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

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00:00:07.580 Tonight, my guests are Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bextie.

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00:01:24.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:38.340 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:01:42.900 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:44.900 Well, she might be Time Magazine's Person of the Year,

00:01:49.320 but do you think the media party is telling the entire story about Greta Thunberg,

00:01:55.380 and more importantly, the people behind Greta Thunberg?

00:01:59.240 Well, we sure don't.

00:02:00.480 And that's why Kian Bexte went all the way to Sweden to get some answers.

00:02:04.640 And he's going to join me here to talk about his new mini-documentary, Greta Inc.

00:02:09.300 It is must-viewing.

00:02:11.980 And now, here's something you don't see every day.

00:02:14.760 A man who is apparently completely proficient in English,

00:02:19.800 nevertheless, demands that his trial be held in Swahili,

00:02:25.000 but apparently the translator's English to Swahili translation was subpar.

00:02:31.720 Who says so?

00:02:32.520 Well, none other than the guy who evidently has trouble understanding English, that's who.

00:02:37.800 Sheila Gunn-Reed will try to make sense of it all.

00:02:40.980 And finally, letters.

00:02:42.200 We get your letters.

00:02:42.980 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:44.960 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to a vigil in Richmond Hill, Ontario, last Friday

00:02:50.700 that had numerous curious sidebars to it,

00:02:54.640 like the MP for the area, Majid Jahari, being AWOL,

00:02:59.200 that again he supports the Mullahs in Tehran.

00:03:03.060 And just wait until you see Conservative MP Leona Alislev trying to answer a question about her former colleague. 0.99

00:03:11.520 Her response speaks volumes as to why the Andrew Scheer Conservatives failed to launch last October.

00:03:18.900 Those are your Rebels.

00:03:20.080 Now let's round them up.

00:03:21.120 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has returned to protest.

00:03:29.600 Time magazine person of the year, the youngest in their history.

00:03:32.840 Overwhelming support for Greta Thunberg.

00:03:35.500 At 16 years of age, she has become the face of the climate change fight.

00:03:39.020 She's hijacking the news cycle through hashtags, viral moments.

00:03:42.660 Taking on climate change head on, pulling no punches.

00:03:45.760 Her passionate speeches have drawn attention all over the world.

00:03:48.480 People are concerned that the premise of your school strike was never actually the innocent thing that it was.

00:03:56.240 Did Reinshag accidentally run into you?

00:03:58.580 Or was it orchestrated by your parents well beforehand?

00:04:01.480 I'm allowed to do this.

00:04:02.580 Where are we?

00:04:03.160 Hong Kong?

00:04:04.040 China? 0.73

00:04:04.620 No, this is Sweden.

00:04:05.920 Do you have an ID?

00:04:06.960 Why are people who are critical of Greta not allowed to be anywhere near the action?

00:04:12.380 Hey, what are you doing?

00:04:14.020 Stop.

00:04:14.520 Don't touch me.

00:04:15.380 You don't want to tell the world who's paying you.

00:04:18.520 Nobody has bothered to dig deep into the rise of her messiahhood until now.

00:04:23.420 Well, folks, she may be Time magazine's person of the year for 2019.

00:04:29.020 But do you really think you're getting the entire story from the media party when it comes to Greta Thunberg?

00:04:35.860 Well, we sure don't think so, which is exactly why Kian Bexte went to Sweden to track down Greta and, more importantly, the puppet masters behind Greta.

00:04:49.160 And I can tell you that the results of that is a new little documentary that just premiered earlier today, Greta Inc.

00:04:56.900 You've got to check it out.

00:04:59.500 And with more on this incredible doc is the man behind the documentary himself, Kian Bexte.

00:05:06.720 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian. 0.99

00:05:09.220 Hey, David.

00:05:09.580 So, you know, Kian, it's absolutely fascinating.

00:05:15.120 We've been led to believe, we've been given a narrative that the whole Greta Thunberg saga, which led to just a 15-year-old girl doing a solo climate strike outside her school,

00:05:30.080 somehow sparked a global phenomena, culminating with her being named Time magazine person of the year.

00:05:36.900 But when you went over to Sweden, first of all, what's very important, I don't want to give too many spoilers away,

00:05:44.240 because I think this is required viewing for our audience.

00:05:49.220 The man behind Greta, the man who supposedly had a chance meeting with her that got the ball rolling, it doesn't seem legit, does it?

