Cancel Culture for Erin O'Toole, COVID Crackdown on MMA Fighter
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Derek Sloan has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus for a completely bogus reason. Ezra Levent has plenty to say about this latest self-inflicted wound by the increasingly pathetic Conservative Party of Canada. Plus, we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at
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some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
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Remember last summer when freshly minted Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole said he was opposed to cancel
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culture. And so what did he did a couple of days ago? Well, he cancelled Derek Sloan for a completely
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bogus reason. Ezra Levent has plenty to say about this latest self-inflicted wound by the increasingly
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pathetic Conservative Party of Canada. And hey, sports fans. First, the authorities were going after
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pro-wrestlers for allegedly breaking the Wuhan virus rules. Now it's MMA fighters. Oh, it's true.
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It's true. And just will you hear what Sheila the She-Devil gun
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has to say about this ongoing crackdown on athletes. And letters, we get your letters. We get them
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every minute of every day. And you had plenty to say about my video regarding a very dark day in
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Toronto history. I speak of last Saturday, folks, when police brutally shut down a peaceful anti-lockdown
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protest. Apparently, the protesters forgot to wear their BLM t-shirts. That would have made them
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untouchable. Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.
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Ezra Levant here at Rebel World Headquarters in Toronto. We did our daily live stream at 12 noon,
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and we are coming to you with an emergency update. Derek Sloan has been voted out of the Conservative
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Caucus. And joining me now via Skype from his home is Derek Sloan. Mr. Sloan, welcome back to the
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program. We spoke to you last during the Conservative Leadership Campaign. As of now, you are no longer a
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Conservative MP. Is that true? That is definitely true. As of about an hour ago, or even slightly less,
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I was notified that I am no longer a Conservative MP. Now tell me about the process by which you were
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terminated. I understand there was a caucus meeting via Zoom. Is that correct? Were you a part of that
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meeting? How did that meeting go? So I was a part of that meeting. And in that meeting, basically,
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and I should say up front that procedurally, it was entirely fair. You know, I was able to make
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at as much time as I wanted to make an opening and closing statement. And then in the intervening,
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others had, you know, some time to make comments as well. Obviously, the outcome is ridiculous.
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And of course, will damage the party immensely. But they've made their bed and now they have to lie in
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it. Yep. As Mr. Sloan said, the Conservative Party of Canada made their bed and now they have to lie in
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it. But to quote a lyric from the Australian band Midnight Oil, how can we sleep when our beds are
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burning? What happened to Derek Sloan two days ago when he was given the boot from the Conservative
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Party was nothing short of a travesty. His unforgivable sin was receiving a campaign donation
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of a whopping $131 from a bigot. But the thing is, that bigot did not use his actual name when he made
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the donation. Well, too bad, so sad, because in the eyes of leader Aaron O'Toole, Sloan committed an
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unpardonable crime. And to think that last year, Mr. O'Toole campaigned against cancel culture.
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Unbelievable. And without further ado, I'm joined by the Commander-in-Chief of Rebel News, Ezra Levent.
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Ezra, the bottom line for any party, any leader making decisions is to increase the vote,
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win more seats. I think what we saw a couple of days ago was a gift from God to the Justin Trudeau
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liberals. Yeah, I mean, there's a few reasons for that. Number one, Justin Trudeau needs criticism
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because he's doing a lot of things very poorly. I'm skeptical of the vaccines for the virus because
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I think they were rushed to market. The virus has such a low death rate. You would have to have an
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extremely safe vaccine for you to trade one set of risks for the other. But if you like vaccines,
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and some people do, great. Trudeau has been one of the worst leaders in the world for it.
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Pfizer has cut shipments to Canada down to zero. We are a fraction of the speed of delivery of other
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countries. I'm not even talking about best countries like Israel. Yes. But for example,
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the state of Florida. So instead of criticizing that, Aaron O'Toole does the circular firing squad.
