Rebel Roundup： Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte
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Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bextie discuss the Canadian government s handout of $830,000 to a lab suspected of helping kick off a new pandemic. And a Western premier is acting far more prime minister than the Prime Minister himself.
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Tonight, my guests are Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bextie.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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Well, your tax dollars hard at work yet again, folks.
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It turns out that the Trudeau Liberals actually gave some $830,000 of your money to a laboratory in Wuhan
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The lab that caused this global mess that we're now in.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the unbelievable details.
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And have you noticed that a Western Premier is acting far more prime ministerial than, well, the Prime Minister himself?
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Kian Bextie will weigh in on how Jason Kenney is truly outshining Justin Trudeau
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when it comes to that commodity known as leadership.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding my story on an Ontario family of four
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who were fined $880 for the egregious crime of inline skating in a deserted parking lot.
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And you had plenty to say about this case, a bylaw gone bad.
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Okay, so this is a lab that collects deadly viruses that have already caused problems in the world, like SARS.
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And the Americans were so concerned about the shoddy conditions at this lab that deals with highly infectious and dangerous diseases in Wuhan, China,
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that they dispatched two science diplomats, which is something I've never even heard of before.
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And then these science diplomats were sending warnings back to Washington about the potential for this lab to cause a plague.
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So naturally, Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is now engaging in a research project with this dangerous Chinese laboratory
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and relying on scientists on the ground in Wuhan, China, to do all the research.
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This is from the Canadian government website that lists a series of grants to study this new coronavirus.
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To contribute to global efforts to address the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak,
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on February 10, 2020, the government of Canada launched a rapid research funding competition.
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Canada's researchers were quick to respond, submitting hundreds of applications in just a week.
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It looks like the Canadian government, in an effort to move fast instead of smart,
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seems to be giving Canadian tax money to, well, possibly the bad guys of the outbreak.
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I guess Dr. Frankenstein was unable to receive a check for his research, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.
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Actually, allow me to apologize to the estate of Mary Shelley here.
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Her fictional monster maker was nothing compared to those responsible for the COVID-19 virus,
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something that is killing thousands and sending entire economies into deep, deep recession.
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And yet, for some perverse reason, it looks like the Trudeau Liberals had a compulsion to be,
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With more on this egregious story is Sheila Gunn-Reed herself.
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Is this yet another Justin Trudeau-approved handout to a nation
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that he says has all the hallmarks of a basic dictatorship that he actually admires?
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Yeah, I mean, the American intelligence agencies have suggested that this is the birthplace
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In 2018, they sent science diplomats to investigate what was going on at this Wuhan facility.
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And in 2018, what those diplomats saw was so troubling to them that they sent back emergency
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cables to Washington to say that this facility was not up to snuff.
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The researchers weren't trained to be handling the dangerous things they were handling already.
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And they used the word pandemic in those cables, as in this would be the birthplace of the next
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pandemic, or if things got out of control there, that the world might have a pandemic on their hands.
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And here we are, some two years later, and we do have a pandemic.
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And yet, for some reason, Justin Trudeau sees fit to give them nearly a million dollars to help
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research something that already exists, rapid testing of the virus.
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And, you know, for me, I think, no, whatever comes of the research dollars here, we shouldn't
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We shouldn't be trusting the research that they're doing, maybe because the scientists
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are loyal to the communist state, but also because the scientists we know are generally
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And we have no assurances, really, that they're going to be using this money for research on
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We don't even know what they're doing in this lab, and they won't let the West in to verify.
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So with all those things being known, why are we giving money to the birthplace or the potential
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birthplace, let me clarify, of the coronavirus that's shutting down world economies, forcing
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us to be distanced from our loved ones, and allowing our governments here to strip us of our civil
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First of all, I don't want to get away from the main focus of your piece, Sheila, but science
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diplomats, that's the first time I've ever heard that description.
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I mean, I can't think of anything more polar opposite than a scientist and a diplomat.
