Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Kurt Schlichter, Ezra Levant & Sheila Gunn Reid

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.580 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.420 Well, a Canadian now sits on death row in China, but it seems that Foreign Affairs Minister

00:00:16.560 Chrystia Freeland is just too busy going to bat for assorted other foreign nationals, 1.00

00:00:22.920 as opposed to taking an interest in a Canadian citizen who might pay the ultimate price.

00:00:28.380 Ezra Levent will try to make sense of it all. And remember how back in 2015 the Trudeau Liberals

00:00:35.640 promised to be the most transparent federal government in Canadian history? Well, that was

00:00:41.940 then and this is now. Sheila Gunn-Reed will explain how the Trudeau Liberals are all about suppressing 0.98

00:00:48.300 information that should be made public. And talk about your Mexican standoff as President Trump

00:00:56.300 is insistent upon receiving funding for a wall on the southern border. The Democrats are refusing to

00:01:02.640 compromise or negotiate. Kurt Schlichter will offer his take on what is likely to play out in the days

00:01:10.480 ahead. And finally, we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share

00:01:15.320 some of the feedback we received regarding my commentary about a police officer who inexplicably

00:01:21.760 concluded that a senior citizen who was returning about nine bucks worth of empties to a beer store

00:01:28.880 was surely a drunk driver and was threatened with a $2,000 fine unless he submitted to a breathalyzer

00:01:36.900 test. Just will you hear this one, folks? Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up. 0.75

00:01:42.640 China sentences a Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, to death. He wasn't originally sentenced to death

00:01:54.860 there, but they kicked it up a notch after Canada arrested Meng in December. Let me read the first

00:01:59.740 sentence from the New York Times. Ready? China's diplomatic clash with Canada escalated sharply on

00:02:04.860 Monday. That's today. When a Chinese court sentenced a Canadian to death for a drug smuggling

00:02:09.440 at a one-day retrial ordered weeks after a Chinese executive's arrest in Canada. That's how they

00:02:16.780 roll in China, a one-day retrial, a do-over in one day to kill a guy. I have no idea if he really is a 0.62

00:02:26.040 drug dealer, but I do have an idea about Chinese courts. They are not independent. They're really

00:02:30.320 just window dressing for whatever the Communist Party says. There are some lawyers in China, but they're

00:02:35.560 really symbolic. The fix was in. Maybe he really was a drug dealer, but it's certain that this was an

00:02:41.380 escalation. China is saying, you arrest one of ours, we kill one of yours. So that was the news that 0.99

00:02:47.360 Chrystia Freeland was facing today. So why not scoop up a bounty, a prize, and make sure that she hugs 1.00

00:02:54.920 you, and make sure she doesn't say anything. Only you get to talking. Isn't that weird? Now as I do my

00:03:02.280 research for this video, Chrystia Freeland has yet to put out a public statement on the death

00:03:08.540 sentence in China. Now the last thing I see, and maybe this will change between when I speak this

00:03:14.760 and when it goes to air, but the last thing I see on her Twitter feed is indeed about Thailand. You see

00:03:20.060 that thing, that Thai pongal thing there? That's just typical political pandering to some Thai ethnic

00:03:27.460 festival of some sort. So I scrolled back a few days, and I saw nothing about this death sentence.

00:03:33.520 I saw this tweet by her a few days ago. Canada is seriously alarmed by today's court decision

00:03:40.000 in Myanmar, that's Burma, to uphold the imprisonment of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kia Sohu.

00:03:48.820 Now I'm sure that Wa Lone and Kia Sohu are good people. I'm sure they've been mistreated. I mean,

00:03:54.940 I'm not sure, but let's assume that. The problem is they're just not Canadian. They have no connection 0.99

00:04:00.860 to Canada. They work for Reuters, and so used to, Chrystia Freeland worked for Reuters before she ran 0.99

00:04:06.600 for office. So maybe this is a favour to her old company that, I don't know, that would be how the

00:04:11.840 Liberals work. But maybe she just really likes to virtue signal, to show how much she cares to people, 0.95

00:04:16.440 about people, just not people she has any responsibility for, or can do anything about.

00:04:21.020 Well, talk about having your priorities in order. Sure, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland

00:04:27.040 loves to don her Supergirl cape when it comes to championing the violated human rights of 1.00

00:04:33.100 foreign nationals. But when a trial redo is carried out in China that results in a death sentence

00:04:41.020 for a bona fide Canadian citizen, well, suddenly the minister is apparently too time-pressed to get

00:04:48.000 involved. How disturbing is that? Join me now with more about Ms. Freeland's apparent vow of silence

00:04:55.140 with regard to a Canadian who now finds himself on death row under some very dubious circumstances

00:05:01.540 is our very own Rebel Commander, Ezra Levant. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:05:06.240 Thank you very much. Good to be here.