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I mean, that is something that really needs criticism. The Keystone XL pipeline, when Joe
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Biden just nixed it and Trudeau said, oh, well, too bad for that. And contrast that again, I'm
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mentioning Israel because Biden in his first day had this goofy idea. He wasn't going to have an
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ambassador to Israel. It was an ambassador to Israel and Gaza. And Israel said, no, no, no. If you call
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him that, he's not going to be welcome here. In two hours, Joe Biden turned around. So again,
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a contrast between a weak Canadian leader and another world leader. Imagine if O'Toole and his
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critics had been focused on holding Justin Trudeau to account instead of holding Rebel News to account
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or holding Derek Sloan to account. How about being the official opposition to the government? So huge
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missed opportunities. Second of all. And by the way, if I may add, Ezra, what a win for the
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Conservative base. If you look at the number of seats the Conservative Party has in Western Canada,
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you've got to go to bat for the Keystone XL. And why wouldn't you? And the thing is,
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Trudeau claims he's in favor, but he's done nothing to show it. But much bigger than a lost
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10 days of opportunity, like seriously, 10 days where they were fighting among themselves and
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the Liberals were just laughing, oh, we're really going to get away with this, is that by his choice,
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by his choices, Erno Toole has affirmed, confirmed, admitted, confessed all the sins he's been accused
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of. Yes, we are a deeply racist party. Yes, there's so many racists among us. Yes, we have to hunt them
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out. Yes, it's so critical. I'm going to call them bad names. Yes, it's so bad. We're going to have
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emergency meetings to purge him. They're using words like purge. And so, okay, Derek Sloan is gone,
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which is too bad because I thought he was an effective MP who had a base support in the party.
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But it's not even about him. It's now the Liberals and the media, I'll repeat myself,
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have the new standard that Erno Toole has set. You don't even have to have a racist in your caucus.
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Just if some obscure aging racist who hides his name, donates 130 bucks online, and if that's later
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found, you've got a gotcha moment suitable to fire someone. And that is exactly the case as belli
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that Erno Toole put in his tweet on Monday announcing Erno Toole being fired. He said it's
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because he had a failure of due diligence and gross misjudgment. And then he ended with some racist
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accusation, which is bizarre because, of course, Derek Sloan has a multiracial family himself.
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Right. His wife is from the West Indies, I believe, right?
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That's right. So now it's open season. Every journalist, every liberal, every troll on Twitter
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now knows if you can find someone like three degrees of separation away from the party who
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has said or done something racist, Erno Toole has to live up to his standard. And it's an impossible
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standard, but he set it for himself. And so he has guaranteed that the narrative, the ballot question,
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as they say, from now until Election Day is, well, is Erno Toole racist or does he have to do more?
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And then there's one more thing. He has demoralized three parts of his base. Number one,
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social conservatives who feel that Derek Sloan was punished for that. Probably some truth to it.
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Number two, those in the party who say, well, okay, I understand a leader being a leader and
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followers being followers and the leader's the boss, but there's a huge violation of due process here.
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I don't believe my party is internally very democratic anymore. That's a different thing than
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someone who likes Sloan for Sloan. These are people who like rules and like procedure. And
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number three, which is, I guess, related, cancel culture. Hair triggers sensitivity to fire and
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ruin someone's life because someone on Twitter had a tantrum. And that's all this was. The fact that
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Paul Fromm made a donation of 130 bucks in the name of Frederick P. Fromm, and that wasn't caught by
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anyone, including by the conservative party headquarters, months later, should be a cause
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to fire an MP in two days, shows the most wicked hair trigger hypersensitive cancel culture imaginable.
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I can't think of a worse example of cancel culture in Canada. And yet Erno Toole had the chutzpah to
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campaign as the anti-cancel culture guy. He in fact put out a release during the leadership campaign,
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specifically standing by Derek Sloan himself. And so I'm looking at Erno Toole and I'm thinking,
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you don't have the strategic sense to air your dirty laundry in private. You don't have the
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common sense to realize that this is going to be used against you as a new standard.
