Rebel News Plus is a premium membership that gives you access to all the latest Rebel News, your favourite Rebel News and much more. This week, we look back at some of the best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels, including: The vaccine deadline has been extended to November 15th, 2019. Why is Alberta Health Services apparently trying to put a delightful bakery out of business? What is happening in La Belle-Provence, Quebec? Why are so many Quebec frontline workers mad as hell, and they re not going to take it anymore regarding mandatory vaccine mandates they recently took to the streets to vent their ire? And get this, it looks as though the provincial government is playing defense as it has extended the vaccine deadline by an additional month.
00:08:20.920So, given that the number is so huge, 27,000, well, let's put it this way.
00:08:26.920If the government of Quebec was serious about this threat and on November 15th said to those 27,000 people, you're fired or you're suspended without pay, however you want to call it, what would that do to the frontline situation in Quebec?
00:08:43.920So, the thing is, in Quebec right now, they are trying to get, like, people from other countries, like Colombia, to come to work as an health worker right now.
00:08:58.920The thing is, they don't have staff anywhere around the world right now, so I don't know how they will be able to do it.
00:09:09.920And right now, they are telling that people who have, I don't know if you know about it, but the health worker, like nurse, they will lose their license too.
00:09:20.920When they will get fired, they will lose their license to practice.
00:09:24.920And because they refuse to take the vaccine, they will not touch the prime.
00:09:31.920Like, they offer, like, money for the nurse to come back to work and to keep the overtime, obligatory, like, overtime working.
00:09:46.920So, right now, they say, oh, but you didn't take it, the vaccine, so you cannot touch this prime.
00:09:55.920You know, Alexa, I really don't understand what's going on here.
00:09:59.920If we go back several months ago, before there was such a thing as a COVID-19 vaccine,
00:10:04.920these frontline workers, these nurses and other healthcare workers, they were champion.
00:10:10.920They were the healthcare heroes, remember that?
00:10:13.920And now that there is a vaccine, well, the situation is no different in the hospital.
00:10:18.920They're being demanded to take it, or else you're not a hero, you're a zero.
00:11:30.920So, Alexa, what do you think is really going on here, since the science doesn't make sense?
00:11:36.920Is this all about tyranny on the behalf of the Legault government?
00:11:42.920They kind of like, you know, the kind of totalitarianism they've enjoyed for the last year and a half,
00:11:49.920and now they're doubling down on it, making demands that, quite frankly,
00:11:54.920I think are going to make Quebec a worse place to live in if they fire all these 27,000 workers.
00:12:03.920So, actually, Legault, since he started to be, like, you call it the premier, we call it prime minister here,
00:12:13.920and he just, I think he just lost the power that he got from the health emergency,
00:12:19.920and now he promised all the time to people, but he's always lied,
00:12:25.920and people still believe that he's doing that for good, but he's not.
00:12:31.920And if our health system collapse, I'm not giving, like, much from us, because we are, our reputation for our health system
00:12:43.920is supposed to be one of the best in North America, and in America, actually.
00:12:49.920And now it would be, like, the worst, and everybody will, like, see their surgery postponed,
00:12:57.920all the treatment postponed, a lot of people will die because they are not the treatment.
00:13:04.920So, I don't know what's going on here.
00:13:07.920It's so terrible, and we have seen, during this pandemic, people right across Canada on elective surgery lists
00:13:14.920who have died, who are otherwise fairly young, fairly healthy, but needed elective surgery,
00:13:19.920and they died because their operation was postponed, which is just horrible.
00:13:25.920One last question, Alexa. If I ask you to look into your crystal ball, we go to November 15th,
00:13:32.920none of these people, or hardly any of them, change their mind.
00:13:36.920As I speculated in my introduction, do you think the government's going to go,
00:13:40.920okay, you've got until December 15th, January 15th, you name it, or is this a hard line in the sand?
00:13:48.920Is the government going to back up its threats with mass terminations?
00:13:53.920I think it's mostly a threat. They think that because of this threat, people will be scared, people will go and get the shot.
