
Today, we're looking at Conservatives, including immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner, calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to dismiss Immigration Minister Lena Diab over her failure to address Canada's mass migration crisis. Plus, Premier Ford was asked about his thoughts on which party he'd like to see leading the federal government as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre heads overseas to meet with British and German officials. And finally, the Ontario premier also provided an update on the case of a Lindsay man who was charged after he defended his home from an armed intruder.
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Foreign. Oh, hey, Good morning, Good afternoon, everybody. Depending on which part of this. I was going to say beautiful country that you're in, but I don't think I should say that anymore. I mean, it is topographically beautiful, but. But I think I'm just nostalgic for the way that things used to be. I'm Sheila Gun Reed. You're watching Rebel Roundup. It's our daily news and opinion show. And I'm joined today by my Thursday co host, my friend, my colleague, my rock, when I'm on this onerous book tour, Tamara Ugolini. How's it going?
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Yeah, pretty good, Sheila. We have some great news today. So I'm really eager to get into that. But how are you doing over there? I know you're like, as you mentioned, crazy, running every which way, trying to A, fulfill your work requirements and B, fulfill your side work requirements of this book launch.
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Yeah, it's really busy, but the weather's nice. And I'm always excited to meet rebel supporters, but also people who are skeptics of independence. I invite those people to come to our Independence Tour stops. We've got three, sort of in the southern half of the province. Got Calgary tonight, then Medicine Hat the next night, and then Lethbridge the next night. And then we have a couple of days off which aren't really days off. They're just where you get back to the rest of your work. And then from there we head to Northern Alberta. If you'd like more information, go to independence tour.com. but you'll see myself and Tamara Leach and Corey Morgan from the Western Standard there. And we all have our books. So Tamara Scott, hold the Line, her book about her experience during the convoy. I've got my brand new book called Independence what Alberta Can Learn from Quebec. And Corey Morgan is there with his Sovereignties Handbook. So. And also if you'd like my book, you can go to independenceblueprint.com or on Amazon. So that's it. I'll tell everybody what we're doing real quick. And then you've got some good Doug Ford, which is rare, so we should most definitely talk about it. If you're watching us on Rumble, you can support the work that we do and get involved in the show by leaving a Rumble rant. That's their paychant paid chat over there. And we ask you for the support because we don't take any money from the government to do the work that we do. And how could we ever be truly independent if we did that? Now if you leave us a rumble rant. It's over the five dollar US Cut off. We're reading it on air. If it's under that, we'll do our best time permitting. But as I just mentioned, I've got a zip out the door. Viewers at home, please remind me to take this flag when I go because we don't have any flags at our event. And if you're watching us on YouTube, the paid chat over there is called a super chat or if you missed the live version of the show, but you really want to support our work, thank you so much. You can leave a paid comment called a super thanks. So that's it. Tamara, tell us about a stopped clock being right twice a day.
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Yep, that's exactly it when it comes to flip flop forward Ontario premier. So so first and forem breaking news just today that all charges have been dropped for that Lindsay dad, remember the Lindsay homeowner who was the victim of an armed Intruder during a 3am home invasion back in August? Jeremy McDonald has had all charges against him for defending himself and his home against this intruder armed with a crossbow just today. But this is, you know, it comes after months of outrage and politicians weighing in heavily on this topic and what happened there and and the homeowner's rights and ability to defend their castle, as it's called castle law in the US which we don't have here in Canada, but rather the crown relies on self defense legislation. And so that's what saved Jeremy McDonald in this case where all the charges against him were dropped because this an obvious act of self defense. I suppose it just took the better part of what, seven, eight months to figure it out with hefty legal fees and costs, I must say, which we crowdfunded for jeremy@savejeremy.com so if you want to stay up to date, if you're not sure what I'm talking about, if you want to see the previous reports that David Menzies had done on the file, he went up to Lindsay right after the attack and invasion, did some street reporting there and found details that otherwise the public would not have been privy to. So we crowdfunded his legal defense. Successful massive victory today for Jeremy McDonald@save Jeremy.com and we have this great clip of Doug Ford being asked about this this morning where as Sheila, you mentioned a broken clock is right twice a day and he really doubles down. And this was something he said kind of from the onset. So it's unsurprising that this is still. Well, I guess it is surprising that this Is still his stance because he is known as Flip Flop Ford. But this was one topic where he pretty. He stayed unwavering and he was like, you know, if you intrude into someone's house, if you come as an armed invader, this is what any reasonable person would do. They would defend themselves and take any measures available to them to do that. He references. There was another really horrific case, I believe it was in Mississippi saga, where the father tried to, I think, acquiesce and compromise with an intruder and he ended up being killed in front of his family. So that's, you know, the thing that you're. That you're up against when you're faced with a fight or flight dire 3am wake up call to someone armed in your home. We know police response times are anywhere from immediately to 90 minutes.
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Never. Yeah.
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Or never. So it's really sadly becoming this unchartered territory where it's every man for himself in the middle of the night, especially if you're rural. At Lindsay, they have. I believe they have their own policing. I don't believe it's opp. I think there is a Lindsay police service. I'll have to double check that. But it is fairly rural and although Jeremy did, from what I understand, live downtown, I'm not even sure how long it took the police to get there. But there's instances where, yeah, they never show up. Or it's 24 hours later in that one situation in British Columbia. So the whole thing is just a mess. But let's show this.
