Rebel News Podcast - July 06, 2019


Rebel Roundup: Guests Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

152.40204

Word Count

5,853

Sentence Count

413

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Sheila Gunn-Reed has some unbelievable data to share from her latest federal government access to information request pertaining to how the feds looked at the United We Roll convoy and Antifa during their visit to Ottawa in February of 2016.


Transcript

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00:00:45.140 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:00:48.480 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:00:51.860 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week
00:00:55.340 by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:00:59.440 Sheila Gunn-Reed has some unbelievable data to share from her latest federal government access to information request
00:01:06.520 pertaining to how the Feds looked upon the United We Roll convoy and Antifa,
00:01:13.360 both of which visited Ottawa last February.
00:01:16.580 Guess what? Apparently the Feds had trouble figuring out who the bad guys were.
00:01:21.580 And Kian Bextie recently visited the Calgary Stampede.
00:01:26.420 Not that Justin Trudeau bothered to show up. That's not his kind of diversity.
00:01:31.200 And then there's that Calgary pro football player who told Kian that cowboy culture is a conspiracy.
00:01:38.740 And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:01:44.040 And I'll share some of your responses regarding professional spokes-thingy Amanda Galbraith,
00:01:50.060 who took to Twitter to complain that a bunch of construction workers, a cat called her.
00:01:56.340 No, that's not right. Rather, they looked at her.
00:01:59.640 Or, kinda, maybe, perhaps, I guess it was all an optical delusion.
00:02:06.420 Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
00:02:16.700 When the convoy finally got to Ottawa, no one, not a single person from the Liberal government,
00:02:23.160 bothered to meet with them.
00:02:24.140 Westerners and their supporters drove thousands upon thousands of kilometers across the country,
00:02:31.300 and no one from the Liberals seemed to care.
00:02:34.420 But at the Rebel, we suspected that a failure to meet with the convoy
00:02:38.080 didn't mean that the government was not concerned about the convoy.
00:02:43.280 So, we filed an access-to-information request to see what the government,
00:02:48.440 and those bureaucrats, specifically those in the Prime Minister's inner circle,
00:02:52.280 were saying about United We Roll.
00:02:55.760 Almost immediately, once the bureaucrats in the Privy Council office
00:03:00.180 realized that Glen Carrot and the gang were serious
00:03:04.680 about bringing their concerns and their trucks to Ottawa,
00:03:09.060 the Privy Council office crisis management team
00:03:12.620 started taking the lead with regard to security and intelligence planning.
00:03:17.620 The crisis management team started watching media reports for anything about the convoy,
00:03:23.980 in particular, the bad things that were being reported about the convoy in the mainstream media,
00:03:29.620 like the implication that they were part of some sort of racist, anti-immigrant bunch of wackos.
00:03:35.900 Yeah, red alert.
00:03:37.060 A convoy of taxpaying Canadians peacefully stating their displeasure with federal government policies,
00:03:43.000 creating pipeline paralysis, and a couple of bills that seek to advance the paralysis to all-out rigor mortis.
00:03:52.340 Yeah, that's a problem.
00:03:53.360 But in the meantime, anti-colonialist protesters, aka Antifa,
00:03:58.360 well, nothing to be concerned about here, folks.
00:04:01.000 Because although they don't have permits and they have a tendency to get violent,
00:04:06.840 Antifa, you see, is anti-pipeline.
00:04:09.680 And the eyes of the Trudeau liberals, this makes them the good guys.
00:04:16.000 Joining me now is the host of the gun show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:04:19.760 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Sheila.
00:04:22.280 Hey, David.
00:04:23.100 Thanks for having me on.
00:04:24.180 And if it looks like I'm in a sewer, that's because I am in a filthy, dirty warehouse
00:04:30.980 where they hosted this media freedom conference in the UK right now.
00:04:34.540 And people are tearing stuff down all around me.
00:04:36.840 That's right.
00:04:37.380 You're at the Defend Press Freedom Conference over in the UK,
00:04:41.020 which is an Orwellian way to suggest how do we censor and limit press freedom.
00:04:48.160 Oh, my goodness.
00:04:49.380 And I know Ezra's going to be doing a couple of shows on that.
00:04:52.720 So that's going to be very well covered off.
00:04:55.480 And I've got a ton of questions for you when you get back.
00:04:58.280 But in the meantime, Sheila, what you uncovered in your latest access to information request is shocking.
00:05:06.540 But then again, is it really?
00:05:08.720 I mean, this is the same government that has a soft spot for the likes of Omer Cotter and Joshua Boyle.
00:05:17.200 Yeah, that's an interesting thing I found out.
