Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Ben Davies, Sheila Gunn Reid, & Ezra Levant!

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00:00:04.040 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:00:07.760 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:00:12.680 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:15.140 Attention Loblaws shoppers, there's an appliance special on right now

00:00:20.260 in which $12 million of your tax money is going to enable this multi-billion dollar conglomerate

00:00:27.760 to purchase new fridges and freezers.

00:00:30.680 Oh my, Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the stone-cold details. 0.68

00:00:35.640 Quebec's anti-Burka law, Bill 21, is being deemed as racist and Islamophobic by the usual suspects.

00:00:44.340 Even though it's all about separating mosque from state, 0.95

00:00:48.200 Rebel Commander Ezra Levent shall explain all.

00:00:51.400 So after that disastrous Me Too-themed Gillette ad campaign earlier this year,

00:00:56.620 you'd think maybe that parent company, Procter & Gamble, might have learned some advertising lessons?

00:01:03.760 Well, judging by a tweet for its Venus brand of female razors, 1.00

00:01:08.720 the answer would seem to be a firm no.

00:01:11.720 Ben Davies has the skinny on P&G's latest virtue signalling marketing flop.

00:01:18.240 And finally, letters.

00:01:19.400 We get your letters.

00:01:20.280 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:22.300 And I'll share some of your responses regarding Justin Trudeau's $1,600-a-plate fundraiser in Toronto last week.

00:01:31.360 Two things.

00:01:32.000 Apparently, there are still Liberal supporters who adore this guy.

00:01:35.760 Oh, and judging by his motorcade of SUVs that kept their V8 engines running for hours on end,

00:01:42.040 it would seem that when it comes to carbon footprint reduction,

00:01:46.860 Justin subscribes to the mantra of,

00:01:49.400 do as I say, not as I do.

00:01:52.060 Those are your Rebels.

00:01:53.320 Now let's round them up.

00:01:54.540 Loblaw gives money to an organization with direct ties to Notley's campaign team through Bryantop

00:02:09.760 that in turn smears and character assassinates normal Canadians who don't have billions of dollars

00:02:15.780 squirreled away after years of ripping off poor people and tax evasion.

00:02:21.280 Loblaw, through these generous sponsorships to the Broadbent Institute,

00:02:26.140 funds a tax on Albertans who just want a job and maybe want to be able to afford to buy some groceries in a Loblaw store.

00:02:33.320 There is great irony in this NDP candidate here,

00:02:37.340 Gerbachan Brar,

00:02:38.840 accusing UCP leader Jason Kenney of taking bread from the mouths of the poor

00:02:44.520 when the NDP research and media arm Press Progress is largely funded by a company that did just that,

00:02:51.880 took bread from the mouths of the poor.

00:02:55.020 That's some ethical advocates for the poor, those NDP are.

00:02:59.440 While Rachel Notley rails about Jason Kenney's tax cuts to spur business reinvestment back to Alberta,

00:03:06.560 the NDP research and media arm Press Progress takes a lot of money from a company that hid money in a Barbadian bank.

00:03:15.540 Wow, that's a superb resume Loblaws has, eh?

00:03:19.100 But it looks like in Justin Trudeau's Canada,

00:03:22.380 bad behavior gets rewarded, not punished,

00:03:25.420 because this company that was part of a cartel that price-fixed bread for 15 years

00:03:32.860 is receiving a $12 million federal grant to buy energy-efficient refrigerators to reduce its energy consumption.

00:03:43.100 And guess what, folks?

00:03:44.620 You are paying for it.

00:03:46.920 With more on this latest example of corporate welfare run amok

00:03:51.080 is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:03:53.780 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:03:56.520 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on.

00:03:57.980 Well, always a pleasure.

00:03:59.260 So, Sheila, let's check out the tale of the tape when it comes to Loblaws.

00:04:03.680 This company had revenues of more than $46 billion last year.

00:04:07.540 It has a staggering 63% market share.

00:04:11.620 It is controlled by a family that is worth several billion dollars.

00:04:15.640 If they want energy-efficient appliances, why the hell can't they buy their own fridges? 0.92

00:04:21.320 Well, that's the thing.

00:04:23.000 Like, Gaila and Weston and the Weston family, they are $10 billion richer than Donald Trump.

00:04:31.000 And the left won't shut up about Donald Trump.

00:04:34.060 But these people fly under the radar.

00:04:36.060 They get government handouts because, as I discovered in my story,

00:04:40.120 they're washing money over to some of the conservatives' loudest critics at Press Progress and the Broadbent Institute.

00:04:49.820 So, they get these handouts from the Liberal government and then for refrigeration. 0.99

00:04:56.620 I mean, pay for your own damn fridges. 0.99

00:04:58.440 But then they go and fund this massive machinery that, right now in Alberta, is really the research arm of the NDP party. 0.99

00:05:10.080 So, I mean, you want to talk about sinister billionaires?

00:05:15.860 This is it.

00:05:17.000 But you know what, Sheila?

00:05:18.200 Here is the perverse irony.

00:05:20.440 Both the federal liberals under Trudeau and Loblaw companies have really outsmarted themselves.

00:05:26.820 Because $12 million to Loblaw Companies Limited is like you and I finding a couple of quarters in the couch.

00:05:34.080 It is chump change.

00:05:36.160 And yet, look at the negative publicity this company is receiving.

00:05:40.340 And here, just as SNC-Lavalin is just dying down for a 24-hour news cycle period,

00:05:47.340 bang, another scandal all over, in the big picture, a paltry $12 million for a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.

00:05:56.040 I think if they could, you know, redo the chronology here, they never would have gone through with this.

00:06:02.200 Yeah, you know, and the way we all found out about it is just so perfectly liberal.

00:06:08.860 I mean, the news broke on climate Barbie Catherine McKenna's Twitter feed.

