Rebel News Podcast - February 27, 2020


Alberta's new law fights back against railroad blockades, but why? They don't enforce existing laws now


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34 minutes

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154.45917

Word Count

5,343

Sentence Count

458

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Why should others go to jail when you re a biggest carbon consumer? Why should they get away with crimes when you won t give them a chance to clear their name? Ezra Levant explains it all on this week s Ezra Levant Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I tell you about Bill 1 in Alberta. That's Jason Kenney's bill to fight
00:00:06.460 back against the railway blockades. But I was really excited about it when I read it. I got
00:00:12.200 to say, it's a little bit lame. I'll show you why. Hey, before I get out of the way, can you do me a
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00:00:43.900 Tonight, Alberta introduces a law to fight back against railroad blockades, but
00:00:57.180 what's the point if they're not enforcing existing laws? It's February 26th, and this
00:01:02.840 is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:06.100 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:09.920 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:13.980 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
00:01:18.380 my bloody right to do so.
00:01:25.040 Tech Resources canceled their $20 billion oil sands mine. Can you blame them? Let me put
00:01:31.200 it another way. Would you personally invest, say, $20,000 in an oil sands mine in Alberta under
00:01:38.180 Trudeau and his RCMP? We showed you on Monday what the company said. They said Canada is just
00:01:44.800 too risky politically, which is insane given that other countries that Tech Resources feels
00:01:50.400 comfortable operating in, including Latin American countries that are going through violent
00:01:54.600 uprisings. Tech isn't pulling out of those jurisdictions. Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster
00:01:59.960 and other media party bailout media types are emphasizing that it was Tech Resources that
00:02:05.500 made the decision, not Trudeau. Trying to remove Trudeau is a blameworthy party, but Tech has
00:02:12.260 been ready to go for 11 years. Just over the weekend, the last of the Indian bands in the
00:02:18.420 neighborhood signed up for all systems go. It was green lights all the way. Until these
00:02:23.980 railroad blockades, and more importantly, Trudeau's refusal to do anything about them. There will
00:02:28.820 always be crime in society. There will always be protests. That's fine. We have ways to deal
00:02:33.400 with those things. Police fight crime. Protests are fine if they're peaceful. But Trudeau ordered
00:02:38.360 his politicized police to stand out. That's why Tech Resources said, see you later. Yesterday,
00:02:44.380 Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta, gave more information that wasn't in Tech's official
00:02:48.960 letter. He had been speaking with the president of Tech. Kenney revealed that the company was told
00:02:54.680 that Trudeau wasn't going to approve their mind. Trudeau was going to delay it. That's how a coward
00:03:01.020 cancels something. What's the cost of delaying a $20 billion project by a year or five? What if the
00:03:10.180 delay is interminable? Trudeau pretends he's going to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline one of these
00:03:15.360 days. Funny how that keeps getting kicked down the road. It'll never be built under Trudeau. Tech
00:03:20.480 isn't dumb. They've dealt with authoritarian rulers before. They know what it's like. They're out.
00:03:25.880 One more thing Kenney said was that it was specifically Trudeau's refusal to uphold the
00:03:31.920 rule of law that was on Tech's board's mind when they decided to bail. Canada is lawless now.
00:03:39.380 Not just for companies wanting to invest $20 billion in a project, but for everyone. Here's
00:03:43.560 Toronto's Union Station. That's the most important train station in Toronto, probably in the country.
00:03:50.780 It connects via rail and commuter trains and all the subway trains in the city. You can see
00:03:55.820 here it's shut down because of a handful of low energy, low commitment thugs being ushered around
00:04:02.300 by the usual left-wing suspects. It would take police, what, 20 minutes to clear them out? But
00:04:08.540 Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor John Tory all choose to bend the knee to the
00:04:13.920 mob because each of those political leaders has a police force. Trudeau's corrupted RCMP that he has
00:04:20.340 tamed so well that they won't investigate him for corruption in the SNC-Lavalin matter. Doug Ford has
00:04:27.140 his OPP, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the mayor of Toronto has the Toronto Police Service.
