Rebel News Podcast - Chinese Winter Soldiers in Canada, Manitoba Lockdown

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00:01:14.240 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.760 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:01:38.080 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:40.020 It almost sounds like a preposterous, albeit disturbing, fairy tale.

00:01:45.740 Namely, did Justin Trudeau actually invite China to send members of its People's Liberation Army to Canada

00:01:54.440 so that Chinese troops could do cold-weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario?

00:02:01.660 Oh, it's no fairy tale, folks. It's true.

00:02:04.960 And we have the paperwork to prove it.

00:02:07.160 Ezra Levent will drop by to explain all.

00:02:10.880 And it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

00:02:14.340 Well, not really.

00:02:16.400 At least not in the People's Democratic Republic of Manitoba.

00:02:20.040 That's because Mad King Brian Pallister has imposed strict lockdown measures on his entire province,

00:02:26.800 including the closure of anything he deems to be non-essential,

00:02:32.660 like singing Christmas carols outside.

00:02:35.880 Sheila Gunn-Reed has the scoop on the Premier, who would be Grinch.

00:02:41.120 And letters, we get your letters.

00:02:42.520 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:44.560 And you had plenty to say about my video regarding a truly peaceful protest

00:02:49.960 outside Express Fitness in Toronto last Saturday,

00:02:53.120 a gym that was shut down by the city last month

00:02:55.900 for daring to open during Hogtown's grey zone lockdown.

00:03:00.580 Yet, why was so much law enforcement, including the mounted unit,

00:03:07.160 dispatched to this small, peaceful protest when no crime was being committed?

00:03:12.800 I have my theories.

00:03:14.600 Those are your rebels.

00:03:15.860 Now let's round them up.

00:03:17.180 These are top-secret documents showing how Justin Trudeau and his government

00:03:26.720 are pressuring the Canadian Armed Forces

00:03:29.480 to work closely with China's People's Liberation Army.

00:03:33.700 These documents show that even after China kidnapped two Canadian citizens,

00:03:39.120 Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor,

00:03:41.480 Trudeau still insisted that our military maintain warm ties with China's military.

00:03:47.940 Trudeau has made protecting the feelings of China's dictator, Xi Jinping,

00:03:52.680 a priority for our armed forces.

00:03:55.620 Maybe that doesn't surprise you,

00:03:57.060 but these documents also reveal that Trudeau has been sending Canadian troops to China

00:04:03.100 to participate in that country's propaganda displays.

00:04:07.540 And most incredible of all,

00:04:09.460 Canada has been training Chinese military troops

00:04:13.880 at our military colleges in Canada

00:04:17.140 and unbelievably training Chinese soldiers

00:04:21.640 at Canadian forces-based Petawawa

00:04:24.440 in how to wage cold-weather warfare.

00:04:28.540 Trudeau is literally training our enemies in how to kill us.

00:04:32.460 And I'll prove it to you.

00:04:33.560 You're watching The China Files on Rebel News.

00:04:39.460 My name is Ezra Levant,

00:04:41.240 and I'm a Canadian journalist and author.

00:04:43.680 Full disclosure, I'm a skeptic of Justin Trudeau,

00:04:47.140 Canada's Liberal Prime Minister.

00:04:48.580 Last year, I wrote a book about him called The Libranos.

00:04:51.960 This year, I wrote a book about him called China Virus,

00:04:55.700 how Justin Trudeau's pro-communist ideology

00:04:58.260 is putting Canadians in danger.

00:05:00.460 But even I didn't know the half of that.

00:05:04.400 I've never held a top-secret document in my hands before.

00:05:07.800 This one is marked secret in so many places.

00:05:10.620 In some parts, it says,

00:05:11.920 Canadian eyes only.

00:05:13.860 Other parts are marked five eyes only.

00:05:16.360 That's the name of our intelligence alliance

00:05:19.400 amongst our closest allies.

00:05:21.580 Canada plus the United States, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

00:05:25.620 I wonder what they're going to think of all this.

00:05:28.860 The China Files, as I call them, are 34 pages long.

00:05:32.900 I didn't steal them or hack them,

00:05:35.340 nor were they leaked to me illegally.

00:05:37.480 They were actually just given to me

00:05:38.980 by Global Affairs Canada.

00:05:41.500 That's the official name of the Foreign Affairs Department.

00:05:44.020 You can see the entire document,

00:05:46.200 all the files for yourself,

00:05:48.440 at thechinafiles.com.

00:05:50.940 I'm making the whole thing available to you

00:05:53.160 and to any other reporters who want to report on this.

00:05:56.880 Something tells me Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster

00:05:59.740 is going to skip this one, don't you think?

00:06:02.500 The documents are not blacked out,

00:06:04.800 as most secret documents are.

00:06:06.660 Normally, you can't read the interesting parts,

00:06:09.000 but not these, they're all just slightly grayed out.

00:06:14.040 So you can still read them.

00:06:15.600 In fact, if you assume that what's grayed out

00:06:18.380 is the stuff they really don't want you to know,

00:06:20.560 it makes the reading even more revealing

00:06:22.640 because you see what they really think is sensitive.

00:06:25.480 Well, folks, it almost sounds like a preposterous fairy tale

00:06:28.960 or something plucked from the files of conspiracy culture.

00:06:32.000 Namely, did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:06:35.900 really invite China's People's Liberation Army

00:06:39.520 to send its troops for cold weather training

00:06:42.480 at CFB Petawawa in Ontario?