00:06:14.940 She did, like, a live stream video of her handing this money over to Loblaws.

00:06:20.540 And she was standing there, proud as a peacock, thinking this is something that Canadians are really going to embrace.

00:06:27.540 Look at us doing green things.

00:06:30.760 For all the people who manage her social media, it's over 20 most days.

00:06:36.500 Not a single one of them thought, you know what, we sort of kind of did tell veterans that they were asking for more than we could give them.

00:06:44.120 And we basically told Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve that they can kind of go screw themselves even though they're poisoned by mercury.

00:06:52.640 And here we are handing out money to billionaires.

00:06:54.980 It was so tone-deaf.

00:06:57.520 It was so much from the inside the bubble of Ottawa, but it is perfectly liberal.

00:07:02.860 It shows just how out of touch they are with the concerns of normal people.

00:07:06.580 People who were shafted by Loblaws, by the way, with their price-fixing scam.

00:07:11.600 Oh, yeah, no, that is the cherry on the sundae for sure.

00:07:14.960 But here's the thing, Sheila.

00:07:16.500 I mean, Climate Barbie, she is an intellectual lightweight. 1.00

00:07:20.580 I mean, there's not any substance there for sure.

00:07:23.440 However, you would think that the people behind the scenes, the puppet masters, you know, the PR spinners,

00:07:29.940 they would be saying things to the elected MPs.

00:07:33.260 Hey, listen, we've looked over this photo op, and you know what? 0.99

00:07:38.660 The optics could come back to bite us in the ass. 0.99

00:07:43.480 Don't go ahead with this. 0.99

00:07:45.000 But no, they are so blinded, I think, Sheila, by their virtue signaling,

00:07:48.800 they can't even think of, you know, plan B if this goes awry.

00:07:55.860 These are the same people whose only concern about Catherine McKenna's tweets congratulating Syria

00:08:03.240 when they joined the airport was, let's make sure we get the French translation right.

00:08:09.480 I mean, they don't see things through the lens of normal people.

00:08:13.560 They never have.

00:08:14.760 They never will.

00:08:15.900 Really, it's just all about photo ops.

00:08:17.780 They thought Canadians would embrace this photo op.

00:08:20.760 Look, it's our local grocery store greening, so we should green too.

00:08:25.920 And that's how the liberals think.

00:08:27.900 They don't think like, hey, that's the company that screwed over poor people for 15 years

00:08:35.600 and then offered them a pittance of a $25 gift card for their troubles.

00:08:40.060 And then, late last year, was caught using a Barbadian bank to skirt Canadian tax laws.

00:08:47.940 All the while, Bill Morneau, Canada's finance minister, is cracking down on small businesses and farmers

00:08:54.060 like they're a bunch of tax cheats.

00:08:55.600 Yeah, no, it is amazing.

00:08:57.320 And, you know, the funny thing, too, about the price-fixing scandal, Sheila, as you pointed out,

00:09:04.860 Loblaws went from a co-conspirator to use the parlance of organized crime to a rat

00:09:13.020 and offered up the goods first so they would get immunity.

00:09:18.200 Usually, in the world of the mafiosa, that's a death sentence.

00:09:23.480 But here we have corporate bad behavior not being penalized,

00:09:28.940 but by being rewarded by this $12 million check for refrigeration.

00:09:34.380 This is Twilight Zone stuff.

00:09:38.400 Yeah, and I mean, the thing about Loblaws, and, you know, I'm not one to attack wealthy businesses.

00:09:44.140 I think good for them, if you come by it honestly, and that's in question, I would say.

00:09:49.960 But we can't really escape them, especially in places where there's not a lot of other grocery stores.

00:09:56.400 They're as close to a grocer monopoly, I think, as you can probably get in today's modern age.

00:10:01.720 Which, they have, you know, they're independent stores, which are the no-frills superstore.

00:10:08.360 If you need to go to a drugstore, Shoppers Drug Mart, they own whole Renfrew.

00:10:12.500 Like, they own such a market share that you really can't, on a lot of days, say,

00:10:17.880 you know what, I'm not going to shop at superstore.

00:10:20.340 Because for a lot of places in this country, they are the only game in town.

00:10:23.760 No, you pointed that out in your commentary.

00:10:25.900 I mean, for someone like myself in the Toronto area, I can seek out competition.

00:10:32.000 And I know Lady Menzoid, thanks to your commentary, she's now crossing the street from Loblaws to Longos. 0.98

00:10:38.480 And it's not much of a sacrifice.

00:10:39.860 But if you're in a small town, a Loblaw company grocer might be the only game in town.

00:10:45.540 And, you know, so you can't do a boycott.

00:10:48.420 You've got to feed your family.

00:10:49.580 But one last point before we wrap, Sheila.

00:10:51.460 What I, you know, what I really find staggering, again, because Loblaw is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate,

00:10:58.340 is that there is already an incentive to buy those, that $12 million worth of refrigeration.

00:11:06.040 Because if these are energy efficient fridges, as what's being told to us,

00:11:11.280 well, they're going to make back that $12 million and more based on the electricity consumption rates that are going to go down.

00:11:18.280 So there was already an incentive to make money by buying this more efficient refrigeration units.

00:11:25.300 But no, they needed that welfare check from the taxpayer.

00:11:29.460 Disgraceful.

00:11:29.860 Yeah, you know what else?

00:11:31.820 My mother-in-law pointed out a good point.

00:11:34.200 She goes, why don't they just take all the money they charge me every time I walk in there for a grocery bag for five cents 1.00

00:11:40.060 in the name of greening the environment and just put that into refrigeration?

00:11:44.420 Which is true.

00:11:45.800 Where the heck is that money going?

00:11:47.960 I mean, if they're doing it in the interest of greening the environment, then, yeah, pay for your own refrigeration.

