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Sheila, how are you doing today?
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Is it as rainy there as it is here?
Is it raining?
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So that would be great.
And we can talk about that in a bit, but it was like 36, I think even 36 yesterday.
So it was wild.
Last night, the wind was howling.
I know that originally it was supposed to rain a lot on the weekend, which might hamper some fun plans, but I think that forecast has shifted.
So the fun plan should be safely in order.
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With that said, let's get into some of these stories of the day.
And there are a lot of them.
We'll start with this article, Canada Mulling Game Plan if U.S. takes far-right authoritarian shift.
Melanie Jolie always bringing some great, great stuff to the table.
I'm being facetious if you can't tell.
We are certainly working on scenarios, Jolie said in French during an interview.
It's funny, very often it's in French that they say these things.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says Canada has been considering a game plan for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right authoritarian shift after next year's presidential election.
Obviously, they have no concerns with the current far-left authoritarian shift, but that's another story.
We are certainly working on scenarios, said Jolie in a French during an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday.
Jolie added that Ottawa's close political and economic ties to the U.S. means that we must certainly prepare several scenarios.
She suggested Canada has a game plan in mind, but wouldn't get into details.
In general, there's our game plan precisely to be able to manage what could be a rather difficult situation.
I will work with my colleagues and with the mayors and the provincial premiers and the business community, with the unions, with everyone in the country, so that we are ready regardless of election outcome.
The article goes on, but I mean, foreign interference?
Yeah.
You know, yeah, like this is not a good look because first of all, there are two political parties in the United States.
They're both pretty centrist.
You know what?
That's not true.
I will call the Republicans centrist and the Democrats, who used to have a centrist wing.
And now it just seems to be Joe Manchin is the only guy occupying that.
And everybody else is totally colonized by the radical far left.
It's not a good look for you to demonize right now 50% of the voters in the United States and your potential greatest trade ally for voting Republican, if that does indeed happen in the next election cycle.
Like, that's just crazy.
You are setting yourself up for confrontation and some pretty serious protectionist policies directed at Canada if Donald Trump wins next time, because these guys just can't shut their mouths and let nature take its course in the United States.
This is not our place.
Shut up.
And voting Republican does not make you far-right or authoritarian.
Like Justin Trudeau, Mr. Locking Down Everything, forcing Canadians to be vaccinated to travel within one of the largest, most vast countries on the face of the earth.
He's the authoritarian who went wild demonizing Canadians every time he got near.
I was going to say the pulpit, but well, that is actually probably accurate because I think a lot of what he says is cloaked in religiosity.
But every time he got near a microphone, he was ranting about my fellow Canadians and how dirty and gross they are and how they don't have a place in society.
And what are we going to do about these people who just won't listen to my crazy ramblings and follow my lead and get a million boosters?
Like, who is he to, first of all, lecture anybody about authoritarianism, but also shut your mouths.
Shut your mouths before we're in a trade war, please.
Thanks.
Well, and it's such, it's just all it is is vapid, divisive rhetoric.
Like it's all these politicians do is divide, divide, divide.
If you disagree in any way, shape, or form, divide, divide, divide.
It was really, I actually went to see Anthony Jeselnick, the comedian last night.
Very crude.
So if that's not your thing, don't check it out.
But the opening act, it was interesting.
She came out and she started talking about how she's pro-choice.
But then she said, but for people who are pro-life out there, I get where you're coming from.
And the line that she said that just killed me, it wasn't funny.
It was more of like a political statement.
But she's like, politicians want us divided because the more we're fighting each other, the less they actually have to do.
And it hit the nail on the head.
These politicians think that if we're pointing the fingers at each other, if we're fighting each other, if it's all infighting, there's going to be no metrics of accountability for them.
That is what this Justin Trudeau government is all about.
The people who are still voting for him, he doesn't want them pausing for even an instance to look at what he's doing.
He wants to continue directing it at look at those dirty, unvaccinated people.
Look at the scary Republicans in the United States.
Look at this.
Look at that.
Look at anything but me.
That's the Justin Trudeau liberal style of governance.
And there's more of this.
I mean, it's the rule book of propaganda to accuse somebody of what you're doing.
And this far left authoritarianism that we're seeing in Canada.
They're like, we don't want the Americans copying our playbook on the right.
That's their real concern, I think.
So, yeah, not surprising, but pretty much on par.
Something of a jevining on that before we go on.
Sorry, yeah, just before we move away from that, I'd love to know what their big fat game plan is, by the way.
Like, what are you going to do to take on a country 10 times your size in the economy, population, and I think international political power?
What are you going to do except probably compromise our trade deals with them and make sure that everything is bad?
And by the way, haven't you noticed they're taking a harder line stance on the potential for a Republican government in the United States than they are taking on China?
Like, that seems a little bit weird, right?
On everything.
And we'll talk about this in a little bit.
I know you talked about it yesterday, but it doesn't matter if it's net zero or foreign interference or Escalo.
China gets a free pass, Alberta oil, Republicans in the United States, all villains that must be stopped.
There does seem to be, though, in reply to this general sort of under Trudeau, we've seen this swing to the left, this continued progressive push, this ceaseless trend towards wokeness.
And whether it's Danielle Smith or now under Pierre Poliabre, the federal government or the hopeful federal government, at least after the next election, by their metrics, the Conservative Party, they're to debate several anti-woke policy resolutions.
Oh, and you know, the mainstream media are going to lose their marbles over this stuff.
I can't wait.
I can't wait to see them freak out.
But it looks like it's pretty normal stuff.
Anyways, I'll be quiet.
You keep going.
No, no, by all means, weigh in whenever.
Yeah.
And this is the thing is most of these things are completely normal, but they're obviously going to be blown.
It's like, we're going to put an end to the craziness.
And they're like, oh, no, they're bigots.
But yeah, let's read through here a bit.
Conservative Party of Canada members attending next month's national convention are set to debate several anti-woke policy proposals.
True North has learned.
For folks out there, a policy proposal is a member, a group within the party, effectively just putting something forward for the party to discuss and then vote on.
So these aren't official policies, aren't party policies.
Someone has brought this forward.
The party will vote on it.
Resolutions advancing to the convention will address gender ideology as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I guess there's an acronym for that now.
