EZRA LEVANT ｜ A Stephen Harper cabinet minister hires Gerald Butts and the CBC to come up with a Great Reset for Alberta. No thanks.
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A cabinet minister hires Gerald Butts and the CBC to come up with a Great Reset for Alberta, and it s just unbelievable. And I'll take you through it in the video version of the podcast, so you can see it for yourself.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I'm going to talk about an old friend of mine. I haven't seen him in a
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while, but I saw him pop up with a new plan he has for an Alberta reset. Sounds a bit like the
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Great Reset. And if you think maybe I'm stretching there, Monty is inviting to a big conference,
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not only Gerald Butts, but Mark Carney of the World Economic Forum. Monty Solberg is hosting
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a Great Reset conference for Alberta. And the guest of honor is Gerald Butts and Mark Carney.
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And it is so gross, and I'll take you through it today. It's just unbelievable.
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The podcast will be interesting, but I want to encourage you to get the video version of the
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podcast because I want to show you with your own eyes the website where Monty promotes this. I want
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you to see. I'm not making it up. I'm not exaggerating. You've got to see this. And to see it, get the
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video version. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get
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my nightly show in video form, as well as four weekly shows that we do. Just unbelievable.
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Monty Solberg breaks your heart. Go to rebelnewsplus.com for the video version. Here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, a Stephen Harper cabinet minister hires Gerald Butts and the CBC to come up with a great
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reset for Alberta. Ah, no thanks. It's June 22nd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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You're ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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One of the important concepts about being a lawyer is that you don't have to agree with your client
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in order to represent them. That's really important in criminal law especially, even though it's
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sometimes hard to understand. I mean, if someone is charged with an absolutely odious and brutal crime,
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we're repulsed by him and those connected to him. And imagine some lawyer who's actually trying to
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keep him free by any legal means, any detail, any technicality or loophole. How could we not hate
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such a lawyer, too? I mean, imagine being the lawyers who defended Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolko.
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Just atrocious. Or if you're not old enough to remember them, think about someone who didn't commit
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murder, but did gross things. Just think about Xi'an Gomeshi, the serial abuser, violent thug,
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who used his CBC show as a sort of a dating service, a pipeline, to gather impressionable young women.
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And then he'd ask them out on dates. And then he'd take them back to his place. And he would punch them
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in the face. He would choke them and beat them again and again. And the CBC heard about it.
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And they helped cover it up. Imagine being that scumbag's lawyer. Well, Marie Hanein is her name,
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probably the best criminal lawyer in Toronto. And she defended this sick thug. And she got him off.
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Oh, sorry. Bad choice of words. And some feminists attacked her for that. But she was right and they
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were wrong. I mean, obviously, Hanein is not for beating women. She's for the idea of innocent
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until proven guilty. That everyone deserves a lawyer. In fact, it's a civil right. And the system
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needs it. Both sides need to be argued in a zealous way. No stone left unturned. And then a neutral,
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unbiased judge or jury weighs it on a scale. And if we don't believe an accused criminal deserves a
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lawyer, and a good lawyer at that, then why bother even having a trial? I mean, if you're so certain,
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well, just convict him. No. One of the fundamental features of our legal system is to hear both sides
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of the story. In Latin, there's a phrase, adi ultram partum. Hear the other side first. Hear the
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other side first. Okay, thank you for indulging that little detour. Don't judge a lawyer by his clients.
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I think you could probably say the same thing about other professions, too. Like a doctor. A doctor
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treats someone, even if they're a bad person. That's sort of what doctors do. Someone gets shot
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up in a drug gang war. You still treat them at the hospital. I think you have an ethical obligation.
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Now, this image here is a little bit hard to see, but it's a New York Times story from about 30 years
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ago. The headline, if you can make it out, is a Klansman's Black Lawyer and a Principal. Just FYI,
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civil liberties groups like the ACLU used to send Black lawyers and Jewish lawyers to defend the KKK.
