Join David Menzies and Matt Brevner as they take a look at the latest vaccine passport protest in Vancouver, Canada, as well as the anti-vaccination protests in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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.
00:00:53.980And letters, we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:00:57.720And you had plenty to say about my coverage of the protest, also by health care workers and their allies outside Toronto General Hospital, also on Monday.
00:01:08.380Yes, the mainstream media completely lied about what took place that day.
00:01:47.820We're here for our freedoms, we're here for our rights, we're going to make a difference, and we're going to do it, we're going to do it diplomatically.
00:01:53.800Yeah, we're going to vote Trudeau out.
00:01:57.740We're here at the Small Business BC protest, behind me is a crowd of a few hundred people, very eclectic, I must add.
00:02:04.560People from all walks of life, all ages, um, vaccinated, unvaccinated.
00:02:10.620Hopefully now people are kind of realizing, like, what it really is about, and that it's a lot more than just a passport.
00:02:16.560We're going right back to Nazi Germany with this, and if nobody sees this, because they've been denied a history.
00:02:23.560They will not be allowed to go to restaurants, to other public places, and that, in a sense, is, is a form of segregation, so yeah, I do not support that.
00:02:31.560You do not support that. As someone who's vaccinated, you do not support that?
00:02:35.560I want to see every single person next Wednesday carrying the Canadian Bill of Rights!
00:02:41.560Beating the foundation, we're going to re-establish within our country.
00:02:48.560It seems that they are all rallied behind their disapproval of the vaccine passport.
00:02:53.560Something's going on here, it's, this is aggressive.
00:02:56.560They're going to wake up with the worst hangover they've ever had when they realize that the government, the media, everybody's been lying to them,
00:03:03.560and that the drugs that we're talking about right now actually prevent you from getting it and stop the spread of COVID.
00:03:09.560I think that the political powers that have become accustomed to doing politics one way are not prepared for what is transpiring across this nation.
00:03:20.560There is a change. The political landscape has been shaken.
00:03:24.560I think it's time that, whether you're vaxxed, not vaxxed, masked, not masked, it's time to stand, it's time to question.
00:03:31.560And I don't think that people that said, you know what, I'm going to get the shot so things can go back to normal.
00:03:36.560I don't think that they said, yeah, and now I want to prove it everywhere I go.
00:03:40.560Like, or that I want to keep up my status or like continue to go back and get boosters or have my small children vaxxed.
00:03:47.560Well, that was a scene in Vancouver last Monday when frontline workers and their allies staged a protest against mandatory vaccine passports.
00:03:58.560And thankfully, our man in Vancouver, that would be Matt Brevner.
00:04:03.560He was there to chronicle the protest and do what Rebel News does best, which is bring you the other side of the story.
00:04:11.560And joining me now is Matt himself. How are you doing there, my friend?
00:04:15.560Mr. Menzies, I'm doing great. The sun is shining in beautiful Vancouver, which is a rarity.
00:04:22.560So, you know, I'll take what I can get. It's really good.
00:04:25.560Enjoy it while it lasts. But of course, the progressives will say this is all part of global warming or climate change or global cooling.
00:04:33.560I can't keep track. But Matt, the issue at hand, of course, was the protest that took place on Monday in Toronto,
00:04:42.560outside of Toronto General Hospital. I did a story on that protest as well.
00:04:49.560And I want to focus in on one thing. And this is why I'm glad you were there in Vancouver.
00:04:53.560The media narrative in Toronto was absolutely appalling.
00:04:58.560And the media was out in full force. I think they thought it was going to get violently shut down,
00:05:04.560that Toronto was going to have a Melbourne moment, if you will.
00:05:09.560The jump the shark coverage, I thought, was a CTV tweet with the words terrifying.
00:05:16.560And then it had a picture of the protest. And if you look closely at the photograph they use, Matt, there's a white vehicle.
00:05:23.560And I, you know, openly asked, what do you think that is, folks? The Toronto Police Emergency Task Force van?
00:05:30.560No, it was an ice cream truck selling Sundays and banana splits. That's how terrifying that battlefield was.
00:05:37.560So the question goes to you, Matt. You were there on the ground to observe firsthand what was happening.
