A federal judge AGREES to fast-track our lawsuit against Trudeau’s media censorship
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A federal judge approves our request to fast-track an urgent lawsuit against Justin Trudeau's media censorship. I'll give you all the details. It's May 26, and this is The Ezra Levant Show: Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? There's 8500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer?
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I am announcing a big plan. It's a big campaign, and we always have
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big plans around here, but this one seems particularly important. We just got permission
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from a judge of the Federal Court of Canada to be fast-tracked to have an urgent hearing of our
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trial against Justin Trudeau for his illegal censorship of us, banning us from attending
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press conferences. So I take you through the latest in this, and I tell you about our campaign.
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It's going to be a big battle, I'll tell you that. By the way, we also have a trial date now,
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which is sort of cool. I'll give you all that details in the moments ahead, but first,
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let me invite you to become a premium subscriber. Go to rebelnews.com. It's eight bucks a month. It's
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not that bad. It's less than Netflix, or 80 bucks if you buy for the whole year in advance. Okay,
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Tonight, a federal judge approves our request to fast-track an urgent lawsuit against Justin
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Trudeau's media censorship. I'll give you all the details. It's May 26, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I publish it, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I have big news. The Federal Court of Canada has just approved our request to fast-track
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an urgent lawsuit against Justin Trudeau's Privy Council Office for illegally banning our reporters
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from asking him questions during his daily press conferences.
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Now, as you know, the courts are closed during the pandemic.
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Only genuine emergencies and urgent matters are being heard, so we had to apply for special permission
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Frankly, I didn't know if we had a chance, but Judge Angela Furlanetto,
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a special kind of judge called a proth-a-notary,
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And there were not one, not two, but three lawyers
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for Trudeau's government on the other side of the lawsuit.
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Normally, a case like ours takes literally years
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And this isn't just a quick emergency injunction.
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This is the full process condensed into a month and a half.
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So here's the exact wording of her order issued just yesterday.
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This application shall be heard on July 13, 2020,
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commencing at 9.30 a.m. for a duration of three hours by Zoom video.
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as to the steps leading up to the hearing of this matter
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I've asked our lawyers to request that the Zoom trial be made public
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because normally people can sit in the courtroom and watch.
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That's how it was at the federal court last October
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when we sued Trudeau for illegally banning us from the election debates,
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It's quite an experience sitting right there in the courtroom,
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but obviously that's not practical for most people
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will be able to watch this hearing on the Internet,
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Seriously, 9.30 a.m. Eastern time on July 13th.
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Now, July still sounds like an awfully long time from now,
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given that they're banning our reporters every single day.
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Even this very morning, Trudeau's personal staff
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ordered the RCMP to physically eject our journalist,
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Kian Bexte, from the press conference in Ottawa.
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See, Kian has been calling into a special phone number
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that journalists are invited to use to pose questions to Trudeau.
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A solid month, Kian has been calling in every day,
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Let me read to you from my affidavit in the lawsuit that we filed last night.
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You can see this whole affidavit and the rest of our lawsuit at letusreport.com.
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I really encourage you to go there and read our lawsuit for yourself
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and actually go through my affidavit where I outline Trudeau's misconduct.
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P.M. Trudeau has conducted 58 daily briefings with phone-in questions.
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The Privy Council has made 217 phone-in selections.
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sometimes two or three days in a row, as follows.
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Some reporters have been called on 13, 15, 17 times.
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I also note that five out of six of Trudeau's favorite reporters
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In fact, four media companies have been given 60% of all the phone-in questions.
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And shocker, three out of those four companies are Quebec Media.
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Quebecers are better than the rest of Canada because, you know, we're Quebecers.
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I'm just saying, no one from British Columbia or the West or even from Toronto is on that list.
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they let someone from a small outlet called the Parvasi Media Group in Toronto to ask two questions.
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So he's from what's traditionally called the ethnic media.
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Here's the homepage of the Parvasi Media Group.
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Their website is literally a huge picture of Justin Trudeau.
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So, yeah, their reporter was given a day pass to come and praise Trudeau.
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The deputy prime minister is either having meetings or speaking to us.
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I mean, there's no way you can continue at this pace.
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Can you imagine asking Trudeau with a straight face how he's working so hard
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when he's the only world leader who's staying at home during the crisis?
