DAVID MENZIES： Are mask mandates really coming back？ ｜ Ft. Sheila Gunn Reid & Tamara Ugolini
Summary
Rebel Roundup is a weekly show produced by David Menzies and featuring your favourite Rebel Writers. This week, we look back at some of the best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. We'll also hear from the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is investigating the use of a wartime counter-terrorism law to clear a Freedom Convoy from the Alberta-Montana border.
Transcript
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at
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some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels. I'm your host, David
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Menzies. So during the Cootes blockade, the province of Alberta reached out to tow truck
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companies and energy firms based in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and even Montana to see if they
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could be hired to haul away those Freedom Convoy vehicles that were blocking the Alberta-Montana
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border. Not surprisingly, those companies told the government to take a hike. So the province
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went out and bought their own fleet of used tow trucks, including a 1996 GMC 3500. Yeah, that'll
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tow away a big rig, no problem. Rebel News chief reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details.
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Oh no, it's deja vu all over again. Ontario's chief medical health officer, Dr. Kieran Moore,
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is recommending that everyone mask up again, even though the face diaper mandates were only lifted
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back on March 21st. Why is Ontario going down this failed path yet again? Tamara Ugolini will try to make
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sense of it all. And letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.
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And you had plenty to say about Unifor local 444 head honcho David Cassidy in Windsor, who was
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allegedly threatening to send a thousand autoworkers down to the Ambassador Bridge last February to
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throw peaceful protesters in the Detroit River. Ah, the loving, tolerant left strikes again.
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In any event, those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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The Public Order Emergency Commission is taking place in Ottawa as we speak to examine the actions of
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Justin Trudeau's federal government in invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act,
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a wartime counter-terrorism law to put an end to weeks of peaceful anti-COVID mandate protests.
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Those protests were led by truckers and bolstered by their supporters on the streets of Ottawa,
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but also at border crossings at Coots, Alberta, Windsor, Ontario, Emerson, Manitoba, and near Vancouver,
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BC. To see and support all of our coverage of the Public Order Emergency Commission,
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please visit truckercommission.com. Now the federal government has repeated the lie that using a law
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which suspends civil liberties and gives police and financial institutions extraordinary powers was
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somehow necessary to get tow trucks to move vehicles off the border and out of residential areas.
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It's crazy, but here's CBC reporting the federal government's claims unskeptically just a few
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short weeks ago. A deal with police to secure tow trucks to clear last winter's convoy protest
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fell through and the Emergencies Act was needed to commandeer those services,
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a lawyer acting for the federal government told the Public Order Commission inquiry Wednesday.
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So prior to the 13th, I would have said we could have used some help with that,
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but as things materialized on the 13th, I was satisfied that we were good.
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And you were satisfied that we were good, you're satisfied that the federal emergency
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power to compel tow trucks wasn't necessary? Correct. Thank you.
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Now the province of Alberta completely disputes the federal government's claim that a counter-terrorism law
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was necessary to commandeer tow trucks in this province. In fact, the Alberta government is
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currently participating in the Public Order Emergency Commission with full standing. The
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province is arguing that the Emergencies Act was not necessary, which should tell you just how
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unreasonable the invocation of the Emergencies Act was, given that Alberta for a time had some of the
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most authoritarian crackdowns on civil liberties during COVID, including on places of worship. The
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crackdowns were so bad, they led to the ouster of Premier Jason Kenney, who was eventually replaced
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by a more freedom-oriented Premier Daniel Smith. The Alberta government has said that it received
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no help from the federal government in dealing with the border blockade at Coutts. The Alberta government
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could not get tow trucks to come. It's on page 9 of these commission documents. You can see that on
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February 1st, approximately 50 companies throughout Alberta with heavy haul towing capability and cranes
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had been contacted. All of them refused to assist. Companies in British Columbia and Saskatchewan either
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wouldn't or could not get involved either. On page 10, we can even see that the Alberta government reached out
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to companies in Montana who, likewise, said they were not coming to help. And back on page 9 of
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these documents, the Alberta government ultimately reached out to Public Safety Canada and the Canadian
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Armed Forces in Ottawa, because the province wanted to be able to use heavy equipment from CFB Edmonton.
