Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Media, politicians gaslight themselves over the peaceful protesters in Ottawa

00:00:00.000 Oh, hey, Rebels. I bet you're expecting Ezra LeVant's voice, but no, it's me, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:00:06.300 I'm guest hosting for Ezra on the show tonight.

00:00:08.460 Tonight on the show, we are going through a report prepared by the federal government for the federal government

00:00:17.460 that shows that people in Canada were largely uncomfortable with the government's crackdown on peaceful protesters in Ottawa

00:00:26.780 and that many people actually disagreed with the media coverage and the political rhetoric

00:00:32.780 that said that the protesters were disruptive or violent.

00:00:39.020 It's fascinating because the government completely disregarded what they knew Canadians felt about the protests

00:00:47.900 to impose martial law to lock up and punish dissidents.

00:00:54.040 Then David Menzies joins me to try to untangle the spiderweb of whatever is happening in Brampton, Ontario

00:01:03.780 as Patrick Brown, the mayor there, continues to run the place like Kazakhstan.

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00:02:03.660 The media and the politicians tried to gaslight a nation into accepting what they had done to peaceful protesters in Ottawa.

00:02:25.520 But in the end, the only people they ended up gaslighting was themselves.

00:02:29.900 It's September 22nd, 2022.

00:02:32.240 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you are watching The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:02:36.060 You're ready for freedom!

00:02:38.960 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:02:50.560 You know, I think the last time I guest hosted for Ezra,

00:02:53.440 I talked a little bit about how cults of different sorts permeate during times of upheaval and awakening.

00:03:00.100 And I think we have a bit of both.

00:03:01.880 I was talking about the bizarre free man-on-the-land cult of Queen Romana.

00:03:06.080 She's a cult leader who traverses the country in a crowdfunded Winnebago 1.00

00:03:10.080 and who also claims to be the new Queen of Canada 0.98

00:03:13.020 after the American military allegedly assassinated the Queen of England.

00:03:17.020 Now, a couple of weeks ago, Romana inspired her followers to perform citizens' arrests on police officers.

00:03:23.240 Naturally, Romana didn't participate. 0.98

00:03:25.340 She kept the Winnebago warm.

00:03:27.240 Romana has basically attached herself to the fringiest of the fringe 0.87

00:03:30.200 and the most desperate and broken of the anti-lockdown movement,

00:03:34.660 capitalizing on the fact that people are so destabilized by the COVID-induced failings

00:03:39.060 of the institutions they thought would never fail,

00:03:41.860 like the courts, the police, the government, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:03:45.940 If you could be coerced into taking a vaccine you know in your heart doesn't work

00:03:51.220 just to keep your job, if the government could arrest you

00:03:53.800 for having family get-togethers like Christmas

00:03:56.420 and if you can be locked down in your country like some unfortunate North Korean, 0.93

00:04:01.080 why couldn't this madwoman be the Queen? 1.00

00:04:04.020 And worse, still the mistreatment and demonization of lockdown resistors

00:04:07.840 and vaccine skeptics by politicians and the media?

00:04:11.120 Well, that stuff only drives people into the clutches of Queen Romana. 1.00

00:04:15.940 For some, she's the only one listening.

00:04:17.900 Now, she's doing it for predatory reasons, of course, 0.84

00:04:20.220 but she's the only person listening sometimes.

00:04:23.660 But it isn't just people on the fringes of the pro-freedom movement

00:04:26.780 that are subject to cult indoctrination.

00:04:29.900 The Trudeau liberals are trying to do it to you, too.

00:04:32.960 But back in the day, your cult leader had to stand on the street corner

00:04:36.000 and tell you about the end of the world.

00:04:37.800 They had to hand out pamphlets.

00:04:39.820 It was a lot of hard work back in the day to get followers, devotees,

00:04:44.020 and brainwashed cult victims.

00:04:47.060 But now, they don't have to hand out pamphlets or proselytize or in-person evangelize.

00:04:51.960 They've got the mainstream media barfing their gaslighting cult doctrine

00:04:56.440 into your house every single day and into your phone,

00:05:00.040 and you pay for it all.

00:05:01.260 Let me show you this.

00:05:02.200 I saw this a couple of days ago in Blacklock's reporter.

00:05:05.960 They do great work over there.

00:05:07.840 Feds told they went too far.

00:05:11.180 Cabinet in confidential polling was told many Canadians supported the Freedom Convoy

00:05:17.100 with the majority opposed to use of extraordinary police powers

00:05:20.480 to end the protest, documents show.

00:05:23.500 Most felt this action represented significant overreach,

00:05:27.040 pollsters told the Privy Council office,

00:05:29.000 though a small number of participants felt implementing the Emergencies Act

00:05:33.180 was a necessary step given the disturbance caused

00:05:36.400 by the seemingly indefinite nature of the protest.

00:05:39.500 Most felt this action represented significant overreach

00:05:42.520 by the federal government as they interpreted this

00:05:45.120 as limiting the right of these Canadians to peaceful protest,

00:05:48.800 said a pollster's report,

00:05:50.040 continuous qualitative data collection of Canadian views.

00:05:53.640 The findings were based on federal focus groups

00:05:56.140 held nationwide from February 2nd to 28th

00:05:59.280 as Cabinet invoked the act to end a trucker's blockade outside Parliament.

00:06:03.700 Researchers found support for the Freedom Convoy from British Columbia

00:06:06.600 to Prince Edward Island, you know, so the whole country.

00:06:09.960 But we went looking for that survey.

