Sheila Gunn-Reid exposes Canada’s 2019 Liberal assault weapon ban—1,500 models banned immediately—while criticizing the six-year amnesty as a "gun grab" exploiting law-abiding owners. Rick Igersich of the NFA reveals Cape Breton’s confiscation program failed after two weeks, with only 30 guns seized and no police consultation, plus CZ’s Colt Canada destroying legally owned firearms under a confidential contract. Meanwhile, Alberta’s municipal elections saw Forever Canada petition tables near polling stations despite prohibitions, with Lukazic’s team operating inside buildings while others were blocked, raising concerns over election fairness. The episode underscores systemic hypocrisy in gun control and political advocacy, warning of deeper erosion of public trust in both policies and enforcement. [Automatically generated summary]
The Liberals explain one more time that your firearms are so deadly, you get to keep them for yet another year.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
You know, it seems like forever ago, but it also seems like yesterday.
That Justin Trudeau stood on the graves of the people killed in Canada's largest mass casualty event in Nova Scotia to blame the law abiding and then use that to confiscate our firearms.
Remember this?
Each passing year, more families are ripped apart by tragedy.
More parents are struggling to explain the inexplicable to their kids.
And more teenagers are growing up in a world where gun violence is normalized.
It needs to stop.
Today, we are closing the market for military-grade assault weapons in Canada.
We are banning 1,500 models and variants of these firearms by way of regulations.
These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.
There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.
So, effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import, or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.
But here we are, some five and a half years later, and still in possession of our firearms.
It's almost like we're not the problem, and even the government knows it.
But that isn't changing their plans to confiscate our firearms from us and then maybe give us the compensation the liberals have determined that we deserve.
To explain all of this and so much more is Good Friend of Rebel News, Rick Igersich from Canada's National Firearms Association.
Take a listen.
Joining me now is good friend of Rebel News, good friend of freedom everywhere, and someone I recently saw at the Rebel News birthday party in Toronto.
It's Rick Igersich of Canada's National Firearms Association and big developments, I think, out front, but also behind the scenes in the firearms community.
I think we're going to talk about what happened or rather what didn't happen in Cape Breton, what Colts have been up to, the extension on the amnesty.
Once again, guns so dangerous, you have to take them from law-abiding owners, except you get to keep them for six years and a whole host of other things.
Rick, thanks so much for coming on the show.
I'll let you pick where we start.
What's stuck in your craw first?
Thanks for having me on your show again, Sheila.
I appreciate it.
What's stuck in my craw?
I've got several things.
Actually, I brought a bunch of notes today, which I usually don't do, but the Cape Breton thing is turning out to be a major flop.
The Liberals aren't letting any information out on what the stats are, what they've seized and stuff.
I think they're doing that because I don't think they seize too much.
Last I heard, it was about 30 firearms, and that was two weeks into the program.
But they extended the program another four weeks.
So I think to boost up the statistics, what we've been hearing out East is I just spoke to my Atlantic Province's director this morning, Donald Feltham, and he reached out to a few gun clubs, and the gun clubs replied back to him and said that they don't know of any guns that have been turned in.
I think what the liberals are pushing, and they're playing their liberal games and saying, well, you know, they're almost telling people that they have to do this, but people need to understand they don't have to do this.
The amnesty was extended for a year, so they fall under the amnesty.
It just the so-called test pilot project doesn't seem to be working for them.
So that's where they're at right now.
But there's a lot of other stuff going on there behind the scenes.
For example, the chief of police is the MP's brother-in-law, and he didn't even make his troops aware of what was going on.
All his officers, I forget what the number was.
I think it was 160, oh, there it is right there.
160 officers were not consulted.
They didn't have a clue what was going on.
So it was kind of a thing going on between the chief of police and his brother-in-law for this gun confiscation to appease the liberals.
So it's a real mess out there.
From what we've been hearing, nobody wants to turn in their firearms and they're not going to until they're legally obligated to do so.
So I hope they stay with that.
And we're encouraging Cape Bretoners to do that.
You know, hang in there as long as you can.
Don't do anything till the law tells you to don't do anything until the law makes you turn in your firearms.
