Alexa Lavois joins DAILY to expose YouTube’s selective censorship of Rebel News over COVID debates, despite opposing Bill C-11’s forced Canadian content mandates. MPs dodge accountability on free speech while 63% of older Canadians fear never retiring due to inflation—$90B in Quebec lockdown support ballooned debt, masking price hikes like Toronto rents surging 15.7% to $2,133/month. Financial desperation fuels compliance with mandates, benefiting banks and governments, while domestic oil resources sit unused for ideological optics. The episode reveals how economic instability silences dissent, even as platforms and politicians exploit crises for control. [Automatically generated summary]
Can I just, producer, we don't have any visual on our screen?
Oh, I can't see Alexa.
Yeah, we want to see your beautiful face.
See Alexa's beautiful face.
But we can introduce things in the meantime.
So, Alexa, hi.
How are you?
Hello.
I'm good.
You.
You sound beautiful.
You sound beautiful.
Both of you.
You actually look beautiful, girl.
Thank you, Alexa.
So I'm just going to run through what we're doing here.
This is the Rebel daily live stream at noon Eastern time.
We do it every weekday.
Nat and I don't get to do it that often anymore because we have our own show.
But Alexa's a staple, a constant staple.
Yes.
My name is Catherine.
I'm Nat.
And of course, we have beautiful Alexa Lavois joining us.
Famous Alexa.
Very famous Alexa joining us from Quebec.
So just a few housekeeping items.
We are on, we are live right now on YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, Super U.
And there's another one.
Get her.
But at some point, if this show becomes too spicy, we're going to switch over to the other platforms because YouTube has some rules about some stuff.
Yeah.
COVID.
But for now, you're safe.
And if we do move over, we'll let you know.
And then you can join us on those other platforms.
So yeah, definitely.
Should we start things off by just maybe doing a little store promo?
Yes.
You know, it might be a little late for your items to ship in time for Father's Day, but we have a fresh line of Father's Day merch.
And right now, you can get, well, buy one item, get another for 25% off using the code DAD25 at checkout.
So go to the RebelNewsStore.com or RebelNewsStore.com actually, and just check out the merch.
It's really cute.
And there's also Misunderstood Merch if you want something more feminine, but basically just go get your dad something because he deserves it.
He does deserve it.
He deserves it.
And there's also Canada Day stuff that's going to be.
Yes, we're going to be, we're going to have a Canada Day promo launching, I think, on Monday.
So stay tuned for more updates then.
But, you know, browse the merch because the Canada Day collection is already live on the site and there's some really cute designs.
Super cute.
Yeah.
And Rebel News, in partnership with some of our more talented editors, has already been doing a bunch of screenings of Trucker Rebellion.
Yes.
The story of the Coots blockade.
There's another screening tonight at Church in the Vine in Edmonton.
Thank you, Nat.
Yes.
And then on June 21st here in Toronto, we're going to have the very first screening in Toronto of Trucker Rebellion.
And I think we're going to have our very good friend and director, Kian Simone, coming in for that.
So he, I think he'll be doing QA moments.
I'm not really sure.
Yes, he will.
He will.
Ezra Levant, the one and only.
Obviously, yes.
Ezra will be there.
Nat and I will be there.
Yeah, we will.
So say hello.
Pardon?
Are you coming?
Are you coming to the Trucker Rebellion screening in Toronto?
I just like look at you guys just talking to each other.
I was like, I actually look like a figurine that I'm not talking and I'm in the middle.
No, I can't.
Obviously, like I'm moving home for being closer for being in the middle of the action.
So unfortunately, as Canada know, Quebec move all in the same day, the first of July.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Is that a thing?
Yeah, yeah.
So if you go in Quebec on the first of July, you will see moving truck everywhere because everybody moved on the same day.
Wow.
That is hectic.
Why is that?
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's just because as you know, when you're moving, you sign like a bail, like a contract with the, but they all start on the 1st of July and they all end up on the 30th of June or 31 of June.
Crazy.
And it's always working, Quebec.
It's why like it's really difficult to move because all the truck is already rent and costs a really high price.
No kidding.
That sounds nightmare.
So you're moving.
Yeah, so we are moving.
So we are not celebrating really Canada Day because everybody is moving on that day.
That's fine.
So you will not be in Toronto because you're busy.
But if you guys listening are in the Toronto area and want to get your tickets to Trucker Rebellion, go to truckerdocumentary.com to buy your tickets today.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
I'm excited.
I haven't seen it.
Me either.
I'm excited.
Have you seen it, Alexa?
Trucker documentary?
I actually watch a part of it with my mom.
Oh, that's cute.
I'm excited to see it.
That's awesome.
So should we?
The action is insane.
It's really good.
Okay.
Well, we're looking forward to it.
Yeah, I mean, we were all following along during the action.
And obviously, as everyone knows, Alexa, you were in Ottawa at the same time in the Ottawa protest.
And I mean, what would you call it?
Protest, party, hangout.
I mean, it wasn't a party for you.
You got shot.
No, but it was a mix of everything.
I think at the end it was more like a Golia village.
Like some people have put like some mailbox where they had their trucks just to tell like they are not going anywhere.
So it was kind of protest, but not the permanent protest, but a half-permanent protest, I would say.
It was a statement.
Yeah.
And I truly believe that what happened there is to is why we are enjoying so many freedoms now that we weren't enjoying before.
And, you know, you can chalk it up to lots of things.
Like people will say it's because more people are vaccinated, you know, whatever.
You can say that it's because it's the summer now and there's less infections.
I would argue that last summer we were literally in a state, what was it?
It was the stay-at-home orders.
Yeah.
So I think I really truly do thank the truckers for the freedoms that we're enjoying now.
And for people like you who are on the ground, I went for one weekend and was out there for like maybe four hours and was like, I'm good.
That's good.
So cool.
YouTube Speaks Out00:14:56
You are hardcore, girl.
You're so hardcore.
You are hardcore.
