Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives secured 83 Ontario seats in June 2022, crushing Liberal hopes as Stephen Del Duca lost his riding amid backlash over child vaccination mandates and low 33% turnout. Rising gas prices ($2+/L), grocery costs, and tripled Toronto food bank use contrasted Ford’s infrastructure promises like the 413 highway, winning rural voters. Meanwhile, Turning Point USA’s Dallas summit saw conservative women—including Lara Trump and Candace Owens—criticize Democratic policies on trans sports and inflation, hinting at midterm shifts. Menzies mocked Jagmeet Singh’s $20K watch and BMW while pushing climate, calling him elitist, and questioned NDP unity under Quebec’s sway. Canada’s lingering COVID mandates, despite vaccinated nations lifting them, underscored perceived Liberal overreach, while independent parties’ infighting left rights movements fragmented. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Friday, June 3rd, 2022.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host.
Do you know today is World Bicycle Day, folks?
But she doesn't ride a bike because unlike me, she's not fat.
She is the she-devil with a saber.
She is the Khaleesi of Port Hope.
She is Catherine Krosnowski.
How you doing there, Catherine?
Oh, much better now, David.
Thank you for that fight.
Sorry to wake you up.
I was sleeping.
Wow.
I'm awake.
I feel good.
Well, you know, we had a long night here, of course.
Our beloved colleague, Tamara Ugolini, the Khaleesi of Coburg, came all the way down to co-host the Rebel News live stream for the election.
And wow, what an election.
That's the big story, and we'll get to that right off the hopper.
But at this point, what is the ostensible policy reason of what we're trying to do here today?
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We love the fact that we have, what, 1.6 million subscribers.
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You can fill your boots with that one.
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So, Catherine, without further ado, let me ask you right off the hopper, what did you make of those results last night?
Well, I wasn't surprised because basically everything I heard on Twitter slash the streets was that Doug Ford was going to have a landslide.
I guess I was surprised by just how much.
I didn't real, like when I was looking at the results graph afterwards, I was shocked at how little the Liberal Party got because I was actually a little concerned that they would be closer or win, even though I'd heard the opposite of that.
You know, it's always a nightmare situation.
I share your shock.
I am absolutely gobsmacked by how poorly the Liberals did, Catherine.
You know, they were called the minivan party because they had seven seats.
I thought they were going to become the mini bus party.
I thought at least they will get 12 seats.
The only one, most polls were saying about 20.
The only poll that got it right, or was closest, I should say, was Forum.
I think Forum predicted six seats.
But to only get one extra seat for Stephen Del Duca not to win his riding of Vaughn Woodbridge, it was an unmitigated disaster.
By the way, there's still the minivan party.
There is or there was some minivans on the market where you could seat eight people.
I guess in the plus side of things, unlike the federal conservatives back in 1993, when they were left with two seats, they're not the Mazda Miata party, right?
But enough with the auto analogy.
Specific analogy.
What do you think went so horribly wrong?
Because the narrative, Catherine, was Ford's going to get in.
Most pollsters were saying 80 seats.
There was one that predicted as high as 88.
I thought that was too high.
It turned out to be 83, so it was somewhere in the middle.
But what went so badly for these liberals?
Because, you know, Catherine, to use a sporting analogy, this was a rebuilding season, I think, for Stephen Del Duca and his Liberal Party.
You know they're not going to form the government, but they got a shot at the opposition.
They're certainly going to get significantly more seats than they got in 2018.
But it didn't happen.
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think there's, for me, there was two things.
I think, one, Del Duca was very open about wanting to vaccinate every child in the province below five years old, right?
Or everyone who was in public school and making it a mandatory requisite for going to elementary school and public school.
So I think I'm pleased to see that most parents were level-headed about that and made that choice.
Should I even say that on YouTube?
I'm not sure.
Secondly, I think he, I know it's shallow, but I don't think he was a likable candidate.
And people shouldn't vote that way, but they do.
And I think that may have led into that.
Yeah, he was by no means Mr. Charisma.
And, you know, I'm with you.
I think he gambled wrongly in terms of what I call the COVID-Karen demographic that this would cotton on.
And I could see why he would make that promise, because I'll tell you, Catherine, the mask mandates ended in this province on March 21st, I believe.
And yet, I don't know about you, but when I go out and about, when I go into a shopping mall, the vast majority of people are still masked up.
So maybe on that perception, he saw a desire for these kind of, you know, for mandatory vaccinations for school children.
And that was a loser pitch, I think.
Yeah, well, I've actually noticed that the number of people who are wearing masks voluntarily has gone down recently.
Oh, okay.
Mostly outdoors.
Like when the mask mandate dropped, I saw so many people wearing them outdoors.
Oh, I still see it.
Yeah, I see it, but not as much as even two months ago, three months ago.
I think people are starting to level out on the fear.
Yeah.
But it's interesting about the voter turnout because it was remarkably low.
I know.
And people are, you know, upset, like people on Twitter, not the world, but people on Twitter are saying like, oh, people who didn't vote, like 67% of Ontarians did not vote.
And they're saying, well, you got what you asked for.
You can't complain.
And it's true.
If you don't vote, I don't think you should complain about who's in power.
But I think why did people not vote?
I think it's because the government and the mainstream media has been spending the last two years freaking everybody out, telling them that they're going to die if they leave their house.
Maybe that has nothing to do with it, but it's like that's been the narrative.
People are walking around with two masks on, so they don't want to go to voting centers.
You know, I think, Catherine, my theory is, going back to 2018 when the Ford PCs first got elected, that was not so much voting for the Ford PCs as Ontarians voting to get the Wynn Liberals out of power.
Going back to Dalton McGuinty, who passed the baton to Kathleen Wynn, they were well past their best before date.
And that's typically when you see an engaged voter turnout, it's to get the incumbents out.
Having said that, I think this was absolutely baffling.
And maybe it speaks to the leaders of the other parties.
As you mentioned, Catherine, Stephen Del Duca, not exactly charismatic.
