REBEL ROUNDUP highlights Toronto’s Bathurst Street protest, where 100 Patriots defied police threats after a 2019 Supreme Court ruling against arbitrary arrests, while pro-Hamas demonstrators—including a Sinoir cosplayer—flaunted symbols tied to October 7th attacks. Police inaction during Antifa clashes with Rebel News reporters Alexa and Drea contrasts with their alleged favoritism toward Hamas chants. Trudeau’s exclusion from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meeting, framed as "no room at the inn," underscores his fading influence amid skepticism over Trump’s tariff claims and Canada’s pre-planned response. Meanwhile, Patrick Brown’s SECU testimony looms as India’s alleged interference in his 2023 leadership disqualification remains unproven, exposing Liberal-Conservative hypocrisy on foreign meddling. The episode ties these threads to broader critiques of Trudeau’s immigration policies and CBC’s $1.4B funding, where executive bonuses like Catherine Tate’s $551K mock private-sector accountability. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, say, Monday, December 2nd, 2024.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host.
Well, let me tell you a bit about my co-host, shall I?
Folks, do you know that today is National Fritters Day?
And to quote the tagline from the 1980 film Motel Hell, it takes all kinds of critter to make Farmer Vincent's fritter.
And I know my co-host knows the answer to what the special ingredient is when it comes to Farmer Vincent.
But I will promise you an extra special no prize to the first one who gives us a super chat saying what that answer is.
And please, no googling.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Kali C of Northern Alberta.
She is Sheila Gun Reid.
Hey, Sheila, did you have a fritter today?
No.
No, I don't eat carbohydrates whatsoever.
Fritters are full of them.
It's also National Mutt Day.
And I know you have a fancy dog.
I do not have a fancy dog.
Perhaps my unfancy dog is the special ingredient in that farmer's fritters.
No, it is not.
I'm the proud owner of a very snaggle-toothed mutt who sits under my desk.
So if you're a lover of the oddball dog like me, I guess today's your very special day.
I should tell everybody what we're doing around here because, well, frankly, there's no news to talk about today.
And absolutely nothing happened yesterday.
Yeah, it's been a slow news year, as a matter of fact.
I was up working at 5.45 yesterday morning trying to keep track of you Yahoos out there in Toronto because of the time change.
It was early and then you guys are complaining about the cold and I'm like, no.
Come on.
Don't give me this 545 business.
You have to get up that time anyway, Sheila, to feed the chickens and milk the cows and whatever else you do up there.
On a Sunday.
Yes.
Anyways, I should tell everybody what we're doing around here besides giving the hog report and the weather report.
This is Rebel Roundup.
It's our twice weekly, I was going to call it a news show, but is this news?
I don't know.
We talk about the news of the world as it unfolds completely, well, by and large, completely unscripted, except for a couple of ad reads here and there that I might make you sit through.
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I just got out of watching a House of Commons committee on why the Canadian Taxpayers Federation wants to defund the CBC.
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We are completely demonetized over there.
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We frequently read the chats that go that fall under the $5 U.S. cutoff if we have time.
And I'll just give a warning to David right now.
We cannot go that far over today.
I have things that are butting up against the end of the show.
Oh, goodie, because I have to cut a Christmas promo with Leap and Link and Jay.
Oh, I can't wait.
You know what?
I bet it's going to be spicy.
Why?
Because you didn't send me a script idea for that one.
No, I'll send it your way.
It's completely family rated, except perhaps for the amount of skin on display.
Just as naked as the baby Jesus the day he came into the world.
Now, I should, before we go, let's queue up the store and show people the new stuff that's in there.
Yes.
So RebelNewsStore.com, it is now the 2nd of December.
If you are looking to order something off the store, please do it almost nearly immediately.
Like watch the show and then go order if you wouldn't mind, please.
But let's go to RebelNewsStore.com and let's look at some of the Christmas stuff because I got some Christmas stuff in off the store due to inflation.
I'm your Christmas gift.
I imagine David Menzies just given that out to people.
So it's the mug, the shirt.
Can we scroll down?
I just want to give a little advice to people.
Oh, I like that.
The true story ones are cute with the nativity scene.
It is.
Okay, so we've got Joy to.
Darker Colors, Briefly Fashionable00:02:20
Okay, go back up to Jingle Bell's Trudeau Smells.
This is the one that I got.
This is the one that I got.
I got the crew neck sweatshirt.
It's going to be a hit at all the gun read family Christmas soires.
That's for sure.
I took it out of the box and there were like hands just reaching at it.
Like, mom, I want that one.
But I will give you a little bit of advice.
Stick to the darker colors because the green, I got the gray, like the heathered gray, light gray sweatshirt, and the green doesn't show up that well.
So just my advice to you guys, just avoid that.
Go with the black or whatever color choices there is.
Just go with the darker colors.
My only word of caution on that one, Sheila, is that it will be uber fashionable for Christmas 2024, but it will be completely out of fashion Christmas 25.
I believe he will always suck.
But he'll be irrelevant by then.
Do you know what?
You just put it away for, I guess, 20 years till the next Trudeau offspring gets an idea that they are the hereditary leader of this country, dusted off Little Hadrian, thinks he's going to run the Liberal Party.
You know what?
You're quite right, Sheila.
After all, Justin, his alleged father, was the prime minister for so many years.
And who's to say that the cult of Justin Trudeau in Quebec won't rally around one of his kids once they're of a certain age?
They feel that the national governing party, kind of like royalty, I guess.
So maybe, well, it's just like real fashion.
Every 20 years it recycles itself.
That might be the case with Jingle Bell's Trudeau Smells.
You know what?
Don't put it past these people to be polishing up old Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
Oh no.
You know, I don't know how disgruntled she is now that she's no longer with him, although I think that they've not been together for quite some time.
But who knows?
You know, like, you know how the Democrats float Michelle Obama every once in a while as the next leader of their party?
Who knows?
They might get an idea about Sophie.
Well, Sheila, so much about this.
Yes, on that note.
Mugshot on a Mug00:05:51
Oh, and by the way, this is also on the RebelNewsstore.com.
It is wanted for journalism.
And is this not the ultimate irony, folks?
My police mugshot on a coffee mug.
How do you like that?
A mug on a mug.
So, and I'm happy to report on that note.
I or Ezra or nobody on the Rebel News team, as well as the 100-plus Patriots that came out to shockers reclaim the east side of Bathurst Street.
Nobody was arrested despite the threats of the police on Friday when they sent out an ex saying that would be the case.
And so much to unpack.
I see the first.
