Sheila Gunreid’s Friday Roundup exposes Justin Trudeau’s censorship under the Online News Act, targeting journalists like Christopher Curtis ($38K penalties) and debanking COVID protestors while ignoring anti-Israel protesters chanting genocidal slogans. Laith Marouf’s $122K Canadian Heritage-funded anti-racism work ended after anti-Semitic tweets, yet Ottawa refuses repayment. Alberta’s NDP hid staffer Ben Aldrit’s prostitution charges (2018–2019) and falsely claimed toxic arsenic contamination near Indigenous communities—corrected by scientist Jonathan Thompson. Meanwhile, a Westlock town council’s Pride rainbow sidewalk sparks backlash, leading to a plebiscite against activist-driven public spaces. New farm trespassing laws ($25K fines) and Bill C-21’s gun control (30-bullet magazines banned) face NDP opposition, while rising violent crime under Trudeau highlights enforcement failures. The NCI’s COVID report demands accountability for civil liberties violations, though politicians may ignore it, leaving future scrutiny as its only legacy. [Automatically generated summary]
Good morning, everybody, depending on which part of this beautiful country that you're in.
This is the Rebel News weekly roundup.
I'm not quite sure what we're calling it anymore, Friday roundup.
There's no intro.
We haven't done that yet.
But it is your daily, no, sorry, I've got to retrain my language.
Your weekly roundup of the news hosted by me, Sheila Gunread.
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How could you hold your sugar daddy to account, mainstream media?
Anyway, speaking of Justin Trudeau, wild, wild thing happening in the news in the United States, as is so frequently the case, they are looking upon Canada and Justin Trudeau's censorship with horror.
Rupa Supramanya of the Free Press, also formerly or sometimes of True North, she testified before the U.S. politicians yesterday, warning them, saying, you know, something she said that was very interesting was, I'm not from the future.
I'm just from Canada.
And I'm here to warn you because what could happen in the United States is already happening in Canada with regard to free speech.
Let's go to this clip of Rupa at her testimony before the, I think it's the Weaponization of Social Media Committee.
Isn't it interesting they have a committee named that?
And in Canada, it's just completely normal that Justin Trudeau weaponizes social media against his political enemies, which are so often independent journalists in this country.
Let's hear from Rupa, the computer's thinking in the office.
Let's go to this video of DeSantis just axe murdering.
California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Oh, apparently we have bad connection in this studio.
So we're sorting that out.
But in the meantime, I'll keep talking because what would be an inaugural show without technical difficulties.
Anyways, I'll, I guess, talk about what Rupa was talking about in the in the United States.
Now, in the United States, Rupa is treated as an expert on independent journalism and Justin Trudeau's censorship of not just independent journalists, but of just regular people.
And there are different ways that Justin Trudeau has been censoring regular people.
Some of it is through his censorship bills, so C11, C18, controlling what you can see, say, and do on the internet and giving the broadcast regulator control over the internet.
But also, he censors people by these other means, as in if you say something wrong, if you support financially a protest movement that Justin Trudeau disagrees with, you can have your bank account frozen.
So why don't you just shut up a little bit?
And that, a lot of that happens.
People say, I want to get involved.
I want to support things, but I'm worried about what the government is going to do to me if I do.
And Rupa testified to that.
And I think we've got our technical difficulties sorted out.
So let's roll Rupa testifying in the United States.
I'd like all of you to think of me as a time traveler from the not too distant future, coming back to the present to offer you a glimpse of what could lie ahead for America.
I live in a time in which, in the name of fairness, you can't share the stories you write for my news publication on social media.
I live in a time in which, in the name of the common good, you can be kicked out of your bank and online payment system simply for expressing the wrong political views.
I live in a time in which in the name of social justice, you can commit a serious crime but get a more lenient sentence if you happen to be the right skin color.
I live in a time in which in the name of safety, you can be arrested for exercising your right to peaceful protest if you happen to be protesting the wrong thing.
Of course, I'm not a real time traveler.
I just live in Canada.
Americans and perhaps those in this chamber surely think Canadians are too nice or too polite to embrace this sort of proto-authoritarianism.
But it's more accurate to say that our niceness made us susceptible to the new authoritarianism undermining the foundations of our liberal democracy.
If it sounds like I'm overstating things, allow me to share three stories that illustrate this creeping authoritarianism.
First, a few months ago, I reported a story from my publication, The Free Press, about a high school principal in Toronto who had been humiliated in front of his colleagues by a DEI consultant.
The principal's crime, besides being white and male, was that he objected to the consultant's assertion that Canada is a less just society than America.
The humiliation he experienced ultimately led him to commit suicide.
I wanted to share that story on Facebook.
When I tried to, I was barred from posting it.
