Rebel News Podcast - Cancel Culture for Erin O'Toole, COVID Crackdown on MMA Fighter

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00:01:33.820 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.620 Remember last summer when freshly minted Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole said he was opposed to cancel

00:01:47.340 culture. And so what did he did a couple of days ago? Well, he cancelled Derek Sloan for a completely

00:01:55.140 bogus reason. Ezra Levent has plenty to say about this latest self-inflicted wound by the increasingly

00:02:03.040 pathetic Conservative Party of Canada. And hey, sports fans. First, the authorities were going after 0.79

00:02:09.880 pro-wrestlers for allegedly breaking the Wuhan virus rules. Now it's MMA fighters. Oh, it's true.

00:02:17.560 It's true. And just will you hear what Sheila the She-Devil gun 0.98

00:02:21.320 has to say about this ongoing crackdown on athletes. And letters, we get your letters. We get them

00:02:29.060 every minute of every day. And you had plenty to say about my video regarding a very dark day in

00:02:36.260 Toronto history. I speak of last Saturday, folks, when police brutally shut down a peaceful anti-lockdown

00:02:43.880 protest. Apparently, the protesters forgot to wear their BLM t-shirts. That would have made them 0.97

00:02:50.820 untouchable. Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:02:59.620 Ezra Levant here at Rebel World Headquarters in Toronto. We did our daily live stream at 12 noon,

00:03:05.420 and we are coming to you with an emergency update. Derek Sloan has been voted out of the Conservative

00:03:13.500 Caucus. And joining me now via Skype from his home is Derek Sloan. Mr. Sloan, welcome back to the

00:03:21.640 program. We spoke to you last during the Conservative Leadership Campaign. As of now, you are no longer a

00:03:28.000 Conservative MP. Is that true? That is definitely true. As of about an hour ago, or even slightly less,

00:03:35.660 I was notified that I am no longer a Conservative MP. Now tell me about the process by which you were

00:03:42.160 terminated. I understand there was a caucus meeting via Zoom. Is that correct? Were you a part of that

00:03:49.000 meeting? How did that meeting go? So I was a part of that meeting. And in that meeting, basically,

00:03:55.700 and I should say up front that procedurally, it was entirely fair. You know, I was able to make

00:04:02.140 at as much time as I wanted to make an opening and closing statement. And then in the intervening,

00:04:07.060 others had, you know, some time to make comments as well. Obviously, the outcome is ridiculous. 0.97

00:04:16.140 And of course, will damage the party immensely. But they've made their bed and now they have to lie in 0.92

00:04:21.900 it. Yep. As Mr. Sloan said, the Conservative Party of Canada made their bed and now they have to lie in

00:04:28.480 it. But to quote a lyric from the Australian band Midnight Oil, how can we sleep when our beds are

00:04:34.880 burning? What happened to Derek Sloan two days ago when he was given the boot from the Conservative

00:04:41.740 Party was nothing short of a travesty. His unforgivable sin was receiving a campaign donation

00:04:48.380 of a whopping $131 from a bigot. But the thing is, that bigot did not use his actual name when he made

00:04:57.160 the donation. Well, too bad, so sad, because in the eyes of leader Aaron O'Toole, Sloan committed an

00:05:03.960 unpardonable crime. And to think that last year, Mr. O'Toole campaigned against cancel culture.

00:05:13.720 Unbelievable. And without further ado, I'm joined by the Commander-in-Chief of Rebel News, Ezra Levent.

00:05:20.060 Ezra, the bottom line for any party, any leader making decisions is to increase the vote,

00:05:25.900 win more seats. I think what we saw a couple of days ago was a gift from God to the Justin Trudeau

00:05:33.620 liberals. Yeah, I mean, there's a few reasons for that. Number one, Justin Trudeau needs criticism

00:05:38.400 because he's doing a lot of things very poorly. I'm skeptical of the vaccines for the virus because

00:05:43.720 I think they were rushed to market. The virus has such a low death rate. You would have to have an

00:05:49.860 extremely safe vaccine for you to trade one set of risks for the other. But if you like vaccines,

00:05:57.080 and some people do, great. Trudeau has been one of the worst leaders in the world for it.

