Rebel News Podcast - March 18, 2026


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Death is Canada’s “fastest-growing ‘treatment’” — Alberta is putting a stop to that


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Death is Canada s fastest growing medical treatment, and Alberta is putting a stop to that. Sheila Gunroe-Reed explains why. She talks about the dangers of medical assistance in dying (MAID) and why it needs to stop.

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00:00:34.580 death is canada's fastest growing medical treatment and alberta is putting a stop to that
00:00:55.160 i'm sheila gun reed it's march 18th 2026 and you're watching the ezra levant show 0.95
00:01:00.760 Shame on you, you sensorious bug. 0.99
00:01:15.960 There's a statistic that should stop and make every Canadian think. 0.79
00:01:21.680 Medical assistance in dying, MADE as it's called, euthanasia, is one of the leading causes of death here in Canada.
00:01:29.460 Roughly one out of every 20 deaths in this country now happens through assisted suicide.
00:01:36.140 Think about that for a second.
00:01:38.440 In less than a decade since MAID was legalized in 2016, it has expanded so quickly that it
00:01:45.300 now accounts for almost 5% of all deaths in Canada.
00:01:49.400 Belgium and the Netherlands, two countries that everyone pointed to during Canada's
00:01:53.740 assisted suicide debate, took more than 20 years to reach that level.
00:01:59.160 Canada? Well, we did it in about five. It's probably the only metric in the world that we
00:02:06.300 lead at. And that speed alone should make policymakers pause or, you know, be horrified.
00:02:15.460 But now Alberta is stepping in with legislation meant to slow down a system that has been
00:02:20.880 expanding at a remarkable pace. The bill just announced today is called the Safeguards for
00:02:28.200 Last Resort Termination of Life Act and the goal is to establish a provincial framework around
00:02:34.920 euthanasia with stronger safeguards than what currently exists under federal rules. The biggest
00:02:41.380 change is that Alberta would limit assisted suicide to what's known as track one made. Cases
00:02:49.140 where a patient's natural death is reasonably foreseeable. In practice, the legislation defines
00:02:56.540 that as a situation where death is likely within roughly 12 months. Now, that's a huge and
00:03:03.080 significant shift from our current genocidal federal law. In 2021, Ottawa introduced Track
00:03:12.180 2 MAID, allowing assisted suicide even when a person's natural death is not foreseeable.
00:03:18.740 In other words, people no longer have to be dying to get access to the state to kill them.
00:03:27.380 They can be chronically ill, disabled, or living with long-term suffering the system considers intolerable.
00:03:36.220 Alberta's bill would prohibit Track 2 made entirely in this province.
00:03:40.900 The legislation also explicitly bans made where mental illness is the sole underlying condition.
00:03:46.960 That line matters because federal policy has been moving toward assisted suicide for people suffering solely from mental illness.
00:03:57.120 So if people are suicidal, they can turn to the state and access suicide.
00:04:03.740 The bill would be expanded under federal legislation to cover people with depression, PTSD, severe anxiety,
00:04:14.340 conditions that millions of Canadians struggle with and recover from every single year.
00:04:21.780 Alberta's bill says that line should never be crossed.
00:04:25.660 The Alberta legislation also includes several other new safeguards as well.
00:04:30.760 MAID would be prohibited for minors. 0.99
00:04:33.820 It would also be prohibited for people who lack decision-making capacity at the time the procedure is performed.
00:04:40.240 And the province would ban advance requests, meaning someone cannot sign paperwork years earlier authorizing doctors to end their life after they lose mental capacity.
00:04:52.540 Alberta's legislation would also restrict physicians and nurse practitioners from referring patients outside the province for made assessments.
00:05:01.480 So there's no getting around the legislation in Alberta.
00:05:05.480 That rule is designed to prevent people from bypassing our safeguards by simply being referred elsewhere.
00:05:12.220 The bill also introduces mandatory education and training requirements for MAID assessors and providers,
00:05:18.840 including training on recognizing coercion, evaluating capacity, and identifying alternatives such as palliative care.
00:05:27.560 The law also introduces mandatory sanctions for physicians and nurse practitioners who violate the province's MAID rules.
00:05:36.540 Another major change involves how MAID is discussed with patients.
00:05:40.920 Under the proposed law, Bill 18, healthcare professionals would not be allowed to initiate conversations about assisted suicide unless the patient raises the topic first.
00:05:52.320 The doctor or nurse practitioner cannot plant the seed in the mind of a vulnerable person.