00:04:32.720 5,000 cops. That's a small army. Billion dollar budget. Any of those three police forces, let alone
00:04:40.000 the railroad police, which actually work for the railroads, obviously have existing authority and
00:04:46.200 existing laws to clear off blockades. Mischief and trespass being the two most obvious criminal
00:04:50.740 offenses here. But all three political leaders, Trudeau, Ford, and Tory, ordered their cops to stand
00:04:57.080 down. So tech resources stood down too. As I showed you yesterday, it fell to some good old Alberta
00:05:03.760 boys to simply walk up to one of the blockades and just simply dismantle it.
00:05:07.760 Workers, cleaning up the mess. Hard-working, auto-patch workers, cleaning up the mess. That's right.
00:05:18.640 Is this your work?
00:05:20.320 No, it's infringing on my country's train tracks.
00:05:25.760 I could watch that all day. The bad guys folded like a tent in the face of just a few
00:05:33.440 regular guys. Police would have cleared it in a second had they wanted to. I mean,
00:05:38.400 the thugs are obviously cowards. They usually have their faces hidden with masks. That's typically a
00:05:43.200 giveaway about the moral character of the people involved. Now, in Alberta, there is no provincial
00:05:47.840 police force. It's city police forces like in Edmonton and Calgary. And of course, the railroads have
00:05:53.680 their policemen. And then there's the RCMP, which is contracted to the province of Alberta to police the
00:05:59.280 rest. And that's one of your problems. Because as you know, Trudeau's hand-picked gender quota hire,
00:06:05.120 Brenda Luckey, is the boss of the RCMP. I show you this hugging picture, not only because it's gross
00:06:11.360 that Trudeau greets the head of the RCMP this way. It's his typical physical dominance move that he uses
00:06:16.560 on women. But remember, this hug was on Canada Day last year when the Jody Wilson-Raybould fiasco was in
00:06:22.240 full flight. So it was gross for Trudeau to treat the RCMP commissioner that way.
00:06:27.840 And it was even more gross for her to abide it. Yeah, no wonder there's no investigation into Trudeau's
00:06:34.000 interference with the prosecutor. So much for Trudeau's RCMP. And I'm going to call it that from
00:06:39.120 now on because it's not our RCMP. It's his now. His police are political now. That's too bad.
00:06:46.320 Maybe Alberta should start the Northwest Mounted Police. I bet Saskatchewan would sign up for that too.
00:06:53.120 But look, the canceled mine is in Alberta. So what's Alberta going to do about it?
00:06:57.680 Well, Jason Kenney introduced a bill called Bill 1, the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. I like the
00:07:05.120 sound of that. Let me read a bit of it for you. It's very short, very, very short bill. It's really
00:07:09.600 just three pages long. One page is definitions and two pages are the meat of the law. I'm going to read
00:07:16.560 at least half of it. Ready? Definitions. In this act, essential infrastructure means any of the
00:07:23.520 following. A controlled area, installation, manufacturing plant, marketing plant, pipeline,
00:07:29.840 processing plant, refinery, road or road allowance as defined in the pipeline act.
00:07:36.240 A heavy oil site, mine, oil production site, oil, sand site, pit, private utility, privately owned
00:07:41.680 development, quarry, storm drainage system, telecommunication line, transmission line,
00:07:45.840 waste management facility, wastewater system, watercourse or waterworks system as defined in
00:07:51.520 the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. Now, I'm not going to go through the whole list.
00:07:55.280 It's very verbose, isn't it? Like, they're just listing everything. I'm not going to read it word
00:07:59.840 for word because the language is a little legalistic. So I'm just going to sum it up as we scroll through
00:08:03.920 it. Highways, urban rail transit like LRTs, train tracks, hydroelectric dams, agriculture, electrical
00:08:12.400 equipment, natural gas equipment, coal plants, oil sands, radio equipment. So it's everything, right?
