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

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:00:03.240 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:00:08.140 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.540 Well, with a simple tweet, President Trump says the U.S. is done with the war in Syria.

00:00:16.140 Cue the outrage.

00:00:17.600 As relevant as all the details.

00:00:20.260 And the little Alberta town of Nisku was ground zero earlier this week for a pro-pipeline protest

00:00:26.300 that saw more than 2,000 trucks roll in.

00:00:31.320 Sheila Gunn-Reed was there to capture the anger that's now reaching the boiling point. 0.99

00:00:36.860 And some good news regarding that ongoing war on Christmas.

00:00:40.700 Some radio stations are lifting their ludicrous bans on baby it's cold outside.

00:00:47.260 Amanda Head shall explain all. 0.90

00:00:49.700 And finally, we get your letters.

00:00:51.380 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:00:53.260 And I'll share some of your responses about my attempt to get Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussain

00:00:59.480 to come clean about the U.N. Global Compact on Migration.

00:01:04.300 And his response?

00:01:05.360 Well, he locked himself in a room.

00:01:07.820 And no, I'm not making this up.

00:01:10.180 Those are your rebels.

00:01:11.320 Now let's round them up.

00:01:12.560 Trudeau abandoned combat against ISIS while it was in the middle.

00:01:25.920 While ISIS was still powerful, he quit and ran away.

00:01:28.900 And the CBC loved him for it.

00:01:31.420 When I was in Iraq last year, I met a Kurdish general who helped beat back ISIS.

00:01:36.880 And he told me that he was very well aware that Canada quit the fight right before the final battle.

00:01:44.200 And he suggested that perhaps some of the men he commanded would still be alive now,

00:01:49.700 had they been able to benefit from Canadian jets coming in from the sky to take out clusters of terrorists.

00:01:55.500 But the CBC knew better.

00:01:56.620 It was wise for Trudeau to pull out.

00:01:58.100 So what does the CBC say about Donald Trump bringing the troops home?

00:02:03.720 They loved it when Trudeau did so before the final battle.

00:02:08.120 Well, here's what CBC's flagship show called The National had to say.

00:02:13.420 Analysts fear the vacuum left behind.

00:02:15.920 President Trump is running his Syria policy as if it's a reality TV show.

00:02:22.060 Well, it's very deep, isn't it?

00:02:23.680 Did you learn anything from that?

00:02:26.540 Or was that just another anti-Trump insult spoken by some leftists at a think tank?

00:02:32.180 And so it is that the war ends in Syria, not with a big bang, but with a 240-character tweet.

00:02:39.360 President Trump is bringing home the 2,000 or so U.S. troops stationed there after the obliteration of ISIS.

00:02:46.460 Yet this announcement has brought forth criticism from the usual suspects on the left and in the media party

00:02:52.380 because it would appear that no matter what decision Trump makes with regard to just about any file,

00:02:59.000 this president just can't seem to catch a break.

00:03:02.600 And joining me now with more on this story is our very own rebel commander, Ezra Levent.

00:03:07.240 So, Ezra, right off the bat, I have to ask, is the U.S. withdrawal from Syria a good move?

00:03:13.120 Well, it depends what the goal was.

00:03:14.900 And I don't think it's easy to find out what the goal was.

00:03:18.400 Barack Obama sent the troops there.

00:03:21.400 I'm not sure exactly why because on the one hand, under Obama, one of the policies was to have regime change in Syria.

00:03:30.160 That means getting rid of Bashar Assad, who's a Soviet, a Russian colony, an Iranian colony. 0.81

00:03:36.580 So how are you going to do that?

00:03:38.000 Because Russia had a lot more boots on the ground.

00:03:39.820 They have a naval base there.

00:03:41.040 They have an air base there.

00:03:42.300 There's a lot of Iranians there.

00:03:43.680 So are you really going to topple Assad?

00:03:47.880 And if so, like America toppled Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, okay, then what?

00:03:52.280 Because it's one thing to break something, but can you, you know, the phrase you break it, you buy it.

00:03:58.600 So America broke Libya. 0.61

00:04:00.280 They toppled Gaddafi.

00:04:02.080 And I don't think they thought through the second part.

00:04:03.980 And Canada was part of that, too, by the way.

00:04:05.520 We sent a ship and some aircraft.

00:04:07.880 Okay, so Gaddafi's gone.

00:04:09.200 So you're expecting Johnny MacDonald to emerge and say, I'm a great democratic leader.

00:04:13.840 So what exactly are they there for?

00:04:15.480 Are they there to go after ISIS?

00:04:17.280 Okay, mission accomplished.

00:04:18.980 Under Obama, that wasn't what they did.

00:04:21.040 Obama didn't go after, for example, the oil tankers.

00:04:23.520 It wasn't until Donald Trump became president that the U.S. military went ahead and crushed ISIS.

00:04:29.920 Russia was doing its part, too.

00:04:31.520 So why are they there?

00:04:33.140 And frankly, why is America still in Afghanistan 17 years after 9-11, the longest war in American history?

00:04:41.600 Now, there could be a good answer to that, David.

00:04:43.460 I just don't know what it is.

00:04:44.800 And, you know, I would, that's the thing, Ezra.

00:04:46.920 I see Afghanistan and Syria different.

00:04:48.960 I mean, there's tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan.

00:04:52.200 Afghanistan, I don't see any hope on the horizon. 1.00

00:04:54.940 You even have Americans training people there that become cops and they end up turning into suicide bombers,

00:05:01.240 stabbing Americans in the back. 0.98

00:05:02.360 You know, that's a quagmire and has always thus been.

00:05:05.520 But with Syria, we have to ask, is ISIS truly 100% eradicated?

00:05:12.060 Because the Kurds are saying no. 0.91

00:05:14.900 And this is the other troubling thing to me, Ezra.

00:05:17.380 The Kurds have always fought with us.

00:05:20.000 They have always been allies.

00:05:21.460 We sold them down the river twice with the two Gulf Wars. 0.72

00:05:24.660 And now I think we're doing it again.

00:05:26.380 And listen, a 2,000-member regiment out in Syria, that's not tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops.

00:05:35.500 That is not very costly.

00:05:37.580 This is the thing I'm worried about.

00:05:39.240 Somebody filling the vacuum when the Americans leave and the Kurds paying a huge price. 1.00

00:05:44.680 Well, that sounds compelling to me.

00:05:46.160 And I've been to Kurdistan and I've seen the Christian and Yazidi minorities that ISIS went after.

00:05:51.000 And I've seen how Kurdistan is the closest thing to a democracy and the closest thing to a Western-oriented group you're going to find there.

00:05:58.840 And they have the right position on ISIS, the right position on Iran, the right position on the Turks.

00:06:05.100 I like the Kurds, at least the ones I saw in the week I was there in Erbil. 1.00

00:06:09.120 I don't want to pretend that I know everything about the place.

00:06:12.460 But if we have a pro-Kurdish mission, let's say so. 0.90

00:06:17.120 But this wasn't a pro-Kurdish mission.

00:06:18.820 In fact, earlier this year, Kurdistan had a referendum on, or I think the referendum was actually, I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was fairly recently.

00:06:28.840 On independence.

00:06:30.500 And America really didn't back it. 1.00

00:06:32.520 So, yeah, David, I too want America to support Kurd, the Kurds, and I think Kurdistan should be its own place.

00:06:40.680 But that's not going to be a decision based on troop deployments.

