Rebel News Podcast - December 10, 2022


DAVID MENZIES： Balenciaga has too much in common with the Ontario Ministry of Education

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Inexplicably, the campaign made use of images of child pornography, pedophilia, and Satanism. And yet, where is the cancel culture mob when you really need them? Our Seattle-based correspondent, Katie Davis-Court, will try to make sense of it all. And there is a disturbing gender identification survey making the rounds in Ontario schools.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at
00:00:05.440 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:00:11.240 Did you have the misfortune of checking out the latest marketing campaign for luxury retailer
00:00:18.620 Balenciaga? It was, in a word, grotesque. Inexplicably, the campaign made use of images
00:00:26.300 of child pornography, pedophilia, and Satanism. And yet, hey, where is the cancel culture mob
00:00:33.580 when you really need them? Our Seattle-based correspondent, Katie Davis-Court, will try to
00:00:39.100 make sense of it all. And there is a disturbing gender identification survey making the rounds
00:00:46.220 in Ontario schools right now. It seems as though the Ministry of Education is less concerned with
00:00:52.240 the academic standards of students, which are plummeting, by the way, and far more interested
00:00:58.620 if little Johnny or little Janie is queer or bisexual or transgendered or pansexual. What the hell? 0.99
00:01:07.060 Tamara Ugolini will join me to examine this latest inappropriate affront to minors. And letters, 0.94
00:01:14.640 we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And you had plenty to say
00:01:19.220 about the Trucker Freedom Convoy 2.0. Relax, liberals. We're talking toy trucks this time.
00:01:27.160 Those are your rebels. Now, let's round them up.
00:01:39.880 Balenciaga, the multi-million dollar luxury fashion brand, is in deep trouble after their most recent
00:01:46.060 campaign promoted child pornography and pedophilia. Disturbing images from their spring 2023 collection
00:01:53.640 featured sexualized children holding stuffed animals wearing BDSM-inspired clothing. Now,
00:01:59.500 while these images sparked outrage across social media, which led to Balenciaga pulling the campaign,
00:02:05.160 it opened up Pandora's box for how demonic this brand truly is. So let's dig in.
00:02:11.020 Here are the images of the toddlers modeling with their bears in bondage. And when you look at the
00:02:15.220 product placement in this photo, you will find a white rabbit, which Satan has sacrificed during
00:02:19.740 rituals. And on the floor is caution tape that says Balenciaga. Looks pretty innocent, except it's
00:02:26.380 spelt Bal and Siaga. Bal is a demon and canonite deity who is one of the seven princes of hell in
00:02:33.200 Christian demonology, who children were sacrificed to. Balenciaga apologized for the pro-pedophilic
00:02:40.040 imagery, but it is hard to believe that this was just a mere oversight when the man behind the
00:02:44.400 campaign is Balenciaga's creative director, Demna Vasilia, who has an obsession with dark imagery
00:02:51.140 and worked closely with former chief designer, Lada Bolkova, who many speculate he got his inspiration
00:02:57.100 from after taking a quick look at her Instagram account, which features Satan, worship, child
00:03:03.040 torture and exploitation. Volkova also has a relationship with an accused pedophile. Here 1.00
00:03:08.900 are some of the photos of children being tortured or in distress that you can see on her Instagram.
00:03:13.860 And here are satanic photos that she posted, which includes one of her being in a church.
00:03:18.840 She also seems to have an infatuation with teddy bears, which were a featured element in the campaign.
00:03:23.540 While Balenciaga pulled the images with the toddlers, they ended up leaving their spring
00:03:28.780 2023 collaboration up with Adidas on Instagram. And when you look at the products in these photos,
00:03:34.580 the scandal just keeps getting worse and worse. Here is a model sitting in a chair in an office. 0.89
00:03:40.240 Looks rather innocent until you look at the items in the background, which features a book authored by
00:03:45.540 Michael Bormans. Bormans is a Belgian artist that paints images of child torture. His book,
00:03:52.340 Fire from the Sun, includes paintings of bloody toddlers. And in some images, which are even too
00:03:58.100 vile to be shown on Google, the toddlers appear to be castrated. In this photo, we have a Balenciaga
00:04:03.960 bag, which looks like a bag just sitting on a messy desk. But the papers underneath the bag include
00:04:10.540 a Supreme Court ruling on virtual child pornography. Despite Balenciaga issuing an apology and stating that
00:04:17.540 they take full responsibility for their lack of oversight, they fail to actually take responsibility
00:04:22.340 and place blame on the design production company North Six, stating that they are taking legal action
00:04:28.580 against them as they were allegedly not briefed on the items being used in their own campaign.
