DAILY ｜ COVID Over In Alberta？ Trudeau Still Mad At Plastics
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Summary
Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies discuss the end of the H1N1 pandemic in Alberta and why we need to go back to the way things were in 2019. They also talk about the need to defund Alberta Health Services.
Transcript
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Warning. Censorship. Warning. Censorship. Warning. Censorship.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You have tuned in to the Rebel News livestream on this, a Thursday, July 29th, 2021.
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I'm David Menzies and my co-host, oh my co-host, she is the Huntress Supreme.
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She is the she-devil with a sword. Alisi of Northern Alberta. She is Sheila Gunn-Reed. How you doing today, Sheila?
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David, I'm doing great and actually I'm doing better than I even expected because I don't know if you know,
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but yesterday the pandemic was officially pronounced over in Alberta. We've moved into endemic territory
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and I think it's on the list of things that we need to go to, but we're going to be basically restriction-free
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including quarantine-free and this case-demic testing everybody who has a sniffle, that's over too,
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so I'm really excited to talk about that. Well, congratulations and Sheila, I love your t-shirt,
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Defund AHS. I suppose you're not saying you're against people going, ah, you know,
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when they have a nice beer on a hot day. I think AHS, Alberta Health Services, am I correct?
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Yep, got it, got it. You know what, there's too many bureaucrats telling us all how to live our
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lives and that I think has really been the one eye-opener for people who, you know, are strong
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advocates of public health care. I'm not sure that I am, but even those people have come around to the
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idea that there are too many middle managers eating up too much money in Alberta Health Services making
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decisions that could destroy your business, separate you from your grandparents and tell you
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exactly who you can have in your house. So gut it, let's rethink public health care, especially during
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that we've come through this pandemic. The idea that the entire public health care system was ill-prepared
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for basically a bad flu, I think should be an eye-opener to everybody that there's a lot of waste
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happening in the public health care system. Yeah, but you know, Sheila, I, my suspicion is that a lot
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of those people, a lot of the health bureaucrats, a lot of the folks at Alberta Health Services,
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they're going to have a hard time going back to the way things were in like 2019. They've had a taste of
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totalitarian power, I think. I think they love the taste. I don't think they want to give it up.
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You know, I think they're probably pining for more variants of the coronavirus. That's my suspicion.
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I also want the entire legal department defunded at Alberta Health Services.
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You know, the idea that we have lawyers working for Alberta Health Services as public health
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prosecutors, as they like to call themselves, and they are going around continuing the ongoing
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persecution, prosecution, pastors, business owners asking for 21 days in jail in the case of Pastor
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Art Poloski and Chris Scott. Defund those guys too. I'm not against frontline workers. I'm not against
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the janitorial staff. I'm not against any of those people. I want the middle manager bureaucrats gone from
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the system. We could fire one, or we could fire nine out of every 10, and no one would notice.
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You know, and you're so right, Sheila. And you had a really good video recently. It was an update on
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a lot of the Alberta cases we're fighting. And my feeling is, now that, as you said, the pandemic is
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officially over, why can't these cases be thrown out of work? So many of these businesses, so many of
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these pastors, they've already gone through hell. They've been penalized in terms of lost revenue,
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in some cases, losing their freedom. Can't we just drop those cases and move on? Or is there some kind
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Yeah, this is vindictiveness. Because that Alberta is now moving into the endemic stage of all of this.
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Leads me to believe that we probably won't be locking down again in the fall.
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And I think that's a political decision, given that Jason Kenney is running out of runway
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for his next election campaign, and for people to forget what has happened over the last 18 months.
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So I don't think we're going to be locking down again. But we do need to make an example of these
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people who stood up to the government. I think it is very vindictive. And that's why this continues.
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There you go. And Sheila, it's around this time that you usually tell the folks what we're actually
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trying to do in the next almost hour. In the next almost hour. I don't know. We always go over time.
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Five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes. But this is the Rebel News daily live stream. It used to just
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be on Fridays, just hosted by Ezra Levant. The pandemic struck. We were all grounded. So there
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were places that we couldn't go, things we were unable to report on. And a lot of our viewers were stuck
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at home because the government forcibly closed their businesses or gave them, you know, a work
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from home order. So we thought, you know what, the news is changing so fast with regard to the pandemic
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and and things are popping up. So we thought, let's sit down for an hour every single day and
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talk about the news of the world and the news of the country with our viewers. And it was a good
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chance for us to also make a little revenue because we used to be able to accept super chats on YouTube,
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but then YouTube completely demonetized us on our main YouTube channel. We're not completely
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demonetized on the clips channel, but on the main YouTube channel, they cut us off. What that did was
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cut us off from $400,000 in annual revenue. But our viewers are incredible. And there are other
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players in the game other than YouTube. Yeah. So we are also streaming over on Rumble,
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which is developing a monetization, a way for people to to give us money while we're chatting
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ways to interact with each other, to interact with us and continue to support the work that we do
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completely willingly because we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau. And Shel, I got to ask
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you again, do you understand these hyper chats, these library cryptocurrencies? I mean, when you
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start talking like that, I devolve back into unfrozen caveman journalists. I don't know. Fast
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moving cars and tall buildings frighten and confuse me. And so do cryptocurrencies. But I'm sure we have
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viewers that are much smarter than me that can figure this out. And we really do appreciate the
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support, don't we, Sheila? You know what? I hold cryptocurrency. I have some. I don't know what
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to do with it. I'm sort of frightened by it. But I got some because I guess that's what everybody's
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doing. So I got a little bit of it. And I'm scared of it. I'm scared to touch it. I'm scared to lose it.
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So it's just there. And eventually, I'll get around to understanding what it is. And I know it's really
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important that you don't lose it. That's all I know. So I think I have what you have. It's on a
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stick in a safe at home with 20 words in order that I dare not lose. I got a little more because
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I got a little more because it was that was kind of easy. So I thought, you know what? I should get
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a little more. But yeah, it's in the gun safe. And I'm not touching it. It's just in there.
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Well, let's just hope it appreciates and it's not the next Bre-X.
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Okay. Well, Sheila, we already covered off the Alberta ending the COVID protocols. But
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No, no, no. Let's talk a little bit about the end of the COVID protocols. Because
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I think you guys in Ontario need to realize what it could be like. And I know Jason Kenney
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was particularly bad when it came to civil liberties. But I suppose not any worse than
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Ontario. And Ontario remains bad. And we're getting a little better here. So let's just
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tell the rest of the country what it could be like if you... I don't know, if you lived
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And by the way, Sheila, I agree. If I can just interject, you're so right.
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Because this upcoming August long weekend, Simcoe Day, if they haven't cancelled Lord John
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Graves Simcoe yet, this is traditionally in Toronto, the August long weekend when you have
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Carabana. And it's in a magnificent Caribbean street festival. It typically attracts tourists
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from all over the Northeast United States. It is a fantastic event. And for the second
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year in a row, cancelled. And I'm betting if Carabana was happening in Alberta, that wouldn't
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Yeah, we just had the Calgary Stampede. And I think there was like 71 cases of COVID that
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were traced back to the Calgary Stampede. I don't know if they even said that they caught
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it at the Stampede. I mean, how would you know? But of half a million people that were
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coming through in close quarters over that week, 71 cases had been in and around the
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area. And I don't think there are any hospitalizations related to that, which is, I mean, that's what
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it is. I mean, people who are going out and spending all day on their feet at the Stampede,
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they're not the kind of people who get COVID, end up in the hospital and die with it.
