Catherine McKenna says she’s considering regulating “everything” — but tells us it’s “hateful for us to report it!”
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Our reporter Kian Bextie catches up with Tory MP Candace Bergen and has an eye catching exchange with the first female MP to ever run in with the Prime Minister, Catherine McKenna. It's an eye-catching exchange.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today I show you a couple of encounters that our reporter Kian Bextie had
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in Ottawa yesterday. The first one I'll show you is with Candace Bergen of the Conservative Party,
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Deputy Leader now, one of my favorite MPs. Great little chat. But the next is with Catherine
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McKenna and the two women couldn't be more different. Holy moly, it was a riveting exchange.
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I loved it. I'll take you through it and I'll give you my thoughts on it. But before I do,
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Tonight, Catherine McKenna says she's considering regulating everything, but says it's hateful for
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us to report that. It's September 24th 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'm publishing it is because it's my
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Boy, yesterday was a big day. You know, we do a daily live stream at 12 noon Eastern and the fun
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part of that is you get to chat with us in real time. It's like a radio call-in show, but instead
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of phoning, you type. It's pretty fun. So I did that at noon till 1 Eastern. Then I did another live
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stream for a couple hours covering the Governor General's throne speech. Pretty much every liberal
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idea of the past 10 years was just reheated, like leftovers being served up to take advantage of
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the spending mania out there. Pharmacare, national daycare, non-starters before. Well, now that Trudeau
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has learned that the word trillion comes after billion, he pretty much wants to buy everything
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and spend everything. It's not his money. Lots of U.S.-focused grouped ideas too, heavy on the Black
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Lives Matter themes. And though Trudeau didn't use the word defund the police, he more or less said that
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the main problem in the field of criminal justice is, in fact, the Mounties. Now that's
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American thinking, not Canadian thinking. Same with this Green New Deal policy. That's just
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Build back better. Trudeau said that again and again. Literally
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Joe Biden's campaign slogan. So after the Governor General gave a lengthy speech aligning all of
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these ideas, Trudeau tricked, I don't know, the national media saying he needed to give a very
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important national speech and would all the networks please clear their schedules and give
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him free airtime. And they did. They just can't stop loving that guy. And he just really repeated
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a shorter version of the Governor General's speech because for her to get some airtime on TV
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for the throne speech. Well, why doesn't he get to make the throne speech? Isn't he like a prince on a
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throne? So weird, so un-Canadian to trump the Queen's representative, but perfectly Trudeau lying to
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the media to get them to do favors for him. What a laugh. Anyways, I did a few more hours on TV with
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Sheila Gunn-Reed covering that. While I was basically glued to my desk here at our world headquarters, we had
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reporters zooming around the country. We're firing back up again. So Kian Bexty went to Ottawa. He met
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up with various MPs just on the street, catching them before they went into buildings. I'm glad he
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had a good chat with Candace Bergen, the deputy leader of the Conservative Party. She's great.
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She's always been one of my favorites. Here's a quick clip of that. I wasn't able to see what your
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press conference just was. Would you be able to recap it briefly for me? Sure. There are, I would say,
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three main areas that we're looking at the government to address in the speech from the throne.
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Firstly, direct health benefits to Canadians in terms of getting rapid testing available so that
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people aren't waiting in line for hours and days to try to get tested. Secondly, we believe the
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country is more divided than ever, a direct result of this Prime Minister's action. So we'd like to see
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wording and action that unifies the country and that shows Western Canada that Liberals value them
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and value the resources that they develop and that we develop, including agriculture, which is a huge
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part of my riding. And then some fiscal responsibility. This government has done a terrible
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job of managing the finances of the country when times were good, and we don't have much confidence
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in them in managing things when they're not good. I always like what she has to say, but the fact
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that she's not running away from Rebel News is a healthy development. You see, under the last
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conservative leader, I forget his name, you know, the dairy cartel guy, the guy with the dimples,
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what's his name? He banned any member of his caucus from even talking with us. Blandrew, that's right,
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Blandrew Scheer, the man who managed to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. The guy who couldn't
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stop Trudeau, despite the blackface fiasco, despite SNC-Lavalin, despite the groping, despite the
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China fiasco, and the India fiasco, and a dozen more fiascos. Anyways, that guy had banned all of
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his MPs and senators from even talking with us, which I think really hurt the party. Because we're
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the largest independent media company in Canada, we have just under 1.4 million YouTube subscribers,
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many of whom are conservative members and activists. I'd actually, I'd call them grassroots,
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but I'd actually call them grass tops. They're the ones who make the $100 donations and put up the
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lawn signs. Andrew Scheer thought he was being mean to me, or to Kian Bextie, or to David Menzies,
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who he had arrested. Whatever the deep strategy was when they literally had the police pull over
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David Menzies. But really, Scheer was just cutting off his connection with the conservative base.
