Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Sask. Court of Appeal greenlights activists' challenge to Parents' Bill of Rights

00:00:00.000 Sex activists win big in Saskatchewan. We've got a homophobic billboard in Hamilton and a team of volleyball girls who didn't want to change in front of a boy are called hateful. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 I think we should get right into it. Today's guest really needs no introduction if you're a regular viewer of Rebel News and my work here. It's Lise Merle. She's a Saskatchewan-based contributor to Rebel News. She's one of our live stream hosts. You'll know her from almost all of our election night coverage.

00:00:52.400 She does incredible work in the space of parents' rights and she's joining me today to discuss the attacks on gender-based reality in this country, starting with what happened in Saskatchewan when the Court of Appeal there sided with the sex activists. All that and more. Take a listen.

00:01:13.200 So joining me now is, well, as many of you know, if you watch the Rebel News Roundup, the Rebel Livestream, my real life best friend, but also regular Rebel News commenter, commentator, Lise Merle from beautiful Regina, Saskatchewan. Beautiful for now.

00:01:38.720 But the longer the Liberals are in power, the worse our cities get. And we are going to break down big news out of Saskatchewan this week. A big win for the anti-family federally funded sex activist meddlers in that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has sided with the activists

00:02:06.620 and greenlighting their challenge of the parents' bill of rights. And I know this is something that Lise has been carefully watching. So I thought, let's have Lise on. Let's break it down together.

00:02:18.820 Lise, though, a first reaction because you and I were glued to our computer screens when these legal arguments were being made.

00:02:30.500 But maybe before we get into all of that, why don't you give us a quick breakdown of what the Parents' Bill of Rights really is?

00:02:39.220 Yes. Well, in Saskatchewan in 2023, the government of Saskatchewan proposed and then passed a law regarding a pronoun policy in Saskatchewan schools,

00:02:52.200 which requires parental consent for either name or gender changes for students under 16.

00:03:00.920 So this is an initiative that's got real strong support from traditional conservatives, from parents, from grandparents,

00:03:09.220 and from, you know, the common sense side of the argument and has fierce opposition from the left.

00:03:17.380 So our government, the government of Saskatchewan, used the Notwithstanding Clause to pass this law.

00:03:24.440 And what has then happened is that it has continued grinding through our court system.

00:03:30.580 So the Notwithstanding Clause did not work in this case as it was intended, because the Notwithstanding Clause is meant to be a backstop.

00:03:41.060 When there are clashes between the federal government or charter rights, individual charter rights of children, in this case,

00:03:53.640 and what the legislature says that the electorate is telling them they want to happen.

00:04:01.220 So there's been a collision of rights.

00:04:02.860 The Notwithstanding Clause was used.

00:04:04.520 The courts decided to keep hearing the arguments from the radical left, from the radical gender advocates,

00:04:14.800 all of them federally funded, you guys, all of them federally funded, to fight against parents in court.

00:04:21.100 And basically the question comes down to this, is who do the children of Saskatchewan belong to?

00:04:27.300 Do they belong to their parents or do they belong to the state?

00:04:30.940 And what happened yesterday is an exceedingly rare occurrence.

00:04:38.300 So there was a split vote in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals.

00:04:43.140 It was a four to one vote that four judges determined that this should be allowed to be argued within the court system.

00:04:54.100 And there was one dissenting judge who said, well, just wait a second here.

00:05:03.280 What exactly is going on?

00:05:05.640 His name is Justice Neil Caldwell.

00:05:09.960 Justice Neil Caldwell basically argued that the Notwithstanding Clause was wielded in this case,

00:05:17.400 that it makes the court's sort of interference in this matter a moot point.

00:05:23.940 Because the law is going to stand no matter what.

00:05:26.520 The Notwithstanding Clause worked as it was intended in that case.

00:05:30.340 But the courts are steamrolling through the Notwithstanding Clause to keep hearing arguments.

00:05:36.440 Because let's not forget, in three years, the Notwithstanding Clause is going to expire in this case.

00:05:41.080 And what I think the fear is, is that all of the crazy left-wing activists, the NDP,

00:05:50.760 all of the people who came out on side of transgender children's rights are going to look back on this time,

00:05:59.340 point to what the court is determining at this time, and say, but look, the court said that this shouldn't be happening.

00:06:07.860 So what they're doing is fixing it so that in three years, they'll have the narrative to support the unconstitutionality

00:06:17.460 or appropriateness of this law in its entirety.

00:06:23.460 Does that make sense?

