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SHEILA GUNN REID | Leftists furious as Avi Yemini uses their own electoral tricks against them
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Tonight on The Gunn Show, we sit down with Rebel News contributor Avi Yemini to unpack a political stunt that has Australia’s activist class absolutely melting down.
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The left in Australia has been abusing the electoral system for far too long. Avi Amini joins me today to explain how he plans to use it to his benefit and then maybe burn it all down so that it might be fixed. I'm Sheila Gunn Reed, and you're watching the Gun. At first glance, you would think that my friend and colleague Avi Amini in Australia has suddenly switched teams from being a former member of the idf, the Israeli Defense Forces, to now being a great Palestinian Liberation politician. But that's not exactly the case. There's a quirky electoral system in Australia that I think was designed with good intentions to prevent fringe parties, or even not the preferred choice of the electorate, to sort of run up the middle, thanks to a vote split on certain sides of the spectrum. And there is a strong Canadian connection to this in that in the 2021 election, the vote split between the two Conservative parties, the People's Party and the Conservative Party, resulted in approximately 21 ridings going to the Liberals. Now, that's not enough to sway the outcome of the election, but it sure made sure that Some pretty good MPs were not sent back to the House of Commons. And then here in Alberta, where I am in 2015, a vote split on the right between the Wild Rose Party, a Conservative Party, and the Less Conservative, albeit still, I mean, depends on who you talk to. Conservative Party, the Progressive Conservatives, resulted in the fringe socialist NDP forming government. So joining me now in an interview we recorded yesterday to explain that system and how he is using it for once to the benefit of the right as a great Palestinian Liberation politician, at least on paper, is my friend and colleague, Avi Amini. Take a listen. Joining me now is my friend and colleague from Australia, Avi Amini, and he's going to explain to us his efforts to become a great Palestinian Liberation hero. Avi, thanks for joining the show. Canadians. I don't think quite understand the quirk of what you're doing. So, you know, hold our hands. Walk us through first, I guess the structures that allow you to do what you're going to do and what you intend to do. I, I know I just gave you a lot there, but take your time.
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All good. Thank you, Sheila. Thanks for having me. And I'm. I'm. Thank you for still calling me a friend. I don't think I've had that many people in my life that known for that long that still refer to me as a friend. So much appreciated, much needed. But, yeah, I am now the leader of the. Well, last week it was the fastest growing political party in Australia called the Free Palestine Party. And essentially what it is, is we have a, we have a preferential voting system across the country here. I'm not sure how yours is structured, but that's, that's our system. So basically you get to select who you want first and then you number, you know, second, third, fourth, fifth preferences and basically if your first one misses, your vote goes into the next person. Now the system itself, I don't mind because it basically means if you look at something like the UK at the moment, where you have a party rise out of nowhere like Nigel Farage's party, and you don't want to split the Conservative votes because most of the people would, that, you know, they might vote reform, but they would put labor last. They want to give reform a chance, but they don't want to completely lose their vote. So essentially what happens now is that that Conservative vote is getting split because you're having people vote for reform, people voting for Conservative and then people voting for, for Labor. And so Labor's kind of got a, a leg up because the other side is splitting their own vote. So it's a way to kind of combat that. Now what we also have, and it's been scrapped in most states, is a group voting ticket, especially in the upper house in the Senate. And so the way that works is it's the same idea, but people, most people vote above the line. When you vote above the line, it means you don't, you don't put your, your preferences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You just put the party you want to win and then the party behind closed doors can make deals on preferences to how to allocate them. And what they, what it allows in reality to happen is that parties that don't represent anyone, you know, there are parties like Animal justice, which, you know, some people vote because of the name, but when you really look at their policies, it's like as far left as you can go. But it, it doesn't even matter. They make deals with they. There's a guy in Australia who's well known called the preference whisperer, he actually sells this. You have to join his little club. You pay $5,000, I think it is off the top of my head just to join and then another 50,000 when you win a seat per se. So he's really raking it in and he makes these back room deals where he allocates all the preferences. So it's completely undemocratic because your vote is not going according. So the reason Why I like the preferential voting system is because if I believe in something, I'll go for what I really want. Like I want One Nation to win, but I know that they may not win the primary popular vote, so they may not get the seat. So, you know, I'll put the cons, you know, the, the, the Uni Party, conservative part of the Uni Party, you know, at the bottom of my, my conservative list. And at least I know that it ends there before it goes to labor or the Greens or something like. But they're not doing that. They're basically