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And even worse, he was proving that he had no judgment, that he had no courage, that he would be part
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of the cancel culture, that he would basically do anything the mean girls of the CBC told him to do.
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You know, the whole time I had some pretty long-standing friends still working in the
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conservative party, even in Scheer's own office. And I would ask them, what's the thinking behind
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cutting off Rebel News? Pretty much the only media really prepared to give them a fair shake.
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And I was told, and I completely believe this was their thinking, that Andrew Scheer thought if any
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conservative party MP spoke to Rebel News, the CBC would jump on them about it. And it would be a
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story for a week. And they just wanted to avoid being beat up like that. I'm serious, that's what
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I was told by a pretty senior guy in the campaign. I won't tell you his name, but you probably know
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who I mean. I said, Andrew Scheer actually thought that if he caved in and did what the CBC told him
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to do, did what the CBC bullies told him to do, and by that I mean the lovely Rosemary Barton,
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Trudeau's platonic girlfriend, and Katie Simpson, and the other mean girls, that if Scheer did what
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those bullies said, they wouldn't steal his lunch money. They wouldn't attack him. I think he thought
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maybe they would like him or support him. And right in the middle of the campaign, Rosemary Barton
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actually found a lawsuit against Andrew Scheer, and so did the CBC. But he kept thinking, well, they like me.
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They really like me. And I think they're really going to be fair to me. And at the last moment, I think
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they're going to champion him. So even after they sued him, he still went back on their shows. He
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still did interviews with them while he still blackballed us. What a dummy. Anyway, Scheer is
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gone. He's a footnote in history. Fundraisers for the party, they're relieved. They don't have to pay
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for his kids' private school tuition anymore, which they actually did. Scheer insisted on the high
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life. Like I say, he's a bit of a phony. He's really a privileged Ottawa boy. Not the old trucks,
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Prairie boy he pretended to be. He's a hustler, really. And he managed to live large for a few
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years. Anyway, he's gone and forgotten. And so is his weird self-defeating ban on having
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conservative MPs, you know, talk to conservative media. I don't think it really damaged us.
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We've been quietly growing month after month, year after year. But it damaged the conservative
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party because it made them look cowardly in general and submissive to the CBC in particular.
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Not a good look for conservatives to be part of cancel culture. Not a good look. So this
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morning, in our staff meeting, I told Keane and the rest of our staff that I'm happy to
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help the conservative party's MPs and senators rehabilitate their damaged reputation, damaged
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from participating in the weird CBC-driven boycott of Rebel News. All the timid little MPs
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who wouldn't stand up to Rosemary Barton and couldn't stand up to Andrew Scheer, they're
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welcome to reintroduce themselves to 1.4 million conservative viewers again. You're welcome,
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guys. You're welcome to it. So now that the conservatives are slowly emerging from the
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cave in which Andrew Scheer told them to hide, let's move on to the liberals. They're welcome
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to talk to our viewers, too. That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about today. Not all liberals
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are afraid of Keane, like Andrew Scheer was. To my surprise, the liberal mayor of Calgary,
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Naheed Nanshi, took one of Keane's questions the other day and actually gave not a bad answer
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Do you think that the ongoing sister cityhood relationship between Calgary and Daqing China
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is a tacit endorsement of the ongoing genocide in China?
