Calgary academic apologizes, pays up after falsely calling a Rebel reporter a “Neo-Nazi”
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A Calgary academic apologizes and pays cash for falsely calling our reporter a Nazi. Is this a way to fight back against the left? Or is it just laziness and laziness gone wrong? And why should others go to jail when you don't have to?
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I do a bit of a victory lap.
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We had a legal victory on Friday against someone who was calling us a Nazi.
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I'm a big free speech guy, but when you call someone a Nazi, it's a very factual statement.
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It's a defamation, and it can have real consequences.
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You get deplatformed. You get punched in the face.
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Well, we finally pushed back against some lefty, and the results were spectacular.
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Before I do, let me invite you to become a premium subscriber to Rebel News.
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It's $8 a month, and you get the video version of this show, plus two other shows.
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Tonight, a Calgary academic apologizes and pays cash for falsely calling our reporter a Nazi.
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It's November 25th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Three million people did see it, but if you're not on Twitter, you probably didn't.
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On Friday, an academic at the University of Calgary published this apology on Twitter, where it will remain for 30 days.
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I apologize to Ms. Sheila Gunn-Reed for my tweet on June 12, 2019, using the term neo-Nazi.
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I retract the allegation without reservation and regret any harm I may have caused to Ms. Gunn-Reed or her family.
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I had no basis for making the allegation against her in particular, and acknowledged that it is false in regards to her.
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And of course, he has to bear his own legal fees.
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The guy's name is David Barrett, and he's a minor bureaucrat at the University of Calgary.
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Apparently, he's the aquatic ecology lab coordinator.
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So, I'm guessing, you know, government worker, environmentalist.
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I'm guessing he's just a garden variety leftist who was triggered by something Sheila said one day.
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And instead of ignoring her, or responding to her, I mean, if you're an expert in ecology,
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surely you could muster some scientific facts or arguments, right?
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But for some reason, and I'm assuming that reason is just laziness,
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and the fact that so many other leftists do the same thing,
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this guy thought the right thing to do was to call Sheila a neo-Nazi.
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I'm starting to wonder if anyone under 40 even knows what an actual Nazi still is.
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Sheila does not believe in the superiority of the Aryan race.
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Sheila does not believe in the extermination of Jews,
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in the creation of a fascist European superstate, a Reich.
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You know, Sheila does not idolize Adolf Hitler.
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I think that's a working definition of a neo-Nazi, I think.
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In fact, Sheila's pretty much the opposite of all those things.
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both of which included visits to the National Holocaust Memorial and Museum there called Yad Vashem.
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And when she was in Poland a couple of years ago,
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covering the UN Global Warming Conference in that country,
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she decided to make the trip to a concentration camp at Auschwitz
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including where she described how awful it is for leftists to use Holocaust or Nazi imagery
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The concentration camps are a testament to the real, tangible evil that humanity is capable of.
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And the word Nazi should only be used to describe Nazis, that very real evil.
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So yeah, don't call Sheila a Nazi or a neo-Nazi or anything like that.
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It's not a generic insult like calling someone an idiot or even the anti-female slur calling someone a bitch.
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Those are mean words, but they're obviously just generic insults and they're not really defamatory.
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They don't contain a very specific factual meaning.
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If you are a Nazi, that means something very specific.
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And it's not a matter of opinion if you're a Nazi.
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And these days it means something especially terrible again.
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And it also has immediate real-world consequences.
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Obviously, I know it's a lie, so I wouldn't fire Sheila.
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She's not going to be de-platformed by me for that lie.
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But she could be de-platformed in other ways, on social media.
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For example, she could be banned from renting facilities, either at the Rebel or even in her own life.
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She could be physically attacked, since the left has this motto, punch a Nazi.
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But, of course, they don't really know what a Nazi is, other than someone they really don't like.
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You can do violence against someone if you simply call them the word Nazi first.
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And when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions,
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we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the meat and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.
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And we're not going to let that defamation take root against our people.
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We already have some leftist thugs who hit our reporters, including Sheila, this guy here, Dion Buse.
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Well, first, actually, we sent him what's called a libel notice, which is sort of a warning, a serious warning.
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And we served it on him with the process of a warning.
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I think he either thought we weren't serious, or maybe he just froze and didn't know what to do.
