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

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00:01:22.720 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:36.040 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.

00:01:41.020 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:43.160 Well, your tax dollars hard at work yet again, folks.

00:01:46.740 And this is truly unbelievable.

00:01:49.540 It turns out that the Trudeau Liberals actually gave some $830,000 of your money to a laboratory in Wuhan

00:01:59.140 suspected of kicking off the pandemic.

00:02:02.440 Yeah, yeah, that lab.

00:02:04.080 The lab that caused this global mess that we're now in.

00:02:09.160 Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the unbelievable details.

00:02:12.700 And have you noticed that a Western Premier is acting far more prime ministerial than, well, the Prime Minister himself?

00:02:22.820 Kian Bextie will weigh in on how Jason Kenney is truly outshining Justin Trudeau

00:02:28.660 when it comes to that commodity known as leadership.

00:02:33.600 And finally, letters.

00:02:34.840 We get your letters.

00:02:35.640 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:37.420 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my story on an Ontario family of four

00:02:42.900 who were fined $880 for the egregious crime of inline skating in a deserted parking lot.

00:02:52.080 Oh, it's true.

00:02:53.260 And you had plenty to say about this case, a bylaw gone bad.

00:02:58.620 Those are your rebels.

00:02:59.700 Now, let's round them up.

00:03:01.020 Okay, so this is a lab that collects deadly viruses that have already caused problems in the world, like SARS.

00:03:13.240 And the Americans were so concerned about the shoddy conditions at this lab that deals with highly infectious and dangerous diseases in Wuhan, China,

00:03:22.160 that they dispatched two science diplomats, which is something I've never even heard of before.

00:03:27.840 And then these science diplomats were sending warnings back to Washington about the potential for this lab to cause a plague.

00:03:35.620 So naturally, Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is now engaging in a research project with this dangerous Chinese laboratory 1.00

00:03:43.280 and relying on scientists on the ground in Wuhan, China, to do all the research.

00:03:48.300 But don't take my word for it.

00:03:50.120 Let me show you.

00:03:51.020 This is from the Canadian government website that lists a series of grants to study this new coronavirus.

00:03:59.040 To contribute to global efforts to address the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak,

00:04:04.980 on February 10, 2020, the government of Canada launched a rapid research funding competition.

00:04:11.280 Canada's researchers were quick to respond, submitting hundreds of applications in just a week.

00:04:17.540 It looks like the Canadian government, in an effort to move fast instead of smart,

00:04:24.440 seems to be giving Canadian tax money to, well, possibly the bad guys of the outbreak.

00:04:30.800 Wow.

00:04:31.440 I guess Dr. Frankenstein was unable to receive a check for his research, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.

00:04:38.220 Actually, allow me to apologize to the estate of Mary Shelley here.

00:04:42.140 Her fictional monster maker was nothing compared to those responsible for the COVID-19 virus, 0.83

00:04:49.720 something that is killing thousands and sending entire economies into deep, deep recession.

00:04:56.540 And yet, for some perverse reason, it looks like the Trudeau Liberals had a compulsion to be,

00:05:04.020 oh, I don't know, accessories to this carnage?

00:05:06.960 Where does it end, folks?

00:05:08.300 With more on this egregious story is Sheila Gunn-Reed herself.

00:05:13.060 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:05:16.000 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:05:17.620 It's always a pleasure.

00:05:18.840 So, Sheila, please, what is going on here?

00:05:22.620 Is this yet another Justin Trudeau-approved handout to a nation

00:05:28.080 that he says has all the hallmarks of a basic dictatorship that he actually admires?

00:05:34.560 Yeah, I mean, the American intelligence agencies have suggested that this is the birthplace

00:05:43.640 of the current coronavirus plague.

00:05:46.220 In 2018, they sent science diplomats to investigate what was going on at this Wuhan facility.

00:05:57.120 It's basically a military installation.

00:06:00.740 It's the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:06:04.100 And in 2018, what those diplomats saw was so troubling to them that they sent back emergency

00:06:11.380 cables to Washington to say that this facility was not up to snuff.

00:06:18.780 The researchers weren't trained to be handling the dangerous things they were handling already.