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You know, that's a great question and thank you for raising it. I've been very concerned
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about what is going on with the Uyghurs. I've been very concerned about overall issues around
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Canadian-Chinese relations. I'm very concerned about the Michaels. And in fact, I refused to
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participate in Chinese National Day celebrations this year because of these ongoing situations.
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All of that said, the sister city relationship has been going on, I don't even know how long,
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decades and decades and decades. To be honest, it's pretty stale. I mean, we don't have any
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relationship with our sister city. I've never been there. They've never been here. We've never met,
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unlike some of our other sister cities. It's probably something worth looking at. But on the
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concept of actually affecting change and saving people's lives and improving human rights,
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Calgary's sister city relationship is not the most important thing here. But I would like to see
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stronger statements from our federal government in particular on these issues. I think that the
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ongoing situation with the Uyghurs is probably the most underreported story in the world. And it's
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important when people should be paying more attention to.
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I don't know what the technical definition of that term is, but I will tell you that last year
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I had the chance to meet a Uyghur woman who escaped, who told me harrowing stories about what
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she had escaped from, had not heard from her family since she escaped because they were targeted on her
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escape, and assumes they're dead. Whether that means the legal conditions of a genocide or not,
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Good for Nahid Nenshi. Those are words I never thought I'd say. I think he was speaking the truth
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there, by the way. I think that was his real answer. I guess a stopped glock is right twice a day.
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But back to Kian in Ottawa. So let me show you this first. Here's a tweet by Catherine McKenna.
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She says, I think there's a lot that we can do, but the social media companies themselves need to step up.
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We don't have to regulate everything, but if you can't regulate yourselves, governments will.
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And then there's a link to a bizarre story by Martin Patrican, who says, I'll just read what he said,
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the Quebec government has a 12-person war room that ferrets out hate, misinformation, and threats
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against Premier Francois Legault, published on Facebook and elsewhere. Twelve government agents
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who do nothing but complain about what citizens say about the Premier. Hate. Are you not allowed to
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hate politicians anymore? I mean, I don't recommend hate as an emotion, but it is a natural emotion,
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just like jealousy or greed or lust. I mean, go through your list of seven sins. It's natural.
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We shouldn't wallow in our negative feelings. We should control ourselves, improve ourselves, but
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just feeling a feeling is no crime. Hate, I think that's just code for what the Premier's staff don't
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like. They don't like being criticized, so they call it hate. They hate being criticized. Misinformation,
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that's just another way of saying a different opinion. Someone who contradicts the Premier.
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Imagine 12 government bureaucrats holding themselves up as the arbiters of truth. Now,
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threats, threats I get, if they mean threats of violence, but don't we already have trained
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police and prosecutors who handle the tough stuff like that? Why would political staff be working
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the crime beat? I was appalled and surprised when I saw that story and the fact that they directly
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demand to Facebook to delete what the Premier wants deleted. That's a shocking story. But McKenna
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retweeted it with approval in French and English, no less. So it wasn't a quick comment off the cuff.
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It was something she had professionally translated. Let me read it to you again now that I've given you
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a bit more background. I think there's a lot that we can do, but social media companies themselves need
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to step up. We don't have to regulate everything, but if you can't regulate yourselves, governments will.
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Now, everyone knows to ignore all the words in the sentence before the word, but. That dress looks nice,
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but. Sure, your hairdo's pretty, but. We don't have to regulate everything, but. And the part to pay
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attention to is after the but. But if you can't regulate yourselves, governments will. So she said
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that in English and French, regulate everything if companies don't. And a link to a crazy, crazy,
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creepy stalker story of stalker bureaucrats stalking citizens for daring to criticize the Premier.
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Stalker stalker stalker stalker. It's so creepy. Voyeurism, sneaky spying. Well, can't happen to bump into
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Captain McKenna yesterday. And look at this. Hi, Minister. How are you this morning?
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Could you tell me what you meant when you said yesterday that your government might regulate everything?
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I certainly never said that. So you said it. You actually said it as a threat.
