SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Will we ever get answers about what really happened at the Kamloops Indian Residential School？
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In 2021, the Tecumlas-Tay-Schwetmik First Nation Band government said that they found the remains of 215 former students of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. To date, not a single body has been discovered. My question is, why, just like the leftist media, the NDP, the Liberal government, are the Conservatives also so quiet about this?
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Will anybody ever get to the bottom of what happened at the Kamloops Indian Residential
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School? I'm not optimistic. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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My first question might not be the easiest for a politician to answer, but this is Rebel News,
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and I'm Julia Humphrey. Thanks for having me. Thank you. In 2021, the Tecumlas-Tay-Schwetmik
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First Nation band government said that they found the remains of 215 children who were former
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students of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The reality is that to date, not a single
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body has been discovered. The band government itself has revised the wording of their claim
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to say that it's 200 probable graves, no mention of specific children anymore. And the only way to
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know what's actually beneath the soil would be to excavate, which the band government has not done
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in two and a half years to date. Meanwhile, in Canada, 96 churches have been burnt or vandalized
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across the country since that initial claim was made. Many of the fires are proven arson,
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and the vandals often leave messages that tie to the initial 215 kids claim buried in unmarked graves.
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My question is, why, just like the leftist media, the NDP, the Liberal government, are the
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Conservatives also so quiet about this truth and good news, which is that to date, 215 children's
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remains have not been discovered there? When that truth coming from political leaders could
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potentially help set free Christian Canadians from attacks on their places of worship?
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Thank you for your question. I would disentangle two parts, because there is no justification for
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burning down a church, period. Regardless of the other information or regardless of the other
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justifications that people would claim to use, there is never a justification to burn down a
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church. And we as Conservatives have called for stronger criminal sanctions for arson against
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all who carry out these attacks. We've also called for more security infrastructure around places of
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worship so that we can stop terrorists who burn down churches, who attack mosques and synagogues.
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Unfortunately, these crimes against religious communities have raged out of control after eight
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years of Justin Trudeau's catch and release system, after he has divided our country and turned people and
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groups against each other. We have more violence directed against religious groups, including
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Christians, than we have ever seen in Canadian history. This is the result of Justin Trudeau. He is not worth the
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cost. He is not worth the crime. And he is not worth the country that we know and love. And we should provide the
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resources to allow for full investigation into the potential remains at residential schools. Canadians
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deserve to know the truth. And Conservatives will always stand in favor of historical accuracy. None of
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this changes the fact that the residential schools were an appalling abuse of power by the state
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and by the church at the time. And we need to move forward in a country that is free so that every
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single Canadian, whether their ancestry goes back tens of thousands of years or whether they have been
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here for 10 days, has the freedom to live their life in prosperity and happiness. Thank you.
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That read there is my friend and colleague, Drea Humphrey, asking the leader of the official
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opposition, and I think probably the next prime minister of Canada, why his party is not seeking
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answers with regard to what is alleged to have occurred at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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Initially, it was reported as a discovery of 215 bodies in a mass grave, children allegedly
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murdered at the hands of the Catholic school at a residential school. It was something that sparked
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a nation of firebombings of Christian churches, vandalism, attacks against Christians. And it was
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something our prime minister said that he understood. Remember this clip?
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As I've also said, it is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across
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the country, including against Catholic churches. One of my reflections is I understand the anger that's
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out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church. It is real,
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and it is fully understandable given the shameful history that we're all becoming more and more aware
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of and engaging ourselves to do better as Canadians. Unlike the prime minister, I don't know what could
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compel someone to burn down a place of worship. I also don't understand what would compel someone to not
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seek evidence of their claims. Now, someone who has been dogged in her pursuit of the truth is my friend
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Drea Humphrey. She has done her best to try to get answers, and there really are none. She joins me now to discuss
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what she knows about the Kamloops Indian residential school, why maybe those answers are not forthcoming
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yet, and what the conservatives should do. Take a listen.
