SHEILA GUNN REID： Trudeau Liberals Spend Taxpayer Dollars on Chinese Produced Government Swag
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
163.31381
Summary
A new response to an order paper question posed by conservative MP John Broussard shows us just how much taxpayer money the Liberal government blew on government branded swag for themselves and their friends, and during the pandemic, while telling you that you couldn t sing in church because that was some sort of disease vector.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
money on government branded swag much of it produced in china today i'll show you the
00:00:21.520
outrageous expenditures and the documents to prove it then franco terrazzano of the canadian
00:00:25.940
taxpayers federation joins me to discuss other depressing ways the liberals tax you and then
00:00:31.420
waste your money on themselves shame on you you censorious a new response to an order paper
00:00:49.600
question posed by conservative mp john broussard shows us just how much taxpayer money the liberal
00:00:55.000
government blew on government branded swag for themselves and their friends or to give away
00:01:01.680
during the pandemic you know while you were struggling to make ends meet because the government
00:01:06.020
was closing your business or at least limiting your business capacity or telling you you could
00:01:10.700
not have your friends or family over for christmas or special occasions or to go to church or to have
00:01:18.900
a funeral or anything like that they were printing swag to give away the government was celebrating
00:01:27.300
itself by giving themselves completely unnecessary government branded stuff or just printing this
00:01:33.580
government branded stuff to give away to total strangers while telling you that you couldn't sing
00:01:41.040
in church because that was some sort of disease vector but also here's this pen with a government
00:01:46.380
logo on it take it home follow the science you have to wonder why though some government agencies even
00:01:53.820
need promotional items whatsoever like corrections canada on page 382 of these documents what are they
00:02:02.000
doing here are they worried that prisoners might pick a different prison system if they don't offer
00:02:07.440
stickers mugs and tote bags and bracelets for pink shirt day and of course as we go through these
00:02:13.680
documents you'll see a ton of the stuff is made in china including stuff that was manufactured for
00:02:20.160
immigration for canadian heritage and canadian natural resources they were all getting their
00:02:25.840
canada flags those little maple leaf flags made in china and these people as you'll see in these
00:02:32.600
documents sure had a love on for branded face masks so that's not even something that you would use
00:02:38.780
anymore like you might use a pen you might use a notepad you might even use tote bag although i just
00:02:47.060
don't want one a tote bag emblazoned with a government logo on it but maybe you're somebody who puts up
00:02:52.120
with that sort of stuff and you do the face masks are in the garbage right now now let's go through
00:02:58.180
these documents together on page 11 farm credit canada has so many promotional items made hats tote bags
00:03:05.020
and even children's puzzles now remember this is the agency that denied canadian farmers financing
00:03:11.340
if the farmers supported the freedom convoy maybe they needed the swag to repair their reputation
00:03:17.260
on page 35 fisheries and oceans know that they spent nearly a million dollars nine hundred thousand
00:03:24.640
dollars on promotional items but they have no clue what those items were
00:03:29.300
or anything else about them we can actually see there are 17 pages of swag listing out these
00:03:37.400
mystery expenditures with n a for every detail so not applicable or not available on page 78
00:03:45.640
indigenous services spent nine thousand dollars on promotional items to mark world tuberculosis day
00:03:53.200
because who doesn't like to have branded merch to celebrate
00:03:58.300
tuberculosis on page 97 the canadian spy agency
00:04:03.760
lists their promotional items and of course their promotional items include branded socks
00:04:11.060
some spy agency and then a sleeve for the branded socks on page 98 page 206 export development
00:04:18.660
canada spent four thousand dollars on a climate change trivia card game so this isn't environment
00:04:24.140
and climate change canada with a trivia card game not that i would want to pay for it
00:04:28.180
if they did it either but at least it would make a little bit of sense this is export development
00:04:32.580
canada these are the people who need to help me get my canola to foreign markets and they're
00:04:38.200
developing a climate change trivia card game i wonder if the trivia card game is about i don't know
00:04:44.420