00:06:03.060 Pfizer has cut shipments to Canada down to zero. We are a fraction of the speed of delivery of other

00:06:09.300 countries. I'm not even talking about best countries like Israel. Yes. But for example,

00:06:14.500 the state of Florida. So instead of criticizing that, Aaron O'Toole does the circular firing squad.

00:06:22.080 I mean, that is something that really needs criticism. The Keystone XL pipeline, when Joe

00:06:28.080 Biden just nixed it and Trudeau said, oh, well, too bad for that. And contrast that again, I'm

00:06:33.180 mentioning Israel because Biden in his first day had this goofy idea. He wasn't going to have an

00:06:37.680 ambassador to Israel. It was an ambassador to Israel and Gaza. And Israel said, no, no, no. If you call

00:06:43.660 him that, he's not going to be welcome here. In two hours, Joe Biden turned around. So again,

00:06:48.220 a contrast between a weak Canadian leader and another world leader. Imagine if O'Toole and his

00:06:54.500 critics had been focused on holding Justin Trudeau to account instead of holding Rebel News to account

00:06:59.940 or holding Derek Sloan to account. How about being the official opposition to the government? So huge

00:07:04.600 missed opportunities. Second of all. And by the way, if I may add, Ezra, what a win for the

00:07:09.800 Conservative base. If you look at the number of seats the Conservative Party has in Western Canada,

00:07:13.760 you've got to go to bat for the Keystone XL. And why wouldn't you? And the thing is,

00:07:18.440 Trudeau claims he's in favor, but he's done nothing to show it. But much bigger than a lost

00:07:24.220 10 days of opportunity, like seriously, 10 days where they were fighting among themselves and

00:07:29.280 the Liberals were just laughing, oh, we're really going to get away with this, is that by his choice,

00:07:35.400 by his choices, Erno Toole has affirmed, confirmed, admitted, confessed all the sins he's been accused

00:07:45.220 of. Yes, we are a deeply racist party. Yes, there's so many racists among us. Yes, we have to hunt them

00:07:50.480 out. Yes, it's so critical. I'm going to call them bad names. Yes, it's so bad. We're going to have

00:07:54.660 emergency meetings to purge him. They're using words like purge. And so, okay, Derek Sloan is gone,

00:08:01.760 which is too bad because I thought he was an effective MP who had a base support in the party.

00:08:06.080 But it's not even about him. It's now the Liberals and the media, I'll repeat myself,

00:08:11.840 have the new standard that Erno Toole has set. You don't even have to have a racist in your caucus.

00:08:19.460 Just if some obscure aging racist who hides his name, donates 130 bucks online, and if that's later 0.75

00:08:28.240 found, you've got a gotcha moment suitable to fire someone. And that is exactly the case as belli

00:08:33.940 that Erno Toole put in his tweet on Monday announcing Erno Toole being fired. He said it's

00:08:39.900 because he had a failure of due diligence and gross misjudgment. And then he ended with some racist

00:08:46.520 accusation, which is bizarre because, of course, Derek Sloan has a multiracial family himself.

00:08:50.900 Right. His wife is from the West Indies, I believe, right?

00:08:52.800 That's right. So now it's open season. Every journalist, every liberal, every troll on Twitter

00:08:58.860 now knows if you can find someone like three degrees of separation away from the party who

00:09:03.820 has said or done something racist, Erno Toole has to live up to his standard. And it's an impossible

00:09:08.600 standard, but he set it for himself. And so he has guaranteed that the narrative, the ballot question,

00:09:15.460 as they say, from now until Election Day is, well, is Erno Toole racist or does he have to do more?

00:09:20.740 And then there's one more thing. He has demoralized three parts of his base. Number one,

00:09:28.660 social conservatives who feel that Derek Sloan was punished for that. Probably some truth to it.

00:09:34.320 Number two, those in the party who say, well, okay, I understand a leader being a leader and

00:09:39.420 followers being followers and the leader's the boss, but there's a huge violation of due process here.

00:09:44.160 I don't believe my party is internally very democratic anymore. That's a different thing than

00:09:48.800 someone who likes Sloan for Sloan. These are people who like rules and like procedure. And

00:09:54.360 number three, which is, I guess, related, cancel culture. Hair triggers sensitivity to fire and

00:10:00.400 ruin someone's life because someone on Twitter had a tantrum. And that's all this was. The fact that

00:10:06.340 Paul Fromm made a donation of 130 bucks in the name of Frederick P. Fromm, and that wasn't caught by

00:10:13.200 anyone, including by the conservative party headquarters, months later, should be a cause

00:10:17.780 to fire an MP in two days, shows the most wicked hair trigger hypersensitive cancel culture imaginable.