00:06:12.100 Now, though that survey has been conveniently disappeared from the public record,

00:06:16.440 we were able to get our hands on it.

00:06:18.040 It's 80-some pages long.

00:06:19.720 I'll publish it so you can read it in full because I think you should.

00:06:23.320 You'll see your politicians lying to you.

00:06:25.020 It does say that the government was informed through their own survey data

00:06:28.600 that many people, regardless of their viewpoints on the mandates,

00:06:32.660 disapproved of the unlawful, unconstitutional crackdown

00:06:35.520 on peaceful protesters in Ottawa

00:06:37.440 by way of invoking martial law using the Emergencies Act.

00:06:41.420 Let's read some of those findings together, shall we?

00:06:44.620 A significant number identified with the frustration

00:06:47.140 expressed by the protesters regarding ongoing public health measures,

00:06:50.880 even if they disagreed with some of the methods.

00:06:52.840 Among participants who were supportive of the protests and their aims,

00:06:56.640 it was felt that the protests had been mostly peaceful

00:06:59.580 and that these individuals had the right to express their opinions.

00:07:04.420 While some were hesitant to condone the disruption caused by the protests,

00:07:09.140 most of these participants felt the aim of the protests of ending COVID-19 mandates

00:07:14.920 was justified and something they too supported.

00:07:17.780 most of the participants.

00:07:21.360 A few participants expressed excitement regarding what they perceived as Canadians

00:07:26.620 standing up for their rights and freedoms

00:07:27.960 and were passionate in their support for these protests.

00:07:31.900 A small number also felt media coverage of the protests had been primarily one-sided

00:07:36.880 and had unfairly portrayed the protests in a mostly negative light.

00:07:41.060 For those who felt the Emergencies Act was a disproportionate response on the part of the federal government,

00:07:47.940 many thought there were other steps that could have been taken prior to invoking this legislation.

00:07:54.040 This is interesting.

00:07:55.600 Most of these participants believed the protests to be primarily legal and peaceful

00:08:00.840 and did not represent a public order emergency.

00:08:05.640 Some of the participants were particularly unnerved by the reports of protesters and their supporters

00:08:12.680 having their bank accounts frozen

00:08:14.740 and expressed anxiety at law enforcement being imbued with this power.

00:08:20.540 A few expressed a growing lack of trust in the federal government,

00:08:24.860 which they felt was limiting the rights of Canadians to protest in a peaceful manner

00:08:30.160 and were concerned the Emergencies Act could be used routinely going forward to limit public dissent.

00:08:38.560 Asked how they felt the government of Canada could have responded,

00:08:41.680 those opposed to the use of the Emergencies Act suggested more steps could have been taken by federal officials

00:08:47.340 to open up a dialogue with the protesters and hear their concerns.

00:08:52.060 A small number of these participants felt that rather than denouncing the protests,

00:08:56.600 the federal government should have listened to them.

00:09:00.160 Well, if you got all your news from the mainstream media,

00:09:02.940 that's definitely not the sense that you would get.

00:09:05.940 You might even think that you were largely alone,

00:09:09.000 completely alienated in believing that the government had gone too far

00:09:12.120 in seizing bank accounts, stomping on old ladies,

00:09:15.480 targeting journalists and arresting grandmothers for organizing month-long street parties.

00:09:19.640 You would think that you were in the minority.

00:09:21.780 You see, it's subtle, it's destabilizing,

00:09:23.880 and it works on some people.

00:09:26.160 That's why the government does it. 0.98

00:09:27.840 Canadians appear to be nearly split when it comes to protests having an influence

00:09:32.360 in loosening pandemic restrictions.

00:09:34.780 An Ipsos poll exclusive to Global News conducted after police enforcement began in Ottawa

00:09:39.600 shows 54% of Canadians believe the nationwide trunker protests had at least some effect

00:09:45.300 on provincial governments easing restrictions.

00:09:47.620 The majority of Canadians disapprove of how Justin Trudeau handled the protests,

00:09:52.080 with 57% not happy with how the Prime Minister dealt with proceedings.

00:09:57.280 Conservative Party leaders and the truckers themselves also had a majority disproving

00:10:01.480 of their handling of the situation.

00:10:03.900 But when it comes to how the protests in Ottawa came to an end,

00:10:07.180 the majority of Canadians, nearly 6 in 10,

00:10:09.940 saying they believe they were dealt with in the best possible way, given the circumstances.

00:10:14.300 Oh, but that's not what the data says.

00:10:16.780 Now, I know why the Liberals are lying about the public support for what they did to the convoy.

00:10:22.600 They, like all cult leaders, have a pathological need to hold onto power at all costs and by any means.

00:10:29.700 But the media, for them, it's more cynical.

00:10:33.000 They'll do whatever their paymaster tells them.

00:10:35.340 If Justin Trudeau is the cult leader on the street corner telling you to question your reality,

00:10:41.300 the mainstream media is surely the sandwich board he's wearing.

00:10:45.420 Stay tuned.

00:10:46.180 My friend David Menzies joins us to update us on all the latest comings and goings

00:10:51.060 around Patrick Brown and his run to continue to be the mayor of the suffering city of Brampton, Ontario.

00:11:05.340 My motto touched on a politician who just could not read the room and just did whatever he felt like.

00:11:16.920 Of course, you know I'm talking about Justin Trudeau,

00:11:18.900 but there is another politician in the country who has the exact same, let's say, ethics challenges as Justin Trudeau,

00:11:27.220 but he was a little bit more proactive than Justin Trudeau

00:11:30.360 because he installed his friend as the ethics commissioner to review his ethics problems.