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And I think they made the point beautifully. It's what I was saying about Marie Hanein to indicate that
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they obviously didn't support the anti-Black and anti-Jewish views of their clients. They were there to
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defend free speech on principle and also to support the principle that everyone has the right to a
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lawyer, even if they're wrong, even if they are a criminal. In fact, those are the ones who need a
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lawyer the most. Okay, there you have it. And I tell you all that, even though I think you probably knew
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it, because you can represent someone without agreeing with them. If you know the law, if you're an
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officer of the court, if you're a doctor, whatever, you should help someone navigate those systems. It's
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actually your duty. But how about representing someone, associating with someone, promoting
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someone, not in the law, not when their life or liberty hangs on it, not when they're charged by
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the government with a crime, not when you could save them from injustice or even imprisonment. But how
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about when you just choose to affiliate with them and choose to associate with them, not out of a
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love for justice, but because you're being paid a ton of money? And when you're not selling your
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knowledge of legal precedents and legal procedures, but rather you're selling your connections and your
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influence, no special professional skills, no technical knowledge, you're being retained by someone
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because you used to be a senior politician. So you know who's who in Ottawa, who's who in politics,
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in the permanent civil service. You have a private reputation in the form of connections to insiders,
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and you have a public reputation in that some of the public trusts you because you served in high
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office and you built up a certain reputation. What if you're renting out that reputation now?
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And not to save someone from prison, but just to get rich, to get them rich.
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And they'll pay you to pump their tires, to help them get what they want politically. Is it different
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then? I think it's very different. I want to talk for a minute with Gerald Butz, Trudeau's closest advisor
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and his friend since university days. Butz was the one, as you know, who interfered with the SNC-Lavalin
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prosecution. Just to refresh your memory, it was a big company, very corrupt, notorious for paying bribes
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to get government contracts in Canada and around the world. Just awful, based in Quebec. And they were
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being prosecuted by the Canadian government for a massive corruption case, which they admitted to,
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by the way, how could they deny it? They didn't deny it. And Gerald Butz kept pressuring when he was
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working for Trudeau, he was pressuring the Justice Department to drop the prosecution, pressuring them
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to cut a deal, to stop the trial. I wonder if he was worried about certain facts coming out. I mean,
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who knows? Maybe other Quebec politicians had taken bribes from SNC-Lavalin. Of course they did.
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And maybe Gerald Butz didn't want that to come out in court. I don't know. So Butz interfered with a
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live criminal court case. He tried to get it scuppered. He tried to get it thrown out. He kept
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harassing Jody Wilson-Raybould, Trudeau's most ethical justice minister. And in the end, she was fired
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from her position because she wouldn't go along with this. And then she quit cabinet over it.
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Gerald Butz was trying to rig a trial. That's straight out of a Sopranos episode, the mafia
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trying to get a friend out of trouble. He tried to pressure the prosecutors to drop criminal charges
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against Trudeau's friends. He was rightly thrown out of the PMO for that into a very soft landing,
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I should say, by something called the Eurasia Group, a New York City lobby firm where he had
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directed sole source contracts. That's pretty convenient. So he actually was exiled from the
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country in a way, which is a shame because he should have been prosecuted, I think, for what
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he did. He was disgraced. But he's being rehabilitated now. He's being normalized now,
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while Jody Wilson-Raybould, the most honest woman in cabinet in a generation, is being marginalized.
