SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Two-thirds of the vaccine injury support program (VISP) fund went to consultants
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After several years of the federal government telling us that all the COVID vaccines are safe and effective, you would think that you wouldn t need something called the Vaccine Injury Support Program, or VIP, but we have it. However, the VIP program doesn t actually support all that many vaccine injured people. In fact, it seems to support government contractors at a far greater rate than it does support the people who are injured because they had the misfortune of taking a vaccine.
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the vaccine injury support program is a make work project for federal contractors. Joining
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me today is the journalist who broke the story. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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After several years of the federal government telling us that all the COVID vaccines are
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quote safe and effective, you would think that you wouldn't need something called the
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Vaccine Injury Support Program or VISP, but we have it. However, the Vaccine Injury Support Program,
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well, doesn't actually support all that many vaccine injured people. In fact, it seems to
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support government contractors at a far greater rate than it does support the people who are
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injured because they had the misfortune of taking a vaccine. They probably didn't want
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to prevent unemployment or depression. Now, joining me today is my friend Tamara Ugolini,
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someone that I repeatedly call Canada's leading medical journalist because she uncovered this
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absolute boondoggle of the $30 plus million allocated for the Vaccine Injury Support Program. Well,
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20 million of that has gone to federal contractors to administer the program. It's almost hard to
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believe, but after nine years of Justin Trudeau in power, is it really all that hard to believe?
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Here's my conversation I had with my friend and colleague Tamara Ugolini earlier today.
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Joining me now is my friend and colleague, and I think the person I rely on the most at the company to
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help me when I am off on other projects, Tamara Ugolini. And from day one, you were a pandemic
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skeptic. In fact, that's why we hired you. And then once you started seeing what was happening with some of
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the lockdown adjacent issues like vaccine mandates, you really flew into action, I think, despite what
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Andre Picard might say, you are Canada's foremost medical journalist in this country. You really
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have made yourself an expert on these topics. And one of the things that you are really focused like
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a laser beam on is the Vaccine Injury Support Program. For people who don't know, although I think
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regular viewers of Rebel News would already know, but tell us what this program is designed to do.
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Of course. So the Vaccine Injury Support Program, acronymED THIS, was a pandemic-borne support
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initiative geared toward financially compensating people who have been maimed and or killed by the
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virus. And they purported to be safe and effective novel COVID-19 injections. The government,
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federally at least, didn't have any sort of contingency plan in place prior to the rollout
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of these rushed-to-market products. And so they instituted this VISP program. To my knowledge,
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the only other place in Canada where this existed previously was in Quebec. And theirs also covered
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all of the other kind of traditional vaccines, whereas the VISP program is specific to the COVID-19
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injections. And there's very strict and stringent submission guidelines for people to even be able
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to start a claim process. For instance, I'll just look at their, pull it directly from their website
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right now. What constitutes a serious and permanent injury? Well, of course, it must be serious and
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permanent. It's defined as a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that may require in-person
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hospitalization or a prolongation of existing hospitalization. And, so there's a catch, and
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results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity or where the outcome is a congenital
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malformation and, get this, or death. So don't forget that we were PSYOP'd. Essentially, there was a
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massive psychological operation that went into play late 2020 and early 2021 that coincided with the
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rollout of these injections that told everybody they were safe and effective. And the idea behind that
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at the time was, get your shot to protect your community, protect your grandma, be able to gather
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indoors. There was all of these social stipulations placed on anybody who was deemed a dangerous super
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spreader, otherwise known as an anti-vaxxer, who said, hold on a minute, I'd like to just wait for maybe
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the clinical trials to be completed before I decide to go forward with this injection that we really know
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nothing at that point about. And they were really smeared, slandered, ostracized from society
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completely. If you remember when the vaccine mandates and the vaccine passports were coming
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into effect, you couldn't go to the theater with your friends, you couldn't go out for dinner with
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your spouse, your family. There was even rules and regulations put into place for family gatherings
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at their homes, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner, during peak hysteria. And so these shots were really
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pushed down everybody's throats. And meanwhile, as they're talking out of their mouth that they're
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so safe and effective, the government is also putting a program in place that compensates people
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who are injured so severely that they're unable to work, they're unable to keep up with their day-to-day
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and or they die. And also, we have really been on top of this since the onset, filing access to
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information requests. And for anybody at home who doesn't know, we have a special portal there
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called rebelinvestigates.com, where all of our exclusive reports are housed and contained.