00:06:44.220 It's a much bigger political, geographic, diplomatic decision.

00:06:47.820 I think we should help the Kurds.

00:06:49.580 They're the closest thing to a friend the West has there, other than Israel, of course. 0.93

00:06:54.320 But having 2,000 soldiers, that wasn't their mission, I don't think.

00:06:57.860 And it's interesting you bring up Israel, Ezra.

00:07:00.820 Is that maybe part of the plan that Israel is going to pick up the slack? 0.62

00:07:05.400 I mean, they do have a presence there, and I mean, for self-interest in terms of their own national security.

00:07:11.060 And they certainly, I would imagine, not want what's remaining of ISIS digging tunnels to get into Israel.

00:07:17.500 So is that maybe who's going to be doing the heavy lifting in that region?

00:07:20.840 I think Israel is more worried about Iran and Hezbollah.

00:07:25.960 Those are the ones digging the tunnels.

00:07:27.680 ISIS generally hasn't focused on Israel much.

00:07:31.620 Israel doesn't have ground troops in Syria.

00:07:33.920 Israel sometimes shoots rockets or flies jets into Syria to blow things up that it thinks are a threat to itself.

00:07:40.120 But, I mean, Syria is basically a Russian colony and has been throughout the Cold War.

00:07:45.020 It's not like that was an area on the risk board that is switching sides.

00:07:50.820 They've always been in the Russian sphere of influence.

00:07:53.220 So unless, I mean, in the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton talked madly, crazily, about putting a no-fly zone over Syria.

00:08:02.140 Yes.

00:08:02.500 To say, okay, no Syrian jets.

00:08:04.180 That whole Russian air base, you just sort of forgot about that.

00:08:06.640 Like, you want to start World War III over what again?

00:08:08.700 And I think that policy should start with, well, what are the objectives based on national interest?

00:08:16.580 And there may be a national interest there, but it hasn't particularly been articulated.

00:08:20.500 I think maybe it needs to be refreshed because in Afghanistan, 17 years later, I don't know what it is.

00:08:24.960 But here's what's interesting to me.

00:08:26.220 What's interesting is the left has typically been the anti-war party.

00:08:30.740 Yes.

00:08:31.040 And they really hate the troops also, but they pretend that they love the troops, hate the war, bring our boys home.

00:08:38.560 Yeah.

00:08:38.960 They hate the troops too.

00:08:39.920 But here's Donald Trump, who clearly loves the troops, but he's bringing them home.

00:08:44.340 And so, so much of the dishonest left doesn't know what to do about this.

00:08:48.200 Because, in fact, Obama was a warmonger who did a lot more drone strikes than George Bush did.

00:08:55.700 And the left didn't really mind.

00:08:58.300 Donald Trump brings soldiers home and says, Trump's not afraid to flex muscles when he wants to.

00:09:04.700 He attacked Bashar's side a couple times.

00:09:06.800 He's got big sanctions on Russia.

00:09:08.020 But the left shows that they don't mean a lot of their ideals because they should be rejoicing about bringing soldiers home when they're not.

00:09:16.540 My view is, if there's something that's clearly in America's interest, or from a Canadian point of view, there's something clearly in our interest, go and fight it.

00:09:23.600 Can you tell me why we have men and women in Mali, Africa right now?

00:09:28.560 What's the national interest?

00:09:29.780 What's the objective?

00:09:30.820 How do we know if we've succeeded or lost?

00:09:32.620 Yes.

00:09:32.860 And is one single Canadian life worth going to Mali for? 0.52

00:09:36.600 And I think I know the maps pretty well.

00:09:41.320 I couldn't find Mali on a map.

00:09:42.820 I know it's in Africa.

00:09:43.680 I know it's sort of Northwest Africa somewhere there.

00:09:46.920 I couldn't find it on a map.

00:09:47.720 Well, I think we did a streeter on that.

00:09:49.600 And nobody, all the educated intellects that Ryerson couldn't find it either.

00:09:54.280 And it's not because they're dumb.

00:09:55.680 It's because there's 200 countries in the world.

00:09:57.920 And Mali's a small country that has almost no connection to Canada.

00:10:01.480 We have no big immigration from Mali.

00:10:04.360 We have no trade with Mali.

00:10:05.460 We have no cultural, linguistic, historical connection to Mali.

00:10:09.300 It would be like Vanuatu or Nauru, those teeny tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean.

00:10:16.380 You're not dumb if you don't know about them because they're completely irrelevant to us.

00:10:21.580 And that's my point.

00:10:22.280 What's the national objective?

00:10:23.400 There may well be a national objective for having American troops in Syria, but I haven't heard it in the last few days.

00:10:31.860 And more to the point, Donald Trump campaigned.

00:10:34.980 He said, crush ISIS and get out. 0.99

00:10:37.820 He kept a promise here.

00:10:39.240 And you might not like that promise, but it was a promise he made in the campaign pretty clearly.

00:10:43.640 What do you make of the reaction so far, Ezra?

00:10:47.660 And this is still an emerging story.

00:10:49.440 Things are still in play.

00:10:51.240 Defense Secretary James Mattis tendering his resignation to take effect in February.

00:10:55.680 And if you read his resignation note, it's basically, I thought it was kind of passive-aggressive and a scathing attitude that clearly I, you know, a 40-something-year veteran of the military, don't know as much as you, so I'll let you run the show.

00:11:11.060 That's how it came across to me.

00:11:12.500 What do you think the unspoken strategy here is in his resignation, Ezra?

00:11:18.460 Well, look, he obviously disagrees with this, and that's fine.

00:11:23.040 In America, as in Canada, we have civilian oversight and direction of the military.

00:11:27.980 And maybe Mattis is right, but the president is the commander-in-chief.

00:11:32.920 And this really shouldn't have been a surprise because Trump did campaign on crushing ISIS and getting out.

00:11:39.300 I think it's too bad because Mattis seemed to be a real serious military man, and Trump could use someone with experience and competence and a track record.

00:11:47.400 But I think Mattis was also, I mean, don't think he wasn't, Mattis was a part of the Washington establishment, the foreign policy establishment.

00:11:57.980 And for 20 years, they've had this idealistic dream that they can nation-build.

00:12:03.020 And, you know, after the Second World War, the Marshall Plan was an economic and political rebuilding.

00:12:09.520 I mean, the United States drafted Japan's constitution after the Second World War.

00:12:13.900 In fact, it was an American general, MacArthur, who was the governor, if I'm not mistaken.

00:12:21.560 America helped rebuild Japan, Germany helped fund it.

00:12:24.940 So America did nation-build, which was amazing because America was attacked by these countries, yet rebuilt them and helped them.

00:12:32.580 But there was something to rebuild.

00:12:33.860 There was a nucleus underneath it.

00:12:35.300 There was a seed of liberal Western democracy.

00:12:38.880 Japan was a little different because it's not Western and has a different tradition.

00:12:42.480 But Japan has grown into a wonderful, liberal, democratic, civil ally.

00:12:48.760 A great country.

00:12:49.620 I've never been.

00:12:50.440 I have no connection.

00:12:50.980 But it's a wonderful place.

00:12:51.840 And Taiwan, I think, is similar.

00:12:54.500 And Hong Kong had roots in the U.K. as part of the British Empire.

00:13:00.460 And Europe had a great liberal tradition.

00:13:02.680 So you can nation-build a wrecked Germany. 0.96

00:13:06.100 You can nation-build Greece, Italy.

