Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies talk about National Beach Day and why they don t want you to see your butt cheeks on the beach. They also talk about the latest in Canadian politics, including the latest on Justin Trudeau's leadership campaign.
00:30:07.780So, York Regional Police recently announced the region has seen a 92% increase in shootings and a 106% increase in carjackings so far in 2024.
00:31:01.680The 101 GTA police forces are raising concerns about violent crime, like carjackings and gun crimes, as well as repeat offenders out on bail.
00:31:10.100York Regional Police highlighted a surge in violent crimes earlier this week.
00:31:13.900In Durham Region this morning, they told us that 23% of the arrests that are made for a gun crime involves a person already out on bail.
00:31:24.120And earlier this month, Toronto police said that gangs operating with a total disregard for the safety, are operating with a total disregard for the safety and well-being of others.
00:31:33.420And separately, the Toronto Police Association called for action against three officers that were injured earlier this month, arresting a repeat offender.
00:31:41.480Is the federal government aware of the impact of the violent crime and gun crimes are having on communities, and what will be done about it?
00:31:50.220Look, violent crime and gun crime are totally intolerable, are totally unacceptable.
00:32:01.020And very often it is the most vulnerable among us who are the targets of this crime and whose lives are made really miserable, really scary by the prevalence of this crime.
00:32:19.260And it is absolutely incumbent on all orders of government to be working together to end violent crime.
00:32:29.100It's incumbent for all police of all jurisdictions to be working together with all levels of government to put an end to this.
00:32:39.660I do want to highlight, because you've spoken about gun crime, that, you know, one of the things that makes gun crime possible is guns on the streets.
00:32:51.020And that is why our government is acting so decisively to get guns off the streets in Canada.
00:32:59.920That's why we have banned military-style assault weapons.
00:34:38.800David, before you go on, they reduced the sentences, the minimum recommended sentences brought in by Stephen Harper on a whole slate of gang-related violence charges due to systemic racism.
00:35:13.280You know, that would go away, I think, of ending this problem as opposed to going after, oh, I don't know, duck hunters in Saskatchewan, for goodness sakes.
00:35:23.420And by the way, I've got to tell you, you know what I'm taking great pleasure with, Sheila, with these so-called proposed gun bans, is Justin Trudeau's ill ability to recruit enforcers.
00:35:40.200Then, remember, he reached out to the post office.
00:35:42.720And imagine that, I come into my local shopper's drug market with a rifle and the, you know, pimply-faced kid behind the counter goes, oh, is that loaded, sir?
00:35:55.720And then, of course, the most recent thing, which I'm pleased to report is failing, is recruiting retired RCMP officers to do the dirty work.
00:36:06.880I heard a great interview with Tony Bernardo.
00:36:10.040He's the head honcho of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
00:36:15.180And what he said, Sheila, it makes perfect sense from what they can gather.
00:36:19.920This is going over like a Led Zeppelin, that law enforcement personnel typically do not want to be in the role of the bad guy.
00:36:46.780Well, and kudos to the firearm zoning community because the second a company or an organization starts to work with the federal government and says, well, maybe we'll help you, whatever you're going to pay us, it's going to be worth it.
00:37:00.560The firearm zoning community turns on them like a pack of wild dogs and just outs them and basically ruins them.
00:37:10.400So that's the free market at work, and I'm proud to see it.
00:37:14.800But moreover, to Freeland's point, on her decisive actions to get dangerous weapons off the street, like a 410 bird gun because it looked cool with a black plastic stock, they are so dangerous they've left them in the hands of the owners since May 2020.
00:37:37.700So even they know that these are not dangerous firearms that need to be immediately confiscated from us because we still have them.
00:38:17.340York Regional Police announced the region has seen a 92% increase in shootings, 106% increase in carjackings.
00:38:25.900And lo and behold, it's not people like me who have to call some nerd in a cubicle at the chief firearms office and say, hey, I want to take my gun from the gun safe and go to the range and plink at some targets.
00:39:48.500But I can tell you, you go to these reserves in Ontario where every single rule under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, which was ostensibly put in place to prevent minors from gaining access to tobacco, every single rule is broken, including free samples, smoking in the store, selling to minors.