00:05:20.360 We got just 20 pages back from the Privy Council office, so the bureaucrats around Justin Trudeau,
00:05:29.360 when we filed for access to information about the planning of Joshua Boyle's visit to Justin Trudeau.
00:05:37.240 And I got back over 200 pages, mostly security planning for the visit for the United We Roll convoy to Ottawa.
00:05:48.420 These guys were really treated like they were a serious potential security threat to any and all of the ministries.
00:05:57.420 And, you know, the potential for violence against them was sort of laughed off by bureaucrats who became aware of Antifa threatening to show up.
00:06:11.060 And we know they did because they broke Kian Bexty's equipment when he was covering the convoy.
00:06:16.860 They laughed it off and they called it a, quote-unquote, fun bit.
00:06:21.600 Yeah, a fun bit.
00:06:22.960 So hilarious.
00:06:24.000 I'm still slapping my knee about it.
00:06:25.620 I actually witnessed that.
00:06:27.040 I mean, I didn't actually eyewitness the person that did it, but I heard the aftermath.
00:06:31.440 I was there with our cameraman, Efren, on a frigid cold day.
00:06:35.900 I mean, and that was the thing, you know, going back to February, Sheila.
00:06:39.100 It was absolutely, brutally cold.
00:06:42.120 These people, as part of the United We Roll convoy, traveled thousands of kilometers.
00:06:48.460 If anybody should have been fighting mad, it was them.
00:06:51.900 I'd be kind of peeved off after such a long road trip going to frigid Ottawa.
00:06:57.580 But the thing is, I've got to ask you a question, Sheila.
00:07:00.440 When or when is Antifa going to be designated a terrorist group?
00:07:04.880 Because I'm going to tell you this, if Antifa were a right-of-centre hate and violent group,
00:07:12.040 they would have been designated that years ago.
00:07:15.940 Yeah, I mean, we just have to look at how Public Safety Canada and Ralph Goodale,
00:07:22.160 how they focus on right-wing extremism.
00:07:25.960 That's all they'll ever talk about.
00:07:27.260 Now, they won't talk about Islamic extremism, but they focus on right-wing extremism
00:07:32.160 when journalists, and not just us.
00:07:36.160 I mean, it happens to us all the time.
00:07:38.180 We get threats from Antifa.
00:07:39.820 You get punched out by madmen who run hotels.
00:07:43.960 That sort of thing happens to us all the time.
00:07:46.940 But it even happens to mainstream journalists.
00:07:51.300 We saw it happen in Montreal, I believe, to some global reporters,
00:07:54.900 and Stan, the Toronto Sun photographer,
00:07:57.560 he was also attacked by Antifa.
00:07:59.420 Now, when that happens, there's sort of like a quick little blow-up about violence against journalists,
00:08:06.880 but they never really focus on the fact that it's Antifa doing it,
00:08:10.260 that it is this group of far-left-wing agitators that are doing it.
00:08:15.760 They never come out and say it,
00:08:17.820 and they never really focus on just where the real violence against journalists is coming from.
00:08:23.600 Nobody in the powers that be really seem to care that Antifa is making Canadian streets far less safe.
00:08:31.500 And you know, Sheila, I mean, we've talked about this before.
00:08:34.200 The absolute perverse irony of that name, Antifa, of course, is a contraction of being anti-fascist,
00:08:40.920 but they employ all the methodology of fascist.
00:08:45.880 So they're not anti-fa, they're simply fa, fa for fascist.
00:08:51.740 And I mean, they seem to be, and I guess the mollycoddling bureaucrats and government people
00:08:56.920 and certain people in the media, they seem to be blind to this perverse irony,
00:09:02.580 because as you stated in your report, there was a media narrative that they wanted to pursue
00:09:08.000 about depicting United We Roll as the bad guys, as, you know, some sort of, I don't know, anti-immigration group.
00:09:17.600 And meanwhile, Antifa was treated with kid gloves.
00:09:20.860 We're going to put the United We Roll guys on that frozen patch of real estate back then,
00:09:25.280 which was the lawns of Parliament Hill.
00:09:26.640 But the Antifa kids, well, they get the snow-shoveled, cleared pavement area.
00:09:32.820 I mean, this is madness, Sheila, in terms of where the government,
00:09:38.740 or how the government is directing law enforcement and security to deal with groups,
00:09:44.520 one being non-violent taxpayers and the other being very violent agitators.
00:09:50.920 Well, and let's think for a second here about how much that oft-repeated media line
00:09:57.460 that we saw being planned out by the Liberals, how that played into the violence that day.
00:10:03.500 You've got a bunch of people who call themselves anti-fascists.
00:10:07.660 Now, they're just basically LARPers living in a basement somewhere.