00:06:45.120 And did Trudeau really rage at the Canadian Armed Forces

00:06:49.000 for cancelling the training

00:06:50.940 after China kidnapped Canadian citizens

00:06:54.100 Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig?

00:06:57.340 Oh, you bet he did.

00:06:58.720 And please note, this tale is not one being fueled

00:07:02.660 by hearsay or rumor.

00:07:04.580 Rather, it is just one of several stunning bombshell revelations

00:07:09.060 found in our 34-page Access to Information document

00:07:12.680 released by the Trudeau government to Rebel News.

00:07:16.480 And so damning are the contents,

00:07:18.980 I'm betting the Trudeau Liberals right now

00:07:21.480 wish this document never got out.

00:07:24.440 And joining me now with more on what surely must be

00:07:27.440 his scoop of a lifetime at Rebel News

00:07:30.360 is the commander himself, Ezra Levin.

00:07:32.860 You know, Ezra, it sounds so unbelievable,

00:07:36.560 but then again, I keep thinking back to six years ago

00:07:39.180 when Justin Trudeau, just before he became Prime Minister,

00:07:42.760 remarked in Toronto that China is the basic kind of dictatorship

00:07:47.200 that he admires.

00:07:48.540 Yeah.

00:07:49.200 I mean, Trudeau makes these eruptions every once in a while.

00:07:52.120 You know, he says a gaffe, which, of course,

00:07:55.960 means he accidentally tells the truth.

00:07:58.500 And I think the grown-ups say, oh, he didn't really mean that

00:08:01.680 or that's just a little flourish or he got carried away.

00:08:04.700 But looking at these 34 pages, unredacted,

00:08:08.780 redacted is the fancy word of saying blacked out.

00:08:11.100 Normally you get a document, a secret document from the military.

00:08:15.500 It's blacked out.

00:08:16.520 And really there's very little useful that's shown

00:08:19.760 because all the good stuff is blacked out.

00:08:21.600 In this case, they only grayed it out,

00:08:23.740 almost like they were using a highlighter.

00:08:25.600 The reverse of blacking it out.

00:08:27.060 In fact, they sort of showed you what they thought

00:08:28.600 the interesting stuff was.

00:08:30.520 So that's how we got these 34 pages of information

00:08:33.980 from the military and foreign affairs.

00:08:36.580 And what they show is that this Trudeau insanity

00:08:42.880 of admiring China, China his favorite country,

00:08:47.120 appeasing China, submitting to China, 0.84

00:08:50.020 that's not just an affectation and it's not just him.

00:08:53.200 That ideology has permeated throughout not only the government,

00:08:57.860 but not only the elected and appointed officials,

00:09:00.960 but the permanent civil service.

00:09:03.380 The people you see in these documents,

00:09:05.560 and if folks want to read them for yourself,

00:09:07.200 we've put them up on the internet at thechinaphiles.com.

00:09:11.320 Go through them yourself.

00:09:12.880 These are lifetime, lifelong civil servants

00:09:15.940 who are saying, they're basically instructing the military,

00:09:20.140 don't cancel any more joint exercises with China.

00:09:23.200 If you talk to China about postponing or canceling anything,

00:09:27.000 you have to run it by us first.

00:09:29.100 When they wanted to cancel these winter warfare exercises,

00:09:34.600 Trudeau's bureaucrat said,

00:09:37.240 you have to work with us on the wording of that

00:09:40.440 so you don't hurt their feelings,

00:09:41.640 so they don't lose face.

00:09:43.260 So it's not just Trudeau at the top.

00:09:45.700 These aren't just some goofy eccentricity.

00:09:48.520 This has permeated throughout the entire government,

00:09:52.340 civil service, diplomatic corps,

00:09:54.920 and they're trying to force it on the military.

00:09:57.080 And you can imagine the idea of bringing six to eight Chinese spies, really.

00:10:03.080 Like, who do you think that China would send over?

00:10:05.060 Just some grunt, some GI?

00:10:07.460 Yeah.

00:10:07.700 China would be sending over six to eight spies,

00:10:10.420 I don't know, with photographic memory,

00:10:11.940 with intelligence training.

00:10:13.800 The idea that we would bring them to CFB Petawawa,

00:10:17.720 a very important military base,

00:10:19.640 and have them there on purpose.

00:10:23.540 And they don't even have to hide the fact

00:10:25.760 they're taking notes and taking pictures.

00:10:27.500 They are being trained on purpose.

00:10:30.140 They don't even have to be secretive about it.

00:10:32.320 That one was canceled.

00:10:33.480 That's what Trudeau was raging against the army about.

00:10:37.260 Even crazier, the 17 other exchanges

00:10:41.580 that have not been canceled.

00:10:43.860 In this 34-page document,

00:10:46.040 again, I encourage people to go to thechinafiles.com,

00:10:48.080 see it for yourself.

00:10:49.860 The last two pages are a list of joint

00:10:53.700 China-Canada military projects.

00:10:56.940 There are 18 of them.

00:10:59.220 Only one was canceled that we know about.

00:11:01.160 We are still training Chinese one- and two-star generals.

00:11:04.600 We are still training Chinese colonels.

00:11:07.940 We are sending our soldiers to China.

00:11:12.720 I don't know exactly what they're doing in China,

00:11:14.820 if they're teaching or learning,

00:11:16.500 but obviously they're being spied on.

00:11:18.940 They're being put in situations

00:11:20.360 where they could be compromised,

00:11:22.380 with a honey trap perhaps.

