Rebel News Podcast - August 07, 2021


DAVID MENZIES ｜ Trudeau's Alberta Senator, Politically Incorrect Medical Professionals


Episode Stats

Length

30 minutes

Words per Minute

154.56142

Word Count

4,754

Sentence Count

185

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Another day, another slap in the face to us Albertans. On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed a shiny new senator for Alberta, and we're here to talk about it. Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details. And a BC nurse is now under review by her governing body for espousing supposedly politically incorrect thoughts.


Transcript

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00:01:14.340 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:32.280 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.
00:01:36.980 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:38.800 So, the people of Alberta voted for a senator a while back,
00:01:42.940 and recently, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said to hell with the democratic process
00:01:48.000 as he decided to handpick his own senator.
00:01:51.640 Oh, but of course, Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details about yet another shameful incident,
00:01:58.200 courtesy of the Laurentian elites.
00:02:00.300 And I know the calendar reads 2021,
00:02:03.680 but it sure feels a lot like the fictional dystopian world of 1984.
00:02:08.720 The latest case in point,
00:02:10.340 a BC nurse is now under review by her governing body
00:02:14.520 for espousing supposedly politically incorrect thoughts
00:02:18.780 when it comes to transgenderism.
00:02:22.100 Drea Humphrey has all the details.
00:02:24.220 And letters, we get your letters.
00:02:25.720 We get them every minute of every day.
00:02:27.360 And you had plenty to say about the Toronto Blue Jays
00:02:30.540 suddenly qualifying for a so-called national interest exemption.
00:02:35.720 Translation, unlike the rest of us,
00:02:38.080 these pro athletes don't have to follow the same COVID-19 rules.
00:02:42.240 Talk about a foul ball.
00:02:44.580 Those are your rebels.
00:02:45.580 Now, let's round them up.
00:02:51.700 Another day, another Laurentian elitist slap in the face to us Albertans.
00:02:56.240 You know, the disrespect, it never ends.
00:02:59.620 On Thursday, Justin Trudeau announced that he was appointing
00:03:02.160 a shiny, brand new senator for Alberta.
00:03:05.200 And if you live in another province,
00:03:07.340 that might seem like a routine thing for you.
00:03:09.860 Having some detached, idiotic leader in Ottawa
00:03:13.760 choose for you who will represent you in the Senate
00:03:16.980 by offering a gravy, high-paying patronage appointment,
00:03:20.760 a big thank you for being a loyal liberal.
00:03:23.000 And you get the job for basically the rest of your working life.
00:03:27.220 Oh, but not here in Alberta.
00:03:28.620 That is not how it works here in Alberta.
00:03:30.860 Here we choose our own senators to represent us.
00:03:33.640 We have done this for decades.
00:03:36.400 When we hold municipal elections,
00:03:38.920 we also elect our senators
00:03:40.720 based on the accepted conventions
00:03:44.120 and expectation that the prime minister
00:03:47.220 will just simply appoint who we choose for ourselves.
00:03:51.460 Here it is.
00:03:53.320 The order in council and writ of election
00:03:55.760 for the 2021 Alberta Senate election
00:03:58.320 was issued on June 23rd, 2021
00:04:02.060 to hold an election to select three Senate nominees
00:04:05.520 who may be summoned to the Senate of Canada
00:04:08.580 to fill a vacancy or vacancies relating to Alberta.
00:04:13.160 The Senate election will take place on October 18th, 2021
00:04:17.220 in conjunction with the 2021 Alberta municipal elections.
00:04:22.020 All local jurisdictions holding elections
00:04:26.680 on October 18th, 2021
00:04:29.160 will facilitate the vote
00:04:31.060 by also issuing the Senate election ballot to electors.
00:04:36.520 In addition to election day voting,
00:04:38.780 local jurisdictions may also offer advanced voting,
00:04:43.360 institutional voting, and special ballot voting.
00:04:46.680 At each voting opportunity,
00:04:49.660 the Senate election ballot will be provided
00:04:53.460 to electors to vote in this election.
00:04:57.500 So everybody gets a chance to choose their senator.
00:05:01.180 And we put forward two different senators
00:05:03.400 so the prime minister can choose.
00:05:05.760 People put their names forward
00:05:07.160 to run under a party banner.
00:05:09.840 But Trudeau knows we'd never choose a liberal senator
00:05:12.260 after all the liberals have done to us.
00:05:14.380 You know, blocking pipelines, phasing out our jobs,
00:05:17.120 carbon taxing the industry that managed to survive,
00:05:20.760 the industry the liberals didn't kill.
00:05:23.000 Oh, and the liberals also caused trade wars
00:05:25.200 that hurt our farmers and, that's right, grabbed our guns.
00:05:29.160 So on Thursday, Trudeau disregarded
00:05:31.540 the will of the entire Alberta electorate.
00:05:34.940 And he appointed his own senator.
00:05:36.800 Even as we head to the polls
00:05:38.820 to make our choices for ourselves in October,
00:05:42.600 Trudeau appointed the mayor of Banff, Alberta,
00:05:45.540 Karen Sorensen.
00:05:46.480 And boy, she was sure happy to take
00:05:48.720 the $161,000 per year salary
00:05:52.260 for basically the rest of her working life
00:05:54.780 plus special top-ups.
00:05:56.880 She was just fine to steal that job
00:06:00.080 from the person Albertans were going to choose to do it
00:06:04.120 without an ounce of shame.
00:06:05.940 I mean, who does that?
00:06:07.860 Question, who indeed could be so shameless
00:06:11.120 in terms of disregarding the democratic process
00:06:14.620 and backstabbing the person
00:06:17.000 who was actually elected to serve
00:06:19.460 as a senator from Alberta?
00:06:21.600 Answer, a Justin Trudeau acolyte, that's who.
