Marty Gold critiques Justin Trudeau’s 50% carbon tax hike during the pandemic, calling it reckless amid economic collapse—1M Canadians filed for unemployment in one week—while Manitoba paused its own tax despite low COVID-19 cases (1 death, 4 active hospitalizations). He highlights supply shortages, including masks, due to Trudeau’s reliance on China, and warns of potential social unrest if lockdowns extend. Contrasting Pallister’s suspended provincial levy with federal policies, Gold accuses Trudeau of prioritizing globalism over local crises, questioning why urbanist advocates stay silent as businesses struggle. His independent journalism, like exposing Winnipeg cab driver Val Vertour’s alleged killer or Mayor Brad Bowman’s parking ticketing of nurses, pushes back against mainstream media and federal inaction, urging support for anti-carbon tax campaigns at stopthecarbontax.com. [Automatically generated summary]
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Justin Trudeau is proceeding with his cruel and inhumane carbon tax in the midst of the worst economic downturn in maybe 100 years.
But one province is putting their carbon tax on ice.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Today, and of course, the head April Fool in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau, is giving us all a big gift of higher prices on, well, literally everything due to a 50% hike in the carbon tax.
With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down and shutting in everything and everyone and grinding our entire economy to a halt, can you name me any other world leader that would be raising taxes in the middle of all of this?
When 1 million people in Canada filed for unemployment benefits in just one week, even Manitoba, a province that was set to bring in their own carbon tax to comply with Justin Trudeau's demands, is canceling their carbon tax that they were going to bring in today.
So I thought there's no better time now than to bring on to the show independent Manitoba-based journalist Marty Gold to talk about what the coronavirus is up to in Manitoba and how his province is pumping the brakes on a carbon tax.
So joining me now from his home in Winnipeg is Marty Gold in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.
Joining me now from his home in Winnipeg is my friend Marty Gold from the J.ca.
Marty, thanks for joining me.
I thought I'd bring you in first off to talk about some of the numbers coming out of Manitoba with regard to the coronavirus.
Sure.
As of Tuesday, at the one o'clock press conference on Tuesday that's held by the, I guess he's the medical officer for health, I think is what he's called, Brent Rusen, and his able staff.
Manitoba had recorded 103 total diagnosed or suspected cases, three in hospital, two in ICU.
There previously had been one in hospital that was discharged.
We've still only recorded one death attributed to the condition.
One of the new infected cases, this is up, I think from Monday to Tuesday, this would have been up, seven cases.
One of the newly reported cases is an employee with the Selkirk Regional Health Center.
So, this is the first time that somebody has been identified as working at a healthcare facility.
I'm trying to figure out how to word this, but you get the idea.
Your audience does.
We here have recorded very low numbers.
I think similar in a lot of cases, really in a lot of cases, in the Midwest.
I don't, and I haven't looked in a couple of days, I admit, but the numbers in places like Saskatchewan, Wyoming, Manitoba, Montana, Iowa.
Last I looked, we're, you know, it's sort of like all trends that start at the coasts and south and then work their way up.
So by the time something fashionable gets to Winnipeg, it's already been out there for three years.
This is something I learned around the clothing business in the 19 early 90s in Winnipeg.
And so, once again, we're thankfully behind the great wave.
We're lucky in that we don't have dense population.
We don't have subway platforms people are standing on and such.
And so, it's been very controlled.
I can go through the controls that have gone on.
The Premier has been holding a daily press conference.
They moved the time this week so it wouldn't coincide with the Prime Minister's performances.
The government has taken a number of measures, the Manitoba government, the Paliser government, suspending rent increases and eviction hearings, so that even if you, for instance, don't pay your rent for April or May, they can't even try to schedule, get you on the schedule before May 31st.
So, the hearing wouldn't be till like July or August at this rate.
There's a really well-known Winnipeg landlord who has tried to sidestep the edict by saying that because the Residential Tenancies Branch has not given out any direction about how not to implement rent increases that are already approved, what this company proposed to do was to enact the rent increase.
They put a notice up in the laundry room like a day ago or two days ago.
And I think this building is either downtown or an Osborne Village.
That since we have a direction from the government, from the department, the branch, we're going to increase your rent as scheduled, and then we'll refund it to you.
Jeff Keel of CTV, a good guy, raised this.
I mean, that's not a question that's in lockstep with where most of the rest of the media questions go.
And Jeff, who's a great guy, raised it with the Premier on Tuesday.
And Pallister was caught unawares by this and pronounced that he was unimpressed, that this would not have been reflecting, it's not in the spirit of the legislation.
It's, you know, it I'll see.
Let's be real.
It's sleazy.
I guess the concern from the landlord's point of view is if you don't enact the rent increase at the beginning, you know, when you say you will, then how do you know for sure the government's going to let you do it later?
