Rebel News Podcast - March 30, 2023


DAILY Roundup ｜ Trudeau censors censorship debate, NS Mass Casualty report released, Trans 'die-in'


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 3 minutes

Words per Minute

158.87752

Word Count

10,040

Sentence Count

878

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

Justin Trudeau wants to take control of the internet in Canada, and he's got a plan to do so by passing a censorship bill that could mean the end of internet freedom in Canada. The Daily Roundup with Ezra Levin, co-host of the Rebel News Network's "I am in Control Day" and host of "The Daily Roundup" joins me to talk about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Canadians know the national anthem, but not every Canadian knows their rights and freedoms.
00:00:20.100 The Freedom Passport. Order one for yourself and for all the freedom lovers that you love
00:00:26.180 at freedompassport.ca.
00:00:28.240 Well, I asked, where's the beef? Let's call this for what this is. Oh, my God.
00:00:35.440 They are so hopelessly woke. How dare you?
00:00:40.120 That is the intellectual capital of the left today. Give me a break.
00:00:45.160 You are now watching the Daily Roundup.
00:00:49.680 It is the Daily Livestream. David, it's great to see you. I'm Ezra Levin, the president of Rebel News.
00:00:53.520 David is the mission specialist. Normally, he's the guy who introduces it,
00:00:57.440 but we have no time for niceties.
00:00:59.680 That's true. And today, Ezra, is I am in control day.
00:01:03.960 So who better than the boss, the president, the founder, the CEO of Rebel News to be my co-host?
00:01:09.740 Well, thank you very much. I don't know what I am in control day sounds like.
00:01:12.640 It sounds like, you know, there's very few things in life I do control.
00:01:17.240 But, David, thanks for letting me jump in here with you.
00:01:20.960 I think that I'm going to call this broadcast, it is our daily show,
00:01:24.300 and you and Sheila Gunn-Reed are the anchors of that daily show.
00:01:27.420 But today, this daily show is something slightly different.
00:01:30.700 It is an emergency broadcast on the forced passage of the censorship bill called C-11.
00:01:38.440 And there's no other way to describe it.
00:01:42.040 This is the law that begins the end of Internet freedom in Canada.
00:01:49.260 This is one of four bills, proposed bills in a row, that bam, bam, bam, four of them in a row
00:01:56.800 will end Internet freedom in Canada.
00:02:00.080 Internet freedom has been under attack for a long time.
00:02:02.060 And C-11 puts the Internet under the control of the TV commission, the CRTC, which is a fossil.
00:02:09.760 It's obsolete.
00:02:10.520 It was decades ago when there was limited bandwidth on the radio and you had to apply to the government.
00:02:17.380 Can I have this, you know, if I'm on 990, does that interfere with that other radio station?
00:02:23.020 There used to be a limited bandwidth issue.
00:02:24.440 That's what the CRTC was about, apportioning who's on the radio,
00:02:28.860 limited number of channels on TV cable companies.
00:02:31.200 Who's on what cable?
00:02:32.660 That is not relevant in 2023.
00:02:35.000 2023, you don't need to be on radio or TV.
00:02:37.220 Those are sort of old.
00:02:38.500 It's like a rotary phone as opposed to a cell phone.
00:02:40.900 No one uses it.
00:02:42.100 But Trudeau wants to take that old regulator called the CRTC, the Canadian.
00:02:46.920 Even if, let me, you're not even going to believe what CRTC stands for.
00:02:50.000 Do you know what it stands for?
00:02:51.060 It's the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission.
00:02:54.640 Yeah, radio, Canadian radio television.
00:02:58.200 Could you put CRTC.gc.ca, put the homepage up?
00:03:02.800 People won't even believe what the full name of this regulator is.
00:03:06.100 It's so archaic.
00:03:08.020 The words don't even make sense.
00:03:10.740 It's from, you know, it's like moving pictures, like the silver screen.
00:03:15.460 Look at that.
00:03:16.160 Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission.
00:03:20.960 What even is a radio television?
00:03:23.000 Have they ever built a TV that encompasses a radio as well?
00:03:28.140 You know, I don't know.
00:03:29.560 It's the talkies.
00:03:31.120 We have to regulate these talkies on the silver screen.
00:03:37.660 See, you know, and if I can jump in here, I remember it was about 20 years ago, early 2000s.
00:03:43.140 I'll never forget, the CRTC released a press release to derision and mocking laughter that
00:03:49.760 after great consultation, they have decided they are not going to regulate the internet.
00:03:55.620 Well, of course you can't regulate the internet.
00:03:58.340 But here we are two decades later.
00:04:00.960 Blackface is instructing this commission.
00:04:03.320 Yes, I want you to regulate the internet.
