Sheila Gunn-Reid exposes Justin Trudeau’s 5% streaming tax—despite his 2019 promise to avoid it—targeting Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime while funding CBC’s $14–15M executive bonuses, including former CEO Catherine Tate’s $500K+ payout amid declining ratings. The tax mirrors Harper’s "Netflix tax" warnings and follows the link tax backlash, where Facebook blocked news but Google complied, funneling most funds to CBC. Meanwhile, Trudeau’s government hands out $480M in bonuses across agencies like Statistics Canada (100% of managers) despite scandals like ArriveCAN fraud and $1.2T debt, now doubled under his tenure. Gunn-Reid links the tax to suppressed PBO carbon tax reports costing Alberta families over $900, framing it as a distraction from fiscal mismanagement while conservative premiers like Blaine Higgs push for parental rights in education—contrasting Ford’s inaction. [Automatically generated summary]
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On Tuesday morning, many of us woke up to a promise of a Netflix tax.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins me tonight to talk about it.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
What happens if you tax a company?
Well, what always happens?
The company always passes along the increased cost to the consumer.
That's exactly what's going to happen now that Justin Trudeau's broadcasting bureaucracy, the CRTC, has promised a 5% streaming tax that will be applied to the likes of Netflix and Paramount Plus and Disney Plus and Amazon Prime and so on down the list.
5% off the top of your bill will go to support the things that you move to streaming services to escape.
Boring Canadian content, the CBC, and the shoehorned diversity programming that you see on many of Canada's national broadcasters.
But will Netflix actually pay this?
Of course not.
They'll do what every company does.
They'll just tack it onto your bill.
Or they might not want to do business with Canada altogether, as we saw when Justin Trudeau tried to shake down Facebook for the crime of one of Facebook's users linking to Canadian news publishers.
Facebook just said, well, no more link sharing to Canadian news publishers instead of paying that Justin Trudeau tax.
So joining me tonight to talk about the implications of this and their recent legal challenge against the CBC is Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Take a listen.
Joining me now is my friend Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
And I wanted to have Chris Sims on because they're engaged in litigation over at the Taxpayers Federation against the CBC.
And I wanted a big explainer.
Chris, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Tell us what you're up to with the state broadcaster, wouldn't you?
Yeah, for sure.
So we've gone back and forth at the state broadcaster now for many years because of course here at the Taxpayers Federation, we take offense to the fact that it is costing us about $1.4 billion per year.
Again, to put that into perspective, folks, you could pay for 7,000 paramedics and 7,000 plumbers combined every year, all the time, for what we pay for the CBC, which almost no Canadian watches.
So fast forward, folks might remember back when their CEO, Catherine Tate, who has paid around $500,000 and change, by the way, huge bonus.
She was at committee and she was kind of feigning ignorance about whether or not the executives would be getting bonuses at the CBC.
People might also remember this.
I thought I was having a fever dream, Sheila.
But at one point, Adrienne Arseneau, the actual anchor of the CBC national news, had her boss on the air.
It was a super weird interview, very awkward.
She cited the Canadian Taxpayers Federation like out loud with her face and said, well, you're handing out layoff notices around Christmas, so no bonuses for executives this year.
And Tate wouldn't commit either way.
She wouldn't answer.
She did the same thing at committee.
Sorry, we have Freedom of Information reports that show that, yes, indeed, executives did get bonuses.
It was between $14 and $15 million with an M.
But what we really want to know is which executives got what bonuses and how much.
So that is specifically what we asked for in our freedom of information request.
Now, the folks in Ottawa, they word it much better than I just did, but it was very particular and that's what they asked for.
Turns out the CBC kicked the can as hard as they could, Sheila, so that this ATIP information wouldn't come back until after Tate's next committee appearance.
So that was back in May.
And this is where we're like, okay, this is enough silly business.
And that is why we have started legal procedures through the access to information law.
Okay, so there's like ombudspeople involved and there's an information commissioner involved.
And we are now saying, you need to cough up this specific granular data.
Which executives got what bonuses and how much.
And we've done this very similar thing before with the information commissioner because folks might remember back when the dearly departed Her Majesty the Queen passed away, there was, of course, a gigantic funeral over in London, England.
And of course, the prime minister went.
