Rebel Roundup ｜ Hanukkah menorah lightings, Danielle Smith on emissions cap, 15 Minute City project
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Calgary's Mayor Jodi Gondek skipped the Hanukkah lighting because it was a pro-Israel event, but why would she do that? And why does it matter that she didn't attend the lighting of the menorah?
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your chat read on the air. Now, let's get into the news, shall we? It's Hanukkah, started yesterday,
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although you wouldn't know it if you were in the mayor's office in Calgary, because Jodi Gondek,
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Calgary's far, far left progressive mayor, has skipped the lighting of the menorah after she declared it to
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be a pro-Israel event. Even if it were, who cares? Every time I think that Toronto has the worst mayor
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in the city, Jodi Gondek just sidles right on up and snatches the title away from Ms. Wong out there.
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Let's go into this, a few of the stories here, because even though the mayor skipped the menorah
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lighting because it's pro-Israel, and why wouldn't it be? This is the first Hanukkah post the single
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largest terror attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Rebel News was there, but also basically every
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conservative politician that was in the city of Calgary. There were promised to be protesters
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at the menorah lighting last night, although it doesn't seem to me that there were at last
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minute. It sounds like they came to their senses and decided not to protest a religious service
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down at City Hall. But we had our Sid Fizzard down on the scene, and he was able to get some
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interviews with conservative politicians, like City Councillor Dan McLean, one of the
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two, I think, true conservatives on City Council outside of Sean Chu. And he also had an interview
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with Calgary Heritage, that's Stephen Harper's old riding, Suvaloy Majunder. So let's go to
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Sid's interview with Suvaloy and see what he had to say about the mayor, Jodi Gondek,
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skipping the lighting of the menorah after 35 years, by the way.
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It's December 7th, and now we're celebrating a Jewish holiday. And previously, the mayor,
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Jodi Gondek, she came to an event that was a mourning for the Jewish community. After the terrorist
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attacks we saw from Hamas in Israel, she spoke very strongly against Hamas. And now it seems like
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she's taken a 180 degree turn, and she's condemning this religious holiday celebration as a political
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It shows me that maybe she hasn't sadly understood the link between how anti-Zionism
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is anti-Semitism. Hanukkah, as a story a millennia old, tells a story of ancient Jewish legitimacy
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in the city of Jerusalem, the second temple with which Judah and the Maccabees rebuilt and
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to be dedicated. It's a story of hope over darkness, hope over fear and light over darkness
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over the ages. I'm sad that the mayor didn't understand the basic principles of how poor
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Jewish identity is, not just to the land from where they are indigenous, but to the faith
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that they express. So it was a tragedy of an epic proportion that the mayor failed to stand
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by a community that is under so much pain in two very long months, at a time in which
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they need to see their elected leaders with them. And so I'm happy to represent my colleagues,
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I'm happy to be here today, and to tell this community that they have friends and allies
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that will be with them through thick and through thin.
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Okay, that's good. That's good. So that's Shuvalloy Majumder. He is the conservative politician
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for Calgary Heritage. You know, we should point out that the mayor said, well, I don't want to go
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to this Hanukkah celebration, because I don't want to pick sides in this dispute, I guess, between
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Israel and existential terrorism. She decided that there's some sort of moral equivalence between
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the legitimate democratic state of Israel, where Palestinians and Jews have rights, where men have
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rights, where women have rights, where gays have rights. She doesn't want to pick a side between
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Israel and the terror state that committed absolute atrocities on October 7th, used rape as a weapon
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of war and continues to hold hostages. She doesn't want to pick a side. However, she's had no problem
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picking sides in the past in disputes, especially contentious disputes. For example, she was more than
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happy to stand with Ukraine as Ukraine is engaged in a war with Russia. She didn't have a problem
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picking sides there. Oh, and, you know, I guess there's some sort of consolation for Christians here
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that the mayor is also against Jews. It's not just us, I guess, because you'll remember Mayor Jody
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Gondick chose a side at the Battle of the Library when Christians protested the Drag Queen Story Hour
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at municipal libraries. She actually passed a law preventing peaceful Christian protests near the
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library. Pastor Derek Ryber was arrested for protesting at the library peacefully.
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So the mayor has a long history of choosing sides on contentious issues. She just doesn't want to choose
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on this one now, does she? Now, Sid also got an interview with a city councillor, Dan McLean. He sits on
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council with Mayor Jody Gondick. And he had some unkind things to say about the mayor and her counselling
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her attendance at this event after 35 years. Mayor Gondick says supporting Israel against
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Hamas is, quote, taking sides and she won't do it. Do you think it's appropriate for a Canadian leader to
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be neutral as between a democratic country and a terrorist group? I'm very disappointed in the
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mayor's decision. I think it was ill-advised. This event has been held for the past 35 years.
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Every mayor's attended. It's been the same agenda every year. So in my estimation, like I said,
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this is not political. And now it has to be political. That's very unfortunate.
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Given the extreme Hamas hate marches in recent weeks that Calgary police have allowed,
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Oh, totally surprised. A little upset. But more than that, not what I am, the Jewish community itself.
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I have many members in my community in my war that have relatives that have been killed,
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kidnapped, and they also, as well as the whole Jewish community, are feeling a little bit hurt.
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See how easy it is? See how easy it is to answer the questions, by the way, conservative politicians?
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We show up, we ask good questions, and we give you the opportunity to give a good answer. We're not
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going to take you out of context like the CBC. And so if you're a conservative politician and you see
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a Rebel News microphone, you'd be wise to jump in front of it because we give you a chance to exhibit
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moral clarity while your progressive colleagues, peers, I guess, they just don't. It's nice to see
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Councillor Dan McLean standing up for the Jewish community. There's a guy that would make a
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great mayor next time around in Calgary. Conservatives have to come up with a solution.
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They have to put up somebody better than Gioti Gondek, who is just an absolute disaster in that
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city. Jason Kenney, he popped his head back up. What does that mean? Six more weeks of winter? I'm not
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sure. But anyways, former Premier Jason Kenney even tweeted on this issue. He said it's an appalling
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decision by Mayor Gondek to boycott the Hanukkah menorah lighting. Hanukkah isn't some interfaith
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celebration of diversity, as implied by her embarrassingly parodic word salad. It celebrates
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the culmination of a successful Jewish military campaign. Let's scroll down. To retake and rededicate
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the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site, at the heart of Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the
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Jewish people. Hanukkah celebrates the resilience of the Jewish people against tyrants and anti-Semites
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through history. The mayor's boycott reflects profound ignorance of Jewish history and the
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reality that Israel lies at the heart of Jewish identity. Her offensive boycott comes two months
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after the largest massacre of Jews since the Shoah, that's the Holocaust, and the context of a growing
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wave of anti-Semitism across Canada. Hanukkah belongs to the Jewish community, which has every right to
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connect to the heroic resistance of the Maccabees to Israel's existential fight for survival against
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the genocidal Jew-hating terrorists of Hamas. How dare the mayor lecture the Jewish community
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on the meaning of a key celebration of Jewish history and identity? How dare she attack a small
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vulnerable minority community that is already under daily attack, the target of history's most durable
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and pernicious form of hatred? Her decision further normalizes the marginalization of the Jewish
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community. At the very least, the mayor should apologize for dishonoring her office at our city
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with her divisive boycott and insulting statement. Look, I've got my objections to many things that
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Jason Kenney has said and done, but I don't object to anything he said there, except when he said that
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the mayor misunderstands what Hanukkah is all about. I don't think she misunderstands. I think she
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completely understands, and that's why she can't be there because she's playing both sides of the fence.
