Join us for Rebel News Live on Saturday, June 14th at the Red Deer Curling Centre in Red Deer, Alberta, where we re talking energy, free speech, and independence with Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and a powerhouse lineup of freedom fighters, political thinkers, and grassroots leaders.
00:00:00.000Feel like Ottawa's got its boot on Alberta's neck? Well, it's time to push back. Join us for Rebel News Live Saturday, June 14th at the Red Deer Curling Centre. Spend the day with Ezra Levant, me, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and a powerhouse lineup of freedom fighters, political thinkers, and grassroots leaders. We're talking energy, free speech, and especially independence, and how the West can finally stop getting screwed.
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00:00:35.900Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You have tuned in to the Rebel News Livestream on this same Monday, June 9th, 2025.
00:00:58.920I'm David Menzies, and my co-host, well, let me tell you a bit about my co-host, shall I?
00:01:05.540Folks, do you know that today is National Donald Duck Day? And my co-host was planning to celebrate it, and then she decided against it because, really, who gives a duck?
00:01:18.540She is the Sheetal with a sword. She is the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta. She is the sensational Sheila Gunn-Reed. Hey, Sheila, how are you? I hope you're feeling better.
00:01:29.540I'm doing about 75% better, I think, than I was when I was gone. Hopefully, my voice holds up. I've got enough medication in me, enough drugs in me for a small South American country, as I told Ezra a couple of days ago, but we're going to get through this.
00:01:48.160I'm happy to be back. I don't like the fact that my colleagues had to pick up the slack for me last week and cover off the live stream, but it's not like I was having a holiday. I was working. I was in the UK, and I was in Regina, so it's not like I just was like, you know what, Tamara, you got her from here.
00:02:06.220No, I was flat-out working and very sick, as you will hear from clips from that time, but I'm not one to take a day off, and today is more of the same. I'm actually surprised that you didn't make a joke about my voice on Donald Duck Day.
00:02:25.200I'm not sure it resembles Donald Duck, but speaking of cartoon duck, Sheila, here's the big question. It's kind of like Ginger or Marianne from Gillian's Island. Donald Duck or Daffy Duck? Who is your preference?
00:02:52.040Oh, I got to take my glass off there. Give him too much glare.
00:02:55.200No, I think Looney Tunes, their characters, especially the early days, way more edgy than Disney was or ever will be.
00:03:03.320That's because passive racism was allowed on TV back then. Of course they were edgy.
00:03:09.880We should tell everybody what we're doing here today, and I can't go too, too long because I have an appointment after the live stream today, but we'll tell everybody what we're doing.
00:03:20.160It looks like a cat or something has been in my studio while I was gone for a week because I'm not framed in properly.
00:03:26.340I can't go too much over a little there.
00:03:29.420We'll tell everybody what we're doing, and we'll tell everybody about a very special event we have coming up in Red Deer after we're done that.
00:03:36.420But this is, of course, the Rebel News live show. It's a live news and opinion show.
00:03:43.240We take the news as it happens and give you our hot and spicy takes as they come to us.
00:03:49.580It's called Rebel Roundup. If you want to get involved, there are a couple ways where we democratize the show because without you, there's no Rebel News.
00:03:57.480So if you are watching us on Rumble, we appreciate Rumble and their strong stand for free speech.
00:04:05.100They never censored Rebel News once. If you want to support us over there, their paid chat is called a Rumble Rant.
00:04:11.720If it's over the $5 U.S. cutoff, we're obligating ourselves to read it on air.
00:04:15.380If it's under that, we'll do our very best to get to it. Just no promises.
00:04:18.380But you chatters who fall under the $5 mark, you know I do my best to get your chats.
00:04:24.740And if you're watching us on the censorship platform of YouTube, of which we are recently re-monetized, I remain shocked every time that we can get a super chat over there.
00:04:35.860It's always a surprise when we remain re-monetized over there.
00:04:39.420But if you want to leave us a super chat, that's their paid chat over there.
00:04:42.560Helps us cover the cost of doing the work that we do here at Rebel News.
00:04:46.860Every little bit helps. We'll never take a penny from Mark Carney.
00:04:49.180But if you're watching the recorded version of the live stream after the fact, this is past Sheila speaking to future viewers.
00:04:58.540You can leave something called a super thanks.
00:05:01.080That's their paid comment if you are moved by the spirit to help us.
00:05:42.000They're going to look around and say, take us with you.
00:05:46.700And I think the dominoes are going to fall.
00:05:49.040But those decisions will be made by the people of those respective provinces and not our Laurentian overlords telling us to sit down and shut up.
00:05:56.820So if you want tickets, go to donegettingscrewed.com.
00:06:02.280We actually even have Dallas Brody, MLA from BC, who says, you know, this is obviously a concern in British Columbia, particularly in the interior.
00:06:13.240They're going to look around and see Alberta and Saskatchewan gone, look at Vancouver, look at Ottawa and say, excuse me, is there room in the minivan for us?
00:06:23.840We'd like to go on this little trip with you too.