00:14:02.920I think it's mostly that because we saw it, like, since the beginning of the vaccination.
00:14:08.920It's always a threat. We threat you, and I make you, like, live in the fear. Like, mostly it's economic fear.
00:14:17.920So people will, like, say, okay, I have no choice. I have a life. I have a house. I have children. I will take it.
00:14:24.920Say it's what they want. So I think it's mostly a threat because they cannot, the system cannot support to fire as much people as that.
00:14:33.920Yeah. No, and we will see come November 15th. I know you'll follow up on this.
00:14:38.920And you know what, Alexa, let's be honest. It's a horrible threat. It's a terrible threat.
00:14:42.920If I was a nurse, if I was another frontline healthcare worker, yeah, maybe I want to stand by my principles regarding vaccination status.
00:14:51.920But at the same time, I've got to put food on the table. I have a mortgage to pay, and this is an economic death sentence.
00:14:58.920I guess we'll see on November 15th if this is all bark and no bite or if Premier Legault would actually go through with such an egregious action.
00:15:09.920It was a great video, my friend. Thank you so much, and I look forward to the update next month.
00:15:15.920You got it. And that was Alexa Lavoie in Quebec City. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:15:24.920There's actually a spot in it that says if you're going to collect information from customers, you should talk to a lawyer before you do so.
00:15:38.920And I'm thinking, why do you have to talk to a lawyer if all of this stuff that they're saying to do is completely normal and you're okay to ask it?
00:15:45.920It just doesn't make any sense to me. None of it makes any sense.
00:15:48.920Jen, you also do something else in your store here, and that is support local businesses.
00:15:54.920So when you are closed to customers, the other local businesses are hurting too.
00:15:59.920Yeah. Actually, the lady who she's called Candidly Handcrafted, she makes the scarves.
00:16:06.920Sorry, the toques. She actually had a load of toques ready to go because she does markets.
00:16:13.920Well, the market was cancelled. And I saw that and I was just like, you know what, like, if I can help her out, I will.
00:16:19.920And she does wholesale. So I grabbed a bunch and put them on my shelf.
00:16:24.920They're selling great and they're so warm and comfy. But yeah, if I can help another business, like, we're all suffering right now.
00:20:06.920But Sheila, there is something about seeing an entrepreneur being harassed out of business potentially
00:20:13.920by a provincial doctatorship that really makes my blood boil.
00:20:19.920Well, we know that restaurants and bakeries are not super spreader venues for COVID.
00:20:24.920So how's this for a concept? If someone wants to eat at Bake My Day, so be it.
00:20:30.920If someone wants to cower in fear in their basement, hey, whatever floats your boat.
00:20:34.920Why is it that Alberta Health Services thinks that it's a better strategy to coerce and harass people like Jen,
00:20:42.920right out of business maybe, given the lack of scientific evidence?
00:20:47.920Well, and when you go into Jen's little restaurant there, everything is like six or more feet apart.
00:20:53.920She's gone out of her way to follow the rules.
00:20:55.920She just said that this is a rule that she just can't morally follow.
00:20:59.920And for her, it really is a moral stance because, as she points out, the majority, I mean, she's a bakery.
00:21:05.920She's got a little couple of three, four little tables where you could sit down if you wanted to.
00:21:10.920But most of what she does is take out.
00:21:13.920But for her, it's she just can't invade the privacy of those few people who just want to come and sit down and get out of the house after 20 months of never ending lockdowns.
00:21:26.920She could easily just say, OK, well, I'm moving to 100 percent takeout.
00:21:32.920Push the tables across the room, put them up against the wall.
00:21:35.920And it really wouldn't hurt her bottom line for her.
00:22:12.920The last thing someone like Jen needs is some health bureaucrat to come in and put on these repercussions to hurt her business, especially, again, what's the crime?
00:22:26.920What is the catalyst here for a super spreader event?
00:22:31.920Yeah, how many people are getting COVID in a bakery?
00:22:34.920You know, like what I'd like to see those numbers.