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And what we discovered through those initial access to information requests is that the government had
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originally planned, and when I say government, I mean specifically Health Canada and the Public Health
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Agency of Canada, who's responsible for running this program. They originally accounted for or assumed
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that there would be approximately 400 claims per year. And we discovered that that amount was capped
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halfway, so six months into the first year of the rule out of this program that came into effect
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by the summer of 2021. And in those documents, there was a ton of redactions. And something that
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caught my eye was the difference between where they stated in those response documents that there was
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ongoing financial support, and so that meant to the victims, versus the cost to administer the program.
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And there was a massive difference there between what was being allocated to the families versus what
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was going to the consultancy firm running and administering this program. And so it took almost a
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year to appeal that and get the redacted documents back uncensored. And what we found was, out of the
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original $32 million that was allocated the total funding amount to run this program from 2021 until
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2026, there was approximately 12,000 of that allocated to the actual people suffering from
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vaccine injury. And the rest, 60%, would end up in the hands of the consultancy firm, Raymond Grant Shabbat
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Thornton Consultancy Inc., to simply administer the program. And so the vast majority of the funds were not
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actually reaching the pockets of the victims of this safe and effective marketing scheme, is what I refer to it as,
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but rather back into the hands of these consultants who also had other conflicts of interest, were pivotal really in
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supporting the government's institution of the vaccine mandate program for federal workers, et cetera, et cetera.
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So it's a really twisty, turny program that unfortunately doesn't end up helping the people
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So to just clarify the numbers, we've got $32 million for the program in total, which seems actually low.
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And then we've got $12 million is all that went to the people who were vaccine injured. And we know it's
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thousands and thousands. And that means a full $20 million went to line the pockets of this
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consultancy firm. One of the things we saw during the National Citizens Inquiry, the citizen-led inquiry into
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the government's overreaction into the COVID pandemic was just the sheer difficulty for really, truly,
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genuinely vaccine-injured people to access this VISP program. People who got blood clots. I know
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one of my dearest, closest friends. She just, for her, it was a matter of mental health. I need to leave
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my house and do something normal. She took the vaccine and otherwise healthy young woman, blood clot in
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her bicep, very close to her heart. Another man that I met at the whistle stop, a young man working in the
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oil field. The next time I saw him, he is walking with a cane with paralysis on one side of his body
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because he had a stroke. And these are the people who don't qualify for VISP, even though we know 100%
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they were vaccine injured. If they're even remotely functioning, they seem to be disregarded as not
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qualifying for this program. And I want to note here, too, that those numbers that I listed, that was the
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original budget allocation. Right. We know that as of last month, so December 2023, that the government
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has already paid out $11 million worth of compensation to the families that have been affected by this safe
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and effective narrative. And so that is already only $1 million off of what they budgeted for until
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2026. So we're only about halfway, just a little bit over halfway through this program that's supposed
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to wrap up in 2026. And already they're going to be at least, I would speculate, twice as much over
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budget as they originally planned for. So there's that. But, you know, even on the Health Canada website,
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you can see that there has been almost 58,712 total adverse events reported following immunization
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with this novel injection. Of those, there were 11,702 that were serious. And serious is really an
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arbitrary definition that also includes death. But regardless, this VISP program has processed and
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confirmed a very tiny fraction of those. And we know that according to the FDA, only 1% of adverse