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Joining me now is my friend and my colleague, and really someone who I would consider an expert
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on the file of the lack of evidence being uncovered at specifically the Kamloops Indian residential
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school, Drea Humphrey. Drea, thanks for jumping on the show with me today. You put a really great
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question to leader of the official opposition, Pierre Polyev, and we'll get to that in a second.
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But let's go back a little, just put this all into context. You made a documentary on this,
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so I think you're one of the few people in this country who have really gone looking for answers
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where there have been none. Tell us, you know, if you were a new person to this topic, give us the
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Reader's Digest version of what we know about what happened at the Kamloops Indian residential school.
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Yeah, well, like myself and everybody else, we were the same. We heard this claim that came out May 27,
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2021, and that was that the Kamloops Indian Indian residential school had discovered 215 children
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buried in an unmarked grave. It was unclear at first whether they were saying one unmarked grave
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or unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian residential school. Now, when I heard that,
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I was just as shocked as everybody else. Got my boots on the ground. We went down there to bring
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everybody a report and make sure to talk to people. We talked to people who actually attended the school.
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There was so much sorrow. There was so much grief. But there were so many questions
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remaining. And I didn't expect to see that happening. So I would say that initial report
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that I did after the claim was probably the hardest report I ever had to do because I was blindsided
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with going, well, wait a second. The claim says that by use of ground penetrating radar,
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that is how they had discovered the remains of 215 former students as young as six years old.
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And so when you look into ground penetrating radar, you go, that's absolutely impossible to make a
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statement like that. Not only what's under the ground specifically, how many bodies are under the
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ground, but how old they are. So that's sort of the beginning of journalistically how I was like,
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OK, well, how do I juggle, you know, the very real pain, you know, letting the public know about that,
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but also letting the public know something else isn't quite right. And so I think that report,
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instead of it taking 48 hours to get up, it took like two weeks, because I had to keep trying to
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get answers, which even now, I still don't get that directly from the banned government.
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But I had to get enough to let everybody know in that first report that, hey, this, this is the claim.
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I, you know, it doesn't seem like it would be unmarked graves, stuff like that. And I don't
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understand how they're getting that. So that's how it first happened. And the documentary came about a
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year later, when it was kind of like enough is enough. It's been a year, and nothing has been
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made clear. The only thing that's made clear is that they had actually backpedaled. And the expert
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that who made the discovery, Dr. Sarah Bollier, had now started saying it was 200 probable graves.
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So that got our boots on the ground yet again, to just show people that what we were told was untrue.
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And there hasn't been any real efforts to bring confirmation or closure. I think to find out that
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these are not graves would be a great thing for this country. And you would think that the powers that
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be would want to know, A, are these not graves? That's wonderful. A genocide was not committed
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there. Or on the flip side, if this is bad, how do we hold the responsible accountable? How do we
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bring closure to the families, if that is the case? But there really has been none of that done.
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Absolutely. And let's not forget about repatriation, which is really important to
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the Indigenous community. That is having what's rightfully yours returned back. So if there are
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hundreds of buried children there from that school, that means they're from all over British Columbia,
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which is not just the Shwetmik First Nation children. So usually, you would think that you
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would want to know, A, what happened to these children, and where do they belong, and bring them
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back rightfully so to have proper burials. So that's just another aspect of it.
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So what is the reluctance then, do you think? I'm probably asking you to speculate here.
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Yeah. To excavate and find out, are these tree roots? Are these weeping tiles, as might be the case
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based on some old records that have been uncovered? Or are these graves? And if they are graves,
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are they just forgotten graves? Or something far more sinister? What I'm asking you to speculate,
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what's the reluctance to get to the bottom of this?
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I can't really speak to the reluctance. I mean, I did speak to Cookby Chief herself, and she said,
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you know, we're entertaining the thought of doing that. And then they had the interlocutor
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involved and things like that seems overly complicated. But I will lay out some facts,
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and then the viewers can speculate on their own. It's not just the hesitation to excavate that raises
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questions. It's also the fact that the RCMP weren't allowed to do an investigation there.
