Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ CBC's Freedom Convoy Hit Piece; Poilievre at UBC

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:00:03.520 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week

00:00:07.240 by your favorite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies. Alexa Lavois looks into a CBC hit piece

00:00:14.300 on the Freedom Convoy. You see, the state broadcaster claimed that a Good Samaritan

00:00:19.720 was conned out of thousands of dollars by the convoy folk. Just one little teeny-weeny problem.

00:00:27.380 Turns out that the so-called Good Samaritan, well, he's actually a con man,

00:00:33.680 not the Freedom Convoy people. Yes, thanks to an appalling lack of fact-checking,

00:00:40.260 this CBC story may be one of the worst examples of fake news so far this year.

00:00:47.200 Alexa has all the appalling details. And the Pierre Polyev Express continues to chug along

00:00:54.340 the conservative leadership hopeful, recently swung by the University of British Columbia.

00:00:59.900 Andrea Humphrey was able to interview Mr. Polyev regarding his support for the blockchain economy.

00:01:07.960 And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:12.700 And I'll share some of your responses about my commentary regarding an Ontario government-run magazine

00:01:19.960 devoted to the sale of alcohol that recently ran a story about Ramadan.

00:01:27.940 Um, does anyone see a little problem here?

00:01:31.300 Apparently not the nitwits who produce that fish wrap known as Food and Drink magazine.

00:01:37.680 Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:40.120 My landlord, when I got arrested and asked if I could search my property

00:01:54.660 because they thought, like, I had weapons, I was an organizer.

00:02:00.060 Here is what I could debunk concerning the lies about the donation and the money he lost.

00:02:07.740 This is only a part of it, as other people also contributed to help him financially during the convoy.

00:02:18.040 But we cannot know the exact amount he received.

00:02:23.220 Let's start with the claim in the CBC article that Engelhardt spent over $13,000

00:02:30.440 but only received $2,000 in donation.

00:02:34.520 Engelhardt also said he wrote to the convoy's organizer several times to be refunded

00:02:42.380 for what he had spent on fuel for the truckers.

00:02:47.040 I asked my bank on February 14th, how much money did I spend from January 27th to the 14th?

00:02:56.040 And the total was a little bit over $13,000.

00:03:00.480 He said he included receipt and screenshot of his bank statement.

00:03:07.260 The person in charge of the refund confirmed to me that Engelhardt had no receipt,

00:03:15.460 only picture of his account with unverifiable transfer and expense.

00:03:22.000 Oh, poor Martin Engelhardt.

00:03:24.160 I guess he doesn't realize that the problem with such a true confession slash mea culpa is this.

00:03:31.820 You see, when you are a con man confessing that you are no longer a con man,

00:03:39.780 the thing is, how do we truly know that this confession is not part of yet another con job?

00:03:48.240 Sorry, Mr. Engelhardt, I don't buy what you are selling, nor do I doubt many people are either.

00:03:56.400 But hey, let's not forget Martin's accomplice in this most recent grifting scheme.

00:04:03.940 And that would be the CBC, which was so gung-ho to demonize the patriots

00:04:09.720 who made up the rank and file of the trucker convoy

00:04:12.960 that our state broadcaster forgot to do, you know, a little due diligence like fact-checking.

00:04:21.280 And joining me now to discuss this shameful man and an even more shameful piece of so-called journalism

00:04:29.900 is our Quebec City correspondent, Alexa Lavoie.

00:04:34.440 Bonjour, Alexa.

00:04:36.680 Hello.

00:04:37.760 Great to have you.

00:04:39.600 Great to have you.

00:04:41.280 So, Alexa, lots of blame to go around here, but who do you have more contempt for? 1.00

00:04:48.280 The con man, because I guess con men do what con men do, which is to take advantage of good Samaritans,

00:04:56.200 or the CBC, which really just couldn't be bothered to show a little initiative

00:05:02.760 and check out his outrageous story?

00:05:06.520 So, for me, I would say, like, both of them are to blame.

00:05:09.940 Like, when you know that you are actually doing some bad stuff, fraud, example, scamming people,

00:05:19.780 you are not exposing yourself in the story, in the mainstream media.

00:05:24.560 So, of course, if you decide to expose yourself, you take the consequences that come with.

00:05:32.360 And the CBC had the job to probably verify and do some fact-checking for, like, what they give to them,

00:05:42.660 like, bank account or, like, the ticket they receive.

00:05:46.820 They didn't check anything, and they didn't verify who was this man.

00:05:52.700 And they used that man, exposed him.

