Tamara Ugolini’s Rebel Roundup dissects the Freedom Convoy sentencing—Chris Barber and Tamara Leach face seven and eight years, respectively, despite 49 days already served—while exposing media bias framing protesters as terrorists. It contrasts Ontario’s $80K annual asylum seeker subsidies (100K+ last year) with Doug Ford’s emergency work permit push, amid premiers’ "out of control" immigration claims at a Muskoka meeting. The episode also highlights the CFIA’s controversial culling of avian flu-positive ostriches in B.C., despite recovery, and criticizes Canada’s LMIA "pay-to-play" system selling jobs for $25K. Separatist tensions rise as Ottawa targets dissenters like Barber, while Christian performer Sean Foyt faces cancellations over "discriminatory" claims, underscoring a broader crackdown on free speech and conservative voices. [Automatically generated summary]
I am your host today on Rebel Roundup, our daily news and opinion show, Tamara Ugolini, and I'm joined by my co-host and colleague and now friend, Drea Humphrey in British Columbia.
How are you doing this morning or afternoon, depending on which side of Canada you're on, Drea?
I'm doing good.
It's nice and early out here in BC, but that's okay.
Got to get to work because I don't know if you feel the same way, but it just seems like a lot of madness is happening at once right now.
So it should be live stream.
It's the news and the news just moves so quickly and people's attention spans are just so low that I feel like I live in a perpetual state of ADHD just trying to tackle everything.
And that is definitely true for today.
We have a crazy, busy, jam-packed schedule that we're going to get to.
But before we do that, I wanted to extend an invitation to the Rebel News birthday party.
So we turned 10, I think it was back in March.
And things, as you say, Drea, have just been so crazy trying to be everywhere and cover as much ground as we can that we kind of forgot to celebrate it.
So we are celebrating in September.
I believe it's September 18th.
Of course, I should know this.
September 18th in Calgary.
And you can check out all of the details and get your tickets at happybirthdayrebel.com.
So that's our 10th birthday bash and tickets are on sale.
Obviously, it's not just a party.
It's also a celebration of what Rebel has become and built over the last decade, decade.
And actually, Tamara Leach has just confirmed that she will be one of our participating live music guests.
So that will be a fun time in and of itself.
And of course, we're celebrating that we've brought you unforgettable and fearless journalism the last 10 years, unapologetic truth-telling, and ultimately, and especially the last few years, standing up for freedom.
So you can expect an evening with all of your favorite Rebels and crew, both past and present.
As I mentioned, live music and entertainment with Tamara Leach herself, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, meet and greets, photo ops.
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Check it out for yourself.
Get your tickets there.
And I think we do also have a potential venue, maybe a little teaser for Toronto.
Don't hold your breath, not guaranteeing.
Honking Through Chaos00:07:20
But I know there were a few Ontarians that chimed in and said, hey, what about us?
You're on the Eastern side of things.
So we are seeing if that is possible, but we'll have to just kind of wait and stay tuned.
Some of our housekeeping this morning, otherwise, or I should say this afternoon, because I am an Eastern time zone.
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Now, the headliners today, of course, we have Chris Barber and Tamara Leach that have been back in court.
Gosh, I've lost track of how many days running it has been for these two under just basic and generic mischief charges.
But they are to be sentenced today.
So we'll get into some of that.
Doug Ford, Ontario Premier, is, I would say, making life harder for Ontarians with his recent announcement that he wants to issue work permits to asylum seekers, the same ones that I think their permits are expiring.
So anyway, we'll chat about that.
And then, of course, we also had this fun tidbit where, you know, they say that a broken clock is right twice a day.
So Premier Ford and Premier Smith, they stood up and called out the call order of the ostriches in BC, which you have been reporting on extensively, Drea.
So I guess first and foremost, let's get right into this Chris Barber and Tamara Leach stuff.
We have a post here from Chris Barber just this morning, sorry, just this afternoon, where he says, the unjust in this country is the government, how they locked people down throughout COVID, destroying families, destroying businesses, destroying friendships, financial futures, people's mentality, lives ruined for tyrannical power and overreach.
Accountability needs to happen.
And instead, what we're seeing is him on trial for mischief, for standing up for those very things.
It's like complete upside down inversion of reality stuff that we continue to face here in Canada.
This is craziness.
It's crazy.
You know, it's so disheartening.
And to be honest, it's been hard the last couple of days to, you know, fight what I consider to be the good fight.
And I know our viewers feel the same way.
And I can only imagine if I'm feeling this way just watching what's happening, how is Chris Barber and Tamara Leach feeling, you know, to take that peaceful fight, despite what it seems like half of the country believes, and be put through the ringer in this way, made an example of such.
And people in 2025, you know, I was really disheartened yesterday.
I'm kind of going a little off topic, but Alexa LeVo did some streeters down there in Ottawa.
And to see people in 2025 refer to Leach and Chris Barber as terrorists and white supremacists, I'm like, are you kidding me?
This is still what a good chunk of Canadians believe.
So he's right to call it out.
And it's just very sad.
It's so depressing.
It reminds me of that was the entire narrative, the political narrative, the mainstream media narrative at the time was that these people are domestic terrorists.
I mean, the words of Justin Trudeau, former prime minister, just still ring so clearly in my brain when he said, this is a small fringe minority with unacceptable views on their way to Ottawa.
And I heard those words like in real time.
And I thought to myself, because we had already been hearing the rumblings and you had started, like our coverage of that convoy started in British Columbia, I think about, I would say like four to seven days before he made those remarks.
