Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ British Columbia crybullies try to get a free speech event cancelled

00:00:00.000 Radical left-wing cry-bullies try to get a free-stage conference cancelled in British Columbia, and then they fail spectacularly.

00:00:08.020 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:10.400 Friends, do you know what the Streisand effect is?

00:00:31.160 I'm sure you've heard the phrase used before, but do you know where it comes from?

00:00:34.720 Let's go to Wikipedia, which is not always the most reliable of resources, but it's pretty fair this time around.

00:00:42.100 So, the Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

00:00:53.600 The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbara Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu,

00:01:06.680 taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.

00:01:14.900 So, now you know what the Streisand effect is, and why it has that name, and why it seems to always be the case.

00:01:24.100 When you try to censor something, that's when people have their attention drawn to it.

00:01:30.020 When you try to censor me, that's why I get a little bit louder.

00:01:33.280 The exact thing has happened in British Columbia at a conference called We Unify.

00:01:37.860 This is the third year of the conference, but this year, the conference is very nearly sold out.

00:01:44.260 Why? Because of left-wing attempts to censor the speakers, including my friend, Drea Humphrey, who joins me right now to discuss We Unify.

00:01:52.960 Take a listen.

00:02:00.840 Joining me now is my friend, Rebel News All-Star and BC Bureau Chief, Drea Humphrey.

00:02:07.860 To discuss the attempts to cancel a pretty mainstream conference, given the list of speakers and activists there, including her.

00:02:19.380 Drea, what's going on in British Columbia this time?

00:02:23.560 Well, thanks for having me.

00:02:25.280 It's never a dull moment in left coast, British Columbia.

00:02:30.080 You're right.

00:02:30.900 The conference itself, it's nonpartisan.

00:02:34.420 It's called We Unify.

00:02:36.220 It takes place in Victoria.

00:02:37.540 I've covered it for the public two years in a row.

00:02:40.880 I spoke at it last year.

00:02:43.160 And it really is just a discussion.

00:02:46.180 People come together and talk about ways to improve Canada.

00:02:50.900 And unlike the previous two years, where it went by at the Capitol without much backlash, if any,

00:02:59.220 this time the forces, the Rainbow Mafia has come out and claimed it as a transphobic, hateful event, in particular, because of speakers like myself.

00:03:12.400 Okay, well, they don't know what you're going to say.

00:03:15.420 Exactly.

00:03:16.040 Exactly.

00:03:16.640 Well, not only that, they kind of do.

00:03:19.400 The topic of this conference is focusing on disinformation and censorship.

00:03:26.240 So, and it's crazy because these activists and these groups have come out and spread disinformation to demand censorship.

00:03:35.960 They're not even hiding it anymore.

00:03:38.140 They actually have a campaign from a group called One Million Voices of Inclusion, and it's just called canceled conference.

00:03:45.680 Like, there's no, that really isn't, and, you know, they're making themselves, you know, a victim in this situation when there has been no crime, and there is no indication that it was even going to focus on anything to do with LGBTQ.

00:04:03.920 Now, is that going to come up?

00:04:05.300 Of course it is.

00:04:06.220 It's Pride Month.

00:04:07.980 It's pretty much impossible to go anywhere.

00:04:11.480 I saw a meme.

00:04:12.460 I'll give it to you.

00:04:13.100 You can put it on the screen.

00:04:14.040 You know, a person trying to shop for belts and socks or something like that, and you're going to see Pride propaganda everywhere.

00:04:20.800 So, I imagine it's going to come up, but it's certainly not the focus.

00:04:25.880 Do these people understand that they are, like, it's impossible to parody them anymore. 0.50

00:04:31.040 Like, I can't say, like, I can't even make fun of cancel culture anymore because every time I try to poke fun at them, they take that as, like, an inspiration to do the next dumb thing.

00:04:41.060 It's a conference about censorship, and they're calling for you to be censored.

00:04:47.460 For me, I think this speaks to how effective these gatherings really are, because after two years of it really not being on their radar, they're realizing, oh, shoot, they're having, like, reasonable conversations and advancing ideas and inspiring people.

00:05:04.920 Like, well, we better shut them up.

