Rebel News Podcast - REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Poilievre on Alberta's wealth, Nova Scotia snitch line, Mass immigration continues

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00:03:05.700 So let's get into the news of the day.

00:03:09.040 I have a space heater on in my studio because the weather is so unpredictable.

00:03:13.420 It was like 26 degrees yesterday and 15 degrees today.

00:03:16.640 So that's the weather of the world.

00:03:19.900 Um, let's get into the very first thing here today, and that is the crazy, crazy Nova Scotia

00:03:29.540 legislation.

00:03:30.360 And Lisa and I reacted to alleged conservative premier Tim Houston making the announcement

00:03:36.800 yesterday because he doesn't just ban people from using public lands.

00:03:41.420 And look, I'm all for like, don't do anything intrinsically incendiary.

00:03:48.700 And that's a very specific term.

00:03:50.540 Uh, don't have fires when the fire risk is high.

00:03:56.280 Um, don't throw your cigarette butts, that sort of stuff.

00:04:01.580 But he is banning people from fishing and hiking as though your shoes might cause the electricity

00:04:07.980 in the air to result in a lightning strike.

00:04:10.940 But he also warns people from using the woods on their own property as if someone's going

00:04:15.480 to burn down their own, uh, forest on purpose.

00:04:19.380 Uh, it was just crazy.

00:04:21.080 And he said, we don't want to see a repeat of 2023.

00:04:23.640 Well, what have you done since 2023 to make sure that there's no repeat by the way?

00:04:27.760 Cause you're the guy who manages the public lands, not the people.

00:04:31.740 Um, they steward it and take care of it.

00:04:34.420 Um, when they use it, but you're actually the guy in charge of making sure that it's

00:04:38.860 not an additional fuel load.

00:04:40.340 Um, and Lion Advocacy on X, who is, uh, Viva Fry's brother, uh, is a lawyer.

00:04:53.040 He says the Nova Scotia source legislation for the don't take a hike proclamation is actually

00:04:59.900 more draconian than the government is letting on a one week hiking trip could in theory lead

00:05:04.460 to $3.5 million in fines, 500,000 per day and 3.5 years in jail, six months for each

00:05:14.420 hiking day.

00:05:16.220 Uh, and then he, he dug it up in case we didn't want to take his word for it.

00:05:20.680 Restricted travel zone where whenever deemed necessary for the protection of the woods.

00:05:26.260 What does that even mean?

00:05:27.800 The minister may at any time by proclamation set aside for any period of time, a restricted

00:05:32.760 travel zone in any area of woods.

00:05:34.880 Um, and so he doesn't make a distinction here, like public lands, your own land, um, upon

00:05:42.480 which no person, person shall enter for the purpose of traveling, camping, fishing, picnicking,

00:05:49.100 or any other purpose without a travel permit.

00:05:53.460 A travel permit may be issued by the minister, a conservation officer, another person authorized

00:05:58.100 by the minister, um, subsections one and two.

00:06:02.900 Okay.

00:06:03.420 Do not apply to the owner or occupier of the woods or the servants, agents, or assigns thereof,

00:06:09.400 conservation officers, surveyors, and any, any other person designated from time to time

00:06:13.720 by order of the minister.

00:06:14.620 A forest travel permit may be canceled or suspended at any time by the minister, a conservation

00:06:19.400 officer, or any other person authorized by the minister.

00:06:21.920 And this is the new legislation effective 4 p.m.

00:06:28.520 October or August 5th and ending October 15th, unless revoked early.

00:06:37.060 Or if COVID were any indication, unless the government sees fit to extend indefinitely or

00:06:43.260 perpetually or intermittently, um, because this is really COVID lockdowns just repackaged

00:06:50.980 as a climate lockdown.

00:06:52.720 And of course, for your safety and for the wellbeing of all, um, that is what these things are being

00:06:58.940 done under the guise of.

00:07:01.380 And I think this just gives so many people who, you know, even though it was four or five

00:07:06.920 years ago, the COVID restrictions and the lockdowns and the stay-at-home orders and the various

00:07:12.300 gathering restrictions, um, this I think gives people a lot of PTSD just seeing these things

00:07:20.720 come back out, but under the guise of protecting the forest from fires, I guess.

00:07:28.460 Yeah.

00:07:29.460 I mean, it's crazy because we know that a lot of these fires are started by arson.

00:07:34.120 And so banning hikers from the woods, those, they, they aren't the arsonists.

00:07:40.320 The arsonists are going to do the arson either way.

00:07:43.300 A lot of this stuff is caused by lightning strikes.

00:07:46.520 Banning a hiker from the woods does not prevent lightning strikes.

00:07:50.120 And I know we watched it yesterday, but this piece of legislation does not actually comport

00:07:55.360 with how I heard, um, Tim Houston describe it yesterday.

00:08:01.080 Cause he did make specific reference to your own land.

00:08:05.500 And so, uh, can we, I know I'm sort of putting you on the spot, Olivia, can we bring that up?

00:08:10.920 Because I was like, I, I live in the woods.

00:08:15.060 Like I live in the middle of a hayfield and then off to the West of my hayfield woods.

00:08:21.040 Like I, I live quite literally where the grasslands crash into the boreal forest.

00:08:26.600 And I'm happy about that.

00:08:28.560 No politician is going to keep me under, out of my own woods.

00:08:31.080 I have trails cut in there.

00:08:32.540 The kids ride their quads in the trails.

00:08:34.080 If there's a high, um, fire risk, of course that we don't have the ATVs out to, to burn down

00:08:40.500 our own property.

00:08:41.340 Um, but let's just listen to this because maybe I heard it wrong yesterday, but I remember

00:08:45.780 hearing absolutely crazy advice from Tim Houston thinking he could tell people to stay out

00:08:50.360 of their own trees.

00:08:53.360 Effective 4 PM today, we're telling Nova Scotians stay out of the woods. 1.00

00:08:58.100 We are restricting travel and activities that really aren't necessary.

00:09:03.080 Um, uh, for, for most of us, hiking, camping, fishing, and the use of vehicles in the woods

00:09:09.140 are not permitted.

00:09:09.920 But trail systems, uh, through woods are off limits.

00:09:14.440 Camping is allowed, but only in official campgrounds.

00:09:18.600 The fine for violating any of these bans is the same as the, uh, fine for, um, the ban

00:09:25.320 on burning $25,000.

00:09:27.880 And if you're a smoker, for God's sakes, be mindful of where you're butting your butt out.

00:09:32.780 Um, if you don't and you, and you cause a fire, we will hold you accountable.

00:09:39.360 So what does this mean?

00:09:40.860 Um, if you have a home or cottage surrounded by a wooded area, we strongly encourage you

00:09:45.840 to stay out of those woods, regardless of where they are.

00:09:49.200 Please don't do anything that could unnecessarily put you, your family, or your neighbors at risk.

00:09:55.020 This situation sucks.

00:09:58.020 Summer is one of the best times in, in Nova Scotia.

00:10:01.300 And we all look forward to getting outdoors and enjoying our, uh, scenic beauty that surrounds us.

00:10:07.660 I get that.