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That's what happens when 90% of Canada's media is on the take, either working for the CBC state
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broadcaster, which gets $1.5 billion a year from Trudeau, or working for a newspaper, which
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are now dividing up a $600 million bailout for them, too.
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So not a single question by any independent reporters.
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So Kian got on a plane and flew from Calgary to Ottawa to try and put his question in person.
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And Trudeau literally directed the police to physically twist his arm behind his back
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Can you imagine the media party meltdown if Stephen Harper had ordered the police to physically
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eject a liberal journalist who hadn't done anything wrong other than try and ask a question?
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You know, whatever you think of Donald Trump, he lets CNN and the New York Times into his
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press conferences, and he spars with them every day.
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And by the way, we're not actually suing Trudeau himself for not talking to us.
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As I mentioned, we're suing the Privy Council office because they're the nonpartisan civil
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service that operates that phone call line that journalists are told to use.
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If Trudeau is too cowardly to answer our questions after we ask them, that's fine.
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But for the nonpartisan independent bureaucracy of professional civil servants, to discriminate
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against any reporter based on partisan stripe is simply illegal.
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It's against the law for the bureaucracy to do liberal party errands or conservative party
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Too bad not a single media party journalist thinks the same.
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They don't support us, but they're not nonpartisan either.
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They've become advocacy journalists, every one of them.
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Their journalist union called Unifor actually has a huge super PAC.
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It's a campaign organization that spends their union dues campaigning for Justin Trudeau in
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So Trudeau gives journalists a bailout, and journalists campaign for Trudeau with their
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Are you surprised that they're fine with keeping out the handful of independent journalists
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The judge agreed that our lawsuit is urgent, and she's already scheduled the three-hour
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Hopefully, you'll be able to watch it from the comfort of your own home.
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We already have submitted some of our legal filings, actually over 800 pages worth, if
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So that includes my affidavit, which was filed last night, and it has an 11-page sworn statement
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by me, and then hundreds of pages of factual exhibits, they're called, like the transcripts
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So many softball questions from his personal friends.
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Go to letusreport.com if you want some light bedtime reading.
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At least three government lawyers will be fighting against us.
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Last time we sued the feds, in October, they put five lawyers on the file, and they billed
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I acknowledge that this is an uphill fight, and it's by no means certain that we'll win.
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The same two young legal eagles who beat Trudeau like a drum back in October, they're on the
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Now, this is going to be a much bigger fight, and Trudeau is going to do anything he can do
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He was humiliated when he lost the last lawsuit against us.
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I truly expect Trudeau will spend up to half a million dollars of your tax money fighting
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against us just to stop us from asking him questions.
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I've asked our lawyers for a rough estimate of how much it'll cost for them to fight.
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The work they put in so far, plus the next seven weeks of preparation, plus the trial itself,
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they have estimated that it will cost approximately $40,000.
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But if you know anything about trials, you know that's actually a pretty reasonable fee.
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They're going to be outspent 10 to 1 by Trudeau's lawyers.
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And of course, we have to crowdfund that by ourselves.
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We certainly won't be getting any help from the Civil Liberties Association or any journalism
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And of course, we don't take any government money.
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Someone has to defend the public interest, to be skeptical of government power, to challenge
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Trudeau refuses to take a single question from any independent journalist.
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What's worse is he's corrupted the civil service, turning them into his partisan errand
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And that's what we're asking the federal court to stop yet again.
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Please visit LetUsReport.com to read all the details.
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And while you're there, please help me crowdfund the $40,000 I'm going to need to hold Trudeau
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Journalists shouldn't have to go to court to be able to attend a press conference.
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If you can help out, whether it's $5 or $500, I'd sure appreciate it.
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It feels like we're doing this for everyone, not just for ourselves.
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This is for freedom in the press, for all media.
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Well, sometimes I like to look at how the virus is doing in places that are not the media capital
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Here in Toronto, people are obsessed with the virus and in Montreal, too.
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But how about in more severely normal parts of the country that the media companies are
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And I like to look at Saskatchewan because it's one of my favorite provinces.