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events ever go to actually being formally documented and reported. So all of this reflects and represents
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a mere fraction of, and I would even say a fraction of a fraction of those who have actually been
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affected by this. And we've reported extensively on the vast amount of vaccine reactions. One of the
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first stories that I reported on actually was in June or July 2021 and following the first injection of
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the AstraZeneca vaccine, which thereafter came with hefty safety signals due to thrombosis, as you mentioned,
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Sheila, clotting. And this gentleman, Kevin Street, was experiencing such debilitating, not only physical,
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but also neurological symptoms, but also neurological symptoms, that he was actually mentally and
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psychologically unable to sift through the insane amount of bureaucracy and paperwork needed to even
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navigate this newly released system. And as you mentioned at the National Citizens Inquiry, one particular
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woman that I interviewed, Meredith Klitsky, same thing. She was so neurologically hampered by whatever
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symptoms she was experiencing, that she described the stacks of paperwork that she couldn't even get
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through on a day-to-day basis because her injury was so debilitating and she had to go through all
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the rigmarole with a doctor, a specialist, to go to all these appointments. And that's if the doctors
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will even acknowledge and document these adverse events because they've been so terrified by their
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regulators to do anything that goes against that safe and effective narrative that many times they
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just disregard these patients. And again, we've reported extensively on this. There was a pair
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of nurses that I interviewed in December 2021 from Peterborough Regional Health, the hospital,
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and they reported that anybody who was coming in saying, hey, these symptoms started after I got
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my vaccine, they were sent over for a psych consult. So they were, you know, oh, you just have anxiety,
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we're going to give you some anxiety or antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds or antidepressants, and hopefully
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that will quell whatever you're experiencing. Like, they were completely disregarded. And again, even Patrick
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Phillips, I believe that was May of 2021, who said and described how the local medical officers of health
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were really the gatekeepers into this system because any doctors who reported adverse events had to send it off
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to the health unit to get the go-ahead, get that green check, before it could go into a further
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filtering system. So there's a multi-leveled bureaucracy at play here. There's a multi-leveled
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arbitrary filtering system at play here. At the end of the day, there are, I would speculate to say
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millions of people suffering various degrees and levels of adverse events who are not covered by any of
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this reporting system or the vaccine injury support program. Yeah, I mean, we know that they
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vaccinated the entire military with Moderna. And that was prior to Moderna not being advised for,
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I think it's young men under the age of 35. Well, guess what the entire military is? And that's why
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they're experiencing vaccine injuries at a rate way higher than the general population, even with the
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government's own skewed statistics. And this doesn't take into account the long-term problems that we
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have no idea how those will manifest. I think there's no possible way that this program should wrap up in
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2026 because, I mean, that's only five years out really of a vaccine rollout. We don't know what the
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long-term effects are of this. And then, of course, and then the things I'm going to say are probably going
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to be the reason we cannot publish the free version of this on YouTube. There are vaccine
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inconveniences. So, as I would describe them, I mean, they really are vaccine injuries. If you took
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this vaccine because you were lied to by the government that it was safe and effective and you
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were not catastrophically injured, but you end up with health ramifications. I know people who have
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developed allergies out of nowhere midlife for no reason. They just are, all of a sudden, certain
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things that they've been using, they are allergic to. And there are the women with the changes in their
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menstrual cycles. Now, that we don't know the long-term effects on fertility, but we do know that
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that is at least an inconvenient change to your reproductive system and maybe something worse.
