Sheila Gunn-Reid welcomes Drea Humphrey, BC Bureau Chief at Rebel News, who details how the "We Unify" conference—now sold out—was falsely labeled "transphobic" by groups like One Million Voices of Inclusion, sparking a backlash. Humphrey debunks unfounded claims about Kamloops graves and gender-affirming care, noting cancel culture’s Streisand effect amplified support even from left-leaning allies. She highlights LGBTQ+ propaganda in schools (e.g., Souk BC’s forced pride events) and BC’s urban housing policies, warning of infrastructure failures like Calgary’s water main break. Humphrey ties these issues to Canada’s free speech decline and political fragmentation ahead of the 2024 election. [Automatically generated summary]
Radical left-wing cry bullies try to get the Ford Speech Conference canceled in British Columbia and then they fail spectacularly.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Friends, you know what the Streisand effect is.
I'm sure you've heard the phrase used before, but do you know where it comes from?
Let's go to Wikipedia, which is not always the most reliable of resources, but it's pretty fair this time around.
So the Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbara Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu taken to document coastal erosion in California inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
So now you know what the Streisand effect is and why it has that name and why it seems to always be the case.
When you try to censor something, that's when people have their attention drawn to it.
When you try to censor me, that's why I get a little bit louder.
The exact thing has happened in British Columbia at a conference called We Unify.
This is the third year of the conference, but this year, the conference is very nearly sold out.
Why?
Because of left-wing attempts to censor the speakers, including my friend Dre Humphrey, who joins me right now to discuss We Unify.
Take a listen.
Joining me now is my friend, Rebel News All-Star and BC Bureau Chief Drea Humphrey to discuss the attempts to cancel a pretty mainstream conference given the list of speakers and activists there.
including her.
Drea, what's going on in British Columbia this time?
Well, thanks for having me.
It's never a dull moment in Left Coast, British Columbia.
You're right.
The conference itself, it's non-partisan.
It's called We Unify.
It takes place in Victoria.
I've covered it for the public two years in a row.
I spoke at it last year.
And it really is just a discussion.
People come together and talk about ways to improve Canada.
And unlike the previous two years where it went by at the Capitol without much backlash, if any, this time the forces, the Rainbow Mafia, has come out and claimed it as a transphobic, hateful event, in particular, because of speakers like myself.
Okay, but they don't know what you're going to say.
Exactly.
Well, not only that, they kind of do.
The topic of this conference is focusing on disinformation and censorship.
And it's crazy because these activists and these groups have come out and spread disinformation to demand censorship.
They're not even hiding it anymore.
They actually have a campaign from a group called One Million Voices of Inclusion, and it's just called cancel the conference.
Like, there's no, that really is it.
And, you know, they're making themselves, you know, a victim in this situation when there has been no crime.
And there is no indication that it was even going to focus on anything to do with LGBTQ.
Now, is that going to come up?
Of course it is.
It's Pride Month.
It's pretty much impossible to go anywhere.
I saw a meme.
I'll give it to you.
You can put it on the screen.
You know, a person trying to shop for belts and socks or something like that.
And you're going to see Pride propaganda everywhere.
So I imagine it's going to come up, but it's certainly not the focus.
But do these people understand that they are like it's impossible to parody them anymore?
Like I can't say, like, I can't even make fun of cancel culture anymore because every time I try to poke fun at them, they take that as like an inspiration to do the next dumb thing.
It's a conference about censorship and they're calling for you to be censored.
For me, I think this speaks to how effective these gatherings really are because after two years of it really not being on their radar, they're realizing, oh, shoot, they're having like reasonable conversations and advancing ideas and inspiring people.
We better shut them up.
How are they going about their attempts to cancel the conference?
Are they putting pressure on the conference organizers?
I know sometimes they go and put pressure on the venues themselves to put them in an untenable situation.
How is this happening?
Well, they're doing it in a few ways.
They had a little bit of success in one area.
I'll explain that.