Yeah.
It's just didn't reflect.
Well, I'm being nice and not naming the company.
It's a very well-known landholder in Winnipeg, but it could be that the highest echelons who are going to, you know, they're going to get covered in the goo for this, and they may not realize where this decision was made in middle management or something.
So I'm erring on the side of caution and not naming them.
Anyways, obviously, Palister government being alerted to that, I'm sure they're going to take some action to preclude that.
Also, this week, the government has lifted the restrictions so that restaurant orders, take-out and delivery orders can be adorned with your favorite kind of liquid libation at the regular menu prices that restaurants charge.
Jeff Klows of Little Bones Wings, who's an entrepreneur that I mentioned to you privately with his hands guiding a couple of different businesses.
But with regards to Little Bones Wings, which is an award-winning company in Winnipeg for its product and it's got now some retail coverage, including on, I think it's Safeway shelves in freezers, actually, wings and chicken tenders in Alberta as well as in Manitoba.
And he said, really, what that sector needs isn't so much liquor sales, which is nice, but it actually needs support with cleaning supplies and sanitation supplies.
And Jeff has a very good relationship.
I know firsthand with a number of cabinet members and cabinet members and caucus members, the Conservative government of Manitoba.
They've attended the restaurant and the bar upstairs.
The restaurant's located in the basement of the Royal George.
An awful lot of members of the Conservative government have dined and feasted on that.
And Jeff is hoping that because he's a respected figure, and he's speaking on behalf of other restaurants as well, that the government will sort of take heed.
They have the buying power, the ability to make those kinds of purchases and enact that kind of distribution.
Look, I didn't get, personally, I didn't get my own hands on wipes and on gloves until 10 minutes before we filmed this when my sister unexpectedly arrived at my doorstep with a care package, which, yes, included toilet paper as well.
So it is in short supply.
Like, you know, I haven't gone on an intensive hunt.
I'm just me here.
You know, I've got contact with a limited number of people the way that, and my lifestyle is like this, where I'm, you know, work on my own a lot, unless I go to a city council meeting or something like that.
I don't work in an office environment very often.
I go to clients' offices, perhaps, and even those have five or ten employees' tops.
So for me, this hasn't been bad.
But for a restaurant that wants to provide reassurance to their customers as they come in or to the look, the skip the dishes and the door dash drivers, I don't know what services necessarily are active in Alberta.
They want to provide reassurance that they're doing everything they can.
And Jeff Klows making that request through the free press, an interview in the free press on the weekend to the Manitoba government.
I hope that they recognize that they can provide support to a sector that they are urging to stay open.
Now, having said that, there's a number of sectors as of Tuesday that were told that starting on April 1st, they'd be closed for a period of two weeks.
Sophie's Daughter: Community Concerns00:13:19
The so-called non-essential services, which isn't really a lot of businesses in Manitoba.
It seems to me that Dollarama, for instance, because it carries groceries, because it carries hardware, that they'll be exempt as an example, places like that.
But massage providers, massage treatment facilities, physiotherapists, I guess the word I was trying to figure out, salons, barbers, they call them that anymore.
There are about 10 barbershops still in Winnipeg.
Those kinds of places are closed now for 14 days.
Public gatherings limited to 10 people and have been, actually since Monday, no more than 10 people at indoor outdoor places or premises, and that includes weddings and funerals.
I didn't mention this to you, I don't think.
The family matriarch, my grandfather's remaining sister, and she was the youngest of the family, passed away at the age of 95.
She had a mild heart attack in February and was at the Grace Hospital and got out of the Grace Hospital, went back to the Shaftesbury where she had resided for a number of years, but did not rally.
Her daughter had happened to, this would be my dad's first cousins, okay, just to explain generationally.
Her granddaughter had been in from Vermont when this happened.
And her son flew in from Toronto.
He's a cardiologist, if I remember correctly, he's a cardiologist.
Her other son, who resides in Winnipeg, who's a long time, I think he's probably retired now, but he's a school principal and school teacher.
And they were all by Auntie Rifka's side when she passed.
But the funeral was private.
It was kept to her children, the grandchildren, my sister, who was the funeral director, and my grandfather's remaining son in Winnipeg, my uncle.
And so, you know, Auntie Rifka, who usually mine is 95, so she outlasted a lot of her compatriots.
But a funeral where you might have expected 75 to 100 people, owing to her standing in the community, her years of philanthropy, her social, you know, she was her and Uncle Zalman were very respected couple.
Uncle Zalman had been in the insurance business for a number of years.
His father actually was.
On top of that, her family, the family she married into, were actually cousins of ours.
Anyways, Auntie Rifka passed away, and there was only 10 or 12 people.
