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00:02:14.960Well, these are the things that we're talking about, right?
00:02:17.260Like, these are the things that we wake up in the morning and we're like, oh, hot damn, I've got opinions on that.
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00:04:48.900It was a packed room of 150 future lawyers tonight at the University of Alberta answering their important questions about our legal system, our province, and the U.S. trade dispute.
00:06:31.060Because let's not forget that every single post-secondary institution in the country is funded by provincial government dollars and federal government dollars.
00:06:42.100And if Danielle Smith was as petty as I am, they would see a reduction in their funding instantaneously for this insult.
00:06:52.560These are kids that have never faced a consequence for doing something stupid or doing something disrespectful to their betters in their entire life.
00:07:02.580If that was me, okay, if that was me in that chair, in that beautiful green pantsuit that she was wearing, they would see their funding decimated this morning.
00:07:12.520They would pay a hefty, hefty price for that kind of disrespect.
00:07:16.120I mean, to say that it is something that your premier of your province comes to listen to you, the last thing on planet Earth these kids should have done is disrespect her in that manner.
00:07:34.880And it doesn't shine a bright light on the future lawyers of Alberta.
00:07:38.920As a matter of fact, it shows everybody that the University of Alberta is coddling this group of young ideologues that are going to do nothing to further the law profession in Canada going forward.
00:07:53.820The worst part is if you cut funding to these guys, then you cut funding to the very lawyers who are probably in that class who will stand up to their gender nonsense.
00:08:02.720That's the problem is there's really not much that you can do to deal with them.
00:08:09.580But in case you were ever wondering, like, where were all the good lawyers during COVID to stand up for human rights?
00:08:16.540And they mostly work for the Justice Center and the Democracy Fund.
00:08:19.360So, hopefully, in amongst this classroom full of future lawyers are future Democracy Fund lawyers, future Justice Center lawyers, to counterbalance the nonsense of those two surly-looking ladies.
00:08:58.360But that photo just goes, it just goes to illustrate the young socialist left-leaning crazy nutcases that are being produced in our post-secondary institutions.
00:10:17.120This is not how you greet or welcome the premier of your province when she takes time out of her very busy day to come and meet with your students.
00:11:18.020What I objected to is people telling me I should turn off oil and gas going to the United States.
00:11:28.180And the reason I object to that is because if the United States turns off oil and gas coming to Canada, Ontario and Quebec can get zero oil and gas.
00:11:38.100That's the only way they get their oil and gas is from America.
00:11:41.160And that's why I've said we're not doing it.
00:12:01.400She's the only person who listened in all of this.
00:12:04.240The the only person who listened to him.
00:12:07.680And again, it's not like he's secretive when he talks about these things.
00:12:12.200It's not like this is like cloaked under a under an umbrella of secrecy.
00:12:17.860He said, whatever you do to us, we are going to reciprocate.
00:12:22.040So don't think that that's going to be your negotiation tactic.
00:12:24.840Well, what do Ontario and Quebec do is is test him on this.
00:12:30.960And I think that if anything, this illustrates, again, how qualified Danielle Smith is in dealing with the American with her American counterparts
00:12:40.320and safeguarding Canadians and Canadian industry.
00:12:43.700I think she's the only premier in the entire country that has the best interest of Canadians at heart.
00:12:51.040Because because to be completely honest, again, if she wanted to be petty, she could cut off oil and gas to Ontario and Quebec.
00:13:04.040And I think that that speaks a lot to her character and to to to her beliefs about what is best for Canada and Canadians.
00:13:12.760And you know who's the the real sort of petty jerk in all of this is Doug Ford.
00:13:17.180Like he's never actually said, Premier Smith, we appreciate you ensuring that Quebecers and Ontarians don't pay ten dollars a liter gasoline tomorrow.
00:14:24.940Because that would acknowledge that Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Western provinces add something to the quality of life of Ontario.
00:14:34.700And the crazy thing is, is they live in such a cloistered sort of community that they believe that their quality of life just, you know, appears out of thin air.
00:14:46.620And that, you know, that the things that they get paid for on their behalf, because of the hard work of Western Canadians that pay into the equalization formula,
00:14:56.800they only enjoy the quality of life they do because of the hard work of Westerners.
00:15:01.860And he couldn't, I mean, it would just be too much for Doug to acknowledge that.