00:06:25.800So we've got, like I said, we've got people from all sides of the debate.
00:06:30.200We've got Keith Wilson, you know him as a trucker lawyer, but before he was trucker lawyer, he was independence lawyer.
00:06:37.340And Dallas Brody, as I said, and we're actually adding people all the time.
00:10:31.000What do you think the mood in the room was?
00:10:33.380I mean, you know, it might be interesting.
00:10:35.060I'm not telling you how to run the event.
00:10:36.840But if people had to vote one, two, or three, how do you see the majority in Red Deer voting in terms of those three options?
00:10:47.920I think there's actually a fourth option in the mix.
00:10:50.180And that is sort of a sovereignty association kind of deal, wherein we stay within confederation but get a better deal.
00:10:58.600And I don't think that's actually a reasonable thing, because if we were going to get a better deal within confederation, we shouldn't have to vote to leave to get it.
00:11:09.380But I think the room would be probably split 50-50.
00:11:29.660I mean, I think the latest polling data, I mean, it just keeps going up and up and up.
00:11:35.320The more Mark Carney talks, the more independence keeps going up.
00:11:39.920Like it was at like one-third, and now it's closer to over four in ten, closer to five in ten, so 50% of Albertans.
00:11:48.600And that's without Trump coming on strong to us.
00:11:51.500Like, I think Trump's overtures to Albertans will begin post the G7 in Kananaskis, because he's going to go to Kananaskis and say, holy moly, look at this place.
00:12:06.600This is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the earth.
00:18:35.220Only one of our four submarines is seaworthy.
00:18:40.100Less than half our maritime fleet and land vehicles are operational.
00:18:44.380More broadly, we're too reliant on the United States.
00:18:49.100And so, for all those reasons, I'm announcing today that Canada will achieve NATO's 2% of GDP target this year, half a decade ahead of schedule.
00:19:09.860And we will further accelerate our investments in years to come.
00:19:19.100Consistent with meeting these new security imperatives, we'll start by changing the way we support and invest in our armed forces.
00:19:28.860We will change the way we arm the men and women who serve, so we can fight on new battlegrounds in unfamiliar territory.
00:19:37.860So we can defend every inch of our sovereign territory, from seafloor to the Arctic to cyberspace.
00:21:43.860And he said something, I think, words to the effect of, we're dependent on the United States, I'm assuming, for parts to make them operable.
00:21:51.860Then, the most scathing thing, one out of our four submarines is operational.
00:21:57.860You know, it reminds me of the great Thomas Dolby song, one of our submarines is missing.
00:22:03.860The Canadian version is, one of our submarines is actually working.
00:23:42.860As if the Israelis defending themselves against the terrorists who launched the Israeli version of 9-11 on them is somehow an issue of Israel not respecting the territorial sovereignty of Gaza.
00:24:26.860And if anyone's saying, well, give him a chance, he's been behind the scenes for at least five years as the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau and this government.
00:24:36.860This is the same old, same old with a fresh coat of paint on the leader.
00:24:42.860And even that's not true because like I said, he has been connected for the last five years.
00:24:49.860It's too bad the independent media isn't there because maybe somebody did ask this question in the mainstream media, although I don't know of it where I stand now.
00:24:58.860Why couldn't someone say, well, Mr. Carney, isn't this a scathing indictment of the incompetence of the last 10 years of the Justin Trudeau liberals?
00:25:08.860Including members of your current cabinet.
00:25:51.860Or has the West tried that, done that, been there, and it's just not working?
00:25:55.860Well, we're going to talk about all these things in an amazing day-long conference in Red Deer, the heart of Alberta, on Saturday, June 14th.
00:26:05.860Go to donegettingscrewed.com to get your tickets now.
00:27:42.860Don't you dare miss it as the late great Billy Red Lines used to say when he was cutting wrestling problems.
00:27:48.860Yeah, we had over 500 people show up in Regina.
00:27:52.860So this will be a busy and hectic event.
00:27:57.860And we've got sort of a little bit of a trade show, I believe, coalescing as we speak at the event to people who want to vend their goods to like-minded people.
00:28:12.860So anyways, don't miss it as David Menzi said.
00:28:16.860Okay, let's go into what the Canadian government is doing with our money.
00:28:21.860We've got this exclusive from Juneau News.
00:28:24.860The Canada Summer Jobs Program funds Islamist and left-wing organizations.
00:28:28.860ESDC, that's Employment and Social Development Canada is subsidizing dozens of wages for employees working at far left and controversial Islamic organizations through the Canada Summer Jobs Program.
00:28:39.860This comes to us by way of Noah Jarvis and we know for sure that the liberals have previously used this as sort of an ideological tract.
00:28:53.860What they have done is they fund Islamic organizations, student groups, while cutting Christian groups and Christian charities off from the funding.
00:29:05.700They tried to make, and they did for a time, make Christian groups who, for example, provided camps, like summer camps to inner city kids.
00:29:20.040Signed an attestation to the Liberal Party's values around gender ideology and women's reproductive rights, which just means abortion.
00:29:30.420It has nothing to do with reproductive rights.