00:06:24.520 And they used the word pandemic in those cables, as in this would be the birthplace of the next

00:06:31.720 pandemic, or if things got out of control there, that the world might have a pandemic on their hands.

00:06:38.160 And here we are, some two years later, and we do have a pandemic.

00:06:44.500 And it looks like it came from this virus lab.

00:06:50.600 And yet, for some reason, Justin Trudeau sees fit to give them nearly a million dollars to help

00:06:57.580 research something that already exists, rapid testing of the virus.

00:07:02.220 And, you know, for me, I think, no, whatever comes of the research dollars here, we shouldn't

00:07:09.600 be doing business with China at all.

00:07:13.440 We shouldn't be trusting the research that they're doing, maybe because the scientists

00:07:19.680 are loyal to the communist state, but also because the scientists we know are generally

00:07:25.980 muzzled by the communist state.

00:07:28.380 And we have no assurances, really, that they're going to be using this money for research on

00:07:35.300 the things that they say they are.

00:07:36.640 We don't even know what they're doing in this lab, and they won't let the West in to verify.

00:07:41.640 So with all those things being known, why are we giving money to the birthplace or the potential

00:07:48.380 birthplace, let me clarify, of the coronavirus that's shutting down world economies, forcing

00:07:55.560 us to be distanced from our loved ones, and allowing our governments here to strip us of our civil

00:08:01.640 liberties?

00:08:02.700 First of all, I don't want to get away from the main focus of your piece, Sheila, but science

00:08:07.280 diplomats, that's the first time I've ever heard that description.

00:08:11.480 I mean, I can't think of anything more polar opposite than a scientist and a diplomat.

00:08:17.360 One is fact-based, and one is, well, whatever diplomats do in terms of their song and dance.

00:08:23.620 But here's the thing, what is happening in this lab?

00:08:29.320 We talked about this yesterday.

00:08:30.880 I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, and I like, as a scientist likes, to

00:08:36.340 look at the facts on the ground and make decisions.

00:08:39.660 But with everything I'm reading about this, it looks more and more that this was the Chinese

00:08:46.840 regime working on, perhaps, chemical or biological warfare agents.

00:08:53.100 Because, hey, the last, what, three pandemics have come out of China?

00:08:57.140 It's quite a coincidence, isn't it?

00:08:59.680 So, I mean, Sheila, what is your gut reaction?

00:09:02.900 And that's all it's got to be because of the lack of transparency and accountability from

00:09:07.940 the Mandarins in Beijing.

00:09:09.340 It's obviously one of two things.

00:09:13.880 Either the Chinese were working, well, one of three things. 0.99

00:09:17.620 Either the Chinese were working on some sort of biological weapon at this facility and purposefully 0.99

00:09:23.460 released it, because we know the Chinese government cares very little about the lives of its citizens,

00:09:30.160 given that they killed millions of them in the pursuit of the communist state.

00:09:35.200 And they killed millions of children in pursuit of their one-child policy.

00:09:40.540 Lives are expendable.

00:09:41.680 So did they use their own citizens as the means of delivery for a biological weapon that

00:09:48.820 would overtake the West?

00:09:50.820 I don't know.

00:09:51.600 We may never know that.

00:09:53.680 Were they working on a biological weapon that accidentally got out because of the shoddy 1.00

00:10:00.280 security and safety protocols that the Americans say they saw at this facility?

00:10:06.800 That's quite possible.

00:10:08.460 Or they were just doing research and it got out on them and then they started a cover-up.

00:10:15.320 So were they just doing research on something like SARS and found a new strain and it just

00:10:20.060 got out on them?

00:10:20.880 That's very possible, too.

00:10:22.780 And I don't think we're ever going to know because of the secrecy of the communist government.

00:10:28.960 But I, like you, am more inclined to believe something evil instead of just a oopsie-daisy

00:10:36.600 and then let's cover it up.

00:10:38.780 I'm inclined to err on the side of evil when it comes to the communist state.

00:10:43.880 But Sheila, let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

00:10:46.780 Say this was something beneficial they were working on for the advancement of mankind,

00:10:54.020 for the advancement of agricultural science, you name it.

00:10:57.140 Why are we paying for this?

00:11:00.680 China is a world power.

00:11:02.780 They have aspirations of being the proverbial straw that stirs the drink.