The main thing they're doing is focusing on this list of most dangerous speakers.
And I think there's five names.
And of course, I made the list.
The first time I saw the list come out by my name, it said that I was dangerous because I make a living off of glorifying my likes.
And I was like, what does that even mean?
I don't know what that means.
And I was quite disappointed.
If you're going to make up a lie about me, at least have something good.
So they've switched it now to me being transphobic.
And one of their activists who goes by, or maybe her name is, May Monique May or Mae Monique, they've even gone to a city council meeting, granted after Victoria said, hey, listen, this conference is taking place at the Victoria Convention Center and we are subject to the Constitution.
People have the right to freely gather and express themselves.
So that was good for Victoria because we've seen a different response to that in Quebec to the BC pastor who had just a worship convention going on.
But in response to that, you had a couple of activists go to a council meeting demanding that it be canceled.
And this Monique May went so far as to talk about my Kamloops documentary.
Of course, she didn't actually explain what it was about.
She didn't mention at all that it had anything to do with debunking the false claim that there had been 215 unmarked graves of children discovered there, which was never discovered.
Instead, she said that it's denying residential schools.
So they're really taking these cheap shots.
What did seem or has been effective is there was supposed to be a dinner, sort of a pre-conference dinner that was supposed to take place at Victoria's, it's called the Union Club of BC.
And it's a really nice venue and people are going to get together and that has been canceled.
So the Union Club canceled that.
Apparently there's another location for this.
Of course, they're not announcing that location.
And then the conference itself is continuing to go on as scheduled.
Another name that they're going after in the list of five, which is quite shocking, is Zuby.
And if you know anything about Zuby, he just, I've never met the guy, but he just seems like the nicest guy ever.
He's very chill, very low-key, musician, podcaster, author, public speaker, very intelligent, and they're going after him.
And it's just embarrassing.
He's coming from the United States to actually host it.
As you know, everybody has eyes on Canada as an example of how far you can fall and where not to go.
So there are some Americans that are invested in this and coming to like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Drew Pinsky, but they're really going after Zubi for some weird reason.
You know, it's so strange because like I just made a note.
Like if I were on the left, if they were like you guys, your list of people to be canceled or like the five deadliest speakers, pretty diverse.
I know.
Like the cancel culture list is probably more diverse than the people calling for cancel culture.
They're always asking for like representation of people of color on lists.
And like, I guess they did it this time.
Yeah.
And you know, they're not getting the response that they want to get, of course, like I mentioned from the city.
I also saw some Reddit chats about it.
And I'll give you this to put on the screen here.
But just as an example, and I'm seeing this happen all over social media with people who are trying to have it canceled and saying, sign our letter campaign.
That's another thing they're doing, a letter campaign where they want you sending the letter to the city council.
And so you have this activist here who has basically put this out.
Oh my gosh, there's these transphobic speakers coming and we have to have it canceled.
And in the Reddit thread, people are responding to the spore man.
And they're just saying, you're giving them more publicity.
Like, just leave them alone.
Now, I didn't even know about this conference.
Now I've heard about it five times.
How many more people are buying tickets?
And a lot of them, surprisingly, appear to be on the left.
They're like, I don't agree with this.
I don't like this.
I don't like those speakers.
However, we have freedom of speech and we shouldn't be attacking it.
And so his very last post after everybody goes to it, the sporeman says, shoot, sorry, all.
I thought Victoria was a progressive city full of compassionate people.
My bad.
You're bad, buddy.
Yeah, so the pendulum has definitely swung here.
Things are changing and people are realizing that the whole hijacked LGBTQ plus community, it's no longer what it was.
It's not about equality.
And that people who are saying very common sense things like children shouldn't be able to mutilate and sterilize themselves are not transphobes.
Right.
I think that's where most people are.
They're like, I don't care how you live your life.
I'm too busy living mine to care.
But would you mind leaving the little ones alone?
I think that's where most people are.
And that's not a radical sentiment.
It was the completely sane sentiment until like 30 seconds ago.
