Rebel News Podcast - DAILY ｜ Calgary mayor, counter protesters trying to end Freedom Rally over police enforcement

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon. Good morning. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and this is the Rebel News Daily Livestream

00:00:20.200 and I'm joined by my co-host who's not my usual co-host on Mondays. However, he's still

00:00:25.680 a co-host from Calgary, Sid Fazard. Sid, how's it going? Hey, doing all right. How are you doing, Erin?

00:00:33.220 You know what? It's great. You had a very busy weekend and we'll get to that. We sort of threw

00:00:38.340 you into the fire on Sunday, but I think you did a great job and we'll talk about that as well.

00:00:43.220 But before we get into that, I'll tell everybody exactly what we're doing here because otherwise

00:00:48.120 I'll forget. And then no one will know. So for our not already carefully cultivated stable of viewers,

00:00:56.840 if you're new here, this is the Rebel News Daily Livestream. It used to just be hosted on Friday,

00:01:01.920 just hosted by the big boss man Ezra Levant. However, then the pandemic struck, there was

00:01:07.300 more news than ever, but you wouldn't know it if you got all your news from the mainstream media who

00:01:11.320 in some instances like CBC, they declined to do local news because it was just too darn dangerous.

00:01:18.340 I think they took the subsidy though for local news because it's not too dangerous to be cash in

00:01:24.040 those checks from Justin Trudeau. So we decided to extend the live stream from just Friday to Monday

00:01:30.560 through Friday because there's more news than ever. Olivia, there's some buzzing in my ear or static in

00:01:35.920 my ear and I hope our viewers aren't experiencing that. So maybe you can check that out.

00:01:41.320 Perfect. It's fixed now. Nope, it's back. It's fixed. Okay, great. So anyway, we extended the

00:01:47.180 live stream five full day or five full work days during the week. It's hosted by me on Monday,

00:01:54.760 Tuesday and Thursday. And then we have a rotating stable of guests on Wednesday and Friday. Sometimes

00:02:02.460 Ezra pops in also. So, you know, make sure you're watching because you never know when that's going to

00:02:07.720 happen. It used to be a great way for our viewers to support the work that we do,

00:02:11.180 completely willingly because YouTube allowed us to accept something called a super chat.

00:02:15.920 But then Biden got elected and big tech didn't really have to pretend to be free speechy anymore.

00:02:21.840 And so big tech demonetized a whole slate of conservatives, including us. So we weren't

00:02:28.820 able to take super chats anymore. But because YouTube doesn't want us there, we insist on staying

00:02:34.680 there as long as possible. So there will come a time where they just completely purchase from the

00:02:38.720 platform. But in the meantime, we're going to be a thorn in their side by existing on YouTube.

00:02:43.580 But we also want to support other free speech platforms that allow us to say the things we want

00:02:50.100 to say and think the things we want to think. And so we are also simultaneously broadcasting on

00:02:54.740 Rumble, Odyssey and Superview. And those are great free speech, independent platforms where they believe

00:03:02.200 in the free and liberal exchange of ideas. And on those three platforms, unlike YouTube,

00:03:06.300 you can support the work that we do. So through a Rumble rant, if you send us one of those,

00:03:10.520 we'll read it on air. Through Odyssey, if you send us a hyper chat, we'll read it on air.

00:03:16.460 And on Superview, if you send us a Superview shout, we'll also read that on air. So now's your chance,

00:03:23.540 dear viewer, to have your say. And we'll try to stop about every 15 minutes to read the paid chats.

00:03:29.880 And we're also, correct me if I'm wrong, still live streaming on Getter, which is great. I think

00:03:36.160 this is our fourth week on Getter and it seems to be going well. And I'm going to try to spend a

00:03:43.380 little more time on Getter because Twitter is a censorious hellhole. And I don't know why I'm giving

00:03:50.100 them my thoughts and energy. So I think that's all the nuts and bolts. If you want to have your say,

00:03:56.140 please consider sending us a paid chat on one of those other platforms. I think that's it. Maybe

00:04:00.740 we should get into the news of the day. What do you think, Sid?

00:04:03.720 No, that sounds good. And there was a lot that happened over the weekend. So I'm happy to cover

00:04:06.860 that. Okay. First things first, though, because I think this is just kind of an interesting story

00:04:13.240 and it shows how out of touch the Laurentian sort of Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal bubble of fancy people,

00:04:20.480 how out of touch they are with the rest of the world. And I think you might have a unique

00:04:25.560 perspective on this, Sid, because you moved from Toronto to Calgary and Calgary is a car city.

00:04:32.920 We love our cars. We love our trucks out here in Western Canada. And a lot of that has to do with

00:04:38.180 the weather and things are so far away and we have different jobs. But for some reason,

00:04:43.020 the people who live in that little like Bermuda triangle of government elites, they really think

00:04:49.280 that we should be in an electric car. Because I guess if you can't afford to fill up at the pump,

00:04:56.240 obviously, you can just afford to spend $40,000 to $70,000 on an electric car. And I see this story

00:05:04.120 out today in the CBC. Olivia, if you want to bring that up. Electric vehicles face roadblocks

00:05:11.840 as feds try to boost sales and then CBC gets it all wrong. Cost, well, that's a little bit true.

00:05:20.760 Cost, scarcity and a shortage of charging stations are undermining Ottawa's efforts. I think cost is

00:05:27.180 one. Scarcity is because supply is in fact meeting demand here. People don't want to buy these things

00:05:34.820 because they don't make sense. And a shortage of charging stations, I'm not sure that's true either.

00:05:39.940 I think they just don't make sense in Canada where they don't work well in the cold. Everything's so

00:05:46.340 far away. And again, if you can't afford the increased price at the pump, why do these people

00:05:54.000 think that you can afford to just buy a new car? Like if you can't afford your 1995 Toyota Tercel,

00:06:01.120 you can't afford a Tesla. But this is what the government thinks. They're really pushing this

00:06:06.620 and they want half of all new cars sold in this country to be zero emissions vehicles by 2030.

00:06:16.640 And for context, I think we're about at 5% of cars. Eight years out, 5% of cars are electric or

00:06:26.220 electric hybrid. I just want to talk to you about this because you have a unique perspective on this

00:06:31.920 because you move somewhere where you don't really need a car to live to somewhere where a car sure

00:06:38.160 makes life more convenient. Yeah, no, to say the least. And especially in Toronto, I mean,

00:06:44.740 it's still a vehicle, but you have Uber, you have the subways right there, wherever you are,

00:06:49.600 you can just hop on public transit, you can practically bike anywhere you need to.

00:06:52.760 Um, and it's, it's not really in focus, the necessity of a vehicle as much as it is in a

00:06:58.560 place like, uh, Calgary. Um, so there is certainly a distinction made in the minds of the people who

00:07:03.840 live in either place. Um, and I think that's something that, yeah, it's just a lack of

00:07:07.860 understanding on their part, uh, what is needed and why it is so essential to have these vehicles

00:07:12.380 that run on, uh, fuel as opposed to electricity. Uh, and as well, I think they talk about the, uh,

00:07:18.540 the output of these vehicles, they want, you know, net zero with these electric cars. Uh,

00:07:22.380 but it also negates the amount of, uh, effort that's put into creating these cars and these

00:07:26.860 large batteries. Uh, well, there's a lot that goes into that and it's usually neglected now those

00:07:32.160 efforts. Yeah, it's true. If you've ever seen a, like a lithium mine, a cobalt mine,

00:07:41.100 they are, they're, these minerals are mined in places of the world where they have no regard for

00:07:48.120 human rights or labor laws or wages or child slavery. That seems to be something that they

00:07:54.060 don't care so much about. Um, and then there's no remediation. There's no reclamation. It's just,

00:07:59.840 here's this open pit of toxicity. Let's move on to the next open pit of toxicity and take our slaves 1.00

00:08:06.200 with us. Um, that's what happens. That's what it means for the Western world to pat themselves on the

00:08:13.600 back about how green they're going and driving an electric vehicle. And it really is virtue signaling

00:08:20.260 for rich people. Um, there's a reason why these cars make up less than 5% of new vehicle sales.

