Rebel News Podcast - August 15, 2025


Trump tells Canada what to do, US targets Cdn censors, Boomers want less migration ｜ Rebel Roundtable


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 10 minutes

Words per Minute

166.65408

Word Count

11,769

Sentence Count

820

Misogynist Sentences

24

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

On this episode of the Rebel News Live Stream, host David Menzies is joined by co-host Drea Humphrey and Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, Rod Giltaka, and journalist Harrison Faulkner to discuss a wide range of topics, including: - Donald Trump's new golf club in Washington, D.C. - The U.S. State Department targeting Canada's online news outlets in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada - Sean Foyt's new concert in Detroit, Michigan, and more!


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and you have tuned into the Rebel News live stream panel discussion,
00:00:43.380 at least for the first half of the show, on this, a Friday, August 15th, 2025.
00:00:49.580 I'm David Menzies, and I'm joined by my co-host, Drea Humphrey, as well as, oh, we got some new names today,
00:00:58.340 Rod Giltaka, who is the CEO and Executive Director for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights,
00:01:07.120 a much-needed organization, in my opinion,
00:01:09.700 and always a delight to have Harrison Faulkner, a journalist here in the GTA, back to chat.
00:01:19.500 So, lady and gentlemen, welcome.
00:01:25.400 Happy to be here. Thank you.
00:01:26.940 All right. Fantastic.
00:01:29.260 Well, right off the hopper, let's go to a man who is very much in the news,
00:01:36.180 and that would be U.S. President Donald Trump.
00:01:39.680 This is a fascinating story, I find, because it is the U.S. State Department.
00:01:46.460 The U.S. State Department, not any organization in Canada,
00:01:50.000 not certainly the Canadian mainstream media,
00:01:52.480 but the U.S. State Department targeting our online news act in a human rights report.
00:02:00.700 It says it is taking aim at Canada's online news act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada,
00:02:08.880 which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian.
00:02:14.700 And, you know, I got to tell you, I'll start with you, Drea.
00:02:18.160 Just last Saturday, I went down to Detroit to cover the Sean Foyt concert.
00:02:26.860 And, you know, for those who have never been in the region,
00:02:31.280 Detroit, Michigan is but a 1.8-kilometer bridge ride away from Windsor, Ontario.
00:02:39.840 But in terms of freedom, it is night and day.
00:02:44.800 And by that, I mean, here he is in a public park in Motown,
00:02:50.380 no demonstrations, no cancel culture kooks,
00:02:55.500 no people with the mayor's office saying,
00:02:57.920 we got to revoke your permit due to safety issues.
00:03:01.900 And, I mean, it's really night and day, I think,
00:03:05.980 between what we have in Canada, increased censorship and control and cancel culture,
00:03:13.200 and what they have in America, which is the beloved First Amendment.
00:03:18.840 Your thoughts, Drea?
00:03:20.320 Well, it's funny.
00:03:21.240 I was just talking to a friend the other day from California,
00:03:24.040 who also lives here and goes back half of the year.
00:03:27.000 And he's like, you know what?
00:03:29.360 Even though California is democratic, it is like our Alberta out there.
00:03:34.320 He says it really doesn't compare.
00:03:37.080 Like, Canada is just so far off.
00:03:38.900 But moving back to Sean Foy, him himself,
00:03:41.720 he says he's performed all over the world, including Iraq.
00:03:45.560 And he said he's never faced anything like what he's experiencing,
00:03:49.580 simply from being just a social conservative Christian from the U.S.
00:03:55.280 So very embarrassing.
00:03:56.440 And another thing is he was here in 2023 and 2024.
00:03:59.960 So you're seeing that over the last year just how much this issue has gotten worse
00:04:05.140 because thousands of people saw him in Coquitlam.
00:04:07.780 I covered that with no real issue.
00:04:11.100 So it's a sign of the times for sure.
00:04:14.000 Before we move on, though, I just want to let people,
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00:05:14.700 But let's go to you, Rod.
00:05:16.120 I mentioned the First Amendment.
00:05:17.900 I'm sure you hold the Second Amendment near and dear to your heart.
00:05:22.540 When it comes to firearm ownership rights.
00:05:26.360 But tell me, you know, the word being bandied about Orwellian.
00:05:30.520 And I can hear the critics here in Canada scoff.
00:05:33.280 Oh, that's an exaggeration.
00:05:35.120 But is it really?
00:05:36.420 I mean, the way we have seen, you know, the government clamp down.
00:05:42.040 First of all, funding their favorites in the media and then declaring media non grata that are independent because, well, you're not approved media.
00:05:55.660 I'm never in 40 years of practicing journalism.
00:05:58.160 I've never heard such claptrap as approved and non-approved media by government.
00:06:03.620 Your thoughts?
00:06:05.380 Well, it's interesting that anybody would be outraged about a declaration from the U.S. about our war on information here.
00:06:14.340 And I think it's just a symptom of how far – it's really the boiling frog, right?
00:06:20.260 Canadians have become so conditioned to this.
00:06:22.840 I mean, you would think that, like, if the Trudeau government had existed, of Justin Trudeau, had existed 30 years ago and tried to pay $600 million to the media, like, that would have been the end of their administration.
00:06:35.220 But we've become so conditioned to having to be protected, you know, from information that we don't like that we'd be outraged at the reality.
00:06:44.780 Like, well, that report is real.
00:06:47.000 It makes – it's completely reasonable and it hits the mark.
00:06:49.800 And I just want to say something about the Sean Foyt thing.
00:06:52.600 I had never heard of Sean Foyt before.
00:06:55.920 Never even heard of him.
00:06:57.280 And now he's a household name.
00:06:59.080 I mean, I see him in my algorithms and on X and I'm paying attention to what he's saying.
00:07:04.680 Just – it's the Streisand effect in real time.
00:07:07.620 And so that's the optimistic commentary.
00:07:10.220 It's that they try to tar and feather this guy and it has made him famous in Canada.
00:07:17.360 So good on them.
00:07:18.760 I could have said it better myself, Rod.
00:07:20.660 And I did bring up that point to Sean.
00:07:22.640 He could barely contain his smile.
00:07:24.460 But I said, you know, you really ought to be sending a thank you card out to various governments in Canada and Antifa and the mainstream media and the Rainbow Mafia and the Islamists.
00:07:36.900 Because they – thousands and thousands of people, who knows what the number is, have made you suddenly a household name.
00:07:44.460 You're getting more donations.
00:07:45.860 You're selling more books and CDs.
00:07:48.500 It's Christmas in August.
00:07:50.500 So I think you're absolutely right.
00:07:52.260 But, you know, Harrison, tell me, especially with you being a journalist, to what Rod said earlier about the whole idea of hundreds of millions of dollars, even, you know, a decade ago, this being unthinkable in terms of journalistic organizations being paid off like that.
00:08:11.900 I can tell you, Harrison, I think I'm the only one at Rebel News who actually went to university for a journalism degree in the early 80s at Ryerson.
00:08:20.780 Not called Ryerson anymore, but that's kind of making my point about cancel culture.
00:08:25.220 But here's the deal.
00:08:26.820 Even then, the vast number of professors were left-leaning, 100%.
00:08:33.020 But they would – if they were still around today – well, let's put it this way.
00:08:38.280 Wherever they are, they're rolling in their caskets over this.
00:08:41.420 They never would have gone for this.
00:08:43.540 They used to complain about page three being sold for an advertisement because that's the second most important page after page one.
00:08:53.240 This is how far we've moved.
00:08:55.760 What say you, my friend?
00:08:56.820 Because when I look at it, how can you, without bias, cover an entity that is funding you?
00:09:07.040 Well, exactly.
00:09:07.640 And I have to say, I am a fellow alumni of the Ryerson Journalism Program.
00:09:12.140 I didn't know that, David.
00:09:13.440 A perfect example of this, of exactly what we're talking about, is in the reporting of the U.S. State Department's criticism of the Press Freedom Bill.
00:09:23.140 This is from the Canadian Press, by the way.
00:09:25.840 And this is just so bizarre to me.
00:09:28.200 The two academic – you know, the two professors which are highlighted in the article, which has been shared by CTV News, which has been shared around by all of the media that actually take government subsidies,
00:09:40.940 these professors are calling what the State Department was doing as Orwellian.
00:09:46.720 So it's like this weird backwards world we're living in.
00:09:50.760 So the media that receives the money from the government that is benefiting from these pieces of legislation, which the State Department are now criticizing as Orwellian,
00:10:03.480 are telling us that really it's the State Department that's Orwellian.
00:10:06.760 I just don't understand what's going on here, really.
00:10:08.700 But that, to me, is a perfect example of the consequence of the subsidy package, the Online News Act, all of this stuff.
00:10:18.200 And let's just also note the fact that what I find interesting in the State Department piece is that they take issue with the diversity quotas,
00:10:27.340 which are promoted in the Online News Act for these subsidy-taking news organizations.
00:10:33.480 That, of course, gets buried at the bottom of the article, but it should have been put right at the top, I think.
00:10:38.700 No, you know what? You raise a fantastic point.
00:10:41.940 And Harrison, let's be honest.
