Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES： Are mask mandates really coming back？｜ Ft. Sheila Gunn Reid & Tamara Ugolini

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.960 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels. I'm your host, David

00:00:09.900 Menzies. So during the Cootes blockade, the province of Alberta reached out to tow truck

00:00:15.220 companies and energy firms based in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and even Montana to see if they

00:00:20.920 could be hired to haul away those Freedom Convoy vehicles that were blocking the Alberta-Montana

00:00:27.320 border. Not surprisingly, those companies told the government to take a hike. So the province

00:00:34.520 went out and bought their own fleet of used tow trucks, including a 1996 GMC 3500. Yeah, that'll

00:00:43.140 tow away a big rig, no problem. Rebel News chief reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details.

00:00:49.960 Oh no, it's deja vu all over again. Ontario's chief medical health officer, Dr. Kieran Moore,

00:00:58.360 is recommending that everyone mask up again, even though the face diaper mandates were only lifted

00:01:05.480 back on March 21st. Why is Ontario going down this failed path yet again? Tamara Ugolini will try to make 1.00

00:01:14.520 sense of it all. And letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:19.880 And you had plenty to say about Unifor local 444 head honcho David Cassidy in Windsor, who was

00:01:27.320 allegedly threatening to send a thousand autoworkers down to the Ambassador Bridge last February to

00:01:35.560 throw peaceful protesters in the Detroit River. Ah, the loving, tolerant left strikes again.

00:01:43.480 In any event, those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:56.520 The Public Order Emergency Commission is taking place in Ottawa as we speak to examine the actions of

00:02:03.800 Justin Trudeau's federal government in invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act,

00:02:09.000 a wartime counter-terrorism law to put an end to weeks of peaceful anti-COVID mandate protests.

00:02:15.400 Those protests were led by truckers and bolstered by their supporters on the streets of Ottawa,

00:02:21.880 but also at border crossings at Coots, Alberta, Windsor, Ontario, Emerson, Manitoba, and near Vancouver,

00:02:29.000 BC. To see and support all of our coverage of the Public Order Emergency Commission,

00:02:33.720 please visit truckercommission.com. Now the federal government has repeated the lie that using a law

00:02:42.120 which suspends civil liberties and gives police and financial institutions extraordinary powers was

00:02:48.680 somehow necessary to get tow trucks to move vehicles off the border and out of residential areas.

00:02:54.440 It's crazy, but here's CBC reporting the federal government's claims unskeptically just a few

00:03:00.520 short weeks ago. A deal with police to secure tow trucks to clear last winter's convoy protest

00:03:07.240 fell through and the Emergencies Act was needed to commandeer those services,

00:03:13.160 a lawyer acting for the federal government told the Public Order Commission inquiry Wednesday.

00:03:19.560 So prior to the 13th, I would have said we could have used some help with that,

00:03:24.120 but as things materialized on the 13th, I was satisfied that we were good.

00:03:31.320 And you were satisfied that we were good, you're satisfied that the federal emergency

00:03:37.640 power to compel tow trucks wasn't necessary? Correct. Thank you.

00:03:42.040 Now the province of Alberta completely disputes the federal government's claim that a counter-terrorism law

00:03:48.600 was necessary to commandeer tow trucks in this province. In fact, the Alberta government is

00:03:53.640 currently participating in the Public Order Emergency Commission with full standing. The

00:03:59.720 province is arguing that the Emergencies Act was not necessary, which should tell you just how

00:04:05.960 unreasonable the invocation of the Emergencies Act was, given that Alberta for a time had some of the

00:04:11.960 most authoritarian crackdowns on civil liberties during COVID, including on places of worship. The

00:04:17.720 crackdowns were so bad, they led to the ouster of Premier Jason Kenney, who was eventually replaced

00:04:24.280 by a more freedom-oriented Premier Daniel Smith. The Alberta government has said that it received

00:04:31.400 no help from the federal government in dealing with the border blockade at Coutts. The Alberta government

00:04:38.440 could not get tow trucks to come. It's on page 9 of these commission documents. You can see that on

00:04:44.600 February 1st, approximately 50 companies throughout Alberta with heavy haul towing capability and cranes

00:04:51.720 had been contacted. All of them refused to assist. Companies in British Columbia and Saskatchewan either

00:04:58.520 wouldn't or could not get involved either. On page 10, we can even see that the Alberta government reached out

00:05:05.560 to companies in Montana who, likewise, said they were not coming to help. And back on page 9 of

00:05:13.080 these documents, the Alberta government ultimately reached out to Public Safety Canada and the Canadian

00:05:18.440 Armed Forces in Ottawa, because the province wanted to be able to use heavy equipment from CFB Edmonton.

00:05:25.080 But on page 12 of these documents, when Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs Rick McIver, a guy I

00:05:31.800 like pretty much reached out to Bill Blair, the Minister of Public Safety, McIver couldn't get a

00:05:38.200 response. But documents presented to the Public Order Commission by the province of Alberta indicate

00:05:43.400 that even if no private tow companies ever agreed to tow away convoy-related vehicles, there was always

00:05:52.440 another way forward. You see, on February 8th and 9th, the province of Alberta quickly began looking for

00:05:58.760 their own towing equipment, knowing the feds were not going to come through. They even began identifying

00:06:04.920 Alberta sheriffs who possessed a Class 1 driver's license to drive them. By February 11th, the province

00:06:12.040 of Alberta had found the vehicles that they needed on Kijiji and Truck Trader. Honest to goodness, I

00:06:17.160 appreciate their frugality of buying some used bargains. By the 12th, they had purchased the equipment. By the 14th,

00:06:24.120 they had purchased even more and they had borrowed a heavy wrecker crew from the city of Edmonton to

00:06:30.600 help out. $826,000 in all on 12 pieces of towing and heavy equipment. And I've got to tell you,

00:06:38.280 I think they got a pretty good deal on that Komatsu. Now, according to the documents on page 13,

00:06:44.360 the RCMP didn't even need all the equipment because the border blockade had by then disbanded.