00:11:53.980 I have to, if I want to, you know, take the old clunker in the garage offline that I put beer in and save a few bucks,

00:12:01.480 I've got to pay up front.

00:12:03.260 100%.

00:12:03.660 Why aren't they doing it?

00:12:06.140 Well, because you don't have liberal ties and they do, Sheila.

00:12:09.780 Sheila, we have to wrap it here.

00:12:11.160 I think it's a huge black eye.

00:12:12.620 If I were Loblaw or if I were their PR guy advising them, I'd say give the money back

00:12:16.860 and make some huge donation to some green charity and try to get on the positive side of the ledger.

00:12:23.080 But I think they might be just too arrogant, both the Liberal Party of Canada and Loblaw, to do the right thing.

00:12:29.440 So thank you again, Sheila, for a wonderful commentary as always.

00:12:33.940 Great. Thanks, David.

00:12:34.640 I just want to make a quick point.

00:12:36.020 Maybe they could donate some of that money to the food bank after they screwed over poor people for all those years.

00:12:42.120 But anyway, thanks for having me on the show, David.

00:12:43.960 Great idea.

00:12:45.040 Thank you, Sheila.

00:12:45.920 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed in Alberta.

00:12:48.840 Keep it here, folks.

00:12:49.960 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:12:53.080 The persons listed in Schedule 2 are prohibited from wearing religious symbols in the exercise of their functions.

00:13:08.980 Pretty clear.

00:13:09.640 And you know what?

00:13:10.040 Pretty uncontroversial to me.

00:13:11.240 You don't see police officers pulling you over for speeding, wearing a huge honking crucifix on a necklace, do you?

00:13:17.980 No, because that's not a uniform man.

00:13:19.780 They have to be a neutral agent of the state.

00:13:21.240 Let me read some more.

00:13:22.900 Personnel members of a body, a government money, must exercise their functions with their face uncovered.

00:13:28.080 Yeah, are you shocked?

00:13:29.020 Let me read some more.

00:13:30.240 Similarly, persons who present themselves to receive a service from a personnel member of the body must have their face uncovered where doing so is necessary to allow their identity to be verified for security reasons.

00:13:41.320 Persons who fail to comply without obligation may not receive the service requested where applicable.

00:13:45.720 For the purposes of the second paragraph, persons are deemed to be presenting themselves to receive a service when they are interacting or communicating with a personnel member of a body in the exercise of the personal member's functions.

00:13:58.980 Okay, I'm getting a bit technically here, but I can sum it up.

00:14:01.640 Take off your mask.

00:14:04.640 You're going to the driver's license office.

00:14:07.460 Take off your mask.

00:14:08.540 You're going to a government hospital.

00:14:09.880 Take off your mask.

00:14:10.780 You're in Canada now.

00:14:11.860 You don't have to be worried about the religious police beating you anymore.

00:14:15.920 You're free now.

00:14:16.960 You're in Canada now.

00:14:18.060 Well, unless you're worried about that here in Canada too, about being beaten or attacked by some religious police if you take off your mask.

00:14:28.680 And if that's the case, then we have a big problem now, don't we?

00:14:31.200 So let's be honest about Quebec's anti-burka law, Bill 21.

00:14:35.240 It's being deemed racist and Islamophobic by the usual suspects, including members of the media party.

00:14:41.640 But when one actually takes the time to read the contents of the bill, one finds that it applies to all religions and only those employees who are being paid by the taxpayer.

00:14:53.100 So it's really all about the separation of church and state, or more appropriately, mosque and state. 0.82

00:14:59.080 And somehow this is being preposterously spun as an example of ethnic cleansing.

00:15:06.220 Give me a break.

00:15:07.320 And joining me now with more on this subject is our very own Rebel Commander, Ezra Lovett.

00:15:12.420 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:15:13.920 Thanks very much.

00:15:14.460 You know, I did something very dangerous.

00:15:15.960 Uh-oh.

00:15:16.280 And that is I checked a story for myself.

00:15:19.040 I didn't rely on the media party.

00:15:21.280 And so Quebec, even though it's a predominantly French province, they do publish their bills and laws in both languages, which is good.

00:15:31.520 Because, of course, there's a lot of Anglophones in that province.

00:15:35.760 So I read Bill 21 for myself in English.

00:15:39.880 And I'm glad I did.

00:15:41.140 Because I was told by the media party it was racist, it was Islamophobic, it was all those things you just said.

00:15:46.960 So I just said, okay, let me just slowly read every word.

00:15:50.000 And it's not too technical.

00:15:52.680 It's not too much legalese.

00:15:54.560 It's a little bit of legalese.

00:15:55.960 But the title of the bill, it's not even called the burqa ban.

00:16:00.420 It doesn't even mention burqas or it doesn't mention any religion.

00:16:04.280 It's actually a law to confirm the laicity.

00:16:07.460 That's sort of a, that's not really an English word.

00:16:10.220 That's a French word that means secularism.

00:16:12.080 So it's a law to confirm the secular nature of the government of Quebec.

00:16:17.240 So it's, I wouldn't call it an atheist law.

00:16:19.940 I would just say it does two things.

00:16:23.180 If you work for the government of Quebec, almost anywhere, you can't cover your face.

00:16:31.080 So that doesn't stop the hijab, which is like a babushka. 1.00

00:16:36.360 It doesn't stop the yarmulke or a Sikh turban. 1.00

00:16:40.480 It doesn't stop people from wearing a cross or a star David.

00:16:43.720 But if you're a bus driver, if you're a daycare worker, if you're a doctor,

00:16:50.860 and you get money from the government of Quebec, you can't cover your face.

00:16:54.920 And also when you get services from someone from the government of Quebec, you can't cover your face.

