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00:01:22.520 Welcome to Rebel Roundup ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you in which we look back

00:01:33.420 at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host

00:01:37.860 David Menzies. Well talk about coming up with a crackpot solution for a problem that doesn't

00:01:44.800 even exist. Yes I speak of the city of Edmonton going ahead with putting up pricey solar panels

00:01:52.060 in its gorgeous river valley in order to expensively generate a piddling amount of power that isn't

00:01:59.560 even required. Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the disturbing details. Andrea Humphrey went to a Vancouver rally the

00:02:07.240 other day and stumbled upon numerous Canadian Trump supporters. Fancy that! If one were to believe the

00:02:13.700 mainstream media narrative one would think everyone in our great dominion loathes the U.S. president but

00:02:19.380 Drea has the video evidence to show that clearly is not the case. And violence and vandalism,

00:02:27.640 arson and assault or in other words just another due rigour day in Caledonia Ontario. I'll share

00:02:34.620 your letters regarding my most recent video about this beleaguered little town that is continually

00:02:40.800 having to deal with protesters who are anything but peaceful. Those are your Rebels now let's round them up.

00:02:49.380 Look I don't like solar energy so let's just get that out of the way right off the top here. Why?

00:02:58.540 Because everything the environmental movement tells us about solar energy is a ridiculous lie.

00:03:06.240 They say solar is free because don't you know? Sunlight is free. Except the panels are enormously

00:03:14.260 expensive and require fossil fuel backup for when the sun doesn't shine which is you know half the time

00:03:22.660 in the summer. And then basically all of the time except for a few short hours of each day in the winter.

00:03:29.500 That is when the panels aren't completely covered in snow. They like to say solar is clean and green except

00:03:37.260 the panels contain toxic elements mined in atrocious and dirty ways in far-flung places like China by 0.97

00:03:46.060 people paid a mere pittance for the extreme health risks they face. Now this is from the Yale School of

00:03:52.460 Environment. Rare earth mining done near uranium deposits has also led to radioactive material clinging

00:04:00.180 to the elements in some areas according to Zhang Huang a post-doctoral fellow at the University of

00:04:07.860 Waterloo in Canada who studied the environmental and health impacts from rare earth mining while earning

00:04:14.980 his PhD at Beijing University. The end impact Huang said could be on the central nervous system

00:04:23.660 cancers like bone cancer, skin cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory issues. And the footprint of solar is

00:04:33.500 enormous given the tiny amount of unreliable energy solar farms actually produce when they're producing it. Case in point

00:04:42.140 that new solar farm in Edmonton that will be built. In the Edmonton River Valley owned by the city owned power and water

00:04:50.060 utility EPCOR. The EL Smith solar farm was approved in a seven to six vote by the city council about two weeks ago and

00:04:58.940 it's meant to power the EPCOR owned EL Smith water treatment facility. But even that's not entirely true and we'll get to that in a

00:05:08.060 second but first look at this. It was a narrow vote by city councilors Tuesday to give the go-ahead to a

00:05:15.020 $30 million dollar solar farm in Edmonton's River Valley. When finished the farm will consist of 45,000

00:05:24.940 solar panels on 54 acres of land south of the EL Smith water treatment plant which provides 65 percent of the

00:05:33.180 water used in the greater Edmonton region but is EPCOR's second largest source of greenhouse gas

00:05:40.060 emissions like anybody cares. 70 percent of the power generated by the future solar farm will power

00:05:46.860 the plant directly while the rest is exported to the electrical grid. 54 acres in Edmonton's beautiful

00:05:55.900 river valley will be covered by these ugly solar panels and it's not like we need them anyway. We aren't

00:06:02.860 short of energy in these parts we have hundreds of years of clean burning coal and natural gas

00:06:09.900 under our feet. The city just self-imposed a goal to not use some conventional electricity because they

00:06:16.940 set their own arbitrary and really crazy climate goals. Well as Kermit the Frog used to croon it's not

00:06:24.300 easy being green and increasingly it would appear that it is often downright illogical being green as well.