making these background deals. Till now, that system has been exploited by the left by especially the Labor Party, the Labor Party and these minor fringe extreme left parties like Animal Justice. And the Labor Party in their defense has been using it mostly to fight off the Greens. So, but it hasn't helped conservatives because those seats have ended up going to these other lunatic parties. But it stopped the Greens, which to them is probably their biggest competition when it comes to like a communist state. Like it's Victoria. But right now, so this year we've decided we're going to use the system in the very same way that they do accept for conservatives. And now the Labor Party is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They on one hand don't want the Greens who poll at about 10, 12% picking up any of their seats or any potentially a couple of their seats. But also these minor fringe parties that are so desperate to work with the government that they can control them better than if you have a block of grains. But now also we have One Nation, which is a real conservative party, polling at about 20 to 30%. There was a by election over the weekend which most people just looked at as a gauge to see other polls. True. And even in Victoria, we saw it play out in South Australia recently and it proved it right. And then here, even in Victoria, 25 they got. Which means that without this group voting ticket, so this group voting ticket will stop the One Nation party from getting a bunch of their seats because you have to hit a certain quota. I'm not going to bore you with the details, but it's the percentages all added up and these preferential deals allow people to, to make the, to get these seats that they probably shouldn't. Like you're talking about people, you know, you'll have somebody get a seat with 1% while somebody with 13, 14% won't get a seat. That's how ludicrous your system is. So now we've launched so we're launching. Well I'm personally because you can only legally be the leader of one party. So Monica Smith started with Save the Environment party trying to capture the climate alarmists that because, because you got to think about it like when people walk into a. The voting booth they see the party name, they see the logo and most people are not like you and me, they're not, they're not watching even if they use. But tomorrow they forget the story. It's not that that important to them. But everybody has an issue they care about. At least they like to think they care about it enough to vote for it on a slogan. And the left is very slogan based. This is what's terrifying them at the moment. So she set up Save the Environment Capture that one. I saved up. I thought when she did that I thought what a fantastic idea. I just reported on it. She got the numbers. You've got to get 500 members at least. So you aim for 750. They got to be verified 500 members to, to have a political party. And I thought what a fantastic idea. But I want to level this up, you know, like what is the one issue that brings all the crazies together and people that aren't very deep on, you know, critical thinking or, or looking behind a slogan, trying to work things out, they're just like the most gullible people is the Free Palestine movement. And it, and it's not only confined to, you know, the left, while the left is a big one. You've got the fringe right as well that would do a protest vote for that. You've got, you know, a big chunk of the Islamic community. They'll do it. So we launched this Free Palestine Party and you know, I was hoping within a couple of weeks to get the, the quota, the 500 members. So we, we went for 750 in two days, we got a thousand. And I thought this is, this is insane. This is. And, and, and obviously, you know, people are quite upset that suddenly all, you know, abc, ABC radio invited me on to discuss it thinking they're gonna gotcha. You know, you're being deceptive. Which is funny to me because I feel like I'm being the most honest about this. I'm the first guy telling you what I'm doing with that. In the last election there was a party called Sack Dan Andrews that popped up on the ballots and it was preferencing Dan Andrews Remember Dan Andrews addict from COVID Times So the system has been exploited forever but they've never cared about it until we've done it and, you know, they invited me on thinking they're going to beat me at this little game and I'm like, dude, like, yeah, it's a, it's an ultimate troll that. Look how ridiculous the system is. And for me, I'm sitting in a position where it's a win, win. Either scrap the system, one nation will pick up the seats that the people of Victoria, the will of the people will actually prevail and they'll win what they deserve to win based on the democratic election, or we're probably going to funnel a bunch of seats. So yesterday we launched, or two days ago, we've now launched. So somebody else launched. He's going to come on camera later this week. Yeah, somebody in the inner circle has launched Muslim Votes Matter, which was based on a. A political activist group that last election was trying to undermine the elections by propping up candidates or without starting a party, propping up candidates that were really un. Australian and, and you know, everything and the logo of it is the, the Islamic Crescent, you know, so, like, even when you go into a voting booth and you got migrants that have come to Australia that haven't bothered to learn the language, they're going to still be able to have somewhere to vote because they will just recognize that symbol and think, oh, yes, I believe in. That's what I care about. Number one. That's the idea. We're hoping by the election we're going to have, you know, four, five, six different parties targeting different voting blocs and funneling. Like even if you get a percent or two, like the Muslim one, for example, Muslims make up only like 4% of Victoria. However, in certain electorates they're like 50%.
