Rebel News Podcast - February 16, 2019


Rebel Roundup： Guests Sheila Gunn Reid, Keean Bexte, & Ezra Levant


Summary

While the SNC-Lavalin scandal continues to take myriad twists and turns, in the meantime, the Trudeau Liberals are clearly in panic mode. Ezra Levant has the latest on the Yellow Vests protest, and Sheila Gunn-Reed chronicles the plight of Mr. Osman, who wants a vanity plate displaying his surname, but the Saskatchewan bureaucrats just won t allow it. And finally, we get your letters.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels. You're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, Rebel Roundup.
00:00:06.080 Today, we have Ezra Levent weighing in on the ongoing dumpster fire that is the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
00:00:13.780 Kian Bexte will have the latest on the Yellow Vest protest movement heading towards Ottawa.
00:00:19.360 And Sheila Gunn-Reed will chronicle the plight of Mr. Osman, who wants a vanity plate displaying his surname,
00:00:26.220 but the Saskatchewan bureaucrats just won't allow it, and wait till you hear the nitty-gritty regarding this one.
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00:01:35.940 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:42.040 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
00:01:47.140 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:49.420 While the SNC-Lavalin scandal continues to take myriad twists and turns,
00:01:54.800 in the meantime, the Justin Trudeau Liberals are clearly in panic mode.
00:01:59.700 Ezra Levant will have the latest.
00:02:01.640 The Yellow Vest convoy is rolling east, and it'll be hitting Ottawa come Tuesday.
00:02:08.240 Kenan Bexte is embedded in that convoy, and he'll have the latest on this massive protest.
00:02:15.280 And pity Mr. Osman, whose name is spelt A-S-S-M-A-N.
00:02:21.360 He wants a vanity plate displaying his surname.
00:02:24.000 But the bureaucrats in Saskatchewan are saying nyan because apparently this would prove too offensive to other motorists.
00:02:33.500 Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the comical details.
00:02:37.460 And finally, we get your letters.
00:02:39.140 We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:02:41.560 And I'll share some of the letters we received regarding my report
00:02:45.200 on how the Academy Awards has thrown in the towel regarding having a host this year.
00:02:51.280 Yes, apparently there is a dearth of celebrities who can combine comedy with sensitivity.
00:02:59.220 End result?
00:03:00.280 Get ready for a snooze fest.
00:03:03.020 Assuming you're still watching this thing, that is.
00:03:06.260 Those are your Rebels, folks.
00:03:07.740 Now let's round them up.
00:03:09.040 We'll be right back.
00:03:39.020 This is the entire political system, I would say.
00:03:42.300 Let me quote two lines from it.
00:03:44.380 Dear Prime Minister, with a heavy heart, I am writing to tender my resignation
00:03:47.200 as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defense.
00:03:51.020 And let me skip down, about two-thirds of the way down.
00:03:53.920 She says,
00:03:54.280 I am aware that many Canadians wish for me to speak on matters that have been in the media
00:03:59.340 over the last week.
00:04:00.640 I am in the process of obtaining advice on the topics that I am legally permitted to discuss
00:04:06.080 in this matter.
00:04:07.060 And as such, have retained the Honorable Thomas Albert Cromwell, C.C., as counsel.
00:04:13.820 And just one last point.
00:04:15.100 She signs it, Puglis.
00:04:17.160 That is her aboriginal name.
00:04:18.940 above her English name, Jody Wilson Rabel.
00:04:22.820 That is a fighting document.
00:04:24.960 The fact that she's retained a former Supreme Court judge to give her advice to tell her
00:04:29.640 what to do and how to talk about this is very interesting to me.
00:04:34.580 There are real questions about whether or not she actually has solicited her client privilege
00:04:40.080 on this matter that she has to submit to.
00:04:42.960 Justin Trudeau, of course, could waive any such privilege and say,
00:04:45.920 oh, you're free to talk.
00:04:47.020 I release you from that.
00:04:47.880 But he won't.
00:04:48.980 The government's in a panic.
00:04:50.800 Oh, the federal government is in panic mode, all right,
00:04:53.540 because the SNC-Lavalin scandal is not going away anytime soon.
00:04:58.200 And oh, to be a fly on the wall of the liberal inner circle
00:05:02.320 to hear the best laid plans of mice and persons
00:05:05.660 being bandied about by Justin Trudeau and co-Prime Minister Gerald Butz.
00:05:10.740 But one thing is certain.
00:05:12.600 In the past, Justin has proven to have a Teflon-like exterior
00:05:16.480 when it comes to avoiding debilitating scandals sticking to him.
00:05:21.180 But no amount of political tap dancing is going to make Trudeau immune
00:05:25.440 from this raging dumpster fire.
00:05:28.380 And with more on this scandal that only intensifies with every passing day
00:05:33.620 is our very own rebel commander, Ezra Levette.
00:05:36.120 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.
00:05:37.580 Well, thanks very much.
00:05:38.220 You know, I don't often disagree with you, David,
00:05:40.360 but I think I'm going to disagree with you here.
00:05:41.920 I think that Justin Trudeau absolutely will skate through this.
00:05:46.900 I see evidence that he already is.
00:05:48.920 I see reporters already saying, well, for example,
00:05:52.080 the Globe and Mail itself was saying, well, you know,
00:05:54.680 there's a lot of good reasons that we should have a deferred prosecution deal
00:05:58.780 with SNC-Lavalin.
00:06:01.120 I notice that the bulk of the Quebec-based media
00:06:05.640 is taking the stance, why are you picking on a Quebec company?
00:06:09.780 I see that most liberals are rallying around their leader,
00:06:15.400 including a number of liberals who have taken to disparaging
00:06:18.600 Jody Wilson-Raybould, saying that she wasn't up to the job,
00:06:21.940 she was incompetent, or as Anthony Howe's father,
00:06:24.600 the bizarre liberal from Montreal, said yesterday,
00:06:27.020 she was fired because she didn't speak French,
00:06:28.520 which apparently they only found out a few months ago.
00:06:32.200 Wasn't that preposterous?
00:06:33.740 Well, you know what?
00:06:36.320 The fact that he still sits in caucus and has the positions he has,
00:06:42.160 this absolutely will blow over
00:06:45.320 because Trudeau has perfected brazening it out,
00:06:50.560 and he just reads his lines literally.
00:06:52.440 There was a moment the other day where he said,
00:06:53.880 uh, what's the line again?
00:06:55.520 Like, he did, like, he...
00:06:56.900 I saw that.
00:06:58.060 And, um, you've got a few reporters who are hungry for this.
00:07:02.480 Uh, the three reporters at the Globe who broke the story,
00:07:04.800 Bob Fyfe, Steve Chase, and Sean Fine.
00:07:06.600 I think they're invested in it.
00:07:08.320 And I think the editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail
00:07:10.680 is running with it, too.
00:07:12.460 But you can see the counter forces.
00:07:14.200 Uh, Chantal Ibert, the Toronto Star, uh, the CBC.
00:07:18.420 Listen, if he could skate through groping Rose Knight,
00:07:21.900 who he sexually assaulted in 2000 and Creston, B.C.,
00:07:24.660 he'll skate through this.
00:07:26.220 And, um, most people aren't following this news.
00:07:30.680 They don't understand SNC-Lavalin.
00:07:32.840 What does that word even mean?
00:07:34.400 What's a deferred prosecution agreement even mean?
00:07:37.160 Trudeau says he didn't do anything wrong.
00:07:38.980 I think this is technical, vague, and complex.
00:07:43.680 And, um, I don't think most people are following the news.
00:07:47.540 I don't think most people care.
00:07:49.060 I think most people are following, uh, fun news instead
00:07:52.500 that Trudeau excels at, like, uh, that girl in Toronto
00:07:55.320 who threw a patio chair off of a tall condo.
00:07:58.840 Yes.
00:07:59.120 The only way that I think this is going to make a dent
00:08:02.380 is if the RCMP file some sort of corruption charges in Canada,
00:08:07.580 whether against Trudeau, SNC-Lavalin, some Trudeau staff.
00:08:12.220 I just think this notion that there's any integrity
00:08:16.020 in the Quebec-based Liberal Party is wrong.
00:08:18.980 Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper's chief of staff,
00:08:21.780 had so much integrity.
00:08:24.100 Not only did he not take his salary to be chief of staff
00:08:27.920 or bill any expenses at all,
00:08:31.560 when he saw there was a possible ethical question
00:08:34.680 about Mike Duffy's expenses,
00:08:35.840 Nigel Wright reached into his own pocket
00:08:37.880 to pay the government 90 grand
00:08:39.220 just to make the problem go away.
