What does the election of Donald Trump in the United States mean for Canada? Joining me today is Lise Merle, a Regina Public School Board Candidate, who shares her thoughts on the results of the election and what it means for Canada.
00:00:00.000Now, if you're a regular listener to the show, you know that we're facing some major challenges in our country and around the world,
00:00:07.220although I think things just got way better for the United States, and I think that's going to have a knock-on effect for us here in Canada.
00:00:14.360However, it remains true. We have the worst leadership in our history. We're drowning in regulations.
00:00:21.200Our resource sector, which you know is near and dear to me, is being attacked by our liberal NDP coalition.
00:00:26.560We're also witnessing the undermining of the nuclear family, along with the pushing of transgenderism in our classrooms.
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00:02:11.360As you can tell, I might be a little bit tired.
00:02:15.420I'm fresh off a very long, late live stream last night after a full work day, which starts already early for me because I start on Toronto time and finish on Alberta time, my usual work days.
00:02:33.260But then we went into an eight-hour-plus live stream after the other work day all wrapped up covering the United States election, wherein President Donald Trump was given an overwhelming victory from the United States citizens.
00:02:54.080And so I did not have time yesterday to book a guest, so I needed a guest on very short notice.
00:03:04.700And I know you're hearing a lot lately from my guest today, but she is reliable and thoughtful, and I knew she'd have something to say.
00:03:15.480And, you know, things are happening where she's from, so she could give us an update on that.
00:03:20.980And I know that you care about the things that she's talking about because you tell me, you write to me, you send to me emails.
00:03:27.820So I didn't have a guest for the show today, but I know I must deliver a show for our Rebel News viewers and subscribers because that's me meeting my obligations to you, no matter how tired I am from yesterday.
00:03:44.340I think we're all feeling the same way.
00:03:47.240So I got to give you what you pay for.
00:04:11.320And she said, you better believe it, buddy.
00:04:13.140So joining me to discuss what happened in the United States last night, why it happened, who the biggest losers are, what this means for Canada,
00:04:24.200and what is happening down at the Regina Public School Board as bureaucrats seem to be engaging in some election interference in the municipal elections coming up on November 13th is my friend,
00:04:40.240the ever reliable, ever bubbly, and I'm so thankful for it, Lise Merle, take a listen.
00:04:47.340Joining me now is my good, beloved friend from Saskatchewan, Lise Merle.
00:04:55.440Many of you will know her as the viral get-off-my-law-and-mom.
00:04:58.740My kids just discovered that that was who Auntie Lise was.
00:05:01.600But she's also a Regina Public School Board candidate, and she is someone who watches elections and electoral debates very closely with me.
00:05:15.640And I wanted to have you on to sort of digest what happened last night in the American election,
00:05:21.940what it means for Canadians, Canadian politicians, local politicians, as well as, you know, the macro national scheme.
00:05:29.600And then, of course, update on what's going on in Saskatchewan post-election and your efforts to become a Regina Public School Board trustee
00:05:39.380to root out gender theory and progressiveness from the classroom.
00:05:45.060Lise, tell me, how are you feeling about last night's American election?
00:05:50.780Well, it seems that we have been unburdened by what has been.
00:05:55.940And isn't a great day to be alive, to wake up, to know that our friends and beloved neighbours next door in America
00:06:04.200have returned to a semblance of sanity and that we're only 75 days out from unwinding the craziness of the last four years.
00:06:13.540And that despite all of their best efforts, all of them, with the celebrities and the lies in the mainstream media
00:06:20.820and all of the many ways that they tried to steal that election from the Republicans, it did not work.
00:06:27.220The people of America showed up, they had their voices heard, and this is incredible for Canadians.
00:06:34.360Like, we're just going to follow along what they started and see some, hopefully, monumental change in the way that we talk about things in Canada.
00:06:43.360Yeah, I mean, I don't know why the Democrats thought moms who are worried about how they're going to put food on the table
00:06:50.780and worried about their husband's job and their daughter's sports.
00:06:54.340I don't know why the Democrats thought that Cardi B wouldn't connect with them.
