Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Ottawa has zero evidence its $6 billion gun grab will reduce crime

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00:00:34.560 the liberal government was just forced to admit that their massive gun grab has

00:00:52.980 no impact on public safety then we've got journalist sam cooper on foreign interference

00:00:59.840 It's May 12, 2026.

00:01:02.880 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:06.460 You're fighting for freedom! 0.90

00:01:09.160 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.87

00:01:21.400 The Liberals want Canadians to believe that their massive gun confiscation scheme 0.69

00:01:26.680 is all about public safety and making Canadians safer.

00:01:31.900 Just reminding Canadians to those with prohibited firearms

00:01:36.280 to enroll and to take part in the program.

00:01:40.400 This is a voluntary program.

00:01:42.560 However, compliance under the Act will not be voluntary

00:01:47.220 as of October 31st when the current Order on Council is set to expire.

00:01:53.900 so with that I want to just thank everyone who has already taken their

00:01:59.600 civic duty seriously and and enrolled in the program and we look forward to

00:02:05.060 others doing the same this is a critical part of the work that our government is

00:02:11.000 doing in addition to the number of legislation that's before the house to

00:02:14.860 ensure the safety and security of Canadians and we believe that removing

00:02:18.920 these prohibited firearms is one additional step in that measure. But now we know something

00:02:24.880 extraordinary. The federal government cannot produce a single shred of internal analysis

00:02:31.100 proving that their scheme will reduce crime whatsoever. Not one study, not a single briefing

00:02:37.500 note, not one departmental analysis. Nothing, not even an email. We know this because the Canadian

00:02:44.240 Taxpayers Federation filed an access to information request asking Public Safety Canada

00:02:48.540 response all analysis from the department on the efficacy of the assault style firearms

00:02:54.240 compensation program and its effect on crime rates slash public safety and the government's

00:03:00.600 response was stunning in its honesty i guess the reply was please be advised that no information

00:03:10.460 related to your request exists within public safety canada that's the direct quote no information

00:03:17.040 exists, yet taxpayers are already committed to spending at least $742 million on this scheme,

00:03:24.200 according to Budget 2025. Meanwhile, Fraser Institute researchers warn the total cost

00:03:29.680 could balloon past $6 billion once collection, compensation, storage, destruction, staffing,

00:03:35.380 consultants, of course, inventory losses, and administration are fully accounted for.

00:03:40.860 Think about how insane that is. Six billion dollars. Ottawa is preparing the largest confiscation program in Canadian history and apparently nobody inside Public Safety Canada bothered to produce evidence showing it would actually make Canadians safer.

00:03:58.040 That alone should nuke this entire program, because if the government cannot justify a multi-billion dollar policy with evidence, then what are Canadians paying for exactly?

00:04:11.280 And the cost estimates just keep getting worse.

00:04:14.680 Back in 2020, the Liberals tried to frame this as a relatively modest program, you know, like every government program that gets out of control, because they all do.

00:04:24.220 But like every liberal registry database confiscation scheme, or pipeline for that matter, the price tag explodes the moment reality sets in.

00:04:33.640 According to Fraser Institute senior fellow Gary Mauser, the parliamentary budget officer estimated compensation, just paying people for the things the government is taking from them alone, from $47 million to $756 million, depending on compliance rates and the number of firearms actually confiscated.

00:04:55.320 And that's a key point here, because the government doesn't really know how many of these newly prohibited firearms are just floating around out there, because many of them moved from the non-restricted, so non-registered list, directly to prohibited.

00:05:17.700 So there's no record of them out there.

00:05:19.940 They're just guessing.

00:05:20.980 The real costs besides that come afterwards. That's just the guns. There's collection, transportation, storage, destruction, administration, as I said, consultants, there's always consultants, government advertising of the program, and compensation for retailers stuck with unsellable inventory.

00:05:40.440 Mauser estimates the collection phase alone could cost between $1.6 billion and $5 billion, pushing total taxpayer exposure to somewhere between $2.6 billion and $6.7 billion.

00:05:54.420 Think about the number of cops or hospitals you could have for nearly $7 billion.

00:06:02.380 And remember, the Liberals have already burned through $67.2 million before collecting a single firearm.

00:06:09.700 Not one.

00:06:10.440 That money largely disappeared into, where, you know, it always does, the bureaucracy, staffing, planning, again, consultants, and administrative overhead.

