Sheila Gunn-Reid and Lise Merle dissect Saskatchewan’s election, where Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party won 35 seats despite media polls predicting an NDP landslide. Rural voters rejected urban fear-mongering, while Regina and Saskatoon leaned NDP, leaving conservative urbanites without alternatives. Moe’s defiance of Trudeau’s carbon tax contrasts with Alberta’s crown corporation plan, Gunn-Reid argues. Merle exposes the Regina Public School Board’s $30K FOI stonewalling over a "trans health panel series," vowing to uncover 90% of hidden documents to challenge parental exclusion in education. Viewer comments highlight NDP failures across Canada, reinforcing their call for conservative reform and parental rights. [Automatically generated summary]
Another province votes, and we have the results a lot sooner than British Columbia.
Tonight, we're discussing what happened in Saskatchewan and what comes next.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Whether you were successful or not, thank you for putting your name on a ballot.
It's no small thing to put your name in that ballot, your name on a line sign, and to put yourself out in the public arena.
To stand up and say, you want to represent your community, you want to represent your neighbors, and you want to represent your friends.
And so I would say to each and every candidate that put their name on a ballot this election, I appreciate the fact that you did that, and I thank you for doing that.
And I also appreciate the family that you have that supported you in doing that.
And I want to say as well that I would say thank you to each of the party leaders for what they have done, not just over the course of the past month, but for the course of their time as a leader.
And I want to single out Carla Beck for the very strong campaign that she ran.
And I want to thank not only her, but thank her family as well that supports her and the work that she has done each and every day as opposition leader, but also the work that she does as leader of the NDP party.
She ran a strong campaign and credit to Carla Beck.
That is re-elected Saskatchewan Party Premier Scott Moe on election night, accepting his victory with grace and dignity, unlike the NDP's Carla Beck, who suffered a devastating loss as Scott Moe's party takes 35 seats in the Saskatchewan legislature and Carla Beck's NDP took 26.
However, if you got all your news from the mainstream media, you would have thought this thing was an absolute lock for the NDP.
The pollsters in the mainstream media seem to be hardest hit getting it wrong.
Why?
Because the good people of rural Saskatchewan didn't buy the fear-mongering from both the NDP and the mainstream media and voted for Scott Mo's strong, stable, majority, conservative-style government.
So what does this all mean for us here in Alberta?
What does it mean for the people in Saskatchewan, particularly with the contentious battle over what happens in the classrooms?
Headed to a municipal election later on in November.
Joining me tonight is my good friend, Lise Merle.
She's a broadcaster.
She is the viral get off my lawn mom from a Canada Proud video, and she's running for the Regina Public School Board.
She's an activist.
She's a mama bear, and she's got a lot to say.
Take a listen.
Joining me now is my good real life friend and good friend of Rebel News, Lise Merle.
She is the viral get off my lawn mom and Regina Public School Board candidate and our special envoy into Saskatchewan politics.
Lise, thanks so much for coming on the show.
I think the hardest hit in Saskatchewan right now is the mainstream media with the outcome of the election.
Well, hello, Rebel fam.
It's so good to be here again with you, Sheila.
I mean, it's never a bad time to spend time with you.
But oh, the mainstream media, the polling companies and the woke left are absolutely losing their minds over the last couple of days because in the lead up to the Saskatchewan election, it was basically a done deal.
Like if you were paying attention to the mainstream media, the pollsters and everybody else on the woke left, it was going to be a Carla Beck, Saskatchewan NDP smoke show on election day.
And what they got, I mean, the NDP, yes, they did gain.
They did gain, especially in the urban centers.
But rural Saskatchewan, oh, they held it down for us.
I mean, to say thank a farmer is a gross understatement.
I'm at the point where I'm willing to carry the babies of those farmers.
That's how thankful I am for them for them showing up for us because it is only for the rural people, the good, hardworking rural folks in Saskatchewan that kept us out of a socialist hellhole for the next four years in Saskatchewan.
And I mean, us urban conservatives just couldn't be more grateful to those guys.
