Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup — Guests： Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte

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

00:00:19.280 at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:00:23.320 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:25.620 Well, a year later, United We Roll is ready to roll again.

00:00:28.640 I wonder if they'll receive the same level of respect the illegal rail protesters are getting these days.

00:00:35.920 Sheila Gunn-Reed will have all the nitty-gritty details. 0.98

00:00:39.960 Now, is it too much to ask protesters to be informed about the issues they are protesting?

00:00:47.720 Um, yeah.

00:00:49.400 Just wait till you see Kian Bexley's interaction with some of these cats in Victoria.

00:00:55.000 And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:00:59.900 And I'll share some of your responses regarding a protest at a mosque in Thornhill, Ontario.

00:01:06.080 Well, the Reader's Digest version is this.

00:01:08.540 There seems to be a two-tier level when it comes to law enforcement in Canada these days.

00:01:14.780 Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:17.260 So today on this anniversary convoy day, I'm going to talk to some of the truckers, follow the convoy throughout the day,

00:01:28.940 and see what they have to say about these anti-fossil fuel blockades plaguing Canada.

00:01:33.880 It looks like everybody's just starting to get here, so let's go check it out.

00:01:37.980 What do you think of the protesters that are blocking the rail lines?

00:01:42.620 I don't agree.

00:01:44.140 What should happen to them? 0.91

00:01:45.700 They should all be thrown in jail. Every last one of them. 0.99

00:01:49.300 They're feeding into the narrative that's going around the country right now,

00:01:53.660 and they're all out there. They don't even have a purpose of what's going on.

00:01:56.940 I think it's absolutely ridiculous.

00:01:59.040 I think it proves nothing, and it's an infringement on Canadian economy. 0.67

00:02:04.320 The thing that bothers me the most is they're blocking people, like hard-working people trying to get to work,

00:02:11.460 and it's really uncalled for.

00:02:16.900 I myself haven't been blocked yet, but you see it all over social media and stuff that they're blocking roads,

00:02:25.480 and people are getting mad, and they're taking down the blockades, and then they get arrested,

00:02:30.140 which to me is not right.

00:02:32.020 I would like anybody that's protesting right now illegally to have a look with your hearts and your minds

00:02:38.760 connected together at how United Re-Rule Canada has protested legally, respectfully, peacefully across Canada

00:02:46.980 over the last year. That's it.

00:02:50.000 There's a right way to get your message across, and then there's the wrong way.

00:02:54.580 And doing things illegally in this country doesn't fly well with the majority of Canadians.

00:02:59.260 My, how time flies. After all, it's been a year since the United Re-Rule legal and civil protest kicked off.

00:03:08.360 So what's changed in 2020?

00:03:10.400 Well, just look at the recent headlines, folks.

00:03:13.300 The country is paralyzed by these rail blockades, which, I should add, are illegal.

00:03:20.540 And yet, it's so odd, isn't it? In so many quarters of the media party, these protesters are being cheered on,

00:03:30.140 whereas going back a year ago to the legal protests of United Re-Rule,

00:03:35.140 these people were being likened to, I don't know, white nationalists?

00:03:41.060 Unbelievable.

00:03:41.660 And with more on this issue is our very own Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:03:46.680 Sheila, first of all, welcome to Rebel Roundup.

00:03:49.180 And secondly, this is just staggering to see the media coverage of this Tale of Two protest.

00:03:57.560 We had a very legal, a very respectful protest happen about a legitimate issue,

00:04:03.680 i.e. Albertans and other Westerners being thrown out of their jobs, losing their livelihoods

00:04:10.040 because of paralysis by analysis federal politics.

00:04:14.140 And yet, here we have a bunch of thugs, many of whom aren't even native.

00:04:19.420 They have no connection at all to either the project or the province of British Columbia.

00:04:25.860 And if you read some of the media, these are like social justice warrior champions that should be applauded.

00:04:32.640 What gives, my friend?

00:04:35.140 Well, it's just more of how the federal government treats Alberta.

00:04:41.320 United We Rule are not a bunch of white nationals.

00:04:43.880 In fact, they have Indigenous people regularly participating on their convoys,

00:04:48.980 locally and the one to Ottawa.

00:04:51.380 And they warned the RCMP and every town that they were going through,

00:04:56.540 hey, we're on our way, hey, we're coming through, this is our route,

00:05:00.080 just so you know, we might slow down traffic, but we promise we're never going to block it.