00:10:44.260 Their narrative, you know, with this Canadian press story, which I think the journalist used to be Stephen Guibault's teacher's pet back in the day, one of his favorites,
00:10:56.720 it's MAGA, you see? That's the problem.
00:11:00.040 It's not free speech. It's not First Amendment.
00:11:02.800 These are evil MAGA people behind this.
00:11:06.100 Because, you know, this is how, I guess, colonized mainstream media is in Canada right now.
00:11:13.840 Well, I just, I just, I won't be able to believe that when Canadians go on Instagram and realize that all the news is blocked,
00:11:22.180 when they go on Facebook and realize they can't access any news anymore,
00:11:25.360 I don't think that the average Canadian goes,
00:11:28.460 oh, well, this is good because this is the, this is how we fight back against MAGA forces.
00:11:33.340 I think they look at it and go, this is bizarre.
00:11:37.500 Why, what happened to my news access?
00:11:39.680 Of course, they're going to try to paint it as some sort of, you know, MAGA criticism.
00:11:44.480 And really, you've seen that in the response from the mainstream media to every piece of criticism laid out by the,
00:11:52.900 by the Donald Trump administration towards Canada.
00:11:55.480 It's a lot easier for the mainstream media and for the government to dismiss it as MAGA claims or conspiracy theories.
00:12:02.880 When, if, you know, instead of actually just looking at it and saying, well, maybe there's something here.
00:12:08.360 Like, maybe there is something about us having an open border that we should protect or we should deal with the fentanyl crisis.
00:12:14.700 It's not all just MAGA conspiracies, but it's an easy way to dismiss it all.
00:12:19.260 And I think we're going to see more of it.
00:12:21.020 You know, Drea, why don't we move from the idea of censorship with, which is odious,
00:12:26.920 to something that I find doubly egregious, and that is self-censorship.
00:12:32.020 And boy, did we see that play out on the international field the last few days,
00:12:39.080 the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF.
00:12:41.980 Well, they got into it, TIFF, didn't they?
00:12:43.520 They decided they were going to drop from its program a documentary by a Montreal filmmaker
00:12:50.940 about a grandfather in Israel that rushed to the scene to save his grandkids from the Hamas massacre.
00:12:59.400 And Drea, the most appalling thing of all, which I think is the biggest PR disaster of the year thus far,
00:13:07.460 is that TIFF said, oh, well, you know, it's a copyright issue, you see?
00:13:12.980 I mean, they didn't get the proper clearances.
00:13:15.820 We don't want to be sued by Hamas for copyright infringement.
00:13:19.420 First of all, Drea, are you buying that as the real reason this documentary got dropped?
00:13:26.460 No, of course not.
00:13:27.620 We see that all the time that this is happening.
00:13:30.000 We get told, you know, we're not being discriminatory.
00:13:33.140 This is the reason it's happening.
00:13:34.900 But again, you're pointing out the fact that they're saying,
00:13:37.520 we don't want to get sued by Hamas, a terrorist state.
00:13:40.840 It's just like, it's ridiculous.
00:13:43.420 I didn't get a chance to read it because I didn't see it on our schedule.
00:13:47.200 But it also reminds me of just, if I take it back to Sean Foyt,
00:13:52.100 I know that we already talked about it a little bit,
00:13:54.040 but we're seeing the same pattern happen there now,
00:13:56.140 where Kelowna is saying, okay, yeah, you know, he has the right to be here,
00:14:00.420 but hey, we're going to hit you with tens of thousands of dollars in security costs.
00:14:05.680 So they're deflecting over here, oh, there's a safety issue as we're seeing across Canada.
00:14:11.000 So this is just what they do to get their politically aligned ideology in place
00:14:16.600 without trying to make it look to the public like they're infringing on our rights
00:14:21.300 to have freedom of expression and have a play like this, which obviously is so important.
00:14:26.180 Yeah, and thank goodness overnight, there's a twist ending to this sordid saga.
00:14:31.640 They flip-flopped.
00:14:32.860 The documentary will be aired.
00:14:34.220 Rod, tell me, if we were to give TIF board members
00:14:39.420 and its cowardly president, Cameron Bailey, some truth serum,
00:14:44.780 I think the real reason is they were getting blowback from the pro-Hamas demonstrators
00:14:49.460 who are basically running the city for almost two years.
00:14:52.500 They can break laws with impunity.
00:14:55.220 The police do nothing.
00:14:56.940 Well, that's not true.
00:14:57.760 On cold days, they get Tim Bits and coffee delivered to them.
00:15:00.820 So I can't leave that out of the equation.
00:15:02.980 And I would say there are probably woke anti-Semites on the Toronto International Film Festival board.
00:15:11.760 And the idea of cancelling this very important documentary, they're all in on that.
00:15:20.140 What say you, my friend?
00:15:21.400 Well, I can't claim to be an expert on, you know, the conflict in the Middle East.
00:15:26.820 But I am very familiar with the media and the government giving unlimited space to one side of an issue
00:15:36.480 and then choking the other side of the issue, including doing things like this where they're like,
00:15:41.660 well, our biggest concern is copyright infringement.
00:15:44.200 Of course, it's ridiculous.
00:15:45.600 And I think for the average observer, because this whole – I've looked a lot into, obviously, this conflict,
00:15:51.500 but most people haven't and they just get fed what they see and their diet is actually just headlines and bylines, right?
00:16:02.280 Like that's all they consume.
00:16:04.160 And so they are – it's very easy to lead people.
00:16:07.160 But I would always remind people if something's being cancelled and you have some ridiculous excuse for something so – such a hot-button topic being cancelled
00:16:16.620 because of potential copyright infringements, I mean, everyone knows Hamas' legal team is extremely active and highly effective.
00:16:26.820 You know, I don't think I need to say more than that.
00:16:29.920 But people do need to look into things a little bit more.
00:16:32.540 And I'm sure everyone is sick and tired of this system lining up behind one side of a cause and basically shutting down the other side.
00:16:41.540 If there's anything that indicates that you're probably not getting the whole story, I would say that would be it.
00:16:46.140 100% Rod.
00:16:47.020 And you know, Harrison, I mean, I've reached out to lawyers.
00:16:50.000 They said that, no, this copyright excuse is bogus under fair use.
00:16:55.460 You're allowed to use that footage.
00:16:57.160 Let's not also forget that these Hamas terrorists on October 7th, 2023, they mounted GoPro cameras on their helmets.
00:17:06.900 They were filming this.
00:17:09.040 You know, they were gleefully, you know, enjoying the carnage that they were doing in this massacre.
00:17:16.620 They wanted you to share it.
00:17:18.240 They wanted to go far and wide.
00:17:19.720 And one last point, you know, Harrison, if you and I teamed up to do a World War II documentary and we came across, oh, I don't know, say footage from the Auschwitz death camp, would we need to reach out to the Nazis to get permission to include that in our documentary?
00:17:35.900 Here's what I find strange about the story, beyond the obvious that Tiff was going to try to censor this film.
00:17:45.340 This exact same thing basically happened last year with a film called Russians at War with Tiff.
00:17:52.420 So what happened was the government, and now the context is slightly different, but Tiff's response has been the same.
00:18:00.080 So the government at first told Tiff to pull the screening for this film, which was a Canadian film that received Canadian public funds, and then Tiff decided, you know what, we're going to listen to that, we're going to pull the film.
00:18:15.260 A day later, they reversed course, said they were going to screen the film.
00:18:18.960 And at these screenings, which took place conveniently right after the festival, there was a massive public protest, series of protests by pro-Ukrainian supporters saying, you cannot screen this film.
00:18:32.160 And I was there to cover it, and the protests were actually quite, you know, quite serious.
00:18:37.220 But they went ahead with the screening anyway.
00:18:41.020 That's why when Tiff said, like last week, that they weren't going to screen the film, this film, The Road Between Us, because of A, copyright reasons, which is bogus, and B, because of public pushback and concern, I thought, well, hold on, you guys already went through this last year.
00:18:58.580 So you're not going to screen this film, but you were going to screen Russians at War.
00:19:02.380 Of course, like last year, they decided to reverse course, and now they're going to screen the film.
00:19:08.820 So I just think their PR is a complete disaster.
00:19:13.060 But maybe this is all part of their plan, David.
00:19:16.140 Maybe their whole thing is, if we pull a film, and then after some criticism, we decide to show it, well, the theaters are going to be packed.
00:19:24.140 Everyone's going to want to watch it.
00:19:25.640 Maybe that's something going on, or maybe they're all just cowards.
00:19:28.180 I can't exactly figure it out.
00:19:29.420 Well, you know, to Rod's point about Sean Foyt, now suddenly no one who's ever heard of this director or his doc are well-versed on it.
00:19:39.980 I would reckon this story has received hundreds of millions of dollars of press coverage around the world.
00:19:48.240 I'm sure people are champing at the bit to actually see this doc, whereas five days ago, they never even heard about it.
00:19:55.900 So, again, the Barbara Streisand effect in full motion.
00:20:02.680 Here's – maybe we can go around the panel quickly as an epilogue to this story.
00:20:08.380 It is going to go ahead.
00:20:09.420 I understand – I'm not sure which date.