00:06:25.000 After all, Justin himself said a while back,
00:06:27.700 he has admiration in his heart
00:06:30.020 for the basic dictatorship that is China.
00:06:33.660 And sometimes it feels as though Canada
00:06:36.060 has become more China-ish
00:06:38.340 when it comes to this federal government
00:06:41.140 dissing our democracy.
00:06:44.060 Joining me now for more on this story
00:06:45.840 is Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:06:47.300 How are you doing there, Sheila?
00:06:48.800 I'm great, David.
00:06:49.560 Thanks for having me on the show.
00:06:50.860 Always a pleasure.
00:06:51.700 Sheila, this is shocking but not really surprising.
00:06:54.320 But tell me, especially on the heels
00:06:56.980 of a presumed fall election,
00:06:59.340 did anyone see this coming?
00:07:02.380 Yeah.
00:07:03.020 Yeah, I guess I did.
00:07:05.980 Because Justin Trudeau already did this once.
00:07:09.380 We have a senator-in-waiting.
00:07:11.300 He's already elected.
00:07:12.440 His name is Mike Shaikh.
00:07:13.960 And Justin Trudeau passed him over
00:07:16.040 to choose Paula Simons,
00:07:18.220 a failed print journalist.
00:07:19.360 Actually, not failed,
00:07:20.280 but I mean she's a print journalist
00:07:21.700 in a sunset industry.
00:07:23.240 She was working for Post Media,
00:07:25.700 primarily the Edmonton Journal.
00:07:27.560 And she had actually in the past
00:07:29.320 written columns that were critical
00:07:31.140 of the unelected, unaccountable Senate.
00:07:34.680 And then she was chosen to be
00:07:37.920 an unelected, unaccountable senator
00:07:40.100 by Justin Trudeau.
00:07:41.080 And she was like,
00:07:41.740 okay, where do I sign up?
00:07:43.580 And so for Justin Trudeau
00:07:47.260 to do it again on the heels
00:07:48.840 of the very next Senate election,
00:07:51.140 no surprise.
00:07:52.220 Pretty galling,
00:07:53.120 but if you're an Albertan,
00:07:54.040 just a part of a pattern, really.
00:07:56.560 You know, Sheila,
00:07:57.500 whether you're,
00:07:58.220 I mean, we have two camps,
00:07:59.940 pro-Senate, anti-Senate,
00:08:01.840 but if the Senate is going to be a reality,
00:08:05.460 I've never understood
00:08:06.300 why it's not an elected position.
00:08:09.280 All the other positions are elected.
00:08:12.060 So what is this contempt
00:08:15.920 that our system has
00:08:18.980 for the idea of people having a voice
00:08:22.040 in terms of who they want
00:08:23.540 them to represent in the Senate?
00:08:25.880 Well, I think it's very difficult
00:08:28.680 to make constitutional changes
00:08:30.440 in Canada, right?
00:08:31.500 You've got to involve Quebec
00:08:32.960 for some reason,
00:08:34.040 and it's just a big catastrophe.
00:08:36.040 So in Alberta,
00:08:37.720 we found a way around that.
00:08:39.040 We're, you know,
00:08:39.660 nothing if not cagey people,
00:08:42.480 and we examined the situation,
00:08:44.140 and we found a way to get our,
00:08:46.800 at least a couple E's
00:08:49.200 of our triple E Senate,
00:08:50.520 the, you know, elected Senate.
00:08:53.540 We wanted some to be chosen
00:08:55.620 by the people.
00:08:56.620 And so without submitting
00:08:58.920 the entire country
00:09:00.360 to this enormous constitutional change
00:09:03.420 that would go on for years and years,
00:09:04.960 we just said,
00:09:05.860 you know what we're going to do?
00:09:07.160 We're going to make this real easy.
00:09:08.740 We'll do it during municipal elections.
00:09:10.360 Everybody's going anyway to vote.
00:09:13.200 We're going to elect our own guy.
00:09:14.820 Actually, we won't just elect our own guy.
00:09:17.080 We'll elect two of our own guys,
00:09:20.180 and we'll let the prime minister,
00:09:22.000 we'll take the tough part
00:09:24.840 of making the decision
00:09:26.580 out of the hands of the prime minister.
00:09:28.440 We wouldn't want Justin Trudeau
00:09:29.380 to do too much of that thinking stuff.
00:09:32.240 And so we'll choose two people,
00:09:35.760 and the prime minister can choose
00:09:37.220 the one that he likes best,
00:09:38.560 so we haven't completely taken the choice
00:09:40.360 out of the prime minister's hands,
00:09:42.000 and send the guy Albertans chose
00:09:45.400 to represent us to the Senate
00:09:47.600 to at least have our say
00:09:50.540 in what happens to us,
00:09:52.440 because otherwise, by and large,
00:09:54.920 the prime ministers and the governor generals
00:09:57.220 are always from the east.
00:10:00.300 And so this was a way for us to be in.
00:10:03.760 Alberta wanted in.
00:10:04.840 We wanted our own say,
00:10:05.880 and this was a way for us to do that.
00:10:07.980 And there has been nothing but a series
00:10:10.520 of liberal prime ministers
00:10:11.840 disregarding the will of the people in Alberta
00:10:14.000 and doing whatever they want.
00:10:16.100 And they took this from us,
00:10:18.520 and so it was really no surprise
00:10:19.620 for Justin Trudeau to take it from us
00:10:21.120 that way too.
00:10:22.340 And Sheila,
00:10:23.240 how are everyday Albertans
00:10:25.820 reacting to this appointment?
00:10:29.480 And for that matter,
00:10:30.940 how is the mainstream media
00:10:33.760 in Alberta reacting to this?
00:10:36.780 Oh, the mainstream media
00:10:37.780 doesn't seem to care.
00:10:38.640 I mean, one of their own
00:10:39.780 was the last senator chosen from Alberta.
