Sheila Gunn-Reid exposes COP30’s hypocrisy in Balem, Brazil, where 55,000 delegates—including 220 Canadians on UN-provided cruise ships—ignore untreated sewage dumped into the Amazon, affecting 60% of locals living in squalor. She critiques Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax focus over national issues like favela waste dumping, comparing it to Trump’s U.S., which allegedly cut emissions via fracking while avoiding conferences. Delegates’ lavish spending, including Carney’s credit card use, contrasts with local neglect, as social media reveals elite waste in "1%" favelas. Gunn-Reid argues climate policies erode sovereignty and strain Canada-U.S. ties, proposing summer military training for youth to counter perceived leftist cultural decline. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm answering your questions today from Balem Brazil at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Friends, I hope my audio is okay because I'm recording it with my earbuds instead of my regular studio setup because this is not my regular studio.
I'm actually sitting at the kitchen table of our Airbnb in Balem, Brazil.
I'm here covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
We haven't done one of these in a few years because they were being held in places where the press wasn't free.
And I knew that I would be asking prickly questions if I went to one of these conferences in, you know, Egypt or the Emirates.
And I didn't want to get arrested in those places because I just can't help myself.
And, you know, if I don't get to ask questions, then I will go around the city and show you what's really the environmental situation in these cities.
So just for my own safety and because I know myself, we didn't go.
But this year, it was in Balem, Brazil, named after Bethlehem.
So it's sort of odd that the climate cult took the place over.
But it's a little more free.
Now, I probably won't be allowed back in the country to work.
To come here, you need a visa.
And I'm sure next time my visa will not be approved.
But that's okay because I feel like I left it all on the dance floor.
I'm recording on my phone.
So if I'm looking in a strange spot, I'm just sort of making sure that my audio levels are okay.
So all that is to say, I was not able to book a regular show guest.
Sometimes I actually run into people at these conferences, like in past, Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition, but not this year.
So as always, when I'm busy and I'm traveling, I rely on you.
I turn the show over to you guys and then I ask you for your viewer feedback.
And hopefully many of you subscribers got, all of you subscribers, I should say, got an email from me asking for your questions so that I could answer them on the show today.
I got a feedback and I'll read those today.
And then I have, I want to go through the comments on one of the videos that I did, which I think was pretty good journalism.
And I'll tell you the backstory of the video and why it's sort of, it feels rushed and because it was, but I just didn't want to say it in the video because I didn't want to make the video about us.
But, you know, your subscribers, I trust you guys, and you'll understand.
And then I'll go through regular viewer feedback as I always do at the end of the show.
So thank you for bearing with me.
And let's get into it, shall we?
Again, hopefully the audio is okay.
This is a fully titled kitchen.
And so if it sounds like I'm in a sewer, I apologize.
I'm doing my best.
I'm trying to let Kian sleep because he has to start his flights back today.
Kian, my videographer producer, I just don't want to bother him with the audio setup.
I have to start tomorrow.
And I think I have three red eye flights, four, four flights to get back to Edmonton.
And I will not, I'm recording this on Wednesday.
I start heading back tomorrow.
I will not be home till sometime after midnight on the 23rd.
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So that's a very, very long time.
Okay.
But that is just how the flights are to get out of here because 55,000 climate change delegates are here.
And I think we'll get into that in the very first letter here.
All right.
It got suddenly very dark in here.
First letter comes to me from Ken, who writes, hello, Sheila.
Hi, Ken.
I wonder how many publicly funded delegates are attending this event on Prime Minister Mark Carney's credit card payable eventually by Canadian Children of Today, Tomorrow.
I wonder how many duplicate delegates, that's a great question, are attending from various federal, provincial, and municipal government-sanctioned organizations.
The true and full cost, I don't think we'll ever know.
This is Canadian spending restraint.
Good luck and keep up the good work.
Well, thank you.
Here's what I can tell you.
The official Canadian federal government delegation is about 220-ish delegates who will be attending all the plenary events inside, voting to make sure that you're stuck with a low-flow shower head in a low-flow toilet to save water while their sewage is literally being pumped into the bay around here.
It's crazy how nobody is actually looking at the city that we're in.
But of those delegates, like they were unsatisfied with the accommodations here available.
