REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Bomb threats ground planes, New Alberta police force, Vax injury program fails Cdns
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Rebel Roundup is a daily show hosted by Jack and Sheila Gunn-Reed and Tamara Ugolini, in which they discuss the news of the day, including Bomb Threats at Canadian Airports, the problems facing Canada's immigration system, and the vaccine injury support program failures.
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Oh, hey, good afternoon, everybody. Good morning, if you're in the West. This is Rebel Roundup,
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our painfully live show, where we talk about the news of the day. Completely unscripted. We had
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a couple of technical difficulties before we jumped on the stream, but I think we have it
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sorted out. I'm your regular host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who was indeed the technical problem.
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And today, I'm joined by my friend and colleague, Tamara Ugolini, in beautiful Coburg, Ontario. And
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boy, Tamara's fighting to keep it that way. Tamara, how's it going?
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Yeah, pretty good, Sheila. Just happy to be not the person causing the technical difficulties today
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with my lagging rural connection. You're supposed to be musk to the rescue over there.
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Yeah, I don't know. I have about a two-second lag on my stream also, so that will prove to be
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difficult. You're probably going to hear some overtalk from us, for our dear and fortunate
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viewers. But let's get right into it. Let's tell everybody what we're doing today, because
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we're already seven minutes late. Tamara, you want to take this over?
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Yeah, of course. So if you're joining us, this is our daily stream, as Sheila mentioned,
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where we are sometimes painfully live, including technical difficulties. Today, we're going to
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chat about the bomb threats that happened across the country today, some things to do with Alberta's
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police force. And of course, vaccine injury support program failures has hit the mainstream,
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despite my years of original reporting on the topic. So we're going to chat about all of that.
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Now, right off the hop, why don't we get into some of Canada's immigration problems,
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which came to a head this morning, as ground operations were, well, quite literally ground to a
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halt at six Canadian airports. Airports have since returned to normal. But the breach happened,
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I mean, depending on your time zone around 7am this morning, and it halted service at various locations.
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Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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Yeah, that comes from a Nav Canada spokesperson. This we're pulling from City News for this
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News Jack. But basically, they say that despite the security threat that happened this morning at
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multiple Nav Canada sites, i.e. our airports, all operations have now returned to normal. And this
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came, you know, they're investigating this security incident, as they call it. And operations, of course,
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have since been disrupted. And so several flights, welcome to Canada, nothing new there. But several
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flights have been delayed. And the investigation, I guess, is ongoing after this, what they call small
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impact on operations. So the calls came in, yeah, as it says right here, around 7am Eastern.
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Yeah, of a specific bomb, specific area of the airport, of a bomb threat, and then, and then they
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undertook a targeted evacuation to conduct checks. And so far, nothing suspicious has been found. So
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of course, it sounds like it was an empty threat. But nonetheless, you have to take this seriously. And
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I mean, this is what happens when you import the third world into Canada without checks or balances in
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place, lose a bunch of people who should be deported upwards of maybe half a million of them. And I
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guess, just just kind of hope that the kinks work themselves out and hope for the best, as is the
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Yeah, they say the investigation is ongoing airport activities have continued and have not been disrupted
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by this. That's a weird way to say that we had to evacuate parts of the airport, including
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the control tower at the Trudeau International Airport, which is a major international hub into
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Canada. The NAVCAN control tower was evacuated, and flight operations have since resumed. Now,
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they say in Edmonton, the security incident had minimal impact on operations, including a handful of
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delays. But that's because it happened at 5am. And I think central security there doesn't really open
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until 5am, if I recall correctly, because I have to take those hideous early morning flights.
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But, and likewise with Calgary, just because of the time zone issues, Vancouver probably as well. But
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they're not giving us a ton of information outside that this was a bomb threat. Now, I'd like to know
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what the bomb threat was about, if indeed the person said. But it seems like they're keeping
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a pretty tight lid on this. I wonder if this is one of those things where we'll only find out it was
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actually, perhaps ISIS motivated terrorism at sentencing. Like what we're finding out with
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Yeah, two or three years too late, it will come out in the news. And I mean, this comes the very next day
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after the Toronto Sun article, headlines, lax immigration vetting makes Canada prime target for Iranian
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infiltration, says Secure Canada. And subheading, I mean, you literally can't make this stuff up.
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Reluctance to deport IRCC, which is Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada, caseworkers pressured
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to maintain low rejection rates makes Canada an appealing target for foreign agents. I mean,
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you don't say really. The article goes on, or I should say starts rather that Canada needs real and
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rigorous reform of its immigration bureaucracy, which we've been saying for years, to deal with
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agents of the Iranian regime. And it urges a Canadian terror watchdog. But our public safety
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minister, while he's compromised himself, he doesn't even know what kinds of guns are trying,
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the government is attempting to confiscate. I mean, these people are completely useless. I don't know
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how they get handed these portfolios. And then we wonder why things are a complete mess and totally awry.
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Canada is facing bomb threats across six major airports. This is, no one could see the proof in
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the pudding of this. I mean, really? Well, and how many of these IRGC generals and
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officials are already in Canada? We remember during the pandemic when we were all banned from the gyms,
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and then somebody spotted one of the police chief types from Tehran, who was involved in the killing
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of a Canadian journalist just working out in a Canadian hotel gym. So no, nothing to see here.
