Rebel News Podcast - Is Unifor’s anti-Conservative political stance “resistant” to the will of union members？ (Guest： Bill Tufts)

00:00:00.000 Canada's mega-union Unifor has declared itself the resistance to the Conservative Party.

00:00:06.560 But is this political stance resistant to the will of Unifor members?

00:00:10.900 We tackle that question tonight and more.

00:00:14.020 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 All of a sudden the CBC is interested in third-party spending and third-party influences in Canadian politics.

00:00:43.340 CBC's resident conspiracy theorist on all things Conservative Wendy Mesley

00:00:48.580 had the founder of Ontario Proud Jeff Bollingall on her show

00:00:53.600 to discuss how his small Conservative social media meme-based political action group

00:00:59.480 is shaping the way people view Conservative politics

00:01:02.960 now that he's got his sights set on Justin Trudeau.

00:01:07.600 Just watch.

00:01:08.360 There's been a report of a fundraising appeal that was found on a website

00:01:13.820 that shows you seeking up to $700,000 from donors to run Ontario Proud in some of these campaigns.

00:01:22.600 Is that true?

00:01:23.940 Yeah, that was one of our memos.

00:01:26.520 That was the election limit.

00:01:28.180 And one of the appeals is for sponsorship opportunities of up to $250,000 from an individual donor.

00:01:36.400 So if you give, say, $100,000, what do you get for that?

00:01:39.640 You get to know that we're fighting for an Ontario that has lower taxes,

00:01:44.140 less regulation, that was going to go help defeat Kathleen Wynne. 1.00

00:01:48.620 That's what people bought into.

00:01:49.840 They bought into our message and our agenda.

00:01:52.740 Do they get to place content on your messaging?

00:01:56.880 We'll work with them if it fits our mandate.

00:01:58.920 So if you buy into what we're saying about our mandate of more humble government,

00:02:01.920 more responsible government, then yes, we'll work with you.

00:02:06.680 So you have a massive database.

00:02:10.000 That's worth a lot of money to political parties or to anybody, really.

00:02:13.280 Do you sell access to that?

00:02:14.560 No, we never do.

00:02:15.500 No.

00:02:15.980 Does anybody have any access to that other than you?

00:02:17.860 Just us.

00:02:18.380 But the thing is, CBC didn't so much care when American environmental groups were dumping millions of dollars

00:02:25.960 into their Canadian activist arms here to block Canadian pipelines and cripple the Alberta economy.

00:02:32.520 And CBC didn't so much care as election after election.

00:02:36.960 Big labor, including PSAC and Unifor, dumped millions of dollars into supporting progressive causes

00:02:43.540 and progressive candidates to sway Canadians at the ballot box.

00:02:48.420 And CBC didn't really seem to be all that concerned that Unifor,

00:02:52.860 the union that represents thousands of Canadian journalists,

00:02:56.960 has declared itself the resistance to Andrew Scheer in a comical photo that I literally cannot get enough of.

00:03:04.460 I have to stop myself from making jokes about that photo

00:03:08.140 because I imagine I'm starting to get annoying to all the people around me.

00:03:13.340 I love that photo.

00:03:14.900 So joining me tonight in an interview we recorded earlier in the week

00:03:18.620 to talk about the influences of big labor,

00:03:21.920 not only in Canadian politics, Canadian media,

00:03:25.320 but also around the world is author, researcher, and activist Bill Tufts.

00:03:48.880 So joining me now from Hamilton is Bill Tufts.

00:03:52.420 He's the author of Pension Ponzi, and he's the founder of Fair Pensions for All.

00:03:58.380 And I wanted to have Bill on today because he's sort of my go-to expert on how big labor,

00:04:07.120 especially big labor within the behemoth of government, gobbles up our money. 0.96

00:04:12.820 And I wanted to talk to Bill today because suddenly the CBC and Wendy Mesley,

00:04:18.980 they're very concerned about third-party advertising.

00:04:22.740 They even had our friends from Ontario Proud on Wendy Mesley's show to talk about the impact of third-party advertising.

00:04:30.620 But I know Bill has been on the case of third-party advertising for years,

00:04:35.640 more specifically the impact that big labor has on Canadian politics.

00:04:41.580 So Bill, I want to thank you so much for joining me today.

00:04:44.300 Oh, it's a pleasure to be with you.

00:04:47.020 Now, I wanted to talk to you specifically about Unifor.