00:06:25.560 Yeah.

00:06:26.120 I mean, and at the end of the day, the antis conceded that in their legal arguments.

00:06:33.360 Since when we were watching all of this, what they, they know they can't have the law overturned at least for five years, right?

00:06:40.740 Because it's in place for five years and then it needs to be reviewed and then renewed.

00:06:45.780 And so they know their legal challenge will not overturn the law.

00:06:51.080 The law remains in operation.

00:06:53.460 That's what the Notwithstanding Clause means.

00:06:54.900 The law is operational, notwithstanding the constitution or charter rights or whatever.

00:07:03.120 What they really want is the law to, that's what their legal challenge is intended to do,

00:07:09.620 is to have the law found to be unconstitutional, but operational.

00:07:16.580 Which means that it will have that extra layer of barrier to overcome when it needs to be renewed.

00:07:26.740 And not legally, but I think in the court of public opinion, but not in the court of law.

00:07:34.720 Which is a public policy.

00:07:35.740 That's right.

00:07:36.480 That's exactly right.

00:07:37.540 Yeah, and at the end of the day, if it's ruled unconstitutional, which I don't know how it could be

00:07:45.680 because the Notwithstanding Clause is in the constitution, part of it.

00:07:50.380 But I think it's an end run around teachers who do not follow this law, do not notify parents.

00:08:00.800 This is an end run around them facing professional sanctions for breaching the law because they're

00:08:07.880 going to say, I shouldn't have to face professional sanctions.

00:08:11.720 You're asking me to do something that's unconstitutional.

00:08:15.120 Yes, that violates their rights.

00:08:17.360 Their rights as the teacher or as the professional educator or as the educrat would argue.

00:08:23.520 And that's exactly what's happening here, Sheila.

00:08:25.800 A former minister of justice and attorney general of the province of Saskatchewan, Bronwyn Eyre,

00:08:31.980 is on record as saying the judiciary or judges or justices should not develop public policy

00:08:39.660 from the bench.

00:08:41.180 That is not within their purview.

00:08:42.980 Pretty much what is being suggested here is that our judiciary and our justice system

00:08:50.000 has completely veered out of their lane.

00:08:52.700 Their lane is to apply the law.

00:08:55.500 It's up to our respective legislatures in our home provinces to develop the public policy.

00:09:02.740 And so in this case, it really shines a light on what we talk about all of the time in judicial

00:09:10.660 overreach, in an ideologically captured judiciary.

00:09:14.860 How do we move forward?

00:09:16.540 And in this case, it's such a great example of exactly that happening right now.

00:09:23.720 Now, let's talk about who's behind the legal challenge, because this is not just grassroots.

00:09:29.300 It's definitely I don't see a lot of actual normal parents involved challenging this law

00:09:34.760 on behalf of their children.

00:09:36.660 It's it's activist groups like EGAL, EGAL, UR Pride.

00:09:43.100 Is that what it is?

00:09:43.720 The University of Regina Pride?

00:09:45.360 University of Regina Pride is who brought the initial challenge to the law using the services

00:09:54.320 and resources provided to them by EGAL.

00:09:57.360 EGAL is a federally funded non-governmental organization that gets federal funding to fight

00:10:04.280 these battles in court on behalf of people and groups like UR Pride.

00:10:10.240 OK, so there's this there's this humongous sort of conflict of interest where the parents

00:10:17.700 of Saskatchewan are left to fend off this entirely contrived and very well funded activist

00:10:27.400 group.

00:10:28.060 From having from from from from allowing us to be parents, what the activist group is

00:10:36.480 saying, no, no, your children actually belong to us.

00:10:39.400 And so here the parents are forced to fend off these misguided, thoroughly misguided activists

00:10:48.320 in saying, no, no, our children don't actually belong to you at all.

00:10:52.820 Children belong to their parents. 0.99

00:10:54.140 Children belong to their families and you are not going to interfere in what we say is

00:10:59.380 appropriate for our children to be exposed to.

00:11:02.300 That is the crux of the matter.

00:11:05.200 Well, and again, talk about another group doing an end run around accountability, because

00:11:12.000 really, these groups are just extensions of the federal government's policy on these

00:11:17.640 issues.

00:11:18.660 And the federal government knows that they have no jurisdiction here.

00:11:22.620 Education is the jurisdiction of the provinces.

00:11:27.300 Yes, ma'am.

00:11:28.200 And education of children is the jurisdiction, exclusive jurisdiction of the parents.