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So yeah, and 71 cases, not 71 deaths, right, Sheila?
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Yeah. And we know how they count cases. It's not always positive test results either, right?
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So we've, this is from CTV Calgary from yesterday. It says Alberta's lifting much of its remaining
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COVID-19 restrictions in the coming weeks. And then of course, because this is the mainstream
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media, even as case counts climb, but they aren't, they're just, they're not climbing and
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the virus continues to infect unvaccinated Albertans. Anyway, it says that starting August 16th, people
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who test positive for COVID-19 will not be mandated to quarantine anymore, but the province will
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recommend it. So you, if you test positive, basically, so what, who cares? And then additionally,
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Albertans with COVID-19 symptoms will not be asked to get tested, but stay home until they feel better.
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So we're not going to get this inflated case counts of people who just have the sniffles.
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Two weeks later, COVID-19 tests will only be available to people who need to go to the hospital
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or see a physician. So there's no more of this asymptomatic testing, which means literally testing
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healthy people. We're not doing that anymore. And starting Thursday, close contacts of COVID-19
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cases will no longer be mandated to quarantine either, but isolation will still be required
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for positive cases and people with symptoms. So that'll end two weeks from Thursday. So I guess
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today. Masks are not mandatory in public transit, rideshares, and taxis starting on August 16th.
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And the only place masks may still be required is in hospitals or continuing care facilities where
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people are actually sick. And Jason Kenney said, it's time to start thinking differently about COVID-19
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because cases no longer equal high levels of hospitalizations or fatalities. So that's it.
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You know, I'm happy about the progress and the return to the good old days, sort of. But you know,
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Sheila, I find it a little perverse, all these dates, like the virus is going to abide by these dates.
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Yeah. Oh, we can't infect you today. Sorry. Sorry.
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Oh, it's the stroke of midnight, August 16th. I'm melting. I'm melting.
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I mean, I got to go to Ontario if I want to hurt somebody. Sorry, I'm out of here.
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I mean, why don't they just say, hey, let's, let's turn Alberta, right? Let's go full Florida
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is what I'm trying to say. You know, let, you know, instead of all these artificial
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dates and deadlines, I just find that really weird, Sheila.
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Yeah. I mean, like the, the virus checks the calendar, but I guess they have to
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set an arbitrary point for this. And instead of this being good news,
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if you checked in on social media yesterday, the professional TV doctors were losing their minds.
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They are really cheering for a catastrophe here in Alberta. And the fact that we basically reopened
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all the businesses and everything on July 1st, and here we are, what's today, the 28th,
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four weeks later, no catastrophe. Everybody's fine. Hospitalization rates are way down,
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way down. So nobody even cares about case counts because case counts are just people who get the
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sniffles, if indeed they even get the sniffles. So, I mean, it's just funny how these TV doctors
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are just, I mean, they're, they're cheering for a medical catastrophe to unfold in Alberta. And it
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Oh yeah. As I've called it, COVID porn. And you know, the way the mainstream media reports on
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things, Sheila, I had a chuckle today. It was a news story. So it wasn't talk radio where someone
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is supposed to be editorializing, but in the news story narrative, it was the issue of vaccine
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passports. And the newscaster went on to, I don't know if this was part of her script,
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or she decided to do some freelance editorializing saying vaccine passports, which aren't really
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passports. It's really proof of vaccine. In other words, a vaccine passport. I mean, like suddenly,
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but you see where they're going with this. They're going to tone down the negativeness of vaccine
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passport, because to me, that is a negative. And instead, the style guide will say,
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ex-nay on vaccine passports, but do say proof of vaccination, which is a little less extreme.
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So that you see what, what court, what camp the mainstream media is in when you, when you hear
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this kind of thing, Sheila? Well, and I think that is, when you see them changing the language,
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because they know the public is against vaccine passports, I think it's a tacit admission that
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even they know that vaccine passports are a bad idea. So they can't call them that. It's proof of
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vaccination so that you can go places and do things. So you mean like literally a vaccine passport?
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Like, I forget who did some streeters. I think it was Drea in one of her videos. She did some
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streeters and she asked people about on the streets about vaccine passports. And they were like, oh,
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no, it's not a vaccine passport. It's just, you know, like a vaccine record that you have to produce
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to go places, eat in restaurants, use public facilities. So, you know, like a vaccine passport,
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like these word games are ridiculous, but it's exactly the Orwellian place that society has come
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to right now. Oh, you're, you're so right. I mean, where the Ministry of Truth is actually the propaganda
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arm of Oceania. And the one place you never want to end up is the Ministry of Love, where they torture
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people. No greater, no greater example of this Orwellian doublespeak than the reopening Ontario
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act, which is the act they use to close the place. You know, what chutzpah? We are going to lock you
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down. We are going to change your locks. We are going to send the mounted unit out and haul you away
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in front of national TV cameras under the reopening Ontario act. They have no shame here, Sheila.
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No, I mean, and all this from a so-called conservative prime minister, right? It's
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or a conservative premier. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Yeah. I said conservative prime
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minister, like that's a thing that's going to happen in the next 20 years. Unbelievable.
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Oh, maybe there was, he had a shot at that, but the last almost two years, I think has destroyed
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that. I think he has totally turned his base against him, Sheila. And not only a supposedly
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Ontario conservative premier, but the fact that one of his main slogans, in addition to for the
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people was Ontario open for business. You know what, Sheila, that's our fault. We missed that tiny
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little asterisk and we looked in the fine print and yeah, open for business during a pandemic. If you're
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Walmart or Costco or the Loblaw group of companies, those people are open for business, your little
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mom, pa, toy store, shoe store, spa. Oh no. We, this government will come down on you with the force
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of a papal bull. So give me a break. Yeah. Reopening Ontario act.
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Now, Sheila, how, what, since you are in Alberta and I, I can't wait to get back there. How are people
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reacting to the reopening? Because again, coming down to rebel news headquarters here in Toronto,
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I was, I wish you were in the car with me because it was a talk radio segment and it was about a
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caller sending a text message. And basically the family were going to finally go out to a restaurant
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now that that's allowed, indoor seating. You don't want to go on a patio today in Toronto. It's
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raining cats and dogs. And at the last second, the father said, I'm sorry, I'm just not ready for this.
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I, I just can't do this. And of course, uh, the host interviewed a psychiatrist to get tips on how
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people, uh, should, you know, man up and go to a restaurant. You'd think they're being drafted for
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a war overseas, right? But I don't, I mean, the circle I'm in, uh, I don't sense any anxiety. People
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are like, you know, pedal to the metal, open up, open up. We want to get back to normalcy.