00:04:05.160 And I think this is all about Blackface over the last few years has been handing out the
00:04:10.720 carrots to the mainstream media.
00:04:13.240 Anyone that wants to play ball, you get a grant.
00:04:16.220 CBC, towards ever this, $1.5 billion plus.
00:04:19.820 The rest of the media, $600 million per year and growing.
00:04:23.660 And now he's paid off almost everybody and now comes the stick.
00:04:28.220 For those stubborn, independent media outlets, Trudeau is now wielding the stick and it's
00:04:36.680 a direct attack on us.
00:04:37.840 David, you're exactly right.
00:04:39.700 The bill is called, I mean, Efron, I just sent you the link to the text of the bill.
00:04:44.540 We're going to do something that other media don't do.
00:04:46.400 We're going to take you into the heart of the legislation I want to prove to you.
00:04:52.300 I just sent it to you by signal, Efron.
00:04:54.660 But first, I want to show you a flicker of good news, despite the fact that 99% of the
00:05:03.540 media in Canada are in favor of this bill because it censors, it will outlaw their independent
00:05:08.900 competitors and it will channel funds to them.
00:05:13.460 We are against it.
00:05:15.380 We have a special website at stopthecensorship.ca.
00:05:21.080 You can sign our petition.
00:05:22.340 We have 42,000 signatures there already.
00:05:24.700 I'd love to get that up to 50,000 today.
00:05:29.200 And all the parties in the House of Commons are in favor of it, except for, I'm pleased
00:05:34.480 to say, the conservative opposition.
00:05:37.700 Pierre Polyev, the leader of the conservative opposition, made an urgent video as he walked
00:05:43.100 down from his office to the House of Commons for the final vote.
00:05:46.900 It was very dramatic and I think it's appropriate.
00:05:48.980 Let's play that video from Pierre Polyev.
00:05:53.960 We need five seconds to feed up.
00:05:55.500 No problem.
00:05:56.420 The reason I want to show it is because he refers to the invocation of closure.
00:06:02.480 Closure is just what it sounds like, David.
00:06:04.280 It's when you close off debate and how fitting it is that you close off debate about a bill
00:06:09.340 that would close off debate.
00:06:11.140 You're censoring debating on a bill about censorship.
00:06:13.460 They seem to be in a rush to push this through as though there might be an election coming
00:06:21.200 up, in which case this would die on the order table as rough.
00:06:25.000 But why is this such a priority, I'm asking rhetorically, for the liberal government to
00:06:32.080 get ramrodded through?
00:06:33.360 That's what people have to ask themselves.
00:06:34.820 That's a great question.
00:06:35.860 And I'll let our viewers think of that when we look at this quick video from Pierre Polyev.
00:06:40.340 Take a look.
00:06:41.240 Hi, everyone.
00:06:41.960 Pierre Polyev here.
00:06:43.340 There's just an emergency here on Parliament Hill.
00:06:45.540 The liberals have just announced that they're shutting down debate.
00:06:49.120 They're censoring debate on their censorship bill.
00:06:52.920 We just got the notice right now.
00:06:54.520 As you know, they've been trying to censor the internet in what Canadian artist Margaret
00:06:59.600 Atwood has called creeping totalitarianism.
00:07:02.740 So give Trudeau's woke bureaucrats over at CRTC the power to control what you see and say
00:07:08.020 on the internet.
00:07:09.020 I'm just rushing into the House of Commons lobby right now.
00:07:13.020 Conservatives are the only party fighting back.
00:07:15.680 But as you can see, this closure is now being brought right before us right now.
00:07:22.020 You see right here, Online Screening Act.
00:07:27.360 They're bringing in what's called closure, which shuts down debate and rams the bill through
00:07:31.520 in record time.
00:07:32.880 Only conservatives are fighting back against this censorship bill.
00:07:36.960 We believe you should have the freedom to decide what you see and say online.
00:07:40.500 But I need you to immediately sign my freedom of speech petition.
00:07:44.480 The link is right before you.
00:07:46.160 Click sign immediately.
00:07:49.160 Let's bring home freedom.
00:07:50.640 I want to give you back control of your life and make this the freest country on earth.
00:07:54.900 It's common sense.
00:07:56.360 Let's bring it home now.
00:07:59.740 He has his petition.
00:08:01.100 We have our petition to our petition to stop the censorship dot CA.
00:08:06.340 I'm glad he's taking this seriously.
00:08:08.400 And I'm glad he says he'll fight against it.
00:08:10.400 And I believe him, by the way.
00:08:12.680 Efron, I just sent you a video link.
00:08:14.960 I'm going to send you over the next few moments, different videos from different political parties.
00:08:21.300 I want to show you how they're all in on it together.
