Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Quebec pushes vaccine deadline; Alberta targets bakery

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00:01:14.400 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.760 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:01:37.540 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.320 Well, in La Belle-Provence, thousands of frontline workers are mad as hell,

00:01:45.520 and they're not going to take it anymore regarding mandatory vaccine mandates

00:01:49.420 they recently took to the streets to vent their ire.

00:01:53.040 And get this, it looks as though the provincial government is playing defense

00:01:56.840 as it has extended the vaccine deadline by an additional month.

00:02:01.900 Alexa Lavoie has all the details.

00:02:04.360 Bake My Day is a wonderful bakery-slash-restaurant located in Beaumont, Alberta.

00:02:11.480 So why is Alberta Health Services apparently trying to put this delightful bakery out of business?

00:02:18.340 Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the skinny. 0.99

00:02:21.260 And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.

00:02:24.600 And you had plenty to say regarding my interview with Dr. Charles McVeady,

00:02:29.140 the president of Canada Christian College,

00:02:32.200 pertaining to the relationship between a big pharma lobbyist and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

00:02:38.860 A relationship, Dr. McVeady alleges, is a blatant conflict of interest.

00:02:44.680 Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:02:46.900 We are what is going on, Mr. Alban bull said.

00:03:05.820 We are already sitting on hold you a hard time!

00:03:07.860 We are all going for things!

00:03:10.280 We will change things!

00:03:11.060 We have the difference!

00:03:11.880 We are all going to key quite a lot!

00:03:14.920 And we are here, especially in support of the health employees.

00:03:19.920 We are still in a certain proximity with them.

00:03:22.920 And we anticipate the future,

00:03:24.920 to be able to preserve our rights and freedoms and our choices.

00:03:33.920 We have kept our jobs,

00:03:35.920 and we work for the population.

00:03:37.920 So, that's it.

00:03:44.920 One month, it doesn't change absolutely nothing in our lives.

00:03:48.920 The government tries to take revenge.

00:03:51.920 But to defend our rights and freedoms,

00:03:56.920 it doesn't change absolutely nothing this month.

00:03:58.920 We will continue.

00:04:00.920 We are not able to rest!

00:04:02.920 We are not able to rest!

00:04:06.920 We are not able to rest!

00:04:08.920 We are not able to rest!

00:04:10.920 We are united against the tyranny!

00:04:12.920 We are united against the tyranny!

00:04:16.920 We are united against the tyranny!

00:04:20.920 The police are with us!

00:04:23.920 The police are with us!

00:04:27.920 The police are with us!

00:04:29.920 The police are with us!

00:04:31.920 It's around 1 p.m.

00:04:33.920 We are at Terrasse Dufresne in the old Quebec.

00:04:36.920 And as you can see, thousands of frontline workers are there

00:04:42.920 to protest against the mandatory vaccine

00:04:46.920 that was supposed to be in on the 15th of October.

00:04:50.920 But, Christian Dubé decided to postpone for the 15th of November.

00:04:55.920 I don't know what will change, but it's a fact.

00:04:59.920 This protest will have a march until the Abraham field,

00:05:03.920 so we'll follow it.

00:05:14.920 Liberté! Liberté! Liberté! Liberté! Liberté! Liberté!

00:05:29.920 Liberté! Liberté! Liberté! Liberté! Liberté!

00:05:35.920 Wow, what visuals!

00:05:36.920 And to paraphrase Peter Finch in the 1976 movie Network,

00:05:40.920 many Quebec frontline workers are mad as hell,

00:05:43.920 and they're not going to take it anymore.

00:05:46.920 And get a load of this, folks.

00:05:47.920 It seems that the Quebec government is now playing defense.

00:05:50.920 October 15th was supposed to be the deadline for unvaccinated frontline workers in Quebec,

00:05:58.920 i.e. take the jabs or lose your jobs.

00:06:01.920 But since that would mean that several thousand workers would be fired that day,

00:06:07.920 which would undoubtedly result in frontline chaos,

00:06:11.920 the deadline has now been extended to November 15th.

00:06:15.920 But given that nothing has changed in the meantime,

00:06:18.920 one must wonder when the Legault government will extend the deadline yet again to December 15th.

00:06:24.920 Or how about January 15th, 2022?