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When was the last time you even heard from her? I think that shows the decline of Canadian
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democracy a bit. Well, the head of the RCMP, I don't know if you saw this news,
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Brenda Luckey, well, she sees what you and I see. She sees what is rewarded and she sees what is
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punished. So she has corrupted the RCMP in the style of Trudeau and Butz. We're going to have more
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stories about that for you in the days ahead. Shocking news has come out of Nova Scotia about how Trudeau
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pressured Brenda Luckey, the commissioner of the RCMP, and how Luckey in turn pressured the local
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police to turn a mass murder a few years ago into a liberal campaign moment. How Trudeau pressured
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Luckey, who pressured the local cops, demanding they say certain things that would make it easier for
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Trudeau to make a campaign ad against firearms, really using the dead bodies of people
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as campaign material for the liberals. Super gross, super unethical. So my point is, Gerald Butz did
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that. I'm not saying he was interfering in the Nova Scotia mass murder case. I'm saying he set the tone,
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the standard. And the fact that Gerald Butz has been normalized by the Canadian establishment, I mean,
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he's back big time. He's all over Ottawa. He's all over Twitter as a surrogate for Trudeau again.
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He's doing better than ever. He shows how corrupt the entire Canadian political establishment is.
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He's back. Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster has rehabilitated Butz. They have him on all the time
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without a disclaimer that he's the disgraced crook who tried to throw a criminal trial. They're
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effectively giving him a pardon for the worst corruption scandal in modern Canadian history. So much for the
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CBC solidarity with the first Indigenous justice minister. But that's the CBC. They're gross.
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They always have been. And they're on Trudeau's payroll. But what about Monty Solberg?
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Remember him? He was one of Preston Manning's first MPs in the Reform Party in the 90s.
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He was from Medicine Hat, Alberta, one of the most conservative places in the world.
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Lots of fossil fuel there, too. About 100 years ago, there was an atrocious idea to rename the city
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from Medicine Hat to Gassberg. Luckily, Rudyard Kipling, the great novelist and poet, heard about
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that. And he smashed the idea to pieces by writing a powerful letter to the editor of the local
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newspaper. He saved that town. Monty Solberg was a Preston Manning reformer. Then he was a cabinet
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minister under Stephen Harper, conservative guy. And then he retired. And then he became a lobbyist for
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hire. Not a lawyer. Monty's not a lawyer. So what skills does Monty have? He's a very friendly guy.
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That's for sure. I used to work with him. But being friendly isn't really a business plan.
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But selling influence, selling your reputation, selling both public influence to the millions of
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people who believe you were actually conservative, you actually meant what you said,
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believe you're like Preston Manning, you're like Stephen Harper, that's valuable. Monty can sell that.
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And selling access to your friends in power, your old connections, both in the Canadian
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Conservative Party and your friends in various government ministries you used to run,
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that can be very valuable. Being a lobbyist, being an influence peddler, that's what Monty does for a
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living now. So it's not like Marie Hanein, a necessary part of the court system to ensure
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trials are fair, a necessary professional to keep a man out of prison if he's innocent.
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Monty Solberg is not like that. His business is to rent out his reputation and his connections
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to those who pay him enough. And for him, unlike a criminal lawyer, we can indeed
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judge him for the clients he chooses. And so I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I saw who
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else is rehabilitating Gerald Butts. It's our old friend Monty Solberg. Look at this. Like I say,
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Monty Solberg runs a lobbying company called New West. And there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
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But they're having a great reset plan for Alberta. They're calling it the Great Relaunch.
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The Alberta Relaunch. Alberta reset would be too on the nose. And look who their guests saw.
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Look who is helping to draft the reset for Alberta. Mark Carney, the Liberal Party activist,
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the World Economic Forum big shot. We bumped into him on the streets of Davos last month,
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the environmentalist extremist. And look there. Gerald Butts, the disgraced, corrupt,
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underminer of our justice system. The environmentalist extremist, the pipeline killer,
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the carbon taxer, Monty Solberg is hosting him at his Great Reset for Alberta party. And look,
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Vassie Kapilos and Kathleen Petty of CBC News. But of course, I mean, not Rebel News, not the
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Western Standard Online, not True North, not even Post Media. The CBC, Trudeau State Broadcasters say,
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I didn't know that CBC reporters could be rented out by the hour by lobbying firms
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for the delight of their clients. Look there, Ed Whittingham. He's the former head of the anti-oil
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Sands Anti-Pipeline Pemina Institute. He is an extremist, a foreign-funded anti-oil extremist.
