Rebel News Podcast - A pro-life voice reports from inside the anti-family “UN Women” event (Guest： Mattea Merta, Campaign Life Coalition)

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00:00:12.580 annual anti-family United Nations conference you've probably never heard of. It's called

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00:01:26.920 The United Nations single largest anti-family conference you probably never heard about is

00:01:32.240 unfolding this week in New York City and tonight I'm talking to someone who is actually inside

00:01:36.820 the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:47.320 Have you ever wondered where Catherine McKenna or Justin Trudeau for that matter get these crazy

00:02:05.800 ideas about how energy infrastructure in Canada like pipelines now have to be looked at through

00:02:11.660 a gender equity lens? Have you ever wondered where these two get such crazy crazy ideas like a

00:02:19.040 gender-based plus analysis for any and all government policies, procedures, projects, and bureaucracies

00:02:25.060 going forward? Well it comes directly out of the United Nations like so many bad progressive ideas

00:02:30.360 tend to do. Every single year. Feminists, elites, busybodies, bureaucrats, control freaks, cat ladies,

00:02:38.600 and politicians from all across the globe have met to talk about women's issues and what they call

00:02:43.840 the advancement of women all across the globe. But what used to be about getting women the franchise

00:02:49.860 and equal rights in the developing world has now morphed into some sort of anti-male, anti-family, anti-child

00:02:56.300 pro-carbon tax catch-all conference for people looking to control your life and rewrite the building blocks

00:03:03.300 of a good society as we know it. This year's United Nations Commission for the Status of Women in New York

00:03:10.660 has a priority theme, whatever that is, that could have been taken directly from a Catherine McKenna tweet.

00:03:18.360 Just look at this. Priority theme, social protection systems, access to public services, and sustainable

00:03:26.960 infrastructure for gender equality and empowerment for women and girls. And the review theme, women's

00:03:35.540 empowerment and the link to sustainable development. Now I am absolutely dying to know what is going on

00:03:43.240 inside this UN conference. Guaranteed there's lots of pro-reproductive rights talk as opposed to pro-maternal

00:03:49.480 and child health talk. And no doubt there's a lot of talk about how climate change hurts us gals the

00:03:56.260 worst, you know. It's like when my husband turns down the furnace but my feet are always cold.

00:04:02.000 And if they could solve that problem, I'd be behind this conference. But that's not what they're talking

00:04:07.340 about, is it? Anyway, when I saw that my guest tonight was actually at this weird conference and she was

00:04:16.140 a pro-family conservative. I absolutely just had to have her on. She's a minority in the belly of that

00:04:22.740 New York beast right now and that takes a lot of guts. Joining me tonight in an interview we recorded

00:04:29.300 Tuesday afternoon from Campaign Life Coalition is conservative pro-life activist Matea Murda.

00:04:46.140 So joining me now from New York, you're in New York, right? I am. Is Matea Murda. She's a conservative

00:05:01.100 activist and she's a pro-lifer and she is at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

00:05:08.740 Matea, I'll let you describe yourself because I'm familiar with you from the internet,

00:05:14.780 but I think it's probably best if you describe yourself. But good on you for being at this

00:05:21.140 United Nations conference on the status of women. Why don't you give us a brief synopsis of who

00:05:28.120 exactly you are? For sure. I am from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, right in the middle of Canada.

00:05:35.180 Young female pro-lifer who recently got into politics just by chance of standing up for convictions.

00:05:42.980 And so it's only been about just about three years since I've been involved in politics, but

00:05:49.080 primarily in the pro-life movement for about two years. I love the fact that politics is not

00:05:56.840 unreachable and that we actually can have a voice. I used to often think that people in the public

00:06:05.240 cannot have a say in what actually happens on an international and on a national scale.

00:06:11.100 And so I'm just a young, young Canadian female who happens to be involved in politics by chance

00:06:20.160 and loves to inspire and encourage and educate others to do the same.