00:05:05.500 They did everything right.

00:05:06.860 They called ahead when they went to Ottawa.

00:05:08.680 They made sure that the security on site down there knew they were coming,

00:05:14.800 what time they would be there, exactly where their trucks were going to be parked,

00:05:17.560 how many trucks there were.

00:05:18.980 They did everything right.

00:05:20.720 They had a united voice about, this is what's happening in the West.

00:05:26.920 This is what's causing it.

00:05:28.500 And if you're not going to listen to us, we're going to come to you.

00:05:31.880 And hopefully you'll listen to us then.

00:05:33.980 They drove thousands of kilometers.

00:05:35.820 They fundraised their own money.

00:05:37.180 They didn't ask for any help from the government.

00:05:39.700 They didn't actually have any demands from the government, except get out of the way. 0.96

00:05:43.440 And they were demonized repeatedly in the media as white nationalists, racist, backwards killbillies, rednecks, uneducated. 0.96

00:05:52.840 They didn't understand the issues. 0.94

00:05:55.200 And yet these protests now that are blockading rail lines, that are shutting down government buildings,

00:06:04.140 showing up at B.C. Premier John Horgan's house and scaring the daylights out of his wife,

00:06:09.000 they're being legitimized by the politicians, especially liberal politicians.

00:06:14.860 And they are getting meetings, like bilateral meetings, as though they are just normal

00:06:20.240 and speak for people they actually don't speak for.

00:06:24.360 And not a single liberal politician bothered to even meet with United Reroll

00:06:29.420 when they drove thousands of kilometers to get there.

00:06:31.700 That's what you get for bringing the message of what's happening in Alberta

00:06:35.400 and doing everything right when you do it.

00:06:37.460 You know, you've touched upon two issues here, Sheila.

00:06:40.380 One, the politicization of this protest.

00:06:43.260 And the other, how this protest, members of these protests are getting emboldened

00:06:49.160 and going further in their law-breaking and their uncivil behavior.

00:06:53.800 You know, think of the sign you see in national parks, Sheila, don't feed the animals. 0.99

00:07:00.240 The reason it's there is not to be mean to the animals.

00:07:02.320 It's just that the animals become dependent on you

00:07:04.640 and they get ever more emboldened when they encounter humans.

00:07:09.700 And I think that's what's happened here.

00:07:12.700 They're going against the rule of law.

00:07:14.900 They're going against court injunctions.

00:07:17.520 They are not being touched by any level of policing.

00:07:22.480 So I think if I'm a member of this group, Sheila,

00:07:25.120 I'm saying, hey, look what we're getting away with.

00:07:27.680 How much further can we push this illegal behavior?

00:07:32.280 Well, they're getting meetings with politicians.

00:07:35.080 Like, they are being legitimized as though they are speaking for the democratically elected Wet's Wet'n Band.

00:07:42.100 That's how they're being treated.

00:07:43.840 When the Wet's Wet'n and the Indigenous groups in the area, 1.00

00:07:48.220 every single one of them support Coastal Gas Link.

00:07:50.520 But it's not them that Trudeau is meeting with.

00:07:54.160 It's not all the Indigenous bands that want tech approved that Trudeau is meeting with.

00:07:59.140 It's these protesters, many of whom aren't Indigenous.

00:08:03.500 They're white professional protesters for the most part.

00:08:07.140 And they're breaking the law.

00:08:10.280 It is costing farmers millions of dollars a day.

00:08:14.360 As we're shooting this, Via Rail has just laid off 1,000 people.

00:08:20.520 That's in one day.

00:08:22.060 There are 2,500 jobs at stake with Coastal Gas Link.

00:08:25.700 The forestry industry, who moves much of their product by rail,

00:08:29.340 they are facing layoffs and backlogs.

00:08:32.820 But Trudeau's not meeting with any of them.

00:08:35.320 None of them.

00:08:36.200 He's meeting and legitimizing these protesters.

00:08:39.260 They are getting basically what the Indigenous protesters love to call nation-to-nation consultations,

00:08:46.620 while everybody else who's done everything the right way,

00:08:49.620 they're just supposed to wait around for the next batch of layoffs, 0.98

00:08:52.780 while Trudeau figures out what exactly these people want.