00:06:00.080 No, not at all, David.

00:06:02.540 Ingmar Reinshag is an individual from Sweden.

00:06:06.160 He's an investment specialist in public relations entrepreneur, and he's someone who has been trained specifically by Al Gore himself in the United States.

00:06:17.380 And this one day in August in 2018, he just happened to walk across Greta Thunberg, and that day just happened to be the very first day of her school strike.

00:06:32.420 It happened to be the very first few minutes of her school strike, actually.

00:06:35.500 And his excuse for having walked by her was that he was just dropping off his son at daycare.

00:06:42.320 Well, we looked at where his son went to daycare, and we looked at where he worked, and then we looked at the metro routes,

00:06:48.840 understanding that a greening like him would be taking the metro or even cycling.

00:06:52.600 And those routes would mean that he would have to have walked nearly three miles accidentally to actually have coincidentally walked by Greta Thunberg that day

00:07:02.800 and to end up posting that perfectly manicured Facebook post that went viral and was picked up by so many media outlets around the world.

00:07:11.100 So it was all too coincidental for us to believe.

00:07:15.260 Oh, well, you know, Kian, come on. 1.00

00:07:17.140 I mean, when I go on a commute, I frequently wander three miles off the point A to point B trajectory.

00:07:25.880 So let's cut him some slack.

00:07:27.300 But you know what?

00:07:27.900 This is very important, I think, because from day one, the question I've been asking and the question other cynics and skeptics have been asking is,

00:07:37.940 where's the money?

00:07:38.780 Where's the beef, as Clara Peller used to say on the old Wendy's commercials?

00:07:43.160 Because this whole idea of getting carbon-free catamarans and electric Teslas donated and lent to,

00:07:52.200 it just doesn't happen magically overnight, and there's been millions behind her campaign. 0.80

00:07:57.420 And personally, I think this was an ingenious ploy. 0.89

00:08:01.700 Make the spokesperson of the climate change shtick a 15-year-old girl with mental health issues because, Kian, that means you are truly an ogre if you dare question her. 0.97

00:08:17.620 Is that what you think is the unspoken strategy by having Greta as this person, as a spokesperson in the first place?

00:08:25.200 Oh, I don't think that that's the unspoken strategy.

00:08:29.400 I think that's actually the spoken strategy.

00:08:32.140 When they were recruiting, when they were looking to recruit someone to do this, the emails that we've seen show that they were actually looking for a young face so that nobody could fight back against them,

00:08:45.820 nobody could ask them tough questions.

00:08:47.400 I think that the severe autism was sort of icing on the cake for them, but they were certainly looking to be planned for someone Greta's age.

00:08:58.900 And, you know, Kian, it's working because just yesterday in Davos, U.S. Treasury Chief Steve Munchen, he suggested to Greta, rightfully, I should suggest, go study economics.

00:09:12.960 And I can tell you, when I did my morning commute, I was scanning the talk radio channels, and all the leftist, progressive, usual suspects,

00:09:21.900 they were losing their minds over the U.S. Treasury Chief's comment about this.

00:09:27.580 How dare you, to quote Greta, how dare you heap any kind of criticism on this little girl? 0.57

00:09:36.720 Well, so, Kian, I would suggest this was a brilliantly conceived scam by this PR agency. 0.98

00:09:46.940 A scam is a great thing, a great way to call it.

00:09:51.660 We're calling it Greta Inc., and I'd suggest that everyone go to Greta Inc.

00:09:56.660 not just to see the documentary, but to see the write-up on it and read a little bit more into this scam, as you say, and as I would agree it is.

00:10:04.980 Greta Thunberg isn't who you think she is. 1.00

00:10:07.900 She's an individual who has access to the call of eco-elites around the world who have propped her up in this preordained fashion

00:10:16.800 to launch her into this messiahhood so that nobody could criticize her,

00:10:22.020 and so she could start making changes around the world as these eco-elites saw fit,

00:10:27.660 whether it is governments rampantly investing and subsidizing in green energy or divesting from fossil fuels

00:10:38.660 or actually seeing tangible electoral outcomes,

00:10:44.180 as we saw in Edmonton in the writing that Greta Thunberg staged her massive political rally in October.

00:10:50.120 It's this very successful campaign.

