DAILY Roundup unpacks Canada’s parental rights protests—1M+ marched in Coquitlam, Surrey, and Calgary against ideological school content like GenderQueer, while BC Teachers Federation counter-protesters clashed with police. Alberta’s NDP now opposes 2035 federal targets and lockdowns, unlike Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where NDP/Tories align on COVID policies. The episode critiques Trudeau’s housing crisis blame on immigration, Ford’s Greenbelt flip-flop, and CPP funding risks, citing Pierre Trudeau’s alleged pension borrowing. Rumble’s free-speech stance—rejecting UK Parliament’s Brand monetization ban—contrasts with YouTube’s censorship, while Pinoka’s Pride flag controversy lingers. Parental concerns and government distrust collide amid shifting conservative strategies. [Automatically generated summary]
Very happy to be joined today by my colleague, Drea Humphries.
Drea, how are you doing?
Good.
I'm just noticing my hair is like extra big today.
Like, you know, it has a mind of its own.
And today, it's people always say when they meet me in person, they're like, oh, you look taller in like on the video.
And I'm like, no, it's just my hair.
But I'm good.
Me and my hair are good.
Your hair looks awesome.
I get the opposite.
People see me in person.
They're like, you're much larger than I expected.
So like, yeah, yeah, it's the opposite effect.
I think they can zoom in in varying degrees.
So we look the same sizes.
And then in real life, the camera, the camera lies disappear.
So yeah, today is our last live stream of the week.
Very fortunate to have you here.
Very much looking forward to this.
It was a busy week in Alberta.
It was a busy week right across this country.
We're going to talk about all of that.
Before we get to that, I do want to go through some of the nuts and bolts of the day.
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With that said, let's talk about some of the events this week, particularly the 1 million March for Children event.
Drea, you covered a couple of these events.
Tell us where you were and how did it go?
That's right.
I started off with the earliest one in our area so that I could tackle two.
It started at 9 a.m.
I guess they wanted to get the kids right out of school and do that.
And that was in Coquitlam.
So it's about 45 minutes out of Vancouver.
And it surprisingly had a big turn in the past when there was a small protest against a dry queen story time.
Hundreds of LGBTQ activists outnumbered those protesters.
It was completely reversed this time around.
Right now, you're seeing on the screen that people started coming down in the hundreds down, and they walked right past the much smaller group of LGBTQ activists who had taken over their space at City Hall.
It was quite interesting because they really paid no attention to them and just kept walking straight by because of course they had already heard that the plans, the calls from the woke union to intimidate and take up space.
So it was a very peaceful march altogether.
There was lots of kids around.
They just went around to the back of the city hall.
And yeah, it was really interesting to cover and see the difference and contrast between the last time there was a protest similar in the same city to now.
Yeah, that's the people there coming there too.
And then we made my way over to Surrey.
Alex Tala Alex tackled Vancouver.
Surrey, I believe, was our largest protest in BC and BC had a good chunk of the 92 cities that participated.
They had 27 cities take part in this.
And Surrey was the largest.
There were a lot of Muslims, there were a lot of Sikhs, but there were also a lot of people of all faiths.
I met quite a few people who said they were LGBTQ members.
They started, this is them at Bear Creek Park assembling much of King George Highway or a big chunk of it was sort of shut down as the march continued and made its way to Minister of Education Rashna Singh's office, where again, there were a much smaller number of counter-protesters waiting from them, in particular from the BC Teachers Federation, union members from there,
and also from the Surrey Teachers Association.
That was mostly who was waiting for them at the Minister of Education.
I just want to add one last thing on that.
Like we all know sort of the labels, the way that people were vilified, parents, families, concerned citizens for participating in this march.
But the Surrey Teachers Association, they took it to even a more extreme level.
They just flat out said to their union members, they just said, and I think it's in the article there, but if not, they just said a bunch of hate groups are protesting across the country.
Like that's how they summarize it.
They said hate groups.
And then they said, like, we want all basically teachers, our members, to dress themselves in pride clothes as they're teaching to stand in solidarity.
So I had teachers send me that information because, of course, they're feeling pressured.
Now I can't even just teach.
If someone's marching outside of the class, now I have to be a part of this.
So quite ridiculous.
Well, you really touched on something important there.
Like we've talked for a long time about sort of depoliticization of the classrooms.
And we're not talking about like the 90s, like politically correct movement where they're like, oh, everyone can be a little bit more sensitive.
That wasn't, I mean, that was the roots of this, but it wasn't intentionally pushing a perspective.
It was a general sort of talk about being tolerant and sensitive to these issues.
What we're having happen now is an extremely aggressive agenda and ideological push within the schools across the board.
And it seems unanimous.
And unions that should be focusing on quality of education, class size, pay for teachers, perhaps equity for teachers who identify as part of this community and experience something adverse.
Sure, that all makes sense.
But they're becoming absolutely active on issues that have nothing to do with their purview.
And I had, I think it was Marty up North said this is like the death of unions.
Like they're not doing their jobs anymore.
They're just wading into contentious territory.
The other thing that's really sort of vexing here is you heard this, I heard this.
The sentiment is simple.
These parents are saying, we want the LGBTQ people with us.
This isn't anti-them or anti-these.
They're saying a public school shouldn't be teaching pro-Islamic, pro-Catholic, pro-LGBTQ.
Like these are isms.
And I mean, I prescribe to one of these isms, so I'm not against them.
But they're saying the school should be focusing on mathematics, history, whatever it may be.
If the school is private and it's about Catholicism or it's publicly funded Catholic education, people decide to send their kids to, that's a different story.
Parents have made their choices, but they're miscategorizing what's happening whatsoever.
And sorry, go ahead.
You had something to weigh in there.
No, I was just going to think maybe the answer is we need like a social justice warrior private school.
You know, if you want your kids to be, you know, in these divisive boxes and constantly saying, you're the oppressor, you're not the oppressor and whatever.
Have your social justice warrior schools.
We'll have the, you know, the pub keep the public schools the same.
The Bible was ripped out of the school library.
So why is that, you know, cartoon porn or whatever you want to call it okay?