00:05:44.560How did that compare to what the mainstream media was reporting?
00:05:48.560I mean, there isn't really any comparison whatsoever other than there were people standing on the street.
00:05:55.560That's about the only thing that the mainstream narrative got correct.
00:05:59.560But, you know, it's really unfortunate because there's so much fear mongering being propagated about these protests,
00:06:06.560about, you know, people who are maybe concerned about vaccine passports or the vaccine or what have you.
00:06:12.560And it's just, it's really not accurate. You know, I'm thinking this last protest on Wednesday,
00:06:18.560it was quite a bit smaller than the one that was in Vancouver.
00:06:21.560You know, it's very difficult to expect people to come out two Wednesdays in a row,
00:06:26.560especially when they're uncertain about their paychecks or if they'll have paychecks moving forward.
00:06:30.560You know, people need to work and feed their families and what have you.
00:06:33.560But the crowd that was there was quite mixed.
00:06:36.560You know, there were people that were very against the vaccine, against the mandates, everything.
00:06:41.560And there are also people who have been vaccinated that showed up with their, you know,
00:06:45.560KN95 masks that were just like, okay, at first I thought this was maybe a little crazy,
00:06:50.560but these, you know, these mandates are going way too far and we're not for this.
00:06:55.560Whatever's happening right now here in Canada, we're not for this.
00:11:38.560So that this already strained system is further strained.
00:11:43.560Matt, does this make any sense to you?
00:11:46.560Well, I saw a report from News 1130, which is a Vancouver mainstream media radio station.
00:11:55.560And they reported that their concern was there could be as many as 200,000 healthcare workers in the province that are going to quit over this vaccine mandate.
00:12:15.560We're so far beyond reason and logic when we're discussing these issues.
00:12:20.560If you pump, if you lock people up and then you pump them full of fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, you know, rationality goes completely out the window.
00:12:30.560And it's difficult sometimes when we're looking at the way people are behaving and to not be like, how could they not see things the way I'm seeing things?
00:12:38.560But we have to understand that people are running around literally thinking that the sky is falling and the world's going to end.
00:12:44.560And you can't really expect rationality when people are just so consumed by that, by that paranoia and that fear, you know.
00:12:51.560So my heart goes out to the frontline workers who've been, you know, working 18-hour shifts, umpteen days a week for the last year and a half and are just feeling left alone and confused.
00:13:02.560And then the complete lack of support and vitriol that's been coming not only from mainstream media, but from our elected officials, our leaders, calling them, you know, cowardly or whatever else.
00:14:54.560And he's waving his fingers in all sorts of ways that are, you know, disrespectful and not safe for kids.
00:14:59.560And I just thought, well, you know, if he's a, if he really means what he's, what he's saying on his shirt, then he would probably be surprised to know that, you know, overwhelmingly black Canadians are not vaccinated compared to Caucasian Canadians and Asian Canadians being ranking at the highest of that statistic.
00:15:15.560So maybe, you know, I would, I would plead to his empathy and, and let him know about the statistic.
00:15:21.560You know, he was not happy to hear it or happy to see me or happy to know that I was working for Rebel, and he shoved me.
00:15:29.560And then, you know, I learned from you that you don't give up.
00:15:33.560So I asked him again, and then he, he threw an elbow at me.
00:15:36.560You know, it wasn't a, obviously, like, I'm okay.
00:15:40.560I didn't feel like I was in danger in any, in any way, shape or form.
00:15:44.560But point being is just like the, the cognitive dissonance between what people claim they stand for versus what they actually propagate.
00:16:07.560And, and unfortunately, news, news networks and propaganda are just pouring gasoline on, on the flames and, and then blaming people like the anti-maskers or the anti-vaxxers or, or Trudeau conveniently during the debates blames, you know, the polarity in our country on us, which is just ridiculous.
00:16:26.560And, and for the Antifa types that so often resort to profanity, ad hominem attacks, even physical attacks, to me, that means you won the debate.
00:16:36.560They don't have anything in their intellectual reservoir to have a debate with you based on logic facts.
00:16:45.560And that's why they act like the thugs they are.
00:17:43.560So I don't think it's up to an employer or anyone else to tell me that I don't have a choice.
