Rebel News' Ezra Levant and Krasanowski talk about Catherine McKenna's awkward encounter with a reporter, the Canadian government's handling of an auditor general's report, and much, much more! Thanks for listening to Rebel News Livestream daily!
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00:01:07.260You went to see Catherine McKenna yesterday, I heard.
00:01:11.080You want to tell everybody about that?
00:01:25.640I don't think she knew that I was from Rebel, but she was not happy to talk to me at all.
00:01:30.360And she deflected the questions, and she said I was harassing her, which is a stretch because it was a media event, and I was being very polite, and I just wanted to ask her a couple questions.
00:01:43.680My heart was pounding, but I think we got some interesting footage of her being very deflective and not answering the questions that I went there to ask her.
00:01:51.960For sure, and we'll get to that clip in a second, producer, Justin.
00:01:55.560Catherine McKenna, who we all know is from the Valley in California, judging by her accent.
00:02:00.440Nobody was there, it looked like, besides you and producer Mocha.
00:02:04.480And it looks like she sort of, you know, as the only reporters in the room, she was like, oh, I don't know, what are they doing here?
00:02:12.400And she sort of tried to just walk away, it looked like.
00:02:15.100And so that video is going to be coming out, but I think we have a little bit of a teaser we can play, producer Justin, if you are ready.
00:02:23.920Okay, well, I can just ask while you're doing what you're doing.
00:02:30.520The Parliamentary Budget Office stated that 9,000 separate projects from your department went unreported on.
00:02:36.580Do you have anything to say about that?
00:02:40.400Oh, we cut back those pretty quick, Justin.
00:02:42.260So, my gathering there is that she's retiring now, and she's accomplished so much that she's just, you know, she's just ready to hang up her boots.
00:02:52.960My guess is that there's probably something coming out that she doesn't want to come out, or she's just had enough of pretending like she knows what she's doing.
00:02:59.560And I might sound a little mean, but this is the girl who can't answer any questions, that is pretty obvious.
00:03:20.580I think it's interesting that she retired now, and in her retirement statement that she posted on Twitter, she said that she wanted to step down before the next election, whenever that happens.
00:03:31.260And I think it's pretty interesting timing, especially because that scathing report just came out about her and the underspend and the incompetency in her department.
00:04:12.260She wouldn't talk to me because she wanted me to say, and she's done this to other rebel reporters too, as long as you promise not to call me climate Barbie anymore.
00:04:19.060And it's like that, you don't get to tell the media how you want to be referred to by the media.
00:04:23.380That's, imagine if every politician did that.
00:04:34.220Did you hear what climate Barbie just said?
00:04:36.840I don't think we should call her that anymore, Justin.
00:04:39.140I wish you wouldn't do such hate speech.
00:04:41.740And since we have a censorship bill coming down the pipeline from the liberals, it's good that we get this all out of the way while we can, Catherine McKenna.
00:07:29.420What do you think this theater is all about?
00:07:32.980Because to me, they're sitting there saying, how dare we treat people as the other and political opponents as non-citizens or whatever he just said.
00:07:42.480But I feel like the end goal of all this stuff is to otherize Trump supporters and possibly turn it into a situation where we demonize them based on their belief system so that it becomes illegal.
00:08:40.740I mean, they brought up everything that happened as if the video and recollections haven't been done to death.
00:08:47.120And most people think it's a push for censorship.
00:08:48.820So it's really tying in here with what's going on in Canada, where there seems to be this, you know, we're demonizing anybody who believes differently than us.
00:08:59.000And not only that, they're actually a threat to our democracy.
00:09:11.500And then I have no qualms about suggesting that further down the line, it's going to be like, well, what if we start charging people for that?
00:09:18.120Or what if we start investigating people?
00:09:19.560That's what I was going to say, is I think that, and I hope I'm wrong in this, but I feel like it's going to be a push to move away from international terrorism to domestic terrorism and say anyone who is a supporter of anything right-leaning is now considered a dangerous extremist and possibly a domestic terrorist.
00:09:37.860And that's my fear, is that you're going to basically say half the population could at any point be labeled domestic terrorists.
00:09:44.240And that's extremely terrifying because they can use that to, and we've seen it before with the, I guess it was during the Iraq war, they were using terrorism as an excuse to spy on Americans.
00:09:56.260And who's to say that they're not going to do that for domestic terrorists as well?
00:10:00.700Well, the problem with a lot of that, especially that I have with these hearings, and I mentioned this yesterday, is that all this stuff's already known.
00:10:10.180And not only is all this stuff already known and there's footage of everything, some of the stories, the guy being called the N-word by a crowd of people that a lot of people aren't believing, and there's no video of.
