Sheila Gunn-Reid and Lise Merle argue Trump’s U.S. victory signals a cultural shift away from identity politics, exposing media corruption and NDP influence in Canada—like federal officials Stephen Guibo and Rabbi Boissono—while criticizing Regina Public Schools for alleged election interference, including emergency staff meetings ordering employees to vote against candidates. Merle demands suspensions, independent reviews, and protections for teachers against speech restrictions, mirroring Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s policies banning forced speech by professional bodies and restricting gender transitions for minors under 16. Despite grassroots criticism like Take Back Alberta’s D-minus grade, Smith retains strong UCP support (91.5% approval), suggesting her pragmatic approach aligns with voters’ priorities over radical alternatives. [Automatically generated summary]
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Late Live Stream Update00:04:11
What does the overwhelming victory of President Trump in the United States last night mean for Canada?
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Guys, I'm going to level with you.
I'm running a little slow today.
As you can tell, I might be a little bit tired.
I'm fresh off a very long, late live stream last night after a full workday, which starts already early for me because I start on Toronto time and finish on Alberta time, my usual work days.
But then we went into an eight-hour plus live stream after the other workday all wrapped up covering the United States election, wherein President Donald Trump was given an overwhelming victory from the United States citizens.
And so I did not have time yesterday to book a guest.
So I needed a guest on very short notice.
And I know you're hearing a lot lately from my guest today, but she is reliable and thoughtful.
And I knew she'd have something to say.
And, you know, things are happening where she's from.
So she could give us an update on that.
And I know that you care about the things that she's talking about because you tell me.
You write to me.
You send me emails.
So I didn't have a guest for the show today, but I know I must deliver a show for our Rebel News viewers and subscribers because that's me meeting my obligations to you, no matter how tired I am from yesterday.
I think we're all feeling the same way.
So I got to give you what you pay for.
So I literally phoned a friend.
I said, Lise Merle, Regina School Board candidate, I know you've been on the show a lot lately.
You were my guest last week.
You and I have been doing election coverage and debate coverage and live streams a lot lately, but I need you one last time.
Will you come through for me?
And she said, you better believe it, buddy.
So joining me to discuss what happened in the United States last night, why it happened, who the biggest losers are, what this means for Canada, and what is happening down at the Regina Public School Board, as bureaucrats seem to be engaging in some election interference in the municipal elections coming up on November 13th, is my friend, the ever-reliable, ever-bubbly.
And I'm so thankful for it.
Lise Merle, take a listen.
Joining me now is my good, beloved friend from Saskatchewan, Lise Merle.
Many of you will know her as the viral get off my lawn mom.
My kids just discovered that that was who Auntie Lise was.
But she's also a Regina Public School Board candidate, and she is someone who watches elections and electoral debates very closely with me.
I think that's your new role in life.
And I wanted to have you on to sort of digest what happened last night in the American election, what it means for Canadians, Canadian politicians, local politicians, as well as, you know, the macro national scheme.
And then, of course, update on what's going on in Saskatchewan post-selection and your efforts to become a Regina Public School Board trustee to root out gender theory and progressiveness from the classroom.
Lise, tell me, how are you feeling about last night's American election?
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Well, it seems that we have been unburdened by what has been.
And isn't a great day to be alive, to wake up, to know that our friends and beloved neighbors next door in America have returned to a semblance of sanity and that we're only 75 days out from unwinding the craziness of the last four years.
And that despite all of their best efforts, all of them, with the celebrities and the lies in the mainstream media and all of the many ways that they tried to steal that election from the Republicans, it did not work.
The people of America showed up.
They had their voices heard.
And this is incredible for Canadians.
It's just incredible.
Like we're just going to follow along what they started and see some hopefully monumental change in the way that we talk about things in Canada.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know why the Democrats thought moms who are worried about how they're going to put food on the table and worried about their husband's job and their daughter's sports.
I don't know why the Democrats thought that Cardi B wouldn't connect with them.
Bold strategy.
Didn't work out.
You know, let's bring J-Law on.
Let's bring J-Law with her four failed marriages and get her to cry on camera and see if that resonates with the women of America.
I mean, talk about a humongous backfire, but doesn't it say something about the way our culture is moving away from celebrity endorsements?
Like the most, holy, yes, the most entitled, well-compensated, under-talented group of people in the world who we're all acknowledging make their money on acting, on playing pretend that people aren't buying this anymore.