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One is fact-based, and one is, well, whatever diplomats do in terms of their song and dance.
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But here's the thing, what is happening in this lab?
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I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, and I like, as a scientist likes, to
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look at the facts on the ground and make decisions.
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But with everything I'm reading about this, it looks more and more that this was the Chinese
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regime working on, perhaps, chemical or biological warfare agents.
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Because, hey, the last, what, three pandemics have come out of China?
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And that's all it's got to be because of the lack of transparency and accountability from
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Either the Chinese were working, well, one of three things.
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Either the Chinese were working on some sort of biological weapon at this facility and purposefully
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released it, because we know the Chinese government cares very little about the lives of its citizens,
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given that they killed millions of them in the pursuit of the communist state.
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And they killed millions of children in pursuit of their one-child policy.
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So did they use their own citizens as the means of delivery for a biological weapon that
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Were they working on a biological weapon that accidentally got out because of the shoddy
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security and safety protocols that the Americans say they saw at this facility?
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Or they were just doing research and it got out on them and then they started a cover-up.
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So were they just doing research on something like SARS and found a new strain and it just
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And I don't think we're ever going to know because of the secrecy of the communist government.
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But I, like you, am more inclined to believe something evil instead of just a oopsie-daisy
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I'm inclined to err on the side of evil when it comes to the communist state.
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But Sheila, let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Say this was something beneficial they were working on for the advancement of mankind,
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for the advancement of agricultural science, you name it.
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They have aspirations of being the proverbial straw that stirs the drink.
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How come we're forking over almost a million dollars of our money, taxpayer money, not Liberal Party of
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Canada money, especially since we have two Canadians that are now coming up to day 500 of being detained without charges?
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And that also presupposes that the two Michaels are even still alive.
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You know, do we know if they were affected by the coronavirus?
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Would they tell us if they died of the coronavirus?
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Why are we giving money to quite possibly the richest nation in the world to research a virus that caused a pandemic that they let out, for all intents and purposes, all very likely, on the world?
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When the very research they're doing is already being done elsewhere and rapid testing already exists.
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What they're researching there, what this grant was given to create is rapid testing in places where there are low medical resources.
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So the developing world, it's great, it's a noble cause, but actually that already exists.
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Why is the Canadian government funding it and what guarantees do we even have that it's going to fund this stuff that already exists anyway?
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But really, we shouldn't be giving a penny to China while they hold two Canadians as political prisoners.
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They are absolute political prisoners, and we're giving their military virus lab money to do research into a virus we're not even sure that they didn't purposefully create.
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You know, Sheila, just the way you framed your story in those last couple of sentences, I'm going to ask you a question now, and forgive me in advance if this is going to come across as incredibly naive, but you broke the story.
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Why isn't this on the front page of every paper since it originally got posted?
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Well, for the same reason that these mega networks with millions, in the CBC's case, billions of dollars to cover these stories and have people help do research,
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we found it on a completely public government of Canada website detailing the grants, some 25, I believe, million dollars in research grants that the Canadian government rushed to give out without obvious proper vetting to research the coronavirus.
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We were just browsing through these grants, seeing, you know, what kind of liberal cronies, quite frankly, got them.
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And then we saw that they were giving a grant to collaborate with the Wuhan virus lab.
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Somebody else could have found this a month ago.
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It was just hanging there for someone to find it.
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But it's not going to be widely reported on, I don't think, in the mainstream media.
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And that's one of the reasons I link to all my sources in my stories, because I do want everybody to have this information.
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But they don't want to hurt Justin Trudeau when they rely on Justin Trudeau to keep the lights on and to pay their bills.
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Unlike us, we're completely crowdfunded by our viewers at home.
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And, you know, if, God willing, someone in the mainstream media is brave enough to report on this story, I suspect Justin Trudeau will just do another round of handouts to the public to just buy complacency from the public who should be outraged that this is what Justin Trudeau is doing with our money.