00:15:08.500It's much easier for Doug to just pretend like everything that Ontario and Quebec gets just comes to them fully delivered without any interference from the Western provinces.
00:15:22.700You know, I mused on X the other day, like, do Ontarians and Quebecers know what is happening to Western farmers to protect their highly subsidized EV industry?
00:16:05.140That is what's, that's what's unforgivable.
00:16:07.120And don't tell me that the upper echelons of Ontario and Quebec politics don't know that every single thing that they get paid for through the equalization formula doesn't come off the hard backs and off the hard work of Western Canadians.
00:16:31.420And again, I'm going to do my best to avoid broad sweeping statements.
00:16:36.120I would say a lot of people outside of the greater Toronto area.
00:16:39.900No, I think it's just like most places, urban municipalities think the food just gets, just appears on the grocery store shelves.
00:16:48.560It doesn't get grown somewhere else and then trucked in and taxed all the way in.
00:16:52.000But yeah, like Westerners are paying for those EV tariffs twice now because we paid for the bailouts and the subsidies and now our Western farmers are being slapped with all the tariffs from China, which will decimate farm incomes this year.
00:17:09.420And from what I see, the minister, Philippe Champagne, he says they're not backing down at all on these tariffs against canola.
00:17:22.100Well, Philippe Champagne is doing nothing but stoking a unity crisis in Western Canada because when Western Canadians, because Western Canadian farmers are aware of how devastating these tariffs are going to be on their bottom line and their earning potential in the next year.
00:17:43.760And going forward, as long as this trade dispute is unresolved, you are going to see a growing sentiment for separation, the separation of Western Canadians.
00:17:55.740Why stay in an abusive relationship where you will never, ever, ever be able to win?
00:18:01.120If we don't see overt support for Western industry and Western prosperity, they're going to have a two front unity crisis on their hands.
00:18:11.520Yes. Yeah. Excuse me. I just have to step away to cough.
00:18:15.500OK, no problem. That gives me an opportunity to read this.
00:18:19.180It looks like a rumble rant from Peace Sign Guy who says, with the tariffs that China has put on canola, et cetera, why are all the Chinese foodstuffs not being pulled from grocery store shelves and Chinese liquor pulled from the liquor store shelves?
00:18:35.640Yeah, that's a great point. And it's because it doesn't because this affects Western Canadians.
00:18:43.620And so you don't see a Team Canada approach. It's the same Team Canada approach we saw to pipelines for all those years, as in there's no Team Canada approach at all.
00:18:52.400We get to throw our jobs on the bonfire of Confederation and everybody else says, OK, thank you.
00:19:00.580And that's what's happening now. So China is hitting us with these retaliatory tariffs and there's no like boycott of the dollar store.
00:19:11.120That's not happening. So, you know, we just have to suffer in all of this.
00:19:16.720That's a fantastic point, Peace Sign Guy. That is a fantastic point.
00:19:20.340If we were to have if we were to have the same response to Chinese made products and Chinese made goods in Canada, we would we I mean, half of the country wouldn't be able to buy groceries.
00:19:32.820Number number one. But we are not seeing that same that same veracity in response to to China.
00:19:41.680But then again, but then again, we know who's infiltrated Canada.
00:19:45.640We know who's already here, who's working in the background.
00:19:48.900So that would be really, really bad if we were to spit in our master's faces when when when they were watching us so close and within our borders, working within our borders.
00:20:00.040So, right. And Carney's going to need the help, right? Carney's going to need the help in some of those key Toronto ridings where we saw Chinese foreign interference last time around.
00:20:10.000Also in those key lower mainland of Vancouver area ridings where we we know for sure foreign interference from China happened.
00:20:22.640And so, I mean, Carney's not going to make those people angry at him when he needs the help coming up.
00:20:30.180No, true story. True story. Yep. No. And somebody somebody posted the other day on Twitter, you know, you see Canadian well, Canadian elitists say, you know, we'll never be the 51st state.
00:20:44.380Well, would you rather be China's 23rd province or the 51st state? Like, take your pick. Pick your poison. Pick your poison. Are we more aligned culturally and societally with the United States or are we more culturally aligned with China?
00:21:03.280And I think as it pertains to the federal government, because they haven't said anything or done anything about Chinese retaliatory tariffs, we know what side they feel closer to. And it's not the American side.
