Tamari Ugolini and Alexa Lavoie dissect Google’s $22.2M payout to Canadian media under the Online News Act, favoring CBC ($6.8M) and Globe over independent outlets like Rebel News. Doug Ford demands criminal justice reform after repeat offenders on bail, citing lax jail conditions in Quebec, while premiers push for federal action. Alberta’s canola industry faces $44B in Chinese tariffs, yet Carney’s Liberals prioritize EV sectors. Elizabeth May’s awkward Green Party performance fuels doubts about her Speaker bid, amid Liberal-NDP supermajority rumors. High voter turnout (68%) contrasts with Ontario’s low participation, raising democratic legitimacy concerns. The episode reveals systemic media bias and political misalignment in Canada’s post-election landscape. [Automatically generated summary]
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Alexa, how are you doing over there?
I'm pretty good, but it's May Day.
So there is lots going on today.
Yeah, that's right.
So happy May 1st to everyone.
I always, my sister sends me this funny Justin Timberlake thing.
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I'm just so cheesy like that.
It gets me every time.
So whenever it's May 1st or April 30th, and I have that voice stuck in my head, you know, Justin Timberlake when he had like the Mr. Noodle hair when they looked like dried Mr. Noodles gets me every time.
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Judges and the Broken Bail System00:11:33
I know that they reacted a little bit yesterday on the stream to some of his comments, both pre and post election debate or sorry, election results.
But here we have him saying that, or admitting finally, rather, that this system is broken.
And so, of course, referring to the criminal justice system that I would say doesn't really do any sort of justice these days.
So, we'll have a look, listen, what he says, and then we'll come back for some comments.
I'm just, there's so many great judges, first of all, and there's great JPs.
I'm a strong believer in our judicial system, but it's out of control now.
Like, you see these criminals getting out on bail, not once or twice, four or five times, and going out and committing heinous crimes.
The story that someone was out on bail five times and went in and killed a young lady.
You know, this is absolutely ridiculous how these judges keep letting people out over and over and over again.
I'm just done with it.
We're going to hire tough on crime judges, tough on crime JPs to make sure that they follow the law and keep these people in jail because they're just being released.
You could go in and kick in a door, put a gun to someone's head with kids in the house, terrorize that house.
And guess what?
By the time they get arrested and get out, it's the next day.
And then they start mocking our police in the back of the police car.
Don't worry, I'll be out by the time you start your shift.
And what happens?
They're out before they get, you know, before they come back on duty.
The system is broken.
And there's a lot of terrible, terrible bleeding heart judges out there.
You know something?
If it happened to them, they might take a different look at it.
And that's not a knock against all the judges because there's good qualified judges.
We have great chief justices.
Matter of fact, probably the best in the country.
But the system's broken.
And once these judges get into their position, they have this sense of entitlement.
That's what drives me crazy.
We were democratically elected as a government.
And I always say, you know, I always say the legislature is supreme, meaning the people are supreme.
When you get a mandate to do something, you can't have judges constantly overruling the government.
Or I have an idea.
I have an idea.
And again, I'm going to emphasize not all the judges.
I've said it three times.
But why don't we have the next election, the PC party, the Liberal Party, the NDP party, the Green Party, and the Judges Party?
Because they overturn everything right down to the bike lanes.
So, you know, we get Democratic.
Yeah, anyway, he goes on a little bit here, but you get the gist of what Doug Ford is saying.
And it's really surprising because this is not the stance that Doug Ford has previously taken, right?
Like this crime and chaos and disorder falling onto the streets in Ontario and arguably all across the country is not a new phenomenon.
This has been happening for years.
And we have been reporting on it at fixourcities.com at our website there where we highlight, I mean, it's primarily related to also the drug crisis, but the two really go hand in hand, the violence and the fallout on the streets and the public safety issues and the idea that we can give addicts safer, right?
That R is really important, apparently.
Safer drugs that are highly addictive, highly deadly, and are now being found on the streets cheaper and cheaper, going right into the hands of our literally children and youth.
So this is a really interesting take.
The polls must be in for Doug Ford.
And he can see now that the party that he's pretty much part of, which I would argue is just kind of the little man in the Liberal Party of Canada, that he's now all of a sudden taking this stance against the crime and chaos the liberal policies have been directly responsible for.
And I do agree with him in a sense that, yes, it's true.
There's judges that have ideologies.
And of course, they probably follow those ideologies when they take their decision.
And I think it's great if we elect some judges because we can make them accountable for some decision that they did.
But the thing is, the liberals have put in place some bills that permit the judge to take those decisions.
So it's also a big part of the liberal government that was there before and still there today with a new face, but still needs to repeal some of the bills that they actually voted in.
Yeah, we need another bail reform, right?
We need to reform the bail reform that the liberals brought in.
And I hear it all the time, even in the small town of Coburg, where crime, chaos, disorder, open-air drug use, all of these things are proliferating on this one sleepy small town where people didn't even lock their vehicle doors.
They didn't lock their front doors.
This is a high trust society and a high trust community that is being rocked by these horrible policies and implementations.
And I hear it all the time that the same repeat offenders are arrested.
And then it's mountains of paperwork for the police officers to go through only to find out that they are back on the streets by the time they're done their shift or by the time that they are signing on to their next shift.
So they're seeing these repeat offenders over and over out in the community.
They are literally repeat offending in those same communities.
And so it really, it really is demoralizing for both the community and the police officers who are trying to do their job to keep the streets safe and arrest these criminals.
But our judicial system is just, I mean, finally, Ford's calling it what it is.
It's broken.
And where was he, you know, last year, two years ago, three years ago?
I mean, a better late than never, I suppose.
But geez, Doug Ford took you a while on this one.
Is that in Toronto that they were saying that put your key next to your door?
Yes, yeah, the Toronto police.