00:06:51.960 Ultimately, they ended up hauling one farm tractor, a semi-trailer, and a gravel truck. Now,

00:06:58.040 on February 21st, text messages exchanged between McIver and Blair show Blair trying to take credit for

00:07:04.520 the resolution of the blockade at Coutts, claiming the Emergencies Act had helped Alberta get those tow

00:07:11.160 trucks, you know, tow trucks they bought themselves, prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

00:07:16.840 McIver wrote,

00:07:18.360 What is true is that Coutts was resolved on the 14th and we got our own tow trucks. Further,

00:07:24.680 McIver wrote to Blair, you were too late and did the wrong thing. My point is saying nothing now

00:07:30.600 would have been better than not telling the truth. And then Blair never responded naturally. I mean,

00:07:38.920 how could Blair respond? He had already been told to stop lying and gun owners in Canada know if Bill

00:07:45.960 Blair's talking, then Bill Blair's probably not telling the truth. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:07:52.440 Well, folks, yet more amazing testimony coming out of the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.

00:07:58.200 And isn't it great to hear that tow truck companies and energy companies right across

00:08:03.960 Western Canada and even the great state of Montana essentially flipped the bird to the government of

00:08:09.960 Alberta when it went looking for independent contractors to clear the border blockade in

00:08:16.120 Coots, Alberta. But those hellbent on shutting down a peaceful freedom protest are very, very diligent

00:08:23.880 given that the province was able to find and purchase 12 pieces of used heavy haul equipment

00:08:31.320 in the days prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act. But why?

00:08:36.760 Why? And joining me now to unravel this mystery on these latest revelations is our chief reporter

00:08:44.200 for Rebel News. And that would be none other than Sheila Gunn-Reed. Hey there, Sheila. How are you doing?

00:08:49.720 I'm doing great, Donald.

00:08:52.280 Well, I mean,

00:08:54.600 We're just going to get everybody's name wrong. I'll return the favor.

00:08:59.960 Sheila, I'm so sorry, but there's so much to unpack here.

00:09:03.080 And I was looking over the manifest of the equipment. And this might be a minor thing,

00:09:09.400 but it was the manifest of the equipment that the government bought.

00:09:12.600 And one piece of equipment really stood out for me, namely a 1996 GMC 3500 pickup truck.

00:09:22.280 I'm Sheila. I'm no tow truck expert, but can this vehicle actually haul away an 18 wheeler?

00:09:29.480 No, I showed the list of my husband. He's like, that'd make a great like farm truck.

00:09:36.280 Good used like light duty tow truck, but I don't think it's going to haul away an eight wheeled tractor.

00:09:42.680 But I think they were trying to like, there were thousands of people at one point in between

00:09:48.440 Coots and Milk River, and some of them were illegally parked. We saw a bunch of people get tickets in this

00:09:53.960 like march through town where they just issued tickets for illegal parking as though Milk River is

00:09:59.400 just plugged up with people parking wrong. Like, you know, like, I don't think they've ever had a

00:10:04.920 traffic jam there normally. Do something better with your time. But, you know, they, they did,

00:10:10.840 I've got to give the government credit, and I did give them credit in my video.

00:10:15.000 They did get 12 pieces of towing and heavy haul equipment. I think they got, according to my

00:10:21.640 husband and my notes on the auto trader, they did get some good deals. I was impressed that they ran

00:10:28.920 out and got, they went looking for used equipment. That's a very Alberta thing to do. So they were

00:10:35.000 frugal with their money. But the reason this is all so interesting, well there's a bunch of different

00:10:39.720 reasons. Is that knowing what I know about tow truck drivers, and I do, I know a couple, one

00:10:45.960 pretty well. They wouldn't come to this to help out. They wouldn't want to get involved for a bunch

00:10:51.720 of different reasons. But normally blue collar people don't, you know, go after other blue collar

00:10:55.800 people on issues that they ultimately agree with. But they couldn't get anybody in Alberta, in BC,

00:11:03.720 in Saskatchewan, and then out of Montana. They couldn't get anybody to come, not just from towing,

00:11:08.920 but also from the energy services industry. Because you have to remember, in Western Canada,

00:11:13.720 we're moving drilling rigs around all over the place. So we've got big trucks and picker trucks

00:11:18.360 and cranes and bed trucks. So moving those pieces of equipment, there's a lot of that sort of equipment

00:11:24.360 out there in Alberta that just, they weren't for hire to the government. So that was great. But the whole

00:11:32.200 point of this is that it pokes a hole in the federal government's narrative that they absolutely

00:11:39.480 needed the Emergencies Act to compel tow operators to come. Now, they could have compelled tow operators

00:11:47.720 to come through other parts of the law. But good on Jason Kenney, and I don't say that often, he didn't

00:11:53.560 go about that route. He just decided to buy his own tow equipment. But Justin Trudeau has said all along,

00:12:01.240 we needed the EA to get the tow truck drivers to come. The Alberta government had already purchased

00:12:07.720 their own towing equipment before the EA was invoked. And part of that had to do with the fact

00:12:13.960 that Bill Blair, the minister in charge of, I think, emergency preparedness, wouldn't return any phone calls

00:12:20.200 and text messages to Rick McIver, our municipal affairs minister. So the Alberta government just said,

00:12:26.520 OK, well, the feds aren't going to do anything. They're not going to help us. They're not going to connect us

00:12:30.360 with the equipment at CFB Edmonton, which is one of the other options, the military base just north of Edmonton.