00:11:23.700 You've got young, single guys from Canada,

00:11:26.140 far away from home, lonely.

00:11:28.500 Oh, isn't there a lovely People's Liberation Army

00:11:31.920 co-ed cadet there who wants to go drinking with me,

00:11:35.660 and before you know it,

00:11:36.520 you're trapped in a honey trap,

00:11:38.300 as they say in the spycraft trade.

00:11:41.440 So all of this is a bad idea.

00:11:45.060 We know that there is a common sense

00:11:48.140 to having some lines of communication

00:11:49.820 open with your enemy.

00:11:51.100 We know that during the Cold War,

00:11:52.620 there was the hotline between Moscow and Washington,

00:11:56.040 sort of that red phone

00:11:57.260 where the American president

00:11:59.360 could talk directly to the Russian dictator

00:12:01.960 just to make sure there was no miscommunication.

00:12:05.300 That was an important...

00:12:06.060 I believe in that.

00:12:07.720 I believe that people should know

00:12:10.240 who the other side is

00:12:11.200 just so there's no miscommunication.

00:12:12.980 That's very wise.

00:12:14.860 But why are we training Chinese troops

00:12:16.900 in winter warfare tactics?

00:12:19.700 There's nothing de-escalating there.

00:12:22.800 That gives away our knowledge

00:12:25.580 that will be used only for bad purposes.

00:12:29.360 If not to attack us, God forbid,

00:12:31.840 or the Americans, God forbid, 0.81

00:12:33.600 to attack India. 0.70

00:12:34.640 They're fighting India in the Himalayas right now.

00:12:36.760 To attack the Tibetans in Tibet,

00:12:39.240 the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

00:12:41.520 Why on earth would we give this knowledge,

00:12:44.320 this training to Chinese spies on purpose?

00:12:47.580 And when the chief of defense staff said

00:12:48.940 we've got to cancel this,

00:12:49.760 oh my God, did Trudeau and the whole government say,

00:12:53.240 how dare you?

00:12:54.360 You're not allowed to make those decisions.

00:12:56.180 Any degrading of relationships,

00:12:58.360 you must run by us first.

00:13:00.920 You can't let the Chinese lose face.

00:13:03.160 It's unbelievable.

00:13:03.880 And this is, of course,

00:13:04.760 while the two Michaels are still in captivity.

00:13:06.940 And of course, we have to look to our greatest ally,

00:13:10.220 our biggest trading partner,

00:13:11.660 namely the United States of America, Ezra.

00:13:13.760 I can't imagine this was going down well

00:13:17.440 at the Department of Defense there.

00:13:19.840 Well, that's right.

00:13:21.340 And in fact, that is made reference to in these notes

00:13:23.840 because the Trudeau side is demanding from the military,

00:13:29.540 why did you cancel this?

00:13:31.000 What's your justification?

00:13:33.020 And so you can see the back and forth.

00:13:35.080 It said, well, there's the knowledge transfer

00:13:36.740 and it's making our allies nervous.

00:13:39.680 So then the Trudeau side said, well, who was it?

00:13:42.180 Was it just the United States and the Trump administration?

00:13:45.000 Or was it our other Five Eyes allies?

00:13:48.540 Five Eyes is what they call sort of like the best friends of the allies.

00:13:54.540 It's the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

00:13:58.060 The Five Eyes, that's sort of like our closest allies,

00:14:00.340 even closer than France or Germany or Italy.

00:14:03.040 It's like an inner sanctum.

00:14:05.680 So we share things amongst the Five Eyes. 1.00

00:14:08.100 And Trudeau was saying, I demand to know.

00:14:11.920 Who was it who objected?

00:14:14.340 Was it just the Trump administration or other?

00:14:16.660 So there's an undertone there of whatever Trump wants, do the opposite,

00:14:21.400 unless the Aussies or the Kiwis or the Brits want it too.

00:14:24.640 So lots of pro-China ideology, a fair helping of anti-American ideology.

00:14:31.020 Like they specifically demand, was this the Americans?

00:14:34.940 Like they almost say, who made you cancel this?

00:14:37.500 And there's one more thing that I just want to note.

00:14:40.600 I read these 34 pages pretty carefully.

00:14:43.160 And the official language used by Global Affairs Canada,

00:14:47.140 that's the foreign department,

00:14:49.600 when they would talk about the problems we have with China,

00:14:52.640 remember how it started.

00:14:53.660 Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou,

00:14:56.440 the billionaire chief financial officer of Huawei,

00:15:00.760 when she was transiting through Vancouver

00:15:02.820 and were in the process of extraditing her to the United States. 0.86

00:15:07.420 So that led to almost immediate hostage-taking by China of two Canadians,

00:15:13.680 Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.

00:15:15.040 In fact, I think today's the two-year anniversary of that,

00:15:17.100 or maybe yesterday was.

00:15:19.780 So that's the backdrop here.

00:15:21.380 But the two Michaels aren't being held in a mansion.

00:15:24.300 No, no.

00:15:25.540 Yeah, and they're not being held in a lawful way.

00:15:28.520 And there's a big difference between due process in a democracy like Canada

00:15:33.160 and hostage-taking and kidnapping in China.

00:15:35.540 What I'm saying is how these bureaucrats describe it.

00:15:38.680 They say, Miss Meng Wanzhou, Miss Meng, always very polite,

00:15:43.340 and Miss Meng this and Miss Meng that. 0.99

00:15:45.500 But they won't even use the names, Michael Kovrig or Michael Spavor.