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And just to. Before we show the clip, if there's an armed intruder in your home, whatever the police response time is, is too long. Yeah, right. Like it doesn't matter if it's 8 minutes or 80 minutes. If there's an armed intruder in your home, you should be able to defend your own life. I. I have a criticism of Doug Ford, but I'll save it for after because let's just give him. Let's just give him this win. But then I'll. Okay, let's just watch.
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The assault charges against the Lindsay homeowner
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were dropped this morning.
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That was the case where you said
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something was broken with the system.
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Yeah.
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I'm wondering if you think that the
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system actually worked or if you think the police need to think twice before laying charges in the first place.
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Well, if what I understand, if the guy breaks into your house and he has a crossbow ready to kill you, it's free game. You protect your life, you protect your family, and there isn't one person, anywhere in Ontario, anywhere, that if someone's breaking in your house and they're going to harm your children, harm your spouse then, and I don't think they had children in the room, to be fair, that. But you're protecting your property. Guys, if you break into someone's home, you need to pay the price. I'll tell you, anyone breaks into my home, it's going to be a bad day for a real, real bad day. And every person in here will fight for their lives to protect their home and their families. And unfortunately, one man did that protect his little four year old. And that dirty scumbag shot him to death in front of his kids. That guy needs to go to jail for the rest of his life. Put him in a hole somewhere for the, the next hundred years. Those four little kids, watching their dad get executed in front of his wife and his four kids, it's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. And we, we have to start making sure these people stay in jail, not going out, going out for bail. Once, twice, three times, four times, five times. They, they make a mockery of our justice system. That's what they're doing. Anyways, this is supposed to be a good news story. Sorry for ranting. Let's get back to Ontario Science center and Ontario Place. Thanks for getting me going, buddy. I appreciate that. Lee.
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Oh, Ford, it was your own doing that gets you going.
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You know, everything he said there is right. You should be able to defend your own life, whether it's in your home or on the street, by the way. But it was Doug Ford's Crown Prosecution Service that laid this charge. And when he says there's something broken with the system, Pardon et moi, Doug Ford, but you're the system. You could fix this quite easily. In fact, in Alberta, Daniel Smith said that we are not going to prosecute people and put them through the ringer just to have the charges dropped. If you are defending your life in your own home. She said, don't break into people's homes if you don't want to get shot. That's what she said. So there are things that Doug Ford could do other than complain about the system. He's the system. You could do something about it. And thank goodness that people at home decided to help this man, Jeremy McDonald, because the process is the punishment. Thousands of dollars in legal fees, the stress, the reputational harm after you've been charged with what? Manslaughter. That should never have happened to this man. And if there's a time to fix this, Doug Ford, instead of getting angry at the podium, do something about it. Say that you're not going to prosecute people who are saving their own lives and the lives of their families inside of their homes.
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Yeah. And the, the bail reform issue, I mean this guy was someone who had a rap sheet. He was known to police, previous convictions. I think he was out on bail, actually.
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No surprise there.
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Ye really unsurprising at this point. So that is a major, a massive issue in Canada where you just have these repeat violent offenders out on the street just ready to commit again because there is no repercussion, there's no consequence. And that's learned pretty, you know, that's learned after your first release. Hey, I just skirted the system. I can get away with this stuff. And you know, sadly we've been told that masculinity is toxic. So I think a lot of these offenders have become so brazen that they don't expect anyone to actually defend themselves anymore. And here you're faced with a man who stood up and responded in a masculine way and said, no, I'm not going to, to lay down here. And, and this was the result. But I think that, yeah, the process is absolutely the punishment, but this is absolutely a victory for sure self defense and for Jeremy McDonald. So all the power to him as he moves forward in his life. You know, I'm sure a situation like this comes with massive psychological repercussions. I mean, your home is supposed to be like, like the law says, the castle law in the United States. It's your castle. It's your safe haven, it's your sanctuary. And to have that breached, that is so highly disconcerting. I don't know how you would come back from something like that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's.
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And the, the thing at the time too, remember, it was all about reasonableness. Did he respond in a way that was reasonable? And I can tell you that if I'm awoken at 3am by someone armed with a crossbow, you're not thinking, oh, is my response going to be reasonable in the eyes of a liberal appointed judge two years from now? Like you're literally fight or flight.
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Yeah, yeah. They're gonna get a broadhead in their gut if they come into my house. Yeah. And you know, we've got criminals assuming that Canadians are all but disarmed. And if the liberals had their way, we would be. Let's move ahead away from this victory into the conservative reaction to their colleague, formerly Judas Genero, I've been calling him Matt Genero for accompanying Prime Minister Carney. On an 11 day junket to India. Isn't that something? Don't show up to work for four months, don't vote, don't even go to your constituency office and then cross the floor. And you're rewarded with an obvious attempt to keep you out of the House of Commons because your colleagues are going to just former colleagues are going to rip you a new one on the House floor with some tough questions. You. So Conservative MP from Alberta, this is James. Is James Bazan from Alberta. Maybe he's Manitoba. He's. He was asked about it and he had some. I mean he called it for what it is. Mr. Genre who crossed the floor last week is on the Prime Minister's trip to India, Australia and Japan. Do you have any thoughts on that? Look, to say that for a guy that hasn't showed up for work for
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the last few months, nice to get
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a junket from the Prime Minister.
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Payback for crossing the floor completely.
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Yeah.
