Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Amanda Head, Ezra Levant & Sheila Gunn Reid

00:00:00.000 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 favourite rebels.

00:00:08.040 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.420 So, a Christian landlord goes up against Muslim tenants, claiming their faith was dissed because the landlord never removed his shoes in his own house.

00:00:21.200 Can you possibly guess who came out on top in this squabble?

00:00:25.580 Ezra Levent has all the depressing details. 0.99

00:00:28.220 And when Justin Trudeau made bizarre comments regarding male construction workers being predators, he didn't just spout his usual garden variety idiocy. 0.87

00:00:39.920 No, this time, he really triggered Sheila Gunn-Reed in a very personal way and just wait till you hear what Sheila has to say. 0.95

00:00:49.020 And Bruce Springsteen is no fan of President Trump, but even the boss is a realist, predicting Trump will win another term.

00:00:58.320 Amanda Head weighs in on who might head up the Democratic Party in 2020, and it ain't pretty.

00:01:04.480 And finally, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day, and I'll share some of the letters we receive regarding our year-long quest to donate $15,000 to a military charity,

00:01:18.500 something that continues to be stymied by the Trudeau Liberals.

00:01:23.800 Oh yeah, here's an update you might not believe.

00:01:27.720 Those are your rebels, now let's round them up.

00:01:30.300 You might recall the case of John Alabi.

00:01:40.900 He is an immigrant to Canada from Nigeria.

00:01:43.860 Came here with nothing, really, and worked his way up as hard as he could, taking jobs and finally becoming, well, a bit of a landlord himself.

00:01:52.460 He lived the Canadian dream.

00:01:54.720 But then one of his tenants, well, took him to the Human Rights Tribunal.

00:01:58.440 You see, John is Christian, and one of his tenants was a Muslim family that objected to John not taking his shoes off in the apartment.

00:02:09.460 They said it was anti-Muslim discrimination, and in a shocking decision, well, not shocking to those of us who know the Human Rights Tribunals,

00:02:17.720 they won a multi-thousand-dollar penalty against John.

00:02:21.700 Well, when we heard that, we said, John, we've got to fight this.

00:02:25.180 And we crowdfunded the legal appeal, which happened in Toronto.

00:02:30.140 John joins me in studio now.

00:02:32.400 John, good to see you again.

00:02:33.580 Thanks for being back here.

00:02:34.780 Thank you very much.

00:02:35.600 I understand that there was a hearing at Osgoode Hall, the very senior courthouse in downtown Toronto.

00:02:45.720 We have your lawyer, Yuche Beccara, on the line via Skype.

00:02:49.720 I'm going to ask him how it went, and then I'll come back to you for your personal reactions, okay?

00:02:53.760 That's okay.

00:02:54.380 All right.

00:02:55.160 Joining us now via Skype is Yuche Beccara.

00:02:57.720 Yuche, you're the lawyer who has been fighting for John.

00:03:01.700 John, we crowdfunded the appeal.

00:03:04.840 Tell us how it went.

00:03:07.060 First, Leeser, thank you for having us on, and thank you for having me.

00:03:10.060 So we heard the appeal at the divisional court for a panel of three judges,

00:03:15.120 and the decision that came down was from a procedural standpoint specifically.

00:03:19.700 The Human Rights Tribunal did not err in the way that they arrived to their decision.

00:03:24.920 Well, we gave it the good old college try.

00:03:27.920 Actually, we did far more than that.

00:03:30.180 We tried to get justice in a real courtroom for John Nalabi, the Christian Nigerian landlord 0.98

00:03:36.320 who was taken to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal for supposedly being disrespectful to Muslim tenants.

00:03:45.160 But as anyone who follows the human rights racket in Canada already knows, there is a hierarchy.

00:03:52.320 And even though John himself is a visible minority, he learned that when it comes to the kangaroo court,

00:03:57.700 that is the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Islam trumps all. 1.00

00:04:02.640 And joining me now with more on this story is Rebel Commander Ezra Levent.

00:04:06.080 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:04:07.520 Thanks very much, David.

00:04:08.460 So, Ezra, I guess I'll cut to the chase.

00:04:11.100 Is Canada unofficially under Sharia law right now?

00:04:15.360 I'll tell you, this story is so irksome.

00:04:18.880 John Nalabi is a very mild-mannered, soft-spoken immigrant from Nigeria.

00:04:23.620 Nigeria is about half-and-half Muslim and Christian.

00:04:26.580 So John's a Christian man, and he came to Canada.

00:04:30.760 I don't think he had 10 bucks in his wallet when he came.

00:04:34.400 And now he's worked hard, he's worked his way up, and he's a very small landlord.

00:04:38.180 Like, good for him, right?

00:04:39.180 Get a place, rent it out, live the dream.

00:04:41.840 Follow the rules, pay your taxes.

00:04:43.440 Well, his tenants were Muslim, that's fine. 1.00

00:04:48.240 And he came in to his apartment, his place, and he didn't take his shoes off at the door.

00:04:54.740 Now, maybe he should, I don't know.

00:04:57.000 But whether or not he did is a matter of, let's say, courtesy or custom, I don't know.

00:05:02.060 But it's not a religious matter.

00:05:03.480 And it is his property.

00:05:04.540 Yeah, of course.

00:05:06.920 So they took him to the Human Rights Tribunal.