Now, for the speakers part, I know you will not be rattled by this.
I think you come at this the same way I do.
If you're telling me to shut up, I'm just going to talk louder.
But the rest of the speakers, are some of them being rattled or are they more stalwart than ever that they're going to go to this conference and talk?
I mean, I'm not organizing the conference.
From what I know, there has been no rattling.
I've asked for updates on, you know, now that the push to cancel it, what are the updates?
I haven't got any updates.
Now, Lauren Chen was supposed to be the host.
And for personal reasons, she's not able to come.
The activists are twisting that as though it has something to do with them.
So just to be clear, she has not been affected by this at all.
Think the people on the list, you know, we're used to this.
We've been speaking out about many different things.
If you're standing for freedom now, apparently that's controversial.
So we're kind of all used to this cancel culture thing in our own ways, and it's not too surprising.
So.
So, how do people get tickets?
Because I know, Rebel News viewers, we can hear you talk every single day for free by and large.
But how do people, if they want to support what I think is a rebellious act of free speech to go to this conference at this point?
At this point.
Before it would have just been informative and funny, and you get to see people who don't normally you don't normally get to see in Canada, which is great.
But now, this is a rebellious act of opposition to cancel culture.
How do people get tickets to see you speak?
Well, my understanding is the tickets are almost sold out.
Again, I'm not organizing it, and it's a pretty large venue.
It's like doing cancel culture.
I know, right?
It's a pretty large venue, but if you go to weunify.ca, then you will be able to get a ticket if there's still a ticket left.
And I will definitely see you there.
And yeah, I do think it's taking a stand for freedom of speech at this point.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some scraggly protesters there.
It is Victoria after all.
But I think everybody's just ready to push past that anyways and actually try to get some solutions for how to move forward in a better fashion for Canada.
Yeah, I think that's great.
And like the whole name of the conference speaks to what it is.
How do we reunify this divisive culture that we live in?
Yeah.
Thanks to our politicians and their segregationist policies.
Speaking of segregationist policies, let's talk about Pride Month, Pride Season.
You know, like you and I were talking before I hit record.
Oh, what a relief.
We're almost half, well, we are halfway through Pride Month, but you rightfully corrected me.
No, no, Sheila, it's Pride season now.
We are, I guess, only one-sixth of the way through that.
But I think the tide is turning.
I think a lot of people have had enough.
They are, by and large, accepting of sexual minorities, except insofar as, and I think this is where I'm at.
I don't care what you do, but just don't make me care.
And a lot of people are being tired of being made to care because they're tired of constantly being on guard for what's being pushed at their children.
What sort of stories are you working on in the progressive hotbed of British Columbia right now?
Yeah, well, the tips keep coming in.
It's never ending.
And my stomach is churning each time because, of course, the tips that come in are related to children most of the time.
That's where I think people have had enough.
School Secrets Exposed00:04:30
It's one thing to have to go into stores and see these things in the commercials.
Or the other day I was watching YouTube makeup tutorials.
It's all men.
Like half of it is men popping up.
When you shop, if you shop online, you look for things.
You're looking.
I was looking at HM yesterday and it was what I believe is a little boy.
It looks like an Adam's apple in the women's dress section.
So that's one thing.
But when you come for the kids, that's where people start saying the quiet part out loud.
And so many of you did see my recent report.
If not, I recommend you watch that because it's representative of so many things that are happening in the school district right now.
But it was the Souk BC district and they basically, behind parents' back, plotted how can we best get these kids to a pride parade without the parents knowing until last second.
And oh, your kid, you don't want your kid to go to that?
Well, then they can't go to school.
And so, of course, some people are like, good, don't take them to school, but you should have the option to take the child to school.
It shouldn't be forced on you if your child won't engage in sex activism.
So, I actually have more stories coming up like that.
Now, that I'm sure Sheila, you see this too.
When you put something out, then you get more tips related to that.
So, now I see that this isn't just an isolated event to that district.
There's more districts.
