Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Your letters, your voice — a viewer mailbag special!

00:00:00.000 It's another busy week. I'm on the road, which means I didn't book a guest,

00:00:04.020 and so I'm turning the show over to you. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:07.960 The Gunn Show

00:00:37.960 the Rebel News Cruise in Alaska. Now, I was supposed to be there. I had an appointment that I couldn't

00:00:43.440 change, and if I did, it would be another six months before I could get it again, and I just

00:00:47.480 thought, I better deal with my appointment. So we swapped me out for Amy Hamm, who is a journalist

00:00:59.740 and a nurse, and she has been outspoken in her criticism of gender theory, and she has been

00:01:09.360 just absolutely attacked not only online by the radical left, but also by her own professional

00:01:18.260 organization in British Columbia. So she's off enjoying herself because there's a woman who could 1.00

00:01:23.840 use a cruise. And I've been covering for Ezra, and there's a lot of moving pieces here at Rebel News.

00:01:32.680 Besides all the things that you see me do on air, I have other jobs at the company, but also Ezra's

00:01:36.940 gone. So if you are watching Ezra's show, you know you're getting a lot of Sheila these days over there

00:01:42.340 too. It's not that Ezra doesn't want to help. It is because reception on the high seas, not all that

00:01:48.680 great. So a couple weeks ago, I was really busy, and I put out a call to your emails, loyal viewers,

00:01:58.360 and said, hey, I don't have time to book a guest. Can you send me some letters, some questions to Sheila,

00:02:02.980 and boy, did you ever. And so I've been relying on those to get me through these busy weeks. Now, I'll let

00:02:11.300 you in on a little secret. I would very much like to be out of my office on Wednesday. Not that I won't be

00:02:18.100 working, but I won't be here with my camera. And so I'm pre-recording this Monday night in my studio

00:02:24.640 before I do my second live stream of the day. We're also covering the three Alberta by-elections.

00:02:32.440 One, NDP leader Naheed Nenshi is trying to win a seat finally in the House. And then the other one

00:02:41.460 is Rachel Notley's old seat in Edmonton Strathcona. That's just, I mean, that's a write-off. It's going

00:02:47.720 to go to the NDP. And then in Olds Didsbury, now the UCP is running up against the Alberta Republicans

00:02:54.540 who are running a separatist candidate, Cam Davies, that's their leader, in the writing formerly held

00:03:01.020 by Speaker in the legislature, Nathan Cooper, who resigned. Now, that writing elected a separatist

00:03:11.040 in the past, so sort of would be the safest seat for a separatist to run in. I'm not sure

00:03:17.840 if people are willing to risk having the NDP run up the middle in Olds Didsbury and vote

00:03:24.500 with their hearts for the separatist party. Or does it, you know, like we, when you see this,

00:03:29.840 we'll know. But I don't know right now. I'm giving it a lot of thought and I am about 30

00:03:34.780 minutes out of a live stream. So I have to get to the point here. My point is, I don't

00:03:39.760 have time to book a guest. I would like to be out of the office on Wednesday, again, working

00:03:44.360 but not at my desk in front of my camera. So I'm going back into the mailbag. And if you

00:03:50.460 are somebody who remembers when I sent you an email a little while ago asking for your letters,

00:03:57.080 your questions to Sheila, you can still send me questions because it's obvious. Busy summer,

00:04:02.320 everybody's doing stuff. I will be reaching into the mailbag as the summer goes on so that

00:04:09.900 I am not chained to this desk for hours and hours and hours as the summer slips through my

00:04:18.640 fingers. So we're going back into the mailbag. And we'll just hammer off some of these. And

00:04:24.840 then I'll wrap it up because like I said, I'm filming this Monday night. I have about

00:04:30.280 25 minutes before I have to jump onto the next thing that I have to do, which is like a two

00:04:37.160 hour live stream on the election results. So you're the guest tonight. Thank you so much

00:04:42.020 Rebel News viewers for helping me out when I'm really busy and crushed with work. I can always

00:04:48.600 rely on you. Without you, there's no Rebel News. It's never more evident than it is for me

00:04:53.920 today. So let's get into it. I'll zip it. I'll stop with my yakety yak and get into the computer

00:04:59.620 screen here. All right. Here's one. So this one comes to us by way of Ian. What channels are used

00:05:06.400 by politicians to send the message down through the police and bureaucratic ranks to trample on

00:05:11.100 people's rights and freedoms? Many police have left the force because they see unethical freedoms,

00:05:16.820 rights, abuses, constitutional violations, police trampling on free speech, enforcing feelings,

00:05:21.620 et cetera. And boy, do we see this a lot around Western countries now, as David Menzies experiences.