00:20:13.420 I better double-check that first.
00:20:15.280 But it will be screened.
00:20:16.900 I know as sure as there's saltwater in the Pacific Ocean, the Hamas holes, as I like to call them, will be out in full force.
00:20:26.740 And they'll try – they'll demonstrate – they'll even try to shut it down.
00:20:30.740 Mark my words.
00:20:31.940 Here is a test for the Toronto Police Service.
00:20:35.080 Is it business as usual, turning a blind eye and a deaf ear?
00:20:40.220 Or are we going to, as they say in the law enforcement business, whack them and stack them when these reprobates break the law?
00:20:49.700 First to you, Drea, does the show go on or will it eventually be scrub doo-doo, that word the left loves these days, safety reasons?
00:21:00.980 Well, immediately when you're asking that question, I can picture you being handcuffed in Toronto.
00:21:07.540 I mean, it's not funny, but, you know, you're okay now.
00:21:10.120 But, you know, when you were covering the protests out there and the double treatment we saw, and then not too long after we see Ezra getting handcuffed.
00:21:18.640 So we already know there's probably going to be some donuts served to maybe protesters, and there'll probably be that double treatment that we're used to.
00:21:26.580 And also, I just want to say that we have the Nova Scotia situation, which kind of relates to this, where nobody's allowed in the woods, and all of a sudden the Mi'kmaq is permitted to do their Shakespearean play in the woods.
00:21:38.720 I mean, you can't walk.
00:21:39.900 You can't walk your dog.
00:21:41.440 Somehow that's going to start a fire.
00:21:42.880 But an entire production, as long as it's from the First Nations, is somehow okay.
00:21:47.640 So I'm going to guess there's going to be some sort of two-tiered treatment going on.
00:21:54.280 Well, I wonder.
00:21:55.140 That's a, you know, I really do, Drea, because I think, Rod, the eyes of the world will be on this screening in Toronto.
00:22:03.740 And I think if Toronto's finest once again becomes so many dogs that don't hunt, that they don't uphold the law, it is going to be an enormous black eye.
00:22:16.660 This might be the point where law enforcement fights back, really because they have no choice.
00:22:24.360 What say you?
00:22:25.120 Well, it's just interesting to me that the decisions that government makes and policymakers make and police forces and all the rest of that stuff, it's, if you look around the world, I mean, take a look at the U.K. right now.
00:22:37.680 They've had two-tier treatment of different groups in the country for a long time, and it is at a boiling point.
00:22:43.440 So while this may be a shortcut, you might, I don't know if you call it laziness or apprehension or whatever, that might feel good in the short term, but you're creating such an enormous problem that you're going to have to deal with eventually.
00:22:56.360 You know, it's a wart that's just going to keep on growing, and now you're going to have a really big problem on your hands.
00:23:00.960 And I think Canadians in particular, certainly I am sick and tired of the, you know, the hyper-hypocritical behavior of so many different institutions.
00:23:12.220 I mean, look at where we are, right?
00:23:13.820 Institutions, confidence in institutions is at an all-time low and deservingly so.
00:23:19.200 So, you know, I think all the people that are engaging in this kind of hypocrisy are just creating such a horrible problem that it's going to be 10 times, 100 times more difficult to deal with and far more sensitive to deal with down the road.
00:23:34.220 So, yeah, let people see what they want to see.
00:23:36.720 Let filmmakers make films.
00:23:38.400 You know, give equal audience to everyone and let people figure it out.
00:23:43.720 A hundred percent, Rod.
00:23:44.940 And if you don't want to see it, don't go.
00:23:46.960 Don't tune in.
00:23:47.920 That's how it was in the old days.
00:23:49.420 Now government says, no, we're going to do the critical thinking for you and take choice away.
00:23:56.020 But, you know, Harrison, what do you make of what will happen when they screen this film?
00:24:04.400 Because I'm telling you, it's going to be all hands on deck for us to watch this.
00:24:10.780 And, you know, as Drea alluded to, just last year alone, five times I was arrested, handcuffed, thrown in a paddy wagon just for practicing journalism.
00:24:21.180 I've seen peaceful counter demonstrators get arrested for the egregious crime of, oh, I don't know, waving the Canadian flag from across the street because that further incites the mob.
00:24:37.140 I guess what I'm getting to, Harrison, who's driving this agenda and how did we get here?
00:24:42.440 Well, talk about press freedom, right?
00:24:45.980 I mean, I think you've got the perfect story when it comes to whether or not there really is press freedom in Canada.
00:24:51.900 With regards to the screening of the film, I think Tiff see this as too much of a, too big of an opportunity to make money off of this.
00:25:00.480 So they're going to have to, they're going to make this screening go ahead, no matter what.
00:25:03.820 They're going to pack out the theater and, you know, reap the benefits of their poor PR.
00:25:08.960 Maybe, like I said, maybe it was all intentional.
00:25:10.820 But when it comes to the Toronto police and so many other police forces, I think the reality is that these organizations that we all think of that are supposed to be apolitical have all been drifting towards, closer towards politicians.
00:25:28.180 Every one of these organizations is putting out these platitudes and statements to bring themselves closer to politicians and particularly on the left in Canada.
00:25:38.300 And, you know, that's what I think is happening.
00:25:41.220 I don't know if it's one person or if it's several that are driving this, but it's obvious that Canadians view these organizations, the most important being the police that are supposed to protect us, as being a political wing and less of an apolitical organization.
00:25:58.200 So it's really too bad.
00:25:59.940 I don't know.
00:26:00.660 I don't know the nucleus of it, where it started, but I think most Canadians see that we are drifting towards that two-tier policing model that we're seeing in the UK.
00:26:10.540 No, I think you nailed it, Harrison.
00:26:13.060 I mean, I once had a conversation with my friend of the Toronto Sun, Joe Warmington, and he told me about the legendary Sun columnist, Bob McDonnell.
00:26:22.360 And he said, you know, once upon a time, the police chief used to come to one council meeting a year, and that was budget day, you know, because the police have some skin of the game in terms of their budget.
00:26:34.540 And now I understand it.
00:26:35.700 They're there at every meeting.
00:26:37.420 So they have become politicized.
00:26:40.060 And I want to make one thing clear.
00:26:41.560 I think there's a lot of great men and women on the police forces.
00:26:45.860 We, even after what's happened to me, the crap I've been through, the crap I've seen others endure, we still back the blue.
00:26:54.000 Without policing, there's anarchy.
00:26:56.340 It's the rule of the jungle.
00:26:57.740 I think the problem is the brass, and it's becoming politicized, and it's being interfered with by politicians above them.
00:27:07.000 In Toronto's case, Olivia Chow.
00:27:10.060 Why don't we move on?
00:27:11.720 Because this is an interesting thing.
00:27:14.080 Drea mentioned the fire situation in Nova Scotia.
00:27:19.940 And I don't know what's in the air in Atlantic Canada, in addition to some bad smoke from those wildfires.
00:27:29.040 But we have the Newfoundland Justice Minister, John Hagee.
00:27:34.560 He was screaming.
00:27:37.360 Do we have a clip of that, Olivia?
00:27:39.340 Yeah.
00:27:40.380 Let's see what he had to say about those upset with the government's role with the wildfires.
00:27:47.380 And then he dovetailed to COVID.
00:27:51.840 Oh, boy.
00:27:52.600 I think he blew his point with that.
00:27:54.640 Let's check it out.
00:27:56.480 And for those assholes who were on the phone yesterday, talking crap to our staff, stop it.
00:28:04.320 You're the same people who trolled us during COVID.
00:28:08.840 And it was unacceptable then, and it's unacceptable now.
00:28:13.320 No, Minister Hagee.
00:28:15.440 By the way, how much screech did you have before you got on behind the mic there?
00:28:20.440 But no, it was not unacceptable then, nor unacceptable now.
00:28:24.680 You know, Drea, you mentioned what's happening in Nova Scotia.
00:28:28.500 I think of that song, if you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise.
00:28:32.740 Yeah, 28,000 in fines.
00:28:36.380 And I thought in New Brunswick, it was even worse.
00:28:40.160 The premier there said, the reason why we're banning you is that, say you break your leg,
00:28:47.480 which of course happens so frequently when people go for a hike in the woods.
00:28:52.640 All the emergency responders, all the first responders, they're completely occupied with the wildfires.
00:28:59.320 And then, as if we're not listening, she says, now, hey, folks, if you see your neighbor going into the woods,
00:29:07.440 dial this 1-800 number, and we'll have cops on them so fast it'll make, well, wait a minute.
00:29:15.100 I thought they were all busy fighting the fires.
00:29:17.340 I mean, like, how are they available for snitch line duty?
00:29:21.940 Your thoughts, Drea?
00:29:23.400 This takes us right back to 2020 when you were told, you know, don't go see your, you know,
00:29:29.140 your 80-year-old grandmother because you're going to hurt the health care system.
00:29:34.980 If you even, you celebrate a birthday party, if you go to church, all of those types of things,
00:29:40.140 you were told you're a bad person because you are going to overburden the hospitals.
00:29:45.560 And we know that that wasn't true.
00:29:46.960 It was overdoses, if anything, that were impacting the hospital.