00:07:44.280And it was also interesting to see on exit polling data that the people the Democrats thought they could rely on
00:07:52.920but also simultaneously ignore for years and years are shifting hard Trump.
00:07:57.980We saw an exodus of Puerto Rican support in Florida from the Democrats.
00:08:03.900I think in Pennsylvania, Latinos shifted strongly towards Trump.
00:08:10.740Black male voters who are socially conservative on so many things are shifting away from Kamala Harris.
00:08:18.980I think we're seeing the end of identity politics because identity politics don't work when illegal migration is driving down the cost of wages for everybody.
00:08:31.100And you are, as a Puerto Rican, as a Latino, as a Black male voter, equally concerned about how you're going to pay the bills as everybody else.
00:08:41.480And we saw such a shift away from the Obama, like the sort of Obama groundswell of support as the first Black, well, male president, Black president, male president.
00:08:53.680In that time, I feel like a lot of people, a lot of people were under the impression that he would act on behalf of his own people.
00:09:03.980And we saw a mass falling out of love with the Obamas, I mean, in the way that they supported Kamala Harris and really insulted their own people.
00:09:16.860It was really telling in how the votes swayed over to Trump because he's willing to tell them the truth, because he's willing to speak the truth.
00:09:26.960And we need a lot more politicians to jump on board that train and tell people the truth, not sugarcoat it, not dance around it, not, you know, think about think about the how how the opinion polls are going to reflect upon it.
00:09:42.700We all know that the opinion pollsters are corrupt, just like the mainstream media are.
00:09:47.580But there is such a thirst for people to hear the truth from their elected elected officials.
00:09:52.060And I believe that this is going to give Canadian politicians all the license they need to be brave in this moment.
00:09:58.760So yay for North America, yay for our friends in America and yay for Canada in these next couple of months.
00:10:06.300And, you know, I care about the mainstream media lies that have occurred over the last four years.
00:10:12.680We'll say eight years, maybe 10 years about Trump when you go back to when he started campaigning.
00:10:18.840I don't care about it only for the idea that I care about objective truth, which of course I do.
00:10:27.820But I also care about the impact that the lies have had on otherwise intelligent people.
00:10:34.900There are people out there right now who, thanks to the constant firehose of lies about Trump being a fascist, blasted at them for the better part of the last decade.
00:10:49.760They are really thinking that they are living in 1939 Germany.
00:10:56.980They think that they are Anne Frank's family today, which is unkind.
00:11:03.420And it is, I think, Ezra keeps saying, we're in a major mental health crisis in the United States because people are really destabilized by what happened last night.
00:11:23.640And this is as true for Canada as it is in the United States.
00:11:27.300I think that we can all acknowledge that no broadcasting corporation has been more damaging to the social fabric of the country than the CBC has.
00:11:37.240And there are similarly, just like in America, people in Canada who believe that we are on the precipice of something terribly, terribly disastrous going wrong, that they have to really hide and duck and cover.
00:11:51.980When all you have to do is extricate yourself from that echo chamber of lies that the mainstream media is constantly pushing into our ear holes to realize just how good we still have it in Canada, but also to really kind of reflect our reality here.
00:12:15.000So, I mean, I'll just say it again and again and again, the CBC cannot be defunded fast enough.
00:12:22.980We cannot see the end of them fast enough.
00:12:25.480And the ways that Canada and Canadians' lives are going to improve when they aren't perpetually lied to by a propaganda arm of the federal government is just going to be uncalculable.
00:12:36.520I mean, our quality of life will improve when they're defunded.
00:12:40.560Yeah, it's one thing to be lied to by the media.
00:12:43.220I think a lot of us just expect that from the mainstream media, but then to be forced to pay for the lies and the unwatchable lies.
00:12:52.280Like, they're not even entertaining lies.
00:12:53.880They're just the same old recycled Trump is a fascist.
00:12:57.560Like, they had somebody on their panel last night calling Hitler.
00:13:02.220Hitler, and I'm like, you know what, if he's Hitler-ing, he's doing it all wrong with his Jewish daughter and son-in-law and his Jewish grandkids and this broad, diverse coalition around him.