And I thought to myself, just you wait and see, because we had already heard the rumblings.
He'd been covering on the ground, been talking to the people who were coordinating all of this and heading into the town.
You know, that's our main town square into Ottawa, our nation's capital.
And I thought to myself, just you wait and see.
And then even I was completely unprepared for the magnitude and the numbers that actually showed up to gather and protest such extreme and intense government overreach into our lives.
Like there was Glenn, oh, I can never remember his last name.
He's, I believe, you know, CBC affiliate media personality.
These people are claiming phantom honking or even real honking at the time as like some sort of crime and inconvenience and infringement into their lives.
And I'm like, do you not remember how grotesque, exaggerated, and unjustified the infringement into our everyday daily lives were during the COVID hysteria?
Yeah, there's his post there.
And, you know, he plays, I think it's about a minute clip of like the honking that was happening in Ottawa.
And it's like that came after two, almost two full years of average Canadians, citizens, media alike, like alternative media, like us at Rebel News, opposing what the government was doing and no one listening.
Like this, this comes after almost two years of being ignored by that very laptop and political class of people who were disregarding and slandering anyone who spoke up against the COVID happening.
It's like, what else did you expect people to do after ignoring them and not listening to their concerns, which were very highly valid for the better part of two years?
Like that's just craziness.
The people were at their brink.
They had their lives had been destroyed, their livelihoods ruined.
I can attest to that personally.
And I've talked to countless Canadians along the way.
Same with Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
They say it all the time.
We met so many people who were on the brink of ending their lives and we gave them hope heading to Ottawa to speak on their behalf.
And, you know, five years, four years later, this is where they end up, the longest mischief trial in Canadian history.
It's horrible.
I just want to take people back to my experience too when it first happened.
And I want to point out that Leech and Barber, we call them the leaders, but in many ways, they were just as shocked as many in Canada about how many showed up as well.
It was such an organic, diverse, grassroots movement.
And I remember it was like 5 a.m. in the morning.
And for some reason, it was like such a heavily misty day when I went to go cover what I thought would just be like a handful of trucks coming from the Surrey area in British Columbia.
And I'm walking through the mist and I'm going, oh my gosh, there are so many trucks here.
If this many people are coming from just this spot, what are we about to see?
And the world saw, the world saw Canada take the peaceful stand.
Minutes into the Freedom Convoy00:15:18
Again, counseling to honk horns is getting this longest mischief with the recommendation of seven years of a sentence for Leech and eight years for Barber.
And these protesters, all they wanted at one point was a meeting, was a meeting.
You know, they got the honking under control in certain hours and they just wanted to speak.
I mean, I know we're preaching to the choir, but it's just, it's horrendous.
And I'm just praying.
I'm praying for the best outcome.
Yeah.
Well, and I wanted to highlight too, a post here from Daniel Freiheit of Lion Advocacy on X.
And he is literally quoting and highlighting the judge in the decision that found Leech to be guilty.
So Tamara Leach was saying things like, be strong, do not give in to fear and threats, show kindness, love will defeat hate.
And then Daniel writes, the judge literally used these words against her to find her guilty of mischief.
You can't make this up.
And that, I mean, speaks for itself.
It is so disturbing what this country has become and how the rule of law has been perverted and subverted throughout this entire process.
I also want to throw to this clip.
Well, it's about 10 minutes, so we won't play it all.
But Ezra posted to X just this morning for the second day of sentencing.
Like usually, you know, as he's pointed out throughout the coverage, and you can find it for yourself if you'd like to support this work and see more at tamaratrial.com.
But basically, like a mischief trial sentencing should have been over in, I don't know, 20 minutes.
The fact that this has been dragged on and dragged on, and I was reviewing some of Ezra's live tweeting from yesterday, you know, and he just says the judge just keeps interrupting.
The judge just keeps engaging in these musings.
And, you know, he suspects basically that the judge will be sad when this is all over because she'll go back to her boring old courtroom with no media attention.
So I thought that was really an interesting thing.
And that she didn't know that Canadians had their banks accounts, their bank accounts frozen and basically seized by the government through the invocation of the wartime legislation that had been revamped as the Emergencies Act.
Like how at this point and at this stage in the game, do you not know that?
That is just absolutely an injustice in and of itself.
Anyway, maybe we'll play the first minute of Ezra's live tweet here.
Yeah, especially with the beginning.
And this will go on for months or years because it's imperative that we not allow the precedent to be set, that a peaceful protester who is liaising with police.
Oh my gosh.
Thank goodness.
Breaking news for Ezra Levant.
Dina's not in jail.
Oh.
Hi, everybody.
Ezra Levance here.
It is Thursday morning behind me, the Ottawa Courthouse.
And in about half an hour's time, we will begin the second day of the sentencing hearing for Tamara Leach and her co-accused Chris Barber.
They were the leaders, as much as there was any leadership, of the trucker convoy, which three and a half years ago was the greatest civil liberties movement in a generation in Canada, which helped end the lockdown in our abused country.
It was a peaceful protest, the largest in history, I put it to you, but it embarrassed the government.
So they've been prosecuting them ever since the longest mischief trial in Canadian history.
Anyways, yesterday, the Crown Prosecutor made her case demanding seven years in prison for Tamara Leach and eight for Chris Barber.
Absolutely absurd.
Never been a mischief sentenced that long in history for protest.
There's a lot of mischief charges for protests in Canada.