00:08:40.680 Obviously, he didn't make the problem go away
00:08:42.000 because they said, oh, that's, you're bribing someone.
00:08:45.840 That turned into a huge court trial.
00:08:48.920 Duffy was acquitted.
00:08:50.300 But the only reason that went anywhere
00:08:52.460 was because Stephen Harper, Nigel Wright,
00:08:55.580 and everyone involved had a sense of shame or honour.
00:09:01.240 Justin Trudeau is the kind of person
00:09:03.200 who lies about taking a secret $200,000 vacation
00:09:07.400 on Billionaire's Island, lies to the ethics commissioner.
00:09:10.180 She said he lied.
00:09:11.300 She convicted him four times.
00:09:13.300 His chief of staff, Gerald Butts,
00:09:14.800 billed taxpayers six figures just to move down the road
00:09:17.120 from Toronto to Ottawa, hid that from the public.
00:09:20.100 This is a culture of corruption.
00:09:23.400 This is the guy, Justin Trudeau,
00:09:24.920 who put two nannies on the public payroll
00:09:28.280 instead of paying for his own nannies
00:09:31.640 like everyone else does.
00:09:32.740 This is a guy who feels entitled to everything
00:09:37.200 and has never in his life, he's 46 years old, 47,
00:09:42.560 he has never in his life had any accountability
00:09:45.940 and until the RCMP knock on his door, he will skate.
00:09:51.700 Is that going to happen, Ezra, by the way?
00:09:53.660 I doubt it.
00:09:54.560 He's handpicked the new RCMP commissioner
00:09:57.540 who is another gender quota appointee.
00:10:00.260 Now, there may be some cop who says,
00:10:03.360 I'm going to take a run at this,
00:10:04.540 but you don't take a run at the prime minister
00:10:06.320 without having that approved by the commissioner of the RCMP.
00:10:09.860 In the United States, there were rumors
00:10:14.040 and fake dossiers circulating claiming
00:10:16.780 that Donald Trump is a Russian spy.
00:10:18.660 Yes.
00:10:19.380 The most capitalist pro-American guy in the world
00:10:22.080 is apparently a Russian spy.
00:10:23.420 The guy who's put more sanctions on Russia
00:10:25.040 than anyone else in history is a Russian spy,
00:10:27.380 as opposed to Barack Obama,
00:10:28.940 who let Putin devour Ukraine,
00:10:31.620 and Hillary Clinton, who let Putin buy American uranium.
00:10:36.240 But even those were flimsy accusations.
00:10:41.080 You have had a two-year, $20, $30 million
00:10:44.040 independent special counsel named Mueller
00:10:47.400 who is investigating, subpoenaing, searching,
00:10:52.700 even doing armed raids on houses of political operatives.
00:10:58.080 So it shows, and in the United States,
00:11:00.720 you have independent Senate and congressional committees
00:11:03.520 with the power of subpoena.
00:11:04.420 You have none of that here in Canada.
00:11:06.240 So you see yesterday, for example,
00:11:08.820 the liberals voting down any form of a parliamentary committee,
00:11:14.220 and that would be a toothless committee to begin with.
00:11:16.760 So I believe that Justin Trudeau absolutely will skate.
00:11:21.560 I believe that other than a few righteous journalists,
00:11:25.180 most will fall into line,
00:11:26.700 especially when the $595 million slush fund kicks in.
00:11:30.180 And mainly this will work
00:11:32.020 because Canadians are deferential and polite
00:11:35.500 and say, oh, after you, after you, after you, sorry, sorry,
00:11:37.660 except for Trudeau's inner circle,
00:11:39.960 who have no Canadian compunction,
00:11:42.440 have no sense of shame or honour.
00:11:45.140 So they will, they really are a form of the mafia.
00:11:48.920 We use that phrase,
00:11:50.080 the Libranos,
00:11:50.840 to describe the Quebec-based liberals a decade ago.
00:11:53.400 The Libranos are back, baby.
00:11:55.500 You know, Ezra,
00:11:56.360 you have an outstanding batting average
00:11:58.300 when it comes to being accurate.
00:12:01.300 I hope you're wrong on this, however.
00:12:04.700 I hope that,
00:12:06.540 because I just see the optics of this being so horrible.
00:12:10.460 And I also see the way Ms. Rivalda is being treated
00:12:14.100 in terms of a smear and fear campaign.
00:12:17.420 If I can just read a quote.
00:12:19.100 This appeared in the Toronto Star the other day.
00:12:21.960 An anonymous Liberal MP,
00:12:23.540 and I was stunned reading this,
00:12:25.640 if she thinks because of her status indigenous
00:12:28.960 that somehow this exempts her
00:12:32.200 from being there at the pleasure of the prime minister,
00:12:35.360 then she has a profound misunderstanding
00:12:38.000 of the system, end quote.
00:12:40.000 That is staggering.
00:12:40.980 I think it borders on races, actually.
00:12:43.060 Yeah.
00:12:44.260 It's funny because, of course,
00:12:45.780 Justin Trudeau never stopped talking
00:12:47.800 about the fact that she was a woman,
00:12:49.800 a woman of colour, an average woman.
00:12:51.460 And Justin Trudeau, one of the very first things
00:12:53.320 he said about his cabinet was,
00:12:55.460 it's, I've made this gender quota
00:12:57.480 because it's 2015, he said.
00:12:59.620 So, on the one hand, it's not that surprising.
00:13:01.800 It's like when his candidate in Burnaby said,
00:13:05.440 look, I'm the Chinese candidate.
00:13:07.260 Vote for me, you get a Chinese candidate.
00:13:09.200 If all the Chinese people vote for me,
00:13:10.780 I'll win, as opposed to Jagmeet Singh,
00:13:15.380 who's...
00:13:16.040 An Indian.
00:13:16.600 Yeah, South Asian.
00:13:17.880 And she was just speaking honestly.
00:13:19.220 Well, that's how the Liberals operate.
00:13:21.900 So, it is sort of gross when you look at it,
00:13:25.580 but it really is not that much more gross
00:13:28.160 than, hey, guys, hey, look,
00:13:30.060 I have, I've collected Noah's Ark here
00:13:32.680 of two of every animal.
00:13:33.880 Aren't they cute?
00:13:35.440 May I now introduce you
00:13:36.680 to our Sikh cabinet minister?
00:13:38.460 May I now introduce you
00:13:39.560 to our Muslim cabinet minister?
00:13:41.180 We have so, I'm such a, you know,
00:13:43.580 it's like Rudyard Kipling's poem,
00:13:44.960 The White Man's Burden.
00:13:46.300 Justin Trudeau is so generous
00:13:48.020 to the minorities.
00:13:50.800 So, Trudeau can't really have it both ways.
00:13:55.720 His, I mean, I don't think Jody Wilson-Raybould
00:13:59.000 was a great justice minister,
00:14:00.620 mainly because I disagree with her ideology.
00:14:02.420 Okay.
00:14:03.700 I'm not saying she was incompetent.
00:14:05.860 I'm just saying she was wrong.
00:14:07.500 That's a different thing.
00:14:08.920 But Justin Trudeau appointed her,
00:14:10.960 not because she was likely
00:14:12.200 the best justice minister of his caucus,
00:14:16.500 but because she was an Aboriginal woman.
00:14:17.920 So, she appointed him for that reason.
00:14:19.680 So, it's really not surprising
00:14:21.280 that they would, after firing her,
00:14:25.320 say, oh, just because you're a woman of color,
00:14:27.160 don't think you can get away with things.
00:14:28.700 That's the other side of the coin.
00:14:30.120 When you hire someone for racial reasons
00:14:33.340 and then you fire them,
00:14:35.520 don't be shocked if there's a racial tinge to it too.
00:14:38.100 I mean, that's gross,
00:14:39.520 but it's unsurprising to me
00:14:41.680 coming from this liberal government.
00:14:43.280 You know, Ezra, what about,
00:14:44.720 there's a contrarian viewpoint,
00:14:46.100 and I was kind of stunned hearing it,
00:14:47.840 but I want to bounce it off you.
00:14:49.780 Given that there are thousands of plum jobs at stake,
00:14:53.780 SNC-Lavalin is a gem crown corporation in Quebec.
00:15:00.200 There's this attitude that
00:15:02.140 maybe we should have allowed the law to be broken
00:15:05.520 or turn a blind eye to the law
00:15:08.080 so that this company is preserved
00:15:13.280 and these jobs are maintained.
00:15:16.300 What is your response to that?
00:15:17.940 Because, you know, the theory is
00:15:19.520 we were dealing with Libya
00:15:20.880 and in that part of the world,
00:15:22.940 bribery is the way you do business
00:15:26.140 and if you don't do it that way,
00:15:27.720 you don't get the contracts.