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They're here already. In fact, I think it was only in 2024 that they listed officially the IRGC as a
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terrorist entity. So, I mean, these people are here already in the open. I mean, who do we think is
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really organizing these anti-Israel protests? Think those are organic? With all their matching
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kafiyas and matching signs? The money's coming from somewhere. Now, if you honked your horn during
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the Freedom Convoy, they traced your money as though they were a terrorist using FinTrack,
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which is what they used to track down terrorist funding and cut it off. That's what they did to
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you if you gave 20 bucks to a trucker. But have they ever used FinTrack to deal with these ongoing
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Hamas protests? Not even a little bit. And I'm fairly convinced that that money is coming from
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Iran. In fact, the Americans are also convinced that that money funding those similar protests in
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their cities, that it's also coming from Iran. And they're pretty upfront about it. In Canada,
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we only trace money of people involved in the honking. Well, I wrote this piece up last week. We know
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that former Iranian regime members have already come into the country. They post it on their social
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media. This guy here is a former Iran propagandist. And he came into Canada, just waltzed straight in,
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no big deal, nothing to see here. This was brazenly flies in the face of sanctions that Canada has on
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former Iranian regime members to not enter the country. And yet there he is, this post, the photo here
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that we pulled is directly from his Instagram post. He announced his departure to Canada with this
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Instagram photo, flaunting farewell, including a fun and heartfelt embrace to his 250,000 followers.
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And I translated some of the posts here for you into England, or sorry, into English.
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Heading to Canada tonight, I will return to my homeland at the right time. I will still be with
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you and for you, said Mari Nasiri on April the 7th. And this is, again, it flies in the face of
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sanctions that Canada has against Iranian regime members, especially as Iranian Canadians continue
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to report threats and intimidation linked to Tehran. So like, and then he also posted another one,
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and I don't think it made it into this article, actually. But he posted another one where he's
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flying from, so I think it was Calgary, and landing in Toronto, and says like, so he's lands,
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yeah, dated May 25. He lands at Toronto Airport, Pearson Airport with a caption that reads Toronto
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Airport after a four hour flight from Calgary, similar to the air distance from Tehran to Frankfurt,
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visiting Toronto, a city with tens of thousands of Iranian immigrants. And now this guy claims to
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be reformed now, he claims to be a liberal. So I guess it's okay, if you ask the government?
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Okay, but you still have to atone for the things that you are involved in. And if you are a member of
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a terrorist group, I don't think you should be wandering around in Canada. And the IRGC is a
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terrorist group. Now, for those of you who think I was just making it up, that in the Tehran police
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chief was in a Toronto gym, after his involvement in the merger of a Canadian photojournalist,
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here it is, Mortezi Talley. He was in Canada, just working out in the gym at the hotel that you
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couldn't use if you were unvaccinated at the time. That's a problem with this government.
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He was only sanctioned, he was involved in the 2003
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beating death while she was in custody of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, Zara Kazemi.
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She was arrested in 2003. She suffered, absolutely.
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Yeah, for taking photos of the prison. And anyways, then she was detained. And then she
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died in prison. And I just want you to think, let's get nostalgic for a second. Let's roll back
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the clock some 13 years. Back when we actually considered the IRGC bad guys. And the Iranian
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government, not the Iranian people, bad guys. In 2012, and I remember this because the Liberals
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were sort of outraged about it. All of a sudden, Stephen Harper, one day, closes the Canadian embassy
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in Iran, and then expelled Iranian diplomats from Canada. Because even the Iranian diplomats
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were intimidating Iranian expats who had fled the regime here. They were doing it out of the embassy
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here. And John Baird, who was our principled foreign affairs minister at the time, said,
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Iran is the most significant threat to global peace and security. Now, that's Canada's policy
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Yeah, that, how did we get here? I keep asking myself. And then every day that goes on, more
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madness ensues. And it's like, does no one else care or see this? Or why are we not putting
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things in place to stop and prevent further erosion of our national security? This immigration
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thing is finally being talked about. I mean, we spent, I think, the better part of four years
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throughout the pandemic when the floodgates were initially opened to mass immigration, unfettered,
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unmitigated. And so it took four years to get the conversation going. But now the conversation has
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been going for, I don't know, I would say about a year now. And it really ramped up kind of pre-election.
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But wasn't, wasn't such a hot topic, I think, as it should have been during the campaign,
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because the snap nature of the election, or sorry, of the writ period. But nonetheless, this has been
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an ongoing issue for years. Yeah. And we're just continuing unabated. Like,
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actually, it's worse, because we're rolling back Canada's principled foreign policy on Iran. I just
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want to go back to that article from 2012, when John Baird recalled all the Canadian diplomats and
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threw out, gave all the Iranian diplomats five days to get their asses out of Canada. He said,
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Canada's position on the regime in, just, okay, sorry, for a second, imagine Canada's foreign
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affairs minister saying these things. Melanie Jolie, imagine. Canada's position on the regime in Iran
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is well known. Canada views the government of Iran as the most significant threat to global peace and
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security in the world today. Baird said in a statement, the statement cited Iran's support
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for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, its failure to comply with UN resolutions on its nuclear
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program, which we're still dealing with today, and its threats against Israel. It also makes
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reference to Iran's blatant disregard for the Vienna Convention that guarantees the protection of its
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diplomatic personnel. Imagine Melanie Jolie making such a principled statement these days.
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No way. Wouldn't happen. She's way too soft and neutral and incompetent to do such a thing.
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And then, you know, meanwhile, the conversation and the pressure is heating up on this immigration
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talk. And we have this opinion piece from the Globe and Mail, why have a target for cutting temporary
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immigration if Canada can't meet it? I mean, yeah, there, I mean, we really don't need to say
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anything more than that. But the federal government made this like flimsy announcement last year that
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it would reduce the portion of the country's temporary residents to 5% of Canada's total population by the
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end of next year, 2026. Framing it as like a necessary thing. And I completely agree. I don't think it goes
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far enough. But nonetheless, this was framed as a necessary correction to years of unsustainable
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growth in the number of such immigrants. And then Ottawa introduced a series of reforms aiming to slow
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this rise, namely for international students and temporary foreign workers. And yet, what do we see
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coming in now with the data? Well, Canada's temporary resident population has continued to climb,
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more than doubling since 2021. After peaking at 7.35% of the total population last year,
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the share declined only modestly to 7.12% by April of this year. That is still well above the 5% goal.