00:12:36.520 They thought, OK, well, they've got heavy equipment. Maybe we can get them to come down if we can get federal

00:12:40.720 permission. None of those things were happening from the federal government. The federal government

00:12:45.040 quit communicating with Alberta. So Alberta solved its own problem. And as I said, it just

00:12:51.280 completely dismantles Justin Trudeau's argument that he needed the EA to break up the blockade.

00:12:55.840 The blockade was already broken up. And if it needed breaking up, the Alberta government could

00:12:59.520 have done it anyway. You know, Sheila, I want to go back and focus on what something you said earlier,

00:13:04.800 which was the fact that the government was reaching out to the tow truck driving industry,

00:13:10.000 to the energy development industry. And like, what were they thinking in terms of these would be

00:13:16.400 willing, woke allies to go in there and shut down their feather, their fellow blue collar individuals?

00:13:23.840 It reminds me, you know, several days ago, we had a little piece on about how David Cassidy,

00:13:30.800 no, not the fictional David Cassidy, the lead singer of the Partridge family,

00:13:34.560 but David Cassidy, the head of Unifor Local 444 in Windsor, said to a police officer, allegedly,

00:13:42.320 that he was going to round up 1,000 auto workers, go down to the Ambassador Bridge, break some heads,

00:13:50.160 and then, quote, throw them, meaning the freedom protesters, into the Detroit River,

00:13:57.280 which I can tell you, Sheila, in February is certainly not a Caribbean beachfront water kind

00:14:04.000 of situation. But the thing is, those 1,000 auto workers never materialized. Do you think maybe

00:14:10.160 because many of them were with auto companies such as Chrysler that were suspended without pay

00:14:16.400 for not taking the vaccine? So I guess, you know, I'm just trying to get an idea, Sheila,

00:14:22.000 why were these people who, on one hand, wanted to tow away trucks, on the other hand, wanted to

00:14:28.720 beat up demonstrators, why were they so misguided in thinking they had willing allies?

00:14:36.800 It's the same problem you have with everything, with government, with union brass, you know,

00:14:42.960 like the guys at the top are never the same as the guys at the bottom. You often have like

00:14:49.440 the union leadership of unions that will work in pipelining, advocating for climate change policies,

00:14:58.800 right? Or encouraging people to vote for the NDP who are actively against energy resource development.

00:15:07.840 So there's a big disconnect between the leadership of a union and the actual union membership. And you

00:15:14.400 have to remember in Canada, you're forced to join a union. If you are in a union shop, you don't have,

00:15:21.520 you know, the the right to work as they do in some American states. So it's it's never really the

00:15:29.360 politics of the union are so often not the politics of the people on the ground. And it's the same thing

00:15:34.080 with government here in Alberta. Jason Kenney might have been conservative, but boy, he sure could not

00:15:39.760 compel a lot of conservative business owners, tow truck drivers and energy resource companies to do

00:15:45.920 his bidding because they agreed with what was happening at the border. And you see that in the

00:15:50.960 polling that Leger poll that Ezra reported on where, you know, people were advocating for Daniel Smith to

00:16:01.840 uh, offer COVID amnesties to people who were charged with being COVID scofflaws, um, within

00:16:11.600 conservatives, blocking the border, the convoy itself was very popular. It's just, you know,

00:16:18.720 the, the government who had to deal with it, that didn't really seem to like it.

00:16:21.600 You know, and Sheila, I gotta say though, uh, at least we should be thankful that the government

00:16:27.840 never, I don't know, got a goon squad to go down there and just destroy the trucks there.

00:16:33.680 And I'm saying that because I know it's a separate story, but it's something that sticks in my craw.

00:16:38.000 Our beloved colleague, Sid Fazard did a great piece about how RCMP officers actually went to heavy

00:16:45.600 construction equipment and vandalized it to such an extent. I'm sure the repairs might be in the

00:16:52.320 tens or even the hundreds of thousands of dollars. To me, that's shocking. I thought law enforcement,

00:16:57.840 was all about preventing people from vandalizing stuff, uh, not taking part in the vandalizing.

00:17:04.400 Um, do we have any update on that, Sheila? Uh, not really. I know Sid, uh, Sid is working on it. It's

00:17:12.080 one of the stories that I get asked about out in the world the most that and did David get his whiskey?

00:17:19.760 Um, but people always ask me about, they always ask me about the excavators because those excavators

00:17:27.440 were convicted of pre crimes. They were just excavators in a field near Coots, Alberta.

00:17:33.760 And the RCMP approached the owner of the excavators and said, would you mind moving them away

00:17:40.880 from the road? And of course the owner complied. But the reason the RCMP wanted them moved away from

00:17:46.960 the road is so that they would not be seen when they were cutting the fuel lines and then spray foaming

00:17:52.400 them closed, rendering the equipment inoperable. Now, there's no evidence that those excavators were

00:17:59.200 ever going to the blockade. Uh, but the RCMP were just allowed to vandalize them anyway. And like you

00:18:05.600 say, do tens of thousands of dollars damage to, uh, I get, I don't want to say innocent excavators,

00:18:13.520 but I don't know how else to describe them. They were convicted of free crimes. And like I said,

00:18:18.560 that's one of the stories that people constantly ask me about because it's so appalling. And it was

00:18:24.480 so premeditated by the police and the police exploited the goodwill of the owner of the excavators,

00:18:32.240 knowing that he would comply with the police request to move them away from the road.