00:10:26.040 I can't think of a worse example of cancel culture in Canada. And yet Erno Toole had the chutzpah to

00:10:31.820 campaign as the anti-cancel culture guy. He in fact put out a release during the leadership campaign,

00:10:36.200 specifically standing by Derek Sloan himself. And so I'm looking at Erno Toole and I'm thinking,

00:10:42.840 you don't have the strategic sense to air your dirty laundry in private. You don't have the

00:10:49.180 common sense to realize that this is going to be used against you as a new standard.

00:10:53.660 You don't have the focus to take your opposition to the bad guys. You're taking it to the good guys.

00:10:58.340 And finally, and here's the final takeaway for me. You've demoralized so many people in the

00:11:06.740 grassroots. And for what? For every conservative you've lost, do you think you've brought over a

00:11:12.120 new liberal who's excited? None of them. They're all saying, ha ha, you've confirmed our narrative.

00:11:16.780 You're a bunch of racist. Thanks for undoing yourself. We're going to stick with a winner 0.99

00:11:20.340 called Justin Trudeau. Because if we went for you, Erno Toole, you're just a Trudeau wannabe. Why

00:11:24.300 don't we go for the real thing? It's Coke or new Coke. We'll stick with the good one.

00:11:27.660 You know, Ezra, what I can't get my head around is how history is eerily repeating itself. And I'm

00:11:34.460 not going back decades. I'm going back to 2019. Andrew Scheer as the head of the Conservative Party

00:11:39.300 of Canada, shunning rebel news, bending the knee to the mean girls of the media party, as you like 1.00

00:11:44.680 to say, making an enemy out of Bernier so he splits away. And here we have O'Toole making an

00:11:50.120 enemy out of Sloan. It's like they learned nothing from the disaster of 2019, which I fear if there

00:11:57.300 is an election this year, we might look back at 2019 as the good old days.

00:12:02.100 Yeah. You know, in the end,

00:12:04.100 Maxine Bernier lost his own seat and won no others. The percentage he got, I think,

00:12:08.900 was less than 5% of them going from memory.

00:12:10.900 That said, I seem to recall a study showing that eight seats were lost from the Conservatives. Now,

00:12:17.540 that would have taken them up to 129 and taken the Liberals down. That would have been very close.

00:12:22.900 And that was, I think, mainly because people were a little demoralized and they thought,

00:12:26.260 why should I fight for Andrew Scheer if he so clearly hates me? And he's like,

00:12:31.620 there was just a feeling that the party was at war with itself. I remember Andrew Scheer hired the

00:12:36.180 Liberal dirty trickster Warren Kinsella to go after Bernier and the PPC. And again, I'm not saying you

00:12:41.700 have to like Bernier and the PPC, but to have a whole campaign expenditure secret plan to go after

00:12:47.620 your own base. What are you doing? And hiring a Liberal to do it shows the whole thing. And so here

00:12:53.060 you've got Aaron O'Toole who is explicitly demonizing the right. Well, hang on, aren't you

00:12:57.940 the party of the right? And if all you think you need to win are red Tories, you ain't going to win.

00:13:06.020 You haven't won before. I think that I'm very sad to say this, but I think if there's an election

00:13:13.540 called the Spring, which I think there will be, I think Justin Trudeau is going to get a thumping

00:13:17.940 majority. And the tragedy of it is, I don't even know if the party has the energy, the resources,

00:13:25.860 or the interested talent to go through another leadership race. I mean, it was a pretty

00:13:30.260 tepid affair last time. I just feel like Aaron O'Toole has been a bit of a deceiver.

