The Emergencies Act inquiry continues to soldier along in Ottawa, and Rebel News Chief Reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed will offer her analysis of the week that was. And Tamara Ugolini recently attended the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. Well, sort of. You see, unlike the trained seals in the mainstream media, Tamara tends to ask prickly questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and other co-ordinated lockdowns. And by doing so, well, that results in Tamara being exiled from the conference.
00:00:00.000Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at
00:00:04.800some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:00:10.320Well, the Emergencies Act inquiry continues to soldier along in Ottawa, and Rebel News Chief
00:00:16.120Reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed will offer her analysis of the week that was. And Tamara Ugolini recently
00:00:24.120attended the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. Well, sort of. You see, unlike the
00:00:30.580trained seals in the mainstream media, Tamara tends to ask prickly questions about the COVID-19
00:00:36.840vaccine and COVID-19-inspired lockdowns. And by doing so, well, that results in Tamara being
00:00:45.500exiled from the conference. Unbelievable. Tamara will join me to share all the egregious details.
00:00:51.840And letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day. And you
00:00:56.680have plenty to say about our latest Jumbotron-equipped truck that urged Ontario Premier Doug Ford to
00:01:04.800come out of hiding and testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry. Will he do so? Or is this yet another
00:01:13.120matter of fat chance? In any event, those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.
00:01:21.840You know, when it's all wrapped up and the commissioner, if he finds that there was no justification for the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act, should there be consequences for the federal government, including your resignation?
00:01:40.680But we knew from the very beginning that invoking the Emergencies Act is a big step. It had never
00:01:47.120been done before. But given these unprecedented illegal protests, we needed to take action.
00:01:52.400We took it in a way that was measured, that was responsible, that was time-limited. And we
00:01:57.680knew full well that there needed to be a public inquiry. Canadians need that level of transparency
00:02:03.000and accountability. And that's why we launched this inquiry. That's why I'm so happy that I offered from the beginning to be part of appearing at this commission. And we're going to make sure that Canadians see the situation we were facing and how the tools we used were appropriate.
00:02:20.000But if it's found that there was no justification for it, again, what should the consequences be for that?
00:02:25.000I think the important thing is for Canadians to understand the situation we were in and the choices we make. We didn't enter into using the Emergencies Act lightly. We used it with a sense of it was the necessary tool at the time.
00:02:42.000We used it in a way that was measured and proportionate. And we're really pleased that the commission is going to be able to hear from all these witnesses. And that was why I offered to appear.
00:02:54.000He didn't offer to appear. He was subpoenaed. And he didn't offer to have the inquiry. It's built into the invocation of the act. It's an accountability measure built into the act that if you invoke this thing, you're going to have to answer and produce reasons for it.
00:03:10.000This is Tamara talking about what she felt as her prime minister is calling her a racist sexist.
00:03:19.000I was becoming increasingly alarmed listening to my prime minister call me a racist and say that I shouldn't be tolerated.
00:03:36.000I found his rhetoric to be incredibly divisive. And I'm a believer that if you're a leader of a country, you have to lead all of your people, even if you don't agree with them.
00:03:51.000And I just saw so much coming across Canada every day. I heard stories. People, at least three people would tell me they were planning their suicides until we started the convoy or stories of people that we were too late.
00:04:08.000I heard from families that were living in their vehicles because they'd lost their jobs. I heard from people that had lost their jobs and lost everything.
00:04:23.000I have the tears of thousands of Canadians on my shoulder who every day told me that we were bringing them hope.
00:04:36.000I saw little old ladies praying on their knees on the side of the road. And I saw little children holding signs saying thank you for giving me back my future.
00:04:45.000The explanation is I have been absolutely harassed. I've been absolutely defamed character assassination by a certain group and they edit videos and they cut and splice and they take 10 seconds here and they blow it out of proportion.
00:05:04.000And I've been dealing with this for years. And I will give you an opportunity. I'm going to show you some of the videos and I'll give you an opportunity.
00:05:13.000Oh, absolutely. I can't wait. Comment on them. I've been waiting for years.
00:05:16.000Well, folks, the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa is well into its second week.
00:05:21.000And wow, talk about eyebrow raising commentary from some of the people that have been chosen to testify.
00:05:29.000And thankfully, we have someone on staff. That would be our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who's been watching just about every single second of that inquiry.