Other why?
Anyways, other resolutions touch on free speech, fighting child grooming, and promoting medical freedom, things that everyone should always agree to forever, except for the last few years, apparently.
True North had a look at the list of 60 policy resolutions that are set to be debated at the convention.
Listen, we can go through all these if you're so inclined.
Let's read through a bit of the gender ideology one because I know that's a hot button one right now.
And then if anything else jumps up to you, this thing basically protects women's spaces.
And so all the feminists on the left are going to hide themselves in a big, huge pretzel trying to figure out how they oppose this because a conservative brought it up.
But these are the people who would not shut up about women's only spaces like six years ago, 30 seconds ago.
But all of it, and it define, it does what Matt Walsh asked us all to do: define what is a woman.
They're going to put it in writing.
Hopefully, if this resolution makes it to the floor, we will be the party of knowing exactly what a woman is.
But I don't know because you also like while these policies are great.
And, you know, like there's one that addresses child grooming, like tougher sentences for pedophiles.
Great.
The left will find a way to oppose that too.
But we also have to realize that the party EDA, so the Electoral District Association, so the, you know, like the local writings that are proposing these ideas, they also have to sort of run through the gauntlet of overly politically correct party brass that might prevent these things from getting to the floor.
Yeah.
You know, that's going to be that I know what the liberals are going to say often when you get the very interesting surprises is when you're actually at these things and someone brings forward a policy that you're like, yes, this is so common sense.
And then some 40 year old, 40 year party guy or whatever, someone who's been part of the institution forever comes up and some of the sort of inventive things, they aren't quite as rote as the left.
It's really surprising.
I'm sure we'll probably have some folks there checking this out, bringing all the perspectives on.
Alexa, Alexa, and Guillaume will be there covering this.
Hopefully, if the party allows them accreditation, this is my signal to the party right now: allow our journalists accreditation.
They're going to do honest journalism.
And if I find out there's a CBC reporter in there and you've blocked a rebel news one, boy, I'm not going to be happy.
Don't pick it up.
Oh, they won't fight with us.
They wouldn't do that, Adam said forcefully.
Yeah, they did do it.
They've done it in the past.
Yeah, it's been a while, though.
That was like it's a new thing.
Yep.
That was the Shiro Tool days, I think, to an extent.
So, but yeah, so anyways, it is good to see.
Let's see what comes to pass.
Ultimately, if this is just a few people with good ideas putting these forward and it gets quashed, it's going to go a long way to telling us that the party really has not changed that much.
But if we see some of these adopted, and I mean, they can be amended a little bit, but if we see at least a shift towards acknowledging protecting children, rejecting radical gender ideology, defending free speech and medical choice, that will be a strong signifier.
Now, this stuff can be boring.
You're there for like a whole weekend, they're talking about policies, but it is really sort of the behind the scenes boring legislature and policy type stuff that ultimately forms the policies that turn into law.
So, this stuff really does matter.
So, if you haven't been out to one of these things before, if you're not politically active, this is a good way to get in at the ground floor.
Everyone in conservative politics uses this term grassroots.
Well, the people who've been to 100 board meetings and brought this policy forward or these policies forward, they're the real grassroots, not the Jason Kenny campaign that was structured by a bunch of professionals.
Real grassroots politics is this type of stuff.
Well, and it is a chance for this party to distinguish itself and rebrand itself after the dark, boring years, vanilla, vegetable lasagna years of Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer, where you're like, How are you ostensibly and tangibly different than the liberals on any issue?
Mr. We're going to have a carbon tax, but we're going to call it something else.
They whipped the vote to support the Paris Accord.
They kowtowed to the lockdowns.
They didn't stand up for medical freedom.
They didn't support the convoy in any real tangible way.
This is a chance post choice of Pierre Polyev as the leader to make themselves something different and something new and to offer Canadians a real alternative to the, like I said, the vegetable lasagna days of Aaron O'Toole, just noodles and butter, very boring.
It's a chance to be something different and listen to the people.
Let's see if they do it.
Because what I know about conservatives is they are famous for snatching victory from the jaws of, or snatching defeat, I guess in this case, from the jaws of defeat.
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Yeah.
No, and you're dead on there.
It's like the ideas become popular, even like whether it be Andrew O'Toole or Scheer.
They're like, oh, we're going to defund the CBC.
We're going to do this.
We're going to do that.
And then push comes to shove and they have an opportunity to do it and they completely back off from it and fold like a cheap tent.
We need a conservative government that's not going to do that.
And I have to say, like Pierre Polyevra, don't get me wrong, every politician is going to respond to the sort of spirit of the age to an extent.
They shouldn't necessarily, but Pierre, when he gets pushed back, he seems at least compared to what we've seen over the past few years to stick to his guns.
Hopefully that holds true.
Still waiting for him to sit down with me for that long exclusive interview and prove that he actually is open to full access and transparency to the media.
So still waiting on that from his team, though I've talked to them and they've been like, yeah, for sure, sure, sure, sure.
Let's do that because it's long overdue.
That'd be a good step towards proving you're not going to cave, kowtow, and do what other folks have done.
Because frankly, some of those other people have even talked to us in interviews.
So time to change that.
On that note, I think we are going to jump to a quick commercial break and we'll come back with some more stories.
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Literally right now, even if Rebel tags me to post something on Instagram or to access my own content, I need to turn on my VPN.
Otherwise, it simply doesn't work.
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But I didn't have my VPN turned on and disappeared.
And then I was like, oh, I can't even watch myself complaining about how bad the news is because that's Justin Trudeau's shakedown.
And that's how the big tech companies have reacted to Justin Trudeau.
I couldn't even watch my own self complaining.
I can't even complain about C18 without the consequences of C18 coming to get me.
So get your VPN is what I'm saying.
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And really, like I mentioned there, they don't hold on to your records.
So the government can't seize them and then prove you donated to such and such or whatever.
Anyways, moving on.
We're going to get through a bunch of stories here quick.
We've got lots of news today.
So we want to touch on this briefly.
Obviously, like we've got folks in Maui right now looking into that story telling the other side of the story.
I think we're starting to work on plans to look at some of the Canadian wildfires as well.