It's incredible.
It's just incredible.
It's wonderful.
And it was also interesting to see on exit polling data that the people the Democrats thought they could rely on, but also simultaneously ignore for years and years are shifting hard Trump.
We saw an exodus of Puerto Rican support in Florida from the Democrats.
I think in Pennsylvania, Latinos resisted strongly towards Trump.
Black male voters who are socially conservative on so many things are shifting away from Kamala Harris.
I think we're seeing the end of identity politics because identity politics don't work when illegal migration is driving down the cost of wages for everybody.
And you are, as a Puerto Rican, as a Latino, as a black male voter, equally concerned about how you're going to pay the bills as everybody else.
Exactly that.
And we saw like such a shift away from the Obama, like the sort of Obama groundswell of support as the first black, well, male president, black president, male president.
In that time, I feel like a lot of people, a lot of people were under the impression that he would act on behalf of his own people.
He didn't.
And we saw a mass falling out of love with the with the Obamas.
I mean, in the way that they supported Kamala Harris and really insulted their own people, it was really, it was really telling in how in how the votes swayed over to Trump because he's willing to tell them the truth, because he's willing to speak the truth.
And we need a lot more politicians to jump on board that train and tell people the truth, not sugarcoat it, not dance around it, not, you know, think about, think about how the opinion polls are going to reflect upon it.
We all know that the opinion pollsters are corrupt, just like the mainstream media are.
But there is such a thirst for people to hear the truth from their elected officials.
And I believe that this is going to give Canadian politicians all the license they need to be brave in this moment.
So yay for North America, yay for our friends in America, and yay for Canada in these next couple of months.
And, you know, I care about the mainstream media lies that have occurred over the last four years.
We'll say eight years, maybe 10 years about Trump when you go back to when he started campaigning.
I don't care about it only for the idea that I care about objective truths, which of course I do.
That's undeniable reality.
But I also care about the impact that the lies have had on otherwise intelligent people.
There are people out there right now who, thanks to the constant fire hose of lies about Trump being a fascist, blasted at them for the better part of the last decade.
They are really thinking that they are living in 1939 Germany.
They think that they are Ann Frank's family today, which is unkind.
And it is, I think, Ezra keeps saying, we're in a major mental health crisis in the United States because people are really destabilized Stabilized by what happened last night, and they shouldn't be.
Most of them are not even going to notice that anything happened on paper, but in their minds, this is the falling of the republic.
Yes, and this is as true for Canada as it is in the United States.
I think that we can all acknowledge that no broadcasting corporation has been more damaging to the social fabric of the country than the CBC has.
And there are similarly, just like in America, people in Canada who believe that we are on the precipice of something terribly, terribly disastrous going wrong, that they have to really hide and duck and cover, when all you have to do is extricate yourself from that echo chamber of lies that the mainstream media is constantly pushing into our earholes,
to realize just how good we still have it in Canada, but also to really kind of reflect our reality here.
So, I mean, I'll just say it again and again and again.
The CBC cannot be defunded fast enough.
They cannot, we cannot see the end of them fast enough.
And the ways that Canada and Canadians' lives are going to improve when they aren't perpetually lied to by a propaganda arm of the federal government is just going to be uncalculable.
I mean, our quality of life will improve when they're defended.
Yeah, it's one thing to be lied to by the media.
I think a lot of us just expect that from the mainstream media, but then to be forced to pay for the lies and the unwatchable lies.
Like they're not even entertaining lies.
They're just the same old recycled Trump is a fascist.
Like they had somebody on their panel last night Hitler.
And I'm like, you know what?
If he's Hitlering, he's doing it all wrong with his Jewish daughter and son-in-law and his Jewish grandkids and this broad diverse coalition around him.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, a visible minority woman, this shift of minorities towards Trump.
If he's Hitlering, if he's fascissing, if that's a word, he's completely right.
You're talking about the propaganda campaign and the playbook of Trump.
This is not new.
This is not surprising.
This is directly out of Hitler's playbook.
This is out of an autocrat playbook.
This is a way to, I mean, the things that Trump has done masterfully, frankly, is to get the entire, you know, to get a big part of the population to believe that the game is rigged and to sow distrust in public institutions and the free press.
He is failing miserably at pretending to be Hitler, failing miserably, and yet Hitler ever.
And yet, this is what we pay, we as taxpayers paid the CBC to say.
I mean, it is absolutely egregious.
It's absolutely egregious.