00:15:29.660 Yeah, well, that's not how business is done
00:15:33.020 in the West.
00:15:35.460 The United States has anti-corruption laws
00:15:38.480 that are extremely vigorous.
00:15:40.480 I think it's called the FISA law foreign,
00:15:45.200 you know, I'm sorry,
00:15:45.800 I can't remember what it stands for,
00:15:47.380 but any company anywhere around the world
00:15:50.580 that has a foot in America
00:15:53.520 that also does business overseas,
00:15:56.220 they are governed by anti-corruption laws
00:15:58.680 that are extremely tough.
00:16:01.480 If you engage in bribery or corruption
00:16:04.580 and are caught,
00:16:05.320 and I'm sorry,
00:16:06.260 I can't remember that,
00:16:07.660 sorry, it's not FISA,
00:16:08.840 it's a different,
00:16:10.140 it's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
00:16:12.100 or something like that,
00:16:13.300 FCPA.
00:16:14.220 I'm sorry,
00:16:14.560 I don't know the American law
00:16:15.540 off the top of my head.
00:16:20.320 If you are caught
00:16:21.780 as an American company
00:16:23.300 or a Canadian or a German company
00:16:25.740 with a foot in America,
00:16:27.260 so if you're regulated all by Americans
00:16:28.880 and you engage in bribery
00:16:30.740 anywhere in the world,
00:16:32.440 you will be punished
00:16:33.820 with hundreds of millions of dollars
00:16:37.060 in fines
00:16:38.160 with possible prison terms
00:16:40.760 and you will be banned
00:16:42.700 from doing any business
00:16:44.760 with various American institutions,
00:16:46.280 including the World Bank,
00:16:47.160 for example,
00:16:48.500 which has banned SNC-Lavalin
00:16:51.100 from touching
00:16:51.740 any of its projects around the world.
00:16:53.720 So it is not the way it's done.
00:16:56.000 That's how it's done
00:16:57.200 in corrupt, failed states,
00:16:59.820 which the Trudeau liberals
00:17:01.980 seem to really admire.
00:17:04.360 But getting away from the law
00:17:06.900 and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
00:17:08.840 I think that's what it's called,
00:17:11.060 if there's engineering work to do,
00:17:13.240 engineers will do it.
00:17:15.620 Maybe it won't be called SNC-Lavalin.
00:17:18.280 Maybe it'll be called NewCo
00:17:20.200 or EthicalCo or something.
00:17:22.980 Like the work will be done,
00:17:23.940 the money will be spent,
00:17:25.220 bridges will be built,
00:17:26.340 hospitals will be built.
00:17:27.640 I mentioned hospitals.
00:17:28.720 Of course, SNC-Lavalin
00:17:30.200 was involved with
00:17:31.380 a corrupt super hospital in Montreal.
00:17:33.840 This is a very corrupt company
00:17:35.880 to begin with.
00:17:37.240 They admitted to paying
00:17:38.140 $48 million in bribes in Libya.
00:17:39.840 They admitted to helping
00:17:41.120 to steal more than $100 million
00:17:42.220 from the Libyan people.
00:17:45.360 It wasn't an excuse for Enron.
00:17:48.100 It wasn't an excuse for Brex.
00:17:49.920 Oh, gosh, sure,
00:17:51.160 we ripped you all off,
00:17:52.560 but, you know,
00:17:53.780 you don't want to put me
00:17:54.560 out of work, do you?
00:17:55.380 Yeah, because, you know,
00:17:57.300 my kids need a new pair of shoes.
00:17:59.760 So that's an excuse
00:18:02.520 that any criminal could say.
00:18:04.120 Yeah.
00:18:04.340 Oh, sure,
00:18:05.040 I robbed the bank, Your Honor,
00:18:06.480 but you don't want to put me in jail.
00:18:08.020 First of all,
00:18:08.440 I really need the money.
00:18:09.800 Yeah.
00:18:09.980 And second of all,
00:18:11.920 you know,
00:18:12.840 this could really put a dent
00:18:14.360 in my lifestyle, Your Honor.
00:18:15.740 Yeah.
00:18:15.860 If you put me...
00:18:16.400 So that...
00:18:17.120 But that's what I say
00:18:19.280 when I mention the brazening it out.
00:18:21.980 When you're willing
00:18:22.800 to look people in the eye
00:18:23.820 and say,
00:18:24.220 you wouldn't really,
00:18:26.460 actually expect this company
00:18:28.740 to be prosecuted.
00:18:30.940 They're a gem.
00:18:31.760 Now, they're not a crown corporation,
00:18:32.900 but they're sort of the pride of Quebec.
00:18:34.860 They're not owned by the government.
00:18:35.800 They're a private company.
00:18:37.160 Prosecute them.
00:18:38.200 Bankrupt them for all I care.
00:18:39.440 I mean,
00:18:39.760 I don't want the company
00:18:40.940 to go bankrupt because,
00:18:42.220 you know,
00:18:42.600 but I think they should be punished
00:18:44.300 to the full extent of the law.
00:18:45.920 And if that means
00:18:46.780 a bunch of corrupt people
00:18:48.600 go to jail,
00:18:49.620 so be it.
00:18:50.640 If shareholders pay the price,
00:18:52.420 so be it.
00:18:53.460 And if good engineers are let go,
00:18:55.720 I'm sure good engineers
00:18:56.680 will recombine
00:18:57.560 and get ethical work out of it.
00:19:00.000 I'm sorry.
00:19:01.100 Not prosecuting someone
00:19:02.940 because it could hurt their feelings
00:19:04.560 is not a reason
00:19:05.520 not to prosecute someone.
00:19:06.940 Well, Ezra,
00:19:07.400 we have to wrap it here.
00:19:09.140 And, well,
00:19:10.040 what can I tell you, folks?
00:19:10.940 The boss is saying
00:19:11.860 that Trudeau
00:19:12.860 is actually going to escape
00:19:14.080 from this dumpster fire.
00:19:15.900 If that is the case,
00:19:17.160 I think it just proves
00:19:18.460 that there's a huge percentage
00:19:20.340 of the Canadian electorate
00:19:21.820 that is just completely disengaged
00:19:24.580 from what's happening in Ottawa.
00:19:26.520 And secondly,
00:19:27.700 that Justin Trudeau
00:19:28.740 has more lives
00:19:29.780 than the proverbial cat.
00:19:31.540 We'll see.
00:19:32.040 Time will tell.
00:19:32.740 Keep it here.
00:19:33.280 More of Rebel Roundup
00:19:34.140 to come after this.
00:19:44.200 It's a late night
00:19:45.140 here in Regina, Saskatchewan,
00:19:46.740 where the protest convoy
00:19:47.720 has made its first stop
00:19:48.940 for the night.
00:19:49.360 It's been a high-energy convoy
00:19:50.840 all the way since Red Deer.
00:19:52.060 At a pit stop,
00:19:52.960 we were actually able
00:19:53.560 to hand out
00:19:53.940 some of our limited-edition
00:19:55.640 Rebel convoy bumper stickers.
00:19:57.500 If you see me along the way,
00:19:58.400 all the way to Ottawa,
00:19:59.180 we have lots.
00:19:59.800 Be sure to ask me for one.
00:20:01.160 We also had the chance
00:20:01.780 to chat with some real Albertans
00:20:03.300 about what they hope
00:20:04.180 to gain from this movement.
00:20:05.600 I have grandsons
00:20:06.520 and my brother-in-law
00:20:08.500 and different people
00:20:09.200 that, you know,
00:20:10.620 work in the oil field
00:20:11.400 and none of them are working.
00:20:12.940 It needs to be changed.
00:20:14.480 We need a pipeline
00:20:15.280 and that's why we're here.
00:20:16.780 You know what?
00:20:17.220 We're just standing up
00:20:18.040 for Canada
00:20:18.520 and for what's right
00:20:19.460 and, you know,
00:20:20.840 we want to show our support.
00:20:22.160 We can't go all the way
00:20:23.040 but we're doing what we can.
00:20:24.540 What's your mission?
00:20:25.400 What do you want?
00:20:26.000 What's a win for you guys?
00:20:28.540 Get Trudeau out of the government.
00:20:31.200 At the outside of this convoy,
00:20:32.780 the RCMP counted
00:20:33.580 160 trucks
00:20:34.980 headed to Calgary
00:20:35.960 from Red Deer.
00:20:36.880 The convoy lost a few
00:20:37.760 in Alberta,
00:20:38.300 especially at the border,
00:20:39.160 but they also gained
00:20:40.140 a few in Saskatchewan
00:20:41.140 and it's leveled out
00:20:42.040 at about 70 trucks.