00:06:24.860 So you're at the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women. What brings you there and how on earth did

00:06:33.120 you get the United Nations to allow you there? Because I've been banned from these things for having

00:06:39.480 the ulterior viewpoint. I am not permitted inside the walls of the climate change conferences because I have

00:06:46.440 icky ideas about climate change. Now, I think as a pro-lifer, you're probably going against the general

00:06:53.380 consensus of the elites at this conference. So how did you get in there?

00:06:58.700 Oh, I went through an NGO. That is how I did it. I went through Campaign Life Coalition in Canada.

00:07:04.420 So I did not come here as an individual. Otherwise, I would be banned. So I came with Campaign Life.

00:07:11.940 But as you said, it is going against the elites. It's not going against the majority. The majority do stand

00:07:17.580 with pro-lifers. And so I came as part of the majority voice. That's why I'm here, to represent them.

00:07:25.940 Now, what do you hope to accomplish there? Especially since Justin Trudeau coming to power,

00:07:34.320 the focus has moved away from Stephen Harper's focus on maternal and neonatal health in the

00:07:41.020 developing world to reproductive rights, which is just liberal shorthand for what I would call

00:07:48.540 abortion colonialism, making that the pervasive sentiment for our development and aid funding

00:07:57.420 in the developing world. What do you as a part of Campaign Life Coalition hope to accomplish or even

00:08:04.200 just bring forward while you're there? For sure. Really, I just want to plant seeds. And I want to

00:08:10.460 see where they're coming from, what they really believe as an individual, also as organizations,

00:08:14.960 as NGOs. And it's having those challenging conversations, raising the issue with people

00:08:22.060 who are, whether it's on a panel, whether it's people from UN organizations that really do not

00:08:27.920 like the pro-life voice. It's to make a stand, to take a stand. Because there's not a lot of people

00:08:34.340 who are allowed to come and actually have this opportunity to do so. So really, my only accomplishment

00:08:40.060 is the only purpose really in me being here is to stand, have a voice, and to tell them that we are

00:08:48.540 here, we are the majority, and that we want to see a change, and that the elites cannot overrule the

00:08:57.260 people. You know, for me, I think that's probably been the most troubling sea change in Canadian policy

00:09:05.020 over the last three years with the liberals in power has been the complete and total denormalization

00:09:12.380 of not just the pro-life movement through taking away the summer jobs funding, but the idea that

00:09:22.300 the pro-life movement is not representative of at least 50% of women in this country. And the number

00:09:30.380 gets higher when you say, did you know there are no restrictions whatsoever on abortion in this

00:09:36.800 country? The number of people expressing pro-life sentiment gets even higher when you explain to

00:09:42.420 them that just the complete and total lack of regulation we have on it, and the company it puts

00:09:47.980 us in like North Korea. North Korea, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So how do you feel being a prominent activist in the

00:10:00.400 pro-life movement? What's it like being in Justin Trudeau's Canada? Oh my goodness. To tell you the truth,

00:10:11.480 I found it even more empowering. Yeah. So I'm trying to... You know what? I think I'm best when I have to

00:10:20.660 fight. Exactly. Exactly. It emboldens you. When you have to fight for what you really believe,

00:10:27.820 it builds you even, it gives you a louder voice, a more prominent platform, and you reach more people

00:10:35.320 that way. And people start to, who feel the same way, who not necessarily have the same platform,

00:10:42.660 or their position in life is not the same, they start to support you, they start to come on and

00:10:49.660 understand what you're saying, and then their voices also get louder, so that when they go out

00:10:54.460 into society, into their own social spheres, they also start to feel that they are not alone, and that

00:11:00.700 they can also start to speak. So being in Justin Trudeau's Canada is actually a good thing to me,

00:11:07.480 because it actually empowers myself and other people who stand on pro-life issues for pro-life

00:11:15.820 matters that, you know what, you're going to have opposition to what we believe. All the more power

00:11:21.920 to you, because it only makes our voices louder and makes us want to work that much harder.

