Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： David Menzies with Sheila Gunn Reid & Ezra Levant

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:19.200 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David

00:00:23.860 Benzies. Hey folks, if you are concerned about all those irregular migrants illegally waltzing 1.00

00:00:31.500 into Canada, have no fear. The authorities are making certain to ask these folks tough

00:00:37.680 screening questions to make sure we aren't harbouring any bad guys here. For example, one

00:00:42.920 question is, do you play video games? No, seriously. Sheila Gunn-Reed shall explain all. And the federal 1.00

00:00:51.740 election is over and perhaps the biggest constituency that is not happy with the results are those

00:00:58.360 living in the province of Alberta. More governance from the Trudeau Liberals means yet more years

00:01:04.280 of pipeline paralysis. And the hit on the economy is creating a very real separatist movement

00:01:10.940 in Wild Rose Country. Rebel Commander Ezra Levant will drop by to offer his thoughts. And finally,

00:01:18.020 letters, we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share some

00:01:22.680 of your responses regarding the amount of physicality that rebel reporters had to put up with by those

00:01:28.800 on the oh-so-tolerant left. Yeah, when it comes to tolerance, liberals like to talk a mean game.

00:01:35.340 In practice, not so much. Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:48.020 Now two years ago, it was discovered that RCMP officers were screening Quebec border crossers on

00:01:57.120 religion and religious values using a questionnaire. And this became, I don't know, I guess very

00:02:03.780 controversial in left-wing open borders type circles. Some questions asked directly about the

00:02:09.840 migrants' religion and how often they practice said religion, whatever that might be. Specifically,

00:02:15.600 question number 31 on the 41 question form asked,

00:02:20.080 Canada is a very liberal country that believes in freedom of religious practice and equality between

00:02:26.480 women and men. What is your opinion on this subject? And how would you feel if your boss was a woman? 0.98

00:02:33.860 Now, as you know, I'm no feminist, but that seems, I don't know, sort of like a pretty reasonable

00:02:38.500 question to be asking anybody who desires to live in our country. Apparently, the feminists in the 1.00

00:02:47.060 liberal government, though, are just perfectly fine with importing a migrant population that thinks 1.00

00:02:51.880 women are a subspecies to the menfolk around here because Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale

00:02:58.620 has pledged that any data that had been collected using that questionnaire would be expunged and purged

00:03:06.360 and destroyed, even if it did indeed identify terrorist sympathies in some migrants.

00:03:13.380 Ah, welcome to Canada, folks, where not only can you illegally waltz across the border without 0.73

00:03:19.620 enduring any agro whatsoever from law enforcement, but once you are upon Canadian soil, you will not 1.00

00:03:27.340 be asked any impolite questions, lest those questions end up offending you, because there is no greater

00:03:34.660 crime in this day and age than hurting somebody's feelings, even if that somebody happens to

00:03:40.300 subscribe to, oh, I don't know, jihad, as opposed to Western values. Incredible. And joining me now 0.70

00:03:47.620 with more on a story that seemingly defies all logic if one cares about the security of a country

00:03:54.460 is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:03:59.220 Hey, David, it's so great to be on this side of the camera after filling in for a while.

00:04:06.160 Well, thank you for keeping the seat warm while I was gone on the election trail, Sheila. You did a

00:04:11.220 great job. But Sheila, let me get this straight. One of the allegedly new and improved questions

00:04:18.520 directed at those crossing the border is, do you play video games? What in blue blazes is the relevance

00:04:28.240 of such a question? I don't know. I don't know if they're looking to see if the illegal migrants

00:04:36.060 are playing violent video games, as opposed to, I guess, Candy Crush or Bubble Witch or whatever

00:04:43.580 people play on their phones these days. But I thought it was sort of a bizarre question considering

00:04:49.760 the public safety ramifications or lack thereof. We asked for the questionnaire that had been cancelled

00:05:02.320 by the public safety minister because that original questionnaire had asked about Canadian values,

00:05:09.920 the religion of the migrants, and I suppose maybe more importantly, the frequency and fervor with

00:05:15.840 which the migrants practiced their said religion. So the original questionnaire also had a question

00:05:22.160 that asked how the migrants would feel if they had a female boss and if they believed in freedom 0.89

00:05:29.580 of religion. Now, those are pretty important things to me as a woman and probably important to you as

00:05:34.300 a man who is pretty into women. You know, I think you pretty, you like your wife and you want to make sure

00:05:41.940 that she's treated okay. And that questionnaire was not only scrapped, but all the data was expunged.