00:13:14.280Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, a visible minority woman, this shift of minorities towards Trump.
00:13:22.420If he's Hitler-ing, if he's fascist-ing, if that's a word, he's not hitting the right.
00:13:28.180You're talking about the propaganda campaign and the playbook of Trump.
00:13:40.020This is a way to, I mean, the things that Trump has done masterfully, frankly, is to get the entire, you know, to get a big part of the population to believe that the game is rigged and to sow distrust in public institutions and the free press.
00:14:02.720He is failing miserably at pretending to be Hitler, failing miserably, and yet Hitler ever.
00:14:07.980And yet, this is what we pay, we as taxpayers pay the CBC to say?
00:15:02.840You know, in the media, we still won't learn.
00:15:05.360They just don't learn that the defeat of Kamala Harris last night was also a defeat of them and their lies.
00:15:12.400It's a complete and total rejection of the lies that the public has been force-fed.
00:15:17.180And, you know, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, after it was illegal and seditious to question the outcome of the election and to question election integrity.
00:15:27.600In fact, that would get you banned from YouTube.
00:15:30.340All of a sudden, all the fancy people are questioning the integrity of the election.
00:15:50.760I just can't wait to see what happens.
00:15:52.660And, like, I can't wait for Elon to come in and fire 90% of the federal government just like he did the 90% of Twitter when he took it over.
00:16:02.900But we're going to see America grow in leaps and bounds in these next couple of years.
00:16:10.160And Canada, because we are so linked with our economies, with our culture, with our language, with our beliefs, with our customs, with our, you know, holidays, with all of the many, many things we have in common.
00:16:22.620This is just going to light a fire of freedom in Canada, too.
00:16:28.400And, I mean, it just can't happen soon enough.
00:16:30.040Yeah, and I think even you talk about the cultural connections, even more so in the West.
00:16:36.620I feel more culturally compatible with people in Montana.
00:16:52.220I feel more culturally symbiotic with them than I would do with many places of this country.
00:16:58.620And I think a lot of it has to do with not only our shared values of freedom and liberty and gun rights and property rights and all those things that my premier, Daniel Smith, has said that she will apply to our Alberta Bill of Rights.
00:17:42.000I think we'll have to wait till October 2025 to see any substantial movement on the oil and gas file cross-border, I think.
00:17:51.720I can't wait to see Stephen Guibo and Robbie Boissoneau get marched out of their fancy offices in Ottawa.
00:17:58.000I mean, that's just going to be the best day in Canada.
00:18:00.040I'm going to be planning, like, to buy cases of champagne just to let loose in the streets the day that that happens.
00:18:07.220I think that there's going to be fireworks, unlike any Canada Day celebration we've ever, ever seen in Canada when those guys get herded out of Ottawa.
00:21:31.660Or do they still think that the world has ended there?
00:21:34.540They are still spinning in the wind like a bad load of laundry in a hurricane.
00:21:38.720On a, on a clothesline in a hurricane.
00:21:41.100They are still so shocked that what the poltergeist said and what the MSM said was a lie.
00:21:47.940And they are just, they are just absolutely shocked that this happened to them, that Carla Beck didn't waltz into the ledge as the new premier of the province.
00:21:56.140And they're in deep grieving mode right now because the thought, the thought of a Scott Moe or Sask Party government for another four years after already having 17 years as a Sask Party government is almost too much for them, for them to even think about.
00:22:11.060Like, we're seeing, we're seeing calls for, you know, left, left-wing activists saying, I'm leaving Saskatchewan.
00:22:18.780I'm taking my doll and I'm going somewhere else now.
00:22:21.840And we're like, don't let the door hit you.
00:22:55.040The first order of business they promised during the election after the Balcony change room scandal erupted in Saskatchewan was to prohibit biological boys from using biological girls' washrooms and change rooms in school.
00:23:54.860What is Scott Moe going to do about that?
00:23:57.960So he, he says that he is really going to spend some time reconnecting and reflecting on what happened.
00:24:04.600He, he knows, and the Sask party knows that they lost a lot of the urban seats because they lost touch with their urban voters.