So yeah, it's a great day in Saskatchewan.
It's a great day.
And us Albertans, really grateful that rural Saskatchewan did not lose its collective mind and did the right thing because yesterday in Alberta, we just launched a legal challenge again over Justin Trudeau's carbon tax and the unfair application of it, which is something we know is near and dear to Premier Alex Scott Moe's heart.
Yes.
And we did not want to lose an ally in this fight.
Oh, it would have been disastrous to have Alberta being the lone conservative holdout on the prairies and in the country.
I mean, can we really consider Doug Ford a conservative?
Not really.
I mean, in name only.
But no, Saskatchewan and Alberta really did, really are sisters at heart.
We work in lockstep with each other.
And we know what a good productive cross-border relationship does and looks like, where we don't have to do double the work.
We do half the work and share with each other.
And this is where our strength lays.
So we're just going to continue on for these next four years, causing trouble for the federal government and building our economies and helping our people be as successful as they can.
So no, it's wonderful.
It's just wonderful.
I'm still proud of Premier Danielle Smith.
She's making some major, major headway for the people of Alberta.
Yeah, she sure is.
And, you know, this is her way of actually allying herself with your premier, who basically said, look, I'm willing to go to jail.
We are not collecting the carbon tax on any of the provincially produced electricity and energy in this province.
And the feds are looking to crack down on him.
And she is looking at legal avenues where she can challenge the federal government.
But also she has suggested that she would create a crown corporation pass-through where the carbon tax would not be collected, which would take some of the legal implications off our unwell, I guess it's, I wouldn't say it's unregulated energy industry, but we have a completely privatized energy industry here, which makes it hard for us in Alberta to do what Scott Moe is doing.
Yeah, yeah, it was the one time that we were really happy to have a Crown corporation sort of governing over, governing over our energy producers in Saskatchewan because it made it, I mean, it made it a lot harder for the federal government to threaten all of our oil and gas companies with certain jail time when the government came in and went, no, we're going to take a lick and we're going to take a lick in for you guys.
And if they want to cart somebody away to jail for not paying the carbon tax, it's going to be the premier.
And nobody, I mean, I just love that our premier is like, well, I'm right here.
Handing Babies to Politicians00:02:24
Come and come and get me, I suppose.
I mean, nothing would look worse in the universe than federal agents marching into the ledge and carting off our premier in the back of a paddy wagon.
Nothing would be worse than that for them.
So it was an incredible move by Scott Moe.
And if you're wondering who loves you, it's that guy.
He's willing to get arrested for you.
I mean, more of this out of politicians.
You know, consequences be damned.
What's right is right.
And we're going to do it in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
So yes.
Yay.
Yes.
Aren't we blessed?
We are indeed.
And if they are coming to get him, they better bring the extra, extra large size handcuffs.
Have you seen the myths on that man?
I've I might hold the record for handing more babies to Scott Moe than any other person.
It's actually one of my favorite things to do is hand babies that aren't mine to politicians just to see how they react.
And it had to have been, oh, five.
Oh, no, it was five years ago because the little girl that I handed to him just turned five a couple months ago.
So there was a, we were at a big fancy mixer and my girlfriend had just had her baby.
I mean, she was six weeks old.
She's that perfect little snuggly still scrunched size.
And I said, you eat your fancy meal and I'm going to carry the baby around.
So we just walked around the room and visited and had everybody tell her how cute she was.
And then I saw Premier Scott Moe and I was like, well, here we go.
And I just took this tiny, tiny little baby like this and I handed her to him.
He has hands, Sheila, the size of toilet seats.
And I'm not exaggerating.
The man has a myth, the hand, the size of toilet seats.
And just as I'm handing her over, I'm like, oh, God, please.
You know what?
He just took her and nestled her in his arm like the, you know, the dad football hold and started doing the dad rock.
He just started rocking back and forth, didn't even miss a beat, just took the baby and just kept going.
And I went, that's how, this is how I knew that parents and kids in Saskatchewan were in good hands with Scott Moe, because you can literally hand him a baby that's not yours and he doesn't even miss a beat.