So should we talk about, should we get into maybe some of our items?
Yes.
I'm delaying because we can't see the screen.
We cannot see the screen, Alexa.
Yeah, but Alexa can see it.
But we can wing it.
We can listen.
We can listen.
We're professionals.
I see your girl me.
So that's perfect.
Perfect.
Let's play the first clip then.
All right, great.
So this is about YouTube pushing back against Bill C-11, which, as Alexa, you'll know and our viewers will probably know is this internet censorship bill that is going to harm content creators like ourselves.
So let's search that clip now.
Hey, everyone, it's Brandon from the Brandon Gona Show, and I'm working with YouTube to share an update on some new legislation in the works in Canada.
It's called the Online Streaming Act or Bill C11.
Here are the impacts that C-11 could have on creators and users in Canada.
It can determine how content appears on YouTube, including the homepage and watch next section.
Plus, a regulator could force artificial promotion of some creators and content over others, which could impact how content reaches global audiences and could hurt views and revenue.
Now, if this bill passes, it could have a huge impact on recommendations on YouTube, which means potentially a big change for Canadian viewers and creators like you and me.
Now, to break down what this means, let's bring in Todd Beaupre, a director of product at YouTube, whose team helps manage what videos come your way on your home feed.
Todd, let's talk about recommendations as they work now on YouTube.
What are the basics we need to know?
Hey, Brandon, great to be chatting with you.
Certain recommendations are a really key part of our YouTube viewer experience.
We've designed them to really help viewers find videos that they would enjoy watching based on what each viewer is interested in.
We want to help them discover creators and channels that are going to be really interesting to them.
It's kind of like if you go to the library and you have a librarian there to help you find the next book that you might enjoy reading based on other books that you've read.
So, let's talk about how exactly this bill might play out on YouTube.
Basically, we know a regulator could make YouTube show a certain amount of Canadian videos to Canadians.
So, does that mean you'd have to change the recommendation system?
So, first, let me tell you a little bit about how the recommendation system works today.
So, we collect a lot of feedback from viewers in the form of like looking at what they watch, what they don't watch, how long they watch it, whether they click like or dislike.
We really aim to recommend the best videos to each viewer based on their personal interests.
And so, as part of that, we aim to recommend Canadian creators to both Canadian viewers as well as viewers around the world who are interested in that sort of content or content similar to it, regardless of whether the video was uploaded in Canada or somewhere around the world.
And by doing this, we're able to maximize the audience for Canadian creators.
Okay, so if Canadians get artificially served up Canadian content, what happens to the systems?
So, what would happen is we'd end up mismatching viewers to videos that they would be most interested in.
In the space of Canadian content creators, we would be showing their videos to people who would be less interested than other videos.
And what that ends up meaning is the reaction from those viewers is likely to be that they're less likely to click on those videos.
If they do click on the videos, they would be less likely to like them or maybe they would dislike them or watch them a lot less.
And so, that negative feedback that you collect.
Yikes.
Yeah.
It's nice to see that YouTube is, you know, has the same battle that we do, which is kind of funny because YouTube censors dissenting voices so frequently.
So, it's interesting that this has kind of pushed them kind of to be more on our side of things where we're like, hey, no censorship, like, you know, within the legal limit.
It's very interesting.
Alexa, what do you think about this?
They are censoring when it's about COVID stuff.
But when it's come to really censor creator and other production that is not related with the narrative, oh, we have a problem there.
We will speak out for that.
What about like the censorship that happened since the beginning of the pandemic, where you censor, where you shut a ban, where you change like everything for not showing the video that is related with another narrative?
That's okay.
But I find that a little bit hypocrisy in facing like YouTube talking like now we will raise against like bill C11 because it's what we should do because we want to protect like creator and product and themselves because that will hurt mostly them.
But when it's come with other products that I wanted to show and shed the light on other misinformation, different information that have been spread by mainstream media and legacy media.
Oh no, that's not good.
Do you guys think that now that YouTube is like speaking out about this, that maybe the government will hear our cries and it'll be enough pushback to maybe stop the bill or change things?
Because it's a pretty sinister bill.
Like it'll literally impact every single content creator in Canada.
Like that's huge.
Well, I think it goes directly to their pocketbooks.
Like this is a business.
So at the end of the day, YouTube is probably has some panel that has told them we're going to lose money because like the guy in the video said, like people aren't going to be watching and liking videos as much because they're not going to be interested in the content.
It's going to be pushed onto them.
So at the end of the day, YouTube's like, this is going to affect our revenue.
And I mean, I'm not really answering your question directly, but maybe because their pocketbooks are on the line, maybe they will make such a stink that maybe it will actually change.
Swallow the money.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's like you said, Alexa, it's like they don't care when it's just a fringe minority of people who want to know the truth about certain medical interventions.
I'm going to say that.
They don't care.
But when it's like, oh, actually, every single user on YouTube will be given, I mean, Canadian user on YouTube will be given content that they're not really interested in and promoted things that they're like, okay, cool.
I guess it's going to hurt them financially.
So yes, to answer your question in a very roundabout way.
Yeah, Alexa, do you think that there will be positive change from this?
But for me, like, you know, Bill C11 and other bills are, it's been a while that we are talking about, and everybody is starting about now because it's getting more and more closer to be accepted and to be approved by the parliament.
But why people didn't take action way before when that bill had been like put straight for the first reading?
Nobody like was that, okay, I don't see as a threat.
But it's always when it's getting to be approved that everybody's like, oh my God, what we are doing.
And now we see big tech talking out about it.
Okay, why you didn't raise your voice when the Bill C11 had been put in place.
That's a really good point.
I think it's like hindsight is 2020 almost in a way because it's now affecting them, you know?
But it was always going to.
I think it's her point.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Like, why didn't they see two years ago when we started talking about this?
Or was it two years?
I don't know.
I think it was around that.
Yeah.
That this would be a problem for them.
And now it's like, maybe it's too late.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's scary.
