David Menzies and Tamara Ugolini critique Canada’s "forced diversity" policies through the bizarre case of Cody Detremont, dubbed the "trans cat of Windsor," while mocking Justin Trudeau’s summer vacation amid housing crises, inflation, and healthcare failures. They expose federal clean electricity regulations—allowing limited natural gas despite ideological opposition—as economically reckless, citing Alberta’s winter blackouts and $300B+ LNG deals rejected by Germany and Japan. Trudeau’s bloated bureaucracy, including a 136% rise in high-earning officials since 2015, strains infrastructure as Ontario adds 5M+ residents by 2030, proving his policies prioritize performative optics over practical solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the daily roundup on this, a Thursday, August 10th, 2023.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host.
Do you know what, folks?
Today is National Lazy Day.
She doesn't celebrate that, nor does anyone else at Rebel News.
If we did, I think we'd be working at the CBC.
She is the she-devil with us, Fatula.
She is the Khalesi of the greater Coburg area.
She is Tamara Ugolini.
How you doing there, Tamara?
Oh, even better now that I know I'm not in with the lazies of the national day today.
Thanks for that, David.
What a great juxtaposition with the CBC compared to what we do here at Rebel.
We were actually just discussing yesterday.
I was looking at some of the vacation stats and I apparently have taken the most vacation days this year, but I always end up working on my vacation days.
They don't end up being a day off.
There's always something to tend to or some phone call or email to respond to.
So I echo your sentiments there.
Well, you know, welcome to the modern world.
I find this, the cell phone, this is really a fancy way of saying I have a leash around my neck.
You can never get away.
The world has shrunk.
You're always on call.
But I can't remember.
I think I go back to pre-COVID when I last had a vacation day, excluding the Christmas break.
But you know what, Tamara?
I'd rather be overworked than underworked.
And it makes me wonder, National Lazy Day, who in their right mind would wear that as a badge of honor?
You know what?
It's a Thursday.
I'm just going to, you know, sit on the deck and do nothing.
You know, I don't get that.
And I guess that we're all kindred spirits here at Rebel News that we like to work.
And, you know, I've always said this.
I tell this to my kids.
If you can get a job that you love, and oh boy, I love this job.
It doesn't even seem like working, does it?
When you can say to yourself, wow, I can't believe they're paying me to do this job.
Gee, I hope Ezra's not listening right now.
But you know what I'm saying?
If you get fulfillment and even joy out of your job, as opposed to the alarm clock rings and you go, oh, you got to drag yourself out of your bed to go to work.
To me, that's heaven on earth, Tamara Ugalini.
Completely agree.
There's that saying, if you find a job that you love, you'll never actually work a day in your life.
And I didn't ever think that that was true until I became a certified rebel.
I was always a rebel kind of in my personal life.
But when I started working for Rebel News, that's when I thought, wow, this is, it's just, there's always something fresh, keeps you on your toes.
It's never the same kind of mundane thing.
There's always something new and exciting going on.
And I guess that's probably even more prevalent in your life, David.
Windsor Woman Shelter Incident00:02:03
You're a Muslim specialist and you're out there tracking down the trans cats.
So that always is fun times.
Isn't that amazing?
Folks, what Tamara is alluding to, last weekend I went to Windsor.
There was a man, Cody Detremont, who transitioned into a female, Desiree Anderson, which almost sounds like a burlesque performer to me, Tamara Ugolini.
And that was to get into a woman's shelter.
Can you imagine that, a biological male violating the ultimate safe space for women?
And then the inevitable happened, I think, got charged with sexual assault.
I don't know the status.
I reached out to the Windsor Police Department.
They didn't get back to me.
And evidently that was good enough to get him kicked out of the women's shelter.
And he's gone from transitioning from male. to female to feline.
He walks around Windsor.
We have several eyewitnesses.
It's like speaking to someone that's seen the Sasquatch, you know.
He wears these Halloween props, pointy ears and a tail.
And he's the trans cat of Windsor.
We didn't find him.
We were told to go to the Wendy's drive-thru.
He lurks behind the menu board and pops out like a jack in the box, begging for money.
But that's the diversity.
Yeah.
And for asking impolite questions, yet again, just like the woman's shelter, the security at the downtown Windsor mission called the police.
And boy, did they arrive.
I think four SUVs and a pickup truck, one of which was driving up the one-way street the opposite way.
Because, you know, that's a calling all car situation to Mary Ugolini, a journalist asking implied questions.
Autistic Teenager's Encounter00:13:30
So stay tuned for that report, folks.
It's surreal.
What an urgent emergency that must have been to disregard the laws of the road just to track down your brazen questioning.
But all right, we are 10 minutes in.
So let me just brief everybody on what we're doing here.
If you're just tuning in for the first time, surprise and welcome to Rebel's chats on trans cattery.
I guess that's a thing these days under the umbrella of diversity, inclusivity, and tolerance.
Oh, and equity.
We can't forget the E in there.
So if you're joining us on certain platforms, we are streaming on YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, and Getter.
Because we've been completely demonetized for, I would say, speaking truth to power and asking those kinds of employees questions and also sharing alternative points of view.
We've been completely demonetized from YouTube.
We truly, I'm surprised a lot of the time that we're still on that platform, given their rigmarole and ever-evolving and changing community standards.
I think they update them approximately once a month.
So depending on whether or not you're in alignment with whatever they deem to be correct think and correct speech, then you could be de-platformed completely.
I hope I'm not completely frozen.
It looks like I may be ongoing rural internet connection, but I'll keep going here unless someone tells me otherwise.
So if you're joining us on Rumble, that's kind of the free speech platform, it seems these days.
And you can send us a hyper chat or I actually think it's called a super chat there.
And it's a fun way for our audience to engage with David and I or whoever the Rebel host of the day is, but today you get David and myself.