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But on page 12 of these documents, when Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs Rick McIver, a guy I
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like pretty much reached out to Bill Blair, the Minister of Public Safety, McIver couldn't get a
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response. But documents presented to the Public Order Commission by the province of Alberta indicate
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that even if no private tow companies ever agreed to tow away convoy-related vehicles, there was always
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another way forward. You see, on February 8th and 9th, the province of Alberta quickly began looking for
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their own towing equipment, knowing the feds were not going to come through. They even began identifying
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Alberta sheriffs who possessed a Class 1 driver's license to drive them. By February 11th, the province
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of Alberta had found the vehicles that they needed on Kijiji and Truck Trader. Honest to goodness, I
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appreciate their frugality of buying some used bargains. By the 12th, they had purchased the equipment. By the 14th,
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they had purchased even more and they had borrowed a heavy wrecker crew from the city of Edmonton to
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help out. $826,000 in all on 12 pieces of towing and heavy equipment. And I've got to tell you,
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I think they got a pretty good deal on that Komatsu. Now, according to the documents on page 13,
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the RCMP didn't even need all the equipment because the border blockade had by then disbanded.
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Ultimately, they ended up hauling one farm tractor, a semi-trailer, and a gravel truck. Now,
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on February 21st, text messages exchanged between McIver and Blair show Blair trying to take credit for
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the resolution of the blockade at Coutts, claiming the Emergencies Act had helped Alberta get those tow
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trucks, you know, tow trucks they bought themselves, prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
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What is true is that Coutts was resolved on the 14th and we got our own tow trucks. Further,
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McIver wrote to Blair, you were too late and did the wrong thing. My point is saying nothing now
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would have been better than not telling the truth. And then Blair never responded naturally. I mean,
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how could Blair respond? He had already been told to stop lying and gun owners in Canada know if Bill
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Blair's talking, then Bill Blair's probably not telling the truth. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Well, folks, yet more amazing testimony coming out of the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.
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And isn't it great to hear that tow truck companies and energy companies right across
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Western Canada and even the great state of Montana essentially flipped the bird to the government of
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Alberta when it went looking for independent contractors to clear the border blockade in
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Coots, Alberta. But those hellbent on shutting down a peaceful freedom protest are very, very diligent
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given that the province was able to find and purchase 12 pieces of used heavy haul equipment
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in the days prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act. But why?
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Why? And joining me now to unravel this mystery on these latest revelations is our chief reporter
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for Rebel News. And that would be none other than Sheila Gunn-Reed. Hey there, Sheila. How are you doing?
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We're just going to get everybody's name wrong. I'll return the favor.
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Sheila, I'm so sorry, but there's so much to unpack here.
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And I was looking over the manifest of the equipment. And this might be a minor thing,
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but it was the manifest of the equipment that the government bought.
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And one piece of equipment really stood out for me, namely a 1996 GMC 3500 pickup truck.
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I'm Sheila. I'm no tow truck expert, but can this vehicle actually haul away an 18 wheeler?
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No, I showed the list of my husband. He's like, that'd make a great like farm truck.
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Good used like light duty tow truck, but I don't think it's going to haul away an eight wheeled tractor.
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But I think they were trying to like, there were thousands of people at one point in between
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Coots and Milk River, and some of them were illegally parked. We saw a bunch of people get tickets in this
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like march through town where they just issued tickets for illegal parking as though Milk River is
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just plugged up with people parking wrong. Like, you know, like, I don't think they've ever had a
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traffic jam there normally. Do something better with your time. But, you know, they, they did,
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I've got to give the government credit, and I did give them credit in my video.
