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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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Well, another climate catastrophe conference kicks off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland.
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And, hoot man, check out who's flying all over Europe,
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telling others to reduce their carbon footprints while he ramps up his own emissions.
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Yes, that would be none other than Justin Trudeau.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed shall try to explain the hypocrisy of a prime minister who preaches,
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do as I say, not as I do, when it comes to climate change.
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And, say, when you go to a restaurant to pick up some takeout grub,
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you certainly don't expect to get grilled about your vaccination status, right?
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But such was the case at a Quebec subway franchise.
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And if you didn't have your papers or your QR codes,
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with Toronto Police Detective Constable Adrienne Gilbasi.
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She's now under investigation herself by the Toronto Police.
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Her alleged crime, she spoke at a freedom rally last month in Toronto,
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And she might even face dismissal for doing so.
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Hey, whatever happened to freedom of speech and freedom of expression?
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When all the little ghouls and goblins come out to scare you.
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although Halloween is also very quickly approaching.
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No, today I'm talking about the UN Climate Change Conference.
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And it takes place at the end of the month in Glasgow.
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Now you might see this globalist shindig referred to as COP26.
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That's the Conference of the Parties, the 26th iteration of it.
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And it's where all the fancy people from all around the world get together
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behind closed doors, behind security barriers and walls
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to decide how you, the little people, how you're going to live your life,
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and how much you need to tithe of your hard-earned money
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dues-paying congregant in their little doomsday cult.
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Between 30,000 and 50,000 climate change activists, bureaucrats, and politicians,
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and I say that as though they are distinct groups,
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but, you know, the Venn diagram of those three groups is more like a circle.
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Anyway, all these people every year converge on a city around the world,
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except for last year because of what they keep telling me is a real existential threat,
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you know, COVID, that caused them to cancel their party.
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Now these people all engage in transcontinental airline travel
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to go to a conference that could very easily be held via Zoom
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to tell you that driving your SUV to take your kids to hockey or soccer practice
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And we also only have 12 years or 10 years or 5 years left or whatever.
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The latest doomsday timeline is offered to us by teenage climate scolds
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who've never held a real job or paid a tax or done without anything.
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Now, not one to miss a chance to tell the world what an environmentalist he truly is,
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also on his way to Glasgow too.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that he will travel to Europe
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for a bilateral visit to the Netherlands before participating in the Group of 20
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or the G20 Leaders Summit in Italy and the United Nations Climate Change Conference,
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The Prime Minister will travel to The Hague, Netherlands, on October 29th, 2021,
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where he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other Dutch representatives
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to discuss both countries' shared priorities and to further the strong ties
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will then travel to Rome, Italy, October 30th to 31st
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The Prime Minister will highlight Canada's contributions to the global COVID-19 pandemic response
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and economic recovery, including support for low- and middle-income countries.
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Anyways, he will also highlight Canada's ambitious actions to cut pollution
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while creating new middle-class jobs and accelerating the transition to clean energy.
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Following the G20 Leaders Summit, Prime Minister Trudeau will travel to Glasgow, United Kingdom,
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from November 1st to 2nd, 2021, to participate in COP26.
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They just like to use that fancy acronym for some reason.
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At COP26, the Prime Minister will work with other leaders to accelerate global climate action
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to reduce pollution and meet targets outlined in the Paris Agreement
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At the conference, he will also highlight Canada's leadership in the fight against climate change.
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This includes setting a strengthened 2030 emissions reduction target,
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passing legislation to require net zero emissions by 2050,
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Canada's financial contribution to support climate action in developing countries.
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Wow, that's a whole lot of travelling, Justin is doing,
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in order to convey a whole lot of virtue signalling.
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all this jet-setting will result in a whole lot of completely unnecessary carbon emissions.
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by staying off his swang jet and attending these meetings via Zoom or Skype?
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But no, Justin Trudeau, he just loves being an international globetrotter.
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as a certain Swedish climate huckster would say.