00:11:32.820 But the federal government funds their proxies, ironically, with the money of the very same

00:11:40.040 parents they're fighting against, to advance the federal government's policies in court.

00:11:46.540 So it is far from grassroots.

00:11:49.040 It is some of the best funded, best organized attacks on parents in this entire country.

00:11:54.900 And we have to recognize it for what it is.

00:11:57.560 Yes.

00:11:58.160 No, you're precisely right.

00:12:00.000 Not only did the federal government throw away $11 billion in taxpayer funds at foreign

00:12:06.840 2SLGBTQIA initiatives, but the money that they're spending domestically to fight their own people, to fight parents over whose children they are, is absolutely enormous. 0.78

00:12:21.080 And something that should be unforgivable to the everyday, regular, common-sense Canadian taxpayer.

00:12:32.060 It's egregious what's been allowed to happen here.

00:12:34.980 It's egregious.

00:12:35.980 Now, I guess, what's next?

00:12:40.460 Now we have to wait for this to wind its way through the court system, because the judgment really was that it will allow the challenge to go forward.

00:12:49.180 So the Court of Appeal has ruled that the appeal will go forward.

00:12:52.660 Yes.

00:12:53.240 Yeah, that's what's going to happen.

00:12:54.700 And there are more than a handful of potential outcomes to this.

00:13:00.100 So the court could say that the policy violates the rights of 2SLGBTQIA students, and it would be a symbolic ruling, simply because the notwithstanding clause is in effect.

00:13:18.280 It could find that it doesn't violate the rights of 2SLGBTQIA students.

00:13:24.080 Or, even in a rarer possibility, it could find that cruel and unusual punishment, this could be considered cruel and unusual punishment, which is exceedingly rare that it would be argued,

00:13:42.180 but never underestimate the depravity of these leftist gender activist groups to argue that this is cruel and unusual punishment against children, not letting them explore their gender identity completely out of the purview of their parents,

00:14:00.760 completely out of the purview without the consent or knowledge of their parents.

00:14:05.600 I could, frankly, I could see EGAL trying that.

00:14:10.800 And so what that would do is force the government of Saskatchewan to wield the notwithstanding clause again.

00:14:22.040 And this is not outside of the realm of possibility either.

00:14:25.780 Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice for the province of Saskatchewan, Bronwyn Eyre, also alluded to the fact that she would not hesitate to use the notwithstanding clause again,

00:14:35.420 and also to accelerate this all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

00:14:39.440 So it's unfortunate that Bronwyn Eyre is no longer our Minister of Justice or Attorney General.

00:14:45.280 But what we need to hear, the parents of Saskatchewan, and more broadly, the parents of Canada,

00:14:50.960 is Saskatchewan's current Attorney General and Minister of Justice tell us that that's exactly what they're going to do to defend and prioritize

00:15:02.420 and for their parental rights in Saskatchewan.

00:15:06.060 The left, the response of the left is absolutely unhinged and off the hook, but we should not be surprised by it.

00:15:18.320 So they're doing a victory dance over this saying,

00:15:20.620 How dare the government of Saskatchewan pay thousands of dollars to argue this obvious fact?

00:15:27.260 Oh, they're fiscal conservatives now.

00:15:29.800 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:15:30.260 Sure, sure, sure.

00:15:30.800 Thousands of dollars being spent to defend parents' relationship to their own children.

00:15:40.980 Right.

00:15:41.180 To say that that's a waste of taxpayers, I bankrupt the whole place to prove that.

00:15:46.260 And you know what?

00:15:47.120 I believe that the government of Saskatchewan, after seeing this decision and seeing how this is unfolding

00:15:53.120 in the wider sort of ecosystem of Canadian education, I could see them doing exactly that, and they should.

00:16:02.220 There should be sweeping announcements by the government of Saskatchewan,

00:16:07.360 detailing exactly how they're going to fortify parental rights in Saskatchewan.

00:16:11.040 There should be announcements forthcoming from Saskatchewan's education minister, Everett Hindley,

00:16:16.400 about how he is going to strengthen parental involvement and consent and transparency within Saskatchewan education.

00:16:24.620 Because what's not being said is that children are going into public education in Saskatchewan

00:16:32.860 and being abused, abused by the educators who think they know better than the parents,

00:16:40.300 when in fact anybody, okay, anybody with a lick of common sense knows that telling little kids that they're born in the wrong body,

00:16:49.300 that the solution to all of their problems is puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, wrong sex hormones,

00:16:56.760 by everybody knows that marching children into a medical pathway that has irreversible and life-changing consequences

00:17:04.740 is insanity, is insanity. 0.55

00:17:08.680 And it is time that Saskatchewan walked it all back, all at once.

