Rebel News Live is happening in Red Deer, Alberta on June 14th, featuring Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and a powerhouse lineup of freedom fighters, political thinkers, and grassroots leaders. We re talking energy, free speech, and independence, and how the West can finally stop getting screwed.
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.
00:00:25.380This isn't just a conference, it's a rallying cry. Tickets are going fast. Get yours now at donegettingscrewed.com. Stand up, speak out, be there.
00:00:35.900Hello, everybody. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, our daily news show where we give you live, unscripted, on-the-air commentary of the newsiest news items of the day.
00:01:04.140I'm your host, Tamara Ugolini, and I'm joined by my friend, colleague, and co-host today, our Montreal correspondent, Alexa Lavoie.
00:01:12.620Hey, Alexa, you've been filling in this week for both Sheila and myself, so thank you so much for doing that. How are you over there in Montreal?
00:01:20.660I'm currently in Quebec City, so I'm taking a small break from Montreal. Sometimes it feels great to not be in the middle of traffic, pollutions, but I would say that Quebec is starting to be a little bit like a baby Montreal.
00:01:39.860So, for now, I'm taking it. I'm taking a little vacation of peace and nature.
00:01:49.760Sounds good. Well, doesn't that sound nice, especially ahead of summer vacation and summer recess, which our parliamentary officials will be taking shortly, so we'll get into that.
00:01:59.380But before we get into it, I want to let everybody know that you can join us. We're streaming on a few different platforms.
00:02:06.220You can join us on the Once Censorious One YouTube, where we have been re-monetized.
00:02:12.720So, if you'd like to chip in and support our work, you can do that on YouTube by giving us a super chat, and that's a $5 monetary donation or more.
00:02:20.940And then we'll read your comment or your tip or whatever live on air, so it's a great way for us to engage with our audience directly, know what you care about, know what your thoughts and feelings are, and also a great way for you to be featured on the Rebel News platform.
00:02:36.440We're also over on Rumble, the still and always unwavering free speech platform, and you can give us a Rumble rant over there.
00:02:45.140And then we're also streaming live on X. So, depending on where you like to watch us the best, you can join us on any of those platforms, and we really appreciate anyone who chips in to help offset the costs of our journalism and continue to support our independence.
00:03:01.340And speaking of independence, we have an event also coming up, Rebel News Live, but it's happening in Red Deer, Alberta, and so it's going to be heavily focused on Western separatism and kind of the unprecedented challenges that Westerners are facing,
00:03:19.100especially under the newly minted Mark Carney Liberals from their regulations and attacks on natural resources to things like infringements on free speech and the steady erosion of both local, municipal, provincial, et cetera, autonomy.
00:03:37.160And so this event will be taking place on Saturday, June the 14th at the Red Deer Curling Center.
00:03:44.960Tickets are on sale right now, and there's a general admission early bird special that runs until tomorrow.
00:03:52.500I don't know. We may end up extending that a couple of days, but I've been informed the tickets are selling pretty quickly.
00:04:02.200So if you want to make sure that you secure a spot and do so at that early bird admission price, which is $45, you can do that at donegettingscrewed.com.
00:04:12.280We will have speakers there, like, of course, CEO and founder of Rebel News, Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn-Reed, our editor-in-chief, constitutional lawyer Keith Wilson, political analyst David Legge, Dallas Brody, Corey Morgan, Derek Fildebrandt from the Western Standard, Rachel Parker, independent journalist,
00:04:32.180Kim Beck, Steve, former Rebel Correspondent, and now chief of the Counter Signal, Dennis Modry.
00:04:55.740There's also a VIP package for anybody who wants to get a little bit more bang for their buck.
00:05:03.000So you can do that by going over to donegettingscrewed.com.
00:05:06.180And, I mean, sadly, I won't personally be there, but I love coming to our Rebel News events because it's just a great way to meet and mingle with people that you hear so much about or from or the people that you know support you and want to see kind of this independent journalism
00:05:23.020and independence in general further facilitated.