00:05:56.060 Afterwards, the people were seeing him say, oh, we are feeling so sorry for him.

00:06:01.400 We want to help him out.

00:06:03.620 They didn't know what, who they were giving money.

00:06:07.680 And now I find out that that man is not, completely not the one that people was expecting.

00:06:16.120 This man have, you will see in my next report,

00:06:19.560 but you have, like, a really huge criminal record only, like, and I, this is only in Quebec.

00:06:27.220 We are, I'm not talking about the rest of Canada.

00:06:31.060 Well, you know, Alexa, thanks to your superb investigative journalism on this file,

00:06:37.620 you have exposed the CBC for being duped by this person.

00:06:43.340 Maybe they were willingly being duped, and that would be a story unto itself.

00:06:48.540 But the thing is, now that the cat is out of the bag regarding this guy's background

00:06:54.800 and his nefarious activities in the past, has the CBC retracted this story, apologized, made a correction?

00:07:03.100 What?

00:07:04.300 So, I know that they did a correction when they saw, like, when it was saying, like,

00:07:08.860 oh, I got arrested, and on the, he said that on the 15th,

00:07:13.880 but on the ticket of the police officer, he was on the 10th.

00:07:17.540 So, they rectified on their webpage some of the small information.

00:07:24.380 But when we talk about the fact that CBC have reported on this man on 2018,

00:07:30.380 and they didn't check on their own archive about the man in question,

00:07:38.060 and as well, when, you know, that on the bank statement,

00:07:43.000 they were able to see, like, black and white,

00:07:46.780 that he was claiming, like, welfare from two provinces.

00:07:50.260 That is actually a fraud thing.

00:07:53.020 And they didn't, like, notice that.

00:07:55.360 I'm not sure about it.

00:07:56.600 I think it's more like, or negligence, or they just wanted to let that out of the story.

00:08:02.300 Well, Alexa, I know CBC is funded to the tune of more than a billion-plus dollars a year,

00:08:10.040 making it virtually an extension of the government.

00:08:12.940 But even by a government bureaucrat standard, how lazy can you get?

00:08:19.320 I mean, they could even check their own stuff on their own website.

00:08:23.420 Do you think, Alexa, I mean, we can't prove this, of course,

00:08:29.020 but do you think CBC was intentionally trying to pull a fast one,

00:08:33.980 that they knew damn well this guy was a con artist,

00:08:37.380 they've reported on that in the past, 0.91

00:08:39.080 and they were just hoping that nobody would notice,

00:08:43.000 but it didn't get past your eagle eyes, thank goodness.

00:08:46.200 Do you think that could be part of this story,

00:08:49.220 which I think makes it infinitely worse?

00:08:52.040 But in fact, like, when they report on it,

00:08:55.580 it was in 2018 because he was missing,

00:08:58.640 and they were, like, scared for his health.

00:09:03.820 So probably they knew that it was,

00:09:05.820 because recently, as you know, like, he did, like,

00:09:08.440 a lot of threat of suicide, as at me, on text message.

00:09:15.500 So we know that he's unstable, we know that he's a really troubled man,

00:09:20.060 but the fact that CBC have reported him as a troubled man,

00:09:26.360 like, missing because they were scared for his health,

00:09:29.820 and now you take him as a victim of a convoy.

00:09:35.100 For me, it's like, eee, it's not the best.

00:09:39.200 And, Alexa, you said something very important there.

00:09:41.380 Sure. He has threatened you or implied threats to you via text messages or phone calls.

00:09:48.060 Can you tell us a little bit about that?

00:09:51.080 Yeah. So after, so first of all, I tried to reach him for his time

00:09:56.420 because I wanted to maybe have an interview or I had some questions for him.

00:10:01.420 So I wanted to let the chance to him to explain himself.

00:10:06.780 So the conversation ended up really, really fast

00:10:10.180 because he said, I destroyed his life.

00:10:13.500 You destroyed his life?

00:10:15.480 Yeah.

00:10:15.940 By telling the truth.

00:10:17.500 Boy, talk about shooting the messenger.

00:10:20.400 And so what were the nature of the threats

00:10:23.160 for supposedly destroying this con man's life?

00:10:26.480 So afterwards, afterwards that my first report went out,

00:10:34.060 he called, he tried to call me many times during the night.

00:10:37.220 It was during the night, like, 11, and at 1 a.m.

00:10:41.980 he was sending me, like, a lot of text messages.

00:10:45.180 I never answered because I was like, his message doesn't mean anything.

00:10:51.840 And so he sent me another message at night the other night,

00:10:56.260 and saying, like, I'm taking 30 deal-a-deal, that will make the job.