And send us a small monetary donation, keep our journalism afloat, and we will provide commentary or perhaps you can give us a tip or a trick.
So it's a fun way to get our audience involved in the happenings of the live stream.
But we do have a jam-packed day here.
And I guess first and foremost, we're going to share this viewer discretion advised, really, if you're a parent like I am, of this video of an autistic teenager being dragged out of her house by British police.
And her crime was telling the police officer, allegedly, I think this was shared originally by her mother, was telling the police officer that she looked like her lesbian grandmother.
Let's have a look.
I think only part of the clip has audio.
She's made a comment in her own house.
She doesn't say anything to you.
No matter.
She doesn't fucking matter.
She's getting arrested.
She's getting arrested.
Why are you doing it?
I don't think that's the lesbian grandmother.
She's autism.
I'm telling you, I thought Eunice is coming and she's going to be arrested tonight.
I'm going to beat you.
You beat me if I get put in the air.
That's why we got her on in the first place.
You beat some fucking bitch what me if I get put in the air.
Calm down.
She's artistic.
Can you stop staring at me?
She's got autism.
Can you just stand there?
She's in a cupboard.
She can't go anywhere.
She can't go anywhere.
Stand there, Ian.
They're going to remove her for what?
She said the word lesbian.
Her nana is a lesbian.
She's married to a woman.
She's not homophobic.
Look what you closed in your face.
Go away from my teenage daughter.
There is something wrong with you, Mick.
She didn't aim it at the police officer.
It's not a homophobic remark.
She said, I think she's a lesbian, like Nana.
If you want to bully people, you'll just be a little bit more.
You've just got one of them badges there.
and that's what you do.
Yeah, exactly.
Katelyn!
Where'd it go?
Where's the, does it go?
It's not right over there.
She's autistic!
She doesn't like people talking to me.
She won't come out.
She's got autism.
I'm leaving.
She's going to talk to her so she can come out.
We're trying not to do this, aren't we?
We've been trying for a long time.
But she haven't done nothing, no.
That officer out there has assaulted me for no reason.
She's got autism.
She's autistic now.
The issue is: if I decide to arrest her.
She won't be arrested.
They're all enough.
She ran into the house.
No, but she was going upstairs and she made a comment to me.
And that officer ran in my house and assaulted me and tried to get to my daughter.
I am going to.
I am going to.
Yeah, because it is on and she has.
She was full of rage and she ran in the house and she barged me at this corner.
Yeah, I think the audio cuts out again and they just show this poor teenager being escorted out of the house and detained.
Much time packed there.
But first of all, I want to.
Oh, she also looks they're saying here that she has scoliosis and a twisted spine.
So the way that they were handling her was likely to cause her a lot of pain in addition to having autism and being obviously under duress.
But Tamara Ugolini, I'm struggling here to determine what the crime is.
It says in the copy that she referred to a police officer that she looked like her lesbian nana.
Now, I remember once upon a time, like I'm going back to high school days in the 1970s, you would use the word gay as a disparaging term, like, oh, that's so gay, meaning, you know, it had nothing to do with a man having an intimate moment with another man, but it was just that, you know, that's bad, that's square, that's uncool.
But I would argue in 2023, Tamara Ugolini saying, you look like my lesbian Nana, that's like a badge of honor.
Aren't we supposed to be embracing the spirit unicorn community?
Isn't being referred to in a positive way as a lesbian?
A good thing.
That's what's, I think with Pride Day, Pride Week, Pride Month, Pride Season, probably next year, Pride Year, isn't that what we're being shoved down our throats?
You know, that gay is good.
And if it's good, it's gay.
So I don't see the problem.
I mean, if her Nana is a lesbian, and, you know, so be it, and she just uses the word lesbian, it's just as a descriptor of her Nana.
It's not as a disparaging term.
Am I interpreting this correctly, Tamara Ugalini?
Because at the end of the day, I don't know where the crime is.
Well, likewise, and I don't think there is actually a crime, but regardless, that was no, nothing stood in the place of this obviously triggered police officer who I would say probably is some form of identifying LGBTQIA 7 plus,
whatever it is these days, QQAA community, because this is a clear instance of the police being on a power trip based on their own inability to manage their emotions.
Like someone making a comment, and we don't know all of the details, obviously.
This is just the one side of the story.
I mean, the video pretty much speaks for itself that this child didn't look like they were putting anybody at risk, huddled up in a closet in her home with her parents very much there and aware of the situation.
But the West Yorkshire police did put out a statement just today on this incident.
And it says that this was a 16-year-old girl who was reportedly intoxicated and putting herself at risk in Leeds city center.
They drove the teenager to her home so she could be appropriately looked after.
And I guess upon returning to the address, comments were made, which resulted in the girl being arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offense.
The nature of the comment.
Yeah.
But Tamara Ugalini, how is that homophobic?
If she has a lesbian Nana and she just says, you look like my lesbian Nana, especially in the context of our young millennia, millennium, I don't see the homophobic element to this here.
But there's other things at play here.
First, it's the overkill.
What was that?
Maybe half a dozen police officers to arrest a 15-year-old girl.
And secondly, this is one of the most brutal policing examples I've seen in many a moon, Tamara Ugalini.
Why didn't they, once they learned about her autism, couldn't this have been hashed out with verbal dialogue, at worst a verbal warning?
Couldn't they have gone to that precious offended female police officer who may or may not be lesbian?
It's so confusing, this story, and say, listen, this young lady, she's suffering from autism.
She probably didn't realize that she was saying something offensive to you.
So we've told her, please don't use that language again with this officer.
And can we call it a day?
No, they're going to haul her off to jail.
And finally, that's an interesting allegation that she was inebriated.
Is this proven to Mary Ugalini?