00:10:21.640A lot of this stuff's already been exposed.
00:10:23.620We know all the people who are inside there.
00:10:26.020I agree that you should not be able to just storm into the Capitol, do whatever you want, and not face any repercussions.
00:10:34.480But there is limits to the punishment they should have.
00:10:37.860But other than that, Tucker Carlson exposed that there was at least six FBI informants working in the crowd of people with the three major groups that were involved in rioting at the Capitol.
00:10:49.500And you combine that with the plot in Michigan, I believe, to kidnap a politician, where 12 of 18 of the kidnappers were FBI agents.
00:11:01.540And it's just like we're getting too close to all this stuff.
00:11:04.660We're getting too close to exposing the government.
00:11:06.820And all of a sudden, we need to start shutting down the Internet.
00:11:09.600We need to start censoring everything.
00:11:13.440Everybody who's critical of Justin Trudeau now needs to be taken off.
00:11:17.180And they've claimed, and Stephen Gilbeau claimed previously when they were trying to push through this other censorship stuff, that, oh, no, it's just going to be people and publications with a big following.
00:11:27.500It's just going to be people of a large platform.
00:11:30.280But, of course, they can't get into the specifics of what that means.
00:11:33.200Does Rebel News for having 1.5 million mean it's subjected to these rules?
00:11:38.580Does somebody who just has a random YouTube channel of 100,000, what's the threshold here?
00:11:43.480And I think it's just going to turn out to be anything they want.
00:12:11.100I don't think the Conservatives in Canada have said anything, and it's not like we've seen any objection to any of this stuff at all so far.
00:12:20.100They're willing to let it go as far as it goes, as long as they don't want it to hurt their election campaign that's going on.
00:12:27.240And it's really a shame to not actually be able to rely on any politicians in Canada to do or say anything about it, at least not ones that have actual seats and voting power.
00:12:40.280The kind of person that gets into politics, you have to be extreme, like Maxime Bernier comes to mind, you have to be extremely against the grain to actually hold to your values and not become one of those political, I don't know, yes men who just wants to say everything and then get into office and change your mind.
00:12:58.000I'm hoping Maxime is different, but you see how people hate him because he's different.
00:13:02.080So, yeah, like what you said, the politicians that are in power are the ones that are the most spineless, I would say.
00:13:08.720Well, I think we all enjoy videos of Aaron O'Toole jogging and working out, giving his wife a beer or whatever it was.
00:13:17.260I think this is what we all want for a politician.
00:13:19.280It's like the Will Ferrell movie where he's running for office and they try to get him to kiss a baby and he accidentally punches it.
00:13:25.660It's like, what are the most stereotypical things we can have to try to push through our campaign?
00:13:30.700I mean, oh, we'll get professional photos done of you jogging, Aaron.
00:13:34.520That'll make everybody want to vote for you.
00:13:36.760Well, he got in trouble because he had his original video was him jogging and then coming home from his jog and his wife handing him a beer or he tweeted that she handed him a beer and people were like, oh, dare you let your wife serve you?
00:13:47.480And then he did another tweet of him handing his wife a beer and it's like, we get it?
00:13:52.460Like, is a woman not allowed to give a man a beer?
00:13:55.500Well, I was disappointed in him for, like, basically doing his recant of what you're saying, his response.
00:14:03.080It's like, you can't just be like, well, anyone who thinks this is weird is stupid.
00:14:06.780He has to be like, no, see, I am a feminist and I am fair.
00:14:12.380And like we show the video of Doug Ford at a Rebel live event from, like, 2017 where he's talking about standing up for the little guy.
00:14:20.340It's the same thing. Aaron O'Toole answered our questions when he wasn't the leader of the party.
00:14:25.440He had the little press conference we had there with himself and Derek Sloan in the chat with my big brother, Andrew Lawton over at True North.
00:14:34.960And they're willing to answer these questions.
00:14:36.700Derek Sloan, of course, still is willing to answer the questions.
00:14:38.860But now Aaron O'Toole, we can't deal with Rebel News.
00:14:41.940And it always turns into a Trump accent.
00:14:45.500They're too much of a hindrance on free speech or whatever excuse he's giving a du jour.
00:14:50.760But I don't have any faith, I think, is what my long-winded answer there means.
00:14:54.860Avi Amini is just killing it down in Australia.
00:14:58.360I find myself being extremely excited for whatever video is coming next for him because he just has a way of, like, engaging with you.
00:15:05.300And even if it's a three-minute video that he's serving up with talking, the way he leans into that mic and his curly hair, it just gets to you, you know.