00:08:17.440 They're calling that essential infrastructure. And let me quote,
00:08:21.120 quote, the land on which essential infrastructure is located and any land used in connection with
00:08:28.480 the essential infrastructure is deemed to be part of the essential infrastructure. So I'm one-third
00:08:33.360 done reading the law already. That's what's covered, the definitions. So here's what's prohibited. This is
00:08:39.280 the meat of the law. No person shall, without lawful right, justification or excuse, willfully enter on
00:08:47.200 any essential infrastructure. So you're not even allowed to enter it. No person shall, without lawful
00:08:53.280 right, justification or excuse, willfully damage or destroy any essential infrastructure. So you're
00:08:59.360 not allowed on it. You're not allowed to destroy it. And then, no person shall, without lawful right,
00:09:04.000 justification or excuse, willfully obstruct, interrupt or interfere with the construction, maintenance,
00:09:10.640 use or operation of any essential infrastructure in a manner that renders the essential infrastructure
00:09:15.840 dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective. So you can't meddle. You can't sabotage.
00:09:22.560 Now, let me stop there. Obviously, this is already covered under existing laws, both civil and criminal.
00:09:31.360 Trespass being an obvious one, mischief, and some other economic interference laws. I like part four of
00:09:37.520 the law, though. Let me read it. No person shall aid, counsel or direct another person to commit an offense
00:09:44.560 under the sections I read, whether or not the other person actually commits the offense.
00:09:49.440 So they're targeting the environmental bosses back in Toronto and Vancouver and San Francisco
00:09:54.800 and Amsterdam. I like that part. Part three is the penalties. And I have to tell you, they are pitiful.
00:10:00.480 Let me read. A person who contravenes section two is guilty of an offense and liable,
00:10:06.400 in the case of an individual, for a first offense to a fine not less than a thousand bucks and not
00:10:14.960 exceeding 10,000 bucks, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both a fine and
00:10:20.160 imprisonment. And for a second or subsequent offense in relation to the same premises to a fine of not
00:10:28.880 less than a thousand bucks again and not exceeding 25,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
00:10:35.200 six months or to both. A thousand dollar fine for breaking and entering for sabotage, a thousand bucks.
00:10:46.080 Greenpeace activists will raise that in 60 seconds online. A thousand bucks. I've had traffic
00:10:52.800 tickets almost that high. Let me read some more. In the case of a corporation to a fine not less than
00:11:00.160 10,000 and not exceeding 200,000. A $10,000 fine for Greenpeace and not more than 200,000 no matter
00:11:08.400 what they do, really? So you shut down a railway line for just one day and you've done literally
00:11:15.440 millions of dollars in damage and Greenpeace's fine 10 grand, maybe a maximum of 200 grand.
00:11:26.000 What a bargain. They'll make millions off it. I like that a corporation's directors would be held
00:11:31.760 liable under this law, but again, they already are. Let me read this. Where a corporation commits
00:11:38.000 an offense under subsection one, any officer, director, or agent of the corporation who directed,
00:11:42.080 authorized, assented to, acquiesced in, or participated in, the commission of the offense
00:11:46.940 is guilty of that offense and liable to the penalty provided for the offense, whether or not
00:11:51.280 the corporation has been prosecuted for or convicted of that offense. Yeah, big deal.
00:11:57.120 Here's a small point. Each day that a contravention continues constitutes a separate offense. All right,
00:12:03.360 so Greenpeace could be fined 10 grand per day. One last part. Arrest without warrant. A peace officer
00:12:09.820 may arrest, without a warrant, any person the peace officer finds contravening Section 2, 1, 2, or 3.
00:12:19.100 But right there, that's the problem, isn't it? Who's going to arrest anyone? The RCMP?
00:12:26.620 What? What? What, maybe these officers right here?
00:12:31.580 Whoo! It's the sound of the police!
00:12:33.900 What are the deal?
00:12:35.900 Michael James, you've been served.
00:12:39.820 Michael? I've been served, sir.
00:12:41.900 You've been served, sir.
00:12:42.860 Whoo! You can take him or not.
00:12:44.620 Yeah!
00:12:45.340 Whoo!
00:12:45.900 Whoo!
00:12:46.780 Whoo!
00:12:47.780 Whoo!
00:12:48.780 Whoo!
00:12:49.780 Whoo!
00:12:50.780 Whoo!
00:12:51.780 Whoo!