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Unfortunately, Rebel News always distorts what I say. No, it was quite clear. You said it in a tweet as a threat to
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companies, digital companies that don't regulate themselves. You said the government
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could regulate everything. You know what I want to say to you? That you guys are contributing to hate
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against me because you spread misinformation and disinformation. I will continue to call out
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your misinformation and disinformation every single day. Okay. What was the misinformation?
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Please tell me. I'd be interested to hear. The misinformation and disinformation is what you
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just said right now. You threatened yesterday to regulate. You said on Twitter. You know what I don't like
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is that you're contributing to all the hate I'm receiving. I did an online, I did an event with women
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politicians. The amount of hate that women politicians is getting from outlets like you
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is completely unacceptable. About half of our journalists are women. Why are you targeting us
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specifically over that? It's your comments that we're asking you about.
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First of all, what a cry bully. She calls everyone in the world names. She calls her enemies deniers.
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Tapping into the language of Holocaust denial. She says she's not the minister for all Canadians,
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by the way. She has no time for critics. She won't even talk to them. She hates them to borrow a phrase.
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I mean, if you're going to use an emotional word, she's a bit of a hater. Her house husband,
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Scott Gilmore, who writes for Maclean, she's even more foul-mouthed. He calls critics of his wife
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pigs. He hates people too. So they can dish it out, this power couple, but they sure can't take it.
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It's a lame cop-out. It's weak to respond to a genuine question and a genuine criticism by saying,
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you're lying about me, or by saying, you're causing people to hate me. We've shown you the tweet.
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Kian got it right. She mused about regulating everything, and to be more specific,
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regulating the internet. She put it in writing in English and French. It was no spur-of-the-moment
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thing. It was later in the throne speech, actually. Kian was correct, saying he's a liar. Well,
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actually, I think she's lying. And the second point, Kian, you and Rebel News are making people hate me.
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Yeah, no. Sorry, but people hate all politicians, boys and girls, left-wing and right-wing. People
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hated Stephen Harper. It was rampant, because some people are left-wing and some people are right-wing.
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And you know, over time, the public tires of every politician. Did you know that the great Winston
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Churchill himself tired out the British people? And they threw him out of office two months after
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Germany surrendered in World War II. The war was still raging in the Pacific. In July, the war was
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over in May in Europe. Two months later, in July, after he saved Britain, British voters threw him out.
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Yeah, no, Kathy, we didn't make Canadians hate you. Canadians hate you because you hate them.
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Your husband hates them. You tell us that all the time. You conduct yourself in an embarrassing way,
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emphasizing what we hate about politicians. You live high off the hog on our dime. You spent six grand at
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the Paris Global Warming Conference on a fashion shoot for yourself. You're vain. You waste money.
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You've lost billions of dollars. It's not personal, actually. You're just really bad at what you do,
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which is why Trudeau demoted you from Environment Minister. Plus, you lie.
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Yeah, we didn't make you get drunk in a bar and brag about lying to us, Kathy. You did that to you.
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I actually gave them some real advice. I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the
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House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will
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totally believe it. But what gets me about McKenna is that she has this trick. She's like a slippery
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watermelon. So, you know, you press it from this side, it slips that way. Press it from this side,
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it slips that way. She endlessly tweets trite saccharine tweets about women in politics and girls in
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politics and girl power and women can do anything men can do, which is pretty uncontroversial. I mean,
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we had a prime minister who was a woman almost 30 years ago, the UK, India, Israel, even Pakistan.
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Plenty of places have broken that barrier. 50 years ago, maybe that would be edgy to say,
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but now it's terribly safe and probably just a distraction from her own boss's sexual harassment
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scandals. I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago.