00:05:49.020 So even if it identified people with extremist tendencies crossing the border, that data will

00:05:55.380 never be used. We won't know what the answers to those questions were. We asked for that questionnaire

00:06:01.080 and we never got it. Instead, we got this new questionnaire, which we assume is the one that they're currently

00:06:06.900 using at the border. And the reason we assume that is because they actually blacked out some of the

00:06:12.800 behavioral tells and cues that the border officers, the CBSA and the RCMP are watching for at the border.

00:06:20.340 And gone are all the questions about whether or not you believe in not just Canadian values, but

00:06:27.140 Western civilization values of equality between the sexes and freedom of religion and expression.

00:06:32.260 And in their place are questions about whether or not you support ISIS or the Taliban, which I can't

00:06:39.580 imagine a lone wolf ever answering that question, honestly, but also questions about what do you play

00:06:47.520 video games and what video games do you play? It almost felt like they were just putting questions

00:06:54.780 in to replace the ones they took out.

00:06:56.620 But, you know, Sheila, it's such a flawed premise because, you know, on so many friends

00:07:02.320 here, there are so, I mean, the video game industry, it's bigger than Hollywood right now in terms of

00:07:09.060 revenues that movies generate. There are all kinds of violent video games out there. That's without a

00:07:16.200 question. But similarly, there are people that play these violent video games. These are residents that

00:07:22.640 would never think of, you know, carrying out a real act of violence. I mean, it's a fantasy realm.

00:07:29.840 So the whole process, I would assume, is flawed. But, you know, you said something else there

00:07:34.460 about trying to find out if some of these migrants come from a culture where sexism is the norm, where

00:07:42.260 it's okay to, you know, feel superior to women. And so maybe that's the, you know, the catch in terms of the 0.92

00:07:51.700 video game question, Sheila. If one were to answer, I prefer playing Pac-Man to Mrs. Pac-Man, maybe it's a trick

00:08:01.220 question to find out if that guy's a sexist. 0.80

00:08:03.400 David, Pac-Man is a 40 year old video game. You know, it's so strange, though, because in light of all this

00:08:16.300 information that we got just in, like, the day before the election, we also heard news that the Liberal government

00:08:25.900 is canceling the warrants of people who are under deportation order if they can evade the police for long enough.

00:08:35.640 So basically, when anybody walks into our country, they're entitled to an immigration refugee board hearing.

00:08:43.200 And at that point, they'll be determined to be deported. So we're not doing, like, deportations right at the border.

00:08:50.960 So you come into the country illegally, you say you're a refugee, you're claiming status in our country, we invite you back. 1.00

00:09:00.660 It's catch and release. We say, okay, off you go. But be sure to show up at such and such a time, 90 days, six months, a year from now,

00:09:08.720 and we'll decide if you get to stay in the country. If those people don't return for their refugee board hearing,

00:09:15.700 and they evade the police for long enough, right now the government is canceling their warrants,

00:09:22.240 which is rewarding people for absconding from the law in the first place.

00:09:27.500 They broke the law to come into our country, so total disregard for the law, and then they break the law by not returning 0.99

00:09:33.620 for their refugee hearing, and then they evade the law, and we say, fine, it's fine.

00:09:40.440 You know, Sheila, this has me seething. This is a complete dereliction of duty.

00:09:46.740 I mean, that is outrageous. You're saying right now that your evidence indicates that

00:09:51.840 if you are scheduled as a refugee claimant to show up at your refugee board hearing,

00:09:58.140 and you do not, and then you go underground and avoid the police rounding you up for a certain period of time,

00:10:04.420 the state surrenders. We throw in the towel, we cancel the warrant. This is outrageous.

00:10:11.320 I mean, I think of myself as a law-abiding citizen yourself, our audience.

00:10:15.480 If we refuse, say, to pay our taxes, does the Canadian Revenue Agency say,

00:10:20.100 well, both, we tried to issue a notice, but he ain't paying, so we'll just throw away that.

00:10:26.120 No, they would come after us, hammer and tong.

00:10:28.700 Why would they even consider this to be a good strategy in terms of national security in the first place, Sheila?

00:10:36.900 I don't know if it's just the sheer capacity and volume of migrants that are now absconding from their refugee hearings,

00:10:43.840 and the Canadian government just doesn't have the resources to deal with it all,

00:10:49.220 but I have a really quick fix to that, and that is to secure the border.

00:10:52.260 And this really should have been a big issue in the final days of the election,

00:11:01.120 and it just went over with a little blip.

