Sheila Gunn-Reid’s 12 Days of Cringemas special mocks Canada’s "amoral idiots"—from a Canadian Armed Forces general’s hollow racism apology amid recruitment crises to the United Church’s drag queen video, dismissed as "disgusting" and un-Christian. She ridicules NDP MLA Janice Irwin’s barefoot alley dancing, Mark Carney’s wife’s appearance, Doug Ford’s failed trade stunts (like a whiskey flop), Olivia Chow’s medieval-style performances, and Elizabeth May’s election-night folk singing, CPAC "white supremacist" slurs, and ostrich culling obsession. Framing these as pathological distractions, she ties them to broader frustrations over jobs, taxes, and climate policies, ending with a holiday laugh—preferring humor over the country’s perceived decline. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Well, friends, this is a recorded version of The Gunn Show because for at least at some point during the Christmas season, I would like to be unchained from the desk at which I'm sitting.
So I've worked ahead and I've called in the big guns.
Yes, I've called in my very best friend, Lise Merle, to help me with the show today.
And there are so many double entendres there for sure.
I was just in my head.
I was like, oh, they're never going to let this go in the comments.
No, they're just all at the time.
But I wanted to have Lise on the show, first of all, to celebrate the approximately last two and a half weeks of her life, because as many of you know, she has become an acclaimed LGBTQ plus AI author with her best-selling children's book, but also best-selling book about horses, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn, available at buckthereainbowunicorn.com or on Amazon.
And thank you to everybody who's made Lise's book a success.
She's already tearing up.
Look at her.
But one of the most popular segments of the show that Lise and I do together, the Rebel Roundup on Tuesday and Wednesdays, is something that happens at the end of the show.
And it's something we created together.
And it's called the Daily Cringe.
And we love it, right?
It's the best.
It's our favorite segment.
I look forward to it every single day.
And I know the viewers do too.
And it's so important to poke fun at the people who appoint themselves with no authority whatsoever to be our moral and intellectual superiors, because if you really watch them, they're amoral idiots, by and large.
Yes.
Yes, we got inmates running the asylum, it seems.
Yes.
And so what we know about people who are not good at their jobs is that they are often sensitive, very sensitive about people pointing that out, especially us peasants and plebs.
And I'm happy to do it.
I'm happy to do it.
So the pleasure is ours.
The pleasure is all ours.
We're going to look back at some of the heaviest hitters, the recidivists in the Daily Cringe category.
Some of them were selected by me.
Some of them were sent to me by Lise.
But we're going to look back.
We're going to poke a little fun and end the, I guess, kind of a terrible year with the liberals being re-elected, rewarded for 10 years of corruption with what appears to be approaching a majority.
I think they're going to beg, steal, and borrow a way to get there.
But in the meantime, if you're not going to cry, you may as well laugh.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right.
So this is our second shot at recording this.
I tried to do it a different way, but nothing would cooperate.
So we're trying it a similar way to what we did last year.
I did a quick test run.
It appears to be working.
So fingers crossed, let's go with the first daily cringe.
So I'll share my screen.
Canada's top general cries during an apology for systemic racism in the armed forces.
This made me want to jump out of my skin.
Let's watch it together.
Systemic racism, racial discrimination, and harassment are an affront to these values, and yet we allowed these injustices to occur and fester within our ranks.
Therefore, on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces, I offer my most sincere and deepest apologies.
I apologize to every CAF member, veteran who experienced racism, discrimination, and harassment.
And I acknowledged we failed you.
Oh, my goodness.
Do you feel bad already?
I know I do.
It's just so touching that our military is concentrating on hurt feelings instead of fighting bad guys.
Yeah, we have a crisis in recruitment, a crisis in retention, a crisis in procurement.
They're deploying without appropriate gear, like, you know, flak jackets, helmets.
Families are sending MREs.
But we've got the DEI head of the military bawling on camera.
Weeping on stage.
On the first day of cringe, Miss My Bestie gave to me.
The military crying like sissies.
I can't.
It's just so bad.
Like, I just, I feel bad for the guys who signed up to the military who are like, I want to make the world a better place.
I want to give back to my country.
I'm a warrior.
I've got a sense of civic duty.