how many times greta tenberg has been wrong since she started her little climate scolding campaign
00:04:53.440
on page 229 for some reason the windsor detroit bridge authority is buying branded candy and kids
00:05:01.040
construction hats and activity sheets on page 238 immigration and citizenship canada is buying canadian flags
00:05:09.600
from china which is something the liberals promised to stop way back in 2005 if we would just let them
00:05:18.000
be in power but here we are on page 288 and 219 natural resources canada well they are also getting
00:05:25.840
those canada flag pins made in china on page 313 and 314 canadian heritage also getting canadian flag
00:05:36.400
pins made in china on 328 one might wonder why a human rights museum is getting its promotional items
00:05:44.320
made in china now the human rights museum also refuses to say how much they spend on these chinese made
00:05:51.680
pins i wonder what the problem is was the slave labor price embarrassing for a human rights museum to
00:05:58.480
admit to on page 332 the national gallery bought specifically branded masks for environment minister
00:06:06.720
stephen gilbeau to visit the gallery and then presumably those masks now are in the garbage can very
00:06:13.840
environmentalist page 335 the canada race relations foundation sure needs a lot of branded merch as well
00:06:24.000
and a lot of it of course is made in china on page 379 public safety canada had get this branded fortune cookies made maybe
00:06:35.840
they should have put those warnings about china and serial killer paul bernardo being moved to medium security
00:06:44.000
in some fortune cookies so the minister in charge marco mendicino could have read the warnings on page 380
00:06:53.360
the cbsa has promotional trading cards as well i wonder what the trading cards are of the worst airports
00:07:00.720
in canada friends there's genuinely nothing the liberals won't waste your money on stay with us
00:07:08.560
franco terrazzano from the canadian taxpayers federation joins me up after the break to talk about
00:07:14.160
well frankly other ways the liberals are wasting your money on themselves hang tight
00:07:23.360
one of my favorite things to talk about here at rebel news is just how out of touch the liberals are
00:07:37.920
um because there is uh no lack of uh proof text for just how out of touch they are and how entitled they
00:07:46.960
truly are um one of my largest stories here at rebel news over the course of eight years was uncovering
00:07:53.520
the hundreds of thousands of dollars in in-flight catering that the trudeau liberals spent on i think
00:07:59.040
it was five or six international flights i mean it was just enormous while canadian families are struggling
00:08:06.080
to make ends meet because of carbon taxes and government precipitated inflation
00:08:14.320
uh it it just shows uh that the liberals are living in a completely different world disconnected
00:08:20.800
from the average canadian citizen and one of the other people i think in canada who really enjoys
00:08:27.360
although that probably might be the wrong word enjoys going through uh just the countless endless
00:08:33.840
ways the government continues to blow our money on themselves is franco terrazzano from the canadian
00:08:40.960
taxpayers federation franco thanks so much for coming on the show you have a very recent um news release
00:08:47.920
about uh your opinion and i think the majority of canadians paying attention share it that justin
00:08:55.200
trudeau just needs to rein in the cost of these out of control high-flying international trips well you
00:09:02.080
mentioned out of touch and i don't think i could even come up with a more out of touch story than this
00:09:07.760
the trudeau government spending sixty one thousand dollars to stay in a fancy hotel in new york city
00:09:13.600
to attend an anti-poverty summit do you hear that folks this is how the trudeau government fights
00:09:20.000
poverty by staying in a five-star hotel in manhattan and spending sixty one thousand dollars on hotel
00:09:27.040
rooms uh not even to mention the cost of the flights or other meals so here's a question how many people do
00:09:34.560
you think the government lifted out of poverty by spending sixty one thousand dollars on a five-star
00:09:40.160
hotel i don't think very many unfortunately you know i drilled down on the per room costs here and
00:09:47.920
i think there were some rooms that were in excess of a thousand dollars a night so you know the the sixty
00:09:52.560
one thousand dollars covers the whole delegation but why are you bringing an entire delegation to new
00:09:57.600
york by the way i was told that i could go to church on zoom so they can attend their anti-poverty
00:10:03.200
conferences via zoom but i mean they weren't reining in the cost of these the individual rooms either
00:10:10.080
well i guess trudeau had to bring his official photographer and videographer i mean how else