00:20:43.400 What I found unbelievable
00:20:45.460 on the first leg
00:20:46.400 of this trip
00:20:46.860 is the amount of support
00:20:47.820 that this convoy has
00:20:48.660 from everyday Albertans
00:20:49.920 and Saskatchewaners
00:20:50.860 lining up and down
00:20:52.240 the number one highway
00:20:53.080 wishing this convoy well.
00:20:54.760 It truly is a grassroots movement,
00:20:56.520 one that Canada
00:20:57.200 hasn't seen the likes of
00:20:58.320 in nearly a generation.
00:20:59.960 Actually,
00:21:00.420 now that I think about it,
00:21:01.280 not since the last Trudeau
00:21:02.800 was in power
00:21:03.360 has Western Canada
00:21:04.360 been so ready for revolt.
00:21:07.160 Well,
00:21:07.540 the Yellow Vesters
00:21:08.620 are heading their way
00:21:09.980 east all the way
00:21:11.400 to Ottawa
00:21:12.000 to knock on
00:21:12.960 the Prime Minister's door
00:21:14.000 and of course,
00:21:15.000 Kian Bexte
00:21:15.580 is embedded
00:21:16.820 in that group
00:21:18.020 and he joins me now.
00:21:19.760 Kian,
00:21:20.100 how are things
00:21:20.800 on the road?
00:21:22.780 Things are going great.
00:21:24.160 The fog just cleared
00:21:25.520 so I'm in the media bus
00:21:27.760 here with a few
00:21:28.460 other reporters
00:21:29.280 who are covering
00:21:30.200 the convoy.
00:21:31.400 It's pretty cold
00:21:32.520 but it looks like
00:21:33.980 we have a few more
00:21:35.740 people joining the convoy
00:21:36.620 here.
00:21:36.840 We just pulled over
00:21:37.600 at a truck stop
00:21:38.260 but that might put us
00:21:39.980 up at about
00:21:40.600 the 80 truck range.
00:21:42.400 So it looks like
00:21:43.660 a success so far
00:21:44.620 but there's about
00:21:45.620 2,500 kilometres
00:21:47.780 to go yet
00:21:48.500 so we'll still
00:21:49.680 have to see.
00:21:50.760 Fantastic.
00:21:51.420 And of course,
00:21:51.860 you're scheduled
00:21:52.340 to arrive on Tuesday,
00:21:53.820 I understand.
00:21:54.460 Is that correct?
00:21:56.620 Yes,
00:21:57.200 there's one day
00:22:00.000 that's reserved
00:22:01.220 in case we
00:22:03.180 are behind schedule
00:22:04.720 but Tuesday's the day
00:22:05.960 that there will be
00:22:06.880 a rally on Parliament Hill.
00:22:09.040 Fantastic.
00:22:09.840 Now,
00:22:10.140 Kian,
00:22:10.600 as you said,
00:22:11.280 you are on the media bus
00:22:12.780 and I was going to ask you
00:22:13.780 what is your take
00:22:15.560 so far
00:22:16.680 on the media coverage
00:22:17.940 and I ask that
00:22:18.860 because there was
00:22:19.420 a recent
00:22:20.200 CBC report
00:22:21.940 and I was
00:22:23.200 quite staggered
00:22:24.300 by it.
00:22:24.760 I mean,
00:22:25.100 you know,
00:22:25.420 the thrust
00:22:26.140 of the Yellow Vest
00:22:27.020 protests
00:22:27.500 is they want,
00:22:29.140 you know,
00:22:29.740 the construction equipment
00:22:31.000 in the ground,
00:22:32.120 they want pipelines
00:22:33.280 being developed,
00:22:34.140 they want to get
00:22:34.620 the oil to market,
00:22:35.780 that's what this
00:22:36.360 is all about
00:22:36.900 and the CBC twist
00:22:38.840 was that
00:22:39.940 this is,
00:22:41.120 you know,
00:22:41.560 a lot of this
00:22:42.620 is about xenophobia
00:22:43.900 and anti-Muslim sentiment
00:22:45.860 and it just had me
00:22:48.000 really shaking my head
00:22:49.660 because the people
00:22:51.140 I've seen
00:22:51.860 on this convoy,
00:22:53.180 that's not what
00:22:53.820 they're about,
00:22:54.480 Shirley.
00:22:56.160 Yeah,
00:22:56.800 this convoy
00:22:57.500 is about getting
00:22:58.360 shovels in the ground,
00:22:59.280 getting pipelines laid
00:23:00.280 so that Alberta
00:23:02.180 can get back to work.
00:23:03.220 That's what they want.
00:23:03.880 They don't want
00:23:04.360 bailouts,
00:23:05.840 they don't want
00:23:06.520 preferential treatment
00:23:07.560 from the government
00:23:08.440 like we're seeing
00:23:09.480 Trudeau give
00:23:10.220 SNC-Lavalin.
00:23:12.500 All they want
00:23:13.360 is to be treated
00:23:14.100 fairly
00:23:14.620 and that just means
00:23:15.840 getting Bill C-69
00:23:17.480 out of the way,
00:23:18.240 getting Bill C-48
00:23:19.200 out of the way.
00:23:20.180 I think this convoy
00:23:21.180 is united
00:23:21.660 in a lot of things.
00:23:22.960 It's united
00:23:23.360 in terms of pipelines
00:23:25.040 and oil and gas,
00:23:25.840 of course,
00:23:26.420 but when it comes
00:23:27.920 to the global
00:23:29.520 compact of migration
00:23:30.360 I don't think
00:23:30.820 anyone's a fan
00:23:31.560 but that certainly
00:23:32.680 isn't the main point
00:23:34.220 or the focal point
00:23:35.480 of this convoy.
00:23:36.260 The main point
00:23:36.820 is to make sure
00:23:37.520 that we can get
00:23:39.120 Alberta back to work
00:23:40.280 and back on its feet
00:23:41.560 so that we can continue
00:23:42.700 so that Alberta
00:23:43.780 can continue
00:23:44.460 to support
00:23:45.080 the rest of Canada.
00:23:46.400 And you know,
00:23:47.060 I'm glad you mentioned
00:23:47.980 SNC-Lavalin,
00:23:49.700 Kian,
00:23:49.980 because it seems
00:23:51.240 that the federal liberals
00:23:52.340 are doing
00:23:53.360 quite a bit
00:23:54.260 of tap dancing
00:23:55.160 to secure a deal
00:23:57.540 that may or may not
00:23:58.700 be illegal.
00:23:59.500 We'll have to see
00:23:59.960 as this,
00:24:00.480 you know,
00:24:01.980 saga proceeds.
00:24:04.200 But in the grand scheme
00:24:05.840 of things,
00:24:06.920 you know,
00:24:07.380 the billions of dollars
00:24:09.120 in,
00:24:10.120 you know,
00:24:11.500 wasted development
00:24:12.600 in Alberta
00:24:13.640 puts SNC-Lavalin
00:24:15.880 to shame
00:24:16.600 in terms of magnitude.
00:24:18.280 This is truly,
00:24:20.120 I would think,
00:24:21.260 where the federal government
00:24:22.680 should be diverting
00:24:24.140 its attention
00:24:24.860 and yet
00:24:25.520 they're not.
00:24:28.000 Yeah,
00:24:28.780 this convoy
00:24:30.020 and Albertans
00:24:30.680 in general
00:24:31.240 don't want
00:24:32.080 the federal government's money.
00:24:33.820 They don't want bailouts.
00:24:34.800 They don't want anything.
00:24:35.860 They just want the government
00:24:36.900 to get out of the way.
00:24:38.960 It seems like
00:24:40.160 it should be
00:24:40.860 an easy thing to do.
00:24:41.880 They just have to
00:24:42.960 get them to do nothing.
00:24:44.080 But,
00:24:44.380 you know,
00:24:45.740 when it comes to
00:24:46.540 Justin Trudeau,
00:24:47.600 nothing's going to stop him
00:24:49.400 trying to get in the way
00:24:50.780 of hard-working Albertans.
00:24:52.640 And tell me,
00:24:54.440 Kian,
00:24:54.660 I understand
00:24:55.360 there's rumours
00:24:56.280 that our good friends
00:24:58.260 Antifa
00:24:59.020 might be showing up
00:25:00.420 in Ottawa
00:25:00.900 on Tuesday.
00:25:02.120 I'm wondering
00:25:02.520 what angle
00:25:03.040 they're taking.
00:25:03.780 They're against
00:25:04.480 developing the economy.
00:25:06.200 They're against
00:25:06.680 pipelines now, too.
00:25:08.200 What's your take on this?
00:25:09.420 I don't know.
00:25:10.680 You know what,
00:25:11.340 Antifa,
00:25:12.580 you never know
00:25:13.640 what they're going to do.