00:11:25.940 You know, it's almost like boxing, you know, when you're, when you're training against someone who

00:11:31.100 is, um, as good as you, or as, uh, I mean, the other side of this debate is so well funded,

00:11:38.200 um, and so normalized, but when you're, um, training against, uh, you know, sort of equal competition,

00:11:44.960 it makes, I feel like it makes you that much better. I know that I'm a better journalist

00:11:49.760 because I'm in Rachel Motley's Alberta than I would be in Jason Kenney. Um, you know, it, it,

00:11:56.780 my job would be a lot easier, but I don't think that I would have honed the skills that I have.

00:12:02.120 And I think, um, for the pro-life movement, you've really honed your skills, um, and your arguments

00:12:07.460 over the, um, the last three years. I think a lot of the movement has really, um, appealed to the

00:12:15.640 free speech aspect of what you do. Um, and so you're making allies with people who are normally

00:12:22.720 not, you know, on the religious right or the pro-life right, because there's a lot of secular

00:12:27.660 pro-lifers, but you are making allies in the free speech movement over the last three years. And, um,

00:12:34.060 you've really taken those arguments out into the street. Absolutely. Absolutely. And what's incredible

00:12:39.680 is that, like you said, it's not just, uh, old white males or it's the nuns and the Catholics who

00:12:47.180 are a part of this movement. It's a movement that is fed by young people, old people, uh, people from

00:12:54.300 across the world, ethnic minorities, people who, um, are not religious whatsoever. And yet we all come

00:13:03.480 together because we are all human and we all believe that we have a right to actually speak

00:13:09.980 for those who cannot, and that we need to protect those people because that's what they are. They

00:13:15.820 are people. And so it's everybody coming together to protect other people. Um, you know, for those who

00:13:22.500 say the pro-life movement is, um, just compiled of old white men and nuns only has to go to the March

00:13:28.880 for life to really see just how diverse and young and old, uh, that, that the March for

00:13:35.340 life really is. It's not just the Knights of Columbus and the Little Sisters of Charity anymore.

00:13:40.040 Um, but getting to the 63rd commission on the status of women, um, I'm dying to hear about the

00:13:48.240 weirdness inside there. I was sort of scanning the social media of the conference and, um, okay.

00:13:55.060 So they say their top theme, uh, their priority theme, cause they have priority themes every

00:14:00.820 single year is, uh, sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and, and gender equity.

00:14:08.820 And, uh, that sounds a lot like those gender regulations that they've put into the pipeline

00:14:14.260 debate. Um, what are some of the other weird things that are going on inside the conference?

00:14:19.100 Oh my goodness. There's, there's too many to, to account for, to be honest. Uh, so what they,

00:14:25.940 you have to understand is it's not just the formal discussions and negotiations that are going on.

00:14:31.200 A lot of the weird, weird stuff happens on, uh, at events called parallel and side events. And so

00:14:37.780 you get anywhere from things, topics being discussed about LGBT trans, protecting trans women,

00:14:44.340 um, all the way to, um, all the way to comprehensive sexual education and why we need to push that,

00:14:50.020 um, in the developing country, in developing countries. Um, all the way to, I attended a talk

00:14:56.560 yesterday about, um, uh, combating structural misogyny and, uh, it was, it was bizarre. It's just

00:15:05.600 bizarre. Some of the weird things that are happening. Um, and so, yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot of

00:15:11.380 strange, um, strange, um, strange topics being discussed, but the, the theme, the, the unspoken

00:15:18.020 theme that's really reoccurring is the fact that we have to dismantle the traditional society,

00:15:25.540 um, in order to create a new social order. I've, I don't know how many times I have heard

00:15:32.420 creating a new social order over, and it's been, I'm on the second day, like I'm not even halfway

00:15:38.100 through the second day at CSW 63, and we have to recreate a new structural, uh, social order. Um,

00:15:45.300 and I don't entirely know what that means specifically because I'm at a UN function.