I received a message that stated, in response to Canadian government legislation, news content can't be shared.
I was confused.
Then I remembered the recently adopted Online News Act.
The law forces social media companies to pay online media companies to link to their content.
Facebook, instead of paying for that content, barred its users from posting it.
Government officials insist that this is only a matter of fairness, a way of making sure that media companies are compensated for the news they report.
But really, this new law props up legacy media dinosaurs like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Bell Media, and other companies, which are subsidized by the federal government, and all of which can be counted on to echo Justin Trudeau's worldview and toe the party line.
Not being able to post was annoying, but it wasn't the end of the world for me.
I don't depend on Facebook for my income.
The same cannot be said of Christopher Curtis, which brings me to my second story.
Chris is a 38-year-old renegade journalist entrepreneur in Montreal who runs a digital newsletter called The Rover.
He calls himself Woke.
You might think that he's exactly the kind of journalist the Trudeau government would elevate.
He's on the political left.
He publishes stories about the plight of the homeless and police brutality.
The problem is that, unlike government-funded news companies, independent media companies are truly independent, which means they report stories that don't comport with whatever the government wants them to report.
For example, in September 2020, The Rover reported a story on federal mistreatment of Mohawk Indians.
This month, it published a story about migrant workers who had been abused and trafficked with the unwitting help of the federal government.
But under this new law, the rover can't build its audience.
Unable to post content on Facebook or Instagram, the newsletter can't reach new subscribers.
It cannot grow its subscriber base.
This is a slow death, says Chris.
For now, he's unsure how he's going to support his partner and their three-year-old daughter.
He's thinking of going back into construction, which takes me to my third story.
Danny Bulford, now 41, used to be an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the equivalent of the FBI.
For years, he was a sniper in the prime minister's protective detail.
Then in 2021, Danny quit because he didn't want to get his COVID vaccination.
In early 2022, truckers descended on Ottawa to protest new COVID vaccine requirements.
Danny joined them.
The government declared a state of emergency.
Danny, like many demonstrators, was arrested and later released without charge.
Then something chilling happened.
On February 17, 2022, Danny logs into his bank accounts, starting with his checking and savings accounts of the CIBC.
But instead of seeing his ballots, he had about $160,000 in there.
The only thing he saw was a dash.
Then he logs on to Scotiabank to see about an additional checking account.
Once again, there was no sign of any money in his account.
Finally, he logs into the Royal Bank of Canada, which handles his MasterCard account, and he was told he had no access to any credit.
Danny's wife was also unable to access any of these accounts.
Suddenly, they were worrying about how to cover their next mortgage payments and how to feed their three kids.
That is what it means to be debanked.
Debanking has been one of the Trudeau governments' most important since 2018.
She goes on for about six minutes there.
But that is Rupa's testimony before the select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, telling our American friends, what can happen to you when your federal government weaponizes itself in a partisan manner against its own citizens.
And that's what we've lived through at least the last three and a half years.
But I would suggest far sooner.
If you were a Christian, when Justin Trudeau took power, he started weaponizing the federal government almost immediately against Christian organizations who simply wanted to qualify for a summer jobs grant for summer students to run things like soup kitchens and summer camps for underprivileged children.
Justin Trudeau made those church organizations sign an attestation to the Liberal Party's values on transgenderism, reproductive rights, which is just a euphemism for abortion.
And many of them, in good conscience, could not sign it.
And so they lost funding for their programs for the underprivileged.
And in the name of ensuring, I guess, complete and total ideological homogeneity in this country, Justin Trudeau punished the most vulnerable and underprivileged people in the country who would access these soup kitchens and these summer camps, stripping these people of opportunities that they wouldn't normally have.
So this is, we're at the end stages of weaponization of the federal government against Canadians.
And Americans are just sort of knocking on that door.
And I hope, I hope they don't go down this path.
Luckily, they have a First Amendment, which should go a little further in protecting them than our Charter of Rights and Freedoms does here.
In other news happening in the United States, I started talking about this, but we had connection problems.
Yesterday, a very bizarre thing broadcast on Fox News.
Bizarre because you don't often see like a debate between the left and the right, except during elections.
And those elections debates are just insufferable.
You actually don't learn all that much.
You just learn it who's good at talking in front of a camera and sticking to their talking points.
You don't actually see like an actual good examination of what people think and feel on an issue and where their ideology truly is.
But we saw a little bit of that last night.
Like I said, it was broadcast on Fox News and it was dubbed as the like blue state red state debate.
And you had, I think, the most successful red state, Republican state governor in modern history, Ron DeSantis, debating Gavin Newsom.
The, I mean, depends on how you govern and who you're asking, but I think he would be considered a successful Democrat governor if you asked a Democrat, because he's like a bit Trudeau-esque, really woke, really metrosexual, if people still use that word.