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Or maybe he thought if he just hid under the bed, it would all go away.
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And my theory here is that it's because he made the defamatory comment, as a lot of people do online,
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with a feeling of at least partial anonymity, like he was part of a larger mob.
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There's that mob psychology that can take over.
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I remember a few years back, remember when there was a riot in Vancouver after the Stanley Cup, if I recall?
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And people blended in with each other, and they lost their individual identity.
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And like a herd of gazelles or something, they just followed everyone else.
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One girl went into a smashed clothing store and looted it.
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And I remember afterwards when she was identified and arrested, she said she didn't even want what she took.
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I don't think, by the way, that that's an excuse.
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It suggests that we are not in control of ourselves.
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We're like gazelles in a herd or birds in a flock.
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That is a dehumanizing defense to say, I lost control.
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The answer is to defy the mob, to think for yourself, to apply your own morality, even if the world around you is going mad.
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You think that for a moment you are anonymous, you are hidden, you are part of a larger ant colony.
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Just one ant amongst thousands and what you do isn't your own will and it doesn't matter anyway since that shirt is going to be stolen by someone else in about 30 seconds if you don't take it.
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I think that mob mindset takes root on Twitter.
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And we were pulling this David Barrett out of his anonymity, pulling him out of the herd and saying, we know your name.
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And now we invite you to come to court and explain to a judge why you think Sheila Gunn-Reed, the Philo-Semite, is a Nazi and why you said that to thousands of people.
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He hoped it would just go away if he hid under the bed, but we didn't go away.
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So he didn't even do what we asked him to do freely.
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So we only sued him after he ignored the libel notice.
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And by that point, we insisted on a settlement, the apology, the correction, symbolic $1,200 payment to Sheila.
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Barrett wanted to keep it a secret that he had to pay Sheila.
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But we insisted that it be public because we want to deter other people from doing the same thing.
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I mean, in the grand scale of things, $1,200 isn't a huge amount of money.
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He probably spent more than that on his own lawyer.
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I'm pretty sure David Barrett will personally not smear Sheila again anytime soon.
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Or if he takes a run at her, he'll be factually accurate.
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But it's an important lesson to everyone else in the world.
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But don't call us Nazis or it'll cost you $1,200 for a tweet.
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When you look at it that way, it's a lot of money.
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Anyway, Sheila sent me the traffic analytics of her tweet.
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As of yesterday, more than 3 million people had read that one tweet alone.
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David Barrett's own apology was probably seen half a million times.
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I believe that the case of Sheila Gunn-Reed versus David Barrett
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I mean, we know 3 million saw that one tweet alone.
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I mean, Sheila's 3 million was just 48 hours worth.
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I once had a tweet retweeted by Donald Trump himself, the president.
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I mean, it's pretty common for a lefty to call a conservative a Nazi.
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It's sad because, first of all, it diminishes what Hitler and the Nazis really were.
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It takes away from the gravity of actual Nazis to call anyone you don't like a Nazi.
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And, of course, it tarnishes Sheila, who is actually a supporter of Jews, who loves Jews.
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And it's so funny because Barrett could have simply apologized and corrected when we first wrote to him,
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He would have saved his money and the humiliation of being a national embarrassment.
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Well, it's because leftists calling conservatives Nazis, that's not rare.
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But a conservative fighting back, well, that is rare indeed.
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Someone who isn't just going to take it anymore.
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It's part of our larger stop deplatforming strategy.
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I told you about our lawsuit the other day to sue the leftists who bullied the theater owner in Alberta
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to cancel two book signings we had to rip up our contract.
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The professor, this professor here, Nancy Lavelle at U of Alberta,
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like David Barrett at U of Calgary, should have known better.
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I mean, if she disagrees with us, she should be able to use her words.
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So why not debate us or ignore us or have a counter event?
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But to demand a theater, cancel a book signing?
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But that actually is one of the things Nazis did.
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I'm 100% sure that Nancy Lavelle was like David Barrett.
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Thought she was anonymous or sort of anonymous.
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But I can assure you, inducing breach of contract is a real thing.
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And we're suing her for it and everyone else who did the same.
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Let me give you a preliminary report on how that lawsuit is going.
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Those two book signings last month were canceled.
