Behind the Scenes of Fight the Fines in Canada, Australia and the UK
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An update on what we re doing here at Rebel News, a new book we re publishing, and some exciting news about a new project we re working on. Plus, a call to action from Ezra on the Trudeau government on climate change.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'm going to give you sort of a state of the union, what we're
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up to here at Rebel News, tell you some of our plans, tell you some exciting news. We've
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got a new book we're publishing. You can get it right now. I am very excited about that
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and a few other things we're cooking up. So that's ahead on today's podcast. Let me invite
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you, though, to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber. It's only $8 a month. That's not a lot. That's
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less than Netflix. And you know, if you buy a year in advance, it's only $80 for the whole
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year. You get the video version of the podcast, plus other goodies like a show from David Menzies
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and Sheila Gunn-Reed every week. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, an update on what we're doing here at Rebel News. It's December 3rd, and this
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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'm publishing, is because it's my bloody
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right to do so. Hello, my friends. You know, we've never been busier in our nearly six years
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at Rebel News. I feel like we're drinking from a fire hose. There's so much going on. In fact,
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we're hiring new staff every few weeks just to keep up. I think you can see a lot of that
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on your TV screens, but of course, there's also people behind the scenes. It's so busy besides doing
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the show I do every night, and then I do live streams during the day, and so does Sheila
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Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, and our reports out in the field. There's a lot of building
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the business in the background. I almost didn't have time to do the show today, but I thought
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instead, why don't I turn the show into sort of a report on how we're doing? Because I think you,
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as our most loyal viewers, would find it interesting. So I've got some points here I'm going to go
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through, and I'm going to throw to clips of videos that illustrate things. So I've got
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a lot of news. There's even some news I can't share with you yet, but I'm proud to tell you
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what we're up to. I hope you find that interesting. You will get some great videos today, too,
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besides me just blathering about the company. The first thing I want to tell you is I'm very
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excited about it. It's Raheel Raza, who is the chairperson of our advisory board. She's got
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a new book, and we are the proud publishers of it. The book is called The ABCs of Islamism.
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If you're wondering what Islamism is, well, first of all, you can get the book. Second of all,
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it's Political Islam, the politicized, aggressive attempt to infuse radical Islam into every aspect
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of life. But don't take it from me. Take it from the book. And you can find out about the book
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at theabcsofislamism.com. And look at that beautiful cover. So I'm very excited that we
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have a new author. And you can get the book, and it'll be shipped to you before Christmas.
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So that's some interesting reading for you. And there's another book we have in the editing
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process right now that should be out probably in February. If we can squeeze it out in January,
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we will. I don't want to give it away, but it is going to be hot. It's going to be Tabasco.
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So I don't even want to tell you who the author is. It's going to blow you away.
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I'm very proud. We're turning into a bit of a publishing house. I mean, we published
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14 titles, if you include e-books and paperbacks, from me, from Sheila. We have a lot of different
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subjects we cover. And I'm just very proud of Raheel's new book. I hope you like it too.
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Our big focus these days is fighting the fines. And by fines, I mean the lockdown fines. And they're
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so bizarre and so capricious and so punitive. I really think that most of the damage is being
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done, not by the virus itself, but by the politicians using the virus as an excuse to
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show their inner authoritarians. And as I mentioned yesterday, when we went through Aaron O'Toole's
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speech, I really think it falls in part to us here at Rebel News to tell the other side of the story.
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That's our motto, right? To be responsible skeptics of every government, whether it's Trudeau's government,
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that comes naturally, it has to be skeptics, or so-called conservative governments like
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Brian Pallister in Manitoba, and Doug Ford in Ontario, and of course Canada's awful mayors.
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So we're covering the story. I mean, that's our motto, telling the other side of the story.
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And these days, the political establishment, the public health deep state, and the media party,
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they are all walking in lockstep. Someone's got to tell the other side of the story, and that's us.