00:06:27.920 Would you believe Valentine's Day?

00:06:30.920 And joining me now with more on this story is our Quebec-based reporter,

00:06:34.920 Alexa Lavoie.

00:06:36.920 Bonjour, Alexa! 0.68

00:06:38.920 Bonjour!

00:06:39.920 So, Alexa, great video showing so many passionate frontline workers.

00:06:45.920 As I mentioned, the government has already extended the jabs for jobs deadline by a month.

00:06:51.920 But I don't think any of these people will be changing their minds come November 15th.

00:06:57.920 So, how do you think this is going to play out in the weeks ahead?

00:07:01.920 So, Christian Dubé is our health minister.

00:07:05.920 He's the one who took the decision about it.

00:07:08.920 It's actually him who took the decision.

00:07:12.920 So, he got the support from Francois Legault.

00:07:16.920 But he said, we will postpone the date to the 15th of November.

00:07:22.920 But we are not sure when it will be the 15th of November.

00:07:27.920 What will be the case?

00:07:29.920 If they will, like, obligate, like, mandatory?

00:07:34.920 Do we postpone it?

00:07:35.920 Do we postpone it or just cancel it?

00:07:40.920 They are not sure yet because they don't know what will be the situation in a month.

00:07:46.920 So, imagine, now we have 27,000 health workers that is not fully vaccinated.

00:07:56.920 So, it's 27,000 people who are stressed and don't know what will happen on the 15th of November.

00:08:04.920 Yeah, well, you know, and that's the thing, Alexa.

00:08:07.920 The 15th of November, that's barely three weeks away.

00:08:10.920 I don't see any of those people, given their passion in that protest, changing their mind, doing a 180, saying, yeah, you're right.

00:08:18.920 You convinced me.

00:08:19.920 I'm going to get vaxxed.

00:08:20.920 So, given that the number is so huge, 27,000, well, let's put it this way.

00:08:26.920 If the government of Quebec was serious about this threat and on November 15th said to those 27,000 people, you're fired or you're suspended without pay, however you want to call it, what would that do to the frontline situation in Quebec?

00:08:43.920 So, the thing is, in Quebec right now, they are trying to get, like, people from other countries, like Colombia, to come to work as an health worker right now.

00:08:58.920 The thing is, they don't have staff anywhere around the world right now, so I don't know how they will be able to do it.

00:09:09.920 And right now, they are telling that people who have, I don't know if you know about it, but the health worker, like nurse, they will lose their license too.

00:09:20.920 When they will get fired, they will lose their license to practice.

00:09:24.920 And because they refuse to take the vaccine, they will not touch the prime.

00:09:31.920 Like, they offer, like, money for the nurse to come back to work and to keep the overtime, obligatory, like, overtime working.

00:09:46.920 So, right now, they say, oh, but you didn't take it, the vaccine, so you cannot touch this prime.

00:09:55.920 You know, Alexa, I really don't understand what's going on here.

00:09:59.920 If we go back several months ago, before there was such a thing as a COVID-19 vaccine,

00:10:04.920 these frontline workers, these nurses and other healthcare workers, they were champion.

00:10:10.920 They were the healthcare heroes, remember that?

00:10:13.920 And now that there is a vaccine, well, the situation is no different in the hospital.

00:10:18.920 They're being demanded to take it, or else you're not a hero, you're a zero.

00:10:25.920 I just can't get my mind around this.

00:10:28.920 If we're allegedly still in this pandemic, don't we need as many experienced healthcare workers as possible?

00:10:36.920 This would be the worst time, I would argue, to start firing them.

00:10:40.920 Yeah, and actually, so they prefer to fire really good staff and to hire novice people.

00:10:52.920 So, you prefer, like, what, like, people who doesn't know how to do their job,

00:10:57.920 for take care of us, to keep, like, a really good staff who have already have three PCR tests a week,

00:11:07.920 and most of them didn't got the COVID, or if they did, they are natural immunity.

00:11:17.920 So, I just don't get it.

00:11:20.920 Now the PCR test is not in the equation anymore.

00:11:24.920 It's only vaccine or it's nothing.

00:11:26.920 It's really drastic.

00:11:28.920 Just like...

00:11:30.920 So, Alexa, what do you think is really going on here, since the science doesn't make sense?

