Rebel News Podcast - December 12, 2020


Chinese Winter Soldiers in Canada, Manitoba Lockdown


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

149.26562

Word Count

5,742

Sentence Count

400

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Did Justin Trudeau invite China to send members of its People's Liberation Army to Canada so that Chinese troops could do cold weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario? Oh, it's no fairy tale, folks. And we have the paperwork to prove it.


Transcript

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00:01:14.240 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:32.760 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.
00:01:38.080 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:40.020 It almost sounds like a preposterous, albeit disturbing, fairy tale.
00:01:45.740 Namely, did Justin Trudeau actually invite China to send members of its People's Liberation Army to Canada
00:01:54.440 so that Chinese troops could do cold-weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario?
00:02:01.660 Oh, it's no fairy tale, folks. It's true.
00:02:04.960 And we have the paperwork to prove it.
00:02:07.160 Ezra Levent will drop by to explain all.
00:02:10.880 And it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
00:02:14.340 Well, not really.
00:02:16.400 At least not in the People's Democratic Republic of Manitoba.
00:02:20.040 That's because Mad King Brian Pallister has imposed strict lockdown measures on his entire province,
00:02:26.800 including the closure of anything he deems to be non-essential,
00:02:32.660 like singing Christmas carols outside.
00:02:35.880 Sheila Gunn-Reed has the scoop on the Premier, who would be Grinch.
00:02:41.120 And letters, we get your letters.
00:02:42.520 We get them every minute of every day.
00:02:44.560 And you had plenty to say about my video regarding a truly peaceful protest
00:02:49.960 outside Express Fitness in Toronto last Saturday,
00:02:53.120 a gym that was shut down by the city last month
00:02:55.900 for daring to open during Hogtown's grey zone lockdown.
00:03:00.580 Yet, why was so much law enforcement, including the mounted unit,
00:03:07.160 dispatched to this small, peaceful protest when no crime was being committed?
00:03:12.800 I have my theories.
00:03:14.600 Those are your rebels.
00:03:15.860 Now let's round them up.
00:03:17.180 These are top-secret documents showing how Justin Trudeau and his government
00:03:26.720 are pressuring the Canadian Armed Forces
00:03:29.480 to work closely with China's People's Liberation Army.
00:03:33.700 These documents show that even after China kidnapped two Canadian citizens,
00:03:39.120 Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor,
00:03:41.480 Trudeau still insisted that our military maintain warm ties with China's military.
00:03:47.940 Trudeau has made protecting the feelings of China's dictator, Xi Jinping,
00:03:52.680 a priority for our armed forces.
00:03:55.620 Maybe that doesn't surprise you,
00:03:57.060 but these documents also reveal that Trudeau has been sending Canadian troops to China
00:04:03.100 to participate in that country's propaganda displays.
00:04:07.540 And most incredible of all,
00:04:09.460 Canada has been training Chinese military troops
00:04:13.880 at our military colleges in Canada
00:04:17.140 and unbelievably training Chinese soldiers
00:04:21.640 at Canadian forces-based Petawawa
00:04:24.440 in how to wage cold-weather warfare.
00:04:28.540 Trudeau is literally training our enemies in how to kill us.
00:04:32.460 And I'll prove it to you.
00:04:33.560 You're watching The China Files on Rebel News.
00:04:39.460 My name is Ezra Levant,
00:04:41.240 and I'm a Canadian journalist and author.
00:04:43.680 Full disclosure, I'm a skeptic of Justin Trudeau,
00:04:47.140 Canada's Liberal Prime Minister.
00:04:48.580 Last year, I wrote a book about him called The Libranos.
00:04:51.960 This year, I wrote a book about him called China Virus,
00:04:55.700 how Justin Trudeau's pro-communist ideology
00:04:58.260 is putting Canadians in danger.
00:05:00.460 But even I didn't know the half of that.
00:05:04.400 I've never held a top-secret document in my hands before.
00:05:07.800 This one is marked secret in so many places.
00:05:10.620 In some parts, it says,
00:05:11.920 Canadian eyes only.
00:05:13.860 Other parts are marked five eyes only.
00:05:16.360 That's the name of our intelligence alliance
00:05:19.400 amongst our closest allies.
00:05:21.580 Canada plus the United States, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
00:05:25.620 I wonder what they're going to think of all this.
00:05:28.860 The China Files, as I call them, are 34 pages long.
00:05:32.900 I didn't steal them or hack them,
00:05:35.340 nor were they leaked to me illegally.
00:05:37.480 They were actually just given to me
00:05:38.980 by Global Affairs Canada.
00:05:41.500 That's the official name of the Foreign Affairs Department.
00:05:44.020 You can see the entire document,
00:05:46.200 all the files for yourself,
00:05:48.440 at thechinafiles.com.
00:05:50.940 I'm making the whole thing available to you
00:05:53.160 and to any other reporters who want to report on this.
00:05:56.880 Something tells me Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster
00:05:59.740 is going to skip this one, don't you think?
00:06:02.500 The documents are not blacked out,
00:06:04.800 as most secret documents are.
00:06:06.660 Normally, you can't read the interesting parts,
00:06:09.000 but not these, they're all just slightly grayed out.
00:06:14.040 So you can still read them.
00:06:15.600 In fact, if you assume that what's grayed out
00:06:18.380 is the stuff they really don't want you to know,
00:06:20.560 it makes the reading even more revealing
00:06:22.640 because you see what they really think is sensitive.