What people were a little frustrated about is that some mystery person stayed in a $6,000 per night hotel room.
Hmm.
I know, right?
Grab your magnifying glasses, right, Watson?
So they wouldn't tell us who stayed in the hotel.
We really wanted to know for realsies.
Like, was it the governor general?
Was it a friend?
Was it the prime minister?
Of course, we had to then take this, again, legal action to drag this information out of the federal government.
And they released it.
They finally coughed it up on the day Biden was visiting Ottawa in order to bury the story.
So we're doing a very similar thing here where we are telling the CBC, nu-uh, you can't play games like this.
You need to tell us right away.
And to be totally clear, other crown corporations have told us the information we want right away.
So CMHC, Bank of Canada, other Crown corporations, when we've asked pretty much identical questions, they've told us immediately it's the CBC who kicked the can and is trying to play cute with this information.
Now, of course, this is upsetting the CBC.
The CBC gets very upset very easily, of course.
Because you guys are doing journalism?
Well, you know, who wants to do journalism when you can...
Did you see that they didn't broadcast two NHL playoff games?
You're not broadcasting the Oilers games.
I know.
Two of them.
Two of them.
It was bizarre.
I thought there was something wrong with my system because I'm trying to watch it with my kids.
And of course, nuh, you only have to get this super extra duty sportsnet channel.
So here they are.
They will blow money on executive bonuses.
They'll get mad when we call them bonuses.
Like they call it performance pay.
That's like, why are we playing like word games here?
What's funny is that in one of their documents, Sheila, they even called it a bonus, like with a B themselves.
So it's just so strange.
Again, it's another reason why we just need to defund the CBC.
They are not serving Canadians.
Very few of us are watching them.
Even when we do try to tune in to watch Edmonton beat Dallas, they don't bother showing it to us.
They show us a rerun of Just for Laughs or something.
Yeah, it was just for laughs.
It was just for laughs.
I saw somebody joke on Twitter or X or whatever it's called now that maybe if we change the name to the Edmonton solar panels, CBC might broadcast them.
But this issue of federal bonuses, this is not just a CBC thing.
CBC is just clutching the information close to itself because it's embarrassing that they're getting performance bonuses for not performing.
Nobody watches it.
Nobody likes it.
They make dumb decisions for broadcasting.
Yes.
Right.
And this is, you know, like the, I think the greatest thing that young Canadians can do to liberate us of the CBC is to teach their grandparents how to use the remote control.
Because I think a lot of them are just sort of stuck on it.
You just show them.
You could just clip, click up.
You can go to Fox News.
Just go up from there.
But this is a big issue, these federal bonuses, performance bonuses.
The federal government is bigger than ever, slower than ever, zero respect for tax dollars, unaccountable.
Have you ever tried to use a government service in the last three years?
Go to the passport office.
Unless you have your personal MP intervene on your behalf, good luck getting service down there.
You have to bring them with you.
Yeah, you have to bring it.
Here's Garnet Jennis.
He's here to help.
But the feds have dished out nearly a half a billion dollars in bonuses in 2023.
You can't even get these people to go to the office anymore.
They're launching litigation if you try to make them go to the office.
I saw an order paper question that I'm working on.
I think the story will, we're recording this on Tuesday, so it might be out on Tuesday.
The percentage of department managers that are qualifying for bonuses, it was Andrew Scheer actually asked the question.
I'll flip this to you, Chris.
Please wanted to do something with it.
100% of managers at Statistics Canada got bonuses.
100% of managers at the Human Rights Commission and the CRTC got well.
Good censorship complex.
They got to feather that nest.
Yeah.
Here's the one that really got me.
Astoundingly, 100% of managers at the Public Health Agency of Canada took home bonuses.
For those of you who don't recall, that's the department that sole reason for existing is pandemic readiness.
And yet we had to shut down our country for three years because we were not pandemic ready.
And these are the same people that tossed out most of the national stockpile in the warehouse in Regina because they couldn't rotate it the way you rotate the milk in your fridge.
That's right.
100% bonuses over there.
Veterans Affairs, 100% bonuses there.
No.
Even though bureaucrats, instead of doing their jobs, are telling our veterans to go get made.
