Rebel News Daily's Alexa Lavoie and Sheila Gunn-Rita join host Sheila Gynning and host Alex Vellian to talk about the first Canadian election debate, Ezra Levant's comments on the debate, and Ezra s reaction to it.
00:06:43.800There are people that they could have asked to come do this besides Rebel News.
00:06:50.580There are people, even if the party was interested in flying somebody in, bring in Rex Murphy, right?
00:06:57.360Or Conrad Black or somebody like that.
00:07:00.680But no, they fly in somebody who is paid by the Liberal government to select people to go on the CBC board to ask questions that he thinks Alberta conservatives want answers to.
00:09:40.160I don't know if I say an insult or something like that.
00:09:44.160But the fact that they did an ovation at the beginning for this journalist, that he was supposed to be one of the biggest and one of the most known for his question and for his job, his career.
00:10:01.080And I result with this kind of question.
00:11:30.660Yeah, it felt like it didn't even feel like a job interview because it felt like if this were a job interview, the questions would actually be relevant to the job that they were applying for.
00:11:43.360And in this case, they're applying for the job of prime minister at the end of the day.
00:11:50.480Like, what is the favorite color of the person who's running to be prime minister?
00:11:55.800And there were a few people who after there were a few people who after the debate were I think they maybe had had a few drinks, as you tend to do with these sorts of things.
00:12:09.120But more people were like, it was terrible.
00:12:13.540I ran into Pierre Polyev's uncle and brother, who I immediately recognized, even though they were like, oh, you know, like, we're in the bed.
00:14:23.580And it was actually something that he said that he was learning from all the people get a dictator and tyranny and some path that he wants to avoid and put it back from Canada.
00:14:39.720This is actually a pretty bright answer.
00:15:50.940And it was very insulting not only to, you know, conservative supporters, but also the people who have worked very hard to be conservative journalists and build a brand for themselves here in Alberta.
00:16:07.960You can send a bit of a cheeky message to the organizers of the conservative party debates that what we saw last night was an absolute disgrace.
00:16:17.520It was everything we expected from Tom Clark, but it was sort of not expected from the conservative party.
00:16:31.620Our petition reads of the conservative party leadership debate in Edmonton.
00:16:35.300They should know better than to hire a pro-liberal moderator.
00:16:38.920Please sign our petition to make this a one-time occurrence.
00:16:45.060Yeah, I, you know, I have those times where you go to get your nails done or whatever and the view is on TV and you're trapped and you're feeling like, what am I going to do listening to this for the next hour?
00:16:58.220That's how I felt last night stuck in the room listening to Tom Clark, just getting stupider the whole time.
00:17:02.440But I swear, I think the French debate should be more interesting because I don't know yet which journalist would be the moderator, but most of the time they bring pretty important topic on the situation.
00:17:30.720You're going to do a great job, though.
00:17:32.140You're going to do a wonderful job covering that for us.
00:17:34.360And I know you're going to ask tough questions and you're not going to take no for an answer or I won't answer for an answer from the likes of Jean Charest.
00:18:18.140That's, you know, you could easily say, yeah, I guess when I was working for them, I didn't realize that they were part and parcel of enforcing the social credit system.
00:18:28.280If I had known that, I would not have worked for him.
00:18:50.220And our team, I think our team, our little tiny team of four journalists, we've got six questions to the candidates, which I think was great.
00:18:59.880I think it was more than anybody else.
00:19:01.960We asked a bunch of questions that conservatives, I think, want answers to.
00:19:05.540Celine, who's an intern and who joined us during our convoy coverage.
00:19:11.280She asked the first question out of the media scrum on gun rights, which I thought was great.
00:19:23.600The Liberals have imposed a backdoor gun registry through an order in council which changes regulations to require retailers and sellers to collect data on purchasers.
00:19:39.020Canada has among the most regulated firearms industry in the world.
00:19:42.720The problem that we have in this country is the issue of illegal guns coming across our border and getting into the hands of gangs.
00:19:50.460That's a much difficult challenge to deal with.