00:12:53.780 They're not going to arrest anyone under the current laws.
00:12:57.620 You think they're going to arrest? Or is it the Edmonton police that we're counting on here?
00:13:02.660 They literally held back traffic to assist environmental extremists shutting down roads.
00:13:09.060 Just a few months ago, in Edmonton, the police helped the protesters.
00:13:16.340 So who's going to do the arresting here?
00:13:18.900 What exactly is new here, other than it's another piece of paper?
00:13:22.660 You saw the police trying to hand a piece of paper to the criminals.
00:13:25.700 They just wouldn't even take it.
00:13:27.060 Don't we have enough pieces of paper already?
00:13:29.300 I took you through the court order, ordering the blockaders out of the coastal gas link pipeline
00:13:33.300 construction.
00:13:34.020 So this ruling came out in December.
00:13:35.940 It was the latest in a series of orders.
00:13:38.100 This was an order repeating the earlier order and ordering the police to follow the order.
00:13:42.820 The protesters just laughed. And so did Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's girl on the job.
00:13:48.020 So what? So we'll have some more impotent court rulings, some more papers you can hand out.
00:13:53.300 But how? If the police won't enforce them, what use is another law that the police won't enforce?
00:13:58.020 Right now, as I say, there are enough laws afoot to stop these blockaders in a day.
00:14:04.580 But neither the police nor the prosecutors will lift a finger.
00:14:07.380 I see Jason Kenney's useless justice minister, Doug Schweitzer, the red Tory.
00:14:12.980 He tweeted about the new law yesterday. Let me read it.
00:14:15.540 We will not be held economic hostage by illegal blockades.
00:14:18.500 Not in Alberta. Not now. Not ever.
00:14:21.140 Oh, you're so butch, you red Tory.
00:14:23.780 Except the opposite is true.
00:14:25.540 You haven't prosecuted anyone, you coward.
00:14:29.220 Doug Schweitzer, the red Tory, he runs the largest law firm in Alberta.
00:14:33.780 It's called the Justice Department. Hundreds of lawyers. It's packed with prosecutors.
00:14:39.860 Why hasn't he prosecuted the blockaders under the laws of trespass or mischief?
00:14:46.260 What's stopping him from doing so now? His actual title is Attorney General.
00:14:52.020 He can be the prosecutor himself. Why isn't he the coward? What's holding him back? He loves to tweet.
00:15:01.940 Oh, he's good at that. But his title is not the Tweeter General. It's the Attorney General.
00:15:07.220 So why won't he prosecute? What a lazy liberal.
00:15:10.740 You know who would prosecute?
00:15:14.820 I would. I would. But I'm not the Attorney General.
00:15:18.180 You know, I did a video a few months back on how another jurisdiction is taking on eco-extremists.
00:15:24.260 They have a bill against what they call riot boosting, which is just what it sounds like.
00:15:29.620 The law has been reintroduced into the South Dakota legislature.
00:15:32.740 Here's a clip from my earlier video that I think Jason Kenney's office should watch in full
00:15:37.620 and read the legislation in full because Doug Schweitzer clearly doesn't want to be effective.
00:15:43.060 Here's what I told you about their bill before and how it allows guys like me and you to do
00:15:48.900 what cowardly politicians won't. Take a look. The plaintiff in an action for riot boosting may
00:15:54.900 recover both special and general damages, reasonable attorney's fees, disbursements,
00:16:00.580 other reasonable expenses incurred from prosecuting the action, and punitive damages.
00:16:05.620 A defendant who solicits or compensates any other person to commit an unlawful act or to be arrested
00:16:12.820 is subject to three times the sum that would compensate for the detriment caused.
00:16:20.740 Triple damages?
00:16:24.420 So if you do a million bucks worth of damage to a pipeline, get ready to pay triple that.
00:16:30.660 Three million. Yeah, Greenpeace can stay away.
00:16:35.620 That was me a few months ago. Did you see that?
00:16:39.700 You can see the original version of the bill here. It's very brief, too. This is from South
00:16:45.940 Dakota's legislature. It allows private parties to sue for damages. That's what I meant by I would
00:16:51.700 do it, but I can't under our law. In South Dakota, if this bill passes, you won't have to wait for a lazy
00:16:58.340 red Tory like Doug Schweitzer or for Trudeau's politicized RCMP to take action.
