DAVID MENZIES ｜ Public safety sidelined as Whitby council dodges accountability
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The mainstream media is trying to smear yours truly, except we have the video evidence that proves they re liars. It's Thursday, March 26, 2026, and this is The Ezra Event Show. On Monday night, reporter Lincoln Jay and I attended a Town of Whitby Council meeting. The primary reason was to cover a motion put forward by Councillor Chris Leahy in light of a child killer being released in Durham Region on a 72-hour unescorted pass.
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tonight the mainstream media is trying to smear yours truly except we have the video evidence
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that proves they're liars it's thursday march 26 2026 i'm david menzies and this is the ezra
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event show. So on Monday evening, Lincoln Jay and I attended a town of Whitby council meeting.
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The primary reason was to cover a motion put forward by Councillor Chris Leahy in light of
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a child killer being released in Durham region on a 72-hour unescorted pass, Leahy proposed the
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following motion, quote, request for the federal government to notify municipalities when high-risk
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offenders are authorized for unescorted temporary absences, end quote. It's a good motion, but my
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view is that it doesn't go far enough. I think most people would like to know when and where
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a high-risk offender is being released. Incredibly, the motion wasn't even voted on.
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There's some sort of rule that a council meeting in Whitby, which starts at 7 p.m., cannot go past
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11 p.m. I call it the Cinderella provision. Incredibly, the council spent four hours talking
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about such crucially important topics as traffic roundabouts and the effect of sunlight on traffic
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lights. Yeah, they ragged the puck so long on that claptrap that the vote on Leahy's motion will have
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to take place next month. And really, the lion's share of constituents were attending this meeting
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for this motion, but the mayor, she didn't care. Despicable. Of note, we learned of another issue
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that are participating in the Federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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Alas, the progressives on council had a meltdown
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rookie councillor Victoria Bozanowski flipped her wig that someone would have the utter temerity
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to criticize the temporary foreign worker program. In an unhinged rant, she described Leahy's motion
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using words such as garbage, xenophobic, and racist. Here, check out the video evidence.
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I can be as frank as possible. The motion that was put forward was absolute garbage.
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It was offensive, it was xenophobic, and I had serious issues with it.
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And I didn't think it was fair as a councillor to be forced to sit here and debate something that was xenophobic and racist tonight.
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And that was my opinion. I made it publicly, I made it privately, and I shared it with anybody who asked.
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So if we want to go ahead and make that cost public, I have no problem doing so.
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you can pin the entire cost on me because I just think it's incredibly unfair that we're asked to
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sit here and we're asked to talk about federal policy that has nothing to do with us.
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Ooh, now that's harsh. And I ponder, how is race a factor? Isn't Canada made up of multiple races?
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But never mind. After the meeting, we tried to scrum Bozanowski. We were seeking clarity.
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but she literally ran away without saying anything here check out our encounter
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oh oh councillor bosomowski how you doing it's david menzies from rebel news i'm just wondering
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can you tell me why it is if someone questions the temporary foreign worker program they're racist
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and uh garbage what excuse me i'm just making sure you don't bother the lady i'm scrubbing
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her place. Um, hey, what are you doing? You're impeding her path to her. No, I'm not. I'm
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scrubbing her. Don't, don't assault me again. Okay. Oh, well in this business, you win some,
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you lose some. And at that point, uh, Lincoln Jay and I, we drove home. Now here's the thing.
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The next morning I woke up to find that yours truly was the target of an outrageous
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mainstream media smear campaign. You see, the MSM depicted our scrumming of Bozanowski
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as being tantamount to Whitby's day of infamy. Check out these headlines from various outlets,
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including even the CBC. Whitby mayor to review security measures as police investigate
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incident at town hall. Don't threaten my safety. Police called as Rebel News presses Whitby
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counselor confront security guard. Durham Regional Police were called to Whitby Town Hall Monday
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night as a reporter from Rebel News got into a confrontation with a security guard. Whitby
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Mayor releases statement after police called during council meeting. Folks, at this point,
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let's run the video again. Watch closely, please. There was harassment, all right, but it was in the
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form of that security guard getting handsy with me for no good reason whatsoever. Check it out.