00:13:09.360 Can you really nation-build in Afghanistan, which has no history of liberalism, democracy, high-trust society, 0.97

00:13:18.100 you know, the kind of Magna Carta, the traditions of the West.

00:13:25.480 You can't just graft that on to Afghanistan. 0.76

00:13:29.620 Syria is a little more modern.

00:13:30.780 And that's actually what's scary to me is that, and I'm sorry I'm going on here,

00:13:35.300 but let me say one last word about Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma.

00:13:42.040 Okay.

00:13:42.680 She was the subject of a beautiful vogue spread, the Desert Rose.

00:13:48.080 That's my nickname for you, but that's actually what it was called.

00:13:50.940 And what's striking about Asma Assad is she doesn't wear a veil, like not even the hijab. 0.75

00:14:00.760 She wears nothing on her head.

00:14:02.480 And if you look at family pictures of Bashar Assad's dad, the dictator Hafez Assad, and his wife,

00:14:08.760 she didn't wear a thing on her head. 0.58

00:14:10.920 And they're Alawites, which is a kind of Muslim, but not really the kind that we're used to. 0.99

00:14:17.360 They're a small minority in Syria.

00:14:18.800 They drink alcohol.

00:14:20.240 They are moderate in many ways.

00:14:23.140 And Syria has universities.

00:14:26.460 It allows Christians to be Christian.

00:14:29.560 It's a dictatorship.

00:14:30.840 I wouldn't want to live there.

00:14:32.540 Bashar Assad can be brutal.

00:14:33.620 His father was brutal too.

00:14:34.680 But in that neighborhood, he's the closest thing you're going to find to a stable, predictable tyrant

00:14:43.780 as opposed to a zombie-murdering Islamic jihadist tyrant.

00:14:49.880 And you can knock off Bashar Assad like we knocked off Gaddafi, then what?

00:14:54.380 Give me 30 more seconds on Gaddafi.

00:14:56.800 Gaddafi was a little bit crazy.

00:14:58.180 He would live in that desert tent.

00:14:59.580 He was a terrorist.

00:15:00.580 He knocked down the plane over Lockerbie, Pan Am plane.

00:15:04.120 And I lost a dear friend in that.

00:15:05.700 I'm sorry to hear that.

00:15:08.080 But you know what he did?

00:15:09.300 After Bush invaded and talked to Gaddafi, he said, oh, I'm going to change.

00:15:18.600 He gave up his weapons of mass destruction program.

00:15:21.580 He paid more than a billion dollars in reparations to the people he killed on that plane.

00:15:26.640 Have you ever heard of a terrorist paying reparations before?

00:15:29.040 Oh, Ezra, on this point, I agree.

00:15:30.340 When the Obama administration went in to remove him, that was a declawed cat.

00:15:35.620 And when he was gone, Libya became a cesspool of terrorism. 0.99

00:15:39.180 And that's my point, is that Bashar Assad would not want to live under him.

00:15:42.240 But I know he's better than the alternatives there.

00:15:46.420 And Donald Trump knows he doesn't have an alternative.

00:15:49.160 Barack Obama didn't even think about it.

00:15:51.760 Let me close with this.

00:15:53.080 You know, the first time I ever heard about ISIS, and I don't propose to show the clip here because it's too terrible.

00:15:59.100 I had not heard of ISIS before.

00:16:00.800 Remember the first time you heard it?

00:16:02.020 It was probably in 2014.

00:16:03.500 Really, yeah.

00:16:03.980 I heard about it from Vladimir Putin.

00:16:07.580 Not directly.

00:16:08.220 He talked about it.

00:16:08.900 And he talked about cannibals.

00:16:12.460 And he said, because, of course, there was Russians there, and they have Russian bases.

00:16:17.580 And he talked about an offshoot of Al-Qaeda.

00:16:21.140 ISIS came from Al-Qaeda.

00:16:22.780 That is so radical that when they would kill a Syrian soldier, they would take out his heart and eat it.

00:16:29.020 And I thought, this can't be true.

00:16:30.800 This sounds like some zombie movie or some witchcraft.

00:16:33.480 But actually, this ISIS soldier, soldier terrorist, videoed himself on his cell phone eating the still warm heart of a Syrian soldier.

00:16:43.480 And Vladimir Putin said, this is the depravity we're fighting.

00:16:47.100 And we like to hate Vladimir Putin.

00:16:49.900 But I had never heard of ISIS before.

00:16:52.240 I couldn't even believe it.

00:16:53.520 And I saw the video with my own eyes, and I still remember it four years later.

00:16:57.840 Because it's shocking to see a human eating another human's heart.

00:17:02.840 That's how evil it is.

00:17:05.040 And you can say what you want about Putin, but he kills guys like that.

00:17:09.060 You can say what you want about Trump, but he kills guys like that.

00:17:11.880 Whereas Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and even John McCain try to, well, we'll broker and we can work with them or whatever.

00:17:19.120 I think that Americans should focus on America.

00:17:24.480 Canadians should focus on Canada.

00:17:26.500 If there's some good people there, let's help them.

00:17:29.000 But there are no good people in Syria.

00:17:31.280 There's just degrees of evil.

00:17:33.440 Well, Ezra, we're going to have to leave it there.

00:17:35.860 And, you know, folks, I guess that's the Middle East.

00:17:38.220 It's one of those neighborhoods just when you think, you know, all the answers, somebody comes along and changes the questions.

00:17:43.480 Hopefully, I'm misreading this.

00:17:44.760 Hopefully, this doesn't create a vacuum for ISIS to get emboldened. 1.00

00:17:48.800 And, again, my heart goes out to the Kurds.

00:17:51.940 They are ferocious fighters on the side of righteousness.

00:17:56.200 And we've let them down twice before.

00:17:58.180 I hope this isn't a third time we've let them down.

00:18:01.500 Time will tell.

00:18:02.320 Keep it here.

00:18:02.980 More of Rebel Roundup to come after this.

00:18:04.920 Organizers of today's event say they are anticipating a 22-kilometer-long truck convoy

00:18:20.860 that will leave the staging area here at Black Jack's and will continue through Nisku, loop back, and finish at the Enzyme drilling yard,

00:18:30.620 where Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer will be speaking later on in the day.

00:18:35.020 Now, Nisku has really been ground zero for many of the layoffs in the oil patch in the Edmonton area.

00:18:41.980 This industrial park is situated directly between Leduc and Edmonton.

00:18:46.900 It used to be home to trucking yards and drilling yards and fabrication facilities.

00:18:51.040 But now it sees some of the same levels of vacancy and unemployment as the office towers of downtown Calgary.

00:19:01.400 The staging area for the truck convoy is right behind me.

00:19:06.440 I know why I'm here.

00:19:08.200 I'm a reporter for the Rebel Dot Media, but I'm also an oil patch wife.

00:19:12.100 Let's find out why everybody else is here.

00:19:14.240 So why did you come down to the Truckers for Pipelines event today?

00:19:18.120 I just wanted to show my support for oil and gas and Alberta as a whole and the Canadian oil and gas industry.

00:19:25.420 Our industry seems like we always get to be kicked down, and we always complain about oil and gas pipelines.

00:19:32.980 So it's time we stand and rally, and hopefully it does something here today.

00:19:37.640 30 years in the oil patch, we can't let this go.

00:19:40.480 Like, we've seen the ups and downs, but this is terrible.