00:16:59.720 That's, that's a pretty easy law.

00:17:02.400 So that's one part of the law.

00:17:03.940 Yeah.

00:17:04.680 But there's another stricter part of the law that applies to some other people.

00:17:09.180 And that says you just can't have any religious symbols at all.

00:17:15.680 Right.

00:17:16.320 And that's a smaller list of people.

00:17:19.620 So that's pretty much it.

00:17:23.860 The list, I mean, the law is pretty short.

00:17:26.600 It just says, well, here's the principles.

00:17:28.280 We have freedom of religion.

00:17:30.060 We have a separation of religion and state.

00:17:32.720 They don't even say separation of church and state or mosque and state.

00:17:35.580 They say everyone has their freedom to be whatever religion they want.

00:17:39.980 But we're just going to separate it from the government.

00:17:42.140 So there's actually no burqa band.

00:17:43.660 You will see burqas on the street in Montreal the day after this becomes law.

00:17:47.460 You just won't see them in government offices.

00:17:49.980 You know, and here's the other funny angle I find about this, Ezra,

00:17:53.260 is that for so many years, going back to Meech Lake, if you will,

00:17:57.260 we've been told that Quebec is a distinct society.

00:18:00.500 We recognize it as a distinct society.

00:18:02.940 And then on this file of the separation of church and state, if you will,

00:18:06.640 when they go out and do something that shows their distinctiveness, they get condemned.

00:18:13.680 And yet, let's be honest, two things.

00:18:17.360 The government said if there's a constitutional challenge,

00:18:21.440 they're going to invoke the notwithstanding clause.

00:18:23.900 And secondly, there is massive public support for this.

00:18:28.060 Oh, for sure.

00:18:29.740 Now, the government in Quebec is a new party that's not even 10 years old.

00:18:34.080 It's called the CAQ or CAC Party, Coalition Avenir Quebec,

00:18:37.500 the Coalition for the Future of Quebec.

00:18:39.740 And so they brought this law in.

00:18:42.480 But the government that they beat at the last election was the Liberal Party of Quebec.

00:18:46.800 They had a similar law.

00:18:48.660 And you, of course, remember the Parti Québécois.

00:18:51.680 They support the law.

00:18:52.900 In fact, they think it doesn't go far enough.

00:18:54.480 So the three main parties in Quebec, or at least the three that have governed it

00:18:59.140 for the last 50 years or whatever, they all agree on this.

00:19:02.360 Now, there's a small Marxist Islamic party called, I just forgot what it's called.

00:19:09.820 I think that description speaks volumes.

00:19:12.060 Amir Qadir is one of the, like, it's a really Marxist Islamist party.

00:19:18.640 They're opposed to it.

00:19:19.520 But them and all the multi-culti Toronto fancy pants media at McLean's and the National Post

00:19:30.100 and the Toronto Star, they're apoplectic about this.

00:19:33.640 But in Quebec, it's as close to unanimous as just about anything gets in Quebec.

00:19:39.460 And so you'll notice that Justin Trudeau, is he calling this bill alt-right, neo-Nazi,

00:19:46.940 white supremacist?

00:19:47.960 No, he's not.

00:19:49.460 You, if anyone in English Canada would read a word of this, that's what they would be

00:19:53.640 denounced as.

00:19:54.480 But in Quebec, Trudeau is being very careful.

00:19:56.980 I mean, he still goes to all his mosque rallies.

00:19:59.440 And he says a few things about, I support you.

00:20:02.020 But he has not condemned this.

00:20:04.300 He has not campaigned against this.

00:20:05.840 Because in Quebec, it is unanimous.

00:20:08.440 And when you think about it, Quebec, old stock Quebec, I don't want to say indigenous Quebecers 0.99

00:20:17.120 because there were Aboriginal Indians there before the French came to Quebec 400 years

00:20:22.020 ago, but 400 years is a very long time.

00:20:26.900 I mean, people say Canada is such a new country.

00:20:29.020 Really?

00:20:29.980 There's been French in Quebec for 400 years.

00:20:34.380 Newfoundland is even older in some ways.

00:20:35.840 So you still have to say that the Indians, Aboriginal people were the indigenous Canadians, of course.

00:20:44.700 But when you're in a place homesteading, logging, trapping, building, setting up cities and towns,

00:20:51.160 settling, colonizing, New France, you can call yourself indigenous in your own way.

00:20:56.180 So you have 400 years of indigenous French Quebecois culture.

00:21:00.420 By the way, that happens to be white.

00:21:03.200 And I would say that the most politicized license plate slogan in the country.

00:21:07.720 Mr. Vien.

00:21:08.300 Yeah.

00:21:08.620 I remember.

00:21:09.460 What are you remembering?

00:21:10.220 I remember those old days.

00:21:12.040 Right.

00:21:12.460 So by any dictionary definition, they are an ethnic nationalism.

00:21:19.320 Yes.

00:21:19.880 Much more. 0.96

00:21:20.620 I mean, Justin Trudeau and his cronies throw around alt-right, racist, white nationalist.

00:21:26.100 Quebecois, and I'm not saying this in a pejorative way, I'm saying it in a descriptive way,

00:21:30.460 they are a nationalist, indigenous, white culture that has sovereignty over some areas.

00:21:38.160 And I'm not criticizing it, I'm not condemning it, I'm not even calling it racist.

00:21:42.620 I'm just saying if there is anything in North America that resembles a white nation, 0.96

00:21:47.140 that talks about itself as its ethnicity and nationalism, it's the Quebecois.

00:21:51.800 And I'm not condemning it, I'm not saying they're racist.

00:21:53.500 I'm just saying that they want to keep their Frenchness, and for most liberal politicians,

00:21:58.780 that's always been okay.

00:22:00.460 And Ezra, we're almost out of time.

