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00:00:49.260 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back

00:00:53.780 at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:00:57.500 I'm your host, David Menzies. 0.99

00:00:59.880 It looks like that stupid virtue-signalling tweet Justin Trudeau sent out in 2017, you 0.99

00:01:06.480 know the one in which he welcomed the entire world to come to Canada? 1.00

00:01:10.560 Well, that ended up being costly in more ways than one.

00:01:15.140 Sheila Gunn-Reed will explain why the taxpayer is now on the hook for nursing a $200,000 advertising 1.00

00:01:22.780 bill.

00:01:24.340 Oh my, and whoever saw this coming?

00:01:27.140 Apparently, Islamists don't get along all that well with members of the LGBTQ community.

00:01:34.480 Ezra Levent will offer his take on a heated verbal exchange that took place between a burka-clad

00:01:40.540 woman and a homosexual at a UK pride parade, a discussion that was anything but gay. 0.65

00:01:48.800 And finally, letters.

00:01:50.020 We get your letters.

00:01:50.880 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:53.360 And I'll share some of your responses regarding the out-of-control theft problem at Liquor Control

00:01:59.380 Board of Ontario Stores.

00:02:00.860 Oh, and get this.

00:02:02.660 Thieves are free to take advantage of the five-finger discount without fear of impediment.

00:02:08.540 But if you go to an LCBO store to practice journalism, as we did recently, you can expect security

00:02:15.260 guards to go into a full-court press.

00:02:17.940 Wow, I think I need a drink.

00:02:19.820 Make it a double, actually.

00:02:21.400 Those are your rebels.

00:02:22.360 Now let's round them up.

00:02:23.620 Now let's examine the spending because this spending shows some real liberal fear.

00:02:37.100 The timing of Justin Trudeau's Welcome to Canada tweet is very important here.

00:02:41.740 He sent that tweet out January 28th, 2017, the beginning of the year.

00:02:46.300 During all of 2017, the Liberals spent less than $10,000 to advertise information campaigns

00:02:53.080 about illegal immigration.

00:02:55.140 Look at here.

00:02:56.380 The irregular migration campaign sought to reach individuals in the United States with

00:03:01.100 temporary protected status to provide factual information about Canada's asylum system

00:03:07.220 and to dispel misinformation, suggesting that Canada will accept, without question, anyone

00:03:13.620 claiming asylum between ports of entry or anyone with temporary protected status in the United States.

00:03:21.260 You see that there?

00:03:21.980 Just $9,100 in spending in a whole year.

00:03:25.900 The same year our canoe spokesmodel of a Prime Minister sent his irresponsible tweet to the

00:03:30.640 world, which then caused an influx of illegal immigration and asylum claims from potential

00:03:36.660 deportees and overstayers from the United States.

00:03:41.040 But despite all of that confusion and utter chaos, the Liberals weren't all that concerned

00:03:46.780 with clamping down on the lawlessness at the border caused by Trudeau's tweet in 2017, until

00:03:53.940 something else happened in late 2017, at the end of the year.

00:03:58.740 Polls started to suggest that Canadians didn't agree with Justin Trudeau's open door, take

00:04:05.040 all comers and carry their luggage immigration policy.

00:04:08.440 How does that old saying go?

00:04:10.860 Think before you speak?

00:04:12.860 And perhaps because it's 2019, that adage should be modified to state, think before you tweet.

00:04:20.200 Think really, really hard actually.

00:04:22.200 Case in point, thanks to that Justin Trudeau grotesquely irresponsible tweet in 2017, welcoming

00:04:30.040 the entire world to come on down to Canada, it turns out the government ended up spending

00:04:35.900 almost $200,000 in damage control ads, given that polls would later reveal that the majority

00:04:44.020 of Canadians aren't on board when it comes to Justin's open borders virtue signalling.

00:04:50.360 But then again, it's only $200,000, and in the grand scheme of things, that's not a lot

00:04:55.380 of money, right?

00:04:56.580 Besides, it's only tax dollars, plenty of those in the kitty.

00:05:01.260 And joining me now with more on this sordid story is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:05:06.880 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:05:09.300 Hey David, thanks for having me on the show.

00:05:11.060 It is always a pleasure.

00:05:12.400 So Sheila, there's a perverse irony at play here, isn't there?