00:05:59.640 Now, the province says that safeguard is meant to ensure that MAID decisions are patient-driven, not influenced by suggestions from doctors or health institutions.
00:06:09.300 The legislation also protects the rights of doctors and health care facilities that object to assisted suicide.
00:06:16.280 Physicians and nurse practitioners would have a clear and legal right to refuse to assess or provide MAID.
00:06:22.900 Certain health care facilities, including faith-based hospitals and care homes, would also be allowed to refuse MAID on their premises.
00:06:30.040 The bill would also allow those facilities to establish 150-metre exclusion zones around their sites where MAID assessments or procedures could not take place.
00:06:41.260 Together, these measures are intended to restore the idea that assisted suicide should remain a rare and tightly controlled end-of-life practice, not a broadly expanding, easily accessible medical service.
00:06:56.200 And the reason Alberta says these safeguards are necessary becomes clearer when you look at how quickly MAID has grown across Canada.
00:07:02.800 More than 13,000 Canadians now die through euthanasia every year.
00:07:08.000 That places assisted suicide among the leading causes of death in the country.
00:07:12.760 It now exceeds the number of Canadians who die annually from diabetes.
00:07:17.060 It surpasses the deaths from influenza and pneumonia combined.
00:07:21.900 Remember when we shut down the world for that sort of stuff?
00:07:24.540 It's higher than the deaths from kidney disease.
00:07:27.920 And in some recent years, it has even rivaled deaths from accidents and injuries.
00:07:33.880 A medical procedure that did not exist in Canada a decade ago now results in more deaths each year than several major diseases that doctors have spent generations trying to treat and prevent.
00:07:48.960 And the expansion of MAID has happened alongside growing pressures inside Canada's healthcare system.
00:07:54.880 Isn't that convenient? Doctor shortages, long specialists, wait lists, mental health services that can take months, even years to access, disability supports that often leave people struggling financially.
00:08:09.280 Solving those problems requires significant reform and innovation.
00:08:14.820 Made, by contrast, is administratively simple.
00:08:18.820 No wait lists, no infrastructure shortage, no complicated overhaul of the system required.
00:08:24.440 Critics like me argue that assisted suicide has quietly become the easiest pressure valve
00:08:29.840 in a strained health care system.
00:08:32.360 When suffering grows and the system can't keep up,
00:08:35.540 MAID becomes the service that is always available.
00:08:38.720 That dynamic raises difficult questions about incentives inside the system.
00:08:43.540 Because once assisted death becomes easier to access than many forms of treatment,
00:08:48.520 while the pressure to expand it grows,
00:08:50.440 and the boundaries that once seemed clear begin to shift.
00:08:54.540 That's the line Alberta says it's trying to draw.
00:08:58.280 The province's legislation attempts to re-establish limits around assisted suicide
00:09:03.160 and slow the expansion that has taken place over the last several years.
00:09:06.700 The broader national debate over MAID is often framed as a question of personal autonomy,
00:09:13.140 but it also raises a larger question about the role of a health care system when people are suffering.
00:09:17.740 Should the priority be expanding access to assisted suicide or finding better ways to help people live through illness, disability, hardship, and loneliness?
00:09:29.940 Given how quickly MAID has risen to become one of the leading causes of death in Canada, it's a question this country may have to confront sooner rather than later.
00:09:40.020 Stay with us. The Alberta government's press conference on their new legislation is up after the break.
00:09:47.740 Well, good morning and thank you all for coming today.
00:09:56.960 I'm pleased to be here with Minister of Justice Mickey Amory and Dr. Ramona Coelho,
00:10:01.340 who's a family physician and a member of Ontario's main death review committee,
00:10:04.620 to announce legislative measures our government will introduce to protect vulnerable Albertans.
00:10:09.400 Providing health care and looking after the well-being of Albertans is one of our most important responsibilities as a provincial government.
00:10:15.620 And we take that responsibility seriously.
00:10:18.300 Medical assistance in dying is a serious and sensitive subject.
00:10:21.860 This is a deeply personal decision, a decision that affects patients, their families, and their loved ones.
00:10:27.100 The consequences of the decision are permanent and irrevocable.
00:10:31.380 And because of this, we have an obligation to consider made with the utmost care and caution.
00:10:36.540 Alberta believes that patient safety is and must always be our first concern.