00:05:08.200 How are they going about their attempts to cancel the conference?

00:05:13.300 Are they putting pressure on the conference organizers?

00:05:15.900 I know sometimes they go and put pressure on the venues themselves to put them in an untenable situation.

00:05:22.740 How is this happening?

00:05:23.840 Well, they're doing it in a few ways.

00:05:26.480 They had a little bit of success in one area.

00:05:28.880 I'll explain that.

00:05:29.960 The main thing they're doing is focusing on this list of most dangerous speakers, and I think there's five names, and, of course, I made the list.

00:05:38.520 The first time I saw the list come out by my name, it said that I was dangerous because I make a living off of glorifying my likes.

00:05:47.980 And I was like, what does it even mean?

00:05:51.400 I don't know what that means, and I was quite disappointed.

00:05:54.320 If you're going to make up a lie about me, at least have something good.

00:05:57.100 So they've switched it now to me being transphobic, and one of their activists who goes by, or maybe her name is May Monique May, or May Monique, they've even gone to a city council meeting.

00:06:13.340 Granted, after Victoria said, hey, listen, this conference is taking place at the Victoria Convention Centre, and we are subject to the Constitution.

00:06:23.140 People have the right to freely gather and express themselves.

00:06:27.160 So that was good for Victoria because we've seen a different response to that in Quebec to the B.C. pastor who had just a worship convention going on.

00:06:37.000 But in response to that, you had a couple of activists go to a council meeting, demanding that it be cancelled, and this Monique May went so far as to talk about my Kamloops documentary.

00:06:50.340 Of course, she didn't actually explain what it was about.

00:06:52.760 She didn't mention at all that it had anything to do with debunking the false claim that there had been 215 unmarked graves of children discovered there, which was never discovered.

00:07:03.500 Instead, she said that it's denying residential schools.

00:07:07.100 So they're really taking these cheap shots.

00:07:09.580 What did seem or has been effective is there was supposed to be a dinner, sort of a pre-conference dinner that was supposed to take place at Victoria's, it's called the Union Club of B.C.

00:07:21.180 And it's a really nice venue, and people are going to get together, and that has been cancelled.

00:07:27.560 So the Union Club cancelled that.

00:07:29.860 Apparently, there's another location for this.

00:07:31.760 Of course, they're not announcing that location.

00:07:34.260 And then the conference itself is continuing to go on as scheduled.

00:07:39.040 Another name that they're going after in the list of five, which is quite shocking, is Zuby.

00:07:44.020 And if you know anything about Zuby, he just, I've never met the guy, but he just seems like the nicest guy ever.

00:07:50.960 He's very chill, very low-key, musician, podcaster, author, public speaker, very intelligent.

00:07:59.460 And they're going after him, and it's just embarrassing.

00:08:02.720 He's coming from the United States to actually host it.

00:08:05.420 And as you know, everybody has eyes on Canada as an example of how far you can fall and where not to go.

00:08:12.600 So there are some Americans that are invested in this and coming to, like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Drew Pinsky, but they're really going after Zuby for some weird reason.

00:08:23.880 You know, it's so strange because, like, I just made a note.

00:08:28.060 Like, if I were on the left, if they were, like, you guys, your list of people to be canceled or, like, the five deadliest speakers, pretty diverse.

00:08:39.440 I know.

00:08:40.340 Like, the cancel culture list is probably more diverse than the people calling for cancel culture.

00:08:47.600 They're always asking for, like, representation of people of color on lists, and, like, I guess they did it this time. 1.00

00:08:54.940 Yeah.

00:08:55.580 And, you know, they're not getting the response that they want to get, of course, like I mentioned from the city.

00:09:02.780 I also saw some Reddit chats about it, and I'll give you this to put on the screen here.

00:09:08.960 But just as an example, and I'm seeing this happen all over social media with people who are trying to have it canceled and saying,

00:09:14.840 sign our letter campaign, that's another thing they're doing, a letter campaign, where they want you sending the letter to the city council.

00:09:21.720 And so you have this activist here who has basically put this out.

00:09:27.440 Oh, my gosh, there's these transphobic speakers coming, and we have to have it canceled.

