Keean Bexte exposes Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun restrictions, including reclassifying a $410 youth shotgun as illegal, while detailing his RCMP removal from a press conference for asking tough questions—unlike mainstream media. He contrasts Calgary’s lenient protest rules with fines against Christian pastors and critiques left-wing COVID-19 hypocrisy, where crowded parks were condemned but mass gatherings like Toronto protests were permitted. Bexte argues these policies reflect ideological double standards over economic struggles and free speech, revealing a pattern of selective enforcement and virtue signaling. [Automatically generated summary]
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In Calgary, it's okay to protest with thousands of other people, but it's not okay to feed the homeless in the age of social distancing.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
I know I say it all the time, but it is a really strange time to be alive, don't you think?
Apparently, it's far too dangerous for Calgarians to go to their churches to worship or to feed the homeless, but it's perfectly acceptable for Calgarians to join together with thousands of other people to protest, at least according to the protesters, racism happening in another country.
To be clear, I think all of these things are probably pretty safe.
Mainstream media reporters are also outraged at reporters being arrested in the middle of riots in the United States.
They're getting caught up in the confusion.
While at the same time, these Canadian reporters are turning a blind eye to Justin Trudeau using the RCMP to throw a rebel journalist out of press conferences here in Canada.
Tonight's gun show guest is here by popular demand, and he's here to talk about, well, everything, from the comparisons of the rioting happening in the United States to peaceful Hong Kong protests.
He's also here to talk about what he saw when he went to Calgary's so-called anti-racism protests the other day.
And he's here to talk about the time the RCMP got a little too handsy with him at a Justin Trudeau press conference.
And he's also here to talk about Justin Trudeau's gun grab.
I know it's a lot.
And I don't want to keep you waiting.
So let's get right into this.
This is my Rebel News colleague, Kian Bexty, in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.
Now from his home in Calgary is my friend, Rebel colleague, Kian Bexty.
Kian, thanks for joining me.
I'm just giving the people what they want because when I do these live streams with David, it's always like, when is Kian coming on?
All right, can you have Kian on your show?
I'm here to give the people what they want.
I'm a woman of the people.
So, Kian, the first thing I wanted to talk to you about is the crazy, I guess it was Black Lives Matter's Antifa NDP protest that unfolded in Calgary.
It seemed actually a little bit more well attended than I would like to see a Calgary left-wing protest be.
Yeah, it was a little bit concerning how many Antifa flags were in the crowd.
It was supposed to be sort of, and I suppose who knows what it was really supposed to be at the end of the day, but what a lot of people hoped that it would be, at least the NDPers on Twitter, who at least have some sort of restraint and an idea of how to like push political movements.
They were hoping that it was going to be this nonviolent, really sort of, you know, good feeling, support Black Lives kind of thing, stop police brutality, whatever, fine.
They can do what they want.
But it was infiltrated quite clearly by Antifa.
It was infiltrated by radical folks who were calling for violence.
It was infiltrated by people who are calling the police force a pandemic and equating the Calgary Police Service to the KKK.
Just people that are really, really out of touch with the difference between Canada and the United States.
They are on an IV drip of CNN and MSNBC, and they think that what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis happens frequently in Canada.
So I asked them, that was my main question on the streets, is, can you give me an example of police brutality against a black individual here in Canada?
Give me one example, please.
And nobody could come up with any.
So I'm not sure they even knew what they were there to protest.
They just wanted a part of the action, a part of the fun.
Thank God it didn't break down into looting like it has across the rest of the continent.
Yeah, I saw someone on Twitter say that, you know, don't worry about looting in downtown Calgary.
Menshe already did that and leveled basically Calgary's downtown.
I did think it was funny, though, because I would suggest that you've actually probably been a victim of police brutality.
So I thought it was funny for you to be asking these questions about police brutality to people who would probably, if you put it to them, tell you that you deserved that.
I thought that was kind of interesting.
And, you know, I thought it was kind of funny, you know, to see them encouraging, you know, telling police to take a knee.