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But just last week, we had two great town hall meetings in Alberta.
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And so same cities as the book signings, right?
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This was about Western alienation, not my book.
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But we advertised this event in the exact same way we advertised the book signings.
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I literally did not see a single person trying to get these latest two events canceled.
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And I didn't hear a single word from either hotel in Calgary or Edmonton that they had been pressured to cancel us.
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Now, maybe there's some other explanation for why no one tried to de-platform us.
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I mean, the de-platformers were successful just last month.
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Why wouldn't they be enthused, encouraged, emboldened from that victory?
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Like I say, it's a very good experiment because so many of the variables are the same.
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Same cities, same advertising, same type of event, just barely one month later.
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I believe that our stop de-platforming lawsuit has scared them off from doing it again.
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I truly believe that has what stopped the de-platforming already.
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Let the leftists ignore us, or better yet, debate us, or hold contrary events of their own.
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But stop inducing people to breach contracts with us.
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And I believe that Sheila's settlement against David Barrett will do the same.
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I can give you 10 legitimate criticisms against us, our ideas, our company, The Rebel, against
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If you can express criticism of me and our ideas articulately enough, come on the show.
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Let's get back to that, where we used to debate each other, not cancel events and call each
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And by the way, it's not even a two-way street.
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I've never in my life ever heard of conservatives de-platforming a leftist.
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Not once in my life have I heard of a conservative physically attacking a liberal, especially a
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In the manner that each one of these videos here shows our reporters being attacked in
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some way, I think every single one of our reporters that we've had has been attacked
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This guy here, by the way, it's still continuing.
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This is the manager of the Radisson Toronto East, attacked both David Menzies and our cameraman,
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We offered them a very easy settlement, including just if they said sorry, but they refused to.
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I think a judge has to tell them they can't hit people, so we're going to court.
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We have other lawsuits afoot as well, not because we want to sue.
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I'd rather spend all these hundreds of thousands of dollars when you add it up.
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We have to stop these people from demonizing us as Nazis.
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We have to stop them from physically attacking our reporters and cameramen.
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We had to go to court when Justin Trudeau's hand-picked elections commission banned us from
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I think we just have to, because no one else is going to stand up for us.
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After nearly five years, we've had no help from the people who should be helping, from the
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Association of Journalists or the
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression or for Penn Canada or for Amnesty International
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or any of these groups, Reporters Without Borders.
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And we also fight to protect journalism, whether you're calling us Nazis, deplatforming us or
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I think it's one of the reasons people like us, because we put our money where our mouth
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And the fact that five or 10 million people read Sheila's news tells me there's an awful,
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awful lot of Canadians and Americans and Brits and Australians, too, who want our team to
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finally take the gloves off and not just turn the other cheek every time.
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Well, did you know that from the election to when Justin Trudeau rolled out his new cabinet
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was about a month, and Trudeau went about a month without taking a single question from
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Now, that's not shocking, but what is rather telling is that the media itself was fine with
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this and didn't mention Trudeau's being absent without leave as the country lurches
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But let's take a moment and look at some of the changes in Trudeau's new cabinet.
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Joining us now via Skype from Ottawa to talk about some important changes is our friend
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Now, you have zeroed in on some of the more important changes, especially for our viewers
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Why don't you start off with the new Natural Resources Minister, Seamus O'Regan?
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I found it very peculiar that we certainly do know that there is a problem with the West.
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There is a separation movement in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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And we hear the media, we hear the Prime Minister Trudeau saying, I have to address this.
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And so you look to see what is the evidence that he really means what he says.
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Well, he appointed Seamus O'Regan to Natural Resource Minister.
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Now, this job, this ministry, his job is to see that the natural resources that are abundant
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in Canada, and there are all sorts, oil, gas, mining, trees, coal, etc., etc.
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And his job is to get that natural resources to market.
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And Seamus O'Regan is appointed as the minister.
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And Seamus O'Regan has done advertising and has said that he wants no resources moved from
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And well, just go with a clip, Ezra, and you'll see.
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Because climate change, the greatest challenge of our time, will decide the fate of polar bears,
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walrus, whales, and all living things, including us, we will help change the way we use and
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This will be the most important chapter of WWF's history.