00:10:14.720
is trudeau gonna fight poverty here right um but no sheila all kidding aside i mean you're absolutely
00:10:20.800
right at one point they booked 39 hotel rooms why are they bringing a band of bureaucrats to go to this
00:10:27.440
two-day summit and to your point uh we've heard countless times hey zoom in zoom in don't go to
00:10:33.120
the meetings when you don't have to right stay at home well here's the thing this is becoming the rule
00:10:38.800
not the exception with this government because the government doesn't just rack up these huge tabs as a
00:10:44.160
tactic to fight poverty it's also racking up huge tabs flying international as its tactic to flight to fight
00:10:51.360
climate change right let's not forget about cop 26 the un's climate conference gab fest where canada
00:10:59.440
sent about 276 delegates it was the largest delegation of any g7 country including the host uh united
00:11:08.720
kingdom isn't that something yeah but it's also not fighting climate change it's also virtue signaling so
00:11:17.440
you know in your press release you know uh that the governor general spent seven hundred thousand
00:11:25.440
on a four-day trip to a german book fair why is she at a german book fair what's the value for canadians
00:11:33.200
there well that's the thing i mean we know that the government loves spending buckets of cash so they
00:11:40.800
can fly international and go to these fancy fairs and stay in these fancy hotels and eat that fancy food
00:11:46.960
but what value if any are taxpayers getting for it and you know let me just go back to the cop 26
00:11:52.560
example because this is just so outrageous you know uh fighting climate change gets very expensive
00:11:57.920
when your finance minister books a hotel in the wrong city right she stayed about 80 kilometers away
00:12:06.160
from the actual conference and of course they had to book a luxury chauffeur service to cart freeland
00:12:12.160
back and forth between the city and the hotel now you mentioned the governor general she doesn't
00:12:17.200
fly on the cheap we all remember that week-long trip her and her band of bureaucrats took going to dubai
00:12:24.080
for expo 2020 the entire trip cost more than a million dollars it was only a week folks and they spent
00:12:31.040
almost a hundred thousand dollars on airplane food it's crazy i mean it is absolutely insane and then
00:12:40.000
there's the symptom of justin trudeau of him wanting to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at
00:12:46.480
every funeral canadian taxpayers federation you guys were so instrumental in getting to the bottom
00:12:53.520
of this and naming and shaming what was going on here when justin trudeau spent six thousand dollars
00:12:59.280
per night for a luxury suite to attend the queen's funeral now that's just one part of this he didn't
00:13:05.600
want to tell anybody that it was him um being the princess and the pea at the queen's funeral but the
00:13:12.800
hotel expense for the entire trip was nearly half a million dollars yeah that's absolutely right i mean
00:13:19.280
look this is such a waste of taxpayers money when you're talking about the government could have
00:13:23.520
saved money by staying at the shangri-la right that's how you know they really spared no expense
00:13:29.120
you know what i mean uh but look let's even put the money aside because we all know spending six
00:13:33.440
thousand dollars on a hotel room while canadians can barely make it paycheck to paycheck is a crazy
00:13:39.440
amount of money and that's just pure waste okay but what really irks me is that the government
00:13:44.800
wasted our money and didn't want to didn't want to come clean with us remember the months and months
00:13:49.920
and months of them essentially pulling out all the stops so canadians didn't know who stayed in that
00:13:54.960
room right like let's be honest you didn't have to be sherlock holmes to figure out it was justin
00:13:59.120
trudeau who stayed in that luxurious hotel suite but he has a duty to tell us in fact we filed an
00:14:05.760
access to information request the bureaucrats wrote down justin trudeau's name down and then they blacked
00:14:11.600
it out they redacted it now we didn't think that we don't think that would pass the sniff test so we
00:14:16.800
hired some lawyers we launched a legal challenge to force the government to come clean trudeau knew he was
00:14:21.920
going to lose in court so he finally fessed up and admitted that it was him who stayed in the
00:14:27.200
6k per night hotel room but he did so the day before or just hours before president biden came
00:14:34.480
to town he tried to bury the story you know and that's how you know it's wrong and that's how they
00:14:42.000
know it's wrong is their attempts to hide it do you recall i'm often curious because i work in access
00:14:48.720