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Is that what's happening in Alberta? Or are there people that are Sheila, just not ready to go to the
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bistro? Oh, I'm sure there are some of those people in downtown Edmonton. I'm sure. Uh, I kind of hold
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Ralph Klein's opinion on downtown Edmonton and that it's a, it's a nice place with too many mosquitoes and
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socialists. Um, but I think by and large, like I get a different experience, right? Cause I live in
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rural Alberta and if I ever get sort of close to the city, I'm only going there to, to work on
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something and then come back out. So I stay sort of in the surrounding areas, like very blue collar
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community of Fort Saskatchewan. Um, Sherwood park is more affluent bedroom community. So that's as far
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as I get. And things are pretty normal there. Now you maybe have like 10% true believers who are
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still masked up in the vegetable section of the grocery store while simultaneously touching
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everything. Um, but, uh, it's Alberta and we're, you know, I think we just have like a different
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mentality here. Like we, uh, we're a different kind of people. Uh, we're by and large conservative.
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We don't like being told what to do. It's why we, uh, had the restaurant uprising. It's why we had
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the church uprising. We're just the kind of people who don't take kindly to government telling us how
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to live our lives, who we can talk to and who we can have in our homes. So it's a little bit
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different, I think, but I think Ontario needs like a cult deprogramming a little bit.
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Oh, uh, I agree. But you know, Sheila, you saw what they did to Adam Skelly of Adamson's
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barbecue. They made him an example. Uh, that was such overkill and really it wasn't so much
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vindictiveness against Adam Skelly, although there was a part of that. It was a message that, uh,
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Mayor Tory and Cruella de Villa and Doug Ford were sending to any other small business.
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You dare have the temerity to do what this guy's doing. How do you like going to the cooler? How do
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you like, you know, having your business destroyed in front of, uh, the gleeful, uh, clapping seals of
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the mainstream media? Uh, that was really what that was about. So, um, I think that successfully
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quashed any kind of, you know, Toronto or Ontario rebellion in terms of a critical mass, Sheila.
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Yeah, I think though, again, it speaks to a different culture because, um, that's how you get more of us
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in Alberta. You know, like when they start cracking down on one pastor, one business owner,
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that's how they ended up with more of us. And in Toronto, the opposite happened. Everyone was like,
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oh, I don't want that to happen to me. So I'll just shut up and I'll just wait this out. Where in
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Alberta, it was completely different. When Chris Scott opened up his restaurant, everybody else started
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opening up. When Natalie Klein opened up her hair salon, everybody else started opening up in
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solidarity. When, uh, pastor James Coates stood up to the government. And even after James Coates went
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to jail for 35 days, other pastors were opening their congregation. So I think, again, if, and not
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to, well, you know what, it does sound like I'm going to say something bad about the people of Toronto
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and don't write me letters. Cause I know there's good people there. And a lot of you watch us,
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but I think if there were a different response to what happened.
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Sheila, could you release that? You, you froze, uh, for a little bit. So we, uh, you were about to
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say, it was just after you said, uh, people of Toronto don't hate me for saying this. And then
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we didn't hear what people are going to think the deep state is censoring.
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Justin probably cut my mic. Um, no, what I said was, uh, you know, like even though a lot of people
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in Toronto watch us and there's a lot of good people there standing up for freedom, but I think
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if there had been solidarity around Adam Skelly, as opposed to fear, you guys would have been out of
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this a lot sooner. A hundred percent. And you know, even with those outrageous over the top
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police, uh, fear and intimidation tactics that Adam Skelly endured, Sheila, just think of it.
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If a thousand businesses in Toronto, the city of Toronto opened the next day, are you going to do
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that a thousand times? You don't, there's not enough resources to do that. You know, there really
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isn't. And it was a missed opportunity, I think. And now, I mean, just as we're getting open,
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the speculation is, uh, what's going to happen in fall? Um, typically, uh, you know, there's a lot
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of chatter about, uh, well, are the schools really, really ready, uh, to reopen? Um, and, and of course,
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fall is flu season, which I guess gets conflated with, uh, COVID these days. And, you know, and I love
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what Ezra, our boss, had to say the other day when Doug Ford makes a statement that, let me tell
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you, by golly, folks, in September, the kids are going back to school, even if I have to drive the
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school bus, right? Sure. And I think of Doug Ford driving this giant mega school bus all over the
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province, picking up kids. And Ezra's point was that when he hears, you know, rhetoric like that,
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Sheila, the kind of rhetoric that personally makes the dial on my BS detector go deep into the red
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zone, I'm kind of betting on a lockdown. Right now, I think it's 50-50, but what are your thoughts
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on that? And what's the, uh, what do you hear, uh, on the streets of Alberta? Well, I, yeah, it's that
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fake populism, right? That fake populism that everybody bought into with Doug Ford the first time
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around and he thinks that we're going to believe him. Like, what do we get? We're going to believe
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you now and not your actions over the last 18 months? Sure. Seems legit. Um, I don't know. I'm,
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I'm very worried about Ontario in that I do think you guys have, I think it's more like a 75% potential
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to lock back down. And I bet you, I just bet you, your kids are going to be wearing masks to go to
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school in the fall, if they go to school at all. And you know, Sheila, I got to tell you, if I was at
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that presser where he said that, cause they don't take our questions, um, they're too prickly. I think
00:26:12.620
my first question is, um, Premier Ford, do you have a license that would allow you to drive a school bus?
00:26:19.600
I don't know what it is in Ontario. I don't know what it is in Ontario, but do you have a class
00:26:25.040
four? That's what it is in Alberta. Because then you're really breaking the law, aren't you? You know,
00:26:30.720
the ministry of transportation might look dimly upon that. Or is this advice from your imaginary
00:26:36.160
friend, Arthur again? Yeah. Driving around in the cheesecake school bus, picking up everybody's
00:26:45.360
kids with his regular driver's license. I mean, it's just so ridiculous. Nobody believes him
00:26:51.180
anymore. I know. It's just too many, Sheila. Too many. And we used to adore this man. He was a guest
00:26:57.980
speaker at one of our Rebel Live events, I think 2017, wasn't he? And, uh, you know, and that's a
00:27:05.060
great juxtaposition of what Doug Ford was and what he became. If you go back to that video, Sheila,
00:27:12.200
and the things he was saying that was getting a standing O at the Rebel Live and the things he
00:27:17.680
has done now in a position of power, they're absolute night and day. Yeah. He, I remember he
00:27:23.580
gave out his personal cell phone number. Oh, not anymore. That's disconnected. Yeah. I believe that.
00:27:30.540
But you're right. I believe that one. You know, uh, uh, uh, someone of that stature, uh, giving out his
00:27:38.880
personal cell phone, uh, number folks. And, and at a time it did work. Uh, and I'm sure he got inundated
00:27:45.940
with messages, but those days are not long gone. You dialed that number today. Sorry, the number you
00:27:52.240
have just dialed is out of service, kind of like the province itself out of service. Yeah. Yeah. It too,
00:27:59.980
it too is experiencing treatment from the open for business law. Um, I'll never forget there was a
00:28:07.960
video or it was a phone call and it was a CBC interview on CBC radio, which is absolutely terrible
00:28:15.580
that, um, it's, it's just the worst. But anyways, the hosts had called Rob Ford while he was coaching.
00:28:27.880
Oh, I remember that at the time. Yeah. And the hosts were like offended that he wasn't devoting all
00:28:35.840
of his time to them. And finally he's like, I'm coaching football, like quick calling me kind of
00:28:41.840
thing. But naturally he's one of those guys that gave out his phone number. So CBC just called him.
