DAILY dives into Ukraine’s Zelensky addressing Parliament while dissecting Canada’s political chaos: Trudeau’s carbon tax fuels Putin’s war machine via Gazprom, Patrick Brown’s $2/liter gas silence contrasts with his $112K COVID fines, and Unifor’s Jerry Diaz resigns amid $315M asset scrutiny after police called on his own members. Alberta’s UCP faces leadership turmoil—Kenney’s secret court orders jail pastors like "Pastor Art" for peaceful protest, while Brian Jean challenges his AGM candidate. The episode ties energy policies, union power, and legal overreach to a broader pattern of elite hypocrisy and public betrayal. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Tuesday, March the 15th, 2022.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host.
Well, let me tell you about my co-host, folks.
You know, they say you should beware the Ides of March, but I don't beware the Ides of March when I get to talk to my friend out west because she would never betray me.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Khalesi of Northern Alberta.
She is Sheila Gunreed.
How you doing there, Sheila?
David, I'm great.
Look at you shoehorning random trivia into your Ides of March greeting with me.
I totally forgot that today was the 15th of March.
Historical significance, I suppose.
Thanks for bringing that up.
Yes, for all those in the Cesarean section, a very important date indeed.
Oh, David, that's the best.
How are you doing?
Hey, I'm doing great.
It's snowing here.
It's about one degree.
It's supposed to be going up to 17 in a few days.
Yeah, I know.
It just, it's a roller coaster.
And you know, it's funny.
Speaking of March and beware the Ides of March, I, you know, I've always asked, I've always been asked if someone was coming to the greater Toronto area for the first time, what would be the best month and the worst month?
And I think the best month, Sheila, it is the month of September because you get those summer hot days and it cools off in the evening.
Beautiful sleeping weather, like they say.
March, it's neither winter, it's not spring.
It's this hybrid where the, you know, snowbanks are melting and you see all the Tim Horton and McDonald cups and the dog feces and it's just so disgusting.
It's just, that's how I feel.
I don't know about you out in Alberta.
Best and worst months?
I don't know.
I definitely wouldn't say September because September is a grab bag of disaster.
It can be blistering hot and then like three days later, you're like, oh, I guess I should have covered my garden because we got a big dump of snow.
So you never really know what you're going to get out here in Alberta.
I guess, I guess maybe June is okay, but that's also kind of a thunderstorm season here.
So I don't know.
You just got to be prepared for the weather here.
I know even last week I was in Calgary with some members of the Rebel team, including some people from head office.
And I watched the thermometer on my Jeep slowly drop as I was making the four-hour drive back to my house.
I think it was like, I don't know, minus three or something when I was in Calgary.
And by the time I got home that evening, it was minus 21 when I got home.
Unbelievable.
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But you know what, Sheila?
Because you always bust my chops about my vehicle, fess up to the audience.
You don't have a real Jeep in terms of, you know, a Wrangler Rubicon.
You've got like the SUV Jeep, don't you?
I have a Trail Hawk.
And I also have a Grand.
Yeah, I have a Trailhawk.
And I have the Grand Cherokee, the diesel, the three-liter diesel with the Mercedes-Benz engine in there.
I have one of those two sitting in the driveway.
And I'm waiting for my daughter to turn 16 so she can drive it.
So those are both pretty real Jeeps, Mr. Eggbeater for a car.
Yeah, well, tell us how it goes next time you take one of those vehicles on the Jeep Jamboree.
Okay.
So there you go.
Sheila, enough with the weather and auto-talk.
Mocked by you and your electric car.
I just won't.
Plug-in hybrid, actually.
Sheila, what is it that we're trying to do here other than weather an automobile talk?
You know what?
I am trying to stay your friend, and it's getting tougher and tougher all the time as you continue to make fun of me when you clearly have no right to.
Anyway, I should tell everybody what we're doing here before we get into the news of the day because it's a real stuffed fierogi of a day today.
It is the Rebel News daily live stream.
It used to just be hosted on Friday by Ezra Levant, but then the pandemic struck.
There's more news than ever.
And the best way to interact with the news and each other and our viewers seems to be in live form for an hour every day.
I really like it.
But then Joe Biden got elected.
Big tech didn't have to pretend anymore.
And they censored a whole host of conservative channels, including ours.
They completely demonetized us over on YouTube.
We're not kicked off yet, but the clock is ticking there, I think, for sure.
And one of my biggest stresses in the day is to make sure that our videos don't kill the YouTube channel.
So that's another point that I should make.
If you are watching us on YouTube, if you want the full uncensored version, you better find us on another platform like Rumble, Odyssey, and Super U.
And that should bring me into the next thing.
So while we are currently streaming on YouTube, because they kind of don't want us there, so that's how you get more of us.
We're also over on Rumble, Odyssey, and Super U.
Those are three free speech platforms that don't care about your politics and they give you the opportunity to support the work that we do completely willingly.
So Rumble allows you to send a rant.
If you send one of those, a paid chat, David or myself will read it on air.
Likewise, with an Odyssey Hyper Chat, that's their paid chat over there.
And what did I forget?
Super U, a Super U shout.
You can send one of those to us, and that's their version of a paid chat.
And we will read it on air, send us a question, a comment, story idea.
And we are also in our fourth week of streaming on Getter.
And I think that's going well.
I think it's no hitches so far.
And I think the Getter people appreciate it.
So if you're watching us on Getter, hello.
And if you're watching us on YouTube, say goodbye to YouTube and just go on to the other platforms because there's going to be a point at which in the show, although we've been pretty good lately, where we might have to say goodbye to YouTube and move over to one of those other platforms because YouTube is pretty strict with the things that we can and can't say on their platform.
They are supposed to be the digital public square, but there's only room for one set of ideas there.
Indeed, which they call disinformation if you have a contrary set of ideas, Sheila.