They're typically left-wingers with Greenpeace or the G20 anarchists.
I've read or heard 20, 30 cases of these because I've attended different mischief hearings for freedom fighters.
And typically, if it's your first offense and there's nonviolence, you don't get any jail time.
And Tamara Leach, by the way, has already served 49 days in jail because she was not bailed immediately.
Pretty outrageous.
In fact, I see Tamara Leach walking towards the court right now just by coincidence.
And that's security that we have provided to her just because there's some riffraff in downtown Ottawa.
And I'm not just talking about the politicians.
Anyways, today.
Yeah, maybe we can just cut there because Ezra goes on to give a nice, fulsome update.
So again, if you want to support that and check out more, you can go to tamaratrial.com.
And Ezra is currently live.
I keep saying live tweeting.
It's so hard to get out of that mindset.
Live posting on X.
And so that is also very enlightening to kind of just follow along.
But yeah, he says that about 20, 40 minutes ago that they're looking to get time served.
So that would be the 49 days that Tamara has already been in jail for as she awaited bail.
I believe I have that right.
And so she would hopefully get credit for serving that time.
But the people of Ottawa, it's just absolutely staggering how out of touch with reality they are.
And I mean, I think it's CBC 101 has just infiltrated the brains of these people.
And there's, to me, it seems like no hope coming back from that kind of indoctrination.
While Ezra was in the court live tweeting and covering that hearing, Alexa Lavois, our Montreal colleague and correspondent, was in the streets talking to the people of Ottawa and asking them questions, you know, what they thought four years later of the movement of the Freedom Convoy and the fact that Tamara Leach and Chris Barber are still being prosecuted for being involved in this protest.
And here's what one person had to say.
Ask you quickly, like, what did you think about the Freedom Convoy 2022?
The Freedom Convoy Convoy.
Yeah, what did you think of it?
It's kind of late in the day to be asked.
I know, I know.
It was a problem.
Yeah.
I live around here.
It was a problem.
I had a lot of threats from people yelling at me for wearing a mask, people coming over in front of my house, ringing bells, yelling freedom, freedom, freedom, interfering with conversations with neighbors.
Freedom.
Because I live across from where they were staying.
So it was intrusive and it was unnecessary.
I don't think they accomplished anything.
I think they were more of a laughing stock at the end.
I think they've shown themselves for what they are.
Also, I think the people who are the leaders were not just leaders of that group.
I think initially they were anti-immigration.
They were gun lobbyists.
They belong to a different group than the one they portrayed themselves as being part of here.
I thought we were the conspirators behind the Freedom Convoy, I think, in order to be able to.
Yeah, this lady sounds about pretty conspiratorial.
Well, faith.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
And nobody brought that up as much, but they're not near the Nikki grandma primarily white supremacists and names.
And this had nothing to do with freedom, as they call it.
I think it's just kind of like white supremacists.
Yeah, of course.
Please, whoever is a grandma, whoever this grandma belongs to, come find her and rescue her from the depths of the CBC's underbelly because she has been propagandized as poor woman.
Two things that really stood out to me from her remarks is that she called the convoy intrusive and unnecessary.
And I would wager to say that in fact, the government's response to COVID-19 was intrusive and unnecessary.
And that was the entire reason why the Freedom Convoy took and carried its way into Ottawa, the nation's capital.
If you don't want to be subjected to protests, then maybe you shouldn't live in the nation's downtown core in the nation's capital, where quite literally and historically for like over a century, that has been the meeting place to express your political discussions, dissent, what have you.
If you're not prepared for that, then maybe you should find somewhere else to live.
That's just my thoughts right off the hop.
And yeah, you know, when they have nothing further to say, like you could tell she was just kind of going on a little rambling rant.
It's like, oh, yeah.
And now I remember they were all racist white supremacists.
That's it.
That's, I've got it.
You just have to get that in there because you have nothing else.
There's like nothing else to stand on.
And so automatically she's like, oh, yeah, it's just, they're just racist, white supremacist.
And that could not have been further from the truth.
I mean, that is the product of the rhetoric that we saw from politicians like Trudeau and the mainstream media from behind their keyboards who labeled them and painted them as such.
And people like her just drank that while they double massed inside of their home and peered through the window, afraid of the word freedom.
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Not sure if that will be covered in today's live stream.
I actually didn't know about it, but that's very close to me.
So I will definitely look into that.
I don't know if we'll get to it in the stream or not, but thank you for that.
It looks like there's, we just have a link here from Global News: three dead in Maple Ridge incident with an investigation underway.
Yeah, also, I am likewise just learning about this.
See, that's why it's important you guys are involved because you guys do that often actually in the live streams.
Tell us what's going on.
So the agency said the initial investigation found that the first person appears to have died from a self-inflicted wound around 11 p.m.
And then when police arrived, two other people were also found dead.
So it seems like, so the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia is involved, which investigates police-involved incidents.
So it could be that there was police involvement with those other two fatalities, but it looks like this is just a breaking story and there's not a lot of information out on it yet.
Two cars blew up and it was really crazy.
Yeah, that's worth looking into.
AMT60 responds to our invitation for people to join us in Calgary, September 18th for our birthday bash and says that my birthday, so AMT60's birthday is also on September 18th, but it's in Ontario.
Is Rebel going to be hosting events at the Whitby College like before?
And says to Mara that they emailed you yesterday about it.
You kind of spoke to this already saying we're trying to find a venue in Ontario and we hope that works out and we'll keep you posted.
Yes.