00:05:26.660It's a great way for all of us to meet and mingle and chat and get to know one another a little bit better.
00:05:33.080I've always had a great time at our Rebel Live events, and I know, Alexa, you have too.
00:05:38.420So, sadly, I don't think, Alexa, either of us will be there because it is very Western-focused this time, and it's coming together very quickly.
00:05:46.640But I love our Rebel Live events and always like to make an effort to go.
00:05:50.580So, I'm not going to be there, but I think it's really important when we are talking about separation that you are getting informed and you are getting out there and you make your voices heard
00:06:05.720because it's not a simple decision, and I think you need to take part of it.
00:06:12.000You need to see all sides of the story.
00:06:50.980And now, speaking of speaking with the people, we will also be running through some hot topics today, like Carney's throne speech, which just oddly passed in the House of Commons,
00:07:00.680a new border security bill that they've since proposed, a new border security bill that they've since proposed, family, now apparently being a harmful word rooted in colonialism.
00:07:13.480And so, we'll kind of break those down throughout the next hour where we're live on air.
00:07:17.640And first and foremost, we'll get into the Liberal government's throne speech, which passed in the House of Commons without a vote, which is really, you know, the way that Canada is being run right now, let me just precursor whatever we discuss, is really, Canada is a political dumpster fire.
00:07:36.920The way that Canada is being run right now is so bizarre, so much skirting of, you know, due process, of official processes, of things that we have held near and dear to our democratic little hearts for decades are just being casually disregarded.
00:07:55.800And so, this, I would say, is another instance of that happening.
00:08:00.080So, leader of the government, this comes from the National Post, leader of the government in the House of Commons, Steve McKinnon, would not say if his party had secured the support of other parties because this was done without a vote.
00:08:13.780Yet, throne speech was adopted in the House of Commons Wednesday.
00:08:16.660And I don't remember the exact date, but Alexa, I think you were there during the throne speech, which was actually just King Charles, what is he, the third?
00:08:23.580He basically delivered Canada's throne speech, and you were there on the ground.
00:08:30.160Do you want to, you know, for anybody who isn't familiar or would like kind of a flashback of that, what was the throne speech like?
00:08:41.380A lot of people were present that day just to see the parade passing by, and we heard some bullet, like cannon, like going just before they started entering into the Senate.
00:08:58.260And so, it was really weird because inside we were able to see people, politicians, but also natives.
00:09:08.180But outside we had other natives who were not invited, who were protesting against the king and what he was saying inside.
00:09:19.100And it was really divided into the crowd.
00:09:22.080The crowd was like either for abolishing the monarchy or they were loving the monarchy.
00:09:29.160So, it was really special to see that just represent who we are in Canada right now, like a really divided and polarized society where we have always like either I like or I dislike.
00:09:45.220And it's what I saw, and I was pretty surprised because when the king exited the Senate, he went to see the people in the crowd.
00:10:00.380And I was like, oh, oh, it took the time to go and shake some hand and everything.
00:10:28.740I don't know if they did because it seemed like they wanted to vote against the throne speech.
00:10:38.240And I'm pretty surprised that actually it passed because NDP said they would not vote for it, the Bloc and obviously the Conservatives.
00:10:48.200So, how come the throne speech passed?
00:10:51.780You know, I've been kind of mulling over that question.
00:10:55.780And I think I would wager to bet, I mean, all the parties recognize that Canadians don't want another election.
00:11:02.180This is our second snap election in as many years, well, just over two years.
00:11:07.240We've had two snap elections in the last three years.
00:11:09.360The first one was in 2021 when then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned on the wedge issue of COVID-19 vaccines and subsequent mandates that were implemented by his government.
00:11:20.520And so Canadians don't want another election.
00:11:22.740I mean, this costs us millions, if not billions of dollars to have and run elections.
00:11:28.900And Parliament breaks for summer recess in just a couple of weeks.