He just takes the baby, keeps on working, does his thing, just peak dad all the time.
Yeah, he's the best.
He's the best.
He's got some big canoe paddles on the ends of his arms.
Sas Party's Love Fest00:06:34
I wanted to ask you about the impact of the Sask United Party because the Saskatchewan Party is really, it's a party of disaffected former SAS party voters.
These are Scott Moe's people who just said they cannot in good conscience at this point cast a vote for him.
They made a serious impact in at least one riding, possibly two, where the NDP sort of ran up the middle, which I think would have been a worst case scenario for Scott Moe if it happened in a few other places.
What are we going to do about them?
What happens with them?
And the reason I say this is we cannot ignore them because they ignored the Conservative Party in British Columbia.
And then in one year, it nearly forms government.
So what does Scott Moe, if you were giving advice, whispering in the ear of Scott Moe, what would you say to do?
I would recommend that they take a couple of plays out of Premier Danielle Smith's playbook in bringing back those people into the fold, listening to them, hearing their concerns, and then figuring out a way for them to come back to the SASC party.
I know that there are some very, very still existing hard feelings about what happened in Saskatchewan during the terrible time of COVID.
And really, this was a party that was born because of what happened in COVID.
And I think that we're all sort of far enough past it to acknowledge that none of us got away from that time without doing some really unprecedented things.
But there are ways for us to make amends and to bring all of those, all of those SAS party, or sorry, Saskatchewan United Party people back into the SAS party fold.
Now, whether the SAS party is willing to do that or whether SAS United Party members are willing to do that, that remains to be seen.
But I think the SAS party has some really heavy lifting to do to smooth feathers and to make things right for the people that just didn't feel like they had a home in the SAS party.
This also includes large swaths of our urban populations in Saskatchewan.
So both Regina and Saskatoon went completely orange and never has the urban rural divide been so completely clear on the electoral map.
I think that urban conservatives had no place to go.
Sask United Party did not run a bunch of candidates in urban areas.
And without a conservative option, they went, well, the NDP is so close on policy that we can just easily sort of flip over to them and have them represent us.
So I think what the SAS party must do is get back to its roots, serve its base, and open up a love fest for its conservative base.
I mean, that's what has to happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, even if not for political expediency, the humility would be the right thing to do.
Yes.
Yeah.
Without question, without question, because it's easy.
It's easy for the SAS party.
I mean, they've been around for 17 years.
They've had, they're now in their fifth term of forming government.
And along with that goes a little bit, you know, comes a little bit of pride and a little bit of self-satisfaction.
But they got served an honesty sandwich on election night that they're not going to be easily able to ignore.
I think that they're going to be able to make inroads as it pertains to healthcare and education.
I think that all of Saskatchewan knows that these are two major ministries that need some pretty, pretty big moves to be able to fix things.
But Saskatchewan people are also a prudent people.
So it's not enough to just shovel money at these two ministries, shovel bag of money after bag of money after bag of money, especially when these two ministries are broken because of the Carla Beck aligned union employees that have broken it.
Both need major reform.
Both need to have all of the doors thrown open and all of the ideas must be considered.
And people in Saskatchewan are nothing short of brilliant and resilient.
And there are a lot of ideas that the Sask Party could implement that would help both of those ministries improve on their services and their delivery without costing taxpayers an arm and a leg.
So yeah, looking forward to that.
Really looking forward to that.
Yeah.
And if I had Scott Mozier, I would say do it tomorrow, literally tomorrow.
Start tomorrow.
Start revamping these industries.
Why?
Industries, as if ministries.
Ministries.
They are industries, though, yep.
I guess they are self-proliferating industries, especially when it comes to the management class.
But I would say do it tomorrow because you need people to have enough time between now and the next election to get over the union and media fear-mongering about what you're doing.
They need to be able to experience using these industries, ministries, post your massive changes and realize that they're better or at least not worse and that the sky didn't fall because that will be the mantra.
