Rebel News HQ Christmas Party co-host Lise Merle Merle and host Sheila Gunn-Reed discuss conspiracy theories about Russia's involvement in the Ukraine crisis, the House of Commons Foreign Intelligence Committee hearing, and the Freedom Convoy.
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00:00:55.780Well friends, welcome to a very special edition of The Gun Show.
00:01:24.720As you can see, we're in the Rebel News studio today, dressed very sparkly because today is the Rebel News HQ Christmas party.
00:01:32.580And I'm joined by my very special guest, my beloved good friend, Lise Merle from Saskatchewan.
00:01:39.320You know her from the Rebel News election live streams.
00:01:42.760She's spent hours and hours and hours co-hosting with me.
00:01:46.140And she's co-hosting with me again today because she is a special fly-in for the Christmas party.
00:01:53.160It wouldn't be a party without her as far as I'm concerned.
00:01:56.160But I have not been able to watch the House of Commons committee hearings the way that I would like to.
00:02:02.120As many of you know, if you follow my X account, at Sheila Gunn-Reed, that's mostly what I do during the day while I do everything else.
00:02:09.440As I watch committees, I clip the relevant parts and then I show them to you.
00:02:12.540Now, I missed two of my muses testifying at committee this week.
00:02:21.060There was Rachel Gilmore, the unemployed TikTok journalist, who was at the Foreign Interference Committee talking about Russian propaganda.
00:03:07.520Well, as part of my coverage at the time, I joined several Telegram channels and groups where organizers and supporters gathered to exchange everything from planning details to fringe conspiracy theories.
00:03:20.500And you might not have realized this, but it was actually just days after the convoy.
00:03:24.840Actually, you guys probably do know this.
00:03:26.900Just days after the convoy that Russia invaded Ukraine.
00:04:28.240Can you imagine thinking, and the liberals have said this before, like, that the Russians propagated anti-vax, pro-convoy sentiment to distract from their invasion of Ukraine.
00:04:57.480And the convoy happened before the invasion of Ukraine.
00:05:03.640Pretty sure that getting truckers back on the road and getting people's lives back to normal was the first thing on the list of things to do.
00:05:12.100And the invasion of Ukraine was absolutely not considered.
00:07:46.840There's a reason why they're picking up these two-bit TikTok influencers and dragging them in front of committee to get their opinions on things.
00:07:54.900It's because they are, well, they know that they'd have a lot more work to do if they had the unvarnished truth floated at them.
00:08:02.940Look what Chris Sims did the other day in committee.
00:08:05.540They just absolutely eviscerated them.
00:08:09.840The CBC, I mean, you think they want more of that?
00:08:14.500Well, but it makes me wonder, you know, like, there are just as many conservatives sitting on these committees with the ability to call witnesses.
00:08:20.080They can move motions to call witnesses.
00:08:22.180So when somebody moves a motion to have Rachel Gilmore testify, you move a motion to have Sam Cooper show up.
00:08:33.520And we're going to get to another story right here that's going to illustrate that better than any other example that we could ever possibly give.
00:08:41.040Okay, let's go to, okay, so we had Rachel Gilmore at the Foreign Interference Committee talking about Russian propaganda and her big feelings about it.
00:08:51.660Like, could you imagine, you know what, before we move on, Olivia, I'm putting you on the spot.
00:08:57.060Can you please go to my X account and find the Chris Sims clip?
00:09:04.880So Chris Sims, regular viewers of The Gun Show know and love Chris Sims just as much as I do.
00:09:11.540She is the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:09:15.200And I want to show you just, Olivia, maybe the first, like, two minutes of Chris Sims' opening statement,
00:09:23.120just so you can compare it to what abomination you saw of the first two minutes of Rachel Gilmore and how unprepared she was.
00:10:02.660The CBC is getting $1.4 billion from taxpayers this year.
00:10:08.120That money could instead pay the salaries of around 7,000 paramedics and 7,000 police officers.
00:10:15.000That money could instead pay for groceries for about 85,000 Canadian families for a year.
00:10:22.020Instead, taxpayers are paying $1.4 billion so the CBC can hand out huge bonuses, get microscopic ratings, and overpay its out-of-touch executives.
00:10:34.220So that's roughly about as much time as Rachel Gilmore told us that she wandered the dark recesses of Telegram and developed some feelings.
00:10:43.260Chris Sims had a proper opening statement, introduced herself, introduced her colleague, and introduced the problem.
00:11:56.740And, uh, while they're watching, this is a good reminder for me to order some Crest Whitestrips.
00:12:02.280I would challenge, bluntly, any conservative member of parliament on this committee to look me in the eye and say that Pierre Polyev's comments about gender ideology are anything short of propagating conspiracy and hostility towards queer and trans people.
00:12:16.740Those comments throw gasoline on the fire of rising hate, even as we see the freedom and rights of members of our community restricted.
00:12:23.280And many of us, as you have heard, terrified about the direction Canada is headed in.
00:12:27.280I would urge those same MPs to tweet their support of transgender rights, our rights to dignity, to freedom, and watch what happens next.
00:12:36.700Watch when your supporters turn on you and accuse you of supporting pedophilia, grooming, and all sorts of related filth, simply for supporting a minority's freedom.
00:12:46.800Watch as you are reprimanded by members of your leader's staff for showing your support for transgender people.
00:12:52.780I am scared of where we are headed if anti-queer and anti-trans hate rises.
00:12:59.000It leads to acts of extreme violence that result in lost lives, made possible by a tsunami of everyday acts of exclusion, discrimination, and violence that will make life a living hell for transgender and queer people on this land.
00:13:11.640So, isn't he the guy who wore the, like, I want to stab turf shirt?
00:13:17.240Or protect trans kids with a big knife on it.
00:13:20.640Protect trans kids with a big knife on it.
00:13:21.720Like, that's not your typical passive-aggressive threat of violence against people like me, who don't think that people like Faye Johnstone should have unfettered access to other people's kids.
00:13:35.320It is not, there's nothing that is perpetrating violence against trans people by saying, you do not have a right to indoctrinate my kid behind my back.
00:13:44.920And further than that, as it pertains to vulnerable people in every society across the globe, it is children and it is women in that order.
00:13:58.100Women and children are the most vulnerable sectors of every society across the globe.
00:14:02.560And just shut your eyes for a second and tell me if that's a man or a woman.
00:14:12.640And actually, you'd be doing yourself a favor watching it with your eyes closed.
00:14:17.120But this is a man who was advocating for extra special rights and freedoms over top of everybody else's rights.
00:14:28.020And so just because you are safeguarding children and protecting the sex-based rights of women doesn't mean that you're hateful or that it'll end in a violent or extremist action.
00:14:40.960Like Faye likes to say, every day in Canada, women are being killed.
00:14:45.080But it isn't trans, trans women, because there are men, every single last one of them.