Officer Yells, Tensions Rise00:05:55
So exactly.
We're going to talk about that.
The author of some of that content saying it isn't appropriate for these schools, as everybody knows.
But the thing is, these folks have adopted perspectives.
Like the amount of people who are chanting, I don't know if you heard this, like you don't own your kids.
Well, yeah, like in a sense, you do.
Maybe not ownership.
And that's like a very sort of negative word, but like the state doesn't.
And that's what, that's really what they think.
They aren't making reasonable perspectives about like, oh, well, we have to have balance.
There have to have to be safeguards.
I did have the opportunity to speak with some people at previous protests.
Unfortunately for this one, we weren't really able to, given some of the circumstances.
We didn't exactly have security and there were some concerns about altercations.
So we remained on the other side of the street.
We have spoken to people who are like, no, there needs to be controls.
There can't be an appropriate content.
There are folks from the other side, but it generally very much seems like a sort of group think like monolithic mindset where, no, if you're saying parents are the primary educators of their children, we're against that.
That's wrong.
That's the most basic thing.
Another question I had for you, though, there, and it's something a few people brought up to me.
It wasn't that egregious.
I'll be the first one to call out and criticize Calgary police.
I've seen most of the brutality that's happened at their hands recently.
So I've experienced that firsthand.
But what was the sort of policing like?
Did you see anything questionable?
Were they just kind of maintaining the peace?
What did you experience in that sense?
Yeah, it was interesting between the two cities, there was quite a different approach from the police in Coquitlam.
They were sort of standoffish.
They didn't really seem like they were going too close to the protests.
And again, it was largely a peaceful protest.
Then Surrey, they, you know, they separated them.
The teachers union people were literally behind a fence.
Someone said it's almost like they're caged animals in a zoo that like they're looking at.
And then there was this face-off.
But it almost, in my opinion, almost seemed like the police sort of added to the tensions.
And then they were being a little weird with me.
There were two interactions where, you know, I just tried to go by and get, you know, the faces of one side and then do a loop and do the faces of the other.
And when I did the loop, an officer stopped me and said, no, like you have to go over there.
And I said, well, no, I'm getting my shot here.
And he said, no.
And I just went a few steps and ignored him.
And then I was able to actually interview a teacher and someone with the BC Teachers Federation for like 10 minutes.
So basically that officer would have impeded me from getting the other side, you know, the side of the counter protest, which is infringing on the press.
So I did that scan.
And then another time there was some yelling going back and forth between the teachers union and the parental rights protesters.
And so I'm trying to get that.
And again, an officer is like, and so again, this is Surrey RCMP.
An officer is like, get to this side.
And I said, why are you picking the side for me?
Like, I'm the press.
Why are you telling me I can only stand here?
I choose this side then.
I want to go on this side and you wouldn't let me.
And I heard him say to our security, like, can you make her listen?
And the security said something like, it's not my job.
I'm here to keep her safe or something.
But yeah, that was my personal interaction with them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it was interesting.
Yeah, in Calgary.
So like the only thing I really noticed at one point, one person, we were kind of walking up.
I got the edge of it.
You can see the start of it in a report.
And after that, a bit of an altercation pursues, but it's yelling and kind of reaching.
Nothing too much came of it.
The police did break it up.
But at one moment, and you can just barely see it in the distance.
I don't even know if we included it in the report, but someone kind of shoved someone, a counter protester, shoved one of the parents' rights folks.
And the cops like hauled him across the street, like really aggressively.
So, they did do some separation in that sense.
As we've seen, because there's been a, I think there's been more protests like this in Calgary than anywhere else.
What they've done is they just keep them on opposite sides of the street.
Right.
Often you will see the counter-protesters trying to go.
Yeah, it's right.
Actually, this shot we're looking at right now, just up ahead a little bit, is where this happened and the guy was hauled across the street.
And then shortly, you'll see some of the interaction.
You can see my foot speed accelerates as I start to notice something.
But yeah, so the police were generally keeping people separated, keeping people safe on opposite sides of the street.
The one thing that was kind of interesting, though, that I noticed, and I'm like, well, what is this exactly?
A few of the more sort of aggressive counter-protesters, they'd move ahead and be like blocking at City Hall or standing somewhere for people to go by.
And the police would generally immediately get to them.
But after some altercations sort of erupted and things got tense, the police were keeping them separated and the police just left.
Like this, yeah, this scene right here.
So right after this unfolded, the police paramedics you see there, they kind of just peeled out and then everything sort of de-escalated and they were just talking and no one was shoving.
So it was interesting to see the pushing and shoving only happened when the cops were there.
I was kind of concerned because I'm standing there.
The police leave right after this, but then nothing else happened.
So it did remain peaceful.
Definitely a pretty solid attendance.
There's about a thousand people.
I know some people are saying it's 500.
Some people are saying it's thousands.
I'd say I guessed 1,000 protesters, 100 counter-protesters.
Calgary police estimated the same numbers.
They had drones in the air, which just coincidentally, we said the exact same numbers.
But so it was a decent turnout.
But the message is clear.
They're saying, like, this isn't anti-U.
We need to return to the basics.
There isn't hatred here.
In any crowd, you're going to have elements.
You're going to be able to find people, probably more people on the other side who are saying some pretty wild things.
But you're going to be able to find elements on both sides.
But everyone we talk to, very calm, very collected, sharing the very simple sentiment of not pushing inappropriate content on children.
Ejected Books Controversy00:14:25
Interestingly, now given into some politics here, conservative MPs told not to talk to media post about parental rights protests.
Now, I'll read a bit of this and then we'll get into it.
But conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on Parliament Hill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle LGBTQS2 plus issues.
The Canadian press obtained a copy of the message sent to members of Pierre Polyeva's caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.
If you look like most of these protests, the numbers were 10 to 1.
Daniel Smith and Pierre Polyvre, the test of whether they're actually conservatives.
And this isn't contentious because if you're a progressive LGBTQ parent and you want to push that on your kid, your right as a parent, as primary educator is preserved by this.
The only thing being stated here is that people shouldn't push their personal convictions on other people's kids.
That is something that everyone should absolutely agree to, period, right across the board.