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And joining me now for more on climate hypocrisy
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because the one thing that makes the constant scolding about climate change tolerable
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is running around and pointing out the hypocrisy and being smug about it.
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I thought with all this masking and social distancing
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and mandatory vaccine passports that are now in place,
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I thought COVID is still a clear and present danger.
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So how do these bigwigs justify this mass gathering in the first place?
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We're just the little people who foot the bill for it all.
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It's how you know that they don't believe any of these things are existential emergencies.
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when you're going to make these backroom decisions to control my life,
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because apparently COVID is not the existential crisis that they keep telling us it is
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But they gave themselves exemptions for gathering for this conference.
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But they also don't think climate change is the existential crisis that they keep telling us it is.
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thousands, tens of thousands of these people hop on planes,
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decide how your municipality is going to run its recycling program
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and the building codes that mandate low-flow toilets and low-flow showerheads,
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all the things that really affect you on a day-to-day basis
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so they must not think that the climate is changing in a way
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or whatever some little teenage girl is yelling at us about now.
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Well, it's gone from a little teenage girl to a CGI raptor.
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We talked about that ad the other day on the live stream.
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A dinosaur, a fake dinosaur, played by Jack Black, lecturing humanity.
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Don't make the same mistake we did in taking that meteor for granted.
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Sheila, when you speak about the unnecessary carbon getting there by jet,
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And folks, if you think Sheila is exaggerating,
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I can tell you both Sheila and I have been to these UN powwows before.
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Sheila in Germany, in Poland, myself a few years ago, in Morocco.
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We see seven passenger SUVs for the diplomats in which one person often is the only occupant
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But in between the chauffeuring around, they are sitting there,
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fleets of SUVs with V8 engines idling with the AC or the heating cranked to max,
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lest the precious snowflake diplomat get uncomfortable.
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It is the worst misuse of carbon just to leave a vehicle like that idling,
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You would think if these people cared one iota about the message they're doing,
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they would walk the walk as well as talk the talk.
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The climate is just their vehicle to control your life in much the same way as COVID is
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the vehicle to control your life or has been for the last 20 months.
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It's about a wealth transfer from wealthier countries to poorer countries, from wealthier
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people, which actually includes middle class people to other people.
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Transfer of wealth from the middle class, incidentally, to the government and to businesses.
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They really don't care about these things because they don't walk the walk, and they don't even
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You know, if you were a true believer in something, for example, I don't think it shocks anybody
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And so I look at the world through a very specific lens, right?
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But these people don't look at the world through environmentalist eyeballs.
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They'll walk past the acres and acres, and I'm not exaggerating, of idling buses and limos
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They have environmentalists standing outside the conferences handing out, you know, their
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doomsday cult literature about what you have to do to stop the world from ending.
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They're handing out these pieces of paper that get tossed into the garbage three feet
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They don't hear the persistent hum of the diesel generators powering their conference in
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They didn't seem to notice the coal miners museum right next door when I was in Poland.
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Like, they don't see this stuff, and they don't see the hypocrisy because they don't
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It's just the thing they need to control you and take your money away from you.
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No, they are true elitists, Sheila, that's for sure.
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But by the same standard, my friend, I think there's a way to dial back the climate hysteria,
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the carbon taxes, etc., with a degree of grace.
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And by that, I mean, even if you and I bought into man-made climate change, even if we thought
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carbon taxes and carbon levies were a good thing, our elected officials could say, you
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know what, COVID-19 really threw us a curveball these past two years.
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Yes, a carbon tax might be part of the solution.
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We have seen trillions and trillions of economic damage done to the world economy, and we have
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to focus our attention on getting back to normal, getting back to business again.
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Surely, Sheila, this could be a way to downplay all this carbon hysteria.
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For them, though, they see COVID as an opportunity.
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For them, they see, okay, well, now we have these vaccine passports.
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They see the economic downturn that hurts normal people, but not them because they're so rich
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They see the economic downturn as an opportunity.
