Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trump is back and bigger than ever

00:00:00.000 Now, 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,

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00:01:25.520 What does the overwhelming victory of President Trump in the United States last night mean for Canada?

00:01:47.040 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:55.520 Guys, I'm going to level with you.

00:02:09.160 I'm running a little slow today.

00:02:11.360 As you can tell, I might be a little bit tired.

00:02:15.420 I'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.

00:02:33.260 But 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.

00:02:54.080 And so I did not have time yesterday to book a guest, so I needed a guest on very short notice.

00:03:04.700 And 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.

00:03:15.480 And, you know, things are happening where she's from, so she could give us an update on that.

00:03:20.980 And 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.

00:03:27.820 So 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.

00:03:44.340 I think we're all feeling the same way.

00:03:47.240 So I got to give you what you pay for.

00:03:49.060 So I literally phoned a friend.

00:03:52.520 I said, Lise Merle, Regina School Board candidate, I know you've been on the show a lot lately.

00:03:59.100 You were my guest last week.

00:04:00.580 You and I have been doing election coverage and debate coverage and live streams a lot lately.

00:04:07.260 But I need you one last time.

00:04:10.060 Will you come through for me?

00:04:11.320 And she said, you better believe it, buddy.

00:04:13.140 So 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,

00:04:24.200 and 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,

00:04:40.240 the ever reliable, ever bubbly, and I'm so thankful for it, Lise Merle, take a listen.

00:04:47.340 Joining me now is my good, beloved friend from Saskatchewan, Lise Merle.

00:04:55.440 Many of you will know her as the viral get-off-my-law-and-mom.

00:04:58.740 My kids just discovered that that was who Auntie Lise was. 0.99

00:05:01.600 But she's also a Regina Public School Board candidate, and she is someone who watches elections and electoral debates very closely with me.

00:05:12.080 I think that's your new role in life.

00:05:15.640 And I wanted to have you on to sort of digest what happened last night in the American election,

00:05:21.940 what it means for Canadians, Canadian politicians, local politicians, as well as, you know, the macro national scheme.

00:05:29.600 And then, of course, update on what's going on in Saskatchewan post-election and your efforts to become a Regina Public School Board trustee

00:05:39.380 to root out gender theory and progressiveness from the classroom.

00:05:45.060 Lise, tell me, how are you feeling about last night's American election?

00:05:50.780 Well, it seems that we have been unburdened by what has been.

00:05:55.940 And isn't a great day to be alive, to wake up, to know that our friends and beloved neighbours next door in America

00:06:04.200 have returned to a semblance of sanity and that we're only 75 days out from unwinding the craziness of the last four years.

00:06:13.540 And that despite all of their best efforts, all of them, with the celebrities and the lies in the mainstream media

00:06:20.820 and all of the many ways that they tried to steal that election from the Republicans, it did not work.

00:06:27.220 The people of America showed up, they had their voices heard, and this is incredible for Canadians.

00:06:32.820 It's just incredible.

00:06:34.360 Like, 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.

00:06:43.360 Yeah, 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 0.96

00:06:50.780 and worried about their husband's job and their daughter's sports.

00:06:54.340 I don't know why the Democrats thought that Cardi B wouldn't connect with them.

00:07:00.820 Bold strategy, didn't work out.

00:07:03.640 You know, let's bring J-Lo on.

00:07:05.900 Let's bring J-Lo with her four failed marriages and get her to cry on camera and see if that resonates with the women of America. 1.00

00:07:13.940 I mean, talk about a humongous backfire, but just say something about the way our culture is moving away from celebrity endorsements.

00:07:22.820 Like, the most, yes, the most entitled, well-compensated, under-talented group of people in the world

00:07:32.460 who we're all acknowledging make their money on acting, on playing pretend, that people aren't buying this anymore.

00:07:39.380 It's incredible.

00:07:40.380 It's just incredible.

00:07:42.480 It's wonderful.

00:07:44.280 And it was also interesting to see on exit polling data that the people the Democrats thought they could rely on

00:07:52.920 but also simultaneously ignore for years and years are shifting hard Trump.