00:17:03.700 You can take action. And my favorite part about South Dakota's law is that the eco-extremists you sue
00:17:10.820 as a private person, you can sue them for your damages times three. So let's say you have a
00:17:17.860 company that lost $100,000 because of the rail blockade. Let's say you lost a million dollars.
00:17:23.940 I don't know how much Via Rail has lost, $10 million. So you can sue for triple your loss
00:17:32.020 as a private company, as a private person. You don't have to wait for a lazy prosecutor.
00:17:36.580 That power is not in Alberta's new law. Alberta's new law really just restates what's in the old laws
00:17:43.380 with laughably small fines. $1,000? The Tides Foundation alone has poured tens of millions of
00:17:50.420 dollars into the fight against the oil sounds. $1,000? Canadian mini dollars. So like $650 US.
00:17:57.620 This law is a joke, just like Doug Schweitzer. Yeah, no. This law isn't a fix. It's a placebo.
00:18:03.700 It's a fake. This law could have been drafted by Justin Trudeau himself. It will be as useless as he is.
00:18:12.180 Stay with us for more.
00:18:25.220 Well, yesterday I showed you a video that you may not have caught when it made its debut on our YouTube
00:18:30.260 page. It's the video of Sheila Gunn-Reed talking to Zach Solomon Lamora, a man with three interesting
00:18:38.580 names who demolished, demolished is too heavy a word. He unpacked and threw in the garbage
00:18:46.100 an illegal blockade on a railway track near Edmonton. He was hit in the face by a mass
00:18:51.860 protester. Police did nothing. We're helping Zach fight back by suing the mass protester,
00:18:57.460 who we only know now as John Doe. Anyways, that was a very rare act of bravery and citizen
00:19:05.780 self-respect. I think the dominant story over the last two weeks has been the opposite, mainly of
00:19:14.020 police standing down. If anything, police shooing away real men like Zachary Solomon Lamora,
00:19:20.820 and basically police not enforcing the law. They're called law enforcement officers for a
00:19:27.140 reason, but I guess some laws are for some people and not for others. Joining us now live in studio
00:19:34.500 is our reporter, one of several who's been on the scene of these blockades, our friend,
00:19:38.900 Keen Bexley. Keen, great to see you back here at our world headquarters. Good to be here.
00:19:43.140 You've been traveling around these blockades. So has Sheila Gunn-Reed, who talked to Zach Solomon
00:19:49.540 Lamora, and so has David Menzies here in Ontario. I think that goes to the point that this truly is a
00:19:55.220 national crisis. Yeah, absolutely. It's blockades across the country, from Vancouver, from the ports,
00:20:02.660 to railways, to the roads in Vancouver, to railways in Alberta, to railways in Quebec. We're at the point
00:20:08.660 today where Quebec now says they have four days left of propane. I mean, good on them. They're going
00:20:13.940 to go green, and the country's suffering. I mean, there's huge problems across the board in Canada
00:20:21.060 right now, from the Trudeau government being unable to respond to a few crises, namely the coronavirus
00:20:27.940 and these blockades. One story I did just this week was in Vancouver, where these blockaders block
00:20:32.900 the port of Vancouver, which imports and handles 30,000 metric tons of medical supplies a year.
00:20:39.060 And this is at a point in Canada where simple surgical masks, like these N95 masks that lots
00:20:45.300 of people are using to stop the spread of the coronavirus in communities that they live in,
00:20:50.100 they're costing like $150 for a case of two or three of them. So it's unbelievable that the Trudeau
00:20:55.780 government is unable to move and deal with some of these crises that are going to get exponentially
00:21:01.380 worse in the few days ahead. Here, let's play a quick clip from your Vancouver report. Let's take a look.
00:21:07.540 You know, Keena, I'm all for protests. In fact, I've protested a few things in my day.