I think the real story is the standoff at Shepard turned into the battle for Bathurst on Sunday and the Patriots won.
Yeah, well, Ezra, and you can read all about in today's Toronto Sun, one of the few people in the mainstream media that is worth a tinker's dam.
That would be the scrawler.
Joe Warmington has a great piece.
And Ezra's quote, Sheila, was that yesterday was 90% victory.
I might even go as far as 95% victory.
I thought the most shameful thing, and I have an interview with this individual.
His name is Bruce.
He's a Royal Canadian Navy veteran.
And he was there displaying his medals.
And a cop came up to him and told him, Sheila, he has to move along because the sight of his medals is infuriating the pro-Hamas gang.
Can you imagine?
And so, under threat of arrest, this veteran, somebody that went to our defense in the Canadian Navy, is told by a Toronto police officer to move along or else.
And Sheila, does it get any more shameful than that?
Well, and you're not doing, they think they're doing the Hamas protesters, or maybe it's the bigotry of low expectations that they just think that all new Canadians are scared of medals or whatever.
But it doesn't do anybody any favors by encouraging the opposite of integration into our society.
There are things that you're going to see as a new Canadian, and you should get used to them.
You don't have to like them, but you're going to have to get used to them because that's how we do things around here.
And so I just absolutely find this appalling.
And it's these people, sometimes they learn things.
Like, for example, I think the Toronto police, by us measuring them, we changed their behavior and they did the right thing.
And they sent out a really great cop to deal with Ezra.
Mr. Ford.
Yes.
But sometimes they also don't learn things.
For example, when that school, I think in Nova Scotia over Remembrance Day, said, if you are a veteran and your kids come to our school, please don't wear your medals or your uniform because it would scare people.
And the premier actually issued a statement and it became a campaign issue.
And yet, somehow people don't learn in other parts of the world.
And I think we saw that unfold in Toronto.
You know what?
That is a great point.
But you know, Sheila, the whole, I guess, mission statement of yesterday was to affirm our rights, not only affirm our rights, but to show the police that we have a Supreme Court of Canada decision in our favor.
And I speak.
Fleming the Ontario.
That's right.
2019, that's when that decision came out.
The backstory, folks, Randy Fleming was part of the Patriot protesters in Caledonia some 15 years ago, and he was brutally arrested for the egregious crime of planting a Canadian flag on a vacant piece of property.
The native activists, hooligans, really were upset by that, and the cops went and did their bidding.
By the way, a great Christmas gift, I'm sure it's still available.
The late, great Christy Blatchford read a book about the history of Caledonia during that period, adroitly titled Helpless, because that's what the people of Caledonia, that was the state they were in.
They were helpless.
They were getting crimes committed against them, and the cops were purposefully not enforcing the law.
But in any regard, in the case of Mr. Fleming, the Supreme Court of Canada said you cannot arrest somebody who is not breaking the law.
You just can't.
So this idea of we're going to arrest you for your own protection, we're going to arrest you for keeping the peace.
You know what, Officer McDuff, tell it to the judge because you're going to lose.
And like you said, Sheila, how some entities do not learn that threat tweet the cops sent out on Friday, 24 hours before our assembly at Bathurst and Shepherd, they said the statement, it was words to the effect of, we recognize that you have charter rights.
Oh, really?
Oh, that's very nice of you.
Thank you.
Kind of you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But there are limits.
There's the declaration, the attention.
You know what?
No, McDuff.
No, Chief DemQ.
The Supreme Court of Canada does not say there are limits when it comes to not breaking the law.
So as Sheila adroitly pointed out, you just don't learn, do you?
What happened in Caledonia some 15 years ago?
It has been repeated in the streets of our great dominion.
The players have changed, but the song remains the same.
Sinoir Chain Conflict00:15:45
In any event, we've got some video of, and I see the first one, Sheila, is it's the anti-Israel mob has once again set up the Sinoir chain.
Sinoir, of course, he's the mastermind of the October 7th, 2023 massacre in southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of almost 1,200 people, more than 250 kidnapped.
He's a filthy terrorist who was thankfully sent to the great hereafter by the IDF.
But somehow the pro-Hamas people and Western societies consider him a martyr, a hero.
And what they do is they have someone dress up, doing some really egregious cosplay as Sinoir.
I think, folks, it's only a matter of time before somebody comes to one of these demonstrations dressed up as Hitler.
I really do because they're doing everything they can to get the pro-Israeli people.
Tell me what the difference is between Sinoir and Hitler outside of the death count.
That's it.
That is it.
And they had pictures of Hitler on display yesterday.
Sure, of course they did.
Sheila.
They are doing everything they can to get the pro-Israel people to react violently.
And to their credit, they are not taking the bait.
Anyways, the cosplayer was late for the demonstration, as was, by the way, the communists were supposed to come out en masse.
But you know, Sheila, when you got to get up at the crack of noon, when you're a calmie anarchist, that's a bit of a stretch goal.
So I bet they expected to be paid for it.
Paid for their labor.
So anyways, I'm going to throw to some video, folks.
The cosplayer doing Sinoir wasn't there.
So the couch, the bloody couch was occupied with something else.
Check it out.
I'm not moving this.
I'm not moving this.
I'm not going to get the car.
No, no, that's my car.
That's not a threat or anything.
Now, folks, I got to tell you, I had a belly laugh there.
The more I thought about it, the more I was laughing.
In fact, I think it would take more than 20 episodes of Seinfeld to make me laugh harder and longer.
I got to tell you, so if the idea was to intimidate me, was to make me tear up, was to make me run away.
No, it had the precise opposite effect.
It made me laugh.
I will say, if your effect was getting my beloved Lady Menzoid to flip her lid, she was furious.
That made me laugh even harder, by the way.
She would say, go down to 32 Division, file a hate crime complaint.
And I go, Lady Menzoid, they won't even arrest people that are getting punched in the face by the pro Hamas people.
They're not going to do anything about it.
Just have a good laugh.
Sheila, they'd find a reason to put a crazy pantomime.
Yeah, they'd find a reason to arrest you if you went down to 32 Division.
They'd be like, thanks for saving us the work, David.
Get in the cell.
You know, the drill.
That is absolutely a threat to you, completely.
But what are they going to do?
Like, what are the cops going to do?
Nothing.
Although, again, I will tell you, I was quite impressed with the police's treatment of everybody, by and large, from what I saw on the weekend.
I think they sent the right cop to deal with it.
He really took the temperature down.
Ezra, actually, to his credit, very calm.
You know, everything was very planned.
Hit the police with a legal letter from Leora Shemish.