00:10:10.880 But they really, truly believe that they are freedom fighters fighting racism.
00:10:16.200 And then they go around looking for racists to fight.
00:10:18.760 And on the other hand, you have the Liberal government painting honest, good, decent,
00:10:26.240 hard-working Canadian men and women who just want to go to work as racists.
00:10:31.940 They're giving Antifa the boogeyman they need.
00:10:34.980 And in the middle, being scapegoated and caught in the middle of all this violence,
00:10:40.180 are the United We Roll people.
00:10:42.080 They're just honest people fighting for families like mine,
00:10:44.840 being threatened with violence on one side and being maligned as racist on the other side.
00:10:50.820 It's just despicable.
00:10:52.080 And the way Antifa tried to generate the fake news about this being an anti-immigration movement,
00:10:58.500 Sheila, I was there and Efron caught on camera.
00:11:02.000 You know, you see some of the signs, no one is illegal, everybody welcome.
00:11:06.520 And how is this for perverse irony?
00:11:08.200 I was actually laughing out loud.
00:11:09.600 There was a native as part of the Antifa group amidst all these signs saying no one is illegal,
00:11:16.320 everyone welcome.
00:11:17.240 And he was chanting over and over to the pipeline, you know, rather to the United We Roll protesters,
00:11:25.980 go back to England.
00:11:28.280 Well, wait a minute.
00:11:28.940 I thought everyone's welcome.
00:11:30.660 I mean, they go against their own narrative.
00:11:33.320 Oh, well, yeah.
00:11:35.060 And then you get, you know, protesters, you know, anti-colonialism, Aboriginal protesters
00:11:41.340 who are protesting oil and gas, which, as we know, oil, gas and mining,
00:11:47.000 they're the largest employers of First Nations across the country.
00:11:51.960 For many First Nations, especially in Alberta's north, it's the ticket out of poverty.
00:11:56.760 Some of the largest companies in the oil patch are Aboriginal-run.
00:12:00.380 The Mikasoo-Cree First Nation is a great example of that.
00:12:02.860 So you have anti-fascist lunatics in Ottawa protesting against the jobs of Aboriginal people
00:12:10.780 in Canada's north.
00:12:12.200 It doesn't make any sense, but it just speaks to how clueless the anti-fascist movement really is.
00:12:18.560 Oh, 100%.
00:12:19.200 And I want to clear up any misconception that I was throwing natives into the same boat as Antifa,
00:12:25.120 because while this was going on, there was a native standing right beside me.
00:12:28.780 And I said to him, what do you make of this?
00:12:31.180 And he said the same word you used, Sheila, to his fellow native.
00:12:35.980 He's a lunatic, you know, because he wants to work in the oil patch.
00:12:40.500 These are good jobs, high-paying jobs.
00:12:43.040 It's to get you out of the dependency that some reserves, you know, are so dependent on.
00:12:48.680 And another perversely ironic point, the Antifa kids, if we can call them that, they certainly
00:12:57.240 hate the oil patch and they hate the idea of pipelines.
00:13:01.380 But wow, do they make use of products that have come out of oil all the way from their
00:13:08.380 polypropylene jackets to the cell phones they use?
00:13:12.880 I wonder how they would like it living in a Canada in February without oil, Sheila.
00:13:18.220 Well, I'm sure after they wrapped up their protests on Parliament Hill, they went back to a well-heated
00:13:24.760 basement where their mom cooked them craft dinner on a stove made of fossil fuel.
00:13:32.380 And the craft dinner came to their mom on a truck fueled by fossil fuels.
00:13:36.780 So, I mean, they don't even have a clue how much they use fossil fuels in their real life.
00:13:41.900 But they are the first people, I suspect, that would die without them.
00:13:46.180 Yeah, but you know, Sheila, it's one thing for their mothers and grandmothers out of, you
00:13:51.800 know, motherly love, giving them this kind of creature comfort treatment.
00:13:56.920 It's egregious that our bureaucrats and our government is also mollycoddling these thugs.
00:14:05.020 And that's what they are.
00:14:06.000 And hopefully they'll get to a certain maturity where they grow out of this and realize that
00:14:12.020 this was just a stupid little phase of their life and they get a real world vision.
00:14:16.740 But one last question, Sheila, because this really made me scratch my head.
00:14:21.480 It's a small point, but to me it was inexplicable.
00:14:24.320 You noticed how they censored in the Freedom of Information request how many Antifa people
00:14:30.920 were there, but, you know, somebody was asleep at the switch.
00:14:35.280 They let a one-page slip by where they used the number 100.
00:14:39.500 Why would the reporting to us, you know, the disclosure of this information, rather, Sheila,
00:14:47.240 that there were around 100 Antifa, why in the world would that be considered sensitive in
00:14:53.540 order to censor in the first place?