00:05:07.400 Good to have you. And Ezra, tell me, I'm just wondering, the potential fate of Robert Schellenberg

00:05:12.340 is about as dire as it gets. Do you think Freeland and company are furiously working behind the scenes

00:05:20.060 to get some justice done here? Or is this a case of paralysis by analysis, given that they simply

00:05:26.640 don't know what to do when it comes to this crisis? As far as I know, Justin Trudeau has not phoned the

00:05:32.120 president of China, either for this Robert Schellenberg, who I believe is a drug dealer, because he had

00:05:38.340 drug convictions and all sorts of criminal convictions in Canada. And, you know, he should

00:05:43.040 have stuck to Canada, where we're extremely lenient, and we have liberal judges, and you

00:05:47.260 get his... I don't know why anyone who is a serial criminal, which I think he was. I think that's

00:05:51.560 what the criminal record shows. Don't go to China and do crimes here. So, I mean, I don't believe

00:05:57.020 the Chinese legal system. It's not independent. That's not controversial to say that. They convicted

00:06:03.700 him, and they sentenced him. Okay, fine. But then what happened is, after this current spat with

00:06:08.900 China, they had a do-over trial. Now, they got a conviction. So, another trial, that's just not a

00:06:15.180 thing. And the second do-over trial was in one day, and obviously lawyers in China are more like for

00:06:21.380 window dressing. They're not... And judges really... So, they took this guy, retried him, and gave him the

00:06:27.700 death penalty. And, I mean, that's a scam. That's a sham. I acknowledge that China ought to have 1.00

00:06:37.260 the right to have the death penalty for a drug dealer. But I point out the obvious that this

00:06:42.240 guy didn't get that until it became a political pawn. But let me say this. The liberals pressed

00:06:50.080 extremely hard to have a convicted murderer and terrorist named Omar Cotter, five counts of war

00:06:56.640 crimes, 40-year prison sentence under Guantanamo-based military commission by a jury. The liberals wouldn't

00:07:04.520 stop saying, bring him home, bring him home, even though he was a murderer and terrorist. He sat on 0.98

00:07:09.860 the streets. Even if it was just to have this guy serve his sentence in a Canadian jail, he's been

00:07:16.000 sentenced to death. And I haven't heard a word in public from Trudeau on this. And again, I'm not in

00:07:20.740 favor of this guy. I think he's a bad dude. But he shouldn't be murdered as a political spar at us. And

00:07:27.940 Trudeau and Freeland are too timid to say anything. But, you know, Ezra, at this stage, how do you

00:07:34.300 unravel this mess? I mean, we all go... It goes back to last month, the Huawei CFO, Meng Wenzhou,

00:07:41.800 arrested to be extradited to the U.S. That's what started this going... It's funny, the Chinese say 1.00

00:07:48.740 that the trial redo of Mr. Schellenberg has nothing to do with that issue, which is a jaw dropper,

00:07:55.620 to say the least. But when it comes to this, as it's being labeled by some in the media,

00:08:01.200 death penalty diplomacy, how do you fix this to begin with? Well, look, just because Canada is a

00:08:10.980 smaller country, a middle power, let's use that word, doesn't mean that we can't command respect

00:08:15.160 around the world. I note that even though Barack Obama was against the Keystone XL pipeline and was

00:08:20.600 never going to approve it, he didn't actually kill it until right after Stephen Harper left,

00:08:26.340 because he knew that Justin Trudeau you could push around. Stephen Harper took on Vladimir Putin in

00:08:31.600 ways that no one had imagined. Stephen Harper took on the francophonie and their anti-Israel bias.

00:08:38.100 Stephen Harper did a lot of things as prime minister with a small country, and he earned

00:08:43.760 respect for it around the world. So you can do that. I think, how does respect around the world

00:08:51.660 come? I think it's speaking clearly, speaking the same way publicly as privately, keeping promises,

00:08:59.380 doing what you say, showing self-respect. To me, the perfect summary of Trudeau's China policy is not

00:09:09.840 even when he said when he was running for office, China is my favorite country because of their basic

00:09:14.020 dictatorship. That was a shocking thing to hear. But when he sent his Chinese ambassador, John

00:09:19.960 McCallum, the former member of parliament, when McCallum was before a Canadian committee talking about free

00:09:25.200 trade, and he was asked, what's the Canadian stance? He said, I would say to China, more, more, more.

00:09:32.180 Like, he basically said, whatever China wants, we're down for. So if you have so little self-respect,

00:09:38.980 have so little savvy, that you're going to negotiate with one of the most, I mean, the Chinese have been 1.00

00:09:45.880 into diplomacy and negotiating for 5,000 years. I mean, it's like Persia, Iran. These people have had

00:09:53.260 empires and kingdoms and intrigues for millennia. And to think that some dopey trust fund kid can say,

00:10:01.100 I'm just going to go in, I'm going to say I love them, and whatever they want, I'm going to give them

00:10:05.780 more, more, more. So that's your opening position, is whatever they want. That's your opening position.

00:10:11.380 And I'm not even kidding. Canada invested half a billion dollars of Canadian tax money in China's

00:10:21.220 Asian industrial infrastructure bank. Why are we putting half a billion Canadian tax dollars in a

00:10:28.980 Chinese bank to build infrastructure in China and around the world? How about in Canada? Like,

00:10:34.440 why did you just give them half a billion dollars? Is that like a thank you gift or a pre-thank you?

00:10:38.960 Like, when you don't respect yourself, when you have no self-confidence or self-respect,

00:10:45.080 other people can detect that in about a second, and they'll take advantage. I mean,

00:10:50.020 the irony is Donald Trump has made it clear that other than Mexico, China is the country he most

00:10:55.740 despises. I mean, count the number of tweets he's made on China versus Mexico. There's this hilarious

00:11:01.640 clip, I think the Huffington Post put it online. It's just a montage of Trump saying China, China,

00:11:06.160 China, China, China, China. Online is very funny. But when that China hater, let's call it like it

00:11:12.020 is. I mean, Trump says he likes the Chinese people and Chinese food. Sure he does, but he hates the

00:11:16.520 Chinese government. When he landed in Beijing, they rolled out the red carpet. They treated him

00:11:24.880 like a king. Why would they treat a guy who hates him like that? Because Donald Trump, you know,

00:11:33.940 they had to give him a nickname. They have two nicknames for trying to, according to the New York

00:11:36.580 Times. Uncle Donald or Donald the Strong. And strength garners respect, obviously. Whereas what's

00:11:47.700 the, do you remember their nickname for Justin Trudeau? Little Potato. Little Potato. Little Potato.