00:15:13.380And he had this great video the other day from one of their protests where it seems like after lockdown number five, people in Sydney, Australia, have sort of finally had enough.
00:15:22.540And I was looking up these statistics yesterday because I wanted to talk to Avi about it.
00:15:28.240New South Wales, which is the province, for those of you who aren't versed in geography.
00:15:33.460Their new cases was 250 cases, if I'm not mistaken.
00:15:38.320And the positivity rate of their tests was 0.2%.
00:15:41.040So they have about 6,000 active cases in the entire province.
00:15:45.060But 250 out of, like, 110,000 tests was the thing that pushed them over the mark.
00:15:51.060So now we're into five-kilometer lockdown.
00:15:54.020You can't leave your house outside of five kilometers, only for a couple hours a day to exercise or go get groceries.
00:16:16.160And they've even deployed 300 military members of the Australian Defense Force, which I imagine is, like, reservists or National Guard here.
00:16:23.280But they want to use them to enforce people quarantining at home, which I think is an extremely new step in the wrong direction.
00:16:33.760So I think we have his video, Dewey, Producer JT.
00:18:19.080Any dissenting type narrative has been blocked from the media and anyone who talks negatively about lockdowns or that appears to be blocked.
00:18:25.940Facebook will tell you it's potentially misleading information.
00:18:48.020Because I'm a disability nurse and I'm going to lose the job that I love of nine years because they're mandating this within the health industry.
00:18:57.600So many people in my industry are on board with me.
00:22:31.840Anyone who's, you know, survived communist regimes and things like that, there are very telling signs of what's going on now that are concerning for the future.
00:22:43.240Once they put these things in place, you know, how can they bring things back from this?
00:22:49.640Look, a generation ago, our mothers and fathers fought and died to preserve our freedoms.
00:22:57.300You know, a generation ago, we thought it was worth sacrificing millions of lives for the sake of preserving those freedoms.
00:23:03.920Now, we throw away those freedoms for the sake of preserving lives.
00:23:07.640Presumably, we don't want to live in a country where they have electronic surveillance on you, where they can tell you when you come in and when you go out,
00:23:14.400when you can go to work, who you can associate with, whether you're able to embrace people.
00:23:19.080I've lost a good friend to the virus, not in Syria, not in Australia.
00:23:23.040I've known seven people who've suicided over this period.
00:23:26.880The real cost of the lockdowns, I don't believe, I've never believed that what is driving government policy is primarily a concern for our health.
00:23:36.400If it was, there would be more account taken at the other side of that equation, of the cost of lockdowns, the cost of mental health,
00:23:43.380the cost on jobs, the rise of domestic violence, all the associated ills, which the government will never be held responsible for,
00:23:51.540but which are real and which are damaging and which are destroying us and destroying our community.
00:23:56.280And I think this is what these lockdowns do.
00:24:49.560Well, I believe it was the police chief there that said that was an unauthorized protest.
00:24:52.960He expects that unauthorized protests should not happen again, or else they will be dealt with appropriately.
00:24:58.700There was an editor at Sky News Australia who said that, you know, knocking on the doors is just the obvious next step to keep everything under control.
00:25:06.600Do you have something you want to say with that?
00:25:08.160An unauthorized protest seems like an oxymoron to me, because a protest is you're protesting something usually within the government, but it doesn't have to be, obviously.
00:25:16.480But it's like, how could you have an authorized protest?
00:31:58.940This isn't the first time the Alberta government has sent me a big fee to block me from asking questions about their treatment of pastors and congregations who obey God's laws and God's commands over that of men.
00:32:11.140It's actually, at this point, becoming a little bit of a pattern.
00:32:13.540Now, last week, I told you about how the provincial government, quite specifically the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General, has put in place a paywall for documents and information relating to the ongoing prosecution or persecution, depending how you look at it, of Pastor James Coates of Grace Life Church, west of Edmonton.
00:32:35.480Now, for those of you who don't know, Coates and Grace Life Church garnered both international attention and months and months of police and Alberta Health Services harassment and surveillance after the pastor there and the congregation refused to comply with public health orders that would limit the church attendance to just 15% of fire code capacity and force congregants to wear masks and social distance.
00:33:02.300And, Grace Life said, grace life said, grace life said that this was a violation of religious freedom, expression, and assembly.
00:33:08.320The whole affair resulted in the arrest of Pastor Coates twice, wherein, upon the second arrest, he served 35 days in Edmonton's maximum security remand center, unable to agree to bail conditions that would require him to limit his church attendance.
00:33:22.300However, in the interim, the church just kept meeting with Associate Pastor Jake Spence at the pulpit.