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You don't have the focus to take your opposition to the bad guys. You're taking it to the good guys.
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And finally, and here's the final takeaway for me. You've demoralized so many people in the
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grassroots. And for what? For every conservative you've lost, do you think you've brought over a
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new liberal who's excited? None of them. They're all saying, ha ha, you've confirmed our narrative.
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You're a bunch of racist. Thanks for undoing yourself. We're going to stick with a winner
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called Justin Trudeau. Because if we went for you, Erno Toole, you're just a Trudeau wannabe. Why
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don't we go for the real thing? It's Coke or new Coke. We'll stick with the good one.
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You know, Ezra, what I can't get my head around is how history is eerily repeating itself. And I'm
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not going back decades. I'm going back to 2019. Andrew Scheer as the head of the Conservative Party
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of Canada, shunning rebel news, bending the knee to the mean girls of the media party, as you like
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to say, making an enemy out of Bernier so he splits away. And here we have O'Toole making an
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enemy out of Sloan. It's like they learned nothing from the disaster of 2019, which I fear if there
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is an election this year, we might look back at 2019 as the good old days.
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Maxine Bernier lost his own seat and won no others. The percentage he got, I think,
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That said, I seem to recall a study showing that eight seats were lost from the Conservatives. Now,
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that would have taken them up to 129 and taken the Liberals down. That would have been very close.
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And that was, I think, mainly because people were a little demoralized and they thought,
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why should I fight for Andrew Scheer if he so clearly hates me? And he's like,
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there was just a feeling that the party was at war with itself. I remember Andrew Scheer hired the
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Liberal dirty trickster Warren Kinsella to go after Bernier and the PPC. And again, I'm not saying you
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have to like Bernier and the PPC, but to have a whole campaign expenditure secret plan to go after
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your own base. What are you doing? And hiring a Liberal to do it shows the whole thing. And so here
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you've got Aaron O'Toole who is explicitly demonizing the right. Well, hang on, aren't you
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the party of the right? And if all you think you need to win are red Tories, you ain't going to win.
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You haven't won before. I think that I'm very sad to say this, but I think if there's an election
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called the Spring, which I think there will be, I think Justin Trudeau is going to get a thumping
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majority. And the tragedy of it is, I don't even know if the party has the energy, the resources,
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or the interested talent to go through another leadership race. I mean, it was a pretty
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tepid affair last time. I just feel like Aaron O'Toole has been a bit of a deceiver.
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All his talk about being open-minded to build the tent, reach and talk to the independent press
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gallery of which we're a part, even during the leadership campaign, he actually did talk to
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Kian Bextie on camera. He did his email interview with me about the China files. And then suddenly
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he just went crazy. And I'm thinking, who are you? He took questions from me at the parliamentary,
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or sorry, the nomination debate that we set up in which, unfortunately, Leslie Lewis couldn't make,
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and then Peter McKay had earache solidarity. But Aaron O'Toole had questions with me and suddenly
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everything changes. Crystal ball gazing for one last question, Ezra. I think you're right. I could
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see the Liberals probably gaining an additional 20 seats if the election were to be called for what
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they suspect is late spring, early summer. But for the Conservative Party's future, if it's another
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crushing defeat like that, our mutual colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, she's hopeful there might be a repeat of
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what happened in Alberta with the Alberta Progressive Conservatives having a Phoenix-like
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rebirth as the UPC party, and getting back to their roots. Or my hope, and I'm not that hopeful
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that it'll happen, but we saw in 2018 with the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives when it was,
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the leader was Patrick Brown. In late January, there was a palace coup that got rid of Patrick Brown,
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thank goodness. And Doug Ford came in, not that he is a utopia when it comes to leaders. But it just
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showed that in a short amount of time, you could have a radical leadership change and still win,
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in the case of Doug Ford, a supermajority. Is there any whispers you're hearing that
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that is a consideration amongst those demoralized MPs who are on the Conservative side?