00:11:07.940 How come we're forking over almost a million dollars of our money, taxpayer money, not Liberal Party of

00:11:16.620 Canada money, especially since we have two Canadians that are now coming up to day 500 of being detained without charges?

00:11:27.280 This is staggering to me.

00:11:30.080 Yeah.

00:11:30.840 And that also presupposes that the two Michaels are even still alive.

00:11:36.280 Yep.

00:11:36.480 You know, do we know if they were affected by the coronavirus?

00:11:40.860 Would they tell us if they died of the coronavirus?

00:11:44.240 Probably not right away.

00:11:46.360 But yeah.

00:11:47.100 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?

00:12:03.160 When the very research they're doing is already being done elsewhere and rapid testing already exists.

00:12:14.020 What they're researching there, what this grant was given to create is rapid testing in places where there are low medical resources.

00:12:23.700 So the developing world, it's great, it's a noble cause, but actually that already exists.

00:12:29.000 Rapid testing already exists, so why?

00:12:31.560 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?

00:12:38.760 We don't.

00:12:39.940 But really, we shouldn't be giving a penny to China while they hold two Canadians as political prisoners.

00:12:45.660 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. 0.72

00:12:58.060 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.

00:13:10.920 This was a legitimate scoop for you.

00:13:12.400 Why isn't this on the front page of every paper since it originally got posted?

00:13:19.260 Because this is dynamite, I think.

00:13:23.440 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,

00:13:36.960 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.

00:13:57.520 We were just browsing through these grants, seeing, you know, what kind of liberal cronies, quite frankly, got them.

00:14:04.720 And then we saw that they were giving a grant to collaborate with the Wuhan virus lab.

00:14:12.300 Somebody else could have found this a month ago.

00:14:14.660 This has been public information for a month.

00:14:16.860 We found it.

00:14:17.860 It was just hanging there for someone to find it.

00:14:20.720 But it's not going to be widely reported on, I don't think, in the mainstream media.

00:14:25.840 However, I would love them to report on it.

00:14:28.140 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.

00:14:35.540 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.

00:14:44.900 Unlike us, we're completely crowdfunded by our viewers at home.

00:14:48.360 So we're not beholden to the government.

00:14:50.460 So we'll gladly tell these stories.

00:14:52.480 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.

00:15:13.380 And this is who he's giving it to, this evil empire that caused all these problems to start with.

00:15:19.000 You know, Sheila, it's nauseating.

00:15:21.700 Justin Trudeau should be bombarded with questions regarding this issue.

00:15:26.180 And yet, what do we see at these 11 a.m. cottage press?

00:15:29.580 There's questions along the lines of, Mr. Prime Minister, what are you doing to ensure you're not going to burn yourself out?

00:15:37.220 It is, like I said, nauseating.

00:15:39.880 Sheila, that was an incredible piece.

00:15:42.780 I hope it has legs.

00:15:44.540 It deserves to become the proverbial media snowball.

00:15:48.500 But it likely won't.

00:15:50.700 And, Sheila, keep hammering away at this research.

00:15:53.880 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.

00:16:06.340 So thank you again, my friend.

00:16:08.720 Thanks, David.

00:16:09.400 And if people want to support our journalism during the pandemic, they can do that at helprebelnews.com.

00:16:16.280 It's obvious we're doing the work the mainstream media, I think, just refuses to do.

00:16:22.580 100%.

00:16:23.100 Thank you so much, Sheila.

00:16:24.940 Thanks, David.

00:16:25.480 Folks, that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the hinterland of northern Alberta. 0.99

00:16:30.000 Keep it here.

00:16:30.480 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:38.800 Before this pandemic hit, the largest issue facing Albertans in the West was whether or not we would remain a part of this country.

00:16:45.780 Whether or not we would throw out our Canadian passports and create our own.

00:16:50.080 Jason Kenney is a federalist and he said time and time again that he doesn't want to leave Canada.

00:16:54.860 Many people thought that was because he wanted to be prime minister one day.

00:16:57.840 And, well, it's kind of proving to be true, but not in the way many people expected.

00:17:03.220 Being premier isn't stopping Jason Kenney from acting like a prime minister.