00:05:41.760And she joins me now to give her her thoughts and opinions on what's been happening these last few days.
00:05:49.660How are you doing there, Sheila Gunn-Reed?
00:05:51.940Oh, David, I'm great. I think as we're recording this, we are almost done.
00:05:56.360We're on day 16 of the Truckers Commission, as we're calling it.
00:06:00.400And we've sort of cut through some of the senior police officers and senior police superintendents, both in OPS, so Ottawa Police Service and the OPP, the Ontario Police.
00:06:14.320We've heard from them and we've heard from senior bureaucrats in the city.
00:06:19.780And now we're moving into convoy organizer territory.
00:06:22.940And as I'm watching this, you can, well, as I said, David, before I jumped, before we started recording, it's kind of a wonder they got to Ottawa at all, because there are a lot of different factions of truckers.
00:06:37.280And I think they started off united, but as pressure came down on them and as they realized we need to have a media strategy because the media is starting to lie about us, they started to engage, I think, rightfully in some political hygiene.
00:06:54.600And that sort of drove people into their respective camps.
00:06:59.020And we're seeing that unfold live on TV every single day.
00:07:03.220And Sheila, let me talk about one particular unsavory individual, in my opinion.
00:07:09.680And it's simply this, does anyone give a rodent's rectum what Pat King has to say about anything, except maybe those in the media, those in government who want to discredit the freedom convoy?
00:07:28.880Yeah, well, to answer your question, who cares what he has to say?
00:07:32.880Definitely the CBC, because he's the kind of guy who's prone to saying wild things, outlandish things, often untrue things.
00:07:41.780And the media takes that as the paintbrush to paint the hole.
00:07:49.800And that's why the convoy organizers and Keith Wilson, the lawyer for the convoy, Tamara Leach, Tom Marazzo, they distance themselves from Pat King, who's from Alberta here.
00:08:01.560And he's got quite a track record out here for a time.
00:08:06.080Last year, he camped out in the legislature grounds until the province had enough of him.
00:08:18.400You know, they started distancing themselves from him once he started saying that politicians are going to get shot.
00:08:25.140However, they were happy to sort of hitch their wagon to Pat King because he had a large social media following.
00:08:33.680And I think everybody learned a tough lesson because of that.
00:08:38.760And you see this with other people, too.
00:08:46.000And right now you can see she's got she's to to this day posting anti Tamara Leach, anti Keith Wilson things on her TikTok.
00:08:56.480We saw today also some you can see some discontent with Benjamin Dichter, who I think was sort of doing communications for the convoy.
00:09:09.700It seems as though at some point Tamara Leach and Keith Wilson sort of cut him out of the communications as they were negotiating with the city to move some trucks and bring an end to the convoy.
00:09:22.040He said, well, I didn't know that a deal was struck.
00:09:25.240In fact, they were telling me no deal was struck.
00:09:27.020But we do know through documents produced earlier in the commission that a deal was struck and there's a paper trail to prove it.
00:09:34.340So I don't I don't know when they decided to cut him out, but it's pretty obvious that they did.
00:09:39.520And I know that Keith Wilson yesterday or rather Wednesday in a press conference said Benjamin Dichter was in charge of the crypto that was coming into the convoy.
00:09:52.940And there's been no accounting of the cryptocurrency that came into the convoy.
00:09:58.420And he would like to see that because that's never happened.
00:10:02.140And that's been a real concern back and forth between the convoy organizers now and Ben Dichter.
00:10:09.580And it's odd from the outside looking in.
00:10:12.620And I'm not even going to speculate, but.
00:10:16.400A lot of people were charged with mischief, but Ben Dichter wasn't.
00:10:21.020And I don't know what's the friction there, why he wasn't charged.
00:10:25.280It seemed like he wanted to stay longer while everybody else was negotiating an end.
00:10:30.320And those who were negotiating an end were the ones that got charged with mischief.
00:12:34.800And the convoy organizers had to distance themselves from James Bowder and his organization, Canada Unity.
00:12:41.700But he's on the stand today, and I mean, he's doing some homemade lawyering on the stand,
00:12:46.060and he's getting a lot of things off his chest, as was with Pat King.
00:12:50.880And I think it's because these guys have been gagged for almost a year through their bail conditions.