And so he's popular with Democrats, but he's absolutely destroying California with his woke policies.
You know, drug and crime out of control there, mass outflow of people to red states like Florida and Texas from California.
And DeSantis points out exactly that in this little debate clip.
James Woods had a great remark.
Thankfully, they don't impose laws in California because DeSantis would be serving time for murder if he did.
So let's watch this.
So I was talking to a fella who had made the move from California to Florida, and he was telling me that Florida is much better governed, safer, better budget, lower taxes, all this stuff.
And he's really happy with the quality of life.
And then he paused and he said, you know, by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's father-in-law.
So we do count Gavin's in-laws as some of the people that have fled California and come to the state of Florida.
So I was talking.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good when you can quote your political enemies, in-laws as victims of your political enemies' policies.
Anyways, it's just very interesting.
I think that, you know, I think both of them are vying for the nomination for their respective parties.
I don't think either one of them is going to be the president.
I think there are roles in a Trump administration.
I think just based on the polling, I'm not saying who I think should win, but just based on the polling, I think there's a very serious role for DeSantis in a Trump administration, attorney general, perhaps.
But yeah, I thought it was kind of an interesting thing to do in between election cycles to show us the difference between a Democrat-run state and a GOP-run state.
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It was kind of fun.
And DeSantis did a great job.
And I don't just say that because I like him.
I like him, but it's pretty cheeky.
I think at one point he held up a map of like the places where you could find feces in California.
So, anyways, it was good.
Moving along, let's talk about things closer to home for me, Alberta and Notley's NDP.
So, Rachel Notley, for those of you who don't know, she was our premier through fluke and happenstance and a confluence of just a perfect storm of impossible, impossible circumstances that brought her to power here in Alberta, a far-left socialist radical in charge of the most conservative place in this country.
And thankfully, she lost the last election, no matter how much the mainstream media were cheering for her and making people believe that she actually had a chance of winning.
And the more we learn about the NDP post that election cycle, the more I'm just grateful.
And I didn't think I could be more grateful that they didn't win.
For example, there's this exclusive story.
It was broken by us here at Rebel News through the great reporting of Alex Dollywall, one of our reporters.
The Notley NDP hid a staffer's prostitution scandal to better their elections chances.
I did a video on this.
And Ben Aldrit, he's an NDP staffer.
He in 2018, in late 2018, I think it was December 2018, he was caught in a prostitution sting.
And he appeared in court in January of 2019.
So just a few short months before the 2019 election, which saw Jason Kenney of the United Conservative Party win in a landslide.
But the NDP kept his arrest for prostitution quiet because they knew that it would hurt their election chances.
And Ben Aldrit was in communications at the time.
He was with the health minister, Sarah Hoffman, as the associate chief of staff to her.
He was put on a leave of absence after his arrest.
He was allowed to resolve his exploitation of vulnerable and possibly racialized women charge through alternative measures.
So I don't know, I guess he got to pick up garbage to make his charge go away.
And then they brought him back into the fold.
These avowed feminists in the NDP, you know, they accuse their political enemies of being against women and not caring about women's rights, but they protected a man in their midst who is taking advantage of a vulnerable woman, exploiting her body.
And so, anyways, they put him on leave of absence.
Then they bring him back in 2021.
Not only did they bring him back, sounds like he got a promotion.
So he was quoted as an NDP caucus spokesperson in 2021.
And then by 2022, he's the director of communications.
And they hid this scandal through two election cycles, but Rebel News received leaked documents, court documents about his charge.
Now, have you, oh, I should also point out that this guy is just so perfectly woke.
He's exactly as woke as you think he is.
Aldrit on his social media.
Yeah, I mean, he's just a feminist through and through, as these people tend to be, right?
Justin Trudeau, he's a feminist, but he's just groping all the female journalists left and right, firing all the pesky women who try to put him in his place.
Aldrit on his Twitter bio, he offers his preferred pronouns, he, him, in case the beard and mustache weren't a dead giveaway.
He calls himself a parent of a child rather than the father of a son or daughter, right?
Like he has to make sure that there's no gender whatsoever.
And he calls himself a spouse rather than a husband.
And I just came to a startling realization here.
I've been saying all along that he was exploiting a vulnerable woman, but I'm making an assumption about his sexual predilections, aren't I?
I mean, he has gone out of his way to anti-gender all of his language.
Maybe it was a vulnerable dude.
Not that it makes a difference, but like I'm making some sweeping assumptions here that I possibly couldn't.
You know, and Aldrit before he was, he tweeted about, I went back through his social media accounts again, as I tend to do.
And I saw that he was tweeting about, you know, the United Conservatives not caring about racialized women.