00:10:41.340 and our government has been highly skeptical of federal moves to widen eligibility to
00:10:46.200 those whose only medical condition is mental illness. This possibility was first announced
00:10:51.600 in 2023, and we've been studying the issue carefully to ensure that we're acting in the
00:10:56.120 best interest of Albertans. During this time, we had a two-year consultation period where we sought
00:11:02.280 feedback from across the province and spoke to a wide range of experts in the field of mental health
00:11:07.020 and other areas of healthcare. After extensive consideration of Ottawa's potential MAID
00:11:11.920 eligibility expansion, our government still has profound misgivings about it. If federal
00:11:17.280 eligibility is extended to include mental illness, like we expect it to be in 2027,
00:11:22.660 there is a serious risk that vulnerable individuals living with a mental illness
00:11:27.480 may choose this most final of actions when other treatment options are available to them.
00:11:32.960 In other words, for individuals whose death is not reasonably foreseeable, there are often other care and treatment options available.
00:11:40.480 Mental health and wellness are things many people manage throughout their entire lives, and periods of severe illness can feel dark, hopeless, and overwhelming.
00:11:49.920 But with the right support, many people regain stability and go on to live full and meaningful lives.
00:11:55.700 MAID should not become a permanent response to a moment of crisis or despair that can change with care and time.
00:12:01.440 We know Albertans are concerned about this. Since 2021, total maid deaths in Alberta have risen from 594 in 2021 to 1,242 in 2025, an increase of 109%. And even though rates are lower in Alberta than the national average, maid is now one of the leading causes of death in Canada.
00:12:24.480 In just the 10 years it's been legal in Canada, the rate of MAID in our country has come to exceed that of other jurisdictions where it's been legal for far longer.
00:12:34.320 Across the country, total MAID deaths have risen from 10,066 in 2021 to 16,499 in 2024, an increase of 64%.
00:12:46.420 Given the permanence of the decision, these trends should give anyone pause.
00:12:51.800 Under federal policy, eligibility is widening, while the guardrails and oversight are weakening.
00:12:57.420 The way Alberta sees it, these escalating factors put the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals at far too grave a risk.
00:13:03.840 So our government is acting now before the federal government weakens the guardrails any further.
00:13:08.100 We believe MAID must be a compassionate option reserved only for those who will not recover from terminal illness.
00:13:14.900 That's why, as part of our spring legislative session, we'll be introducing the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act.
00:13:23.600 If passed, it will make sure that here in Alberta, medical assistance in dying has robust and appropriate safeguards in place.
00:13:31.000 It will limit MAID eligibility to circumstances where natural death is reasonably foreseeable and recovery is not.
00:13:37.800 It will prohibit MAID in Alberta for those under age 18 and for those whose sole condition is a mental illness.
00:13:44.260 It will set out clear regulations for how Alberta provides MAID, and it will provide much-needed clarity for patients, families, and health care providers alike.
00:13:53.900 Ultimately, this is about protecting vulnerable Albertans and establishing strong safeguards for a health care practice of great consequence and finality.
00:14:02.320 And that's exactly what this legislation will deliver.
00:14:04.860 Thank you, and I'd now like to pass it over to Minister Mickey Amory to share details on this important work.
00:14:14.260 Well, thank you very much, Premier. Good morning, and thank you for joining us.
00:14:23.700 As the Premier said, we are ensuring that there are strong protections in place for medical assistance in dying.
00:14:30.900 Now, this is one of the most serious decisions that someone can make, and it demands careful safeguards and humility.
00:14:37.520 Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, will address obvious gaps in the current federal system, and it will set strong, consistent standards to better protect vulnerable Albertans.
00:14:52.660 At its core, Bill 18 places important eligibility limits on MAID in Alberta.
00:14:58.520 MAID will be prohibited for those whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable.
00:15:03.500 It's also known as Track 2 MAID.
00:15:05.100 MAID should never be a substitute for other health care options or services. 0.99
00:15:11.520 Advanced requests for MAID raise serious ethical and practical concerns.
00:15:16.160 That is why under Bill 18, advanced requests will not be permitted,
00:15:20.380 along with MAID for individuals without capacity to make their own health care decisions. 0.86
00:15:25.360 Physicians and nurse practitioners will also be prohibited from making referrals for individuals to receive MAID outside of Alberta.
00:15:33.060 Given the seriousness and the finality of MAID, Alberta's legislation will require assessors and providers to meet training and educational requirements.
00:15:43.260 And that's why I'll also be introducing mandatory sanctions when a regulatory college finds that a physician has violated Alberta's MAID legislation. 0.98
00:15:51.800 To reduce any coercion and to ensure MAID decisions are initiated and driven by patients, physicians will be restricted from giving MAID information to their patients when they are providing other health services to them, unless the patient brings it up.