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The BC Coroner's office has never done an investigation there. So many people think there
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was a mass murder of children there. And to think that the RCMP and the BC Coroner's has never actually
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investigated that property is quite shocking. Then you couple that with why the RCMP backed off. They
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initially, as you would expect them to do after that announcement, were asking questions, going there.
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And former Senator Marie Sinclair spoke on behalf of the ground-penetrating radar specialist and basically
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said it was racism. He basically said, you're intimidating her by asking these questions,
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and I've advised her to lawyer up. And that was the end of it for the RCMP. So you have the specialist
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who makes this claim, who, by the way, I've looked into very much and really has no excuse
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to make such a claim through ground-penetrating radar. She should know better based on her
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experience, who won't ask questions. And remember that there is RCMP right on the property, right
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beside the school. They are part of that community. It's not outsiders coming in. So even their own RCMP
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have not done an investigation. So I think that's important to know. And then we go two and a half years
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later, and there's still no excavating being done. No proper explanation for why, other than, you know,
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we're trying to be culturally sensitive. And there's money attached to this, right?
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Like, Ottawa pledged $320 million to these bans so that they can search for residential school discoveries.
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And I don't know what, if any, strings are attached to that. Do you just get money to search,
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but you never actually have to search? I'm not sure how that works. There seems to be very little
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clarity or accountability to what appears to be a third of a billion dollars just going out the door.
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Yeah, it's actually, they pledged 330. I know that for sure they've handed out 90 million. But again,
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if people want to speculate based on facts, try to remember what big event happened in the world. It
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happened in America, but it had everybody looking into social justice issues, systemic racism back just
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before May 2021. Can you remember what that was? Yeah. George Floyd, right? Yeah. So you had the
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Black Lives Matter movement and all the traction that was happening. And when you look in the Truth
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and Reconciliation Commission report, one of the demands is that they want help finding these
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unmarked graves. They had oral testimony, even in Kamloops, that there was unmarked graves. So they
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wanted help. And the government actually said they would do that. They said they would give some money,
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but they never did. So what if it just seems like the right time to shine light on this issue and get
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the money that they were owed, that they were told. And a week after that announcement went out,
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maybe less than a week, Patty Hadju, who she actually went out and said, okay, we're going to give 25
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million right away. That's what she said. And then what happened? Well, we have an unmarked grave. We
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have an unmarked grave. We have an unmarked grave. They were all reported as discoveries. But if you
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actually look, most of them had suspected they've had an unmarked grave there for quite some time. It wasn't
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something new. And many of them, unlike with the Kamloops Indian Residential School,
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many of the chiefs said, listen, we know there's a grave there. We know it was marked at one point,
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but over time, the crosses have broken down and we just want to, you know, give them a proper burial.
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That's totally fine. So again, you guys do the speculating. Yeah. I mean, and you know,
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when you look at the language attached to this, you see Justin Trudeau kneeling with the teddy bear
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at Kausna's First Nation with his actor's tears in his eyes, crocodile tears, using terms like
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genocide. And what I will say about the United Nations, and as people know, I am not a fan of
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that organization in general, but they actually do a really good job of investigating real genocides,
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like Rwanda, like the former Yugoslavia. They have teams of forensic investigators that go in,
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they can determine how old the people were, how they died, their ethnicity, all those things
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to hold people to account. And I've often wondered why, if indeed this is a genocide the way
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Trudeau has declared it, that we are a genocidal state, why has nobody called in the United Nations
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investigators who would do a good job of investigating this, except insofar as they probably don't want
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it investigated at all. Yeah, a lot of it doesn't make sense. There's also, there's been a halting
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of the money that we've been paying specifically for that. The First Nation there in Kamlas has said,
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oh, oh, we don't want any more. So what's that about? That's interesting. Well, you haven't discovered
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exactly what's happened to the probable children underneath, so why stop? So I can't give the answer
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to the UN. I can't give a lot of answers. All I can do is ask the questions and make sure that the
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public knows that this stain that has been put on Canada and Canadians on an international scale
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has never been confirmed. Period. Right. And it set off a series of attacks on Christian churches
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all across the country. And it didn't really matter the denomination, although a lot of it
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was strongly focused on Catholic churches. And ironically, on Catholic churches that exist to
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serve the indigenous community. I think you would have to be a social justice activist in an urban
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area and quite possibly white to not know that by and large, the majority of indigenous people in this
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country are Catholic. And attacking and burning their churches is attacking and burning a part of
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who and what they are. But that is exactly what happened. You've covered this extensively. Just
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give us a breakdown about how many churches were attacked. And it wasn't always just churches. It was,
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you know, it was cemeteries. Sometimes it was statues. It was a lot.
