towards Danielle Smith, the premier? She has said she's going to be neutral on the matter, as in she's not going to purge or deplatform people who support independence, despite the media demanding that she do so. I think that was a really good answer on her part. She said, look, there's a million Albertans who believe in this. I'm not going to throw them away because the CBC or the NDP says so. I think Danielle Smith deserves enormous credit for making the petition possible. You know, she lowered the hurdle for triggering a referendum from the spectacularly high standard that had been in the law before. Under the old rules written by Jason Kenney, you would need 588,000 signatures and it would need to have a certain number in each district, too. So it was designed as a trick by Kenney, the previous premier, to make it seem like there was direct democracy in Alberta, but not actually make it possible. Danielle Smith made it workable. Still a big job, but workable. You know, when Smith was running for the leadership of the United Conservative Party, I was the emcee for a debate amongst the leadership contenders. And I asked Smith specifically about a separatist referendum. And if it were an or else, in dealing with Ottawa, as in, could Alberta have recourse if Ottawa just laughed in Alberta's face again? Could Alberta say, do this or else? Here's what I asked and here's what she answered. How far are you willing to go? Are you willing to say we want these things or else? At what stage would you, for example, invoke the Clarity act, as clarified by the Supreme Court? For example, calling a referendum on the Clarity Act. Question of secession. Do you have an or else in mind? What is it and what would make you use it? And if not, how? Are you serious? And I'll start off with Danielle Smith on that one.
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The or else is Dennis Modri in the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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It's true.
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We proclaimed into law on April 7 the Citizen Initiative act, which gives the people the power to collect signatures for petition campaign to propose an amendment. If it's a simple matter of policy, it's a 10% threshold. If it's a constitutional change, it's a 20% threshold. That would mean 600,000 signatures. And as I understand it, Dr. Modri has a million people on his database. So part of when I decided I wanted to run, I knew how important it was to make sure that we addressed the issues of autonomy. And I talked to Dr. Modri as one of my first steps. I said, let's try this together. Let's get as much autonomy as we can. Full well, knowing that he's got the power, you've got the power if we're not successful. And this is why I take your movement very, very seriously. And why Justin Trudeau should take it very, very seriously too. Because you have the power to be able to be the or else.
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Well, isn't that funny, because that's exactly what happened. It was the Alberta Prosperity Project that did the work that got her done. So there's an interregnum now. There's a void. Now. The referendum campaign hasn't officially been called. I think part of Mitch Sylvester's comments towards Smith had to do with the lawsuit, which would the province itself call the referendum, as opposed to relying on the petition process to get around perhaps the lawfare of the Indian bands. I don't know. It's almost summertime. School will be out, families will be enjoying summer things. Barbecues, the stampede. Normal stuff, not political stuff. But the referendum is just five months away. And I think the images of the successful petition drop off today. 300,000, with really no help by grassroots people with no big money, no big media, no big political parties. I think it's going to get a lot of Ottawa activists activated. And by activists, of course, I mean most of the media, all of the institutions. For example, don't be surprised if one at a time, once a week or twice a week, every federal institution puts out a scary position paper or warning about independence. They did that in the United Kingdom with Brexit. They called it Project Fear. We'll look for the Canada pension plan to warn seniors they'll be cut off. As if you have to live in Canada to collect your cpp. Every senior who's retired to Arizona or Florida can tell you that's not true. But look for that Project Fear move anyways. You'll have banks warning about higher interest rates. You'll have the military threatening to shut down bases in Alberta, as if the Liberals haven't been doing that for years. Anyways, you'll see every member of the establishment interfering. They know whose side their bread is buttered on. We'll see. I think, ironically, the temporary high price of oil as a result of the war in Iran is helping the remain side because $100 oil means a boost to incomes in the province and a boost in activity enough to make people feel a bit better about things, to feel a bit more optimistic about things. I think some people have become a little comfortable and you know, better the devil they know, Mark Carney than the devil they don't. Alberta has been knocked down to size by Ottawa, but it's still doing better than the rest of the provinces. I think Salmon Albertans would say don't risk a good thing just because we might get a great thing. We'll see and we'll be there to tell the other side of the story. Stay with us for more. Welcome back. Well, relations between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump are frosty. It's probably one of the coldest moments in US UK Relations since the Suez Canal fiasco. But King Charles had a recent visit to Washington that was universally regarded as successful. He was fairly well received in Congress by both parties. And I think he really thought about how to appeal to Donald Trump. Trump, by the way, is a big fan of the British royal family. He was an admirer of Queen Elizabeth, and he's transferred that onto King Charles and, of course, Prince William. And I don't know who thought up the idea, but the presentation of this particular gift from the king to President Trump, I think was not only symbolic and heartfelt, but it would also appeal to the things Trump likes, including putting his name on things. Take a look at this very successful speech. Just a clip of it from King Charles presenting a bell from the HMS Trump to Donald Trump. Take a look.