00:10:08.800 And I'm right there with you as Nova Scotians.

00:10:11.540 But you can still go to the beach.

00:10:13.000 In fact, that's a great place to be on these hot, dry days.

00:10:15.920 Just no bonfires.

00:10:16.640 Unless you have to go through the bushes.

00:10:17.820 If there's a short trail to get from point A to point B, like from the parking to the beach or to the lake to fish, that's fine.

00:10:25.960 But that's it.

00:10:27.080 No heading into the woods to spend time there.

00:10:29.560 I know it's inconvenient.

00:10:31.480 I know it's the height of summer vacation and people want to do all the activities that we so much enjoy in our great outdoors.

00:10:37.960 We have a beautiful province.

00:10:39.360 I know everybody wants to enjoy it.

00:10:40.960 I think that's enough.

00:10:41.740 But we have to stay out of the woods.

00:10:43.760 So I did hear right.

00:10:45.360 He said, if your house is surrounded by woods, also stay out of those woods.

00:10:48.660 Now, I don't think he can't fine you according to his legislation.

00:10:51.620 But he didn't make that clear in his announcement.

00:10:54.320 And then he says, like, if there's a short trail, like, you know, like 50 meters from the parking lot to the, to the lake to go fishing, you can do that.

00:11:05.360 But he also banned fishing.

00:11:07.040 So I don't think he even knows what he's saying.

00:11:10.460 Typical polito speak.

00:11:11.520 And he says, like, I know this isn't, this isn't convenient.

00:11:15.980 This is inconvenient.

00:11:17.380 Well, it's not just inconvenient.

00:11:19.920 This is draconian nanny state back in action after suffering through two years, 2020 into 2021 and a little bit even into 2022.

00:11:31.880 I mean, some of the COVID era mandates still persist to this day.

00:11:37.920 So this is just more of the same from the same governments who, you know, claim to be, we're all in this together.

00:11:45.220 And I like that, actually, Daniel Freiheit of Line Advocacy, he points out in that string of tweets, I think it's, or posts, I should say.

00:11:53.160 I think it's the third one down.

00:11:56.400 He says, well, the Crown would never pursue such absurd charges for a one week hike, would they?

00:12:02.860 Checks notes, double checks, seven year custodial sentence, being sought for leech slash barber mischief trial, the longest mischief trial in Canada's history, I might add.

00:12:15.160 I mean, okay, maybe the Crown would seek it, but they'd never get it.

00:12:18.380 Then he says, Canada people, Canada.

00:12:22.080 So, like, don't hold your breath, because what the government wants, they will get.

00:12:26.700 And I think, I don't remember where else I saw it.

00:12:29.880 I saw pastors taken away in handcuffs by the government of the premier that made it part of Canada's official foreign policy to defend people against religious persecution at the hands of the state.

00:12:44.900 But, for example, I don't think Jason Kenney can go to China, given his strong condemnation when he was in Harper's cabinet over the treatment of Uyghurs and Christians by the Chinese government.

00:12:58.380 And yet, first opportunity he got in Alberta, he was like, yeah, close the churches, take away Pastor James Coates in handcuffs.

00:13:06.980 So, yeah, let us not forget the lessons of the last five years.

00:13:12.600 Exactly. Well, and people are like, oh, well, isn't this a charter violation, right?

00:13:17.000 Because we're supposed to have freedom of mobility and assembly and all these things, but not if COVID, again, taught us anything.

00:13:23.140 Not if they want to invoke that reasonable clause that justifies restricting all of your previously held and thought that we had indefinitely chartered rights.

00:13:34.280 So, no, this is not necessarily a charter violation because they can just justify it and use your tax dollars to do so.

00:13:41.920 So, either way, Canadians pay. 0.52

00:13:43.920 And people can say like, oh, this is a violation of my section six charter right.

00:13:48.320 That's your freedom of mobility.

00:13:49.380 And that is indeed true, but so was banning you from flying across one of the largest countries on the face of the earth to visit your dying mother, which is what happened during COVID if you were unvaccinated or if you didn't want to produce your vaccination status in solidarity with people who were not.

00:14:08.140 So, we can say these things are charter rights violations all they want, but they will impose them and then they might be overturned after the fact, as is the case with the Emergencies Act, right?

00:14:20.980 Like, the Emergencies Act, we all knew it was unconstitutional, the use of it against peaceful protesters in the nation's capital, but that was not determined until after people's bank accounts were seized and peaceful protesters were arrested or taken out of town and left by police in minus 40 with no jackets and after grandmothers were trampled by the police horses.

00:14:45.820 So, you know, by the time we figure out that this is unconstitutional, it'll be November, you know.

00:14:53.760 Or of next year or three years from now.

00:14:57.940 And, you know, taking out of the COVID playbook once again, the Ministry of Natural Resources has put out a post calling people to snitch on their neighbours.

00:15:07.800 If you see something that looks like a violation of the burn ban or woods restrictions, please report it to us by calling and there's their number.

00:15:16.620 And please remember that some people will have travel permits to go into the woods, primarily to work.

00:15:22.800 So, yeah, just promoting that climate of snitching on your neighbours, but also being like, only rat on them cautiously, because some of them may have applied for our absurd travel permit to go into the woods.

00:15:42.060 I mean, this is just next level, you know, as we say, climate lockdowns, COVID 2.0 was the test grounds for the next phase, which I argue is this, here and now.

00:15:54.120 Also, none of this makes sense.

00:15:55.760 So, if you have to go into the woods for work, let's say you work in forestry.

00:15:58.880 I would say that forestry is less intrinsically safe, it's an industry term, than fishing, because in these high fuel load areas.

00:16:15.580 This is one of the things we learned about Jasper, is that the federal government let the park get so dry and the fuel load so high that they were worried that mechanical clearing would ignite the forest.

00:16:29.860 Like, going in there with chainsaws and logging equipment and dozers to clear the forest would cause a spark that would ignite the forest.

00:16:41.640 So, Tim Houston's nonsense doesn't make any sense to me, because if it's so dangerous that someone can't go there and cast a reel, then how could you allow logging activity in the forest also?

00:16:56.000 Is he banning logging?

00:16:57.580 Do you people know, is he doing that?

00:17:00.060 Let me know in the comments if he's doing that, because at least that would be consistent.

00:17:04.460 Like, look, I don't want that done, but at least it would be consistent.

00:17:07.580 And I just think this is, governments love the taste of power.

00:17:13.600 And we knew that they wouldn't want to just forget all the lessons they learned during COVID.

00:17:20.640 You can get people to snitch on other people, you can ban people from traveling, you can control them and everything that they do, and lock them in doors.

00:17:31.360 And here we are, doing it all over again.

00:17:34.380 Just a different reason.

00:17:35.320 Well, and this veteran has a fun take, Jeff Evely, Evely.

00:17:42.300 Yeah.

00:17:43.700 He took to X to post a little, I don't know if we'll play all of it, but it's about a two and a half minute video, breaking down the woods ban because it causes fire.

00:17:55.440 And he says, here's how it works.

00:17:57.520 They put up caution tape.

00:17:58.920 Hey everybody, Jeff Evely here.