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Hanukkah is a celebration of the Jewish eternal ties to the second temple in Jerusalem.
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And if you acknowledge that, then you acknowledge that Jerusalem is not a divided city
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or that part of it should belong to the Palestinians. To recognize Hanukkah is to recognize that Jerusalem
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and Israel is the Jews' indigenous homeland and has been for millennia. And so because of that,
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she couldn't go if she's trying to, you know, sort of balance her, I don't know,
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her sensibilities between Hamas and anti-Semites and normal people who believe that the Jews have a
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right to exist in their indigenous homeland. Okay, speaking of politicians doing the right thing,
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Pierre Paulyam did a couple of things yesterday that I thought were really great. He attended at least
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two Hanukkah celebrations yesterday. And one of them was in Montreal, where our friend and colleague
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Alexa Lavoie was. And there's some really great footage of Pierre Paulyam, and I'll backtrack a little.
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So right now, or at least last night in the House of Commons, conservatives were basically filibustering
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by adding amendments and changes to legislation, like a thousand pieces of this stuff, to try to
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force the liberals to just wear them down, because liberals want a break for the holidays.
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And what they were trying to do was, like, force the sitting into the middle of the night and out the
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other side by making everything a confidence issue, which means if the liberals aren't there and they
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don't vote and win the vote on just these minutiae things, then government can fall and will go to
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elections. So the liberals had to stay there all night while the conservatives forced voting on
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things that the conservatives knew they wouldn't win on, but they kept the liberals in the House of
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Commons. That's the whole point of it. They had to stay there otherwise, if the liberals lost a vote,
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the commons would fall. So the liberals were very annoyed with this. But some conservatives had
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made arrangements for remote voting, and Pierre Paulyam was one of them. So he's attending a
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menorah lighting in Montreal while he's on his iPad voting, so he's not missing anything. And he was
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accused of partying it up. We'll get to that in a second. But let's just show Alexa's video of Pierre
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Paulyam doing the right thing and showing up at a synagogue in Montreal to speak on the first night
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of Hanukkah. It's like our internet in the office is having a little think. Anyway, maybe we'll move
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ahead while they figure that out. We have a tweet here.
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A recognition of Canadian Magandar Edadom and the people of Israel during the War of October 7th. And we say,
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he who saves a life has EPS saved in my own world. So thank you very much.
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So I think that's good. I think that's good. Because the point of this video is the absolute
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overwhelmingly warm reception that Paulyam received speaking at that synagogue. Standing ovation,
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because that is truly what differentiates the conservatives from the liberals on this issue.
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There's no playing both sides of the fence. There's no saying, you know, like,
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there are legitimate grievances that Hamas was dealing with, like the terror group Hamas was
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dealing with. Conservatives are staunch in their support of the state of Israel. Stephen Harper was
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the first Canadian prime minister to speak at the Israeli Knesset. They've said that they will move
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the capital to, or sorry, they will move the embassy to the capital of the state of Israel instead of
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leaving it in Tel Aviv for political reasons. They said that they would move the embassy to Jerusalem
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where it belongs, like the Americans did. So that's truly on this issue, what differentiates the
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conservatives from the liberals. And it's nice to see. Now, let's move ahead to this next tweet. It's a tweet
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from, sorry, my computer's having to think too. So it's the, she's liberal MP, Sophie Chattel.
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So she said, she deleted it now, but this is Jackie Budden. I believe Jackie, previously Delaney,
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she works for a Senator, Leo Houssakos, I believe. And just for clarification. And Jackie says,
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why did Sophie Chattel delete this post video? Is it because she realized how poor taste it was
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referring to the lighting of a menorah as parting it up in Montreal? I won't even address the stupidity
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of calling late night sittings. Something new imported from the US. Can we, can we click through
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to that? Maybe not. Maybe we can't. But yeah, she sent out a tweet and a video saying that
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Pure Polyev was just partying it up in Montreal. And she said that forcing these late night sittings,
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which have happened always in the House of Commons. So forcing the people who take home a
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handsome salary to govern this country, actually forcing them to work and show up was some sort of
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American style tactic that the liberals just couldn't abide. She deleted it, but she thought it was
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appropriate to post until she realized that the internet disagreed with her. And Olivia says that
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we can play it. So I don't need to explain it to you. Let's just play it.
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The practice well known in the United States of obstruction. Well, if you had any doubt,
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these practices are now here in Canada. Pierre Polyev is doing the playbook of Trump. And so here we are.
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But where is he? You know what? He's not even here. He's partying in Montreal. But our prime minister is
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here. And all liberal are here as well. We're not going to let that go. And I'm fully equipped. I have
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here my slippers. And over there, my yoga mat. We are keeping in shape and positive.
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What a joke that woman is. Oh, she's got her yoga mat. So
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they had to show up to work late at night. I'm sorry, if you work a job and you're trying to make
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ends meet because of the inflation caused by these people, maybe you have to take a double shift.
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Christmas is approaching. I saw in Black Locks today that, you know, groceries for next year for an
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average Canadian family of four is over sixteen thousand dollars. That's not including the occasional
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eating out. If you can afford that. Sixteen thousand dollars. And you got to listen to these people whine about
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having to work a late shift. Get bent, lady. Get with reality. You know, I'm my family's from the oil patch,
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but we're also farmers. So I'm accustomed to the idea that people have to work late nights. You know,
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for both of those industries, you have to work around the weather. You know, you have to work around
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snowstorms. You have to work around freezing. You have to work around road bands. You have to work around
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just weather as a farmer. You got to make hay when the sun shines, as they say. And if you're from the
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prairies, you know, the the site of a combine's lights after dark. These are people who work day
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to night. And we got to listen to this lady complain about having to show up to work late, saying that
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this is a imported Trump style tactic. No, this this is what happens in a parliamentary democracy,
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not a republic like the United States. She's just upset that she had to go to work
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before they can break for the holidays, go on their Christmas break starting on the 8th of December.
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How many of you are going to work up until the 23rd, 24th? I bet a lot of you. And this lady
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complaining, complaining about having to go to work. She's in her slippers, though, guys. And
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she's got her yoga mat. So she's staying fit. She is. She's exercising on the clock, by the way.
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Like how many of you are just going to go skip out of your job and go to the gym and then come back
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or like I'm lucky I get to wear whatever I feel like to work. But most of you have a dress code
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where you are. This lady's just wearing slippers and complaining about having to work. Just the gall,
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the gall and like the absolute level of being out of touch that the liberals have right now.