Andrea Harworth, I'm sorry, but the facts are the facts.
13 years and three losing campaigns each time.
This is the fourth.
There won't be a fifth.
And I'm thinking because you look at what is toxic, what is kryptonite to an incumbent government, Catherine, and it's things like the economy.
Well, we're paying more than $2 a liter for gas.
You go to the grocery store, you get sticker shock when the total comes up.
Healthcare, Doug Ford promised in 2018, he used his late great brother as an example.
He was going to end hallway health care.
I think it's gotten worse in four years.
These were the two biggest issues.
They are fails here in Ontario.
And normally, that gets, that's very worrisome for the incumbent government.
Instead, the Ford PCs went from 76 seats to 83.
I can only think, Catherine, maybe the electorate was giving the provincial government a pass, realizing things like high energy costs, $2 a liter gasoline.
That's really the result of horrible federal liberal policy.
Global markets in terms of gasoline as well.
You know, so that's what made it baffling to me because, wow, if I was a part of the, you know, the Ford team and looking at what ordinary Ontarians are paying, and I mean, you see with some seniors on fixed income, the slogan, heat or eat, not both, right?
And this is Ontario.
This is the most prosperous province in the Dominion of Canada.
It's the first world country.
That's shocking, but they dodged that bullet.
Yeah, I was reading an article this morning about how in Toronto, food banks have increased the number of people that are going to them by, like, they've tripled.
Wow.
So that is a crazy amount of people who are now relying on food bank food to feed their families compared to, I think it was 2018 or 2016.
It's just, it's terrifying.
It is.
And that is a shame.
We should also point out that the independent candidates that we interviewed last night, Belinda Karahalios, Rick Nichols, this was part of the undesirables in the Ford caucus because Belinda, like Roman Baber, spoke out against lockdowns.
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Oh, you can't have that.
Rick Nichols last August, he was given the choice.
You either get your jab or you lose your job.
And we went down to Queen's Park together that day.
That's right.
Yeah, and we were able to contact him.
And that was one promise Ford did keep, by the way, folks.
At 5 p.m. on that day, Rick Nichols was told, you're out of caucus.
Didn't seem to hurt him.
We should point out that Bobby Ann Brady, she's an independent, kind of.
I say kind of because she's a longtime PC staffer.
And she was passed over for nomination.
And in Haldeman, Norfolk, she won her seat.
She smashed it.
Oh, and you know what?
I'm kind of kicking myself because when Maurizio and I went down to the Friday the 13th ride in Port Dover last month, I noticed her signs everywhere.
And they were deep blue, like the PC signs.
But when I went up to look at them closely, there was no PC logo.
And I thought, wow, this is and it's not just signs on public vacant lands.
It was on private property.
I said, there might be something happening here.
I don't know if she would have given us an interview or had the time.
And given that I was wearing a suit and it was like 150 degrees Fahrenheit, I was quite the sweaty Betty.
But in any event, that is a big middle finger to the PC machine.
She was passed over.
She said, screw you.
I'm going to run as an independent.
And she won.
Yeah, she smashed.
And people are saying, who is this?
Who is this?
It's like, well, it's someone who the people of Norfolk really like, apparently.
So it doesn't really matter if you're part of the big party.
If you have the people behind you, you can do anything.
It looks like it.
And you know what?
I like the idea because I've seen it happen before where the grassroots nomination committee supports a candidate.
They like the candidate.
The candidate has a good chance of winning.
And for some reason, the party establishment goes, no, we're superseding your desires.
That's what happened with Steve Lecce, by the way, in King City.
We covered it in real life time where the PC party at that nomination vote, they actually, I guess it was a sort of a view of things to come.
They actually called York Regional Police.
And there were six cruisers that descended upon the nomination meeting.
We saw it.
And it was to get the preferred candidate out and make sure there was no trouble and Steve Lecchie in.
And he got voted in.
He won again last night, of course.
But I hate to see that.
I hate to see the arrogance of a party supersede the wishes of a local.
Why do they do that?
Like in Bobby, what's her name's you know what?
That's a great question.
I would, you know, obviously they thought there was one of two things that's typical, Catherine.
One is they think the candidate has some skeleton in his or her closet, or they think they have a much better chance with their hand-picked candidate.
It did not work for them in Haldeman, Norfolk.
Here's a question, Catherine.
Speaking of Rick Nichols, speaking of Belinda Karahalios, these are the candidates with the Ontario Party, the new blue party.
Four years from now, and I agree, that's an eternity.
In politics, it's a super eternity.
Do you think those parties are still going to be around, are still going to be fielding candidates?
I hope that the candidates are around because I like Belinda a lot and I like Derek Sloan.
But we've talked about this before, and you've interviewed them individually and asked them, like, why would Randy Hillier and why would Derek Sloan and why would Rick Nichols and why would Berlinda Kirihalios not all join together under one banner and have like the new new blue or whatever it is they want to call themselves.
But we've talked about this.
It's an ego problem.
I think so.
And it's really unfortunate because they could have really, I mean, maybe they would have split the conservative vote.
It doesn't look like it would have made much of a difference.
But they could have really made a name for themselves and in four years maybe had an actual shot.
But I don't think that they have a shot.
Maybe they'll be around, but they'll probably be just as small as they are now because people don't want to vote for someone who they think has just a chip on their shoulder.
Yeah, and I think you're right.
I think there was some bad blood.
And listen, I really like Jim and Belinda Carajalios.
I like Derek Sloan and Rick Nichols.
But, you know, I received some campaign literature from the New Blue Party last month, and I found it inexplicable, Catherine.
I wish I brought in the envelope, but even before you open the envelope and read the letter from the New Blue Party, what they want to do, right on the envelope is a shot at Derek Sloan, right?
And I'm not saying it's inaccurate or anything, but I'm thinking, well, Derek Sloan, the Ontario Party, you're going after him.
The guy in the big chair is Doug Ford with the PC.