One of our cousins, who's a cantor, actually performed the ceremony as opposed to a rabbi.
So I've learned firsthand because I didn't see it firsthand.
My son and I were not able to attend Auntie Rifka's passing.
But this is the kind of effect that it's had, even on my own family.
This current situation.
The government restrictions have been generally well accepted.
There's incidents of kids, teenagers, like playing basketball, stuff like that.
It's kind of causing other parents to flip out.
And with good reason, you've got a five-a seven-year-old, a 10-year-old, you're out for a walk or a bike ride.
There's five or ten kids playing basketball, and the little kids, they want to know why the big kids are able to go play.
And so there is a failure to some extent of parental guidance, perhaps.
But so far, it's been well received.
I don't know if it's a reflection that people in Winnipeg are not confrontational with authority necessarily.
I'm not sure what it reflects in terms of our psyche, but so far people are going along with it.
Now, the rest of the province, again, I mentioned that I think that our risk level, generally speaking, for the average Manitoban is low.
We've got small population bases.
The second biggest place in the province is technically the U of M in Winnipeg.
And then the third biggest is Brandon.
But there was one story I wanted to reflect from Flinflon, Manitoba, where a friend of mine does morning radio up there and is still, he was deemed an essential service.
He was quite thrilled, actually, to find out the communications workers, which I thought would be meant like Wichita linemen and an internet service guy.
So it turns out it means broadcasters and journalists as well.
In Flint Flon, a mother took to Facebook, I think it was on Monday, and put it right out there.
We've got a case in Flint Flan.
It's my daughter.
Here's what happened.
The daughter had gone to Cancun with her boyfriend on March the 6th.
We can presume that the daughter's, you know, 20 to 25, went to Cancun with the boyfriend, returned on March 13th, was not asked any questions from customs about their health, was not screened whatsoever, was not told to self-isolate.
The boyfriend played a hockey game.
I assume it was an indoor rink in Flint Flan or Creighton, perhaps the adjacent Saskatchewan community, on March 14th.
It's on the Saturday.
So came back on the Friday.
They went to the Unwinder, a popular watering hole in Flint Flon.
The next day, on the Sunday, the Manitoba government asked international travelers to quarantine themselves.
They did so.
The daughter lost her sense of taste and smell, and I guess had noticed online because it has not been widely distributed by health authorities in Canada that this is a precursor symptom.
She recognized it.
She got tested, as did her boyfriend.
She came back positive.
That was her only symptom.
The mother wanted to get it out ahead of the curve because her daughter and the boyfriend had come back from Mexico and had socialized.
And I don't know them.
I don't know how, you know, a lot of people from this country, including two officials from Manitoba, if I'm remembering correctly, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, went on vacation to Australia in the first week of March.
So when your average, I don't want to call her a hipster, but this young couple from Flint Flon, they went on vacation.
They're only as dumb.
If it was a dumb thing to do, I'm not saying it is, but if it was deemed a dumb thing to do, they're only as dumb as some of the highest echelon health officials in Manitoba who did the same kind of thing on the racist.
Sophie Trudeau.
Well, Sophie, you see, Sophie, you know, what I question about that one, along with a lot of other questions, that was a wee day event.
Yeah.
Now, why anybody thinks that Sophie Trudeau is a significant enough figure to have any kind of a wee day event outside of Canada is absolutely preposterous.
But she took the junket with her mother-in-law.
So Margaret was there.
And the children, I don't know if they've been.
I still haven't heard for sure that they were or were not tested.
But somebody else who was seen in a picture with her supposedly famous actor I'd never heard of before this came up.
He tested positive.
God only knows how.
Meanwhile, the prime minister, the erstwhile alleged beau of said Sophie, has not come down with own symptoms.
The one point that the mother in Flynn Flon wanted to make before we move on was the social shaming, social media shaming, she meant, has to stop.
And in that regard, you know, when there wasn't an edict from the government, and this reflects on the government and Dr. Tam, but when the government wasn't telling Canadians don't go anywhere at the beginning of March, the end of February, I agree with the mother.
It's very hard.
Like I said, when you're top-ranking health officials in Manitoba, we're taking off to Australia.
I'm not so inclined to start, you know, jumping up and down on people from Flint Flan that wanted to get out and go to Mexico for a week on a trip that they was on spur of the moment, that they had planned for some time.
There's a lot of people in that boat.
Now, most recently, I mentioned the Premier has health briefings, has briefings every day.
The health officials, chief medical officer of health, has a briefing, and he said on Tuesday that wearing masks is not useful if you're worried to stay home and that they provide a false sense of security.
I saw the look on your face.