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They did get 12 pieces of towing and heavy haul equipment. I think they got, according to my
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husband and my notes on the auto trader, they did get some good deals. I was impressed that they ran
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out and got, they went looking for used equipment. That's a very Alberta thing to do. So they were
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frugal with their money. But the reason this is all so interesting, well there's a bunch of different
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reasons. Is that knowing what I know about tow truck drivers, and I do, I know a couple, one
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pretty well. They wouldn't come to this to help out. They wouldn't want to get involved for a bunch
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of different reasons. But normally blue collar people don't, you know, go after other blue collar
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people on issues that they ultimately agree with. But they couldn't get anybody in Alberta, in BC,
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in Saskatchewan, and then out of Montana. They couldn't get anybody to come, not just from towing,
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but also from the energy services industry. Because you have to remember, in Western Canada,
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we're moving drilling rigs around all over the place. So we've got big trucks and picker trucks
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and cranes and bed trucks. So moving those pieces of equipment, there's a lot of that sort of equipment
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out there in Alberta that just, they weren't for hire to the government. So that was great. But the whole
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point of this is that it pokes a hole in the federal government's narrative that they absolutely
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needed the Emergencies Act to compel tow operators to come. Now, they could have compelled tow operators
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to come through other parts of the law. But good on Jason Kenney, and I don't say that often, he didn't
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go about that route. He just decided to buy his own tow equipment. But Justin Trudeau has said all along,
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we needed the EA to get the tow truck drivers to come. The Alberta government had already purchased
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their own towing equipment before the EA was invoked. And part of that had to do with the fact
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that Bill Blair, the minister in charge of, I think, emergency preparedness, wouldn't return any phone calls
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and text messages to Rick McIver, our municipal affairs minister. So the Alberta government just said,
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OK, well, the feds aren't going to do anything. They're not going to help us. They're not going to connect us
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with the equipment at CFB Edmonton, which is one of the other options, the military base just north of Edmonton.
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They thought, OK, well, they've got heavy equipment. Maybe we can get them to come down if we can get federal
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permission. None of those things were happening from the federal government. The federal government
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quit communicating with Alberta. So Alberta solved its own problem. And as I said, it just
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completely dismantles Justin Trudeau's argument that he needed the EA to break up the blockade.
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The blockade was already broken up. And if it needed breaking up, the Alberta government could
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have done it anyway. You know, Sheila, I want to go back and focus on what something you said earlier,
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which was the fact that the government was reaching out to the tow truck driving industry,
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to the energy development industry. And like, what were they thinking in terms of these would be
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willing, woke allies to go in there and shut down their feather, their fellow blue collar individuals?
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It reminds me, you know, several days ago, we had a little piece on about how David Cassidy,
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no, not the fictional David Cassidy, the lead singer of the Partridge family,
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but David Cassidy, the head of Unifor Local 444 in Windsor, said to a police officer, allegedly,
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that he was going to round up 1,000 auto workers, go down to the Ambassador Bridge, break some heads,
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and then, quote, throw them, meaning the freedom protesters, into the Detroit River,
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which I can tell you, Sheila, in February is certainly not a Caribbean beachfront water kind
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of situation. But the thing is, those 1,000 auto workers never materialized. Do you think maybe
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because many of them were with auto companies such as Chrysler that were suspended without pay
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for not taking the vaccine? So I guess, you know, I'm just trying to get an idea, Sheila,
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why were these people who, on one hand, wanted to tow away trucks, on the other hand, wanted to
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beat up demonstrators, why were they so misguided in thinking they had willing allies?
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It's the same problem you have with everything, with government, with union brass, you know,
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like the guys at the top are never the same as the guys at the bottom. You often have like
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the union leadership of unions that will work in pipelining, advocating for climate change policies,
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right? Or encouraging people to vote for the NDP who are actively against energy resource development.
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So there's a big disconnect between the leadership of a union and the actual union membership. And you
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have to remember in Canada, you're forced to join a union. If you are in a union shop, you don't have,
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you know, the the right to work as they do in some American states. So it's it's never really the
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politics of the union are so often not the politics of the people on the ground. And it's the same thing
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with government here in Alberta. Jason Kenney might have been conservative, but boy, he sure could not
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compel a lot of conservative business owners, tow truck drivers and energy resource companies to do
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his bidding because they agreed with what was happening at the border. And you see that in the
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polling that Leger poll that Ezra reported on where, you know, people were advocating for Daniel Smith to
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uh, offer COVID amnesties to people who were charged with being COVID scofflaws, um, within
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conservatives, blocking the border, the convoy itself was very popular. It's just, you know,
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the, the government who had to deal with it, that didn't really seem to like it.