Made sure that everybody who was at the demonstration had a copy of it.
Also made sure in multiple emails going out to people who would attend that the protest would be peaceful, family-friendly, no confrontation.
We're just going to assert our rights to be on the street.
And then couple that with what is a very passive-aggressive threat to David's life there.
That's like David's hat, which is representative of David.
We're going to put it in the bloody chair in place of the murdered, not murdered, dispatched righteously terrorist.
I mean, we all know what that means.
And Kane and Mark gives us 10 bucks and says, the way I feel.
And this is why we hire bodyguards for a lot of our staff when they go out on the streets.
I've been feeling really worried about Ezra and David's security lately.
I hope Rebel has enough security measures in place for the boys.
It always upsets me when anyone gets hurt.
Yeah, us too.
That's the last thing we want.
But you know what, Sheila?
And thank you very much, Ann Mark, for your concern.
And of course, for your donation.
Here's the thing.
We only hire licensed and bonded security guards.
Everything is done professionally.
We have so many offers of big bruiser fans saying, I'm willing to come down there for free.
Thank you.
Really?
We appreciate it.
The liability we can't maintain.
So they do a great job, you know, Antonio and Ryder and all the rest.
Here's the thing, folks.
Pardon me, even licensed bonded security guards, veterans, are useless against the police.
You cannot provide, you know, you cannot like law enforcement trumps a professional security guard.
And, you know, that's why, you know, a little funny story.
The first time I was arrested by the Toronto Police Service was in March.
It was a Justin Trudeau fundraiser, and it was down at the King Eddie Hotel in downtown Toronto.
And you might recall, Sheila, we talked about in the morning meeting.
I think at 10, our vice president said, you know, at this late hour, I don't think I can get security for you.
And I said, Atan, don't worry about that.
That's just wasted money.
There is going to be so much law enforcement there.
There'll be Toronto police.
There'll be the RCMP, probably even the OPP.
It will be a secure environment despite all the haters down there.
Little did I know that's who I had to fear.
The Toronto police, that arrest, of course, was obstructing police translation.
They thought I might ask an insensitive question of the pro-Hamas people, and they cuffed me, took me off to a division, and incarcerated me for six hours.
Absolutely brutal.
But that is the situation.
Your security, Sheila, is indeed rendered useless if it is the police who are the thugs.
Right.
Now, for Alexa, Drea, who are frequently out in the field, Antifa know them, Blackwalk know them, the radical trans activists who claim that words are violence, but they have no problem committing actual violence against you.
A lot of times I have to kill their stories because we can't get security in time for them to go out in the world.
And I'm not making that phone call to Drea's husband or Alexa's mom that they've been hurt or arrested or something even far worse.
So we frequently have to kill those stories.
But if you care about their security the same way I do, because we have to protect them in ways nobody else in the media has to worry about their journalists, you might want to consider making a donation to journalistdefensefund.com.
That's our security fund for our journalists who are out working in the field.
And as David rightly points out, it doesn't work against cops, but so many of our journalists are targeted by activists.
I mean, Alexa can hardly go out on the streets of Montreal to cover a protest.
I mean, we have footage of them literally trying to drag her into the mob.
They've got her by her microphone and they are dragging her down the street into the mob.
And the police are like six feet away from Alexa doing nothing.
She's screaming for the police to help her.
And then like 45 seconds later, they saunter over.
And I'm always horrified that one day they're going to get her and take her and we're going to have like a Laura Logan problem on our hands.
And I just, it just breaks my heart.
I worry sick about it.
And you know, and don't get the wrong impression, Alexa, folks, is a fighter.
She's talking about her.
She was trying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Sheila and I, and well, forget about me.
Sheila is the big kahuna in terms of the journalist division.
We implore her, do not do this.
It is not worth it.
Maybe if you can record footage from a rooftop that the landlord has allowed you on.
My biggest fear, Sheila, is that someone will recognize her despite the disguise.
There'll be a wardrobe malfunction, if I can use that term, you know, and the mask drops.
And they have absolutely no reservation, whether it's Antifa, the Black Bloc, or the pro-Hamas people, of beating up a woman.
Zero.
There is no chivalry with those guys.
For worse.
For worse.
Yeah.
And you think the Montreal police is going to do anything?
No, they're a bunch of tough guys when it's raiding a houseboat with journalists from Toronto.
But when it comes to actually enforcing the laws against the bad guys, they sit it out.
Right.
I'm just going to read this rumble rant from Ryer Singeri.
We'll show the next clip and then I've got to do an ad read and we'll take a break.
Ryer Singeri gives us five bucks and says the Toronto newspapers are praising the cops for how yesterday's event was handled.
To me, it emphasizes Ezra's point that the cowards take the easiest path available.
Well, they sure did.
That wasn't the case yesterday.
Ezra was exceptionally behaved.
Really, really well behaved.
The right cops, I think, were sent to deal with everybody.
I think they handled it well.
The one police officer said it's his efforts to make sure that free speech and charter rights are respected on both sides.
This is him explaining to Ezra, like, look, we're going to make sure that you get to do what you need to do with regard to your charter rights.
And likewise, for the other side, Ezra even said, even terrorists have charter rights in Canada, which is not the case in places like Gaza.
And you know what?
I want to compliment Sergeant Ford.
That's the man who is speaking with Ezra right now.
And as Joe Warmington points out, he's from a family of law enforcement officers.
He is unlike McDuff, who I still find shame to think that he's of Scottish descent, much like myself.
Sergeant Ford, I think, was so level-headed and handled it perfectly.
And there's a big reason why Ezra called yesterday a 90% victory.
Sheila, on one last point before we go to a break, I just want to say this.
As you know, the reason why we can't cross the street, well, originally we asserted our rights yesterday and we scored a W, is all about keeping the peace, that the pro-Hamas people hate the side of you and they'll get further agitated and enraged, even though we have the right to be there.
All right.
Let's flip this argument around.
That pro-Israel side has been there for almost 14 months.
Not even a demonstration.
I would call it a vigil, Sheila, asking for the return of the hostages, at least the ones that are still alive.
Why don't the police say to the pro-Hamas folk, look, go do your thing anywhere else?
There's literally thousands of intersections.
Go five blocks south, 10 blocks north, you name it, and do your thing.
And if the pro-Hamas guy said, it is my right to do a protest on the streets of Toronto, I would say you are 100% right, sir.
But in the interests of keeping the peace, we are abridging that right.
Go elsewhere or you're under arrest.
Why don't they take that tactic?
It's exactly what Ezra said.