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Together, let's shape a healthier world for our children and our grandchildren.
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Manny, it's not just that he was saying climate change is the number one issue.
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It's that he was doing so for a registered anti-oil sands lobbyist group that's registered
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with the lobbyist commissioner in Ottawa to attack the oil sands.
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The premiers from the West have asked, we want to see a sign that you really care about
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In fact, this is a greater declaration of war than we've already had.
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So that is very disturbing, especially if you are in the resource industry.
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There are enough people, a cabinet, that are going to fight against the resources of Canada.
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You don't need to have the resource minister fighting against himself.
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You know, Seamus O'Regan is a very weak cabinet minister who has been given jobs.
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He was famous for this one unbelievable Twitter picture.
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He was in a private plane flying high above the land.
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And it was a picture of him looking very pensive.
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It was so tone deaf that this white, great white savior flying above Aboriginal people,
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I put it to you that if he were not part of Justin Trudeau's wedding party,
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He wasn't the best man, I don't think, but he was...
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You can see in this picture here, he's one of the group of drunks
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If you look at this picture, half the people in it are either Gerald Butts,
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his principal secretary, top advisor, or cabinet ministers.
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It's as if if you didn't know Justin Trudeau in his blackface college days,
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You forgot this one fact that Seamus Regan did attend the...
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What is now known as the illegal island that the prime minister and his family
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You know, you would expect a very strong minister,
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because it's going to be hard at that table where climate change seems to be held by many,
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You needed a strong minister to fight, minister resources, to fight for the resources in Canada.
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And what we've got is the weakest minister and a person who has advocated against any form
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of exploration, any form of resource development.
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You've appointed a minister and the minister is extremely weak.
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And so on that basis, on the unity of Canada, on what we see, which is very alarming out west,
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and I'm just surprised that the media has not said, hey, wait a minute.
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This is not a guy that's going to be fighting at the table for Alberta, for Saskatchewan,
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for the West, for forestry, for mining, for Yukon mining, for Ontario Northern mining.
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This isn't the strong minister that's going to fight for them.
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Let's talk about another cabinet minister, Christia Freeland, who for some reason, I don't get it.
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When I think of Trudeau, I think obviously he's really antagonized the West, and I'm
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But I think one of the legacies of Trudeau's first term has got to be his disastrous foreign
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We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the hostage-taking of the two Michaels.
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India, you know, just country after country, we've bungled.
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I don't understand why she's considered a hero.
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Tell us what you think of her being put in charge of intergovernmental affairs, but also
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being allowed to keep the NAFTA file, which you'd think you'd get her off that Trump team
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I think she has pretty well nothing to do with the NAFTA file.
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It's been handled by all the experts around her, and it's her legacy that she believes
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I'm going to focus again, as I did with Seamus O'Regan, on the West.
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I mean, how serious is the prime minister in seeking to have bridged the divide that's
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And that is the appointment of Krista Freeland.
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She has, in her role as a foreign minister, has created great division.
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I mean, she literally insulted the president of the United States while in NAFTA by going
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to a tyrant seminar and likening the president to a tyrant, to the point that I'm told by
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my people in Washington that she wasn't even allowed on the premises in the White House.
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There is no need to be insulting the president when you're doing the biggest trade deal Canada's
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You look at the gratuitous email that she made against Saudi Arabia.
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A Saudi citizen was administered Saudi justice.
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And everyone, even the diplomatic community, have said, what was that all about?
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We still don't have an ambassador in Saudi Arabia.
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I mean, there are many, many nations that don't have the rule of law of Canada.
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We see what's happening in Hong Kong and there's silence.
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We know that there's issues with Russia and you've mentioned with China.
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Our foreign minister, Krista Freeland, was not even allowed to speak to the highest orders
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Now, if you look at those three incidents in her duties as foreign minister, the only conclusion
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you can come from that is she's a very divisive person by nature.
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How you think you could put her in the role when you have, you know, open sores out west
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to heal them from a person that has not shown any capability of healing great divides is beyond me.
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This just leads me to conclude, Ezra, that the prime minister really doesn't care about solving
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the problems at west because Krista Freeland is the last person, I would put.
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There are many, I mean, capable people that are in the Liberal cabinet that would have done
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She is probably the last person because of her track record.