00:11:36.920 Is this all about tyranny on the behalf of the Legault government?

00:11:42.920 They kind of like, you know, the kind of totalitarianism they've enjoyed for the last year and a half,

00:11:49.920 and now they're doubling down on it, making demands that, quite frankly,

00:11:54.920 I think are going to make Quebec a worse place to live in if they fire all these 27,000 workers.

00:12:03.920 So, actually, Legault, since he started to be, like, you call it the premier, we call it prime minister here,

00:12:13.920 and he just, I think he just lost the power that he got from the health emergency,

00:12:19.920 and now he promised all the time to people, but he's always lied,

00:12:25.920 and people still believe that he's doing that for good, but he's not.

00:12:31.920 And if our health system collapse, I'm not giving, like, much from us, because we are, our reputation for our health system

00:12:43.920 is supposed to be one of the best in North America, and in America, actually.

00:12:49.920 And now it would be, like, the worst, and everybody will, like, see their surgery postponed,

00:12:57.920 all the treatment postponed, a lot of people will die because they are not the treatment.

00:13:04.920 So, I don't know what's going on here.

00:13:07.920 It's so terrible, and we have seen, during this pandemic, people right across Canada on elective surgery lists

00:13:14.920 who have died, who are otherwise fairly young, fairly healthy, but needed elective surgery,

00:13:19.920 and they died because their operation was postponed, which is just horrible.

00:13:25.920 One last question, Alexa. If I ask you to look into your crystal ball, we go to November 15th,

00:13:32.920 none of these people, or hardly any of them, change their mind.

00:13:36.920 As I speculated in my introduction, do you think the government's going to go,

00:13:40.920 okay, you've got until December 15th, January 15th, you name it, or is this a hard line in the sand?

00:13:48.920 Is the government going to back up its threats with mass terminations?

00:13:53.920 I think it's mostly a threat. They think that because of this threat, people will be scared, people will go and get the shot.

00:14:02.920 I think it's mostly that because we saw it, like, since the beginning of the vaccination.

00:14:08.920 It's always a threat. We threat you, and I make you, like, live in the fear. Like, mostly it's economic fear.

00:14:17.920 So people will, like, say, okay, I have no choice. I have a life. I have a house. I have children. I will take it.

00:14:24.920 Say it's what they want. So I think it's mostly a threat because they cannot, the system cannot support to fire as much people as that.

00:14:33.920 Yeah. No, and we will see come November 15th. I know you'll follow up on this.

00:14:38.920 And you know what, Alexa, let's be honest. It's a horrible threat. It's a terrible threat.

00:14:42.920 If I was a nurse, if I was another frontline healthcare worker, yeah, maybe I want to stand by my principles regarding vaccination status.

00:14:51.920 But at the same time, I've got to put food on the table. I have a mortgage to pay, and this is an economic death sentence.

00:14:58.920 I guess we'll see on November 15th if this is all bark and no bite or if Premier Legault would actually go through with such an egregious action.

00:15:09.920 It was a great video, my friend. Thank you so much, and I look forward to the update next month.

00:15:14.920 Thank you.

00:15:15.920 You got it. And that was Alexa Lavoie in Quebec City. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this. 0.56

00:15:24.920 There's actually a spot in it that says if you're going to collect information from customers, you should talk to a lawyer before you do so.

00:15:38.920 And I'm thinking, why do you have to talk to a lawyer if all of this stuff that they're saying to do is completely normal and you're okay to ask it?

00:15:45.920 It just doesn't make any sense to me. None of it makes any sense.

00:15:48.920 Jen, you also do something else in your store here, and that is support local businesses.

00:15:54.920 So when you are closed to customers, the other local businesses are hurting too.

00:15:59.920 Yeah. Actually, the lady who she's called Candidly Handcrafted, she makes the scarves. 1.00

00:16:06.920 Sorry, the toques. She actually had a load of toques ready to go because she does markets. 1.00

00:16:13.920 Well, the market was cancelled. And I saw that and I was just like, you know what, like, if I can help her out, I will.

00:16:19.920 And she does wholesale. So I grabbed a bunch and put them on my shelf.

00:16:24.920 They're selling great and they're so warm and comfy. But yeah, if I can help another business, like, we're all suffering right now.

