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00:00:41.940 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.

00:00:49.660 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:51.400 Well, Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna has flip-flopped more than a trout being plucked from a lake when it comes to confirming whether the carbon tax will increase in the years ahead.

00:01:03.500 But thanks to the due diligence of Sheila Gunn-Reed, we now have an answer.

00:01:08.560 If the Liberals are given another mandate, that carbon tax will almost certainly increase.

00:01:14.220 Just wait till you hear the nitty-gritty pertaining to this story.

00:01:17.360 And remember that bully and the employee of the Prime Minister's office who body-checked our own Kian Bextie a while back, simply because Kian was practicing journalism?

00:01:28.100 Well, that goon might just be getting his just desserts. 1.00

00:01:31.820 Kian has the full story.

00:01:33.080 And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day, and I'll share some of your responses regarding that outrageous and odious tweet by ex-Prime Minister for a Day, Kim Campbell,

00:01:45.380 who was actually rooting for Hurricane Dorian to touch down at Mar-a-Lago, you know, because that's where the U.S. President sometimes resides.

00:01:55.780 Needless to say, very few of you were impressed by this latest example of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:02:02.400 Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.

00:02:13.400 Now, about all the flip-flopping.

00:02:16.220 McKenna was completely honest with her new American friends about her plans for our carbon tax.

00:02:22.620 And it is here, in black and white, for all of us to see.

00:02:26.400 On page 151, we see the Liberals confirming plans to raise the carbon tax after 2022.

00:02:32.400 Just like the Conservatives are saying the Liberals will do, here.

00:02:37.060 The overall approach will be reviewed in 2022 to ensure that it is effective and to confirm future price increases.

00:02:45.640 Confirm future price increases.

00:02:47.980 Not contemplate, not assess, but confirm.

00:02:50.920 The hike in the carbon tax, if the Liberals are re-elected, is a sure thing.

00:02:54.420 A done deal.

00:02:55.600 It's confirmed.

00:02:56.280 So this is proof McKenna was telling foreign billionaires one thing, while she was telling the Canadian public another.

00:03:03.300 You just can't trust a single word she says.

00:03:06.880 McKenna's intentions were, and remain, to raise the Liberals' carbon tax on everything.

00:03:12.300 So, when it comes to the carbon tax, not only does Catherine McKenna flip-flop more than a trout pulled from the lake, 0.76

00:03:19.780 she also talks out of both sides of her mouth.

00:03:22.820 Indeed, it is getting so that it's almost impossible to believe anything that this so-called climate crusader says.

00:03:30.640 So, it's a good thing that we have our very own Sheila Gunn-Reed doing the digging that is oh so necessary

00:03:36.100 when it comes to finding out what the true intentions are of this Liberal government,

00:03:41.580 especially when it comes to the climate file.

00:03:44.520 And joining me now is the host of The Gunn Show.

00:03:47.240 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Sheila.

00:03:49.780 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on.

00:03:51.540 Well, thank you again for joining me.

00:03:53.280 So, Sheila, it looks like a done deal should the Liberals get re-elected.

00:03:57.560 Life in Canada is going to get a lot more expensive for Canadians,

00:04:02.900 thanks to a carbon tax that will surely escalate.

00:04:06.520 Am I correct?

00:04:08.900 You are correct.

00:04:10.440 Now, if you're listening to Catherine McKenna, she doesn't know.

00:04:15.120 Or, not that she doesn't know, but she can't keep her story straight.

00:04:19.020 She's flip-flopped several times on this.

00:04:21.480 She's said that, oh, maybe we're going to reassess if it's going to go up or not.

00:04:25.740 Maybe we've capped it at $50 per ton in 2022.

00:04:30.780 Or, maybe it's not going to go up at all.

00:04:33.460 Or, maybe it's going to go up.

00:04:35.120 Well, I know through Access to Information that she told a group of American billionaires,

00:04:41.580 the Silicon Valley sensor type,

00:04:44.220 and Tom Steyer, an anti-oil billionaire who's been funding a lot of the activism

00:04:50.000 against Keystone XL, a pipeline from Alberta through to the U.S.,

00:04:56.280 that the carbon tax will definitely go up in 2022 if the Liberals are re-elected.

00:05:03.260 She told them that she's something to the effect of confirming price increases,

00:05:10.320 not reassessing, not, you know, pondering, not analyzing,

00:05:14.600 but confirming that her carbon tax is going to go up in 2022.