00:09:32.060 And in the Reddit thread, people are responding to the spore man, and they're just saying,

00:09:38.740 you're giving them more publicity.

00:09:40.960 Like, just leave them alone.

00:09:42.640 Now, I didn't even know about this conference.

00:09:44.560 Now, I've heard about it five times, how many more people are buying tickets.

00:09:48.680 And a lot of them, surprisingly, appear to be on the left.

00:09:51.920 They're like, I don't agree with this.

00:09:53.120 I don't like this.

00:09:54.200 I don't like those speakers.

00:09:55.580 However, we have freedom of speech, and we shouldn't be attacking it.

00:09:59.760 And so his very last post, after everybody goes to it, the spore man says, 0.97

00:10:05.200 shoot, sorry, all, I thought Victoria was a progressive city full of compassionate people.

00:10:10.760 My bad. 0.81

00:10:11.980 Yeah, you're bad, buddy.

00:10:13.660 Yeah.

00:10:14.160 So the pendulum has definitely swung here.

00:10:18.220 Things are changing, and people are realizing that the whole hijacked LGBTQ plus community, it's no longer what it was. 1.00

00:10:26.060 It's not about equality, and that people who are saying very common sense things, like children shouldn't be able to mutilate and sterilize themselves, are not transphobes.

00:10:36.700 Right.

00:10:37.480 I think that's where most people are.

00:10:39.200 They're like, I don't care how you live your life.

00:10:40.980 I'm too busy living mine to care, but would you mind leaving the little ones alone?

00:10:45.540 Yeah.

00:10:45.780 I think that's where most people are, and that's not a radical sentiment.

00:10:50.140 It was the completely sane sentiment until, like, 30 seconds ago.

00:10:54.600 Now, for the speaker's part, I know you will not be rattled by this.

00:11:00.560 I think you come at this the same way I do.

00:11:02.680 If you're telling me to shut up, I'm just going to talk louder.

00:11:05.140 Mm-hmm.

00:11:06.160 But the rest of the speakers, are some of them being rattled, or are they more stalwart than ever that they're going to go to this conference and talk?

00:11:14.380 I mean, I'm not organizing the conference.

00:11:16.440 From what I know, there has been no rattling.

00:11:18.980 I've asked for updates on, you know, now that the push to cancel it, what are the updates?

00:11:24.080 I haven't got any updates.

00:11:25.560 Now, Lauren Chen was supposed to be the host, and for personal reasons, she's not able to come.

00:11:32.640 The activists are twisting that as though it has something to do with them.

00:11:37.280 Of course, a victory.

00:11:37.960 So just to be clear, she has not been affected by this at all.

00:11:42.180 I think the people on the list, you know, we're used to this.

00:11:45.840 We've been speaking out about many different things.

00:11:49.120 If you're standing for freedom now, apparently that's controversial.

00:11:53.220 So we're kind of all used to this cancel culture thing in our own ways, and it's not too surprising.

00:11:59.020 So how do people get tickets?

00:12:02.240 Because I know, Rebel News viewers, we can hear you talk every single day for free, by and large.

00:12:07.700 But how do people, if they want to support what I think is a rebellious act of free speech to go to this conference at this point?

00:12:14.780 At this point.

00:12:15.660 Before, it would have just been informative and fun, and you get to see people who you don't normally get to see in Canada, which is great.

00:12:23.040 But now, this is a rebellious act of opposition to cancel culture.

00:12:28.040 How do people get tickets to see you speak?

00:12:31.260 Well, my understanding is the tickets are almost sold out.

00:12:34.080 Again, I'm not organizing it, and it's a pretty large venue.

00:12:36.560 Thanks, left-wing cancel culture.

00:12:38.180 I know, right?

00:12:39.640 It's a pretty large venue, but if you go to weunify.ca, then you will be able to get a ticket if there's still a ticket left.

00:12:49.260 And I will definitely see you there.

00:12:50.960 And, yeah, I do think it's taking a stand for freedom of speech at this point.

00:12:55.640 I wouldn't be surprised if there's some scraggly protesters there.

00:13:00.240 It is Victoria, after all.