So, stay tuned to that, but be very vigilant about what your kids are being taught in school.
In the beginning of that report, I talk about a family member.
I'll just say it's one of my nieces who, long story short, she was taken out of school to avoid the pride madness that happens in the beginning of the year.
And in her absence, the teacher made a pride flag for her.
Like, at what point do you miss school and the teacher does your homework for you?
The teacher does your assignment for you.
That is nuts.
So, she came back to school.
The teacher gives her this and takes it home.
And, of course, she gave it to me.
But it was so funny when I was talking to her, I was like, you know, do you ever do anything for like Black History Month?
And she's like, what's that?
You know what I mean?
Like, so it's just, there's this, this unreasonable, unnatural focus on this under the guise of inclusivity.
So I have lots of reports.
And in fact, those reports happen all year because this is being pushed all year.
It's just more potent this time in the end, the best month of school.
That's when it gets celebrated and worshipped the most.
Yeah.
And this, as you rightly point out, happens in the most pernicious of ways.
So you think in Alberta we're safe, right?
We've got a premier who's taking a stand against this stuff.
Safer.
And Saskatchewan also premier taking a stand against this stuff.
But these activist teachers frequently find a workaround.
So our friend Sarah Stock just did a report about what happened in an Edmonton high school where parents are supposed to be alerted in advance about this sort of stuff.
But what they did was they left it till almost the very last second to alert parents about a lunchtime drag queen coming in and gyrating in sequin ladies' underpants to a bunch of high schoolers and failing to alert the parents in any sort of adequate amount of time.
And then I know I was just tipped off to a story in Saskatchewan where Saskatchewan has outlawed or at least done their best to yank a lot of this sex activism out of the classroom.
But when you know you get an activist librarian who is shoveling up the sex activist books to little kids.
And I'm wondering, you know, like when your kid comes home from school and you're they're like, who's the Anthony Henday Highway named after?
And you're like, why are they teaching about pride stuff when you don't know who one of the first Europeans to see the interior of Alberta and British Columbia is?
I mean, we're really missing the boat.
China's going to take us over because their kids are going to be smarter.
Well, I think that's the goal.
But I'm reminded of one interview I did.
And it was very, I don't know, if progressive is the right word, it was a father.
And his child brought one of those books home.
I think it was a 13-year-old girl.
And he's very open to all of this, except he had to hide the books from her younger sibling.
Pride Propaganda Pushback00:02:19
Right.
And he's like, I should not have to hide school books from her siblings.
And that to him was like, okay, something's wrong here.
Like he was okay that the child appeared to learn something in school and now be questioning her identity, who she was.
He was okay with that.
But he's like, it just doesn't seem right that I have to hide school books from them.
So there's so much of that happening.
And it reminds me of the COVID stuff where people were quiet, not saying much, and then people started talking, then everybody started talking, then you see the memes, then you see the jokes.
And then it gets to the point where they push it so hard that there's like a hesitancy created.
Now we know, for example, with flu vaccines, people aren't getting flu vaccines.
Even healthcare workers, they're not getting flu vaccines.
It's dropped so much because of what the government did.
And I think that that's starting to happen now with all of the pride propaganda.
People didn't mind when they saw it here and there.
And now they're, you know, I saw in Walmart there was onesies.
I was looking for a white onesie actually for a baby shower.
And there was only pride white onesies.
And somebody had already put them on the floor.
It was me.
I might have been addicted.
But they were all just laying on the floor, all of them.
And so I'm like, people have just had enough.
And you've created sort of hesitancy to any real issues that might be in that group now.
People are like, they don't care.
They don't want to hear about it.
Yeah, you know, and it's from the people who you would normally suspect would be like supportive of that side of things.
For example, I was speaking to somebody who works in like aesthetics and hairdressing and stuff like that the other day.
And, you know, like that's a very gay industry, right?
Like a lot of men who work in like nails and hair, like that's a gay industry.
And her and her male colleague were like, I don't know why they have to play the sports against the girls.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, me neither.