00:15:51.060 Bizarre. So there's a lot of, uh, dismantlement that is wanting to occur coming from these people.

00:15:57.700 Well, you know, it's, um, you know, uh, most people, especially people concerned with, um, poverty

00:16:05.860 and lack of education and instability for women and girls would be advocating for the safety and

00:16:13.060 security of a family headed by a mother and a father in particular. But it sounds like the UN wants

00:16:18.240 to do something completely different. Um, and we've seen, um, what happens when you dismantle the

00:16:23.840 family play out in the first world. Um, we see, we see it in criminal recidivism rates. We see it in

00:16:31.280 poverty rates. The number one predictor, um, of whether or not you're going to grow up poor is whether

00:16:37.120 or not you have a dad in the household. And it sounds like that is not something that the, uh,

00:16:42.160 United Nations is considering at all. Exactly. Well, and, and a lot of what they're wanting to talk

00:16:48.800 about because CSW is focused primarily around women and girls, um, is that they want to empower

00:16:54.440 women. And when they say empower, you have to understand that the UN and their committees,

00:16:59.560 their commissions often use language that sounds great, but it has an underlying message.

00:17:04.920 And so empowerment really means, uh, providing them with education and not necessarily good education,

00:17:11.700 but getting them into schools and, um, making sure that women and girls do not, um, feel obligated

00:17:21.640 to have families when that is a part of their cultural heritage. And it's actually celebrated

00:17:26.140 within the fabric of their communities. Um, so making sure that they are straight away from

00:17:32.940 promoting their communities and social, um, social, what was the word I'm looking for?

00:17:40.620 Encouraging proper social structure, what we would call in the West, traditional social structure,

00:17:46.680 which is actually a healthy way of living, um, in order to get them into schools and promote

00:17:52.500 education and career above what is celebrated within countries, which is the family. And so we don't,

00:17:59.640 a lot of women here at CSW don't even want, um, there to be the role of dad, the name,

00:18:07.760 the very title dad. They do not want that even to be a part of the heritage and of country's

00:18:14.820 cultural structures because the traditional, remember the traditional structure of the family

00:18:20.640 is what they want to dismantle. So the very fact that you're talking about the title of dad,

00:18:25.920 they don't want that because they believe that women that stand alone are more empowered than if they

00:18:34.580 were suppressed in a marriage or in a union with a man. You have to understand that they want to

00:18:42.360 dismantle that, that entitled, that entitled, uh, the patriarchy, the evil patriarchy. That is what

00:18:47.940 they want to dismantle. The evil patriarchy where women and children have been safest for thousands

00:18:54.520 and thousands of years. That's allowed the species to propagate across this, the entire earth. Um,

00:19:01.140 the United Nations wants to undo that. Now, what do they want to replace that with? The government?

00:19:06.280 You hit the nail on the head. They want to replace it with the government, more restrictions.

00:19:12.680 They want, they want, they want a new world order. That's what they want. And how do you get that?

00:19:20.740 You dismantle the people who are the loudest that are the strongest, which is men and women coming

00:19:26.880 together, working together, families working together to create a healthy, uh, social structure

00:19:33.400 that improves the lives of not only those within a home, but those that go outside of it. And so

00:19:39.460 when you dismantle that, what is left? People are dependent upon the government to make decisions for

00:19:45.020 them. And so that's what's going on. You know, they're empowering women and girls by making the

00:19:50.800 government their sugar daddy. I mean, it's really, it's really just, that's what it comes down to.

00:19:55.680 It's really chilling. Um, going back to you mentioning how weird the side events are,

00:20:01.460 um, little anecdote from my trip to Bonn, Germany to cover the climate change conference,

00:20:06.280 the hippies at one of the climate change conferences, first, they built an effigy of Angela Merkel and

00:20:13.700 another one of Donald Trump, which is probably more work than they've ever done in their entire

00:20:18.360 lives. Like if they, they couldn't pick up a hat, like swing a hammer to get a job, but they built an

00:20:23.260 effigy and then they burned it. They burned it, releasing all this unnecessary carbon into the

00:20:28.660 atmosphere as part of their protest against Trump and Merkel's climate change policies. It's really

00:20:34.840 bizarre. And the reason I thought of that is because, you know, it, it's the hypocrisy of it all.