00:08:27.880 They are expensive and they don't make sense. I think I saw Bruce Anderson the other day. He's sort

00:08:33.040 of a, one of those Ottawa fancy people. I think he used to even claim to be conservative. I'm not sure.

00:08:39.120 Um, but, uh, he said, you know, it's, it's no big deal. If you cash in on the taxpayer subsidized

00:08:46.720 rebates of these things, by the way, what, by the way, why am I paying rebates for rich people to buy

00:08:52.360 their virtue signaling cars? But he said, you know, it's basically, you can really subsidize these

00:08:57.780 things down to about $30,000. Okay. That's great. But how much chicken feed can I get in that?

00:09:03.840 And I don't know. I don't know if they've ever seen the roads outside of the city, but half the

00:09:10.720 time I drive by memory because I remember where the road was because you can't see where the road

00:09:16.020 is because it's completely drifted over. Um, but it's just, they're so out of touch. They think the

00:09:22.540 entire country exists within Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. And I'm pretty sure those places get snow

00:09:30.560 too, but when you only have to drive from your government job to your government suburb,

00:09:36.940 I guess it's fine. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing is when you're in these centralized locations,

00:09:42.340 especially the GTA, uh, these electric charging stations are all over the place. You have access

00:09:48.300 to them, but I just imagine if I had that electric vehicle in the drive from Toronto to Calgary,

00:09:53.180 there are places like if you were to drive through Northern Ontario, uh, I almost imagine you would be

00:09:57.900 lucky to make it all the way through without, uh, losing charge all the way when the tow truck

00:10:02.400 come pick you up. And I saw a video over the winter time of a Tesla, I believe it was here in Calgary,

00:10:07.420 um, that ran out of juice while in the middle of a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere. Um, and that's

00:10:13.320 the thing is these cars, they're trying to drop the price of them, make them more, uh, easy for the

00:10:17.340 masses to get ahold of. Uh, but at the same time, you're spending twice as much for half the value

00:10:21.580 because they aren't, um, fully usable throughout the country. Yeah. I don't even know if there's a

00:10:29.420 charging station in Fort Saskatchewan. Okay. I don't know. I don't think so. And it's not

00:10:36.120 a tiny town. I think there's about 25,000 people there, but I don't think there's a single

00:10:42.220 public electric car charger there. Correct me if I'm wrong. Somebody might send me an email.

00:10:47.540 There might be one like at some virtue signaling place, but it's a very blue collar town. There's

00:10:52.700 not a lot of virtue signaling happening in Fort Saskatchewan. Um, I just thought I would touch

00:10:56.540 on that because it's so outrageous, um, that, you know, you hear the, um, the, um, Jen Psaki,

00:11:04.900 I think is how you say her name, uh, Joe Biden's press secretary when people are saying, well, you know,

00:11:10.920 like, wouldn't it be helpful if there were more supply of oil and gas to deal with these high prices at

00:11:16.780 the pumps? And she says, you know, the answer is not more supply. It's green energy. Okay. That's

00:11:22.700 great. Even if that were the case, what does that do to help the people with gas powered vehicles

00:11:28.840 right now? Nothing. They just quietly go broke trying to get to work every day.

00:11:34.580 Exactly. And I think you can kind of parallel it to public transportation where, uh, like you

00:11:39.360 mentioned, uh, Montreal, Toronto, they have very large public transportation systems, but if you

00:11:46.220 go out to a small town, well, maybe you've got a bus route or two. And then if you go to a place

00:11:50.120 like Coutts, Alberta, there isn't any public transportation. Uh, and I think that same premise

00:11:54.760 applies to electric vehicles and the feasibility of it, uh, where the further you go away from these

00:11:59.760 central locations, the less and less practical it is to use these things on a daily basis.

00:12:03.780 Yeah. And for the harder to say, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, not everybody can live in a big

00:12:12.320 city. If I move to a big city who grows your food, right? Everybody's thinks, Oh, just move closer to

00:12:20.520 the city and then your life won't be so carbon intensive. Okay. That's fine. But we're, your beef is

00:12:28.960 not grown on an apartment patio. It has to be grown somewhere. Right. And people forget that

00:12:35.160 there are people producing things that live outside the big cities and without them, you will starve to

00:12:41.300 death. Yeah, that's exactly right. Now let's talk to, you had a very exciting weekend and I think

00:12:47.980 maybe, um, Olivia, we can bring up some clips of Sid's, uh, excitement on Saturday, but why don't you

00:12:55.660 tell us sort of what unfolded at the weekly freedom protest? Because it was more eventful than normal,

00:13:01.480 uh, because a handful of left-wing activists decided that they were going to take back the

00:13:08.600 streets. I think they said, like take back the streets from whom other Calgarians, they're not

00:13:15.060 your streets. Anyways, I'll let you get into it. No, exactly. Um, and these, the freedom rally protests,

00:13:21.880 they've been going on basically since the beginning of the pandemic across the country. Uh, and only for

00:13:26.400 the last couple of weeks now, uh, we've seen this counter protest arise. And at first, uh, they were

00:13:31.500 standing in a park as the protest, the freedom rally went through, uh, the week after that, they

00:13:36.440 had blocked, uh, that same location off, uh, on the road so that the protest group, uh, the freedom

00:13:41.660 rally, I should say, had to find an alternative route around them. Uh, and this past weekend, what

00:13:46.820 happened was at first there was a couple, I guess, stragglers from the counter protest group,

00:13:51.000 uh, that were, they formed a sort of blockade. I guess there's just a few of them standing on the

00:13:56.120 road, uh, and police formed a line near the beginning of where the freedom rally would

00:13:59.640 march. Uh, and then later down, uh, the way the, the rally route, the rest of the counter

00:14:05.980 protesters were all on the streets and there was a police line, uh, set up. You can see it on camera

00:14:11.080 there right now. Uh, so there's the police line and you can see the freedom rally in the back.

00:14:15.040 And then you can see another police line behind the police line is the counter protest group.

00:14:19.160 Uh, and then behind the counter protest group were more freedom rally protesters. So,

00:14:23.080 um, it, it, it was kind of all over the place that intersection. Uh, but that is where the

00:14:29.440 protest group, the freedom rally group, I should say, and the counter protest, uh, met on the

00:14:33.820 streets. Uh, and shortly after the freedom rally group did make its way through, uh, with the aid

00:14:39.680 of police who had opened up the sidewalk for them to make their way past. Um, but it was,

00:14:44.000 uh, a bit of a mess, I guess you could say for a little while.

