Rebel News Podcast - Dominion Voting HQ in Toronto, Ford Nation's WE Charity Funding

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00:01:39.500 In light of so many allegations of voter fraud taking place in the United States,

00:01:45.340 Kian Bextie recently visited the Dominion Voting Company based in downtown Toronto,

00:01:51.180 and he discovered many unsettling things.

00:01:55.160 Just will you hear what Kian has to say?

00:01:58.340 Well, the WE Charity, you know that scandal-plagued entity

00:02:02.480 so many politicians would like you to forget about?

00:02:05.920 Well, WE is back in the news.

00:02:09.340 We know liberals love the WE gravy train,

00:02:12.100 but why were the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives funding this abomination as well?

00:02:18.420 Sheila Gunn-Reed will weigh in on this doozy. 1.00

00:02:21.260 And letters, we get your letters.

00:02:22.720 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:24.480 And you had plenty to say about my video regarding what had to be the saddest Remembrance Day ever.

00:02:31.040 Why? Well, as my visit to downtown Toronto revealed,

00:02:35.880 easily more than 95% of passers-by were not wearing poppies on November 11th,

00:02:43.040 all of which proves two things.

00:02:45.280 Too many people simply don't give a damn.

00:02:48.400 And yeah, Don Cherry was right.

00:02:51.580 Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:02:53.740 Kian back to you for Rebel News.

00:03:00.100 Standing in Toronto, outside of the headquarters of a business you've probably heard of,

00:03:04.800 Dominion Voting Systems.

00:03:06.240 Donald Trump has been tweeting about this company pretty much non-stop over the past few days

00:03:11.100 after allegations of voter fraud arose, specifically coming out of Michigan.

00:03:15.740 About 3,000 ballots were switched from Donald Trump to Joe Biden,

00:03:20.260 leading to a 6,000-vote swing in one Michigan county.

00:03:25.660 Now, Dominion Voting Systems has their hands over elections in tons of counties in the United States.

00:03:31.620 They manage the elections in all of Georgia's 140-something counties.

00:03:35.760 And they run elections also in Canada with the Conservative Party of Canada and also in New Brunswick.

00:03:40.180 And it seems like, it's hard to keep track of actually, how many times allegations of voter fraud

00:03:45.540 follow whenever they get involved in an election.

00:03:48.640 It's a huge problem.

00:03:49.620 But today we're here for a different reason.

00:03:52.180 We've learned that they share not just an office building,

00:03:55.440 but they share an office floor with Tides Canada.

00:03:58.540 Now, Tides Canada is interested in meddling in politics within Canada and the United States.

00:04:04.180 They will do whatever they can to stop any sort of resource development,

00:04:07.680 even if it means getting involved in politics.

00:04:10.780 It's a huge problem here in Canada and clearly in the United States.

00:04:14.220 We're really interested to know why they just happen to have very expensive office space

00:04:19.540 here in Chinatown in Toronto, shared with Dominion Voting Systems,

00:04:23.740 the company that just happens to have an ungodly amount of control over the American presidential elections.

00:04:30.660 We're going to go in there and ask a few questions and see why they're trying to hide the fact

00:04:34.840 that they actually share an office floor because we've poked our head in

00:04:38.340 and we've seen that they've actually removed the placards

00:04:41.640 that show exactly where their office is headquartered.

00:04:44.640 It was removed with request of the tenants.

00:04:46.700 That was removed with request of the tenants.

00:04:48.960 Now, I wonder why they would do that.

00:04:50.260 It seems almost like an admission that something a little bit distasteful is going on.

00:04:55.360 But we don't know.

00:04:55.920 We're going to go ask.

00:04:56.920 We're going to see if we can get an interview

00:04:58.380 and speak with folks at Dominion Voting as they go into work this morning.

00:05:03.320 Let's see what we can find.

00:05:08.180 Hi there.

00:05:08.800 Would you be able to tell us why Dominion Voting gave so much money to Hillary Clinton?

00:05:13.320 Would you be able to explain that to me?

00:05:17.040 She did have a Dominion Voting tag there.

00:05:20.040 Very luckily, we were invited in by a friendly individual who works in this building,

00:05:24.460 not for tides and not for Dominion Voting, but he wanted us to be in where it's warm.

