Rebel News Podcast - B.C. politician fined $750,000 for his views on trans issues in schools

00:00:00.160 Hello, my friends. Just a crazy case out of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal,

00:00:05.400 which is saying a lot because they're all crazy. A guy who was elected to a public school board

00:00:10.280 just got fined $750,000 for saying he disagrees with transgenderism in the curriculum. And by

00:00:17.980 the way, that's going to be paid to any gay teachers. I wonder if the gay population of 0.98

00:00:24.040 teachers in Chilliwack, BC, well, why wouldn't you say you're gay if you're going to get 1.00

00:00:28.960 thousands of dollars from this prize money? It's the strangest thing. I'll take you through it. Just 0.86

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00:00:58.960 Tonight, two stories of a civilization in decline. And of course, I mean, Canada. It's February

00:01:14.940 20th. And this is the Ezra LeBant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:32.500 Hey, some good news. Our friend Tommy Robinson is in the United States. This is good news because he

00:01:38.200 needed a special visa waiver to be allowed to travel to the U.S. given his U.K. legal convictions.

00:01:45.700 And the fact that he got those waivers demonstrates that the United States State Department

00:01:49.600 does not believe the U.K. government's views about Tommy Robinson. The U.S. has very strict border

00:01:56.380 policies, especially these days. They love deporting people. So for them to admit Tommy in a special

00:02:03.060 decision, shows they just don't credit the U.K.'s justice system anymore, not when it comes to

00:02:08.340 political prisoners like Tommy Robinson. That is amazing to me. Here is a fun video Tommy recorded

00:02:14.460 just after landing in Washington. You can see how excited he is.

00:02:33.060 That's right. I'm in the United States of America. Can you see how happy I am? It's been a long time

00:02:41.340 coming. I've dreamed about this moment for so long. In 2017, I was given an invite by 10 members of

00:02:46.880 Congress to come and visit here and talk about the decline in free speech in Britain, which now the

00:02:51.960 entire world knows about. But back then, 45 British MPs wrote to the American Embassy in London and they

00:02:58.060 blocked my travel. 45, that's three times as many MPs who'd ever spoke about grooming. They didn't want

00:03:05.080 me to come here to talk about the problems that Britain faces. Well, tough shit. I'm now here. 1.00

00:03:10.800 You hold no weight anymore. You have zero credibility to the British Parliament. The whole world now looks

00:03:17.120 upon you as a laughing stock. So I'm in the United States of America. If you want to keep up to date

00:03:21.680 with what I'm doing here, it's Tommy in USA.com. That's exciting news and proof that America is heading in

00:03:27.520 the right direction when it comes to speech. But I'm sure you saw this story about speech

00:03:33.340 in British Columbia. An elected school board trustee was just ordered to pay $750,000 for hurting the

00:03:43.920 feelings of transgender people because of his political views, which he honestly holds and for

00:03:49.440 which he was voted into office as a school board trustee. Let me read to you from the Regime Media's

00:03:55.760 report. And then a little bit later, we'll talk to a lawyer about him. This is an incredible report

00:04:00.460 in CTV, which I think was written by Canadian Press. So it'll be in every newspaper. And it somehow

00:04:05.800 forgets whoopsies to interview anyone on the free speech side of the debate. That's a trick, isn't it?

00:04:12.180 So this is the CTV version.

00:04:14.580 Former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld has been ordered to pay $750,000 in damages to

00:04:22.520 LGBTQ2S plus teachers after the BC Human Rights Tribunal found dozens of public statements

00:04:31.340 amounted to discrimination or hate speech. So speech, merely speaking, is discrimination now?

00:04:39.740 Especially when your job is specifically to speak honestly and from the heart about matters in the

00:04:45.440 public interest. That's discrimination. Just speaking is discrimination. I thought discrimination

00:04:50.960 was, okay, you're not going to allow someone to rent a hotel room because they're black. You're not going 1.00

00:04:56.040 to allow someone in your restaurant because they're indigenous, whatever. You're actually making a choice.

