Rebel Roundup marks 10 years of defiance with a September 18 Calgary celebration, featuring Sean Fuke’s canceled worship tour—targeted by Mayor Valerie Plante’s $2,500 fines and Antifa violence—while exposing police inaction during protests. Alexa Lavoisi details attacks, including smoke bombs inside churches, and legal battles backed by the Democracy Fund, warning Canada risks U.S. sanctions over perceived censorship. A Juno poll reveals non-white Canadians oppose mass migration due to housing strain, while federal hotel funding for asylum seekers ends September 30th, threatening social housing collapse. Fuke’s tour clashes highlight broader tensions: liberal hypocrisy on church intimidation, border chaos with "Q jumpers" and traffickers, and Trump’s warnings about censorship—suggesting free speech is under siege globally, not just in authoritarian regimes. [Automatically generated summary]
Depending on which part of this beautiful country that you're in, I'm Sheila Gunread.
I am your regular host of our daily news and opinion show, Rebel Roundup.
I am joined today by our Quebec-based journalist who's just been working her butt off, Alexa Lavoisi.
Alexa, how's it going?
I'm good.
After a really busy weekend.
Yeah, your busy weekend was insane.
Like, I think you did more work in the course of about 72 hours, not even maybe 36 hours than most people will do in two weeks.
It was really impressive.
We're really proud of you, and we'll get to some of that.
But I want to tell you how you can get involved in the show, folks at home.
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There's one other thing that you can do to support Rebel, but also celebrate with us.
About six months ago, it was actually our birthday, five months ago.
It was actually our 10th birthday.
Can you believe it?
It's been a crazy, crazy 10 years.
I'm not a day oneer, but by the time we get around to celebrating our birthday, I will have been here for 10 years.
So we wanted to celebrate this with you.
You can go to happybirthayrebel.com to find out more.
But it is going to be our 10th birthday bash.
Ef friend, do you want to bring the screen up so we can show people?
There we go.
Look at us.
Happy.
We've got our party hats on.
My friend Alexa Lavois will be there.
Drea Humphrey, Tamara Ugolini, David Menzies, of course, and the thought leader behind the idea of Rebel News, our founder, our commander, Ezra Levant.
And our early bird tickets are available right now.
It's Thursday, September 18th at 6 p.m. at the carriage house in Calgary.
We love the guys at the carriage house.
It's live music, cocktails, snacks, hors d'oeuvres, and a meet and greet and photos with your favorite journalists.
I hope that includes me.
And this is to celebrate everything that we have done.
And we want you at our birthday party, friends, because we could not have done any of this without you.
You believed in us when everybody said that we would fail in any of our controversies.
You stood by us and told us to keep fighting.
And so the only reason that we are a decade old is thanks to our viewers at home.
And so we'd love for you to join us.
And Tamara Leach is going to be the musical act, the musical entertainment at our birthday.
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All right.
Efron, do we want to start the news and then we'll go into our other messages later, the things that we have to check off our housekeeping list?
Police At The Stair00:15:56
I think so.
Let's get right into it.
It's a really busy day.
We'll talk about the Sean Fucht stuff.
And then before we hit an ad break and head to the next stuff, then I'll talk about the other things we need to talk about to tidy up some loose ends.
Sean Fucht, for those of you who don't know, is a Christian musician from the United States.
He's MAGA.
He is pro-life.
He's pro-traditional family.
And he was anti-COVID restriction, which is kind of a mainstream viewpoint in this country, regardless of what the mainstream media and the liberals, and I think I repeat myself when I make the distinction there, would tell you.
And he had six venues cancel on him for safety concerns.
Why?
Because of these dangerous Christians might be singing in a publicly owned venue.
So six venues canceled on him.
We started a petition at letusworship.ca to give you an opportunity to let your voice be heard.
Because I don't think these politicians and these municipal bureaucrats, Parks Canada bureaucrats, I don't think they really speak for Canadians.
They speak for themselves and their little bubble.
But even people who disagree with Sean Fucht on some issues believe that he has a right to peacefully express those views, let alone express them in a church.
However, Alexa, you were there when Montreal Mayor Valerie Plant thought that she could have some sort of government control over what was said and done inside of a church worship service.
I think she still think that she have the control over it because she mentioned, but the person, the spokesperson for her say that they will issue and they have issue $2,500 fines, what the church didn't receive yet.
I don't know if they will receive on the mail, how long it would take, or if they will really receive a fine or is just a talking point to scare people or like an intimidation tactic.
We still don't know yet.
We will know when the fines will come into the mail or at the church.
But the thing is, the mayor never called the church, never tried to engage with them, try to find like a common ground or something like that, or just like trying to explain something.
And same when they decided to find the church, they never called them.
Yeah.
And, you know, I mean, they'll likely find them after the fact.
But what I find most offensive in all of this, and offensive is probably the wrong word.
What I find revolting in all of this is that the city communicated directly with the media, but never bothered to communicate directly with the church.
So the media knew the church is fined, but the church didn't really know that they had been fined.