They were saying don't lock your vehicle door and leave the keys at the front door so that you don't get hurt when the thieves try to come into your home to steal your vehicle.
That's how crazy it is in the city of Toronto.
And where was Doug Ford then?
You know, like this is great that he's saying these things and taking this hard stance.
And a lot of people are saying, hey, this is the Doug Ford that I once voted for.
But it's just, my faith in people like Doug Ford is just not very high.
You can't already tell.
David Menzies and others have nicknamed him Flip Flop Ford.
And you can see that on full display almost every single time he talks, you just wait for the polling to come in or the winds to blow the other direction.
And all of a sudden, Ford is gone with the wind.
So here we have another clip actually of him basically saying the same.
He's slamming the liberal government, which I would argue he just kind of in a roundabout way, actually not even in a roundabout way, directly campaigned for or supported rather during the federal election.
He is now slamming them for allowing violent offenders back onto Canadian streets and wants to all of a sudden uphold the criminal code.
Have you spoken to the prime minister since that letter?
Have you gotten his attention?
If you have, is that something that was addressed when you guys spoke?
Yeah, I spoke to him yesterday, but it's all the premiers.
This is a second letter now to the federal government.
You know, I got to give a shout out to Wob Cano.
He's sending another letter as well, the Premier of Manitoba.
The guy's an absolute champion.
And all the premiers have signed off on it.
When I did it the first time, usually it takes, you know, a week, two weeks to get a consensus.
I made 12 other phone calls to all the premiers.
Every single one of them said, we're in, we're in, we're in.
It didn't matter what political stripe.
And we have all three political colors as premiers.
But they all agree in one thing.
Let's stop the crime.
And this falls, this falls on the lap of the federal government.
They do the criminal code.
I have an idea.
The federal government.
Let us do the criminal code.
And I'll guarantee you tomorrow, once we have a criminal code, then bang, this will stop immediately.
And we'll be building more jails.
We're already building jails, but we'll be building more jails because these guys are going to be in jail.
And they're going to think twice about going and robbing someone when they know the sentence is going to be five to 10 years in maximum security prison.
Watch how quickly it stops.
So it sounds like you're kind of lost confidence in the federal government.
How confident are you that this new government will do something about bill reform?
Well, I'm confident that hopefully the new prime minister, unlike the previous prime minister, didn't want to do anything.
The new prime minister, I have confidence that he believes in keeping communities safe, which I know he believes in that.
And I'm sure he believes in keeping criminals in jail.
So let's see what happens.
But again, I'll be on them like an 800-pound gorilla.
Like I've never been on them before because people are fed up.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
So I'm sorry.
What?
You think that just because they changed the face of the leader, that will change something when you have the exact same cabinet behind you?
I don't think so.
And you know what?
It looks like.
And I'm pretty sure, make my words, but it seems like Doug Ford is now training himself to be the first opposition of the Liberals and trying to crack down on the Liberals and do the job of the conservative leader.
I don't know if he's training himself to maybe look for the position as the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, but it looks like.
Yep.
A lot of people are saying that he's kind of posturing himself to take on that role.
So that will be really interesting because I don't remember the last time that Doug Ford was on the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney et al.
Like an 800-pound gorilla.
I mean, if he's always like, oh, we have each other's backs and we're all in this together and we love working together and having, as I like the way that Jamil Javi put it, the MPP for, sorry, the MP, I think it's for North Oshawa, anyway, somewhere in Durham, that he's out just having lattes and cappuccinos with Justin Trudeau.
And I mean, that is so like the amount of truth that he spoke in those comments.
And I think we've played that on the live stream earlier this week.
But for anyone who's not familiar with that clip, you can, it's pretty easy to find Jamil giving those remarks on election night after his win and heavily criticizing Doug Ford and how he conducted himself throughout the writ period for those 37 days.
Access To All00:04:12
But yeah, I mean, I guess it's, again, better late than never.
Oh, there, there he is.
Sorry, he's having lattes and cappuccinos with Carney.
These people are so just out of touch.
And like, there's no adversity in their lives.
So I guess it's better.
Like I said, it's better late than never that Doug Ford is all of a sudden coming out of, you know, coming out of the gate with a bit of a backbone.
But we'll see if it's just empty words once again from Doug Ford and if the wind changes direction, which way he'll flop next.
And he say, well, let's build more jail.
Okay, look at the jail here in Quebec.
There is recently someone who went on, I think it was the main person in charge of this union of the officer working in the jails system.
And they were saying like there is drone doing delivery of packages to the people in prison.
They have like a lot of different stuff like happening.
Like, how come you are in a jail system and you can actually order Amazon stuff and being delivered straight to you without passing by the main person to look into the packages?
They are just bringing like at their window and they can just remove the window and like take the package and put back the window.
Like it's how the jail system is working right now.
Some of them have like phone.
Some of them were able to bring so many different devices into the jail system.
Now they can also threaten the people that are outside from the prison to show like, oh, they are badass and they are going to go after you if you are doing something.
So the jail system in itself as a building, it's broken.
Yeah, that reminds me too.
There was a piece out a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, there's the Quebec man arrested for the drone drop.
But just a few weeks ago, actually, maybe it was only last week or the week prior, but inmates are now going to be able to access the internet.
They're going to be given phones, tablets, and internet access, which has not happened previously.
So not only is it difficult to retain these criminals and actually get them behind bars, but once they are behind bars, the rope that they are supposed to be bound by is just being loosened and loosened and loosened is becoming more comfy and cozy.
I mean, jail is not supposed to be a pleasant place to live.
And jail is supposed to be a huge punishment for those criminals to think twice when they go out of the jail if they will repeat again criminal offenses.
And this is not something that would deter them.
They would just do it again and again because when they go into jail, they have everything that they need as access to everything.
So where is the determent for them to not doing again and again and again a criminal offense?
