Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Trudeau's Alberta Senator, Politically Incorrect Medical Professionals

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00:01:14.340 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.280 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:01:36.980 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:38.800 So, the people of Alberta voted for a senator a while back,

00:01:42.940 and recently, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said to hell with the democratic process

00:01:48.000 as he decided to handpick his own senator.

00:01:51.640 Oh, but of course, Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details about yet another shameful incident, 0.92

00:01:58.200 courtesy of the Laurentian elites.

00:02:00.300 And I know the calendar reads 2021,

00:02:03.680 but it sure feels a lot like the fictional dystopian world of 1984.

00:02:08.720 The latest case in point,

00:02:10.340 a BC nurse is now under review by her governing body

00:02:14.520 for espousing supposedly politically incorrect thoughts

00:02:18.780 when it comes to transgenderism.

00:02:22.100 Drea Humphrey has all the details.

00:02:24.220 And letters, we get your letters.

00:02:25.720 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:27.360 And you had plenty to say about the Toronto Blue Jays

00:02:30.540 suddenly qualifying for a so-called national interest exemption.

00:02:35.720 Translation, unlike the rest of us,

00:02:38.080 these pro athletes don't have to follow the same COVID-19 rules.

00:02:42.240 Talk about a foul ball.

00:02:44.580 Those are your rebels.

00:02:45.580 Now, let's round them up.

00:02:51.700 Another day, another Laurentian elitist slap in the face to us Albertans.

00:02:56.240 You know, the disrespect, it never ends.

00:02:59.620 On Thursday, Justin Trudeau announced that he was appointing

00:03:02.160 a shiny, brand new senator for Alberta.

00:03:05.200 And if you live in another province,

00:03:07.340 that might seem like a routine thing for you. 1.00

00:03:09.860 Having some detached, idiotic leader in Ottawa 1.00

00:03:13.760 choose for you who will represent you in the Senate 1.00

00:03:16.980 by offering a gravy, high-paying patronage appointment,

00:03:20.760 a big thank you for being a loyal liberal.

00:03:23.000 And you get the job for basically the rest of your working life.

00:03:27.220 Oh, but not here in Alberta.

00:03:28.620 That is not how it works here in Alberta.

00:03:30.860 Here we choose our own senators to represent us.

00:03:33.640 We have done this for decades.

00:03:36.400 When we hold municipal elections,

00:03:38.920 we also elect our senators

00:03:40.720 based on the accepted conventions

00:03:44.120 and expectation that the prime minister

00:03:47.220 will just simply appoint who we choose for ourselves.

00:03:51.460 Here it is.

00:03:53.320 The order in council and writ of election

00:03:55.760 for the 2021 Alberta Senate election

00:03:58.320 was issued on June 23rd, 2021

00:04:02.060 to hold an election to select three Senate nominees

00:04:05.520 who may be summoned to the Senate of Canada

00:04:08.580 to fill a vacancy or vacancies relating to Alberta.

00:04:13.160 The Senate election will take place on October 18th, 2021

00:04:17.220 in conjunction with the 2021 Alberta municipal elections.

00:04:22.020 All local jurisdictions holding elections

00:04:26.680 on October 18th, 2021

00:04:29.160 will facilitate the vote

00:04:31.060 by also issuing the Senate election ballot to electors.

00:04:36.520 In addition to election day voting,

00:04:38.780 local jurisdictions may also offer advanced voting,

00:04:43.360 institutional voting, and special ballot voting.

00:04:46.680 At each voting opportunity,

00:04:49.660 the Senate election ballot will be provided

00:04:53.460 to electors to vote in this election.

00:04:57.500 So everybody gets a chance to choose their senator.

00:05:01.180 And we put forward two different senators

00:05:03.400 so the prime minister can choose.

00:05:05.760 People put their names forward

00:05:07.160 to run under a party banner.

00:05:09.840 But Trudeau knows we'd never choose a liberal senator

00:05:12.260 after all the liberals have done to us.

00:05:14.380 You know, blocking pipelines, phasing out our jobs,

00:05:17.120 carbon taxing the industry that managed to survive,

00:05:20.760 the industry the liberals didn't kill.

00:05:23.000 Oh, and the liberals also caused trade wars 0.95

00:05:25.200 that hurt our farmers and, that's right, grabbed our guns.

00:05:29.160 So on Thursday, Trudeau disregarded

00:05:31.540 the will of the entire Alberta electorate.

00:05:34.940 And he appointed his own senator.

00:05:36.800 Even as we head to the polls

00:05:38.820 to make our choices for ourselves in October,

00:05:42.600 Trudeau appointed the mayor of Banff, Alberta,

00:05:45.540 Karen Sorensen.

00:05:46.480 And boy, she was sure happy to take

00:05:48.720 the $161,000 per year salary

00:05:52.260 for basically the rest of her working life

00:05:54.780 plus special top-ups.

00:05:56.880 She was just fine to steal that job 1.00

00:06:00.080 from the person Albertans were going to choose to do it

00:06:04.120 without an ounce of shame.

00:06:05.940 I mean, who does that?

00:06:07.860 Question, who indeed could be so shameless

00:06:11.120 in terms of disregarding the democratic process

00:06:14.620 and backstabbing the person

00:06:17.000 who was actually elected to serve

00:06:19.460 as a senator from Alberta?

00:06:21.600 Answer, a Justin Trudeau acolyte, that's who.

00:06:25.000 After all, Justin himself said a while back,

00:06:27.700 he has admiration in his heart

00:06:30.020 for the basic dictatorship that is China.

00:06:33.660 And sometimes it feels as though Canada

00:06:36.060 has become more China-ish 0.68

00:06:38.340 when it comes to this federal government

00:06:41.140 dissing our democracy.

00:06:44.060 Joining me now for more on this story

00:06:45.840 is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:06:47.300 How are you doing there, Sheila?