And then when you sort of push them on that, oh, I don't want to talk about that.
I'm an old lady.
I think that was probably my favorite clip, the old lady who's doing deep knee lunges.
When you stop to ask her about stuff, oh no, then she's just a frail little old lady.
But that's usually how things go in these left-wing protests, is that the second you sort of needle them for information about why they're there, they hide behind whatever demographic they exist as.
So whether they're, you know, you can't talk to me about that, I'm old or I'm gay or I'm whatever.
It's whatever social justice thing that they identify as, that becomes their personal shield from criticism.
Yeah, and I was, like you said earlier, I was surprised with how many people were at that protest, rally, demonstration, march, whatever it was.
It was at 7 a.m. on a Monday, and there were thousands, probably, probably around 1,500 to 2,000 people there, which really illustrates a different problem that Canada, and particularly Calgary, is facing, that they should be protesting about, is that the federal government is leaving them unemployed in a position where they can run around downtown Calgary, shouting, screaming, and on the verge of violence.
These people were very, many of them were unhinged.
Some of them were very restrained and had a message that they wanted to talk about.
But a lot of them, especially the ones carrying the Antifa flag, a flag of a terrorist organization, according to Donald Trump, they were really unhinged.
And it was the middle of a workday on Monday.
That's the much bigger problem that they should be concerned about.
There's no police brutality against like a racialized police brutality in Canada.
It just doesn't exist.
It just doesn't exist.
The brutality is the federal government beating the hell out of the Alberta economy.
Now, I wanted to ask you, did you see any enforcement of these social distancing regulations happening?
Because you did some fight the fines work, and people can see that at fightthefines.com, where a Christian pastor was fined for, I think it was giving out sandwiches in the exact place as these protests.
So it looks like it's okay to be a member of Antifa and protest, but it's not okay to feed the homeless in the city of Calgary.
Yeah, which I'm happy that I was there to document it because I actually got the police recorded saying we were told by command not to issue any tickets because their right to protest supersedes that social distancing order, which I find very curious because in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms under Fundamental Freedoms, Section A guarantees the rights, freedoms of conscience and religion.
And then I think it's Section C in that same fundamental freedoms list that guarantees freedom of assembly and association.
I think those ones are, but point being, they're all in the same list of freedoms.
It's not a buffet.
You don't get to pick which ones you're going to enforce on Monday and which ones you're going to enforce on Sunday.
It doesn't work like that.
But for some reason, the Calgary Police Service were specifically targeting Christian pastors.
And we know it was specifically targeting them because it was on two different occasions in two different areas, two different Christian pastors with two different churches.
They went and gave them thousands of dollars in fines.
And some of them, in some cases, gave them repeated fines for just coming back, having the audacity to practice their religion the next week.
And these folks, they got a pass just because there was what, a lot of them?
If anything, that should make it worse.
That should make it worse that there are so many people in such close quarters.
They're putting them alive, or at least they'll be the first people to say that that Christian pastor was putting the lives of seniors and vulnerable people at risk, people with compromised immune systems and respiratory systems.
They would tell those Christian pastors that they were being selfish for feeding the homeless, might I add.
But those people protesting, calling for the dismantlement of police departments, calling them the police pandemics and the KKK and saying there was one person.
Actually, I probably shouldn't say it on the stream.
But, you know, these people, why are their rights being protected over the rights of religious people?
I think everyone's rights should be protected.
My problem is that I don't think that they should be picking and choosing.
Yeah, I agree.
I think, like, this last week's Karens are this week's antifa protesters.
These are the same people who would call the cops on you for going into Walmart without a mask.
And then this week they're protesting police brutality because for these people, it truly seems as though for them their church is the state and control.
And it is interesting to see how this protest was treated by Calgary police versus what I saw unfolding in Edmonton when like a ragtag bunch of people, and I'll be quite honest here, a loosely organized anti-gun grab protest unfolded on the steps of the legislature and moved the sheriffs and the Edmonton City police and physically moved people off the steps of the legislature, ticketed them.