You know, this Cape Breton flop, and I probably didn't explain it properly, but this is where the liberals are testing their gun confiscation program in a super safe liberal riding where the police chief and the local MP are family.
And even there, they couldn't get it to work properly.
And I think it is a synopsis of what's to come in the rest of the country.
And just an added layer of something onto this is that the liberals have created scarcity.
So they've capped the payouts for firearms owners.
So if you're not first to hand in your firearms, then you may not get paid.
So even though they've extended the amnesty because we're so dangerous, we still got to keep our guns.
But they're making it financially advantageous for you to be one of the first in line to get paid.
So turn in your gun so you can get paid.
But even then, people aren't willing to do this because it's about principle for so many of us.
And I think the liberals just can't understand that.
Exactly.
And the thing is, this whole payout thing, how can they, you know, this is a classic liberal move.
How can they claim that's fair?
Like, we'll pay you out till we run out of money.
I'm curious to see what, I'm curious to see what the budget is going to be.
You know, everybody's sitting on pins and needles about the budget, but I'm curious to see how much money, if they're going to talk about the gun buyback at all.
I know right now it's going to, you know, their numbers are out of whack as far as what they're going to spend.
And, you know, It's going to be billions of Canadian taxpayers' money.
And right now, Canadian taxpayers can't afford to spend billions of dollars on this gun buyback.
And I think there's a lot of turmoil in the Liberal Party right now.
And I think part of it is going to be infighting that's maybe going to help turn this around a bit.
So do you think that infighting is liberals actually listening to their constituents?
Because, you know, like I'm in Alberta, so we don't have any rural liberals.
We don't have any liberals, really.
But we don't have any rural ones.
But there are places in this country where there are rural liberals.
I'll say like on the East Coast.
Are they actually listening to their constituents?
Because this is disorienting me a little bit.
I don't really have that experience from liberals.
I think the liberals are listening to Natalie Provost more than anything.
I think the problem is that Natalie is threatening them with Quebec.
And if they don't follow up on this gun ban, she is going to turn on them and possibly get an election going.
And I think that's part of the problem.
She's not in a good mood after the SKS thing, after the public safety minister stated that they're not going to ban SKSs.
I think that was between her and Polly Seisouvier and Wendy Kierkegaard, Heidi Rafkin.
I think between all of them, they're mad because they're not banning the SKS and they kind of thought that they were going to.
So that's another issue.
And it all goes back to liberal infighting.
Right.
Right.
Hopefully liberal infighting benefits the rest of us.
Now, I want to talk a little bit about Colt and their involvement in all of this so that firearms owners know who's on their side and who isn't.
So can you bring us up to speed on that?
Okay, Colt Canada, who is owned by CZ, is destroying legally owned firearms.
Ironic for a gun manufacturer.
I have a couple of Colt Canada firearms.
So they're destroying guns that they sold me a few years ago.
You know, CZ claims they're not part of the government gun grab.
You know what?
That's easy to say because they're just destroying the firearms.
They're not in the political end of things.
But as far as we're concerned, they're part of the gun grab.
And it's not good when a manufacturer actually is destroying guns that they sold us initially.
And it's been going on for a while now with guns that were turned in from dealers and manufacturers.
And it's not right.
It's not right that a company that sells you guns actually destroy them.
But at the end of the day, Sheila, follow the money.
Right.
Do we know the cost of that contract or do I need to find that out through action?
You need to find that out because it's definitely confidential.
And, you know, and this is leading on to these mobile destruction units that they just approved by order and council.
So as of 16, as of October 16th, the Liberals approved rolling destruction units to travel across Canada.
And they also approved Canada Post and shipping companies are authorized to take in firearms now.
And this is all done by order of counsel.
Liberals, the Liberals tool that they use all the time is their ordering council.
And this is another example how they misuse the ordering council.
You know, once again, I cheer for government ineptitude and infighting because Canada Post is on a strike.
So maybe that's a good thing.
But imagine approving mobile crushers because Canada's firearms community won't abide by your confiscation quickly enough.
As if our problem is convenience, by the way.
Like it's a good misunderstanding of what the problem is.
It's not because it's inconvenient to turn over our firearms.
We are standing on principle.
And again, leave it to the liberals to not understand what that's all about.
