SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Rebel News latest documentary premieres in Calgary to a packed house
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Summary
Our new documentary, Made: The Dark Side of Canadian Compassion, documents Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of medical assistance in dying, or medical killing, if we're going to cut the BS, to eliminate the wait times in his failing healthcare system.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gun Show.
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Well, today's the day we premiere our brand new documentary.
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It's called Made, The Dark Side of Canadian Compassion, and it documents Justin Trudeau's
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use of medical assistance in dying, euthanasia, really, or medical killing, if we're going
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to cut the BS, to eliminate the wait times in his failing healthcare system.
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For those of you who don't know, medical assistance in dying, under its first iteration, was meant
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for people who were terminally ill, whose deaths were in the foreseeable future.
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Now it's expanded to people who have chronic illnesses, and very soon it will be expanded
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to include people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness.
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So people who are sad, people who are not able to get the healthcare they need so their condition
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Those people, they can get medical assistance in dying in this country faster than they can
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So our new documentary, it's out today in Calgary.
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If you want to see the documentary in a city or town near you, go to endmade.com to find
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The documentary is screaming right now in Calgary.
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This is my filmmaking partner, our head of documentaries, Kian Simone.
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Kian, there's a lot of people here tonight, right?
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It's hot in there, even though the AC is blasting.
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But if it starts to rain, I'm worried about Kian's fancy camera equipment.
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You and I have talked about this before, the last time we sat down for the gun show on
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I think we were in Ottawa filming the documentary.
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What was it like going through all the interviews and then piecing it all back together?
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While we were sitting there doing the interviews, obviously you could feel it.
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Even though everybody in there is there for good intentions and trying to do something
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And I think going back to it, I'm not just reliving it once, not twice, not three times,
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Going through these interviews, piecing it together, yeah, no, it took a toll on my mental
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It's harsh, but I think I pieced something together that's palatable, has its ups and downs,
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which I think people will appreciate because it is a really hard topic.
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It is a hard topic and it's kind of complicated, you know, how did we go from really a change
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in the criminal code where doctors couldn't be prosecuted for ending someone's life if
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their death was in the foreseeable future to where we are, where doctors now are at House
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of Commons committees proposing euthanizing inconvenient babies, really sick babies.
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And, you know, it's kind of a complicated route, several changes in legislation for us
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But I think you did a really good job of sort of threading the needle and then looping
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back in those stories of the people who are living with the consequences of it.
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When you were introducing the show, you mentioned that it got extended to people with chronic
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And it's something I kind of regret now after finishing the documentary is that it's not
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That's a chronic problem with our country, not with them.
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That's a failing of government policy frequently, maybe with them a little bit.
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But come on, like it's it's not even a problem with trying to get adequate health care.
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It's trying to get adequate help for people and instead offering them aid.
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So it's not even it's not a health care issue is kind of the way that I framed it in the
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But as I said, I regret not focusing a bit more on the fact that it's it's everybody.
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It's not just people who are sick, who are depressed, who are this or that to everyone.
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It it seems it's like it's a way out for failed government policies, people who were productive
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individuals who are down on their luck, who find themselves homeless or who end up addicted
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And maybe they don't have the good fortune of living in Alberta.
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So they don't have treatment available and they have government enabling them.
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Those people can get access to made in some provinces quicker than they can get access to
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And you're right, we shouldn't even be framing this as a health care issue.
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This isn't a deep rot in our society that we are are really offering people suicide when
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I said evil earlier when we were talking about in the room what you could feel.
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And sure, I think negligence is is plays into evil.
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But that's I think more of what it is, is that a lot of people would go back.
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And it's funny, I quote Adolf Hitler right off the beginning, but a lot of people would
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And I don't think it's a we think these people are beneath us and they should die because of
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It's it's literally we don't know what the hell to do.
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And maybe controversial to say worse than evil, because there's no point.
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It's the end stage of dehumanization where we don't even see the people in front of us
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as people, but just a problem to get out of the way because we don't know what else to
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do or we don't have the political will to do it.
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Kian, we did this documentary and it's dark and it's about a sinister, a failing of, I think,
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not just the government, but also of Canadian society.
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I think this is a failing of our culture that we accept this, although the good news is in
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I think your documentary serves as an educational tool because you and I both know as we were
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making the documentary, we were getting 50 percent of our emails were saying, Sheila
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and Kian, there's no possible way it's as bad as you're saying it is.
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And the other 50 percent were saying it's that bad and worse.
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But the documentary, we interviewed the activists who are fighting for change.
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And there's, you know, there's two pathways to change.