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It's reflected in the polls, though, isn't it? There's a reason these people are
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consistently at least 10 points down of the conservatives. I saw a poll the other day that
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showed that the conservatives would take 200 seats, 208, I think it was, in the next election.
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And that is why, that is actually why every single liberal was in the House of Commons last night
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to make sure that these confidence motions didn't pass is because they will be absolutely
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Kim Campbell style decimated in the polls if they go to election right now. So that's why they were
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there. She's voting to save her shirt, not because she cares about anything in particular.
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She's got to hang on to that pension, I suppose. Let's keep going. Sorry, guys, I'm a little
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congested today, so I don't want to sniff into the microphone. Honest Reporting Canada.
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If you thought this is just a liberal issue, them being just anti-Semitic or at least enabling
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anti-Semites, well, this is CTV Toronto. They're talking about the first day of Hanukkah. And you know
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what they do? They fill their segment with clips of Palestinians and IDF operations in Gaza. Just look
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An event, a signature event is happening here in Toronto later this evening. Our Alison Hurst joins
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us now with more on what is planned. And Alison, it's typically a celebration, but of course,
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this year is very different. Yes, there's a lot going on right now. But this is a time where
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they're hoping that they will all be able to come together. There have been crews coming by
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bringing the pieces to begin the setup ahead of tonight's event. It will be a seven or eight
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foot menorah that is set up here on the stage. You might be able to see behind me some of the
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multicolored pieces that will make up that menorah and crews we expect will be back sometime within
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the hour to continue setting up ahead of tonight's event. But this is an annual event.
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To park, menorah will go up this afternoon and be lit tonight. There will be dignitaries and
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members of government will be in attendance along with the community. There will also be music and
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I mean, that's really what Hanukkah is about. It's about lighting a candle and darkness goes away.
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And so our view, our approach, our belief is come with a positive message, come with a message of
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light and goodness, and darkness will eventually disappear.
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Difficulties there with Allison's mic. We'll certainly have more tonight on CTV News at six.
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Oh, I don't think there were technical difficulties with Allison's mic. I think
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she may have been caught flat-footed by the images being shown if she could see them.
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How many of you out there? Let me know in the chats. Do you think that was accidental by CTV to include images of IDF
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executing actions in Gaza to eliminate Hamas terrorists? Do you think that that was an accidental
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technical difficulty on behalf of CTV? Because that's what CTV is saying. We're just like, oops,
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oops, how did those get in there? Complete and total accident. Do you believe them? I don't.
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I think there's some anti-Semite underminer working in the control room there.
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And CTV isn't being honest about it. That's what I think. Because I don't think you go
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live to TV and have those things accidentally queued up. You know what I mean? I just don't think it was
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an accident. And to leave them roll, by the way, they could have pulled them down pretty quick.
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They didn't. They left it to roll until they came to the Orthodox Jewish gentleman at the end there
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explaining what Hanukkah was all about. Wow. We've got one more thing before we hit an ad break.
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Still on federal politics. Rachel Thomas, MP from Alberta. Just giving it to the head of the CBC,
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Catherine Tate, who lives in upstate New York. Lady with hot roots, by the way.
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Uh, she's the head of the CBC. We just got wind that thanks to her mismanagement of all the money
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that CBC gets from taxpayers, but also advertisers, they're laying off 600 employees right before
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Christmas. But Catherine Tate won't roll out bonuses for top executives, including herself,
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even though she's responsible for the absolute mismanagement. I can't even imagine the work
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that we would do here at Rebel News if we had that kind of reliable cash all the time.
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Just astounding. But she's managing to blow it because CBC is absolutely unwatchable.
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It's an unwatchable dinosaur. It's a relic of days gone by. Um, and instead of making it better,
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they seem to be making it more woke and more unwatchable as their viewership sort of ages
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into the nursing home. Uh, I think a lot of people watch CBC because they don't know how to change
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their remote, you know, and they, they just want to watch curling and the grandkids aren't coming by
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showing them how to change channels. So they just leave it on CBC and watch, uh, Murdoch mysteries.
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And then hopefully curling will come on at some point. And what's that British show Coronation
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Street? I think that's also on CBC. That's quality can con anyways, Rachel Thomas is just
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giving it to Catherine Tate and Catherine Tate doesn't like it. We know that Ms. Tate, the head
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of the CBC radio Canada, uh, has made the decision to cut 600 jobs, but we also know that when she was
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pressed during a media interview as to whether or not the executives would receive a bonus,
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she was not able to determine a definite no. In fact, she seems to very much be leaving that window
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open, um, which would imply then that she is okay with cutting 600 media jobs while still giving big
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bonuses for the top executives of the company. Now we know that Ms. Tate herself received a $60,000
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bonus this last summer, $60,000. That's more than the average salary of a Canadian in this country.
00:29:58.860
So for Ms. Tate to determine that she's going to slash 600 jobs while still being okay with giving,
00:30:05.500
you know, potentially millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars in bonuses
00:30:09.680
is absolute ludicrous. So I would say not only does Ms. Tate need to come to this committee,
00:30:14.920
but I would also offer an amendment to this motion. And the amendment would read as follows toward the
00:30:20.840
end. So following period of two hours, it would state, and the committee report to the house that
00:30:29.080
it calls on the government to instruct the CBC to immediately ban all executive bonuses, period.
00:30:35.020
Isn't that crazy? Catherine Tate has so mismanaged the CBC that 600 layoffs are necessary
00:30:46.680
right before Christmas. And look, I'm happy to part CBC out like an old Camaro, but I also want some
00:30:55.740
accountability for the dollars being dumped on that dumpster fire of a network. And she gave herself
00:31:03.520
a $60,000 bonus over the summer, mismanaged the company for the next six months. Now she has to
00:31:11.680
do 600 layoffs. How much do you want to bet? She's going to take home another $60,000 in bonuses for
00:31:20.840
herself. And for what? So she can go to a hairdresser that gives her those hot red roots. Jeez.
00:31:31.200
I don't like to see people laid off, even people I politically disagree with, except if it's a public
00:31:40.720
health officer. I dislike them immensely. And politicians, get out of there. You know, like,
00:31:49.800
I think that being, having opposite political viewpoints than me, and still working in journalism
00:31:57.200
should not be grounds for termination, right? Like everybody, behind each one of those 600 jobs is
00:32:07.040
a family, or at least three cats that CBC journalists have to take care of. And so, you know,
00:32:14.980
like the empathetic part of me doesn't like this. But at what point are the liberals going to have a
00:32:22.800
come to Jesus moment? Like all these bailouts, all these censorship pieces of legislation, they say it's
00:32:30.340
all to protect Canadian content and Canadian journalism. But it is having the opposite effect.