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Oh, Councillor Bozumowski. How are you doing? It's David Menzies from Rebel News. I'm just
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wondering, can you tell me why it is if someone questions the temporary foreign worker program,
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they're racist and garbage? What? Excuse me. I'm just making sure you don't bother the lady.
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First, Bosonovsky and her useful idiots on council are lying through their teeth.
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I politely asked a public figure a question.
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I certainly didn't touch her. Talk about making mountains out of molehills. Secondly, wow, you know,
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now I know what it feels like to be unfairly smeared thanks to a mainstream media hit job.
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The media outlets ran with the narrative that I was guilty of a form of misogyny,
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given that I'm male and Bozanowski is female. That's outrageous. Bozanowski's sex is irrelevant
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to me. She and the mayor and the other female councillors should be ashamed of themselves
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for pursuing this ludicrous allegation. Thirdly, I found it most curious that none of the media
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outlets reached out to me. That is Journalism 101, by the way. Get both sides of the story.
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And had they done so, I would have offered my side of the story.
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And more importantly, I could have provided video evidence to eradicate the whole he said, she said nonsense.
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Even though in some of the news stories, the reporters claimed they had reached out to me.
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I received no email, no voicemail, no text message, verifying these claims.
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I would have been happy to face the music and, more importantly, correct the record.
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By the way, I reached out to all of the media outlets that reported on this story.
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And again, I suggested they need to correct the record.
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However, at time of recording, I never heard back from CBC reporter Rochelle Ravindran.
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As for the other journalists, I can tell you we engaged in civil discussions,
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and I will indeed check in the days ahead if they correct the record, as some did promise.
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But I found it odd that Kate Stoller of Durham Radio News seemed to be taking Bozanoffsky's side.
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quote, you know your style can be intimidating. I think it scared her. She is not used to that.
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End quote. Good golly, Miss Molly, I was simply asking a question. Where's the intimidation?
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Stoller goes on, quote, as far as misogyny or sexism, I think you need to look at the history
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of this council for the past 10 years. There have been many issues dating back to the previous mayor,
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where acts of sexism were investigated. I think these councillors jumped to sexism
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because it has been the case in the past, end quote. Folks, I have no knowledge whatsoever of
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council's history regarding misogyny and sexism, but furthermore, it's completely irrelevant to
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the issue at hand. Stoller goes on, quote, I do believe you would have approached a male councillor
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in a similar manner end quote well finally we have reached a consensus at least on one point
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but here's the thing the durham radio news story also included this baffling statement namely quote
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a durham police spokesperson says they are investigating i can confirm that officers
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responded to a disturbance call at whitby town hall at approximately 11 30 p.m last night
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officers spoke with a male and escorted him from the building he was not arrested and no charges
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have been laid at this time the investigation remains ongoing that's a statement from the
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Durham police end quote but who is this person Durham regional police speaks of I can assure
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you folks it's not me and this is very concerning because although no name is mentioned the
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way in which this paragraph is presented, I would think the average reader would assume that the
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person in question is me. As well, the timeline does not make sense. Lincoln believes we left
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Whitby Town Hall parking lot at 11.40 p.m. The building by that time was locked down and dark.
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There was no police presence anywhere. So what's going on here? Yes, I did reach out to the Durham
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regional police media relations department. So far, it's crickets. Shameful. So in the final
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analysis, I think this story is a double disgrace. First, Bozanowski's lying that she was in some
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sort of dangerous situation because I merely asked her an impolite question. Secondly,
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we have yet more evidence proving Sean Hannity was 100% correct in 2016 when he declared that
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journalism is dead, at least when it comes to the mainstream media, which in Canada
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David Menzies for Rebel News here at the Toronto Sportsman Show. And folks, I'm with a couple
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of the Gunny Girls, Sharla and Ray, they grace the 2026 CCFR calendar. And it's all about raising
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money for women who are enthusiasts about firearms. And I got to tell you, speaking as a heterosexual
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male, to me, this is feminine perfection, a powerful firearm, a fine physique, and a pair
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of big beautiful eyes anyway ladies let's get into it what what attracts you to firearms
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the freedom the the fun the responsibility that does come with it but i am also a hunter as well
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so it's a multi-purposing task for me i can have fun on a range or i can go bring food home for my
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family there you go and tell me how do you feel about the current climate in canada since uh the
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last few years, I understand something like 2,500 firearms have been banned. Do you feel that
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you're under assault? Oh, absolutely. I shouldn't be the fall guy for criminals and such. And
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honestly, the slander for a legal firearms owner is atrocious. It's embarrassing. People should
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really become more educated and understand who we are as a people. And we are legal law-abiding
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people. And there's a reason why we are so. There's a reason why we're licensed. We are proud
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this community we would never jeopardize things and we would never jeopardize the safety of others
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you know that's a great point because the thing is when it comes to the gangbangers out there
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with illegal handguns well by definition they don't obey the law to begin with that's what
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makes them criminals so I guess what I'm getting at with this legislation to grab the guns of
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legal, law-abiding Canadians, is it going to make a whit of difference?