00:15:48.920 They say the two consular cases.

00:15:51.240 You won't even say they're in jail.

00:15:53.500 You won't even say they were kidnapped or hostage.

00:15:55.860 You won't even say their names.

00:15:57.980 You say, Miss Meng Wanzhou and the two consular cases.

00:16:03.160 What is your problem?

00:16:04.500 What is your malfunction?

00:16:06.080 You won't even say their names.

00:16:07.800 And you claim that their repatriation is your top priority,

00:16:11.280 and you can't even say their names?

00:16:13.400 Are we talking to China's civil service here or Canada's?

00:16:17.660 It's astonishing, Ezra, and I want to go back to the documents themselves

00:16:21.140 because I personally find this interesting from a journalistic perspective.

00:16:25.820 We do all kinds of freedom of information requests.

00:16:28.740 Sometimes you get pages.

00:16:29.940 I'm not kidding, folks.

00:16:30.780 The entire page is black, right?

00:16:34.320 These are grayed out.

00:16:36.140 So I'm just wondering, was this incompetence on behalf of the bureaucrats sending it to us?

00:16:41.320 Was this a working copy that was meant to be blacked out later?

00:16:44.160 Or was there somebody on the other side, Ezra, that was doing us a favor?

00:16:47.780 Because this was a gift.

00:16:49.380 We finally got to see in an uncensored fashion how this case,

00:16:54.500 how this project of having Chinese troops come to Canada was being entertained.

00:17:00.400 What are your thoughts on that?

00:17:01.660 Well, I have two friends who used to work in the government of Canada

00:17:06.620 who would handle access to information documents.

00:17:09.620 They think this was an error.

00:17:11.060 I have another friend who is familiar with diplomatic matters.

00:17:18.000 He says it was possibly a deliberate leak of information,

00:17:23.580 someone on the inside who was upset.

00:17:25.620 I tend to think it was just a mistake.

00:17:27.840 Okay.

00:17:29.780 And because it's clear that this was a work in progress,

00:17:34.360 they were sort of circulating this access to information,

00:17:37.220 and everyone was, like, they would send it to this person.

00:17:39.480 He would black out these.

00:17:40.860 They would send it.

00:17:41.360 So it was sort of the work in progress where everyone,

00:17:44.540 they probably sent this around to five different officials.

00:17:47.400 Everyone was showing, well, I would black out this.

00:17:49.660 I would black out that.

00:17:50.760 Because you could see the different layers of being blacked out.

00:17:53.500 And so it was probably supposed to go back to a final person

00:17:56.600 who would flip the switch on all these things,

00:17:58.900 and it missed that last step.

00:18:00.280 I'm guessing, because I've never worked inside Access Information myself,

00:18:03.440 we file literally thousands of access to information requests.

00:18:07.300 It's a full-time project for us.

00:18:08.880 We get back, as you say, very little of use.

00:18:12.780 They're almost always blacked out.

00:18:14.320 They are always delayed.

00:18:16.120 We have waited as much as three years for a basic document.

00:18:19.800 Jeez.

00:18:20.140 But you know what?

00:18:22.020 We finally got one that mattered,

00:18:23.540 and hopefully will change the course of Canada-China relations.

00:18:27.520 Justin Trudeau has been exposed as someone who defends China,

00:18:31.900 abuses America, and literally wanted to train our enemies. 0.89

00:18:35.600 Ezra, it's the story of the year, as far as I'm concerned.

00:18:38.560 I mean, what an incredible piece you did.

00:18:40.960 And, you know, folks, if you want to see more,

00:18:42.560 please go to thechinaphiles.com.

00:18:45.440 And, hey, Prime Minister Trudeau, I just have a question for you.

00:18:47.580 As Ezra said, you're accommodating China,

00:18:50.260 but flipping the metaphorical bird to the United States of America.

00:18:55.000 Whose side are you on?

00:18:56.660 Keep it here.

00:18:57.500 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:19:04.620 Jake, you have received a nearly $1,300 COVID fine

00:19:10.520 because you were singing carols in a park and Christian hymns.

00:19:17.580 You sent me the footage,

00:19:19.400 and it looks like everybody is standing apart from each other.

00:19:23.700 It looks like it's families, and then there's space,

00:19:26.040 and then more families.

00:19:28.060 But there's more to the story.

00:19:30.580 Initially, you tried to go to a first park,

00:19:33.860 but the police had the park blocked off.

00:19:36.400 This is crazy to me.

00:19:37.420 Yeah, like we had planned this like four days prior to that.

00:19:44.440 And so they, I guess, over Facebook or somehow they heard about it.

00:19:49.780 And so they, the day before in the evening,

00:19:53.680 we checked if the park was blocked off, and it wasn't.

00:19:56.380 And the morning we drove up there, they had barricaded the parking lot,

00:20:02.700 and there was a cop waiting outside, just parked on the side of the road there,

00:20:07.840 waiting to see.

00:20:09.100 One of the guys stopped and talked to him for a while

00:20:13.080 and said whoever was going to get a fine if we went in there.

00:20:18.980 So we just decided to go to the other park where we had originally planned it,

00:20:23.340 but there was no parking there, so everybody had to park on the street.

00:20:26.440 Now, this happened on a Sunday, because another thing that seems absolutely crazy to me,

00:20:34.720 church services are closed in Manitoba.