00:06:48.800 I'm great, David.

00:06:49.560 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:06:50.860 Always a pleasure.

00:06:51.700 Sheila, this is shocking but not really surprising.

00:06:54.320 But tell me, especially on the heels

00:06:56.980 of a presumed fall election,

00:06:59.340 did anyone see this coming?

00:07:02.380 Yeah.

00:07:03.020 Yeah, I guess I did.

00:07:05.980 Because Justin Trudeau already did this once.

00:07:09.380 We have a senator-in-waiting.

00:07:11.300 He's already elected.

00:07:12.440 His name is Mike Shaikh.

00:07:13.960 And Justin Trudeau passed him over

00:07:16.040 to choose Paula Simons, 0.84

00:07:18.220 a failed print journalist.

00:07:19.360 Actually, not failed,

00:07:20.280 but I mean she's a print journalist

00:07:21.700 in a sunset industry.

00:07:23.240 She was working for Post Media,

00:07:25.700 primarily the Edmonton Journal.

00:07:27.560 And she had actually in the past

00:07:29.320 written columns that were critical

00:07:31.140 of the unelected, unaccountable Senate.

00:07:34.680 And then she was chosen to be

00:07:37.920 an unelected, unaccountable senator

00:07:40.100 by Justin Trudeau.

00:07:41.080 And she was like,

00:07:41.740 okay, where do I sign up?

00:07:43.580 And so for Justin Trudeau

00:07:47.260 to do it again on the heels

00:07:48.840 of the very next Senate election,

00:07:51.140 no surprise.

00:07:52.220 Pretty galling,

00:07:53.120 but if you're an Albertan,

00:07:54.040 just a part of a pattern, really.

00:07:56.560 You know, Sheila,

00:07:57.500 whether you're,

00:07:58.220 I mean, we have two camps,

00:07:59.940 pro-Senate, anti-Senate,

00:08:01.840 but if the Senate is going to be a reality,

00:08:05.460 I've never understood

00:08:06.300 why it's not an elected position.

00:08:09.280 All the other positions are elected.

00:08:12.060 So what is this contempt

00:08:15.920 that our system has

00:08:18.980 for the idea of people having a voice

00:08:22.040 in terms of who they want

00:08:23.540 them to represent in the Senate?

00:08:25.880 Well, I think it's very difficult

00:08:28.680 to make constitutional changes

00:08:30.440 in Canada, right?

00:08:31.500 You've got to involve Quebec 1.00

00:08:32.960 for some reason,

00:08:34.040 and it's just a big catastrophe.

00:08:36.040 So in Alberta,

00:08:37.720 we found a way around that.

00:08:39.040 We're, you know,

00:08:39.660 nothing if not cagey people,

00:08:42.480 and we examined the situation,

00:08:44.140 and we found a way to get our,

00:08:46.800 at least a couple E's

00:08:49.200 of our triple E Senate,

00:08:50.520 the, you know, elected Senate.

00:08:53.540 We wanted some to be chosen

00:08:55.620 by the people.

00:08:56.620 And so without submitting

00:08:58.920 the entire country

00:09:00.360 to this enormous constitutional change

00:09:03.420 that would go on for years and years,

00:09:04.960 we just said,

00:09:05.860 you know what we're going to do?

00:09:07.160 We're going to make this real easy.

00:09:08.740 We'll do it during municipal elections.

00:09:10.360 Everybody's going anyway to vote.

00:09:13.200 We're going to elect our own guy.

00:09:14.820 Actually, we won't just elect our own guy.

00:09:17.080 We'll elect two of our own guys,

00:09:20.180 and we'll let the prime minister,

00:09:22.000 we'll take the tough part

00:09:24.840 of making the decision

00:09:26.580 out of the hands of the prime minister.

00:09:28.440 We wouldn't want Justin Trudeau

00:09:29.380 to do too much of that thinking stuff.

00:09:32.240 And so we'll choose two people,

00:09:35.760 and the prime minister can choose

00:09:37.220 the one that he likes best,

00:09:38.560 so we haven't completely taken the choice

00:09:40.360 out of the prime minister's hands,

00:09:42.000 and send the guy Albertans chose

00:09:45.400 to represent us to the Senate

00:09:47.600 to at least have our say

00:09:50.540 in what happens to us,

00:09:52.440 because otherwise, by and large,

00:09:54.920 the prime ministers and the governor generals

00:09:57.220 are always from the east.

00:10:00.300 And so this was a way for us to be in.

00:10:03.760 Alberta wanted in.

00:10:04.840 We wanted our own say,

00:10:05.880 and this was a way for us to do that.

00:10:07.980 And there has been nothing but a series

00:10:10.520 of liberal prime ministers

00:10:11.840 disregarding the will of the people in Alberta

00:10:14.000 and doing whatever they want.

00:10:16.100 And they took this from us,

00:10:18.520 and so it was really no surprise

00:10:19.620 for Justin Trudeau to take it from us

00:10:21.120 that way too.

00:10:22.340 And Sheila, 0.97

00:10:23.240 how are everyday Albertans

00:10:25.820 reacting to this appointment?

00:10:29.480 And for that matter,

00:10:30.940 how is the mainstream media

00:10:33.760 in Alberta reacting to this?

00:10:36.780 Oh, the mainstream media

00:10:37.780 doesn't seem to care.

00:10:38.640 I mean, one of their own

00:10:39.780 was the last senator chosen from Alberta.

00:10:42.100 So they don't really seem to care.

00:10:44.320 Jason Kenney's pretty mad about it,

00:10:46.020 obviously speaking.

00:10:49.260 Albertans, 0.98

00:10:50.160 I think some of us are mad, 0.94

00:10:52.040 but some of us are just like,

00:10:54.040 you know what?

00:10:55.220 Figures.

00:10:56.160 Figures.