00:06:20.120 Sound familiar? It should, because this is starting to look exactly like the long gun registry fiasco over again.

00:06:26.320 Canadians were promised that registry would cost around $85 million and basically pay for itself.

00:06:32.860 Instead, it spiraled into a nearly $2 billion boondoggle.

00:06:36.440 now history is repeating itself except this time the numbers could be even worse and for what

00:06:42.260 that's the question the liberals still cannot answer because public safety admits it has no

00:06:48.400 evidence the confiscation scheme will reduce crime or improve public safety none zero evidence

00:06:55.160 meanwhile the violent firearm crime rate has continued increasing since the liberals introduced

00:07:00.420 the ban in 2020. Firearm-related violent crime climbed from more than 12,600 incidents in 2020

00:07:07.460 to nearly 14,000 in 2022, the highest level since comparable records began. Organized crime

00:07:14.960 offenses have surged too, by more than 170% since 2016, from 4,800 to 13,000 crimes. Gang violence

00:07:25.300 is rising. Random attacks are rising. Carjackings are rising. Repeat violent offending is rising.

00:07:32.680 And yet the liberals are focused on confiscating legally owned firearms from licensed owners who

00:07:38.760 already comply with some of the strictest firearms laws in the world. Why? Well, I think the answer

00:07:44.820 is simple. This is the path of least resistance for the liberals. Go after the people already

00:07:51.260 following the law because it's easier than confronting the people who actually drive

00:07:54.980 violent crime or for that matter the liberals policies that drive violent crime. It's easier

00:08:00.620 to confiscate firearms from licensed owners with fixed addresses, background checks, registration

00:08:06.160 records and spotless compliant histories than it is to reform a broken bail system. It's easier than

00:08:11.600 tightening border security to stop the flood of illegal handguns coming across the border from

00:08:15.700 the United States. It's easier than locking up repeat offenders who cycle through the courts

00:08:20.420 over and over again while Canadians watch the same names rack up the same charges. It's easier

00:08:25.720 than taking on organized crime or transnational repression. It's easier than dismantling gang

00:08:31.860 networks. It's easier than dealing with the consequences of soft-on-crime policies that

00:08:36.760 turn to catch-and-release justice into the default setting of the Canadian legal system.

00:08:41.540 So instead, the Liberals are targeting hunters, farmers, sport shooters, collectors, and lawful

00:08:46.640 firearms owners because those people comply. They fill out paperwork, they renew licenses,

00:08:52.480 they store their firearms safely, they follow transport laws, they submit themselves to daily

00:08:57.200 background screening. They're easy to find, easy to regulate, and politically easy to demonize.

00:09:03.800 Meanwhile, the criminals don't care. The gang member carrying a smuggled handgun in Toronto

00:09:09.660 is not worried about a confiscation letter from Public Safety Canada. The fentanyl trafficker

00:09:14.460 running guns across the border is not checking the RCMP prohibited firearms list before committing

00:09:19.000 crimes. The repeat violent offender released on bail for the fifth time is not suddenly going

00:09:24.240 to reform because Ottawa sees somebody's locked up target rifle in rural Alberta.

00:09:30.560 Even Statistics Canada acknowledges that firearms used in homicides are

00:09:34.040 rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners. That's devastating for the liberal narrative,

00:09:40.140 except they don't care because it confirms what lawful firearms owners and police have

00:09:45.100 been saying for years. This program does not target the source of violent crime and police

00:09:49.540 know it. Clayton Campbell, the president of the Toronto Police Association, said the buyback

00:09:53.740 program would have, quote, essentially zero impact on the crime in Toronto and, quote,

00:09:58.760 zero impact. The RCMP Labour Union called the confiscation scheme a misdirected effort when

00:10:04.680 it comes to public safety. Dozens of police departments across Canada have refused participation

00:10:10.380 Most provincial governments have also refused to participate in the confiscation scheme.

00:10:16.060 May have heard we will also not participate in the federal government's gun grab program.

00:10:23.280 Yeah, we've instructed our police services and our Crown prosecutors that this is just not our law enforcement priority.

00:10:30.120 We want them going after real bad guys.

00:10:31.920 In fact, if anyone is trying to take away Albertans' guns, who is not licensed as a seizure agent by Alberta's chief firearms officer, they could actually be arrested.

00:10:43.440 Firearms retailers want nothing to do with any of this.