00:05:16.120 Essentially, the makers, that would be the Canadian taxpayers, are paying a price in order 1.00

00:05:22.180 to further accommodate the takers, all thanks to an idiotic tweet by the Prime Minister that 1.00

00:05:28.600 should never have been conveyed in the first place. 0.99

00:05:31.240 What do you make of this, Sheila?

00:05:33.640 Yeah, I mean, as the story goes, in the year that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet, the famous

00:05:41.940 welcome to Canada tweet that was just, you know, shameless, transparent trolling of President

00:05:46.900 Donald Trump for his so-called Muslim ban, which wasn't a Muslim ban at all, but rather

00:05:52.060 a ban on travel from, you know, several failed states across the world, that tweet, as we

00:05:59.640 know, caused an onslaught of illegal immigration at Canada's southern border.

00:06:06.020 That's an indisputable fact.

00:06:08.560 What changed is when the federal government actually started caring about the damage that

00:06:16.420 they were doing at the border, because in the year that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet,

00:06:20.320 the government had only spent $9,100 on making sure that people clicked on these Google ads

00:06:28.380 and search engine ads to give them the appropriate information about how to immigrate to Canada

00:06:34.860 and strutting across the border ain't it. But as soon as polling came back at the end of that year

00:06:43.320 that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet, I think it was 2017, polling came in in November saying

00:06:48.180 Canadians are overwhelmingly opposed to the catastrophic destruction of our immigration 0.99

00:06:52.680 system at the hands of the Liberals. So all of a sudden, it went from $9,100 in a year to

00:06:59.120 nearly $200,000 in the subsequent year and a half for the government to just throw money

00:07:07.140 at search engine advertising, trying to get people who are doing things like Googling

00:07:12.680 how to immigrate illegally into Canada to click on ads that say, no, no, no, this is probably the

00:07:19.960 way you do it. And you shouldn't be just showing up at the border with your baggage in hand,

00:07:24.160 although they still are.

00:07:25.140 You know, and Sheila, I want to pursue that angle because it speaks to a bigger picture,

00:07:29.540 and that bigger picture being the character of Justin Trudeau. You would think that once

00:07:35.840 he saw the polling results and that the people, the vast majority of people are against this

00:07:42.100 kind of open borders policy, he might have said something like, you know, okay, I got it

00:07:47.020 wrong, mea culpa, we're going down the wrong direction, the people have spoken. But no, again,

00:07:52.820 here's a man who dines out on public apologies for the sins of other people committed a long

00:08:00.740 time ago. In fact, even before Canada was a nation, for goodness sakes, he can never take

00:08:06.280 personal responsibility for anything he has done or said, even when he's clearly in the wrong.

00:08:13.360 I think that's despicable that not only did he not reverse course on this policy, but that 0.98

00:08:18.420 he doubled down with our own money to go out and tell us, no, you dumb people, here's why 0.99

00:08:23.420 you have it wrong and I have it right. 0.99

00:08:26.720 That's exactly true, David. It was Justin Trudeau's public pronouncement that really set

00:08:33.320 the prairie fire that just blazed out of control and caused all these problems at the border.

00:08:39.780 It was his one tweet, retweeted tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of times, that

00:08:47.280 one tweet seen around the world. And he's never come out and corrected himself on that. He's

00:08:54.600 never come out and said, that's not the way to do things. We have a system in place. This

00:08:59.840 is how you should be doing things. And he's never had to. And I think a lot of that plays

00:09:04.120 into the mainstream media narrative about illegal immigration. They don't call it illegal immigration,

00:09:12.280 do they? They call it irregular migration, as though it's completely lawful. It's just not

00:09:19.520 happening the usual way. That's completely untrue. I watched a mainstream media journalist last week

00:09:26.060 try to correct Maxime Bernier when he called it illegal immigration. She said, well, I believe we're 0.94

00:09:33.640 calling it legal or irregular migration. It's dumbfounding. But as long as that continues

00:09:43.380 to happen, as long as we're playing these word games, as long as the mainstream media refuses

00:09:48.080 to hold Justin Trudeau accountable, I mean, he's just not going to answer for what he's done.