00:16:08.580 The public display of MAID information, such as posters, will also be restricted within health care facilities.
00:16:15.940 Finally, Bill 18 will make it clear that physicians have the right to refuse to conduct
00:16:22.500 MAID assessments or to provide MAID, and that healthcare facilities will have the right to
00:16:27.540 refuse to allow MAID services on their premises. Along with this, an exclusion zone of 150 meters
00:16:35.060 around a healthcare facility will provide a sense of safety for people facing serious health
00:16:39.700 challenges, along with vulnerable palliative care patients who don't wish to be exposed to MAID.
00:16:46.000 Now, we know that MAID is a sensitive and complex issue for many Albertans,
00:16:49.980 but we also believe that the compassionate approach is one that allows people to live
00:16:56.580 with dignity, not defaulting to doctor-assisted death. I'd like to now introduce Dr. Ramona Coelho
00:17:04.600 to say a few words. Dr. Coelho is a family physician, a member of Ontario's Maid Death
00:17:11.000 Review Committee, and was recognized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians for Patient
00:17:16.720 Care. She is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a recipient of the King Charles III
00:17:24.360 medal. She has also co-edited the book, Unraveling Maid in Canada, that was recognized as a Hill
00:17:32.180 Times' 100 Best Book of 2025. I'd like to invite Dr. Coelho to say a few words. Thank you.
00:17:45.720 Thank you very much, Minister Amory, and thank you, Premier Smith, for having me today.
00:17:50.680 I will skip my intro because Minister Amory introduced me so well. I have contributed to
00:17:58.140 academic, and public discourse on MAID for many years, examining the intersection of MAID and
00:18:05.180 patient safety. For about 20 years, I've practiced medicine, caring for people with complex
00:18:11.640 issues such as disabilities, mental health issues, chronic pain, and especially social
00:18:19.160 vulnerabilities. I take care of a lot of people who've had incarceration histories or refugees,
00:18:24.760 people who find themselves at the margins of society.
00:18:28.480 And through this work, before the time of MAID,
00:18:31.240 I came to understand that physical illness is often greatly impacted by psychosocial suffering,
00:18:37.060 by the psychological distress and social circumstances we find ourselves in.
00:18:42.040 This is a concept in medicine that we call total pain.
00:18:46.080 Properly addressing and mitigating total pain or suffering requires careful assessment, time, and support.
00:18:54.520 A patient's suffering can be addressed, and their lives can greatly improve if we take that time.
00:19:02.560 Since MAID has been legalized, I have witnessed patients being approved for MAID very quickly,
00:19:08.880 without a deep dive of their suffering, or without offering evidence-based medicine that could offer them solutions to live well.
00:19:16.040 I've also been told by my patients that they've been offered MAID several times repeatedly by different people,
00:19:22.800 and some have felt pressured to book MAID assessments.
00:19:27.260 While this does not reflect the majority of my colleagues' MAID practice,
00:19:32.180 these cases highlight patient safety concerns.
00:19:36.000 I have shared these experiences before federal parliament and international hearings.
00:19:42.040 I was very happy to hear that the Scottish Bill on Assisted Suicide was voted down yesterday.
00:19:46.720 I testified there as well.
00:19:48.060 as was mentioned i serve on ontario's may death review committee where we review cases that the
00:19:56.000 coroner the chief coroner of ontario has selected to offer advice and then he puts together reports
00:20:02.620 with these public cases to advise on patient safety and he sends them to health canada and
00:20:07.640 different regulatory bodies my analyses of these cases have have garnered international attention
00:20:15.940 on Canada's safeguard failures in MAID.
00:20:20.300 But from the beginning, the disability community,
00:20:22.980 Indigenous community, many legal and medical experts
00:20:26.440 have warned our federal government
00:20:27.960 about the risks of legalizing MAID
00:20:30.340 without considering balancing the safety of vulnerable patients.
00:20:36.760 And now, many are focusing on oversight
00:20:39.720 and meaningful accountability.
00:20:41.620 Last year, the United Nations Committee
00:20:43.260 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
00:20:44.880 called on Canada to strengthen safeguards within its MAID framework
00:20:48.680 for better protection of persons with disabilities,
00:20:52.240 including repealing TRAC-2 MAID and improving oversight.