00:18:35.920 And that makes it even worse. The fact that he wasn't putting up any resistance, but, uh,

00:18:40.640 he was rewarded for his cooperation, uh, by all that vandalism. I wonder if Brenda, 0.97

00:18:46.000 Brenda lucky had her clammy hands on that little caper. Uh, you could ask her, but she won't 1.00

00:18:51.680 remember if you've been watching your testimony or she'll say yes and no. Um, but I guess, you know,

00:18:58.320 Sheila, we got to wrap it up here, but, um, what is, uh, I don't know if anyone cares about this or not,

00:19:04.160 but what is the fate of all that government owned, uh, towing equipment? Are they,

00:19:10.320 I don't know, are they going on tradeo and swap and shop to try to sell it off? Or is it just part of

00:19:15.680 the provincial inventory in case a, uh, a coots blockade happens in the, in the near future?

00:19:23.120 You know what? My husband is watching the, uh, provincial government auction sites for some of

00:19:27.680 those things to go up. Cause he's like, they got a really good deal. So if they even sell it for what

00:19:33.120 they purchased it for, um, someone's going to be very, very happy. I do know that for a time it was

00:19:37.680 staged near Lethbridge just in case another blockade broke out or re manifested itself.

00:19:44.240 I don't really know what happened to it now, but you know, the government bought 12 pieces

00:19:47.760 of equipment for under a million dollars. I'm not mad. I'm not mad. And at the end of the day,

00:19:54.000 no tow truck operators were compelled, um, to do something against their will. They were not,

00:20:00.400 uh, expropriated by the government, which for me is the best outcome.

00:20:04.640 That's true. Well, there you have it. We'll leave it at that. Sheila, for all you Albertans 0.73

00:20:08.480 out there, keep looking at the auto trader listings. You might find that 26 year old GMC.

00:20:15.200 My husband wants the Komatsu loader.

00:20:19.840 Christmas might come early in Alberta if you're into, uh, things that can tow stuff. Sheila,

00:20:25.200 thank you so much. Great commentary as always, my friend.

00:20:28.720 You got it, David. Have a great weekend.

00:20:30.160 You too. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter somewhere in the northern

00:20:35.760 hinterland of Alberta. Hey folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:20:43.600 Tamara Ugolini here with Rebel News to remind you of a time when the government

00:20:47.840 and health hysterics repeatedly told the public to trust the experts and follow the science.

00:20:55.840 We don't act now, it's going to get worse. And if we don't act now, we're going to be in much

00:21:01.040 worse shape in a week down the road or two weeks down the road.

00:21:04.640 And now that we are a thousand days into rolling COVID-19 related restrictions,

00:21:10.640 after being sold on that slogan of two weeks to flatten the curve nearly three years ago.

00:21:16.400 You've heard public health officials and myself say many times that we need to flatten the curve

00:21:22.240 or plank it into what health officials would have you believe is the deadliest

00:21:28.400 pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. It's a pandemic though that has a very controversial

00:21:36.480 death rate and our health overlords continually fail to follow the science. Instead they're relying

00:21:43.840 heavily on behavior modification and peer pressure to try to solicit compliance with masks and vaccines.

00:21:50.640 For instance, at his press conference yesterday, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health,

00:21:57.040 that's Dr. Kieran Moore, is highly recommending everyone wear a mask indoors including toddlers.

00:22:03.440 Have a listen.

00:22:04.240 The best way to prevent the flu is by getting the flu shot every year. You can also get your COVID

00:22:10.080 booster safely at the same time for those over five. With the peak of flu season expected in early to

00:22:18.160 mid-December, the time to get your shot is now. Please, please do not delay. It is not too late to get protected.

00:22:27.280 In response to the worsening trends and existing challenges for our health care system, I'm strongly

00:22:32.560 recommending that all Ontarians, not just those at high risk, wear a mask in indoor public settings,

00:22:39.280 especially around our most vulnerable Ontarians, the very young and the very old. I'm also recommending

00:22:46.720 that if possible, children between two and five wear a mask with supervision if they can tolerate the mask

00:22:53.760 and safely put it on and off. Applying all these layers of protection will help to protect ourselves,

00:23:00.800 our families, and most importantly, our children under five. This means the mask mandates aren't

00:23:06.240 coming back to Ontario, at least not yet. Yet a mask mandate is not out of the realm of possibility,

00:23:13.440 so we have launched a petition at nomormasks.ca which calls on health authorities to never again

00:23:21.840 implement unscientific indiscriminate mask mandates. The science does not justify this arbitrary measure,

00:23:29.120 and Moore himself admitted that mandates have not worked in the past. Again, have a listen.

00:23:34.400 But I need, we need us to mask around those most vulnerable in social settings,

00:23:39.200 which mandates haven't worked for in the past. At family gatherings, at family social situations,

00:23:45.920 we have to mask to protect those that are the youngest among us, those that are four and under.

00:23:50.720 Because after two years of bubble wrapping children from normal societal interactions that

00:23:55.280 would traditionally build up their immune system, we have masked and sanitized them almost to death,

00:24:02.160 and now the health overlords are crying wolf. Not one mention though of the shortage of antibiotics

00:24:09.760 for children as described by this pharmacist. You would like to add to the point that you said

00:24:15.680 that there's a shortage of Tylenol as well as Advil. There's a shortage of two things that are

00:24:22.480 extremely difficult for us to manipulate or make. And these are the two most commonly dispensed

00:24:27.280 antibiotics for kids, amoxicillin and azithromycin. And not enough is being said about those. If we cannot

00:24:35.200 treat children in a community setting, this is going to spell a larger disaster for hospitals as hard as that

00:24:44.240 is to even imagine. So this needs to be addressed as well. I'm really not sure at what point do we refer

00:24:51.680 to this as an emergency? At what point do we have our politicians actually address this in a more urgent fashion?