In my humble opinion, this has nothing to do with firearms or public safety.
This is all to do with votes.
The liberals are on really shaky ground right now, and they're looking for anything to appease part of the population that's anti-gun.
And this is another way of doing it.
You know, it's not just Canada Post.
They authorize shipping companies now to deal with this.
So, you know, they're definitely expanding their horizons.
You know, as far as the public safety minister, he's way out of his depth.
He shows very little understanding of what's going on.
Like, I mean, the guy doesn't know the difference between a PAL and an RPAL.
That's bad for a person in his position.
And just yesterday or the day before, he was challenged about his position on firearms for Olympians and sports shooters.
And two years ago, and I realized that he wasn't the public safety minister at the sun.
I'm not even going to attempt to say his name because he's not going to be there for long, in my opinion.
But anyway, two years ago, they were supposed to do consultations about firearms for Olympians and sports shooters, and there wasn't any done.
So these people are still in limbo.
I know of sport shooters who have actually shipped guns to Europe, you know, like $100,000 worth of guns shipped to Europe so they could go participate internationally because they can't get these guns in Canada and they can't get replacements.
It's hard for them to even get parts.
So that's talking about our athletes.
This goes in all directions.
It involves Olympians, but it also involves sports shooters like me that participate in IPSC.
My gun breaks.
I can't get a replacement gun right now.
It's ridiculous.
And he doesn't seem to, well, number one, watching question period for the last couple of weeks, he doesn't really know what he's talking about.
And number two, he's not interested in people competing for Canada.
He just wants to follow the liberal company line and continue on with this ridiculous gun grab that's got nothing to do with public safety or anything realistically.
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It's nothing more than an avenue for them to gain votes.
At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
And it's nothing short of ridiculous, Sheila.
I think if the Liberals were being honest, they would just make Natalie Provo, the former anti-gun activist from Quebec, from Paulisuviant.
I think if they were honest, they would just make her the public safety minister because she seems to be running the show, particularly on this file.
And as we know, Gary and Andisangry can't touch certain files in relation to the Tamil tire terrorists.
So if the liberals were just being upfront about their agenda, they would make her the face of this because they are doing exactly what she wants.
So why isn't she just the public safety minister?
It would just be a little bit too honest, I think, for the liberals because Gary doesn't know what the issues are.
He doesn't know what the file is.
He doesn't know, as you say, the difference between an RPAL and a PAL.
He doesn't know the current gun legislation, but he's arguing that we are dangerous.
It's actually embarrassing to watch him as the man in charge of this file try to navigate a file.
Yeah, you know, and, you know, as far as Natalie Provo, you're right.
She probably, you know, she's a junior minister, but she's, like you say, she's a former activist.
I believe she's still an activist.
And I think she wants that position.
You know, she wants to ban the SKS.
She wants, you know, she's making demands.
And when she doesn't get her demands, she puts the party on notice and say, hey, play my game or don't play at all.
And that's the position I believe she's taking.
And it's unfortunate that Canada is in this position.
It really is.
Now, Rick, just moving ahead, we recently, I alluded to it just a little bit earlier.
We recently received an extension on the amnesty for firearms owners.
Once again, we are so dangerous, so terribly, terribly dangerous, that now all of us have owned these highly dangerous firearms, according to the liberals, for six years.
It doesn't make any sense.
But again, I cheer for government incompetence and liberal infighting here.
But do you, do you, in all honesty, do you even think that this gun ban is going to be completed?
Do you think they're ever going to be able to execute their plans to disarm the population?
Because, I mean, at the end of the day, they are shuffling guns onto this list of banned firearms, but they don't even know how many of them are in the country.
So how do you know the cost, where they are, and how do you plan to round them up?
I just think it's so impossible, but they're in bed with the activists and they don't know what to do now.
Yeah.
You know what?
And what's going on is they're throwing these little pieces of bait out there to find out what's out there.
Their mission right now is a fact-finding mission.
Like you said, they don't know what's out there.
So they're putting these little things like Cape Breton out there to figure out how many of these guns are out there, what's out there.
And the fact of the matter is, people are waking up.
You know, people are saying, we're not going to comply unless we absolutely have to.
And that's why they keep extending this.