00:11:03.500 The Conservatives came out and said, no, no, no, we'll continue to try our best to enforce those warrants,

00:11:09.540 and that was it.

00:11:10.760 And I think, to some extent, the rise of the Bloc Québécois, again, in Quebec,

00:11:16.580 has to do a lot with the unsecured border at Roxham Road.

00:11:20.960 Yeah, I think you're right, and I think Maxime Bernier was the most vociferous candidate in addressing this issue

00:11:29.840 to the point where they were going to fix this safe third country loophole,

00:11:36.240 and not only that, put up a fence at these so-called irregular border crossings.

00:11:41.540 I mean, I think it's outrageous, Sheila, that if we know of the entry points where people are just coming in,

00:11:47.920 that we're not defending the border, and I would say this, that if a country doesn't defend its borders,

00:11:55.160 well, it's not much of a country to begin with.

00:11:57.540 That should be the fundamental, you know, identifier of a sovereign nation.

00:12:03.040 Yeah, there are duties and responsibilities that come with citizenship in the same way that there are privileges.

00:12:09.880 And when we diminish the value of our citizenship by affording it to any lawbreaker who strolls into our country,

00:12:16.140 are we really a country at all?

00:12:18.520 And I suppose that might not be my problem in a little bit,

00:12:23.800 because I'll be joining the Alberta Border Patrol.

00:12:26.740 And Sheila, you know, I want to go back to the original premise that those questions that, you know,

00:12:35.940 the Harper regime came up with were racist.

00:12:40.200 Why is it that asking questions about certain religious beliefs, certain cultural beliefs,

00:12:47.660 is deemed to be racial in the first place?

00:12:51.200 It has nothing to do with race.

00:12:52.620 It's what you believe in, in terms of an ideology.

00:12:56.020 So why is this government lying that these questions were racist in the first place?

00:13:02.960 Well, let's put it another way.

00:13:05.580 I'm a Catholic.

00:13:06.400 I'm a practicing Catholic.

00:13:07.680 I think I probably practice my religion, at least in some form, every single day.

00:13:12.180 Try to go to mass once a week, although I'm not the best at that.

00:13:16.100 But if I were trying to, let's say, emigrate to England in the times of the Troubles,

00:13:21.260 and they asked me, how often do you practice your religion, and do you believe that the crown is illegitimate,

00:13:32.500 and would you use violence to achieve independence from Northern Ireland?

00:13:38.200 I would understand why they were at least asking me those questions,

00:13:41.940 given what was going on in the culture and in the country at the time.

00:13:46.680 So it's not racism.

00:13:48.900 It's taking a group of people and then IDing the extremists within them.

00:13:54.900 You're weeding out the extremists with those questions.

00:13:57.980 You're not calling everybody an extremist.

00:13:59.980 You're doing your best to ID the extremists within the one group.

00:14:03.120 And now we can't even do that.

00:14:06.100 And if we did ID any extremists, that information is gone.

00:14:10.600 Indeed, I agree with you, Sheila.

00:14:12.460 In fact, you're doing a disservice to legitimate refugees truly feeling persecution,

00:14:18.780 as opposed to being an economic refugee.

00:14:22.060 Final question.

00:14:23.260 We know what the results were of Monday night, unfortunately.

00:14:26.600 So, and I know you've been on this file for the last few years,

00:14:30.280 and you've done great commentaries, great investigative work

00:14:33.040 in showing what's going on in terms of the so-called irregular immigration to Canada.

00:14:38.220 But given the result of Monday night, Sheila, nothing's going to change, is it?

00:14:42.940 Nothing's going to change.

00:14:44.140 Nothing's going to change.

00:14:45.120 And I think that's why you're seeing this fire,

00:14:49.320 this burning fire of Western separatism,

00:14:52.620 because I think these are issues that parts of the country care deeply about.

00:14:56.620 I mentioned the bloc already, and I mentioned the West.

00:15:00.680 These are issues that matter and resonate with conservative voters,

00:15:05.460 because we feel like we are paying for these four open borders,

00:15:11.980 and nobody's listening.

00:15:14.080 And it's pretty clear nothing's going to change.

00:15:16.380 The first wave of Justin Trudeau's Syrian refugees,

00:15:22.080 they were able to vote in this election.

00:15:24.240 And, you know, you can see the voter turnout

00:15:27.200 and how things went in Toronto and where those refugees settled.

00:15:31.680 It's just not going to change.

00:15:33.420 It's going to get worse.

00:15:34.380 It's pulling this country apart.

00:15:36.400 And I don't think the Liberals care all that much.

00:15:40.460 Indeed.