I think it was $1,200.
Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms is helping them with that.
And they were social distancing.
They weren't anywhere near anybody else.
And we did see Jason King weigh in and say, okay, we need to have a full examination of what happened here because we have to balance the right to protest with these ridiculous regulations.
And where is Doug Schweitzer?
He's sitting in the legislature while that protester was being arrested on the front steps of the legislature.
Where was he standing up for his rights?
And then I'm sure this week, Doug Schweitzer is going to be virtue signaling.
He's probably posting a black Instagram photo right now saying that we should be listening to black people and we should be shutting up and letting them talk while he is arresting white people for doing what?
For protesting and for exercising their own rights.
It's insane.
The people that are being targeted unfairly here were the people in front of the legislature.
And Doug Schweitzer gave everyone in that rally, thousands of people, a free pass to now go on and go speak with their grandmothers, speak with their siblings who might have asthma.
And they are going to be putting pressure on the healthcare system, but they're not getting tickets.
No, no, no, no, because their rights are more important than everyone else's.
Now, moving on to the next thing I wanted to talk to you about, it's something I alluded to earlier, and that is the police brutality that you experienced at Justin Trudeau's daily morning show, where lazy journalists ask a simple man easy questions.
You went there, you tried to attend, just like every other journalist seems to be attending these things, except you're not like every other journalist.
You have tough questions you want to ask.
And you were strong-armed by the RCMP.
And I think everybody's seen that footage.
And the reason I want to talk to you about this is because we are seeing a lot of public outcry from Canadian journalists now, all of a sudden, that American journalists are being hassled as they report on these race riots, I guess, happening in the United States.
They're outraged at these American journalists who are getting confused for rioters, it seems like, by the police, and yet mums the word when it comes to Kian Bexi getting his arm bent behind his back and marched off the Rito compound.
Double Standard Drama00:06:41
What do you have to say about this double standard from the mainstream media?
It's always a double standard with the mainstream media.
It's a double standard when it comes to the facts that they look about, look at on police brutality.
It's a double standard when they're complaining to the masses about who gets priority questions or who gets led into these areas at all.
As you mentioned, I was strong-armed out of the Rideau compound and not even a week later, Travis something from Global News, who's part of the Toronto Bureau for Global News covering Queen's Park and Doug Ford.
He's been complaining that he hasn't gotten a question all week.
Can you imagine?
Center Hella.
Because he asked a tough question.
And granted, the question was pretty tough.
It was asking for Doug Ford to hold himself accountable and does he take responsibility for the state of long-term care homes, which is a whole nother conversation to have about those being public or privatized.
But the guy said that that question was a little bit too harsh.
And now he hasn't gotten a question given to him by partisan staffers at Doug Ford's office.
It's the same problem we're facing right now, except for we've never gotten a question.
We've been calling and calling and burned two months of my life trying to call and get into this place.
And it has just never worked out.
But he doesn't get a question in a week.
And well, Global News is sounding the alarm bells.
It is a total double standard.
It's a total joke.
They obviously only care about themselves.
They don't care about asking tough questions.
They just want the attention.
Yeah, and it's funny how, I guess, how insular they are.
Like, we've been having this fight very publicly with the Trudeau government.
I guess the fight goes back to the debates commission.
We've been fighting for journalistic access, and we've been very public about it.
The people who like us know about it, and even some of the people who hate us know about it.
But this gaggle of reporters, you'd think that you would know about these battles for press freedom because you're a journalist and you care about press freedom.
But they really have no idea about the work that we are doing and the money that we are spending to not only protect our right to report, but theirs too, their right to ask Doug Ford a question if they so choose, if they ask a tough question and get booted.
They just don't care because they don't like the people who are doing the work they aren't willing to do.
Yeah, you're right about that.
When I first started at the Rebel, I thought that the CBC and Global News and CTV, they were all out to get us.
They were specifically silencing and ignoring stories that we broke or not even crediting us when we break stories, like when he broke a Hamar Cotter and whereas he was hiding his money.