00:05:28.240 While we asked folks coming into work on this early Toronto morning what Dominion Voting

00:05:33.140 was doing when they donated almost $50,000 to Hillary Clinton.

00:05:38.900 I didn't make that up.

00:05:39.640 The document is right here.

00:05:41.080 It's almost too crazy to believe that an organization that we trust to be impartial,

00:05:46.940 that controls the integrity of the ballots in dozens of jurisdictions,

00:05:51.180 from New Brunswick to New York, Dominion Voting has their hands on ballots across the world.

00:05:56.620 And we are supposed to trust them that they're handling those with integrity.

00:06:02.280 Why did they decide that Hillary Clinton was deserving of so much cash? 1.00

00:06:06.400 Ah, the plot thickens and sickens.

00:06:10.220 One thing is for sure when it comes to Dominion Voting,

00:06:13.760 the optics stink worse than a polecat trapped in an abandoned outhouse.

00:06:18.160 The fact that this company not only shares office space in Toronto with the odious Tides Foundation,

00:06:25.080 but is also on record as donating money to the Clinton Foundation?

00:06:30.420 I mean, really, how fishy, how unethical is that?

00:06:35.880 And joining me now regarding this fascinating story is Kian Bexte.

00:06:40.040 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:06:42.700 Hi, David.

00:06:43.160 Hey, Kian, I have to tell you, that was an absolutely great report,

00:06:48.260 but I find it absolutely fascinating that there isn't a flotilla of media vehicles

00:06:55.240 parked outside Dominion headquarters.

00:06:57.220 And I'm not talking Canadian media outlets.

00:06:59.260 I mean U.S. networks like CNN and ABC and CBS and so on.

00:07:04.100 And yet it's pretty much radio silence, isn't it?

00:07:07.600 So why is it, given that the allegations of voter fraud are so serious,

00:07:14.720 this is something, I think, Kian, that makes Watergate look like a little white lie if proven?

00:07:21.700 Yeah, no, this whole story has been left to independent media to cover,

00:07:27.320 which is very strange.

00:07:30.220 Maybe I should get used to it at this point.

00:07:32.180 But it's clear that large media organizations have a vested interest in there being absolutely

00:07:39.380 no question about the credibility of Joe Biden's recent supposed wins.

00:07:46.820 So unlike when Donald Trump won, every media outlet criticized him and his path to victory.

00:07:54.800 They said, oh, Russia was involved, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada.

00:07:57.280 But when it's Joe Biden, no, any sort of doubt can't be accepted.

00:08:03.160 And that's what's happening here.

00:08:04.980 What we're doing effectively is casting doubt on that election, but for good reason, right?

00:08:11.320 Like this Dominion voting company, this company that we trust to have integrity and to handle

00:08:17.320 ballots fairly.

00:08:18.520 And when a ballot goes into one of their boxes, the right code, digital code, comes out and goes

00:08:24.420 to the right servers and counts things correctly.

00:08:26.900 That's what we're trusting.

00:08:28.560 But for some reason, they've decided to set up shop in a hive, a commune of leftists, in

00:08:35.800 some cases, radical extreme leftists like George Soros.

00:08:39.860 They've set up shop with them.

00:08:41.540 They've gotten to bed with them.

00:08:43.360 And that reflects on them and how well we can trust them to act impartially.

00:08:48.580 And the answer is we can't trust them at all.

00:08:50.500 And the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about it, obviously.

00:08:52.680 Yeah, and surely those other tenants of that building that you visited, Kian, that must

00:08:58.560 be some kind of cosmic coincidence, I suppose.

00:09:01.200 But I think you nailed it.

00:09:02.960 The word is trust.

00:09:04.500 And certainly President Trump has brought this up.

00:09:07.860 And I think it's a valid question.

00:09:09.300 Why is Dominion Voting, it's a Toronto-based company here in Canada, why is their technology

00:09:17.280 not deemed good enough or reliable enough for the Canadian federal election, yet 30 states

00:09:26.140 in the USA have adopted this?

00:09:29.160 I mean, that doesn't make sense to me, Kian.

00:09:32.660 It doesn't make sense.

00:09:33.660 And we do have more coming out on this story because it gets even worse than what you've

00:09:38.600 described.

00:09:39.740 The leadership of this company are in bed with the worst kind of people.

00:09:46.440 They're in bed very, very...