00:29:50.580 So we're seeing this again.
00:29:51.640 And you're right, he totally blows his cover.
00:29:53.260 It is the same people.
00:29:54.500 I think there's more of us now because we don't want the same thing that's happening.
00:29:58.560 We all know that these fires are serious, that they're a threat.
00:30:01.120 But we also know that things like fishing and hiking are not what's causing the fires.
00:30:07.140 And again, if you can let a whole, you know, play take place and we see that something else
00:30:12.560 is going on here.
00:30:13.760 I shared a picture.
00:30:15.340 This is how much we are going right back to COVID.
00:30:18.360 It's just a picture of me in British Columbia where there is no band taking a picture of myself
00:30:23.380 in the woods.
00:30:25.120 You know, if you don't have it, you don't have to put it up.
00:30:27.020 But anyways, people got so mad.
00:30:29.740 I just said, this is me enjoying Crownland Woods in BC.
00:30:34.340 I wrote in BC.
00:30:35.880 And there's people, you know, most people were happy about it.
00:30:38.820 But there are people calling me selfish.
00:30:41.380 And it takes me right back to 2020.
00:30:43.320 I'm selfish in British Columbia for sitting in the forest for what's happening over there.
00:30:48.000 So they're totally drinking the Kool-Aid so fast.
00:30:50.740 And I said, you know, yeah, I'm just as selfish as I was when I wouldn't wear a mask because
00:30:54.980 I knew, A, I wasn't sick and it wasn't stopping anything.
00:30:58.360 So here we are again.
00:31:00.100 It's unbelievable.
00:31:01.000 I think, Drea, the loony left seeing that photo right now are chanting in unison, lock
00:31:06.700 her up.
00:31:07.620 Lock her up.
00:31:08.320 Oh, sure.
00:31:08.540 That's crazy.
00:31:09.800 You know, Rod, what I think if you're playing the COVID card in 2025, given that what we've
00:31:19.680 learned and continue to learn about how this was mismanaged, the fraud, the idea, oh, six
00:31:26.120 feet social distancing, we just made that up.
00:31:29.460 Masking.
00:31:30.180 Yeah, we just thought it would look good.
00:31:31.640 We know it has no effect.
00:31:33.080 And yet the justice minister is trotting out COVID as a template of how government got it
00:31:40.300 right and how dare you echo how we got it wrong then and we're getting it wrong now.
00:31:46.540 What do you make of it?
00:31:48.580 Well, of course, people in the position that he's in, they continue to just try to gaslight
00:31:52.980 people, right?
00:31:53.620 Like, I'm just going to, you know, run over you with my authority and you're going to
00:31:58.020 comply.
00:31:58.440 And if you think about it in bigger terms, it's there, there are a lot of people that
00:32:03.780 just want to comply and it's, it's just a lot easier.
00:32:07.560 They don't want to buck authority like that still works on a lot of people, but I will
00:32:10.740 say, and it's taken probably 30 years to beat Canadians down to the point where the
00:32:16.860 people that are susceptible to this kind of messaging and this kind of, this psychological
00:32:20.980 pressure, you know, it's taken them this long to, to, to get to a point where they
00:32:25.300 will accept this stuff, where you can't hike in the woods for, because danger, right?
00:32:30.680 But, and, and also further to, to what, you know, how this kind of made its way over to
00:32:35.920 COVID, COVID woke a lot of people up, you know, I mean, we all went through it, right?
00:32:40.180 We all look, we're looking around the whole time.
00:32:42.180 I think we're all sort of on the same page here during COVID and we're all kind of looking
00:32:45.400 around each other to see what we're like, how, how is this guy going to react?
00:32:49.980 How about them?
00:32:51.200 A lot of people woke up.
00:32:52.740 A lot of people are pushing back.
00:32:54.060 So that's the good news.
00:32:55.300 But COVID also broke a lot of people, like broke them permanently.
00:32:59.440 And I think in, in some areas of the country, there's almost a bit of a trend there.
00:33:03.800 It's just interesting that people are complying with this.
00:33:06.520 I mean, there, there is another answer.
00:33:08.340 The answer is, is that you make people accountable for their own actions and their impact on society.
00:33:13.560 For example, somebody goes into the woods and intentionally starts a fire, put them in jail
00:33:19.320 for 10 years, put out the fire, put them in jail for 10 years.
00:33:22.820 And you know what?
00:33:23.760 All of a sudden people won't start fires anymore.
00:33:25.820 They do it accidentally.
00:33:26.840 They report it.
00:33:27.780 They try to fight themselves, all the rest of that stuff.
00:33:29.580 Right?
00:33:30.180 So I don't know.
00:33:30.980 It's just this really interesting thing.
00:33:32.420 No one is accountable for their actions.
00:33:34.340 It's society as a whole.
00:33:35.680 But I'd like to think, again, to be the optimist, I'd like to think that people are starting
00:33:40.460 to see through this stuff.
00:33:41.640 They're seeing through it on, you know, look at the backlash from it.
00:33:44.400 Right?
00:33:44.800 Yeah.
00:33:45.200 And the Sean Foy thing, and even firearms, like all these different, different topics.
00:33:50.080 People are starting to go, you know what?
00:33:51.260 I can't trust a thing coming out of any of these people's mouths.
00:33:54.080 So there just has to be more of, of us out there.
00:33:57.140 And I would like to think that number is growing.
00:33:59.280 And eventually these institutions might turn themselves right.
00:34:02.660 Because I don't know what other answer there is.
00:34:04.800 And you know what, Rod?
00:34:06.620 And I think this is right in your wheelhouse.
00:34:09.700 The vast majority of people going into the woods.
00:34:12.620 And yeah, I agree with campfire bans, not bringing in motorized vehicles.
00:34:16.620 I agree with that.
00:34:17.700 But if you're just hiking, aren't you removing the vast majority of forest users who are ethical,
00:34:27.080 who are not breaking the law?
00:34:28.720 They'll be the eyes and the ears for the fringe arsonists that are trying to cause shenanigans.
00:34:35.940 Because it's just like illegal gun owners, isn't it, Rod?
00:34:39.960 You see, yeah, they don't have a license for that restricted weapon.
00:34:43.400 But guess what?
00:34:44.040 They're criminals.
00:34:44.820 It's in their DNA to break the law.
00:34:48.180 An arsonist looking at TV going, oh, well, what am I going to do, Both?
00:34:53.120 They've got a forest ban.
00:34:54.520 I can't go into the woods and set a fire.
00:34:56.800 Isn't that the fallacy of this ban writ large?
00:35:01.740 Well, well, it is.
00:35:03.120 And it's, and you know, there's, there's a little phenomenon here.
00:35:05.540 And I kind of see it all the time, right?
00:35:07.200 It's, it's overcorrection.
00:35:08.740 It seems like human beings are so prone to overcorrection.
00:35:12.000 It's like, well, we have a forest fire.
00:35:13.040 It's like, nobody can move.
00:35:13.760 Nobody can go in the forest, know nothing.
00:35:16.240 And it, and to be fair, it also appears on the other side where you have people that
00:35:21.340 are reasonable people.
00:35:23.280 Now they're like, okay, well, there should be no laws whatsoever.
00:35:26.020 So I think it's, if we, if we ever want to get out of the situation that I would say a
00:35:31.480 certain demographic of Canadians have put us in, we just got to remain reasonable.
00:35:35.820 And we got, we have to, we have to say, you know, just like you did just now, right?
00:35:40.120 It's like, yeah, I get it.
00:35:41.660 Sometimes sparks come out of, out of ATVs and they start fires.
00:35:46.380 Shooting in the bush when it's the dry season.
00:35:48.880 Yeah.
00:35:49.080 Sometimes that stuff starts fires.
00:35:50.460 So, you know what?
00:35:51.840 Maybe calm down on that kind of stuff.
00:35:54.140 And, and invite people to be part of the solution instead of like, okay, well, I'm going to give
00:35:59.500 you a $25,000 fine.
00:36:01.440 But if you shoot a, you know, Toronto city police officer in cold blood, you only got to
00:36:07.100 come up with 500 bucks and you're out.
00:36:08.620 Like just make it make sense, Matt.
00:36:11.180 You know, that's my, that's my message to everybody in Canada.
00:36:13.900 Make it make sense.
00:36:14.860 Well, common sense isn't that common anymore, Rod.
00:36:17.340 Harrison, I want to talk about Rod's original point and I think he nailed it.
00:36:21.080 And that is about how many people, um, some, uh, four years after, uh, COVID got into high
00:36:27.680 gear are still all about compliance.
00:36:30.960 And, you know, when I see in the summer of 2025, somebody who is by themselves,
00:36:38.620 in a vehicle wearing a mask, um, you know, I liken it to, if you see a Sikh gentleman with
00:36:46.140 a turban, if you see a Muslim lady with a hijab, if you see a Christian with a cross, those people
00:36:52.180 are saying I'm on team Sikhism, team Islam, team Christianity.
00:36:56.500 It's, it's an outward sign of where they stand.
00:37:00.460 I would say that years after those masking mandates, uh, had their extinction event, you're
00:37:07.540 still wearing a mask.