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You know, and Sheila, I gotta say though, uh, at least we should be thankful that the government
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never, I don't know, got a goon squad to go down there and just destroy the trucks there.
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And I'm saying that because I know it's a separate story, but it's something that sticks in my craw.
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Our beloved colleague, Sid Fazard did a great piece about how RCMP officers actually went to heavy
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construction equipment and vandalized it to such an extent. I'm sure the repairs might be in the
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tens or even the hundreds of thousands of dollars. To me, that's shocking. I thought law enforcement,
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was all about preventing people from vandalizing stuff, uh, not taking part in the vandalizing.
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Um, do we have any update on that, Sheila? Uh, not really. I know Sid, uh, Sid is working on it. It's
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one of the stories that I get asked about out in the world the most that and did David get his whiskey?
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Um, but people always ask me about, they always ask me about the excavators because those excavators
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were convicted of pre crimes. They were just excavators in a field near Coots, Alberta.
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And the RCMP approached the owner of the excavators and said, would you mind moving them away
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from the road? And of course the owner complied. But the reason the RCMP wanted them moved away from
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the road is so that they would not be seen when they were cutting the fuel lines and then spray foaming
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them closed, rendering the equipment inoperable. Now, there's no evidence that those excavators were
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ever going to the blockade. Uh, but the RCMP were just allowed to vandalize them anyway. And like you
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say, do tens of thousands of dollars damage to, uh, I get, I don't want to say innocent excavators,
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but I don't know how else to describe them. They were convicted of free crimes. And like I said,
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that's one of the stories that people constantly ask me about because it's so appalling. And it was
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so premeditated by the police and the police exploited the goodwill of the owner of the excavators,
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knowing that he would comply with the police request to move them away from the road.
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And that makes it even worse. The fact that he wasn't putting up any resistance, but, uh,
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he was rewarded for his cooperation, uh, by all that vandalism. I wonder if Brenda,
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Brenda lucky had her clammy hands on that little caper. Uh, you could ask her, but she won't
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remember if you've been watching your testimony or she'll say yes and no. Um, but I guess, you know,
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Sheila, we got to wrap it up here, but, um, what is, uh, I don't know if anyone cares about this or not,
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but what is the fate of all that government owned, uh, towing equipment? Are they,
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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
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the provincial inventory in case a, uh, a coots blockade happens in the, in the near future?
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You know what? My husband is watching the, uh, provincial government auction sites for some of
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those things to go up. Cause he's like, they got a really good deal. So if they even sell it for what
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they purchased it for, um, someone's going to be very, very happy. I do know that for a time it was
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staged near Lethbridge just in case another blockade broke out or re manifested itself.
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I don't really know what happened to it now, but you know, the government bought 12 pieces
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of equipment for under a million dollars. I'm not mad. I'm not mad. And at the end of the day,
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no tow truck operators were compelled, um, to do something against their will. They were not,
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uh, expropriated by the government, which for me is the best outcome.
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That's true. Well, there you have it. We'll leave it at that. Sheila, for all you Albertans
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out there, keep looking at the auto trader listings. You might find that 26 year old GMC.
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Christmas might come early in Alberta if you're into, uh, things that can tow stuff. Sheila,
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thank you so much. Great commentary as always, my friend.
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You too. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter somewhere in the northern
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hinterland of Alberta. Hey folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Tamara Ugolini here with Rebel News to remind you of a time when the government
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and health hysterics repeatedly told the public to trust the experts and follow the science.
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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
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worse shape in a week down the road or two weeks down the road.
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And now that we are a thousand days into rolling COVID-19 related restrictions,
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after being sold on that slogan of two weeks to flatten the curve nearly three years ago.