00:28:46.880
You know, Sheila Rob Ford, who I adore, and by the way, Rob Ford is not Doug Ford. We have
00:28:52.680
surely discovered that in the last two years, but I remember that well. And he was a mocked for taking
00:29:01.440
a call. And like you said, not, uh, giving his, uh, you know, total attention to the Khaleesi's at the
00:29:09.320
CBC and B also mocked for, well, he's mayor and he's like, um, you know, coaching this toxic
00:29:17.380
masculinity tackle football. I can tell you, I mean, at the time I did a story, uh, back in my
00:29:22.820
freelancing days for the national post, uh, in which I, um, you know, I sort of embedded myself
00:29:29.060
with the team for a bit and you had kids from all kinds of diverse backgrounds, uh, Don Bosco kind
00:29:37.860
of in a rough neighborhood of town. And, uh, I will never forget, um, a couple of the single mothers
00:29:46.640
that came up to me and spoke about what the football program may, uh, meant to them. And it
00:29:52.600
was this Sheila, if not for this football program, my son would either be in jail or dead. That's what
00:30:00.860
they said to me, because without something to do, they'd have all this free time on their hands.
00:30:06.000
They'd hang around at the mall, kind of maybe get, you know, drift into gang culture perhaps,
00:30:12.040
but they joined the football team. They endure practice every day. You know, when they come home,
00:30:17.440
their head hits the pillow, they're exhausted. They're out. So it was keeping these kids in
00:30:23.120
school, building them up mentally, the football program, building them up physically. And these
00:30:28.320
bastards in the city of Toronto, the social elitists, uh, had the temerity to mock what, um,
00:30:37.140
Rob Ford was doing with that football program. They have no solutions, Sheila. They talk a mean game,
00:30:43.420
but that, you know, I think out West, what, what is the saying? Um, all hat, no cattle. And that's
00:30:49.600
what that man had to go through. And it's absolutely shameful. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, uh, Rob Ford's
00:30:57.240
approach to those kids was, you know, the old saying that idle hands are the devil's workshop,
00:31:01.660
right? Keep the kids busy, give them something that they can achieve. Um, and, you know, keep them
00:31:08.940
off the streets and, you know, think about what it was like for those kids to have somebody as
00:31:14.520
important as Rob Ford, take time out of his day to work with them, to cheer them on, to coach them,
00:31:23.120
to mentor them. You know, that's something, you know, when you're, you're a disadvantaged kid,
00:31:29.120
and I think I can speak to this a little bit because I kind of was one, um, to have somebody
00:31:33.640
important, take an interest in you. That's something you never forget that sticks with you forever.
00:31:37.780
It gives you value as you go forward. Oh, and Sheila, let me tell you this. This was not a PR stunt
00:31:44.360
on behalf of Rob Ford to get publicity. He was totally invested in those kids. He, every kid had
00:31:51.800
his number 24 seven. And he even told me he had calls at three or four in the morning of a kid in
00:31:58.340
trouble. He got into his car to get them out of trouble. He also donated, um, I believe it was in
00:32:04.800
the neighborhood of 30 or 35,000 to buy the equipment, uh, for the football program. And,
00:32:12.640
uh, and this was, like I said, it was not a publicity stunt. He wasn't looking for glowing
00:32:18.160
articles in Toronto life. Oh, the mayor who also coaches, uh, and when you saw him on the sidelines,
00:32:24.800
it was a passion of his, it was an absolute passion. And, you know, I, I wonder, you know,
00:32:31.220
I, I, I'm going to, you've given me an idea. I'm going to look into whether or not the program
00:32:35.560
even exists anymore at Don Bosco. Um, if it doesn't, that's a shame.
00:32:42.120
Well, and if it doesn't, you know exactly why. Yeah. Um, because nobody like Rob stepped up. Um,
00:32:48.320
we should, this is actually a pretty good segue into your video about the women's rugby team.
00:32:53.880
Oh, um, yeah. Okay then. And, uh, Mr. Producer, all right. Uh, yeah. Um, if there's anything that
00:33:03.460
these Olympics are about folks, it has to be wokeness. I think they should make it a gold medal
00:33:10.240
game. Um, who is going to be the most woke at the Japan 2020 Olympics? And wow, some of the front
00:33:17.420
runners are the members of the Canadian women's sevens rugby team. Check it out. There were many
00:33:23.020
glowing, gushing, and fawning articles published the other day about the Canadian women's rugby
00:33:28.420
sevens team, which is now over in Tokyo competing at a spectator free Olympic games that apparently
00:33:35.040
nobody seems to care about. But then again, why shouldn't there be full page newspaper articles
00:33:41.460
about these Canuck ladies winning the gold medal? Oops. At time of writing, the squad
00:33:47.340
hadn't even played a single rugby game yet. Their chests weren't adorned with glittery metals,
00:33:53.100
but rather with black and white t-shirts proclaiming BIPOC lives matter. Now at first blush,
00:33:59.940
I misread BIPOC for biopic. And I thought, gee, how curious that these gals are going to bat for the
00:34:06.220
lives of documentary filmmakers. Alas, BIPOC actually stands for black indigenous people of color.
00:34:13.620
Alrighty then. But missing from all the articles was an explanation vis-a-vis what the rules are when
00:34:21.980
it comes to whose lives matter and whose lives do not. I must say, I'm completely confused.
00:34:30.260
You see, black lives matter is the granddaddy phrase. I agree with the sentiment that black lives
00:34:35.440
indeed matter. Although I loathe the organization Black Lives Matter as it is so jam-packed with
00:34:41.980
Marxists and racists. Case in point, Usra Kogari, aka Usra Ali. She's one of the organizers of Black
00:34:50.600
Lives Matter Toronto. And apparently, Usra tweeted this mirthful message a while back, quote,
00:34:56.520
Please, Allah, give me the strength not to cuss-kill these men and white folks out here today.
00:35:02.920
Please, please, please, end quote. Oh, by the way, Toronto Mayor John Woketori would later give her
00:35:09.420
some sort of civic award for something. Worst mayor ever. But here's the thing. I am of the firm
00:35:16.060
belief that all lives matter. Every single one. Dr. Martin Luther King thought so too back in the day.
00:35:22.860
Again, what reasonable person would not be on board with such a sentiment? Yet, stating that
00:35:29.560
all lives matter is supposedly an egregious act of cultural appropriation, or at least an act of
00:35:36.160
t-shirt slogan appropriation, just ask the folks at Pollock's Home Hardware. Last July, this shop in
00:35:43.400
West End Toronto put up a sign that declared, quote, all lives matter, be safe, be kind, end quote.
00:35:49.660
Oh, Hogtown's woke mob reacted with absolute fury. You'd think the Pollocks were displaying a
00:35:57.220
swastika or something. Indeed, check out some of the comments that were published in a blog
00:36:04.080
TO post. Gasped one triggered social justice warrior, quote, I actually can't believe I saw this.
00:36:12.100
How has this not been addressed, end quote. Fumed another spirit unicorn, quote, this sign is
00:36:20.440
extremely inappropriate toward black community members that are fighting against their people
00:36:26.460
being killed and brutalized, or do you only care about your white customers, end quote.
00:36:33.420
Naturally, the sign very quickly came down before a mostly peaceful Antifa community outreach group
00:36:41.480
dropped by to introduce the hardware store to an assortment of Molotov summer cocktails.