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No, I think that's the struggle that a lot of us, whether in the firearms community and even my
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friends that I know that are outside that community, they see that difference of the rules
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and everything being brought down and the restrictions and everything. They're not,
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in my opinion at least, assisting with the actual problem because it's not those of us that are
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willing to go through the time, the lessons, happily pay the finances to be a responsible
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firearms owner to be able to move forward in the world and grow that group. And yet we are the ones
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being punished for those who don't go through all of those steps. And I think it's just a very
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backwards way of looking at it. And you know, what I find is tragic, ladies, is I believe deep down,
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even the liberals know this isn't going to turn the dial in terms of violent gun crime. So many
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police services have said, hey, we're not on board. We're not going to be your henchmen.
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So what is really the reason they're doing this?
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Is it just to virtue signal, I guess, to maybe urban voters who have the idea in their head that guns are bad, period?
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The fact that these firearms are listed, they're legally sold, like I said, it's low-hanging fruit.
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paying the money for those types of programs for people with mental health issues or gangbangers
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they're creating that community so kids don't want to go into that type of a culture that takes money
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that takes time and that's expensive government doesn't want to do that they want to show force
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but they don't want to do the work yeah it's unbelievable and what a great hobby it is how do
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you feel when you're out on the range or when you're out hunting shooting your gun i mean
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anything positive would be an appropriate word for that but I feel responsible I feel respectable I
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feel empowered it's just something that once I got it part of this fight is you're never going to
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take it away from me it's a right that I obtained it's a fun sport you can do it as a group you can
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do it individually and like you said you can go hunting and you can provide food or you can do
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predator control like it's the ranges and the IPSC and all that type of shooting I love it I
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I think it's amazing, but to know that there's two sides to it.
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You can have fun, and you can bring in food, and it's just that satisfaction.
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For me, when I'm hunting, my satisfaction is a clean harvest with the firearm that I'm using
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to know that I've used that tool in my hand correctly and accurately because of the responsibility I have.
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And if you don't mind me saying, you don't look like a threat to society to me.
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Oh, thank you. I like to think I'm not, but, you know, everyone comes in all shapes and sizes,
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but that's what our community is made of, is everybody.
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And you know what, folks, I must point out, these two are not just a couple of pretty faces.
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They're pretty experienced marksmen or markswoman, if I may say.
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And, you know, my colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who has often weaponized herself,
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she thought it would be great for me to challenge these two girls on this laser gun range here.
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And, you know, I've got to be honest, I don't have a pal.
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um i do have an assault uh rifle uh this actually suit shoots salts at uh yeah see you see how uh
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bad gun etiquette is and i don't want to get salt in your eyes certainly but um this is designed to
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for me to shoot wasps during uh barbecue season and by wasp of course i mean the insect not white
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anglo-saxon protestants anyway why don't we go to the range and uh see what the results are yeah
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Well, predictably, I basically got my butt kicked, folks.
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Like I said, they're not just pretty faces.
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Thank you so much, I think, for humiliating me.
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But have fun shooting while you still can under this government.
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I know you love it when Rebel News brings you the other side of the story.
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But the fact is, we do not receive a single nickel from the Carney Liberals Journalism Slush Fund.