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Speaking of submarine alliances, there was one particular Orcus predecessor launched from a UK shipyard in 1944 that served for the majority of her life attached to the 4th Submarine Squadron in Australia, playing a critical role during the war in the Pacific. Her name, HMS Trump. So tonight, Mr. President, I am delighted to present to you as a personal gift the original bell which hung on the conning tower of your valiant namesake. May it stand as a testimony to our nation's shared history and shining future. And should you ever need to get hold of us or just give us a ring,
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Well, the king is come and gone. The relationship stronger, I think. I'm not sure how much longer Keir Starmer will be British Prime Minister, but one speech that the king gave one moment was not quite as laudatory. It was the king scratching his own ideological itch about global warming. You would be surprised that a man who travels in private jets and has such a massive estate would pretend to care about emissions. But it's one of those luxury beliefs that only wealthy people can care about. Here's the King with a gentle jab at Trump on global warming. Take a look.
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As we celebrate the beauty that surrounds us, our generation must decide how to address the collapse of critical natural systems, which threatens far more than the harmony and essential diversity of nature. We ignore at our peril the fact that these natural systems, in other words, nature's own economy, provide the foundation for our prosperity and our national security.
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You could see that the applause was a little bit more enthusiastic on the democratic side of the House. Not sure what the king is referring to. The collapse of critical natural systems. The whole thing feels a little bit dated, as if Greta Thunberg was still marching about the climate rather than moving on to the next big thing, Gaza. Even Bill Gates himself has withdrawn a bit from the climate battle. He prefers artificial intelligence and the massive data centers necessary to fuel them. Joining us now to talk about the King and his old fashioned belief in hippies environmentalism is our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com who has been a longtime watcher of King Charles back when he was merely a prince. Mark, great to see you again. Welcome back.
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Thank you, Ezra. Happy to be here. I just wanted to point out that Prince Charles, King Charles, I'm still not used to saying that. Also did an apparent rebuke of Trump, referred to the, quote, disastrously melting ice capture caps of the Arctic and a very direct reference to Trump's climate skepticism.
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Well, I mean, you've been following the king for a long time. I mean, he's only been king for a couple years. I mean, I suppose. Listen, I actually am a bit of a monarchist myself and I think partly it was just my sheer admiration for Queen Elizabeth. And I can only imagine what it was like for King Charles to wait decades for his turn. And so he had to find a hobby. He had to find something to do besides just cut ribbons. And he chose environmentalism. And I suppose of all the things he could have chosen, it was maybe in his mind it was the most generic and the most non controversial. But he started to trip over into controversy. Give me a little bit about the history of some of the things. Because he's sort of like a calmer version of Al Gore, isn't he? With all his apocalyptic warnings.
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He delivers it in a very calm way. But his rhetoric is very similar to Al Gore. Okay. He was one of these founders. He's pushed the so called Earth Charter. It's like a Magna Carta, except for earth rights. He has also pushed face masks for cows. He's been to many United nations climate summits with his doomsday warnings beginning in 2007. He got really active again around the time of Al Gore's movie Inconvenient Truth, 20 years ago. And he started issuing the climate tipping points. And he got into that whole thing, 100 month deadline, and he kept counting it down. I can go into a little detail on that in a minute. But King Charles, he made it his number one issue outside of the royal family. And he was going around the world just promoting this alarmism and this silliness and he's invested in startups again with agriculture and he's gone after meat eating and everything else. I mean, the whole range of the climate issues. King Charles, Prince Charles was there. He was essentially a more a wealthier version of Greta Thunberg with the British crown behind him looking more respectable. But he delivered the same climate dribble whenever he went for decades.
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Yeah, I think that anything that's said in that received pronunciation. I forget that there's a special language for, for the sort of accent that royalty have. It's. I think it's called heightened received pronunciation or something. You have a guy who's always wearing bespoke suits, who speaks calmly in that beautiful accent, surrounded by regalia. He's going to make an impact. He's going to be more persuasive than some angry Swedish high school dropout. Did anyone actually listen to Prince Charles or King Charles on this stuff? Or did they sort of say. Did they sort of bend the knee and roll their eyes and say, listen, he's the king. We don't push back. Like, do you think he had an effect or do you think it was sort of a hobby and a personal pursuit that didn't actually go anywhere for him? What do you think?