And the CBSA, currently embroiled in the Arrive scam scandal, 96% of them got bonuses.
98% of Corrections Canada managers received bonuses, no doubt for how they handled serial killer Paul Bernardo and gay hustler cannibal killer Luca Magnata, putting those guys in medium security, causing big controversies.
98% of them got performance bonuses.
And Public Service and Procurement Canada, nearly 99% of managers over there are getting bonuses.
Must be all the great work they're doing on combating fraud and conflicts of interest in the procurement process.
Wow.
If you want to fail upwards, just join the federal government.
I want to know how bad the other 1% of people are at procurement.
Like how bad do you have to be to not get a bonus over there?
Maybe they were the ones who made the first phone call to get some of these stupid contracts and deals with them.
Whistleblowers.
Yeah, whistleblowers.
Yeah.
I have this bad habit of trying to give the benefit of the doubt and I really need to stop doing that.
Like it's bizarre.
Again.
Two people's points.
If you are doing a good job, that is usually when one gets a bonus.
In any normal situation, that is when one gets a bonus.
But when apparently you're with the Trudeau government, no matter what kind of an employee you are, it sounds like you're going to be getting a bonus.
And Sheila's right.
I think they've added close around ballpark between 80 and 100,000 people to the ranks of the public.
They call it the public service.
We call them government employees.
And you're right.
Again, there is a big pushback happening in the Ottawa Gatineau area coming from these government unions because they're mad that apparently they're now being asked to go into the office three days per week.
So I get it.
Some people do work from home and they do so productively, but you can hit very clear performance metrics.
Exactly.
And if you can do so, that's great.
You're doing a good job.
What we're seeing here, of course, is that even within the ranks of the federal government employees, quite often they're not hitting their own marks.
Really easy ones that they're trying to hit, they're often not hitting them.
So the idea that they would be told to put on pants and go into the office three times a week while being paid by the taxpayer doesn't seem that outrageous.
Yeah.
It's 90% of executives and managers are receiving bonuses across the federal government.
And yeah, if going to the office is such a cumbersome thing, let's sell the office.
You know, like I work from home and you work from home because it saves our respective organizations money because they don't have to put me in a physical studio.
I'm in the closet under the stairs.
But the sound is like Harry Potter.
Basically.
But that's not what's happening here.
Not only are these people not going to the office, taxpayers are paying to maintain these gray Soviet style buildings in Ottawa.
Why don't we sell those?
Pierre Polyoff had a great idea.
Sell them and turn them into affordable housing.
Right.
I kind of feel bad for people living in them.
Maybe we should do it.
Was it Deb Gray or Preston Manning that said we need to turn them into bingo halls?
Turn 24 Sussex into a bingo hall.
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But that's true.
And apparently downtown Ottawa, like it used to be, so I lived down there for years, even like as a pedestrian and a cyclist.
So I got to know that downtown core really well.
And it was always a government town in the sense that, yeah, the sidewalks would roll up at about 4.30 and all of the bureaucrats would be taking the buses home back out to Orleans and Canada or wherever they lived.
But then the last time I went back there, it is just a ghost town.
Like there's nobody downtown.
Like you could just jaywalk across the street all day and never get worried about getting hit by anything because it is so dead.
I actually feel really bad for some of the businesses that are down there, the private businesses who are trying to make a go of it because yeah, they're not going down there.
But again, we're not seeing the productivity.
Like I don't know anybody who's like, wow, I've really seen an improvement over the last five years in my government services.
Right.
It's usually the opposite.
And here we are paying for the thing.
And again, folks, we have unmoney to pay for this.
Okay.
We are so crazy in debt.
$1.2 trillion.
The Trudeau government has doubled the debt.
We are paying more on the interest on our debt than we are for healthcare.
What we pay in the GST, Sheila, is now 100% going to the interest payment on the debt.
Like it's mind-boggling because the CTF, the taxpayers federation started largely in protest in 1990 against things like the GST.
So something so formative and fundamental for like a tax revolt happening in Canada as the GST just envision that amount of money now.
Boom!
That's going on to gone.
Gone.
It's going to nothing.
It's paying interest to bond fund holders and Bay Street.
So yeah, we're in serious trouble here.
And here they are.