00:16:29.920 All of us. So just seems right.

00:16:32.920 You were also telling me that Alberta Health Services showed up on Truth and Reconciliation Day.

00:16:38.920 You're Indigenous, you had Indigenous dancers outside, and Alberta Health Services came to disrupt, I guess, everything. 0.88

00:16:44.920 Yeah, because we were busy and we had, you know, people were coming in for mostly the bannock and the soup

00:16:50.920 because I actually had a woman who is also Indigenous, she came in here and made bannock all day and soup. 1.00

00:16:59.920 And so yeah, I posted that we were doing this, that everyone should come and, you know, support these people and learn.

00:17:05.920 And yeah, AHS showed up with two men, literally two minutes before the dancers were supposed to start.

00:17:12.920 I was busy getting everything ready. And I just said, you're not welcome here right now.

00:17:17.920 I was like, it is National Truth and Reconciliation Day. And they refused to acknowledge it.

00:17:22.920 And when they came in again a few days ago, I don't know, I don't even remember what day that was.

00:17:26.920 But I said, what day did you come in on? And he said, September 30th. I said, what day was that?

00:17:31.920 And he said, September 30th. I said, it was National, it was Truth and Reconciliation Day.

00:17:36.920 And he refused to acknowledge it. And it made me so angry.

00:17:40.920 And I've had a couple people reach out and say, oh, you're just using Indigenous people.

00:17:44.920 No, I am not. Everybody should acknowledge that day. Everybody should learn from it.

00:17:49.920 And I actually, like people were thinking that I was profiting off of this and I didn't.

00:17:55.920 Any money that I brought in that day went right back out to the dancers, to the caterer that came in to bake.

00:18:00.920 And I donated the rest to the Wenjack and Chani Wenjack Fund.

00:18:05.920 So I didn't, I wasn't profiting off of their pain.

00:18:09.920 It's, I just think it's awful.

00:18:11.920 So anyways, yeah, that's when they came, they came in.

00:18:13.920 It was September 30th, so.

00:18:15.920 Jen, if you had a message for other business owners who are sort of in your same position,

00:18:19.920 where you want to be open, you want to serve your customers, you want to serve your customers good food,

00:18:24.920 but you don't want to pry into their personal lives or their medical history, what's your message for them?

00:18:30.920 At the end of the day, I think you just need to do what you feel is right.

00:18:34.920 Like as soon as they decided, oh, you need to segregate people.

00:18:37.920 Like I just, everything in me was like, this is not right.

00:18:40.920 And I do have one thing that I am doing that AHR probably shouldn't know.

00:18:49.920 So I don't know if you want to put this part on, but when customers come in,

00:18:53.920 we ask them now if they have brought in their passport and we let them know that they have the right to deny.

00:19:00.920 They don't have to show us that is their right.

00:19:02.920 And the only thing that will happen is if I call the cops or whoever to come and remove them from my business,

00:19:07.920 that's where it's a problem, but I'm not going to call the cops on a customer who's sitting down and eating lunch.

00:19:12.920 So technically I am doing what they've asked me to do. I'm asking for passports.

00:19:18.920 Well, can you believe it folks? A bakery cafe should be a delightful place to visit,

00:19:23.920 be it picking up a cake for a special occasion or just killing time at a table with a cup of joe and some delicious pastries.

00:19:31.920 Yet, as you just heard, Jen Foster, the owner operator of Bake My Day in Beaumont, Alberta,

00:19:39.920 lives in terror due to another potential visit from Alberta Health Services belligerent bureaucrats

00:19:47.920 who are demanding that Jen complies to the new normal of medical based apartheid.

00:19:54.920 What a disgrace. And joining me now for more on this egregious story is Sheila Gunn-Reed. 0.95

00:20:01.920 How are you doing there, Sheila?

00:20:02.920 I'm great, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:20:04.920 It is always a pleasure.

00:20:06.920 But Sheila, there is something about seeing an entrepreneur being harassed out of business potentially

00:20:13.920 by a provincial doctatorship that really makes my blood boil.

00:20:19.920 Well, we know that restaurants and bakeries are not super spreader venues for COVID.

00:20:24.920 So how's this for a concept? If someone wants to eat at Bake My Day, so be it.

00:20:30.920 If someone wants to cower in fear in their basement, hey, whatever floats your boat.

