Juno News - Ontario councillor SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY for opposing gender ideology

00:00:00.000 Have you ever asked yourself why it feels as though we are losing the culture war in this

00:00:10.240 country? Why so few people seem willing to stand up and speak the truth in the face of such obvious

00:00:16.080 nonsense? Of course, part of the reason for this is what I would consider to be an epidemic of

00:00:21.040 cowardice on the right. The trembling fear which seems to grip so many politicians who call

00:00:25.600 themselves conservatives from ever actually speaking up for conservative causes and frankly

00:00:30.400 for common sense. Another reason for this is that for what feels like decades, conservatives have

00:00:36.560 simply neglected municipal politics altogether. Not only do conservatives not run for council and

00:00:42.400 school board seats in this country, but many just don't even pay attention to municipal politics at

00:00:47.440 all. In many cases, municipal politics has more of an influence on daily life than any other level of

00:00:53.680 politics in this country and the radical left knows that. Petty tyrants who routinely employ

00:00:59.120 Marxist tactics to enforce ideological purity on school boards and councils end up advancing

00:01:05.440 absurd policies that few Canadians ever actually want and fewer ever know about. Every now and then,

00:01:12.000 however, someone shows up with the courage to actually do something. To actually make a positive

00:01:17.200 change that constituents want. This is one of the most insane stories happening in Canada right now

00:01:23.200 and few people know about it. I want to introduce you all to Ward 1 Pickering City Councillor Lisa

00:01:28.480 Robinson. For introducing motions on the council floor to ban the raising of the pride flag on

00:01:32.880 municipal buildings and to put an age limit on drag shows taking place inside municipal properties,

00:01:39.200 Lisa Robinson has been suspended without pay for 60 days. This 60-day suspension is on top of a previous 0.99

00:01:47.440 30-day suspension because of Facebook posts which accused Robinson of promoting bullying. The reason

00:01:54.160 for the latest 60-day suspension, according to Pickering's integrity commissioner, is that Robinson

00:02:00.160 promoted attitudes which are homophobic and transphobic. An elected official being suspended from doing her job

00:02:07.680 because she is promoting attitudes which are homophobic and transphobic. This story would make sense if it were

00:02:14.400 happening in China. But instead, it's happening in Pickering, Ontario. Sheer and utter insanity. 0.80

00:02:21.200 Drop a like in the video. Help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel. And the comment

00:02:25.440 question for the episode is this. Why have conservatives neglected municipal politics? Let me know in the

00:02:31.360 comments and let's get into it. Lisa Robinson's story is not the first story we have seen of councils across

00:02:37.760 the country employing these Marxist strategies to enforce ideological purity on council. Take for

00:02:44.400 example the insane story of Murray Harbour Prince Edward Island Councillor John Robertson. Murray Harbour is

00:02:52.800 a village in PEI of 260 people. And Councillor John Robertson is facing calls for his removal from public office

00:03:01.360 by the mayor of Murray Harbour in Ottawa, all for the crime of having a sign on his front lawn which says

00:03:11.200 that the mass grave story was a hoax and to call to redeem the legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald. Not only is

00:03:18.480 Robertson facing calls for his removal from public office because of the sign, but he's also forced to

00:03:23.280 undergo literal re-education and a third-party investigative team has been called in to look into the matter. We've seen

00:03:30.000 examples like this across the country, but the story of Lisa Robinson should scare every Canadian. For

00:03:36.000 advancing motions in front of the city council which her constituents are asking her to do, she is being

00:03:41.440 punished and suspended without pay. Her livelihood is being taken away for doing the job she was elected

00:03:46.960 by the people to do. Because Robertson has introduced motions to ban the flying of the pride flag on public

00:03:53.520 buildings, to enforce an age limit for drag shows taking place on public property, and for making sure that

00:03:59.760 there are separate change rooms for men and women while keeping the universal change room at a local

00:04:06.240 rec facility. All of those together, along with the fact that Robinson has a lot of public support

00:04:11.040 behind her, she is now losing her salary. And I want to show you some highlights of the Pickering

00:04:15.440 City Council meeting that took place on Monday when Lisa Robinson was informed that she would be

00:04:20.320 suspended for 60 days. Listen to how the city's integrity commissioner and wannabe petty tyrant, 0.86

00:04:26.400 Mayor Kevin Ash, treat Lisa Robinson as she's trying to understand why she is being suspended for doing

00:04:33.600 her job. Regarding the Chestnut Hill Recreation Center, again, the complex, the universal change room,

00:04:39.840 have you ever been there? That's not relevant. Please go on. No, it is relevant. Please go on. Please go on.