I mean, or did they think that her autism was her being drunk?
That's a great point.
No, it's not.
Think the wording that they used reportedly intoxicated and putting herself at risk.
But the kicker with their press release here is they take their responsibility around the welfare of young people taken into custody and around neurodiversity very seriously.
We also maintain that our officers and staff should not have to face abuse.
This is the second last sentence.
Should not have to face abuse while working to keep our communities safe.
And, you know, they noted here as well that there was body cam footage and so on and so forth.
They want people to avoid reaching any conclusions, but they're fully reviewing the circumstances of the incident, apparently.
And like, it's just more in line with this, the fact that, you know, a comment like, you look like my lesbian grandmother or my lesbian nana is somehow spun into putting people at risk of being unsafe and hateful.
This is just insanity that this can be spun this way.
And obviously, these officers, as I mentioned, or this officer in particular, is triggered by this comment when, you know, let's just, this is just taking things way too far.
Well, first of all, if you are a police officer and you're triggered by work, words, you're in the wrong profession.
Let me tell you that much.
But you know what?
The Yorkshire police with that release, Tamara Ugalini, just dug themselves a six-foot deep grave because they're inferring that to be called a lesbian is hateful.
But I thought being gay, being lesbian, being biased, especially being trans, I thought that's diversity and equity and inclusion.
And oh, the rainbow mafia spirit unicorns are such wonderful people.
So you can have it both ways.
You can't embrace this community and at the same time say that lesbian is a derogatory term.
It isn't.
Or somehow abusive.
Somehow abusive.
This is words are now abuse, apparently.
Yeah, because Tamara Ugalini off a 16-year-old.
Yeah, if she had said, you know what, you remind me of my heterosexual Nana, would there be a hue and an outcry?
You know, maybe I think we're supposed to use cisgender, which I never use.
It sounds too much like cis C.
But, you know, this is an invented offense.
And it looks like the Yorkshire police are trying to cover up their egregious and outrageous behavior by suggesting that she was drunk.
And good luck.
I wonder if they gave her a breathalyzer because that's a hell of an allegation.
And good luck, you know, proving that in court.
This is just absolutely despicable.
I got to tell you, Yorkshire must be the safest place in England to marry Ugalini because if you can send a half dozen cops to arrest a 15-year-old autistic girl for a thought crime, I suppose there must be no real crime there.
Yorkshire's Thought Police00:02:33
There's no robbery or sexual assault or murder.
So maybe we should rethink moving there, Tamara.
I'd love to live in a safe place, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
And more and more we see that happening across various jurisdictions where police are responding to these nonsensical allegations.
And meanwhile, drug use, robberies, crime, stabbings, like we see in Toronto, specifically on public transit, they go on unabated.
Oh, this is just the tale of how society is being slowly degraded by the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies where someone's words can trigger such forceful treatment.
Okay, let's go to a quick ad break and then we'll come back to chat about some of Trudeau's recent happenings.
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Family Vacation Controversy00:15:15
Yeah, so Tamara Ugolini, I understand that Prime Minister Blackface and family heading to BC for a vacation this week.
I'm confused.
Is the whole family going or is it separate vacations in BC?
I know Blackface has been making a lot of time right after pleading for privacy with the breakup with Sophie and then hopping right onto social media and going, hey, we're on Team Barbie with my son.
And hey, we're on Team Oppenheimer with my daughter.
Because you know what?
He wants to mix up the gender roles, right?
That's his ambition there.
Because really, Tamara Ugolini, if you're a 15-year-old teenage boy, unless you're going to the Barbie movie with a date, I can't see the appeal.
I think the poor kid, he's gone, what?
Wait a minute.
I want to see Oppenheimer.
I want to see the story of the first nuclear bomb, not a movie about a plastic doll.
And I bet you, for that matter, if we were speaking to Trudeau's daughter, she's going, you know, I think I'd really rather see Barbie dad.
Oh, no, but Blackface knows better.
And besides, after the big cabinet shuffle, he's still double digits behind the Conservative Party.
So this, Tamara Ugolini, is all about changing the channel, right?
It's all about, hey, look at this.
Look over here, over here.
I'm going to the movies with my kids.
And I spoke to the she-devil yesterday about this.
I wonder what the, I mean, it's so obviously orchestrated.
Did they close down the cinemas?
Did they have the official press photographer come in?
Did they have the DoRagur 8 SUV fossil fuel burning entourage motorcade going to the multiplex?
I bet they did.
But what is your understanding of this vacation to BC?
Is it separate rooms, separate cities?
It's a little baffling to me.
Yeah, it's really bizarre.
This report comes from CTV News.
And of course, the Prime Minister, as they stay here, is not specifying where they'll be staying, but says they're set to return to Ottawa on August the 18th.
And then it says here that, as we already stated, Trudeau and his wife of 18 years announced last week that they'll be separating, but they still plan to spend time together as a family.
And of course, they also asked for privacy for the well-being of their three children.
When Trudeau took to social media, I think it was four days later, posting these photos of him and his kids at these various movies, which, yeah, I would say that repeatedly, everywhere Trudeau goes, all across the country, he's heckled by hordes of protesters.
And so I wouldn't discount the fact that he had to shutter down a movie theater and have his complete security detail there with him.
Did he force his security guards to sit through these, the Barbie movie, for instance?
I mean, we can speculate, but judging by his history the last several months where he gets heckled everywhere he goes and has to cut short his engagements, I would say that he took extreme measures to protect his family and his children during these crucial outings during a time in Canada when Canadians are really suffering.
I would say our country is in crisis.
We have all various social systems collapsing from the school system to the medical system to our financial system.
We're funding unabated this proxy war in the Ukraine when Canadians are struggling with a housing crisis, with an inflationary crisis, inability to feed their families and pay their bills crisis.