00:04:34.960 It's extremely hard to believe that Balenciaga had zero knowledge of the creativity behind one of the
00:04:40.160 two biggest campaigns that they do each year. According to the Post Millennial, North Six said that
00:04:45.280 they were made to take the fall. And a spokesman for set director Nicholas de Jardin said,
00:04:50.560 everyone from Balenciaga was on the shoot and was present at every shot and worked on the edit of
00:04:56.160 every image post-production. Wow. And I thought luxury brands were all about, you know, nice imagery
00:05:03.800 rather than say the celebration of pedophilia or child pornography or Satanism. I mean, really,
00:05:11.560 what the hell was Balenciaga thinking in the first place? And joining me now to weigh in on what is
00:05:19.920 perhaps the most grotesque marketing campaign in the history of marketing campaigns. Well,
00:05:27.380 it's Katie Davis Court in Seattle, Washington. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Katie.
00:05:32.540 David, it's always an honor to be on.
00:05:34.480 Oh, you're so kind. Thank you so much. But you know, Katie, as you mentioned in your superb commentary,
00:05:41.200 we currently live in a society where celebrities are the first to engage in cancel culture.
00:05:48.460 So why, my friend, is it that they are not lining up to denounce this retail chain? I mean,
00:05:55.920 many celebrities are also parents of young children, aren't they? So why are they not outraged
00:06:03.180 by this grotesque and inappropriate marketing campaign?
00:06:08.420 Right, David? I think that is the question of the century. This marketing campaign
00:06:12.480 put child pornography and pedophilia right before you, right before your eyes. And their main
00:06:20.080 spokesmodel is none other than Kim Kardashian, who has four children of her own. But people are saying
00:06:27.160 that she is choosing money over morals. So you have to wonder how, um, how much money that these 1.00
00:06:33.960 celebrities are getting paid by Balenciaga because Balenciaga didn't rise to the fame that they are
00:06:39.980 now until a few years ago, when their disgusting chief stylist took over and turn it into a celebrity and 1.00
00:06:50.400 model favorite. And so they are now owning these celebrities and models and the satanism and child 0.93
00:06:57.580 pornography is right before your eyes. So it is a shame how they are able to get away with this.
00:07:03.100 It really is. And I think you're right. Uh, money talks and you know what walks, but here's the thing,
00:07:09.840 Katie behind every marketing campaign, the ultimate goal is to move the merchandise.
00:07:16.400 And what I find baffling is how does any normal person look at that ad campaign, look at that
00:07:24.680 fashion show and go, wow, baby's covered in blood. I think I want to go down to Balenciaga and buy a
00:07:33.940 $1,400 pair of Adidas sneakers. I don't get it. I mean, where is the call to action to have a consumer
00:07:42.820 react positively to that ad campaign, Katie? I'm wondering the exact same thing, David. I don't know
00:07:49.540 what's going on in society today. You know, they are openly, like you said, there were videos where
00:07:55.800 models walked with bags full of blood soaked baby clothes, carrying baby dolls, the child torture and 0.99
00:08:03.400 Satanism is right before our eyes. And where are all these models denouncing this? 0.92
00:08:09.280 Yeah. I don't know. And also, uh, Katie, whatever happened to the idea of age appropriateness? I mean,
00:08:17.480 we have all kinds of benchmarks, uh, when it comes to those under the age of majority. I mean, whether
00:08:23.820 it's buying lottery tickets, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, you name it, you have to be at a certain
00:08:30.700 age. And yet here we have children being involved in what is really a grotesque and I would say a
00:08:40.800 borderline illegal, uh, ad campaign, child pornography, thank God is still illegal, uh, in our
00:08:47.420 neck of the woods. So I'm wondering how did this even become an idea in the first place?
00:08:54.000 Oh, that is the question of this century. I personally do not see Balenciaga ever recovering
00:09:00.020 from this. I think that their brand is tainted for good. And you know, the average consumer can
00:09:05.140 look at Balenciaga and denounce what they did, but their influencers that they have hired have yet to
00:09:10.560 come out. And that just shows how entrapped they are in this grotesque, um, Hollywood celebrity,
00:09:16.740 um, paradise where they are ruled by money. And, you know, one of the main, it wasn't just this
00:09:24.140 Balenciaga with the children. It revealed that their campaign with Adidas also showcased pedophilia
00:09:30.900 through documents. And so there was subtle, there was subtle imagery, uh, show highlighting
00:09:35.580 pedophilia. And one of their brand, um, models that was featured in this Adida campaign is Bella
00:09:42.260 Hadid, who is a, one of the biggest supermodels in the United States right now. And she has
00:09:46.700 yet to delete those images from her Instagram account. So I think that she has signed a contract
00:09:53.680 and it's probably already taken the money where she can't delete the images. But when you look at
00:09:58.120 her following list, she has deleted Balenciaga from her following list. So it seems like these
00:10:03.120 celebrities and models who are getting paid by Balenciaga don't agree with what they are doing,
00:10:07.200 but are, but just won't speak out against it because they are so ruled by money. And, but that also
00:10:14.160 goes to show that not every, uh, celebrity, um, has spoken out against some are actually,
00:10:20.380 um, going to bat for Balenciaga, like Julia Fox, like Julia Fox, who we showed in our,
00:10:26.540 in our report, she was defending Balenciaga and said, well, this isn't a problem in Hollywood.