I mean, we are still kind of pushing back here at Rebel News.
We do have a petition that you all can sign at stopthecensorship.ca.
And I think we have another clip that maybe we could play that kind of piggybacks on this from our new Ottawa reporter, William.
Producer, are we able to play that clip?
In fact, actually, good, good clip, actually.
Yeah, really good.
Yeah, it's fun.
William is our new Ottawa correspondent, which is funny because we didn't have anyone in Ottawa as of now.
Alexa was traveling to Ottawa to cover a lot of that.
But it's good to have some boots on the ground there.
And I think, you know, you'll see for yourself, but he is shaking.
He's like ruffling feathers on the streets of Ottawa because the MPs are just walking around and they haven't been challenged by anyone because it's all just like CBC journalists leaving them to have their fancy lunches.
And all of a sudden, there it goes.
Yeah, exactly.
You have a Rebel News reporter putting a mic in their face and they're like, who are you?
What are you doing?
Yeah.
It's funny.
Sir.
Sir.
What do you feel about being in the same party as someone that said f you to one of his constituents?
Will he be fired by Justin Trudeau?
Sir?
Can you answer my question?
How do you feel about being the same party as someone that said futures one of his constituents?
He should be fired by Trudeau, shouldn't he?
Sure.
Could you explain to me why Bill C11 can help freedom of speech?
Can you explain to me how Bill C11 can help freedom of speech?
How can Bill C11 help freedom of speech?
Do you have any idea how I could do that?
Where are you from?
I'm from here, Ottawa.
My name is William with Rebel News.
I know.
Can you answer my question?
Take care.
Why can't you answer my question?
Simple question.
Why are you coming to me?
I'm asking you, how can Bill C-11 help freedom of speech?
How do you feel about the liberal MP that said f shoots one of his constituents?
How'd you feel about that?
Yeah, the car shopping car can't be walking now.
How'd you feel about that?
I hope you have a good day.
I'm asking you a question.
The people deserve to know.
She's like, come, sweetheart.
How'd you feel about the liberal MP that f ⁇ shoots one of his constituents?
How'd you feel about that?
Won't answer.
How'd you feel about that?
Yeah, yeah.
Melanie, Jeanie, Joelie.
Have a good day, sir.
At least you wished him a good day.
What do you think of Bill C11, the bill that's about to probably pass?
Well, I'm hoping it doesn't pass.
There are a number of problems with it, especially around gentle censorship issues and letting the government.
What do you think of the fact that Justin Trudeau says that it's going to promote free speech?
I don't believe that at all.
Yeah, thank you.
You see, it's only conservative.
What do you think of Bill C11?
Oh, it's terrible.
It's infringing Canadian's freedom of speech.
It's a censorship bill by the government.
It should be supportive.
So, how do you feel about the fact that you're in the same party as someone that said f shoots one of his constituents?
Well, I think he apologized for that.
Yeah, but he still did.
He did, but he apologized.
What do you think of Bill C11?
Oh, it's okay.
How will it promote Canadian content promote free speech?
It censors.
It will give the government the power to censor speech.
Who are you with?
I'm with Rebel News.
My name is William Diaz.
Well, read the bill.
Yeah, I read it.
Where is it written that the bill?
I'm asking you a question.
How would it promote?
No, I'm the journalist.
I'm asking you a question.
How would it promote free speech?
How on earth can it promote free speech?
I'm asking a question to you, sir.
You're a minister.
Did I answer all the questions?
You didn't answer anything about my question.
How would it promote free speech?
You didn't answer anything.
How would it promote free speech?
Read your stuff.
How would it promote free speech?
Sir, the Canadian people elected you.
Can you give them an answer?
How would it promote free speech?
Will you be gracious enough to give me an answer, sir?
Or are you just going to ignore the country?
You're very disrespectful.
I'm asking you a question.
How would it promote free speech?
It's a super quick question, sir.
All right, thank you for not answering.
Have a good day.
How can Bill C11 help freedom of speech?
Oh, well, the full video is going to be coming out later today, but the journalist there is William.
He's young and he's doing an amazing job.
He was very persistent, but polite.
Imagine if David Menzies did that.
He'd probably get arrested.
David Menzies would have been arrested on site.
Yeah.
Just for being there.
And probably I would have been like paper spray or something.
Yes, and Alexia.
Yeah, I assaulted.
Glad you would have gone in for more, Alex.
I just feel like.
No, sorry, go ahead.
I just try to be like really far away from politician, parliament, and police for now.
Yeah, that's they have your number.
They know you.
Yeah, no, that's fair.
Honestly, though, it's not surprising to me that these people don't want to answer our questions.
Like, everyone always is like shock, outrage.
And it's like, well, they've shown us exactly who they are.
They're hypocrites.
They obviously aren't working for us, like the people.
It's just, it's not surprising.
And it's maybe almost sad that I'm not surprised that they're not answering his questions.
I find them to be so pompous in the way that they, first of all, they're like, who are you with?
Because it's like, well, if you're with one of our friend media agencies, we're going to probably file a complaint against you.
And maybe they would answer, but probably not.
But they would definitely file a complaint in my opinion.
And then when they find out it's Rebel, they're just like, have a good day.
And then they walk away like they're ignoring a homeless person on the street.
Like these people have no compassion whatsoever.
They're, they just, and the, and just the elitism and the pompousness, just like, you guys are elected bureaucrats.
You're not supposed to, like, what did that, what's his name?
The gentleman with the gray hair and the Pablo?
Pablo.
He looks like he's on vacation in France.
Like, why are you too cool for school?
He's way too cool.
Like, you're supposed to be a public servant, my friend.
Like, serve the public instead of walking around with your young assistant and your Starbucks cups.
Like, it just, oh, what I think I want to go on vacation in France is my point.
Yeah, I think they've just forgotten that like our taxpayers fund their wages.
Like they've just forgotten that.
Sorry, what were you going to say, Alexa?
Just for the viewer that doesn't know what William was talking about.