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And something else that we haven't touched on is the rates of myocarditis. So, inflammation of the
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heart and how affected the circulatory system in general seems to be by these mRNA products. Again,
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on Health Canada's website here, the total number of events specifically, myo-slash-pericarditis,
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is just over 12,000. And the vast majority of those cases, if you break it down and look at the
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provincial data, which has a little bit more robust reporting systems in place, you see that the vast
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majority of those cases are healthy, young males. So, that sort of prime age 12 to 25, kind of in that
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sweet spot there, are who has been most damaged by these products. And again, that's an age, a crucial age
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in development when you're a teenager, you're a young man, to get out into the world and have those
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social interactions. Those young boys were mandated these shots to do things like play hockey with their
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teammates. If they didn't, then they wouldn't be able to progress athletically and have any
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opportunities that were associated with that were basically stolen from them if they didn't comply with
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this injection mandate. And as a result, a vast majority of them now suffer with long-term and
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potentially life-threatening and irreversible inflammation of their heart. This is just so
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disturbing what happened to people, how informed consent was completely validated or was informed
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consent was not upheld. It was intensely and aggressively infringed upon. And nobody was told,
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because we didn't know, nobody knew, nobody who was asserting the safety and efficacy of these shots
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knew that these were the potential consequences or the outcomes, because as I mentioned, those clinical
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trials were not concluded when they ruled these things out. You know, even the circulatory system,
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the total number of people suffering circulatory system affected adverse events is 1900. Again,
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safe and effective. And yet we need a vaccine injury support program in place to deal with the
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repercussions of this safe and effective shot that also worth mentioning doesn't come out of the
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pockets of big pharma who made billions and perhaps even trillions off of these injections. This comes
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from the taxpayer's dollar. This is a taxpayer funded government support program and big pharma gets to
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laugh all the way to the bank. Oh, that's a great point. The big pharma, the people who injured these
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people with their enablers in big government, they get off scot-free and they're the ones ultimately
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responsible, along with the politicians who were coercing people and lying to people about the efficacy of
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these vaccines. You make an excellent point about the young men, so 12 to 25. They're the people, by and large,
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who suffer the greatest consequences for getting vaccine, getting the vaccination, and yet they were the ones
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least susceptible to any sort of catastrophic impacts from COVID-19. It would have been just a cough, the chills,
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and the sniffles, and they would have been just fine. Instead, they're going to deal with lifelong
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consequences to their cardiovascular system. It's just atrocious. And one of the things you've really
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pointed out from the very beginning, and we saw this through order paper questions, is that safe and
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effective is just a marketing campaign akin to finger licking good. It doesn't actually mean safe and
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effective. In fact, we've seen through order paper questions that safe meant not that it wouldn't
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harm you. That's not ever what they tested. And they took the word of the vaccine manufacturers
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that it was effective, like buying the car off Facebook Marketplace and the guy says it parked or it
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ran when I parked it. But safe meant it didn't contain any toxic substances, like, for example,
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schedule one toxins, mercury, lead, asbestos, or I guess single-use plastics, according to Justin
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Trudeau. But that's what safe meant, not that it wouldn't harm you. To really drive home that there
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was that marketing scheme at play here with the safe and effective. And again, if people had have been
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given informed consent that, hey, these are still in clinical trials, they'll wrap up in a few months,
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and then we'll have the data sometime thereafter. So we'll keep you posted. If anybody, you know,
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is terrified and thinks this will help them to get back and reintegrate into society, by all means,
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go for it. But to mandate something like this on the population, and especially for that demographic
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that wasn't ever, and we knew that very early on, wasn't ever at risk of severe outcomes,
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was asinine, in my opinion. And the thing to note about the safe and effective slogan also is that's
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based on, or typically should be based on, a risk-benefit calculation. That is something else
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that we have been investigating since the spring of 2021. I've reached out repeatedly to Health Canada.
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What was that risk-benefit calculation used to justify the rollout of this injection? And specifically,
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at the time, I was asking for youth, so those aged 17 and under. And that access to information
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request that I subsequently had to file because they wouldn't respond to my media requests on it,
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has been filibustered since that time. So we're going on almost three years where they can't
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send me just the basic calculation, the risk of X per population, compared to the benefit of X per
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population, and what that remaining calculation is. They cannot attest to that. They haven't sent that
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to me. And I've repeatedly asked, and I've followed up, and I've appealed, and tried to put the pressure
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on for that access to information request. Still don't have it. So for Health Canada and Federal
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Minister of Health, Mark Holland, to continue to peddle this safe and efficacious narrative without
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having conducted that calculation, and if they have, it's apparently top secret and mysterious.
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That, I think, in and of itself speaks for itself.
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Yeah. And, you know, I just want to make it clear. I don't begrudge anybody who took that vaccine. I
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have friends, family who took the vaccine for a multitude of different reasons. Some of them
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believe the TV doctors because, you know, normally the guy in a white coat, you're supposed to believe
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them. I think equal parts of people took the vaccine, not because they wanted the vaccine,
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but because they took it as a vaccination against unemployment. They did what the federal government
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didn't do and weighed the risk benefit. And for them, the risk, the benefit of being able to feed
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their family and pay their mortgage, outweighed whatever risk that they felt, I ultimately was
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there. And I cannot begrudge those people, those choices. They don't have the benefit of working
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for an employer like ours, who doesn't coerce us into doing anything that we don't want to do or
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don't believe in. But I think one of the first things that the future conservative government should
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do, just looking at the polls, it's going to be just an absolute bloodbath for the liberals.