He's the one that ousted you.
Yeah.
It's like an internal squabble.
It's silly.
It's a waste of ink.
It is.
But I've never seen that before.
Where right on the envelope, oh, by the way, here's why this guy is the wrong guy.
And the Ontario Party, much like the New Blue Party, it turns out, didn't have a hope of winning the election or even getting their candidates voted.
So I think that was a huge misstep, the fact that they didn't go for critical mass of all these ousted MPPs.
Put your little squabbles aside if you disagree on certain issues.
But the point is that they are pro-freedom, anti-lockdown, pro-bodily autonomy.
Like those are the important things protecting children from these experimental, you know, policies.
We're still on YouTube.
Yeah.
Policies, policies.
Yeah.
And now, I think one thing Ford did do right in his campaigning, and I guess people in the media business weren't crazy about it.
There were so many days, so many events where he didn't take media questions.
They were isolating Doug Ford.
I think there was a fear of him having to answer a gotcha question wrongly.
So it was like he kind of reminded me of no comments, no more comments, girl, in Ottawa, except that he didn't have the witch's hat on and the odd makeup, Catherine.
But, you know, it's funny.
He was promising infrastructure projects, bridges, the 413 highway.
And I mentioned the 413 highway because if you listen to the opposition, this was kind of like, you know, dumping Agent Orange in the Amazon, you know, forest.
And the funny thing is, I think every riding that highway touches, or just about every riding, went PC.
So while the downtown Toronto elites like Margaret Atwood were going, oh, stop this highway, you know, living in an area where there'll never be a high-rise blocking the sun from her nice house.
The people that actually lived in the riding wanted this highway, obviously, because otherwise they'd vote against it.
Have you been on the 401 lately?
Today, and even at a non-rush hour day, it looked like rush hour.
Yeah, so infrastructure is really big.
And I think that did Doug Ford well.
Another misstep by Del Duca, I can't, I think about 15 to 25 times, Catherine, I kept hearing him talk about rotisserie chicken, that he was going to take the provincial tax off prepared food so you'd save someone.
Now, I mean, listen, I'm all for that, believe me.
But yeah, when you buy your family's groceries and you're saving 18 cents on a rotisserie chicken, I mean, really, I don't think that's a deal maker in terms of me voting liberal.
And yet it was rotisserie chicken, rotisserie chicken.
And obviously.
And that's a good bird.
Yeah.
And I guess with Andrea Horweth, what do you make of that?
Her speech last night, it looked like a victory speech.
I guess it was a victory in one sense.
She's still the official opposition, but she went down in seats and it was already a bad number.
I guess this is called, what, putting lipstick on a pig or something like that?
I'm not calling Andrea Harvey that pig.
I'm talking about the results of the election, but what do you make of how poorly they did?
Well, I'm not surprised because I grew up in an era where the NDP never had a chance, and that was always the joke.
What area was that?
Well, I mean, in the era, like in the era where it was always kind of like until Jack Layton, the NDP was a joke.
And so it wasn't until recently that it became actually in contention.
And, you know, Jagmeet Singh is quite popular federally.
But his brother didn't win.
No, his brother, yeah.
His brother loves to see, which is interesting.
You'd think that the name, I guess the name is very common, but you'd think just having his brother would push him through with popularity because politics is so like that.
It can be, but I think the opposite happened, Catherine.
I think there was a critical mass of Brampton voters in that writing who are justifiably furious that the fourth place party leader is propping up this liberal minority government, condemns them on every policy, yet votes for it, trying to play it both ways.
I think there was enough resentment of the brother for doing this.
Did you cover that story?
No, I think that was Lincoln Jay, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, Jagmeet was booed out of Brampton weeks, two weeks ago, and it was shocking because, you know, he's from there.
Yeah.
So you'd think that he would be well received, but I think you're absolutely right.
I think people feel betrayed by him, especially NDP, because they're supposed to be the people's party.
They're supposed to be for the working class.
And there's nothing working class about Jagmeet Singh.
And his love for Justin Trudeau is just like so obvious and atrocious.
And it's just, people don't like him.
You know, and that's a good point too, Catherine, because the top eight, I believe, private sector unions all supported the Ford Conservatives.
It's so, so strange.
Oh, it's unbelievable.
Not the public unions.
They were chanting anybody but Ford, but the private sector unions were on Team Blue.
All of them, all the major ones.
I've never seen that before.
And by the way, in the area you grew up in, we have to make note that 1990.
Not sure how old you are.
I'm forbidden to ask a lady her age, but in 1990, and I guess it's judging by history, it was a statistical anomaly.
The Bob Ray NDP party actually swept to a majority government in Ontario.
Nobody saw that coming, not even Bob Ray.
I didn't even know that.
It's a baby.
So I guess that was just, like I said, an anomaly.
And I guess maybe just to wrap this, unless you have some other thoughts, Catherine, the voter turnout being so low, that really bothers me.
And you know what?
Maybe here's my theory.
As I mentioned, most of the pollsters had the Doug Ford Conservatives at 80.
They won 83.
One pollster had them winning 88.
So they were a little wrong on the high side.
I think maybe, Catherine, when voters see those kind of numbers, they go, well, done deal.
Absolutely.
Why bother showing up?
It's just a waste of shoe leather.
But no.
They could have turned it.
Yeah.
And you know, and even if you are of the ilk, because I hear this all the time.
Oh, there's nobody worth voting for.
And by the way, one poll showed that more than 50% of the electorate would prefer all the party leaders to be changed, right?
You know, including Ford.
But even if you say there's nobody worth my vote and the startup parties, they don't have a chance, still go and cast a ballot.
And when I say cast a ballot and there's no one to vote for, ask to decline your ballot.
You know, Catherine, I'm not saying spoil your ballot because then they just assume you're too stupid to put an X in a circle.
You ask the scrutineer, I want a form to make sure you record this as a decline ballot.
And I've always said, Catherine, imagine an Ontario election, imagine one, two, three million voters did that and said to all the parties, none of you are worth my time.