00:06:32.700 Like how in the world does it make sense to commandeer so much area of Edmonton's gorgeous river valley

00:06:40.060 and plunking down acres of solar panels that a don't really deliver nearly enough solar energy and b

00:06:50.380 not they're not needed in the first place given that oil rich Alberta is hardly energy deficient to begin

00:06:57.340 with again does not compute. And joining me now with more on this controversial solar panel experiment

00:07:05.900 is Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup my friend. David thanks for having me on the show.

00:07:11.580 It's always a pleasure. Sheila let's just cut to the chase here. As far as I can tell this is all really

00:07:17.900 about virtue signaling by the usual leftist suspects on Edmonton City Council. Am I right? Yeah 100%. We have

00:07:28.220 basically a green slash NDP mayor in Edmonton Don Iveson and the city owned utility EPCOR has this

00:07:38.060 mandate given to it by the lefty dominated city council that they have to seek out these sources of

00:07:47.420 expensive unreliable green energy in the process of water treatment or delivering energy to the citizens.

00:07:55.020 You know Sheila I've made this uh remark before especially in regard to uh how the Rachel Notley 0.91

00:08:02.460 NDP government got elected but I spent two years in Alberta and of all the jurisdictions in Canada I

00:08:09.820 mean let's put it this way I could see some kind of crackpot scheme like this being embraced in British

00:08:15.580 Columbia uh in you know uh Victoria or Vancouver but uh Albertans aren't like that Albertans I mean

00:08:23.260 your hockey team it's named the Oilers that's your prime source of energy the idea that there could

00:08:30.780 be a majority on council that actually think this way that get elected on these kind of crackpot ideas

00:08:38.380 in the hub of Canada's energy province it's baffling to me. Well it's the uh marriage of two problems here we've

00:08:49.660 got um the fact that Edmonton is the government city so a lot of government workers live there so

00:08:56.780 government workers with government workers comes public sector unions with public sector unions comes

00:09:02.380 left-wing politics so we have a lot of that concentrated in Edmonton which I guess is kind

00:09:07.820 of good because then they're all in one place um from the outside looking in but also there's a it's

00:09:14.060 a problem with the conservative movement that we aren't as a movement getting involved in local

00:09:20.220 municipal councils and this pandemic should really be a wake-up call to everybody because a lot of the

00:09:25.740 more draconian and authoritarian rules coming about the pandemic are coming from local municipalities

00:09:34.460 because there aren't enough conservatives getting involved in local politics and that seems to be the

00:09:38.700 case here was a close vote yeah uh six to seven um to go ahead with this solar facility and in the end

00:09:48.700 it has me siding with environmentalists who say not in my backyard I'm saying not in my river valley

00:09:56.380 Edmonton has the largest river valley green space in North America and they are putting 54 acres of solar

00:10:06.380 panels in it unbelievable and Sheila you've touched upon a very significant point with this particular

00:10:11.740 debate uh when it comes to environmentalism this issue is kind of like there's one set of greens

00:10:18.460 that are the pro-solar panel uh greens and then there's the nature keep the river valley natural

00:10:26.300 green so within the green movement this was in itself an issue of controversy too wasn't it

00:10:32.700 yeah it definitely wasn't just to give some context to our viewers who are not from the Edmonton area

00:10:39.260 literally just west of Edmonton city limits you're in coal country parkland county is coal country um

00:10:48.060 i think best estimates say there are roughly about 800 years of some of the cleanest burning coal in the

00:10:54.780 world under our feet here in Alberta um we have so much natural gas in particular in medicine hat that

00:11:02.540 at at certain times in our history deep out of the ground that's why Rudyard Kipling said that

00:11:08.780 medicine hat has to misquote him all hell for a basement um we are so energy rich and in such close

00:11:19.900 proximity to Edmonton there is no need for this and at the end of the day it is pure virtue signaling

00:11:27.100 because it will only produce at the very best of times about 20 percent of the power that the

00:11:34.380 water treatment facility that this thing is meant to power will need on the clearest of days in the

00:11:40.220 most optimal conditions don't even get me started about Edmonton's winter sunlight i think we get maybe

