We were just banned from access to the Alberta legislature, but you'll never believe who banned us. You'll be shocked to know who did it. It's a shadow of the National Post where I used to work 20 years ago.
00:00:00.000Hello, my rebels. Today is a big show. It's a crazy show. We were just banned from access to the Alberta legislature, but you will never believe who banned us. I'm going to take you through the story step by step. It's a lot in there. So I make reference to some documents, which we put on a website. I want to encourage you to become a premium subscriber. Normally I say, well, do it for the video footage, because that's really what the premium subscription gets. So you get to see the video version of this podcast.
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00:00:58.580Tonight, we've been banned from Alberta's press gallery. Again, you'll be shocked who did it to us this time. It's July 28. And this is the Ezra Levant show.
00:01:20.300Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? I know.
00:01:25.980There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:30.040The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:35.860A terrible thing happened to us yesterday. Our reporters Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bexte were banned from the Alberta legislature press gallery. Banned like we're in Iran or China or something instead of in Canada.
00:01:53.900Canada. I'll show you the letter that we received in a moment. You can see it at letusreport.com.
00:02:01.080But let me promise you this. We are fighting back. As God is my witness, we will fight this forever if we have to. Freedom of the press is at stake.
00:02:10.520And that's why I'm making this video. I want to show you what happened, show you who did it to us, which is really weird, tell you how we're fighting back.
00:02:18.280And most importantly, I need to ask you for help. I have to, because unlike 99% of journalists in Canada, we don't take money from Justin Trudeau's media bailout.
00:02:26.800We rely 100% on viewers like you. That's why we can be independent. That's why we were banned.
00:02:32.900You might remember this happened to us once before back in 2016.
00:02:36.960Rachel Notley ordered an armed sheriff to kick out our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:02:42.280What a bully Rachel Notley was. She was furious because Sheila wrote a best-selling book exposing the NDP called The Destroyer.
00:02:51.360So this was Notley's attempt at revenge.
00:02:55.280Now Notley's ban was universally denounced. Remember, that was before newspapers started to take money from Trudeau.
00:03:00.840So they were still somewhat independent back then.
00:03:03.600Here's the National Post at the time, calling Notley's move a stupid decision and, quote, totally and inexcusably idiotic.
00:03:13.660After taking a beating from newspapers like the National Post, Notley finally backed down and let Sheila back in.
00:03:19.920But the National Post has changed a lot in the last five years.
00:03:23.500It's lost many of its best writers. It's not the same anymore.
00:03:26.480It's thinner than ever, and much of what they print is just cheap wire copy stories written by liberal journalists at other newspapers.
00:03:35.220Post Media now takes $140,000 each week from Justin Trudeau's media bailout.
00:03:42.120It's actually the largest recipient in Canada.
00:03:46.020National Post staff are actually trying to join the far-left Unifor Journalists Union,
00:03:51.640the one that uses union dues to campaign against conservatives.
00:03:54.340It's a shadow of the National Post where I used to work 20 years ago.
00:03:59.000Just last month, 30 National Post reporters signed a letter saying that their Star columnist, Rex Murphy,
00:04:05.280should never have been allowed to write that Canada isn't inherently racist.
00:04:10.180Seriously, other than Rex Murphy and Conrad Black,
00:04:13.700there's not much difference between the Post and the Toronto Star anymore.
00:04:17.740And I tell you this because you're not going to believe this.
00:04:20.280The decision to ban us yesterday was made by the National Post.
00:06:25.080So the press gallery is now dominated by Post Media because they own most of the newspapers in Canada.
00:06:31.240There used to be a few competing newspaper chains, but then Post Media bought out the Sun Media chain in a huge anti-competitive merger.
00:06:40.860So Post Media actually owns all the big daily newspapers in Alberta, the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun, the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun.
00:06:59.060They don't want the competition, which is funny because when Post Media bought out Sun Media in the merger,
00:07:04.860giving them both newspapers in Calgary and Edmonton, Post Media told the Federal Competition Bureau that they would protect competition and diversity for readers.
00:07:19.720In fact, the Competition Bureau had a five-month investigation into the subject,
00:07:23.780and Post Media swore on the stack of Bibles that they would never act in anti-competitive ways.
00:07:37.940Based on an extensive five-month review, the Bureau has determined that the proposed transaction is unlikely to result in a substantial lessening
00:07:45.540or prevention of competition in any relevant market.
00:10:26.580All I'm saying is how can someone who has had a five-year vocal feud against us, and he singles out Kean in particular, how can he then pretend to sit in judgment of us and Kean in particular, like he's some sort of neutral arbiter of who can or can't join the press gallery and get access to the legislature?
00:10:47.800I mean, why should we have to depend on our hateful competitor for the right to walk into the legislature building to cover what the premier says, what the opposition says?
00:12:52.360Just cross the one million view mark this week.
00:12:54.200Imagine some obscure leftist reporter who can only get 10 or 20 people to watch his stuff.
00:13:01.380Telling our reporters who get a million views on a single story that they're not allowed to walk into a public building to ask questions of public officials.
00:13:13.040And what gets me is that this is all being done with the knowledge and approval of Post Media.
00:13:17.880Every one of his Twitter comments was on a certified, verified National Post Twitter account.
00:13:25.160Again, I haven't made a fuss about this stuff in public.
00:13:28.500I don't know if I told you, but last year we sent Kian to Winnipeg to do a great story about a young woman who didn't want to wear some rainbow poppy on Remembrance Day.
00:14:08.240Seriously, the biggest, richest newspaper company in Canada, Post Media, stole Kian's photo, didn't give him credit for it, and didn't pay for it.
00:14:18.620And then incredibly, even after I wrote them a scorching letter, they did it again, even worse.