Even though CNN says it, and then it's fine.
That's right.
Yeah.
You know, even if it's factual, but what do the facts have to matter?
And speaking of disinformation, I see one of our top stories today.
Justin Trudeau says he has a plan to fight Russia's disinformation.
Part of that plan is to fight liberal disinformation.
And does this fight on Russia disinformation?
I assume this is more than just getting RT bumped off the airwaves.
Well, I wonder what this means, specifically Russian disinformation, because we've got a real problem with CBC disinformation.
They've had to retract two stories about the convoy, claiming that it was Russian-backed apropos of literally nothing except for the host's fevered dreams about Russians under every bed.
But on the flip side, as an Al Burton who cares deeply about the oil patch, I welcome this new crackdown on environmental madness because that's real Russian disinformation around here.
Russia's been funding the anti-oil sands, anti-pipeline, anti-fracking movement for the better part of a decade.
They've been dumping money into an offshore holding company, which then dumps money into San Francisco, into the big environmental charities there, and that just sends it out into the world.
It's been greenwashed, and it ends up in places like Canada blocking our pipelines because that secures Russia's stranglehold on Europe through Gazprom because they, as North Americans, we can't develop liquefied natural gas and get it offshore.
So if they are going to crack down on that nonsense, I'm not pro-censorship, but I'd like to see them sort this one out.
Indeed.
And if, you know, Justin Trudeau really wanted to do something tangible about the war in Ukraine, Sheila.
How about this?
Get rid of the carbon taxes and green light all the pipeline developments these liberals have crushed.
It is this enormous price of oil that is indirectly or directly, I should say, funding Putin's war machine and the dependence of so many European nations on Russian oil that we could give an alternative to, but we can't.
And the same goes for Sleepy Joe Biden in the United States, Sheila.
They're two faces of the same coin.
Yeah, they are the real oligarch enablers, really.
The environmentalist movement and the politicians beholden to them.
They're the ones lining the pockets of the oligarchs by not allowing North Americans to develop their energy resources.
I do think it's interesting, though, because Justin Trudeau is pursuing this whole nonsense about Russian disinformation.
But what does that mean?
Does that mean actual Russian disinformation?
Do they have to have proof that it is Russian?
Or can you just go by what the lunatics on CBC say?
Because they were the ones that were saying, oh, the convoy is Russian-backed.
No proof whatsoever.
They just said it was Russian-backed.
They were the ones that also said that the convoy was foreign funded.
And that wasn't the case.
Testimony at the finance committee, or I think it was actually the public safety committee from GoFundMe and GiveSend Go both said that the overwhelming majority of the donors to both convoy crowdfunding campaigns, they were Canadian.
And yet that scare, the Russian scare, was enough to, I guess, enable the government to do the thing that they wanted to do.
And that was to cut off the funding to the convoy and seize bank accounts based on just nonsense cooked up at the CBC.
It is incredible.
And again, we have to look south of the border too to get another measure of insanity, Sheila, I think.
And that is, can you imagine the nuclear arms deal with Iran is being negotiated with an intermediary, which is Russia?
You know, Russia is doing the talking for the United States because the Iranian officials won't meet face to face.
So you have to basically go into a hotel room and pass notes through Russia.
And I think the world right now, Sheila, and I don't think this is disinformation, it is setting up for a real unholy axis of enemies, which would be Russia, Iran, China, and perhaps even North Korea into the mix.
And the United States of America under the Biden administration thinks it's a good idea for Russia to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran.
This is insanity.
Well, and are we just pretending like Russia, or sorry, Iranian missiles didn't strike in the vicinity of the U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq, where I was?
So they're negotiating an energy deal with an adversarial foreign power that sent missiles.
Well, they say striking in the vicinity of the U.S. consulate in Erbil, northern Iraq, which I could see at one point from my hotel room when I was there a few years ago documenting the return of the Christians after their genocide there.
So the Americans are still negotiating an energy deal with Iran and have taken Keystone XL completely off the table.
And I'm pretty sure that Calgary hasn't bombed anybody lately.
Yeah.
It's astonishing.
And as I understand, under the terms of this deal, Iran is also working on intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Oh, that's fun.
That's not going to scare the daylights out of Israel.
You know what's going to happen?
Israel's going to have to assassinate a few more Iranian scientists because we know where this is going.
100%.
But what I'm getting at, Sheila, is that with Israel being in the neighborhood, you don't need an intercontinental ballistic missile.
So where would, where, oh, where do you think those missiles would be pointed at, Sleepy Joe Biden?
You know, the world is upside down.
And I'm not so much worried about disinformation, Sheila, as I'm worried about the media refusing, most of the mainstream media, that is, to report this reality that we see going on.
I think a lot of people are completely unaware of what's happening.
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Yeah, I was reading something written by Justin Trudeau's brother, Kyle Kemper, because I'm prepping for an interview with him.
So we are going to have to cut the show today, like right at the bottom of the hour, because I have to get off here and then interview Kyle Kemper.
And he pointed out that as early as 2019, like we think that it's bad now, but as early as 2019, 25% of the journalists in this entire country, and this is before the subsidies, before the bailouts, their salaries were paid directly by the federal government.
Oh, and by the way, one of those journalists, well, there's one fewer journalists getting his money from the federal government.
We'll get to in a bit, but Alexa Lavois, our wonderful Quebec City correspondent, Sheila, that video she had on that city news reporter, it is unbelievable.
And, you know, folks, you got to check out that video.
You got to see where the agenda of so many of these mainstream media people are.
His problem is he played his cards openly.
He took down the kabuki curtain and showed you who he really was and who he really, how he really believes.
And even to the point, Sheila, which I found despicable, mocking the physical aspects of a woman who was involved with the Freedom Convoy.