00:17:13.680 You know, one of the reasons they are saying that this should be ruled unconstitutional yet operational

00:17:20.400 is that it violates the security of the person.

00:17:23.740 But is there any more of a violation of the security of the person of a small child

00:17:30.500 than to sever the relationship they have with loving parents by encouraging secret keeping and medicalization?

00:17:38.840 You know, Sheila, if we were to look at this exact same question under the lens of truth and reconciliation,

00:17:46.280 we would say, how dare you part children from the cultural enrichment of their own family experience?

00:17:55.220 How dare you?

00:17:56.440 How dare you?

00:17:57.160 Yet, when you consider that children are being robbed of their culture, of their identity, of their very names

00:18:06.260 by rogue educators and gender activists, well, then it's acceptable?

00:18:12.560 Like, help me square that circle.

00:18:14.780 I thought that stealing children's identities and cultures was bad. 0.51

00:18:20.220 Right.

00:18:20.400 Is that, is that, did I, was I completely mistaken on that?

00:18:24.620 Or has this thing just got so completely off the hook and out of hand that we have, that we have inmates running the asylum?

00:18:34.440 Yes.

00:18:35.120 Yes.

00:18:35.520 Yes.

00:18:35.900 To answer your question, yes.

00:18:37.100 Yes, yes, yes, yes, we have.

00:18:38.880 And I don't, I think there's no more, a better example than what's unfolding in Hamilton right now.

00:18:45.840 Hamilton, Mayor, Andrea Horvath, who I would be remiss if I didn't mention that she used to be the NDP leader in Ontario.

00:18:57.560 So obviously gunning for the top job to be the Premier of Ontario.

00:19:02.520 It actually makes a lot of sense to add that context.

00:19:05.520 Yes.

00:19:05.680 And say what I will about Doug Ford, and I have, Lord knows I have, but he is not as crazy as Andrea Horvath, who now, as the mayor of Hamilton, says that it is transphobic to put up a billboard that says, let kids be.

00:19:25.200 This is a billboard from letkidsbe.ca, and it's an organization that calls for stopping the medical transition of minors. 0.60

00:19:35.160 They don't even say, like, stop the medical transition of adults.

00:19:38.800 Yes.

00:19:38.960 Their focus is simply on irrevocable medical interventions on gender-confused children.

00:19:46.640 Apparently, according to Andrea Horvath, that's transphobic and...

00:19:53.160 Hateful and disrespectful, I think she says.

00:19:56.000 Yes, and she pressured the private company in charge of the billboard, Astral Media, to remove it because while the city doesn't own the billboard company, they own the public land that the billboard company has leased to erect the billboard.

00:20:15.100 And because of that, the city of Hamilton has decided they have editorial control over what happens on the billboard, which is absolutely outrageous.

00:20:24.940 I don't...

00:20:26.020 I mean, it's crazy.

00:20:27.460 This is a perfect example of government overreach.

00:20:30.160 In this case, it is municipal government overreach because Andrea Horvath, who has a, well, who has a personal life that might explain some of her opinions, put pressure on them from the municipal government, put pressure on the media company to remove this.

00:20:49.140 She pre-labeled it in the public sphere as homophobic, hateful, and disrespectful, when it is none of the above, none of the above.

00:20:59.220 There's nothing hateful or disrespectful about safeguarding children and advocating on behalf of families.

00:21:07.200 Obviously, the group that put the billboard up knew that it was going to be speaking to its local environment.

00:21:15.480 Right.

00:21:16.140 And made that distinct choice to put up that board.

00:21:21.220 And I think when common sense, real normal people, you know, regular normal people see that billboard, they're going to go, there's nothing incorrect about that billboard at all.

00:21:33.860 And yet, this is a censorship that we are seeing in Canada.

00:21:37.740 This is an act of government censorship in action right now, saying nothing more than leave the kids alone.

00:21:44.960 Just leave them out of this.

00:21:46.920 All of it.

00:21:49.120 Yeah.

00:21:49.620 I mean, and it's not exactly right-wing extremism to say leave the little ones alone.

00:21:55.740 Fine.

00:21:56.340 They're doing it in the United States.