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Yep. If people want to sign my petition calling on Matt General to do the right thing, which I'm skeptical because you wouldn't cross the floor, but more than anything, I want to give voice to the people of Edmonton river event, you can sign it@firemat.com Also, I've got little schemes and plots against Matt General. Like for example, I had the billboard truck out against him in his writing. I encountered a liberal boomer in the wild. That was quite jarring. But if you want to donate to my next scheme, plot, campaign and attempt to undermine Matt Genero, you can donate at that same website, firemat.com sorry, Olivia. How many people have signed that petition? It's like 23,000. 22,000. 23,531. Let's get it up to 25,000 before the end of the day, please. Thanks.
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Yeah, that video did really well. I was shocked to see a boomer in the wild, especially in Alberta of all places. And a. Any conservative stronghold nonetheless. I mean, most of Alberta is. But that writing in particular was held by what, Matt General for two, three decades?
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No. So since 2015. So the writing was created in 2015. He's voted in. In 2015. So 11 years he's been there as the conservative member and they've been electing him over and over again and he crossed the floor and boy, people were mad at him.
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As they should be.
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Yeah. Let's move ahead. We've got Conservative immigration critic MrG Michelle Rumpel Garner. Michelle Rumpel Garner is a joy to watch at the House of Commons committees, which are boring for everybody. Else except for me. I realize that. But she's great because she treats our immigration minister, Lena Diab like the midwit. Because she is. She treats her like a midwit that she is. And she points out that she's going to be fired soon. And Michelle mentioned that again yesterday that Lena Diab should be fired. The immigration system isn't fixed. She's in her, she's been in her portfolio long enough to have done something, anything. I mean, they're not even helping at this point. Like things are getting worse. And so, and Michelle points out that, look, you're turning people who were pro controlled economic based immigration. When I say economic based immigration, I mean like, do we have a hole in our economy? Can we slot these people in without having to provide training to them, you know, foreign trained doctors, those sorts of things. You're turning people against even that because you're radicalizing people the other way. Because this is such a mess, which is, you know, the pendulum swinging back the other way. Let's watch. This is. We have seen Canada's immigration consensus crumble over the last year. I am deeply concerned about the hardening attitudes of Canadians towards immigration. This is why I and my conservative colleagues have been putting forward common sense proposals to restore order and fairness back into the system. The problem is, is that, you know, whenever we have the minister at committee or she's in the House of Commons, she doesn't exude confidence in the file one way. I think that the fact that 10 Liberal MPs were willing to talk to the CBC about an issue set similar sentiments probably, probably states something that we all knew was going to happen, which is I, I think that the Prime Minister is going to have to fire her and fire her quickly. This file is too important to, to continue on the path that she set it on. This is. We have seen Canada's immigration.
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Yeah. I often ask my children, yeah, these, these questions when we're, you know, in the middle of a contentious thing or, you know, something's happening. And I look at them, are you helping or are you hindering? And it sounds like Lena Diab is doing a lot of hindering. And I think she, I've said this before, she's the seventh minister to take over this massive file in seven years. And they've all been obviously a failure because nothing's changed. And that opening of the floodgates, like quite literally, you can go to Statista or stats can, and you can see, see the massive jump in immigration in 2020 and well, in 2021 primarily, yeah.
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When we were all locked down, that dwarfed.
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Well, yeah, we all needed a vax pass to travel interprovincial inter provincially. And yet we're opening up the floodgates to everyone and their grandmother not even worried about that kind of stuff, apparently. But you can see that those numbers dwarf historical averages. Like, we're not talking a slight bump or a jaunt up. These are dwarfed historical averages.
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Right.
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And it's continued mostly unabated. And it's become a well known fact now that, hey, Canada is the land of the free. And literally, like, you can just get everything for free if you come in claiming asylum, claiming refugee. And that's not to say that there aren't legitimate claims out there, but there needs to be safeguards and checks and balances to ensure people aren't capitalizing on the. The historically generous historical generosity of Canadians that is. Has been completely taken advantage of in recent years.
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Yeah, there's persecuted Christians who should be seeking asylum in Canada, like, you know, maybe from Nigeria. And yet they're bunged up in a system that is occupied by food service workers from the Indian subcontinent, which is the world's largest democracy. I want to reiterate every time I say that you're not being persecuted there. They can't get here and get their claims processed, even though they're being sponsored by churches, because the system is bunged up by these fraudulent claims of Tim Horton's workers from the Indian subcontinent who come here on a temporary foreign worker visa and then get here and then claim asylum. And now the people who actually need our help can't get it. That's a problem. And they could fix that instantly. If you came here on a temporary work permit and your temporary work permit is expired, we'll put you on a plane and get you out of here immediately. That's how it works. It would fix youth immigration, it would fix the asylum system. And it's real easy. They're just not doing it. They refuse to do it. And seven in seven years. We've had five since 2021. And we're like a month into 2026. And Lena Metlage diab, all she does is blink her way through committee hearings while they point out that, yeah, we had a steady influx of immigration, then all of a sudden, just a straight spike. And there's no possible way that we can absorb that into our economy. There's just no way.
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No, there's not. The, the infrastructure was never. That was not even a thought. When Trudeau was like, all right, Canada, diversity is our stre one come all. Bring your aging grandparents and free health care for them too. Right. Like, it's absolute madness that none of this was ever factored in. And now all of a sudden you see it playing out on the streets. It's been downloaded onto the provinces, onto the cities, the municipalities. These, these issues they're pushing back, saying, hey, this is a problem, but this is a federal issue. What are we going to do about it? And Lena Diab is up there in committee and in Parliament just going, she can't even formulate a sentence response. I mean, she's just falling over her own words continuously. It's actually so embarrassing to see, but again, unsurprising. And when you mentioned the temporary foreign worker permits being expired or coming up for expiry, we actually can't find those people.