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Yeah, that's very, very important to point out, because I think I have a rant coming up about CBC
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basically excusing these church burnings. And they only show one side, which is, you know,
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an indigenous person who hates the church and isn't sad to see it go up into flames. But even if you
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hated the church, you're right, these were attached to cemeteries. That's what they're setting on fire
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is their loved ones. You know, cemeteries where they actually go back every year and visit. And this
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was in indigenous communities, many of them. In the summer is where it started in the Okanagan out here in BC,
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in dry areas in the Okanagan. I mean, they could have lit the whole reserve on fire. So it doesn't
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make any sense. But you're right. There are a lot of indigenous Christians. And so this has been
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so frightening. According to a measure done by True North, they say that at least 96 churches
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from that 2021 announcement have been burnt or vandalized. CBC came out, and I'm looking into this
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to correct this. It's going to be like a part two of my rant with them. So you'll see my rant today.
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But they say that 33 churches have been burnt. But if you look closely, their wording is
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like 33 have been destroyed. So there is a difference between what's completely annihilated
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and what was set on fire. So I have to look at those numbers. But even if it is only 33 churches,
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that's not an only. Since May 2021, this is insane. And why are so many people quiet about
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that? If this was a synagogue, if this was a mosque, there would be hell to pay.
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Yes. Yeah. And it's not just burning. It's vandalisms. It's throwing red paint all over the
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doors of a church. It's writing genocide across the front entrance of a church so that parishioners
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and congregants have to run the gauntlet of anti-Christian hate before they can attend services.
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It's desecrating a statue of Pope John Paul II in Edmonton, who was the most ecumenical
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people. And I would suggest the most pro-Indigenous pope ever. Just Google the words,
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John Paul II kissing Indigenous. And the man can keep his lips off Indigenous people. He was just
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hugging them and kissing them. It was great. And for Pope John Paul II, for people who don't know,
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he thought it was really important for people to worship in their own cultures, that Christianity was,
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it's a faith for all humanity. And to make it unique to the culture in which it was being
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practiced in, that was really important for him. And so that's why it was really important for him
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to have outreach to Indigenous communities. And yet his statue was desecrated by, I suggest,
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white liberal know-nothings in Edmonton. So many people were never caught for any of this. It
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seemed like there was just a lack of investigative curiosity in any of this.
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Now, you put a great question to leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev, just a couple of days
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ago on this topic, because like you, I think it's important that it is not forgotten. This is,
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I think, the single largest anti-religious attack probably in North American history.
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When you see how systemic and devastating it is, and how it is, like, in such a short time frame,
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and I have two points to make here, but then I'll let you talk, because I'm doing a lot of talking,
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First of all, cultural sea change in the Conservative Party of Canada, letting us in and letting us ask
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good questions, which is, I think, a win for everybody.
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It allows the Conservatives to speak directly to their base, because I think the Venn diagram
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between the Conservative base and our viewership is probably a circle.
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And they know we're going to ask tough questions, and I think the Conservatives are better at thinking
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on their feet than the Liberals are, so it gives them an opportunity to showcase how much better
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they are, which is exactly what we saw from Pierre Polyev.