00:09:54.520 Yeah. And you know what, Sheila, maybe you and I have it right. I'm all about getting education

00:10:00.040 on the issue, which is why I went to Morocco last December to the UN migration compact, only to have

00:10:06.780 my own government ban me from attending and covering that compact. So hey, I guess they want us to remain

00:10:14.120 ignorant by their own policies. But you know, Sheila, it is outrageous that I can't think, you know, 0.87

00:10:21.340 I stand to be corrected here, but I can't think of any nation in the world whose leader is tweeting

00:10:26.500 out, you know, basically advocating for more illegal immigration into that nation. And I think what

00:10:33.760 the unspoken story here is, Sheila, is that Justin Trudeau puts his fortunes and the fortunes of the

00:10:41.580 federal liberal party ahead of Canada. Namely, when we have all these illegal immigrants coming into 1.00

00:10:48.660 Canada and they get the voting franchise, there's going to be that innuendo, you know, hey, never forget

00:10:55.500 who let you in, never forget who opened the gates, you know, you have an uncle in the furniture

00:11:01.220 business, make sure you vote for him. I think that's what's at play here, Sheila. And that is

00:11:06.580 despicable in my book. We see this playing out right now also in the United States. They want amnesty

00:11:15.780 for illegal aliens in the United States, which would then give them the ability to vote, which would

00:11:23.240 then, you know, I think the Democrats would then feel entitled to those votes. And it's so important

00:11:30.560 for that to happen in states like Texas. Texas is getting a little more purple when it used to be

00:11:36.760 deep red. And if you flip Texas with the amount of power that has in the electoral college, you can flip

00:11:47.620 the whole country. And I think Justin Trudeau is counting on some of that bleeding over here into

00:11:54.240 Canada, some of that attitude like, hey, we'd let you in. So vote for us. The problem with that is

00:12:00.980 that there are already a lot of legal immigrants in this country. You know, you see it in BC's lower 1.00

00:12:09.180 mainland where you have people, especially in the Chinese community, who have come here the right

00:12:14.360 way. They've worked hard. They've adopted Canadian values. They just want to, you know,

00:12:20.360 pay their taxes and get ahead like everybody else. And they see a lot of people who are jumping the

00:12:27.680 queue and they're really blowing the whistle. You see the Chinese community in the lower mainland of

00:12:33.800 British Columbia leading the charge against birthright citizenship because they know that people from 0.66

00:12:39.940 China are coming to hospitals in Burnaby just to have their baby to then have the baby sponsor the 0.99

00:12:45.880 parents to become legal immigrants to Canada. So, you know, while Justin Trudeau is counting on,

00:12:53.100 you know, a lot of illegal immigrants suddenly becoming Canadians and voting for him, he's really 0.97

00:12:59.200 forgetting about the vast majority of legal immigrants to this country who really resent the

00:13:05.100 queue jumping that Justin Trudeau is allowing to happen.

00:13:07.440 No, I absolutely agree, Sheila. I think what we're seeing with the liberals in Canada and the

00:13:11.760 Democrats in the U.S. is actually to change the fabric of the populace. Like you said, that's a

00:13:18.000 great example of Texas. I mean, it's hard to believe that, you know, back in 1980, California was a red 0.69

00:13:24.380 state that voted for Reagan. Those days are long gone. And if Texas goes that way, you're looking at

00:13:30.420 probably a Democrat dynasty. And similarly in Canada, if we have basically a federal government

00:13:39.380 and its prime minister espousing the mantra of no one is illegal just so that they can embolden their

00:13:47.700 own power base, I think it's almost borderline treason, Sheila. I know that's a harsh word, but

00:13:54.600 I think that's what we're seeing. That's what the ultimate agenda here is in terms of allowing and

00:14:01.060 encouraging illegals to come into our country. 0.72

00:14:04.840 Well, it's the mantra of power at all costs. The liberals really don't seem to care what happens

00:14:11.360 in the rest of the country, what the social costs are, what the financial costs are, the damage to the

00:14:18.620 Canadian economy, the damage to our social support network, i.e. food banks and homeless shelters,

00:14:26.220 we know the ones in Toronto, are just brimming full of illegal migrants. They don't really care 1.00

00:14:31.820 about those sorts of things. Those implications that the rest of us, outside of the Ottawa and

00:14:36.800 Laurentian bubble, the stuff that we have to live with every day, that's not really on their radar as

00:14:41.720 long as they retain the power and as long as they retain their entitlement to be the natural

00:14:48.600 governing party of Canada.