00:04:50.620 Now, Unifor put out that beautiful, beautiful picture of Jerry Diaz and some other union leaders

00:04:57.640 in, I guess, some of their Sunday best, calling themselves the resistance.

00:05:04.540 But I think there's resistance there, but I think it's to smiling and being pleasant and productive

00:05:10.920 because, boy, what a sour bunch they looked like.

00:05:15.740 They look like they're ready for battle.

00:05:17.960 They look like they're ready for their fourth donut coffee break is what they looked like.

00:05:24.060 But I wanted to, I have so many jokes about that picture inside me that I just want to spill out,

00:05:31.320 but some of them aren't very nice.

00:05:32.440 But I wanted to talk to you about the impact of Unifor on Canadian elections.

00:05:36.740 And I think you're the guy to ask this question.

00:05:39.160 Just how much are unions, and if even public sector unions,

00:05:43.560 how much are they spending in Canadian elections?

00:05:47.000 And what sort of causes are they supporting?

00:05:49.820 Because it's not conservatives, is it?

00:05:52.820 No, that's for sure.

00:05:54.480 They made that very clear in that announcement of the resistance.

00:05:58.600 And I'm disappointed to tell you that nobody has any idea how much they spend or where they spend it.

00:06:05.260 It's been a contentious issue for a long, long time because I would suggest to you that the labour movement in Canada

00:06:15.120 virtually owns most governments from municipal through provincial into the federal right now.

00:06:23.060 They've always been protected and, you know, supported in their efforts to get particular governments elected.

00:06:31.740 So that one of the last things that Stephen Harper did as prime minister was brought in a law that was called Bill 377

00:06:39.700 that required unions to disclose where their money went, how much they spent, and what it was used on.

00:06:49.500 There's no record of how any of that money is spent.

00:06:52.380 It's a huge, huge amount of money that comes into unions every year.

00:06:57.500 We have no idea if it's spent on training or recruiting,

00:07:00.380 or I suspect a large majority of it is spent on political activism.

00:07:08.840 And so it was just implemented in the last year of the Harper government.

00:07:14.500 And guess what the very first bill was that Justin Trudeau implemented?

00:07:19.280 It was the rescission of Bill 377 that was going to require the unions to disclose how much money they spent,

00:07:27.920 where it was spent, and what it was spent on.

00:07:30.620 It was a travesty.

00:07:32.100 So we have no idea how much money is spent.

00:07:34.060 But I can tell you a few things, though, about the financial situation of the unions in Canada.

00:07:41.860 In the public sector alone, with the amount of employees there are spending $1,000 a year in union dues,

00:07:49.280 the public sector union movement in Canada spends about $3.6 billion.

00:07:56.000 That's billion with a B, dollars each and every year.

00:08:00.080 And if a substantial portion of it goes into political activism, that's a lot of money.

00:08:04.860 They run and operate dozens of websites.

00:08:09.420 They fund numerous NGOs and non-profit organizations,

00:08:16.240 which when Trudeau came in, he made sure that CRA backed away from audits on those organizations.

00:08:23.760 And they must fund literally tens of thousands of people

00:08:28.640 that are all on the trail of making sure that most of the union goals are achieved in governments across Canada.

00:08:36.800 Now, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Unifor specifically,

00:08:41.400 because they did put themselves on the radar with that very dour-looking photo.

00:08:49.700 They are the journalist union, are they not?

00:08:52.620 Do they not represent people from Global, the National Post?

00:08:56.560 So, when their union is saying that they are the resistance,

00:09:01.760 what does that say about the media landscape here in Canada?

00:09:05.260 I don't know.

00:09:06.240 It makes you wonder what happened to journalistic integrity.

00:09:10.600 Certainly, there's a huge conflict.

00:09:12.400 There's 13,000 members of the media which belong to Unifor.

00:09:17.000 That includes not only the journalists, the writers,

00:09:19.680 but the people in the back office production as well.

00:09:23.460 I would imagine that a lot of the editors are even, you know, members of that Unifor union.

00:09:29.700 So, it's certainly a major, huge conflict of interest that they've put themselves into.

00:09:33.700 I know that some of the journalists in Canada who, you know,

00:09:38.800 maintain that they do have journalistic integrity still,

00:09:42.060 and they're not part of the fake news consortium,

00:09:45.180 were very concerned and alarmed that their union would come out

00:09:50.900 and make it very clear that they were on a vicious political attack

00:09:55.380 against specifically the conservative government.

00:09:58.480 You know, and that's the thing.