00:24:59.680 Well, as the late great New York Yankee Yogi Berra once quipped, it's deja vu all over again.

00:25:06.320 Yeah, folks, just eight months after the mask mandate was lifted in Ontario,

00:25:11.920 the province's chief medical health officer, Kieran Moore, is now strongly recommending everybody mask

00:25:18.400 up yet again. But why? Where is the evidence that wearing non-medical masks actually worked during

00:25:26.960 the initial stages of the pandemic? And for that matter, where is the evidence that getting jabbed with

00:25:32.560 an experimental vaccine works, given that so many people who have been double jabbed and have taken

00:25:39.280 their booster shots continue to contract COVID-19? How frustrating that our medical health necromancers

00:25:47.520 seem to have learned hardly anything during these past three years. Unbelievable. And joining me now with

00:25:54.720 more on this story is Tamara Ugolini. Hey, how you doing there, Tamara? Hey, David. Well, I'm maskless,

00:26:02.240 so good as ever. And how about you? And better yet, you're still alive, as am I. But Tamara, you know,

00:26:08.880 I guess the good news here is that at least Dr. Moore didn't utter that old COVID chestnut, you know,

00:26:17.120 two weeks to flatten the curve. I mean, that line ranks right up there with the check is in the mail and

00:26:22.880 hi, I'm from the government. I'm here to help you as one of the greatest lies ever uttered. But Tamara,

00:26:28.720 seriously, why are we going down the masking route yet again in the first place?

00:26:34.960 I can't help but think that the media party has a huge role to play in the push for masking.

00:26:40.400 You've seen all throughout, even when the mandates were lifted, that the media continued to

00:26:46.080 don the mask and live in hysterical fear. And any little bit that they get that they can sort of

00:26:51.760 push that fear into the general public and force them basically to comply through this

00:26:58.240 heightened emotional state rather than using logic and reason and rationale. That seems to be where

00:27:04.240 the push continually comes from. And then, of course, there's this loud segment of I don't even believe

00:27:11.200 that they're actual practicing doctors, you know, the PhDs and the philosophers of the crowd who really

00:27:17.440 push for this masking to come back and they almost portray it to be the saving grace to our failing

00:27:26.080 medical system. You know, there wasn't over the last two years, the government had ample opportunity

00:27:30.640 in time to increase capacity, garner more staff to compensate for the staff shortages or, I mean,

00:27:37.920 God forbid, hire back the terminated, healthy, but unvaccinated workers. And yet it seems to be the 1.00

00:27:44.720 continual fallback plan is, you know, mask up and get vaccinated every three months. It's just outrageous

00:27:52.000 that that these are the fallback points rather than actually correcting this, sad to say, but systemic

00:27:59.440 failure of the health care system that's decades in the making. You know, and when it comes to the mass,

00:28:04.880 Tamara, I believe it was March 21st is when the mandate was lifted in the province of Ontario. And yet I've seen for

00:28:13.520 months, although the numbers are going down, people still wearing the mask, typically young, healthy

00:28:21.200 adults wearing the mask. And I've always said that I think there's something more here going on than

00:28:27.520 being, you know, than people protecting themselves from an airborne virus. I think the mask has become

00:28:32.480 a political statement. You know, much like when you see a Muslim lady wearing a hijab, a Christian person

00:28:39.520 wearing a cross, a Sikh wearing a turban. Well, it's an indication to others, I'm on Team Islam, 0.78

00:28:46.480 I'm on Team Christianity, I'm on Team Sikhism. That's what I think the mask is, because these 1.00

00:28:52.960 were the people that are saying, well, we're listening to all the medical health officers. Well, once the

00:28:57.920 medical health officer says, that's it, take your mask off, why are you still wearing it? What happened to

00:29:04.000 follow the science? Right, it seems to be very virtuous, these people who are engaged still in

00:29:10.960 this indiscriminate masking. And that's, again, where the media fear comes back into the picture,

00:29:16.480 right? Initially, with the mask mandate in late 2020, or mid 2020, I should say, that was sold to

00:29:22.640 the public on the basis of, you're going to save the grandmas and the grandpas, you know, those frail,

00:29:27.440 vulnerable seniors in long term care, if you wear your mask, no one will ever die ever again. And

00:29:33.680 now we're seeing that narrative switch from the vulnerable and at risk seniors to you protecting

00:29:40.160 the very young and infant, those in infancy, if you wear your mask. And if you don't, then you're

00:29:46.960 a selfish, I suppose, child killer, because you don't want to don a mask that is shown to be

00:29:54.640 ineffective, and potentially has great repercussions for the development of the very children,

00:30:01.360 they're saying that they're aiming to protect. And there's also a large segment of the medical

00:30:07.200 population, who would argue that masking, sanitizing, distancing, isolation, the forced confinement into

00:30:17.600 your own little bubble, and you're staying home to save lives that all of this rigmarole over the last

00:30:24.000 two years is what caused actually, the influx of viral infections in children, and specifically,

00:30:30.720 led them down a path of immune sterility so that they weren't building robust antibodies by being

00:30:36.640 exposed to society as a whole over the last two years. So there's a lot here that, you know,

00:30:42.720 right in the onset, you mentioned experimental, and it's more than just injections, there's there was a

00:30:47.600 massive societal experiment that that happened here, from young to old. But now I think we're starting to

00:30:53.520 see that boomerang effect of what they did over the last two years, and how it's going to have a

00:30:58.160 devastating effect long term, on the health of children, not only emotionally and mentally and

00:31:03.280 psychologically, but also obviously, physically and immunologically.