00:15:41.200 We'll leave it at that, Sheila.

00:15:42.200 Not only not care all that much, but perhaps, given the results of Monday evening,

00:15:46.780 feel emboldened and even more arrogant that they're doing the right thing

00:15:51.440 by doing the wrong thing.

00:15:53.480 Sheila, once again, another superb commentary.

00:15:56.740 I urge all our viewers to go and watch it in its entirety.

00:16:00.200 And thank you for joining me here today.

00:16:02.780 Thanks, David.

00:16:03.580 You got it.

00:16:04.100 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed in Alberta,

00:16:07.040 which is still, for now, a part of Canada.

00:16:09.920 Keep it here.

00:16:10.420 More of Rebel Roundup to come, right after this.

00:16:17.960 The Bloc de Bloc grew in Quebec, including at the expense of the NDP.

00:16:21.700 The Greens went from two seats to three. 0.87

00:16:25.260 But what all these losers have in common is that they hate Alberta 0.86

00:16:28.460 and hate Alberta oil and hate Alberta oil pipelines along with Trudeau. 0.98

00:16:32.280 That's what they all have in common.

00:16:35.000 Here's Trudeau as a young man.

00:16:36.620 The Quebecers are better than the rest of Canada because, you know, we're Quebecers.

00:16:44.720 He was in his late 20s then.

00:16:47.260 That's when he was a teacher at West Point Grey Academy.

00:16:50.540 Here he is about 10 years later, all grown up, almost 40,

00:16:55.580 phrasing his bigotry even more aggressively.

00:16:57.680 Look at the Canada, it's hard now because it's Albertans who control our community and socio-démocratics.

00:17:07.280 It doesn't work.

00:17:07.840 Is it that the Canada is better served when there are more Quebecers in power than when there are more Albertans in power?

00:17:13.600 Well, I'm a liberal, so I'm sure I think that yes.

00:17:17.380 Certainly, when we look at the great first ministers of the 20th century,

00:17:21.680 the only ones who really took place were Quebec's deputies.

00:17:26.180 It was Trudeau, it was Mulroney, it was Christian, it was Paul Martin. 0.92

00:17:32.100 So, you know, we have a role.

00:17:34.340 This country, Canada, is for us.

00:17:36.740 Yeah, when someone shows you who they are, why don't you believe them?

00:17:42.560 And that's the thing.

00:17:43.260 Quebec separatism was always fake.

00:17:46.320 They get, what, $14 billion a year from equalization, mainly from Albertans, Saskatchewan.

00:17:50.720 Don't tell me that they'd really walk away from that.

00:17:52.860 It's just a bargaining stance to get whatever else they want.

00:17:56.180 Alberta separatism, I see it rising in a way I haven't before.

00:17:59.980 And it's not fake, and it's not noisy, and it's not showy.

00:18:03.680 It's quiet and resolved.

00:18:04.980 I don't know what's going to happen, but I know that across Canada,

00:18:07.580 people are thinking, the system's broken.

00:18:10.360 Well, once upon a time, when it came to the idea of a province separating from Canada,

00:18:14.420 it was always about Quebec independence.

00:18:17.420 But after two failed referendums, the idea of Quebec existing as its own republic

00:18:22.120 is now deader than disco.

00:18:24.780 And that's assuming Quebec really wanted to separate in the first place,

00:18:28.040 as opposed to using the idea of separation as a bargaining chip.

00:18:32.220 Yet, meanwhile, in Alberta, a separatist vibe is indeed gaining momentum.

00:18:38.920 And there's nothing fake about this movement.

00:18:42.120 And joining me now to discuss this issue is our very own rebel commander, Ezra Levent.

00:18:46.900 So, Ezra, first question, if you care to speculate.

00:18:50.320 If there was a referendum in Alberta today about exiting from Canada, how do you think that would go?

00:18:56.440 Well, I think it would depend on the wording.

00:19:00.260 I don't think Albertans would be ready to push the separate button just yet

00:19:05.120 because I think a lot of questions haven't been figured out.

00:19:08.560 I think there has to be a conversation where questions are answered.

00:19:12.620 Do we get our pension?

00:19:13.680 What happens with our passport?

00:19:15.180 What currency will we use?

00:19:16.940 Will we be part of NAFTA?

00:19:18.240 Will we get a pipeline?

00:19:19.120 There's a lot of questions, but every one of those questions probably has an answer.

00:19:24.220 And every one of the answers is probably as good or better than the current answers,

00:19:29.540 which are you'll be the whipping boy for the liberals, the Green Party, the NDP, and the bloc.