00:07:57.980 We saw an exodus of Puerto Rican support in Florida from the Democrats.

00:08:03.900 I think in Pennsylvania, Latinos shifted strongly towards Trump.

00:08:10.740 Black male voters who are socially conservative on so many things are shifting away from Kamala Harris.

00:08:18.980 I 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.

00:08:31.100 And 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.

00:08:40.120 Exactly that.

00:08:41.480 And 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. 0.63

00:08:53.680 In 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.

00:09:03.440 He didn't.

00:09:03.980 And 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.

00:09:16.860 It 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.

00:09:26.960 And 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.

00:09:42.700 We all know that the opinion pollsters are corrupt, just like the mainstream media are.

00:09:47.580 But there is such a thirst for people to hear the truth from their elected elected officials.

00:09:52.060 And I believe that this is going to give Canadian politicians all the license they need to be brave in this moment.

00:09:58.760 So yay for North America, yay for our friends in America and yay for Canada in these next couple of months.

00:10:06.300 And, you know, I care about the mainstream media lies that have occurred over the last four years.

00:10:12.680 We'll say eight years, maybe 10 years about Trump when you go back to when he started campaigning.

00:10:18.840 I don't care about it only for the idea that I care about objective truth, which of course I do.

00:10:26.040 That's undeniable reality.

00:10:27.820 But I also care about the impact that the lies have had on otherwise intelligent people.

00:10:34.900 There 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.

00:10:49.760 They are really thinking that they are living in 1939 Germany.

00:10:56.980 They think that they are Anne Frank's family today, which is unkind.

00:11:03.420 And 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.

00:11:12.440 And they shouldn't be.

00:11:14.220 Most of them are not even going to notice that anything happened on paper.

00:11:18.120 But in their minds, this is the falling of the republic.

00:11:23.280 Yes.

00:11:23.640 And this is as true for Canada as it is in the United States.

00:11:27.300 I 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.

00:11:37.240 And 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.

00:11:51.980 When 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.

00:12:15.000 So, I mean, I'll just say it again and again and again, the CBC cannot be defunded fast enough.

00:12:22.980 We cannot see the end of them fast enough.

00:12:25.480 And 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.

00:12:36.520 I mean, our quality of life will improve when they're defunded.

00:12:40.560 Yeah, it's one thing to be lied to by the media.

00:12:43.220 I 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.

00:12:52.280 Like, they're not even entertaining lies. 0.99

00:12:53.880 They're just the same old recycled Trump is a fascist. 0.98

00:12:57.560 Like, they had somebody on their panel last night calling Hitler. 0.96

00:13:02.220 Hitler, 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.

00:13:14.280 Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, a visible minority woman, this shift of minorities towards Trump.

00:13:22.420 If he's Hitler-ing, if he's fascist-ing, if that's a word, he's not hitting the right.

00:13:28.180 You're talking about the propaganda campaign and the playbook of Trump.

00:13:32.480 This is not new.

00:13:33.880 This is not surprising.

00:13:35.140 This is directly out of Hitler's playbook. 0.93

00:13:37.400 This is out of an autocrat playbook. 0.66

00:13:40.020 This 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.

00:14:02.720 He is failing miserably at pretending to be Hitler, failing miserably, and yet Hitler ever. 0.88

00:14:07.980 And yet, this is what we pay, we as taxpayers pay the CBC to say?

00:14:14.960 I mean, it is absolutely egregious.

00:14:17.140 It's absolutely egregious.

00:14:18.660 And I mean, just, oh, we think we had it bad before?

00:14:23.640 Wait these next 75 days for the CBC to go into absolute hyper spasm mode about waiting for Trump to be, oh, what's the word?

00:14:34.920 Inaugurated in January.

00:14:37.080 I mean, it's just going to be fear-mongering on fear-mongering on fear-mongering.

00:14:41.140 There's going to be people hiding in bunkers and basements for the next 75 days.

00:14:45.400 Because if you listen to the CBC tell it, there is nothing good left in this world and it's all going to fall apart.

00:14:51.460 And really, we know that it's not.