But all 20,000 Yellowknife residents now evacuating as a result of that massive fire.
Folks surely saw on social media West Kelowna the massive fires in Kelowna.
These fires are taking place kind of all over the place and unprecedented rates.
I mean, we are seeing now that these are being investigated, but there are far more incidents of arson than we've seen in past years.
So that is extremely concerning.
There's not too much to say politically here, except the left, of course, wants to say a lot politically.
And to sort of politicize this tragedy as it's unfolding, the amount of people I've seen weighing in on social media saying, like, we need more wind turbines and solar farms now in response to this.
In the Northwest territories, in the Northwest territories, people who are heavily reliant on fossil fuels, you want them to go on to solar panels to combat climate change.
I've got to tell you, I'm working on a story about this right now.
I'm going to film it after the live stream here so we can't go late because it's pretty newsworthy.
Rebecca Alti, she's the mayor of Yellowknife, and boy, she's doing a great job up there.
The entire community is being evacuated.
I think more than half the residents of the territory are displaced at this point.
Kudos to my friends and neighbors in Alberta for and Alberta communities for absorbing the majority of those evacuees.
We in Alberta right now are absorbing more than half the people in the Northwest Territories who are under evacuation order.
The thing about Alberta, and I think the Northwest Territories, this rings true also, is heavy industry is really an asset in times of crisis like this.
Besides the fact that they have the equipment to build the berms and fire breaks that you need, this is what happens when an entire populace is trained in evacuation techniques.
Because that was one of the reasons that resulted in zero deaths except for a motor vehicle accident when Fort McMurray was evacuated a few years ago and one-third of the town burned.
When Slave Lake was evacuated, you've got people who know how to evacuate because they are trained annually through their jobs in heavy industry in the north.
It's mining, it's forestry, it's all those sorts of things.
In Alberta, it's forestry, again, sometimes mining, oil and gas.
You've got people who know how to get to muster points and you know about confined space and you know about how to use respirators and all those things.
And it the untold story of how we are uniquely equipped, I think, in the civilized world to deal with these things is our close relationship with heavy industry out here.
Well, these hardworking, uneducated people, they're pretty darn good at this stuff for sure.
And it's incredible to see.
I know Calgary alone is taking in 5,000 people.
They're fully equipped set up and they have capacity to take more than that if needed.
The biggest issue right now is they're turning food donations away because they have a system in place and Calgarians are showing up in such a way that they're overwhelmed with resources.
It's incredible.
And you mentioned that, Mayor.
I have to say, and this is a very rare occasion.
I've actually agreed with Geoti Gondeck twice in the last 24 hours, which is incredibly rare.
One of the seven seals of the apocalypse are being opened.
So first off, the incredible reply to this, the capacity to tackle this, say we're doing more.
It is fundamentally Albertan of Geoti Gondeck.
So cheers to her for that.
You're not going to hear this from me often.
And now this, Geoti Gondeck, Calgary's mayor, basically told the Alberta NDP to go fly a kite.
And we talked about this.
We'll talk about this in a bit, but as seen as we're on it, Danielle Smith, the UCP, they've put this six-month moratorium on solar and wind because one, there's questions about the sustainability of the supply and the grid storage and all that.
But two, because with oil sites, they're talking about cleanups.
There's no plan.
There's no end-of-life plan.
Yeah, there's no plan whatsoever.
So they're saying, okay, well, we need this so we can address this.
So it's environmentally sound.
It's practical.
It's sensible.
And even Joti Gondeck is telling the NDP that what they're doing is the sensible, environmental, and responsible thing moving forward.
Now, nobody likes the fact that some people's jobs are paused for a couple months as they get to the bottom of this.
But the liberals and the NDP people out there who are shouting about jobs, they couldn't have cared less at all when oil people lost their jobs.
When they don't care at all about people losing their jobs, they only care now that there's political capital.
But it's incredible to see.
I mean, Geoti Gondeck is wildly unpopular.
Hopefully, she's waking up and realizing that she can't just push her own agenda.
She has to listen to people.
But that's two check marks for Geoti Gondek.
There's a couple hundred, maybe a couple thousand X's she has to offset.
But good start, GOT.
Two in a row.
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I'm frightened.
I'm just frightened by these developments and what it means for the end of days.
Like, what is happening?
Apocalyptic stuff.
So, yeah.
But yeah, thoughts and to a more significant extent for you and I, prayers to everyone out there who's struggling with this, wherever you are.
We hope you, your families, your pets, and even your properties are as safe as can be.
But take care of human lives first.
That's a priority, folks.
Moving on to our next story.
A bit of a story.
And it is what it is.
Weeks, not days.
Another BC ferry has broken down and is expected to be out of service for a long time.
We don't need to spend too much time on this.
I just wanted to point out this: BC Ferries is now independently managed, but it's still owned by the government.
I've spent quite a bit of time in South America and they have ratchet.
Don't get me wrong, off the coast of Argentina, there's super ferries and it's very luxurious.
There's a lot of ferries down there to get around.
They're super ratchety, and they manage to fix them and keep them going with a hundredth of the budget, a thousandth of the budget of BC ferries.
This whole mentality that things just break and can't be fixed is the most governmental thing I've ever heard of.
And if this was a private institution, it just wouldn't be happening.
Yeah, and people rely on this.
Like they commute, and this is the height of the tourism season.
Also, like this seems like we should have a solution for when things get broken.
Yeah.
Oh, and there is.
What I guarantee you, what the problem is here is there's red tape and board meetings and some I guarantee you there's a guy at BC Ferries right now who could fix this, but it's not being allowed to.
Right.
He needs to fill out a stack of paperwork and consult with the union rules.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fill in a T7 form and file it with anyways.
Just want to touch on that.
It's whether it's whether it's museums losing 800 pieces or ferries not being able to ferry.
It's always, you can always go to the bottom of the page and there's like a government of Canada or government of BC or something thing there.
Fail safe.
It's a game I play whenever I hear about a corporation or entity not functioning property.
Now, this is an interesting story because it very much echoes.
We're seeing so much, and there's more of this stories coming, but Alberta and Saskatchewan rejecting what everything else, everyone else is doing.
And we're seeing inflation the lowest in these provinces.
We're seeing crime starting to be tackled.