00:13:35.540 All his talk about being open-minded to build the tent, reach and talk to the independent press

00:13:40.660 gallery of which we're a part, even during the leadership campaign, he actually did talk to

00:13:44.020 Kian Bextie on camera. He did his email interview with me about the China files. And then suddenly

00:13:49.940 he just went crazy. And I'm thinking, who are you? He took questions from me at the parliamentary,

00:13:56.580 or sorry, the nomination debate that we set up in which, unfortunately, Leslie Lewis couldn't make,

00:14:02.580 and then Peter McKay had earache solidarity. But Aaron O'Toole had questions with me and suddenly

00:14:09.620 everything changes. Crystal ball gazing for one last question, Ezra. I think you're right. I could

00:14:14.980 see the Liberals probably gaining an additional 20 seats if the election were to be called for what

00:14:21.300 they suspect is late spring, early summer. But for the Conservative Party's future, if it's another

00:14:28.500 crushing defeat like that, our mutual colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, she's hopeful there might be a repeat of

00:14:34.820 what happened in Alberta with the Alberta Progressive Conservatives having a Phoenix-like

00:14:40.580 rebirth as the UPC party, and getting back to their roots. Or my hope, and I'm not that hopeful

00:14:47.700 that it'll happen, but we saw in 2018 with the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives when it was,

00:14:53.060 the leader was Patrick Brown. In late January, there was a palace coup that got rid of Patrick Brown,

00:14:59.140 thank goodness. And Doug Ford came in, not that he is a utopia when it comes to leaders. But it just

00:15:06.420 showed that in a short amount of time, you could have a radical leadership change and still win,

00:15:13.380 in the case of Doug Ford, a supermajority. Is there any whispers you're hearing that

00:15:18.100 that is a consideration amongst those demoralized MPs who are on the Conservative side?

00:15:24.420 Well, a couple of things on that. First of all, that certainly was a palace coup where Patrick

00:15:30.180 Brown's most close staff, like seriously, his closest staff, put the dagger in. So I don't think

00:15:35.460 Erin O'Toole has that same risk. The second thing is, we just had the test whereby there was a vote,

00:15:41.700 a secret vote within the caucus, and at least it was a majority voting to oust Sloan. And I put it to

00:15:49.620 you that that doesn't necessarily mean they didn't like Sloan. They realized that if the vote failed,

00:15:55.380 from O'Toole's point of view, if Sloan would have stayed in caucus, it would have been such a

00:16:00.500 thumping, shocking, thunderous rebuke of Erin O'Toole that he would have had to resign, because it would

00:16:05.620 have been tantamount to a non-confidence vote. So Erin O'Toole played a game of chicken with his caucus, 0.98

00:16:12.820 saying, well, you better vote to kick out Sloan, because otherwise that's going to look really bad on

00:16:16.340 all of us. So we don't know the vote results. It's a secret. Derek Sloan himself told me he

00:16:22.660 didn't know the vote results, but he trusted them. I think he's too trusting. So this was just a test.

00:16:28.340 Is there a mutiny amongst the caucus? Well, not in the vote. In fact, Derek Sloan told me that not a

00:16:35.860 single front bench MP spoke out in caucus in Derek Sloan's defense. So that tells me that there is no

00:16:43.220 air apparent. Patrick Brown had other people who wanted that job, including Doug Ford, obviously,

00:16:49.540 and he had an untrustworthy inner circle who knifed him. I think Erin O'Toole is the beneficiary of a

00:16:56.740 very weak party, weak, shallow bench, no rising stars anywhere. I mean, I've been playing that game

00:17:07.300 with everyone I can. Name the conservative critic for Heritage. Name the... Can you do that one?

00:17:12.580 No. Stephen Gilboa, he's bringing... I mean, of course, I swear I've looked it up three times.

00:17:16.740 I've forgotten his name every time. Why bother, really? You know, and I'm not trying to embarrass

00:17:22.100 you, but can you name the conservative critic for Transport? I knew this a few weeks ago when you

00:17:27.220 did the quiz and I've already forgotten. There you go. And I'm not trying to make you feel bad,

00:17:31.060 because I absolutely know none of our viewers know it either. And my point... And whenever I do this,

00:17:36.580 I tell people I'm not trying to embarrass you. The opposite, I want you to realize that you don't

00:17:40.420 know it and wonder why you don't know it and come to your own conclusions. Mine are because they're

00:17:45.220 either not allowed to speak out, they have nothing interesting to say, or perhaps the media won't

00:17:50.260 cover what they're doing. All three of those possible answers suggest that they should be talking to