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Yeah, you're right. I mean, I think I ended my full report on that with saying, you know what,
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Conservatives watch us. Conservative people watch us, but we're not going to stop asking tough
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questions to Conservatives. And I feel like that was a very tough question. I even say that, Tim,
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you know, this isn't going to be an easy question to answer. And it's not an easy question for me to
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ask. I was nervous, because it's just such a weighted question. You want to make sure you deliver
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all of the facts? Because it's been so in the dark that people won't even know what you're talking
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about. If I was just to say it wasn't true, people would just think I'm some weird conspiracy theorist,
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right? But I think all in all, being in that situation, he did answer that question pretty good.
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He said that Canadians deserve to know the truth. And that's exactly what we're trying to do here,
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is bring them the truth and expose that there's another side of the story here that's being buried.
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And that's why I also asked him, why have the Conservatives been so quiet about the now 96
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and counting churches that have been burnt or vandalized since that claim? And the fact that,
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you know, them and every other party, they're all standing up for a moment of silence for a
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discovery that never was. It's right for people who know the truth that that claim hasn't been
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substantiated. And then they watch every leader in the House stand up and pretend like it is.
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What does that say? Like it's all a charade. And so that's basically what my question was.
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No, I thought, I thought it was great. Your question was basically,
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is anybody ever going to give Canadians the truth on this issue? Because you are right. These
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politicians could be having moments of silence for tree roots and weeping tiles. Because that is
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Sewage plots is another, there's some plans that suggest it could be sewage plots.
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Yeah. And so I think Canadians are entitled to know our own history. And right now, as it sits,
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we are letting the progressives write our history when the facts are there just beneath the soil.
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Now, Drea, tell people how they can go back and watch your documentary on the Kamloops Indian
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Residential School because you did. I mean, you did your best to get answers. But I think at the end,
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again, there really were no answers or none forthcoming. And I think that is the symptom of this whole
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problem. But you were really the only journalist that ever actually went there and tried to talk to
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the people. Everybody else was just happy to believe what some pseudo expert on ground penetrating
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radar was saying about who and what Canadians are.
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Mm hmm. Yeah, the documentary is available for free. So if you want to learn about what hasn't been
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discovered, I usually say and help other people's learn is at Kamloops documentary.com. And basically,
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it's like that it had been a year still hadn't gotten answers from Ben. Not only did I not get
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answers from the band government specifically in the documentary I do, I talk directly with Cookby,
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but also they had moved, you know, things out of their museum and sent them off to back east like
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it was it was weird. So you go there. And also, there's a part I really, really think was profound.
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And that's when we asked the people of Kamloops and they are still living in the dark, even though
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they're right there and they're living under this cloak of shame as well. So I think it's it's worth
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the watch. It's worth the share. I won't stop reporting on this issue as long as there is another
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side of the story that's not being covered. And so we're going to continue keeping up with this.
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And if you appreciate that, then please consider donating as well. It takes a lot of resources to
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there. You know, Drea, I was going to lead with this, but I didn't think it was important because the
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truth doesn't really matter. But you have been very careful about all of this because it is close to home
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for you. You are indigenous yourself. And so for a lot of people who try to discredit your
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journalistic curiosity is, well, you don't know. You're not one of us. You don't know about our
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Well, I have family members who attended the day schools, so day residential schools. They weren't
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taken from their home back east. And that's another reason why it was so hard for me to do these reports
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is because I not only had to think about people who really believe there's for sure 215 buried kids
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there or, or whatever, um, at these other claims, but I also had to deal with my own family, you know,
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but, but that really put the pressure on me to make sure when I report on these, it's just facts,
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facts, facts. Like you asked me to speculate, I said, here's the facts. You can't. Because then I'm not in
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trouble. I'm not doing anything wrong. These are the facts. This is what's happened. No one's
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answering or this, or here's the answer I got in the, in the documentary. There's a little trickery
00:28:48.060
to get the BC coroners to talk cause they weren't talking to me too. Um, so yeah, sometimes I don't
00:28:54.220
always mention that I'm black and indigenous and it's funny because when I do, there's one of two
00:28:58.860
things, uh, people say I'm lying. I don't know why. Uh, the second thing is I'll have people,
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I think they're rebel supporters and they'll say, oh, Drea, you shouldn't use the black card.