00:10:46.500 Even Canada Post backed away from any sort of involvement.

00:10:50.260 And honestly, why would they be involved?

00:10:52.520 Nobody wants ownership of a failing program that cannot achieve its stated goal.

00:10:57.300 Because this was never really about public safety.

00:10:59.540 It's about politics.

00:11:00.460 It's about creating the appearance of action after tragedies.

00:11:04.880 It's about demonizing a politically unfashionable minority, hunters, farmers, sport shooters, collectors, indigenous hunters, rural Canadians, people who already obey the law, people who already pass extensive background checks, people who already continuously are screened by the RCMP every single day.

00:11:23.960 Meanwhile, repeat violent offenders get bail

00:11:26.760 Gang members just run the circle through the courts

00:11:30.580 Border smuggling continues

00:11:32.420 Fentanyl traffickers flourish

00:11:34.700 And the liberals, well, they're spending billions

00:11:37.340 Confiscating property from licensed owners

00:11:39.440 Because it's easier than dealing with these actual bad guys

00:11:42.120 And now we know the most important part of all

00:11:44.460 The government cannot prove that any of this will work

00:11:48.260 And they didn't even try

00:11:49.780 Not internally, not statistically, not operationally

00:11:53.140 No evidence exists inside Public Safety Canada showing the scheme will reduce crime.

00:11:58.580 In a normal country, that would be the end of it.

00:12:01.420 Because in any rational country, a government admitting it has no evidence for a multi-billion dollar program would be immediately forced to shut it down.

00:12:12.020 Instead, Ottawa just keeps spending and taxpayers just keep paying.

00:12:17.580 Stay with us.

00:12:18.960 Independent journalist Sam Cooper is with us up after the break.

00:12:23.140 so joining us now is independent journalist sam cooper who has been following the foreign

00:12:35.740 interference beat for well years and he's got an incredible expose on his sub stack at the bureau

00:12:43.520 the op-ed is the enemy is already inside the gates and mark carney just opened them wider

00:12:49.500 you say the alliance does not change in ottawa former secretary of state mike pompeo delivered

00:12:58.880 a warning that underlines themes the bureau has been reporting for years and that's really that

00:13:03.540 canada is completely vulnerable to foreign interference and the government has done

00:13:09.320 nothing tangible to fix this and our democracy is truly at risk yeah exactly i was picking up

00:13:17.740 themes raised by the former State Department head and CIA Director Pompeo, as well as a man

00:13:24.720 named Michael Lucci, who runs State Armor in the United States. And that's an NGO that is rolled

00:13:31.780 out to sort of try to implement laws at the state level to counter CCP interference. And they both

00:13:37.760 were pointing, especially Pompeo, to the fact that, as he said, the enemy is inside our gates.

00:13:43.840 he raised a bombshell sort of disclosure that the US government found the Houston Chinese consulate

00:13:52.200 was running a massive spy operation. They shut the consulate down and hundreds of Chinese spies

00:13:59.120 ran for the exits and flew out of China. And so Mr. Pompeo said, look, that showed how deep the

00:14:07.480 interference in the United States is. And remember, I assert the U.S. government has

00:14:12.540 laws. There are a number of prosecutions right now against Chinese agents, but Canada does not.

00:14:18.840 So that was the point of my op-ed. Michael Lucci of State Armor really hammered Mark Carney for

00:14:25.960 this secret MOU that Carney has signed between our RCMP and the Ministry of Public Security.

00:14:33.220 I've reported in detail for the Bureau.News that the Ministry of Public Security is the same Chinese police agency that has been running these secret police stations in Canada.

00:14:46.160 You know, I reported based on leaked documents for the Bureau.News from a CSIS intelligence report, the Ministry of Public Security had sent covert agents into Canada.

00:14:57.660 It had tasked Chinese language journalists to track dissidents.

00:15:05.640 So this is extremely, you know, egregious violations of Canada's sovereignty.

00:15:10.840 And here we have Carney now making a deal with that very same Chinese police service that my reporting exposed was running wild in the fox hunt.

00:15:21.160 It's called Fox Hunt Illegal Police Operations in Canada under Justin Trudeau.

00:15:26.280 That's the whole point of a lot of my exposés on Trudeau's government. And I feel that Carney has just hit the reset button. He's acting like he's a new government. He's not. He has continued what Trudeau has done and scaled it up.