00:14:50.120 Yeah. And I guess we're going to have to wrap it here, Sheila. And of course, the insult to injury

00:14:55.400 is almost $200,000 of our money saying how we've got it wrong. And we didn't even get into that other

00:15:02.600 information you uncovered, Sheila, of Climate Barbie also spending almost $200,000

00:15:09.000 to promote her climate change agenda in advertising as well. But hey, they're very

00:15:17.320 generous with our money, aren't they, Sheila? That's what it boils down to.

00:15:21.560 Isn't that the truth? And this is just the stuff they spent on getting people to click on Google

00:15:26.480 ads. This isn't, you know, all the other stuff that they waste our money on to fix the problems

00:15:31.420 they created. I mean, just look at the crisis at the border and just the infrastructure they've had

00:15:35.560 to build the border. It's in the millions and millions of dollars, all because of Justin Trudeau's

00:15:41.280 one tweet. Indeed. What a farce. Sheila, another superb report from you. Thank you so much. And thank

00:15:46.920 you for joining me today here. Thanks, David. Have a great weekend. You too now, my friend. And that

00:15:52.280 was Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:05.560 What was the crime? And by the way, does anyone think what she said is not being preached and

00:16:11.200 taught at a thousand British mosques and schools every day? She just made the mistake of saying it

00:16:17.060 on a high street in English. Here's the cops. Waltham Forest Police. We are aware of footage

00:16:23.960 circulating on social media of abuse directed at those taking part in the Waltham Forest Pride

00:16:28.180 event. We are Waltham Forest at STP Pride. And inquiries are underway. Abusing someone because of

00:16:36.240 their sexual orientation or gender identity is a hate crime. If you have been verbally or physically 0.55

00:16:42.460 abused, harassed or attacked in any way by someone because you are or they think you are LGBT plus,

00:16:50.000 they drop the Q. Please report these crimes to police or through a third-party agency. Now, I obviously

00:16:55.700 don't like the Sharia approach to women, sexuality, homosexuality, free expression, etc. Obviously, 0.99

00:17:00.760 I mean, just a guess if you're wearing a medieval body bag and it actually got up to 38 degrees

00:17:06.200 Celsius last week in London. Think about that. If you're dressed like that and shrieking at gay 1.00

00:17:12.120 pride marches, I'm guessing you've got strong views about everything from Jews to Western democracy to 0.98

00:17:19.360 terrorism. Yeah, our new country is going to be amazing. But of all the things to criminalize,

00:17:24.120 not sure that shouting shame at someone is the thing I'd start with. Pretty sure the problem

00:17:28.740 actually predates that. If you're worried about what you saw there, perhaps the problem is inviting

00:17:34.280 in millions of people who hate gays and believe they have to be stoned to death. And you suddenly, 0.98

00:17:41.900 you thought they'd suddenly change their deep-seated hatred on a short plane ride over. Maybe that's

00:17:48.760 the problem. Here's Pew Research with their international surveys on gay rights. They pulled

00:17:53.840 gay rights all around the world. Should society accept homosexuality? In Canada, 80% say yes.

00:18:01.140 In most Muslim countries, it's over 90% who say no. Are you still surprised that they say no in the UK

00:18:08.700 shortly after taking the plane over from Pakistan? Now, here's a question for you. How are you going to

00:18:13.960 find that suspect? She's wearing a mask in public. She's dressed in black. How are you going to pick

00:18:20.220 her out of a lineup? That's one reason we don't let people wear masks in public. 1.00

00:18:24.640 Well, so much for that whiz-bang slogan of diversity is our strength, because when it comes

00:18:29.280 to those who pine for Islamic Sharia law, well, apparently they aren't all that accommodating

00:18:34.940 when it comes to those who comprise the LGBT and sometimes Q community. Surely this must give 1.00

00:18:42.140 the progressives fits, yet what did they expect was going to happen? When one is weaned on an

00:18:48.300 ideological diet of hatred towards certain types of infidels, old habits are hard to drop. And so 0.99

00:18:55.200 it is that we end up with a burka-clad woman cussing out an openly gay person at a UK pride march. 0.56

00:19:02.280 Gracious, how is the PC brigade ever going to handle this hot potato when it comes to the so-called

00:19:08.880 hierarchy of human rights? And with more on this story of Islam versus the LGBTQ community is our 0.96

00:19:16.380 very own rebel commander, Ezra Levent. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:19:20.660 Thanks. My one objection to your introduction is I don't think she was cussing. She said, 1.00

00:19:25.340 shame on you.