00:05:27.320 It is unspoken, kept quiet, but really important. We see only the end result, not the orders from

00:05:33.140 above. Has anyone tried to pry this open? John Carpe wrote about this in Corrupted by Fear.

00:05:38.600 Our police taught this now in their academies. Do police chiefs get secret orders from politicians

00:05:43.380 or bureaucrats, which are then quietly transmitted down the ranks? Individuals not complying because it

00:05:48.380 conflicts with their ethical beliefs are expunged from the force. Tom Quiggan and many in Canada

00:05:52.320 and the U.S. Helen Gruse. Judges and prosecutors cooperate with the oppression. No shame. Seems

00:05:59.040 the central question is who and how pulls the strings in all of this. Is it legal? In tyrannies,

00:06:03.520 China, Russia, and North Korea, the answer is obvious. Is it possible to interview a lot of people

00:06:07.600 who have been left or forced out to get a picture of how this works from the very top to the tyrant on the

00:06:12.500 streets or behind the desk get info on what is taught in police academies? I don't think this

00:06:19.000 stuff is taught in police academies. And regular viewers of the show will know that I have police

00:06:25.540 in my family. And many cops, I think by and large even most cops, join the police force because they

00:06:35.700 care about arresting the bad guys. They care about constitutional freedoms. That's why they joined

00:06:40.620 the police force to make sure that dirtbags aren't trampling on yours. The problem is that

00:06:47.940 at the same time, control freaks and operatives also get involved in the police force to scratch

00:06:57.660 their control freak itch, right? And it makes it really difficult for the good cops to do their jobs.

00:07:06.980 And God bless the good cops who do, because they are grinding it out in the machine.

00:07:12.240 And they're working really hard. And the worst part is the bad cops trade on the good cops reputation,

00:07:17.940 right? You see the Mountie, Mountie. And you know, that's a symbol of sort of Canadian patriotism.

00:07:28.700 But the control freaks and weirdos know that, right? So they sort of hide behind that reputation

00:07:36.600 that good cops like those in my family have earned. And it's sort of the same way psychopaths get into

00:07:45.680 politics and business. And that's not just me saying that, like, whoa, that guy's a psycho. No, 1.00

00:07:51.260 there have been studies that have proven that people with psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies

00:07:56.520 get involved in those places where they can exhibit control. And they actually

00:08:03.000 zoom up the ranks because they don't have the moral qualms that the rest of us do.

00:08:08.540 When we're asked to do something that violates our conscience, they don't have one. So they don't

00:08:13.240 have a problem with it. And so I think we have to remember that. Now, how is this stuff transmitted

00:08:17.900 down the ranks? Well, I think it's sort of systemic through the pipeline. The bad guys advance because

00:08:24.400 they don't have a problem doing bad things. And then they sort of get at the top. And it's like a

00:08:31.440 pyramid or an upside down funnel. And I think that's just the nature of the beast. Now,

00:08:41.240 people who do bad things are also very crafty. They will not do it in writing where some intrepid

00:08:50.240 journalists like me can find it through access to information, right? They'll say stuff like,

00:08:56.200 and I've seen this in access filings, emails, or text messages to each other to say, hey,

00:09:01.460 let's take this conversation offline. So they might have it in a phone call instead of a text message

00:09:07.980 where there's there's no record of it. Although I think we all saw an inner working of the minds of

00:09:15.220 the brain trust, and I struggle to call it that because I don't know if there's a lot of brains