00:29:10.860
And so to that, I say, I'm not using the black card. I am again pointing out the other side of
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the story. It's no different than gays against groomers, for example. Right. They're saying that not
00:29:23.340
everybody in the LGBTQ community thinks it's okay for a grown man to dress up sexually as a woman
00:29:29.020
and go teach other people's toddlers how to shake their hips like a drag queen. So they say gays
00:29:34.380
against groomers. So when I think it's appropriate, I do point out that, hey, not everybody who's
00:29:40.300
indigenous thinks it's okay not to get answers about potentially hundreds of dead indigenous children.
00:29:47.420
And I think that that's important. Yeah, I do too. I mean, I walk a little bit in your shoes
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as a farmer who would never consume seed oils that you had to say, I'm a farmer.
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I'm a farmer. I don't give me them seed oils. Drea, uh, thanks so much for coming on the show. I know
00:30:05.740
you're very busy today. Um, you, you do it. Uh, I know you're doing your best to hold the mainstream
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media and the activists to account for their lack of, of forthcoming information on this.
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They're getting the story wrong from the very beginning. They said it was mass graves. They
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said it was murder. Um, now we, but the truth is we really don't know what it is. And, you know,
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I think, oh, you know, hopefully, hopefully we find out soon. I'm not optimistic. I think, um,
00:30:35.740
the further away we get from the dis discovery, um, the, uh, lack of information, uh, I think
00:30:44.460
becomes greater. I think a lot of people who jumped on the bandwagon from the very beginning
00:30:49.260
now just want this to be part of it, a distant past. Um, but I know you're not going to let it go.
00:30:55.980
Drea, once again, thanks so much for coming on the show. Thanks for your great work on this.
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Um, and you know, your ongoing advocacy for, uh, Christians in this country to just be able to
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live their lives in the public square, unmolested by the state and activists.
00:31:12.060
Well, thank you. Thanks so much for having me. Bye everyone.
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Well, as always, this is the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback,
00:31:30.060
unlike the mainstream media who really don't care about, well, anything you have to say,
00:31:35.340
they really just care about making sure that they get your money from Justin Trudeau in their coffers.
00:31:43.180
Without you, there is no rebel news. So I want to hear from you. It's the reason I give out my
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email address right now. It's Sheila at rebel news.com. Put gun show letters in the subject line.
00:31:53.820
So I know why you're reaching out to me because I can get up to, well, frankly,
00:31:58.780
hundreds of emails a day, depending on what sort of controversial or rambunctious antics
00:32:06.380
us rebels are getting up to on any given day. Um, David Menzies. Um, but also don't hesitate to
00:32:14.140
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00:32:18.380
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00:32:23.180
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00:32:27.180
leave something in the comment section. I frequently go looking through there, um,
00:32:31.180
for whatever you have to say. And actually today's comes from the email bag and it comes
00:32:39.820
from a regular viewer of the show, Bruce Atchison. He lives in beautiful Radway, Alberta,
00:32:47.260
um, where they have a really great army surplus store there in case you're interested.