This stuff went directly to the media.
And the good news is that you have connected this church with our friends over at the Democracy Fund because they should not pay this fine because the city does not have a right to determine what constitutes a worship service within the confines of a church.
And they can send all the cops they want, but that just doesn't change.
We've got a video from you.
Nearly a dozen Montreal police officers were inside the church that offered to host American Christian rocker Sean Fuke to let's see that.
Performed tonight, but now there is a lot of police officers who are surrounding the church at the moment.
I know that some of them are inside.
We know that the city said that they don't have the authorization to perform tonight and they are ready to deliver infraction notice.
So, we are here, we are following the situation, but I am showing you some of the footage of the police now trying to enter the church.
The only thing I want to know is that the article 176 of the United Canadiens is very clear.
Piconque wants to interrupt a religious celebration, impossible for those articles.
That means that any of these police officers, and we have already invented this note, and any of these police officers who want to prevent a celebration of the church in the moment.
I have the right to see that, Mr. I am here to make sure that you can't even enter the church.
So, you can't even enter the church.
I am here to see that.
I have the authority to do the church.
You just have to send the police.
You have to send the police.
You're going to film, you're going to talk about it, but just stay there.
So just to give some context on all this, so it was not the first time that the police went to the church.
First of all, at first I think they were kind of like saying to the church that they cannot go ahead with like this show and the church said, no, I'm going to go ahead anyway, because it's freedom of religion.
And so the police, when they went back and tried to enter, they said to the church, we need to have easy access to go in the church if something happened during the worship service.
Like example, someone from the Antifa or protester comes here and there is a fight.
So it's why they say we need this access to always be available for us to go in and out.
But the thing is, you can't interrupt a worship service because this is under the criminal code, you can't just like decide to interrupt the service.
So instead of talking with us and just saying, no, no, no, and just try to explain what they were doing, they kind of pushed everybody away and just do whatever they want instead of explaining correctly what was their next move.
But in fact, they were there to protect the church and the people who were attending the worship service, but they failed to do their job.
What I mean by that, the protester were the other side of the street from the church.
And at one point, they let them go into the middle of the road and then on the same side of the road of the church and then step in the stairway of the church without intervening and stopping them to go even further.
What that created, it's like the protester was straight in front of the church, intimidating, harassing, calling names the people who were attending the church.
Also, someone slept inside of the church and it was able to lift two firebombs and get away with it because nobody actually stopped him, not even the police outside of the church.
So, why then you ask for having access inside of the church and this happened, and you never showed up, and you never stopped that man.
You had to ask for the security footage afterwards to open an investigation.
But that man went out on the front of the church and nobody stopped him.
My God, let's go through some of this footage.
But, real quick, I would just want to reference something that you brought up.
It's section 176 of the Canadian Criminal Code.
Let's just read that together.
I'll put it in this Slack chat up front.
176 of the Criminal Code.
Every person is guilty of an indictled bull offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or is guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.
Who?
By threats or force.
This is, I think, applies to both the police and the Antifa at this point.
Unlawfully obstructs or prevents or endeavors to obstruct or prevent an officiant from celebrating a religious or spiritual services or performing any other function in connection with their calling or knowing that an officiant is about to perform,
is on their way to perform, or is returning from the performance of any duties or functions mentioned in paragraph A assaults or offers any violence to them or arrests them on a civil process under the pretense of executing a civil process.
Everyone who willfully disturbs or disrupts an assemblage or persons met for religious worship or for a moral, social, or benevolent purpose is guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.
So for the police to interrupt a religious service, that's illegal.
For these people to walk in and throw a smoke bomb, also illegal.
But to intimidate in any way someone from carrying out their calling as a spiritual leader is also a criminal offense in this country.
But as we saw during COVID, the police and people tasked with making sure our charter rights are protected are so often the ones violating or at least allowing the violations to go forward.
Let's show some of the footage that you mentioned there.
We've got the standoff.
The Antifa and their NDP foot soldiers were gathered across the police or across from the church.
You tried to speak with them, but they got grabby with you in front of the cops.
yeah we are now standing inside of the church because the police As you can see, they were supposed to be on this side of the street, but now they are stepping and blocking the traffic.
And you see, the police, instead of asking them to go to the other side of the street, they literally just put a barricade, arrange line to prevent them to go close to the church.
But in reality, they should have asked them to stay at the opposite side of the street.
But you can see the police have lost control.
Now, this lady, an antifan lady, is now staying on the stair, despite the police saying that if we are staying on the stair, we will be arrested for obstruction of their job.
But you see, the bossender again, why she's not being arrested while they actually told us that.
And now we have people with haven't seen the flag and they all seem like everybody hates the fascists.
And we have like some people with people giving point fingers.
It looks like really, really loving and cheering people.
Yeah, so it's so funny because the police came to see us because we were standing on the stair because obviously we will not go down and being attacked.
So they came and they told us, please go inside or go down the stair because if you stay on the stair, you're going to be arrested for obstruction.