00:14:53.460 We're seeing freedom.

00:14:55.600 We're seeing the flames of freedom being reignited in the United States.

00:14:59.680 And we can look forward to that here.

00:15:00.980 And I can't wait.

00:15:01.940 I just can't wait.

00:15:02.840 You know, in the media, we still won't learn.

00:15:05.360 They just don't learn that the defeat of Kamala Harris last night was also a defeat of them and their lies.

00:15:12.400 It's a complete and total rejection of the lies that the public has been force-fed.

00:15:17.180 And, 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.

00:15:27.600 In fact, that would get you banned from YouTube.

00:15:30.340 All of a sudden, all the fancy people are questioning the integrity of the election.

00:15:36.320 It's cool again, I guess.

00:15:37.460 Yeah, yeah, they would do that, wouldn't they?

00:15:41.480 Wouldn't they?

00:15:42.120 Like, they would assume that something terribly, terribly wrong has gone on when really it went entirely right.

00:15:49.080 When really it went entirely right.

00:15:50.760 I just can't wait to see what happens.

00:15:52.660 And, 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.

00:16:01.160 I cannot wait for that.

00:16:02.900 But we're going to see America grow in leaps and bounds in these next couple of years.

00:16:10.160 And 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.

00:16:22.620 This is just going to light a fire of freedom in Canada, too.

00:16:28.400 And, I mean, it just can't happen soon enough.

00:16:30.040 Yeah, and I think even you talk about the cultural connections, even more so in the West.

00:16:36.620 I feel more culturally compatible with people in Montana.

00:16:41.220 Montana?

00:16:42.060 Yes.

00:16:42.800 This is Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska.

00:16:47.360 Yes.

00:16:48.160 Than I do with people in Toronto or Vancouver.

00:16:51.600 That's for sure.

00:16:52.220 I feel more culturally symbiotic with them than I would do with many places of this country.

00:16:58.620 And 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.

00:17:10.680 But our economies are so late.

00:17:12.940 So that's exactly right.

00:17:14.260 Trump was a very pro-oil and gas president.

00:17:16.660 He's a drill baby drill president.

00:17:18.480 He's a build the pipeline president.

00:17:20.220 And maybe, maybe finally, after a decade and two Democrat cancellations, we'll see that Keystone XL pipeline finally up and running.

00:17:31.640 Oh, wouldn't that be amazing?

00:17:32.940 Wouldn't that be amazing for our oil and gas producers on the prairies?

00:17:36.660 It would be absolutely incredible.

00:17:40.120 Let it happen.

00:17:41.200 Let it happen.

00:17:42.000 I think we'll have to wait till October 2025 to see any substantial movement on the oil and gas file cross-border, I think.

00:17:51.720 I can't wait to see Stephen Guibo and Robbie Boissoneau get marched out of their fancy offices in Ottawa.

00:17:58.000 I mean, that's just going to be the best day in Canada.

00:18:00.040 I'm going to be planning, like, to buy cases of champagne just to let loose in the streets the day that that happens.

00:18:07.220 I 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.

00:18:18.060 And it just can't happen soon enough.

00:18:20.880 Before we move on from this topic, I just want to ask you, who do you think Joe Biden voted for?

00:18:25.460 Because he was pretty anti-Tamala and not exactly pleased with the Obamas.

00:18:31.780 And he wasn't giving her any help on the campaign trail.

00:18:35.060 None would have.

00:18:35.900 I think his brain is the same condition as mine today, running on just a few hours of sleep post-election.

00:18:41.760 But what do you think he voted for?

00:18:44.240 I want to, like, I would love to say, of course, he voted for Trump, just like everybody else.

00:18:50.160 But I don't think that his, I don't think that his, his relationship with the Democratic Party could have done it.

00:18:57.000 However, Jill, Jill Biden in her red suit.

00:19:01.720 Oh, that said something good.

00:19:04.980 Women, women speak through fashion. 1.00

00:19:06.880 And this is absolutely true.

00:19:08.820 Women speak through fashion. 1.00

00:19:10.140 And Jill Biden wearing the colors of Donald Trump and the Republican Party said more than anything she could have said into a microphone.