And they're like, oh, oh, oh, she's the boss.
Everybody, please, a moment of silence for the hurt feelings of somebody 30 years ago.
I'm okay.
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
It's embarrassing.
It's cringe-worthy.
Let's move on to the next one because the next one, I almost forgot about this one till you sent it to me.
And if this isn't a United Church of Canada, I'm going to be shocked.
I'll be just amazed.
Let's watch it together.
Okay.
This is a church in Canada with a drag queen in front of kids.
Tell me this isn't a sign of the times if you're a Christian.
A sign of what times?
Oh, the end times.
The end ones.
The end ones.
It doesn't get any more disgusting than this.
Good grief.
In this house, we believe in equality, peace, kindness, and love.
You know what's missing here?
A cross.
I just are the like gay regalia, but I don't see a cross.
I actually got a full-on body quiver looking at that person.
Just all over cringe.
Full body cringe, guys.
And we haven't even hit play yet.
Let's hit play.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, boy, what a treat to be here this morning, as I am most Sunday mornings.
Queen of the back row of the choir.
I like that.
You know what?
I think we can, but we can punch up.
Queen of the bases will also suffice.
Unless Ian or Cliff, one of you wants to be the queen.
No, no.
But seriously, I love being a part of this community as a part of the choir.
You know, music is such a beautiful way to connect with ourselves, with spirituality, with the world around us.
And I'm so excited I get to share this part of me too.
Because let me tell you something.
You can keep going.
Is this the posture?
Oh boy, that feels good.
I'm really deprived for affection.
No, but seriously, one of the things about drag is that unlike Vegas, what happens in drag does not necessarily stay in drag.
Sometimes you put on those heels, sometimes you put on that wig, sometimes you try a piece of clothing that somebody said is not for you, and it unlocks something.
It unlocks something fierce.
Maybe it unlocks something.
Maybe it's not fierce for you, but for me, it was fierce.
I feel like something.
Okay.
Okay.
So we're soft launching cross-dressing in Canadian churches is what we're doing.
This is what we're doing.
Literally encouraging parishioners and young children to dip their toe into drag to maybe just try it out.
See if they like it.
See if they like it.
This is what passes for okay in Canada.
I think that was the pastor.
No.
Because he said something like, you see me here every single week.
I think that might have been the pastor.
Or part of the choir.
I kept looking and looking and looking.
And people have corrected me.
And again, I look at things through my own Catholic worldview.
I've said before, I notice an absence of crucifix in these places.
That's a Catholic thing.
We like to have Jesus on the cross still.
But even, okay, where's the cross in this church?
There's no cross anywhere.
You can find the rainbow everywhere.
Because where's the cross?
Because believing in God or Jesus in churches isn't in United Church, excuse me, isn't a prerequisite in Canada.
They actually have atheist pastors in the United Church or ladies that think like crazy lunatic ladies that think that Jesus was a woman.
That Jesus, that say that Jesus could have been a woman.
Nobody knows.
It's just a big mystery.
I just.
Did that.
That was that gave me five minutes of all of our body cringes.
That there and I you know what?
Just for the record, we never want to hear you guys talking about our makeup ever again after watching this.
So send me an email about my hair, about my makeup, about what we wear, the off limits okay, you see, you saw from that video how bad it can be.
Okay, thank you, thank you for your support and love.
Little kids right up front.
The little kids right up front to be brainwashed, everybody clapping.
I watch this and i'm like, tell me, tell me, argue with me, because i'm about to tell you the reformation was bad.
When I see that i'm like this, these are the fruits of the reformation, right here, I just no uh, this again, I say it all the time and this is not a theology show but uh, that is a violation Of the first commandment, that you will have no other gods but the God, because that is a person who is remaking himself in the image of whatever he would like himself to be.
Because it feels good, because it feels good, because it satiates his own needs.
It is the furthest thing.
It is the furthest thing away from looking to God.
Yeah.
And I'm glad you brought up like, if it feels good, because that is the satanic mantra: do what thou wilt.
Do what thou wilt.
Not do God's will, not do good, but do what thou wilt.
Doing The Right Thing Sometimes Sucks00:14:57
Chase that good feeling instead of goodness.