00:06:25.480 Well, folks, it almost sounds like a preposterous fairy tale
00:06:28.960 or something plucked from the files of conspiracy culture.
00:06:32.000 Namely, did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
00:06:35.900 really invite China's People's Liberation Army
00:06:39.520 to send its troops for cold weather training
00:06:42.480 at CFB Petawawa in Ontario?
00:06:45.120 And did Trudeau really rage at the Canadian Armed Forces
00:06:49.000 for cancelling the training
00:06:50.940 after China kidnapped Canadian citizens
00:06:54.100 Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig?
00:06:57.340 Oh, you bet he did.
00:06:58.720 And please note, this tale is not one being fueled
00:07:02.660 by hearsay or rumor.
00:07:04.580 Rather, it is just one of several stunning bombshell revelations
00:07:09.060 found in our 34-page Access to Information document
00:07:12.680 released by the Trudeau government to Rebel News.
00:07:16.480 And so damning are the contents,
00:07:18.980 I'm betting the Trudeau Liberals right now
00:07:21.480 wish this document never got out.
00:07:24.440 And joining me now with more on what surely must be
00:07:27.440 his scoop of a lifetime at Rebel News
00:07:30.360 is the commander himself, Ezra Levin.
00:07:32.860 You know, Ezra, it sounds so unbelievable,
00:07:36.560 but then again, I keep thinking back to six years ago
00:07:39.180 when Justin Trudeau, just before he became Prime Minister,
00:07:42.760 remarked in Toronto that China is the basic kind of dictatorship
00:07:47.200 that he admires.
00:07:48.540 Yeah.
00:07:49.200 I mean, Trudeau makes these eruptions every once in a while.
00:07:52.120 You know, he says a gaffe, which, of course,
00:07:55.960 means he accidentally tells the truth.
00:07:58.500 And I think the grown-ups say, oh, he didn't really mean that
00:08:01.680 or that's just a little flourish or he got carried away.
00:08:04.700 But looking at these 34 pages, unredacted,
00:08:08.780 redacted is the fancy word of saying blacked out.
00:08:11.100 Normally you get a document, a secret document from the military.
00:08:15.500 It's blacked out.
00:08:16.520 And really there's very little useful that's shown
00:08:19.760 because all the good stuff is blacked out.
00:08:21.600 In this case, they only grayed it out,
00:08:23.740 almost like they were using a highlighter.
00:08:25.600 The reverse of blacking it out.
00:08:27.060 In fact, they sort of showed you what they thought
00:08:28.600 the interesting stuff was.
00:08:30.520 So that's how we got these 34 pages of information
00:08:33.980 from the military and foreign affairs.
00:08:36.580 And what they show is that this Trudeau insanity
00:08:42.880 of admiring China, China his favorite country,
00:08:47.120 appeasing China, submitting to China,
00:08:50.020 that's not just an affectation and it's not just him.
00:08:53.200 That ideology has permeated throughout not only the government,
00:08:57.860 but not only the elected and appointed officials,
00:09:00.960 but the permanent civil service.
00:09:03.380 The people you see in these documents,
00:09:05.560 and if folks want to read them for yourself,
00:09:07.200 we've put them up on the internet at thechinaphiles.com.
00:09:11.320 Go through them yourself.
00:09:12.880 These are lifetime, lifelong civil servants
00:09:15.940 who are saying, they're basically instructing the military,
00:09:20.140 don't cancel any more joint exercises with China.
00:09:23.200 If you talk to China about postponing or canceling anything,
00:09:27.000 you have to run it by us first.
00:09:29.100 When they wanted to cancel these winter warfare exercises,
00:09:34.600 Trudeau's bureaucrat said,
00:09:37.240 you have to work with us on the wording of that
00:09:40.440 so you don't hurt their feelings,
00:09:41.640 so they don't lose face.
00:09:43.260 So it's not just Trudeau at the top.
00:09:45.700 These aren't just some goofy eccentricity.
00:09:48.520 This has permeated throughout the entire government,
00:09:52.340 civil service, diplomatic corps,
00:09:54.920 and they're trying to force it on the military.
00:09:57.080 And you can imagine the idea of bringing six to eight Chinese spies, really.
00:10:03.080 Like, who do you think that China would send over?
00:10:05.060 Just some grunt, some GI?
00:10:07.460 Yeah.
00:10:07.700 China would be sending over six to eight spies,
00:10:10.420 I don't know, with photographic memory,
00:10:11.940 with intelligence training.
00:10:13.800 The idea that we would bring them to CFB Petawawa,
00:10:17.720 a very important military base,
00:10:19.640 and have them there on purpose.
00:10:23.540 And they don't even have to hide the fact
00:10:25.760 they're taking notes and taking pictures.
00:10:27.500 They are being trained on purpose.
00:10:30.140 They don't even have to be secretive about it.
00:10:32.320 That one was canceled.
00:10:33.480 That's what Trudeau was raging against the army about.
00:10:37.260 Even crazier, the 17 other exchanges
00:10:41.580 that have not been canceled.
00:10:43.860 In this 34-page document,
00:10:46.040 again, I encourage people to go to thechinafiles.com,
00:10:48.080 see it for yourself.
00:10:49.860 The last two pages are a list of joint
00:10:53.700 China-Canada military projects.
00:10:56.940 There are 18 of them.
00:10:59.220 Only one was canceled that we know about.
00:11:01.160 We are still training Chinese one- and two-star generals.
00:11:04.600 We are still training Chinese colonels.