And I did review the email.
I wonder if we can, maybe I'll just spend just a couple quick minutes on this story because, and thank you, AMT 640 for your continued support.
I said 640 when I meant 60 and for tipping me off.
So it's basically about another COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Ontario.
And this one comes from a mental health sciences center.
And there's, you know, some back and forth with AMT being a person who would want to apply to this position and being unable to do that because they still have a, I think it's double.
They call it fully vaccinated.
So you have to be two weeks post-second dose prior to starting employment with this agency.
And it's an Ontario regulated, Ontario government regulated agency.
And so, yeah, they're still, I mean, we're here in 2025 and they are still mandating these shots for their workers.
So I am looking into that.
And thank you for bringing it to my attention with some links.
And I mean, we'll see when the hysteria ends.
But every time I do a story on vaccine mandates, you know, everyone's like, oh, COVID's over.
It's a thing of the past.
Move on.
Why are you talking about this still?
What are the vaccines?
Get over yourself.
Get over it.
La la la.
And then I get people who are emailing me or contacting me or reaching out and saying, I still cannot become gainfully employed because there are COVID-19 vaccine mandates in place, especially in the healthcare sectors.
And so even our elected officials, like, no, they don't even know.
My MPP, David Puccini, who was the minister of jobs and employment, he didn't even know that this was still a thing.
And that was, I think, eight or 10 months ago that someone approached him and brought this to his attention.
And what has he done since to try to remedy that issue?
And staff, I mean, staffing, healthcare, the crisis is still very much there.
And I would say only getting worse.
And we're still mandating these shots after what we know in terms of the evidence-based science.
And with the vaccine injury support program being a complete disaster and mess, we're still mandating these things for people to be gainfully employed.
It's utter madness.
What's Next for Alberta?00:03:34
Well, and like Chris Barber posted today on X, there's been no accountability.
So we can't let it go because we haven't learned anything from it as a country.
And those who took a stand, like Barbara and Leach, look what's happening to them.
So thank you for your continued work exposing such an important issue that drastically, negatively impacted our country.
So, and the world.
Yeah, well, on that note, let's hit it a quick ad break and then we will come back for more craziness in our beautiful country of Canada.
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Ostrich Controversy00:07:23
Welcome back.
Our next story is on the British Columbia ostrich farm that has been under a call order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
And we have some political pushback brewing from Premiers Danielle Smith out of Alberta and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, which, as I mentioned, at least a broken clock is right twice a day.
So this came from their meeting.
The Premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney were invited to the Muskoka's earlier this week to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney and discuss all things, Canada's trade, energy, and jobs.
And they were asked about the ostriches during that press release.
And Smith was really, she started off with that she's asked, I guess, her minister, what if this were happening in Alberta, what would they do differently?
And Dre, so you wrote this up.
So what are Smith and Ford saying about this issue with the ostriches in BC?
Well, first, I want to say if you haven't already got on to the ostrich train, it is a remarkable example of government overreach.
And in some ways, like the trucker convoy, not in size, but in spirit, I would say a remarkable example of the grassroots pushback and the momentum it's actually getting.
So the CFIA, these birds have been healthy for over 180 days.
They tested positive with the controversial PCR tests back in December, two dead carcasses.
And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is still hell-bent on killing them, even though now they've recovered, of course, from the avian flu, but they are set up and already engaged in prime research when it comes to therapeutics using the antibodies from the eggs to fight the very viruses like COVID-19 and now the avian flu that the government wants us to be so scared about.
But much like the rescue jet that the Americans had to send to the Vancouver airport recently to save us before Canada could get ours on the ground, or in the air, I should say.
The Americans are trying to save these ostriches in a big way.
So if you don't know that, Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has sent not one, but two letters, first to the head of the CFIA, now to our Minister of Agriculture, saying, hey, listen, let's save these birds.
Let's work together on the science.
And now in the second letter, and if you don't, just give them to us and we'll take it over.
We'll take over all the expenses.
So they're seeing the opportunity here.
And then you have in this article, which it talks about, you have billionaire grocer John Katzimatidis, I hope I said that right, who is a philanthropist who loves animals, who has been setting up meetings with Secretary Kennedy as well as Dr. Oz, who's the head of Medicare, and saying, let's get the animals on the ranch.
So I just wanted to give everybody that history because this is huge pushback internationally.
And now we have our premiers.
We actually have a little bit of a clip of, like you said, the broken clock, Ford and Premier Smith.
Let's play a little bit of it.
Here with Politico.
This question is for Smith and Ford.
I was speaking with John Catsimatides regarding the ostrich situation in BC.
He had a meeting yesterday with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on this matter.
He essentially wants the PM to intervene in the case, and he said that he's spoken to both of you on this issue as well.
Will you be applying pressure to the PM on this?
And do either of you have any issues or any concerns about the federal government's treatment of farmers, particularly in this case?
Well, I have asked my agriculture minister to look into it to see if we had a similar situation in Alberta, what would we be able to do differently?
And one of the things that I think is worth looking at is when avian flu went through that herd, it did kill 20% of them, but it didn't kill 80% of them.
So maybe there is something to learn from whether there's an immunity or some kind of vaccine that could be developed as a result of having that flock survive.
I think that maybe we have to think about different ways to do animal husbandry and animal safety.
And why not try a different approach?
So I'm open-minded to see if there's any persuasion on that.
I gather that the U.S. government is interested in partnering with BC if they wanted to do that.