Because sometimes doing good actually feels bad.
Like doing the right thing sometimes kind of sucks.
Oh, but it's the right thing to do.
These people chase happiness.
And it's like, you know, that's been a real problem with modern society is they chase the feeling of happiness instead of the action of good.
The action of good actually makes your community and the world better for other people.
And the feeling that chasing happiness is actually a selfish way to go about it.
I think they're chasing a lot more than happiness, Sheila.
I think that that's just the, that's, that's just a nice umbrella term for some of the more dark and devious things that humans can chase here.
Well, you chase happiness instead of goodness and you always end up unhappy.
That's right.
Right.
All right.
Next one.
Please let it be better than the last one.
And these are in no particular order.
This is number three.
This is third day of Christmas.
Okay.
This is Janice Irwin.
She's a two-term MLA for Edmonton Highlands, Norwood, a member of the NDP.
I'm honestly not sure if this is a man or a woman.
I'll assume woman based on the name.
She's an example of the radicals we have allowed to infiltrate our institutions.
She only cares about one issue, which is giving more rights to the alphabet crowd.
Okay, Janice, we reacted to this.
Let's go back later.
From the way that we move, kill the lives we can't let.
Look at the lineup of cameras.
There's heat.
Okay, that's enough.
That's something she published to her own TikTok out there just dancing on a dirty Edmonton street.
Oh, I was going to say.
I was a lineup of cameras.
That's what happened.
These are taxpayer dollars at work, guys.
And here we have a barefoot Gary Busey dancing in an outdoor urinal.
That's the government in waiting in Alberta.
That, that, oh, Janice, but you never failed to disappoint, buddy.
Like, thanks so much for giving us all of this cringy content over this last 2025.
We look forward to a lot more of you in 2026.
Imagine, like, if the NDP were in power, just how horrible things would be.
Imagine a trade mission to Washington led by the likes of Janice Irwin.
Could you imagine what Trump would be like looking at that?
I mean, Janice Irwin, after we separate, she's more than welcome to just move to Old Canada and she can do whatever she likes there.
But there is coming a day when there is going to be a reckoning when we put this all to bed.
And ooh, friends, I do believe that we're starting that reckoning.
For sure.
I just, you know, Trump's got Christy Gnome.
We've got a sermon.
And we've got this walking in the could you imagine her just walking in the White House and bare feet.
He's just goblin feet too after being in that alley.
Like, hello, hepatitis, planters, warts.
And that's at best.
Yes.
Yes.
Tetanus.
Your, your, your random funguses.
Like, Edmonton's alleys, adjacent white abs, those are just public urinals.
Absolutely.
1 billion percent can back this up.
Vouch for this.
Outdoor urinals.
There's like 10 cameras there.
It just sort of flashed, but it's like, there's like 10 serious cameras lined up to catch this lunatic dancing.
And like, if there are 10 cameras there, I'm going to have something.
I think I'm going to do my best to have something important to say.
This is my moment to get it all out.
And she's like, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to dance around in urine.
Yeah.
That's exactly what she thought.
She's the day, Janice.
Do you remember when it was so tone deaf during COVID when they were saying that our hospitals were so overwhelmed with patients?
And then all of the staff in the hospitals made TikToks of coordinated dances.
This feels like modern-day tone deaf, like that.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
You're our homeless.
By the way.
Like, how many homeless people did you have to step over barefoot?
Did you dance over to your pants across?
Yeah.
Also, I'm not taking any you better get your COVID shot advice from someone who's doing that in bare feet on an Edmonton street.
No, ma'am.
Sorry.
I'm not taking advice about communicable diseases from that person.
Ever, never.
Never, never.
Yeah, next one.
Okay.
I don't recall.
Oh, it's this.
Oh, it's okay.
Okay.
Let's just see.
Am I getting it?
Yep.
Okay.
This is, I think, quite potentially the cringiest thing of the year.
But this is a year of cringe.
This is the year of the cringe.
You ready?
Yeah.
You know it.
It's Mark Carney.
Get your Diana.
Diana Fox Carney.
Get your.
They just won.
Get your Velociraptor wings up, Canada.
Okay.
We're going to all together now.
Okay.
Okay.
Click and play.
You ready?