We're seeing addictions being tackled.
Scott Mo, Danielle Smith are saying nope to everything that hasn't been working and doing things different.
Whether it be the human trafficking task force established here or the increased responsibilities of sheriffs, sort of keeping an eye out on maybe police who weren't doing as much as they should be within cities' cores.
Daniel Smith has been a big advocate.
And so now the Saskatchewan authorities have formed a new police service.
Yes.
Critics are questioning the lack of oversight.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they should have questioned the lack of oversight over the RCMP and the police who weren't doing their jobs.
The Saskatchewan Party government has begun establishing a new provincial police service, but the minister in charge says it won't have an oversight body until boots are on the ground.
Christine Tell, Minister of Corrections.
Hang on, let's just stop for a second.
Yeah, I know.
Christine Tell, by the way, sorry, Christine Tell, by the way, an absolute fashion icon in Saskatchewan.
That is a stylish woman, by the way.
I think she's the former police officer.
So she knows.
It's not like she's anti-RCMP.
She's a former cop.
But I like that the critics, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but the critics want the bureaucrats in place before the cops are in place.
They want the government, the government busy bodies in place before they have actual cops.
So they're putting the bureaucracy over top of the safety of the community.
I'll be quiet.
Please go on.
And that, no, I literally, as I read past that, I was like, oh, I can get back and say exactly that.
It's so funny.
Like, no, no, we need a regulatory body.
We need to consult BC fairies on this before we get.
No, it's like we need people on the ground.
They're not saying we're not going to have an oversight body after.
They're saying we're going to get people on the ground and have people with oversight overlooking them.
But listen, there's going to be rules and regulations in place.
But yeah, these people, all they want is bureaucracy.
They don't want anything to be done whatsoever.
Christine Tell, fashion icon, Minister of Corrections, police and public safety, now has authority to form a new Saskatchewan Marshals Service.
Alberta's going to have sheriffs.
Saskatchewan's going to have marshals.
This is going to be cool.
Said a recent order in council.
The order states that the province's deputy minister will act in place of a board to oversee operations.
So the plan is to effectively have it operational in 2026.
This is really good.
I think, and it's a repudiation of this RCMP entitlement.
There are wonderful folks within the RCMP.
Even throughout COVID-19, I encountered a bunch of them doing as much as they could to help people who are in a pinch.
There are also some very bad people.
But the thing is, and we talked about this, I think, last week or the week before, so many of the RCMP or police who are brought in to enforce and shut down protests and do all this stuff, they were brought in from outside of communities because the people inside of communities wouldn't do this to their own people.
By localizing authorities, these people have a greater level of accountability to their local communities.
They're known to their local communities and they're not waiting for feedback from Ontario and BC fairies.
I'm, of course, joking again, but they can act to benefit and help and work within their communities.
There are cultural differences between Ontario and Saskatchewan and Vancouver that local policing authorities need to be able to respond to.
So I think that this is just good news, plain and simple.
Well, it flies in the face of the whole defund the police movement, right?
And this targets policing where it needs to be targeted.
You know, we saw this in Alberta where our premier deployed sheriffs to the downtown core because the people who are paying for the public services and infrastructure in the downtown core, i.e., the LRT system and the C-train in Calgary, couldn't use it because these places became open-air drug markets.
And so, you know, you got to make you got to make your city safe.
And if the cities are unable or is so often the case in progressive cities, unwilling to do it for ideological reasons, instead of calling in the social workers the way the progressives wanted to, our premier called in some cops.
And hopefully it starts to make a difference.
We know her drug policy is already making a difference in changing lives.
But if you go into Saskatchewan's plan for their marshal service, Which I mean, they're lots of, you have to look at this through sort of a local policing lens, as you pointed out.
So the cities have their own police forces, right?
Regina has police, Edmonton has its police.
And what they're basically going to do is create a similar such police agency for the rural areas, because why can't we have our own cops?
So what they're saying has.
just like Ontario has for a very long time.
So the ordering council states that the marshals are to detect, disrupt, and deter criminal activity in rural and remote areas, you know, where we need the help, but help is so far away.
They're also to enforce provincial and federal laws, locate and apprehend prolific offenders, so recidivist jerks, the human crime waves, on warrants and investigate farm thefts and damage done to crops caused by trespassing.
This is all just like, I love everything about this.
And so the urbanites in the cities who actually don't live in the downtown core where it's like plagued by crime, but like who live in the suburbs, they're like, oh, we don't like this because they don't have to deal with trespassers and people coming on their property and the fact that cops are 45 minutes away when you need them at this minute.
Those are the people against this stuff.
Farmers are like, yep, yep, we love it because this is targeted to help us, which is something we've been saying for years and years and years.
If you are not going to let us defend ourselves and make sure you have police who will, this is addressing that problem.
You know, and it's, it's, it just, what comes to mind, we've got Tell taking a strong stance in Saskatchewan.
Mickey Amory, the justice minister here, recently gave a rant about how they're going to get hard on crime.
We had Dan Williams saying he really couldn't care less what progressives say on addiction.
They're going to help people get better.
Minister Ellis, Minister of Public Safety and Emergencies, once again, doubling down on how they're going to get hard on crime.
The words of Premier Danielle Smith when I was interviewing her on human trafficking, not just on human trafficking, but on crime echo true.
And I said, what's your message to folks out there who are benefiting from this?
And she said, not here.
That is the clear message from the government of Saskatchewan and the government of Alberta right now.
They're saying, criminals, you're not welcome here.
We're going to find you.
We're going to punish you.
You're not going to be back on the street on bail.
We will see crime decrease over the coming months, over the coming years.
This is good news.
And I have to say, even last night, those sheriffs being introduced, I was in downtown Calgary, lots of the sort of areas around Olympic Plaza, around some of the C-Train stations.
The fact that the sheriffs are there sort of looking over police officers' shoulders, whether they like it or not, whether it's subconscious or concerted, the police are actually parked in spots where crimes take place.
They used to just steer clear of there because you'd put in a lot of effort, do a ton of paperwork, lock somebody up, and nothing would come of it.
They'd be released.
The cops in every sort of dangerous spot within the city last night.
I saw a vehicle with two police officers in it, keeping an eye out, and I didn't hear anyone screaming, fighting, yelling.