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And the former MP from Medicine Hat is hosting him. He's the most vicious job killer in Canada.
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And Monty's good friends with them now. Mark Cameron, the carbon tax advocate who left
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Jason Kenney's office in disgrace. What on earth is Monty Solberg doing? Why would he do this to you?
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To get rich. That's why. Why do you think? I wonder how much he's paying and I wonder who's paying him.
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He doesn't disclose that. That's weird, isn't it? I find it heartbreaking.
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But it's a reminder of what the Bible says, Psalm 146, put not your trust in princes, nor in the
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Son of Man in whom there is no help. Yeah, I like some politicians and I dislike some others, but
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you'd be a fool to trust any of them. They'll sell you out for 30 pieces of silver,
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just like Monty Solberg did. I mean, seriously. Gerald Butz? Stay with us for more.
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Well, we've had an amazing roster of new talent join Rebel News very recently. Kerry Diot,
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former Conservative Member of Parliament, joined us covering Edmonton,
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the legislature and a lot of other political things. In Ottawa, William Diaz Bertione,
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a young guy just tearing up the streets, catching politicians as they walk around Parliament Hill
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so they have no elevator or staircase they can dash into. He asked them great questions in that
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minute or so. He has them. Great new talent. And one of our most interesting new teammates is Juan
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Carlos Mendoza Diaz, who, as you can tell by his name, is bilingual in Spanish. And he covers
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interesting things in the United States, including at the Texas-Mexico border where they are having an
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immigration crisis, an illegal immigration crisis. If you think Roxham Road is a big deal in Canada,
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well, imagine the entire Mexico-U.S. border. Donald Trump promised to build a wall and he built, well,
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a few dozen kilometers of it. But the border is unguarded in the main and Joe Biden's policy
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is to maximize the number of migrants. And by the way, they're not just from Latin America.
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There have been reports of Russians going to Mexico. I'm not saying like Russian spies. I'm just saying
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people from Russia who go to Mexico and come up. People from China make their way to Mexico and come
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across the border easier than coming in by plane. Well, Juan Mendoza joins us now on the scene at the border
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between Mexico and Yuma, Arizona. Juan, great to see you. That is the Trump fence behind you, if I'm not
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mistaken. But there's a pretty big gap there. In fact, this is called the gap, isn't it?
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That's correct, Ezra. I'm here in Yuma, Arizona, one of the areas that has been worst impacted by the border
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crisis that has started since the Biden administration has taken office. Yeah, behind me, this area is known as the gap
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where there have been many people that have crossed illegally into the United States. As you can see,
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we would see that vehicles would park over on the Mexican side by the highway and just drop migrants
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down there so they could cross illegally into the United States to be apprehended by border patrol units
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here in Arizona. Now, right now, one of the main areas here in the Yuma sector that has been seeing
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hundreds of migrants crossing illegally into the United States is an area about 10 minutes
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down the road called the Coco Pao Reservation, which they've been seeing hundreds of migrants
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that have been crossing through illegally there. Right now, they're seeing activity more at nighttime.
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It is extremely hot here in Yuma, Arizona, so the people wait until nighttime, so the cartels smuggle
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them into the United States and they can be apprehended by border patrol units. Now, border patrol units have
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told me that the Coco Pao sector is a spot where people cross because the wall is not built there. The
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residents there in that area asked not to have the wall built, but CBP units have informed me that cartel
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members actually pay the people in these lands so they can smuggle people through that area.