00:17:54.580 Rebel News. Exactly. And none of this I say with any joy. I've often said, you know, people say,

00:18:02.660 oh, I told you so. Those are the worst words to say. People think it's a joy to say, I told you so,

00:18:08.580 because, haha, I'm right. Anytime you say, I told you so, you're saying, you're really saying my

00:18:13.700 pessimistic prediction has come true. Well, who ever wants that to happen? I told you so. I don't want

00:18:20.580 to be the guy saying, I told you so. I want to be the guy saying, oh, wow, I was wrong. He's great

00:18:26.500 on cancel culture. He's great on free speech. He's strong at keeping focused and trust and true

00:18:31.620 those flaws. He's really unlocking the talent in his own caucus and cabinet. Huh, I was wrong. I've

00:18:37.940 never been happier to be wrong. That's the fun phrase to say. I've never been happier to be wrong.

00:18:43.220 The sad phrase to say is, I told you so. But unfortunately with Aaron O'Toole, I told you so.

00:18:50.260 Well, Ezra, great analysis. And there you have it, folks. As Ezra said earlier,

00:18:54.900 Aaron O'Toole, in light of the Derek Sloan affair, if we can even call it that, played a game of

00:19:00.660 chicken with his caucus and he won. I'm afraid if an election is called later this year, this

00:19:07.780 conservative party is going to lay an egg. Keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:19:14.100 I knew that my goal was not to fight there. It was to fight with a suit and tie later on.

00:19:25.700 So because I had my share of battle, this was not the time. They were armed. That's very scary

00:19:30.980 to have that kind of people armed. I'm not happy to see where Canada is going.

00:19:47.060 You guys are going to be remembered for the right reasons. You know, unlike our police officers and

00:19:52.660 our government right now that just blindly listen to whoever they listen to, the elites of the world

00:19:58.900 or whatever. So I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for for everything that you're

00:20:02.660 doing for the citizens of Canada. And this is wonderful.

00:20:05.380 Dave LaDuke is a multiple time world champion in his specific sport, a Malaysian martial art known as

00:20:17.780 Letwe. Now, Dave knows about health. He knows about training and he knows about weighing and taking risks.

00:20:25.700 And as you'll see, Dave also knows about freedom. You see, Dave received a lockdown ticket for $1,550

00:20:33.940 approximately for speaking at an anti-lockdown protest in Montreal in December. So Dave reached

00:20:40.500 out to us through our civil liberties project, fightthefines.com. Well, sports fans last week,

00:20:46.820 Sheila Gunn-Reed was going to bat for a professional wrestler, namely Hot Shot Dan Duggan. Duggan had his 1.00

00:20:54.020 TV show shut down in Manitoba by those pencil net geeks down at by law enforcement, even though Hot Shot was 0.99

00:21:02.420 following all the necessary safety protocols. Insane. As for this week, well, our beloved

00:21:08.580 she-devil is going to bat for the mixed martial artist Dave LaDuke, who recently received a $1,500 0.81

00:21:16.980 ticket for speaking his mind. Alas and alack, that's how we roll these days when it comes to our

00:21:24.660 most odious tentacle of political correctness, namely cancel culture.

00:21:31.220 So joining me now is Sheila Gunn-Reed. And Sheila, I got to tell you, these days you're hanging around,

00:21:37.860 oh, I don't know, pro wrestlers, MMA fighters. I got to tell you, I really feel like a diminished man

00:21:44.100 here. But seriously, simply for exercising his freedom of speech, Mr. LaDuke gets body slammed

00:21:52.100 with a $1,500 ticket. What the heck's going on here? Well, between Hot Shot Dan Duggan and

00:22:00.820 Dave LaDuke, I mean, these guys getting these tickets from the state, ostensibly for their

00:22:06.660 own health and well-being, these are some of the toughest, most healthy people among us in society.