00:11:01.760 It's what people want.

00:11:03.600 So afterwards, I have no choice.

00:11:05.260 I called the police for his safety and his help

00:11:10.440 because it was my responsibility at least to advise the police

00:11:18.000 that he wanted to kill himself.

00:11:20.980 But the fun fact is, like, he doesn't have, like, any home.

00:11:24.580 So the police was not able to know where he was.

00:11:28.900 You know, Alexa, this anecdote makes me believe that when we show the video

00:11:34.760 where he's saying, oh, I was bad in the past, I'm reformed now,

00:11:39.600 give me a second chance, I'm a nice guy. 0.93

00:11:41.980 No, I think he's still a con artist.

00:11:44.580 You know, I think that was a lot of BS about him saying, 0.99

00:11:49.320 you've been so mean to me, I'm going to kill myself now. 0.98

00:11:53.780 This guy is a creep, and yet this is the poster boy CBC uses 0.93

00:11:59.180 to demonize decent, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens

00:12:04.380 that were part of the Freedom Convoy.

00:12:06.180 How do you make sense of this?

00:12:07.720 And especially, you need to know that I show a couple of people

00:12:12.640 in my report that I had in interview, but I talked with many, many, many people, okay?

00:12:20.140 And I talked with Coventry Road, the main people who was in charge

00:12:25.260 of the refund of the money.

00:12:27.540 He never provided any receipt, as he say, at CBC.

00:12:31.000 He had only bank statements, and as well, like, a lot of people say to me

00:12:38.640 that they donate to him, or cash, or e-transfer money.

00:12:44.380 And especially for this woman who reached out to me and telling me, like,

00:12:48.940 she gave me the proof of $3,000 that she gave to Martin

00:12:54.680 to rent an apartment and rent a place.

00:12:58.180 So he actually lived on the well-being of people.

00:13:04.680 People want to help.

00:13:06.080 Like, that is the human nature.

00:13:08.140 And so he used that.

00:13:09.920 And it's not, and as well, like, he cannot be, like, sued for donation.

00:13:17.400 Donation is like the person wanted to give you money.

00:13:20.500 So I don't, you cannot sue someone for having, actually agreeing

00:13:25.080 to give money to someone.

00:13:26.640 So he has, like, a narrative, like a narrative, a story

00:13:32.200 that he's telling everybody.

00:13:34.580 And people are just like, okay, I want to help you out.

00:13:37.280 So people donate to him.

00:13:40.100 Wow.

00:13:40.520 Well, Alexa, absolute superb work.

00:13:44.340 I can't wait to see the third part of your wonderful investigative report.

00:13:48.960 Before I let you go, less than two hours ago, you were at the infamous Roxham Road,

00:13:56.780 a.k.a.

00:13:57.700 Welcome to Canada Boulevard.

00:13:59.920 Paper's not required.

00:14:01.660 What did you see there, Alexa?

00:14:04.300 So we went to see a little bit of the establishment there.

00:14:09.240 And at Roxham Road, of course, we saw a couple of taxi.

00:14:14.860 Of course, on the taxi, they have the advertising, like, border crossing, Roxham Road.

00:14:21.340 And so an entire family came, nice, nice clothes, nice new shoes, actually, luggage.

00:14:34.620 And they were actually, I think they had, like, still, like, the plane ticket, like, on the luggage.

00:14:44.020 So probably they were from New York or something like that.

00:14:47.740 And they took, like, straight away the taxi.

00:14:52.060 But I can't believe, like, they are exempt to PCR tests.

00:14:59.680 They are exempt to be vaccinated to enter.

00:15:04.420 And as well, like, if they cannot pay for their hotel, the federal government will pay for their quarantine room hotel.

00:15:14.760 And afterwards, you know that in Montreal right now, the capacity of the shelter for them, it's overreach.

00:15:24.220 They don't have any space anymore.

00:15:27.560 It's the highest level rate of illegal immigration right now.

00:15:32.880 Well, I mean, there's so much to delve in there, Alexa, but I think you nailed it on the head.

00:15:38.480 Here we have people, unvaccinated, no PCR tests.

00:15:42.900 Welcome to Canada.

00:15:43.900 You can cross an international border.

00:15:46.060 You or I, if we don't have vaccinations, we are landlocked in Canada.

00:15:50.660 We can't go on a plane.

00:15:52.260 We can't go on a train.

00:15:53.380 If we need to see a relative in British Columbia, well, you know, say hello to a four-day drive across our dominion. 0.96

00:16:00.840 Absolutely egregious and hypocritical.