00:17:48.560Do you remember when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney told our reporter Adam Sose that he is against vaccine passports, but not just that he doesn't support vaccine passports?
00:18:08.560And we've been very clear from the beginning that we will not facilitate or accept vaccine passports and that, in fact, we regard, I believe that they would, in principle,
00:18:16.560contravene the Health Information Act and also possibly the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
00:18:25.560But why now is an Alberta government agency under the scope and control of the Minister of Health, Tyler Shandro, making a vaccine passport or proof of COVID vaccination a condition of work for Alberta Health Services employees and staff and contractors who have worked through the pandemic just fine for the last year and a half without a COVID vaccine?
00:18:51.560It's bad enough that so many are pushing for the idea of mandatory vaccinations and we can debate the merits of mandatory vaccines until the cows come home.
00:19:01.560But how in blue blazes is there any medical or scientific argument to be made to have an IT worker who works alone at home getting vaccinated?
00:19:27.560Sheila, we've been told since the get go of this pandemic going back almost two years, all the decisions are being made by science and medical advice.
00:20:03.560And that's why we have taken her into our fight vaccine passports caseload as a strategic case where we're trying to stop the forced inoculation of everyday Canadians.
00:20:15.560It's the whole, like, get the jab or lose your job kind of business.
00:20:19.560She has been at home since March 2020, since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:20:25.560Alberta Health Services said the safest place for you to be is at home.
00:20:29.560That's where we're going to, what is it, stay home to stay safe to stop the spread or whatever the dumb slogan the politicians are using these days.
00:20:38.560But she's been sitting there just fine, doing her job just fine.
00:20:42.560She's not exposed to anybody, if you care about that sort of thing.
00:20:46.560She's doing exactly what they told her to do for the last 18 or 19 months.
00:20:51.560And then all of a sudden, even though she's worked alone and safely on her computer, like the viruses she's dealing with are in your computer.
00:21:00.560They're not out in the air and they've told her you're going to lose your job if you don't get a vaccine.
00:21:48.560Ninety nine percent of the time he is solitary.
00:21:51.560I say ninety nine as opposed to one hundred percent because you could say, well, he's got to work, you know, walk to the employee dressing room and back again, that sort of thing.
00:22:00.560But ninety nine percent he's sealed off.
00:22:02.560He thinks and I agree that this is all about control.
00:22:06.560He poses a threat to nobody and neither does she.
00:23:10.560You have to show in some provinces your bartender, your private medical history before they can pour you a draft.
00:23:19.560What happened in the course of 18 months in this country?
00:23:22.560And the further we get away from the baseline of normal, where people are just living their lives, doing whatever, like what we were doing in January and February of 2020.
00:23:30.560The further we get away from that, the less we remember what normal is and the more we accept the next thing.
00:23:38.560Just a few short months ago, Premier Jason Kenney in Alberta, he was vehemently against vaccine passports.
00:23:44.560Not that he just didn't like them and wasn't going to do them, but we oppose them.
00:23:48.560And now he's making an easy printable card in case a private business wants to bring in a vaccine passport.
00:23:56.560Well, then here's the card courtesy of the government so that you can utilize that business.
00:24:01.560So it's you know, everybody's just passing the buck.
00:24:04.560What was so bizarre a few short months ago, it's perfectly normal now.
00:24:08.560And I'm worried about this mass brainwashing that we're never, ever going to get back to the way it was.
00:24:14.560No, you're so right about that, Sheila.
00:24:17.560And the way it is and the way it has been for more than a year and a half, Sheila, is that these are the salad days for what I call the COVID Karens out there.
00:24:27.560You know, the busy bodies, the tattletales, the ones that like to, you know, wag their finger.
00:24:33.560And why are you not wearing your mask properly?
00:24:36.560And the problem is some of these COVID Karens are employers.
00:24:41.560Some of them are ticket issuing bylaw officers.
00:24:45.560They have they have been empowered by this pandemic.
00:24:50.560And by God, they are sure using that power, aren't they?
00:24:55.560And I think there's another I don't want to psychologically diagnose people.
00:24:59.560But, you know, I have my theories that, you know, there are a lot of people who don't do a lot of good things for their community, don't do a lot of actual useful things for their fellow man.