00:13:02.200 But I think everybody's just ready to push past that anyways and actually try to get some solutions for how to move forward in a better fashion for Canada.

00:13:14.100 Yeah, I think that's great.

00:13:15.280 And, like, the whole name of the conference speaks to what it is.

00:13:17.760 How do we reunify this divisive culture that we live in thanks to our politicians and their segregationist policies?

00:13:25.500 Speaking of segregationist policies, let's talk about Pride Month, Pride Season.

00:13:35.180 You know, like, you and I were talking before I hit record.

00:13:38.620 Oh, what a relief.

00:13:39.660 We're almost half—well, we are halfway through Pride Month, but you rightfully corrected me.

00:13:44.380 No, no, Sheila, it's Pride Season now. 0.72

00:13:46.080 Yeah, we are, I guess, only one-sixth of the way through that.

00:13:49.860 But I think the tide is turning.

00:13:54.720 I think a lot of people have had enough.

00:13:59.200 They are, by and large, accepting of sexual minorities, except insofar as—and I think this is where I'm at. 0.99

00:14:07.280 I don't care what you do, but just don't make me care.

00:14:09.660 And a lot of people are being tired of being made to care because they're tired of constantly being on guard for what's being pushed at their children.

00:14:18.760 What sort of stories are you working on in the progressive hotbed of British Columbia right now?

00:14:23.680 Yeah, well, the tips keep coming in.

00:14:26.680 It's never-ending, and my stomach is churning each time because, of course, the tips that come in are related to children most of the time.

00:14:35.460 That's where I think people have had enough.

00:14:38.760 It's one thing to have to go into stores and see these things in the commercials.

00:14:43.500 Or the other day I was watching YouTube makeup tutorials.

00:14:46.860 It's all men. 1.00

00:14:48.020 I know!

00:14:48.740 Half of it is men popping up.

00:14:50.880 When you shop or if you shop online, you look for things.

00:14:53.960 You're looking—I was looking at H&M yesterday, and it was what I believe is a little boy.

00:14:59.580 It looks like an Adam's apple in the women's dress section.

00:15:02.700 So that's one thing.

00:15:04.560 But when you come for the kids, that's where people start saying the quiet part out loud.

00:15:09.060 And so many of you did see my recent report.

00:15:12.960 If not, I recommend you watch that because it's representative of so many things that are happening in the school district right now.

00:15:19.200 But it was the Sook BC district, and they basically, behind parents' back, plotted,

00:15:25.860 how can we best get these kids to a pride parade without the parents knowing until last second?

00:15:31.760 And, oh, your kid—you don't want your kid to go to that?

00:15:35.180 Well, then they can't go to school.

00:15:36.320 And so, of course, some people are like, good, don't take them to school.

00:15:40.200 But you should have the option to take the child to school.

00:15:43.400 It shouldn't be forced on you if your child won't engage in sex activism.

00:15:48.120 So I actually have more stories coming up like that now that—I'm sure, Sheila, you see this too.

00:15:54.880 When you put something out, then you get more tips related to that.

00:15:57.820 So now I see that this isn't just an isolated event to that district.

00:16:01.600 There's more districts, so stay tuned to that, but be very vigilant about what your kids are being taught in school.

00:16:09.600 In the beginning of that report, I talk about a family member.

00:16:12.560 I'll just say it's one of my nieces who, long story short, she was taken out of school to avoid the pride madness that happens in the beginning of the year. 0.85

00:16:22.860 And in her absence, the teacher made a pride flag for her.

00:16:26.940 Like, at what point do you miss school and the teacher does your homework for you, the teacher does your assignment for you?

00:16:34.660 That is nuts.

00:16:35.940 So she came back to school.

00:16:38.220 The teacher gives her this and takes it home, and, of course, she gave it to me.

00:16:41.400 But it was so funny when I was talking to her, I was like, you know, do you ever do anything for, like, Black History Month?

00:16:47.500 And she's like, what's that?

00:16:49.280 You know what I mean?

00:16:50.280 Like, so it's just, there's just this unreasonable, unnatural focus on this under the guise of inclusivity.