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Right.
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The Canadian Border Services Agency has said there's upwards of like half a million people who are set to be export it or deported, that they, they literally don't even know how, where, where they are or how to find them. So, yeah, that's another safeguard that was never thought out, never put in place. And now it's just the Wild West.
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Yeah. And if we look.
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Not in a good way. No, no, not in a separatist independence
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way, not the fun way like we have here. And if we know it's doable, the United States, it's far larger than us. They've got a larger illegal. Well, I don't know, maybe we're equal when it comes to per capita, but they have a massive illegal immigration pro problem thanks to the Democrats being in charge for the last four years before Trump took over and eight years before the first Trump administration. But they, they're dealing with it. They're dealing with it. So it can be done. There just needs to be political will and there doesn't appear to be any. Let's move ahead.
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And it's not.
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Oh, sorry.
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Also like, that's that the framing here is like, oh, this is racist. And nobody's. I hear so much from the left. Nobody's illegal. And I'm like, well, actually, if you've been convicted of a crime in your home country and you're coming to Canada and then seeking asylum and refugee.
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Yeah.
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That kind of actually does make you illegal because you're a criminal where you're from. You're just trying to escape any form of accountability or consequence for the court criminality you engaged in back home. I did a whole report breaking down, like, the public health risks that we flag and then let into our country anyway. And then the rest of us are expected to like acquiesce to these endless public health databases that they're going to track and trace our health records and people who are actually flagged health risks we just let into the country just
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because
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it's madness, it's a topsy turvy, upside down world does not make logical sense. And criticizing this keeps being labeled as being racist, but it's not racist to want to ensure that our veterans have health care, have housing, aren't living homeless on the streets or aren't being offered maid because they can't get a family doctor within two years, if ever. It's ridiculous to disregard genuine valid concerns as though it's some sort of like xenophobic racism when you have people on the streets who have paid the ultimate price to this country to defend it and serve and protect. And we're not. We're literally just leaving them out to the streets.
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Yeah. And you know, by virtue of overstaying your temporary foreign worker visa, you're breaking the law. So you are breaking the laws of the country. That's criminality. That should immediately exclude you from ever attempting to stay here, ever coming back. You can't respect our laws. Out you go. And just to button up your point on, you know, the criticisms of, oh, it's racism. If you want people who are overstaying their work permits to go back to wherever the hell they came from. The writing that usually brings forward the anti birthright citizenship proposals, the policy proposals at the Conservative Party convention, it's almost always Richmond in B.C. because they are sick and tired of Chinese oligarchs, spoiled brats coming and having their anchor baby in their local hospital there and then sponsoring the rest of the family in. And who is on the writing association? Chinese people who came here the right way. They're the ones bringing forward this legislation. At least propose policy proposals for the Conservative Party to adopt because they hate it. They hate seeing their crooked fellow country, former fellow countrymen, breaking the laws of the country they love so much. They hate it. They're good Canadians and it's not a. It doesn't make you bad Canadian to want to protect what it means to be a Canadian. Right.
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What a slap in the face to all those people who came here, did their due diligence, went through the checks and balances and, and are proud to say, hey, I came here the right way and now I am contributing to the Canadian. I'm a Canadian and I'm contributing to the Canadian Way of life.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Slap in the face to them. We have a quick super chat or rumble rant.
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I'm not sure.
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Politicians never lie. Gives five dollars and three cents. Thank you. Lena Diab is the dumbest of them all. Most likely corrupt as well.
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Yeah, I don't think she's smart enough to be corrupt, honestly. Like I just think she's an idiot and it's, you know, the dumbest liberal politician changes on any given day depending on who's in the House of Commons. Right. But she's right up there. She like. She's right up there with Evan Solomon, I think. Yeah.
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Nate Erskine.
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Nate Erskine Smith. Nate Erskine doesn't eat enough animal products so it's not. His brain doesn't work properly. But I don't think she's bright enough to be corrupt. I really don't.
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I think she had a corruption or he. No, he was charged Nader skin. Wasn't he charged from within the Election act recently?
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Yeah, he was just fine, 2300 or something for violating the elections laws. But yeah, Lena. No, I don't think she's bright enough. I think she's one of those people who. One of those Facebook grandmas who thinks that Elon Musk needs her to send him money so that he can get out of trouble like. And that's who I think Lena is. Just before we hit an ad break on the topic of temporary foreign workers, we've got Pierre Polyev suggesting that Mark Carney might be a temporary foreign worker.
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I mean yeah.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister may pretend he just got here like he's a temporary foreign worker or something, but in reality it's the same Liberal House leader, the same Liberal Finance minister, the same Liberal Justice Minister who was the immigration Minister that broke the entire system that are running it into the ground today. And it's not just health care that where there's two tiered. Mr. Speaker, this prime Minister keeps in place laws that allow foreign criminals who are visiting Canada to have less time in jail after they commit crimes. Will he get rid of the two tiered system so that we can lock up serious criminals and then kick them out of our country when they're done their time. Right Honorable
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Mr. Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, I would encourage in the spirit of the members opposite question, support for C2 and C12 which will help to address some of these issues.