00:32:35.700
It's actually shrinking Canadian content and shrinking Canadian journalism because it's not,
00:32:43.760
it's preventing the market correction these people so rightly deserve. Because people are not watching
00:32:49.520
the CBC. Instead of CBC saying, oh, why aren't people watching us? We've got to figure out how to
00:32:53.860
make money here, like we would do. They get to just go to Justin Trudeau and say, gimme, sugar daddy,
00:32:59.140
gimme. And Justin Trudeau does, because the CBC is the crypto press department of the liberal
00:33:09.200
government of Canada. And so what's, what's also the consequence of these government bailouts is that
00:33:18.420
nobody trusts the mainstream media. And so nobody watches them. So it just becomes this perpetual
00:33:27.200
circling of the drain. It's like watching a toilet bowl flush. It just keeps going around and around
00:33:31.880
and around until it all goes out the bottom. That's what's happening in journalism in Canada.
00:33:35.840
Justin Trudeau contaminates them with money. And so they continue to make stuff that nobody wants
00:33:40.700
to watch or consume. And people who previously trusted them now don't because they are contaminated
00:33:48.040
with government money. And it just keeps going around and around and around and around until it goes
00:33:53.220
out the bottom of the bowl. And we've got 600 jobs going out the bottom of the bowl. Thanks to
00:33:56.900
Catherine Tate, who is going to obviously give herself a new, I don't know, $60,000, maybe some
00:34:06.500
more red hair dye. We've got an ad break, and then we'll go back into the second half of the show.
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Hey, before we move on, I just want to remind everybody that the Rebel News Viewers Choice Awards
00:35:22.460
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00:35:33.580
the URL is? Olivia, please let me know. I don't want to send people to the wrong place. And then all of a
00:35:37.540
sudden they're voting for Taylor Swift for something. But you can vote for your favorite rebel.
00:35:44.600
Maybe it's me. Maybe you like the extreme tedium that I have to suffer to do access to information
00:35:51.320
stories so that you know what the government is doing behind closed doors with your money.
00:35:56.280
Or maybe you are a fan of Church Under Fire, my documentary with Kian Simone that sold out shows,
00:36:02.360
I think like 20 shows almost, all across the country. And I think was just a phenomenal
00:36:11.520
piece of journalism chronicling the treatment of Christians and pastors who stood up to the
00:36:19.060
government during the times of COVID, if I am to toot my own horn here. Maybe you like Tamera
00:36:24.820
Ugolini's work on The Medical File. I think she is Canada's best medical journalist, bar none.
00:36:34.300
She takes these horribly complex ideas and breaks them down in a way that you can understand. Maybe
00:36:39.700
you appreciate David Menzies' advocacy for women's rights. Like how did David Menzies,
00:36:45.560
in that goofy hat, become Canada's foremost women's rights advocate. But here he is defending women
00:36:53.400
and girls and their spaces. Maybe it's the boss. Actually, I don't think you can vote for the boss.
00:37:00.580
Don't vote for the boss anyway. He wouldn't accept the win. Maybe it's Avi Amini. He's the lone
00:37:06.200
freedom voice yelling in the wilderness of Australia. Maybe it's Drea Humphrey on the West Coast.
00:37:14.400
Excuse me. And her coverage of the Marissa... Oh, I almost said it. I almost broke a publication
00:37:23.760
ban. Her coverage of some court trials happening in the United States. Maybe it's one of our news
00:37:30.100
writers. Maybe it's Robert Krejcik covering the Tamara Leach trial. Maybe it's Efron because he works
00:37:37.160
every single weekend after he does all of our video. He is the manager of the video side of the
00:37:45.600
company. After he does all that, he frequently covers stories as he goes out the door on the way
00:37:51.860
home. Maybe it's Alexa Lavoie in Quebec. Maybe it is Adam Sos in Calgary. Some of our other
00:37:58.220
personalities, I'm sure I am not listing them all. But it is viewerschoiceawards.com. Is that right,
00:38:04.980
Olivia? Viewerschoiceawards.com. Vote for your favorite rebel today. And I'm not privy to the
00:38:15.620
results. But I am told that the voting is very, very close. Very, very close. And I like that
00:38:23.160
because the success of our journalism team is my success, right? It's my job to make sure that
00:38:28.680
everybody's doing quality journalism here at Rebel News. And so it doesn't matter who wins. I'll be
00:38:35.440
happy. And what I like about the voting being so close is that means that not only do we have
00:38:41.800
really strong journalistic depth, but we also have a rebel for everybody. Maybe you don't like me. Maybe
00:38:47.860
you don't like how I look. You hate my hair. You hate my Cheryl voice. And you find the stories I cover
00:38:53.640
boring. Great. Then you're going to love David Menzies. So I like that there's a rebel for
00:39:00.740
everybody. And so vote for the rebel for you in the Viewerschoiceawards. Okay, let's go to Stephen
00:39:08.260
Gilbeau. He's our environment minister. And he's a bit of a flake. He must go to Catherine Tate's
00:39:18.480
hairdresser because he's got like man bangs. Don't do man bangs. Just don't. Especially if you're like
00:39:28.420
in your 50s, which I think he must be. So they introduced a methane emissions cap the federal
00:39:36.240
government did the other day. This is going to directly target farmers and Alberta. And
00:39:42.100
so the liberals tried to silence skeptical conservative politicians on this issue.
00:39:55.040
And we heard about this yesterday. Coming out of Alberta, let's roll this clip. This is outrageous.
00:40:02.720
I can't believe this. The day that the feds were going to do something to Alberta and they tried to get
00:40:09.880
our politicians to shut up and not tell the public what the feds were going to do to our industry.
00:40:18.820
Unbelievable. Look at this. As the owner of this resource, we have a responsibility to make sure
00:40:23.540
that we're taking care of emissions. That's why we set our target in the first place. What we don't
00:40:27.040
accept is the federal government thinking they can do it better than us when they can't. And that's why
00:40:31.340
we're going to be asserting our constitutional right to be able to manage this resource.
00:40:35.080
Emissions have gone up radically in Alberta. But follow up question. We had a couple of polls
00:40:43.200
earlier this fall that suggest as many as two thirds of Albertans actually support an emissions cap on
00:40:48.160
oil and gas. How confident are you that Albertans back you on this? What are your numbers?
00:40:54.780
numbers? I think it was 62% in one poll and 57% in the other.
00:41:02.900
No, what are your numbers that you're talking about emissions going up? I just need to know what your
00:41:06.900
baseline is. Well, it was from the Canadian Energy Regulator Premier. I mean, I can send them to Sam if you
00:41:17.600
like, but Albertans emissions are going up. I don't really want to argue about that. I'd like an answer
00:41:23.800
to my second question, please. Well, you did assert. That's why I'm curious what your numbers are,
00:41:28.360
because I gave you the two examples of how our emissions have gone down. That's why I need to
00:41:32.260
know why you say that they've gone up. Carbon dioxide emissions have gone up. You're forcing me to
00:41:39.800
guess here, but I think it was something like 256 megatons. I don't have the number offhand. I can find it
00:41:46.520
from the Canadian Energy Regulator and send it along to Sam. Too sweet. But I would like an answer to my
00:41:52.380
second question, please. Okay. Well, I think emissions are going down. This is why we're probably
00:41:58.440
not going to get an answer to this, because yes, emissions have gone down 53% in electricity.