This is the one.
Okay, that will never not bring me joy.
Okay.
Just knowing what an absolute disgrace the entire thing has been with the Carneys and then seeing that and being like, oh, there's no, they got no Riz.
They got zero Riz.
Thank you, Toronto Area Boomers, for that, because that's what you did to us.
This is this is what they gave us.
And again, don't write me letters.
If you didn't vote for Mark Carney, I'm not talking about you.
And as we know on the prairies, our boomers are like arch conservatives.
They've been through two Trudeau, so they're doubly conservative.
They wanted out 40 years ago.
That's right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But this is what that's what Toronto gave us.
What a gift.
Praying mantis, no Riz.
Herky jerky.
Diana Fox Carney full-body dry heave set to music of those two.
I just like I said, I love it, and it will be an enduring gift for the Carneys.
Okay, I will never get tired of that cringe, never ever.
I mean, that's the only comfort we can take is that we are comforted by how cringy they are.
But like in the before times, in the olden days, they would be like, stick a spoon in his mouth.
He's having a seizure.
That would have been the advice if you saw somebody doing that.
Let him swallow his tongue.
Exactly.
Now we're like, here, you're in charge now, buddy.
Censor the internet.
Oh, my word.
Horrible.
Okay, next one.
I'm just picking them off as they come up in my list.
You ready?
He's we're fighting the Americans.
Doug Ford, good.
Danielle Smith bad.
Let's watch.
Look at all these just absolute weirdos in the background.
What's it's just like a meta-musil commercial in the background, isn't it?
Oh, yes.
An IBS, an IBS drug.
Yeah.
Celebrex.
We are fighting the Americans.
We are fighting the Americans everywhere they understand.
We're fighting the Americans in the pocketbook.
We have retaliatory tariffs on them.
We just hit them again in the auto sector.
We're fighting them on Fox News, which is what they understand.
We're sending Doug Ford onto Fox News to show them that we're not messing around up here.
And we're going to send Danielle next.
We're going to, well, maybe we won't send her.
No, maybe we won't.
We won't send Danielle.
We're going to keep her.
No, people know.
That was a bad idea.
Forget, strike that.
Strike that.
Just ignore that back there.
Looking back now, knowing what we know, was that a good strategy or a bad strategy to hit the Americans with all those tariffs in the auto sector?
And was it a good strategy or a bad strategy to have Doug Ford be your foreign affairs minister on this point person with the Americans, your biggest trade and economic and societal and cultural partner?
Was it a good idea to send Doug Ford?
Yesterday, Carney got asked a real pointed question about Doug's actions and how they have negatively impacted that, you know what?
Send Danielle.
We'll take Danielle any day over these two buffoons.
Any day.
The Americans love her.
It's hard to do.
Oh, we're talking on Fox News because that's the only thing the Americans understand.
It's the world's leading cable channel.
If you want to talk to anybody, you talk there.
But you know that Trump watches Fox and Friends.
You should be going on Fox and Friends.
You go on MSNBC, the only people listening are the Democrats and they don't hold power.
That's right.
But yeah, we're going to send Doug Ford.
Oh, how did Doug Ford's little ad work out?
That's exactly right.
Increase tariffs across the board and a near international meltdown.
Just narrowly averted.
But yeah, let's leave it to Doug.
Let's just let you know here's the strategy.
Let's just let Doug off the leash and let him speak his mind.
I think it says a thing about a man about how he talks about women when the women aren't in the room.
That's not a good man.
No.
No.
All right.
Next one.
Hindsight being 2020 on that one.
That little strategy did not work out well, did it?
Okay, let's see the next one.
This is.
My number one job is to make sure we protect the people of Ontario.
I need to protect the communities against that tyrant south of our border, which drives me absolutely nuts.
And we'll always be there to protect the families and businesses who call our province home.
Doug, do you not have a bottle of whiskey to choke on?
Could you just like these are these are the thoughts of a drunk person in a sober person.
You know what I mean?
This is the depth at which Doug Ford operates at.
Keep calling name.
Keep calling the president names.
Yeah, Doug.
Let's keep, let's watch you keep losing.
Like, stay on, bud.
Just stay the course.
Keep trying.
How's the steel sector doing, Doug?