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So like, what are we doing here? We're flouting all these numbers, saying all these things, and then
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not acting on any of it. Yeah. And for those people on the left, you might say, well, that's just a
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racist thing to say. Do you know who wrote this? It's Parisa Mabubi. Now, she is a lady who, based on
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her ethnic back name, last name, probably is not a racist. She's the senior policy analyst at CD Howe,
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where she leads the Institute's Human Capital Policy Program. So this is not a, like a
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us versus them thing. This is just our economy and our society cannot handle these things. It's
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the, it's just plainly that. At the end of the day, it comes down to math. And math isn't racist,
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no matter what the left tries to tell you. Oh, and they will try to tell you that. But she points out
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also in this article that that is not the only sector of immigration that continues to grow. It's
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persisting across most major categories. Work permit holders, excluding asylum-linked permits,
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have increased by more than 600,000 in two years, reaching 1.45 million. The number of combined work
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and study permit holders also surged, hitting 325,000 in Canada in the first quarter of this year.
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Like, these are crazy numbers. And if you go on StatsCan, I don't have it pulled up in front of
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me here, but you can... Toronto's unemployment rate is approaching 10%. This is outrageous.
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Well, that's where most of them end up. The majority of immigration that comes into Canada
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as a whole, over 50% of it, it lands in the GTA, in the greater Toronto area. And so that,
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there is just not the infrastructure there to support that massive influx of immigration.
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And, you know, we hear, oh, Canada is a vast land of vast resources and a sprawling land with
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little population per, you know, hectares. And yet, most of the immigration that comes into this country
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ends up in one small, tight little corridor of southeastern Ontario. So this idea that Canada,
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Canada as an entire country, can support mass immigration isn't coming to fruition because
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they're all funneling into one small sector of southeastern Ontario. And it can, is buckling
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under the pressure. It can, it is not sustainable by any sense of the word. And the other province
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that receives a vast majority of the immigration levels that come into this country, supposed to be
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the country. It's, it's Ontario, followed by Quebec and Quebec has said immigrants. Yeah.
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Yeah. And Quebec has said, you know, we're not doing it. We're not doing it. We're putting our
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own cap on immigration if the feds won't. And so far so good, I guess.
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It can be done. That's, that's the message there. It can be done if there's political will.
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Um, and if Quebec is allowed a culture, why aren't the rest of us? Um, Hey, before we hit an ad break,
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All right. So that's the first event, which I'm quite excited about. I love a good party,
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so it's, so it's a two day event and you'll hear from speakers such as author Tristan Hopper,
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about the fate and future, not just of the West, but of Confederation. Okay. Brian Lilly will be there.
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Preston Manning. Uh, we've got Conrad Black. This, okay. Marco Navarro-Gini. He's worth the
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go your own way. You're landlocked. He's done research into how other landlocked oil-rich
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also done serious research about other countries that have said, you know what, this isn't working
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and we, let's have an amicable divorce. So if you want to hear some, uh, thought-provoking arguments
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from situations you've never even considered, Marco is the guy for this. So it, if you need a
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reason to go to this event, just go to see Marco. Uh, Michael Binion's great. Justin Hopper's great.
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But, uh, I don't, I don't think Marco gets the, uh, respect he deserves for the research that he's
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done. So anyways, that's Canada's strong and free dot network. Um, let's hit a rebel news ad break and
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Albertans decide to go their own way, we have to consider what we do about the police. This actually
00:28:39.180
takes the sting out of it. Premier Smith announced yesterday the creation of the Alberta Sheriff's
00:28:45.620
police service, which will not replace the RCMP, yet or ever, or if ever, depending on what Albertans
00:28:53.620
want to do about their future, but it will work alongside existing branches of law enforcement
00:28:59.060
to protect Albertans as we deal with the rise in crime and recidivism, thanks to the Liberals'
00:29:06.260
permissive catch-and-release policies with regard to crime. I pulled the numbers yesterday because my
00:29:12.020
mother-in-law was fighting with somebody on what the data was, and violent crime has spiked in
00:29:20.020
this country since 2014 by well over 40%. I think it's like 46%. That's crazy. I mean,
00:29:30.820
something's got to give, and Alberta is doing something about it, so let's hear from the Premier.
00:29:36.020
We promised to improve policing in the province so that it works better on the streets and behind
00:29:41.140
the scenes, and we did that because Albertans deserve to feel safe no matter where they live,
00:29:46.500
and because Ottawa has indicated that it's rethinking the RCMP's responsibilities and may change them
00:29:52.420
once the current police services agreements end in 2032. So I'm pleased to say that we have taken some
00:29:58.900
major steps to deliver on our promise. We have formally created the Alberta Sheriff's Police
00:30:03.620
Service to be headquartered right here in Calgary. And to be clear about its intended purpose,
00:30:08.740
the Alberta Sheriff's Police Service is not meant to replace the RCMP or any other police service.
00:30:14.980
It will work alongside existing branches of law enforcement to fill gaps and ensure that resources
00:30:20.740
are used efficiently. And just like most other police services in the province, it'll be run separately
00:30:26.340
from the government with civilian oversight. Today, roughly 80% of Albertans are already served
00:30:33.460
by local non-RCMP municipal police services, such as in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat,
00:30:41.700
as well as the recently established police service in Ground Prairie, along with others. And I'm also happy
00:30:48.500
to announce that we are appointing Satpal Singh Parhar as Chief of the Alberta Sheriff's Police Service.
00:30:56.340
Again, if you ask the left, this is controversial. This is turning us into a police state, blah,
00:31:01.220
blah, blah, blah, blah. But this is stuff that they do in other provinces. Quebec has its own
00:31:05.380
provincial police service. Ontario does. And we have been slowly expanding the duties of the
00:31:13.620
sheriff's service, which we do, we have had a sheriff's service, sort of quasi-provincial police force
00:31:21.700
for a long time now. They work in the court system. They work at the legislature. They've been working
00:31:28.100
on border security in southern Alberta. They work on the highways. This is just expanding that to a more
00:31:35.620
official role in appointing a police chief for them. And I'm here for it. I mean, crime is up over 40%
00:31:44.020
while the liberals have been charged, have been in charge. Why wouldn't we want more cops on the road?