00:08:56.180 And what they want is a complete shutdown of anything related to fossil fuels in Canada.

00:09:01.920 And I'm worried that Trudeau is going to capitulate to them,

00:09:05.480 at least on some very serious matters like Coastal Gas Link and like Tech's Frontier Oil Sands Mine.

00:09:11.760 Oh my goodness.

00:09:12.580 You know, I never even thought about that, Sheila, and I hope you are wrong.

00:09:16.180 But I mean, I think right now, if I'm a farmer,

00:09:19.540 oh, I must be losing my mind right now.

00:09:21.980 It wasn't a great harvest year, as I understand it.

00:09:24.400 Then they had the rail strike to deal with.

00:09:26.860 And now they have this utter nonsense.

00:09:29.500 I can just imagine the fury in farm country.

00:09:33.080 And also, let's talk about this whole politicization of this protest,

00:09:37.420 where you have Justin Trudeau saying all the party leaders are going to meet,

00:09:42.580 except Andrew Scheer, because he said something a little too nasty.

00:09:47.920 So think of that, Sheila.

00:09:49.600 Think of these optics.

00:09:51.440 The leader of the official opposition is excluded from this powwow,

00:09:56.540 yet a leader with a party whose mission statement is to break up Canada,

00:10:02.940 is to have Quebec separate, he is welcome. 0.85

00:10:06.320 I mean, are we living in the twilight zone here, Sheila?

00:10:10.460 Think about it this way.

00:10:12.160 From an Alberta standpoint, we don't have any Liberal MPs in the West,

00:10:17.820 specifically Alberta, but there are none in the West.

00:10:19.860 It's a wipeout.

00:10:20.520 We don't want them.

00:10:22.260 We don't have a voice in Ottawa except for the Conservative Party.

00:10:27.520 That's the group speaking for the farmers who, like you point out,

00:10:32.440 have this rail stoppage, a rail strike, bad harvest,

00:10:37.200 and a carbon tax stuffed in there in the middle of it.

00:10:41.180 Nobody else is speaking for the West.

00:10:43.200 Nobody can speak for the West because they aren't elected to speak for the West.

00:10:47.380 So this is just another slap in the face, alienating Albertans even more,

00:10:52.600 Saskatchewanians, however you say what they are,

00:10:56.020 and the interior of British Columbia.

00:10:58.920 They're completely alienated from this mix.

00:11:01.680 Our voices were shut out of that conversation,

00:11:04.360 and yet it is us who is probably most greatly affected by all of this.

00:11:09.920 That's how the Liberals treat us in Ottawa, though,

00:11:12.140 like a colony that doesn't get a fair say when, like you rightly point out,

00:11:17.600 they've got the bloc in there.

00:11:19.160 They've got the Green Party, which is just a statistical rounding error of Canadians,

00:11:24.640 yet they had a voice at the table, but all of the West shut completely out.

00:11:29.440 Oh, it is absolutely staggering to me, Shilat. 1.00

00:11:31.620 Now, can you give us an idea with this, I guess it's a scaled-down version of United Reroll,

00:11:38.440 where are they going to be going, and what do they hope to accomplish ultimately, Shilat?

00:11:43.760 Because when they did this last year, as you said earlier,

00:11:47.480 not a single member of the Trudeau Liberal government

00:11:50.500 had the decency to come out and meet them on the steps of Parliament Hill.

00:11:56.300 Yeah, you know what?

00:11:57.020 I don't think they are looking for Justin Trudeau's approval, to be quite honest with you.

00:12:01.620 We saw them turn up at the Cars Land blockade

00:12:05.180 when Unifor blockaded the bulk fuel station there

00:12:08.660 because of a labour dispute they had going on in Saskatchewan.

00:12:12.160 They showed up there.

00:12:13.180 It seems to me that United Reroll is going to be the voice of the people

00:12:18.240 when the politicians and our police forces fail to act,

00:12:24.820 fail to defend the rule of law,

00:12:26.260 at least United Reroll is going to show up and make their voices heard

00:12:32.480 because they do speak for a lot of Albertans.

00:12:36.740 So, you know, they're watching these rail blockades quite closely.

00:12:42.340 And so we'll see how it goes.

00:12:45.660 But they really are the people who are out there advocating for farmers,

00:12:50.080 for oil patch workers, 0.80

00:12:51.320 when even our Conservative politicians seem just a little bit too cowardly to do any of that.