I'd be supportive of that because you can see that this case has really taken on a lot of public sentiment behind it.
And if we can find a better way than doing mass coles in any situation like this, I think it's probably worth it to try to find a better way to do it.
I don't know if you've got a thought.
Yeah, no, I've talked to John many times about these ostriches.
I'm an animal lover, full disclosure, and I want to do everything I can to help him.
I think he had a plan to bring him down to Florida as well and to a sanctuary down there.
So anything John needs, I'm always there to support him.
He's a good man.
He cares for animals.
And he puts his money where his mouth is, too, when it comes to making sure that he protects all animals.
Thank you.
Anyways, it's just, I think it's fascinating because, you know, even David Eby, it's becoming nonpartisan, but yet you still have this agency fighting these farmers through now the Court of Appeal to do it.
So it really is opening a wide open precedent for farming freedom.
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Yeah, it's interesting that the mainstream media is now, you know, paying attention to this and being a little bit more critical simply by even bringing it up at a press release, completely unrelated to something obviously ostrich-related.
So that's funny to see.
And we have a post here.
Well, it's becoming a trade issue somewhat.
So it kind of, a little bit, but yeah.
We, and I guess the trial, the Tamara Leach trial, was actually brought up.
And the judge, Ezra just posted about an hour ago that the judge interrupted the proceedings with a mention that Tamara is helping to, quote, save the ostriches.
And that there are some chuckles about that, which the judge loved.
And then just the follow-up to that, Ezra says, imagine that.
We're talking about whether or not a woman will be sent to prison, possibly for seven years, but the judge is treating the court as an open mic night at the local comedy club.
Yeah, this is, it would be laughable if it wasn't so absolutely sad and abysmal that this is the state of affairs on the judicial, the federal judicial level here in Canada.
It's just bad.
Liberals Prioritize Foreign Workers Over Youth00:15:02
And by the way, by helping so much.
She performed.
She performed on the farm.
He did not counsel anybody on how to pet quarantine ostages.
Okay, so calm down.
Oh my gosh.
I'm just reading through some of these.
Everyone, head over to Ezra's Twitter page and read those posts because my goodness, it just gets insane.
I'm so glad he's there covering it because he just, he gets in there like no one else.
And he, as somebody who's trained in law, can dissect and then reshare the remarks and what's happening in the courtroom from a really unique perspective.
So I really appreciate that.
But anyway, getting back to some of our schedule, let's just hit the headliners and then I think anything extra we can kind of come back to if we have some time.
So I wanted to throw to Doug Ford not being right anymore.
Clock is working.
Yeah, we struck a different hour now and Doug Ford is back to being wrong.
We have this clip from him announcing that hotels are filled with asylum seekers that I would say, you know, are just sucking the taxpayer trough dry.
They get upwards of like $80,000 a year in subsidies and taxpayer funded relief and also are now being funneled into our labor market through labor market assessment approvals.
And so Ford speaks a little bit about this on this in this clip here that we have.
No one understands their sectors and their labor force better than the premiers.
And by no means, I want to emphasize this, it's no means the prime minister's, well, this is an issue right now, but this has been going on for decades.
I'll give you an example.
I have a tremendous amount of asylum seekers that are up in Etobico and in the hotels.
They're healthy.
They're willing to work.
They're hardworking people, but they're waiting over two years.
And they're just sucking off the system non-stop.
Not their fault.
The fault falls under immigration that it takes over two years to get a work permit.
So as we're paying, paying education, paying health care, paying their rent in hotels, which is exorbitant, they want to get out there and they want to be like every other Canadian.
They want to find a job.
They want to be able to first start off renting whatever, a condo or part of a house and then buying a house.
But we're tired of waiting around.
I can't wait around.
It's costing our province an absolute fortune.
Just last year, we were close to 100,000 asylum seekers, and I'm still waiting to get a pay, you know, get paid back from the federal government.
That's one issue.
This guy is so out of touch.
Actually, I'll have an interview out, I hope later today on this with the director of the National Citizens Coalition, Alex Brown, where we break, we talk about all of this.
But they have just posted, let me just, they issued a press release shortly after the Muskoka gathering, which is really like a swanky kind of elitist location for the premiers and Mark Carney to be, you know, having a meeting of the minds, so to speak.
But their press release, they say immigration is still out of control, right?
And Doug Ford, instead of talking about that, he's saying, no, we need to issue these people emergency work permits.
This is craziness.
So if you scroll down a little bit on this page, we now have 3 million temporary residents in Canada, which are straining housing, healthcare, and public services.
Hundreds of thousands of them are illegal or about to be illegal as their work permits expire with no plan to address how we're going to get out of this mess.
And the staggering one for me is that one in 88 people in Canada.
So like this is one in 88 people in Canada are now asylum seekers.
Wow.
Overwhelming our shelter services, shelter system, food banks, and already strained and scarce resources.
Many have filed fraudulent claims, including hundreds of thousands of foreign students from India.
And you can just simply go into any search engine engine and type fraudulent claims, refugees, Canada.
And you will find the vast array of ways and instances of this occurring.
So there is a massive funneling of fraudulent asylum seeker claims in this country.
The vast majority of them, I've done a couple reports on it.
You would be able to find them by going to netzeroimmigration.com.
That's our webpage dedicated to this kind of coverage and a petition there calling on Mark Carney to get these immigration levels back under wraps and in control.
And so the vast majority of these asylum seeking claims actually end up in the GTA in the greater Toronto area.
Ontario receives roughly half of all immigration throughout that's supposed to be dispersed throughout Canada.