00:20:34.920 Why is it that Alberta Health Services thinks that it's a better strategy to coerce and harass people like Jen, 1.00

00:20:42.920 right out of business maybe, given the lack of scientific evidence?

00:20:47.920 Well, and when you go into Jen's little restaurant there, everything is like six or more feet apart.

00:20:53.920 She's gone out of her way to follow the rules.

00:20:55.920 She just said that this is a rule that she just can't morally follow.

00:20:59.920 And for her, it really is a moral stance because, as she points out, the majority, I mean, she's a bakery.

00:21:05.920 She's got a little couple of three, four little tables where you could sit down if you wanted to. 0.99

00:21:10.920 But most of what she does is take out. 0.99

00:21:13.920 But for her, it's she just can't invade the privacy of those few people who just want to come and sit down and get out of the house after 20 months of never ending lockdowns.

00:21:26.920 She could easily just say, OK, well, I'm moving to 100 percent takeout.

00:21:32.920 Push the tables across the room, put them up against the wall.

00:21:35.920 And it really wouldn't hurt her bottom line for her.

00:21:39.920 This is a moral stance.

00:21:40.920 And for that, she's paying dearly because she's being constantly harassed by Alberta Health Services.

00:21:46.920 Yeah, I'm not so sure that it wouldn't hurt her bottom line.

00:21:50.920 Sheila, you know, the business she's in, food service, as I've said before in another life, I covered it for several years.

00:21:57.920 I can tell you it has to be one of, if not the hardest business to make a living in.

00:22:03.920 It's typically razor thin profit margins.

00:22:06.920 Eighty percent of new startups fail in the first three years.

00:22:10.920 That's astonishing.

00:22:12.920 The last thing someone like Jen needs is some health bureaucrat to come in and put on these repercussions to hurt her business, especially, again, what's the crime? 1.00

00:22:26.920 What is the catalyst here for a super spreader event?

00:22:31.920 Yeah, how many people are getting COVID in a bakery?

00:22:34.920 You know, like what I'd like to see those numbers.

00:22:37.920 Now, on the flip side, it seems as though business is better than ever because people want to support these small businesses who are standing up to the big behemoth of government trying to crush them.

00:22:50.920 She, at least last time I talked to her, she's looking at another location moving to a bigger spot because business has been so good.

00:22:59.920 Now, is that going to still be the case if the government pulls her permits and basically forces her to close, pulls her food handling permits? 1.00

00:23:11.920 Who knows?

00:23:12.920 We've seen the government use all kinds of different bureaucracies to come and crush these small business owners.

00:23:18.920 They put pressure on the landlords.

00:23:21.920 Jen doesn't have a liquor license, but for some of the other businesses that stand up, they pull their liquor licenses. 1.00

00:23:27.920 They use every means necessary to bring these restaurants into compliance.

00:23:32.920 It's when that shows me it's really not about COVID and it's not about health and it's not about a communicable disease.

00:23:40.920 It's about government making these businesses bow before them.

00:23:44.920 No, you're quite right.

00:23:45.920 It is about tyranny.

00:23:46.920 And I don't use that word flippantly, Sheila.

00:23:50.920 We've been told since day one of this pandemic we're all in this together.

00:23:54.920 Yet it seems that the casualties are those in the private sector, whereas in the public sector, they've not missed a day's worth of pay, a day's vacation.

00:24:04.920 In fact, some of them gave themselves hefty raises.

00:24:07.920 That's what really infuriates me about this.

00:24:10.920 I wonder if one of those Alberta Health Services bureaucrats was actually getting up at the crack of dawn to run a bakery and try to make a viable business, if they might have a little more empathy for people like Jen that don't need this harassment. 1.00

00:24:26.920 You know, and these complaints are coming from health inspectors themselves who are out of uniform, not identifying themselves.

00:24:35.920 I saw a story today, the Cowl Lake General Store in Cowl Lake, Alberta.

00:24:41.920 Imagine how big that place is.

00:24:43.920 I go quadding down there, so I know the place really well.

00:24:46.920 But it's literally in the middle of nowhere.

00:24:48.920 You run out of cell service there.

00:24:50.920 And a health inspector came to the restaurant there and didn't identify themselves, came and sat down, ate.