00:21:16.700For sure. We've got actually another rumble rant from peace sign guy gives us five bucks and says, why is Scott Moe the only one that seems to be talking China tariffs?
00:21:27.220I know that Alberta's ag minister has spoken out about it. And Scott, Scott Moe was really taking the lead on this.
00:21:34.660I think Daniel Smith is taking the lead on the oil exports to the United States and Scott Moe is handling canola.
00:21:42.340But that's because 50% of Canada's canola is grown in Saskatchewan, 30% is grown in Alberta, and the rest is sprinkled between Manitoba, I guess, to some extent, maybe Ontario and parts of British Columbia.
00:21:59.540So, of course, Scott Moe is the man to take the lead on this in the same way that Daniel Smith is the one to take the lead on the oil exports issue.
00:22:06.320Yeah, he'd be hard pressed not to say something considering those are all of his voters.
00:22:12.400Saskatchewan's government got decimated in the cities in this last election in October.
00:22:17.440All of those canola growers are Scott Moe voters, and he'd be real hard pressed not to say anything in this moment.
00:22:24.400However, there's only so much Scott Moe can do.
00:22:28.260I mean, aside from writing strongly worded letters to the government to please come on side and defend Saskatchewan and prairie canola growers.
00:22:38.640But I mean, how far does a strongly worded letter get these days?
00:22:45.160If we don't see the federal government coming out and publicly saying we are going to make sure that our canola growers are protected from this threat of Chinese tariffs, we're not going to see any action.
00:22:59.700And I think that we are not going to see any action from the federal government.
00:23:04.260So we're not only that, how many people how many people are actually buying before the tariffs Chinese made electric vehicles?
00:23:11.940How many people how many people are we trying to secure the market for while you're throwing billions, billions, billions, like 30 billion, I think it is, of a canola industry in the garbage can to do to what to get the business of maybe the two or three or 400 Chinese electric vehicles that people are buying every year.
00:23:37.000I mean, I don't know the number of just making up, but I've never seen a Chinese electric vehicle on the road.
00:23:44.220Like, never, never, actually, never, not once.
00:23:47.400It's really rare to even see a Tesla on the prairies.
00:23:51.260Well, I would say exceedingly rare to see a Tesla on the prairies, but to see a Chinese made EV on the prairies, like, never, never seen it in my life, to be completely honest.
00:24:01.620And yet, this is what we are sacrificing our entire canola industry, $30 billion worth of goods to uphold in Eastern Canada.
00:24:36.440Like, well, like so many of these initiatives, it is a, it was a top-down initiative.
00:24:41.220This isn't ground up some sort of organic thing where people are saying, where people are saying, my reliable gas or diesel vehicle is just too reliable.
00:24:51.220I want to try something that might not start the winter.
00:24:54.100I want to try something that'll only go 400 kilometers, never mind that it won't work.
00:24:58.060Like, nobody was asking for an electric vehicle sector to begin with.
00:25:03.620This is all being driven top, drip down.
00:25:06.460And I would suggest by people exactly like Mark Carney and his wife, Diana Fox Carney, who work for companies that dream up these initiatives, okay, to grease the pockets of their friends and, and force this on consumers that have no interest and don't want it.
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00:27:22.060The New York Times had a very interesting story about how Claudia Scheinbaum, the Mexican president, managed to control the emotional energy and actually persuaded Trump that she was doing all she could.
00:27:34.120And what's interesting, if the New York Times story is accurate, is that Trump thanked her and then pivoted to just bashing Trudeau.
00:27:41.480And I think a lot of it was a personal feud.
00:27:45.380Now that Trudeau's gone, do you think we have a chance to restart things?
00:27:50.180I'm a little worried that Mark Carney, I mean, at least in his, you know, the last few weeks before he was sworn in, his main target seemed to be Trump.
00:27:59.640Do you think that Mark Carney's going to have the moral hazard of wanting to pick fights with Trump so he can play Captain Canada to defend us?
00:28:07.780I mean, Claudia Scheinbaum sort of swallowed her pride in a way, but got the deal done for the sake of Mexico.
00:28:14.040I'm worried that Mark Carney might want to play Trudeau's game.
00:28:29.660I mean, there's a lot of people who are really hurt by a tariff war, whether it's our Canadian producers who face tariffs selling their goods into the U.S., or whether it's our Canadian consumers who are trying to buy American goods.