00:14:48.540 I don't understand why police kettled everybody on onto one intersection. Um, you know, there's

00:14:56.180 room on the streets for everybody. And if, you know, these are two sort of adversarial opposing

00:15:02.080 groups, why let them get to the same place and cause a big kerfuffle? Why not hold one back,

00:15:09.800 let one walk through and then let the other one walk through? Cause it's my understanding 0.98

00:15:14.840 that the weekly freedom protest people, I've covered them too. I covered them for quite a long

00:15:19.360 time. Um, before we had a Calgary team, I would come down every weekend. They follow the same route

00:15:24.780 every week. They just go around, come back, you know, they gather, they make the walk and then they

00:15:30.780 come back and, um, they're not disruptive. They're orderly. Um, it happens like clockwork. They start and

00:15:38.560 they wrap it up and they're done. Um, so I don't understand why police allowed the chaos to happen

00:15:47.020 at that intersection. I fully believe the counter protesters have a right, um, to protest and be

00:15:54.980 there and have their, um, voices heard. That's perfectly fine. But I think there was a better way

00:16:01.000 for police to deal with this because I feel like a lot of the chaos on the corner here is created.

00:16:07.500 It didn't have to be this way. Well, and I think a lot of this comes from a last minute response

00:16:14.240 by the Calgary police where, um, they, I don't think they really knew what to do or how to handle

00:16:19.440 the situation. Uh, I believe a block prior to where the counter protest group was, there was a

00:16:24.880 very weak attempt by Calgary police to have the freedom rally make an alternate or change the route

00:16:31.040 slightly. Um, but that didn't pan out. Uh, so the freedom rally went straight head onto the police

00:16:36.900 line that was blocking them from, uh, mingling, I guess you could say with the counter protest group.

00:16:42.000 Um, so they, it was a very weak attempt though, I think. Um, and inevitably they had to call in for

00:16:48.420 backup so that they could resolve the situation by opening up the sidewalk on the one side and

00:16:54.300 letting, uh, the freedom rally protesters go through. Although that said, um, many in the freedom rally

00:16:59.740 were able to get around the police barrier, um, just by walking like a little ways over and they

00:17:05.780 ended up on the backside of the counter protest. Um, now nothing really happened. It was just like

00:17:10.620 a back and forth, like talking people being like, Oh, your idea is wrong. Your idea is wrong. Um,

00:17:15.280 but there was no police line between the counter protesters and the, uh, freedom rally on that side.

00:17:20.980 Um, so it was, it was weird. It was, everything felt like it was in shambles. And I talked to one

00:17:26.320 of the higher up, uh, police officers who was there kind of managing the situation. And he,

00:17:31.040 I asked him, it seems like you've created a bit of a logistical problem for yourself,

00:17:34.680 uh, because it's, uh, uh, there's the freedom rally and then there's a police line and then

00:17:39.040 there's another police line and then there's the counter protest and then there's the freedom

00:17:42.140 rally protest. So if they were trying to stop the two groups from mingling, they failed in that

00:17:47.720 regard. Um, it was just, it was a big mess on the Calgary police's hip hop part. Although,

00:17:53.100 um, and as you saw as well, they were using the bicycles and pushing the counter protesters back.

00:17:59.300 Um, they, and they did inevitably let the freedom rally through. Um, so I don't necessarily know

00:18:05.360 what to make of it, but I think, uh, for next weekend, cause I'm sure this is probably going to

00:18:09.640 happen again. That's my expectation. Um, they, they should act sooner or at least have a better plan,

00:18:15.200 uh, in how they're going to allow both of these groups to protest and what they're trying to

00:18:18.960 protest. So maybe can you give me an estimate of the size, uh, one versus the other?

00:18:28.400 I'm really bad at guessing. Um, I did put out a little drone video that does show the whole,

00:18:34.080 uh, freedom rally and the counter protest, the counter protest, maybe there was 30 or 40 of them.

00:18:39.560 Um, and the freedom rally group, um, like maybe 20 to one, I think, to be honest, at least. So

00:18:46.820 quite the disparity there, uh, in the size of these groups. Yeah. Thousands come out for the freedom

00:18:54.600 rally every single week. And, you know, there's 30 troublemakers show up and, you know, it didn't

00:19:00.600 erupt into violence. So, I mean, whatever I might even be pushing it to call them troublemakers, but

00:19:06.480 it's, um, it's the thing every week goes off without a hitch until 30 antis show up. And then 0.57

00:19:15.280 all of a sudden the street corner descends into chaos and you can tell who's who by their masks,

00:19:20.680 right? I saw on Twitter, somebody say at this point, if you're wearing a mask, that's basically

00:19:24.780 an NDP lawn sign on your face. Yeah. Well, and I think the big difference between these two groups,

00:19:33.860 like, uh, we go to the freedom rally protests quite often and they know who we are. And we

00:19:37.920 ask people, Hey, do you want to like, do you have time for questions? This and that. Uh, and there's

00:19:41.840 people that say yes. There's people that say no. Um, they're very much of an individual mindset.

00:19:46.400 Although when you try and ask the counter protesters, like what exactly are you protesting? What, what are

00:19:52.160 you counter protesting against? They usually don't have a good answer or they stick to this kind of

00:19:58.720 line that they've been told where they've been told they're not allowed to answer questions for

00:20:03.320 people like us. So they're very much in this state of group thing, uh, which is, I think the big

00:20:08.880 difference between them and the freedom rally protesters. And that's why I think the counter

00:20:13.580 protest, which one individual was, uh, hesitant to give me an answer, but he did give me a vague one

00:20:19.540 where, um, they don't like the fact that the freedom rally protesters are walking through the streets,

00:20:23.960 uh, disrupting them. And they disagree with the stance on vaccine mandates. So it's very much so

00:20:29.140 a, uh, pro government narrative stick to what we are told. And then there's the freedom rally

00:20:34.580 protesters who are very much like, I deserve to have bodily autonomy. I deserve to have a voice and

00:20:39.900 have the opportunity to make choices in my life. It's weird how the left-wing anarchists are out there

00:20:46.820 enforcing the government narrative. Like how did that happen? How did that switch get flipped? Um,

00:20:53.960 you know, it's interesting to see the responses of the politicians. So Jason Kenney, uh, maybe we

00:21:01.100 can show that clip. He doesn't even know why people are out there anymore. Um, but I'm pretty sure I

00:21:06.960 know. Um, but Olivia, if you have that clip, can you show it? This is from the, um, press conference

00:21:11.480 over the weekend that, uh, um, where Jason Kenney says he doesn't even know why the freedom protest

00:21:19.220 takes place every weekend. I think this was a clip from Efron's Twitter.

00:21:24.780 And, uh, I, I would just say, I, I'm not quite sure what the protest is about because Alberta

00:21:29.340 effectively does not have any more public health measures. They, they've all been lifted some time

00:21:33.420 ago. And, um, I, uh, would suggest that, that maybe people could find more productive ways of,

00:21:40.940 uh, expressing their, their frustration, but maybe here's an idea. How about we all just move on

00:21:46.000 from the frustration of COVID? How about we leave it in the rear view mirror? I mean, there are still

00:21:49.180 some remaining federal travel restrictions, which we think are, are wrong. Uh, we, we have a

00:21:53.860 motion in the legislature calling on the federal government to drop the pointless federal travel

00:21:58.740 restrictions. Um, but I guess the point I would make is we could spend the rest of our lives in

00:22:04.960 this society arguing over COVID, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, or we could just move

00:22:11.020 forward. Here's the good news. Alberta's emerging into a period of dynamic economic growth.

00:22:16.000 There's lots of good news now and on the horizon. I say, let's embrace that, that positive future,

00:22:21.640 as opposed to, uh, getting stuck in the division of the past two years, every family, every community,

00:22:29.780 business, faith group, they've, we all know people have been divided over COVID. Uh, let's

00:22:34.160 stop accentuating the division. Let's find ways to come together, uh, as Albertans.