And this is the priority of the prime minister.
I mean, I'm all for spending family time.
I have a family.
I know how important it is to spend time with your kids, but you don't need to be posting that all over your social media when there are far more pressing issues going on in the country.
Not to mention, the vast majority of Canadians right now cannot afford to go to the movies twice in one week, as the prime minister clearly had done, likely, well, definitely, on our dime.
He is funded and paid by the taxpayer.
So he is sitting comfortably in a position where he can go and do that while Canadians struggle to, as the months continue to lean toward the winter, they will struggle to heat their homes and also struggle to put food on the table for their children.
It's just proving so how much out of touch he is.
And now he can just jet set off into British Columbia and vacation for the next week.
It's maddening.
I think what's really maddening, Tamara, is the fact that Blackface, once again, guilty of the double standard.
On one hand, he pleads for privacy during this tough chapter of his marital life.
And then before the ink is dry on that press release, you got him using his children as political props to create a distraction of how the big cabinet shuffle didn't work, how Canadians, as you stated, going to the movies, that's kind of like going on vacation.
You know, you factor in such a price as a popcorn, a drink.
You're probably for two admissions, let alone a family admission, you're probably around $100, I imagine.
And you can't have it both ways, but he seems to revel in that.
And I'm getting sick and tired of the trained stenographers in the media, Tamara Ugalini, who are saying, oh, you know, because you did mention also him getting heckled.
The last one, the last time was at Belleville.
That was a spectacular heckling.
And you have the train seals denouncing that, including the newest stenographer on Team Trudeau, the disgraceful Brian Lilly of the Toronto Sun, going, oh, that shame on you, shame on you.
No, Mr. Lilly, how about this?
Ask yourself why people are so upset.
Ask yourself why they have nothing but bad things to say about Blackface.
It's because they are in a bad situation in their lives right now because of federal government policies, Tamara Ugolini.
And you got, like, look at that, kooks only help PM.
The only kook I see is the man with the byline writing for the Toronto Sun, which should be a right-of-center media outlet.
What an absolute disgrace.
And as far as Blackface is concerned, what I would do, Tamara Ugalini, every time I have a whistle stop anywhere and I get abuse hurled at me, I would probably retreat and go, you know what?
What have I done?
What have I done to create such division in this country?
What have I done to create so many enemies who are so verbally abusive to me?
Why not reflect on his own policies and how harmful they have been to us instead of, as opposed to denouncing these people as haters?
Look how Blackface treated the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
He said everything from they were racist to homophobes to Islamophobes, all of it.
Absolutely imaginary lies, Tamara Ugalini.
But when you're Blackface, you can do no wrong.
And when you have convenient stooges like Brian Lilly of the Toronto Sun to prop you up when Lilly should be denouncing Blackface as well, well, I guess he's preaching to his own internal choir.
Let's see what happens come election day, whenever that'll be.
When do you think it will be, Tamara?
I don't think it's going to happen this year.
I think 2025 is too distant.
I think the sweet spot is next year.
Yeah, I wonder.
I mean, the sooner the better, in my opinion.
Oh, yeah.
But I don't think that Trudeau and his unofficial coalition leader in the NDP, Jagmeetsing, are ready to let go of their stranglehold of the Canadian parliamentary system anytime soon, which is very unfortunate for the Canadians suffering the fallout of their devastating policies and governance.
But the lack of introspection of Justin Trudeau lends to just how incredibly out of touch he is.
Once again, as I seem to always mention, like he just sits up in his ivory tower, privileged trust fund baby, never really had to work a day in his life.
I mean, it's evidenced by the amount of personal days and vacation days that he takes as prime minister.
But the lack of ability to self-reflect on why it may be, as you've mentioned, why Canadians are mad, why they're gathering in the streets and denouncing him and hurling insults at him.
That is just astounding.
And then, of course, the projection that he puts onto those people or even going back to the 2021 leadership debates when I asked him a question about why he thought it was appropriate that he try to ban Rebel News from attending the debates and asking pointed, media-centric questions.
And he threw back at me and obviously Rebel News as an organization that we've been spreading myths and disinformation.
And, you know, if I had the opportunity to have a follow-up question, I was prepared to say, with all due respect, Mr. Prime Minister, but your government throughout the COVID hysteria, led primarily by failed bureaucrat Teresa Tam, the public health agent, leader of the public health agency of Canada, they have been, you have been, the leaders of myths and disinformation throughout the pandemic.
And so that inability to self-reflect and acknowledge wrongdoings and kind of like correct course is just becoming increasingly evident on the political spectrum with Justin Trudeau and his government.
And it's really sad because it's the Canadians on the ground who are suffering, not him up in his ivory tower jet-setting for a week vacation in British Columbia after seeing two movies in one week.
I mean, the vast, as I mentioned, the vast majority of Canadians can't even begin to comprehend affording something like that.
So that's really unfortunate.
And Tamara, I remember that night well when the debate was held.
And it wasn't you, my friend, and Rebel News getting the middle finger from the prime minister by refusing to ask, answer questions, rather.
He was giving the middle finger to Canadians.
As our viewers may or may not know, for the second time, the first time being 2019, we had to go to federal court to get in there.
And our one lawyer went up against, I don't know, five, six, seven federal government lawyers and one each time.
All the odds were stacked against us.
But a judge said, yes, we are a credible news media organization, and there is absolutely no basis to shut us out.
Now, at least in 2019, he answered questions, but by 2021, he was obviously miffed.
He was a sore loser, I would suggest, Tamara.
And he didn't answer questions this time around.
And, you know, it leads into, I see there's another news item here.
Trudeau's new house leader wants question period to become an hour Canadians watching can be proud of.
Well, that's not going to happen because I can tell you by whenever I watch question period, and I think Pierre Polyev has been doing a great job asking really pointed questions, but that's the thing.