And I thought, who do you think works in the prostitution trade?
Racialized women.
I guess he cared about them just a little bit too much, maybe.
Anyway, but the reason I'm telling you about all of this is because you have definitely not heard any of this in the mainstream media, right?
If this were Danielle Smith, chief of staff or director of communications being caught up in a prostitution sting, could you imagine?
Could you imagine the amount of resignations, heads rolling, questions at press conferences?
It doesn't matter what the announcement of the press conference would be.
You would be completely consumed by this sex scandal.
And yet, here we are, only independent media talking about this, which is an argument for independent media because it's very clear that the, I was going to say the opposition media, but maybe that's actually accurate.
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The mainstream media is never, ever going to talk about this.
They've completely ignored it.
They haven't even asked a single question to Rachel Notley about this.
I guess as long as they remain inept, I will have job security forever.
You know, the mainstream media sure want people like me to go away, but I will never go away as long as they refuse to do their jobs.
Speaking of refusing to do their jobs, again, mainstream media completely abdicating responsibility on another story that Rebel News picked up.
And again, this is from me, and I don't mean to be talking so much about my own work, but this is kind of a fun story to do, as you can tell from the thumbnail there.
Rachel Notley, she spread so much disinformation.
I am polite when I call it disinformation.
It was just shameless lies about the curl spill that the chief scientist of the province had to step in and issue a statement.
So, for those of you who don't know, you can watch my video on the Rebel News YouTube.
Curl is an Imperial oil site near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
And they very recently had a spill of, I'm going to be honest here, muddy water.
So it's 670 liters of treated water that escaped a settling pond into the Muskeg River.
They reported, this is the Athabasca Chippewan First Nation, who also monitors the site on their own, reported 140 milligrams of suspended solids in the water.
Suspended solids sounds scary, but it just means dirt in the water.
And because we have legal limits for these sorts of things on suspended solids, it was reported.
So anyways, Rachel Notley takes to social media and the legislature and starts talking about how this is a toxic spill from a tailings pond, saying that now it's not muddy water caused by runoff and rain and snow and must literal muskeg, that it is arsenic, mercury contaminating the groundwater.
And if you've said that it is not those things, she wants an apology.
She wanted an apology from the environment minister, Rebecca Schultz.
She wanted an apology, I think, from Brian Jean, who is the UCP MLA for the region, who said, ah, it's mud, like it's mud.
Chill out.
It's mud.
And the NDP, Rachel Notley, but also another MLA, I can't remember her name.
Doesn't matter.
But anyways, they proud a lot about how the First Nation was being poisoned by arsenic and that the Alberta Energy Regulator didn't care and Imperial Oil didn't care and the Alberta government didn't care and this was systemic racism because all the First Nations people were going to be poisoned in perpetuity thanks to mercury, arsenic, all kinds of carcinogens poisoning the groundwater.
It got so out of control that I think it was, what is today, Friday?
I think it was Wednesday, Tuesday.
No, Wednesday.
The chief scientist of the province had to come out and say, can we just calm down and quit lying, everybody?
He stated that, and the chief scientist of the province is Jonathan Thompson.
He stated that if there were any reports of hydrocarbons and toluene in subsamples, it was false positives due to lab error, that this water in this region is some of the most intensively tested in the entire region, that the 140 milligrams of suspended solids were dirt and nothing else.
And that this was not tailings pond runoff, and there is no arsenic.
In fact, he noted that all the drinking water in the region is some of the cleanest in the province.
And he said, there have been no exceedances in arsenic measured in the drinking water whatsoever.
And that not only do they monitor the drinking water, but ambient surface water around the region.
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Like Rachel Notley just lied and lied and lied.
to the point where the nonpartisan chief scientist had to say, stop it.
And not only that, he pointed out that the water quality tests for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, which would have been the affected region if a region were affected and it wasn't, they're all posted online.
So at any step of the way, while anybody was, you know, for some reason believing Rachel Notley, they could have just went to the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo website, checked the water quality tests, which are posted publicly and said, actually, I think everything's fine.
But no, Rachel Notley, she was lying just to scare people.
And she continues to do that.
She did it during COVID.
She's doing right now to the old people as the province of Alberta is considering withdrawing ourselves from the Canada pension plan.
She's whipping up audiences of old people to be scared about their futures.
So anyways, we dodged a real bullet here in Alberta and I hope we continue to.
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Tamara Leach.
She put on one heck of a performance at the Freedom Train.
Just incredible.
She's just so multi-talented.
I mean, she strikes fear in the hearts of the stupidest people in the country.
And she can perform, just sing her heart out and inspire a peaceful resistance movement.
There's nothing that little lady can't do.
Let's get into, speaking of resistance movements, apparently there are only some kind that are acceptable in this country.
