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(00:00) The Honorable the premier has a statement to make thank you Mr Speaker when US president Donald Trump first announced his threaten tariffs against Canada and began musing about our country becoming the 51st state many Canadians and albertans fed feared for their Futures and why because regardless of our political stripe we all knew that the imposition of 25% tariffs on all Canadian Goods to the US would cost the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Canadians would depress our economy devastate our budget and damag the
(00:32) sovereignty of our country and in the roughly four months until just before last weekend’s federal election call Premier Party leaders and Canadians were United other than perhaps the Alberta NDP and working as hard as we could to convince the US president and Congress to reconsider these unjustified actions against our country in fact Premier were all encouraged by each other as well as with the by the former prime minister and his ministers to visit the US to get on Us Media to speak with every Us official and influencer we could to
(01:04) convince the US president to refrain from imposing these tariffs it was all about working as Team Canada for the greater good enter liberal prime minister Mark Carney now all of a sudden it’s apparently treason to talk to American Media personalities that we disagree with it is disloyal to try and persuade high-profile Republicans holding influence with the president to abandon his tariff policies on Canada indeed it’s a high crime to try and convince us officials to refrain from imposing tariffs until after our country
(01:36) has elected a leader with a strong mandate shame on all who dare to speak with the Enemy they now say these are the team Carney and NDP talking points their endgame is quite obvious frighten and divide Canadians try and make Canadians forget the utter incompetence of liberal and NDP policies that have been inflicted on this country over the last 10 years ass associate uh conservatives with President Trump and if they play their cards just right and sprinkle in just enough anti- Alberta rhetoric Presto Canada might elect
(02:10) another liberal majority government well the Carney liberals and the ND and the N NDP are right about one thing our country is indeed vulnerable right now and the reason why is as clear as a sunny Alberta day it is because for the last 10 years liberal and NDP leaders across this country both Federal and provincial have repeatedly sold out Canada and Alberta with policies that have landlocked our immense natural resources made nation building projects practically impossible to finance and build and have made securing access to
(02:43) our parts an exercise in frustration and futility these liberal and NDP leaders from Trudeau to Singh and now to prime minister Mark Carney have done everything in their power to seow investment uncertainty to add impossibly high cost on the development of our resources and have disastrously weakened our security and Military all in the name of their green extremist religion and its cult leaders named gibo Suzuki Gore and tunberg and the results are obvious Canadians are poorer than Americans overly dependent on the
(03:18) Americans and vulnerable to many nations including the Americans Canada has indeed been sold out big time and it’s been sold out by the utter incompetent self-righteous and extreme policies of liberal and NDP leadership across this country including the nchi NDP right here in Alberta from c69 to oil and gas production caps to tanker bands to a dozen other examples the Liberals and their allies have attacked the Alberta and Saskatchewan economies mercilessly and despite all that despite the 10-year attack on Alberta by Our Own federal
(03:52) government where tariffs were threatened on our our when tariffs were threatened on our fellow Canadians and the federal liberals realized they had no contacts or Allies anywhere in the new US Administration what did the Alberta Government do did we cower in the corner madly texting our tweets about hating Donald Trump on X did we turn into part-time Tick Tock rage Farmers to stir up as much fear and loathing of Americans as humanly possible did we give up throw our hands in the air express righteous indignation but do
(04:23) nothing to fight against the threat imposed on our Province and Country no that’s what the n andp did of course but we Alberta’s UCP government we did not instead our government did exactly what albertans expected us to do we decided to fight tooth and nail for albertan and Canadian jobs and sovereignty my ministers officials and I have spent hundreds of hours over the last several months talking with lobbying educating and persuading every us lawmaker and media influencer that was willing to listen about how damaging and
(04:56) wrongheaded imposing tariffs on Canada would be for Americans and for the millions of American jobs that would be lost because of them I’ve made this case repeatedly to the American people and their leaders especially Republican leaders from the US president personally to members of his cabinet to Senators to Governors to members of Congress to podcasters to Media personalities I’ve lost track of how many nights I’ve spent in uncomfortable Hotel Beds and airports doing everything humanly possible to stand up for Canadian and Alberta
(05:26) workers and families convincing us officials to refrain from putting tariffs on any Canadian Goods asking that they respect the current Free Trade Agreement and not begin renegotiations until Canadians elect a new prime minister with a strong four-year mandate doing all we could in Alberta to secure the US border and urging the Liberals to do the same across the country so that we could further delay the implementation of tariffs and it hasn’t just been Alberta several other premieres particularly conservative premieres premier Scott Mo
(06:00) Premier Tim Houston Premier Doug Ford have been doing the exact same thing and the results it has been almost four months since the president first threatened tariffs on Canada and although steel and aluminum are wrongfully being tariffed at this time the tariffs on remaining Canadian Goods sits at zero today rather than 25% and what has the neni NDP done to contribute to this effort not a single thing other than raging against this government for every effort we have taken to protect albertans needless to say there is not a
(06:31) doubt in my mind that had the nensi NDP been in charge during this period we would likely have long ago been hit with across the board 25% tariffs and lost thousands of Alberta jobs already because the NDP have no idea what diplomacy is as they don’t know how to talk constructively or effectively with anyone they disagree with and glad we never need to find out our government’s advocacy had has made a massive difference for albertans and for Canadians and that is a fact but now we have another tariff deadline looming on
(07:02) April the 2nd and I am now off to the US yet again to try and speak to Americans this time through the second largest podcaster in the world whose audience is made up of exactly the people we need to persuade to convince the their president to change course on tariffs against Canada and what does team Carney want me to do they want me to abandon my post remain in Alberta and do absolutely nothing to defend our Province they want me to cower in the face of Eastern media pundits and politicians who favor political grandstanding to effective
(07:33) diplomacy I’m fiercely CR criticized for going into the lion’s den to change the hearts and minds of the very Americans that we need on Canada’s side to avoid a trade war with the most powerful economy on Earth they want this lady and Alberta to just sit down and shut up well here is my response to that I will not be silent Alberta will not be silent we will not be pushed around and called traitors for merely having courage to actually do something about our Nations and provinces predicament other than merely indulging in self-righteous
(08:07) tantrums and I for one will never be S uh silenced by the party in Ottawa that has sold out our beloved Province for the last 10 years with the help of their NDP collaborators I have and I always will put albertans first and until this danger to Alberta and our economy has passed they’re going to have to have to roll me off off in a Stretcher before I will stop fighting for our Province and our people so they can call me my caucus whatever name in the dictionary they want as long as albertans know that we are fighting for them and their families
(08:39) we could care less what the members opposite or liberal politicians in Ottawa have to say about us because Alberton expect their Premier and government to always put albertans first and lead them through this storm with Fearless determination as Winston Churchill once said fear is a reaction courage is a decision we on this side of the house have made the decision to act with courage so that Alberta May remain Forever Strong and free [Applause] order order