00:05:18.720 So, she's off telling anti-oil billionaires one thing,

00:05:23.320 while she can't keep her story straight in Canada.

00:05:25.680 But, I mean, really, who would want to campaign on making the cost of literally everything

00:05:32.820 more expensive for all Canadians?

00:05:34.940 You know, Sheila, let's talk about the Silicon Valley, California billionaires.

00:05:40.140 I find this angle absolutely fascinating.

00:05:44.200 I don't understand it, to tell you the truth.

00:05:46.440 I would dare wager that most Canadians, ordinary Canadians, don't understand this.

00:05:52.200 Why is it that somehow the development of the Canadian oil and gas industry,

00:05:58.940 that these California billionaires have a dog in this race in the first place?

00:06:03.820 What is the agenda here, Sheila?

00:06:07.220 Well, really, on some level, it's protecting the American market share.

00:06:12.140 We see a lot of foreign-funded anti-oil activism.

00:06:16.140 They're dumping money into Canada, into our NGOs,

00:06:20.320 and then they are waging legal battles to stop Canadian pipelines.

00:06:26.940 All the while, our friends in the United States keep exporting oil, drilling for oil,

00:06:34.620 and it's making a lot of people rich in the United States.

00:06:37.860 On the other hand, though, you see a lot of the same activism directed at American pipelines.

00:06:45.640 A lot of the same people and the same money was involved in blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

00:06:51.660 That pipeline sat in limbo for quite a few years while Obama was in power,

00:06:56.380 and then once Trump came into power, he cleaned it up, signed the pipeline into life,

00:07:00.640 and I think it was about 120 days later, it was pumping oil.

00:07:04.320 It's really quite magical to see a timeline that fast for a pipeline when it can take up to 10 years here.

00:07:10.640 But yeah, our Canadian politicians, McKenna specifically,

00:07:15.140 this was a three-day junket to California in 2017, to the San Francisco area, mostly.

00:07:23.380 And when she went, I wanted to know what the heck she was saying to these people,

00:07:28.900 why she was going to meet with them, because as we know, California likes to paint itself

00:07:34.180 as one of the greenest states in the entire Union,

00:07:38.500 when, you know, we know as Canadians some of the, if you think oil is dirty,

00:07:43.700 some of the most carbon-intensive oil on the continent actually comes out of California,

00:07:49.080 it comes out of Bakersfield.

00:07:49.980 And, you know, so while they're building wind turbines and putting up solar farms,

00:07:57.300 California is still drilling for oil and, you know, emitting carbon dioxide too.

00:08:04.120 But, you know, this isn't really about the Californians, isn't?

00:08:07.740 It's really about, you know, blocking the Canadian economy

00:08:11.560 and the furnace of the Canadian economy, us here in Alberta.

00:08:15.060 And that is exactly the point where I'm so flummoxed, Sheila.

00:08:19.300 If this was any other sovereign nation that these California billionaires were going to,

00:08:25.200 saying, excuse me, but can you kindly dismantle your own oil and gas industry?

00:08:30.020 Can you bring in odious bills like Bill C-69, you know,

00:08:34.840 and maybe even, you know, put your nation into a recession, for goodness sakes?

00:08:39.360 They certainly wouldn't get the ear of anyone.

00:08:43.380 And yet here we have McKenna, as you said, going over there, spending days, I guess, getting lectured to.

00:08:50.780 I mean, is it just because this fits into the Liberals' virtue-signaling agenda

00:08:56.420 that they're all about greenness too and the way to achieve greenness

00:09:00.320 is A, curtail projects, and B, tax Canadians?

00:09:05.020 You make a very interesting point there.

00:09:10.320 The Russians would love for us to do the same thing.

00:09:14.920 Gazprom would love for Canadian gas producers to stop pumping gas,

00:09:22.260 to stop drilling for gas, to stop fracking.

00:09:24.560 Gazprom would love that.

00:09:25.800 But if Gazprom asked us to do that, we'd lose our minds.

00:09:29.800 We'd be saying things like Russian collusion, Russian interference in the Canadian economy.

00:09:35.280 But if Californians do it under the auspices of being green,

00:09:40.900 then we're more than happy to do it, and we go there,

00:09:43.600 and then we brag about how far we're willing to go to damage our own economy

00:09:48.000 just to virtue signal to these American billionaires.