00:25:14.440 But it certainly
00:25:16.160 is a concern
00:25:16.700 for this convoy.
00:25:17.500 Just as I was
00:25:18.080 leaving the hotel
00:25:18.800 this morning,
00:25:20.520 there was
00:25:21.060 two convoy members
00:25:23.620 outside the door
00:25:24.540 having a smoke
00:25:25.200 talking about
00:25:26.480 what they had heard
00:25:27.780 about Antifa.
00:25:28.480 They said that
00:25:28.900 they were going to be
00:25:29.760 parking their trucks
00:25:30.700 away from the convoy
00:25:32.060 every night
00:25:32.620 when they stopped
00:25:34.800 to sleep for the night
00:25:35.520 because Antifa
00:25:36.600 was rumoured
00:25:37.200 to be coming around
00:25:38.600 getting ready
00:25:39.380 to slash tires.
00:25:40.400 So there's certainly
00:25:41.640 people that are concerned
00:25:42.940 and they're expecting
00:25:44.620 it to get bad
00:25:45.780 in Ontario.
00:25:47.700 Antifa doesn't have
00:25:48.440 much of a presence
00:25:49.080 in Saskatchewan
00:25:49.800 or Manitoba.
00:25:52.100 Antifa's just not
00:25:53.040 really in western Canada
00:25:54.040 as much as they are
00:25:55.260 in Toronto area.
00:25:56.680 But once we get
00:25:57.220 to Arnpryor,
00:25:58.920 there might be some,
00:26:01.800 might get a little bit western
00:26:02.980 as Sheila Gunn-Reed says.
00:26:05.660 Well, you know,
00:26:06.480 slashing tires,
00:26:07.360 what an incredible way
00:26:08.360 to make a political point.
00:26:09.580 One last question,
00:26:11.200 Kian.
00:26:11.840 You, of course,
00:26:12.820 will be there on Tuesday
00:26:14.040 covering this protest
00:26:16.560 and we'll have to see
00:26:18.060 how it unfolds.
00:26:18.900 But I guess I'm asking you
00:26:20.660 a speculative question here.
00:26:23.280 There'll be a huge protest,
00:26:25.080 the likes of which
00:26:25.800 Ottawa has never seen.
00:26:27.500 I'm wondering,
00:26:28.500 at the end of the day
00:26:29.520 when all the noise
00:26:31.960 and hooting
00:26:32.520 and hollering is over,
00:26:34.200 will this amount
00:26:35.700 to anything
00:26:36.520 in terms of
00:26:37.800 a tangible
00:26:38.980 way in which
00:26:40.800 the government
00:26:41.280 is moving forward
00:26:42.940 on the whole
00:26:43.600 pipeline question?
00:26:45.760 I don't think
00:26:46.480 anything tangible
00:26:47.220 is going to happen
00:26:47.820 to the oil and gas industry
00:26:49.040 until Trudeau
00:26:49.780 is no longer
00:26:50.540 the Prime Minister
00:26:51.220 of Canada.
00:26:52.940 You know,
00:26:53.400 what...
00:26:54.320 Oh, sorry.
00:26:56.760 The new passenger
00:26:57.700 just turned the bus.
00:26:58.720 Sorry, there's a new problem.
00:27:00.640 You know,
00:27:01.300 like I said,
00:27:02.340 I don't think
00:27:03.040 much is going to change
00:27:04.280 until Trudeau
00:27:05.460 is no longer
00:27:06.240 Prime Minister.
00:27:06.720 He's stuck in his ways.
00:27:08.040 He hates Alberta.
00:27:08.820 He hates the oil
00:27:09.300 and gas industry.
00:27:11.160 And even a major
00:27:12.380 protest like this
00:27:13.280 isn't going to change
00:27:14.060 his mind.
00:27:15.280 His arrogance
00:27:16.180 is unmatched
00:27:18.140 and unparalleled
00:27:19.140 anywhere in Canada.
00:27:20.760 I'm not holding out hope,
00:27:22.340 but this convoy
00:27:23.520 certainly wants
00:27:24.820 to see that change.
00:27:26.320 Gotcha.
00:27:26.880 Well, who knows?
00:27:27.480 You might get your wish
00:27:28.380 in about nine months' time,
00:27:30.320 so we'll have to see
00:27:31.520 how that goes.
00:27:31.980 You never know
00:27:32.300 with the scandals
00:27:33.160 we're seeing right now
00:27:35.480 with Judy Raybould-Wilson.
00:27:37.160 You never know
00:27:37.620 how long Trudeau's
00:27:38.260 going to last.
00:27:38.940 Well, the timing
00:27:39.540 is perfect.
00:27:40.420 I've got to say that.
00:27:41.680 Kian, thank you so much
00:27:42.940 and stay safe
00:27:44.380 on Tuesday
00:27:44.900 as you cover this for us.
00:27:46.060 Thank you again.
00:27:47.800 For sure.
00:27:48.440 Take care.
00:27:49.640 Got it.
00:27:50.660 And more of
00:27:51.400 Rebel Roundup
00:27:51.900 to come, folks,
00:27:52.640 right after this.
00:27:53.400 Dale Osman
00:28:03.600 of Melville, Saskatchewan
00:28:05.360 likes his last name
00:28:06.760 and do you know what?
00:28:07.340 I totally understand this
00:28:08.620 because my last name
00:28:09.540 is pretty cool too.
00:28:11.640 Now, Osman
00:28:12.280 likes his last name
00:28:13.300 so much
00:28:13.860 that he really wants
00:28:14.780 to put it on
00:28:15.320 a vanity license plate,
00:28:17.140 but SGI,
00:28:18.960 Saskatchewan Government Insurance
00:28:20.420 says it's a no-go.
00:28:21.940 Why?
00:28:22.320 Because Osman
00:28:23.680 is spelled
00:28:24.740 Ass Man.
00:28:27.100 Thanks.
00:28:31.740 Ass Man?
00:28:33.600 No, no.
00:28:34.340 These don't belong to me.
00:28:35.420 I'm not the Ass Man.
00:28:36.580 I think there's been a mistake.
00:28:38.600 What's your name again?
00:28:39.780 Cosmo Kramer.
00:28:41.100 Cosmo Kramer.
00:28:42.440 You are the Ass Man.
00:28:45.660 No, I'm not the Ass Man.
00:28:47.820 Well,
00:28:48.880 as far as the state
00:28:50.680 of New York is concerned,
00:28:52.320 you are.
00:29:00.180 Yes,
00:29:01.220 Osman is really
00:29:02.220 the Ass Man.
00:29:03.860 Osman told CBC,
00:29:05.400 it's my last name,
00:29:06.500 I've always had it,
00:29:07.520 I'm not ashamed of it,
00:29:09.260 there's nothing bad about it.
00:29:11.340 But,
00:29:11.880 echoing the Manitoba
00:29:13.000 government's banning
00:29:14.020 of the Star Trek-inspired
00:29:15.780 Assimilate license plate,
00:29:17.700 SGI said the spelling
00:29:19.600 of Osman's name
00:29:20.820 could be misread
00:29:21.920 and cause offence
00:29:23.360 to other drivers.
00:29:25.020 Well,
00:29:26.240 there you have it folks.
00:29:27.500 According to the tall
00:29:28.620 forehead bureaucrats
00:29:29.940 running the Saskatchewan
00:29:31.280 car insurance racket,
00:29:32.620 the mere sight of a plate
00:29:34.620 stating Ass Man
00:29:36.040 might lead to carnage
00:29:37.840 on the highways
00:29:38.580 and byways
00:29:39.340 of Saskatoon
00:29:40.380 and Regina.
00:29:42.100 I said Regina,
00:29:43.400 by the way.
00:29:44.340 But is this much ado
00:29:45.960 over nothing,
00:29:47.060 especially given that
00:29:48.280 this is the actual spelling
00:29:49.780 of the surname
00:29:50.660 for the man
00:29:51.860 applying for the plate?
00:29:53.640 And with more
00:29:54.240 on this story
00:29:55.240 of censorship
00:29:56.220 run amok
00:29:57.060 is the host
00:29:57.920 of the gun show,
00:29:58.840 Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:29:59.660 Welcome to Rebel Roundup,
00:30:00.680 my friend.
00:30:01.900 Hey David,
00:30:02.420 thanks for having me on.
00:30:03.320 Always a pleasure.
00:30:04.340 So Sheila,
00:30:05.260 I get it
00:30:06.020 that there is a line
00:30:07.420 in the sand
00:30:08.040 when it comes to
00:30:08.900 state-sanctioned
00:30:09.980 vanity plates.