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You've heard public health officials and myself say many times that we need to flatten the curve
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or plank it into what health officials would have you believe is the deadliest
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pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. It's a pandemic though that has a very controversial
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death rate and our health overlords continually fail to follow the science. Instead they're relying
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heavily on behavior modification and peer pressure to try to solicit compliance with masks and vaccines.
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For instance, at his press conference yesterday, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health,
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that's Dr. Kieran Moore, is highly recommending everyone wear a mask indoors including toddlers.
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The best way to prevent the flu is by getting the flu shot every year. You can also get your COVID
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booster safely at the same time for those over five. With the peak of flu season expected in early to
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mid-December, the time to get your shot is now. Please, please do not delay. It is not too late to get protected.
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In response to the worsening trends and existing challenges for our health care system, I'm strongly
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recommending that all Ontarians, not just those at high risk, wear a mask in indoor public settings,
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especially around our most vulnerable Ontarians, the very young and the very old. I'm also recommending
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that if possible, children between two and five wear a mask with supervision if they can tolerate the mask
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and safely put it on and off. Applying all these layers of protection will help to protect ourselves,
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our families, and most importantly, our children under five. This means the mask mandates aren't
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coming back to Ontario, at least not yet. Yet a mask mandate is not out of the realm of possibility,
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so we have launched a petition at nomormasks.ca which calls on health authorities to never again
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implement unscientific indiscriminate mask mandates. The science does not justify this arbitrary measure,
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and Moore himself admitted that mandates have not worked in the past. Again, have a listen.
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But I need, we need us to mask around those most vulnerable in social settings,
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which mandates haven't worked for in the past. At family gatherings, at family social situations,
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we have to mask to protect those that are the youngest among us, those that are four and under.
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Because after two years of bubble wrapping children from normal societal interactions that
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would traditionally build up their immune system, we have masked and sanitized them almost to death,
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and now the health overlords are crying wolf. Not one mention though of the shortage of antibiotics
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for children as described by this pharmacist. You would like to add to the point that you said
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that there's a shortage of Tylenol as well as Advil. There's a shortage of two things that are
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extremely difficult for us to manipulate or make. And these are the two most commonly dispensed
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antibiotics for kids, amoxicillin and azithromycin. And not enough is being said about those. If we cannot
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treat children in a community setting, this is going to spell a larger disaster for hospitals as hard as that
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is to even imagine. So this needs to be addressed as well. I'm really not sure at what point do we refer
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to this as an emergency? At what point do we have our politicians actually address this in a more urgent fashion?
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Well, as the late great New York Yankee Yogi Berra once quipped, it's deja vu all over again.
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Yeah, folks, just eight months after the mask mandate was lifted in Ontario,
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the province's chief medical health officer, Kieran Moore, is now strongly recommending everybody mask
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up yet again. But why? Where is the evidence that wearing non-medical masks actually worked during
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the initial stages of the pandemic? And for that matter, where is the evidence that getting jabbed with
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an experimental vaccine works, given that so many people who have been double jabbed and have taken
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their booster shots continue to contract COVID-19? How frustrating that our medical health necromancers
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seem to have learned hardly anything during these past three years. Unbelievable. And joining me now with
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more on this story is Tamara Ugolini. Hey, how you doing there, Tamara? Hey, David. Well, I'm maskless,
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so good as ever. And how about you? And better yet, you're still alive, as am I. But Tamara, you know,
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I guess the good news here is that at least Dr. Moore didn't utter that old COVID chestnut, you know,
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two weeks to flatten the curve. I mean, that line ranks right up there with the check is in the mail and
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hi, I'm from the government. I'm here to help you as one of the greatest lies ever uttered. But Tamara,
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seriously, why are we going down the masking route yet again in the first place?
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I can't help but think that the media party has a huge role to play in the push for masking.
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You've seen all throughout, even when the mandates were lifted, that the media continued to
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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
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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
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,
00:28:46.480
I'm on Team Christianity, I'm on Team Sikhism. That's what I think the mask is, because these
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,
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
00:36:34.880
again. Do you sense the majority of people feel that way? Or like so many sheep, are we going to
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,
00:38:57.920
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.
00:40:10.240
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.
00:41:54.720
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,
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,
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.