Yeah, exactly.
There's no deterrence.
And the criminals are laughing, as Doug Ford says in the back of the police cruiser, going, I'm haha, look at you.
Now you have to do mountains of paperwork, use up and tie up your time and your resources to finish all this paperwork.
And they'll probably be back on the street before they're even done submitting all that paperwork.
And the criminals, the repeat offenders, they know that.
They know how to scam the system.
They're becoming more familiar with the lax rules.
And there is no accountability and there's no deterrent for them to, you know, live a straight and clean and sober life.
So that's really, that's going to bring back street justice eventually, right?
If there's no actual justice, then people will start taking things into their own hands.
And that's the territory that you don't want to be in when you live in a high trust society that's supposed to have checks and balances in place to uphold public and community safety.
Voter Turnout Shifts00:10:07
And when those things aren't happening, well, then people become increasingly frustrated and emboldened to take matters into their own hands.
So something better changed here because I think that's probably the trajectory, sad, as sad as it is, that a lot of communities are in currently with the current state of affairs that we have.
But also adding insult to injury is the downturn, as Global News puts it, of the Canadian economy.
And a lot of us throughout the COVID handling saw kind of the writing on the wall, like this wasn't difficult to see four or five years ago after the massive global lockdowns and shutdown of the global economy, that this would result in the inevitable fallout of supply chains and those economic stability and security.
And so now we have Deloitte predicting a downturn for the Canadian economy, calling it walking on a tightrope.
And they say that Canada is likely to experience an economic downturn later this year.
Business confidence is cooling.
Investments are stalling.
I mean, obviously, Canada's economy is walking on a tightrope, but this may be our moment to build a more resilient, productive, and diversified future, they said in the spring edition of their economic outlook.
Of course, there it is, right?
Like kind of capitalizing on Carney's campaign verbiage that we're going to build a more, a greener economy and we have this opportunity, right?
They make every crisis into an opportunity to move forward their own net zero agenda and policy implementations.
And so I think this will probably serve as a bit of a sounding board for someone like Carney who's going, wait, no, we need all these, we need billions more of taxpayer dollars to invest into a green economy.
And I think that's probably where this is kind of going because otherwise things are stagnating and it's going to be difficult times ahead, especially as the tariffs unfold and we face hundreds of thousands of layoffs across Ontario alone, not to mention what it's going to look like in the rest of Canada.
We'll see what will happen with that, but I will say that the future of Canada, at least like the soon future, look a little bit dark.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I don't think that net zero policies or trying to build this electrical grid is going to be the saving grace for all of that.
Let's open up what we have that's reliable, get our oil and gas sector ramping up speed and start utilizing the vast amount of natural resources that we have basically literally at our feet.
Because continuing to squash that and not utilize it is obviously going to continue this economic downturn, as they call it.
I would say we're already in a recession.
It's just been inflated literally by money printing.
And so Canadian, like you don't feel it as much as maybe you should.
But if the lineups at food banks are any indication, we are already in a recession.
And depending on what happens with our global trade and the US tariffs, things are only going to get worse from here.
And the fact that you bring up the power grid, look at what just happened to France, Spain, and Portugal.
They had the major blackout.
And some of them say something went wrong with the power grid, but some people are blaming the net zero, the fact that they are trying to push all those green energy projects that cause a major, major chaos in those countries.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's just the capacity is not there.
It can't support it.
And so that's going to be a more commonplace occurrence if we try to just move to such an unstable, unreliable energy source.
Those things will happen more often.
And what do you do in a country like Canada where we have minus 20, minus 30 weather?
And all of a sudden, your entire energy source fails for how many days, for how many hours?
Canada needs reliable, consistent energy.
And the electrical grid is obviously not equipped to provide that.
Now, Alexa, you had a fun tweet, just switching to more of the election fallout, where you highlighted how much Pierre Polyev's riding was redistributed.
So it was amalgamated with a really heavily liberal riding.
And so do you want to walk us through your tweet there and what you found on the map?
Yeah, so they, so previously before, so in 2012, the riding of Canada, Canada-Carterton, and the riding of Carliton was created.
And in 2015, the Canada-Carterton riding have been liberals since now.
And the Carlton riding was conservative by Pierre Polyev.
But in 2022, and that is the same year that Pierre Polyev won the leadership race and started to be the leader of the Conservative Party, his writing changed because Election Canada did a redistribution.
And now you can see that the Canada riding went by itself.
And the rest of the Canada Carter riding that used to be liberals have been annexed to the Carterton riding.
So we can see now a part of the writing being added to Pierre Polyev writing.
And so this writing used to be liberals.
So this is one of the facts that can have contributed also the 91 candidate on the bays.
And also another point.
So I would look at into the numbers.
And in 2021, NPD, where NDP was pretty AV, was 8,000 and something votes down to 1,000 and something votes for 2025.
Those votes went to the liberals.
Also, before in 2021, the PPC was there, wasn't there this time.
I didn't see it on 2025.
So that was a thousand and something vote that went probably to the conservative.
The Green Party went down to thousand and something to 565.
And also you need to count the 1,000 other votes that went to random candidate, you know.
But on that, when you look at just the number numbers, you can see that what was added was about like in between 10 to 15,000 more votes, but that comes from the extent riding that was annexed to Pierre Polyev's writing.
And that writing was mainly liberals.
So there were a huge chance already with all those factors that Pierre Polyev might end up losing his writing.
Yeah, and I found it really odd too.
I mean, the 91 candidates thing, and I'm glad that you explained it.
I mean, that in and of itself is really odd.
I think Carney's riding of Nepean had five or six candidates.
Jaggy Meet Sang had, you know, similar four or five candidates running.
But I also found it really interesting.
And I can't seem to find the exact percentage, but Polyev's riding had the highest number of early voter turnout.
Almost half of eligible voters came to the early vote or the early polls.