00:05:09.040 There is no such thing as a human right to have your landlord take his shoes off.

00:05:12.860 It might be a courtesy or a custom.

00:05:14.380 But they claimed it was discrimination based on religion.

00:05:20.040 What?

00:05:20.980 He obviously didn't discriminate against them because he rented the place to them.

00:05:24.340 He obviously, when a landlord does or doesn't take your shoes off, that's not racism.

00:05:30.400 John Labby's black, by the way, if I didn't mention it. 0.96

00:05:32.440 Like, he's black. 0.99

00:05:33.740 And he's happy to rent to Muslims. 0.99

00:05:35.880 And I know he has other Muslim connections that I won't get into now.

00:05:39.000 Like, he's a friend to Muslims.

00:05:40.460 He's not an enemy of Muslims.

00:05:43.400 And wearing shoes in his own property is not an anti-Muslim act.

00:05:48.380 That's not a thing.

00:05:49.900 But they took him to the Human Rights Tribunal.

00:05:51.820 And they beat him.

00:05:53.220 And we said, we've got to help.

00:05:54.600 And we lost the appeal until two weeks ago.

00:05:57.720 And there's other things that I don't know if we have time to get into.

00:06:00.660 During this whole trauma, God forbid, I hate to mention it,

00:06:03.600 John's son committed suicide.

00:06:07.240 And there was so much stress and so many bad things, the family broke up.

00:06:10.520 He got a divorce or a separation.

00:06:13.180 And yet the Human Rights Tribunal insisted, no delays, we're proceeding with this important case.

00:06:19.260 Yes.

00:06:19.560 Well, you can imagine the man's mind was elsewhere.

00:06:22.680 But Ezra, here's what...

00:06:23.720 So another...

00:06:24.240 Oh, let me just throw one more thing.

00:06:25.340 Oh, sure.

00:06:25.420 Let me throw one more thing.

00:06:26.220 And then you come to your question.

00:06:28.920 So I think that...

00:06:29.680 I forget the amount.

00:06:30.220 I think it was 8 grand or 12 grand or something they won from him.

00:06:32.080 It was 12.

00:06:32.680 12 grand.

00:06:33.200 Thank you.

00:06:33.480 Six each.

00:06:33.780 That's right.

00:06:34.180 Yeah.

00:06:35.140 You know how many lawyers the government had on it?

00:06:38.380 Four.

00:06:39.120 Jeez.

00:06:40.080 Two for the Human Rights Tribunal and two from some legal aid for the Muslim family.

00:06:47.060 Four government lawyers versus John Labby.

00:06:49.860 Sorry, go ahead.

00:06:50.980 Here's what I understand.

00:06:51.940 When we raise the funds to appeal this in a real court, and the decision comes back where

00:06:58.800 basically they say the tribunal did...

00:07:02.260 They said that it's not that the tribunal made the right decision, but they were following

00:07:07.040 their own proper protocol.

00:07:09.540 Now, Ezra, you're a lawyer by training.

00:07:12.260 This is beyond my pay grade to understand.

00:07:14.600 I mean, this is not a matter of justice to me.

00:07:18.060 One iota, what's your take on this?

00:07:20.500 Well, because the Human Rights Tribunal is called an expert tribunal, it's granted some

00:07:26.440 deference from the courts.

00:07:27.300 Now, of course, it's not an expert tribunal.

00:07:29.160 It's a bunch of BS.

00:07:30.460 It's partisan.

00:07:31.460 It's unfair.

00:07:32.080 It's biased.

00:07:32.880 It's not run by real judges.

00:07:35.520 But for example, let me give you a very obscure example.

00:07:38.620 Where I'm originally from in Alberta, there's something called the Surface Rights Appeal Board.

00:07:43.900 What is that?

00:07:45.840 Well, let's say you're a farmer who's got a blueberry farm.

00:07:50.540 Yeah.

00:07:51.020 And underneath is $100 million of coal.

00:07:54.620 Yeah.

00:07:54.800 So one guy owns the blueberry farm on top.

00:07:57.900 The other guy owns $100 million of coal underneath.

00:08:01.160 How do you compromise and how do you regulate how the coal miner gets his coal and the blueberry

00:08:10.580 farm?

00:08:10.860 And that's a real case.

00:08:11.880 I actually, when I was an article student, I worked on that case in Alberta before the Surface

00:08:15.960 Rights Appeal Board.

00:08:17.020 It's such an obscure area.

00:08:18.600 It's such a narrow field of law that everyone says, okay, well, we don't know anything about

00:08:24.200 surface rights except this expert.

00:08:26.320 We're going to grant them a lot of latitude.

00:08:29.460 And if you don't like what happened in that expert tribunal, we're just going to check to

00:08:33.620 make sure that it was, that they followed their own rules more enough.

00:08:37.700 We're not going to get into whether they were right or wrong.

00:08:39.900 We're just going to say, was it patently unreasonable?

00:08:43.700 It's crazy.

00:08:44.840 So you get it for surface rights because that's something so obscure.

00:08:49.280 You want to say, okay, I'm not going to mess with surface rights.

00:08:52.160 But human rights is a catch-all for any grievance thing.

00:08:56.140 It's not a real field of expertise.

00:08:58.360 Yeah.

00:08:58.500 It's not a real field.

00:08:59.200 Like surface rights is a real issue that is a really narrow area of law.