00:08:24.920 It's what they call an inside job.
00:08:27.780 It's a stitch up.
00:08:29.360 Normally, you depend on the opposition parties to oppose.
00:08:32.280 That's that's the giveaway.
00:08:33.580 They're called the opposition.
00:08:34.620 Their job is to oppose.
00:08:35.540 But they're all in on it because they are part of the club.
00:08:40.180 Efron, I sent you a clip from the Bloc Québécois.
00:08:42.940 I sent you a clip from the NDP.
00:08:44.560 That's the NDP clip there.
00:08:45.840 Let's take a listen.
00:08:46.700 I believe this woman is an NDP senator who is explaining.
00:08:52.620 Sorry.
00:08:53.600 Pardon me.
00:08:54.280 I think she said we'll find out her name in a minute.
00:08:56.140 I just forgot it for one second.
00:08:57.460 I think she's an NDP member of parliament.
00:08:59.520 Let's take a listen and her identity will come forward.
00:09:03.140 Take a look.
00:09:03.920 And I thank the member for his question.
00:09:08.000 I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected back,
00:09:18.260 what what they regulate regarding online streaming as opposed to studio executives that are outside of this country.
00:09:27.740 And that is what we're talking about in this bill.
00:09:32.540 There's already been content regulation for TV.
00:09:36.340 There's been content regulation for radio.
00:09:38.840 And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians are online every day.
00:09:46.540 You heard her content regulation.
00:09:52.180 She couldn't be clear.
00:09:53.620 The NDP says this is about content regulation.
00:09:58.300 And that's why they support it, David.
00:10:00.780 Of course they do.
00:10:02.340 And what I find staggering, Ezra, is if you look at classical liberalism, they were all about freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of speech.
00:10:13.300 But that's gone now.
00:10:14.680 It's now cancel culture.
00:10:16.740 It's wokeism.
00:10:17.660 It's virtue signaling.
00:10:19.840 Punchinazzi.
00:10:20.520 And of course, by punchinazzi, I don't mean somebody hellbent on world conquest and carrying out a genocide.
00:10:26.280 But somebody who disagrees with you, you have to be shut down even with violence.
00:10:31.940 And now we have legislation coming in.
00:10:35.040 And so the true liberals, I guess what I'm trying to say, Ezra, they're anything but members that support classical liberalism.
00:10:44.500 Yeah.
00:10:44.820 Well, I mean, there is no more classical liberalism anywhere in the parliament.
00:10:49.620 Efron, I just sent you a clip from the Bloc Québécois.
00:10:51.820 Again, normally they oppose Ottawa taking any sort of power.
00:10:58.240 Normally they would say, A, butt out.
00:11:02.540 We'll make these regulations and rules from Quebec.
00:11:06.240 Or B, we are the protectors of culture.
00:11:10.140 How dare you censor?
00:11:11.860 But here's the Bloc Québécois from Sheffert, Quebec, André Larouche, who can't get enough.
00:11:18.660 Here, take a look.
00:11:19.320 If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well-represented online, well, then that's worth it.
00:11:34.340 If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well-represented online, well, then that's worth it.
00:11:48.380 If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well-represented online, well, then that's worth it.
00:12:02.880 We should play it six times in a row.
00:12:07.360 Now, folks, we have a bit of a mic issue for David, and that's never stopped David before.
00:12:13.460 We're going to take a very quick commercial break.
00:12:15.300 We're going to fix that.
00:12:16.060 And I am not yet done showing you how every single party in the House of Commons – I mean, look, the word parliament is rooted in the French for speak, parley, to parley.
00:12:26.740 And yet the – and how – and by the way, MPs have a very special immunity from any kind of censorship.
00:12:33.440 You could literally stand on the floor of the House of Commons or the Senate and say he is a murderer and falsely defame someone, and you are immune to any prosecution.
00:12:45.400 These are the people with the most free speech in the world, and yet they are taking away free speech.
00:12:49.980 The word free speech is hardwired right into the word parliament, and yet you heard that block member say it five times.
00:12:56.120 That she's excited about taking away freedom of speech.
00:13:00.400 We've got to play an ad, and we'll come right back.
00:13:01.940 Take a look.
00:13:07.160 If you want to look good and shine like me, you can do so at our store.
00:13:12.560 Go to RevenueStore.com.
00:13:15.220 On this website, you have so much different style to wear as this one, my favorite one, Justin Castro.
00:13:22.980 With my code, Alexa10, you will have 10% off on your next purchase.
00:13:29.860 So don't hesitate.
00:13:30.840 Go now and look so good like me.
00:13:45.020 Have you checked out the fresh new swag we have at RevenueStore.com?
00:13:48.940 Like this nifty, resistance, trucker sweater.