So the UN brought in two cruise ships and built a special multi-million dollar high-security dock for the cruise ships so that the fancy people could stay there.
And they didn't have to stay in the local accommodations, which are so expensive because you have the world's busybodies flying in.
You get this Airbnb, very expensive, but it was safe and clean.
But I can come from the farm.
I can deal with not necessarily things being the cleanest, but this is one of the top two dozen dangerous cities in the world.
And I just wanted to make sure that there was a place where we could be safe to work after we've been working all day.
But yeah, you are right about the size of the delegation.
This delegation, I think, is the second largest after 2015 when they signed the Paris Accord and maybe 2016 when everyone was like going to the funeral for climate change because Donald Trump got elected.
I think that was in Marrakesh, Morocco.
I think they had about 240 then.
But that's just the official delegation because all these NGOs then send people and most of the NGOs in Canada have at least some money in their hands from the federal government.
You know, like Equitaire and EcoJustice and Pembin Institute, all those guys get money.
And so they are just quasi official delegates on behalf of the federal government.
And then the municipalities send people for some reason and the provinces send people for some reason.
And like, for example, the mayor of Montreal a few years ago said his wife.
What's that about?
Thousands and thousands of dollars just to send her here for what?
What was she going to do?
Anyway, it's all just we're on the hook for all of this.
These people get to circumnavigate the globe and we get lectured about our summer road trips.
So, how do you calculate those costs?
They're hidden all over the place.
It's in the hundreds, maybe millions of dollars.
Surely millions of dollars to send all the Canadians here.
It has to be.
Like a budget hotel right now in this city is like a thousand bucks a night Canadian because of the unavailability.
That's why we chose this Airbnb.
It's far from the venue, but it's safe and clean.
We were getting on the cruise ship, is what I'm saying.
Next letter from, this is from Tom Ackland, who says, why is Canada a part of this?
Well, we have the prime minister who wrote values, and we had for 10 years Justin Trudeau, who was so excited to make sure that his government was the signatory to the Paris Accord, which would pave the way for a nationwide consumer carbon tax.
But yeah, should we be a part of this?
What do we get at us except this global government signing, like signing over our sovereignty to this global government that will dictate whether or not your son, who is a welder, gets a job one day on a pipeline?
How can we get out of this for Canada and Canadians?
We just don't have to come.
I mean, the Americans sent basically nobody this year.
I was actually kind of excited because I thought, oh, Donald Trump, for example, in years gone by, I think it was in on Germany, so maybe 2018, 2017, he sent the fractures.
Like, because the Americans have seen a drastic reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions, and that is because they're fracking.
The fracking Renaissance actually lowered their greenhouse gas emissions, if you care about those sorts of things.
But it is, you know, because they had the ability to reach natural gas that they were unable to extract before.
And it sort of shifted the reliance from coal.
And they really didn't have a footprint here.
And good for them.
Why?
These people are going to tell you to get off coal, stop drilling for oil and gas, drive electric cars, and that's and hinder your industries and get off meat, stop animal agriculture.
The Americans are doing none of that.
So why even come?
Right?
By not coming, it sends a real message that you're not going along to any of this.
You continue straight, and I'm sure most Canadians think of this similar to the way I do.
Rich people using a narrative to get their way by telling us, do as I say, not as I do.
I'm also pissed the budget got a pass and Carney didn't talk to Daniel Smith by the gray cup.
He's a jackass, but I think it's his plan.
He will continue to hurt Canada and pull up any roots in Canada and settle in near Trump in the USA after he gets as much help as he can do to help Trump.
I don't think that Carney wants to help Trump.
I'm not anti-Trump.
I use stretch of the imagination.
I think that Donald Trump is pro-America and that's his laser focus.
And if it hurts Canada, that's not his concern.
He wasn't elected to be the president of Canada.
He's the president of the United States for the Americans, and he's going to do what's best for the Americans, even to the detriment of the Canadians.
Now, if the Canadians were a lot easier to get along with, I think we would have an easier goal of this.
And that has been historically our relationship.
You know, I say it all the time, but the relationship between Canada and the United States, I think, is the greatest military, security, strategic, cultural, and trade partnership the world has ever known in the history of human civilization.
A find a better one.
Find where two cultures are so close.
Yeah, moderately distinct.