After you've been running your mouth, how's your automatic?
Automotive sector.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
In absolute collapse.
It's imploding in on itself like a dying star.
They're taking the money the Canadian government is giving them for free and taking it and investing it in the United States.
All those jobs are going with them.
I shouldn't be laughing because those are Canadian jobs that Doug Ford is murdering with his mouth because he won't shut up.
Most of Donald Trump's foreign policy comes down to, do I like you and trust you or do I not?
Well, and I think that's a rather shallow view of things.
Yeah.
I mean, but depth of a puddle, Doug.
Yeah, like if Donald Trump doesn't like you, he's not going to do business with you.
So what has, and I'm not saying suck up, but don't go around calling somebody names when you're in the middle of a trade war.
Don't be antagonistic in the middle of a trade war.
But then again, I think Doug Ford is doing a lot of dirty work for Mark Carney.
And Mark Carney desperately needs to work with his European counterparts to sort of try and right balance our economy because the Americans aren't playing ball with us.
And so Doug is being, Doug is being the errand boy for Mark Carney in this regard.
And yet it still won't work.
Like it still won't work what they're trying to achieve.
Well, it hasn't worked.
No.
No.
And this was like post, this was before Doug Ford thought I should do that ad and ruin everything.
You know, I should burn it all down.
It's like in COVID when you're like, maybe I need bangs.
Like, but at least your banks can grow out.
Doug Ford is doing that to the entire country right now.
Yeah.
He is on an economic level.
It's really kind of unforgivable.
I hope the people of Ontario.
I hope the people of Ontario are taking notes on this.
Well, so you know something?
A message of the CEO in France.
You hurt my people.
I'm going to hurt you.
You're going to feel the pain in February when these people don't have a paycheck.
And I'm going to stand up for the people of Ontario.
And I encourage all of Canadians, all of Ontarians, stand up for the people because you don't know if you're next.
But the thing that ticks me off, I get it.
I get the companies move back and forth.
But what I don't get when you're someone's largest customer in North America, you're going after the largest customer.
You know something?
I always say smart people aren't too smart.
Chow's Critique00:06:09
And you guys are about as dumb as a bag of hammers for doing this.
So, you know something?
I found a bottle.
I don't even drink of crown oil, right?
I see that Crown Royal.
I saw it at home.
So, this is what I think about Crown Oil.
That's what they could do.
And I think everyone else should do the same thing.
Certain supporting companies that make whiskey here by Ontario people, that's what we need to do is support each other.
You know, so I'm going to make this even come out quicker.
You know what?
She wants to have this big moment.
He wants to lie on the floor right now.
Okay.
He wants to have this big moment, right?
He wants to have this big moment.
And then it dribbles out of the bottle like a middle-aged man with prostate issues in the middle of it.
Like it just, it just hardly dribbles out.
Like there's, it was just such a fail.
And leave it to Doug to fail in that regard.
Oh, God.
So funny.
Like, my favorite is, you're dumb as a bag of hammers.
And it's like, no, Doug, you are.
That's bottled in Gimli, Manitoba.
Who's the hammer now?
And it has a low flow cap, which you didn't care to confirm before your big stunt.
I mean, the guy in the background is like, what?
They promised me overtime for this.
Like, he's rubbing his face.
They said there would be lunch.
Right.
Right.
And yeah, at the end of this, Doug Ford might have tossed the guy a hot dog, you know, just for having to stand out in the sun and bake and listen to Doug's stupid stunt.
This guy got a hot dog.
Whose side is Doug Ford's on not working people?
Let's go to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.
She loves to jam out with her clam out.
And I'm regret saying that just now, but we have seen a lot of old lady gyrating and like side groin from her over the last year.
And I'm going to start with this one first, but she just loves to cut a rug.
And look, so do I.
But I don't know.
I try to keep my genitals under wraps when I do.
Let's start with this one.
This is Kaya.
That is Kumbhubi's Grammy.
Mayor of Toronto.
It's like I said, you know, Timu Yoko Ono never fails to disappoint, you guys.
Look at her.
A creative genius, even in her plumage and costume.
Meanwhile, Jack Layton is rolling in his grave like a rotisserie chicken while she rides his coattails all the way through the Caribbean festivals of Toronto.