00:11:46.620 six hours a day of it in the winter so that's even fewer um hours that this thing would produce energy

00:11:53.500 for uh the water treatment facility it's ridiculous and the worst part of all i could go on about this

00:11:59.260 forever but the worst part of it all is that the money for this thing came from overcharging Edmonton

00:12:05.660 electricity rate payers for the past few years so people who are already paying a carbon tax had to

00:12:11.020 pay the virtue signaling tax to build a solar plant we don't need in Edmonton river valley to produce

00:12:17.180 almost no energy you know Sheila let me get this straight they are going to sacrifice 54 acres of

00:12:25.180 green space for the solar panels and at the optimum i guess charging or energy generation level it's only

00:12:34.460 20 percent of the needs for the water treatment plant meaning i guess the water treatment plant for

00:12:40.700 the other 80 percent has to rely on uh traditional fossil fuels this is just staggering i mean let alone

00:12:49.340 the cost of putting these in how how was this sold by those who supported these solar panels that this is

00:12:57.020 a good idea because clearly if you and i were in business um this isn't a dead dog this is a dead dog with

00:13:03.820 fleas this is a horrible deal how did they make a case that this is a good idea well i mean really

00:13:12.620 it comes down to just the city council is infested with lefties that's really what it comes down to

00:13:18.540 it and lefties aren't going to make the business case they're going to make the feel good case 1.00

00:13:22.540 because if they wanted to make the business case for this they couldn't have because medicine hat that

00:13:27.740 city i mentioned before from southern alberta with that has so much gas at some points it

00:13:33.100 leaked out of the ground they put in a solar panel facility there to virtue signal again i think it

00:13:40.140 cost about 12 million dollars and it only lasted five years before they took it out even the mayor

00:13:45.980 admitted that it made absolutely no financial sense at the time and the worst thing about these solar

00:13:51.420 panels is they are so extremely toxic they have to be treated as hazardous waste when you take them out

00:13:58.780 and so to put them in the river valley where they can leach these uh sometimes radioactive sometimes

00:14:05.260 cancer causing highly lethal chemicals into the river valley if you were a green like i'm looking at 1.00

00:14:13.340 this saying okay this is pretty risky but these greenies this is the anti-pipeline crowd and yet they're 1.00

00:14:20.780 perfectly fine with these highly toxic hazardous waste carrying solar panels in the river valley

00:14:27.420 so their green conscience evaporates when it comes to all those detrimental issues you just said you know

00:14:34.380 sheila we're gonna have to wrap it here i think this is just yet another example and politicians love to

00:14:39.660 do this i won't call this a mega project but you know it's something very visible and you know whether it's

00:14:46.220 building a new stadium or arena or a library or a community center they just love that photo op

00:14:52.620 getting in front of that big ribbon you know with the big oversized giant scissors and saying to everybody

00:14:57.900 look look what i the mayor of edmonton have given you and yet it's a a money losing non-functional uh

00:15:06.220 power source for just one plant the water treatment plant it's as they say about the pontiac fiero all show

00:15:13.740 no go right well i mean and could you imagine think of the things you can that could happen to you

00:15:21.740 if the water treatment facility went down like think of all the pathogens that would that you're entrusting

00:15:29.900 to solar energy to eliminate from the water system thank god there's fossil fuel backup because

00:15:35.740 solar energy and wind energy those are the last things that i want to trust with the water security

00:15:41.580 uh in and around the edmonton area but yeah you are right politicians love a good legacy project

00:15:49.500 where they can you know get the credit for spending other people's money and often not wisely

00:15:55.740 unbelievable once again another example of uh feelings triumphing over facts sheila great commentary

00:16:02.460 thank you so much for weighing in on this thanks have a great weekend david you got it and that was

00:16:07.980 sheila gun reid somewhere in northern alberta where i don't think there are any government-funded

00:16:13.500 solar panels taking over the acreage keep it here folks more of rebel roundup to come right after this

00:16:24.300 dre humphrey here with rebel news it is almost time to see if trump or biden is going to win the

00:16:32.460 election but my question is how many canadians want to see trump in office for four more years now