00:17:07.620 The Albertan government is acting like a federal government in more ways than just one.

00:17:13.300 When Justin Trudeau's federal government was dropping the ball on border security, putting Canadian lives at risk,

00:17:18.180 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.

00:17:29.140 But it doesn't just stop there.

00:17:30.460 If Jason Kenney is the prime minister of Alberta, his deputy prime minister is Devin Dreschen.

00:17:36.240 Devin Dreschen is the agriculture minister, one of the most important industries in Alberta

00:17:40.620 and someone who is in charge of securing the supply chain of food to all Albertans.

00:17:45.720 It's a very important job.

00:17:46.700 And when the federal government wasn't providing enough food inspectors, something that is under the purview of the CFIA,

00:17:53.600 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Devin Dreschen stepped up to the plate and told the federal government that they're really not needed.

00:18:00.800 He was going to deploy provincial inspectors to federal jobs to do the job that Justin Trudeau is not doing.

00:18:07.680 His entire government is failing right now and the Alberta government is stepping up to the plate.

00:18:11.800 Now, this became the most apparent when Jason Kenney slammed the chief medical officer of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam,

00:18:21.020 someone who's in the pockets of the WHO and someone who negligently allowed people to continue coming into Canada,

00:18:27.700 saying that borders didn't need to be closed to hotspots and human-to-human transmission didn't exist back in January,

00:18:33.800 when it obviously did.

00:18:35.020 Listen to Jason Kenney say this.

00:18:37.620 Is Dr. Tam suggesting that the European Union's regulator of medications or the Food and Drug Administration

00:18:45.820 approve things that are dangerous for public use?

00:18:49.620 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

00:18:58.500 and who in January was repeating talking points out of the PRC about no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

00:19:07.180 Wow, wasn't that so refreshing to hear, folks?

00:19:10.400 A straight-talking premier who is as fed up as the rest of us

00:19:15.380 and demonstrates no hesitation when it comes to justifiably slamming Justin Trudeau's top health official.

00:19:24.620 Well, it was certainly music to my ears.

00:19:27.640 And now with more on Jason Kenney being far more of a leader in a time of crisis

00:19:32.300 than Justin Trudeau could ever dream of being is our roving reporter, Kian Bextie.

00:19:38.120 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:19:40.840 Hey, David. Thanks for having me.

00:19:42.360 Fantastic.

00:19:43.280 So, Kian, Jason Kenney is certainly putting on a clinic these days, I should think. 0.64

00:19:48.900 So, as they say in Hollyweird, let's cut to the chase here.

00:19:52.680 Is there any chance anyone can convince Kenney to run for the leader of the federal Conservative Party?

00:19:58.980 You know, that's a good question.

00:20:02.460 I don't know how he will be able to do that.

00:20:07.900 Lots of people, and these are rumors that have been coming out of the leadership election committee,

00:20:13.140 lots of them seem to want the current leadership program scrapped.

00:20:17.880 And if that happens, and that hasn't really been reported yet,

00:20:21.900 so I guess that's news here on Rebel Roundup,

00:20:24.420 but if that does happen, that could give Jason Kenney an opportunity to squeeze in later in the year

00:20:30.080 because abandoning a province right now in the middle of this crisis, that would be political suicide.

00:20:37.520 And let's talk about your province, Kian.

00:20:40.960 What I found remarkable, and, you know, it's something I've been champing at the bit

00:20:45.600 to ask Premier Doug Ford here in Ontario to see if he could, you know,

00:20:50.540 follow the Jason Kenney model here,

00:20:54.120 is this idea of personally touring the airport

00:20:57.940 and then bringing in provincial people

00:21:01.520 to make sure the health and safety standards are properly adhered to.

00:21:06.800 As you know, I've been going to Pearson International Airport since January,

00:21:12.420 virtually on a weekly basis,

00:21:14.480 and I'm not impressed with what I've been seeing, I can tell you that.

00:21:19.600 Tell me, Kian, what prompted your Premier to take these steps in the first place?

00:21:27.120 Well, he was seeing time and time again

00:21:29.840 the federal government not fulfilling their duties to Canadians,

00:21:34.880 which are, first and foremost, keeping Canadians safe.