00:19:19.180 And so I believe that she punished them with a vote for the Republicans.

00:19:23.640 But Joe, I don't know if Joe was able to, you know, get up out of his dementia bed for long enough to vote.

00:19:30.100 For long, for long enough to vote yesterday.

00:19:33.100 But Jill, Jill absolutely voted for Trump.

00:19:35.760 Absolutely, she did.

00:19:36.760 My favorite Joe Biden photo as of late was when they found him in, in that lawn chair on the beach during the hurricanes.

00:19:45.460 And his mouse, mouse was like agape.

00:19:48.060 Just like, like a weekend, weekend and Bernie style.

00:19:52.960 That's what it looked like.

00:19:58.300 While he's just circling around his head waiting for the opportunity.

00:20:06.760 Oh, that says a lot.

00:20:08.860 And that was the leader of, of the most powerful country on earth for the last four years.

00:20:14.200 That man.

00:20:15.360 Oh, and you know what?

00:20:16.220 If that shows, if that just shows like the institutional rot that's happening within the Democratic Party for them to have allowed that.

00:20:23.420 It took George Clooney.

00:20:24.660 George Clooney saying, I saw him at a fancy mixer and he is not doing okay.

00:20:30.760 For them to even acknowledge it up until that moment.

00:20:33.680 I mean, it was the, it was the talking point of the whole MSM.

00:20:37.420 It was the talking point of every Democratic, you know, supporter and an operative saying, oh, no, no, he's fine.

00:20:45.100 He's, you know, he's just a little tired.

00:20:46.780 He's just, you know, he's a little older now.

00:20:48.700 They made every excuse for him when really he was not a functioning president at all.

00:20:53.960 And it makes you wonder who was the leader of the Democratic Party for these last four years.

00:21:00.420 It wasn't Joe Biden.

00:21:01.520 It certainly wasn't Joe Biden.

00:21:03.680 I wonder if that was Jill. 0.75

00:21:05.500 I mean, who had their finger on the button of the lukes all these years?

00:21:10.620 It's very scary when you think about it.

00:21:12.980 Uh-huh.

00:21:13.540 But our nightmare is over.

00:21:15.480 Um, thank God.

00:21:16.840 Thank God.

00:21:17.380 The nightmare of the threat, the specter of the poltergeist of the NDP party forming governments in Saskatchewan's over.

00:21:26.160 We're about a week out of that.

00:21:28.960 How's it going there?

00:21:30.040 Are the lefties settled down?

00:21:31.660 Or do they still think that the world has ended there?

00:21:34.540 They are still spinning in the wind like a bad load of laundry in a hurricane.

00:21:38.720 On a, on a clothesline in a hurricane.

00:21:41.100 They are still so shocked that what the poltergeist said and what the MSM said was a lie.

00:21:47.940 And 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.

00:21:56.140 And 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.

00:22:11.060 Like, we're seeing, we're seeing calls for, you know, left, left-wing activists saying, I'm leaving Saskatchewan.

00:22:18.780 I'm taking my doll and I'm going somewhere else now.

00:22:21.840 And we're like, don't let the door hit you.

00:22:23.620 You doll ready?

00:22:24.520 Hey, don't threaten me with a good time.

00:22:26.780 But you're leaving?

00:22:27.680 Okay.

00:22:28.180 Yes.

00:22:29.940 Can I help you pack?

00:22:31.140 Like, I'm a really, I could, I could load up your house in less than 15 minutes.

00:22:35.760 And, and no, this is, I mean, they're, they're still all losing their minds and rightfully so.

00:22:40.700 I mean, it couldn't happen to better people.

00:22:42.820 It couldn't happen to, to better people.

00:22:44.880 But I can't wait to see Scott Moe install his new cabinet.

00:22:49.280 He is going to have to make some pretty big choices.

00:22:52.040 We're going to see a move.

00:22:55.040 The 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. 0.74

00:23:08.400 Sorry, just change rooms in school.

00:23:10.740 And that policy really doesn't go far enough.