Yeah, and he's no Mr. Universe himself, by the way.
Yeah.
Glass houses, buddy.
Do they, with Mr. Universe, do they care about what the guy's face looks like, Sheila, or is it just muscles?
It's just muscles.
I don't even think they care if they're juiced right up.
I really don't.
Do you like that look, by the way?
The muscles on the muscles, the triceps on the biceps?
Like a healthy man, but I don't, like a guy who spends like all day in the gym.
I'm not sure.
I like muscles that actually do things.
Oh, you know?
Okay.
You know, that like serve a purpose.
Like, can you change a tractor tire?
Stuff like that.
I'm not sure if a guy who spends all day in the gym has the skill set to even change a tractor tire, let alone the muscle groups.
You know what I mean?
It's just different.
I knew one guy many years ago that was into that and had an extraordinary physique in terms of muscles.
And the annoying thing, Sheila, is that he could not walk past any reflecting surface without stopping and posing.
Is that where he loses you, Sheila?
Big time.
Big time.
Like I said, I like a healthy man.
Did my chair just let itself down?
Speaking of.
Oh, my goodness.
It's been a bountiful harvest, I guess.
Yes, I'm too heavy for my chair.
Now we have super producer Ephren in the room, and he wants us on the 15s.
And we're already two minutes over to get to super chats.
Do we have any in as of yet?
Let me take a peekaboo.
Oh, no.
All right.
Tell Ephron to settle down.
Either they're not provided or they haven't been posted.
So, well, you know what?
So many things to get to.
Why don't we?
Well, here's a video.
And this is sort of newsy, given it happened on Sunday morning.
Patrick Brown, he's passing himself off as a winner.
And he announced.
Sorry.
Sorry, Sheila.
I can't laugh when I read that.
I spent all day yesterday reading documents about Patrick Brown.
So my brain is like fully refreshed with Patrick Brown's recent and I guess not so recent history.
But by the way, speaking of Patrick Brown and journalists letting the mask slip, our Lincoln Jay, and I don't want to talk too much about it because it does feel like we're punching down because we're up here and this guy is like way down here.
One of the journalists at the Patrick Brown event that our Lincoln J was covering, he got right off the rev limiter with Lincoln.
Lincoln was just trying to work, do his, you know, his little stand-up clothes on the Media Riser.
And this guy came over and just completely interrupted the work that he was trying to do and acted like a lunatic, tried to ban us.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
He tried to ban us from Brampton.
Again, that's how you get more of us.
We're going to be in Brampton so much now.
You're going to be sick of us.
But I mean, I don't want to talk too much about it because we're punching down.
But he deserves it, Sheila.
He started it.
Of course he did.
But I mean, this is just more of the media letting the mask slip.
They're not even pretending anymore.
That's two of them in just a couple of days.
So shall we throw to the video featuring Patrick Brown, the lying liar, the crying cry baby, the shameless skirt chaser?
What's that, Efren?
We have one chat.
One chat.
Oh, we got one chat.
Do we got it?
Let me just check.
Let me refresh Slack.
No, I don't have it yet, Efron.
Come on.
It kind of makes us look desperate, doesn't it, Sheila?
We have one chat.
A little, I am.
Send us more chat.
Maybe we could just do Patrick Brown's video and good idea.
Let's throw that video and fantastic.
Are you guys ready for that?
Not yet.
Okay.
Anyway.
Long show today is already.
Sorry, folks.
It must be that snowstorm.
I'll talk about what I was doing yesterday as I was going through documents relating to Patrick Brown.
And I ended up watching a lot of David Menzies' greatest hits from the pandemic because of it.
As you may or may not know, Patrick Brown is currently trying to rewrite his history to become the, and I don't know why my voice always gets ridiculous when I say it, but Canada's first anti-lockdown mayor.
That's what he says he was.
And I was, what?
Basically, like, he was an early adopter of letting municipalities be more free.
Oh, for himself and his very buddies who like to play ice hockey.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You didn't read the fine print, Sheila.
When you're not living by your own restrictions, I guess every day you're as free as a bird.
But he was the guy who brutally imposed a lockdown on Brampton's children.
He chained up the parks, stationed expensive security around the parks.
And after he announced, I remembered, oh my goodness, I have an access to information document, 400 and some odd pages that I've been dreading reading because it's very Patrick Brown heavy and I don't like to go back to it.
But it was about his city of Brampton, all their communications with the private security firm hired by Patrick Brown to brutally enforce the lockdown on Bramptonians, I think is how I would say it, including, you know,
enforcing the lockdown at the cemetery, at the parks, at the soccer field, where somehow they wanted they're like, oh, we should send the security guards to the soccer center because teenagers might be down there smoking dope between 8.30 in the morning and 1.30 in the afternoon.
I'm like, have you ever met a wayward teenager?
They're usually not even up before then, but okay, whatever.
And the inflated pandemic rates that they were willing to pay Paladin security to brutally enforce Patrick Brown's lockdown.
And so it's a bit ridiculous to hear him say that he was the anti-lockdown mayor.
He was the worst, including sending people to make sure that people were social distancing when they were taking pictures of the trees in bloom.
Much like Toronto.
And isn't Brampton's slogan the flower city, the garden city, something like that?
But, you know, Sheila.
They're not getting close enough to sniff any flowers.
The Paladin was making sure that.
Yeah, you better have a nose the size of an elephant, okay, to maintain that social distancing.
But here was the really insidious thing.
People will say, well, you know, Sheila, Paladin security guards, they don't have the power to write bylaw infraction tickets, which is true.
But this was the scheme, folks.
They didn't have enough bylaw.
And obviously, police officers have better things to do when it comes to enforcing the law in Brampton, you know, kind of like gangbanger gun crime, that sort of thing.
So the Paladin security guards would be stationed at, you know, children's playgrounds, baseball diamonds, soccer fields, what have you.