00:10:00.400 They came out and said they are specifically against Andrew Scheer.

00:10:04.420 So, we can only assume who they're throwing their lot in with,

00:10:08.140 considering the NDP are basically off the radar as far as federal politics go.

00:10:12.860 So, another thing I wanted to ask you about.

00:10:16.040 So, Unifor is also the union that represents a large amount of oil sands workers.

00:10:21.820 So, those are the plant workers, those guys.

00:10:23.640 That's not the guys on the drilling rig.

00:10:25.440 It's not the trucking crew.

00:10:26.400 But the high-paying plant jobs.

00:10:31.060 And what is it?

00:10:33.080 I guess it's sort of indicative of the disconnect

00:10:36.200 between the union management and the union dues-paying members

00:10:41.620 when their management is actively advocating for policies

00:10:46.920 and political parties who are doing everything they can

00:10:51.800 to block those jobs for the boots-on-the-ground employees.

00:10:56.320 Yeah, I don't think most union members are aware of actually what's happening

00:10:59.960 inside of their unions.

00:11:01.820 Unifor is a private sector union, and they've been decreasing in size fairly substantially

00:11:13.000 every year as they have to compete with the private sector market forces

00:11:17.820 so that today about 35% of Canadian workers in the private sector are unionized.

00:11:24.800 Contrast that with the public sector, where 80% of the public sector is unionized.

00:11:29.140 Virtually all of the public sector.

00:11:32.220 And once again, one further contrast, it puts some of what they do into perspective.

00:11:36.180 In the United States, the public sector is unionized at the rate of 35%

00:11:41.480 of their total workers working for government in the public sector.

00:11:45.740 However, in Canada, we have that 80% of the total public sector working, you know, unionized.

00:11:53.980 And so that you're talking about some of the things that were happening in the oil sense.

00:11:58.220 Part of that huge amount of money that flows out of the unions, 3.6, just in the public sector alone,

00:12:05.580 probably a close to an equivalent amount in the private sector as well.

00:12:08.740 They were the first ones to launch the, quote, dirty oil campaigns.

00:12:14.480 I see they've stepped away from it since.

00:12:19.100 But back in about 2011, you know, as they were pushing for these environmental issues,

00:12:26.160 they were the first ones that came in and attacked the dirty tar sands, as they called them. 0.97

00:12:32.060 We can see today what the impact of that is.

00:12:34.580 It's an economic crisis for Canada, that the price of oil coming out of Alberta earlier this week was $12 a barrel.

00:12:44.920 That's a catastrophic economic crisis.

00:12:48.540 Unfortunately, we have a finance minister who is not paying attention.

00:12:52.760 I don't know if anybody even knows who the finance minister is.

00:12:56.440 He hasn't been seen for months on any major significant economic issues that are affecting the country.

00:13:02.320 It's a bit of a travesty.

00:13:05.900 And, you know, that's where we are today.

00:13:07.480 I don't know where we're going.

00:13:09.080 But, you know, I hope people are aware of just how much of a crisis this oil situation is

00:13:14.580 and, you know, start moving very quickly to rectify it and get it back on track.

00:13:20.300 Is the media going to be, you know, publicizing it, making Canadians aware of what's going on,

00:13:27.340 or are they going to have a conflict of interest because they're going into an election

00:13:30.780 that's trying to fight against the, you know, Scheer and the Conservatives?

00:13:35.720 Well, and sorry to interrupt you, but as you were talking, I just had, you know,

00:13:41.860 a thought about how really nobody really understands just how bad the economic crisis is in Alberta

00:13:50.360 with the cost of oil.

00:13:51.600 But you can bet your bottom dollar if cars being manufactured in Ontario were being sold

00:13:59.260 for one-fifth the cost of cars across the border manufactured in Michigan,

00:14:06.460 Jerry Diaz from Unifor would be raising sweet holy hell.

00:14:10.540 But he's not doing that same advocating for oil sands workers who are also part of his union.

00:14:15.380 No, that's true.

00:14:18.060 And when there was a crisis in the auto industry back in 2008, 2009,

00:14:22.420 the government gave $10 billion to the auto companies for bailouts.

00:14:29.320 The majority of that money went directly into the pockets of unionized workers.

00:14:34.540 Out of that $10 billion, $4 billion went into pension bailouts that were extremely underfunded

00:14:40.560 at that point in time.

00:14:42.080 And also auto workers had a special health trust fund that provided health care benefits

00:14:48.980 for them when they retired.