00:10:42.100 So they don't really seem to care.
00:10:44.320 Jason Kenney's pretty mad about it,
00:10:46.020 obviously speaking.
00:10:49.260 Albertans,
00:10:50.160 I think some of us are mad,
00:10:52.040 but some of us are just like,
00:10:54.040 you know what?
00:10:55.220 Figures.
00:10:56.160 Figures.
00:10:57.100 I mean,
00:10:58.020 after, you know,
00:10:59.340 six years of Justin Trudeau
00:11:01.000 just doing whatever he wants to us,
00:11:03.060 and liberal governments historically
00:11:05.160 doing whatever they want to us,
00:11:08.160 I mean,
00:11:08.860 this is just all par for the course, really.
00:11:10.720 Well, Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:11:13.320 in wrapping,
00:11:14.460 let me put you on the spot here.
00:11:16.460 When are you going to run for the Senate?
00:11:19.080 David, are you mad at me or something?
00:11:21.520 No, on the contrary.
00:11:23.540 To have someone of your character,
00:11:25.460 your intelligence,
00:11:26.720 your diligence,
00:11:27.660 I think that's what's desperately needed.
00:11:29.840 And you would be
00:11:30.620 Justin Trudeau's worst nightmare to boot.
00:11:32.660 And you know you've had
00:11:33.540 all kinds of people
00:11:35.200 urging you to do so.
00:11:36.760 So what's the deal
00:11:38.300 with Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:11:39.460 not running?
00:11:41.480 David, you know that
00:11:42.460 I think politicians
00:11:43.380 are awful people,
00:11:44.840 by and large.
00:11:45.520 So I just don't want to be one.
00:11:47.740 I really,
00:11:48.380 I just don't want to be one.
00:11:49.860 And I know people say,
00:11:51.100 well, then you would be
00:11:52.060 an independent senator,
00:11:53.020 and that's true.
00:11:53.560 But I just,
00:11:54.460 no thanks.
00:11:55.020 No thanks.
00:11:55.660 I think I have important work here
00:11:57.520 holding politicians to account
00:11:59.060 on behalf of the people.
00:12:00.020 I don't want to be one of them.
00:12:01.400 I want to work for the people,
00:12:02.520 and I think this is the best way
00:12:03.580 to do it.
00:12:04.300 Well, I can't argue against that,
00:12:06.060 but nevertheless,
00:12:07.060 hope abounds.
00:12:07.860 Thank you so much.
00:12:08.660 Tell Ezra to stop
00:12:10.160 making you ask me that,
00:12:11.900 by the way.
00:12:13.600 This is coming from my heart,
00:12:15.200 not Ezra.
00:12:15.860 But I know Ezra's on side
00:12:17.680 with wanting you to run, though.
00:12:18.880 But Sheila,
00:12:19.880 thank you so much.
00:12:20.780 Great report, as always.
00:12:22.840 Thanks, David.
00:12:23.380 Have a great weekend.
00:12:24.280 Thank you so much.
00:12:25.140 And that is Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:12:26.720 who will not be a senator
00:12:27.880 anytime soon,
00:12:29.260 somewhere in the hinterland
00:12:30.500 of northern Alberta.
00:12:31.880 Keep it here, folks.
00:12:32.940 More of Rebel Roundup
00:12:33.780 to come right after this.
00:12:40.040 This is Amy Hem,
00:12:41.620 the transphobic nurse.
00:12:44.260 No, I'm just joking.
00:12:45.700 I'm totally joking,
00:12:47.720 although it's not funny,
00:12:49.080 because that's basically
00:12:50.860 how you're being labeled
00:12:53.060 for some of the things
00:12:55.360 that you've spoken out against
00:12:56.940 when it comes to rights
00:12:58.520 for women, correct?
00:12:59.820 That's right.
00:13:02.180 Yeah.
00:13:03.120 So I have,
00:13:05.660 I've retained lawyers
00:13:06.940 at the Justice Centre
00:13:08.140 for Constitutional Freedoms
00:13:09.840 after I found out
00:13:11.440 that my college of nurses
00:13:14.840 in BC,
00:13:16.200 because my day job
00:13:17.740 is as a nurse,
00:13:18.960 they've been investigating me
00:13:20.800 for my alleged transphobia
00:13:23.140 for months.
00:13:24.340 And this was after
00:13:27.780 basically some people
00:13:30.340 in the public
00:13:30.980 complained about me
00:13:32.240 because of my
00:13:33.340 gender-critical activities,
00:13:35.940 including articles
00:13:37.160 that I've written,
00:13:39.120 an iHeartJK rolling billboard
00:13:41.480 I was involved with,
00:13:42.600 my social media pages.
00:13:46.060 And so these activists
00:13:47.760 have targeted me at work,
00:13:49.940 and they claim that
00:13:51.080 I shouldn't be allowed
00:13:52.440 to practice nursing
00:13:53.560 because I would be
00:13:54.960 a threat to
00:13:55.840 gender-diverse people,
00:13:58.500 which is completely
00:14:00.020 absurd.
00:14:02.200 And none of this is,
00:14:04.440 none of it has to do
00:14:05.240 with me performing my job,
00:14:06.900 there are no patients involved,
00:14:08.420 it's all just activists
00:14:09.840 complaining about
00:14:10.940 what I have done
00:14:12.240 outside of work.
00:14:14.280 Now, for those of you
00:14:15.600 who don't know already,
00:14:17.360 we actually did a report
00:14:18.840 on the billboard
00:14:19.680 you just mentioned.
00:14:20.880 It was almost a year ago,
00:14:22.080 back in September,
00:14:24.340 it was an iHeartJK Rowling
00:14:27.040 billboard,
00:14:28.780 because, like yourself,
00:14:30.480 JK Rowling spoke out
00:14:31.940 about some of these issues
00:14:33.300 as well.