00:05:01.580 You're banning someone. You're firing someone because you find out they're gay. That's discrimination. 0.99

00:05:06.320 No. It's discrimination just to have a different point of view now, is it?

00:05:12.280 There's no such thing as the right not to be offended. I'm sorry. That is a fake thing.

00:05:16.080 That is Orwellian. That's a counterfeit human right. That's the government power to silence you. That's

00:05:21.240 not a human right. Let me read a little bit. The decision released Wednesday caps a human rights

00:05:27.840 case nearly a decade in the making and concludes that Neufeld's public attacks on sexual orientation and

00:05:34.020 gender identity education, known as SOGI 123, helped create a poisoned work environment for queer and 1.00

00:05:42.260 trans teachers in Chilliwack. Now, his job was to oversee sex education. He disagreed with

00:05:51.620 transgenderism being taught in schools, especially to children of tender years. That's not a poison work

00:05:58.240 environment. He's not against trans people or gay people, for all I know. He's against teaching young

00:06:06.160 kids about radical sexual expression. The tribunal determined he breached three sections of the Human

00:06:12.720 Rights Code, including employment discrimination, discriminatory publications, and hate speech,

00:06:17.760 and ordered him to compensate dozens of teachers impacted by his conduct. The ruling also underscores that

00:06:24.160 school trustees have a legal duty to uphold safe and inclusive learning environments. Stop the BS, please.

00:06:31.040 No one was unsafe here. No one, no one went to the police because they were unsafe. No one, you know,

00:06:38.400 called 911. There's no policeman in the world that would lay such charges. No prosecutor who would prosecute,

00:06:44.880 no judge who would fight against them. So they went to BC's kangaroo court, the worst one in the country, the BC

00:06:50.480 Human Rights Tribunal. I remember when I wrote a book called Shakedown about this more than a dozen

00:06:54.400 years ago. This is the same BC Human Rights Tribunal that there was a woman who worked at a McDonald's

00:07:00.880 and refused to wash her hands. And McDonald's said, you can't work at McDonald's if you don't wash your 0.99

00:07:05.760 hands. And the tribunal ordered them to hire her anyways. Isn't that super gross? I'll never forget 1.00

00:07:12.960 that story because that just shows how gross the BC Human Rights Tribunal is. The real rules of justice do not

00:07:18.400 apply. I'll keep reading. The tribunal awarded $750,000 to the Chilliwack Teasers Association

00:07:25.520 for equal distribution amongst LGBTQ2S plus class members. The panel estimated the class likely

00:07:33.360 includes between 45 and 163 teachers, but the exact number will be confirmed by the CTA during

00:07:40.080 distribution. Hey, if you're gay, you get cash. You don't have to show any damages other than you don't 0.98

00:07:47.360 like what he said. That's not damages. Like if someone hits your car or assaults you, that's called a difference

00:07:52.560 of opinion. And if you're gay, you get money, thousands of dollars. So, hey, if you've ever had romantic 0.98

00:08:00.960 feelings, even just in your own head about someone, now's the time to come out of the closet. It's

00:08:06.320 literally worth thousands of dollars to you to say you're gay. Now we've had in immigration law, people falsely

00:08:13.520 claiming to be gay, so they can falsely claim they were discriminated back home, so they're allowed to 0.76

00:08:18.400 come in as refugees. They later then bring their four wives and children over. If you think I'm joking, 1.00

00:08:23.120 I am not. Being gay pays, and in Chilliwack it's about to pay out thousands of dollars. Expect the 0.82

00:08:30.240 number of gay teachers to, I don't know, double, triple, quadruple. Why would you not say you're gay? 0.98

00:08:36.640 And by the way, having a straight spouse is no proof you're not gay. The BC Human Rights Tribunal is

00:08:43.600 murdering BC Human Rights. Now I'm not going to read all of it, but here's a gem from the CTV story.