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They look at it and say, oh, everybody was locked in their homes, and so carbon emissions
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And on some level, I think that's why some of these people are so happy about lockdowns
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for us, not for them, because it's saving the earth.
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Sure, it's ruining your life, separating you from your grandparents and stripping you of any
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So, I mean, they really don't see COVID as, you know, like, oh, we have lessons learned
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They look at it as, ah, we were able to lock people in their homes using what we told them
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Because they are so elitist, that means they are insulated, and that means they simply lack
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empathy for the common Joe and Jane out there working away, trying to pay a mortgage, trying
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to put ever-increasing price groceries on the table.
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They have no common ground with what the middle class is going through these days.
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You mentioned, and this is very important, I think, wealth transfer.
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When Justin Trudeau starts talking about carbon taxes, when Justin Trudeau starts talking about
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accelerating the process to deadlines, be it 2030, 2050, what have you, I instantly grabbed
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Is there going to be some kind of awful surprise coming out of this conference?
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Some statement by our prime minister, who we both know likes to go off script when it
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comes to virtue signaling, in terms of even more and higher taxes for Canadians?
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Well, he's going to have to do something to keep all those promises he's going to make
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He's already talking about all that Canada is doing to help the developing world fight
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climate change, where I would suggest that we need to do more to help the developing world
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get access to cheap, reliable fossil fuels so that they can lift themselves out of poverty,
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But Justin Trudeau is already talking about that wealth transfer from Canadians who are struggling
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to recover from the economic devastation of the pandemic and who are dealing with skyrocketing
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He's going to take more of your money to give to the developing world.
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And he said as much when he announced his travel.
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But please, for the love of God, Sheila, if you carve a jack-o-lantern, don't put a candle
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in it, think of the carbon footprint that paraffin candle is going to cause in your neck
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I'm going to put a diesel generator in my pumpkin.
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And in the other pumpkin, I'm going to put a big lump of coal and light that up.
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And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the northern hinterland of Alberta.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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I'm here in Kendiak because I heard that someone had been canceled from the subway just right
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there for just wanted to take out because it didn't have the QR code.
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But you need to know that Quebec City, take out and drive him through, it's still allowed
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So, you should not be canceled because you don't have your QR code.
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So, I went there to discuss with the worker there.
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And what they said to me is yesterday, he was asking the QR code not because he needed
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to ask it, but because he was curious to know who had the QR code because it was the first
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It's not supposed to be because medical information is confidential if you not have a word reason
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to ask the QR code or the proof of vaccination.
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So, if a subway can do it, imagine how many businesses now who infringe the rule to ask the vax
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So, we need, please, to go and sign our petition.
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Novaxpassport.ca and please make sure to sign it to follow us and we need to send a message
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that we don't want the vaccine passport anymore because this kind of businesses can violate
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and infringe your rights anytime just because they are curious to know if you are vaccinated
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I had a question for you. One of my friends was here yesterday and she would refuse to be served because she didn't have her QR code.
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There are two weeks and we are not really obligated to do it.
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There are 14 days of lunch so that the restaurants can set up.
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Yes, but the take-out and in the car, they are not supposed to have a QR code.
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Yesterday, I asked her, but it's not obligatory.
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She told me that she refused to be served if she didn't have her QR code.
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You know, folks, I don't know about you, but when I visit a Subway sandwich franchise, I'm there to chow down on a tuna sub, assuming that's actually tuna I'm eating.
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But what I'm not there for is to have some staffer ask me for my papers or a QR code, especially if I'm taking that sandwich to go.
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But apparently some folks don't know their role.
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And such was the case at one Subway restaurant in Quebec in which a sandwich maker reinvented himself as the city's chief medical officer, picking and choosing which customers would receive takeout service based on medical status.
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And joining me now with more on this story is our Quebec based reporter, Alexa Lavoie.
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So, Alexa, some of the employees at this particular Subway store were acting completely inappropriately.
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The question is this, why were they acting in such an inappropriate fashion in the first place?