00:20:41.760 It's the hypocrisy of claiming to empower women by completely making them less safe and making them

00:20:48.440 more dependent on the state, um, for their future. It is really, really bizarre. And I want to ask you

00:20:55.520 about sort of the elephant in the room at the, at, uh, the conference. Is anybody talking about the

00:21:02.720 fact that Saudi Arabia is on the, the, uh, status of women, uh, condition or Iraq or Iran? I suppose

00:21:12.000 Canada is there until I have to tell you, I will tell you, there is a side event being hosted by,

00:21:18.920 uh, intern, I believe it's the international Muslim women, um, and Islamic relief. And they're

00:21:27.100 talking about combating violent extremism for, and this is, again, this is around women and girls.

00:21:34.340 Now I read that because there's over 400 other events going on and you're scanning through lists

00:21:42.880 and lists of events. And you come across this one where there's an organization and the co-host,

00:21:48.260 co-sponsor of the, of this event. And you go, wait, there's something wrong here. Like there's

00:21:55.260 something very wrong here with this kind of event being hosted by these people. Um, great on them

00:22:00.700 for wanting to host it and for taking the initiative to do so. But the very fact that you have, like you

00:22:07.740 said, Saudi Arabia, all the, all these countries that actually do have real suppression on women,

00:22:13.920 um, to a very violent extent, it's kind of mind boggling. Like it really is. Um, so there are types

00:22:23.720 of the events like that, that are hosted and co-sponsored by different organizations, not

00:22:30.140 necessarily by countries, but, um, those are more of the parallel, what we call parallel events. And

00:22:36.820 it's just, it's absolutely bizarre. Yeah. I was, um, doing some research on the conference and I

00:22:43.460 noticed that the fourth one was held in Beijing and that's where this real focus towards women's

00:22:48.340 equality took place, I think it was 1995. Um, they held it in Beijing and nobody there talked about

00:22:54.240 the forced abortions of little girls or the fact that orphanages are plugged up with abandoned little

00:23:01.280 girls who've never bonded to anybody. Um, but, but that's just the hypocrisy of these United Nations

00:23:08.800 conferences. It really, really is bringing up the misogyny, um, uh, issue, issue being, you know,

00:23:17.880 um, in that talk, it was absolutely, it was very strange because they were talking about how we need

00:23:25.300 to, uh, get women out of the suppression of the hands of suppression of men and women need to be

00:23:32.100 encouraged to rise up and use their voices and wear their pussy hats and all this, that, the other

00:23:36.620 thing. I know, I know, but it's everywhere here. It's everywhere. But when, when they were talking

00:23:43.460 about this, how women need to rise and men need to get behind the women and we need to get

00:23:47.860 out of the suppression of men, the hypocrisy was really blown up in the room because they go,

00:23:53.340 but we need men to do their parts. We need men to rise up and encourage women. We need men to step

00:23:59.980 into society and do this and that and the other thing. And it's like, wait, but we were supposed,

00:24:06.020 there's, their voices are supposed to be suppressed. I thought in order to encourage women. And so what are

00:24:11.280 men supposed to do? It's all about suppressing men and rising up, raising up women, which when you're

00:24:18.860 talking about equality, one of the big key reoccurring themes in CSW 63 is equality. And what the heck is

00:24:27.160 equality if we're suppressing and then rising one above the other, where that's not equality, that is

00:24:34.440 actually the complete opposite of it. If we're, if we're doing this, when in actuality, we need to be

00:24:41.900 doing this. We need to get people on the same level. We are all the same because we are all human.

00:24:48.320 Yeah. I'm all for, I'm all for equality of opportunity, but this sounds a lot like supremacy.