00:11:38.460 Very, very forward thinking.

00:11:40.940 Of course, I'm talking about the beleaguered, embattled mayor of Brampton

00:11:46.160 who wanted to run the Conservative Party of Canada, Patrick Brown.

00:11:49.200 And Patrick Brown, well, he's basically a full-time beat,

00:11:53.620 and that's why I'm bringing in my friend David Menzies

00:11:56.680 to update us on the latest in the Patrick Brown saga.

00:12:00.940 And before we came on air, I was saying, I don't even know where to start.

00:12:04.000 How do I start an interview where I plan to update people on what's going on in Brampton?

00:12:09.280 Because there's a lot of moving pieces, and every stone you overturn

00:12:14.080 is just another Patrick Brown being Sneaky Patrick story.

00:12:18.740 There is no logical place to start, Sheila.

00:12:21.980 As a matter of fact, a Brampton insider, he told me,

00:12:26.400 because I was asking him questions,

00:12:28.340 why haven't so many of the complaints been investigated yet?

00:12:32.620 These are complaints about his style of governance

00:12:35.700 that haven't been officially looked at.

00:12:40.000 And he said to me something really profound yet funny, Sheila.

00:12:43.320 He said, are you familiar with The Simpsons?

00:12:46.200 I said, yeah.

00:12:46.640 He said, did you ever see that episode where Mr. Burns goes to the doctor

00:12:50.720 and the prognosis is, Mr. Burns, I don't know what to say.

00:12:55.320 You have every disease, every element known to mankind.

00:12:59.660 We don't even know where to begin, right?

00:13:02.120 That was his position.

00:13:04.100 Where does one begin?

00:13:05.260 Well, why don't we begin with one of the latest scandals, Sheila? 1.00

00:13:09.820 And our viewers can go to The Poynter,

00:13:13.640 which is an online publication that covers Brampton, Mississauga.

00:13:17.780 And they are doing phenomenal work on this file.

00:13:21.340 I call them as I see them, as you know.

00:13:24.040 And basically, the most recent story was the fact that, Pat,

00:13:28.660 there was a forensic audit going on in regard to Brampton University,

00:13:35.260 which is a sinkhole of millions and millions of dollars.

00:13:39.380 And there's nothing to show for it,

00:13:41.120 except that certain consultants are getting rich, allegedly,

00:13:44.960 for not doing anything.

00:13:47.400 And what happened last Friday, Sheila, and this is truly,

00:13:52.460 this makes me say that the ministry in the province

00:13:57.100 that looks after municipalities has to step in, because this is criminal.

00:14:01.320 Patrick Brown learns that one of his enemies on council,

00:14:05.420 and that would be Mr. Dillon, he's going to be out of town.

00:14:09.740 So he calls immediately a council meeting,

00:14:13.320 knowing that he has enough votes to get his way.

00:14:17.340 And it's like an hour's notice, something like that.

00:14:20.320 And here's the deal, Sheila.

00:14:23.340 Mayor Brown and Councillor Santos,

00:14:26.240 they're totally involved in this failed,

00:14:29.800 and I would suggest fraudulent Brampton U project.

00:14:35.100 They are the ones under the microscope of the forensic audit.

00:14:39.500 And guess what?

00:14:40.660 Brown puts forth a motion to shut down the audit.

00:14:44.480 This is the most outrageous conflict of interest,

00:14:48.480 and the fact that the meeting is called on very short notice

00:14:52.640 when he fully knows that one of the votes that would go against this

00:14:58.020 and make it a stalemate is gone.

00:15:00.740 It is absolutely mind-boggling,

00:15:04.540 in addition to all the things that we've reported,

00:15:07.880 such as the hockey rink that's been built.

00:15:12.380 Sorry, let's just stop and talk about the hockey rink fiasco,

00:15:15.800 because I've got to give credit where it's due.

00:15:18.480 Patrick Brown, he's so sneaky, but he's got some foresight.

00:15:27.700 So you catch him last year famously at the hockey rink with his hockey bag.

00:15:34.500 He says he's there inspecting the ice, sure,

00:15:38.200 with your hockey bag and all your buddies on the ice

00:15:41.440 when little kids had been banned because of COVID restrictions from playing hockey.

00:15:46.460 He and his friends were keeping this sort of private ice service

00:15:49.720 in a municipal facility so that they could go and play hockey.

00:15:54.540 The crass ghoulishness of it all upsets me.

00:15:58.960 You catch him in the act, and so this year,

00:16:04.440 in case there were a lockdown,

00:16:06.640 but so that you could never catch him playing hockey in a municipal rink,

00:16:10.600 he built his own rink.

00:16:12.080 And even then, I think he did that sneakily.

00:16:15.840 Tell us about that.

00:16:17.080 Or did he build that rink, Sheila?

00:16:19.560 Who knows?

00:16:19.880 Because the allegations are somebody, namely the Capel family,

00:16:24.620 which runs a financial services and insurance business in Brampton,

00:16:29.420 who were also the owners of the house where the rink is.

00:16:35.240 By the way, that's a scandal, too.

00:16:37.080 The house address doesn't officially exist in Brampton, 67 Main Street South.

00:16:43.620 They have a 71 and a 69, but no 67.

00:16:48.040 So it's almost that he's trying to hide a 1.5-acre property

00:16:52.020 situated within walking distance of downtown Brampton.

00:16:55.700 But the allegation is that the Capel family built this rink,

00:17:02.440 much like they put $500,000 of renovations into 67 Main Street South,

00:17:10.080 much like they put $800,000 in renovations into,

00:17:15.180 I think it was 127 Main Street South, his previous house.