00:09:49.040 Maybe I shouldn't spoil the scoop that we have published coming out here on Monday.

00:09:54.420 But, you know, it goes right to the top of Dominion Voting.

00:09:59.040 And I encourage everyone to stay tuned on this story because it's going to get worse.

00:10:03.380 Kian, where are the Dominion head honchos?

00:10:06.120 It's like a game of Where's Waldo?

00:10:07.920 It seems like they've disappeared off the face of the planet.

00:10:11.480 That's exactly what we've been wondering ourselves.

00:10:14.460 But we're on a beat, I think, that might expose one of them for doing something that someone

00:10:22.740 in his position really shouldn't be doing.

00:10:25.340 So, you know, they've run ahead.

00:10:28.660 They don't want to answer any questions, whether it's from me, whether it's from Donald Trump's

00:10:33.520 campaign, from Sidney Powell, from Rudy Giuliani.

00:10:37.120 They don't want to answer any questions.

00:10:38.920 And I can understand why.

00:10:40.040 They probably just made a killing during this election.

00:10:42.420 Voting machines was hundreds, thousands of their machines were used throughout the United

00:10:47.160 States.

00:10:48.060 So they're just raking in the dough.

00:10:50.240 And they don't want to stoke the, they don't want to risk any future contracts by admitting

00:10:57.540 that they really lack the integrity that they were selling themselves with.

00:11:02.180 You know, and there are many questions to ask.

00:11:04.860 As you pointed out in your report, Kian, this idea that they gave a donation, I think it

00:11:11.380 was up to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

00:11:15.200 Kian, if I was running a company that was responsible for the voting of citizens in an election, I think

00:11:25.060 it's safe to say there would be an ironclad policy that you cannot make any political donations.

00:11:33.060 You can't support any campaigns.

00:11:35.840 You can't support any candidates.

00:11:38.140 We have to be seen as pure as the driven snow.

00:11:41.080 We can't be seen to have any kind of bias.

00:11:45.040 And yet here's a potential $50,000 donation to the Clintons?

00:11:49.880 That stinks, Kian. 1.00

00:11:51.860 Well, think about it this way, David.

00:11:53.880 Why would they have that policy?

00:11:55.680 Why would anyone working with government have that policy?

00:11:59.100 And the answer would be so that they can get more contracts.

00:12:01.520 Because, well, depending on who's in charge, they don't want to ruffle any feathers.

00:12:05.380 Maybe the next day the red team's going to be in charge. 0.90

00:12:07.640 Maybe the next day the blue team's going to be in charge. 0.75

00:12:09.140 So just stay out of it all.

00:12:10.300 That would be the reasonable expectation.

00:12:11.980 But for some reason, they made the call that even donating to Hillary Clinton, the figurehead of the Democrat Party, really, like when you think about the people in charge, you think Hillary Clinton.

00:12:26.700 They thought that that was OK, which means they made a judgment call that the people in charge, of course, it wasn't Donald Trump saying, yeah, let's use Dominion voting machines.

00:12:38.720 But the people in the deep state who said, yeah, this is how we're going to run this election.

00:12:45.060 These are the risks that we're going to accept.

00:12:47.700 They did that.

00:12:48.600 They certainly vetted the mean voting.

00:12:50.280 I'm sure they're certainly aware that they donated to Hillary Clinton.

00:12:53.300 I'm sure they're probably even aware that they're very close to George Soros.

00:12:56.780 But they still made the call, those in the deep state making those calls on which election, on which vote tabulation machines to use during the election.

00:13:05.800 They still thought that that was acceptable.

00:13:07.500 Which makes me question the integrity, not just of the election, but the integrity of the U.S. government.

00:13:14.960 And not just the U.S. government, but the state governments that are actually in charge of their elections.

00:13:21.380 And Kian, like I said, if these allegations are true, this is the story of our young century thus far, that this company flipped a U.S. presidential election.

00:13:32.920 And again, you know, these are allegations that do have to be proven in a court of law.

00:13:38.320 And I know that the clock is ticking.

00:13:40.060 But I really resent the mainstream media narrative here that this is just people strolling down Conspiracy Boulevard, that there's no there there.

00:13:50.020 We have in the U.S. dozens and dozens of people that have come forward under penalty of perjury, talking about the shenanigans that they eyewitnessed going back to November the 3rd election night.