00:16:59.800 So I have lots of reports.

00:17:01.640 And, in fact, those reports happen all year because this is being pushed all year.

00:17:05.000 It's just more potent this time, and the best month of school, that's when it gets celebrated and worshipped the most.

00:17:14.740 Yeah, and this, as you rightly point out, happens in the most pernicious of ways.

00:17:22.180 So you think in Alberta we're safe, right?

00:17:24.480 We've got a premier who's taking a stand against this stuff.

00:17:27.100 Safer.

00:17:27.460 And Saskatchewan also premier taking a stand against this stuff, but these activist teachers frequently find a workaround.

00:17:37.920 So our friend Sarah Stock just did a report about what happened in an Edmonton high school where parents are supposed to be alerted in advance about this sort of stuff.

00:17:47.920 But what they did was they left it till almost the very last second to alert parents about a lunchtime drag queen coming in and gyrating in sequined ladies' underpants to a bunch of high schoolers and failing to alert the parents in any sort of adequate amount of time.

00:18:05.180 And then I know I was just tipped off to a story in Saskatchewan where Saskatchewan has outlawed or at least done their best to yank a lot of this sex activism out of the classroom.

00:18:16.880 But wouldn't you know, you get an activist librarian who is shoveling up the sex activist books to little kids. 1.00

00:18:24.940 And I'm wondering, you know, like when your kid comes home from school and they're like, who's the Anthony Hende highway named after?

00:18:32.700 And you're like, why are they teaching about pride stuff when you don't know who one of the first Europeans to see the interior of Alberta and British Columbia is?

00:18:41.900 I mean, we're really missing the boat.

00:18:43.320 China's going to take us over because their kids are going to be smarter. 1.00

00:18:46.000 Well, I think that's the goal.

00:18:48.640 But I'm reminded of one interview I did and it was very, I don't know if progressive is the right word.

00:18:56.180 It was a father and his child brought one of those books home.

00:18:59.280 I think it was a 13-year-old girl and he's very open to all of this, except he had to hide the books from her younger sibling.

00:19:08.680 Right.

00:19:09.000 And he's like, I should not have to hide school books from her siblings.

00:19:12.800 And that to him was like, okay, something's wrong here.

00:19:15.220 Like, he was okay that the child appeared to learn something in school and now be questioning her identity, who she was.

00:19:23.080 He was okay with that.

00:19:24.020 But he's like, it just doesn't seem right that I have to hide school books from him.

00:19:28.540 So there's so much of that happening.

00:19:31.040 And it reminds me of the COVID stuff where people were quiet, not saying much.

00:19:36.600 And then people started talking.

00:19:38.800 Then everybody started talking.

00:19:39.900 Then you see the memes.

00:19:40.820 Then you see the jokes.

00:19:41.780 And then it gets to the point where they push it so hard that there's like a hesitancy created.

00:19:48.680 Now we know, for example, with flu vaccines, people aren't getting flu vaccines.

00:19:51.840 Even health care workers, they're not getting flu vaccines.

00:19:54.100 It's dropped so much because of what the government did.

00:19:58.240 And I think that that's starting to happen now with all of the pride propaganda. 0.67

00:20:02.660 People didn't mind when they saw it here and there.

00:20:04.800 And now they're, you know, I saw in Walmart, there was onesies.

00:20:09.940 I was looking for a white onesie, actually, for a baby shower.

00:20:13.860 And there was only pride white onesies.

00:20:17.240 And somebody had already put them on the floor.

00:20:19.460 It wasn't me.

00:20:20.680 I might have been tempted.

00:20:22.020 But they were all just laying on the floor, all of them.

00:20:24.560 And so I'm like, people have just had enough.

00:20:27.440 And you've created sort of hesitancy to any real issues that might be in that group now.

00:20:34.200 People are like, they're not, they don't care.

00:20:35.840 They don't want to hear about it.

00:20:37.220 Yeah.

00:20:37.420 You know, and it's from the people who you would normally suspect would be like supportive

00:20:43.840 of that side of things.

00:20:46.040 For example, I was speaking to somebody who works in like aesthetics and hairdressing

00:20:52.760 and stuff like that the other day.

00:20:55.520 And, you know, like that's a very gay industry, right? 0.85

00:21:00.160 Like a lot of men who work in like nails and hair, like that's a gay industry. 1.00

00:21:05.800 And her and her male colleague were like, I don't know why they have to play the sports

00:21:10.580 against the girls.

00:21:11.860 Yeah.

00:21:12.720 Yeah.

00:21:13.400 Yeah, me neither.

00:21:14.720 It's a big one.

00:21:15.540 Yeah.

00:21:16.040 But Leah Thomas, I heard, not Leah Thomas.

00:21:20.440 Yeah. 0.76

00:21:21.240 Yeah, Leah Thomas, Liar Thomas.

00:21:23.060 Yes. 0.93

00:21:23.280 Yeah, Liar Thomas.

00:21:24.080 I'm so used to saying Liar is not allowed to compete now.

00:21:27.400 Am I right?

00:21:28.180 Yes.

00:21:28.600 That was big news.

00:21:29.500 So yeah, the tides are turning.

00:21:31.680 I really do believe that.

00:21:33.300 I think the left has overplayed their hand as they always do.

00:21:37.840 This side or this time it didn't end in mass extermination as it tends to do when the 0.98

00:21:42.940 left overplays their hand.

00:21:44.760 But I'm hopeful that normal people have just had enough.

00:21:49.040 You know, you're shamed into going along with a lot of these things.

00:21:53.060 You know, like it's our job to be contrarian.

00:21:56.060 And so we are a little bit more empowered than other people who may face, you know, job loss

00:22:01.840 if they tell the truth.

00:22:03.080 Yeah.

00:22:03.240 So I think we're very lucky in that regard.

00:22:06.300 But a lot of people have been just sort of shamed into going along with this.

00:22:09.800 And now they've had enough.

00:22:11.060 We're seeing it with this issue.

00:22:12.720 We're seeing it with climate change issues.

00:22:14.640 Like people who are like, oh, you know, whatever.

00:22:17.300 The TV tells me that my SUV is causing climate change.

00:22:21.080 Okay, whatever.

00:22:21.860 I believe it.

00:22:22.760 Until now they can't afford to eat because of climate policies.

00:22:25.500 And all of a sudden the pendulum is swinging back the other way.

00:22:28.960 So hopefully we maybe only have 18 more months to deal with this nonsense.

00:22:34.540 Well, in B.C. we have the polls coming in four months, less than four months.

00:22:38.620 So it should be very interesting to see what happens.

00:22:42.060 You know what?

00:22:42.640 Before I let you go, because I know we're both very, very busy today.

00:22:45.280 Predictions about the political landscape in British Columbia.

00:22:50.720 I know that you weren't always a very careful watcher about, you know, political parties in B.C.

00:22:56.280 Although it's very interesting now, everything that's going on.

00:23:00.200 You have a rise of a conservative party.

00:23:02.140 Your right of center party is moving more to the right in response to that.

00:23:07.020 The left, your NDP is adopting some conservative policies in an attempt, I think, to save themselves from themselves

00:23:14.420 with regard to safe injection and a safe supply.

00:23:18.180 They're sort of cozying up to the conservatives on that issue after being proponents of drug legalization for a very long time.

00:23:24.740 What's happening in B.C.?

00:23:26.900 Yeah, it is a fascinating time in B.C. politics.

00:23:30.440 Very interesting stuff happening.

00:23:33.140 I guess I'll let people know we do have a website called bcleadershipreports.ca

00:23:39.680 where I've been throwing all of those reports on it.

00:23:42.840 But basically, out of nowhere, the dormant conservative party came to life, I guess you could say, in 2022.

00:23:50.740 And then B.C. United, which was, they called it a coalition party.

00:23:55.860 But if you were a conservative voter in the province, that's pretty much who you voted for.

00:24:01.100 They used to be called B.C. liberals, which was very confusing.

00:24:04.320 You know, they had ousted John Rustad, who is now the leader of the conservative party.

00:24:11.960 And they have, last I checked, four MLAs that have all come from the B.C. United party.

00:24:20.300 And so there's been a lot going on.

00:24:22.340 There was talks of a merger.

00:24:23.540 Then it was very clear there is no merger happening.

00:24:27.020 Shots were fired back and forth.

00:24:29.580 It's crazy.

00:24:30.680 So, you know, as far as predictions going, you have people saying, oh, there's going to be a massive vote splitting

00:24:37.360 because those two centre-right parties didn't come together.

00:24:41.880 When you look at the polls, you see that the B.C. conservatives are just nailing B.C. United.

00:24:48.140 I mean, last I checked, I think B.C. United was getting like, I want to say like 10% or something like that.

00:24:55.180 And there's even some polls where the B.C. conservatives are doing just as good as the NDP.

00:25:02.820 I think that the NDP is still strong because the support for EB is staying the same.

00:25:10.360 It's not moving that much, but the conservatives keep creeping up to it.

00:25:14.160 So very fascinating time in the next few months are very crucial for that party and B.C. United for sure.

00:25:22.100 Yeah, I'm just I'm very worried for British Columbia because we did live through a vote split that delivered us the NDP here in Alberta

00:25:29.800 because we had two conservative parties, won the old one, won the new one.

00:25:35.040 Now the new one took over the old one, changed the name.

00:25:37.480 So hopefully you guys get through that.

00:25:39.300 But there's not enough time to do that before the next election.

00:25:43.080 And I think you suffer from the same thing I think everywhere in this country suffers from,

00:25:47.460 is that the population base in Vancouver, much the same way the population base in parts of Calgary

00:25:55.220 and all of Edmonton lean far left.

00:25:58.420 And that forces the rest of the province to live under the tyranny of the far left for a long time

00:26:05.080 until finally everybody has had enough.

00:26:06.860 But hopefully everybody can get their act together in British Columbia.

00:26:10.100 And it would be really nice to have that entire western block of the country staring at Justin Trudeau

00:26:17.240 and instilling fear in the hearts of the liberals in Laurentia.

00:26:22.360 Yeah, that would be a beauty.

00:26:25.160 Drea, thanks so much for the hard work that you do here at Rebel News.

00:26:28.660 Advocating for families and for children and for accountability in government.

00:26:34.060 And I know I have to let you go, let you get back to work.

00:26:37.440 But I can't wait to see what you do next.

00:26:39.680 Thanks for having me.

00:26:48.280 Well, as always, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback

00:26:52.500 because, well, without you, there's no Rebel News.

00:26:55.560 We're not like the CBC or, for that matter, the rest of the media in this country,

00:26:59.680 save for a few that take handouts from Justin Trudeau to hold him to account.

00:27:05.940 As if you could hold him to account if he took money from Justin Trudeau.

00:27:09.240 You know that every story is either a grant application or the potential severing of any sort of money

00:27:18.280 that Justin Trudeau would give you.

00:27:20.200 So, you know, when you take in their content, be fully aware of that.

00:27:23.940 But because we rely on you, that's why I have a viewer portion of the show.

00:27:29.880 You should be able to give me feedback about the show that only exists because of you.

00:27:36.200 So I give out my email address right now.

00:27:38.280 It's sheila at rebelnews.com.

00:27:39.760 Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know why you're emailing me.

00:27:42.680 But if you are watching a free clip of the show over on YouTube or Rumble,

00:27:47.320 thank you in advance for sitting through those ads.

00:27:49.520 Every little bit helps.

00:27:50.980 But don't let sending me an email be a bar for sending me viewer feedback.

00:27:59.200 Leave a comment in the comment section of those two platforms, YouTube or Rumble,

00:28:04.040 and sometimes I go poking around over there, which is exactly what I did today.

00:28:08.160 So today's viewer feedback comes from Sandy Trimble on YouTube

00:28:13.840 who wrote in on last week's show with Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science

00:28:19.860 who pointed out how problematic, to use the language of the left,

00:28:24.680 it is for the federal government to be injecting their expensive, failed,

00:28:31.260 and potentially devastating green schemes into municipal housing policies,

00:28:36.620 tying green affordable funding for housing to green schemes that have to be implemented locally,

00:28:47.880 where, you know, Calgary's climate is, of course, different than Edmonton's climate,

00:28:52.300 which is different than Fort McMurray's climate,

00:28:53.860 which is different than Victoria, British Columbia's climate.

00:28:56.180 So how do you do this?

00:28:57.860 And should you even do it, given the unreliable nature of green policies

00:29:03.280 and how they can add to the cost of home building, right?

00:29:08.520 So, Sandy Trimble writes,

00:29:12.120 if you live in a nice suburban neighborhood,

00:29:15.180 read Older Suburban Neighborhood, where you have an actual lot with mature trees,

00:29:19.240 get prepared for multiple fourplexes and all that will bring to your homes.

00:29:23.460 Yeah, there will be no character in our cities.

00:29:47.380 They're all going to look gross and the same.

00:29:48.880 And why are we even doing this?

00:29:52.060 We're one of the most sparsely populated places on the face of the earth here in Canada.

00:29:56.700 Why do we have to crowd everybody in on top of each other in these little human ant farms 1.00

00:30:03.540 with these like six or 700 square foot coffins stacked on top of each other for people to live in?

00:30:10.060 That's not how people want to live.

00:30:11.840 That's not the human inclination.

00:30:13.340 We are a communal people, as in we like to live near other people.

00:30:18.540 We're not a solitary species, but we also like room to grow and build and innovate.

00:30:24.940 So, what we're doing to people in the pursuit of fighting, I don't know, urban sprawl,

00:30:32.760 as though that's a bad thing to have urban sprawl, spread out people enjoying nature

00:30:36.620 and not having people within elbows reach.

00:30:39.160 But what we're doing to people is antithetical to everything we know about humanity.

00:30:46.380 And what happened during COVID, right?

00:30:50.580 They had concerns about New York subways being too crowded and that it might spread COVID too fast.

00:30:58.240 Now, that wasn't actually the case, but let's say we had like a real pandemic and not whatever COVID was.

00:31:03.480 Because having people, we know this from the Middle Ages, we know this from the plague. 0.91

00:31:09.500 Having people stacked on top of each other in condensed urban centers is bad for human health

00:31:16.400 and sanitation and disease control.

00:31:19.520 So, yeah, this is just a terrible idea all around.

00:31:23.700 Calgary is a great example of this, by the way.

00:31:25.700 Calgary right now is under water restrictions because this world-class gem of a city

00:31:32.860 invested into green nonsense and public art instead of actual infrastructure.

00:31:40.740 You know, the city didn't do the one thing that the city exists to do,

00:31:44.280 and that's to provide reliable infrastructure and sanitation.

00:31:48.660 They didn't bother to do that.

00:31:50.000 They built ugly art and thought that they needed to set aside $80-plus billion for green nonsense. 0.85

00:31:58.280 And now a massive water main broke.

00:32:01.140 For some reason, the city is not calling in the private sector

00:32:04.180 because if there's anything we know how to do here in Alberta, it's build and fix pipelines.

00:32:10.580 But the city isn't bringing in the private sector to deal with the water main break,

00:32:16.080 and I've got my suspicions why, as in I think the private sector might point out a whole host of problems they see,

00:32:27.820 engineering problems with the public infrastructure that Mayor G.O.D. Gondek

00:32:33.720 and previous to her Nahid Nenshi completely ignored.

00:32:37.360 That's my conspiracy theory, but Calgary didn't ramp up its essential infrastructure to deal with

00:32:48.020 how they are now currently trying to pile people in on top of each other.

00:32:52.340 And so continuing to do this in cities across the country, as Michelle Sterling pointed out,

00:32:58.200 is going to cause catastrophic infrastructure failings, all in the name of green energy.

00:33:04.580 So let's not do it.

00:33:07.600 This is why I don't live anywhere.

00:33:09.760 Like I live somewhere, but I don't live in a city.

00:33:12.940 I don't live in a town.

00:33:14.200 I'm on the land, not near any neighbors, and I like it that way.

00:33:20.460 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:33:22.320 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:33:23.560 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:33:26.720 And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:33:30.320 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - June 20, 2024

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ British Columbia crybullies try to get a free speech event cancelled

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