Ezra Levant, Martina Markota, and Sheila Gunn Reid join David Menzies on Rebel Roundup to expose Canada’s alleged trade war with the U.S., fueled by Trump’s 2019 Buy America order blocking Canadian firms from $6T+ infrastructure contracts. They critique Freeland’s lack of expertise and media silence, despite CBC and CTV covering Trump’s policies elsewhere. Markota condemns Victoria’s Secret for excluding trans models to appease activists, while Reid defends pickup trucks as essential for blue-collar workers, mocking elites like Nenshi who dismiss them. The episode highlights 64,000 illegal asylum seekers housed in luxury hotels—like the Radisson Toronto East—while domestic homeless freeze, questioning Trudeau’s virtue-signaling policies and Liberal complicity in border chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
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Canada In Trade War?00:12:22
Guess what?
Canada is in a trade war with the U.S.
But why haven't you heard anything about this war in the mainstream media?
Ezra Levant shall explain all.
And attention, pickup truck owners.
If you drive such a rig, then you're obviously a caveman.
Says who?
Says Calgary's mayor.
That's who.
Sheila Gunnread has all the unbelievable details.
And is nothing sacred?
Victoria's Secret is all about catering to women, as in real women, who love wearing fancy lingerie, but now the transgender community wants to strut their stuff as Victoria's Secret models too.
Martina Marcota will weigh in on this 2019 version of The Crying Game.
And finally, we get your letters.
We get them every minute of every day.
And I'll share some of the letters we received regarding my report on how Toronto's domestic homeless are being left out in the cold while Justin Trudeau's refugees enjoy central heating and three squares a day at several Toronto area hotels.
Those are your rebels.
Let's round them up what I'm about to tell you is a secret in Canada At least I cannot find a single media outlet that reported it.
That's almost a secret, right?
Even though it was news announced at a noisy press conference by the noisiest president in a century, at precisely 12 noon on Thursday, January 31st, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning Canadian goods and services from potentially hundreds of billions of dollars worth of U.S. contracts in which the U.S. government is involved as a contractor or a funder.
It's pure trade protectionism.
It's kind of a trade war.
It's aimed at the whole world.
It doesn't specifically mention Canada by name, but of course Canada is by far the country that will be the most impacted given the size of our trading relationship with the United States and the integration of our economies and the nature of the products and services being banned under this executive order.
I know you haven't heard about this.
You probably don't even believe me when I say there's a trade war that was just launched because it's such shocking news and it's such a disaster.
But all you've heard from the media party instead is how amazing Christia Freeland, our foreign minister, is, and how she totally wrestled that Donald Trump to the ground.
Given the size and scope and the potential economic consequences for Canada, you'd think that a trade war with the U.S. would make for front page news, right?
But it's as though there's been a media blackout on this story.
Surely it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Canadian mainstream media about to receive that $595 million taxpayer-funded bailout.
I mean, you wouldn't want to make the Trudeau liberals look bad after all.
And joining me now with more on this incredible story that is not being reported is our very own rebel commander, Ezra Levant.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.
Well, thanks very much.
You know, Donald Trump is probably the noisiest U.S. president since Theodore Roosevelt.
And of course, he has the enormous magnifier of social media, and he's a real showman.
And when he has press conferences in the Oval Office, surrounded by people wearing hard hats, and when he has this very theatrical signing of an executive order and he holds it up, like he's got this, like the man's a showman.
He knows how to put on a show.
He practiced that for years on The Apprentice.
So at 12 noon, exactly, on Thursday, January 31st, so eight days ago now, he had a 38-minute press conference in the Oval Office packed with reporters, where he announced the signing and he signed for everyone to see an executive order called Buy America, Buy Americans.
And it was his campaign promise going back three years, four years.
He said, buy American, hire American.
And he's putting that into a place for the U.S. government.
So anything that is run by a U.S. federal agency or anything financed with federal money now must, according to this order, favor made-in-USA materials, equipment.
And it's a very detailed list, everything from metal to broadband to pipes to oil and gas, water treatment, like anything industrial, anything made of polymers, plastic, anything you make in a factory.