00:37:08.920 This is a political statement.
00:37:10.620 Now, this is people saying, I believe in big government.
00:37:14.760 I believe in big lockdowns.
00:37:16.780 I believe in being told what to do.
00:37:19.300 And I guess the only question is Harrison, uh, what do you reckon the percentage of Canadians
00:37:24.940 are that, you know, are still such sheep when it comes to this kind of mandate?
00:37:30.640 I, I would say that it's probably smaller than we think.
00:37:36.920 Uh, I think you and I, we live in Toronto, so there's going to be a higher percentage of them
00:37:41.900 who live in this area.
00:37:43.400 Um, but that being said, I think that the people who are of that political ideology, because it
00:37:50.540 really is its own political ideology now, I think that has been, that has come about,
00:37:55.140 uh, with some mental, I, I, I'm, I'm sorry to say it, but I think it's a mental illness and I feel
00:38:00.760 really bad for people, um, who, who, no, I think, you know, it's, it, it is this, it's from, it's this
00:38:07.640 fear of germs, of getting sick.
00:38:10.860 And it has come about because of what was said to them in the media during COVID.
00:38:15.060 And I do, I genuinely feel bad for them.
00:38:17.240 And I try my best not to judge people who are, you know, wearing gloves or wearing masks,
00:38:23.520 double masking in a car, that sort of thing.
00:38:26.500 Um, and it's not meant to be a genuinely, I'm not trying to be rude here.
00:38:29.740 I'm just trying to be as honest as I can be with the wildfires and the forest bands.
00:38:36.500 I don't want to hear from any other person again, that these forest fires are the cause
00:38:42.340 of climate change because these rules, in my opinion, uh, dispel that narrative entirely.
00:38:48.520 The Nova Scotia government data proves that arson is the main reason for, uh, forest fires
00:38:54.700 in the province.
00:38:55.540 I'm sure that Nova Scotia is not an outlier when it comes to forest fires in the Maritimes,
00:39:00.700 that arson is the leading cause for these fires.
00:39:03.860 Now, I also think that these rules have come about a, because it is a simple and easy policy
00:39:11.120 prescription.
00:39:12.280 Uh, and it's easy for these people in charge for bureaucrats, premiers, uh, and ministers.
00:39:17.520 Instead of actually doing the hard work, they can just say, well, no one's going to go into
00:39:21.740 the forest there.
00:39:22.780 That's a rule.
00:39:23.620 And that's going to make it easy for us.
00:39:25.240 The second is that we're living in a low trust society.
00:39:27.760 Now we never used to have to have these issues.
00:39:30.700 We didn't have people in a large enough quantity going around and lighting the forest on fire
00:39:36.120 in a drought season, but we do now.
00:39:38.760 Why do we have that?
00:39:39.700 Well, I think that's what we should be looking into.
00:39:41.640 This is what I think is the result of living in a, in a low trust society where the government
00:39:47.380 does not trust the citizenry to behave properly, which is wrong.
00:39:52.400 Uh, but there's, there might be something to that.
00:39:55.200 And also it's just quick and easy for these politicians to make a blanket ban and not actually
00:40:01.880 have to do any hard work.
00:40:02.960 And, you know, Harrison, I think that's an excellent point because I think what we saw
00:40:06.980 during COVID is governments of every level of every political stripe, they got addicted
00:40:14.620 to the power.
00:40:16.220 It's the ultimate elixir.
00:40:17.900 I mean, they were, we're telling people to wear masks.
00:40:20.060 They're wearing masks.
00:40:20.840 We're telling them to shut down their mom, pop businesses.
00:40:23.560 They're shutting down their mom, pop businesses.
00:40:25.480 We're telling them to stay inside and not have a Christmas party.
00:40:28.660 They're doing it.
00:40:29.520 They couldn't believe the compliance and it got very addictive.
00:40:34.420 And I think there are politicians that long for what they would think is the good old days.
00:40:39.360 One last thing, uh, before we wrap things up here, uh, in terms of your point of mental
00:40:44.360 illness, uh, Harrison, uh, I'll give you my best masking anecdote.
00:40:49.880 And I'm so full of regret.
00:40:52.560 I didn't have time to get out of my car and take a picture or shoot a video.
00:40:56.440 I was already late for an assignment.
00:40:58.040 It was on Yonge street, North of Finch.
00:41:01.140 There was a guy waiting for the bus.
00:41:03.280 He had his mask on.
00:41:05.700 He had cut a slit through his mask so that he could smoke a cigarette.
00:41:10.620 So he is ingesting a car city agent and, and in the process, making them the mask ostensibly
00:41:19.680 useless because, uh, it's being ruptured.
00:41:22.360 Uh, yet somehow he thinks this is going to prevent, uh, protect them from the COVID cooties.
00:41:28.920 Unbelievable.
00:41:29.960 You know what folks, it's, uh, past the halfway mark, but before we, uh, bid adieu, uh, let's
00:41:35.520 find out where, uh, we can, uh, see and hear and read you.
00:41:39.720 I see Rod, the logo for CCFR radio.
00:41:44.020 Uh, what's all that about and, and how do people, uh, follow up with your messaging?
00:41:49.380 Well, we have a bi-weekly podcast, uh, on YouTube and all the other, uh, social media platforms.
00:41:54.620 We also have a nationally broadcast television show, uh, on wild TV, uh, as well.
00:41:59.780 So you can find us, uh, on the socials or on network television.
00:42:04.040 Fantastic.
00:42:04.940 And I think you do great work, Rod.
00:42:07.000 So thank you so much, uh, for coming on and, uh, Harrison, uh, where can our viewers find
00:42:13.360 your work?
00:42:14.420 You can find my work on YouTube by searching up my name, Harrison Faulkner, the channel
00:42:19.320 will show up.
00:42:20.240 You'll see some interviews, some, uh, ground reporting with a mix of public opinion and
00:42:26.880 expert analysis weaved into it all.
00:42:28.980 Fantastic.
00:42:29.780 And I had no idea you were a Ryerson grad as well.
00:42:32.100 Why don't we get together and, uh, you know, plan a caper one day, go back on campus and
00:42:37.880 put the statue of Egerton Ryerson back up just to drive the woke mob.
00:42:43.920 Absolutely.
00:42:45.040 Now that would be some great content, David.
00:42:47.900 That might be a hate crime in Mark Carney's Canada now.
00:42:51.160 Who knows?
00:42:51.900 Well, anyways, uh, Rod, uh, Harrison, have a great weekend.
00:42:55.640 I hope you'll come back on the show in the near future.
00:42:57.960 Thank you so much.
00:42:59.800 Anytime.
00:43:00.340 Thank you.
00:43:00.940 Thank you.
00:43:02.800 Well, Drea, that was, uh, I can't believe how fast, uh, more than a half hour went by.
00:43:08.260 I think we're overdue for an ad break and then we'll, uh, take it up on the other side.
00:43:13.120 Oh, look at this boomers want less immigration elbows up.
00:43:43.120 Thank you.
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00:44:55.600 Okay, Drea, I beg of you, educate me,
00:44:59.360 because I'm looking at this headline.
00:45:01.420 A new poll reveals that older Canadians,
00:45:04.060 aka the boomers,
00:45:05.820 want fewer legal immigrants to relocate to Canada.
00:45:10.520 The man with the immigration plan
00:45:13.460 that he often cited on the campaign trail
00:45:16.340 was Pierre Polyev.
00:45:18.300 He was the only one addressing this issue
00:45:20.780 of the major parties.
00:45:22.420 But the boomers, we understand,
00:45:26.060 went with the globalist Mark Carney.
00:45:28.920 I mean, I wonder how many read his book, Values.
00:45:31.420 Maybe that might explain why I think
00:45:34.340 so many of them are having buyer's remorse.
00:45:36.960 But Drea, the election was just like three months ago.
00:45:40.320 Like, this does not compute for me.
00:45:44.260 Can you explain this?
00:45:45.280 Well, absolutely.
00:45:47.900 I mean, who voted for Carney?
00:45:50.940 You know, I got to be respectful of my elders,
00:45:53.960 but what the heck is going on?
00:45:56.440 They voted for Carney.
00:45:58.180 This was a huge issue.
00:46:00.340 And you're right, Carney didn't really make it an issue of such.
00:46:04.000 But just to read some of the stats
00:46:05.820 from the actual poll itself done by Research Co.,
00:46:10.360 it says 43% of Canadians believe immigration
00:46:13.140 is having a mostly positive effect.
00:46:16.000 So still a big chunk of us are supportive of it.
00:46:19.440 A smaller portion of Canadians, 39%,
00:46:21.740 think immigration is having a mostly negative effect
00:46:24.880 on the country.
00:46:26.340 So a lot of that I blame is just information.
00:46:29.340 It's where people are getting their information from.
00:46:31.420 A lot of people are totally in the dark
00:46:33.280 of just how much this is not a feasible plan,
00:46:36.740 the way that we're moving forward.
00:46:37.960 And then it says that, I like this, it's interesting,
00:46:42.100 it's break down by the parties among Canadians
00:46:44.140 who voted in the federal election for the NDP.
00:46:46.640 59% NDP or the Liberal Party, 55% believe immigration
00:46:53.300 is having a positive effect on Canada.