We get more than half of that.
And then they funnel right into the greater Toronto area, basically along the 401 corridor.
Meanwhile, it is absolutely unleashed what is happening in this country and in Ontario and the GTA specifically with this mass influx of otherwise unfettered immigration.
And I think the Canadian Border Services Agency said in recent statements, you know, that there's anywhere from 200 to 500,000 people who should be deported that they just lost track of.
Like they literally just don't know where they are.
And so how exactly is this going to, I mean, this needs to be fixed immediately.
When the House resumes in September, this needs to be a major political policy turning point because this is absolutely a mess.
It's a disaster.
It's not only straining all of our social services and contributing to things like record unemployment, youth skyrocketing youth unemployment in this country, which is affecting the ability of our youth to have that previous launching pad into the job field and the sector and build their job experience, but it's also a massive national security threat and risk.
And that's what the United States is saying about Canada and our borders and how they're porous, and all the drugs and the trafficking, the human trafficking, the drug smuggling.
And the government's not doing anything about it.
So, anyway, I'll have an interview out on that, as I said, hopefully later today with Alex Brown of the NCC.
But these stats are staggering.
And what is Doug Ford doing?
He wants to rush through work permits for people when we don't even know if their claims are legitimate in the first place instead of prioritizing Canadian jobs, as they were literally just meeting earlier this week to discuss Canadian trade, opening up interprovincial trade barriers, preserving the Canadian economy.
Well, what about preserving Canadians first into the job market, Doug Ford?
Yeah, elbows up, right?
And you have, you have, you know, like the U.S. pointing out, again, like you said, what we're doing with our borders and things like that.
But you also have the Indian Foreign Affairs Minister saying that we are literally just Canada just welcomes their criminals over here.
Like we just make it so easy.
And they're basically saying, what the heck are you guys doing?
And then you have Ford being like, okay, now we're adding an extra layer.
And I've done reports out here too about how hotels with suites are, you know, filled with asylum seekers.
I don't know if they hop on a plane and just don't come back.
And many of them out here, anyways, when I was out in Abbotsford covering that, they were all men.
They didn't even look like they had family and children with them.
So, yeah, not the influx of young, single, young men is very concerning.
And again, I don't want to give too much away, but Alex Brown and I will chat a little bit more about that in the interview that I hope again will go up later today.
And if you miss it, you can find it at netzeroimmigration.com.
That's the website that will house all of our immigration-related stories.
Do we have a clip of Ford where he says that he wants to rush through these work permits for asylum claims?
Yeah, I think we have a clip of that.
But he's going to use the con, he's going to invoke the constitutional clause to do this.
I mean, the fact that all of them were gathering earlier this week to discuss basically putting Canada first, which was a conservative campaign promise, part of Pierre Polyev's platform, which obviously Kearney has mostly stolen since being sneakily elected.
But where were they on calling out this mass unfettered immigration and putting Canadians into the job roles first?
Like this needs to be immediately addressed because if you look at the labor market impact assessment approvals map, I did a report on it a couple days ago.
I'm just going to see if I can pull it up, if my rural internet connection could be any slower.
I tell you, it has been a time the last few days.
Yeah.
So I did a report last week, July 15th, headline: liberals prioritize foreign workers over youth in economic betrayal.
And in that report, you can find a hyperlink to the LMIA map.
And you can see what has been approved.
Like these are landscapers, food counter attendance.
So like think of whoever's working at your local Tim Hortons cash register, McDonald's, AW.
These are jobs that previously, you know, 14-year-olds would who are trying to enter the job market would be the first ones to seize.
And they're not glamorous jobs by any means.
Don't get me wrong.
My first job, I worked, I was a cashier and a shelf stalker at Dollarama.
Like, you've got to start somewhere.
Yeah.
And if we are giving foreign, temporary foreign workers all of these unglamorous jobs, how are our youth ever going to have a launching pad to get off of the ground from?
So, this is, I think, hindering an entire generation of Canadian youth.
We see youth unemployment skyrocketing.
And in Ottawa, it's 20%, which is almost 10% higher than the national average of 11%.
These are crazy stats, and they're only going to continue to grow if we don't get this under wraps immediately.
Especially with AI progressing as well, which is going to impact the job force as well.
So, exactly.
We have to get this under wraps.
We have a clip here of Ford, and we'll display this one quickly for you.
I can't wait around.
It's costing our province an absolute fortune.
Just last year, we were close to 100,000 asylum seekers, and I'm still waiting to get a pay, you know, get paid back from the federal government.
That's one issue.
But there's jobs available in Ontario, and we need to give them work permits and make sure that they're out there working and contributing back to society.
I'm not waiting any longer.
We're issuing work permits in yeah.
What jobs in Ontario?
A lot of people are saying in response to that.
And I'm not opposed.
Like, absolutely.
Let's get people working.
Let's get them off the taxpayer trough and into the labor force.
But we have to prioritize Canadian jobs first and giving Canadian youth the opportunity to have that launching pad into the workforce that all of us had growing up.
So, this is absolutely crazy.
I've also just received word that they killed the LMIA map.
So, you can't even find it anymore.
I have some screenshots in that report, so you can check it out and double-check and source and fact-check me.
I love being fact-checked.
Always fact-check me.
But the LMIA map, which you could, you used to be able to explore and change and search out various areas and search for the various jobs.
Sorry, it's gone now.
After that report went out, I guess they've killed it.
Of course, I don't know.