They just keep on handing out bonuses and they're not even sheepish about it.
They get huffy even when you call it a bonus and they tell you to like it.
Yeah, the Americans, I believe, fought a revolution over stuff like this.
Over much less.
I will say that that t-tax and that stamp tax, I think those were only like a penny each or half a penny each.
They were throwing stuff into the harbor really fast.
And just envision, I love this one because it gets kind of sad, but it's also a good way to fight.
I wish I could remember the gentleman on Twitter who recommended it.
Close your eyes if it's safe to do so.
Picture your salary doubling.
Like your take-home pay, what lands in your bank account, hopefully every two weeks.
Boom, it's doubled.
What could you do with that?
Could you pay down your line of credit?
Could you pay off a credit card?
Could you save up money to maybe buy a house?
Could you put your kid through an awesome private school?
Double your take-home pay.
That's what the government takes from you.
About, about that amount, like just shy of 50% goes to various levels of government in taxes and fees.
So it is like, and we've been slowly the frog boiling in the water, right?
So it's hard to kind of remember, but just close your eyes and picture your take-home pay doubling.
That is how much money the government is taking from you.
And the next time your sister-in-law at dinner tries saying, oh, well, it pays for services, ask yourself how awesome those government services are.
Yeah.
And what you could do with that money instead.
Could you pay for these services with your own money, get better services and pay less?
Probably.
Now, while we were just ragging on the CBC, I just want to talk about this thing that I saw this morning landed in my email.
The CRTC is now going to make Canadians, even if you try to escape the clutches of unwatchable Canadian content on the CBC and other terrestrial broadcasting.
That doesn't matter because not only are you paying for it through your taxes and subsequent media bailouts, now you're over minding your own business on Netflix.
You're over on Disney Plus minding your own business.
Maybe you're watching on Paramount, Amazon Prime.
Doesn't matter.
You're still going to have to pay for that stuff you ran away from thanks to a 5% tax that the CRTC says, no worries.
The streamers will pay for it, the streaming services.
No, they won't.
They're going to pass it along to us.
And apparently the only person who's going to escape this tax in all of Canada is Finance Minister Christia Freeland, because wouldn't you know, she professes to have canceled her Disney Plus.
All this stuff gets passed along to the taxpayer and the consumer.
It doesn't affect the streaming services.
They just tack it onto our bill at the end of the day.
Yeah, exactly.
So this happened in British Columbia years ago.
And they put it in the weirdest possible wording, the provincial government there.
But we still found it on budget day.
And yeah, essentially, it's a Netflix tax.
It's a streaming tax.
So back then it was applying to Netflix, Spotify, SoundCloud, basically anything that came from outside of Canada that was a streaming service.
And I think on average, it was going to be adding something like 15 bucks to the bill or something like that.
Yeah, to your point, these companies won't just eat this.
No.
They do not just eat this.
Okay.
Number one, that's not how corporations make money.
Okay.
Spoiler alert.
Number two, Canada, just by its population, is not a big enough player for them to bother even thinking about eating it.
They will just tack it on to our cost.
And I'm old enough to remember back when Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned that the Trudeau government would put through a Netflix tax.
And I think that was called fake news and everybody threw tomatoes.
Here we are.
Now, again, I'm not saying that, you know, a blue team would never do something like this.
We would go after them just as hard if they tried doing something like this.
Again, we already pay close to 50% of our wages in taxes.
Okay.
This is just another one where they're imposing it upon Netflix.
And again, you're right.
Here it is.
It's going to be funneled back in some way, shape, or form to Canadian content programming.
And again, people aren't watching the CBC.
And what really was a bee in my bonnet was one of the times when Tate was at committee and she was very rightly getting grilled over the fact that the CBC's ratings are plummeting.
Like around one-ish percent, give or take, of Canadians are watching the six o'clock news, for example.
1% thereabouts.
And she said something to the effect of, well, yes, TV ratings are down, but we're making up for it in gem, CBC Gem.
And it's like, okay, tell us how many people are watching through CBC Gem.
We don't release that information.
So that's like the kid in elementary school who swore he could turn invisible just when you're not looking at him, though.
Right.
Like it's ridiculous.
And here we are paying for it.