00:16:40.940 some people might think there is no such thing as a canadian trump supporter certainly not

00:16:45.820 one that is a person of color i'm here to tell you otherwise uh take a look at this clip where

00:16:52.460 where somewhere of close to a thousand canadians were trump trumping or chanting trump's name at the

00:17:02.060 vancouver art gallery trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

00:17:10.060 that clip was from laura lynn tyler thompson's channel and i think a lot of people don't know that many

00:17:16.460 people would chat for trump so i'm going to ask some passerbys as their opinion on trump and then

00:17:23.180 i'm also going to show you some clips that i've collected over time from canadian trump supporters

00:17:28.460 so let's take a look god bless president trump we love you yes okay i'm mexican canadian and i love trump

00:17:40.380 why because he's pro-life pro-life this is the number one and he and we wish as canadian to have

00:17:49.660 somebody just like him he goes for americans he fights for americans is exactly he's not a politician

00:17:58.460 he's a businessman he is not getting any any salary for already four years so he's a billionaire who left

00:18:08.060 everything for the people he loves his country he loves his country he wants his country to grow

00:18:16.060 the people to grow have businesses he loves his people he's not selling out to foreign

00:18:23.420 agents like the chinese communist party i get emotional when i talk when i speak about president

00:18:30.380 trump he is such a great man he is suffering like all these uh nonsense in the media and everything

00:18:42.380 i i just love him very much i just love him very much and

00:18:48.860 you know just keep it up don't don't let those bad people to uh take you down keep it up we are all

00:18:56.380 behind you the whole world is behind you well hard to believe that after four years of the left

00:19:04.060 collectively losing its mind and doing everything in its power to undermine president donald trump

00:19:09.980 that the u.s election is just a mere four days away now if you were to exclusively follow the

00:19:16.380 mainstream media you'd be led to believe that virtually all canadians loathe president trump but

00:19:22.860 as drea humphrey discovered even in the bosom of leftist vancouver trump has plenty of vocal fans

00:19:30.540 so drea welcome to rebel roundup and that was so refreshing to see the incumbent president 1.00

00:19:36.860 receiving lauding as opposed to loathing in lotus land but i'll tell you why i'm personally rooting for

00:19:43.820 trump to win other than the obvious reasons of course and it's this drea canadian property values

00:19:50.620 they're going to soar i mean how many times have we heard stories about american celebrities vowing

00:19:56.140 to move to canada should trump get re-elected and if i can you know make a few more bucks off casa

00:20:02.380 menzoid thanks to the supply and demand dynamics changing overnight so be it what do you think about

00:20:08.300 that well i think you're right i think that people maybe don't understand how much this is really

00:20:17.740 going to influence canada and you know trump is saying if biden wins china wins and i feel like

00:20:24.620 that's a concern for me too because i feel like the influence um china's influence over canada is

00:20:30.460 going to grow too so yeah you know i i mean when it comes to the celebrities uh two things one i don't

00:20:37.980 believe them when they say they're going to leave their um malibu mansions and secondly i think there is

00:20:44.140 a bit of chutzpah on their part i think these people are so shallow that they think by making

00:20:51.660 a statement of where they're going to live their multi-millionaire lives that means the people of

00:20:57.100 medical middle america and elsewhere people actually have to get up at the crack of dawn and earn a living

00:21:03.900 they're going to follow in lockstep but i don't think that's the case drea i think we're in for another

00:21:09.900 repeat of what happened in the 2016 election when if you read the media and you looked at the polls

00:21:17.100 this was a slam dunk hillary clinton victory and also didn't celebrities say the same thing back 1.00

00:21:23.740 then i'm pretty sure they were saying they were going to move here if uh hillary oh we'll see but

00:21:30.540 yeah i think the silent majority is going to hit the polls and uh you know just like with hillary taking 0.97

00:21:37.420 too long to give her speech after she lost we'll see that happen with biden as well at least i hope

00:21:43.500 that's what happens uh i i share your hope and and you know drea i mean like i have never in my life

00:21:51.820 seen a media establishment so against a president as what we've seen these last four years i mean