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Huh. Now, I mentioned that I saw reports, including from some of your colleagues on the ground,
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that it's not just Mexicans. I mean, there would be a lot of reasons to cross the border,
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better jobs, better paying jobs in America, sort of an economic migrant. There may be some people who seek
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asylum for reasons their life is in danger, but obviously there's a criminal motive too. There are
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drug smugglers, human traffickers, and even people with malevolent intentions. Tell us about some of
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the different categories. I mentioned that some people who aren't even from Latin America are just
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using this open back door to sneak in, right? That's right, Ezra. And one of the things that we
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have seen in the Yuma sector that is different from, say, the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio in Texas is that
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we've been seeing people crossing here from not just Latin America, we've been seeing people coming from
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Russia, from India, from China. And just Border Patrol tells me there's over 25 countries that
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they've seen people come into Yuma here. So like I said, it's not just Latin America, which is mostly
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the case in other parts of the United States southern border that are facing the border crisis.
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Now, in Canada, when people walk across the Roxham Road border from New York State, it's sort of funny
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that anyone would be fleeing America, but they're actually just fleeing in the main deportation
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orders. These are people who sought refuge in America, were denied, and are just coming into Canada
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because our system welcomes them in, almost never turns them back, and they're given an immigration
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hearing sometimes five years into the future. So they're just processed and literally let go
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probably forever. That's the Canadian way. What's it like in America? You're mentioning hundreds or
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thousands of people crossing. And I know along the entire border, the numbers are even much larger.
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So what happens to, let's say, a 25 year old man who crosses over and says, I want asylum to a typical,
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So usually DHS tries to state that they are trying to deport people under Title 42. Many times that's
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not the case. And many, many migrants here are actually trying to claim Title 8, which is
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manifestation of credible fear in order to gain asylum into the United States. They're also coming in with
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family units. And actually, one of the darker aspects with that is that there's many people that will
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actually smuggle kids that are not theirs and pretend to be a family unit so they have less
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chances of being deported. Actually, while we were on the ground here in Yuma, I ran into a five-year-old
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kid that had in his arms marked a phone number that said it was his grandfather's. Now, the lady that was
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with him was saying that he was unaccompanied minor and that he was left in the desert apparently to die.
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And I tried to call that number to verify to see if it was the actual grandfather.
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And I didn't get any response. The lady said that she video called a guy, but I mean, there's many
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cases where people could lie. Like I said, there's people that pretend to have children with them that
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are of their kin, but that's not the case. And actually, many Border Patrol agents tell me that
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they tend to say the same kid two, three times at once every time they see people crossing.
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Just horrific. I mean, whether that's a kidnapped kid, a runaway, a homeless, an orphan, whatever it is,
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to use a child in that way is so atrocious. I guess you were saying some of them lie. If you're willing to
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kidnap and abuse a human child that way, you're probably willing to lie as well. I mean, and again,
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whether you're just trying to cross for economic reasons or refugee reasons, real or not,
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there are also the darker elements, like you say, that kind of trick, that kind of tactic
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is very much what a terrorist might do, what a drug cartel might do. I mean, that's not just
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an ordinary person coming up with some devious plan. That is an organized international criminal
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element. I don't know. I find that very troubling. And we know the Biden administration loves this,
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the same way the Trudeau administration loves it in Canada. I think they like the destabilization.
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They believe that these are future Democrat voters. But what about some of the border
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governors who at least talk a little tougher? I'm not sure what it's like in Arizona, but in Texas,
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their governor claims to be a little tougher on these things. Is there anything that the state
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governments can do? Like, for example, to ask a really dumb question, why doesn't someone just
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finish building that fence behind you? I mean, if you tilt your camera a little bit, you showed me
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earlier. It really is just a gap. Like it's not like, yeah, keep spinning that way. Let's show us
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what's behind your shirt. Yeah. Like it like that's not even 100 feet. I'm not saying that would solve
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the problem, but it would make a dent in it. Like, why? Why isn't that fence finished?
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Well, like I was saying before, this was the federal wall that was being built under the Trump
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administration. So under the Biden administration, he halted the construction of the border wall.
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Much of the human sector has it, but there are certain gaps like this one. And you can see actually
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the remains of materials that were supposed to be used to build the wall. And like I said, I mean,
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this is a federal, this was a federal project. So even the states will have to build their own wall.