00:11:07.940 We are sending our soldiers to China.
00:11:12.720 I don't know exactly what they're doing in China,
00:11:14.820 if they're teaching or learning,
00:11:16.500 but obviously they're being spied on.
00:11:18.940 They're being put in situations
00:11:20.360 where they could be compromised,
00:11:22.380 with a honey trap perhaps.
00:11:23.700 You've got young, single guys from Canada,
00:11:26.140 far away from home, lonely.
00:11:28.500 Oh, isn't there a lovely People's Liberation Army
00:11:31.920 co-ed cadet there who wants to go drinking with me,
00:11:35.660 and before you know it,
00:11:36.520 you're trapped in a honey trap,
00:11:38.300 as they say in the spycraft trade.
00:11:41.440 So all of this is a bad idea.
00:11:45.060 We know that there is a common sense
00:11:48.140 to having some lines of communication
00:11:49.820 open with your enemy.
00:11:51.100 We know that during the Cold War,
00:11:52.620 there was the hotline between Moscow and Washington,
00:11:56.040 sort of that red phone
00:11:57.260 where the American president
00:11:59.360 could talk directly to the Russian dictator
00:12:01.960 just to make sure there was no miscommunication.
00:12:05.300 That was an important...
00:12:06.060 I believe in that.
00:12:07.720 I believe that people should know
00:12:10.240 who the other side is
00:12:11.200 just so there's no miscommunication.
00:12:12.980 That's very wise.
00:12:14.860 But why are we training Chinese troops
00:12:16.900 in winter warfare tactics?
00:12:19.700 There's nothing de-escalating there.
00:12:22.800 That gives away our knowledge
00:12:25.580 that will be used only for bad purposes.
00:12:29.360 If not to attack us, God forbid,
00:12:31.840 or the Americans, God forbid,
00:12:33.600 to attack India.
00:12:34.640 They're fighting India in the Himalayas right now.
00:12:36.760 To attack the Tibetans in Tibet,
00:12:39.240 the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
00:12:41.520 Why on earth would we give this knowledge,
00:12:44.320 this training to Chinese spies on purpose?
00:12:47.580 And when the chief of defense staff said
00:12:48.940 we've got to cancel this,
00:12:49.760 oh my God, did Trudeau and the whole government say,
00:12:53.240 how dare you?
00:12:54.360 You're not allowed to make those decisions.
00:12:56.180 Any degrading of relationships,
00:12:58.360 you must run by us first.
00:13:00.920 You can't let the Chinese lose face.
00:13:03.160 It's unbelievable.
00:13:03.880 And this is, of course,
00:13:04.760 while the two Michaels are still in captivity.
00:13:06.940 And of course, we have to look to our greatest ally,
00:13:10.220 our biggest trading partner,
00:13:11.660 namely the United States of America, Ezra.
00:13:13.760 I can't imagine this was going down well
00:13:17.440 at the Department of Defense there.
00:13:19.840 Well, that's right.
00:13:21.340 And in fact, that is made reference to in these notes
00:13:23.840 because the Trudeau side is demanding from the military,
00:13:29.540 why did you cancel this?
00:13:31.000 What's your justification?
00:13:33.020 And so you can see the back and forth.
00:13:35.080 It said, well, there's the knowledge transfer
00:13:36.740 and it's making our allies nervous.
00:13:39.680 So then the Trudeau side said, well, who was it?
00:13:42.180 Was it just the United States and the Trump administration?
00:13:45.000 Or was it our other Five Eyes allies?
00:13:48.540 Five Eyes is what they call sort of like the best friends of the allies.
00:13:54.540 It's the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
00:13:58.060 The Five Eyes, that's sort of like our closest allies,
00:14:00.340 even closer than France or Germany or Italy.
00:14:03.040 It's like an inner sanctum.
00:14:05.680 So we share things amongst the Five Eyes.
00:14:08.100 And Trudeau was saying, I demand to know.
00:14:11.920 Who was it who objected?
00:14:14.340 Was it just the Trump administration or other?
00:14:16.660 So there's an undertone there of whatever Trump wants, do the opposite,
00:14:21.400 unless the Aussies or the Kiwis or the Brits want it too.
00:14:24.640 So lots of pro-China ideology, a fair helping of anti-American ideology.
00:14:31.020 Like they specifically demand, was this the Americans?
00:14:34.940 Like they almost say, who made you cancel this?
00:14:37.500 And there's one more thing that I just want to note.
00:14:40.600 I read these 34 pages pretty carefully.
00:14:43.160 And the official language used by Global Affairs Canada,
00:14:47.140 that's the foreign department,
00:14:49.600 when they would talk about the problems we have with China,
00:14:52.640 remember how it started.
00:14:53.660 Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou,
00:14:56.440 the billionaire chief financial officer of Huawei,
00:15:00.760 when she was transiting through Vancouver
00:15:02.820 and were in the process of extraditing her to the United States.
00:15:07.420 So that led to almost immediate hostage-taking by China of two Canadians,
00:15:13.680 Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.
00:15:15.040 In fact, I think today's the two-year anniversary of that,
00:15:17.100 or maybe yesterday was.
00:15:19.780 So that's the backdrop here.
00:15:21.380 But the two Michaels aren't being held in a mansion.
00:15:24.300 No, no.
00:15:25.540 Yeah, and they're not being held in a lawful way.
00:15:28.520 And there's a big difference between due process in a democracy like Canada
00:15:33.160 and hostage-taking and kidnapping in China.