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So, what I heard, like, just before I went there, so I heard that the day before I went, some people had been refused, just refused to get served because they didn't have their QR code.
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I need to go there and I need to see by myself that is real.
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And I asked them and when the answer to me because they were curious.
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Now, maybe if they're there for indoor dining, that's one thing.
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But if it's takeout, if it's delivery, if it's drive through, that person, that customer's medical status is none of your damn business.
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So, is this a degree of their virtue signaling?
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They think that they're doing society a favor by making sure everyone's being vaccinated?
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So, I think some people think that they are, I don't know, superior because they work there.
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So, they think they have the right to ask medical information when they should not.
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Because it's not legal to ask the medical information if you don't have a reasonable reason to ask for it.
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And that wasn't reasonable if it was just to pick up a freaking subway.
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Because of COVID in the last year and a half, one of the sectors that has been so brutally hurt is the restaurant business.
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Especially if you run a sit down type of restaurant.
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And I know Subway is a bit of sit down and take out.
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But you would think that operators would be hungry for business, no pun intended.
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You would think that they'd want to sell as many sandwiches as they could possibly do.
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And instead, they're going, well, a sandwich for you, no soup for you, like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld.
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But, as I say, first of all, they still struggle to have, like, customers.
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Like, since the pandemic, like, all restaurants take out place struggle for their income right now.
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So, you would, like, wonder why they are doing that on the first day.
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So, my thing, I call the manager and say, what are you going to do if your employee doesn't respect the rule and for respecting and protecting your customer of that in the future?
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I hope, I don't want to see anyone lose their job, of course, but I hope that manager, that owner of the franchise reprimands these employees, at least just lays down the law.
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Look, if they're here for takeout, it's none of your damn business what their medical history is.
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And, you know, Subway is a huge player in the fast food sector.
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But I can tell you, Alexa, next time you're in Toronto, I'll drive you around the city.
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I'll show you Tim Hortons that have closed down due to this pandemic.
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I think, Alexa, we have a segment out there, I call them the COVID Karens, that they want to go beyond the call of duty when it comes to, I don't know, taking all the fun out of going to an event or going to a restaurant.
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And by that, I mean, on Labor Day, the Hamilton Tiger Cats were having their annual Labor Day Classic with the Toronto Argonauts Canadian Football League.
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The passport, the vaccine passport in Ontario didn't kick in until September 22nd.
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And yet to go to that game, the Hamilton Tiger Cats said to their fans, you need to be double jabbed or you don't get a seat.
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Yet the law was still more than two weeks away.
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Again, I think this is self-righteous individuals saying, look how pure we are.
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We're making sure even beyond government mandates that you get vaccinated.
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My thought is the day where our primer, premiere, sorry, say to all the businesses, if you need it for your business and you think it's for the good of your business, go and use it.
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That day, everybody was like, that opened the door to anybody who wants to use it to go and use it.
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Well, you know what? And if I was in business, I would say not until I'm bloody well have to do it by law.
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And maybe then even I'm not going to do it because I think this is immoral and unethical.
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But to jump ahead of the actual mandates, I think that is pathetic and you're doing a disservice to your customers.
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Alexa, I hope you go back to that subway in the days or weeks ahead.
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See if they still have the QR code police asking you for your papers before you get your 12 inch turkey sub.
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Let's see if they've learned a lesson from this report.
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So thank you so much. And you have a great weekend, my friend.
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Oh, gosh. And that was Alexa Lavoie in Quebec City.
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Folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Well, folks, by all accounts, Toronto Police Detective Constable Adrian Gilvesi is a superb cop for the past 11 years.
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She's done a great job in terms of putting bad guys behind bars and keeping Hogtown safe for its law abiding citizens.
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But now Adrian herself is under investigation by the Toronto Police Service.
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Well, she attended last month's Freedom Rally at Queen's Park on her free time and out of uniform.
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And she spoke her mind in terms of what it's like to be an ethical member of law enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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And believe me, the powers that be, we're not amused.