00:21:58.280 We are doing our best to protect kids from medical transition here in Alberta. 0.52

00:22:02.160 But Denmark, you know, the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, all of them have backpedaled on their wide embrace of the gender-affirming model of health care for children.

00:22:20.340 All of them have looked at the evidence, have heard the actual experts, and what they all say is that there is no evidence to prove that gender-affirming care actually helps children suffering from gender dysphoria.

00:22:37.300 As a matter of fact, what the statistics show is it has the opposite effect.

00:22:42.320 So when you begin affirming the gender of a young person, it actually has the potential to harm them. 0.71

00:22:53.080 It's much, much greater.

00:22:54.620 The risk of harm is much, much greater than any good it can offer.

00:22:59.000 And when you hear gender activists, and they are so prolific in their lies, when you hear them say, you know, if gender-affirming health care is withheld from these vulnerable youths,

00:23:15.000 while these vulnerable youths are going to do something, you know, are apt to do something really extreme, like unalive themselves, what they're doing is ceding to those young impressionable minds,

00:23:31.040 this is what you must say to get access to your gender-affirming health care.

00:23:34.840 Even though the statistics show that that claim has no veracity whatsoever.

00:23:40.260 When children, when this gender-affirming health care is withheld from children, those children grow out of it.

00:23:47.520 They grow out of it unscathed.

00:23:48.900 The cure is puberty. 0.70

00:23:49.760 That's right.

00:23:50.500 They're blocking the cure with their puberty blockers.

00:23:53.380 The cure is puberty. 0.70

00:23:54.440 It resolves.

00:23:55.760 But they are training the children what to say to emotionally manipulate their parents.

00:24:01.900 That's exactly right.

00:24:03.020 And parents, parents across, I mean, really globally across the world are waking up to realize just how deceived they were by, you know, those people that work, that are members of WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

00:24:22.140 Parents are realizing that they've been lied to by, you know, the Canadian Pediatric Society or whatever it's called, by these professional associations that have been ideologically captured, absolutely ideologically captured, to tell them lies and guilt them or scare them or frighten them or terrify them into making decisions for their own children that had they had accurate information, they absolutely would never have made.

00:24:52.140 So, it's real interesting watching this play out in real time, the way that they're scrambling to double down on this, when we all know it is such a futile and abusive situation that is happening in Canada still, destroying Canada's children.

00:25:09.760 Yeah.

00:25:10.180 I mean, it's so sinister how they weaponize a parent's best qualities against them, that desire to protect their children from harm.

00:25:19.280 Um, and then they say, well, you'll be harming them if you don't allow them to do this.

00:25:24.840 Yes.

00:25:25.020 It's that weaponized compassion and it's so pernicious.

00:25:29.900 Oh, oh, destructive.

00:25:31.060 It's absolutely destructive to families.

00:25:32.900 All you have to do is listen, listen to a family that's been, um, that's been through the ringer on this.

00:25:38.520 And there are families that are going on two and three and five and six years of this with their children, where their entire family life is blown up, um, when one of their kids comes home and says one of these things that they picked up in school.

00:25:51.920 That the levels of destruction just cannot be overstated in this case as it pertains to just the personal loss of security for families and the closeness of families and driving a wedge between children and their, their parents.

00:26:06.220 Um, all, all those people should be thrown in jail to be completely honest.

00:26:10.260 Sure.

00:26:10.580 It is, it is that egregious a sin.

00:26:12.760 Yep.

00:26:13.080 There is nothing worse.

00:26:13.880 Uh, another great story from our friend, Melanie Bennett over at Juneau, who is just doing incredible work.

00:26:23.060 I want to touch on this.

00:26:24.480 Um, we talked about it on the live stream, but it's worthy of further discussion.

00:26:28.480 Uh, girl athletes silenced over concerns about male teammate in the dorms.

00:26:33.860 Now this is team Nova Scotia.

00:26:36.420 This is their provincial volleyball team.

00:26:39.240 These are 17 year olds.

00:26:41.900 Uh, they played at the camp.

00:26:43.880 Canada cup in Toronto.

00:26:44.940 So this is nationals in Toronto and the girls came home.

00:26:49.160 They raised, um, while they were gone, they weren't told that a trans identified teammate.

00:26:56.840 So a male teammate identifying as a girl would be staying in the dorms with them and changing with them.

00:27:05.520 And then when they took to a Snapchat group, it sounds like to discuss this amongst themselves and express their concerns with, uh, about this, they were labeled by their coach who is a cheater because he selected a boy in place of a girl to play on the team so that they would have an advantage.