00:40:13.720I have eyewitnessed this, Sheila, and they will not budge on this.
00:40:20.160Ontario will say it's a federal bailiwick, and the feds say, no, it's a provincial one, and it's like a circus carousel going round and round, and nothing is done.
00:40:30.740So that is part of the problem, but you will never see that addressed.
00:40:34.860You know, I don't think we need to show this video from the York Regional Police because we just gave the numbers.
00:40:39.340Let's, just to expedite the show a little bit, and I know we've got a message once again from our friends at Rumble that I need to get to, but before I do that, let's talk about what happened at Cootes.
00:40:52.920So the conspiracy to commit murder charges that came out of an incident that happened sort of adjacent to the border blockade at Cootes in January and February 2022,
00:41:11.460was used as proof for the necessity of the Emergencies Act, for the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act, as we've now found out, which we all knew at the time.
00:41:24.200But even if it were used as the excuse, the cops on the ground dealt with it, like they had the tools to arrest and deal with that.
00:41:32.260So you didn't need these extraordinary powers granted to local police by the Emergencies Act.
00:41:37.460Now, a court challenge has found that the Emergencies Act was unlawfully used against Canadians who are simply protesting for their freedom.
00:41:45.780You see, when they were protesting against tyranny, they got more tyranny.
00:41:51.940And so, public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc, who I think is one of the most smug and insufferable liberal cabinet ministers you will ever have to listen to,
00:42:06.940he says that even though now those conspiracy to commit murder charges that were levied against four men in Cootes, Alberta, were, well, the four men, two pled guilty to lesser charges and the other two were acquitted on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
00:42:28.140He's still proud of using that, the Emergencies Act on people.
00:42:34.020He said it was the right decision, even though court told him no.
00:42:40.300So the federal government used the arrest of four Alberta men charged with conspiracy to killing an RCMP officer just as a justification to break up a protest in Ottawa and in Windsor.
00:42:52.900These charges now have largely been dropped.
00:42:55.360So does this undermine the government's reasoning for using the Emergency Act to break up the protest?
00:43:03.960I was an active participant in those conversations around invoking the Emergencies Act.
00:43:11.100I think Canadians recognized that it was an extraordinary measure of last resort.
00:43:17.240Justice Rouleau, who reviewed the circumstances, confirmed that.
00:43:21.420Premier Ford, the Conservative Premier of Ontario, supported the invocation.
00:43:27.000I think Canadians supported the invocation.
00:43:29.620It was a time-limited, reasonable and balanced measure which brought an end to a very dangerous, potentially violent and economically destructive circumstance.
00:43:41.240So I'm very proud of that decision the government took.
00:44:18.660In fact, in many of the court cases, we have helped the people involved, like Tamara Leach.
00:44:24.860Relatively minor charges for many of them involved, mischief.
00:44:28.780You didn't need an extraordinary wartime law, which should be reserved for events like 9-11 or Pearl Harbor, used on people having a hot tub party in the nation's capital to try to get the government's attention.
00:44:45.460By the way, where are you supposed to go to protest the federal government except the city that houses the federal government?
00:44:53.220They were just a little bit too obnoxious and blue-collar for the very boring people who live and work in Ottawa.
00:45:04.960Where are you supposed to go to protest the federal government except where the federal government is?
00:45:09.160Now, with regard to what happened at Coots, the guys who actually were directly involved in the border blockade, they were brought up on mischief charges.
00:45:17.640You don't need to use a wartime law to bring them up on mischief charges.
00:45:21.600Jason Kenney, our premier at the time, did not want the Emergencies Act.
00:45:27.800He wanted tow trucks that were capable of moving tractors.
00:45:31.600He knew the federal government had some of those at CFB Edmonton.
00:45:36.880But the federal government wouldn't give him access to those, which is all that he wanted.
00:45:43.720But there was sort of a satellite incident, I want to say, that happened at Coots where four men were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, mischief over $5,000, and firearms-related offenses.
00:46:00.540Now, as it turns out, one of those firearms-related offenses was a paper offense.
00:46:04.960He had a handgun, but he didn't have authorization to transport.
00:46:16.200He just couldn't have it where it was.