00:20:57.800 And just this month, a few days ago,
00:20:59.680 a group of researchers from the University of Alberta
00:21:01.920 published a paper looking at families' perspectives on MAID.
00:21:06.580 And in that study, they reveal that many families feel traumatized
00:21:09.960 by the experience, describing rushed assessments,
00:21:13.660 virtual evaluations, and sometimes only being informed of MAID after the death of their loved one.
00:21:20.900 Alberta's proposed legislation responds to most of these concerns and reinforces a fundamental
00:21:26.780 principle. When the outcome is death, the system must meet the highest standard of care,
00:21:33.560 scrutiny, and accountability. Legislation governing MAID must be clear, enforceable,
00:21:40.080 and worthy of public trust.
00:21:43.480 So this bill is an important step in the right direction,
00:21:46.080 and I am very hopeful that other provinces will follow the example of Alberta.
00:21:50.280 Thank you.
00:21:51.700 Thank you.
00:21:52.860 We'll now enter the media Q&A,
00:21:54.280 a reminder that this press conference is under embargo
00:21:56.360 until the legislation is tabled later today,
00:21:58.720 and that applies to remarks and any Q&A related to the legislation.
00:22:02.380 We'll take one question, one follow-up,
00:22:04.200 and a reminder to state your name and outlet for asking your question.
00:22:06.800 We'll start off with Julia, then we'll go to Jack.
00:22:08.740 Hi, Julia Long, CC National. This is a question for the Premier. You know, you're touting this as safeguards to protect Albertans. Others might see this and call them obstacles or barriers. So why is the province putting so many, and I'll call them things, in the way for those who legitimately want to access Maine?
00:22:26.800 Well, I can tell you that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does say that government can put limits that are reasonable as long as they're prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
00:22:42.140 So that is one of the obligations we have as a government is to make sure that we're putting in limits that are reasonable and can be justified.
00:22:49.020 And I remember when these cases first began, the court had ruled that death should be reasonably foreseeable.
00:22:58.760 And I know that the critics at the time were worried that it would continue going down a pathway where ultimately other conditions would be included.
00:23:07.060 And I know that that was criticized at the time, saying, oh, there's no such thing as a slippery slope.
00:23:11.380 Well, we're on it.
00:23:12.100 And if we allow for children and we allow for those with mental illness to be given the advice to take this approach, then I think that we're failing in our duty to give people hope. 0.86
00:23:25.080 So we have taken a very different approach in Alberta, where we believe recovery is possible, not only for addiction, but also mental illness.
00:23:32.640 And that is why we think that the federal government is going in the wrong direction with its intention to put this in place in 2027.
00:23:39.020 And as the doctor mentioned, having reasonable guardrails should allow for those who do have a terminal illness to continue down the pathway, as this legislation was always intended, but not make sure that it gets, and make sure that it doesn't get broadened to a way that was not originally intended when the changes were made in law.
00:23:56.960 And my follow-up, you know, this legislation includes things such as practitioners can't bring MAID up unless a patient does themselves, there's the ban on the public display of MAID information in healthcare settings.
00:24:08.060 Do you not trust that Albertans and practitioners can make the right decision for themselves?
00:24:13.440 Well, you know, I'm watching as the international community is looking at what's happening in Alberta.
00:24:19.060 And I would just, you know, encourage you to look at some of the stories that have been written in The Spectator and The Guardian,
00:24:23.800 where they're pretty appalled that those who are living in poverty,
00:24:28.260 those whose only circumstances seem to be managing mental challenges of dealing with a chronic condition,
00:24:34.620 are being advised that maids an option.
00:24:37.140 And when we see that kind of international criticism, saying this is really outside the norm, we have to take that seriously.
00:24:43.060 I think, as the doctor said, that is not, certainly not all practitioners who are doing that.
00:24:47.960 But when we read stories about a young man repeatedly refused MAID for his mental health condition in Ontario, able to fly across the country to BC and find an amenable doctor for it, we're concerned about that.
00:25:00.820 When we hear of Veterans Affairs officials
00:25:04.060 counselling and encouraging people with PTSD
00:25:07.700 to consider MAID, these are things we want to stop.
00:25:11.480 We don't want anyone to be counselled 1.00
00:25:12.920 to end their life prematurely
00:25:15.920 if they do not have a terminal illness.
00:25:18.100 And if we have to make that clear in law,
00:25:20.080 we'll make it clear in law.
00:25:21.340 And I think it's because of those stories
00:25:23.100 that we keep reading about
00:25:24.160 that we think it is time for government to act.