00:14:03.020 Like, this has to be investigated, but it's like the media is part of this Dominion voting cover-up itself.

00:14:11.640 What are your thoughts on that?

00:14:12.720 Well, the media is, and it's never been proven better than it has now.

00:14:18.760 I mean, lots of people kind of thought that this was the case, but it's clear now.

00:14:22.600 It's absolutely clear that the media doesn't just act as a spokes group for the Democratic Party.

00:14:30.520 They have put themselves in a position where they think it is their divine right to crown the president.

00:14:38.980 Just like, you know, just like God will crown the queen, they are saying that they have the right to crown the president of the United States.

00:14:49.380 And that is a massive problem.

00:14:52.800 Because if that's the case, we don't really live in a democracy.

00:14:57.100 Well, at least Americans don't. 0.97

00:14:58.460 I think maybe a similar argument can be made for Canada, but at least in the United States,

00:15:03.140 if it is the media that is determining who is and who is not a legitimate president,

00:15:08.380 as they did over the last four years, they said Donald Trump is illegitimate.

00:15:12.280 And now they're saying that Joe Biden is legitimate,

00:15:14.820 when there's more questions about the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidency than there ever was about Donald Trump.

00:15:20.940 There's more evidence that Toronto hacked the 2020 election than Moscow ever having hacked the 2016 election.

00:15:27.240 And that's a fact.

00:15:28.460 You are so, so right.

00:15:30.540 I mean, you know, Kian, where is Woodward and Bernstein when you need them?

00:15:33.900 They're not digging up scoops anymore.

00:15:36.160 They're actually crafting public relations policy for the Democratic Party.

00:15:41.560 What a sad, sad state of affairs.

00:15:43.660 Well, you know what, Kian, it's an evolving story.

00:15:46.360 It's a fascinating story.

00:15:48.760 I just hope there's enough time for the spotlight to be shed on the people behind Dominion voting.

00:15:55.920 They have a lot to answer for.

00:15:57.500 But that was a fantastic story.

00:15:59.160 And thank you again for making time to talk about it with me today, Kian.

00:16:04.480 Thanks, David.

00:16:05.120 And we do have a little bit of time because if the Republicans take the House in 2020, as I think they will, impeachment is always on the table.

00:16:12.560 Yeah, indeed.

00:16:14.400 Well, let's see if they have it in them to do that.

00:16:17.040 So but time will tell.

00:16:19.640 Kian, thank you so much again.

00:16:20.760 And have a great weekend, my friend.

00:16:23.120 You too, David.

00:16:24.200 And that was Kian Bexty in Calgary.

00:16:26.920 Keep it here, folks.

00:16:27.720 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:35.180 We've already covered the amount of taxpayer cash the province of Alberta, my province, dumped into we in recent years.

00:16:45.400 It was three quarters of a million bucks, by the way, although none of that, thankfully, was on Conservative Premier Jason Kenney's watch.

00:16:53.240 The province of Ontario, for years, has dumped fat stacks of cash on we and Trudeau's friends, the Kielberger brothers.

00:17:02.440 The prior liberal provincial government of Ontario funneled money to we in the millions of dollars.

00:17:09.420 And don't think that Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford is any better than the Liberals before him.

00:17:16.860 He also gave we over a quarter million bucks in 2019-2020 alone.

00:17:23.820 How do I know all this?

00:17:25.160 Well, Rebel News has exclusive access to information documents from Ontario's Education Ministry

00:17:31.140 that detail the enormous grants from Ontario taxpayers to Justin Trudeau's mom and brother's contract employers over at WE.

00:17:40.740 Let's take a look at these contracts and grants, shall we?

00:17:44.200 The first contract, awarded under the Kathleen Wynne Liberals for WE Day in Toronto in 2014,

00:17:52.940 shows that Ontario taxpayers gave WE $650,000, including paying them $200,000 to deepen their relationships with school boards,

00:18:02.600 another $170,000 to integrate the audience into WE Day,

00:18:06.820 and then $110,000 to communicate with schools, whatever that means.

00:18:12.300 Ontario taxpayers also gave the Kielbergers $60,000 for their rent and utilities. 1.00

00:18:16.980 It's here on page 19 of these 2014-2015 documents.

00:18:20.720 Now, I thought their rent was a, quote, charitable donation to their parents.

00:18:25.760 Look at this.