00:10:57.100 I mean,

00:10:58.020 after, you know,

00:10:59.340 six years of Justin Trudeau

00:11:01.000 just doing whatever he wants to us,

00:11:03.060 and liberal governments historically

00:11:05.160 doing whatever they want to us,

00:11:08.160 I mean,

00:11:08.860 this is just all par for the course, really.

00:11:10.720 Well, Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:11:13.320 in wrapping,

00:11:14.460 let me put you on the spot here.

00:11:16.460 When are you going to run for the Senate?

00:11:19.080 David, are you mad at me or something?

00:11:21.520 No, on the contrary.

00:11:23.540 To have someone of your character,

00:11:25.460 your intelligence,

00:11:26.720 your diligence,

00:11:27.660 I think that's what's desperately needed.

00:11:29.840 And you would be

00:11:30.620 Justin Trudeau's worst nightmare to boot.

00:11:32.660 And you know you've had

00:11:33.540 all kinds of people

00:11:35.200 urging you to do so.

00:11:36.760 So what's the deal

00:11:38.300 with Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:11:39.460 not running?

00:11:41.480 David, you know that

00:11:42.460 I think politicians 0.51

00:11:43.380 are awful people, 0.98

00:11:44.840 by and large.

00:11:45.520 So I just don't want to be one.

00:11:47.740 I really,

00:11:48.380 I just don't want to be one.

00:11:49.860 And I know people say,

00:11:51.100 well, then you would be

00:11:52.060 an independent senator,

00:11:53.020 and that's true.

00:11:53.560 But I just,

00:11:54.460 no thanks.

00:11:55.020 No thanks.

00:11:55.660 I think I have important work here

00:11:57.520 holding politicians to account

00:11:59.060 on behalf of the people.

00:12:00.020 I don't want to be one of them.

00:12:01.400 I want to work for the people,

00:12:02.520 and I think this is the best way

00:12:03.580 to do it.

00:12:04.300 Well, I can't argue against that,

00:12:06.060 but nevertheless,

00:12:07.060 hope abounds.

00:12:07.860 Thank you so much.

00:12:08.660 Tell Ezra to stop

00:12:10.160 making you ask me that,

00:12:11.900 by the way.

00:12:13.600 This is coming from my heart,

00:12:15.200 not Ezra.

00:12:15.860 But I know Ezra's on side

00:12:17.680 with wanting you to run, though.

00:12:18.880 But Sheila, 0.95

00:12:19.880 thank you so much.

00:12:20.780 Great report, as always.

00:12:22.840 Thanks, David.

00:12:23.380 Have a great weekend.

00:12:24.280 Thank you so much.

00:12:25.140 And that is Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:12:26.720 who will not be a senator

00:12:27.880 anytime soon,

00:12:29.260 somewhere in the hinterland

00:12:30.500 of northern Alberta.

00:12:31.880 Keep it here, folks.

00:12:32.940 More of Rebel Roundup

00:12:33.780 to come right after this.

00:12:40.040 This is Amy Hem,

00:12:41.620 the transphobic nurse.

00:12:44.260 No, I'm just joking.

00:12:45.700 I'm totally joking,

00:12:47.720 although it's not funny,

00:12:49.080 because that's basically

00:12:50.860 how you're being labeled

00:12:53.060 for some of the things

00:12:55.360 that you've spoken out against

00:12:56.940 when it comes to rights

00:12:58.520 for women, correct?

00:12:59.820 That's right.

00:13:02.180 Yeah.

00:13:03.120 So I have,

00:13:05.660 I've retained lawyers

00:13:06.940 at the Justice Centre

00:13:08.140 for Constitutional Freedoms

00:13:09.840 after I found out

00:13:11.440 that my college of nurses

00:13:14.840 in BC,

00:13:16.200 because my day job

00:13:17.740 is as a nurse,

00:13:18.960 they've been investigating me

00:13:20.800 for my alleged transphobia

00:13:23.140 for months.

00:13:24.340 And this was after

00:13:27.780 basically some people

00:13:30.340 in the public

00:13:30.980 complained about me

00:13:32.240 because of my

00:13:33.340 gender-critical activities,

00:13:35.940 including articles

00:13:37.160 that I've written,

00:13:39.120 an iHeartJK rolling billboard

00:13:41.480 I was involved with,

00:13:42.600 my social media pages.

00:13:46.060 And so these activists

00:13:47.760 have targeted me at work,

00:13:49.940 and they claim that

00:13:51.080 I shouldn't be allowed

00:13:52.440 to practice nursing

00:13:53.560 because I would be

00:13:54.960 a threat to

00:13:55.840 gender-diverse people,

00:13:58.500 which is completely

00:14:00.020 absurd.

00:14:02.200 And none of this is,

00:14:04.440 none of it has to do

00:14:05.240 with me performing my job,

00:14:06.900 there are no patients involved,

00:14:08.420 it's all just activists

00:14:09.840 complaining about

00:14:10.940 what I have done

00:14:12.240 outside of work.

00:14:14.280 Now, for those of you

00:14:15.600 who don't know already,

00:14:17.360 we actually did a report

00:14:18.840 on the billboard

00:14:19.680 you just mentioned.

00:14:20.880 It was almost a year ago,

00:14:22.080 back in September,

00:14:24.340 it was an iHeartJK Rowling

00:14:27.040 billboard,

00:14:28.780 because, like yourself,

00:14:30.480 JK Rowling spoke out

00:14:31.940 about some of these issues

00:14:33.300 as well.

00:14:34.060 Let's watch a clip

00:14:34.740 of that right now.

00:14:36.020 It's the most visible,

00:14:37.040 one of the more visible

00:14:37.820 examples of free speech

00:14:38.880 being curtailed,

00:14:39.600 but not the worst.

00:14:41.020 Like this, I mean,

00:14:41.560 it's just a billboard, right?