00:46:18.340He didn't call the nerd and ask for permission, as I mentioned a second ago.
00:46:22.120So he was unlawfully, he was, it was not in the, his firearm was not in the place that he said it was going to be, or he didn't ask for permission.
00:46:35.140And the charges of conspiracy to commit murder were the two remaining, Anthony Olenek and Chris Carbert, they were acquitted on those.
00:46:45.420They've been held for 921 days, as of today, I believe, in jail without bail.
00:46:53.360Uh, and it's sort of unusual because given that the, um, most extensive, uh, charges they were acquitted of, you think that they would be released pending sentencing.
00:47:04.120Um, they have not been, um, I was sat in a sentencing hearing yesterday for the two.
00:47:10.060Uh, they were convicted of mischief over $5,000 and firearms-related offenses, um, and unlawful possession, um, basically.
00:47:20.160And, uh, so what I heard yesterday is that the crown wants nine years, nine years in jail.
00:47:30.040One of them, they would like a lifetime prohibition on firearms is Chris Carbert because this is his second sort of, uh, firearms-related offense.
00:47:37.380And Anthony Olenek, they want a 10-year prohibition.
00:47:40.380Um, whereas the defense said, uh, you know, this could be somewhere in the range of two and a half to three and a half.
00:47:50.160Years in jail on the high end, which means they should be out with time served, given the fact that, uh, you get 1.5 days per day spent in pretrial custody.
00:48:01.380Um, but I want to tell you just how outrageous the ask from the crown is.
00:48:07.240I was, I was digging around for, uh, and, you know, the judge said something that sort of put me on like a little bit of a rabbit hole.
00:48:18.240I was, as I was sitting in the court live tweeting yesterday, and you can see more of that from truckertrials.com.
00:48:24.020Um, but I was Googling who the judge was, and, uh, I realized he's the judge, or he was the prosecutor.
00:48:33.280He was appointed to the bench in 2018, but he was the prosecutor from the Mayor Thorpe Mountie killings, uh, in the early 2000s.
00:48:45.980And he said something to the crown, and he said, are you expecting me to sentence these men on charges they are not convicted of, as in conspiracy to commit murder of Mounties, for a firefight that never happened?
00:49:01.840Because there was no firefight with the cops, you know, like, one of them was, had a lot of bravado, and he was talking to undercover cops about what, you know, wanting to go to war.
00:49:12.740But Chris Carbert, he came out and surrendered himself peacefully immediately to the RCMP ERT team.
00:49:18.860There was no firefight, even when they had an opportunity to have one.
00:49:22.180And I thought, well, who's this judge who's talking about this stuff?
00:49:25.660He was the crown prosecutor in Mayor Thorpe, where four Mounties were killed by James Roscoe.
00:49:30.660James Roscoe, who was a walking crime spree, should not have been out.
00:49:35.220And the fact that he was out was an indictment of our justice system.
00:49:39.760The two men who were, the two remaining, they didn't really do anything except give him the gun that was used.
00:50:35.900But no, sentencing was just put over now until September 9th.
00:50:41.360And you know, Sheila, when you were speaking earlier, we were showing some B-roll footage of the coots demonstrators.
00:50:49.660And I couldn't help but notice the dichotomy between what we saw then and what we see today in the streets of our great dominion.
00:50:58.620And you see these, you see a flag of, sorry, you see a sea of Canadian and Alberta flags.
00:51:06.040You see them singing the national anthem, removing their headgear as they do so.
00:51:12.880Compare that to chants for genocide in the streets, physical violence, vandalism and firebombing of Jewish-owned businesses, schools, synagogues, etc.
00:51:36.660I know I'm off on a bit of a tangerine here.
00:51:39.380But, you know, is it any more apparent the two-tier policing and politics that we have in our country today?
00:51:49.600I saw it firsthand yesterday in Lethbridge.
00:51:52.280You know, if you are a routine sex offender, if you are a drug trafficker, so someone who poisons the young people of our community and gets financially wealthy doing it,
00:52:04.840you can be in and out of jail, lucky if you see the inside of a jail cell.
00:52:09.740These guys were convicted of minor gun crimes and acquitted of the worst of them and mischief over $5,000.
