Rebel Roundup： Virtual citizenship ceremonies & anti-cop teachers
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The process for Canadian citizenship is going online. Of course, there shall be no abuse of this system right? But, Kian Bexty has all the disturbing details. And remember when elementary school teachers would tell kids not to talk to strangers? Well, the new narrative is that the cops are the bad guys. Sheila Gunn-Reed sheds some light regarding an anti-cop policy actually being embraced by the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association at the behest of, you guessed it, Black Lives Matter. And finally, your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share some of your responses.
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Tonight, my guests are Kian Bexty and Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
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Now, get this. The process for Canadian citizenship is going online.
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Of course, there shall be no abuse of this system, right?
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But, Kian Bexty has all the disturbing details.
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And remember when elementary school teachers would tell kids not to talk to strangers?
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Sheila Gunn-Reed will shed some light regarding an anti-cop policy
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actually being embraced by the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association
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at the behest of, you guessed it, Black Lives Matter.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to Kingston, Ontario last Saturday.
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A mob wanted to tear down the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald.
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So, instead, they just assaulted me and my cameraman Mocha
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Alas and alack, the tolerant left strikes again.
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The Liberal government is planning to create Zoom Citizen, sponsored by Amazon.
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Soon, you can become a Canadian in just a few simple steps.
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First, take a multiple-choice test on Amazon.com from your Beijing studio apartment.
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After that, your mass citizenship Zoom session will follow.
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Observe the keynote address from a cycling roster of Liberal MPs.
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And before you know it, your voter card will be in the mail within two weeks.
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Rebel News has obtained exclusive documents which outline the plan
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that the Trudeau government has cooked up to implement virtual citizenship ceremonies.
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The Justin Trudeau government is changing the way people become citizens.
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They are streamlining and corrupting the process in a way that will benefit
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the long list of people looking to abuse and take advantage of Canada and its people.
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That list, of course, includes the members of the Liberal government.
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If you've been following along with my coverage of citizenship ceremonies over the past little while,
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you would have heard that the Department of Immigration handed the story out the back door
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The state broadcaster then outlined how amazing this new program was,
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Well, even though we had the story here at Rebel News leaked to us
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from a concerned bureaucrat literally a month before the government was ready to leak it to the CBC,
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Rebel News has obtained physical documents, even more, from the Department of Immigration
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showing that they plan on making this change permanent.
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Even after COVID is long gone, after the crisis has subsided,
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they say that they will make this process, this virtual citizenship ceremony, the, quote, new normal.
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Fast food drive-thru citizenship brought to you by the Trudeau Liberals and Amazon.com.
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And even after the Wuhan virus is gone, this process will hang around as part of the so-called new normal.
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How sad to see Canadian citizenship so utterly devalued by the Justin Trudeau Brain Trust.
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And with more on this shocking story is none other than Kian Bextie.
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So, Kian, as you mentioned, there will naturally be abuses of an online citizenship process.
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But I would argue that the Trudeau Liberals actually want the system to be abused.
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This is all about getting as many immigrants into Canada as possible.
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And the quid pro quo is simply an unspoken agreement here that every four years,
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To use a popular term, the abuse would be systemic.
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They have specifically designed this process and other processes to work together to ensure
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Justin Trudeau will govern for the rest of the, for a generation.
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For as long as he wants to be Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau will be Prime Minister.
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The fact that Canadians can vote from anywhere they want, no matter how long they've been out of the country.
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And now, with this added citizenship program, where these 42,000 Canadians that are currently
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backlogged in the process, and however many more millions he will bring in over the course
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of the next few years, they will be able to become citizens while they're abroad.
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They'll be able to lie about who they are specifically, because there's no way to confirm who they are
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without being there in person, no matter what the government says they're doing, the process
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And they've designed it so that it can be abused.
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And it's almost like they, you would think that they were encouraging it.
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There's just, it's just unbelievable how far we've come from Canadians being outraged five
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years ago, that a new Canadian immigrant candidate was wearing a burqa while taking the citizenship test
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or a niqab, while undergoing a citizenship ceremony.
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And now they're just fine, I guess, with them doing it behind a computer screen
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where you can't even tell where they are in the world.
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They could be in their Beijing studio apartment, for God's sakes.
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You know, you raise a great point about the woman in Mississauga back when Thomas Mulcair
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was leading the NDP, taking the citizenship vow with the face covering.
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And he, as a matter of principle, but not as a matter of political smartness, shall we say,
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And the NDP cratered in Quebec about, precisely because of that.