00:14:51.600 It was short $2 billion.

00:14:53.000 So $6 billion out of the total $10 billion auto bailout went directly into the pockets of unions.

00:14:58.620 And that's, you know, look at another situation, Bombardier.

00:15:03.420 It's been on the, you know, it's been a basket case of welfare bailouts for billions, you know, for decades.

00:15:12.240 It's, you know, I don't know how we got into this predicament,

00:15:15.680 but we sure need some political leadership to take this out.

00:15:20.520 Now, I wanted to talk to you a little bit.

00:15:23.040 You and I were talking off camera and we were having a very interesting conversation

00:15:26.240 and I'm sort of regretful that I wasn't rolling the camera then.

00:15:29.600 But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about how these big mega unions, 0.78

00:15:33.760 like Unifor, I guess in this instance,

00:15:36.080 they often support progressive causes that fly in the face of what's best for actual workers.

00:15:44.380 For example, many of the big unions often organize in support of open borders,

00:15:50.720 but importing a pile of unskilled labor actually only drives the cost of wages down, hurting the worker.

00:16:01.080 Now, I have my own theories behind this.

00:16:03.640 I think that union leadership often doesn't give a darn about boots on the ground workers.

00:16:09.200 They only care about collecting those union dues so we can keep Jerry Diaz in those ill-fitting sweaters. 1.00

00:16:15.820 But what's your theory?

00:16:16.940 Yeah, it's hard to keep track of it all.

00:16:21.380 The economic political situation is moving so rapidly that what's happened is that our political situation has morphed into

00:16:29.740 not a right-left conservative liberal paradigm anymore.

00:16:33.520 It's about globalism and patriotism.

00:16:37.660 The Canadian unions, with the huge amount of money that they've got, you know,

00:16:43.100 coming out of the union dues of their members,

00:16:46.780 I would suspect that a lot of it's actually going down into the United States,

00:16:50.140 being funneled into a lot of those NGOs that had blowback into Canada

00:16:54.620 on those anti-oil tar sands campaigns.

00:16:59.860 The United Nations has actually come out and very strong advocates of the labor union movement,

00:17:08.080 because I would suggest to you today the globalist movement, the UN movement,

00:17:12.680 is extremely socialist and neo-Marxist.

00:17:16.940 That aligns quite well with the political perspective of the labor unions.

00:17:24.000 If you go into any socialist websites, there's an excellent one called socialist.com,

00:17:28.900 you'll see it littered with connections into the labor movement

00:17:33.360 and all of those other cultural, political, and economic issues that they have brought out.

00:17:40.000 So I don't know how concerned the union membership is with, you know,

00:17:43.980 what's happening for Canadian workers,

00:17:46.300 and they're more concerned about their leadership of the UN globalist movement.

00:17:50.460 For example, a recent survey looked into political concerns of Canadians.

00:17:55.360 One of them looked at concerns based on what your political affiliation is.

00:18:01.720 For liberals, the number one issue was housing.

00:18:06.440 That wasn't an issue for the conservative voter.

00:18:10.900 Their number one issue was financing government and huge deficits and debts,

00:18:15.080 but number two was immigration.

00:18:17.020 And what's happening is there's no political forces that are putting the connection together between,

00:18:22.400 hmm, okay, we have a crisis with affordable housing.

00:18:25.900 There's a housing shortage, and it's become a major concern for the millennial generation

00:18:30.780 that they have no chance at all of being able to afford reasonable housing,

00:18:34.880 and there's just no housing available.

00:18:37.840 But how does that connect with, you know, open-door migration,

00:18:41.720 where the top three cities in Canada are probably collecting 80% of the immigrants

00:18:47.060 that are coming in, put additional, you know, forces, pressures onto that housing market,

00:18:54.920 and, you know, let's try and address some of these issues together.

00:19:00.200 Yes, huge immigration is going to be causing huge pressure on the housing marketplace, 1.00

00:19:04.640 and you made an excellent point about what's happening to wages.

00:19:07.740 Canada, I would suggest to you, is in very bad economic crisis right now

00:19:15.120 when you look across the spectrum from the oil sands, oil coming out of Alberta,

00:19:21.180 the oil coming out of Alberta was always the number one leader for Canada coming out of a recession.

00:19:28.620 And when there's such a huge gap between the world price and our $12 a barrel oil,

00:19:32.560 I can, you know, I don't know what the break-even is on oil sands production,

00:19:37.760 but it's about $40.