00:10:32.060 This is a problem in every industry. While that is correct, there is just a higher level of this
00:10:38.140 being a problem in Hollywood. So why can't Julia Fox just come out and say what Balenciaga, 1.00
00:10:44.240 what Balenciaga did was disgusting and immoral. I think it's an easy thing to denounce. And instead,
00:10:50.000 she defends it. So yes, there actually is a problem in Hollywood and Julia Fox showed us just that.
00:10:56.160 Oh, indeed. Uh, Katie, you touched upon something there. Uh, is this indeed the beginning of the end,
00:11:02.700 uh, for this, uh, chain, Katie? Uh, I know last weekend, uh, all across North America, there were
00:11:09.940 demonstrations outside of, uh, Balenciaga stores, uh, Lincoln and I here in the Toronto area, we went
00:11:17.920 to a premium mall outlet where there's a Balenciaga store. I can tell you the, the demonstration was
00:11:23.940 very small, but on the plus side, as far as I'm concerned, while we were there, I think I might've
00:11:30.140 seen one or two customers on a Saturday in, uh, before Christmas, no less actually going in there,
00:11:37.660 uh, to look at the merchandise. I don't even think I actually saw anyone buying anything. So, you know,
00:11:44.120 maybe is this a bridge too far for this chain that even if they don't have their celebrity, uh, spokes
00:11:52.520 models dropping them, as far as the general public is concerned, this is just too gross. And Hey,
00:11:58.420 let's face it, uh, Katie, there are tons of other chains to buy high-end luxury items, aren't there?
00:12:06.040 Oh yes, absolutely. And personally, me as a woman, I would have never even shopped at Balenciaga in the
00:12:11.940 first place. I like cheaper fashion, you know, the more you can get for a cheaper, the better,
00:12:18.040 in my opinion. I think, I think high luxury fashion is overrated in the first place. So who is their
00:12:22.880 market anyways, it's very wealthy, rich people. And if rich people want to continue shopping there,
00:12:28.760 I think that goes to show that they also don't have morals. So I think that this is something
00:12:32.760 that the average consumer can actually win against and making change that, uh, having a campaign
00:12:38.320 featuring child pornography and pedophilia, it's not going to fly with the general public.
00:12:42.160 Yeah. And one last thing, uh, Katie, um, I'm of the opinion that the general public is very forgiving
00:12:49.900 if a company comes forward and makes a genuine apology. We saw that in the early eighties with,
00:12:56.120 uh, Johnson and Johnson with the tainted Tylenol in the Chicago area. I think it was, um, eight people
00:13:02.020 had died and it was a saboteur and Tylenol, uh, apologized. They didn't duck the media. Uh, and in fact,
00:13:11.260 were the innovators in, uh, tamper proof packaging. And, uh, you look at Tylenol's market share in the
00:13:18.020 early eighties versus today, people were calling it a dead brand back then. Well, guess what? They
00:13:23.360 have a higher market share today than they did in the early eighties because people saw them as a
00:13:29.020 genuine victim and they were doing everything they could to apologize. But in the case of Balenciaga,
00:13:34.460 um, we saw that apology go out, but it was not genuine. Was it Katie? They were throwing their
00:13:43.320 ad agency under the bus. They said, Oh, Holy mackerel. We didn't know all this was going on when the fact
00:13:49.140 of the matter is the, um, executives of this chain were overseeing this campaign from start to finish.
00:13:56.200 So I don't think, you know, that is indeed a genuine mea culpa. Oh yeah. I agree with you,
00:14:04.840 David. They had the chance to wrong a right or right a wrong. And, um, instead they chose to blame
00:14:12.520 the third party company. And it is a shame that they did that because it is funny that they only
00:14:19.960 have two huge campaigns each year and say that they had no idea what was going on with one of the
00:14:26.920 two huge campaigns that they do each year, the spring and the fall. And they just said, Oh,
00:14:33.220 we had no idea what was going on in our new, uh, spring and holiday campaign. So that is a huge cop
00:14:39.260 out. And the third party company that they blamed, uh, basically said through Balenciaga back under the
00:14:45.920 bus and said, they had full control from start to finish and even post-production. And the, uh,
00:14:52.960 whole campaign was basically styled off of Balenciaga's former style director, director Vol, um,
00:15:00.680 Volkova, who, when you look at her Instagram account has, um, it's featured Satanism, child pornography, 1.00
00:15:09.040 child torture, and the entire, uh, campaign was centered around this woman's Instagram account. 0.99
00:15:16.880 So they absolutely knew very well what they were doing.
00:15:21.180 Well, Katie, I wish I could say I'm going to boycott Balenciaga, but the fact of the matter is,
00:15:27.520 I looked at their website and when I referenced a $1,400 pair of Adidas sneakers, I'm not kidding.