00:08:50.720 The panel issued a cease and refrain order prohibiting Neufeld from repeating similar conduct,

00:08:57.200 as in they're preemptively stopping him from talking about these things even now, even

00:09:01.200 to journalists. Now I'll jump ahead in the story. It also concluded that six of his public posts,

00:09:07.040 referred to jointly as hate speech publications, in the decision violated Section 71B of the Code.

00:09:14.080 This provision prohibits the publication of speech that is likely to expose a person or group of class

00:09:19.360 or persons to hatred or contempt because of their protected characteristics. This is colloquially

00:09:24.320 referred to as hate speech, the decision explains. So this isn't a real court, and it's not a real judge,

00:09:31.200 and it's not real prosecutors, but it just sentenced a man for hate, a feelings crime.

00:09:37.200 The liberals in Parliament, may I remind you, want to make it a life sentence to be find guilty of hate.

00:09:43.040 Let me read some more. The panel also declined to order mandatory anti-discrimination training,

00:09:48.160 writing that Neufeld's views appear clearly entrenched, making such an order unlikely to be effective.

00:09:54.480 Additionally, since Neufeld is no longer a trustee after he's losing his bid in the 2022 election,

00:09:58.880 the panel said this training would not lead to a less discriminatory workplace for the complainants.

00:10:06.960 Could you imagine being told you had to undergo re-education on something as nuts as transgenderism? 1.00

00:10:13.520 Who would be the teacher in that RuPaul or something? But why bother? You've just hit the guy with a $750,000

00:10:18.880 fine. But seriously, why not make it $750 million? Why not make it a $750 billion fine, just to be safe?

00:10:30.240 I'll read some more. Neufeld had argued throughout the hearing that his statements weren't derogatory

00:10:34.960 towards LGBTQ2QS plus people, and that he was simply criticizing government policy, particularly the SOGI

00:10:41.680 G123 curriculum. He maintained that his comments reflected legitimate concerns and evidence-based viewpoints,

00:10:47.760 and not discrimination or hatred.

00:10:50.400 Well, don't you see that is how you win a debate in 2026? The vast majority of real people are against transgender extremism,

00:10:58.480 by which I mean men and women's prisons, men and women's bathrooms, men and women's sports, the sexualization of young kids.

00:11:03.760 And if you think an old man named Neufeld is the problem, may I invite you to talk to any new immigrant from Asia or Africa or the

00:11:11.280 Middle East about this? So yeah, no big deal. No need to convince anyone they're wrong. No need to debate anyone.

00:11:17.680 Just ban them from saying things you don't like, especially those pesky elected politicians.

00:11:23.280 I mean, why don't we just hand over the schools and our children to the BC Human Rights Tribunal?

00:11:28.400 Oh, right, we did. Here, I'll read some more.

00:11:30.400 Kassari Govander, BC's Human Rights Commissioner, and an intervener in the case, welcomed the ruling,

00:11:35.680 particularly the way it underscores that people in power still have human rights obligations while

00:11:40.240 engaging in political debate. Quote, occupying an elected position such as being a school trustee

00:11:45.440 can mean that hateful and discriminatory messages are seen as more credible and can spread faster and

00:11:50.640 further, which in turn can mean that the impact of those messages is intensified, Govander told CTV News.

00:11:56.800 I'm not going to read the whole thing. Not a single civil libertarian is quoted.

00:12:02.080 Frankly, I doubt that anyone at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association or the BC Civil Liberties

00:12:06.000 Association would even side with Neufeld. I mean, they long ago stopped being for actual free speech,

00:12:11.280 except for their side. So they'd call drag queen story hour for kindergarten. They would call that

00:12:16.880 free speech. That's what they mean by free speech. Just you're not allowed to criticize that,

00:12:21.200 even in an elected school board. That makes you a denier of transgenderism.

00:12:26.640 Yeah, that's a pretty serious sign that your civilization is in decline. Not just the transgender 1.00

00:12:31.680 extremism, but the censorship and lawfare and litigation to maintain the appearance that people

00:12:37.200 support this insanity. It really reminds me of the decadence of Rome. Caligula would find it fascinating.