00:14:34.060 Let's watch a clip
00:14:34.740 of that right now.
00:14:36.020 It's the most visible,
00:14:37.040 one of the more visible
00:14:37.820 examples of free speech
00:14:38.880 being curtailed,
00:14:39.600 but not the worst.
00:14:41.020 Like this, I mean,
00:14:41.560 it's just a billboard, right?
00:14:42.640 Honestly, it's just a billboard.
00:14:43.700 But it's kind of an example
00:14:45.980 of ridiculous things
00:14:49.060 that are happening
00:14:49.900 around free speech
00:14:50.800 and around parents' rights,
00:14:53.400 around women's rights,
00:14:56.600 around children's rights.
00:14:59.480 But those are very, like,
00:15:00.840 quiet fights
00:15:01.760 that aren't really
00:15:02.600 being reported on, right?
00:15:03.900 So I think that the value
00:15:04.840 of something like this
00:15:05.860 going up,
00:15:07.520 getting paint all over it,
00:15:09.180 being taken down instantly,
00:15:10.200 it's big and it's flashy
00:15:12.220 and it's newsy
00:15:12.780 and it gets people talking
00:15:13.700 and I think that's
00:15:14.260 the real value of it.
00:15:16.560 And so what do you think
00:15:17.920 about some of the stances
00:15:19.640 JK Rowling has been
00:15:20.860 taking lately?
00:15:22.060 Oh, she sucks.
00:15:23.720 Like, it's terrible.
00:15:24.900 As far as I know,
00:15:26.240 she just says
00:15:27.320 pretty despicable things
00:15:29.160 about trans rights.
00:15:30.780 She doesn't believe
00:15:31.500 in trans rights.
00:15:34.420 She seems like
00:15:34.860 a terrible person.
00:15:36.100 I think JK Rowling
00:15:37.340 is an honorary white male
00:15:38.780 because of that,
00:15:39.280 a cis white male
00:15:40.320 and should probably
00:15:41.960 donate her breasts
00:15:43.620 to a trans man
00:15:46.100 who's transition,
00:15:46.920 or a trans woman
00:15:47.440 who's transitioning.
00:15:48.420 So, Amy,
00:15:49.320 you're telling me
00:15:50.060 that after that billboard
00:15:52.300 went up,
00:15:52.960 this whole time,
00:15:54.400 I think it's been
00:15:55.020 11 months or so
00:15:56.140 since then,
00:15:56.820 you've been dealing
00:15:57.660 with a backlash
00:15:59.060 and a threat
00:16:00.560 against your work,
00:16:02.500 I guess,
00:16:02.980 from things like that.
00:16:04.160 Tell us some of the
00:16:05.700 accusations
00:16:07.460 specifically against you.
00:16:09.280 Yeah, so the,
00:16:12.120 I mean,
00:16:13.860 the complainants
00:16:15.240 basically have said
00:16:16.820 I'm transphobic
00:16:17.740 and I'm a threat.
00:16:19.020 One of them
00:16:19.580 is anonymous
00:16:20.760 and is allowed
00:16:23.360 to remain anonymous
00:16:24.260 because they said
00:16:25.180 that I could retaliate
00:16:26.460 against them,
00:16:27.900 which is quite insulting
00:16:29.220 to me
00:16:30.380 because they're trying
00:16:31.200 to make me lose
00:16:32.340 my job.
00:16:33.780 I'm a single mother
00:16:34.920 with two young children
00:16:36.440 and they're trying
00:16:37.700 to destroy my life
00:16:38.720 but they think
00:16:40.340 that I would somehow
00:16:41.080 retaliate against them.
00:16:42.780 Well, folks,
00:16:43.280 I know the calendar
00:16:44.000 reads 2021
00:16:45.280 but it sure feels
00:16:46.780 a lot like the fictional
00:16:48.020 dystopian world
00:16:49.080 of 1984
00:16:50.060 and the latest case
00:16:51.780 in point,
00:16:52.700 Amy Hamm,
00:16:53.560 her crime,
00:16:54.780 saying and thinking
00:16:56.140 things that are
00:16:57.100 supposedly politically
00:16:58.780 incorrect,
00:16:58.900 well,
00:17:00.020 at least when it comes
00:17:01.060 to the radical
00:17:02.240 trans community.
00:17:04.460 And joining me now
00:17:05.120 to discuss this matter
00:17:06.300 further is
00:17:07.140 Drea Humphrey.
00:17:08.080 Welcome to Rebel Roundup,
00:17:09.240 Drea.
00:17:10.080 Thank you.
00:17:10.920 Hello, everyone.
00:17:12.120 Drea,
00:17:12.460 there is so much
00:17:14.160 to unpack here
00:17:14.920 but first of all,
00:17:16.260 I think everyone,
00:17:17.300 including Ms. Hamm,
00:17:18.820 would like to know
00:17:19.940 the name of her accuser
00:17:21.660 but apparently
00:17:22.280 that's too much to ask.
00:17:24.060 I think this is
00:17:25.400 absolutely outrageous.
00:17:26.780 What's your take?
00:17:27.540 Yeah, that is outrageous
00:17:29.920 and I mean,
00:17:31.780 there was no evidence.
00:17:33.340 I mean,
00:17:33.560 I tried to look for anything
00:17:34.880 and according to Amy Hamm,
00:17:36.700 there's no evidence
00:17:37.640 to support that she would be
00:17:38.840 a danger or a threat
00:17:39.900 to anyone.
00:17:40.700 So how do you
00:17:41.480 even get away with
00:17:42.680 making such a complaint
00:17:44.500 that, you know,
00:17:45.800 threatens your livelihood
00:17:46.780 and you don't even have to
00:17:48.860 say who you are?
00:17:49.980 It could be anyone.
00:17:51.560 But Drea,
00:17:52.120 what's even more outrageous?