And I believe, and like the NFA works within the law to change the law, but I believe there's going to be a lot of non-compliance out there.
And I think that's going to be a real problem for them.
They don't know what's out there.
You know, they basically know what was registered, the AR-15s and a few other restricted rifles at the time.
But there's thousands, if not, you know, I couldn't even put a number on it myself of these firearms out there.
And, you know, they think people are just going to just bow to them.
And, you know, when time's out, say, well, okay, this is what I've got.
I got to take five cents on the dollar on this fire, maybe if you don't run out of money.
And I think they're caught between a rock and a hard place.
I think they realize that this is nothing but a major billion dollar boondoggle and they don't know how to get out of it because at the end of the day, it's one of their positions they use for votes.
And the other thing is to take the heat off them about other stuff that's going on with the Liberal Party.
The latest RCMP thing with SN Lovellin, you know, when you start talking about guns, it takes the heat off this other stuff.
Right.
And that's, that's classic liberal.
That's classic liberal.
That's classic liberal the way they operate.
You know, get something else out there to take the heat off the subject that's that's present day.
Yeah, guns and abortion.
You know, that's when the liberals are in trouble.
You'll hear them talking about both of those things.
Yeah, I mean, you have people who don't understand firearms trying to run the firearms program, and they don't understand anything about the make and models of these firearms, where they are, or anything like that.
And the cost is going to balloon, and they have learned nothing from history.
One of the biggest problems, and I say that from a liberal perspective, not from a conservative and or firearms owning perspective, but one of the biggest problems in the middle of the long gun registry was non-compliance, right?
Absolutely.
I mean, the thing was useless because so many people didn't comply because the government didn't know what you had or what grandpa had, so you just didn't comply.
And it made the registry useless.
This is the same issue right now with the confiscation.
Really, their list of who has what is completely useless.
Yeah.
You know, we've been hearing rumors about them canceling the buyback, but you have to read into that a little farther because they didn't say anything about canceling the OIC or Bill C-21, which is a totally different thing with the handguns.
But they didn't say anything.
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They said, well, you know what?
We might cancel the buyback.
But it looks like these guns, if they do that, these guns are still in the safes.
You can't shoot them.
So basically, it kind of moves into a C-21 mode where after you pass away, these guns go for destruction.
So, you know, it stirred some interest among firearms owners.
It got them a little excited when there was rumors of them canceling the buyback.
But you got to read a little, you got to read a little deeper into that because it's more than it's more, you know, you can cancel the buyback, but if our guns are still caught in our safes, what good are they?
So, you know, that's what the NFA is doing right now.
We've had a pretty successful last few months.
Our new lobbyist has got over 60 lobbies.
We've been talking to the right people at the right time.
We've even spoke to a few liberals, and we're definitely making inroads.
We actually put a pamphlet.
We put a pamphlet out a few days ago.
Sheila's, you've got a copy of it.
Yep.
That the CPC are using for talking points because they didn't know some of this stuff.
They didn't know that a Weatherby Mark V rifle, bolt action hunting rifle was on the on the OIC ban list.
They didn't know Ruger number one was on the OIC ban list.
They didn't know that a Turta Century rifle that there was only five produced of is on the ban list.
So we've been we've been trying to get the information out and I think we've been doing a good job.
Like I say, our lobbyist is amazing.
Tom Maven is doing an outstanding job in Ottawa Talking to these people and information is key.
And I speak to a lot, I travel across the country and I speak to a lot of a lot of CPC MPs.
I speak to a lot of people.
A lot of them just don't know what's going on.
Even the CPC guys don't know what's going on.
They don't know what's going on with the Order of Council.
And, you know, they kind of play it off.
Well, you know, we're taking the party's position.
But you know what?
The party's position has to be increased because they don't have enough information.
So we're trying to get that information out right now.
And it seems to be working.
I'm happy to say I'm happy the way things have been going with the NFA, you know, as far as getting the information out there.
Our people are working really hard.
You know, we're not focusing on lawsuits and stuff like that.
We're actually focusing boots on the ground stuff in Ottawa, which seems to be working.
So we're going to keep going in that direction.
We're going to fight harder.
And hopefully we can get this thing changed around.
Yeah.