00:13:52.900 We have warm, cozy sweaters, t-shirts, mugs, hats, phone cases, you name it.
00:13:58.040 Everything to fit your freedom-loving needs, or maybe even trigger a liberal family member or friend.
00:14:05.340 And for a limited time, you can use code TAMARA10 at checkout to save 10% off of your total order.
00:14:11.860 So head on over to RevenueStore.com, check out all of our new designs, make some purchases, and use code TAMARA, that's T-A-M-A-R-A, 10, at checkout for 10% off your order.
00:14:24.560 Head on over, check it out.
00:14:30.360 Well, we got to make problems, David.
00:14:32.080 Yes.
00:14:32.420 We're going to fix those.
00:14:33.920 So I'll say goodbye to you.
00:14:35.180 Okay.
00:14:35.380 And I'm sorry.
00:14:36.100 It was...
00:14:36.600 Oh, it's working now.
00:14:38.100 Hallelujah.
00:14:38.440 Wow.
00:14:38.880 There you go.
00:14:39.600 I thought my microphone had already been Bill C-11.
00:14:42.960 I'm using it as a verb right now.
00:14:45.960 Excellent.
00:14:46.840 Okay.
00:14:47.320 Well, I'm glad that worked, and I'm glad we ran an ad anyways.
00:14:49.900 Okay.
00:14:50.140 I want to continue showing...
00:14:51.320 Now, by the way, Efron, I am working my way through Michael Geist's Twitter feed.
00:14:55.740 I clicked on media, and he has so many video clips, including from liberals, explaining why they do not support Trudeau's own bill.
00:15:08.000 Well, isn't that odd?
00:15:09.180 When was the last time?
00:15:11.040 Here, I'm going to show an astonishing video.
00:15:15.180 I'm going to send an astonishing video right now to Efron to play.
00:15:21.380 This is from a liberal, a Trudeau appointee.
00:15:24.860 His name is Senator David Adams Richard, and he is an author.
00:15:31.880 Like, he's an artist.
00:15:32.640 I think he won the Governor's...
00:15:35.580 I'm just reading Michael Geist's page here.
00:15:38.320 This senator won the Governor's General's Award, won the Giller Prize, which is a very prestigious prize in those circles.
00:15:44.300 I know nothing about it, of course, but it's for the more illiterate folks out there.
00:15:48.620 Listen to the language he uses to condemn C-11.
00:15:52.740 So I guess when I said it's unanimous, the support for this bill, I did not include a handful of liberal senators who are immune to Trudeau's bullying.
00:16:07.320 When you're a senator in Canada, your opponent for life, or age 75 to be more precise, so you can't be fired.
00:16:12.940 So whereas Trudeau has total control over every liberal member of parliament, the Senate actually...
00:16:19.480 I think there are three liberal senators who are...
00:16:21.740 I'm not going along with this.
00:16:23.260 This is madness.
00:16:23.800 Good for them.
00:16:24.420 And I'm not going to lie.
00:16:25.240 Here's one of them.
00:16:26.880 Let's take a listen to this Trudeau-appointed senator who's just sick of the BS.
00:16:31.840 Take a look.
00:16:34.220 In my reading at Harborfront in Toronto, two people approached me.
00:16:38.160 One was the great Irish writer Roddy Doyle telling me he had long admired my work.
00:16:42.940 The other was the First Nation writer Richard Wagmus, telling me he started writing because he was influenced by my work.
00:16:49.980 Both were very kind, lived thousands of miles apart, one Irish and one First Nation, and the writing had little to do with identity politics, but it did have much to do with identifying.
00:17:02.080 I do not know who would be able to tell me what Canadian content is and what it is not, but I know it won't be in the Minister of Heritage's power to ever tell me.
00:17:11.840 We have yet to make a great movie about hockey, for God's sakes, a great movie about Juno Beach, a great movie about Dieppe, or a movie about the young Canadians fighting to death in Hong Kong.
00:17:23.200 Our ancestors and singers and writers, too, have gone away because they had to, for too many in power have no knowledge about these things.
00:17:30.980 We have filled the world with our talents, but not because of the Minister of Heritage.
00:17:35.960 We have spread our books and movies across the world, but it is not because of some formula.
00:17:41.240 We have insulted so many of our authors and singers, our actors and painters, by not paying attention to them and then claiming them when they go somewhere else.
00:17:49.760 They come back to get the Order of Canada and to be fed it at Rideau Hall.
00:17:53.560 Drake is known worldwide, but not because of the CRTC.
00:17:58.700 Thank God Drake was not up to them, or Leonard Cohen, or Gordon Lightfoot either.
00:18:04.540 You see, we have gone back to the age of Cicero without even knowing.