00:12:43.280 So there's that. And then there's this I saw today. Look at this tweet. Totally switching subjects now,

00:12:50.800 but am I really? I'm talking about civilizations in decline. Here's a tweet from the Globe and Mail.

00:12:55.760 Out of nowhere. I love those three words. Out of nowhere. Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is

00:13:03.600 that possible? Yeah, out of nowhere. Just sort of sneaked up on us. Not sure who might be to blame.

00:13:09.120 Probably nobody. I mean, really, it just happened. Yeah, we're in a bit of a mess. Stay with us for more.

00:13:26.800 Human rights commissions are like baby courts or quasi-judicial tribunals. They're not actually run

00:13:32.400 by judges. They don't have the same rigorous civil procedure. For example, hearsay is allowed. There's

00:13:38.640 all sorts of lower standards for evidence. And as you can see, the rulings are quite wacky sometimes.

00:13:46.160 This isn't a joke though. A $750,000 penalty, a kind of class action lawsuit. Again, without the

00:13:54.720 checks and balances of a real class action lawsuit, it's an out of control legal creation. Take it from

00:14:00.880 me. I went through the whole thing about 15 years ago, 20 years ago now in Alberta. Joining us now to

00:14:06.960 talk about this latest case of censorship through a so-called Human Rights Commission is a lawyer for

00:14:12.880 charter advocates working with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. His name is Adam Keer.

00:14:18.080 Adam, nice to meet you. Thanks for joining us today. Hi, thanks for having me on.

00:14:22.560 I'm shocked by this case. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Let's just confirm the basic facts.

00:14:28.240 What you have here is a former school trustee who was elected to debate these matters and oversee these

00:14:34.560 matters. He obviously was a strong critic of sexual education in the progressive style that is the Norman

00:14:43.440 British Columbia. He apparently used language that was a little bit, I don't know, spicy as considered by

00:14:51.280 some. Instead of just satisfying themselves with debating him or beating him in an election, they

00:14:59.040 took him before the Human Rights Tribunal and they got a $750,000 payday. Whether or not they can

00:15:06.240 collect, I don't know. Did I more or less get the facts straight there? Yeah, you got the main facts

00:15:14.880 that happened. And what's particularly interesting about this case is how the Human Rights Tribunal

00:15:20.400 arrived at its decision. And I think it lends to that point you were raising earlier about the lower

00:15:26.800 standards that people potentially face when they're before these tribunals. Well, I mean,

00:15:32.720 they convicted this guy of hate speech. Hate speech and hate crimes are in our criminal code. There's all

00:15:38.480 sorts of checks and balances. One of them, there's various defenses, for example, honest belief,

00:15:42.880 religious belief. You have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. These are some of the

00:15:48.640 natural checks and balances when you go to a real grown-up court. But this is a baby court, 0.82

00:15:53.440 and they didn't have those same standards, did they? So they just convicted this guy of a hate crime.

00:15:59.120 Well, even in the context of human rights cases, the Supreme Court has actually been pretty clear

00:16:04.320 about setting a high standard for what hatred means. There's a pretty high-profile case a few years

00:16:09.840 ago with a comedian. There's the Ward case where, again, the Supreme Court reiterated,

00:16:15.360 you know, it's not enough that someone says something offensive. Hatred is a very high bar.

00:16:20.480 It refers to an exceptional kind of speech that caused detestation and vilification of a group of

00:16:26.640 people. And in this case, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal did reference that decision and

00:16:33.120 that case law. However, the end result was that the tribunal found that separating the concept of

00:16:43.840 gender identity and biological sex is almost mandatory. So insisting that gender identity is 1.00

00:16:52.640 no different from biological sex erases the category of trans people, so says the British Columbia Human

00:16:59.520 Rights Tribunal. And that erasure contributes to the promotion of hatred and what makes Mr. Neufeld's

00:17:09.680 speech hate speech. So I would put it to you. I mean, listen, we don't know everyone's mind, but