And Ryerson Gary, it's the path of least resistance, right?
They have no problem abridging the rights of certain demonstrators.
It just always seems to go the one direction, if you know what I mean, is because Ezra is not going to, I don't know, blow up the police station in retaliation.
You know, Ezra is not going to the next week make passive death threats on a bloody chair towards the participants of the demonstration across the street.
So, of course, you know, like so many government.
I'm sorry.
That's a defeatist attitude.
At the end of the day.
No, no, I'm just, I'm just speaking the reality of the situation.
We all know why they do that.
I know, but when you practice the path of least resistance, you know what happens?
You embolden the mob.
Like I said, right now, it's Sinoir cause players.
Next, it'll be Hitler.
You mark my words.
They're already displaying Hitler's photograph.
And we saw the Calgary police a few weeks ago, Sheila, didn't we?
They were trying to block the street.
And the Calgary police, to their credit, went into whack'em and stack'em mode.
They won't be doing that anytime soon.
If you're being intimidated by these thugs, the police have pepper spray, they have tasers, they have guns.
I hope the service has water cannon.
That's what I would use.
Get soaking wet on a minus six day in December and see how amped up you are to spew genocide and hate.
That's my solution.
Fight fire with fire.
Minus six.
Minus 35, mister.
That's what it is up here.
Actually, it's warming up today.
That's why they don't go to your neck of the woods.
Yeah, that's why we don't have protest mania from about October through to May because it's just, you know, we're in a fight to stay alive.
We've got one more clip here, and then I've got to do an ad read.
We've got to take an ad break.
We've got to get back on track because I've got scheduled things.
We've got anti-Canadian activists calls for Jews to go back to Europe.
Okay, let's just say, let's, you know what, I'll save my comments for after before I do the ad read.
But gross.
Calls for Return00:02:40
That's good.
They all look the same, don't they?
Yeah.
Like all these like pro-Palestinian lady activists like this one, they all look exactly the way you think.
She just swapped that shirt out for a rainbow one during Pride Week.
But she'll look exactly the same.
They never change.
Now, imagine if this was a black church and these Yahoos showed up and said, go back to Africa.
Imagine the outrage.
Imagine.
But that's exactly what they're doing to the Jews and nobody cares.
Not only do nobody cares, but they actually think that it is the appropriate thing to say.
Like everyone's like, yeah, why don't they?
Why don't they just go back to Europe?
The entire progressive left, the anti-racism left, they're perfectly fine with the go back to Africa chant, just the location changed and it being targeted at Jews.
100%, Sheila, a couple of things I'll point out.
First of all, so many of these reprobates say when you call them anti-Semites, they say, no, we're not anti-Semites.
We're anti-Zionists.
We're anti-the state of Israel.
But every once in a while, the mask drops, doesn't it?
And you have that gal, that lovely lady chanting, go back to Europe.
Kind of funny because Jews in Europe in 1930s, they had to get the hell out of Europe because a genocide was on.
So they go back to their homeland.
Israel goes back almost 4,000 years in that neck of the woods, and suddenly they are seen as the colonizers, the imperialists.
And that, Sheila, is why the left targets Israel and Jews.
It is because they look through Israel and the Jewish people, less than 18 million on a planet of over 8 billion, not as a minority that needs protection and needs accommodation, but rather they are labeled colonists, imperialists, but they're not.
This is the Jewish homeland.
And because of this lens that is perpetrated in the Middle East in certain Arab circles and in Western universities, this is why there is so much anti-Israel, anti-Jew hatred.
It is despicable.
David, what even is archaeology?
You know, like it's so stupid.
There's like, there's so much evidence that the Jews have been there and always been there, but we're all just supposed to pretend that archaeology isn't a thing.
Why Archaeology Matters00:09:43
It's just magic.
Nobody knows.
You wouldn't be saying to the Palestinians, just go back to Jordan, would you?
Probably not.
But it's fine for them to say go back to Europe.
Anyways, I got to do an ad read.
We got to hit an ad break and then we've really got to move on because Patrick Brown is in a little bit of hot water and you know how we love to talk about him.
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So, what first?
Um, sneaky Patrick Brown or um Trudeau.
Okay, let's race through.
I can't tell the difference.
Can you tell the difference?
Yeah, let's race through Trudeau a little bit because there's really not much happening there.
Um, it was just a meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
We've got a photo of what we can show you.
Not much else was said.
Uh, let's just, if you want to pop up that photo of Trudeau, thanks for dinner.
So, this is at Mar-a-Lago.
Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump.
I look forward to the work we can do together again.
Now, there's another photo of this, like a wider angle that shows where Trudeau was actually sitting.
Did you see that photo?
He's on the other side with the like Dominic LeBlanc.
See, he would have been sitting there.
There was no wine glass where he was that belongs to him, if you can see.
So, they sort of like snuggled up so that he could fit in there, but he's actually over there on this side with LeBlanc and Telford over here.
Because, of course, Trump wanted to enjoy his meal without Trudeau in his ear.
But, Sheila, you're burying the lead.
It's the person in the next table.
That's the part of the guy behind, yeah.
Doing the, you know, doing the raspberry.
Uh, I can't tell if that's a kid or not, but um, that, you know, and it's hard to see, folks, but uh, that's what I saw all over X on the weekend.
And I don't think that person is giving that reaction to Trump, but rather Trudeau.
You know, it's very funny, though, Sheila.
I just want to stop you though before we move on.
You know who else is absent from that?
Someone, the Trudeau administration or the Trump administration absolutely despises Christia Freeland.
The deputy prime minister was not at this event whatsoever.
And as best I can tell, Melanie Jolie wasn't there either.
So, our foreign affairs minister not there either.
Although she is so anti-Trump, if we get tariffs, it's going to be because of her.
Oh, and you know what, Sheila, it's funny.
I mean, Lady Menzoid was ranting on the weekend going, why would Trudeau invite Trump?
Trump is sorry, why would Trump invite Trudeau?
I got him confused.
Trump is the man of tomorrow.
Trudeau is yesterday's loser.
It's only a matter of time.
And, you know, shouldn't he invite Pierre Polyev and do a preemptive meeting?
And then it all became apparent of how, well, the rationale, I think, in terms of why Trump invited Trudeau.
At the end of the dinner, Trudeau no doubt said, well, even though I'm just a prime minister, I hope the presidential suite is available for me at Mar-a-Lago.
And that's when Trump said, oh, actually, there's a Motel 6 down there.
You ain't staying here.
He didn't stay at Mar-a-Lago.
He didn't let him stay at Mar-a-Lago.