And I mean, just, uh-oh, we think, we think we had it bad before.
Wait these next 75 days for the CBC to go into absolute hyperspas mode about waiting for Trump to be, oh, what's the word? Inaugurated in January.
I mean, it's just going to be fear-mongering on fear-mongering on fear-mongering.
There's going to be people hiding in bunkers and basements over the next 75 days, because if you listen to the CBC tell it, there is nothing good left in this world and it's all going to fall apart.
And really, we know that it's not.
We're seeing freedom.
We're seeing the flames of freedom being reignited in the United States.
And we can look forward to that here.
And I can't wait.
I just can't wait.
You know, in the media, we still won't learn.
They just don't learn that the defeat of Kamala Harris last night was also a defeat of them and their lies.
It's a complete and total rejection of the lies that the public has been force-fed.
And, you know, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, after it was illegal and seditious to question the outcome of the election and to question election integrity.
In fact, that would get you banned from YouTube.
All of a sudden, all the fancy people are.
questioning the integrity of the election.
It's cool again, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, they would do that, wouldn't they?
Wouldn't they?
Like they would assume that something terribly, terribly wrong has gone on when really it went entirely right, when really it went entirely right.
I just can't wait to see what happens.
And like, I can't wait for Elon to come in and fire 90% of the federal government just like he did the 90% of Twitter when he took it over.
I cannot wait for that.
We're going to see, we're going to see American grow, America grow in leaps and bounds in these next couple of years and Canada, because we are so, so linked with our economies, with our culture, with our language, with our beliefs, with our customs, with our holidays, with all of the many, many things we have in common.
This is just going to this is just going to light a fire of freedom in Canada too.
And I mean, it just can't happen soon enough.
Yeah.
And I think even you talk about the cultural connections, even more so in the West.
I feel more culturally compatible with people in Montana.
Montana.
Yes.
Oklahoma.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska.
Yes.
People in Toronto or Vancouver.
That's for sure.
I feel more culturally symbiotic with them than I would do with many places of this country.
And I think a lot of it has to do with not only our shared values of freedom and liberty and gun rights and property rights and all those things that my Premier Daniel Smith has said that she will apply to our Alberta Bill of Rights, but our economies are so late.
That's exactly right.
Trump was a very pro-oil and gas president.
He's a drill baby drill president.
He's a build the pipelines president.
And maybe, maybe finally, after a decade and two Democrat cancellations, we'll see that Keystone XL pipeline finally up and running.
Oh, wouldn't that be amazing?
Wouldn't that be amazing for our oil and gas producers on the prairies?
It would be absolutely incredible.
Let it happen.
Let it happen.
I think we'll have to wait till October 2025 to see any substantial movement on the oil and gas file cross-border, I think.
I can't wait to see Stephen Guibo and Rabbi Boissono get marched out of their fancy offices in Ottawa.
I mean, that's just going to be the best day in Canada.
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I'm going to be planning like to buy cases of champagne just to let loose in the streets the day that that happens.
I think that there's going to be a there's going to be fireworks unlike any Canada Day celebration we've ever ever seen in Canada when those guys get get herded out of Ottawa.
And it just can't happen soon enough.
Before we move on from this topic, I just want to ask you, who do you think Joe Biden voted for?
Because he was pretty anti-thamala and not exactly pleased with the Obamas.
And he wasn't giving her any help on the campaign trail.
Not none could have.
I think his brain is the same condition as mine today running on just a few hours of sleep post-election.
But what do you think he voted for?
I would love to say, of course, he voted for Trump just like everybody else.
But I don't think that his, I don't think that his relationship with the Democratic Party could have done it.
However, Jill, Jill Biden in her red suit.
Ooh, that's not good.
Women speak through fashion, and this is absolutely true.
Women speak through fashion.
And Jill Biden, wearing the colors of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, said more than anything she could have said into a microphone.
And so I believe that she punished them with a vote for the Republicans.
But Joe, I don't know if Joe was able to, you know, get up out of his dementia bed for long enough to vote for long enough to vote yesterday.
But Jill, Jill absolutely voted for Trump.
Absolutely, she did.
My favorite Joe Biden photo as of late was when they found him in that lawn chair on the beach during the hurricanes and his mouse was like agape and just like like a weekend weekend pony style.
That's what it looked like.
While he's just circling around his head, waiting for the opportunity.
Oh, this is...
That says a lot.