00:19:39.040 So if this goes on much longer, Canadian oil production will be completely wiped out.

00:19:45.080 And its effect on wages, the labour market in Canada is disastrous.

00:19:51.840 Currently, the year-to-date numbers are, the economy's produced about 90,000 full-time jobs,

00:19:59.420 and in a typical year, that would be in the range of 250,000 to 300,000 full-time jobs.

00:20:05.520 So we're way short of what we need in order to keep the economy rolling and moving along.

00:20:11.100 Our GDP is pretty much flat.

00:20:16.020 If it wasn't for government spending, it would be flat-lined.

00:20:19.620 And, you know, looking at immigration, why are we bringing in another 350,000 immigrants

00:20:24.280 into a flat job market where there is no housing, and the city of Toronto is having to buy a hotel,

00:20:30.660 buy a hotel to house the illegal immigrants coming into the country? 1.00

00:20:36.720 It's, you know, it's quite a show here in Canada.

00:20:41.480 There seems to be zero political leadership prepared to lead us out of these major issues,

00:20:47.360 and we have completely unqualified politicians that don't even know where to start on some of these issues.

00:20:55.880 So, you know, I'm quite alarmed and fearful about the future of Canada,

00:20:59.860 and I don't know what it's going to take to turn it around,

00:21:02.780 but those are some of the things that we've been watching and are very concerned about.

00:21:07.620 Well, and I think, too, we're governed by people who don't understand that money is mobile,

00:21:13.500 that right next door to us, often sharing the same oil deposits as us,

00:21:21.020 if you look at North Dakota and southern Saskatchewan,

00:21:24.680 that money can just go south.

00:21:29.340 We're next door to an American administration that is repealing regulations,

00:21:35.560 repealing redundancies in regulatory systems so that they can drill on public lands

00:21:42.580 and get their oil to market faster.

00:21:46.040 They're exporting natural gas now, and we can't even build a single pipeline to Tidewater.

00:21:53.860 And when international investors are looking at Canada, they're just saying no thanks.

00:22:00.100 And, you know, I don't blame the Americans for poaching a lot of our business. 0.75

00:22:03.700 I'd do it, too, if I could.

00:22:05.520 But I blame the fact that we have a leadership that doesn't quite understand that.

00:22:10.320 I mean, Rachel Notley put a carbon tax on – the carbon tax basically only applies to Alberta production.

00:22:19.980 Why would anybody invest here when you can just invest in North Dakota?

00:22:24.020 Yeah, that's certainly happening.

00:22:25.760 The billions and billions of investment are fleeing Canada,

00:22:29.100 and there's just so many burdens and challenges for bringing that money back

00:22:34.680 in regards to the, you know, the huge gap between what the U.S. GDP is producing

00:22:39.380 and the Canadian GDP, the high-labor wage market that we're in,

00:22:47.340 just the regulations and taxations that are affecting any new businesses coming in.

00:22:52.760 When the taxations just run out of control, look at the city of Calgary.

00:22:58.920 They were suggesting that taxes could raise 25% on property for businesses.

00:23:05.700 Like, that's, you know, that's just damaging.

00:23:08.040 That's killing business.

00:23:09.520 And, you know, we know that business is the heartbeat of the Canadian economy,

00:23:16.180 particularly small business, being largely ignored.

00:23:19.320 We have a finance minister, and who knows where he is?

00:23:21.960 He hasn't been seen for so long.

00:23:24.120 But last summer, he was attacking small businesses as tax cheats and frauds.

00:23:28.920 At the same time, there was a scandal out of the Caribbean bank accounts

00:23:34.060 as they went in and investigated a legal firm that showed that our finance minister

00:23:39.500 had assets for his business that he kept offshore, who knows whether or not it was legitimate.

00:23:46.400 Some of Canada's, you know, finest liberals were also identified in that scandal as well.

00:23:54.820 There was zero press coverage on it, and, you know, it was perceived to be a conflict of interest

00:23:59.240 by the, you know, the Liberal Party taking us today.

00:24:04.640 One other comment on the compact on migration, which is there's been a complete cone of silence

00:24:11.760 over the issue by the media, by all our politicians, yet most of the world is up in arms about the issue

00:24:20.860 and extremely concerned about the movement over the next 10 years.

00:24:24.920 Everything's focused on something called Agenda 2030.

00:24:27.660 Over the next 10 years, the Migration Compact sees the movement of 245 million migrants.