Yeah, they said the funding will be directed to areas of immediate need in the Canadian broadcasting system, such as local news on radio and television, French language content, Indigenous content, and content created by and for equity deserving communities, official language minority communities, and Canadians of diverse backgrounds.
I think that's also called the CBC.
Yes.
That's the definition or the long form definition of what they're trying to hide there.
Isn't that wild?
It's very similar to what I would refer to as the link tax.
Yes.
Right.
So this is just the streaming version of the link tax.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's, again, folks, why you can't post news stories onto Facebook anymore because Facebook told the Trudeau government to get bent and that they weren't going to be paying a tax, a fee, every time that they allowed for a news story to be posted on their sharing service.
Again, this is bizarre.
It's like taxing the paperboy for the sin of delivering your paper.
It is the weirdest thing ever for content and sharing.
But Google did go along with it from what I understand.
And again, guess who's taking the lion's share of the Google money?
That was CBC.
So this whole little snowball started, apparently so.
This is how the story goes, with a few print guys.
So there were a few print guys saying, hey, the CBC is eating our lunch because, of course, they were only meant to be a broadcast service.
They were never meant to be print.
But now, of course, they're print online.
They do that all the time.
So a lot of the original print guys were pretty mad about that, saying, you're exceeding your mandate and jumping the fence and you're mowing my lawn.
Stop doing it.
And so this is one of the reasons why they got together and they said, hey, let's make a corporation like Google pay for it.
And here we are.
The CBC just rode right in and they're actually taking the lion's share of the so-called link tax, much to the chagrin of the print guys.
So again, anytime you try to get the government in on something, they're going to make it worse.
Like you're just going to make it worse.
And here we are with a Netflix tax.
Yeah.
And that link tax, I mean, it blew up in the people who wanted to hand out space, right?
Because now Facebook was this great way to deliver news to consumers where the news consumers are.
They're generally a little bit older, a little bit older.
People are on Facebook.
They're finding their news there, clicking through.
The advertisers see, oh, you're getting a ton of traffic to your website.
Let me advertise with you.
Advertising dried up for a lot of these Canadian news companies because their reach dried up nearly instantly because they weren't getting their news.
People weren't getting their news where they were looking for it anymore.
So careful what you wish for, Jersey.
Yeah.
And for folks who are watching, and I understand where you're like, oh, well, mainstream media, blah, blah.
No, it wasn't just the mainstream media that was getting hurt by this.
This was a lot of independent news organizations like Western Standard.
We love Western Standard.
They were getting nuked by this ridiculousness because the Trudeau government started messing around with this industry.
And they don't take government money.
They're an independent news organization.
They just finished signing the Ottawa Declaration saying, no, we're not going to take government money for media.
And sure enough, though, of course, they were doing on a private company, private business, Facebook, and they're getting hurt by this.
Again, folks, don't expect the government to come rolling into town and roll up on your property and make things better.
Reagan was right when he said, I'm from the government and here to help, or really scary words.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everything they do is generally makes it that much worse.
There's nothing that they do that is really all that benevolent.
Before I let you go, because I could talk to you all day and we always have a robust conversation before I hit record.
It was about Sasquatches mostly.
It was really awesome.
It was.
We have our theories.
We share theories.
I want to talk to you about this hidden carbon tax report.
So the government has a carbon tax report, but much like the CBC bonuses, we don't get to see it.
What's going on there?
So this is a complicated thing.
Okay.
So folks probably remember the Parliamentary Budget Office had come forward with a report.
I think it was around last year.
In fact, I think it was around this time last year, basically where they had two separate numbers.
The top number of their grids was just the straight cost for Monica filling up her Honda Civic in downtown Toronto.
So that would be about $675 if I'm doing my math right.
So boom, straight across, how much does she get in rebate?
Okay.
That is what the Trudeau government was cherry picking for months saying you get more back than you pay in.
Okay.
Number one, anyone with a shred of common sense understands that you can't hand the government a 20 and get back a 50 at no cost to you.
Right.
It doesn't work that way.
Thank you.
They do not have a scheme.
Thank you.
They do not have a wealth generating machine under Westlock.
Okay.
This is not how this works.
There's no lady there spinning flax into flax into gold.
Okay.