00:19:26.100 Yes. 0.98

00:19:26.480 And she used two adjectives, shameless and despicable. But she didn't swear. She just kept on shouting, 1.00

00:19:33.220 shame, shame, shame. It was like something from The Handmaid's Tale. I don't think in my view she broke

00:19:39.440 any laws. She was not violent. She didn't call for violence. She was irritating. And I think she was 1.00

00:19:47.260 over the top and offensive. But it was a gay pride parade, which is inherently a political statement. 0.55

00:19:52.640 And I think in the UK it ought to be free enough to say shame to any manifestation or demonstration

00:19:58.420 on the street. What's fascinating to me is that had that been an indigenous working class white 0.89

00:20:04.540 Brit soccer hooligan or whatever, he would have been arrested immediately. In Islam, in the UK, 0.95

00:20:12.580 that's just sort of normal. So I was actually really surprised when they arrested this woman.

00:20:19.640 The police, first of all, how do you identify her? She's wearing a burqa. You know, if you put seven 1.00

00:20:24.860 women in burqas in a police lineup, how do you even identify her unless she's confessing? But I don't 1.00

00:20:30.120 believe someone who has that deep-seated a view would confess to any crime or even submit to the

00:20:36.420 authority of a secular law. Someone like that is full-on Sharia law. The Koran is her only law. I find 1.00

00:20:43.400 this a confusing case. I'm looking forward to seeing if she's actually prosecuted. Not only do I think that

00:20:48.840 she won't be, but I think if she would be, which I doubt, there would be such a public reaction from

00:20:55.660 Muslim extremists in the UK of whom there are a great number. And listen, if it's an indigenous white 1.00

00:21:03.760 working class soccer hooligan, the police don't care. And if anyone shows up, they'll hit them with 0.97

00:21:08.860 the Billy Club. But there are 23,000 actual jihadists walking the streets of London. That's in addition 0.97

00:21:17.780 to millions of Muslims who may be sympathetic to one degree or another. I've seen surveys that show

00:21:23.940 the plurality of British Muslims think it should be illegal, for example, for someone who's gay to be a

00:21:29.140 teacher. So that's sort of where the needle is there. Of these 23,000 jihadists, 3,000 are so

00:21:40.240 dangerous, the police monitor them 24 hours a day. You've got 3,000 people so dangerous. I mean,

00:21:48.120 I don't know how many people it takes to monitor someone 24 hours a day to track them. That could

00:21:51.920 be 50. You know, it's fascinating, Ezra, because I also looked at the media coverage of this and even

00:21:57.480 the way the writers in columnists are walking on eggshells, avoiding the use of the descriptor

00:22:03.620 burqa, you know, a woman in black clothing, right? You know, the way they're pussyfooting around 1.00

00:22:10.000 the elephant in the room. But I'm wondering, you know, are we really that much different here

00:22:16.200 in Toronto? I go back to June at the Al-Quds Day Parade, and you know that interview where I

00:22:21.380 talked to somebody who said things far worse, that, yeah, basically under Sharia law, where 0.99

00:22:26.380 nothing personal, but we're going to have to execute all the gays in Canada. I remember that 1.00

00:22:30.320 guy, and that same guy was very candid, and he said, ha ha, sucker, I didn't swear allegiance 0.86

00:22:35.260 to Canadian law one night on my immigration ceremony. I kept my mouth shut. It's your fault 0.99

00:22:40.120 for not watching me. Yes. That was an incredible interview that was widely circulated. Yeah, absolutely.

00:22:47.680 And there was one line in that protest in London, in a neighborhood beautifully called Waltham Forest.

00:22:55.360 Right. And you can just imagine how pretty it once was. And now it's as crappy as can be. And it's

00:23:01.620 going full Islamification. There are halal stores everywhere, hijab stores, niqab. Like it's not long 1.00

00:23:10.560 that that gay pride parade will even still be there. Soon it'll be too dangerous to have. There was this 1.00

00:23:16.080 one last, she was shouting, shame on you, shame on you. And she just kept repeating it. It was sort

00:23:21.540 of in like a trance or a chant or a mania. And someone in the great pride parade shouted back

00:23:28.040 and said, that's what the racists and fascists say about you. And I thought, you know what? You

00:23:33.680 finally noticed that, eh, buddy? But you noticed that probably 20 years too late for Waltham Forest

00:23:38.800 and for Bradford and for Luton and for Birmingham and frankly, Rotherham and Rochford and most

00:23:46.820 of the UK, it's too late for you liberals to finally notice that, yeah, these newcomers who

00:23:51.900 you allied with in a temporary alliance of convenience because they too despised the Western state.