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In fact, if you look at the number, I think it was like a 14% shift, which is what got
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And you didn't, and that might have been Justin Trudeau's smartest political strategy ever.
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He never gave a firm commitment either way on that.
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The thing is, you know, I think a lot of people might accuse us of overstating the importance
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But, Kian, I really believe, you know, much like the Democrats in the United States who
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are against the idea of a wall to protect American sovereignty, this is all about the
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end goal of actually changing the demographics of our country.
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And I know it sounds kind of like a conspiracy or a fanciful master plan.
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But I really think this is how the left is thinking in terms of trying to get reelected
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This is what the leftists hated about the 18th, 19th century is happening right now.
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And the orchestrator, the one building an empire right now, is not Queen Victoria.
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It is a broad swath of folks coming to Canada to change the demographics.
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And while those individuals might not be coming to Canada with malcontent, and frankly, they're
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not just they're actually not coming to Canada.
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They're staying overseas and just using Canada for cancer surgeries and education and whatever
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And this is, while those individuals might not have that sort of plan, it certainly is a plan
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by Justin Trudeau, who's quite obviously compromised by the Chinese regime.
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I don't even like this as a temporary measure in light of the Wuhan virus.
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But, you know, there's a lot of temporary things in our so-called new normal right now that
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we're tolerating, which we wouldn't tolerate in the past.
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But as you pointed out in your commentary, it looks like once the virus is gone and hopefully
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forgotten, this will remain the idea of online citizenship.
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What could possibly be the rationale for that when there's no pandemic emergency anymore?
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The only rationale was them saying, and this is paraphrasing, but it's almost a quote, the
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Canadian public is interested in this continuing.
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They didn't even give one damn example of that.
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They just said the Canadian public is interested in this continuing.
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The Canadian public doesn't even know this is happening.
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They're completely hoodwinked by Justin Trudeau, and they're gaslighting us to tell us that
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I'm getting too frustrated right now, but Justin Trudeau knows what he's doing, and the Canadian
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public is completely in the dark over blatant compromising, blatant abuse of the process that
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people become Canadians with, and it's just, it's a travesty of epic proportions.
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You know, it always pains me, and I think it pains you too, as someone who's engaged in
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politics, that even in these dark, dire times, there seems to be such a huge chunk of the
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I am curious, though, assuming this word was to get out and it got the media coverage it
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deserves, which it will not get, if Canadians had to vote on this in a referendum or a plebiscite
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or what have you, do you think the population would think this is a good idea?
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If people were informed on this issue, if they understood how it could be abused, that
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it already probably is being abused because these ceremonies have already occurred, they
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There's no way in hell that they would support a program like this because it doesn't take
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a genius to understand how Justin Trudeau is corrupting this process and how it will be
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And Kian, I don't, we have to wrap this up here, so a quick exit question, and I don't
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know if you've done any research on this, but is there any other nation in the world using
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Most citizenship ceremonies in most countries are a very sacred thing.
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Most, you know, to be frank, lots of countries don't allow new citizens in the first place.
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I think it is in the United Arab Emirates, where you actually need, like, regal assent to,
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like, you need a document from the crown to become a new citizen.
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And it's like, it happens, like, a couple dozen times a year.
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Lots of countries that actually are well off don't actually have citizenship ceremonies in
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But the ones that do, you know, think Western democracies like the United Kingdom, Canada,
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It is a very sacred ceremony that should be held in high regard and should be very official,
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rather than just knocking it off like a meeting, a company meeting or a boardroom meeting over
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You know, I think Canadian citizenship is something to cherish.
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It should involve more than a few clicks on a mouse pad.
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And this is just an absolutely egregious thing that the Justin Trudeau Liberals are doing right
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More of Bravo Roundup to come right after this.
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They passed an anti-cop motion the other day in something called a BIPOC meeting,
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It's got so many acronyms and it's even race segregated.
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If you are a teacher who identifies, wait, what identifies?
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As a Black, Indigenous, or person of colour, there's the BIPOC acronym right there.
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Please consider attending VESTA's online meeting for up to 25 self-identified BIPOC members
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A suggested discussion topic might be how we increase equity and representation of Aboriginal teachers
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and teachers of colour within VESTA's structures.
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This committee met on Tuesday, March 10th at the VESTA office to begin this discussion.
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Then blah-bidi-blah-blah-blah and we've got some contact information there.