00:17:19.400 And the quid pro quo, allegedly, and there's going to be a forensic audit about this, Sheila,

00:17:27.260 is that the Capels, who, like I said, are in the insurance and financial services business,

00:17:35.060 I'm sure they do a great work there,

00:17:37.740 they get the PPE contract for the city of Brampton.

00:17:41.800 And allegedly, there's already been a check that's gone out to a numbered company for $1 million

00:17:49.380 to a post office box for PPE services.

00:17:54.820 I mean, this is outrageous.

00:17:56.340 Now, we've gone to the city.

00:17:57.620 We've gone to Mayor Brown.

00:17:59.520 We've gone to the fire chief, Bill Boyes.

00:18:02.600 And Bill Boyes, to bring it back to the hockey rink,

00:18:06.180 can you imagine this, Sheila?

00:18:07.540 As you know, hockey services need maintenance.

00:18:12.180 They need resurfacing.

00:18:13.900 And Brown hasn't acquired a city Zamboni yet.

00:18:18.900 So what he had done last winter is a pump.

00:18:22.220 Allegedly.

00:18:23.660 Allegedly.

00:18:24.720 Oh, no, actually, we have eyewitnesses that have said they have seen this.

00:18:29.020 The fire chief has come to the property to flood the ice with this truck.

00:18:35.200 First of all, who's paying for the water?

00:18:37.140 I know my source told me at construction sites, when you see those water trucks,

00:18:41.700 that's about $700 worth of water that they're carting around.

00:18:46.580 Secondly, it's the use of the fire truck itself.

00:18:49.240 And by the way, Sheila, the chutzpah of this man,

00:18:51.800 could you imagine if a five-alarm blaze broke out and they said,

00:18:55.320 you know, it's all hands on deck and they're told,

00:18:59.760 well, unfortunately, the chief is over at Casa Brown flooding the ice with pumper number 13, right?

00:19:06.120 And allegedly, chief boys and some other firefighters were playing hockey with Brown during working hours.

00:19:15.160 Everything is a scandal.

00:19:17.340 Everything is a shite show there in the last four years since Patrick Brown became mayor, Sheila.

00:19:24.020 It's never ending.

00:19:25.960 And what you have to understand is that anyone that's appointed, there is an insider connection.

00:19:32.500 For example, Manisa Sheik, she was the integrity commissioner.

00:19:37.000 She was the one that investigated Patrick Brown for illicitly playing hockey where we caught him red-handed.

00:19:43.040 She did a big report.

00:19:46.140 The only thing she wrist slapped him on, Sheila, was that he wasn't wearing a mask.

00:19:53.120 Not about the lies, not about going into a rink and playing hockey with his very boyfriends

00:19:58.860 when the children of Brampton couldn't go on baseball diamonds and soccer pitches and whatnot.

00:20:04.480 Just the fact that he wasn't wearing a mask.

00:20:06.580 Now, I should tell you, Sheila, Manisa Sheik was fired earlier this year because, you know, 0.97

00:20:13.560 when everyone attends council, there are more anti-Brown than pro-Brown councillors.

00:20:18.440 And one of the reasons she was fired, she had billed the city more than $660,000 for what was essentially part-time work.

00:20:29.800 Now, she is suing the city for $20 million in a wrongful dismissal claim. 0.70

00:20:36.160 And guess what? Patrick Brown is supporting her.

00:20:39.940 So imagine you are a resident of Brampton and a lot of people in Brampton, they're immigrants, Sheila.

00:20:47.880 They're working their butts off with two, maybe three part-time jobs.

00:20:52.520 70% of Bramptonians, I understand, are renters.

00:20:55.500 They're not property owners.

00:20:56.580 And you hear about these real estate deals where somebody is allegedly getting payola and you see an ex-employee being supported by the mayor to take $20 million out of your pockets because she is a friend and a campaigner of the mayor.

00:21:15.000 It is outrageous.

00:21:16.740 Yeah, that's the craziest part, is how do you appoint someone who's supposed to be independent to judge the ethics of your behaviour?

00:21:26.720 And she's been prominently featured in your campaign material previously.

00:21:32.900 That's who this woman is. 0.98

00:21:34.360 And now she's suing for wrongful dismissal. 1.00

00:21:37.880 She was raking in big dough as a part-time employee, constantly siding with Patrick Brown on all of his issues.

00:21:44.980 Now, there's been another ethics ruling after you did a very long-term comprehensive investigation into the potential use of Patrick Brown and using city staffers to work on his campaign to lead the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:22:04.020 Thankfully, that campaign is over.

00:22:06.760 But there was an investigation spurred by your investigation, and there's been a ruling.

00:22:14.300 Now, what you're seeing reported in the mainstream media and what Patrick Brown is saying about that ruling, they really don't meet with reality once you actually drill down and read the ruling that was issued.

00:22:27.200 Why don't you tell us about that?

00:22:28.240 Yeah, Sheila, as you know, for several weeks when Patrick Brown was still running to be the leader for the Conservative Party of Canada, he was running a secret campaign headquarters.

00:22:39.740 It was like a boiler room in the city of Vaughan, not Brampton.

00:22:42.740 That's the first, you know, instance where I raise a Spockian eyebrow. 0.56

00:22:48.280 Secondly, we detailed senior city staff going there on a regular basis.

00:22:55.280 I have a calendar, I've noted the days, the times, I've taken pictures of their cars, their license plates.