And that was the leader of the most powerful country on earth for the last four years.
That man.
And you know what?
If that shows, if that just shows like the institutional rot that's happening within the Democratic Party for them to have allowed that.
It took George Clooney, George Clooney saying, I saw him at a fancy mixer and he is not doing okay for them to even acknowledge it up until that moment.
I mean, it was the talking point of the whole MSM.
It was the talking point of every Democratic supporter and an operative saying, oh, no, he's fine.
He's, you know, he's just a little tired.
He's just, you know, he's a little older now.
They made every excuse for him when really he was not a functioning president at all.
And it makes you wonder who was the leader of the Democratic Party for these last four years.
It wasn't Joe Biden.
It certainly wasn't Joe Biden.
I wonder if it was Jill.
I mean, who had their finger on the button of the nukes all these years?
It's very scary when you think about it.
But our nightmare is over.
Thank God.
Thank God.
The nightmare of the threat, the specter of the poltergeist of the NDP party forming governments in Saskatchewan is over.
We're about a week out of that.
How's it going there?
Are the lefties settled down or do they still think that the world has ended there?
They are still spinning in the wind like a bad load of laundry and a hurricane on a clothesline.
They are still so shocked that what the pollster said and what the MSM said was a lie.
And they are just absolutely shocked that this happened to them, that Carla Beck didn't waltz into the ledge as the new premier of the province.
And they're in deep grieving mode right now because the thought, the thought of a Scott Moe or Sask Party government for another four years after already having 17 years as a SAF party government is almost too much for them for them to even think about.
Like we're seeing, we're seeing calls for, you know, left, left-wing activists saying, I'm leaving Saskatchewan.
I'm taking my doll and I'm going somewhere else now.
And we're like, don't let the door hit you.
You do already.
You threaten me with a good time.
You're leaving.
Okay.
Can I help you, Peck?
Like, I'm a really, I could, I could load up your house in less than 15 minutes.
And, and no, this is, I mean, they're, they're still all losing their minds.
And rightfully so.
I mean, it couldn't happen to better people.
It couldn't happen to better people.
But I can't wait to see Scott Mo install his new cabinet.
He is going to have to make some pretty big choices.
We're going to see a move.
The first order of business they promised during the election after the Balgone change room scandal erupted in Saskatchewan was to prohibit biological boys from using biological girls, washrooms and change rooms in school.
Sorry, just change rooms in school.
And that policy really doesn't go far enough.
We need biological boys to get out of every sex space that girls can expect privacy and expect privacy in.
And I look forward to pushing that forward in Saskatchewan.
Now, Scott Mow said that he would do some soul searching because he really was sent a message by voters, especially in some writings.
And he touched on the cabinet.
He lost some high-profile cabinet ministers in that election.
I think there were one, maybe two writings that went towards the NDP because of a vote split.
On the right, yes.
What is Scott Mow going to do about that?
So he says that he's really going to spend some time reconnecting and reflecting on what happened.
He knows, and the SAS party knows, that they lost a lot of the urban seats because they lost touch with their urban voters.
And let's be clear, the people that voted NDP this time didn't vote NDP because they are leftists or because they are, you know, ardent NDP supporters.
These are people that were compelled to show the SAS party and give them a lesson in representation.
These are urban voters that obviously didn't feel like they had a home in the SASC party, and the SAS party would do really well to re-engage with us urban conservatives to give us a voice.
Right now, we're looking at an electoral map where all of our rural voters have SAS party MLAs still installed.
They have a conduit to speak directly to government, but what they must do is engage in the cities, in the cities, and in our urban centers.
So looking forward to that too.
Now, we have a municipal election coming up where you are running for the Regina Public School Board.
I know you have some spicy updates there.
So let us know what's going on.
Okay, Sheila.
Are you sitting down?
Are you sitting down, Sheila Gunfried?
Okay, thank you very much.
It has been revealed to us that Regina Public School Division has undertaken a campaign of election interference in Saskatchewan's upcoming municipal election on November 13th.
And this isn't just, you know, an administrative faux pas that they made.
This is a concerted and concentrated effort to undermine democracy in Regina.
We know that undue influence and election fixing is not only unethical, okay, it's not only unethical and highly unprincipled, but it is also highly illegal.
You may not in Saskatchewan use any kind of influence to try and sway somebody's vote as it pertains to the workplace.
And yet this is exactly what Regina Public Schools has done.