00:04:45.280 Okay, what steps did you take to distinguish between hearsay and reliable evidence while conducting

00:04:50.080 your investigation? Janice, you can feel free to answer that or not, so. Yeah, I'm going to pass,

00:04:54.880 Mr. Mayor. Thank you. There's one meeting. I'm the chair. If you don't like the rules, please leave.

00:05:00.800 I've asked you a number of times to do that. I won't ask again. All due respect, Mr. Mayor,

00:05:06.080 my questions are directed to the integrity commissioner, and because so much is on the

00:05:10.240 line, I would prefer if she would answer the questions as opposed to you. You can ask questions 0.97

00:05:15.200 of clarity. You're getting into debate about the findings. Ask questions of clarity. That's a question

00:05:19.360 of clarity. I want to know what steps she took and distinguished. Can you clarify the reasons behind

00:05:27.360 not contacting any witnesses or gathering concrete evidence in this particular complaint? I think

00:05:32.880 that question's been asked and given. Please continue. And you can please leave. Please leave.

00:05:39.040 Mr. King, can you, can you please get to this one? Thank you. We all really know what's happening

00:05:44.880 here, right? Because Lisa Robinson seems to be the only city councilor in the province of Ontario 0.99

00:05:50.560 who is willing to fight the cultural battles to stand up and speak out on behalf of her constituents.

00:05:56.560 The Pickering City Council is trying to make an example out of her, trying to show to everyone

00:06:01.360 else that if you speak out of line, you will lose your salary. You will lose your way of life. Well,

00:06:05.920 joining us now on the show is Lisa Robinson, Ward 1 Pickering City Councilor. Lisa, thank you so much

00:06:12.160 for joining the show. Thank you for having me here today, Harrison. I really appreciate it.

00:06:16.240 So you've been suspended without pay for 60 days, which is on top of a 30-day suspension. And

00:06:22.800 according to the City Integrity Commissioner, it's because you have promoted attitudes which are

00:06:28.960 homophobic and transphobic. I mean, this doesn't even sound real. Explain to us what's happening

00:06:35.200 with you and what's happening at the Pickering City Council. Yeah, absolutely. I would love to.

00:06:40.160 Back in May, I was trying to bring three motions forward. One of them had to do with drag shows and

00:06:48.960 pride events that I wanted to make them age appropriate. So anyone under the age of 18 would 0.69

00:06:54.880 not be able to attend these type of events. And I chose the age of 18 because I was hoping that there

00:07:03.760 would be some kind of a negotiation going on. And I was willing to drop that down after speaking to

00:07:09.920 many of my constituents to the ages of 14 or 15 at a time where the students are more mentally

00:07:17.760 prepared, more physically prepared to handle, you know, that kind of sexual content. Another

00:07:26.240 motion that I wanted to bring forward had to do with the flags and that, you know, being a government,

00:07:32.640 being an elected official, being a government, just being the government in general, I guess you could

00:07:39.440 say is that, you know, we're supposed to remain neutral. And so a lot of people, and this was

00:07:46.240 actually based on the town of Norwich's decision that was passed about a month prior, is that they

00:07:52.320 would no longer be flying any special interest flags because it does create a hierarchy of beliefs.

00:07:59.760 And within our own Pickering policy, policies for flag raising and flag displays, it says we're not

00:08:07.360 allowed to fly any flags that are politically controversial. We're not allowed to fly any flags

00:08:14.720 that come with ideological beliefs. So, I mean, that just made sense that, you know, we'll follow

00:08:20.320 suit and make it neutral because as you can see the uproar around the country right now regarding these,

00:08:25.920 the flags always being flumped. The third motion that I was trying to bring forward had to do with

00:08:32.400 the Pickering Recreation Centre, which is called the Chestnut Hill Recreation Centre. And for there,

00:08:40.160 I was just trying to bring forward a motion that would allow every boy, girl, woman, man, every person