00:19:45.500 This is sad.

00:19:46.540 The government's taking us for a ride.

00:19:48.160 We're an important, integral part of Canada.

00:19:51.380 This here, it's a killer on our economy in Alberta.

00:19:56.180 And it's just, it's ruining us.

00:19:58.180 It's causing everybody to be losing their jobs and getting laid off.

00:20:01.880 We need the pipeline built.

00:20:03.540 Well, to quote the chorus from that great C.W. McCall Trucker song,

00:20:08.700 Because we got a little convoy rocking through the night.

00:20:11.820 Yeah, we got a little convoy.

00:20:14.020 Ain't she a beautiful sight?

00:20:16.200 Oh, but that was no little convoy that rolled into the town of Nisku, Alberta.

00:20:21.080 It was huge, numbering more than 2,000 rigs.

00:20:24.720 It was all part of a protest regarding the federal government's outright incompetence

00:20:30.120 in terms of getting vital pipelines built.

00:20:34.000 And our very own Sheila Gunn-Reed, host of The Gunn Show,

00:20:36.780 she was there to cover this protest.

00:20:39.080 And Sheila joins me now.

00:20:40.780 Hey there, rubber duck. 1.00

00:20:41.940 Welcome to Rebel Roundup.

00:20:46.140 Hi, David.

00:20:47.820 Okay.

00:20:48.880 Hey, I love that song.

00:20:50.700 At least I didn't call you the other character.

00:20:52.340 I think it was Pigpen or something.

00:20:54.200 But Sheila, in all seriousness, getting away from 70s CB radio music,

00:20:59.980 first of all, that must have been one hell of a sight to take in.

00:21:04.120 I mean, more than 2,000 trucks in that little town.

00:21:07.940 What was the mood like in Nisku that day?

00:21:12.480 To be honest with you, it ended up being far greater than 2,000

00:21:16.600 because those were all the trucks that they could get into the staging area.

00:21:20.680 But there was such a traffic backup on Highway 2 just outside of Nisku

00:21:25.760 that it backed up just about all the way to Edmonton,

00:21:28.960 and it caused a traffic snarl for about six hours.

00:21:33.680 There were that many trucks from all over the province.

00:21:36.080 So, you know, best estimate, say, somewhere around 3,500 trucks at the end of the day

00:21:40.820 ended up being funneled into that convoy.

00:21:43.220 But to answer your question, what was the mood like?

00:21:46.960 The mood was they just want to work.

00:21:52.940 You know, like, how do you describe the mood of people who are ready,

00:21:56.920 willing, and able to work, are the best in the world at what they do,

00:22:01.260 but there are just no jobs for them,

00:22:03.180 and there are no jobs for them because of federal government

00:22:05.920 and provincial government incompetence.

00:22:08.100 And, you know, when I saw you interviewing these men, Sheila,

00:22:11.980 I mean, my heart went out to them.

00:22:13.200 These are the salt-of-the-earth guys.

00:22:15.480 They're such hard workers doing tough work.

00:22:18.120 They just want to work.

00:22:19.280 And even though the anger was at the boiling point,

00:22:23.500 you didn't see any kind of Antifa crap here,

00:22:26.840 vandalizing or starting fires or, you know, doing graffiti.

00:22:30.460 They were very angered, but they made an impassioned and very reasonable plea

00:22:35.220 that they just want this government to get going on this file.

00:22:39.180 And, Sheila, there was a lot of blame to go around for the Justin Trudeau government.

00:22:42.940 This is a majority government.

00:22:44.360 They have so many tools in their arsenal that they can employ,

00:22:48.620 but it's a matter of will, is it not?

00:22:51.520 It is.

00:22:52.440 And that's the thing.

00:22:53.940 These guys are, like you said, the salt of the earth.

00:22:57.300 They've never taken anything from anybody.

00:23:00.000 They are the makers of Canada.

00:23:02.800 They work hard.

00:23:04.040 They create jobs.

00:23:04.880 They pay their taxes.

00:23:05.840 They always have.

00:23:06.960 They've never taken a penny from the government.

00:23:09.980 All they want to do is keep working and keep fueling the Canadian economy.

00:23:13.880 And, you know, it's so heartbreaking to see these guys

00:23:16.780 who just want to work really, really hard, and they can't.

00:23:20.360 But these are the same guys that Justin Trudeau said are a potential threat

00:23:25.920 to any community that they come to.

00:23:28.000 And I'll tell you, I never felt safer than I did amongst all those truckers that day.

00:23:32.880 You know, that's a very good point, Sheila.

00:23:35.540 And certainly, I think one of your best commentaries of the year was from a few weeks ago

00:23:40.720 where, you know, talking about your husband who is in that sector

00:23:45.480 and how you felt personally maligned by Trudeau's comments,

00:23:50.180 it's a different issue than the pipeline thing.

00:23:52.820 But what the hell was this guy talking about,

00:23:56.480 especially since you were completely immersed in all these so-called predators,

00:24:01.440 according to our prime minister,

00:24:02.960 and yet, like you just said, you never felt safer?

00:24:04.980 Yeah, I'd have a real problem heading into a left-wing protest of 2,500 people.

00:24:11.860 I would have to have security with me,

00:24:14.480 and probably not just one security person, but two.

00:24:17.180 But when I was there, you know, it was very friendly.

00:24:19.680 A lot of people telling me to say hey to my husband.

00:24:23.000 And these guys are just doing what they can to send a message to the government.

00:24:27.340 I mean, these are people who've never attended a protest in their entire life.

00:24:31.940 And in 36 hours, they managed to stage what could be the world's largest truck convoy.

00:24:38.840 And if this had happened anywhere else, in any other country or jurisdiction in the world,

00:24:44.020 there would be political resignations because of the message that was sent that day.

00:24:48.280 And yet, Justin Trudeau hasn't even commented on it.

00:24:52.620 Yeah, you know, and by the way, you raise a very interesting point, I guess.

00:24:55.820 You have to worry about your personal safety at a feminist rally 1.00

00:24:59.420 when some effeminate little man with a nose ring comes up to you and slides you in there. 0.85

00:25:04.980 I mean, it's the bizarro world, you know.

00:25:07.180 But, you know, Sheila, getting back to the political issue here of pipelines

00:25:13.200 and what that means to Alberta, and I mean, for goodness sakes,

00:25:16.980 this is just about getting all this liquid gold to market.

00:25:20.560 You know, it's not rocket science here.

00:25:22.240 If there was some kind of terrible thing,

00:25:26.040 a calamity that happened in the Quebec dairy industry or in the Ontario auto sector,

00:25:31.540 would the Trudeau Liberals be having this,

00:25:33.720 hey, what you going to do kind of laissez-faire attitude?

00:25:37.220 Or would we see action to get this problem fixed within a few days?

00:25:42.540 You know, I asked the truckers that.

00:25:44.380 I said, do you think that if there were this many Quebec dairy farmers

00:25:49.340 or this many Ontario auto workers out there protesting for their industry,

00:25:55.280 and we're not asking for handouts, we're asking for market access,

00:25:59.000 which is under federal government jurisdiction,

00:26:01.220 I asked them, do you think the Liberals would move heaven and earth to help you?

00:26:05.720 And they said yes.

00:26:06.580 They feel that sense of Western alienation.

00:26:10.020 They absolutely know that Alberta is being treated far differently,

00:26:14.560 like the ugly stepchild in Confederation.