00:22:38.140 He's trying to remove the damage that's been done over the last two years. And not only that,

00:22:46.420 but if you talk to the people at the freedom rally, uh, which Jason Kenney, I don't think has made any

00:22:51.080 handful of offenses. Exactly. He doesn't know why they're protesting. Why don't you go down there and

00:22:57.560 talk to them? Ask them. Well, he doesn't know why they're protesting. Just like he doesn't know what

00:23:02.340 a vaccine passport is. Right. So, and it's unfortunate because if you go down to these

00:23:07.520 protests, you find that people are still struggling to find jobs. People are like, uh, he mentioned,

00:23:12.320 he's apparently against the federal travel restrictions. Well, those are still in place.

00:23:16.960 There's so much damage that's been done. If you think about the education sector, well,

00:23:21.060 post-secondary education, I don't know if this is still the case. Uh, but while I was in Coots,

00:23:25.220 I interviewed some students, I believe they were, I'm not exactly sure what university they were

00:23:29.260 with. It was in Alberta. Um, but they still can't go on campus. So they really just want to shrug

00:23:34.780 all of this COVID stuff under the rug. And he says, this is about COVID, but really it's not. It's about

00:23:39.540 the overreach that we've seen from our federal municipal and provincial governments over the

00:23:43.700 last two years. And even though they've dropped some restrictions and some mandates, they've essentially

00:23:49.060 left the door open for this to happen again in six months or however soon they think they can get

00:23:54.100 away with it once the population is forgotten. Well, and he just wants us to move on from COVID.

00:24:00.440 What he means is I want you to forget what I did to you, what I did to your business, what I did to

00:24:06.100 your church, what I did to your pastor, what I did to your job, what I did to your family's finances,

00:24:12.320 what I did to every family celebration over the last two years, the third party in all of that was

00:24:18.220 the government. Um, there are still people in Alberta who are laid off, constructively fired

00:24:25.840 because Jason Kenney has allowed the private sector to impose vaccine passports on their employees.

00:24:32.320 There are people who work for WestJet who are fired. There were people who worked for Alberta Health

00:24:38.360 Services who were fired. There were people who worked in the oil patch who were fired. CN fired.

00:24:45.320 Uh, CP Rail fired. CNRL fired. There were people all over this province who were fired because they

00:24:53.720 refused to participate in the biomedical police state for whatever reason. They either refused to get

00:24:58.800 vaccinated or to divulge their vaccination status. He wants us to move on from the segregation.

00:25:05.100 They are out there protesting what their government has done to them or has allowed to be done to them

00:25:11.160 for the past two years. And what I have not heard from Jason Kenney is I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We did

00:25:19.980 this to you. I'm sorry that the division your family's experiencing. I'm sorry. We did that as a

00:25:26.240 government. I'm sorry that you lost your job because of an unscientific government policy. He's never said

00:25:32.340 that people are out there protesting because even though Jason Kenney wants to move on from the damage he did

00:25:38.760 to himself through his COVID measures, the people are still experiencing the fallout and they have

00:25:45.080 every right to be out there in protest. Well, and one of the things especially, which I know we're

00:25:50.800 going to get into in a little bit, uh, but at these freedom rally protests, as of late, they've been,

00:25:55.400 uh, what would you say, uh, calling to free pastor Archer Poblowski, who he's been in behind bars for

00:26:01.880 over 30 days now. Uh, and I think Jason Kenney would probably like you to forget about that as

00:26:06.220 well. And, uh, hopefully we can, uh, not see that he is forgotten because as, uh, our Calgary-based

00:26:15.080 reporter, Adam Sosa said, he's probably the most persecuted man in Canada. Um, so I really hope

00:26:20.840 there's some resolve on that front, but as Jason Kenney alludes to, this is not a political maneuver,

00:26:25.840 uh, but we'll get into that a little more of it. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that in a second

00:26:31.740 before we move on from the, uh, protest chaos over the weekend, which was hardly chaos except for the

00:26:36.620 police actions causing chaos because 30, uh, people on the street should not be able to disrupt

00:26:43.580 thousands, but the police, I think caused that a little bit. Um, the mayor of Calgary who somehow,

00:26:52.080 somehow through some miracle of ineptitude, she is worse than the previous mayor, Naheed Nanchi,

00:26:59.280 Jodi Gondek. She has a little bit of, uh, Jim Watson in her, uh, Jim Watson being the mayor of Ottawa

00:27:07.860 and she wants more enforcement. I'm not sure of what, um, she wants a police crack down on the freedom 0.98

00:27:18.420 protest that has been happening there longer than she's been mayor by the way. So she doesn't get to

00:27:23.200 just come in and rewrite history. These people have always been peaceful. Always. The only time

00:27:28.980 chaos happened was over this weekend and it was hardly chaos because, uh, 30 counter protesters showed

00:27:36.620 up. Um, that's when the problem started happening. She's just tired of these people protesting for their 0.96

00:27:42.920 freedom. And so she's sick of it and she doesn't want to look at it anymore. Um, so she, her series

00:27:49.820 of tweets, maybe we can bring those up. Jodi Gondek is the worst. Uh, she's apparently spoken with

00:27:55.820 Beltline residents, but not the protesters. And let's be clear. Some of these protesters are

00:28:01.460 from the Beltline, but anyways, she says, I spoke with Beltline residents and businesses this morning.

00:28:07.520 I was in the Beltline this afternoon. Okay. So why didn't you go talk to the protesters? Anyways,

00:28:12.420 this weekly disruption, this community faces is not a protest. It's a parade at Central Memorial

00:28:18.900 Park. It's a festival with merch and food vendors yet no permits or licenses. Ah, so the government's

00:28:24.540 not getting their cut. That's the problem here. There's what does it matter? What do you need a

00:28:29.360 permit for really? Like I it's the government wants their cut. They want their little, um, involvement

00:28:35.440 and all of this. They want to give the okay. And what they want to be able to say is, uh,

00:28:40.780 apply for a permit, deny the permit, and they give you a ticket for not having a permit when

00:28:45.320 you have your, when you're giving away food or whatever. She goes on to say, why not enforce

00:28:50.940 the bylaws? Why is the standard response that this will fizzle out? It won't. This is not

00:28:57.640 about mandates. Those are gone. Uh, by waiting for this to die out, enforcement agencies have

00:29:03.760 allowed it to grow. Telling residents, businesses to wait it out is shameful. Um, this is how you

00:29:10.760 get more protests lady. Like, you know, like if you don't want people to show up and protest 0.76

00:29:17.060 government overreach, the answer is not more government overreach. You're going to have

00:29:21.080 more people out there protesting you and you're going to have more vendors and more food and more

00:29:25.620 merch. Well, that's the problem is anybody who's in government wants everything to be controlled by

00:29:31.340 government. Um, it, it's a misunderstanding of what their position is in this world. And I think for

00:29:38.080 a lot of people coming from Toronto, I can tell you that it feels very much. So like the government

00:29:43.240 is the man in the clouds, so to speak. Uh, he is the one that it, the government is the one that

00:29:48.460 controls the life of us, of all of us. Um, but that's just not the case. They're there to kind of

00:29:54.020 maintain order to a degree, but they're not there to control our lives in every aspect of them.

00:29:59.160 Yeah. She goes on to say community members standing their ground are not counter protesters.

00:30:06.520 I venture to guess how many of those people are actually from the Beltline, by the way,

00:30:11.160 they are people with a right to a self and welcome, a safe and welcoming community. And while council

00:30:16.320 has no formal ability to direct police or other enforcement bodies, we can be vocal and stand with

00:30:23.040 our fellow Calgarians. So she's on one hand saying we don't have a right to demand more enforcement.