00:22:12.100 And they're getting tickets for doing things that are perfectly safe. And within their industry,

00:22:18.180 in Danny Duggan's case, perfectly normal, something they do all the time, they weigh the risks in the

00:22:24.500 ring all the time. That's part of their job to decide, is this healthy and safe for me to do today

00:22:30.500 or not? And yet they're getting COVID violation tickets, I guess, because of a disease that seems to

00:22:39.780 only kill the most unhealthy among us and the elderly. And none of it makes any sense. 1.00

00:22:45.940 You know, Sheila, it's just stunning to me, this clamping down on both athleticism

00:22:52.900 and free speech. And, you know, we've lived through decades of various governments running,

00:22:58.900 you know, and public service agencies running advertisements to get us off our keisters

00:23:04.580 and to get in shape, the most famous of which is probably the participation ads from the early 70s,

00:23:09.940 where the average 60-year-old Swede was in as good a shape as the average 30-year-old Canadian.

00:23:17.460 And I'm telling you, I think with shutting down the gyms, especially in a cold-weather country,

00:23:23.700 where you can't go out for a bike ride in most places, and when you have a premier like Doug Ford

00:23:29.940 saying, stay in the basement and bake cherry cheesecake, when all is said and done and we

00:23:35.060 get back to normal, I think we're in for a shocker when we take a look at the stats for,

00:23:39.860 oh, I don't know, obesity rates, diabetes, etc. What do you think?

00:23:44.660 Well, I think that you're absolutely right that we are harming and degrading the health of the entire

00:23:53.620 society to protect people who are by and large already isolated in long-term care facilities.

00:24:00.740 And we should be dealing with that and how the disease is getting into those long-term care facilities

00:24:05.860 a lot better while not harming the health and well-being of society at large.

00:24:13.060 And for these professional athletes, they can't train because the gyms are closed.

00:24:20.500 I mean, the gyms are closed unless you're a government worker in Manitoba and then the

00:24:25.220 the gyms are open, but just to you. But the professional athletes that aren't hockey players

00:24:30.580 or professional basketball players, but you know, like the the independent athletes like Danny Duggan and

00:24:37.540 Dave LaDuke who are grinding it out in a very tough sport and you have to be at peak physical and

00:24:45.220 mental wellness to participate in their sport. They're not going to be that at the end of it.

00:24:53.060 And there's no reason why they can't be. If we're closing the small gym so that people like Dave and Danny

00:25:00.820 can't train, they don't have a sport to come back to at the end of this. And no one is paying attention

00:25:06.740 to that problem either. You know, and Sheila, it's the lack of consistency, too. I mean,

00:25:11.620 when you're talking about an MMA fight, it's one on one with wrestling. It's one on one unless it's a

00:25:16.900 tag team event or something like that. The Royal Rumble, friend. That would be the statistical

00:25:23.140 anomaly, of course. But the we have the NHL back in season. There's 12 skaters on the ice at any one

00:25:30.900 time. And, you know, last weekend I was checking out the NFL playoff games. There was virtually nobody

00:25:36.660 in the 78,000 seat park and stadium rather in Orchard Park, New York, where the Bills played.

00:25:43.540 But when I tuned in the Kansas City Chiefs, it looked like the stadium was about 40 percent capacity.

00:25:50.260 And, you know, that was because you could allow almost half the stadium in and do the social

00:25:55.620 distancing. So if it can work in Kansas City, Missouri, why can't it work in other jurisdictions?

00:26:02.980 Or is this Wuhan virus so super intelligent that, oh, I don't know, it has a lot of love in its heart

00:26:10.100 for Kansas City or maybe it's a Chiefs fan? I mean, how do you make sense of it all, Sheila?

00:26:16.260 Well, yeah. And if it can work in Kansas City at a sporting event, then surely it can work in

00:26:21.620 Montreal at a protest against the lockdown because it has worked in Montreal. Apparently,

00:26:28.980 during the BLM protests in Montreal, it was perfectly fine. So I guess you're right. The 0.99

00:26:35.140 virus does play favorite. Maybe it's a Chiefs fan. Maybe it cares about radical social justice issues,

00:26:43.140 but it'll kill you if you care about free speech because that's where we're seeing all the tickets

00:26:47.540 come from. It's the protests in favor of ending the lockdown where all the tickets are coming from.

00:26:54.340 That's an excellent point, Sheila. You know, we saw all across Canada large BLM protests. Not only do 0.99

00:27:02.580 the authorities not clamp down, they took part in these protests. We even had police chiefs take a knee,

00:27:08.500 the Prime Minister take a knee. I guess he was taking a knee against himself because that made no sense.