That's sending a message.
Yeah, absolutely.
Instead, because like we can make, like my excuse was when maybe they're scared of COVID, people are saying like, oh, they're too lazy.
People are saying, oh, well, the wage is so, people's wages are so low compared to the cost of living, so people can't take time off of work to go and vote.
There's all sorts of excuses you can make, but that's a great point.
Like take the time to go and say, no, it's not any of those things.
It's like, I don't like any of these leaders and we need change.
Yeah.
And you certainly couldn't blame the weather yesterday, at least in the GTA.
It was like room temperature, sunny, no humidity.
It's not for you, right, David?
Oh, a little.
Are you too hot right now too, David?
Yeah.
It's a funny thing in the office, folks, what Catherine's referring to.
It seems that all the woman folk or those who identify as female are wrapping themselves in sweaters even in the summertime.
I'm already turning into a sweaty buddy here.
There's a vent right on us right now blowing cold air.
I don't feel it as cold at all.
And I'm telling you, I think for males and females, we're part of the same species, but we have a different thermostat.
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And yet it's funny, isn't it, folks, that whenever you see a triple crossing of Lake Ontario, it's always a female swimmer.
And that water never warms up.
It's always frigid.
That's because we're tired.
I don't get it.
But then again, I think I failed grade 11 biology.
So that is what we have right now.
I'm going to check with the producers.
Do we have any video to run from last night?
No.
No.
Okay, then.
You have the joy of us talking on your screen for the next few minutes.
But by the way, folks, in less than four minutes, we have a live hit with our newest reporter down south.
That would be Juan.
And he's going to be talking about his, well, his visit to Dallas.
What's happening in Dallas right now?
Well, a couple of our rebels are down in Texas for the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Conference.
So that's exciting.
We even sent a woman, which is great.
Okay.
What's a woman?
Well, we have a Supreme Court justice that couldn't answer that.
David, how dare you?
Okay.
I'm not a biologist.
But there's a ton of famous conservative speakers that will be there.
And my favorite personally is Ali Beth Stuckey.
I follow her on Instagram and YouTube and Twitter.
And she talks a lot about womanhood and protecting female spaces, which these days will get you killed.
You're right.
Preferably.
And let's dwell on that while we wait for Juan to establish his link.
Catherine, you see the radical trans agenda en route to destroying female sports.
Leah Thomas, perfect example.
I don't see the women's movement speaking out against.
In fact, many of the women's movement people, they do a chant, which is trans women are real women.
Trans women are real women.
And no, they're not.
They're not.
You know, if you're a biological male competing in a female sport other than horse racing, or sorry, equestrian or auto racing, then, you know, there is, you know, you can compete against each other because that is the.
It's the horse doing the horse and the car.
Exactly, but when it comes to cardiovascular...
Yeah, lung size, muscle density.
Exactly.
Like the palms of your hands, if they're five inches bigger, I mean, that may be an exaggeration, two inches bigger, you're going to get more water under you faster.
Obviously, I'm not a scientist, but these are facts.
But just this past week, doctors have come out and confirmed that Leah Thomas has a biological advantage being a problem.
Someone needed a medical dexter to tell us that being on hormone suppressants for a year doesn't completely change your biology.
So that's a shocking revelation.
It is shocking, and shame on the NCAA for allowing that grotesque sideshow to continue.
But at the end of the day, Catherine, sports are fun and games, right?
No one's going to get hurt, even though this is a terribly unfair situation.
But right now in Canada, if I was convicted of murder, I simply have to say, thanks to Justin Trudeau, I identify as female.
And guess what?
Even if you were, well, to answer your question, you'd be put in a women's prison.
But even if you were convicted of a sexual crime, you could be put in a women's prison.
And just Nat and I covered it in the recent episode of Misunderstood.
But, or are we talking about it next week?
I forget.
But it's next week.
But an inmate in, I think it's California prison raped another inmate and people saw it.
And she assaulted the woman so badly, or he, whatever you want, this inmate assaulted the woman so badly that she was unconscious.
They couldn't resuscitate her.
And then that inmate went on to threaten the other witnesses saying, I will rape all you.
B-words.
And they're more concerned.
About how feeling comfortable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
About the pronouns as opposed to the actual physical violent crime.
And it should be noted that a lot of women in penitentiaries, they are victims of sex abuse, physical abuse.
And to have a man come in, and that's what we're talking about.
Just somebody saying, I'm a woman right now, no genital slicing and dicing, no hormones, none of that nonsense.
Just like a big biker dude saying, my name is now Lily and I want to do time in a female penitentiary.
And the Justin Trudeau liberals say, yeah, in the name of tolerance and diversity, your cellmate will be biological woman.
Unbelievable.
It is.
And I never considered myself a feminist in the new old term where there's the original feminism, which is like fighting for equal rights and opportunities, which is cool.
But then it became man-hating feminism where it's just like, we want to destroy men.
And then now it's like, well, I have to be a feminist again just to protect women from men.
Like we're going back in time where women now are like second-class citizens again, and we have to fight for a right to not be beaten and abused by men.
And it's just because they're wearing a wig and they call themselves Sally, it's the same friggin thing.
You don't even have to wear the wig.
You don't.
You just have to call yourself Sally.
That's it.
And you know, you're right.
When we look at classical feminism, you know, going back to the mid-60s, early 70s, those were valid things they were fighting for.
And like the 80s, right, exactly.
Like, I don't want to be owned by my husband.
Like, that's reasonable.
And I want the right to vote.
Thank you.
Right?
You know, and so when you see those demonstrations, by the way, we cleared something up on another live stream.
Those feminist rallies were always defined by women burning their bras.
Evidently, that's an urban legend.
There's no examples of bra burning.
And of course, that would be offside today with carbon footprint issues.
We don't want to make bread a tunberg wheat press.
It's like liquid and stuff on some of them.
You don't want to burn that.
So that's an urban legend, but the cause itself was worthy going back some 50 years.