00:09:06.580 I believe that the Surface Rights Appeal Board should exist.

00:09:09.760 Okay.

00:09:10.200 And it should be granted deference.

00:09:12.340 The Human Rights Tribunal should not be granted that kind of deference because it's not a real 0.92

00:09:16.360 field of expertise.

00:09:18.360 And so here in this case, you had three real judges who didn't crack open the case and say,

00:09:23.880 yeah, that's a bad ruling.

00:09:25.360 They granted deference to the Human Rights Tribunal and said, well, they followed their

00:09:30.240 rules and there was, and yeah, maybe we don't like the outcome, but there's nothing that

00:09:36.000 would make us set it aside.

00:09:37.720 So they respected the Human Rights Tribunal.

00:09:42.340 Trouble is, it doesn't deserve respect because it's not even a real thing.

00:09:46.020 And I would argue, Ezra, it's about the interpretation.

00:09:49.640 To go back to what you said earlier, the idea of John being anti-Muslim, about him being

00:09:55.360 Islamophobic, it doesn't fly because he would never have rented the unit to people who are

00:10:01.320 obviously Muslims in the first place. 1.00

00:10:03.660 So that's one thing.

00:10:04.720 The second thing, Ezra, this is a speculative question.

00:10:08.380 Do you truly think these two people, these two tenants who painted themselves as devout

00:10:14.660 Muslims, they pray five times a day, et cetera, et cetera, were they really that offended by

00:10:21.420 somebody wearing shoes into their home?

00:10:24.380 Or was this an opportunity in their minds to game the system to come out with a nice

00:10:31.360 financial reward, which they had a pretty good chance of winning?

00:10:34.660 Yeah.

00:10:34.900 Well, I mean, I don't know them, so I don't know what they're like.

00:10:37.940 I only know what they've done.

00:10:39.280 And they've really destroyed John's life in a number of ways.

00:10:42.720 And they are so insistent that they get their payday.

00:10:47.200 That's super gross. 0.95

00:10:48.800 But look, there's a lot of gross people in the world. 0.99

00:10:52.740 These gross people, these tenants, these abusive name-calling tenants, were aided, abetted, 0.57

00:11:01.880 assisted, and represented by the government for lawyers.

00:11:08.380 There's $12,000 here.

00:11:09.700 Why was this so important that you had two lawyers?

00:11:13.040 I'm talking about the court appeal last week, two weeks ago.

00:11:15.340 Why wasn't it so important that the Human Rights Tribunal sent two lawyers and some legal

00:11:19.680 aid clinic sent two lawyers?

00:11:21.300 You have four lawyers coming for John and Ladley.

00:11:25.960 I'll tell you why.

00:11:26.700 Because if anyone's allowed to resist, they must be crushed.

00:11:31.180 Yep.

00:11:32.120 And, you know, and that's, here's the perversely ironic epilogue to this story, Ezra.

00:11:38.360 So these government lawyers and the tribunal are saying, we are going to fight for Muslim

00:11:44.040 rights.

00:11:44.620 You know, no one's going to stop us.

00:11:46.420 This is the top of the pyramid.

00:11:48.180 Well, they'll never say that, of course.

00:11:49.920 Here's the big picture.

00:11:51.360 This has received some considerable press.

00:11:54.580 Say I'm a landlord.

00:11:55.440 Say I look at potentially renting out a unit to a couple of developed Muslims.

00:12:01.420 Suddenly, this would never have crossed my mind before.

00:12:05.120 But now that I see that, wow, if I don't take off my shoes, if I don't give 25 hours notice

00:12:11.780 of a visit, you know, so that the female can properly veil herself, I am inviting myself 1.00

00:12:20.680 into a world of hurt.

00:12:22.000 So I think there might be landlords out there that they're not anti-Muslim or Islamophobic,

00:12:27.940 but this is now a third rail for them.

00:12:30.260 If I get the wrong type that know how to game the system based on the most trivial complaint,

00:12:35.340 I'm screwed and I want no part of it.

00:12:37.300 Yeah, I mean, it's like what we're seeing as a result of the over-the-top Me Too allegations 0.97

00:12:42.260 is that I was just reading a great story about this the other day.

00:12:46.800 A lot of corporate recruiters say, you know what?

00:12:50.580 It's just not worth going out for drinks after work with colleagues who are women 1.00

00:12:56.300 because the chances of a spurious accusation are too high.

00:13:01.520 Whereas they wouldn't think twice about going out for drinks with a colleague.

00:13:04.300 And it's not because they're sexist.

00:13:05.940 It's the opposite.

00:13:06.520 They don't want to be called sexist.

00:13:09.780 And so really, do you go on a business trip with a colleague who's female?

00:13:17.640 Well, it's so many risks there.

00:13:19.720 And I'm thinking that, I mean, I believe that we should be against,

00:13:24.940 I think we should treat people on the content of their character,

00:13:28.300 not the color of their skin or their gender or things like that.

00:13:30.780 But if a woman walking in is danger, danger, because they're bringing with them four lawyers.

00:13:37.320 Yes. 0.93

00:13:37.880 If a Muslim tenant is danger, danger, because you've got four hunter-killer lawyers with them, 1.00

00:13:43.380 why would you take the risk? 0.98

00:13:44.760 It's not worth it.

00:13:45.760 It's not worth the risk.