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And right now they're battling the federal administration because the federal administration
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is just employing these open border policies, even though state governors such as Greg Abbott and Doug
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Ducey are begging the federal government to stop this because they're seeing massive numbers of people
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crossing in illegally. And it's not just harmful for Americans that live here. It's harmful for the
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migrants and it's actually empowering organized crime groups. Yeah. Well, and terrible for those kids
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too. Well, listen, Juan, I'm very proud of the work you're doing down there. It's very interesting.
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We Canadians can only imagine what it what it's like. We have modest border. I mean, listen,
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our only land borders with the United States. How bad could it be? It's called the world's longest
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under the defended border for a reason. So our rocks and road problem is a trifle compared to what
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you're describing. Thanks for doing that and stay safe. I know the cartels obviously cross into America
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all the time. So keep your eyes peeled and we'll look forward to talking to you again.
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Thank you, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Juan Carlos Mendoza Diaz, a rebel who also does work in
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Spanish for our losrebeldes.com website. We're doing some Spanish videos too. Stay with us.
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You know, instead of letters today, I'm going to just share with you a few more thoughts about
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Monty Solberg. I mean, I think there is a place in the world for lobbyists. For about one year,
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a decade ago, I was a lobbyist too. And if it means helping people talk to politicians,
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make their case in Ottawa, I think it's okay. I think anyone should be able to lobby and talk to
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politicians. But I think that unlike being a lawyer or a doctor or a pharmacist or another profession like
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that, when you're just selling your reputation to boost someone else, I think you do sort of own who
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your clients are. And from Monty Solberg, from Medicine Hat Alberta, from the Reform Party and the
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Canadian Alliance and from Stephen Harper's cabinet, to team up with Gerald Butts, not even Gerald Butts
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before his disgrace, when he was anti-oil, anti-pipeline extremist, to buy the disgraced,
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corrupted, post-Jody Wilson-Raybould version of Gerald Butts, and to bring him to town for what?
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To map out a great reset for Alberta? How can Monty look himself in the mirror? I don't know,
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maybe there's a big stack of money in the way he doesn't have to look himself in the mirror.
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I'm sort of grossed out by him. And maybe it's not a big deal. Maybe you would expect no less a
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politician taking the cash, selling his soul. I mean, it's pretty gross. I mean, Jean Charest sold
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his soul for Huawei during the Meng Wanzhou to Michael's kidnap fiasco. So I suppose at a certain
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point, what else is a politician supposed to do? They really don't have normal skills, so they have to
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rent out their reputation. But I don't know, maybe it just cuts me a little bit because I used to
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be friends with Monty. I worked with him 20 years ago, plus, when I was in Ottawa with Preston
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Manning. It's just really, really gross to have Monty Solberg rehabilitate Gerald Butts. And I hope
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they're paying him extremely well for it, because he's actually selling his soul. Gross. That's my
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show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
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Tamara Ugolini here with Rebel News. I am in St. George, Ontario. So we're about half an hour
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south of Cambridge. We've driven all the way here to the Tim Hortons Foundation Camp home office.
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It's quite the trek. We're in pretty much the middle of nowhere. Only to be greeted by a gatekeeper
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and a sign stating private property. Please do not enter and to call for assistance. We've done that.
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But the whole purpose of our visit today is to drop off this petition. 310 pages of signatures
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from almost 26,000 concerned Canadians to oppose the Tim's Foundation Camp's vaccine mandate. If you've
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missed my previous reports, you can find them and this petition at letkidscamp.com. The Tim Hortons
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Foundation Camp have decided to arbitrarily enforce a vaccine mandate for all of their youth aged 12 and
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up for those same underprivileged youth that are seeking a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend
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their summer camp. Now, this tip came to me from an anonymous tipster whose child was seeking his final
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year of attendance in the Tim Hortons Foundation Camp. He has been officially de-registered from his
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spot, but his mother is still hoping that there is some hope left for him to attend session two,
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the second session of the summer, regardless of his personal medical choices. Now, like I said,
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we have just shy of 27,000 signatures, this massive petition to drop off, but apparently we are unable
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to do that here at the home office. And so we are not going to stop here though. We're going to see
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what else we can do to get this petition, all of these pieces of paper in the hands of someone at
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Tim Hortons who's responsible for this arbitrary policy that is outdated and discriminatory. So
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Apparently no one's available to offer assistance.