00:21:38.880 You've seen the same thing that I've seen at the airports, David,

00:21:41.680 is that they're not actually scanning people

00:21:43.900 like every other country in the world is doing,

00:21:48.340 like every country learned they had to do

00:21:50.140 during the SARS outbreak of the early 2000s.

00:21:54.420 So, and it's not just that.

00:21:56.500 They promised that they'd be handing out face masks

00:21:58.360 to people on connecting flights,

00:21:59.580 that just didn't happen either.

00:22:02.020 We're seeing the federal government

00:22:03.740 not do the very few jobs that we asked them to do.

00:22:07.780 And Jason Kennedy is filling in that void.

00:22:10.360 He's saying, okay, well,

00:22:11.680 we have the resources here in the province of Alberta.

00:22:14.240 Albertans are known to be able to manage ourselves.

00:22:18.920 We've done it for decades and decades.

00:22:21.520 And he's proving it now again that we really don't need the federal government

00:22:25.940 here in this province.

00:22:27.400 You know, and you touch upon something here, Kian.

00:22:30.040 How would you respond to those who say,

00:22:31.720 well, this kind of posturing,

00:22:33.460 this is really low-hanging fruit for the premier.

00:22:35.780 After all, there are no liberals in power west of Manitoba.

00:22:43.940 This is very easy to prop up the federal Liberal Party

00:22:48.780 as incompetent or negligent.

00:22:51.960 Do you think he's playing politics here?

00:22:55.560 Or are these steps coming right from his heart?

00:22:59.040 That's a good question.

00:23:02.860 It's hard to know exactly what Jason Kennedy is thinking inside.

00:23:05.840 But in terms of political posturing,

00:23:08.300 this is just further cementing the distrust

00:23:12.860 that Albertans have in the Canadian government.

00:23:16.540 Albertans don't even like the feds when Stephen Harper was in power

00:23:20.460 because they know that when...

00:23:24.360 Albertans know that they're always going to be treated unfairly

00:23:27.580 in this confederation,

00:23:29.700 be it in terms of political representation

00:23:32.300 or in terms of the cash that's flowing out of Alberta

00:23:36.000 and going straight to Ottawa

00:23:37.140 and then being shipped off to Montreal.

00:23:39.920 The Albertans have never trusted the feds

00:23:41.640 and now that's certainly not changing.

00:23:43.760 It's being further cemented, I'd say.

00:23:47.480 And, Kian, is there any other realm 1.00

00:23:50.760 that is typically handled by the federal government,

00:23:55.280 much like airports are,

00:23:56.740 that you'd like to see the premier tackle as well,

00:24:01.140 especially in this day and age

00:24:02.980 of the coronavirus pandemic we're dealing with?

00:24:06.700 Well, food inspection is actually one,

00:24:08.840 something that's typically handled by the CFIA.

00:24:11.440 And it's something that Jason Kennedy has already moved on.

00:24:14.700 He's been sending provincial health inspectors,

00:24:20.820 food inspectors,

00:24:21.740 to the federal facilities that have been understaffed by Trudeau.

00:24:25.720 So it's just more failures from the Trudeau government.

00:24:28.820 And that's actually at the direction of Devin Driesen,

00:24:31.040 the Minister of Agriculture.

00:24:32.780 He's new to elected office, to be frank.

00:24:36.860 He was just elected recently,

00:24:38.960 and he's doing a pretty good job standing up for Albertans

00:24:41.560 and keeping the feds on their toes because they've abandoned Albertans 0.93

00:24:48.040 in more ways than just one,

00:24:49.980 in more ways than just at the airports that they allowed foreign travelers

00:24:54.900 to flood through in the early days of this pandemic.

00:24:57.560 And even in the later days of this pandemic,

00:24:59.900 it took them a long time to move forward.

00:25:01.380 And then further to that, this food inspection problem,

00:25:06.280 the supply chain and the maintenance of the supply chain,

00:25:10.500 the food supply chain, is the primary concern for everybody.

00:25:15.600 Everybody needs to go to the grocery store. 0.94

00:25:19.280 Not everybody's going to be going to the hospital in this crisis.

00:25:22.460 Healthcare is important, certainly.