00:13:47.120 And it's not just the 12 grand that John owes them.

00:13:50.640 Now he's got to pay for his own lawyer and he's got to pay money to their lawyers.

00:13:55.340 That's what's so absurd is that their lawyers didn't charge the Muslim family.

00:14:00.280 But John has to pay.

00:14:01.220 So we're crowdfunding that.

00:14:02.740 It's a terrible thing.

00:14:03.840 But we have to help John.

00:14:05.080 Absolutely.

00:14:05.940 So we've set up a website, helpjohn.ca.

00:14:09.060 Helpjohn.ca.

00:14:10.800 And I kicked in the first hundred bucks because I hate what happened here.

00:14:15.340 So we need $12,200 for his own lawyer.

00:14:19.420 I forget the math off the top of my head.

00:14:20.980 We got his lawyer, the bad guy's lawyers, I'm sorry to say it.

00:14:24.360 And we have to pay the fine.

00:14:25.580 Or if we can get enough money together, there's a possibility of another appeal.

00:14:29.380 But John doesn't want to go deeper into the hole.

00:14:32.360 So I said, well, let's try and fill up the hole you're in now.

00:14:34.480 And then maybe you can decide what to do later.

00:14:36.080 So we are trying to at least cover his own legal fees, etc.

00:14:40.160 $12,200.

00:14:41.400 Well, Ezra, good luck on that.

00:14:42.880 We're all out of time for this.

00:14:44.580 And well, what can I say, folks?

00:14:46.140 What a sad story.

00:14:47.180 Here we have an immigrant living the Canadian dream, rags the riches. 1.00

00:14:51.540 All he was trying to do was bring home the bacon.

00:14:53.760 Thank God he didn't bring home the bacon to that home.

00:14:56.020 That might have been another $12,000 wife. 1.00

00:14:58.820 Keep it here.

00:15:00.000 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:15:09.540 This is my husband.

00:15:11.320 He's one of the oil field men and construction workers Trudeau was referring to

00:15:15.760 when he said this about them in Argentina.

00:15:19.120 You might not say, oh, what does a gender lens have to do with building this new highway 1.00

00:15:22.780 or this new pipeline or something?

00:15:24.840 Well, there are gender impacts.

00:15:27.500 When you bring construction workers into a rural area, there are social impacts because

00:15:32.080 they're mostly male construction workers. 0.96

00:15:33.960 How are you adjusting and adapting to those?

00:15:36.940 That's what the gender lens in GBA plus budgeting is all about. 1.00

00:15:40.420 Now, despite what his prime minister has to say about him and the other men he works with

00:15:46.160 to fuel the Canadian economy, my husband is a good and decent man.

00:15:50.640 The best man, if you ask me, our children and probably my mom.

00:15:55.060 But he's also humble, quiet, private and busy working.

00:15:59.460 The last thing he would do is stick up for himself.

00:16:02.400 He's just not that way.

00:16:03.700 That little baby you see there in the picture with him perched behind the wheel of his bed

00:16:08.200 truck is now a busy, well-rounded, nearly 13-year-old girl.

00:16:12.420 We don't live in that smaller house on the smaller chunk of land anymore and we drive better

00:16:17.360 trucks now.

00:16:18.360 And he's not exactly a trucker anymore, but he's gone just as much and he works just as

00:16:23.960 hard, sacrificing his time with us, working hours away for weeks on end in the heat and

00:16:29.720 the cold, to make sure that I am always here for our kids, that we have everything we need

00:16:35.520 and some of the things we want.

00:16:38.060 He dotes on our daughters, which has made them confident and resilient girls, but he still

00:16:43.400 misses birthdays, Christmas concerts, anniversaries, cadet parades, girl guides, family get-togethers

00:16:49.280 and sports.

00:16:50.680 So many sports.

00:16:52.120 Why do I put them in so many sports and why are they so good at stuff?

00:16:56.220 Anyway, it's the sacrifice he makes every day to keep a roof over our heads and our

00:17:01.880 kids on the family farm where I was raised, where my dad was raised, where my grandparents

00:17:06.680 lived, because it's important to me.

00:17:09.440 He's no sexual harasser.

00:17:10.800 He's no danger to anything or anyone besides those deer he keeps clipping off with his truck

00:17:15.780 when he's trying to get home to us after a long rig move.

00:17:19.740 Well, our ever feisty Sheila Gunn-Reed always has plenty to complain about when it comes to 1.00

00:17:25.340 the never-ending idiocy spewed by Justin Trudeau. 0.98

00:17:29.600 But thanks to those inexplicable comments the PM made in Argentina recently regarding male 1.00

00:17:35.900 construction workers, well, in Sheila's case, Justin swam into Jaws 4 territory.

00:17:43.180 You know, this time it's personal. 0.99

00:17:45.880 And with more on this latest example of cosmically stupid commentary by the Prime Minister is 0.99

00:17:53.480 the host of The Gunn Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed. 0.98

00:17:55.920 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:17:57.980 Hey, David.

00:17:58.480 Thanks for having me on.

00:17:59.440 Always a pleasure.

00:18:00.260 So, Sheila, I must ask you, what's it like being married to a predator?

00:18:05.720 Well, you know, he, like I said in the video, he's not much of a predator, except, you know,

00:18:13.740 when he's trying to hunt down a good deal on Kijiji, when he's trying to relax in his tiny

00:18:18.080 broom closet of a room in camp while he's away at work.