00:29:34.280Nope, she's got a bunch of excellent points there.
00:29:39.000But I think that it is really telling that Mark Carney ran off into the arms of Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron
00:29:47.020ahead of meeting with his own premiers of the provinces of Canada.
00:29:52.860Like, it is staggering that he would have made that call ahead of a call to his own premiers or, better yet, to Donald Trump.
00:30:02.580Like, this is almost unforgivable, this here, this posturing.
00:30:07.700Because what he's doing is he's figuring out what kind of support he has from European markets and European leaders before he negotiates with Trump.
00:30:19.740He is lining up all of his little ducks in a row.
00:30:23.200And it's really, that should concern everybody, Canada.
00:31:26.820But everyone's like, yes, finally, finally, somebody's acknowledging that it's not a bad thing to be a colony of former European superpowers.
00:31:33.500OK, but that's not why if I had to get into the psyche of a man who, instead of going to Washington, went to Europe to meet with the anti-Trump leaders, it's because he is saying we're not like those yucky Americans.
00:31:49.400Like what Trudeau just said, the greatest thing about being a Canadian is that we're not American.
00:31:54.920Like, that was just a more articulate way of saying that thing that Trump or that Trudeau said not all that long ago.
00:32:03.340No, no, that's exactly that's exactly.
00:32:05.160OK, I'm not crazy for thinking that because I was like, no, I was like, I disagree with Rupa.
00:32:23.500And a beloved part of Europe is what he was saying.
00:32:27.700When in what actually in reality, every European immigrant that came to Canada was fleeing something that had gone terribly wrong in Europe.
00:33:12.240Like if you guys haven't been paying attention, Europe is in a real good place right now.
00:33:16.920And the last thing we'd want to be is sidling up to those guys with their all of their bad ideas.
00:33:22.720And yet that's exactly what he's positioning us for.
00:33:25.660So like our immigration problems would be even worse.
00:33:28.100If Mark Carney and let me preface this, if Mark Carney or any prime minister had said those things about us being very European in our history in another time, not in the middle of a trade dispute and rampant anti-Americanism sentiment in Canada, I would be just as stoked to hear like finally we're rejecting this like colonialism is a force for evil in the world nonsense.
00:33:57.740But when put into the context of a trade war with the Americans, I don't think Mark Carney said it because he's suddenly embracing colonialism as a force for good.
00:34:08.020I see him saying it as like a yeah, we're totally not like those disgusting Americans.
00:34:16.000Yeah, yeah. No. And I can't wait to hear the responses of the decolonialist activists that have spent the last 25 years saying everything about this is bad and awful and gross.
00:34:27.680I can't wait for those two worlds to collide.
00:35:09.940It just it just goes to show us because we really do know very little about Mark Carney.
00:35:14.760It goes to show us where his head is at.
00:35:18.800And he he believes because he has three passports.
00:35:22.420He has a UK passport, an Irish passport and a Canadian passport.
00:35:26.020It just goes to show you that he is a crazed globalist who is dragging us into this into this partnership with European countries that we don't have a lot in common with.
00:35:38.500We don't I mean, we don't have anything in common with them right now, especially especially in the midst of this trade dispute with the Americans.
00:35:46.800Again, I'll just say it all day, every day.
00:35:48.480We have more in common with America than we do with either England or France right now.
00:35:56.700His cozying up to those to those leaders is more than a cause for concern.
00:36:01.580So, you know, this sort of reminds me of when Andrew Scheer was through no fault of his own accidentally American and everybody lost their marbles.
00:36:10.320He's got dual loyalties and he can't be an American.
00:36:13.140And he's like, sorry, sorry, not my fault.
00:36:17.180It's not like Mark Carney who went actively collecting European passports, you know, and then nobody's like nobody from the left is saying like you've got to renounce those.
00:36:27.260And swear your allegiance to apparently the genocidal state of Canada.
00:36:31.640If you ask the left, they have to figure out where they fit on this stuff, because the cognitive dissonance is real.
00:36:38.000And I can't wait for it to destroy them all while I stand back and just watch my enemies fight with each other.
00:37:23.760But God bless the independent media in Canada who is revealing a lot of these a lot of these interesting quirks about his personality and background that we would not have known had we trusted the mainstream media to be telling us the stories because they're not.
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