00:21:36.580 And I actually think that a degree of civil disobedience, I think it's okay to cause a
00:21:43.140 minor hassle here or there. I get it. But there's a huge difference between a slightly inconvenient
00:21:50.580 political protest. And I think, frankly, those are a way to blow off steam in a democracy. I'm not
00:21:55.860 going to be too harsh on those. But that's extremely different from masked men putting blocks on
00:22:04.580 railways that could derail them, are designed to derail them. And those aren't protests. They're not
00:22:12.660 even saying anything. That's eco-terrorism. Take a look at this footage that I saw just today. And this is
00:22:18.500 in Ontario. Take a look.
00:22:22.500 Be careful.
00:22:30.500 The Mohawk warriors here were adamant that no train should pass.
00:22:42.500 I'm sorry, that's eco-terrorism. And I know that there are at least three police
00:22:58.500 forces that should respond. Every railway, CNN and CP, have their own railway police. They have the
00:23:18.500 powers of a police officer. They work for the police, the railway. Number two, the Ontario Provincial Police.
00:23:24.500 Number three, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And finally, if there's a local police authority in any
00:23:30.500 town. So that's three and maybe four police forces, each of whom has sufficient legislative statutory
00:23:38.500 and common law power to make arrests, to clear the tracks. And they are choosing not to.
00:23:44.500 There's one police department in this country that is sort of bucking that trend. And it is the Vancouver Police Department.
00:23:50.500 And I have to give them some credit for doing that. There's been two road blockades outside of the Metro Port Authority.
00:23:56.500 It's at Clark and Hastings. And in each instance, it's taken some time, about 24 hours in each case.
00:24:01.500 But they've ended up with about six arrests both times and charges. While they haven't been laid yet, I spoke with the media liaison
00:24:10.500 at the Vancouver Police Department and they say they have six months to press those charges. So they might come, they might not.
00:24:16.500 I don't know. But they are at least arresting people within 24 hours. That's not the case anywhere else in the country.
00:24:21.500 Yeah. What we saw in the case of Zachary Solomon Lamoureux is that the police often stand by and even try
00:24:30.500 and dissuade the citizen heroes, which I find grotesque. Here's the thing.
00:24:37.500 Zachary Solomon Lamoureux was peaceful, as were the other Good Samaritans. I know some of their names.
00:24:42.500 I think they should be heroes. Guy Simpson is one of them, for example. Chase Chomey.
00:24:52.500 Ordinary guys who did an extraordinary thing in a moment of crisis. They kept their cool, they moved the crap off the tracks.
00:24:59.500 Problem solved. But I think one day, an ordinary citizen won't be so friendly, won't be so peaceful, won't be so Good Samaritan-ish.
00:25:11.500 And might throw a punch. Or use a stick to hit. Or, God forbid, a gun. Or just drive over a road barrier and drive on someone.
00:25:23.500 And I don't want that to happen. And I wouldn't support it if it happened. But I could understand it if it happened.
00:25:30.500 Because as part of a community, as part of a country, there's a social contract.
00:25:35.500 We give the monopoly of violence to the government, to the police, and we expect them to protect us all.
00:25:41.500 And if they sit in their police cars having a cup of coffee instead of enforcing the law, why not?
00:25:47.500 If it's the rule of the jungle, if it's the law of the jungle, why not?
00:25:51.500 Well, and if something like that happens, and we're seeing that violence is possibly escalating already,
00:25:57.500 the Premier of Quebec says that the blockaders south of Montreal have AK-47s possibly.
00:26:02.500 I believe it.
00:26:03.500 Something is going to happen. And if and when it probably does, the blame will lie solely at the feet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
00:26:11.500 who has egged these protesters on and said that their cause is righteous to some degree,
00:26:16.500 and then turned on a dime the next day once he realized that Andrew Scheer was pulling higher than him somehow,
00:26:21.500 and said, okay, now this is too much, this is too much.
00:26:25.500 But that kind of pussyfooting around is not something that the leader of this country should be doing.
00:26:32.500 And the consequences of that violence are his responsibility to bear.
00:26:38.500 You know, one of the busiest train stations in the country is called Union Station.
00:26:41.500 It's in downtown Toronto. It's a huge complex.