Like, that's really embarrassing.
You come down there to kiss the ring, and then he's like, yeah, there's no room at the end.
Get out of here.
You may be born on Christmas Day as Justin Trudeau is.
And just like baby Jesus, there's no room at the inn for him either.
Let's slug this story, the little bummer.
Yeah.
Now, on Truth Social, Trump issued a statement about the meeting that was a little bit more detailed and lengthy than like thanks for dinner from Justin Trudeau.
He says, I just had a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, where we discussed many important topics that will require both countries to work together to address.
like the fentanyl and drug crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result of illegal immigration, fair trade deals that do not jeopardize American workers.
Oh, that's why they left Freeland at home.
And the massive trade deficit with the U.S. that the U.S. has with Canada.
I made it very clear that the United States will no longer sit idly by as our citizens become victims of the scourge of this drug epidemic, mainly caused by the drug cartels and fentanyl pouring in from China.
Too much death and hardship.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. families.
We spoke about other important topics like energy, trade, and the Arctic.
Okay, those are all Western economy issues.
So he was probably like, yeah, we sure like that gal you got in Alberta.
All our vital issues that I will be addressing on my first days back in office and before.
So I guess if you want the truth of what happened, ask Trump.
But you know what I find absolutely fascinating, Sheila?
Just literally hours after Donald Trump made that announcement on Truth Social about the 25% tariff applied to Mexico and Canada.
In 12 hours, in fact, the president of Mexico said the caravans are going to be intercepted.
They're not going to be allowed anywhere near the border.
And in Canada, within 48 hours, which is the speed of light when you talk about government, because really the speed of government is akin to molasses going uphill in the wintertime, Trudeau and all 13 provincial and territorial premiers got together for a powwow.
And this is a man some 60 days before assuming the White House to come up with some kind of response, some type of strategy, such as, oh, I don't know, protecting the border because, yeah, the Canadian border is nowhere near like the sieve that is the southern border.
But almost 10% of illegals do go into the U.S. from Canada.
There is fentanyl via China going into the U.S. via Canada.
And suddenly, even before Trump gets into the White House, there is action afoot.
I'm just staggered by the speed of it, Sheila.
Don't give Trudeau any credit for the speed of that happening.
That first minister's conference was planned in advance, like a year in advance.
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In fact, it was the day after Tim Houston was re-elected in Nova Scotia.
So it was the snap.
I knew it was too good to be true.
No.
And I thought it was funny that Tim Houston, the anti-carbon tax super majority conservative premier in Nova Scotia, got to spend the very first day back on the job as part of the conservative alliance against carbon taxes battering around a beleaguered Justin Trudeau at the conference table.
But yeah, that was pre-planned.
The first minister's conference, it wasn't called in response to Donald Trump.
It was just happening.
Thank you, Khaleesi, for preventing that misinformation.
That's what I do.
That's what I do.
Let's go into David Menzies' Muse.
As many of you know, I have a muse, and it is Randy Boissineau these days.
David Menzies muse so frequently has been sneaky Patrick Brown.
And there's news about sneaky Patrick Brown.
Well, there's the CBC story.
Apparently, agents of the Indian government interfered in Patrick Brown's conservative leadership campaigns, according to several sources.
By the way, Sheila, I have my source on this before the live stream.
That person gave me a call.
And just to let you know about this source, he's not golden, folks.
He is platinum.
He's not 99% right about Patrick Brown.
He is 100% right.
He's the one that tipped us off the where, when, how.
Remember when sneaky Patrick Brown shut down all the recreational facilities of Brampton?
But except for one, the Earnscliff Hockey Rink, where he entertained his Barry buddies, breaking the COVID bylaws.
This is also the source that told us about the secret campaign headquarters during that conservative leadership race that Brown established, not even in Brampton, but a city down the highway, Vaughan, Ontario.
And we expose that.
And I'm going to take credit.
That led to the beginning of the end of Patrick Brown's leadership campaign.
He was ousted by the party.
Thank God.
In any event, we now have this Indian interference.
He's looking into it for me, Sheila.
I'm not sure what to think because another thing this source told me, Sheila, and this tells you all you need to know about how Patrick Brown gets elected in probably the single most diverse municipality in all of Canada.
And he goes out and he has these meetings with the Tamils and the Khalistani Sikhs and the Hindus and the Muslims.
And what the allegations are, and by the way, I always try to reach out to Patrick Brown.
He won't return my calls.
In fact, he blocks me on X, which is not allowed because it's his official government account.
But nevertheless, basically, if you can imagine what my source tells me about how he curries favor with all of these groups is they say, look at this munja cake white man.
You know, he's just like us.
He's just like how we do business back home.
You know, stuff under the table, paper bags of money, etc.
That's the allegation.
And that's how he wins all these diverse camps over.
So I'm not sure where the Indian government comes in.
It might be, Sheila, the Khalistani angle.
There are probably more Khalistanis in Brampton, Ontario than there are in India right now.
Maybe that's what's driving this.
What are your thoughts?
I'm slightly skeptical, and I'm willing to wait for all of the details to come out.
So because I probably paid as close attention to the Foreign Interference Commission as anybody in this country, I should tell you that Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative Party leadership race after membership irregularities.
Tons of memberships were being, and this is something the Conservative Party does, I should backtrack to protect the integrity of their internal elections.
You have to have some skin in the game.
You have to buy a membership.
If you're a liberal, you just get one.
You just say you want one, and then you can just get busted in by the CCP to vote for hands-on, as it turns out.
Well, in Canada with the Conservative Party, you have to have some skin in the game and they have to be able to prove that that money was yours.
So, preferably credit cards or a bank card.
But what was happening in Patrick Brown's leadership was that they were using money orders to purchase memberships, which is an absolute no-no.
And it sounds like a lot of the money was coming from one place.
And the Conservatives disqualified him and then told election integrity officials on Patrick Brown.
So it's not like the Conservatives have ever tried to hide any of this.
I think they have, unlike the liberals who do try to hide these things, they aired their dirty laundry because sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Now, now they're saying that maybe it was Indian agents who were behind that.
But that doesn't, I'm not sure if that's the case.
Because I think, according to these reports, they're saying that Indian officials were pressuring Michelle Rempel Garner, who was the co-chair of his campaign, who I'm sure regrets it now, to remove her support from Patrick Brown.
Now, I think she removed her support after the membership irregularities came out and not because of pressure from the Indian government.
That's what I think just on my examination of the evidence.
And here's why.