00:12:57.540 Well, Sheila, we've got to wrap it here.

00:12:59.560 I really, really hope you are incorrect for a change.

00:13:03.980 That this Prime Minister would actually go so far as to cancel the coastal gas link pipeline,

00:13:11.980 especially since this was about a decade in the making to get all the necessary permits and logistics right.

00:13:20.060 But secondly, it's not just a pipeline project being cancelled.

00:13:24.500 Think of the message this sends to the international community in terms of Canada being open for business,

00:13:30.840 when, you know, basically a bunch of yahoos who aren't even native can paralyze an entire nation illegally and against a court order. 0.96

00:13:40.500 I think this is really thin ice the Prime Minister would be walking on if he even thought about cancelling this project, Sheila.

00:13:49.580 David, this Prime Minister has cancelled bigger projects for less.

00:13:54.140 For example, he cancelled the Northern Gateway pipeline project that would have ended Canada's landlocking of our resources.

00:14:03.520 We would have had five years already of getting fair international market value for our oil and gas.

00:14:11.840 He ended that because of similar protests and similar political pressure.

00:14:19.600 So for him to cancel coastal gas link, you know what, it would not surprise me at all.

00:14:24.920 I want to be wrong.

00:14:26.220 I really don't want to be right.

00:14:27.940 But if anything, we know Trudeau is an ineffectual leader and he's weak.

00:14:33.540 Indeed, and we'll have to leave it there.

00:14:35.220 And if he does cancel this project, ultimately, you know what that means, Sheila?

00:14:38.500 He is anti-native because, as we've said over and over, 20 out of 20 band councils have signed off on this project.

00:14:46.300 This is a disgrace.

00:14:47.480 Sheila, thanks again for weighing in on this story.

00:14:50.700 Thanks, David.

00:14:51.700 You got it.

00:14:52.180 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in Northern Alberta.

00:14:56.340 Keep it here, folks.

00:14:57.160 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:15:02.640 So my security has arrived and we are going to go through downtown Victoria and ask these folks just some very simple questions and see what answers we can get.

00:15:11.840 We're doing a segment on RNN and we're just, like, quizzing people on what is actually in the pipeline and where the pipeline goes through.

00:15:21.100 Would you be able to tell me what is actually being transported to Kitimat?

00:15:25.780 Oil.

00:15:26.740 Oil?

00:15:26.980 I believe so.

00:15:28.320 What do you think is being transported to Kitimat?

00:15:30.460 Oil.

00:15:31.120 Oil.

00:15:31.600 From where?

00:15:33.560 I'm not entirely sure, but I know it has to do something with the Albertan government.

00:15:38.180 The coastal gasoline pipeline is going through 20 different indigenous nations.

00:15:43.760 And I'm from Alberta and what has a lot of Albertans scoffing is that all 20 of them have signed on to the agreement.

00:15:50.440 Why is it important to override that democratic decision of theirs?

00:15:56.400 I think for that question, you really want to speak to someone who has, like, who can fully, someone over there who can, like, fully explain it in its proper, in a correct, very exact way.

00:16:10.440 Yeah.

00:16:11.060 Could you tell me what is in the pipeline?

00:16:14.320 It is crude oil.

00:16:18.440 It is actually natural gas.

00:16:21.620 Well, folks, I think it goes without saying that if you're going to be part of a protest, you might want to know what the protest is all about.

00:16:30.100 I mean, if you're all about saving the whales, you might want to know something about the whales.

00:16:34.440 If you're anti-nuke, maybe you'd be read up on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:16:39.880 But are we in a day and age where protesters don't know anything about what they're protesting?

00:16:47.920 They're maybe just hopping aboard a bandwagon because maybe it's cool or that their friends are doing it?

00:16:55.340 Well, you just saw the footage, folks, and I think it speaks for itself. 0.98

00:16:59.140 And, of course, the man asking the questions of these pathetic protesters. 0.64

00:17:04.520 Well, he joins me right now in studio, Kian Bextie, all the way in from Calgary. 0.95

00:17:09.080 Kian, that is just remarkable footage.

00:17:12.760 And I urge our viewers to watch the whole segment.