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I want to give you a few examples. David Menzies, who has been a real star covering the pandemic
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since the very beginning, he led Canada's coverage of Adam Skelly, the barbecue restaurant
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owner in Toronto who refused to bend the knee. And just outstanding reportage. Let me show you this
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clip of David's work. Here's a couple minutes of that. What brings you out to this eatery,
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So why is it, do you think that, I mean, Adam's point, and it's a valid one, I think,
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when you have the Walmarts and the Costcos of the world open, but all these little businesses
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shut down under threat of heavy penalties, why are we tolerating this double standard in the first
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We shouldn't be. I think a lot of people are scared. I think that's the reason why people
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are tolerating it. A lot of people are just scared to stand up. They don't know their rights.
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And we're fighting for their future, so they have the same opportunities that I was provided.
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Hey, Adam, what did the police and bylaw officers say to you?
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They were all very respectful. They made sure that we, they took a look through and,
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I'm a little overwhelmed right now, brother. They made sure, they took a look at the different
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rules that we're supposed to be complying with. They found that we were in non-compliance of people
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eating inside. Everything else was good. We're contact tracing. We have the signs posted so that the
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customers maintained social distancing, but it looks like there's a little bit of civil disobedience
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happening today. They decided not to enforce that. And it sure isn't my job as a guy who
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cooks brisket to enforce government regulations.
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Adam, do you think you're a catalyst for so many other businesses in the same position you are,
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with your backs up against the wall, just trying to earn a livelihood, that they will look upon what
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you've done today and they will also open up in civil disobedience?
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Of course, I know I'm going to be the catalyst for this. When everybody stands up and says enough
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is enough, that's when we're going to see this end.
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And what is the ostensible policy reason in the first place of shutting down a little mom-pa
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operator like you, and yet the Costcos, the Walmarts, the Loblaws of the world, they get to open.
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Don't ask me, man. How am I supposed to know? I don't make policy. I'm just supposed to enforce it at
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my restaurant. I don't know why that's happening, but it doesn't feel right to me. And I know there's
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a lot of other people that doesn't feel right to them either.
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Well, I'm looking at this lineup, Adam. How soon are you going to run out of food?
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If we haven't sold out of some meats already, I'm sure we're going to very soon. We had a lot
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of support today. We have some freedom-loving patriots that are here to support. I'm sure we'll
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No, sir. Not a single fine issue today to my business, myself, or anybody who came here to support.
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What does it feel like to put defiance on the menu?
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I believe that Adam Skelly is a very interesting character. I don't know him well. I can't
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vouch for him in any way other than showing you what we know. And what amazes me about
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him is his courage to stand up to literally all the king's horses and all the king's men.
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And the resonance of those stories, the number of people who have watched them tells me he's
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striking a chord, he's filling a void. And he may turn into a leader, a public, organic
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protester that people are marshalling around. I don't know where he gets his courage and defiance
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from, but it's quite impressive to watch. And we'll report that story in a way that's not a hater,
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I don't know if you saw this video yesterday that Sheila Gunnery did from the town of Prince
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Albert, Saskatchewan. I want to show you a little bit of it. The largest pandemic lockdown fine in
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Canada, did it go to some nightclub? Did it go to, I don't know, it went to a church,
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fined $14,000 for singing. I'm not making that up. The local casino is open in Prince Albert,
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of course, but this church is shut down, $14,000 fine. Here's a little bit of Sheila's new story.
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We moved over there, from there over to here, so that we would be able to, you know,
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social distance and to comply as well as we could, you know, to the, you know, reopen Saskatchewan
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guidelines. And then they hand us a ticket. I know that I was gifted to minister to the poor. Not
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everyone is gifted to minister to the poor. Not everyone. And I write, I don't judge Christians
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for not reaching out because they're just not gifted to, to reach out to, to people that are
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just like crazy lives, you know? And, and, uh, so I know that I was gifted at that time. The Lord
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gave me the gift of mercy. And, um, and you know, that's been part of the reason why I've been able
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to persevere because when you know you're called to do something, then there's no turning back. You
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can't back down from the government. Prince Albert Saskatchewan Church has received a $14,000
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coronavirus fine for singing without wearing masks. It's outrageous. It's un-Canadian and we refuse to
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let this stand. We are helping the full gospel outreach center fight back and we need your help to do it.