00:11:52.660 Has something been lost in the translation? What? No, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a homophone,

00:11:57.400 Xiao Pudo or something like that. It means little potato because it, like it, it rhymes with his

00:12:04.920 name. So what? But you don't, but so what? A lot of things would rhyme with Trump, but they call him

00:12:10.040 Donald the Strong is not a rhyme. Yeah. And Trudeau, it's Trudeau the weak, Trudeau the lesser,

00:12:16.840 Trudeau the clown, Trudeau the child. I mean, throughout history, there's, you know, there's Ivan 0.98

00:12:20.840 the terrible, you know, there's Vlad the impaler, you know, there's, there's so-and-so the fat,

00:12:29.980 so-and-so the thin, so-and-so the elder, the younger, Plato the elder, Plato the younger,

00:12:34.120 you know, there's all these historical names that we give people. So-and-so the weak, you know,

00:12:41.400 Trudeau's nickname must be the lesser, Trudeau the lesser. The little potato. And, you know,

00:12:47.080 and yet here's another, you know, spanner into the works as far as I see it, Ezra. In a very rare

00:12:53.020 public appearance, China's ambassador to Canada, Ambassador Liu, he said, and I wonder how the

00:13:01.040 likes of a social justice warrior like our prime minister would handle this. He said that Western

00:13:06.100 nations are showing their, quote, Western egotism and white supremacy, end quote, in their approach

00:13:14.220 to China. First of all, I think that's a little rich coming from a country like China. But these

00:13:21.400 are the kind of, these are the words, this is the language of, you know, the, the, the Trudeau and

00:13:27.740 his ilk. And I wonder how they fight that. I mean, it, like I said, you know, Ezra, this to me is a

00:13:35.200 crisis. It's a mess. And I don't know if you can put Humpty Dumpty back together. And I wonder

00:13:40.040 if we are actually going to see Schellenberg, he may as, might very well be a drug dealer,

00:13:46.240 as you said. Certainly it's stupid to flaunt any law in a foreign regime. But is this going to end 0.99

00:13:52.520 up with him paying the ultimate price? Well, that would be shocking. But listen, Canadians are 0.96

00:13:58.080 murdered all the time overseas and Trudeau doesn't care. There's a Canadian murdered in, I think,

00:14:02.360 Burkina Faso just in the couple days ago by a Muslim terrorist. I didn't even see a word on it by

00:14:07.000 Trudeau. Maybe he said something. I, and I missed it. Well, I think there was some Syrian hipster in 1.00

00:14:11.660 an airport somewhere. Yeah. They were going to battle. Yeah. So I think that Trudeau, so there's,

00:14:19.120 at any given time, there's hundreds of Canadians in prisons around the world. Most of them actually

00:14:23.840 did a crime. Canadian policy is to, if the country's legal system or prison system is too

00:14:30.560 barbaric, we try to bring them home. And we actually have treaties with other countries where we say, 0.99

00:14:34.700 okay, we will accept your sentence, but let him serve it out in Canada. Now, our parole laws kick

00:14:40.640 in, so they generally get out quickly. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. If someone

00:14:44.620 is convicted of, let's say, drugs, should they die? We don't think so as Canadians. Right. Should

00:14:51.340 they come back to Canada and serve other prisons from here? You know, it's not a bad policy to have.

00:14:55.900 But Trudeau is silent on ones where the captor is his friend, like China, or he admires, he's sucking

00:15:06.460 up to. And he's also silent usually when it's a Muslim terrorist that's killing our people. Like, 1.00

00:15:13.420 I think there's a couple of Canadians in the Philippines. He didn't lift a finger

00:15:16.620 to kill him. No, to rescue the Canadians from the terrorists who captured them. In fact, even Joshua

00:15:23.740 Boyle, the Taliban-loving friend of Trudeau's. Who got an audience with him. Yeah.

00:15:33.580 It was the Americans who rescued him, not Canada. And Trudeau was not even told about the rescue

00:15:37.660 until afterwards because he was recalcitrant. By the way, so was Joshua Boyle. He refused to get

00:15:46.300 on an American airplane in some country because he was worried he would be taken to Guantanamo Bay.

00:15:51.740 So certain is he of his own guilt. How sad we didn't grant him his wish of not getting him on.

00:15:56.060 Yeah. Well, I mean, he was already, he was rescued from the Taliban. There's so much,

00:16:01.820 Justin Trudeau, see, the thing is everyone's, oh, Stephen Harper was a cowboy. Stephen Harper was so

00:16:06.060 rough. Stephen Harper doesn't know you need nuance. Stephen Harper doesn't understand. Really?