Because the liberals and the mainstream media seem to think that India is very capable of controlling Canadian politics, but they don't think that China is a really big deal.
And there's been a lot of misinformation about India.
And look, I sound like I'm a lawyer for big India right now.
I realize that, but that's not what I'm doing here.
I'm just saying that a lot of the things that were previously reported as truth have turned out to be wrong.
Remember when they said that the liberals came out and said it and they expelled diplomats and Trudeau said that Prime Minister Modi was linked to criminal activity happening in Canada, including extrajudicial murders?
Well, as it turns out, a senior official from CISA said there's absolutely zero evidence.
They're not aware of any evidence linking the Indian Prime Minister Modi to alleged criminal activity perpetrated by Indian agents on Canadian soil.
So I'm just sitting here waiting for all the evidence to come out.
There's a lot of in this article, sources said this, sources who won't go on the record said this.
And I'm like, I'm not sure because when CBC says sources who won't come on the record, it could be anybody.
And we should note Michelle Rempel categorically denies all of this.
So I await Patrick Brown's testimony at the security committee.
Oh, yeah, and he'll be honest as always, Sheila, I'm sure.
I got to tell you, Sheila, I mean, if half the allegations I've heard about sneaky Patrick Brown turn out to be true, forget about being Mayor of Brampton.
He's going to be in jail.
Maybe that medium security facility where Paul Bernardo is, it has a hockey rink, so he can still play hockey.
I know he loves to do that.
But by the way, speaking of Michelle Rempel Garner, you have a personal connection to her.
What in blue hell was she thinking getting into that rat nest called the Patrick Brown campaign?
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
I don't know.
I wish I could tell you.
If I had to guess, I'm sure she very much regrets it now.
And I cannot wait for the evidence to come out because what I do know is the Conservative Party has no problem putting Patrick Brown's dirty laundry on blast.
So unlike the liberals who, I mean, what did Justin Trudeau testify to?
If we found somebody who had problems with foreign interference in their campaigns, what we would say to them was, why don't you just withdraw from whatever campaign you're running for and tell them that you want to spend more time with family?
And then we'll just sort of sweep it under the rug.
He said that that's what the Liberal Party does.
The Conservative Party of Canada takes a much different approach.
If you engage in campaign irregularities, we're going to tell on you ourselves.
So I guess that's good news.
And you know, Sheila, I can't wait to hear what comes out of that.
I can't wait to hear what my source says after his meetings later today.
And you know, I'm a real big believer in karma, Sheila.
I really am.
I mean, right now, Patrick Brown is flying high.
Well, if you can call the mayor of Brampton flying high, he was the man moments away from being premier, slam dunk.
So it's kind of like that scene in Glen Gary Glenn Ross.
You know, first prize, a Cadillac El Dorado, second prize, a set of steak knives.
Well, yeah, that's what he won, a set of steak knives.
He has no connection to Brampton.
In fact, when he was first campaigning, he often in his speeches, he called Brampton Barry, where he actually has lived.
Well, we're going to go to third prize pretty soon, I think, which is you're fired.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Right.
Do we have we are we gonna do one more ad break, Olivia?
Okay, so we'll we will just skip that.
Just going back to this Trump thing, uh funny clip from a couple of days ago.
The media is kind of funny because you, when you've lost the media, the Trudeau bailout media, what hope do you have?
The media asks Pierre Polyev if he's communicating with Trump's transition team.
He's the opposition leader.
Why would he do that?
Unless you are passively admitting that Trudeau's on his way out the door.
Anyways, this is kind of funny.
That's true.
Mickey here with Politico.
Who from Trump's transition team have you or your party been in touch with since the U.S. election?
I'm not the prime minister.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
He forgot that was that was a 90% perfect sentence.
It'd be 100% if he added one word yet.
Right.
I mean, but I thought that was funny because that's Politico out of the United States in a press conference here in Canada just basically saying, like, we've written off Trudeau.
We think this is a done deal.
So are you talking to President Trump?
I'm sure.
I'm sure Polyev is, by the way, talking to people on Trump's transition team.
I'm absolutely sure of that.
Building those relationships in advance.
I'm sure of it.
I think the Trump team is probably just waiting to be done with the Trudeau team.
And so they're, of course, meeting with somebody who is more open to the economic and public safety ideas of the Trump administration.
Sheila, not that I think Mr. Polyev would do this, but I would just love to see him fly down to Mar-a-Lago to have a meeting with the president number 47 to be, because Sheila, the mainstream media in Canada would lose their minds.
Make no mistake about that.
And, you know, if it were like a private meeting when they're all where they're having fun or like out on the golf course working on their little dance and their golf swings, like it would, it should be if he does go and please go, Pierre Polyev, please go, please go and have fun with President Trump.
But if you go and have fun with President Trump, make sure that there's lots of photographs of you just getting a golf cart up on two wheels and having fun instead of like the staged, boring dinner meeting that Trudeau had from across the table with President Trump.
And, you know, Sheila, we should point out, speaking of U.S. politics, we must talk about this.
It's front page news.
Well, knock me down with a feather.
President Biden will indeed pardon Hunter Biden, his son.
First of all, grotesque conflict of interest.
It is his son.
Secondly, on two separate occasions this year alone, President Biden said twice he will not pardon Hunter Biden.
So take that for what it's worth.
And you know, to this day, Sheila, I think the Hunter Biden scandal going back some four years ago when Twitter under the previous management censored the New York Post for telling the truth, that the laptop story was real, despite all of the mainstream media ignoring it and despite X going in and censoring the New York Post exclusive.
What a disgrace.
And now this kid is going to get a pardon.
I'm not sure about, how does it work at Sheila South the Border?
Can Donald Trump unpardon somebody that's just being pardoned?
I don't think so.
They have that convenient thing about double jeopardy down there.
Did anybody expect that Biden wouldn't pardon his son on the way out the door?
Oh, no, I knew.
I absolutely knew in my heart of hearts, and I said it that you watch in the 11th hour, which we're in now, I would say this is going to happen because the evidence is so overwhelming and so damning.
And yeah, so what a despicable note to leave office on, right?
But I'm sure there's some more things to come before January 20th, Sheila.
Oh, I can't wait till the Trump transition team just gets in there and starts going through stuff.
I can hardly even wait.
We have a quick ad read, and then there's two things we want to talk about: how Canada Post is the Grinch that stole Christmas.
And my friend, my beloved dear friend, Chris Sims, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, just scorched earth today at the Heritage Committee.
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And like on the CBC ended that, like Talib Nur Mohammed and Michael Koto, like the liberals on the committee, they were sort of baffled.