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Today, I'm bringing you a story about a fight the fines case that we've been working on for almost
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a month now. And then after this is all over, I'm going to ask you to help us help a man who's doing
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good work to help vulnerable people that few people are willing to do. And he's paying a high cost for
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all of it. In early October, an inner city Prince Albert Saskatchewan church was given a five figure
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COVID-19 fine by the province of Saskatchewan for singing in their church without masks on. It could
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be one of the highest fines of this kind we've seen in Canada. Look at this. A Prince Albert
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Saskatchewan church was fined $14,000 after a multi-day event caused an outbreak of the novel
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coronavirus. A traveling evangelist spoke at the full gospel outreach for several days, according to
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Prince Albert mayor, Greg Dion. Remember that name? He said the event drew hundreds to the church, both from the
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city and further north. They crossed the line, said Dion, adding he doesn't understand why the church wouldn't
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follow guidelines when, quote, every other place of worship in the city has. Oh, that is infuriating. And if you want to
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help us fight back, we've hired an excellent, excellent young lawyer, Sarah Miller. She's helped
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us with Arthur Pawlowski in other cases. I'm so pleased that she's really becoming a civil liberties
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fighter. And it's fun to watch. And frankly, I pity the mayor of Prince Albert, who doesn't know what
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he's in for. So if you want to help us fight back, go to fightthefinance.com. I'm worried that this
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weekend, as in this Sunday, will be the worst civil liberties weekend in Canada since the
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FLQ crisis. I think you're going to see brutal police enforcement. The sorts we saw for Adamson's
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barbecue, I think you're going to see it at churches in Aylmer, Ontario, in Wellington County, Ontario,
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in Steinbeck, Manitoba, in Vancouver, BC. And lucky for us, we have reporters all across the country.
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So you're going to see Kian in Manitoba. You're going to see Drea in Vancouver. You're going to
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see Tamara doing her work in Ontario. As you know, she joined us from a Fight the Fines program.
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And as you know, we have a plan, an assembly line now. We're putting it together. It's led by David
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Amber, lawyer based in Ottawa. He's working with Aaron Rosenberg. We've got a lot of lawyers.
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You may recall, here's a little clip of David Amber fighting for a personal trainer who was
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shut down and locked down in the Ottawa area, just to remind you who I'm talking about. Take a look at
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this. His back is up against the wall. He feels he has the open, almost as an act of civil disobedience,
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just in order to A, make a living and B, provide the services his clients so desperately need.
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What was it about his case that attracted you to it?
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Well, here in the city of Ottawa, David, you know, we've been now, what, on six or seven months of
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flattening the curve. And I know that the city of Ottawa has been, on one hand, vigilant in terms
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of trying to enforce some of these new regulations. But on another hand, in many situations, they've
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been overzealous in terms of their enforcement and in terms of whether or not they're even giving
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effect to any exemptions that exist. And there's questions as to whether or not we really need
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So that's David Amber. And he has agreed to set up our assembly line just to take hundreds and
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hundreds of cases. So, I mean, you can see Sheila went to Prince Albert and really did a long story
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and spent a lot of time on it. That's great. And that case was a very special one. But I want to
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take every case. And I mean hundreds. I mean, I know it sounds audacious, but I actually think we
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can take a thousand cases. And hopefully, we can get them thrown out en masse. But if that means
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running a thousand little trials, thankfully, we've had a lot of people volunteer to help.
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David's going to help manage that because, I mean, come on, you're taking hundreds of cases.
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That's a lot of behind-the-scenes work. That's one of the things I'm talking about. But I'm really
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excited about that. And I have instructed our team, David and Sheila and Kian and Drea and Tamera
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and the whole team, not to mess around. If Drea's in Vancouver and she sees police finding a church,
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if Kian's in Steinbeck and he sees police acting abusively, don't stand on ceremony.
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Sign up these people for free lawyers from David and we'll work out the paperwork later.
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We've got to help people in real time. We can't wait 30, 60, 90 days. So that's really our big
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project behind the scenes. I want to let you know that we've taken a ton of cases in Australia.
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Our firebrand of a reporter down there, Avi Amini, he's a one-man army. He's doing such a great job.
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And his cases that he's taking down under aren't just individual cases. We're doing a
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constitutional challenge down under because they've been arresting people for merely protesting.