So very shortly after, I came on this show and I, you know, I'm one of the many, many people running for school boards in Saskatchewan that have said, right, we're just acknowledging that something has gone terribly sideways in education.
And I came on the show to announce my candidacy.
And very shortly after that, Regina Public Schools using Regina Public School facilities, Regina Public School Resources, and Regina Public School funding went on a tour of electoral interference in Saskatchewan schools or in Regina Public Schools.
We are talking, okay, okay, not only are we calling for the immediate suspension of everybody implicated in this, this is how serious a matter this is or infraction this is, but we're asking for a full independent 360 review.
And we're going to ask, we're going to demand that the people that were found complicit or that are found complicit in this to be fired.
Because not only does Regina Public Schools not think that parents are smart enough to be able to explain gender to their children, that is how ingratiated and how much they're promoting this to, well, parents don't know the fineries of gender.
So we have to take this over from them to explain it to their kids.
But they don't think that the people of Regina are smart enough to be able to pick their own school board.
So it's an incredible story that's that's going to come out in these next several days.
This is one of these things that were, it's sort of like a rebel news slash Western standard collab.
We started hearing about this story like several weeks ago.
And as we had anonymous whistleblowers coming out and who, by the way, were keeping anonymous for fear of, for the promise of certain retribution, we hear, we've heard that dozens of schools were impacted by this.
Dozens of schools, thousands of employees were ordered to vote a certain way.
And in Saskatchewan, this contravenes not only democracy, but Saskatchewan laws that say you cannot do this.
This is forbidden to happen.
So it's an incredible story.
I can't wait for it to come out in the public and for the people of Regina to really understand how little the bureaucrats at Regina Public Schools think of them.
Now, tell me the exact details of this election interference.
They're telling their employees how to vote.
And how are they doing that?
Like, so based on what criteria, I think I've got it figured out.
But tell, just so the viewer knows the finer points of this, because this is pretty serious stuff.
Not only is it serious, it's unlawful.
So they've gone right over the line between advocacy or whatever they call it and being unlawful, acting unlawfully as an institution.
So what happened was in mid-September, a series of emergency non-scheduled staff meetings were held in Regina Public Schools, where all of the staff were dragged into a staff room where they didn't know what was going on.
They weren't told ahead of time what was happening.
And division staff, these are senior bureaucrats from Regina Public Schools, were in the room and said, basically, there are a group of ignorant and hateful school board candidates running for Regina Public Schools.
And, you know, do whatever you have to do to make sure that they're not voted in.
So what Regina Public Schools is doing is actively trying to keep the board they currently have.
And that's not their job, sorry.
But when you border, when you blow through the borders of education and go into electioneering, this is where you anger the masses.
So they held all sorts of non-scheduled staff meetings where they, you know, they educated their staff on how they were expected to vote.
They had last minute all principals leaving at division headquarters.
They contacted, and this is the crazy thing.
During these meetings, they literally detailed how they were going to keep this, like they strategized on how they were going to keep this away from public scrutiny.
They said, don't use your official means of communications because we're going to go in and freedom of information act them.
You know what I mean?
We're going to go look for these documents.
They said, don't use official means of communications.
your internal networks, you know, your social media networks, where in Saskatchewan, the privacy commissioner or Regina Public Schools rather says that, you know, the public can't look into private networks, even if they're doing the dirty work of their institution.
But not only does this, like, I guess not only does this contravene democratic practices, like the very heart of democracy, it, it also, I mean, it also erodes the public's trust in the institution.
And this is what candidates want returned, is the public trust in the institution, myself included as a candidate.
I want Regina Public Schools to be a place where every parent has absolutely no fear of sending their child into Regina Public Schools for fear of what they're going to be exposed to and what they're going to learn.
No parent is mad about math or science or reading when they go to school.
We're all concerned about these crazy left-wing radical ideas that are being fed to our kids.
And what Regina Public Schools has proven is that they are incapable of running their own school division.
And when this unravels, and it will unravel, I will make sure of that.
This is going to be a hard lesson.
This is going to be a hard lesson in how not to run a school division in Saskatchewan.
Because if we do not deal with this, and I'm talking with a sledgehammer, we can expect this kind of behavior from every single school division in the entire province.
And that absolutely cannot happen.
Regina Public School Division is one of the largest school divisions in the province.
It's one of the ones that really sets the tone for every other school division.
And what happens here, you can mark my words, will happen in less than two or three years in some of the smaller rural school divisions.