to information so much what reason did they give you for redacting that name they gave us two reasons
00:14:56.720
was one was a personal reason but that doesn't fly uh the legal sniff test because when when they're
00:15:03.600
there on official government business and they're using taxpayers money they have a responsibility to
00:15:09.040
be honest with taxpayers on what the money was spent towards so that doesn't pass the sniff test
00:15:13.600
the other one is even crazier they gave us a security reason for why they couldn't release
00:15:19.840
who stayed in that room like five months prior so sheila unless they were worried about the terminator
00:15:25.440
traveling back in time to the hotel room you know i just don't think that there's a security
00:15:30.640
issue there at all neither did our lawyers and honestly trudeau knew that those arguments would
00:15:35.520
pass up in court and that's why he finally fessed up yeah more like the security of his poll numbers
00:15:40.800
like come on um and it's funny to see and i know this isn't maybe something that the
00:15:49.280
canadian taxpayers federation concerns themselves with but it is interesting for me as a right-leaning
00:15:55.440
journalist to see just how differently the mainstream media treats the liberals with their out-of-control
00:16:02.080
spending and expense spending versus how they treated members of stephen harper's government for
00:16:08.720
example i always go back to bev oda's 16 orange juice and nuked that woman's career um because
00:16:15.920
there was just no toleration for it not just from the canadian public she probably could have survived
00:16:22.720
the outrage from the canadian public but there was no toleration for it from her own party they were the
00:16:27.760
ones that were having none of it but the liberals they just seemed to be perfectly fine with justin trudeau
00:16:33.120
blowing money on himself i think maybe because they hope maybe he might spend some of it on them
00:16:38.160
once in a while too well i mean it's the us versus them right like let's not make no bones about it um
00:16:45.280
we are not the government the government is not us we pay tax uh we we pay a lot of our income in taxes
00:16:50.880
the latest numbers i saw was that when you add up all the different taxes that we pay federal
00:16:54.880
provincial municipal is close to half of our income is is going to taxes right um i mean with some people
00:17:01.360
that are listening it's probably more um and so we pay this taxes and what do we get out of it well
00:17:07.200
i mean it seems like the tax burden is going up and up and up and i'm not seeing better services
00:17:12.080
i mean i get to go across canada with my job to talk about different issues across the country and i
00:17:18.080
mean the roads are are a complete mess in many of the provinces um you know doesn't seem to me like
00:17:23.680
healthcare has gotten any better um what about the passports right how many hours you have to wait in
00:17:29.280
line to get something like that so you you see the government spending buckets of cash more
00:17:34.000
every year it seems like you seems like taxes are always going up and what results are we getting
00:17:38.880
for it well we know what results they're getting for it they're getting pay raise after pay raise
00:17:42.960
after pay raise they're going on all these international gab fests and they won't even tell
00:17:48.080
us what value if any we're getting for all of this
00:17:52.960
speaking of additional taxes it's one of the reasons i wanted to have you on the show is
00:17:57.600
we are about to get hammered with an additional carbon tax that nobody really seems to be aware
00:18:03.840
of and before you came before i hit record you said that's because they don't want you to be
00:18:08.240
aware of it sheila so tell us about the clean fuel standard well it's a second carbon tax right
00:18:14.560
let's call it what it is they want to call it that name because it sounds better but what it really
00:18:18.960
is is a second carbon tax okay so but here's here's what i meant when i said that to you okay so they
00:18:25.120
tried to bury the second carbon tax within fuel regulations they wanted to bury in regulation so
00:18:30.560
it's not as transparent because they're getting hammered over the carbon taxes and the higher gas
00:18:35.440
prices that have been going on in canada while inflation reached a 40 year high last year uh so
00:18:40.800
here's what the regulations do they require producers to reduce the carbon content of their fuels if
00:18:47.360
producers and companies cannot meet justin trudeau's requirements and they have to pay justin trudeau's
00:18:51.920
second carbon tax but as all your listeners will know it's not just the big industry players that
00:18:56.800
are going to feel this you're going to feel it every time you go to the pump to fuel up your minivan with
00:19:01.120