Maybe we should do it, though.
Maybe we should burn a bra.
Yeah.
How do you think you can ignite that?
I don't know.
I feel like it would actually be very flammable.
Unless it's cotton, like a lot of these fabrics are very sketchy.
Well, I'm proud to say I wouldn't know.
In any event, I think we might have Juan on standby.
We're still waiting.
Oh, we're still waiting.
We're wanting more Juan.
Yeah, so we're checking off the checklist: the Ontario election, the radical trans movement, and are Braziers flammable.
That's what you're getting today on this show.
Oh, okay, Dan.
Oh, yes, this is fun.
So Amazon had a flag-raising ceremony for Pride Month, but I think about 30 or 15 small number of Amazon employees hosted a die-in where they laid on the ground pretending to be dead and cover themselves in the trans flag because they're upset and triggered by the fact that Amazon sells transphobic books, including Matt Walsh's book, which I don't know the name of off the top of my head.
I'm sure there's other ones that they consider transphobic.
Anything that talks about biological essentialism is basically transphobic to these people.
You know, it seems like such a like Amazon is such a huge company.
If 15 people lay on the ground, just fire them.
I agree.
That's a problem.
They're useless people.
You know, Catherine, why can't we have strong men and strong women in the corporate culture that say, well, you just said, if you're going to lie down and pretend you're dead, well, do it at home because you're fired.
You're not at your workstation.
I once had a monologue on this, you know, the classic fable, The Emperor's New Cloak, where the little boy is the only one in the village that says, Hey, the king's naked.
He's got nothing on.
Today, the ending would be the kid is sent for sensitivity training for pointing out the obvious and the truth.
And I think when we see this being tolerated, Catherine, it's all about corporations, whether it's Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Levi's, you name it.
We will bend the knee to the radical progressives, the Marxists, the radical trans community, so that they don't start any kind of boycott or slander campaign against our company.
They'll move on to our competitors and do that.
That's the weakness.
Because they're the loudest and most annoying.
They're the loudest.
Oh, absolutely.
And who are they bending the knee to?
A percent of a percent of a percent of people.
That is the degree of cowardice we see, not only in the corporate world, but in Hollywood, professional sports, government.
You see it, the bureaucracy.
You see it everywhere.
And I'm sorry to be potentially transphobic.
A lot of these people, and there are studies to back this up, are suffering from mental health issues.
And that's the tail wagging the dog.
Seriously?
Unbelievable.
So hopefully that pendulum is going to swing back soon because the idea of trans people thinking a book is so toxic that they will die in the water.
Just write your turn to death.
Yeah.
Write your book to the dead.
Don't buy the book.
Change the channel.
Everyone has to think the same.
But we do have Juan ready for us at the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Conference.
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Juan, can you hear us?
Hi.
Hey, Juan, how are you doing there?
I'm going to turn you down.
Pretty good here.
So we're here at the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit here in Dallas, Texas, where thousands of women from all across the country have been coming here to just show support for all the conservative women speakers here and just to have like an outlet to be able to join up with other conservative women throughout the whole country.
So it's the second day here, but we've been seeing more and more people show up and with key speakers today such as Candace Owens, Slovy Emmett, and Juan Shen here ready to speak today.
We're seeing a large amount of people coming up.
Well, Juan, since Catherine is, as far as I can tell, a young woman or somebody who identifies as a young woman, I'm going to let her lead the interview with you.
So take it away, Kathy.
Okay, well, Juan, I haven't actually met you officially.
It's a welcome to the team, first of all.
It's nice to meet you.
What have been some highlights so far?
I know you just got there.
This is your first day there, but what are some highlights that are happening down there?
Well, I mean, the highlights, I mean, we're seeing all these big speakers speak.
And yesterday, Lara Trump spoke to a big crowd here yesterday.
And like I said, we're seeing thousands of people from all across the United States and all throughout the world just are showing up just to show their support towards conservative values here for Turning Point USA.
That's awesome.
So what did Laura Trump, did you watch her speech?
What did she, like, what topics did she hit on?
Well, she was talking about how it was great to see conservative women here gathering and just like calling out the left on just them not being able to describe what a woman is and just calling out the hypocrisy with the values that they have.
That seems to be a hot topic these days.
What is a woman?
No one can answer the question.
I think it's pretty, it's literally, I Googled it.
It's quite easy.
It's literally, it's a, it's a, what is a female?
And it's someone who's capable of producing eggs and has the capacity to give birth.
It's maybe somebody complicated.
Maybe somebody should bring along some biology books and hand them out for, you know, an impromptu education.
Yeah.
But, you know, Juan, tell me, one of the trends of the last U.S. election, and it was Ted Cruz, I think, that flagged this going back to 2020.
It was the idea of a demographic that was going away from the Republican Party to the Democrat Party, and that was college-educated white suburban women.
And basically, it was based on, oh, those mean tweets, you know, that's so offensive.
I would argue, because I know one of those white suburban college-educated women in California who fit into that demographic and did vote, Biden.
I'm wondering if those women are suffering from buyers' remorse, given what's happened to the U.S. since the Democrats took power.
I mean, a lot of them that I've been speaking to, I mean, they've been feeling remorse.
And the primary thing that they're regretting is just the amount of inflation that they've been seeing here and just the gas prices and the shortage of supplies around the area.
And another demographic I've been speaking to that has been showing a lot of remorse is as well, like the South Texas communities that start to vote Republican for the first time in many years, just seeing with the problems with the border crisis that the Biden administration has been allowing.
So a lot of people here, I mean, they're showing like they're showing their support just to have people like come here and just support women's values here and just conservative values as a whole too.
So we were actually thinking to show you just some of the booths around here just to show how big the event has been getting.
Yes, please do.
All right.
So like I said, I mean, we've been seeing thousands of women around all across the United States and many different countries as well just show up here just to show support for the event here.
And we've been seeing booths all throughout the area here just trying to talk with people just to have like the same values of conservative ideas.