And others, I mean, they can just get away with whatever they want.
So the convoy peaceful movement against COVID restrictions did their best not to inconvenience the people of Ottawa who make me think that they are just a bunch of boring bureaucrats.
They're hornhonking sent them into a tizzy.
But these anti-Israel protesters over the last couple of days have been blocking rail lines first in Saskatchewan and then second in Montreal.
And I'm reliably informed by politicians that blocking critical infrastructure can get you sent to jail for a very long time.
Now, Tamara Leach never blocked any critical infrastructure, but she spent 50 days in jail for non-violent mischief charges.
What's going to happen to these people?
Probably nothing because their politics are right.
So we've got this video from Alexa Lavoie.
She was on the scene in Montreal this morning.
She was attempting to report on the anti-Israel protesters blocking the rail lines in Montreal, but the police were blocking her from reporting.
Let's show that.
So, they have the right to block the train, but I don't have the right to go film them.
Madam, I'm just going to ask you to stay on the train.
No, but you see there's still an inconsistency from the police.
So, the police is actually blocking us to go and film them.
There are currently lots of anti-Israel supporters that are blocking the CN train trail where I'm actually going to show you.
I don't know if you remember, but they did the same on the 29th of November in Saskatchewan and now they are doing it in Montreal in Vander.
i'm going to show you the other side since the police are not allowing no no person to get close and what we saw so far is like the police is not really intervening
And we know that the Emergencies Act was deployed during the Freedom Convoy for less than that since the beginning of this conflict.
A lot of critical infrastructure were disrupted.
Okay, so now I cannot see them.
a little bit too far going to see if i can oh we see a police there There is a lot of police vehicles.
And I cannot have a view on them.
Well, you can see them.
More at Rubenu.com.
So the police did more to clear the journalists away than they did to clear away the anti-Semitic protesters who are blocking critical infrastructure and actually hurting the Canadian economy.
You know, have they considered the Emergencies Act for these Hitler youth that are plaguing the streets of Canada right now, chanting genocidal things, blocking critical infrastructure?
Have we ever considered where their funding is coming from?
Have we considered that maybe they are being funded by the world's largest state sponsor of terror, Iran?
Have we considered that?
Have we bothered to look?
If you were a farmer and you gave 20 bucks to the Freedom Convoy, you very well may have had your financing through Farm Credit Canada denied.
We know they did that.
But you can block a CN rail line in one of Canada's largest cities and the police will do their best to keep the journalists away from you and not clear the tracks.
Interesting.
Interesting stuff.
Okay, we have another video from Alexa.
Sounds like they were making arrests at some point.
What do you want to bet these guys don't spend 50 days in jail?
I bet they were caught and released as quickly as the cuts came on.
showed out.
I wanted to see more clubbing.
I'm joking.
I'm not a fan of police brutality.
But if again, if those were Freedom Convoy protesters singing the national anthem, they would have been clubbed like baby seals.
But these people, they block the rail lines chanting for genocide, and they're getting cuffed up against the wall.
And like I said, I bet you they'll be out by this afternoon.
Such is the state of the Canadian legal system.
Let's bump ahead.
Speaking of who's funding anti-Semites, as it turns out, the Canadian government did, and now they want their money back after news broke of it.
So this is from the National Post.
Ottawa is taking legal action to recoup anti-racism funds from Laith Marouf.
Laith Marouf was a senior consultant with an organization funded by Canadian Heritage.
And he was post, they say he was accused of, but he was definitely posting anti-Semitic material online.
He was with the Community Media Advocacy Center, and it granted the Canadian Heritage granted the group more than $122,000 for projects to help combat racism.
However, the phone call was coming from inside the house.
Now, Maruth was making anti-Semitic statements, racist statements online.
And now they're, I guess, suing him for the money back.
So I wonder what he did with that money.
He said things like the Jews are white supremacists.
And what a joke.
One post read, and again, I'm reading verbatim what Laith Marouf, the anti-racism expert funded by Canadian Heritage to the tune of $122,000, said about Jews.
And it read, you know, all those loudmouth bags of human feces, aka the Jewish white supremacists.
When we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they came from, they will return to being low-voiced bitches of their Christian secular white supremacist masters.
And this stuff was all posted publicly.
It wasn't like he was saying this behind closed doors.
It's on his Twitter account.
But again, the federal government did more vetting of farmers who gave a Tim's card to Freedom Convoy truckers than they did to these people they were doling out Canadian tax dollars to.
So If Lath Maruth were a decent man, he would give the money back, but a decent man would not have said those things.
So here we are.
It's going to end up before the courts, and it's going to cost way more money than $122,000, I think, to recoup this stuff from Lath.
He should just give the money back.