00:23:01.580 Not only that, some of those staff members were flown across Canada to Vancouver, to Edmonton, to Calgary, to the East Coast.

00:23:11.280 And yet they're supposed to be working for, you know, the city of Brampton.

00:23:17.140 Well, you can't do that.

00:23:19.640 This is against the Elections Act.

00:23:23.180 This is against the Brampton Code of Conduct.

00:23:26.360 And we caught Patrick Brown.

00:23:28.300 And when I say we, that was Lincoln, Jay, and I.

00:23:30.960 I remember the date perfectly, Friday, June the 3rd.

00:23:35.020 We caught him red-handed, just like Lincoln and I caught him red-handed at that rink in July of 2020.

00:23:41.800 And so a new integrity commissioner comes in.

00:23:47.060 Now, the city of Brampton, as I mentioned before, they don't have an integrity commissioner.

00:23:51.080 She was fired and suing the city, which, and Brown supports her.

00:23:55.660 So this guy's like a freelance integrity commissioner.

00:23:59.480 His name is Jeff Abrams.

00:24:01.620 He runs a company called Principles Integrity.

00:24:04.280 And essentially, he acted on a complaint from a councillor to investigate the use of city staff and city resources.

00:24:15.420 And he came to the conclusion that all of those staff members, over all of those weeks, Sheila, they had taken time off.

00:24:26.020 Oh, okay, where's the beef?

00:24:27.460 Well, even Mr. Abrams, in his report, says, unfortunately, the only records available are electronic records.

00:24:36.380 And he admits they could have been altered after the fact.

00:24:41.060 But you know what?

00:24:42.620 Given Brown's stellar reputation, we'll just take his word for it.

00:24:48.020 And he even, through a smear our way, Sheila, he questioned the journalistic objectivity or integrity of our report.

00:24:56.720 Oh, really?

00:24:57.700 We have reached out to their side numerous times to get their side of the story.

00:25:02.680 We had our video lawyered.

00:25:06.520 We have done everything to make sure it is factually bulletproof.

00:25:11.980 And this freelance integrity commissioner, and by the way, when I trace the address for this guy's business, it's a residence in North Toronto.

00:25:21.020 It's not even in an office building or an industrial park.

00:25:24.240 The guy runs it out of his home.

00:25:25.960 And suddenly, this integrity commissioner is an expert on journalism?

00:25:30.820 Really?

00:25:31.800 You know, this is indeed another scandal.

00:25:34.340 And I've got to tell you, he didn't even look at, and maybe someone else has to, you know, file a complaint.

00:25:39.780 That office in Vaughan, where the secret headquarters was, Sheila, that's a friend of Patrick Brown that gave it to him, allegedly rent-free, which, as you know, is a donation in kind, which is, again, more ethics violations.

00:25:53.780 But nothing sticks, because this guy puts insiders, you know, into the watchdog's kennel, you know.

00:26:02.700 And it's the old Latin phrase that, you know, I quote often, Sheila, especially in Patrick Brown's case in the city of Brampton, which translated in English, who watches the watchers?

00:26:16.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:18.280 I mean, he's running that place like it's a narco state, like it's Kazakhstan. 0.99

00:26:22.580 He's contaminated the municipal buildings with his nonsense, the fire department.

00:26:30.800 Lord knows what's going on with the police.

00:26:33.000 He's got one and two ethics commissioners now just siding, not even investigating.

00:26:39.320 I mean, the latest ethics investigation said that there should be better records keeping.

00:26:44.200 They recommended that.

00:26:45.900 But what I thought was interesting was when this latest ethics commissioner, integrity commissioner, does a drive-by smear on us, questioning the quality of our journalism.

00:26:56.360 You know what I normally do when I'm investigating a story?

00:26:58.880 And I know you do this, too, because it's something we insist that our journalists do.

00:27:02.320 We reach out to the other side for their version.

00:27:05.500 And did you ever get a phone call or an email from that integrity commissioner when he was investigating revelations found in your work?

00:27:16.940 I originally got one email from him.

00:27:19.700 It was a nothing burger.

00:27:21.260 It wasn't answering any specific questions.

00:27:23.520 That was the follow-up email I had.

00:27:25.880 And I went to his residence.

00:27:28.480 He wasn't home, but a lady, I assume it was his wife, was and said, he's probably not going to want to talk to you.

00:27:36.440 But yes, we have reached out.

00:27:38.500 I put the questions in writing.

00:27:40.840 And one of my sources, Sheila, says he did some investigation and he found out that Jeff Abrams went to the University of Windsor.

00:27:49.380 And he said, guess what?

00:27:51.940 So did Patrick Brown.

00:27:53.640 So maybe, I don't know for sure, that's the connection.

00:27:56.960 And my source said, you know, when he was at the University of Windsor, Patrick Brown, as a student.

00:28:02.000 Guess what?

00:28:02.920 He was going to dinner with the dean.

00:28:05.660 He was, oh, yeah, like he's always working on an angle.

00:28:10.360 Oh, God, this guy.

00:28:11.400 He's like three steps ahead with the sneakiness.

00:28:14.120 But, you know, and I got to tell you, Sheila, getting back to the hockey rink, I think the real reason for it is this.

00:28:22.600 Because we know he can go into any rink at any time.

00:28:25.620 But I think the lockdowns are coming back this winter.

00:28:28.600 I truly believe that.

00:28:29.700 I hope I'm proven wrong.

00:28:30.920 I think around flu season, we'll see that.

00:28:33.920 And sneaky Patrick Brown, he always thinks he's one step ahead of the game.