I think things are changing already.
I certainly hope so.
So good news on the front of law and order out west.
Chinese Consulates Spying?00:14:47
Moving on to some China-related stories, Chinese consulates task Chinese students in aggressive intelligence ops, according to Canadian intelligence.
Beijing's top diplomats in Canada are tasking and likely funding Chinese student associations in aggressive intelligence operations that include monitoring and coercing other students and university officials.
Canadian intelligence documents allege.
According to CESIS investigations, these operations include a consul general tasking Chinese students to investigate and gather intelligence on the family of an alleged Chinese economic figure.
It goes on and on, but I think involving students in this is just sick.
Like, it's another level.
It's kind of like, you know what?
Well, they're you'll see someone they're a Chinese student.
You're like, oh, wonderful.
They're coming to learn about freedom and culture.
No, it turns out the government has them operating as a Chinese like spy.
This is brutal and it sounds just about on brand for the Chinese government.
Yeah, what do you make of this?
Well, I think probably I'm not surprised by any of this.
I just assume that every organization that has direct ties to the Chinese government is spying on Canadians or expats.
Like, I just at this point, I'm just like, yep, if there's like any sort of link to Chinese officialdom, I'm just going to assume they're spying.
But what I think is the most important line in all of this is that the feds in particular, Justin Trudeau, have known about this allegation since 2019.
So a good four years.
So it says the allegations are disclosed in a June 2019 Canadian eyes only draft report for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, produced by NSICOP, a bipartisan intelligence review body.
And so this intelligence document was reviewed exclusively by Sam Cooper's operation, the Bureau, and it describes how Chinese diplomats in Canada have deeply infiltrated campuses, cleverly leveraging the protected spaces of higher education to attack the nation's democratic and economic institutions.
So the feds have known about this for four years.
And what have the feds done?
Nothing.
Why?
Because the feds are benefiting from this.
Like they are winning in ridings and conservative Chinese candidates are losing because they are not the preferred choices of Beijing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's wild and it's it's it's just part of a pattern that like when is there going to be some sort of justice this liberal government, this Justin Trudeau government, we're going to talk, you talked about it yesterday, but we're going to talk about Minister Gilbo's direct involvement with this Chinese government.
But you can go on and on.
I can't even remember the instances.
You have money coming in from a large Chinese community in China to Justin Trudeau's Eastern Canadian constituency.
You have election interference.
You have police stations being set up.
It goes on and on.
There are just no lack, and there's no effort, no willingness, no desire.
In fact, there's a very self-evident sort of condoning of what is going on by this government across the board.
And we talked about this off the top of the show.
It doesn't matter if you're opening coal factories every year, coal production sites, electric sites in China, you can be opening one every day.
And this liberal government will encourage you while they're shutting down natural resources that are far more ethical right here in Alberta.
There's a glaring double standard.
And what's the possible motivation for it?
I mean, one can speculate, but it isn't rational.
It isn't in line with Canadian interests.
It isn't in line with the needs of people who are struggling to pay their bills.
There has to be sort of a personal benefiting agenda for certain people, Justin Trudeau nominally.
But what we don't know, as they say, who benefits, who benefits from this?
So China benefits, but so does Justin Trudeau, benefits from the support of his favorite dictatorship, because I think the liberals' only ideology is power at all costs and hanging on to power at all costs.
And they're willing to take that help from anybody, even if it means trading the integrity of Canadian institutions and Canadian democracy for it.
Yeah.
And I don't know if we're ever going to get to the bottom of if we're ever going to get an honest answer as to what conversations or dealings that there this is such a pattern here that this isn't simply looking the other way.
This has to be a two-way street.
There has to be networks of communication for this to be happening on this scale.
If something happens once, it can be a coincidence.
Twice, the same thing.
Three times, you start to be suspicious.
But if you're talking about dozens, hundreds of instances of the same patterns of behavior, there's something undeniable going on here.
And hey, it'd be great if the RCMP would investigate that, but I guess they won't.
Maybe we can send the sheriffs and the Saskatchewan force out there to investigate.
And the BC Ferry cops.
Yes, and the BC Ferry authorities.
So we did talk about this yesterday, but I do want to touch on Scott Moe weighing in on this.
So Danielle Smith tweeted that after a recent news report, Mr. Stephen Goulvo is a vice chair of a CCP environmental group.
I'm concerned as why the minister wants Alberta to be net zero by 2035, but is okay with China getting there by 2060.
Now, Danielle Smith said that this was recent, but I think we broke this, what, five years ago, you were saying, Sheila?
Yes.
So Brian Lilly, the post-media bailout journalist, has discovered an exclusive story that Rebel News broke in 2018.
So good job, Brian.
You're a little late to the game.
But yeah, so 2018, we broke the news that Catherine McKenna, the environment minister at the time, was sitting on this advisory board of the CCP.
And not only does the Canadian Environment Minister sit on this advisory board, but Canada also pays $1.6 million to China, the world's second largest economy, for the pleasure of advising the Chinese communist genocide on their climate policy.
Like it's just the stupidest thing ever.
So now five years later, the mainstream media catches up to us and they report this and the new minister involved is Stephen Gilbo.
And so now the conservative politicians are outraged by this news that was broken five years ago.
And, you know what, late, whatever, but I'm happy at least now they're expressing outrage on this issue.
Because I think it is now in like the proper context, just how infiltrated and how intermingled we are with the CCP.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's, and it isn't like, it isn't even a maybe anymore.
We talk about the pattern being established.
There isn't even a pattern being established.
It's like, yeah, this guy works for them.
How there's not works for them.
How there is not just an overt, like they're on the board of the World Economic Forum.
They're working for the Chinese Communist Party.
That's not how you, it's not acceptable under any metric.
And the fact there isn't a clear conflict of interest and that the House isn't immediately saying, well, you have to resign.
This is ridiculous.
All of this stuff under a conservative government prior to Justin Trudeau, maybe not the WEF board thing.
There's been some of that before, but all this stuff that people would be, every headline would be deriding them.
They'd be done in politics forever.
But now it's just business as usual.