00:16:03.800 Thank you also for staying on top of that story. 0.55

00:16:07.320 And as far as the CBC is concerned, I know officially those letters stand for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 0.99

00:16:15.780 I'm beginning to think they stand for crap, bullshite, and more crap. 1.00

00:16:19.640 But that's just me. 1.00

00:16:21.040 Alexa, you have a wonderful weekend, my friend.

00:16:24.700 You too, David.

00:16:26.140 Okay, you take care.

00:16:27.440 And that was Alexa Lavoie coming to us from Montreal today. 0.55

00:16:34.020 Keep it here, folks.

00:16:34.820 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:37.120 Yeah, so recently you said that you are for Canada becoming sort of the blockchain capital of the world.

00:16:51.560 I'm just wondering if that means, and I've got to read it because I'm learning with everyone else here.

00:16:55.660 Does that mean you support centralized digital currency like we're seeing with Canada, that they're developing with MIT, like what we're seeing that just rolled out with China and their social credit system?

00:17:07.220 No, the opposite of that.

00:17:08.720 So you have central bank digital currencies, which are controlled by government.

00:17:13.180 You have decentralized blockchain assets like Bitcoin, which are controlled by no one.

00:17:21.400 Basically, Bitcoin is controlled by the majority of the processing power on the network, which is held by thousands of people all around the world who don't even know each other.

00:17:33.500 And that's the genius of the blockchain and the genius of Bitcoin.

00:17:38.320 No one controls it.

00:17:39.400 The government doesn't control it.

00:17:41.220 It is controlled by a protocol, and you can buy and sell it without any intermediary.

00:17:48.060 Everything is updated on a public ledger.

00:17:50.260 That is verified by thousands of people around the world through their computer network.

00:17:57.120 And those people don't even know each other, so they can't conspire to control it.

00:18:00.860 Well, just call it the Pierre Polyev Express.

00:18:04.660 Wherever Mr. Polyev goes, he is greeted by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.

00:18:10.380 And such was the case recently when Mr. Polyev dropped by the University of British Columbia

00:18:15.940 to chat with the young Conservatives on campus there.

00:18:20.760 One of the topics discussed was his desire for Canada to be a leader when it comes to blockchain technology.

00:18:27.740 Of course, there are so many other topics that are resonating with grassroots Conservatives,

00:18:33.420 from his support of the trucker convoys to his pledge to defund the CBC statements that earn Polyev standing ovations wherever he goes in our great dominion.

00:18:48.600 And joining me now from Vancouver is Drea Humphrey.

00:18:52.100 Drea Humphrey, happy to see you again, Drea.

00:18:54.500 Yeah, you too. Thanks for having me.

00:18:56.360 Wonderful. So, Drea, for red meat Conservatives, I think Pierre Polyev is certainly saying all the right things. 1.00

00:19:03.980 But at the end of the day, the question arises,

00:19:06.700 is he the Conservative champion that can knock Justin Trudeau off his throne?

00:19:13.160 Or is Mr. Polyev too good to be true, given what we witnessed with Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole,

00:19:21.220 namely a couple of candidates that didn't come as advertised?

00:19:26.000 Yeah, you know, that's something we're going to have to wait to find out the answer to.

00:19:29.940 But definitely when it comes to sort of a movement appearing to be happening, he seems to be doing that.

00:19:35.960 And we've had the opportunity of seeing him go head-to-head with Trudeau many times before,

00:19:41.700 so that gives us a little bit of a taste on how they would be up against each other.

00:19:46.340 But, you know, I haven't, there's nothing Mr. Polyev has ever said that I disagree with.

00:19:52.940 Sometimes it's more just what you wish he would have said at certain times.

00:19:57.880 Yeah, you know, I mean, as you said, Drea, time will tell.

00:20:01.720 I will say this, my gut feeling is telling me that Pierre Polyev is the real deal.

00:20:09.220 I could be totally wrong, we'll find out in the months and years ahead.

00:20:12.920 But certainly compared to the other so-called frontrunners in this race,

00:20:18.440 and I speak of Jean Charest when he was out in your parts,

00:20:23.680 I saw a photo on Twitter, Drea, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

00:20:28.000 It looked like he was in a library that was half-filled, and the look on the people's faces,

00:20:33.800 it looked like they were being bored to death.

00:20:36.080 And then we have, you know, the sneaky beaver himself, Patrick Brown.

00:20:42.060 And he made news the other day by saying that he wants to take the Tamil Tiger terrorist organization

00:20:51.020 off the terrorist list.