00:16:11.260 Because all these pros and experts and woke speeches about feminism and woke speeches about 1.00

00:16:17.180 global warming-ism. How can you name me a single country that today has better relations with Canada

00:16:25.500 than five years ago? Not even Cuba. Cuba's bombarding our diplomats with sound waves. Iran, 0.86

00:16:32.300 even the countries that Trudeau loves, China is further away from us. They're about to kill one 0.99

00:16:38.380 of our citizens. India, Trudeau brought a terrorist to India. Saudi Arabia is practically at war with us. 0.99

00:16:48.700 Donald Trump eats us for breakfast. I cannot think of a single country in the world that is closer to

00:16:56.060 Canada now than when Trudeau took over. And Russia, I mean, Russia you have to be very careful with, 1.00

00:17:01.820 but Russia's actually banned Chrystia Freeland from setting foot in their country. So who, 0.57

00:17:06.300 where is this super diplomat? Where is this professional? Canada's back. I don't see Canada

00:17:11.420 back. I think Canada is, has never been this isolated in the world. I can't think of a country,

00:17:16.300 name one, one country that's closer to us now than three, four years ago.

00:17:20.380 It's been completely aggression, Ezra. I'm so sorry we're out of time. I didn't even get into the

00:17:25.260 angle that the title sponsor for Hockey Night in Canada, if you can imagine, is indeed Huawei.

00:17:31.980 So how do you like that? Yeah, well, give me 10 more seconds. Huawei is also a major donor

00:17:36.300 to Justin Trudeau's personal think tank called Canada 2020. I didn't know that. Canada 2020 is

00:17:41.420 basically the liberal in-house think tank. It's run by Trudeau's old buddy. Huawei has given a ton of dough

00:17:47.420 to Canada 2021. Incredible. There you go, folks. What was the name of that Meryl Streep movie? It's

00:17:52.860 complicated. We'll see what happens in the days ahead and keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come

00:17:59.100 right after this.

00:18:07.260 In November of 2017, we filed an access to information request with the RCMP.

00:18:13.100 This is what we asked them for. It's pretty clear. Please provide copies of all of the survey responses

00:18:19.420 collected from those crossing the border with personal information redacted as reported here.

00:18:25.900 And then we linked back to a mainstream media report on the subject. Then we sent a second

00:18:33.820 access to information request about two weeks later. We asked the government to provide copies of all

00:18:39.820 documents, including emails, text or instant messages, memos, media lines, briefing notes,

00:18:45.820 backgrounders, etc., regarding the use and creation and the pullback of the RCMP questionnaire for

00:18:53.500 asylum seekers crossing the border as reported here. And then, of course, again, we linked to a 0.98

00:18:59.500 mainstream media report on the matter. So to be clear, we wanted the survey responses themselves

00:19:05.900 because we wanted to see what the government is fully aware that migrants are saying with regard to

00:19:12.060 equality and human rights and religious freedom. But we also wanted to see the government's planning

00:19:20.300 and their frightened eventual pullback on the questionnaire. We wanted it all. So we waited

00:19:26.220 and we waited and we waited. January 10th, 2019, we get a response to our requests. So to be clear, we

00:19:34.540 waited all of 2018 and all of December 2017 to bring us to nearly 14 months wait time. But we don't

00:19:41.660 actually get the documents. Oh, no. Look at this line here. The RCMP bureaucrat says to us,

00:19:48.060 please let me know if you still require the files. What? Remember how during the 2015 Canadian

00:19:55.020 federal election campaign, the boy who would become prime minister promised that this liberal regime

00:20:01.500 would be the most transparent government ever? Well, turns out the precise opposite is true. So much

00:20:09.020 information that should be public is hidden and so much information that is acquired through the official

00:20:15.500 freedom of information process is redacted. And then there are the delays, the endless, endless delays.

00:20:24.860 And with more on trying to get the very important information regarding the immigration

00:20:30.620 file we should all be entitled to is the host of the gun show, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:20:38.220 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on. Always a pleasure. So, Sheila, correct me if I'm wrong here,

00:20:43.100 but the information you're currently seeking, I think, should have taken minutes, not months to produce.

00:20:51.020 So why is the bureaucracy ragging the puck on this issue in the first place?

00:20:55.420 Well, yeah, that's a really good point. The RCMP actually has people in their office whose only job

00:21:04.300 is to redact personal information from their files. That's their only job. So the information I'm seeking

00:21:11.100 was redacted. All the personal information was removed as it became a part of the official

00:21:17.180 greater RCMP bureaucracy. So it was redacted a long time ago. I asked for this information,

00:21:23.980 14 full months ago. I just got a response saying, hey, do you still want it? Well,

00:21:28.780 yeah, of course I still want it. What a crazy question. But they're clearly dragging their feet,

00:21:35.900 kicking the can down the road, trying to delay this until it no longer is the election issue

00:21:42.780 that it really should be. And Sheila, you know, that's an important point.

00:21:46.940 You've been waiting for this for 14 months. As you said, it's already been obtained, redacted.

00:21:54.860 And they say, do you still want this information? I mean, I don't want to be insulting here,

00:22:01.820 but are they simpletons or something? I mean, this is the very reason for your request. I've been

00:22:07.180 waiting 14 months for something that should have taken 14 minutes to produce.