00:26:17.780 Yeah, and conversely, Andrew Scheer was out there, leader of the Conservative Party,

00:26:22.620 and he delivered a speech that seemed to almost look like he was growing that,

00:26:28.420 which is known as a spine.

00:26:30.680 You know, it was very, I mean, there was a little emotion,

00:26:33.500 and it almost sounded like a campaign-style speech,

00:26:36.620 but what he was saying was right on the money, as far as I can tell.

00:26:41.080 And what was the, you know, reception to Scheer like?

00:26:46.600 Everybody was really happy that Andrew Scheer was there,

00:26:49.920 and speaking in what used to be,

00:26:54.080 NISCU itself used to be one of Western Canada's busiest,

00:26:57.480 most productive industrial parks in all of the country.

00:27:01.880 And instead, he spoke at a drilling rig yard,

00:27:05.580 where many of the drilling rigs are sitting idle.

00:27:09.280 And I think that was an important message to send to Alberta,

00:27:13.000 that he's there to fight for us.

00:27:15.320 And it was great to finally see him with some passion and emotion,

00:27:19.820 because all these men are looking for him,

00:27:23.560 looking at him to be the one to fix this mess,

00:27:26.380 and he needs to make some promises that he will.

00:27:28.420 Indeed. And Sheila, again, I go back to these men

00:27:32.020 that are just trying to provide for their families.

00:27:34.320 They don't want a bailout.

00:27:35.740 They don't want welfare.

00:27:37.400 They don't want unemployment insurance checks.

00:27:39.420 They just want to open up the economy.

00:27:41.960 And I can't think of any other oil-producing region

00:27:45.000 on the face of the planet that this is happening to,

00:27:48.860 other than Alberta, because of spineless politicians, Sheila. 1.00

00:27:52.840 Well, Venezuela.

00:27:55.480 Well, that's incompetence, I guess, right?

00:28:00.000 Yeah, that's government incompetence there, too.

00:28:02.300 But this is a free jurisdiction.

00:28:04.480 This isn't a dictatorship.

00:28:06.280 So there's no reason why we aren't getting our resources

00:28:10.440 to international markets,

00:28:12.060 if not for the lack of political will by the federal government.

00:28:15.780 And I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

00:28:19.080 I'm more of a conspiracy fact-based person.

00:28:22.740 And all the facts line up that it seems as though,

00:28:25.580 while Justin Trudeau makes these public pronouncements

00:28:27.840 about how he supports Alberta's oil patch,

00:28:30.800 all indicators point to the fact that he doesn't.

00:28:33.560 And he's thrown up every roadblock along the way

00:28:36.160 to prevent us from getting our oil to market,

00:28:39.000 including changing the regulations

00:28:40.620 halfway through the game on these companies.

00:28:42.620 We just saw a massive liquefied natural gas project

00:28:46.900 from northern B.C. get cancelled yesterday.

00:28:51.280 Multi-billion dollar project.

00:28:53.040 Nobody even seems to be talking about it

00:28:54.980 because it's becoming so frequent,

00:28:57.860 this evacuation of capital from the oil patch.

00:29:00.760 That is just so sad what you said,

00:29:03.080 that indeed that is something that should be on the front page,

00:29:06.120 but it just gets lost in the wallpaper

00:29:08.780 of all the other multi-billion dollar cancelled programs.

00:29:12.300 You know, Sheila, we're going to have to wrap it there.

00:29:14.460 Going ahead into 2019, we know for sure,

00:29:17.720 I mean, I would bet Casa Menzoid on this, 0.99

00:29:19.900 that we're going to get regime change in Alberta.

00:29:22.700 I know 10 months is an eternity in terms of politics.

00:29:25.820 Let's hope there's a regime change in Ottawa too.

00:29:28.380 And maybe moving forward into 2020,

00:29:30.920 we can start getting some of these projects off the ground

00:29:34.080 and getting those great men working again,

00:29:36.980 which is all they want.

00:29:38.100 So thank you again so much for this report, Sheila.

00:29:40.400 Thanks, David.

00:29:41.940 You have a great Christmas, hey?

00:29:43.260 You too, my friend.

00:29:44.560 And folks, keep it here.

00:29:45.500 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:29:47.460 The people have spoken and media conglomerates shockingly listened.

00:30:01.480 As I reported last week,

00:30:02.940 CBC in Canada, as well as radio stations here in the United States,

00:30:06.940 have re-added the popular and classic Christmas tune,

00:30:09.900 Baby It's Cold Outside, back to their playlists and rotations.

00:30:12.620 We here at The Rebel ran a petition last week,

00:30:15.620 and we are very pleased to announce that even though some Scrooges out there

00:30:19.680 complained about the song initially,

00:30:22.100 sales for the song have been through the roof, up on the rooftop.

00:30:25.880 It's currently my ringtone, actually,

00:30:27.120 so I'd like to think that I contributed to that.

00:30:29.420 As reported by Billboard,

00:30:30.660 their holiday digital song sales chart dated December 15th,

00:30:34.260 they had three interpretations of Baby It's Cold Outside appear,

00:30:37.320 the most of any other title,

00:30:38.700 and they make the survey's three largest gains over the cycle, respectively.

00:30:43.480 Dean Martin's version performed the best,

00:30:45.800 with a 257% increase, with 7,000 sold.

00:30:50.240 Idina Menzel, who was a Broadway star,

00:30:51.940 she made the role of Elphaba Famous in the musical Wicked,

00:30:55.300 her version is up 165% with 2,000 sold,

00:30:58.640 and Redbone and Zooey Deschanel's version from the movie Elf

00:31:01.480 shot up 130% with 2,000 sold as well.

00:31:05.260 The three version sales have sent the song up the charts,

00:31:07.780 and their sales gain is up 34% collectively.

00:31:11.100 Now, on streaming services,

00:31:12.260 Dean Martin's version is up a whopping 54%,

00:31:14.920 and many other versions are doing exceedingly well

00:31:17.920 on streaming services, too.

00:31:20.000 Hallelujah!

00:31:21.060 It seems that if there was a bridge-too-far moment

00:31:24.460 in terms of both the never-ending war on Christmas

00:31:27.520 and the Me Too movement,

00:31:30.220 then it was surely the attempt by the usual suspects

00:31:33.240 to put the classic tune Baby It's Cold Outside

00:31:36.780 on the naughty list.

00:31:39.060 After all, somehow these nattering nabobs of negativity

00:31:42.140 came to look upon this song

00:31:43.840 not as a whimsical ditty about the art of consensual seduction,

00:31:48.720 but rather some foreboding ballad

00:31:51.480 hailing the merits of rape culture.

00:31:54.780 But the backlash has been massive

00:31:57.480 since some radio stations began banning this tune.

00:32:01.000 Baby It's Cold Outside has hit the top ten

00:32:04.000 in terms of digital sales.

00:32:06.340 And get this,

00:32:07.240 one Kentucky radio station

00:32:09.040 decided to play this song over and over

00:32:11.840 for two hours straight.

00:32:14.440 Take that, Generation Snowflake.

00:32:17.260 And with more on the ongoing lunacy

00:32:19.600 regarding this innocent tune

00:32:21.440 that was falsely rebranded as something sinister,

00:32:24.600 is our very own Hollywood conservative, Amanda Head. 0.97

00:32:28.120 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Amanda.

00:32:30.360 Why, thank you.

00:32:31.380 Merry Christmas.