00:18:26.840 As a donation to the charity, Me Too We pays the Kielbergers parents $97,200 in rent a year, 1.00

00:18:34.560 which covers just the mortgage, interest, and property tax.

00:18:38.540 So why are they billing the Ontario government for rent for buildings that the Kielbergers, 1.00

00:18:44.300 or one of their enterprises, owns or rented from their parents?

00:18:48.940 That seems fishy, doesn't it?

00:18:51.220 2015-2016, Ontario paid WE $650,000 again, including to expand their network to schools that weren't already involved with WE.

00:19:02.900 2016-2017, the Ontario taxpayers again forked over another $650,000,

00:19:09.440 this time to help recruit more teachers to be part of the WE cult.

00:19:14.040 2017-2018, we see another grant of $650,000, including money to target more schools and educators.

00:19:23.500 2017-2018, still on the same year, friends.

00:19:27.140 It's another $1.5 million to WE, which would be just before the 2018 federal election.

00:19:35.080 That's convenient.

00:19:35.660 And then 2019-2020, so the Doug Ford years, $250,000 to WE, including paying WE $10,000 to give 40 motivational speeches in schools.

00:19:47.440 Wow, that is one heck of a business model the Kielberger brothers have going, don't you think?

00:19:53.020 And I think we now know why this scheme is called WE.

00:19:59.240 After all, it is WE the people, as in taxpayers, who are funding this abomination.

00:20:07.180 And joining me now with more on a scandal that so many politicians want you to forget about is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:20:15.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:20:17.220 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:20:19.040 It's always a pleasure.

00:20:20.060 Sheila, for starters, I get that the likes of Justin Trudeau and ex-Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne were so gung-ho in funding the WE cult.

00:20:33.360 But Premier Doug Ford, I mean, his late great brother Rob was all about derailing the gravy train.

00:20:40.780 Why would Premier Ford allow this liberal-friendly gravy train to be further fueled via taxpayer dollars?

00:20:48.460 Why does Premier Ford do many of the things he does these days?

00:20:54.620 He's certainly not governing the way he campaigned.

00:20:59.800 Yeah, I mean, it's one thing for successive liberal governments to be handing out money to what I call the Kielberger Institute for Future Liberal Voters.

00:21:10.920 It's millions upon millions of dollars.

00:21:13.900 But then for it to continue under Doug Ford, it's atrocious.

00:21:19.040 And luckily here in Alberta, Premier Kenney did not give WE a dime.

00:21:25.520 That I can see, at least through the education ministry.

00:21:28.660 But prior to him, for at least five years, you know, it was Notley and then the PCs before Notley, they were giving money to WE also.

00:21:40.880 And I wonder how much of this remains across the country.

00:21:44.780 Like even, you know, and it's a question that probably it will only be me asking, filing access to information requests into the education ministries of governments that are claiming to be conservative on most issues.

00:22:00.780 The Sask party in Saskatchewan and the PC party in Manitoba, we remain to find out exactly how much money they've given the friends of Justin Trudeau to turn our children, hundreds of thousands of Canadian children, into future liberal voters.

00:22:21.400 You know, Sheila, you raise a good point here.

00:22:24.460 Are we ever going to find out the depths of this scandal?

00:22:28.060 I mean, this was really why Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament.

00:22:33.340 I mean, what we have, what we know about the WE charity, I think, is so scandalous that it makes you wonder, what do you think it is that they're hiding and covering up?

00:22:45.900 Well, I mean, there's just so much and I kind of glossed over it in my video because there is just so much.

00:22:52.460 We know that the Kielburgers had a rental agreement with their parents.

00:22:58.200 It was a charitable donation.

00:23:01.260 And yet we find out that the Ontario government was also reimbursing the Kielburgers for rent on buildings that their parents quite likely owned or, you know, that were part of the WE Kielburger real estate empire.

00:23:19.360 Because that's really what this thing is, because that's really what this thing is, it wasn't actually a charity.

00:23:24.140 I mean, they held events that raised money, but this was a brainwashing program for Canadian kids that helped the Kielburgers amass a multi-million dollar Toronto real estate empire that you paid a visit to. 0.95

00:23:43.800 Oh, and I remember that well, Sheila, in addition to that Taj Mahal headquarters that they have at Queen and Parliament Street, which is in the tens of millions of dollars, we did outline, we actually just walked along Queen, and I think it might have been Berkeley Street, down Berkeley, and you could see they were buying up a whole bunch of properties for what I think was ultimately a teardown.