00:24:38.360 And just some of these issues aren't being discussed, shut down in the media.

00:24:43.000 You know, is it for political reasons or other reasons that we might not know about?

00:24:48.160 But, yeah, I don't know how we, you know, bring things back to a reasonable level.

00:24:56.680 Some promising moves out of the Ford government in Ontario.

00:25:02.520 Maybe some of the other governments will start to, you know, follow some of the moves that he's making.

00:25:07.880 One of the things that's happened is the Team Trudeau, they've effectively wiped out Liberals

00:25:13.420 across Canada on the provincial map.

00:25:15.960 I'm sure that the loss of Liberals in most of the provinces across Canada have been as a result

00:25:22.020 of the poor performance that they've put in.

00:25:24.860 And, you know, we're looking forward to an election next fall 2019.

00:25:29.440 It'll certainly be interesting times to see how it comes about.

00:25:34.020 I would think the Liberals will be wiped out the same as they have been across the provinces,

00:25:39.880 you know, in Ontario, Quebec, and elsewhere.

00:25:45.240 I don't know if there's, you know, maybe two Liberal governments left in Canada.

00:25:48.720 When Trudeau got in, most of the provincial governments were Liberal.

00:25:52.760 So, it's tumultuous times and time to put your seatbelt on, protect yourself as a Canadian.

00:26:00.920 It's become very apparent that large businesses, large corporations don't have your interests in mind.

00:26:07.420 Certainly, governments don't have your interests in mind.

00:26:11.400 And, you know, you've got to make moves to protect yourself.

00:26:14.920 In Alberta, for example, after that horrible recession that we went through in the oil market,

00:26:22.840 just within the last month or so, the full-time job numbers actually got back to where they were

00:26:28.580 at the time that the Notley government was elected.

00:26:32.640 And, you know, they're worried and concerned about things that don't have much of an impact on Albertan families

00:26:39.420 as we've gone through, you know, horrible challenges.

00:26:43.680 You know, look at the suicides, the drug epidemics, the lost jobs, the...

00:26:50.220 Rural crime? 0.87

00:26:51.080 Rural crime, you know, the tearing apart of families. 0.84

00:26:56.320 All of the traditional things that we have in Canada seem to be at severe risk of being ripped apart

00:27:04.180 by globalist forces and, you know, incompetent governments.

00:27:09.960 It appears that our Prime Minister is working more for the UN than he is for Canada.

00:27:13.580 And he's given away $23 billion of aid to foreign countries that none of it's investigated or audited

00:27:21.820 to see where any of it's gone.

00:27:24.340 I would suggest most of it's probably ended up in the numbered accounts in the Caribbean

00:27:28.160 and Switzerland of the despots running those countries.

00:27:32.420 So nobody's really paying attention to what's going on.

00:27:35.740 And I would, you know, be suspect they really had the skills that are needed to make the changes required

00:27:43.720 to get back on track.

00:27:45.200 So I guess on that note, I have two final questions for you.

00:27:51.820 What do the Conservatives need to do federally to unseat the Liberals?

00:27:59.340 What do you think the number one thing they need to do to unseat the Liberals?

00:28:02.620 And secondly, what is the first thing that they should do once they're back in power

00:28:08.440 to undo the damage that the Liberals have done?

00:28:13.140 The one first thing.

00:28:15.720 Yeah, the one first thing is a very tough question.

00:28:18.820 I had the opportunity while the Harper government was in place to do lots of consultation

00:28:23.580 through various parliamentary committees and into the Senate.

00:28:27.720 I remember when we were looking at the compensation of public sector federal employees

00:28:33.220 and they were complaining about what they called an omnibus bill.

00:28:37.300 It was about 243 pages that was being introduced and put through Parliament.

00:28:44.160 They asked us to come in and comment on one half of one page of that omnibus bill.

00:28:50.500 At one point in time, when that one half of a page had been implemented,

00:28:56.060 it would have been a full act of legislature.

00:29:00.560 And so that was how much debris had to be cleaned up.

00:29:04.800 In Ontario, they've estimated 385,000 redundant regulations need to be wiped out, cleaned off.

00:29:14.180 Nobody has been paying attention to governments for years.

00:29:17.820 And oh, remind me of that first question again.

00:29:20.100 Oh, the first question was, what do the Conservatives need to do to get rid of the Liberals?

00:29:25.700 Because my concern is they're not going to do it.

00:29:28.380 So what do you think they need to do?