00:28:38.760 And so instead of sneaking into arena, because he knows we'll out him, bring the arena to his backyard.

00:28:48.720 And I think that is the rationale behind this, Sheila.

00:28:52.900 But he got caught.

00:28:54.320 And like I said, show me who paid for this, right?

00:28:58.200 Another question, show me if he's leasing the property and he'll pay the capels for it after the election or he has actually bought it.

00:29:06.640 As well, last month when he registered to run for the mayor of Brampton, what address did he put on that application?

00:29:16.940 We got to reach out and find that out, Sheila, because, as I said, 67, which is you see is the address on the front door, according to the city, does not officially exist.

00:29:28.580 Right.

00:29:29.160 But it does match the footprint of 69.

00:29:31.700 So what I'm getting at, Sheila, is that if he doesn't have the right address on his papers to the city saying that he's running for mayor, there's a chance he could be disqualified because he's not being truthful.

00:29:46.000 From your lips to God's ears.

00:29:48.320 From your lips to God's ears, David.

00:29:50.460 I just I keep going back to this integrity commissioner.

00:29:53.500 He conducts an investigation into the findings in your reporting, but he never reached out to you for confirmation to see, like, who did you see?

00:30:03.580 How long were you there?

00:30:04.620 What hours were you there?

00:30:05.680 What are your records?

00:30:07.120 He concluded you did bad journalism without ever even independently confirming your journalism.

00:30:12.360 It's very fascinating.

00:30:13.340 Absolutely.

00:30:13.660 A hundred percent right, Sheila.

00:30:14.860 His I guess this guy might be lazy or maybe the fix is so in why go through the hoops.

00:30:23.700 You are right.

00:30:24.700 If I was an integrity commissioner, if I was a police detective, anything, I would go to the journalistic organization and I would say, what?

00:30:33.920 Give me the dates and times if you if you can.

00:30:37.240 Do you have some other footage that never made it to air?

00:30:42.040 You know, if you'd like us to look at that, we'd be gung ho for that as well.

00:30:48.060 Like I said, Sheila, we had this fact checked and lawyered.

00:30:51.720 It is factually bulletproof.

00:30:53.980 It doesn't even say why the integrity of our report is questionable.

00:30:59.500 Um, it's astonishing and, um, I'm going to try, I'll go back to that now that I know where he lives or rather where his office is, uh, I'll go back and try to, uh, get that integrity commissioner, uh, to come forth and have him explain why wouldn't you reach out to us with the, um, probably two months worth of work.

00:31:23.340 We did surveillance of city senior staff working at that boiler room.

00:31:28.740 Uh, it is unbelievable, uh, that he wouldn't even make a single phone call, Sheila.

00:31:35.100 Yeah.

00:31:35.660 I mean, I can't even imagine what your little green electric car smelled like after you camped out for two weeks or two months there in the summer heat.

00:31:44.100 Uh, David, there's so much going on with the Patrick Brown scandal.

00:31:48.540 He just can't do anything on the up and up.

00:31:51.020 If he put as much work into being just hardworking as he does into being sneaky, he probably would be further ahead in his life, but I know there's going to be more coming out about him.

00:32:03.680 And I know you're going to be the guy probably to break the news.

00:32:06.820 Thanks so much for your hard work on this.

00:32:08.440 Sheila, if I can just mention two quick things.

00:32:10.260 Sure.

00:32:10.500 One is, um, the thing about Patrick Brown and that what gives me a heart palpitation is the fact that he was a front runner.

00:32:20.540 Along with Mr. Polyev to become the leader of the conservative party.

00:32:24.600 What if he had become that leader?

00:32:27.560 Secondly, what if, you know, today can't possibly imagine what tomorrow will bring.

00:32:32.940 Um, he becomes the prime minister as our boss, as relevant said, the thing about Brown compared to Trudeau, when it comes to grifting, Trudeau's pretty lazy.

00:32:43.380 Yeah.

00:32:43.620 He'll do a little thing with, uh, the Aga Khan and the little thing with the, the, we scandal, but I really want to get on a jet and go to Tofino and Costa Rica and go surfing and smoke a bong.

00:32:53.220 Um, Brown has a work ethic when it comes to grifting that is second to none.

00:32:58.920 He would be working the prime minister's office night and day, uh, making himself rich.

00:33:05.560 Secondly, in the, um, category of hope abounds a silver lining a week, Monday, September 12th, I believe a lady by the name of Nikki Carr.

00:33:15.480 Um, she is going to be running against Brown for mayor.

00:33:19.860 She used to work at the city of Brampton.

00:33:22.500 She was fired, uh, you know, wrongfully and then rehired. 0.95

00:33:26.160 Um, she knows where all the skeletons are.

00:33:28.920 Allegedly.

00:33:29.720 She knows who's who in the Brampton zoo.

00:33:32.300 She is Patrick Brown's worst nightmare. 0.82

00:33:35.960 Like I said, I believe her kickoff campaign is a Monday, September 12th.

00:33:40.400 So we might have a humdinger of a race because the way Patrick Brown gets elected, it's a horrible political game, Sheila.

00:33:49.840 He reaches out to all the ethnic communities and he promises them the moon.

00:33:56.440 And naturally he never delivers, of course.

00:33:59.360 So whether it's the Tamils, the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Hindus.

00:34:03.660 And typically what happens is that the religious leaders at the mosques and the temples say, vote for Brown.

00:34:11.440 A lot of these people, they're new Canadians.

00:34:14.780 Many don't even speak the language.

00:34:16.600 They're just taking advantage of them.