00:24:08.240 Most of them weren't even rented out, even though it's on prime real estate, and so I think the end goal there was indeed to put up some big condo tower or office tower development.

00:24:22.420 But, you know, Sheila, I have to say, do you think the media is kind of losing interest in chasing down what's really behind the WE scandal?

00:24:34.340 Just yesterday, I'm driving in to Rebel headquarters, I'm listening to the CFRB roundtable, and this issue came up, and the panel of trained SEALs were all talking about what a shame this is to have happened.

00:24:49.200 I took down some notes that we improve the lives of so many children in the developing nations.

00:24:56.380 We, you know, have empowered schoolchildren in Canada, and then the Kielberger brothers, you know, they're great people.

00:25:06.040 It is such a shame that they are now the victims of cancel culture.

00:25:10.760 I couldn't believe what I was hearing, Sheila. What is your reaction to that?

00:25:14.120 It's like the left wants to use the same words that we do, like cancel culture, but they don't actually know what those words really mean.

00:25:23.080 There's like a language deficit that we have different definitions for the same words.

00:25:29.420 Yeah, the Kielberger sure are the victims here. 1.00

00:25:31.360 They get a program crafted by their very powerful friend, Justin Trudeau.

00:25:39.460 They stand to earn, I think it was somewhere near $40 million, to administer a nearly $1 billion student bailout program.

00:25:49.420 The whole thing is created just for them.

00:25:51.880 And then when it blows up in their face, and when people say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, this is soul-sourced garbage, and there is another way to have done this, they're the victims? 0.92

00:26:02.900 This is outrageous. 0.59

00:26:05.280 And, you know, going back to your point about will we ever know the depth of all of this?

00:26:12.560 I'm not so sure.

00:26:14.380 And I'll tell you why.

00:26:15.500 Because these documents are being found and then destroyed.

00:26:20.020 And that's one of the reasons why we're hitting everybody that we possibly can in government with access to information requests to get our hands on these documents.

00:26:28.900 We know that Speaker Spotlight, just the, you know, talent agency that employed Justin Trudeau when he was an MP, they destroyed their documents relating to his contracts and fees.

00:26:40.980 Luckily, we actually have some copies of some of those.

00:26:46.340 We might be the, or at least one of the only places in the country that still has those original documents because they've just disappeared.

00:26:56.360 And that's why the work that we do in access to information is so important because these documents do get destroyed.

00:27:03.620 They get memory hold all the time.

00:27:06.220 I mean, when I'm filing access to information requests into two different agencies and I know that the agencies are talking to each other on an email chain, I can get a stack of emails from, let's say, IRCC, so the immigration.

00:27:23.800 And I can file the same access to information with the CBSA and I can see in the email thread that they're talking to each other.

00:27:33.860 But sometimes in some instances, they've pulled emails out of the middle and I can see it in real time.

00:27:42.120 And I think a lot of that is probably happening with we too.

00:27:45.360 And that's why I'm racing to get these documents from school boards and education ministries all across the country.

00:27:51.380 And Sheila, for that particular reason, you are a national treasure the way you go through these freedom of information requests.

00:27:58.860 I think my eyes would glaze over to the point where I'd go into a coma going through all those reams and reams of documents.

00:28:05.300 But one last thing.

00:28:06.800 The other thing I want to address too is almost this little narrative that, oh, with the WE Charity gone in Canada,

00:28:12.180 it's almost as though they're spinning it that we can't, how do we give money to these developing nations,

00:28:20.740 to these children abroad that are in unfortunate circumstances.

00:28:25.580 And I'm thinking, give me a break.

00:28:27.480 There are hundreds of charities out there, Sheila.

00:28:30.720 And I would say this too, so you don't fall into funding something like a WE,

00:28:36.120 when I think a big litmus test of a charity is find out how much of the money is going towards administration costs.

00:28:45.500 Sometimes it's like 10 cents of every dollar, but other times it's more than 80 cents of a dollar.

00:28:52.240 And I'm just throwing it out there because if you do want to help people or countries in need,

00:28:58.220 do your due diligence, folks, so you don't further fuel another WE that might be out there.