00:22:02.100 One very quick question, and hopefully a quick answer.

00:22:04.540 We must, you know, be honest and say that when you're pro-Burqa, pro-Niqab, this is a third rail in Quebec. 0.88

00:22:12.540 And I've always loved your theory of what really happened in the federal election of 2015.

00:22:17.260 And that was Tom Mulcair going to bat for that woman in Mississauga, Ontario,

00:22:23.140 who wanted to take the citizenship oath while in the burqa or the niqab,

00:22:28.260 and supported her right to do that religious freedom thing.

00:22:32.160 That does not play in Quebec.

00:22:33.880 That resulted in, what, a 15% greater?

00:22:35.920 And that was the balance swung from the conservatives to the liberals.

00:22:42.140 So maybe this is really why Justin Trudeau isn't doing the alt-right, the white supremacist card,

00:22:48.340 because he will alienate those voters in Quebec for the next federal election.

00:22:53.200 The lying Anglo media party will tell you that Stephen Harper lost the last election

00:22:59.820 because of the burqa ban and his barbaric cultural practices tip line. 0.96

00:23:05.240 That's what they want you to believe, because that's their narrative.

00:23:09.280 What actually happened is the opposite.

00:23:11.960 The liberals and the NDP were perfectly tied for about a month in the campaign,

00:23:18.040 and that was almost perfectly splitting the ABC.

00:23:21.740 Anybody but conservative vote.

00:23:23.700 And Stephen Harper was on track to win a minority government

00:23:27.000 until Thomas Mulcair, who, by the way, is probably identical to Justin Trudeau on the issue,

00:23:34.780 but he wasn't as smart as Trudeau.

00:23:36.500 So like you say, he totally embraced it.

00:23:38.260 I think it was a 14-point immediately collapse of his vote in Quebec

00:23:42.380 because the Francophones, the indigenous French nation, just said, no thanks.

00:23:46.700 So you have a 14-point drop in Quebec basically overnight.

00:23:49.960 That's going to show up as a three- or four-point drop nationwide.

00:23:54.540 So the ABC voter was saying, well, do we vote liberal or NDP?

00:23:58.800 I say liberal.

00:23:59.560 I see NDP.

00:24:00.180 So they were like this.

00:24:01.160 And then like about a week or so before the vote, it goes...

00:24:04.960 So that just caused the avalanche.

00:24:08.440 And then all of these New Democrats say, oh, yikes, we're all coalescing around Trudeau.

00:24:12.800 Let's just do that.

00:24:13.440 And they went, boom.

00:24:14.760 So the burqa, Thomas Mulcair's embrace of the burqa is what handed not just so many Quebec seats to the liberals, 0.95

00:24:23.760 but it was the cue to New Democrats in Ontario and B.C. to all get behind Trudeau.

00:24:33.640 Justin Trudeau owes his prime ministership to the burqa ban, and Thomas Mulcair's embrace of it, 1.00

00:24:40.660 but ironically, it was Trudeau who campaigned the hardest in the mosques,

00:24:45.600 including the hate mosques in Canada that are so, you know,

00:24:49.460 like the Asuna Wahhabi Mosque in Montreal that the Pentagon says was where terrorists were recruited.

00:24:54.740 So it was actually quite a trick.

00:24:58.040 Trudeau got the radical Muslim vote, but he didn't get the backlash for supporting the burqa.

00:25:03.500 Incredible.

00:25:04.400 Ezra, we have to wrap it here.

00:25:06.220 Amazing story.

00:25:07.080 Folks, keep your eyes on this one.

00:25:09.800 You're going to see hypocrisy galore by the liberal elites and the media party when it comes to this particular bill.

00:25:17.280 Keep it here.

00:25:17.840 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:25:28.280 There have been no shortage of cringe-level 1,000 woke marketing campaigns thrown together for the sole purpose of enticing your dollar.

00:25:35.940 With the only goal being making people think these companies actually care.

00:25:40.780 Here are just a few classics.

00:25:42.060 The paper towel company, Brawny, took the iconic lumberjack dude wearing plaid off

00:25:46.700 and replaced him with a woman wearing the same thing. 0.99

00:25:48.880 Fine, no one really would have noticed.

00:25:50.200 But wait, they had to make sure you did.

00:25:52.080 So they had to stamp on the hashtag strengthhasnogender campaign.

00:25:55.840 You know, because nothing empowers women like paper towels. 1.00

00:25:58.880 I mean, right?

00:25:59.660 Was this move to empower women to pursue the dangerous career of lumberjacking? 1.00

00:26:03.860 Ah, no, it was to seem woke.

00:26:05.240 Another classic, Nike giving Colin Kaepernick an entire line with the slogan

00:26:09.320 Stand for something, even if it means sacrificing everything.

00:26:12.780 I know what people tell you, but here's the truth here.

00:26:14.620 Colin Kaepernick was a losing QB for two years and lost his starting job.

00:26:17.760 And so he was benched.

00:26:19.500 This all happened before he took a knee.

00:26:21.500 He lost his job before he took a knee.

00:26:23.720 And even still, that same season with all the controversy, he still was allowed to play and was awful.

00:26:28.900 So what did he sacrifice?

00:26:30.180 Ah, nothing.

00:26:30.960 But Nike wants to fight bigotry and stand up to injustice.

00:26:34.320 No.

00:26:34.780 No, you don't.

00:26:35.600 You want to prop up a fraud to sell sneakers.

00:26:37.620 And don't get me started on the Gillette toxic masculinity commercial. 0.94

00:26:40.720 But just when you think Gillette couldn't get any more woke and ridiculous, they say, 0.92

00:26:44.660 hold my beer. 0.97

00:26:45.680 I got one for you.

00:26:46.840 Posting this image with the caption, quote,

00:26:49.220 Go out there and slay the day.