00:14:55.260 Well, I think because earlier in that access to information package, they're joking about
00:15:01.180 Antifa.
00:15:01.860 They're joking that it's a fun bit that these counter-protesters are coming to meet United
00:15:08.220 We Rule.
00:15:08.960 So they're laughing off the threat to the United We Rule guys.
00:15:13.720 So I guess that's why they wanted to obscure just how big that threat really was to these
00:15:20.660 truckers that converged on Parliament Hill.
00:15:22.800 They had 100 people, at least, clad in black and looking to punch Nazis, and they had the
00:15:30.100 Liberal government basically calling those people the racists that Antifa were looking
00:15:35.000 for.
00:15:36.400 Ah, I don't get it.
00:15:38.420 Well, listen, Sheila, we've got to wrap it here.
00:15:41.700 I hope whatever remains of Defend Media Freedom Conference goes smoothly.
00:15:49.160 I'm concerned.
00:15:50.240 I'm looking at that warehouse.
00:15:51.280 It looks so ominous.
00:15:52.660 It's like a, you know, a set out of the Saw series of movies.
00:15:56.480 This wasn't a trap for you and Ezra and Andrew Lott, was it?
00:16:00.100 You're going to get out of there alive and safe and sound, I hope, right?
00:16:04.660 David, there's not even a window where daylight can come into here.
00:16:09.260 You're scaring me.
00:16:11.180 It is very depressing here.
00:16:12.720 But there's a lot to be depressed about.
00:16:15.300 Well, if you see anyone with clown makeup and a cleaver or a goalie mask and a chainsaw,
00:16:20.700 get out of Dodge, Sheila.
00:16:22.040 Those are bad signs.
00:16:23.520 Okay.
00:16:24.120 Thank you so much for your report, as always, Sheila.
00:16:26.800 Thanks, David.
00:16:27.920 Great.
00:16:28.480 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reid all the way from the UK.
00:16:32.640 Keep it here, folks.
00:16:33.400 More of Rumble Roundup to come right after this.
00:16:43.240 We're the last frontier to be conquered.
00:16:45.400 We're a central part of a Canadian identity, and I think it's ridiculous not to do so.
00:16:49.900 As a prime minister, you should be here celebrating with us.
00:16:52.380 Stampede is like part of Alberta, and he's pretty much just ignoring Alberta by not being here.
00:16:56.540 Because it's the best culture of them all, quite simply.
00:16:59.500 Did you just say Western culture is the best culture?
00:17:00.980 That's just who we are, you know.
00:17:03.380 That's, you know, Calgary, Alberta is kind of founded, our foundation, and just who we are.
00:17:07.900 We've got to keep it going, you know, pass it on.
00:17:10.020 Oh, it just goes back to Calgary's, like, the way Calgary started, like, back, like,
00:17:13.540 hundred and something years ago, like, when they first started this.
00:17:15.720 Like, rodeo, it's a huge part of Calgary.
00:17:17.900 Every, like, every year, like, almost every permanent resident comes out, like, I don't know.
00:17:22.400 It's just ingrained in us.
00:17:23.600 Well, it's just part of our heritage.
00:17:25.620 I mean, keep it going.
00:17:28.260 Yeah.
00:17:28.580 I want to know why you think it's important to preserve Western culture and cowboy culture.
00:17:33.200 I think it's not.
00:17:34.480 It's really important because it's been a part of our history for years, and I feel like cowboys are just really hated on for no reason.
00:17:45.920 And, you know, they're people too, you know.
00:17:49.340 You don't have to be redneck to be a cowboy.
00:17:51.220 It can be for one week.
00:17:52.460 It can be for two days, and you're a cowboy, you know.
00:17:55.100 Why is it important to preserve Western culture?
00:17:58.400 It's not.
00:17:59.520 I think we should embrace all cultures.
00:18:01.760 But cowboy culture in particular, right at the Stampede, why is it important?
00:18:06.200 Cowboy culture is fake.
00:18:08.600 Isn't cowboy culture made up?
00:18:10.080 One of them made it in movies and stuff like that.
00:18:12.800 What do you think the Stampede is real?
00:18:15.680 Cowboys in general.
00:18:16.840 I think the rest of it is real, but I don't think the cowboys are real.
00:18:19.200 Cowboys are fake?
00:18:20.420 They're a conspiracy?
00:18:22.060 Mm-hmm.
00:18:22.480 Big conspiracy theory.
00:18:23.400 Okay, so while most people profess their love for the Calgary Stampede and cowboys and Western culture,
00:18:31.820 there were exceptions to the rule.