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That's the first point.
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The second point. Mr. Speaker. Mr. Mr. Speaker, when someone commits a crime in this country, they should serve the time. Time in this country. We're here.
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So bail reform.
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Yeah. Serve what time, by the way? Like serve what time? The only time they want people to serve is on a fake bail violation for Tamara Leach. 50 days for a pitcher with a lawyer in literally in the picture, they violated her bail for that. And you know, a justice of the peace found her to have violated her bail, but when a real judge looked at it, he said no, but how do you give that woman her 50 days back? The guy who slit his 8 year old's throat is tootling around my province and in his creep van out on conditions, posting all over social media. By the way, my video that I did about that guy when it first happened got taken down because of a publication ban. But this guy is posting all over social media. My truthful video was taken down. But we're only allowed his narrative out there. He's allowed on social media. Nobody serves real time in this country. So if you're a foreign criminal, I don't want you to get your two years, less a day in a provincial jail, comfortable time. I want you to go back to whatever hellhole you came from and never set foot in my country again. I don't want you to be the burden of a Canadian taxpayer like Mark Carney's talking like Canada has hard time for anybody. Give me a break.
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Well, and I wanted to, I know we, I need to hit an ad break, but I want to just get to this one clip by Mark Miller too, who's the former immigration minister, by the way, and is now the Minister of Canadian Culture because I guess we need such a thing. He's, he's saying that Polyev should stop pandering to communities, promising them not to be deported and promising visas for everyone. Let's listen to this nonsense.
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This is actually a really serious issue and they can talk down members of this House. They can call them bad people all they want. But Canada's immigration consensus is crumbling. Stakeholders aren't getting their calls returned. Controls are gone, putting pressure on housing, on health care and on jobs. And the minister is MIA throughout all of it. The House deserves a straight answer. When is she getting fired? Yay, the Honorable Minister. So, Mr. Speaker, let's assume for a second that the conservatives actually want to help the situation. Perhaps the member opposite can turn to our right, talk to the leader of the opposition who's changed so many ridings, he's Parliament's own temporary foreign worker, and ask them to stop going around the country pandering to communities, promising them not to be deported and promising visas for everyone that might help. Mr. Speaker, this is actually really. Did he call PR? Did he steal POV's joke and try to turn it around on him and say he's a temporary foreign worker. He's from Alberta. He was born here. He's from here. He just came home. He lives in his riding. He has two constituency offices. I was drove past one the other day. How long did it take for Mark Carney. Mr. Three separate passports. To open an office in wherever he is from Nipian.
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I don't even think he has. I don't think he has a constituency office yet. Oh the writing is just, it's right before. It's just before Ottawa. Just outside of Ottawa. Thank you.
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Yes.
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Yeah, yeah. I don't think he has a constituency office and he was criticized heavily for not having one while they were campaigning. Absolute nonsense in the House of Commons and I mean the conservatives just put a motion through or sorry they asked for a review of the, the criminals we let into this country.
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Right.
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And then give temporary health care to under the temporary foreign health policy. I think it's TFHP
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where they're getting
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better health care than Canadians and seniors than people who have paid into these systems for their entire lives. So yeah, they are doing something about it but the liberals just would rather
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they voted it down.
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Engage in theatrics.
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Yeah, the Liberals just voted that down. Like the Liberals are the ones giving the visas to all these people. Like the audacity to say well Pierre, Polly have traveling all around the country promising all these different groups visas. You guys are in charge. You guys are the ones giving them. Even if that were true that Polly have we're doing that. I don't believe it is. But even if it were true, how is that any different than what you guys are quite tangibly doing right now?
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JP Alberta first gives us $10 on the on the topic of the dumbest minister and he says Gary Ananda Sangari or whatever it is, but that's what it is would be a serious contender for dumbest minister.
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Yeah.
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Also for conflict of interest as runner up behind the Prime Minister.
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You know what that is?
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That's so many of them.
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Strong contender. He's pretty dumb because like Lena he doesn't know his portfolio. If you are going around snatching guns from law abiding gun owners, you might want to know the systems in place for licensing. He has no clue. He should take a weekend like my aging mother in law did and go sit through the RPAL course. If a 70 something woman can do it and pass with flying colors. Surely Gary Ananda Sangri, the minister in charge of that course, should be able to do it. He has no clue, absolutely no clue about Red Flag.
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I didn't even know it existed.
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No, he didn't.
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He didn't even know what our pal was.
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No, he's an idiot. Let's hit an ad break and come back on the other side. We'll try to hit topic the headline topics with what's left of the show and the cringe because we have a recidivist criminal. Oh yes, daily cringe. Janice Irwin. She's back to make me crawl out of my skin. I have such second hand embarrassment for her and I don't know why because I don't like her. Usually I only have secondhand embarrassment for people I like, but it's just so bad. Anyway, let's hit an ad break and then we've got an ad read on the other side.
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Hello everyone.