Just one thing I noticed the other day when I was watching the Senate committee, because they had some of these public safety types testifying at the Senate committee,
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was how for the most firearms-heavy places of the province, or of the country, and I exclude Alberta and Saskatchewan and this, but people where they might subsistence hunt because the cost of food is so atrocious, or you might get mauled by a polar bear.
So it's a real safety issue.
They don't have their own CFOs.
They've been waiting on the feds to appoint their CFOs.
And it's just not the case.
If you are in Nunavut, your CFO is in Manitoba.
If you're in British, or if you're in the Yukon, your CFO is in British, yeah, is in BC.
And so I think that's so disrespectful to the people there and the different firearms cultures.
But again, the liberals just don't care.
They think they know what's best and it's one solution for everybody.
Yeah, and you're right.
You summed it up there.
The liberals don't care.
This is, you know, and I'm repeating myself, which is this isn't about public safety.
This isn't about, you know, law-abiding Canadians going out and, you know, causing havoc with a firearm.
This is all about votes and how they can, you know, weasel their way in and use talking points.
And I believe there might be an election coming up and they're going to be working on this stuff.
And, you know, the firearms are going to be to the forefront again.
Even though it's causing turmoil in their own party, they have to use it because there's a part of the population that likes to hear this stuff.
You know, I'm not even going to get into what this new woke stuff and stuff is all about.
But the thing is, even that part of the population, Sheila, they don't understand about firearms.
They don't understand about sustenance hunters.
They don't understand about sport shooters.
They don't understand about collectors.
They think a firearm is going to go out there by itself and cause havoc, which it's not.
You know, it's just, it's all about, it's all about public perception.
And guess who's causing this perception?
It's the liberals.
And again, I go back to follow the votes and follow the money.
Right.
I mean, there are a lot of people in this country who live in cities plagued by crime and they can't figure out that it's progressive policies in their city that are causing those crimes.
And then the progressive policies of the liberals catch and release bail System and then also the liberals' inability to control what happens at our border.
All those things are causing an inflated crime rate in this country.
But we are, of course, the path of least resistance as the most law-abiding people in this country.
God forbid if you defend your home.
Yeah, right, right, right.
And, you know, the liberals won't shut up about misinformation, but they are the biggest purveyors of misinformation about people like you and I. Exactly.
And, you know, and that's always been their MO, and it's going to continue to be their MO.
This new prime minister, I don't, you know, I talk to people and a lot of people are saying, where is this guy?
Nobody sees him.
He's not doing anything.
He's, you know.
Europe generally.
There's a prime minister in Europe, I think.
Yeah, you know, and that's a whole NFA's, you know, alley, but still, it just.
Yeah, we have some problems here someone might want to fix.
Yeah, exactly.
But, you know, I don't know.
Just, you know, their appointments and stuff like this.
Public safety minister is, it ceases to amaze me how these people work.
It really does.
Yes.
Now, Rick, is there anything else on your list of grievances?
Yeah, but that's a whole nother show.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
I just, like I say, we're just dug in deep and we're working on a lot of stuff.
Not so much in the way of grievances.
Well, there is just the two-sidedness of the Liberal Party.
Like I say, our lobbyist has actually lobbied some liberals.
And from a liberal perspective, they don't even know what's going on.
They just tow the company line.
It's just simple as that.
So, yeah, there's, you know, the NFA has got a lot of stuff going on.
We'll be attending a lot of events and stuff this year to get the information out there.
But the big thing right now for us is Ottawa.
We're working in Ottawa with MPs.
And my goal is to have at least close to 100 lobbies by the end of the year.
We need to talk to every MP out there.
I don't care what color they wear.
There is some NDP people that are interested in talking to us.
There is some liberals out there that we kind of put in a corner and have them talk to us, which is working out well for us.
Like I say, but we have to work hard.
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Being a firearms, a firearms rights advocacy group is hard because a lot of people don't want to talk to you because they think we're a bunch of radical gunslingers, which we're not.
We're just people about our property rights and we're people about freedom.
And once they understand that, they understand the fact that we can help them.
We're not out there to hurt them.
We're out there to help them.
And that's been a problem for the last few years, too, is actually even talking to the CPC because they don't understand where we're coming from.