00:22:11.660 I think sometimes, you know, it's the inverse of that old saying, never attribute to malice, 1.00

00:22:20.140 but you can attribute to stupidity. I think this is the inverse of that. I would attribute 0.99

00:22:25.420 malice to this. We know that the greater bureaucracy of the federal government is sort of infested by

00:22:31.260 liberal partisans, especially those belonging to the Peace Act Union. And we know they actively

00:22:38.540 campaigned for the federal liberals last time. And this is just another, I suppose, campaign effort

00:22:45.340 from the larger unions of the federal government to delay the release of this information. This is

00:22:51.820 really dangerous information if we get it and it comes to light. If these migrants crossing the border 0.90

00:23:00.300 had answered these questions from the RCMP at the border in any other way, like if they answered

00:23:08.460 these questions saying, yeah, we believe in equality between the sexes. And yeah, of course we believe

00:23:15.500 in freedom of religion. And yeah, you know what? Let those girls let their hair down. If they had 1.00

00:23:20.540 answered questions that way, I would have seen them already. But the fact that they're hiding this

00:23:24.620 information tells me exactly what's in these documents. Yeah, no, I think you and I and our audience

00:23:32.540 are really now waiting more so with bated breath to find out what this, you know, what these documents

00:23:39.020 state, Sheila. But you know, I want to talk about the ethical part of this. And to me, this is a complete

00:23:45.420 breach of ethics. And I'll tell you, Sheila, over my career as a journalist, I have filed FOIs to government

00:23:52.540 ministries and crown corporations and government agencies. And I have found for the most part

00:23:58.780 that the FOI people are really good people. They want to do the right thing. They recognize the

00:24:06.700 separation of church and state, if you will, and that their job is to access this information and

00:24:13.740 give it when requested because legally that's what we're allowed to receive. And that's what they're

00:24:19.580 obliged to do. They're not supposed to be told by their higher ups, oh, sit on this or pretend it

00:24:24.700 doesn't exist. So it looks like the kettle of fish you're dealing with at the RCMP,

00:24:31.260 they're not subscribing to these ethical standards. That's my viewpoint on this, Sheila.

00:24:38.300 I don't want to be rude here, David, but you're a little longer in the tooth than I am.

00:24:41.660 I've been only at this journalism thing about three and a half years. And it has been my experience,

00:24:48.620 my overwhelming experience, both at the provincial level and at the federal level,

00:24:54.220 across several bureaucracies, across several ministries. It is all delay, delay, delay,

00:25:00.620 and obfuscate. And we've seen different ministries take measures to hide what they're doing to say,

00:25:09.340 oh, let's take this offline and discuss it offline. I've seen that happen in Alberta. I've seen that

00:25:15.020 happen at the federal level. So what may have been your experience when you were a bit of a

00:25:19.900 younger gentleman is certainly not my experience now. This has been one of the most cloistered

00:25:24.780 and secretive governments I would suspect ever. Well, you know what? That is such a sad statement,

00:25:31.100 Sheila. And I'm not disputing that it's not true because this is at the end of the day,

00:25:36.780 and I don't want to sound too dramatic here, but it's an attack on the democratic process.

00:25:41.660 I mean, we live in a democracy and we, the people have a right to this information. It is public

00:25:47.500 information and it shouldn't be clamped down and redacted the way it is. And I just find it dreadful

00:25:55.020 that this is the new normal now. So why don't, you know, aside from the fact finding process,

00:26:00.700 Sheila, we are of course left to speculate now that we're heading into month 15, waiting for this

00:26:07.020 information to request it. What do you think it is that they are so obviously hiding that is

00:26:14.540 potentially so toxic to Canadian citizens to hear? Well, I think they're clearly hiding the fact that

00:26:21.820 the migrants crossing the border are not expressing things that are in line with Canadian values. And I 0.99

00:26:27.020 I know the liberals like to say that we don't have Canadian values except when it suits them.

00:26:31.820 Um, but I suspect there are a large portion of the migrants who are crossing the border who are

00:26:37.900 saying, yes, I believe in Sharia law. Yes, women should have their hair covered. No, uh, I don't believe 0.99

00:26:45.820 in freedom of religion and, uh, and all other manner of things that are not in line with the free and

00:26:53.980 small L liberal society that can, that Canada really should be. That's what I think is the

00:26:59.660 problem. I think if the Canadian public realized that we were importing on mass, a large swath of

00:27:07.020 people who fundamentally disagree with Canadian rights and freedoms, I think the Canadian public

00:27:13.180 would have a real problem with it. And you know, Sheila, we know where Justin Trudeau stands on this.

00:27:18.300 Going back some five years ago, I'm sure you remember his condemnation of, uh, the Stephen

00:27:24.700 Harper government because of the, um, it was the immigration guide at the time that was condemning

00:27:30.620 so-called barbaric practices. And this prime minister in waiting actually had a problem with things like,

00:27:39.660 oh, I don't know, female genital mutilation, uh, being described as barbaric. In other words, 0.99

00:27:45.740 he had a problem with barbarism being described as barbarism. So I think you're dead on. I think

00:27:53.260 there are a lot of people or a significant number of people that are coming in

00:27:57.020 that do not subscribe to Canadian values. And yeah, you know what? That's a problem.

00:28:02.460 I don't want people like that in this country, Sheila.

00:28:07.260 Well, and you know, we've seen that evidenced. Um, the CBSA has said that they have found people

00:28:12.940 coming across the border, primarily women, uh, with what they would describe as cutting kits. 0.95

00:28:18.780 And this is to practice female genital mutilation in Canada. So these people travel into our country 1.00

00:28:25.740 with these kits to cut girls here as opposed to sending girls away for the quote unquote procedure. 1.00

00:28:32.540 So we know that that is a problem, but the liberals have a problem saying that it's a problem

00:28:37.420 and they don't want people to know that that's happening. And that's why they redacted all these, um,

00:28:45.580 questionnaires. That's why they won't give me the questionnaires. And that's why they stopped

00:28:48.780 doing the questionnaires. You know, it's absolutely appalling,

00:28:52.220 Sheila, because please square this circle for me. How is it that our so-called first feminist prime minister, 1.00

00:28:59.340 um, is okay with the idea, with the idea of FGM? Or maybe he's one of these, um, really outrageous

00:29:08.540 progressives that has rebranded FGM as FGB, female genital beautification. Is that what's going on here?