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So, and again, I feel, I am confident that I did not act inappropriately. But part of this awakening
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that we're having as a society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not just one side of the story
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that matters. That the same interactions could be experienced very differently from one person to
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the next. So, Catherine McKenna talks about how women can do anything men can do, pretty vanilla opinion,
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but I don't know if she actually means it because she has never spoken out against Trudeau's sexual
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harassment of women. She never tells him to stop groping women. She even allowed him to grope her in
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public and she doesn't say anything about it. So, I'm not actually convinced by her feminist
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shtick. She cheered for Trudeau as he fired Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from cabinet. So,
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I think it's phony. But she goes from the girls can do anything to you can't criticize me because
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I'm a girl. Stop. You're being mean. You're making people hate me. That's pretty much the opposite
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of being a strong role model for women. Hey girls, you can do absolutely anything in life. Aim for the
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top. And if you have any challenges along the way, if someone hates you, as all politicians are hated,
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just cry about it. Call it gender violence. Have a sobbing press conference about it. Talk about how
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hard it is to be a girl and tell critics they're Nazis. Yeah, no, you got to pick a lame lady. Either you're
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ready for the cut and thrust of public life, which includes pretty tame questions from Kian.
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Or, maybe you need to be in a safe space with only softball questions from the CBC. You know,
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when Kian was at a joint government of Alberta, government of Canada press conference a few
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weeks ago, he was there and he asked McKenna a basic question. She saw it was him and she literally
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clicked off. She logged off of her computer without even saying goodbye because she's just such a weird,
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cowardly, crybaby, bully, passive aggressive, can't handle any criticism kind of minister.
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I mean, there are men who are cowards too. Being a coward is not a gendered thing. I'd actually hazard a
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guess that most women politicians are a little bit tougher than their male counterparts. Probably a bit
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harder to achieve high success as a woman in politics, all things being equal. But Catherine
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McKenna is the biggest coward in parliament. And that's got nothing to do with her being a woman.
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It's got everything to do with her being a Trudeau liberal who would rather censor us than answer us.
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Yeah, good luck with that, lady. Stay with us for more.
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Governments, more regulation, more control, more everything that's against freedom. That's what
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they want. Some people even say that it's coordinated in some form or another by certain leaders.
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There's no way I could possibly fight against a government that is lining up against me.
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You have no freedom. You have no control of the political process. You are a mere drone.
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It's more than a climate monarchy. They want to return us to an age of kings. Evil triumphs when good
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men stand idly by. Don't look at the facts. Nothing to see here. Move along and follow the party line.
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This isn't just bad science. This is the death of science. Don't miss this important film, Climate Hustle 2.
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Climate Hustle 2. Well, you might remember that Rebel News hosted the Canadian premieres
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of the first Climate Hustle a few years ago, sold out screenings in Calgary and Edmonton.
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Joining us now, the boss of Climate Hustle 2, our friend Mark Morano from ClimateDepot.com.
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Great to see you. And wow, was that the actor from Hercules, Kevin Sorbo?
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Yes, he's the host of the film and he does a great job. He goes through and he does some great
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explanations. In fact, his time in Hollywood, he dealt with a lot of this kind of intimidation
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and he saw all the Hollywood hypocrisy when it comes to climate. He even met Al Gore one time.