Okay, but what about them?
Because we never actually told them the same thing.
Or if you did, you didn't arrest them.
So I told them, but I want to cover what is happening outside, but I cannot go down to the stair or I'm going to be attacked and you're not going to protect me because it's what you did last time.
And they say, no, we are going to protect you.
I say, oh, yeah.
Can I have like your words on this?
Because last time it's what you actually didn't do this.
So hang on, I just want to interrupt you.
So that guy is being arrested there and yet someone is allowed to hold the flag there.
Is she being arrested for obstruction or is she just being told to go stand somewhere else?
Actually, I don't know because at one point the police decided to act.
So she wasn't arrested.
She was just handled physically down to the stair and on the street.
But him, he was arrested.
She was obstructing that arrest.
Yeah.
And yet she's not threatened with obstruction.
You were.
Yeah.
And that guy who got arrested, by the way, was released at the same area because he took a picture afterwards on the on social media.
And but Natasha was driven far away from the protest and released in the middle of like downtown.
And she got freed there.
But this man was just catch and released at the same area.
Gross.
Can you explain me this double standard?
No, I can't because I mean, they're going to arrest journalists for obstruction, but they didn't catch the guy before he came in and set a smoke bomb off inside the church.
Let's watch this footage.
I was searching for the person, for the person that left already.
And I don't know if we can show also when Sean actually have the smoke bomb in his end.
There's another angle.
Yeah, I think that I have all the video of the security camera, but I need to tell the viewer that I'm waiting for the agreement and the okay from the people who actually gave me the security footage to release it.
Crazy Reactions Expected00:06:34
They threw it up on stage.
Yeah.
And these are a favorite at these pro-Hamas protests, these red smoke bombs.
They have the red and the green ones all the time when they're marching on the streets of Montreal.
So we know these are the same people.
And it doesn't even phase them.
And it shouldn't, by the way.
But again, the police said, we need to have entry to the church to make sure that you're safe.
And then it's like, okay, where were you then?
They were not there.
And when they saw the two smoke bomb, there is not one police who came inside and checked what happened and just tried to speak with someone like quietly without interrupting anything to just say, okay, what happened?
You know?
Yeah.
And no, obviously, and they didn't actually look for him because obviously he was not that far away.
He just ran out.
And I know that the police were blocking all the street around.
So the police probably saw that man running away.
Yeah, of course they saw him.
Jeez.
We've got Sean Fuch addressing the audience in Montreal who had to run the gauntlet of these unhinged lunatics blocking their church to get inside.
he's got a message for them.
We bought a website.
LetusWorship.ca.
Letusworship.ca.
Let us worship Moiseya.
On that website, so says Sit, there's a pledge for the people of Canada.
We did a pledge on that film in COVID.
That's what started this whole thing.
It wasn't supposed to be a movement, it was just a pledge.
But then God said, So we started a pledge.
We started a petition on the Camasia Pizzio.
And I need everybody to go on tonight and to sign it.
This pledge is going to your current minister.
This pledge is going to your government officials.
Today, before Soundcheck, I was on a Zoom call with a lot of lawyers across Canada.
A lot of them and all of them are very excited because they know as a sesh that these lawsuits can set a precedent in Canada.
They never I hate the freedom that you have to tell Christians to worship.
He's right.
Right.
It's not a right.
And I think our petition at letusworship.ca, when we will deliver it, I'm pretty sure we will have some resistance when we will deliver the petition, you know, like we did it before.
We always had like some crazy reaction every time that we try to deliver a petition that this represent the voice of Canadians.
So I'm pretty sure we'll have again like some reticence and some people will like try to to have like a really crazy reaction.
Like, you know, I saw the petition in Quebec when some Christian had delivered a petition against the public prayer.
Like our premier in Quebec wants to ban the public prayer book for all faith.
So police actually showed up to receive, to take the petition.
I found that a little bit crazy to see like just like, you know, peaceful Christian delivering a petition and sending police officer to make sure that everything go well.
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy that it's come down to this.
But, you know, this is just the hand of government trying to control what goes on in our churches.
They got a taste of it during COVID and they don't want to let that power go.
They don't want to let that control go.
And a lot of pastors willingly gave it to the government.
And so the government is like a monster.
You feed it.
It gets bigger and hungrier.
And here we are.
They don't want to let go of that.
And it doesn't even, it doesn't matter what kind of Christian you are.
I am not the same type of Christian as Sean Fuched.
In fact, I once wrote emails about intrusive, percussive instruments at mass.
It's not my style.
But I think that churches have a right to worship in the way that they see fit.
And it has been attributed to Saint Augustine that when you sing, you pray twice.
And so singing is an essential part of Christian worship, whether Valerie Plant, the Montreal mayor, agrees or not.
And the thing is, he came to Canada multiple times.
Like, it's not his first rodeo.
It's just that because he has been associated with Donna Trump because he went to the White House and that suddenly everybody kind of panic and got hysterical about him.
Like, come on, like, this man had been already in Canada.