00:15:34.360 Uh, basically, uh, charging, uh, 1400 bucks for essentially the same kind of shoes you could get
00:15:40.960 elsewhere without the Balenciaga logo on it for maybe $150. The prices are so outrageous. I don't
00:15:48.600 know who has the money to shop at these kinds of stores, especially in this day and age of inflation
00:15:55.060 and rising interest rates. Last word goes to you, my friend. I think that as a society, you know,
00:16:01.800 people need to start fighting back against these companies because the people can win and we don't
00:16:06.720 need celebrities and models to influence our, um, opinions. A hundred percent. Uh, well, um, Katie,
00:16:13.660 that was one of your best commentary commentary so far. You did a great job and we'll watch with
00:16:19.260 interest in the months and years ahead. What happens, uh, to this particular chain? I mean,
00:16:24.320 I feel sorry for their employees. If they go out of business and they lose their jobs,
00:16:28.660 they're not responsible for this, but that is absolutely shameful. And that, uh, crock of an
00:16:34.580 apology, uh, that was despicable as well. You have a good weekend, my friend. Thanks, David. You as well.
00:16:40.760 Thank you so much. And that was Katie Davis court in Seattle, Washington. Keep it here, folks. More
00:16:46.980 of Rebel Roundup to come right after this. Now, if it weren't for Rebel News, would you know just how
00:16:55.380 many taxpayer dollars were being funneled into schools to collect the gender identity and sexual
00:17:01.400 preferences of our young children? I'm Tamara Ugolini here reporting an update on a story that I ran
00:17:07.860 a few months ago on how young school-aged children were being asked to disclose their gender identity and
00:17:15.160 sexual orientation by way of a data collection survey put out by various school boards all
00:17:21.720 across Ontario. And I wanted to know just how much taxpayers were paying into this outrageous
00:17:28.680 program. And so naturally I filed an access to information request to find out you can help to
00:17:36.200 support our independent investigative journalism and check out all of our other exclusive reports
00:17:42.600 reports at rebelinvestigates.com. So before we get into these documents that I received back,
00:17:49.560 I wanted to remind you what exactly this survey and census entailed. It was originally run as part
00:17:58.040 of census week through various school boards the week of October 3rd to the 7th. Now that the Ontario
00:18:06.440 Ministry of Education has mandated school boards collect and analyze voluntary demographic and
00:18:15.000 perceptual student data. It applied to students from grades 4 to 8 who were to complete the surveys
00:18:21.560 with their parents slash guardians and high school students so those in grades 9 to 12 were to complete
00:18:27.400 the census online at school. This particular census was an identity-based census which is supposed to
00:18:35.080 enable student and system leaders to address barriers to student success in keeping with Ontario's
00:18:41.320 Education Equity Action Plan. It asks mundane questions like cultural background and language spoken at home
00:18:48.600 before getting right into the nitty-gritty of gender ideology, the gender identity of children,
00:18:54.920 as young as grade 4, which is age 9 or 10 roughly. They can select all that apply and options ranged from
00:19:03.160 female, gender fluid, gender non-conforming, male, non-binary, questioning, transgender female,
00:19:09.480 transgender male, two-spirit, etc. If this wasn't weird enough, they want to know the sexual orientation of
00:19:16.440 these students, again beginning in grade 4, so roughly age 9 to 10 year olds. Were they straight or heterosexual,
00:19:23.880 lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, queer questioning, asexual, pansexual, or otherwise? And now I have
00:19:32.520 the access to information document to show you just how much taxpayer money went into this census
00:19:39.560 program. On page 58 of the document, an email sent on behalf of Patrick Case, who makes $208,294 a
00:19:50.200 year working as the Assistant Deputy Minister in Education Equity Secretariat, detailed the 2021-2022
00:19:57.320 funding for student demographic data projects. Hello, it reads, I am writing to update you on the
00:20:03.480 2021-22 PPF funding for demographic data gathering. We are aware that many boards have collected or are in
00:20:11.960 the process of collecting student demographic data, and other boards have yet to engage in this work.
00:20:17.640 As this work expands in boards across the province, the benefits of student demographic data to school
00:20:22.440 boards' efforts to identify and dismantle systemic barriers are evident. As a foundation for board
00:20:28.760 improvement and equity planning, all boards are expected to be in the process of collecting voluntary
00:20:33.960 student demographic data by September 2022. To support this focus, 2021-22 PPF for demographic data
00:20:43.480 gathering will be for student demographic data collection and or analysis projects only. Given
00:20:49.400 that boards are at different stages in the student demographic data process, the ministry will be
00:20:54.360 differentiating the level of funding available to boards as follows 55,000 if your board has not
00:21:01.000 previously received funding for a student demographic data project and 35,000 for other boards.