00:20:52.900 He'll do that if he becomes prime minister.

00:20:55.080 This is an organization that is recognized as a terrorist organization by 33 nations, Drea.

00:21:01.600 This is a terrorist organization that has actually killed a former prime minister of India,

00:21:08.480 something so many other terrorist organizations would love to have on their resumes.

00:21:13.120 Just showing you that Patrick Brown will say anything to anyone. 0.99

00:21:17.540 How can these two dimwits possibly be contenders, 0.96

00:21:23.340 given the kind of crowds and the kind of things Pierre Polyev is saying? 0.91

00:21:27.880 Well, I think there's always diversity in any party, really.

00:21:32.620 And so we're seeing that, like, in full with this race, 1.00

00:21:36.180 which I suppose is a good thing for democracy.

00:21:38.940 But yeah, when you point out things like, you know,

00:21:41.300 that's the promise you're going to make is taking someone off the terrorist list

00:21:46.020 or a group off the terrorist list that is like that.

00:21:48.760 I mean, that's pretty scary.

00:21:49.940 But I guess you can put your own foot in your own mouth while you're running.

00:21:53.060 But, you know, there are so many.

00:21:57.080 You mentioned the UBC meeting.

00:21:58.860 I think it was only about 160 who showed up.

00:22:02.100 But that apparently had been the largest political gathering at UBC for over five years.

00:22:07.600 So nothing to do with the lockdown or anything like that.

00:22:10.420 So that just shows that there is something new happening right now.

00:22:15.320 And I guess maybe people who are running against them

00:22:19.000 are just trying to find their own way to stand out.

00:22:22.320 You know, and I do notice, Dre, and I don't know if you've noticed it,

00:22:26.060 it seems that Mr. Polyev is really appealing to the youth demographic.

00:22:30.860 I see a lot of young people going to his rallies.

00:22:34.300 And I know young people don't tend to vote,

00:22:36.520 but hopefully they will if he becomes leader.

00:22:39.280 But something I want to get your opinion on,

00:22:41.820 because I think it's very important,

00:22:43.440 I have observed with great distress

00:22:47.160 that the critics of Pierre Polyev are playing the race card.

00:22:53.840 I look at some of the tweets.

00:22:55.600 Here's one from somebody called Ismahan Razavi, she, her.

00:23:03.900 She's with an organization called Champion Communications,

00:23:08.720 more like Loser Communications, if you ask me,

00:23:11.520 and showed the huge gathering the other day in Calgary of Pierre Polyev supporters.

00:23:18.960 And she wrote,

00:23:20.360 Calgary is the third most diverse city in this country.

00:23:24.960 This crowd does nothing to reflect that translation.

00:23:29.440 Drea, look at all these white people. 1.00

00:23:31.920 I think, I mean, there are those who are basically likening Pierre Polyev

00:23:40.340 almost to a white supremacist.

00:23:43.040 Are you getting that vibe?

00:23:44.540 Or do the people you interviewed, do they come across like that to you?

00:23:48.640 Well, you know, in his BC visits, it was a very diverse crowd.

00:23:53.080 I did a couple of reports on it.

00:23:54.560 You could see that.

00:23:55.460 So it would be hard to do that narrative.

00:23:57.400 You couldn't just kind of point the camera at one angle

00:24:00.260 and only capture a group of white people.

00:24:02.700 But this isn't surprising.

00:24:03.860 We've seen this happen over and over and over.

00:24:06.520 Use the race card if you don't like someone for whatever reason.

00:24:10.260 And I think that it was effective.

00:24:12.360 It was an effective strategy for a while.

00:24:14.120 But I think people are so over it.

00:24:15.840 It's almost like crying wolf at this point.

00:24:18.620 Now, when there really is some evil racist person,

00:24:22.020 people are just going to roll their eyes because they're just going to think it's another time

00:24:25.220 of, you know, the radical left using the race to try to silence a movement

00:24:30.980 or a valuable discussion that needs to be had.

00:24:34.840 Oh, but, you know, that's the thing, Dre, as you well know,

00:24:37.660 that when it comes to the radical left playing the race card,

00:24:41.240 they only play it one way.

00:24:43.100 If Mr. Poliev was getting a disproportionate number of people of colour, Asian people,

00:24:51.300 they would never dare issue a treat like, look at all these Chinese people. 1.00

00:24:58.080 What does that say?

00:24:59.420 I mean, you know, I think this is really dangerous ground.

00:25:03.380 I think they are really dividing Canadians when they use the race card selectively this way.