So as you can see here, I mean, it's a massive main booth here.
So like I said, it's a three-day event and like we have not been seeing it being like not many people.
It's been crowded the whole time here.
So we'll be walking more around here.
And people from like all different.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's a great background here.
It's a great beautiful.
So, but yeah, we've been seeing people from like all walks of life and all different backgrounds that are just gathered here today and just to show their support for conservative and women's values here.
So like we like you can see, I mean, there's many different booths from all different walks of life here.
That's really interesting.
I feel like in the past, maybe, and maybe I'm just ignorant, but I feel like an event like this would be more compelling to women today than it was five, 10 years ago because womanhood is on the line.
We're getting attacked left, right, and center.
And maybe, like I was just talking to David Menzies about this, but being a feminist 10 years ago is not the same definition as a feminist now.
And I never considered myself a feminist or someone who would go to a woman's event because I'd be like, meh, we're all right.
But we're not anymore.
And I feel like this kind of event is probably more popular now than ever and more important now than ever.
So it looks like a fun place to be.
I see a lot of beautiful outfits.
Nice job, ladies.
Yeah.
And especially, I mean, nowadays, especially with the Democrats, I mean, not supporting a lot of women, not just with the trans women in sports, but also like them saying that they can't define what a woman is or saying that they're not a biologist.
So a lot of people are just like coming here to show their support and being like, we want women to be treated well.
And they're seeing that with the conservative values, they're actually parties that are taking care of these women and actually supporting them.
Yeah.
Democrats.
And I'm curious, too, what is the mood of the attendees at this conference in terms of a optimistic feeling, if you will, given the midterms are coming in November.
And we look back at the Trump regime and what did you have in America?
You had energy independence.
Inflation was not a factor.
You had record low unemployment rates, including for minority groups, Hispanic, black, female, Asian.
There was no such thing as a baby formula shortage, for goodness sakes, where you had to depend on airlifts from other countries.
And this wokeism was not a thing where, you know, as we've seen, a Supreme Court justice, as Catherine mentioned, can't even define a woman.
I personally feel one, and just correct me if I'm going down the wrong path.
I think we're going to see a generational, you know, landslide of people coming out to get rid of so many Democrats.
Of course, it's got to happen.
People can't stay at home.
They've got to actually get out and vote.
What is the mood there that you're picking up?
I mean, I think the mood is really good.
I think, like I said, I've been seeing people from all different backgrounds and many different political thoughts that I've just been, they're being tired of the Democratic Party, especially under the Biden administration, feeling that they've been cheated.
And I mean, everyone's united here.
And with the midterms, I think it's going to be a landslide too, with people from both the left and the right just uniting and just seeing that they have a lot of the same ideas that they agree on and seeing that the Democrats have just been using them and manipulating them.
Incredible.
So less than, what, six months away, we'll have to watch out for that.
Catherine, do you have any other questions for what?
No, I don't think I do.
I mean, I wish I was there myself, but for reasons I won't discuss, I cannot.
Oh, well, I think the reason might be that we're prisoners in our country, Juan.
We're landlocked.
We can't take a plane, a train, a boat, until...
You can't even take an automobile across the border.
Yeah.
That's for sure.
And is there any hot topic, Juan, at this conference that's emerged?
Is there something everyone's talking about?
I presume the economy must be front of mind, given how in less than two years, things have gone upside down in America with the Biden regime.
But is there anything else that is being talked about by these attendees?
Well, like you said, the economy is the main thing that most people here have been just agreeing that is the main topic here.
I mean, people are getting sick of having to pay $100 just to fill up their tanks and just seeing record highs of prices for gas, not just in Texas, but throughout the whole country.
And like I said, another hot topic is that they feel like the women feel like they haven't been represented by the Democrats since they're cheating them.
They feel like they're being cheated, especially with things as trans women being in sports and stealing their spotlight and their prizes because of unfair advantages because of physical traits.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think all of the things you've listed, Juan, are going to contribute to just a landslide.
But I'm almost hesitant to speak in those terms because, you know, you might have people say, oh, it's a landslide.
They don't need my vote.
You got to get out the vote.
That always matters.
The vote has to come out.
Ontario, we just had a provincial election won last night, and the Progressive Conservative Party romped to victory.
But the turnout was around 41%.
And I think a lot of that had to do with people looking at the polls and seeing that the Conservatives were due for a supermajority.
And they said, eh, no sense me going out.
Well, nothing, you know, disasters happened, but it can always go the other way when you stay home believing in the polls.
So I think that's a message to Republicans, regardless of sex.
Get the vote out come November.
Don't take anything for granted.
And we get message on wall and David.
That's well put, David.
Great.
Okay.
Well, Juan, thank you so much.
You're killing it with your reports south of the border.
I know when we say that, that means the United States.
When you say that, it means Mexico.
So I just wanted to be clear in terms of the geography.
And Juan, thank you so much for covering the conference and we'll look forward to your future reports.
Thank you, Juan.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, that was Juan.
And, you know, really, Catherine, that was the two trends we saw in the last U.S. federal election.
Like I said, college-educated white suburban women not taking a likening to Trump's mean tweets.
Well, you know what?
I'll take any kind of mean tweets if it means a gallon of gasoline is $2 as opposed to $650.
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And the unemployment and everything else that this regime is, I mean, Biden is the anti-midas.
Everything he touches doesn't turn to gold.
It turns to something else.
And I think even those that voted Democrat, I speak in my friend in California, she's never going down that route again after seeing what's happened.
Yeah.
And it was kind of funny too, because the other trend was that you saw blue-collar, mostly males, you know, working in industry that typically supported the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party used to be pro-union, pro-lunchbucket brigade.
And they were switching to Republican because they realized, you know, with the with the Democrats saying, we're going to shut down the coal mines, we're going to stop pipelines, we're going to stop the leasing of oil fields, they realize they're putting me out of a job.
So that demographic went Republican.
Really odd times we're living in.
