Ezra Levant argues that Canada should ban Huawei from selling cell phones across the country. He says it s time to pass a law, ban them, pass a regulation, and give them to the Chinese government to boot. It s December 4th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show: Why should others go to jail when you're not?
00:10:09.840Well, China's had our hostages for over a year.
00:10:13.840And now that the Canadian election is done, Trudeau has decided to bend the knee to China.
00:10:19.840I mean, he did say it's his favorite country.
00:10:22.840There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.
00:10:41.840In fact, Trudeau just appointed a new foreign minister, François-Philippe Champagne, who is actually a China propagandist.
00:10:52.840In a 2017 interview with China's State-backed China Global Television Network, this is from the Global Mail,
00:10:59.840Mr. Champagne praised China for its stability and adherence to rules-based order.
00:11:04.840You know, in a world of uncertainty, of unpredictability, of questioning about the rules that have been established to govern our trading relationship,
00:11:14.840Canada, and I would say China, stands out as a beacon of stability, predictability, a rule-based system, a very inclusive society.
00:14:32.840I'm wearing my Inovic Petroleum Show jacket.
00:14:35.840That's how cold and northern and snowy we are.
00:14:37.840But people still say it is global warming out there.
00:14:40.840I'm a skeptic, but my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed and Keane Bexsey are off in a matter of days to the UN Global Warming Conference in Madrid, Spain.
00:14:49.840It's a tradition that we do every year.
00:14:51.840We're the only journalists who are not given credentials because we're the only journalists who ask skeptical questions.
00:14:58.840I'm going to talk to both Sheila and Keane about this, starting with my friend Sheila.
00:15:01.840Sheila, this is, what, your fourth visit to the UN Global Warming Conference?
00:16:15.840Now, in the past, we've sent Sheila with a cameraman or even a cameraman and a producer.
00:16:20.840We but we thought, well, you know, you guys are pretty handy with cameras on selfie sticks.
00:16:25.840Why don't have you both there and both recording?
00:16:28.840You can film for each other, but you could let's double the firepower.
00:16:31.840I'm pretty excited that we'll release the Kraken, that we're going to release you into this pit of global warming bureaucrats, diplomats and politicians.
00:16:40.840It's going to be good because this is the one place where we're going to be able to see it all.
00:16:44.840When it comes to global warming and climate change and their whole agenda, there's everyone from Greta Thunberg to the higher ups from the United Nations itself are going to be there.
00:16:54.840Now, the access that we're going to be able to get is variable.
00:16:57.840We're not sure exactly what we're going to be able to do when we're there, but that's the fun of it.
00:17:00.840I think that the most exciting, well, one of the exciting stories will be how they're running the conference.
00:17:05.840I remember watching Sheila's video before I was even at the Rebel.
00:17:08.840I was watching Sheila's video cataloging all of the diesel generators that these hypocrites had running the show.
00:17:16.840And also stories about bureaucrats wasting taxpayers' money because at the end of the day, this is taxpayers' money.
00:17:22.840The UN isn't this thing that generates its own funds.
00:17:25.840It's paid for by Canadian taxpayers and American taxpayers.
00:17:28.840And all of these bureaucrats are going to these high-end restaurants to spend your money on steak and fish fillets.
00:17:36.840And just cataloging that and showing that to the world is going to be great because there's no other news agency that is willing to do that, that is willing to risk their press credentials.
00:17:48.840You know what? I mean, you guys won't be allowed in the actual convention center, but so what?
00:17:53.840The delegates at night will pour out into the streets, and them being United Nations delegates, they're going to buy up all the prostitutes.
00:17:59.840That's going to be the first thing that's bought.
00:18:01.840If there's any casinos, they're going to pack the casinos.
00:18:04.840But once those are all taken, you're going to have the lower-level bureaucrats just going to the restaurants.
00:18:08.840And the reason I tell you that is because I think you guys could have very candid conversations with some of these UN delegates from other places
00:18:16.840who would say things that maybe they're not supposed to say, but get two or three or four or five or six drinks in them that they'll be using taxpayers' dollars to buy.
00:18:26.840I think they might say things they're not supposed to say.
00:18:29.840And, of course, other journalists would just forget about those and leave them on the cutting room floor.
00:18:34.840I think you guys can actually get as many interviews with delegates outside the conference room and in a more conducive setting.
00:18:42.840So that's my hope that you guys do some great accountability journalism.
00:19:16.840Let me close by, Sheila, some highlights of your visits to UN conventions past.
00:19:23.840And hopefully this will be an inspiration for our viewers because we do not get any government money.
00:19:29.840If you want to help us with the flights, go to rebelun.com.
00:19:31.840Here's some flashbacks from Sheila's global warming conferences past.
00:19:35.840Myself and the rest of my rebel team are out front in front of the temporary complex that houses the UN COP22 climate change conference in Marrakesh, Morocco.
00:19:43.840Actually, I'm on the middle of the street.
00:19:45.840And the first thing we noticed about Marrakesh when we landed here was the traffic.
00:20:23.840And then we'll head over here and we'll look at all the idling buses that have been idling since this morning.
00:20:28.840So it's good that they're carpooling but their buses have been idling since this morning.
00:20:35.840We got here shortly before 10 and it's late afternoon and the buses are still idling and there's an entire fleet of idling buses that goes the length of this parking lot here.
00:20:46.840We're here at the central square in Katowice, Poland.
00:20:49.840We're covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:20:52.840It's the 24th annual being held in this Polish city.
00:20:55.840Now right behind me is one of the public displays around the city.
00:21:02.840And there's a man inside giving a lecture to about 5 to 10 people who I only suspect are in there trying to warm up because it is unforgivingly cold here in Poland.
00:21:15.840There's tropical plants growing on the wall.
00:21:17.840They want you to believe that you can survive in a winter climate here and be comfortable with just some tarping and another form of insulation that I'll show you just around the corner here.
00:21:26.840It's very familiar to me as a farmer, so come on.
00:21:32.840So just around the corner here is the sort of insulation you might use in your barn or your doghouse.
00:21:39.840If your animal spends any time outside, it's straw.
00:21:42.840They want you to believe that you can survive in a Polish climate and survive comfortably with plastic tarping and straw, eco-friendly straw.
00:21:52.840But there's something else that I noticed that is, again, very familiar to me as a Westerner, as someone from Alberta.