That's unfortunate.
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I thought Norman Traversey was going to help in Tamara Leach and Chris Barber's trial.
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I haven't heard that name for a long time, actually.
Yeah, I don't know what Norm's up to these days.
And I know he was, you know, he's been part of that freedom kind of anti-Trudeau liberal government for a while.
But otherwise, I don't know.
I didn't hear that and I don't know anything about it.
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I see also here: a funny thing: Job Bank of Canada, Government of Canada Job Bank needs some more Popeyes employees, and they're pending a labor market impact assessment application.
Because, of course, the employer just could not find a Canadian worker for this job.
And thus, they've applied for a labor market impact assessment to hire a temporary foreign worker.
And Canadian workers, including Canadian citizens and permanent residents, are still encouraged to apply.
And I don't know.
Oh, this is in Peterborough.
Yeah.
So it's funny because the government of Ontario and also the primarily the government of Quebec, but in Ontario, we have what's called the Immigrant Nominee Program.
And some would argue that it's morphed into this pay-to-play racket with government-approved jobs tied to LMIAs being sold.
And this comes from the CBC.
So these, I'm just going to put the link in here.
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Give me a moment.
Show my work.
As I said, fact-check me.
I love being fact-checked.
She'll do a report on you if you get it wrong.
So these LMIAs are being sold on illegally on platforms like Kijiji.
And this comes from the CBC for up to $25,000.
And so this is just exploiting international students who are obviously desperate for permanent residency and their permits are about to expire.
And so the whole thing has really turned into a racket.
And then you have the Ontario Premier Doug Ford standing up there instead of looking into any of this, racketeering.
He's just saying we're going to use the constitutional clause to rush through more of this.
So that is highly concerning.
And he has to know that this is happening.
What's happening?
Well, just stay tuned for my interview with Alex Brown because we're going to break down why the political class doesn't want to talk about this.
All right.
I think we've hit all the headlines there, Drea.
What do you, is there anything in particular that you want to chat about?
I know you shared a couple links in here.
Well, there is.
I'm torn between two stories of madness, but I think I'm going to throw to how you can't be a Christian rock star in Canada.
Yes.
Let's talk about Sean Foyt.
I mean, this is just a complete disgrace for Canadians.
In case you haven't seen it before, a Christian worship performer, Sean Foyt, from the United States is being canceled under the excuses that he is mega-aligned and discriminatory.
And so it started with Parks Canada out east.
And once they canceled that sort of that performance on public land, it's trickled into other areas out east as well.
They're just doing the green light to, you know, punish essentially just for having Christian beliefs, which is, of course, what he's saying.
This is ridiculous.
He's saying on his social media things like the demons are really angered.
And then it's gotten to the point where, you know, people are saying this is ridiculous.
So they're allowing him on their public property like a farmer.
I believe it was in Nova Scotia.
I could be getting that wrong.
And then the government was trying to say that the farmer couldn't have more than 200 people on his own farm for a Christian concert to happen.
This is insane.
You know, I covered Sean Foyt when he came here.
I don't know if it was last year or not, but it was in Coquitlam in front of 5,000 people.
I joked online.
I said calm down when they were first before the cancellation happened.
And the CBC, of course, put out the rhetoric about saying he's basically transphobic, which he's not.
He's just Christian.
And I said that not a single blue-haired Karen was hurt.
But thousands came out and it just went fine.
Yeah, there you can see on that one picture to the far right, just how many people were over there.
So this is just, I mean, he's calling it a clear anti-Christian bias that is happening in Canada.
I tend to agree.
You would never see this happen with any other type of, again, peaceful planned event that's connected to any other religion in Canada.
He even performed, of course, or planned to perform in an area where a pride parade had just taken place.
That's fine.
A lot of people take issues with that.
They think it's inappropriate for kids to be around, but you can't be a Christian rock star.
So it's very concerning.
And I see it's trickling over here to the West now.
Kelowna, West Kelowna, is, according to this article here in Castlegar News, is just developing a safety plan for him to perform out here in Kelowna, which I guess is coming up.
A safety plan, like he is an actual danger or threat to Canadians again, just for his Christian beliefs.
Yeah, you know, and I keep coming back to the CBC and their wonderful headline here was this yesterday: Quebec City cancels concert of mega musician, following the lead of other Canadian cities.
Like to call someone a mega musician, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
And toward the end of the article, I think it's the fourth paragraph.
Yeah, the fourth sentence from the end, there's a quote here from, and I didn't even know this was a thing, but Transition Quebec, it's a political party in Quebec.
Their party leader, who's, I guess, super relevant, Jackie Smith, said that the city should not make its spaces available to propaganda groups that insult our communities and seek to divide us on the basis of our identities.
We don't want this hatred in our neighborhoods.
I mean, these people are just absolutely unhinged.
This is wild.
Pastor Hildebrandt made a statement, and I'm just recapping, but he reminded Canadians that we're supposed to be founded on the supremacy of God, not bureaucrats.
And again, how is this continuing to happen?
You know, it is shocking.
It's embarrassing.
It's concerning.
And yet it's just a common thread we're seeing.
The church is burning.
Who got locked up during lockdowns?
It was the pastors, even though we know we went out and explored.
We didn't put them on blast because why would we?
They should have the freedom to do so.
But it wasn't just Christians gathering illegally.
There is an attack on the West, which is founded on Christian Judeo values.
And it's not going to be pretty if that continues for anybody because Christian values surround free will and the ability for you to have the freedom to believe what you want to believe.