Well, it takes, this resulted in a bit of a discussion when a reporter, I think it might have been a CBC reporter, mentioned this, that People on Twitter are pointing out to Leonard Kaplan, a former cab driver who's well known to me, that you look at the rates of infection in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan, they're all wearing masks.
Maybe the problem here is the doctor can't admit we just have a shortage of masks and doesn't want to cause a stampede towards it.
And so there is a question of whether Manitoba Health was prepared.
Now, in terms of the city of Winnipeg, aside from the reaction of the province of Manitoba, the city of Winnipeg was very slow.
Mayor Bowman got off on a very bad footing when early on Manitoba, Winnipeg Transit had no plans to increase the cleaning of their buses.
Oh, my lord.
At this point, people found out that they don't clean the buses very often.
They might sweep it out, but they don't actually sanitize very often.
And there was a firestorm directed at Mayor Bowman in Transit.
That course was reversed.
The mayor's got a bunch of other political problems.
They keep losing, like the legal department here needs our total bumbling incompetence.
Was there a lawyer on Green Acres?
Do you remember on the series Green Academy?
Because if there was, he probably ended up running the legal department, you know, in the city of Winnipeg.
They missed a filing deadline a couple of years ago for a third $20 million lawsuit over terrible problems with the wastewater treatment plant.
They've missed the filing deadline.
The city fired the lawyer they said was responsible.
It should have been the head of the legal department was responsible.
They fired that lawyer who I was never a big fan of.
She sued for wrongful dismissal.
They had to settle out of court.
Last summer, the city was in contempt, found in contempt of court, a city councilor committee, like a regional committee, when they failed to hold a hearing for an application for the Parker Lands, which is a development relating to the bus rapid transit line.
So you've got missed deadlines for filing court, important lawsuits for $20 million.
This million-dollar land development deal, they're in contempt of court on that.
They just lost an arbitration hearing, a resounding defeat at the hands of the Winnipeg Police Association when they passed a bylaw to unilaterally change police pensions.
Just what you want to do in a time of crisis, piss off the police, right?
And I'm not saying the pension plan doesn't need to be revisited, but they just try to do it arbitrarily and argued in court.
Well, you know, we did a little something in 2006 and the police didn't say anything.
And on every point, I read the arbitration ruling.
Every point, the arbitrator wrote the ruling, said, that's not proof of anything.
They're wrong.
That doesn't show that the police association was going along with this presumption of all power over this contract.
Just terrible problems that Mayor Bowman has on top of what's going on here.
And to add to that, this week, Councillor Eady, Ross Eady, who represents an inner city North End ward, has written to counsel and the mayor asking for a state of emergency be declared over junk being dumped in yards and laneways.
His assistant, a really good, good buddy of mine, Aaron McDowell, I've known since he worked in a beer vendor, actually.
Aaron's his assistant and went out and videotaped back lanes in Menarsky and Point Douglas wards.
Edie represents Menarsky.
Point Douglas is adjacent to it.
And there's junk piled up in the back lanes of the Duffer neighborhood, the William White neighborhood.
Bylaw enforcement knows this is going on.
There's also problems in a couple of other neighborhoods in Elmwood and St. Patel.
Counselor Gilroy, who's on Executive Policy Committee, one of Mayor Bowman's inner circles, Cindy, constantly and Ross apparently constantly hear of fires being set by this bulk waste fires.
Last year it was so bad that people on the same side were like yelling at each other because there was no efficient way of dealing with it.
And the director of community service said they can't go on a private property to haul these mattresses and stuff off.
Councillor Edie pointed out in his letter that there's landlords are getting junk dumped on their yards that aren't coming from their own tenants and that the mayor can, similar to what Mayor Cates did in 2012, the mayor can declare a state of emergency.
This would enable city workers under the direction of a bylaw officer going up and down the lanes, pointing at a yard, going, hey, get that mattress.
Hey, that Chesterfield's got to go and start clearing some of this out.
And Councillor Eady making the point, and he signed his letter sincerely and desperately, this is a city councilor making this plea that they should be dealing with this now as the snow melts.
That's traditionally firebug season here in Winnipeg.
Ralph Goodale's Concerns00:15:07
And before police and fire departments are swamped with COVID-related calls.
So Councillor Eady trying to get ahead of the curve in terms of what can be done for the city of Winnipeg.
One other thing that I wanted to go back to with you, maybe we can have a brief discussion of this point.
We have Brent Rusin here, Dr. Rusen, saying that masks aren't effective.
I know that you have determined that you have a different point of view on that.
And we touched on this briefly yesterday when we were setting this interview up.
Is our country not faced with a choice between 37 million tests or 37 million masks?
I think that it is not one or the other.
I think we will probably have easier access to masks before testing.
And I think that we've had a serious mixed message from the powers that be.