Nothing happened.
It was always peaceful.
And like, suddenly, no, it's not acceptable.
Yep.
It's stupid.
It's stupid.
This is the government for you.
Streisand Effect in Canada00:10:39
And that's why we have to fight back.
Now, that wasn't the only event over the weekend.
There was an event in Toronto as well.
And David Mendez and Efron were out there in the world.
We've got A clip from Efron, who's going to actually key it up because they think he's in the control room.
Sean Fuchs' Christian service about to take place in Toronto.
And he shows us a little bit of how it looks so far.
I believe we have a little bit of the Streisand effect happening here, where they tell you, don't go, look away.
This is bad.
People like me are like, actually, now I want to go more.
So let's see this.
Oh.
Oh.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
Sorry, Olivia whispers in my ear.
We'll get to that in a second.
Alexo, why don't she want us to show you talking to the Antifa crazies?
Yeah, because they were there.
Literally, I got kind of assaulted, and the police saw it, then nothing again.
And simply say, oh, but you see that you're not welcome.
You should probably go to the other side of the street instead of like taking that guy, charging him for assault, and making sure that nobody else will do it again because by not giving any sanction, of course they would do it again.
Look at that.
Look at that clip.
Oh, man, a nice cup of get the fucker.
Crisser votre camp.
Vous ne pouvez pas me dire de crisser mon camp sur mon camp.
Oui, je peux te dire de crisser ton camp.
Je peux te dire de crisser ton camp parce que c'est le mérite.
Décaliste.
Pourquoi je le mérite?
Décaliste, tu n'as pas d'affaires ici.
Vous n'avez pas le droit de toucher à ça, là.
Vous n'avez pas le droit, là.
Je suis désolée, là, mais ça, c'est une agression.
Oui, oui.
Vous êtes bon en crispe, pour que vous plaît, non?
Vous n'avez pas le droit de toucher mon micro, c'est mon outil travail.
Pourquoi je ne l'arrêtais pas?
Il n'a pas le droit de toucher mes appareils, là.
En Ontario, il l'aurait arrêté déjà, lui.
En Ontario, il l'aurait arrêté direct.
En vous approchant, c'est les membres.
Non, il n'a pas le droit de toucher mon micro.
Sauf que là, vous vous approchez, il ne vous dit pas la bienvenue.
Il sait approcher de moi, monsieur, si vous l'avez bien vu.
Il est venu vers moi, il m'a menacée et il a pris mon micro.
La meilleure chose, je pense, dans votre situation, c'est peut-être juste d'aller l'autre côté.
Je le sais, mais j'ai le droit de marcher, je suis quand même une citoyenne.
Je comprends, mais vous sachez que vous n'êtes pas nécessairement la bienvenue.
Oui, mais...
I don't want to cross and cross the window to be, after that, a jaywalking.
It's clearly him.
But he, no, he's not here, he's not here, he's not here.
He's a victim, sir.
He's a victim, sir.
You don't have to be aggressive like that, sir.
What's your name, sir?
What's your name, sir?
What's my name?
My name is Emil Henry and I'm telling you.
I'm a loving, uh, protester and like the police were telling me, oh, but just go to the other side of the street.
I say, but the light is red.
I'm not going to cross.
And after that, you have a reason to charge me for jaywalking.
That I'm not going to do that.
No, I love in Quebecois.
It's like these people have never heard a word that Sean Fuch just ever said.
Not even a word.
They just know that somebody said that he kind of likes Donald Trump.
And even worse, he's one of those disgusting Americans, according to the Canadian left.
And worse still, a Christian, gotta go.
Like they, they have no idea what he said, what he's done, nothing.
They just know he checks all the boxes for them not to like him.
And you know what you normally do when you don't like what people have to say?
You just go do something else with your time.
Exactly.
I'm not going to bother people who are say or do something that I don't like, but you know, I would say, but freedom of expression, do whatever you want.
I have something else to do.
Great.
But here we are.
Okay, let's go ahead to some of Efron's clip about what happened in Toronto.
Oh, if you mind if I just have like a super chat of $20, Emmanuel, he say, here is on behalf on that rude guy.
Thanks to Emile Henri.
Keep going, guys.
Ribbon news.
That's good.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah.
These people are absolute psychos.
go to the footage from Toronto so we can show what happens when you try to cancel people in this country a cop car Lots of people, eh?
In Toronto?
I was really surprised.
Really surprised.
A ton of people.
Like if you look like at the show, the show was massive.
There were so many people.
And I was like, oh my God.
Probably like if nothing happened in the media, he would have not even a quarter of the people who showed up for his show.
Right.
And we had the bus or the truck out, the Rebel News truck telling people to go to the, to sign the petition for letusworship.ca.
And we are going to make sure that those petitions are dropped off to Stephen Gilbeau, who is no longer at environment, but is still in charge of Parks Canada because it's now under Heritage, and that's where he is, Heritage and Culture, the Prime Minister, and then local bureaucrats like Valerie Plante.
She's getting a copy of this.