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Well, I think it was definitely a personal pursuit. He seemed to be a true believer, or at least he convinced himself. If you just heard his rhetoric and his talking. And what's funny is the hypocrisy of him. He literally has, I think, the most elaborate toilets in the world. He has a portable toilet that he travels with and he goes first class everywhere. Obviously he seemed to be a true believer. It's hard to say he wasn't funded by Middle Eastern oil as Al Gore was. When he sold his network, you couldn't accuse him of getting funding necessarily, but he was looking for ideological relevance. He was looking for his place in society. So climate was the ultimate virtue signal for King Charles. Well then Prince Charles, I will give him credit, since he's become king, he is not as inane. His comments aren't off the wall. Even when his trip to America, that was very restrained, but he still referred to it all. But it was done in a much more subdued way. And you probably have, you know, you could probably show the video clips of it, but he, some of his tipping point rhetoric was laughable and comical. Where he started with 100 month tipping point and then he got down to 89 months and then like 70 some months and then he got right down to zero. And once he hit zero, then he added 35 more years to the climate tipping point. And I always like to say, you know, he would have been, I think it is by the time 20, I think it was 2047, he could theoretically be alive given his longevity gene. But the irony of all this is he waited all those decades to be king. He becomes king and then he immediately gets a cancer scare. I'm not having kept up, I don't know. But you know, he immediately has a major health scare after he finally becomes king after decades of waiting. So you have to feel for him a little bit there, you know, So I don't know, I don't know his current state of his health. He seemed healthy, but he was definitely very well received in America. This was, it's easy to tuck away your environmental climate alarmism when you deliver it with a jovial sense and when you deliver it with a British accent and it's sort of tucked away. So it wasn't the. He wasn't climate or ecologically alarmist forward in his trip to America. Very well received. You know, he went to the little town of Front Royal, Virginia, which is like an hour over an hour outside of D.C. people lined up for miles. He was in a parade. He went to the local restaurant, he and his wife. So he was very, you know, I guess congenial and well received despite all of this. But he's definitely as king. He was suave enough and delicate enough to shift his sillier rhetoric when he was prince, trying to get attention.
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Yeah, I think that things are so fraught between the White House and 10 Downing street that he didn't mess around. I think he was really coached on what the crisis was and he had to repair it. So listen, give them, give the guy marks for that. And I hope that he puts aside some of the more exuberant statements of his youth. I got to say, though, and I didn't have a chance to bump into you at Davos for the World Economic Forum in January, but that has really thrown out climate as an issue. And we've been going for enough years to see the transformation. And misinformation, disinformation was a big theme. Now it's all AI. That's all anyone cares about.
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Yes.
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And really there was just some little public art installation about climate. Like it was almost. I almost felt bad how pitiful it was compared to the front page it would have been before. And I can't help but thinking even in the United States, and certainly in Canada, global warming, climate change, those phrases, I don't even see parties on the left talk about them that much because I think other issues, whether it's inflation, immigration, the war, I just, I feel like the pendulum has swung out on that stuff. I'm not saying it won't come back, but I just, maybe it's partly because of Trump just saying yes to energy again. I just, I just feel like, I mean, look, if Greta Thunberg, who's got a nose for publicity, if she's chosen the Gaza flotilla over Greenpeace. Oh, and speaking of which, Greenpeace losing a massive lawsuit for their actions, blocking a pipeline. I just feel like, I mean, I don't wanna declare victory. Cause I don't wanna be complacent. But I feel like the climate alarmists have had a terrible few years.