It really is.
Like how we talked about this earlier, about how Doug Ford has so much, so many of the unions behind him.
Correct.
It's a strange time, especially like, and I mentioned this again, but Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the federal NDP party, supposed to be a man of the people.
New Democrat Party, they're supposed to be, you know, akin to socialism in a way.
Closest thing we have here.
And yet he walks around in a $20,000 watch and these fancy suits.
And he's just so disconnected from the reality of how average Canadians are living.
And like I mentioned, the people are more people than ever are going to food banks.
It's like times are tough here.
And yet we have someone like Jagmeet and Trudeau, these people who act like they're these, I mean, they are.
They're elite rich people.
And there's a sense that they're always sneering and turning their nose up at the average citizen.
Even the way, I mean, this is kind of offside, but even the way Justin Trudeau speaks, like his afflict, his, what do you say, affliction, afflection in his voice, is so pompous.
It's just like, get with the times, man.
Like, you're supposed to be the party, and you're not the New Democrats or the liberals, but they're supposed to be representing the average person, not the rich, snobby conservatives, but the average Canadian.
But that is not, it's completely backwards from how it used to be.
You know, Catherine, there's two things I get from your comments.
One is the hypocrisy, Jugmeet Singh wearing the $20,000 watch, decrying the carbon crisis or the climate emergency.
Yet I believe his personal car is a BMW M3, right?
Yeah, not exactly a plug-in Toyota Prius.
And the other thing, there's a unique dynamic in the federal NDP party.
It's basically a two-headed hydra right now.
You have Jugmeet Singh and some other MPs that typically represent downtown urban ridings.
And they're all about, you know, stopping pipelines, you know, all about climate change, et cetera.
But you have the other classic NDP MPs who are the supporters of the lunch bucket brigade.
It was completely Democrat or like NDP in the writing of Oshawa yesterday.
And there you go provincially.
But the point is, is that I think if you were to get the NDP party to speak honestly, there is a lot of buyers' remorse that Thomas Mulcair, who brought them to official opposition status, is no longer there.
And Jugmeet saying, I'm sorry to say, that's not just a dead dog.
That's a dead dog with fleas.
He is never going to break through.
He's the fourth place leader propping up these Trudeau liberals.
And the liberal policies, which he supports, are contrary to blue-collar workers who would be a big part of the NDP voting.
Absolutely.
He's slapping his own voting base in the face.
And that's why he was, you know, booed out of Brampton.
And by the way, I find this spectacular, Catherine.
And I'm not sure how much truth there is, but I was going around the media looking at what certain analysts were saying, because right now the question is who replaces Stephen Del Duca?
And of course, who replaces Andrea Horwath?
And for Andrea Horwath's replacement, believe it or not, one name bandied about is Jugmeet Singh, you know, becoming the leader of the Ontario NDP.
Maybe he realizes that it's a fool's errand to run federally.
I don't think for a variety of reasons the NDP under Jugmeet Singh will ever break through in Quebec like Thomas Molcair did.
Do you think that's a possibility?
Oh my gosh, I hope not.
I mean, it's like, what's worse?
Can he do more damage in Ontario or federally?
Like, in federally, he'll probably never win because of Quebec and the West.
In Ontario, maybe people will like him and he'd actually become the leader, and that would be a nightmare.
I don't know.
I think he should retire.
Yeah, and that, by the way, that's a very good point because one of the reasons I really suspect he's propping up the Justin Trudeau liberals until 2025.
Oh my gosh, an eternity.
Then he will have put in the six years of service to qualify for that cushy pension.
Oh, yeah, yeah, because you know what?
When you're buying $20,000 watches and brand new BMW M3s off the lot, yeah, you need some double-ray me, right?
You know, so I think that's Jugmeet Singh's true agenda.
I mean, it sucks that we have to pay him, but whatever.
Just retire.
But get out of here.
And yeah.
He's not a nice person.
I don't think so either.
He won't take questions from independent media.
He is pompous.
He is elitist, I think.
And, you know, he's holding the country hostage by propping up this Trudeau government.
But I see we're running out of racetrack here.
Catherine, do we have some super chats?
Oh, okay.
Then you're going to have to read that, Catherine, because unless I'm Clark Kent, there's no way.
I cannot read that either.
Can we do something about the font size, producer Olivia?
I can see AMT 640.
I don't have my glasses.
It's in Slack.
Okay, then.
Is it?
Did I miss it?
Okay, I see them.
I see them.
My bad.
My bad.
I see them now.
Okay.
Here we go.
So AMT $60, $1 says Canada is in political hell, federally liberal and NDP and their dictatorship for another three long years.
And now four years of Ford, who does what Trudeau tells him to do, is in the independent, sorry, is the independent person for freedom like New Blue?
Yeah, no, it's a good point.
However, it looks like the strategy, well, it doesn't look like the strategy did work.
You had Justin Trudeau showing up at political events on the campaign trail for Doug Ford.
In the meantime, he never showed up at a Stephen Del Duca liberal event.
I mean, Stephen Del Duca must feel like a spurned spouse.
I mean, they're both liberal red.
But I think part of that, Catherine, is that traditionally in Ontario for the last hundred years, more or less, whichever party is in Ottawa on Parliament Hill, the federal party, the opposite party is at Queen's Park.
It's almost the psyche of the Ontario voter, and I don't understand it really.
Yeah, they want like a counterbalance.
And I think Doug Ford realized that.
And I think Justin Trudeau realized that because why else is he showing up at progressive conservative campaign announcements?
It's stunning.
Again, what a weird world we're in.
It is a kooky clown world, David.
You are correct.
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Thank you.
I believe, fellow Star Trek fans, yes.
Hello.
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Which parties do you think most resemble which race from Star Trek and which leader most resembles which character from Star Trek?
Wow.
I'd have to process that.
Well, I feel like the liberals are the Romulans.
Liberals are the Romulans.
The NDP are the Klingons.
The PCs under Doug Ford are the federation in the dark mirror universe.