00:08:47.040 really allowed the ability to choose which change room, washroom that they felt more comfortable in. So,

00:08:57.040 you know, if a biological female wanted to go to a biological female, she would have that choice. 1.00

00:09:02.080 But within that motion, I said to also have the universal change room inclusive of all genders and

00:09:10.000 family. Because of those three motions and because of the way that my fellow city councillors and a school

00:09:17.280 trustee here in Durham decided to put in their complaints to the integrity commissioner, they were

00:09:23.440 saying that one, that I wanted to ban all events or restrict all events that had to do with the

00:09:31.360 LGBTQ plus community. They said that I wanted to ban the flying of the pride flag and the progress flag, 1.00

00:09:40.080 which was nowhere in my motions either. I said all special interest groups. And then they said that I

00:09:46.880 wanted to get rid of the universal change room. But in my videos and within my motions, you will see all

00:09:52.880 three of those are unequivocally untrue. And so with those reports going to the integrity commissioner,

00:10:01.520 the integrity commissioner based her own opinions, the whole entire report is based on

00:10:10.080 those lies that were put forth from the complaints, but also her own opinions and her own biases.

00:10:18.960 Because those complaints weren't even there at the DDSB meeting when I was speaking, which means that

00:10:24.800 everything in her report is based on double hearsay. Again, her own opinion and her own biases.

00:10:31.360 Right. So I've just showed the audience part of the municipal meeting, the council meeting in which

00:10:37.840 this integrity commissioner is refusing to answer your questions. And the mayor is telling the integrity

00:10:43.920 commissioner what questions of yours she can answer. It's like some sort of weird, it's like they're

00:10:49.120 like tag teaming up against you to try and create this outcome they want. This you're saying that the

00:10:55.600 integrity commissioner based on, based on the complaints she received about, about your, your motion

00:11:01.840 to make sure that everyone has a washroom and a change room, which they can use in safety. She's never

00:11:07.600 actually been to the rec center to see these, these washrooms.

00:11:11.600 She has not. That was one of the questions that I was trying to bring forward. I mean,

00:11:15.200 I went there, I took photos of it, you know, I had the complaints and yeah, she's never even been there.

00:11:21.280 And I mean, it was like, you know, back in school, back in the day, you know, we used to crawl under to

00:11:26.080 like, you know, bug our friends or climb over the stall and like, you know, give them a wave. Well,

00:11:30.960 that's exactly what you can do here as well. And I'm not too sure, but there's actually an investigation

00:11:36.240 going on right now that one of the universities with the, the co-ed with the universal washrooms

00:11:42.640 that they have there where they are, you know, a couple of people are being investigated right

00:11:46.880 now for doing just that, you know, putting the cameras underneath the doors because there's a lot

00:11:51.360 of room and it's voyeurism, right? I think the Toronto star or someone just posted that. So

00:11:57.040 I mean, the job of a city councilor is to introduce motions that the constituents that voted them in

00:12:05.760 want them to do, right? That's what you're supposed to do as your job. And I'm assuming most of these

00:12:10.560 motions were you, you introduced them because the people who voted you in to do the job you're doing

00:12:16.000 wanted you to introduce those motions. This is what people wanted you to bring forward, right?

00:12:20.320 Yeah, that's exactly it. I mean, these, all three of these motions that I'm bringing forward,

00:12:24.720 constituents have come to me with their concerns and asked me to bring these forward. And it's

00:12:30.480 unfortunate that I can't even get them to the floor because none of my fellow councillors want

00:12:35.520 to even entertain having any kind of a debate. And I'm finding that that happens a lot these days is

00:12:42.160 that people are afraid to have the debate. They're afraid to have the conversation. Instead, they would

00:12:47.200 just like to turn around and call you a name, label you something, just like the integrity commissioner

00:12:52.960 called me a cis woman. It's, it's, it's absurd. Uh, and I mean, they could, as you say, they could 0.83

00:12:59.920 just vote down your motions. Couldn't they, they could just allow you to do your job, allow you to

00:13:05.040 be paid for the job you were elected to do and vote on your motions, but no, they're, they're taking it

00:13:09.440 one step further. They're trying to make, it appears at least they're trying to make an example out of you.