00:14:42.640 Honestly, it's just a billboard.

00:14:43.700 But it's kind of an example 0.94

00:14:45.980 of ridiculous things

00:14:49.060 that are happening

00:14:49.900 around free speech

00:14:50.800 and around parents' rights,

00:14:53.400 around women's rights,

00:14:56.600 around children's rights.

00:14:59.480 But those are very, like,

00:15:00.840 quiet fights

00:15:01.760 that aren't really

00:15:02.600 being reported on, right?

00:15:03.900 So I think that the value

00:15:04.840 of something like this

00:15:05.860 going up,

00:15:07.520 getting paint all over it,

00:15:09.180 being taken down instantly,

00:15:10.200 it's big and it's flashy

00:15:12.220 and it's newsy

00:15:12.780 and it gets people talking

00:15:13.700 and I think that's

00:15:14.260 the real value of it.

00:15:16.560 And so what do you think

00:15:17.920 about some of the stances

00:15:19.640 JK Rowling has been

00:15:20.860 taking lately? 1.00

00:15:22.060 Oh, she sucks. 1.00

00:15:23.720 Like, it's terrible. 1.00

00:15:24.900 As far as I know,

00:15:26.240 she just says

00:15:27.320 pretty despicable things 0.87

00:15:29.160 about trans rights.

00:15:30.780 She doesn't believe

00:15:31.500 in trans rights.

00:15:34.420 She seems like 0.98

00:15:34.860 a terrible person.

00:15:36.100 I think JK Rowling 0.99

00:15:37.340 is an honorary white male 0.77

00:15:38.780 because of that,

00:15:39.280 a cis white male

00:15:40.320 and should probably 1.00

00:15:41.960 donate her breasts 1.00

00:15:43.620 to a trans man 0.99

00:15:46.100 who's transition,

00:15:46.920 or a trans woman

00:15:47.440 who's transitioning.

00:15:48.420 So, Amy,

00:15:49.320 you're telling me

00:15:50.060 that after that billboard

00:15:52.300 went up,

00:15:52.960 this whole time,

00:15:54.400 I think it's been

00:15:55.020 11 months or so

00:15:56.140 since then,

00:15:56.820 you've been dealing

00:15:57.660 with a backlash

00:15:59.060 and a threat

00:16:00.560 against your work,

00:16:02.500 I guess,

00:16:02.980 from things like that.

00:16:04.160 Tell us some of the

00:16:05.700 accusations

00:16:07.460 specifically against you.

00:16:09.280 Yeah, so the,

00:16:12.120 I mean,

00:16:13.860 the complainants

00:16:15.240 basically have said

00:16:16.820 I'm transphobic

00:16:17.740 and I'm a threat.

00:16:19.020 One of them

00:16:19.580 is anonymous

00:16:20.760 and is allowed

00:16:23.360 to remain anonymous

00:16:24.260 because they said

00:16:25.180 that I could retaliate

00:16:26.460 against them,

00:16:27.900 which is quite insulting

00:16:29.220 to me

00:16:30.380 because they're trying

00:16:31.200 to make me lose

00:16:32.340 my job.

00:16:33.780 I'm a single mother

00:16:34.920 with two young children

00:16:36.440 and they're trying

00:16:37.700 to destroy my life

00:16:38.720 but they think

00:16:40.340 that I would somehow

00:16:41.080 retaliate against them.

00:16:42.780 Well, folks,

00:16:43.280 I know the calendar

00:16:44.000 reads 2021

00:16:45.280 but it sure feels

00:16:46.780 a lot like the fictional

00:16:48.020 dystopian world

00:16:49.080 of 1984

00:16:50.060 and the latest case

00:16:51.780 in point,

00:16:52.700 Amy Hamm,

00:16:53.560 her crime,

00:16:54.780 saying and thinking

00:16:56.140 things that are

00:16:57.100 supposedly politically

00:16:58.780 incorrect,

00:16:58.900 well,

00:17:00.020 at least when it comes

00:17:01.060 to the radical

00:17:02.240 trans community.

00:17:04.460 And joining me now

00:17:05.120 to discuss this matter

00:17:06.300 further is

00:17:07.140 Drea Humphrey.

00:17:08.080 Welcome to Rebel Roundup,

00:17:09.240 Drea.

00:17:10.080 Thank you.

00:17:10.920 Hello, everyone.

00:17:12.120 Drea,

00:17:12.460 there is so much

00:17:14.160 to unpack here

00:17:14.920 but first of all,

00:17:16.260 I think everyone,

00:17:17.300 including Ms. Hamm,

00:17:18.820 would like to know

00:17:19.940 the name of her accuser

00:17:21.660 but apparently

00:17:22.280 that's too much to ask.

00:17:24.060 I think this is

00:17:25.400 absolutely outrageous.

00:17:26.780 What's your take?

00:17:27.540 Yeah, that is outrageous

00:17:29.920 and I mean,

00:17:31.780 there was no evidence.

00:17:33.340 I mean,

00:17:33.560 I tried to look for anything

00:17:34.880 and according to Amy Hamm,

00:17:36.700 there's no evidence

00:17:37.640 to support that she would be

00:17:38.840 a danger or a threat

00:17:39.900 to anyone.

00:17:40.700 So how do you

00:17:41.480 even get away with

00:17:42.680 making such a complaint

00:17:44.500 that, you know,

00:17:45.800 threatens your livelihood

00:17:46.780 and you don't even have to

00:17:48.860 say who you are?

00:17:49.980 It could be anyone.

00:17:51.560 But Drea, 0.99

00:17:52.120 what's even more outrageous?

00:17:53.640 I mean,

00:17:53.860 there's all kinds of loons

00:17:55.440 out there.

00:17:56.140 That's a given.