00:32:32.260 And Merry Christmas to you too.

00:32:33.860 None of that happy holiday stuff either.

00:32:36.220 Now, Amanda, here's my take.

00:32:38.300 I'm going to run it by you.

00:32:39.360 If this song had been recorded by, say,

00:32:42.640 a transgender artist

00:32:44.100 and it was about trying to engineer

00:32:46.080 a romantic moment with another trans person,

00:32:49.620 well, I think the progressive elite

00:32:51.340 would be hailing this as empowering and daring

00:32:54.220 and all the rest.

00:32:55.680 But because this song is focused

00:32:57.480 on a timeless ritual of heterosexual courting,

00:33:01.240 it is being viciously maligned by some.

00:33:03.740 What do you say?

00:33:05.280 Yeah, you know,

00:33:06.180 the reason that I decided to do a petition about this

00:33:09.060 is because, you know,

00:33:10.380 we have seen this ever so subtle

00:33:13.120 increasing war on Christmas.

00:33:15.540 And this song was the main target this year

00:33:20.020 because people felt that the song's lyrics

00:33:22.380 were predatory and date rapey.

00:33:26.380 But I always tell people, you know,

00:33:27.840 in any instance like this,

00:33:29.380 you have to look at the cultural context

00:33:31.960 and you have to look at it through the lens

00:33:33.900 of the time and the place in which it was created.

00:33:36.980 And this pertains not just to the song,

00:33:38.720 but any song, any movie,

00:33:40.500 really any piece of art.

00:33:41.860 A lot of people attacked this song

00:33:44.740 because they felt like it was predatory.

00:33:46.880 And in this climate of the Me Too movement,

00:33:49.140 of course, that is a concern.

00:33:50.920 But what people didn't take into account

00:33:52.880 is the context of the time

00:33:55.240 and the humor that was utilized

00:33:57.200 within that time when the song was written.

00:33:59.960 So this was written in the 40s.

00:34:01.700 And this was actually a stock joke

00:34:03.720 that was used at the time.

00:34:05.000 And I quoted this in my petition video.

00:34:08.020 But an English teacher went online

00:34:09.860 and she explained the joke.

00:34:11.360 And there have been a lot of people online

00:34:12.620 who have gone further in the explanation.

00:34:15.020 But she said in the song,

00:34:16.960 you know, the woman, she's having a really good time. 0.94

00:34:18.780 She really doesn't want to leave.

00:34:20.840 She likes this guy

00:34:22.040 and she wants to spend more time with him.

00:34:23.920 So she's kind of excusing 0.73

00:34:25.940 her uncharacteristically bold behavior

00:34:29.860 by saying, hey, what's in this drink?

00:34:31.840 But the joke of it is

00:34:33.160 is that there might not actually be anything in the drink.

00:34:35.920 And if there is, it's a negligible amount.

00:34:38.720 That's that's the joke.

00:34:40.340 The joke is that there isn't hardly anything,

00:34:42.400 if anything at all, in the drink.

00:34:44.740 It has nothing to do with date raping someone 0.97

00:34:48.400 or anything like that.

00:34:49.480 But we're moving into this era

00:34:50.820 where people are offended by so much.

00:34:55.260 You know, we hear every year

00:34:56.720 this story turns around

00:34:58.240 and comes about every Christmas season.

00:35:00.840 It's a different city every time

00:35:02.520 where a city's manger scene,

00:35:04.660 you know, they receive complaints about it.

00:35:07.360 This happened.

00:35:07.860 I covered a story about this happening in Washington.

00:35:11.080 And people complain about this.

00:35:13.280 And it seems like it's only because it's Christmas

00:35:16.240 and it's a Christian holiday.

00:35:18.580 If someone put up a display of Dumbo

00:35:22.240 in their front yard from the movie Dumbo,

00:35:24.680 but your favorite movie is Snow White,

00:35:27.260 are you going to complain about it?

00:35:28.700 Does it offend you

00:35:29.500 because that's not what you subscribe to?

00:35:31.380 Of course not.

00:35:31.940 But it's because it pertains to Christmas.

00:35:34.440 It's a Christian holiday.

00:35:36.080 And I think that this snowflake generation, 0.99

00:35:39.260 very appropriate for this time of the year

00:35:41.100 where you guys in Canada have lots of snow,

00:35:43.540 it's just appalling and it's sad.

00:35:46.480 But I think we won.

00:35:48.040 Oh, yeah.

00:35:48.440 Because after we put out,

00:35:49.420 yeah, after we put out that petition video,

00:35:51.560 we had thousands and thousands of signatures.

00:35:53.700 And then a lot of the radio stations

00:35:55.320 here in the United States,

00:35:56.480 as well as CBC and Canada,

00:35:58.560 re-added the song to their rotation.

00:36:00.360 So, score, praise hands.

00:36:02.480 There is hope indeed.

00:36:03.980 And that's the thing.

00:36:05.280 On the loony left,

00:36:06.200 they seem to be going after things, Amanda,

00:36:09.160 on a nitpicking basis.

00:36:10.660 I mean, you mentioned the whole in-joke about the drink.

00:36:13.700 You know, I think if Bill Cosby

00:36:15.960 was the original artist that recorded it,

00:36:18.560 maybe then you've got something to hang a complaint on.

00:36:21.860 Right.

00:36:22.120 But until there was a complaint,

00:36:24.120 until this band began,

00:36:25.720 I never listened to that song

00:36:28.480 and interpreted it

00:36:29.840 as some kind of nefarious date rape anthem. 0.78

00:36:33.040 And I would argue that

00:36:34.140 even if that was a brand new song

00:36:36.000 that had been recorded this year,

00:36:38.220 I still think it's completely appropriate.

00:36:41.400 It's all about, you know,

00:36:43.420 the art of seduction,

00:36:45.420 you know, the dance.

00:36:48.060 Millions and millions of heterosexual people

00:36:50.320 and all kinds of,

00:36:51.980 regardless of orientation,

00:36:53.680 get into around the world.

00:36:56.900 And so, and I want to talk about,

00:36:59.420 you know, what you said,

00:37:00.200 when people complain.

00:37:01.360 And that's the other nub of the argument

00:37:03.540 that really gets me energized, Amanda.

00:37:05.940 The Cleveland radio station,

00:37:07.420 one of the ones that started this,

00:37:09.920 they were acting not on hundreds,

00:37:12.580 not on dozens,

00:37:14.040 not on three or four complaints,

00:37:16.300 one complaint to the program manager there.

00:37:20.320 got this ball rolling.

00:37:22.620 One voice from the lunatic fringe

00:37:24.980 was enough to put the kibosh on this song

00:37:27.600 that goes back some 70 years.

00:37:29.400 What do you make of this gutlessness

00:37:31.440 on behalf of those in management

00:37:33.700 that listen to these people in the first place?

00:37:36.640 Well, this is the tyranny of the minority.

00:37:39.580 This has been emerging

00:37:40.720 for the last half a decade or so.

00:37:43.780 One of the first,

00:37:44.920 and I think starkest instances of that

00:37:47.520 was when Target allowed transgenders 1.00

00:37:50.140 to go into the bathroom,

00:37:51.260 transgenders account for 0.05%

00:37:54.500 of the population,

00:37:57.880 but Target catered to them.

00:37:59.980 And so this has had a snowball effect

00:38:01.660 all along.