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Tamara Leach here with Rebel News. And I am thrilled to announce that I am heading out on tour to talk about all things Alberta independence with
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two of my friends, favorite authors and
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Yeah, and in ways they didn't even know about. Like the dastardly deeds of Farm Credit Canada who checked your social media to see if you were a supporter of the convoy. Before they decided if you were going to get financing to buy cattle or buy farm equipment, they decided that you needed to have a government friendly social credit score during that time. So people were hurt in ways that they might never have even realized. You know, you just got turned down for financing. You don't know why. Your credit is fine, you've done business with them forever. But because you were on the wrong side of the government like they do in CCP controlled China, you just were not able to access financing. It's just despicable. And the fact that these people are just get away with it and just go on to bigger and better things like Christopher Freeland. I mean, we're not a real country. In the United States, you'd go to jail. In South Korea, that prime minister just got life in prison. They wanted the death penalty for him after he invoked martial law illegally there in the new country, perhaps we'll have strict, stricter penalties for this. Doug Ford was asked if he thinks Pierre POV and the Federal Conservatives are pulling down his Party support in Ontario? That's an odd question. Maybe it has something to do with Doug Ford himself, but okay, let's listen. There's a new poll out this morning from Liaison Strategies that has your party at 40% support, four points over the Liberals. You're down 7% from the fall. Do you think that the Federal Party and Pierre Poliev are pulling your party down any.
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No. You know something, Liaison, they're heavy Liberal pollsters. Last week another poll came out that we were 45%. They were down 30. I had another poll. We're up 45. They're at 20%. You know, polls are for dogs. And the only poll that counts is on election day. So all these pollsters, they're a little biased. Pushing up one, bringing down the other. The people will decide. The people will decide if they want to go back to tax and spend governments chasing 300,000 jobs out of the province. We've gained a million jobs. We've never raised taxes. So they want to tax and spend government. We aren't the ones.
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What? I don't even know what Ontario's ballooning deficit is at, but that is nonsense masquerading as fiscal responsibility. Doug Ford has not been that whatsoever. We sure they haven't raised taxes, but our deficit just continues to grow.
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In no way could Pierre Poly have hurt Doug Ford. That phone call, my friends, is coming from inside the House. People want a Conservative premier, they're just not getting a Conservative premier. So why would you vote for Conservative in name only when you could just vote for the Liberals? In Alberta, the Conservatives are polling high, higher than ever. And that is reflected in Danielle Smith's increasing improvement rating. I think she's like 13, 16 points ahead of the NDP in Alberta. The more Conservative she gets, the wider that gap gets. And that's how it happens. Doug Ford has to be different than the Liberals, but he's not. So when you're somewhere in the mushy middle and you're wondering, okay, well, I have a Liberal here or a Liberal here. Maybe you park your vote with the Liberal. You don't know that's a Doug Ford problem. It's not a PR polie of problem. If he were Conservative, he'd probably do be doing a lot better.
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Yeah. This wedging is just more indication that Ford is eyeing up a seat or perhaps to be the leader of the Conservatives.
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Good luck. Good luck. If Alberta is still in the country when Doug Ford has designs on that, do you think the western block of Conservative Party members is ever going to allow that to happen in a million years. MrG, if you're watching, please run against him. There's no possible way it. If we're still here. There's. The Western bloc of Conservative Party membership will make sure that never happens. Never ever. Because we feel like he screwed us in the last election. And there's a lot of truth to that.
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Yeah. And arguably also for the last 10ish years.
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Yes.
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All right, so what else do we have here? Oh, and well, there's some more Doug Ford if we want to just talk about.
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Sure.
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Flip flopping, you know. Yes. He got one thing right today which was holding true to the fact that we should have robust self defense laws. And those charges for Jeremy McKenzie should have absolutely been dropped. And they were.
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Yeah. I hope he's in charge.
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He's trying to backpedal on his like thinly veiled attack on Pierre Poliev.
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Yeah.
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And say that he wishes him all the best and has nothing against him whatsoever.
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Yeah. Pierre Poliev is going to be speaking at noon talking about Canada U. S Relations. We understand he is going to be mentioning President Donald Trump. What do you want to hear from the Federal Conservative leader that maybe we haven't heard before?
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Well, I just want to hear that he's going to work collaboratively. Collaboratively with our federal government. I don't care who's the Prime Minister. It could be the Red Party, the Blue Party, probably never the Orange Party, but we will. You know, I work with anyone and I don't care if Pierre ever became Prime Minister, I'd be working with him. I work well with the Prime Minister right now. So let's all work together. Let's start diversifying our trade, which we're, we're doing. Let's start cutting taxes, putting money back into people's pockets and businesses so they can reinvest. That's, that's what I believe in. So I wish him all the best. By the way, I have nothing against Pierre whatsoever.
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Pierre Poliev, I believe none of that.
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I think that's the problem is that for. Well, he works with everyone instead of like being actual opposition to anything, which is the whole reason why we have opposition parties is to make headway on things that should not be moving forward or should not be allowed tolerated going through when you're just the yes man to everything. That's how we end up in the mess that we're in now.
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Right. Right. Pierre Poliev is the leader of the opposition party. It's his job to oppose bad ideas from the Liberals that hurt Canadians. That's his job. It's right in the title, right?
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News flash.
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Yeah. It. So to say that he must work collaboratively with Prime Minister on his bad ideas and schemes. That's not his job. It's not his job to prop up the current government. It's his job to oppose the ideas that would undermine Canada's best interests. And I think he. That's what he's doing, you know, that's
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why Oole was voted out. Like, we got rid of the guy who was just trying to go along to get along.
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Yes.
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We want actual opposition. And I would say in a lot of these areas, Pierre Poliev isn't there yet. Yeah. I want more hard lines. Yeah, for sure.