00:21:06.840 On page 9, they note that the most common responses are listed first. To minimize first response bias,
00:21:14.600 shown to skew responses in this data category when the responses are listed alphabetically. Yet,
00:21:20.920 remember the layout of the Rainbow School Census? It showed female, then gender fluid, then gender
00:21:26.440 non-conforming, and then finally male as the succession of the most common responses.
00:21:31.960 And then for sexual preference, straight and heterosexual is still the most common,
00:21:37.880 apparently, followed by lesbian, then gay, then bisexual. Is this an appropriate allocation
00:21:44.680 of taxpayer dollars? $55,000 to $35,000 per school board from the Ministry of Education to collect and solicit
00:21:52.840 census data on the gender identity and sexual preferences of young school-aged children?
00:21:57.720 You know, folks, several weeks ago, it was reported that the latest data shows that only 59% of Ontario
00:22:04.520 Grade 3 students met the provincial mathematics standard and that just 47% of Grade 6 students
00:22:12.760 met the threshold. So in the case of the Grade 6ers, that's a failing grade. But forget about reading,
00:22:20.440 writing, and arithmetic, because Ontario's Ministry of Education, well, they seem more concerned
00:22:27.320 about whether or not little Johnny or little Janie is bisexual or pansexual or non-binary or two-spirited,
00:22:36.200 et cetera. What is going on in the classroom these days in which gender identity would seem to be
00:22:44.360 paramount to the educrats? Indeed, maybe their obsession over gender explains why kids are graduating from 0.99
00:22:54.120 schools these days who are unable to spell cat, even if you spotted them the C and the T.
00:23:01.080 And joining me now is Tamara Ugolini to hopefully make sense of all this gender-bending nonsense. 1.00
00:23:08.760 Hey, how you doing there, Tamara? Just as confused as you are with the gender-bending nonsense, 1.00
00:23:15.000 I don't think that you can expect anyone, really, to make sense of all of this.
00:23:19.480 So the joke is...
00:23:21.960 School has sure changed, hasn't it, since we went there. I mean, Tamara, there are so many angles here,
00:23:27.400 but let's start with this. In the spring election this year in Ontario, and correct me if I'm wrong,
00:23:33.640 but I don't remember the Doug Ford liberals, oh, I'm sorry, I mean the Doug Ford progressive
00:23:38.840 conservatives running on this issue. So what's going on here, Tamara? I mean, what is the Ministry
00:23:45.800 of Education planning on doing with all of this gender data in the first place?
00:23:52.600 Yeah, well, that's a great question. Of course, the response would be very loosey-goosey and skirt
00:23:58.920 around the issue here. But for anyone who doesn't know, there was a gender census or an identity-based
00:24:05.320 census sent out to Ontario school boards recently, where they were to collect and solicit the gender
00:24:12.120 identity and sexual orientation of children in grades as young as four. So that's roughly
00:24:19.480 children age eight or nine, respectively. And you're right, David, I don't remember anywhere where the
00:24:25.560 Doug Ford allegedly progressive conservatives ran on any sort of platform that included identity politics.
00:24:32.680 However, I do note that back in 2018, Doug Ford ran on a platform where he pledged to remove
00:24:41.080 the changes to the sex ed curriculum that was at the time developed under the Kathleen Wynne government
00:24:48.840 by the former deputy education minister and convicted child pornographer, Benjamin Levin.
00:24:58.280 Oh, yeah. So how this has crept back into our education system under that same government is
00:25:06.440 quite surprising. You know, it's so sad to see what's happened to Doug Ford, Tamara. I mean,
00:25:12.680 there's a good reason people refer to him as flip-flop Ford. You mentioned the sex ed reversal. I also
00:25:19.480 remember when I think it was the city of Victoria in BC was the first to take down their Sir John A.
00:25:25.800 McDonald statue. And Ford said, send them to Ontario. I'll put them on the north lawn of
00:25:31.880 Queen's Park. And now if you go to the south lawn, our very own John A. McDonald statue is in a coffin
00:25:38.120 with his head in a garbage bag so it doesn't trigger the BLM and Antifa people. What a disgrace. But here's 0.90
00:25:45.640 the thing. Regardless of whether, you know, the student is pansexual, bisexual, queer, questioning,
00:25:53.880 you name it, Tamara, how is it any business of the Ministry of Education? I mean, what is going to be
00:26:01.240 next? A survey asking the kids, hey, kids, how did your parents vote in the last provincial and federal
00:26:08.920 elections? You know, I think that might be the only question that is missing from this survey,
00:26:14.120 because it collects and solicits the information of the families and the parents and the children.