00:19:36.220 You won't get any pipelines, but we sure will take your equalization payments.

00:19:40.380 Net $14 billion a year will leave Alberta to Ottawa.

00:19:44.000 And you'll be called bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes.

00:19:49.880 So I think once that conversation is had, I think the answer certainly could be yes.

00:19:59.780 There was a separatist movement in Alberta about 40 years ago.

00:20:05.300 Preston Manning came along and said the West wants in.

00:20:07.860 Hey, guys, don't separate.

00:20:09.680 We've got a better way.

00:20:10.960 Let's fix Canada.

00:20:11.860 And for a dozen years, Albertans and other Westerners said,

00:20:15.480 OK, Preston, you seem like a good guy.

00:20:17.500 We trust you.

00:20:18.420 Let's do it.

00:20:19.180 And what happened instead is that split the vote.

00:20:22.960 It gave the liberals three majority governments back to back.

00:20:26.460 And things got worse.

00:20:30.140 Here you have the Conservative Party with a Western leader.

00:20:33.920 And he can't beat Trudeau with the perfect storm, SNC-Lavalin, blackface. 1.00

00:20:41.140 Like, you just couldn't do it.

00:20:43.140 And the result is more economic punishment coming to Alberta.

00:20:47.940 I think that the goodwill was tried already under Preston Manning, the Reform Party.

00:20:55.240 I don't think there's that, OK, we'll just fix it, you know, aw shucks utopianism that Preston Manning, like Preston Manning, in his own way, was an idealistic dreamer who failed.

00:21:08.940 And I say this as, I mean, I was his legislative assistant for two years.

00:21:12.440 Listen, the guy had high hopes.

00:21:13.980 It just wasn't real life.

00:21:15.480 So I think that good faith is gone.

00:21:18.800 And it's more a resignation or just, OK, let's just get on with it.

00:21:21.940 It's not a hot, passionate anger.

00:21:23.880 It's just, OK, let's get out now.

00:21:25.620 You know, Ezra, do you think that it's somewhat perversely ironic that the biggest force to keep Alberta in Confederation would indeed be the Federal Conservative Party?

00:21:37.600 And I say that because without those 34 seats, none of which went Liberal on Monday, perhaps the idea of the Conservative Party ever getting a majority government again is a distant dream.

00:21:51.660 So even though it might be beneficial for Albertans to chart their own destiny and be free of the Ottawa politics when it comes to the fossil fuel industry, Conservatives, which won 33 of those 34 seats, would be the ones clamouring to keep the province in.

00:22:10.180 Yeah, well, I mean, and you did this in your Streeters, your Vox Pop asking on Torontonians, if there's 338 seats and Trudeau won, I think, 156 of them, that's a minority.

00:22:24.280 But if you took Alberta out, there would be 304 seats and Trudeau would still have 156.

00:22:31.620 He would have a majority.

00:22:33.420 Yes.

00:22:34.060 And that was with him doing not so great.

00:22:36.560 So you would have perpetual Liberal governments.

00:22:42.580 How is the Liberal Party not going to like that?

00:22:45.180 You could meet your carbon emission targets immediately because Alberta has a third of all the national emissions immediately.

00:22:51.120 100%.

00:22:51.560 You'd meet your targets.

00:22:54.780 Ideological opposition.

00:22:56.020 I mean, Alberta for a long time has been the source of Conservative ideas.

00:23:00.480 Ralph Klein was the template for Mike Harris in terms of reigning in the size of government.

00:23:05.440 Right.

00:23:06.560 Opposition to gun control.

00:23:08.500 Opposition to bilingualism.

00:23:10.220 Opposition to out-of-control multiculturalism or immigration.

00:23:14.280 A lot of these ideas come from Alberta.

00:23:16.900 So why wouldn't the establishment, the Laurentian elite, want to be rid of Alberta?

00:23:22.200 I mean, the obvious reason is they like the $15 billion, $14, $15 billion a year they get.

00:23:26.340 Yeah.

00:23:26.420 But that's just money to Justin Trudeau.

00:23:29.600 I mean, they'll spend that on a drunk weekend in 4 and 8.

00:23:34.140 So if you're a Laurentian elite, you're happy to say goodbye to the redneck province. 1.00

00:23:41.400 Now, it might put some other things in motion.

00:23:42.860 How long would Saskatchewan stick around?

00:23:44.660 Would parts of B.C. want to leave?

00:23:46.700 Would Quebec say, well, we're out of here?