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He could be a little bit more radical in his ideas. Just going back to the point, we were talking about Doug Ford wanting to sit in the office of the leader of the opposition at the Conservative Party national convention in Calgary. Now it is an Alberta crowd, but there were conservatives from all over the country there. When Daniel Smith took that stage, it was like a rock star hit the stage. Like more applause, more energy than. I think even for Pierre Poliev himself, because I. I think she's the leader that all these other conservatives wish they had in their own province. And I know for a fact Doug Ford would not have been given that same reception from conservatives all across the country. I just. There's no possible way, because he's not actually doing anything like nothing even remotely interesting or. Or controversial that changes the society and the culture for the better. He's just not doing those things. So anyway, that.
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Clearly that's what he just said.
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Take on Doug Ford. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's his style, I guess, when it wouldn't have got him very far at that Conservative Party convention. I don't know who's around him, but somebody needs to give him, like, a reality check.
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Just say, like, kick in the behind. Wasn't that the same Conservative Party convention that the CBC said? There's. There's growing sentiment and likely, like, likeness toward Mark Carney.
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Yeah. Here. Yeah.
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What an absolute ridiculous statement.
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Yeah.
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All right, we have a few more minutes left. I'm not sure what we should get to next here.
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Maybe just talk about this maid issue, because this is again, and I don't want to turn it into an Alberta centric show, however, we are doing things in here to. In this province to protect ourselves from the horrors of the rest of the country. So one of them is, of course, our referendum on immigration. Perhaps one of Them is our referendum on staying within confederation entirely. Our police will not be participating in the gun grab. And we also will not be participating in the expansion of the medical assistance and dying program. So the other day, Alberta announced that there will be no such thing for people whose underlying condition is mental illness. No mature minors. We're pumping the brakes on this. And okay, I am a traditional Catholic, so for me this is a complete non starter. I don't want any of this. In our culture, we have medicalized death instead of it just being part of life and death. So I am conception to natural death. Now, I. If you want to decline medical intervention towards the end of your life, that's something different than them saying, get in the suicide pod, Grammy. Like it's a little bit different. But for the people who were in favor of medical assistance and dying, for people with a foreseeable death in the very near future whose suffering is great. Now, I don't believe in such thing as irremediable suffering, but for people whose suffering is great and they're the end of their life. That's what medical assistance and dying was supposed to be for. We're dialing it back to that or at least doing our best to get it back to there. And that has prompted the Delta Hospice Society in British Columbia, who is featured in our documentary on medical assistance in dying. It's called Maid Canada's Culture of Death. Sorry, like I forget the title of my own documentary made. Anyways, the. The Delta Hospice Society has decided that they will build a palliative care facility in Alberta. And the story of the Delta Hospice Society is harrowing because they built this hospice society with money raised from the Catholic community. By and large. It was on a property that they had an agreement with the provincial government. And when they said, oh, we're not allowing your kill teams to come in here and get other people's Grammys with your needles. The government basically expropriated the building that was privately built using money from faithful traditional Catholics and has turned it into a place where you could just walk in and get euthanized. So they have been operating and raising money and then they have teams that give people palliative care in their homes. I think largely nuns, if I believe correctly. And they have now, because we're going to be a safe haven for people who are mentally ill, in despair and inconvenient, they are going to build a facility here. Considering building a facility here and that so quickly. Daniel Smith can change the culture for the better with just one quick piece of Legislation. It's good. I'm glad.
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And give. Give a whole organization whose life was. Livelihoods were ripped. You know, the rug was just pulled right from out from under them. Give them prosperity again.
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Yes. And my documentary is called made the dark side of Canadian compassion. I can't believe I forgot the name of my own documentary. But it's just one of many. So. So I guess that's the downside of being busy as you get too in your brain and you forget what you've done. You can see it@made documentary.com. it's also on tubi. If you don't want to go about it that way, you can go find it on tubi. But Angelina Ireland, the lady from the delta hospice society, is featured in our documentary and she tells the story of how they lost a multi million dollar facility because they wouldn't kill other people's grandmas in it. It's terrible.
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In case you're wondering what's happening in Canada right now.
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Right, right. And it's going to get worse everywhere else except here in Alberta where we're trying to preserve what Canada was supposed to be like while also being told we're bad Canadians for trying to do that anyway. All right, on that dark note, let's get to the cringe we've got. Oh, shoot. I gotta go up here. The cringe. Alberta wants to separate because of politicians. This is according to Jen Ryan Garrettson. Alberta wants to separate because of politicians like Janice. Janice Irwin. She's an NDP MLA from the failed socialist hellscape of Edmonton. No shade on the people who live there. Got nothing but simple sympathy for you. But Janice Irwin is back IR winning. So let's watch.
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I'm a proud albertan one, too.
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And I'm a very proud Canadian. So today I did one of the easiest things. I signed this pledge right here. This pledge reads as pledge to my
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I, Janice Irwin, MLA for Edmonton highlands, Norwood, affirm that I am a proud
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Albertan and a proud Canadian. I am opposed to separatism and I will make my position known and clear to my constituents. So my constituents in Edmonton, highlands and all Norwood, can know unequivocally that I
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am a proud Albertan and a proud
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Canadian and I denounce separatism. So now we're calling on the UCP and premier Danielle Smith to do the same. There's no more time for double speak for equivocating. It's time for moral clarity from this UCP government. They have an option to take a clear stance today and. And say they're either with Team Canada or they're separatists. It's easy. Albertans are watching and Canada is watching.