And it's not sensible.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
No, I just wanted to add one thing.
And a main concern is that they shouldn't be encouraging kids to keep secrets from their parents.
That's a really big one with all of these parents.
So yeah.
Well, when you do training to sort of catch folks who might be trying to get involved in ministry or youth programming, when you do that screening process, the things you learn to look for are establishing of secrets.
It creates like a sort of special club, not that they'd establish clubs in schools that keep secrets away from your parents.
That is the start.
And this is not contentious because it's the very definition of grooming behavior.
That's literally the first step you watch for.
So you look for people who have a pattern of spending lots of time with kids and then establishing secrets with kids that they don't share with their parents.
So that's not a contentious perspective.
But what I was getting to was that this issue for Pierre Polyva and Danielle Smith, I think is going to be like the litmus test.
You don't have to come off as hatred.
In fact, it shouldn't come off as hatred to say that parents are the primary educators of their children.
There are already rules in effect.
If someone abuses, if some deadbeat abuses their child because they identify as something, if they're physically abusive or emotionally abusive, there's already metrics in place.
Now, nobody wants to put a kid through group homes or social services or whatever it may be, but there are systems in place for abuse if that's taking place.
Teachers have a responsibility to report it.
So those things are already in place.
Politicians can stand firm on this and say, listen, you are the person who establishes the values as long as they're not criminal and you're not hurting your children.
Exactly.
Yeah, I think it's universally agreeable.
They have it easy out.
You're right.
We have the laws.
We have the laws for neglect and things like that.
And one of the things teachers used to be taught to look out for and as a sign, or anybody who works with kids, as a sign that a child might have been in trouble, like sexually groomed or sexually assaulted, is the fact that the child knows too much about sex.
And now it's like, well, are they just reading a book in the library or something weird going on at home?
So we've sort of diffused these healthy boundaries.
But you're absolutely right.
It's very reminiscent of the Conservative Party shutting their mouth during the egregious discriminatory vaccine mandates.
We're hearing the exact same rhetoric being said about these parents.
They're far-right extremists.
They're hateful.
They're bigots.
They're fascists.
It's literally the exact same smearing campaign that we heard about the unvaccinated, even though it's a predominantly Muslim-led initiative.
They're still being told they're being controlled by white nationalists.
So it's literally textbook the same.
And we saw how many of conservatives' own people were so annoyed that they took so long and they waited till the trucker convoy to be able to speak and represent their constituents.
And so this really reminds me of that again.
Now, I love a good meme.
I shared a couple of quick memes.
They're very quick.
It's just poking fun.
You know, conservatives poking fun at Pierre Polyev over the stand.
And I just want to say, because every other live stream, we've been saying good things about Pierre Polyev.
And I know some people get annoyed in the comments, but this is how we roll.
You do something like this.
We're going to say it like it is.
So there's that, where is Pierre 1 million March?
And I love the thing on the top that says, can you help find his glasses?
And then at the bottom, it says they're a clue.
It's a clue.
Here's a clue.
He's not anywhere in the book.
So I don't know.
I found that funny.
And then there's a quick little video I put in there.
It's really quick if we can play that, but it's more poking fun on missing the mark completely on the opportunity to stand for parental rights.
So I just want to be clear.
I was at the demonstration yesterday, but I chose to maintain a disguise.
I was hiding in the bushes waiting for the opportune time to speak out.
It hasn't come yet.
I'm still here.
It's getting cold.
I need to pee.
I know, it's silly.
But the point is, you're missing the mark here.
We saw that conservative vote between delegates that went around.
When it comes to this issue, most conservatives are saying, hey, leave the kids alone.
Give them a healthy, loving environment, support them.
And then when they're 18, they can make some really big decisions and don't indoctrinate them in school.
Well, this is the thing is like the people advocating for this, they're advocating for a one-track push into this.
They're not saying let's implement safeguards for children who are experiencing abuse.
Let's give access to like support sort of networks, whether it be professional counseling or whatever it is, that's objective and not pushing people down one route.
They're not saying let's implement new reporting mechanisms for teachers to make it easier if they're concerned about this.
All those things would be steps that ensure that these kids are being protected as best as possible.
This is about pushing an agenda agenda categorically.
That's all that this is about.
Now, it continues here in Alberta with Notley demanding that Smith remove from caucus and Emily, who spoke at a protest.
So it's interesting that we already saw from Red Deer, a school board representative effectively ejected for some comments.
An MLA ejected a school board trustee, all seemingly around Red Deer.
But during the election, someone said, if there is some of this radical ideology being pushed in schools, even if we have really good grades, like confusing children is, and they use the term poop and brownies.
Now, all the media took this to mean they're saying the kids are that.
They were saying that the right, anyways, they were ejected.
They still won, but they were ejected from the UCP.
Then we saw a school board trustee, I believe, or someone high up within the school boards, anyways, speaking on some of these issues.
They were also ejected.
So this is going to be a test.
Now, the Red Deer South MLA Jason Steffen attended this event and I'm sure made very sensible comments about how parents are the primary educators.
Like I'm sure they didn't say anything wild or unreasonable.
This isn't the case of the school trustee who did the comparison of the LGBTQ flag with the sort of Hitler youth flags, which if you're talking historically, are there some comparables behind some of the sort of strategies leading up to the events?
Sure, but is that necessarily the most eloquent comparison?
Probably not.
But anyways, the NDP calling for this guy now to be ejected from caucus, ejected from the party.
Heaven forbid someone should come out and say something reasonable as a conservative.
Of course, leave it to the NDP to fear monger and mischaracterize what's happening here again.
But hopefully, I think this is a good test for Smith.
If she's like, no, my MLAs represent their constituents and they can come.
Nothing he said, I disagree with.
So I'm hoping there's some sort of statement, but we shall see what comes of this.
What do you make of this pressure to remove MLAs one by one?
Of course, Christopher Wells is here, a sensible and balanced voice on all issues.
But what do you make of this effort to eject any politicians and brand anyone involved as hateful?
Well, I mean, I'm not surprised.
Again, I think it's very similar to what we saw during COVID-19 mandates, and it worked so effectively.