00:42:03.240
They've also gone down 45% on methane. And we're continuing to see that the Pathways Group, Dow Chemical,
00:42:10.440
Air Products, and others have made emissions reduction targets of net zero by 2050. So there
00:42:17.680
is a whole of industry approach to getting emissions down to net neutrality by 2050. It's a matter of
00:42:24.400
rolling out the technology to make sure that we have the means to do it with a technology approach,
00:42:30.080
as opposed to with a shut-in approach. So if you asked Albertans, do you want your production shut in
00:42:37.360
so that you lose 1.2 million barrels a day of production, and you reduce revenues by 6.5 billion
00:42:44.180
a year, and you're cutting a third out of our health budget, I suspect you'd probably get a very
00:42:49.660
different answer, because that is what the implications of a production cut of this magnitude
00:42:55.080
would be. And that is not something that Albertans support, and it's certainly not something that the
00:42:59.400
federal government should support either. When this industry gave $9 billion worth of corporate income
00:43:04.700
tax to them last year, that is the consequences of what would happen if we ended up with a production
00:43:10.740
cut, which we won't allow to happen. Okay, so that's not the right video, but I'm glad we showed
00:43:16.720
that anyways. I wanted to see the Rebecca Schultz video, where she said the feds tried to get her to
00:43:23.460
sign an NDA, but I'm glad that we showed that video, because that shows our premier, Danielle Smith in
00:43:30.320
action, doing a little something that Pierre Polyev frequently does. When it's the apple eating video,
00:43:37.720
but just the lady version over Zoom is what you just saw there. So that journalist tried to assert
00:43:45.860
something that wasn't true, and then make Danielle Smith answer to something that isn't true.
00:43:54.160
The journalist said, emissions are going up. She said, what are your numbers? Because she knows
00:44:00.460
they're going down. We're finding efficiencies all over the place. So when he says they're going up,
00:44:07.320
okay, you just said it, now you prove it, because Danielle Smith can back up her numbers,
00:44:11.920
why can't you? It's exactly the same thing they tried to do to Pierre Polyev when he was in that
00:44:17.860
orchard, and he just calmly munched his way through that apple. Danielle Smith just calmly munched her
00:44:22.920
way through that journalist and left him struggling at the end. I'm glad to see it. Conservative politicians
00:44:30.440
are putting on a masterclass these days at how to deal with the Trudeau colonized mainstream media,
00:44:37.220
and I hope it doesn't stop. I hope that layoffs are unnecessary because these bad journalists just
00:44:44.140
get tired of being battered around by smarter than them, conservative politicians, and then just leave
00:44:50.020
the biz altogether and go back to serving coffee or working in a pet store or whatever they used to do.
00:44:57.020
But yeah, she asserted something that wasn't true. She knows her stuff, and he couldn't back it up.
00:45:04.040
It's gorgeous. Were we able to find that clip of Rebecca Schultz saying that
00:45:08.760
the Trudeau liberals tried to get her to sign an NDA? I'll let you guys poke around.
00:45:16.820
Okay, let's show that, because this is outrageous. They tried to legally shut up an Alberta minister
00:45:25.920
from talking about the things that would affect Alberta. Let's roll this.
00:45:30.900
We met here in Dubai, and at that meeting, he refused to tell me when they would be announcing
00:45:38.820
this emissions cap, what would be included. His words were that we needed to sign an NDA.
00:45:45.440
Other provinces from across the country were remarking how odd that was, how unprecedented
00:45:51.620
that was. And as Premier said, if this was a constructive federalism, we wouldn't have to sign an NDA
00:45:57.620
to have a conversation with the federal government about policies that impact areas of provincial
00:46:02.540
jurisdiction. That is wildly disrespectful, given that my meeting with him was only two days ago.
00:46:09.740
So they knew exactly what they were up to. They just didn't want to have the conversation.
00:46:15.220
I think that is, I quite frankly think that that is unbecoming of a minister, and I think it's
00:46:20.400
absolutely disrespectful. They again fail to admit that this is going to cap our production,
00:46:29.800
when we know, in fact, that it will. Again, they refuse to provide any socioeconomic impact
00:46:37.320
analysis, any costing, any impact analysis that they've done when it comes to jobs, and then have
00:46:44.280
the audacity to say that the tables that the Premier has set up are just for information sharing only.
00:46:51.720
It's completely disrespectful, not for lack of trying. Of course, we're going to defend areas
00:46:57.260
of provincial jurisdiction. But what we've seen from him again, it's what we've seen time and time
00:47:02.300
again. We see Minister Guibault fly halfway around the world and make announcements to appease his
00:47:07.940
climate activist supporters, and then leave the provinces trying to figure it out.
00:47:12.640
That's good. Isn't that crazy? Makes you wonder how many other NDAs have been slapped on provinces
00:47:20.340
who agreed to sign those NDAs. So in Alberta, that's our environment minister, Rebecca Schultz,
00:47:27.300
by the way. They tried to slap that NDA on her, and instead she turned around and talked about them
00:47:31.960
trying to give her the NDA. How many times have they done this and gotten away with it on contentious
00:47:39.600
issues? Makes you wonder, because if there are NDAs in place, we'll never know, will we? We'll never
00:47:45.640
know. I had no idea that stuff went on. I'm shocked. And I wonder how many other times it has happened.
00:47:56.860
How many other times? And with how many other governments? It's shocking. Let's go to Scott Moe,
00:48:04.600
the pragmatists on the prairies, Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan. He is also responding to the
00:48:14.640
federal government, who went all the way to the United Arab Emirates to announce that they plan to
00:48:23.580
basically phase out Canadian oil and gas. And this is Scott Moe's response. He's going to invoke the
00:48:31.360
Saskatchewan Act also. So the Saskatchewan Act, the Saskatchewan First Act is their version of the
00:48:37.840
Sovereignty Act that we have here in Alberta, and they passed theirs first. I should always
00:48:43.240
acknowledge Saskatchewan for being a leader on this issue. He says, instead of taking the opportunity
00:48:48.960
to promote Canada's sustainable oil and gas industry on the world stage, as Saskatchewan is
00:48:53.280
doing now, Alberta is doing the same thing. They went there to go to the UAE to talk about how great
00:48:58.880
our oil and gas industry is. It was just perfect. Trump did it in Germany in like 2018. Anyways,
00:49:06.580
the federal government's response has been to impose two new policies just this week on methane
00:49:10.600
and an oil and gas cap and target the sector and burden it with more tape and regulations.
00:49:16.780
Here's the rub. No strongly worded letters. Saskatchewan's ready to rumble. As confirmed in
00:49:23.160
the Saskatchewan First Act, which first came into force on September 15th, 2023, Saskatchewan has
00:49:28.280
exclusive legislative jurisdiction under Section 92A of the Constitution Act, or 1867, over
00:49:35.000
exploration of non-renewable natural resources and exclusive authority to regulate the greenhouse gas
00:49:40.540
emissions. So anyways, Saskatchewan remains imposed, and that's a direct threat to the feds that if you do
00:49:48.780
this, let's rumble. We'll see in court. The Prairies are not yet tired of winning against Stephen
00:49:56.600
Gilbeau. In court, they struck down the No More Pipelines Act and then the single-use plastics ban,
00:50:03.640
and I guess we'll see in court again. I can't wait. Speaking of seeing Stephen Gilbeau in court,
00:50:10.600
we did. My boss did. He sued Stephen Gilbeau for blocking him on Twitter, and you can't do that if
00:50:20.560
you're using public resources to run your Twitter account, as the Minister of Environment was and is.
