What's going on at that infamous illegal international border crossing, otherwise known as Roxham Road in Quebec? Reporters Alexa Lavoie and Jadyn LeBaron take a visit, and what she discovers is downright disturbing. Plus, the story of City of Toronto custodian Curtis Wilson being suspended without pay for not getting the COVID-19 jab.
00:00:00.000Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
00:00:11.380What the hell is going on at that infamous illegal international border crossing, otherwise known as Roxham Road in Quebec?
00:00:19.980Alexa Lavoie paid a visit, and what she discovered is downright disturbing.
00:00:25.220Speaking of disturbing, check out the story of City of Toronto custodian Curtis Wilson.
00:00:32.580He was suspended without pay for, you guessed it, not getting the COVID-19 jabs.
00:00:39.600And even worse, his superiors told him if he were to drop by his workplace, he'd be charged with trespassing.
00:00:48.020But technically, Mr. Wilson is still an employee. What the?
00:00:52.240Link and Jay will drop by with all the nitty-gritty details.
00:00:57.500And letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.
00:01:01.260And you had plenty to say about Peel Region shamefully using an unauthorised version of the Caped Crusader to provoke the COVID-19 vaccine to the small fry set.
00:02:42.120An obscure place where a lot of things are going on, all paid for by the taxpayer.
00:02:51.120And all this, under high surveillance.
00:03:05.200Wow. Doesn't that interaction Alexa had with the police tell you all you really need to know about the border disgrace that is Roxham Road?
00:03:15.980After all, Alexa is a tax-paying, law-abiding journalist simply doing her job.
00:05:14.540And they enter without any proof, and that doesn't alert anybody.
00:05:21.460So, are we in the pandemic, or I miss a part of the story?
00:05:28.300Alexa, that's a very good point because, you know, the architect of this disaster in terms of our porous border is, of course, Justin Trudeau.
00:05:36.660Years ago, he sent out on Twitter, hashtag welcome to Canada, and sure enough, the flood began.
00:05:43.640Even if you were a liberal that believed in open borders and the resettling of migrants and refugees, etc., couldn't you use the pandemic to at least put this program on pause?
00:05:59.280What I'm saying, Alexa, is that we want to accommodate you, but because of COVID, because of these extraordinary medical circumstances, because we're living in a pandemic, we've got to put up a fence, and we've got to cut this off until this pandemic is over.
00:06:18.280Probably because when they come in Canada, they will respect the room, because they are under the government probably for a certain time.
00:06:30.080So, it's good to have some people who will respect everything and walk really straight as Mr. Trudeau won.
00:06:37.880But for myself, it's like one vote more is what I think.
00:06:46.820And as well, for me, it's like I will cut that out until, yeah, until everything is over.
00:06:54.880But I understand that some people are really in the rush to do some, like, immigration.
00:07:04.160I'm not saying that some people are not in need.
00:07:07.040But most of them that I saw, it was not really urgent, and especially they were looking, like, pretty wealthy, like, with, like, nice luggage and everything.
00:07:18.140I was like, what are you really, like, like, avoiding, like, a word somewhere?
00:07:26.100But I'm not thinking that is the case.
00:07:28.260And U.S. is a good country, since, like, I remember in the 2017, they were, like, they were scared to be deported by Trump administration.
00:07:52.440If someone's coming across the border with Gucci luggage, I don't think they are someone fleeing from their lives from some war-torn country where they are, you know, they're targeted for incarceration or death, even.
00:08:20.220So, what my theory is, Alexa, is that the Justin Trudeau Liberals still want these people to be coming into Canada because there's an unspoken quid pro quo arrangement here.
00:08:34.580You come in when you get your Canadian citizenship.
00:08:37.820You remember to vote for Team Red every four years.
00:08:41.520It's the Liberal government that did this to you.
00:08:44.240And it's all about building a more massive voting base.
00:09:08.220So, so much for the pandemic being the be-all and end-all of all these emergency measures acts.
00:09:16.940When it comes to some political shenanigans, we can put the pandemic on the back burner.
00:09:23.400Another thing I want to ask you, Alexa, I don't know if you had a chance to ask any of the police officers there, but the procedure is, as they're about to cross the border, the police say, if you cross that line, you're going to be under arrest.
00:09:38.780And they cross because they want to be under arrest.