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You know, Krista Freeland was a journalist and a pop author.
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She sort of wrote a book about the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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She was given a job at Thomson Reuters to start their new high-tech digital project, spent tens
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of millions of dollars, basically fired everybody who knew what they were doing because she was
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In the end, it was such a mess up that they shut down the whole project and fired everybody.
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That was what she did right before she came back up to Canada.
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And, I mean, of course she's wasting our money, but the idea that she knows better,
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don't, you know, don't listen to the diplomatic hands, don't listen to people who've done it before.
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I think that style that wrecked her multi-million dollar project at Thomson Reuters,
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I just want to play one quick clip for you, Manny.
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It's her certainty that she's right combined with her naivete.
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Hey, here's a clip I've shown our people ten times because it's so funny.
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The Chinese gave Trudeau a nickname, Little Potato, and she was so pleased with this.
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She thought it was such a compliment, she bragged about it on TV.
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We're quite proud the Prime Minister has been given a fond nickname in China.
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He is called Pudou, which I believe means potato.
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And he's, I can't say the Chinese word, it's cyan, Pudou, little potato,
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because his father, Pierre Elliott, Pudou, was senior potato.
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Well, Manny, she's no longer in charge of the Chinaphile,
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and they put in someone who is very sophisticated in Chinese relations,
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But my worry is that he is absolutely in the pocket of Beijing.
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And here's some interesting stories that were dug up.
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He has done work with Chinese propaganda media before.
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He's done interviews with government-run Chinese networks,
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praising China as modern and responsible and secure and sophisticated.
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So he's not going to be a bumbler like Chrystia Freeland,
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So that's the third person that I was going to speak about,
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how I find it odd that you put that person in the role of foreign affairs minister
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when you have this, what I'll call, inherent conflict with China.
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So, you know, Ezra, when I look at the totality of all the appointments,
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I mean, you know, let's start from the beginning.
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And, you know, they shrunk their caucus, but they increased the cabinet.
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And because obviously ministries cost money, it's going to cost a lot more money to run
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And I looked into the particular type of ministries that he's created, these new ones.
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And that is a minister of middle-class prosperity.
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You know, this is Mona Forche from near where I live, Vanier, Ottawa.
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And she's now the minister of middle-class prosperity.
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Now, for four years, all Justin Trudeau has been talking about is middle-class, middle-class,
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The middle-class has now diminished in its net worth and it's losing ground.
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So the answer is create a portfolio for that, although I've been focusing on that for four years.
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The other ministry that I just shook my head at, and I think I tweeted on it, and that is
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Joyce Murray, was appointed to minister of digital government.
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We have a lot of capable bureaucrats that can handle that.
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And I guess a 73-year-old woman that is going to run a digital government, I would have expected
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to see, you know, one of the 30-something young women that are in cabinet there to run
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that department because, you know, the new digital society kind of escapes people my age.
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I don't know many people that know as many as 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds, these bright young
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female MPs that were elected, certainly could have been part of that decision.
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But the reason why these were created, Ezra, it comes down to the box that the prime minister put
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himself in 2015, and that is a parity government.
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So he needs to have a parity, but he's shifted away.
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That's a great observation because look at the heavy portfolios.
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But you're right, he has to have, so he sets up these fake portfolios.
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He has another one, the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion, Bartish Chagher.
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I saw she was interviewed yesterday and was asked, do you have a staff for this?
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It was nothing but tokenism to get that fake gender equality.
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Right, and it comes down to the point, and let's look at it overall.
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And I don't know why the media doesn't look at this and say, hey, wait a minute.
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We started with four very known, strong women in the liberal government.
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I mean, they were out there, focused, and everybody knew of them.
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Krista Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, dropped down to intergovernmental, which I don't even know who was the last intergovernmental.
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I mean, it was Trudeau himself, if I'm not mistaken.
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Well, see, I don't know, and I follow politics very quickly.
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That's how low that is on the totem of ministers.
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Catherine McKenna, we had an election on climate change.
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That is the issue that people went to the polls for, and the minister that ran that ministry is now infrastructure, which is the pouring of cement and creating a CO2.
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So if you look back a few years, these four women that were basically the face of the gender parity cabinet are all gone, and they're all been substituted by very strong men.