00:09:22.200 involved there, of the Trudeau cabinet when their text messages were revealed during the public order

00:09:29.600 emergency commission hearings, where we saw them talking about sending in

00:09:34.780 tanks, the army on peaceful Canadian citizens during the honking in downtown Ottawa. Now,

00:09:44.660 couple that with the two-tier policing we see every day now on the streets of Ottawa,

00:09:50.100 one only needs to look at Chris Dacey, his ex account to see how the police treat

00:09:57.980 him when he's just trying to document the protests of the Hamas radicals and terrorist adjacent

00:10:06.040 rallies that are on the streets there constantly. They say that he's provoking them, that he needs to

00:10:13.960 get out of there, that he's the problem. But the like IRGC fanboys, they're perfectly fine. So I guess

00:10:21.580 to answer your question, if documents do exist, these people are crafty and cagey, and

00:10:28.800 how it happens, I think it is just sometimes a cultural thing within the institution. And the good

00:10:39.000 people don't play along, but the bad people know what it takes to get to the top, and they'll do anything

00:10:43.640 to do it. And then it becomes institutionalized. And support your good cops, because they are

00:10:52.220 surrounded sometimes by the worst people on the face of the earth. All right. George Flanagan says, I spent

00:11:00.540 over six years, two years in the Cold War, 57 to 59, two winters, keeping Khrushchev out of Canada. Now we have

00:11:08.860 communism. I'll take your word for it. There are a lot of people who spent a lot of time in Eastern

00:11:15.080 Europe, including Eastern European immigrants to Canada who say, this feels communist-y to me,

00:11:22.960 the attacks on the church, the attacks on your free speech. They just do it digitally now. Instead

00:11:28.020 of taking your book out of your hand and burning it, they make sure that you can never find the book

00:11:31.620 in the search engine. Right? So yeah, I believe you. Pamukkyn Man says,

00:11:36.800 hello, Sheila, love you and the whole rebel crew and rebel news on the subject of Alberta separation.

00:11:45.140 Why not make it a super West by making Saskatchewan, BC and Manitoba one big independent? Look,

00:11:53.240 I think the way it's structural right now, because we have laws that are different in each province

00:12:02.060 governing citizen-led referendum or referenda, as the plural would be. We need to take this one

00:12:11.440 province at a time. And I think if Alberta leaves, Saskatchewan will not stay. They're going to look

00:12:20.580 and say, it is possible. Look at them. They're doing it. And then they're going to turn around,

00:12:26.480 look at everything to the east of them and say, we're not swimming with this millstone around our

00:12:33.720 neck. Thank you very much. And then you're going to see, I think, and this is purely speculative.

00:12:40.700 I mean, this is a question for 2026. But in my fantasy football world, Alberta goes,

00:12:47.080 then Saskatchewan looks around and says, you're not leaving me in the asylum by myself. Thank you.

00:12:51.960 We're out. Then you're going to see, I think, BC fracture

00:12:56.180 into probably two different places, because the interior and the north

00:13:05.400 are going to look at Alberta and the interior votes as blue as anywhere in Alberta. They're

00:13:13.160 going to look and say, you're going to leave us here? You're going to leave us here? And I think

00:13:19.980 they will be seriously considering splitting away from the lower mainland and the island

00:13:27.280 and going their own way or maybe joining Alberta. And then I think likewise, something similar might

00:13:35.160 happen in Manitoba, because Manitoba is actually quite NDP-ish. And I think there will be parts of

00:13:45.420 Manitoba that touch on Saskatchewan that will say, take us with you. Do not leave us here with these

00:13:52.720 lunatics. So I'm not against the super West. I just don't think a super West would encompass 0.99

00:13:58.660 the entirety of the four provinces. Brian writes, why has rebel never exposed former and failed

00:14:07.500 Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff ties to George Soros and his Open Society Foundation?