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Right.
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So all you is get a couple of percentage and then you're funneling them, you're harvesting those votes and we're giving it straight to one nation. So the Free Palestine people are actually voting to like with that one at least I could go like Free Palestine from Hamas, like, I'll do it under my breath, whatever. But, you know, even the Muslim votes matters, people, they're voting for a party really, that believes that they should ban the burqa or they should, you know, need to stop Islamic immigration. We've got a few other ones, like stop the refuge, let refugees in or. So like there's a bunch of different parties. It's going to be like a cannabis one. Because even here, like there are some that are more true than others is cannabis party, where there are people that do believe in, you know, there are people that believe in freedom of cannabis, whatever you want to call it. But unfortunately in Australia there's only one party that advocates for that and they are also a far left wing party. So you get a lot of conservatives or libertarians. That's the number one issue. And they end up voting for this party that stands against everything else they believe in. So we are also hoping to tap into legitimate things, but the idea is really harvesting votes from the left and funneling them to the right and using a ridiculous system that should be scrapped.
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I think it's fascinating and I love that you're so upfront about it. You know, the other people are doing it too, but you're just completely upfront about it. I want to talk about to you about some of the. Sorry, go ahead.
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I was so upfront about it that Ezra called me when he saw it. He goes, do you think not like, I don't know what the rules are there because you got worried like you. Because I know electoral commission. And he said, like, are you sure we shouldn't be just leaning more into free Palestine from Hamas? And then you can argue and you know, save the environment from whatever. And I said to him, I'm playing with that. But the point is, what we're doing is actually so legal here. And that's how crazy it is. Because every media outlet went to the vc, to the Victorian Electoral Commission, complaining, trying to get me that it was trending where everyone, all the lefties were tagging all the people, by the way, that were very silent until now. When Sack Dan Andrews was funneling the votes to Dan Andrews, they had nothing to say, Everybody was complaining. And the VC said there's nothing we could do that is completely, completely legal. Your name doesn't have to match your policies. The rules around deceptive. There is a rule around deceptiveness, but it's about trying to deceive somebody that you're another party's name. So you can't have another party or insinuate or protect or make using that you're another party. But aside from that, what we're doing is completely legal. And I'm encouraging them to complain, but they should be complaining to the party that has the power now, their friends, to change the rules.
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You know, so Ezra, to be really consumed by the electoral rules, we have a meeting every day just to make sure that we're not breaking them. Here in Alberta, where I am as we hurdled towards our secession referendum, I want to talk to you about the media reaction because I've been watching it from afar. And you are right. Like the things that other people have been getting away with on the left that they just completely turned a blind eye to, they are lighting their hair on fire because somebody on the right is finally forcing everybody to play by the rules that only the left have been able to abuse for so long. Yep.