00:25:11.120 Yeah, I mean, we saw this over and over with our protest coverage, right?

00:25:14.720 You would protest.

00:25:16.020 It would be diverse.

00:25:16.880 Or I would like to say it would be representative of the percentage of where you live,

00:25:21.860 at least in Vancouver, right?

00:25:23.140 I mean, you know, it would be abnormal to have 50% black people at a protest in Vancouver, right? 1.00

00:25:30.920 That wouldn't be statistically representative.

00:25:33.060 But we saw over and over it get painted one way.

00:25:35.740 So again, you know, because this is a conservative race,

00:25:39.280 I'm not surprised to see this being used.

00:25:42.540 And I don't think anyone who is ready to see a change in Canada is really going to buy it anyways.

00:25:49.560 Yeah.

00:25:49.780 And I personally think, Drea, that Jean Charest gave himself a self-inflicted fatal wound

00:25:57.100 when he came out and condemned Pierre Poliev for supporting the Trucker Freedom Convoy

00:26:03.300 and further suggested that his support of the convoy should disqualify Mr. Poliev for running for conservative leader.

00:26:13.400 Is Jean Charest so out of touch that he doesn't realize that it was Aaron O'Toole's wishy-washy stance on the truckers

00:26:22.580 that got him ousted as the conservative leader?

00:26:26.400 How do you make sense of this, Drea?

00:26:28.020 Well, you're right.

00:26:29.460 He really drew the line in the sand there.

00:26:31.640 If you were ever wondering, you know, is this a liberal putting on a blue suit for a moment,

00:26:37.780 you kind of got your answer with that.

00:26:40.000 And even I think Evan Solomon was kind of like, well, no, he supported the truckers.

00:26:43.940 There was a little bit of an argument there about, you know, what happened there.

00:26:47.580 And so you can just see he's going on with this false narrative and trying to use that to win.

00:26:53.140 But it definitely, I think, worked the opposite and just showed his true colors.

00:26:58.720 And I guess that, I don't know if the library tweet you saw was after that, but perhaps that played into it.

00:27:04.460 Yeah.

00:27:04.660 And speaking of true colors, the only colors that count, if you ask me,

00:27:08.760 while Charest says he's true blue, we can't ignore the elephant in the room.

00:27:13.740 Namely, he was a red liberal premier of Quebec for eight years.

00:27:18.520 I mean, how does he have the chutzpah to run for the conservative leadership with that on his resume, Drea?

00:27:25.620 I saw a funny meme where it was like him getting his tattoo off from liberal and getting a new tattoo on.

00:27:31.500 It's pretty funny.

00:27:32.520 But yeah, eight years is a pretty dedicated amount of time.

00:27:37.180 So I don't know what's going on.

00:27:40.700 But I will say it's a very exciting race and politics are not always exciting.

00:27:45.740 So it's kind of good to have, you know, the craziness in there.

00:27:50.120 And maybe that strengthens the votes of other people, right?

00:27:53.760 Oh, 100%.

00:27:54.580 And, you know, the convention for the conservatives, it's not till September.

00:27:59.540 In a political timeline, that is an eternity, Drea.

00:28:03.420 So much can happen.

00:28:05.020 As the saying goes, today cannot possibly dream of what tomorrow will bring.

00:28:09.700 But I'm going to ask you to go out on a limb here.

00:28:11.720 What do you think is going to happen come September based on these early results where we see Polyev getting standing room only crowds, incredible ovations.

00:28:26.140 And meanwhile, Jean Charest is in half-empty libraries.

00:28:31.820 And Patrick Brown is in basements in Brampton talking to terrorist supporters.

00:28:36.760 What do you think is going to happen come September?

00:28:38.920 Well, just based on what's going on today, it would be probably we would see Polyev win.

00:28:46.300 Although I think people are also underestimating Dr. Lewis.

00:28:49.900 She's had decent turnouts as well.

00:28:52.260 I just covered her yesterday.

00:28:53.500 There was about 350 people.

00:28:56.000 She was first to reach the 300K level.

00:28:59.580 She passed MP Polyev on that.

00:29:02.920 She had won the pot one or whatever, however you say it, but got the popular vote in the last leadership race. 0.96

00:29:09.780 So perhaps there's some sort of grassroots movement there that isn't getting as much exposure.

00:29:16.900 And who knows how close they could be come September 10th.

00:29:21.200 But again, that's all based on what's happening now.

00:29:23.860 Well, I'll tell you, Andrea, Dr. Leslie Lewis would be my second choice.

00:29:30.820 I'm backing right now, Mr. Polyev.

