Juno News - Conservative journalist gets assaulted by union activist

00:00:00.000 All right, we're at the UCP AGM in Calgary, Alberta. I'm here with journalist Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:00:10.380 who was just assaulted, I believe. So, Sheila, what happened? My colleague Kian Bextie and I

00:00:22.060 from The Rebel, we had gone out to cover the protests. We wanted to let them know what six

00:00:26.680 credit downgrades will do to an economy and why Jason Kenney's government has to exhibit

00:00:33.040 some fiscal constraints. We thought we'd make it a learning lesson and just having a little

00:00:38.380 bit of a fun video. It was a union protest, so some teachers, some nurses, they were bused

00:00:44.340 in by the union and they had their children with them and we were out there filming everything

00:00:52.280 as we tend to do. And one man, in probably 10 seconds worth of contact, he shoved me, he

00:01:01.600 hit me with a sign, he punched me in the back. Somebody else threw a book at Kian's neck.

00:01:08.660 Somebody else was hitting Kian with their signs. And the funny thing is, nobody, I mean, we're

00:01:13.380 in a crowd. Not a single person said, hey, don't do that. Don't put your hands on her.

00:01:19.280 They continued chanting that we were Nazis, to go away. I mean, it was just crazy. It

00:01:25.100 was really like a mob mentality out there. Sheila, what is it about you or what is it

00:01:29.720 about left-wing men in Alberta? Because this is not the first time you have been assaulted

00:01:34.160 while just doing your job as a journalist. So what's going on?

00:01:37.160 I guess I'm just, I have a punchable face, I guess. I don't know what it is. I guess it's

00:01:43.660 maybe that the left doesn't have the quality of an argument to sort of rebut what we're

00:01:49.980 saying or just maybe they don't have that self-constraint where, you know, you can debate somebody.

00:01:59.820 I'm happy to debate anybody. I think I'm a pretty pleasant person. I don't take anything

00:02:04.480 personally. I mean, I got punched like an hour ago. So, but, you know, I'm happy to debate,

00:02:12.320 but the other side doesn't really want to debate. For them, even words are violence.

00:02:16.740 So the step into actual violence, I mean, it's not that far, is it?

00:02:20.500 This is like Antifa and their mentality being spread to unions, probably, you know, government

00:02:25.800 funded, taxpayer funded unions in the province. Well, I hope you're okay. Thank you so much

00:02:30.680 for joining us, Sheila.

00:02:32.140 Thank you.

00:02:34.140 Thank you.

Juno News - December 01, 2019