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And you know how many virus cases there are in the capital city of Regina, about a quarter
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Do you know how many cases are in Saskatoon, the other major city in that province, all
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around a quarter million people, six, six in the whole place, I put it to you, you have
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a greater chance of dying from hitting wildlife on the highway than you do from dying of
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So the question arises, why is the whole country on a reopening schedule that seems like it
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was drafted in a, oh, I don't know, a senior's home in Montreal or Toronto, a virus hotspot?
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Why haven't other provinces just said, we're done?
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Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton is our friend Lauren Gunder, who made this very
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His article is entitled, Don't Let Quebec and Ontario Hold Back Other Provinces.
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I'm sad for the deaths in Ontario and Quebec, but I should say even in those provinces, they're
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We saw a headline in the Toronto Star, 82% of the deaths have been in seniors' homes.
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Makes me very sad, but it tells me, if you're not in a senior's home, this was really no
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Yeah, the statistics are interesting, and I have been pushing this now for two months.
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Let's look at the stats, let's look at the stats, let's look at the stats, because the
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statistics are where you find the risk factors in all of this.
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And, you know, early on, maybe I was a little too optimistic because people didn't know, even
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really smart people didn't always know where this virus was going to go.
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But as you say, you know, it's largely been confined to seniors' homes, which is horrible.
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And, you know, the pain that you feel when you watch people who cannot say goodbye to
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their grandparents or their elderly parents, who have to wave through the window, and the
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last time they're going to get to hold them or talk to them or whatever was months ago,
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So please, when I say this has been confined mostly to seniors' homes, don't get the wrong
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impression that I think it's trivial as a result of that.
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But it informs our strategy for dealing with the infection, or at least it should.
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And the thing is, you know, we talk here in the introduction about Toronto and Montreal.
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Toronto and Montreal aren't even close to the same levels of infection.
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Montreal has many times, four times more infection than Toronto does.
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I mean, Toronto is, of course, the panic capital, the hipster capital of the country.
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So we're, you know, in Toronto, they're worried about, oh, my plastic bag might choke a squirrel
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And when you look at the statistics, Montreal was well, was very much better than New York
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So it is many times better than New York City ever was.
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But you don't get that out of most of the coverage.
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And that's part of the reason you will see people go to the grocery store, not just with
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And they jump out of the way when you push your cart anywhere close to them.
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And do I fault public health officials for doing what they did in March?
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I wish in January they had done some of these things much, much earlier, like shut off foreign
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travel from hotspots and really isolate people who were suspected of having the infection.
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I think that would have reduced the widespread or the outbreak a great deal in Canada.
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So, yes, are there things we can do better and faster?
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But I don't fault people for not knowing that even Theresa Tam and other public health officials,
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who would have guessed this would come here like this?
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And the thing is, we saw such terrible imagery coming out of China.
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And like the Soviet Union in Chernobyl, we didn't know, well, is it 100 times worse?
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Or is it just their reaction that's 100 times worse?
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So, there was that added level of mystery and malice.
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I just saw today a statistic that showed 96% of the mortalities in Italy were accompanied
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And in fact, three quarters of them were accompanied by three or more underlying conditions.
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So, you had people who were obese, smokers, who were diabetic and over 80.
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I mean, some of those pictures of Italian churches where the priests were doing mass blessings of caskets
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because there had been so many people dying in a small village within a couple of days.
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But it does give you an idea of whether or not you want to shut down the entire economy
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if nobody under 40 is getting really sick and almost no one under 70 is dying.
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So, that's why the statistics are so important.
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In Ontario, where, of course, people are panicked again because the daily infection rates went up slightly.
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One is Ontario was very slow to start mass testing.
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But they are testing now at a much more ferocious rate.
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And so, you're going to catch more positives when you do more testing.
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Number two is, of course, Ontario has opened up its economy a bit.
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And that might tend to lead to more infections initially.
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It did in South Korea, which has handled this very well.
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They had slightly higher, slightly elevated infection rates after they opened their economy.
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It did it in Germany, which has handled this very well, too.
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But then you look at that, what's the park in Toronto?
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Trinity Bellwoods, I think it was called, where they had lots of people on the lawn.
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And media outlets went and took pictures from the lawn level.
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And when you get down and you shoot through a crowd, it looks far more crowded than it probably really was.
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What I've looked for and could not find was a drone image from the same park.
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Because that's when you can tell whether people are social distancing or not.