00:25:23.960 But the most important thing is making sure that Albertans

00:25:27.380 have a solid supply of food.

00:25:29.700 In fact, all Canadians need to have a solid supply of food.

00:25:32.780 And if the federal government is abdicating their duty

00:25:34.780 of making sure that that food is safe,

00:25:36.980 well, it's going to fall on the province.

00:25:38.740 And the province is learning, like many Albertans already knew,

00:25:42.700 that we just can't rely on the feds.

00:25:45.320 You know, Ken, you raise an interesting point.

00:25:47.480 We all know that there is a growing,

00:25:51.320 or there was a growing movement for separation in Alberta

00:25:55.680 from confederation.

00:25:56.660 Do you think, given what we've had to deal with

00:26:00.520 in terms of the Wuhan virus,

00:26:02.620 that this fervour has just increased,

00:26:06.960 especially since when you see the federal government

00:26:10.100 failing on those fronts that the federal government

00:26:13.320 is supposed to be responsible for,

00:26:16.460 that this just makes the case for those Albertans who say,

00:26:21.140 listen, why do we need Ottawa in the first place?

00:26:26.660 Yeah, that's exactly right, David.

00:26:28.260 This is sort of a trial by fire, if you will.

00:26:32.560 It's not just now that we're having problems with the feds.

00:26:35.460 As I said before, this is a structural problem with Confederation.

00:26:38.220 Albertans have serious problems with Ottawa.

00:26:40.300 In fact, people from Saskatchewan do as well.

00:26:42.120 It's not just our health care.

00:26:45.220 It's not just our borders and our airports.

00:26:47.540 It extends to how our pension money is being handled and managed

00:26:53.380 and where that money goes.

00:26:54.560 It goes down to who our provincial police force is,

00:26:57.840 whether or not we trust the RCMP to be here,

00:27:01.040 because the RCMP burn Albertans time and time again.

00:27:03.760 We remember back to the flood crisis of 2013 when the RCMP,

00:27:09.560 their first move, rather than to protect Albertans in our time of crisis,

00:27:13.680 was to seize our firearms so that law-abiding citizens in a high river

00:27:17.560 wouldn't be able to prevent home invasions or looting during that time of crisis.

00:27:22.660 The RCMP are in the pockets of Justin Trudeau,

00:27:24.780 and that's just another example of something,

00:27:26.680 another bit of Ottawa that we need to sweep out of this province.

00:27:29.680 Right. Well, Kian, thank you so much for weighing in another great piece,

00:27:34.380 and stay safe, my friend.

00:27:36.960 Thanks, you too, David.

00:27:37.920 You got it.

00:27:39.160 And that was Kian Bexte in Calgary.

00:27:42.380 Keep it here, folks.

00:27:43.140 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:27:50.020 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Oakville, Ontario.

00:27:53.700 Well, folks, on Good Friday, Oakville resident Todd Nelson

00:27:58.040 took his three young children in line skating here

00:28:02.880 at the Glen Abbey Community Centre.

00:28:06.200 And they were having a fun time, and why not?

00:28:09.040 The parking lot is completely empty

00:28:11.760 because the community centre is not in operation

00:28:15.080 during this day and age of the coronavirus.

00:28:20.080 However, within about an hour,

00:28:22.580 someone came along who happened to be by law enforcement,

00:28:27.600 and, well, we weren't privy to the conversation,

00:28:30.140 but I don't think it went well.

00:28:32.560 Mr. Nelson, well, the bylaw officer

00:28:36.000 demanded he show his identification.

00:28:39.240 And the next thing you know,

00:28:41.380 he had a ticket for $750 plus surcharges,

00:28:46.740 bringing the grand total to $880,

00:28:49.900 or, in other words, precisely $220 per skater.

00:28:55.800 Now, the thing is,

00:28:57.480 he was fined for a lack of social distancing,

00:29:01.160 but, folks, does it make any sense to you?

00:29:04.580 After all, the Nelsons are,

00:29:07.220 they all live together.

00:29:09.200 They're four people in total,

00:29:11.400 and the limit for congregations is five.

00:29:15.200 And, certainly, when you're skating around,

00:29:19.360 I can say by experience,

00:29:21.220 you're typically at least two metres apart

00:29:24.300 from the other skater.