But then they also had substantially higher numbers than the national average of voter turnout.
So we had a high voter turnout.
I think it was 68% this year total.
But in Polyev's riding specifically, if I remember correctly, and again, I can't find the exact percentage, but I believe it was something like 78% of eligible voters.
So 10% higher than our national average.
And that is pretty substantial.
But again, you need to count the fact that there is more voters for the 2025.
Like, it's not just, we can't compare a riding that was not the same demography than before and compare the number.
It's not working like that.
And now you have a percentage of the population that might have voted.
And now we have more people who can vote than the year before.
And I think that's explained everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's really interesting.
I mean, someone who's held that seat for 20 plus years, all of a sudden, they are the conservative leader now.
And so they need to retain their seat.
And suddenly, thanks to amalgamation, voter turnout, they all of a sudden do not and lose by a substantial amount.
I mean, 2,000 or just under 1,500 votes.
I mean, that's a pretty substantial loss for Polyev.
But it makes sense when you amalgamate such a strong liberal held riding into one.
Million Dollar Journalism Collective00:15:33
And we had that here also.
My riding used to be Northumberland, Peterborough South, or I think that's provincial, Northumberland, Peterborough South.
It was something else, federally Northumberland, and there was a couple names thereafter.
And it's just been amalgamated now to be called Northumberland Clark.
So, and kind of the school boards are doing all of that, the municipalities, every a lot.
There's a lot of weird border shifting amalgamation things happening kind of at all levels of government, as it seems right now, provincially, municipally, locally, and then of course federally.
So we saw that happen in the federal election.
I think that's only going to continue to happen on all those other levels of government as well.
So that's an interesting thing to point out and kind of keep an eye on.
We have a couple super chats here that I'll get to, and then maybe we'll go to an ad break to break things up a little bit before we get into some more stuff.
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I hope my French is absolutely terrible.
Trébon, Alexa, and great work, Tamara.
So thanks so much, Alex.
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That's great.
Thanks so much, Alex.
And then what does this one say?
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Haughty plus haughty, keep up the great work.
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We really appreciate that.
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So today we have one of the first payouts that Google has given to Canadian news outlets.
And of course, these are the official legacy news registered government-approved media.
And I'm going to have a full video out on this, so I don't want to get too deep into the weeds of it.
But the headline says, we'll just read that: more than 100 media outlets have received $22.2 million in Google payments to this.
It's a journalism group.
So it kind of profit, but it oversees the distribution of money.
And this is in response, of course, to Bill C 63, the online news act.
And so these organizations have been given more than $1 million each.
And maybe let me just see if I can pull up the direct link from the Canadian Journalism Collective because I want to show you just really quickly the magnitude of funds that they get.
And so this is about halfway down the page.
And so, yeah, this is being divvied out by the Canadian Journalism Collective.
And they break down here all the recipients of this journalism funding.
So you can see the very top here: Canadian Press, 1.3 million.
Globe and Mail, 2 million.
Metroland Media Group, 1.9 million.
Post Media, 4.2 million.
Black Press, 1.3.
And it literally goes on and on.
A lot of the smaller outlets also receive at least six figures.
You can see Glacier Digital Media Limited, got $397,000.
And this is only 60% of their estimated total.
So this money, it's only going to become higher and higher amounts.
And then an interesting part of what the CTV news article states is that the totals will rise beyond current estimates when the collective works out whether any applicant outlets are ineligible.
So that would allow previously earmarked money to flow to the media businesses that meet the requirements, right?
And we know that Rebel News doesn't meet those requirements because, well, we speak truth to power and criticize the government.
So why would a government-funded news corporation want someone like Rebel News to be able to get the benefits of what these media organizations get?
And again, I'm going to have a full video out on this where I break some of it down.
But essentially, you know, they're saying that this is like compensation for the journalism that the mainstream media does.
And I would say that it's more of a corporate power grab dressed up as charity and also a direct threat to independent small creators like us here at Rebel News.
Yeah, there is a lot, but guess who is getting the biggest part of it?
CBC.
6.
How many?
6.7?
6.8.8.
Yeah.
Eight.
6.8 million.
6.8 million.
Can you believe it?
They get it's not on that list.
So you have to kind of go through and tally it up.
This CTV was the one that wrote that specifically about CBC, that they will get 7% of the total payout.
So yes, this equates to roughly 6.8 million.
And again, this is only the first one.
So there is going to be more.
And then depending on the eligibility of these other smaller outlets, if they're found to be ineligible, then the money that was going to be divvied up to them would be then redirected into some of these bigger outlets.
This is just 60% of the total payout.
We'll see what the other 40 looks like in the weeks and months to come.
But this was basically a way for Google to be exempt from the Online News Act.
They agreed to pay out news organizations.
And it further contributes to the censorship that we've seen over the last few years because why, just like the way the legacy media parrots and promotes the Liberal Party of Canada, who bails them out to the tune of millions of dollars every year, why would you bite the hand that feeds?
Right.
So now we have big tech, big gov, and a lot of the big tech is funded also by big pharma.
So you have these three massive entities just in bed together here.
So this is just a mass pool of compensating one another to pat each other on the back and promote your policies, theories, products, etc.
I don't know most, most of them.
I never heard of them.
Like I'm looking and I'm just like, okay, I'm trying to find some that I know.
And I'm just like, come on.
Okay, I know McLean.
But like the rest is really not some media I never heard of.
Yeah, there's a lot of, again, just smaller creators, but there's a lot that even I haven't heard from.
It's interesting once you go to the Canadian Journalism Collective directly, right?
Because I like to source my stuff direct.
I don't like to trust the mainstream media.
I don't like to, I don't trust anybody.
I want to say, you know what, where did you get that information from?
I like to go back to the direct source.