00:19:53.780And you see the Liberals time and again using firearms and legal law-abiding firearms owners in this country as a whipping tool to try to lather up their base and generate votes while not dealing with the real issues.
00:20:07.160Because it's the wrong approach for Canada.
00:20:10.660What we need to do is address the real problem, not demonize law-abiding firearms owners.
00:20:40.800Well, and it's interesting because I think this sort of brings us to some other news.
00:20:45.700Although maybe I'm not sure if we need to be done talking to the debate quite yet.
00:20:49.660But one of those ways that the guns get into the country are through Canada's completely porous open border.
00:20:56.220And I think Quebec is acknowledging that this is a problem.
00:21:01.260And they've asked for Roxham Road to be closed because the province can't handle this influx of refugees.
00:21:10.100Spawned by Justin Trudeau's, I think it was 2017, welcome to Canada tweet.
00:21:15.360He was sort of virtue signaling because Trump cracked down on illegal immigration and issued a travel ban from six failed states where you couldn't confirm anybody's identities.
00:21:25.620And the mainstream media called this a Muslim ban.
00:21:31.140And so you've done some great reporting on this.
00:21:33.460Just how easy it is to get a person into the country.
00:21:37.100So it's pretty easy to get an illegal firearm into the country.
00:21:41.180And that is where the majority of our gang related firearms crimes are being facilitated.
00:21:48.080Yeah, so most so it happened yesterday.
00:21:53.600They did talk about Roxham Road most of the day and especially at the National Assembly.
00:21:59.460Mr. Legault went out to say that now the increase to almost 100 illegal immigrants per day.
00:22:08.920And that's mean that we will reach about 36,000 illegal immigrants at the end of the year.
00:22:15.900And so Quebec cannot afford with the social like the welfare and especially with the health system and especially for the lodging because now the lodging is almost at the top capacity for them.
00:22:38.800And it costs a lot for Quebec because they enter in our province, of course, for the lodging and for some other thing, the federal is paying for.
00:22:51.100But a big part of it is Quebec and Quebec cannot follow up with their mental health issue and some health pain issue.
00:23:01.760Some of them need to have support to like it's not everybody who are ready to.
00:23:06.440OK, I'm in a new country. I can find a place to stay and find a job to to to to stay to.
00:23:15.220And I was talking with some of them yesterday as well.
00:23:19.140Some of the people were hanging out in the park and what they were saying is like the first trial that they receive is not because they've been arrested.
00:23:29.100The first trial for their brown card for having the residency for four years.
00:23:36.340And one of them say that I would be hurt in four years.
00:23:42.160And so what Legault was explaining is like the federal take too much time to receive them and heard their story that they just see after more than a year.
00:23:55.480They say that usually it's minimum 14 months to herd one of these seekers of asylum.
00:24:04.120And they realize afterwards that they were not running away from their country or they were not seeking asylum from their country for because of the word or danger.
00:24:15.540They were just going in the country because they say that Canada was safe and good living.
00:26:30.540Now, I want to move to something else that's happening in Quebec.
00:26:36.220If people want us to continue talking about the debate, let us know in the chats.
00:26:41.720But Quebec, I just saw this from Global News.
00:26:44.680Quebec lost almost $1 billion on COVID-19 protective equipment, says the Auditor General.
00:26:52.540So it sounds like Quebec's unpreparedness and its delayed reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic
00:26:58.600led to the province losing almost a billion dollars on its procurement of personal protective equipment.
00:27:04.440The government waited too long and then rushed into purchasing items such as masks and gloves at a higher price.
00:27:10.200By the end of March 2021, the value of equipment purchased by the province had dropped by $938 million.
00:27:17.680Of that amount, the province lost $671 million on the value of its stockpile, another $267 million connected to contracts for equipment and prepaid orders.
00:27:28.240And I think this just goes hand in hand with the overwhelming amount of deaths that Quebec saw in its nursing homes,
00:27:35.220both in private facilities but also in public facilities.