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So Kevin Sorbo is great in this. I like him. He's one of the few people in Hollywood willing to zig
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where everyone else zags. That's a town that pretends they're so pure that they have the
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artistic freedom to dissent. But it's actually the peer pressure there to conform. It's worse
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than any high school clique. I think you can count on one hand the number of A or B listers who are
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dissidents. I mean, Clint Eastwood and I'm Almost Done and Kevin Sorbo. So good for you. Dean Cain,
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I'd put in there also. Mel Gibson. So tell me a little bit more about Climate Hustle 2. I enjoyed
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Climate Hustle 1. That showed, well, the hustle, the shenanigans, the schemes behind the global
00:24:59.600
warming movement, global warming industry. What does Climate Hustle 2 do? What's the second part of the
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story? Well, the first part, as you mentioned, we dealt mostly with the science, the agenda,
00:25:10.960
the distortions of the science. We went through the whole idea of CO2 is not the control knob of
00:25:16.080
the climate. We went through the extreme weather. We went through, you know, comparing it to the
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witchcraft, medieval witchcraft, where they're blaming everything, your SUVs on every bad weather
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event. And we talked a little bit about the intimidation of science. But this film is now the
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why. What's behind this agenda? So we go into the Green New Deal, the UN Paris Agreement. I interviewed
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Christina Figueres, former UN Climate Chief. I interview Hans Schulenhuber, the man who wants a CO2
00:25:44.000
budget for every man, woman, and child on the planet. And we go through and expose the Green New
00:25:49.760
Deal. The architects admit that it is not a climate thing that is a, quote, change the whole economy
00:25:54.960
thing, unquote. Christina Figueres of the UN seeks a centralized transformation that will make life on
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planet Earth very different. So we go into the agenda and we go into the impact. I went to Czech
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Republic. I interviewed Václav Klaas for this film. He spent a day with me. And he talks about growing
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up under Soviet domination in Czechoslovakia, which is now the Czech Republic. And he says,
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the greatest threat we face to freedom since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union
00:26:23.840
is what he calls ambitious environmentalism from the climate movement. He calls it master mining
00:26:29.520
from above, which I think is a great phrase to talk about this technocracy that COVID and
00:26:35.200
climate are ushering in together. By the way, as we open with the COVID climate connection, the idea
00:26:40.560
that all the climate leaders from John Kerry, Al Gore, the UN, Greta Thunberg are lusting and drooling
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over the solutions of lockdowns. This is what they've sought. This is what they want. Essentially,
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our lives are going to be ruled by nameless, faceless bureaucrats who are doing it for our safety and for
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the good of the planet. And that's why they're excited about, you know, if you love the climate,
00:27:02.160
the COVID lockdowns, you're going to love the coming climate lockdowns.
00:27:05.200
Yeah, you're so right. Well, I mentioned earlier that we were proud to host you. I mean,
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and you came out to Alberta where we had an event in Calgary and Edmonton. You might recall those
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theaters. They were sort of alternative theaters, completely packed. In fact, I felt terrible.
00:27:21.360
We slightly oversold the Calgary event and had to turn some people away. Wonderful events.
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People loved it. You answered questions in the Q&A. The name of those theaters, you wouldn't
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remember it. It was four years ago. The one in Edmonton was called The Princess. The one in
00:27:37.680
Calgary was called The Plaza. I went back last year to rent those same theaters for a book launch, Mark.
00:27:45.360
And I knew the boss. I had done business with him before. He was thrilled with the events we had with
00:27:50.480
you. But he was pressured by a Twitter mob. And he actually de-platformed my book launch in both of
00:27:59.280
those events. He tore up the contract, even though we had paid for it in full in advance. I mentioned
00:28:05.520
that the de-platforming in those very theaters that we hosted you. And I reminded him of that. He said,
00:28:12.080
yes, I've never banned a show in 30 years and I'm not going to start now. But he indeed did start now.
00:28:18.800
Wow. I mentioned that because you have been canceled and de-platformed
00:28:27.600
in your movie Climate Hustle 2. Tell me the different sensors who are trying to stop people
00:28:33.120
from getting your movie. Well, first of all, Twitter has banned the Climate Hustle 2 account for no real
00:28:39.440
rational explanation. I am myself at my Climate Depot account have recently been shadow banned.
00:28:44.320
I'm getting all reports where people aren't getting my feed, aren't seeing it. And also my number of
00:28:48.880
followers, they keep doing this purge, which they've been doing to a lot of conservatives,
00:28:52.640
libertarians. They go through it. If the account, I guess they have certain things and they just purge
00:28:57.760
you of followers with no explanation. But the big thing that happened is we approached Amazon Prime
00:29:03.200
because they did our last film, which was in over 400 theaters in U.S. and Canada. And by the way,
00:29:07.360
Ezra, this movie, Climate Hustle 2, was set to be in nearly 800 theaters. We were going to double
00:29:12.800
our output until COVID locked down the theater business. But Amazon dragged their feet, finally
00:29:20.000
came back and said a content review found that the film was not appropriate for Amazon Prime,
00:29:26.240
Climate Hustle 2. And guess what? At the same time, we must have triggered,
00:29:29.920
they didn't realize it. We had had Climate Hustle 1 on Amazon Prime for years, since 2016.