And we've now got a couple of generations of liberals working for This Communist Party that is engaged in an act of genocide presently is the, if you care about the environment, the greatest polluter the world has ever seen, and no one will ever, ever, ever catch them.
And that one of the greatest human rights violators.
But I mean, this is the thing: if you look at the policies that this government is enforcing, if you look at the way Justin Trudeau talks about certain groups of people, if you look how Justin Trudeau acts, he wants us to be like China, not an economic powerhouse, but completely subservient, beaten down with absolutely nothing.
He said outright, he admires the basic dictatorship and their capacity to get things done.
This is what he wants.
He wants to be the leader of Canada, the supreme unchallenged leader of communist Canada.
It's surreal.
But and again, let's loop back.
Let's loop back to Melanie Jolie saying, you know, we've got a plan if the U.S., I guess, votes Republican.
But we've got, because voting Republican might turn the place authoritarian, I guess, in spite of the constitution, which actually restrains the government and actually has teeth, unlike the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
That's what they're worried about.
While we have a minister of the crown working for the CCP, yeah, we've got a plan.
It was provided.
We're still working.
The reason she couldn't provide details is because it's still being translated from Chinese.
That is, that's where they got their plan.
And that's why she doesn't have details yet, because it was given to them.
Because a strong Republican government in the United States means a strong United States, and China does not like that.
China doesn't like that.
Yes, that's a great point.
Good to see here, though.
And speaking of good point, that's how Scott Mo starts his tweet.
Perfect segue.
Good point.
Scott Moe, now, why is the Canadian minister serving on an advisory council created by the Communist Party government of China?
Welcome, Premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the Saskatchewan Party, Scott Mo, to the conversation Rebel News has been having for five years.
But again, it is good to see Alberta and Saskatchewan once again saying, no, no, we're not going to, we're not going to go along with this.
We're saying no.
While the Liberal government may go along with this, we've got politicians with brass now who are saying, no, absolutely not.
And come mess around with the West and you're going to get the horns.
Happy to see it.
You guys talked about this a bunch yesterday, though.
So we can move on.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really good.
But it is good to see some politicians standing up.
This is the most perfect Toronto political story I've heard.
Insiders say Doug Ford saved staff or blame in Greenbelt scandal.
Yeah, that's because he's the one who blamed him, pretty much, despite advice to let him go.
It's incredible in any other industry other than politics, the stuff that they just get away with or get blamed for when it's not really them and then get to keep their job anyways is surreal.
The political aid blame for Premier Doug Ford's $8.28 billion greenbelt land swap debacle is back on the job and keeping his head down.
Ryan Amato, Chief Staff to Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark, returned from vacation in Italy to a firestorm in the last week's Auditor General's report.
This just 100% seems like one of those cases of can you take the fall for this?
It won't cost you your job.
Does it not?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They just pinned it on this guy.
He may or may not be implicated in it.
I'm not sure.
But as long as he was like the public face of the scandal, they're just like, no, it's that guy.
But he gets rewarded by getting to keep his job.
This is just like perfect political nonsense.
Happens everywhere.
It's not Ford.
It's not the chief.
It's not the minister.
It's none of the politicians.
It's just one of his chief, one of his staff.
Just an underling who probably got a raise for taking the fall, by the way.
I was elected to lead, not to read.
That's this, that's Steve Amato's job.
Was the he was the uh reader and he misread.
Um, so yeah, that's it.
In more Toronto-esque political news, Toronto is exploring new taxes and a parking levy to tackle budget deficits.
Like all of us, when things are getting tight, we just demand more money of people around us.
No, we cut costs and behave more sensibly.
Um, a municipal sales tax, a dedicated 911 levy, more power for Toronto Parking Authority to set higher prices, graduated hike in land transfer tax for luxury homes are among the flurry of revenue proposals city staff are recommending that Toronto explores in order to stav off crushing this stave off rather crushing financial pressures.
When she's elected back in June, Mayor Olivia Chow called for a special August meeting of executive committee, of the executive committee rather, to deal with city's troubled finances.
That meeting is set to take place next week, and the report and the report to the committee that will consider was released today.
So, I mean, this is so Toronto, Trudeau, Ontario.
Every other politician is like, oh, people can't afford anything.
Things are brutal.
We need to make life more affordable.
Inflation is the worst.
Toronto is like, we need much, much, much more taxes because we're spending in uncontrolled fashion.
Right.
I just saw out of the corner of my eye there: a $46.5 billion shortfall.
Yeah.
Did I see?
That's a crazy number for a city.
Yeah.
Like it's insane.
And you're right.
Like, people are trying to go to work to buy food and you want to gouge them where they park their car to go to work.
Stop spending the money.
You don't have it.
The people don't have it.
Do you think people have extra money to just give to the city to go parking?
Of course they don't.
Stop spending the money.
A photograph of Rob Ford's headstone would do a better job than Olivia Chow in this current council.
Yeah, 100%.
And that's just so folks understand, they're not saying the total amount they need is 46.5 billion.
They're saying over 10 years, the shortfall is 46.5 billion.
So they've like overbudgeted or underbudgeted over 10 years, boy, 46.5 billion.
And what's the population of Toronto right now?
I don't know, 10 million, 8 or 9 million, something like that.
It's a megacity.
How?
Remarkable Electric Vehicle Goals00:05:03
Still.
But 46.5.
Are you paying for the construction of 15 Burj Khalifas?
What is happening?
Legitimately, I don't understand what is happening here by any metric whatsoever.
It's impossible.
You could build, you could literally build all of Las Vegas for 40, maybe not quite, but you could build a lot of Las Vegas for $46.5 billion.
You could establish a new major city for $46.5 billion.
And don't take this the wrong way, but I was very recently in Toronto.
It's not that nice.
Like, it's fine.
It's fine, but like you would still traffic, still, you know, mayhem, still construction.
There's that one stretch of construction that David Menzies complains about because the road repairs are now old enough to vote in the next federal election.
They seem to have been going on that long.
I don't know.
I just quit spending the money.
Find some cost-effective savings, please.
Can we pull the article up and just scroll to the related image at the bottom for a second just because it's really funny?
If possible, sorry if that's a pain, but the related image on this article is just golden.
I don't know if you see it there, Sheila.
It's a picture of the beautiful, beautiful skyline that has a 46.