00:31:49.380
One of the few things I think government should do is policing. Like there's a lot of things the
00:31:54.820
government does do that they shouldn't, including health care. This is one of those things where
00:31:59.780
they're supposed to keep you safe, or at least, you know, do their best to keep you safe. I'm for this,
00:32:05.380
but everyone's losing their marbles on the left. Yeah, or at least enforce the laws that we are
00:32:12.180
supposed to have in place, which we've seen just repeatedly disregarded unless your political views
00:32:17.140
are contrary to that of the state. And then the heavy hammer of law and order comes down onto you. But
00:32:24.980
yeah, I don't, with crime, chaos, disorder, disarray, all of these things just unleashed onto
00:32:33.060
Canadian streets. If we're taking steps to rein in that disorder, then why not?
00:32:40.740
Yeah, well, and there's something else happening in the background, too. So Alberta has said that they
00:32:45.140
will not advise the RCMP to enforce the gun confiscation program of the federal liberals. Now,
00:32:55.860
what if we end up in a standoff with the feds? And somehow, even though the RCMP are on contract in
00:33:04.660
Alberta, somehow, the RCMP are forced to abide by the gun confiscation program. Do we have the ability
00:33:15.860
now to kick them out if the feds override the will of the province and put the RCMP in the middle?
00:33:23.140
Well, this might be a backstop for that. It's a consideration, considering how the liberal
00:33:29.700
government is going to just speed into the gun confiscation. I mean, just running Natalie Provo as
00:33:39.460
an MP was exactly an indicator of what they plan to do. And they've allocated, I think,
00:33:45.620
a third of a billion dollars to take guns where they don't even know where they are. That's going
00:33:49.620
to take a lot of policing. So, well, anyways, we'll see. I think that could be a motivation here as well.
00:33:57.460
It's just more of Danielle Smith aligning the province for independence. And so each step
00:34:06.260
that is taken just kind of furthers Alberta's ability to uphold its own sovereignty and push
00:34:17.860
back against the nonsense policies of Ottawa. So I think this is just another step in that direction.
00:34:23.860
Yeah, whether we leave or whether we stay, this makes us out of the clutches of the feds
00:34:32.180
at the end of the day. We're better off for this at the end of the day. Let's get into the elbows
00:34:38.100
up nonsense, because what's a day in Canada without elbows up nonsense? Goodness gracious.
00:34:46.820
So where did they find this one? Yeah, I was one, as I was reading that, I wondered the exact same.
00:34:54.100
And you know, just on the elbows up topic for a moment, I saw someone post the other day,
00:34:57.940
um, Carney's had his elbows up and down so many times that he's doing the chicken dance.
00:35:05.460
Oh, I thought that was such a good visual. We need a meme of that just, or I like maybe a
00:35:10.820
little graphic of Carter doing the chicken dance. AI me that somebody. Please send it our way with
00:35:18.020
a little song. Anyway. Um, all right. So Canadians are now apparently don't speak for me, but here we
00:35:27.300
are. Canadians feel unwelcome in the US as mistrust remains high, finds a new poll pollster Jack Jedwab
00:35:36.900
now sees Canadian anger and frustration being focused primarily on the American government
00:35:41.940
and less so the American people. Um, now that the Canada's trade war with America surged back into
00:35:48.980
public conscience, consciousness, like a blast from the recent past. Oh my gosh. A new poll suggests
00:35:55.460
Canadian frustration with and mistrust of the US remains high, despite a slight easing. I mean,
00:36:00.820
what kind of lead is this? I, I can't, anyway. Um, so there was a dramatic realignment apparently
00:36:08.820
of Canadian attitudes toward its Southern neighbor. And then here we go. This is, I think the lead
00:36:14.980
that should have been there. Europe and Britain were suddenly the countries Canadians felt best about,
00:36:20.900
and Canadians were starting to feel, were starting to feel about America the way they feel about Russia.
00:36:27.860
Um, and this comes also as Carney tries to, well, Trump derangement syndrome is obviously infiltrating
00:36:35.460
the pollsters, but, um, this comes as Carney is trying to align Canada more with Europe and the
00:36:42.740
European union and break those ties that we've traditionally and historically held with the
00:36:47.780
United States. And now you have a pollster here in the background, basically just backing all of that up.
00:36:54.340
So I'm not surprised, but this certainly doesn't speak for a number of Canadians, including myself.
00:37:00.420
Uh, again, I think that these are the mask wearers on the airplanes still, you know what I mean?
00:37:07.060
Because they just believe everything the government and the CBC, and I shouldn't make a distinction there,
00:37:12.100
tells them. Uh, and talk again, talk about burying the lead. Back in April, barely one in five,
00:37:19.780
or 21%. So they trust Americans in a similar poll, but the latest poll, that figure has rebounded to 34%,
00:37:32.900
And about the same as it was near the end of Trump's first term, but still considerably lower
00:37:40.100
than the 59% it reached in October, 2023. So that shows you that the liberals campaigned on fear.
00:37:49.540
It worked for them. But the whole point of this is, this is normal. This is the, your typical uppity,
00:37:57.220
snooty Canadian anti-Americanism at its stasis. So why is this even an article?
00:38:05.700
Because it, as they said, this is where it's historically at.