00:15:38.700 So that's why I say he's opening the gates wider. The U.S. government has real investigations. We can talk about some of them. The mayor of Arcadia in California just admitted this week that she was running a secret Chinese operation from her council seat.

00:15:57.560 And so I say, look, Canada has a much bigger problem we know than the United States does and Canada is doing nothing. Carney, in fact, I believe is making the problem worse.

00:16:09.180 Right. And it's it's not conjecture. Michael Chong testified during the Foreign Interference Commission that he was the target of an intimidation campaign coming out of the consulate in Toronto.

00:16:25.280 So this is a very real problem. We held a Foreign Interference Commission that was weeks and months long.

00:16:32.000 I had the displeasure of sitting through most of it, as you did to Sam. And there were tangible warnings in there every step of the way. And the federal government has really done nothing. And, you know, now we're seeing people like Nate Erskine Smith, as I said before we started recording, getting mugged by the reality of not following some of those recommendations.

00:16:56.020 The Liberal government was warned that they needed to tighten up rules around political nominations because the presumed Member of Parliament or presumed MLA could be chosen by people who are non-citizens, wouldn't even need to vote in the general election if it was in a safe seat.

00:17:19.200 And we just saw that happen to Nate Erskine-Smith.

00:17:21.800 Absolutely.

00:17:22.440 The parallels there are absolutely striking. So as a candidate, he has alleged significant irregularities in the nomination contest. That's the exact same language that my reporting for Global News alleged in Toronto writings, especially one for a significant candidate.

00:17:45.840 Right. And the allegations that were revealed in the Hogue Commission, which, by the way, I believe pretty much whitewashed some of the more serious allegations.

00:17:56.020 But look, it was non-Canadians voting for a nominee that community leaders allegedly sort of directed them to.

00:18:04.040 There were allegations, you know, that people were being told, you know, here's a card, even if you don't speak or read English, you know, here's a card in your language that, you know, will tell you who to nominate.

00:18:17.220 So this is exactly what Erskine Smith points to. And I'll tell you something else. I can disclose today that I have received information that a significant Muslim community leader has been involved in sort of promoting the nomination candidacy of Mr. Erskine Smith's rival.

00:18:37.000 and my prior reporting for the Bureau.News revealed that this individual had a prior sexual assault

00:18:45.040 conviction, you know, related to his teaching job in a Muslim community school. So, you know,

00:18:54.440 I should say that others, you know, I believe have reported on that story. There's no allegations

00:19:01.060 that this man is still involved in criminal activity, but he's a significant Muslim community

00:19:06.060 leader that apparently was promoting Erskine Smith's rival. And now Erskine Smith is saying

00:19:12.360 there's serious irregularities. And as you point out, I think the word is, if I pronounce it

00:19:17.740 correctly, Schadenfreude or something, right? You're not acting on a threat for your own liberal

00:19:24.200 government, Mr. Erskine Smith. And now it looks like you've been bitten by the diaspora of vote 0.92

00:19:29.720 banking hand that used to feed you. Yeah, that's a great way to put it. Normally, I tell people

00:19:36.000 to dance with the ones that brought them but all of a sudden their dance partners have 1.00

00:19:40.080 chosen somebody else and it's not you know it's not ccp um it's not just uh the the ccp that's 0.69

00:19:49.920 infiltrated canadian politics it's not just this muslim vote banking as we saw allegedly allegedly 0.67

00:19:55.940 with nate erskine smith but now we have irgc radicals um within the country um some community

00:20:05.800 linked people who watch this have said there's upwards of 700 the government has a much lower

00:20:11.400 number naturally and they've only been able to seriously push for the deportation of one this

00:20:18.680 is an ongoing problem and it's making canadian streets far less safe and the government seems

00:20:23.760 to be taking a hands-off approach in fact when i watch these committee hearings they're basically

00:20:27.960 saying well what do you want us to do i don't know deport them oh yeah enforce the canadian law but

00:20:35.260 That's exactly the point. People may say, what is the issue if a diaspora community group promotes candidates that come from their community? There's nothing wrong with that. The real issue is, look, Iran, Pakistan, China, India, or Calistan separatist networks are promoting, this comes from CSIS, are promoting candidates that they believe will support. 0.91

00:21:04.420 that foreign government or foreign separatist power in Canada's parliament and the real sharp

00:21:10.840 edge of the the tool here is transnational oppression so as you point out the Iranian