gas or to fill up that ram with diesel right and and the parliamentary budget officer the government's
00:19:06.240
own non-partisan independent budget watchdog shows that this second carbon tax will cost a family in
00:19:13.280
2030 up to 1100 sorry costs an average family up to 1100 in 2030 now that's an annual hit so 2030 onwards
00:19:25.600
the second carbon tax will cost an average family in alberta for example about 1100 bucks and folks
00:19:32.800
that's not replacing the current carbon tax that's in addition to the current carbon tax so by 2030 trudeau's
00:19:40.160
two carbon taxes will increase the price of gasoline by about 55 cents a liter and cost the average
00:19:46.880
family more than two thousand dollars every single year and the opposition to this is not just coming
00:19:55.680
from conservatives like me who say you know i've got i've got a 45 minute round trip to get a jug of
00:20:02.000
milk from the convenience store up on the highway i'm surprised you don't have cows
00:20:06.400
cows yeah don't get me started on the cartels um but you know it's for a lot of people in this
00:20:14.480
country we don't live in town this is a very sparsely populated place and it's not the outrage
00:20:20.400
against this is not just coming from people like me it's coming from fellow liberals like uh many
00:20:27.120
premiers in the atlantic provinces oh yeah i mean they are and i think the reason is is because i mean
00:20:34.000
let's just have some compassion for people right and um but the problem is is that it's tough for
00:20:39.280
politicians to have compassion for the people they're supposed to represent when they're so
00:20:43.280
financially divorced from the realities facing the people they're supposed to represent right
00:20:48.080
it's it's very difficult um to understand someone who is barely living paycheck to paycheck or who's
00:20:54.240
worried about their credit card statements going up every single month when you get to go all these
00:20:58.720
fancy parties you know you're meeting with all these lobbyists when bureaucrats are are you know
00:21:04.400
giving you these fancy briefings they're so detached from that reality but i think people are starting to
00:21:09.680
understand like look it is the government's taxation and regulations that are driving up the cost of
00:21:14.480
living and all of this is useless the carbon tax is a useless tax that does nothing for the environment
00:21:20.960
okay let's just talk about global emissions because that's that's kind of the narrative
00:21:25.280
that this is all for you know reducing global emissions well hold on a second okay canada makes
00:21:30.400
up 1.5 of global emissions so how does making it more expensive for someone in uh calgary or medicine
00:21:37.280
hat or saint john's how does it make it how is making it more expensive for them to fill up their grocery
00:21:43.600
cart or to fuel their minivan what does that do to reduce emissions in china india russia the united states
00:21:49.600
it does absolutely nothing the carbon tax is just a useless tax from the environmental
00:21:54.880
standpoint all it does is make canadians poorer well and you know these people tend to measure our
00:22:01.920
carbon footprint against people who live in equatorial regions i'm just trying not to die
00:22:07.840
for most of the winter so yeah my carbon footprint is going to be a little bit higher i think canadians
00:22:13.600
are doing pretty well considering just how darn cold and vast this place is well i mean yeah we live in a
00:22:20.800
very big very cold country right and look um we also we also have to recognize too like other
00:22:27.440
countries aren't doing this like your listeners might not know this but more than 75 of countries
00:22:33.840
do not have a national carbon tax okay more than three quarters of the countries out there do not have
00:22:40.000
a national carbon tax and as of canada day we'll have two right so like what is this all about here
00:22:47.600
because i can go through a long a laundry list of countries that have just cut gas taxes australia
00:22:52.400
cut its gas tax in half germany just cut gas taxes india israel italy the netherlands new zealand
00:22:58.080
portugal south korea cut its gas tax by 30 the united kingdom has provided billions of dollars in fuel
00:23:04.720
tax relief some of the provinces are doing the right thing newfoundland and labrador cut taxes ontario
00:23:09.360
cut taxes the daniel smith government completely suspended gas taxes i mean kudos to those governments
00:23:15.600
who are doing the right thing all while ottawa continues to raise taxes raise the cost of living
00:23:21.280
and to be honest i can guarantee you or maybe i can't say that but i bet you politicians in ottawa
00:23:27.440
every time they go buy a shell or they go buy a petro they're patting themselves on the back because
00:23:32.960