And they were cemeteries.
And they were paid professional snitches.
So when they saw somebody doing something that they weren't supposed to, they could give a verbal warning when they were flipped the do regurg bird.
What they then did is got on their walkie-talkie or cell phone and talked to bylaw or law enforcement.
We got a soccer field infraction here down near Earnscliff.
And sure enough, they'd like Batman and Robin rushing to the latest crime scene of The Joker.
You'd have the bylaw officers come and give out the real harsh penalties.
This is incredible, Sheila.
And I remember a week would go by.
It'd be like over 100 of these bylaw infractions would be written up.
$112,000 worth of tickets were issued in just six days from Mr. Anti-Lockdown Mayor.
Oh my God.
By the way, Paladin better damn well have been rushing to the scene of the lockdown crime because they were raking in about $65 an hour per security guard to the tune of $12 million for that first year alone.
That was the amount of their contract for increased COVID security.
Again, that's in exclusive documents.
We'll publish them all.
Maybe some other journalists will get curious and read through them.
Maybe one of the other campaigns might read through them because there's some pretty heavy-handed enforcement at the hands of Mayor Patrick Brown in Brampton.
Yeah, and you know what?
I'll give a shout out to some independent media out there that covers Brampton and Mississauga.
It's called The Pointer.
It's online.
And they being like a dog on a bone with all the shenanigans that is occurring in Brampton.
I would hasten to say, Sheila, Brampton might just be the most corrupt municipality in our great dominion.
It is unbelievable the number of sneaky insider stuff that happens in that city and has been happening since 2018 when Mayor Brown somehow got elected.
But, you know, it would all be so funny except for the fact that I find this individual dangerous, Sheila.
For somehow, like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, he plays his flute and he gets these massive groups, you know, to come follow him, which was evident in the Sunday announcement in which he was saying he was running for the Conservative Party.
I don't see him winning, but I see him maybe becoming a kingmaker for a kamikaze candidate, as they say out there.
Exactly.
Because I see him, you know, Jean Charais.
He loves Jean-Girais.
There's a photo of a young Patrick Brown where the poster in his bedroom is Jean Jarais.
Yeah, not the Fawns from Happy Days or Farah Fawcett Majors in that iconic red swimsuit, but Jean Charais.
That's what I want on my wall when I'm a teenager.
But the thing is, Sheila, is Jean Charais would be every bit as much of a disaster leading the Conservative Party.
And of course, the quid pro quo is Patrick thinks he's done his time in the penalty box being mayor of Brampton.
That's too, you know, bush league for him.
He wants to be a federal MP again.
And that would be the quid pro quo with Sharais finding him a writing somewhere.
It doesn't matter.
That's, you know, when it comes to Patrick Brown, folks, it's all about the power.
It's not about public service.
It's not about doing good things.
It's about having a title.
And I mean, that's why, I mean, he has absolutely nothing to do with Brampton.
In fact, when he was running for election, Sheila, many times he referred to Brampton as Barry, where he was an MP.
So what does that tell you?
But this is what I find disturbing, the fact that these two Cretons might somehow really skew the Conservative Party leadership nomination.
Well, hopefully Albertans stand in their way.
I can't imagine Westerners voting for Patrick Brown or Jean Charais, the two pro-carbon tax candidates.
Patrick Brown left the Ontario PC party in complete disarray and turmoil because of his embrace of the carbon tax.
And he hasn't said that he has renounced the carbon tax.
All he said is now's not the right time to raise it.
Okay, Patrick, when is the right time to make the cost of living more expensive for all Canadians?
Tell me when the right time is, if now is not the right time.
When is it?
Because I think there's no good time for that.
You see, this is exactly why Patrick Brown is a weasel.
Instead of using these weasely words, how about coming out strongly against the carbon tax and saying because he's not.
He's not against it.
But at least he's halfway honest here.
Well, Sheila, you're 100% right.
After he threw the social conservatives under the bus as the Ontario PC leader, he then threw the fiscal conservatives under the bus.
His very first policy announcement after becoming leader was a Made in Ontario carbon tax.
He announced that at the Canadian club, I believe it was in Toronto.
The room fell silent, and finally somebody in the back went, no, right?
And the die was cast that we got to get rid of this guy.
Forget about the rumors of sexual impropriety.
It was really these policy flip-flops, huge policy flip-flops, carbon tax, sex ed, that paved the way to do that incredible palace coup.
I think it was January 25th, 2018.
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I was riveted.
And then that Circe-like walk of shame down the back of the Queen's Park steps to that salt-covered mini-sane minivan.
Oh, you know, what an inglorious ending to such a power-mad megalomaniac.
But yeah, and I'll just check with our folks to see do we have any Patrick Brown videos?
Because they never get tired.
Right here.
Let's roll out one.
He must be the party that cultural communities can trust.
As a leader, I will restore the faith that was broken by two policies that should never have seen the light of day, the barbaric cultural practices tip line and the niqab ban.
Other leadership candidates are taking advice from the same senior advisors who decided to launch those policies in the 2015 conservative federal election campaign.
Advisors who never admitted the harm those policies did both to Canada and to our party.
And to this day, continue to defend their decisions and back those policies.
Advisors who have never admitted their mistake.
Those policies in the 2015 campaign gave us Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
They attempted to normalize intolerance and served only to stifle Canadians' right to religious freedom.
I will never back down from defending religious freedom.
A winning conservative party led by me will passionately fight for our core conservative value of protecting religious freedom.
We will proudly lean into it.
We will win and we will end the Liberal Party practice of tokenizing diverse Canadians.
The Conservative Party will win while proudly, proudly standing against Bill 21.
Fighter, leader, winner.
First of all, Sheila, when he says I would never back down when it comes to fighting for religious freedoms, did you notice his announcement speech took place on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. when presumably most Christians are in church, right?