The sky is falling, American style this, American style that.
And people need to realize Scott Mo made all these drastic changes.
And guess what?
I didn't even notice.
And things might have even gotten better.
That's right.
Yeah.
No, if we could, if we could get our education ministry to be responsive to parents, really build a pathway for parents to not only have a seat at the table, but to be sitting at the head of the table, that would be a massive improvement.
And also to improve our wait times and access in healthcare because it's not, you know, once you're in the healthcare pipeline, man, it works slick.
Parents at the Table00:15:31
And nobody can speak to this more clearly than me.
Our family had a cancer diagnosis a couple of years ago.
And from the point of diagnosis to the point of cure was, I'm talking five and a half months, Sheila.
Like once you're in the, it was incredible to see that entire mechanism whip into action.
We got the best care.
We got the timeliest care.
And a year after that diagnosis, we were declared cancer free.
It was incredible to see how that entire ecosystem works in healthcare.
The issue is getting in there and getting to the right person in an expedient manner.
So this is, I mean, these are all problems that can be fixed for the people of Saskatchewan.
And I have no doubt that they're going to work on it.
But my wish is that for everybody that's experiencing a healthcare crisis or is in need of healthcare in Saskatchewan to have an experience like that.
Because man, when it works, it works so well.
And we just need to copy paste what they're doing on that side into every other area of healthcare.
Yeah.
Now, I know that a lot of people know you as the get off my lawn mom from your viral video, but you are also the mom who was slapped with a $30,000 access to information fee when you asked for details about what was being said at the board level about your own family.
But you also asked for what they are teaching kids about gender theory, gender ideology, sex ed.
And instead of just handing it over to you, because like, let's be real, these are digital documents.
It's not like they have to go buy a printing press, rent a peasant to crank out the documents.
They just keyword search their emails and copy, paste, put it in a PDF document and then email it off to you.
That's not what they said to you, is it?
But give us an update on, give us the Cool Zones version of how you ended up with a $30,000 bill for people who don't know.
And then tell us where you are now.
Okay.
So back in June, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request on Regina Public Schools.
And basically, I asked for four things.
I asked for information about myself.
I asked for information about my children.
And I asked for information about gender, ideology, and sexual orientation and pride.
So all of the keywords that you would have seen in the mainstream media, parental consent, parental inclusion, you know, pronouns, gender, all of the keywords that you would have seen happening last summer in Saskatchewan.
And they stonewalled me for the better part of, let's see, July, August, September, October, four months.
And then just last week, out of the goodness of their hearts, Regina Public Schools got in contact with me and said, we have the documents ready.
However we can get them to you, whether it be by courier, if you want to pick them up, you can, I said, courier them to me today.
So they released 1,500 documents two weeks ahead of the municipal election that I'm running in, okay, and need five, they want me to look at them within five days.
So 1,500 documents, that's less than 10% of the overall amount of documents that they said that they had.
And they released them to me for free.
And what, okay, number, I have a couple questions.
Number one, who decided on the documents that, who decided on the documents that they actually provided to me?
And how were those documents chosen?
Because what they gave me is more damning than I could possibly ever tell you, Sheila, when we go through them.
And I've shared, I've shared them with a handful of our nearest and dearest people.
And you know what?
We might even have to, because like I said, I'm running in a municipal election to become trustee of Regina Public School Board.
So we just might need to dump them on the internet and ask our followers to go through them with a fine tooth comb.
Because what I've seen, just even surficially, is so damning, is so damning, Sheila, that Regina Public Schools is going to have an even bigger nightmare on their hands once we let them into the public sphere.
So that's what I've got.
That's what I've got so far.
And because we're on the topic of Regina Public Schools, this is incredible.
So, you know, we hear at Rebel, just love chasing good, juicy stories.
I mean, nothing makes us happier than chasing a good, juicy story.
But working in sort of collaboration with our friends over at the Western Standard, we are on to a story that is so huge and so damning that there are more than a handful of official bureaucrats over there at Regina Public Schools that should be very, very nervous in these upcoming weeks.