00:25:08.560There are those people out there. We encounter them every day.
00:25:11.560They won't even hold the door for you if you've got full hands.
00:25:14.560But they've been told now that if they wear a mask, but also if they force you to wear a mask, they are literally saving lives.
00:25:24.560They're like firefighters. They're like Navy SEALs, you know.
00:25:27.560And so that's why they come at you with that vigor. Right.
00:25:30.560This is the first thing that they feel like they've ever done in the world.
00:25:37.560You get to do it anonymously. You get to be a jerk anonymously because you're wearing a mask over your face.
00:25:42.560And the TV has told you that you you're just like the guy who shot Osama bin Laden.
00:25:48.560Look at you. You're saving lives when really you're just doing nothing but being a cruel, unkind, busy body who has no sense of people's right to privacy anymore.
00:26:01.560They think they're heroes when they're really just zeroes.
00:26:07.560And, you know, it's funny you mentioned firefighters.
00:26:09.560I every once in a while I'm passed by a fire truck rushing to a fire and I pull over and I look at the crew and they're all masked up.
00:26:19.560Here are these big, burly, strong men about to put their lives on the line, rushing into a fire.
00:26:24.560They've got the mask on probably because they don't want to, but because whoever's in charge has mandated that one last question, Sheila.
00:26:34.560It's going to head to court. I'm wondering how this is going to pan out.
00:26:37.560This is the big question moving forward, isn't it, for not just Canada, but for countries around the world, whether employers have this right.
00:26:45.560Now, I can tell you in Toronto, he bills himself as Canada's preeminent labor lawyer.
00:26:51.560His name is Howard Lovett. He's a great labor lawyer.
00:26:53.560He's been very vocal, saying he thinks employers from what he can make of the law do have this right to request vaccinations.
00:27:03.560And if you don't take it, you're gone. That's his opinion.
00:27:06.560What's your opinion studying this issue, Sheila?
00:27:10.560Do people that are not getting vaccinated, do they have a case?
00:27:15.560Is there hope for them that they won't be forced into this or lose their job?
00:27:19.560I do think there's hope. And I think it's a lot based on how much they're willing to fight and the judge that they get in front of.
00:27:29.560Unfortunately, we have very political judges in this country, even though they like to pretend that they're not.
00:27:34.560And they do want to be the fancy people liked by the mainstream.
00:27:38.560They don't want to be the judge of the anti-vaxxers when most of these people are not anti-vaxxers.
00:27:44.560In fact, most of the people I meet at, let's say, the health care workers protest, they'll tell me, Sheila, I'm vaccinated, but I've got to make that choice.
00:27:54.560And I don't like the government taking away that choice for everybody else, including my colleagues in the emergency room or on the fire truck or on my watch if they're cops.
00:28:06.560And, you know, I think it really does matter the judge that you get in front of, because, you know, you can hear facts all day long.
00:28:13.560And I sit in in these court cases and some of the ones I think we're going to lose, we win.
00:28:17.560And the wins that the ones that we the ones that we lose, I think, well, that was that was a sure thing.
00:30:40.560They're going to come here with the mainstream media and they're going to talk badly about the people that are standing up and might lose their jobs because they have a heartfelt and a brain that comes together and says there's something wrong with this and we recognize that this is not freedom.
00:31:05.560David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto. Well, folks, I'm outside Toronto General Hospital. It is the site for a protest involving frontline healthcare workers and their allies.
00:31:17.560And I got to tell you, the demonization of these people in the mainstream media has been off the charts.
00:31:25.560But, you know, there's something in the air. There's a vibe I'm getting given a the police presence and b the amount of mainstream media that's here.
00:31:34.560This might be our Australia moment where law enforcement clamps down because the narrative is that these people are going to interfere with patients and healthcare workers that are going in and out of the hospital.
00:31:47.560I can tell you, a couple of weeks ago when there was a similar protest, we saw absolutely zero evidence of that. But nevertheless, that is the narrative.
00:31:56.560They've also been told to protest at a more appropriate place.
00:32:01.560Well, let me think now. Would that be the public square, i.e. Young Dundas Square?