00:29:31.980And so, this is what the Canadian government is doing with your money.
00:29:38.060Not only are they funding the left-wing organizations known as the mainstream media, now they're using it to provide summer jobs to your local left-wing protester slash barista slash arts student.
00:29:53.140And, of course, Sheila, the question is why?
00:29:55.760What is the unspoken motivation for this?
00:29:58.920And I think it is the Liberals have done the math.
00:32:00.700Look at Roman Baber, who snatched writing from one of Ezra's favorite MPs.
00:32:08.380And so, you know, like things are changing, I think, in those communities where they see, like, look, the liberals are not doing anything for us.
00:32:16.960We're also seeing it sort of change in the indigenous community where, you know, there's sort of this shift towards the conservative party as they continue to be failed by the liberals.
00:32:28.560And there are sort of open borders will fund these reliable activists sort of ideas.
00:32:35.180Well, this is exactly what I'm getting at, especially in the U.S., Sheila, where you see under the Biden administration, it was open borders.
00:32:41.620We had millions, some say 8 million, some say 21 million of illegal aliens coming into the country, many of them with prior criminal records.
00:32:52.100This Mr. Solomon in Boulder, Colorado, a week ago Sunday, he was in the U.S. illegally.
00:33:01.520And you also had the Biden administration not enforcing the sanctions on Iran, allowing that regime to become flush with money and doing what with it?
00:33:15.580Oh, not building community centers, funding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other terrorist organizations who are committed to destroying the little Satan, that's Israel,
00:33:28.240and the big Satan, the United States, in other words, the sugar daddy that's allowing them to make billions, untold billions in oil sales.
00:33:58.900They made up this stupid name thinking, oh, this will appeal to Latino voters.
00:34:03.520While the people who lived in the border counties all voted Republican red, including Starr County, which had not voted for a Republican for president since 1896.
00:34:17.820So the Democrats will proceed with this nonsense at their own peril, because it's hitting the fulcrum, and it's coming down the other side, and it's going to crash land on the Democrats, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
00:34:33.040You know, Sheila, it's so funny you mention Latinx, because I don't know a Latino or a Latina.
00:34:39.160Yeah, I have never met one that has used that term.
00:36:04.520Yeah, Greta's, I call it Greta's Freedom Flop.
00:36:07.160Uh, the Israeli, uh, foreign ministry has been calling it the selfie yacht that she's on.
00:36:16.140Anyways, the Israeli Navy, the very, uh, elite division of the Israeli Navy, uh, snatched them up, served them sandwiches.
00:36:26.420Uh, she's going to be upset because it wasn't vegan.
00:36:30.180And, uh, like I said, a reality check.
00:36:33.740Uh, because when your humanitarian mission involves a PR team, zero communication with any aid agencies on the ground, and more photographers than food, you're not helping, you're performing.
00:36:43.780And now they grabbed her, and she's saying, we've been kidnapped, we've been kidnapped.
00:36:51.520No, Greta, revolting that you use that word, considering there are still Israeli hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas, um, held in terror tunnels, being subjected to subterranean horrors, which we can't even imagine.
00:37:09.000And you know what the IDF is doing to her right now? Making her watch the documentary on October 7th that was, that was captured with the body cam footage, um, from the Hamas terrorists, so that she knows what she got on their little selfie yacht to defend.
00:37:27.600Wow, and, and, and look at that. I, I mean, I wonder what the complaints of the so-called, uh, kidnapped captives are going to be, uh, Sheila.
00:37:34.640You know, my sub didn't have extra cheese like I ordered it.
00:37:38.340They don't want cheese, they want vegan cheese. She's vegan, as Kian Bexty and I discovered from the cans of beans in her car, uh, her borrowed, uh, Arnold Schwarzenegger Tesla when she was in Edmonton.
00:37:50.860Um, she's a vegan, so she's like, mm, do you have a vegan option?
00:38:55.160Yeah, and hopefully the, uh, it won't involve Hamas in terms of the food distribution, Sheila.
00:39:01.220Because as we all know, they intercept the food shipments and then sell it for profit on the black market to, uh, fund their, uh, little war machine.
00:39:10.740Uh, by the way, do we have a video of, um, uh, Greta Thunberg and, um, or maybe am I skipping head, Sheila?
00:39:20.700Wait, no, we'll, uh, we'll go to that in a second.
00:39:23.420Uh, Salma Zahid, you'll remember her as the member of parliament for Scarborough Center, Don Valley East.
00:39:30.280She says, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, it's a yacht, uh, is a humanitarian mission and must be allowed safe passage to Gaza.
00:39:41.840As the Israeli government said, there's almost no food on there that they hadn't munched their way across the Mediterranean eating.
00:39:48.680I'm concerned about Israeli government statements regarding blocking or intercepting this peaceful mission.
00:39:53.060I urge Canada to speak up for the ship and be allowed safe passage.
00:39:55.920And then Honest Reporting says, the only thing that was humanitarian was the manner in which the interdicting IDF forces treated these radical activists by giving them sandwiches and water.