00:22:37.920Now, on the flip side, it seems as though business is better than ever because people want to support these small businesses who are standing up to the big behemoth of government trying to crush them.
00:22:50.920She, at least last time I talked to her, she's looking at another location moving to a bigger spot because business has been so good.
00:22:59.920Now, is that going to still be the case if the government pulls her permits and basically forces her to close, pulls her food handling permits?
00:23:46.920And I don't use that word flippantly, Sheila.
00:23:50.920We've been told since day one of this pandemic we're all in this together.
00:23:54.920Yet it seems that the casualties are those in the private sector, whereas in the public sector, they've not missed a day's worth of pay, a day's vacation.
00:24:04.920In fact, some of them gave themselves hefty raises.
00:24:07.920That's what really infuriates me about this.
00:24:10.920I wonder if one of those Alberta Health Services bureaucrats was actually getting up at the crack of dawn to run a bakery and try to make a viable business, if they might have a little more empathy for people like Jen that don't need this harassment.
00:24:26.920You know, and these complaints are coming from health inspectors themselves who are out of uniform, not identifying themselves.
00:24:35.920I saw a story today, the Cowl Lake General Store in Cowl Lake, Alberta.
00:25:34.920I mean, I'm not saying there's not a role for health service bureaucrats.
00:25:39.920I mean, if there was a restaurant with a filthy washroom, if customers observed the kitchen staff not washing their hands before preparing dishes, you don't want that.
00:25:49.920You know, that could be a real and present danger in terms of getting food poisoning or what have you.
00:25:55.920But this idea of, you know, not reinventing yourself as the restaurateur, as the baker, as the unofficial agent of the state in terms of your papers, please.
00:26:07.920They don't have to be, you know, going after people like Jen for that.
00:26:16.920You know, for a lot of these restaurateurs, they're being put in the same position that a lot of other people in the private sector are where it's, you know, where people are finding out, well, my job has this vaccine mandate.
00:26:28.920Now I'm sort of forced to get the jab.
00:26:32.920And for restaurateurs, they're on the flip side of that.
00:26:35.920They can't reopen the way they need to so that they can pay their bills unless they start enforcing something they fundamentally disagree with.
00:26:43.920The irony here is that for a lot of people, they are not going as me in particular.
00:26:52.920I mean, I'm not going to go to a place that forces the vaccine passport mandate on its customers.
00:26:58.920I just don't want to participate in the segregation.
00:27:01.920I understand why some of the businesses are doing it.
00:27:03.920They're going to lose their shirts if they don't.
00:27:07.920These businesses are being put in a position just like the employees that need to get the vaccine to keep their job.
00:27:13.920They need to act fundamentally opposed to their own consciences just to keep the lights on and keep a roof over their head and keep their employees employed.
00:27:23.920And I think it's a terrible moral dilemma and an unnecessary one that the government is putting on everybody because I don't think the science supports any of it.
00:27:32.920I totally agree, Sheila. Exit question then. In the weeks and months ahead, what is going to be the ultimate ending for Bake My Day?
00:27:42.920I think that ultimately the machinery of the state is going to move to close her now.
00:27:50.920And I think based on just the history of what has happened and has unfolded before us other times that restaurants tried to stand up, the pressure is going to be put on the landlord to terminate her lease.
00:28:05.920I think that they are going to lean on the municipality to pull her business license.
00:28:10.920And that's what she's going to get for trying to protect the privacy of her customers and refusing to participate in a system of segregation.
00:28:20.920So it's going to be another Adamson barbecue situation.
00:28:57.920We're taking 20 strategic legal cases all across the country.
00:29:00.920If you think you are one, submit your information there.
00:29:03.920And if you'd like to help fund our legal battle because it is going to be enormously expensive and the government has got all the money in the world.
00:29:29.920More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:29:32.920What was the ostensible policy reason of having this press conference today?
00:29:41.920Well, the problem in our government is that you have the campaign chairman of the party in the caucus on a regular basis participating in the decision makings of the government.
00:29:59.920Well, he owns a company that he founded.