They're like, excuse me, ma'am, but are you saying that we shouldn't be funding media at all?
And she's like, no money to the CBC.
She kept what now, what if, what if it's in a remote community?
No money to the CBC.
Like it was so, she was so good.
I love Chris Sims, and I had the divine pleasure of meeting her daughter at the Rebel News Live.
Lovely girl.
I think this gal is maybe 14 or 15, wise beyond her years.
I say that's a future leader.
I really do make that prediction right here.
So anything Chris Sims is on, believe it like the gospel, folks.
Oh my God.
She's just so good.
It's just a pleasure.
I was like glued.
Usually when I'm covering committee, I skip over some of the liberal questions to the members, like the witnesses, because they're just boring, especially when the liberals are asking liberal witnesses their questions about.
So do you agree with me?
Yes, yes, yes, indeed.
I agree with you.
Okay, great.
Can you tell me how wonderful the government is?
Oh, the government is definitely wonderful.
Give us more money.
So I usually just skip over that stuff.
But, Chris, the liberals were trying to ask her questions.
And at one point, one of them was just arguing with her.
And she was like, it was so weird.
She was so good.
Anyways, big shout out to Chris Sims for like just being so principled.
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You know what, Sheila?
There might be a little delay getting that guide because the U.S. has just suspended mail delivery to Canada thanks to the postal strike.
I think you referred to the posties as so many Grinches that are stealing Christmas.
Go for it.
Yeah, they are.
So the postal strike, I'm supposed to care that the postal workers are getting laid off now.
And I don't because they don't seem to care about the damage they are doing to independent private sector companies who rely on Canada Post for mail delivery, especially right now.
It's Cyber Monday.
It was Black Friday.
This is the shopping season.
And the more Canada Post does stuff like this, the more people will move their parcel delivery to the private sector if you haven't already, because these people are absolutely unreliable and greedy.
Don't write me letters because my heart right now is with the small business owners who are having real trouble getting their stuff out to their customers.
Canada Post strike has cost small businesses three quarters of a billion dollars.
Well, Sheila, I'm in agreement with you.
And believe it or not, I have some sympathy for the rank and file.
I do too.
You know what?
Let me preface that.
I was very harsh there.
And let me preface that.
A lot of you, many of you, are forced into that postal workers union.
Many of you don't want to go on strike.
So let me save my ire for the union brass and not the people on the ground.
Actually, I know through COVID, the people on the ground, your union failed you too.
They didn't stick up for you then, and they're not acting in your interest now.
Postal workers are going to get laid off and they are being laid off because the union won't quit being as greedy as they are.
Oh, and not just greed, Sheila, when it comes to benefits and a raise, I think 24% or 21%.
It's a crazy double-digit figure.
And sex changes.
That's what I'm getting at.
The wokeism.
And we went on to the picket line two weeks ago, folks, at Gateway, Canada's largest sorting terminal.
And if you can imagine, one of the union's demands, one of the things CUPW is asking for is for Canada Post to pay for sex reassignment surgery.
So if mailman Michael wants to become mail woman Michelle, they want Canada Post to pick up the tab for that.
Can you imagine, especially given Sheila, that Canada Post is right now in a $3 billion deficit situation.
Right.
Yeah, this is not like some silicon tech giant like Google or Facebook or YouTube, you name it.
They are losing scads of money.
And if it wasn't for junk mail, which is a huge driver of revenue now, yeah, they'd be in a worse position.
Compared to the glory days, Sheila, Canada Post now delivers 70% less mail than it used to.
Sheila, if General Motors was selling 70% less cars as they're used to, guess what?
They're out of business.
And I would argue, and you see, that's why I have some sympathy for the yet rank and file.
I asked them, should that benefit get approved, sex reassignment?
Are you going to change your gender in the new year?
And people laughed out loud.
They were, you know, it was kind of like nervous laughter.
They said, of course not.
The women were saying, I'm happy being female.
So these wokes at CUPW, who are not losing any salary and not carrying any pickets, they're coming up with these outrageous woke DEI demands to a company that if it was in the, if it was a real company, is bankrupt.
This is insane, Sheila.
Right.
And again, it's going to result in layoffs of the workers.
But the Canada Post brass, they're going to be fine.
In fact, if I think they're like the CBC, and I bet they are, they're going to take their bonuses while regular people are getting laid off.
And online retailers right now, small businesses who have like an online store, because they can't afford a bricks and mortar store in Justin Trudeau's Canada, this time of year is what will carry them through January, February, and March.
And they can't make those sales right now.
We see it's a quarter or three quarters of a billion dollars.
The knock-on effect is going to be catastrophic for these companies.
It just makes me sick to see this.
100%.
And as far as Canada Post is concerned, you mark my words.
Once they're up and running again, it will be diminished returns.
And the reason I say that, I was on the 407 electronic toll highway the other day, and their giant message boards.
You know what they were advertising?
It was, are you concerned about getting your ETR bill?
Go online and make certain.
So people are going to do that.
They're going, I don't want to be in default.
And I saw a similar ad from the TD Bank.
Go online instead of waiting for your snail bail mail like visa statements.
And a lot of people are going to do, I don't know what the percentage will be, but once they go online, Sheila, they ain't going back.
No, of course.
I mean, it's just like the church is during COVID.
You had a pastor or a priest who told you you didn't need to come into church to get communion.
Looking at it over Zoom was good enough.
And guess what?
Now the pews are empty because it didn't make itself obsolete.
Yes.
Yes.
They said that.
And now you go back to your church and it's tumbleweeds rolling through.
And it's like, well, of course, nobody came back.
You told them it wasn't essential for them to be here.
And the same thing's going to happen with Canada Post some more.
Now, you're talking about all churches or simply the United Church of Canada.
United Church of Canada?
Isn't that just a real estate holding?
I think so.
And most of that real estate is being converted into mosques, such as the demography these days.
But I did not know that was prevalent in the gospel world.
Yes.
Now, I know I gotta be very shortly.
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But let's touch on my good friend, Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
She is from British Columbia.
She's a refugee to Alberta, and we're happy to have her fighting for us on our side.
She was at the Heritage Committee.
She was a last-minute amendment to the agenda.
And she texts me, I don't know, like six o'clock this morning.
She's like, I'm testifying.
I'm like, oh, you better believe I am glued to my computer.
And she was so good.
I don't, I'll let you pick whatever clip that you want.
If you go to my ex, Sheila Gunread, on X, you will see so much of Chris's testimony, including just the ridiculous exchanges with the liberal MPs who are like, so you're telling me we shouldn't be funding any of them?