What does that tell you?
Secondly, what is wrong with a barbaric cultural hotline?
Is Patrick Brown okay with barbarism occurring?
And when I say barbarism, I'm talking about things that don't get a lot of attention because it's not all that politically correct.
FGM, female genital mutilation, Sheila, which in some circles in the left has been rebranded as female genital beautification, FGB.
You would want girls and young women to undergo that in an underground way, Patrick Brown.
You wouldn't want somebody to come forward and blow the whistle on that.
This guy is despicable, Sheila.
This guy is a real piece of work because he's sitting there saying that he's against tip lines.
As he was talking about that, I was like, COVID non-compliance tip line Brampton.
What did I find?
Reporting non-compliance.
You know, this guy's against tip lines.
Oh, the hell he is.
He just doesn't like one that protects women and girls from cultural and religious-based violence.
He is perfectly fine with the tip line.
He set one up where you can report non-compliant food establishments, personal service settings, or recreational water facilities.
What does that even mean?
You're reporting the lake now for COVID non-compliance.
Like, what is happening there?
You can call the Peel Public Health line and report restaurants, bars, mobile food trucks, grocery stores, convenience stores, discount and big box retailers, tattoo studios, piercing shops, aesthetic salons, nail salons, hairdressing and barbershops, public spools, public pools, spas, beaches, splash pads, and wading pools.
Now, those are outside.
So how are those non-compliant?
I guess they have different crazy rules in Brampton, but there's several tip lines that they have set up in the Peel region, including directly in Brampton, where you can report non-compliance for COVID.
So he is definitely not against tip lines.
He set up one of his own.
He just is playing.
Here you go.
He's just playing to certain communities, which, I mean, is the bigotry of low expectations, actually.
I don't think that normal Muslims are fine with cultural and gender-based violence.
I really don't.
But, you know, Patrick Brown is conflating people who participate in cultural-based violence and gender-based violence with your everyday Muslim friends and neighbors.
And that's ridiculous.
We know the difference.
He should too.
I'm with you, Sheila, but talk about kowtowing to his base.
Let's not kid the kidders here.
Do you think that the vast majority of Canadians go to bed at night fretting about religious freedom in this country?
No, it's all about right now, as far as I can tell, the economy, going to the gas station and seeing $2 a liter.
But I'm from Alberta, where we lock up more pastors than sign up.
That's right.
I exclude Alberta from that, you know.
But what I'm saying, Sheila, is that right now, where Canadians are getting brutalized, it's by going to the gas station, going to the supermarket, seeing their utility bills come in.
That is what we need policies to address, to lower the cost of living, which is going out of control in this country.
And there are certain markets too.
Vancouver, the Greater Toronto Area, if you are young and you aspire to home ownership, good luck.
You might want to inquire to see if they have a 75-year mortgage, because that might be how long you have to pay off an average bungalow in the city of Toronto.
So, Sheila, I think this was a real fumble on his part.
And by the way, that was a packed venue.
Did you notice how muted the applause was?
It wasn't, you know, a standing ovation or anything like that.
I remember years ago when I went to see Maxime Bernier speak to his supporters out in the airport area.
And I'll tell you, Sheila, when he said that one of his policy planks was to defund the CBC, I thought the roof was going to cave in.
I've never heard such.
And by the way, and that's another thing that is connected to Canadians and the cost of living.
Why should we have to pay some $1.5 billion a year for something virtually nobody is watching anymore?
So, yeah, that's more green in your genes too by defunding this network, not abolishing it, just like any other private sector firm, sink or swim, go sell some ads.
I know, what a concept, right?
But get off your Rakota cheese candy ass and actually work for your money instead of getting corporate welfare.
Remind me to talk to you about Scott Hall.
Razor Ramon's Legacy00:02:20
He passed away.
Oh, no, Razor Ramon.
He did.
He had a heart attack.
Oh, no.
I know.
I know.
I'm sorry to put a damper on the show, but just as you were doing your little wrestling spiel, it just reminded me to mention Scott Hall to you.
And sorry to do that to you on air because I know you are a Razor Ramon fan.
Oh, 100%.
One of the, just at 63, way too young.
One of the best lines ever by Razor Ramon.
Funny how a guy called Razor Ramon Latino is.
Razor Ramon walking into heaven.
I know.
But that time when he would hand his belt to somebody, ring attendant, and he would always say this, Sheila: Hey, Chico, something happened to the gold.
Something going to happen to you.
Chico throws his toothpick at him.
Oh, that is bad news.
He was a great entertainer, had a myriad of problems, of course, which became part of the act at one point.
Lean in.
Just lean in.
Absolutely.
But you know what?
Before, you know, not to get off on a tangerine here, but this is the sad thing about professional wrestling.
And it's when so many athletes in a peak physical condition, I might add, get into typically their 50s or early 60s, like Razor Ramon, and they just die in their sleep.
Their body just shuts down.
It's so sad.
Professional wrestlers and cyclists.
Bodybuilders, bodybuilders, too.
Bodybuilders are up there too.
These vain men, these professional bodybuilders, I appreciate their commitment and their hard work.
But those muscles and the stuff you take to get those muscles, they're going to kill you.
Just be able to change a tractor tire.
Have those kind of muscles.
I like those kind of muscles.
That's why I've never been a bodybuilder or wrestler or professional cyclist.
For your health.
I'm too young to die.
No.
Yeah, you're just avoiding physical labor for your health.
One more thing before we move on from Patrick Brown.
I think we've spent far too long on him as it is.
I don't have anything personal against Patrick Brown.
Jerry Diaz's Resistance00:15:35
I don't like his policies, and I think he's sneaky and a liar, as evidenced in his behavior.
But also on this report a COVID scofflaw tip line, if you go down to the bottom, you can report price gouging.