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Yes. In fact, I gave the International Climate Summit, which Lee Zeldin, our EPA chief, spoke at in Washington just three weeks ago. I gave a keynote speech to close the conference. And I said in my. I've lost Track. It's like 23 or 24 years since I got on the global warming climate change beat. I have never seen anything like this. This is clearly the lowest point in these two and a half decades that I've witnessed and that anyone has witnessed and obviously it's the lowest point, you know, back. You have to go back to pre1992 or pre formation of the UN climate panel to find anything lower. Even the CNN pollster Harry Entin has said that concern about climate change is reaching 1980s levels, late 1980s levels. So a couple different things there. You mentioned the World Economic Forum and you mentioned just how first of all, in America climate has gone silent. Even the Democratic Party has gone silent on climate change. You mentioned Bill Gates because of AI, he has now said climate's not a catastrophe, climate is not gonna be dooming. We need to worry about human flourishing. Jeff Bezos, the other billionaire has now pulled back the Washington Post fired about 80% of his climate reporters. He owns the Washington Post newspaper. His Washington Post editorial boards now rail on EV mandates. They rail on green New Deal and net zero, complete shocking change from that billionaire. And then you have Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, he's now come out as maga. He's got a MAGA girlfriend, he's supporting President Trump. So the billionaire class, I think it's more of a fickle class if you will. Whoever's in power, they're going to suck up to who's in power. That's part of it. But the other part is absolutely AI. And Larry Fink, who was very prominently featured, he's co chair of the World Economic Forum, has openly stated that solar and wind cannot power AI. You need dispatchable power, you need fossil fuels, you need nuclear. And this is why Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are now trying to lease or buy nuclear power to supply their AI power demands. On top of that, I will just say the UN Climate Summit was an absolute disaster. So, so much of a disaster by the way, in November that in Colombia last week, Ezra, they started their own non UN climate summits and they got all the willing countries together to basically commit on their own. And they're getting rid. This was at Al Gore's vision after Azerbaijan meeting which was cop 29 to get rid of all the countries who don't support the goal. But now it sort of changes the whole game for the climate alarmist because you just have a bunch of yes countries that aren't actually bringing in, you know, the major countries. The United States wasn't even invited to this conference in Colombia. So it is unbelievable. It's the complete collapse of this movement. And I think Covid killed the climate hoax to the extent that it's dying. And what I mean by that is we have One person to thank and it's not necessarily Donald Trump. It's a one Anthony Fauci. It's the World Health Organization. The overreach on Covid destroyed the appeals to authority. And this brought the great middle, the undecided, the middle of the roaders in politics who basically said the no longer does that work. Oh, why is global warming real? Because NASA says so? You can point. No, the appeal to authority is gone. This is what I think ultimately laid that groundwork and due credit Donald Trump leaves out not only for their actions, reversing everything and giving permanence, getting out of the Rio 1992 treaty and getting us out of the endangerment finding which regulates CO2 as a pollutant. But most important, in my book, they fly flipped the narrative. Donald Trump, his EPA chief Lee Zelda and Energy Secretary Chris Wright openly talk about climate as a scam, a hoax, a religion, a cult that changes public opinion, that flips the narrative and that has been phenomenal and that silences the opposition, I might add.
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Now, you said something a moment ago that I jotted down because I didn't want to let it pass. Did I hear you right to say that you were an invited guest speaker at an EPA conference? Did you say that?
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No, it wasn't. No, it was an international climate summit as held by private. And Lee Zeldin was the invited.
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He's the head of the epa. So he was there.
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Yes, he gave a keynote on one day and then I gave the closing conference. But it was a huge.
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Well, if the head of the EPA was there at the same conference, it may not have been a formal EPA conference, but it had sort of the blessing of the head of Trump's epa.
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In fact, we had Washington Post, New York Times all outraged that the EPA chief would speak at a skeptical climate summit. Wow.
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Well, you know what, I just wanted to follow up on that because it's so interesting and a sign of the times. And I think when you look at the the new energy reality, the real politic of energy, you know, just to reference a name in the uk, Ed Miliband and his goofy ideas of wind turbines. And you know, people are just so worried about high energy prices in places like the UK And Europe is so dependent on Russian oil and gas and Iran is now choking the Strait of Hormuz. So now producing, exporting, selling, transporting fossil fuels is not just cool again, it is a matter of absolute national security and national survival. And it's amazing to see and I think of my home province of Alberta with the oil sands and even Venezuela. What a brilliant, brilliant change of. I mean, just with one surgical strike, Trump has moved them Venezuela into a pro American orbit. I see news that there's now direct flights between Miami and Caracas again. I'm just so hopeful for that place to de communistify and to re Americanize. I don't know. Give me 30 more seconds on Venezuela because that was an oil regime that was definitely a bad guy and now it's really a U.S. protectorate.