00:34:18.260 Yep.

00:34:18.700 And they go out on mass.

00:34:20.640 They do show up at election day and vote for Brown.

00:34:23.060 And does Brown keep any of those promises?

00:34:25.640 Absolutely not.

00:34:26.660 So let's hope Nicky Carr can give this scoundrel a run for his money.

00:34:34.680 Yeah.

00:34:35.220 Patrick Brown just put a little bit of that hard work and hustle into just governing the city.

00:34:41.300 The people of Brampton would be further ahead and they're really they're the real victims here.

00:34:45.820 They are somebody else being in charge of that city.

00:34:48.620 David, thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:34:51.020 And thanks so much for trying to sort of break down the spiderweb of Patrick Brown's scandals.

00:34:57.400 But I'm sure there will be more.

00:34:59.220 Oh, there's more coming.

00:35:00.220 This spider is a tarantula, Sheila.

00:35:02.260 So thank you so much for having me.

00:35:05.880 Thanks.

00:35:06.480 Stay with us.

00:35:07.220 More from the show up after the break.

00:35:09.920 I read your letters to Ezra.

00:35:21.020 Well, we've come to the portion of the show where we hear from you.

00:35:27.400 We invite your viewer feedback.

00:35:29.200 We actually care what you think about the work that we're doing.

00:35:32.540 And if you want to send a letter to Ezra right there, that's how you get in touch with Ezra.

00:35:37.880 Those are all the different ways that you can send us your viewer feedback.

00:35:41.840 Now, today's viewer feedback is on Ezra's cricket monologue from the other day.

00:35:48.420 And I understand that he had a tough go of that monologue.

00:35:53.620 He had to stop a few times and stifle the dry heaves.

00:35:56.860 And who can blame him?

00:35:58.360 Humans are hardwired to feel revolted at things that we're not supposed to eat.

00:36:03.440 It's whether you think it is the hand of God or evolution or both of them working together.

00:36:09.940 Those sorts of responses are what has kept us alive so far.

00:36:16.280 It keeps us from getting sick, from getting parasites, from getting food diseases, food poisoning.

00:36:23.640 Listen to your gut.

00:36:25.340 On that monologue, JS writes,

00:36:27.480 I have a dairy farmer in the family.

00:36:28.780 They work so hard.

00:36:29.940 They are not living rich, but they make an honest living.

00:36:32.480 Who knows if this generation's old family farm can continue.

00:36:37.240 I live on the family farm.

00:36:38.880 We are running the family farm.

00:36:40.420 This is the first farm that my family had when they came to this province in 1903.

00:36:47.780 And there really is a war on farmers between the carbon tax, the nitrogen targets, the war on meat, the war on dairy.

00:36:56.340 I mean, really, it's a war on your mind because your mind, your human mind needs things in animal products to function properly so that you can formulate thoughts and resist what the elites want to do to you.

00:37:11.840 It's not about meat.

00:37:13.520 It's about your health.

00:37:15.100 And an unhealthy populace is easy to control.

00:37:18.300 And that's why they want you to switch from delicious beef over to crunchy, disgusting crickets.

00:37:26.720 Gord Tron writes,

00:37:27.900 Sounds so good.

00:37:28.980 That's the thing.

00:37:29.560 It actually sounds like something when you bite a cricket, right?

00:37:32.160 It crunches.

00:37:33.400 And not like in a popcorn or chips or, in my case, pork rinds sort of crunch, but like a disgusting, that shouldn't be in my mouth sort of crunch.

00:37:41.660 Anyways, why doesn't Trudeau just want to keep them all for himself and his friends?

00:37:46.580 He already personally likely produces more carbon emissions than Prince Edward Island combined.

00:37:53.940 You know, that's the thing.

00:37:55.000 You go to the World Economic Forum and you know that they are not eating crickets in their closed-door meetings.

00:38:01.900 I can testify to this firsthand.

00:38:05.380 At the global warming climate change conferences hosted by the United Nations,

00:38:10.200 And out front in sort of like the green trade show area, they have all the green vegan food that they want you to eat.

00:38:20.040 And it's gross.

00:38:21.640 I made Kian Bexty, our alumnus, eat a burger made of beets that sort of bled and he was dry heaving like Ezra talking about crickets.

00:38:31.620 But I do know, because our friends from Climate Depot, particularly Mark Morano, told me,

00:38:37.760 Oh, Sheila, back here in this place that Rebel News is not allowed to go but all the UN delegates are,

00:38:43.700 there's a Burger King and the lineup for the Burger King where the UN climate change delegates are,

00:38:50.900 and only them, not the public, was hours long.

00:38:54.680 So it only goes to show you that they push for crickets, they won't eat them, the crickets are for you.

00:39:00.420 They push for disgusting, fake, bleeding vegan burgers, but they are eating Burger King behind closed doors.

00:39:09.580 Margot Allard writes,

00:39:11.500 Well, JT should set a good example and introduce food from this company into he and his family's daily diet.

00:39:18.240 That's interesting, again, because as Justin Trudeau is pushing for us to get off single-use plastics,

00:39:28.740 a long time ago, and I should do it again, I pulled his household grocery bills and in one month,

00:39:34.980 I think he had spent over $300 on bottled water.

00:39:39.940 And recently, I saw our friends at True North, who've done some great work on this,

00:39:44.240 show that at Trudeau's official residence, he spent more than $12,000 on groceries, dining, a chef, and boutique goods in one month last year.

00:39:57.840 You think he's eating crickets at $2,000 a pop for his grocery bill?