So when you go back to the Canadian Journalism Collective, it's interesting to kind of sift through what they've been publishing, what organizations are compensated in here.
And then again, I'm going to have a full report.
So I don't want to get too far into it.
But the Canadian Journalism Collective, they actually get an administrative fee for doing this crucial work to divvy out the funds.
And it's a lot of money.
It is a million.
Oh, Alexa, you gave it away.
Yeah.
So like all around, this is such a cash grab.
It is crazy.
But I will have a full report out on it, breaking some of it down.
And I hope that you will still stay tuned for it, even though we chatted about a lot of it here.
But always direct source.
Go back, read for yourself.
Like they're trying to hire independent directors, a board of directors.
You know, it's like you guys are taking $2 million from this already.
You haven't even hired an unbuds person.
They're not called Unbudswood anymore.
I can do a lot for $2 million.
Right?
How much are these people making when they just skim off?
Oh, we'll just take a, you know, a skim.
We'll just skim $2 million off the top there before we divvy it all out.
But, but anyway, that's the state of the legacy media here in Canada.
And of course, I've lost my place here on where we are in our segments.
Oh, we have a good clip here from independent journalists, speaking of which, the ones that aren't government funded.
And this is the kind of work that you can do when you're an independent who's not government funded, who doesn't have to worry about biting the hand that feeds from Google and arguably their parent company, Alphabet Inc.
This comes from Chris Dacey in Ottawa asking some accountability questions of the newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Mr. Carney, you ready?
Fearbase campaign focused on Trump.
Elbows up.
I did, actually.
Why does Trump prefer you over Pierpolio?
Why does Trump see us?
Do you plan to do anything about the weekly hate marches here in Ottawa?
We have weekly hate marches here in Ottawa.
Assaults on independent journalists.
Should you maybe call back Parliament?
Parliament's been parogued a very long time.
Should Parliament come back and skip summer vacation, Mr. Carney?
Do you think mocking the independent media, the only people here questioning you, is a good way to start?
Can we do that?
Hey, looking forward to seeing you again soon.
Bye now.
I look forward to our next meeting, Mr. Carney.
Yeah.
At least Carney didn't start yet to wave to people who are in existence as Trudeau did.
Well, and it's funny because Chris writes right under his post on X that one immediate takeaway is that Carney is sharper than Trudeau, you know, because he immediately was like, oh, did you practice that first?
And I mean, that's whatever, snarky, unnecessary, kind of a weird comment to come from someone who is supposed to answer questions from the public, right?
Like, why do you think that you shouldn't be asked these things?
But anyway, it'll be so fun to see what else he's asked and how else he responds.
Because if his campaign was any indication, you know, he really doesn't do well facing accountability questions from the media and his decorum and his ability to handle himself with grace and eloquence.
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Sometimes he showed his true colors.
You know, when he told Rosemary Barton to look inside herself and he had a couple other weird comments to media, you know, who were asking about his conflicts of interest and his financial situation and his meetings with Beijing.
I mean, the amount of times he's already been caught lying speaks for itself, I think.
But it's great when you have someone on the ground like Chris Dacey who can just be out there asking good accountability questions of our elected leaders.
And Chris will be on ELS tonight.
He'll be on the Ezra Levant show.
It's being guest hosted by Sheila.
And so for anybody who wants to hear a little bit more from Chris, he will be the guest host or sorry, the guest on the show tonight.
But listen, Mark Carney never faced accountability.
He was the governor of the Bank of England and then the governor of the Bank of Canada and at Goldman Sachs and at Brookville Asset Management.
In any of them, he has been elected by the people.
Now he has been elected by the people and now he is facing accountability.
And I think he will have some difficulty to deal with that because his whole life, he thought that everything that Wattis was doing was actually amazing and perfect.
And now it will need to face hard question.
And probably the harder question that you will hear will be from independent journalists.
So we will see how he is dealing with that and if he can actually answer those questions or if he will continue to call the police on independent journalists.
Yeah, right.
Like when he invited Kian Bexte, he's like, oh, I've never seen you at press conferences before at when at the debates a couple weeks ago in Montreal and Kian Bexty from the Counter Signal, I think now is Juno News.
But anyway, he got up and asked a question and Carney's like, oh, I have not seen you before.
Maybe you can come out to some of my pressers.
And then you tried to go to one of his pressers and he calls the police.
So I think that this is perhaps an indication as to how Mark Carney is going to treat the media, the independent media from this point on.
Meanwhile, we have the Bloc Québecois leader, Yves Blanchette, saying that they won't be joining into some coalition agreement with the conservatives to quote unquote overthrow the government anytime soon.
Instead, he wants to see negotiations happen to end the tariff war throughout the remainder of the year.
And I guess he's hopeful that it will take months, not years, to resolve.
And I don't know.
I don't think we have a clip of this one.
No, we don't.
Just quickly, something to add that probably nobody is aware, but there is some tension between now the PQ, that is the baby Bloc Québécois, that's called Parti Québécois here in Quebec.
It's at the provincial level.
And the PQ was pretty clear at the beginning that Carney was a threat for the Quebec nation, especially for the French language, especially with the immigration policies.
And recently, he went out to say that does the Bloc Québécois is still a separatist?
Does it still there for fighting for the separation of Quebec?
Does he still there to represent the Quebec point?
And he actually dared to speak out against the leader of the Bloc Québécois because a lot of people here in Quebec are questioning themselves: well, what is the Bloc Québécois?
It serves to Quebecer almost anything.
It's not for nothing that we saw a lot of people changing their vote from the Bloc to the Liberal Party because they are the same.
The Bloc Québécois have supported the Liberals' policies since they are there.
And so we are seeing exactly some tension.
And it's really funny because in Quebec, we are going to have an election in 2026.
And the party that might won is the PQ, the Parti Québécois.
While now what we are seeing is people didn't vote for the Bloc Québécois.