00:29:17.420 Well, how do we square that circle, uh, uh, in, in any other matter? How do we square that circle when we are

00:29:23.500 giving, you know, uh, hundreds of millions of dollars to the developing world for what they

00:29:30.140 call reproductive health, which really needs avoiding baby girls in the developing world? 1.00

00:29:35.340 How do we square that circle when we have a feminist prime minister who's perfectly fine with importing, 1.00

00:29:40.460 uh, Saudi oil in the Irving oil refinery, some 40% of the oil that comes into that refinery,

00:29:46.540 Canada's largest refinery is 40% from Saudi Arabia, where women are stoned, where, um, 1.00

00:29:52.620 women, uh, cannot go outside without a male relative who can't really drive, can't really 1.00

00:29:58.220 vote. He's not a feminist in the true meaning of, I believe in equality for all women. He's just a

00:30:06.380 first world busy body using the word feminism to hide his own bad behavior. Wow. Well, Sheila, 1.00

00:30:12.780 I agree. And I think we're gonna have to wrap it here. We're just out of time, but I will say this,

00:30:17.660 hopefully you're gonna get these documents ASAP and that these people would not have the audacity,

00:30:25.100 although I wouldn't put it past them to delay this request until November so that it's after

00:30:32.060 the next federal election, but you keep on them. Let's get that information out there before the,

00:30:38.860 the election in October. So once again, Sheila,

00:30:41.660 great work on this file and thanks so much for joining me here today. Thank you,

00:30:45.900 David. You have a good weekend. You got it. You too. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed in Alberta.

00:30:51.100 Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:30:54.060 Today, it's the day 25 and America says, who gives a damn? Nobody cares. No one cares. Well,

00:31:11.260 some people around Washington DC care. Some decent people who work for the federal government,

00:31:16.140 they care too. But most of us, nah, I don't see it. Do you see it? I don't see it. Nobody's talking

00:31:22.700 about it. No one cares. Now look, there's polls out, but that's part of their strategy.

00:31:27.980 They've got kind of a two-pronged strategy. And let me tell you how they're gonna try and break

00:31:31.340 Donald Trump because they've got to break him, right? They've got to make him say, read my lips,

00:31:36.860 no new taxes, then raise taxes. They must make him go back on his promise to build a wall because that

00:31:44.780 will destroy his base. And they know it. And that's why they're doing it. They voted for walls 100 times.

00:31:49.660 This time, they won't. All because they don't want to give Donald Trump a victory. They want to use it

00:31:55.980 to break us, his supporters, off from him and leave him isolated and alone.

00:32:00.460 So as we head into the one month mark of the US federal government shutdown, the rhetoric continues

00:32:06.940 to amp up. President Donald Trump is committed to fighting for funding for a wall on the southern

00:32:12.940 border. Whereas Democrats, even those Democrats who just a few years ago supported the idea of a

00:32:19.820 border wall, well, they're simply refusing to negotiate. The question arises in the days and

00:32:26.380 weeks ahead, which side is going to win this politicized version of the proverbial Mexican standoff?

00:32:35.180 And joining us now with more on this ongoing story is our US-based rebel, Kurt Schlichter.

00:32:41.020 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kurt. Hey, thanks for having me.

00:32:44.060 Always a pleasure. So, Kurt, as this saga drags on and on, who do you think is going to blink first?

00:32:51.340 Is it going to be the president or is it going to be the Democrats who have so far indicated

00:32:56.220 they are in absolutely no mood whatsoever to compromise on this issue?

00:33:01.420 I don't know if that's a good assumption. The fact is that a lot of these Democrats,

00:33:09.260 the ones that gave them the majority, come from purple districts. They don't come from hard left

00:33:13.100 districts. They come from districts where people want to see compromise. They want to see border

00:33:18.860 security. And they are not interested in committing ritual suicide on behalf of Nancy Pelosi's constituents

00:33:27.180 in San Francisco. So I think there's some pressure there. On Trump, the only pressure

00:33:33.420 from his own voters, from his own base, it really seems to be to not do anything at all. Yeah,

00:33:39.580 you got the soft, weak sisters like Lisa Murkowski and a few other wimps in the Senate. Why do we 1.00

00:33:47.420 call it the shutdown? But, you know, normal people like me and you and most of the other people around

00:33:52.620 here are just kind of like, who cares? Shutdown's been going on for four weeks. I have not noticed.

00:33:58.060 The number of people, now I live in California, but I've traveled to both Virginia and Texas since

00:34:04.060 since it started. The number of people who brought up the shutdown in front of me who are not RA political

00:34:10.380 is zero. It's not 1, 2, 10, 20. It is zero. No one here cares. These federal employees are largely

00:34:18.940 Democrat voters. There are about 800,000 of them. Not all, but many of them. The Democrats are the party of

00:34:25.100 government workers. And Trump's got nothing to lose. In fact, he has everything to lose if he gives

00:34:30.700 in because he's made a promise and he's got to keep it. So why not? You know, this is, I think,

00:34:38.060 a fascinating angle, Kurt. The idea that this stonewalling is really going to hurt the Democratic

00:34:45.900 base more so than Trump. And as far as Trump is concerned, I mean, his brand, if you will,

00:34:52.460 is promises made, promises kept. This is promise numero uno going back to 2016.