00:15:35.540 What I'm saying is how these bureaucrats describe it.
00:15:38.680 They say, Miss Meng Wanzhou, Miss Meng, always very polite,
00:15:43.340 and Miss Meng this and Miss Meng that.
00:15:45.500 But they won't even use the names, Michael Kovrig or Michael Spavor.
00:15:48.920 They say the two consular cases.
00:15:51.240 You won't even say they're in jail.
00:15:53.500 You won't even say they were kidnapped or hostage.
00:15:55.860 You won't even say their names.
00:15:57.980 You say, Miss Meng Wanzhou and the two consular cases.
00:16:03.160 What is your problem?
00:16:04.500 What is your malfunction?
00:16:06.080 You won't even say their names.
00:16:07.800 And you claim that their repatriation is your top priority,
00:16:11.280 and you can't even say their names?
00:16:13.400 Are we talking to China's civil service here or Canada's?
00:16:17.660 It's astonishing, Ezra, and I want to go back to the documents themselves
00:16:21.140 because I personally find this interesting from a journalistic perspective.
00:16:25.820 We do all kinds of freedom of information requests.
00:16:28.740 Sometimes you get pages.
00:16:29.940 I'm not kidding, folks.
00:16:30.780 The entire page is black, right?
00:16:34.320 These are grayed out.
00:16:36.140 So I'm just wondering, was this incompetence on behalf of the bureaucrats sending it to us?
00:16:41.320 Was this a working copy that was meant to be blacked out later?
00:16:44.160 Or was there somebody on the other side, Ezra, that was doing us a favor?
00:16:47.780 Because this was a gift.
00:16:49.380 We finally got to see in an uncensored fashion how this case,
00:16:54.500 how this project of having Chinese troops come to Canada was being entertained.
00:17:00.400 What are your thoughts on that?
00:17:01.660 Well, I have two friends who used to work in the government of Canada
00:17:06.620 who would handle access to information documents.
00:17:09.620 They think this was an error.
00:17:11.060 I have another friend who is familiar with diplomatic matters.
00:17:18.000 He says it was possibly a deliberate leak of information,
00:17:23.580 someone on the inside who was upset.
00:17:25.620 I tend to think it was just a mistake.
00:17:27.840 Okay.
00:17:29.780 And because it's clear that this was a work in progress,
00:17:34.360 they were sort of circulating this access to information,
00:17:37.220 and everyone was, like, they would send it to this person.
00:17:39.480 He would black out these.
00:17:40.860 They would send it.
00:17:41.360 So it was sort of the work in progress where everyone,
00:17:44.540 they probably sent this around to five different officials.
00:17:47.400 Everyone was showing, well, I would black out this.
00:17:49.660 I would black out that.
00:17:50.760 Because you could see the different layers of being blacked out.
00:17:53.500 And so it was probably supposed to go back to a final person
00:17:56.600 who would flip the switch on all these things,
00:17:58.900 and it missed that last step.
00:18:00.280 I'm guessing, because I've never worked inside Access Information myself,
00:18:03.440 we file literally thousands of access to information requests.
00:18:07.300 It's a full-time project for us.
00:18:08.880 We get back, as you say, very little of use.
00:18:12.780 They're almost always blacked out.
00:18:14.320 They are always delayed.
00:18:16.120 We have waited as much as three years for a basic document.
00:18:19.800 Jeez.
00:18:20.140 But you know what?
00:18:22.020 We finally got one that mattered,
00:18:23.540 and hopefully will change the course of Canada-China relations.
00:18:27.520 Justin Trudeau has been exposed as someone who defends China,
00:18:31.900 abuses America, and literally wanted to train our enemies.
00:18:35.600 Ezra, it's the story of the year, as far as I'm concerned.
00:18:38.560 I mean, what an incredible piece you did.
00:18:40.960 And, you know, folks, if you want to see more,
00:18:42.560 please go to thechinaphiles.com.
00:18:45.440 And, hey, Prime Minister Trudeau, I just have a question for you.
00:18:47.580 As Ezra said, you're accommodating China,
00:18:50.260 but flipping the metaphorical bird to the United States of America.
00:18:55.000 Whose side are you on?
00:18:56.660 Keep it here.
00:18:57.500 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:19:04.620 Jake, you have received a nearly $1,300 COVID fine
00:19:10.520 because you were singing carols in a park and Christian hymns.
00:19:17.580 You sent me the footage,
00:19:19.400 and it looks like everybody is standing apart from each other.
00:19:23.700 It looks like it's families, and then there's space,
00:19:26.040 and then more families.
00:19:28.060 But there's more to the story.
00:19:30.580 Initially, you tried to go to a first park,
00:19:33.860 but the police had the park blocked off.
00:19:36.400 This is crazy to me.
00:19:37.420 Yeah, like we had planned this like four days prior to that.
00:19:44.440 And so they, I guess, over Facebook or somehow they heard about it.
00:19:49.780 And so they, the day before in the evening,
00:19:53.680 we checked if the park was blocked off, and it wasn't.
00:19:56.380 And the morning we drove up there, they had barricaded the parking lot,
00:20:02.700 and there was a cop waiting outside, just parked on the side of the road there,
00:20:07.840 waiting to see.
00:20:09.100 One of the guys stopped and talked to him for a while
00:20:13.080 and said whoever was going to get a fine if we went in there.
00:20:18.980 So we just decided to go to the other park where we had originally planned it,
00:20:23.340 but there was no parking there, so everybody had to park on the street.