00:13:13.840 So no one else, whether it's in Pickering or whether it's in other, other councils and other

00:13:18.000 jurisdictions does the same. Is that what you're kind of getting? Well, that's exact, that's exactly,

00:13:22.560 you know, what you're saying is exactly what they are putting out. And like, you know, in the history

00:13:26.880 of Pickering for as far as like, you know, our, um, city clerk, when her and I had a conversation,

00:13:32.960 she said, nothing like this has ever happened in the city of Pickering before. And I mean,

00:13:37.920 if you go through everything that's happened to Pickering in the past, you know, people have been up on

00:13:43.120 fraud charges, you know, there's been a lot of, a lot of wrongdoings that have happened in Pickering

00:13:49.600 politics, like, you know, over the years and not one time has anybody ever been forced to lose their pay.

00:13:57.840 It's just, it's just unbelievable. Uh, you know, have you received any support from politicians

00:14:03.120 outside of Pickering? I'm assuming that the council is almost all against you, but have you received

00:14:09.200 support from politicians maybe in the provincial level or federal level, or maybe just outside of

00:14:14.400 Pickering for the stand you've taken? I am, I am getting so, I'm getting an overwhelming

00:14:19.200 amount of support right now. I mean, the emails, I mean, I'm getting them from all across Canada,

00:14:23.840 from all the different provinces, whether it's Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, you know,

00:14:28.640 I'm getting an overwhelming amount of support right now. It's, it's incredible. I mean, there's,

00:14:34.480 there's, there's a lot, there's the majority of people want to see this go through. I mean,

00:14:39.680 even alone this morning, I've probably had at least 50 emails from, you know, different individuals

00:14:46.080 and from, you know, other councillors like myself and other jurisdictions, um, reaching out to me and

00:14:51.920 saying, well, you know what, Lisa, stand strong, you know, you have a lot more support than you know,

00:14:57.120 and please don't stop fighting for us. A lot of them are even quite emotional.

00:15:01.920 Yeah, I can imagine as a municipal politician, you know, that a lot of what you do at the municipal

00:15:07.840 level has more of an impact on the daily lives of Canadians than provincial and federal politics

00:15:13.200 does. But there are so few of you, there are so few conservatives at the municipal level,

00:15:17.760 at least in these larger, larger towns and cities, uh, especially again at the, at the school

00:15:23.040 board level as well. Why do you think that is? Why do you think it is that conservatives seem to

00:15:28.160 neglect the municipal level and don't even pay attention to what's happening at the level that

00:15:32.640 impacts their daily lives so much? Yeah, it's really sad that, you know, we're not getting

00:15:37.200 more conservatives in at this level, or, you know, I think it's also that they're also being infiltrated,

00:15:43.840 you know, kind of like what they were saying about, you know, Justin Trudeau's government about

00:15:48.080 being infiltrated, like, you know, what Klaus Schwab was saying there. I think the same thing is

00:15:52.160 happening in municipal level, but I'm also starting to see it happen at the provincial and the federal

00:15:58.560 levels as well. Like for example, our conservative EDA that we have going on here in Pickering,

00:16:05.280 you can see the people that are going to be running for the nomination, you know, they are,

00:16:09.840 they're liberals, you know, even their backgrounds, I mean, they're using red colors and it's like, you

00:16:14.160 know, if you want to at least pretend to be a conservative, you know what, go with the conservative blue

00:16:18.640 and not a red background, but it's happening everywhere. It's, it's, yeah, I don't know why.

00:16:25.280 I don't know why. And I mean, I thought that the mayor was conservative, who was sitting with us.

00:16:30.720 And you can see now, and a lot of people have been reaching out to me and saying, you know what,

00:16:35.440 our mayor is no longer conservative. The way that alone that, you know, that I was being treated in

00:16:41.440 that video and the way that, you know, a man was talking down to me and, you know, one of the mayor,

00:16:47.760 you know, I'm sorry, but I find that that is not a way that a conservative behaves. That is more of

00:16:55.200 the way, you know, other kind of people behave. Like, you know, I just want to shut you down from

00:17:00.880 the conversation. In, in that video, he sounds like a, he sounds like some sort of petty tyrant,

00:17:06.240 like some wannabe tyrant who's just trying to smack down any dissent and, and, and enforce this

00:17:12.960 ideological purity on the Pickering city council. It's, I'm astounded that actually he was,

00:17:18.640 he marketed himself as a conservative to begin with just unbelievable. Well, the last question

00:17:23.360 I have for you, Lisa is, is what's next for you? We know you're, this is going to increase your,

00:17:28.400 your, uh, your stardom as someone who's fighting against all of this insane, insane nonsense at

00:17:34.480 Pickering. Uh, what's next? You're going to continue fighting against this stuff at Pickering and,

00:17:39.120 and no matter what happens. So, so what's, uh, what's that, what's next for you?