00:18:04.700 I'm in Petersfield Provincial Park in the most tyrannical province of Canada, which is North Scotia, with my fuzzy friend Axel, where we walk pretty much every single morning.

00:18:15.540 And here you can see that this area is taped off because that trail is the woods.

00:18:22.120 But this area is not taped off because that's not the woods.

00:18:30.000 And there is a sign here that says, trail closed due to extreme fire hazards.

00:18:43.660 So that is the woods.

00:18:45.980 This area is not the woods.

00:18:48.560 This area is not the woods.

00:19:18.540 Half minutes of pointing out the absolute nonsensical nature of this ridiculous new legislation.

00:19:26.940 You know, Sheila, as you said, it just doesn't make any sense.

00:19:29.400 It was like the COVID restrictions we had here in Ontario, gatherings of five or more were not allowed.

00:19:37.740 And I remember going out with my family and there was six of us and, you know, we all live in the same household.

00:19:43.680 But because we were over that five or more person threshold, we had the police called on us.

00:19:50.640 This was like very early days, like beginning of April 2020.

00:19:53.500 We went to the local rock pebble beach to throw rocks into the water because there was quite literally nothing else to do.

00:20:01.020 They also closed the forests and all of the like outdoor public outdoor spaces.

00:20:05.920 And so we went down to this small little like hidden tucked away beach to throw rocks in the water with my kids who had been cooped up inside for almost a month.

00:20:14.480 And which was, I guess, for their health.

00:20:18.620 And someone called the police because we had six people outside during a restriction order of five people.

00:20:26.040 Only five people or less were allowed to be outdoors gathering in a group.

00:20:31.200 And it was like absolutely absurd.

00:20:32.900 We all live together.

00:20:33.860 So it's like, what, we're allowed to congregate inside when we live in the house, but we're not allowed to come outside and stretch and get some fresh air.

00:20:41.900 And then this is supposed to be for our health and safety.

00:20:44.960 These are the things that the government does that just don't make sense at all.

00:20:49.180 And then they promote you to snitch on your neighbors when they're like, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.

00:20:54.020 So I'm not going to abide by this.

00:20:56.240 And then you get your snitch lines and that become overrun with these Terrans who become so empowered by the fact that they can like do their part.

00:21:09.620 And it's like this moral superiority that they feel.

00:21:13.260 And then the police can no longer, you know, respond to actual crime because they're having someone who's walking on the edge of a restricted forest.

00:21:23.440 But that's because it butted up with the other forest that wasn't restricted.

00:21:26.860 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:21:28.840 Yeah.

00:21:29.100 I mean, they exactly did this during COVID.

00:21:32.040 And I remember the Alberta government complained about it.

00:21:36.580 Like, it was so bad that Jason Kenney's government complained about it.

00:21:40.160 Um, the national parks closed, I don't know if they, they couldn't have done it in all the parks.

00:21:49.500 Um, but they closed the highway that runs through Elk Island National Park.

00:21:56.840 And it's a secondary highway and they had, they have gates, they can close it.

00:22:00.280 There are ways that you can go around the park.

00:22:02.160 It doesn't, it's not like Banff and Jasper where there's like literally one way through the park to get to the other side.

00:22:08.000 But this is the shortcut the locals use to get from Highway 16 to Lamont.

00:22:14.760 And a lot of people use it for work and stuff.

00:22:17.800 And during COVID, they closed the park gates.

00:22:21.420 Um, and that was in late March, early April in Alberta.

00:22:26.120 So the dead of winter, they closed the park gates.

00:22:29.180 Like, what do you think we're doing?

00:22:31.900 Breathing out the windows to give COVID to the bison during, uh, the dead of winter here in Alberta.

00:22:40.100 But that's how crazy, these people are just crazy.

00:22:43.140 They're crazy.

00:22:43.700 And I don't trust the government to manage the parks anyway.

00:22:46.420 I don't believe that we should have parks.

00:22:48.120 I think we should be land for everybody to use.

00:22:49.780 Well, they've shown that they're not able to manage the parks because the Jasper fire was any indication.

00:22:56.940 Um, just more inept failures by the government tasked with and paid to do this management.

00:23:04.560 Uh, we have a super chat here from Nana Awake who gives $10 and says this, these forest lockdowns are only the beginning.

00:23:12.980 Um, hypothetically, what if my horses or cows escaped and went into the forest off my property?

00:23:21.060 When good people do and say nothing, communism grows.

00:23:25.200 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:25.620 Well, and when good, well-meaning and moral superiority people call the cops to snitch on their neighbors, communism also grows.

00:23:35.060 Uh, so thanks Nana Awake for your comments.

00:23:37.200 The system, the system can't stay active unless people are actively participating in it.

00:23:44.220 And that's why I thought, you know, those people who were, you know, for whatever reason, they chose vaccination, but they didn't participate in the vaccine passport program.

00:23:52.520 They just thought, if my friends can't go out and have a drink, I'm not going either.

00:23:55.980 My friends can't fly.

00:23:57.280 I'm not going either.

00:23:58.680 Those are the people who pull the system apart.

00:24:00.680 They're the conscientious objectors and then the people who made a choice, but stand in solidarity with the other people.

00:24:08.460 Um, yeah, the stazzy couldn't do their job without the snitches. 1.00

00:24:15.680 They just couldn't, they can't be everywhere.

00:24:17.640 So, you know, anyway, uh, let's hit an ad break.

00:24:21.360 Um, and we'll come back and talk about our birthday party.

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00:26:51.940 All right, I should tell you that we did extend the date of this applications for the Student Journalism Conference,

00:27:01.000 but I can't remember what we extended the date to.

00:27:04.760 I think it was the 7th.

00:27:08.580 Let me just see if it's online anywhere.

00:27:11.220 Yeah.

00:27:16.220 Apply now.

00:27:17.320 Let me just see, make sure it's updated here.

00:27:19.480 So, and you can go to studentjournalismconference.com, Sunday, August 10th.

00:27:24.820 So you have a couple of days.

00:27:25.860 So we got till Sunday.

00:27:26.920 Also, I know that we have been getting some complaints from people who are outside of the age range of what we have determined to be a student.

00:27:37.460 I'm going to give you a little advice.

00:27:38.800 If you are interested in journalism and you believe yourself to be doing journalism,

00:27:45.260 and there are a couple of ways that we'll ask you to not prove that, but show examples of your work to us.

00:27:51.740 If you want to join the Independent Press Gallery of Canada, look, I'm the president over there.

00:27:57.280 So Independent Press Gallery of Canada.

00:28:01.060 Just Google that.

00:28:01.780 You'll find it.

00:28:03.640 If you want resources, skills development, training, as far as defamation training, what Tamara and I sat through as part of Rebel News today,

00:28:15.700 we offer that over there at the Independent Press Gallery, and it's only $10 a year.

00:28:22.420 So if you are someone who is longer in the tooth than the youngsters, the next generation of freedom-minded journalists that we're looking to train,

00:28:31.360 but you still want access to some of those resources, might I suggest you plunk down $10 and join the Independent Press Gallery of Canada

00:28:39.820 because we've got networking and legal training for people to start and or advance their journalism career over there.

