In the past 12 years, the CBC has been accused of discrimination on the grounds of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, sexuality, and gender identity or expression. But did you know that the CBC also received complaints about racism, homophobia, and general bigotry?
00:00:58.560They have approximately 28,000 stories on their website relating to human rights tagged as news.
00:01:06.480In fact, as best as I can tell, the state broadcaster has at least one full-time reporter focused exclusively on human rights and justice, Andrea Hunkar.
00:01:17.820And of course, CBC being CBC and attracting the sorts of people to work at the CBC that you would expect the CBC to attract.
00:01:24.660They also have a lot of other journalists with a particularly strong focus on what they think are human rights and social justice.
00:01:32.040But, you know, they miss a lot, the state broadcaster, even though they are seemingly obsessed with human rights.
00:01:37.520For example, they kind of miss the whole right not to be discriminated against due to your medical decisions or the right to go to work or fly or travel or go for a beer without having to tell everybody around you your vaccination status.
00:01:51.220They also miss the right to be able to go to church without having to run the gauntlet of cops there to arrest your pastor for the crime of not turning away congregants to meet some arbitrary and unnecessary, in hindsight, COVID gathering restrictions.
00:02:05.520Or maybe, you know, the CBC missed the right to protest a cross-sex burlesque show at the local public library meant to entertain little kids.
00:02:14.600But I mean, 28,000 stories on the issue of human rights means they must take this sort of stuff pretty darn seriously.
00:02:26.200I can tell you that in the eight years that I've been here with Rebel News, we've never had a single human rights complaint.
00:02:33.820In fact, what I love about this company, one of the many, many things I love about this company, is that I've never once been made to feel weird because I needed a couple hours off on an Ash Wednesday or a Good Friday.
00:02:45.900And I think my Jewish colleagues probably feel the same way.
00:02:48.520We're pretty accommodating around here with regard to religious freedoms and religious functions.
00:02:54.560And we don't make anybody say or do anything that they don't believe.
00:02:58.900I do not assign stories to journalists that they're not authentically passionate about.
00:03:03.180And I think it comes through in their reporting.
00:03:10.200But I don't think CBC can say the same thing as us here at Rebel News.
00:03:14.700And I can show you in black and white, thanks to an access to information filing made possible through your generous crowdfunded donations at rebelinvestigates.com.
00:03:25.820As you know, unlike the CBC, we will never take a penny from Justin Trudeau or, for that matter, any form of government.
00:03:31.920We rely on you at home to make our journalism possible.
00:03:47.720I just got them back this morning from the CBC because, unfortunately for the CBC, but fortunately for me, I guess only in this instance, the CBC is a crown corporation and thus subject to access to information.
00:04:02.960Now, we knew we couldn't ask for specifics about complaints against CBC because, unlike the CBC, who makes their guests fill out weird gender and sexuality checklists before they're allowed to appear on air, we actually care about people's privacy and about protecting their privacy.
00:04:50.960So religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, pardons, status and disability.
00:05:05.060And the numbers, they won't quite add up here.
00:05:08.220CBC is doing something a little bit tricky.
00:05:10.480You need to understand that some of the complaints are comprising both category A and category B or multiple accusations from category A and then category B that make up a single complaint.
00:05:26.260OK, you'll see what I'm talking about here in a second.
00:05:28.340From 2008 to 2012, there were 10 racism complaints and 16 general bigotry complaints.
00:05:38.200So you would expect 26 complaints here.
00:05:43.120But CBC sort of plays fast and loose and rolls a couple of these into a single complaint for a total of 19 human rights complaints against the CBC in those four years.
00:05:54.080From 2013 to 2017, we had 14 racism complaints and another 11 general bigotry complaints for, I guess, if you trust the CBC's math, 17 total human rights complaints against the CBC during those four years.
00:06:10.640And from 2018 to 2020, so just two years now, as opposed to the previous four intervals, we've got 13 racism complaints and 19 general bigotry complaints.
00:06:25.580We should expect to see, what is that, 31 complaints.
00:06:29.160But CBC rolls a bunch of them together for a total of 18 complaints.
00:06:33.500So in two years from the CBC, when the feds and the CBC really ramped up their accusations of everybody else being a bigot, well, that's when the accusations internally against the CBC really ramped up too.
00:06:50.400I guess the CBC is a lot like Justin Trudeau, their sugar daddy.
00:06:53.840You see, when Justin Trudeau accuses you of being a sexist, racist, misogynist, homophobe with fringe views controlled by a foreign hostile government, he's actually the guy who's guilty of all of those things.
00:07:04.620You deserve a government that's going to continue to say, get vaccinated.
00:07:49.660David Menzies is up after the break to discuss a crazy report out of Toronto about how the clearing of homeless encampments from city parks in 2021 violates human rights.