And Stephen Del Duca, the mayor of Vaughan, he's getting one of those petitions too.
This is crazy.
And while the Hamasniks take over the city streets every single weekend in Montreal and Toronto and Toronto blocking the road in Montreal blocking the access to the cathedral, not narrow a word from these people because, well, because a protected class is doing it.
Exactly.
So there is more to come on both of these stories.
You've got a full report to come.
David Menzies has a full report to come as well.
So stay tuned, everybody, to rebelnews.com on our Rumble page and our YouTube page.
So you don't want to miss it because you are not going to see the fair treatment of the people who attended these concerts, these worship services in the mainstream media for sure.
And especially because I tried to engage with the counter protester, like the protester, whatever.
And they were so angry, but I don't know why they were so angry.
And a woman was just like hitting a kind of like a fry pan with a woodstick.
And she was like hitting so hard that the woodstick broke and one piece of the wood almost like end up in my face.
Geez.
Yeah.
And again, the police will tell you.
The people will tell the police will tell you to move along.
Hey, we've got a chat here for 50 bucks.
Did you read that one?
No.
No.
The persecution of Leech and Barber, persecution of religious freedom, supply management, travel restrictions, and state-run media, all hallmarks of communist regimes like Cuba.
What if the U.S. decides to embargo Canada as a security threat?
And that's Jay Peterson, gives us 50 bucks.
Thank you so much.
You know, I would be concerned about getting a denunciation of Canada by Marco Rubio in the United States.
I hope to God that Valerie Plant can no longer travel to the United States for her dangerous violations of the human rights of Sean Fuch and Christians who tried to attend his service.
Not a smart move for the federal MPs to weigh in, the liberals, by the way, and liberal senators like sex activist Total Weirdo Chris Wells from Alberta to weigh in.
They should be keeping their fat mouths shut because this is the kind of thing that will get sanctions put on Canada by Trump.
And conservative MP Michelle Rumpel Garner actually raised that issue.
She said, We're in the middle of a trade war.
You think we could treat American citizens in this country a little better, like honor their basic human rights?
And it was so bad, and you mention it that Erin O'Toole.
I have actually said that.
Erin O'Toole, Mr. Butternoodles weighed in and said, Hey, you don't have to agree with everything that Sean Fuch says to realize that he has the right to say it.
And you have a right to just go somewhere else and do something else with your time.
Like if you don't like what he's saying, just, I don't know, look like it was a nice day in Montreal, go do something else.
It was kind of a nice day in Toronto.
Go touch grass, as they say.
Yeah, Aaron O'Toole of all people.
These public pressure-led decisions appear to conflict with the charter.
Not appear, they do.
Okay.
He's still being butternoodles.
Free speech and religious freedom in a democracy means you will hear things you do not agree with.
Canceling such voices is wrong and drives polarization.
Independent Press Gallery Membership00:06:37
He's right.
I was not expecting that from him, but yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, it is the like, it's quite literally the least when he's like, it appears to violate the charter.
No, it definitely does.
You keeping Christians from worship.
It's, it does definitely.
Hey, we've got a couple of quick messages and then we'll hit an ad break team in Toronto.
Okay.
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Do you allow me?
Just before we go to the full news, I just want to promote my last investigation that is currently available on YouTube.
It would be really appreciated, everybody, if you go watch it, comment, and like it.
So we are pushing it in the algorithm.
I spent four days with Lincoln J at the border investigating the illegal crossing.
So the investigation is called criminal border crossings exposed.
So I think it's one of our really beautiful pieces of journalism.
And only us can actually show you the truth and also the boots on the ground and really digging to show you the truth about what is going on with our border.
So I encourage everybody to watch it, like it, and comment, please.
Yeah, you guys put trail cameras up in the areas in and around the border.
You caught, you know, you saw people crossing, you caught their stuff they leave behind.
I mean, it's just journalism that other outlets have plenty of money to do.
But you did it and you spoke to the people who live along the border who are forced to deal with the fact that you have people who are breaking the law to enter this country.
So by that virtue, they are criminal.
And then, I mean, we don't know what other criminality that they have engaged in.
It's easy for them because once they cross illegally, if they get caught, they can just claim asylum and then they will, the charges will be dropped and they will be driven to a refugee immigration place for their process.
There is no sanction.
There is nothing to deter them to cross illegally.
And we don't even know if the people who are getting caught are actually human traffickers because it's easy for them to just say, oh, you know, like I'm just claiming asylum because we know that some of them who are involved in human trafficking are illegal themselves in Canada.
So it's easy for them to just say, oh, no, I'm just a refugee.
I'm just claiming asylum.
But in reality, they are human traffickers.
So I hope you will enjoy and I encourage everybody to watch it and also share it to your friend, family, to open the eyes of the people that our border is not safe.
And in the same time, we are not safe either.
Yeah.
And I think it's guardtheborder.com.
And you won't say it, but I'll point it out.
It's very dangerous work.
You were attacked down there once by a human trafficker.