00:27:13.860 And I'm trying to figure out how things are different now. How is it that an anti-lockdown protest,

00:27:20.820 you will be even incarcerated for showing up, whereas the jailers were actually bending the knee

00:27:28.020 just a few short months ago. How do you make sense of that one, Sheila?

00:27:33.540 You can't. And that's why I really enjoyed talking to Dave LaDuke because he's got a very unique

00:27:40.500 perspective. He's Canadian. He's from Quebec, but his wife is Russian. So he understands the

00:27:48.020 difference between the freedoms we enjoy here or used to enjoy here versus what she's experienced

00:27:54.340 in Russia. But he also fights and trains in places around the world where they don't normally have the

00:28:00.900 freedoms that we are losing here in Canada today. So he sees where this is going because he's experienced

00:28:09.860 those places where it's already like this and has been for a very long time. And that's why Dave LaDuke,

00:28:16.820 while he's got a successful career in MMA, he's back here in Canada speaking out and fighting for

00:28:26.020 freedom because this is important because he has the foresight to have already experienced where we're

00:28:32.820 headed here in Canada. You know, that's an excellent point, Sheila, and I think I've discussed this with

00:28:37.460 you before when I've gone to the Yahoo Nation protests here in Toronto, the last one of which

00:28:42.260 was brutally shut down by police at Yonge Dundas Square. I find that the most passionate protesters

00:28:50.420 are typically those from the former Soviet Union and the former Iron Curtain states in Eastern Europe.

00:28:59.380 They've seen what happens. They've watched this movie before and it doesn't have a happy ending. And

00:29:07.300 here's the thing. Again, you have these freedom fighters, I'll call them, being denounced by the

00:29:14.500 Premier of Ontario. Most of these people, I can tell you from conversations with them, did vote for the

00:29:20.580 Doug Ford PCs in 2018. He calls them a bunch of Yahoos. They've embraced the term. They call themselves 1.00

00:29:27.380 Yahoo Nation. That was way back in April. And again, a few months later, even bigger crowds for racial

00:29:34.500 injustice. And did Doug Ford call them a bunch of Yahoos? Last word goes to you, Sheila.

00:29:42.660 We've seen this time and time again. For example, the most outspoken people against the Chinese government

00:29:52.260 are Chinese people themselves, dissidents who live here. Again, because much like those people who grew 1.00

00:29:58.340 up in the former Eastern Bloc, people from Ukraine, people from Poland, they've experienced this,

00:30:06.500 they know where it's going and they see the creep in that direction. And they're willing to stand up and

00:30:13.300 warn the rest of us who are too complacent and comfortable to care. And so, you know,

00:30:19.460 they can get called names. I mean, I've seen people on the left call Chinese dissidents a bunch

00:30:25.780 of anti-Chinese racists. They can call those people protesting Doug Ford, Yahoo Nation, but it doesn't

00:30:32.980 change the fact that they're right. Absolutely. Sheila, thank you so much. And I can tell you here at

00:30:38.500 Rebel News in Toronto, we're actually, thankfully, we have a boss like Ezra Levent that probably sees us all

00:30:45.460 getting a little fatter right now. So we're building our own gym. Speak for yourself. Speak for yourself.

00:30:52.500 I'll try to bulk up for you and then maybe you can interview me like these other he-men that you're 1.00

00:30:58.020 running into. So thank you once again for another superb report, Sheila. Thanks, David. Have a great

00:31:03.300 weekend. Thank you. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the northern hinterland

00:31:09.140 of Alberta. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:31:18.340 Luckily, I interviewed that individual with the sign expressing concerns about political tyranny

00:31:24.660 because talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. He has been rounded up. He looks like he's being

00:31:31.620 arrested. I don't understand why. Maybe they're cherry-picking the people that have signs before

00:31:38.820 they go after other people. I see my cameraman, Mocha, being surrounded by police too. Well,

00:31:44.660 it's odd. They seem to be giving the media a bit of a hard time. Not that there's much media here today,

00:31:52.580 even though less than 100 meters away, there's city TV. But I guess there's nothing here for them to see.

00:32:00.340 And so it's very curious, the strategy being employed. I'm just trying to figure out

00:32:09.620 who gets rounded up and who gets a pass. And well, we're here for as long as this protest continues.