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But I think a future conservative government should do what the conservatives did when
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Jean Chrétien left office. And that is a full scale, whole of government inquiry into what exactly
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went down here, who benefited, who lied. And that is the only way, I think, that as a society,
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we can heal from this absolute violation we've experienced, whether people feel that way or not.
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It is true that we experience at the hands of the people whose really only job as a federal government
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Yeah. And I mean, also, the National Citizens' Inquiry has really done the breadth of that work
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already. And I think also looking into why previously well-established pandemic preparedness
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plans, because we had those. We had documents to source back to. We had actual evidence-based responses
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that were completely disregarded for this major hysterical reactions that largely came down from
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the World Health Organization. Lockdowns and mandates were never part of our previously well-established,
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as I mentioned, pandemic preparedness plans. You can talk to previous medical officers of health in
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various jurisdictions, provinces and territories. And Colonel Redmond in Alberta, the guy who wrote
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our pandemic response, he said, basically, at the National Citizens' Inquiry, these are the established
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protocols. I wrote the plan for Alberta, and ultimately it was thrown in the garbage, and we still don't know why.
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Exactly. And so I think that really needs to be investigated and how we ensure that those
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preparedness plans that are based on evidence are upheld. You know, they keep telling us that
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it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when the next pandemic. And so when, if there is another pandemic,
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we need to make sure that those well-established evidence-based responses and protocols are upheld.
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The pillars to informed consent and these sorts of things around therapeutics are upheld.
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And another thing that when you mentioned about people who had to take the injection to keep
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their jobs, my family, my husband was up against that kind of financial devastation or get this
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novel injection where all of the other, the guys on site in his construction industry were already having
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heart symptoms, other, you know, various illnesses as a result. But this, this program was theoretically
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put in place for those people who had to take an injection to keep their jobs, but then were unable to
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work because of the adverse events they were experiencing from taking a job mandated injection.
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And so the really sad part about that is so many people took the injection to keep their job,
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then they were maimed and unable to work their job. And they're supposed to have this safety net in
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place of the VISP program. But because it's so arbitrary and, and, and stringently defined,
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they're left to their own devices. And so many people in that situation ended up being out of work anyway,
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and they're not compensated through this taxpayer funded program.
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And all the while consultants are getting rich. And this is the theme of Justin Trudeau's government.
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We're seeing it right now in arrive can or arrive scam, as my MP calls it. We're seeing it here.
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If you are a federal government contractor, a consultant, the world is your oyster and the
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little guys just trying to pay their bills, get by and do the right thing for their family.
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You're tossed in the garbage, um, and treated like, well, like some sort of crypto Nazi if you're just
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skeptical, rightly so, of the men in the white lab coats, either at your doctor's office or at the
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And again, big pharma gets to laugh all the way to the bank.
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Yeah. Yep. A lot of, uh, people are rich on the backs of some very injured blue-collar workers
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in this country. And it is an absolute disgrace. And, uh, I'm, I'm proud of the work that the
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National Citizens Inquiry did. Uh, but there are a lot of people in government who should be subpoenaed
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to testify to their roles in all of this. Um, they should, they should not get away scot-free.
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There are many of them who know exactly what they did and they know what was wrong
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and they're hoping we all forget. And I won't until they're held accountable.
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Yeah, absolutely. Completely agree. And the, despite their best efforts,
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the NCI didn't have the legal ability to compel various medical officers of health and others
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who were responsible for these knee-jerk reactions and these, these policy frameworks
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to come and testify and, and back up what they did and why. And absolutely, there needs to be
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something more formal put in place to make sure that we get those answers and make sure that this
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never happens again. Yeah, that's the thing. If we don't hold these two, these people to account,
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they're just going to do it again. They're just going to grab this power and use it against the
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citizens of Canada again. Tamara, what are you working on next on this?