00:28:50.660 All right, and I see we just have a super chat to get to before we move on.

00:28:56.460 I think it kind of relates to the property, the Nova Scotia government trying to infringe on people's, what they do with their property.

00:29:05.140 This comes from PSCO Field 10.

00:29:09.500 Hey, Sheila, Corey Morgan talked yesterday about Canadians needing real property rights in an independent Alberta.

00:29:15.760 Can you please explain how those currently do not work in Canada now?

00:29:20.660 Thanks.

00:29:21.860 It's a lot.

00:29:23.220 Yeah, so we don't have property rights in Canada.

00:29:27.860 If you look at our charter rights, we do not have rights to our own property, which opens us up to expropriation.

00:29:33.820 As a gun owner right now, we're experiencing this right now, where the firearm you bought completely lawfully,

00:29:41.980 it complied with the law at the time, through the stroke of a pen while you were sleeping a lot of times.

00:29:49.440 You wake up in the morning and all of a sudden you are in possession of an illegal firearm, which is big, big trouble, huge trouble.

00:30:00.740 So you have done nothing, you've become a criminal.

00:30:03.720 Your lawfully obtained property is all of a sudden criminalized.

00:30:08.120 And then the government says, oh, well, don't worry about it.

00:30:12.140 We'll buy it from you.

00:30:13.720 Well, I don't have any rights to my property if I'm being forced to sell it to the government for what the government decides it's worth, or I go to jail.

00:30:22.860 That's just one example of how we don't have property rights in this country.

00:30:26.660 Your land can be expropriated by the municipality if they decide, oh, well, we're going to use it for something.

00:30:33.120 We even see the expropriation of land being abused by the municipality saying, oh, we're going to expropriate your land, your farmland or whatever,

00:30:43.000 and we'll pay you what we think it's worth, and then we are going to sell it to a developer for more money.

00:30:49.060 Why? Because that high-density housing they're going to put on it is going to generate more tax revenue for the municipality.

00:30:55.420 In a country with real property rights, that wouldn't happen.

00:30:59.080 We just saw bank accounts being frozen during the Freedom Convoy for political opinions.

00:31:08.040 Your money is your property, and it cannot be just expropriated from you for political reasons.

00:31:17.460 When you're not guilty of any sort of crime, your property is just taken from you.

00:31:23.940 These are all ways that Canadians do not have property rights, and in a real country, we would protect those things. 0.98

00:31:30.760 Yeah, and I did a report on this.

00:31:32.240 That just sparked my memory in 2023.

00:31:36.060 I just shared the link to it in the channel if we want to show it on screen, but a homeowner in the town next to me in Port Hope is having or was having their property mandated to be acquired by the Ontario government for the second time in 20 years so that the government could expand the 401 rate along the perimeter of their property.

00:32:01.240 And they were coming in saying, you know what, we don't really have a say.

00:32:04.200 They actually weren't even offering them any financial compensation to take their land.

00:32:10.960 It was a sliver off of their property, but their home has already been expanded onto, their property rather, has already been expanded onto once before, and it puts their house so close to this four-lane highway, which is going to be expanded into sticks.

00:32:25.860 Their property value is just, yeah.

00:32:28.920 Yeah, there they are, the original time that it was expanded onto their property.

00:32:32.920 So, no, we don't have property rights in this country, and for anybody who wants to check out that story, I think I did a follow-up as well, because finally after this story hit, the government actually backed off.

00:32:44.480 And I think they're probably just waiting out the homeowner, because they are an elderly couple, sadly.

00:32:50.620 They're just, yeah, they'll just wait them out, and then as soon as they go, they'll snatch up that entire piece of land and use it as they may.

00:32:58.820 But the homeowner said, you know, it's a white elephant, and they were getting nowhere.

00:33:02.780 They finally came to the media, and then the government backed off.

00:33:05.960 Actually, maybe I should reach out to them, see if there's a follow-up there, because this is, you know, two years ago.

00:33:11.360 Maybe something's changed, because I see them doing the clearing now for this 401 expansion, and they're going to basically put, like, a major route.

00:33:19.020 But you'll see in the report, there's a bridge there that you have to go under to get to their property, and the government or the highway will be expanded there, and that will turn into a major route, an off-ramp, and their property butts right up against that newly, that proposed intersection.

00:33:39.080 So, anyway, also, if we truly ever owned our property, then why do we pay taxes until we die on it, right?

00:33:47.160 Because if you don't pay your taxes, they'll come in, and they'll see, you know, they'll put a lien on your property, on your house, what have you.

00:33:52.980 So, if we really owned the land, then why do we perpetually pay tax on it?

00:33:57.320 Yeah, well, and if you're a farmer, if you've ever tried to drain a waterway that is making your land unusable, let's say for hay,

00:34:07.340 and you want to trench it, you can get in trouble for that.

00:34:12.180 So, the laws in this country say that you can use the water on your own land, but you don't actually own the water, and you're not able to really,

00:34:24.140 you don't have ownership of the water itself, you don't have the ability to impede public access to navigable waterways,

00:34:32.840 and the government can declare anything navigable, even a seasonal runoff stream.

00:34:38.860 If people want to just come onto your land to use the seasonal stream, and the government has decided that it's navigable, you can't stop them.

00:34:48.760 We're still, the government water inspectors can just wander around all over your property all the time.

00:34:53.720 In a real country, with real property rights, that stuff wouldn't go on.

00:34:59.140 Yeah, that's what was happening to this property owner, too.

00:35:01.260 The government, like the surveyors, were just coming onto his property, unannounced, without even asking, staking it, and doing various surveying,

00:35:10.320 and he was really frustrated, and had really gotten nowhere.

00:35:15.240 And then, of course, that's where media comes in.

00:35:17.420 And so they seemed to back off for a little bit, at least temporarily, after we did that report.

00:35:22.640 And, of course, I reached out to the other side, and tried to get comment.

00:35:26.360 But typical bureaucracy, there's just no answers anywhere, and they'll just do as they please,

00:35:31.560 and eventually hope that you give up, which most people sadly do.

00:35:35.560 Yeah.

00:35:36.280 Anyway.

00:35:36.840 We should tell everybody about our birthday party, and then we'll quickly try to get to,

00:35:40.400 I'll let you lead the second half of the show, and get us back on track, because we're over time.

00:35:44.300 But our birthday party's coming up, and actually, we added a second birthday party to the schedule of events.

00:35:52.880 So first one is Calgary, September 18th.

00:35:56.920 The second one is Toronto, October 16th.

00:36:00.200 You can get your tickets at happybirthdayrebel.com.

00:36:03.860 All your favorite Rebels, including our musical performer, at least in Calgary, Tamara Leach.

00:36:09.620 We're turning 10.

00:36:10.620 Our death has been predicted many, many times.

00:36:14.260 But over the last 10 years, we have really, I think we've broken the system.

00:36:20.640 And a lot of people have sort of fallen in behind us.

00:36:24.860 But we were really the first major independent news outlet in this country.

00:36:29.260 We continue to be the largest independent news outlet in this country.

00:36:32.580 We fight all the battles and blaze the trails for the people who come behind us.