If it has a U.S. federal dollar in it, it has to prefer Americans.
Now, this executive order does not mention Canada by name.
Right.
It's really an order against the whole world, right?
But we are the number one affected place.
Because that's our biggest trading partner.
And in fact, our companies are so integrated, you have the same company on both sides of the border.
And in that press conference, 38-minute press conference, Donald Trump used the word China 28 times.
I counted.
So this is actually Trump trying to block Chinese dumped subsidized stuff from the U.S. market, which I agree with, by the way.
Why should China put American steel companies out of business by dumping subsidized steel to run U.S. steel companies out of town?
But he's shooting at China, and I approve.
But he's shooting us by accident.
We're collateral damage.
We're like the hostage in the room.
And I don't even think he realizes that.
I really don't even think that's on his mind.
But I don't think it's also on Justin Trudeau's mind or Christy Freeland's mind or the mind of our ambassador or certainly in the mind of the media because it has now been eight days since this executive order was signed.
It's not debated.
It's not negotiated.
An executive order is just done.
It's not even like regular legislation.
We are now in a trade war with the United States.
And I haven't heard a word from Trudeau, Freeland, Ambassador McNaughton, or the media on this.
And I'm thinking, am I crazy or are they crazy?
Well, I'm not crazy because the 38-minute video is right there on the White House website.
The transcript is right there on the White House website.
The executive order is there.
And I went through this and I said, folks, we're in a trade war and no one in Canada is even acknowledging that.
That's crazy.
Well, but, and Ezra, that's what I want to talk to you about, the unspoken story here about why Canadians aren't being told this very important story.
Not only is this not being covered, but a few months ago, we saw that McLean's magazine cover with Miss Freeland on the cover saying, you're welcome, as though she, as you say in your video, wrestled Trump to the ground and scored an amazing deal, when the precise opposite is true.
What's going on here, Ezra?
Why aren't we being told this story?
Well, I think it's related because, of course, the whole official narrative of the Canadian mainstream media, that McLean's article was super gross.
But CBC and all of them, you know, she's our hero.
She defeated the Trump.
She is not a trade lawyer.
She has no experience negotiating any deals.
She was sort of a pop journalist.
She had one business project in her life to run a little project for Reuters called Reuters Next.
It was a disaster.
She burnt up 20 million bucks.
150 people were thrown out of work.
They shut it down.
It was such a disaster.
That's the only time she ever tried her hand in business.
So to put someone like that, and when she moved back up to Canada, because she was living in New York for a year, she came back to Canada to rule over us, she had her mortgage co-signed with her dad.
Now, I'm not going to make fun because it's very expensive to live in Toronto and a lot of people need family help.
But I guess we're not talking about a first-rank international titan of commerce and industry here.
If you need your dad to co-sign your mortgage, and if you've never negotiated anything as a bigger thing than maybe buying that house and maybe your dad did the, you're probably not the right person to be the point man.
I mean, Secretary Pompeo, who I've had the pleasure of meeting, graduated first, that's the American Secretary of State.
He graduated first in his class at West Point.
Accomplished congressman, former head of the CIA, he's a Secretary of State.
That is an incredibly accomplished, smart, tough man with a military commander's mind.
But he also knew his limits, and he said, I'm not going to negotiate a trade deal.
I'm not a technical expert in trade law.
I'm going to hire the best trade lawyer in America.
And he'll do it.
And I'll come in.
I'll shake hands when it's done.
If Secretary Pompeo, an outstanding man, like a man of his generation, like top, top, top, says, yeah, we're going to hire an expert.
Why would Christy Freeland think, no, no, no, no, I can do this.
I can wrestle.
So it was such a disaster.
It was all for PR.
And the media loved it.
And so when we have this abject failure, mere months after signing the USMCA, that's the renegotiated now, which by the way has not been ratified by the United States yet, we have this trade war.
You can't mention the trade war because that repudiates everything you've ever said about her being this outstanding negotiator because with the signature of a pen at 1238 or whenever it was on last Thursday, he undid everything we think we negotiated for.
There is a trade war on.
Canadian companies can't even bid on trillions of dollars infrastructure projects.