00:21:59.020 ronald reagan uh got tough uh questioning but it was never like this this is uncharted waters

00:22:06.700 that we sailed in and i don't understand it i mean when you look at this president's accomplishments

00:22:12.220 uh pre-wuhan virus of course because that's the only metric you really should be going by

00:22:17.820 given that was a worldwide pandemic but you have a roaring economy you have manufacturing coming back

00:22:23.660 to america you have america actually energy independent for the first time like something

00:22:29.820 like 70 years um unemployment at historical lows and historical lows for black americans hispanics

00:22:38.460 asian americans females this should be the the narrative that's dominating and yet if you look 0.99

00:22:45.740 at the mainstream media coverage this is a scandal plagued president with ties to russia um have you ever

00:22:53.580 seen such biased reporting uh yourself drea no i haven't and i mean i can remember when i kind of

00:23:01.100 woke up to the whole oh wow they're really really just spreading propaganda about trump like it was

00:23:06.860 i was kind of like okay yeah he says dumb things and sometimes he tweets dumb things but um when i had

00:23:13.820 that wake-up moment of actually going and and looking at exactly what he said in context and just seeing how

00:23:21.900 mainstream media blows it out of proportion it really was an eye-opener and unfortunately a lot of people

00:23:28.140 don't even do that they they don't even think that it's possible for mainstream media to be pitching a

00:23:36.780 narrative that isn't reality yeah and i think the um tipping point just to show how much the mainstream

00:23:44.700 media and social media giants are in the tank when it comes to the democrats the hunter biden story

00:23:50.860 for goodness sake that should be page one of every american paper instead you have the likes of

00:23:58.540 twitter banning the new york post from from being tweeted out i i mean this is astonishing um last week

00:24:07.820 national public radio released a statement as to why they're not uh covering the hunter biden scandal

00:24:14.460 and uh to paraphrase the statement it was well we don't want to give you know coverage to this uh it'll

00:24:21.020 be a distraction for the american people during this important election can you actually believe what

00:24:27.340 you're hearing some days when it comes to the the narrative around this election draa no i can't and

00:24:33.180 with twitter as well saying you know because it's hacked even though it's straight from his laptop i mean

00:24:38.860 it's it's actually frightening because you know when media not just the media in the u.s we're seeing

00:24:46.460 it in canada too they're not covering the story too so you know it's out of country and you know they're

00:24:53.900 limiting they're suppressing the knowledge that's available to the masses and i find that terrifying

00:25:00.780 i do too dra and i think you know this is why i mean people might say okay you found some trump

00:25:06.860 supporters in vancouver giving the president thumbs up big deal uh the election's an american story

00:25:12.540 actually i think it's a global story i think people around the world especially the free world

00:25:17.420 are watching this election with such renewed interest i think this is the most important

00:25:23.260 election in america's history since 1864 when lincoln was running to get re-elected and believe it

00:25:30.140 believe it or not folks that was not a slam dunk and he was facing the same kind of garbage

00:25:36.060 that trump is facing um the media against him for the way the civil war was going uh there were so

00:25:41.980 many other parallels and i i think um if you live in the free world and you see what trump is up against

00:25:50.060 i think this makes you want to support uh president trump getting re-elected yeah i think that in a lot of

00:25:57.980 ways people have come around to wanting to support trump through all this because um even with the whole

00:26:05.180 pandemic i mean when you look at yes you know he might have said it was a hoax and all of that but

00:26:10.700 he actually acted way faster than let's say justin trudeau i mean i think he closed the borders uh maybe 42

00:26:20.300 days over 40 days uh sooner than our prime minister but they keep coming at him with the same things you

00:26:29.580 know oh 200 000 people died and if you don't vote for biden 200 000 more people will die so i do think

00:26:36.060 people are are catching on i hope they're catching on to that and yeah trump uh 2020 four more years

00:26:44.860 oh yeah and i feel he has been harshly uh treated so unfairly treated about the pandemic

00:26:51.580 um if you look at such democrat states as new york michigan california they were transferring