So that aside, there was also a second number that Yves Giraud, the head of the Parliamentary Budget Office, had calculated.
And that is what the Taxpayers Federation talked about all the time.
That is what the Conservatives talked about quite often.
That's frankly what the NDP should be bringing up all the time too.
So that is basically the, yes, the cost of filling up your vehicle.
So it's about $20 now per pickup truck, just in the carbon tax, around $400 per household here in Alberta, for example, to heat your home with natural gas.
Then you layer in the truckers cost.
So that's about 200 bucks in diesel for the carbon tax every time they're filling up their trucks, plus the farmers.
Now you get the layering effect.
Okay.
That is the other number, the second number that the parliamentary budget officer came up with.
Okay.
That's what everybody talked about.
So including the taxpayers federation, when we say the PBO estimates that over $900 will be the net cost for an average Alberta family.
That's all your background.
All that said, now the Parliamentary Budget Office, I'm not quite sure why, are recalculating the carbon tax cost.
So I think there was a question as to whether or not the researchers at the Parliamentary Budget Office had included what's often referred to as the industrial carbon taxes of various provinces when they were doing that second calculation number.
Okay.
That's what I've heard.
Okay.
That is like the scuttlebutt that we've been hearing.
Now, what was interesting, because of course we heard that and we're like, really?
Because that's a pretty big number and a pretty big factor.
Like if you factor that in, you need to account for it.
And we need to know.
Like, number one, we know that it still costs Canadians.
Like you can't put a tax on the lifeblood of the economy of gasoline, diesel, and natural gas, how we eat and heat and move, and not cost Canadians a ton of money.
Yep.
That's understood.
But we were concerned because we like having the exact precise number to point to in a chart.
Now, this is the key.
Apparently, Giraud, the parliamentary budget officer, says, oh, this is still a cost, like net cost.
So the Trudeau carbon tax is still a net cost to the majority of Canadian families is what the verbiage is coming out of that office right now.
But apparently that, as far as I understand, that part of the report that they're trying to recalculate, they're apparently not letting him say so.
They're not letting him release that number or that information.
It's ongoing right now as of our taping on Tuesday.
Like there's back and forth committee and everything and happening in the House of Commons.
So that's where we're at as of right now is apparently the Trudeau government is not letting the parliamentary budget officer release that new number.
So what do you think that means?
Do you think it's even worse for the government?
Yeah.
That would be my guess.
Like even just taking my CTF hat off.
And I've worked on the other side of the rope line for a little while on Parliamentel.
So I've worked in a minister's office.
You know, I was involved with some of this stuff before.
I can't see why if it were lower than people were tomorrow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Like it would be out tomorrow with a press conference and like a full meal deal backdrop and stuff.
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Even if they tried to do that, you try to convince me that you can put a carbon tax on everything we use to heat and eat and move and grow food.
Right.
It wouldn't make sense.
But even just numerically, if it somehow magically numerically came out and said, oh, it costs people much less, it would already be out.
They wouldn't be trying to suppress that information.
So yeah, that's, that's where my money is.
Yeah.
I mean, if they forgot to factor in large emitters, that means they didn't factor in electricity into it.
Right?
Yeah.
For folks in BC who only use hydro, a lot of electricity is produced using natural gas.
To your point, Sheila.
Or coal.
Yeah.
So that means like in Alberta, when we're refrigerating the groceries in the grocery store and that the increased cost of electricity adds to the cost of milk, that's not being factored in if they're missing large emitters from all of this.
Yeah, big time.
Big time.
And then there's also different elements of farming where I'm not sure they can fully understand exactly how much it's, it's costing mega bucks.
Right.
I mean, that's that's again, not factoring in electricity in a hog barn or a poultry barn, which are incredibly electricity intensive.
Yep.
Yep.
It's just for heating, right?
So you try to say, say you use natural gas or propane to heat or cool, like to heat the barn and you have to keep your poultry barn at a steady 30.
Yeah, you're not keeping in the electrification there too.
Like I just finished talking to a lovely gentleman out near the fan, the fans in a fan barn are going constantly.
And so even if they're capturing the natural gas in what we call a pig tank, the fans, you're right.
Sitting outside, the electricity for a poultry or hog barn are so, it's so intensive because of the constant fans going inside.