00:14:42.500And they illegally downloaded it, stripped off our brand from it, re-uploaded it to their own YouTube page, put on their own Post Media branding, and then put ads on it to sell and profit from.
00:16:11.000First, our Alberta-based lawyers have written directly to the Speaker of the Alberta Legislature.
00:16:16.160And we've also sent the letter to the Minister of Infrastructure there.
00:16:19.920Those two elected officials are actually in control of the legislature, not some left-wing journalist with a potty mouth.
00:16:26.980So we're asking the Speaker to recognize that the current left-wing, post-media-controlled Trudeau Press Gallery in Edmonton, that they're negligent in their duties, and that the Speaker of the Legislature should just recognize the independent press gallery.
00:16:45.000You know, the one that Candace Malcolm founded.
00:16:47.140And we're already a member of the independent press gallery.
00:16:50.520So here's a key paragraph from our lawyer's letter to the Speaker of the Legislature today.
00:16:55.340You can read the whole thing at LetUsReport.com.
00:17:00.660To resolve this situation, we propose that the Independent Press Gallery of Canada be given the same recognition and standing as the press gallery in Alberta.
00:17:10.140As noted above, the Independent Press Gallery is an association of journalists whose members agree to adhere to journalistic standards and practices.
00:17:18.500And Rebel News journalists are members of this organization.
00:17:21.080Members of the Independent Press Gallery, who regularly report on Alberta politics, ought to be given the same access and privileges afforded to the traditional press gallery.
00:17:31.100Now, I have some reason to be optimistic.
00:17:33.180Here's the Minister of Infrastructure answering a question about this just a few weeks ago.
00:17:37.640We've been told by the Speaker's office that it's under your purview, actually, as Minister of Infrastructure.
00:17:43.500The press gallery operates at your pleasure, basically, because they take up your office space.
00:17:48.280I'm wondering if you would support the idea of actually allowing or forcing the press gallery to respond to our demands to join it.
00:19:02.080But from my point of view, based on what beliefs I have, having run for Wildrose, I'm open for all points of view.
00:19:12.840So hopefully the post-media-controlled press gallery will just be replaced by a real press gallery that actually, you know, respects freedom of the press.
00:19:22.360I should tell you there's a whole other story here, too, of the post-media press gallery in the legislature colluding with the NDP to get a security guard to throw Keane off the property a few weeks ago.
00:19:34.840So we've got a bunch of lawyers' letters on that craziness.
00:19:37.900I haven't published them yet, but I've decided to put them up on that same website, letusreport.com.
00:19:44.080If you want to see how the post-media press gallery literally told security guards at the legislature that we were not journalists, so we should be thrown out.
00:19:52.560And they did this in collaboration with Rachel Notley's NDP.
00:20:28.960It still doesn't fix the big problem here.
00:20:32.040The active collusion by our competitors to cancel us, deplatform us, limit the number of reporters allowed, not just for us, but for anyone.
00:42:19.840They were mutually unfaithful, but they technically stayed married until he was done as prime minister.
00:42:26.480She immediately remarried, freed Kemper, and was married to him longer than she was together with Pierre Trudeau.
00:42:34.220She changed her name to Margaret Kemper.
00:42:36.160It was only after her son became prime minister and she could rent herself out as a speaker to oily folks like the Kielburgers that she started to call herself Margaret Trudeau again.
00:42:49.520She didn't call herself by her maiden name.
00:42:51.960She didn't call herself by her legal name.
00:42:54.660She just called herself a Trudeau so she could get rich.
00:43:05.080Margaret Trudeau has been important about two times in her life, when she was the husband of a prime minister and when she was the mother of a prime minister.
00:43:10.820And she's capitalizing on that very, very clearly and obviously here.
00:43:16.500The charity has no interest in, you know, random qualified people to talk about mental health, which they mentioned about six times, by the way.
00:43:26.140That one stat, whenever they weren't able to actually say something or wanted to avoid answering a question honestly because they were under oath, they would go back to exactly what Justin Trudeau would do.
00:43:37.100Like you said, they would go back to that fact.
00:43:38.980Oh, did you know one in five young Canadians have this issue?
00:43:50.860Just these platitudes, they really mean nothing.
00:43:53.300So it's clear from that line of questioning.
00:43:56.880Not only are they still hiding more, and I bet you there's more to uncover, but they were paying Margaret Trudeau because she was Justin Trudeau's mother and for no other reason.
00:44:05.600Yeah, and you'd think that someone who cares deeply about the charity of mental health would speak for free.
00:44:12.960Justin Trudeau, of course, himself billed, you know, even when he was an MP, he would charge for speeches about mental health, his favorite charity.
00:44:22.920So he would say, if it's your favorite charity mate, why are you taking money away?
00:44:26.940Most people, when they do a charity, they give money to the charity.
00:44:30.620They don't take money from the charity.
00:44:32.460I really think that we're dealing with a crime family here on par with the Clinton crime family.
00:44:38.740And I just don't know who's worse, the Trudeaus or the Kielbergers.
00:44:41.900They really are mirror images of each other.
00:44:46.520Yeah, I'll just add something there to this.
00:44:49.080The Kielberger brothers keep, throughout this whole testimony, they keep saying over and over again, oh, we weren't just paying them to come speak.
00:44:57.540The speaking was an honor to speak to about 30,000 children.
00:45:08.820Everyone has their hand in the cookie jar.
00:45:11.260And not only were the Kielberger brothers using their relationship with Justin Trudeau to score big on this nearly billion-dollar contract,
00:45:18.660they were using Justin Trudeau's family assets, his wealth, his power, and prominence to fundraise further for themselves after the fact.
00:45:27.900It's just this big circle of collecting money from Canadians for their own benefit.