00:36:37.460 And I'm glad that we do, because the left talks about diversity, except in opinion.

00:36:43.380 And I think we fight those battles every day so that the diverse opinions of Canadians are reflected in the news that they consume,

00:36:53.020 not just the monolith of the CBC and the mainstream media.

00:36:56.660 And we do all of that because of you at home.

00:36:59.100 And so that's why we want to invite you to our birthday party, because, I mean, it's really a celebration of what you have enabled us to accomplish all these years.

00:37:08.260 So please go to happybirthdayrebel.com.

00:37:10.260 And I can't wait to see you there.

00:37:12.300 That's right.

00:37:12.880 Hors d'oeuvres and drinks to be had.

00:37:15.460 Yeah.

00:37:16.100 All right.

00:37:16.680 So moving along, we have allegedly conservative, progressive, conservative.

00:37:22.540 He just has to be heavy on the progressive.

00:37:24.880 Yeah.

00:37:25.160 Heavy on the progressive, questionably conservative.

00:37:27.900 Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has announced that just today, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan took the next step toward building new cross Canada pipelines that will protect our energy security.

00:37:40.420 And apparently secure tens of thousands of jobs for Canadian workers.

00:37:44.840 Of course, all of this is because of Trump, not because we're actually wanting to, like, develop Canadian resources and be energy independent and all these things we could have been doing and harnessing for decades.

00:37:58.400 No, it's now in response to Trump taking direct aim, he says, at our economy.

00:38:03.560 Canadians are uniting like never before to protect our country and our workers.

00:38:08.920 But sneaky little detail here.

00:38:11.140 It sounds really great on its face, right?

00:38:13.480 It's like, okay, yeah, great.

00:38:14.660 Today they're taking steps and the steps are not actually action.

00:38:20.560 So if you follow that link, the government is actually just releasing a request for proposal to conduct a feasibility study exploring how to best establish a new economic and energy corridor.

00:38:34.840 So, like, they're not doing anything tangible to, like, break ground and get anything going now.

00:38:39.920 They're just putting out a tender bid for somebody to do a survey.

00:38:45.920 Also, what are we going to do?

00:38:47.220 We're going to burrow under Manitoba because Wab Canoe is not on side with this. 0.84

00:38:51.880 So what are we going to do?

00:38:53.640 This is all just nonsense and talk and money wasted on an RFP because how do we get around the fact that Mark Carney has given the anti-provinces a veto over this stuff?

00:39:07.960 We have British Columbia and Manitoba and Quebec have said, no, thank you.

00:39:14.860 And so what does that really mean?

00:39:16.920 If we're going to act like a bunch of Balkan countries, okay, then let us be a Balkan country and we'll just start negotiating with the United States directly as a free and independent Alberta then.

00:39:29.760 Yeah, it's so funny because he says right in there, Canadians are uniting like never before.

00:39:37.180 And it's like, well, maybe you have three of the provinces on board, but where is everybody else?

00:39:41.560 Because they're not united at all on this.

00:39:44.860 Right.

00:39:45.040 And we've always been united on this issue.

00:39:47.140 Like Alberta and Saskatchewan getting along on issues of trade and oil and gas and agriculture.

00:39:52.060 That's not new.

00:39:53.140 And like when there are conservatives in power in Ontario, we get along with them too.

00:39:59.960 Again, not new.

00:40:01.120 We're not more united, actually.

00:40:02.780 I think the divisions are greater than ever before and they played out in the last election.

00:40:08.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:40:10.060 And I mean, honestly, I'm surprised to see Ontario start to join forces with Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:40:17.200 And don't get me wrong, I'm here for it.

00:40:19.200 But Ford, you know, he tends to be more progressive than he is conservative.

00:40:24.580 So, yeah, but how do you avoid Manitoba?

00:40:27.520 I mean, that's right in the wedge between Saskatchewan and Ontario.

00:40:30.420 So what do we do here?

00:40:32.620 Right, right.

00:40:33.700 We've got a video from Polyev who has asked about Alberta separation.

00:40:39.380 And he gives a peculiar answer that I fundamentally disagree with.

00:40:45.080 Now, I don't disagree with how – okay, I'll explain.

00:40:53.540 You watch and I'll tell you why I disagree with this.

00:40:56.700 How often are you encountering Alberta separatism sentiment through the campaign?

00:41:05.580 Constance.

00:41:06.060 And what have those conversations been like?

00:41:09.580 Well, I'm loving the campaign.

00:41:11.600 I'm having a lot of fun, actually.

00:41:12.780 I love the people of Battle River Crowfoot.

00:41:15.120 They are the people who feed power and protect our country, feed through the great ranchers

00:41:19.660 and farmers' power, through the incredible oil and gas industry, most of all, the Hardesty

00:41:28.920 tank farm, which moves $90 billion of energy products.

00:41:34.700 That's more than the GDP of many countries.

00:41:36.880 And this is a town of, what, 600 people?

00:41:38.940 And, of course, it protects our country with the people, the great men and women who serve

00:41:43.900 at CFB Wainwright.

00:41:46.780 So I'm having a lot of fun.

00:41:47.980 I'm meeting a lot of people who are very angry about the way that the federal government

00:41:51.320 has abused and mistreated Alberta.

00:41:53.460 And what they're saying is the era of pay-up and shut-up has got to come to an end.

00:41:57.240 Alberta deserves a better deal within Canada.

00:42:00.520 And one of the ways we make that happen, one of the ways we unite our country, is to produce

00:42:04.780 our resources.

00:42:05.900 The oil and gas workers who are suffering, living in very tough conditions right now because

00:42:10.100 there's just not enough work, despite the global oil boom, all they want is to get

00:42:16.280 a job where they can go and make the whole country richer.

00:42:20.300 So, you know, I met a guy the other day.

00:42:22.380 He's an oil and gas worker.

00:42:23.400 He was doing very well up until about 10 years ago.

00:42:26.140 Now he's paying.

00:42:27.780 He's got to split a mobile home with a friend.

00:42:30.560 He's in his 40s or 50s and he can't afford his own place.

00:42:35.460 And it's because there's just not enough work.

00:42:37.960 All of this is the direct result of the federal government banning oil and gas production through

00:42:43.580 C-69, C-48, the energy cap, the industrial carbon tax.

00:42:48.400 And we could go on and on and on.

00:42:50.380 If you unlock the power of the energy sector to make all Canadians richer, I can tell you

00:42:57.120 Albertans will be more than happy to continue to contribute to this country and it will be

00:43:02.740 the greatest thing we could do to unite all Canadians.

00:43:05.320 Thank you.

00:43:06.920 Okay.

00:43:07.520 Now, the points he raises are true about the reasons that Albertans are disgruntled.

00:43:17.900 Like our gruntles have left the building.

00:43:20.640 We don't have them anymore.

00:43:22.300 We have been disabused of any of our gruntles.

00:43:26.000 But I disagree with the statement that Albertans want to make all of Canada rich.

00:43:31.720 We're done with that.

00:43:33.240 We have paid more than our fair share into Confederation for absolutely nothing in return

00:43:39.980 but abuse.