00:50:27.900
He has staffers who run his account, and he tweets from it in an official fashion as a Minister of the
00:50:33.200
Crown here in Canada, and he blocked my boss. I think he actually had me blocked at one point, too.
00:50:40.000
Anyways, we sued him. We won. He had to unblock the boss, and we were awarded costs, some $20,000,
00:50:51.300
because Stephen Gilbeau is a petty tyrant, and he violated our constitutional rights.
00:51:00.120
And so the clock was ticking. Stephen Gilbeau had to give Ezra $20,000 in costs just to offset a
00:51:09.160
minute portion of the legal fees we spent trying to prove a point. And came down to the wire. Gilbeau
00:51:17.900
finally turned over $20,000. But guess what? He didn't turn over his $20,000. He turned over
00:51:27.220
$20,000 from the taxpayer. This is an official government of Canada check to Williamson Law in
00:51:35.840
trust. Chad and the gang, $20,000. So Stephen Gilbeau argued in court that his account was personal,
00:51:46.560
and therefore he could block whomever he wanted, even though he had government staffers running it.
00:51:52.400
And then he pays his debt using public dollars. He's trying to have it both ways,
00:52:03.500
having his cake and eat it, too. So you're on the hook, taxpayers, for Stephen Gilbeau being a petty
00:52:11.440
crybaby on the internet. What a clown. What an absolute clown disgrace.
00:52:16.900
As I mentioned, the United Nations Climate Change Conference is going on right now in the United
00:52:24.780
Arab Emirates. Normally, Rebel News sends a delegation of journalists, normally me. However,
00:52:31.140
because of the reporting restrictions in the United Arab Emirates and the fact the United Nations banned
00:52:37.080
me from reporting at any and all of their conferences in perpetuity, it just wasn't a good idea for me to
00:52:45.060
do unauthorized journalism in a benevolent dictatorship of the United Arab Emirates. So I didn't go. I didn't
00:52:53.880
think risking time in an Emirati prison cell was worth it to embarrass the liberals. I just, I didn't,
00:53:04.560
I didn't know what, I didn't know what would become of me. But the lunatic left, they're there in full
00:53:13.000
force. And Joe Vipot, he's the climate change doctor, who, during COVID, I mean, he was the
00:53:23.980
biggest, like, stay home, just stay safe, follow all the restrictions. If you don't get vaccinated,
00:53:28.440
you are a grandma killer. And stay, stay off the planes, the trains, don't leave your house,
00:53:35.320
ban Christmas. He's that guy in Alberta, right? He was the Nilly Kaplan mirth of Alberta.
00:53:41.300
But before COVID, he was trying to control your life during, like, using other means, climate change,
00:53:49.340
the old way that they controlled everything that you said and did. Then COVID came along,
00:53:53.620
and he was able to, like, have another outlet for his control freak tendencies. Well,
00:53:58.360
COVID's sort of gone by the wayside, and he's back to climate change. And he
00:54:01.880
took a flight over to the UAE to perform some sort of literal climate change theater. Like,
00:54:12.580
I mock this stuff by saying it's all just theater. Well, they did. They did street theater. I think he
00:54:18.920
wore his scrubs and was on the ground. Like, just imagine these people being your parents. He's on the
00:54:27.040
ground, or they were on the ground, like, resuscitating the globe. A plastic globe, by the
00:54:34.300
way. Look at these loons. So anyways, one of Alberta's finest, Joe Vipod, is over there doing
00:54:43.560
this. They tell me we have a shortage of medical professionals, but when a good portion of them
00:54:51.500
are over there arguing for net zero health care, which means net zero patients and made for you,
00:54:57.140
medical assistance and dying because your carbon footprint is just a little too large as you head
00:55:01.960
into your golden years, I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure. Just imagine taking a private jet or at
00:55:09.060
least a first-class jet. He's not flying in coach on flair like I do. Over to the Emirates,
00:55:17.320
which is literally half a world away. Look at this guy. He looks like Bane.
00:55:28.420
Every time he breathes, you can see him suck it in. Look.
00:55:35.000
Anyways, who's taking these people seriously? This is your doctor. I'm just, I'm so sorry for you.
00:55:41.660
Anyways, if you can't get in for testing, it's because your doctor's over in the Emirates.
00:55:45.960
Doing resuscitation on a plastic lobe. These are not serious people. Not at all.
00:55:56.340
One more thing before we hit a quick ad break and go on to just the last couple of things. I'll
00:56:01.500
do my best to breeze through them. Edmonton City Council. Okay. If you, a year ago, were talking
00:56:10.000
about this issue, you may have been kicked off of YouTube. You were definitely called a conspiracy
00:56:15.920
theorist and a lunatic and just a complete mad person. However, Edmonton City Council examines
00:56:26.160
15-minute city concept in preparing for 2 million population. So the city is looking ahead to when the
00:56:33.540
city's population reaches 2 million people and what that would look like. There are so-called
00:56:39.020
50-minute city plans. And that's true. It's built into the zoning code in Alberta or not in Alberta,
00:56:45.520
but at least in Edmonton, the progressive hellscape of Edmonton. It's built right into the zoning code
00:56:51.600
there. And for people who are arguing that 50-minute cities are just all about convenience,
00:56:58.580
you have to build the ant farm for the ants to pile into before you close the lid on the ant farm
00:57:06.120
and keep them inside. And I think that's what this is all about. You know, you just get in the ant farm
00:57:12.380
out of convenience and then they close the lid and they don't let you leave. As is sometimes the case
00:57:20.060
in some of the other cities of the world, I think if I mention it, I might get a YouTube fact check.
00:57:29.940
Let's hit an ad break and we'll breeze through the last couple of things on that list.
00:57:38.840
David Menzies for Rebel News here in downtown Toronto. And I got to tell you folks, next March,
00:57:43.800
March 23rd to 30th to be precise, we are going on a Caribbean cruise. Can you imagine that? And a lot
00:57:51.120
of your favorite rebels will be there, such as Sheila Gunn-Reeds. We got Alexa LaVoie, the big boss man
00:57:57.460
himself. Of course, he'll be there. Ezra Levent. And how about this? How about this for the cherry on the
00:58:02.560
Sunday? Tamara Leach, Canada's number one freedom fighter. She'll be on that boat too. And look at the
00:58:09.440
itinerary, we're going to be going to Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas. And then we're going to jazz it up
00:58:15.700
in Oco Rios, Jamaica. And then there's Georgetown in the Cayman Islands. And finally, Cozumel, Mexico.