00:26:44.500 You've got Via Rail. You've got commuter rail from around Ontario.
00:26:48.500 You've got the Toronto subway that goes through. It's a very busy place.
00:26:51.500 That's why it's called Union Station. It's where all the lines unite.
00:26:54.500 It would be like, I don't know, Piccadilly Station in London.
00:27:00.500 And to shut that down causes so many thousands of domino effects, paralyzing other subway lines, other train lines.
00:27:12.500 And part of me chuckles because Torontonians voted for the Liberals and Quebecers,
00:27:18.500 where propane's about to run out, voted for the Liberals on the block.
00:27:21.500 But I shouldn't chuckle. I mean, there's an irony, I suppose.
00:27:24.500 I'm laughing at the irony. I'm laughing at the absurdity of those people who wanted Trudeau and his approach
00:27:32.500 and who say they hate fossil fuels.
00:27:35.500 OK, fine. Do without propane in this cold winter.
00:27:37.500 OK, fine. Do without diesel-powered trains and live your creed.
00:27:42.500 I actually don't want harm to come to them because some people will be devastated by this.
00:27:47.500 Some people it's just an inconvenience.
00:27:48.500 Other people will lose a job over it.
00:27:50.500 Other people will miss a doctor's appointment over it.
00:27:52.500 Some tragic things will happen over it.
00:27:55.500 It's just incredible to me that the protest left has turned against their political base.
00:28:02.500 Normally they just dump the pain on Alberta and let Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal have the moral preening.
00:28:09.500 Now they're making Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal pay a price.
00:28:12.500 I wonder how long that's going to last.
00:28:13.500 I don't think it's going to last long.
00:28:15.500 I mean, something has got to give here.
00:28:17.500 And it's funny because it doesn't work in Alberta.
00:28:19.500 We saw that it got broken up within just a few hours of them blockading.
00:28:23.500 And, you know, I was speaking with someone who was so angry in Calgary
00:28:27.500 that they wanted to go blockade a railway track in Calgary just to prove the point that anyone can do it.
00:28:33.500 And it's an absolutely stupid thing to do.
00:28:36.500 And then he thought better of it and he thought, you know, I don't want to hurt my own people.
00:28:39.500 I don't want to hurt the people of Calgary.
00:28:41.500 If he could have done it to, you know, the folks in Ontario and Quebec, maybe he would have done something like that.
00:28:49.500 But it doesn't make sense for these people to be hurting their own.
00:28:54.500 So who knows how long it's going to last.
00:28:56.500 Yeah. Well, thanks for covering it out and about.
00:28:58.500 I know David is going out right now to cover the Union Station blockade.
00:29:03.500 I know Sheila has covered it in northern Alberta and you're flying around.
00:29:06.500 So keep at it. Stay safe.
00:29:09.500 I don't think most of the protesters are on the level of the eco-terrorists we showed there in Ontario.
00:29:17.500 I think most of them are like Greta wannabes.
00:29:20.500 They're typically low information liberals who just got an email.
00:29:26.500 They don't know what they're talking about.
00:29:28.500 They don't know what's in this pipeline or that.
00:29:30.500 They don't know anything other than this is really woke.
00:29:33.500 And you could push them over with a finger.
00:29:36.500 Like they're not dedicated.
00:29:37.500 They're scared.
00:29:38.500 They're vegan.
00:29:39.500 They're anemic.
00:29:40.500 They have, you know, low energy.
00:29:42.500 I think most of them are just useful idiots as Lennon would say.
00:29:47.500 But a few of them, the hardcore leaders, I think they're the problem and they're the ones to watch.
00:29:52.500 Last word to you.
00:29:53.500 You're right.
00:29:54.500 I applaud the Vancouver Police Department for doing what they're doing and actually arresting these folks.
00:29:59.500 And that's, at the end of the day, the only thing that's going to solve this problem.
00:30:02.500 Some people on the liberal side of the spectrum, the lefty woke media, say you can't arrest your way out of this situation.
00:30:09.500 Well, if it was Justin Trudeau's father, he would say just watch me.
00:30:12.500 And I think that this is something that we just need to see some leadership on.
00:30:16.500 Yeah.