00:10:54.340 It's a very insidious campaign, and I'm disappointed, sorely disappointed in the international media

00:11:00.340 that it took a year and a half, almost two years, for a documentary to come out,

00:11:07.040 a large expose like this to come out on someone who is so dangerous to the world's economy.

00:11:13.480 Oh, 100%, Kian. 1.00

00:11:15.480 I mean, what happened suddenly to investigative journalism by those media outlets that are well-heeled?

00:11:22.400 But as you said, there are, let's make no mistake, billions of dollars in green energy contracts at stake

00:11:30.940 for some of the people that are behind this Greta, Inc. girl.

00:11:35.240 And I must say, you know, Kian, without giving too much away, I mean, three of your objectives, of course,

00:11:41.280 was to find out if she really was on a strike in the first place,

00:11:46.360 then to look at the entourage, to look at the people that are behind her,

00:11:50.240 and then, of course, her origin.

00:11:53.100 And, you know, I got to chuckle at that because there's a clip where her father is speaking,

00:11:58.440 and he talks about how when she was on this climate strike,

00:12:03.120 it was like the origin of Spider-Man when Peter Parker gets bit by a radioactive spider.

00:12:08.980 Somebody came and gave Greta a vegan pad thai meal,

00:12:14.040 and suddenly she gained these superpowers of spreading her climate change awareness.

00:12:21.920 I mean, it's almost comical in a way, Kian, what they're trying to pull here. 0.99

00:12:28.440 Yeah, anyone who takes anything away from this documentary,

00:12:32.120 it's don't let your children be vegan pad thai.

00:12:36.300 It's a really, really weird thing for her dad to be sharing on the news outlet, like the BBC.

00:12:46.360 It's really strange.

00:12:47.280 But you're right about the three points of this documentary.

00:12:49.320 It's to establish whether she was on a school strike.

00:12:51.840 Intended she actually wasn't. 0.96

00:12:53.120 Her school, spoiler alert, rather, her school allows these kids with severe mental illness 0.98

00:13:00.900 to take days off if they're having an episode, feeling mentally unwell, what have you.

00:13:06.320 The only stipulation is that they bring their textbooks and that their parents take them to a museum

00:13:11.720 or some other excursion.

00:13:13.360 It doesn't have to be at school.

00:13:14.300 They just have to have a textbook.

00:13:15.240 And something you'll notice is at Greta's very first school strike, you know that backpack right beside her?

00:13:21.900 Yeah, that was her textbooks that she had to bring because her school was letting her do this.

00:13:27.000 It wasn't some radical, valiant effort marching from the classroom.

00:13:32.020 Greta Thunberg was allowed to be away from school, and she doesn't want you to know that. 0.93

00:13:35.580 Absolutely incredible.

00:13:37.400 We have to wrap it here, Kian.

00:13:38.680 But I must say there was a bit of a sinister element to this as well because you had that clip

00:13:43.300 where it shows Greta's parents wearing T-shirts with the Antifa logo on it.

00:13:51.000 And I guess we can only speculate if these thugs are behind Greta Inc. as well,

00:13:57.300 which adds a whole new layer of complexity to what this little girl really is all about

00:14:04.660 or more appropriately, who she's representing.

00:14:08.620 Kian, it was an excellent piece.

00:14:10.660 It's a must-viewing, and thank you for joining me here.

00:14:14.780 No problem, Dave.

00:14:15.740 Thank you.

00:14:16.380 And that was Kian Bexty in Calgary.

00:14:19.160 Keep it here, folks.

00:14:19.940 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:14:21.940 I know they don't take spousal rape very seriously in Kenya,

00:14:30.360 but I am very glad to know that authorities here in Canada took this deadly seriously,

00:14:35.760 and this man was eventually convicted.

00:14:38.420 However, the man, only identified as MR, I hope to protect his wife's identity and not his,

00:14:44.240 has just had his conviction overturned because a judge found that his Swahili to English courtroom interpreter

00:14:51.660 was not proficient enough in English for the man to understand what was happening in the courtroom.

00:14:58.900 Let's go back to that CP article I mentioned.

00:15:02.400 MR requested an interpreter during his 2018 prosecution for sexually assaulting his wife,

00:15:08.660 whom he had married in Kenya.

00:15:10.920 Ontario Court Judge Maven Wong agreed to the request,

00:15:14.860 despite opposition from the Crown, which argued MR was sufficiently proficient in English.