00:31:07.520 Yeah, and you know, Tamara, I mean, there is no doubt that the children's hospitals right now,

00:31:12.160 they are over capacity, you've got COVID, you've got the seasonal flu, you've got a respiratory virus out

00:31:18.800 there, it's kind of like a perfect storm. And as well, you've got this big shortage of children's

00:31:24.320 Advil and children's Tylenol. But I guess the point I'm really leaning up to is that we've been dealing

00:31:31.600 with this thing for almost three years now. And what, what about this as a solution? Maybe, oh, I don't

00:31:39.040 know, in the space of three years, I think it could have put up a couple of children's hospitals,

00:31:44.560 new ones, with the money, rather than going down this masking and vaccination route. Why did they

00:31:53.280 consider that? You know, that seems, I don't know, so logical to me, I'm not in the healthcare business.

00:31:59.440 But if you were anticipating that there's going to be more children getting sick, shouldn't we have

00:32:06.640 diverted resources to building a few more children's hospitals?

00:32:09.760 It really reminds me of the 10 hospitals that went up across Ontario, right, they spent millions of

00:32:16.160 dollars, and, and gathered support from I believe it was a lot of military that ended up staffing these

00:32:23.600 10 hospitals that saw no patients throughout, you know, the peak pandemic pandemonium. And that leads

00:32:32.480 to my, you know, my initial statements where I said, why didn't we focus on building capacity,

00:32:36.720 hiring more staffing? I mean, look at, as I referenced in my report that you can find at

00:32:41.040 nomormasks.ca, why have we funneled all of these resources and money, millions of dollars into building

00:32:48.560 a new Moderna mRNA factory manufacturing facility? And yet we couldn't have built maybe a couple of

00:32:56.480 manufacturing facilities for things like fever reducers and children's Tylenol. But the other big

00:33:02.160 concern here, which I mentioned also in that report is not just the shortage of Tylenol in children's

00:33:07.440 pain and fever medicines, but also the shortage of children's antibiotics. So erythromycin and amoxicillin,

00:33:17.120 that is massive in the health and wellness of the society. You know, I'm not an advocate for

00:33:23.600 use of pharmaceuticals, whether it be from Tylenol to antibiotics. However, I'm very thankful that those

00:33:30.000 options are available when you need them. And now we're starting to see that they are not available

00:33:35.760 even in times of need. And our government is still too busy trying to secure Moderna manufacturing

00:33:43.680 facilities and pushing indiscriminate vaccination when there's a real shortage and crisis happening

00:33:49.280 in our healthcare system. And it has nothing to do with vaccination. Yeah, I know. And you see Canadians, 1.00

00:33:54.880 at least near the border, going over to the border of the U.S. and cleaning out pharmacies there,

00:34:00.560 hoarding those type of products that bring back to Canada. It gives us a feeling that we're almost

00:34:07.840 like a third world nation that can't take care of its own population. But you know, the other angle

00:34:12.960 I want to talk to you about, Tamara, is it was on Monday that Dr. Moore brought down that recommendation.

00:34:20.480 And of course, Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, said, oh, absolutely, mask up. And then it was

00:34:26.880 noted on Tuesday, when the legislature resumed hearing, sitting rather, most of the MPPs, including

00:34:35.440 Premier Ford, were maskless. And again, the Yogi Berra, Deja Vu, all over again comment, oh no,

00:34:42.960 not do as I say, and not as I do, or one law for thee and one law for me again, Tamara.

00:34:50.160 You know, I think that Moore fell short of implementing a mandate. He didn't say that it

00:34:55.120 was off the table. But for right now, it was a recommendation and not a mandate. And you can

00:35:00.160 say what you'd like about Ford. He's definitely not my slice of pie, a cherry pie or my cup of tea.

00:35:05.440 But I wonder if he's finally growing a bit of a backbone and a spine. And he may finally be

00:35:13.360 following the science, because the science shows that if you're a healthy individual,

00:35:18.000 that there is absolutely zero need for you to wear a mask. And arguably, even if you were sick

00:35:22.960 and symptomatic, it does very little to stop an invisible virus from becoming airborne. So say what

00:35:31.280 you want about Doug Ford. But I think that that was proof in the pudding there that maybe,

00:35:36.160 finally, we may be seeing this government follow the actual science.

00:35:40.480 Unbelievable. Maybe proof in the proverbial cherry cheesecake when it comes to the Premier.

00:35:47.200 But one last thing, Tamara, hypothetical question. You're right. It's a recommendation right now,

00:35:52.880 not, thank God, a mandate. I'm wondering if things get worse on the flu front,

00:35:59.440 and this does become a mandate. What do you think the, I don't know, the appetite is of Ontarians in

00:36:09.680 terms of cooperating, masking up, you know, yet again, the whole social distancing thing,

00:36:16.480 retailers putting up those plastic shields. Because I can tell you, everybody in my circle

00:36:22.320 is saying exactly the same thing. If they bring this back as mandatory, I'm walking into that mall,

00:36:28.880 and I don't care if I run into a mall cop or a real cop, I'm not putting that damn face diaper on 0.99

00:36:34.880 again. Do you sense the majority of people feel that way? Or like so many sheep, are we going to 0.99

00:36:41.200 all comply just like the last two years? 100%. I hear and see that there are so many people who are just

00:36:50.160 so fed up and they've learned so much. They have more information now after nearly three years of these

00:36:56.160 rolling restrictions. And they did at the onset of 2020. They see more a little bit through the

00:37:01.360 propaganda and through that incessant fear porn put out by the mainstream media and some of these

00:37:06.800 government unappointed bureaucrats like our health overlords, Dr. Kieran Moore being one of them.