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But Ontario has almost 80% of the people who have had COVID in Ontario are now recovered.
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So, the fact that the CBC panics or the Toronto Star panics, they still, my goodness, it's going to kill us still.
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It means they're not looking at the statistics and trying to put this all in perspective.
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So, not only is it unfair to BC and Alberta and New Brunswick.
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New Brunswick, again, there's one case in New Brunswick that's unresolved.
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How much risk are you at if you go out in public in New Brunswick?
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So, why shouldn't you be able to go out in New Brunswick?
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And they have opened up their economy even more than any other province.
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So, this is the reason why I wrote a piece on the weekend that said we can't allow the panic that's in Ontario
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and the real infection that still exists in Quebec to hold back the rest of the country.
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Because the rest of the country, the city of Edmonton with a million people has fewer than 50 active cases.
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So, if I go to the grocery store, how much risk am I at of contracting COVID-19?
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When the Prime Minister says again and again and again that he's listening to the experts, he's listening to the scientists,
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if he is still thinking the whole country should be locked down, then he's not listening to the experts and he's not listening to the science.
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He's not looking at the stats in the way he should be looking at them.
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Yeah. Well, a friend of a friend of a friend, so that's what triple hearsay, is friends with Justin Trudeau.
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And he tells me that Trudeau obsesses over social media and just really follows it.
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And since he's really locked in his own house, he rarely emerges.
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I think his source on the world is either very revved up or submissive subordinates or Twitter.
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And if you are to determine your worldview by Twitter, you would be terrified, I think.
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Because, I mean, as you know, not a single Canadian under age 20 has died, thank God, from this.
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And there's 8 million Canadians in that age category.
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So, like I say, you're more likely to be hit, you know, hit a car and die, hit a moose on the highway and die than if you're under 20.
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But it's not just that it's the over 80s or over the 90s.
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If you're 85, 90, even 100, and at home, you're going to be fine.
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So it's not even the age, it's are you in a senior's home?
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And here's a question I have for you about this.
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So to say this kills people over 80 or over 90, yeah, but the real variable I think you're looking at is are you in an institutional home?
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Well, what is it about these institutional homes and what is it about them in Quebec?
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I have a theory at this point, it's just a pure hypothesis, pure speculation, but I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm sure you are too.
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Let me throw it at you, and if it's a dumb idea, puncture this balloon.
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Quebec is the most left-wing province when it comes to euthanasia, right to die, do not resuscitate.
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And especially in some of these seniors' homes where the patients or the grandparents, the clients, whatever you want to call them, sign, and the family sign, do not resuscitate.
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If things are going bad, give them palliative care and wish them Godspeed into their final journey.
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I wonder, I mean, we've heard some reports about bad hygiene and super spreader staff going from place to place.
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We've heard some bad reports, but I wonder if it's because families send away their grandparents, goodbye, oh yeah, if he has a problem, I don't want to spend 50 grand in meds fixing him, do not resuscitate.
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I wonder if that, and the culture of death, and the culture of euthanasia and assisted suicide, is a factor in the fact that anyone who got really sick in their 80s and 90s, the nursing home should say, oh sorry, he's gone.
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It would be really interesting to see a formal inquiry into this that was truly independent, that actually did ask real experts whether or not they, what they thought happened and why it happened.
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I know we were told that, you know, Quebec's spring break was so much earlier than the rest of the countries, and a lot of Quebecers went to Florida and New York and France, where at least two of those were hot spots at the time, as it turned out.
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I do also think that sort of secular equivalent of what you're talking about, the secular half of that coin, is that Quebecers have a profound belief in the state.
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And they believe that they can turn over the care of their aging relatives to the government, either directly in government homes or indirectly in government supervision of private seniors facilities.
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You know, there isn't the thought that we should keep grandma close by.
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And I think that there is more of that in other provinces.
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And this, I have no clue why this has happened, but the survival rate of people who are over 80 and contract COVID in Alberta is among the highest anywhere in the Western world.
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And I don't know why that is, because we have had outbreaks in homes that got out of control.
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Mackenzie Town, for instance, in Calgary, had a lot of deaths, in excess of four dozen deaths.
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But none of those care homes, there were 28 or 29 in Calgary that had outbreaks at one point or another.