00:36:47.740
But that was then, and this is now, because apparently in 2021, you can MacGyver the Black Lives Matter
00:36:54.900
slogan. The rugby gals are getting applauded for their tinkering, not condemned. But are they truly
00:37:02.640
being as inclusive as they could be? Does BIPOC include gay lives and trans lives? Does it include
00:37:09.920
Latino lives? But hey, I get it. There's only so much real estate on a t-shirt. So maybe the rugby
00:37:18.300
gals should wear shirts stating all lives matter, except one category. That should do it. Or how about
00:37:26.940
this? Enough with the virtue signaling. How about just, you know, get out on the pitch and play rugby
00:37:32.980
and try to win a gold medal for our great dominion? And hey, should they finish second or third,
00:37:38.760
perhaps they can climb up upon the podium, adorned in t-shirts that state, silver and bronze medals
00:37:45.360
matter. Even though, let's face it, folks, nobody really gives a rodent's rectum. For Rebel News,
00:38:00.820
Sorry, you, I didn't, Justin didn't have you in my ear when you came back, but
00:38:05.480
well, I'm just gonna, I was just gonna ask you to weigh in on it because, and you have some skin in
00:38:10.780
the game, given that I believe your lovely daughter does play rugby. And, and let me put this to you,
00:38:19.060
Sheila, you know, in the course of researching this whole BIPOC thing, it's amazing how the left
00:38:25.720
continues to eat itself. I understand the phrase people of color is entering politically incorrect
00:38:33.800
territory. I can't even think of what the politically correct 2021 version descriptor is for people of
00:38:43.980
color. Much like, remember, for the last few years, we're all about triggering and trigger warnings.
00:38:50.900
Evidently, trigger is under the ban, Sheila, because a trigger is a piece of a gun and guns are evil,
00:39:00.440
don't you know? So before our eyes, within months even, politically correct terminology
00:39:07.780
is becoming politically incorrect. Where does this madness end, Sheila?
00:39:13.700
I hope it never ends, because now they're turning on each other. And I'm just over here saying, I just
00:39:18.440
get to say whatever I want. And you guys, you guys can sort out all this, like, word language garbage.
00:39:23.700
But yeah, my, my, my daughter does play rugby. And, you know, I look at this, and I think, what would have
00:39:29.780
happened to the one person on the team who said, no, I'm not wearing this shirt. This is stupid. And
00:39:35.220
this isn't why we're here. You know, very well, what would happen. And I think that's where I'm
00:39:41.520
going with this is, yeah, this isn't actually, um, about being united or ecumenical or anything.
00:39:48.160
This actually serves to alienate and bully the people on your team who maybe have different
00:39:53.780
political views. It's actually a divisive poison on the team. Because I look at my daughter's rugby
00:39:59.480
team, girls from all different backgrounds, because rugby's accessible, there's no equipment,
00:40:04.420
you pay for, you know, your pitch fees, and some insurance to make sure that you don't sue the club
00:40:10.560
when your nose gets broken. It's pretty accessible. All you need is cleats, right? And so there, because
00:40:17.200
of that, there are, you know, kids from all different backgrounds, kids from, you know, different
00:40:21.880
ethnic backgrounds. Um, because that's another thing about rugby, you have, it's a sport that is
00:40:27.980
played, um, in other parts of the world, for example, like in New Zealand, the, uh, indigenous members
00:40:37.540
sort of dominate the team. They're the better players, right? Like, so it's in that part of the
00:40:42.260
world, it's actually an indigenous sport. Um, and so you have people from all different backgrounds.
00:40:46.880
And I don't, I think this serves to divide the team. This doesn't unite the team. This bully
00:40:51.860
certain people. And it, I mean, I don't, I don't even know how any of this is necessary, but when
00:40:58.700
you were doing this video and after it was sort of produced, and then I saw it, and then another
00:41:03.320
story broke, and I was like, oh, I wish we could have added this to the story, but then I didn't know
00:41:07.340
how we could shoehorn it in, and the video was already done anyway. Justin, I sent you that link
00:41:12.000
from CTV Edmonton. Everybody has the opportunity to be educated. Country club pulls pitcher after
00:41:22.640
public backlash. The Glendale golf and country club has apologized for reposting a picture of
00:41:28.200
a foursome who wore shirts at a golf tournament that read drunk wives matter. And so the golf club,
00:41:34.740
like the country club is in trouble because these ladies were wearing the shirts that are widely
00:41:40.720
available. By the way, if you just put in drunk wives matter into Google search, you'll get like
00:41:46.040
so many companies selling them, but they found an educator, whatever that means. I don't think that
00:41:50.900
means somebody with a degree in education. That means somebody who takes money from a government
00:41:55.140
to brainwash your staff into thinking that they are racist when they say anything. But Farah Sharif,
00:42:03.840
an educator told CTV news, why they thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Mocking an entire
00:42:09.720
black activist movement post, George Floyd is inherently racist, period. So this person that
00:42:17.240
doesn't know these ladies who are just, you know, ladies in matching outfits on the golf course,
00:42:22.300
having a couple drinks as people tend to do, um, at the golf course, she's this person,
00:42:29.260
this educator, not knowing anything about these ladies called them all racist. Yeah. They don't know
00:42:35.240
if these ladies have adopted black children. They don't know if they're married to indigenous men.
00:42:40.340
They don't know anything about anything, but they feel that it is absolutely their right to come to
00:42:46.520
the conclusion that those ladies are racist. And I think that's the problem in all of this too,
00:42:50.660
is if you don't self-flagellate, you're also racist. And the activists now want these ladies
00:42:56.760
banned from the golf club. Oh, they don't want them there at all. A hundred percent. And I mean,
00:43:01.740
come on, it's gentle parody of a phrase. Uh, it doesn't mean that they're racist.
00:43:11.060
It's self-deprecating. Well, I'm surprised, you know, um, you know,
00:43:14.960
mad hasn't weighed in on this, you know, as, uh, is this some subtle message about, uh,
00:43:19.860
drinking and driving being okay. But Sheila, what the example I gave of Pollock's hardware store,
00:43:25.280
where it said, quote, all lives matter, be safe, be kind. How is that offensive to any reasonable
00:43:34.500
person? Of course, all lives matter and be safe, be kind. That's troublesome too. That's an expression
00:43:42.060
of, I don't know, white privilege, white supremacy. This is madness, Sheila.
00:43:46.600
Well, and with regard to this like golf club thing here, now this educator, I don't know how you just
00:43:54.660
educator, you just, uh, you're a basically a bully. That's what you do. Or you, you call companies
00:44:00.100
racist, um, apropos of nothing. And then you take money from the company to un-racist them through
00:44:08.200
classes. It's a neat little scam these people have going, but anyways, uh, the golf club apologized,
00:44:15.920
but then the educator said the apology was weak and lacks a specific edge because it's not enough,
00:44:25.040
right? It's not enough. And says it lacks a specific educational plan for them to move forward
00:44:31.400
with. So there's the monetization of the outrage for the educator, right? Your apology isn't good
00:44:37.240
enough. And now you, but you need me now to come educate you and pay me for it. And then because the
00:44:44.560
golf club didn't capitulate fast enough, this person now, this educator, tolerance educator is
00:44:50.960
whipping up an online mob says, I encourage people that follow me to contact the Glendale and ask,
00:44:58.080
how are they learning? What are they doing? I bet if they hired this educator, that would be great.