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Well, a couple of things on that. First of all, that certainly was a palace coup where Patrick
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Brown's most close staff, like seriously, his closest staff, put the dagger in. So I don't think
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Erin O'Toole has that same risk. The second thing is, we just had the test whereby there was a vote,
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a secret vote within the caucus, and at least it was a majority voting to oust Sloan. And I put it to
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you that that doesn't necessarily mean they didn't like Sloan. They realized that if the vote failed,
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from O'Toole's point of view, if Sloan would have stayed in caucus, it would have been such a
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thumping, shocking, thunderous rebuke of Erin O'Toole that he would have had to resign, because it would
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have been tantamount to a non-confidence vote. So Erin O'Toole played a game of chicken with his caucus,
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saying, well, you better vote to kick out Sloan, because otherwise that's going to look really bad on
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all of us. So we don't know the vote results. It's a secret. Derek Sloan himself told me he
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didn't know the vote results, but he trusted them. I think he's too trusting. So this was just a test.
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Is there a mutiny amongst the caucus? Well, not in the vote. In fact, Derek Sloan told me that not a
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single front bench MP spoke out in caucus in Derek Sloan's defense. So that tells me that there is no
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air apparent. Patrick Brown had other people who wanted that job, including Doug Ford, obviously,
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and he had an untrustworthy inner circle who knifed him. I think Erin O'Toole is the beneficiary of a
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very weak party, weak, shallow bench, no rising stars anywhere. I mean, I've been playing that game
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with everyone I can. Name the conservative critic for Heritage. Name the... Can you do that one?
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No. Stephen Gilboa, he's bringing... I mean, of course, I swear I've looked it up three times.
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I've forgotten his name every time. Why bother, really? You know, and I'm not trying to embarrass
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you, but can you name the conservative critic for Transport? I knew this a few weeks ago when you
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did the quiz and I've already forgotten. There you go. And I'm not trying to make you feel bad,
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because I absolutely know none of our viewers know it either. And my point... And whenever I do this,
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I tell people I'm not trying to embarrass you. The opposite, I want you to realize that you don't
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know it and wonder why you don't know it and come to your own conclusions. Mine are because they're
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either not allowed to speak out, they have nothing interesting to say, or perhaps the media won't
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cover what they're doing. All three of those possible answers suggest that they should be talking to
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Rebel News. Exactly. And none of this I say with any joy. I've often said, you know, people say,
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oh, I told you so. Those are the worst words to say. People think it's a joy to say, I told you so,
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because, haha, I'm right. Anytime you say, I told you so, you're saying, you're really saying my
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pessimistic prediction has come true. Well, who ever wants that to happen? I told you so. I don't want
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to be the guy saying, I told you so. I want to be the guy saying, oh, wow, I was wrong. He's great
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on cancel culture. He's great on free speech. He's strong at keeping focused and trust and true
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those flaws. He's really unlocking the talent in his own caucus and cabinet. Huh, I was wrong. I've
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never been happier to be wrong. That's the fun phrase to say. I've never been happier to be wrong.
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The sad phrase to say is, I told you so. But unfortunately with Aaron O'Toole, I told you so.
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Well, Ezra, great analysis. And there you have it, folks. As Ezra said earlier,
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Aaron O'Toole, in light of the Derek Sloan affair, if we can even call it that, played a game of
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chicken with his caucus and he won. I'm afraid if an election is called later this year, this
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conservative party is going to lay an egg. Keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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I knew that my goal was not to fight there. It was to fight with a suit and tie later on.
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So because I had my share of battle, this was not the time. They were armed. That's very scary
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to have that kind of people armed. I'm not happy to see where Canada is going.
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You guys are going to be remembered for the right reasons. You know, unlike our police officers and
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our government right now that just blindly listen to whoever they listen to, the elites of the world
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or whatever. So I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for for everything that you're
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doing for the citizens of Canada. And this is wonderful.
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Dave LaDuke is a multiple time world champion in his specific sport, a Malaysian martial art known as
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Letwe. Now, Dave knows about health. He knows about training and he knows about weighing and taking risks.