00:18:08.720 In that age, scapegoating was considered a blessing, and mob action against one person was considered justice.
00:18:14.020 It was Christ, actually, who taught us that scapegoating was a great lie, and pleaded with us by his death never to return to that state.
00:18:23.000 This mob will be one of scapegoating all those who do not fit into what our bureaucrats think Canada should be.
00:18:30.480 Stalin, again, will be looking over our shoulder when we write.
00:18:33.980 We have come a long way from Cicero.
00:18:36.440 Thank you.
00:18:37.060 So Stalin, he says, he actually compares this kind of cultural invasion by the government to Stalin.
00:18:45.680 That's incredible.
00:18:46.620 There's another senator, I think he's from Newfoundland, who makes a similar comment.
00:18:52.080 So the only liberals who speak freely about this are the ones that Trudeau does not control.
00:18:56.880 It's not interesting.
00:18:57.360 Well, absolutely, Ezra.
00:18:59.000 And, you know, I've always had disdain and distrust of the CRTC.
00:19:03.200 You and I are both Sun News refugees from 2015.
00:19:07.280 You remember we applied for a license that would have kept us on the air.
00:19:11.440 I think our business case was absolutely ironclad foolproof because the reason detra of the CRTC is to promote Canadian content.
00:19:23.360 And what was Sun News?
00:19:24.620 Well, it was a Quebec company that owned us.
00:19:26.840 We were based in Toronto.
00:19:27.900 We had bureaus all over the country.
00:19:29.460 We had probably close to 200, maybe more Canadian employees producing Canadian stories for a Canadian audience.
00:19:37.460 And they gave us the Caesar thumbs down.
00:19:40.860 And yet other stations that had that license, virtually half of their content was old U.S. sitcoms being broadcast as reruns.
00:19:50.800 So based on what happened to Sun News on 2015, I think that individual was right.
00:19:59.380 There is a class of bureaucrats out there that if you don't fit into a special category, off with your head.
00:20:08.920 You know, I'm trying to find that other senator here.
00:20:11.740 I can't find him quickly.
00:20:12.820 I've forgotten his name.
00:20:13.620 I thought he was from Newfoundland.
00:20:14.860 We don't need to see it right now.
00:20:16.060 What I wanted to show our viewers is that the liberals, obviously, all of the liberals in the House of Commons have been forced to agree with this.
00:20:23.660 The only outliers are those in the Senate who cannot be controlled.
00:20:27.540 The NDP wants content moderation.
00:20:30.100 You heard them.
00:20:31.560 The Bloc Hebecois is thrilled.
00:20:33.560 We played the clip five times.
00:20:35.240 They're thrilled.
00:20:36.320 I want to go to third reading the bill itself.
00:20:38.220 Do you have that, Efron?
00:20:39.040 I want to work through it now.
00:20:40.080 Just for those who have joined us in the last 15 minutes, we're doing an emergency live stream about the imminent passage of Bill C-11.
00:20:46.120 It is technically called an act to amend the Broadcasting Act, and I suppose that's true, in that it now will take Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, all of your social media accounts,
00:20:57.860 and it will regulate them just as powerfully as the government has regulated radio television.
00:21:04.160 And they write that word with a hyphen, and so we've been regulating the talkies for close to four score and 15 years, and we're ready to regulate the Internet's talkies.
00:21:18.340 It's just so embarrassing.
00:21:20.440 Well, Ezra, if I may, what do you think is the unspoken strategy of the Trudeau liberals and, of course, their allies in the House for loving this bill?
00:21:30.100 I mean, is it indeed all about control for those media outlets that they cannot buy off?
00:21:36.240 Oh, it absolutely is.
00:21:37.080 There can be no doubt about it.
00:21:39.520 Justin Trudeau altered Canadian media in a deep and genetic way.
00:21:45.080 Shortly after he took over, he announced he was going to give hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the media in this country,
00:21:51.060 and that immediately pacified them because they were saying, oh, we can't survive in the age of the Internet.
00:21:54.720 Well, that would be like saying, you know, 100 years ago, we're going to give hundreds of millions of dollars to the horse and buggy.
00:22:02.220 Exactly.
00:22:03.120 There was a new media industry emerging from the ashes of the old one, but all the incumbents, all the dinosaurs ponied up.
00:22:12.240 And today, Justin Trudeau is the number one, the largest single source of revenue for every media company in Canada.
00:22:19.960 Approximately one-third of all the revenue for even supposedly conservative media outlets, National Post, Toronto Sun, Global Mail, Toronto Star.
00:22:33.480 One-third comes from Trudeau.
00:22:35.360 And he's proposing in, I think it's C-18, to make Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Google, YouTube chip in another third.