00:29:34.460 As I said before, my gut tells me he's the real deal.

00:29:37.720 But at least, Dr. Lewis, she is a conservative.

00:29:41.000 When you look at the others, come on, Jean Charest, that's a liberal.

00:29:44.420 Well, Patrick Brown, he's a fake conservative.

00:29:47.220 The reason why he was ousted from the PC Ontario, rather the PC Ontario, yes, leadership role,

00:29:55.200 was because he had thrown fiscal conservatives under the bus and social conservatives under the bus.

00:30:01.060 There was no one else to throw under the bus but him.

00:30:03.320 And then we have Leona Alislev, the liberal that crossed over to the Conservative Party in 2018

00:30:09.960 because internal polling in her writing, which happens to be the writing I'm in,

00:30:15.700 showed that it was going to swing conservative.

00:30:18.020 And it did.

00:30:19.340 But alas and alack, the best laid plans, she lost her seat last fall with the last federal election. 0.98

00:30:26.000 But yet, she's a liberal as well.

00:30:29.520 Here's my question, Drea.

00:30:31.420 Drea, why is it that the Conservative Party seems to attract people who are phony conservatives?

00:30:41.360 They're really liberals in the first place.

00:30:45.840 Well, that's a good question.

00:30:47.660 I didn't know the backstory you just said about crossing the floor.

00:30:51.220 I did know that she crossed the floor, but I didn't know why exactly.

00:30:55.580 And, you know, with that said, let's hope we see more of that this time around.

00:30:59.720 And maybe that would be a reason for more liberals to become conservative.

00:31:04.560 Maybe they're going to see, oh, my goodness, there is some traction happening there.

00:31:08.660 And we're sort of on a sinking ship.

00:31:11.700 So maybe that is one of the reasons that people do move to the conservatives,

00:31:14.940 is that they can kind of see that the culture is changing.

00:31:17.900 And perhaps they just want to jump off the sinking ship. 0.95

00:31:21.540 Yeah, they might be rats, but it's OK if there are rats, I suppose.

00:31:25.420 Oh, no, rats have their purpose, I suppose.

00:31:29.720 OK, well, Drea, a wonderful piece.

00:31:33.120 And by the way, I almost forgot to mention another difference compared to what we saw with Mr. Scheer, Mr. O'Toole.

00:31:39.900 Mr. Poliev is actually giving interviews to rebel news reporters.

00:31:45.140 You got one.

00:31:46.480 Our colleague Dakota got one.

00:31:48.740 They might be brief, but he's not running away.

00:31:51.960 He's not hiding in a bathroom.

00:31:53.540 He's not calling the cops.

00:31:56.340 So that that is a major plus for himself as well.

00:32:01.360 Drea, have a wonderful weekend and a joyful Easter, my friend.

00:32:06.160 You too.

00:32:06.940 Bye, everyone.

00:32:08.000 Thank you so much.

00:32:09.000 And that was Drea Humphrey in Vancouver.

00:32:11.860 Keep it here, folks.

00:32:13.000 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:32:15.260 You see, on page 24, there's an article regarding the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, which kicked off earlier this month.

00:32:33.260 Right off the bat, does anyone see an issue here?

00:32:36.700 The LCBO doesn't sell food, of course, but it does sell alcohol and lots of it. 0.95

00:32:43.540 How is it possible that the dim-witted staff at Booze Inc. might be the only ones in the province who don't realize that practicing Muslims aren't supposed to drink beer, wine, and spirits? 0.97

00:32:56.680 Hello? 0.98

00:32:57.740 In any event, here's where things get interesting.

00:33:00.640 When it's time for Ramadan fasting to end, food and drinks suggest partaking in such marvelous edibles as hearty lamb, legume soup, and a funnel cake-type fritter called Zulbia.

00:33:15.120 That sounds delicious, but what does one wash it down with?

00:33:19.860 Wow.

00:33:20.800 By the way, do you think the LCBO was fined or it suffered any other punishment for breaking, you know, the law?

00:33:29.540 Of course not.

00:33:31.020 The LCBO is a government unto itself.

00:33:33.820 They can break the law with impunity.

00:33:36.240 So much for this agency's claim that it deserves a monopoly for liquor based on the concept of social responsibility.

00:33:45.880 In any event, you had plenty to say about the LCBO trying to woo Muslims to imbibe alcohol during Ramadan,

00:33:54.000 and it's penchant to sell alcohol to minors clad in burkas.

00:34:00.120 After all, better for the LCBO to break the law, I guess, other than come across as being culturally insensitive.