00:46:55.540 So within the Liberals, within Carney's party,
00:46:58.620 those voters, it's only 55% that believe
00:47:03.000 that it's having a positive effect.
00:47:05.440 So that seems like, you know, the election
00:47:07.780 wasn't that long ago, what the heck?
00:47:10.580 100%.
00:47:11.060 And you know what?
00:47:11.860 I find incredible, Drea, because I've met these people,
00:47:15.820 people who have immigrated to Canada legally
00:47:18.580 years or even decades ago,
00:47:20.720 and they're against mass migration,
00:47:23.700 even from people from their old homelands.
00:47:26.380 So let's not put this through the prism of,
00:47:30.680 you know, this is some kind of a racist,
00:47:34.180 you know, mandate, because it's not.
00:47:38.860 And by the way, Drea, just to add more confusion to this,
00:47:42.300 because certainly whoever these older Canadians are,
00:47:46.020 we want less immigration, but yeah,
00:47:47.900 we're voting for Mark Carney.
00:47:49.300 That's even going to bring in Gazans to Canada.
00:47:52.980 That doesn't compute.
00:47:54.520 And yet, what have we seen in the 100 plus days
00:47:58.560 since Carney was elected?
00:48:01.640 Nothing.
00:48:03.160 Oh yeah, he's going to recognize Palestinian statehood,
00:48:06.140 something he announced right on the tariff deadline date
00:48:09.920 pre-August 1, which he knew would enrage the president.
00:48:14.800 And I think that was his agenda all along.
00:48:18.320 I think Brookfield Asset Management is running the country.
00:48:22.640 I know Carney, most of his assets are US-based,
00:48:26.580 the lion's share.
00:48:27.600 So when the US does well, Carney does well.
00:48:30.000 I really believe that's what's going on
00:48:32.180 because nothing else makes sense.
00:48:33.460 But the point is, in more than 100 days,
00:48:36.060 he has done less than nothing.
00:48:40.100 And yet, a poll came out last week
00:48:42.440 showing that his approval rating since April
00:48:46.480 had only dipped 2%
00:48:49.620 and his disapproval rating is just 27%,
00:48:54.340 which most politicians, if they had the offer,
00:48:58.220 they'll go, yeah, I'll take that number.
00:48:59.840 That's no problem.
00:49:01.180 Again, Drea, I mean,
00:49:02.880 we keep hearing endless stories
00:49:06.120 of people that are saying,
00:49:10.180 I've got buyer's remorse.
00:49:13.320 You know, Carney seemed like a good idea at the time.
00:49:16.060 And yet, the polls don't really reflect that.
00:49:19.200 Just a 2% dip.
00:49:20.560 Again, educate me
00:49:22.280 because I feel like that little bear
00:49:25.500 with very little brain in its head.
00:49:28.980 Well, you forgot to mention something very important
00:49:32.080 that Mark Carney had time to do,
00:49:33.560 which was, of course, March in the Pride Parade
00:49:35.860 in Vancouver
00:49:36.400 and had, you know, men in pink g-strings.
00:49:40.440 I mean, that was just top priority.
00:49:42.740 But I think that this boils down
00:49:45.080 to the power of identity politics.
00:49:47.060 And in this case, it's the war against Trumpism,
00:49:50.340 the war against MAGA.
00:49:51.920 And so you have people who voted
00:49:53.560 because they felt like somehow
00:49:55.340 they're voting against Trump,
00:49:56.820 who, of course, remains the president
00:49:58.160 and keeps, you know, extending his power.
00:50:01.760 So people are still on that team.
00:50:05.040 And I think they don't see the connection to Carney
00:50:09.440 when it comes to issues that are right here in Canada
00:50:11.900 that are affecting us and everything, every aspect.
00:50:15.240 And you talk about people
00:50:16.040 who were immigrants themselves that come here
00:50:18.400 and you're absolutely right.
00:50:19.360 I've spoken to many of them
00:50:20.480 and they are not just happy
00:50:22.620 with how many people are coming.
00:50:24.180 They're not happy
00:50:24.940 with how we are incentivizing people to coming
00:50:27.660 and all of the resources that we're using.
00:50:30.200 And they love telling their stories
00:50:32.160 about how they worked so hard
00:50:34.120 and how they saved so much money
00:50:35.580 and how they paid our country so much money
00:50:37.840 to be here, to start businesses, to operate here.
00:50:41.100 You know, they had two,
00:50:42.160 back when we had the $2 bill or whatever,
00:50:44.280 that's all they had left.
00:50:45.480 And so they're looking at like this,
00:50:46.940 this new wave coming and saying,
00:50:48.600 what the heck is going on?
00:50:49.980 And they're feeling cheated out as well.
00:50:52.760 And, you know, Drea,
00:50:54.800 something you said right off the top,
00:50:56.780 because I'm trying to understand
00:50:58.940 the lay of the land in Canada,
00:51:00.560 whether we've gone too far,
00:51:02.640 there's no coming back.
00:51:03.880 And that was Carnial March in the Pride Parade.
00:51:08.820 He'll get huggy with a guy that,
00:51:13.160 well, as always, shouldn't be wearing a thong,
00:51:15.880 but is wearing a thong.
00:51:17.760 Does that add to a higher or lower approval rating?
00:51:23.940 I would say definitely lower.
00:51:26.820 You know, I made a joke,
00:51:28.120 like I'm so glad we have a leader
00:51:29.700 who's going to be taken seriously now.
00:51:31.700 And what other leaders?
00:51:32.540 We now have two leaders.
00:51:34.340 It's because Trudeau did something very similar
00:51:36.560 with a very young looking, topless woman.
00:51:40.760 Hopefully she was an adult, I'm not sure.
00:51:43.160 But we now have two leaders back to back
00:51:46.460 that think this is professional,
00:51:48.220 think this is okay.
00:51:49.120 You can't even do something like that
00:51:51.080 on the average job.
00:51:52.240 You can't even be like a grocery store attendant.
00:51:54.600 If somebody walked into the grocery store like that,
00:51:56.480 you'd have to kick them out.
00:51:57.800 You'd have to maintain professionalism.
00:52:00.140 And here we have Mark Carney
00:52:01.540 just beaming from ear to ear,
00:52:04.280 hugging a nearly naked man in a G-string.
00:52:07.040 That is Canada.
00:52:08.580 That is the image.
00:52:09.780 That is how seriously we are going to be taken
00:52:11.840 on the international stage.
00:52:13.660 Well, I think the liberals think
00:52:15.060 it obviously works for them in terms of good PR.
00:52:17.600 Trudeau never met a pride parade he didn't want to go to.
00:52:22.920 And to your other point, Trudeau, yeah,
00:52:25.060 he's always got a thing for a young woman, doesn't he?
00:52:28.560 I mean, right now the rumor mill tongues are wagging
00:52:31.400 about him as an item with Katy Perry.
00:52:35.000 At least she's of the age of consent last time.
00:52:38.840 I don't know.
00:52:39.660 You think Katy Perry could do better?
00:52:41.420 I mean, like behind closed doors, Drea,
00:52:43.980 what is that relationship like?
00:52:46.260 Is it a firework or is it, oh, I don't know,
00:52:50.440 the one that got away,
00:52:51.960 a somebody done somebody wrong song?
00:52:54.700 What do you think?
00:52:55.820 I think that I am not mentally capable
00:52:59.120 of going behind closed doors in that relationship.
00:53:03.120 I'm going to just, I don't even want to think about it.
00:53:05.900 Somebody needs to tell her, maybe she knows.
00:53:07.560 You know, I'm, I'm, I no longer really like Hollywood
00:53:12.440 or music or stuff like that.
00:53:14.340 So maybe it's a fitting.
00:53:16.240 Maybe they belong together.
00:53:17.600 You got it.
00:53:18.880 Well, speaking of the LGBTQIIAPDD plus community,
00:53:27.180 by the way, that's how the Elementary Teachers
00:53:28.920 Federation of Ontario want you to refer.
00:53:32.860 Can we just call it the queer community?
00:53:34.800 And I'm not being derogatory because I know people-
00:53:37.540 Yes, they don't like it.
00:53:39.100 The LGBs don't like when you call them queers.
00:53:42.120 Oh, well then I'm lost.
00:53:43.420 I, you know.
00:53:44.080 Some of them, many of them.
00:53:45.760 Let's have a contest.
00:53:47.060 Think of something that is under a 15 letter initial gram
00:53:51.120 to describe that community.
00:53:53.160 And there's a steak dinner in it for you.
00:53:55.560 Why don't we throw to Alex Zoltan?
00:53:58.300 He's got a video.
00:54:00.440 It has an LGBT theme to it.
00:54:04.300 And it's right in your backyard in Vancouver.
00:54:08.480 I don't know if this is a prank or if this is real,
00:54:12.980 but why don't we roll it?
00:54:14.500 And I got to hear what you have to say about this whopper, Drea.
00:54:17.560 And just warning, the R word is said there.
00:54:19.940 So I just want to make sure we know, you know,
00:54:22.420 we don't condone that word.
00:54:23.820 But yeah, you guys got to watch this.