00:09:51.240 And here's the second lose of the lose-lose argument of what's happening in Canada right now, Sheila.

00:09:59.740 On another commentary, you noted that some $2.65 billion this year alone,

00:10:06.060 because as you noted, more is coming next year if these Trudeau Liberals get re-elected,

00:10:11.980 is going to the developing nations of the world for their climate change strategies,

00:10:18.900 whatever they may be.

00:10:19.880 So in other words, we are basically committing economic carry-carry out in the oil patch,

00:10:27.000 and then somehow finding almost $3 billion this year alone to give to other nations to do some climate change.

00:10:35.040 I don't know, because, you know, in some cases the details aren't released,

00:10:39.760 and even the name of the recipient isn't released.

00:10:42.720 It's to be determined later.

00:10:44.020 Sheila, what's going on with Justin Trudeau being so outrageously generous with our money to others

00:10:51.780 when the veterans are evidently asking for too much?

00:10:55.080 We have Indian reserves where the water is undrinkable.

00:10:59.400 We have cities in Canada pouring raw sewage into the ocean.

00:11:04.500 I mean, we don't even have it right in terms of our fiscal priorities.

00:11:09.120 How can that be justified, these billions of dollars, to other nations?

00:11:13.800 Well, and I can't see where there's any accountability.

00:11:18.140 Like you pointed out, this is $2.65 billion.

00:11:22.160 It's going to be reassessed, and going up in 2020, if these people are re-elected,

00:11:28.220 we don't know where it's going.

00:11:29.580 We don't know who it's going to.

00:11:31.520 We don't know what sort of accountability measures are taking place on the ground

00:11:36.180 to make sure that this doesn't end up in the hands of some warlord or gangster

00:11:41.980 or corrupt developing world autocrat.

00:11:47.780 We don't understand.

00:11:48.740 There's none of that in these documents, and in some instances it's just like a blank line

00:11:54.320 that the money's been sent or allocated, but we don't know for what.

00:11:58.060 And we don't know what these projects look like.

00:12:00.360 Like, they say it's going to combat climate change, but what does that even mean?

00:12:05.900 How do you fight the weather in these places?

00:12:09.200 I think a lot of the developing world needs electricity.

00:12:14.240 You know, when you, you know, you need garbage pickup.

00:12:18.080 If you actually want tangible things done to make the environment around these people,

00:12:23.640 these people who deserve better, cleaner, then what about water treatment?

00:12:30.600 Well, you know, like you pointed out, we don't have a lot to talk about when we're talking about water treatment

00:12:35.920 because many of Canada's First Nations reserves don't have potable or drinkable.

00:12:44.060 A lot of them are under boil water advisories or no-drink altogether advisories,

00:12:50.640 and we're pumping sewage into the ocean both in the east and in the west.

00:12:55.960 Yet, all these funds are flowing out of Canada, and we're in more debt than ever before.

00:13:03.120 Yeah, unbelievable.

00:13:04.260 I mean, there should be an outcry.

00:13:06.280 And one last point on that nature, Sheila.

00:13:09.580 Yes, a couple of days ago, a story broke, which I found perversely amusing,

00:13:14.100 which was the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:13:16.480 They're going to try to get Ontario's so-called Sticker Act shut down.

00:13:22.200 That's where gas stations must put up a sticker indicating what the carbon tax has done

00:13:28.260 to the cost of a litre of gasoline.

00:13:31.120 First of all, I find it funny that this is such an issue

00:13:35.220 that the Canadian Civil Liberties Association would go to bat for.

00:13:39.840 And secondly, in the story I read, and I laughed out loud at this sentence,

00:13:43.740 the Liberties Group says in its filing it was unable to find a single gas station owner

00:13:52.220 willing to fight the law despite its diligent attempts.

00:13:55.960 So it's going to war for, I guess, a constituency that isn't even interested in war.

00:14:03.260 What is your take on this, Sheila?

00:14:06.640 You know, you and I were talking off-air what a strange hill to die on.

00:14:10.380 And if I worked in the cigarette industry, I would fight it.

00:14:15.400 I would be so happy that the Civil Liberties Association is taking this on

00:14:20.260 because, you know, then what's the snowball effect of this?

00:14:24.940 Oh, well, maybe we don't have to have those horrible stickers on a package of cigarettes.

00:14:29.660 You know, the Civil Liberties Association is actively lobbying against transparency,

00:14:35.800 against the public knowing exactly where the dollars are going.