They vote for the Liberal Party of what the Liberal Party don't stand for the same policies that the PQ.
So it's really, really something weird that is happening right now here in Quebec, I would say.
But the appartenance of a political party, it's not really strong here in Quebec.
I would say, if you are promising us the most, we will vote for you.
So it's really something in Quebec, you can actually buy the vote of Quebecer.
And I think this is really sad.
Yeah.
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We have a super chat here that I just don't want to get too far out from, which asks, was that an electric vehicle?
Sorry, it comes from Bonnie D, 629.
Thanks, Bonnie.
Was that an electric vehicle Carney was getting into?
I'm thinking not.
No, it was just one gas-guzzling SUV in a larger entourage of security detail and staffers that has to follow the ivory tower dwelling elected leader throughout his happenings everywhere he goes.
They don't drive electric vehicles.
They're too unreliable.
And could you imagine being on a time crunch to get to a presser or an event or some sort of media engagement or something?
And all of a sudden your electric car battery is on its last leg and you need to stop for an hour or however long it takes to stop and charge these things.
This is not, it's not convenient.
It's unreliable.
And somebody who arguably does have places to go and people to see, how do they find that to be sustainable in terms of their job requirements to drive an electric vehicle?
It just, I couldn't imagine having to factor in a 20-minute, 30-minute, 60-minute charge into a long stretch of a drive.
Why would you want to do that to yourself?
You can fill up at a gas station in five, maybe five minutes.
Why would you sit somewhere for an hour if you have a four-hour trek ahead of you?
It just doesn't make any logical sense.
Okay, now the next thing that we have just to try to get through the headline stuff, because we are about five, eight minutes out here.
I think that we should, we did talk a little bit about the federal election, saw the highest voter turnout since 1993, but I'll just touch on this again before we hit one more quick ad break and then we'll come back to talk about some more of Green Party Elizabeth May's shenanigans because I actually didn't.
Anyway, we'll save that for a moment.
But during this election on Monday night, Canadians came out in the highest number in 32 years.
So we had more than 68% of eligible voters casting ballots in the 2025 federal election.
That was since 1993.
And although it failed to surpass the 1958 record-setting turnout.
So that's pretty good because I mean, I know that here in Ontario, at least, I think we had 40, you know, like 43% of the voters came out in the 2021, and then a similar number in the 2025, the most recent or sorry, 2024 provincial election.
So, you know, when you have people who are elected by less than half of the population, like Doug Ford to get up there and say, you know, I'm democratically elected.
And it's like, well, yes, but more than half of the people who are eligible to vote just didn't come out to vote.
And so can you really and truly say that you, you know, your elect your elected position represents the more broad population at large?
I mean, I don't think so.
And I think if more people knew that they could vote in a way that, you know, if they don't align with any candidate, you can, there's actually a formal way.
I don't remember what it's called, but there is a formal way to spoil or cancel your vote.
And if enough people did that, it would actually force, I don't want to say a referendum because it's not really a referendum, but it would force a new slate of candidates to have to come forward because the general populace doesn't align with whoever is currently in those in those positions.
And so instead of doing that and exercising a very important way to say, you know what, I don't like any of the choices.
They're all bad choices and I don't agree with any of them.
So I want to take this action to spoil my vote officially and drive that potential renegotiation of new elected officials.
Instead of doing that, people just, they just don't, they don't go out to vote.
They're like, oh, it's not worth anything and I'm not going out to vote.
So I think that if more people were more informed of how our elections work, the processes involved in them, you're not learning this in grade 10 civics class.
And that's really a sad state of affairs in our publicly funded school system.
But why would a government-funded institution want you to know your full capacity as a voter?
Anyway, that's my thank you for coming to my TED talk on voting and how we should maybe utilize it a little bit more efficiently.
But quickly, I want to say something because it's not on the list, but I think it's really something that people need to know.
So we heard recently that, you know, Jack Min Singh stepped down.
Now the NDP doesn't have any leaders.
And one of the potential candidates for the leadership of the NTD.
I'm sorry to say to you all guys, but it seems like Valerie Plant might be one of the potential candidates.
So I'm actually saying that I think the first thing that she would want to implement if she's the next leader will be a trans-Canadian bike lane.
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I think it's that.
I think we will have that in upcoming year.
So we have so much bike line here that that increases traffic.
And Montreal is like, if you look at Montreal right now, you don't want Valerie Plant as a potential candidate.
Right, right.
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All right.
So we'll just get into some things about Elizabeth May because that would be just as, I think, equally, if not more funny, as Valerie Planck taking over NDP leadership.
But I didn't see Elizabeth Mays.
She had a little debut the other night on Monday night where she and her husband got up on stage and sung a little.
Oh my goodness.
It was so bad.
And I guess we, I didn't realize, but Sheila and Lise discussed it yesterday.
So it's pretty funny, but I missed that.
And then I found this, you know, in the X-verse yesterday.
And I was just, I had so much secondhand embarrassment for Elizabeth May and her husband.
You know, I think this is so funny that it's actually worth playing again.
It's just so bad.
I don't know if we can turn the volume up here on it.
We figured, you know, it's my party, so I can sing if I want to.
No, get her hat.
Happy tune.
Life don't be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade and get your hat.
Leave your worries on the doors.
All right, that's enough.
That's enough.
I can't do it anymore.
I can't do it anymore.
That is sonar pollution.
I'm sorry.
But like, imagine people around the world seeing Elizabeth May singing.
Like people will just see like what is going on in Canadian politics.
Right.
And she was like, she didn't even know the words.
And you would think that, you know, your husband and you are getting up to do a little duo.
And you think that you would have lots of time to practice, right?
Live with this person.
Arguably, maybe that's like their thing that they do together is they, you know, practice song and dance.
But for it to be so bad, like, did you not practice beforehand?