00:54:25.500 Hi, everybody.
00:54:27.880 I'm at the Bastet BBQ right now.
00:54:30.560 All my friends are in there.
00:54:32.700 But I guess supposedly since I have wool in my hair,
00:54:36.080 I'm not allowed in.
00:54:37.920 And there's a big voucher thing that they want me to lead and sign
00:54:41.400 and they want to give me, they want to refund my money
00:54:44.260 and not let me in.
00:54:45.340 And I just paid 60 bucks and drove all the way from New West.
00:54:48.800 And I also just drove all the way here from Headley
00:54:51.640 so that I could be here last night and got home at 4 o'clock in the morning.
00:54:55.980 And now I can't get in because of my hair.
00:54:59.380 It was included in when you bought your ticket.
00:55:01.840 It was included, our book report page was included
00:55:05.420 when you bought your ticket when you like in the description of the event.
00:55:09.220 So it is something that was put out ahead of time.
00:55:13.460 And so I apologize.
00:55:15.420 I don't really understand.
00:55:16.720 So you're not letting me in because of my hair.
00:55:19.480 Correct.
00:55:19.760 Yeah, if it doesn't align with a culture that...
00:55:23.620 I am Viking.
00:55:25.800 Vikings have dreads.
00:55:27.300 If you want me to go debate everybody in there
00:55:29.660 on whether or not the Vikings or autistic people
00:55:32.180 can have dreadlocks in their hair, I will do it.
00:55:35.540 I will be careful and freaking system.
00:55:37.260 I'm not here to debate.
00:55:38.240 Yeah, but this is retarded.
00:55:39.400 I just drove five hours to get here.
00:55:41.360 Also, like, even that, like, I don't want news in the venue as well.
00:55:45.500 Oh my gosh.
00:55:45.760 So it's like, we're having a couple of different incidents here.
00:55:48.600 Like, this is my buddy right here.
00:55:52.300 And we're also having an issue with, like...
00:55:54.220 Okay.
00:55:55.000 I can't get...
00:55:55.800 Jarek, they won't...
00:55:58.140 I'm filming right now, but they won't let me in because I have dreadlocks.
00:56:01.460 They won't?
00:56:01.900 They won't let me in because I have dreadlocks.
00:56:04.040 Gee, Drea, thank goodness I wasn't there wearing my predator getup
00:56:10.460 that I bring out on Halloween.
00:56:12.440 But you know what?
00:56:13.120 I want to hear what you have to say.
00:56:14.260 But here's my take watching that little discourse.
00:56:16.980 This LGBT, et cetera, et cetera, community for decades, and sometimes with reason when it
00:56:24.640 came to discrimination in terms of getting housing or employment, they've asked for more
00:56:31.160 understanding, more tolerance, more acceptance.
00:56:36.120 And I think those battles have been fought and won.
00:56:39.340 But now what I see from that community, from the radicals in it, Drea, is this is the most
00:56:44.920 intolerant community that you'll ever come across.
00:56:50.440 Um, these, uh, little Gestapo agents telling that woman who I thought looked, uh, very fetching
00:56:58.440 with that hair.
00:56:59.300 I wouldn't even think of, I mean, I, I don't know anything about, you know, hair and wigs
00:57:04.320 and extensions, but the idea that this is verboten and these are people, let's not forget
00:57:13.040 when they have these pride events, break the law by marching in, uh, public in front of
00:57:19.600 children, full nudity.
00:57:22.580 This is insane, Drea.
00:57:25.320 Well, you know, I was so shocked on so many levels.
00:57:28.360 Again, that's Alex Oten who shared it.
00:57:30.420 I need to try to find this woman because I'd love to interview her.
00:57:33.400 And like you said, it's in Vancouver, although she drove from hours to get there to be told
00:57:36.900 that her braid and her hair, she can't get into it.
00:57:40.060 And, uh, they said that it goes against their, that's Basta barbecue in Vancouver.
00:57:45.400 I had never actually heard of that place until now as well.
00:57:47.940 Uh, so it goes against their culture appropriation, cultural appropriation policy that they're
00:57:53.240 literally handing out.
00:57:54.580 And they're just, this is another example of when, you know, you talk about Newfoundland
00:57:58.260 or in the power and how they seize it so quickly.
00:58:00.900 This is what this is.
00:58:02.000 This community has been allowed to get away with so much.
00:58:06.560 So canceling people anytime that they say something that they disagree with.
00:58:10.780 And now you have them just jumping on that, just waiting for someone to come in appropriating
00:58:15.720 and do this to this poor woman.
00:58:17.600 And of course, as she gets frustrated, she eventually, you know, says a word that some
00:58:22.040 people are offended by, but that's because of the position they put her in too.
00:58:25.700 And then they're like, okay, now you can't come in.
00:58:28.480 Um, but also I was shocked to find out that there's other companies that have these same
00:58:33.740 types of policies.
00:58:35.120 Um, probably one of the most well-known companies is Nordstrom where they're actually saying that
00:58:40.320 you can't do this stuff.
00:58:41.140 I thought this is a human rights violation, like for sure, when I saw it, now I have to
00:58:45.680 do more research.
00:58:46.460 Are people literally allowed to say that if you come in, um, you know, dressed as a pirate
00:58:51.420 from Pirates of the Caribbean, you're not allowed to come in and, and have fun at, you know,
00:58:57.140 whatever.
00:58:57.940 So this is another example of the left eating its own.
00:59:01.960 They love to do this.
00:59:03.240 Yeah.
00:59:03.420 And I think you've given me some insight as to why Nordstrom went out of business last
00:59:07.260 year in Canada, maybe, but, um, cultural appropriation, maybe just, maybe this is cultural
00:59:14.840 appreciation.
00:59:16.340 I, I don't know this lady.
00:59:18.540 I don't know what her mandate is, but I would bet my life.
00:59:21.480 She isn't there to mock people with that hairdo.
00:59:25.860 And you know, Drea, I'm of Scottish heritage.
00:59:28.480 If somebody wanted to wear a kilt, good on you.
00:59:32.340 I mean, in fact, Idi Amin, uh, when he ruled Uganda, he dressed his troops in kilts.
00:59:38.940 For some reason, he became obsessed with Scottish culture.
00:59:41.780 Hey, listen, you want to march in the Ugandan jungle wearing wool?
00:59:46.660 You're a better man than I, I can't handle that, that heat.
00:59:50.660 But why do we use that term cultural appropriation?
00:59:55.660 I don't believe for a second that woman is trying to, uh, you know, uh, take over somebody's
01:00:02.460 culture or to mock a culture.
01:00:04.700 I think she dressed like that because she thinks she looks nice.
01:00:08.380 And I think she looks nice.
01:00:10.700 Where's the problem?
01:00:11.920 It looked great.
01:00:13.020 And, you know, just yesterday I spoke at the, uh, George Jonas awards for the JCCF.
01:00:17.820 And my topic was actually on the culture war against white people.
01:00:20.720 So when you ask, why is this happening?
01:00:22.520 I ask who's making it happen.
01:00:24.420 And predominantly, it's actually white people implementing these policies and attacking each
01:00:29.200 other over, which is the most bizarre part about it.
01:00:31.920 It's not usually, and of course, there's some, um, that want to capitalize off of, uh, again,
01:00:37.200 the power they get from it.
01:00:38.240 But it's usually white liberals pushing this stuff or white socialists, Marxists, whatever
01:00:44.200 you have it, eating their own.
01:00:46.480 And you're right.
01:00:47.260 This is about the intent behind that is clearly that she thought her hair looked better that
01:00:51.360 way.
01:00:51.520 She mentions coming from far in the best part of that video.
01:00:53.980 I think it's eight minutes long, but there's a part where she goes, well, can I at least
01:00:57.980 speak to your manager?
01:00:58.900 And they're like, you already spoke to our manager with the purple hair.
01:01:01.920 It's just like, it's just like, oh my gosh.
01:01:05.380 But I, I just want to mention, I don't have a video clip for it, but I saw this skit of this
01:01:09.880 man who dressed up in total traditional Mexican garb.
01:01:14.160 And he walked around in the U S and in sort of a non Spanish community and asked, and people
01:01:20.540 were so offended, predominantly white people were saying, oh, this is so wrong.
01:01:23.540 You shouldn't do that.
01:01:24.340 And this is, then he walked down the street.
01:01:26.820 That is, I guess, the Spanish community.
01:01:28.600 And they loved it.
01:01:29.960 They were high fiving him.
01:01:31.300 They were hugging him.
01:01:32.420 And again, it's about the intent and it's just, it's so disgusting to see this.
01:01:37.580 So I'd like to cover this story in more in depth.
01:01:40.180 If you're watching and that was you in the video, please get ahold of me at Drea at rebelnews.com.
01:01:44.260 I'm looking for you.
01:01:45.140 I would love to see that interview.
01:01:46.760 And one last point on so-called cultural appropriation.
01:01:50.140 Drea, what are the rules?
01:01:51.400 How far do we take it?
01:01:52.660 For example, the Wright brothers were first in flight as the license plates say, hailing their
01:02:00.880 achievement down South.
01:02:03.340 Does that mean that non-whites are not allowed to get on airplanes because that's cultural
01:02:11.460 appropriation?