00:14:11.480 He's currently a member of their senior board. I'm sure if you guys did some digging, you'll find

00:14:15.140 out how compromised the Liberal Party has been and since when. There's also a former

00:14:20.700 Ontario politician on a smaller board with Open Society Foundation. His name escapes me at the

00:14:28.160 moment. Thanks for all the work you guys do. You're on the front line. Keep it going. God bless the

00:14:31.780 entire organization. Well, thank you so much. I'll tell you why we haven't even talked about Michael

00:14:36.040 Ignatieff, except to point out the very effective Conservative Party campaign ads at the time.

00:14:43.680 Remember this? Michael Ignatieff, he didn't come back for you because he didn't. He literally came

00:14:48.680 back to run the campaign, lose and then go back to wherever the heck he came from. He's by and large

00:14:52.880 an American. Somehow he didn't. Mark Carney didn't get touched with the stink of he didn't come back for

00:15:00.160 you, but he definitely didn't come back for us. He came to lord over us. But the reason is Michael

00:15:05.320 Ignatieff is really, at this point, just an American academic who plays no real role in Canadian

00:15:16.640 politics. And there's so many lunatics who are currently involved in Canadian politics in the 0.51

00:15:21.960 Liberal Party that suck up all the oxygen because their brains need all the oxygen they can handle. 0.97

00:15:28.920 But it's just because he's all not all that relevant right now. And I actually think that's

00:15:39.860 a great thing. All right. Brittany says, Hi, Sheila. Love you and Rebel News in general. We are paying

00:15:45.580 members since the Freedom Convoys. Thank you so much. And we believe you play an important role in the

00:15:51.460 Infowar. How do Canadians feel about Charles the Weak giving Canada to the so-called native 1.00

00:15:56.640 population? I'm in the US, so I'm curious what y'all are thinking. Okay. I straddle a few worlds on

00:16:06.260 this and I'll tell you why. So I like the tradition of the monarchy. I value the current king as the son

00:16:18.620 of a beloved Queen Elizabeth II. I mean, just her service to the nation and above politics.

00:16:27.460 There's something the royal family

00:16:29.280 did, and some of them do really well.

00:16:35.380 A, they are working royals. They have to be in constant service to the people.

00:16:39.400 There's a reason why the queen always dressed like a crayon. You know, they're like, you never saw her 1.00

00:16:46.220 in a dark color. And her umbrellas were always clear. And she said, my people are waiting for hours

00:16:55.340 to see me. And so I mustn't be obscured by an umbrella. And they have to be able to spot me

00:17:04.540 in a sea of people. So she always dressed in the brightest Crayola crayons of colors.

00:17:12.040 And I really liked that about her. You know, like she did what she could during World War II. She

00:17:18.640 was a jeep mechanic during World War II. And one of the things that the royal family always said was,

00:17:27.340 never complain, never explain. As in, don't explain yourself. Don't get involved in politics.

00:17:35.720 Once you're explaining, you're sort of admitting that you've done something wrong or that you are

00:17:40.540 involved in it. And they are supposed to be the steady hand that even when the government changes,

00:17:46.800 when political parties change, they are the constant. They never change. And never complain.

00:17:56.100 That you were born into royalty. If you have to shake a thousand hands and wave till your wrist

00:18:06.340 feels like it's broken, do it. Because you are essential for the confidence of the people

00:18:14.180 in the continuity of the state. And I know that Mark Carney has said that Canadians are the most

00:18:24.900 European of the non-European peoples. And I know that some parts of our culture do feel kind of European,

00:18:31.780 like our structure of our government, very European, very Commonwealth, right? It's replicated after

00:18:39.700 the British system of a constitutional monarchy. And Charles is our ceremonial head of state.

00:18:50.560 His representative here is our governor general, Mary Simon, who is a crazy person. 1.00

00:18:55.920 She's just a woke, spendy, crazy person appointed by Justin Trudeau. 0.90

00:19:01.760 And I don't like Charles's politics, because I know his politics. And I never want to know the 0.54

00:19:07.920 politics of the monarchy. I know that he's in the green cult. And he did that land acknowledgement 0.78

00:19:16.480 at the House of Commons when Carney called in a favor and said, we need to really be Canadian elbows

00:19:22.080 up, stick it to the Americans. Will you come and do our speech from the throne? Which is scripted 0.59

00:19:28.400 by the government, so the Liberal Party, for the head of state to read. So it will feel partisan

00:19:35.520 because it lays out the government's plans for the next sitting of the House of Commons.