So one of the concerns of the liberal saying a private message, fuck you.
Conservatives Speak Out00:07:36
Sorry, fuck you.
To answer to a message about it, it was someone who said that she wasn't able to see a dying parent because she was not allowed to travel.
And he answered with that answer.
And I found that really outrageous.
And as you see, like liberal would say, well, but he apologized.
What?
If it was someone else from another business, probably would be fired at that time for having saying that to someone.
And especially like it's paid probably by that same person with her tax and get that answer from this person.
It's probably like one of the most outrageous things.
Like the same as when we see like the police hurting people paying by the same people that they are hurting.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
She's reaching out to her local politician to express her concern.
Exactly.
Yeah.
A legitimate concern like that would be, my parents aren't so old that they're in retirement homes, thank God.
But if they had been during lockdown and I'm unvaccinated, I wouldn't have been able to see them.
That would have been a huge moral dilemma for myself.
And it ultimately is at the hands of them saying I can't see my family.
It's disgusting.
It is.
And I think our reporter, Lincoln Jay, has an interview coming out today with this woman.
So definitely go to rebelnews.com and check that out later.
Yeah, so lots of fun hypocrisy happening within our government.
Should we talk about something else?
So we have an article from CBC about the House of Commons lifting vaccine mandates.
Oh, wow.
It's not new news.
Another hypocrisy.
Because I don't know if you know, but in Quebec, the National Assembly, what I heard so far, and I'm not sure it's like 100% sure, but like all the MP was not obligated to be back for them.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Well, that's.
All the people was working there.
That was an obligating mandate.
But for the other, what's fine?
Rules for thee, not for me.
Exactly.
Exact.
So according to the CBC article, government house leader Mark Holland put forward a motion Thursday afternoon to end the mandate, which has been in place since last fall after house leaders from all parties met earlier this week.
Yeah, it's, I mean, why now?
I don't, like, why?
And then I guess they still have to wear masks until June 23rd because I guess after June 23rd, the science changes.
It's just insane.
They have to trickle it down so they don't, so it doesn't look so stupid.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
It's just crazy.
Like, just give people the choice to wear a mask or not.
Like, let's, like, the mandates for masks have dropped literally everywhere else.
Like, why, what's the difference here?
I just don't, I just don't get it.
I think it's because the house of common, you have more risk to get something there.
Because, you know, it's all politician there.
Yeah.
And they're traveling.
Yeah.
They have their special air purifiers.
Yeah.
They're all over the place.
That's fun is what they're doing with who.
Yeah, it's just funny that this is all trickling down now after, you know, same people have been like, well, it's your own health that you're taking into your own hands this whole time, one would argue.
And now it's kind of like in vogue.
And actually, Ezra said something months ago in a meeting here.
And he said, a politician is someone who, I don't know if he, I don't think he coined this, but he said a politician is someone who sees the parade walking down the street and then runs up in front and starts waving the flag.
Like that's kind of what's happening.
And we, you know, arguably see that with the conservatives.
Conservatives as well.
Like I personally really like Pierre Polyev and I like what he's saying a lot.
But critics of him and rightfully so are saying like, well, where were you a year ago, two years ago when people were suffering and they're opportunists.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that's a politician.
That's what a politician does.
I don't know.
It's not, I shouldn't be shocked by it, but it's like, it's disappointing that we had no one speaking for us other than like fringe politicians like Maxine Bernier, Roman Baber.
Yeah, exactly.
People were speaking out, but they were, and, you know, Belinda Karahalios and Rick Nichols, like there were people who were standing up to these measures, these measures, yeah, and getting kicked out of their parties for it.
But now all of a sudden, even the conservatives are like, oh, it's enough, it's enough.
And it's like, it was enough two years ago.
It was day one.
But in the same time, like one of the deputies at the National Assembly here in Quebec, she decided to change party.
And because she was speaking out and everything, her salary dropped of $20,000, I think, per year.
And as well, she had like all the DPT against her.
It was really hard for her.
Everybody was like against what she was.
She was the only one to raise her voice on 100 and I don't know, like 30 and something like deputy.
So imagine like being like, everybody just turning your back on you.
So I can understand that probably Pierre Podieva at that time, maybe was not ready.
Like everybody have a time to be ready to speak out.
I don't know when exactly he raised his voice.
I think it was before the Freedom Convoor.
It was around the Freedom Convoy.
Yeah.
Yeah, you make a good point.
And maybe if he, you know, to defend him, he had he spoken up at that time, maybe he wouldn't currently be in the top leadership position for the conservatives.
Like maybe we would have someone like Aaron O'Toole who was like playing by the rules the whole time and continues to, where we have someone who played by the rules until it was opportunistic to change.
And maybe that's in our best interest, maybe, because now we have someone who is on our side who actually has a shot at becoming the next prime minister.
I just don't think that like changing the leader is going to change the party.
I think it's a party issue.
I just don't see, even if he stands by all the things he says, I just don't see how that party's going to change because they've all failed us.
I don't know.
I'm, I'm, she's a bit of a cynic.
Yeah, I'm cynical about all politicians.
Yeah, that's fair.
The politicians.
Yeah.
Like, to be a politician is to be someone who, like you said, is opportunistic and wants to be like the like in glory, I guess.
Yeah, and I think, I think, um, I forget if it was Plato or Socrates, but one of them, um, I think it was Plato in the Republic.
He says that people who end up being leaders of communities are the last people who should be.
Yeah.
Because they're the ones who want the glory and the people who don't want that glory are the people who would be better off running things.
So it's like you never get the right person.
So Alexa for prime minister?
Yes, Alexa Levi.
Alexa.
Write her on the ballot, folks.
I speak both language, at least.
Yeah, you do.
And you're cute and strong and smart.
Yeah.
So I think you have my vote.
Anyway.
I think I'm too sensitive for that.
I think like, if something happened, I would be like, just, what's going on?
Maybe we need to.