they want these high gas prices yeah and they're not getting rid of their town cars getting driven
00:23:39.040
around and um every single day to wherever they're going they're driving in a big suv or a town car for
00:23:45.200
sure they're not pulling up in a prius that's for darn sure we've all seen it with our own eyes uh
00:23:51.440
franco i want to thank you so much for coming on the show and being such a strong advocate for just
00:23:56.160
the normals of the world out there who are trying to just get by as it seems like the government is
00:24:01.200
picking our pockets even more furiously every single day how do people find your work and more
00:24:06.880
importantly support the work that the canadian taxpayers federation does because unlike a lot of
00:24:11.840
these groups you will never take a penny from the government no we never have never will i can
00:24:17.520
tell you that and and thank you so much for having me on please everyone head over to taxpayer.com check
00:24:22.480
out our newsroom check out our petitions and uh yeah let's help us hold these uh big spending
00:24:27.200
politicians and bureaucrats accountable great thanks franco stay with us your letters to
00:24:47.920
well letters letters letters we get your letters and comments every hour of every single day
00:24:52.320
because we don't close the comment section we actually care about what you think about
00:24:56.640
the work that we do here at rebel news because without you there is no rebel news we don't have
00:25:01.200
a sugar daddy named justin trudeau reaching into other people's pockets to take their money to give
00:25:06.080
to us to create content they don't care about as is the case with justin trudeau and the mainstream
00:25:11.120
media so if you look over my shoulder there are a few different ways where you can get in touch with
00:25:15.200
us here rebel news but also don't hesitate to leave a comment on any of the places that you might find
00:25:21.120
our work especially in this instance today youtube now i said in my interview with franco that i would
00:25:28.880
be reading your letters to ezra but then i changed my mind in between just moments ago and now i thought
00:25:36.960
that i would read your comments on our trailer for our brand new documentary called church under fire
00:25:44.400
canada's war on christianity but before i read those comments and tell you how you can see the movie
00:25:51.520
because we're taking it all across the country take a look at the trailer
00:25:54.560
in a vast land of untamed beauty hidden within its borders lie stories of unwavering faith and
00:26:05.120
resilience when the world was engulfed in fear covet 19 which is causing all of the concern right now
00:26:11.520
pastors faced an unimaginable trial they were wrongfully persecuted during the covet 19 pandemic
00:26:18.480
their voices silenced by oppressive measures and we realized something doesn't match up there's an
00:26:25.680
agenda under the surface here i cannot obey under their their wishes i cannot just obey this new norm
00:26:34.960
if you will in the face of adversity they held on to their beliefs defending the sacred right to
00:26:40.480
worship out of this property you nazis out join us on an extraordinary voyage across canada
00:26:47.440
as we shine a light on the untold stories of these pastors who were wrongfully persecuted during
00:26:53.120
covet 19 witness their courage their unwavering faith and their determination to reclaim their
00:26:59.360
voices in the face of adversity i'm not going to let those who are in ottawa determine my peace
00:27:05.680
my joy you're disobedient to the government or disobedient to god and take your pick
00:27:10.160
this summer embark on an unforgettable exploration through church under fire canada's war on
00:27:19.040
christianity a documentary that will inspire and challenge your perceptions experience their
00:27:24.960
remarkable stories a testament to the indomitable human spirit and the power of faith
00:27:40.160
now from the comment section underneath the trailer judy s 5638 writes as a christian i'm astounded
00:27:54.400
this has gone unchecked not investigated ignored by the crime monster in ottawa freedom unfortunately
00:28:02.240
with liberals winning half the by-elections yesterday where is the hope for canada's future
00:28:07.280
she's talking about the series of by-elections last week where i think the status quo was maintained
00:28:15.360
uh it's hard to flip a by-election in the middle of a term and i don't think it's indicative of the
00:28:22.480
public sentiment i think more and more people are waking up to the reality that nothing was quite as
00:28:31.040
they were told during the pandemic hindsight being 2020 people are figuring out the vaccines weren't
00:28:39.520
as effective the lockdowns weren't everything that they were sold to be and the restrictions on places
00:28:47.760
of worship were heavy-handed and completely unnecessary and i think a portion of the population now looks back