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Leave it to the NDP to try to compel speech of other political leaders. Right. Like this is compelled speech. It reminds me of land acknowledgments. It reminds me of declaring your pronoun pronouns and making everybody acquiesce to however you want to identify and that you've declared out to the the world that this is who you are, this is how you're identifying, and this is how you must speak to me. Now, it's absolute nonsense. And I, and I group it in with those same ideologies of ridiculous land acknowledgments and pronoun declarations.
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This. This stuff makes me more of a separatist every time I see it. Yeah, I'm like, so I don't get to be on the same side as Janice Irwin. Perfect. Thank you so much, Janice. Thank you for signing that piece of paper. Now 120 years of structural inequities are suddenly resolved. At least 11 years of attacks on our oil and gas sector completely resolved. All of a sudden we have greater representation in the Senate because you signed this stupid piece of paper that you think is a wedge issue for some reason. But if you look at the Venn diagram of people who support this, the United Conservative Party and people who support separatism, it's a circle, you dunce. It doesn't alienate people from separatism. It drives them to it. When I see that, okay, so I get to be on the other side of an issue. Then this crazy person, sign me up, sister. Like, I just. I don't know how.
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Where's my paper?
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Yeah, like, I'll sign the other one. Where's the other paper? Out. I want that one. Daniel Smith has said over and over again, she's a federalist. She's not compelling the speech of her MLAs. They are basically staying out of this. In fact, I would suggest that they are doing things which undermine the efforts of the separatist movement by doing things like blocking maid expansion in our province, starting our own police force. She's giving the separatists like me what we want without the 18 months of chaos of trying to leave the country. So I actually think that is helpful to Janice's cause of staying inside of the country. She just doesn't want to acknowledge that because then she'd have to say that Daniel Smith is doing the things that people want. And she. That that's a little too much honesty for these kukaloos.
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Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think that we hit the headliners there. I know that we have to jet set off to various. I gotta take this locations and things. Don't forget your flag. Do you have any super chats to get to? I think that was all.
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Okay, that's it.
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All right. So come back. Thanks everybody for joining us for tuning in for those who generously donated and had your comments read on air. Always appreciate that. And we'll be back, same time and place, different hosts posts, tomorrow, Friday from 1 to 2pm Eastern. So come back then. And until then, stay sane and question everything.
On this episode of Rebel Roundup, host Sheila Gunn Reid is joined by Tamara Ugolini for a deep dive into major Canadian news stories of the week. The episode focuses on the defense of homeowners' rights following a high-profile self-defense case in Lindsay, Ontario; the controversy around Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux's floor-crossing; widespread criticism of federal immigration policies and their ministers; and Alberta's pushback against federal policies, including the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The hosts also analyze Doug Ford's positions on various issues and close with discussion of recent political grandstanding around separatism.
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“If the guy breaks into your house and he has a crossbow ready to kill you, it’s free game. You protect your life, you protect your family.” (07:40, Doug Ford).
“It was Doug Ford’s Crown Prosecution Service that laid this charge… You’re the system. You could fix this quite easily.” (10:24, Sheila Gunn Reid).
(41:58–44:09, 45:16–47:55)
“Polls are for dogs. And the only poll that counts is on election day.” (42:25, Doug Ford)
“In no way could Pierre Poilievre hurt Doug Ford. That phone call… is coming from inside the house.” (43:07, Sheila)
“If Pierre ever became Prime Minister, I’d be working with him. I work well with the Prime Minister right now. So let’s all work together...” (46:00, Doug Ford)
(15:54–39:59)
“She doesn’t exude confidence in the file… I think the Prime Minister is going to have to fire her and fire her quickly. This file is too important...” (17:25, Michelle Rempel Garner)
“If you can’t respect our laws: out you go!” (25:36)
“The Prime Minister may pretend he just got here like he’s a temporary foreign worker...” (29:05, Pierre Poilievre)
(49:42–54:07)
“They lost a multi-million dollar facility because they wouldn't kill other people's grandmas in it.” (54:04)
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“This stuff makes me more of a separatist every time I see it… If I get to be on the other side of an issue than this crazy person, sign me up, sister.” (56:46, Sheila Gunn Reid)
“If someone breaks in your house… you need to pay the price… anyone breaks into my home, it’s going to be a bad day, a real, real bad day.” (07:40, Doug Ford)
“You’re the system. You could fix this quite easily.” (10:24, Sheila Gunn Reid)
“She’s right up there with Evan Solomon... Nate Erskine Smith… his brain doesn’t work properly.” (28:08–28:14, Sheila and Tamara)
“The Prime Minister may pretend he just got here like he’s a temporary foreign worker...” (29:05, Pierre Poilievre)
“We're going to be a safe haven for people who are mentally ill, in despair, and inconvenient.” (52:35, Sheila Gunn Reid)
“This stuff makes me more of a separatist every time I see it.” (56:46, Sheila Gunn Reid)
This episode embodies Rebel News’ anti-establishment and Western Canadian independence perspective. It highlights perceived government failures in protecting citizens, border and immigration control, and medical ethics, while championing grassroots victories, provincial innovation, and the option of separatism as a response to federal mismanagement. The hosts critique all levels of government—especially Liberals and “Red Tory” Conservatives, urging more substantive, “common-sense” opposition and policy change.
For listeners, the episode serves as a comprehensive rundown of recent Canadian political controversies and Conservative grassroots sentiment.