00:26:59.180 covid positive patients into old folks homes into long long-term care facilities the absolute

00:27:07.020 worst place they could be transferred to and you know it comes down to this real you know donald trump

00:27:12.860 has looked at some of the democrat-run states the democrat-run cities where minorities uh traditionally

00:27:20.300 uh and overwhelmingly uh and overwhelmingly vote democrat but you look about you look around

00:27:24.860 you know say the the city of baltimore and what a hellhole that has descended into and his message is

00:27:32.620 listen vote republican really what have you got to lose yeah exactly and it's i saw photos of you know

00:27:42.620 a lot of black people lined up and then they were all saying oh look how many are voting for biden but

00:27:47.660 i suspect it's one of those things where it's like you're not going to be telling everybody if

00:27:51.580 you're voting for trump you're standing in the line but people don't know who people are voting for

00:27:56.700 until it goes down for real so yeah and you know what since you mentioned uh black americans dray i

00:28:02.140 have to ask you this because one of the most astonishing statements during this campaign was joe

00:28:08.780 biden and i mean i can only imagine what the media outroar would have been if it was donald trump saying

00:28:14.220 this for word for word but basically you're not really black if you if you don't vote democrat

00:28:20.380 as a black woman how did you feel when you heard that i laughed pretty hard when i heard that

00:28:27.260 the fact that people like you know that are supposedly concerned about black rights and things

00:28:33.260 like that if they can actually see past that and still vote it's it's just totally nonsensical and i

00:28:38.220 don't know if you know that chelsea handler recently called out 50 cent in the same sort of fashion she 0.91

00:28:44.780 literally said i had to remind him he was black because he said that he's voting for trump because

00:28:51.500 he doesn't want to go from 50 cent to 20 cent and so you have these white people coming out putting black 0.99

00:28:57.820 people in their place you know what i mean and because they're free thinkers i mean it's the most racist

00:29:03.500 thing i've i've ever heard of you know thank you for reminding me about that drea one of the other

00:29:09.580 storylines is that those black conservatives that have been vocal about who they're voting for i.e not

00:29:16.620 the democrats the way they have been treated the racist insults they have been slurred with uh because

00:29:25.100 of their stance it is absolutely egregious and shameful i think absolutely well drea we gotta wrap it

00:29:33.420 here uh before we go uh quick prediction for tuesday what do you think is going to happen

00:29:38.220 i think we're going to see well i don't think we're going to get the results but i think we're

00:29:41.980 going to see trump is winning yeah i i'm experiencing deja vu myself if you believe the media if you

00:29:49.260 believe the polling firms it looks like a slam dunk for biden but that's the way it was for hillary 1.00

00:29:54.060 clinton in 2016 i think it could very well be a trump landslide the only uh caveat is that if this is not a

00:30:02.540 rigged game right if there is if if the fraudulent monkey business is uh you know is taken care of

00:30:09.740 i think i really think that's the only way uh trump uh can lose as a matter of fact so thank you for

00:30:16.300 weighing in and uh you know good for you for finding um uh what some people might think is a needle in a

00:30:21.740 haystack trump supporters in vancouver i thought actually okay then thanks so much you have a good

00:30:30.300 weekend drea bye and that was drea humphrey in vancouver keep it here folks tomorrow bravo roundup to come

00:30:37.260 right after this

00:30:43.420 co-existence

00:30:46.700 make us a part of the narrative yeah we're not going nowhere well folks i'm with andrew bradbury he

00:30:54.140 lives just outside of caledonia you might recall the name of james bradbury that's uh actually the son

00:31:01.340 of uh andrew and andrew what has been happening in the last few days it seems that there's been some

00:31:09.340 really terrible violent incidents and uh i don't want to say it's caledonia classic of uh 2006 but

00:31:17.420 it has that vibe to it doesn't it it certainly does things have changed and they are different from 2006

00:31:23.580 now it's uh i think they're different protesters younger people more angry and i think when instead of

00:31:31.660 exercising their rights to protest as we all have and we all should they come they protest but they

00:31:39.180 uh they take uh equipment and they basically steal it they use it to dig up roads uh roads that you