00:38:14.660
The bar that they're holding is that it's still considerably lower than the 59% it reached
00:38:19.700
in October, 2023. I'm sorry, under Biden, we, we, um, felt more welcome and less aggressive
00:38:27.300
toward the United States because when Biden was the president, who like couldn't even prevent
00:38:33.540
himself from falling off of his bike while riding it, I mean, this, it's obviously, um,
00:38:40.900
a politically backed poll and is speaking to the differences. Like when Canada has a liberal
00:38:46.100
government and the U S has a liberal government, it's all good and friendly and we're fine. And
00:38:49.780
then as soon as the U S switches to a conservative government, all of a sudden there's like hostility
00:38:55.540
and mistrust apparently remains high. I don't know, but about you guys, but I trust Trump a heck of a
00:39:04.340
Yeah. Trump just gave us a $7 billion tax cut because of the internet tax that got canceled, uh,
00:39:12.820
because of him. Maybe Canadians feel unwelcome in the United States because they have bought into the
00:39:23.140
lies about how we need to fight the Americans and because they've allowed themselves to fall
00:39:29.220
into the anti-Americanism trap. Like after saying, uh, terrible things about Americans for the last
00:39:37.300
six months, you're lucky if they let you into the country at all. You know what I mean? Like
00:39:45.540
if I talked bad about a friend and neighbor, and then I went over to their house to visit it. Yeah,
00:39:52.660
there might be some awkwardness, but that's on me, not on them. Uh, there, this is just the dumbest
00:39:58.900
article ever because they're saying, um, that the numbers are actually where they historically are.
00:40:04.260
Uh, okay. Thanks. Great. Good article, buddy. Thanks for letting us know that we're right on par.
00:40:12.020
Yeah. Anyways. Um, I think we should hit this one headliner. I know we started a little bit late,
00:40:17.780
but I want to, um, I want to get to this global news investigation that they've just released. I think
00:40:24.820
they, they ran this investigation for apparently six months and, um, basically just leaves a bunch of
00:40:33.060
my original reporting. And I think also likely my access to information documents, because there's
00:40:38.420
about a two year lag there between when you file, um, and receive back the, your access to information
00:40:44.980
request. And then by the time it's actually publicly available is about another two years.
00:40:50.340
Yeah. Proactively. So they had to wait. They couldn't trust that, uh, this reporting was accurate.
00:40:58.100
And based on exclusive government documents obtained by us here at rebel news, uh, they had to wait until
00:41:04.820
public disclosure, disclosure happened, uh, roughly two years later and see, see it for themselves,
00:41:10.420
I suppose. But, um, it, the title here comes from, as I mentioned in global news, nothing was ready
00:41:18.180
inside Canada's vaccine injury support program. And it's a story done by two journalists, um,
00:41:24.980
Andrew McIntosh and Carolyn Jarvis. And so they start off, here's the lead a 50 million, which it's
00:41:34.420
actually 75 million, by the way, a 50 million program, the federal government created to help
00:41:40.100
Canadians seriously injured by COVID-19 vaccines is in disarray. Current and former staffers say,
00:41:47.300
um, the vaccine, um, the vaccine, vaccine injury support program was created as the government
00:41:52.100
was simultaneously rolling out these novel modified RNA COVID-19 injections. And it was meant to
00:41:59.300
compensate people who had been seriously and permanently injured by these health Canada.
00:42:06.100
They, they actually use the right word here, health Canada authorized, not approved, authorized
00:42:11.460
vaccines administered, you know, on or after the December 8th rollout in 2020. And so my original
00:42:20.900
reporting on this topic, and I have a thread that I posted yesterday on X that goes through, and this
00:42:29.860
just scratches the surface of the reporting that I have done on the vaccine injury support program,
00:42:35.860
including vaccine injured individuals who I started featuring the very first one, Kevin Street,
00:42:42.100
June or July of 2021, who was injured following his, um, AstraZeneca shot, which we all know now
00:42:50.980
AstraZeneca has been since pulled from the market. But anyway, I post this thread in here because
00:42:55.940
global news claims that their investigation revealed a scandal clad vaccine injury support program.
00:43:01.380
But in fact, all of this is my original reporting. And I pulled some quotes from global directly where
00:43:08.260
they say Oxero, who was formerly Raymond, Shant, Grant, Thornton consultants, they actually received
00:43:16.660
the vast majority of the budget allocation for this program to deliver and administer it. So they got
00:43:22.260
roughly 60% of the total budget, leaving Canadians suffering from the safe and effective
00:43:31.220
narrative high and dry. They, the rigmarole that has encompassed this program is absolutely scathing.
00:43:39.460
Um, and so I point to some of the original reporting that I've done here, like where I, I broke the news
00:43:46.500
that the, this consultancy firm funnels millions meant for those injured into the consultants pockets.
00:43:54.980
And I did, I broke this in January of 2024. So over a year and a half ago, I did this report,
00:44:01.700
I showed the government documents and I actually had to appeal to find the true numbers because they
00:44:08.020
originally tried to redact it. So I would have, I broke the original story. I said, something's fishy
00:44:13.700
here. I'm going to appeal all of these redactions and get to the bottom of how much is actually going
00:44:20.820
where, because this seems fishy. And then I think it was like roughly six months later because you
00:44:26.180
know, they're supposed to get back to you within three months. They never do. It's the government
00:44:29.460
after all. Um, so I actually would have had this story a roughly six months sooner had they have
00:44:34.100
not tried to redact and hide all of these numbers. So there was a lot of investigating that went into
00:44:39.940
this finding and here's global news, just trying to scoop it all as though they've been looking into
00:44:45.460
this for the last six months. Um, I report on the fact that this case managers are a revolving door
00:44:52.740
in March of 2024, also over a year ago. I mean, and the list quite literally goes on and on, but then
00:44:59.700
I wanted to highlight how global news exacted over the last few years. And they have held
00:45:09.460
true to the government state funded big pharma backed narrative. They held cover for all of that.
