Jean Charest just penned an open letter published in the Toronto Sun, and I think he just killed his chances of ever becoming Conservative Party of Canada leader. I want to personally thank Mr. Charest for his pithy prose, because he has demonstrated beyond a doubt, in his own words, no less, that he is yet another closet liberal who likes to wear Conservative clothes like the already rejected candidate, Patrick Brown.
00:00:49.540Jean Charest recently published an open letter in the Toronto Sun newspaper.
00:00:54.080It was addressed to, quote, my fellow members of the Conservative Party of Canada, please accept this as my final pitch to those of you who have yet to cast a ballot in the leadership race, end quote.
00:01:07.660And you know something, folks? I want to personally thank Mr. Charest for his pithy prose because he has demonstrated beyond a doubt, in his own words, no less, that he is yet another closet liberal who likes to wear Conservative clothes, you know, like the already rejected CPC candidate, sneaky Patrick Brown.
00:01:32.660You want proof? You want proof? No problem.
00:01:51.660The first nugget that had the needle on my internal bullshite detector veering deep into the red zone was this, quote,
00:02:00.880We need a healthy debate about ideas within our own party that is the base upon which we earn the support of Canadians and attract high-caliber candidates.
00:02:13.180A competitive race is a good thing, end quote.
00:02:16.240Oh, really? A competitive race is a good thing. Is this the same Jean Charest that stated back in April that Pierre Pallievre should be disqualified as a CPC candidate for supporting the trucker convoy?
00:02:33.360Let's check out that piece of video evidence.
00:02:37.200He's attracting big crowds, sir. Like, I'm telling you, you're seeing a thousand people there, and I've seen some of your crowds, 500 in Quebec, but smaller crowds, he's got momentum.
00:02:47.580He's talking about axing carbon price, cutting things, getting rid of the gatekeepers.
00:02:53.040Now, you've become very much more openly critical of him. Now, you're here in Ottawa, specifically about his support of the truckers.
00:03:17.260You sound like you drank the Kool-Aid here.
00:03:19.220No, no, he was out there with the truckers. I'm giving you his view.
00:03:21.680Look, Evan, everyone knows that Pierre Polyev supported the blockade, and I don't care how much spin you put into it.
00:03:29.000Here is someone who makes laws and says, I can break laws because I'm above the law.
00:03:33.940Well, I'm sorry. If you want to be a leader of a party, if you want to sit in the House of Commons and make laws, you have to obey them.
00:03:40.800The laws of the land are not a buffet table from which you choose what you want or do not want to support.
00:03:46.940And if you say to Canadians, I want to be the leader of the Conservative Party and I want to be the chief legislator of the country, but I don't have to obey the laws.
00:03:55.860I'm sorry. That's not just a failure in leadership.
00:03:59.260It disqualifies you, as far as I'm concerned, as being someone who thinks or aspires to be a leader of a party.
00:04:06.940Wow. Jean Charest doesn't want a healthy debate. Rather, he is an adherent of cancel culture.
00:04:15.380Conservatives, by definition, should be outspoken in their opposition to cancel culture and wokeism and political correctness.
00:04:23.740But not this fake Tory, a man who will never be able to live down that period of eight years on his resume in which he served as the Liberal Premier of Quebec.
00:09:07.840Most of the voting public believes that there are much bigger issues than freedom at stake in this country, end quote.
00:09:14.820What could possibly be more important than freedom?
00:09:20.040Freedom is the most basic of human rights.
00:09:23.480The opposite of freedom is tyranny and slavery.
00:09:27.380And this Laurentian elite dismisses freedom as if it was some sort of disposable Kleenex.
00:09:34.520Ask yourself, is this who you want as the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada?
00:09:40.680Is this who you want as the next Prime Minister?
00:09:46.000But if Sheree thought this Hail Mary pass was going to win over those Conservatives who still might be on the fence in terms of who they're going to support,
00:10:26.280This guy has obviously not been paying attention the last two years and more.
00:10:31.800Maybe the electorate has awoken from the usual bromides and platitudes these guys hand out as the red hot issues.
00:10:40.920Maybe people have finally realised that our fundamental freedoms are under attack by such as the like of Jean Sheree and other Laurentian elites.
00:11:10.540Now, I would never judge the worth of any candidate by their hairstyle, but when it comes to Jean Sheree, that hairdo does remind me of another funny man, namely Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.
00:11:36.340In fact, the resemblance is downright uncanny.
00:11:40.380And if Moe was the meanest stooge and Curly was the funniest stooge, surely Larry was the dumbest stooge.
00:12:38.940Canadians are looking for a leader who is ready to take on the responsibility of Prime Minister and all the responsibilities and the tough decisions that come with it.
00:12:55.320After seven years of misery under the Trudeau Liberals, Canadians are looking for a brave Prime Minister to make tough decisions in order to repair this broken and divided country.
00:13:09.160However, that person is not you, Mr. Sheree.