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And, and, and it's funny because I laugh about it to their faces. That ABC interview that I did, I feel like was best combative mainstream interview I've ever done. Maybe it's just that I had so much fun doing it because by the end of it, you could see how triggered he was. And, you know, usually doing what. I don't know if you're like me because you're so. You're perfect. I'm. I'm the most imperfect person and I go away from every single interview at the end and I watch it back and I think I should have said, I know. And there was not much I could fold. I guess when he. Because they trick, they keep trying to say, don't you feel like it's deceptive? And like, I answered it well. But I should have also said, actually, I'm the least deceptive person. Like I said to you here, like. Because I actually got that thought from the watching it back, thinking, hold on, why is everyone calling me deceptive? I'm literally the only person doing this, saying I'm doing this. You've never had a problem with the people that were doing it that didn't say that. And then you had the premier of Victoria. So Dan, the person that took the place of Daniel Andrews, um, she was asked about it. And it's funny, you just see as soon as my name gets mentioned, her face goes bright red. And then she, she, she couldn't even say my name. She says that commentator. Because the journalist asks that. There's a commentator, Avi Yamini, she's like that commentator. But, you know, and then she goes on to this whole rant about how the elections should be about transparency and, and what the other word was. But like, like any Victorian watching that is thinking whether you liked where you like her or not. Those are two words that you could not use. It was transparency and some other, you know, honesty and transparency. And it's like the two words. You cannot possibly believe the Labor Party could go in the same sentence as the Labor Party. And it's funny because she's talking about it in about an issue where I'm the one that's being honest, that's being transparent, it's her party she's, look, I don't know if she's in power because of it, but they certainly played that game and they certainly had a much wider, you know, some form wider mandate because of this game that they've played for so many years. And the scandals that have been in the Labour Party like this has gotten more outrage than actual scandals in the Labour Party that got them elected. This is the same labor party. Only four years ago. Were you in 2014. Sorry. So 10 years ago. And then it took about four years till any. Anyone actually really reported on it. It was called the red shirt scandal where they were paying political staffers to campaign. You're not allowed to do that. Political staffers, right, that are in government have to work on their.
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They have to take. To go work on a campaign, donated,
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and then it has to. It has to be separate. But that. So essentially, because what happened was you have this massive government that has all these stuff and then they basically pushed all those stuff that are being paid by the taxpayer to campaign for them to win the next time. And that like, nobody can, can compete against that because they have unlimited resources. And they got found out about that. The media was nowhere near as interested in 2014 when it was happening, when they were essentially stealing the election for four years until a criminal investigation actually opened the election after. So, yeah, like you say, these, these people that have played these games, these people that are truly deceptive are suddenly outraged. And I can't say I don't find that very, very fun.
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Yeah, it's hard to say that a guy is being deceptive when he's on the national broadcaster telling everybody exactly what he's doing, how he's doing it and why he's doing it. And yet they still say that you're misleading people. I think sometimes you have to break a system to fix the system, and I think you might be the guy to do it.
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I think it's gonna happen. And I said to the ABC journalist, I go, you better give me credit at the end of all this, you know, when they end up suddenly banning the system. And you know his response to that? He's like, every politician wants to take credit for. Mate, you're literally talking to. I was. I've never. I haven't been on the ABC for seven years because I've been black. Even though my uncle is the boss of abc, I'm blacklisted. I've never been invited on, but I'm being invited on to talk about this issue because you thought you would be able to bury Me. And it didn't kind of play out the way he expected. But you're not even going to give me the credit of destroying the system that you're suddenly so angry exists.
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Right.
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It's just laughable. But yeah, I will take absolute credit for it and I'll, I'll give our audience the credit because they're the one, they're the ones that helped us just get those numbers so quickly. They're, you know, there's a real, people are excited by it because it's, it's been annoying. Comes around every election cycle and then somebody points out one party that's doing it and all the back room dodgy deals that's happening and the fact that, you know, people that actually should have a mandate to get at least one or two seats and not getting anything, and these fringe lunatics that suddenly, you know, you see this animal justice is a perfect example because they've got the most crazy politicians that end up being given, you know, at least state if not national platforms for the four year tenure and to be taken seriously just because they won on one less than 1% of the vote half the time. You know, there's a guy, Transport Matters, he, he won on 0.5% of the vote. Like he got a seat and was taken seriously for four years in Parliament. So I think it, I think it's leveling the playing field. And like I said, either, either way, I think in this election it's a win win. We're either going to embarrass them by using their own system against them, or they're gonna, they're gonna change the legislation. And I'm all for the preferential voting system, but just not one dodgy deals can be done in the background without the honesty and transparency they're so desperate for.