00:32:51.500
And, uh, he writes to me on my show with my friend, Robbie Picard from oil,
00:32:57.420
sand strong and oil and gas world magazine last week. And Bruce writes, hi, Sheila. Robbie's
00:33:06.300
interview was quite good and he only swore twice. That must be a record for him. Yeah. Talk about
00:33:11.820
rambunctious there. Um, he, and he kept it to like a PG 13 level swearing, which makes it easier on my
00:33:20.540
editors. Um, you know, I'm not one to, uh, censor people. So I, I really don't care. I'm,
00:33:28.460
I'm a farmer. My family's from the oil patch, so I'm not, um, clutching my pearls over rough language,
00:33:35.340
but I know that we have, uh, Christians and, and, and other people who, you know, they, they don't like
00:33:40.780
that kind of language who watch the show. So if I can remember, sometimes I'll give a little bit of
00:33:46.540
a language warning. I know I have to do it on the live stream on Fridays sometimes when we're
00:33:50.380
showing clips, um, from outside, you know, like found clips from the internet. Um, like Sean
00:33:57.020
Strickland, I, Sean Strickland went off on the Canadian media and Justin Trudeau, and there were
00:34:04.540
a lot of F bombs in that. And again, I'm not blushing about it, but I know that we have some
00:34:10.460
people who regularly watch you just don't use that sort of language. And I'm not about to censor
00:34:15.820
it, but I feel like I should have given everybody a bit of a, just a little bit of a warning.
00:34:19.820
Cause it can be kind of jarring at like 11 o'clock in the morning when you're just tuning in with
00:34:25.580
your coffee to watch Sheila ramble about stuff for an hour on a Friday, and then you've got
00:34:30.060
nothing but F bombs from Sean Strickland. Anyway, Bruce writes, but seriously, I'm glad those Hollywood
00:34:36.620
hacks are being ratioed so hard on social networks. Um, we were talking about the anniversary of Robbie
00:34:44.460
running Jane Fonda out of Fort McMurray. She went on an oil sands bashing tour and he caught her at the
00:34:53.980
local Moxies and just gave her the what force in the parking lot. Cause she went there to say,
00:34:59.660
you know, like, Oh, you're poisoning the groundwater of the indigenous people.
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And Robbie indigenous himself was like, listen, sister, this is a job creator and a wealth creator
00:35:10.860
for indigenous people. And there are multiple partnerships between oil and gas companies
00:35:15.900
and the bands that are creating generational wealth for his people. And he wasn't going to let some
00:35:22.380
white privileged Hollywood lady come to his town and bad mouth the jobs of indigenous people. And it was,
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um, beautiful. Anyway, I especially love what Robbie said about native people and the dignity they feel
00:35:36.460
when they're employed. It's the dignity we all feel. I don't think it's exclusive to
00:35:42.220
indigenous people. There is value in hard work and earning your way in this world and showing your
00:35:48.380
children that this is the way, this is the way that nobody's coming with a handout for you. And if you,
00:35:54.460
they come with a handout for you, you probably shouldn't take it because when the government gives you
00:35:58.540
something with one hand, the other hand is always a fist as Andrew Wilkow always says on his SiriusXM
00:36:04.700
show. Let's keep going. I sure remember the thrill I had when I earned my first paycheck being legally
00:36:10.300
blind jobs were and still are hard to come by. That first $350 I earned gave me so much joy that I
00:36:17.820
actually earned it. It wasn't charity or welfare. I actually was paid for what I did. This is why
00:36:25.100
Robbie's stories mean so much to me. People need hope, not Trudeau. That's great. I also survived the
00:36:32.540
cold snap, but my furnace died. I'm glad the repair guy resurrected it and I'm warm again. Sincerely, Bruce.
00:36:37.580
Yeah, it was bitterly cold. I think it was about like minus 53 for a couple of days here. The school
00:36:44.140
buses didn't run. And that's also when we got that emergency alert saying that we had a potential grid
00:36:51.340
failure because of increased electricity demand, even though we are a province that is absolutely
00:37:00.380
dripping in coal and oil and gas. And that has to do with the accelerated coal fees out,
00:37:05.580
thanks to Rachel Notley. These are her chickens coming home to roost. Ironic that she resigned
00:37:11.660
in the week that we had that emergency alert that she ultimately caused in 2015. It takes a while for
00:37:21.020
bad things to catch up, doesn't it? Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you as always
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for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And
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don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.