00:20:36.980 So if you want to go and worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ,

00:20:42.700 you, I guess, have to do it standing in a park six feet apart.

00:20:46.040 But even that's not allowed, because as it turns out,

00:20:50.480 Monday morning, very next day, the police show up at your door.

00:20:54.520 Am I right?

00:20:54.880 Yeah, well, they called and they told me to come down to the office.

00:21:02.000 And so what happens when you get there with the police?

00:21:07.360 They had me sit down and wait for a bit, and then they told me to come in,

00:21:13.380 and then they said that it wasn't their job to hand out these tickets,

00:21:17.740 but because I forget what group they said that was supposed to be handling that,

00:21:24.260 they were way overwhelmed, so they were given the task to do this.

00:21:29.520 Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

00:21:33.840 Well, not really, at least not so much in the People's Democratic Republic of Manitoba.

00:21:39.580 That's because Mad King Brian Pallister, a.k.a. Manitoba's conservative-in-name-only premier,

00:21:47.960 has imposed strict lockdown measures on his entire province,

00:21:52.240 including the closure of anything he deems to be non-essential,

00:21:58.360 like singing Christmas carols outdoors.

00:22:02.200 And according to Pallister, you're an idiot if you disagree with his lockdown edicts.

00:22:09.720 And joining me now to discuss this recent bout of Premier Pallister's War on Fun,

00:22:15.580 the Yuletide edition, is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:22:18.700 How you doing, Sheila?

00:22:20.020 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:22:22.020 Always a pleasure.

00:22:22.760 So, Sheila, just when you thought the Grinch had a monopoly on the Christmastime bah humbug business,

00:22:30.680 along comes Mr. Pallister.

00:22:32.620 What do you make of his maddening, and I would suggest useless, edicts?

00:22:39.760 They don't make any sense whatsoever.

00:22:43.880 With the gentleman that I've been helping, Jake Clawson,

00:22:47.260 and as it turns out, Jake's not the only one that was fined that day.

00:22:50.940 I've been manning the Manitoba Singing in a Park hotline in my little studio here,

00:22:57.160 night after night after night,

00:22:59.320 because Pallister has deployed the long arm of the law on these folks

00:23:06.460 that are simply just singing in a park.

00:23:10.660 It's a park, so they're outside.

00:23:13.120 Everybody has come separately in their vehicles.

00:23:16.300 They stay with the people that they came separately with.

00:23:19.080 So, it's perfectly safe for them to all travel together in a car,

00:23:24.460 maybe even sing in a car together,

00:23:26.600 maybe even sing a Christmas carol in a car together.

00:23:29.180 But the second they get out of the car

00:23:31.020 and stand at least six feet away from other people in a public park,

00:23:36.260 that apparently is a ticketable offense in Manitoba.

00:23:39.140 $1,300 to these folks just before Christmas.

00:23:45.360 Last night, David, I got off the phone with someone

00:23:48.480 whose elderly parents and their elderly friend,

00:23:53.520 they were issued $3,900 in fines for singing in a park.

00:24:00.400 They're law-abiding people.

00:24:02.020 They're immigrants to Canada. 0.67

00:24:03.520 They've never been in trouble before.

00:24:05.940 They don't want to make trouble.

00:24:07.780 They just want to stand together and worship God with their friends.

00:24:12.840 And apparently, no matter how you try to do it,

00:24:16.580 that's illegal in Pallister's Manitoba.

00:24:18.900 You know, Sheila, here's what I don't understand,

00:24:21.220 whether it's Premier Pallister in Manitoba

00:24:23.520 or Premier Ford in Ontario.

00:24:26.540 The narrative is, you know, if I had my way,

00:24:29.660 I'd open up the entire economy, I'm pro-business,

00:24:33.260 I'm pro-entrepreneur, I'm pro-jobs, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:36.340 But as always, Sheila, as you know,

00:24:38.740 they say we are beholden to the scientific advice.

00:24:43.360 We are beholden to the medical advice.

00:24:46.240 Sheila, how can it be that you're outdoors?

00:24:50.860 That's the very definition of super ventilation.

00:24:54.800 It's the wind.

00:24:55.540 You're outdoors.

00:24:56.160 You're spaced apart several meters.

00:25:00.460 And that's a potential coronavirus hotspot,

00:25:04.800 yet hermetically sealed Costco's and Walmarts

00:25:07.960 where they're jamming the people into the gills.

00:25:10.780 That's okay.

00:25:12.100 No safety issue here.

00:25:14.260 What happened to the medical and scientific advice

00:25:17.100 for the big box stores?

00:25:19.120 David, it feels as though we're living in not a dictatorship,

00:25:22.860 but a doctatorship, in that these medical officers of health,

00:25:28.920 whose name we didn't know a year ago,

00:25:31.680 now they are the people controlling absolutely every aspect of our lives,

00:25:35.940 and most of it, as you point out, is completely nonsensical.

00:25:39.720 None of it makes any sense.

00:25:41.120 None of it applies.

00:25:42.200 For example, with the folks in Manitoba,

00:25:47.040 at one of the churches there that Kian has covered,

00:25:51.440 they couldn't at the time.

00:25:53.540 Now, it's changed, I think, largely in part due to Kian's footage.

00:25:57.740 I mean, sunlight truly is the best disinfectant

00:26:00.740 when you have the disease of government overreach.

00:26:03.740 But they couldn't even have a socially distant church service

00:26:11.500 from their vehicles in a parking lot.