00:17:56.820 But the idea that

00:17:59.720 the BC Nursing Association

00:18:01.780 would actually

00:18:02.880 take on this complaint

00:18:04.940 as being credible

00:18:06.120 about one of their members

00:18:08.620 liking J.K. Rowley?

00:18:11.160 I mean,

00:18:12.040 like,

00:18:12.660 where's the crime here?

00:18:14.880 There's no crime at all.

00:18:16.760 And, you know,

00:18:17.520 we're talking about

00:18:18.640 issues of concern

00:18:20.700 that protect women as well.

00:18:22.620 And so you would think

00:18:24.220 that the trans community

00:18:25.860 would be supportive of that

00:18:27.200 and understanding of that.

00:18:28.780 You know,

00:18:29.700 Amy Hamm talks a lot

00:18:30.800 about safe spaces

00:18:32.080 for women,

00:18:32.980 you know,

00:18:33.380 in rape shelters

00:18:34.600 and in sports,

00:18:37.200 you know,

00:18:37.580 making it more fair there.

00:18:38.800 These are just simply

00:18:39.640 discussions.

00:18:40.260 They're not topics

00:18:41.540 of hate.

00:18:42.220 They are issues

00:18:44.540 in the day

00:18:45.820 that we live in

00:18:46.720 and the time

00:18:47.560 and it's just really

00:18:48.800 kind of scary

00:18:49.680 to think that

00:18:50.620 if you say

00:18:52.340 or speak out

00:18:53.100 about these things,

00:18:54.060 you could possibly

00:18:55.020 lose your job

00:18:55.800 or be disciplined.

00:18:57.580 You know,

00:18:57.960 Drea,

00:18:58.380 I think,

00:18:59.440 you know,

00:18:59.880 there might be

00:19:01.000 a difference

00:19:01.780 between the trans community

00:19:03.320 and what I call

00:19:04.560 the radical trans community.

00:19:06.980 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:07.300 And I say that

00:19:08.260 because I was covering

00:19:09.640 last month

00:19:10.320 a demonstration

00:19:11.320 outside a female prison

00:19:13.260 in Kitchener

00:19:14.000 and it was about

00:19:15.820 how biological males

00:19:17.280 simply have to say

00:19:18.260 I'm female

00:19:19.200 and suddenly

00:19:20.120 you're doing time

00:19:21.120 with vulnerable females

00:19:23.060 in a prison.

00:19:24.980 And one of the protesters

00:19:26.360 out there

00:19:27.700 saying this is

00:19:28.400 the wrong policy

00:19:29.460 was somebody

00:19:30.780 who is transgendered.

00:19:32.860 And it leads me

00:19:33.900 to believe that

00:19:34.860 even if you have

00:19:36.040 trans people

00:19:37.040 saying

00:19:37.740 this is offside

00:19:39.380 this is wrong

00:19:40.500 I don't support this

00:19:42.360 why is it

00:19:43.160 the authorities

00:19:44.180 those running

00:19:45.280 the prisons

00:19:45.780 those running

00:19:46.500 the nursing associations

00:19:48.520 are so beholden

00:19:50.640 to the radical elements

00:19:52.600 in the transgender community

00:19:54.200 in the first place?