00:26:18.840 And in some instances, even the siblings of these various surveys. So what I'm finding is that each
00:26:24.600 individual school board had a slightly different survey that went out. And unless the parents were
00:26:29.800 informed that this was happening, which is often just done via email. So many parents miss the emails
00:26:35.560 or they don't check them or for whatever reason, maybe it went to their junk folder. Parents simply
00:26:39.880 aren't being made aware that their children are being plopped in front of a computer to fill out
00:26:45.400 these surveys that contain information and ask questions of these students that are
00:26:52.680 potentially extremely inappropriate. And all of this is unbeknownst to the parents themselves. And
00:26:58.280 there's one angle here where it's the gender identity politics and how do you identify,
00:27:03.960 but then they were asking the children, their sexual orientation and whether or not they were
00:27:09.560 heterosexual or lesbian or gay, bisexual, and you know, the list went on and on. But how and in whose
00:27:17.160 world does this make sense? Or is this an appropriate allocation of resources to ask of a nine year old
00:27:26.200 child, even in instances where children as young as eight in grade four, grade four to eight to be asked
00:27:32.840 in this information and these kinds of personal questions when I don't even think they, if there
00:27:39.560 was a child, let's say in grade four, seven or eight or nine years old, who knows their sexual
00:27:45.800 orientation, I would hope that the school would call children, the Children's Aid Society Child
00:27:51.720 Protective Services and investigate how this child has explored their sexuality enough at that young age
00:27:58.280 to determine what their preferences are. You know, Tamara, that's an excellent point. I mean,
00:28:03.480 as you mentioned in your commentary, this survey starts as young as the grade four class. That's
00:28:10.040 around nine years old, give or take. And, you know, dial back the decades to when you were in grade four.
00:28:18.440 I'm going to think about when I was in grade four. If you saw this survey in front of you,
00:28:23.720 could you make heads or tails out of it as a grade four student?
00:28:28.120 Absolutely not. There was no, I was playing with Barbies in grade four and maybe, you know,
00:28:34.280 if the Barbies kiss, that's as far as we went. But this is absolutely atrocious that these young, 0.87
00:28:40.200 impressionable children are being placed in a situation where they have to independently decipher
00:28:46.440 how they will respond to a survey about their gender preferences and sexual orientation.
00:28:53.560 This is literally taken from a groomer's playbook. I mean, not to mention the fact that the survey asks
00:28:59.560 various things, again, slightly different based on your own school board or the various school boards.
00:29:04.760 But what are the income brackets of your parents? Do they both work full time? How many siblings do
00:29:10.280 you have in the home? I'm reading responses now as my emails come in about this story that they were
00:29:15.880 asking how many televisions do you have in your home? Do you have a TV in your room? How many other
00:29:20.040 bedrooms are in the home? Do you share a bedroom? These are just really overreaching, inappropriate
00:29:25.720 questions for a school board or a school to be asking of these young children. And again, it begs the
00:29:31.080 question that you've already asked, who's collecting this data? Where does it end up? And does it stop with
00:29:36.840 the school board? Does the Ontario ministry collect it? Will it eventually end up in the hands of the federal
00:29:41.240 government? If there's ever a hack? Who is that information now at the disposal of? It's all
00:29:47.800 really concerning. And the scariest thing here is that parents are largely unaware. And unless you're
00:29:53.560 paying attention, you will not know that this is happening in your child's classroom. Just on a
00:29:59.400 personal note, this did happen in my child's classroom. And she was the only one in the class whose
00:30:05.080 parent signed the refusal form, not for her to partake in the survey. And all of the other
00:30:10.680 students, despite this being an allegedly voluntary demographic gathering survey, all of the other
00:30:17.320 students were forced by the teacher to fill out the survey. And you know, Tamara, at the end of the day,
00:30:24.120 really, who gives a tinker's damn about the sexual orientation or the gender identity of the pupils in the 0.94
00:30:33.320 classroom, which is to say, Tamara, I don't care if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight. If you're in 0.95
00:30:41.480 a math class, math is absolute. Two plus two equals four. Always has, always will. How is someone's sexuality 0.91
00:30:49.880 or gender identity a factor in the learning process in the first place? Yeah, great question. And I wish I
00:30:59.240 had the answers to this because it appears more and more that this is not accurate in Doug Ford's
00:31:04.600 Ontario, right? Two plus two in Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce's Ontario could equal five, because
00:31:10.920 we're seeing more and more that the things that we thought made sense and the precursors that we had
00:31:17.480 in places and institutions like our education system are being completely dismantled and replaced with
00:31:23.720 these ideologies and this inclusive, tolerant jargon. And all it's doing is really making the students
00:31:34.040 recognize that there are inherent differences, instead of embracing everyone just for who they are
00:31:41.240 based on their merits, not their identity politics or what they prefer sexually, which in my opinion,
00:31:47.000 children in grades four to eight should not be being asked, especially at school without their 0.96
00:31:53.800 parents' knowledge or consent. Oh, 100%, Tamara. You know, they say gender can be fluid. I guess 0.85
00:32:00.840 the new math these days is mathematics can be fluid. Two plus two equals five. And if you have a problem
00:32:08.200 with that, then you're a homophobe or a transphobe, I guess, in this crazy upside down world in which we live.