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Oh, hello. Yes, I'm here at the gates and I'm seeking assistance. So this appears to be the number
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to call for that. I am looking to drop something off to an appropriate manager, perhaps specifically
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April Brown, if someone would like to give me a call back. We will wait here at the gate. Thank you.
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Bye. We've tried to drop off our petition. We've driven around. We've tried calling the office
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for assistance. And now we see that we're being greeted by the OPP. So we'll see how this situation
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will unfold. Officer, how are you? Hey guys, how are you? Doing well, thank you. Good. Awesome.
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Officer, what's going on today? Well, we're going to drop off a 310-page petition to the Tim Hortons
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Foundation camp. We have 26,784 signatures. And we are unable to unfortunately get any assistance
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from anyone. So we've called the number. Is it closed? Well, the sign would say so. But we spoke
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to someone just as we arrived in who was either just trying to leave or coming and they said
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that we could call for assistance. So we tried to do that and then you showed up. So hello.
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Perfect. Keep trying the number, I guess. Yeah, that's what we'll do. Are you able to help us
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maybe submit this petition here? No, it's closed. So I can't go in. It's all locked up. Okay. Are you
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just offering to be in the neighborhood? No, I got called out here. Okay. Because you guys were
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inside. Yeah. We were inside? Yeah. Trespassing. No, we were never inside. Talking right here. Yeah.
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And they asked you to leave? No, they never asked us to leave. You can do whatever you want here.
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Yeah. As long as you try and get a hold of them. Yeah. And set something up. But you have a number maybe?
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No, it's right there. Okay. Campus closed. 519-448-1248. So someone did call you. Yeah.
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They're not calling for returning our calls. Might not be the same people, right? No? No.
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That'd be weird. Could be a councillor and that could be an owner probably. I don't know.
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Yeah. I don't know either. We drove all this way to submit this petition on behalf of some
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concerned Canadians. Obviously 27,000 of them. Right. Where's all the way from? Toronto. Toronto.
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Yeah. So I guess we'll try again another time. Yeah. Just call ahead of time. See if there's
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an email or something. Oh, yeah. We've done that as well. There's a lady who works here
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in Human Resources. I've been tipped off to her name. So I've emailed her directly, I guess
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two weeks ago now and then have called as well. So it seems that Tim Hortons doesn't want
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to receive this petition for some reason. Have you tried emailing? Emailing and called.
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Yeah. Snail mail. I guess we could send it registered and then you're guaranteed to get it. Yeah.
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Yeah. What would you suggest at this point? I think those are my suggestions. Other than,
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you know, you don't want to be going inside of you. No, of course. As soon as we see no
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trespassing, we're not in interest to ruffle any feathers. But it'd be nice to hand this off
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to someone personally. I'm not the guy to give to you. No. No, I don't think so. I would try the
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mail thing or email or call it a time to meet up somewhere. Yeah. It would be nice to receive a
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response on all those outlets that we've already tried. Sure. Okay, guys. Thanks anyway. All right.
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Yeah. Have a great day. You too. The officer seemed nice enough and that red truck that we were met
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with originally has driven by. So I assume that's maybe the person responsible for calling the police
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on us instead of simply figuring out a way to have someone receive our petition again with 26,784
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signatures. I wonder at the end of the day, how Justin Bieber with his post vaccination facial paralysis
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feels about the customer service that Tim's camp is providing not only to us here, just simply trying
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to drop off a petition, but to the youth that they're imposing this heavy handed mandate on. Sign the
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petition and stay up to date with our reports, please head to letkidscamp.com. For Rebel News in St.