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And this is who he's giving it to, this evil empire that caused all these problems to start with.
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Justin Trudeau should be bombarded with questions regarding this issue.
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And yet, what do we see at these 11 a.m. cottage press?
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There's questions along the lines of, Mr. Prime Minister, what are you doing to ensure you're not going to burn yourself out?
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It deserves to become the proverbial media snowball.
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And, Sheila, keep hammering away at this research.
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You keep finding gold in so many of these documents that, for whatever reason, other people in this field just either deliberately or ignorantly ignore.
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And if people want to support our journalism during the pandemic, they can do that at helprebelnews.com.
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It's obvious we're doing the work the mainstream media, I think, just refuses to do.
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Folks, that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the hinterland of northern Alberta.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Before this pandemic hit, the largest issue facing Albertans in the West was whether or not we would remain a part of this country.
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Whether or not we would throw out our Canadian passports and create our own.
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Jason Kenney is a federalist and he said time and time again that he doesn't want to leave Canada.
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Many people thought that was because he wanted to be prime minister one day.
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And, well, it's kind of proving to be true, but not in the way many people expected.
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Being premier isn't stopping Jason Kenney from acting like a prime minister.
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The Albertan government is acting like a federal government in more ways than just one.
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When Justin Trudeau's federal government was dropping the ball on border security, putting Canadian lives at risk,
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Jason Kenney went to the airport himself to see what was going on and soon after dispatched provincial authorities to the airports to start enforcing quarantine measures.
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If Jason Kenney is the prime minister of Alberta, his deputy prime minister is Devin Dreschen.
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Devin Dreschen is the agriculture minister, one of the most important industries in Alberta
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and someone who is in charge of securing the supply chain of food to all Albertans.
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And when the federal government wasn't providing enough food inspectors, something that is under the purview of the CFIA,
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the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Devin Dreschen stepped up to the plate and told the federal government that they're really not needed.
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He was going to deploy provincial inspectors to federal jobs to do the job that Justin Trudeau is not doing.
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His entire government is failing right now and the Alberta government is stepping up to the plate.
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Now, this became the most apparent when Jason Kenney slammed the chief medical officer of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam,
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someone who's in the pockets of the WHO and someone who negligently allowed people to continue coming into Canada,
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saying that borders didn't need to be closed to hotspots and human-to-human transmission didn't exist back in January,
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Is Dr. Tam suggesting that the European Union's regulator of medications or the Food and Drug Administration
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approve things that are dangerous for public use?
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You know, this is the same Dr. Tam who is telling us that we shouldn't close our borders to countries with high levels of infection
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and who in January was repeating talking points out of the PRC about no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
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A straight-talking premier who is as fed up as the rest of us
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and demonstrates no hesitation when it comes to justifiably slamming Justin Trudeau's top health official.
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And now with more on Jason Kenney being far more of a leader in a time of crisis
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than Justin Trudeau could ever dream of being is our roving reporter, Kian Bextie.
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So, Kian, Jason Kenney is certainly putting on a clinic these days, I should think.
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So, as they say in Hollyweird, let's cut to the chase here.
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Is there any chance anyone can convince Kenney to run for the leader of the federal Conservative Party?
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Lots of people, and these are rumors that have been coming out of the leadership election committee,
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lots of them seem to want the current leadership program scrapped.
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And if that happens, and that hasn't really been reported yet,
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but if that does happen, that could give Jason Kenney an opportunity to squeeze in later in the year
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because abandoning a province right now in the middle of this crisis, that would be political suicide.
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What I found remarkable, and, you know, it's something I've been champing at the bit
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to ask Premier Doug Ford here in Ontario to see if he could, you know,
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to make sure the health and safety standards are properly adhered to.
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As you know, I've been going to Pearson International Airport since January,
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and I'm not impressed with what I've been seeing, I can tell you that.