00:15:21.820 Now, remember that Crown argument, because it will come up later,

00:15:27.080 that MR was sufficiently proficient in English,

00:15:30.860 because his proficiency in English is what a judge found as evidence that MR's translator

00:15:36.960 wasn't proficient enough.

00:15:38.560 Wow, I think that I need a translator here myself.

00:15:42.780 But there you have it, folks.

00:15:44.220 Accused rapist MR is apparently very proficient in English.

00:15:48.300 Nevertheless, for whatever reason, he's more comfortable having his trial conducted in Swahili,

00:15:54.540 but it's been determined that the English to Swahili translation he received from his translator

00:16:00.600 was subpar, and the judge and jury on that issue being Mr. MR himself.

00:16:06.600 Yeah, that's right.

00:16:08.000 The guy who supposedly struggles with English

00:16:10.840 was constantly correcting the interpreter's translation skills pertaining to the English language,

00:16:17.920 which begs the question,

00:16:19.420 why does an MR simply have the whole trial conducted in English to begin with?

00:16:24.700 He seems very well-versed in that language, at least to me.

00:16:28.800 And with more on this jaw-dropping story in any language is the host of the gun show,

00:16:34.080 Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:16:34.900 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:16:37.420 Hey, David.

00:16:37.980 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:16:40.180 Sheila, this story's crazy.

00:16:41.920 But let's cut to the chase, shall we?

00:16:43.840 This guy is surely gaming the system somehow, no?

00:16:47.700 He absolutely is gaming the system.

00:16:49.980 But I think we need to go back a little bit,

00:16:51.980 because the whole thing is laughably comical on a couple different levels.

00:16:57.940 However, what he's accused of and what he was convicted of based on the evidence heard at trial

00:17:03.060 is spousal rape. 0.92

00:17:05.840 He and his wife are both from Kenya.

00:17:07.640 I know they don't take spousal rape all that seriously in Kenya, 0.96

00:17:10.380 and I'm happy to say that we do here.

00:17:13.600 This woman recently immigrated to Canada, and at least for a short time, she was protected by our laws,

00:17:21.700 and she's not anymore.

00:17:22.720 But he is gaming the system, and I've seen this before.

00:17:27.680 I sat in on the entire West Edmonton Water Park molestation trial,

00:17:35.240 and it was over two weeks in the courtroom,

00:17:38.580 and every single word uttered in the courtroom had to be translated in Arabic to the defendant.

00:17:48.040 And a lot of times court was delayed,

00:17:50.320 or we were waiting for an interpreter to come from another courtroom.

00:17:53.260 I mean, it's very inconvenient, and it slows down the administration of justice.

00:18:00.180 But what I saw in the hallway was far more annoying.

00:18:04.380 When I was on a break from the court, I saw the defendant conversing with his supporters in English.

00:18:14.020 And yet, the entire courtroom was held up by the need for this constant word-for-word Arabic translation.

00:18:23.120 And I think in this instance, it was made clear by the Crown from the very beginning

00:18:28.300 that MR was proficient enough in English.

00:18:32.180 And didn't even need a translator, the Crown argued, at the very beginning.

00:18:37.760 They gave him one anyway to avoid a charter challenge, which they ended up with anyway.

00:18:43.740 I think it was a game from the entire beginning, just a fail-safe in case he was convicted.

00:18:50.180 You know, Sheila, I remember clearly that is your excellent coverage

00:18:54.860 of the West Edmonton Mall water park molestation.

00:18:58.740 And you mentioned the word, the supporters of that fellow.

00:19:03.720 These are typically the left-leaning progressives.

00:19:07.040 Suddenly, minor girls are not the victims, but this potential molester is. 0.99

00:19:13.720 And similarly, with this fellow, I get this vibe of, you know, feeling for him by those on the left,

00:19:22.040 those very same people.

00:19:23.420 Oh, this poor guy isn't getting a superb Swahili to English translation service.

00:19:29.820 And yet, where's the sympathy for the wife who alleges that she was raped by this guy?

00:19:35.560 I mean, has, what I'm trying to say, Sheila, is like, has the idea of women's rights and girls' rights

00:19:41.720 being eclipsed by, I guess, I don't know, if it's diversity, it's got to be good. 0.99

00:19:48.120 Yeah, we're seeing that all the time.