00:34:08.920 I think I need a drink, folks.

00:34:11.780 Lynn McLeod writes, Muslims don't drink.

00:34:15.100 Well, they aren't supposed to, that's for sure. 0.94

00:34:18.200 Do you think the food and drink people are ignorant to this fact, or in their LCBO obsessive quest to be inclusive,

00:34:28.580 maybe their wokeism trumped common sense, or maybe the food and drink editor was drunk as a skunk when that story idea was pitched.

00:34:38.820 In any regard, your tax dollars hard at work yet again, folks.

00:34:43.500 The Flat Rock writes, down south, you can buy a 60 of vodka for under $15 U.S.

00:34:51.640 Wow, yet another argument to get government out of the booze retailing business

00:34:57.160 and allow the private sector to come into it, which has been the case in Alberta since the early 90s.

00:35:05.240 JC writes, end government unions.

00:35:08.980 Oh, hey JC, I'll drink to that.

00:35:12.080 Mike writes, can you please tell me if the LCBO gave you the bottle they stole from you, the one you paid for?

00:35:20.360 I hope so.

00:35:21.640 Like to see the follow-up.

00:35:23.400 David, best reporter.

00:35:24.700 Well, first of all, thanks so much for the compliment, Mike.

00:35:27.420 And folks, in case you missed it, Mike is referring to our video from a year ago,

00:35:33.020 in which I bought three bottles of scotch from the LCBO's Leaside store in Toronto.

00:35:38.440 Problem was, I only received two bottles.

00:35:42.480 Yeah, they ripped me off.

00:35:44.040 Maybe it was an honest error, or maybe they were pissed off that my face diaper slipped below my nose at one point.

00:35:51.980 Yes, I got yelled at for that by an LCBO staffer.

00:35:55.740 Nevertheless, LCBO Corporate did the right thing for a change by ordering that store

00:36:01.740 to give me the bottle that was bought and paid for, namely a bottle of Glenn Farkless 105 Scotch.

00:36:08.200 But when I went to pick up the bottle, the store manager, a COVID super Karen, if ever there was one,

00:36:15.860 refused to hand it over to me.

00:36:17.780 In the meantime, folks, we sent a legal demand letter to the LCBO, which has been inexplicably ignored.

00:36:25.680 Then again, as the sale of booze to minors proves, this entity thinks it is above the law, I guess.

00:36:33.940 So it looks like we are headed to small claims court to get justice.

00:36:39.740 Once again, when it comes to Booze Inc. run by Big Brother,

00:36:44.940 it's always a matter of customer service excellence, not astonishing.

00:36:51.140 Doodad writes, David, is this a late April Fool's joke or are you serious? 0.96

00:36:58.420 What a ridiculous story. 1.00

00:37:00.560 You are correct when you say you aren't that smart. 0.99

00:37:03.700 Well, Doodad, I know this video comes across as resembling a delayed April Fool's Day joke, 0.97

00:37:10.540 and it's definitely a ridiculous story, I grant you that, but I'm just reporting it.

00:37:17.040 Why shoot the messenger? And not to be a nitpicker here, but there's supposed to be an apostrophe in Fools, 0.99

00:37:24.760 and the F should be uppercase. At least I'm smart enough to know that. 0.98

00:37:31.600 And Anonymous Person writes, and this affects me how?

00:37:36.320 Well, Anonymous Person, assuming you are an Ontario taxpayer,

00:37:39.660 how do you feel about your provincial government using your tax dollars to publish a magazine

00:37:44.820 and they have absolutely no mandate to be in the magazine publishing business in the first place?

00:37:52.220 That's the bailiwick of the private sector.

00:37:55.140 And doesn't the outrageous double standard bother you when it comes to the LCBO

00:38:00.500 actually breaking the law by selling booze to minors?

00:38:03.580 As you know, if a variety store operator is caught selling cigarettes to a minor,

00:38:09.040 we're talking serious financial penalties here.

00:38:13.020 Heck, the government even runs gotcha sting operations to zap small shop operators,

00:38:19.920 but the LCBO Leviathan just shrugs its shoulders and promises to do better in the future.

00:38:26.040 So maybe this does not affect you directly, but it sure bugs the hell out of me,

00:38:32.820 and I assume the vast majority of Ontarians, regardless of political ideology.

00:38:40.200 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:38:43.040 Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week.

00:38:45.120 And hey folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:38:49.680 Good night.

00:38:56.040 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - April 16, 2022

DAVID MENZIES ｜ CBC's Freedom Convoy Hit Piece; Poilievre at UBC

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