And so I'd like to report Patrick Brown for his attempted price gouging with the carbon tax.
So there's a number there that you can call and report.
So I guess he's concerned about the cost of living.
But he's perfectly fine with a carbon tax.
What is the definition, Sheila, of price gouging?
You know, when the government gets into things.
Government getting involved, right?
Well, you know, when Pierre Trudeau in the mid-70s started to think that he could regulate the economy, I don't know if you remember wage and price controls, six and five.
So goods could only go up a maximum of 6% and salaries could only go up a maximum of 5%.
Oh, what a shocker.
It was a disaster.
Turns out Ottawa can't regulate how the free market economy works.
So when I see a price gouging thing, I want to know what the devil in the details is because, like you said, maybe Patrick Brown, for all the money he spent on security guards, there's a gouger when it comes to your taxes.
He's not paying that out of his pocket.
He's not going to his best friend, Waleed Solomon, and getting money to pay for that.
You, Mr. and Mrs. Bramptonian or Peel Regioner, you're paying that.
Yeah, I'd like to report the government for price gouging with all the taxes they slap onto a leader of fuel.
We should get to some of these chats.
Yes.
And again, I want to reiterate: I can't stay late today because I have a member of the Trudeau family to interview.
I can't wait.
I know.
And you know what?
I was like, how do I approach this interview?
Because I certainly don't, he's Kyle's his own man.
I don't want to define him by his outlandish brother any more than I want to be defined by my brother or my sister, right?
He's an accomplished guy on his own.
So I think I'll just lead with my chin, get that out of the way.
It's, hey, it's pretty interesting that you're, you know, this kind of freedom-minded guy in a family of authoritarian grifters.
But I don't know.
I've really got to button my mouth up on this interview because I'm sure he loves his brother, but just disagrees with him.
So, anyways, stay tuned.
That's on the gun show this week, by the way.
So, if you are a subscriber to Rebel News Plus, you'll get to see that in full and you'll get to see me struggling to keep my opinions to myself while interviewing my guests.
And it's also available as a podcast for free on all the podcast platforms.
And if you are listening to us on the podcast version, do leave us a five-star review.
It puts us higher up in the algorithm than CBC podcasts.
And I kind of like that.
So do that for me if you wouldn't mind.
We should get some of these chats.
And then your favorite guy, Jerry Diaz, is pulling the chute before he gets, well, in the middle of an investigation.
So I think we should talk about that a little bit.
Yeah, I hear whiffs of some financial impropriety going on at Unifor, the biggest private sector union.
You know what?
Good riddance, I say to Jerry Diaz, whatever the reason is.
This is a guy whose union composes every federal election anti-conservative attack ads, which is outrageous because the resistance.
There's resistance.
What if you're a Uniform member who votes conservative and supports conservatives?
This is the same guy that back in October in Toronto at Unifor's head office, we went out to cover a protest by Uniform members, primarily auto workers, Sheila, as you know, who were losing their jobs if they didn't get the jab.
Not only did Mr. Diaz not come out to meet the rank and file, he sent all the employees home as though there was going to be an active shooting event.
He was nowhere to be seen.
And then he called the cops on his own members doing a peaceful protest.
So Jerry Diaz, don't let the back door hit you on your backside on the way out.
You are disgraceful.
Only thing is, Sheila, given Unifor being uniform, I wonder who the replacement is.
I wonder if it's going to be somebody that makes you pine for the devil you knew.
Yeah, Jerry Diaz and the resistance.
Again, I shouldn't say anything because my chair did give out today.
But the only resistance I saw in that infamous photo was in their waistbands.
They were a pretty surly-looking, grumbly bunch.
But yeah, Jerry Diaz is on his way out.
And again, I want to reiterate, I shouldn't be casting stones.
My chair gave out on air.
But he is quitting, at least according to Blacklock's amid a financial probe.
Yeah.
Jerry and Unifor's national executive board will meet March 21st to discuss the matter.
I wonder where they'll meet.
Maybe we should be there.
Kathleen O'Keefe, spokesperson for the union, said in a statement, the union will have no further public comment.
They're pretty tight-lipped, and those people don't like to shut up prior to the receipt of the investigative report.
Unifor had, look at this, nearly a third of a billion dollars in assets belonging to 315,000 members.
Its accounts were cleared by auditors as recently as last June 17th.
Well, this is odd.
The union on February 23rd had no specific comment on Blacklock's inquiries regarding unproven allegations against Diaz.
And we want to reiterate, these are unproven.
Yep.
But it goes on to say that President Diaz on January 29th, so why are we really just hearing about this now?
Was told he was under investigation according to Unifor on February 6th.
Diaz, oh, yeah, of course he did.
He took advantage of every union benefit he could.
He went to even on paid medical leave.
Of course he did.
Jerry did not make the decision to take this leave easily.
We hope you respect his privacy.
We're wishing him well.
While on leave, Jerry will not be carrying out the responsibilities of the office of president.
It's funny how these health issues just rear up anytime you get in trouble.
And Sheila, I love that line.
Maybe you're going to get to it, but we can't ignore it.
Thank you for long years of service to Canadian workers, Jerry Diaz, said the dumbest MP alive.
Thank you.
Seamus O'Reagan, Minister of Electric.
MP to burkle the oxygen in the House of Commons, Seamus O'Reagan.
He could even keep his mouth shut while the guy's under investigation.
Does he have a community?
Does Seamus O'Regan have a communications person or does his communications person hate him?
Because I can't believe that someone allowed him to make the statement before the investigation is concluded into Jerry Diaz.
You're right, but that's what makes him so dumb.
But, you know, at least you're getting, I mean, listen, when he was given the labor ministry, Seamus allegedly said, what do I know about women giving childbirth?