I guess in the eastern parts of the country, I think the Westerners, like in the prairies, we don't see ourselves all that distinct culturally from the Americans.
I think our cultural breakdown is East-West, not North-South.
But think about that.
In the history of humanity, I don't think there's ever been a greater relationship.
And yet, in 10 years of the liberals in power, that is gone absolutely to shit.
Tease colloquialism of my people.
And the Liberals should be wearing that around their neck.
And nobody is.
I think that's to the detriment of the conservatives.
I think they really should be pushing that narrative.
Like, we had a good relationship, and then these guys undid it.
In fact, the first time that Trump was in power, it wasn't this bad.
So what happened?
And it's because Mark Carney campaigned on Trump as bad because he couldn't campaign on Justin Trudeau was bad, and I'm going to be different because it's literally the same guy.
You may get the same ideas.
He gave them those ideas.
So the liberals couldn't campaign on their own record, so they had to campaign against something.
And so I think that's what happened: they that Mark Carney saw an opportunity.
Not that I think that that's what happened.
I know that's what happened because we've seen surveys and briefly notes that came out of the prime minister's office and the privy council where they were polling Canadians on their sentiments about Americans.
And then they were then using that government paid for data and then crafting their campaign strategy around it, which is not what you're supposed to do because that information is meant for policy.
It's not meant for liberal party campaigning.
The liberals have been in power so long that they see the government as them and them as the government.
And they're actually two separate things.
All right, let's see what else I've got.
Next one is from Enzo, who says, Where's our tax dollars going?
We need to account for every tax dollar sent to the United Nations.
I think you're talking to me about what I've shown you in the city.
And it's probably one of the reasons I'm not going to be allowed back into Boise.
Hopefully, the construction noise out the window isn't getting to be too much.
A lot of money floating for this conference.
And instead of holding this conference, money should have been spent on improving the lives of the citizens of Balem.
These people, they're lovely.
Despite the fact that the city is very dangerous, I did not have a bad interaction with anybody here the Henry time.
And They live in parts of the city, actually in most of the city, I should tell you, in abject squalor.
60% of the city is a favela of some form, which is, to use the language of the left, irregular housing.
The people don't own the land.
It's not connected to the sewage system.
No sanitation, no garbage pickup.
Maybe they have electricity, but it's precarious and likely borrowed.
And they are not getting any better.
Like things are not getting better for these people.
And in fact, the United Nations and this conference itself has made it worse because the United Nations has used one neighborhood that we found as a dumping ground for their construction garbage.
We found the signs that were sort of hidden in a vacant lot and we found where the people in the favela, as it's called, were using the United Nations signage that had been discarded by the United Nations to make a fence.
And same community is where the sewage, raw untreated sewage, because like almost not like under 5%.
You know, sometimes you see the number is 4%, sometimes you see it as 2%.
If it's under 5%, it's real bad.
5% of the sewage is even treated in this city.
When it rains, the gutters just run brown.
What's hurt?
And this sewage is being routed through these communities and then out into the bay, the bay that is the mouth of the Amazon that we're all supposed to protect.
It's like the UN isn't protecting it.
Why do I have to drive less in Alberta and not use a plastic straw because the city of Balem and by extension the United Nations can't figure out how to pick up the garbage, can't figure out how to treat their water.
2.5 million people live here, 60% live in abject squalor.
I'm sorry.
If 50,000 people flew into your city, you know what they should be doing?
Grabbing a garbage bag and picking up garbage.
If you care about this place, every one of these 55,000 delegates plus all the NGOs and the protesters and busybodies, give them a garbage bag.
Tell them to come back when it's full.
That's what I would love to see.
That makes a real difference.
Like a real difference.
I'm in Albertan.
I'm sure many of you watching will do the same thing when you're out on the trails.
You know, like I'm an avid trail user.
I live next door to a national park.
And when I see garbage on the trail, I pick it up.
I pick it up.
I take it out.
I kind of hate the Canada strong pass or whatever that Mark Carney's doing where he makes the national parks free because every time they do that, it opens up the park to garbage.
Like it's just, you can see it like overnight, diapers in the lake, whatever.
But if these environmental activists really cared about the environment, like really cared, instead they just care about, you know, global socialism, imposing global socialism on us through a wealth transfer.