00:30:29.160 But her next tweet demands more enforcement. And it's the mayor. So she's flexing her muscles 0.71

00:30:35.320 here. The next one says it's past time to deal with people not following the law. Oh, G.O.D.,

00:30:41.420 what are you going to do? You're going to run over them with a horse. You're going to pepper spray

00:30:45.560 them. What are you going to do? These are peaceful protesters. There's never been an instance of

00:30:50.240 violence in two full years. The only time things devolved was when the counter protesters showed up.

00:30:57.820 And that's exactly what they are, because I venture to guess that not many of them are

00:31:00.780 actually from the Beltline. It's past time to support people in their own communities and

00:31:05.240 businesses. Yeah, I agree. That's why I was against the lockdown that she was in favor of. 0.95

00:31:12.060 And that's why she was in the world of it.

00:31:14.300 Sorry. And that's why the protesters are out there, because they want businesses to open without

00:31:18.740 these restrictions by the government. They want to go in and shop at these restaurants and other

00:31:23.540 stores. But they haven't been allowed to because of the government. The government has effectively,

00:31:27.840 over the last two years, shut down small businesses for the sake of larger companies who,

00:31:32.720 for whatever means, can continue operating while the small guy is basically getting destroyed by

00:31:38.140 our government. Yeah. She goes on to say it's past time to face the fact that this, quote,

00:31:43.020 protest requires more than, quote, crowd control. What does that mean? What are you going to do to

00:31:50.040 these people, Gioti? What are you going to do? You know, what do you want the Calgary police to

00:31:56.640 do to these peaceful protesters, you absolute maniac? And then she says, enforcement must stand

00:32:02.200 with the community. They are. They are. They're keeping everybody safe while allowing them to

00:32:08.080 practice their civil liberties. Well, and especially if you consider the numbers of either crowd,

00:32:13.760 well, if you want to stand with the community, I think that leans in a certain direction that

00:32:18.080 she might not find favorable. Yeah. Yeah. She just doesn't like people exercising their civil 0.77

00:32:24.520 liberties and they've been doing it longer than she's been mayor. So she can just take a backseat 0.72

00:32:28.140 here and let people continue to do what they're legally allowed to do in a free country. This isn't

00:32:32.840 Hong Kong. They can go out on the streets and protest the government. And I don't care if Jason

00:32:38.680 Kenney doesn't know why they're out there anymore. They're still allowed to be out there. They can be

00:32:42.960 out there for whatever reason they want. 30 people counter-protesting or 3,000 on the other

00:32:47.820 side. They're all allowed to be there, even if they don't have a reason, which they do.

00:32:55.240 It's funny too, because I mean, perhaps now the protest group, I mean, they might have their

00:33:00.180 two years of experience in having the burden of the government of Jason Kenney and of municipalities

00:33:06.700 is welcome down on them. But now it's less targeted towards municipal and provincial government. Now

00:33:13.180 it's mostly the federal government. So the Freedom Rally group is perhaps less inclined to be angry

00:33:18.820 with people like the Calgary mayor or Jason Kenney, the premier, and that their concerns may be more

00:33:24.960 redirected to other groups. So it's funny that they're trying to come down on them now when they're

00:33:29.200 probably less inclined to go after these politicians.

00:33:32.300 Yeah, that's true. That's a great point. This might not even be about G.O.D. Gondek anymore,

00:33:39.040 and yet she's going to make it about herself, isn't she? And that's going to blow up in her face,

00:33:43.480 I think. Now, moving along to politicians who are completely tone deaf and just lacking

00:33:50.520 self-awareness whatsoever. Yesterday, so Sunday, the Alberta government, Jason Kenney,

00:33:56.700 announced the doubling of funding to protect places of worship from hate crimes. And I was quite

00:34:01.820 interested in this because there's been a real spate of hate crimes against Alberta Christian

00:34:11.120 churches, namely locking them up, chaining the doors, putting fences around them, arresting their

00:34:17.540 pastors in front of their children, real civil liberties violations. And I thought, boy, if we could

00:34:23.720 only catch the people behind all of that. But that's not what Jason Kenney meant, because he's that

00:34:29.460 guy. So yesterday, they announced an increased funding from the Alberta Security Infrastructure

00:34:35.720 Program, increased from $2 million to $5 million annually. And I'm not against this. I just think

00:34:41.920 you're lacking a little bit of self-awareness. This has a lot to do with the church burnings,

00:34:49.440 vandalisms that happened last summer to protect churches, not-for-profit agencies, registered

00:34:57.160 charities and other organizations. They can apply for grants for security and technology

00:35:01.420 improvements. And so I'm not mad about this. I think this is a good thing. And I'm usually

00:35:09.640 generally against government spending. And they announced it at a church that was targeted for

00:35:17.960 arson last year at the Calgary Vietnamese Alliance Church in Forest Lawn. And so the announcement was

00:35:24.660 made there. And I think that's great. The church was one of 50 Christian churches targeted by vandals

00:35:30.040 across the country last summer. I think it was closer to 60, actually. And so, yeah, great. Because

00:35:37.680 there, I think maybe there have been two or three arrests related to this. And they were, I think the

00:35:43.400 one was like a busybody, white leftist girl, privileged, highly privileged girl. So I'm not against this,

00:35:53.560 but I'm just sort of astounded at how Jason Kenney is now painting himself as, you know, the defender

00:36:02.600 of Christian churches in this province when he was the most heavy-handed against Christian churches

00:36:11.040 who decided that what the government was asking the churches to do was in strict contradiction with

00:36:20.500 what their faith mandated to them. And so you were actually on the call yesterday. You were on the

00:36:28.160 call. It wasn't, you weren't in person, right? No, that was in person. Oh, you were in person. I

00:36:33.520 don't know why I thought you were on the call, on the press conference call. So even better, you went

00:36:38.120 down to this press conference in person and you put a question to the premier and it was a mealy-mouthed

00:36:44.820 response. And I'll go through why I think that is the case, but your question was great. So let's maybe

00:36:49.060 roll Sid's question.

00:36:54.820 Are we rolling that question?

00:37:03.820 Right now, of course, you're investing in religious infrastructure, but I think many around the province

00:37:07.900 have the concern that you may not be best protecting their religious freedoms. As we've seen with

00:37:12.920 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, he still remains behind bars. This is well over 30 days. If you could just

00:37:17.840 comment on that situation and maybe perhaps ease some concerns or just give some light to that

00:37:23.860 situation.

00:37:24.920 So in Canada, we have something called the rule of law, where courts are responsible for adjudicating

00:37:31.560 criminal charges against individuals, not politicians. So we have an independent judiciary.

00:37:37.340 That individual, I understand, has been detained under, by the police because of multiple breaches

00:37:45.360 of terms of release, court orders, as well as an incitement to, an alleged incitement to violence

00:37:52.420 at the Coutts border crossing blockade. And so that individual has all of the rights of any individual

00:38:00.020 under the Canadian legal system. They are presumed guilty and, sorry, excuse me, presumed innocent until

00:38:06.580 proven guilty, of course, in our system of law. And they have a right to access to counsel.