00:19:56.040 I think everybody

00:19:56.560 is just so scared

00:19:58.180 like that's what

00:19:58.840 I think everybody

00:19:59.440 is functioning on

00:20:00.360 some businesses

00:20:01.060 it's

00:20:01.700 you know

00:20:02.740 I don't think

00:20:03.220 in this particular situation

00:20:04.740 but sometimes

00:20:05.320 it's money motivated

00:20:06.340 are they going to

00:20:06.860 lose customers

00:20:07.800 but I think

00:20:08.400 everybody is just

00:20:09.620 really scared

00:20:10.720 of going against

00:20:11.460 the narrative

00:20:12.060 and can you blame

00:20:13.620 them with cancel culture

00:20:15.160 mobsters

00:20:16.020 like what's happening

00:20:17.120 to Amy Hamm

00:20:18.460 I mean

00:20:19.160 I guess that's what it is

00:20:20.200 and then also

00:20:20.800 it doesn't help

00:20:21.500 that we only see

00:20:23.340 sort of one narrative

00:20:24.800 predominantly

00:20:25.660 in media

00:20:26.600 and things like that

00:20:27.500 so that's what

00:20:28.720 people are conditioned

00:20:29.540 to think

00:20:30.000 they have to think

00:20:31.080 when they're too lazy

00:20:32.600 to think for themselves

00:20:33.620 you know

00:20:34.700 I think you're right

00:20:35.480 it is the fear factor

00:20:36.840 we live in a day and age

00:20:38.200 of cancel culture

00:20:39.360 Drea

00:20:40.000 and yet

00:20:41.640 again

00:20:42.140 when I look at

00:20:43.160 the radical trans community

00:20:44.940 we are talking about

00:20:46.700 a percent of a percent

00:20:48.140 of a percent

00:20:48.860 of a percent

00:20:49.560 of people

00:20:50.420 this is quite literally 0.90

00:20:51.680 the lunatic fringe

00:20:52.860 and when you see

00:20:53.980 even people

00:20:54.740 who are transgendered

00:20:55.980 speaking out against this

00:20:57.240 speaking out against

00:20:58.340 that grifter 1.00

00:20:59.100 Jonathan Yaniv

00:21:00.180 saying please

00:21:01.060 don't lump us in

00:21:02.040 with that guy

00:21:02.820 you know

00:21:04.580 I'm just struggling

00:21:07.060 with what the basis

00:21:08.780 for the fear is

00:21:10.220 it is such

00:21:11.580 a fraction

00:21:12.660 of a percentage

00:21:13.400 and I don't think

00:21:15.820 they're on the right

00:21:16.500 side of history

00:21:17.180 on this one

00:21:17.840 no

00:21:18.740 I think that

00:21:19.440 your report

00:21:20.180 if people haven't

00:21:22.100 seen it yet

00:21:22.700 about the predator

00:21:23.740 in the park

00:21:24.480 who is a woman

00:21:25.860 I mean

00:21:26.780 it's like you say

00:21:27.980 the vast majority

00:21:28.900 of people

00:21:29.340 understand what's

00:21:30.200 happening there

00:21:30.860 but still

00:21:31.880 there were so many

00:21:32.580 articles that I saw

00:21:33.800 or not so many

00:21:34.940 but there were some

00:21:35.500 articles that still

00:21:36.500 you know

00:21:37.440 they just won't

00:21:38.280 call it like it is

00:21:39.220 like you did

00:21:39.980 so

00:21:41.300 I don't know

00:21:43.140 what the answer to it

00:21:43.960 it doesn't make

00:21:44.540 any sense to me

00:21:45.300 I've always been

00:21:45.900 someone who speaks

00:21:46.820 my mind

00:21:47.380 or else it would

00:21:47.960 really bother me

00:21:48.680 if I wasn't able

00:21:49.380 to do so

00:21:50.080 and I think

00:21:51.220 Amy Hamm

00:21:51.800 from what I can see

00:21:53.040 of her activism

00:21:53.920 hasn't said anything

00:21:55.460 actually transphobic

00:21:57.040 and so people

00:21:58.140 just throw

00:21:58.660 these labels out

00:21:59.620 and then you have

00:22:00.240 these companies

00:22:00.880 thinking they have

00:22:01.740 to react

00:22:02.860 because maybe

00:22:03.600 if they don't

00:22:04.220 then they're

00:22:04.640 transphobic too

00:22:05.500 right

00:22:05.860 so

00:22:06.160 I think you nailed

00:22:07.700 it there

00:22:08.020 and one last

00:22:08.560 question Drea 0.85

00:22:09.280 first of all

00:22:10.360 how do you think

00:22:11.380 this is going to

00:22:12.140 play out for

00:22:12.860 Miss Hamm 0.62

00:22:13.400 and if she is

00:22:14.980 disciplined

00:22:15.580 in any way

00:22:16.980 whatsoever

00:22:17.460 is she thinking

00:22:19.260 about legal action

00:22:21.300 against the

00:22:22.400 nursing association

00:22:23.720 well she's being

00:22:25.320 represented right

00:22:26.560 now by the JCCF

00:22:28.400 and my understanding

00:22:29.300 is basically

00:22:30.600 the College of Nurses

00:22:32.700 and Midwives 0.66

00:22:33.320 has already put

00:22:34.520 forward some

00:22:35.640 sort of discipline

00:22:36.980 arrangement of

00:22:39.480 discipline that she

00:22:40.500 wasn't able to

00:22:41.400 speak on

00:22:42.180 and then her

00:22:43.320 and her lawyer

00:22:44.180 are discussing

00:22:45.020 whether they're

00:22:45.660 going to accept

00:22:46.380 it and then

00:22:47.340 if they don't

00:22:48.460 accept it

00:22:49.240 then I guess

00:22:50.460 there's more

00:22:51.040 of a legal battle

00:22:52.000 there too

00:22:52.620 she seems like

00:22:53.440 a fighter

00:22:53.840 but she also 1.00

00:22:54.480 seems exhausted

00:22:55.340 she's a mom

00:22:55.980 of two

00:22:56.420 who usually

00:22:58.320 if you get

00:22:58.900 into health care

00:23:00.080 you become a nurse

00:23:00.880 you care about

00:23:01.620 people

00:23:02.060 you care about

00:23:03.280 their health

00:23:03.920 and you know

00:23:05.380 she's being

00:23:06.080 challenged on

00:23:06.780 levels like that

00:23:07.600 so

00:23:07.880 well thank you

00:23:09.360 so much for this

00:23:10.000 Drea

00:23:10.180 if there's anyone

00:23:10.920 that has to

00:23:11.480 give an apology

00:23:12.140 it is her

00:23:12.880 association

00:23:13.400 for taking

00:23:14.420 this anonymous

00:23:15.580 complaint

00:23:16.260 as something