00:45:19.220
There was a big, massive investigation that Ashley Stewart from global news did in January of 2022,
00:45:25.460
where she revealed the headline reads revealed how a web of Canadian doctors are undermining the fight
00:45:32.660
against COVID-19. And she ousts various doctors, um, like Mark Trozzi, who we've, we've featured
00:45:38.980
extensively on the platform. And I especially want to point out Dr. Patrick Phillips, because I first did
00:45:46.020
a story with Dr. Patrick Phillips. I'm just going to, to pull it up in May. Let me just let the, uh,
00:45:56.900
the proper link here. Dr. Patrick Phillips was one of the first doctors agreed to come on to me after
00:46:01.940
come on with me after I started investigating the vaccine rollout, what was happening. May 27th,
00:46:09.540
2021, Dr. Patrick Phillips, he was an emergency department doctor in Ontario coming forward saying
00:46:16.260
they're rejecting my COVID vaccine adverse reaction reports. He had five of them rejected by his local
00:46:23.300
medical officer of health because here in Canada, we have a multi-level filtering system to get your
00:46:29.300
four vaccine injury ever even formally documented and recognized. And so he was having all of his
00:46:38.180
vaccine injury reports rejected by his local medical officer of health, which is that kind of second
00:46:44.500
level of filtering that happens. And instead of like investigating any of this dating back to 2021,
00:46:52.180
they wrote a hit piece and smeared all of these principal doctors who are brave enough to come
00:46:58.340
forward against the state backed and mainstream media, um, amplified narrative and smeared all of
00:47:05.940
them. I'm just going to interrupt you here. It got worse than that because Dr. Patrick Phillips,
00:47:10.420
I remember watching his NCI testimony about how he was trying to get these vaccine injuries recognized
00:47:17.060
so that maybe they could put a stop to what was happening, the forced vaccination and his license was
00:47:23.940
revoked due to misconduct, his misconduct advocacy for his patients and hindsight being 2020, he was right.
00:47:33.620
And, uh, yeah, CBC, uh, or at global news, uh, they were part and parcel of amplifying the, uh,
00:47:44.420
uh, misinformation against Dr. Patrick Phillips. Sorry, I'll be quiet. You continue on.
00:47:50.180
And I would argue, well, I would argue that global news actually played a part in that investigation
00:47:55.940
against Dr. Patrick Phillips by his regulator, the CPSO, because in this hit piece that Ashley
00:48:01.760
Stewart ran again in January of 2022, revealing how these COVID doctors, or sorry, revealing how these
00:48:08.500
Canadian doctors are allegedly undermining the fight against COVID and spreading vaccine
00:48:12.940
disinformation is what they were calling it. And still, I mean, arguably until last week were,
00:48:19.180
um, uh, they reached out to the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario to alert them
00:48:24.700
to what these doctors were up to. So not only did global news run cover for the state backed pharma
00:48:31.420
funded narrative all throughout the last five years, but they actually put a target on the brave doctors
00:48:37.260
who are coming forward saying, this doesn't make sense. This isn't upholding anyone's health.
00:48:41.820
The way that we're treating these patients and the way that we're, uh, just injecting everyone
00:48:47.260
indiscriminately is not the way that you handle this kind of public health crisis, so to speak.
00:48:55.500
And they put a target on their backs. And let's not also forget Rachel Gilmore, who worked for Global
00:49:01.820
News at the time of the vaccine rollout. Can we pull up that clip of Rachel Gilmore, what she was saying?
00:49:10.780
Yeah, she had big fight global news, she says about go about your unvaccinated friends and relatives.
00:49:16.780
By the way, I just, uh, if you follow me on X, it's easy to find me at Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:49:22.540
I just reposted Dr. Patrick Phillips NTI testimony, uh, from March, I believe, uh,
00:49:31.420
March 16th of 2023 in Truro, Nova Scotia. Uh, just so you can hear in his own words, um,
00:49:39.660
what he was trying to do and what now global news claims they have discovered. Anyways,
00:49:47.180
you can see it there. You don't have to show the whole thing. It's, uh, but, uh, if you follow me,
00:49:51.740
you can see a clip of his testimony and you can find his testimony in full in the description of the
00:49:57.500
post there. What happened to Patrick Phillips is absolutely disgusting. And now we have this
00:50:05.820
principled, well, well-educated science following physician who can no longer treat patients in
00:50:13.580
Ontario where we have a massive and chronic shortage of family doctors because of the kind of reporting
00:50:21.580
that came from global news. So for anybody who's thanking global news and comments section on X,
00:50:29.020
when they post this and they reveal how this is being poorly managed and, and misrun. Let's not
00:50:36.780
forget. This was the kind of rhetoric coming from global news during the vaccine rollout in October
00:50:44.780
of 2021. Listen to this from Rachel Gilmore. I am sorry in advance. Are you going to invite your
00:50:52.700
unvaccinated relatives to sit at the dinner table with you this Thanksgiving? Experts are saying you might
00:50:58.300
not want to risk it. Here's why. According to one expert from McMaster university, vaccines are
00:51:04.540
super effective, but they're most effective when you're surrounded by other vaccinated people.
00:51:11.180
If you invite someone who isn't vaccinated, there's a risk of having a breakthrough case.
00:51:15.260
Now breakthrough cases are pretty rare. There's only ever been about 8,000 in Ontario,
00:51:20.220
but kids can't get vaccinated. So part of keeping those kids as safe as possible is telling that one
00:51:25.660
uncle who chooses not to get vaccinated that he might have to sit this one out. One bioethicist
00:51:30.700
said that that's actually the more ethical thing to do. She also said you should try talking to your
00:51:35.340
relatives about how safe vaccination is. The best way to do that is to start the conversation from a
00:51:40.060
place of respect and empathy. Say things like, I understand you're feeling pressure. I know you're
00:51:45.340
freaked out, but here's why this is important. You can read more at globalnews.ca.
00:51:50.060
I'm stupider for having to listen to that. Yeah, that is everything she said there,
00:51:55.820
by the way, complete misinformation that breakthrough cases didn't happen, that kids are at risk.
00:52:03.020
We know breakthrough cases happened. In fact, most of the people on my Facebook page who are vehemently
00:52:10.780
against increased ongoing vaccinations are people who got two jabs and still got sick.
00:52:17.100
So the actual science. The people who had to learn things the hard way. But yeah, that's who global news
00:52:28.460
was and is. And now they want to gaslight you into forgetting, being hard of remembering.