00:26:51.140 Glitter plus lasers.

00:26:52.720 Whatever glitter plus lasers mean.

00:26:54.400 And of course, any critics of this ad have been labeled fatphobic.

00:26:57.580 Remember the good old days when advertising was all about moving the merchandise?

00:27:02.000 Now it seems that certain companies have been infiltrated by social justice warriors.

00:27:08.760 Indeed, an increasing number of marketing campaigns seem to be far more keen on making some kind of virtue signaling social statement,

00:27:18.440 as opposed to enticing consumers to go out and actually buy the product being advertised.

00:27:25.100 And how weird is that?

00:27:26.760 Joining me now with more on this wacky SJW trend in the ad business is our Tinseltown rebel, Ben Davies.

00:27:35.280 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ben.

00:27:37.380 So good to be here.

00:27:39.420 Likewise.

00:27:40.680 Now, Ben, it looks like Procter & Gamble, which of course is the parent company of Gillette,

00:27:45.940 learned nothing from that Me Too themed fiasco for male razors.

00:27:50.940 But now P&G seems hell-bent on destroying the female side of the razor business, too, 0.99

00:27:57.400 as they trumpet an image of a woman who is obviously morbidly obese. 0.99

00:28:02.280 Now, Ben, I am no fan of the anorexic supermodel look.

00:28:07.520 But applauding obesity is not right either.

00:28:11.380 Obesity will make your life difficult.

00:28:14.060 It will lead to various health complications.

00:28:16.860 It will lead to a shorter life. 0.75

00:28:18.900 So, Ben, what in blue hell is behind this latest ludicrous Gillette marketing campaign?

00:28:27.100 Well, I think the basis of it is once you go low, you can't go back. 0.95

00:28:31.060 Once you do the male toxic masculinity Gillette commercial,

00:28:35.280 then all of a sudden you lose that marketplace.

00:28:37.460 You better make sure you get everyone else,

00:28:40.380 including body shame activists or fat-phobic fighters or something,

00:28:45.480 kind of like section off this niche as well for your company.

00:28:49.040 And that's what they're doing with this new Gillette campaign,

00:28:51.100 which is opportunistic and dangerous and extremely shallow, what they're doing.

00:28:56.340 Like you said, it's not a lifestyle that's conducive for anyone that has way more health complications

00:29:01.540 than you can even imagine.

00:29:02.740 And right now, I didn't even know this, Canada's obesity right now is at 30%,

00:29:07.780 which is right on par with the United States.

00:29:09.880 This is an epidemic and encouraging people to go down this path

00:29:13.020 that leads to so many harmful diseases and problems with your body.

00:29:17.580 It's nothing short of despicable.

00:29:20.800 No, I agree.

00:29:21.920 And I know, Ben, I'm going to get all kinds of comments,

00:29:23.900 and they're going to be saying about yours truly, 0.99

00:29:25.420 oh, look at that fat menzoid talking about a fat woman. 1.00

00:29:29.580 Hey, listen, I am fat. 0.99

00:29:31.100 I admit it.

00:29:31.920 But if I didn't, you know, cut sugar out of my diet,

00:29:34.740 if I didn't exercise every second day, I would be circus fat.

00:29:38.920 This is not something to triumph.

00:29:42.060 You know, we have this whole body image thing going now, Ben,

00:29:44.980 where people are saying, yeah, you go gal or you go guy.

00:29:49.200 You know, if you need quintuple XL, you know, clothes to get into, that's fine.

00:29:54.520 No, it's not fine.

00:29:55.940 It's unhealthy.

00:29:57.480 And Gillette, which is, let's face it, in the image,

00:30:00.460 in the business, rather, a body image,

00:30:03.140 they shouldn't be adding fuel to this social justice warrior fire to begin with. 0.96

00:30:08.840 Oh, yeah, it's ridiculous. 0.97

00:30:10.160 It's like you see someone that's just drinking paint thinner. 0.96

00:30:12.740 It's like, hey, you go, dude, you've got this.

00:30:14.980 This is a problem that you need to work on.

00:30:16.660 It's like for you, it's like, yeah, you know, I lean towards more of the sweets.

00:30:19.280 I need to watch out for them.

00:30:20.380 What kind of friends would people be if they're like, yo, Dave,

00:30:22.560 let me throw you a cake party, man. 0.83

00:30:24.340 You need to beat you, man.

00:30:25.920 Be the best version of yourself. 0.89

00:30:27.060 It's like, no, it's dangerous. 0.97

00:30:29.020 It's dangerous, and the double standard is ridiculous.

00:30:31.180 Because, yes, models and agencies and ad companies have been slammed. 0.76

00:30:34.980 The models are, I think they're too skinny. 0.99

00:30:37.540 Literally in the U.K. and the United States,

00:30:39.560 ads have been pulled because they just think this girl looks too skinny for their taste. 1.00

00:30:43.440 Not that she's unhealthy.

00:30:44.620 Not that she's suffering from an eating disorder.

00:30:46.520 She looks unhealthy to me.

00:30:48.420 And saying this, you can't even be on screen for people to admire

00:30:51.340 if you look too skinny for my taste.

00:30:53.240 That is insane.

00:30:54.420 Likewise, I'll also say, like, obviously,

00:30:56.480 if anyone has suffered from an eating disorder,

00:30:58.120 that's something that also should not be encouraged.

00:31:00.340 You can't say hashtag BU when someone is suffering on the opposite end.

00:31:04.220 Not indulging, but removing food entirely.

00:31:06.600 You don't encourage any of those because it's detrimental to the person.

00:31:09.660 I just think it's crazy.

00:31:10.480 But that side of the equation, that's at less than,

00:31:13.300 that's about 7% people that suffer from an eating disorder,

00:31:16.160 which is still a problem we should address and talk about.