00:19:42.720 A respectful Liberal government would not have made that speech so partisan.

00:19:49.520 They would have said, geez, guys, we've got the king here. We need to really like take down the

00:19:55.120 politics and just be rah, rah, go Canada. But it was a very politically charged speech.

00:20:00.880 And I blame the Liberals for that. Because the speech from the throne is always read by

00:20:06.320 the monarch or the representative of the monarch. And so I thought that was kind of scummy,

00:20:11.360 what the Liberals did. And yeah, the land acknowledgement was weird, because like,

00:20:18.240 you're the chief colonizer. The crown is like the chief colonizer. So

00:20:24.880 it was just a weird thing for him to have done. I mean,

00:20:35.440 the United States wouldn't exist. Canada wouldn't exist if the British crown didn't plunk some 0.99

00:20:41.920 colonies here. Now, we had two very different paths to independence from the crown, yours through

00:20:48.480 revolution and ours through legislation. But I wouldn't downplay the good of colonization,

00:20:56.240 particularly here in North America. And that's all I have to say about that. Oh, yes. And also,

00:21:04.480 it is my hope one day for William and Princess Catherine to take over the crown.

00:21:15.600 And I mean, he's the next in line to the throne. And hopefully everything will go back to being good

00:21:22.480 again. And we won't have this like shakiness with the crown. Because from what I understand,

00:21:31.440 all sources say, the Queen very much liked Princess Catherine.

00:21:36.080 She followed all the rules. She works really hard. She's raising her kids.

00:21:44.320 There are certain rules of comportment and dress expected of the future queen. She follows all of

00:21:51.360 them. She takes her charitable work very seriously. By all accounts, just a warm, nice person. I don't

00:21:58.880 know anything about her politics. I like it that way. And likewise with William. William,

00:22:04.800 William, I think he flew search and rescue. Very much a working royal. And so here's my hope that

00:22:12.560 in the meantime, Charles and Camilla don't destroy the institution. Let's just all hope that.

00:22:20.160 And, you know, I'm sure people are wondering like, Sheila, why are you, why do you like the monarchy?

00:22:25.360 If you, you know, feel less than culturally compatible with your fellow Canadians to the east of you?

00:22:37.200 You know, I think Westerners feel sort of more American. Like we feel, not that we feel American, 0.58

00:22:41.920 but we feel more culturally aligned with our Americans. For example, I feel more culturally

00:22:48.240 compatible with our Montana friends than I would, let's say from Vancouverites. Okay.

00:22:56.400 We care about freedom, free speech, firearms rights, agriculture, oil and gas. And in Vancouver,

00:23:03.440 they want to ban fireplaces to save the climate. Okay. So, and give out free drugs. So yes,

00:23:10.160 I feel more culturally compatible with our American friends. However, if I am not conserving

00:23:18.080 our culture and history, am I a conservative at all? Now I can say that I want our future to be

00:23:24.000 different, but if we're not actually actively conserving the institutions and our culture,

00:23:37.840 then what is it that I would call myself a conservative for? Then I would just be a

00:23:44.240 regular old libertarian. And I am not that. All right. Ross McFadden says we have a big promotion

00:23:50.560 going to buy Canadian products. So now we need to have a big promotion to hire Canadians. Yeah,

00:23:55.120 we're going to have to take that up with the carny liberals because immigration is out of control. 0.98

00:23:59.600 Did you know that Canada takes in the fourth highest number of refugees out of all the countries?

00:24:08.320 We have one of the smallest populations on the face of the earth. These people are landing in Toronto, 1.00

00:24:16.080 most of them. Toronto is growing an entire large Alberta city every year,

00:24:25.680 just based on the number of people who are being resettled there. That's unsustainable.