00:14:39.360 I know here in Alberta, I don't know about Ontario, but on our gas pumps,

00:14:43.200 we can see what portion goes to federal gas tax, provincial,

00:14:47.780 and what portion is actually the cost of fuel.

00:14:52.860 So what's the difference if you just show people how much the carbon tax is adding to their cost per liter?

00:14:59.220 I don't understand what the problem is with a consumer knowing exactly what they're paying for.

00:15:06.080 Like you said, it's a very, very bizarre position to take against transparency.

00:15:11.940 Well, Sheila, I think you nailed it.

00:15:13.020 We've got to wrap here, but maybe that's what this is all about.

00:15:15.960 These are people at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association vying for a job with the Liberal Party

00:15:21.360 if they get re-elected given their anti-transparency position.

00:15:26.440 Oh, my goodness.

00:15:27.500 It's no wonder Mad Magazine went out of business last month, Sheila.

00:15:30.560 This is beyond parody, this stuff.

00:15:33.500 Listen, thank you so much, Sheila, and we'll all be looking forward to your further reports.

00:15:38.920 Thank you again.

00:15:40.780 You got it, David.

00:15:41.540 Thanks for having me on.

00:15:42.680 You got it.

00:15:43.640 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the province of Alberta.

00:15:47.920 Keep it here, folks.

00:15:48.780 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:15:51.300 Charges may be one step closer to being formally laid against a senior PMO official

00:16:03.140 and the former head of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:16:05.860 You may know him, Terry Guion.

00:16:07.600 He body-checked a reporter in a hockey rink a few months ago.

00:16:11.140 It was yours truly, actually.

00:16:12.560 He body-checked me as I was covering the Prime Minister arriving at an Indigenous conference

00:16:18.400 in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.

00:16:19.980 He wasn't very well-received, and I guess my coverage wasn't the kind of coverage that

00:16:24.200 Terry Guion and his friends at Justin Trudeau's PMO are used to.

00:16:27.740 Katie Telford is used to demanding positive op-eds whenever they need a little boost in 1.00

00:16:33.360 the polls, but they don't normally get that from me, so they don't want me anywhere near

00:16:37.700 the Prime Minister.

00:16:38.340 Normally, they resort to methods like kicking me out of the embassy.

00:16:41.720 Normally, they collude the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the PMO to make sure that

00:16:45.520 non-sanctioned media are not allowed anywhere near the PM.

00:16:49.380 Don't take my word for it.

00:16:50.540 Take the word of this young PMO staffer who admitted it on camera.

00:16:55.720 The Prime Minister's office has agreed with the Canadian Press Gallery that your organization's

00:17:00.920 views are not welcome.

00:17:01.800 So that's all I have.

00:17:02.460 They'll get you to leave, but I just wanted to come to my email.

00:17:03.880 So the Prime Minister's office determines who can and cannot cover Canadian politics in

00:17:07.600 the United States?

00:17:07.760 It's a Canadian embassy event, and you are also not an accredited journalist in the Canadian

00:17:11.700 Press Gallery at a Canadian media event, and that's why.

00:17:14.220 So that's spectacularly disappointing and pathetic.

00:17:18.080 So they will escort you out?

00:17:19.200 I don't appreciate that tone as I'm being respectful with you.

00:17:22.640 You're not being respectful.

00:17:23.980 If you're being respectful, you'd let me cover my Prime Minister.

00:17:26.600 Now, when that doesn't work out for them, when they can't keep me out through administrative

00:17:29.920 ways, they resort to using physical force to intimidate reporters.

00:17:34.620 That's what Terry Guion does.

00:17:35.640 Yep, that is indeed how this thug rolls.

00:17:39.220 But thankfully, the RCMP is referring the case against this Trudeau staffer to prosecutors.

00:17:46.380 And joining us now is the recipient of Terry's body check, none other than our roving reporter,

00:17:51.900 Kian Bexty.

00:17:52.900 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian. 0.99

00:17:55.040 Hey, David.

00:17:55.860 Hey, you know, Kian, I've been doing some thinking about this, and maybe this is your fault,

00:18:01.360 Kian. 0.52

00:18:01.560 I mean, after all, you engaged Terry at a hockey rink, so given the venue, maybe it was

00:18:07.260 expected of you to wear a helmet and shoulder pads while covering this conference.

00:18:12.760 Oh, absolutely.