And I think you're right when you point out that they're downplaying the efficacy of masks for the common person because there is absolutely a shortage because our idiot stick of a prime minister sent them to China in the midst of their COVID crisis when the masks are actually made in China for the most part.
Except for now that the United States is calling on private industry to retool their factories to produce these things, something we are really not seeing a lot of in Canada.
3M, Jockey, MyPillow, a whole host of companies are manufacturers are just turning on a dime, retooling their factories to produce medical supplies, ventilators, and all kinds of other equipment.
We're not seeing a lot of that happening here.
I know Canada Goose is creating medical coveralls, I think.
But not a lot of that happening here.
I think the, I know Hong Kong did a lot of testing of anybody who wanted it and then isolation of people who tested positive.
And they were doing that while people were asymptomatic.
I think that's the real danger time.
And I think masks are a good way to deal with that.
If you are asymptomatic, so you're not showing any symptoms, but you are positive, you have no idea that you're positive, wearing a mask protects the world from you.
And so I do think there is a benefit to the public to be wearing masks.
However, I think it's a cultural thing.
You and I were talking yesterday when we were setting up this interview.
In Hong Kong and Taiwan, it's a cultural courtesy to wear a mask.
It's like holding a door open for a lady here.
You are showing your fellow Taiwanese citizen that you care about their health.
So you're wearing a mask and that you care about yours.
It's like washing your hands when you come out of a bathroom.
You want to make a big production of it so everybody knows you're washing your hands.
That's the same thing with wearing masks there.
And I think that might be the real thing that we have to overcome in Canada is that we are not accustomed to doing these kinds of things.
It's not ingrained in us.
Well, it's not just that, though, in Winnipeg.
In Winnipeg, if people start are walking around wearing masks, that's just not going to go over very well with the average person on the street.
Never mind, you know, for vendors or retailers, you know, to me, it's so against the grain of our Western culture that I don't know that you can ever really make it acceptable.
You know, this was part of a broader discussion about how things could change in the short term and also in the long term.
We talked about, for instance, the prospect of a lockdown.
Essentially, what everybody's going through now is two steps short of a full lock, of a martial law lockdown.
Amazing how many people don't know how to spell martial, by the way.
That stuns me.
But the idea here in Winnipeg, as I mentioned to you yesterday, that Manitobans, if this thing has a bad spike, not anticipated.
But if there's just this goes off like some bulk waste blaze in the North End in an article, and people were told you got to stay in and there's curfews and whatever.
There's a curfew in Ecuador, as a friend of mine from Winnipeg is stuck in Ecuador right now.
And the curfew there is 2 p.m.
Holy.
Yeah, so I guess that gets hot in the afternoon there, anyways, this time of year.
Have a siesta.
Yeah, so it's siesta time anyways.
So you go out, go to the market, get your chicken, pluck the feathers, you know, get your, I don't know, I don't know what the native kind of vegetables and fruit are down there.
And then they're indoors from 2 o'clock on.
If this were to extend in Winnipeg past the end of April into May, Victoria Day, and you've got people who never mind from the traditional underclasses, the underemployed, the unemployed, the welfare class, etc., that are used to not having a lot of bright spots in their life on a day-to-day basis.
Now everybody's broke.
Nothing's open.
There's nowhere to go.
They're stuck in their place.
They're in a brownstone apartment building on Toronto or Victor or Beverly.
I'm mentioning those streets for the benefit of people that know what Winnipeg's like.
And they got no air conditioning.
This is not going to work very easily, if at all.
In Winnipeg.
We are not, you know, the government is not about to open a depot and start handing out eight-inch electric fans, you know, one per household.
It would be catastrophic sociologically if in Manitoba people are locked up May, June, like through Canada Day, it would, I think that something like that, and I don't know what it would be like necessarily in Saskatchewan or Alberta, BC, absolutely unworkable.
I can't see people there putting up with being cooped up under government order.
You know, it might be something like the, honestly, it might be something like the black have to be something.
You know, if it was approaching the level of the Black Death where half of Europe was wiped out in like four years, I think it was, sure, people see death all around them.
Then it's like, oh, pardon my French.
I'll stay home.
I don't think if the numbers don't get like that, I don't know that people are going to buy into the necessity, a necessity, to be locked into their own places.
But, you know, obviously the hope is here that because of our smaller population base and various checkpoints and other things, that we'll be able to come out of it relatively unscathed.
I mean, for right now, one death and only four.
One of the hospital cases I forgot to mention was a false positive.
Yeah.
I happen to have been given the contact information on that individual.
And I'm going to be trying to get a hold of them and do an interview with them.
So our numbers are just so low that we're really hoping that it's not going to be, we're not going to end up with extreme measures such as are required in New York, New Jersey, not yet in California.