00:18:33.880 Canadian Football League player Mike Rose thinks that cowboy culture is a conspiracy,
00:18:40.040 even though he plays for the Calgary Stampeders.
00:18:43.460 And joining me now for more on that celebration of cowboy culture known as the Calgary Stampede is our roving reporter,
00:18:52.780 Kian Buckaroo-Bexty.
00:18:54.640 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian.
00:18:56.820 Thanks for having me, David.
00:18:58.440 Always a pleasure.
00:18:59.640 You know, Kian, I wonder, since the Calgary Stampeders football club actually celebrates Western culture with the logo of that galloping bronco on their helmets,
00:19:09.680 can we now expect Mike Rose to pull a Colin Kaepernick and take a knee until the team gets rid of that odious logo?
00:19:17.440 Well, I mean, I can't believe he said that.
00:19:24.560 Like, what are you doing, bud?
00:19:26.940 Like, so he's playing for a Canadian team.
00:19:30.940 He's an American.
00:19:31.920 He comes to Canada to play in our football league, presumably because he's not good enough to play in the NFL.
00:19:36.260 And then when he comes here, he, you know, dumps on our culture.
00:19:41.840 You know, the Calgary Stampeders is more than just dressing up as a cowboy.
00:19:45.860 It is a huge economic engine of our city.
00:19:49.040 It employs thousands of Calgarians.
00:19:51.640 And there is this cultural aspect to it that every Calgarian and every Albertan can get behind.
00:19:57.480 It's not just a Calgarian event.
00:19:59.400 Farmers and agriculturalists from around all of Alberta come to participate in competitions and events.
00:20:08.580 And it's a serious part of their lifestyle.
00:20:10.420 And city slickers in Calgary enjoy partaking in these events and learning how farmers operate around Canada and particularly in Alberta.
00:20:19.720 And the fact that this athlete doesn't understand that or doesn't appreciate that, it makes me think he should be playing for a different team.
00:20:28.820 And, you know, Kian, you know what I found was sort of perversely ironic.
00:20:31.520 He had that delightful North Carolinian twang.
00:20:35.820 And he sounded the most of all the people you interviewed like the stereotypical Hollywood cowboy.
00:20:42.660 But, you know, what I'm trying to piece together, I'm trying to connect the dots here, Kian.
00:20:46.600 And he called, you know, the idea, I guess, of the Wild West a conspiracy, like it's only a Hollywood invention.
00:20:55.900 Now, granted, the period of the Wild West in terms of historical times, it was a very compressed time frame.
00:21:04.080 We're talking about the latter part of the 1800 died out in the early days of the 19th century.
00:21:11.440 Yet it did exist.
00:21:13.000 There were cowboys, there were ranch hands, there were saloons, there were gunfights at the OK Corral.
00:21:19.440 So what is he talking about that, you know, he's buying into conspiracy culture, much like the moon landing didn't happen and 9-11 was an inside job?
00:21:29.180 Is that what he's saying about an entire period of history?
00:21:32.740 Maybe, maybe it is.
00:21:36.020 I mean, what I think he was saying was that cowboys in modern day are a myth, which is patently false.
00:21:44.500 Sure, there's no shootouts in saloons these days.
00:21:47.220 But the Calgary Stampede is the most city-ified rodeo in probably Canada.
00:21:54.860 If you take a step outside of the city and go to any rodeo in a small town, the Rockyford Rodeo is a great example.
00:22:03.660 It's, you know, it's a real celebration of the culture.
00:22:08.220 Real rodeo athletes come to take part in these events and compete.
00:22:12.600 And it's a part of their lifestyle.
00:22:14.340 And it's a part of the community.
00:22:15.460 It's part of the fabric of the community.
00:22:17.520 And he doesn't grasp that, I think.
00:22:20.480 He doesn't, he very well might believe that this is all sort of a joke.
00:22:25.340 But it's not.
00:22:27.060 Wow.
00:22:27.660 I would invite him to my farm to come to branding next spring.
00:22:32.240 And then he'll see if it's a conspiracy when he has to treat some scours.
00:22:37.420 Well, I'll tell you, Kean, he better get with the program when he plays for the Calgary Stampeders.
00:22:41.640 The next step down on the football hierarchy is, I guess, arena football.
00:22:46.400 So, you know, I think he's got a pretty good all things considered.
00:22:49.760 But the other notable thing about your commentary, of course, Kean, is the absence of Justin Trudeau.
00:22:56.520 I mean, that suggests a couple of things to me.
00:22:58.820 That in terms of time management, and he might be right, this might be good strategy.
00:23:04.060 The West is a write-off in terms of any liberal inroads.
00:23:08.100 So why waste time in a no-hoper zone?
00:23:11.840 But the other thing, too, is that it kind of bothers me.