00:38:12.300 They have all of that individual or any other individual who has all of the same legal rights

00:38:15.760 as anybody. So this is a matter that is before the courts. And, you know, as a more general

00:38:23.080 comment, I would just suggest that going to a very tense combustible situation and inciting

00:38:31.300 people to be willing to die and commit acts of violence for their cause is very likely to have

00:38:42.320 legal consequences. And I would suggest that, you know, nobody is above the law. No politician,

00:38:48.680 no person that calls himself a pastor is above the law. The rule of law applies equally to everybody

00:38:54.780 in our system of the rule of law. So is he defining what a pastor is? I'll just on that last line. I

00:39:02.380 mean, I guess people who call themselves pastors, I guess they need permission from the government to

00:39:07.020 be a pastor. But it's real, real interesting to hear Mr. Nobody's above the law want to rewrite his

00:39:14.440 own history with regard to the Sky Palace. The Sky Palace, whatever they were doing up there, it was going

00:39:20.200 on for long enough for someone to get fed up enough to fly a drone up there to take pictures. And

00:39:25.900 instead of turning himself into the Alberta sheriffs and demanding that they ticket him the way they

00:39:31.200 ticket pastors and peaceful protesters and people trying to have birthday parties, nothing happened

00:39:37.740 to him. Because he is above the law, isn't he? Well, and something incredible, too, that he says is

00:39:44.060 he's speaking to Artur Poloski and saying that Artur was calling for violence. Well, it's my understanding

00:39:49.580 that that's never been the case. And multiple times, and he's reinforced this multiple times,

00:39:54.240 Pastor Artur has said over and over again, it has to be peaceful. That's the way it has to be done.

00:40:00.100 And I think he conflated an incitement to violence with what Pastor Artur was actually charged with.

00:40:05.780 And he was the first person ever to be charged with this. And I believe you would know more about

00:40:10.360 this, especially the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. What was it exactly?

00:40:13.600 The Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. He's the first person ever charged under it. And the law is

00:40:21.180 there to prosecute pipeline saboteurs, wellhead bombers, the Weibo Ludwigs of the world, 0.91

00:40:30.040 eco-terrorists. That's really what it's for. But they got creative and used it on a pastor who gave

00:40:37.300 a sermon to truckers who were blockading the Coutts border. What's interesting in all of that is

00:40:42.220 the truckers were never charged with anything under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.

00:40:50.360 So how do you charge the pastor who simply said, hold the line, which I guess is now a crime in this

00:40:56.880 country based on the treatment of Tamara Litch. But he went down there, gave a sermon, said, hold the

00:41:04.240 line, said it has to be peaceful. Ezra went back and rewatched Pastor Art's sermon from the blockade.

00:41:11.920 And he reiterated multiple times that it had to be peaceful. This is not the first time that Jason

00:41:18.520 Kenney has said that there had been violence and or calls to violence from Coutts border blockaders.

00:41:27.180 We can just go back a little bit to remember when he said that a police officer or law enforcement,

00:41:34.280 anyway, was assaulted at the border by blockaders or their supporters. And that absolutely wasn't the

00:41:42.820 case. It was a minor fender bender. But Jason Kenney, once again, not knowing all the details,

00:41:47.660 or maybe even knowing all the details, but not caring, stood up in a press conference and made

00:41:53.980 that allegation, just like now, where he is saying that Pastor Art engaged in incitement to violence.

00:42:00.880 He absolutely did not. In fact, he reiterated calls for peace.

00:42:05.920 Yeah. And that assault actually took place between two civilians, not an RCMP officer. So

00:42:11.280 that statement was a complete fabrication.

00:42:15.880 Yeah, it's just, it's really, it's fascinating to watch him just play fast and loose with the facts.

00:42:23.520 And he just keeps going. Like he, you think that you would do your best to get this right. And if you

00:42:32.200 don't have all the details, say, I'm sorry, I'm leaving that in the hands of the courts. I don't

00:42:36.060 even have all the details there. Fine. But there's another layer here because Jason Kenney can't wash

00:42:42.040 his hands of this and say, ah, it's independent, independent judiciary. The government does not get

00:42:47.640 involved with the courts. That's not the case here because Pastor Art's troubles subsequent to his

00:42:56.260 troubles with feeding the homeless and the poor in downtown Calgary, what the government called an

00:43:02.080 illegal public gathering, ridiculous. But it stems from his contempt of a court order stems from

00:43:09.380 a court order sought by the government. It wasn't sought by police. It was enforced by police. It wasn't

00:43:17.640 sought by prosecutors. It was, again, enforced by the police. It was sought by Alberta Health Services. Alberta

00:43:26.040 Health Services, an agency of the government under Tyler Shandro at the time, Health Minister Tyler Shandro, who

00:43:33.740 was under the premier of this province, Jason Kenney, went to court, got a secret court order

00:43:40.240 restraining the rights of peaceful protest of all Albertans and named several people in that court

00:43:48.580 order by name. And then they also got a court order demanding entry into Pastor Art's church. That

00:43:56.180 came from the government. So Jason Kenney cannot wash his hands and say, oh, this is the independent

00:44:02.120 judiciary. It's got nothing to do with us. This has everything to do with us. That court order or

00:44:07.860 those court orders set off the cascade of events where we are today. And what's worse, too, is I spoke

00:44:14.480 with Nathaniel Publowski when I was at the Saturday Freedom Rally. And he'll tell you very clearly that

00:44:19.900 the government or the independent judiciary, I guess, I'm not sure, but they're basically keeping Arthur's

00:44:26.520 legal defense in the dark, for the most part, at least. They're not laying out the facts. They're

00:44:32.540 not doing what they need to do for Arthur's legal defense, what they were supposed to be doing.

00:44:37.620 So it is unfortunate. And it does seem like this is being done in a vindictive manner rather than a

00:44:44.260 neutral one, which expected the law to be upheld in a neutral way. It's just, this is the law. We're

00:44:49.860 going to go through the proceedings. We're going to figure out what happens. But that doesn't seem to be

00:44:52.880 the case with us. Olivia whispers in my ear that we have some chats to get to. I know that we were

00:44:59.860 supposed to check on those at every 15 minutes, but then we were talking and then we forgot. And

00:45:05.500 I apologize to anybody who was expecting us to get to those sooner, the way I promised. I broke my

00:45:11.940 promise. I'm sorry. We've got one from Paul Otto Newman. Let's just get this out of the way here.

00:45:18.240 We've got one from Paul Otto Newman. Hi, guys. Does Rebel News plan to have somebody up in Fort

00:45:24.180 McMurray tomorrow to cover the by-election? The results could be a barometer for the leadership

00:45:27.800 review in April. I think the results are going to be a barometer for the leadership review in April.

00:45:32.980 And Brian Jean's going to win handily. I think I might cover them just sort of out of the corner of

00:45:41.920 my eye. I might live tweet them. But I think it's clearly a shoe in and Brian Jean is winning

00:45:49.860 this by-election as a UCP candidate running against the UCP, running against Jason Kenney.

00:46:01.460 He basically, his entire platform is, I'm going to win and then I'm going to challenge Jason Kenney for

00:46:06.820 the leadership. It's really been fascinating to watch. And he won that nomination as he won the

00:46:12.920 nomination against Jason Kenney's handpicked candidate on a platform of getting rid of Jason

00:46:19.040 Kenney. So that should tell you something about that leadership review coming up in exactly a month,

00:46:24.680 I think. A month and two days. So it's very interesting. I think Jason Kenney's in a lot of

00:46:29.460 trouble. I think it's going to be very tight-faced. Yeah, he might be running out of time. We'll see.

00:46:34.720 Well, that's the thing. If they are going to change leaders, they got to do it right away.

00:46:38.860 Right away. They're running out of runway on this. Because the NDP, they're just running in the same

00:46:43.600 old, same old. Rachel Notley, she's just there. She's back. She's just going to run again. They

00:46:50.800 never do anything new or interesting over the NDP. So like I said, if Jason Kenney, if the party's going

00:46:58.880 to change leaders, they have to do it immediately, because they're headed into an election campaign.