Government, I think you're going to see unemployment tick up in the February, March numbers in Canada, because if you can't bid on American stuff, that's such a big chunk of our economy.
And when you say trillions, that's an exaggeration.
That's what it boils down to.
But, you know, Ezra, I'm kind of fascinated by the audacity of the media party embracing this self-censorship because as you point out in your commentary, you can go onto YouTube and see the entire White House briefing where it's spelled out chapter and verse what this trade war is all about.
And a lot of Canadian media have a Washington reporter.
It's regarded as a really plum assignment.
Washington's sort of an interesting city.
It's got these gorgeous buildings and museums and monuments, got amazing restaurants because you've got all the lobbyists and diplomats in there.
It's a short drive to some very beautiful places, Alexandria, Virginia being an obvious one.
And it's a prestige assignment.
So you have top journalists there for the CBC.
They probably have 10 people there at least.
CTV, Global, Globe and Mail, Post Media.
The Toronto Star has someone named Daniel Dale who has made a name for himself on anything that Trump says that he disagrees with.
He says it's a lie and he keeps track of these thousands of lies.
And that lie chart has been basically things that Trump said that I don't like.
I'm not calling it.
But the reason I mention him in particular is because he prides himself on watching Trump like a hawk.
Oh, Trump said 17, and it was actually 16.5.
Ha ha, liar!
Like stuff like that.
So if you're watching Trump that obsessively, you did not miss a 38-minute Oval Office press conference, press release, executive order, video.
You did not miss it.
You did not miss it.
Because Donald Trump is not doing everything in his day in public.
He has private meetings, he has secret meetings, he's flying around.
So when he has a 38-minute press conference in the Oval Office, you know about it.
You got an invitation to be there.
And if you can't be there, you watch it online like I did.
Don't tell me that every single prestige journalist in Washington missed it when it's about this huge issue that Canada.
Don't tell me they missed it.
I will not believe you.
And if they missed it, they should be fired for incompetence.
If you miss the president, announcing a trade war on Canada, you miss the story of the year.
It's astonishing.
As we have to wrap it here, and folks, what can I tell you?
They miss what might be the biggest story of the year.
Imagine how much more the mainstream media is going to miss once those government checks start coming in the mail to them.
Astonishing.
Blue Collar Rebellion00:09:45
Keep it here.
more of a rebel roundup to come right after this the mayor felt that he had to reiterate that point and in doing so said because here in alberta we're not all f-350 driving cavemen And some of us drive dodges.
Yeah, indeed.
I mean, I'm not, I'm certain that if he had the opportunity to take that back, he would.
He will never admit that, of course, because the mayor does not admit when he's wrong.
But what an insulting thing, of course, to say to the many people in Calgary and outside the city who use F-350s to haul tools, to haul equipment to work sites, who use it because they work in agriculture, they work in the skilled trades, or who, by the way, have to occasionally drive somewhere outside of the city limits.
And sometimes those roads can get a little bit snowy.
I mean, maybe the mayor hasn't noticed it's freezing cold right now.
And sometimes you need a vehicle that can help you get across less than perfect terrain.
We can't all drive Priuses here in Alberta.
Well, there you have it, folks.
If you drive a Ford F-350, you might just be a Neanderthal.
As for all you Chevy Silverado fans, perhaps you're really just a bunch of crow Magnons.
And for those who find themselves behind the wheel of a Ram 3500, well, I'm guessing you belong to the Paleolithic species.
Gee, who knew that Calgary Mayor Nahid Nenshi had such a fixation with the Flintstones when it comes to those who drive pickup trucks?
And with more on this story of how not to judge a person by what he or she drives is the host of the gun show, Sheila Gunn Reed.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hey David, thanks for having me on.
Always a pleasure.
So Sheila, if memory serves, I believe you own a pickup truck.
So should I now assume that when you go off on one of your hunting expeditions, you're packing spears and clubs and you're probably wearing a loincloth.
I mean, what the hell is this mayor talking about?
Wouldn't you love to know, David?
No, I mean, it's so crazy to hear these sorts of things from our politicians who are supposed to be defending us.