If they actually cared, they would be out in the streets with a garbage bag.
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But they don't care.
Like they think if they take money from me and give it to, I don't know, Al Gore, the weather will get better and the streets will get cleaner.
And that's not how it works.
People have to put the work in.
They're not putting the work in.
That's one thing I know about socialists.
They're gravely allergic to, well, work.
That's why they want everybody to just get their UBI because they don't.
They'll just get the lining and you don't have to work.
All right.
Let's go into a couple comments on a video that I did on finding the place where the UN was dumping their garbage.
And I'll give you a little bit of backstory.
We heard that the United Nations had been dumping their construction garbage in this community.
When you know it, we found the dump site that the United Nations is using.
Now, I'm not somebody who believes in the term environmental racism, or I haven't been actually.
You know, it's usually used to describe oil and gas companies trying to give Indigenous people well-paying oil and gas jobs in their communities.
But I think this is real environmental racism.
This is a poor community.
It's largely mulatto, it's mixed race, and they don't have any power.
And the very powerful world elites have decided to hide their environmental carnage inside of their community, and they don't have any power to stop them.
This is real journalism that the journalists inside of the climate change conference refuse to do because it doesn't fit the narrative and they're too scared to do it.
So we saw in local Portuguese Brazilian Instagram stories, locals complaining about the United Nations dumping garbage in a favela.
We knew the name of the favela.
It was Dia de Barca.
Maybe I'm saying that wrong, but that's how I would say it in Western Canadian.
And we could see in the background certain buildings, distinct buildings.
And so we got on Googler and we started looking.
And we could see a cross streak that was close.
We needed an address where we could get a driver to drop us off.
And so we did.
And we knew that it was really dangerous for us to be running, literally running through this community with our backpacks and our very expensive camera in Mike's home.
And the driver said, Yeah, I'll wait, but you have two minutes.
Two minutes.
And so we thought, okay, we'll run out to the water.
We'll take a look at what the conditions are there.
And you can see in our footage, it's very rushed, but we had two minutes to run to the bay and to run back because the driver wasn't going to wait for us.
He was like, I'm going to leave you guys in this favela because it's not safe for me.
And you can blame him.
Like, you know?
So we were sort of dejected.
We're running back to the car, like running.
It's 34-degree heat.
And I said to Keen, oh my God, look, there's the sun.
This is the dump site.
You could see the sign sort of wedged up behind like a fence where, and it said COP30, which is Conference of the Parties 30 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
And then it turns to look at, as I'm telling Keenan, I'm looking at him and I'm looking over his shoulder, and I see where the locals are using the garbage to build a fence because the United Nations left it there.
And that's sort of how that story came together.
But we almost didn't have this story and we almost got left in a fazella.
But we did it.
And yeah, we were running, quite literally, for our lives.
Nobody was chasing us, but we just definitely didn't want to get left there.
So I thought I'll go through some of the comments on that.
Mike O'Keefe, 21, or sorry, 2014 says it's called the 1%.
The rich get rich on the backs of the poor and blue-collar workers.
Everyone is tired of this climate crap.
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It's true.
The elites, they don't actually care about the environment.
They just care that everything around them is pretty and they don't care about how other people have to live.
Absolutely disgusting abusing the poor in this fake name of climate change.
That's Canman 5060.
It's true.
They don't care about the poor, right?
I think you know that.
I mean, all their ideas make life worse for the poor.
Carbon taxes, the cost of basic necessities become out of reach for the poor.
The point of a carbon tax and taxes and climate change in general, I think, is to distill the power at the top, making sure the have-nots never become the haves or never even think about becoming the haves.
It's a big party and you're not invited.
Sacred 406 writes, exactly, hypocrites.
The UN is just another corrupt entity preaching to others while they themselves are the real problem.
And then Barry Brand, 2970, destroying the Amazon rainforest so elites can stuff themselves on beets and lobster arriving on their private jets.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The food inside the UN complex in the public areas was actually less horrifying than I've seen in the past.
And by horrifying, I mean not entirely vegan.
I remember a few years ago when I went with Kian Bexty to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid.
They were encouraging people to eat this vegan burger that was made with beets, so it looked like blood.
And I think Kian was going to throw up, but he took one for the team.
Good boy.
Good, good boy.
All right, let's get to the regular letter.