00:27:41.120I looked into this number because every time you hear about this sort of stuff,
00:27:45.940you hear the public sector unions saying, the problem is private health care.
00:27:50.260The private health care agencies didn't take care of the people in the nursing homes.
00:27:53.940So I went back and looked at the numbers and I'm like, no, the death rates are actually comparable.
00:27:59.560And I think a lot of that has to do with the supplies not being there
00:28:03.480and people also being much more scared of the disease than they needed to be.
00:28:10.440They can find old people into their rooms when they should have just treated them as though they caught a bad cold or a flu and treated them that way.
00:28:20.180Instead, we treated them like they were a biohazard event and the outcomes were terrible.
00:28:26.180Yeah, don't forget that Quebec had the most money spent on COVID advertising, fear, propaganda.
00:28:37.820And as well, as you know, in the health care facility, the long-term one,
00:28:44.240at the beginning of March, they were actually writing to the government saying,
00:28:49.100we have no staff to take care of the people.
00:28:53.780It was like an alarm bell, but nobody did nothing.
00:28:59.440And it's why our death rate is the highest one in Canada.
00:29:04.760We have the worst data and we had the most strict COVID-19 measure.
00:29:12.920Yeah, I mean, it's just shocking how now they say the government has launched a few lawsuits to sue
00:29:22.840against the price gouging that they experienced, but they didn't even start bulk purchasing supplies
00:29:29.660until like the end of March, approximately a month after their first diagnosed COVID case.
00:29:39.500But again, this goes back to the whole planning for a pandemic.
00:29:45.480This didn't just happen in Quebec where nobody was prepared.
00:29:48.660I think we were a little better here in Alberta, but the Public Health Agency of Canada,
00:44:28.180He just raised his voice a little bit saying, like, are you stupid or incompetent to talk about the relance, economic relance, when you see your people being ostracized still by the vaccine passport?
00:44:44.080So after that, he got arrested and he had, like, some condition to not be close from the prime minister.
00:44:51.400We call prime minister in French, but he's the premier of Quebec for not being close to 300 meters.
00:44:59.100But afterwards, he went to protest at Radio Canada, CBC, because our premier was there for a recording of a show.
00:48:09.320I've seen videos where he's telling people, we have to be peaceful.
00:48:14.020You know, we can't give them what they want from us.
00:48:16.700And I think that's why they had to get him off the streets and hide him away for four months is because he's very effective in his message.
00:48:23.700So what's the best thing to do if you want to get somebody to shut up?
00:48:31.100And it's funny because what he was saying to me, he said, I don't know what happened when I was in jail, but I started to receive a lot of tickets.
00:48:41.680But some tickets from other, like previous protests, like some years ago, where he was not wearing a mask.
00:48:49.320And it was like, dude, they went to all my profile on Facebook and look at all the protests that have been that I was not respecting the rule.
00:48:58.060And they sent me like all these tickets that I don't even remember I was present that day.
00:49:42.420So he actually say that they don't want to be really represent by a lawyer because he say the justice is more mostly all in the same package because he say, like, if you want to be a lawyer, you need to be vaccinated shot.
00:50:01.460So all you can be straight to your head, all you can be objective on what is going on.
00:50:14.140And I think I'm the best one to talk about what happened that day and for which purpose I am doing it.
00:50:22.800And some of the judge that he had when they released him, they say that I am so sorry you needed to pass through this time in jail for something that we cannot prove.
00:50:37.560And it's just so objective that we are sorry and we don't understand why they kept you in jail.
00:50:46.500So, yeah, yeah, I mean, they're doing this to all the high profile objectors who are completely peaceful, like Pastor R, like Pastor James Coates.
00:50:55.660It doesn't matter if you're bombastic and over the top or quiet and peaceful like Tim Stevens or Francois.
00:51:03.380It doesn't matter because in the end, your crime is the same.
00:51:06.940You didn't do what they told you to do.
00:51:08.800So, you chose to live your life the way you saw fit.
00:51:12.700And what he was saying as well is say, but if you can see, they always take the talker one, the big speaker, they take it away from the crowd.