00:47:07.460 B Bapis gives us a buck. Hey, Rebel, your live stream keeps freezing. Oh, I don't know. Things

00:47:14.700 seemed fine on my end, except I had a little bit of a Skype lag. But sorry to hear that. Yankee

00:47:21.440 sends us a buck and sends and says, just testing this. You know, there's no escaping Yankee 1.00

00:47:29.920 talking, is there? He just gets in the live stream and talks to, gets on the Skype calls

00:47:36.720 and talks to. Just kidding, Yankee. You're the best. Joyful from the heart gives us a buck.

00:47:41.460 Hey, Sheila and Sydney, do you know Canadians can submit a claim if they were injured by the

00:47:47.960 COVID jab? And then she sends a link to vaccineinjuriesupport.ca. I'm not sure if that's

00:47:55.980 an official website. So don't, but I'm just reading the chat. Fraser says, Bill S223 is currently

00:48:04.080 waiting for third reading in the Senate. If you're not vaccinated, you will not receive EICPP

00:48:09.960 OHS social services pension that you paid into. Okay. Bill 233. The reason it says S, a lot of

00:48:20.160 people, this is a sinister bill. Don't get me wrong. But I think this is the UBI bill, the

00:48:25.180 universal basic income bill. And the reason people are freaking out because they're like,

00:48:30.920 oh my gosh, it's already in the Senate. It's a Senate originated bill. So bill, here's a civics

00:48:38.020 lesson. So bills can originate in either house, in the Senate or the House of Commons. So because

00:48:45.820 it has an S in the front, it originated in the Senate. So it'll pass one, two, third reading

00:48:51.440 in the Senate. Then it goes to committee and then it goes to the House to pass. So this might

00:48:58.540 die in committee. It might go to the House and not pass at all because the basically things

00:49:05.620 that originate in the Senate, there's no accountability. So they can originate the

00:49:10.520 wildest things ever because they don't have voters to answer for. So it's always some sort

00:49:15.660 of liberal crank. A lot of times their pet project, they originate those as Senate bills. And then they

00:49:22.560 go through third reading in the Senate because nobody cares. And then they end up in committee

00:49:28.060 and they often die or they end up in going to the House of Commons. And then the MPs who

00:49:33.880 are, yeah, so livable basic and this is the UBI bill. So things sometimes will go to the

00:49:41.420 House and the House MPs are thinking, holy smokes, my constituents are going to think that I'm

00:49:49.800 absolutely insane if I touch this with a 10 foot pole and things will often die there.

00:49:53.800 And so a lot of the Senate originated bills end up as Senate busy work. Don't get me wrong.

00:49:58.800 This is sinister. And the liberals, CERB basically was UBI. I think CERB was the test for UBI.

00:50:05.320 So this one could get much further than other Senate originated bills, especially with the

00:50:11.920 support of the NDP who have been rattling the chains for UBI for a very long time. So we'll keep

00:50:16.940 a very close eye on this. But just because it's in the Senate doesn't mean that it's going to be passed

00:50:21.820 like tomorrow. This bill, because it has an S in the front, means it's a Senate originated one. So

00:50:28.260 if it has a C, that means Commons originated. And if it has an S, that means Senate originated bill.

00:50:35.700 Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

00:50:39.820 Okay, let's keep going. Aaron Burton, 32, gives us 20 bucks. Wow, thanks so much. That's very generous.

00:50:46.920 I found Rebel last summer and I've never looked back. It's so nice seeing real news. And I wish

00:50:51.760 I'd found you sooner. Keep up the amazing work. And thank you to you all. You know, we have a lot

00:50:55.860 of new people here. People who maybe had heard things about us in the mainstream media, but never

00:51:03.040 bothered to like check us out for themselves. And a lot of them were looking for alternative viewpoints

00:51:10.460 on COVID lockdowns and found us that way. A lot of people who, you know, were not COVID skeptical at

00:51:18.700 the very beginning because they didn't know anything about it and China lies. And so I was one of those 0.88

00:51:26.040 people where I was like, this thing is way worse, way worse than China's even telling us because China's 0.52

00:51:31.220 a bunch of liars. But then, you know, you change your viewpoint as more evidence rolls in. And there are a

00:51:38.360 lot of those people who have come to us that way and we welcome all viewpoints. And I think generally

00:51:44.600 our viewpoint on most things is leave people alone, let them make up their own minds and let them think

00:51:50.700 what they want. I think that's a viewpoint on issues that sort of transcends politics. My politics are

00:51:59.760 alone. Well, I just want to thank you as well, because unlike most media outlets, it's because

00:52:06.420 of our viewers that we exist. So likewise, just want to thank everyone who's watching and everyone

00:52:11.040 who stays tuned. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we weren't doing a good job, we would know about it right away.

00:52:18.520 We wouldn't exist because we don't have bailouts propping us up when we get everything wrong, CBC,

00:52:24.060 including at least two stories about the convoy that they had to completely retract. But anyway,

00:52:31.140 AMT 60, a buck. Politicians never apologize for any wrongs. They do look at our PM who walks out of

00:52:36.660 parliament when an apology was demanded by a Jewish conservative member. All our politicians are 0.71

00:52:44.080 pathetic and many under the World Economic Forum. Yeah, that was Melissa Lantzman, whom we've been 0.94

00:52:51.620 critical of in the past. But I'm pretty sure that she's not standing with neo-Nazis. And I'm pretty

00:52:56.640 sure that the convoyers weren't neo-Nazis, nor were they Russians, CBC, by the way.

00:53:04.520 Go ahead.

00:53:06.540 Is it, correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not a narcissistic trait to never apologize?

00:53:10.820 I think you're right. And, you know, it's interesting to watch Justin Trudeau try to rewrite his own

00:53:21.940 history. You know, he's accusing other people of being sexist, misogynistic, homophobic,

00:53:29.440 blackface groper. I'm not sure that's a fair criticism. You know, and when his MPs, I think it 1.00

00:53:36.100 was Mark Gerritsen, who is, again, a lot of contenders for the dumbest MP out there, but he's

00:53:43.240 right up there. He's giving Seamus O'Regan a run for his money these days. Maybe you can bring up

00:53:48.160 that tweet where they are so threatened by Pierre Polyev's candidacy for the leadership of the

00:53:59.220 Conservative Party of Canada. They're digging up Pierre Polyev's, like, high school yearbook

00:54:05.860 photos, which make me like him more because he's, in his high school yearbook photos, he's complaining

00:54:12.560 about the welfare state. And I was like, he clued into the welfare state a hell of a lot sooner than

00:54:17.060 I did. Smart guy. Wait, you're telling me he's been consistent with his ideology over the years

00:54:24.220 since he was a youngster? You're trying to make me not like him for that? I think that's great.

00:54:30.300 But Mark Gerritsen should maybe be more concerned about the yearbook photos of his boss. Because how

00:54:38.840 many blackface yearbook photos does your boss have to have before you're like, ah, ah, maybe he is a 0.90

00:54:45.020 white supremacist? I don't know. Something to think about. Uh, AMT 60 gives us a buck. My sister has a

00:54:55.100 paralegal in her freedom group and said that not getting CPP or pension, et cetera, is not true

00:55:02.320 unless government changes it because I was worried about it as retired, as I'm retired. Um, I, I think

00:55:11.100 that's in regards to bill S 233. Um, yeah, I'm not, I'm not sure what the vaccination requirements are

00:55:20.720 in that bill. I, in my brief reading of that bill, it was simply about the creation of a universal basic

00:55:29.080 basic income, which is of course a disincentive to work and be productive for everybody, including the

00:55:37.480 people who are currently working because you're like, why am I working? Uh, I can just get UBI

00:55:41.940 like those people I'm already paying to not work. It's a huge disincentive to the economy and it would

00:55:47.740 be catastrophic, absolutely catastrophic. But that doesn't mean the liberals won't do it because

00:55:53.480 if it's a bad economic idea, that's never stopped them. Look at the carbon tax. They're raising that in

00:55:58.480 14 days, 15 days, 16 days, uh, prices at the pump are out of control. And they're like,

00:56:05.180 you know, what would help raising the prices at the pump with the carbon tax?