00:38:02.620 You have a very, very vocal minority,

00:38:05.120 a tyrannical minority, 0.99

00:38:06.440 and they have been able

00:38:07.900 to control things

00:38:09.360 all the way into policy.

00:38:10.800 And it's astounding.

00:38:11.940 But like what you were saying,

00:38:13.280 the lyrics of this song,

00:38:15.300 if you listened to it

00:38:16.340 before you were in this current context

00:38:18.720 of being perpetually offended,

00:38:21.960 you wouldn't take offense to it.

00:38:23.320 And even,

00:38:24.100 I covered this in my video earlier,

00:38:26.520 Joan Collins,

00:38:27.740 legendary actress,

00:38:29.200 she gave an interview in the UK

00:38:31.400 and she said,

00:38:32.560 you know,

00:38:32.780 what is this going to do

00:38:34.120 to the art of seduction?

00:38:35.300 Is this going to be carried out

00:38:37.080 so far where you have to ask

00:38:38.560 a parent's permission

00:38:39.440 to kiss a girl?

00:38:40.580 You know,

00:38:40.780 and this is something,

00:38:42.320 it speaks to a broader issue

00:38:44.000 of male, female,

00:38:46.460 or male, male,

00:38:47.260 female, female, 0.86

00:38:47.880 whatever,

00:38:48.640 relationships,

00:38:49.440 where there's this air of flirtation.

00:38:51.440 And that's how relationships begin

00:38:53.100 with this type of like,

00:38:54.500 you know,

00:38:54.760 coy flirtation.

00:38:55.740 And that's what this song is about.

00:38:57.200 It is about flirtation.

00:38:58.380 It is about,

00:38:59.020 you know,

00:39:00.060 the beginnings of a relationship

00:39:01.620 during a magical time of the year.

00:39:03.720 And,

00:39:04.300 and it just seems like liberals

00:39:05.420 want to destroy it all

00:39:06.860 because they are miserable

00:39:08.240 and they are bitter

00:39:09.200 and they are perpetually offended

00:39:10.960 by everything

00:39:11.700 and they don't want anyone else

00:39:12.960 to have any joy

00:39:13.780 during the holidays.

00:39:14.820 Oh,

00:39:15.040 and Amanda,

00:39:15.780 I only say this half jokingly,

00:39:17.620 but I'm sure the progressives,

00:39:19.660 and this might even happen

00:39:20.700 in our lifetime,

00:39:21.960 that when it comes to developing

00:39:23.680 a relationship

00:39:24.920 on someone,

00:39:25.620 when it comes to the art of courting,

00:39:27.620 that you actually have a clipboard

00:39:30.280 with a contract

00:39:31.320 that the person signs

00:39:32.940 and initials.

00:39:33.920 And even then,

00:39:34.800 it might be challenged in court

00:39:36.280 based on,

00:39:37.340 did she have any kind of alcohol

00:39:39.440 in her system

00:39:40.260 so she wasn't signing it

00:39:41.540 under,

00:39:41.920 you know,

00:39:42.820 her full merits.

00:39:44.000 So it is so sad

00:39:46.340 that they are trying

00:39:48.000 to wage war,

00:39:48.900 not just on Christmas,

00:39:50.460 but on the human condition itself.

00:39:53.400 Yeah.

00:39:53.740 And,

00:39:54.160 you know,

00:39:54.700 it's sad

00:39:55.800 and it affects relationships.

00:39:57.900 You know,

00:39:58.140 my boyfriend is an actor,

00:39:59.580 and in Hollywood,

00:40:01.800 he has become

00:40:02.920 so keenly aware

00:40:04.860 and to such a heightened degree

00:40:07.060 that anytime he corresponds

00:40:09.340 with,

00:40:10.000 you know,

00:40:10.260 a female colleague,

00:40:11.220 an actress,

00:40:11.800 a producer,

00:40:12.820 you know,

00:40:13.060 he's on high alert

00:40:14.000 because he's not sure

00:40:15.260 what he says

00:40:17.120 or what he does

00:40:18.220 or the way

00:40:18.620 that he interacts with them.

00:40:19.640 He can't,

00:40:20.160 he can't be certain

00:40:21.340 that,

00:40:22.380 you know,

00:40:22.880 they're not going

00:40:23.500 to misinterpret that

00:40:24.720 either intentionally

00:40:25.700 or unintentionally.

00:40:27.460 So it comes to the place

00:40:28.860 where you,

00:40:29.360 you almost can't even

00:40:30.320 have one-on-one,

00:40:31.560 you know,

00:40:31.920 if I had to have a meeting

00:40:32.900 with a male colleague

00:40:33.920 or,

00:40:35.440 you know,

00:40:35.660 David,

00:40:36.000 you,

00:40:36.220 if you had to have a meeting

00:40:37.060 with a female colleague,

00:40:38.680 there,

00:40:39.040 I think that there's

00:40:39.760 this hesitation now

00:40:40.780 because you don't want

00:40:41.520 to be in a one-on-one

00:40:42.480 situation

00:40:43.160 where you can possibly

00:40:44.500 be accused of something.

00:40:46.620 So,

00:40:47.060 so right,

00:40:47.640 Amanda,

00:40:48.000 and,

00:40:48.240 you know,

00:40:48.280 we have to wrap it here

00:40:49.020 and by the way,

00:40:49.880 and this is what's going

00:40:50.860 to hurt women 0.99

00:40:51.600 in the long run,

00:40:52.580 you know,

00:40:52.940 in terms of getting

00:40:53.560 into the employment market,

00:40:55.200 a guy's going to say,

00:40:56.140 listen,

00:40:56.420 if I have to go on the road,

00:40:57.780 do traveling with her,

00:40:59.180 have a closed door

00:41:00.500 meeting with her,

00:41:01.380 it's just not worth the risk.

00:41:03.180 Heck,

00:41:03.620 we're not even going

00:41:04.380 to be able to get dates.

00:41:06.880 I know,

00:41:08.240 it's perverse,

00:41:09.780 but Amanda,

00:41:10.540 at the end of the day,

00:41:11.740 congratulations on you

00:41:13.820 taking a stand on this

00:41:14.840 and it is a good news story.

00:41:17.300 We, for once,

00:41:18.640 the,

00:41:18.940 instead of the,

00:41:19.880 you know,

00:41:20.880 the tyranny of the minority 0.99

00:41:21.980 triumphing,

00:41:23.060 the majority spoke out,

00:41:25.000 mocked this,

00:41:26.020 demanded change,

00:41:26.940 and we got it.

00:41:27.940 So,

00:41:28.220 a Merry Christmas to you,

00:41:29.780 indeed.

00:41:30.100 Merry Christmas.

00:41:30.680 And thank you so much

00:41:31.860 for taking up this worthy cause.

00:41:34.620 My pleasure.

00:41:35.280 You got it.

00:41:36.320 And,

00:41:36.800 folks,

00:41:37.320 keep it here.

00:41:37.860 More of Rebel Roundup

00:41:38.740 to come right after this.

00:41:44.840 So,

00:41:48.860 last Friday night

00:41:49.580 at Ryerson University

00:41:50.800 in Toronto,

00:41:51.560 media were invited

00:41:52.480 to a press conference

00:41:53.660 staged by Minister Hussain

00:41:55.500 prior to his Ryerson speech.

00:41:57.640 But once he saw

00:41:58.600 standing outside

00:41:59.440 the meeting room

00:42:00.200 with other media,

00:42:01.460 Hussain panicked.