My husband, right now, it's minus 33 outside, and he's off to work in his Dodge 3500, Longhorn, to make a living for our family, but to also provide cheap, affordable, reliable Canadian energy for people like the likes of Mayor Nenshi.
I mean, and Nenshi never backed down from that statement.
He actually doubled down and said something.
Oh, I pulled up his actual, his exact words.
He said, we actually have to be able to fight stereotypes and we have to win over hearts and minds.
That's an interesting way of fighting stereotypes by actually stereotyping the owners of larger model pickups, don't you think?
Oh, absolutely, Sheila.
But you know, don't you think it's part of a bigger trend we're seeing out there that with the progressive liberal elites, it has become sadly fashionable to knock blue-collar men and their blue-collar jobs.
I mean, for goodness sakes, we had Hillary Clinton in the last election campaign bragging about how she was going to shut down the coal mines and put those coal miners out of a job.
We've had Justin Trudeau talking about the gender problem with a whole bunch of men go out into a community.
And yet, these guys like your husband, these are the salt of the earth.
These are hardworking men who their critics wouldn't last a shift out in the real world.
So I'm just trying to figure it out, Sheila, why is it that the blue-collar tradesman has become a target for this kind of vilification?
I think it has to do with our changing culture.
I think there are a lot of people who, up until very recently, they were only one generation removed from the farm or one generation removed from blue-collar work.
I think we're two generations now, and there's a lot of disconnect about how that food gets on your table and how the gas gets in your tank for a lot of people who live in major urban centers.
But I think it also has a lot to do with this idea of social license.
We hear a lot about that, about how to get our oil to market, we have to appease the people who will never like us and who currently don't like us by sort of self-flagellating until they do like us and beating ourselves up about what we do for a living as far as working in the oil patch.
And I think a lot of that has bled into this sentiment against blue-collar people.
It's sort of okay to bash blue-collar people because the left bashes them and the oil haters bash them.
So if we bash them too, maybe they'll like us a little bit more.
And, you know, to that, I say screw them.
Screw them.
When somebody is downtown Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver sipping on their latte and eating their gluten-free whatever the hell it is, screw them.
Screw them.
They don't know how that food got on the table and they never will and they won't care.
So I'm done trying to make them like us.
And you know, Sheila, there's a book that came out about 10 years ago.
I urge our viewers to check it out if they can.
It's called Blue Collar and Proud of It.
And it's self-written by someone who realized very early on going to college that the academic world wasn't for him.
And what he wanted to do was work outdoors.
And in his home state of Massachusetts, he started a grass-cutting company just by himself.
Well, now he's making more than $2 million a year.
He's got a crew of people going out there.
And I guess the point is, Sheila, is that with all these urban elites poo-pooing the blue-collar trades, you go into things like plumbing, electrical work, you can easily make six figures.
There are jobs begging for these skills.
And meanwhile, these men are getting condemned by people that have gone to university that have taken the most outrageous and useless bird courses that amount to nothing in society.
I just find the irony so perverse.
Well, yeah, I mean, I've seen studies where it shows, especially here in Alberta, or at least during boom times, a heavy-duty diesel mechanic will make more in his lifetime than a doctor because there's lower overhead, less debt associated with your education.
And everybody looks down their nose at blue-collar people until their furnace goes out when it's minus 30.
And then it's a blue-collar guy who saves the day.
I think there's a lot of, especially directed at Alberta, because our tradespeople can easily make those six-figure salaries.
A lot of these overly educated, useless people look down their nose because for us, blue-collar work breaks those class barriers for us.
It's a way out of poverty.
It's a way to be something more than your station in life and what your birth dictated for you.
And I think a lot of the elites don't like that blue-collar work helps us get on the same level as them, at least economically speaking.
You know, Sheila, to bring it back to Alberta, too, I lived for two years in Alberta in the mid-80s.
And I can tell you this, never would I have ever dreamed, based on my Alberta experience, that somebody elected to a position in power in the province of Alberta would ever have the temerity to bash, you know, the trades to vilify those driving pickup trucks.
Has something changed in the 30 years I've been away from Alberta?
I mean, I guess what I'm asking ultimately is, how does a guy like a Nemshe get elected and re-elected in the first place?