Twice.
Twice now.
And so it's very dangerous work.
And you're very brave to do it.
And people can support your work at guardtheborder.com.
That's just quite something.
Okay, let's bump ahead to, let's see how quickly we can breeze through some of this Trump censorship stuff because Trump told off Kier Starmer and the UK left to their faces.
He said Europe is a very different place than it was five years ago.
You have to get your act together.
If you don't, you won't have a Europe anymore.
Let's show that clip.
You know, Europe is going to is a much different place than it was just five years ago, ten years ago.
And they've got to get their act together.
If they don't, you're not going to have Europe anymore as you know it.
And you can't do that.
This is a magnificent part of the world and you cannot ruin it.
You cannot let people come in here illegally.
And what happens is there'll be murderers, there'll be drug dealers, there'll be all sorts of things that other countries don't want.
And they send them to you and they send them to us and you've got to stop them.
Yeah.
I like the face of Kier Starmer, like just like, I don't feel great.
No, it's embarrassing for him, but he needs to hear it.
And you need to hear it from the most powerful man in the world from a country that deeply believes in your human right to free speech.
Keir Starmer tried to defend himself by saying, We've had free speech for a very long time here.
There's a lady in jail for saying mean things about migrants, I think it is.
So, no, you don't.
There's a woman in jail who is serving a longer sentence than people who harm children.
So he can shut his yap.
Anyways, let's watch this.
Well, free speech is very important.
I don't know if you're referring to any place in particular.
Perhaps they are, but we've had free speech for a very, very long time here.
We're very proud of that.
Sorry, I had to laugh.
Like, he had to jump in and try to defend himself.
That show you that England is losing free speech because you will not jump in and try to defend yourself if you didn't do anything wrong.
Yeah, Lucy Connolly is sentenced to 31 months in jail for inciting hate, for inciting race hate, according to the British state.
And the Court of Appeals refused to reduce her sentence.
Keir Starmer, the man who said, oh, we've had free speech for a very long time here, said this was a matter for the courts.
And that while he was strongly in favor of free speech, he was equally against incitement to violence.
And she was, Lucy Connolly called for mass deportations after the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport.
And normal people would think that the sentence is manifestly excessive, but anyway, she's now in jail for a very, very long time.
And so Keir Starmer is out of his mind.
And I'm glad that Trump called him out for it.
And then Trump also warned him because Labour, the Labour Party, Keir Starmer's party, censors President Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, in the UK.
And Trump, let him have it.
President, you have a successful social media site.
There are new powers here to censor your site, state-mandated...
To censor my site?
To censor your site and Twitter and Facebook.
I mean, truth.
Is that okay?
I don't think he's going to censor my site because I say only good things.
Will you please uncensor my site?
We're not censoring anyone.
We've got some measures which are there to protect children, in particular from sites like suicide sites.
We've had too many cases in the United Kingdom of young children taking their own lives.
And when you look through their social media, they've been accessing sites which talk about suicide and encouraging, if you like, children down that road.
And that is what we want to stop.
It's nothing about censoring.
But free speech is a lot of people.
But that treats all adults like that.
This country is the proudest.
Free speech in this country has been for a very long time.
We're very, very proud of it.
We will protect it forever.
But at the same time, I personally feel very strongly that we should protect our young teenagers, and that's what it usually is, from things like suicide sites.
I don't see that as a free speech issue.
I see that as a child protection issue.
We actually passed a bill in Congress headed up by my wife, actually, in which was to pull that stuff out having to do with children because it is a problem.
But I cannot imagine him censoring Truth Social.
It's one of a very political and it's been a very big success, not going to happen.
And I only say good things about him and his country.
So if they censor me, you're making a mistake.
I'm going to give my ambassador the job, make sure it's not suicidal.
I had that.
Trump's being jokey, but he's dead serious.
And you can see that, okay, so they haven't necessarily censored Truth Social.
But if there were something that the government said was harmful on Truth Social, they would censor it.
And this sounds, I don't know, exactly like the Online Harms Act in Canada, where it's this dystopian nonsense where the government can say that's harmful.
How?
They don't know.
Maybe in the future, maybe you'll commit a future crime.
You're pre-guilty.
And Nigel Farage, to his credit, has said that he would, he's the head of reform in the UK.
He said he would repeal this.
And this is what they do.
They say, we're there to keep the kids safe, you guys.
In the meantime, they're censoring mom and dad.
It's exactly the left understood something.
Yeah.
Take a good cause, like protecting the children, and then let's pass, let's pass all the censorship laws under that pretext.
Yeah.
And it works.
It works.
It becomes a poison pill.
So what it does to the people who oppose the legislation, saying it's too broad, it's going to result in censoring adults for political speech.
They'll say to you, well, then you don't care about the kids.
You want kids to harm themselves after they find this content online.
You want people who would harm children to be sharing this content online.
That's the criticism they use against people who oppose these draconian laws.
It's quite clever, but also quite sinister because I got a real hard time thinking that the people who are fine with gay erotica in the local library, that they actually care about kids seeing harmful stuff online.