00:23:12.960 We need biological boys to get out of every sexed space that, that girls can expect privacy and expect privacy in. 1.00

00:23:24.160 And, and I look forward to, to pushing that forward in Saskatchewan.

00:23:28.240 Now, Scott Moe said that he would do some soul searching because he really was sent a message by voters, especially in some writings.

00:23:36.540 And he touched on the cabinet.

00:23:37.920 He lost some high profile cabinet ministers in that election.

00:23:44.240 I think there were one, maybe two writings that went towards the NDP because of a vote split.

00:23:51.700 On the right, yes.

00:23:54.860 What is Scott Moe going to do about that?

00:23:57.960 So he, he says that he is really going to spend some time reconnecting and reflecting on what happened.

00:24:04.600 He, he knows, and the Sask party knows that they lost a lot of the urban seats because they lost touch with their urban voters.

00:24:14.440 And, 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.

00:24:26.580 These are people that were, that were compelled to show the Sask party and, and give them a lesson in representation.

00:24:34.760 These 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.

00:24:45.720 Right now we're looking at an electoral map where all of our rural voters have Sask party MLAs still installed.

00:24:54.540 They 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.

00:25:03.560 So looking forward to that too.

00:25:06.460 Now we have a municipal election coming up where you are running for the Regina public school board.

00:25:13.540 I know you have some spicy updates there.

00:25:17.720 Uh, so let us know what's going on.

00:25:20.380 Okay, Sheila, are you sitting down?

00:25:22.840 Are you sitting down, Sheila Gunvred?

00:25:24.740 Okay.

00:25:25.040 Thank you very much.

00:25:26.360 It 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.

00:25:41.300 And this isn't just, you know, an administrative faux pas that they made.

00:25:47.240 This is a concerted and concentrated effort to undermine democracy in Regina.

00:25:54.560 We know that undue influence and election fixing is not only unethical.

00:25:59.800 Okay.

00:25:59.940 It's not only unethical and, and highly unprincipled, but it is also highly illegal.

00:26:06.340 You may not in Saskatchewan use any kind of influence to try and sway somebody's vote as it pertains to the workplace.

00:26:15.240 And yet this is exactly what Regina public schools has done.

00:26:18.800 So 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.

00:26:27.480 We're just acknowledging that something has gone terribly sideways in education.

00:26:31.240 And I came on this show to announce my candidacy.

00:26:34.160 And 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.

00:26:53.220 We 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.

00:27:08.900 And 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.

00:27:16.820 Because 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.

00:27:27.220 Well, parents, parents don't, don't know the fineries of gender. 1.00

00:27:30.500 So we have to take this over from them to explain it to their kids.

00:27:34.560 But they don't think that the people of Regina are smart enough to be able to pick their own school board.

00:27:40.320 So it's an incredible story that's, that's going to come out in these next several days.

00:27:46.980 This is one of these things that were, it's sort of like a rebel news slash Western standard collab.

00:27:53.220 We've, we started hearing about this story like several weeks ago.

00:27:56.540 And 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.

00:28:07.840 We hear, we've heard that dozens of schools were impacted by this.

00:28:12.340 Dozens of schools, thousands of employees were ordered to vote a certain way.

00:28:16.800 And in Saskatchewan, this contravenes not only democracy, but Saskatchewan laws that say you cannot do this.

00:28:23.160 This is forbidden to happen.

00:28:24.960 So it, it's an incredible story.

00:28:27.500 I 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.

00:28:38.880 Now, tell me the exact details of this election interference.

00:28:43.660 They're telling their employees how to vote.

00:28:46.780 And how are they doing that?

00:28:48.620 Like, so, um, based on what criteria?

00:28:51.960 I think I've got it figured out.

00:28:53.500 But tell, just so the viewer knows, the finer points of this, because this is pretty serious stuff.

00:29:01.520 Not only, not only is it serious, it's unlawful.

00:29:04.500 So they've, they've gone right over the line between advocacy or whatever they call it and being unlawful, acting unlawfully as an institution.

00:29:12.020 So 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.