00:51:22.880So, the crowd is not rising up as we saw with Tamara Lynch or other like a big leader as Chris Carr or whatever.
00:51:31.800When they were taking away the leader, they had less people in the street afterwards, less people raising their voice afterwards because they take away the biggest masterpiece.
00:52:01.800Sorry, I'm shuffling around trying to find my glasses.
00:52:06.940Trini Canadian says, Tom Clark and the Conservative Party of Canada could take a few lessons on how to put together a debate from Avi and Rookshan on their debate in Australia.
00:52:18.620Yeah, they, Australia is in the middle of an election and our team down there put together a debate and thoughtful and people actually got to talk.
00:53:41.460He sent security guards to the cemetery to make sure that people were social distancing outside at funerals.
00:53:49.900He spent millions of dollars on this stuff.
00:53:52.760He was the worst, saying he was the most lockdown-resistant.
00:53:56.360Yeah, maybe for himself when he was out playing hockey.
00:53:59.160I know the kids were locked down, but generally speaking, he was one of the most pro-lockdown mayors in the entire country, given Calgary a run for their money.
00:54:11.120And he's also lying when he said, I asked him, because it's a question that puts him out of step with the entire Conservative Party.
00:54:19.020I asked him if he's going to move the embassy to where it belongs in the capital of Jerusalem.
00:54:24.640And the reason I asked that question is because it shows how he's – the whole party is over here thinking, yeah, you put the embassy in the capital.
00:54:35.140We don't let terrorists tell us what we do.
00:54:39.060And he's like, no, no, it's going to hamper the peace process if I move it to Jerusalem.
00:54:46.440I'll let him answer my question, and then I'll tell you why he's a liar and stupid.
00:54:52.820It was articulated under Stephen Harper's government, which was not to move the government as it would make the peace process more difficult.
00:55:18.020And peace broke out in the Middle East.
00:55:20.240So everybody told Donald Trump, you can't move the embassy to Jerusalem because – because, by the way, that's the bigotry of low expectations, thinking the Palestinians can't behave themselves because the embassy moved.
00:56:27.140You know, you can sort of tell when politicians are telling you what they think you want to hear, but you're not sure if they actually believe it.
00:56:34.460I fully believe Roman Babber believes the things that he says.
00:56:37.460And I don't take umbrage with him on maybe one policy issue, but I think he is a decent, genuine human being who actually tells you what he believes, which is kind of rare in politics.
00:56:52.460The only problem, I really like him, but I find him that, I don't know, not enough strong, like, is not enough, like, I would say maybe aggressive or anything.
00:57:04.900He's always keeping, like, quiet in his own bubble.
00:57:08.160And when he have the right to talk, he'd take it.
00:57:11.460But he'd never go, like, go away when you have something that you really believe that he wants to say.
00:57:46.600The moderator was so concerned about time discipline, but spent a lot of time on their personal interests, like books and mainstream broadcast TV.
00:57:57.160It was like a 90-second preamble from Tom Clark before he gave the people 15 seconds to answer his stupid question nobody wanted to hear anyway.
01:09:02.340We wanted to talk about immigration levels versus inflation because everybody's talking about inflation, but nobody talks about, well, we have to resettle 300,000 people every single year.
01:09:14.420Maybe we'll slow down until housing catches up, you know, so that people aren't priced out of the housing market in places like Toronto and Vancouver.
01:09:22.620And I'm not talking about, you know, like old stock Canadians, as they say, I'm saying everybody, you, if you're coming in as a legal immigrant, thank you for coming in legally.
01:09:32.520I would like you to be able to buy a house too, but we can't do that when we're taking in so many legal immigrants every single year.
01:09:39.320It's something we need to talk about and nobody is.
01:09:42.100And it's an issue that it doesn't matter if you vote NDP, liberal or conservative.
01:09:47.180I think it's two thirds of people say immigration levels, once you tell them what they are, are too high.
01:11:13.720Not that you've been hiding your pretty face anyway.
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01:11:35.780There are a lot of chats today, a lot of comments about the debate.