I mean, when the people of Regina and the people of Saskatchewan hear this story, it is going to cause shockwaves for the people at Regina Public Schools.
And nobody deserves that more than them.
So.
Here's what really troubles me is just looking superficially at these damning documents, especially request item number 11, which I planned for.
They're terrible.
But that worries me about the other 90% of the documents you haven't seen.
If this is the most tame stuff that they released, how bad is the rest of this stuff?
And exactly.
They ragged the puck right up until Municipal Election Day.
Yep, they sure, they sure did.
They hung on to it.
They stonewalled.
They obfuscated around it.
Oh, they were going, they were gone on holidays in the summertime.
That's why they didn't get back to me.
I mean, they ran around in circles not to provide these documents.
And all of a sudden, they want us to have these 1,500 documents.
No, Sheila, it is my intent to get the rest of those documents in our hot little hands.
And we will have a juicy story to tell the people that watch Rebel News about Regina Public Schools.
I just, it's, oh, it's wild.
It's wild.
And this is at Regina.
Imagine what's happening in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver.
What kind of Sodom and Gomorrah stuff is happening in Vancouver?
This is what's happening in Regina.
So for parents watching across the country right now, what we're actually doing is giving you a template in how to take down your local school board and finding out bad deeds that they've been doing.
No, truly, because this has to do with those third, those pesky and gross and deviant third-party sex ed providers.
This is taking on the resource providers that have gotten into education because nothing is more attractive than chronically to chronically broke school boards across the nation than a whole bunch of free resources provided to them by these deviant third-party organizers that come in and tell our school boards what to do.
And this is without any parental oversight, without any parental permission.
And when you guys see this, I think you will all agree that no parent in their right bloody mind would say yes or consent to these materials or these concepts being floated to their kids.
I'm just looking at a 23 page document that is completely redacted to you.
Yeah.
And it is a trans health panel series.
Obviously something they saw fit to show to children, but completely redacted to the mom who asked for it.
Yeah.
Well, here's just the thing.
We're just going to keep on this because if there's one thing I know to be true, it's that they messed with the wrong mom.
I'm not going to give up until we have all the information that we need to make good choices here in Saskatchewan in education.
And make no mistake, everybody that has decision-making ability in Saskatchewan is going to know about this, is going to know about the dirty deeds of Regina Public Schools and other school divisions exactly like it.
And we're just not going to give up on this.
It's too important to mishandle.
So.
Now, before I let you go, tell people about your mission to get yourself on the Regina Public School Board, because I can't even imagine how scared these people are that you're going to get your hands on all the internal documents as a member of their school board.
They're going to need counseling.
Well, I think that they're accessing their employee, their employee benefits counsel providers, counseling providers right now.
That's how unhappy they are about me running for the school board.
But really, I wouldn't have considered running for public office ever, except for this extreme circumstance where they are stonewalling parents, where they are gaslighting parents, where we have in those documents, Sheila, proof that Regina Public Schools is actively working against parents in all of these regards.
And what I'm hearing on the doorsteps and in emails and phone calls every single day is that there is an overwhelming sense that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong in education in Saskatchewan, not only in Regina, but in Saskatchewan and across the nation of Canada.
And it is not controversial that parents want to know what their children are being exposed to and who is exposing them to it.
It is not controversial to want our children to be very, very good at science and math and reading.
It is not controversial to want any of these things.
And yet, to hear Regina Public Schools tell it, To think that parents want to be involved in every one of these conversations and have a right to be involved in every one of these conversations.
It is just unthinkable to them that their closed and cloistered society would be permeated by a mom is just unthinkable to them.
And I really hope that the people of Regina, the people of Regina consider this, that parents were not the ones. that got us into this mess, but parents will be the ones to get us out of it.
So on voting day on November 13th, Regina, you have a choice.
You can choose the status quo, what we already have, a group of failing students who underperform academically and are exposed to the world's worst concepts and topics outside of the purview of the parents, or you can vote for a group of candidates,
all endorsed by RCAN, the Regina Civic Action Awareness Network, that are promising to fix this, that are promising to create pathways for parents to be involved and to be included in every conversation that pertains to their children and where our kids will do better in four years.