00:23:17.300 credible

00:23:18.520 about her

00:23:19.380 character

00:23:19.800 again

00:23:20.200 it is just

00:23:20.920 so outrageous

00:23:21.740 and egregious

00:23:22.440 to me

00:23:22.760 that this

00:23:23.400 is actually

00:23:23.980 a story

00:23:24.660 in the first

00:23:25.140 place

00:23:25.460 but you

00:23:26.320 have a good

00:23:26.720 weekend

00:23:27.280 Drea

00:23:27.460 and I know

00:23:27.820 you'll have

00:23:28.100 a follow-up

00:23:28.620 to this

00:23:28.960 when we get

00:23:29.380 some more

00:23:29.720 information

00:23:30.220 absolutely

00:23:31.180 thanks

00:23:31.800 bye everyone

00:23:32.440 okay

00:23:33.180 and that is

00:23:33.900 Drea Humphrey

00:23:34.740 in Vancouver

00:23:36.060 keep it here

00:23:36.620 folks

00:23:36.920 more of Rebel

00:23:37.700 roundup

00:23:38.040 roundup

00:23:38.060 to come

00:23:38.360 right after

00:23:39.020 this

00:23:39.400 after almost

00:23:45.560 a two-year

00:23:46.460 absence

00:23:47.040 baseball

00:23:47.620 is back

00:23:48.240 in town

00:23:48.800 the Toronto

00:23:49.840 Blue Jays

00:23:50.560 are having

00:23:51.180 their unofficial

00:23:52.100 home opener

00:23:53.120 against the

00:23:53.700 Kansas City

00:23:54.240 Royals

00:23:54.680 tonight

00:23:55.460 and it

00:23:57.340 makes me

00:23:57.860 scratch my

00:23:58.340 head though

00:23:58.900 how in the

00:24:00.000 world

00:24:00.320 do the

00:24:01.180 Blue Jays

00:24:01.760 get to

00:24:02.560 travel back

00:24:03.860 and forth

00:24:04.400 across the

00:24:05.240 border

00:24:05.460 because all

00:24:06.280 their opponents

00:24:07.060 are American

00:24:08.200 based teams

00:24:08.920 whereas if

00:24:09.940 you or I

00:24:10.480 did so

00:24:11.040 well we have

00:24:11.880 to go to

00:24:12.240 one of those

00:24:12.800 quarantine

00:24:13.600 hotels

00:24:14.580 well according

00:24:15.660 to the

00:24:16.020 Toronto Blue

00:24:16.500 Jays on 0.93

00:24:16.880 their website

00:24:17.540 the club

00:24:18.680 was granted

00:24:19.460 a national

00:24:20.380 interest

00:24:21.020 exemption

00:24:21.620 by the

00:24:22.800 federal

00:24:23.060 government

00:24:23.540 that will

00:24:24.400 allow Major

00:24:25.080 League Baseball

00:24:25.700 games to be

00:24:26.300 played at

00:24:27.180 Rogers Centre

00:24:27.900 with robust

00:24:29.120 health and

00:24:29.920 safety protocols

00:24:30.940 in place

00:24:31.900 how do you

00:24:32.760 like that

00:24:33.200 well the first

00:24:33.820 thing I thought

00:24:34.520 is what

00:24:35.340 are these

00:24:36.080 things called

00:24:36.840 national interest

00:24:37.960 exemptions and

00:24:38.940 who gets

00:24:39.880 them well I

00:24:40.760 went to the

00:24:41.820 one of the

00:24:42.240 Government of

00:24:42.660 Canada websites

00:24:43.360 about this and

00:24:45.100 it says the

00:24:45.600 following quote

00:24:46.240 the national

00:24:46.960 interest exemption

00:24:48.000 is intended to

00:24:49.620 be used in

00:24:50.400 exceptional

00:24:51.200 circumstances only

00:24:52.900 all other

00:24:54.220 exemptions must

00:24:55.180 be considered

00:24:55.820 before giving

00:24:56.580 consideration to

00:24:58.180 applying the

00:24:59.240 national interest

00:25:00.400 exemption and

00:25:02.500 it goes on

00:25:03.260 with a lot of

00:25:03.920 bureaucratic

00:25:04.560 baffle gap

00:25:05.200 but how is

00:25:06.480 it that

00:25:07.420 you know

00:25:08.240 baseball in

00:25:09.620 the city of

00:25:10.100 Toronto is

00:25:10.720 considered

00:25:11.400 something of

00:25:13.560 national interest

00:25:14.580 something that

00:25:15.580 is exceptional

00:25:16.340 I am

00:25:18.140 baffled by

00:25:18.960 this it's

00:25:19.640 it's just a

00:25:20.800 sports team

00:25:21.480 having fun and

00:25:22.200 games after all

00:25:23.080 or could it be

00:25:23.920 folks that this

00:25:24.720 is yet another

00:25:25.400 glaring example

00:25:26.340 of money talks 0.98

00:25:27.620 and bullshite 0.99

00:25:28.540 walks even 0.98

00:25:29.260 during a

00:25:29.920 pandemic in

00:25:31.120 other words if 0.87

00:25:31.660 you are a

00:25:32.120 multi-million

00:25:32.940 dollar baseball

00:25:34.160 player employed

00:25:35.500 by a multi-billion

00:25:37.340 dollar corporation

00:25:38.400 which is to say

00:25:39.500 Rogers well you

00:25:41.720 don't have to

00:25:42.400 worry like the

00:25:44.000 great unwashed

00:25:45.040 masses do of

00:25:46.240 checking into a

00:25:47.420 COVID quarantine

00:25:48.800 hotel every time

00:25:49.840 you cross the

00:25:50.580 border oh no no

00:25:51.680 no that sort of

00:25:53.100 stuff is just for

00:25:54.340 the ham and

00:25:54.840 eggers this is of

00:25:56.720 national significance

00:25:58.420 this is of I

00:25:59.840 guess international

00:26:01.040 importance given

00:26:02.200 that all of the

00:26:03.160 Blue Jays opponents

00:26:04.200 are based in US

00:26:05.600 cities what was

00:26:06.560 that old tagline

00:26:07.980 that Carl Malden

00:26:09.000 used to say in

00:26:10.020 advertising the

00:26:10.880 American Express

00:26:11.580 card back in the

00:26:12.560 day oh yes

00:26:13.240 membership has

00:26:14.920 its privileges and

00:26:16.480 professional athletes

00:26:18.000 are amongst the

00:26:19.160 most privileged

00:26:20.240 people on our

00:26:21.520 entire planet it

00:26:23.180 actually brings to

00:26:23.960 mind another quote

00:26:25.000 quote this one from

00:26:26.580 George Orwell namely

00:26:28.760 all animals are

00:26:30.280 equal but some

00:26:31.500 animals such as

00:26:32.920 Blue Jays are more

00:26:35.020 equal than others

00:26:36.280 so how do you like

00:26:37.100 them apples folks if

00:26:38.300 you're a professional

00:26:39.000 athlete earning

00:26:39.800 millions suddenly you

00:26:41.000 now qualify for a