00:21:16.300 guards and the uh you know the the Iranian clerical regime you know which is on its possibly

00:21:23.220 you know its deathbed you know under the U.S. government uh overdue you know attack uh in the 0.63

00:21:29.740 Middle East, they are seeking to not only attack the Jewish community, I believe they are, CSIS

00:21:35.620 has acknowledged, they are targeting Iranian Canadian journalists who are critics of the

00:21:41.020 regime. So my reporting at the Bureau, you know, looked into CSIS's annual report, and it showed

00:21:47.260 that CSIS acknowledges a group called Handel a Hack, which they say is connected to Iran's,

00:21:54.300 intelligence ministry did target Canadian journalists with serious threats, targeted

00:22:01.600 their families in Iran, is involved in major cyber operations. But the real point of my story that I

00:22:09.360 broke is the FBI had already targeted Handle a Hack in Canada, you know, around the same time

00:22:16.600 that CSIS released its annual report showing that this cyber operation had targeted former

00:22:23.060 Doug Ford MPP Goldie Gamari, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime. The FBI had taken down a

00:22:31.500 number of websites where the Iranian regime had said they had tasked the Jalisco New Generation

00:22:39.180 Cartel to behead Goldie Gamari in her home, along with another Los Angeles Iranian dissident.

00:22:47.280 And they were offering a $250,000 reward to the cartel. So that points to a lot of details. But the point I don't want to lose is CSIS never reported it in its annual report.

00:23:02.520 If you recall, the RCMP commissioner around the same time a few weeks ago was saying the RCMP has no evidence that any foreign government is involved in these serious transnational repression operations.

00:23:15.300 So I can point to all types of problems with Canada's vulnerability and weakness to pushing back against foreign interference. But suffice to say, look, the RCMP looks wrong and CSIS isn't pointing to the most serious case of this Iranian regime targeting that the FBI, it looks like, has had to clean up Canada's mess, and it could be a lethal mess.

00:23:38.300 Now, Sam, you've been on this foreign interference beat for years, to the point where I frankly worry a little bit about your own safety. But how do people find your work and support your work? Because you're doing important work that I think a lot of journalists working for larger operations are scared to do.

00:23:58.900 well thank you uh they can go to the bureau.news my independent journalism investigative platform

00:24:06.260 up to uh close to 40 000 subscribers now i tried i would like to get to uh some more

00:24:12.900 paying subscribers converted so i could pay some of these legal bills and i'll let you know i do

00:24:18.600 pay for uh some you know military veteran training for my own sort of counterintelligence

00:24:25.480 our surveillance awareness and my safety. And I'll say, look, Juno has some reporters that are

00:24:30.880 also exposing themselves at some of these street rallies, getting in the face with microphones of

00:24:36.320 some very dangerous and apparently untouchable in Canada, people working for foreign governments,

00:24:43.180 I believe. So kudos to Juno's journalists that are doing, you know, or the rebel.news

00:24:48.720 journalists as well are doing that hard work. Yeah, yeah, it's a dangerous work, but I think

00:24:53.740 it's vital work because it's not being done anywhere else. Sam, thanks so much for coming

00:24:59.840 on the show and stay safe out there. Well, letters, letters, letters, we get your letters

00:25:12.980 every single hour of every single day. I think you're some of the most engaged viewership

00:25:19.880 on the internet, whether it's sending us letters directly to our email or commenting on our work

00:25:26.640 wherever you might find it on any of the platforms. Today, your letters come to us on the news of

00:25:34.500 301,000 signatures, nearly double the amount required to trigger an independence referendum

00:25:44.200 here in Alberta on October 19, 2026. And I should tell you that these signatures were collected

00:25:52.580 by some 7,000 volunteers in some of the most bitterly cold conditions in the country

00:26:01.500 in Alberta winter. Okay. So for those of you out there who are skeptical and saying, well,

00:26:08.560 the Forever Canada petition efforts, they, you know, collected over 400,000. Good luck finding

00:26:17.800 people outside when it's minus 30. They collected their signatures, they being the Forever Canada

00:26:24.680 petition collectors. They were doing that in summertime when Albertans do their best to be

00:26:32.620 outside as much as possible. It's easy to collect signatures in the summer. Very easy.