00:17:19.600 you travel in different circles and people talk about this perhaps in hush tones a little bit because

00:17:25.440 were they to stand up in a town hall and announce their views on transgenderism, they might get in 0.96

00:17:30.320 some sort of trouble. But I put it to you that most Canadians are challenged by the idea of

00:17:37.120 transgenderism. I think they put up with it if it's a private matter. They say, okay, nobody's business

00:17:43.200 but theirs. But then when it comes into the public square, girls' sports, girls' bathrooms, girls' change 1.00

00:17:50.640 room, women's prisons, then all of a sudden, what you just talked about, is there a distinction

00:17:56.320 between a biological sex and a gender identity or gender expression? That's not just a debating

00:18:02.880 point anymore. It's not just an interesting thought experiment. On that question turns whether or not a

00:18:10.160 man can go into a change room with women. And I put it to you that most Canadians, that's my hunch, 0.94

00:18:17.360 but I think polls would support it. Most Canadians would find that troubling. Are you saying to me

00:18:23.280 that by this human rights tribunal, they're guilty of hate? Potentially. Obviously, every case is going

00:18:32.640 to be assessed on its own merits, but the tribunal was very clear in saying that the statement itself,

00:18:39.200 distinguishing biological sex and gender identity is an essential denial of transgender people.

00:18:49.120 You know, that word denial, I see it used here and there. I mean, you see denialism used with regards

00:18:56.080 to residential schools, the Kamloops question of, are there graves under there? And if you dare take a

00:19:04.400 position, you're called a denier, as if you're, I don't know, a Holocaust denier, or if you're like a

00:19:10.960 flat earther. It's not a legit, I think that word denier or denial, it's loaded. It implies that there

00:19:20.240 is, you're either on our side and correct, or you're on the other side and it's a malicious decision

00:19:27.360 to deny reality. I don't, I think there are very few things that should be sacrosanct.

00:19:34.400 And even those, immune to debate, I mean, and transgenderism certainly shouldn't be one of it. 1.00

00:19:41.920 I feel like the human rights tribunal is too big for its britches. I feel like it wants to be a grown

00:19:48.480 up court and a legislature all at once. What do you think? Your point about the

00:19:56.480 the implications of the word denial, I think are really relevant to the way this decision was

00:20:01.440 framed. The tribunal noted that the question of whether transgender people exist and are entitled

00:20:07.600 to dignity in this province is as valuable to ongoing public debate as whether one race

00:20:13.440 is superior to another. So they directly equate this idea and the implication being that,

00:20:19.360 you know, there's no legitimate debate over whether one race is superior to another. And so therefore,

00:20:24.880 there really isn't room for ongoing debate as to what it means, you know, what the implications of

00:20:30.400 being transgender are or what that means for for human gender and sexuality more generally.

00:20:35.600 I find that incredible. I find that worrying. Now, I don't know. I don't. I've never met Mr.

00:20:42.240 Neufeld. You've read the case carefully. I've just read the media reports. It seems like he was

00:20:48.720 unrepresented. Did he have legal counsel or did he go in on his own? Do you know?

00:20:53.280 No, he had legal counsel before the tribunal.

00:20:56.080 Oh, that's right. He, you know, it actually was our old friend who used to work with the JCCF,

00:21:00.720 right? I'm sorry. I just forgot. Yeah. James Kitchen. James Kitchen. Sorry. That's right. I did

00:21:04.560 see that. It felt like one of those cases that, you know, you have this irascible

00:21:12.960 troublemaker who like Bill Watcott, who just won't stop talking about something. And the entire state

00:21:19.520 keeps coming down on him again and again. And it just makes him tougher. It's like an egg.

00:21:24.720 The hotter the water you put him in, the harder he boils. I don't think anyone will ever change

00:21:29.760 Mr. Neufeld's mind. In fact, the ruling sort of said that when they refused to put him in a

00:21:33.600 re-education camp, they said, we're not going to crack this nut. I don't know if there are some

00:21:38.560 people out there who are so stubborn, they simply refuse to believe that men can be women. And what do

00:21:44.000 you do with some of that stubborn? I don't know. I guess you bill them 750 grand.