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And those cases are moving through the courts. They're at a fair clip. The worst of the lockdown
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has been lessened. And I credit Avi Amini for that. But here's a clip of one of the latest cases down
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under just to show you that we're, you know, Canada's our home. Our heart's in Canada. 95%
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of our staff are in Canada. But we do care about the world. And with Avi down under, we can make a
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difference there too. Take a look at this. Mate, fantastic day. I know you're excited. I can see
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the smile on your face. Before we get into your reaction, first tell us the story. We haven't had
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a chance to even catch up on camera, only over the phone. So let people out there know what happened
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from the beginning. So I've taken the family out on the bushwalk over in Mansfield, beautiful mountains
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along there. And on the way back heading home, we ended up being pulled up by police and they let us
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know we're breaking the law. So we said, oh, we didn't know, you know, legitimately. So we took the
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family straight home. Thanked them for the advice. And of course, a month later in the in the mail was
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a fine. Didn't have the funds at the time doing double shifts trying to support a family of four
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and renew it. So how are you feeling today now that Madeline managed to get this revoked?
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It's fantastic. It's amazing news to hear how it's been revoked. And yeah, they've dropped the
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charges, been pulled out of court. So do you think this was going to happen? I thought it was going to
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take a lot longer. I didn't expect it to happen so soon. And yeah, it's just exhilarating.
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Family's overwhelmed. Thanks for joining us again, Madeline. And thank you for this very first
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win. How are you feeling about the news? Oh, very happy. Very, very pleased for Tony that we were
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able to get his matter withdrawn and withdrawn very quickly. Well, it certainly helped him out because
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obviously it's affecting his employment as well. But the crazy thing is Tony was actually about to
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pay it. Yes. Well, Tony's matter demonstrates the value of getting legal advice in these type of
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matters. Absolutely. And that's why we're doing what we're doing. I'm really excited for all the
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upcoming cases and to see some hopefully similar positive results. Again, thank you for taking on
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all these cases. And thank you on behalf of Tony and everybody out there supporting this.
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Thanks. What's your message to Madeline? Thank you. Thank you, Heaps. It was a fantastic job.
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It was great news from the start. Even just having her phone call straight up, she let me know,
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yes, we have got something to go to court with sort of thing. Letting me know straight away,
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it was relieving news. Could you have done this and won this alone? No. Well, we're really happy.
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We're really glad that Madeline was able and fightthefinals.com.au was able to make this happen
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for you because this is what it's about. It's about helping regular everyday Australians who didn't
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even do anything wrong to fight back and stand strong and at the end succeed. So well done. Thank
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you so much. Thank you for being a part of it. Thank you for sharing your story and empowering
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others to do the same. That's right. Thank you, Rebel News. Thank you, Riavi, that you have been
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fantastic throughout the process. I can't thank you guys enough. It's our pleasure. This is what it's
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about. You know, I was worried that we would have to really subsidize the Australian operation. But
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in fact, Australia is so hungry for telling the other side of the story. I'm really pleased
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to say that our Australia operation is doing great. In fact, it shows that some of the issues
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we're dealing with here in Canada are universal. Canada, Australia, and I don't know if you saw,
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but this morning we revealed that we have a new teammate in the United Kingdom. We used to have a
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whole crew there centered around the rambunctious Tommy Robinson. He left our employee about two and a
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half years ago. We helped him out when he was thrown in jail on a bogus contempt of court charge.
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Tommy's been doing his own thing for a couple of years. I still stay in touch with the lad. It's
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fun to banter with him. Of course, it's hard for me to try. I haven't left the country since the
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pandemic. I used to go to the UK at least once a month. So it's hard for us to tell stories in the UK
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when we don't have any people there. Well, now we do. Benjamin Lockname has signed up with us. He's
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very British. And here's our first British video done by a British journalist in years. And hopefully
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it's the first of many. And it's with our Fight the Fines project in that country. They all have
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similar websites. Fightthefines.com is our Canadian website. Fightthefines.com.au
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is our Australian website. And fightthefines.co.uk is our UK website. I know it's hard to keep
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track, but each country has their own domain. And so here's a little snippet from our first
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Fight the Fines case in the UK led by a Brit. Take a look.