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Now, none of the solutions to this alleged under-representation of people of colour in education
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involve busybody white teachers resigning in favour of Black or Indigenous ones.
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And besides, in reality, the real under-representation in education is male teachers.
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And if that imbalance were actually fixed, it would probably benefit 50% of students.
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Putting men in the classroom would be helpful because they understand that normal boy behaviour
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is not a behavioural disorder to be medicated away.
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Anyway, the motion passed by that meeting of the VESTA self-ID BIPOC panel
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will put vulnerable kids in danger, which is a weird stance for these people
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who so often use their extreme care and concern for other people's kids
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as the reason they deserve more and more and more money so they don't strike and hurt your kids.
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The Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association, VESTA,
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passed a motion Tuesday night that recommends Vancouver police and RCMP officers
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So, of course, let's ban police from visiting elementary schools in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Why is it, folks, that some of the most stupid people I've ever encountered head up teachers' unions?
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And with more on this absolutely crazy tale is Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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If there comes a time, God forbid, in the future in which a gunman trespasses onto Vancouver school property
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with murder on his mind, well, to borrow that paraphrase from the Ghostbusters song,
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who are the elementary school staff going to call?
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Surely not the Vancouver police service, Sheila,
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because they're insensitive or downright evil or something, right?
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Yeah, call Black Lives Matter and they can come down and, I don't know,
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protest in front of the school to keep the gunmen away.
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This is one of the stupidest things that I've ever seen a teacher's union do,
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If you were, as a parent, if you were taking the time to teach my kid
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that they shouldn't trust police and that police were the problem,
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I would automatically assume some pretty sinister things about you.
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But yet, that's what this teacher's union is doing.
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They've banned police from the school, from school events,
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and from off-location events where the children might be.
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So, I guess if they take the kids to a parade or whatever,
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if the cops are there, they don't want the kids there, or vice versa.
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And really, the evidence shows that having police, like school resource officers,
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so having kids at school constantly exposed to police officers
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is an absolute benefit to the kids, the cops, and the teachers themselves.
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But it's the union bosses that have to jump onto every social justice agenda,
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and they don't care about everybody else who seemingly are below them on the totem pole.
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And I can tell you that in Toronto, until I think it was about a year and a half, two years ago,
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we had an incredibly successful program of uniformed police officers in schools at risk.
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And all the data showed it was a successful program.
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And when I say violence, at the time, this was in reaction to,
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I believe it was a 15-year-old boy that was actually shot dead at a Toronto school.
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and then Black Lives Matter Toronto said that this was somehow triggering
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It is the bullies in those schools that these cops were meant to be a buffer
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against victimizing kids that want to actually learn.
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It's these, you know, I guess, white, liberal union heads and their allies
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that are really carrying out a disgraceful act against those who are indeed in racialized communities.
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Yeah, Carleton University actually studied that school resource officer program.
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And they're the ones that came, they interviewed the cops,
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they interviewed the students, they interviewed the teachers,
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and they went back and they examined, you know, the rates of criminality, the arrests,
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all the tangible data as well as the anecdotal data
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that they were able to garner from the kids about their experiences.
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Overwhelmingly, a positive benefit in the schools.
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And it actually was the kids who are the most vulnerable,
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Those were the ones that were seeing the most amount of benefit.
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They were able to work without constant threats, without fear.
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Likewise with the teachers, they were able to actually teach
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as opposed to deal with all the other side social issues
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that come along with teaching in an inner city school.
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All of that was taken away because these school resource officers were there.
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And the school resource officers themselves said that they received a benefit
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because they were able to do, I guess, what's called community policing,
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They go into the community and they're there to help.
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They're there to be somebody that you can trust.
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When the gangs are moving in, they know that they can go to the cops.
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And activists took this all away in the name of helping racialized students
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when it is, all the studies show that it's racialized and vulnerable kids
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Similar studies were replicated by the University of Arizona,
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looking at both the Toronto school resource officer program
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as well as another one that took place in Boston.
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And overwhelmingly across the board, it benefits everybody
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And yet these activists and the teachers' unions,
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they take away these school resource officers in the name of the kids,
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in the name of those racialized kids they claim to be helping.
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not so much those kids that actually want to get an education and learn.
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I can't help but think that this must be in the U.S.
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one of the most awful times in which to be a police officer
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We, I think what is, and listen, let's cut to the chase here.
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Yes, there are bad apples in police forces, 100%.
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But there are bad apples in medicine, in law, in journalism.