Chicago, Detroit, I understand, is a mess right now.
This ultimately is the big middle finger to the urban visionaries and their dreams of density and this vision of the future where we're piled on top of each other like cordwood.
It's very plain now that when people say they want space, that they want affordable space, that there's a reason why people have single-family dwellings, right?
Yep.
And you know who's been really quiet through all this?
The urbanist crowd, the global warming crowd.
There's a lot of silence from that side of the equation.
Global warming, before I forget, we want to talk about carbon tax.
Yes, yes, please.
On March the 5th, the Manitoba government announced a plan.
It was a combination of an election promise by Premier Palliser to lower the provincial sales tax, which is ridiculously too high for reasons I won't get into now.
But, you know, governments get addicted to having money to spend.
It was going to be lowered from 7% to 6%.
He had made that promise, and he had combined this rollback with an announcement of a made-in-Manitoba carbon tax.
Again, I remind you all, regardless of what lies are told by political strategists, Brian Pallister in 2016 did not run on the base of a carbon tax whatsoever.
But he thinks he sees writing on the wall from the Trudeau government, and better to do something and try to convince the courts that you're doing something than have something else that's way more injurious at a higher rate imposed by the Trudeau government.
So he had proposed a so-called flat green levy, which I still don't understand how it was being, I don't know if it was being applied like a sales tax or what that he said would save people a significant amount over the Trudeau government levies if you could convince the courts that Manitoba, because of hydropower, isn't getting the kind of credit that the Trudeau government is giving other provinces with their own plans.
And in that regard, Pallister's right.
Trudeau does not acknowledge that we are a carbon sink in Manitoba and that, in fact, there should be no carbon tax here whatsoever.
100% of the green levy will go back to Manitobans.
I don't know how Palestine said that.
I don't know how Pallister is paying for the administrative costs.
Exactly.
More hocus-pocus.
So he combined this.
We're going to lower your taxes here.
We're going to add a tax here.
But he suspended that now.
There's no plan to move forward with either the sales tax reduction right now, which is understandable because every store would have to retool their cash registers.
It wouldn't make sense to do it now, anyways.
I kind of understand that.
But he's not moving forward with the carbon tax, the provincial carbon tax either.
Unlike our esteemed prime minister, who, as a spending addict and as the Crown prince of the globalist movement.
Yep.
I saw one of these bills, and I don't know if it was from Saskatchewan or Alberta.
It was probably from Alberta, where the amount of gas, natural gas they used was like $300 and the tax was $400.
I have yet to meet a human being who can justify this, that the tax is more than the cost of the product, as though the product was something that kills people, poisons people.
Meanwhile, the prime minister announced that who gets to waddle up to the trough one more time.
How did he call him?
He had a comment about to describe Ralph Goodale.
Oh, Lord.
What did he call Ralphie?
Oh, I try to avoid all Ralph Goodale news.
Expertise of Ralph Goodale.
Good Lord.
Yeah.
He's defeated, but he's back.
He's got a new job.
Nose right in the trough.
You know, there are a lot of liberals federally bridged that have been keeping their mouths relatively shut during this period of time, and they're doing the right thing because I think some of them are actually embarrassed by the ineptitude that's come out of Ottawa, the failure to enact proper screening at customs at airports.
Dr. Tam.
Dr. Tam is, you know, just, to my mind, obviously an apologist for the WHO.
And the WHO is not to be trusted whatsoever.
That's not conspiracy theory talking.
That's those of us that value freedom and liberty and that value straight facts talking.
WHO, you know, has been way behind the curve on this for obvious political reasons from the beginning.
And as I said, a lot of liberals are keeping the lips zipped at this stage.
There's a lot more political cooperation going on than considering it's a time of crisis than maybe we expected.
The volume's pretty loud in Western Canada a lot of the time in the last, certainly since going into the federal election and since.
But nonetheless, every day Justin Trudeau comes out, takes direction in his ear from some unknown producer, says very little.
The reporters in Ottawa have just been not.
I mean, the reporters in Ottawa aren't as good as the reporters in Manitoba, honestly, questioning our leader.
But in the meantime, that carbon tax going up is how it isn't, you know, how this is, I'm sure, the only government.
I can't, I've not heard of another government that has raised a tax, whether it's an automatic tax hike or invoking a new tax hike.
I've not heard of another government on the planet.
I'll rephrase this in a democracy on this planet, let alone not a democracy, that's raised the tax right now.
But Justin Trudeau finds a way.
Well, not only raise the tax, raise the carbon tax, but give himself a raise right in the middle of it all, too.
Yes, which supposedly could them in New Zealand.
And hardly a surprise given the mentality of the government of New Zealand.
It's an awful thing that the modern-day left cannot stop themselves from belling up to the trough, always has an excuse why taxpayers have to give more, but they don't.