00:17:53.640 I mean,
00:17:53.860 there's all kinds of loons
00:17:55.440 out there.
00:17:56.140 That's a given.
00:17:56.820 But the idea that
00:17:59.720 the BC Nursing Association
00:18:01.780 would actually
00:18:02.880 take on this complaint
00:18:04.940 as being credible
00:18:06.120 about one of their members
00:18:08.620 liking J.K. Rowley?
00:18:11.160 I mean,
00:18:12.040 like,
00:18:12.660 where's the crime here?
00:18:14.880 There's no crime at all.
00:18:16.760 And, you know,
00:18:17.520 we're talking about
00:18:18.640 issues of concern
00:18:20.700 that protect women as well.
00:18:22.620 And so you would think
00:18:24.220 that the trans community
00:18:25.860 would be supportive of that
00:18:27.200 and understanding of that.
00:18:28.780 You know,
00:18:29.700 Amy Hamm talks a lot
00:18:30.800 about safe spaces
00:18:32.080 for women,
00:18:32.980 you know,
00:18:33.380 in rape shelters
00:18:34.600 and in sports,
00:18:37.200 you know,
00:18:37.580 making it more fair there.
00:18:38.800 These are just simply
00:18:39.640 discussions.
00:18:40.260 They're not topics
00:18:41.540 of hate.
00:18:42.220 They are issues
00:18:44.540 in the day
00:18:45.820 that we live in
00:18:46.720 and the time
00:18:47.560 and it's just really
00:18:48.800 kind of scary
00:18:49.680 to think that
00:18:50.620 if you say
00:18:52.340 or speak out
00:18:53.100 about these things,
00:18:54.060 you could possibly
00:18:55.020 lose your job
00:18:55.800 or be disciplined.
00:18:57.580 You know,
00:18:57.960 Drea,
00:18:58.380 I think,
00:18:59.440 you know,
00:18:59.880 there might be
00:19:01.000 a difference
00:19:01.780 between the trans community
00:19:03.320 and what I call
00:19:04.560 the radical trans community.
00:19:06.980 Yeah, absolutely.
00:19:07.300 And I say that
00:19:08.260 because I was covering
00:19:09.640 last month
00:19:10.320 a demonstration
00:19:11.320 outside a female prison
00:19:13.260 in Kitchener
00:19:14.000 and it was about
00:19:15.820 how biological males
00:19:17.280 simply have to say
00:19:18.260 I'm female
00:19:19.200 and suddenly
00:19:20.120 you're doing time
00:19:21.120 with vulnerable females
00:19:23.060 in a prison.
00:19:24.980 And one of the protesters
00:19:26.360 out there
00:19:27.700 saying this is
00:19:28.400 the wrong policy
00:19:29.460 was somebody
00:19:30.780 who is transgendered.
00:19:32.860 And it leads me
00:19:33.900 to believe that
00:19:34.860 even if you have
00:19:36.040 trans people
00:19:37.040 saying
00:19:37.740 this is offside
00:19:39.380 this is wrong
00:19:40.500 I don't support this
00:19:42.360 why is it
00:19:43.160 the authorities
00:19:44.180 those running
00:19:45.280 the prisons
00:19:45.780 those running
00:19:46.500 the nursing associations
00:19:48.520 are so beholden
00:19:50.640 to the radical elements
00:19:52.600 in the transgender community
00:19:54.200 in the first place?
00:19:56.040 I think everybody
00:19:56.560 is just so scared
00:19:58.180 like that's what
00:19:58.840 I think everybody
00:19:59.440 is functioning on
00:20:00.360 some businesses
00:20:01.060 it's
00:20:01.700 you know
00:20:02.740 I don't think
00:20:03.220 in this particular situation
00:20:04.740 but sometimes
00:20:05.320 it's money motivated
00:20:06.340 are they going to
00:20:06.860 lose customers
00:20:07.800 but I think
00:20:08.400 everybody is just
00:20:09.620 really scared
00:20:10.720 of going against
00:20:11.460 the narrative
00:20:12.060 and can you blame
00:20:13.620 them with cancel culture
00:20:15.160 mobsters
00:20:16.020 like what's happening
00:20:17.120 to Amy Hamm
00:20:18.460 I mean
00:20:19.160 I guess that's what it is
00:20:20.200 and then also
00:20:20.800 it doesn't help
00:20:21.500 that we only see
00:20:23.340 sort of one narrative
00:20:24.800 predominantly
00:20:25.660 in media
00:20:26.600 and things like that
00:20:27.500 so that's what
00:20:28.720 people are conditioned
00:20:29.540 to think
00:20:30.000 they have to think
00:20:31.080 when they're too lazy
00:20:32.600 to think for themselves
00:20:33.620 you know
00:20:34.700 I think you're right
00:20:35.480 it is the fear factor
00:20:36.840 we live in a day and age
00:20:38.200 of cancel culture
00:20:39.360 Drea
00:20:40.000 and yet
00:20:41.640 again
00:20:42.140 when I look at
00:20:43.160 the radical trans community
00:20:44.940 we are talking about
00:20:46.700 a percent of a percent
00:20:48.140 of a percent
00:20:48.860 of a percent
00:20:49.560 of people
00:20:50.420 this is quite literally
00:20:51.680 the lunatic fringe
00:20:52.860 and when you see
00:20:53.980 even people
00:20:54.740 who are transgendered
00:20:55.980 speaking out against this
00:20:57.240 speaking out against
00:20:58.340 that grifter
00:20:59.100 Jonathan Yaniv
00:21:00.180 saying please
00:21:01.060 don't lump us in
00:21:02.040 with that guy
00:21:02.820 you know
00:21:04.580 I'm just struggling
00:21:07.060 with what the basis
00:21:08.780 for the fear is
00:21:10.220 it is such
00:21:11.580 a fraction
00:21:12.660 of a percentage
00:21:13.400 and I don't think
00:21:15.820 they're on the right
00:21:16.500 side of history
00:21:17.180 on this one
00:21:17.840 no
00:21:18.740 I think that