They took that story and then just sort of republished it after the National Post watched it.
I think that they are not actually doing this maliciously.
I think that they're just incompetent.
I think that their circles, their journalism school circles, are so close knit that every journalist in Canada knows every journalist.
I mean, every mainstream media journalist knows every other mainstream media journalist from Calgary to Toronto because they all live in Toronto.
They all live in Ottawa.
You might even notice that the Globe and Mail has a new Calgary-based Reporter that is going to cover all stories, Calgary, but guess where she's living?
She's living in Toronto.
These people all know each other, and if it's outside of their bubble, it's foreign to them, and it just goes right over their head.
So when they hear stories that we break, they just assume that the person that told them it is giving them some sort of like secret tip.
And they've never even watched Rebel News.
I'm sure of it at this point, because you couldn't post like that saying, oh, like talking about Travis's week-long plight to ask a question.
You couldn't post about something like that and not know that we've had several videos go viral across Canada where a significant portion of the Canadian population has seen me get dragged out of Rideau Cottage while I'm trying to ask the prime minister a question and not even allude to that to that issue or that story.
It's just these people are joke.
Well, yeah, and they actually are getting the story wrong when they do try to tell this story.
I noticed Sean O'Shea from, again, Global News, he said, you know, we are agitators.
We thumb our noses at police or stick out their thumbs at police, I think is what he said, which I don't know.
I'm not hitchhiking with the police.
I don't know what he meant by that.
But then he also said, you know, and they violate court injunctions.
I'm sorry.
We don't violate court injunctions.
We get court injunctions.
We get court injunctions to enforce our right to report like we did with the debates commission.
We don't violate court orders, but he's repeating that completely verbatim.
He heard it somewhere else.
And so it's just like telephone: you know, repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie.
All of a sudden, you believe it, and it becomes part of the ethos.
And I think that's what's happening.
Like they heard somewhere along the line that we are white supremacist.
And instead of actually going to the source and saying, are they really white supremacists?
Because that sounds a little bit crazy, given that they're a Jewish-owned and operated company and they've done all this work for persecuted Christian minorities and you know, they have like a multi-ethnic office.
That seems a bit crazy.
Let's go look and see the work they do.
They never do that.
They just keep repeating it.
Someone I trust said it, so I'll just keep going down the line.
And, you know, it makes you question the integrity of the work they do if they can't even do basic research on the people they're being critical of.
I've learned not to trust them for any reason whatsoever, because when it's important, they've been factually proven to be accurate time and time again.
And that's when it's important.
When it's not a totally non-important story, just like a public interest local story, these people are the same thing.
Cheetahs don't change their spots.
They're always lying, and you can never tell why they're doing it, what they have to gain from their lies.
They just do it.
And it's like an instinct to them to not tell the truth and to spin it however they want and pretend like they're not biased.
Why We Doubt Chinese Media00:07:29
We here at Rebel News, we are biased.
You can see from my shirt, I might be a fan of Donald Trump in some way, shape, or form.
You might not like Hillary Clinton, but you know that.
We let our viewers know what we think, why we're thinking it, so that when they hear news from our mouths, they understand the perspective that it's coming from so that they can make informed decisions about how they vote, about where they're going to put their money, about where they're going to boycott, about what petitions they're going to sign, because they know that we are being honest with our perspective.
Whereas with CBC News, they'll never tell you where they're coming from.
They'll tell you they're totally non-biased.
They're not left-wing.
They're not right-wing.
They're not even censorist.
The news they're giving you is totally just bland, plain, plain as day news.
But the next, like, and here's what I find really funny: is just a few days ago, I think it was two days ago, a CBC reporter jumped ship and got a free ride at the liberal press office in Newfoundland.
And David Cochrane, Rosemary's second in command in Ottawa, was a- He's the Poutine guy.
Twitter.
He's the what?
He's the Poutine guy.
Yeah, yeah.
He was congratulating him on Twitter.
Like, good job.