00:18:13.640 I think that goes without saying, whenever you cover any sort of liberal, they're predisposed

00:18:19.820 to getting violent.

00:18:22.420 I mean, Trudeau's especially.

00:18:24.680 Well, Jean-Claude Chan, when he grabbed that protester for one, but also Trudeau's dad,

00:18:29.020 he's just, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree there.

00:18:31.280 Trudeau's dad sicked his bodyguards on a Globe and Mail reporter in 1983, doing basically

00:18:36.400 the same thing after that Globe reporter asked unsanctioned questions, which is what I was

00:18:42.060 doing.

00:18:42.480 And the liberals, particularly the Trudeaus, just won't have anything to do with that.

00:18:47.680 You know, Kian, whatever happened, I thought one of the unofficial slogan of the left, especially

00:18:52.880 these days, is love Trump's hate.

00:18:55.280 I mean, the idea that we're all supposed to have an inclusive big tent discussion on

00:19:02.260 things, set our differences this way, as opposed to using fists and one's shoulders to take

00:19:09.380 out a reporter that is asking questions that they deem to be a little too pesky.

00:19:15.520 So, what is the reality here, given that this is what they claim they're all about, you know,

00:19:22.360 the love and the civility, and when we face a reality which is outright violence?

00:19:27.160 Well, the reality is the liberals just don't want questions asked, and they will resort

00:19:34.740 to whatever it takes to make sure that dear leader Trudeau is not embarrassed.

00:19:40.300 It could be, I mean, you have the same experience with the parliamentary press gallery.

00:19:44.360 They like to use administrative reasons to keep us away from important people who we need

00:19:51.220 to ask important questions too, be it Chrystia Freeland, be it the Minister of Defense, be

00:19:57.140 it Justin Trudeau.

00:19:58.360 They'll say, oh, you can't come here because the parliamentary press gallery hasn't sanctioned

00:20:02.680 you to be here.

00:20:04.300 But if we get in some other way, or the parliamentary press gallery, maybe they don't have jurisdiction

00:20:09.520 there, well, then they resort to violence.

00:20:12.000 It's because at no, there's absolutely no way they will accept Justin Trudeau being asked

00:20:19.380 a tough question.

00:20:20.500 That's just not in their playbook.

00:20:22.560 Yeah, but you know what, Kean?

00:20:23.500 I mean, if they didn't want the Prime Minister to embarrass himself, wouldn't they just simply

00:20:27.160 confine him to quarters?

00:20:28.660 I mean, I think of all the embarrassing things that he's done, such as his answer at that town

00:20:34.400 hall where he called mankind people kind, going on that trip to India, which became a perverse

00:20:41.480 example of show and tell Indian style.

00:20:45.360 This wasn't the doing of any reporters.

00:20:48.200 This is his own self-mutilation, if you will.

00:20:53.040 We're just trying to report what's going on there.

00:20:56.120 Brings to mind the old saying, don't shoot the messenger.

00:21:00.420 Yeah, don't shoot the messenger is right here.

00:21:03.820 And I think Terry Guion, in particular, needs to hear that message.

00:21:09.100 He, like you mentioned before, he used to be the head of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:21:13.280 And I really think he's the nexus between Trudeau's PMO and the Parliamentary Press Gallery, because

00:21:19.420 he moved sort of laterally in his career from the PPG to the PMO.

00:21:24.760 And it really illustrates the incestuous relationship there.

00:21:27.680 And I really don't think that Terry Guion ever really left the Parliamentary Press Gallery

00:21:31.920 when he went to the PMO.

00:21:33.900 I think he just sort of merged the two organizations.

00:21:37.700 He has absolutely no time for reporters who are not mainstream corporate or government media.

00:21:46.260 Unless you're Rosemary Barton, you don't get to have one-on-one chats with the Prime Minister.

00:21:51.680 It's despicable.

00:21:53.700 And it's Terry Guion who is at the center of this.

00:21:56.500 Trudeau's media lead liaison, or Trudeau's media advance lead, I think is his title.

00:22:03.460 And he's the one that's body-checking reporters.

00:22:05.860 He's the one that's colluding with the Parliamentary Press Gallery to make sure the reporters can't

00:22:11.060 get in who aren't sanctioned.

00:22:12.520 It all comes back to Terry Guion, and he might be paying the piper here

00:22:16.380 if prosecutors decide to finally press charges on this criminal.