00:18:22.400 It's so ridiculous that these are the insinuations being made against good, decent, hardworking 0.86

00:18:29.660 Canadian men by the kokanee groper himself. 0.74

00:18:33.120 Yes, and something that he has never apologized for, if you see his interview in Chatelaine,

00:18:40.200 Canada's leading women's magazine, so-called, he answers that question with about three paragraphs

00:18:47.140 of baffle gab that I do not understand, even though English is my first language and I have

00:18:51.740 a degree in journalism, but he can't even take actions, he can't even take responsibility

00:18:56.800 for his actions.

00:18:57.620 But, Sheila, I think you were really on to something in your commentary, and that is bringing

00:19:02.540 up the psychological condition of projection, where you project your worst qualities on

00:19:09.960 other people.

00:19:11.460 And, you know, when you look at Justin Trudeau, as you mentioned, trust fund baby, has never

00:19:17.120 worked a tough job, a tough gig in his life.

00:19:21.100 So entitled, so, you know, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, compared to your husband

00:19:27.340 and so many other men out there putting in brutal shifts in all kinds of weather, bringing

00:19:34.740 home the bacon, if I'm still allowed to say that phrase.

00:19:37.780 I mean, he is the one who is a disgrace, not people like your husband.

00:19:43.460 Well, and that's the thing.

00:19:44.440 Like, Justin Trudeau, we have to look at just his lifestyle.

00:19:46.960 At Harrington Lake, which is his, like, summer cottage, in the winter, the Canadian taxpayer

00:19:53.880 spends tens of thousands of dollars just to clear away the snow for him, because he can't

00:20:03.400 even do that himself.

00:20:04.540 That's too difficult.

00:20:05.400 I think it's $40,000.

00:20:07.020 I could be wrong.

00:20:08.340 Just to clear away the snow at his summer house.

00:20:11.520 And he has the audacity to malign and, frankly, libel these decent men who are out there.

00:20:18.600 It's minus 40.

00:20:20.100 The wind is blowing.

00:20:21.580 It's plus 30 in the summertime.

00:20:23.720 They're working in terrible conditions.

00:20:26.040 And it's one thing for someone who has actually put in a hard day's work to be critical of you.

00:20:31.940 But how hard is being a part-time snowboard instructor and professional vacation taker?

00:20:37.420 You know, Sheila, I wonder where he gets these ideas.

00:20:41.720 And I'm being serious here.

00:20:43.120 Is this organically dreamt up in his brain?

00:20:46.860 Or are his advisors, the likes of Gerald Butts, saying, you know what?

00:20:52.140 Time to play the gender card. 0.86

00:20:54.100 You might want to say this to show your feminist side. 1.00

00:20:57.440 What do you think it is, Sheila? 1.00

00:20:59.700 Well, I do think he's stupid. 1.00

00:21:01.740 I'll go on the record to say that he is not a bright individual. 1.00

00:21:07.260 But this is the Liberal Party of Canada talking point.

00:21:11.140 We've seen Catherine McKenna trot this talking point out before in interviews with the media,

00:21:16.940 where she says that this gender-based analysis business that pipelines have to go through 0.70

00:21:21.540 is because of these large quantities of men coming to rural Canada to build a pipeline and sleep in camp

00:21:31.000 and go on Kijiji and text their wives when they finally get back into cell phone service.

00:21:36.600 She's said that this is something the Liberal Party truly believes,

00:21:41.400 and it's something they think is a winning issue.

00:21:44.020 And I don't think they really understand how insulted vast tracts of Canada really is by all of this.

00:21:53.620 It just speaks to how isolated they are inside their strange little Laurentian bubble.

00:21:59.720 No, I think you're right about that.

00:22:01.940 Isolated and detached from reality, quite frankly.

00:22:05.560 You know, Sheila, I thought this commentary was one of your all-time best.

00:22:08.960 I thought what you said about your husband was a million times greater than any Valentine's Day card you could buy him.

00:22:17.600 It was so profound. It was so heartfelt. It was so truthful.

00:22:21.420 But like you said, too, it's not as though you and your husband are living any kind of unique lifestyle.

00:22:28.220 You know, there are millions of Canadians that are doing this, getting up, you know, keeping a family together, working really hard.

00:22:35.000 And for Justin Trudeau to be so dismissive of that, it's like a slap in the face to all hardworking Canadians out there.

00:22:44.120 It's funny you say that because my husband, we don't talk about work when we get to talk to each other when he's away at work.

00:22:51.940 So he didn't see the commentary. I don't think he's seen the commentary yet.

00:22:56.140 But he did text me yesterday and say, what did you say on the Internet?

00:23:00.580 Someone is calling me a journalist groper.

00:23:02.380 And so that's going to be his work experience for the next couple of days.

00:23:09.900 But like I said in my commentary, I'm not special. We're not exceptional.

00:23:15.140 This is, we are absolutely mainstream Albertans.

00:23:18.460 This is the life my parents lived, my in-laws lived.

00:23:21.200 And it really speaks to the detachment, especially of the West, from these Laurentian lizards who are making the rules for the rest of us to live by.

00:23:30.660 A hundred percent. And Sheila, perhaps we can wrap it on this.