But the funny thing is, is at least talk about truth in advertising by Seamus.
At least talk about transparency.
Because, and don't take my word for it, folks, Google those Unifor anti-conservative ads.
Of course, if you're a liberal member of government, you're going to thank the guy, the architect of that despicable propaganda.
Although, I got to admit, when it was the anti-Air and O-Tool Act, you really can't argue that much, can you?
Oh, with the car falling apart.
Yeah.
The 2021 O-Tool, which looks exactly what you'd think you'd get on that shady used car lot, folks.
The resistance.
Like I said, I found this to be a very pretentious ad.
I thought it was very uppity.
Sorry, we can't all afford to drive Jerry Diaz Fancy, probably made a Japan car, even though he's an American, or he's an auto worker rep. You know, it's great, great point.
I wonder what he does drive.
I think his family made in Germany.
I feel like Germany.
You know what?
I don't think he would be that flagrant.
I bet he drives a GM vehicle because I know his family has had connections with the GM, you know, Oshawa plant where they used to build a lot of cars and trucks.
But, oh, well, you know, things like green energy plans by the province, making Ontario one of the cheapest jurisdictions in North America to one of the most expensive.
That'll chase the auto production down to Michigan and Kentucky and Mississippi and what have you.
So, way to go, Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty.
And of course, Justin Trudeau.
Canada's Rust Belt.
This is angry liberals.
It's sad, Sheila.
Sad.
It is.
I remember, you know, I was doing some automotive writing at the time.
And when the first generation new Camaro came out, I think around 2012, they were building 440 Camaros per day.
Three eight-hour shifts.
They couldn't keep up with demand.
Imagine that.
440 Camaros rolling off the Oshawa assembly plant.
When it went to the second generation Camaro, the production was shifted to Michigan.
And this has so much to do with all the so-called green energy programs, Sheila.
That because the auto workers in Oshawa, they're great.
You know, Canadian auto workers are great auto workers.
But when the company gets the bill for the hydro, that's when you have that come to Jesus moment.
And despite the production and the quality, we got to go elsewhere because we can't afford to build these things here.
I can't remember, but I don't know where I saw it.
And I'll have to dig it up maybe for Thursday's show.
Just the sheer number, the cost of benefits for an auto worker over and above their salary.
It's like over $100 an hour.
And that's all factored into the cost of your vehicle.
And you're looking at this thinking, a robot does a lot of this stuff these days.
What is this for?
No.
Jerry Diaz, I guess.
This is for Jerry Diaz.
Indeed.
So let's keep an eye on that.
And you said March 21st is when they're meeting.
Yes, March 21st.
I wonder if they're going to get protested by their own members.
That'll be fun.
I wonder if they'll still be wearing masks that day because that's the day the mask mandate comes off, Sheila, right at midnight.
So I wonder, will they still be virtue signaling by putting on the face diapers?
In Alberta, that's how we know you're an NDP voter.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Described it as an NDP lawn sign for your face.
Oh, listen, it's just like a Sikh who wears a turban.
He's saying, I'm part of the Sikh faith, a Muslim woman wearing a hijib, a person wearing a cross.
I'm a Christian.
You're advertising what you believe in.
And when it comes to the face diapers, what you're saying is, I'm pro-big government.
I'm pro-lockdown.
I'm pro-being told what to do.
So in the days ahead, and you're absolutely right, Sheila, in a way, we should be grateful.
Thank you for wearing your colors.
I no longer have to mind read or have a conversation with you to find out where you deal with, stand on the political, ideological spectrum.
I just have to look at what's covering your face.
Yeah, your mask and your woman's places in her union reusable grocery bag.
Everything I need to know.
Let's get through some of these chats because, again, I can't.
I stress I cannot go late.
Yes.
We've got one from Kane Enmark says, I'm super excited.
I'm going to the 2022 AGM in Red Deer in April.
That's the UCP AGM.
I'm voting Kenny out as leader.
So he's got a leadership review and he's not polling very well.
And in Alberta, if an election were held today, despite our robust economy, because while the rest of the world suffers because of the price of a barrel of oil, we do very well here because of that.
And I think we're in a budgetary surplus after, you know, six or seven years, seven years of just catastrophic economy here in Alberta.
Things have just completely done in 180, and it's just skyrocketing.
But even still, even though that's what Jason Kenney was counting on, the return to freedom and the robust economy that's reviving itself because of a war in Europe, among other things, Rachel Notley would win the election if it were held today.
And that's bad, very bad.
That is staggering.
And that said, Sheila, I want to ask you, since you live in that province, to look into your crystal ball, what do you think is going to happen at that conference?
Is it going to be a proverbial wrist slapping on Premier Kenny?
Or are we going to see a tectonic shift?
I think it is today.
And I'm sorry that I don't know this a little better, but I think today is the by-election in Fort McMurray, Wood Buffalo.
And Brian Gene, former leader of the Wild Rose, he ran for the leadership of the combined party, the UCP.
He lost to Jason Kenney.
And so he just kind of went away for a little bit.
And I don't blame him.
I don't think he went away because he lost.
I think he went away because it was the right time to regroup.
He had lost his house in a fire.
He had lost his mom.
He had lost his son.
He got married and had a new baby, all while he was running for the leadership of the Wild Rose after Daniel Smith destroyed it.
So I think it was like 35 days in between Daniel Smith destroys the party and the general election was happening in Alberta.
And in that time, he announced that he's going to run.
He loses his son.
He doesn't take time off.
He keeps campaigning through.
He wins the leadership of the Wild Rose, forms official opposition in Alberta.
And so he's just been given her since then.
So I get why he took a step back.
But he's running in by-election right now because the MLA there made the move to federal politics.
So he thought, now's my time.
He's running specifically against Jason Kenney.
He said, elect me MLA and I will run against Jason Kenny's leadership.