Yeah, everything is an opportunity to either pat themselves on the back or line their pockets with the modern left.
Absolutely.
We are rapidly running out of time.
So I wanted to give you an opportunity to tell us what you're doing next because you've touched on just the sheer ineptitude of some of the journalists around us in the mainstream media.
And you are, I think, trying to create something that will fill that void and give people, regular people, a voice too.
I've had a lot of encouragement in this direction, especially in the last three weeks from some people that are out, you know, frankly, people that have been prominent or are prominent in Winnipeg media and public affairs.
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And for a variety of reasons, I've been slowed down through the first part of this year, through the first quarter of this year, slowed down the activities.
I'm still the editor of the J.C. We're going to be putting a story out.
There's been a terrific price exacted by the COVID-19 virus on the Jewish, on the Jewish religious leadership.
And I'm not going to lie, a lot of this is the fault of the practices of those religious communities and continuing to congregate in great numbers as it spread in places in Europe and in New York City, for instance, going so far as to defy orders, you know, orders not to have these gatherings.
But the number of rabbis, and these are very, these are learned rabbis.
These aren't guys churned out by some of the North American yeshivas, you know, that are a little less of the book study and a little more of philosophy.
These are like really revered authors and thinkers, people who are experts in Judaism and in the function of Jews in the modern world.
And there's been a tremendous toll in the Lubabature and the other religious sects, the ultra-religious, the black hatters, so to speak.
Not my family's tradition.
This is further out from us.
So we're going to be putting out a story about that and trying to file a story about once a week on the J.C.
I continue to do that kind of work.
But a few years ago, and I think this is when I first might have come on your radar, so to speak, when I was doing City Circus, which was the only program on Shaw TV that really dealt with community affairs, public affairs.
I think there's one program like it in Vancouver.
I'm trying to remember Vaughan.
I'm trying to remember the name of the guy.
There's like one show I can make.
I'm going to take Palmer.
Yeah.
And nobody does this kind of stuff.
And Shaw TV, the other broadcasters, they don't like that.
They don't like people doing news coverage because they own the news stations.
They own the other networks.
They don't want anybody competing and exposing how crappy newscasts are, worried about ribbon cuttings and feel-good stories and not so much about real news.
So what I'm doing is I'm reviving City Circus.
There's going to be a YouTube, there is a YouTube channel.
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I've just never uploaded a video to it.
I smartly reserved it and forgot about it a few years ago.
I'm going to put out a newsletter.
People will be able to subscribe.
I'm struggling with MailChimp as we tape this, but hopefully it'll be solved for Thursday morning.
I'm going to have one exclusive story to start with every day, or every issue.
I'm going to try to put them out every three days.
And I've got some contributors that are going to provide opinion pieces, their own experiences in the community, and see how it expands from there.
I'd be happy to do, in particular, for Manitoba, plugs for people's businesses and such, fit it in.
But I want to do something that's unusual in this market.
There are no newsletters going out.
You can't go out to Robin's Donuts or Tim Hortons and pick a newsletter up now, really.
So even if I was in the I've done physical newsletters in the past like that, but even if you're doing them, you don't really have the distribution now.
So I'm going to start it online.
I'm going to augment it in between the newsletters with videos like this, except I won't be talking to you.
I've already had a city councilor volunteer to be interviewed, which is right back in the wheelhouse of what I did on City Circus TV on Shah from 2012 to 20, I guess it was 2016, I think it was, September 2016.
So the videos will be about different issues that have come up, items.
And my first story that I've got exclusive details of, on March 20th, a Winnipeg cab driver was murdered.
And as you're aware and many of my followers are, I drove cab for off and on for about 15 years.
My father drove cab until he passed away from the time the Valley Pop business collapsed.
He became a cab driver.
And I ended up driving cab.
I was a labor representative, a safety representative on a provincial workplace safety and health committee.
Driver was murdered.
Val Vertour, 44-year-old.
The media reported that there had been an arrest and that a fellow named Okoth Obiang had been arrested and charged with second-degree homicide and four counts of breaching conditions.
Not one Winnipeg newsroom, all these professional paid journalists, some of them are on the taxpayers' payroll, not one of them reported what kind of conditions was he breaching.
What is the background of this alleged killer?
I have dug into his background.
He was on quite a streak from about Christmas till this incident on Burroughs Avenue with a cab with its emergency light on, the doors flung open, and a driver dying bleeding to death after being stabbed in the cab at 5.30 in the morning.
I am going to be putting out a story about the accused, about his background, which also goes back into what appears to be interesting affiliations and activities straight out of high school, which rhymes us straight out of Compton with this guy.
Sorry, makes you wonder why he was out on the street at all on conditions.