00:32:06.560Do you remember what began back in January when it came to anti-lockdown protesters there? Well, here, check out the footage.
00:32:15.560Protesting is not an essential reason.
00:32:25.560Why don't I have the right to speak what's on my heart?
00:32:27.560Mainstream media has decided to sit this one out. Nothing to see here, folks.
00:32:44.560This is Toronto. This is not North Korea.
00:32:50.560You're infringing on my rights! You are infringing on my rights!
00:32:54.560Officer, why are these protesters not allowed to protest and people like you took the knee for Black Lives Matter in the summer?
00:33:01.560I'm not going to leave a communist country to my kids or anyone else's kids.
00:33:07.560Yeah, so there you have it. Just an absolute violent, hostile takedown of people genuinely, peacefully protesting.
00:33:17.560And as far as the congestion argument is concerned, you know, that's perversely ironic as well because I'm standing right now in a bike lane.
00:33:26.560These bike lanes only got put in in University Avenue about a year ago.
00:33:32.560The healthcare establishment, if you will, has long advocated not to have bike lanes here.
00:33:41.560They want traffic to flow as good as possible for the ambulances.
00:33:45.560And yet when the pandemic kicked in, well, John Tory, he couldn't wait to resume his war on the car.
00:33:52.560So now we have bike lanes taking out an entire lane of traffic.
00:33:55.560John Tory can do that because, of course, he lives within walking distance of his place of employment.
00:34:00.560In any event, the protest is going to kick off in about 15 minutes or so.
00:34:04.560And we're just going to see what happens.
00:34:08.560Hopefully it will be peaceful. Hopefully it will be without incident.
00:34:11.560Hopefully it will be not another repeat of Young Dundas Square back in January.
00:34:17.560Our mission is to unite nurses, educate the public and bring the ethics back into healthcare.
00:34:22.560And I'm pretty sure that the nurses inside have the same mission as we do.
00:34:26.560So I think it's a misunderstanding and because of the media, they've twisted everything around.
00:34:33.560I didn't hear off the top. Can you just say your name and where you did work and what your current job status is?
00:34:38.560My name is Sarah Shijunian. I'm currently the co-founder of Canadian Frontline Nurses.
00:34:43.560I was working at Siena North Finch in a nursing home and also I worked in the community with kids.
00:34:50.560Well, you know, folks, there were a few reasons why I really wanted to cover the protests outside Toronto General Hospital last Monday.
00:34:56.560First, I wanted to hear what healthcare workers and their allies had to say about mandatory vaccine passports,
00:35:03.560which was the ostensible policy reason for the protests.
00:35:08.560As well, I wanted to be there to witness firsthand how the mainstream media would demonize these people.
00:35:16.560And wow, folks, the state funded stenographers at the media party, they really, truly outdid themselves on this day.
00:35:24.560Many calling this truly peaceful protest terrifying and referring to the protesters as covidiots and nutjobs.
00:35:35.560And hey, what was the deal with the handful of Antifa losers who showed up?
00:35:41.560But as you saw, as per usual, they have a very hard time forming cognitive thoughts.
00:35:48.560At any event, you had plenty to say about various healthcare workers and their friends who would rather lose their jobs than take those jabs.
00:35:58.560Harry Mills writes, if the protesters were in black and throwing Molotov cocktails, they would be classified as mostly peaceful and MSM and Trudeau's paid off media wouldn't report it.
00:36:13.560Oh, you're right, Harry. As previously noted, many media outlets describe this truly peaceful protest as being terrifying.
00:36:21.560Seriously. Yeah, it was so terrifying that there was actually an ice cream truck on site selling sundaes and banana splits.
00:36:30.560Give me a break. Zero Fox writes, can we all agree to stop calling them Antifa when they are anything but?
00:36:39.560Great point, Zero Fox. Antifa is, of course, a contraction of the words anti and fascist.
00:36:44.560But Antifa embraces the odious playbook of fascists committing everything from acts of vandalism to all out violence.
00:36:53.560They are not Antifa. They are simply fa for fascists.
00:36:57.560And really, what the hell were these gender studies dropouts doing at the hospital protests in the first place?
00:37:05.560Razier writes, the double muzzled dude thought he was tough enough to intimidate David.