00:11:33.140And so I would say none of them want to continue campaigning once again after just finishing campaigning, after, you know, sitting for just under four years after the last snap election.
00:11:46.100And they don't want to go and interfere with their summer vacation.
00:11:51.260So this is a really kind of sneaky way to say, you know what, we're just hitting the brakes.
00:11:55.660We're letting the status quo head on through the summer.
00:11:59.040And very likely this topic and situation of another election will be rehashed during the fall September session.
00:12:08.580I believe they come back September the 20th.
00:12:12.580But yeah, it's very clear that Carney doesn't have the support of the other governments.
00:12:17.980And the NDP claims that they are now no longer backing the Liberals, which was, you know, a stark shift of where they were just mere six months ago when they had this unofficial coalition with their supply confidence agreement with the Liberals.
00:12:35.120But of course, the NDP, it doesn't even have party status at this point.
00:12:39.020That's not to say they don't have a sway in the House of Commons, but they no longer have party status, I think, because of the way they were being led by former leader Jagmeet Singh.
00:12:50.080But anyway, getting back to the throne speech, which was delivered by King Charles III.
00:12:57.660And one thing that we wanted to point out here was his reinforcement of the state broadcaster, the CBC.
00:13:06.080Maybe we can just throw to that quick clip.
00:13:07.600The French language and the Quebec culture are at the heart of the Canadian identity.
00:13:16.540They define the country that Canadians and I love so much.
00:13:25.000Canada is a country that respects and celebrates its official languages and indigenous languages.
00:13:32.880The government is determined to protect the institutions that bring these cultures and this identity to the world, such as CBC, Radio Canada.
00:15:00.080And again, it's so strange that the throne speech passed in the House of Commons, because just yesterday we had NDP leader Don Davies saying that absolutely not.
00:15:13.600And yet the throne speech doesn't even mention the words health care.
00:15:22.040You won't even find those words in the throne speech.
00:15:24.280There is no mention of non-market housing, cooperative housing, or housing for Indigenous people.
00:15:32.220Some of the most acute needs in this country when it comes to affordable housing.
00:15:36.740And it foreshadows $28 billion in cuts that will absolutely hurt working people across this country.
00:15:45.480So we will be voting no against the throne speech and making sure that the interests of working people across this country are reflected
00:15:53.360and will continue to fight for those measures that we know that so many millions of Canadians and working families need in this country.
00:16:00.500So that didn't really come to fruition, but we don't really know because there wasn't a recorded vote.
00:16:10.740So we don't know who voted for and against.
00:16:13.660And that's another skirting of the democratic process.
00:16:17.880I mean, it's not that it's not allowed, but it's definitely a slap in the face to Canadians who would, in the majority, not support this government.
00:16:28.340And Liberal MP came on Power and Politics last night, or sorry, I think it was just last night when this did pass,
00:16:38.840and made excuses for why a recorded vote could not have been held earlier in the week.
00:19:21.620Before we get into some of the crime and the chaos descending on Canadian streets after 10 years of liberal reign, let's do a quick ad break and then we'll come back for more.
00:19:35.120Hey, what do you think about Alberta independence?
00:19:37.560What do you think about Alberta trying to get a better deal within Canada?
00:19:40.840Do you think Alberta should have the right to vote in a referendum to separate the same way Quebec did?
00:19:45.800There's a lot of things to talk about.
00:19:47.280Can Canada be fixed or has the West tried that, done that, been there, and it's just not working?
00:19:53.400Well, 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.
00:20:04.100Go to donegettingscrewed.com to get your tickets now.
00:22:34.800I see it in once a small, sleepy town of Coburg.
00:22:38.900You know, population 20,000 people, the disorder, the violence, and the unprovoked random nature of this violence is the most concerning part of it.
00:22:53.180That, you know, there's no rhyme or reason often now, it seems, when these things will happen on the streets.
00:23:00.360And, you know what, you know, in Quebec, we used to have, like, we still have them, like, the Ells and Joe.