00:21:19.440 your report
00:21:20.180 if people haven't
00:21:22.100 seen it yet
00:21:22.700 about the predator
00:21:23.740 in the park
00:21:24.480 who is a woman
00:21:25.860 I mean
00:21:26.780 it's like you say
00:21:27.980 the vast majority
00:21:28.900 of people
00:21:29.340 understand what's
00:21:30.200 happening there
00:21:30.860 but still
00:21:31.880 there were so many
00:21:32.580 articles that I saw
00:21:33.800 or not so many
00:21:34.940 but there were some
00:21:35.500 articles that still
00:21:36.500 you know
00:21:37.440 they just won't
00:21:38.280 call it like it is
00:21:39.220 like you did
00:21:39.980 so
00:21:41.300 I don't know
00:21:43.140 what the answer to it
00:21:43.960 it doesn't make
00:21:44.540 any sense to me
00:21:45.300 I've always been
00:21:45.900 someone who speaks
00:21:46.820 my mind
00:21:47.380 or else it would
00:21:47.960 really bother me
00:21:48.680 if I wasn't able
00:21:49.380 to do so
00:21:50.080 and I think
00:21:51.220 Amy Hamm
00:21:51.800 from what I can see
00:21:53.040 of her activism
00:21:53.920 hasn't said anything
00:21:55.460 actually transphobic
00:21:57.040 and so people
00:21:58.140 just throw
00:21:58.660 these labels out
00:21:59.620 and then you have
00:22:00.240 these companies
00:22:00.880 thinking they have
00:22:01.740 to react
00:22:02.860 because maybe
00:22:03.600 if they don't
00:22:04.220 then they're
00:22:04.640 transphobic too
00:22:05.500 right
00:22:05.860 so
00:22:06.160 I think you nailed
00:22:07.700 it there
00:22:08.020 and one last
00:22:08.560 question Drea
00:22:09.280 first of all
00:22:10.360 how do you think
00:22:11.380 this is going to
00:22:12.140 play out for
00:22:12.860 Miss Hamm
00:22:13.400 and if she is
00:22:14.980 disciplined
00:22:15.580 in any way
00:22:16.980 whatsoever
00:22:17.460 is she thinking
00:22:19.260 about legal action
00:22:21.300 against the
00:22:22.400 nursing association
00:22:23.720 well she's being
00:22:25.320 represented right
00:22:26.560 now by the JCCF
00:22:28.400 and my understanding
00:22:29.300 is basically
00:22:30.600 the College of Nurses
00:22:32.700 and Midwives
00:22:33.320 has already put
00:22:34.520 forward some
00:22:35.640 sort of discipline
00:22:36.980 arrangement of
00:22:39.480 discipline that she
00:22:40.500 wasn't able to
00:22:41.400 speak on
00:22:42.180 and then her
00:22:43.320 and her lawyer
00:22:44.180 are discussing
00:22:45.020 whether they're
00:22:45.660 going to accept
00:22:46.380 it and then
00:22:47.340 if they don't
00:22:48.460 accept it
00:22:49.240 then I guess
00:22:50.460 there's more
00:22:51.040 of a legal battle
00:22:52.000 there too
00:22:52.620 she seems like
00:22:53.440 a fighter
00:22:53.840 but she also
00:22:54.480 seems exhausted
00:22:55.340 she's a mom
00:22:55.980 of two
00:22:56.420 who usually
00:22:58.320 if you get
00:22:58.900 into health care
00:23:00.080 you become a nurse
00:23:00.880 you care about
00:23:01.620 people
00:23:02.060 you care about
00:23:03.280 their health
00:23:03.920 and you know
00:23:05.380 she's being
00:23:06.080 challenged on
00:23:06.780 levels like that
00:23:07.600 so
00:23:07.880 well thank you
00:23:09.360 so much for this
00:23:10.000 Drea
00:23:10.180 if there's anyone
00:23:10.920 that has to
00:23:11.480 give an apology
00:23:12.140 it is her
00:23:12.880 association
00:23:13.400 for taking
00:23:14.420 this anonymous
00:23:15.580 complaint
00:23:16.260 as something
00:23:17.300 credible
00:23:18.520 about her
00:23:19.380 character
00:23:19.800 again
00:23:20.200 it is just
00:23:20.920 so outrageous
00:23:21.740 and egregious
00:23:22.440 to me
00:23:22.760 that this
00:23:23.400 is actually
00:23:23.980 a story
00:23:24.660 in the first
00:23:25.140 place
00:23:25.460 but you
00:23:26.320 have a good
00:23:26.720 weekend
00:23:27.280 Drea
00:23:27.460 and I know
00:23:27.820 you'll have
00:23:28.100 a follow-up
00:23:28.620 to this
00:23:28.960 when we get
00:23:29.380 some more
00:23:29.720 information
00:23:30.220 absolutely
00:23:31.180 thanks
00:23:31.800 bye everyone
00:23:32.440 okay
00:23:33.180 and that is
00:23:33.900 Drea Humphrey
00:23:34.740 in Vancouver
00:23:36.060 keep it here
00:23:36.620 folks
00:23:36.920 more of Rebel
00:23:37.700 roundup
00:23:38.040 roundup
00:23:38.060 to come
00:23:38.360 right after
00:23:39.020 this
00:23:39.400 after almost
00:23:45.560 a two-year
00:23:46.460 absence
00:23:47.040 baseball
00:23:47.620 is back
00:23:48.240 in town
00:23:48.800 the Toronto
00:23:49.840 Blue Jays
00:23:50.560 are having
00:23:51.180 their unofficial
00:23:52.100 home opener
00:23:53.120 against the
00:23:53.700 Kansas City
00:23:54.240 Royals
00:23:54.680 tonight
00:23:55.460 and it
00:23:57.340 makes me
00:23:57.860 scratch my
00:23:58.340 head though
00:23:58.900 how in the
00:24:00.000 world
00:24:00.320 do the
00:24:01.180 Blue Jays
00:24:01.760 get to
00:24:02.560 travel back
00:24:03.860 and forth
00:24:04.400 across the
00:24:05.240 border
00:24:05.460 because all
00:24:06.280 their opponents
00:24:07.060 are American
00:24:08.200 based teams
00:24:08.920 whereas if
00:24:09.940 you or I
00:24:10.480 did so
00:24:11.040 well we have
00:24:11.880 to go to
00:24:12.240 one of those