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You know, Adrian, first of all, I want to thank you for having the courage to be a member of law enforcement and to go out there and speak your mind.
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As far as I can tell, you did nothing wrong. You were out of uniform. You were on your own time. You were not on duty.
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What is the issue in terms of you appearing at that Freedom Rally?
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I think what it was explained to me was the fact that because I have been out there in the media, I was recognizable to be a member of the Toronto Police Service and therefore they believed that I was portraying myself as a Toronto Police Service.
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But, and yet, I don't think you said anything that was, you know, dishonorable.
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You know, I think police officers like yourself, and I've spoken to many of them off the record because I guess, well, they don't want to go through what you're going through.
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Their message to me is tackling people who are peaceful protesters in the city square.
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And from what you said at the rally, I think you have a similar set of concerns, don't you?
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Absolutely. I've spoken to many officers from across Canada over the last year and a half who share the same sentiments as I.
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They are afraid to speak out because of the repercussions and reprisals that come as a result of speaking out against this.
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And Adrian, did you, I mean, if we were to go back in time to September 18th, I believe was the date.
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Would you still, knowing what's happened to you right now, would you still have attended that Freedom Rally?
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Detective Constable Adrian Gilvasi is now under internal investigation by the Toronto Police Service,
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simply for speaking her mind at a Freedom Rally that took place at Queen's Park in September, on September 18th.
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She was out of uniform and her speech was made on her own time.
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And this is apparently harmful to the reputation of the service, according to Toronto Police.
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Yet, going back to the summer of 2020, hundreds of Toronto Police officers, including the chief at the time,
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took a knee to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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And this was done while the officers were in uniform and on duty.
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In any event, you had plenty to say about this heaping helping of hypocrisy.
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A law enforcement officer with a free mind of her own.
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And it would be a true crime if she was disciplined or terminated for merely speaking her mind on her free time.
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As a Canadian citizen, I'd rather have police officers who feel free to speak their minds
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than officers who only spout and tout the official message, whatever it happens to be on whatever issue,
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The thought that law enforcement is denying the basic civil rights of not only Canadian citizens,
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but of their own members of law enforcement is disgusting and incomprehensible.
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In fact, it makes me bristle whenever I hear law enforcement officers state that old chest that,
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That phrase kind of reminds me of what certain uniformed personnel were saying in Germany some 85 years ago
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Have we not learned anything from those dark days?
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If she's not in uniform, she's a regular citizen.
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Indeed, Old School, this is the crux of the matter when it comes to freedom of expression.
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Namely, are citizens on their free time allowed to speak out?
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Or are we supposed to be slaves to our employers 24-7?
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Let's hope the investigators cut Adrian some slack here.
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In the name of common decency, she did nothing wrong.
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We had a Victoria police officer and acting senior sergeant here in Australia go on record in an interview.
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She resigned immediately after because she knew she'd be in breach of the Vic poll policy,
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where all police members were essentially to remain apolitical, particularly in public.
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I do appreciate this policy being a retired member myself.
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When working with the public in normal circumstances, our political preferences must have no bearing on serving the community at large.
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I suppose you could say that about politicians, but that's for another time.
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I think this global event that goes beyond politics is an exception.
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Blind obedience, when it is a contravention of human rights, is a crime.
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Everyone, including the police, must question the acts of barbarism that were confronted daily for nearly two years now.
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So to Adrian, congratulations on this bravery that is far greater than probably any other bravery she's demonstrated previously.
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But again, if the police are to remain apolitical, then how does one explain their massive show of support the world over for the Black Lives Matter movement last summer?
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And these officers, as I said earlier, were in uniform and on duty when they bent the knee.
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So if there is indeed a policy of police officers remaining apolitical, then surely it must be enforced across the board regardless of the issue at hand.
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Indeed, the police brass seems to frown on certain political statements while completely embracing other political statements.
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Such a so-called policy is not only completely hypocritical, it's also a joke.
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.