00:26:15.080 They were broadcasting the way that they would broadcast,

00:26:18.340 you know, like a drive-in movie.

00:26:19.600 Everybody tunes into the same radio frequency,

00:26:22.860 and then they listen to the church service over their radio.

00:26:26.440 And it was a way for them to gather as a faith community,

00:26:30.680 however, in a parking lot.

00:26:32.760 That had the cops show up, the RCMP showed up,

00:26:37.160 issuing tickets to the pastor.

00:26:38.780 But you could go to a completely full Walmart parking lot.

00:26:43.780 That's fine.

00:26:45.660 Crammed Walmart parking lot, by the way.

00:26:47.640 I mean, it's the Christmas season.

00:26:49.240 That's perfectly safe.

00:26:51.180 You can get out of your car, walk into the Walmart,

00:26:54.900 perfectly safe.

00:26:55.960 You could probably, I don't know if they sell them there,

00:26:58.180 but you could probably even buy a Bible in a Walmart,

00:27:01.800 but you couldn't go and sit in your car and read one

00:27:04.420 along with the broadcast on the radio.

00:27:06.620 Oh, it's crazy.

00:27:07.600 And by the way, I'm so glad, Sheila,

00:27:09.460 that you referenced our colleague Kian's superb reports

00:27:13.120 from Manitoba, where he showed the insanity 0.62

00:27:16.660 of going into some of the big box stores like Walmart there.

00:27:21.160 Here's my question.

00:27:21.980 Why did it take Kian and our great cameraman, Mocha,

00:27:26.160 to fly in there on a special mission to expose this?

00:27:29.600 Where was the local Manitoba mainstream media

00:27:33.120 for dishing up these kind of exposés?

00:27:36.700 It's like they decided to sit this out.

00:27:39.320 Why?

00:27:41.120 There's probably just one other journalist in Manitoba

00:27:45.280 who is grinding against these lockdowns,

00:27:48.080 and it's Marty Gold from the J.ca.

00:27:49.760 He's pointed out that they've locked down Christmas.

00:27:52.920 They've locked down Hanukkah now.

00:27:54.800 He's the only one.

00:27:55.660 He's an independent journalist there.

00:27:58.460 But yeah, we had to fly in Kian.

00:28:01.240 And I think the journalists, by and large,

00:28:04.120 in Manitoba, and I think to some extent in Ontario,

00:28:07.800 I mean, you have a bigger media landscape in Ontario,

00:28:10.780 so you do have some outliers like Joe Warmington.

00:28:16.200 But in our provinces, the media...

00:28:19.760 They seem to be cheering for further lockdowns.

00:28:23.440 So they aren't skeptical of all of this.

00:28:26.400 For them, it makes perfect sense.

00:28:28.140 They look at a Walmart that is, you know,

00:28:30.980 that has Christmas roped off,

00:28:32.520 and they wonder,

00:28:33.700 why don't you have housewares roped off too? 0.65

00:28:36.320 They want to see more things penned off

00:28:38.420 and more people piled into less square footage.

00:28:41.660 And for them, that makes perfect sense

00:28:43.520 because they don't care about the business impact

00:28:47.180 on all of this.

00:28:48.380 They're just selling fear porn every day

00:28:53.000 in the pages of their newspapers

00:28:54.700 that nobody reads anyway.

00:28:56.740 You know, and Sheila, one last question before we wrap up.

00:28:59.880 I think you're right.

00:29:00.760 I think the media party has turned into the media mob

00:29:03.660 egging on the authorities and the governments

00:29:06.240 to increase the lockdowns.

00:29:07.980 Heck, it doesn't affect them.

00:29:09.020 They're gainfully employed thanks to our tax dollars

00:29:11.680 for a large part.

00:29:13.540 And we saw a couple of weeks ago in Toronto

00:29:15.520 what happened to Adam Skelly

00:29:17.340 and the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion.

00:29:20.320 It was squashed.

00:29:22.200 And, you know, with the exception,

00:29:25.080 like you said, of our friend Joe Warmington

00:29:26.900 at the Toronto Sun,

00:29:28.200 the media mob was cheering and egging on the government.

00:29:31.400 So the government is going that route

00:29:34.060 and the bureaucrats and the Department of Health 0.99

00:29:36.400 and the media.

00:29:37.460 Here's my last question.

00:29:38.980 For the people of Manitoba,

00:29:40.600 if you were to survey them,

00:29:42.140 have a poll and say thumbs up

00:29:45.560 or thumbs down on these lockdowns,

00:29:47.980 how do you think the individual people

00:29:50.100 in Manitoba would vote on Pallister's crusade?

00:29:54.480 I think the longer it goes on

00:29:56.220 and the fewer results they see,

00:29:58.480 more people are getting off the death cult gravy train.

00:30:02.400 It's like any death cult, right?

00:30:04.500 If the comet doesn't come and you don't get on it,

00:30:07.840 you start to get off.

00:30:10.120 You start to leave the cult.

00:30:12.240 And the longer Manitoba's lockdown goes on,

00:30:14.980 the longer Ontario's lockdown goes on,

00:30:17.140 and yet they don't see the promised results

00:30:19.780 of the lockdown,

00:30:22.220 people are less inclined to go along

00:30:25.220 with the sacrifices.

00:30:27.620 And that's what's happening here.

00:30:30.440 Businesses and futures and livelihoods

00:30:33.760 and personal accumulated wealth,

00:30:35.680 it's being sacrificed on the altar

00:30:37.740 of the public health bureaucracy.