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Many of them still have active cases, but they're not spreading it to other residents in the home.
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And certainly the culture of death is probably part of it.
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Faith in government is probably another part of it.
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It just seems to me like there's that one case, it was Huron Centre, is what it was called, in suburban Montreal, where the staff got frightened about COVID and abandoned the home for five days.
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Before the owners stepped in and did anything really significant.
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And it required the Quebec government to take over the home in order to get any care at all.
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People had been left in soiled diapers for four and five days.
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And to blame that on a virus is not even, that's not factual.
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People should go to jail for neglect, you know, negligent care in a case like that.
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And I think that will smarten up people the next time the disease comes around, too.
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Either COVID-19 in the second phase or something similar to COVID-19 will come around again.
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SARS was very small, though, and we were ready for a small outbreak of something similar.
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This was a large outbreak of something similar.
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They're 38 miles across the Straits of Taiwan from China, and they've had virtually no infection and eight deaths.
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And that's because when they heard something was going on in China, they said, yeah, this could be bad.
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So we are going to test everybody who comes in from China.
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We're going to put everybody who comes from China into isolation.
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We're going to enforce the isolation with the technology on modern smartphones.
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And we are going to check them out three or four times while they're in their 14-day quarantine period.
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And as a result, that Taiwan has not closed its schools.
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It hasn't closed its restaurants, hasn't closed its manufacturing, hasn't shut down its banks, hasn't done any of the sort of stuff that much of the rest of the world does.
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And it has the lowest infection rate of a modern industrialized country.
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And they were not burdened by the disinformation of the World Health Organization.
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And they were not burdened by political correctness.
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They weren't burdened by this notion that if we say something's bad in China, oh, that's racist.
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You mustn't say, no, something was bad in China.
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It could have been something bad in the United States.
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Maybe you could have said, something's bad in New York.
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It's not racist to identify where the source of the problem is and to take action.
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And let me once again recommend your piece in Post Media.
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I'm reading the version that was published in the National Post.
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The headline is, don't let Quebec and Ontario hold back other provinces.
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And let me just read the subtitle they gave it, the deck, as it's called.
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There have been 12 deaths in Edmonton, 1 million residents, and nearly 1,500 in Montreal, 2.3 million residents.
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It makes no sense to treat those two cities the same, just as it makes no sense to treat different provinces or regions the same.
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Lauren Gunter, senior columnist for the Edmonton Sun.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about what happens when the people stop listening to the elites.
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I just saw today a report from Italy where it was horrific, they said.
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Well, 96% of the virus deaths in Italy are now attributed to an underlying cause.
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But blaming that on the virus created a panic in the West.
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Wow, Cruella de Villa with a $95,000 pay increase in two years.
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Yeah, I don't know how that, I mean, these public health officers, many of them are medical doctors,
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obviously not Dr. Tedros Adhanom of the World Health Organization.
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How do you get to be the head of the World Health Organization but not be a doctor?
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These public health doctors like Teresa Tam and de Villa there, they don't see patients.
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So imagine getting paid $300,000 just to go on TV and say, wash your hands and don't go to the park.
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On my interview with Sam Goldstein about an update of our fightthefines.com campaign, Paul writes,
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People need to be louder than the poutine media.
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If we leave this to the politicians and hope they do the right thing, we will soon have no rights.
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I really feel that this fight the fines campaign has been a shining moment for what we've done here at Rebel over the last five years.
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And thank you for letting me tell you our letusreport.com battle today.
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I just wanted to just get that big message out there.
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I'm going to obviously email that video much wider than just the paywall.
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So forgive me for giving some of the good stuff away for free.
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Sometimes we take a whole monologue from behind the paywall and put it out there if we think it'll bring more people to subscribe.
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Or in this case, we need some help to crowdfund the lawsuit.
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I think this is one of the most important things we've done.
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Partly because the government overreach is so insane.
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And you know what really grosses me out about this lawsuit we have to do at the federal court?
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Where's all the press freedom groups who, if Donald Trump or Stephen Harper would look even cross-eyed at a journalist?
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They'd say, oh my God, stop harassing the press.
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They literally escorted Kean Bextie off the property simply because he wasn't a liberal.
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And the media said, oh yeah, get that bum out of here.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,