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And as you'll see, Dave also knows about freedom. You see, Dave received a lockdown ticket for $1,550
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approximately for speaking at an anti-lockdown protest in Montreal in December. So Dave reached
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out to us through our civil liberties project, fightthefines.com. Well, sports fans last week,
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Sheila Gunn-Reed was going to bat for a professional wrestler, namely Hot Shot Dan Duggan. Duggan had his
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TV show shut down in Manitoba by those pencil net geeks down at by law enforcement, even though Hot Shot was
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following all the necessary safety protocols. Insane. As for this week, well, our beloved
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she-devil is going to bat for the mixed martial artist Dave LaDuke, who recently received a $1,500
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ticket for speaking his mind. Alas and alack, that's how we roll these days when it comes to our
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most odious tentacle of political correctness, namely cancel culture.
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So joining me now is Sheila Gunn-Reed. And Sheila, I got to tell you, these days you're hanging around,
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oh, I don't know, pro wrestlers, MMA fighters. I got to tell you, I really feel like a diminished man
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here. But seriously, simply for exercising his freedom of speech, Mr. LaDuke gets body slammed
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with a $1,500 ticket. What the heck's going on here? Well, between Hot Shot Dan Duggan and
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Dave LaDuke, I mean, these guys getting these tickets from the state, ostensibly for their
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own health and well-being, these are some of the toughest, most healthy people among us in society.
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And they're getting tickets for doing things that are perfectly safe. And within their industry,
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in Danny Duggan's case, perfectly normal, something they do all the time, they weigh the risks in the
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ring all the time. That's part of their job to decide, is this healthy and safe for me to do today
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or not? And yet they're getting COVID violation tickets, I guess, because of a disease that seems to
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only kill the most unhealthy among us and the elderly. And none of it makes any sense.
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You know, Sheila, it's just stunning to me, this clamping down on both athleticism
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and free speech. And, you know, we've lived through decades of various governments running,
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you know, and public service agencies running advertisements to get us off our keisters
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and to get in shape, the most famous of which is probably the participation ads from the early 70s,
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where the average 60-year-old Swede was in as good a shape as the average 30-year-old Canadian.
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And I'm telling you, I think with shutting down the gyms, especially in a cold-weather country,
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where you can't go out for a bike ride in most places, and when you have a premier like Doug Ford
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saying, stay in the basement and bake cherry cheesecake, when all is said and done and we
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get back to normal, I think we're in for a shocker when we take a look at the stats for,
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oh, I don't know, obesity rates, diabetes, etc. What do you think?
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Well, I think that you're absolutely right that we are harming and degrading the health of the entire
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society to protect people who are by and large already isolated in long-term care facilities.
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And we should be dealing with that and how the disease is getting into those long-term care facilities
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a lot better while not harming the health and well-being of society at large.
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And for these professional athletes, they can't train because the gyms are closed.
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I mean, the gyms are closed unless you're a government worker in Manitoba and then the
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the gyms are open, but just to you. But the professional athletes that aren't hockey players
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or professional basketball players, but you know, like the the independent athletes like Danny Duggan and
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Dave LaDuke who are grinding it out in a very tough sport and you have to be at peak physical and
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mental wellness to participate in their sport. They're not going to be that at the end of it.
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And there's no reason why they can't be. If we're closing the small gym so that people like Dave and Danny
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can't train, they don't have a sport to come back to at the end of this. And no one is paying attention
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to that problem either. You know, and Sheila, it's the lack of consistency, too. I mean,
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when you're talking about an MMA fight, it's one on one with wrestling. It's one on one unless it's a
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tag team event or something like that. The Royal Rumble, friend. That would be the statistical
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anomaly, of course. But the we have the NHL back in season. There's 12 skaters on the ice at any one
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time. And, you know, last weekend I was checking out the NFL playoff games. There was virtually nobody
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in the 78,000 seat park and stadium rather in Orchard Park, New York, where the Bills played.