Maybe Canada needs a little empathy.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
So should we talk about inflation, guys?
Inflation's killing us all.
Oh, my God.
It's literally killing us all.
So apparently, according to the Ottawa Sun, half of older Canadians are delaying retirement due to inflation.
Well, that's just sad.
Inflation and Rent Prices00:15:31
You work hard your whole life so you can retire.
And guess what?
You can't.
You just can't.
Yeah.
So this was an Angus Reed survey was conducted.
And like Nat said, more than half of older Canadians are worried about retiring.
And apparently, there's a quote here that 63% of older Canadians were worried about never being able to retire.
That's a lot.
I mean, maybe they're being dramatic, but my goodness.
No, that's a lot.
Like, you know, when you get married and you say till death do us part, like now you're going to be saying that to your employer because you're going to be working to the grave.
Yeah.
It's great.
So I guess I guess Alexa, the three of us are never retiring, but maybe we can find a commune or something and just camp out and farm.
I'm ready to retire today.
Yeah.
This is harsh news for me.
It's just sad.
I think it will as well change a lot of Canadian.
As I say, me, I'm always being like really careful because I travel in really poor country.
So I really realize how we have the chance to have everything so close to us.
But I remember like in Africa, I was chasing water and I was sleeping in a tent and I was washing myself like maybe one time per three weeks.
I was not tan.
I was third.
But when you come back and you drink water from tap water, you realize that, okay, maybe I should change my lifestyle to adapt myself to having, you know what?
What I need to be happy and not extra.
And I can live comfortable.
And it's just because the society say to you, like, more you're home, more you're happy and some extra stuff that probably stay in your wardrobe for like what, many, many years because you think you needed it because you saw it and it was looking pretty.
I feel it together right now.
You know, it's so true, though.
It's absolutely society like keeps telling us to love ourselves and then we'll finally be happy.
Keep buying, take care of yourself, yada, yada.
Like self-care.
Go on.
We talked about this on our show, but like self-care is literally like, well, you need to spend money for self-care.
You need to take time off of work for self-care.
You need to go on a vacation.
You need to have, like I made an example of they sell these like little tiny mini fridges that you're supposed to keep by your bed to keep all your night creams in so they can keep cool.
It's like, you don't need that.
You don't need that.
You don't need that.
We don't need half.
Yeah, she needs it and we'll buy her one later.
But I think like you're so, you're so right.
You hit the nail on the head.
Like contentment leads to joy.
Like when you're just content with where you're at, I think that's when you'll find peace.
And I think that's definitely missing in Western society.
And I think that's why people are making up so many problems, you know, like about pronouns and stuff like that, because they're continually searching for what's going to make them feel better about themselves.
And it's just very misled.
But the society told you, like, oh, yeah, buy, buy, and we will begin to be a society that we live over what we are capable to do.
And now people have a lifestyle that costs really a lot.
And now it's the one that suffers the most because the one that take like, you know, they have no car, but they still use the bus.
But the gas doesn't really affect them for now until the bus or the transportation rise their cost.
But they will see it more on the food, but they will make choice on the food now.
That's saying instead of buying, you know, some fruit at this price, I would change my natural habit to change and try something else because it's cheaper.
And my only point in the inflation is the hiding inflation.
When we see a package that you have, like, example, one granola bar, less in the box, but you think you buy the same thing, but you have less on grand.
And it's just because the company doesn't want you to see that you pay more for what you get.
Yeah, just like have you seen the size of granola bars these days?
They're like, they used to be.
And maybe because I had a little baby.
Like a bag of chips.
They're like half empty now.
And you're like, this is like $5 for less.
That's such a great point.
Yeah.
You know, my dad and I were having a conversation about this and we were talking about why there was only so few doctors speaking out on mandates and stuff.
And he made a point that because so many people are living paycheck to paycheck, people have so much debt.
And you literally can't, you don't have the freedom to speak out.
So people were like, well, why aren't, and maybe it goes for politicians too, like, why weren't more people feeling free to say, I disagree with these mandates?
It's because like they literally have fancy cars and they have a huge house that they, like you said, Alexa, they live outside their means and they have all this debt and all these financial obligations and they literally cannot afford to miss even one paycheck.
So it's like zip, like debt keeps you silent because you're, and it's like, kind of like, why wouldn't banks and big government want that?
Because then we're way more compliant when they know that we cannot afford to speak out and lose our jobs.
So I was talking with the actuary here in Quebec and he was explaining to me, you know, we shut down the economy, we shut down the business.
But when you print money, but you have no production, so every production needs to be paid.
And if you have no production, you just get inflating.
Like, so the value of everything gets higher because you keep printing, but you have no production.
So of course, same if everybody was like, okay, everything will go okay.
We will pay you.
You stay home.
It was absolutely absolutely sure that inflation and probably a recession would come.
And especially when we look at, so we all say that it was, I don't know how you call it in Ontario, benefit recovery or something from the government when people were locked down.
Yeah.
So I think in Quebec they calculated how much they give and for that, for the normal citizen, it was about four or five billion of dollars at the end.
But when we look at entrepreneur, big businesses, we talk about 90 billion of dollars.
They were giving three quarters of their salary for being shut down.
This is what hurt the most the country, keeping like entrepreneur and big company three quarter of them, what they gain on salary, but telling them you cannot produce, you cannot do anything.
They were able to keep their business open, especially for constriction field or anything, but they shut it down for no reason.
And now it's everybody in Canada that will pay.
It's not them.
That salary would not change at the parliament.
Politicians will always gain the same salary.
Their salary will never be in effect.
But normal citizens, like medium wages are down, will suffer a lot.
I'm thinking of like society that will probably come on this big depression, mental illness.
And we have already damaged from the lockdown on the mental illness.
So imagine in a couple of days, that will as well raise like violence.
People will fight for having like what they need and money.
They will probably have more robbery because people have nothing to make survive their own family.
What they are thinking to expect.
Like gas is taxed and it's taxed on tax.
Hello.
Yeah.