00:52:35.820
Don't thank them. The reason things got this far along is because of the likes of global news.
00:52:43.740
This is absolute gaslighting. Imagine they had reached out to Dr.
00:52:49.900
Phillips and found other doctors who were experiencing the same pain because I know Dr.
00:52:54.380
Phillips wasn't alone, but everyone was too scared and they saw what happened to him to come forward and
00:53:00.380
share what was happening on the front lines, in hospitals, in emergency departments, at clinics,
00:53:05.500
after the rollout of these injections. If they had have just said, whoa, this is a crazy allegation,
00:53:10.940
let's investigate this. In May of 2021, when they were rejecting his vaccine injury reports
00:53:18.060
from his local medical officer of health, imagine where we would be now had the mainstream media have
00:53:23.100
said that is massive. That is huge news for a novel product that's never before been unleashed on the
00:53:30.300
mass population. And instead they amplify the absolute bimbo nonsense of somebody like Rachel
00:53:37.660
Gilmore, who's like vaccines. They're super effective, super effective. Spare me.
00:53:43.980
I realize that I speak in the common parlance of the region in which I live. I have some pretty
00:53:48.860
strong Alberta isms. I know that. But I try not to sound like an absolute airhead.
00:53:56.300
And she does. She sounds like an airhead and she thinks it's charming and not completely annoying.
00:54:04.140
She's a grown woman. I probably had two kids when I was her age. Could you imagine her even being
00:54:09.660
able to keep a cat alive? Anyway, I probably had three kids by the time I was her age.
00:54:15.660
Same. One more thing I just want to quickly point out about Global News' investigation is the part
00:54:24.940
where they say, and I'm just going to read it verbatim and I think it's about a third of the way
00:54:29.100
down the page. The government reassured the public that they'd be safe, but it acknowledged that in rare
00:54:36.220
cases people could experience serious side effects. And I just want to point people to the fact,
00:54:46.780
because this is completely overlooked and never reported on by anyone in the mainstream media,
00:54:50.940
including Global News and this parent expose that I've only been featuring for the last two and a half
00:54:58.380
years at least. This comes from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It's a subset of
00:55:08.220
the Department of Health and Human Services of the FDA. So this is like a very credible source.
00:55:13.980
And I just want to show everyone the first line on this webpage. It says,
00:55:19.660
Adverse events from vaccines are common, but under-reported, with less than one percent
00:55:27.580
reported to the Food and Drug Administration. So when they tell you...
00:55:32.860
Yeah. Exactly. When they lay out all of these numbers that are officially documented by Health Canada,
00:55:39.820
remember that there's at least one ER physician reporting that all five of his
00:55:44.460
vaccines were rejected before they even got to Health Canada. And remember that less than one
00:55:50.460
percent are ever formally documented or reported. So you can take all of those numbers and multiply
00:55:57.260
them by whatever factor they should actually be, because this is not an accurate reflection of how
00:56:03.180
many people are being plagued by vaccine injury. Right. That's it for me for today.
00:56:08.460
Oh, no, not yet. We have one more thing we have to get to. And it's, you wrote it up. We talked
00:56:16.540
about it in the morning meeting. I love this story because on some level, I am glad Sheila Copps exists,
00:56:26.060
because she is the perfect avatar of the horrors of the liberalist
00:56:38.380
establishment. Sheila Copps, for those of you who are not as long in the tooth as me,
00:56:44.060
she was the deputy prime minister for a time, but she is everybody's cantankerous liberal
00:56:52.380
wine aunt. Like, she gets on the internet after a box of card Bordeaux, if you know what I mean.
00:56:59.420
And then she starts telling everybody about politics. And if we knew this about her during the pandemic,
00:57:07.260
wouldn't we have considered, and I don't mean we, I mean the royal we,
00:57:13.420
the establishment who treated Sheila Copps as some sort of credible expert on the comings and goings
00:57:19.340
of the pandemic? Well, maybe you should look at that through a different lens. Now, Tamara wrote this
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up. I think she's having problems with her camera. Is that right? So I'll get to it, I guess.
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Yes. Pandemic profiteers strike again. Sheila Copps' firm sues for share of $2 billion federal
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contract amid lobbying scandal. You're not even going to believe the gall of this broad.
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BTNX denies Copps' firm's role in securing the deal, alleging any lobbying efforts were conducted
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illegally. It's just a delight. Former Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps is back in the spotlight
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for all the wrong reasons. Her firm, Medipro Canada, is suing for $100 million. $100 million.
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Is that how it goes? In an attempt to reap a slice of the $2 billion federal contract she helped secure
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for rapid test supplier, BTNX, during the COVID chaos. I think we have Tamara back. Tamara, take us
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through this. Oh, are we not? I guess we're not getting Tamara's audio. So yeah, that's okay. She has
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been talking and explaining it, but I'll keep going through it. So her firm Medipro is suing for $100
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million. But as Tamara writes, there's one small oopsie oversight. Copps wasn't registered as a
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lobbyist. And now the contractor says she broke the rules justifying they're leaving her high and dry.