00:24:31.440 And then on top of that, we're bringing in temporary foreign workers. For what? Toronto is approaching

00:24:37.680 10% unemployment. Yeah, no kidding. Housing out of control. We need to pump the brakes on immigration. 1.00

00:24:45.120 I'm not saying they have to go home, but they can't stay here. And I'm not by any means against

00:24:49.360 immigration, but this is unsustainable for people who are already here. And I mean, 0.94

00:24:53.280 old stock Canadians to use a term that once got a politician in trouble, but just immigrants that 1.00

00:25:00.320 have already been here, who came here, who chose us, did it the right way. And now they can't afford

00:25:07.840 to live here either. Like it's, this is unsustainable for anybody. Tony very says, hi, Sheila.

00:25:14.160 First off, thank you to everyone at rebel news. What's your take on the latest insanity of wanting to

00:25:18.560 lower the voting age? Is there anything the ordinary person can do to push back against

00:25:23.280 the probability of more censorship? Thanks and have a great day. Okay, first on the voting age nonsense.

00:25:30.640 This is a perennial crazy thing that the left always brings in. Why? Because they want kids to vote 0.98

00:25:40.160 for them before they're smart enough to know better. And they think then we'll just create habitual

00:25:46.400 NDP, liberal voters, whatever. And we know that kids cannot

00:25:55.760 serve in the military. They can't even drive till they're 16. They can't consent to medical procedures

00:26:03.040 unless it's gender affirming care. Uh, they can't get a tattoo. They can't get their ears pierced. 0.57

00:26:08.480 Uh, can't own a firearm. So, well, that's not true. They can own a firearm, but there are things

00:26:15.920 that kids can't do because you recognize that their brains aren't fully formed.

00:26:21.840 They can't enter into a contract. They can't rent anything, but they're going to decide the fate of

00:26:28.160 the country. That's crazy. But the thing is, kids would be like so many on the left, low liability

00:26:34.720 voters, meaning they don't really pay anything into the system. They're living at home, whatever.

00:26:40.720 And so they can vote for, I mean, candies and lollipops, free iPhones, whatever, because they don't

00:26:51.440 have to put the money down to pay for the consequences mommy and daddy do. And so they're really low

00:26:57.920 liability, uh, on the scale of people who are involved in the system. And that's crazy because

00:27:09.680 their low liability vote would have the same weight as yours. So that's why the left does it. They

00:27:16.240 don't be too worried about it. They floated every, well, really every four years, they sort of float this

00:27:21.280 idea of like, we lost the election. Let's lower the voting age. Uh, so it'll just go away. Hopefully

00:27:31.600 now on the second part, uh, the ways to fight back against the censorship. Um, you know, it's hard,

00:27:41.480 I guess the best way is to support the people who do fight back against the censorship, you know,

00:27:47.200 support your independent, uh, journalists. And I don't just mean us here at rebel news,

00:27:51.520 true North, Juno, Juno, counter signal, uh, Western standard, uh, even the smaller guys,

00:27:58.400 Chris Dacey. There are people out there who are doing their best to get around the censorship,

00:28:05.060 um, share our work. You know, they, if you can find our work on the internet, which will become

00:28:12.760 more and more difficult, share our work, please, um, directly with your friends, text them a link

00:28:19.200 to our work. Um, really, I mean, it has to be like that just guerrilla activism. Um, it's, uh,

00:28:28.740 strange times we live in, but I promise you, we're going to do everything we can to fight back against

00:28:33.380 the incoming censorship of Mark Carney. He said he's going to bring back much of Justin Trudeau's

00:28:40.700 censorship legislation that died when Justin Trudeau prorogued parliament to reward the liberals

00:28:46.640 with one more term for their corruption. Well, everybody, I think I have to wrap it up. I'm three

00:28:53.380 minutes away from the next thing that I have to do. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you so much

00:28:57.820 for bearing with me as I turn the show over to you, uh, two weeks in a row. Sorry about that. I'll do my

00:29:04.400 best to, uh, be, uh, better with my time. Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes at Rebel

00:29:10.640 News to put the show together for you so you can watch it and listen to it whenever you want to.

00:29:16.940 And as I always say, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

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Rebel News Podcast - June 26, 2025

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Your letters, your voice — a viewer mailbag special!

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