00:56:10.180 Just buy an electric car. It's fine. Um, I think that's all of our chats. We should get to

00:56:18.340 one last thing and it is sneaky Patrick Brown over the weekend. He announced that he is running

00:56:24.900 for the leadership of the conservative party of Canada, because why won't he just go away?

00:56:31.580 Just go away, Patrick Brown, stop. Um, but he doesn't have anybody in his life who's telling

00:56:38.620 him to stop doing this thing. Um, so he's going to run for the leadership of the conservative party

00:56:44.280 of Canada. And, um, I think we have that clip from Efron where again, talk about a, a politician

00:56:53.960 with little to no self-awareness. Um, when he's talking about how he was anti-lockdown,

00:57:00.740 which is crazy. He was so hard locked down. Anyways, maybe we can roll that.

00:57:07.780 And when COVID lockdowns threatened the freedoms of families and businesses and the mental health

00:57:12.700 of Canadians, I was one of the only big city mayors to speak out and demand an end to 1.00

00:57:17.000 restrictions. And when COVID lockdowns threatened the freedoms of...

00:57:20.900 I can't, the gall of this guy. The, he was the guy who put up chain link fences around

00:57:30.020 soccer parks outside. And then when that wasn't enough to keep the little kids from playing,

00:57:36.440 he put private security guards at the parks to keep the little kids from playing soccer,

00:57:43.280 all the while keeping an ice service in a publicly funded arena where just him and his stupid friends

00:57:53.000 could play hockey while criminalizing soccer for little kids and militarizing the parks.

00:57:59.320 The gall of this guy, he wasn't anti-lockdown. He was Dr. Lockdown.

00:58:04.800 Yeah, I know that, that report from David Menzies was, uh, quite something to see.

00:58:10.400 Uh, and it is truly incredible. It's, I guess it would be elitism where it is one rule for the, 0.90

00:58:15.260 and one rule for me. And I think he'd probably like to keep it that way. Although right now it

00:58:19.720 does seem, uh, uh, popular to advocate for no lockdowns and advocate for the free movement of

00:58:26.920 people within our society. So it seems more like he's just playing to what he hears might sound

00:58:32.060 good as opposed to what he actually believes in. Yeah. I mean, we're not all hard of remembering.

00:58:39.540 The people of Brampton are not hard of remembering. They know about the millions of taxpayer dollars

00:58:45.640 that Patrick Brown spent keeping little kids out of parks outside during the early days of the pandemic

00:58:53.580 when we caught him at an arena playing hockey, when he told all the little kids,

00:58:59.920 you can't play hockey. And then his big excuse, he did exactly what Justin Trudeau does when he gets

00:59:06.120 caught doing something wrong or when people try to speak truth to power, instead of saying, yeah,

00:59:11.400 I'm really sorry. I did that. And, uh, let's let everybody play hockey. Let's pull down the fences

00:59:16.220 at the parks. This is crazy. I'm a hypocrite. Instead of just like completely owning his mistake.

00:59:22.340 He said, ah, those people who caught me, they're a bunch of far right extremists. So disregard what

00:59:29.260 they're saying. Disregard your own eyeballs watching that video. Disregard it because you

00:59:36.000 shouldn't like the people who were saying it about me, which is exactly what Justin Trudeau does all

00:59:42.160 the time. It's such a Trudeau thing to do. Get caught doing something, get criticism, and then

00:59:47.960 attack the messenger instead of owning up to your own mistakes. Very Trudeau. Yeah. This video here.

00:59:55.380 Oh, he's just checking out the rink with his hockey bag that had his name on it.

01:00:01.600 I wish there was a way to quantify how much damage was done to our children because of actions like

01:00:09.140 this. It's, it's truly an incredible thing. And for how long it had gone on for, I can only imagine

01:00:15.100 how hard it was for our younger ones, but, um, I don't think that's something that's fully been

01:00:19.840 quantified even though it is no. Yeah. I think that this will be one of the great crimes against

01:00:28.900 young people. Um, I think of a generation, what was done to little kids in the name of public health

01:00:37.600 for disease that hardly harmed them at all speech delays, socialization delays, um, young athletes

01:00:45.880 having their dreams stolen from them or young athletes being injured because of a medicine that

01:00:52.320 they were forced to take to do the thing that they loved. And I'm dancing around the words here. So we

01:00:56.460 don't get kicked off of YouTube. Um, and the teachers who are still trying to enforce these things

01:01:04.540 be above and beyond the will of parents who are saying, leave my kids alone. We have hypochondriac

01:01:11.720 parents in a battle or hypochondriac teachers in a battle of will with the parents who are really

01:01:18.480 the ones in charge of the education system and of their children. Um, they just won't give up. They

01:01:25.220 won't give this power back easily. That's for sure. Um, I think we are all caught up Olivia, unless I'm

01:01:31.800 missing out on some chats. Okay. We're good. Um, we are at 11 o'clock here in Alberta, uh, one o'clock

01:01:41.980 in the center of the universe in Toronto. I want to thank you, Sid, for filling in for Adam on such

01:01:48.440 short notice. You did a great job, um, and great work again over the weekend. I pointed it out in

01:01:53.700 the staff meeting this morning, but you really ripped it up this weekend. You were the right guy

01:01:56.880 in the right place on the right stories. I want to thank everybody. I just wanted to thank our

01:02:14.060 viewers as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. We don't do anything without the support of our

01:02:21.160 viewers. Good grief. The Skype leg. Okay. I want to thank all of our viewers for tuning in. I want

01:02:27.060 to thank everybody who pitched in, uh, to keep the lights on here at Rebel News. Uh, thank you to

01:02:31.200 Olivia and the producers in the office and to the web team who let you know when we're going live.

01:02:38.240 Um, and I'm back here tomorrow, I think with David Menzies. Um, and as David Menzies always says,

01:02:44.340 stay sane. Uh, there will be no occupation in Victoria, uh, based on what I've heard

01:02:50.980 from, uh, uh, Del Manic and the city of Victoria. And I would just say to these people, goodness me,

01:02:56.960 get a hobby, find something else to do with your time. Uh, we are removing restrictions at a pace

01:03:02.840 that is consistent with the work we've done for the past two years. Uh, and 94% of adults in British

01:03:09.300 Columbia are vaccinated. So we're spending an awful lot of time with a small group of people who seem to

01:03:15.100 have nothing better to do with their time, but to drive around in circles honking their horns.

01:03:18.840 I wish they'd take some time to watch television and see the evening news about real tragedies and

01:03:25.160 real disruptions in freedom that are going on in Europe right now. Give your head a shake,

01:03:29.700 find a better way to take your energies and put it to positive outcomes. That's my recommendation.

01:03:33.960 And, and I'm hopeful that some of the people who were planning to come here will take my heart,

01:03:38.180 that to heart and do the right thing. Find positive, uh, pursuits for your excess energy.

01:03:42.940 You've got five degrees.

01:03:52.020 You've got five degrees of gold.

Rebel News Podcast - March 15, 2022

DAILY ｜ Calgary mayor, counter protesters trying to end Freedom Rally over police enforcement

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript