Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Cosmin Dzurdza is documenting Canada's culture wars

00:00:00.000 Tonight, we've got Kosman Jirja from True North on the Ottawa Police,

00:00:04.240 the woke military, and Trudeau blaming your loaf of bread for his climate change.

00:00:08.440 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:10.800 The Gunn Show

00:00:40.800 to fill a void left by the state-sponsored mainstream media.

00:00:45.340 And someone doing some incredible investigative reporting on the culture wars is Kosman Jirja

00:00:50.160 over at True North.

00:00:51.820 If he's not investigating the progressive madness unfolding at the school board level,

00:00:56.760 he's investigating the poison of wokeness as it seeps into and infects our public institutions,

00:01:03.180 particularly those tasked with keeping us safe.

00:01:06.080 He joins me tonight in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon

00:01:09.300 to discuss his investigations into how the Canadian military brass

00:01:13.260 is going to make the force more inclusive.

00:01:16.980 And after seeing his report, my fear is it's going to alienate good soldiers.

00:01:21.160 We're also talking about his investigation into the Ottawa police

00:01:24.560 and how they've investigated themselves

00:01:26.740 and their own behavior during the convoy protest in Ottawa two months ago.

00:01:31.160 And we're talking about Trudeau's latest attacks on the West.

00:01:34.600 I know you're saying which attack, Sheila,

00:01:37.040 but this is one where he blames farmers and fertilizer use for climate change.

00:01:42.140 Here's our interview.

00:01:43.560 Take a listen.

00:01:44.180 So joining me now is Kosman Jirja from True North.

00:01:54.740 He's a journalist there and he's a senior fellow.

00:01:57.040 Kosman, thanks for joining me.

00:01:58.820 I was just talking to you off air about just,

00:02:01.060 I really pity the amount of gross things you have to look at.

00:02:05.440 And one of them is the wokeness in the military.

00:02:11.060 Why don't we start there?

00:02:13.820 Because you have two really great stories about this drive to make the military more inclusive,

00:02:20.800 but I feel like they're appealing to people who had never joined the military anyway.

00:02:26.780 And I think it alienates good people within the military

00:02:29.980 and they probably just quietly take early retirement and go off to do other things.

00:02:34.120 But why don't you tell us about the drive to make the military more inclusive

00:02:39.920 by permitting fake nails, dyed hair on soldiers and face tattoos?

00:02:46.680 And these are not like face tattoos.

00:02:48.800 If somebody said to me, I'm Maori, it's part of my culture.

00:02:52.360 I have a face tattoo.

00:02:53.620 I'd hear that argument in the same way that I'm,

00:02:56.620 I would hear the argument about a turban or a kirpan. 0.99

00:02:59.640 No, these are like teardrop tattoos and spider webs on someone's neck.

00:03:03.980 Why don't you tell us about it?

00:03:04.960 That's right, Sheila.

00:03:06.680 So what we're seeing is a top-down bureaucratic push to institute these sort of measures

00:03:13.940 that are based on essentially the left-wing ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion.

00:03:20.720 This is coming right from the defence minister.

00:03:24.020 So it's not from the rank and file.

00:03:26.380 I've spoken to many people in the Canadian Armed Forces,

00:03:29.980 including at senior levels and at just lower private levels,

00:03:34.620 and they don't want it.

00:03:35.980 They want a military that's effective at securing this country.

00:03:40.340 So the report you're talking about is actually the military,

00:03:44.640 the Canadian Armed Forces is undergoing a transformation to its uniform policy.

00:03:49.080 And I saw a copy of that draft of that policy,

00:03:54.760 which is supposed to actually come out this month.

00:03:59.740 And it includes all the things you mentioned.

00:04:02.380 You know, soldiers will be allowed to have fake nails, 1.00

00:04:05.160 dye their hair in any colour they wish, have face tattoos.

00:04:09.940 Now, of course, there are some acceptable options,

00:04:14.360 like if you're missing eyebrows from a condition and you need to get tattooed there.

00:04:19.380 That would be fine.

00:04:20.440 But there are so many other changes, including, you know,

00:04:23.900 you can wear jewellery, rings, as many earrings as you want.

00:04:27.980 Women can have beards. 1.00

00:04:29.280 Men can have braided hair, etc.

00:04:32.480 So not only does this totally fly in the face of the unity

00:04:37.280 that the military uniform is supposed to promote,

00:04:41.280 but additionally, it also is totally discredits the military in the world's eyes, right?

00:04:50.080 So and it also causes some safety issues.

00:04:54.840 If you're going out in the field and you have red or blue hair,

00:04:57.660 you will be an easy target.

00:04:59.220 So I really question the thinking that went into putting this together.

00:05:03.440 Yeah, it just all seems so unprofessional.

00:05:07.420 I know even when my daughter was in cadets,

00:05:09.320 she couldn't she would take off her nail polish before she went.

00:05:12.100 Her dress code standards for her hair.

00:05:14.780 It had to be a certain way.

00:05:16.280 And now this is just like anything goes.

00:05:18.900 And I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they're having

00:05:21.860 a hard time getting people to enlist in the military.

00:05:25.780 And I don't think this is going to make it any better.

00:05:27.700 Absolutely. Recruitment has been a big issue for the military for a while.

00:05:34.780 But yeah, I don't think it's this is going to be the solution that the military needs.

00:05:40.340 The military needs certain things like more flexibility for families that,

00:05:45.260 you know, people who for their spouses, for people who have kids

00:05:49.380 so that they can have better living conditions, better pay, things like that.

00:05:53.580 Not plunging the entire military into this woke circus.

00:06:00.160 Yeah, it's they might have better luck dealing with their declining recruitment numbers

00:06:07.240 if they didn't fire all the good people who didn't want to get a vaccine,

00:06:11.540 which I think is happening this week as we speak,

00:06:14.600 that this is will be the final termination for so many soldiers who

00:06:18.500 either didn't get the COVID vaccine or declined to divulge their vaccination status.

00:06:23.620 So there's all kinds of accommodations being made for all sorts of people,

00:06:27.760 except those guys.

00:06:30.000 Exactly. It's a double edged sword.

00:06:32.800 On one hand, people are being driven out of the military because of this woke diversity,

00:06:39.000 equity stuff.

00:06:39.980 And on the other hand, they were driven out during the pandemic

00:06:42.820 because they wouldn't comply with that policy.

00:06:46.540 And they decided to make a personal health decision.

00:06:49.760 So it will be interesting to see who is left behind and what kind of people the military will cater to.

00:06:57.580 You know, I expect fully it'll be, you know, city slickers who who don't want to carry that,

00:07:02.800 you know, 80 pound kits in the field.

00:07:05.880 So, yes, it is it is a huge transformation.

00:07:10.020 And as I said, it's from the top down.

00:07:12.220 I really do think this is coming from the defense minister and people in the military are going along with it.

00:07:19.260 Right. We saw that that people who question these policies like those unvaccinated soldiers get kicked to the side. 0.59

00:07:26.480 We saw that with the admiral from the Navy, Norman,

00:07:29.980 who was also attacked by the liberal government for not complying with their plans.

00:07:35.880 So I think the top senior ranks are afraid of losing their careers

00:07:41.420 and they're putting that ahead of the interest of national security.

00:07:46.160 Yeah, it worries me for who it will be remaining in 10 years.

00:07:50.640 And I see this same problem in policing where the good cops,

00:07:53.960 they just quietly resign or they take early retirement because they are just over it.

00:07:59.120 They're done with it.

00:07:59.760 And I worry that the same thing is going to happen in the military.

00:08:02.340 And China is just going to laugh all the way to world domination. 1.00

00:08:06.340 Speaking of laughing all the way to world domination, this is not the only woke thing happening in the military.

00:08:14.400 You have this absolutely outrageous story from a couple of weeks ago.

00:08:20.840 Soldier, drag queen bingo, and critical race theory in the Canadian Armed Forces.

00:08:27.280 If teardrop gangland style tattoos weren't your bag, I guess, you know, you can be a drag queen. 1.00

00:08:34.360 And that's fine in the military.

00:08:36.160 What has happened?

00:08:36.860 I miss MASH when Klinger was sort of like, where he was the drag queen and he was trying to get out of the military because of it.

00:08:45.200 And now this is the thing now.

00:08:48.340 Yeah, it's, that was an event that was held at a, sorry, it's like it was a private, like military club where soldiers can go and attend, you know, dine out and have some drinks.

00:09:01.560 But yeah, it's like, it just, it totally is contradictory to what you would imagine with the military, right?

00:09:10.260 To the, you know, the popular images of sailors, you know, drinking together and singing.

00:09:16.260 But with the critical race theory, that was the most interesting thing for me because I had a member of the CAF tell me that in these training sessions,

00:09:29.020 and there's actually lots of these diversity, equity, ethics sort of training.

00:09:34.440 There was book recommendations on white fragility and Robin DiAngelo and all of these prominent critical race theory left wing people whose work is, quite frankly, grounded in Marxism and communist ideas are being pushed onto the military.

00:09:54.500 And here I thought the military is not supposed to be a political organization.

00:09:59.440 You're not supposed to have politics in it.

00:10:02.320 And they were teaching these soldiers, these ethics scenarios, basically training them like, what do you do if you encounter the situation?

00:10:10.040 And all of these scenarios, particularly singled out religious, most likely Christian and people who have right wing views.

00:10:20.840 There was a scenario where there was some false group called like Patriot Canada or something like that.

00:10:26.640 And they asked soldiers, what do you do?

00:10:30.640 You know, like, how are you supposed to approach these things?

00:10:33.420 You know, this is unacceptable.

00:10:34.980 So it's obviously very one sided.

00:10:37.360 They're pushing a political ideological program into the military.

00:10:41.380 And we're seeing it in multiple different sectors of society, not just there.

00:10:46.340 Yeah, we've seen documents at Rebel News where they're doing this to the CBSA.

00:10:51.120 They're teaching them unconscious bias at the CBSA and the CBSA union, to their credit, complained because they said this feels a little bit racist.

00:10:59.420 Like they're being told, sure, you haven't done anything racist and you've never said anything racist, but that is a sign of racism because it is internalized racism.

00:11:07.820 You're not exhibiting it.

00:11:08.860 So you're hiding it, which is probably even worse.

00:11:11.020 And they were very confused about how they were supposed to apply this unconscious bias training when they were searching a C-CAN for contraband.

00:11:18.460 They just didn't understand why it was a thing.

00:11:21.100 And it's I think this stuff makes Canadians far less safe.

00:11:25.720 No, absolutely.

00:11:26.860 I even saw we did a story on the foreign service, foreign affairs.

00:11:32.540 It's also there.

00:11:33.940 It's also in the School of Public Service.

00:11:36.760 I recently did a story where they said that you color blindness is no longer acceptable.

00:11:42.760 You should no longer treat everybody the same way.

00:11:45.320 Actually, you should treat people based on their skin color.

00:11:49.920 So it's all this these mental gymnastics and it's it's quite, like I said, widespread across government industries in the public sector.

00:12:00.980 And we see it also in the private sector as well, although I don't think it's as infected by it as as the government sphere is.

00:12:10.620 Yeah.

00:12:11.360 Yeah.

00:12:11.880 You know, at least if it's in the private sector, I don't have to pay for it.

00:12:15.420 I don't have to be I don't have to pay for this whole swath of workers to be told that they're racist, even though they didn't do anything.

00:12:22.200 And then they're also being told to be more racist.

00:12:26.800 Like the textbook definition of racism is treating people differently because of their race.

00:12:31.080 But I guess that's woke now.

00:12:33.240 Who knows?

00:12:34.580 You also have a really great report.

00:12:36.960 Speaking of people being less safe, the Ottawa police, they investigated themselves.

00:12:44.500 It sounds like and they threw out the majority of the complaints against themselves that were lodged during the Freedom Convoy protests.

00:12:55.260 Either they claim to have not known anything about the complaints against them.

00:12:59.640 For for example, when they pepper sprayed and shot at close range with a pepper canister, our journalist Alexa.

00:13:06.360 Um, but they claimed in a press conference, they didn't know anything about it, even though it was viral.

00:13:12.240 Um, but this is bizarre to me that with such international attention to what happened in Ottawa and the actions of the police there, that they are just seemingly able to just investigate themselves.

00:13:27.900 And wouldn't you know it, we were good.

00:13:31.760 This is crazy.

00:13:33.680 Right.

00:13:34.500 So that report was filed before the, um, Ottawa city council last week, I think.

00:13:42.120 And it essentially relates to people that we saw a 300% increase in the number of complaints that, uh, Ottawa police service received based on their conduct.

00:13:55.420 80, uh, over 80% of which was from, uh, or related to the Freedom Convoy protests.

00:14:02.900 Now you would think with a 300% increase of complaints, you would have a similar increase of investigations, but that is not the case.

00:14:12.100 Actually, they investigated just the amount, the same amount of percentage, um, uh, the same amount of cases as they did before.

00:14:19.680 And, uh, most of these cases were related to use of force or, or, um, just improper conduct.

00:14:29.740 A small minority of the cases were related to, uh, I think it was called abandonment of duty or something like that, which I would assume were from the Ottawa residents and not, uh, themselves who thought that the police didn't do enough to crack down on protesters.

00:14:45.640 But recently the CBC put out an article just this weekend about that, and it totally ignored the fact that a majority of these complaints came from people, uh, for example, who were hit in the back with weapons, who complained to the police that the police were there to actually escalate the situation.

00:15:04.760 All of those were not mentioned in this report, uh, they totally focused on those Ottawa residents who would have actually liked to see more police brutality, more, uh, use of violence and force and, um, a larger military militarized presence in Ottawa.

00:15:21.780 So, again, we, we can question the so-called independent nature of this, uh, report because essentially what, what the body that, um, there's a body in Ottawa, in the Ottawa police service that forward, that reviews and vets these complaints before they get forwarded to, uh, investigation.

00:15:45.140 And this body dismissed most of these complaints on various grounds, including grounds, like they're not in the public interest.

00:15:53.940 So, uh, their reasonings are quite funny and arbitrary, and, uh, I would really question, um, those findings, yeah.

00:16:04.500 Yeah, I think it's in the public interest to have confidence in the, um, independence of your police force,

00:16:11.520 and that when they get up to no good or alleged to be up to no good, that there would be some sort of independent investigation.

00:16:18.020 I'm not sure how it works in Ottawa, but I do know in Alberta, if Calgary police are involved in some, you know, excessive use of force, Edmonton police investigates vice versa.

00:16:26.940 Sometimes the RCMP investigates, um, it's just odd that there's no sort of arrangement in Ottawa, but probably a little bit on the nose considering what we know about how they, um, reacted during the convoy.

00:16:40.820 Now, I wanted to talk to you about this one, because it's kind of near and dear to my heart.

00:16:45.900 Um, the Trudeau government, once again, this, for me, when I read this story, I'm like, ah, it's another attack on Alberta.

00:16:52.820 Um, he is, uh, the Trudeau government, it's a report, um, by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which is odd because this attacks agriculture and agri-food.

00:17:02.620 In your report, it says it singles out wheat, barley, and other cereal crops, um, as one of the worst offenders for greenhouse gas emissions.

00:17:12.240 And, you know, if the liberals aren't getting us with the oil and gas sector, that now they're attacking farming, and pretty quickly they're going to come for our beef producers, too.

00:17:20.680 Why not get us all?

00:17:21.520 Yeah, so just to backtrack a little bit, in 2020, uh, the government essentially announced that they want to put a 30% emissions cap on, um, emissions caused by fertilizer use on farms in the agriculture sector.

00:17:40.520 So, Agriculture Canada released this report in March, uh, singling out cereal and, uh, wheat barley farmers for having the so-called highest, um, emissions among export countries.

00:17:59.740 Now, I've spoken to farmers groups, and they totally dispute this.

00:18:04.160 It's, uh, it's based on faulty and even non-existent science, because this is actually currently being studied.

00:18:11.660 Uh, there's no, uh, reliable statistics, uh, on emissions caused by fertilizer use on farms.

00:18:19.680 Uh, it's actually very difficult to track.

00:18:22.540 And farmers were rightly so outraged by this claim, because the government relied on a UN report.

00:18:28.900 And as we know, you know, a lot of these reports from the UN on climate rely on modeling and, and sort of, uh, uh, mathematical, you know, uh, trickery, uh, and, and it's essentially amounts to guesstimations.

00:18:43.540 It's not, it's not based on real hard facts.

00:18:46.460 And when you actually look at the agriculture industry, Canada is a leader in reducing emissions.

00:18:52.880 We actually don't abuse fertilizer, um, on farms.

00:18:58.780 Farmers take the greatest pains to get the most out of, out of, uh, the least amount of fertilizer.

00:19:05.780 They won't use it when it's not necessary.

00:19:08.260 It's so expensive.

00:19:09.800 Fertilizer is so expensive.

00:19:11.200 It's one of the most expensive inputs for a farmer.

00:19:13.880 So to think that we're just like out there, like the fertilizer fairy, just throwing it all over the place when we don't need it.

00:19:19.100 And that's crazy because also farmers are price takers. 0.53

00:19:24.020 They're not price makers.

00:19:25.200 So you have to keep your control, your input costs because you are going to take what the market will tell you you're going to take for your wheat.

00:19:33.580 So if you're wasting money on the inputs that cuts into your profit, um, at the end of the year, it's just a typical Ottawa elitist, not knowing what farmers do.

00:19:41.940 Exactly. We're talking about primary producers here, the, essentially the beginning of the food supply chain, right?

00:19:50.260 They're the farmers can't control the prices of fertilizer.

00:19:53.600 And as you mentioned, they're currently through the roof and that's already putting a strain on what farmers are capable of producing in this, uh, in this season.

00:20:03.440 Right. So, uh, as you said, it's, it is a, a, I mean, I'm inclined to think that it is a targeted attack on, on Western Canada.

00:20:12.800 We saw it with, uh, Trudeau's announcement during COP26 about the 40% emissions cap on, on the oil and gas sector.

00:20:21.000 We're seeing it with Agriculture Canada singling out, particularly cereal, uh, and wheat farmers, right?

00:20:28.860 They're not singling out, uh, the dairy industry in Quebec, et cetera.

00:20:33.060 Um, so it, it, it comes from Trudeau's longstanding, um, vehement dislike of Western Canadians, their political beliefs and, and their sort of grassroots conservatism.

00:20:47.000 And I think it's a, it's really is a trend with this liberal government, especially in their climate policy.

00:20:53.440 And it, it, it is really insulting, uh, to people and it should worry Canadians, especially at a time of war and, and the things we're seeing with, with inflation and economy.

00:21:05.780 We will be the ones who will be paying at the end of the day for, for the grocery bills while Trudeau, you know, bills taxpayers for over $2,000 for his organic, uh, you know, grocery bills in Ottawa.

00:21:20.080 So it, it, it is, it should worry a lot of people.

00:21:24.180 And I think Canadians need to start questioning whether this government has the best interests, uh, of, of this country in mind, because on, on, as we've discussed here on multiple sectors, including military and agriculture, it seems like they're doing everything they can to weaken this country, to make it less secure, both in the terms of our food supply, as well as our, our, our national security.

00:21:49.080 In the name of ideology and reality is going to smack that plan right in the face.

00:21:56.780 If it keeps going, because, uh, that's not how the world works.

00:22:00.040 We can't create a utopia, um, because there are some real hard facts that people are going to learn, uh, especially with the way things are going right now.

00:22:10.660 Yeah.

00:22:11.240 And it seems as those across all sectors, the liberals are trying to fix something that isn't at all broke.

00:22:17.000 And if they really want to come after farmers on their fertilizer use, fine, but you're going to see lower yields, which causes a higher cost to the consumer.

00:22:26.700 There's a reason why organic food is way more expensive than regular old food.

00:22:31.280 And it has to do with the fertilizer inputs and the, and the, uh, size of the yield after the fact.

00:22:37.620 So, I mean, if you want farmers to use less, um, fertilizer, that's fine, but boy, you're going to sure pay for it, um, at the grocery till.

00:22:46.580 Cosmin, thank you so much for, uh, coming on the show today and updating us with some of your work.

00:22:51.300 Um, where can people find you?

00:22:53.240 Because, uh, I mean, it seems like every day you are writing another story about something crazy the federal government is doing.

00:23:01.000 So how can they find you?

00:23:01.760 How can they support the work that you're doing?

00:23:03.580 Sure.

00:23:03.860 Uh, you can either visit TrueNorth at tnc.news or follow me on Twitter at CosminDZS.

00:23:11.880 Great.

00:23:12.400 Thanks so much, Cosmin.

00:23:13.800 Thank you, Sheila.

00:23:14.520 So this is the newish portion of the show where I look back at some of your emails or some of your comments.

00:23:28.240 And if you want to send an email directly to me, because I know some of you don't like to leave rumble comments or Facebook comments or YouTube comments, you can send an email directly to me, Sheila at rebelnews.com.

00:23:40.740 And just put gun show letters in the headline so that I can find it easily because I get a lot of emails in a day, let alone in a week.

00:23:50.460 Today's comment comes from the rumble comments section.

00:23:55.480 And it's on my story where we discovered that the federal government has no data to support the segregation that they are imposing in Canada's airports.

00:24:11.280 We have roughly 6 million Canadians who are unvaccinated, who cannot take an airplane.

00:24:16.340 And you would think that the federal government would be trying to find some data to support the segregation they're imposing on so many Canadians.

00:24:26.800 But as it turns out, they don't collect that data.

00:24:29.280 They don't know anything about whether there are COVID transmissions happening on those hermetically sealed tubes hurtling through space.

00:24:39.100 And on the rumble comments, somebody makes an interesting parallel between what the federal government is doing by not pursuing scientific evidence to support their policies with just the lack of regard for scientific evidence and science in general within society.

00:25:01.080 So I guess why would the feds be any different?

00:25:04.040 Give PD writes,

00:25:05.700 Interesting, it must be really hard to follow the science without relevant evidence.

00:25:12.900 Perhaps schools that seek to tell elementary students that they can be any gender they choose despite their genetic makeup will also explain that the scientific method now regards empirical data as irrelevant.

00:25:24.540 So boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and scientific recommendations require no evidence.

00:25:32.000 It's a new world.

00:25:33.400 Yeah, it sure is.

00:25:34.040 Perhaps the government can tell you to follow the science and then not follow the science at all.

00:25:39.480 What they mean is follow the leader.

00:25:41.440 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:25:43.480 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:25:44.700 If you'd like your letter read on the show, easiest way to get that in front of my eyeballs is to send it to Sheila at rebelnews.com.

00:25:52.280 Put gun show letters in the headline and that's the best way for me to see it.

00:25:56.460 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:25:57.700 Thank you to everybody in the office in Toronto and our remote editors around the world, really, for making this show happen.

00:26:05.380 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:26:09.900 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - April 28, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Cosmin Dzurdza is documenting Canada's culture wars

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