00:40:03.520 I don't think so. I bet there's a lot of steak on there, don't you?

00:40:07.400 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thanks for tuning in.

00:40:10.380 Thanks to everybody in the studio in Toronto who works so hard to put the show together and across the country.

00:40:16.360 Thanks to everybody behind the scenes who works to make sure that the show is there for you to find when you need it.

00:40:23.580 And as Ezra says, keep fighting for freedom, but also don't eat the crickets.

00:40:29.820 I'm Jeremy LaFredo for Rebel News, and behind me is the Canadian mission to the United Nations.

00:40:34.040 According to a recent BBC report,

00:40:35.720 Mohammed Al-Rashid, on behalf of the Canadian intelligence apparatus, facilitated the travel of men, women, and children to the ISIS-controlled regions of Syria,

00:40:44.740 where they then joined the notorious terrorist organization.

00:40:47.800 According to a BBC-obtained dossier on the Canadian intelligence asset, during his operation of bringing people to join ISIS,

00:40:53.700 he communicated directly with believed-to-be notorious ISIS recruiter Rafael Hostey.

00:40:58.120 I need you to work under me. Officially, I want you to bring us people in, he told Al-Rashid.

00:41:03.080 Al-Rashid, officially working for the Canadian embassy in Jordan, replied,

00:41:06.580 I am ready, brother.

00:41:07.680 The explosive BBC report centered around the case of UK citizen Shamina Begum,

00:41:12.080 a girl who was 15 at the time that she was brought to Syria to join ISIS by Al-Rashid.

00:41:16.060 After the 15-year-old was brought to ISIS, she was married and gave birth to three children,

00:41:20.000 all of which died as babies from various illnesses stemming from the war the terrorist organization was waging against Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria.

00:41:26.400 While bringing people to fight alongside ISIS, Al-Rashid was documenting the names and ideas of people he was bringing

00:41:32.060 and sharing that intelligence with the Canadian embassy in Jordan, who, according to Al-Rashid, promised him Canadian citizenship.

00:41:38.180 While bizarre, his story is not an isolated incident.

00:41:41.240 It follows the pattern of Western intelligence agencies and governments facilitating support for the same Islamic terrorist organizations that they claim to be against.

00:41:48.860 In leaked U.S. State Department emails obtained by WikiLeaks,

00:41:51.760 Hillary Clinton aide and current national security advisor for the Biden administration, Jake Sullivan,

00:41:57.300 sent an email to Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, stating bluntly that Al-Qaeda is, quote,

00:42:02.100 on our side in Syria.

00:42:03.960 A leaked U.S. embassy cable assessed that the Assad government's vulnerabilities included the potential threat from an increasing presence of transiting Islamic extremists,

00:42:12.920 and detailed how the U.S. could improve the likelihood of such opportunities arising.

00:42:17.140 In other words, improve the likelihood of the referenced Islamist extremists of destroying the Syrian government.

00:42:23.120 And the U.S. and their allies in the region did just that.

00:42:26.120 In a speech at Harvard, President Joe Biden explained bluntly that the U.S. and its allies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars on weapons for terrorists.

00:42:32.880 He poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad,

00:42:44.220 except that the people who were being who were being supplied were al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.

00:42:55.940 It was part of an official, but at the time covert war, President Barack Obama's CIA launched, codenamed Timber Sycamore,

00:43:02.740 which allowed direct U.S. arming and training of Islamic extremists in Syria.

00:43:06.800 As the New York Times put it in 2017, the program proved to be one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA.

00:43:13.960 Anonymous U.S. officials told the Washington Post that the CIA armed and trained nearly 10,000 terrorists,

00:43:19.800 spending roughly $100,000 of taxpayer money per year for every anti-Assad terrorist who went through the program.

00:43:26.300 But these terrorists, or so-called rebels, were not just killing pro-Syrian government forces.

00:43:31.000 As the New York Times reported, U.S.-backed insurgents carried out, quote, sectarian mass murder.

00:43:36.120 In response to these horrific operations and failed strategies to bring the Assad government to its knees,

00:43:41.040 Representative Tulsi Gabbard, former U.S. military personnel who recently guest-hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight,

00:43:46.100 introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act into Congress, which would have, quote,

00:43:49.760 prohibited the use of United States government funds to provide assistance to al-Qaeda and ISIS.

00:43:54.120 Although it had bipartisan support of 14 U.S. representatives, it never made it past the House.

00:43:59.680 The recent history of our government supporting terrorism to advance geopolitical goals

00:44:03.240 is emblematic of how empty and morally corrupt the political establishment is.

00:44:07.420 After criticizing the U.S.-funded proxy war in Syria on the campaign trail,

00:44:11.400 President Trump shut down the CIA's Timber Sycamore program for good in July 2017.

00:44:16.080 It turns out it's a lot of al-Qaeda we're giving these weapons to, Trump told the Wall Street Journal.

00:44:20.640 While the recent story of a Canadian intelligence asset bringing teens to Syria to fight for ISIS

00:44:25.080 seems bizarre, it's only a matter of time before more and more stories come out of our political leaders

00:44:29.920 spending taxpayer funds to facilitate terrorism.

00:44:32.920 For Rebel News in New York City, I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:35.080 For Rebel News in New York City, I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:37.660 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:37.880 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:38.620 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:39.880 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:41.040 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:41.520 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:42.620 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

00:44:43.980 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

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00:44:44.760 I'm Jeremy Levredo.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 03, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Media, politicians gaslight themselves over the peaceful protesters in Ottawa

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