00:37:13.520 However, I am old enough to remember before vaccine mandates were a thing, and people were saying,

00:37:20.160 oh, I would never, I won't take that vaccine. Oh, if my employer institutes a mandate, I will stand

00:37:26.800 firm against it. And we saw all of those people, at least in some of my social circle and in the larger

00:37:33.680 context of my reporting, many people complied out of threats of job loss and various other coercive

00:37:40.320 techniques that were implemented on the general public. So I do hear that more and more are fed up.

00:37:46.160 I think there's an abundance of information available to the general public now and more

00:37:50.560 are sort of seeking that out on their own. And also, we have lots of access to information requests

00:37:56.080 that have come back in showing that the government wasn't following any sort of science. It was just

00:38:00.720 these knee-jerk, anecdotal reactions. But I wonder if, depending on the level of coercive techniques

00:38:08.560 that is instituted, I always am doubtful that people will stand up and hold firm to their convictions.

00:38:14.400 Personally, for me, I never wore a mask all throughout the pandemic. I'm alive, I'm here,

00:38:20.160 I'm well, and I will not comply again. And thankfully, throughout the last two years,

00:38:27.840 I was able to discover where I was respected and where I wasn't respected. So where that exemption

00:38:34.320 would be honored and where it wouldn't. And I'm happy to resort back to that way of living.

00:38:40.160 And for anyone who may, you know, feel that pressure again, there are businesses and there

00:38:45.600 are a lot of venues that will respect and uphold your personal medical autonomy.

00:38:49.760 And we need to really rally support around those people. And, you know, money talks,

00:38:55.680 just don't support the rest if you're able to.

00:38:57.920 You know, you're so right, Tamara. I mean, I think the most despicable thing about the pandemic

00:39:03.440 was the fact of, you know, the amount of coercion, whether it was masking, whether it was getting

00:39:09.360 jabbed, or else you lose your job. A lot of people say, well, it's not a mandatory masking,

00:39:14.560 it's not a mandatory jabbing. Well, it kind of is if they're going to give you an economic death

00:39:18.640 sentence, which many people received. And it's despicable. I don't think history will judge those

00:39:25.280 and charge kindly. And as for the rest of the people, I always get a good hoot, Tamara,

00:39:29.760 even if you're on board with masking, the number of people I see with the mask below the nose,

00:39:34.080 because that's a no-no when it comes to masking etiquette. And I'll never forget,

00:39:38.640 if I wasn't late for an assignment, I would have pulled over and got a picture. But

00:39:42.000 I was at Young and Finch and at the bus stop, there was somebody waiting for the bus.

00:39:45.520 And he had a mask on, but he had cut a slit in it so he could smoke his cigarette. And I thought,

00:39:55.760 am I on the bizarro Superman world? Here he is ingesting something that if uses directed is going

00:40:02.720 to shorten your life or even kill you. But he's still wearing that bloody face diaper. Insanity.

00:40:08.720 Last word goes to you, Tamara. 1.00

00:40:10.240 Tamara. That's just case in point that it's all about health and not virtue, right? That's a

00:40:15.120 healthy dose of sarcasm there. There was a gentleman and we could probably dig up this

00:40:20.400 report from the summer of 2020 that I did downtown Coburg at a local protest. And he was walking by

00:40:26.720 wearing a cloth mask and he was legitimately smoking right through it. He could both inhale the cigarette

00:40:32.960 through the mask and exhale. So right then and there, you can see for yourself that this is obviously

00:40:38.560 just an ineffective piece of facial decoration. And it's really sad that that's still the fallback

00:40:45.280 at this point, you know, almost three years later.

00:40:48.080 Wow. Well, one thing's for sure, that man in Coburg, it wasn't Bill Clinton, because as we all know,

00:40:52.640 he never inhaled. Tamara, thank you so much for your insight into the ongoing madness

00:40:59.120 on the COVID front. Much appreciated. You have a good weekend, my friend.

00:41:02.560 Thanks. You as well. And to all the rebels. There you go. And that was Tamara Ugolini in Coburg,

00:41:09.200 Ontario. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:41:15.920 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto. And folks, I'm standing outside of Unifor's

00:41:21.040 national headquarters. And you see, there was an individual in the news. It was Black Locks

00:41:27.520 that broke this story. Namely, David Cassidy was advocating for violence. Now, wait a minute.

00:41:37.280 The David Cassidy I know, he's all about peace and love and harmony and having a groovy good time.

00:41:44.240 Check it out.

00:41:54.720 Oh, turns out it wasn't that David Cassidy. No, I'm talking about the David Cassidy,

00:42:00.240 who is the head honcho at Local 444 in Windsor. And this is what David Cassidy allegedly said.

00:42:11.440 He wanted to assemble 1,000 Unifor rank-and-file members in Windsor, descend upon the Freedom Convoy

00:42:21.520 participants, act out violently upon them, and then, quote, throw them in the Detroit River, end quote.

00:42:30.880 How can this be? I thought, you know, Unifor being the leftist organization that it is,

00:42:36.560 it's all about peace and love and tolerance and understanding. Well, I did reach out to David

00:42:42.400 Cassidy and I had two questions for him. One, did you actually say that? And two,

00:42:50.480 why would he want Unifor members to become vigilantes in order to shut down a peaceful protest and shut it

00:43:01.280 down violently? I don't think the Detroit River in the month of February is a very welcoming place.