00:24:14.440And, and let's be clear, the people that voted NDP this time didn't vote NDP because they are leftists or because they are, you know, ardent NDP supporters.
00:24:26.580These are people that were, that were compelled to show the Sask party and, and give them a lesson in representation.
00:24:34.760These are urban voters that, that obviously didn't feel like they had a home in the Sask party and the Sask party would do really well to re-engage with us urban conservatives to, to give us a voice.
00:24:45.720Right now we're looking at an electoral map where all of our rural voters have Sask party MLAs still installed.
00:24:54.540They have a conduit to speak directly to government, but what they must do is engage in the cities, in the cities and in our urban centers.
00:25:26.360It has been revealed to us that Regina public school division has undertaken a campaign of election interference in Saskatchewan's upcoming municipal election on November 13th.
00:25:41.300And this isn't just, you know, an administrative faux pas that they made.
00:25:47.240This is a concerted and concentrated effort to undermine democracy in Regina.
00:25:54.560We know that undue influence and election fixing is not only unethical.
00:25:59.940It's not only unethical and, and highly unprincipled, but it is also highly illegal.
00:26:06.340You may not in Saskatchewan use any kind of influence to try and sway somebody's vote as it pertains to the workplace.
00:26:15.240And yet this is exactly what Regina public schools has done.
00:26:18.800So very shortly after I came on this show and I, you know, I'm, I'm one of the many, many people running for school boards in, in Saskatchewan that have said, right.
00:26:27.480We're just acknowledging that something has gone terribly sideways in education.
00:26:31.240And I came on this show to announce my candidacy.
00:26:34.160And very shortly after that, Regina public schools using Regina public school facilities, Regina public school resources, and Regina public school funding went on a tour of electoral interference in Saskatchewan schools or in Regina public schools.
00:26:53.220We are talking, okay, Kate, not only are we calling for the immediate suspension of everybody implicated in this, this is how serious a matter this is, or infraction this is, but we're asking for a full independent 360 review.
00:27:08.900And what we're going to ask, we're going to demand that the people that were found complicit or that are found complicit in this to be fired.
00:27:16.820Because not only does Regina public schools not think that parents are smart enough to be able to explain gender to their children, that is how ingratiated and how much they're promoting this.
00:27:27.220Well, parents, parents don't, don't know the fineries of gender.
00:27:30.500So we have to take this over from them to explain it to their kids.
00:27:34.560But they don't think that the people of Regina are smart enough to be able to pick their own school board.
00:27:40.320So it's an incredible story that's, that's going to come out in these next several days.
00:27:46.980This is one of these things that were, it's sort of like a rebel news slash Western standard collab.
00:27:53.220We've, we started hearing about this story like several weeks ago.
00:27:56.540And as we had anonymous whistleblowers coming out and tell, who, by the way, we're keeping anonymous for fear of, for the promise of certain retribution.
00:28:07.840We hear, we've heard that dozens of schools were impacted by this.
00:28:12.340Dozens of schools, thousands of employees were ordered to vote a certain way.
00:28:16.800And in Saskatchewan, this contravenes not only democracy, but Saskatchewan laws that say you cannot do this.
00:28:27.500I can't wait for it to come out in the public and for the people of Regina to really understand how little the bureaucrats at Regina public schools think of them.
00:28:38.880Now, tell me the exact details of this election interference.
00:28:43.660They're telling their employees how to vote.
00:28:53.500But tell, just so the viewer knows, the finer points of this, because this is pretty serious stuff.
00:29:01.520Not only, not only is it serious, it's unlawful.
00:29:04.500So they've, they've gone right over the line between advocacy or whatever they call it and being unlawful, acting unlawfully as an institution.
00:29:12.020So what happened was, in mid-September, a series of emergency non-scheduled staff meetings were held in Regina public schools, where all of the staff were dragged into a staff room where they didn't know what was going on.
00:29:27.600They weren't told ahead of time what was happening.
00:29:29.560And division staff, these are senior bureaucrats from Regina public schools, were in the room and said, basically, there are a group of ignorant and hateful school board candidates running for Regina public schools.