He's the kind of guy who doesn't seem like he would abide by them after a lifetime of being a walking human crime spree.
The pullover, he was pulled over in a vehicle before this murder.
And, you know, when you put all the pieces together, it's the kind of information the public has a right to know that the driver's family, Duffy's taxi owners and drivers, have a right to know.
They do not know it because nobody else has bothered reporting it.
Want to Contribute?00:05:06
I guess that's going to be my job again.
I'm going to do that.
I'm going to have an interview with a city councilor.
I've got another story that I'll be working on with regards to more ineptitude coming from Mayor Bowman.
The ongoing ticketing of nurses and people that work at healthcare facilities because you've got vultures.
There's nobody parked downtown Winnipeg.
So now the parking authority, they used to be commissionaires, these, what do you call them?
Meter maids.
Meter maids, glorified meter maids, are like vultures waiting to prey on people, including nurses and journalists.
And this is unconscionable.
Nobody in Winnipeg media is going to take on Mayor Bowman about it.
I guess it's going to be up to me.
So this is the kind of coverage I'm going to provide with City Circus for the next few foreseeable months.
And we'll see how that goes.
And if people want to get a hold of me, martygoldlive at gmail.com.
I'll add you to the email list.
And then through MailChimp, you'll be able to send it around, add other people.
And I'm hoping to be able to do my part to contribute information back into the community.
There's so many reporters that either, you know, they're not used to working from home.
They aren't used to not taking orders in a newsroom.
They're saddled with all these COVID-related stories.
And I respect that.
They've got their assignments.
But there's a lot of news that's slipping through the cracks.
Like this story from Flint Flon should have been reported in the media, for instance, and wasn't.
That's the kind of gap I'm going to fill.
People want to be able to contribute one way or the other, keep the lights on and the internet working.
I'll, of course, provide a link for that.
And hopefully I'll be back on with you at the end of April.
Sure.
And give you a further update on all things COVID and non-COVID from Winnipeg and from Manitoba.
Marty, I want to thank you so much.
When you come on the show, you make my job pretty easy because I just sit here and listen to the news just blast me in the face.
It means a lot to me to be able to be.
You know, if there's one thing, somebody mentioned to me, if there's one mistake maybe that I made or one thing I could have done differently is I should have talked with a little more with Ezra and the Powers of Bee about actively being a correspondent for the Rebel, because now you've got nobody in Manitoba.
It's not so easy to send Keen or somebody else here.
But be that as it may, if there's something that I can contribute to the Rebel from here at this stage, I'll do it.
And I'll do it through my own channel as well.
We need more media coverage, not less.
You saw the free press bleeding about lack of support that Stephen Jabot is lying about.
You know what?
People like us, we don't want government money.
We don't need government money.
We want to be able to report on government honestly.
We want to be able to hold the government to account.
That is not a job that all reporters really see as their role.
And that's fine, but somebody's got to do it.
It's up to people like us.
And I appreciate the opportunity I have to appear on your program and to be able to address the rebel audience and hear back from them on Twitter at TGCTS.
My former program, The Great Canadian Talk Show, the acronym for that.
And I can be found on Facebook too, etc.
And the more in touch I can be with people, the better off the quality of my reporting is both for the J and for now for the revival of City Circus.
Much to my surprise, out from the ashes, but I found the old logo, so I might as well use it.
Well, Marty, I want to thank you so much for being so generous with your time.
We'll have you on the show.
I've got you down for the end of April.
Best of luck in your new venture, and I can't wait to see what you do next.
Thank you, Sheila.
I'll add you actually to the mailing list now that I think of it, and you'll be able to distribute it as well.
Awesome.
Thank you.
And my best regards and best wishes to all the fans and the subscribers and viewers of The Rebel.
This is an important service that's being provided to the Canadian public, especially at a time like this.
Thank you.
Marty, stay safe and stay healthy.
These are strange and unprecedented times and I'm afraid to say we couldn't have a worse equipped leader in Ottawa to deal with all of this.
Trudeau does not know how to inspire and reach out to the business community to produce the things that Canada needs to have to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Trudeau doesn't understand what employers need right now to keep more of their employees on the payroll through all of this.
And Trudeau definitely doesn't understand what families need to get through any of this.
Trudeau's holed up like a hermit in a hovel while the nation descends into crisis.
And thank goodness for the people of Manitoba that their conservative government realized that a carbon tax would rob what little money families have left.
Now, if you at home want to support our petition calling on Justin Trudeau to stop his cruel and inhumane carbon tax during this pandemic and, you know, always, please go to stopthecarbontax.com.
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Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much, as always, for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week.
Please stay healthy.
Please stay connected to the people you love.
Reach out to those around you, not physically, however.