00:26:42.400 national interest

00:26:43.660 exemption when it

00:26:45.080 comes to border

00:26:45.960 crossings and

00:26:46.960 violating social

00:26:47.940 distancing mandates

00:26:48.980 and the rest of it

00:26:49.760 you know I think I'm

00:26:51.360 going to go out and

00:26:52.140 buy a Blue Jays

00:26:53.100 uniform and wear it

00:26:54.440 the next time I have

00:26:55.320 to cross the border

00:26:56.200 I'll just say I'm

00:26:57.680 from the farm team

00:26:58.720 or something I

00:27:00.100 wonder if I'll get

00:27:00.960 the royal treatment

00:27:01.980 as well in any

00:27:03.500 event you had plenty

00:27:04.420 to say about it yet

00:27:05.580 another glaring 0.68

00:27:06.520 example of one law

00:27:08.240 for thee one law

00:27:09.680 for me MEDW

00:27:11.980 writes the national

00:27:13.440 interest exemption

00:27:14.380 should be in place

00:27:15.480 Canada wide now

00:27:16.720 time this fiasco

00:27:18.100 ended oh I agree

00:27:19.580 MEDW it's not like

00:27:21.960 a year and a half

00:27:22.780 ago when COVID-19

00:27:24.020 was being treated as

00:27:25.240 a second coming of

00:27:26.200 Ebola we know

00:27:27.720 better now and I

00:27:28.940 maintain that the

00:27:29.920 so-called cure i.e.

00:27:31.560 all those debilitating

00:27:32.860 lockdowns has been

00:27:34.520 far far worse than

00:27:36.300 the curse

00:27:36.820 Weldon Morrison

00:27:38.420 writes I quit

00:27:39.540 watching woke sports

00:27:41.020 a year and a half

00:27:41.820 ago you know I hear

00:27:43.200 this from so many

00:27:44.120 people the utter

00:27:45.420 wokeness has become a 0.95

00:27:47.000 major turnoff for a

00:27:48.600 huge segment of sports

00:27:49.840 fans who are sick and

00:27:51.320 tired of being lectured

00:27:52.440 to and that's going to

00:27:54.040 have a debilitating

00:27:55.000 effect for sports

00:27:56.500 leagues when it comes

00:27:57.420 to attendance and TV

00:27:58.660 ratings in the future

00:27:59.720 case in point last

00:28:01.060 month's baseball all-star

00:28:02.440 baseball game was the

00:28:04.460 second least watched

00:28:05.760 all-star game in

00:28:06.780 history only 8.24

00:28:09.460 million people tuned in

00:28:11.260 by way of comparison in

00:28:12.760 1980 more than 36

00:28:15.040 million people watched

00:28:16.120 the game so less ratings

00:28:18.080 means teams will be

00:28:19.400 forced to charge less

00:28:20.500 money for advertisements

00:28:22.360 and that will lead to a

00:28:24.480 major cash crunch when

00:28:26.740 it comes to paying all

00:28:27.980 these multi-million dollar

00:28:29.300 prima donnas good

00:28:31.080 yuki pyro writes rebel

00:28:33.900 how about exposing

00:28:35.020 rogers and bell well

00:28:36.380 yuki I had a companion

00:28:37.800 piece posted earlier this

00:28:39.520 week regarding what I

00:28:41.060 call the swindle of the

00:28:42.180 century aka the story of

00:28:43.980 skydome here's the skinny

00:28:45.560 it was supposed to cost

00:28:46.740 150 million it ended up

00:28:48.400 costing 570 million when

00:28:51.220 it was finally completed in

00:28:52.600 1989 almost all of the

00:28:54.840 funding coming from the

00:28:55.820 taxpayers and then in

00:28:57.560 2004 old man rogers buys

00:28:59.860 the stadium for 25 million

00:29:02.380 dollars in other words

00:29:03.780 just four percent of the

00:29:05.020 original construction costs

00:29:06.860 what a scandal and hey

00:29:08.840 rogers customers just think

00:29:10.940 about that the next time you

00:29:12.420 get your cell phone or cable

00:29:13.920 bill johnny strength writes

00:29:16.200 baseball is an essential

00:29:17.860 service come on everybody

00:29:19.540 should know that well johnny

00:29:21.480 obviously the justin trudeau

00:29:23.140 liberals believe this to be

00:29:24.820 the case and why not pro

00:29:26.900 sports is today's equivalent

00:29:28.340 of bread and circuses a

00:29:30.800 distraction from the real

00:29:32.060 issues people should be

00:29:33.740 paying more attention to and

00:29:36.420 jane pearson writes everyone

00:29:38.220 should boycott these events

00:29:39.920 well jane i gotta tell you i was

00:29:41.780 way way way ahead of the curve on

00:29:43.640 this file at least when it

00:29:44.960 comes to the toronto blue

00:29:46.020 jays i used to be a huge fan

00:29:47.920 going to about 15 games a

00:29:49.440 year and then in 1994 the

00:29:51.780 season was cut short by the

00:29:53.360 player strike i was stuck with

00:29:55.200 a pair of tickets for a game

00:29:56.480 that was never played if you

00:29:58.120 can imagine the blue jays

00:29:59.500 refused to give me a cash

00:30:01.240 refund for these tickets in

00:30:03.300 1995 i had to go to small

00:30:05.520 claims court facing off against

00:30:07.260 the blue jays big bay street

00:30:09.500 law firm and i won thankfully

00:30:12.260 the judge did not agree that

00:30:14.140 the blue jays thought that

00:30:15.720 they were above the law there

00:30:17.840 was no national interest

00:30:19.560 exemption for them on this

00:30:20.900 issue and i've never bought a

00:30:22.660 ticket since oh and by the

00:30:24.320 way the marketing slogan for

00:30:26.000 the blue jays that year was

00:30:27.480 1995 the year of the fan can

00:30:31.980 you believe the audacity of

00:30:34.080 these pompous bird brains well

00:30:36.640 that wraps up another edition of

00:30:38.180 rebel roundup thanks so much for

00:30:39.700 joining us see you next week and

00:30:41.100 hey folks never forget without

00:30:43.240 risk there can be no glory good

00:30:45.200 night

Rebel News Podcast - August 07, 2021

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Trudeau's Alberta Senator, Politically Incorrect Medical Professionals

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