00:29:46.200And, you know, do whatever you have to do to make sure that they're not voted in.
00:29:52.220So what Regina public schools is doing is actively trying to keep the board they currently have.
00:29:58.640And, and that's not their job, sorry, but when you border, when you, when you go, when you blow through the borders of education and go into electioneering, this is where you anger the masses.
00:30:11.580So they held all sorts of, of non-scheduled staff meetings where they, you know, they educated their staff on how they were expected to vote.
00:30:21.020They had a last minute, all principals meeting at division headquarters.
00:30:26.500They contacted, and this is the crazy thing.
00:30:29.520During these meetings, they literally detailed how they were going to keep this, like they strategized on how they were going to keep this away from public, public scrutiny.
00:30:39.560They said, don't use your official means of communications because we're going to go in and freedom of information act them.
00:30:46.140We're going to go look for these documents.
00:30:48.180They said, don't use official means of communications, use your internal networks.
00:30:52.180You know, your social media networks where in Saskatchewan, the privacy commissioner or Regina Public Schools rather says that, you know, the public can't look into, to private networks, even if they're doing the, the dirty work of their institution.
00:31:08.560But, but not only does this, like, I guess not only does this contravene democratic practices, like, like the very heart of democracy, it, it also, I mean, it also erodes the public's trust in the institution.
00:31:24.820And this is what candidates want returned, is the public trust in the institution, myself included as a candidate.
00:31:32.020I want Regina Public Schools to be a place where every parent has absolutely no fear of sending their child into Regina Public Schools for fear of what they're going to be exposed to and what they're going to learn.
00:31:43.120No parent is mad about math or science or reading when they go to school.
00:31:49.020Well, we're all concerned about these crazy left wing radical ideas that are being fed to our kids.
00:31:55.740And what Regina Public Schools has proven is that they are incapable of running their own school division.
00:32:02.980And, and when this, when this unravels, and it will unravel, I will make sure of that.
00:32:10.040This is going to be a hard lesson in how not to run a school division in Saskatchewan.
00:32:14.100Because if we do not deal with this, and I'm talking with a sledgehammer, we can expect this kind of behavior from every single school division in the entire province.
00:32:26.180Regina Public School Division is one of the largest school divisions in the province.
00:32:30.500It's one of the ones that really sets the tone for every other school division.
00:32:35.600And what happens here, you can, you can mark my words, will happen in less than two or three years in some of the smaller rural school divisions.
00:32:43.720So you better believe that we are going to chase this down.
00:32:47.000And that there are a bunch of people at Regina Public Schools that are suddenly very, very nervous.
00:32:54.220Yeah, you know, it's really quite ironic when these are the people saying we're definitely not indoctrinating your kids in the classroom.
00:33:00.700You people are overreacting and then they hold secret meetings because they're worried that somebody is going to stop the indoctrination.
00:33:06.660Like many secret meetings, many secret meetings in multiple different locations.
00:33:13.740And this is what's so crazy about it is not one, not one of these, you know, highly educated, highly professional and ethical people thought to themselves,
00:33:24.420Oh, wait a sec. Are we interfering in democracy? And are we, are we fixing an election?
00:33:30.800No, not one of them said that. Not one of them said that. And not one of them put a stop to it.
00:33:37.400It was, you know who it was, you know who it was that, that thought to themselves, Oh my God, what is even happening?
00:33:43.900The good teachers that were in those rooms knew that what was happening, it was absolutely unprecedented.
00:33:51.460The way that this was sort of communicated to us was this never happened.
00:33:57.940This, these kinds of meetings, sort of somebody dying, okay, on the staff, these meetings never happen.
00:34:04.680And yet you, you have an entire third of employees, senior bureaucrats from Regina public schools coming into the schools to hold these secret, secret, non-scheduled staff meetings.
00:34:17.060And they thought that the good teachers would not object to this.
00:34:22.620I mean, that was their only mistake. Well, that was not their only mistake.
00:34:26.580Their first mistake was participating in electioneering and election fixing.