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Yeah, Rosie, Barton, I'm talking about you, by the way.
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But, you know, we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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And in the big picture, Sheila, I can see a police officer,
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and let's be blunt, if I'm a white male cop and I get a call
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and it's in a, say, a black area and it's a domestic dispute,
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you know, what kind of trepidation do I have responding to that call
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or if I witness something happening on the sidewalk?
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There are coppers that secretly subscribe to an acronym called FIDO.
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meaning that to get involved is not worth the potential fallout,
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which could now result in termination or even imprisonment
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And, Sheila, that's going to lead to unsafe streets in our very near future.
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The RCMP worked hard on a community policing model
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and to gain the trust of the young people in the community.
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They even created, like, a police cadet program,
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so that young people could have something to do with their time
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that was lawful and so that they realized that, you know,
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And it is the people in these dangerous communities
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where peace officers and cops are working very hard
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And it's the people in those communities left holding the bag.
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being a sign of mental illness, I would suggest,
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where we penalize the makers and give to the takers.
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Sheila, thanks so much for this very important commentary.
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And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the crime-free hinterland
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Now, I'm in Kingston because, as you can see behind me,
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The motto of Kingston, Ontario, is where history and innovation thrive.
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But it seems that the people here are keen on cancelling history,
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As a matter of fact, you can see a big red poster.
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It says, make history, topple colonialism, and it's showing a statue being toppled.
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Now, I would say that's a major job here, if that's what the plan is today, to actually tear down this statue.
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But I have noticed that throughout the crowd, they are distributing eggs.
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I said that I thought your speech was offensive and inaccurate.
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Kingston's motto is not where history and innovation is right.
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Do you believe that removing a statue removes history?
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I would say that we're no longer celebrating a racist creep.
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What, you're going to threaten me by throwing an egg at me, sir?
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Oh, you're a tough guy behind that mask, aren't you?
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Well, that was the scene last Saturday, folks, when about 200 anti-colonialism protesters gathered
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at City Park in Kingston, Ontario to demand the removal of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue.
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Apparently, our first prime minister was a racist and a white supremacist and was obsessed
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At least, that's what several of the signs indicated.
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But when I tried to understand the reasoning and logic behind such claims, I found that,
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yet again, when it comes to the rank and file of wannabe Antifa thugs, they are unable to
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articulate their positions, which is to say they responded to queries by screaming slurs
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Indeed, when I visited the park initially, I didn't even engage with any of the protesters.
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I listened to a few of the speakers who droned on incessantly about colonialism and racism
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and white supremacy and genocide and how horrible Canada is.
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My cameraman, Mocha, and I then walked about 60 metres away from the gathering to record
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an introduction to our video right in front of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue.
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But as I was reporting, various demonstrators, like so many ants to an open jam jar,
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And what followed next was a demand to leave the park,
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And when we didn't initially leave on our own accord, well, as you just witnessed,
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we were forced to do so as the inexplicably angry mob engaged in physical violence
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while trying to vandalize and even steal our equipment.
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These people were claiming to be anti-colonialism,
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and yet here they were literally taking ownership of a plot of land that did not belong to them
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and then engaged in violence to remove any interlopers who did not subscribe to their brand of groupthink.
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doesn't that behaviour kind of sound like the very worst sort of colonialism?
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And in any event, here's what some of you had to say about our visit to Kingston.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the tolerant left, they tolerate almost everything except other opinions,
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Indeed, Julie, the left is all about diversity,
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except when it comes to a diversity of opinions.
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They are not antifa, they are just fa, as in fascist classic.
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Cheryl, you, my friend, are my kind of First Nations person.
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Canada has indeed been mostly shut down for the last several months
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due to the grotesque overreaction by government in dealing with the Wuhan virus.
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how does shutting down Canada, whatever that means, help natives?
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that these social justice warriors can't articulate their positions
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and instead resort to slurs and acts of violence.
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But it is only they who are oblivious to the irony, apparently.
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The Kingston police had to know that this event was happening
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to all those who support cops and don't want them defunded.
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Can somebody explain to me exactly why we're paying them?
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You know, you raise a very good point, Gods Among Men.
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But don't blame the rank-and-file police officers
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told me that the organizers had gone to either the mayor
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and told them in light of what's happening post-George Floyd,
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did not want to see any police presence at this protest.
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And incredibly, they apparently got their wish.
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I've reached out to the chief of police in Kingston
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A mob of more than 200 people with violence on their minds
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.