00:09:44.320The thing that gets me is that once you're under arrest, you are supposed to be handcuffed.
00:09:50.460I mean, speaking personally, I've been under arrest several times in the last couple of years for political reasons and thought crimes, for God's sakes.
00:09:58.560And I'm cuffed tightly before my candy ass is shoved in a police cruiser.
00:10:03.680Why aren't these people who are under arrest handcuffed too?
00:10:07.540So they were like, they crossed the line and they said, OK, you are now under arrest because you crossed illegally into Canada.
00:11:06.720I think whether they're going to a holding cell or the Club Ritz Hotel, once you're under arrest, you're under arrest and the procedure is you have to be handcuffed.
00:11:20.440I found it somewhat disturbing that the security guards you interacted with, the police officers you interacted with, they didn't seem to understand the law.
00:11:31.000They were saying, you're not allowed to videotape me.
00:11:38.280Yes, we are allowed on a public place to videotape you.
00:11:44.080So if they don't even know the basic law regarding, you know, their images being captured on a camera, how can we trust they know the law when it comes to refugee policy?
00:11:55.600I think they understand only what they want to understand.
00:13:26.740More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:13:29.100Effective October 30th, it will be mandatory for all City of Toronto employees to have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
00:13:47.880This gives people the required time to get the two doses.
00:13:51.100This is about ensuring that the City of Toronto, your municipal government, funded with your tax dollars, which serves you, is doing everything it can to encourage vaccination and to protect our workers.
00:14:04.160So, it's my fifth year working for the City, Parks and Forestry Department.
00:14:08.460Right now, I'm a custodian here at Palmo Park Community Centre.
00:14:50.140We don't grow bananas in Canada, so let's call our dominion a maple syrup republic because that's what it is, folks, with these so-called emergency orders.
00:15:02.080We now live in a day and age of apartheid 2.0 where one is legally discriminated against, not based on skin colour, but rather COVID-19 vaccination status.
00:15:38.000Yeah, it's like we're seeing in different sectors, people that, you know, it was deemed safe for them to go to work all through the pandemic, no problem.
00:15:47.720You know, they were glorified as heroes, frontline heroes, you know, really putting it all out there for, you know, doing their job, performing their job in such a dangerous time as this pandemic.
00:15:57.800And all of a sudden, vaccine comes around, vaccine mandates are being pushed, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, everything.
00:16:05.300And these people are coincidentally no longer safe to work.
00:16:47.740You know, he's pretty much isolated for his whole job.
00:16:50.580So you think that at the very least that they would provide some sort of accommodation, such as rapid testing or some sort of testing, some sort of alternative so that he's not just left out to dry, like we're seeing with so many other people.
00:17:45.820You know, it's, at this point, the only real explanation for any of this is they just, at all costs, they want everybody to get this vaccine.
00:17:55.740They want to coerce people to get the vaccine.
00:17:58.040They want these threats and to, you know, just dangle their lives over their heads.
00:18:03.340It's just basically pushing this vaccine at all costs.
00:18:17.180One of the elements you touch on in the video, Lincoln, is that Mr. Wilson is told, if you dare have the temerity to show up for work in the wee hours of the morning, you'll be charged with trespassing.
00:18:47.720You know, I think it stems from the top down.
00:18:49.620The City of Toronto has just put such an emphasis on getting all their workers vaccinated.
00:18:56.080It's like they all want to, it's like, you know, these sectors, the government, they want to reach this whole, like, 100%, you know, vaccination status.
00:19:06.020Everyone working in each sector, 100% vaccinated.
00:19:08.520And they're trying to achieve that at all costs.
00:19:13.040I mean, Lincoln, going back about two weeks ago, you had Mayor John Tory doing a presser introducing Pokeroo from the children's show Polka Dot Door to get kids 5 to 11 vaccinated.
00:19:26.120By the way, that was so stupid, I thought.
00:19:28.580Polka Dot Door went off the air in 1993.
00:19:32.240Nobody in that age demographic grew up with Pokeroo.
00:19:38.500But this mindset that it's almost as though if a single person falls through the net and doesn't get double jabbed, and now they're talking triple jabbed, then that's a threat to society.
00:20:34.760And unfortunately, most people, it seems, aren't able to have that willpower.
00:20:38.480Like in the video, he says that a lot of his coworkers who are standing with him and had the same mindset as him, they ultimately, they just didn't know what to do.