Did you not try to get in sync with one another?
I mean, like I said, I think she forgot the words.
Or maybe Elizabeth May, you know, her track record shows, maybe she had just a few too many bubblies at the party, the watch party that she was at.
But now she's this is the woman who, and I hopefully I can correctly identify her as such, but she now is open to running for House Speaker and joining Carney's cabinet.
I mean, she is the lone member, as they say in the CTV article, she is the lone member of her party to be re-elected.
And she's willing to throw her hat in the ring to be speaker of the house when next parliament begins.
I'm open to a lot of things, Elizabeth May said in an interview.
Yeah, I bet you are.
It doesn't mean they're at all likely, and they're pretty hypothetical.
I mean, like, way to say nothing while trying to say something, I guess.
She left her name in the lineup in the speaker's elections quite a few times without campaigning to be speaker.
But I have very, very concerns.
She has very, very concerns about how far the Canadian Parliament and the role of the Canadian speaker have departed from our rules and our traditions.
Yeah, okay, Elizabeth May.
I don't think anyone takes her seriously.
Like, how do you take that person seriously?
But the speaker of the house is not supposed to be as neutral as possible.
How can she actually occupy a po like a place as the speaker of the house when she openly says that she would do everything to block and to counter the conservative party during the election?
So I'm just saying, like, how is she possibly a potential person to occupy the speaker of the house?
I just don't understand that.
She's not a serious person.
I mean, look at her.
Like, oh, I just have so much embarrassment about this clip.
But it's like you can't shield your eyes.
You just, you want to, you have to keep coming back for more because every time you watch it, there's like, look at she's dancing.
It's, oh my gosh, it's so embarrassing.
This, this is not how a serious person conducts themselves.
And I think that Parliament and Mark Carney can probably see that.
I would hope that anyone in their right mind would see that Elizabeth May is not serious and why the mainstream media gives her this kind of coverage.
I mean, she didn't, she's very, very concerning about stuff that's happening in Parliament.
I mean, she can't even formulate tangible sentences.
She obviously can't really sing.
I don't even know if I would say she can dance based on what I've seen here with her and her husband.
It's just so embarrassing.
You know, I mean, contrast that with being at Polyev's watch party in Ottawa on Monday night and to get up there and give, you know, like a dignified, yes, heavily scripted concluding speech with your wife who's conducting herself with class, with grace.
You know, you're dressed professionally, you're speaking eloquently.
And then you have Elizabeth May with her husband and a guitar and forgetting the words.
It's embarrassing.
And on the global, like on the world stage, people are sad for Canada, if Elizabeth May is given any more than she currently has.
Anyway, enough about Elizabeth May.
Alexa, we're out of time, but do you want to just do like a couple?
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We'd have a super chat and then maybe we'll just quickly throw to a few clips of the May Day because I know you've covered it before and that's on your radar as well.
So we'll just do a few minutes of that because we do have some great clips coming out of Paris.
But Dana.
Did you address just quickly how Canadian you might end up being screwed up by the NDP who might join the Liberal Party to give a super majority to Mark Carney?
So people, you all went to vote and you gave a minority to a government.
You are putting them into trial.
And right now, they are going to sneak around and try everything to get a super majority to bring other members of other party into their own party.
And that means that they will be into power until 2029.
Right.
Yeah.
This comes from Brett Wilson and he says it's a very reliable rumor.
So, you know, right off the bat, take it for what you may.
But he says that the Liberal Party is attempting to buy NDP MPs who were elected, which is very few of them at this point, but nonetheless, so that they will cross the floor and again, try to form a majority party or at least have more leverage as a minority government.
So much, he says, so much for election integrity and honesty.
A.
So he makes it very Canadian.
Canada is in a brutal space.
Yeah, but unsurprising.
I mean, the Liberal NDP coalition was quite literally in place for two and a half, year and a half, two and a half years.
So this is very unsurprising that they would take such extreme measures to continue their skirting of democracy by having these backdoor deals and these, you know, unofficial coalitions, or it was called, I always forget the technical word that they used for the coalition.
But yeah, they did that to Canadians for, you know, two years roughly.
And so they do this even more shady, sneaky business.
This is so unsurprising.
And remember, the Liberals, they brought those buttons into the strong, conservative, strong and free event.
I mean, these are shady things.
The liberals are not conducting, they don't conduct themselves with integrity.
There's no sort of moral compass that's driving how they conduct themselves.
So very reliable rumor.
They are not being punished.
Like they are not being punished.
So of course they will act like that.
Those people who actually put those buttons, they have been reassigned.
They have not been fired.
And this is what is happening in that party.
Accountability, it's on existent.
And it has been for a long time.
And, you know, you have Doug Ford up there parroting about the criminal justice system and bail reform.
And it's like, how about we lead with integrity and we stop doing shady deals and conducting ourselves in this way, you know, from our leaders, right?
That like, what kind of example are you setting for the rest of the country to act with integrity, to act with a moral compass, when this is the kind of stuff that you're engaged in?
Being able to just skirt democracy in a way that's like semi-legitimate, but really shady and otherwise frowned upon.
Starts at the top, I would say.
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In the case of Ford, they picked the best of the worst as they didn't know they had any other options.
Yeah, so that's what it's called.
You can formally spoil your vote.
And so, if enough people did that, it would force new candidates to have to come forward because enough people would say, I don't like any of these options, and I'm thus not going to vote for any of them, right?
Because sadly, politics has turned into voting for the least worst option, and that's not very good.
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So, that is something that's available to voters as well, but it's just so a lot of people just don't know that there's a difference between not voting and spoiling your vote because one is just not partaking in the process, and one is exercising your right to say, I don't like any of them, and I want a new slate of candidates.
So, there you have it.
And I think, Alexa, do you want to throw to some of these clips out of Paris about May Day?