00:52:23.300The one guy had sole custody of his son since the little guy was nine months old.
00:52:29.600He's scarcely seen him these past three years.
00:52:36.980They may have said some, and I think one, not the other, said some, I think, not so great things to undercover cops, female undercover cops,
00:52:51.500as guys talking themselves up to women sometimes do.
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00:55:24.580That looks like a humdinger of a show.
00:55:38.020Did I see one of the exhibitors, the Canadian Armed Forces, Sheila?
00:55:42.020I mean, actually showing up at a toxic masculinity kind of gun show as opposed to, I don't know, recruiting at the Trans March.
00:55:50.680There's a crisis of recruitment and attrition in the Canadian Armed Forces, and it is obvious why.
00:56:02.420But I should tell everybody what they just saw there, that's TACCOM 2024, that's Canada's largest gun show.
00:56:10.580It's coming to the International Centre in beautiful downtown Mississauga, Ontario, from September 6th to 8th.
00:56:16.400I wish I was there so much, and just watching money fly out of my wallet, the event is dedicated to showcasing the best in tactical and competitive shooting disciplines.
00:56:27.960You get to see top manufacturers and distributors from Canada, the USA, and Europe, and they're showcasing their latest products, training, and insights.
00:56:36.080A new feature this year is the cash and carry deals on firearms and ammunition, allowing visitors to purchase directly at the show, provided they have a valid Canadian firearms license.
00:56:55.140I got to drop by the International Centre, Sheila, especially since the last time super producer Efren Monsanto and I went, I was dressed as a cat.
00:57:07.700Anyway, I think the thing that intrigues me is Guibault's electric car fantasy, Canadians face billions in new costs.
00:57:19.060And, you know, this is Stephen Gobault, who was once very fashionable in a orange prison jumpsuit.
00:57:28.220There's a couple of characters like that in the Justin Trudeau cabinet.
00:57:32.660But, you know, Sheila, what I'm getting at, maybe super producer Efren can find this.
00:57:37.820Can these Trudeau liberals, when it comes to the EV fantasy, and I think it is a fantasy, despite the fact that we're gambling tens of billions of dollars of our money on EV plants, EV battery plants, etc.
00:58:18.620But, the point I was getting at, whether it's Stephen Guibault or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, when they come to, you know, singing poetically how great electrical vehicles are, could they at least...
00:58:38.560Could they at least lead by example and drive one?
00:58:41.680And when you see the Prime Minister's eight-car motorcade, it is typically eight-cylinder, fossil fuel-burning, extra-large Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions.
00:58:55.380And when Lincoln Jay and I, earlier this year, caught up with Minister Guilbo in Peterborough, you know, when we walked with him to his vehicle, because that was my prime directive,
00:59:09.880as much as he's going on and on and on about green initiatives, I really wanted to know how he got to Peterborough, what vehicle.
00:59:20.100And, Sheila, when I asked him about that, classical liberal cabinet minister changed the channel.
00:59:28.300He said words to the effect of, you know, often I take the train from Montreal to Quebec City.
01:20:02.400Um, just a little snippet of Larry Brock, conservative party, Larry Brock at the SECU committee.
01:20:09.200So that is, uh, the security and public safety committee.
01:20:13.020They were questioning, uh, CBSA and CSIS officials about how in the heck an ISIS terrorist came to not only be in Canada, but get his Canadian citizenship.
01:20:23.980And as the timeline goes, we're learning more and more.
01:21:07.760You're so he came here under false pretenses, but got the benefit of it.
01:21:11.780Then he, uh, is granted a work permit, gets permanent residency, even though he came here with other motives and was previously declined a visitor's visa.
01:21:24.080Uh, by the, uh, May, I think of 2024, he becomes a Canadian citizen.
01:21:31.480And by July, he's plotting to kill Toronto Jews.
01:21:35.700And we would not have known if not for French officials.
01:21:39.000And what are these CBSA officials and CCS officials saying at committee?
01:21:52.140But, uh, Larry Brock, who was a former crown prosecutor, he's a conservative MP, who, we're not doing something right if this guy isn't Canada's next justice minister and attorney general.