But after we made a bunch of changes in the NFA, I think they're beginning to understand where we're coming from.
And we've been, I'm very happy the way things are going.
Like I said before, I'm very happy the way things are going for us.
And we're just going to keep grinding.
Yeah.
I can see you've been working hard.
Now, I want to ask you, before I give you an opportunity to tell people how they can get involved in the NFA, tell us about your save firearms program.
Okay, our SAFE firearms program is basically stopping guns from being destroyed.
There's a lot of estates out there right now that guns are basically trapped in where somebody has passed away.
They were a license holder.
And more or less handguns are frozen, the estate and as soon as the estate's closed according to the liberal rules, they need to go for destruction.
But there is another option, uh, the NFA is a licensed firearms business.
We can take those guns in and hold them, and this is what we've been doing.
We've been taking these guns in and holding them in a facility that we have.
We have a secure facility where we hold them till the government changes to the liberals, or till the till uh the conservatives get in power again, where we can get these guns back to their rightful owners.
Our biggest problem right now is we've got so many people out there sons and daughters that want their dads guns and they can't get them.
Right now.
The guns are going to be destroyed, so we're holding it.
But we can take anything.
We can take handguns, we can take machine guns, we can take anything in uh, we have all our uh, we have all our uh certifications.
So uh, and the other thing at the other end of it too, is if somebody's involved in a legal issue uh say, uh a red flag law or a domestic we can hold those firearms till their legal issues are uh are resolved, instead of the guns ending up at a police station and rusting out and possibly being destroyed before the court case is done.
So uh, it's on our website.
Uh uh, save.
Uh, it's on our website, save firearms.
Get on there.
Uh, we've been having a lot of response on it.
We know we've been taking guns in and, like I say it just uh, you know, we put that program out there to save these guns, because the last thing we want to see is firearms getting destroyed.
Same uh Rick, before I let you go, how do people get involved in the N FA?
Uh, go to Nfa.ca.
You can become a member.
And uh, the thing is, you don't have to be a firearms owner to join the NFA.
You just have to be interested in personal property and freedom.
You know we have a lot of members that aren't uh, firearms owners, but they're freedom people and uh we uh, we can uh, just go to our website and you can uh, you can join.
It's cheap.
It's 35 for a regular member 30, 30 for a senior and 45 for a family.
Uh, you know, for the price of a large pizza and a two liter, you can join the NFA.
Uh, at the end of the day, you know, it's uh, the more, the more voices we can get out there.
Voices are votes and and politicians know that, you know, out of the 2.4 million gun owners in Canada, which I think is is uh way underestimated, I think uh, I think, if we could get everybody to join a gun group, I think we would have such a powerful voice in Ottawa.
None of this stuff would be going on right now.
None of this bs uh orders, and council c71, c21 none of this stuff would be going on.
But it's all about votes and you know, politics is politics and uh, you know, get out there, join up, join a group.
You know, i'd appreciate it if you joined the NFA, but join, join a gun advocacy group because your voice needs to be heard.
Uh, You know, you can follow us on our social media platforms.
You know, we're on we're on Facebook, Twitter, or I guess it's X, Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube.
We also have, we're also on Canadian Gun Nuts now, which is which we've been getting a lot of good responses on.
You know, we've been posting stuff on Canadian gun nuts.
And, you know, get out there, follow us.
If you're not sure about joining, get out there and look at our social media, and I think you'll appreciate what's going on.
Yeah, just have a look and you'll see what they're all about.
I know I have a fair number of people who are viewers of the gun show who are not firearms owners, but they have joined the NFA because of your advocacy of property rights and advocacy of fair treatment under the law for innocent people, which it doesn't seem like the firearms owning community is getting.
Rick, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks for supporting the work that we do at Rebel News.
It was really nice to see you at our birthday party and just keep fighting for families just like mine to be able to hang on to our family heirlooms.
Yeah, thanks for having me on again, Sheila.
I appreciate it.
Another thing, too, go to Rebel.
We do a lot of stuff on Rebel besides the gun show.
So have a look at what's on Rebel.
And, you know, we need to get the word out to like-minded people, and Rebel is one way of doing it.
And we appreciate everything that Rebel does for us.