00:23:33.980 I know the year, the calendar year 2018 has 24 days more to go, but I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say you had the line of the year for every rebel commentary recorded in 2018.

00:23:48.620 And that was when you spoke about how Justin and your husband do share one common trait, that they both be known to grope a journalist every now and then.

00:23:59.520 That was brilliant. I hope, I pray Justin gets to see that commentary.

00:24:04.900 I would love to see the look on his face.

00:24:08.060 Well, you know, you know they watch the rebel.

00:24:10.360 They keep bringing us up in the House of Commons.

00:24:12.380 And so I'm sure he's seen that, but I'm sure he doesn't even understand what I'm talking about.

00:24:18.140 Well, Sheila, congratulations, like I said, on the line of the year and congratulations on another great commentary.

00:24:24.500 And anyone who hasn't seen it in its entirety, please see it.

00:24:28.100 It is a superb piece of commentary.

00:24:31.680 Just a beautiful thing.

00:24:33.000 Thank you again, Sheila.

00:24:34.880 Thanks, David. Have a great weekend.

00:24:36.440 You too. Good luck in Poland.

00:24:38.200 And folks, keep it here.

00:24:39.580 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:42.380 We'll be right back.

00:25:12.380 There's no confidence for Democrats either, especially as it pertains to Democrat candidates running for the presidency in 2020.

00:25:20.020 In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Springsteen said this.

00:25:23.520 I don't see anyone out there at the moment, the man who can beat Trump or the woman who can beat Trump.

00:25:29.980 Got to make sure you get that woman part in there so you don't piss off the feminazis. 1.00

00:25:33.760 You need someone who can speak some of the same language as Donald Trump, obviously.

00:25:39.000 And the Democrats don't have an obvious, effective presidential candidate.

00:25:42.940 Now, what's interesting about this to me is that on a daily basis, when you watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, basically all of the mainstream and legacy media, their number one complaint is about something that Trump said, his language.

00:26:00.080 And now you've got Springsteen out here saying that Democrats have got to have someone with the same language.

00:26:05.620 I'm sorry. Isn't that what you hate about Donald Trump?

00:26:08.080 Because regarding his language, the reason his supporters love him so much and the reason they support him so avidly is because he speaks the truth and truth and honesty are not really what lefties peddling.

00:26:18.960 And on top of that, when Donald Trump was running for the election, Americans like the idea of a businessman, not a politician being president.

00:26:28.320 And many of the Democrats who have hinted at throwing their hat in the ring for 2020 are Democrats whose hands are so deep in the pockets of lobbyists and special interest groups, they could clip their toenails for them.

00:26:39.040 Like so many other celebrities, Bruce Springsteen is no fan of the president, given his over-the-top hysteria pertaining to Trump.

00:26:48.180 But at least the boss is a realist by predicting that the Republicans are very likely headed for a second term under President Trump.

00:26:56.920 Yet the question arises with less than two years until the next election, who will be that effective, credible candidate to lead the Democratic Party?

00:27:06.820 Assuming such a person even exists, that is.

00:27:10.160 And with more on the Democrat dilemma heading into 2020 is our very own Hollywood conservative, Amanda Head.

00:27:17.820 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Amanda.

00:27:20.000 Thank you. Good to see you.

00:27:21.700 Always a pleasure, my friend.

00:27:22.900 So Amanda, so many angles here, but first off, I would argue that given the current roster of rogues who want to lead the Democrats from Conrad Sanders to Pocahontas,

00:27:36.100 the worst thing I can say about this party is that its best option might be going with Hillary 2.0. 0.94

00:27:42.840 What do you say?

00:27:44.620 Oh, man, that would personally be my dream.

00:27:47.700 I would love to have a Clinton-Trump battle once again, because I firmly believe that Donald Trump is going to win re-election in 2020 regardless.

00:27:58.880 But I think that if Hillary Clinton runs, oh, man, I mean, that would just be so much pure joy and entertainment for us.

00:28:06.980 I mean, Trump would probably come up with 30 new nicknames for her.

00:28:10.820 It would be amazing.

00:28:11.800 I have heard that Robert Francis O'Rourke has been flirting with the idea of a presidency at some point.

00:28:18.940 He, of course, is the Texan who ran for Ted Cruz's seat in the Senate.

00:28:24.040 He's also the one who allegedly walked away from a drunk driving accident in the 90s.

00:28:30.400 Beto, of course, although I don't like to use the term Beto because I think that it's culturally appropriating Hispanic culture.

00:28:36.980 But the left doesn't seem to have an issue when it's one of their own, obviously.

00:28:41.040 Well, at least that drunk driving incident didn't involve a car being submerged with a person inside it at the time.

00:28:50.100 But, you know, aside from him, Amanda, I'm going through your list that you adroitly mentioned in your commentary.

00:28:56.480 And you've got crazy Uncle Joe Biden claiming he's the most qualified.

00:29:03.020 And you have Pocahontas, of course, Elizabeth Warren. 0.63

00:29:06.260 I don't know how she gets a pass given her credentials and the fact that she would even brag that, you see, the DNA test proved me right.

00:29:16.120 I am 1,250th native.

00:29:19.960 Kamala Harris?

00:29:21.280 I mean, that's got to be a science fiction plot.

00:29:24.600 I mean, Amanda, what gives?

00:29:27.220 Is there somebody lurking behind the curtain that's a real heavyweight that is going to save this party in the next several months?