No, and I think like our reliance on foreign gas has a lot to do with why inflation is so high because we have the resources here.
If the government in the United States and Canada just built the pipeline and we were able to rely on our own resources, I really think that inflation would be a little more at level, I guess, because we're relying on foreign oil and there's only so much.
It's supply and demand, you know, and it's just, it's so egregious that our politicians don't want to do that because they want to seem like they care about the environment or whatever.
It's just, it's insane.
People are suffering.
And you know what?
Every politician, like in conservative leadership, they were like, we will extract the mineral and their natural resources.
Hello, Mr. Lego, ban that.
Ban the fact to extract or to produce anything from our province.
But we have no problem bringing it in from somewhere else, especially places where we ideologically conflict, like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
We're like, that's fine.
We'll take your oil.
Sorry to cut you off.
And apparently rent prices are now going through the roof as inflation soars.
So maybe we can talk about that a little bit.
There's an article here from, I believe, CTV News, just as a nice little segue.
So apparently an economics professor at Concordia University in Montreal said Canadians can expect to see the rate of inflation increase in the near future as well as in a rise in rent prices.
Apparently Toronto saw rent prices skyrocket between 2021 and 2022 with average rent price of a one bedroom until a unit in the city at $21.33 per month, a 15.7% increase compared to the year before.
Wow.
That's nuts.
And like our wages aren't going up.
And we already had a housing crisis before all of this inflation.
Like people, like five, six years ago, people were already like, it's so expensive to live in the cities.
I don't know what it's like in Quebec.
Hey, what's it like?
What's it cost for like a one bedroom there?
So I would say like us in Quebec, we have a kind of chance that it's not really affecting.
It's affecting.
I would not say that.
It's just like, I was talking with someone during, I was doing like a streeter and the guy say, you know, I left my apartment.
I was paying like $700, but my owner, the owner of the place, rent after me for $1,200.
So it's $500 more On the same place, just because he left, because we have like a protection on the bell that you cannot raise your own.
Yeah, but if you leave your place, you can increase like the price as the normal level of the renting place.
But here, I would say that it depends if you take it with furniture or not.
But it's turned around Quebec City, I'm talking, but around eight, seven, eight hundred.
It's not, it's not too bad.
It depends on how many pieces.
If you go to Montreal, you can see the big difference.
The price is really more high because Quebec is mostly like students or like, you know, people work around, but it's not a really industrial place.
Right.
But we can see in the suburb, like neighbor, price is getting high too.
Like, people have really a high, hard time to find a place to stay.
Here, our problem is not as the price as we don't have apartment.
We don't have any place because we have a restriction on building.
Yeah.
So we don't have enough space to supply the people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, like, liberals hate construction and just like infrastructure.
Infrastructure.
Yeah.
No, definitely.
She knows how to read my mind.
I read her mind.
Yeah, it's just insane.
And the thing is, if people can't afford to pay their rent, they're never going to be able to afford to buy a home ever because all your disposable income is now going towards your inflated rent.
Like, what are you, what are people supposed to do?
I guess we'll just own nothing and be happy and we'll eat crickets.
Yeah, we're going to eat crickets.
What do you think it will happen?
Well, okay, according to this article.
Oh, sorry.
No, what do you think?
I would just say, what do you think it would happen?
It's just because some people would not pay their rent, and the owner will have a hard time to get their money.
That's happened historically.
It's happening here a lot right now.
We talked about that on the show as well, where it's what's it called, economic disobedience, where people just refuse to pay rent, which is not fair to the landlords either.
It's not fair to the landlords, but some like I read that, I forget which city it was in the U.S., but I think it was in the 70s or 80s.
The rent was at, I think it was New York, New York City.
And the rents were just increasing, increasing like crazy.
So people started, and there's a musical about it called Rent, which is actually a great musical.
But people just stopped paying rent and it actually imposed rent control, which you can argue is not good because landlords will specifically make your life a living hell so that you leave because they'll like, oh, if you have like something broken in your apartment, they'll just be like, yeah, it's on you.
Like they don't, they have no reason to, no incentive to actually make your living space nice experience.
Exactly.
So there's, you know, pros and cons to that.
But in that one situation, it ended up in rent control.
It's arguable.
I don't really understand which one's better or not.
But it seems like we need, and I don't think people should not pay their rent because, like you said, it's not fair to the landlord.
Yeah.
It's not fair to people who pay the rent, who actually are like law-abiding.
They had four jobs when you moved here.
Yeah, like how does that, how does that help society as a whole?
I don't know what the answer is, but what did the article say?
The article did say that by the end of this year, we should see like the prices deflate a bit, but I'm not really sure, like based on what grounds.
Like such an empty prediction, I'm not sure.
And also why specifically at the end of the year is there something we don't know?
I don't know.
It's interesting, but I feel like we're in a little bit of a bubble.
Like I am no financial or real estate expert, but I do feel like prices are so high.
Like my dad lives in this reasonably sized house.
It's not very big, but the price of it has gone up so much in the past couple of years.
And even he was like, this is not worth that.
Like it's not a reasonable rate for this home, exactly.
So I do think that maybe if, and I don't know, I again, I'm not an expert on this at all.
So apologies.
But if the price of homes in a buyer's market go down, I would think that rental prices should come down as well.
But maybe they don't.
Like maybe landlords are like, sweet, I'm making a bigger profit.
Like I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
We should call in an expert.
We should call in an expert.
I am not that.
As you, but I have my own place that I rent.
And I would say that I'm going with the flow with the price of the market.
So it's probably the market that needs to go down than the price of the price that you pay your place.
Because I don't think it's really related.
At the end of the day, you buy a place because you want to rent it and at long term make profit on it.
I don't know how many years or whatever, but I have something to say.
Toronto, what you pay for rent, it's way higher.
Like it doesn't go really with the yes, of course, you pay a lot for a place.
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I think it's almost sometimes it's like a million dollars.
It's just stupid.