And she's like, no, no.
So we can, we, you can pick whatever one you want there, Olivia, and we can respond.
But I did clip her full six-minute opening statement where she said that she's there to speak for the thousands of Canadians who want to defund the CBC.
And then she goes on to tell them that, you know, like, nobody's watching.
It's expensive.
And the idea that Canadians are funding the media is a conflict of interest for the journalists, for any self-respecting journalist out there.
But Olivia or Efron, I'll let you pick whatever clip you want to show and then we'll quickly comment on it.
The CBC is getting $1.4 billion from taxpayers this year.
That money could instead pay the salaries of around 7,000 paramedics and 7,000 police officers.
That money could instead pay for groceries for about 85,000 Canadian families for a year.
Instead, taxpayers are paying $1.4 billion so the CBC can hand out huge bonuses, get microscopic ratings, and overpay its out-of-touch executives.
CBC CEO Catherine Tate refused to tell this committee if she will take a severance when she leaves the state broadcaster.
Tate considers that to be a personal matter, and quote: It's not personal if it's taxpayers' money.
Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show Tate is paid between $460,000 and $551,000 this year with a bonus of up to 28%.
That is a bonus of $154,000.
That bonus is more than the average Canadian family earns in a year.
Around this time last year, the CBC asked for more money.
After that, just before Christmas, the CBC announced layoffs in its newsrooms.
I've worked in many newsrooms, and getting let go is not a bowl of cherries.
But what about the bonuses at that same time?
Documents obtained by the CTF show the CBC did hand out bonuses costing $18 million.
As the CBC fan group Friends of Canadian Median put it, quote, this decision is deeply out of touch and unbefitting of our national public broadcaster, end quote.
Thank you to the members from the Conservatives, the block, and the NDP who voted to hold the CBC to account for these bonuses.
You know, the best line, Sheila, is quote, microscopic ratings.
I know.
That's so good.
And you know, even a week ago, I believe it was, Andrew Scheer, when he was speaking about Tate's, you know, this idea that it's personal, it's private, how much taxpayer money I'm going to get in bonuses.
And he made the statement that CBC making the case on why it should be defunded.
My God, where was that fighting smeared in 2019?
I love him as an MP.
Could not stand him as the leader.
I love the guy as an MP.
He's great as an MP.
He's great at committee.
He's great in the House of Commons.
Brutal leader.
Just not a good leader.
You know, I felt the same way about Jason Kenney when he was an MP in Harper's cabinet and then he came to be the premier of Alberta.
And I was like, wait, I don't, who's this guy?
Where's the bring back the other guy?
Yeah.
But Chris was great.
I mean, she came with statistics because she knew she was going to be asked about like, oh, what about remote and indigenous communities?
They won't get any, they won't get any news.
And it's like, well, why don't you maybe stop trying to shake down meta and people in remote communities will get the news like they used to?
And that's on Facebook from their neighbors.
Why should we pay for that?
But she also brought an interesting statistic.
The next time they say that these remote and Indigenous communities won't get any news without the CBC, bring up the fact that CBC doesn't care about these people either because they paid out more in bonuses, nearly double in bonuses, than what they invest in Indigenous language content.
And you know what's amazing, Sheila?
I remember going back, it was more than 10 years ago, the British equivalent of the CBC, the BBC, they had to, I think it was, I'm going by memory, so don't quote me, but they had to slash their annual budget, according to the government, by 4.6%.
And guess what, Sheila?
If you tuned into the BBC, you noticed nothing different in programming.
They slashed the executive fact.
And you're telling me that number, 5%, they can't do that, but instead they're giving the executive porkers bonuses for what?
Like Chris said, microscopic ratings?
This is, I mean, CBC is basically the television version of Canada Post.
Yeah, and the irony is they call it performance bonuses.
And I'm like, you guys are not performing.
Like, you're just not performing.
In fact, you should all be fired.
If you were in the private sector, you wouldn't be getting a bonus.
You would have been fired.
They're like whale fishermen at the dawn of the petrochemical era.
We have a chat from Ryerson Gary who said, it's been obvious for years that Justin desires to destroy everything Canadian.
Immigration has been a big part of that desire.
Justin probably had a wet dream when Trump became an unwitting foil.
I think people are seeing through all of that.
I mean, Justin Trudeau might have thought, oh, yeah, I get to go back to leading the anti-Trump international cabal.
But I think that ship has sailed a long time ago.
People see through Justin Trudeau complaining.
You know what, Sheila?
You're right.
But I fully believe that the liberals' campaign strategy is, especially with Trump's announcement of the 25% tariffs, which I don't believe are ever going to be applied.
I think this, this is the man who wrote the art of the deal.
But I think he's going to say, vote for me.
i'm here to protect canada from big bad orange man and not even liberals are going to buy it but i see by the time on the uh clock and also sheila doing this to me i know i'm doing this I'm doing this because I'm already over time.
Before we go, we have some sad news.
And regular viewers of the show will know our friend Fraser from the comments.
And he was a regular supporter of the live stream.
And he was, there he is, wearing one of our bestsellers, the Justin Castro shirt.
He was a Fight the Finds client and ultimately a Fight the Finds recidivist for his ongoing protests against COVID in Hamilton.
And Fraser McBurney, we're sad to say, passed away on October 30th.
So we were as much a fan of Fraser and his activism for his community as he was of us here at Rebel News.
And it's just sad.
Would like Fraser to have seen Donald Trump get re-elected because he loved Donald Trump.
And this is an interview that Tamara did with Fraser.
He offered cops coffee, and then the cops charged him for not social distancing.
I mean, it's just comical.
But Fraser was such a fighter for his community, and we're just offer our condolences to his family.
You know what?
I'm just hearing this for the first time right now.
I pass on my belated condolences to Fraser's family.
He was a live wire.
I mean, and fancy that.
He offers the cops coffee, gets arrested.
Meanwhile, cops reward the Hamas demonstrators now for chanting genocide, and they get coffee and tin bits.
Holy cow, what a world.
I wish he had made it one more week to see Trump's re-election, Sheila, and for that matter, one more year to see a regime change in Ottawa.
But my condolences to his family.
All right.
I think that's everything.
I just wanted to make sure that our viewers knew and we could take a minute to just show our appreciation for Fraser's support over the years and offer our condolences to his family.
100%.
Well, folks, Sheila's got to go.
I got to cut a promo.
And Sheila and I will be back this Friday.
Nope, I'm gone.
I'm on special assignment on Friday.
You'll have a different, lovely co-host to look at.