00:29:35.740 Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that it might be someone out of the blue.

00:29:40.080 You know, Barack Obama, as a junior senator, he was kind of out of the blue, but he just picked up steam so very quickly going into the presidential election that year.

00:29:49.880 So I wouldn't be surprised if it's somebody out of the blue.

00:29:52.820 You know, Joe Biden, I mean, I guess if the qualifications, you know, maybe he's lining himself up against Bill Clinton.

00:29:59.320 So that's why he thinks he's the most qualified, because we all know that that Joe Biden tends to get a little handsy.

00:30:07.280 So maybe that's why he's qualified.

00:30:09.660 Kamala Harris.

00:30:10.480 And this is something I will say about Kamala Harris.

00:30:13.480 She is so far left.

00:30:14.700 Of course, she's senator here in California, where I am.

00:30:16.940 If the Democrat Party nominates her and she is their candidate and and the DNC by proxy buys into her brand of leftism, the Democrat Party is in trouble or we as a country are in trouble because she is she is so far left on practically every single issue.

00:30:38.260 So, you know, I think that they will have a rough time with a candidate like that in 2020.

00:30:43.200 I hope that they will, because if they don't and someone like that prevails, then, you know, the ideals that this country was founded on, I mean, they will be completely thrown out.

00:30:55.480 Who else are we talking about?

00:30:57.140 Cory Booker, I think, is another one who has floated the idea, but he's kind of in the same camp as Kamala Harris.

00:31:03.140 So, you know, you've got all of these names floating around, of course, Pocahontas as well, who is one one thousand and ninety four.

00:31:09.820 I wouldn't be surprised if it's somebody that we don't even know right now.

00:31:17.680 You've also had Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Zucker, a bunch of like millionaire slash billionaire types.

00:31:22.420 I don't know if they are trying to, you know, emulate the Trump thing.

00:31:25.980 But the interesting thing about Donald Trump, as opposed to your normal millionaire or billionaire, you know, Trump was the richest one out of that entire pool of Republicans and Democrats.

00:31:38.060 And yet he was the one who had the ability to relate to the common man the most.

00:31:42.620 So that says something about him and his demeanor and his language and the way that he spoke to us.

00:31:47.980 And speaking of his language, Democrats, mainstream media, legacy media, the number one thing they criticize about this president is his language.

00:31:54.820 And now they are trying to match it because I think they realize that they can't, you know, I mean, if you can't beat him, join him.

00:32:00.800 Right. No, you know, that's an excellent point, Amanda.

00:32:02.960 And to go full circle on that, when we speak of Jeff Zucker, of course, he is the president of CNN.

00:32:09.180 I mean, how perversely ironic is that?

00:32:12.660 You know, the fact that this individual would play his cards by actually running for the leadership of the Democratic Party.

00:32:19.200 I mean, I guess in one way, talk about full disclosure.

00:32:22.020 And by the way, I'm not sure if I'm spelling full F-U-L-L or F-O-O-L here.

00:32:27.160 But I mean, you know, it would sure bring credence to the fact that most of the mainstream media has it in for Republicans and Donald Trump specifically.

00:32:39.180 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, talk about being in the tank for a presidential candidate.

00:32:43.440 I mean, we thought it was bad when the media was in the tank for Hillary Clinton.

00:32:47.040 Then this would quite literally be in the tank, in the pocketbook, in the bank account, in the pockets of Jeff Zucker.

00:32:54.380 So, I mean, that that would I think that's just a little too ironic for even Democrats to.

00:33:01.360 Well, well, Amanda, I think we've lost the connection, so we're going to have to wrap it here, my friend.

00:33:05.960 Thank you so much for another excellent commentary on the plight of the Democrats south of the border.

00:33:11.700 And folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:33:17.040 You know, the other day I was having an Adam West moment.

00:33:26.400 Check out this scene from the 1966 Batman movie.

00:33:30.220 Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

00:33:56.200 Yeah, some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

00:34:00.860 And you want to know something, folks?

00:34:02.340 Some days you just can't get rid of $15,000.

00:34:06.960 Now, you may recall that around this time last year, we started a fundraising drive for soldiers and their families at Camp Borden north of Toronto.

00:34:15.080 You see, we were tipped off about a story that was published in the base's official publication entitled Seasonal Sharing Basket Campaign.

00:34:25.440 Indeed, Justin Trudeau pays our soldiers so little they're forced to ask for charity.

00:34:30.600 And this is the same Trudeau who gave $10.5 million to Omar Khadr, a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist who murdered a soldier.

00:34:41.800 So it was we set out to raise $10,000 for the CFB Borden food hamper.

00:34:47.140 And you know what, folks?

00:34:48.200 Like always, you came through for us and our soldiers by donating more than $15,000.

00:34:54.480 But a funny thing happened on the way to CFB Borden.

00:34:58.440 What was meant to be a feel-good photo op turned into, well, this.

00:35:03.480 Hi, how are you?

00:35:04.900 Merry Christmas.

00:35:05.980 Good.

00:35:06.660 My name's David Menzies.

00:35:07.780 I'm from Rebel Media.

00:35:09.200 Okay.

00:35:09.600 And we just wanted to drop by.

00:35:11.340 You were having a seasonal sharing basket campaign.

00:35:14.340 Yep.

00:35:14.920 And we reached out to our viewers to raise money for it.