00:28:55.680
upon what we all just lived through with horror and perhaps maybe a little bit of shame for what
00:29:02.800
they didn't say as things were unfolding and as the attacks were occurring on their fellow canadian
00:29:10.240
citizens got another 888 here and now writes breaks my heart let's remember what the enemy meant for
00:29:19.120
evil god will work for good you know what i've seen this play out in real time in my communications with
00:29:26.880
these pastors they have said that more people are finding faith and finding fellowship and finding community
00:29:36.320
since the pandemic they were looking for churches to stand up against the state and the churches that did
00:29:46.160
stand up they're growing and the churches that moved communion to zoom well maybe some of those
00:29:53.280
congregations never come back because they were told by their priests by their pastors that in-person
00:29:59.920
fellowship was not vital not essential to the practice of their faith despite what the bible tells us
00:30:09.120
one last one brendan schultz 980 writes this must never be forgotten thank you for making
00:30:15.920
this generations will look back in shame but those who fought will be seen as heroes i think there's
00:30:23.040
a lot of shame to go around uh a lot of people who cheered on the lockdowns and a lot of people who
00:30:33.920
condoned the lockdowns through their silence they should really be ashamed um this was a chance to show
00:30:42.320
the world who we all really were and uh frankly a lot of people showed me exactly who they were
00:30:50.160
and i don't really like it and i learned a lot about a lot of people during the course of the
00:30:55.360
pandemic and i think uh people at home you probably feel the same way but i also hope that you learned
00:31:00.560
a lot about us here at rebel news that not only were we willing to tell the stories of the absolute
00:31:08.880
bonfire of civil liberties that was occurring around us during the pandemic but you realize
00:31:14.160
that we were people who maybe we couldn't put out that bonfire of civil liberties but we would bring
00:31:21.120
a bucket of water to do our best to stop it from spreading um through our uh partnership with the
00:31:28.320
registered canadian charity the democracy fund who helped a few of these pastors featured in our
00:31:35.840
documentary including pastor phil hutchins who spent seven days in solitary confinement for the crime of
00:31:44.560
church services singing in church during the time of covet now for those of you who just saw that
00:31:49.760
trailer um and you want to see the documentary in person we're doing something very very different
00:31:55.600
than what we have done in the past we are touring our documentary because i'm not going to lie
00:32:00.800
i'm not just saying this because i am in the documentary and i i worked with our brilliant
00:32:07.840
chief documentary filmmaker kian simoni to put it together but i think this is some of the best work
00:32:14.560
and maybe some of the most important work that we've ever done creating an historical record of what
00:32:20.240
happened in this country to places of worship at the hands of the government in the name of public health
00:32:27.280
when really it was just all about control they now know which congregations will heal before the
00:32:34.480
government instead of god but if you want to see the documentary go to savethechristians.com we have
00:32:43.440
showings all across the country we want to bring the documentary as close to the people who are in the
00:32:48.720
documentary as possible because without them the documentary isn't possible so we've got showings
00:32:53.920
and we're adding showings but i should tell you showings are already starting to sell out
00:33:00.240
so if you go to savethechristians.com you'll see the list of cities and keep checking back because
00:33:04.880
we're adding cities all the time but the cities on there like i said they're already selling out so
00:33:09.920
if you're hemming and hawing about getting a ticket just get one because i can't help you once they sell
00:33:14.960
out i can't change the fire code so go to that website savethechristians.com find a city near
00:33:22.160
you click through buy a ticket and we will see you there it's just that easy i can't wait for you to
00:33:28.480
see this work as i said it's some of the most important work that we've ever done it's savethechristians.com
00:33:34.080
to see our documentary church under fire and again i'm just i'm so proud of it well everybody that's
00:33:40.480
the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in you know i'm not sure who's hosting tomorrow i don't
00:33:46.720
think it's me thanks everybody who works behind the scenes to put the show together
00:33:50.640
uh every single day and as ezra always says keep fighting for freedom