00:20:26.440 Now, this happened on a Sunday, because another thing that seems absolutely crazy to me,
00:20:34.720 church services are closed in Manitoba.
00:20:36.980 So if you want to go and worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ,
00:20:42.700 you, I guess, have to do it standing in a park six feet apart.
00:20:46.040 But even that's not allowed, because as it turns out,
00:20:50.480 Monday morning, very next day, the police show up at your door.
00:20:54.520 Am I right?
00:20:54.880 Yeah, well, they called and they told me to come down to the office.
00:21:02.000 And so what happens when you get there with the police?
00:21:07.360 They had me sit down and wait for a bit, and then they told me to come in,
00:21:13.380 and then they said that it wasn't their job to hand out these tickets,
00:21:17.740 but because I forget what group they said that was supposed to be handling that,
00:21:24.260 they were way overwhelmed, so they were given the task to do this.
00:21:29.520 Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
00:21:33.840 Well, not really, at least not so much in the People's Democratic Republic of Manitoba.
00:21:39.580 That's because Mad King Brian Pallister, a.k.a. Manitoba's conservative-in-name-only premier,
00:21:47.960 has imposed strict lockdown measures on his entire province,
00:21:52.240 including the closure of anything he deems to be non-essential,
00:21:58.360 like singing Christmas carols outdoors.
00:22:02.200 And according to Pallister, you're an idiot if you disagree with his lockdown edicts.
00:22:09.720 And joining me now to discuss this recent bout of Premier Pallister's War on Fun,
00:22:15.580 the Yuletide edition, is Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:22:18.700 How you doing, Sheila?
00:22:20.020 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on the show.
00:22:22.020 Always a pleasure.
00:22:22.760 So, Sheila, just when you thought the Grinch had a monopoly on the Christmastime bah humbug business,
00:22:30.680 along comes Mr. Pallister.
00:22:32.620 What do you make of his maddening, and I would suggest useless, edicts?
00:22:39.760 They don't make any sense whatsoever.
00:22:43.880 With the gentleman that I've been helping, Jake Clawson,
00:22:47.260 and as it turns out, Jake's not the only one that was fined that day.
00:22:50.940 I've been manning the Manitoba Singing in a Park hotline in my little studio here,
00:22:57.160 night after night after night,
00:22:59.320 because Pallister has deployed the long arm of the law on these folks
00:23:06.460 that are simply just singing in a park.
00:23:10.660 It's a park, so they're outside.
00:23:13.120 Everybody has come separately in their vehicles.
00:23:16.300 They stay with the people that they came separately with.
00:23:19.080 So, it's perfectly safe for them to all travel together in a car,
00:23:24.460 maybe even sing in a car together,
00:23:26.600 maybe even sing a Christmas carol in a car together.
00:23:29.180 But the second they get out of the car
00:23:31.020 and stand at least six feet away from other people in a public park,
00:23:36.260 that apparently is a ticketable offense in Manitoba.
00:23:39.140 $1,300 to these folks just before Christmas.
00:23:45.360 Last night, David, I got off the phone with someone
00:23:48.480 whose elderly parents and their elderly friend,
00:23:53.520 they were issued $3,900 in fines for singing in a park.
00:24:00.400 They're law-abiding people.
00:24:02.020 They're immigrants to Canada.
00:24:03.520 They've never been in trouble before.
00:24:05.940 They don't want to make trouble.
00:24:07.780 They just want to stand together and worship God with their friends.
00:24:12.840 And apparently, no matter how you try to do it,
00:24:16.580 that's illegal in Pallister's Manitoba.
00:24:18.900 You know, Sheila, here's what I don't understand,
00:24:21.220 whether it's Premier Pallister in Manitoba
00:24:23.520 or Premier Ford in Ontario.
00:24:26.540 The narrative is, you know, if I had my way,
00:24:29.660 I'd open up the entire economy, I'm pro-business,
00:24:33.260 I'm pro-entrepreneur, I'm pro-jobs, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:24:36.340 But as always, Sheila, as you know,
00:24:38.740 they say we are beholden to the scientific advice.
00:24:43.360 We are beholden to the medical advice.
00:24:46.240 Sheila, how can it be that you're outdoors?
00:24:50.860 That's the very definition of super ventilation.
00:24:54.800 It's the wind.
00:24:55.540 You're outdoors.
00:24:56.160 You're spaced apart several meters.
00:25:00.460 And that's a potential coronavirus hotspot,
00:25:04.800 yet hermetically sealed Costco's and Walmarts
00:25:07.960 where they're jamming the people into the gills.
00:25:10.780 That's okay.
00:25:12.100 No safety issue here.
00:25:14.260 What happened to the medical and scientific advice
00:25:17.100 for the big box stores?
00:25:19.120 David, it feels as though we're living in not a dictatorship,
00:25:22.860 but a doctatorship, in that these medical officers of health,
00:25:28.920 whose name we didn't know a year ago,
00:25:31.680 now they are the people controlling absolutely every aspect of our lives,
00:25:35.940 and most of it, as you point out, is completely nonsensical.
00:25:39.720 None of it makes any sense.
00:25:41.120 None of it applies.
00:25:42.200 For example, with the folks in Manitoba,
00:25:47.040 at one of the churches there that Kian has covered,
00:25:51.440 they couldn't at the time.
00:25:53.540 Now, it's changed, I think, largely in part due to Kian's footage.
00:25:57.740 I mean, sunlight truly is the best disinfectant
00:26:00.740 when you have the disease of government overreach.