00:24:58.920 So they weren't obviously threatened by the situation there because they ate.

00:25:03.920 They weren't vax carded.

00:25:05.920 And so after they left, they lodged a complaint.

00:25:08.920 And now the health permits have been pulled on that place in literally in the middle of nowhere.

00:25:13.920 You have to go out of your way to harass them.

00:25:15.920 You really do.

00:25:16.920 But that's the kind of sinister stuff that's happening here.

00:25:19.920 When a health inspector sits down and eats a meal without being vax carded, that tells me that they don't care about the vax card.

00:25:26.920 They only care about enforcing rules that don't make sense.

00:25:29.920 And you know, that's the other part of this story, Sheila.

00:25:32.920 I think it's the pettiness.

00:25:34.920 I mean, I'm not saying there's not a role for health service bureaucrats.

00:25:39.920 I mean, if there was a restaurant with a filthy washroom, if customers observed the kitchen staff not washing their hands before preparing dishes, you don't want that.

00:25:49.920 You know, that could be a real and present danger in terms of getting food poisoning or what have you.

00:25:55.920 But this idea of, you know, not reinventing yourself as the restaurateur, as the baker, as the unofficial agent of the state in terms of your papers, please.

00:26:07.920 They don't have to be, you know, going after people like Jen for that. 1.00

00:26:13.920 And again, it's outright pettiness.

00:26:16.920 You know, for a lot of these restaurateurs, they're being put in the same position that a lot of other people in the private sector are where it's, you know, where people are finding out, well, my job has this vaccine mandate.

00:26:28.920 Now I'm sort of forced to get the jab.

00:26:30.920 Otherwise, I'll lose my job.

00:26:32.920 And for restaurateurs, they're on the flip side of that.

00:26:35.920 They can't reopen the way they need to so that they can pay their bills unless they start enforcing something they fundamentally disagree with.

00:26:43.920 The irony here is that for a lot of people, they are not going as me in particular.

00:26:52.920 I mean, I'm not going to go to a place that forces the vaccine passport mandate on its customers.

00:26:58.920 I just don't want to participate in the segregation.

00:27:01.920 I understand why some of the businesses are doing it.

00:27:03.920 They're going to lose their shirts if they don't.

00:27:05.920 But that's the problem here.

00:27:07.920 These businesses are being put in a position just like the employees that need to get the vaccine to keep their job.

00:27:13.920 They need to act fundamentally opposed to their own consciences just to keep the lights on and keep a roof over their head and keep their employees employed.

00:27:23.920 And I think it's a terrible moral dilemma and an unnecessary one that the government is putting on everybody because I don't think the science supports any of it.

00:27:32.920 I totally agree, Sheila. Exit question then. In the weeks and months ahead, what is going to be the ultimate ending for Bake My Day?

00:27:42.920 I think that ultimately the machinery of the state is going to move to close her now.

00:27:50.920 And I think based on just the history of what has happened and has unfolded before us other times that restaurants tried to stand up, the pressure is going to be put on the landlord to terminate her lease.

00:28:05.920 I think that they are going to lean on the municipality to pull her business license. 1.00

00:28:10.920 And that's what she's going to get for trying to protect the privacy of her customers and refusing to participate in a system of segregation. 1.00

00:28:20.920 So it's going to be another Adamson barbecue situation.

00:28:23.920 I think so.

00:28:24.920 Unbelievable.

00:28:25.920 I'm getting so infuriated over these stories, Sheila.

00:28:28.920 Me too.

00:28:29.920 I can't tell you.

00:28:30.920 But Sheila, great report.

00:28:31.920 I hope it turns out differently.

00:28:33.920 And I know you'll have an update if anything new happens on that story.

00:28:37.920 So thank you so much.

00:28:38.920 And you have a good weekend, my friend.

00:28:40.920 Thank you.

00:28:41.920 And I just want to let everybody at home know if you'd like to help us fight these vaccine passport mandates. 0.68

00:28:46.920 Please go to fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:28:48.920 It's your one stop for fighting against medical segregation.

00:28:55.920 It's fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:28:57.920 We're taking 20 strategic legal cases all across the country.

00:29:00.920 If you think you are one, submit your information there.

00:29:03.920 And if you'd like to help fund our legal battle because it is going to be enormously expensive and the government has got all the money in the world.