But again, if he were a decent human being, he wouldn't be working in anti-racism for the federal government and B, saying anti-Semitic things online.
Let's talk about this story from Westlock, Alberta.
Now, for those of you who don't know where Westlock, Alberta is, and what Westlock, Alberta is.
Westlock, Alberta is a farming community just north of me.
It's about an hour away from the city.
Fewer than 5,000 people live there.
It is intensely rural, a proud farming community, so conservative, surrounded by Hutterite communities.
I think they had the world's largest harvest there at one point.
Give you an idea about who and what we're dealing with.
But let this be a lesson to conservatives that we must not only pay attention to municipal politics, vote in our municipal elections, but quite possibly run for municipal politics because the left is taking over municipal politics, even in these ultra conservative rural communities.
Last summer, in the summer of pride, season of pride, apropos of very nearly almost nothing, the highly progressive town council in this ultra-conservative community, I guess everybody was too busy farming to run for election there.
But they decided we're going to let the local Gay Straight Alliance of the high school come along and paint a sidewalk rainbow.
And nobody wanted it except the activists on council and the gay straight alliance.
And it caused a major uproar in town, like major.
Locals got a petition going.
They presented it to council and said, Hey, we didn't want this.
We don't, we never asked for any of this.
And it wasn't like they were against gays.
Like, I don't think anybody's actually all that against gays.
I think we just, everybody should just be left alone.
But they presented this petition to the council.
Of course, they brought, by the way, I should say, there was outrage once people heard about the decision to paint the sidewalk rainbow, which is why the news left the city of Edmonton to go all the way to sleepy Westlock, because this became like ground zero for the culture war for like a week.
The NDP MLAs from Edmonton plotted Westlock on their GPS, changed out of their Birkenstocks in case there were gravel roads, and went all the way to Westlock to show support for the gay community population.
I bet 10 in Westlock.
They even trucked in a liberal MP, Randy Blossano from Edmonton, for some reason.
I mean, again, their MP there is a conservative.
It's not Randy Blossano.
I think it's shoot.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
But their conservative MP is conservative.
Oh, it's Arnold Vierson, if I recall correctly.
So super conservative.
He's a social conservative, which is in line with the culture of the town.
And so this became like ground zero of the culture wars for a week.
They got their way.
They painted the sidewalk, but the people there were mad.
And so they got a petition going.
They presented their petition.
And instead of the council reacting to the petition, they're taking it.
They're not going to react.
They're actually going to do the right thing here because the council seems to be out of line with the people.
They're letting it go to a plebiscite, which is a local vote.
So they have time to campaign.
And basically, what the people want the new law to say is there will be no sidewalks painted anything other than white in Westlock, and there will be no flying of flags that are not, you know, like the municipal flag, the provincial flag, the Canadian flag, nothing else.
Keep your politics off the municipal infrastructure, basically, is what the new law would say.
And the municipality is putting it to the people to have their say because it's very clear that they weren't listening to the people the first time.
They were just doing whatever they wanted because they felt like they could.
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And I'm happy.
I'm happy to see everybody involved in this bad decision end up with a bit of a reality check.
Invaders from Edmonton came to cause a stir.
But at the end of the day, the people will have their say.
And I'm sure, I'm sure that this new law will pass local plebiscite and I can be happier for it.
Yeah, keep your politics off the municipal infrastructure.
I think that's a reasonable solution to all of this.
Nobody gets anything.
You know, like no pro-life flags, no trans flags, just leave everything alone.
Keep your politics off the publicly funded municipal infrastructure.
And I'd be happy.
Okay.
Let's go on to the next story, which I have to key up out of the corner of my eye.
I think let's go directly into this new farm law passing, and then we'll go into the commissioner's report.
So this is something that I've covered for quite some time, again, because I'm a farmer, but also I'm very interested in property rights and the lies of animal activists.
For me, my real, look, I've sort of been anti-animal rights activists since, well, forever.
And I believe it has to do with my religious worldview, but also that I don't equate animal lives to those of humans.
Humans are here.
Animals are down here.
I love my dog.
I like my cat.
But people are here.
Animals are down here.
And I'll eat them.
And I'll also take care of them.
So I think it was 2018.
Animal rights activists invaded a Hutterite farm in south of Calgary, anyway, a Jumbo Valley Hutterite farm.
One of those animal rights activists was actually a videographer for Global News.
And this is a turkey farm, and they were protesting the treatment of turkeys leading up to slaughter processing for Christmas.
And the thing about these turkey farms and so many farms, including hog farms, is that they are biosecure facilities.
These animals are subject to catching diseases that will wipe out the entire flock, like hundreds, thousands of animals.
And you just have these turkey invaders just there.
And so I had gone down to talk to these turkey farmers about, you know, what it's like to have your home invaded.