And he beat Jason Kenney's hand-picked candidate for the nomination there, just like smoked the hand-picked candidate.
So that should tell you how disgruntled conservatives are with Jason Kenney.
And it sounds like they want a mulligan on the leadership here.
Increased Security Grants for Places of Worship00:05:42
Wow.
You know, I think that bodes very darkly for what is going to come up in the weeks ahead, Sheila.
And, you know, the sad thing is, this is a self-inflicted wound by Premier Kenney.
You said earlier in the show, Sheila, the province of Alberta has rounded up and jailed more pastors than the nation of China.
This year, yep.
Yep.
They have.
We've got one still in jail, Pastor Arpuloski.
Yesterday, or no, Sunday, sorry, Jason Kenney made an announcement about the increased funding for places of worship.
And I'm for this.
Usually, I'm kind of against government spending, but this is in reaction to the 50-plus churches that were burned over last summer that everybody seems to have forgotten about and nobody really cared about in the first place.
So, this is increased security grants for places of worship, which is great, but I hope they catch the maniacs who are locking up pastors and chaining off churches while we're at it if we care so much about religious freedom.
And I think a lot of the premier's own rhetoric about churches that he labeled scoff laws played into some of the vandalism against churches.
And when he was asked by Sid Fizard, a rebel news journalist, about Pastor Art, who is still languishing in jail for the crime of giving a speech at the Coots blockade to the truckers, he never engaged in any blockades at all.
And they arrested him under a law designed to attack pipeline bombers.
When asked about that, he basically accused Pastor Art of incitement to violence.
Art goes out of his way to say we can resist the government.
It has to be peaceful, peaceful civil disobedience, peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.
The premier makes a statement saying, well, you just can't go around inciting people to violence, blah, This is the second time that he's actually made this statement about incitement to violence or violence happening at Coots, and there's been none.
My question is: does Jason Kenney really believe this, or is this an ongoing policy he seems to have, Sheila, of bending the need to the leftists, the progressives, the Marxists, the NDP voters, et cetera?
Because if I know Alberta, like I think I know Alberta, and I lived there for two years of my life, if Jason Kenney basically governed like DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and Alberta was like the state of Florida, we're not having this conversation anymore.
Yeah, I think he doesn't know how to get off this.
Like he can reopen, he can get rid of the vaccine passports, he can get rid of the mask, he can get rid of all the restrictions, which he has, but he cannot seem to undo this one thing.
And it comes directly from the government.
It was not, many of Art's troubles stem from an Alberta Health Services secret court order, as in bureaucrats from Alberta Health Services went before a judge, basically got a secret court order, and that was the thing that was used to control Pastor Art and his church.
So Jason Kenney can't say, oh, there's a separation between the courts and the government and we cannot direct the courts.
This is their court order that caused many of Pastor Art's problems.
So sad.
Well, Sheila, we're up against a hard break at one.
We have two minutes to go.
I'm going to keep my mouth shut and you read the remaining chats.
Yes, let's read the remaining chats and then I'm going to pull the shoot.
But don't worry because we'll go probably late on Thursday.
So people will get their money's worth.
By the way, this used to just be a one-hour show instead of like an hour and 15 or 20 or 25 minutes.
Okay, so TAC 178, this is my friend from Twitter.
He says, some American sentavos for you to enjoy.
Wow, that's like $8, Canadian.
Thank you so much.
Yankee, for some reason, sends us a buck and says we have three chats.
Thank you, Yankee.
Yankee.
Bill CF7 gives us a buck.
When is Rebel going to interview Pierre Polyev?
We're doing our best, we promise you.
We've extended the invitation to all the campaigns.
We want to talk to all of them.
And nobody's going to get a softball interview from us at all.
For example, I want to know why Pierre Polyev didn't run last time.
What happened there?
Anyway, Paul Otto Newman, five bucks.
Wasn't Pierre Trudeau the only Western leader to attend Lenin Brezhnev's funeral?
I don't know, but I know that he broke the embargo and parted ways with our American friends with regard to Cuba.
And I don't know why people travel to Cuba to bolster their horrible, horrible government there.
Stand with the Americans and stand with Cubans in Florida.
Go to Florida.
Don't go to Cuba.
And I think we're all cut up.
I think we're done.
I got to go.
Fantastic.
Sheila, thank you so much.
You can whip off the set anytime, do that interview.
I'm sure everyone's looking forward to.
Thank you to Olivia Nefrin in the control room.
Thank you to all of you folks that gave us some do-ray me.
It's how we keep the lights on.
Tomorrow there'll be two other rebels here for your added enjoyment on Hump Day.
In the meantime, Sheila and I will be back on Thursday.
And also in the meantime, folks, as always, stay sane.
The incitement to violence claim I want to address directly.
Jason Kenney, I have a question.
I'm not being facetious or humorous.
Individual Rights Debate00:01:30
I really need to know.
Are you a moron?
Seriously, I have to know if I'm dealing with an intellectually handicapped individual.
You realize that speech is published and available to the public for which you claim that he incited violence.
One, two, three.
I'm going to go slow so that you can catch this.
Three times in that speech, Archer explicitly states, I am not talking about violence.
I am talking about peaceful resolution.
I am not talking about guns and swords.
What kind of brainless individual could interpret that as incitement to violence?
Quote from Jason Kenney.
That individual has all the rights of any individual under the Canadian legal system.
They are presumed guilty, sorry, excuse me, presumed innocent until proven guilty, of course, in our system of law.
Is that a Freudian slip?
They have a right to access the counsel.
That individual or any other individual has all the same legal rights as anybody.
End quote.
So, actually, Kenny, that individual does not have the same rights as any individual.
You arrested him and several other pastors in Alberta for keeping their church open while you drank whiskey at Sky Palace with your buddies free of legal consequences.