That's a big one, yeah.
But Leah Thomas, I heard, not Leah Thomas.
Yeah.
Yeah, Leah Thomas, Liar Thomas.
Yes.
Yeah, Liar Thomas.
I'm so used to saying liar.
Is not allowed to compete now, am I right?
Rise Of BC Conservatives00:06:30
Yes.
That was big news.
Yeah, the tides are turning.
I really do believe that I think the left has overplayed their hand, as they always do.
This side, or this time, it didn't end in mass extermination, as it tends to do when the left overplays their hand.
But I'm hopeful that normal people have just had enough.
You know, like you're shamed into going along with a lot of these things.
You know, like it's our job to be contrarian.
And so we are a little bit more empowered than other people who may face job loss if they tell the truth.
So I think we're very lucky in that regard.
But a lot of people have been just sort of shamed into going along with this, and now they've had enough.
We're seeing it with this issue.
We're seeing it with climate change issues.
Like people who are like, oh, you know, whatever.
The TV tells me that my SUV is causing climate change.
Okay, whatever.
I believe it.
Until now they can't afford to eat because of climate policies.
And all of a sudden, the pendulum is swinging back the other way.
So hopefully we maybe only have 18 more months to deal with this nonsense.
Well, in BC, we have the polls coming in four months, less than four months.
So it should be very interesting to see what happens.
You know, and before I let you go, because I know we're both very, very busy today, predictions about the political landscape in British Columbia.
I know that you weren't always a very careful watcher about, you know, political parties in BC, although it's very interesting now, everything that's going on.
You have a rise of a Conservative Party.
Your right-of-center party is moving more to the right in response to that.
The left, your NDP, is adopting some conservative policies in an attempt, I think, to save themselves from themselves with regard to safe injection and a safe supply.
They're sort of cozying up to the conservatives on that issue after being proponents of drug legalization for a very long time.
What's happening in BC?
Yeah, it is a fascinating time in BC politics.
Very interesting stuff happening.
I guess I'll let people know we do have a website called BC LeadershipReports.ca, where I've been throwing all of those reports on it.
But basically, out of nowhere, the dormant Conservative Party came to life, I guess you could say in 2022.
And then BC United, which was, they called it a coalition party.
But if you were a conservative voter in the province, that's pretty much who you voted for.
They used to be called BC Liberals, which was very confusing.
You know, they had ousted John Rusted, who is now the leader of the Conservative Party.
And they have last I checked four MLAs that have all come from the BC United Party.
And so there's been a lot going on.
There were talks of a merger.
Then it was very clear there's no merger happening.
Shots were fired back and forth.
Crazy.
So, you know, as far as predictions going, you have people saying, oh, there's going to be a massive vote splitting because those two center-right parties didn't come together.
When you look at the polls, you see that the BC Conservatives are just nailing BC United.
I mean, last I checked, I think BC United was getting like, I want to say like 10% or something like that.
And there's even some polls where the BC Conservatives are doing just as good as the NDP.
I think that the NDP is still strong because the support for EB is staying the same.
It's not moving that much, but the Conservatives keep creeping up to it.
So very fascinating time, and the next few months are very crucial for that party and BC United for sure.
Yeah, I'm just very worried for British Columbia because we did live through a vote split that delivered us the NDP here in Alberta because we had two Conservative parties.
One the old one, won the new one.
Now the new one took over the old one, changed the name.
So hopefully you guys get through that, but there's not enough time to do that before the next election.
And I think you suffer from the same thing.
I think everywhere in this country suffers from is that the population base in Vancouver, much the same way the population base in parts of Calgary and all of Edmonton lean far left.
And that forces the rest of the province to live under the tyranny of the far left for a long time until finally everybody has had enough.
But hopefully everybody can get their act together in British Columbia.
And it would be really nice to have that entire Western block of the country staring at Justin Trudeau and instilling fear in the hearts of the liberals in Laurentia.
