The CRTC wants to regulate the internet now too, too, and specifically, companies that make short news videos. Gee, I wonder if they meant The Rebel. The CRTC killed the only conservative TV station in Canada four years ago, and now they re back. They want to make sure that people who produce short, accurate, independent, and trustworthy news and information.
00:11:30.340In the year 2000, here's an old story.
00:11:32.100Broadcast regulators shut down someone who is an extremely popular tough love personal advice radio host named Dr. Laura Schlesinger because of a few political complaints.
00:11:43.480They just banned her from the airwaves in Canada because she had the wrong views about personal relationships.
00:11:51.440A few years later, they shut down an entire radio station in Quebec, Chois FM, because the host was telling risque jokes in the manner of Howard Stern, who was also banned from Canada's airwaves, by the way.
00:12:03.020The listeners of that Quebec radio station fought back.
00:12:31.160It's doubtful that so many people have ever traveled such a distance to voice their support for a radio station, but for much of this crowd here on the Hill today, the real issue is free speech, and as many as 10,000 of them have gathered here to demand loudly that the federal government restore Chois FM's right to be on the air, and by extension, the rights of Canadians everywhere to hear whatever they wish.
00:12:50.900We broadcast what they want, and the case is, is the CRTC and five people put there by the government liberal could determine what are the limits to freedom of speech we don't believe.
00:13:03.720That's amazing, what a spirit of free speech.
00:13:08.92010,000 people marching on Parliament Hill against liberal censors.
00:13:21.260They've been going strong ever since, but Trudeau has attacked Chois FM again recently, by the way, calling them Islamophobic.
00:13:27.740Now, that's his new favorite insult, but you see my point.
00:13:32.100The CRTC killed Chois FM, literally put it out of business, but it was reborn.
00:13:37.940The CRTC killed the Sun News Network, and I suppose you could say it was reborn on YouTube and on paywall shows like this one, beyond the reach of the CRTC censors.
00:13:47.000So now, the CRTC wants to extend their reach in the name of accuracy, independence, and trustworthiness, you see.
00:13:53.560I mean, Trudeau owns the CBC, and that's more than half of all the news journalists in Canada.
00:13:59.380He's renting most of the rest of the private journalists in Canada with his $595 million bailout.
00:14:05.240So, he wants to regulate the last few holdouts like us here at the Rebel.
00:14:11.260But back to that line in the CRTC report.
00:14:14.100When elements of this system are left unchecked and offer false or misleading information to Canadians without strong, accurate, independent, and trustworthy sources of rebuttal, the ability of Canadians to fully exercise their democratic rights suffers.
00:14:29.320So, how does it work, then, with the government ensuring trustworthy sources of rebuttal?
00:14:36.340How can the government choose its own critics?
00:14:39.400Or how can the government choose the critics of its critics?
00:14:41.920How can the government regulation lead to more rebuttals as opposed to less?
00:14:47.200When the CRTC shut down the Sun News Network, they obviously weren't interested in its strong views and strong rebuttals to the government.
00:14:55.780The CRTC just wanted fewer voices, not more voices.
00:14:59.700They just want all the voices to be the same.
00:15:02.560And, by the way, that was under Stephen Harper.
00:15:04.000Imagine how it will be under these liberals.
00:15:11.040Here's where the rubber really hits the road.
00:15:12.700I'm reading from the CRTC report again.
00:15:15.680Canadians already make use of various sources for audio and video news and information content, including both traditional broadcasters and a wide range of online content services.
00:15:27.880In the future, Canadians are likely to continue to rely on both traditional and online news and information sources, many of the latter of which may be unknown at this time.
00:15:44.180In such an environment, Canadians will need the means to determine which sources provide trustworthy, verifiably accurate news and information and are independent of political or other influence.
00:15:56.800Educational efforts related to digital literacy will be key to giving Canadians the tools they need to make these determinations themselves.
00:16:10.100You, me, if you're watching this, you're on the internet.
00:16:11.580Most of us have been on the internet for years, some for decades.
00:16:14.000But the CRTC liberal appointees in the year 2019 think it's necessary for them to teach us to figure out how to use the internet and what to believe.
00:16:26.340Somehow we've managed to survive to the year 2019 using the internet without their advice.
00:16:32.620I don't know, it's a miracle that we managed to do it without them telling us how to do it.
00:16:35.780But they really, really need to give us the means to determine which sources are trustworthy.
00:16:41.920And really, who better to tell us who to trust than a bunch of liberal hacks?
00:16:46.140Who better to teach us how to think about, I don't know, Trudeau than Trudeau's appointees who donated to Trudeau and who will review the media during Trudeau's election campaign?
00:16:57.240And they repeat it, just to be clear, because they said that Canadians need to make those determinations by themselves.
00:17:02.900But I know that sounded a little bit too freedom-y, so they wanted to clarify, and they said right after that, they wrote,
00:17:10.220However, ensuring that Canadians have access to accurate, independent, and trust-worthy news and information sources should also be an explicit outcome for Canada's broadcasting system.
00:18:56.520Here's what they want in black and white.
00:18:58.100They say, new legislation should continue to enable the CRTC to develop co-regulatory approaches to encourage content providers, including certain online services, to adopt journalistic codes and practices.
00:19:46.820Look at this story from almost exactly a year ago.
00:19:48.980When Trudeau warned Facebook that if they didn't shut down news websites that he disagrees with, that he calls fake, well, he'll go ahead and regulate them.
00:20:56.460This will muzzle their competitors, as in us.
00:21:01.480Now, I've read a lot to you today from this document, but let me read the summary of the document written by them themselves.
00:21:07.700To show you the plan, because you're not going to find this on any other media in Canada, except there's a paid service called Black Box Reporter, which is a small website based in Ottawa.