Like a hot dog down at the 7-Eleven, just rolling around.
It's the baggy bum old lady panties that really do it for me, where there's like a little bit of a cheek hanging out, just but baggy in the middle.
That's your mayor, Toronto.
You don't have other problems?
You don't have other things going on in Toronto?
You need a serious person to deal with Toronto.
And we're looking at her baggy granny panties.
But I wish they were granny panties because granny panties have some coverage.
This is that was what was missing in all of that.
This is full vajazzle.
Okay.
Olivia Chow in full vajazzle.
And respectfully, we would like to bow out of having done.
Yes.
We've got another Olivia Chow because she has really been a recidivist this year.
I like this one because it lists all the bad things happening in Toronto at the same time while she's dancing.
Dancing again.
It's really sad, isn't it?
Yeah.
Vajazzle.
Like just dancing again.
You know, I think, I think this really illustrates the selfie culture that politics has been, modern politics has been hijacked by.
And as long as you look like you're having a good time and like what you're doing is fun and exciting and engaging for social audiences, that we won't notice that you're letting everything burn to the ground in the background.
And I think we have to stop this, like start calling politicians out on their, on their selfie culture.
Does the mayor have a St. Vitas's dance?
You know what that is?
So it was like when they were in the Middle Ages, an entire town was afflicted with this dancing sickness and the people were dropping dead.
At first they thought it was weird and they thought, oh, they're dancing.
They're dancing.
I think it was ergot poisoning, if I had to guess.
That's sort of what people are saying, which is like a fungus on the rye and it caused them to have like hallucinations and stuff.
But when it first started, I think we're in the middle part of St. Vitas's dance.
So they started dancing and everybody thought it was strange.
And then the town was like, maybe they needed disappointment.
So they started playing music while they were dancing.
I think that's where we're at right now.
But at the end, the people afflicted with St. Vitas's dance started dropping dead because people, they just ran out of gas, really.
And I think that's what's going to happen to Toronto.
Like, save Olivia Chow.
Don't let her dance.
Don't let her dance.
Pay Paradise to Put Up a Parking Lot00:02:51
Let her dance.
Collect your Grammy.
Someone come collect your grandma.
Yep.
Okay.
I don't know what this next one is.
I forget.
Oh, another recidivist on the cringe.
Watch this.
Pay paradise to put up a parking lot.
Big killer taxi took away my old man.
Oh, and it always seemed to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
They pay paradise to put up a parking lot.
You know, when you, you know, when you spend way too when you spend like way too much time at a wine bar and then get in the Uber and then the Uber has their playlist on and then you absorb the Uber's playlist and then you get out of the Uber at another event.
That is what just happened to Elizabeth May there.
Okay, quote me on that.
No, this is, okay.
I want to make fun of Elizabeth May because like that's a national TV camera you did that in front of.
And that's the problem with what happened here.
Because I should tell you that I have pulled this exact stunt, you and I together on David Menzies, when you and I made him play Thistlehair the Christmas Bear.
And then we sang a stirring rendition of it because he had never heard that beautiful Alabama Christmas song.
And it is the cutest little thing.
And did you know the bears living in the woods are Christian?
They are.
That's the whole point.
They're the story.
They're spreading the good news.
Thistlehair, the Christmas bear.
We did do this to David Menzies and Drea Humphrey.
Drea Humphrey.
And Drea Humphrey was like, she didn't appreciate it.
Drea Humphrey did not enjoy our delightful rendition of Thistlehair, the Christmas bear, so much so that she cringed down in her seat and fell asleep.
Yeah, well, Thistlehair, the Christmas bear, spreading the good news everywhere.
Everywhere, Drea What it means to all the children of the world.
Every little boy and girl out there loves thistle hair, except Drea.
That's right.
It was the end of a long day.
We're going to try it again.
We're going to float it by Drea again.
You know what?
I was, my pipes weren't warmed up.
Maybe it was me because I know I have stage presence, but not a lot of skill.
And I brought the stage presence.
The skill isn't there.
Maybe that's my 2026 resolution: have the two meet.
That's right.
You know, that's right.
Hey, everybody, it's Lise Rof of Rebel News.