00:27:24.640 A blatant misogynist, a blatant misogynist, a blatant misogynist, a blatant misogynist.

00:27:28.040 He called these little girls hateful and disrespectful.

00:27:31.500 And then he sent a letter.

00:27:34.780 He told on them to their parents, but he didn't accurately describe the situation.

00:27:39.780 He said they were basically being hateful to an LGBTQ plus teammate, but he never described to these girls' parents.

00:27:49.780 You talk about severing the relationship between parents and children.

00:27:52.800 This coach tried to get in the middle of it because he never accurately described it.

00:27:57.680 This was a male player he expected their daughters to change with.

00:28:03.640 Huh.

00:28:04.400 Well, I feel like hell has a bunch of places reserved for people exactly like this, Sheila Gunn-Reed. 0.85

00:28:10.220 Because what that coach did was prioritize the mental health issues of a one individual male athlete over the well-being, the rights, and the experience of all of his other female athletes.

00:28:30.940 Okay, this is what happens when in Canadian law, like we do, we prioritize the gender identity and expression of one over absolutely everybody else.

00:28:43.800 Canadian girls and women have become accustomed to stories like this.

00:28:48.720 But what makes it especially egregious in sport, like this is actually really unique to sport, is that these male athletes are displacing female athletes.

00:28:59.360 So for every male athlete you name to your team because you want to do really well, okay, coaches.

00:29:05.260 You want to perform really, really well.

00:29:07.340 And you know that those male athletes have the physical advantage.

00:29:10.200 You know they do.

00:29:11.140 That's why you put them on their team.

00:29:13.100 Whenever you put a male in, you are displacing a girl from your team. 0.98

00:29:17.900 And with that, you are not just, you are not just, you are not just enabling her, you are not just, you are not just making her lose that singular opportunity in that one match, in that one game.

00:29:32.240 But what you're doing is robbing her of opportunity years down the line.

00:29:37.200 So Sheila, do tell us how, in Canada, elite athletes propel their athletic success into academic success.

00:29:47.500 Please tell us how that works.

00:29:48.740 Yeah, we have some experience about this in my household.

00:29:54.040 Regular viewers, my friends and family will know that I have an elite female athlete under my roof. 1.00

00:29:59.260 She plays at a provincial and national and varsity level.

00:30:02.500 And she's playing on a scholarship.

00:30:06.460 And for girls who are, you know, potential prospects to be a varsity athlete playing on a scholarship, it is absolutely essential that they are seen at these provincial and national level tournaments.

00:30:22.580 That's where the coaches are.

00:30:23.960 That's where they get ID'd into the varsity pathway.

00:30:28.060 That's where they get ID'd into the Olympic pathway and beyond.

00:30:34.280 So by them not playing at these tournaments, they are not being seen because everybody's looking at the boy in their place.

00:30:43.720 And so they're being, for some of these girls, this is their vehicle to post-secondary education. 1.00

00:30:50.600 And they just won't get it because the boy's in their place.

00:30:52.820 Yeah.

00:30:53.660 On the academia opportunity side, up until 2015, sport was the great equalizer for girls going into post-secondary institutions.

00:31:05.720 They'd have a boy's team.

00:31:07.200 They'd have a boy's hockey team and a girl's hockey team.

00:31:09.540 And those players, although treated differently and under a different set of circumstances, often male sports at the post-secondary level are much better funded than the female ones.

00:31:22.940 But often, this was the only opportunity that those female athletes would have to compete and also leverage the opportunity of being able to play on an all-female team. 1.00

00:31:34.520 So we're obliterating the ability for girls to compete on the same level as boys by letting the boys opt into their sports. 1.00

00:31:46.880 Yeah.

00:31:47.180 And outside of Alberta, Alberta, Canada, who passed laws, God bless her, Danielle Smith passed laws to protect girls and women in sport in Alberta.

00:31:58.520 Apart from Alberta, nobody else has taken this.

00:32:02.960 And this is something we have to unwind on a national scale.

00:32:06.320 Every single province and territory in the nation of Canada has to protect their female athletes, girls and women, from this kind of gross abuse.

00:32:16.720 Yeah.

00:32:17.020 And it's not just contact sports where girls are actually in physical danger.

00:32:21.800 Like, we're not talking about ringette and rugby or the combat sports, martial arts.

00:32:28.040 We're talking about stuff like volleyball.