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Right. That ranked ballot system sounds delightful. Frequently we have a vote split in Canada, both at the provincial level, but at the federal level. I think in 2021, the Conservative Party lost 21 seats. Now, it wasn't enough to swing the balance of the election in their favor, but some really good MPs lost their seats because of a Conservative vote split. And then in 2015, in the most conservative place in the entire country where I live, a vote split between two Conservative parties, one Conservative and then one more Conservative allowed the Socialist party to run up the middle and terrorize us for four horrible years.
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That's, that's what the system is designed, supposed to stop happening, but it's been abused and now it's being abused back. I'M abusing it. Yes, but legally, illegally.
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You know what? I don't have a lot of empathy for elections bureaucrats. So if you're terrorizing them along the way, I'm fine with that. How many? Sorry, go ahead.
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Getting all these applications now. You know, they've gotten two so far. They'll get another one in a few days. This is something that they, you know, maybe every election cycle they've got to do two or three. Suddenly they're going to be doing 10 or.
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I love it.
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Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it does give me. It's a delight.
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So how many members do you have so far? Can you say?
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Yeah, no, no, we can say but so we stop like the free part. You only. You don't need more members. You need minimum more votes. Yeah, yeah. So I just. To get the party registered, you need 500 verified members. So we were aiming for 750. The free Palestine one got a thousand, like I said, over a thousand within two days. So we shut that off and now we're working redirecting. Well, we're not, we've just got. It's actually not a bad idea. But actually thank you the URL because. But we're now, I think we're a few hundred into the third party so hopefully in a few days and I think people are going to laugh because we haven't even interviewed the registrar of that party who people are going to find who are going to be super excited about who it is. It is a fellow rebel in a way. In a way he's worked in a circle. But it's just so funny because he's leading the Muslim Votes Matter Party and it's just.
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I think I know, I think I know. Do I know, I think I know.
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Maybe, maybe it's it. No, it's probably, it's not, it's not the latest rebel. It's somebody who's worked with me in. Listen, you know what?
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Forget it.
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You guys deserve it. This is your show. Daniel Jones, my bodyguard, is going to be the leader of the Muslim Votes Matter Party.
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Nice. That's wonderful.
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I'm just excited to do an interview with him as to why Muslim votes matters so much to it.
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I, it's, this is just a cheeky little perfect Avi Yamini scheme that is gonna expose a problem and then hopefully fix a problem. And I just, I'm watching with bated breath to see the impact that you have on this next election.
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Oh, I had an idea for like an Indian votes matter. But I like, I don't want to like mock the Indians. I actually really think the Indian community get used and abused here by the Labor Party party. Basically they end up voting him in because labor lacks immigration. But on many of the other issues they're actually quite conservative. It's just the immigration thing that they end up voting. So they, you know, labor imports them and then locks in their community votes. So I thought like a good idea would be finding an Indian to register it and do Indian votes matter and then you know, funneling it to a group that would, that they would essentially agree with on everything else besides for the immigration. But you know, I think it's probably better for them in the long run anyway. So I don't feel bad about it but, but we're gonna find there's so many. There's the problem that we have also is that there's a cut off in about a. I think it's four weeks, three or four weeks to get these parties registered. So I wish I had more time because I would just keep going until like I'd make it my objective to get you know, 20 parties and, and, and you kind of, there's a kind of draw of the luck in it too because imagine the more parties you have, it'll your chances of being placed on the ballot at somewhere at the front, you know, somewhere great that just cap catches the eye is it gets higher every time. So having a bunch of different parties and then just people reading them. And in Australia I think because it's mandatory. I don't know if voting in, in Canada is here it's mandatory. So you have to vote. So people go in and vote and sometimes they just vote the most ridiculous thing so they can post it online. So you kind of want to play all these different groups and, and Free Palace. Like I feel like it's just there, there are so many 18 year olds that are, you know, educated on Tick Tock. They will not know they deploy. They wouldn't even care. They just want that Instagram photo of going yes, I voted for Palestine. I did my part.
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Yeah, I, I look forward to your network of political parties.
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Funniest outcome would be it's not going to happen. But it would be hilarious because it has happened in the past where you know, candidates that went up for a joke end up winning. But it wouldn't be the seat that I'm putting my name down for because you've obviously got to have on the ballot, you've got to have somebody behind each party. So I'd be running. It's all, you know, paper. What do they call paper candidates or whatever.