00:29:27.600 They weren't told ahead of time what was happening. 0.84

00:29:29.560 And 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. 0.89

00:29:46.200 And, you know, do whatever you have to do to make sure that they're not voted in. 0.58

00:29:52.220 So what Regina public schools is doing is actively trying to keep the board they currently have.

00:29:58.640 And, 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.

00:30:11.580 So 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.

00:30:21.020 They had a last minute, all principals meeting at division headquarters.

00:30:26.500 They contacted, and this is the crazy thing.

00:30:29.520 During 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.

00:30:39.560 They said, don't use your official means of communications because we're going to go in and freedom of information act them.

00:30:45.540 You know what I mean?

00:30:46.140 We're going to go look for these documents.

00:30:48.180 They said, don't use official means of communications, use your internal networks.

00:30:52.180 You 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.

00:31:08.560 But, 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.

00:31:24.820 And this is what candidates want returned, is the public trust in the institution, myself included as a candidate.

00:31:32.020 I 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.

00:31:43.120 No parent is mad about math or science or reading when they go to school.

00:31:49.020 Well, we're all concerned about these crazy left wing radical ideas that are being fed to our kids.

00:31:55.740 And what Regina Public Schools has proven is that they are incapable of running their own school division.

00:32:02.980 And, and when this, when this unravels, and it will unravel, I will make sure of that.

00:32:07.980 This is going to be a hard lesson.

00:32:10.040 This is going to be a hard lesson in how not to run a school division in Saskatchewan.

00:32:14.100 Because 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.

00:32:23.820 And that absolutely cannot happen.

00:32:26.180 Regina Public School Division is one of the largest school divisions in the province.

00:32:30.500 It's one of the ones that really sets the tone for every other school division.

00:32:35.600 And 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.

00:32:43.720 So you better believe that we are going to chase this down.

00:32:47.000 And that there are a bunch of people at Regina Public Schools that are suddenly very, very nervous.

00:32:54.220 Yeah, you know, it's really quite ironic when these are the people saying we're definitely not indoctrinating your kids in the classroom.

00:33:00.700 You people are overreacting and then they hold secret meetings because they're worried that somebody is going to stop the indoctrination.

00:33:06.660 Like many secret meetings, many secret meetings in multiple different locations.

00:33:13.740 And 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,

00:33:24.420 Oh, wait a sec. Are we interfering in democracy? And are we, are we fixing an election?

00:33:30.800 No, not one of them said that. Not one of them said that. And not one of them put a stop to it.

00:33:37.400 It was, you know who it was, you know who it was that, that thought to themselves, Oh my God, what is even happening?

00:33:43.900 The good teachers that were in those rooms knew that what was happening, it was absolutely unprecedented.

00:33:51.460 The way that this was sort of communicated to us was this never happened.

00:33:57.940 This, these kinds of meetings, sort of somebody dying, okay, on the staff, these meetings never happen.

00:34:04.680 And 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.

00:34:17.060 And they thought that the good teachers would not object to this.

00:34:22.620 I mean, that was their only mistake. Well, that was not their only mistake.

00:34:26.580 Their first mistake was participating in electioneering and election fixing.

00:34:30.660 That was their big, that's their big mistake. But their secondary mistake was thinking that we wouldn't find out.

00:34:37.300 And guess what? We found out.

00:34:40.520 So good rest to those people. Have a nice day.

00:34:43.960 I hope you've enjoyed your time working at Regina public schools because those days are numbered.

00:34:49.440 And anybody implicated in this, you know, have a nice life.

00:34:53.340 Enjoy your next career and whatever you do. That's how serious an infraction this is.

00:34:57.260 So look, look for some wild stories on the Western Standard coming up in these next couple of days ahead of the provincial election.

00:35:06.720 And look for a guest column on Rebel News from yours truly.

00:35:11.860 Now, on yours truly.

00:35:13.700 Yes, I just, I'm very excited about that.

00:35:16.240 Besides you doing the incredible work on this, we should stop and acknowledge the hard work of Chris Oldcourt.

00:35:23.280 Oh, Western Standard. He's been all over this.