00:32:30.840 David Menzies has covered boys playing at the varsity level on girls' volleyball teams, women's volleyball teams, I should say,

00:32:41.080 where the girls on the other team are being physically hurt, receiving concussions,

00:32:46.500 just because they're dealing with the force of a male striking that ball at them.

00:32:52.860 Well, they're being forced to not only compete against males that have the physical advantage.

00:32:59.660 We have the stats going back 100 years that show that men have a physical advantage over women. 0.93

00:33:05.940 But we're also not divulging to those girls that they're also being forced to change and play against and be lodged with and have their entire experience

00:33:23.720 being viewed through the lens of the sex-pretending voyeur who is just thrown in with them.

00:33:32.160 Like, they're not even being told that these are boys that are sleeping in the same dorms.

00:33:36.240 They're not being told that because gender ID and expression law prohibits that because that would be an act of discrimination, you see.

00:33:43.580 Because what if the young men who are playing on these teams had their feelings hurt?

00:33:49.580 Well, what then?

00:33:50.760 Right.

00:33:51.200 Well, what about the girls who are having their opportunities stolen? 1.00

00:33:54.260 What about the girls that are having their experiences hijacked by this and who are being admonished by people in authority,

00:34:04.080 a.k.a. coaches or professional associations or sports associations, that they are hateful and disrespectful and transphobic?

00:34:15.280 Like, girls need protection from their government and they need it right now. 1.00

00:34:20.740 Right now.

00:34:21.960 I hope that volleyball coach never coaches another girl ever again. 0.99

00:34:28.580 I don't know what's more objectionable in his behavior.

00:34:33.600 The fact that he selected a boy to play in a girl's spot, that he didn't warn his girls that the boy would be sleeping in their dorms.

00:34:42.300 It is such a failure.

00:34:43.620 That he told on them to their parents for simply, he called them transphobic and homophobic,

00:34:51.680 for simply wanting privacy and sex-segregated spaces for themselves.

00:34:58.900 Basic safeguarding.

00:34:59.900 Basic safeguarding.

00:35:01.240 Yeah.

00:35:01.460 Yep.

00:35:01.940 I hope he never works with another girl ever again.

00:35:05.200 He should not be allowed to.

00:35:06.480 I hope he never coaches ever again.

00:35:08.280 I hope he rots in the lowest pits.

00:35:10.380 That's what I hope.

00:35:11.580 Yeah.

00:35:12.920 Lisa, I could talk to you all day and honestly, it feels like I have because we just got off the live stream together.

00:35:17.320 No offense.

00:35:17.920 But thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:35:22.160 We are recording this Tuesday afternoon, so this will go live Wednesday night.

00:35:27.400 And I get another afternoon of talking to you tomorrow on the Wednesday, Western Wednesdays, Buffalo panel over on the Rebel News live stream.

00:35:38.680 That's 11 a.m. Mountain, 1 p.m. Eastern.

00:35:41.420 For those of you who don't know, we talk about exclusively Western issues on Wednesday with a panel of four.

00:35:48.060 So me, Lisa, and two other special guests.

00:35:51.520 And if you're watching this on Wednesday night or any time after, do choose, do tune in on Wednesday.

00:35:59.120 Um, and if you're, go back and watch the recorded version of the show because I promised it would be a banger and, uh, I believe it will be.

00:36:07.540 It is going to be.

00:36:08.540 It is going to be.

00:36:09.420 Well, Sheila Gunn-Reed, thank you so much for having me.

00:36:11.560 And thanks so much to Rebel News for covering these really, really important stories.

00:36:16.680 God knows the mainstream media isn't doing it.

00:36:18.680 And, uh, and we just appreciate you guys so much for sharing these stories with Canadians.

00:36:23.180 Thank you, buddy.

00:36:23.860 Thank you so much for having me.

00:36:53.860 Today's viewer feedback comes by way of my interview I did last week with Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition Canada.

00:37:02.660 And he was discussing a recent decision in the United States to overturn the endangerment rule, which resulted in basically dozens of climate regulations because it was ruled that climate change endangered people.

00:37:26.420 And so the government should act and what resulted were, like I said, dozens of expensive and unhelpful emissions regulations and standards.

00:37:40.120 It's sort of the same idea that, uh, calling, uh, calling CO2 a pollutant here in Canada has resulted in carbon taxes and, um, upstream, uh, emissions regulations, caps on production for oil and gas.

00:37:57.600 Now, your viewer feedback is from the YouTube comments this week.

00:38:04.400 All Decat X says, funny thing, how nature works.