00:32:16.820 Stay tuned, folks. We are not going to leave. We are within our rights to be here. Your Section 1

00:32:22.180 holds no precedence over the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you arrest me,

00:32:26.340 you are committing a crime. Do you understand? Do you understand? I am not under arrest. I do not

00:32:31.780 consent. I am. No, I do not. No. No. If you touch me, it's assault. If you touch me, you are committing

00:32:41.460 assault. You are in bite. This is assault. 0.78

00:32:58.980 Do not shock me! Do not shock me!

00:33:02.980 Do not shock me!

00:33:06.980 Freedom! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Stand up for what is right!

00:33:29.700 What we've seen in this country since November 26 in front of Adamson's is unfortunately the death of

00:33:35.460 Canada as we know it. We have China now. We have tyrannical government. We have no freedoms. You have 0.73

00:33:41.380 no freedom of expression. You have no freedom of religion. And today you have no freedom to peacefully

00:33:46.420 assemble. I repeat, we have no more freedoms to peacefully assemble. The constitution of this country

00:33:51.700 today is done. Well, that was the scene at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto last Saturday. And what a sad

00:33:59.140 scene it was. Several hundred people were exercising their constitutional right to stage a peaceful protest.

00:34:07.620 Yet they were brutally shut down by police. I wonder why. After all, when hundreds of protesters gathered

00:34:14.500 in the summer for Black Lives Matter protests, well, the cops didn't shut down those demonstrations. On the

00:34:21.220 contrary, many officers bent the knee in solidarity with the protesters. So why the double standard? Why indeed?

00:34:31.380 And in the event, here's what you had to say about this latest attack on our civil liberties in the name of

00:34:38.340 curbing the Wuhan virus. Triggered Snowflakes writes, I see Canada is losing its freedoms too. Yes, our freedoms are

00:34:47.380 slowly being chipped away at. And what's even worse is that we are being told that it is being done so

00:34:54.260 in the name of personal safety. Brutal.

00:34:57.700 Sid Barrett writes, Real journalism. Thanks, Mr. Menzies and camera crew. Well, thank you for the kind

00:35:04.500 word, Sid. We had four cameramen on duty that day. And a good thing too, the mainstream media sat this one out.

00:35:12.100 Apparently, there was no story happening here. How lazy, how shameful is that?

00:35:19.860 Mike Kerrigan writes, If only these protesters had started some fires and toppled some statues while

00:35:28.020 bashing cops with bricks, then it would be a legal, peaceful protest accepted and endorsed by the

00:35:34.980 government. LOL. Oh, Mike, let's not forget the Molotov cocktails. As we saw in so many US cities last

00:35:42.020 summer, such as Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle, if you are protesting in the name of racial injustice,

00:35:49.300 you can get away with virtually anything from arson to vicious assaults. And it will be labeled as a

00:35:55.460 peaceful protest by the MSM. Disgraceful and another indicator that journalism is dead.

00:36:03.300 Bridgette writes, 99.7% survivability should not make a health emergency. Agreed. In fact, Bridgette,

00:36:12.980 so many of the same people who are at Yonge Dundas Square have been protesting this gruesome lockdown

00:36:19.620 since last April. So when you think about it, if this really is such a vile virus, shouldn't everyone,

00:36:26.980 yours truly included, be dead by now? Capricious Black Box writes, Apparently someone forgot to start

00:36:36.020 chanting Black Lives Matter. Yep, CBB in 2021, that chant is also known as a get out of jail free card.

00:36:44.020 And the authorities have the audacity to say their actions are being directed by science. Oh,

00:36:50.260 give me a break already. And Wayne Schuster writes, They did not clash. The participants in the freedom

00:36:58.580 rally were bullied and roughed up by the fascist police, Tory, Ford, Toronto police. We will never forget

00:37:06.260 nor forgive you for what happened on Saturday. Well, Wayne, it was indeed a dark day for freedom.

00:37:13.220 If people still care about freedom anymore, that is. Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:37:20.900 Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey, folks, never forget,

00:37:24.900 without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.

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00:37:48.900 Thank you, guys.

00:37:54.900 Have a great day.

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00:37:59.860 Thank you.

00:38:00.840 Certainly.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 23, 2021

Cancel Culture for Erin O'Toole, COVID Crackdown on MMA Fighter

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