Like, not without any sort of hint of introspection or understanding how people are seeing this, that he's applauding a reporter for making his next career move to the Liberal Party.
Like, that's just the standard operating procedure of a liberal, of a CBC reporter's career.
Like, they're tone deaf.
I'm at a loss for words for how stupid some of these people are.
Well, we saw the same thing unfold in Alberta.
I think it was two dozen journalists jumped ship to go work for the NDP.
They basically just helped the NDP get elected and then went and colonized the NDP.
I mean, it was truly a reward for a job well done for their lack of criticism and their lack of investigation into who and what the NDP were in 2015.
And, you know, it's not a difficult move for these journalists.
It's not an ideological struggle.
It's just like a step across, like it's a total lateral move.
Now, there's something I wanted to ask you about, because I see a lot of this on social media.
And I know this is kind of near and dear to your heart.
I see people comparing these violent riots to the fight for freedom in Hong Kong and not comparing the difference in protest style, but actually making the comparison that these are sort of on par with each other.
And I'm willing to bet that you would take a great deal of umbrage with that.
Okay, you are right on the link there, Chila.
And I'm so interested in the story right now that the Chinese propagandists are pumping out because they're trying, and you know, when the Chinese propagandists are saying something, they have something over here that they're trying to distract you with, and then something over here is actually happening.
And they're saying right now that the riots in the United States are somehow linked to the Hong Kong riots.
Like the civil unrest somehow has something to do.
They're run by similar people.
They're run by anarchists.
And you're kind of scratching your head.
You're like, well, why are they saying that?
And then the next day that that article came out from Global Times, for some reason, outside of the White House in that square, Lafayette Square, in front of the riot police, there was someone shouting, quick, we need to leave right now in Chinese.
Now I thought, well, that was curious.
So I got my friend from Hong Kong to listen to that audio and say, is this Cantonese or is this Mandarin?
And it was in Mandarin.
Now, if you know anything about politics and demographics in China, Mandarin is the language of mainland China.
It is the language of Beijing.
It is the language of the Communist Party of China.
And Cantonese is the language of Hong Kong and a little bit Macau.
And if it was really a Hong Kong rioter that just happened to be in Washington, D.C., they'd be speaking Cantonese.
Of course not.
They were speaking Mandarin.
And I don't want to be that person that calls it early and says, yeah, that was a Chinese operative there.
I mean, why were they doing that?
Yeah, and you see these, you know, these Chinese outlets online, and either they're cheering for the unrest in the United States, or they are looking to, I don't know how to phrase it, they're looking to equate the unrest and the rioting in the United States to the protests for freedom, the peace,
incredibly peaceful protests for freedom in Hong Kong.
And Trump is going to, and it's already started, crack down on this mob violence very hard with the force of the state.
And I think the Chinese are looking to use that opportunity to do the same in Hong Kong.
Yeah, in all cases, what they're trying to do is discredit the American government.
In everything they publish in all of their operations overseas, they're trying their best to destabilize Donald Trump and stabilize the American public, civil, just the general public and the government.
And they do that by trying to say that somehow the American government is brutal, is brutalizing black people, and putting up propaganda in their many different ways that they do.
But the difference between the American government and the government in Hong Kong could not be more stark.
In the American government, you don't have people storming the speaker's chair and surrounding them with security so that they can hold the speaker position of committees.
People in the United States are duly elected.
There's a democratic country and it's clear how their government operates.
But in Hong Kong, even people living in Hong Kong can't understand why their government is collapsing so quickly at the hands of Beijing.
They can't explain why there's armed security surrounding the dais in the legislature in Hong Kong.
They don't even get what's going on because Beijing already has an iron-fisted grip on that Pacific city there.
So comparing the two is a complete farce.
And anytime that you see something like that, you should be even more critical.
You should be about as critical as you are of the mainstream media because it is likely Chinese propaganda if you're seeing something along the lines of that.
Yeah, and we are no strangers to seeing the mainstream media repeat Chinese propaganda verbatim.