00:26:03.740 But they couldn't even have a socially distant church service
00:26:11.500 from their vehicles in a parking lot.
00:26:15.080 They were broadcasting the way that they would broadcast,
00:26:18.340 you know, like a drive-in movie.
00:26:19.600 Everybody tunes into the same radio frequency,
00:26:22.860 and then they listen to the church service over their radio.
00:26:26.440 And it was a way for them to gather as a faith community,
00:26:30.680 however, in a parking lot.
00:26:32.760 That had the cops show up, the RCMP showed up,
00:26:37.160 issuing tickets to the pastor.
00:26:38.780 But you could go to a completely full Walmart parking lot.
00:26:43.780 That's fine.
00:26:45.660 Crammed Walmart parking lot, by the way.
00:26:47.640 I mean, it's the Christmas season.
00:26:49.240 That's perfectly safe.
00:26:51.180 You can get out of your car, walk into the Walmart,
00:26:54.900 perfectly safe.
00:26:55.960 You could probably, I don't know if they sell them there,
00:26:58.180 but you could probably even buy a Bible in a Walmart,
00:27:01.800 but you couldn't go and sit in your car and read one
00:27:04.420 along with the broadcast on the radio.
00:27:06.620 Oh, it's crazy.
00:27:07.600 And by the way, I'm so glad, Sheila,
00:27:09.460 that you referenced our colleague Kian's superb reports
00:27:13.120 from Manitoba, where he showed the insanity
00:27:16.660 of going into some of the big box stores like Walmart there.
00:27:21.160 Here's my question.
00:27:21.980 Why did it take Kian and our great cameraman, Mocha,
00:27:26.160 to fly in there on a special mission to expose this?
00:27:29.600 Where was the local Manitoba mainstream media
00:27:33.120 for dishing up these kind of exposés?
00:27:36.700 It's like they decided to sit this out.
00:27:39.320 Why?
00:27:41.120 There's probably just one other journalist in Manitoba
00:27:45.280 who is grinding against these lockdowns,
00:27:48.080 and it's Marty Gold from the J.ca.
00:27:49.760 He's pointed out that they've locked down Christmas.
00:27:52.920 They've locked down Hanukkah now.
00:27:54.800 He's the only one.
00:27:55.660 He's an independent journalist there.
00:27:58.460 But yeah, we had to fly in Kian.
00:28:01.240 And I think the journalists, by and large,
00:28:04.120 in Manitoba, and I think to some extent in Ontario,
00:28:07.800 I mean, you have a bigger media landscape in Ontario,
00:28:10.780 so you do have some outliers like Joe Warmington.
00:28:16.200 But in our provinces, the media...
00:28:19.760 They seem to be cheering for further lockdowns.
00:28:23.440 So they aren't skeptical of all of this.
00:28:26.400 For them, it makes perfect sense.
00:28:28.140 They look at a Walmart that is, you know,
00:28:30.980 that has Christmas roped off,
00:28:32.520 and they wonder,
00:28:33.700 why don't you have housewares roped off too?
00:28:36.320 They want to see more things penned off
00:28:38.420 and more people piled into less square footage.
00:28:41.660 And for them, that makes perfect sense
00:28:43.520 because they don't care about the business impact
00:28:47.180 on all of this.
00:28:48.380 They're just selling fear porn every day
00:28:53.000 in the pages of their newspapers
00:28:54.700 that nobody reads anyway.
00:28:56.740 You know, and Sheila, one last question before we wrap up.
00:28:59.880 I think you're right.
00:29:00.760 I think the media party has turned into the media mob
00:29:03.660 egging on the authorities and the governments
00:29:06.240 to increase the lockdowns.
00:29:07.980 Heck, it doesn't affect them.
00:29:09.020 They're gainfully employed thanks to our tax dollars
00:29:11.680 for a large part.
00:29:13.540 And we saw a couple of weeks ago in Toronto
00:29:15.520 what happened to Adam Skelly
00:29:17.340 and the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion.
00:29:20.320 It was squashed.
00:29:22.200 And, you know, with the exception,
00:29:25.080 like you said, of our friend Joe Warmington
00:29:26.900 at the Toronto Sun,
00:29:28.200 the media mob was cheering and egging on the government.
00:29:31.400 So the government is going that route
00:29:34.060 and the bureaucrats and the Department of Health
00:29:36.400 and the media.
00:29:37.460 Here's my last question.
00:29:38.980 For the people of Manitoba,
00:29:40.600 if you were to survey them,
00:29:42.140 have a poll and say thumbs up
00:29:45.560 or thumbs down on these lockdowns,
00:29:47.980 how do you think the individual people
00:29:50.100 in Manitoba would vote on Pallister's crusade?
00:29:54.480 I think the longer it goes on
00:29:56.220 and the fewer results they see,
00:29:58.480 more people are getting off the death cult gravy train.
00:30:02.400 It's like any death cult, right?
00:30:04.500 If the comet doesn't come and you don't get on it,
00:30:07.840 you start to get off.
00:30:10.120 You start to leave the cult.
00:30:12.240 And the longer Manitoba's lockdown goes on,
00:30:14.980 the longer Ontario's lockdown goes on,
00:30:17.140 and yet they don't see the promised results
00:30:19.780 of the lockdown,
00:30:22.220 people are less inclined to go along
00:30:25.220 with the sacrifices.
00:30:27.620 And that's what's happening here.