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Yeah.
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So that it could be on the ballot, but you know, the one that I select. And imagine I end up winning my seat as the leader of the Free Palestine Party, where I was meaning to. Because basically your votes only get passed on if you don't win.
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If you don't win.
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Yeah, yeah. So but imagine I just get a high primary vote and win my seat. That would be brilliant. I'll be a mini for the Free. Like it'd be on TV every time. I'd be mini Free Palestine Party.
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Could you imagine?
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Yeah. Ultimate troll. I think that that should be my campaign. Like a mega camp vote for me.
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The worst ultimate troll.
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Best that can happen is I get to parliament as the Free Palestine leader.
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What a delight it should be.
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I know what you're thinking, Sheila. It should be illegal to have this much fun at work. Please don't tell Ezra.
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No, seriously. Sometimes it's hard to believe that we get paid for this job. For example, today I took the billboard truck through with anti temporary foreign worker messaging through the drive thru of the restaurant in Canada that is the worst offender for bringing in temporary foreign workers and driving down wages and unemploying Canadian kids. And we took it right through the drive thru and ordered a coffee.
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And what was their reaction?
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People from inside came outside to like, say, like, yeah, right on. Like, like, someone's got to do something. It was the funnest.
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They are patrons of the restaurant came out, ordered it because they don't realize, do they not know that where they are is the worst offender?
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Well, I think everybody does, but. And Canadian viewers know it's Tim Hortons. It's so ubiquitous in Canada. It is everywhere. There's one on every single corner. They cloak themselves in nostalgia, patriotism, Canadiana. But then they don't hire Canadians. They don't hire Canadians. And so people just. They go. Because that's the coffee shop that they've gone to for 50 years. You know, there's one everywhere. Your coffee always tastes the same. Slightly gross, but people still go. And yeah, the patrons came out and they're like, you know what? Yeah, somebody's got to do something about this. And I was thinking, yeah, why not you guys? Why are you still patronizing here? But, you know, whatever. So take the support where you can get it. Yeah, I guess that's the moral of your campaign too. Just take the support where you can get it.
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That's right.
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Yeah. Well, Abby, thank God.
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That's.
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We got a little bit of an international lag here. I'm gonna wrap up though. Abby, thanks so much for coming on the show. Best of luck in your political aspirations, although selfishly, I hope you don't win. But I do hope that you do pull enough votes to do some serious damage to the bad guys there.
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Thank you, Sheila.
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Well, as always, last portion of the show goes to you because we'll never take a penny from the government to do the work that we do around here. Which is why I put a call out every single week for your viewer feedback. You can send it to me directly to Sheila rebelnews.com or you can also find free clips of the show or any work that we do and leave a comment there. That helps us get higher in the algorithm on whatever platform that we're on because you're engaging with our content and content that is more engaged with is served up by the algorithm in to more people's feeds. So that's a great way to help us. Doesn't cost us anything. And if you are a premium subscriber to the show, look, you're already helping us, so. So we appreciate you for that. So today's comments come from my video on exclusive act for Alberta polling data. Now I should tell you, Act 4 Alberta is a registered third party advertiser here in Alberta and I am the person of contact for it. So I just, every time I talk about act for Alberta, I just want to be in full disclosure, regular viewers of the show. No. That I am 4th generation Western separatist and I think it would be unfair to you if I didn't divulge that bias. Look, I'm not the cbc. I don't hide my bias, then do reports where it's clearly evident and then try to gaslight you and insult your intelligence into thinking that I'm anything other than bias on these issues. I think everybody has bias. I just prefer to be completely honest about them. So much so that I wrote a book called Independence Blueprint what Alberta Can Learn from Quebec. Available@independenceblueprint.com now that that's out of the way, these viewer comments come from the YouTube comment section on my report on what our polling data showed about conservative voters. Conservative Party of Canada voters and their leanings in Alberta towards Western separatism is over half of the party base, like 60ish percent. So Pierre Poliev, who is now an Alberta MP, would be wise to