00:21:47.280 I don't know. Do we know anything about what's going to happen to you? Do you know if there's

00:21:51.360 going to be appeal? I hope there will be. I don't know. I certainly hope there is. This

00:21:56.160 is a troubling decision. And like I said earlier, it seems to be at odds with what the Supreme Court

00:22:02.160 has said. Hatred means it's a high bar. You know, this kind of dates, like the hatred provisions in

00:22:08.160 the criminal code were challenged at the Supreme Court in the nineties and the Supreme Court narrowly

00:22:13.520 approved them. But that rested on this very high bar for what hatred means. It's supposed to be the

00:22:18.720 worst kind of speech. It's supposed to refer only to the sorts of things that could lead to a group

00:22:24.400 of people essentially facing a genocide or something comparable to that in Canada. But this case

00:22:31.680 essentially blows the lid off that definition and greatly expands how it can be applied.

00:22:36.720 You know, I think I remember reading that case. I mean, I think it was in 1990. I think it was

00:22:41.440 a 5-4 ruling. I think Beverly McLaughlin, who went on to become the chief justice,

00:22:45.520 wrote the dissenting view. And if I recall, and I'm going from my memory here, she said,

00:22:51.680 uh, this is, you know, this is a slippery slope. And the other judges said, no, no, this will be so

00:22:57.600 rarely used. We're going to uphold the constitution. Nothing to worry about here. Maybe I've got some of my

00:23:03.120 details there wrong. But, but you could see that slippery slope starting to slip in 1990. Here we

00:23:09.600 are 36 years later. And, um, I guess they didn't throw him in prison. So there's that. I don't know.

00:23:16.240 If I recall, um, Premier Eby was actually the head of the BC Civil Liberties Association in this day.

00:23:22.720 Is that right? I think he's always been sort of a progressive lawyer. Um, maybe he likes this kind

00:23:28.800 of radicalism in his human rights commissions. Do we know if there's any feedback from the

00:23:34.240 legislature or from the premier on this? Cause it's a pretty dramatic decision for a little board

00:23:38.960 or commission to make. Uh, I'm not sure about the, the legislative response, but, um, there's

00:23:45.200 some serious implications for kind of local democracy at play too. And, and I hope the legislature can,

00:23:51.280 can respond and, and, uh, intervene here because the, uh, one of, I mean, as you raised Neufeld is a,

00:24:00.320 or was a, uh, a school trustee and he was criticizing the school board's policy in education. He was

00:24:07.280 criticizing the materials that children were being shown. And one of the things the tribunal did is

00:24:12.320 they, uh, they essentially took a side on the debate. They said that the, the SOGI materials that he was

00:24:17.680 criticizing, uh, propose all these benefits. They, they increase visibility, protection and inclusion

00:24:23.440 for transgender students. Uh, and so essentially there's no justification for, uh, Mr. Neufeld to be 0.71

00:24:30.720 opposing these things. Only a denier would deny it. Yeah. That's they've ended the debate. And if you're

00:24:37.040 on the other side, you are a denier, you know, get ready to pay up. Wow. You know what? I'm so glad you

00:24:42.800 guys are following this. And, uh, I think James Kipchin is an alumnus of the JCCF, if I'm not

00:24:48.640 mistaken. And so I wasn't surprised to see his name on that. Uh, well, listen, keep, keep your eye on

00:24:54.320 this. Keep up the good work. I know the JCCF or the justice center is, uh, one of the leading civil

00:24:59.440 liberties groups in Canada. And I'm glad you're attentive to this. Who knows? Maybe if it goes to

00:25:04.880 an appeal, you guys will intervene on the side of free speech. Uh, yeah, we'll definitely be keeping

00:25:10.000 our eye on this, uh, troubling situation. Great to talk with you. Adam Kier. Good to meet you.