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Yes. And what Trump's doing is bringing in all of the drilling and refinery capacity and they're going to try to resurrect essentially the true capacity of Venezuelan oil. And then they're going to be able to sell globally on the market. They're going to sell to the United States. And it's all part of Donald Trump's plan. Even cnn, and this was in March of this year, was forced to admit, Ezra, that the United States now produces more oil than, than any nation in the history of the planet, the history of the earth. And I think when you combine that with what's happened in Venezuela and you combine that with the fact that we're now exporting natural gas, liquefied natural gas, to Europe, replacing Russia as the number one supplier, this is all great news for national security and for democracies across the world. This is a true moment in history where we realize that energy production, domestic energy production, is the best national security defense. And it's always been that way. If you look back at the 1970s with the Arab oil embargo, the unbelievable destruction of the economy for the United States and many of the west who relied on that is not repeating itself this time because we don't need that oil anymore. We're self sufficient. And that is laying the groundwork. And that's both policy under Trump and it's also technological advances with particularly natural gas fracking. Fracking alone has replaced coal, which has been a huge boon to energy. And coal is trying to be resurrected as well. Coal is probably the most simplest national security asset. If you have coal reserves and you can produce coal, you have your own domestic energy because you have lots of flexibility. So.
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And you can manage steel. Yes.
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You can do everything with it.
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Yes. You know, it's so basic that to succeed, a country has to have plentiful, affordable food and fuel. And they're related, by the way, as the farmers of Amsterdam would tell you. The farmers of the Netherlands, yes. Who were being hit with all these taxes not in the name of carbon in that case, but in the name of nitrogen. They were criminalizing another element in the periodic table. It's so ridiculous. But those bad guys are on the back foot. Well, I guess I want to close by lamenting because all the good news you and I are talking about is with the United States of America, who we love and we admire, but Canada made so many bad decisions over the Trudeau era and again under Mark Carney, that we are not there with you. I mean, yes, there's railways and there's a small additional pipeline being built, but we missed opportunities to expand our production to have pipelines to the coast. We could be selling ethical oil into Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
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Yeah, they need it badly. Yes, they're the ones affected. And they're going to have to reassess all of their energy policies and energy strategies because the Strait of Hormuz closure has impacted the Asian countries the most.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, I don't know, I feel. I feel bad for what's going on in Canada. I mean, I guess he zeroed out the carbon tax, or at least part of it, and that's probably only a temporary measure for now.
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Yeah.
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And I hear there's a point talk of resurrecting a Keystone Light or something like that, but I don't know that it's going to be anything on.
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I believe it when I see him. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Well, Marcus, great.
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I don't know.
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Go ahead.
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Will come around now. Hopefully Canada will come around. I hope a lot of Europe is coming around. Germany now realizes that their Prime Minister Mertz is now, you know, seems to be very pro energy and even Ed Miliband is being forced to concede certain things. But we'll see. I got to meet Nigel Farage. Let's hope he's a future UK Prime Minister. That could help them.
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Yeah, the polls say he will be. Mark, great to catch up with you. Thanks so much. You're the best informed person in America. On global warming, we love to go to climatedepot.com common thanks for continuing to bring the facts to us as you do all the time.
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Thank you, Ezra. I appreciate it. Good to talk.
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There he is. Mark Morano. Stay with us. Your letters to me. Next.
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Foreign.
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The first one is on Jonathan Yaniv. It's by S. McGrath, who says Yaniv is a menace to society. He should be declared a vexatious litigant and forced to get a job. Yeah, I wouldn't want to force him on any employer, though, would you? Brenda Cook says human rights tribunals should be disbanded. They are dysfunctional and should be abolished. I agree. I mean, the main things that they were set up for were kicking someone out of an apartment based on their race or denying them an apartment. But there's landlord and tenant laws and that just doesn't happen. I mean, Canada is practically half minority anyways. I. I just don't think it's a big problem of not getting an apartment because you're a minority. The other half is being fired for this reason or that reason. Well, we already have employment law. You can't fire someone because they're gay or because they're black. You just can't. Or if you do, you have to pay them. Heightened severance. So we already have landlord and tenant boards. We already have employment or labor arbitrations in the case of unions that deals with most of what these human rights commissions were built to do. The rest of it, like their speech censorship. Shut her down. Wade Young says Pierce says it before. 40 people arrested 6,000 times. Oh, Pierre Poliev said it before. 40 people arrested 6 thousand times in one year. That's how, that's how a working system. It works for the criminals. Sorry, there was a bit of a typo there. The point is a small number of criminals committing an enormous number of crimes. That was the point I was referring to in New York City in their broken windows theory. If they just arrest people for the small stuff, take them off the streets. You take 50 bad guys off the street, you will liberate enormous numbers of people. We've just given up on policing and I think I live in the worst city for that. Well, that's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.