00:19:50.080 And in this particular case, the conviction is overturned.

00:19:55.880 And I don't hear a peep from the women's rights activists.

00:20:01.640 Toronto is a festering hotbed of women's rights activists. 1.00

00:20:07.100 And yet, none of them have said a word, because I think they're trying to figure out where on the

00:20:10.940 totem pole of social justice, immigrant women fall, because they haven't said a word. 1.00

00:20:18.060 And this woman deserves justice. 0.85

00:20:22.460 This person was convicted on a preponderance of evidence.

00:20:27.580 And yet, a judge used his own evidence, I guess, MR's evidence that the interpreter wasn't good enough.

00:20:41.580 Meaning, MR was good enough in English, proficient enough in English, to be able to understand and tell the court that his translator wasn't good enough.

00:20:52.920 He was constantly correcting the translator to the court.

00:20:55.280 So, please, tell me. Tell me how he needed a translator.

00:20:59.980 And Sheila, this is indeed the crux of the matter.

00:21:02.780 What was stopping the judge from that point, this learned individual on the bench, from saying to Mr. MR,

00:21:10.960 excuse me, sir, but given the proceedings of the last several minutes, I think you speak and understand English perfectly well.

00:21:18.720 We're going to proceed with this trial in English.

00:21:20.920 What was stopping the judge from applying that kind of common sense?

00:21:25.280 Probably the threat of a charter challenge.

00:21:28.580 It seems to me that the first trial judge, Judge Wong, I believe it was, Mavis Wong, found that he was proficient enough in English and probably wasn't buying what the defendant was selling.

00:21:44.540 I mean, tell me, why would an accused rapist lie, David?

00:21:48.620 Why would they lie?

00:21:50.860 You know, but it seemed as though the initial trial judge wasn't buying it.

00:21:55.920 They got him a translator just to play along with the game to make sure all their bases were covered.

00:22:00.400 But I think the original trial judge was like, you know what?

00:22:03.780 It's pretty clear.

00:22:05.200 He understands exactly what's happening here.

00:22:08.460 He speaks good enough English to get through this trial.

00:22:11.420 But the second judge just completely overturned everything.

00:22:18.540 However, I don't.

00:22:21.480 This is the thing.

00:22:23.340 If I were that this is a rule that is designed to protect people.

00:22:30.260 For example, if I was accused of something in Quebec, I'd need a translator.

00:22:38.340 I don't know enough French to navigate the legal system.

00:22:42.680 I really don't.

00:22:43.480 I've avoided learning French all my life.

00:22:45.340 I'm proud of that fact.

00:22:47.200 It's not something I need to learn out here in Alberta.

00:22:50.360 It's just not.

00:22:51.700 So I would need it.

00:22:54.120 But it would be pretty clear that I wouldn't understand the translator if the translator were getting it wrong.

00:23:00.620 That should be a pretty good indicator to everybody.

00:23:03.440 But that just didn't happen here at all.

00:23:06.080 No, you're right, Sheila.

00:23:06.880 It's probably the whole charter challenge that they're concerned about.

00:23:10.880 And, you know, I just just wonder if somebody is going to really game the system to the nth degree that even though they understand English or French very well,

00:23:20.560 they're going to pick some incredibly obscure language that's almost a dead language.

00:23:26.300 So there'll be great trouble getting a translator.

00:23:28.580 Or, hey, let's go all in, Sheila.

00:23:30.620 How about somebody says, picks a fake language.

00:23:34.120 I'm immersed in the Star Trek universe.

00:23:36.220 I speak Klingon day to day.

00:23:38.060 I need a Klingon to English translator.

00:23:40.720 Yeah.

00:23:40.920 Hey, why not?

00:23:42.680 Or Esperanto or whatever that other language is called.

00:23:46.540 Well, I mean, there's a reason these rules exist.

00:23:51.040 But there are also criminals willing to abuse them.

00:23:54.000 That is always going to be the case.

00:23:55.920 And we would hope the justice system is able to, you know, see the forest for the trees here.

00:24:01.280 And it just doesn't seem like it happened that way.

00:24:04.020 You see this all the time.

00:24:05.340 You cover these stories all the time where people, French language speakers file human rights complaints, even though they speak perfectly fine English because they didn't receive their services in French.

00:24:21.140 It happens all the time.

00:24:23.280 It's a way to game system.