He doesn't have them answered, Tamara Ugolini.
It's almost as though Pierre Polyev is saying to Blackface, what kind of car do you drive?
And the answer is, my curtains are green.
You know, they never directly answer the question.
How can we be proud of an hour?
We can't even be proud of five minutes when these scoundrels are too scared to give a direct answer to a direct question.
Yeah, 100%.
And this is coming out of CTV News, and this is the new appointed House leader, Karina Gould, who she told CTV in this interview that, and I think it's about three quarters of the way down, that she has already been preparing ministers in their responses behind the scenes.
And so it kind of just made sense that she would transition or be shuffled into this position during that mega cabinet reconfiguration on July 26th.
I'm just trying to find her exact quote here.
It says, sorry, just give me one moment.
She was already playing this role, essentially.
And so my staff were actually telling me that sometimes, and this is her quote, sometimes when they were watching question period, they could see me leaning over and talking about it.
I thought I was being discreet, she said.
I always have a lot of thoughts and opinions on these things and I make them known.
So she's already been prepping members of parliament how to respond to questions, but we repeatedly see that they don't actually respond to questions.
And now this is the new house leader that's trying to say that she's going to somehow garner accountability during question period when she's already been preparing the ministers on how to respond.
Anyway, the whole thing's obviously just going to be a giant mess because if this is the person who's already been prepping them on how to respond and we're not getting any responses, I don't know in what fantasy world these individuals are living in that now all of a sudden this same person is going to somehow increase accountability and garner actual responses to these questions.
California's Energy Dilemma00:15:38
But yeah, the way that they behave in question period, it's like a clown show.
Honestly, the way that these politicians conduct themselves, the language that they use, it's very frustrating to watch that we are the people paying and funding the salaries of these individuals to act like a bunch of children in a kindergarten class.
I mean, really, let's bring some adult decency back into the game and actual accountability and actual answers into our House of Commons, into Parliament, because the way that it's been unfolding and going over the past few years is just the laughingstock, really, of the world, I think.
I agree, Tamara Ugalini, and I don't mind the shenanigans and the kindergarten class antics on the presumption that I get a question answered.
And by that, I don't mean some word salad preamble, blah, blah, blah, blah, which, you know, completely avoids the meat and potatoes of the question.
I mean a real question being answered.
Question period is a joke sometimes just for that very reason.
It's so frustrating to watch.
And the fact that they can get away with it, but that's their way of doing politics.
Tamara Ughalini, we should take a little ad break and then we can look at, oh boy, the federal government is expected to release new clean energy electricity regulations today.
Why am I already clutching my wallet, folks?
Why am I expecting bad news?
We'll see you on the other side of the break.
How in the world could such a small group of people with limited resources change world history?
But in fact, that's happening.
And it's the power of the truth.
The truth is like kryptonite healthcare isn't in some sense working very well.
Foster Coulson is thinking about this.
He's got a new company, an online healthcare platform called the Wellness Company, telehealth company called the Wellness Company.
The Wellness Company.
The most popular product is the detoxification supplement that features natokinase.
Natokinase is the only enzyme that we're aware of right now that dissolves the spike protein.
Spike protein is loaded in the body with the COVID-19 infection and definitely with the vaccines.
We've been completely accurate on the spread of the virus, early treatment on the deficiencies in hospital care, and now the deaths that are occurring after vaccination.
This is a human outrage and is occurring at the end of a hypodermic needle.
Isn't it interesting?
Natural substances combating this man-made disaster.
Oh, and this just in on the electricity front, Tamara Ugolini.
I see that from a story posted just several minutes ago that, oh, it's the Christmas miracle in August.
The new electricity guidelines coming down from Environment Minister Stephen Convik Guibot will allow some natural gas power generation.
Isn't that amazing?
We are drowning in natural gas reserves, Tamara Ugalini.
As you know, the prime ministers of Germany and Japan have come over begging for, I think the number was a third of a trillion dollars worth of liquefied natural gas.
And Blackface, playing the virtue signaler, as he always does, said there was, quote, no business case, end quote.
Can you imagine?
A third of a trillion for Germany, a third of a trillion for Japan.
That's serious change, all right?
And there's no business case, but that's not the reason.
Of course, there's a business case.
We have a debt and a deficit.
It's all about we are against fossil fuels.
So I guess responding to criticism, especially of Scott Mo in Saskatchewan and, of course, Daniel Smith in Alberta, Guibot like Scrooge is giving a little bit of leeway towards natural gas power generation.
Well, why wouldn't we look at that, Tamara Ugalini?
As we know, with the green energy scheme, it only works when the sun is a shining and the wind is a howling.
And meanwhile, like I said, when it comes to natural gas, oil, the rest of it, we are well positioned if our Mandarins in Ottawa would let the energy producing provinces, you know, produce energy.
Yeah, as we see in the stats here, we have a Twitter or an X post.
It's going to be so hard to get used to saying that.
Formerly known as Twitter, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Mo posted the amounts coming out of the provinces per capita.
This is based on 2021 numbers, but the GDP.
And you can see that Alberta and Saskatchewan dominate.
They lead the way even above Canada as a whole.
And I'm looking over here at Ontario, which is supposed to be the open for business and the place to grow, as per premier alleged conservative or progressive quotes, or more emphasis on the progressive than actually conservative, Doug Ford.
And so you see that innovation and that industry just being completely destroyed by the liberals and these green energy policies that they're implementing.
And there's been a lot of pushback, arguably justifiably so, by Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith.
Actually, there was a really great clip that I put in the chat from her on why this massive dependency on an electricity grid just simply won't work in Canada.
And if we could play this, I think it was she handled herself really well in this clip.
I don't know if people know this.