00:29:30.740 Well, personally, as a Libertarian Conservative, you know, strong supporter of Conservatism for a long time,

00:29:38.660 I was happy to see Bernier get into the race.

00:29:41.400 I think what he had the opportunity to bring about was the conversation of a lot of Conservative issues that had become third rail issues and other issues that they call the Overton window.

00:29:54.920 They weren't allowed to talk about them because they were trapped inside of the Overton window.

00:29:59.440 So I think that Bernier will end up being a release bell for a lot of Conservatism.

00:30:04.840 I think after having seen what has happened to Liberals across the provinces, I'm not too concerned about Trudeau getting elected.

00:30:14.840 However, there are a couple of things out there that I can talk about if you have more time, which are an extreme risk.

00:30:22.240 So I think the Conservatives just, you know, they're okay sticking to the, what I call the mushy middle.

00:30:30.560 The NDP are so far left out there, they, you know, are, they should be, you know, flying the old Russian Soviet Union flag.

00:30:41.520 And Trudeau has obviously become hardcore, hardcore left, especially at a time when populist governments have been sweeping the world,

00:30:48.420 have been sweeping Canada as well with the Quebec election and also with the Ford election.

00:30:55.320 I think Trudeau was brought in as a populist himself, although not a right-wing populist.

00:31:02.200 There are a couple of left-wing populists, Macron, who left his socialist party in France and formed a new party

00:31:08.680 and the new president down in Mexico as well.

00:31:12.360 However, the Liberals will do everything and anything that they can to keep power.

00:31:18.900 One of the things that they recently did was brought 2 million voters onto the election rolls.

00:31:26.360 They expanded the rules for foreign residents, Canadians, who live outside of the country to vote in the next election.

00:31:35.040 There was 2 million of those.

00:31:36.900 A lot of them will never return to Canada and, you know, haven't lived in Canada for years, but they'll be allowed to vote.

00:31:43.200 That was Bill C-76.

00:31:46.420 Also earlier this year that nobody paid much attention to was Bill C-33.

00:31:52.120 And when we look at that in conjunction with the Compact on Migration that basically gives migrants the same rights

00:31:58.860 in any country that they land in as the citizens of that country, Bill C-33 put, I'm not sure what the numbers are,

00:32:08.760 but I'm estimating about 3 million non-citizen permanent residents onto the voter rolls.

00:32:17.620 So I think you'll see some movement to try and get, they've already got those 2 million non-residents eligible to vote.

00:32:24.060 And I think you'll see a movement towards getting permanent residents who are not Canadian citizens,

00:32:29.920 about 3 million of them, the ability to vote as well.

00:32:33.780 So that would bring in 5 million additional voters, which I think the pundits and probably the Liberals themselves

00:32:40.520 see as voters who would be supporting them in an election.

00:32:45.360 So it's going to be a battle right down to the wire.

00:32:50.140 Interesting, turbulent times in Canada, that's for sure.

00:32:54.060 Especially when the Conservatives have to push back against both the Liberals

00:32:58.980 and their undeclared press secretaries in the Unifor media.

00:33:04.680 Bill, I do want to give you a chance to plug your social media, plug your book,

00:33:11.240 any places that people can reach out to you or that they can get in contact with you?

00:33:16.500 Yeah, just the, I'm not active with my pension organization.

00:33:23.420 We pushed that very hard for 10 years.

00:33:26.260 It got us a lot of places into the Senate, the House, the finance committees,

00:33:31.560 right across the country and to, you know, front of mayors and premiers and across the media.

00:33:38.680 And it still went nowhere.

00:33:41.720 And the government employees still have their gold-plated pension plans.

00:33:46.020 About, you know, 14,000 of them in Ontario alone will be retiring over $100,000 a year,

00:33:52.280 starting at age 58.

00:33:53.900 And public sector employees now live about eight years longer than the rest of us

00:33:59.160 because of those huge, huge pensions as well.

00:34:01.560 But the number one issue that we have been following is the Compact on Migration.

00:34:08.180 And it's being signed in December.

00:34:11.000 There's been zero discussion in the mainstream media.

00:34:14.700 There's been zero discussion by politicians about it.

00:34:17.940 So it's going to be a ground grassroots movement for people to become aware of it

00:34:23.400 and watch what's happening.

00:34:24.540 I would encourage and urge everybody to sign the petition on the Compact of Migration.

00:34:31.220 Watch it closely because it's part of a new initiative that's being launched by the United Nations

00:34:37.700 as they've got the three main players together.