be less aggressive in his condemnations of Western separatism. I think he should take the more Danielle Smith approach who also says she is a federalist but that she does not discount the grievances of people who are to the point now where they would rather leave the structural institution of Canada than stay within it. And she is completely stepping out of the way to let Albertans have their say and then deal with the reality of whatever happens after October 19th in whatever way that the results may go. And look, I think we all know how I want the results to go but and I realize poliof has to walk a fine line because he is a federalist insofar as he wants to become the prime minister of this country. And if you want to become the prime minister of this country then you kind of have to be in favor of confederations. So I don't, I don't condemn him for that, but he should just take the foot off the gas pedal here and maybe check his tone a little bit. You know, don't. And that is to say he's not a wild eyed federalist. Allah. Jason Kenny, who is out there on the Internet calling his former base names all over the place, his volunteers, his donors, his sign captains during his campaigns, he's calling them kooks and crazies right now. I don't think that's the best approach to deal with disgruntled Albertans who have absolute legitimate grievances. So I did a report on what our polling data showed and that is 60% of federal conservative supporters in this province would vote to leave like today without hesitation. So let's go to the comments. Nicholas Ackerson says I don't blame Alberta. This federal government needs to go. They all they care about is money and power. Yes, I've said that repeatedly actually. I think the liberals ideology isn't an ideology at all. They'll do whatever it takes for them to hang on to power and right now that means out of control immigration and appeasing. Elbows up eastern and central Canada, Toronto area boomer types. And if you're a boomer that voted conservative, please don't write me a letter. I'm not talking about you. You know exactly who I'm talking about. The ducats says anyone else. Hope things fall faster. I'm just tired of waiting for the slaughterhouse while being milked like a cow. There are a lot of people who feel that way. Who they, they say you know what, I don't care. Burn it all down. Because Albertans we will rise from the ashes. I understand that but I think the majority of western Separatists don't hate Canada or what Canada used to be. They hate what Canada is becoming. And the act of casting a vote for Western independence is an act of self preservation, but also preservation of those values that used to exist in the rest of Canada that still remain here. Unknown Guy says Federal Conservatives will never make the structural changes we require because Ontario and Quebec will never allow it. Yes, that is true. Therefore our place within Canada will never change unless we leave Alberta. Independence is our only choice for real change, self determination and a brighter future. Yeah, I mean it was, things were better when we had 10 years of stable good governance under the Harper era. But that's, that's a changing thing, right? Like as soon as Harper was gone, we went back to the same old thing. And when the Conservatives were in power, they didn't actually change the structural problems that continue to plague us. Now. What is it, 121 years since we joined Confederation? Hobbit 247 says fifth generation Alberta here. Let's get the FO out of this tyranny. Yeah, I'm a fifth generation Albertan too. I'm raising the sixth. And my vote, my vote will be for their future. I want them to love Alberta for the Same reason my 5th generation ago ancestor came here and settled on this very same land. For opportunity where you can take care of yourself and your family and achieve your goals through hard work and self determination. I want to preserve that for them. Pit Bull Syndicate 93 everyone I talked to in my shop, over 200 guys never signed the petition. They are all saying they'll vote for independence in a heartbeat. Yeah, there's a lot of people who never put their name on that petition because they're concerned that they don't want to be on a list somewhere. Now I have more confidence in the integrity of Elections Alberta than I do have of Elections Canada. But there are a lot of people who saw what happened to the Freedom Convoy and said, I am a Western separatist. I will vote to leave on an anonymous ballot on, on referendum day October 19th. But I'm just not putting my name and address on that petition. And it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be that people are scared to participate in a democracy. But that is the case in Mark Carney's Canada. Last one, Laser Guy Es as an Ontarian, I'm just saying vote for independence Alberta. Vote for prosperous future for your country. There are a lot of Ontarians and people in the central part of this country and eastern part of this country. Who completely understand why Albertans like me feel the way that we do. And I think if given the choice, they would make the same one as well. This is our one chance in a generation, maybe in a lifetime. Because you know what will happen if the vote doesn't go the way the separatists want. The laws will change both federally and maybe provincially. Maybe not provincially. Actually, I'm confident that Daniel Smith wouldn't change the law. But I do think that the federal government would start tinkering with certain things that would prevent province from seceding, come from confederation. Okay. Well, everybody, that's the show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week. And as always, friends, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
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