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There's change the government, sure, but also change how we interact with our neighbors
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because we found out time and time again, it's not really a crisis of health care, as
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Yeah, it's feeling like you don't have a purpose.
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And you can look at the data, like we say in the documentary, and it's very publicly
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People choose it because they feel like they don't have a purpose.
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And I think that that's where, well, that is where the documentary leaves off is that
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it's not government because, and it's, you know, Pierre Paulyev says, when I get in
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government, I'm going to stop the expansion to mental illness.
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Are you going to peel back that we're not going to kill homeless people anymore either?
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Are we not going to go to BC and take people off the streets and disappear them
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Like the government's not going to do anything.
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And giving people purpose doesn't mean you need to completely change their life when you
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know that their lives are going to end in three months.
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And my favorite thing in the documentary is going to play cards with them because that's
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For someone who has absolutely nothing is having something to look forward to the next
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And that's, that's kind of the message that, um, try to get out with the documentary itself.
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Actually, I did make the documentary at first to stop people from killing themselves with
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And I realized that no one who is going through that is going to watch this documentary.
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I had to put the extra work in to have someone who watches the documentary be the person who
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They need to know how to speak to people who are, um, suffering from lack of purpose and
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And I think, I think I succeeded in that, in, in being able to equip people with what
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they need to know of how to stop someone from getting it.
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You know, you change the culture, you change politics, right?
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Like politics is downstream of culture as Andrew Breitbart once said.
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And I think that's, that's really where this starts.
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We can, we can hope and pray from my lips to God's ears that Justin Trudeau is not reelected
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in 2025, but that doesn't change the pernicious problem with our culture that people are suffering
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around us and, and we're not doing the things we can to help them.
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They, they didn't extend the, um, made to people with mental illness because they had a moral
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They had, they did not extend it because they could not live up to and accept all of the
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people who wanted mental illness made for mental illness.
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That says nothing about anything else other than we have a problem with our society.
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And you know, your question or your documentary right in the middle of it, there's a question.
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How do we know which people need mental help for suicidality and which people need medical
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And there's no possible way that any doctor can answer that.
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Why in the world would you have suicide prevention when you can have suicide assistance?
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Now, I know we talked about it last time you were on the show.
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We're going to get rained on and your camera is going to die.
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And then we're going to have to do a crowdfund for that extra camera.
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But, uh, tell us a little bit and then we'll wrap it up.
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Tell us a little bit about your, uh, your change as you were doing this documentary.
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I love that you're a filmmaker who approaches the topics with an open mind instead of with
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a, with a conclusion and you find the facts to fit your conclusion.
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So I had a family friend who, uh, got made, um, and I agreed with it at first.
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Um, like I wasn't personally, but I saw it from the outside and, and that kind of just
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Um, but then, you know, you could, you see all of the crazy stuff that's happening and
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I kind of just opened up and I said, okay, I'm going to come into this with an open mind.
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I have never made such a radical change in my life on any topic so fast.
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Um, bad choice of word, but I flipped so heavy.
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And I realized that I had such a personal connection to it because I suffered from mental
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illness when I was 18 and suicidality and failed attempts.
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And it's, I didn't, I'm not here today because I'm bad at suicide.
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I'm here today because of logistics of suicide and the logistics of suicide.
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When you ask yourself, who's going to find me, um, how am I going to do it?
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Maid gets rid of all of those worries and makes it easy for people like myself at 18.
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I made it so that someone could have spoken to me with this and said, no, you don't need
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It came from something non-personal to something extremely personal because I had never made
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All those barriers that prevented you from doing it were, are eliminated through Maid.
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The doctor said, it's not going to hurt who's going to find me hell.
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We'll, we'll take your body and we'll, we'll just tell your mom.
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Uh, my dad died when I was quite young and, uh, my mom and dad made a decision not to have
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us come to the hospital to see him anymore because he had very aggressive cancer.
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And I wish that I had seen the process of him dying because I'm still jarred by seeing
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the skeleton of a man wearing my father's suit in that casket.
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I wish I had been able to go on that journey and to see it.
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And, uh, I think part of made is that it's tidy and it isolates people from the reality
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And I think we should all come to terms with it.
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That's obviously very important, but it's like watching the end of a movie before seeing
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Well, uh, on that note, Kian, tell us how we see the movie.
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And made.com made documentary.com, whichever one you prefer.
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If you're seeing this on Wednesday, um, we're probably showing it right that minute as you're
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Um, but after that, we are going to Red Deer, Edmonton, Muir, Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie,
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Um, as always, thanks so much for tuning in and don't let the government tell you that