00:08:14.760My monologue tonight speaks of human rights violations and I guess human rights violations hypocrisy and the CBC.
00:08:23.960And as it turns out, the CBC is very concerned about the human rights of homeless people who are being evicted by the city of Toronto.
00:08:32.300The article reads, Toronto showed significant unfairness in controversial encampment clearings report fines.
00:08:40.220The city chose speed over people in clearing three large encampments in 2021.
00:08:46.180Now, somebody who has had up close and personal experience with one of these homeless encampments is my friend David Menzies.
00:08:55.380And he joins me now to discuss the city's report and the hypocrisy in all of this because, David Menzies, I think you have a human right to wander around the streets of your own city without being attacked by a dog.
00:09:10.780And more than that, I mean, everyone has the right to visit a public park.
00:09:15.780What you don't have the right to do is camp overnight for weeks, months, years even, as some parks were overtaken by homeless people.
00:09:25.920You don't have the right to do illegal drugs.
00:09:28.720You don't have the right to create fires.
00:09:31.720You don't have the right to own dangerous animals.
00:09:36.260And as you well know, Sheila, going back to 2021, when Lincoln, Jay, and I visited Trinity Bellwoods Park, and that's one of the park encampment smackdowns that the Toronto Ombudsman, Quam Addo, is so upset by, it was an absolute no-go zone.
00:10:00.740We were just standing there doing an opening to our report.
00:10:05.660We had no intention of talking to any homeless people.
00:10:11.740And there was somebody there, a drug addict, who had an already known dangerous dog, and he sickened on me.
00:10:21.440And, you know, as much as I don't want to say, thank God it happened to you, but the dangerous dog could have bitten a child who was there with the child's mother,
00:10:33.620just trying to, you know, use the public park, which these are public spaces.
00:10:37.820They're supposed to be there for everybody to use.
00:10:40.280And when you think about just how ridiculous, for example, David Menzies, your kids are a little bit older, but if you've ever been to a playground in a public park, they've changed a lot since we were kids because of liability reasons and lawsuit reasons.
00:10:54.440Because if you get hurt on, you know, a publicly installed playground or in a public park, the city's at risk of liability.
00:11:03.560But for you, you're chewed by a dog in a city park, and we're now worried about the guy with the dangerous dog and his human rights.
00:11:13.840Oh, 100%. I mean, while we were down there, Lincoln and I bumped into a mother who said she didn't bring her toddler to the Trinity Bellwoods playground, Sheila, because you could find you syringes there.
00:11:31.180I mean, you know, why doesn't the Toronto Ombudsman think that is shocking and should be addressed?
00:11:39.980And I should point out to our viewers, the ultimate hypocrisy, Sheila, is that while the city was turning a blind eye to this growing homeless encampment with some dangerous and violent people and dangerous animals, I might add.
00:11:58.700Meanwhile, the law-abiding taxpayers of Toronto that wanted to go to Trinity Bellwoods, well, you had to stay in a social distancing circle.
00:12:10.420Yeah, you know, because this was at the height of COVID and evidently being outside the circle with or having in your circle more than five people at a time.
00:12:20.380Oh, no, John Tory and Cruella de Villa, the public health officer, they weren't going to put up with that.
00:12:26.520And these circles were patrolled by bylaw and even police.
00:12:33.600If you violated the social distancing circle rule, you were fined $880.
00:12:40.480Meanwhile, at the south end of the park and other areas of the park were these filthy homeless encampments.
00:12:47.640And I think, Sheila, the homeless people were kind of emboldened because earlier that year, if you recall, a phony baloney group called Afro-Indigenous Rising, they took over Nathan Phillips Square.
00:13:05.260They broke, I think it was 11 or 12 sections of the Trespass Act, i.e. you can't stay overnight.
00:13:11.980And these were unhinged violent people, too, as we discovered when we went down to practice journalism.
00:13:19.000But ex-Mayor John Tory, oh, no, no, no, no.
00:13:22.240The homeless violent people, and I don't think all of them were homeless.
00:13:26.660I know the ringleaders were staying at the Sheridan Hotel at over 300 bucks a night.
00:13:34.720We, the media, walking into this encampment, which is literally the town square, we were the problem for inciting them.
00:13:44.020I didn't see the Toronto ombudsman say anything about that in terms of fairness, Sheila.
00:13:50.780Well, and that's one of the things that I think is when, well, there's a lot of ridiculous things in this report.
00:13:56.360But there was an investigation launched in 2021 following the encampment clearings, at least according to the CBC, which saw police in riot gear clear the sites of residents and their supporters and resulted in dozens of people facing charges.
00:14:11.560OK, we know that they had assaults coming out of these encampments.
00:14:16.560We know that they had violent dogs in these encampments.
00:14:22.740You've got drug, open drug use happening in these encampments.