And by the way, it's the role of the parents to deal with social media and access with internet.
If you don't want your child to be exposed in all harmful content, it's your job as a parent to do something, not to the state, not to the school.
It's the authority of the parents.
What does state have to do with this?
Well, nothing.
They should stay right out of it.
They are perfectly fine with semi-nude people prancing around at the Pride Parade.
They're worried about harmful content online, which means things that are harmful to the government, not to kids.
They're just used as that as an excuse.
We are rapidly running out of time.
I have a busy day.
You have a busy day.
Let's hit this one because it's in the YouTube headline.
Poll.
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Non-white Canadians.
This is from our friends over at Juno News.
Non-white Canadians more critical of mass migration than white Canadians.
That makes perfect sense to me.
Because these people come here for affordability, opportunity, freedom, and they come to Canada following all the proper channels.
And then they turn around and see a bunch of Q jumpers cutting in line, driving down wages and up the cost of housing.
Of course they're worried about it because they came here for a certain idea of Canada and it is rapidly changing.
By the way, this is written by Waleed Tamtam, who's a graduate of the student journalism conference.
The Democracy Fund every year puts on a student journalism conference.
What is it?
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If you want to apply, it's applications, I think, close on August 3rd.
It's open to young people.
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Share this with a young person who wants a career in journalism.
You don't have to be in journalism school.
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Applications close on August 3rd.
Waleed Tamtam, the author of this, was a graduate of the student journalism conference.
So, go ahead.
And also, we need to speak about the fact that there is a lot of people who flee persecution and flee other kinds of behavior like voyeurism, harassment, intimidation.
Most of the women in certain countries have flee those countries because they face that every day, and now they are facing it here again.
Not again, but now.
Like, obviously, it's happening in Montreal, it's happening in Toronto, it's happening a little bit everywhere where women don't feel safe anymore at night and during the day.
Yeah, according to the 62% of Canadians believe the country is accepting too many immigrants, a four-point increase since March, and nearly double the proportion who held that view in 2019.
The more migrants to the country lived in, the worse this sentiment gets.
And moreover, to your point, Alexa, imagine being a Christian from northern Iraq who survived the ISIS genocide.
You make your way to Canada, or a Yazidi from northern Iraq.
You've survived the ISIS genocide, you find your way to Canada, you think, I'm free to practice my religion in peace after facing persecution.
You get here and you see the state shutting down the Christian church, and you're like, what?
It's bad.
And I think we're reaching the event horizon where this blows up in the liberals' faces.
But I also thought that before the election and the Ontario boomers proved me wrong.
So I don't know.
Is there one left on here that you want to get to, Alexa?
Ah, here's one that I think is definitely on your beat.
Federal funding to house asylum seekers in hotel rooms is going to stop on September 30th.
Now, that doesn't mean that the asylum seekers are going to go home.
No.
What does that mean?
It means that they are going to be dumped up to the provinces to take care of and the municipalities.
They will be in your homeless shelters.
They will be taking up your subsidized housing meant for low-income or upwardly mobile, low-income Canadians who need to just stop on their way to something better in subsidized housing.
This is going to cause an even worse homelessness and poverty problem in this country because these people who should not be in our country, who are here illegally, are now no longer housed by the federal government.
They are going to be in the social housing market that is supposed to be helping Canadians who are here legitimately.
I think this is you can do one thing and stop the funding.
But if you stop the funding, and I think you should, then you have to send these people back where they came from.
They would never do that.
Exactly.
Like right now at the border, July will be the biggest month of people arriving at the Legal Port of Entry.
I think we are close to 3,000 people now, with the number that I have.
So if we didn't reach it, probably already.
But those people, few of them would be turned back in the U.S. Most of them have family and it would be family reunification.
A lot of them don't work because a lot of them are parents, grandparents, or people who just don't work, who will drain our money for social services, and soon we will pay way more taxes than we do already.
Yeah, I mean, we're in for a world of trouble.
The thing is, I do agree.
The federal government has to stop funding the hotels.
That might cut the people off who are coming.
It might slow that.
I don't know.
Well, yeah, I mean, you're probably right too.
But like, that might be the upside of cutting off the funding is that it slows down the influx because you're not getting your three and a half or at least two and a half star hotel paid for by the taxpayer.
But what becomes of those people now?
They're just, I guess, the province's problem because they're still here, right?
Like they're still here.
They're not going to work.
And the thing is, we, some people will say, oh, yeah, we stopped the influx, but unfortunately, I don't think so.
Because if they arrive in Canada and example, they don't have any place to stay or they don't have the money for that, they would just jump in the U.S. You know, it's just easy.
Just like, oh, but I would try in the U.S. then and just go in the U.S. and work under the table and try to live with like 10 other people in a small apartment because for them, it's okay.
There's no problem for them to live like 10 of them in a small apartment.
Like, I saw that in other countries.
It's not a problem, but this is a reality.