00:35:26.660 Yeah, he's been great.

00:35:28.420 This, this guy is an absolute, like, anvil when it comes to these stories.

00:35:33.220 Like, 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.

00:35:42.060 And 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.

00:35:56.260 You 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.

00:36:03.220 Uh, I, I know what Regina Public Schools has done to our family in particular.

00:36:09.720 I 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.

00:36:23.080 And 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.

00:36:32.740 The 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.

00:36:56.020 Uh, 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.

00:37:16.020 They 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.

00:37:27.760 We, we need those teachers to have those protections.

00:37:30.540 We need our doctors to have those protections.

00:37:33.440 We need nurses. 1.00

00:37:34.340 We need engineers.

00:37:35.400 We need every professional, um, association to be brought right into line with what Alberta's doing. 0.97

00:37:41.700 And I hope Scott Moe hears me on this.

00:37:43.840 And as a matter of fact, I'm going to send him the link to make sure that he does.

00:37:46.580 Yeah, that's funny.

00:37:50.480 Uh, so, uh, we've got about a week away from the election.

00:37:55.580 Yeah, I guess.

00:37:56.080 One week.

00:37:56.960 One week.

00:37:57.800 One week.

00:37:57.860 Yeah.

00:37:58.720 Yeah.

00:37:59.040 How do people find out about platform and support you in your campaign?

00:38:04.280 Do you believe house?

00:38:05.640 You, well, you can follow me on X.

00:38:07.840 It's my name, Lise Merle.

00:38:09.540 Um, my website is Lise Merle dot C A.

00:38:13.060 And you can also visit because, uh, because we knew that just running one candidate was

00:38:18.020 not going to be good enough.

00:38:18.980 So we're running, uh, we are running a coalition of candidates, all common sense, all pro parent,

00:38:24.300 all pro academic achievement.

00:38:25.940 And you can learn about any of those candidates on the R-CAN website.

00:38:30.500 And this is, these are just the letters R-C-A-A-N dot C A. 1.00

00:38:35.840 What does R-CAN stand for?

00:38:37.920 The Regina Civic Action Awareness Network.

00:38:41.040 Yeah.

00:38:41.520 And, and this is the, this is the sort of overarching group who identified a real problem

00:38:46.860 happening in Regina public schools about three years ago, and they decided to do something

00:38:50.680 about it and gosh darn it, they are doing something about it.

00:38:53.920 So, uh, I'm so happy and proud to be endorsed by these guys. 0.56

00:38:57.960 They are high integrity community leaders.

00:39:00.620 We're talking lawyers, doctors, uh, teachers, um, and, and they have been instrumental in supporting

00:39:06.660 me in my campaign and I just can't, I can't thank them enough.

00:39:10.260 Well, I think that's a great spot to leave the interview.

00:39:14.080 Uh, as always, I'll just talk to you throughout the day as I generally do.

00:39:17.740 Um, but I, uh, I'm planning to come to Regina for election night.

00:39:23.040 Um, so we'll see how that goes.

00:39:25.640 I am.

00:39:26.060 Are you actually?

00:39:28.260 Oh my God.

00:39:29.640 I'm excited.

00:39:30.020 I'm so, all of a sudden I'm just so excited.

00:39:33.800 Okay.

00:39:34.320 There's, there's a, there's a little party being planned.

00:39:36.740 So, so I'm just going to put you down as my plus one.

00:39:39.420 I would love to be your plus one.

00:39:42.340 Lise, thanks for taking the time.

00:39:43.480 And thanks for the hard work that you do on behalf of Regina, parents and kids.

00:39:48.600 But I think your advocacy is changing hearts and minds across the country.

00:39:52.060 Well, friends, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback

00:40:03.780 and say it every single week, but it remains true.

00:40:06.120 There is no rebel news without you.

00:40:07.560 So of course we care what you think about the work that we do here.

00:40:11.380 Now there are a couple of ways to get in touch with us.

00:40:13.660 I give you my email address right now.

00:40:16.360 If you've got something to say about what Lise and I talked about on the show today,

00:40:20.260 send me an email to Sheila.