00:17:15.920 But it wasn't your question. 0.87

00:17:18.840 It was somebody in the mainstream media, I think, that had the ultimate dumb answer in which the protesters thought that dead animals were big. 0.80

00:17:28.780 First of all, why would anyone construct a pipeline to transport dead animals, maybe dead dogs to Korea for a cup of soup in the north? 0.88

00:17:39.160 But, I mean, that was staggering.

00:17:41.700 And she wasn't saying that as a joke, was she?

00:17:43.660 I think it was like this weird crutch.

00:17:46.560 Like her unintelligence was so, her lack of intelligence was so clear that she was like relying on this weird, facetious attitude with that reporter trying to mask how uninformed she actually was about it.

00:18:00.300 Because she didn't know after the follow-up when that reporter said, well, you know it's not dead animals, right?

00:18:05.140 Like, you've got to be serious.

00:18:06.500 And then they said, oh, well, I think it's bitumen, which is the farthest thing.

00:18:12.320 Like, bitumen is a near-solid petroleum product that they get out of the ground in northern Alberta.

00:18:19.300 And what's actually being transported is actual gas, fluid gas, not liquid.

00:18:24.300 It's gas in this pipeline, the exact opposite of bitumen.

00:18:26.820 So it's a safe pipeline in that regard because it doesn't leak.

00:18:30.800 You know, if there's a leak, it literally leaks into the air and just like it would anywhere else, naturally occurring even.

00:18:38.120 So this protest that we saw where everyone thought it was either oil or bitumen crude, some people said, it's just stunning that they have no interest in even looking into slightly what it is they're protesting.

00:18:54.640 And also, Cian, I wonder if any of them have skin in the game. 0.99

00:18:58.740 You asked a woman, pardon me, who looked like she could have been Native if she was Native.

00:19:04.060 And she said, no, she wasn't.

00:19:06.320 And I had a similar experience last week when I went out to Belleville to the rail protests there.

00:19:11.940 The title of that work of literature comes to mind, The Last of the Mohicans.

00:19:15.760 Because as my friend at The Sun, Joe Wormington, said, the people on the protest line look more Scottish than they do Native.

00:19:24.180 And that's the thing, isn't it?

00:19:25.980 At the end of the day, we have 20 out of 20 band councils signed on to this project to have it go through.

00:19:32.840 So I guess who are these people that are doing these protests and doing these rail blockades in the first place?

00:19:40.080 Well, it all stems from the hereditary chief tree that they use to operate their company.

00:19:47.860 The hereditary chiefs are a phrase that the mainstream media likes to use instead of using board members.

00:19:54.260 Basically, they're board members of a company called the Office of the Wet Sweat and Society.

00:19:59.020 And this board is funded by TIDES, Peminent Institute, Forest Ethics.

00:20:03.160 I broke that story a year ago before there was blockades happening, before there was much interest in this at all.

00:20:08.820 We established that these people are not a First Nation at all.

00:20:12.040 They are a company, a non-profit society that's funded by foreigners and mobilizes through grants, travel grants, bursaries,

00:20:21.800 brings protesters from across Canada and even the United States up to the Wet Sweat and traditional territory, they call it,

00:20:31.240 to blockade up there and also to blockade across the country.

00:20:35.560 And, you know, here's my theory, Kian.

00:20:38.660 I think that there's, we have a generation right now of young people that have protest envy.

00:20:45.660 We have it pretty good in Canada, right?

00:20:47.900 And I think back to the 1960s when there were civil rights issues.

00:20:53.360 You know, there was discriminatory laws still against black people in the U.S.

00:20:57.740 There was an unjust war perhaps being fought over in Vietnam.

00:21:02.920 And you could understand, you know, young people getting involved in protesting, those kind of things.

00:21:09.480 But what they're protesting now is a society built on the fruits of the oil and gas industry.

00:21:19.580 They clearly display it, everything from what they wear to the cell phones they use.

00:21:24.820 And that's the first thing.

00:21:26.500 It's so hypocritical that they're out there campaigning something that has made their lives so much better. 0.94

00:21:35.660 But hypocritical is the best way to put it. 0.89

00:21:37.720 And isn't it so fitting that the grand marshal of this whole joke of a national protest is Greta Thunberg herself? 0.87

00:21:45.160 She just announced on Twitter that she is avidly supporting the wet-sweatin' people, which she obviously is not. 0.99

00:21:51.260 She's obviously uninformed on it, like she is on a lot of issues.