Well, there's a, I guess there's a bigger question there.
How does Rachel Notley get elected?
I mean, Rachel Notley bashes Albertans, regular Albertans, all the time.
And her cabinet does it too.
They name call.
Rachel Notley on a national news broadcast said, you know, called us embarrassing cousins of Confederation.
Her health minister, who is also the deputy premier, stood up in the legislature and called Albertans sewer rats.
So it makes it pretty permissive for someone like Nenshi, who's been elected now three times and feels pretty comfortable to let it slip that, you know, he thinks that blue-collar workers, farmers, Raycans, they're all a bunch of cavemen.
She has given people like Nenshi permission to use the same sort of name-calling that she does.
But, you know, I see it, Sheila, especially in a place like Alberta, which I liken to the state of Texas.
I mean, it seems to me that maybe one out of every three vehicles on the road is a pickup truck.
And not necessarily driven by people in the trades.
You even, because of how trucks have embraced luxury now, you even see soccer moms driving pickup trucks.
And so to, in a place like Alberta, to go after the pickup truck driving demographic, is this guy crazy?
Transgender Controversy00:10:16
Yes.
I mean, to answer your question in one word, yes.
He lives in a bubble.
He exists in a bubble where there's very little accountability.
Mayor Nenschi has more secretive meetings of council than any other mayor in the entire country.
He doesn't like criticism.
And I mean, he's not exactly a man of the people.
And I think he's going to find out how people have responded to his condescension in his third and final term when he faces the voters in the ballot box in a couple of years.
But yeah, in one word, yes.
Wow.
Well, Sheila, we have to wrap it there.
Like you said, in a couple of years at the next municipal elections, hopefully Calgarians will pop that little bubble and we'll be done with this nonsense once and for all.
Thank you so much for weighing in on this topic, Sheila.
Hey, David, have a great weekend.
You too.
And folks, keep it here.
more of rebel roundup to come right after this to spite victoria's secret uk lingerie brand has featured trans model in their campaign The whole purpose was to stick it to Victoria's Secret.
The New York Post reports: After Victoria's Secret said its annual show shouldn't include transgender models, transgender model and activist Monroe Bergdorf has taken a swipe at the famous lingerie brand while revealing her latest saucy photo shoot as a part of a campaign for a different, more inclusive lingerie brand.
Interesting that all the images just casually cover the lower parts.
You know what I mean?
I just don't understand why they have to go out of their way to take it out on Victoria's Secret.
And I feel that this company just wants some PR and attention to feature this model.
That's the only reason why they're really doing this.
Like, who are they?
This is a classic case of using minorities and politically correct things for PR stunts.
But if you don't know what I'm talking about, a few months ago, in an interview with Victoria's Secret, Chief Marketing Director Ed Reisick said it would not feature transgender or plus-size models in its fashion show, arguing that their brand was baselong fantasy and being politically correct wasn't part of their brand.
He has since apologized for his insensitive comments and said that trans models would be considered.
You know, I don't think I'm going out on a limb here when I say that the Victoria's Secret brand is all about gorgeous models parading down the fashion runway clad in sexy lingerie.
At the end of the day, Victoria's Secret, as the company's CEO rightfully stated, is all about selling a fantasy.
But apparently, Victoria's Secret's reluctance to use trans models as opposed to real females makes this company transphobic.
Oh, give me a break already.
And joining me now with more on the Victoria Secret Brewha is someone who is 100% bona fide female, as well as someone who knows a thing or three about the fashion business.
And that would be Miss Martina Markota.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Martina.
Thank you for having me.
Always a pleasure.
So Martina, yet again, we are being bombarded with demands for so-called reasonable accommodation that I think is actually quite unreasonable.
I mean, as a company, Victoria's Secret has every right to favor real women as their models because I'm quite certain that real women make up 99.99% of Victoria's secret customer base.
So what exactly is going on here, Martina?
Yeah, well, I mean, first I'd like to say thank you for always prefacing that I am a bona fide real cis.
I think they would call me a cis woman, which means I was born that way.
But yeah, I mean, that's exactly right.