And imagine the landowner or the owner of the place who have to deal with that.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, and that's why Trump wanted the border closed is because these people might self-deport now.
The gravy train is done here back to the United States.
And who wants that?
We need to send these people who are in our country illegally back wherever they came from.
And they can try coming in the front door or not.
Actually, don't try coming in the front door because you couldn't do it the first time.
We don't want you.
Let's hit these last two chats and then we'll wrap it up because I've got some stuff to do.
Alexa, this, oh, you grabbed this.
Cuba Bound says the funding of these protests needs to be exposed because it's five bucks.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
The Alexa device in my house is now talking to me.
Okay, quiet.
Let me just be quiet.
All right.
And Cicely Bardoelle gives us $10 and says, ladies, as usual, you provide valuable information to Canadians.
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much.
Alexa worked so incredibly hard over the last weekend.
She covered Sean Fuchs' worship services.
She worked really hard to make sure that the church was connected with the Democracy Fund so that they knew that help was there and will be there going forward.
Because, you know, like if you're a church in the middle of this international mess, how do you navigate it?
Like, you know, and just to be able to say, like, look, we've got you.
You just go do your church thing and we'll take care of all the other stuff.
I think that's an important role that the Democracy Fund plays.
And I'm glad you were able to help them with that, Alexa.
And also to make sure that there is no bad actor who tries to get in the middle of kind of, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, we want to make sure that they have good, reliable lawyers who are experienced with working with people of faith.
You know, the Democracy Fund has helped Pastor Art, Pastor Derek, the Amish.
So they're used to help, and, you know, innumerable other ones during COVID.
Pastor Phil Hutchins, by the way, Pastor Phil Hutchins, so nice.
He spent seven days in solitary confinement for reopening his church for Thanksgiving services.
He's also in our documentary, Church Under Fire.
First thing he did, he reached out to me and Drea and said, Ladies, how do I help this church?
Because he had been in their shoes.
And I know that he sent a message or was going to send a message to the church just to say, like, hey, I've been there.
The democracy funds got you.
I think, you know, it just shows you that the government goes after the nicest, best people.
That's what I learned during COVID.
I met COVID was terrible and the lockdowns were awful, but man, I met some of the best people on their very worst days.
And they remain just the best people.
And it's sad because, you know, that church has they received a firebomb and that damaged the conditioning, air conditioning system.
And we don't know yet how much it would cost to repair that, but they were kind of like, you know, we just, we just replaced it.
And now it's broken because of crazy on-inch people who just carry so much hate.
Yeah.
Broke in our church and did that.
And it felt like, I feel like this is a terrorism attack.
Sure, it is.
Sure it is.
It's political violence.
That's what that is.
It's political violence and intimidation designed to inhibit your rights, your worship, your whatever.
And if this stuff were happening in China, if let's just, if this stuff were happening in Russia, the liberals would be sending out condemnations.
But because it's happening in Canada, they're the ones encouraging it.
And by the way, that church, it's not like white French Canadian.
They are Spanish background.
So some from Guatemala, some from other Latin countries.
This is an immigrant church.
Exactly.
And so usually the left will be, you know, protecting them instead of actually attacking them.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I told Pastor Phil over the weekend.
He's like, well, do you have contact information?
I flipped it along to him.
And I said, I hope your Spanish is good.
The true website's in Spanish right now.
Yeah, exactly.
And but they speak well French and English.
The pastor and the pastor's son are really beautiful people.
Yeah.
I think that's the show for today.
Alexa, hopefully I don't set that thing off again.
Thanks for helping out on the show today and filling in for David Menzies.
He's in court covering a story that he's been following semi-religiously.
Thanks for being such a great co-host and working so hard over the weekend.
Greatest Miracle Revealed00:02:33
Thank you so much.
And thank you for your hard work.
You're always working.
You are the most busy person in the company.
Seriously.
I got a lot of things to do.
That's all.
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Appreciate you.
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And as my friend David Menzies always says, stay safe and stay sane.
As smoke is blown away.
Right as I start singing, as smoke is blown away.
Smoke bombs thrown on the stage.
And you know what the greatest miracle was?
The greatest miracle of that moment was that the fire alarms didn't go off.
Because that was the plan, right?
If we could just get them outside of the church, we're going to ambush.
There's a whole group of really nasty people waiting outside of the church.
And the goal was, well, I think the goal was to hit me in the head with one of them, but we dodged them.
And, you know, I've been worshiping on the mission field too much.
I've been, you know, on the front lines against ISIS in Afghanistan and North Korea.
Like, I know the places where you lead worship with your eyes open.
Now I know Montreal's one of them.
Okay?
Anyway, but the greatest miracle was that the pastor, he's this Hispanic man.
He's just such a, oh man, he's so strong for the Lord.
And he said, it's a miracle, Sean.
He's like, so much smoke filled the church, but he's like, our smoke alarms didn't go off.
He's like, if we light a birthday candle in this cathedral, smoke alarms go off.
And listen, I just want to say this: There's something about these atmospheres that create in us resilience.