00:23:48.280 I don't know what would happen, but it's very understandable that Alberta is sort of done with things. 1.00

00:23:54.860 You know, we've talked about this before.

00:23:56.600 When Stephen Harper was the prime minister, he never had many seats in Quebec.

00:24:00.040 But his entire term, he went out of his way to be pro-Quebec.

00:24:05.180 He always answered a question first in French before English.

00:24:08.680 Always.

00:24:09.600 He practices French all the time.

00:24:12.800 He gave Quebec too much money.

00:24:15.080 He fixed the fiscal imbalance or whatever they called it.

00:24:18.960 He really quieted Quebec independence by giving them whatever they wanted and not picking fights with them.

00:24:26.380 They never returned the love, but he basically gave them what he needed to.

00:24:32.000 And the proof of that is that the Parti Québécois and the Bloc Québécois basically vanished because they weren't angry with Ottawa anymore.

00:24:41.080 Harper never demonized them, never campaigned against them in other regions.

00:24:45.820 That's completely the opposite of what Trudeau and the other leaders I just named did to Alberta.

00:24:50.300 In every case, Alberta was the punchline to their jokes, the punching bag of their shots.

00:24:55.480 And, you know, Ezra, when I speak to friends and families and colleagues,

00:25:00.700 as this is getting some traction about an Alberta separatist movement,

00:25:04.860 and I have to say many of these people have never even been to Alberta,

00:25:08.440 they just say, oh, this is posturing.

00:25:10.200 Albertans are Canadians.

00:25:11.300 They would never think this way.

00:25:12.760 And I say, oh, you want to bet?

00:25:14.120 I've been to Alberta in the last couple of weeks,

00:25:16.200 and I've talked to people who have lost homes, have lost their vehicles,

00:25:19.760 depending on food banks to feed their families.

00:25:23.980 And this is because of a political process that's preventing them from getting their product to market.

00:25:29.220 We just saw hundreds of layoffs at Husky Oil in the day after the election.

00:25:33.760 This sentiment is not posturing, I don't think, Ezra.

00:25:36.780 It's very real.

00:25:37.980 Yeah.

00:25:38.080 I mean, I live in Toronto now, but I visit Alberta at least monthly.

00:25:44.200 And when I left Alberta to come to Toronto for the Sun News Network,

00:25:49.420 Alberta, and Calgary in particular, was famous for the strongest workforce, the lowest unemployment.

00:25:55.180 I mean, the unemployment rate would be around 4%, 3%, whatever.

00:25:58.220 Like, it was, there was no one working, sorry, no one not working unless they were choosing not to work.

00:26:04.660 Yes.

00:26:06.160 That has completely changed.

00:26:07.580 You see homeless people throughout Alberta, and it's not by choice,

00:26:13.360 and it's not just the mentally ill who were not institutionalized or the forgot.

00:26:17.500 It's people who used to have a six-figure job.

00:26:22.680 You see, like you talked about the food banks, you see bankruptcies.

00:26:26.440 To this day, the office space is 30%, 40% vacancy.

00:26:33.740 And it's hard to believe, because Alberta was all, wow, it's just a forever engine, the goose that lays the golden egg.

00:26:40.220 Well, so was Detroit, Michigan.

00:26:43.460 100 years ago, 80 years ago, Detroit was the leading industrial center in America, Motor City.

00:26:51.380 It had the highest industrial wage in America.

00:26:53.780 That's why so many people flocked there, including African Americans.

00:27:00.180 Yes.

00:27:00.440 That was, because it was in the north.

00:27:02.780 Get out of the Jim Crow areas, get a great job. 1.00

00:27:06.160 Like, it was a great, it was the best city if you're a working man.

00:27:11.320 Well, you add 50 layers of democratic rule to that.

00:27:14.200 Detroit's population has actually declined.

00:27:16.820 Correct.

00:27:17.060 Those gorgeous buildings that they built in the boom years, 30s, 40s, 50s, are now vacant.

00:27:26.260 It is possible to kill a goose that lays the golden egg.

00:27:30.440 They did it to Detroit.

00:27:32.480 They did it to Venezuela. 0.79

00:27:33.700 They did it to Argentina. 0.67

00:27:34.720 They did it to San Francisco and L.A., and they will do it to Alberta.

00:27:41.760 I agree, and I'm glad you brought up the auto industry, Ezra, because for those people living in central Canada, what I say to them, imagine a liberal federal government that had a policy mandate that would stymie the Ontario auto industry.

00:27:56.920 Imagine a federal liberal government that had a policy mandate that would stymie the supply-managed dairy industry in Quebec.