We have 23,000 megawatts of proposed application for wind and solar, 23,000.
But here's the problem: every time you bring wind and solar on the grid, you have to have a backup.
What we have is natural gas peaker plants.
So when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, you bring on natural gas to cover the gap.
The federal government doesn't want us to add any new natural gas to the grid.
So I've told them, how can I bring on additional wind and solar if I'm not able to secure the reliability of my power grid by being able to bring on natural gas peaker plants?
That's the big, that's at the heart of the problem.
No one is proposing any new natural gas plants because the federal government has created so much uncertainty in the market.
That's what we've got to figure out.
That's one part.
The other part is the reclamation costs.
And we have begun to deal with that on the oil and gas side.
We're demanding that energy companies spend, pay down 3% of their liability and reclaim their existing sites.
But when you look at a wind installation, maybe it has 50 turbines.
It's a huge amount of additional steel, fiberglass, massive amount of concrete construction.
What happens when that gets to its end of life?
Who pays for that to be removed?
We don't have a system in place.
Well, I can tell you, but when you bring in oil and gas development, you've got stable baseline development.
When you bring a natural gas plant onto the grid, it can work 100% of the time.
When I live in, I represent Brooks Medicine Hat.
I spent seven months driving past a solar farm that was covered with ice and snow and not producing a single iota of power.
And so I have to accept that as a reality.
When we were in the winter, we had several times where the grid almost failed because we didn't have enough power and can't call up wind and solar on demand.
We had times where we, even though we have 5,000 megawatts of installed wind and solar, there were two days in the winter where it was producing less than 100 megawatts of power.
So I always have to make sure that when wind and solar, which are intermittent and unreliable, when we bring new on, we have to make sure that we have a backup.
Otherwise, we're going to end up with grid instability and we just can't have that.
It's exactly what you see in California.
Oh, you must be reading my mind, Tamara Ugalini.
You're like the female version of the amazing Crescent or perhaps the Great Ravine.
I was just about to bring up the California example when it comes to what Danielle Smith referred to as grid instability, because what was not addressed by Premier Smith was the big grid instability boogeyman lurking not too far around the corner, and that is electric vehicles.
We have, and it's not by marketplace demand, folks, it's by government edict, deadlines in which fossil fuels will not be sold in certain jurisdictions.
I think with California, it's either, forgive me, Tamara, it's either 2030 or 2035.
That's it.
You cannot sell fossil fuel vehicles there anymore.
Here's the thing.
I believe there's something like 14.2 million vehicles in the state of California.
Right now in the state of California, we have roving brownouts and blackouts.
Also, there is one nuclear facility left in the state of California with two plants.
One plant, I believe, is going off, is going offline forever in 2024, and the other the year after that.
And there is no plan for any new nuclear plants to be established in California.
So, Tamara Ugalini, do the math.
If this state, which has that many cars and they won't be replaced overnight, but when you can't sell a fossil fuel burning vehicle in California anymore, this state has a greater population than Canada, I believe.
And you're already experiencing roving brownouts and blackouts when you eventually replace the vehicle fleet in that state with all electric vehicles that have to be plugged into the grid, a grid that is already on weak knees.
Can you imagine the disaster California is heading for in terms of this forced electrification?
And I see it here in Canada too.
And getting back to Guibot, don't take your eye off the big picture here.
I listened to an interview by Dan McTaig.
He's a former liberal MP, I believe, of 18 years in the Durham area of Ontario.
And don't hold that against him, folks.
Dan McTaig is a classical liberal, i.e. he'd be a conservative today, okay?
And he said that Guibot's end goal here is to reduce our energy capacity producing in Canada by 75%.
Can you believe it?
This man is a maniac.
And I don't use that term lightly.
He's a convicted criminal in his environmental activism.
He decided to hang from the CN Tower or something like that.
But he's an activist.
He's a radical.
And this is the guy Blackface chooses as a minister on this file.
Are you kidding me?
You know what?
Like you said to Mary Ugalini, we need regime change in this country sooner rather than later.
Absolutely.
And the thing about California too is we can look to how their failures have affected the infrastructure is just not able to keep up with the capacity required to generate that state.
But in California, they don't have harsh winters and extreme weather like we do here in Canada.
Can you imagine being in minus 30 feels like minus 40 weather?
All of a sudden, the power grid fails because the electricity and the infrastructure just isn't there to be able to meet the demand of the Canadians who are heating their homes, powering their vehicles.
I mean, batteries die exponentially faster in cold weather.
So this idea that battery powered everything, electricity grid, clean energy sources, it's just not feasible in a climate such as we have here in Canada.
And this is all very much heavily coming down from globalists and unelected bureaucrats from the World Economic Forum.
There's a link here that we have on clean power and electrification and the kind of the forceful way in which this is being imposed onto us.
And it says that by 2050, the energy system must be highly electric, powered mostly by clean energy sources.
And so that would be, as Danielle Smith was discussing there, wind and solar.
And who's going to fund these projects that will be unusable in 25 years, approximately the lifespan of a solar panel, for instance, when it actually pays for its return on the investment of the panel itself?
By the time that it pays back its own investment, it's obsolete.
It's planned obsolescence.
They say here the 2020s have to be the electric decade in order to meet the Paris climate goals by 2050.
That final energy consumption has to shift from the current 20 to 30 percent by 2030 and 50 percent or more direct electricity by 2050.
And I mean, again and again, I come back to the question: who elected the World Economic Forum to come in and make these decisions for the world?
And if they're not elected, then who decided that it was appropriate for our political leaders to be lobbied by the bureaucrats who will profit from this electrification?
Who decided that it was an appropriate way to conduct democratic process by having these individuals lobby the government while they literally ignore everybody who actually pays their salaries?
It's really concerning, and we're seeing more and more.