That's not great looking for a $46.8 billion shortfall.
Yeah, stunning.
Looks like a futuristic, Former Soviet Republic trying to fancy itself up.
Hopefully, the architect isn't watching because they're probably crying.
But, anyways, uh, yeah, that's very, very, very Toronto.
Um, we're going to skip the last ad break so we can get through the last of these stories.
Um, uh, electric subsidies now 32 billion dollars, according to Black Hawks.
Um, federal subsidies for electric car makers yesterday reached 32 billion, twice the annual output of the entire Canadian auto sector.
My God, it's pretty remarkable.
Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said, Yeah, uh, awarding another subsidy to Ford Mortar Company.
I think it's a big accomplishment.
That I love that this is just like one paragraph, and it's absolutely perfect.
I just have this.
I don't know if I don't know if I'm not logged in presently, but that's pretty much all we need to know.
The subsidies for electric car makers are double the entire output for the entire auto sector.
This is these are we're talking about make-believe numbers with under this government in this country these days.
So, they're twice the amount of total the total industry is just subsidies.
And then, this minister thinks that this is that this is a big accomplishment and pretty remarkable.
It's definitely pretty remarkable, but in a truly horrific way.
Um, I just pulled up the statistics in Alberta because we do a really good job of tracking registration by fuel type in Alberta.
When you register your vehicle with the province, you have to tell them the fuel type.
And I always look at this because it shows you like the uptake on electric vehicles, and it sort of seems to be kind of it doubled a little bit, and then it was like one-thirded up, you know, as it went.
Um, so uh, right now, we have uh about 3.6 million vehicles registered on the road.
3.6 million.
Now, the feds have said we have to get those to be fully electric, net zero vehicles, all of them, all the new vehicles by I think 2035 is the goal.
Good luck.
Good luck to you people.
This every time I look at this, I think you people are idiots because we've got 3.6 million vehicles registered for the road in Alberta, and these are the ones you can drive on the road.
This is not like farm trucks that maybe don't get registered on the road or whatever.
And of the fully electric ones, we've got about 5,600.
So, they're throwing all this money at the electric vehicle industry, and people just won't buy them.
Now, last year, there were 3,500, so an extra 2,000 have come on the road in Alberta.
But we are a population of nearly 5 million people.
We've approaching 4 million cars on the road, and we have like a statistical rounding error of fully electric vehicles, no matter how much money the feds dump at the automakers of our money.
Like, I think we could probably have purchased electric vehicles for entire Alberta cities instead of just giving money to the automakers.
Yeah, if they really cares, they could have just bought everyone cars.
Yes, get rid of their own cars.
Government as Reverse Robinhood00:02:51
Yeah, it's wild.
This is what I'm saying.
Everyone gets a Tesla.
The government could be like Oprah.
They are like Oprah, except they're just giving money to massive corporations and taking it away from Canadians.
They're doing a reverse Robinhood.
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Yeah, that's good ad.
Yeah, good job.
Nice walking through the forest, getting that pre-pandemic feeling back.
Some really good news.
I don't know if you had a chance to touch on this yesterday, but COVID charges have been dropped against Ontario.
Pastor, you talked about it yesterday.
No, we didn't.
I wrote it up for the website this morning.
Pastor Michael Tiessen of, I think it's Grace Baptist Church in Simcoe, Ontario, had his charges thrown.
Yeah, Alliston, Simcoe County.
He had his charges thrown out.
They had like a massive checkstop operation at this church back in April 2021.
Some narcs decided that these Christians were being a little bit too fellowshipy for their liking during the time of COVID.
Instead of minding their own damn business, they called the cops.
The cops put them under surveillance and then did like a checkstop style operation, except they weren't looking for real public health problems like drunk driving.
They were looking for Christians who wanted to sing and worship together and they got the pastor there and his charges were tossed out.
Jump to the Video00:02:54
So good.
That is wonderful news.
We do have one more story that we want to talk about today, but I think we'll just jump to that as the stream wraps up.
We do have two Rumble rants here that we're going to get to.
The first one is from Albertadon, which is a very good name.
$5.
Can you have your tech guy format church under fire and other videos?
So I forward it to the TV from my tablet so I can watch on the big screen.
Keep up the good work.
That is a really good question.
We'll take a peek at that because I know.
I'm working on that.
Yeah, I think we're working on that.
I think we're adopting the ability to cast and stream from your tablet and your phone.
I know that we have received viewer feedback about that.
I mean, that's sort of how I like to force my family to watch things that I want to show them.
I just stand there with my phone and then like cast it to the TV when they're trying to watch something that they want to watch.
And I'm like, no, actually, you need to see this right now.
And so I know that I'm not the only rebel in the universe who does those sorts of things.
So we want to provide that to you to force your friends and family to watch Rebel News when they are captive in your home.
So we're working on it.
While you're at it, cast it to your neighbor's screen.
They need to watch too.
I'm joking.
Don't do that.
Fraser McBurney.
Do it in the dentist's office.
All the TVs while people are getting teeth.
Yeah.
Fraser McBurney chimes in twice.
Really appreciate it.
First, he says, I'm so happy that I was able to contribute to send the Rebel to Maui.
Let's hope they are safe.
Having been to Maui many times, it breaks my heart.
Last time I was there, it cost me $5,550 in 1998.
Prices have gone up for sure.
And then, uh, five dollars, what is the sentence for impersonating a cop?
When do their trials start?
Have they been deported yet?
That's, I think that's in relation to the Chinese police stations.
So, yeah, probably shockingly, if I were to do that, the police would be here very quickly.
But when Chinese officials do it, another story altogether.
I mentioned before we sign off here and jump to the video of the 2000 people.
Sheila, it looks like you have something to say.
Go.
No, I was just going to say, like, you can just go to these Chinese police stations.
Like, they're not hidden.
You can just go to one.
At the Democracy Fund Student Journalism Conference, one of their, one little group, their project was to go and investigate a Chinese police station.
And luckily, they had someone who was a Chinese speaker in their group.
So she went there and read all the signage.
And it was like the funnest wasn't, I mean, it was fun is probably not the right word, but it was really, you felt like you were with a tour guide taking you on this secret mission because she was able to translate everything.