And it was a lot of fun to be at your 10th anniversary party there.
It was a great time.
So anyway, again, thanks for having me on the show, Sheila.
You got it, Rick.
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Concerns About Election Petition Practices00:06:18
It comes to me about the municipal election here in Alberta.
And I did the municipal election live stream where hand counting, which I don't object to, made things take a lot longer.
And in Edmonton, the numbers weren't really in until the next day, even though numbers were in Calgary and the voter turnout was much lower in Edmonton.
It was just a big disaster.
But there was a side story in all of this.
And that was the ridiculous Forever Canada petition people run by a former Redford Reed Red Tory MLA here in Alberta, Thomas Lukazic.
His people were setting up their petition signing to, I don't know, encourage us to maintain the status quo here in Alberta and not leave the country.
They were set up, and I had multiple reports of this, very near and sometimes within the same building of polling stations.
And Elections Alberta would not normally allow this, but municipal elections are governed by the municipality and not Elections Alberta.
So this could break rules in the municipalities, but also it's just so disgustingly unethical.
But what would I expect from Thomas Lukasak who stuck Alberta taxpayers with a cell phone bill of tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars because he didn't know what roaming charges were.
Anyway, so that's who we're dealing with.
It's just so grossly unethical to do this stuff inside of a polling station.
There's a reason why they don't allow it at the federal level, at the provincial level.
And so out of just ethics, you shouldn't have done it at the municipal level.
But then there's Thomas Lukasic.
I got a letter from a school board trustee candidate.
I don't think it's necessary to say which person it is, so we'll redact the name because I know what these people are like.
The Forever Canada people are vicious.
Vicious.
And as you'll show you, quite unethical.
I got a letter on the night of the municipal election on this.
And I'll just read it to you.
Just so you know who you're dealing with, with these Forever Canada people.
I'm reaching out as a candidate for school board trustee in St. Albert, Alberta, to raise concerns about inconsistent enforcement of election-related activity at municipal voting stations.
I was denied permission to set up an information table at Fountain Park Pool and Service Place to share details about my trustee campaign.
I respected that decision.
However, I since observed that representatives of the Forever Canada petition advocating for Alberta to remain in Canada were allowed to set up tables directly in front of Fountain Park and on church property at the Alliance Church voting station.
Well, that's selective application of the rules, isn't it?
The petition setup included Canadian flags, signage, and was promoted by individuals with clear political affiliations for sure.
Candidate Skye Vermin's campaign materials feature the same branding.
Neil Korotash publicly stated that in the St. Albert Gazette that he intends to collect signatures for the petition, and Kevin Malinowski encouraged me to sign it in a public Facebook thread.
So it's obviously political.
It's political campaigning right beside the polling station.
Actually, right at the church polling station.
Unbelievable.
This raises serious questions about fairness and consistency.
Boy, does it ever.
Why was my request denied while others were permitted to set up politically adjacent booths and voting stations?
I've documented, I've documented the setup with photos and screenshots, and I've submitted a formal complaint to the returning officer.
As someone committed to student-first advocacy and respectful campaigning, I believe this story deserves public attention.
I'd be happy to provide further details or speak on the record.
Sincerely, Darcy, who is a candidate for the school board trustee.
Actually, you know what?
Darcy said he's happy to speak on the record, so I'm going to give you his full name, Darcy Dahlke, candidate for school board trustee in St. Albert.
I'm going to reach out to Darcy, but I just thought I would share this email that I got because this is garbage.
This is garbage.
This is unfairness.
This is selective application of the rules.
And even if it is within the rules, it's pretty garbagey of the Forever Canada campaign to collect petition signatures on their politically motivated campaign at polling stations or adjacent to polling stations.
And this isn't the first, as I said, instance that I saw of this.
I've seen other photos.
This is atrocious.
And if anything, the province should step in to possibly make a rule.
And I'm not somebody who's like, you know, there should be a rule about that.
Normally I'm like, there should, no, government is very rarely the solution.
But when these people are playing fast and loose with the rules and violating what I think is the spirit of legislation, something probably should be done.
You know?
Ugh.
These are the reasons we have like advice not to eat Tide Pods.
You know what I mean?
It's just ridiculous.
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