00:21:54.040 She's saying she stands with the wet-sweatin' people. 0.99

00:21:55.820 But if she did stand with the wet-sweatin' people, she would be supporting the 85% of them who voted in favor of the pipeline. 0.99

00:22:01.900 But Indigenous rights, when it comes to supporting them, they'll only support it so far as it supports their own radical climate agenda. 1.00

00:22:10.840 And the thing is, there is a bit of a cheering section echo chamber when it comes to the mainstream media.

00:22:17.480 You would think that the precise opposite is true, that zero out of 20 band councils are in support of this.

00:22:24.420 And you mentioned Greta, and it should be worth noting that, astonishingly, Time magazine proclaimed Greta as the person of the year.

00:22:34.480 So, yet again, I think, Kian, that we're in a milieu where Canadians that want to know more about the issue,

00:22:43.920 they're getting a very biased picture through the mainstream media lens these days, aren't they?

00:22:49.660 Absolutely biased. And it all started with, who do you think, the CBC.

00:22:54.760 A year ago, the CBC published a blatantly and purposefully misleading article that labeled the Office of the Wet Sweatin' Society,

00:23:03.860 the non-profit company, labeled them as a legitimate First Nations, capital F, capital N,

00:23:10.420 referring to First Nations bans in the Indian Act, which is a very specific thing,

00:23:15.760 almost like a municipality for the people in the band.

00:23:19.780 And they claimed, they conflated that this office, this non-profit company, was a registered Indigenous band.

00:23:28.260 And that's how it all got started. It fomented protests across the country that lasted about a day or two.

00:23:34.460 But everyone thought that the coastal gasoline pipeline, TC Energy, used to be TransCanada back then,

00:23:40.500 was trampling over an Indigenous band. That's not the case.

00:23:43.940 It's board members of a company who just happened to be Indigenous, and the CBC is to blame for that. 0.98

00:23:49.100 Amazing. So in other words, our tax dollars are going to funding this propaganda,

00:23:54.360 which runs contrary to bettering the lives of so many Natives.

00:23:59.360 I mean, there's so many angles of this key, and it's staggering.

00:24:03.540 One last question. Where do you see this going?

00:24:06.200 I mean, we're into the second week of this. There seems to be paralysis by analysis happening right now.

00:24:14.880 Our own Prime Minister says that it's time for dialogue.

00:24:20.040 I say, no, once there's a court order, dialogue has ended.

00:24:23.700 Now law enforcement has to do their role. Clearly that's not happening.

00:24:27.180 So whether it's these people doing the blockades, Kian, or the group you met out in Victoria, 0.91

00:24:34.300 are we anywhere near an endgame, or is this just going to really paralyze the economy in the days and weeks ahead?

00:24:41.360 I can tell you one thing.

00:24:42.100 I've pulled the money that I've saved in mutual funds that are invested in Canadian companies out,

00:24:48.960 and I'm buying gold.

00:24:49.700 It's just there's no way that I would risk, personally, not as a reporter or anything,

00:24:54.240 there's no way that any random person who has their life savings in Canada,

00:24:59.200 there's no way they're going to keep it there when they know that the Prime Minister is not going to stand up

00:25:03.020 for things as basic as rail transport.

00:25:06.200 This company thrives, is held together through a web of rail,

00:25:10.240 from farmers to steel workers to loggers.

00:25:13.960 It all comes down to rail. 1.00

00:25:15.420 And if that can't operate, and if it's as easy to break down as two idiots standing on a railway, 0.99

00:25:21.520 well, the country's going to fall apart, and there's no way investment is going to stay here. 0.99

00:25:25.040 Well, great report.

00:25:26.200 And you know, folks, I think what Kian just said there was very profound.

00:25:28.800 It's the outside economic element to this story.

00:25:32.520 If you were a foreigner wanting to invest in Canada, and you saw what was going on,

00:25:38.400 and even though the government has the rule of law on its side,

00:25:41.920 even though the government has court injunctions and is deciding not to do anything,

00:25:45.880 would you invest a dime in this, well, we're not a banana republic,

00:25:50.780 I guess we're a maple syrup republic, would you invest a dime in this maple syrup republic?

00:25:56.500 I sure as heck win.

00:25:57.940 Keep it here.

00:25:58.680 More Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:26:05.780 You know, Nasser, I think you speak of an even bigger question.

00:26:09.240 What are we doing in Canada?