If we do our job right, Sheila, the kids in Saskatchewan and the kids in Regina are going to be doing so much better academically than they are right now because we don't have an underfunding issue.
This is not a matter that has come about because of funding.
It is because of a lack of focus.
We have been so wholly focused on all of the wrong topics that it's got us into this bloody mess.
And well, it's going to take parents to get us out of it.
So do show up and vote on November 13th, Regina, in the municipal elections.
And before that, we are going to have a story that is going to change your perceptions about Regina Public Schools.
I can't wait for you to hear it.
just can't wait well friends we've come to the portion of the show where we invite your viewer feedback I say it every week, but it is as important this week as it is every single week.
Without you, there's no rebel news.
So it is incumbent upon us to let you have your say.
And if we are not taking the temperature of our viewers, then we may as well just be like the mainstream media.
They don't care what you think about the work that they do because even if you don't like it, Justin Trudeau is going to give them your money to do more of it.
That's not how things work around here.
So I open up my email to you.
If you want to send me an email directly about the show tonight, my conversation with my good buddy Lise Merle from Regina, you can send it to me at Sheila at RebelNews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know why you're emailing me.
It makes it easier for me to find because I get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a week.
Or if you're watching a free version of the show, a clip of the show, or any of our videos that are posted anywhere, Rumble, YouTube, whatever, leave a comment there.
I go looking.
So not always are the comments that I read after the gun show directly related to the topic of the gun show that day or the gun show itself.
Now, the comments today are taken from the YouTube comment section of our live stream that I hosted with my friend Lise the other night when the Saskatchewan party defeated the NDP, although it was closer than most conservatives would have liked it to be.
It's still a strong, stable, conservative majority government for the Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe.
And let's read some of the comments from YouTube, shall we?
Dennis Melnichuk writes, wow, unbelievable.
So many people that don't see how the NDP destroyed Manitoba and how they're killing BC.
Yeah.
NDP governments create bad times.
And nobody knows that better than Albertans.
The message here is never NDP, not even once, and don't do it.
Because we've been without the NDP.
in power now longer than we had them.
You know, like they were in power from 2015 to 2019.
Now it's 2024.
So we're one more year out from the NDP at five years.
And we are only now starting to recover economically from the carnage leveled by the NDP just now starting to get some of those credit downgrades reversed.
Cecile Bluen, 7151, writes, I totally agree with you women.
Look what's happening in BC.
I can't believe people voted provincially for NDP.
Again, what is wrong with people?
NDP's Urban Advantage00:02:14
Urban voters, urban voters.
I don't know how you can drive around the lower mainland of British Columbia and not see what the Trudeau NDP policies have done to that beautiful place.
You know, like Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to live.
And yet, there are parts of it that look like an absolute hellscape of human misery and suffering with squalid third world style favelas popping up in the roadside pullouts.
Drug addiction everywhere.
Homelessness everywhere.
And the people of British Columbia, although this close to getting rid of it, they voted for more of it.
They've tried the same thing and they'll get the same result.
Watching The Watchers 55 writes, the NDP votes came from the two biggest cities, Regina and Saskatoon.
Indeed.
Thank God for rural Saskatchewan.
Lise said the same thing due to the vote split between the Sask United Party and the Saskatchewan.
The NDP gained more seats than I would have liked.
I think one for sure went the other way, went to the NDP right up the middle because of the vote split.
The other one was very, very close, but I think the NDP took that one fair and square.
And Jilly living maybe?
Writes, glad to have Lise in Saskatchewan.
I am too.
I am too.
However, a little bit too far away for our friendship, but I am glad that she's there fighting for the parents of Saskatchewan every single day.
This has become, outside of parenting six incredible children, this has become her life's mission, her life's work, is to make sure that parents have a say in the education system and in their children's life in general.
Rescuing children from the clutches of activists.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes to put the show together.