Is that, I mean, I think it's less than like 0.2% of the population considers themselves trans and stuff.
So it's just fascinating that they think a company should really pander to this very, very, very small, very loud and disturbing minority.
And I mean, that's just not really how business works.
And I mean, Victoria's Secret in general is like, it's for women, but it's also for men.
So I think it's actually, you know, straight heterosexual cis men or whatever, I don't think they want to see that or be confused by that, by a trans person.
So it's not even just the women.
I mean, I know lots of men that enjoy the fashion show, the magazines, and what have you.
And it's supposed to be a fantasy for all.
And yeah, so I don't know why they would think that pandering to such a small minority would be ideal.
No, I agree with you, Martina.
I can tell you, I think I speak for most heterosexual men in saying that we don't want our own personal version of the crying game by any kind of wardrobe malfunction.
But, you know, I thought you made a really interesting point in your commentary, and it was about having it both ways.
This transgender model is saying, hey, look, I'm just one of the gals.
I'm a real woman too.
Oh, but wait a minute, I'm special because I used to be a man.
I am a transgender woman.
Well, which is it, honey?
Right, exactly.
And I think that's something that isn't touched on so much, but it's a really interesting point because they want to claim to be real women.
Respect us.
We're real women.
How dare you say we're not real women?
But every opportunity they get, they promote themselves as trans.
So, well, I'm sorry, honey.
Are you a real woman or are you trans?
And I mean, for most people, they probably wouldn't notice if you didn't say it, make a big point about it, make a big stink about trans, trans, trans.
If you look like a woman and you're beautiful and you get a modeling job, like I don't think a man or a woman would notice, and it wouldn't really be a big deal.
But they want to promote themselves on this altar of I'm better than a real woman.
I'm trans, so I'm more special.
Indeed.
And also, another interesting point you came up with, Martina, was that when you look at the shots of this transgender woman modeling the lingerie, they're from north of the equator, because I think it would become very evident very quickly that if that person was wearing a thong, that is no woman, my friend.
So again, I'm really scratching my head because this seems to be somebody who wants to be treated as a woman, but at least surgically speaking, this model hasn't gone all in, so to speak.
Yeah, I mean, they say that it's no one's business what goes on down there.
But I mean, as far as I'm concerned, if you have male parts down there, then I'm sorry you're not a woman and you don't know what it's like to be a woman.
You don't know what it feels like to suffer as a woman.
So, but yeah, they try to play that card of, well, that's none of your business.
And they do this thing called tucking.
So they can get away with it pretty well.
They tuck and it creates an illusion.
So they can get away with it.
But yeah, the images are pretty funny because it's just constantly like, oh, there's just a piece of fabric covering, just so happens to cover me.
It's just comical.
I mean, how can you sell lingerie when you're covering?
A great point.
It's counterproductive.
You know, Martina, I personally think that in the transgender world, there is many people that, you know, who were men that became so-called women who actually have a hatred of women.
And I say this because you see these fake females getting into women's athletics where they're cleaning up because they are biologically still a man.
And we separate sports down gender lines except for equestrian and auto racing for that reason.
And even in your neck of the woods in the UK, you had a transgender woman go demand to go to a female prison, was accommodated, and promptly raped two other real female inmates.
So why don't we hear more about this?
That instead of us, you know, being unaccommodating and not embracing enough, why don't we hear about the dark side of what's going on?
Because I think it's a very dark side indeed, Martina.
Yeah, I mean, you're not allowed to.
And that's the thing is that they've created so much of, I'm going to say the word stigma against criticizing that you become a bigot if you have any real life criticisms.
And that's the danger.
That's that slippery slope that we talk about.
I mean, if you can't criticize, then they have every right to do all sorts of stuff.
And if you say object to anything, then suddenly you're the bigot and no one wants to be the bigot.
So they really, and that's why they want to be considered trans and not just a real woman, because then they get that, aha, I can do whatever I want.
And if you disagree with me, you become a bigot.
But yeah, I mean, I think that a lot of it is anti-feminist.
And there are some feminists.
There's, I don't know what they're called.