00:38:07.980 Life evolved in this rock with carbon as a prime element to it.

00:38:11.500 All plants absorb carbon.

00:38:12.860 The absorption of carbon is relative to the temperature of the environment, thus warmer equals more absorption.

00:38:18.820 I guess that's why plants are bigger in equatorial regions.

00:38:22.540 This is basic elementary education stuff, or it should be for all these academic lotus eaters to teach. 1.00

00:38:30.860 Silly carbon-based life forms need to learn and be more observant.

00:38:34.600 That change is always a constant, so get with the reality of that.

00:38:40.300 Bob Cajun writes, Carney will double down on their net zero just because actually so much of what the liberals do as far as governing is in response to the things that Trump does.

00:38:53.540 You know, if Trump cuts funding to USAID because USAID is funding all kinds of crazy things, uh, you'll see Carney replace the funding to the crazy things.

00:39:06.480 You know, it, Trump blocks refugees from certain places of the world and you'll see Canada take more of them in. 1.00

00:39:15.180 Remember, Justin Trudeau's famous welcome to Canada tweet, uh, was in response to Trump with his ban on immigration from five failed states and the media ran with it, called it a Muslim ban, but it wasn't a Muslim ban.

00:39:34.300 It was a failed states ban because you can't confirm identities.

00:39:37.700 And so then Justin Trudeau said, welcome to Canada and absolutely destroyed our immigration system.

00:39:44.080 We still have people walking across the border because of he invited the entire developing world to just take a shortcut. 0.99

00:39:50.180 Um, and we will see Mark Carney add a carbon tariff to things coming in from the United States because the United States refuses to tax their goods as far as carbon goes.

00:40:07.260 So we'll see it tacked on to inbound Canadian or inbound goods from jurisdictions without a carbon tax, as if making imported goods more expensive for Canadians somehow will change the weather.

00:40:22.960 But that's, I guess, the logic or lack thereof.

00:40:28.020 Bruce Taylor 3241 says, this is wonderful.

00:40:32.040 Thank God this is happening.

00:40:33.380 Yeah, it is wonderful for Americans.

00:40:35.160 Their cars are going to be cheaper.

00:40:37.260 Their fuel is going to be cheaper.

00:40:39.480 They're probably going to have to rely less on ethanol additives in their gasoline.

00:40:45.360 So they'll get better fuel mileage and their cars will work better.

00:40:48.940 I mean, it's just all around a great thing for Americans.

00:40:52.980 And it's making me pretty envious.

00:40:58.260 Kurt Forsythe, 1543 says, we love y'all, Berta.

00:41:02.700 Bring your oil and Conor McDavid to us.

00:41:05.860 I guess you're an American hockey fan.

00:41:09.800 And yeah, we love selling you our oil.

00:41:14.560 We just wish we didn't have to sell it at a discount to you.

00:41:18.520 But that's not your fault.

00:41:20.080 That's successive liberal governments not allowing Alberta's oil to reach export markets that aren't American.

00:41:27.660 But thank you for your affection to us.

00:41:34.880 Meg Faber 2 says, excellent to see truth coming out bit by bit.

00:41:39.280 Yeah, I mean, in the United States, I don't think they really have time to have a hidden agenda or to move slow.

00:41:47.740 If the Democrats are going to undo everything that Trump does to make life more affordable for Americans,

00:41:54.300 to repatriate American manufacturing, he has to move fast so that people can adjust and also see through the lies, right?

00:42:03.980 Because the Democrats and the media, which I don't think I should be making a distinction there,

00:42:11.940 are going to say that the sky is going to fall and the earth is going to boil and blah, blah, blah,

00:42:15.680 if Trump repeals some of these onerous climate restrictions.

00:42:20.160 They need to act now so that before the next election, it can be demonstrated to the voting public,

00:42:28.800 the earth didn't boil.

00:42:30.520 The only thing that happened was that you paid less for things, which seems delightful.

00:42:35.440 I wish.

00:42:35.960 Mark B-O-5-G-7 says, bring sanity back to the world.

00:42:44.720 That seems like a big job.

00:42:47.980 I think we should start trying to bring sanity back closer to home.

00:42:51.160 Now, I live in Alberta, so we're a lot closer to sanity than a lot of places are in the world.

00:42:58.580 But yeah, start a little bit closer to home.

00:43:01.980 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:43:03.640 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:43:04.940 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:43:08.260 And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - August 14, 2025

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Sask. Court of Appeal greenlights activists' challenge to Parents' Bill of Rights

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