00:22:21.000 You know, Kean, I think that's a very profound point you've made

00:22:23.840 about his previous connection with the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:22:27.560 And it's simply this.

00:22:28.380 The Parliamentary Press Gallery, as its name implies, is made up of journalists.

00:22:32.900 These are people who you would think are all about free speech, freedom of expression,

00:22:38.520 and, you know, putting elected officials, you know, on the carpet with pointed questions.

00:22:45.880 And yet it's like they've all drunk the Liberal Kool-Aid, that they're supposed to be polite

00:22:52.760 and almost facilitators of the Liberal message.

00:22:56.160 And, you know, maybe that's going to even intensify more so, Kean,

00:23:00.060 when those $600 million worth of paychecks to print media start finding their way into the mail

00:23:08.860 from the PMO's office.

00:23:12.860 Again, I'm rambling on here, but this really makes Terry Guion all the more despicable in my books

00:23:22.120 because he is going against the credo of what he should be standing up for.

00:23:28.000 And I like to compare it to the Americans. 0.61

00:23:31.720 I was just at the White House yesterday, actually, working with the press gallery there, the press corps.

00:23:39.720 And their number one mantra is ask questions, ask questions.

00:23:45.220 And they can enjoy the First Amendment there.

00:23:49.420 They are given the ability to do their job.

00:23:53.740 Sometimes they don't do it very well.

00:23:55.260 Sometimes there is bias there, but it's different there compared to Canada

00:23:59.920 because they are never hindered in doing their job.

00:24:04.020 They are always facilitate, like the president will always do his very best

00:24:08.840 to make sure that they're able to do their job as poorly as they do do it.

00:24:12.900 Here in Canada, it's the other way around.

00:24:15.060 We're not allowed to do our job.

00:24:16.580 We are being roadblocked whenever we get to, you know, I've shown up to press conferences with Trudeau in Ottawa

00:24:25.960 when he was announcing Trans Mountain Pipeline, the nationalization of that.

00:24:30.560 I showed up to the press conference.

00:24:31.760 I went to go in.

00:24:32.900 I'm from Alberta.

00:24:34.200 I'm someone and I report to people who are going to be most affected by this decision.

00:24:40.960 And the only people that they let in were reporters from Ottawa who weren't really asking any questions

00:24:48.940 other than, oh, did you consult Indigenous people on this decision?

00:24:52.840 Or are you going to continue to consult Indigenous people?

00:24:56.460 They don't ask any questions about Albertans' jobs, the people who are out of work.

00:25:01.040 Or if Justin Trudeau has really any honest plans on how to get shovels in the ground,

00:25:06.340 especially in light of this, you know, these six appeals that are coming in from the Court of Appeal

00:25:12.460 that the government just didn't, you know, stand up to.

00:25:16.220 They didn't file any documents in regards to that.

00:25:18.820 And that's something that we could have asked about at that press conference, but we weren't allowed in.

00:25:22.100 Again, now I'm the one rambling, but I just, you know, the difference between the United States,

00:25:28.460 Washington Press, and Canadian Ottawa Press is just so stark.

00:25:32.440 And it's because our press corps, our parliamentary press gallery,

00:25:35.540 has this incestuous relationship with the prime minister's office.

00:25:38.420 It's despicable.

00:25:39.400 It's disgusting.

00:25:40.480 And the PPG should be, you know, it should be dissolved as far as I'm concerned.

00:25:44.980 And, you know, when you raised the idea of the First Amendment, Kian,

00:25:49.380 my only dealings with the parliamentary press gallery was back in June when my cameraman Efren and I went to Ottawa

00:25:57.580 and we wanted to cover the hearings about reinstating, essentially, Section 13,

00:26:03.940 which was something Stephen Harper got rid of, thankfully, in 2013.

00:26:09.880 And this section in the Canadian Human Rights Act, it's best described as the anti-First Amendment.

00:26:17.540 This is all about, you know, a clause where you can put in a claim for hurt feelings

00:26:23.460 if you hear something that you disagree with or something that upsets you.

00:26:29.460 It's a terrible, terrible thing to be brought back.

00:26:33.620 And the irony was so perverse, we drove all the way to Ottawa from Toronto

00:26:37.640 and they could have told us ahead of time they were not going to give us press credentials.

00:26:41.920 They instead waited until we got there, which I think was deliberately spiteful.