00:30:30.440 Businesses and futures and livelihoods
00:30:33.760 and personal accumulated wealth,
00:30:35.680 it's being sacrificed on the altar
00:30:37.740 of the public health bureaucracy.
00:30:40.160 And people, I mean,
00:30:42.160 there are always healthy skeptics
00:30:43.900 of these sorts of things,
00:30:45.240 people who don't consume the mainstream media,
00:30:47.380 but even those who do.
00:30:49.560 Eventually, there's going to be a reckoning.
00:30:52.060 They're not going to see the promised results.
00:30:53.840 And hopefully, hopefully,
00:30:57.460 these politicians face some consequences
00:30:59.820 for what they've done.
00:31:00.760 Oh, I totally agree, Sheila.
00:31:02.580 And in terms of results,
00:31:04.180 there are no positive results
00:31:05.700 unless you include misery as being a result.
00:31:10.080 And by the way, Mr. Pallister, Mr. Ford,
00:31:12.360 none other than the World Health Organization
00:31:14.340 says going the lockdown route
00:31:16.940 is not the way to curb this virus.
00:31:19.420 So who are you getting your advice from?
00:31:21.420 Great report as always, Sheila.
00:31:23.260 Thanks for weighing in.
00:31:24.820 Thanks, David.
00:31:25.580 Have a great weekend.
00:31:26.420 You too, my friend.
00:31:27.220 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:31:29.380 somewhere in the hinterland of Northern Alberta.
00:31:33.140 Keep it here.
00:31:33.780 More of Rebel Roundup coming up right after this.
00:31:41.380 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto.
00:31:44.840 Well, folks, I'm standing in front of Express Fitness,
00:31:48.160 the Scarborough location.
00:31:50.020 And it was funny, when Adam Skelly,
00:31:54.580 the owner of Adamson Barbecue,
00:31:57.100 was shut down on that very same day,
00:32:01.100 Express Fitness was opened in Scarborough.
00:32:04.760 And much like what Adam experienced,
00:32:08.480 the owner of Express Fitness, Alex,
00:32:11.460 well, law enforcement, bylaw,
00:32:14.560 they were dispatched very quickly.
00:32:17.100 He was immediately shut down.
00:32:20.160 And now the gym is padlocked shut.
00:32:23.540 Actually, it's chain shut, if you can believe it.
00:32:26.880 And so here we are with a group of people
00:32:29.400 that are opposed to the lockdowns.
00:32:33.780 And they are having a demonstration
00:32:35.780 in front of Express Fitness.
00:32:38.960 It's very odd, though.
00:32:40.940 Everywhere you look,
00:32:42.020 there are police cruisers, police SUVs.
00:32:47.080 There's even parking enforcement here.
00:32:49.840 I don't know why.
00:32:51.240 But no one's going in the gym.
00:32:54.000 They can't get into the gym.
00:32:55.380 So we're just curious,
00:32:57.060 as this protest proceeds,
00:32:59.480 are they here to write up tickets, perhaps,
00:33:02.880 for those in an outdoor gathering of more than 10?
00:33:07.080 So we'll see what happens.
00:33:08.300 And in the meantime,
00:33:09.240 I'm going to wander into the crowd
00:33:10.880 and just find out what it is
00:33:13.040 that's bringing people out here today.
00:33:15.440 We're actually here to do the police's job for them.
00:33:17.380 As you may or may not know,
00:33:18.660 police in this province, at the very least,
00:33:20.360 I think the whole country,
00:33:21.200 but definitely in this province,
00:33:22.440 in their oath,
00:33:23.040 it says that they're sworn to uphold the Constitution.
00:33:26.840 And the very first part of the Constitution,
00:33:28.260 as you know,
00:33:28.600 is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:33:29.920 So that's what we're here about.
00:33:31.860 This place is shut down for your health.
00:33:34.480 You know,
00:33:35.300 you're supposed to be able to go to it,
00:33:37.120 work out,
00:33:38.360 and that's, you know,
00:33:39.180 that helps your immune system, right?
00:33:41.120 It's supposed to help your immune system
00:33:42.360 to fight off the virus.
00:33:44.760 And they're shutting it down.
00:33:46.080 Why?
00:33:47.660 Where's the evidence?
00:33:49.180 Well, folks, this is incredible.
00:33:50.600 We were tipped off by one of the demonstrators
00:33:52.800 that the mounted unit was on standby.
00:33:56.020 I didn't believe it at first
00:33:58.200 because the gym is completely closed down.
00:34:01.840 You can't get into it, even if you wanted to.
00:34:04.740 So where is the issue here?
00:34:07.780 Where would the lawbreaking be
00:34:10.420 unless they're going to clamp down
00:34:12.200 on peaceful protesters?
00:34:13.940 But lo and behold,
00:34:15.740 here we are on a side street next to the gym,
00:34:19.500 and two units of the mounted unit
00:34:23.840 are indeed on standby.
00:34:25.460 I'm almost at a loss for words.
00:34:29.580 John Tory and Dr. Ellen Davila
00:34:32.060 are truly doubling down,
00:34:35.620 tripling down,
00:34:36.760 sending a message to any business,
00:34:38.960 and for that matter,
00:34:39.900 any group of protesters,
00:34:41.800 that if you cross any perceived line,
00:34:44.900 you are going to be dealt with
00:34:46.480 and dealt with harshly.
00:34:47.960 This is an outrageous overreach,
00:34:51.880 I think,
00:34:52.880 by the police,
00:34:55.220 which, of course,
00:34:55.860 are being directed,
00:34:57.200 I believe,
00:34:58.080 by Davila and Tory.