I just finished getting back.
We'll probably have the video up in the next couple of weeks.
This lovely gentleman who's a fish farmer in Claire's home of all places.
So I'm from the West Coast.
So the idea of growing fish in the middle of the prairie was astonishing.
Is he doing it in a sea can?
It was, no, it's this gigantic thing.
You should see it.
There's a guy who grows them in, I think it's salmon in a sea can.
That's a long sea can is just, you know, prairie innovation.
It is amazing.
Yeah.
They're these massive concrete tanks and they're beautiful, healthy tilapia fish right here in Canada.
So you don't need to import them at all.
You should see these big honking healthy fish.
They were amazing.
But you're right.
It was this gigantic room, like the size close to like a hockey rink.
And it was full of tanks.
And you're right.
The fans and the aerators and the bubblers, of course, to keep all these filters going and stuff and all the aeration and the air movement.
You're right.
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And so I'm waiting.
I really want to know what those numbers are coming out of the parliamentary budget office.
But that is there's so much going on.
I know things are crazy in the United States.
I know there's like censorship everywhere.
But even here in Canada, man, there's so much going on.
And so like the Netflix tax is just the beginning.
There's also a huge, apparently there's something going on with their green fund where there's a big auditor general coming out where they're risking a bunch of money.
This is it.
This, this is it.
And so a little part of me wonders if the Netflix tax was supposed to be distraction.
Like, you know, back when, you know, we call it distraction chicken in Trailer Park Boys.
Remember when they set up all that fried chicken on the counter for Ricky?
Right.
So I think, I think the Netflix tax might be distraction chicken away from like the bigger ones of how much it's costing people with these Auditor General reports, but we shall see.
Stay tuned.
Oh, can't wait.
Can't wait.
Chris, tell us how people can get involved in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and support the work that you do because you don't take money from Justin Trudeau.
How could you hold him to account if you did?
But also, you don't even like reap the tax benefits of being, you know, a not-for-profit organization.
You guys just completely wash your hands of any sort of government benefits.
Yeah, we don't even, if you give us a donation, we really thank you, guys, but we don't even give you a tax receipt for it because we don't want to cost any money in any way, shape, or form.
So yeah, we're not a charity.
We're a not-for-profit for that reason.
So you can go to taxpayer.com.
And what I love about it is you can sign any petition there that you want.
And I can hear it right now.
Petitions don't do anything.
Yes, they do because then you join our standing army on that issue.
And it can be whatever you want.
Defund the CBC, stop the gun grab, stop having PST charge on thrift shop items in British Columbia, Sheila.
And that means you're now part of that standing army.
And whenever it comes up, we will send you an email blast of now, phone the minister, email the minister, you know, help us buy a chicken suit.
Let's do a protest.
So it mobilizes you.
So just go to taxpayer.com, read what we're all about, and you can sign petitions that tickle your fancy.
You know, it also does another thing.
Ralph Klein once said, show me a parade that's marching and I'll jump in front of it and lead it.
And so what these petitions do, the size of these petitions shows your conservative politician that might be a little bit of a distraction chicken coward, that there are thousands of people who care deeply about this issue.
The parade is marching and a good opportunistic politician will jump in front of it and lead that parade.
And so it signals to the politicians on your side that you care deeply about these issues and they need to fight for them.
So it changes policies and it gives politicians courage.
So sign these petitions.
Perfect example.
And I say this earnestly and with full respect.
There was a blistering op-ed.
You've probably read it that Pierre Polya put in the National Post about two or three weeks ago.
And he said, not really interested in having a lobby group come meet me in the office for some rubber chicken lunch.
What I care about, I'm paraphrasing him, is when I'm knocking on doors and a normal person tells me about it.
Yeah.
Or when a normal person emails me or phones me directly.
Tell, convince the people and the people can help work with me.
Now, again, we're totally in favor of him wanting to scrap the carbon tax, defund the CBC, cancel the gun grab.
There's lots of good stuff that he's promising to do.
And he's saying so directly in this piece.
If you haven't read it, go read it.
He wrote it in the National Post.
And it's exactly to our point.
If you bring the people off of the stance, you get them in the arena, you build the army of people, real people, we will convince politicians to go in the right direction.
And he said as much.