It did pressure people to do what the state wanted them to do at mass.
And it did build this false narrative.
So I think they're almost addicted to this rhetoric.
It's worked.
Council culture has been so effective.
But I think we're finally starting to see a shift where they've used certain words like hate and racism and bigotry and fascism.
They've used it so many times that it's lost its meaning.
It's lost its purpose.
Everybody knows a family member who's unvaccinated.
Everybody knows a family member who thinks that drag queen story times are inappropriate for kids.
So it's like, I think people, the general public is a little exhausted with this.
And so they can keep pushing and pushing, but eventually it's just going to, I think it's getting to the point where it's not going to mean a whole lot.
I don't know how long it's going to take to get there, but that's sort of my take on what's happening.
Well, and that's just exactly it.
It's like it disparages actual instances when you're calling everyone using this extreme language for everything.
Someone's like, I don't necessarily agree with you, and they're a bigot, which sort of transitions into our next story, because while most people probably would acknowledge some of this inappropriate content in schools is, well, inappropriate, a lot of politicians who will weigh in on everything under the sun on this issue haven't made anything of the borderline pornography or outright pornography that's being pushed in schools.
Genderqueer by Maya Kobabe, excuse my pronunciation on that, is one of the books that's been very contentious.
And I've not seen very many progressives.
I interviewed one individual who's part of the counter protest a couple weeks back.
They said that this has no place in schools.
So there's some folks, but the author of this book, who goes by pronouns A, M, and Air, clarified that the book may be suitable for older, sort of maturing teens.
It's certainly not advised for kids.
The author of GenderQueer, a graphic novel containing explicit sexual material that has been found in public school libraries nationwide, has sparked controversy among parents and asserts that the book is not intended for children.
It's funny, the hungry caterpillar is being removed, everything else in 1984, everything from easy children's books.
Yeah, and Frank's diary.
But you know what?
This Maya Kobabe, per the definitions, maybe the fact they're saying that this isn't for children, maybe they're part of this radical fearful, or sorry, maybe EMAR is part of this radical, hateful group.
And that's really what it is.
If you question any of this, say that this isn't for kids.
You're also part of the extreme radical fringe, according to these people.
But it's nice to see, even among the folks here who are writing this stuff, they're like, well, this isn't for kids.
It's not appropriate.
Nice to see some sensibility coming out of even the authors behind some of these contentious matters.
What do you think?
Right.
Yeah.
No, I think it's so good that we published that article because people do need to know.
And that certainly is one of the most egregious books that parents are taking issue.
And it hasn't just been given to high schools.
In some occasions, it has been in middle school libraries as well.
And the author is like, oh, you know, wait a second here.
This is for older teens.
But even that is, you know, something to argue about.
I don't want to get into the details, but there's a gross interaction between siblings there that is just completely, completely inappropriate, no matter what age you are and things like that.
But also, one thing I do want to touch on, because a lot of parents, a lot of people think this is pornography, and I can agree with that.
But from a legal standpoint, I did do an interview with a criminal defense lawyer who has defended people accused of some heinous crimes, including sexual assault of minors and molestation.
And she clarified that, you know, what's happening here is these learning resources are approved.
And that's really the real issue here.
So once these things are approved to be in the schools, you can't call them pornography because pornography has an intent behind it.
And the intent is supposed to be not for educational purposes.
It's supposed to be for sexual arousal.
So this is where the trick comes.
This is why these books are allowed in our schools and not considered pornography is simply because they're being approved through organizations like SOGI 123, which are not a government organization.
So it's a really sick rabbit hole.
And it's nice to see that, you know, Rebel News, we've been reporting on SOGI 123 since before I started three years ago, but it's nice to see how many parents are paying attention and going, what the heck is this?
Something is completely wrong.
So, and for those of you tuning in who don't know, we put all of our coverage on this issue, including our nationwide or many locations across Canada at stopclassroomgrooming.com.
If you have any family who's like, doesn't know about this, that is a great place to send them because they can scroll down and see all the articles we've ever done on this topic.
And there's even a petition there that you can sign and share.
And we are delivering that to all the ministers of education because who knows, maybe they don't even know what's in schools.
Maybe they really do think it's just a bunch of bigotry and hate.
So we've got to get the message out of what the people are really concerned about.
Absolutely.
Yeah, critical to be covering this.
And listen, for folks who are on the other side of this conversation, things have been going a certain way for a long time.
Things have been trending progressive.
That's undeniable.
But I mean, if you look at this objectively, you have to realize that it's gone too far.
Pension Protection Push00:15:17
And what you don't want to do is continue to make this movement.
And you look at groups like Gays Against Groomers that are trying to counteract this.
You don't want to make the entire movement that was about freedom, that was about all these other things.
The amount of people who are from the sort of old guard LGBTQ community are like, this isn't our movement.
You don't want to make it about something else altogether.
And that's what's happening now.
Basically, progress that has been made.
If you're a traditional LGBTQ person, well, that's being done away by so much of this radical push.
And it's becoming about other issues that aren't critical to sort of the movement.
This is really, it's funny.
This movement was about fighting for freedom, establishing equal rights, lots of things that freedom folks would be inclined for, and lots of things that people of the LGBTQ who are in the freedom movement see align.
But this modern thing, taking over education, taking over schools, indoctrinating people, that's the opposite.
And if it was radical Christians or Islam or whatever it was pushing these perspectives, you'd be extremely concerned.
So look at it from the other perspective if it was happening to you rather than by you.
Something to consider.
We're due for a quick ad break.
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He's published a bunch of academic articles.
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I was reading through that Shapiro thing quick.
I feel like I was starting to sound a little bit like Ben Shapiro when I was ripping through that.
He's concise and terse.
I like, yeah, looking forward to that.
That's going to be fun.
You know, it's interesting.
You look right across Canada.
Justin Trudeau's popularity is plummeting.
He's not likely to lead the country moving forward.
But the Alberta NDP are doing a very weird thing, which is apparently they're on Team Trudeau because everything that they're taking publicly seems to be in favor of federal initiatives.