00:17:43.440 Well, I'm definitely not going to stop, uh, fighting. You know, everyone is pretty amazed at

00:17:48.000 how strong of a woman that I am for not giving up for, you know, everyone targeting me and coming

00:17:54.800 after me these days, but yeah, no, I'm not going to give up. I mean, I do have, I have bigger aspirations,

00:18:00.960 obviously to, you know, go provincial or go federal, you know, and work in, work at that

00:18:07.200 level of politics. So I can really make a difference. But right now, while I'm here,

00:18:11.440 I'm going to do everything I can. And you know what, like I said, I'm getting so much support.

00:18:16.480 And if I end up having to work the next three years for free, because they want to keep on coming

00:18:20.800 after me, then, then so be it. You know, I worked all through COVID as a paralegal offering my services

00:18:27.280 for free because I just recently graduated with my, with honors, with my paralegal. And, you know,

00:18:33.920 I offered my services for free because I have to give back to the community. That's why I'm,

00:18:38.960 that's why I ran to be a politician. That's why I am a city councilor is for, I can make a change,

00:18:45.760 a real change, you know, to, to politics in the way that, um, the way that it's done. I mean,

00:18:52.960 the leaders that we have right now, the ones that are corrupt, the ones that are trying to silence

00:18:58.240 people's voices, those are not people that we need leading our country, our governments,

00:19:04.640 our municipal government. And that's something that, you know, I'm really, really going to try

00:19:09.520 and strive and change to actually be for the people.

00:19:14.560 Well, we need more people like you in office. So thank you for joining us, Lisa,

00:19:18.320 and all the best in the future.

00:19:19.440 Thank you so much. You have a great day. Thank you.

00:19:22.080 Thank you.

00:19:22.400 All right. The winner of the ratio of the week prize this week is CP24 for their outrageous

00:19:28.960 reporting on the Lisa Robinson story. Take a look at this tweet.

00:19:32.400 Disgraced Pickering councillor received 60 day pay suspension for remarks on drag story time,

00:19:38.560 LGBTQ plus flag. Disgraced Pickering councillor, even by the CP24's own standards, 1.00

00:19:45.840 that headline was so egregious that they had to quietly change the words from disgraced to embattled

00:19:52.160 on the actual written story. You know, the edit button on X now exists. And if CP24 really wanted

00:19:58.640 to get their story straight, they would have made sure to correct the tweet as well. But of course,

00:20:03.840 labeling Lisa Robinson as a disgraced city councillor goes perfectly along with the narrative peddled by

00:20:09.520 the legacy media. Thankfully, Canadians weren't having any of it. 295 replies to only 130 likes. 0.97

00:20:17.440 As we always say on the show, it's a slim ratio, but they all count the same. Why is she disgraced? 0.99

00:20:23.120 Because she disgraced, disrespected, insulted someone, or just because she had a different

00:20:27.440 opinion. That response has over 193 likes. Excuse me, CP24? Nothing she said is disgraceful.

00:20:35.440 She said what a lot of Canadians are too afraid to say. She said that no group should get preferential

00:20:41.120 treatment over another one. Legacy media hacks at it again. What did she say that was homophobic?

00:20:47.520 She doesn't want kids indoctrinated by LGBTQ propaganda or grown men dressed as women dancing 1.00

00:20:53.920 half-naked in front of kids or reading LGBTQ books to impressionable children. It's called 0.97

00:20:59.440 Freedom of Speech. Why was she dock pay? Just an outrageous story. Alright everyone,

00:21:04.640 that's going to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:21:08.080 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratio.

00:21:23.920 We'll see you next week.

Juno News - October 26, 2023

Ontario councillor SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY for opposing gender ideology

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