Like originally, this was a plan for 2030, and now it's 2035.
And so it just kind of keeps getting pushed further and further back, but it's still very much on the agenda.
And it all comes down from the World Economic Forum and these global elites.
And Tamara Ugolini, let me ask you when the rubber meets the road, I don't know anyone in my circle that can afford to purchase a full EV vehicle.
Let me ask you: when you have to replace the Ugolini mobile, do you have the financial wherewithal to buy a full EV vehicle?
Not only do I not have the financial wherewithal to purchase a new vehicle, whether it be gas or electric power at this point, unfortunately, but I don't want one.
We see that they are unreliable.
The Ethical Path to Electric Vehicles00:07:41
How about the fact that they spontaneously combust?
Right?
This is a real risk here.
And who wants to be worried about stopping every X amount of kilometers to charge your car for 30 plus minutes?
This is just not feasible.
It's unreasonable and it's unrealistic.
And I don't see that changing anytime soon because there's a reason why we use fossil fuels, and that's because they're reliable, dependable, and efficient.
The electricity grid is not.
No, you're right.
It is unrealistic.
And I'll give you an example.
Ford recently came out with the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck.
Once upon a time in the 90s, Lightning was, that was the sub name they used for the F-150 for their hot rod, you know, piss and vinegar fossil fuel burning pickup truck.
Now it's relegated to the fully electrified one.
And I remember reading in Car and Driver, I'm going by memory, the list price for the Ford F-150 electric pickup truck was $69,000 U.S. Ah, hold on, plus dealer markup of 71,000 US because they're so rarefied right now.
I've never seen in my life, I stand to be corrected, I've never seen dealer markup exceed the base price of a vehicle.
But at the end of the day, Tamara Ugolini, what that means is you can buy one F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup, or you can buy two fully decked out F-150 King Ranch pickups.
Also, consider this.
And I was speaking to somebody in the industry about this.
If you're booting around with that electric pickup as a, I don't know, a soccer mom or just you're getting groceries or what have you, that's one thing.
But what if you're pulling a trailer?
What if you're pulling a boat?
And what if you're going into cottage country?
Do you know what that does to the range folks?
It decimates it.
Oh, and by the way, when you get out to the great outdoors, because you know, that's how these car companies always sell pickups and SUVs, you're driving off the beaten path, you're going into nature.
Guess what?
There's no pump to plug in your electric vehicle.
You have just taken ownership of the priciest paperweight on earth.
So, yeah, major, major range anxiety.
For all those reasons, Tamara Ugolini, maybe one day, I kind of liken it back to, you know, in the late 70s, a VCR was about $2,000 in 70s dollars, which was probably equivalent to about $8,000 or $9,000 today.
And by the time VCRs were being discontinued, I remember my local oblivion selling one for $29 in that, you know, 2010 money.
So you pay to be a trailblazer.
And undoubtedly, these electric vehicles will go down in price.
But for all the reasons we've discussed, I just don't see a demand.
Another example, New York is thinking of tragically following Gavin Newsom's lead and putting a ban on fossil fuel sales there.
Imagine you live in New York City in a high-rise apartment or condo, and you have a car.
Do you, where is the availability?
Where is the logistical sense in terms of those high-rises putting in an electric charger in every space?
It will not be done.
It cannot be done.
So we are going down a path of madness in terms of virtue signaling.
And the last point I'll make about this too, Tamari Ugolini, it's the dirty side of electric vehicles.
It's all the rare earth minerals that are needed for the batteries.
And guess who's in control of the lion's share of those rare earth minerals?
That would be China.
And guess where they're being mined?
Impoverished African countries like the Congo, where child labor is being used to do this very dirty, dangerous job.
You know, the leftists like Guibot, they don't talk about that part, that little dirty secret of EVs, but that is the reality.
Yeah, if you just even search out rare earth mining, it devastates the environment.
And meanwhile, we have decades of research and data to show that the fossil fuel industry conducts its work cleanly.
It's highly regulated.
And it's reliable.
That's the part that we're missing in this puzzle.
The infrastructure already exists.
It's there.
It's reliable.
It's lucrative.
And then meanwhile, we're putting all of our eggs in this electrification basket that really there's no evidence to support it, especially in a climate like Canada's and the northern parts of Canada.
And the amount of money that will be wasted trying to go down this path and get this pipe dream of somehow this being clean and green is so backwards that it's disgusting.
And again, it's coming down from global elites who are set to profit from this initiative while the little guys like us suffer the repercussions of what will be, right?
I can almost guarantee this will be a failed endeavor.
And the fallout of it is just going to be going to be gross because there's no way to recycle, especially those EV batteries.
There's no way to recycle solar panels.
As Danielle Smith mentioned in that little clip we shared with you, who's going to fund taking down and replacing massive concrete wind turbines?
This just seems so out of touch and so unrealistic.
I don't know how anybody's getting on board with any of this, but here we are going down the path that's, I don't think, going to end in a very pretty manner.
No, I agree with you 100%, Tamara Ugolini.
And I'll tell you this, my last point on this is that you see the likes of Guibot and Blackface and Greta Tunberg and Claus Schwab.
They play the moral and ethical card that it is not moral and ethical to be producing fossil fuels.
I can't get into the argument right now, but what I'd like to direct our viewers to is Ezra Levant's superb book going back more than 10 years ago now, I believe, entitled Ethical Oil.
And you'll see all this demonization and vilification of the oil sands, or as they like to call it, the tar sands.
You know, words matter, folks.
It's all a bunch of rubbish.
And Ezra lays out the case brilliantly that Canadian oil and gas, Canadian fossil fuels, there is nothing to be ashamed about in terms of a moral or ethical perspective.
Bureaucracy's Bloated Teeth00:07:57
Now, Tamara Ugolini, I see we're five minutes past the hour.