Now, I'll tell you guys at home, if you didn't see your comment read on the show today, I could be.
All you have to do is send me an email.
It's sheila at rebelnews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so that I know why you're writing me because I get a ton of emails, I promise you, every single day.
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Because if you don't like it, why do it?
Like, if you don't appreciate it, if you don't think it's quality journalism, then what's the point, right?
So let me know.
So Sheila at RebelNews.com, gun show letters in the subject line.
This one comes to me by way of the email inback.
Sorry.
This one comes to me by way of the email inbox.
Although there are other ways that you can leave comments if you want to leave them on the free clips of the show on YouTube or on Rumble, wherever you find that actually helps engagement with our content.
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It's a really free thing that you can do that really helps us in measurable ways.
But this one comes from the email.
It's Terence Rollick, who writes, Hi, Sheila.
You recently made us aware of a proposal to increase the ranks of our armed forces by recruiting the public servants.
You know, it's crazy.
And training them for military roles.
Please excuse my snickering at that suggestion.
Well, yeah, excuse mine too.
When you consider that Ottawa citizens were triggered by horn honks and diesel fumes along with a reluctance to leave home to go to work, then I'm sure you can appreciate my skepticism.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These are people who threaten job action because they have to go into their job.
Do you think they're going to handle a gun?
Did you imagine?
Although they've been rattling the warsabers about sending Canadian soldiers to Ukraine for a long time.
Now's your chance.
May offer a more practical suggestion.
In order to overcome youth summer unemployment, a program could be set up to offer military training over the summer holidays for students, a short boot camp, so to speak, for any student volunteers.
I love this.
Not only would they be paid at least the minimum wage, but would receive valuable physical training that could lead to lifelong physical fitness.
And it actually might help deal with the problem of retention and recruitment in the Canadian military because they're having a real problem.
You're being a little too woke, obviously, and nobody wants to join and nobody wants to stay.
And you might change the culture, not just of the military, but of the country.
And young people in general, you know what?
I'm not sure we actually, well, we do have to change the culture of some young people, but young people are very conservative these days.
All the data shows that.
But might change a lot of things.
And teach young people how to work, right?
There's a youth unemployment crisis in this country.
Not only, oh, sorry.
At the conclusion of their training, they would be fit, tough, confident, and well-paid.
I love this.
I speak from experience, having taken basic training many years ago.
It was a life-altering experience that could encourage these same students to pursue a military career or become involved with the reserves.
It helps solve the youth unemployment problem and would be beneficial to the military and the country.
This, of course, would require a conservative majority in parliament because this mere suggestion would trigger the woke left youth spasms of outrage at the idea of teaching our youth to use firearms safely and effectively.
Cheers.
Terrence and Lacombe.
I love this idea.
It's a great idea.
Every time I'm in Israel, I'm shocked at how normal the kids are.
Like, there's so few weirdos there.
And I think it has a lot to do with mandatory military service.
And I think in the Western world, we don't expect enough of our young people.
Like, in the bygone era, kids were lying about their age to go serve in World Wars.
Like lying.
Farm kids were just like 16 saying they were 18 so they could enlist.
And somehow our youth became coddled and frightened and triggered by the mere even thought of personal responsibility or being uncomfortable.
You know, you look around us, there's medication for everything.
And really, sometimes it's you're not even sick.
You just are uncomfortable.
You have a minor ache and pain or whatever, and you're just medicating because of it.
Now, now we've seen what Tylenol has done to pregnant women.
And there's value in being uncomfortable.
Maybe it's just because I look at this through a Catholic worldview, but we fast, we offer our suffering because we think there's worse than that.
It's a learning experience.
It makes you physically and mentally stronger.
And I think the young people of this country could stand for that.
And, you know, like in Israel, that entire country is protected by Zoomers.
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Zoomers.
Like the people who need cry rooms in the Western world over there, they're dealing with an existential threat of genocide upon themselves every day from all around them.
And they're Zoomers.
God, we're not, sorry, my earbuds are falling out.
We're not expecting enough of our young people.
And I think our young people are capable of so much more.
I think it's the bigotry of low expectations.
And I'll be having none of it.
Thank you.
All right.
I think that's the show.
I'm boiling hot.
I had to turn the fan off so we can record.
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