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Well, I'm keeping my ear to the ground to get some personal stories of people who have navigated
00:30:13.340
the VIS program. I mean, we've heard from a few, but I know there are dozens, thousands, if not millions,
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facing the same. And so I'm just keeping my ear to the ground on who has a really compelling story
00:30:29.740
about either being disregarded by this program, not being sufficient. Now, the mainstream media
00:30:35.180
has picked up a little bit. There was, I believe it was CTV in British Columbia, ran a story of two
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men who were compensated through this program, but it will never adequately replace the employment loss
00:30:49.100
that they've suffered as a result of, again, debilitating and lasting injury. And so, and so keeping my
00:30:55.900
my ear to the ground off that, but also whether or not this program will actually wrap up in 2026.
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You know, these obviously, again, are debilitating, light, long-lasting injuries. And so what,
00:31:08.860
in 2026, all of a sudden the well dries up and sorry, you're left to your own devices. And maybe
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that's where some of the reporting that you're currently working on with MAID comes in. And that
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is just so ghoulish to think that that is a possible outlet for these people that, you know,
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Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. Whatever brings people to desperation and death's door,
00:31:36.140
most of what we're hearing is related to government ineptitude, quite frankly, and a health system
00:31:42.460
that is broken, but that unions won't allow innovation within to fix and make it better for
00:31:49.260
the people who actually want to use it. Everybody brags about Canada's world-class
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free healthcare system. Yeah, it's great until you try to use it. And those are the stories that
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we're hearing over and over again. Tamara, thanks so much for your work on this topic. As I said,
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you are Canada's leading medical journalist in this country because you really see this through the
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eyes of a normal person. You do not work for the government. You're not paid by the government.
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And you're really trying to tell the stories of the normal people who are harmed by the government.
00:32:24.380
And I think that is a valuable thing. And it's why people really appreciate and admire the work that
00:32:31.260
you do. Well, thanks, Sheila. I say it repeatedly, but it is truly an honor to be in a position to do
00:32:37.100
this work and bring people this kind of information that otherwise you unfortunately don't hear really
00:32:43.100
anywhere else and is seemingly ignored by our mainstream media. This is the portion of the show wherein we
00:32:58.780
invite your viewer feedback. I say it every week and I know it's redundant, but we're getting new people
00:33:03.180
here all the time. So we've got to tell them the rules. Unlike the mainstream media, we actually care
00:33:07.340
about what you think about the work that we do here at Rebel News. In fact, I think by and large,
00:33:11.660
you might actually even like us. So why wouldn't I open up my emails for some compliments or some hate
00:33:18.540
mail, depending on how you're feeling about what I said that day. So I give you my email address
00:33:23.580
right now. It's Sheila at RebelNews.com. Put gun show letters in the subject line. So I know it's
00:33:30.140
about something I said or did relating to the gun show. But if you're watching us on the free version
00:33:37.580
of the show on YouTube or Rumble, thank you for sitting through those ads, by the way. But don't
00:33:43.340
hesitate to leave a question, query, comment, story, idea, anything like that in the comment section over
00:33:49.500
there. I do read those and I do go looking for your clever commentary on our work. Now today's
00:33:57.500
gun show letter doesn't actually come to me about the gun show. So there's that too. If you put gun
00:34:05.180
show letters in the subject line of your email, I just might read it regardless of whether or not it's
00:34:11.580
even remotely related to the work that we do here at Rebel News. But this one I got was kind of
00:34:16.140
interesting and kind of related to the hyperbolic panic attack that we saw from Liberal Party MPs
00:34:29.900
last week when Tucker Carlson came to Canada and our Premier Daniel Smith had the audacity to talk to him.
00:34:38.860
I was in Edmonton. I think this comment relates to what was said in Calgary. But I should tell you,
00:34:47.820
in Edmonton, it was like 10,000 plus people in Rogers Place, which is where the Oilers play.