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Sneaky or savvy? As Tamara says, you decide. Emails uncovered by the National Post show Copps working
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her liberal Rolodex, setting up cozy meetings with top dogs in then Procurement Minister Anita Anand's
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office to push masks and tests. Sounds like lobbying to me. One sketchy KN95 deal even got flagged by 3M
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as potential fraud, sparking a police probe. Yet cops insist, I'm just a salesman, dodging the lobbying
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act because she wasn't paid up front. But now she wants to be paid after the fact, as Tamara writes,
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convenient, right? Do we have Tamir's audio now? I am testing, testing. Can you hear me
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on the stream side? Okay, take it away. Thanks, Sheila. Yeah, so and the lobbying commissioner,
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of course, is staying quiet about all of this. Meanwhile, this stench of unaccountability is
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pretty hard to ignore. I point out that it's another black eye for Ottawa's pandemic procurement
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already marred by ArriveCan, least we forget, and we charity fiascos. I also wanted to just draw
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everybody's attention back to then Procurement Minister, right? Because all of this was done
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under Procurement Minister Anita Anand, whose husband, John Knowlton, was linked to companies
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that also received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID contracts, further disavowing
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transparency and accountability. He was part of LifeLabs and Terranet Inc. LifeLabs was given
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$66 million worth of contracts from the government. And Dynacare, SwitchHealth, these ones were all also
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awarded contracts. So something is awry at the procurement office. And clearly, lobbyists
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aren't properly registering, and they're being rewarded through contracts and otherwise for their
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efforts to effectively and successfully lobby the government to get their companies the deals
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ahead of anybody else's. So I pose the question at the end, is this just another chapter in Canada's
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Cronyism Chronicles? I would wager a bet to say yes, but ultimately, always leave it up to the viewer to
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Yeah, I mean, there's another company involved in all of this who says, actually, and just so people know what
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we're talking about, they're those stupid little tests that you stuck a thing up your nose or in the back of
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your throat. They're the home tests that you had to do before you did anything in the world, if you were
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unvaccinated. They're the ones that they gave free, but nothing's free if the government's paying for
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it. They're those tests. So just think about where those were, literally everywhere. Remember, you
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could get them at the Tim Hortons. What a strange time. You could get them, like the Alberta government
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struck a deal with Tim Hortons that if you could go through the drive-through and they would give you
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a bunch of tests just to make sure that everybody had them. Like, I just look back and I'm like, man,
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we were mad, but someone was making money hand over fist. And one of them was Sheila Copps,
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apparently, because she wants a hundred million dollars. But there was another company in all of
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this who said, actually, we could have done this for cheaper. In fact, we offered to do this for
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cheaper, but the government went with the company that Sheila Copps was lobbying for.
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Which was more money. So it's just so unbelievably crooked.
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And then just the gall to have not registered as a lobbyist and now want to be paid as a
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lobbyist. And this is ending up in court. And I just can't, I'm here for all the drama. I'm here
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for it. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. I hope actually people go to jail for this. Although this
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No, you get the orders of Canada for your pandemic profiteering. But you can just remember Adamson
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Barbecue, right? The Ontario barbecue restaurateur who just wanted to feed people brisket while the
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Costco across the street, they were open for business. The Walmarts, the big box stores,
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they were all allowed to continue, mostly unabated. But the little guy, like the barbecue
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restaurateurs and the mom pop shops, they had to shutter for the better part of two years on a
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rolling basis and then reopen with all these stipulations where they had to invest in things
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like sanitizer, sanitizer, masks, plexiglass, which was a massive upfront cost, etc, etc. And those guys
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are still suffering the devastation, the fallout of COVID policies who had, yeah, all the king's horses
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and all the king's men unleashed onto their small mom pop barbecue shop. And yet people like Anita
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Anand, who oversaw the government's procurement. It's a promotion. And her husband pockets who knows
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how much for his affiliations with companies who received hundreds of millions of dollars in government
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COVID contracts. I mean, these people aren't suffering, that's for sure. But Adam Skelly from
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Adamson barbecue. I mean, where is he these days? Yeah, Chris Scott, same thing. Chris Scott,
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though, has been the center of a political uprising. It doesn't seem to stop there. But also, let us
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not forget, like how many liberals, former and future, enriched themselves during COVID. Frank Bayless
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with Bayless ventilators, an inflated ventilator contract, I think it was like a quarter of a
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billion dollars. They cost more than what they should have. And then they ultimately ended up being
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either donated to war efforts in Ukraine, or sold for scrap, because we didn't need them. But and I
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think people knew that we didn't need them at the beginning. But this was just a time for liberals
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to get rich with government contracts. How are we forgetting Randy, Randy Bosano? He was the partner
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in a medical PPE import company, getting contracts with Elections Canada to provide PPE for a snap election
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nobody wanted. Sole source contracts at that, like that, all of them got rich during the pandemic,
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while our companies went broke, and our kids were damaged mentally, mentally and physically.
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And educationally. Also, that those contracts all were just swiftly removed from the procurement
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government procurement website. So if you ever wanted to go back and do a line by line investigation
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into who got what and what went where, well, guess what? It's all been wiped.
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Great. So much for transparency. Yep. We need a national inquiry, but we're never going to get it
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as long as the liberals are in charge. Um, no. Thanks, Toronto. Thank you. I don't think we have
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a daily dose of cringe, but I think we just played it a little bit early. It was Rachel Gilmore. So sorry
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about that. Just forget how awful she is to listen to. I did have to listen to her committee
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testimony. Oh, that was bad. And that was horrendous. On my deathbed, I will be thinking about the time
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I spent listening to that and thinking I could have done something better with my time, like smoking.
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Like, my God. I could have suffered a slow death, but instead I was stuck listening to
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the valley girl for, I don't even know how long she had up there on the little soapbox, 15 minutes.
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Yeah. It was so bad. I'm like, how does someone like this end up here? I mean, there's our government
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in action. Do you know what the worst part is? I blame the conservatives because they never actually
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call anybody to counter that. You know, like she was the journalist that the liberals or the NDP
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called to testify at committee on, you know, uh, journalistic freedom or whatever. The one that's
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advocating the censorship of other journalists. Who did you call, uh, conservatives to counter that?
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There are plenty of conservative journalists out here actively fighting in court, uh, for the right to
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the free press. What did you guys do? You sat there and listened to Rachel Gilmore. I feel like that's a
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missed opportunity. Yeah. A hundred percent. All right. Well, that's a wrap from us today.
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Thanks everybody for listening and joining in on the stream. Uh, Sheila and a rotating host will be
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back same time and place tomorrow, 1 to 2 PM Eastern. So be sure to join us again. And, um, until then
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keep your thinking hats on, because if the mainstream media has anything to do with it,
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you are going to need to think critically. Thanks so much, everybody. See you next time.