00:29:10.920 They've got your money.

00:29:11.920 Please donate there.

00:29:12.920 It's fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:29:14.920 And none of the money comes to us.

00:29:16.920 Goes directly to the registered Canadian charity, the Democracy Fund.

00:29:19.920 Great.

00:29:20.920 Thank you so much again, my friend.

00:29:22.920 Thanks, David.

00:29:23.920 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the northern hinterland of Alberta.

00:29:28.920 Keep it here, folks.

00:29:29.920 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:29:32.920 What was the ostensible policy reason of having this press conference today?

00:29:41.920 Well, the problem in our government is that you have the campaign chairman of the party in the caucus on a regular basis participating in the decision makings of the government.

00:29:59.920 Well, he owns a company that he founded.

00:30:02.920 He's the CEO.

00:30:03.920 And, yes, he's taken a leave of absence.

00:30:06.920 But he's still listed as the CEO on the website of Rubicon Strategies, Inc.

00:30:13.920 And they get paid massive amounts of money by pharmaceuticals like Pfizer and AstraZeneca and then other corporations like Amazon.

00:30:26.920 So we're asking for transparency and we're asking for separation because right now there are so many PCs involved in Rubicon.

00:30:36.920 You can't tell where Rubicon stops and the PCs start because they're intertwined and it's wrong.

00:30:45.920 It's funny.

00:30:46.920 I mean, this supermajority is quickly not becoming that through self-inflicted wounds.

00:30:51.920 We've seen what's happened to Rick Nichols, Randy Hillier, Belinda Karahalios, Roman Baber.

00:30:58.920 I'm sure I've missed a few names.

00:31:00.920 You've missed a few.

00:31:01.920 It continues, but Rubicon's there, tight-fisted, all together, and no one can break it but the truth.

00:31:14.920 And one person telling the truth is stronger than 1,000 people telling lies.

00:31:22.920 Pfizer has made over $33 billion.

00:31:26.920 You've seen the premier in New South Wales step down for huge bribes and huge money flowing to lobbyists.

00:31:39.920 So we know that they do this around the world.

00:31:41.920 We know that they're paying Rubicon huge money.

00:31:44.920 And then Rubicon's founder and CEO is not just has the year of the premier.

00:31:50.920 He's in the caucus as the campaign manager.

00:31:54.920 And you've been around politics long enough to know that the campaign manager is king.

00:31:59.920 Yeah.

00:32:00.920 Because he's saying, do as I say or you won't get reelected.

00:32:04.920 And all of a sudden, things change.

00:32:06.920 Doug Ford is there.

00:32:08.920 He was voted in by the people.

00:32:10.920 And he got a supermajority.

00:32:11.920 He doesn't have to be beholden to big money, to influential lobbyists.

00:32:17.920 Why is there this connection between Corey Tanike and Doug Ford?

00:32:24.920 I mean...

00:32:25.920 I don't know.

00:32:26.920 All I know is it's wrong.

00:32:28.920 But the connection's like this.

00:32:31.920 And Doug doesn't seem to be able to break it.

00:32:34.920 Well, that was the scene earlier this month at Queen's Park in which Charles McVitie,

00:32:39.920 the president of Canada Christian College in Whitby, Ontario,

00:32:43.920 held a press conference decrying what he deems to be a conflict of interest.

00:32:48.920 Namely, Corey Tanike was the 2018 Ontario PC campaign manager

00:32:53.920 and is the current head honcho at Rubicon Strategy.

00:32:57.920 And McVitie believes he has a huge influence over Premier Doug Ford when it comes to important decisions.

00:33:05.920 And certainly the optics do not look good.

00:33:08.920 Indeed, remember back in July when Ford said he was dead set against vaccine passports

00:33:14.920 only to do a complete 180 the following month?

00:33:17.920 Was that because Mr. Tanike lobbies on the behalf of big pharma clients?

00:33:23.920 Companies that would surely profit from mandatory VAX passports?

00:33:28.920 Now, full disclosure, Corey Tanike hired me and then fired me and then rehired me a decade ago

00:33:34.920 at the now defunct Sun News Network, which was still on the air back then.

00:33:38.920 I'll be forever grateful for that. Well, at least the hiring parts.