00:33:30.360So, then Coates was released after a deal was struck, and the province moved in to seize the church property for three months, forcing the congregation to meet in secret.
00:33:42.440Now, when I asked for government documents about how the persecution of Grace Life came to be and what happened in the aftermath, I was hit with a nearly $2,000 bill to discourage my curiosity.
00:33:58.040Do you know me? The opposite has happened.
00:34:00.360I know there's something there for me to see now, and I'm going to find it, and donors to rebelinvestigates.com are helping me do that.
00:34:08.720And that's why I kept asking about the other pastors being brought to their metaphorical and literal knees through the tip of the Roman spear here in Alberta, like Pastor Art Poloski from Calgary.
00:34:23.640We've all seen the viral images of him on his knees in a SWAT-style takedown on a Calgary street for the crime of reopening his church.
00:34:32.220That resulted in two days in jail for him, and if you've been following the case, you'll know.
00:34:36.980The province is asking for 21 more days in jail from Pastor Art for contempt of the court order the government used to close his church as a, quote, illegal public gathering.
00:34:48.660Now, you can see the full story, see all the updates from the lawyers, and help fund a fulsome and aggressive legal defense of Pastor Art Poloski and his brother David at saveartur.com.
00:35:02.900Now, my colleagues, K2 and Adam Sosa in Calgary, have been working overtime to cover the plight of Pastor Art and his congregation.
00:35:10.480They're doing a great job, but I wanted to help them, doing one of the things I think I do well around here, and that's access to information.
00:35:18.160So, naturally, I asked the Alberta government to provide copies of all documents, including emails, texts or instant messages, Slack messages, WhatsApp messages, memos, briefing notes, correspondence, reports, etc.
00:35:34.440Basically, everything regarding Pastor Art Poloski of Street Church in Calgary since January 1st, 2020, until when I asked for these documents on May 21st, just a couple of months ago.
00:35:45.700And instead of receiving documents, I received a fee estimate of nearly $1,250 to get access to 1,040 pages, wherein I would have to pay a government worker about 35 hours to prepare those documents for release to me.
00:36:04.800And the government wants about $625 of that amount immediately.
00:36:09.940I need to tell them, if I want these documents, by August 3rd, we are going to pay it begrudgingly while appealing the costs.
00:36:23.300We don't get government bailouts to ask boring questions you at home don't even care about to politicians who aren't even remotely scared of us to create content you would never pay for if you had a choice in the matter.
00:36:36.180We rely on the support of people like you at home to help us.
00:36:39.480If you'd like to help me find out what the Alberta government was saying about Pastor Art Poloski and his brother and his church before, during, and after they arrested those two men and held them for reopening their congregation, please donate today at rebelinvestigates.com.
00:37:00.320And thanks again to all of you at home who have already donated to help us hold the government, all governments, to account on behalf of the people.
00:37:12.320Sheila is great at the Freedom of Information request business that she does.
00:37:17.620And, of course, most notably probably the Wuhan lab funding by Justin Trudeau was uncovered through that by Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:37:25.680And I think it was them accidentally graying out instead of blacking out the stuff, if I recall correctly, which, of course, turned into the Fauci funding of it and all that other stuff.
00:44:15.900There's nothing actually concrete that we can fall back upon and say these are in inalienable rights, whether you believe it's from God, for yourself, wherever.
00:44:24.440Just rights that cannot be infringed upon.
00:49:09.520Now, it's funny because they – on that show, there's supposed to be one person who's a blatant liberal.
00:49:15.100And Geraldo's supposed to be conservative, but he comes on and he fulfills the liberal part.
00:49:20.200And it's like Geraldo never has the side of – he's not as bad as the woman called Anna Navarro who worked for CNN who claims she's a Republican.
00:49:29.320But works for CNN and completely agrees with everything they say.
00:49:32.960But Geraldo's never really been – I don't know if I can use the word credible or not.
00:49:37.580But he's never been like anything special.
00:50:31.220Anyways, so at the southern border, they had a record illegal migrant flow in June under Joe Biden.
00:50:39.540And, of course, 190,000 people in one month crossing the border illegally or completely – who knows how many people actually made it that weren't apprehended.
00:51:16.540There's already a wall in many places because it's, you know, it's a border.
00:51:20.600Well, the first order that they came in, the first order of business was stop, halt production of the wall.
00:51:26.280And then they realized that they was working in certain places that it reinstated.
00:51:29.760And what I was thinking is 190,000 people at the southern border, a couple years ago when people started coming over Roxham Road en masse, there was a huge uproar, about 10,000 people.
00:51:43.040And that's all coming from – in one month.