00:34:59.180 So the way this is going to play out, there might be, I guess what you're saying is more internal

00:35:05.900 pressure in the Democratic Party to get a deal done. I think that's going to start developing.

00:35:11.900 And the way it'll happen is eventually the Democrats will decide, well, we'll just go to be the bigger

00:35:17.260 people. You know, we have to give in to this blackmail. We don't want to, but we've got to,

00:35:22.380 and we'll get him. We'll impeach him or something. Trump has no reason not to. His base isn't going to

00:35:30.700 move. Base doesn't care. Base is foreign. Yeah, I think some moderates are probably going to hold it

00:35:39.260 against, are probably going to hold it against the president for a little while, then they'll forget about

00:35:43.980 it because it isn't affecting them. At the end of the day, Trump has got to keep his promise,

00:35:49.100 and they know that. And that's why they're going against the very things that they voted for just

00:35:55.500 a few years ago. This is a political move to try and destroy Donald Trump's political

00:36:01.420 connection with his base. And that's simply it. But on that note, what I find disturbing about how

00:36:08.860 things have evolved on the left in the U.S. to paraphrase that old General Motors ad tagline,

00:36:15.020 not your father's Oldsmobile. These aren't your father's Democrats. These are the sanctuary city

00:36:20.780 Democrats. These are the no one is illegal Democrats, at least the mouthpieces getting the airtime on the

00:36:28.620 national cable networks. What I guess I'm saying, Curt, is they seem so ideologically committed

00:36:35.740 to doing the wrong thing that I'm just wondering if reason can prevail in that party such as it is

00:36:43.820 right now? No, what we need to do is break them. We need to continue to nurture the cracks in their

00:36:52.140 facade. They've got a tougher problem than us. Now, it's kind of the, you know, we're surrounded,

00:36:57.340 good, we can attack in every direction problem. If you're surrounded, it really makes your

00:37:02.620 your combat planning simple. Democrats, you know, and Trump's Trump's base is united,

00:37:08.620 but they're they're in a minority is 45%, 43%, something like that. The Democrats have to

00:37:14.140 hold together a coalition. The coalition is not all dedicated to committing ritual suicide over

00:37:20.380 open borders. It just isn't. And you can see you can see some of these new Democrats

00:37:25.900 are in a really tough place. And we know what they did during Obamacare. A lot of them agreed to,

00:37:31.740 you know, commit suicide for Nancy Pelosi and to vote for Obamacare. And they were wiped out the

00:37:37.420 next election. That's what's going to happen here. There's a lot of campaign ads. At the end of the day,

00:37:42.140 you chose Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco Democrats against your, you know, suburban Philadelphia

00:37:46.780 district and border security. You chose them over us. And that's a powerful message for Republicans

00:37:55.260 running to take these seats back. This is a bigger problem for the Dems. 0.85

00:37:58.460 And Kurt, let's talk about the other angle here. And I speak of, and you address this in your

00:38:03.500 commentary to the useful idiots. And by that, I mean, members of the media party, if you will, 0.99

00:38:10.380 who are basically the propaganda machines for the Democratic Party. You know, it's funny,

00:38:16.940 I did a commentary earlier this week, where I talked about how a TV station in San Diego, KUSI,

00:38:23.180 which has been around since 1982, they invited CNN to pick up footage they had done, a series of

00:38:30.700 reports with border patrol agents who go after illegal aliens on a 24-7 basis. And CNN, because of their

00:38:39.340 narrative allegedly said, no, thanks, we'll pass. We'll do our own narrative from Washington in New

00:38:45.260 York. What do you make of this kind of media narrative that we're getting, Kurt? And is it

00:38:51.500 going to work? I don't think the media no longer acts as gatekeepers. We have social media, we have

00:38:59.340 alternative media sources like The Rebel. And people are not dependent on ABC, NBC, CNN to get their news.

00:39:06.780 You know, they flip over to Fox and see a whole different perspective.

00:39:11.660 The, but a lot of the, you know, the media seems to think it's still 1985. And it just isn't. Yeah,

00:39:20.060 I mean, they're still powerful. They still speak to some people. But do you know anyone who's watched

00:39:26.380 a network news show in the last decade? I haven't. I don't, I have no idea who, and I mean, I'm politically

00:39:34.940 in tune. ABC, NBC, CBS, I could not tell you who their anchor is. Yeah. No, certainly.

00:39:41.980 Couldn't even venture a guess. Certainly in this day and age, their monopoly has been broken. You're

00:39:47.580 right. It's not 1985 as much as the media wishes it was 1984. That was a bit of a joke there on my part.

00:39:55.180 Kurt, one last question, because this comes up from time to time. And I want to get your perspective.

00:40:00.700 Why didn't Trump and the Republicans push this idea of border wall financing before the midterm elections?

00:40:11.580 My answer is, what thing that they did push through would you have rather than put, chosen instead?

00:40:18.780 I, you know, you have to prioritize. That's the essence of leadership is figuring out your priority.

00:40:24.940 If it wasn't this, maybe it would have been, maybe we'd have gotten a wall, but not tax reform.