Yeah, houses are like 1.5.
And they're not even like when you think million dollar home, you think like a mansion.
Yeah, like basketball courts.
No, it's like a bungalow.
Yeah.
It's like a one-bedroom.
So I don't know if they need to review the market or do like frozen limits, a frozen limit of the price that you can rent a place because right now people can put whatever, how much they want to rent that place.
And that is not good for us.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
It's just a vicious cycle.
And it's about to get worse because apparently the world's largest cricket production facility is officially complete, you guys.
So we can be poor and eat bugs.
Yeah.
So they're farming crickets to put into, I think, like meat patties.
Like cricket meat food.
Where is this?
So London, Ontario, Ontario.
Oh, boy.
So Aspire Food Group's new plant in London, Ontario is ready to produce 9,000 metric tons of crickets annually for human and pet consumption.
Okay.
No, Beatrice, you won't be eating crickets.
Are you going to eat them, Alexa?
I have some flour of cricket.
I know.
You're very adventurous.
No, it's actually a really high-protein powder that you can cook with on muffin or crepes or bread.
And it's really eating grapes at your house.
It tastes absolutely nothing.
They actually transform it as a flour.
Like instead of white or brown flour, you use that.
Right.
In the time, like I bought that, it's been a while, like a couple of years ago.
And, you know, at that time, the price of just a small pack was so high because the demand was bearing.
Yeah, it just for someone who wants to get in shape and feed the muscle and everything, it's actually a really good nutrient.
It's just like people see the bugs as ew.
But when it's grilled and put on flour, you don't really realize that it's actually bugs.
Yeah, I think for me, it's just, it seems like there's an attack on the meat industry and they're trying to replace farming meat via cows, et cetera, with bugs.
And I just, that scares me because we've heard the World Economic Forum's talked about this.
And it's just like, it's like, do you think our politicians are going to be eating bugs?
No, it's just the rest of us.
No, I hear what you're saying, Alexa.
Yeah, absolutely.
And especially if they make it more cost-effective for people, but I don't like when WEF people, like World Economic Forum people, are telling us to eat bugs.
Then my antenna goes up.
And it's like, if it was like rebels like you who were like, this is actually a great source of protein.
It's really healthy.
It makes sense for my life.
Oh, that's a disgusting.
Well, that's disgusting.
Okay, we won't.
I will say something like, you know, you men should not eat meat every day.
We are not made for it.
But it's just the society and the rip of our life make that we eat meat mostly every day.
But we are not carnivore as human.
We are omnivore.
So we eat a little bit of everything and we should mix with balance.
Not all.
Yeah, mix with everything.
It's why like the production can get like at a high point that we waste so much.
Actually, I would say the production is too high.
And if you look at all the grocery stores, they throw away most of their stock because people are not buying it.
And I'm just like, why are you doing this?
Like, there's a lot of waste.
We should, yeah.
I think it's mostly the waste that make the meat industry look bad because you're like, yeah, that's yeah.
Yeah, we need to go back to the basics for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm probably not going to eat bugs.
I might eat bugs if you make cookies with bug flour.
And if you bring cricket cookies to the office, I'll eat it.
I will eat one.
But only for you.
Yeah.
Only for you.
With chocolate chips, please.
Why Hospitals Scared the Town00:07:45
Do we have any chats?
Maybe we should get this chat because we only have about 10 minutes.
Yes, we do.
Here, do we put them on the screen these days or should I just read them?
Okay.
I'm not the best reader.
Yeah, I got them here.
So we have $1 from Noble Canadian.
It says, One pretty rebel host I can handle.
Two, okay, but three Rebel hosts.
Are you trying to make me smitten?
Thanks for all you do.
Oh, that's so sweet.
Maybe you should have sent $3.
No, I'm just kidding.
One for each event.
One for each event.
That's very sweet.
Thank you.
No, thank you.
We have another from Frasier, $5.
The three most beautiful and charming ladies on YouTube.
Guys, I see a trend here.
Oh, that's so sweet.
You should watch Misunderstood then.
And maybe we'll have Alexa on Feminine Fridays from Feminine Fridays.
That's so fun.
You want to take the next one?
Oh, yeah.
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Thank you for your dollar.
I don't trust any politician that won't answer a question by Rebel.
Yeah, that's fair.
Why are you so scared?
I know.
Why are you so scared of like a young journalist with a microphone?
Yeah, he's like 17.
Like, what's he going to do to you?
He's a little talk about his math homework.
Oh, no, he's not.
No, he's literally 17.
He's super young.
He's going to talk about his math homework or something.
Like, I'm just kidding.
He's going to be the point.
The point in all that is like journalists are not important.
We are here for just ask the question.
Exactly.
And it's their point to make it look good, not us.
It's exactly anybody.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I've said this before.
It's like, we're only going to make you look as stupid as you make you look self-love.
You don't want to trick.
You don't want to trick anyone.
No, and especially in situations like that where it's just him walking down the street holding cameras, like there's not a lot of room for subtle, tricky editing.
We don't do that anyways.
People always think that.
Like, that's why they don't want to go on camera with us because it's like, oh, you'll manipulate it.
No, people do that, but we don't have time.
We literally, we pump out so much content in a day.
We have A, no desire to do that because we literally tell the truth.
That's our whole business model.
That's our shtick.
And B, we don't have the freaking time or resources to be manipulating every single thing to make you guys look stupid.
You just make yourselves look stupid by not answering questions.
Yeah.
You've done it to yourself.
Yeah, you have.
I think we have another chat here from Adam Ottawa.
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Oh, wow.
That's cool.
Thank you for your dollar, by the way, Adam.
We appreciate it.
William is killing it.
He's truly killing it.
He's just snabbing all those politicians.
Oh, yeah.
Like, they're just all like going to lunch in their fancy shirt jackets and stuff, and they're not ready for a rebel with a mic in their face.
And it's funny.
I love it.
I think they're going to be taking a lot more Ubers around or their fancy.