00:28:03.800 I mean, there would be an absolute uproar.

00:28:06.200 Well, and the funny thing is both of those are not absurd, because both of those are high-emissions industries.

00:28:10.960 Yes.

00:28:11.240 The dairy industry is one of the highest emissions if you care about global warming, and I think the whole thing is exaggerated, if not outright fake, because dairy cows, through their burping and farting, they emit as much CO2 as a car.

00:28:26.480 Yes.

00:28:27.260 CO2 equivalent, the methane.

00:28:29.360 And the auto industry obviously not only makes cars, but it's very heavy and intensive in itself.

00:28:34.600 So the exact same rationale that's being put on the oil patch could be put against the auto industry or the Quebec dairy industry, but of course it's not, because it's a selective, punitive approach.

00:28:47.300 It's based on an anti-Alberta bigotry, and Albertans know that and see that.

00:28:51.520 And Albertans, believe it or not, are actually fine shipping billions of dollars to the rest of the country.

00:29:00.780 I've really not even heard a lot of Albertans ever quarrel with that.

00:29:04.480 What they want in return is, can you stop picking on us, and can you stop blocking us from earning the money that we're sending you?

00:29:11.920 You're absolutely right.

00:29:12.980 It's not even a matter of asking for a subsidy.

00:29:14.940 It's just a matter of saying, can you get out of our way and let us bring our product to market?

00:29:19.380 Exit question when it comes to Wexit, Ezra.

00:29:22.860 I'm going to ask you to gaze into your crystal ball.

00:29:26.380 Do you actually see a day in which there would indeed be a referendum, whether it's for separation or sovereignty association, in terms of Albertans going to a ballot box and determining their future this way?

00:29:40.160 Well, not under Jason Kenney, because he, in my view, harbors ambitions to become the prime minister.

00:29:44.560 And if he were to facilitate in any way or even give rhetorical support towards an independence or separatist mission, that would disqualify him in the eyes of many Eastern voters.

00:30:00.680 And it would certainly be a chief angle of attack for his liberal opponents.

00:30:04.440 So I think you will see him as being against that.

00:30:07.720 Not just that, but just as the math works that you take Alberta out of the game, the liberals will win every time.

00:30:14.560 You take Alberta out of the game, the conservatives will lose every time.

00:30:18.760 And so the people who most want Alberta in the country, other than those who cash the checks from its equalization, are conservative politicians.

00:30:28.880 You ask, I mean, it's sort of ridiculous, the questions that you ask in your streeters about this meets Alberta's.

00:30:37.180 You take Alberta out of confederation, you immediately meet your goals.

00:30:40.600 And I saw your question, and some people said, yeah. 0.93

00:30:42.380 Yeah, what's so stupid about that is that the oil will still be produced as if there's like a border or something. 0.98

00:30:49.300 But it's no stupider than cutting back Canadian emissions while China builds hundreds of coal-fired power plants. 1.00

00:30:56.040 It's just the same level of stupid. 0.99

00:30:58.620 But I think that, I think that all these Alberta haters, well, maybe there's a dream, let us give them their dream come true. 1.00

00:31:07.760 And they'll need a new scapegoat when Alberta's gone, and they'll be a lot poorer while they do it. 1.00

00:31:15.000 But maybe, maybe everyone's happier that way.

00:31:17.540 I mean, a separation need not be, as the Quebec separatists used to say, a never-ending trip to the dentist.

00:31:24.680 They wanted it to be painful because they didn't actually want to separate.

00:31:27.960 They wanted just to ring out concessions.

00:31:29.660 But look at the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

00:31:34.020 Yes.

00:31:34.320 They just unhooked.

00:31:36.560 Brexit.

00:31:37.760 The population voted for it.

00:31:39.220 Now, the politicians are delaying it because they don't like the result.

00:31:43.120 You would see that in Canada, too.

00:31:44.920 You would see the entire media party, which is based in Toronto.

00:31:47.760 All the Alberta media is owned in Toronto.

00:31:50.100 You would see all the NGOs, all the banks, all the establishment against it.

00:31:54.120 You would see hundreds of millions of dollars spent to stop it from leaving.

00:31:57.380 But if it left, nonetheless, it would be quick and painless.

00:32:01.940 Not painless, but you keep $14 billion a year in your province, any pain will quickly be absolved.

00:32:11.600 Indeed.

00:32:12.280 Well, Ezra, thank you so much for weighing in.

00:32:14.180 And there you have it, folks.

00:32:14.940 I guess only time will tell if Alberta will remain a full-fledged member of Confederation,

00:32:20.440 or to paraphrase the words of General de Gaulle,

00:32:24.500 Viva Alberta Libra.