00:30:17.500 All right.
00:30:18.500 There we have it.
00:30:19.500 Kian Bexty, our roving reporter.
00:30:20.500 Stay with us.
00:30:21.500 The rebel.
00:30:31.500 On my monologue yesterday about Trump's speech in India, Selina writes,
00:30:35.500 Trump is literally having a Trump rally in India.
00:30:38.500 I love it.
00:30:39.500 It was a Trump rally for sure, but it was also a Modi rally.
00:30:43.500 The two men love those huge stadium rallies.
00:30:47.500 Obviously, I only showed you what Trump said in English.
00:30:50.500 Modi gave quite a talk too in, I think it was Hindi.
00:30:54.500 Ted writes,
00:30:55.500 Strong leaders like strong leaders.
00:30:56.500 This is why they love Trump and laughed at Canada.
00:30:59.500 They watched Trudeau dance around like an idiot and show off his socks.
00:31:02.500 It was embarrassing.
00:31:04.500 Well, I'm going to have one slight variation on your comment.
00:31:08.500 You know, why did so many countries around the world, at least the people in those countries, seem to prefer Barack Obama to Donald Trump?
00:31:18.500 It's true.
00:31:19.500 In some places, Trump's a hero.
00:31:21.500 You know, I think I showed you his speech years ago in Poland.
00:31:26.500 I think I did.
00:31:28.500 In Israel, he was treated very warmly.
00:31:32.500 India, obviously.
00:31:35.500 But in many countries, Trump is less popular and America is less popular than it was under Obama.
00:31:45.500 France, UK, Germany, Canada.
00:31:49.500 Why is that?
00:31:51.500 I mean, America is still America.
00:31:53.500 It's surely not all personal, is it?
00:31:55.500 The thing is, Trump makes demands on world countries.
00:31:58.500 To NATO countries, he says, pay more of the military cost of NATO.
00:32:03.500 To hostile countries, he gets tough with them.
00:32:07.500 He kills terrorists.
00:32:09.500 To China, he gets into trade wars and extracts concessions from them.
00:32:15.500 So, there's this one moment, I can't remember if I showed it yesterday, when Donald Trump says, I love Prime Minister Modi.
00:32:26.500 And then he sort of realizes how he sounds and he says, but he's a really tough negotiator.
00:32:32.500 Because he knows that people loved Obama because Obama was a weak negotiator.
00:32:39.500 Iran loved Obama because Obama gave it all away.
00:32:42.500 Cuba loved Obama because Obama gave it all away.
00:32:46.500 Canada loved Obama because Obama made no demands on Canada.
00:32:50.500 The countries that hate Trump hate him because he's standing up for America's interests and making them pay the price, militarily or trade-wise.
00:32:58.500 So, that's a wrinkle I'd add to your comment.
00:33:01.500 Strong countries like Donald Trump, sure, if they're strong allies.
00:33:04.500 But a lot of countries hate America because it's asserting itself.
00:33:09.500 Charles writes, after watching the Namaste Trump rally, I started seeing all the comments about Trudeau's visit.
00:33:17.500 And I had to look it up.
00:33:18.500 I didn't think I could feel any worse for Canadians.
00:33:21.500 Yeah, you know, and that's the irony.
00:33:23.500 The fancy pants, diplomatic, bureaucratic, politically correct left says, oh, diplomacy is such a delicate art.
00:33:30.500 You have to understand that cowboys like Ronald Reagan, who brought down the Berlin Wall.
00:33:36.500 Or Stephen Harper, who stood up to Vladimir Putin.
00:33:39.500 Or Donald Trump, who's making China bend the knee.
00:33:42.500 You have to understand that foreign policy is not about brutes like that.
00:33:46.500 It's about sophisticated people like Obama and Trudeau.
00:33:50.500 Donald Trump's tweets accomplish more diplomacy than anything Trudeau has done in his pitiful vote-buying tour for the UN Security Council.
00:34:02.500 Why does he even want that?
00:34:04.500 He can't run Canada, and he wants to run the world.
00:34:06.500 Folks, on that note, I'll say goodbye for today.
00:34:09.500 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.
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