00:26:45.800 And secondly, why?

00:26:47.920 Why would you pick and choose what media is going to go into a committee hearing,

00:26:55.120 which is about bringing in censorship legislation,

00:26:58.660 which you guys, as members of the press, seem to be in support of?

00:27:02.540 I mean, Kian, this is beyond parody, and it adds to your point 1.00

00:27:07.500 how there's almost a collusion, it would seem,

00:27:10.460 with the journalistic establishment and the Prime Minister's office.

00:27:15.280 And I think we're in for even darker days

00:27:18.080 when you see these kind of Section 13s potentially coming back. 0.67

00:27:24.880 You're right.

00:27:26.120 I think your point about showing up and arriving there

00:27:29.440 and then being purposely vindictive about it,

00:27:32.360 I think that's absolutely true, and I've had that same experience with them.

00:27:38.500 Yeah, they are personally vindictive.

00:27:40.600 And I don't want people to misunderstand what I'm saying here,

00:27:45.480 when I'm saying the PMO and the Parliamentary Press Gallery collude.

00:27:49.160 This isn't an opinion of mine.

00:27:51.060 We have proof of this.

00:27:53.140 When I was recording a Trudeau staffer, a PMO official,

00:27:58.540 a very young guy who probably didn't understand really what he was saying,

00:28:02.680 he didn't know that this probably should be kept as secret as possible,

00:28:06.500 he admitted to me when I was trying to get into the Canadian Embassy in Washington

00:28:10.340 that the PMO, and I think this is verbatim, you should watch the video on this,

00:28:16.900 the PMO and the Parliamentary Press Gallery have talked

00:28:20.300 and they've decided that your views aren't welcome here.

00:28:23.360 What views?

00:28:24.200 I just report stories.

00:28:25.500 I ask questions.

00:28:26.420 Sure, maybe I have a view that this Prime Minister is corrupt and crony,

00:28:32.380 but that, I mean, I don't have views.

00:28:36.220 I report.

00:28:38.300 And them deciding who can and cannot get into an embassy,

00:28:41.440 this collusion between the PPG and the PMO is just despicable.

00:28:44.580 I'm getting angry now.

00:28:45.620 Well, don't get too angry there, Bruce Banner.

00:28:47.800 I don't want you hulking out.

00:28:48.960 But, you know, it's part of an ongoing narrative.

00:28:52.440 The PMO's office goes to UN conferences in which we're banned from attending.

00:28:59.520 I, myself, and May got frog marched out of a press conference held by Miriam Monsef,

00:29:06.420 which was about celebrating World Press Freedom Day.

00:29:10.700 You know, Kian, like I said, it's beyond parody. 1.00

00:29:13.440 We've got to wrap it here.

00:29:14.580 I hope this guy gets his day in court.

00:29:17.620 I don't know what's going to happen from here,

00:29:19.540 but at least it looks like your complaint is being treated seriously.

00:29:23.540 And he has me delivered a message.

00:29:25.560 Yeah, when it comes to the sticks and stones part of that old nursery rhyme,

00:29:31.340 that's not acceptable.

00:29:32.720 Not in a democracy where we ostensibly or in theory have freedom of speech.

00:29:37.960 So good luck, my friend.

00:29:39.420 And maybe drop by Pro Hockey Life and buy some new equipment for the next Trudeau presser, okay?

00:29:46.160 Sounds good, David.

00:29:47.180 Thanks for having me.

00:29:47.700 Okay, then.

00:29:49.020 And that was Kian Bexty in Calgary.

00:29:51.540 Keep it here, folks.

00:29:52.180 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:30:01.700 David Menzies for the Rebel.media here in Palm Beach, Florida,

00:30:06.040 just outside the oh-so-opulent Mar-a-Lago.

00:30:09.400 Now, folks, many people in this state are hunkering down in case Hurricane Dorian does touch land here.

00:30:17.180 But there is one notable person back in our great dominion of Canada who is actually cheering on the hurricane

00:30:25.200 and hoping that the trajectory of Dorian will lead it right here to Mar-a-Lago.

00:30:30.920 And that, of course, is former Prime Minister for a Day, Kim Campbell, who actually tweeted,

00:30:37.300 I'm hoping for a direct hit on Mar-a-Lago.

00:30:41.080 And why would Ms. Campbell hope for such a hit? 0.99

00:30:45.520 Well, of course, this is the stomping grounds of President Donald Trump.