Yeah, that would be a beauty.
Drea, thanks so much for the hard work that you do here at Rebel News, advocating for families and for children and for accountability in government.
And I know I have to let you go, let you get back to work.
But I can't wait to see what you do next.
Thanks for having me.
Well, as always, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback because, well, without you, there's no Rebel News.
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Green Infrastructure Dilemma00:05:27
Leave a comment in the comment section of those two platforms, YouTube or Rumble, and sometimes I go poking around over there, which is exactly what I did today.
So today's viewer feedback comes from Sandy Trimble on YouTube, who wrote in on last week's show with Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science, who pointed out how problematic,
to use the language of the left, it is for the federal government to be injecting their expensive, failed, and potentially devastating green schemes into municipal housing policies, tying green,
affordable funding for housing to green schemes that have to be implemented locally, where, you know, Calgary's climate is, of course, different than Edmonton's climate, which is different than Fort McMurray's climate, which is different than Victoria, British Columbia's climate.
So how do you do this?
And should you even do it, given the unreliable nature of green policies and how they can add to the cost of home building, right?
So Sandy Trimble writes, if you live in a nice suburban neighborhood, read older suburban neighborhood where you have an actual lot with mature trees, get prepared for multiple four plexes and all that will bring to your homes.
Drastically increased numbers of people using the same resources.
Buildings, shadowing homes in perpetual shade, lack of street amenities such as trees, etc.
No visual attractiveness to your streets and a lot more noise.
Just like the neighborhoods in Toronto that allowed small homes to be torn down for big mansions to be built, except the four plexes won't have any of the attractiveness of the mansions.
Yeah, there will be no character in our cities.
They're all going to look gross and the same.
And why are we even doing this?
We're one of the most sparsely populated places on the face of the earth here in Canada.
Why do we have to crowd everybody in on top of each other in these little human ant farms with these like six or seven hundred square foot coffins stacked on top of each other for people to live in?
That's not how people want to live.
That's not the human inclination.
We are a communal people as in we like to live near other people.
We're not a solitary species, but we also like room to grow and build and innovate.
So what we're doing to people in the pursuit of fighting, I don't know, urban sprawl as though that's a bad thing to have urban sprawl spread out people enjoying nature and not having people within elbow's reach.
But what we're doing to people is antithetical to everything we know about humanity.
And what happened during COVID, right?
They had concerns about New York subways being too crowded and that it might spread COVID too fast.
Well, that wasn't actually the case, but let's say we had like a real pandemic and not whatever COVID was.
Having people, we know this from the Middle Ages.
We know this from the plague.
Having people stacked on top of each other in condensed urban centers is bad for human health and sanitation and disease control.
So yeah, this is just a terrible idea all around.
Calgary is a great example of this, by the way.
Calgary right now is under water restrictions because this world-class gem of a city invested into green nonsense and public art instead of actual infrastructure.
You know, the city didn't do the one thing that the city exists to do, and that's to provide reliable infrastructure and sanitation.
They didn't bother to do that.
They built ugly art and thought that they needed to set aside 80 plus billion dollars for green nonsense.
And now a massive water main broke.
For some reason, the city is not calling in the private sector because if there's anything we know how to do here in Alberta, it's building fixed pipelines.
But the city isn't bringing in the private sector to deal with the water main break, and I've got my suspicions why.
As in, I think the private sector might point out a whole host of problems they see, engineering problems with the public infrastructure that Mayor Giodi Gondek and previous to her, Nahid Nenshi, completely ignored.
That's my conspiracy theory.
But Calgary didn't ramp up its essential infrastructure to deal with how they are now currently trying to pile people in on top of each other.
And so continuing to do this in cities across the country, as Michelle Sterling pointed out, is going to cause catastrophic infrastructure failings, all in the name of green energy.
So let's not do it.
This is why I don't live anywhere.
Like I lived somewhere, but I don't live in a city.
I don't live in a town.
I'm on the land, not near any neighbors.
And I like it that way.
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.