00:14:26.620You and I are both critics of excessive police force, but I don't think excessive police force was used here.
00:14:32.500And they tried to move these people along for a very long time.
00:14:36.900CBC goes on to write, the investigation focused on how the city planned the encampment clearings, engaged with stakeholders and communicated with the public.
00:14:45.140It found a number of problems, including that the city treated the clearings as a top priority.
00:14:48.740I would think they were both, at least according to the city and how they were treating other things, a public health crisis.
00:14:56.800Right. If you had a bunch of people gathered in a space, that's a public health crisis.
00:15:00.300And we knew that there were violence coming from it and they chose expediency and enforcement, despite there being no evidence to suggest the encampments were an emergency requiring an urgent response.
00:15:10.360We'll tell that to somebody trying to have a birthday party in the same park if they didn't stay in their social distancing circles.
00:15:15.020But, Sheila, that is the biggest lie of all.
00:15:18.540What you just read from that CBC report, which I believe they use the language, instead of homeless people, they say people experiencing homelessness.
00:15:30.160I mean, what's the difference, I guess?
00:15:41.440But what you just read, the fact that there's no evidence to suggest the encampments were an emergency requiring an urgent response.
00:15:50.640I'm sorry, Mr. Addo, how would you like it to be that mother that we came in contact with, bringing a toddler to a playground with syringes and even used condoms scattered everywhere?
00:16:04.880How would you like to go to a park and you're not so much worried about stepping in dog do, but actual human poo?
00:16:12.080How would you like an unhinged drug user with a vicious dog attacking you?
00:16:18.880These are violent people that were in there.
00:16:22.700Not all of them, I grant you that, but enough to pose a threat to society.
00:16:27.980And like I said, the normal people are mandated by law to sit in a little circle or face an $880 fine.
00:16:37.820Well, and, you know, this is the same city that unleashed the mounted unit and riot cops on a barbecue place that was just trying to sell people some barbecue smoked meat.
00:16:49.120That's the force with which they cracked down on people who stood up to them politically.
00:16:54.820And, you know, when you see violent people in a public park where people are just trying to use the park their taxes paid for, being cleared away after weeks and weeks and weeks of saying, move along, move along, move along.
00:17:08.300And finally, the hammer drops, you know, as much as, you know, I don't like to see people suffering.
00:17:15.200And I think a lot of these people who are there have probably some pretty complex mental health needs.
00:17:21.020We're we're actually not dealing with that.
00:17:23.360We're not dealing with the fact that these people are sleeping in parks as opposed to addressing their mental health needs.
00:17:29.300But where are these same people saying, oh, OK, well, we're concerned about fairness.
00:18:50.960No, they would be outraged by that as well.
00:18:54.080So a lot of condemnation, Sheila, but not many tangible answers, I'm afraid.
00:19:00.620Well, and I think this is going to get worse.
00:19:03.240And I think we're going to have lawsuits involved here.
00:19:05.140Not just because of this report finding that the city and their attempts to clear these homeless encampments were flawed,
00:19:15.240but because of a recent court ruling in Ontario that mimics one that came down in British Columbia not all that long ago.
00:19:23.520It's a precedent-setting ruling in Ontario that could place pressure on cities to address the crisis of homelessness with better shelters and housing.
00:19:33.080In the first decision of its kind in the province, this is back in January,
00:19:37.860a judge in Kitchener, Ontario, ruled that there is a constitutional right to shelter outside
00:19:43.080when there is no accessible and available indoor spaces.
00:19:47.040And according to an associate professor of York's University, Osgoode Hall Law School,
00:19:54.860this makes the city of Toronto extremely vulnerable to a legal challenge
00:19:59.240because apparently you have a charter right to sleep in a park now.
00:20:04.260You know, isn't that rich when it comes to charter rights, Sheila?
00:20:09.220Still in our constitution, we don't have, there are no private property rights, for example.
00:20:15.760But apparently, so if you are a landowner, a taxpayer, a homeowner,
00:20:21.180and the state decides to expropriate your property, you're out of luck.
00:23:28.600I don't like the idea of having to camp out in extreme cold and extreme heat,
00:23:36.340going without showers, you know, sporadic meals, etc.
00:23:40.780That's why I say we have to reinvest into mental health institutions to house people that are suffering from mental illness.
00:23:50.340And like I said before, it's for their safety and it's for our safety.
00:23:54.940But I guess there's this mindset that, you know, it's kind of like every mental health institution is like the setting for one flu over the cuckoo's nest.
00:24:03.720But you tell me, Sheila, is the solution to release these people to fend for themselves in public parks?
00:27:02.700What the heck is Rebel's obsession with this guy, meaning Dr. Robert Malone?
00:27:08.280He brags about being the one who created the mRNA and handed it to the most corrupt governments and globalists for his own steep price tag.