Yeah, but in Paris, people need to know that in Paris, it's not like France, the people who live over there are mainly leftist.
And I was pretty shocked when I covered the recent election.
How many Antifa and far left are in this city is actually incredible.
And it's not the same beast that the one that we are here.
Those people are ready to burn everything down, break everything down during riots.
And this is something that is happening pretty often in Paris.
It's why some of the shops have some grill that they can put on the facade of their businesses because when that happens, they are going to throw rocks, put in fire places.
I even see a clip from someone in the protest today saying, Do not burn that place.
There is a woman inside.
And I was like, Come on, like, how far are you going to just destroy your own city?
Who is paying for that afterwards?
You know, and today we saw again massive turnout in Paris.
A lot of people shouting, everybody hates the police.
That is the ACAB movement, the ALCOP or bastard.
They are far left activists who are always causing trouble.
And after that, playing the victim card as, oh my God, police brutality.
You are going, you are actually throwing glass bottles to those police officers.
Imagine the work that they need to do, those law enforcement, to try to control that big crowd of far radical far left.
I'm not going to just say far left.
They are radical.
You see, you can see like Antifa flag along with Palestinian flag and Cheka Gebara flag.
So those people are advocates for communism.
They want to defund the police to destroy the old place.
And I would say this is probably a little bit of what is going on tonight in Montreal.
We will have a big protest with the same kind of people marching in the city.
Every year we have a lot of damages, a lot of windows being broken, a lot of uh cars being uh smashed.
So we will see tonight if uh motorcycle is not turning into the same kind of image you are seeing right now.
But this is in the middle of the day.
This is not during the night.
Imagine what can happen during the night with those people.
And they are fully masked.
You can't actually identify them.
So you see how the police enforcement are actually cracking down, bigger and faster than what we are seeing here in Canada.
Yeah.
And we can't even send you out because of the violence, right?
Like you need security.
We can't take on that liability sending a journalist into that kind of violence and complete decimation that they unleash on the streets.
Yeah, it's too bad.
And this is terrifying.
This is a terror movement.
Like, and those movements are growing in the Western world.
I don't know if you saw, but I can see it that it's growing.
And because mainly the big city are leftists, are radical activists for either climate, anti-capitalism, or anti-colonialism, or all those kind of movements that bring people to be violent.
Yeah, and then the taxpayers get to foot the bill afterwards.
We have another super chat here from, oh, where did it go?
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How will we communicate once they lock down free speech?
We need to get this organized.
Yeah, or just fight back.
We are initiating some of our own legal fights at Rebel News.
And if you want to follow that along, and particularly how we're fighting back against censorship, you can do that at stopthecensorship.ca.
There's a couple legal initiatives happening.
And I think that depending on how things go under Carney's leadership, we will see, you know, probably more of that and have to ramp that up even further.
So great question.
Don't have all the answers, but I know that we are doing everything we can to resist the censorship.
I do see that Sheila had a question to Premier Smith.
I guess that was about an hour ago now because we've been on the stream for just over an hour.
So I think we'll just end on the clip of Sheila asking a question to Premier Smith as, you know, Alberta independence becomes a more real thing.
Discussions around that ramp up.
Petitions started.
And the news headlines continue to be generated with Alberta separatism.
So we'll end on Sheila's question.
But before we wrap up, I just wanted to thank everybody for joining us at home.
Thanks, everyone, for all of your super chats and your continued support and letting us know your thoughts and comments in, you know, by way of a paid super chat.
We really appreciate it.
We wouldn't be able to do this without you.
Thanks, Alexa, for hopping on to join me so that Sheila could take part in Premier Smith's press release today.
And stay tuned, same time and place, 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern again tomorrow for another round of Rebel Roundup.
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I know we had the wrong thumbnail up on YouTube for a portion of the stream.
So we apologize for that, but everything should be corrected and up and running now.
So thanks again, everyone.
We'll end off on Sheila's questions to Premier Smith and see you back here again tomorrow.
Ciao.
Sheila Gunread with Rebel News.
Premier, canola is a $44 billion industry.
It supports 206,000 jobs, 40,000 Western farmers.
Yet Prime Minister Kearney, during his campaign and even now, has said nothing about the 100% retaliatory Chinese terrorists on canola thanks to the Liberals' green protectionist EV policies.
So what is your government doing to ensure the canola terrorists are treated with the same urgency by the feds as the auto and steel sector one?
Well, I can tell you then all of the Western premiers who have a large canola industry in their provinces, and that is regardless of political stripe, have raised it directly with the Prime Minister.
It seems like it's a bit of a phony war.
We've got a 100% tax on EV vehicles from China that no one's buying in order to protect an EV industry in Ontario that doesn't exist.
And in return, we are seeing punishment on pork and canola in our western provinces, which are products people do want.
So I think the Chinese have been very targeted and direct in how they're trying to split our country up.
And I think we need to revisit that.
We obviously are going to have to find new markets for our products, but let's at least engage in proportionate responses rather than having a knee-jerk reaction that is only going to hurt our industries further.
And that has been conveyed by myself as well as other premiers directly to the prime minister.
The bloc leader who will hold some power and influence over Kearney's minority cabinet has just said that there is no future for oil and gas in Quebec or anywhere for that matter.
Kearney has also said he would allow a Quebec veto over pipelines.
So how does Alberta then respond if no pipelines east is the deal that helps Kearney keep his government from falling?
Well, I would hope that's not the case.
The Canadian people did not vote for fringe voices like the Bloc Québécois or fringe voices like the Green Party or fringe voices like the NDP to control the agenda for the next while here.
What Albertans and Canadians voted for was for Canada to become an economic superpower.
And that means also an energy superpower.
And that is what I would fully expect Mark Carney to do.
I hope that he's able to continue forward with an agenda that perhaps even the Conservative opposition would support him in.
That's what I think the message of the election is.