00:22:44.980 So if he gets his way, by the time C-11 and C-18 are done, two-thirds of the revenue of every newsroom in this country will either be from big government or big tech.
00:22:54.940 So what's that going to do?
00:22:56.060 Well, first of all, it's going to ideologically color all the news because you do not bite the hand to feed you, not even, you know, even if it's subconscious.
00:23:04.540 Oh, we're going to criticize Facebook, but let's be very gentle.
00:23:08.560 Talk about your controlled opposition.
00:23:09.920 So you're buying off 99% of the media with a carrot, but then there's the stick for those that don't comply.
00:23:20.400 And one of the ways that that happens, and I'm just looking for it right now, it's paragraph 9.
00:23:33.140 There's such a complicated rule here.
00:23:39.720 Efron, if you have the law in front of you, click on, it says text.
00:23:48.280 I'll help you navigate it.
00:23:51.820 Can you find, I think it might be near the top.
00:23:53.780 Well, open the bill, sorry, that main page I sent you, and I'll walk you through it.
00:24:01.560 And this is good because we can show people how we do it.
00:24:04.980 So if you go to, I think I sent you the link.
00:24:10.020 Maybe I didn't.
00:24:13.700 No, it's actually the parliament bill itself.
00:24:17.120 So, you know, I'll just send you the link right now.
00:24:22.040 I'm sorry I didn't do that before.
00:24:23.560 Hey, viewers, thanks for bearing with us.
00:24:25.580 We're doing this in real time.
00:24:27.140 Efron, I just sent you a link.
00:24:28.580 It's from the parliamentary website itself because I want to show the authoritative version.
00:24:32.460 And by the way, bills sometimes change because there's little amendments, things.
00:24:36.520 So what I just sent you, Efron, is what's called the third reading of the bill.
00:24:41.380 This is how the bill looked like after it had been through committees and the amendments, things of that sort.
00:24:46.000 So if you click on this, you see, there it is.
00:24:49.240 So you can see that this is the authoritative source.
00:24:51.320 This is from the House of Commons.
00:24:52.720 You can see the official title is an act to amend the Broadcasting Act, et cetera.
00:24:58.000 And you can see, you see the tabs at the top, first reading, second reading, third reading.
00:25:01.620 That's what they call a vote in parliament.
00:25:05.180 They read the bill and then you vote on it or whatnot.
00:25:09.820 Now, Efron, this is a very long bill.
00:25:12.540 So what I'd like you to do is to use your find function, you know, just command F for the word discoverability.
00:25:21.840 Just start typing that word discovers enough.
00:25:25.780 And it'll quickly take you to something called conditions, 9.1 bracket one.
00:25:31.220 And it's the very first place where the word discover, that's, that's it.
00:25:42.880 That's it.
00:25:43.320 You got it there.
00:25:44.000 Yeah.
00:25:44.140 Put that on the screen.
00:25:44.940 I'm going to read that.
00:25:45.880 Okay.
00:25:46.140 So there's a lot of legalese here, but I promise I'll make it easy to understand.
00:25:49.460 So you got to read, you see at the top, it says conditions.
00:25:52.120 And then there's all these conditions, A, B, C, D, E, F.
00:25:55.200 So I'm going to read the top there and then I'm going to read part E and you're going to see what I'm worried about.
00:26:01.720 So the commission, that's the CRTC.
00:26:05.100 That's the government bureaucracy.
00:26:07.860 When they say the commission, that's who they're talking about, the CRTC.
00:26:10.540 So let me just read this and I'll walk through.
00:26:12.960 The commission may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings.
00:26:24.840 That's what they call Twitter, YouTube, Google.
00:26:27.780 They call those broadcasters now.
00:26:29.660 See, this is what's so weird.
00:26:31.260 This is the Frankenstein nature of it.
00:26:33.860 Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook are not broadcasters.
00:26:37.680 That's why they've never been regulated along with the talkies.
00:26:41.980 But C11 now says, oh no, you are now a broadcaster.
00:26:46.720 Yeah.
00:26:47.040 Okay.
00:26:47.720 So let me read that again.
00:26:49.160 And the commission, that's the bureaucracy, may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings that the commission considers appropriate for the implementation of the broadcasting policy set out in subsection 3.1, including conditions respecting.
00:27:08.260 And then there's a list.
00:27:09.600 So I haven't even got, I'm just saying, just explain the preamble there.
00:27:14.080 These are things that the government can do to YouTube, to Twitter, to Google.
00:27:20.960 And then there's a big list of them.
00:27:22.540 And I want to jump to number E.
00:27:24.620 So I'm 9.11E.
00:27:27.420 Very legalistic, but that's what laws are like.
00:27:30.100 Let's read it.
00:27:30.860 Okay.