00:29:05.180 What are your thoughts, Sheila?

00:29:06.800 Why are we pretending like Justin Trudeau's friends are the only people doing good work in the developing world?

00:29:13.500 That's what I don't understand.

00:29:14.980 These guys are not the only people in the world.

00:29:17.260 I've got firsthand experience with the good work that the Nazarene Fund is doing to help children in need.

00:29:23.180 Children returning to the Nineveh plane, but not just those kids in northern Iraq.

00:29:29.000 They're working in Lebanon and Syria and other places to help Christian children.

00:29:35.880 There's Samaritan's Purse. 0.93

00:29:38.140 Samaritan's Purse shoebox program, Operation Christmas Child.

00:29:42.660 It's in 160 countries where school children prepare little toiletries, school supplies, little tiny gifts,

00:29:53.580 and they send them to children abroad.

00:29:56.580 That's a great charity.

00:29:58.300 And kids can do it and they can do it as a Christmas project.

00:30:01.860 The problem with that one is that you'll find liberal school boards don't like to participate in it

00:30:07.520 because it's a Christian charity and they like to do secular things.

00:30:11.440 Well, I'm sorry, but Christian charities happen to be the ones with the least amount of overhead

00:30:16.100 because people are called by their faith to volunteer to do these things.

00:30:20.080 There's SOS Christians.

00:30:21.700 There's a ton of charities out there.

00:30:24.760 You just have to look and they are not affiliated with Justin Trudeau

00:30:29.780 and they aren't helping Justin Trudeau's friends amass a real estate fortune in downtown Toronto.

00:30:35.160 Indeed, they're not.

00:30:36.820 And how shameful is that, Sheila, that, you know, the school boards will target a charity

00:30:42.620 that is actually doing good, tangible work because of, oh, that Christianity stuff.

00:30:48.500 But they have no problem.

00:30:50.140 In fact, they trumpet the likes of we for hiring Justin Trudeau's wife, 0.70

00:30:55.320 Justin Trudeau's mother at ridiculous speaking fee.

00:31:00.180 I mean, it makes my mind blow up.

00:31:03.780 Sheila, we're all out of time, unfortunately, but another great commentary.

00:31:08.060 Thank you so much and you have a great weekend, my friend.

00:31:11.740 You too, David. Thanks very much.

00:31:13.260 Thank you.

00:31:13.960 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the hinterland of northern Alberta.

00:31:18.520 Keep it here, folks.

00:31:19.560 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:31:33.780 Well, folks, it is now 11.01 and as I stood respectfully and gave my minute of silence,

00:31:47.300 I could hear all manner of people walking past me.

00:31:51.700 This is extremely sad for me.

00:31:54.280 I remember the day when if you were at Yonge Dundas Square or anywhere else in the city,

00:32:01.180 you couldn't get to a cenotaph, people would actually pull over their cars.

00:32:06.340 They would get out and for one minute observe a moment of silence.

00:32:10.860 And it's funny, too, the authorities have been discouraging people from going to cenotaphs.

00:32:16.760 It's about the Wuhan virus, after all.

00:32:19.780 They don't want any kind of mass congregations.

00:32:22.920 But I can tell you, in the Ene Centre, these stores are open for business.

00:32:27.300 Walmart, Costco, I'm sure there's hundreds of people in those stores.

00:32:31.500 And I guess at the end of the day, when it comes to Remembrance Day,

00:32:36.720 when it comes to honouring our veterans, some of whom paid the ultimate sacrifice,

00:32:42.260 is it too much to ask that you wear a poppy on this day

00:32:47.240 and that at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month,

00:32:51.580 you stop what you're doing just for one minute, 60 seconds and pay tribute?

00:32:57.000 Well, obviously it is too much to ask.

00:33:01.500 That's sad.

00:33:02.340 Yet here we are looking for those who are wearing poppies. 0.97

00:33:09.360 And, well, the camera doesn't lie, folks.

00:33:12.020 I see here's a lady that's number two. 1.00

00:33:15.180 So, so far, two poppies.

00:33:17.020 And I guess it's looking like Don Cherry did make a valid case

00:33:22.380 that we once had a saying, lest we forget.

00:33:25.380 And now it looks like the vast majority of the populace has indeed forgotten.