00:32:16.760 Tell me, Tamara, last question. What do you think is the unspoken reason behind this survey? Because
00:32:25.880 when you look at it logically, nothing adds up. Yeah, well, I think that it has a huge,
00:32:32.200 there's a huge component here with the, you know, the diversity and inclusion sect, as I've already kind
00:32:38.600 of alluded to. And I'm just going to pull up the report itself because I want to make mention of the
00:32:44.840 particular person who sent out the email when I filed the access to information request, I was
00:32:49.800 able to garner the email that went out about this survey. Yeah, so the email as part of the access
00:32:55.560 to information request that I filed when I found out that these surveys were going out,
00:32:59.000 a lot of the survey was based on an email sent by Patrick Case, who's the assistant deputy minister and
00:33:08.920 education equity secretariat. I mean, I didn't even know that such a position existed. But this person's
00:33:15.320 making 208,000 plus dollars a year, working this this bloated bureau bureaucrat position. And, you know,
00:33:23.720 these are the kinds of people that really are just turning a mountain in from a molehill. And
00:33:32.120 when we're facing record inflation, and Ontarians are struggling to make ends meet,
00:33:37.080 and children have faced unprecedented school closures and lockdowns that have set them back
00:33:42.600 years in their education and curriculum knowledge and know how. Is this really an appropriate allocation
00:33:50.440 of funds that the government, the Ontario government put anywhere from two and a half to 3.9 million
00:33:56.440 dollars into? This is fiscal irresponsibility. And it's outrageous that these questions are being garnered and
00:34:03.880 solicited of our young school age children. And Tamara, that's an excellent point too. And it shows how
00:34:10.040 far Doug Ford has fallen. We go back 12 years ago when his late great brother was the mayor of Toronto. Doug
00:34:18.120 was a councillor. They ran on the slogan, a brilliant slogan, respect for taxpayers. And the Doug Ford of that
00:34:25.800 era, this guy making the $208,000 a year, he'd be the first to walk the plank in terms of respect for
00:34:34.440 taxpayers. Now I'm sure this educrat is in for a raise and a bonus in the weeks and months ahead. Oh,
00:34:42.440 my God, what, oh, what happened to Doug Ford? Tamara, last word goes to you, my friend.
00:34:49.880 Yeah, it keeps bringing me back to bizarro world. What a strange,
00:34:53.320 bizarro upside down world that we are living in. And I really just would like to urge parents and
00:34:59.160 anyone who cares about the future of education and the future of our children to get involved,
00:35:04.440 to stay up to speed on what is happening on the ground in your classrooms, in your school boards,
00:35:11.000 and make the necessary phone calls to the trustee who's the only one that's elected
00:35:17.000 within the board itself, but the directors of education and the various other leveled positions
00:35:21.800 in your school board and to really just get involved and keep your ear to the ground so you
00:35:25.960 know what is happening in the classroom for those seven hours a day that your children are not in your
00:35:31.960 care because that is a long time and these are young, impressionable children.
00:35:35.000 I totally agree, Tamara. Let's hope mama bear wakes up on mass and get some change done here because 1.00
00:35:44.440 this is absolutely egregious and inappropriate. And thank you so much for that superb commentary
00:35:50.440 for bringing awareness to it. You have a great weekend, Tamara.
00:35:53.720 Thanks, David. You too.
00:35:55.480 All right. And that was Tamara Ugolini in Coburg, Ontario. Keep it here, folks.
00:36:01.080 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:36:06.920 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Mississauga, Ontario. And folks,
00:36:11.240 I am in the office tower that houses the constituency office for the Right Honourable
00:36:18.440 Omar Al-Ghabra. He is, of course, the Minister of Transport. And the reason why I'm here is that
00:36:25.480 this particular building is the final destination for Freedom Convoy 2.0, the Mini-Me edition.
00:36:33.560 Now, I know you're probably saying, what in the world is the Menzoid talking about this time? 1.00
00:36:38.360 Well, I want you to check out this TikTok video. It was posted last week by Bridget Belton,
00:36:44.280 and it should explain all.
00:36:58.360 Andy is saying, I never did like algebra at school. Pointless. Andy, it shows.
00:37:17.320 It shows. Honk, honk, indeed. So, here I am at Omar's office. I just want to find out how many of
00:37:25.160 these toy trucks have come in thus far. Secondly, I want to know what Omar and his staff plans to do
00:37:32.680 with all those toy trucks. Hopefully, they're not going to keep them like they do to our tax dollars.
00:37:37.320 Hopefully, they're going to bring those out to, I don't know, Christmas toy drives. And in the spirit
00:37:43.240 of Christmas time, I thought I would get into the giving mode myself. And that's why I have this
00:37:49.640 little baby. It's a tanker truck. Golly, it says right on it, flammable liquid. I hope that doesn't
00:37:58.600 trigger Omar or any of his staff members. I mean, it's just a toy. It's not real. In any event,
00:38:04.360 let's get in the elevator, go up to Omar's office and find out what's going on when it comes to
00:38:10.280 Trucker Convoy 2.0, the mini-me edition. I'm David Menzies with Rebel News. And I just thought I'd,
00:38:19.240 we're doing a story on this Trucker Convoy 2.0 with toy trucks that are being sent to Omar
00:38:26.200 Al-Gabra's office. And do you know how many trucks have arrived yet? No, no, no comment. Sorry. No comment?