00:43:41.380 So to say, oh, we just want to make everybody rich.

00:43:43.960 You just have to get out of our way and let us.

00:43:45.780 I think we're over that.

00:43:46.820 That was maybe a 10-year-ago, five-year-ago, maybe even three-year-ago idea of what was the

00:43:56.020 Alberta mindset.

00:43:56.980 I believe it has drastically shifted since then.

00:44:00.400 And I find it interesting that Polly have forgot to mention that besides the...

00:44:07.140 I drove through Hardesty on the weekend, by the way.

00:44:09.780 And it is true. 0.71

00:44:10.920 Little tiny town of 600 people.

00:44:13.020 And it is just beautiful tank farms.

00:44:17.060 You just think about it.

00:44:18.120 Just the economic wealth flowing through that town.

00:44:20.980 And that was supposed to be actually the genesis of the Keystone XL pipeline that we just can't

00:44:31.280 manage to get done.

00:44:33.600 But yeah, we don't want to make all of Canada rich anymore.

00:44:38.540 And he forgot to mention that Battle River Crowfoot is coal country.

00:44:43.080 And we're not allowed to use that coal, thanks to the NDP colluding with the Trudeau government

00:44:48.560 to shut down our coal resources.

00:44:51.600 That is...

00:44:53.460 I mean, it's billions and billions and billions of dollars being left in the ground in these

00:44:59.380 communities.

00:45:00.560 Good jobs being phased out.

00:45:02.560 And he's not even talking about that.

00:45:04.120 And I think that is also outrageous.

00:45:06.720 And it fosters our anger.

00:45:08.060 Yeah, and just to hit on the other headliner here, too, people are saying, you know, Polyev

00:45:16.240 needs to just focus his efforts on immigration.

00:45:20.140 Because without that being reined in pretty much immediately, or, you know, several months

00:45:29.280 or two years, three years ago, none of the other stuff matters.

00:45:35.220 And, you know, so we did have this other video to share, to show that he plans to put forward

00:45:41.780 this massive omnibus vote to repeal almost all of these anti, these liberal anti-business

00:45:51.400 laws, including pipeline bans, vehicle, gas vehicle bans, etc.

00:45:56.100 People are saying that doesn't matter.

00:45:57.800 He, because he needs to focus on immigration.

00:46:01.300 And so I see that there...

00:46:02.380 Immigration is an anti-business policy at this point.

00:46:04.380 Over-immigration is an anti-business policy.

00:46:06.980 It is hurting young Canadians.

00:46:09.720 It's the people who are trying to get those entry-level jobs.

00:46:13.100 Those are the people being hurt.

00:46:14.500 So we have a generation of people not being able to get work experience because we are

00:46:19.600 importing an underclass that drives our wages down.

00:46:23.420 And that has to be dealt with.

00:46:25.380 Exactly.

00:46:25.760 And we have this clip here that just came in from Paulyev saying that Canada actually

00:46:32.040 needs negative levels of immigration for the next few years.

00:46:36.080 Okay, so great.

00:46:36.540 Perfect.

00:46:36.860 This is what we're talking about.

00:46:38.440 Yeah.

00:46:39.380 Thanks for taking my question, Kian, with Juno News.

00:46:41.700 I'd like to ask about immigration.

00:46:43.420 Yes.

00:46:43.520 Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom has been quite popular recently.

00:46:47.740 He might even be prime minister if an election was held today with his plan to deport illegal

00:46:51.620 migrants across the Channel.

00:46:53.680 Donald Trump, same thing.

00:46:54.840 He just launched a father-son recruitment campaign for ICE.

00:46:57.700 It seems like the entire Western world, including the liberals, have realized that out-of-control

00:47:01.080 immigration is a problem. 1.00

00:47:02.500 But Canada is the only country without a solution to fix it.

00:47:04.900 And you don't have sovereignty without control of the border.

00:47:07.740 So I'm wondering what your plan is to fix it and get illegal migrants out of this country. 0.99

00:47:12.960 Thank you.

00:47:13.540 Well, anyone who has been deemed inadmissible needs to leave and they need to be deported.

00:47:21.280 Anyone who commits a crime while they're in Canada, they need to be immediately detained.

00:47:26.620 And when their detention is complete, they need to be deported from the country.

00:47:30.480 We need to track down the roughly 600 criminals that the liberals have lost track of.

00:47:35.560 That means using all our security agencies to find out where they are, to locate them,

00:47:41.220 arrest them, put them on planes, get them out of Canada. 0.95

00:47:44.680 We need to make it clear that anyone who commits a hate crime or an act of violence against

00:47:50.680 an identifiable group that is not a citizen and not a permanent resident needs to be deported

00:47:56.900 from this country.

00:47:57.680 We need to get rid of the incentives for people to come here that are not real refugees. 0.70

00:48:06.600 So we need a review of all the benefits that go to people who come as asylum claimants to make sure 1.00

00:48:14.260 they're not getting more benefits than Canadian taxpayers get.

00:48:17.620 And those that arrive last, their cases should be treated first so that they know that they'll

00:48:23.320 be leaving quickly.

00:48:24.180 That will get the message back to the country of origin that if you come to Canada and you're

00:48:28.080 not a real refugee, your case will be heard in a few weeks and you'll be back in your own 1.00

00:48:31.860 country.

00:48:32.360 That would, right now, there's the opposite incentive.

00:48:35.460 People who are not real refugees come into Canada and they say, well, even if I'm rejected,

00:48:41.220 I'll have seven or eight years of appeal during which time they get all kinds of benefits.

00:48:45.760 It's very clear that their benefits wouldn't be there, that they would be sent back within

00:48:51.580 a couple of weeks.

00:48:52.580 They wouldn't come in the first place.

00:48:54.000 We need to secure our borders to stop the crossings. 1.00

00:48:57.740 And more broadly on immigration, we need to bring way down the numbers of international 1.00

00:49:02.640 students, of temporary foreign workers that are flooding our markets with low wage labor.

00:49:08.740 The big corporations love it because they can drive down wages for Canadian youth who

00:49:13.060 are facing unprecedented unemployment.

00:49:16.080 The temporary foreign worker program was not meant to drive down wages.

00:49:19.940 It was meant to fill jobs that Canadians could not or would not do, particularly in agriculture.

00:49:26.600 Now it's just become a full purpose thing that Starbucks or anyone else can use to drive

00:49:31.440 wages down.

00:49:32.760 If they're having a hard time getting Canadian youth working, what they need to do is raise 1.00

00:49:36.360 wages.

00:49:36.840 So we need to cut back on the temporary foreign worker program.

00:49:40.580 And finally, the overall number needs to go down.

00:49:42.560 Over the next several years, we actually need more people leaving than coming.

00:49:45.880 That's net negative migration.

00:49:49.120 And so that's what I've said.

00:49:51.580 We've got these millions of people whose visas are going to come up.

00:49:55.140 When their visas run out, they're not eligible to stay.

00:49:58.900 They need to be told to leave.

00:50:00.500 And if they don't leave, then obviously they need to be deported.

00:50:04.240 And that will allow us our housing, health care, and jobs to catch up with the number

00:50:08.440 of people in our country.