00:27:31.040 So the government can regulate, they can make orders against Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook, to do what?
00:27:39.220 To do E.
00:27:43.860 Respecting the presentation of programs and programming services, that means our videos, your tweets, your Facebook posts,
00:27:54.140 for selection by the public, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services, such as original French language programs.
00:28:08.520 They throw the word French language programs in there, but that's just an example.
00:28:11.660 So let me read this again.
00:28:12.560 The government can make any order respecting the presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
00:28:21.820 That means the algorithm.
00:28:24.220 That means search results.
00:28:26.020 That means the watch next, the for you.
00:28:29.520 You know, on every social media app, it sort of gets to know what you like.
00:28:33.940 And it tries to think, well, what would this guy like?
00:28:36.740 He's watching lots of, you know, car wash videos.
00:28:39.440 Let's give him more car wash videos.
00:28:41.880 That's, that's, the algorithm does that.
00:28:44.620 In this law, they call that discoverability.
00:28:48.080 The presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
00:28:53.060 Right.
00:28:53.620 That's the for you page.
00:28:54.960 That's the algorithm.
00:28:55.960 That's the selection.
00:28:57.000 That's what's boosted.
00:28:58.620 That will be regulated, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services.
00:29:08.280 Let me translate what this means in real life.
00:29:12.020 This means that Justin Trudeau and his handpicked censors can order YouTube, Google, Facebook to alter what is shown to the public.
00:29:25.680 YouTube, Google, Facebook already do that.
00:29:27.540 They already have political biases, by the way.
00:29:30.040 They downrank us already, by the way.
00:29:32.840 True.
00:29:33.160 But what I just read to you, incontrovertibly, in fact, they don't deny it.
00:29:38.280 They don't deny it.
00:29:40.060 This gives them the power to say, well, Rebel News is not a qualified Canadian journalism organization.
00:29:46.860 We don't think we, we say they're disinformation and they're not a part of a healthy news diet from the CBC.
00:29:54.400 And if you want diversity, well, you can have your CTV and global.
00:29:57.180 If you want even more diversity, well, you got your Toronto Star.
00:29:59.920 There's a lot of choices.
00:30:01.060 There's five choices right there.
00:30:02.340 All of them are on the government dime.
00:30:04.140 All of them receive the Trudeau bailout.
00:30:05.760 What this does is it gives the CRTC the power to regulate Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, et cetera, to alter their algorithms.
00:30:14.160 So when people try to discover, that's the word, discoverability, when YouTube, Google, Facebook, et cetera, want to showcase or present, those are the words,
00:30:21.700 that the government can get involved in that and boost their friends and de-boost their enemies.
00:30:32.280 And who the hell do you think their friends and enemies are?
00:30:35.320 They will boost the CBC and all the other compliant media, the government media, the regime media, the media, political, industrial complex, they will boost them and they will de-boost us.
00:30:44.940 And that is why, my friends, if you care about knowing what the world is like as opposed to knowing only what Trudeau says you can know what the world is like,
00:30:53.340 I need you to go to our petition now, stopthecensorship.ca.
00:30:59.400 And we are, and yes, I want you to sign the petition.
00:31:02.440 Now you might say, what's the point?
00:31:04.740 What's the point?
00:31:06.160 I mean, this thing's passing.
00:31:07.920 We're going to take it to court.
00:31:11.340 And you know we will.
00:31:13.080 We are currently suing Justin Trudeau in seven different legal actions, including one, when his bodyguards beat you up.
00:31:19.780 That was a dark day at Rebel News and we're going to fight back and we're going to get you justice.
00:31:23.660 So help me God.
00:31:24.780 Thank you, Ezra.
00:31:25.700 And we are going to challenge C-11 because you know what it means.
00:31:30.820 Do you think they're going to de-boost the CBC?
00:31:32.860 Do you think they're going to say to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, you can't show the CBC?
00:31:36.180 Of course, that's government propaganda.
00:31:37.660 They're going to boost it.
00:31:40.060 You're going to type in Rebel News and soon the only thing you'll be allowed to see is, if anything about Rebel News, it'll be all the criticisms of Rebel News.
00:31:48.820 You'll be able to see all the criticisms, sort of like a highlight reel of maybe our worst moments or whatever.
00:31:55.300 You won't be able to find things.
00:31:56.980 You'll see attacks on us or if you find us at all.
00:32:01.260 And I just literally showed you in the law where that is.
00:32:08.520 And I'm just on the website right now, 42,613 signatures, 42,614.
00:32:16.800 Thank you.
00:32:17.080 We've got to get that up to 50,000.
00:32:18.500 The petition has stopped the censorship.
00:32:22.180 Who do we deliver it to, Ezra?