And it's just right out there in the open.
Just, yeah.
But I mean, you'd have to have a government with the political will to get rid of these spy and coercion operations.
But nope, you can just like literally just go visit them.
Living on $2,000 Monthly00:07:11
Yeah, it's surreal.
So yeah, well, we'll sign off here and then we'll jump to a video.
Pierre probably ever shared this.
It's what you can get for $2,000 a month in this tiny little 200 square foot thing.
But I know Sheila's got some stuff to do.
So we'll sign off and then we'll jump.
We can watch that.
I'm good for a couple of minutes.
Let's watch the video together and comment on it and then we'll go from there.
This is this is this is where this is what they want you to have and it's wild.
This is the neighborhood.
This is a 200 yeah 200 square foot apartment in downtown Eastside.
This is your living room.
This is the price.
This is your bedroom.
This is your fridge.
This is your kitchen.
And this is your dining room.
This is a space for your guests.
And this is your walk-in closet.
Now this is a bathroom.
This is the neighborhood.
This is a shed.
This, I'm, this is me being claustrophobic just watching that.
I've stayed in hotel rooms that are bigger than that.
Yeah.
That's a great guess.
Yeah.
Like two grand a month that you could two grand a month, you get a Mick mansion out here in Alberta, especially where I live and like relatively close to the city.
I can't believe.
Like, no wonder people are just evacuating Ontario and moving to Alberta.
Leave your politics behind.
Thank you very much.
But please come here and enjoy the low cost of living.
Yeah.
And I like if you're, let's say, for example, you're like single, fresh out of university, you finally got a good job, you want to pay for a house.
Let's say that was an option and it was like $500 and you did it for a year in order to save up.
But no, this is like a $2,000.
This is what a current generation they think living downtown in that and renting that for $2,000 a month is making it.
That's terrible.
That's just the absolute worst.
As an Albertan, I just don't understand how young people get ahead, have a dream of getting married and starting a family and having like a piece of grass in the backyard where your kids can toddle around and play.
That just seems so unattainable in so much of this country.
And yet nobody is talking about the causes of it.
For example, can we hit the pause button on immigration until we catch up with housing starts?
It's not an anti-immigration statement.
It's a pro-immigrant statement because I don't want immigrant families, new Canadian families living in a broom closet.
They deserve an opportunity to achieve an affordable Canadian dream also.
Like, I look at my son.
My son has a good job.
You know, he's a pipe fitter.
He's got a house, got a car.
He goes on a little weekend getaways with his girlfriend and his little buddies and he eats out and he does young people things, right?
Like he does young people things.
I don't know how any young person in Toronto has any money left over for fun and like doing normal young people things.
I just, my heart breaks for them.
Oh, just brutal.
I don't know how I don't know how they do it.
It just, it's so sad.
I don't know how they get ahead.
And it's got to be depressing.
Like you look at what your parents have.
And of course you want to work towards that.
You want to have a family, have kids, have a car, take your family on vacation, maybe get a little camper trailer, maybe have a second vehicle, maybe have a playhouse in the backyard for your kids.
You never get there in places like Toronto.
I can't see it happening.
It's brutal.
And the reason I'm laughing is this is just absolutely brutal.
Did you see the graduation speech that Christia Freeland gave?
Oh, let's show it.
Okay, let's watch this.
Someone is talking about this.
This is a graduation speech from Christia Freeland.
I just put it in slightly different.
I heard it was real, real uplifting.
Oh, inspirational.
It gives you a lot of hope for the future.
It's terrible.
Yeah, here we go.
Our time of tranquility is over, and we are living in an age of change.
We're living through what President Biden, on a visit to my country in March, called an inflection point.
A time of transformation, he said, that comes once every five or six generations.
Now, like it or not, you are graduating into that inflection point.
And as some of the very best educated people on our planet, you have the rare and precious opportunity to shape it.
So what is this inflection point?
What is this upheaval which is going to the roots of humanity itself?
There are many ways to describe this transformational moment, but I think they all come down to one fundamental question.
Does capitalist democracy still work?
That's the question being posed around kitchen tables in my country and this one, as parents wonder if our children can count on capitalist democracy's essential promise of a future more prosperous than our present.
It is the question being posed in the muddy and bloodied trenches of Bakhmut as Ukraine's brave Democrats resist the invading forces of Putin's dictatorship.
And it is the question being posed by our shrinking glaciers and our warming oceans.
Glaciers are asking us wordlessly, but emphatically, if democratic societies can rise to the existential challenge of climate change.
Now, these are, of course, huge and fundamental challenges.
I'm not here to counsel despair or retreat.
Yeats famously said of another generation that came of age in a liminal moment.
Like guys, like the best lacked all conviction while the worst were full of passionate intensity.
Yeah.
What?
She should have closed that speech with the number for the suicide hotline.
Like, what is she doing?
If you think things are desperate, the glaciers weep.
Yeah.
Go talk to the snowbank about how bad it is.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Terrible.
Yeah.
That's our, that's our government.
It's very depressing.
And it's like, you're being, you're being launched, birthed, I guess, from university into this terrible, terrible world that you created, Christia?
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Yeah.
Like, the system is out to get you.
You're the system, sister.
Like, what are you doing?
You're like telling these young people you made it crappy.
And so just hang in there.
You know, like, she's like, we've, we've, I'm proud to say we've made it the worst it's been in five, six generations.
Yeah.
And then like that guy, he's like, that was like the, the gym from the office.
He's like.
Oh, yeah.
She should write for Hallmark, inspirational cards for Hallmark.
She's the worst.
Imagine if she takes the reins next, what those debates are going to be like.
Oh, God.
Have mercy.
All right.
Well, on that note, I know you've got some important stories to do.
We are all very busy, but it's been a great pleasure co-hosting with you.
Sheila, I want to go ahead.
You said it was fun, super fun.
Oh, it was fun.
It was fun.
It's been, we used to do these all the time.
It's been a while.
So it's nice to be back at it.
Thanks to Olivia for holding the studio down.
Most of all, though, thanks for everyone who is watching at home.
We couldn't do it.
And really, there wouldn't be much point doing it if you weren't here engaging with us, watching, enjoying the content.
Looking forward to be back at it with you next week.
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