And I should point out to you that Hutterites are, it's a collective farm.
Multiple families live there.
And so when you invade their farm, you're actually invading their home.
Like their kids are there.
Ezra went to cover the court appearances of these invaders.
He flew out in a snowstorm.
And then subsequent to that, there's an animal rights activist who was run over by a truck after she ran out onto the road to try to give water to pigs that were headed to slaughter.
And, you know, the animal rights activists were saying, you know, what she was murdered by a trucker who has to live the rest of his life with having this fatality on his heart because she ran out into traffic to give pigs bound for water or bound for slaughter water.
And, you know, it's this incessant problem with animal rights activists invading our farms, which are also our homes and spreading lies about farmers.
And we have the right to do our business unmolested by activists.
And we should be able to, you know, not worry about animal rights activists contaminating our herds with diseases, which could devastate us financially.
So this farmers' rights bill passed in the House of Commons.
Guess who voted against it?
The NDP.
And it threatens activists with $25,000 in individual fines if you trespass onto a farm and $100,000 for the organizations which may encourage it.
So this law will get them coming and going.
And I couldn't be happier about it because it is not just about the rights of farmers to do our jobs and feed this country, but this is a property rights issue.
Our farms are also our homes.
I'm a fifth generation farmer, and my family has taken care of this land for 120 years this year, in fact.
And I think we do a good job of it.
And we just want to provide affordable, nutritious food to not just our communities, but the country and the rest of the world.
And these animal rights activists, look, if they want to eat lettuce all day long, great, great.
It's not my problem.
Leave us alone.
And they don't have the right to do extra governmental inspections of our property.
Imagine somebody just barging in to your home and invading it.
Well, that's what farmers have to live with from these animal rights activists.
And I'm just so happy to see that the liberals actually voted along with the conservatives on this issue.
And the NDP, of course, voted against it because they say it violates the rights of protesters.
Protest on the road outside my property.
Don't come on my property.
That's all we were asking for.
And we had to increase the fines because they just won't listen.
Let's talk about another property rights issue while we're at it.
As we get to the end of the show, Ottawa continues their attack on our property rights through their imposition of gun laws.
Ottawa wants to pass Bill C-21 in the coming weeks and ban high capacity firearms chargers.
So Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said gun manufacturers should no longer be able to sell modifiable chargers that hold up to 30 bullets.
And he wants to pass C21 in the coming weeks.
So C-21 basically ratifies the government's order in council, which banned at the time it was 1500 models of popular shotguns and long guns, including a 410 bird gun as an assault rifle.
They want to codify that into law.
And since then, it has ballooned to closer to 2000.
Within that, there's a buyback program, buyback, as though the government ever owned these guns in the first place.
But here's the thing.
They're trying to make this stuff double illegal.
Like you cannot, you already can't have a magazine that holds that many bullets.
That's already illegal.
It's like trying to make murder double illegal.
But they're basically saying that people are in their basements modifying this stuff.
If they are, there's already a law that deals with that.
You know, like he's just how dumb these people are.
Dominic LeBlanc, who's probably never gone moose hunting in his entire life, says the bill aims more broadly to ban military type weapons that are not used for hunting.
When we go moose hunting, he says, we are not going to war on moose, said LeBlanc, who clarified he wants to pass Bill C-21 in the coming weeks.
We want to ensure that there is no escape, allowing gun owners and industry to do indirectly what they cannot do directly.
Adding the federal government would add resources to provincial and municipal police forces to carry out the law.
Good luck to you in Alberta.
In Alberta, our Premier Daniel Smith has said that she will not be directing our provincial RCMP, who are on contract with the provincial government, to allocate resources to molesting law-abiding Canadian gun owners.
I think our cops definitely have better things to do than kicking in the doors of their friends and neighbors for the crime of lawfully acquiring something that the government now says is illegal.
And despite all this constant gun legislation, when you know it, the violent crime rate has gone up, I think it's the highest it's been in years, if not decades, and it has gone up four years in a row.
So since Justin Trudeau started bringing out his increased gun control legislation, guess what?
Crime has gone up.
So maybe we could do something different instead of going after duck hunters and moose hunters.
Maybe, just maybe, we could focus on gangs, the border, drug trafficking, human trafficking.
But no, no, it's just Joe in Saskatchewan who wants to put some holes in some geese.
He's the bad guy in this country, according to Dominic LeBlanc.
All right.
Quickly coming to the end of the show, I think I've almost gotten to all the topics.
But lastly, the commissioner's report for the National Citizens Inquiry was just published this week.
It's available now.
For those of you who don't know, although we did cover it quite intensely here at Rebel News, the National Citizens Inquiry was a citizen-led inquisition into the government's over-response to COVID-19.