00:45:04.760
They've learned all they need to know, right? Line this person's pocket. It's pretty neat thing that
00:45:09.700
these people do whip up an outrage mob by calling a golf club or any business racist and then offer
00:45:16.780
the solution. And the solution is pay me to brainwash your staff. And then they say, everybody has the
00:45:22.760
opportunity to be educated. Yeah, I bet they do. You know what this reminds me of Sheila, um, about 15
00:45:28.920
years ago, if I got the chronology right at the, um, the ex president of Mexico, uh, Vincente Fox,
00:45:35.120
he had said something that was, uh, deemed anti-black and part of his Searcy walk of shame,
00:45:41.820
which I found hilarious was him personally getting on the phone and phoning, uh, prominent black
00:45:49.380
celebrities like Oprah Winfrey to personally apologize for his words, which he did evidently. Right. Uh, so I
00:46:00.420
think that might've been a little Genesis of the madness that is now full blown, uh, uh, right in
00:46:07.200
the here and now, but I mean, these Olympics are making me ill. I mean, can't people just line up
00:46:15.060
and run or swim or jump over hurdles or play rugby for goodness sake and spare us this sanctimonious BS?
00:46:23.240
Yeah. Just go there and do what we sent you to do. You know, with our money, with our money,
00:46:31.060
this is not your political platform. You're there representing the company or the country. If you
00:46:37.060
want to go there, then just go there, do what we have sent you to do. And don't turn this incredible
00:46:46.140
opportunity into a personal bully pulpit. Just go do your thing and come home and then take the profile
00:46:56.180
that you earned by actually doing something, something at the Olympics and do whatever you
00:47:00.960
want. I don't care. This is a free country, but while you're there representing all of us,
00:47:07.120
all of us with our diverse political opinions, just zip it till you get home. It's like 10 days.
00:47:13.180
Just be quiet while you're there. A hundred percent, Sheila. And you know, really,
00:47:17.520
do you know anyone in your circle that's actually watching any of the Olympics? Because I have zero
00:47:23.440
interest and I don't know anyone in my circle, including all my colleagues here at Rebel News
00:47:30.120
that have actually tuned into one minute of these games. Mr. Producer says I watch every night. So
00:47:39.800
First of all, I think everybody knows that I don't care so much for professional sports. However,
00:47:46.220
I like sports entertainment as far as wrestling goes. I sort of have an eye to the Canadian sports
00:47:54.520
shooters because they have been pretty vocal about the gun ban and how it will affect their sport. So
00:48:00.440
they're over there representing the country and they're like, the government literally wants to
00:48:06.420
ban our sport, but we're over here doing our best to represent the country anyway. So I sort of have
00:48:12.000
an eye to what they're doing and Canada produces some pretty great sports shooters. But that's about
00:48:17.040
it. I just, I just, I don't care. There's no crowds. And then with all the wokeism and then I'm like,
00:48:23.840
oh, so just also, there's also the whole thing that just mediocre men can now join the ladies sports
00:48:30.160
and, and beat them and rob them of their life's work. And so I, like, I just, I can't care anymore.
00:48:38.840
Yeah. You're absolutely right, Sheila. And we have that male weightlifter in the Tokyo games.
00:48:47.340
Yeah. And this ain't little mother Hubbard. Believe me, folks. And going back to rugby,
00:48:53.860
this is why I found that wokeness so surprising because, because correct me if I'm wrong, Sheila,
00:48:59.600
I believe the World Rugby Union, the governing body has done a fantastic thing, which is to take
00:49:07.920
a stance against radical transgenderism. They're saying, uh, uh, if you're a male pretending to be
00:49:14.360
a female, you are not in this sport because you are literally injuring, you know, seriously,
00:49:21.540
biological female players. And they're absolutely right. So, um, that's what strikes me that,
00:49:28.320
um, these women that are playing this sport, um, are part of a federation that is not politically
00:49:37.140
correct. I can't think of any other, um, sports federation that has come out with the stance
00:49:44.760
Yeah. It's just strange, but then, you know, that's just, I mean, these, while they're like
00:49:53.560
big rugby union is, is taking a stance, you know, your things happen here in Canada. And it just
00:49:59.740
seems that, um, you know, there are a lot of good Canadian athletes that are at the Olympics that we
00:50:05.220
aren't watching because these sorts of things disaffect the rest of us. And, you know, that's kind of
00:50:10.600
sad too. It's, you know, there's all these other athletes that I know we probably should be cheering
00:50:15.180
for there. They worked really hard to get to where they are. And then they do something like this. And
00:50:20.600
I'm like, I just, I can't care about any of it. Sorry. I just can't. And I don't think that's fair
00:50:24.760
to the other athletes, but here we are. It's what happens.
00:50:28.120
Indeed we are. And by the way, Sheila, do we have some chats that have come in?
00:50:32.540
Yes, we do. And we, you know what, we have to get to the other thing that's in the title of
00:50:36.840
the, uh, YouTube video because we get emails about that.
00:50:45.280
And we'll talk about that. Yeah. Okay. Oh, am I back?
00:50:48.580
You are. Okay. Perfect. Um, we've got, uh, hyper chat of five libraries from
00:50:54.480
spiker 15 CDC now admits that the COVID test cannot tell the difference between COVID and the yearly flu.
00:51:01.840
Yeah. That's why the yearly flu disappeared. Right. Um, we've got another super you from devil's
00:51:08.560
advocate. Yes. The virus is in constant negotiations with the politicians. Yeah. Isn't that the truth?
00:51:15.900
And the public sector unions. You stole the words out of my mouth.
00:51:21.320
I'm surprised the virus isn't running, um, attack ads, Sheila.
00:51:24.840
Oh, I know the teachers union, the nurses union, all of them. Uh, but we've got a rumble from chronic bud 99,
00:51:34.540
almost two years to flatten the curve. Yeah. We're almost two years into two weeks to flatten the curve.
00:51:38.420
And we are all in this together. Oh God. Words. I never want to hear again.
00:51:44.740
Got a hyper chat from history club world. To me,
00:51:46.940
it seems the doctors want to keep COVID-19 as a major issue. So they get the respect and extra pay.
00:51:51.600
I don't think it's just doctors who feel that way. Uh, the media wants to keep COVID for the money.
00:51:57.060
You know what? I'll, I'll also add something to that. I don't even think they care about the money.
00:52:02.160
I think they're generally quite lazy and they don't like attending things in person. So if they can
00:52:06.400
attend, uh, you know, a press conference via live stream without getting out of their jammy jams,
00:52:12.940
uh, to do some actual work, they're happy with that. They like how that is for them.
00:52:17.720
But, but she, I think that's an excellent comment, uh, from history club world that the money angle,
00:52:24.180
um, I'm still an old dinosaur that buys newspapers. And I can tell you during this pandemic,
00:52:30.840
full page ads, double page spreads about, you know, COVID safety protocols, where the vaccinations are.