And that is a core value for Canadians and it should remain such.
Yeah.
Well, on a lighter note, we have some our daily dose of cringe for you.
Yeah.
And it's a fun parody of Pierre Polyev.
So we'll have a look at this and then we'll get to any remaining super chats before we sign off for the day.
Back here, back at home.
I like to get back here as often as possible, especially if it helps me get back into parliament so I can be away from here as often as possible.
Look at that.
It's Carney's horse.
Yet another small woke liberal horse.
What experts are you talking about?
So, did you hear about Kearney and the way he flipped that pancake?
I mean, he thought he'd be really good at it because he's done so much flip-flopping lately.
But the problem was he couldn't figure out if he should have his elbows up or down.
We have to stop this ban on gas-powered vehicles.
Can you fart?
I'm going to get out there back on the saddle.
We're going to do some riding.
We're going to do some roping, wrangling, re-electing.
Look at me.
I'm a big boy.
This is fun.
There's always jobs to do, and everyone knows I love jobs.
Good.
Canadian jobs.
Oh, God.
There's a spray back.
Our young people want to do this stuff.
Put another quarter in it.
We are not going to let Ottawa stop Canadians from going bareback.
Reverse cowgirl.
Cow poke quickie.
Long trail ride into the night.
Fucking Bronco.
These are the rights of every Canadian.
The thing is, we didn't really lose the election.
I mean, we had more votes than ever before.
We made gains in the North Pole.
We had more people drawing penises on their spoiled ballots than ever before.
Really, it was quite a success.
You know, it's pretty rude to eat an apple while you're talking to somebody.
We need to get me back into parliament so I can help lead Canada in the right direction.
Yeah.
Let's go.
How do you control it?
Is this the start?
Should I just grab it?
Round up all the criminals and put them in a stable facility.
We're going to fight for Alberta.
We're going to fight for oil and gas.
We're going to fight for indoor malls and tire stores.
We're going to let teachers teach.
We're going to let wizards whiz.
We're going to let parents rent from their children.
We are going to make Canada first, but I'm going to put myself just a little more first.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
There you have it.
Obviously, the liberals are just loving this.
It's Roman Danilo, I think is how you pronounce the last name.
And the Liberals are like, I would pay to see this guy.
I just love him.
Ha ha.
Can't wait.
But I don't see anyone like we're laughing about it.
Yeah.
We can take a joke.
We don't think it's hate to, you know.
Yeah, we're not out here trying to like cancel this community for some fun parody.
I'd love, I mean, I would love to see him do Mark Carney.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah.
But yeah, we can take a joke and we don't need to cancel anybody just because they have a differing opinion than us.
And no, I'd hit like.
I'd hit like on that one.
I'll do it last.
Like when people make fun of me online, like I just laugh.
Like sometimes people do weird things like expand my mouth to show my cricket teeth and I'll just like retweet it sometimes.
You know, you gotta.
You have to be able to make fun of yourself.
Otherwise, what are you going to do?
Crawl up in a hole and shrivel away?
Like I want to be elite level unbothered by any of the hate that's thrown my way.
And that's basically just how I live my life.
So let's just do more of that, please.
We have another super chat from Jay Petterson, who gives $20.
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The only positive result that I see coming out of the political persecution of Leech and Barber is that this will highlight to many people still deciding on independence in Alberta to move the yes.
We must leave.
Yeah, I mean, I think what's happening in Alberta is so interesting for the rest.
I mean, obviously for everyone here in Canada, but especially for those of us who have been paying attention the last few years, who spoke up against the COVID tyranny and the regime of, you know, safe and effective and stay home and save lives and wear your mask even in your own home or in your car driving alone and the theatrics of like hand sanitizing up at the podium of press releases.
I remember there was one of Dina Hinshaw, you know, and they would put their mask on and then they would sanitize their hands.
And it's like, you're up there standing alone on a podium in probably an otherwise empty room because all of the media has to call in for their questions because of the stay-home orders.
It's like, what are you people even doing?
Like, they just look like absolute crazed lunatics.
But yeah, for those of us who saw through that psychological operation, yeah, I would say that Alberta is definitely looking better and better.
And we can't beat low taxes.
I'm here for it.
We have one, not a paid chat, but someone in the comments writes, thank you to the Rebel News team.
I'd rather watch you.
I would rather watch you all than CPC 20, CP24 or CBC.
Thank you.
And we appreciate your viewership and your support, sharing our stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it would be nice to have more of a balance in the media landscape, who's platformed and give CBC a run for their money, which I think we're doing pretty well.
But we obviously don't have near the same budget as they do to cover stories, which is just crazy.
Sometimes I'm like, we do this on a shoestring budget.
I literally show up places with an iPhone and a microphone and get better stories than the CBC with their like endless resources and fancy cameras and crews.
So they're like five years too late.
Yeah.
Anyway.
All right.
I think that just about covers our show.
And thanks, Drea, for hopping in today.
For Sheila, she had some other commitments and Sheila like is just the craziest workhorse in the best way possible.
I mean that.
But it's good for her to be able to take a moment and spend some time with her family when she needs to.
So thanks for filling in for Sheila.
And I believe Sheila will be back tomorrow.
And I think you will be as well for Fridays.
Actually, no, it's you and David, isn't it?
I'm not sure, but it's me.
I'm getting my days mixed up.
Me and someone.
You and someone tomorrow.
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Take care, guys.
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And I've got a ripple, and I'm kind of ripping soul.