So you better believe that we are going to chase this down and that there are a bunch of people at Regina Public Schools that are suddenly very, very nervous.
Yeah, you know, it's really quite ironic when these are the people saying, we're definitely not indoctrinating your kids in the classroom.
You people are overreacting and then they hold secret meetings because they're worried that somebody is going to stop the indoctrination.
Like many super secret meetings, many secret meetings in multiple different locations.
And this is what's so crazy about it is not one, not one of these, you know, highly educated, highly professional and ethical people thought to themselves, oh, wait a sec, are we interfering in democracy?
And are we fixing an election?
Nope.
Not one of them said that.
Not one of them said that.
And not one of them put a stop to it.
It was, you know who it was?
You know who it was that thought to themselves, oh my God, what is even happening?
The good teachers that were in those rooms knew that what was happening, it was absolutely unprecedented.
The way that this was sort of communicated to us was this never happens.
These kinds of meetings, short of somebody dying, okay, on the staff, these meetings never happen.
And yet you have an entire herd of employees, senior bureaucrats from Regina Public Schools coming into the schools to hold these secret, secret, non-scheduled staff meetings.
And they thought that the good teachers would not object to this.
I mean, that was their only mistake.
Well, that was not their only mistake.
Their first mistake was participating in electioneering and election fixing.
That was their big, that's their big mistake.
But their secondary mistake was thinking that we wouldn't find out.
And guess what?
We found out.
So congrats to those people.
Have a nice day.
I hope you've enjoyed your time working at Regina Public Schools because those days are numbered.
And anybody implicated in this, you know, have a nice life.
Enjoy your next career and whatever you do.
That's how serious an infraction this is.
So look, look for some wild stories on the Western Standard coming up in these next couple of days ahead of the provincial election.
And look for a guest column on Rebel News from yours truly.
Now, from yours truly.
Yes, I just, I'm very excited about that.
Besides you doing the incredible work on this, you should stop and acknowledge the hard work of Chris Olcourt.
Oh, Western Standard.
He's been all over this.
Yeah, he's been great.
This guy is an absolute like anvil when it comes to these stories.
Like he's fearless.
And not only is he fearless on behalf of parents in Saskatchewan, but he's a fearless dad himself.
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And you got to ask, you sort of have to ask yourself, you know, when you have parents coming out of the gate and saying, there are things, there are things that are happening in our school divisions that are so completely offside.
You just sort of have to ask yourself, I wonder what happened to that parent to make them to make them so sure of their position.
I know what Regina Public Schools has done to our family in particular.
I know literally dozens of moms and dads have reached out to me detailing their terrible and really destructive experiences with Regina Public Schools.
And what we want to do is just really open a door for those parents and those good teachers and those good teachers to be able to have their voices heard.
The same initiatives that Danielle Smith is undertaking in Alberta about the professional regulatory bodies, she's basically said, right, so the professional associations of Alberta are no longer going to be able to compel the speech or the beliefs or any of the communications of their members.
This is absolutely what has to happen in Saskatchewan because what we have are good common sense teachers who have the best heart of their families, the families they serve and the students they teach at heart,
who are unable to say anything out loud for fear they will become the targets of the crazy Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and these insane administrators that work in the division offices.
We need those teachers to have those protections.
We need our doctors to have those protections.
We need nurses.
We need engineers.
We need every professional association to be brought right into line with what Alberta is doing.
And I hope Scott Mole hears me on this.
And as a matter of fact, I'm going to send him the link to make sure that he does.
That's funny.
So we've got about a week away from the election.
Yeah, I guess one week.
One week.
One week today.
Yeah.
How do people find out about platform and support you in your campaign to lead house?
Well, you can follow me on X.
It's my name, Lise Merle.
My website is leasemerle.ca.
And you can also visit because we knew that just running one candidate was not going to be good enough.
So we're running, we are running a coalition of candidates, all common sense, all pro-parent, all pro-academic achievement.
And you can learn about any of those candidates on the RCAN website.
And these are just the letters, R-C-A-A-N dot C-A.
What does RCAN stand for?
The Regina Civic Action Awareness Network.
Yeah.
And this is the sort of overarching group who identified a real problem happening in Regina Public Schools about three years ago.
And they decided to do something about it.
And gosh darn it, they are doing something about it.
So I'm so happy and proud to be endorsed by these guys.
They are high integrity community leaders.