00:52:38.440
This has been a little bit of an advertising, uh, bonanza, uh, or a blip, but however you want
00:52:46.400
to call it, they'll take money from wherever they can get it these days. And by the way,
00:52:51.280
we're paying for it. These are government ads. So yeah, the mainstream media, um, this is kind of
00:52:58.200
good. Same with radio and TV ads. I see about COVID all the time, um, spreading the, um, you know,
00:53:04.300
the, the fear factor out there, stay home, stay home, bake a cherry cheesecake. So, um, really,
00:53:10.140
if you're part of a sunset media organization, do you want this kind of ad revenue gravy train to dry
00:53:19.780
up? I don't think you do. Yeah. Stay home to stay safe on a billboard everywhere. Um,
00:53:26.940
um, and they also do it as a way to separate them from us commoners. That's true too. Plus
00:53:32.720
in Alberta, all right, everybody already has a vaccine record. I can tell you the exact day I
00:53:37.200
got my grade six vaccination. Yeah, that's true. We do. Um, I know I had to, my daughter was going
00:53:43.220
to cadet camp a couple of years ago and we had to produce vaccine records before she could go. And
00:53:48.280
it wasn't, it was just because there were kids coming from overseas from places where they have
00:53:53.820
no vaccinations for certain dangerous diseases. And they wanted to make sure that
00:53:58.600
she would not be exposed. Um, but those are actual like dangerous diseases, not like COVID
00:54:04.160
that is mistaken so frequently for the flu and vice versa. Uh, people versus predators. Oh,
00:54:10.300
it's Mike from freedom, honey. Uh, hi, Mike, uh, your federal petition, his federal petition starts
00:54:15.440
this weekend. We will be at the Alberta legislature Saturday and Sunday. Thanks rebels. Well, Mike,
00:54:19.460
I'll have to come see you. Mike has a federal petition. I don't know who's sponsoring
00:54:23.760
it yet. And I, uh, I guess I'll find that out over the weekend, um, about changes to, um, bail
00:54:30.400
and release for people who hurt kids. So great work guys. I'll see you then. Uh, and you left
00:54:36.600
us a tip. Who would be against that? Who would click civil liberties down? Oh yeah. Those
00:54:45.940
liberties groups. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and Mike also tipped us five bucks. Well, that's very
00:54:52.480
generous. Mike, we've got a hyper chat from history club world down in medicine had, it seems like
00:54:56.560
maybe 1% of the people are actually still wearing masks outside of places that require it. The thing
00:55:01.760
I was talking about in my previous hyper chat is the online medical records that are accessible to
00:55:06.280
everyone through a digital ID. Yeah, that's true. I've got a rumble, um, from DJ four, six, three,
00:55:14.700
four. Remember when athletes competed for their nation, defund the athletes, you know,
00:55:19.000
what a concept, just, just go there and be quiet and then win something and then come home and use
00:55:26.620
your new found profile to talk about whatever you want. I don't care. Talk about whatever you want.
00:55:31.500
Just, just, just go there and compete though. Please just shut up about everything else for 10
00:55:36.540
days. Um, just do it. Yes. Remember that slogan? Yeah. Nike, worst company in the world. Um,
00:55:45.940
talk about woke, uh, history club world. It seems that the Olympics this year are highly political
00:55:52.900
people from by and large Muslim companies are refusing to pete against the Israelis and probably
00:55:59.420
other Jews. Actually, there's, um, an Iranian athlete who spoke up, uh, in favor of Israel and
00:56:08.920
God only knows what's going to happen to him when he goes home. I hope he defect, I hope he defects
00:56:13.420
while he's in Tokyo, but we've seen this before where, um, some of the more radical countries refuse to
00:56:20.800
compete against the Israeli athletes when it comes to contact sports like judo or whatever. Um, but this
00:56:28.060
Iranian athlete, he, you know, thanked Israel was very supportive of Israel and I hope to God he
00:56:35.580
defects while he's there because he's going to go home and be killed and tortured. You might be right
00:56:39.720
about that Sheila with that regime there. And yeah, I, I think I know what the viewer is speaking of. I
00:56:44.420
think it was, uh, judo, uh, where it was an Arab, uh, contestant in the coach. I remember reading the
00:56:51.520
article saying, uh, yeah, we were looking for a good draw. We got a bad draw that meaning, um,
00:56:56.540
we have to, uh, fight an Israeli. So instead of sucking it up and getting out there and, uh,
00:57:02.580
doing the judo thing, uh, they defaulted. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, well, I guess though,
00:57:08.760
what, what would have been more embarrassing though, if he lost to the Israeli? Indeed. And that is
00:57:15.380
exactly Sheila, what was going through my mind, uh, reading that article. Is this really all about
00:57:22.540
him being, you know, terrorized the idea of losing to a Jew from Israel? And, uh, how do I live that
00:57:32.060
down? So he took the coward's route. He defaulted. Yeah. I really believe that. Oh, I do too. That
00:57:38.800
would have been just so sweet to see, uh, a bigot lose to an Israeli. Anyway, um, a history club world
00:57:46.800
goes on. Then there is BLM and all the other race groups and political groups just makes me somewhat
00:57:51.740
worry for the Paralympics. You know what? The thing about the Paralympics though, is they, there's not
00:57:56.600
a lot of this stuff involved in it. And, uh, I actually enjoy the Paralympics, um, because there's
00:58:03.800
none of that. And I think, um, the Paralympics is such a, a testament to the value of human life and
00:58:08.940
what people can do. And, uh, and I, I like it probably better than the normal Olympics. And I think
00:58:15.040
we're all cut up on the chats with two minutes left of the show. And we didn't talk about the
00:58:19.820
Justin Trudeau plastics thing, but we probably, maybe I'll just briefly touch on it really fast,
00:58:24.760
Justin, if that's okay. Um, so we came across this, it was in an, what we call a proactive release
00:58:32.280
package. And that means that somebody else asked for these documents, got them, didn't see anything
00:58:37.760
noteworthy in them or found what they wanted and did what they wanted with them. And anytime that,
00:58:44.280
uh, another party asks for documents, there comes a time in which they are proactively released to
00:58:50.440
the public. So you have exclusive possession of them until such time as they're just basically
00:58:54.700
dumped on a website and you can go pick through them and find them, which is also something we do
00:58:59.180
because I think a lot of the mainstream media outlets, they ask for certain things. They don't
00:59:04.040
find what they're looking for or something bad about the liberals is in there. So they don't report
00:59:08.720
it. They just leave it. So we go back and poke through these things and it's a lot of work,
00:59:12.860
but we do it anyway because frequently we find things. And in this case we did,
00:59:17.420
we found a messaging plan where the liberals were, um, basically encouraging people to use
00:59:25.260
less effective masks because the ones that are more effective in stopping the spread of COVID,
00:59:32.020
if you care about those sorts of things, and I'm not sure that I do, but the liberals sure do.
00:59:37.400
And the progressives sure do because they're the locker downers. The liberals were in the name of
00:59:44.460
fighting plastic pollution, telling people to use reusable masks that as we know are ineffective,
00:59:52.760
like put your shirt over your face and breathe through it. You know, like that's,
00:59:56.120
how do you think that stops a germ, right? But they didn't want people using medical PPE,
01:00:03.280
not because it would cause a shortage of medical PPE, but because they didn't want the plastic
01:00:08.540
waste. And for the liberals fighting plastic pollution, which is completely inert and the
01:00:13.680
perfect garbage because you can burn it to create energy afterwards. They didn't want people using
01:00:17.820
plastic so that, so they were in their own minds willing to put people's health at risk.