00:12:58.760You have been charged with criminal offenses, and I understand that a condition of your bail is that you are not allowed to use social media.
00:13:27.160So, now that they finally have a chance to talk, boy, are they letting her fly.
00:13:32.380And it's, you know, it's becoming difficult and contentious for the lawyers to say,
00:13:36.080okay, but this is the question I asked you.
00:13:37.480I realize you want to talk about these things, but please just answer this one question.
00:13:42.020But some of the questions, moreover to my point, and I sound, frankly, I sound like some of these guys on the stand because I'm not getting to my point.
00:13:48.520My point is, from the government lawyers and from the anti-convoy lawyers, they're asking these guys about their personal opinions from anything from Alex Jones to 9-11 to QAnon.
00:15:29.600This is all irrelevant to the question at hand.
00:15:33.100But, you know, Sheila, we would be remiss if we didn't talk about this ongoing, perverse, and even downright bizarre sidebar of Doug Ford seemingly terrified to take the stand.
00:16:13.460I'm just fine staying right here in Toronto.
00:16:15.540You know, it's fascinating why he's doing this, because the point of the commission is to put it all out there for the public to see.
00:16:24.820It's a public inquiry, because it's important for the public to know who was making the decisions to invoke a counterterrorism law on peaceful protesters and why they were making those decisions and the discussions around those decisions.
00:16:39.400So if Doug Ford is forced to testify, and he absolutely should be, because we can see that there were communications between him and the federal government and him and the OPP, those are not in evidence yet, because Doug Ford is not testifying yet.
00:16:54.620And I think that's exactly why he doesn't want to testify, because when he comes, guess what he has to bring with him?
00:17:00.240All his evidence, all his emails, all that stuff is subpoenaed along with him.
00:17:03.960And I think that's why he's fighting this.
00:17:17.840And if people like James Bowder, Pat King, to his credit, Tamara Leach, they are going to testify, and they have criminal charges against them.
00:17:29.300And they're going to show up and testify to, I guess, in some of the other people's cases, the truth as they would like for it to exist.
00:17:38.780If they're going to show up, these well-kept politicians who did these things to them, they can sure as hell show up too.
00:17:46.900And you know, we went out on Thursday with the Jumbotron-equipped truck, you know, trying to get, trying to go, I guess, Ford into getting out of his office and into that inquiry.
00:18:01.880And I'll tell you this, Sheila, the streeters were somewhat fascinating at Yonge and Dundas Square, which was this.
00:18:09.180There were anti-Ford and pro-Ford people we met.
00:18:13.100There were very well-informed people about the story and other people, tragically, that said, oh, this is the first I've heard of this inquiry.
00:18:21.400But I can tell you this, once the issue was explained, 99% said he should testify.
00:18:29.300So the point is, I don't think he's winning over the hearts and minds of the public by being so cowardly, so terrified about, as you alluded to, maybe some text messages or emails or voicemails that he thought would be forever private and might become public if he has to testify.
00:18:47.860And you know what? He already looks like a chump in this, by the way, because on the very day that he said, oh, I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with Justin Trudeau, I fully invoke or I fully support the invocation of the Emergencies Act for what?
00:19:13.620And they kept a lane of traffic open for emergency vehicles.
00:19:16.980But on the very day that chumpy Doug Ford was saying that, emails were going in as evidence before the commission where Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, and Justin Trudeau in a phone call, it was a readout, sorry, not emails.
00:19:34.500It was a readout of their phone conversation, and they were plotting to stick the whole mess on Doug Ford.
00:19:42.220So, you know, Doug Ford's already been betrayed in his bromance.
00:19:49.340And I think his collusion with Justin Trudeau against the truckers, I think we're going to see a ton of that in his emails.
00:19:58.160And it's going to make him look even more pathetic because he was being played by everybody.
00:20:04.180Oh, you know, you are so right, Sheila.
00:20:07.100Like, just a week ago, Doug Ford saying he stands shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:20:13.940And then just a couple of days ago, Justin Trudeau stabbing him in the back by saying he stands with the teachers unions that predictably are out on strike yet again.
00:20:26.260And I'm reminded of that great phrase from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Caesar is assassinated, which is, et tu, brute, meaning you as well, Brutus.
00:20:40.220And, of course, that could also be the answer to, Doug, how many cheesecakes did you eat today?