00:31:47.740 know townspeople need just to get to a hospital or to get to get food or whatever and in the one case

00:31:54.620 where they were taking down the power grid there with the hydro pole they're setting fire to that

00:32:01.660 they're using diggers to dig up basically the road but as the hydro saying goes call before you dig

00:32:09.100 they didn't call they just kept digging they hit one of the main um gas lines uh they pull up the rail

00:32:15.340 lines they're this town it's a small town and they've we've i've asked a number of professionals in the

00:32:21.180 the construction business and that and they said it's cost it's going to cost millions of dollars

00:32:25.340 to repair the damage they've done this small a special group of people what they've done here

00:32:31.100 and this is under the who's going to pay for that we're paying for it and this is under the guise of

00:32:36.140 being land defenders i mean i'm sorry that's that's just not right there is a way to to protest and

00:32:42.060 this is not the right way the violence has come solely from the opp firing rubber bullets

00:32:49.260 and tasering our people peaceful people wait a second ma'am this was an opp cruiser that had

00:32:55.260 bricks thrown at it wasn't isn't that true you're speaking of what happened a couple of days ago

00:33:00.380 uh well i mean it's been ongoing but the thing is is that why are they here they're not wanted here

00:33:08.620 they don't need to be here we're peaceful amongst ourselves we have no problems

00:33:13.500 the history of caledonia the recent history going back to 2006 has been anything but peaceful

00:33:19.580 yeah but we're not the instigators of this violence and vandalism arson and assault or in

00:33:25.340 other words just another day in caledonia ontario last sunday we were tipped off that a potentially

00:33:31.980 ugly showdown was emerging native protesters along with their antifa and black lives matter allies 0.99

00:33:38.780 bust in from toronto of course had threatened to march past the police blockade and right into the

00:33:45.020 town the narrative was they were going to steal or destroy anything that caught their fancy but a large

00:33:51.340 police presence and several townspeople met the protesters at the barricade and the mob thankfully

00:33:57.980 changed its mind but sadly since this is caledonia don't expect peace to last here without further ado

00:34:06.460 here's what you had to say about the latest round of tensions plume tube writes i am first nations i do

00:34:14.300 not stand behind what these people are doing no one owns any of this earth all they are doing is holding

00:34:21.180 back progress for our people well plume tube you're not the only native who feels this way i would

00:34:27.260 be wrong to characterize that all of the natives on the six nations reserve are prone to violence they

00:34:34.220 want to live their lives peacefully too it would be nice if law enforcement could lay down the rule of law

00:34:40.460 to make that so mitch miller writes if trudeau can't move them off railroad tracks highly doubt he's going

00:34:46.700 to move them off the streets sadly you are right mitch miller if the ontario provincial police can't

00:34:52.380 enact the rule of law then perhaps the army would glean a better result just one hitch justin trudeau

00:34:59.980 would never sign off on that initiative scratch1234 writes these aren't even local natives these are native

00:35:08.060 antifa yes many of them are and do you think these people really want a peaceful solution no they thrive

00:35:15.900 on violence and anarchy and we should not be accommodating them michael bobcow writes return

00:35:24.380 the land to the dinosaurs now i think the toronto raptors are rich enough to buy their own land

00:35:29.900 and sid kumar writes one law for the natives and another law for us yes sadly such a two-tier way of

00:35:37.820 policing was due rigueur going back 14 years ago when dalton mcginty was premier and julian fantino was the

00:35:44.620 opp commissioner but there's been regime change since then of course and the buck stops with

00:35:50.860 premier doug ford he can't simply hold a press conference and say that what is happening in

00:35:56.220 caledonia is unacceptable of course it's unacceptable we all know that but what's really and truly

00:36:03.580 unacceptable is for the premier to not back up his words with actions and for law enforcement to

00:36:09.740 simply look the other way if this doesn't change nothing will ever improve in caledonia that's not

00:36:16.780 just unacceptable that's disgraceful well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup thanks so much

00:36:22.140 for joining us see you next week and hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night

00:36:39.740 bye

Rebel News Podcast - October 31, 2020

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