00:58:22.340
Can you imagine that? If you want more details in terms of getting aboard the ship, go to rebelnewscruise.com.
00:58:30.260
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And who knows, you might get to see David Menzies and that leotard again. For those of you who really
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just crave David Menzies and Elisa, if you're watching, I know it's you. Let's go to this next
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thing. Sorry, I almost knocked over Space Eater. This next story, and I can refer you back to some of our
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coverage on this issue. My friend and videographer and head of documentaries, Kian Simone, and I
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actually rode the rails in Edmonton. We went on the LRT to sort of explain how things got so bad in
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Edmonton. And you can, I think our video is called Dope Train, and it's on the Rebel News YouTube. And we
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go through the series of bad decisions, progressively bad decisions, from a progressive city council in
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Edmonton, including defunding the police and handing out crack pipes in the LRT station, then wondering
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why all the crackheads are there. And then as you, as things tend to be, when you have crackheads
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accumulating in a certain place, things sort of get violent. And the province of Alberta stepped in and
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deployed sheriffs when the city wouldn't do what they needed to do to keep the people who pay for
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the infrastructure and use the infrastructure safe while in the infrastructure. And the precipitating
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factor there was an ice pick attack by a meth head on public transportation. Well, we're back at it.
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In Edmonton, a woman 55 beaten into a coma at Coliseum LRT platform in central Edmonton.
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This is from Global News. And so while the city is doing its best to make things better,
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this is what progressive policies do. So in Edmonton, they defunded the police. In 2019,
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they hopped on the BLM bandwagon. And then crime got out of control in the downtown core. And so the
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province said, okay, you guys have to do something. So, you know, the province or the city solution to
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the provinces ask was to send this opioid response team into the LRT stations and say, okay, well,
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you come here and get your crack pipe and your needles from us because you're violent. And maybe
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this will cause you to be less violent. Okay. And so naturally things got worse. It just deteriorated.
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And it got violent. And now the province stepped in. They've also opened up drug treatment beds. We
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have like a zero tolerance approach to violent drug addicts here in this province. And now we're
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playing catch up. But while we play catch up, people are still in danger. And this hangs squarely on the
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neck of Edmonton City Council and Justin Trudeau's former natural resources minister, Amarjeet Sohi,
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who is the mayor in Edmonton now. So this is what's happening. Ladies in a coma now, 55 years old.
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And two 12-year-old girls beat her and assaulted her to the point of unconsciousness. It's crazy.
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I mean, it's feral children in the LRTs now in Edmonton. Anyway, let's keep going. I talked
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about the story about how we're bracing for $16,000 in grocery bills next year as for a family
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of four, I'm a family of five, sometimes seven. It's not going to mean for me. In Toronto,
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police are actually saying something about their progressive city council kneecapping them. And
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Toronto police are blaming the force's slow response time on Mayor Olivia Chow. Let's look
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at this. So this is the Toronto Police Association. That's their union. People have been calling 911 in
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Toronto lately, and they've been shocked to find themselves waiting on hold for multiple minutes.
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And the city is blaming dispatchers and a lack of dispatchers and ambulances and the people clogging
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up like 911 with non-urgent stuff, like not calling the local police station to make a report when they
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could, and instead they're calling 911. And so the police association actually issued a flyer to tell
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the public why they have to wait for police officers, citing an 18% uptick in emergency calls and a 21%
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rise in major crimes across the city. So they said it takes them over 22 minutes on average to respond to
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the highest priority emergency call. And 60% of the time, there are no units immediately available to
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respond to an emergency. So it gets even worse. Toronto's population has risen 13% since 2020,
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but 600 officers have actually been called from the force over the same timeframe. So while the population
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has gone up 13% from 2010, from 2010 baselines, 11% reduction in police personnel. So they are
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underfunded, understaffed, and crime is out of control in the city. And Justin Trudeau's solution
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is, of course, to go after law-abiding hunters and farmers and sports shooters with gun control
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legislation instead of tightening up the border. And Olivia Chow remains committed to handing out
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drugs and crack pipes to people on the street as a way to deal with violent crime.
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What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong, you guys? We'll just quickly touch on this
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thing. Canada's descent into a dark culture of death continues. And our war on the vulnerable
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continues completely unabated and unmolested. Out of BC, a tweet from our friend Yagy Pollack,
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our social media manager, BC man opts for medically assisted death after 10 weeks without chemotherapy.
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Again, you can call me a conspiracy theorist, but this opening up of made to anybody who's inconvenient
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or eccentric come March 24 or 2024 is the government's way out of mismanaging the healthcare
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system. Like one of the current protocols to qualify for medical assistance dying in Canada
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is if you are dissatisfied with the care that you're getting for the illness that you have.
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We're Canadian. We are constantly dissatisfied with the care that we're getting for the illness
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that we have. It can take up to two years to get a knee replacement. Well, under the current
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protocols, you can mage yourself because you can't get a knee replacement. And then, you know,
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in March, it's going to be inclusive of the mentally ill. And so this guy can't get cancer
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treatment. So he just says, forget it. Because by the time I get cancer treatment, it'll be too late
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for me. So I'll just do this on my own terms. What a disgrace. The opening up of the MAID protocols
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is the government's way of dealing with how bad they screwed up the healthcare system and refused
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to do anything different. It's a disgrace. Canadians are taking their lives because our healthcare system
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is terrible. And this is like one of those third rails of Canadian politics that you can't touch.
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You can't say, there's something wrong with healthcare. We need to do it differently.
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We need to give people better options and different delivery. But the left and the political
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establishment say, no, we can't. And people suffer and die. We all get to suffer in the same line.
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But that's Canada's socialized healthcare system. It's rationed. It's slow. And it's agonizing.
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If you actually need to use it. Canada's healthcare system is great unless you actually need to use it.
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Then good luck to you. One last thing. Maybe we'll go out on the Joe Rogan clip. We'll just close the
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show on that after I read the chats. Young Americans for Freedom. Yeah. This tweet from them.
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Young America's Foundation. So we haven't talked a lot about Dylan Mulvaney these days. The
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transgender biological man, interloper, stealing opportunities from women and girls, pretending to
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be a little girl for some reason, documenting his dayhood as a girl. And you'll recall he did a
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sponsorship with Bud Light, which disgruntled actual Bud Light drinkers and alienated them. Made beer
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political all of a sudden for regular guys who just wanted to watch the game and have a drink from a
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blue can. Dylan Mulvaney also ruined that. And now 26-year-old Dylan Mulvaney is speaking to
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empty rooms. So this was, where was this? I forget where, I'm not sure where this was. It was at a
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university. So that's like your average sized university lecture hall. And like 20 people
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showed up. 20 people. So not even like your, this is at a university, by the way. So this is like
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where the craziness that promotes the likes of Dylan Mulvaney is born and fomented.
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A Penn State. Of course it's Penn State. And the auditorium was basically empty. So
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what did Bud Light do? Appeal to no sides of this. And Dylan Mulvaney is so revoltingly unpalatable
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to both sides of the transgender debate that nobody actually showed up.