00:31:18.140 Don't get me wrong.

00:31:18.960 But we're talking 30% of people in the United States and in Canada

00:31:22.340 that are suffering from an eating disorder where they're overeating,

00:31:25.100 where they're becoming obese.

00:31:26.480 That's something that should not be glorified.

00:31:28.400 No, 100%.

00:31:29.480 And it's staggering, Ben.

00:31:30.760 I mean, you know, how is this for a concept?

00:31:32.440 Just using real women with real curves and, you know, 1.00

00:31:37.240 women that embody a picture of health

00:31:40.140 as opposed to being on the extreme of ultra skinny or ultra fat.

00:31:45.960 Now, Ben, here's the thing, though, I don't get.

00:31:47.760 Like, you said earlier that basically Gillette has no choice but to double down.

00:31:52.320 I would dispute that with you, my friend, you know,

00:31:54.900 based on, you know, the male razors campaign that they came out with.

00:32:00.080 When you look at going to YouTube,

00:32:02.420 that campaign is registering a staggering 10 to 1 ratio

00:32:08.300 in terms of negative to positive comments.

00:32:12.020 If I'm the Gillette marketers, I'm going,

00:32:14.720 oh, my goodness, what a misstep.

00:32:16.780 I wish we could take that back.

00:32:18.400 But instead, you're right, they are doubling down.

00:32:21.660 But I think it's like shooting themselves in the foot.

00:32:26.260 Yeah, I mean, you would think any rational person would think that.

00:32:30.080 But that's the left for you.

00:32:31.980 And I repeat myself.

00:32:33.120 You know, it's like I the only thing I can think of is like, look,

00:32:36.420 if we alienated this huge swath of the market,

00:32:39.180 we had better get everyone on the opposite end.

00:32:43.020 Because that's the only reason something this is going to be flying with the marketing team.

00:32:46.860 And that's what bothers me.

00:32:48.120 It's not that I mentioned this in my video.

00:32:49.620 You better not believe for a second.

00:32:51.420 These companies actually care about empowering people

00:32:54.800 that are suffering from an eating disorder of overeating

00:32:56.940 to get out there and do more of it.

00:32:59.480 They're thinking, how can I get people to buy these cheap razors?

00:33:02.640 And that's it.

00:33:03.180 And playing on someone who's already dealing with an issue like this, that's evil.

00:33:06.960 And you know, Ben, when the next quarter statements comes out for Gillette,

00:33:11.640 I'm not sure P&G separates that or not, if that's public.

00:33:15.140 But I would like to see if this is selling more razors or their sales are further going down.

00:33:21.600 I think they're going to further go down.

00:33:23.180 And don't forget, this is a company in the last 10 years

00:33:25.780 that went from 70% market share to 50% market share.

00:33:30.880 Still a very healthy market share.

00:33:32.660 But, you know, because of new competitors like Dollar Shave and Harry's and so forth.

00:33:38.040 I don't think this is going to work for them.

00:33:39.960 But just to go back to the campaign,

00:33:42.040 the other tricky thing, I think, for Gillette is people like me saying,

00:33:47.460 how dare you make yourself the moral authority?

00:33:50.860 How dare you go out and tell men, in the case of, you know, the male razors,

00:33:56.600 you know what, it's not the best you can be anymore.

00:33:59.720 It's how dare you be a misogynist? 0.94

00:34:01.700 How dare you be a bully? 0.79

00:34:03.000 And then in the case of female razors, 1.00

00:34:05.300 here's a wonderful body type to emulate,

00:34:07.760 even though it's going to take maybe 25 years off your life.

00:34:10.540 What do you say to that, Ben?

00:34:12.040 I'm baffled by it.

00:34:14.540 I mean, it really makes no sense to be willing to do this.

00:34:17.500 And as a consumer, I'm not going to take this for a second.

00:34:20.840 I work hard for my dollar, and I'm going to take it somewhere else

00:34:23.020 to get a product that I think mirrors my view of the world

00:34:26.240 and cares about me in the same way that I would want my razor to care for me.

00:34:29.340 It makes no sense.

00:34:30.720 And I really hope, like you said, the dislike ratio on YouTube,

00:34:33.600 I hope that is perfectly representative of the way that their stock will tank

00:34:37.520 from doing this kind of stuff.

00:34:38.500 Indeed.

00:34:39.420 One last question, Ben.

00:34:40.820 And I want to get your view on this.

00:34:43.160 It's kind of like, you know, in the Hollywood reference,

00:34:47.280 you can love the art and hate the artist.

00:34:49.780 And I'm thinking of somebody like Roman Polanski here.

00:34:52.080 But in my case, until January, I was a huge fan of the Fusion 5 Gillette Razor.

00:35:00.160 I think it's the best, you know, razor on the market.

00:35:03.760 And I'm at the point right now, I'm down to my last two Fusion 5s.

00:35:08.320 It's kind of like Elaine Bennis and Seinfeld.

00:35:11.220 I've got to determine who's sponge-worthy or not.

00:35:13.820 And here's the thing, though.

00:35:17.340 Gillette has put me in a position where I'm going to boycott them 100%,

00:35:23.060 but maybe I'm doing myself a disservice,

00:35:25.960 unless one of our viewers can inform me of a fantastic razor out there.

00:35:31.340 But that's, I guess, the price I'm going to pay,

00:35:33.480 because I just find it so distasteful to accept that marketing message,

00:35:39.260 even if they make good products.

00:35:41.300 Yeah, I address the same thing when I talk about Chris Evans,

00:35:44.940 because he has political views that I think are absolutely absurd.

00:35:48.080 But his movies, everyone's welcome.

00:35:51.100 I love his character.

00:35:51.780 I love Captain America.