00:30:49.680 And I'm afraid Ms. Campbell hates Donald Trump. 0.82

00:30:54.140 And I'm not exaggerating.

00:30:56.300 Previously, she referred to the president as a mother effer.

00:31:01.980 Of course, she used the full word in her tweet.

00:31:05.740 It's despicable.

00:31:06.860 It's despicable because, well, the president's not even here.

00:31:10.460 So if Kim Campbell were to get her wish and this hurricane did touch down here,

00:31:15.760 it would be causing destruction and killing innocents, 0.96

00:31:20.660 people that are in no way affiliated with the president.

00:31:23.780 I guess she didn't quite think that through.

00:31:25.580 Well, needless to say, Floridians were not impressed with Kim Campbell

00:31:29.940 tweeting such vile and ludicrous statements.

00:31:33.020 Nor were you impressed with her lust for a natural disaster to touch down upon Mar-a-Lago

00:31:38.680 simply because she has political differences with President Trump.

00:31:43.840 Indeed, here's what some of you had to say about Campbell's odious tweet.

00:31:48.280 Daniel Grant writes,

00:31:49.440 What a sick person you are, Kim Campbell. 0.85

00:31:51.940 Grow up.

00:31:53.380 What a disingenuous apology, too.

00:31:55.580 Well, Daniel, that tweet is certainly sick,

00:31:57.800 and I think it is all the more sick given that it is emanating from a person

00:32:01.820 who was once holding the top office in Canada, albeit briefly, of course.

00:32:06.760 As for the apology, it took a long while coming,

00:32:09.620 with Campbell originally telling her critics to get a grip.

00:32:12.940 And then she said it was all just a joke.

00:32:14.720 Really? Really, Kim?

00:32:16.360 If that is your idea of comedy, where exactly is the punchline?

00:32:22.040 Miscellaneous Silliness writes,

00:32:23.940 Kim Campbell, irrelevant NPC, just looking for some attention. 0.99

00:32:28.560 She's been ignored and neglected for so long that she will say and do anything for a little attention. 0.59

00:32:34.940 Yet, here's the thing, Miscellaneous Silliness.

00:32:37.380 Yes, the Trudeau Liberals have no problem with her mean-spirited nonsense. 0.95

00:32:42.100 Kim Campbell will continue to serve on in a committee that vets Supreme Court judges.

00:32:47.880 Yep, that's exactly the kind of person I want to see in that particular role.

00:32:53.900 Tony in Southwark writes,

00:32:56.440 Is hoping for a Mar-a-Lago to be destroyed a form of hate speech?

00:33:00.360 I think so.

00:33:01.140 Well, Tony, the goalposts on hate speech are always being moved about these days.

00:33:06.540 But let's put it this way,

00:33:08.260 hateful words directed at President Trump is essentially politically correct hate speech.

00:33:14.440 And that sort of hate speech is applauded, not denounced, by many on the loony left.

00:33:20.480 Lori McNeil writes,

00:33:21.840 Kim was PM for about a New York minute.

00:33:24.660 She was voted out as soon as we could get her out. 0.99

00:33:27.620 Who really cares about KC?

00:33:30.060 Well, indeed, Kim Campbell inherited a PC majority government.

00:33:34.320 And when the 1993 election took place some four months after that inheritance,

00:33:39.860 well, that PC majority government was so decimated

00:33:43.080 that Kim Campbell could hold a caucus meeting in a Mazda Miata,

00:33:48.500 meaning it was reduced to just two seats.

00:33:52.320 You'd think with that kind of legacy,

00:33:54.920 Campbell would keep her mouth shut for the rest of her life? 0.85

00:33:57.840 Apparently not.

00:33:58.840 And Little Miss Sow-It-All writes, 0.96

00:34:02.460 All respect lost for Campbell now.

00:34:04.960 What kind of leader wishes harm on any human?

00:34:08.640 Sad, sad state in Canada.

00:34:10.940 We really have lost our charm and charisma in the last four years.

00:34:14.940 Hopefully we can get our country back come election time.

00:34:18.700 And a big amen to that, Little Miss Sow-It-All. 0.96

00:34:21.420 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:34:24.680 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:34:25.960 See you next week.

00:34:26.840 And hey, folks, never forget,

00:34:28.780 without risk, there can be no glory.

00:34:31.080 Good night.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 07, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guest Sheila Gunn Reid

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