00:23:24.340But it's the only preventive measure that we have that we can decrease the severity and decrease the number of cases to help the health system to be able to, you know, cope with the stress.
00:23:40.980As long as the health system is staffed.
00:25:03.560Yeah, we have to have that balance with the policymakers and the scientists and the health and the, because they can think about, you know, look at the children.
00:25:56.540So I don't want to comment on, you know, I think it's, they're pushing to do things on the grassroots level and also bringing more private sector, right?
00:26:09.640Because I think the discussions around multilaterals and governments were, yeah, I mean, setting the policy is great, but it's not really translating as fast as people want it to be in, at the bottom of the pyramid.
00:26:25.960One thing that I didn't sort of see, and of course, it's impossible to meet every conference.
00:39:43.020More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:39:48.640Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario Doug Ford and his former Solicitor General
00:39:52.820Sylvia Jones are trying to shield themselves from public scrutiny and arguably disclosure of
00:39:59.200internal communication by legally resisting the commissioner's subpoena that is being used to try
00:40:05.000to compel them to testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission happening right now in Ottawa.
00:40:11.080I believe there's also someone in court today attacking one of my one of the subpoenas.
00:40:19.840The commission is a legislative requirement meant to scrutinize and determine justification
00:40:26.000for the invocation of the Federal Emergencies Act, which is basically martial law, after it is invoked.
00:40:32.540Something that our overlord, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, did on February 14th
00:40:37.840in response to an annoying trucker convoy that took to the nation's capital in Ottawa for three weeks
00:40:44.180at the end of January earlier this year.
00:40:47.840The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity.
00:40:57.100The convoy was a political annoyance for Trudeau and the Liberal government,
00:41:01.400who had imposed heavy-handed COVID-related mandates onto Canadians,
00:41:06.660but it was also a direct result of annoyed Canadians being continually ignored by all levels of government
00:41:14.420with any opposition to the indiscriminate infringements of the government into their everyday lives.
00:41:21.840And Doug Ford said himself that he stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Trudeau. Check it out.
00:41:27.360Yes, I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Prime Minister.
00:41:32.020These folks were, you know, camping out, everything from whirlpools, disrupting downtown,
00:41:39.200disrupting the lives of the people of Ottawa.
00:41:42.160We've worked collaboratively with the Mayor and the Prime Minister over at the borders.
00:41:48.140They were holding up a billion dollars of trade every single day, getting across our borders.
00:41:53.340We were getting phone calls from governors. It's unacceptable.
00:41:56.380So why is he being dishonest and saying that he wasn't asked to testify?
00:42:02.700How come, Premier Ford, you're not testifying at this inquiry? Were you asked? Did you decline?
00:42:10.000I have not been asked again. I want to repeat what I said earlier.
00:42:14.660We have top officials from the OPP that were running the operation with conjunction with municipal police agencies and the RCMP.
00:42:23.540Because he was asked, and he tried to get out of testifying by offering written submissions.
00:42:30.360It was at that point that the commissioner issued a subpoena for him to testify at the commission.
00:42:37.900And repeatedly, the judge responsible for overhearing the arguments from Ford et al.'s lawyers,
00:42:42.620and both the commissioner and the Ottawa residence lawyer asked whether or not the skirting of the commission requirement
00:42:50.140under this guise of parliamentary privilege was being used as a sword or as a shield.
00:42:56.680And we are going to call on Premier Doug Ford to come out of hiding, to comply with the subpoena and testify in front of the commission as required by the mandate of the Federal Emergencies Act.
00:43:12.520We're immediately launching a campaign at stophiding.ca, where we have a petition that calls on Ford to testify at the commission hearings.
00:43:22.240We have also hired a billboard truck with a similar message that will start its route around Queen's Park in Toronto on November the 3rd.
00:43:31.520So, where's Waldo? I mean, where's Doug?
00:43:35.120Well, we've come right to his business address here at Queen's Park.
00:43:39.140And it's incredible because let's look at the chronology.
00:43:43.080First of all, Doug Ford said he was never asked to testify.
00:43:48.600Do you remember that? Check out this clip.
00:43:50.520How come, Premier Ford, you're not testifying at this inquiry?
00:44:49.940In any event, you had plenty to say about the reluctance of Premier Ford and former Solicitor General Sylvia Jones when it comes to testifying.