From your lips to God's ears, Chris Sims.
Thanks so much for coming on the show.
You know, no offense to my other guests, but this is some of the funnest work I do every single month.
It's having a show.
I really wish the folks were privy to our pre-hit record conversations.
But then sometimes I wish I'm sort of glad they're not.
Anyway, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Thanks so much for all the work that you do on behalf of normal people just like me, just trying to keep a little bit of extra money in their bank account.
And as always, we'll have you back on again very soon.
Thanks, Sheila.
Well, we've come to the portion of the show wherein I invite your viewer feedback because without you, there's no Rebel News.
Of course, we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau.
So you need to have your say.
That's why I give you my email address right now.
If you've got a question, comment, viewer feedback about the show tonight with Chris Sims, put gun show letters in the subject line of an email addressed to me at this email address.
Viewer Feedback Revealed00:03:43
It's not complicated.
It's Sheila at RebelNews.com.
Now, last week, I made you the guest of the show.
Regular viewers of the show will know that I was in the back of an RV filming my show because we were screening our latest documentary called Made, The Dark Side of Canadian Compassion.
It touches on Justin Trudeau's radical euthanasia policies, what he calls medical assistance in dying.
I was in a parking lot in Fort St. John, British Columbia, while the documentary was showing at the Lido Theater, and I wanted to make good use of my time.
But as I indicated, I didn't have time to book a show guest, and how could I?
I was filming the show on the fly, and I made a call out for your viewer feedback.
I said, send me a letter.
I'll read as many of them as I can on air while still making the show not 10 hours long because, boy, did I ever get a lot of viewer feedback there.
So I thought, I'll go back and pick another one this week.
And I did.
This one comes to me from David McCready, who writes to me saying, I live in New Brunswick.
Premier Higgs has made big headlines in the last year around the broad issue of parental rights and children under 16.
What do your listeners in other provinces think about this matter?
Thanks, Sheila.
Okay.
I'm a fan of Blaine Higgs now.
I have not been a fan of Blaine Higgs in the past.
Actually, I should clarify.
I'm a fan of Blaine Higgs on this issue, which I think is an election issue for a lot of people.
I was not a fan of Blaine Higgs for how he treated the pastors during the lockdowns and regular people during the lockdowns, including my friend, Pastor Phil Hutchins, who spent seven days in solitary confinement for the crime of what? Opening his church.
And then subsequent Pastor Phil and his family, along with him, were dragged through the court system for several months, a year.
So not a Blaine Higgs fan there.
Blaine Higgs is doing his best to redeem himself, however, because he is going after the use of what should be a safe place for children, the classroom, by radical sexual activists to indoctrinate children into their radical agenda and thus expose other people's kids to sexualized materials before the parents think the children are ready and behind the parents' backs.
And some of this stuff is so atrocious, I don't think anybody could be ready.
Look, look, I'm not ready to see some of it.
I'm in my 40s and my middle child just became an adult.
So that should tell you how graphic some of it is.
It grosses me out.
I don't have a strong stomach for that sort of stuff and it revolts me.
So I like what Blaine Higgs is doing.
I think he joins Scott Moe and Premier Daniel Smith here in Alberta in taking a strong stance to protect the innocence of children and to give parents a say in the education system.
On what planet should someone who is ostensibly a stranger be exposing somebody else's minor child to graphic sexual material behind the parents' back?
If you think that that's okay, I want to see your hard drive.
Coming Nonpartisan Issue00:01:11
Right?
Anyway, I think most normal people are happy to see what Blaine Higgs is doing.
I think some of the other conservative premiers should follow suit.
I'm looking at you, Doug Ford.
I would like to see Doug Ford take a strong stance on this, but he's just sort of taking a hands-off approach.
Who knows?
We might see the closer he gets to re-election time coming out on this issue because it is a nonpartisan issue.
This is a thing that lots of people who are traditional liberal voters care deeply about.
So we'll see.
So if you want to know what people across the other provinces think about this, I think we're fans.
I think we approve.
Rubber stamp of approval from, I believe, the viewers over here at The Gun Show.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week.
Although I made that guarantee two weeks ago, and I was not in the same place I normally am.
But, you know, that's my sign-off, so don't take it literally.