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But when I tuned in the Kansas City Chiefs, it looked like the stadium was about 40 percent capacity.
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And, you know, that was because you could allow almost half the stadium in and do the social
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distancing. So if it can work in Kansas City, Missouri, why can't it work in other jurisdictions?
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Or is this Wuhan virus so super intelligent that, oh, I don't know, it has a lot of love in its heart
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for Kansas City or maybe it's a Chiefs fan? I mean, how do you make sense of it all, Sheila?
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Well, yeah. And if it can work in Kansas City at a sporting event, then surely it can work in
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Montreal at a protest against the lockdown because it has worked in Montreal. Apparently,
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during the BLM protests in Montreal, it was perfectly fine. So I guess you're right. The
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virus does play favorite. Maybe it's a Chiefs fan. Maybe it cares about radical social justice issues,
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but it'll kill you if you care about free speech because that's where we're seeing all the tickets
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come from. It's the protests in favor of ending the lockdown where all the tickets are coming from.
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That's an excellent point, Sheila. You know, we saw all across Canada large BLM protests. Not only do
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the authorities not clamp down, they took part in these protests. We even had police chiefs take a knee,
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the Prime Minister take a knee. I guess he was taking a knee against himself because that made no sense.
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And I'm trying to figure out how things are different now. How is it that an anti-lockdown protest,
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you will be even incarcerated for showing up, whereas the jailers were actually bending the knee
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just a few short months ago. How do you make sense of that one, Sheila?
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You can't. And that's why I really enjoyed talking to Dave LaDuke because he's got a very unique
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perspective. He's Canadian. He's from Quebec, but his wife is Russian. So he understands the
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difference between the freedoms we enjoy here or used to enjoy here versus what she's experienced
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in Russia. But he also fights and trains in places around the world where they don't normally have the
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freedoms that we are losing here in Canada today. So he sees where this is going because he's experienced
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those places where it's already like this and has been for a very long time. And that's why Dave LaDuke,
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while he's got a successful career in MMA, he's back here in Canada speaking out and fighting for
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freedom because this is important because he has the foresight to have already experienced where we're
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headed here in Canada. You know, that's an excellent point, Sheila, and I think I've discussed this with
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you before when I've gone to the Yahoo Nation protests here in Toronto, the last one of which
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was brutally shut down by police at Yonge Dundas Square. I find that the most passionate protesters
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are typically those from the former Soviet Union and the former Iron Curtain states in Eastern Europe.
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They've seen what happens. They've watched this movie before and it doesn't have a happy ending. And
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here's the thing. Again, you have these freedom fighters, I'll call them, being denounced by the
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Premier of Ontario. Most of these people, I can tell you from conversations with them, did vote for the
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Doug Ford PCs in 2018. He calls them a bunch of Yahoos. They've embraced the term. They call themselves
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Yahoo Nation. That was way back in April. And again, a few months later, even bigger crowds for racial
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injustice. And did Doug Ford call them a bunch of Yahoos? Last word goes to you, Sheila.
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We've seen this time and time again. For example, the most outspoken people against the Chinese government
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are Chinese people themselves, dissidents who live here. Again, because much like those people who grew
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up in the former Eastern Bloc, people from Ukraine, people from Poland, they've experienced this,
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they know where it's going and they see the creep in that direction. And they're willing to stand up and
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warn the rest of us who are too complacent and comfortable to care. And so, you know,
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they can get called names. I mean, I've seen people on the left call Chinese dissidents a bunch
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of anti-Chinese racists. They can call those people protesting Doug Ford, Yahoo Nation, but it doesn't
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change the fact that they're right. Absolutely. Sheila, thank you so much. And I can tell you here at
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Rebel News in Toronto, we're actually, thankfully, we have a boss like Ezra Levent that probably sees us all
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getting a little fatter right now. So we're building our own gym. Speak for yourself. Speak for yourself.