01:02:12.440 I know it sounds ridiculous, but so is this.
01:02:15.400 It's so, like, it all just makes no sense to me.
01:02:18.900 And if you flipped it, like, if you flipped it over and, you know, a Black woman's walking
01:02:24.760 in who straightened her hair, can you imagine?
01:02:28.340 Like, it's never going to happen.
01:02:29.820 They're not going to say you can't come in because you straightened your hair.
01:02:32.260 And your hair, you know, you're appropriating.
01:02:34.020 Or maybe you're wearing a wig that's blonde or something.
01:02:36.860 Like, this is, Black women do that all the time.
01:02:39.580 So it's just, enough is enough.
01:02:42.660 People need to just stand for what is accurate.
01:02:45.840 And I think the silent majority of white people who know this is insane.
01:02:49.120 You guys need to start speaking up.
01:02:50.780 You need to remind people that it's not racist to just wear something you want to wear.
01:02:54.400 You need to speak to these issues because otherwise you're being represented by people like this
01:03:00.740 and policies like this.
01:03:02.200 You know what, Drea?
01:03:03.280 You raise a fantastic point.
01:03:05.120 And I wish that lady had told those thugs on guard duty.
01:03:10.060 I wish she had asked her, what if a Black lady with naturally curly hair straightened it?
01:03:16.560 Would she be banned for the same reasons you're banning me?
01:03:22.440 I think it would be a matter of cat got your tongue.
01:03:25.640 Of course it would be a double standard.
01:03:27.520 I'm absolutely certain of that.
01:03:29.560 And then one more thing.
01:03:30.680 They give her back because she's like, eventually she can have my money.
01:03:34.280 And they give her back $60.
01:03:35.880 And she goes, well, I paid more because I had to pay, I guess, a deposit or something.
01:03:39.640 I don't know.
01:03:40.380 And so you actually owe me more than $60.
01:03:42.220 And they're like, well, you were supposed to do the return online.
01:03:44.400 So we're just doing our best here.
01:03:46.260 They didn't even give her the amount of money she paid.
01:03:48.600 Like, it's just insane.
01:03:50.220 No, that's appropriation.
01:03:52.240 Financial appropriation.
01:03:54.260 Unbelievable.
01:03:55.560 Drea, we're rapidly running out of time.
01:03:57.740 The one last item that we flagged for the live stream.
01:04:03.580 We have a video.
01:04:04.860 U.S. President Donald Trump says, Canada does what we tell them to do.
01:04:10.380 You know what?
01:04:10.960 I don't see a downside there, actually.
01:04:14.400 Let's check this out.
01:04:18.040 Drug addicts, gang members, drug dealers by the thousands and thousands, 11,888 murderers,
01:04:28.340 half of whom committed more than one murder.
01:04:32.220 They flowed into our country.
01:04:34.440 And for the last three months, we had none.
01:04:36.440 And I didn't get, remember when Joe Biden used to always go, I need legislation.
01:04:40.380 I need, I had no legislation.
01:04:41.860 I just said, we're closing the borders.
01:04:43.500 And the whole world understood it because they respect your country again.
01:04:47.000 They really respect this country again.
01:04:49.300 They didn't respect it.
01:04:50.220 When he said it, it didn't mean anything.
01:04:52.320 But now they know it meant a lot.
01:04:54.460 And Mexico does what we tell them to do.
01:04:57.760 And Canada does what we tell them to do because we had the two borders.
01:05:00.860 We have the northern border, southern border.
01:05:03.180 And they were both horrible.
01:05:04.980 But now it's, it's, some people say it's a miracle.
01:05:08.320 So, yeah, but you know, here's the deal, Drea, Mexico actually has a trade deal in place with the U.S.
01:05:18.020 We don't.
01:05:19.800 And I'm sick and tired of the carny apologist saying, how can we deal with that maniacal big bad orange man?
01:05:27.300 He's unhinged.
01:05:28.120 He changes his opinions on an hourly basis.
01:05:30.580 Well, you know what?
01:05:31.640 Dozens and dozens of countries have found a way to deal with them.
01:05:34.680 They've all got trade deals in place.
01:05:36.680 How, I thought, wasn't that the ostensible policy reason of electing this wheeler, dealer, banking governor of two nations?
01:05:46.560 He meant business.
01:05:48.180 Well, so far, it looks like an extended vacation.
01:05:51.420 I mean, it's not elbows up, it's knees down.
01:05:55.160 Can you make sense of this for me?
01:05:57.360 Well, Mexico immediately, I don't want to say fell in line, but they were willing to openly work and come towards a plan.
01:06:03.780 And they worked on their plan when it was about tidying the borders.
01:06:06.760 And you're right, these other jurisdictions have done the same.
01:06:09.460 When he says Canada does what we tell them to, it's like, do we?
01:06:13.140 We do eventually.
01:06:14.680 But, you know, we're a little slow at the game.
01:06:17.140 And we don't have the put the citizens first mentality when they talk about elbows up, elbows up so you can punch yourself in the face more easily because it should be Canada first.
01:06:29.360 That's what it actually should be.
01:06:30.660 And if you do that, it doesn't matter if you like your neighboring president.
01:06:34.280 It's not about how much you like him.
01:06:36.040 It's about doing what's best for Canadians.
01:06:38.440 And we are so reluctant to do that, that eventually we do fall in line, it seems, but we suffer more than we need to in the process.
01:06:45.940 And, you know, I think, Dre, on the foreign policy front, once again, like Trump 1.0, peace is breaking out all over the planet.
01:06:54.300 Just last week, a deal with Azerbaijan and the Armenians ending a decades-long conflict.
01:07:04.640 And as we speak, in the hours ahead, I believe, in Alaska, Trump will be meeting with Putin.
01:07:14.220 And my personal feeling on that, this is not going to go well for Ukraine.
01:07:20.840 Zelensky is not at the table.
01:07:23.060 I think the, you know, and who knows what's going to happen.
01:07:26.680 But I think Ukraine, as Trump told Zelensky many months ago, you don't have any cards.
01:07:34.940 I think Trump will work a deal, perhaps, with Putin and say to Zelensky, take it.
01:07:43.040 And believe me, as I understand, Ukrainians have really soured on Zelensky.
01:07:49.940 I heard one Ukrainian say if he was on fire, I wouldn't even piss on him to put it out.
01:07:55.100 They're tired of the carnage, the destruction, this war that's been going on, never-ending for years.
01:08:02.180 So I think this is very important, what might come of this.
01:08:06.920 Yeah, well, we've got to watch closely, and hopefully it works out for us.
01:08:12.560 Unless, of course, at the last minute, the summit is cancelled between Trump and the Russian president.
01:08:21.000 You know, it's Kaputin.
01:08:23.660 Anyway.
01:08:24.500 You just spit away for that one.
01:08:28.300 I apologize for that.
01:08:29.300 We've got to get in there, that's all.
01:08:31.260 We just.
01:08:32.220 Well, you know, and I've got to tell you.
01:08:33.720 We're going to have the last, what do they call that?
01:08:35.240 You love sports, like the last pick.
01:08:37.580 That's what Canada is getting, it almost seems like.
01:08:40.100 The last draft or something.
01:08:42.280 Oh, yeah, like when you're picking players.
01:08:44.960 Yeah.
01:08:45.060 You're getting the last deal, the leftovers.
01:08:49.180 And you know, I wonder if Trump will make a cheeky joke, because the U.S. purchased Alaska in 1867, and later, 1959, I believe, it became a full state.
01:09:05.520 But anyways, 1867, something rings a bell about that year.
01:09:11.140 I wonder if Trump will go with the 51st state analogy yet again, given the date of Alaska being purchased, and of course, our dominion being founded on July 1st.
01:09:24.960 Drea, do we have any chats?
01:09:27.960 Sadly, no.
01:09:29.340 Oh, what happened?
01:09:30.040 That's literally what our production team said.
01:09:33.060 Unbelievable.
01:09:33.840 Well, to use another sports.
01:09:34.820 I don't know.
01:09:36.060 Well, to use another sports analogy, it's a shutout.
01:09:39.020 Being an old goaltender, I'd love shutouts, but not this kind of a shutout.
01:09:44.200 Yeah.
01:09:44.920 Maybe people are enjoying what's left of summer.
01:09:48.060 So, Drea, thank you so much for your co-hosting ability, and thank you to our audience for tuning in.
01:09:56.380 I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
01:09:58.680 I will be back next Friday.
01:10:00.860 I can't come on Monday.
01:10:02.320 I've got some court matters to attend to.
01:10:05.020 Yeah, that's what it's like being a journalist from Rebel News.
01:10:08.500 You're in and out of court.
01:10:10.180 Sometimes you're covering the trial.
01:10:12.220 Sometimes you're part of the trial.
01:10:13.840 But that is the, well, that's what we're here for, it seems, sometimes.
01:10:20.880 So, enjoy the summer, or sorry, enjoy one of the last weekend's remaining of summer.
01:10:27.520 We'll see you next Friday.
01:10:30.020 Two other rebels will be here on Monday.
01:10:33.580 And as always, folks, stay safe and stay sane.