00:23:15.060 We'll have this prime minister, like he did last year, go over to India and dress up as an Indian,
00:23:21.220 being completely oblivious to that narrative of cultural appropriation.
00:23:26.360 But to go over in his own backyard to Calgary, put a cowboy hat on and a pair of cowboy boots,
00:23:32.160 no, he wouldn't lower himself to that.
00:23:35.180 That's basically my take on it, Kean.
00:23:37.440 I agree with that.
00:23:39.220 And I think that it's time that Albertans and folks in Saskatchewan and even northern British Columbia come to accept that this government is simply not a government for them.
00:23:51.040 This government isn't operating in Calgary's best interest.
00:23:54.640 It's not operating in Edmonton or Saskatoon or Regina's best interest.
00:23:58.380 It just doesn't care about us.
00:24:00.060 It seems that Justin Trudeau has one or two elected MPs in each of these cities.
00:24:07.360 In Calgary, he only has one, Kent Hare.
00:24:09.380 In Regina, he has Ralph Goodale.
00:24:11.780 And he just has these token seats.
00:24:14.420 And I think, honestly, I think that he's written it off.
00:24:18.480 And if I was those MPs, I would be a little bit hurt because Kent Hare needs all the help that he can get.
00:24:24.700 And he's certainly not getting it from his leader and from our prime minister.
00:24:28.820 So I guess it's time that Albertans accept that they are, you know, a colony of the east.
00:24:34.920 And it's unfortunate, but it's what we have to accept with this prime minister.
00:24:40.540 Yeah, you know, you make an excellent point there, Kian, that Trudeau is safe in his Montreal riding and, you know, lording over us in Ottawa.
00:24:49.440 But, like, for those liberal MPs, those outliers in the west, it's like, hey, we're on a life raft here floating in the Pacific.
00:24:58.900 We could use a little help, but can't be bothered.
00:25:01.960 You know, it was refreshing in your streeters.
00:25:04.840 And it was a very diverse crowd.
00:25:07.160 The vast majority of them loving cowboy culture, loving Western culture.
00:25:12.540 But in addition to Mike Rose of the Stampeders, there was the presumably Muslim woman, certainly she was dressed as one,
00:25:19.840 who thought it wasn't worth celebrating Western culture and cowboy culture.
00:25:24.260 And I thought, you know, that's kind of odd, isn't it?
00:25:26.700 I mean, you know, you're living in Western culture.
00:25:31.420 I mean, if you have such distaste for it, why don't you choose to live in, say, the Middle East?
00:25:36.360 Well, David, you have your own experience with this.
00:25:39.640 When you went to the Al-Quds Festival, I think this was a very similar interaction, although not as bombastic as that fellow was, but just as honest.
00:25:50.160 They're not here to celebrate our culture and partake in our culture and join it and participate in it in good faith.
00:25:58.400 They're here to change it.
00:26:00.960 And I don't want to say they is, you know, stereotyping a whole group of people.
00:26:06.260 But there are there it's without a doubt.
00:26:09.980 And I'm going to tread carefully here.
00:26:11.500 Without a doubt, there was a segment of the population that I interviewed that had very similar answers to her.
00:26:18.780 And in the editing of that video, it just looked so, you know, you just had to read between the lines and and see who it was that was not very happy to be celebrating Western culture.
00:26:34.420 Perhaps they just came to go on the merry-go-round.
00:26:36.700 But we had we had to trim it down a little bit.
00:26:40.640 So that was the only taste of it that we got.
00:26:42.440 But there's plenty more instances like that, like that girl in the hijab who doesn't want to participate in Western culture that we cut because, you know, we just wanted to focus on the positives there.
00:26:54.740 You know, Kian, that's disheartening.
00:26:56.960 And I didn't know what was on the editing room floor, so to speak.
00:27:00.940 It's disheartening because that to me suggests the answer to the question, if you don't like Western culture, why are you here?
00:27:06.480 The answer is, well, we're here because we're going to change Western culture.
00:27:10.740 And I think that is the huge question moving forward.
00:27:14.380 And I don't have the answer.
00:27:15.640 And I don't want to come across as a Pollyanna here.
00:27:18.080 But I think when it comes to those particularly of the Islamic faith, this is going to go one of two ways.
00:27:25.000 There's going to be increasing demands for the Sharia-ization of the West as they live in the West.
00:27:32.660 Or on the flip side, Kian, you will have, say, young teenage girls that are going to a school.
00:27:38.520 They're immersed in Western culture.
00:27:40.180 They're listening to Western music.
00:27:41.900 They see their classmates wearing jeans and tank tops.
00:27:44.740 They don't want to, you know, shroud themselves in fabric coffins.