00:26:38.560 all right let's get into it lynn osborne writes 300 000 signatures collected by grassroots people

00:26:45.880 with no big money no big media and no political backing odd in canada these facts alone are

00:26:52.000 considered very undemocratic what group goes out to solicit public support without government

00:26:57.540 approval nor subsidy it's just not canadian the census this year that we are required by law to

00:27:04.100 complete or suffer a penalty is focused on gender issues and French language skills. Obviously,

00:27:09.460 Albertans anyway, have other interests and priorities. It's true. The petition canvassers,

00:27:18.460 they had zero political support. In fact, they were being demonized by the media and politicians

00:27:25.480 on both sides of the political spectrum. Jason Kenney viciously from the right,

00:27:30.080 and i mean mark carney and naheed nenshi here in alberta from the left silver feet comments

00:27:39.100 the enemies of freedom will use all the fear-mongering tactics that exist and may

00:27:43.980 even invent some new ones but the greatest fear of every alberton is the horrendous life their

00:27:49.540 children will have if they remain in canada it's true that that's a excellent point the

00:27:56.060 the brexit campaign the remain side did exactly that it was called project fear and it was meant

00:28:07.560 to scare people away by implying that chaos would follow if the uk left the european union

00:28:17.880 and chaos did not follow you know they said such crazy things as you wouldn't be able to get

00:28:23.300 sandwich meat. I mean, we're going to see it during the campaign. But here's the thing about

00:28:30.720 Albertans. We're not scared of hard work. And if you've ever tried to use a government service

00:28:35.240 these days, when you're standing there, and I know I have frequently asked myself this,

00:28:42.060 how could this possibly be worse? How could these services be any worse? I think Albertans should

00:28:49.820 and will have that in mind when they're walking into the ballot box on October 19th.

00:28:55.680 Look, yes, there will be some hard work on the other side.

00:29:00.120 But could the current delivery of those services that are now done by the federal government

00:29:07.940 be any worse than they already are?

00:29:11.380 Now, we can be really bad at this as Albertans and still not be as bad as the federal government.

00:29:16.460 Paul Schofield writes congrats Alberta even with a 20% toss out rate that's over a quarter million

00:29:23.300 patriots who appear fed the hell up good for giving people the right to choose their own path

00:29:28.840 October 19th should be something and that's that's the thing a lot of people on the left

00:29:36.620 and even on the right are upset with Daniel Smith not getting involved in the referendum

00:29:41.980 But I think she's taking the exact right approach. This is a question for Albertans to decide for themselves. And if one in three of us are so mad that we want to leave this country, shouldn't we be able to express that in the form of a referendum?

00:30:05.400 if not there's no pressure release valve for the anger that people are feeling I should tell you I

00:30:12.280 was on Newsmax which is an American cable news channel over the weekend and the person on the

00:30:20.440 panel with me said oh you know it's only one in three well that's a hell of a lot of people

00:30:26.680 our prime minister is decided frequently by one in three people

00:30:33.140 and he is apparently legitimate so why isn't one in three people like a legitimate

00:30:42.060 event horizon of anger but he said oh this is just political posturing so that alberta can get more

00:30:51.320 out of Ottawa. That might be the case with Quebec. But I disregard that argument completely

00:30:58.640 because this is not a movement of the provincial government. This is not a movement of any

00:31:07.040 political party, in fact. This is 7,000 grassroots volunteers, 301,000 people who are demonized from

00:31:17.500 the left and the right. They don't want more out of Ottawa. They want less Ottawa. And so for this

00:31:26.300 whole movement to have just been political posturing, it would have to have some political

00:31:32.340 power. But it exists completely outside of the political structure. And I will not disregard

00:31:38.240 the visceral anger and the hope and the drive of these people for something better. But that was

00:31:46.460 an American commentator on the outside looking in. And so I was happy to be the Alberta commentator

00:31:53.800 on the inside, looking out, I'll be the ambassador of us in the American media, if need be, so that

00:32:02.100 people understand what's really happening here. This is not about political posturing. These are

00:32:06.800 actually people with no political power, trying to seize their own political power. And I hope

00:32:14.440 they do. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll

00:32:19.860 see everybody back here in the same time in the same place. Tomorrow, I think Ezra's back in the

00:32:25.060 chair and well, I'm hosting the show. So I'll say what I always say. Don't let the government tell

00:32:29.960 you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - May 12, 2026

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Ottawa has zero evidence its $6 billion gun grab will reduce crime

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