00:35:00.060 Shameful.
00:35:01.080 Well, that was the scene last Saturday
00:35:02.660 at Express Fitness
00:35:03.620 in East End, Toronto.
00:35:05.440 The gym is shuttered now
00:35:06.720 after the owner tried to follow
00:35:08.980 in the footsteps of Adam Skelly,
00:35:11.340 the father of the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion.
00:35:14.320 But much like Adamson Barbecue,
00:35:16.780 Express Fitness was also shut down
00:35:19.280 for noncompliance
00:35:20.780 with the Wuhan virus regulations.
00:35:23.520 And Mayor Tory's hog town,
00:35:25.480 if you want to barbecue,
00:35:27.640 if you want barbecued grub,
00:35:29.520 or buy brisket,
00:35:31.020 or break a sweat,
00:35:32.400 you best get yourself
00:35:33.700 to a Walmart
00:35:34.840 or a Costco
00:35:35.960 to buy your meat there
00:35:37.840 or purchase a treadmill
00:35:39.160 because, you see,
00:35:40.620 the big box stores,
00:35:41.860 well, folks,
00:35:42.700 they're special.
00:35:44.460 In any event,
00:35:45.200 here's what you had to say
00:35:46.460 about the ongoing clampdowns
00:35:48.420 that don't seem to be doing
00:35:50.360 anything tangible
00:35:52.300 other than causing people
00:35:54.460 a whole lot of grief.
00:35:57.320 Mike Sharkey writes,
00:35:58.500 so Toronto is completely crime-free now.
00:36:00.900 All the criminals have been tracked down
00:36:03.860 and locked up.
00:36:04.960 The cops have nothing better
00:36:06.520 to do with their time?
00:36:07.900 Yeah, it sure seems that way, Mark,
00:36:09.780 but I bet you
00:36:11.200 the vast majority of the cops
00:36:13.080 hate these kinds of assignments.
00:36:16.040 Imagine finding and arresting people
00:36:18.660 just for trying to make a living.
00:36:20.920 But if you have to blame anyone,
00:36:23.700 blame the mayor
00:36:24.380 and Premier Doug Ford.
00:36:26.260 They're the ones behind
00:36:27.580 making life miserable
00:36:28.980 for so many people
00:36:30.620 in the GTA.
00:36:32.520 Dale McCluskey writes,
00:36:34.260 the mounted unit is there
00:36:35.480 to make certain
00:36:36.280 your rights are trampled
00:36:37.740 into the ground.
00:36:39.000 You know,
00:36:39.380 that's what happened
00:36:40.260 at Adamson Barbecue
00:36:41.400 two weeks ago.
00:36:42.800 Thankfully,
00:36:43.420 the horses weren't deployed
00:36:45.020 to break up
00:36:45.680 the express fitness protest,
00:36:47.660 but why were they there
00:36:49.500 in the first place?
00:36:52.440 XSupra35 writes,
00:36:53.880 all businesses,
00:36:54.900 open your doors now.
00:36:56.100 You are essential
00:36:57.380 and we need you now
00:36:58.960 more than ever.
00:37:00.580 I'd love to see that happen too,
00:37:02.660 XSupra.
00:37:03.740 If hundreds or even dozens
00:37:05.860 of businesses opened up
00:37:07.460 at the same time,
00:37:09.220 what could be done about that?
00:37:10.480 They can't lock down
00:37:12.060 every business
00:37:12.860 and imprison
00:37:13.540 every business person.
00:37:15.760 But for the time being,
00:37:17.060 it looks like
00:37:17.740 Mayor Tory's
00:37:18.520 intimidation tactics
00:37:19.660 are working.
00:37:21.740 And Mike Mills writes,
00:37:23.800 where is Sneaky Patrick?
00:37:25.560 Oh,
00:37:26.380 as in Sneaky Patrick Brown,
00:37:29.400 that lying liar
00:37:30.760 who is the mayor
00:37:31.560 of Brampton?
00:37:32.760 I have no idea,
00:37:33.860 Mike,
00:37:34.120 but if I were a betting man,
00:37:35.960 and I am,
00:37:36.740 I'd say he's playing hockey
00:37:38.680 with his buddies
00:37:39.540 at some rink.
00:37:40.920 Because remember,
00:37:41.740 folks,
00:37:42.140 one thing this pandemic
00:37:43.400 has taught us
00:37:44.240 is that it is
00:37:45.500 one law for me
00:37:46.580 and one law for thee.
00:37:48.700 Well,
00:37:49.300 that wraps up
00:37:50.040 another edition
00:37:50.680 of Rebel Roundup.
00:37:51.680 Thanks so much
00:37:52.340 for joining us.
00:37:53.160 See you next week.
00:37:54.020 And hey, folks,
00:37:54.920 never forget,
00:37:55.980 without risk,
00:37:56.940 there can be no glory.
00:37:58.340 Good night.
00:37:58.800 And hey, folks,
00:38:02.520 I've been billing
00:38:03.040 a november or something
00:38:03.920 for you.
00:38:04.260 Bye.
00:38:04.600 Bye.
00:38:18.660 Bye.
00:38:19.720 Bye.
00:38:20.940 Bye.
00:38:21.580 Bye.
00:38:22.000 Bye.
00:38:22.660 Bye.
00:38:26.660 Bye.
00:38:27.720 Bye.
00:38:27.740 Bye.