00:23:58.420 You thought they were your ally, but how are uncovered women or gay men or trans men treated

00:24:05.000 back in Pakistan, back in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, in Gaza. And only now, only now did that one fellow

00:24:15.940 notice that, yeah, maybe, maybe the threat to his sexual freedom is not coming from the timid Church 0.98

00:24:23.840 of England or the Pope in Rome. It's coming from somewhere else that he just, just noticed.

00:24:30.540 But I wonder, Ezra, I would challenge you on that point. Did he notice that? Because I know that part

00:24:34.760 you're talking about, it's at the tail end of the video and it's, you're right, that's how the

00:24:38.440 racists and fascists speak about you. But is he still obsessed with the racists and fascists

00:24:45.940 as being the elephant in the room as opposed to the Islamists who come from a culture who are 0.89

00:24:53.460 embedded in the UK where their Islamic private schools and mosques teach, you know, hatred of 0.99

00:25:00.620 certain groups where there's 85 or so Sharia courts. I'm just wondering if that guy does realize

00:25:08.060 who the real enemy is in terms of his sexual orientation.

00:25:12.400 Yeah. I don't know. I mean, we'll never know because we'll never know who it was who hollered out.

00:25:16.420 But, you know, there was a Dutch politician named Pim Fortown who wasn't just gay, he was super gay.

00:25:25.420 Like, he went around with a little puppy in his lap and he was so flamboyant, he was like 0.91

00:25:30.420 Liberace gay. And he was a canary in the coal mine. He said, I like being gay and I like being in Amsterdam, 0.99

00:25:40.720 the gay capital of Europe. And I see the threat to that is Islam. And he was an anti-Islam campaigner. 0.97

00:25:46.780 He was assassinated. Theo van Gogh, another Dutchman, gay, assassinated because they saw the threat. 0.95

00:25:54.600 And even after their assassination, Holland still kept the doors open. In fact, their assassination

00:25:59.680 shut up the biggest critics. There's assassination plots against a Dutch politician named Geert Wilders

00:26:07.880 who still rings the bell. So yeah, these people will not, I think that those are anomalies. I think

00:26:15.120 I've just listed, you know, most of the gay activists in the world who realize where their peril is coming 1.00

00:26:20.700 from and several of them have been murdered. I think that what we saw there in Walden Forest

00:26:27.520 is a premonition of our future. And HBO or Showtime or whoever is producing The Handmaid's Tale,

00:26:36.200 what a farce that is to pretend that it's a Christian threat. And there's some Christian 1.00

00:26:41.020 theocracy in the world. I've never seen it. There is a theocracy in the world that is sexually

00:26:46.000 reactionary. And it's called Islam. And you don't have to call it fiction. You can just go out with 0.90

00:26:51.720 a news camera and cover it every day. But I guess that's a little bit too difficult for Hollywood to

00:26:55.860 talk about. It's shocking, Ezra. Thank you so much for this. And I think that future is closer than most

00:27:03.120 people would like to think. And you know, folks, I did mention that Al-Quds protests are actually

00:27:07.740 advocating death to gay people. And in that same month, what did we see in Toronto? A couple of 0.90

00:27:13.420 street preachers in the gay village preaching Christianity. Nothing hateful at all. And boy,

00:27:18.940 did the police descend upon them with the force of a papal bull. I wonder where the priorities are.

00:27:24.620 Keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:27:33.120 David Menzies for the Rebel.media here at the Queen's Quay LCBO store in downtown Toronto.

00:27:42.140 Now, it's been in the media lately that the LCBO stores are suffering from an uptick in shoplifting.

00:27:50.320 And little wonder why employees are told that even if they witness somebody stealing anything,

00:27:56.200 not to interfere whatsoever. In fact, one anonymous LCBO employee tipped off the media a while back

00:28:05.380 that there has been a steady increase in such theft, not just of people who are destitute,

00:28:11.900 but entrepreneurs who are simply stealing bottles of booze and then reselling them. So

00:28:17.340 what an incredible business model. Anyways, the question arises, how much money in terms of dollars

00:28:26.480 is the LCBO losing on an annual basis? We reached out to the LCBO. They refused to give us these figures.