00:40:23.020 It's really easy.

00:40:24.280 S-H-E-I-L-A at rebelnews.com.

00:40:28.360 Put gun show letters in the subject line.

00:40:30.460 So I know why you're emailing me and let me have it for better or for worse.

00:40:34.680 Or if you are watching a clip of the show on YouTube or Rumble, leave a comment there.

00:40:43.180 I go looking for those.

00:40:44.980 And in fact, that's where today's comments come from.

00:40:49.020 They are not actually on a clip of the show, but it's on my coverage of the United Conservative

00:40:55.280 Party Annual General Meeting from Red Deer, where our Premier Daniel Smith faced a leadership

00:41:03.080 review.

00:41:03.940 And there were rumblings from some grassroots organizations that they were giving her a

00:41:12.320 failing grade when it comes to freedom and accountability and smaller government.

00:41:16.780 One of those was Take Back Alberta.

00:41:20.600 And at the UCP AGM, they had a report card circulating where they gave her a D minus.

00:41:31.080 I believe I gave her a B plus when I went through the report card and Daniel Smith went into her

00:41:40.600 leadership review fresh off a slate of very red meat policy announcements for conservatives.

00:41:47.960 But I think just for normal people, she said that she would be banning gender transition for minors under the age of 16,

00:41:55.580 that there would be parental notification required if a minor sought to socially transition in the classroom,

00:42:03.180 banning of men from women's sports, the incorporation of firearms rights, property rights,

00:42:09.300 and the right to refuse a vaccine in our Alberta Bill of Rights, which is sort of our governing rights document in the

00:42:18.620 province, and changes to the Public Health Act, which would redefine what it really means to have a public health

00:42:27.180 emergency, to prioritize civil liberties during a public health emergency, that there would be a right to in-person

00:42:36.640 education in the event of a public health emergency, and that professional bodies could not mandate or compel the

00:42:46.880 speech of their members.

00:42:48.520 So that would apply to doctors, engineers, teachers, any organization with a governing body, as my friend Lise pointed out.

00:42:56.340 So lots of policies just before the AGM addressing the failings of the previous premier, Jason Kenney, all the things that

00:43:09.620 Kenney got wrong, which led us to have a new premier, Daniel Smith.

00:43:15.740 She's doing her best to correct.

00:43:18.340 Yet at the time, it didn't seem enough for the folks that take back Alberta.

00:43:21.860 So 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.

00:43:33.300 Did 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.

00:43:45.740 Every 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.

00:43:56.780 And 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.

00:44:06.260 Let'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.

00:44:18.920 And I can't actually see him getting a seat in the very near future.

00:44:23.420 And 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.

00:44:38.020 Who can take that seriously? Well, the mainstream media in this province, I guess.

00:44:43.580 If this be magic, writes, I have much respect for Daniel Smith and the things she is working on changing.

00:44:49.260 Take Back Alberta should be supporting her for these changes. 1.00

00:44:53.420 Bushcraft, Alberta, also writes from an email from the APP.

00:44:58.820 That's the Alberta Prosperity Project.

00:45:00.800 It says the Alberta Prosperity Project are not paid supporters of the UCP party nor Daniel Smith.

00:45:05.940 But we see her vision, understand some moves have to be made first before showing all the cards.

00:45:12.020 And when we ask who else, we come up with crickets.

00:45:16.040 When we speak to citizens of other provinces, we are reminded of what we have as a leader.

00:45:20.640 Pragmatic, forward thinking, and unafraid to set boundaries or make waves for the greater good of the Albertan and future generations.

00:45:29.940 She's strategic, understands game theory, and clearly has read and understood the art of war.

00:45:36.480 Now, 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.

00:45:57.480 That is enormous, but a lot of people who I spoke to at the AGM said, okay, who else then?

00:46:08.580 Who else?

00:46:09.500 And when that question could not be answered, I think the party membership knew what to do.

00:46:17.780 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:46:19.660 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:46:21.040 I'll see everybody back here in the same time and same place next week.

00:46:23.900 And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - November 07, 2024

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trump is back and bigger than ever

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