Albertans are very, very sort of strong about pushing back, particularly in Alberta here against the 2035 agenda.
They have their own 2050 agenda.
So that seems to be resonating with people.
Maybe you have a different vibe in BC, but you take that, you take that strong pushback.
And then what you have the NDP doing is siding with the federal government, pushing this 2035 agenda.
They haven't criticized the government for saying, Stephen Gilbo, environment minister, for saying China can take until 2060.
Apparently, that's okay.
But they are happy to criticize Daniel Smith and the Alberta government for having a practical outline for 2050.
Frankly, I don't really care about net zero, but the Alberta government is likely to get it done.
Doesn't mean much to me.
So that's concerning to me because Albertans don't like Trudeau.
Canadians don't like Trudeau.
And yet the NDP is pushing the Trudeau narrative.
And it's not only on environmental matters, it's also on the CPP conversation.
Adrea, as someone from outside of Alberta, I would love to get your perspective on this conversation.
I don't know if you know too much about it, but this thought of sort of provincializing and localizing the pension plan.
Yeah, no, I must admit, I haven't weighed too deeply into it.
I'm just kind of looking at some of the feedback and the comments of the posts that Rachel Notley did.
And it looks like, just based on her Twitter, there isn't a whole lot of pushback against her.
So I'm trying to get a feel for it.
But it's not surprising to me that it is similar to the talking points of the liberals.
They're kind of copying that stance because you have to separate yourself, I guess, is what they're thinking.
So this is the way to do it.
And they're not going to agree with anything that Daniel Smith says and say, oh, that looks like a good plan.
So, of course, they're going to have to try to find a way to attack it.
And so, their strategy is to emulate the crumbling Liberal Party, I guess.
You know, it's part of the fear-mongering, though.
And don't get me wrong, my favorite things about this with the Alberta government.
I'm going to say some good and some bad.
The good thing is they're saying, here's some information for you.
If we do this, it's going to be a referendum.
That is very good grassroots governance.
They're not saying we're going to do this to you.
We're not going to overstep.
We're not going to do this to you.
That is very good.
And the idea of bringing it locally to Alberta, 100% in favor of that makes sense.
The CPP is also a disaster as far as not its investment.
It's actually more successful.
It's one of the most successful investment firms compared to even private industry sectors.
The CPP is bizarrely good and does above average at investing funds.
So that's a mark on the other side because we want to be objective about this.
But the fact is, is the amount of money going in, the amount of money coming from Alberta that's helping pay for other parts of the country, we'd be better off on our own.
So we're helping the other country in pretty significant ways.
But do we risk the relatively successful investments for that?
My opinion is yes, because ultimately I don't trust the federal government.
And this is my problem with this tweet: Rachel Notley, the Alberta NDP, will do everything to empower to protect your retirement and economic security.
It's your pension pen.
Your pension is yours.
It doesn't belong to Daniel Smith.
No, but what she's saying is that it belongs to the federal government and it belongs to Justin Trudeau.
They're saying that this pension is yours and the Alberta government's trying to take it.
No, Justin Trudeau has it right now.
The federal government has it right now.
And Daniel Smith is trying to make it Albertan local so that we can monitor it.
And Alberta's better at economics generally.
We generally manage to have surpluses.
We tend to do pretty well.
So because the CPP is successful, I'm a little bit torn more than I think I would be.
But I do think that this is probably the responsible decision going forward, as long as there's a sensible economic plan and investment plan in place.
We've seen the Alberta government weigh into investments.
Frankly, I'd like to have the funds go into a personal thing that people can invest and be accountable for themselves, not the CPP.
But yeah, the fact that their entire angle is this is your pension, we're going to protect it.
They're saying we want to take it from Ottawa and put it in Alberta.
That feels more like yours to me.
I don't know what you think.
Well, it sounds like we definitely need an article spelling that out for people because when people hear something about happening to their pension, of course, their heart skips a beat for a little bit and they're like, no, no, we don't want it to do Daniel Smith.
So you're laying it out really perfectly there.
And it does make a lot of sense.
And it would be interesting, I guess, from over here in BC to see what Alberta would do with that if they do switch it up like that, how that would work out.
I know that there are a lot of people, elderly people that are concerned about their pension as is and whether or not when they actually need, I suppose not elderly people, maybe middle-aged people, whether or not they're going to get what they think they deserve at the end of it.
So it would be, I would be interested watching from BC to see the change.
And to Daniel Smith and the government, I'm sure someone in the hierarchy is watching this probably right now.
It would be really great because there's some tensions about, obviously, we leave the pension.
You take some of that.
The numbers that the government put out are like something like half of the pension would be withdrawn.
Other people are saying that's not possible.
I'm not an economic expert.
So if there is somebody who could really state this case, potentially the people who prepared this report, but if there is someone who can speak to this authoritatively, we'd love to.
Ultimately, our job is to get facts out to people.
So feel free to send me an email if you're someone within this sort of sort of advocating for this within the government who can break this down very factually, get rid of the fear, get rid of the hysteria, and get those facts out to the folks.
That would be great.
In other news, and it was incredibly interesting.
I want to touch really quickly before we get into this Eritrean protest and some of those details.
The police actually put out a tweet the other day.
Yeah, the police put a tweet the other day, and no one is more critical of the police.
We just had to take legal action to protect some of our footage from them.
So there's concerns with the Calgary police.
I personally was on hand as they hauled pastors away.
So you're not getting much sympathy.
But there is the consideration that that was enforcement of court orders.
And now with the recent arrest, not this Eritrean thing, they brought in a bunch of illegal firearms and we're talking about prohibited being held publicly and loaded, not responsible firearm ownership, drugs, everything, serious criminals.
And they basically arrested them and they were released on bail while pastors aren't.
So the police actually weighed in on this and said that they can't do their jobs if courts are doing this.
So I've got a lot of criticism for the Calgary police, but it's interesting.
You see Danielle Smith saying the rule of law will be enforced.
There's not going to be selective prosecution.
Things are going to change.
And then the police actually tweeting publicly, basically, it's almost a condemnation of the courts for letting these people go.
An interesting shift.
Now, we talked about the Eritrean protest.
