Rebel News Plus subscribers get access to my weekly show as well as other great TV-style shows here on the Rebel News Network. This week, I'm joined by Ezra Levent and Kian Bextie to talk about a new button that says, "Back Off, Bucko." Plus, we look back at the latest Yahoo Nation protest on the lawns of Toronto s Queen s Park.
00:01:43.160Well, that was quite the visit Kian Bextie had to Ottawa the other day,
00:01:48.800encountering, oh, let's see now, a lying climate Barbie, a denying Elizabeth May,
00:01:54.040and a CTV cameraman who had a hissy fit because Kian was shockers, maskless.
00:02:02.580Kian will try to make sense of it all.
00:02:04.720Wow, talk about the must-have fashion accessory for 2020 if you're just sick and tired of explaining to the Karens of the world that you are mask-exempt.
00:02:15.760Yes, I'm talking about this little button that basically politely says,
00:07:44.520And the bylaw you just referred to where it's illegal to ask people to prove their exemption, that's a Toronto bylaw exemption.
00:07:52.580I want to tell people that there's about 20 different bylaws in Canada.
00:07:57.780So go to maskexemption.ca to read the one appropriate to your jurisdiction.
00:08:02.300But generally, asking someone to prove an exemption would be like asking someone in a wheelchair to prove they really can't use their legs.
00:08:11.920It's an invasion of privacy, it's inappropriate, and it's actually against human rights legislation.
00:08:17.380But the idea behind the button is that that card, which we sent out thousands of those cards, and we also made it free for people to print out on their own printer, those cards.
00:09:11.940And so I think most of the people who would scold you, this would be like a force field, because they would say, oh, right, I forgot there are exemptions.
00:10:12.000If you're just out in the wild, there may be a self-appointed scold who comes up to you not knowing.
00:10:17.880But if you're in a store, by now, I think most stores have sort of instructed their people there are exemptions, so that's a real thing.
00:10:27.440You would think that's the case, Ezra.
00:10:29.160But, I mean, our fellow rebel, Tamara Ugolini, she had a video of that Coburg McDonald's denying service to a senior, a disabled senior, needs oxygen, has a letter from the physician.
00:10:42.660Well, and she's carrying an oxygen tank, for God's sakes.
00:10:45.560I mean, even if the law didn't exempt her, you'd think out of common sense, neighborliness, and pity.
00:10:51.340I mean, she's carrying her oxygen around.
00:11:48.800Telling someone in a wheelchair, prove you're disabled, is actually maybe something the Human Rights Commission should say,
00:11:56.280whoa, big corporate international company like McDonald's.
00:12:00.360You can't tell someone to prove they should be in a wheelchair.
00:12:04.140You can't tell someone with an oxygen tank to back off.
00:12:07.340And these mask bylaws have a specific exemption.
00:12:09.780Maybe companies that bully little old ladies with oxygen tanks need 10, 20, 30 Human Rights Commission complaints to their legal department before they educate their staff.
00:13:18.740Why don't we just be reasonable human beings and let the little old lady with the oxygen tank in?
00:13:24.720Oh, big companies, especially these days, I think, Ezra, are very sensitive to the court of public opinion in terms of not doing anything wrong.
00:13:32.040On the flip side, what would you say, Ezra, to those?
00:13:35.160I mean, I see the tall foreheads in the media party and the various Karens that phone in to talk radio.
00:13:41.140And they're going, come on, just wear the mask.
00:14:03.780The ruling class are people who have been loving the pandemic, people who haven't lost a cent, people, in fact, who have had a six-month vacation and have been paid every day.
00:14:14.740I mean, I can't believe that university professors are getting their six-figure salaries and a number of universities aren't even having classes.
00:15:25.580I mean, there's so many great little videotapes from the White House press room where all these journalists have their masks on when they're on camera.
00:15:35.200And the second they think the camera's off, they take their mask off.
00:17:03.620The other is opioids, extremely addictive, dangerous drugs made massively in China, shipped to the West for profit, but also to undermine us.
00:17:16.040And in British Columbia, six times as many people have died from opioids over the pandemic than have died from the virus.
00:17:24.340There are, and the Toronto Police Service has quite a quirky website, an amazing group of charts and graphs on shootings and killings in the city.
00:17:36.720Like, I'm stunned that their political bosses allow this website to be out there, because this is the most damning website I've seen in Canada.
00:17:44.240It's run by the Toronto Police Service.
00:17:46.180Last I checked, there were 171 people in Toronto that were killed or injured from shootings.
00:17:52.820This year so far, we're not even done the year.
00:17:56.840Most of those people are young people.
00:17:59.140Now, again, if you're in your 80s or 90s and in a senior's home with a do-not-revive order, I would be extremely worried about the coronavirus, because everyone wants, oh, great-grandpa's got the cough.
00:19:00.260You know, for 21 years, for 19 years, excuse me, we've all been going through airports where they pat you down and search this and search that and humiliate you and take off your shoes and grope you.
00:19:11.680I am unaware in 19 years of a single terrorist plopping foil.
00:19:17.740Maybe I missed one, but in Canada and the United States, we have spent billions of dollars and wasted billions of man-hours in what's called security theater.
00:20:00.960And you know what, folks, I'll tell you, tomorrow, high noon, if you're in the Toronto area, Young Dundas Square, members of Yahoo Nation, they're going to be assembling.