Yeah, not these are your grandfather's PCs because let's face it, they're as liberal, almost as liberal as the other two parties.
They're certainly spending like liberals.
So there you go.
You know what's funny is Captain Picard, I would consider him a very liberal person, but I would vote for that man.
If there was someone who resembled the grace and the philosophical balance of someone like Jean-Luc Picard, he would have my vote.
I can still, you know what?
I can conceive of a 23rd or 24th century in which we have starships going faster than the speed of light.
I can't buy into the fact that Captain Jean-Luc Picard from France speaks with a British accent.
That always loses me.
Why didn't they just make him a someone from the UK?
I mean, was that too much of an ask?
Yeah.
You know, but apparently it was.
So anyways.
Well, I mean, every race in Star Trek speaks English perfectly.
Well, that's enough Star Trek references, but thank you for that nice donation.
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Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, New Brunswick and Ontario Party, or new, sorry, New Blue and Ontario Party couldn't connect with Duca or Andrea.
Yes.
You know what?
Shooting themselves in the foot.
In fairness, and we've seen this with Maxine Bernier's PPC party.
And despite getting a good percentage of the popular vote, but we know our electoral system doesn't work that way.
The Conservatives federally, in the last two elections, won the popular vote, but didn't win the election because it's writing base.
And just ask Mr. O'Toole and Mr. Shear about that.
But the fact of the matter is, Catherine, historically speaking, for a startup party, you know, even with an elected representative.
So we're talking Rick Nichols, Belinda Carahalios, Maxine Bernier, they all lost their seats.
It is a Herculean task to break through.
And we saw it again.
People like labels.
I guess so.
And again, like I said, people will point, well, look at the percentage of the vote.
And basically, that's nice.
That's good.
But you know what?
Doesn't translate into seats and doesn't translate into power.
And, you know, for me, I voted PPC in the federal election.
And the reason I did that was because I was like, I want someone in the parliament who represents my values, even if it's just a few.
But it's like we won how many seats of the PPC win, like one or two?
No, zero.
Zero.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay, so I basically threw my vote away because I wanted to have my voice heard, but no one's going to hear it.
No one, they're not even in there.
They're not even in the meeting.
So it was a waste.
And even Maxine Bernier, and, you know, I love Maxim.
I have, you know, he never turns on an interview with us.
And I think I support his policies.
But him and his father in Baus, Quebec, they've held that writing more than 30 years, three decades.
And even then, with his branding, with his name recognition, couldn't break through.
That's how difficult it is.
Well, that's a good point.
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That's why I use capital letters.
But you know what?
The problem phraser is that we, even I, with my wonky eyes.
I can read that.
I can read his name, but I can't read it.
I can read that one because it was short and sweet and in capitals.
So, thank you.
Well, how do you do when you go to the optometrist with that eye chart?
I mean, I can always get the big capital E, right?
But after that, it's downhill.
So I can see everything that's going on.
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Just enjoy the moment today.
That's so nice.
You know what?
That's really nice.
Catherine, honestly, in the big picture, if your party or your candidate didn't win, if you're upset about Ford getting another four-year mandate with a super majority, the fact of the matter is, life goes on.
The sun came up.
Hopefully, you're healthy.
Hopefully, everything's going well with your life.
And there will be other battles to fight.
Yeah, that's nice.
I like that.
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It would be great if someone could swap the turban that Jagmeat wears with a hornet's nest instead.
Wow, a little offside.
Also, New Blue and Ontario Party should put their differences aside in the night.
That I agree with.
Absolutely.
I agree with the second part.
I don't believe in advocating harm even by hornet stings to anyone.
I think it was a joke because it's so cartoonish.
We don't advocate for violence here, but thank you for the comments.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, do not go out and seek out any Sikhs wearing a turban and replacing it with a hornet's nest.
You're probably going to get stung in the process, by the way, doing it.
Or you'll go to jail.
But the other part I do like, reunite the independent rights.
There's your slogan.
I love that.
David, you should do it.
David, for premiere.
I'm behind you 100%, Menzies.
I don't think I could capture Dog Catcher.
So, you know.
That's all the super chats we have.
Well, and perfect timing.
We're just one minute past the hour.
And so I want to thank super producers Olivia and Ephren behind the boards.
Oh, and Danny, thank you for mentioning that.
You know, we have tinted glass for some reason.
I think that's Ephren's doing.
Because it's coo.
Well, he's got this real, you know, lust for tinted windows in cars.
He's always talking about tinted windows.
And he tinted the studio windows.
I can't see anyone there.
It's your eyes, David.
But thank you all.
And thank everybody for tuning in, especially those who contributed a super chat.
Like I said earlier, it's how we keep the machinery gun running here.
Need a lot of lights to blur the imperfections.
And Catherine, thank you for being my coach.
Oh, David, anyway.
It's a delight.
Oh, you're a delight as you can.
We go way back to at least a year ago.
To at least a year ago, which is a long time when the clock's running down.
In the meantime, folks, there'll be, I think it's Sheila and Adam Seuss on Monday, and it's Sheila and I on Tuesday of next week.
Have a wonderful weekend.
And as always, stay sane.
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The Honorable Member for Kill Donan, St. Paul.
Mr. Speaker, I recently traveled to Israel on a parliamentary mission to learn about the conflict.
But something else that really stood out to me was how the country has moved on from COVID.
It was immediately noticeable when we got off the plane.
No masks, no public health warnings, warnings, distancing, or divisive vaccine mandates.
In Israel, people are living joyously in a post-COVID world, Mr. Speaker.
But as soon as we boarded the flight home to Canada, all COVID restrictions and mandates returned.
And I felt the anxiety and stress of the past two years and realized the terrible impact Canadian restrictions continue to have on our psyches and how desperately people need a return to normal.
But this Liberal government will not allow it.
They voted against our motions and travel restrictions and mandates, even though other highly advanced vaccinated countries with leading scientific and medical experts have done so.