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Tell me, Kian, what prompted your Premier to take these steps in the first place?
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the federal government not fulfilling their duties to Canadians,
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which are, first and foremost, keeping Canadians safe.
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You've seen the same thing that I've seen at the airports, David,
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like every other country in the world is doing,
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They promised that they'd be handing out face masks
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not do the very few jobs that we asked them to do.
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we have the resources here in the province of Alberta.
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Albertans are known to be able to manage ourselves.
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And he's proving it now again that we really don't need the federal government
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You know, and you touch upon something here, Kian.
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this is really low-hanging fruit for the premier.
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After all, there are no liberals in power west of Manitoba.
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This is very easy to prop up the federal Liberal Party
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Or are these steps coming right from his heart?
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It's hard to know exactly what Jason Kennedy is thinking inside.
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that Albertans have in the Canadian government.
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Albertans don't even like the feds when Stephen Harper was in power
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Albertans know that they're always going to be treated unfairly
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or in terms of the cash that's flowing out of Alberta
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that is typically handled by the federal government,
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that you'd like to see the premier tackle as well,
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of the coronavirus pandemic we're dealing with?
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something that's typically handled by the CFIA.
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And it's something that Jason Kennedy has already moved on.
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He's been sending provincial health inspectors,
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to the federal facilities that have been understaffed by Trudeau.
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So it's just more failures from the Trudeau government.
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And that's actually at the direction of Devin Driesen,
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and he's doing a pretty good job standing up for Albertans
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and keeping the feds on their toes because they've abandoned Albertans
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in more ways than just at the airports that they allowed foreign travelers
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to flood through in the early days of this pandemic.
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And then further to that, this food inspection problem,
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the supply chain and the maintenance of the supply chain,
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the food supply chain, is the primary concern for everybody.
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Not everybody's going to be going to the hospital in this crisis.
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But the most important thing is making sure that Albertans
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In fact, all Canadians need to have a solid supply of food.
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And if the federal government is abdicating their duty
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And the province is learning, like many Albertans already knew,
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or there was a growing movement for separation in Alberta
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Do you think, given what we've had to deal with
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especially since when you see the federal government
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failing on those fronts that the federal government
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that this just makes the case for those Albertans who say,
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listen, why do we need Ottawa in the first place?
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It's not just now that we're having problems with the feds.
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As I said before, this is a structural problem with Confederation.
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It extends to how our pension money is being handled and managed
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It goes down to who our provincial police force is,
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because the RCMP burn Albertans time and time again.
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We remember back to the flood crisis of 2013 when the RCMP,
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their first move, rather than to protect Albertans in our time of crisis,
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was to seize our firearms so that law-abiding citizens in a high river
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wouldn't be able to prevent home invasions or looting during that time of crisis.
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another bit of Ottawa that we need to sweep out of this province.
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Right. Well, Kian, thank you so much for weighing in another great piece,
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in Oakville, Ontario.
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Well, folks, on Good Friday, Oakville resident Todd Nelson
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took his three young children in line skating here
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because the community centre is not in operation
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someone came along who happened to be by law enforcement,
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and, well, we weren't privy to the conversation,
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So, why the heavy-handed way the Nelsons were treated?
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In fact, health officials say we should be getting outdoors
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and getting in some exercise during this pandemic.
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They don't want us to become a nation of couch potatoes.
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As well, given that the Nelsons all live under one roof,
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And, folks, you certainly made your opinions known
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who was surely acting in an overzealous fashion.
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Well, Dave, I think that is what kind of is occurring right now.
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That bylaw officer was using the pandemic as an excuse
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In fact, forget about making a charter argument.
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50 people standing in line outside of a supermarket is okay,
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Something is wrong with this Indeed Waterbottle.
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those 50 people standing outside the supermarket,
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First, when the warmer weather finally arrives,
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there will surely be a backlash against law enforcement.
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Cops and bylaw officers must use their discretion
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.