00:25:30.820 last segment of the show as is the case with my show the gun show belongs to you our viewers at
00:25:41.100 home because without you there's no rebel news so we better care what you have to say about the work
00:25:45.040 that we do around here now we've got a comment from anthony salati in response to my friend
00:25:52.240 monologue last night while he covered for ezra regarding don cherry anthony says we need more
00:26:00.340 people like Don Cherry in Canada now more than ever that's the thing about Don Cherry
00:26:04.000 you always knew what you were getting with him he didn't filter his comments and he believed
00:26:09.760 in Canadian values he believed in respecting our military and the people who built this country who
00:26:17.000 came before us and he didn't have a problem with asking people to adopt our Canadian values to
00:26:25.080 integrate into our society. He didn't say that people had to leave or even all think the same,
00:26:32.200 but to honor the people who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. And I think there's a lesson
00:26:37.700 in there because while Don lost the support of the chattering classes, his former friends and
00:26:46.540 colleagues over at the CBC he actually gained respect from the normal people who were I think
00:26:57.600 grateful to hear somebody on the CBC who sounded a lot like them Don Ray here check
00:27:07.320 writes Mr. Cherry did not wobble in his beliefs he wore them on his shirt sleeve so that all could
00:27:12.920 see. I admired that in a person. He stood strong and had a backbone. In fact, he never apologized
00:27:19.700 to the outrage mob, not even once. He lost his job and lost his friends, friends, if you can call
00:27:29.220 them that, when they turn on you in a time of need, after you've helped them, as is the case
00:27:35.480 with Ron McClain. He never ever backtracked. He was not going to apologize for something
00:27:44.680 when he didn't believe that thing that he said was wrong. And there's mad respect for somebody
00:27:51.900 like that. Now, we've got a letter regarding Ezra's sneak peek teaser. When Ezra went to
00:27:58.020 Toronto's Al-Quds Day rally last weekend, Bruce Atchison, loyal rebel supporter, loyal viewer
00:28:05.260 of my show and frequent letter writer to my show, Bruce from Radway, Alberta writes,
00:28:12.740 woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks. This country sure needs somebody with the courage to
00:28:19.300 confront radicalized Muslims. Doug Ford sure isn't the one. Yeah, Doug Ford left his challenge of the 0.95
00:28:26.060 Al-Quds Day march to the very last minute, knowing that it would fail, but giving himself the veneer 0.77
00:28:32.780 of having done something. Bruce continues, he's a slimy politician who doesn't care one bit about
00:28:39.020 his constituents. A day will come when he will be on the wrong end of a gun or knife held by
00:28:44.360 an Islamist warrior if he's not careful. Now, I don't hope that for anybody, but for a lot of 0.85
00:28:52.100 people, unfortunately, that sort of thing is the only thing that will wake them up to the danger.
00:29:00.820 And even then, sometimes it doesn't wake them up to the danger.
00:29:04.180 For example, I don't know if you saw that clip about two weeks ago, where a leftist
00:29:09.360 protester who's screaming into a megaphone, everyone is welcome here.
00:29:14.200 Well, ISIS inspired terrorists from behind him, from his side of a dueling protest, lobbed, 0.56
00:29:23.460 looked like a explosive device into a crowd of people.
00:29:28.720 and even then he still parroted the everyone is welcome here hate has no home here nonsense so
00:29:36.600 some people are just never going to wake up to this um i hope doug ford does wake up and really
00:29:44.760 takes a hardline stance before something happens to him or someone he loves i would just absolutely
00:29:51.660 hate to see that. Politics aside, and as you know, I have many of those political disagreements
00:29:59.860 with the likes of Doug Ford. I just would hate to see anything happen to him or his family. In fact,
00:30:05.340 when I saw how CBC treated his brother and his brother's children in the wake of his brother's
00:30:10.800 death, I was viscerally angry about it. I just, I don't want anything to happen to him. But I don't
00:30:17.120 want anything to happen to anybody in this country at the hands of a radicalized Islamist 0.86
00:30:24.760 warrior. And the problem is we just don't have a federal government who is willing to deal with
00:30:31.160 those things. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I
00:30:35.040 believe Ezra is back in the big chair tomorrow. Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes
00:30:40.460 at Rebel News to put the show together from afar so that you have something to watch. And since
00:30:46.660 I'm hosting. I'm not going to say Ezra sign off. I'll say my own. Don't let the government tell
00:30:53.220 you that you've had too much to think.