00:28:34.980 So we made an FOI request. And incredibly, our demand for a dollar figure was denied. Now,

00:28:43.660 what makes this concerning is that we're supposed to have a new government in place where there is

00:28:49.360 transparency, especially when it comes to crown corporations. Now, we reached out to the Ministry

00:28:55.820 of Finance, and they basically told us that this is an LCBO internal matter. My personal theory is that

00:29:02.660 the dollar amount must be so massive. Actually, well, that would defeat the purpose of our, of our business.

00:29:10.680 Everyone has privacy issues. They don't want to be on a camera. They don't have to be on a camera.

00:29:14.380 Sir, we are on camera right now. I understand that, but this is your own personal camera. We do not want

00:29:20.680 to be on your own personal camera. Sir, your autofocus is not going to help you here. Okay. Turn off

00:29:25.880 the switch there. That's the autofocus. I'm not a fool. Get out the store, guys. You have to get out.

00:29:30.380 If she hasn't given you the go ahead, you have to get out. Again, why don't you come down so hard

00:29:36.120 on the thieves stealing bottles of booze? I don't answer these questions, okay? No, but it's a fair

00:29:40.740 question. Can you tell us how much you lose, say, on a daily basis, sir? I'm not the person to answer

00:29:45.240 that question. Okay. But the people that do answer these questions aren't answering those questions.

00:29:50.940 Amazing. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has an out-of-control theft problem when it comes to

00:29:56.460 people waltzing out of its stores without actually paying for their beer, wine, and spirits. Yet,

00:30:02.460 when the rebel goes down to an LCBO store to shed some light on this issue, well, the booze

00:30:08.060 bureaucrats decide to shoot or at least shut down the messenger. Yeah, these guys running the

00:30:13.940 provincial liquor monopoly sure have their priorities straight, don't they? In any event, here's what

00:30:20.160 you had to say about the LCBO running its business in a fiscal fashion that would make a drunken sailor

00:30:27.400 blush. Pitsky P writes, filming is a problem. Shoplifting, no problem. Wow, clown world. Indeed,

00:30:36.140 Pitsky P, and keep in mind that this state-sanctioned monopoly justifies its very existence on the premise

00:30:43.900 of social responsibility. So the LCBO will age-check customers they think might be minors, but on the

00:30:52.960 other hand, minors can walk out of the store without even paying for their illicit booze, no questions 0.89

00:30:58.860 asked. Clown world, indeed. 0.93

00:31:01.700 And there's cotton candy and rides and all sorts of surprises down here.

00:31:06.280 Bubbling Blue Crabb writes, go to Premier Ford, get an answer. Oh, I have reached out to Premier Ford's

00:31:14.200 office, Mr. Crabb, but it's been radio silence thus far, which is downright inexplicable and

00:31:20.700 disappointing. After all, Doug Ford ran an election campaign promising openness and transparency.

00:31:28.280 His government would be for the people. Remember that tagline? And when he ran municipally,

00:31:34.560 his political slogan was respect for taxpayers. Really, Doug? I'm not feeling much respect when

00:31:41.320 it comes to the liquor file. I don't get no respect from anyone. Well, last week my house was on fire.

00:31:46.660 My wife told the kids be quiet. You wake up daddy. SB writes, gotta love the government. Lose our money

00:31:53.800 and tell us we don't have the right to know. Well, bingo SB, and that's exactly the thing. If a private

00:31:59.840 company like Walmart or Costco was having a serious shoplifting problem, well, that's really none of our

00:32:06.000 business. But the taxpayers of Ontario own the LCBO. We at least have the right to know how many millions

00:32:13.640 of dollars are going out the door. Ontarians are shareholders. And we'd like some transparency, please.

00:32:21.500 I want the truth. You can't handle the truth.

00:32:24.940 And Landon Roy writes, this is why government should not have a monopoly over anything. Agreed, Landon.

00:32:32.320 Monopolies by their very nature tend to be abusive. But a monopoly that has the power of the state behind it?

00:32:39.060 We're talking scary abusive.

00:32:41.920 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Did you see that?

00:32:48.620 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week.

00:32:53.060 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.

00:33:09.060 We'll see you next week.

00:33:10.060 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 18, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn Reid

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