They have some sort of name for their group, but they're kind of the old school feminists, the Camille Paglia-type people, or the what's that other lady, an older lady that speaks out a lot.
She's a traditional old school feminist, like first, second wave, well, I don't think first wave we have anymore, but this is like a second wave feminist or something.
And they're actually against that whole aspect of trans.
Not that they're against trans people, but they find it to be counterintuitive to what feminist rights are, because now we have men coming over and taking over everything.
So much for like empowerment for women.
Exactly.
But I think, you know, Martina, for the most part, today's modern-day feminists, ironically and perversely, have thrown women under the bus to avoid being called transphobic.
Protesters vs. Hotels00:05:22
And that's a bloody shame.
Martin, we're going to have to wrap it there.
Thank you so much for weighing in.
Another great commentary.
Thank you.
You got it.
And folks, keep it here.
more of Rabble Roundup to come right after this those non-citizens who have entered into Canada mostly from Africa the Middle East and Haiti and have done so in an illegal basis are put up in hotels
Case in point, the Radisson Toronto East is now entirely and exclusively reserved for refugees and asylum seekers.
And unlike the cold and hunger the domestic homeless must endure on a cold day in February, well, there's no such concern here thanks to central heating and three square meals a day, courtesy of you, the taxpayer.
So how bad will this problem get?
Well, consider that there are currently more than 64,000 asylum seekers waiting for their cases to be heard.
And that's a number that grows weekly thanks to more illegals coming into Canada at those so-called irregular border crossings.
And of course, Immigration Minister Ahmad Hussein has signed on to the UN Global Compact.
And according to the United Nations, there are currently 258 million migrants the world over.
So clearly, the supply of irregulars for Canadian hotels to house is just about limitless.
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What a sad state of affairs.
Thanks to the shelters being jam-packed, Toronto's domestic homeless find themselves sleeping in fields and under the elevated Gardner Expressway.
As for Justin Trudeau's illegal immigrants, well, they suffer no such indignities.
In fact, these people are being given the royal treatment, put up in Toronto hotels complete with gyms and swimming pools.
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In any event, here's what some of you had to say about a sorry situation that's getting all the more sorry with every passing week.
Pepe Mohawk writes, I stayed at that hotel last year.
What a gong show.
Kids getting in and out of every floor, parents complaining in the elevator about their welfare checks, dirty looks from a lot of the males.
Well, sorry to hear about your experience, Pepe Mohawk.
As astute viewers may recall, I actually booked a room at this hotel last fall when it was still partly open to the public.
I wanted to see firsthand what was going on there.
However, I was recognized and was promptly given the bums rush by management, even though I had paid about $200 for my room.
Which makes you wonder, what are they trying to hide here?
Alas, if you truly need an answer to that query, I suggest you check out the plethora of disturbing reviews regarding the Toronto Radisson East on TripAdvisor.
James Smith writes, Serious question, why are these migrants being welcomed into Canada and being housed and fed better than many Canadians?
Well, James, that's something we wanted to ask Immigration Minister Ahmad Hussein, but apparently just asking such a question is tantamount to fear-mongering, and he won't provide any answers.
My best guess is that this is yet more Justin Trudeau virtue signaling as he obsesses over diversity.
I guess Justin's never heard the old proverb that begins, charity starts at home.
Coca-Cola Boy writes, stop paying your taxes.
Well, that might look good on paper as a protest tactic, Coca-Cola Boy, but in practice, I would suggest that trying to execute such a plan will result in you getting free room and board, courtesy of the state, except that you won't be residing at a hotel, but rather at a prison.
And Hope for the Planet writes, how can they be considered refugees when they are arriving through a safe country like the USA?
Are they not by law supposed to apply for refugee status in the first safe country they arrive?
That would be the USA.
They should be pitched right back.
Let Trump deal with them.
You know, you are absolutely correct, Hope for the Planet, but in order to enforce this law, that would require a measure of political will in Ottawa.
Sadly, that will does not exist.
As for President Trump, do you really think he's heartbroken seeing so many illegals leave the USA?
Quite the contrary, actually.
So as long as the Trudeau Liberals remain in power, just consider this to be the new normal in the months and maybe even the years ahead.
Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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