01:00:24.100
Again, if you care about COVID and the spread and wearing masks, I don't, but the liberals do. And
01:00:30.540
So Sheila, whatever happened to the old chestnut that public safety is paramount, that if they
01:00:36.840
really believe that these masks are ensuring the health and safety of the population, uh, I'm sorry,
01:00:44.560
uh, health and safety, public safety, that should come before any pollution issue, I would assume,
01:00:51.500
but apparently never, um, a liberal will never miss an opportunity to virtue signal.
01:00:59.940
Well, yeah. And look how liberals are treating plastic. Again, I'm a fan of plastic. I love
01:01:04.300
plastic plastic. We, we should have stopped the ban on plastic when we realized it's perfectly
01:01:10.800
necessary, uh, for a sanitary society, especially during a, during a pandemic restaurant owners,
01:01:17.760
plastic made it possible for them to survive with takeout and delivery, uh, in hospitals,
01:01:23.720
intubation, PPE, plastic, plastic, plastic, even grocery stores. They realized during the pandemic,
01:01:29.620
it's kind of gross for us to be touching your gross reusable bags that are full of E. coli from
01:01:34.560
leaky meat. Please use this plastic bag. So municipalities were even reversing their plastic
01:01:39.460
bans during the pandemic because they realized that plastic is sanitary. And like I said, it's the
01:01:45.080
perfect garbage. Recycling such a scam. It's a stored fossil fuel. You just take it, you incinerate
01:01:51.400
it, you power your house with it. It's beautiful. It's great. You use it once you get to burn it.
01:01:54.960
You got electricity, but the liberals have listed plastic as a schedule one toxin.
01:02:02.680
Like it's lead as best dose and mercury. So in their minds, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
01:02:11.300
It's we'd rather people use a completely ineffective medical fabric mask instead of using something we
01:02:20.760
think is akin to lead. I mean, it makes perfect sense when you examine the liberal mindset. It's,
01:02:26.460
it's nonsensical in reality, but perfect in the mind of Justin Trudeau.
01:02:30.840
And Sheila also, uh, let's not kid the kidders as they say down at the midway. Um, these people
01:02:37.380
pushing for plastic bans, uh, they themselves use these disposable plastics every day. And if you
01:02:45.100
think I'm, you know, making a thesis, I can't prove folks. Uh, I did prove it, uh, on a video
01:02:51.500
when, uh, in Richmond Hill, where I live, there was a counselor who is obsessed about the city of
01:02:58.300
Richmond Hill having its own single use plastic band. I guess, where will we get our plastics? Oh,
01:03:04.000
from the bordering areas of Toronto, Markham, Vaughn, Aurora. Right. But the fact is when that was
01:03:11.620
debated, when they broke for lunch, I went into the council offices and his name is David West. His
01:03:18.640
nickname is David waste. Um, which tells you about his, uh, a lot about his political capital. And guess
01:03:24.860
what, guess what David waste was eating folks food in single use plastic containers, which I pointed
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out and he immediately slammed the door in my face, or as I like to say, just another day at the office.
01:03:40.940
So please, um, if you're going to preach this kind of crap guys, at least, you know, bring your own
01:03:48.680
ceramic mugs and bowls and, uh, everything else, uh, lead by example. I know what a concept.
01:03:55.880
Well, and I, I don't even think any of this is really about plastic, right? Like, I don't think
01:04:00.580
so. I think plastic is the victim here, but really this goes back to the war on oil and gas. This is
01:04:06.560
just because plastic is made by oil and gas and oil and gas is bad. Therefore plastic is bad. I think
01:04:13.920
plastic is, is the unwilling victim here because we know it is not Canadian plastic that is ending up
01:04:21.780
up the nose and in the eyeballs of sea turtles somewhere or creating a tidal wave in some Chinese
01:04:26.980
river. It's not our plastic. We're pretty good at dealing with garbage in Canada. We're a pretty
01:04:33.340
clean and tidy place. And actually, if you travel the world, that's one of the things I noticed,
01:04:37.260
like even in advanced Western civilizations, Western countries, Western Europe, I'm like,
01:04:42.280
ah, you guys, it's kind of dirty. You're cleaning the streets. We're really good at dealing with
01:04:46.840
our garbage here in Canada. And, uh, so it's, I don't think it's about, it's never been about
01:04:51.860
plastic. It's about oil and gas and plastic is just related and bad by default. No, you're absolutely
01:04:58.900
right. And Sheila, um, way back, I think it was 1995. I was in Egypt. I was on a, uh, a little cruise
01:05:06.380
ship going down the Nile. I was up late at night. So I, I don't think I was supposed to see this.
01:05:11.180
And I looked with shock as crew members were just tossing full garbage bags off the ship into the
01:05:18.880
Nile river. And it, it, it was like, it was disturbing because I'm with you just because
01:05:26.740
we're pro plastic. That's not worth saying, Oh, toss your empty bottle in the, uh, the lake or river
01:05:32.640
or ocean or litter. No, far be on the contrary, manage the waste, right? You can even make,
01:05:40.580
as you said earlier, energy out of waste. If you, uh, choose to Sheila. Um, and I don't think
01:05:46.500
under cloak of darkness, throwing full garbage bags into a river is the way to go. That, that,
01:05:52.380
that's not what we are advocating. No, I, you know, I'm one of those people that when I go
01:05:58.640
quadding or go camping or whatever, I bring everybody else's garbage out too. Like if I'm
01:06:03.200
on the trails and I see garbage, I pick it up, I put it in the back of my Rhino and I bring it back
01:06:08.780
out. I try to leave the place cleaner than I, uh, than when I got there, I I'm anti littering,
01:06:15.240
but I'm pro plastic. And I don't think those two things are incompatible. Um, however,
01:06:19.480
the liberals seem to think it is for some reason. I'm with you a hundred percent on that. We,
01:06:23.600
we got to run those anti littering ads, uh, those great ads from the early seventies,
01:06:27.360
like, uh, give a hoot, don't pollute, that sort of thing. You'll have me crying. I'll be the guy
01:06:33.300
that cries and turn and I'll be like, somebody will throw something out the window and a tear
01:06:37.160
will roll down my. That's right. Oh, that's that iconic. It's the, the native American who I believe
01:06:43.800
was Italian actually, or it wasn't, but I know what you're saying, you know, but, uh, uh, yeah,
01:06:51.880
I think there is a way to have our plastics and responsibly dispose of them as opposed to
01:06:58.820
canceling the plastics industry, which is apparently what these liberals want to do.
01:07:04.540
It is absolutely what they want to do, but we are, I think we're seven minutes past the hour.
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And I think we're all caught up on the chats. Hey, Justin,
01:07:10.900
I can't hear you. He's got a big thumbs up. Well, uh, folks, thank you so much,
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especially for those who made a donation. We greatly appreciate it. Thanks to Justin behind
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the board. Of course, the she devil with a sword in Northern Alberta, I'm signing off
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and we will be back on Tuesday tomorrow. The big boss man, Ezra Levent will be here at the usual
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time and place in the meantime, folks stay sane.