Oh, yes, or whatever they drive.
They won't be walking anymore.
We have one from Wrongway 54, $1.
Thank you.
It says five months after the epic historical trucker protest in Ottawa for a month.
Has anyone heard any news on the hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients?
That would be a super spreader event.
Yeah, no, no, but I did go to the hospital a few months ago.
I went to ER and I was talking to the, we won't get into this why, but I was talking to the nurse.
Okay.
And she said, I saw like, yeah, oh, yeah, it's really kind of weird.
She said that like the um, there weren't enough beds.
And so like hospital patients would come in and they'd wait in whatever the middle is between seeing your doctor and like getting a room or whatever.
There just weren't enough beds.
So people would be waiting for their own room or bed for up to three days.
Because of COVID?
No, just because of capacity.
So like, I don't know.
I think that's been a problem for a long time.
Yeah.
And it's something our politicians promised they would work on because we were in an alleged, yeah, like you had to do.
We were in a pandemic.
We were in a pandemic.
We could have built hospitals this whole time.
They could have, like, have any new hospitals been built during COVID because of the pandemic.
And not just because of the pandemic, but because of the huge gap in the healthcare system that it exposed.
Yeah, maybe.
Good point.
Like, I know certain hospitals outside of the cities were empty.
Like, I know nurses who were like, hey, how was it during COVID?
And they were like, it was empty.
Because people were too scared to go.
Maybe.
Yeah.
What was it like in Quebec?
Have you had many encounters with the hospital?
I hope not.
No, but I shot.
I was going to say like, yeah, after like the freedom convoy, the hospital was crazy in Ottawa for by beating people by the police.
But I was just wasn't because.
But no, in Quebec, actually, I was talking with some nurse that was telling me that most of the place was empty and that some people who came to the hospital first was not for COVID, but because the tests of COVID, they have been put in the category of COVID, but it was actually for something else, not for COVID.
So it's why I, and afterwards, the politician, I agree with that, that they didn't make the difference between the people who entered for something else.
But after that, after being positive that by COVID or for COVID or with COVID, that was something that came out like only quite recently in the last couple of months that were like, yeah, deaths caused by or deaths associated with like that people died with COVID instead of.
And I saw a correction, I think it was in a UK newspaper that was like, we previously reported that 4,000 children died of COVID.
It was like 4,000 kids were infected with COVID.
And they made a little tiny little thing at the bottom.
That's a huge error.
Like of those 4,000 kids, probably one or two died.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah, I think it was like under like a couple hundred in the U.S.
And obviously it's horrifying.
Any child dying is tragic.
It's different than saying 4,000 children died of COVID.
That's terrifying.
Yeah, no, definitely.
We got another chat here.
Oh, no, finish your thoughts.
Finish your thoughts.
Finish your thoughts.
Saying that, you know, it's okay if the lies come from politicians or from the good narrative because we can tolerate that.
But if it comes from conspiracy theory, oh my God, we are not believing that.
But all the conspiracy theory, most of them, have been like find true.
Yeah.
No kidding.
No kidding.
Which one hasn't?
Yeah, which one hasn't?
I don't know.
We'll see.
The earth is flat.
No, I'm just kidding.
I don't know.
Pamela for Freedom gave us 10 bucks.
Thank you so much.
I live on the Sunshine Coast in BC and our property taxes went up 40%.
Wow.
Therefore, housing prices are up 40%.
Single dwelling homes starting at 1 million.
Crazy Town.
You ladies rock.
Wow.
No, I'm not.
CC is crazy, though.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
How do you even live?
I'm from Abbotsford, British Columbia.
And to buy a house there in the lower mainland, nothing special.
It's not on the Sunshine Coast.
I mean, it's a sweet little town, but it's insane how expensive it is for a town.
Like you're like, what the heck?
I could be living in New York City.
I mean, I don't want to because of the camp.
I'm not allowed, but yeah.
I looked up the price of.
The market will crash at one point.
You cannot have a market as high as that.
Yeah, it's a bubble.
I don't know anything about MySAP, but it's a bubble.
I don't know if you remember.
I think it was in 19 what?
I don't really remember, but at one point, you know, that someplace they didn't have any gas anymore.
So people who had like big car, they all changed for small car because they were scared to live again this situation where you were going to a petrol station that they were like run out of gas.
Calgary Show Wrap-Up00:02:11
But it's probably what will happen.
Or have you heard that now the number of people who have been like tore their car because they were missing gas have increased recently because some people are just putting $10 or $15 and they think that they will reach home, but they don't.
I do that.
That's terrible.
Be careful.
Oh my gosh, that's so horrible.
Just it breaks my heart that so many people are suffering in these circumstances.
Do you have any final thoughts?
Because I think it's 1 p.m.
Do you want to take it away, Alexa?
Wrap it up.
Wrap her up.
I have like some echo of like sibling people, like twin people who are talking at the same time.
We're here for nightmare.
Come play with us, Alexa.
I think I would just run away as Justin Trudeau, but I don't think Justin Trudeau will have been like running away from Tree Girl.
We'll probably have smiled until that we say with our rebel news and we'll be like, holy hell.
We could Project Veritas in maybe.
Yeah, let's do it.
Oh, that's good.
Okay, we'll plan.
We'll plan.
We'll keep this top secret because we're live on the air right now.
But we'll chat after this.
He watches these, of course.
So thank you guys for tuning in to the Rebel News Daily live stream, which airs every weekday at 12 p.m. Eastern Time.
It was great to chat with you, Alexa.
It's been so long.
Come to Toronto.
Christmas party.
I miss you.
Please come to Toronto and bake us cricket cookies, okay?
Yeah, probably now that we will be able to take the flight and trains.
People say we're going to take a train.
Yeah, trains are so nice.
Yeah.
So on Monday, we will resume.
I think I believe it's Sheila and Adam.
They usually do Calgary show.
Talk a little Western stuff.
Calgary show.
Well, she's from Edmonton, but talk about some beef.