00:40:29.500 I, I, I don't, I don't know the answer. They, they prioritized other things. I know the Senate spent

00:40:33.740 a lot of time confirming judges. Um, you have a limited amount of time. You have a little minute,

00:40:39.340 limited amount of options, uh, every, and you have to prioritize. And they did, they went for things

00:40:45.340 that they could get. I don't know if the Republicans could have passed a wall bill. I think they probably

00:40:50.780 could have, but what would we, what did we have? Would we have rather given up is my question.

00:40:56.860 Yeah. No, I mean, my personal take Kurt is that, you know, the Republicans from time to time seem

00:41:04.700 to lack a killer instinct. They're playing by the rules of Kingsbury and they're up against a bunch

00:41:09.740 of, uh, back alley, back alley street fighters. So, well, Kurt, we're, we're at a racetrack here,

00:41:14.700 but it'll be a fascinating, um, uh, timeframe ahead in terms of the days and weeks, uh, to come

00:41:21.420 to see what happens, who folds and what the outcome of this is. It really is a fascinating chapter in

00:41:27.180 terms of the, uh, the Trump administration. So thank you again for weighing in. Thank you.

00:41:31.340 Your expertise. Thanks. Gotcha. And that was Kurt Schlichter in the U S and keep it here,

00:41:37.100 folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:41:47.340 Now I'm not making this up folks, but apparently the police officer had been staking out the local

00:41:52.860 beer store and he had duly observed that art had just returned an excessive amount of empties to that

00:42:01.100 beer store. Well, one needn't be blessed with the detective acumen of Sherlock Holmes to crack this

00:42:07.580 case, right? Lots of empty beverage alcohol containers obviously means the person returning

00:42:14.620 the containers is a drunkard. What else could it mean? Only drunk drivers return empty beer bottles,

00:42:22.620 right? You know, I would have loved to have heard that conversation play out with dispatch.

00:42:27.820 Stedanko here. We got a code 2-4 in progress. Observing suspect Mr. X, approximately 70 years old,

00:42:35.580 currently entering a beer store. Suspect is returning an inordinate number of empty bottles.

00:42:42.380 Dispatch here. Go on, Stedanko. This sounds interesting. How many bottles is Mr. X returning

00:42:47.260 exactly? Precisely three cases of beer bottles and eight wine bottles. Good God, Stedanko. That adds up to,

00:42:55.500 well, let's see now. 80 empties. Do you need backup? Jeez. And so it was that after Art Leitlauer exited the

00:43:03.660 plaza, he was pulled over and requested to provide a breath sample. Art planned to refuse until he was

00:43:11.580 informed that doing so would result in an automatic fine of $2,000, a considerably higher sum than Art earned

00:43:20.860 from returning those empties, namely $8.80. Well, in case you haven't heard, folks, under changes to

00:43:27.100 the criminal code passed by the federal liberals, police across Canada are now allowed to randomly

00:43:33.100 stop and administer roadside alcohol breath tests on any driver, even without a reason to suspect

00:43:39.820 that the person has been drinking. And apparently that includes someone flaunting their alleged liquor

00:43:47.660 consumption by returning an inordinate number of empties for refund at a beer store. Look, like most

00:43:55.100 reasonable people, I want drunks off the road and I want convicted drunk drivers locked up for as long

00:44:01.100 as possible. But what occurred to Art Leitlauer was a complete abuse of process,

00:44:07.580 one that followed a logic process that I'd referred to as being moronic, except that I 0.99

00:44:13.340 really don't want to insult the moron community. Police have been entrusted with new powers thanks 0.99

00:44:18.460 to this legislation, but surely they must use these powers wisely as opposed to losing the public trust

00:44:25.900 by jumping to preposterous inclusions, i.e. someone returning a lot of empty beer bottles for recycling

00:44:33.420 is obviously a drunk driver. Give me a break. In any event, here's what some of you had to say about

00:44:40.060 the Art Leitlauer story. West Coaster writes, those bottle drive kids are in trouble now, them cubs and 0.98

00:44:47.260 brownies. They must be real boozers. Indeed, I guess charities are going to have to think of other ways to 0.94

00:44:53.740 stage fundraisers. A bottle drive is just too fraught with pearl nowadays. And Alan Wood writes,

00:45:01.420 so it's now illegal to recycle in Canada? Well, not illegal, Alan, just a potential big waste of time

00:45:09.900 if any other cop out there comes to the conclusion that returning empty beer bottles is a telltale sign

00:45:16.940 of impaired driving. Incredible. And Joe Groh writes, but they can't ask a little punk for his ID where he's 0.65

00:45:25.500 roaming the streets at 2 a.m. What WTF is wrong with Toronto? Well, you know, good point, Joe. But

00:45:33.900 alas, the folks at Black Lives Matter are dead set against carding. And as you know, what Black Lives

00:45:41.180 Matter wants, Black Lives Matter gets. Oh, and in case you weren't paying attention, 2018 also happened to be 0.91

00:45:49.980 a record year for homicides in Toronto. So yeah, sounds like a great plan to stake out those beer

00:45:56.860 stores in the meantime, clamping down on drivers who aren't drunk, but doing the right thing by

00:46:03.100 embracing the three R's. Geez, I think I need a drink, folks. Well, that wraps up another edition of 0.99

00:46:09.260 Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey, never forget,

00:46:14.140 folks. Without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - January 19, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guests Kurt Schlichter, Ezra Levant & Sheila Gunn Reid

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