00:50:09.540 Thank you.

00:50:09.900 Yeah, that is just so on point for all of the things that are needed right now to address

00:50:18.200 this, really like this societal collapse that is just looming if this continues on the trajectory

00:50:26.040 that it has been and get this next generation entering the workforce back to having some opportunity

00:50:33.520 in the country that they were born and raised in.

00:50:39.580 Looking at the youth unemployment in Ottawa specifically, 20%, the national average is almost 11%.

00:50:48.500 So somewhere like Ottawa has double youth unemployment, where you would think it's a booming city centre.

00:50:55.420 Now, take that and then throw on top of that the fact that one in five jobs in this country are held by someone

00:51:03.220 who's not a Canadian citizen.

00:51:05.160 Yeah.

00:51:06.480 Yeah, the data is damning.

00:51:08.440 I want – and, you know, it's clear that companies are abusing this.

00:51:14.800 For example, think about when the last time your oil wasn't changed by a temporary foreign worker. 0.63

00:51:24.320 You know, if you're using one of the chain places, I don't want to name them, but just think about that.

00:51:30.140 These are jobs that in the before times, these were like your 16-year-old automotive students down at the local high school.

00:51:38.640 And this is how they would sort of get their foot in the door, get a little bit of work experience,

00:51:43.480 practically apply the skills that they were learning in school.

00:51:47.800 That does not happen anymore at all.

00:51:50.580 At all.

00:51:50.980 I was thinking about it the other day.

00:51:52.300 I was getting my oil changed, and I'm like, when was the last time, Sheila?

00:51:57.180 And when you go and search, it's when you just – I did this.

00:52:04.140 I searched lube or lube, you know, like oil change and then the LMIA program.

00:52:09.760 And it's, you know, like why?

00:52:11.920 Why are we bringing in temporary foreign workers from India to change our oil? 1.00

00:52:15.820 Think about it, right?

00:52:16.800 Like, it's just anyway.

00:52:19.360 Or to run all of our Tim Hortons or to run all of the A&Ws or work the counter at McDonald's.

00:52:27.720 These are Canadian kids' jobs, like high school students' jobs. 0.99

00:52:30.700 They're not glamorous.

00:52:31.900 You know, as I interviewed Alexander Brown from the National Citizens Coalition.

00:52:38.140 Coalition, thank you.

00:52:39.460 I always want – I always accidentally want to say inquiry, the NCI.

00:52:43.300 But anyway, completely separate things.

00:52:46.780 And he says, like, these aren't glamorous jobs.

00:52:49.800 My first job, I worked cash at Dollarama at, like, 15.

00:52:54.200 These aren't glamorous jobs, but they are entry-level positions where you get your foot in the door to get some experience.

00:53:01.060 14 years old, the bingo coffee cart at the bingo hall.

00:53:06.180 That was me.

00:53:07.420 And that was when you could still smoke.

00:53:09.860 Maybe that's where my love of nicotine, but as a non-smoker, came from.

00:53:16.400 But I smelled like cigarettes.

00:53:19.340 My skin was probably yellow.

00:53:21.860 I probably had bingo fingers just from taking their money, you know, like just yellow. 0.99

00:53:25.460 But that was my first job, and it taught me work ethic and how to interact with different people, people I would never come across with in my regular life.

00:53:36.200 It just sort of teaches you people skills more than anything.

00:53:39.900 I feel like I already had a work ethic.

00:53:41.300 I was a farm kid who wanted a job at 14.

00:53:44.220 But just to interact with other people, that's an important skill that I don't think a lot of young people have these days.

00:53:50.880 Exactly.

00:53:51.280 And just, yeah, it teaches you the people skills, how to handle customers, how to handle cash, which also I'm seeing so much more out of these kids.

00:54:00.200 They don't know how to count money.

00:54:01.360 No, they can't get you back change without looking at the computer or at the till when it spits out how much you should be getting back.

00:54:08.500 And these are skills that are very much needed, and we need to prioritize, once again, our youth having access to them.

00:54:16.620 So there's another post here that I wanted to throw to you, Melissa Lansman is a provincial member of, sorry, the federal member of parliament, shadow minister.

00:54:31.420 Is she still a shadow minister? 0.80

00:54:32.780 Maybe I'm off on that one.

00:54:36.080 She's the deputy leader.

00:54:37.480 Thank you, deputy house leader.

00:54:38.560 So here is what the liberals won't tell you about immigration.

00:54:43.320 She writes, how many crossed illegally?

00:54:45.720 How many claimed asylum?

00:54:47.260 How many ignored deportation?

00:54:49.480 Which I think official estimates, right?

00:54:52.220 Estimates are anywhere from like 200 to 500,000 just missing across the country.

00:54:57.660 No big deal.

00:54:58.920 How many came as temporary workers?

00:55:01.420 It's a pattern, and it makes you wonder why Canadians deserve answers. 0.99

00:55:06.140 And this is in, she reposted, shout out to Immigration Minister Michelle Rempel-Garner's post about the liberals ceasing to update information regarding the number of people coming into Canada.

00:55:20.620 So she has a whole post here. 0.90

00:55:21.960 It's, you know, almost five minutes, so we won't go through it.

00:55:24.660 But yeah, why the bigger, broader question here is why are the liberals hiding these numbers?

00:55:29.440 Right. You used to be able to know these things.

00:55:33.720 And I think the one that they really want to hide from us is how many people came to this country as temporary foreign workers or temporary students and then did the old switcheroo once they got in the door or tried to and then just went missing in the system.

00:55:47.900 Who got here as working down at the lube shop and then claimed refugee status from India, the world's largest democracy.

00:55:58.300 And then now are waiting their hearing seven years down the road, wherein they will marry a Canadian citizen, have Canadian children who will then sponsor the entire family over from India.

00:56:11.120 Yeah. And she's right. It sure makes you wonder why.

00:56:15.720 And it's because they never want you to know just how bad the problem is.

00:56:19.460 And Michelle Rempel-Garner has a very unique take on this because I should tell you she's an economist. 0.97

00:56:25.320 And she used to serve as the Minister of Western Economic Diversification under Stephen Harper.

00:56:30.660 So she is also someone who knows how labor market trends are adversely affected by over-immigration.

00:56:38.800 And it's one of the things she talks about quite frequently.

00:56:41.600 Um, so I think, I think Pierre Polyev has the right woman at the job for immigration and she's not scared to talk about this stuff.

00:56:50.460 Like, you know, the first thing they say is you're a racist and she's, no, these people are being criminal.

00:56:57.760 They're loose in the country.

00:56:58.980 She's not scared of those things, which I think is refreshing.

00:57:01.620 Yeah. She's like, thank you, next.

00:57:04.800 But you need somebody powerful and strong and good on this file.

00:57:09.980 And whoever the latest immigration minister on the liberal side, I can't even remember her name, Lina Diab, I think it is.

00:57:17.020 Yeah.

00:57:17.460 And she's like the seventh one in the last, what, three, four years to be put on such an important file.

00:57:25.920 It's just the turnover rate of immigration ministers and the, from the liberals is absolutely mind boggling.