00:29:26.580 So, why the heavy-handed way the Nelsons were treated?

00:29:32.480 Yes, why indeed?

00:29:35.100 It makes no sense, folks.

00:29:36.320 In fact, health officials say we should be getting outdoors

00:29:39.380 and getting in some exercise during this pandemic.

00:29:42.240 They don't want us to become a nation of couch potatoes.

00:29:46.200 That's not healthy, after all, is it?

00:29:48.500 As well, given that the Nelsons all live under one roof,

00:29:51.840 who were they harming in an empty parking lot?

00:29:55.340 What a story.

00:29:56.280 Equal parts crazy and maddening.

00:30:00.060 And, folks, you certainly made your opinions known

00:30:02.240 regarding this egregious state of affairs,

00:30:04.500 thanks to a bylaw officer

00:30:06.060 who was surely acting in an overzealous fashion.

00:30:11.020 Dave Dyler writes,

00:30:12.640 Let me guess, in Canada, like here in the USA,

00:30:15.820 constitutional rights are being trampled

00:30:17.980 in the name of fighting this virus.

00:30:20.560 Well, Dave, I think that is what kind of is occurring right now.

00:30:24.940 That bylaw officer was using the pandemic as an excuse

00:30:28.640 to zap a law-abiding citizen

00:30:31.100 with a ticket for almost $1,000.

00:30:33.540 And what's more,

00:30:35.160 he seemed to be trying to fix a problem

00:30:37.400 that simply didn't exist in the first place.

00:30:41.100 Chris Walton writes,

00:30:42.320 When this is over,

00:30:43.440 I would take the ticket and fight it in court

00:30:45.640 under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:30:47.820 This went too far.

00:30:49.220 Oh, me too, Chris.

00:30:50.240 In fact, forget about making a charter argument.

00:30:53.080 I read the nitty-gritty of the bylaw

00:30:55.520 that was being enforced here

00:30:56.900 and there was absolutely nothing

00:30:59.280 about empty parking lots being under the ban.

00:31:03.080 Yes, playgrounds, basketball courts,

00:31:05.280 tennis courts, baseball diamonds,

00:31:07.000 those are all roped off and off limits.

00:31:10.100 But empty acres of asphalt?

00:31:12.680 Nope.

00:31:14.280 Still Learning writes,

00:31:16.200 Should have just gone to a cottage in Quebec.

00:31:18.760 That's okay.

00:31:20.460 Oh, golly, Still Learning.

00:31:21.820 Who, pray tell, would be that irresponsible?

00:31:26.600 Waterbottle writes,

00:31:27.720 50 people standing in line outside of a supermarket is okay,

00:31:30.940 but four people skating in a park, not okay.

00:31:34.140 Something is wrong with this Indeed Waterbottle.

00:31:36.860 And don't forget,

00:31:37.540 those 50 people standing outside the supermarket,

00:31:40.620 they're not related,

00:31:42.020 as opposed to the Nelsons,

00:31:43.640 who are Indeed related.

00:31:45.200 It makes no sense.

00:31:47.220 And finally, OGR writes,

00:31:49.320 Wait until May,

00:31:50.480 especially the May 24th weekend,

00:31:53.240 things are really going to get exciting.

00:31:56.080 You know, OGR,

00:31:57.360 you've touched upon the bigger picture here

00:31:59.520 that will indeed play out in the weeks ahead.

00:32:02.280 First, when the warmer weather finally arrives,

00:32:05.480 folks suffering from cabin fever

00:32:07.160 after being cooped up for so long

00:32:09.080 will definitely be coming outdoors in force.

00:32:12.100 And if people are penalized

00:32:14.820 and heavily fined for trivial stuff,

00:32:17.980 there will surely be a backlash against law enforcement.

00:32:22.060 Cops and bylaw officers must use their discretion

00:32:24.960 as this pandemic continues.

00:32:27.780 Otherwise, I really fear what might happen.

00:32:31.640 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:32:34.240 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:32:35.520 See you next week.

00:32:36.260 And hey, folks, never forget,

00:32:37.540 without risk, there can be no glory.

00:32:40.520 Good night.

00:32:40.960 Good night.

00:32:40.980 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - January 11, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte

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