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And I guess they sat there and said, oh, well, this is terrible.
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Let's create three or four new cabinets, and we'll just assign some ladies to them, and everybody will be happy.
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That is, you know, if I said to you that I had a company and my goal is to have gender parity, and I'm in the media telling everybody that, but my board of directors, my vice president, my president, and every senior manager is a man.
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However, I employ a lot of women as secretaries and so on and so forth in lesser capacities.
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I mean, that isn't what gender parity is about.
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I mean, equality is putting people, women, in the strongest positions as possible.
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And this prime minister in one election has completely gone furthest away from it and to an insulting point by giving, you know, females titles, ministry titles like the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.
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So I don't know why the media hasn't said, hey, wait a minute.
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I mean, we've seen so many fake aspects of his feminism, and we don't want to get through it.
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His whole concept of inclusion and gender and everything that he's talked about, and he's worn blackface.
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So this is just a continuation of the insults to Canadians with respect to what he talks about as gender parity, and it's just so obvious.
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As always, it's such a pleasure to catch up with you.
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We appreciate your smarts, and I look forward to keeping in touch with you as Parliament, when it resumes.
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I was just in Alberta talking about Wexit, and I ask people, do you think that Trudeau will actually build the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion?
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He brags about buying the old pipeline that was 70 years old.
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Do you think, Manny, that he will push through the pipeline over objections, whether they're environmentalist objections, court objections, aboriginal objections, NDP objections?
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Do you actually think he will build the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, or do you think that's just another fake?
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I mean, it's now been three years, and there is no evidence.
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I mean, you look at just – I always look for – I'm the lost sailboat now in the Atlantic Ocean looking for some animal to bring me – a dove to bring some form of sign of land.
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To see that there's going to be some type of change in this government.
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But when I look at – see Miss Oregon, and I look at Christina Freeland's appointment, I look at these are not going to be helping the West.
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These, to me, are signs that we're moving more and more adrift from land, and we are not going to see that pipeline built, in my opinion.
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And you know what, in all – and here's what's happened with this minority government, and I'm so, so concerned about it.
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But if Gerald Butz and the prime minister have lost their spine with respect to the attack on oil and attack on pipelines, they'll find their spine in the minority government with the bloc or with NDP.
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And they can sit there and say, well, you know, it wasn't us.
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And they'll get their – they'll get what they want, but they'll get to blame.
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As Justin Trudeau has done with everything, he'll blame the – what I'll call the diminution of Canada on someone else.
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Ezra, we – 10 years ago, and I tweeted this in 2012, but I said we are – we've never been so strong as a nation.
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The Western separation was down at its lowest core, and we're now back at the highest.
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And this is not – this is not accidental, everything.
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And unfortunately, I think on the Wexit thing, it will – it will – I can't see any light.
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I don't see – I haven't seen one demonstrative act.
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I mean, to sit there and ask to have, you know, not ask strong Western leaders for guidance for him, and he's not gone to them.
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There are a lot of good people out West that can give the Prime Minister some frank discussion, and he goes to his, you know, typical, but I'll call the liberal side of the equation out West, which is already heard in Ottawa.
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So I don't think – I don't think it will be built.
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Manny Montanegre, it's great to see you again, my friend.
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Manny is the CEO of ThinkSharp, and he joined us today from Ottawa.
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I'm in Monologue Friday about global warming activist Steve Lee visiting schools.
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As Lisa writes, parents need to keep their kids at home on the day he visits.
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Yeah, well, Lisa, will parents even know if he's visiting?
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Or will they just hear, oh, we're having an assembly or a, you know, a guest speaker?
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Daryl writes, just teach our kids the basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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Yeah, Daryl, sounds like you haven't been in a school lately.
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K. Rick writes, the problem here is not Steve Lee, but the government's that give him
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carte blanche to enter schools and spread off this propaganda.
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Remember, a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
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I mean, his project's called the 3% because he wants to hit a million school children,
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There's young, impressionable kids hearing from a kid that authorities like their teachers
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Even, frankly, if only one in 100 of the people he talks to have a switch flipped on
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and become environmental activists, that's 10,000.
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I think in Alberta, this propaganda should not be allowed into government schools.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of Rebel World Headquarters, good night.