00:43:08.720 Well, Mr. Cassidy has yet to respond. So it is that I reached out to the media relations team here at

00:43:17.120 Unifor. They've got quite an extensive team. And I sent an email to Kathleen O'Keefe. She's one of the

00:43:23.920 spokeswoman here. And my questions were this. One, assuming Cassidy's statement is true, does Unifor

00:43:31.920 support or condemn Mr. Cassidy's words? And secondly, why would Mr. Cassidy deem it appropriate

00:43:40.800 to enlist Unifor members as vigilantes to violently shut down a peaceful protest? Well, folks, that was a

00:43:48.800 couple of days ago. It's radio silence. So we decided to make a house call. Let's see if Ms. O'Keefe or

00:43:57.520 anyone else in the media relations team has anything to say to us. Kathleen with a K? Yes, Kathleen with a K.

00:44:07.600 Our last name is O'Keefe. Thank you. My name is David Menzies. Okay.

00:44:37.600 I have an older than to wait. Ah, sorry. Well, there you have it, folks. Uh, this Unifor headquarters,

00:45:06.880 it resembles the hotel overlook in The Shining. It is virtually devoid of human beings. The helpful

00:45:16.240 fellow at the desk tried to get us in touch with anyone, but it was just a voicemail city. And you

00:45:22.880 know, it's incredible. Like I said, they have an entire communications team. And keep in mind that

00:45:29.040 Unifor represents most of the mainstream media journalists in Canada. You'd think they would

00:45:36.720 have a little, I don't know, professional courtesy to get back to an independent journalist. But no,

00:45:43.200 this is a horrible looking story. And instead of addressing it, they go into the fetal position

00:45:51.520 and hope that it goes away. Um, all I can assume is that these statements by Cassidy are indeed

00:46:00.400 accurate. And they are horrific. He was advocating violence. He was talking about a lynch mob dumping

00:46:10.080 peaceful protesters into the Detroit River in February. It is incredible, isn't it, folks? It is

00:46:16.400 Tamara Leach that gets 49 days in jail. Whereas this union rep, David Cassidy of Unifor Local 444

00:46:26.080 spouts this hateful and threat-laced diatribe and nothing seems to happen. Unbelievable.

00:46:33.840 Nice. Oh, and if you're wondering why you haven't seen coverage of this egregious story in the mainstream

00:46:40.320 media, maybe it's because Unifor is the union that represents mainstream media outlets. Unbelievable.

00:46:51.360 DJSCO writes, please keep doing your good work for the people. We don't have enough real reporters

00:46:57.440 anymore with all this current-day propaganda. Well, thank you, DJS. You know, we are a non-union

00:47:04.880 chop here at Rebel News, of course. But if we were to go the union route, I can tell you this much,

00:47:10.720 the scandalous Unifor would be our last choice.

00:47:15.840 Sulkinar writes, I wonder how Cassidy would feel if a thousand Freedom Convoy supporters showed up

00:47:22.800 looking to confront him about his alleged statement. Ah, but that's the thing, Sulkinar.

00:47:28.800 The Freedom Convoy supporters, they're not into coercion or violence. Those are the tactics of the left.

00:47:37.040 Newham writes, incitement to violence is illegal. Is he under arrest? Nope. But Tamara Leach was

00:47:45.600 incarcerated for, well, what exactly? Supervising bouncy castles? She got 49 days for that? Disgraceful.

00:47:55.520 Jason Croset writes, good work, David. I've always known Unifor were a bunch of thugs. Well, 0.96

00:48:03.040 the funny thing is, Jason, those 1,000 autoworkers never did materialize. Do you think most of them

00:48:11.200 supported the Freedom Convoy, maybe? Cassidy is truly a loser. And Neil Hillman writes, 1.00

00:48:18.880 Dave, I think you will have an interesting story if you were to look into all Unifor leadership,

00:48:24.880 past and present, criminal records. Happy digging, and I look forward to the stories. You never know

00:48:31.680 what you might find. Well, I can tell you, Neil, I am keeping my eyes peeled regarding ex-Unifor head

00:48:37.520 honcho Jerry Diaz. An investigation into Diaz found he allegedly accepted a $50,000 bribe from a supplier

00:48:46.480 of COVID-19 rapid test kits. Of course, soon after these allegations surfaced, Diaz issued a statement

00:48:54.480 saying he is entering a residential rehabilitation facility due to his use of alcohol painkillers and

00:49:02.400 sleeping pills. Oh, give me a break. Gee, at least he didn't say, the devil made me do it. You know,

00:49:08.720 I wonder if the sinners residing in hell are unionized. Unifor would be a perfect fit for them.

00:49:15.840 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. Have

00:49:20.560 yourselves a fantastic weekend. And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:49:27.440 All right. Good night.

00:49:57.440 Welcome命.

00:49:58.720 Good night.

00:50:00.600 Good night.

00:50:03.400 Good night.

00:50:12.100 Good night.

00:50:14.240 Good night.

00:50:14.680 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - November 19, 2022

DAVID MENZIES： Are mask mandates really coming back？｜ Ft. Sheila Gunn Reid & Tamara Ugolini

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Rebel News Podcast - November 19, 2022

DAVID MENZIES： Are mask mandates really coming back？ ｜ Ft. Sheila Gunn Reid & Tamara Ugolini

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DAVID MENZIES： Are mask mandates really coming back？｜ Ft. Sheila Gunn Reid & Tamara Ugolini