00:24:24.740 It's a way to line their pockets and abuse the human rights system that we have in Canada. 0.74

00:24:31.080 You know, and it's not just French language speakers.

00:24:34.920 It's everybody now.

00:24:36.180 No, you're right.

00:24:36.920 I mean, I actually visited the fellow who lives in Ottawa.

00:24:39.240 Him and his wife are professional gamers of the Air Canada flights to make sure that every single word is translated from English to French.

00:24:50.280 And they got a multi-thousand dollar payout because the word seatbelt on their seatbelts was simply in English.

00:24:57.280 And, of course, Sheila, there's no way you could fathom what to do with this fabric and metal thing that says seatbelt unless it said seatbelt in French.

00:25:07.000 But here's the thing, Sheila.

00:25:08.660 Moving ahead, how do we fix this?

00:25:11.120 I mean, we can't give people a means test because obviously they would purposely fail it.

00:25:16.480 So in the bigger picture, do you think maybe when it comes to immigration that there should be a stipulation that, okay, you can't speak English or French moving to Canada right now.

00:25:29.080 Maybe that's unfair to turn you away.

00:25:31.540 But within a certain amount of time, you must have some kind of working proficiency in one of the official national languages so that we don't have to go through this nonsense in the future.

00:25:43.700 Is that maybe it?

00:25:44.980 Change the immigration rules.

00:25:46.480 Yeah, I mean, there should be some expectation within a reasonable amount of time that new Canadians gain some sort of proficiency in one of Canada's national languages.

00:26:01.420 That's the beauty of Canada.

00:26:02.680 You just don't have to learn English.

00:26:04.140 You could probably just learn French.

00:26:06.440 And then at least there's enough French speakers around. 1.00

00:26:12.160 I mean, if you work for the government, you have to speak French.

00:26:15.260 So if you need help navigating government services or the courts, you can get through it in French, and that's fine.

00:26:22.040 But we don't have an expectation that new Canadians learn one of the official languages within a certain amount of time.

00:26:30.000 And I suspect if we asked them to, we would end up with a charter challenge also.

00:26:35.620 Well, thank you, Sheila.

00:26:37.060 Great piece.

00:26:37.800 We're all out of time.

00:26:38.860 So I'd just like to say right now, kar ponk gar hoi, which in Klingon means thank you so much and have a good weekend, Sheila.

00:26:46.860 In case you don't have a translator there at your house.

00:26:50.120 No, no, I'm filing a human rights complaint against you, David. 0.98

00:26:54.400 This is ridiculous. 0.92

00:26:55.480 Have a great weekend. 0.96

00:26:56.160 Just bring it, baby.

00:26:57.400 Okay, then.

00:26:58.320 Thank you so much.

00:26:59.540 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in northern Alberta.

00:27:03.040 Keep it here, folks.

00:27:03.860 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:27:05.940 Thank you so much.

00:27:36.600 Because there was many cases that Iranian allies, they were trying to, they hit me and they protect them.

00:27:46.100 This was in Canada?

00:27:47.480 This was happening?

00:27:48.140 Canada, yes.

00:27:48.860 In Canada.

00:27:49.920 And when I said, no, they hit me, you should arrest them.

00:27:54.520 And they said, no, that's okay.

00:27:56.520 You didn't get hurt.

00:27:58.080 You're okay.

00:27:58.720 You're okay.

00:27:59.220 What is going on?

00:28:00.820 I don't know.

00:28:02.100 No, the police protects these terrorists.

00:28:05.900 Yeah, the police protects them.

00:28:10.060 Hi, Ms. Al-Assad.

00:28:12.180 David Menzies.

00:28:12.940 I'm just wondering, one of the angles I'm pursuing on this tragedy is that Liberal MP, Majid Johari, who used to be one of your colleagues, he is a supporter of this regime.

00:28:26.500 And this has rubbed so many in this community the wrong way.

00:28:32.460 I am wondering, do you have any insight for our viewers, Ms. Al-Assad, why this man is even still in caucus?

00:28:39.880 I don't.

00:28:41.000 And thank you very much.

00:28:42.160 Have a good evening.

00:28:42.740 But, Ms. Al-Assad, you used to work with him, didn't you?

00:28:45.640 He was a colleague.

00:28:46.460 That's it, so thank you.