00:26:10.480 As you know, we have rail blockades that are bringing the economy to a grinding halt.

00:26:16.500 These are illegal rail blockades.

00:26:19.000 There has been court injunctions ordered.

00:26:21.700 And the police, at every level, is not enforcing the law.

00:26:25.980 Does this sadden you in terms of you getting any kind of support on law enforcement,

00:26:33.020 on the political side, to further your cause?

00:26:35.740 To be honest with you, I don't want the support, never mind the support.

00:26:42.920 But they have arrested me right in here.

00:26:46.160 My first time I was arrested in here because of speaking out.

00:26:51.020 I was arrested.

00:26:51.760 What was the charge?

00:26:52.940 Charge was criminal harassment.

00:26:55.660 And when it went to court, judge got up,

00:26:58.360 Judge Justin from York Regional Police got up front of the crown.

00:27:02.920 He said, I take off my head for this young man.

00:27:06.220 I wish we had more people like this in Canada.

00:27:10.700 Well, folks, you can see there's a couple of police cruisers.

00:27:13.760 A police pickup truck, too.

00:27:15.100 I don't see many of those on the street.

00:27:16.980 Maybe they're going to whack and sack these protesters. 0.67

00:27:19.560 Who knows?

00:27:19.980 But, you know, I advance on to this property with little trepidation.

00:27:23.440 I do want to hear what the people at the mosque have to say about these allegations.

00:27:28.400 And, of course, the last time I had an interaction with York Regional Police,

00:27:32.680 it was last month at Rogers Hometown Hockey.

00:27:36.220 Evidently, it's against the law to ask Ron McLean impolite questions.

00:27:40.540 I wonder if that kind of mindset applies to the people at this mosque.

00:27:45.460 Well, we'll find out.

00:27:47.240 Oh, hi there, sir.

00:27:48.120 How you doing?

00:27:48.620 Very good.

00:27:49.280 You guys are more than welcome to be here.

00:27:50.880 You just can't be on the property.

00:27:51.980 Oh, we were actually going to go and speak to somebody with the mosque to find out if they'll come down to interview you.

00:27:58.820 I can't ask him that myself, officer.

00:28:00.600 He doesn't want you guys on the property.

00:28:02.200 Oh, who's that?

00:28:03.300 That guy there in the black coat.

00:28:04.560 Okay, because the allegations are that this mosque supports...

00:28:08.720 This is a problem.

00:28:09.680 Oh, okay.

00:28:10.200 You guys are more than welcome to be here.

00:28:11.580 You just can't be on the property, okay?

00:28:13.300 Oh, okay, but I'm just trying to get their side of the story.

00:28:17.940 They don't want to give the story, so...

00:28:19.580 They don't want to.

00:28:20.340 Okay.

00:28:20.840 This is odd that the police is doing the talking for the people at the mosque.

00:28:24.660 I don't understand.

00:28:26.120 Well, there you have it, folks.

00:28:27.380 Apparently legal protesters in Canada get more harassment from law enforcement than illegal ones.

00:28:35.980 I guess it all depends on who you're offending these days, doesn't it?

00:28:39.920 In any event, here's what some of you had to say regarding this protest over an allegedly Iranian-funded mosque.

00:28:48.520 Cameron Gervais writes,

00:28:50.020 Well, my guess may be because Mr. Pooley knows firsthand what happened to Iran in the years after the 1979 revolution.

00:29:07.460 Harold Rankin writes,

00:29:09.500 So ironic how quickly David and the anti-terrorism protesters were shuffled off minutes after they started,

00:29:17.000 But Aboriginal protesters can block border crossings and railway crossings with no consequences at all. 0.99

00:29:25.600 So much for equality from the left.

00:29:28.040 You know, I'm glad you put quotation marks around Aboriginal protesters, Harold, given that there seems to be so few of those.

00:29:37.140 But if you're implying that there is indeed a two-tier law enforcement standard in Canada these days,

00:29:42.780 I'm not going to argue that point with you.

00:29:45.980 And one church mouse writes,

00:29:47.700 You know, church mouse, I love that saying, even though I'm kind of hating life under the big top these days.

00:29:59.840 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:30:02.700 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:30:04.340 See you next week.

00:30:05.240 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:30:09.400 Good night.

00:30:17.700 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - July 06, 2019

Rebel Roundup — Guests： Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte

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