00:20:47.260And they got scared and they panicked.
00:20:49.440They have a roof to put over their heads, and they just said, I got to do it.
00:20:52.320Yeah, and also the way they're treated, I mentioned earlier, we're going to charge you a trespassing, a good worker like Mr. Wilson.
00:20:58.980And then he goes to that rec facility, and they change the locks on him like he was a vagrant or a vandal trying to break in and do harm.
00:21:10.180You know, Lincoln, I wonder how much the City of Toronto is spending on new locks to keep their own workers out of their workplaces.
00:21:17.560Yeah, so when Curtis first reached out to us, you know, he had an idea, but he wasn't exactly sure what was going to happen because he basically didn't, he wasn't accepting what they were handing down to him as far as the suspension.
00:21:34.000You know, so he said, I was just going to show up and see what happens, you know.
00:21:38.320And he kind of had the idea that the locks were going to be changed, and as you saw, we basically, we did that report.
00:21:43.280We showed up for his first shift on suspension, and as you saw in the video, the doors, the locks were changed, so there's no way of getting in.
00:21:52.340And of course, no help from his union, I imagine.
00:21:55.060That seems to be a standard procedure.
00:21:57.520The union reps, right, so they're sending in union reps to, you know, represent these people like Curtis that are in this tough situation being unvaccinated or not disclosing their vaccination status.
00:22:10.820But the union reps that are representing them are all vaccinated themselves, so there's not really a fair playing field.
00:22:18.500But, you know, in fairness, Lincoln, I mean, I have come across people, they have the double jabs, but they speak out for the unvaccinated.
00:22:30.620However, I think with the unions, right across the board, with very few exceptions, they're all in with management.
00:22:37.380They believe in, you know, coercion for the double jabbing.
00:22:41.500If I'm a guy like Mr. Wilson, I'm saying, hey, what the hell am I paying my union dues for?
00:22:46.120Yeah, I think, honestly, we'll never really know, but wouldn't it be great to know how many people are just following orders?
00:22:56.160And really, it would be nice to know how many people don't agree with this.
00:23:00.020You know, they're just basically going along, following orders, just so that they can continue to receive a paycheck, right?
00:23:06.180And obviously, there's no way we'll ever really be able to tell how many people don't agree with this, and they're just following the masses.
00:23:11.560But at the end of the day, Lincoln, the human fallout, the human tragedy here, last question on that theme.
00:23:21.560Mr. Wilson is not going to bend the knee when the deadline comes for the suspension without pay to be termination with cause.
00:24:55.480They are actually using fictional characters plucked from popular culture to promote the gross theme that it is cool to get jabbed.
00:25:07.360Case in point, recently, Ontario's Peel region, population 1.51 million, actually employed the Cape Crusader in a one-minute-long video in an effort to get kids to get the jabs.
00:25:22.780Indeed, Peel Public Health tweeted out a whiz-bang one-minute-long video featuring Dr. Lawrence Lowsom, or I mean Dr. Lawrence Lowe, actually recruiting children 5 to 11 to get vaccinated with the assistance of Brampton Batman and his Brampton Batmobile.
00:27:21.940In any event, you had plenty to say about top public health officials shamefully employing kid-friendly characters to get young children to get the COVID-19 jab.
00:27:38.560Batman would never condone this injustice.
00:27:41.500In fact, Batman would drag the people responsible for this mess out into the street, hang them upside down from a skyscraper, and peel a confession from them to set the record straight before calling the police to arrest them after leaving them neatly muzzled and crying.
00:28:00.340Oh, I agree, the Caped Crusader was never a stooge for big government or big pharma, for that matter.
00:28:08.220Are you taking notes, Brampton Batman?
00:28:24.820Wasn't it once thought that it was bat soup in Wuhan that was ground zero for the pandemic or is mentioning that these days racist or something?
00:28:40.520I am appalled at how our so-called trusted authorities, and doctors included, think that they can now make commercials to sell to our kids not the latest toy, but the latest experimental medical treatment without any importance to a real need for it or possible negative outcomes.
00:29:03.060It is completely immoral and utterly overstepping societal boundaries.
00:29:08.320Well, said Daniela, what they are doing with these kid-friendly jab campaigns, you're right, it's not illegal, but it is certainly unethical, and it's immoral.