00:24:12.800 quarantine
00:24:13.600 hotels
00:24:14.580 well according
00:24:15.660 to the
00:24:16.020 Toronto Blue
00:24:16.500 Jays on
00:24:16.880 their website
00:24:17.540 the club
00:24:18.680 was granted
00:24:19.460 a national
00:24:20.380 interest
00:24:21.020 exemption
00:24:21.620 by the
00:24:22.800 federal
00:24:23.060 government
00:24:23.540 that will
00:24:24.400 allow Major
00:24:25.080 League Baseball
00:24:25.700 games to be
00:24:26.300 played at
00:24:27.180 Rogers Centre
00:24:27.900 with robust
00:24:29.120 health and
00:24:29.920 safety protocols
00:24:30.940 in place
00:24:31.900 how do you
00:24:32.760 like that
00:24:33.200 well the first
00:24:33.820 thing I thought
00:24:34.520 is what
00:24:35.340 are these
00:24:36.080 things called
00:24:36.840 national interest
00:24:37.960 exemptions and
00:24:38.940 who gets
00:24:39.880 them well I
00:24:40.760 went to the
00:24:41.820 one of the
00:24:42.240 Government of
00:24:42.660 Canada websites
00:24:43.360 about this and
00:24:45.100 it says the
00:24:45.600 following quote
00:24:46.240 the national
00:24:46.960 interest exemption
00:24:48.000 is intended to
00:24:49.620 be used in
00:24:50.400 exceptional
00:24:51.200 circumstances only
00:24:52.900 all other
00:24:54.220 exemptions must
00:24:55.180 be considered
00:24:55.820 before giving
00:24:56.580 consideration to
00:24:58.180 applying the
00:24:59.240 national interest
00:25:00.400 exemption and
00:25:02.500 it goes on
00:25:03.260 with a lot of
00:25:03.920 bureaucratic
00:25:04.560 baffle gap
00:25:05.200 but how is
00:25:06.480 it that
00:25:07.420 you know
00:25:08.240 baseball in
00:25:09.620 the city of
00:25:10.100 Toronto is
00:25:10.720 considered
00:25:11.400 something of
00:25:13.560 national interest
00:25:14.580 something that
00:25:15.580 is exceptional
00:25:16.340 I am
00:25:18.140 baffled by
00:25:18.960 this it's
00:25:19.640 it's just a
00:25:20.800 sports team
00:25:21.480 having fun and
00:25:22.200 games after all
00:25:23.080 or could it be
00:25:23.920 folks that this
00:25:24.720 is yet another
00:25:25.400 glaring example
00:25:26.340 of money talks
00:25:27.620 and bullshite
00:25:28.540 walks even
00:25:29.260 during a
00:25:29.920 pandemic in
00:25:31.120 other words if
00:25:31.660 you are a
00:25:32.120 multi-million
00:25:32.940 dollar baseball
00:25:34.160 player employed
00:25:35.500 by a multi-billion
00:25:37.340 dollar corporation
00:25:38.400 which is to say
00:25:39.500 Rogers well you
00:25:41.720 don't have to
00:25:42.400 worry like the
00:25:44.000 great unwashed
00:25:45.040 masses do of
00:25:46.240 checking into a
00:25:47.420 COVID quarantine
00:25:48.800 hotel every time
00:25:49.840 you cross the
00:25:50.580 border oh no no
00:25:51.680 no that sort of
00:25:53.100 stuff is just for
00:25:54.340 the ham and
00:25:54.840 eggers this is of
00:25:56.720 national significance
00:25:58.420 this is of I
00:25:59.840 guess international
00:26:01.040 importance given
00:26:02.200 that all of the
00:26:03.160 Blue Jays opponents
00:26:04.200 are based in US
00:26:05.600 cities what was
00:26:06.560 that old tagline
00:26:07.980 that Carl Malden
00:26:09.000 used to say in
00:26:10.020 advertising the
00:26:10.880 American Express
00:26:11.580 card back in the
00:26:12.560 day oh yes
00:26:13.240 membership has
00:26:14.920 its privileges and
00:26:16.480 professional athletes
00:26:18.000 are amongst the
00:26:19.160 most privileged
00:26:20.240 people on our
00:26:21.520 entire planet it
00:26:23.180 actually brings to
00:26:23.960 mind another quote
00:26:25.000 quote this one from
00:26:26.580 George Orwell namely
00:26:28.760 all animals are
00:26:30.280 equal but some
00:26:31.500 animals such as
00:26:32.920 Blue Jays are more
00:26:35.020 equal than others
00:26:36.280 so how do you like
00:26:37.100 them apples folks if
00:26:38.300 you're a professional
00:26:39.000 athlete earning
00:26:39.800 millions suddenly you
00:26:41.000 now qualify for a
00:26:42.400 national interest
00:26:43.660 exemption when it
00:26:45.080 comes to border
00:26:45.960 crossings and
00:26:46.960 violating social
00:26:47.940 distancing mandates
00:26:48.980 and the rest of it
00:26:49.760 you know I think I'm
00:26:51.360 going to go out and
00:26:52.140 buy a Blue Jays
00:26:53.100 uniform and wear it
00:26:54.440 the next time I have
00:26:55.320 to cross the border
00:26:56.200 I'll just say I'm
00:26:57.680 from the farm team
00:26:58.720 or something I
00:27:00.100 wonder if I'll get
00:27:00.960 the royal treatment
00:27:01.980 as well in any
00:27:03.500 event you had plenty
00:27:04.420 to say about it yet
00:27:05.580 another glaring
00:27:06.520 example of one law
00:27:08.240 for thee one law
00:27:09.680 for me MEDW
00:27:11.980 writes the national
00:27:13.440 interest exemption
00:27:14.380 should be in place
00:27:15.480 Canada wide now
00:27:16.720 time this fiasco
00:27:18.100 ended oh I agree
00:27:19.580 MEDW it's not like
00:27:21.960 a year and a half
00:27:22.780 ago when COVID-19
00:27:24.020 was being treated as
00:27:25.240 a second coming of
00:27:26.200 Ebola we know
00:27:27.720 better now and I
00:27:28.940 maintain that the
00:27:29.920 so-called cure i.e.