00:34:30.660That was their big, that's their big mistake. But their secondary mistake was thinking that we wouldn't find out.
00:35:28.420This, this guy is an absolute, like, anvil when it comes to these stories.
00:35:33.220Like, he's fearless and, and, and not only, not only is he fearless on behalf of parents in Saskatchewan, but he's a fearless dad himself.
00:35:42.060And you got to ask, you sort of have to ask yourself, you know, what, when you have parents coming out with the gate and saying, there are things, there are, there are things that are happening in our school divisions that are so completely offside.
00:35:56.260You just sort of have to ask yourself, I wonder what that, what happened to that parent to make them, to make them so sure of their position.
00:36:03.220Uh, I, I know what Regina Public Schools has done to our family in particular.
00:36:09.720I know, uh, I know, uh, literally dozens of moms and dads have reached out to me detailing their terrible and really destructive, um, experiences with Regina Public Schools.
00:36:23.080And what we want to do is just really open a door for those parents and those good teachers and those good teachers to be able to, uh, to be able to have their voices heard.
00:36:32.740The same, the same, um, initiatives that Danielle Smith is undertaking in Alberta about the professional regulatory bodies, um, she, she's basically said, right, so, so the professional associations of Alberta are no longer going to be able to compel the speech or the beliefs or, or any of the communications of their members.
00:36:56.020Uh, this is absolutely what has to happen in Saskatchewan because what we have are good common sense teachers who have the best heart of their families, the families they serve and the students they teach, um, at heart who are unable to say anything out loud for fear.
00:37:16.020They will, they will, they will, they will become the targets of the crazy Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and these insane administrators that work in the division offices.
00:37:27.760We, we need those teachers to have those protections.
00:37:30.540We need our doctors to have those protections.
00:43:18.340Yet at the time, it didn't seem enough for the folks that take back Alberta.
00:43:21.860So I went through their report card, you can see that video, it's on our Rumble page, and our YouTube page, and I thought I would go through the comments, because I wanted to know how you felt about my take on that.
00:43:33.300Did you agree with me? Did you think take back Alberta was right? And as I said in my video, I think it's important for our premier to have somebody to the right of her pulling her back.
00:43:45.740Every time the media, and the culture, and the opposition parties pull her towards the center and to the left, because that is when she will fail.
00:43:56.780And so anyways, this is what you had to say. David Hines writes, an old saying goes, it takes time to move a mountain while I appreciate what take back Alberta is trying to do.
00:44:06.260Let's be careful that we do not wind up giving away Alberta to guess who, guess who, of course, meaning the NDP and their new leader, Nikki Nenshi, who does not have a seat in the legislature.
00:44:18.920And I can't actually see him getting a seat in the very near future.
00:44:23.420And that seems odd, right, to have a leader of the NDP running his party and participating in question period through text messages to his MLAs from the legislature gallery.
00:44:38.020Who can take that seriously? Well, the mainstream media in this province, I guess.
00:44:43.580If this be magic, writes, I have much respect for Daniel Smith and the things she is working on changing.
00:44:49.260Take Back Alberta should be supporting her for these changes.
00:44:53.420Bushcraft, Alberta, also writes from an email from the APP.
00:44:58.820That's the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:45:00.800It says the Alberta Prosperity Project are not paid supporters of the UCP party nor Daniel Smith.
00:45:05.940But we see her vision, understand some moves have to be made first before showing all the cards.
00:45:12.020And when we ask who else, we come up with crickets.
00:45:16.040When we speak to citizens of other provinces, we are reminded of what we have as a leader.
00:45:20.640Pragmatic, forward thinking, and unafraid to set boundaries or make waves for the greater good of the Albertan and future generations.
00:45:29.940She's strategic, understands game theory, and clearly has read and understood the art of war.
00:45:36.480Now, I don't know if Daniel Smith has read the art of war, but I do completely agree with the Alberta Prosperity Project, as did, I suppose, many UCP party members who voted over the weekend to give Premier Daniel Smith, leader of the party, a 91.5% approval rating.
00:45:57.480That is enormous, but a lot of people who I spoke to at the AGM said, okay, who else then?