00:33:42.920 But like the umpire behind home plate, folks, we calls them as we sees them here at Rebel News.

00:33:48.920 And certainly the optics of Corey having the ear of Premier Ford, well, they don't look too good.

00:33:55.920 In any event, you had plenty to say about this relationship between a Premier and a lobbyist

00:34:01.920 that would appear to be a blatant conflict of interest.

00:34:05.920 One angry Canadian writes, when big pharma and politicians are involved,

00:34:10.920 all you ever have to do is follow the money.

00:34:13.920 Oh, you're right, one angry Canadian. 0.97

00:34:15.920 And it's big money indeed.

00:34:18.920 As well, when governments are essentially forcing citizens to get jabbed,

00:34:23.920 you know that means there will be some people, such as the people connected to big pharma,

00:34:28.920 who are undoubtedly going to get very rich along the way.

00:34:33.920 Polish Prince writes, quote, in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

00:34:40.920 End quote.

00:34:41.920 George Orwell.

00:34:42.920 That's a great quote.

00:34:43.920 All right.

00:34:44.920 Given the times in which we live.

00:34:46.920 But where is the proverbial media snowball when it comes to blowing the lid off this story?

00:34:51.920 Well, it's not happening.

00:34:53.920 But why?

00:34:54.920 Gee, could it be that so many mainstream media outlets are A, funded by the government,

00:34:59.920 and B, are being enriched from advertising via pharmaceutical companies?

00:35:04.920 I wonder.

00:35:06.920 Al Milhouse writes, keep up the real reporting, Rebel News, one of the only ones telling the truth.

00:35:13.920 Well, thanks very much for that, Al.

00:35:15.920 I truly think this story should be on the front page, quite frankly.

00:35:19.920 But as I mentioned, the MSM is sitting this one out.

00:35:23.920 Oh, and get this.

00:35:24.920 We were actually barred from taking in Dr. McVitie's press conference live,

00:35:29.920 even though we had been invited into the legislature by MPP Rick Nichols.

00:35:34.920 Alas, Colin, the rat de mello of CTV, threw a hissy fit and then got us frog marched out of the building by the security.

00:35:43.920 Apparently, only government-funded media types are allowed inside the Queen's Park Press Studio.

00:35:50.920 And do you think they gave Dr. McVitie a fair shake?

00:35:53.920 Not a chance.

00:35:55.920 So the censorship crusade continues, and some of the censorious thugs happen to be the journalists themselves.

00:36:02.920 What a joke.

00:36:04.920 And Maria R. Barnier writes,

00:36:07.920 Conflict of interests are everywhere.

00:36:10.920 Even Doug Ford profits with his company.

00:36:13.920 Well, I can't argue that point, Maria.

00:36:15.920 I reckon business is great these days at Ford's Deco Labels Company,

00:36:20.920 which I don't think has shut down for a single day during the pandemic.

00:36:24.920 In fact, given all the signage retailers now need to post regarding COVID,

00:36:29.920 I'm going to guess that business has never been better down at Deco.

00:36:35.920 By the way, I did reach out to Corey tonight to get his side of the story, of course.

00:36:40.920 He didn't get back to me, but he did reach out to another Rebel News employee,

00:36:44.920 which strikes me as kind of weird, really.

00:36:47.920 But here's what Corey had to say.

00:36:50.920 He didn't lobby for vaccine passport mandates.

00:36:53.920 Secondly, the purchaser of the vaccines is the federal government, not provincial governments.

00:36:58.920 Third, his firm Rubicon lobbied for vaccines, not Corey himself.

00:37:03.920 Fourth, Pfizer was never a client, but rather the vaccine industry group was.

00:37:08.920 And finally, five, Corey works for the Progressive Conservative Party, not the government.

00:37:14.920 And his comments to MPPs were made in that capacity.

00:37:18.920 I will leave it to you, dear viewer, if those rebuttals do indeed pass your sniff test.

00:37:25.920 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:37:28.920 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:37:30.920 See you next week.

00:37:31.920 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:37:35.920 Good night.

00:37:36.920 Bye.

00:37:37.920 Bye.

00:37:38.920 Bye.

00:37:39.920 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - October 23, 2021

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Quebec pushes vaccine deadline; Alberta targets bakery

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