00:38:33.000 No comment. I'm so sorry. Oh, okay. I'm in the spirit of Christmas. I'm dropping off my toy truck
00:38:39.320 as part of the convoy. You can't. Oh, what am I going to do with it? Because there's going to be a
00:38:45.080 whole bunch of toy trucks coming. Sorry. No, but what about, but what about my truck?
00:38:51.320 The wrong officer about that. This is, it isn't really flammable liquid. It just says that.
00:38:55.800 No, you're not going to, you're not going to. Have you ever seen, this is like the anti-set clause.
00:39:05.160 Well, how do you like that?
00:39:08.840 Well, there is a saying, it's one thing to look a gift horse in the mouth. It's quite another to kick
00:39:18.040 its teeth in. What are they so afraid of? Do they think these are real trucks? I mean,
00:39:23.000 they can't accept it. Unbelievable. Well, um, I am, I've got the hashtags written on the back
00:39:29.880 and, um, I don't know what to do with it. My, uh, my sons are beyond the, uh, truck playing, uh, stage,
00:39:36.680 the toy truck playing stage, that is. So we'll just leave it here for Mr. El Gabra and, um, hopefully one
00:39:43.320 of these, um, nice, uh, Santa's elves will collect it and give it to a Christmas toy drive in the days and
00:39:50.840 weeks ahead. For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.84
00:40:01.240 Gee, there I was only trying to spread a little Christmas time joy, but the gaggle of Grinches at
00:40:07.960 Omar El Gabra's office, well, they wanted nothing to do with my toy truck donation.
00:40:13.240 Those are liberals for you. All right. Turning ho, ho, ho into no, no, no. Bah humbug. In any event,
00:40:22.040 you had plenty to say about our visit to Minister El Gabra's office. Bruce Acheson writes, I'm glad
00:40:29.880 this was done. Liberals need to be mocked. Oh, and there is so much to mock, isn't there, Bruce? 0.96
00:40:37.400 Indeed, talk about a gift to last. And by the way, while there's only 16 days left until Christmas,
00:40:44.120 you have plenty of time, folks, to send Omar a little toy truck. Gee, I wonder how big that convoy is
00:40:50.840 right now. Sylvia Fletcher writes, David, you rock. Keep up the great work. Well, thanks so much,
00:40:58.600 Sylvia. That was very nice. However, Omar's staff sure didn't think I rocked, but at least let's
00:41:05.080 consider the silver lining here. First, they did not call the cops. And secondly, they did not contact
00:41:12.280 Prime Minister Blackface McGroper to invoke the Emergencies Act again. Talk about the Christmas
00:41:18.840 miracle. Muskoka Mike writes, the problem is David calls it Christmas. That triggered them. He should
00:41:28.400 have called it a signature present or a holiday present. Then they'd have accepted it. Golly,
00:41:35.460 I never even thought about that, Muskoka Mike. But you see, old habits die hard. I can't help but call
00:41:42.660 this time of year Christmas time because, you know, it's Christmas time. The anti-pop, writes,
00:41:52.800 could be perceived as a hate gift. Oh, anti-pop, please don't give the Omar Agarabra camp any ideas.
00:42:01.420 I'm already swamped with assignments as it is. I really don't want to be hauled into some kangaroo 0.99
00:42:07.280 court human rights tribunal right now, if you don't mind. And Sam Hill 613 writes,
00:42:15.200 Grover is not a fan of freedom or trucks. Well, you know, I think you're right, Sam. But when it comes to
00:42:21.640 Grover, or I mean, Omar, he should be a fan of freedom, especially given that he was born in
00:42:28.120 Syria, hardly a bastion of freedom and human rights. And Omar has done well in Canada, wouldn't you say, 0.96
00:42:34.820 becoming a member of parliament and a cabinet minister to boot. It was the freedom that is
00:42:41.180 inherent to Canada that allowed Omar to achieve these goals. Yet now he is part of a government
00:42:48.440 that is hell-bent on taking away our freedoms. How perverse is that? As well, Omar and everyone
00:42:56.800 else in the world should be fans of trucks and truckers. Put it this way, truckers are the reason
00:43:03.180 we are alive. That food you see in the supermarkets, the medicine you see in the pharmacies, the fuel that
00:43:11.340 is available at the gas stations. How do you think it all got there? By truck, that's how. Gee, wouldn't
00:43:18.680 it be a wonderful Christmas gift if the Trudeau liberals stopped vilifying truckers? Well, that
00:43:26.840 wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. Have yourselves a fantastic
00:43:32.380 weekend. See you next week. And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.
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