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This is a substantial risk that you are facing by not adhering to the lockdown guidelines and based
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on what trading standards have advised you already.
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We all have to look into that. See, the thing is, you're not even giving us time to sort
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out what our rights are here. This is a, no, wait a minute. This is a business of 30 years
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here. And we don't feel that you are, that the law is right in this respect, that we are
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not doing anyone any harm by being open. We are doing no harm. What proof is there that
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we have harmed anyone? I'm visiting a family who run a business who have been persecuted
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by the local police. They've received warnings, they've received orders to shut down and they've
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received fines. And just around the corner there's a WH Smith doing the exact same services
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that they offer, but they're not being targeted. It's just the small local family businesses.
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What I've been told, if you keep failing to abide by the trading standards saying that
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you need to be closed, there is a risk that you pay quite yourself...
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...that if you continue to fail to obey by the regulations...
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...that there is a risk that you can be given away or you can have your license taken away
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from you and you can be shut. This is a substantial risk that you are facing.
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If you or someone you know has been unfairly fined, ticketed or even arrested, head over
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to fightthefines.co.uk and fill out a form with the details of your case. We will crowdfund
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a civil liberties lawyer to fight the fine in court, just like we will for this shop here
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On the first day of this second lockdown, we'd already decided before that that we would be
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opening, so we opened up on the first day and within an hour and a half the police came
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and physically shut the shop, actually closed the doors.
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Well, they stood in the door and stopped people coming in basically.
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We were open and we had one officer talking to us, the other one standing in the doorway.
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This isn't for us a challenge, that'll be a few to take up with them. As far as we're
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concerned, we've been told by the government that this does not meet the requirements for the shop
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to be open. So that is what we're here to advise you.
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And did they have sort of a notice or permission to do that or did they just take it upon themselves?
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No, no. Yeah, so that was the first day. So we kind of, we just went along with it that day
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because it was quite, it was quite dramatic, wasn't it, the way you put people in?
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Yeah, it was. Intimidatory, if you could use that word.
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Yeah, so we went away and thought about it and decided to reopen as an essential shop,
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which we kind of felt we were essential before anyway.
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And the main reason for that was because we saw that this lockdown wasn't like the previous one.
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Other shops were open who had been closed before, and similar shops to us.
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Like WH Smith over the corner, which effectively is doing the exact same thing as you do.
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You're a small business trying to stay open, and a big chain like WH Smith can get away with the exact same thing.
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Do you think that's anything to do with the fact that you're a small business and therefore an easy target?
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Yeah, I think so. They're allowed to be open. The post office sells loads of cards as well.
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And of course, I've got to mention the garden centres because they, I mean, you go to a garden centre for a trip, for a jolly,
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you don't go up to a garden centre for essential stuff. They're usually more expensive anyway. People go there for a trip.
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And they're allowed to stay open. They're selling all the same kind of things as we, gifts and cards and, yeah, clothes and everything.
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All those kind of shops have to close, but they're being allowed to stay open.
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Can you imagine that? That's the same problem we have here in Canada.
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So it's a little gift shop that sells cards and stuff, and they're being crushed.
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But WH Smith, that big chain, we have it here in Canada too, they're allowed to sell cards because they have snack food.
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So this little mom and pop shop says, well, we can sell snack food too.
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Which one do you think the police have gone after?
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And I'm really excited that we have a teammate in the UK now, and I think he's going to have a little bit of fun.
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So that's a little bit of a summary of our focus these days, but you knew that.
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I'm really excited about Raheel's new book. There's a new book in the new year.
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Boy, you know I want to tell you about it, but we have to, you know, you can't take the cake out of the oven until it's baked.
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In so many ways, the year 2020 was stolen from us. It was wasted.
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I, like everyone else, was confused and uncertain about the virus for several months.
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Would it really be like Ebola or a zombie apocalypse?
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And now, I realize it's really a bad flu season.
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It's comparable to that in terms of its death toll.
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Any death is a tragedy, but the average age of people dying from the virus is in the mid-80s.
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And most of them have underlying serious health conditions.