We're talking lawyers, doctors, teachers.
And they have been instrumental in supporting me in my campaign.
And I just can't thank them enough.
Well, I think that's a great spot to leave the interview.
As always, I'll just talk to you throughout the day, as I generally do.
But I'm planning to come to Regina for election night.
So we'll see how that goes.
I am.
Are you actually?
Oh my God.
I'm all of a sudden I'm just so fine.
Okay, there's a little party being planned.
So I'm just going to put you down as my plus one.
I would love to be your plus one.
Lise, thanks for taking the time and thanks for the hard work that you do on behalf of Regina parents and kids.
But I think your advocacy is changing hearts and minds across the country.
Well, friends, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback.
I say it every single week, but it remains true.
There is no rebel news without you.
So of course, we care what you think about the work that we do here.
Now, there are a couple ways to get in touch with us.
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I go looking for those.
And in fact, that's where today's comments come from.
They are not actually on a clip of the show, but it's on my coverage of the United Conservative Party annual general meeting from Red Deer, where our Premier Daniel Smith faced a leadership review.
And there were rumblings from some grassroots organizations that they were giving her a failing grade when it comes to freedom and accountability and smaller government.
One of those was Take Back Alberta.
And at the UCP AGM, they had a report card circulating where they gave her a D minus, I believe.
I gave her a B plus when I went through the report card.
And Daniel Smith went into her leadership review fresh off a slate of very red meat policy announcements for conservatives, but I think just for normal people, she said that she would be banning gender transition for minors under the age of 16, that there would be parental notification required if a minor sought to socially transition in the classroom, banning of men from women's sports,
the incorporation of firearms rights, property rights, and the right to refuse a vaccine in our Alberta Bill of Rights, which is sort of our governing rights document in the province, and changes to the Public Health Act, which would redefine what it really means to have a public health emergency, to prioritize civil liberties during a public health emergency,
that there would be a right to in-person education in the event of a public health emergency, and that professional bodies could not mandate or compel the speech of their members.
That would apply to doctors, engineers, teachers, any organization with a governing body, as my friend Lise pointed out.
So lots of policies just before the AGM addressing the failings of the previous Premier, Jason Kenney.
All the things that Kenney got wrong, which led us to have a new Premier Daniel Smith, she's doing her best to correct.
Yet, at the time, it didn't seem enough for the folks at Take Back Alberta.
So I went through their report card.
You can see that video.
It's on our Rumble page and our YouTube page.
And I thought I would go through the comments because I wanted to know how you felt about my take on that.
Did you agree with me?
Did you think Take Back Alberta was right?
And as I said in my video, I think it's important for our premier to have somebody to the right of her pulling her back every time the media and the culture and the opposition parties pull her towards the center and to the left because that is when she will fail.
And so, anyways, this is what you had to say.
David Hines writes, an old saying goes, it takes time to move a mountain.
While I appreciate what Take Back Alberta is trying to do, let's be careful that we do not wind up giving away Alberta to guess who?
Guess who, of course, meaning the NDP and their new leader, Nikki Menshi, who does not have a seat in the legislature.
And I can't actually see him getting a seat in the very near future.
And that seems odd, right?
To have a leader of the NDP running his party and participating in question period through text messages to his MLAs from the legislature gallery.
Who can take that seriously?
Well, the mainstream media in this province, I guess.
If this be magic rights, I have much respect for Daniel Smith and the things she is working on changing.
Take Back Alberta should be supporting her for these changes.
Bushcraft Alberta also writes from an email from the APP, that's the Alberta Prosperity Project, it says, the Alberta Prosperity Project are not paid supporters of the UCP party, nor Daniel Smith, but we see her vision, understand some moves have to be made first before showing all the cards.
And when we ask who else, we come up with crickets.
When we speak to citizens of other provinces, we are reminded of what we have as a leader, pragmatic, forward-thinking, and unafraid to set boundaries or make waves for the greater good of the Albertan and future generations.
She's strategic, understands game theory, and clearly has read and understood the art of war.
I don't know if Daniel Smith has read The Art of War, but I do completely agree with the Alberta Prosperity Project, as did, I suppose, many UCP party members who voted over the weekend to give Premier Daniel Smith, leader of the party, a 91.5% approval rating.
That is enormous.
But a lot of people who I spoke to at the AGM said, okay.
Who else then?
Who else?
And when that question could not be answered, I think the party membership knew what to do.
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.