00:29:35.360
After we asked for Climate Hustle 2, they pulled Climate Hustle 1 down, almost as if we reminded them,
00:29:41.200
oh, they shouldn't be having that. So now, not only is Climate Hustle 2 not on Amazon Prime,
00:29:45.440
but neither is Climate Hustle 1. They pulled it. So the world really has changed in the last just few
00:29:51.280
years. It's amazing how in lockstep the censorship is coming now from all directions.
00:29:57.840
Now, I should tell you that my own book on the pandemic called China Virus was banned by Amazon
00:30:06.400
for two months. Then it was unbanned for a week. Then it was re-banned. And then it was re-unbanned.
00:30:14.240
And they gave me the same explanation both times. They said, it contradicts official sources.
00:30:21.200
Yes. They wouldn't tell me who those official sources were. Medical sources, political sources,
00:30:26.000
the UN, China. They wouldn't ever say. And we had lawyers write to them. And they never answered.
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I know I'm talking too much about me, but I'm trying to compare notes from one banned guy to another.
00:30:36.560
What was the, even if it was two words, what were the two words they told you why your stuff was banned?
00:30:41.840
It's just a content review. They wouldn't tell us. They don't give you, they didn't,
00:30:45.920
they mostly just don't respond. They basically just said, no, we can't do it. There's really
00:30:49.760
no appeal process. And then they pulled the old film. But I can answer your thing about against
00:30:55.200
official position. If you say anything on COVID or climate that contradicts with the National Academy
00:31:02.800
of Science and or the UNIPCC, by the way, the National Academy of Science is 100% funded by governments,
00:31:09.760
both state and federal. So they're paid to say that climate is an emergency. They support carbon
00:31:14.960
taxes. It's a lobbying, scientific lobbying. Science has become another branch of government.
00:31:19.280
In the case of COVID, if you, if the, if the CDC director just comes out and makes a comment,
00:31:24.400
you know, he thinks masks are more effective than a vaccine. Suddenly, if you dispute that,
00:31:28.640
you're going up against the official government line. And then if you do that,
00:31:32.480
you get warning labels and you get banned. That's not a free country. I don't know what to do.
00:31:37.360
It's very hard to keep hope because there's really, there's very little,
00:31:42.480
very little pushback from anyone in power on these matters. I mean, you know,
00:31:46.480
even Republicans running in America here aren't really fighting about lockdowns. They're just,
00:31:51.120
you know, they're wearing, you know, President Trump, to give you an example,
00:31:54.320
President Trump was booed today in Washington, screamed at, yelled people when he stood out in
00:31:59.600
front of Ruth Gater-Binsburg's casket. Well, he had a mask on. If I had been there,
00:32:04.720
I may have shouted at him too, to, you know, to get the mask off because it's part of this
00:32:10.560
movement of conformity. And if you don't do it, you get banned and attacked. So
00:32:14.960
Climate Hustle 2 goes deep into that. We go, we profile the scientists who actually,
00:32:20.080
whose careers have been ruined. We talked to Willie Soon. We talked to Tim Ball,
00:32:23.840
who faced lawsuits, who faced media attacks, who faced, you know, loss of jobs. David Legates,
00:32:29.920
who's actually the Delaware state climatologist, lost his job, who's now actually being considered
00:32:34.560
for a federal scientist position at NOAA. We'll see how that goes. The media is already going nuts.
00:32:39.040
Hmm. Well, if it's banned from Amazon Prime, there are still some other ways to get it.
00:32:44.080
What's the best way for our viewers to watch Climate Hustle 2?
00:32:48.480
Well, what we're doing is September 24th, it's airing live at 8 PM around the world at 8 o'clock.