00:34:57.180
And it was like a rock show. Like people were on their feet screaming for Tucker Carlson,
00:35:04.220
screaming for Jordan Peterson. And I got to tell you, screaming at the top of their lungs, freaking
00:35:09.580
out excited when our Premier Daniel Smith walked out. And that is something that I think in the
00:35:17.500
darkest recesses of the most liberal parts of this country, our Prime Minister could not do. She was
00:35:23.820
treated like an absolute rock star. Because she kind of is behaving that way, by and large, keeping
00:35:31.900
your word, fighting with the feds, striking back at these stupid plastics bans, asserting provincial
00:35:38.220
autonomy over areas of provincial authority, and caring enough about free speech to not be bullied
00:35:45.980
away from speaking to interesting thought leaders like Tucker Carlson. Like who should Daniel Smith
00:35:53.740
listen to the media, her political enemies in the federal liberal party, or the people who want to
00:36:04.620
hear her have these conversations. So she did. And anyways, the liberals, it was just an absolute cry fest.
00:36:15.420
After her conversation with Tucker, and that's what this email is about, comes to me from Terrence. He says,
00:36:23.100
Hi, Sheila. Just finished watching the panel discussion on YouTube with Jordan Peterson,
00:36:28.060
Conrad Black, Daniel Smith, and Tucker Carlson. That was in Calgary. Wherein Premier Smith asked
00:36:34.140
Tucker to put a target on Stephen Gilboa's back. Our federal environment minister. Contrast these four
00:36:43.100
ultra intelligent, articulate, and ideologically principled individuals with the four liberal cabinet
00:36:48.140
minister boobs. Send out in front of a mainstream media press conference to whine about their being victims
00:36:55.900
of violence advocated against politicians of every stripe. Yeah, that was really embarrassing. There is some
00:37:04.700
sort of crisis in masculinity in this country. If you hold a press conference as one of the power, most powerful
00:37:12.780
men in this country, by the way, like the environment minister, whether we like it or not, those policies
00:37:18.620
control a great deal of our lives. They attack our family's bottom line, the amount of money we have
00:37:25.580
in our pocket. And for these boobs, as you so rightly put it, Terrence, to wander out and blubber,
00:37:33.820
complain and whine that another man said mean things about them. What a disgrace. What's, you know what,
00:37:44.380
those guys should go get their testosterone level checked. Like, how embarrassing. And the media ate it
00:37:51.500
up. It's like the people in the mainstream media have never ever encountered like a random normal man
00:37:58.780
who would just say, yeah, some dude said mean things about me. I don't care. These guys went
00:38:03.580
and complained that it was political violence, that somebody didn't agree with their madness wholeheartedly.
00:38:12.220
How embarrassing. Normal men would be totally embarrassed of that. But Stephen Gilboa, not a
00:38:18.220
normal dude. Neither Pablo Rodriguez, the heritage minister. I think he was doing some of the
00:38:24.140
boo-hoo-hoo in that same press conference. By the way, does anybody else think that he looks like a
00:38:31.660
failed CBC children's folk singer? Pablo Rodriguez. In another life, I imagine that's what he would do.
00:38:39.660
Anyway, let's get back to Terrence's letter. My interpretation of placing a target on someone's
00:38:44.700
back is to single them out for ridicule. No violence intended. They managed to bring this ridicule on
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themselves just by their childish responses. These liberals are so pathetic. P.S. Love Rebel News.
00:38:58.540
I'm a subscriber and you are my favorite reporter. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate your kind
00:39:06.940
words, but yeah, just totally embarrassing. I just, I don't know what else to do except laugh at these
00:39:14.780
absolute pathetic weeps of what passes for a man over there in the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:39:23.340
If you work in government and you are taking a paycheck on behalf of the taxpayer and you are
00:39:32.620
responsible for policies that people don't like, I'm sorry, stick your feelings in a sack and throw them
00:39:40.060
in the river. Toughen up, be a man, and take your criticism with dignity. Whining to the mainstream
00:39:49.980
media about how another man hurts your feelings. Not just whining, holding a press conference to whine
00:39:57.020
about how another man made fun of you in front of 10,000 plus people. I mean, just come on.
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You know what? Parents, raise your sons better. Raise them tougher. That was bad. They, you know what,
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I'm not for medicating the water, but maybe we should be putting some testosterone in the drink
00:40:21.180
box water bottle sort of things, if you know what I mean. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
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Thank you so much as always for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time,
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in the same place next week. And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.