00:30:40.160 And people, I mean,

00:30:42.160 there are always healthy skeptics

00:30:43.900 of these sorts of things,

00:30:45.240 people who don't consume the mainstream media,

00:30:47.380 but even those who do.

00:30:49.560 Eventually, there's going to be a reckoning.

00:30:52.060 They're not going to see the promised results.

00:30:53.840 And hopefully, hopefully,

00:30:57.460 these politicians face some consequences

00:30:59.820 for what they've done.

00:31:00.760 Oh, I totally agree, Sheila.

00:31:02.580 And in terms of results,

00:31:04.180 there are no positive results

00:31:05.700 unless you include misery as being a result.

00:31:10.080 And by the way, Mr. Pallister, Mr. Ford,

00:31:12.360 none other than the World Health Organization

00:31:14.340 says going the lockdown route

00:31:16.940 is not the way to curb this virus.

00:31:19.420 So who are you getting your advice from?

00:31:21.420 Great report as always, Sheila.

00:31:23.260 Thanks for weighing in.

00:31:24.820 Thanks, David.

00:31:25.580 Have a great weekend.

00:31:26.420 You too, my friend.

00:31:27.220 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:31:29.380 somewhere in the hinterland of Northern Alberta.

00:31:33.140 Keep it here.

00:31:33.780 More of Rebel Roundup coming up right after this.

00:31:41.380 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto.

00:31:44.840 Well, folks, I'm standing in front of Express Fitness,

00:31:48.160 the Scarborough location.

00:31:50.020 And it was funny, when Adam Skelly,

00:31:54.580 the owner of Adamson Barbecue,

00:31:57.100 was shut down on that very same day,

00:32:01.100 Express Fitness was opened in Scarborough.

00:32:04.760 And much like what Adam experienced,

00:32:08.480 the owner of Express Fitness, Alex,

00:32:11.460 well, law enforcement, bylaw,

00:32:14.560 they were dispatched very quickly.

00:32:17.100 He was immediately shut down.

00:32:20.160 And now the gym is padlocked shut.

00:32:23.540 Actually, it's chain shut, if you can believe it.

00:32:26.880 And so here we are with a group of people

00:32:29.400 that are opposed to the lockdowns.

00:32:33.780 And they are having a demonstration

00:32:35.780 in front of Express Fitness.

00:32:38.960 It's very odd, though.

00:32:40.940 Everywhere you look,

00:32:42.020 there are police cruisers, police SUVs.

00:32:47.080 There's even parking enforcement here.

00:32:49.840 I don't know why.

00:32:51.240 But no one's going in the gym.

00:32:54.000 They can't get into the gym.

00:32:55.380 So we're just curious,

00:32:57.060 as this protest proceeds,

00:32:59.480 are they here to write up tickets, perhaps,

00:33:02.880 for those in an outdoor gathering of more than 10?

00:33:07.080 So we'll see what happens.

00:33:08.300 And in the meantime,

00:33:09.240 I'm going to wander into the crowd

00:33:10.880 and just find out what it is

00:33:13.040 that's bringing people out here today.

00:33:15.440 We're actually here to do the police's job for them.

00:33:17.380 As you may or may not know,

00:33:18.660 police in this province, at the very least,

00:33:20.360 I think the whole country,

00:33:21.200 but definitely in this province,

00:33:22.440 in their oath,

00:33:23.040 it says that they're sworn to uphold the Constitution.

00:33:26.840 And the very first part of the Constitution,

00:33:28.260 as you know,

00:33:28.600 is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:33:29.920 So that's what we're here about.

00:33:31.860 This place is shut down for your health.

00:33:34.480 You know,

00:33:35.300 you're supposed to be able to go to it,

00:33:37.120 work out,

00:33:38.360 and that's, you know,

00:33:39.180 that helps your immune system, right?

00:33:41.120 It's supposed to help your immune system

00:33:42.360 to fight off the virus.

00:33:44.760 And they're shutting it down.

00:33:46.080 Why?

00:33:47.660 Where's the evidence?

00:33:49.180 Well, folks, this is incredible.

00:33:50.600 We were tipped off by one of the demonstrators

00:33:52.800 that the mounted unit was on standby.

00:33:56.020 I didn't believe it at first

00:33:58.200 because the gym is completely closed down.

00:34:01.840 You can't get into it, even if you wanted to.

00:34:04.740 So where is the issue here?

00:34:07.780 Where would the lawbreaking be

00:34:10.420 unless they're going to clamp down

00:34:12.200 on peaceful protesters?

00:34:13.940 But lo and behold,

00:34:15.740 here we are on a side street next to the gym,

00:34:19.500 and two units of the mounted unit

00:34:23.840 are indeed on standby.

00:34:25.460 I'm almost at a loss for words.

00:34:29.580 John Tory and Dr. Ellen Davila

00:34:32.060 are truly doubling down,

00:34:35.620 tripling down,

00:34:36.760 sending a message to any business,

00:34:38.960 and for that matter,

00:34:39.900 any group of protesters,

00:34:41.800 that if you cross any perceived line,

00:34:44.900 you are going to be dealt with

00:34:46.480 and dealt with harshly.

00:34:47.960 This is an outrageous overreach,

00:34:51.880 I think,

00:34:52.880 by the police,

00:34:55.220 which, of course,

00:34:55.860 are being directed,

00:34:57.200 I believe,

00:34:58.080 by Davila and Tory.