150 people engaged in a melee.
I saw the destruction firsthand, businesses, windows broken, people scared to speak out.
It was brutal, like the amount of businesses that experienced damage and were screaming.
Well, I went into that shop, actually, that the people were filming in and spoke to them, and they couldn't believe what was happening, but they didn't want to say anything on camera for fear that there would be a reprisal.
So they are now, there was 150 people involved in this.
There is a lot of footage, and I can assure you there's security footage of the area so they could get people's faces.
So the police have released photos of 16 persons of interest that they are seeking.
Now, I hope that this is the start, not the end, because if they basically just arrest 16 people and lay charges, no, 150 people intentionally came out and led to a melee.
So 16 charges will not suffice.
Everyone needs to be held accountable for this, especially we saw the crackdown on peaceful protests taking place, not just in Calgary, but obviously right across this country.
Journalists are being charged with assault right now and cops basically ran them over.
So they cannot have soft gloves on this.
If they volley some, I'm hoping to do an update on this, but if they issue some soft charges to 16 people when 150 people got together seeking to cause disruption and have a melee, that's unacceptable.
But hopefully, I'm always hopeful, maybe too hopeful, the police will do the right thing.
Maybe they've already identified 20 other people, 30 other people, and they're trying to lock down these last 16 people.
I know they have a task force designated to this, and they said that a lot of charges are coming.
But to the Calgary Police Service, we're definitely going to be covering this story as it unfolds.
And you better believe that there has to be firm enforcement of the laws because we can't have Calgary turning into this place where melees erupt on a regular basis.
Well, it must have been a struggle for global news to have to show their faces.
I shouldn't say that.
Anyways, but yeah, no, we need to see a lot more than 16, but at least there's 16 because who knows?
They could have even been softer on that.
But I'm sure as you follow out, there will be more to come because like you're saying, the businesses must be absolutely pissed about this.
And that's quite scary.
I mean, if you let this go by without being properly handled, there will be more.
You have to handle this tough.
And thankfully, you guys have a new sheriff in town with Danielle Smith who's saying enough is enough of this.
You know, you see that I'm thinking of Derek, Pastor Derek, you know, getting hauled off and arrested and things like that right away.
So, and then later again, when they're peacefully praying and things like that.
So, this is nuts.
And that's very scary, very frightening.
We've seen what's happened in the States with some of these more violent sort of riot-style issues and things like that.
And so we don't want it in Canada.
Deaths In Residential Schools00:04:57
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So more residential school news.
And forgive me because I'm certainly not going to pronounce this correctly.
Stolo Nation.
I apologize because I'm sure that's wrong.
Says 158 children died at Fraser Valley residential schools institutions.
What's interesting here is I think that there is a responsibility to be careful when we're reporting this thing because so many headlines lately, whenever you hear deaths at residential schools, and when you're posting an article like this, it's to get clicks.
Unfortunately, I mean, it's to report the news, but it's also to get clicks.
And there's also an editor's warning saying there's disturbing stories and content.
But what happens here is when you actually look at the story, it's that the majority of deaths took place in hospitals.
So effectively, sick people were getting care in the past, which tended to happen.
I also, I hate to break the news to people, but more people used to die than do now.
And quite frequently, healthcare ages too.
What it was.
Yeah, exactly.
Their ages, younger children.
So this is, they're laying down some facts.
They're stipulating that children died in residential schools, but we know that because when you look at the records in most of these places, you can speak to Kamloops.
I can speak to some of the areas around Calgary, but very often people got sick.
There's tuberculosis epidemics.
There's all these things.
And then they were buried.
And sometimes those burial sites were lost.
Those aren't the mass graves that they're talking about.
Those are like lost cemeteries that they uncover historically.
But the way that this is being pushed as though it's another discovery, but it's basically an affirmation of known historical facts.
We can see that at Kamloops.
We can see that at other places.
But I don't know what your thoughts are on this, the sentiment.
Like we know people died.
They're kind of presenting this as though it's a new discovery, which I guess it's historical research, but what do you think?
Right.
And I mean, it is newsworthy, but I think you're right about how it's sort of being pitched with that big, like, oh, this is very disturbing and things like that.
But it's very much like when they talked about unmarked graves, that wasn't even a new discovery of sorts.
There was already, like they said, oral testimonies, rumors.
When you look at the truth and reconciliation report that had come out years earlier, you saw that they talked about it.
I forget the archaeologist's name, but he had written a report called Where Are the Children Buried? where he said, I, you know, I think maybe in Kamloops, there might be a graveyard kind of thing.
And so now that we see that a lot of these oral testimonies, you know, linked to the unmarked graves are not sort of panning out.
You have an article like this coming out and saying, look, 115, 58 people died.
Statistically, it is proven that most people, especially online, they're getting their information online.
They're not reading full articles.
So, a lot of people, without having it really spelled out for them, think, oh, there's proof of the murdered kids.
And it says with certainty, but like you said, a lot of this stuff is already documented.
That illness was a huge factor.
I will acknowledge that it looks though that, you know, sometimes the kids were not getting enough food.
And sometimes you saw schools saying to the government, we don't have enough to feed these kids, too.
But also, like in Kamlutz, for example, 20 minutes away from the former Kamloos Indian Residential School, you had an entire sort of town set up for tuberculosis called Tranquil.
It's really creepy now.
It's abandoned now, but to the point that so many people were getting sick during the time that that school was in operation that they had to have like underground tunnels at that location.
The houses had underground tunnels because if people just died from being sick, they would go under.
And that was not just for Indian children or it was for everybody.
So it's like we have to remember the time, like you said, that people died earlier.
And of course, it is sad these kids were taken from their parents and then died in a school away from their family.
That's horrible.
But this is not, hey, this is 158 murdered kids.
And if you read the article, it does get to that point that that's not what you're this discovery, which isn't really a discovery.
It's just quite a ways down.
It makes that point.
Housing Crisis and Greenbelts00:13:32
Yeah.
Yeah.
Quite a ways down.
We're knowing.
The thing that I do want to say here is obviously like the term genocide goes around a lot.