00:42:02.720 He made a beeline

00:42:03.760 to another meeting room.

00:42:05.660 And when he finally

00:42:06.500 faced the music,

00:42:07.440 he was more than

00:42:08.040 half an hour late

00:42:08.960 for his own press conference.

00:42:11.040 If you could call it

00:42:12.000 a press conference,

00:42:12.760 that is,

00:42:13.260 given that the minister

00:42:14.140 decided not to take

00:42:15.860 a single question.

00:42:17.520 And after his speech,

00:42:18.580 another curveball,

00:42:19.860 questions were only taken

00:42:21.240 from adoring Ryerson students.

00:42:23.560 After the event was over,

00:42:24.840 Hussain tried

00:42:25.560 to give us a slip.

00:42:26.920 We followed him back

00:42:27.820 to that private meeting room

00:42:29.300 of his

00:42:29.680 while attempting

00:42:30.740 to ask questions

00:42:31.940 in a very polite fashion.

00:42:33.980 Oh,

00:42:34.400 Minister,

00:42:34.980 could I grab you

00:42:35.820 for a quick question,

00:42:36.700 please?

00:42:37.200 David Menzies,

00:42:37.760 Wearable Media.

00:42:39.320 Minister?

00:42:42.760 Sir,

00:42:43.080 can I just grab you

00:42:43.760 for a quick question

00:42:44.520 on a clarification point?

00:42:50.460 Just trying to find out,

00:42:51.580 does it mean

00:42:52.020 that the legal rights

00:42:52.880 of migrants 0.99

00:42:53.560 that are being given

00:42:54.880 in the compact

00:42:55.500 are already in...

00:42:56.560 Well, sir,

00:42:57.780 we actually tried to...

00:43:00.140 It's a private room.

00:43:01.220 Private room.

00:43:03.660 Well, we tried.

00:43:04.520 His only response was,

00:43:06.680 contact my office,

00:43:08.080 end quote.

00:43:08.980 And we did so,

00:43:10.080 emailing the minister

00:43:11.020 those three important queries

00:43:12.720 I've been trying to ask him

00:43:14.680 for two weeks now.

00:43:16.680 And knock me down

00:43:17.580 with a feather,

00:43:18.600 it's been radio silence

00:43:20.180 ever since.

00:43:21.900 How odd.

00:43:22.980 Immigration Minister

00:43:23.900 Ahmad Hussain says

00:43:25.120 he's open to

00:43:26.040 fact-based debate

00:43:27.420 pertaining to

00:43:28.460 the UN migrant compact.

00:43:30.460 But whether we follow him

00:43:32.540 all the way to Marrakesh

00:43:33.940 or just down the road

00:43:35.440 to Toronto's

00:43:36.160 Ryerson University,

00:43:37.960 Mr. Hussain just won't answer

00:43:39.560 our very important questions

00:43:41.620 about this pact

00:43:43.100 and about what it

00:43:44.360 potentially means

00:43:45.560 for Canada.

00:43:47.540 So much for transparency.

00:43:50.080 In any event,

00:43:50.780 here's what some of you

00:43:51.900 had to say

00:43:52.580 about Minister Hussain

00:43:54.220 literally

00:43:55.340 running away from us.

00:43:57.000 MTB Mickey

00:43:58.940 408

00:43:59.660 writes,

00:44:00.100 according to the left,

00:44:01.640 asking any questions

00:44:02.920 about migration

00:44:04.100 is xenophobic

00:44:05.700 and racist.

00:44:07.020 Well,

00:44:07.260 Mickey,

00:44:07.640 you have grist

00:44:08.940 for the mill here.

00:44:10.100 Remember when

00:44:10.920 Conservative leader

00:44:11.920 Andrew Scheer

00:44:12.640 asked legitimate questions

00:44:14.180 about returning

00:44:15.400 ISIS fighters

00:44:16.160 to Canada

00:44:16.740 only to have

00:44:18.160 Prime Minister Trudeau

00:44:19.360 smear him

00:44:20.180 as an Islamophobe?

00:44:22.100 So yeah,

00:44:22.780 with this government,

00:44:24.300 we even have to

00:44:25.320 tread carefully

00:44:26.360 when it comes

00:44:27.100 to being critical

00:44:27.980 of hardened terrorists.

00:44:31.280 West is Best writes,

00:44:32.980 if the compact

00:44:33.860 is not legally binding,

00:44:35.820 why sign it

00:44:36.700 in the first place?

00:44:38.140 Well,

00:44:38.680 two points here.

00:44:40.040 One,

00:44:40.380 it seems to me

00:44:41.080 that bits and pieces

00:44:42.000 of the compact

00:44:42.680 are already enshrined

00:44:44.100 in Canadian law

00:44:45.080 due to Canada's

00:44:46.480 previously stated

00:44:47.700 obligations.

00:44:49.120 And if that's

00:44:49.880 not the case,

00:44:50.700 could the

00:44:51.160 Right Honourable

00:44:51.900 Mr. Hussain

00:44:52.620 stop trying out

00:44:54.160 for the track team

00:44:55.120 and simply answer

00:44:56.220 our questions

00:44:56.920 so we can get

00:44:57.980 a measure of

00:44:58.660 clarification here?

00:45:00.520 But secondly,

00:45:01.340 and ultimately,

00:45:02.060 I would argue this,

00:45:03.140 the compact

00:45:03.660 doesn't have to be

00:45:04.880 binding for the likes

00:45:05.940 of Trudeau

00:45:06.620 and Merkel

00:45:07.200 and Macron.

00:45:08.460 After all,

00:45:09.040 they've already

00:45:09.640 bought into the program

00:45:11.000 that more mass migration

00:45:13.040 is indeed

00:45:14.160 the way to go.

00:45:15.720 And Quebec Patriot

00:45:17.060 writes,

00:45:17.500 Menzoid,

00:45:18.060 you are number one

00:45:18.900 on their media

00:45:19.680 re-education camp list.

00:45:22.240 Oh boy,

00:45:22.780 I always wanted

00:45:23.560 to go to camp,

00:45:24.420 Quebec Patriot.

00:45:25.600 But really,

00:45:26.520 do the federal liberals

00:45:27.640 have to re-educate

00:45:28.980 anyone in the

00:45:29.660 mainstream media

00:45:30.480 to play nice?

00:45:31.840 I would say

00:45:32.420 those journalists

00:45:33.120 are already

00:45:33.800 governing themselves

00:45:34.880 accordingly,

00:45:36.120 given that

00:45:36.720 $600 million

00:45:37.800 media slush fund

00:45:39.280 that's coming

00:45:39.820 down the pike. 0.99

00:45:41.200 If you were

00:45:41.740 someone employed

00:45:42.660 in a sunset industry,

00:45:44.800 would you dare

00:45:45.620 bite the hand

00:45:46.460 that now feeds?

00:45:47.920 Well,

00:45:48.440 that wraps up

00:45:49.100 another edition

00:45:49.680 of Rebel Roundup.

00:45:50.580 Thanks so much

00:45:51.140 for joining us.

00:45:51.980 See you next week.

00:45:52.760 And hey folks,

00:45:53.380 never forget,

00:45:54.540 without risk,

00:45:55.480 there can be

00:45:55.980 no glory.

00:45:56.940 Good night.

00:45:57.400 We'll see you next week.

Rebel News Podcast - December 22, 2018

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

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