00:30:11.080 You know,
00:30:11.440 I get it
00:30:12.240 that it would be vulgar
00:30:13.300 to have a plate
00:30:14.080 displaying the F-bomb
00:30:15.560 or the N-word,
00:30:17.120 but Ass Man,
00:30:18.020 I mean,
00:30:18.280 come on,
00:30:18.700 as you showed
00:30:19.240 in your commentary,
00:30:20.540 this was the plot line
00:30:21.960 for a primetime
00:30:23.020 network sitcom
00:30:23.960 that ran way back
00:30:25.160 in the 90s.
00:30:26.820 Yeah,
00:30:27.260 a really tame
00:30:28.240 primetime network sitcom,
00:30:30.360 by the way.
00:30:31.740 But,
00:30:32.180 like,
00:30:32.680 David Assman,
00:30:34.000 he's the hero
00:30:34.800 we need right now
00:30:35.860 because he is really
00:30:37.980 just this
00:30:38.880 severely normal
00:30:41.000 Saskatchewan guy
00:30:41.940 like I think
00:30:42.680 Saskatchewan men
00:30:43.460 tend to be,
00:30:44.620 and he's just
00:30:45.160 sort of had it.
00:30:46.120 He said that
00:30:47.620 whether or not
00:30:48.820 he's going to get
00:30:49.980 his license plate,
00:30:51.180 his vehicle
00:30:51.860 is going to say
00:30:52.600 Ass Man
00:30:53.160 whether the government
00:30:53.940 likes it or not,
00:30:54.880 and apparently
00:30:55.420 now it does.
00:30:56.580 Like,
00:30:56.780 he said,
00:30:57.900 even if it wasn't
00:30:58.820 his last name,
00:31:00.060 who is really
00:31:00.940 going to be hurt
00:31:01.760 by having that
00:31:02.660 on his vehicle?
00:31:03.340 So now,
00:31:04.140 he's painted
00:31:04.840 the tailgate
00:31:05.760 of his truck
00:31:06.640 to match,
00:31:08.080 to basically
00:31:08.880 look exactly
00:31:10.020 like a big,
00:31:11.800 huge Saskatchewan
00:31:13.380 license plate,
00:31:14.200 and it says
00:31:14.680 Ass Man
00:31:15.140 across the back,
00:31:15.800 and I love
00:31:16.380 this guy's style.
00:31:17.800 That's great,
00:31:18.600 and you know,
00:31:19.080 I mean,
00:31:19.700 and this isn't the first,
00:31:20.700 I mean,
00:31:21.060 you alluded to
00:31:21.960 in Manitoba
00:31:22.700 that ludicrous story
00:31:24.060 of a,
00:31:24.740 I think about
00:31:25.420 two years ago,
00:31:26.600 the fellow
00:31:27.100 who had
00:31:27.480 Assimilate,
00:31:28.260 he's a Star Trek fan,
00:31:29.960 and this was
00:31:30.820 a Borg catchphrase,
00:31:33.020 and somehow
00:31:33.500 some bureaucrat
00:31:34.520 thought this was
00:31:35.500 about,
00:31:36.160 you know,
00:31:36.800 the white man
00:31:38.460 assimilating the natives,
00:31:40.040 and then you had
00:31:40.900 out on the East Coast
00:31:42.020 a guy who had
00:31:43.300 the last name Grabber,
00:31:45.100 and his surname
00:31:46.440 was denied
00:31:47.300 because,
00:31:48.420 you know,
00:31:48.940 in this
00:31:49.340 Me Too era,
00:31:50.840 that was suggesting
00:31:51.920 people go out
00:31:53.080 and grab a female.
00:31:55.280 Now,
00:31:55.520 I would say,
00:31:56.240 Sheila,
00:31:56.620 that if you look
00:31:57.420 at a license plate
00:31:58.320 with the word
00:31:58.920 Grabber on it,
00:31:59.980 and you go out
00:32:01.060 and molest somebody,
00:32:02.780 it's not the plate's
00:32:03.740 problem,
00:32:04.280 you have a problem.
00:32:06.420 Well,
00:32:07.020 yeah,
00:32:07.380 I mean,
00:32:07.800 especially in the
00:32:08.540 Manitoba case,
00:32:10.180 Indigenous activists,
00:32:12.460 busybodies,
00:32:13.240 not regular
00:32:13.900 Indigenous people,
00:32:14.980 of course,
00:32:15.900 they weren't even
00:32:16.920 offended until the
00:32:18.100 guy started fighting
00:32:18.940 with the government
00:32:19.520 about it.
00:32:19.980 They didn't know,
00:32:21.040 they didn't care,
00:32:21.960 it wasn't on
00:32:22.400 anybody's radar
00:32:23.180 until it became
00:32:25.300 an issue of,
00:32:26.580 I suppose,
00:32:27.680 free speech,
00:32:28.360 but, like,
00:32:28.880 with Saskatchewan,
00:32:30.800 what's most
00:32:32.600 offensive to me
00:32:33.380 here is not
00:32:34.220 that this guy
00:32:35.080 wants ass man
00:32:36.260 on his license plate.
00:32:37.460 I think that's
00:32:38.000 sort of a conversation
00:32:38.780 starter in the
00:32:39.460 Canadian Tire
00:32:39.940 parking lot.
00:32:40.540 It's the fact
00:32:42.460 that in Saskatchewan,
00:32:45.260 the government
00:32:45.860 licensing agency,
00:32:47.640 so the Crown
00:32:48.340 Corporation in
00:32:49.360 Saskatchewan,
00:32:50.480 is paying people
00:32:51.740 to make probably
00:32:52.960 $100,000 a year,
00:32:54.500 these are government
00:32:55.200 workers,
00:32:55.780 so full benefits,
00:32:57.060 to decide what's
00:32:58.200 offensive or
00:32:59.520 potentially offensive
00:33:00.440 to people on the
00:33:01.440 road,
00:33:01.740 and I've never
00:33:02.780 in my entire life
00:33:04.240 looked at a
00:33:04.940 license plate,
00:33:05.520 or,
00:33:05.580 you know what,
00:33:06.240 this is Alberta,
00:33:07.220 we get some pretty
00:33:07.880 crude things on our
00:33:09.160 bumper stickers,
00:33:10.140 especially these
00:33:11.020 days,
00:33:11.540 with regard to
00:33:12.680 Rachel Notley
00:33:13.260 and Justin Trudeau,
00:33:14.320 but I never think,
00:33:15.340 holy smokes,
00:33:15.920 that's so offensive,
00:33:16.620 I better put my
00:33:17.200 car in the ditch.
00:33:18.040 I just,
00:33:19.020 I don't know
00:33:20.020 what sort of world
00:33:21.100 these people are
00:33:21.920 living in.
00:33:22.700 Either do I,
00:33:23.720 Sheila,
00:33:23.920 and I find it
00:33:24.540 perverse that
00:33:25.240 there are
00:33:25.580 government bureaucrats
00:33:26.740 that are in the
00:33:28.080 department of funny.
00:33:29.940 I mean,
00:33:30.560 that is so not
00:33:31.840 what a government
00:33:32.680 bureaucrat is about,
00:33:34.640 and that they have
00:33:35.440 this...
00:33:35.780 I can't think of
00:33:36.500 anything more unfunny
00:33:37.220 than a government
00:33:38.120 bureaucrat.
00:33:39.160 And you know,
00:33:39.780 Sheila,
00:33:39.940 you showed a,
00:33:42.240 it was a list
00:33:43.800 of words
00:33:45.020 that have been
00:33:45.780 banned as
00:33:47.160 vanity plates,
00:33:47.840 and I did a
00:33:49.420 screen capture of it
00:33:50.860 because I wanted to
00:33:51.480 read through them.
00:33:52.180 Now,
00:33:52.360 some of them were
00:33:52.820 pretty vulgar terms,
00:33:53.780 I get that,
00:33:54.400 but I was looking
00:33:55.280 at other things,
00:33:56.160 like meat.
00:33:58.340 I mean,
00:33:59.040 Saskatchewan
00:34:00.060 is a province
00:34:01.300 where there's a big
00:34:02.160 beef cattle industry.
00:34:03.600 I mean,
00:34:04.220 meat is somehow
00:34:05.180 offensive.
00:34:06.600 Sinbin,
00:34:07.040 sinbin is just
00:34:08.140 another name
00:34:08.960 for the penalty
00:34:10.040 box.
00:34:10.980 You know,
00:34:11.200 that's what we
00:34:11.620 used to call it
00:34:12.180 in hockey.
00:34:12.840 And number
00:34:13.760 three,
00:34:14.720 roadkill.
00:34:15.820 I mean,
00:34:16.240 for goodness
00:34:16.680 sakes,
00:34:17.420 roadkill is a
00:34:18.120 fact of life.