And this was done because we could not trust the government to examine their own actions responsibly and then decide what they should do differently.
We saw how Justin Trudeau investigates himself.
He appoints a family friend, David Johnston, to investigate and find that there was actually no need for investigation.
So, citizens took this upon themselves and they heard from over 300 witnesses who told them what it was like during the COVID-19 crisis.
And I say crisis, but I mean the crisis of civil liberties.
And some of these people were doctors.
Some of these people were people who were damaged by the vaccine they were forced to take to inoculate themselves against unemployment.
Some of these people were business owners.
Some of these people were activists who were arrested.
And so that's out this week.
And my friend Tamara Ugollini, she did an incredible report examining it.
You can download the report at the nationalcitizensinquiry.ca.
And maybe let's just take a quick little look at it if we could bring it up.
I know you had it on the screen there.
You just look at the executive summary.
By the way, do you think anybody in the federal government is going to ever read this?
Do you think, for example, here in Alberta, do you think Jason Kenney is going to read this?
I don't think so.
But let's just take a look at the perhaps the executive summary.
Thank you very much.
I'm just getting to it on my screen here.
Yikes.
Sorry, guys.
Yikes.
Okay.
So given the enormity of these mandates and the resultant consequences, these circumstances demanded a comprehensive, transparent, and objective national inquiry into the appropriateness and efficacy of these interventions to determine what lessons can be learned for the future.
No Canadian government has shown an appetite for fulsome review of the measures it implemented.
It also questioned whether municipal, federal, and provincial governments would or could conduct a fair and unbiased review simply because of their own actions and responses to COVID-19, which should be under investigation.
What's important here is that there's an official accounting of what happened to this country.
I don't think any politicians are going to read this and adopt it, except perhaps Alberta and Saskatchewan, who have shown, and perhaps New Brunswick, although I'm not sure.
They were pretty hard on COVID, just ask Pastor Phil Hutchins.
But I think that most politicians are not going to read this.
And I think they just want this all to be put behind us.
But I think that it is important that there is an official record of what happened to Canadians, that these witnesses were heard, and that future generations can look back on this.
Until such time as Justin Trudeau scrubs the internet forever, this will exist as a historical encyclopedia of all the terrible, dark things the government did to us in the name of public health.
And I hope that website, nationalcitizensinquiry.ca, lives forever, because some of those testimonies were just absolutely heart-wrenching.
And I hope one day some of the politicians involved bring themselves to listen to the damage that they did and do some soul searching.
But, you know, if you're the kind of person who would do these things to people, I can't imagine that you do that.
I think we have one chat.
Okay, great.
One chat.
We made it through the first hour of this, by the way.
So thank you so much.
We had some technical difficulties at the beginning and I have to retrain my language to say that this is not a weekly show, but or rather not a daily show, but a weekly show.
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See, I'm still struggling.
Anyways, got one from Memory Hole because it's five bucks and says, Menzies in the cat leotard is burned into my retinas.
Please, sweet death, take me now.
And do you know what?
I spared you guys from having to see that for, I don't know, three or four years.
Every, I don't know, I would say quarterly, David Menzies would say to me, Sheila, is it time?
And I would say, no, it is not time.
It may never be time.
I hope it is never time for the world to see you in a cat leotard scratching your butt against a pillar in a parking garage with that horrifyingly cut out cat mask.
Did he put his glasses on the cat mask?
I never noticed that before.
I kept telling him, it's not now, David, not now, hopefully not ever.
Honestly, I wanted to save him from himself.
I mean, how do you come back from this?
But it's David Menzies and we love him for this kind of stuff.
And he really did prove a point.
And we reached such a place of absurdity in society that it was time to publish it.
And we did.
And it will live in infamy forever as one of David Menzies' greatest, most ridiculous capers.
The man truly suffers for his craft, doesn't he?
And it's why we appreciate him so much.
I think it's why he's a fan favorite.
Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
Thanks to everybody behind the scenes who makes the show work.
Olivia, is that everything?
Okay, great.
I guess I have to come up with a new sign-off tagline.
For now, I'm going to stick with my own, actually.
I'm going to tell you, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
It looks like some of the opposition parties don't want to do a coalition.
Looks like they want to sort of deny the results of the election.
How is that going?
We are now in the process of talking about this issue in parliament.
The Conservative Liberal Party, the Pharma Party, and the new party of Peter Unsicht, the four of us would have a big majority in parliament.
90% of the voters of all those four parties want us to work together.
Still, it's not automatically in a normal situation or country.
We would have almost formed the government already.
But some of those parties are hesitant.
Some because they have lost the elections and believe that it's not their place now.
Others because they believe that some points out of our party program against Islamization are against our constitution and they don't want to work with a party who works against the constitution.