00:32:54.160
It's at climatehustle2.com. And then immediately after that, September 25th forward, you'll be able
00:32:59.920
to watch it, order it on demand and order DVDs from climatehustle2.com. The number or the letter
00:33:06.720
or the word, climatehustle2.com. Right. Well, that, that's good. I mean,
00:33:10.800
of course, movie theaters are shut down almost everywhere, which is a shame because we would
00:33:15.440
have loved to have hosted that again. Although, who knows? I mean, the Plaza and the Princess in Alberta
00:33:21.760
have gone from the most free speechy theaters to the least free speechy theaters in Canada. We
00:33:27.760
would have to, who knows, do it at a drive-in, a drive-in. And we would have to have different
00:33:33.360
rates. If you drove a Tesla or another electric car, or if you drove a pickup truck or an SUV,
00:33:40.240
we'd have to have different rates or something. That's right. Penalize. I mean, they're the ones
00:33:45.520
causing the rare earth mining in Africa, uh, owned by Chinese companies. Exactly. I don't want those
00:33:51.440
huge, and how are you going to dispose of the battery when it's done? I don't think they've
00:33:55.200
even figured that part out. Well, listen, Mark, congratulations on the movie. We enjoyed being
00:33:59.920
part of Climate Hustle 1. I'm glad Climate Hustle 2 is coming out. It looks exciting. Kevin Sorbo is
00:34:05.040
great. Uh, I'm upset, but not surprised that you were banned by Amazon. Join the club. And I'd like to
00:34:11.520
encourage our viewers. You heard Mark. So this will be aired tonight, September 24th. Uh, our
00:34:17.680
interview will be, uh, aired at 8 PM, which is actually when your video will go live. So I'll
00:34:22.800
encourage people to go to Climate Hustle 2, the number 2.com and check it out. Um, thanks for
00:34:29.840
joining. I'm sort of excited. Good for you for not being silenced by the censors. Well, thank you,
00:34:35.120
Ezra. I appreciate it. So ClimateHustle2.com, I think your audience will particularly love it. We go
00:34:40.400
through Hollywood hypocrisy, kids indoctrination, uh, shrinking humans, that everything is in this
00:34:45.440
film. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. And we have a special, uh, content at the end,
00:34:49.280
a panel with John Stossel and others in it. Oh, wow. You didn't tell me that John Stossel. He's
00:34:54.320
one of the best. He's absolutely one of the best in the business. Well, that's great. I look forward
00:34:58.240
to watching it myself. Thanks, Mark. Thank you, Ezra. I appreciate it. All right. There you have it.
00:35:01.440
Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com with the big news. His sequel is back and it sounds
00:35:06.800
better than even the first one. Now, sometimes the sequels are sort of an echo. This sounds like
00:35:11.520
he's really raised the stakes and upped his game. You can get that at ClimateHustle2.com. Stay with us.
00:35:31.280
On my show last night on the throne speech, Bruce writes,
00:35:34.480
Trudeau has no understanding of reality, especially that of the middle class. This makes me yearn all
00:35:39.220
the more for Wegzit. Yeah. I mean, Western issues have been sort of in the fridge for six months as
00:35:45.980
the pandemic has taken up all the political conversations in the land. But you can see even
00:35:51.560
in that throne speech, the only role for Trudeau and Saskatchewan in, sorry, for Alberta and Saskatchewan
00:35:57.420
and Trudeau's Canada is to lead the way to decarbonize. Yeah. No. Deb writes, the Build Back Better
00:36:06.940
slogan is just one of the many links that directly connects American radical Democrats to Justin's
00:36:11.400
radical liberal government. Oh yeah. They bring up Democrats all the time to help run their campaigns.
00:36:16.480
It would be a scandal if Harper or Scheer or O'Toole had brought up Republicans to run the campaign.
00:36:23.560
But it just shows that they're not even having made in Canada policies. I mean, a lot of it feels
00:36:29.060
really American, like the whole defund police thing. That's not a Canadian move. Chris writes,
00:36:35.480
we're going to be paying for this for a long time. Yeah. Just like Pierre Trudeau, his dad,
00:36:40.940
he gave us a debt that took a generation to pay off. You know what though? The debt is the least of
00:36:47.020
my worries. His attacks on our civil liberties, as Catherine McKenna wants to censor us, that's
00:36:52.460
actually worrying me more. Well, that's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here
00:36:57.860
at Rebel World headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for free.