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I'll try to bulk up for you and then maybe you can interview me like these other he-men that you're
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running into. So thank you once again for another superb report, Sheila. Thanks, David. Have a great
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weekend. Thank you. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the northern hinterland
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of Alberta. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Luckily, I interviewed that individual with the sign expressing concerns about political tyranny
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because talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. He has been rounded up. He looks like he's being
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arrested. I don't understand why. Maybe they're cherry-picking the people that have signs before
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they go after other people. I see my cameraman, Mocha, being surrounded by police too. Well,
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it's odd. They seem to be giving the media a bit of a hard time. Not that there's much media here today,
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even though less than 100 meters away, there's city TV. But I guess there's nothing here for them to see.
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And so it's very curious, the strategy being employed. I'm just trying to figure out
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who gets rounded up and who gets a pass. And well, we're here for as long as this protest continues.
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Stay tuned, folks. We are not going to leave. We are within our rights to be here. Your Section 1
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holds no precedence over the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you arrest me,
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you are committing a crime. Do you understand? Do you understand? I am not under arrest. I do not
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consent. I am. No, I do not. No. No. If you touch me, it's assault. If you touch me, you are committing
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Freedom! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Stand up for what is right!
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What we've seen in this country since November 26 in front of Adamson's is unfortunately the death of
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Canada as we know it. We have China now. We have tyrannical government. We have no freedoms. You have
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no freedom of expression. You have no freedom of religion. And today you have no freedom to peacefully
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assemble. I repeat, we have no more freedoms to peacefully assemble. The constitution of this country
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today is done. Well, that was the scene at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto last Saturday. And what a sad
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scene it was. Several hundred people were exercising their constitutional right to stage a peaceful protest.
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Yet they were brutally shut down by police. I wonder why. After all, when hundreds of protesters gathered
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in the summer for Black Lives Matter protests, well, the cops didn't shut down those demonstrations. On the
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contrary, many officers bent the knee in solidarity with the protesters. So why the double standard? Why indeed?
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And in the event, here's what you had to say about this latest attack on our civil liberties in the name of
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curbing the Wuhan virus. Triggered Snowflakes writes, I see Canada is losing its freedoms too. Yes, our freedoms are
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slowly being chipped away at. And what's even worse is that we are being told that it is being done so
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Sid Barrett writes, Real journalism. Thanks, Mr. Menzies and camera crew. Well, thank you for the kind
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word, Sid. We had four cameramen on duty that day. And a good thing too, the mainstream media sat this one out.
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Apparently, there was no story happening here. How lazy, how shameful is that?
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Mike Kerrigan writes, If only these protesters had started some fires and toppled some statues while
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bashing cops with bricks, then it would be a legal, peaceful protest accepted and endorsed by the
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government. LOL. Oh, Mike, let's not forget the Molotov cocktails. As we saw in so many US cities last
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summer, such as Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle, if you are protesting in the name of racial injustice,
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you can get away with virtually anything from arson to vicious assaults. And it will be labeled as a
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peaceful protest by the MSM. Disgraceful and another indicator that journalism is dead.
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Bridgette writes, 99.7% survivability should not make a health emergency. Agreed. In fact, Bridgette,
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so many of the same people who are at Yonge Dundas Square have been protesting this gruesome lockdown
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since last April. So when you think about it, if this really is such a vile virus, shouldn't everyone,
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yours truly included, be dead by now? Capricious Black Box writes, Apparently someone forgot to start
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chanting Black Lives Matter. Yep, CBB in 2021, that chant is also known as a get out of jail free card.
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And the authorities have the audacity to say their actions are being directed by science. Oh,
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give me a break already. And Wayne Schuster writes, They did not clash. The participants in the freedom
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rally were bullied and roughed up by the fascist police, Tory, Ford, Toronto police. We will never forget
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nor forgive you for what happened on Saturday. Well, Wayne, it was indeed a dark day for freedom.
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If people still care about freedom anymore, that is. Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey, folks, never forget,
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without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.