00:57:32.460 And that woman was unimpressive right out of the gate. 1.00

00:57:35.420 Um, you know, it's just such a huge file.

00:57:37.720 It is something Canadians are desperate to have somebody deal with, especially young Canadians. 0.94

00:57:42.860 And she, you know, when they're asking her about people who are in the country illegally and how are you going to get them out? 1.00

00:57:48.660 She's like, well, they'll just leave.

00:57:51.000 Like she stood up in the house of commons and said something akin to that.

00:57:54.060 And it's like, if they would just leave, they would have, they would have, you got to go get them, put them on a plane.

00:58:01.040 Um, I don't even care if you send them home first class.

00:58:03.680 It's got to be cheaper than keeping them here.

00:58:05.740 It has to be.

00:58:07.240 If you can find them.

00:58:08.800 Right.

00:58:09.720 That's the problem.

00:58:10.580 Is there just, uh, somewhere in this vast land, we just don't have any idea where they went to.

00:58:18.220 Um, and that's another thing that, you know, Trump has been pointing out as how lackluster Canada's systems are for keeping track of people that should not be in this country and the porousness of our borders, because then they're coming to and fro.

00:58:36.980 And, um, there's a story just posted yesterday that the LaSalle police caught a man trying to enter Canada from the U.S. by kayak, because there's just so many different routes that you can take to come to and from these, between these countries.

00:58:58.540 Um, one of their officers made an unexpected discovery early Wednesday morning, finding a man from the U.S.

00:59:05.360 And it was, like, accidental how they found him.

00:59:09.140 So he was conducting commercial property checks, which travels along the river's edge of the Detroit River, and they just saw a guy in a kayak with two backpacks coming from the other side.

00:59:20.440 Like, this is, this is comical stuff.

00:59:24.360 Yeah, and, and so much for the enhanced border security when you're just stumbling upon people crossing illegally.

00:59:34.020 Um, and if, you know, Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jays reporting out there in the Quebec border were any indication, I mean, the RCMP quite literally got stuck in a ditch while they're trying, while they're supposed to be surveying the border crossing.

00:59:49.040 Um, they have the same cameras that Lincoln and Alexa put up, right?

00:59:54.220 So where's the action?

00:59:56.160 You're, okay, okay, we have all this, we're, we're, we're taking pictures, we're, we're surveilling the area.

01:00:02.040 Well, what are you doing with it?

01:00:03.920 Well, if you can see the same stuff we can, where is the action?

01:00:08.740 I, well, and here's the thing.

01:00:09.740 I don't think we should put as much of this on the RCMP as maybe we do, because, uh, I think they are apprehending them, but they're being told to release them into the country by immigration officials.

01:00:23.340 Right.

01:00:23.360 So I think that, like, if they are apprehending him, and I think, I mean, they caught this guy in a backpack in a kayak, so, I mean, but that's just, you know, one example, but I think they, immigration officials say, okay, well, steps from here, don't detain them, ICE style, let them go and we'll give them an immigration hearing, even if they crossed into the country illegally.

01:00:49.100 Like, I don't, I don't know what they're supposed to do.

01:00:53.500 Yeah, that's, yeah, that's a good point.

01:00:57.080 And until things start to change, and I have my severe doubts under Lina Diab that anything will, um, it's just more conversations, right?

01:01:08.540 I hope, uh, the, the borders are, um, I'll have a report out hopefully later today on what he's doing.

01:01:16.660 But yeah, just more conversations.

01:01:18.220 We're having more conversations as people leave on their own.

01:01:22.140 With this just, uh, this morning, Caledon man, wait till we hear how Caledon he is, uh, man charges after, charged after almost $25 million worth of suspected cocaine found hidden in a truck at the Canada-U.S. border crossing.

01:01:41.240 Uh, that's street value.

01:01:44.400 Um, CBSA caught him arriving from the United States at the Blue Water Bridge Port of Entry in the community of Point Edward.

01:01:53.480 During inspection of the vehicle's trailer, Border Services officers allegedly located seven bags containing bricks of suspected cocaine.

01:02:01.760 Ankar Khalsi, 29, of Caledon.

01:02:06.540 Caledon, yeah.

01:02:07.040 was subsequently arrested and was transferred to the custody of the RCMP.

01:02:12.460 He's been since charged, uh, with importation of cocaine, possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

01:02:22.120 An investigation is ongoing.

01:02:24.420 Uh, I'd like to know the immigration status of this man.

01:02:28.060 Yeah.

01:02:28.200 I bet he is a temporary foreign worker because trucking is just filled with temporary foreign workers. 0.99

01:02:35.900 Oh, and it's becoming so treacherous out on the, the highways here in Ontario.

01:02:40.520 The 401, like, the, the amount of, of accidents and things that you're seeing now, um, it's actually frightening to get onto the 401 at this point, knowing also the complete racket of truck licensing that happens in this province.

01:03:01.040 Uh, let's get to some of the chats and then we'll wrap up.

01:03:03.860 We've got one from Cicely Bardowell, uh, who's donates just about every single day.

01:03:09.600 We're so grateful for Cicely.

01:03:10.960 She gives us five books.

01:03:11.760 Time for my two cents.

01:03:13.200 To my understanding, Pierre's point is if Ottawa respected Alberta and its resources, we wouldn't want to bolt.

01:03:19.620 Um, that may have been true.

01:03:21.860 I get, I would say five years ago, but I think we're past that.

01:03:25.500 I think Albertans realize that the system is entirely broken and there will not always be a government in Ottawa that is conservative and that respects us.

01:03:36.160 And so while we would have a shore to reprieve, we would go back to the same old, same old, being treated as a colony.

01:03:47.360 Um, but even a colony is better treated than us because a colony, you want to extract the resources from the colony, but they don't even let us do that.

01:03:56.000 So, I get Pierre's point, but I, I just think it's, uh, our mindset has shifted, I think, over the last little bit.

01:04:06.060 Uh, Jay Peterson, also a regular donor to the show, regular veer, 20 bucks.

01:04:10.720 Pierre seems to think this is all about us working harder for still nothing.

01:04:14.780 This is about ridiculous federal taxes and equalization, elected and equal Senate, free speech, right to bear arms.

01:04:20.280 This is just a short list.

01:04:22.020 Yeah, there are, I mean, it's, it's not just about letting us harvest our resources.

01:04:28.680 Um, it's more than that.

01:04:30.460 It's not even about, uh, finally getting a government that respects us in Ottawa.

01:04:35.300 It's, as I said, it's just a temporary fix to a systemic and structural problem that will always be unless we have an or else on the table for these people.

01:04:46.260 So, yeah, I think that wraps up the super chats.

01:04:50.920 We hit the headliners for four minutes past the hour.

01:04:53.880 So, thanks everybody for joining us for the daily roundup.

01:04:58.400 There will be a team of two rebels, um, actually a panel, I guess, tomorrow.

01:05:03.360 Um, same time, 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern.

01:05:06.340 I think it will be David and Drea as your hosts.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 07, 2025

REBEL ROUNDUP ｜ Poilievre on Alberta's wealth, Nova Scotia snitch line, Mass immigration continues

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