00:35:00.060 Shameful.

00:35:01.080 Well, that was the scene last Saturday

00:35:02.660 at Express Fitness

00:35:03.620 in East End, Toronto.

00:35:05.440 The gym is shuttered now

00:35:06.720 after the owner tried to follow

00:35:08.980 in the footsteps of Adam Skelly,

00:35:11.340 the father of the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion.

00:35:14.320 But much like Adamson Barbecue,

00:35:16.780 Express Fitness was also shut down

00:35:19.280 for noncompliance

00:35:20.780 with the Wuhan virus regulations.

00:35:23.520 And Mayor Tory's hog town,

00:35:25.480 if you want to barbecue,

00:35:27.640 if you want barbecued grub,

00:35:29.520 or buy brisket,

00:35:31.020 or break a sweat,

00:35:32.400 you best get yourself

00:35:33.700 to a Walmart

00:35:34.840 or a Costco

00:35:35.960 to buy your meat there

00:35:37.840 or purchase a treadmill

00:35:39.160 because, you see,

00:35:40.620 the big box stores,

00:35:41.860 well, folks,

00:35:42.700 they're special.

00:35:44.460 In any event,

00:35:45.200 here's what you had to say

00:35:46.460 about the ongoing clampdowns

00:35:48.420 that don't seem to be doing

00:35:50.360 anything tangible

00:35:52.300 other than causing people

00:35:54.460 a whole lot of grief.

00:35:57.320 Mike Sharkey writes,

00:35:58.500 so Toronto is completely crime-free now.

00:36:00.900 All the criminals have been tracked down

00:36:03.860 and locked up.

00:36:04.960 The cops have nothing better

00:36:06.520 to do with their time?

00:36:07.900 Yeah, it sure seems that way, Mark,

00:36:09.780 but I bet you

00:36:11.200 the vast majority of the cops

00:36:13.080 hate these kinds of assignments.

00:36:16.040 Imagine finding and arresting people

00:36:18.660 just for trying to make a living.

00:36:20.920 But if you have to blame anyone,

00:36:23.700 blame the mayor

00:36:24.380 and Premier Doug Ford.

00:36:26.260 They're the ones behind

00:36:27.580 making life miserable

00:36:28.980 for so many people

00:36:30.620 in the GTA.

00:36:32.520 Dale McCluskey writes,

00:36:34.260 the mounted unit is there

00:36:35.480 to make certain

00:36:36.280 your rights are trampled

00:36:37.740 into the ground.

00:36:39.000 You know,

00:36:39.380 that's what happened

00:36:40.260 at Adamson Barbecue

00:36:41.400 two weeks ago.

00:36:42.800 Thankfully,

00:36:43.420 the horses weren't deployed

00:36:45.020 to break up

00:36:45.680 the express fitness protest,

00:36:47.660 but why were they there

00:36:49.500 in the first place?

00:36:52.440 XSupra35 writes,

00:36:53.880 all businesses,

00:36:54.900 open your doors now.

00:36:56.100 You are essential

00:36:57.380 and we need you now

00:36:58.960 more than ever.

00:37:00.580 I'd love to see that happen too,

00:37:02.660 XSupra.

00:37:03.740 If hundreds or even dozens

00:37:05.860 of businesses opened up

00:37:07.460 at the same time,

00:37:09.220 what could be done about that?

00:37:10.480 They can't lock down

00:37:12.060 every business

00:37:12.860 and imprison

00:37:13.540 every business person.

00:37:15.760 But for the time being,

00:37:17.060 it looks like

00:37:17.740 Mayor Tory's

00:37:18.520 intimidation tactics

00:37:19.660 are working.

00:37:21.740 And Mike Mills writes,

00:37:23.800 where is Sneaky Patrick?

00:37:25.560 Oh,

00:37:26.380 as in Sneaky Patrick Brown,

00:37:29.400 that lying liar 1.00

00:37:30.760 who is the mayor

00:37:31.560 of Brampton?

00:37:32.760 I have no idea,

00:37:33.860 Mike,

00:37:34.120 but if I were a betting man,

00:37:35.960 and I am,

00:37:36.740 I'd say he's playing hockey

00:37:38.680 with his buddies

00:37:39.540 at some rink.

00:37:40.920 Because remember,

00:37:41.740 folks,

00:37:42.140 one thing this pandemic

00:37:43.400 has taught us

00:37:44.240 is that it is

00:37:45.500 one law for me

00:37:46.580 and one law for thee.

00:37:48.700 Well,

00:37:49.300 that wraps up

00:37:50.040 another edition

00:37:50.680 of Rebel Roundup.

00:37:51.680 Thanks so much

00:37:52.340 for joining us.

00:37:53.160 See you next week.

00:37:54.020 And hey, folks,

00:37:54.920 never forget,

00:37:55.980 without risk,

00:37:56.940 there can be no glory.

00:37:58.340 Good night.

00:37:58.800 And hey, folks,

00:38:02.520 I've been billing

00:38:03.040 a november or something

00:38:03.920 for you.

00:38:04.260 Bye.

00:38:04.600 Bye.

00:38:18.660 Bye.

00:38:19.720 Bye.

00:38:20.940 Bye.

00:38:21.580 Bye.

00:38:22.000 Bye.

00:38:22.660 Bye.

00:38:26.660 Bye.

00:38:27.720 Bye.

00:38:27.740 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - December 12, 2020

Chinese Winter Soldiers in Canada, Manitoba Lockdown

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