00:20:09.540Don't know if Doug is going to send the cops after them or not.
00:20:13.740But we have a very generous donor who's bought thousands of these buttons.
00:20:17.220And I'm going to be there with a little Santa Claus sack, especially since the city of Toronto a couple of days ago announced that, yes, the Santa Claus parade after more than a century has been canceled this year thanks to the Wuhan virus.
00:20:29.800And I'm going to hand these out to anyone that wants one.
00:23:28.440Sorry, it's a little bit noisy here on Parliament Hill as a result of the construction that's going on.
00:23:33.720But it's next day in Ottawa otherwise.
00:23:35.880And I'm just camping out right now outside of West Block to try and catch MPs as they come in and out of the House of Commons.
00:23:44.120Well, that's great that you're putting in that extra effort for even more videos, Kian.
00:23:48.800But that first video that you sent along, wow, so much to dissect there.
00:23:53.900First of all, it's kind of a sidebar issue.
00:23:56.920But that CTV cameraman that actually tried to swat your microphone out of your hand.
00:24:04.200You know, in a way, Kian, I wish he had succeeded because that would give you reason to take that expensive camera he was carting around and throw that to the ground.
00:24:43.560But, of course, the main event was indeed Catherine McKenna.
00:24:48.540And what I found astounding, Kian, and I watched it two or three times because she seemed so genuine and real that this was a fabrication, that you were making up stuff.
00:25:02.700I mean, it was either that or an acting performance worthy of Meryl Streep.
00:25:08.620And then I got to thinking, Kian, do you think she didn't write this, that somebody on her staff wrote this and she was completely oblivious and ignorant to that tweet?
00:25:20.980Yeah, I would say ministers are aware of about 50 percent of the actual correspondence that come out of their office.
00:25:27.480The rest of it is being done by people even more radical and ideological than them.
00:25:35.440And usually they're a bit more confident, which is the scary part.
00:25:43.820But her immediate response is to call me out and rebel out for the online pose and online hate that she gets.
00:25:53.760And, I mean, to be fair, she does get a lot.
00:25:57.120But that's what any minister of the crown gets.
00:26:00.800And also, you have to ask yourself, why is this happening?
00:26:03.880Why are you so broadly disliked on Canadians?
00:26:07.020Maybe they have to look at themselves in a mirror.
00:26:09.600So, Kian, what I found odd was that she was saying the nature of the hatred is a form of misogyny because she was stressing the female element.
00:26:20.600And yet this woman's boss is Justin Trudeau, who has a bit of a track record of groping females.
00:26:28.540I think that's more hateful than whatever it is Catherine McKenna is talking about in terms of our content.
00:26:35.460Yeah, and I mean, I wouldn't call our content hateful at all.
00:29:44.760You're free to protest and gather, and it's freedom of assembly.
00:29:47.140You know, Kellyanne, Doug Ford had a very rare Saturday press conference just an hour ago, and he was asked the question if the social gatherings include protests, and he said yes.
00:30:00.460So that's completely contrary to what you're saying.
00:30:04.160I guess this is something for the courts.
00:30:08.120And I encourage Doug Ford, if he wants to find somebody, come and find me.
00:30:12.100I encourage you to, because I will set a precedent across this entire country as to what our laws mean and what they stand for.
00:30:20.700See, the government, David, the government likes to try and call upon the Emergency Measures Act as their source of authority for infringing upon the rights of Canadians, and that is completely false.
00:30:30.600On the first page of the Emergency Measures Act, it clearly states that this act is subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:30:38.420And I suggest to the politicians out there, they become a little bit more familiar with their laws, considering they're supposed to be representing them and the people.
00:30:44.700Well, Ontario Premier Doug Ford might refer to Kellyanne Wolfe and her fellow protesters as a, quote, bunch of yahoos, end quote.
00:30:53.360But one thing is certain, Yahoo Nation is not backing down.
00:30:58.880They've been assembling on the lawns of Queen's Park since late April.
00:31:02.140And despite the specter of heavy fines, they apparently aren't going away anytime soon.
00:31:09.560By the way, if you're interested in being part of this movement, Yahoo Nation will be assembling at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto tomorrow at noon prior to marching to Queen's Park.
00:31:20.700The question is, will they be fined this time, or will law enforcement continue to look the other way?
00:31:27.360In any event, here's what you had to say about their protests from last Saturday.
00:31:36.160Indeed, and I would suggest that if charges are laid, a constitutional challenge looms here.
00:31:54.400And another thing, why does Premier Ford call these people yahoos, yet he has absolutely nothing snarky to say when Black Lives Matter protesters show up on the lawns of Queen's Park?
00:32:36.020Funny thing is, the vast majority of the folks showing up at Queen's Park protests openly admit to having voted for the Ford PCs two years ago.
00:32:45.400Yet, Doug labels them yahoos as he consistently cuddles up to the mean girls in the media party, the very same reporters he used to denounce when they were on a journalistic jihad against his late great brother, Rob Ford.
00:33:03.760To paraphrase the late great Fred Willard, hey, Dougie, what happened?
00:33:12.940Is anyone still delusional enough to think this is about a virus and not just a power grab?
00:33:19.960Indeed, going by the death toll numbers, not the positive case numbers, there is a case to be made that the pandemic is over.
00:33:28.720Meanwhile, as my boss Ezra Levent likes to note, politicians of every stripe during this pandemic got a little taste of totalitarian power.