00:35:18.080 Yep.

00:35:18.320 And we've raised over $15,000.

00:35:20.740 Okay.

00:35:21.160 And we just wanted to drop off this check from our generous viewers to you.

00:35:25.860 Okay.

00:35:26.840 Actually, we, I have nothing to do with that anymore.

00:35:30.600 The campaign is closed.

00:35:32.200 Well, there you have it.

00:35:33.320 Your generous donations are mula non grata at CFB Borden.

00:35:38.680 We did find another military charity, however, called Canada Company.

00:35:42.440 They were initially happy to accept our donation, yet within hours of taking the check, guess what?

00:35:49.900 Canada Company sent it back, and they even requested that we destroy the video footage of them accepting the money.

00:35:58.380 Well, we smelled a rat.

00:36:00.160 Was there some interference going on in Ottawa?

00:36:02.520 And upon filing a Freedom of Information request, our suspicions were confirmed, for we received more than 100 pages of correspondence from the Department of National Defense, bureaucrats who were fretting over how to handle a charitable donation?

00:36:23.080 Yes, the DND paper pushers were afraid that we would politicize such a donation.

00:36:28.880 But the perverse irony is this, folks, by refusing our donation and having our quest to give this money go on for more than a year now, it is they who have politicized this issue, not us.

00:36:43.920 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about how the Trudeau Liberals just can't help themselves when it comes to disrespecting the military

00:36:53.500 and losing their stuff over the one Canadian media outlet they cannot control.

00:37:01.180 Zempla writes,

00:37:02.980 In the meantime, Justin is bragging to Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Twitter that he'll dish out 50 mil in Canuck bucks to some charity that doles out money to other charities marked for educating girls in the third world.

00:37:17.860 Yeah, indeed, Zempla.

00:37:19.280 Just put it on the tab, I guess.

00:37:21.080 But here's the thing, that's not Justin's money to give, is it?

00:37:25.180 That's our money, and Canadians had no say in the matter. 1.00

00:37:29.200 Meanwhile, the money that we raised from you, our viewers, was voluntarily given, yet those funds are refused?

00:37:38.720 This is nothing short of surreal.

00:37:43.020 MGTOWK writes,

00:37:44.180 Wait, what? Accepting Rebel's fundraising check could be bad PR, so their answer is to reject a donation and spur Rebel to notify their viewers like they are doing in this video?

00:37:57.680 Yeah, that's not going to go over like a lead balloon or anything.

00:38:00.840 Yeah, good point, my friend.

00:38:02.080 They turned this into the proverbial federal case, not us.

00:38:06.460 And it just goes to show why so many people consider the term military intelligence to be an oxymoron.

00:38:15.640 Vaughn Ellis writes,

00:38:17.100 Funny how Trudeau puts his image before serving forces and veterans.

00:38:33.480 Yeah, true enough, Mr. Ellis, but I honestly believe our Prime Minister is a narcissist.

00:38:38.640 And if you suffer from such a condition, why wouldn't you send a lot of payola to the media to write nice things about you, or at the very least, have them bury the ugly truth?

00:38:51.840 And Merlin Crisp writes,

00:38:53.300 Wow, this is criminal. Absolutely disgusting. 0.74

00:38:56.600 This needs to go viral. I'm sickened by this. 0.88

00:38:59.760 Well, Merlin, I don't think the actions of the government are criminal in terms of breaking any actual laws.

00:39:05.400 But are their actions immoral and unethical?

00:39:10.200 Oh, big time.

00:39:12.580 As for going viral, we're not quite done with this story yet, folks, as we continue to seek out another military charity that will accept your donations.

00:39:22.500 Please add your name to our online petition that we plan to deliver to Defence Minister Harji Sajan.

00:39:29.400 Simply visit CallOffYourDogs.com.

00:39:33.060 That's CallOffYourDogs.com.

00:39:36.780 And it's worth noting that not everyone was outraged by your donations getting rejected.

00:39:42.460 Mary Hildreth writes,

00:39:44.400 She, meaning the CFB staffer, didn't say your money wasn't good enough.

00:39:48.520 She said it, the charity, was closed.

00:39:51.200 I don't know about the second one, but the first one said it was already closed.

00:39:55.680 When you infer something like that, people don't take the rest of your commentary seriously.

00:40:02.020 Well, Mary, maybe you'll change your mind when you hear the rest of the story, which is this.

00:40:08.160 After being informed that the 2017 program at CFB was over,

00:40:13.640 we suggested the money could go towards the 2018 CFB fundraising initiative.

00:40:20.380 And suddenly, guess what?

00:40:22.420 The story changed.

00:40:23.540 A CFB media flack informed us that the food hamper drive is meant to be a spirit-raising event on the base

00:40:31.400 and accepting money from outsiders would go against that goal.

00:40:35.920 So again, they declined.

00:40:38.360 And if you think that's a truthful reason to turn down $15,000 for needy people,

00:40:43.980 I have a slightly used Sherman tank for sale that was only driven by a little old lady on Sundays. 1.00

00:40:49.740 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:40:53.400 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:40:54.800 See you next week.

00:40:55.620 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:41:00.320 Good night.

00:41:00.800 Good night.

00:41:20.820 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - December 08, 2018

Rebel Roundup： Guests Amanda Head, Ezra Levant & Sheila Gunn Reid

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