And before I go, just let me wish you a very Merry Christmas and thanks so much for making 2025 the best year of my life and wishing you all health, wealth, and happiness in 2026.
And we will see you next year.
All right.
Lise had to go because I had technical difficulties.
We started late and she is on a promotional tour of her new book.
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So she had to jump off the air with me and go to the Sean Newman podcast.
So if you want to hear what she had to say, you can go over there and watch her while she talks about the reason for Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.
And I didn't want to keep her.
And I can talk to her anytime.
And you guys can watch her on Tuesdays and Wednesdays on Rebel News.
So I'll finish the last two cringes with you and then say my goodbyes.
How does that work?
All right.
So, next cringe.
As an ECMP, I'm just curious what your take is on the ostrich situation at Universal Ostrich Farms.
What's your party's position on that?
Well, I wrote the Minister of Health, well, so long ago now, a very different Minister of Health.
It was January 2025.
That I wrote to say, look, can't we get the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to redo the tests?
That will remove a lot of the either anxiety divisions.
One wants to know why not redo the tests.
It's not that difficult to redo the tests, but CFIA is refusing.
So I think CFIA could help themselves potentially by doing independent testing.
Do these birds have traces of avian flu?
And it's become such a divisive issue.
I must say, most of my constituents who write me want that ostrich cull not to happen.
And they want to, and I want to know.
I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't happen, but why not get the evidence?
Why not?
And this is our position as a party.
Why not redo the testing and verify the health of that flock of ostriches before engaging in what many see as animal cruelty?
And I can't imagine, this is absolutely astonishing to me, that an animal welfare issue in Canada has garnered the attention of MAGA-type billionaires in the United States, which makes me sympathize with the ostriches less.
But that doesn't matter.
What matters is we get our facts first, and we don't have all the facts because CFIA has refused to do the testing.
What's wrong with that lady?
So now it's the wrong kind of the ostriches are, I guess, they have the wrong kind of politics.
She says it doesn't matter, but apparently it definitely does matter to her, doesn't it?
She says it makes her sympathize with the ostriches less.
So the ostriches have less right to live, less right to fair treatment, less right to access to justice.
I guess the farmers have less right to access to justice and fair treatment before the law because you don't like the people who like the birds.
And yet still, yet still, crazy old Elizabeth May actually makes more sense than, well, the health minister who didn't have a clue about the ostriches.
Remember when Ezra asked her about the ostriches and then she had a null malfunction at the junction and one of her staff had to step in.
Imagine being more crazy than Elizabeth May.
It's where we are right now.
Okay, I think this is the last day of cringe miss.
Thank you for coming along this wild ride with me.
Opposition.
Loss of national identities and self-confidence.
It's a nationalistic, white supremacist, misogynist, against immigration.
You bet.
Also against the Paris Agreement, against climate action.
But I have to say that given that Canada shares those values, when we expand our trading relationships, I think we should be seeking out countries that have shared values with us, which obviously with Europe we do.
Respect for democracy, respect for human rights.
There's something pathological about Elizabeth May's need to get in front of a camera and act a fool.
It might be a birth defect that when she sees a camera, she'll just get in front of it and sing.
I think on election night, she did like a folk music.
It wasn't Thistlehair, but she did some sort of folk act with her husband.
She did like an old lady braw burner song.
Now she's holding conferences on CPAC where she's calling the Americans white supremacists.
Very helpful lady in the middle of a trade war.
And, you know, we saw her break into a rendition of a Joni Mitchell song just a few segments back.
Why won't she go away?
She's like a poltergeist, isn't she?
Like you mention her name and then the plates rattle and the doors slam and the windows go up and down and the lights go on and off.
She's like that, but she does it in politics.
You know, you mention her name and she's out there singing and saying crazy things that are just very unhelpful in these very trying times with our American friends.
I can't, you know what the problem is?
The liberals, the left, the environmentalist movement, and the media mainstream, of course, treat her like she's not a crazy person.
She is.
She is.
There's something wrong with the people of her riding to continue to keep electing her.
I don't know what's going on in that writing.
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I should go check it out for myself.
Maybe I'll do that this summer.
Okay, you guys, I got to wrap it up.
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