There was an attempt at cultural genocide, if you want to call that, because the federal government, not the churches, but the federal government was very clear that they wanted to sort of get rid of First Nations Indian culture, as they called it, and assimilate people.
So there was an effort to erase the language, the culture, everything.
That happened categorically.
The thing that is more concerning, though, and you touched on it there, the federal government at several times did decide that, and I'm going to use their horrific language, the Indian experiment had failed.
And at that point, they decided, well, we're just going to not provide them with resources anymore and they'll go away.
This was a federal sort of mentality.
Now that they're dependent on us, we'll just not feed them and they'll go away.
So they were trying to see this happen.
And very often, in those cases, and this is a story we don't hear about, the religious institutions were actually pooling their own resources and working within the community to try and get clothes, food, blankets, all of this stuff.
So that's a story we often, the federal government is very good at pointing the fingers and touting propaganda.
We've seen churches burned and vandalized.
It's interesting.
No one's concerned about the government.
And this residential school system was in place as recently as our current prime minister, probably not for long prime minister, but current prime minister's dad, he oversaw this.
So this is extremely troubling.
And it's not ancient, ancient history, but we need to remember that it's the government that did this.
And the most atrocious things that have happened to First Nations communities, including things today, they're at the hands of the federal government, nobody else.
So that is worth keeping in mind.
In other news, and this is interesting because Stephen Goubo came out in support of Doug Ford.
So you know something's gone wrong.
But Premier Doug Ford apologizes for breaking Greenbelt promise.
I broke that promise.
And for that, I am very sorry.
We could play a quick clip of that if it's available.
I made a promise to you that I wouldn't touch the greenbelt.
I broke that promise.
And for that, I am very, very sorry.
I pride myself on keeping our promises.
It was a mistake to open the greenbelt.
It was a mistake to establish a process that moved too fast.
This process, it left too much room for some people to benefit over others.
It caused people to question our motives.
As a first step to earn back your trust, I'll be reversing the changes we made and won't make any changes to the green belt in the future.
Because even if you do something for the right reasons with the best of intentions, it can still be wrong.
So, one, as Paul Mitchell tweeted and pointed out, hey, Dougie, where's your apology for locking down Ontario, bringing in mandates, discriminating against people, and acquiring vaccine passports?
But this contrite apology, you know what?
I'm of two minds on this.
If there are protected areas that have been established as protected areas for the sake of protecting them, messing with that when that's kind of what the people want, maybe not the best idea.
I think that's why this is being reversed.
Conversely, there is a housing crisis.
People are homeless.
People can't afford homes.
The intention with this was to take a little bit of space here so we can make affordable housing.
And they added a ton of space on the other side, more space for expansion.
So this, I feel like this is political grandstanding.
And I feel like this is an attack more than anything.
And if they would have stuck with their guns and said, sorry, but people need places to live.
We've got people in the streets.
People can't do anything.
I think the mistake here was caving.
Perhaps there was better solutions.
Perhaps the mistake was going down this route rather than coming up with something better in the first place.
But once you've gone down this route, you've expanded, added to the greenbelt, extended it.
It's bigger than it was before, and people are going to get houses.
Yeah, I think that that is critical.
People, people arriving in this country.
I actually spoke to someone, this was in Calgary, not on Ontario, but when we were coming back from the protest, I had a Somalian Uber driver, and he said he's going back to Somalia because of Justin Trudeau and because of a lack of housing, a lack of affordability.
People go back to the Ukraine because they can't stand to be here.
They can't afford it.
They're addressing an emergency here.
Yeah, they're addressing an emergency here by extending an environmental area so that more affordable housing can go in.
But these progressives, they want these skyscraper cities that are very tight and compact.
Everyone living in little condos, nobody having kids running around in the backyard.
They want to keep these cities trapped and growing vertically.
That's not what most people want.
That's not affordable.
A little condo downtown costs as much as a house out in the suburbs.
And they absolutely loathe that.
Plus, if you look at a city sky, you can do all the science you want, but if you look at a city horizon, downtown is all gray and all the suburbs are green.
I don't need science to tell me which one is better and more natural.
So I'm fortunate to see them backtracking on this, but that's what it is with political pressures.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say, I don't know if we have the clip of when he first announced why they were doing any.
It was like he acted like a conservative for the first time in years for a moment.
And he was like, Do you know how many people are coming to Ontario?
Can you not hear me?
Yeah, no, I'm saying oops.
Like, yeah, no, oops, he acted like a conservative.
Yeah, sorry, I thought.
Yeah, like it's just so you, it's so drastic.
It's complete 180.
His tail is between his legs.
So, what is this really about?
What is this apology and this pushback about?
And you're right.
They added on.
It would be different if they didn't sort of compensate it.
And to say that it was a mistake rather than just, okay, you know, we'll take a different approach moving forward is nuts.
But there is a, yeah, there's a clip there.
It's just, I mean, it's quick.
Let's play it to just see how much of a contrast it is from one thing to the next.
Integrity Commissioner's report showed that you sent the housing minister a mandate letter shortly after the last election.
Why didn't you campaign about opening up the greenbelt and these land swaps?
Well, I think I've answered this before, but I'll answer it again.
You know, in the last election, we didn't have a housing crisis.
And just up to a few months back, I didn't know the federal government was going to bring in over 500,000.
Now we learn that those aren't accurate numbers.
It's probably up to 700, 800,000 arriving.
Like, I didn't get a phone call from the minister.
I didn't get a phone call from the prime minister saying, surprise, surprise, we're dropping these many people into your province.
And by the way, good luck.
You deal with them.
That's the reason we have to make sure that we use every tool in our toolbox to build homes.
So I ran on getting it done.
I ran on building homes, making sure that we're building transit and infrastructure and schools and hospitals.
And guess what, folks?
We're the only government.
We do what we say we're going to do.
Some people may not like it, but we're going to get it done.
Complete 180.
I feel like that he was speaking more like naturally, off the cuff, just answering it is like it is with a common sense approach.
And then now he's like looking at the paper with this latest apology coming out of it.
So, yeah.
Well, and I think that the solution here, and a few people are mentioning this in the comments, though, is like the problem is the fact that we have a housing crisis and the federal government is bringing people in en masse.