00:32:26.180 Keep it here, folks.

00:32:27.800 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:32:34.740 Oh, hey, folks.

00:32:35.820 You're on the Team Squirrel, right?

00:32:37.680 Is it true what she said, that black people appreciated Justin Trudeau donning blackface?

00:32:44.580 Yeah.

00:32:45.500 Really?

00:32:46.200 You appreciated that, man?

00:32:47.720 I appreciate Trudeau.

00:32:49.260 Because I've always been told that's a racist thing to do, for a white person to don blackface.

00:32:56.260 Here, let me give her. 0.88

00:32:57.860 Hi, sir.

00:33:00.100 What's that?

00:33:00.600 Why's that, sir? 0.85

00:33:01.400 Really disgusting. 0.99

00:33:03.820 As disgusting as the Prime Minister wearing blackface, sir? 0.99

00:33:07.320 Excuse me. 0.99

00:33:10.460 I tapped on the shoulder because you ran into me, sir.

00:33:16.680 It was an accident.

00:33:17.660 Oh, it was an accident?

00:33:18.540 We'll just get you in the front here. 0.99

00:33:19.580 Who is this guy?

00:33:20.360 It's okay.

00:33:20.640 I've told you to wait over there.

00:33:21.520 If you can just please do that.

00:33:22.020 Well, that was footage from last Friday of a Justin Trudeau rally in Vaughan, Ontario.

00:33:30.220 Once again, we were barred entry to the hall.

00:33:33.120 That's okay if the Liberal Party of Canada wants to be petty and vindictive.

00:33:36.840 It has every right to do so.

00:33:39.060 And we received verbal abuse from some of the attendees.

00:33:41.860 And hey, that's okay, too, because, you know, sticks and stones and all that jazz, right?

00:33:46.820 But yet again, yours truly was subjected to physical abuse by some goon who claimed it was all an accident.

00:33:55.900 And no, that's not okay.

00:33:58.780 Indeed, where are these sunny ways Justin Trudeau promised some four years ago?

00:34:04.060 Because, folks, the sky still looks pretty overcast to me.

00:34:08.520 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about the bully boy tactics certain liberals like to employ

00:34:15.080 when they don't care for the questions being asked.

00:34:19.580 The old one writes,

00:34:20.680 David, the manhandled menzoid, highlighting this corrupt election campaign. 0.79

00:34:25.340 Well, you know, old one, the physicality that I put up with,

00:34:28.700 as well as my colleague, Kian Bexty, was indeed beyond the pale.

00:34:32.660 But we kept a stiff upper lip, as the Brits like to say,

00:34:36.200 and we soldiered on.

00:34:37.620 Yet, imagine if a CBC reporter had been treated in such a fashion.

00:34:43.440 Imagine the uproar from the media party. 0.98

00:34:47.200 But when this kind of crap happens to a rebel reporter, 0.99

00:34:49.800 well, move along, folks. 0.99

00:34:51.880 Nothing to see here.

00:34:53.660 The hypocrisy and the double standards are off the charts.

00:34:58.780 Death Larson writes, 0.86

00:35:00.000 Some old geezer or anyone bumps into me like that.

00:35:03.200 My fist knocking him out is also an accident.

00:35:05.960 Well, Death Larson, I would be lying if I told you that I never considered reacting in a similar fashion

00:35:13.420 as those who got physical with me over the course of the election campaign.

00:35:17.520 But the democratic process should not resort into acts of violence.

00:35:23.520 That's not civilized.

00:35:25.100 That's barbaric.

00:35:26.700 And besides, I just kind of get this feeling that if I were to respond in kind,

00:35:30.960 I'd be the one sitting in the back seat of a police cruiser.

00:35:35.740 Christian Bolt writes,

00:35:37.080 Indeed, Christian, it's funny how these same people like to proclaim that love trumps hate. 0.93

00:35:47.160 And then you say something those on the left don't like,

00:35:50.820 and the next thing you know, a bicycle lock or something is being smashed over your head.

00:35:54.660 And yeah, the left talks a mean game when it comes to tolerance.

00:35:59.400 But in practice, not so much.

00:36:02.320 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:36:05.320 Thanks so much for tuning in.

00:36:06.680 And remember, folks, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:36:10.240 Good night.

00:36:10.720 Good night.

00:36:10.760 Good night.

00:36:24.660 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - October 26, 2019

Rebel Roundup： David Menzies with Sheila Gunn Reid & Ezra Levant

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