00:25:15.120 Thanks for having me. All right. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:25:27.360 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Rory Kennedy says, I don't want Islam protected in any way. 0.80

00:25:34.480 Well, um, the religious freedom fellowship that we were talking about is a specific focus on

00:25:39.200 Christian and Jewish, uh, discrimination as an anti-Christian and anti-Jewish discrimination,

00:25:45.680 uh, partly because that's the bulk of it, especially, uh, on the Jewish side. But as

00:25:49.760 we talked about on the Christian side, most people just ignore it completely. They don't even know.

00:25:54.800 It's just the new normal churches burning a subtle anti-Christian bigotry in the media.

00:26:00.880 So that's what this, uh, fellowship is about. It's about stopping that.

00:26:03.840 Gary Wagner says, so accomplish something, Danielle. So far, mostly talk. Albertans are fed up. That's

00:26:11.120 been obvious for years. The liberal socialists have been butt pumping Alberta for over a decade,

00:26:16.480 and nothing has been done about it. And MOU is worthless. The cost of living is relentless.

00:26:21.520 Our buying power is eroding every day. Enough is enough. Well, um, listen, no other premier in

00:26:28.480 Canadian history has allowed a referendum to proceed, and one will be proceeding in Alberta on October 19th.

00:26:35.040 And I much, very much do appreciate the premier saying she will not take the bait of opposition

00:26:40.960 journalists and condemn people who want to exercise their franchise and vote. Why would she, why,

00:26:47.360 why would she run errands for the CBC? I think Danielle Smith is doing a good job. 0.95

00:26:52.400 Tamara Shields says, I'm a boomer who knows better than to believe any mainstream news,

00:26:56.320 especially CBC. I also support Alberta separation. Plus, never voted. The liberals never will.

00:27:02.000 Sadly, though, there are far too many foolish boomers and believe the lying propaganda. 0.99

00:27:07.760 It'll be very interesting to see how it goes. I think you're going to see operation fear being 0.99

00:27:13.280 used, uh, against Alberta independence. That's literally what it was called in the UK during Brexit.

00:27:18.560 So, uh, be interesting to see if they deploy some of those same anti-independence referendum

00:27:25.600 talking points in Alberta as they did in the UK. That's our show for the day. Until tomorrow,

00:27:31.920 on behalf of all, until Monday, pardon me, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:27:36.480 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:27:39.360 Hey, everybody. If you live in Alberta or are traveling there, can I invite you to attend our

00:27:47.760 very interesting independence tour? The lovely ladies and gents behind me there, Sheila Gunn-Reed, 1.00

00:27:55.040 Tamara Leach, and Cory Morgan are on tour all over Alberta, talking about Alberta's future and independence.

00:28:03.040 Cory's got a book on sovereignty. Tamara Leach, of course, has held the line. And Sheila's got a new book

00:28:08.400 also on the lessons to learn from Quebec's attempts at independence. These are the cities that the tour has

00:28:15.520 yet to go to. Red Deer, tomorrow night, the 20th. Edmonton on the 21st. I'll be there, by the way. Hope to see you.

00:28:21.440 Calgary on the 26th. I'll see you there. Madison Hat on the 27th. I gotta go, too. I'll see you there.

00:28:29.440 Lethbridge on the 28th. I'll be there. Westlock on March 5th. I'm sorry I can't make it there,

00:28:35.360 but I might be able to switch things around. And finally, Grand Prairie on March 6th. You can see

00:28:40.640 all these dates if you didn't catch them at once. You can see them all at independenctour.com.

00:28:46.000 We've already sold out the Edmonton venue. I'm worried we're going to sell out the others if you don't

00:28:50.560 move fast. So please go to independenctour.com. If you're interested in Western independence,

00:28:55.280 Alberta independence, if you want to get the books or talk to our personalities there,

00:29:00.000 including myself or four of them, we'll see you there. That's independenctour.com.

Rebel News Podcast - February 21, 2026

B.C. politician fined $750,000 for his views on trans issues in schools

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