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This little mockery of a female. Anyway, Ted Cruz also, Ted Cruz,
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Albertan by birth, born in, I think, Foothills Hospital in Calgary, if I recall correctly,
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but definitely born in Calgary. Ted Cruz is investigating the partnership of Bud Light with
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Dylan Mulvaney because he says the partnership was designed to market beer to minors. Because yeah,
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no adult man needed help having Bud Light marketed to them, by the way. The amount of disgruntled men
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I see at the local pub begrudgingly drinking a Coors Light these days remains firm and steadfast. But
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they said, like Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, he said that this was specifically designed
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to market Bud Light to young drinkers. Because 73% of Zoomers said that they would make a purchase based
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on social media record recommendations. And Mulvaney was big on TikTok. So they thought, oh, youngsters,
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most of whom Mulvaney's followers were under the age of 21. And the marketing company hired by Bud Light
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knew this. So they were specifically marketing this beer to underagers, which is obviously why nobody
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showed up to watch Dylan Mulvaney because these people are too young for university. Dylan Mulvaney's
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followers on TikTok. So there you go. They want to introduce alcohol and sex and the mind virus of
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gender confusion to your children. And they are not even trying to hide it. Let's go into the chats,
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shall we? We have a couple left. Excuse me for my sniffling. Five bucks from Aaron Burton, 32.
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Is the Daily Roundup returning in the new year? I miss David and watching you all when I get home from
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work. Either way, Sheila, you and the team are all awesome. I think for now, for now, although if you're a
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regular watcher of Roundup, you know that this has been several iterations of the show with several
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hosts. You know, it started off as Ezra during COVID. It also was David used to host Rebel Roundup
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behind the paywall. This used to be just the daily live stream. Then it morphed into Rebel Roundup
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daily. And then now it's just on Fridays because I think David does such incredible work out in the
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field. You saw him cornering that 50-year-old trans man swimmer changing and swimming with 13-year-old
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girls. Like David does his best work out in the field. And I just, I loathe to take him out of the
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field when he's doing such great work out there. And I mean, he's like, I think right now he's working
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on something in the same vein. And so to have him come to the studio in Toronto, it's just, I feel
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like it's just, we're robbing Canadians. And thus the world of the incredible journalism that only
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David can do, particularly on these issues. I think maybe it was last night, Fox News used, maybe it's
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tonight. Fox using a clip of David's investigation at the swimming pool. So, you know, how can we have
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him just sit in a chair and emote for an hour when he is advocating for women and girls when their
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brothers and fathers won't? Next one. Miminka gives 15 bucks. I don't understand. How can there be any
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bonuses during the time of the economic crisis? They're laughing in our faces. Oh, so privileged.
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Yeah. You better believe it. We're talking about CBC firing people while giving executive bonuses.
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Like if you have to do a mass layoff of 600 people, you have grossly mismanaged the company. So what are
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you getting a bonus for? Like what, what is that for? Or are you cutting them so that you can have your
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bonus so that it fits in the budget? Since when does CBC care about budgets? Anyway. Yeah,
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you're right. But yeah, these people don't live in the same world as you and I do, right? Like if,
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if your company is struggling, do you get a bonus? Or maybe you get a steak knife,
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you know, Cutco, the company logo on it. You don't get a $60,000 summer bonus
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like Catherine Tate did. Memory Hall gives us five bucks talking about the Rebel
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News Viewers Choice Awards at viewerschoiceawards.com. Vote for your favorite Rebel there.
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Memory Hall gives us five bucks. Oh my God, you're all great. How do I vote for just one of you?
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Although Menzies and the Cat Leotard is a definite down vote. You know, I did not vote for myself.
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Just so you know, I didn't vote for myself. I, you know, I'm competitive. I like to win,
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but I didn't vote for myself. I didn't think I did the best journalism in the company this year.
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But I do manage the journalistic team. And so their success makes me feel good about the job
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that I do managing them. Although they are an easy bunch to manage as rambunctious as they are.
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Okay. Five bucks. Hey, Sheila. Hi, everyone. What do you make of Jodi Gondik? She's a disgrace.
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Also, what do you make of the whole Candace Owens Shapiro situation? I don't really have an
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opinion on the Candace Owens Shapiro thing. I try not to wade into the drama of other fellow travelers
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companies. You know what I mean? Uh, I think so far, um, you know, when you hire people for
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their opinions, they're going to give them sometimes you don't always agree with their
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opinions and it's a little different than doing straight journalism. Uh, but like so far,
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what I'm most impressed with so far is that the daily wire management hasn't weighed in
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publicly and they're just sort of letting their staff do the free speech thing. Now,
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what I will tell you what I find somewhat, uh, I don't know what the right word is on becoming
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of everybody involved is that this is like a very public airing of the grievances.
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It's so unprofessional from everybody involved. I don't like it. I think it, uh, only works to
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benefit the people who want to see your company fail and they love the drama. And, uh, so why give
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it to them? That's all I have to say. Like, if you have a disagreement with your colleague,
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why the heck are you on social media airing it? Like if they're your colleague, pick up the phone
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text message them. Why do you have to make people who are fans of you both choose sides?
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I just don't know. That's not how grownups deal with things. So I'd have professional journalists
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deal with things or professional commentators. Uh, I just don't like to see it because again,
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who who's the happiest media matters MSNBC, they're the happiest, right? So like, why,
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why give that to that? I just wouldn't. All right. Uh, and I think I told you what I make of Jodi
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Gondik. I think she's awful. I think she is culturally unaligned with the good people of Calgary
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in that she doesn't believe in free speech. She doesn't believe in religious freedom and Calgary
01:18:06.360
is, you know, the, the, uh, jewel in the crown of the most, I think, conservative place in this
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country. And it is sad, sad, deeply sad to me, to know that she's the mayor there. Um, I think
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that's it. That's everything. Uh, right, Olivia? Okay, perfect. We're 20 minutes over time. So it's
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not just David Menzies that, uh, elucidates me to talk too much. Uh, I just did it on my own today.
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Uh, thanks to everybody who tuned in to watch the show today as I, uh, make it my way through the
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second episode of rebel roundup just on Fridays, just with Sheila. Uh, thanks to everybody who
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pitched in to keep the lights on and give me something to say at the end of the show by reading
01:18:55.400
your chats. Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes, um, in Toronto and across the country.
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And frankly, around the world to bring you rebel news when you want to see it, where you want to
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see it. Uh, thanks to all of our viewers across all the platforms. And, uh, as I say, don't let
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the government tell you that you've had too much to think. You live in the fucking frozen
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communist shithole of Canada. Yeah. It's cold. You get real cold water. When's the last time you've
01:19:23.400
been up there? I don't go up there anymore. You refuse, right? Yeah. I just fucking what they've done
01:19:29.240
up there. What they did with the trucker rally and what, what Trudeau's doing with guns and
01:19:35.000
what they're trying to clamp down on censorship on the internet. That guy can eat shit. Like
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that, that place needs 100% an overall government. Like they're, they're sliding down that dangerous
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road of communism that scares the shit out of me.