00:24:54.200 It is supremacy. Yeah. And it, I mean, the, just the bizarre and demented mind that thinks that a

00:25:05.920 loving, stable relationship between a man and a woman is somehow, um, oppression. I mean, it's just

00:25:13.540 bizarre. Those poor cats at their homes, they're, they're poor, uh, cats that are left behind while

00:25:21.760 these women are at this conference. Um, I saw on some of the social media for this conference,

00:25:27.500 they're talking about, um, the achievement of women and girls in sporting and you're an athlete

00:25:32.580 yourself. So I wanted to ask you, um, about that elephant in the room of, um, genetic males really,

00:25:41.980 um, playing, uh, female sports. My daughter is a rugby player. She plays, um, very competitive,

00:25:50.560 um, plays in international tournaments. She's 12. The day a boy gets on, um, the opposing team is

00:25:56.900 the day she has to quit playing. I mean, that's just how it is. It robs women and girls of their,

00:26:01.540 um, ability to play and compete, but you're an athlete. So I want your opinion. And is anybody

00:26:06.280 talking about this at the conference? It's wrong. Plain and simple. Yeah, it is wrong. Uh,

00:26:14.260 there is no, there's no reason, uh, rational reason that that should be happening. And, uh,

00:26:22.600 I, I would never stick my daughter, my son in any sport where their team is made up of

00:26:30.800 these types of, um, ideals being pushed by, by whether it's their coaches or their schools or

00:26:41.120 whatever it might be. Um, because it's not, it's not fair. And if you want, we're at the UN,

00:26:48.700 I'm at the UN, we're talking about fairness and equality. That is not fair. And that does not

00:26:53.580 promote equality. So you actually see the other side kind of self imploding on itself, um, in trying

00:27:00.840 to force these, these ideals, um, to try and be inclusive when in actuality, it's actually

00:27:06.940 the farthest thing from being inclusive and equal and fair. It's, it's just wrong.

00:27:13.300 Well, like so many of these, um, UN, um, initiatives that actually, I mean, it has the,

00:27:20.700 uh, I don't know if it's an unintended consequence or if it's completely intended, but it has the

00:27:24.900 opposite effect of what, um, they're telling us they intend to do where they, uh, you know,

00:27:30.480 it's about giving opportunities to people while simultaneously stripping them from others.

00:27:36.080 Um, but yeah, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. You've been very generous

00:27:40.960 with your time. I know you're at the UN and you have a very tight timeframe. Um, hopefully we can

00:27:45.980 check back in with you, um, after the conference, um, later on down the road about the health and

00:27:52.780 welfare of the pro-life movement. And I want to thank you for giving us, um, an insider's view of

00:27:59.040 what goes on at these weird, weird conferences. So thanks for coming on the show.

00:28:03.120 Absolutely. Thank you for the opportunity and for what you're doing. I appreciate it.

00:28:07.720 Thank you.

00:28:08.400 I wish Matea the best of luck this week at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. I

00:28:26.440 think she's got her work cut out for her, but I think what she's doing there is a bit of a

00:28:30.480 rebelistic mission. Wouldn't you say? She's there representing the other side of the story,

00:28:36.180 the side of the story, the elites inside that conference have no time or patience for.

00:28:41.640 Matea is there representing the at least 50% of women and men who identify as pro-life in some

00:28:47.340 form or another. But she's also there to remind those United Nations control freaks that the family

00:28:54.040 remains the building block of a successful, moral, and good society. And that women are safest

00:29:02.520 and children are safest inside a family. And to dismantle that proves the true motives of the

00:29:08.400 United Nations. You see, they don't really so much care about women and children so much as they care

00:29:14.100 about being in control of women and children. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thanks

00:29:20.080 again for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And

00:29:25.520 remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - March 14, 2019

A pro-life voice reports from inside the anti-family “UN Women” event (Guest： Mattea Merta, Campaign Life Coalition)

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