They're also now funding effectively these rental homes.
They don't want anyone owning anything.
But ultimately, if there is a crisis, Doug Ford should have said, no, if the federal government and if progressives and liberal supporters want a solution here, if they don't want us having to move this land, they don't want us changing the greenbelt, they have to stop mass immigration that we can't handle.
That would have been the solution here.
The conservative thing to say is the federal government has put us in this situation.
They're not being reasonable.
They're not being responsible.
If they can tell us right now that they're going to stop immigration, radically reduce immigration until such a time as we have strategies in place, we're going to do this.
If Gilbo, who's now saying it's good that they backed up on this, they live in ivory towers.
They live in mansions.
They don't understand that people don't have houses right now and that people who are graduating, people who have two people working in decent jobs, can't afford a house while they bring people in from foreign countries and there's no housing for them.
That is the core of this issue.
So I don't think also we should get sidetracked with just blaming Doug Ford or just blaming the response here.
He should have gone on the offensive.
Hopefully Danielle Smith is taking notes.
I think she is if we see her pushback against the government.
She should have done the, or he should have done the Daniel Smith and told them to put a sock in it because people need houses.
Either that or stop immigration.
Those are the two solutions here.
Moving on so we can get out of here on time.
We've got about two minutes left.
There is an upcoming election in Manitoba and to our friends in Manitoba.
I want to talk more about this.
I'm going to be doing a little bit more research.
We don't want to neglect you.
Upcoming critical election.
So on the next few live streams, we're going to touch on this a bit more.
The situation, I believe the Tories basically botched governance previously, handed it over to a NDP government.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.
But some good news on this front, I'm going to provide more insight on the election in the coming weeks, but interesting to see that both the Tories and the NDP have pledged no more COVID lockdowns in their bids to form governments.
So this speaks to the fact that this is clearly a popular sentiment when both the NDP and the Tories, and it's interesting because you see the NDP, I think in Saskatchewan as well, they're not going along with 2035.
They're not going along with lockdowns.
So, Alberta's NDP is so radical, even by NDP standards.
They're very much in the camp of Trudeau and the liberals.
And it's weird to see the NDP used to be sort of the more fringe.
It's bizarre to see the liberals as the extreme extreme and the NDPs in the prairie provinces, anyways, being like, no, lockdowns are bad.
No, we can't do 2035.
So, interesting to see.
But our friends in Manitoba, we owe you a few.
So, we're going to be talking about the Manitoba election as it approaches most certainly.
And finally, Rumble, who you're probably watching us on right now, the Canadian-founded video platform that has gained currency among right-wing pundits and websites.
Of course, only them.
The last couple of weeks when I was watching boxing, sports, incredible live skateboarding events, well, those don't factor in.
It's just an extremist right-wing punditry page.
Obviously, I'm being facetious.
Rumble has tons of content.
You know, and for folks out there, I'm a big fan of Rumble.
I had the opportunity to meet some of their folks coincidentally on the street.
They're in town for work.
Some of their executives had a good long chat with them.
There's a lot of content out there.
If you're sort of transitioning away from TV, Rumble has sports, entertainment, podcasts, all this good stuff.
But they rejected a request from the British Parliament to stop Russell Brand from being able to monetize his content, which is the opposite of what YouTube does all the time.
Now, I am a fan of the innocent until proven guilty approach.
And I am happy to see that Rumble is not caving to a government and defunding and that they're actually standing by their advocacy for free speech and their actions as a free speech platform.
If you watch Rumble for any amount of time, there'll be commercials that are about referees telling YouTube viewers what they can and can't do.
And it's pretty entertaining, but good to see them sort of standing up to a government, taking a stand.
So support Rumble, a great platform.
And the Russell Brand conversation altogether, it's so fresh.
I don't, we've seen attempts at cancellation of people who speak out and question, as Russell Brand calls it, the Matrix media.
I don't think there's enough information out there for me to say one way or another what's happening here.
But it's good to see until that information comes out, Rumble isn't caving and canceling somebody.
Yeah, we don't know.
We'll have to wait to see what happens in the whole trial.
But it's supposed to be innocent till proven guilty.
And we live in a time where people get accused of many things that they are not doing.
So it's scary to see how fast you can get dropped from all the other platforms, YouTube, of course, on the bandwagon.
So, you know, imagine if he didn't do it and then that all happened.
So innocent till proven guilty.
Yeah, exactly.
A couple Rumble rants here.
$5 from Wonder Woman Wells.
Rebel, check out what is happening in the small town of Pinoka an hour out of Edmonton.
A landlord served a local business with a letter advising to take down the pride flag and the town is blowing up.
Interesting.
We will certainly look into that.
We also got $5 from Snowy Roof.
You may not remember, but CPP is totally work and employer funded and none has been federal by the federal government.
Oh, of course, nothing is funded by the federal government.
The federal government is funded by us.
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And so thanks for pointing that out because that is a good thing.
Except for affirmative care.
Yeah.
Yeah.
However, Trudeau Sr. borrowed millions from CPP and never returned it.
I'd have to look at the facts there because I don't know that story.
But I said, I don't trust the federal government with my money.
I don't necessarily trust the provincial government.
I don't trust any government with my money.
But this is certainly concerning.
And another reason.
Trudeau might say we're including all Ukrainians in our retirement plan.
Everyone gets pensioned.
Like, who knows what this guy is going to do?
Or we're going to take the funds and invest them into solar energy so we can become a Star Trek culture.
I don't know what Trudeau is going to do.
He's unpredictable.
And I know that a local federal government that can be held accountable more easily and held accountable by local people.
Well, that's better.
So yeah, interesting conversations.
Really great to have those chats there.
Really appreciate it.
I know, Dre, you've got reports and interviews coming up right away.
So we will wrap it up on that.
Drea, I want to thank you so much for joining me today.
everyone in the studio who makes this show possible thank you so very much for what you do but ultimately and most importantly thanks to everyone whether it's coming up to us in the street or watching our reports or as we are today watching our daily roundup we really appreciate it We couldn't do it without you.