00:51:44.740And that's all coming from that one place where they come to the border, they say we'll arrest you, and then they take your bags for you, send you off to a hotel, and who knows what happens.
00:51:52.980They don't let them all stay in Canada, of course.
00:51:55.580But it's people flying into America to cross the border into Canada.
00:52:00.760And the same thing is happening at the southern border in the states now.
00:52:03.920You see West African guys coming across the border.
00:52:06.560There's footage of that all from last week where it's all 20, 30-year-old men.
00:52:11.020They come in, they're wearing like Nike soccer jerseys and stuff like that.
00:52:15.920They do a cross so you know they're from a Christian country, and a lot of them are speaking French so you know they're from a West African French country.
00:52:24.140And these are people who are flying into either Mexico or a Central American country and walking across the border.
00:52:30.240And they're praising God when they get across the border because they know they're going to be treated so well.
00:52:33.860And now people are coming out with articles saying that why do you need to be a citizen to be able to vote?
00:52:39.020Why do you need to be a permanent resident to be able to vote?
00:52:42.000So it's literally bringing in people so that you can sway the voting demographics.
00:52:47.480I don't care about race or religion or whatever you are.
00:52:51.320And the fact is that when you come into a country from a country that you are clearly fleeing from and want to come to America because their social programs are so vast,
00:53:00.500and they accept more refugees and immigrants than any country in the world, you're going to vote for the people who gave you all this free stuff.
00:53:07.960You're going to vote for the people that said, OK, you can come in and we're going to helicopter you or fly you to a place which has been happening secretly and give you a new life there and say,
00:53:19.380screw everybody else who has to pay for it in taxes.
00:53:22.020I don't know how you feel about all that stuff, but I just think that it's become so – everything's becoming so swept under the rug because it's all lockdowns, vaccines, mask mandates.
00:53:34.220It seems like this is all distractions they're trying to pull for as long as they can so that we can – forget about our gas prices being $1.40 this morning in Ontario.
00:53:43.240Forget about the southern border in the United States.
00:53:59.700And I know I'm ranting, but this is just all the stuff that's going on right now, and it's sad to see people still saying – and even some people that email us still saying,
00:54:08.240well, you guys just need to follow the law.
00:54:10.060Pastor Artur just needs to follow the law.
00:54:11.700Why can't he just be like other religious people who just stayed at home and did Zoom calls?
00:54:16.580Because that's not how – you're not supposed to just be able to take away a person's rights.
00:54:19.860And if you think that everything's not going to come back, take a look at Australia.
00:54:24.080Take a look at how quickly things get imposed if you don't say anything or don't do anything.
00:54:28.820Now, I hope Doug Ford's – and I want to get your opinion on this.
00:54:31.120I hope Doug Ford's plan is not to lock us back down in the fall.
00:54:35.640But producer Justin was saying before the show that Health Canada is now saying we're preparing for a fourth wave.
00:55:44.040They're hovering around 60% in New York State and New York City.
00:55:46.740So you're talking about – I think the number was around 3.5 million people that you're going to have to, quote, unquote, round up voluntarily to go get this vaccine.
00:55:59.160All this language is – like you've said in this live stream, you've said that we're going to have to show papers, that they're going to start rounding people up.
00:56:08.760The language is just shocking because people make jokes, and we make jokes about the Holocaust.
00:56:14.640And not about the Holocaust, but about how some people are saying that we're having our rights infringed so much, it's starting to look that way.
00:56:22.280But then it's like, okay, don't be crazy.
00:57:31.080But when you're capping out at 60%, 70% all across the country, and now all of a sudden that's not good enough, even though that was your original murder.
00:57:40.960Well, they want us to identify ourselves.
00:57:43.380That's what I'm seeing a lot of people.
00:57:44.800The rhetoric is now, and we saw it in Alexa's video, but the poutine QR codes at that festival, multiple people that she asked, do you think that the QR code was a good idea to be able to be admitted into this event?
00:57:57.160And a lot of them said, oh, yes, we need to be able to identify who's been vaccinated and who's not.
00:58:03.180What, are we supposed to wear a star on our arm or something?
00:58:04.940Like, we have to walk around telling people, I'm not vaccinated, I'm not vaccinated, so you can stay away from me because I'm a carrier of disease.
00:58:12.100Do we have, I think it was Ezra tweeted yesterday, Vancouver public health was, a health sector from Vancouver was suggesting yellow stars.
00:58:21.720So instead of us sounding hyperbolic, let's go ahead and pull it up before we run out of time here.
00:58:28.440And we'll go for some chats here in the meantime.
00:58:31.600Producer Justin is threatening me again.