Why Guns Matter00:03:26
I think the entire coronavirus outbreak has been just a big exercise in that.
Kian, I think you have one petition out there right now, Hands Off Our Guns.
You and I were talking off camera that, well, I had mentioned that I did get the little pamphlet in the mail from the RCMP saying, hey, some of your guns might be declassified or reclassified to prohibited.
We don't know what they are, and things are changing, so check the website.
And things are changing because last week, the RCMP reclassified a 410 bird gun.
So like a little kid's first shotgun, like the one you get when you turn eight.
The RCMP have reclassified that one.
So while Justin Trudeau says this is military style assault weapons, no, these are like kids' guns and ladies' 22s.
It's outrageous.
There's so many reasons why folks should be signing that petition, hands off our guns, from the completeless mismanagement and undemocratic process that they follow to restrict these guns to the fact that one of these guns you might own and it might have been given to you from your grandfather.
You inherited it from him.
I know that that's the case for me.
Luckily, none of those firearms were on that list, but I did get firearms from my grandfather, and he's not here anymore.
And I remember him best from that gun that I have in my safe.
It's something that him and I shot gophers with when I was young.
And if Justin Trudeau was to take that away from me, it would be heartbreaking.
Imagine Justin Trudeau walking into your house and saying, no, that blanket that your mother knit for you when you were a child, that teddy bear that you got.
No, that has to come with me.
That's actually the government's property now.
You have to sell it to me for $2.
It's insane.
Nobody would agree to that.
But because there's a bunch of white liberals in Toronto saying that guns are spooky and scary, and I'm scared of, I see guns and I hear guns on the news of people getting shot in Toronto because it's gang violence and those were actually illegal guns.
You in rural ass Alberta need to give me your this prized possession of yours.
That's absolutely insane.
So go to, if they go to handsofferguns.ca, sign that petition.
We're going to be sending that to Bill Blair, the loser that replaced Ralph Goodell.
Yeah, the guy who oversaw the explosion of gun violence in Toronto has got all the answers to deal with gun violence in the rest of the country.
I, like you, I'm in the same boat.
Guns that I inherited from my dad, my dad passed and I was quite young.
One of my fondest memories is shooting gophers with him sitting on the tailgate of his beat up Ford courier.
And I want to be able to give that to my daughter, who's the marksman of the family.
And if Justin Trudeau has his way, that's not going to happen.
I'm going to have to sell my family heirloom to Justin Trudeau so that it can be destroyed.
And I'm so proud of you for fighting back because if you and I are in this boat, thousands upon thousands of other Canadians are going to be suffering the same sort of losses.
And it's not a financial loss.
Yeah, it sort of sucks.
But it's your family history that Justin Trudeau is going to strip from us.
So yes, that's at handsoffourguns.ca.
Needed Proof00:02:01
Keen, you've been very generous with your time.
And I want to thank you for coming on the show.
I will make sure you come on the show more frequently rather than allow the viewers to demand it of me and badger me into doing it.
But I know you have a lot of work to get out there and do.
You're busy holding the government to account and our media friends to account also.
So thank you very much, Kian.
No problem.
This was fun.
If anything, the new age of the coronavirus has really demonstrated just how riddled with hypocrisy left-wing ideology tends to be.
I mean, if you needed more proof of that, and you should not have needed more proof of that.
But let me explain.
The very same people engaged in large-scale mass protesting or exhibiting support for the large-scale mass protesting this week in Toronto were the very same people expressing outrage because a bunch of normal people wanted to use a city park last week and things then got a little too crowded.
Dr. Teresa Tam, Canada's public health officer, encouraged prohibitions on people attending their churches and Easter celebrations with their families.
Yet now she's giving her endorsement for people to attend large-scale protests.
Just don't speak moistly, you see.
Either the public health emergency caused by the coronavirus wasn't the emergency that they thought it was and that they told us it was, or they actually think that this is an emergency, but their cause of the day makes them immune to the health implications.
But these people can't have it both ways.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.