Do we have any super chats?
Yes.
Yeah.
We have one from our supporter Frasier McBurney.
Thanks, Frasier.
Here is a good way to get a better government.
Note, I didn't say a good government.
Have two terms with no pension.
And that includes, I think, the PM, the prime minister.
Also reduce the size of government, start with the CBC.
Yeah, the bloated bureaucracy is absolutely insane.
And maybe you're better familiarized with this, David, but just how much it's grown under Justin Trudeau.
I mean, it is astronomical how large these bureaucracies are now.
You know what, Tamara Ugolini?
Here's an anecdote.
I'll never forget this.
I was speaking with Christina Blizzard, now retired from the Toronto Sun.
She was the Queen's Park bureau chief or columnist there.
And she once mentioned to me that this is just for the province of Ontario in terms of OHIP.
And the directory for the number of OHIP employees, you know, I'm not talking doctors and nurses and orderlies, you know, people actually doing healthcare, but just a bureaucracy.
It resembled, it was like a pamphlet.
And by the time she retired, that directory was the size of a small town phone book.
And Tamara Ugolini, these are just health bureaucrats spending all day long sending emails and texts and voicemails to other healthcare bureaucrats over and over and over again.
We are totally overrepresented.
I believe if you compare on a per capita basis, Ontario to Germany, I believe on a per capita basis, it's either nine or 11 times more health bureaucrats in our system than in Germany.
And again, I'm stressing, these aren't the people, folks, doing the healthcare, putting it back together and giving you knee and hip replacements and what have you.
These are just the suits down in Toronto that, well, I don't know what they do, Tamara Ugolini.
I mean, as Christina said, sending memos to each other all day long.
It's an absolute disgrace.
It is.
Yeah.
And we have a recent post here from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who are great at trying to hold the bureaucracy to account.
It's not only that the bureaucracy has become so bloated, but the amount of bureaucrats making, netting over $100,000 a year has spiked up.
They say here in this one particular article.
Since 2015, the number of federal bureaucrats making $100,000 and up has spiked 136% since that's Trudeau's reign of terror right there since 2015 when he took office.
136% increase in bureaucrats making $100,000 and up.
And yet the health bureaucrats, sometimes when I'm doing my reports, I always like to check the Ontario Sunshine List or sometimes other provinces call it something different.
But I always like to see if I can track down their salary.
And especially for like the school board bureaucrats as well, just to see how much money they're making a year for their crucial engagements of basically crumbling our systems.
I don't, like you, I don't really know what they do.
And some of these hospital CEOs are making, you know, upwards of four, five, six, seven hundred thousand dollars a year.
It is astronomical.
And then, you know, you have the CEO of Enbridge.
I think he was making like 12, he made $12 million last year.
If I could find that number again, but it's insane.
And it's really maddening to see as someone who can't even easily access care for routine things that these individuals are making such an extreme amount that they could afford.
If they needed health care, then they can go down to the United States and easily pay for it in the private sense while they decimate the socialized system.
Oh, and I have a personal example.
You know, even though so much has happened in the last three years from COVID to Ukraine, the most often-asked question I get when I meet people is, Dave, did you ever get your bottle?
And they're referring to that crazy story at the LCBO in East York on Wickstead Avenue, in which I bought three bottles of scotch, but I only got two.
And the L CBO, to its credit, decided, yep, they're going to correct this mistake.
I was told to get down there and pick up my missing bottle.
And the manager there, Ashley Matallo, decided that she wasn't a government employee, but this LCBO on Wickstead Avenue was basically Ashley's liquor palace.
And for reasons I still don't understand, wouldn't acquiesce to LCBO corporate and give me that missing bottle.
It was a result of a court case I won.
I can't get into what I received as a total settlement due to the NDA.
But the point is, when it comes to salaries, I looked up Ashley Metallo.
This is an incompetent liquor store clerk.
This is a lying liar.
And Tamari Galini, she gets compensated $118,000 plus gold plated benefit package for being an incompetent liquor clerk.
This is you and I and our viewers paying for this.
This is outrageous.
And this is why one of the worst mistakes of the Mike Harris government when he advertised the Common Sense Revolution, as you know, one of the planks was to privatize the L CBO.
What a missed opportunity because there's too many Ashley Metallos, incompetent, lying liquor clerks sucking off the government teeth and in order to get justice, you literally have to go to court.
Unbelievable.
Which then just costs more and more money and your time.
And many people just don't have the fortitude to see that process through.
So good on you, David.
Well, thank you.
But you know, you raised a very good point, and I apologize to the people of Ontario.
I am positive that the L CBO paid more in legal fees for their fancy Bay Street lawyer to come down and argue the case in a failing move, I might add, than what the final award was.
And again, I apologize because it's not Ashley Metallo paying out of her pocket, even though this fiasco was of her own doing.
It's you and I and all our viewers.
Despicable.
Yeah.
Just before we wrap things up, I want to give a special shout out to Jack Gmail, who just today became a monthly supporter.
So thank you very much, Jack Gmail, for your continued support for Rebel News.
Really appreciate it.
That all right.
And I think that's it.
That's it for our super chats and otherwise.
So I guess until tomorrow, David, we'll say our cyanaras.
That's right.
I believe the Alberta team takes over on Friday, and somebody has to because I think I'm at the journalism conference that we're putting on, so I wouldn't be available anyways.
So, Tamara Ugolini, thank you so much for joining me today.
Toronto's Rapid Growth00:01:40
It's been so long.
I was out on the field doing so many assignments, but you are the peaches to my herb.
Reunited, and it feels so good.
There you go.
I look forward to next Tuesday.
And folks, thank you so much for tuning in.
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That would be Olivia and Ephron.
So for me, until Monday, as always, stay safe and stay sane.
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