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I'm saying now that we know that it affects people in their 80s who have underlying health issues, let's give them all the protection and care.
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And let's let the rest of the world go back to work.
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But alas, authoritarians on the left have said, no, no, no.
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And so that's the real battle, the political battle that just begins now.
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And I just want to show you that clip of Jane Fonda again.
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She knows that the virus is a great opportunity.
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And we are people who can help determine which way humanity goes.
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We have to use it with every ounce of intelligence and courage and wherewithal we have.
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And, you know, I just think COVID is God's gift to the left.
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It's who knows what will happen if Donald Trump will pull out a win.
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But Joe Biden, he's going to be a full lockdown guy.
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I remember way back when I went to business school at the University of Calgary, got a commerce degree.
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And I remember they had something called a SWOT analysis.
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We're not quite there yet, but I was thinking about it anyways.
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We have more than 1.4 million YouTube subscribers.
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We've had 570 million views of our videos totaling more than 2.5 billion minutes watched.
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We're also on Instagram now and Twitter and Facebook.
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To add it all up, we are Canada's largest independent broadcaster.
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And we're, online, we're larger than many of the old line players like Global News and CTV.
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Our track record, we've been doing this for a while.
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And we've got, you know, millions of people who rely on us for information.
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So it's not a permeable membrane between us and them.
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That is, when we break important news, when we tell important stories,
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Well, if Rebel News is talking about these, even if they're newsworthy,
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we're deliberately not going to talk about those because those are tainted,
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So the very thing that makes us strong, we tell the other side of the story.
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We give news for people who don't feel served by the CBC and the Toronto Star.
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That distinctive flavor we have is also a weakness in that our ideas cannot permeate into the mainstream culture.
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That's why we rely on people like you to spread the word.
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Well, more than ever, people need the other side of the story.
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And although the pandemic is a terrible time, both in terms of health and, most importantly, civil liberties,
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it is a time when people value that other side of the story.
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And I think we are really becoming that, not just in word, but in deed.
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And these fight the fines projects are tremendously popular, not just with viewers, but with people who need the help.
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That's the T in the SWAT analysis that I remember from business school.
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Well, I think our threat remains what it always has been.
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And again, depending on the US outcome of the presidential race, if Biden wins, which I think is still likely.
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That is not censorship at the hands of a Human Rights Commission or a court,
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but censorship at the hands of some unknown bureaucrat in Silicon Valley who just pushes a button called delete.
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What would we do if we were shut down from YouTube, where we have so many millions or billions of views?
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What would we do if we were shut off of Twitter?
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All of a sudden, we would be a rumor, just a mist, just history.
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I think, of course, those companies are being pushed by leftist governments to censor us.
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We see that kind of language all the time in Canada, also in the Democrat Party in the United States.
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And even just yesterday, this clip in the United Kingdom, where both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party are talking about censoring contrary views about vaccines and the pandemic.
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As the Prime Minister knows, we've got the highest regulatory and medical safety standards in the world.
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But it's really important we do everything possible to counter dangerous, frankly, life-threatening disinformation about vaccines.
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We on this side have called for legislation to be introduced to clamp down on this with financial penalties for companies that fail to act.
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So will the Prime Minister work with us on this and bring forward emergency legislation in the coming days, which I think the whole House would support?
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Well, Mr Speaker, we are, of course, working to tackle all kinds of disinformation across the internet.
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And he's right to single out the anti-vaxxers and those who I think are totally wrong in their approach.
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And he's right to encourage take up of vaccines across the country.
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And we'll be publishing a paper very shortly, Mr Speaker, on online harms designed to tackle the very disinformation that he speaks of.
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So I think there's enormous pressure on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Amazon to censor our side of the story.
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I lived with that earlier this year when my own book, The China Virus, was banned, then unbanned, then re-banned, then re-unbanned by Amazon because it contradicted official points of view.
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You'll notice on a lot of our videos we start off with a censorship warning.
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YouTube requires us to put a warning like we're poison or something in the front of our videos.
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But I suppose if I had to sum up why we're still here, coming up on our sixth birthday, well, because it's you.
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We don't take a dime of money from Justin Trudeau.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you and all, goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.