00:27:48.080 And they're going to say to their parents, no, I'm not into that.
00:27:51.000 I want to be like my friends.
00:27:53.320 These are the two alternatives.
00:27:55.280 And only time will tell in terms of the near or even far future which way we're going to go.
00:28:01.640 What's your gauge on this, my friend?
00:28:06.340 You know, this is such murky water for me.
00:28:10.580 I usually don't talk about this kind of stuff.
00:28:12.040 So it's like I'm trying to walk a line here.
00:28:14.460 But, you know, I think that Calgarians need to be concerned.
00:28:18.060 I think Canadians need to be concerned that the immigration that we have in this country is benefiting our country and is not a mechanism of international charity in its entirety.
00:28:31.960 Because when you have an immigration system that doesn't serve the country, you bring in people that might not be as interested in living in the Canada that they came to as they are in colonizing Canada in a way that many on the left say was done 150 years ago.
00:28:53.080 And I think that that's something to be concerned about.
00:28:56.840 And I think that's something that many people don't want to talk about because it's uncomfortable.
00:29:00.700 Hell, I'm uncomfortable talking about it myself.
00:29:02.900 But it's not something that can be ignored.
00:29:06.860 Well, it's a hard reality.
00:29:08.040 And maybe some people would say I'm a bigot.
00:29:10.660 But the saying is indeed when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
00:29:13.920 Not when in Rome, let's renovate Rome to our liking.
00:29:17.480 But exit question, Kian, overall, Calgary Stampede 2019, any takeaway points, anything exceptional, anything that stood out this year for you at the fair?
00:29:31.760 Well, we have yet to see the finals.
00:29:34.460 There's, of course, one more weekend before the rodeo finals wrap up.
00:29:37.460 I recommend that everyone, whether or not they've had a history of watching rodeo or the Chucks, to tune in.
00:29:45.980 And it's, you know, it's on, I'm not sure what channel it's on.
00:29:49.040 But if you are in Calgary, of course, go see it in person.
00:29:51.320 If you are not, it's definitely on TV.
00:29:54.200 It's one of the most exciting sporting events that you can watch full stop.
00:29:59.640 And it's certainly much more interesting than women's FIFA.
00:30:02.360 So if you watch that, you're in for a real treat.
00:30:05.240 Yep, Sports Illustrated nailed it a long time ago.
00:30:07.700 The most exciting eight seconds in sport when you see these guys on Bulls and Bucking Broncos.
00:30:13.900 And I'm speaking from experience, and I have the hospital bill to show, to prove it.
00:30:18.680 When I was in Smoky Lake, Alberta, when I was starting out in my journalism career back in 1985,
00:30:23.460 I did a little George Plimpton-style journalism by writing what was then the champion Bucking Bull of Alberta.
00:30:31.060 I lasted two and a half seconds.
00:30:32.900 It felt like an eternity.
00:30:35.300 Well, you know what?
00:30:36.240 Actually, at the Stampede, there was also, speaking of things that you've done, there was a tractor pull.
00:30:40.900 And I know that you were just recently at one.
00:30:43.880 This was a vintage tractor pull, though.
00:30:46.420 So it was before Massey Ferguson was even created.
00:30:49.900 It was just a bunch of old, old, old tractors pulling the skid across the arena.
00:30:55.240 It was excellent watching.
00:30:56.400 But they weren't as souped up as yours were out in Ontario.
00:31:01.100 Well, we'll end it there then, Kian.
00:31:04.160 Not only did Trudeau not show up, but obviously Climate Barbie wouldn't be caught dead in a place where those kind of emissions are going up into the sky.
00:31:14.440 Of course not.
00:31:15.000 And I say, who needs them?
00:31:16.440 Anyways, fantastic video as always, Kian.
00:31:18.500 And thanks for weighing in with your opinions, as always.
00:31:22.500 Thanks for having me, David.
00:31:23.640 You got it.
00:31:24.520 And that was Kian Bextie out in Calgary.
00:31:27.500 Keep it here, folks.
00:31:28.520 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:31:30.880 So anyway, Amanda, who likens herself to animated princesses on her Twitter feed, is walking down Richmond Street in broad daylight, I tell you.
00:31:48.460 And she was brutally, sexually assaulted.
00:31:52.800 And Amanda, being a communications professional, she tweeted about it, about how Toronto the good became Toronto the terrible.
00:32:03.820 Here goes.
00:32:04.580 Quote,
00:32:05.200 I just walked through around a dozen men lining the sidewalk at 85 Richmond Street.
00:32:11.720 They didn't say a word, but they openly leered at me.
00:32:16.300 I felt so uncomfortable.
00:32:18.480 I did not make eye contact.