00:35:52.520 I enjoy it, you know, to no end.

00:35:54.220 Separating the art from the artist.

00:35:55.620 Brie Larson, on the other hand, she's the Gillette, 1.00

00:35:57.360 where she goes out and she says, 0.89

00:35:58.220 no, no, this movie's not for you, you 40-year-old white dudes. 0.95

00:36:01.000 Like, I don't care. 1.00

00:36:01.880 You need to shut your mouth. 0.99

00:36:02.700 Other people need to see the tape. 0.99

00:36:03.680 I'm like, no, I don't care about your art,

00:36:05.980 because you're telling me it's not for me.

00:36:07.280 When they mark it like this, that's what they're going to get.

00:36:09.020 Well, Ben, we're going to have to wrap it there.

00:36:11.800 I think, ultimately, I'm, and maybe you should do this,

00:36:15.660 let's just grow beards and not have to worry about razors anymore.

00:36:20.580 But thanks so much for another great commentary, my friend.

00:36:23.780 Appreciate you having me.

00:36:24.800 You got it.

00:36:25.360 Thank you.

00:36:25.740 And that was Ben Davies in Hollywood.

00:36:27.620 Keep it here, folks.

00:36:28.720 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:36:30.880 So, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped by Toronto last Friday

00:36:43.180 to host a $1,600-a-plate dinner for the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:36:48.460 And two things quickly became evident to us that evening.

00:36:51.580 First, there are still plenty of Liberal Party supporters

00:36:54.060 who, for whatever reason, are turning a blind eye

00:36:57.540 to the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

00:37:00.120 And secondly, even though the federal carbon tax

00:37:02.880 took effect earlier this month to ostensibly save the environment,

00:37:07.480 it appears that when it comes to engine idling,

00:37:10.680 the Trudeau Liberals follow the proviso of

00:37:12.860 do as I say, not as I do.

00:37:15.260 In any event, here's what some of you had to say.

00:37:18.140 Well, you are correct, David.

00:37:29.400 Who cares what a litre of gas costs

00:37:31.740 as long as the taxpayers are footing the bill?

00:37:35.780 Scotian Coast writes,

00:37:37.060 They're paying more for a dinner than I make in a month.

00:37:41.360 Bunch of rich snobs looking for a handout like Loblaws and SNC.

00:37:46.700 Indeed, Scotian Coast.

00:37:48.420 And to think one attendee at this soiree called Justin Trudeau

00:37:52.640 a man of the people.

00:37:54.640 Yeah, as long as you're the kind of people

00:37:56.740 that can fork over $1,600 for a dinner.

00:38:01.240 Phil Tomlinson writes,

00:38:02.540 There is actually an idling engine law in Ontario.

00:38:05.980 Three minutes, I think.

00:38:07.280 They should have been fined.

00:38:08.520 Well, actually, Phil, there is a City of Toronto bylaw for sure

00:38:11.880 that limits engine idling to just one minute.

00:38:16.340 But talk about a catch-22 if bylaw enforcement did issue fines. 0.66

00:38:20.780 Guess who ends up paying?

00:38:21.920 In other words, those fines wouldn't be coming out of Justin Trudeau's pocket,

00:38:27.360 as per usual.

00:38:29.920 YYC writes,

00:38:31.000 Wow, these people are absolutely clueless.

00:38:34.380 They likely don't keep up with current events 1.00

00:38:36.320 or are just very dumb. 1.00

00:38:39.060 Alas, the question is this, YYC. 1.00

00:38:41.900 Are there enough clueless individuals

00:38:43.740 who will support the Trudeau Liberal Party come October

00:38:46.920 and give this government a second majority mandate?

00:38:50.880 You know, three months ago, I would have said yes.

00:38:53.900 Today, given the ongoing scandals in Ottawa,

00:38:56.440 I highly doubt there is still a critical mass of voters out there

00:39:01.120 who will still be drinking Justin's Kool-Aid come October.

00:39:04.760 And Get Good writes,

00:39:06.720 So you, meaning fundraiser attendees, support Trudeau,

00:39:10.740 but you have no knowledge of what's going on?

00:39:13.620 These are the people who get kickbacks from Trudeau

00:39:15.980 and get excused from illegal activity?

00:39:18.880 Disgusting display of partnership and crime. 0.57

00:39:21.880 Corruption and ignorance is alive and well in the East. 0.99

00:39:25.160 Hey, Get Good, you nailed it.

00:39:27.120 Loblaw Companies Limited admitted to price-fixing bread for 15 years.

00:39:32.360 And aside from doling out a few $25 gift cards to ripped-off consumers,

00:39:37.360 what does this Liberal Party supporter receive by way of punishment?

00:39:41.000 Well, immunity from prosecution and, more lately,

00:39:46.380 $12 million worth of free refrigerators paid for by you,

00:39:50.880 the ever-beleaguered taxpayer.

00:39:53.040 Jeez, who said crime doesn't pay?

00:39:56.220 And finally, Less Than Perfect writes,

00:39:58.740 David Menzies says Trudeau left all his SUVs running.

00:40:02.540 Trudeau says, retract that statement or I'll sue you.

00:40:06.440 You know, if only that were the case, Less Than Perfect.

00:40:10.460 A lawsuit means disclosure.

00:40:12.660 A lawsuit means Trudeau finally answering questions under oath.

00:40:17.060 Believe me, if the Trudeau Liberals actually go ahead and sue Andrew Scheer,

00:40:22.740 they would be doing a great service to the opposition parties

00:40:26.020 and those Canadians who care about justice.

00:40:30.520 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:40:33.160 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:40:34.400 See you next week.

00:40:35.120 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:40:39.480 Good night.

00:40:39.940 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - April 13, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guests Ben Davies, Sheila Gunn Reid, & Ezra Levant!

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