00:27:31.560 all those debilitating
00:27:32.860 lockdowns has been
00:27:34.520 far far worse than
00:27:36.300 the curse
00:27:36.820 Weldon Morrison
00:27:38.420 writes I quit
00:27:39.540 watching woke sports
00:27:41.020 a year and a half
00:27:41.820 ago you know I hear
00:27:43.200 this from so many
00:27:44.120 people the utter
00:27:45.420 wokeness has become a
00:27:47.000 major turnoff for a
00:27:48.600 huge segment of sports
00:27:49.840 fans who are sick and
00:27:51.320 tired of being lectured
00:27:52.440 to and that's going to
00:27:54.040 have a debilitating
00:27:55.000 effect for sports
00:27:56.500 leagues when it comes
00:27:57.420 to attendance and TV
00:27:58.660 ratings in the future
00:27:59.720 case in point last
00:28:01.060 month's baseball all-star
00:28:02.440 baseball game was the
00:28:04.460 second least watched
00:28:05.760 all-star game in
00:28:06.780 history only 8.24
00:28:09.460 million people tuned in
00:28:11.260 by way of comparison in
00:28:12.760 1980 more than 36
00:28:15.040 million people watched
00:28:16.120 the game so less ratings
00:28:18.080 means teams will be
00:28:19.400 forced to charge less
00:28:20.500 money for advertisements
00:28:22.360 and that will lead to a
00:28:24.480 major cash crunch when
00:28:26.740 it comes to paying all
00:28:27.980 these multi-million dollar
00:28:29.300 prima donnas good
00:28:31.080 yuki pyro writes rebel
00:28:33.900 how about exposing
00:28:35.020 rogers and bell well
00:28:36.380 yuki I had a companion
00:28:37.800 piece posted earlier this
00:28:39.520 week regarding what I
00:28:41.060 call the swindle of the
00:28:42.180 century aka the story of
00:28:43.980 skydome here's the skinny
00:28:45.560 it was supposed to cost
00:28:46.740 150 million it ended up
00:28:48.400 costing 570 million when
00:28:51.220 it was finally completed in
00:28:52.600 1989 almost all of the
00:28:54.840 funding coming from the
00:28:55.820 taxpayers and then in
00:28:57.560 2004 old man rogers buys
00:28:59.860 the stadium for 25 million
00:29:02.380 dollars in other words
00:29:03.780 just four percent of the
00:29:05.020 original construction costs
00:29:06.860 what a scandal and hey
00:29:08.840 rogers customers just think
00:29:10.940 about that the next time you
00:29:12.420 get your cell phone or cable
00:29:13.920 bill johnny strength writes
00:29:16.200 baseball is an essential
00:29:17.860 service come on everybody
00:29:19.540 should know that well johnny
00:29:21.480 obviously the justin trudeau
00:29:23.140 liberals believe this to be
00:29:24.820 the case and why not pro
00:29:26.900 sports is today's equivalent
00:29:28.340 of bread and circuses a
00:29:30.800 distraction from the real
00:29:32.060 issues people should be
00:29:33.740 paying more attention to and
00:29:36.420 jane pearson writes everyone
00:29:38.220 should boycott these events
00:29:39.920 well jane i gotta tell you i was
00:29:41.780 way way way ahead of the curve on
00:29:43.640 this file at least when it
00:29:44.960 comes to the toronto blue
00:29:46.020 jays i used to be a huge fan
00:29:47.920 going to about 15 games a
00:29:49.440 year and then in 1994 the
00:29:51.780 season was cut short by the
00:29:53.360 player strike i was stuck with
00:29:55.200 a pair of tickets for a game
00:29:56.480 that was never played if you
00:29:58.120 can imagine the blue jays
00:29:59.500 refused to give me a cash
00:30:01.240 refund for these tickets in
00:30:03.300 1995 i had to go to small
00:30:05.520 claims court facing off against
00:30:07.260 the blue jays big bay street
00:30:09.500 law firm and i won thankfully
00:30:12.260 the judge did not agree that
00:30:14.140 the blue jays thought that
00:30:15.720 they were above the law there
00:30:17.840 was no national interest
00:30:19.560 exemption for them on this
00:30:20.900 issue and i've never bought a
00:30:22.660 ticket since oh and by the
00:30:24.320 way the marketing slogan for
00:30:26.000 the blue jays that year was
00:30:27.480 1995 the year of the fan can
00:30:31.980 you believe the audacity of
00:30:34.080 these pompous bird brains well
00:30:36.640 that wraps up another edition of
00:30:38.180 rebel roundup thanks so much for
00:30:39.700 joining us see you next week and
00:30:41.100 hey folks never forget without
00:30:43.240 risk there can be no glory good
00:30:45.200 night