00:32:20.380 I don't know who runs this site, see photo, but this is not okay, end quote.
00:32:28.320 How can this be?
00:32:29.920 Those men, they leered at precious Amanda, moon of my life, my sun, my stars, my Khaleesi.
00:32:38.500 Oh, what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
00:32:42.660 Oh, the toxic masculinity of it all.
00:32:45.620 Look at them, just looking at her.
00:32:48.940 Damn it.
00:32:50.860 No Gillette shavers for those insensitive sons of bitches.
00:32:54.740 Oh, alas and alack.
00:32:56.200 Welcome to the historical accounting of Toronto's Day of Infamy by Amanda Galbraith, Mayor John Tory's former spokeslingy and now a PRBS artist with Navigator.
00:33:07.360 Because recently Amanda was assaulted.
00:33:10.380 Okay, well, not assaulted.
00:33:11.700 Amanda said she was stared at.
00:33:14.540 Maybe by her own words, she wasn't making eye contact.
00:33:18.680 But regardless, Amanda thought she might have perhaps kind of been looked at by some construction workers.
00:33:25.120 And wouldn't you know it, in this post-MeToo era, construction company PCL is launching an investigation.
00:33:34.640 Oh, there will be blood to appease this snowflake survivor.
00:33:38.540 Because that's how we roll these days, implementing punishment for thought crimes that might have occurred.
00:33:48.060 Oh, where's that asteroid already?
00:33:51.000 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about precious Amanda enduring the worst day of her life ever.
00:33:57.540 Catlubber writes,
00:34:00.200 So, a woman is offended by attention, then seeks attention by posting about it on Twitter.
00:34:06.980 Mass insanity has swept Western culture.
00:34:10.540 Indeed, remember the good old days when flirting wasn't a federal crime?
00:34:14.560 And by good old days, folks, I'm going back to the 1990s.
00:34:18.900 Remember that Nissan Toys commercial that was proclaimed Ad of the Year by Time Magazine in 1996?
00:34:24.560 Well, me thinks the likes of Amanda Galbraith would need grief counselling if she were to view this ad today.
00:34:32.560 We'll see you next time.
00:35:02.560 Oh, the toxic masculinity of Action Man.
00:35:07.040 Oh, the carbon footprint of the sports car.
00:35:09.620 Oh, the sexualization of a tarted up Barbie.
00:35:13.060 Oh, no way that ad airs today, folks, because the likes of Amanda Galbraith would likely organize a boycott of Nissan.
00:35:22.080 Troy Koning writes,
00:35:23.380 Narcissistic personality disorder and the I'm so blanking special generational delusions.
00:35:31.340 Well, you named the Troy for Amanda is part of a generation that used to be parodied on Saturday Night Live.
00:35:39.400 I deserve good things.
00:35:42.680 I am entitled to my share of happiness.
00:35:45.260 I refuse to beat myself up.
00:35:47.460 I am an attractive person.
00:35:49.380 I am fun to be with.
00:35:52.640 Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley.
00:35:55.840 I'm going to do a terrific show today, and I'm going to help people because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
00:36:08.920 Alan Cain writes, like Trudeau says, men with yellow vests and hard hats are a threat to women in general.
00:36:17.240 Why can't we all be super feminists like Trudeau?
00:36:20.820 Yes, like Amanda, Justin thinks those men who do all the heavy lifting out there and build stuff, they're the ones that should be maligned.
00:36:30.300 The Prime Minister's statement was a clear attack on some of the hardest working dedicated Canadians.
00:36:37.820 So for the Prime Minister to directly attack these men and insinuate that they are dangerous to women in rural communities is unconscionable and diminishes the high office that he holds.
00:36:49.040 Not to mention, people in groping glass houses should not throw stones.
00:36:53.920 So, again, will the Prime Minister stand and apologize for what he said?
00:36:58.240 Thank you.
00:36:58.660 Thank you.
00:36:59.220 Thank you.
00:37:06.600 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:37:09.560 Mr. Speaker, we take very seriously the responsibility of creating safe workplaces, of supporting all people in communities to ensure that they have opportunities to contribute, opportunities to find good jobs,
00:37:23.240 opportunities to grow their communities in safety and security.
00:37:27.940 That is something we are going to continue to focus on.
00:37:30.760 I will take no lessons from the Conservative Party on how to build safer, more inclusive communities.
00:37:36.340 Yep, there you have it.
00:37:37.440 A fake feminist Prime Minister who doesn't directly answer questions.
00:37:41.180 In other words, a dream date for Amanda Galbraith.
00:37:45.180 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
00:37:47.800 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:37:49.160 See you next week.
00:37:49.760 And, hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.
00:37:53.900 Good night.
00:37:54.320 Good night.