00:34:18.800 Sometimes,
00:34:19.580 unfortunately,
00:34:20.700 we're the
00:34:21.160 authors of
00:34:21.740 roadkill
00:34:22.160 when a
00:34:22.740 critter runs
00:34:23.340 in front of
00:34:23.800 our vehicles.
00:34:24.240 who is offended
00:34:25.680 by roadkill
00:34:26.740 sinbin and
00:34:27.680 meat,
00:34:28.340 Sheila?
00:34:29.540 Well,
00:34:29.900 the same
00:34:30.620 government
00:34:31.300 rubber stamper
00:34:32.580 who's also
00:34:33.260 offended by
00:34:33.900 the word
00:34:34.300 udder.
00:34:35.180 Like,
00:34:35.480 what if that's
00:34:36.300 a dairy farmer
00:34:37.320 who wants to
00:34:38.280 put the word
00:34:38.740 udder on their
00:34:39.520 plate?
00:34:40.380 No buns.
00:34:41.460 I don't know
00:34:41.900 who that's
00:34:42.480 offensive to.
00:34:43.340 Gluten intolerant
00:34:44.620 people?
00:34:45.120 I don't understand
00:34:46.140 who they're being
00:34:47.300 offended on behalf
00:34:48.400 of.
00:34:48.820 I mean,
00:34:49.080 there's even
00:34:49.660 like one
00:34:50.320 obviously Chinese
00:34:51.940 last name,
00:34:52.780 W-H-A-N-G,
00:34:55.360 who got
00:34:56.160 banned too
00:34:57.080 because it
00:34:57.580 would depend
00:34:58.100 if you didn't
00:34:58.880 understand that
00:34:59.560 was a Chinese
00:35:00.220 last name.
00:35:02.020 Look,
00:35:03.380 I'm a practicing
00:35:04.120 Catholic,
00:35:04.860 but I'm not
00:35:05.500 a prude.
00:35:06.660 You know,
00:35:07.200 like,
00:35:07.440 I'm a deeply
00:35:08.700 flawed person.
00:35:09.960 I'm not a prude.
00:35:10.980 I try not to
00:35:11.760 take the Lord's
00:35:12.380 name in vain.
00:35:13.080 I'm starting to
00:35:13.740 see Satan at
00:35:14.440 work in a lot
00:35:15.020 of things these
00:35:15.640 days,
00:35:16.100 but even I
00:35:17.360 think this is
00:35:18.760 utterly ridiculous.
00:35:20.560 Utterly.
00:35:21.620 Oh,
00:35:22.240 good plan.
00:35:22.640 One word,
00:35:23.060 Sheila.
00:35:23.480 Thank you.
00:35:24.780 Again,
00:35:25.320 it ties into
00:35:25.960 what we've
00:35:26.340 discussed on
00:35:26.900 this show
00:35:27.240 before,
00:35:27.740 that you
00:35:28.520 do not
00:35:29.260 have the
00:35:29.780 right not
00:35:30.860 to be
00:35:31.440 offended.
00:35:32.480 And in
00:35:33.320 that vein,
00:35:34.000 Sheila,
00:35:34.340 I thought
00:35:35.020 you did
00:35:35.360 a very
00:35:36.580 brilliant
00:35:37.580 thing in
00:35:38.340 your commentary,
00:35:38.900 which was
00:35:39.660 you looked
00:35:40.360 at certain
00:35:41.080 Saskatchewan
00:35:42.300 place names,
00:35:43.500 including
00:35:44.020 Climax and
00:35:45.780 Big Beaver,
00:35:47.180 which I bet
00:35:48.160 you if you
00:35:49.000 asked to put
00:35:49.840 on a plate
00:35:50.460 in Saskatchewan,
00:35:51.320 those would
00:35:52.100 be rejected.
00:35:53.740 So,
00:35:54.240 A,
00:35:54.480 we have a
00:35:54.840 double standard,
00:35:55.660 and B,
00:35:56.200 when or when
00:35:56.860 is the government
00:35:57.360 of Saskatchewan
00:35:58.200 going to rename
00:35:59.500 Climax and Big
00:36:00.760 Beaver so that
00:36:01.700 people,
00:36:02.980 these snowflakes out
00:36:04.480 there that get
00:36:04.920 offended over
00:36:05.520 everything,
00:36:06.160 won't get offended
00:36:06.900 by these towns?
00:36:07.780 Well,
00:36:09.040 yeah,
00:36:09.220 and there's a
00:36:09.640 whole other
00:36:10.620 double standard,
00:36:11.480 because I
00:36:11.880 discovered that
00:36:12.500 one guy who
00:36:13.200 got Trump's
00:36:14.640 late-night
00:36:15.120 typo,
00:36:16.080 Covfefe,
00:36:17.080 put on his
00:36:17.780 plate,
00:36:18.220 and he very
00:36:18.880 clearly admitted
00:36:19.800 that despite
00:36:20.760 the regulations
00:36:21.540 in Saskatchewan
00:36:22.980 against it,
00:36:23.520 he was making
00:36:24.180 a political
00:36:24.700 statement about
00:36:25.340 the state of
00:36:25.840 affairs in the
00:36:26.480 United States,
00:36:27.240 but he got
00:36:28.140 to put it
00:36:28.600 on there.
00:36:29.560 So,
00:36:30.160 I think there
00:36:30.680 is a little
00:36:31.300 bit of a
00:36:32.000 double standard
00:36:33.000 happening all
00:36:34.060 over the place,
00:36:35.160 but moreover,
00:36:37.060 I actually don't
00:36:38.040 think the
00:36:38.640 government
00:36:38.980 bureaucrats
00:36:39.560 working in a
00:36:40.220 cubicle in
00:36:40.760 Regina have
00:36:42.580 actually spent
00:36:43.580 a lot of time
00:36:44.240 talking to
00:36:44.840 normal Saskatchewan
00:36:45.720 people,
00:36:46.080 because they
00:36:46.460 really don't
00:36:46.960 care about
00:36:47.380 this kind of
00:36:47.860 stuff,
00:36:48.240 and I think
00:36:48.740 they don't
00:36:49.060 take themselves
00:36:49.600 all that
00:36:50.000 seriously anyway,
00:36:51.020 so I think
00:36:51.920 that there are
00:36:52.600 a whole host
00:36:53.240 of overpaid
00:36:53.900 government
00:36:54.400 bureaucrats who
00:36:55.600 probably should
00:36:56.620 be laid off,
00:36:57.320 or at least
00:36:58.020 they need to
00:36:58.460 get over
00:36:58.780 themselves.
00:36:59.980 Well,
00:37:00.160 Sheila,
00:37:00.500 I hope Mr.
00:37:01.180 Osman has
00:37:02.440 success in his
00:37:03.660 fight against
00:37:04.340 the government.
00:37:04.800 I stand in
00:37:05.820 solidarity with
00:37:06.560 him,
00:37:06.680 and I say
00:37:07.000 that because,
00:37:07.920 as you know,
00:37:08.900 there are,
00:37:09.380 you know,
00:37:09.600 three types of
00:37:10.400 men.
00:37:10.800 There's,
00:37:11.140 you know,
00:37:11.420 leg men,
00:37:12.360 boob men,
00:37:13.060 and ass men.
00:37:14.540 I think I'm
00:37:15.240 an ass man
00:37:15.800 because,
00:37:16.200 you know,
00:37:16.380 Sheila,
00:37:16.660 everywhere I
00:37:17.180 go,
00:37:17.440 people are
00:37:17.820 saying to
00:37:18.160 me,
00:37:18.480 hey,
00:37:18.720 menzoid,
00:37:19.220 you're an
00:37:19.520 ass man.
00:37:21.920 That was a
00:37:22.640 joke.
00:37:23.620 Was it?
00:37:25.760 Completely
00:37:26.160 unfunny in
00:37:26.940 Saskatchewan and
00:37:27.860 probably Alberta.
00:37:29.000 Anyways,
00:37:29.500 I better wrap it
00:37:30.300 here before I
00:37:30.940 really get into
00:37:31.600 trouble with the
00:37:32.520 powers that be
00:37:33.360 here.
00:37:33.600 Sheila,
00:37:34.340 thanks again for
00:37:35.080 another brilliant
00:37:35.760 commentary and for
00:37:37.860 making me laugh yet
00:37:38.720 again.
00:37:39.780 Yeah,
00:37:40.040 I would say don't
00:37:40.580 quit your day job,
00:37:41.340 but this is your
00:37:41.960 day job.
00:37:43.140 Have a great
00:37:43.700 weekend,
00:37:44.180 menzoid.