00:21:25.660Anyways, you won't get this from any media that the CRTC calls accurate, independent, or trustworthy, which tells you that what the liberals mean by accurate, independent, and trustworthy isn't what you and I would mean by accurate, independent, and trustworthy.
00:21:42.780New legislation should grant the CRTC explicit statutory authority, as well as flexible tools to regulate services, both domestic and international, including online service providers who offer audio or video services in Canada,
00:22:05.900and benefit from the creative, economic, and social advantages of operating in this market.
00:22:13.220Such an approach would aid in ensuring that all players contribute in an equitable and effective manner to achieving the public policy outcomes established for new legislation, including the promotion and discoverability of Canadian content.
00:22:32.200They want new laws to give more power to the CRTC in laws, but also to give them lots of discretion, flexible tools, so they can do what they like without having to check back with parliament.
00:22:45.060They want to go after anyone giving audio or video services.
00:22:54.600And everyone has to follow Trudeau's preferred public policy outcomes.
00:22:58.040That's a fancy way of saying follow his politics.
00:23:02.200And if you don't, well, look, look, the CRTC had no problem shutting down Schwa FM.
00:23:08.220They had no problem euthanizing a $50 million conservative TV network owned by a Quebec billionaire, Pierre-Carl Pelletot, while Stephen Harper said and did nothing.
00:23:20.500Do you really think the CRTC would hesitate for a second to kill a conservative news channel owned by some rabble like us?
00:23:28.520With Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts egging them on?
00:27:48.100I mean, he got a huge payday from the government of Qatar when they bought his TV network off him to create Al Jazeera America.
00:27:56.420But those are extremely wealthy people.
00:28:00.080I have never, and I know some vegans, and I find them to be people, and I'm making a judgment call here, but I've been around for a while, and I've met a lot of vegans.
00:28:09.740And every last one of them is sort of a postmodern wealthy liberal who has no religion in their life.
00:28:20.080So it's like they've checked all the boxes on wealth and achievement, and they're looking for some sort of meaning.
00:28:30.340I guess the other way of saying that is I've never met a poor person who's a vegan.
00:28:34.160I've never met anyone in the third world who's a vegan.
00:29:15.160Actually, at Climate Depot a few days ago, there was an incredible essay by two professors from some kind of Bible college in Texas,
00:29:24.560and they just laid waste to the environmental movement and how basically it is the new religion for urban atheists.
00:29:32.480And it went through and explained how, and specifically on meat, Ezra, it talked about how this is a very,
00:29:37.660it's deeply rooted sort of in the religious tradition of deprivation, depriving yourself to serve God and to be more holy,
00:29:48.900except here you're doing it in service of the climate, in service of the earth.
00:29:53.220They talk about the Catholic tradition of not eating meat on Mondays, and they're comparing it now.
00:29:57.840And they actually said that the green ideology is being imposed, and people are accepting it as essentially to many things that medieval clerics,
00:30:09.200In other words, they are imposing an austere lifestyle on people where you're not allowed, if you follow the religion, of course, of the greens,
00:30:18.280you're not allowed to fly, to turn your thermostat up, to even use coal or oil or gas, to own a car and have an SUV.
00:30:56.640I respect self is a word, flagellation in one case is when you hit yourself, and abnegation, I think, might be another word.
00:31:05.280When you're trying to purify your own lusty or corporeal or hedonistic impulses to make yourself, to fix yourself psychologically, emotionally, religiously towards God, I can understand that.
00:31:20.100But being a vegan, it's almost like, what are the three rules to being a vegan?
00:31:48.380And I love to think of those three armed massive wind turbines as three armed crucifixes that have replaced the cross, the crucifix in Christianity.
00:32:00.200Well, now we have a three armed cross in the superstition of global warming.
00:32:04.260And whereas in our religious tradition, we have the Garden of Eden, the time before sin.
00:32:10.160Well, that's the Industrial Revolution.
00:32:12.160Before that, when we were just hunter-gatherers, that was this golden era, except for, of course, it wasn't a golden era in real life.
00:32:19.420It was a time of poverty and deprivation and hunger and disease and discomfort and fear.
00:32:27.240Life expectancies were 30 before the Industrial Revolution.
00:32:32.640So the religious superstitious analogy works for environmentalism.
00:32:38.980But in every single way, the new green superstition is flawed and inferior to the Judeo-Christian West it tries to replace.
00:32:48.220Yeah, in fact, this last week, Donald Trump gave his big speech in immigration.
00:32:53.260The rebuttal was done by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran for president.
00:32:57.880And he actually said that we seek a fossil-free world because the Earth will be uninhabitable if we don't get rid of fossil fuels.
00:33:49.340And all the little rituals, like Catholicism in particular, but Judaism too, and a lot of religions have little rituals that are physical, that are tactile,
00:33:59.300whether it's rosary beads or, you know, sometimes the more Orthodox Jewish traditions,
00:34:05.740there's lots of little things throughout the day that you would say, well, why do you do that?
00:34:09.420Why do you, you know, have this kind of bread and that kind of—
00:34:13.580And it's to infuse a little bit of the holy in every—
00:34:17.340So infuse a little bit of religion in your day-to-day.
00:34:19.920So we have lots of rituals in Judaism and Christianity and other religions too.
00:34:24.420And environmentalism does that too, Mark.
00:43:38.060I think Soros admired Hitler's basic dictatorship.
00:43:42.780The irony is that Prime Minister Butz is working with Soros, but he claims his political opponents are alt-right Nazis.
00:43:49.600Now, I don't think that George Soros is a Nazi, but I think that he collaborated with him in the form of riding his bicycle around Budapest as a teenager, serving summonses to fellow Jews to get on the death trains.