00:13:14.440Why are Canada's big banks becoming increasingly political?
00:13:28.000Case in point, we looked on in revulsion last February when some Canadians actually had their bank accounts frozen for the egregious crime of making monetary donations to the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
00:13:43.460And even before that took place, we experienced political interference right here at Rebel News last December.
00:13:51.580That's when the Royal Bank of Canada declined to approve our mortgage application pertaining to a Calgary property.
00:14:00.060This had nothing to do with our financial wherewithal.
00:14:02.460Rather, the Royal Bank apparently doesn't like our editorial stance.
00:14:09.020Remember Ezra Levin's commentary at the time?
00:14:13.540The bank has been, you know, trying to pry away from certain, you know, clients where they're kind of out there in the media and very strong opinionated.
00:14:24.780I'm embarrassed I was turned down for a mortgage last week by the Royal Bank.
00:15:01.780Well, now comes yet another example of a bank carrying out a jihad against a client for the egregious crime of wrongthink.
00:15:11.600Yes, apparently having a politically incorrect and non-woke mindset is sinful in the eyes of Canada's big banks.
00:15:21.000And folks, just wait until you hear the details pertaining to this particular story.
00:15:27.140And joining me now from Grand Prairie, Alberta, is Gary Duke, who used to be a Scotiabank client until the bank decided to, well, fire him.
00:15:47.280I wish it was a better subject matter.
00:15:49.480But, Gary, what, pray tell, did you do that made your local Scotiabank determine that they no longer want to do business with you any longer?
00:16:00.720Well, I just tried to get online with an app to do some banking online.
00:16:11.680And basically, there was a rainbow app.
00:16:18.080So I said, is there any way to get this rainbow app off my phone?
00:16:21.860And he responded in quite a shocking way.
00:17:12.020Gary, Scotiabank strives to provide an inclusive environment for all members of the LGBTQ plus community.
00:17:20.100And during Pride Month, like every other financial institution, we have chosen to show our support in a variety of ways, including visual signs such as rainbows on our app.
00:17:32.620Your request slash complaint will not be entertained as it does not align with our principles.
00:17:40.620Your comments are not appreciated, nor will they be tolerated, which is why we have chosen to terminate our relationship with you.
00:17:49.200You may gather the funds from your account, and a termination notice will be mailed to you advising the date you have until to retrieve any funds.
00:18:00.300Any funds in the account upon the date of closure will be put into a bank draft and mailed to the address we have on file.
00:18:11.820I mean, right away he went to the nuclear option just because you complained about a rainbow illustration on the app.
00:18:21.800Why do you think he responded this way?
00:18:27.120Well, I think it's the culture in general that we have right now.
00:18:30.980You know, give him the benefit of the doubt, he might have thought I was a troll and possibly testing him to kind of keep up the standard that they're trying to promote nowadays out there and the woke, kind of woke-ism.
00:18:49.240So that could be that he was concerned that if he didn't say the right thing that he would be, you know, he would be attacked from his end.
00:19:00.360So I understand that, and that's the fear a lot of us have for not even wanting to speak out nowadays is that whole thing, right?
00:20:01.460And it kind of goes along with all the stuff we're hearing on the media with people like tenured professors being fired from universities.
00:20:08.940That you guys actually ran a story on that and just counter, you know, anyone who disagrees with the narrative nowadays, including the vaccine passports, which, you know, was another issue that I've had over the past year.
00:20:28.320I'm losing well over $100,000 in income because of people canceling me because I don't want to take a vaccine.
00:21:09.140And also, getting back to this particular issue, Gary, you know, the LGBT plus, et cetera, community, they have long said, we want more acceptance.
00:22:29.260And for those who, you know, it's basically scare tactics and bullying tactics and that kind of thing that they want to force others to believe what they believe.
00:22:39.560And if not, then you're out kind of thing.
00:22:46.280I'm concerned for the future for my children, who are my grandchildren included, who are going to be dealing with this stuff.
00:22:55.840And if you don't agree with the system or Prime Minister Trudeau or whoever who demonizes us, including Kenny, demonizes us continually, right wing and fringe minorities and et cetera, you know, racists and all the homophobic and anything they can think of to try to get us in this, in this little area to try to squish us.
00:24:23.740Quote, Scotiabank cannot comment on individual customer matters for privacy reasons.
00:24:29.280We are committed to building an inclusive environment and culture through active allyship and believe that all employees, customers, and the community should be treated with equal respect and consideration.
00:24:46.460And that's from Katie Ruskina, she, her, uh, manager, media relations and issues management with, uh, Scotiabank.
00:24:55.940So once again, as you see, uh, they believe that all employees, customers, and the community should be treated with equal respect and consideration.
00:25:05.660Not quite sure how being fired as a customer is an act of respect or consideration, but there's the official, uh, position of Scotiabank on this matter.
00:25:28.380Well, folks, lots of response to my Patrick Brown monologue from last night.