00:28:47.760 Ms. Al-Assad, this is the most important story in the world right now, and that's all you have to say.

00:28:56.500 Now, you defected from the Liberal Party to the Conservatives.

00:29:01.500 I guess maybe you have alliances with your old party.

00:29:05.140 I think we're finished, though.

00:29:06.720 Thank you.

00:29:07.200 Who are you, ma'am?

00:29:07.740 I work with Ms. Al-Assad. 0.72

00:29:09.160 Oh, okay.

00:29:09.620 Why is she tongue-tied? 1.00

00:29:11.040 We're just, thanks.

00:29:12.140 Okay, very good.

00:29:13.880 So, Ms. Al-Assad, do you support the Iranian regime like your old colleague?

00:29:18.580 Oh, sorry, I didn't recognize it.

00:29:21.340 Or are you still under Andrew Scheer's gag order?

00:29:25.200 Well, that was an incredible vigil in Richmond Hill, Ontario last Friday for the 57 Canadians who died on Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752.

00:29:34.560 Inside the Performing Arts Centre, the vigil itself was first class.

00:29:39.160 There was barely a dry eye in the house.

00:29:41.180 But there were some interesting sidebar stories regarding this vigil.

00:29:46.000 First, there was the fact that Majid Johari, the Liberal MP for the writing, was a no-show.

00:29:51.960 Then again, maybe that was a prudent decision on Mr. Johari's part, given that this guy actually supports the Iranian regime that took down the jetliner.

00:30:01.600 And the people attending this vigil might have been royally triggered if Majid had shown up.

00:30:08.300 Then there was that cop allegedly spying on people to make sure nobody was saying anything political.

00:30:16.160 Really? Weird.

00:30:18.000 And then there was former Liberal, current Conservative, Leona Alislav, slinking away into the night without commenting on Johari or the biggest scandal in the world right now.

00:30:31.520 And by the way, if anyone is still wondering why Andrew Scheer failed to score on an empty net on a breakaway last October, look no further than Exhibit Alislav. 0.98

00:30:43.380 Pathetic and weak. 0.96

00:30:45.020 In any event, here's what some of you had to say. 0.99

00:30:49.020 Perceiving writes,

00:30:49.920 If I didn't see and hear it, I wouldn't believe I was in Canada.

00:30:54.080 I'm starting to lose respect for our police.

00:30:56.520 Well, Perceiving, I'm not one to bash the cops.

00:30:59.160 I've met so many great ones.

00:31:00.700 But you do raise a good point.

00:31:02.520 In recent weeks, various law enforcement officers have come after yours truly and my colleague, Kian Bexte, simply for practicing journalism.

00:31:12.020 That's a disgrace.

00:31:13.700 I don't want the police to be the thought police.

00:31:16.160 I just want them to be police classic, enforcing the law while obeying the law as well.

00:31:24.220 Irowal777 writes,

00:31:25.260 Leona Alislav was elected as a Liberal, but on September 17, 2018, she crossed the floor to join the Conservative Party, citing alleged disagreements with the Liberal government over their handling of the economy and foreign affairs.

00:31:39.000 On October 21, 2019, she was re-elected as a Conservative.

00:31:44.060 Following the 2019 Canadian federal election, Alislav was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:31:52.660 And she has no comment!

00:31:54.680 18 exclamation marks.

00:31:56.960 Yep, no comment.

00:31:58.840 No comment about a Liberal MP with a checkered history and one who supports the mullahs in Tehran. 0.53

00:32:04.000 I wonder if Ms. Alislav is actually a tad confused which party she's currently part of these days. 0.98

00:32:11.560 How sad.

00:32:13.080 And finally, an email from presumably south of the border.

00:32:16.480 Esta Medley writes,

00:32:18.580 You guys have Johari, we have Omar.

00:32:21.960 Um, do you want to orchestrate a trade, Esta?

00:32:25.460 Yep, Johari is actually that bad, so I'd actually make that swap in a heartbeat. 0.99

00:32:30.560 And hey, I'll even throw in our own Omar, Omar Cotter.

00:32:34.740 Two creeps for the price of one.

00:32:36.800 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:32:39.480 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:32:40.780 See you next week.

00:32:41.940 And hey folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:32:45.840 Good night.

00:32:46.260 We'll see you next week.

Rebel News Podcast - January 18, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Keean Bexte and Sheila Gunn Reid

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