00:33:31.500 Well, that had to be the saddest Remembrance Day ever, at least for me,

00:33:35.680 as authorities discouraged people from congregating at cenotaphs

00:33:39.960 to honour the war dead and the veterans.

00:33:42.360 There was certainly nothing offside about wearing a poppy on November 11th

00:33:48.240 vis-a-vis Wuhan virus etiquette.

00:33:50.720 But, spotting people sporting poppies at one of Toronto's busiest intersections

00:33:57.420 was akin to playing a game of Where's Waldo?

00:34:01.200 And to think that a great Canadian icon, Don Cherry,

00:34:05.180 was forced to walk the plank of political correctness last year

00:34:08.900 for bringing attention to this sad state of affairs?

00:34:12.880 Well, that is surely insult to injury, given that, yeah, Don Cherry was right.

00:34:20.220 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about this galling lack of respect

00:34:25.080 to those veterans who gave so much.

00:34:29.200 Hab 007GE writes,

00:34:31.520 When I was out today in Toronto, did not see one person with a poppy in my area. 0.63

00:34:38.000 Absolutely disgusting.

00:34:39.940 I hear you Hab, driving back to the office, 0.82

00:34:42.480 spotting people wearing poppies was like spotting monarch butterflies in November.

00:34:47.520 It was incredible.

00:34:48.600 I remember when the reverse was true, 0.92

00:34:51.140 that someone not wearing a poppy on November 11th

00:34:55.060 was akin to a statistical anomaly.

00:34:57.500 Well, those days, I guess, are gone.

00:35:01.740 Mike W writes,

00:35:03.140 I too remember those days people would stop what they were doing everywhere in silence.

00:35:07.780 My dad flew in World War II,

00:35:09.900 and days before he passed,

00:35:11.520 he asked for a minister to come sit with him.

00:35:14.540 He cried and remembered things I never knew.

00:35:17.500 He never spoke of,

00:35:18.980 and didn't know he kept it inside all these years I knew him.

00:35:23.500 Dad, I will never forget.

00:35:24.800 Well, Mike, thank you for your dad's service.

00:35:28.520 My grandfather also served in World War II,

00:35:32.260 and it was impossible to get him to open up and share war stories.

00:35:38.400 I think that speaks to the horrors that these veterans witnessed while serving abroad.

00:35:44.080 They gave so much, and they endured so much pain.

00:35:47.540 Yet think that honoring them with a poppy one day a year wouldn't be too much to ask,

00:35:54.300 but apparently, it is too much to ask.

00:35:58.220 OV1 Kenobi writes,

00:36:00.280 There are young millennials out there who don't even know about 9-11,

00:36:03.680 much less any wars that happened over 50 years before that.

00:36:07.760 I'll take your word for it, OV1.

00:36:09.480 It really makes you wonder what is actually being taught in schools these days, doesn't it?

00:36:15.660 Brad Stevens writes,

00:36:17.260 Don Cherry, you people, was spot on.

00:36:20.480 Well, indeed he was, Brad,

00:36:21.560 and it appears that you people is a whole lot of people from all walks of life

00:36:26.360 and all backgrounds, as our camera footage adroitly shows.

00:36:30.760 You know, how unsettling.

00:36:32.360 No time to sport a poppy or stand for a moment of silence,

00:36:35.820 but plenty of time to go shopping at the Eaton Centre.

00:36:39.380 How sad.

00:36:40.580 Nicholas Smith writes,

00:36:41.900 It's not all young people.

00:36:43.820 Some of my heritage gave their life so I can live freely, lest we forget.

00:36:48.840 Well, Nicholas, we do live freely today, thanks to our veterans,

00:36:52.780 and I don't think any reasonable person wants the state to enforce a rule

00:36:57.340 that we must wear poppies on November 11th.

00:37:00.780 We certainly don't want to militarize the wearing of poppies.

00:37:04.920 And that's the thing when it comes to our hard-fought freedoms,

00:37:10.080 thanks to the veterans who served,

00:37:12.160 that in 2020, one has the freedom to be disrespectful

00:37:16.820 if he or she chooses not to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day.

00:37:23.260 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:37:25.920 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:37:27.240 See you next week.

00:37:27.940 And hey, folks, never forget,

00:37:29.580 without risk, there can be no glory.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 21, 2020

Dominion Voting HQ in Toronto, Ford Nation's WE Charity Funding

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