00:34:40.780 That's the Labour Union, who are the stormtroopers of the globalist union movement.

00:34:46.280 You've got the UN itself.

00:34:48.560 And then you've got corporations who are jumping on board with the promise that they'll be participating

00:34:53.680 and what the UN estimate needs is going to be about $7 trillion a year in spending

00:35:00.060 in order to meet what they call their sustainable development goals.

00:35:04.240 So it's interesting if you go on to any major Canadian corporation and type SDGs in there,

00:35:10.500 you'll see a coloured chart that has come from the Agenda 2030 that's part of their 17 goals

00:35:17.640 that they are trying to implement around the world.

00:35:21.660 The Compact on Migration is just a compact coming out of one of these 17 goals.

00:35:27.460 And people will be quite staggered to see what it involves.

00:35:31.580 The last federal budget, 2018, listed the goals and objectives that they were trying to achieve

00:35:41.080 as the goals of Agenda 2030.

00:35:43.820 And it was quite shocking to actually see something that had been considered the longest time

00:35:49.140 conspiracy tin hat theory actually in the Canadian federal budget, along with the SDGs.

00:35:57.420 So we've got a, as I mentioned earlier, a new world of politics that's based on patriotism

00:36:04.620 and nationalist sentiments, which the media and left-wing politicians are trying to demonize,

00:36:11.200 as I urge, you know, Canadians, that nationalism is a good thing.

00:36:16.040 You have a right to be proud of Canada and you really need to fight for what we've got

00:36:20.920 and what we've preserved so far.

00:36:23.840 So that's probably the number one issue of concern right now that I'm watching

00:36:27.780 is that Compact on Migration.

00:36:30.760 And I'd encourage people to investigate a little further on their own about it.

00:36:36.060 Well, and I would go one step further.

00:36:37.880 I would encourage people to contact their Conservative MPs and tell them to find the

00:36:43.520 intestinal fortitude to fight against political correctness and stand up for Canadian sovereignty,

00:36:49.040 because I think some of them just might if they knew they had the backing of the majority

00:36:54.020 of Canadians.

00:36:55.940 You're here.

00:36:56.780 I agree with you.

00:36:58.020 Well, Bill, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show today.

00:37:01.160 You're always so generous with your time.

00:37:02.760 And I feel like we could gab forever.

00:37:05.500 But let's wrap it up and hopefully you'll come back on the show one more time to talk

00:37:10.280 about another very pressing issue.

00:37:12.820 Yeah, there's going to be lots of them coming.

00:37:14.740 Anyways, it's great to talk to you and congratulations on all the hard work and effort that you make

00:37:20.080 at the Rebel.

00:37:20.980 And I hope Canadians appreciate all that you do for our country.

00:37:26.360 Well, thank you, Bill.

00:37:27.300 I'm just another cog in the Conservative wheel.

00:37:31.760 Thanks, Bill.

00:37:32.420 Let me be clear.

00:37:47.180 I'm not against big money in Canadian politics as long as that big money is actually Canadian.

00:37:53.480 I don't want anybody, Conservative or otherwise, funneling money from other countries to influence

00:37:59.660 Canadian elections.

00:38:01.300 But I believe your money is also your free speech and you can spend it to support whatever

00:38:06.600 political cause you want to support.

00:38:10.380 And I'm certainly against two different sets of rules, one for unions and one for everybody

00:38:16.100 who wants to participate in the political process, especially when it comes to disclosure and the

00:38:21.400 truth about where the money is going and what the money is meant to do during a political

00:38:26.940 campaign.

00:38:27.640 And because I believe money can be a form of free speech, I'm also against compelled union

00:38:34.540 dues because I know and you know there are many oil sands workers who don't want their money

00:38:39.460 going to support progressive causes that oppose pipelines.

00:38:43.400 But they don't have a choice because they are in uniform.

00:38:47.200 They don't get to treat their union dues like free speech the way I get to treat my political

00:38:52.460 donations that way.

00:38:54.640 It's time to free the union workers from forced union dues.

00:38:59.640 And maybe, just maybe, union boss Jerry Diaz will have a little less money in his pocket to waste

00:39:05.520 on his pet NDP and liberal causes and his ill-fitting sweaters.

00:39:10.500 Well everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:39:12.340 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:39:14.320 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:39:18.080 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - November 22, 2018

Is Unifor’s anti-Conservative political stance “resistant” to the will of union members？ (Guest： Bill Tufts)

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