00:37:44.740 You too,
00:37:45.460 then,
00:37:45.780 Sheila.
00:37:46.340 And that was
00:37:46.960 Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:37:47.840 in Alberta.
00:37:48.620 Keep it here,
00:37:49.060 folks.
00:37:49.400 More of Rebel
00:37:49.880 Roundup to come
00:37:50.600 right after this.
00:37:51.660 Oh, it's just so
00:38:01.320 beautifully ironic,
00:38:02.560 isn't it?
00:38:03.220 Hollywood, which
00:38:04.080 loves to position
00:38:04.900 itself as equal
00:38:05.880 parts courageous and
00:38:07.520 rebellious, has
00:38:09.000 thrown in the towel
00:38:10.020 when it comes to
00:38:10.980 selecting a host for
00:38:12.200 this year's Oscars
00:38:13.440 telecast.
00:38:14.800 Yeah, it just looks
00:38:15.900 like there was simply
00:38:16.920 nobody available in
00:38:18.520 Tinseltown who could
00:38:20.240 crack jokes while at
00:38:21.760 the same time being
00:38:23.760 sensitive and
00:38:25.060 politically correct.
00:38:26.920 Or maybe the
00:38:28.160 number of worthy
00:38:28.980 candidates looked at
00:38:30.240 the Oscars hosting
00:38:31.320 gig and thought,
00:38:32.360 hmm, do I really
00:38:33.720 need this aggro?
00:38:35.040 If I make one
00:38:36.020 little slip up,
00:38:37.000 if I make one
00:38:37.920 quip deemed to be
00:38:39.020 transphobic or
00:38:40.180 Islamophobic or
00:38:41.320 phobic-phobic,
00:38:42.860 well, the social
00:38:44.120 media universe will
00:38:45.120 go supernova and
00:38:46.320 there will be calls
00:38:47.040 for boycotts and
00:38:48.040 apologies, so,
00:38:49.080 eh, no thanks.
00:38:50.240 Thus, the Oscars
00:38:52.560 will actually be
00:38:53.880 host-free this
00:38:55.260 year.
00:38:56.360 Now, the most
00:38:56.880 recent Oscars
00:38:58.020 fiasco started a
00:38:59.280 few months ago when
00:39:00.180 comedian Kevin
00:39:01.020 Hart was offered
00:39:02.560 the hosting gig,
00:39:04.120 but then some
00:39:05.120 thought police
00:39:06.020 sleuths, well,
00:39:06.920 they discovered a
00:39:07.800 routine Hart
00:39:08.560 performed a
00:39:09.280 decade ago that
00:39:10.760 was allegedly
00:39:11.420 homophobic.
00:39:13.080 And even though
00:39:13.800 Hart doesn't do
00:39:14.800 that routine
00:39:15.420 anymore and has
00:39:16.680 apologized and
00:39:18.640 says he's a
00:39:19.280 changed man,
00:39:20.240 well, sorry
00:39:21.300 Kevin, while we
00:39:22.760 might give
00:39:23.240 murderers and
00:39:24.140 terrorists second
00:39:24.940 chances, if you
00:39:26.360 commit the crime of
00:39:27.400 political
00:39:27.780 incorrectness, you
00:39:28.920 are, um, what
00:39:30.640 was the name of
00:39:31.320 that 1992 Oscar
00:39:33.080 winning western
00:39:33.860 again?
00:39:34.600 Oh, yeah,
00:39:35.660 Unforgiven.
00:39:36.440 Gee, for an
00:39:38.080 industry that has
00:39:39.060 long self-congratulated
00:39:41.300 itself for its
00:39:42.280 alleged bravery and
00:39:43.860 fearlessness, the
00:39:45.580 Oscars has really
00:39:46.880 chickened out when it
00:39:48.180 comes to the hosting
00:39:49.600 gig this year.
00:39:50.920 After all, in this
00:39:52.040 day and age in which
00:39:53.060 the usual suspects
00:39:54.160 are offended by
00:39:55.840 imaginary things, who
00:39:57.980 needs the hassle of
00:39:59.060 doing damage control
00:40:00.240 and stating endless
00:40:02.100 mea culpas in the
00:40:03.720 aftermath of outrage
00:40:05.260 over nothing.
00:40:07.360 And so it is that
00:40:08.180 the Oscars will
00:40:09.020 actually be host-free
00:40:10.560 this year.
00:40:11.640 As they say in
00:40:12.580 Tinseltown, that's
00:40:14.420 entertainment.
00:40:15.800 Not.
00:40:16.740 In any event, here's
00:40:18.180 what some of you had
00:40:19.100 to say about the
00:40:19.840 Academy Awards waving
00:40:21.520 the white flag of
00:40:22.540 surrender when it
00:40:23.840 comes to having a
00:40:24.880 host.
00:40:26.080 Jinx Mim writes,
00:40:27.340 Political correctness
00:40:28.580 and Trump derangement
00:40:30.180 syndrome has taken a
00:40:31.800 terrible toll on
00:40:32.900 Hollywood altogether.
00:40:34.600 All of the late
00:40:35.200 night shows hosts
00:40:36.260 suck.
00:40:37.260 Now that they can do
00:40:38.480 nothing but rant about
00:40:39.840 how they hate Trump,
00:40:41.560 celebrities still have
00:40:42.680 no idea how out of
00:40:44.620 touch they are with
00:40:45.580 everyday people in
00:40:46.740 regard to Trump and
00:40:48.260 their insane PC
00:40:49.800 standards.
00:40:51.020 Well, you are right,
00:40:52.460 Jinx, the endless
00:40:53.280 pandering to special
00:40:55.020 interest groups, the
00:40:56.380 endless attacks on
00:40:57.800 the president, it's
00:40:59.340 all amounted to so
00:41:00.440 much white noise.
00:41:01.920 Can I still use that
00:41:03.100 term, by the way?
00:41:04.160 And people are tuning
00:41:06.000 out en masse.
00:41:08.000 So much of what one
00:41:09.360 sees on TV now is
00:41:11.080 leftists making
00:41:12.180 programming for other
00:41:14.360 leftists.
00:41:15.400 And in the meantime,
00:41:16.780 the ratings are taking
00:41:18.280 a nosedive.
00:41:20.100 Cliff Ryden writes,
00:41:21.720 Don't care, haven't
00:41:22.760 watched them for a
00:41:23.620 decade.
00:41:24.500 Oh, and you're not
00:41:25.000 the only one, Cliff,
00:41:25.820 and just check out
00:41:27.020 those plunging ratings.
00:41:28.440 I remember back in
00:41:29.400 the day, tuning into
00:41:30.600 the Oscars, it was all
00:41:31.740 about entertainment.
00:41:33.800 Today, it's all about
00:41:34.960 hearing one-sided
00:41:36.140 political lectures.
00:41:38.040 Like yourself, I have
00:41:39.760 much better things to
00:41:40.720 do with my time on a
00:41:41.800 Sunday night.
00:41:44.000 JG32 writes, we need
00:41:45.840 Trey Parker and Matt
00:41:47.100 Stone.
00:41:47.720 Oh, could you imagine?
00:41:49.860 I think most of the
00:41:50.840 assembled guests at the
00:41:51.980 Oscars would end up
00:41:53.300 going into a coma if
00:41:54.680 those two got their way
00:41:55.760 on the podium.
00:41:57.060 What an inspired choice,
00:41:58.520 JG32.
00:41:59.480 But the Hollywood elite,
00:42:00.820 such as Barbara
00:42:01.580 Streisand, well, they
00:42:03.620 would never allow it.
00:42:05.460 And Bass Cannon, Jake
00:42:06.960 2, writes, politically
00:42:08.560 correct and sensitive or
00:42:11.200 funny.
00:42:12.400 You know, you're right,
00:42:13.100 Jake.
00:42:13.400 I don't think comedy is
00:42:15.420 compatible with political
00:42:17.140 correctness.
00:42:17.760 I think the very best
00:42:19.320 comedy by definition is
00:42:21.260 politically incorrect.
00:42:23.160 But we now must kowtow to
00:42:25.500 the uber-sensitive
00:42:26.440 snowflakes out there.
00:42:28.260 And yes, everything that
00:42:29.660 was once entertaining is
00:42:31.760 now being ruined in the
00:42:33.040 process.
00:42:34.180 Yep, that's
00:42:34.900 entertainment indeed.
00:42:36.600 Well, that wraps up
00:42:37.780 another edition of Rebel
00:42:39.600 Roundup.
00:42:40.100 Thanks so much for joining
00:42:41.040 us.
00:42:41.340 See you next week.
00:42:42.140 And hey, folks, never
00:42:42.960 forget, without risk, there
00:42:45.180 can be no glory.
00:42:46.080 Good night.