00:32:24.060 Well, I think we would deliver it either to the minister in charge of it, who is, you know, Stephen Gilboa used to be in charge of it.
00:32:35.140 Now he's in the environment.
00:32:36.300 Now it's Paolo Rodriguez, a convicted criminal, by the way, a drunk driver.
00:32:42.000 It's funny how many criminals.
00:32:43.520 So we have two then.
00:32:44.560 Oh, yeah.
00:32:45.200 I mean.
00:32:45.360 So I know Guy Bowe is a convicted criminal.
00:32:47.940 You know what?
00:32:48.820 I'm not saying that necessarily disqualifies a guy from ever working again.
00:32:55.000 But it's so funny how many criminals there are.
00:32:58.980 I mean, Stephen Gilboa convicted of breaking and entering or breaking out of the CN Tower in an eco stunt for Greenpeace.
00:33:08.360 I just, listen, I'm not saying that there's no redemption and I'm not saying that someone who's caught drunk driving can't work again.
00:33:15.180 I just, it's just the ethics of that government are, well, I mean, a fish rots from the head down.
00:33:20.600 And everyone knows that Justin Trudeau is a lawbreaker.
00:33:23.760 He's being convicted, what, five times now of violating the Conflict of Interest Act?
00:33:27.320 And he just pays a $500 fine and laughs.
00:33:29.280 What a joke.
00:33:30.540 Yeah, there's Gilboa the day he was arrested.
00:33:32.940 That's the guy who drafted Bill C-11.
00:33:34.980 Now he's the environment minister.
00:33:36.440 Super gross.
00:33:37.800 Imagine that guy, a lawbreaker, being a lawmaker.
00:33:41.680 Super, super gross.
00:33:44.840 You know, it reminds me of that scene in The Clockwork Orange, Ezra, where I guess the government's given up in terms of arresting all the thugs.
00:33:52.480 So instead recruits the thugs to make them police officers.
00:33:57.020 And they find one of their cronies, Alex, and they give him the most severe beating of their life.
00:34:03.300 But that's what it's kind of like with, you know, Gilboa and Rodriguez, criminals now having the moral authority telling us what we should do, what we can and cannot watch.
00:34:14.540 It's perverse.
00:34:15.160 You know, it's getting to the point that soon there will only be two kinds of media in this country.
00:34:24.120 Government-run, government-funded media or banned media.
00:34:30.440 You'll either be controlled by the government or banned by the government.
00:34:33.560 There will no longer be any independent media in this country.
00:34:36.800 And I used to work for Post Media.
00:34:39.260 I know you did too.
00:34:41.400 You were in Sun Media and you've been in different media.
00:34:44.780 They're all controlled now.
00:34:46.720 And I'm not here to say that the Globe and Mail does no good journalism.
00:34:49.520 They are doing some good journalism on the China file these days.
00:34:52.060 And I still love to read Rex Murphy and Conrad Black in the National Post and Rupa Subramania.
00:34:57.900 I'm not saying that they're all dead.
00:34:59.580 But you cannot have Justin Trudeau as your chief benefactor without that having an impact on your journalism.
00:35:08.200 Even if it's subconscious, you're going to pull your punches.
00:35:14.040 And I think the reason mainstream media, even right-leaning, are all in on this, Ezra, is let's face it.
00:35:21.560 This is a sunset industry.
00:35:23.360 If I went to a high school, not even a high school, a university, and I said, hey, raise your hands, everyone that has a newspaper subscription, I bet you zero hands would go up.
00:35:33.260 I mean, I subscribe to the Toronto Sun.
00:35:35.660 I can tell you, some days it looks like a pamphlet.
00:35:38.300 And they're losing readers.
00:35:40.360 They're losing advertisers.
00:35:42.420 So when you're not selling subscriptions, when you're not getting ad revenue, you've got to get the money from somewhere.
00:35:47.820 And here comes Blackface as a sugar daddy bailing them out.
00:35:52.640 So I guess it boils down to if you want a compromised livelihood or no livelihood at all, well, you're going to go for option A, aren't you?
00:36:01.840 Yeah.
00:36:02.040 You know what?
00:36:02.560 I really like how you're calling him Blackface as a nickname.
00:36:07.100 No, it's the right thing to do.
00:36:10.880 It's the right thing.
00:36:12.360 You know, I remember when we did an access to information request.
00:36:15.540 I don't know if you can find this, Efron, but we did an access to information request looking for the list of all the media companies that took the special bailout from Trudeau.
00:36:27.740 And it was staggeringly long.
00:36:30.840 There were actually 1,500 names on it.
00:36:34.840 And I did not know that there were 1,500 media companies in Canada.
00:36:40.120 And if you look at the list, it has everything on there, like the Costco magazine or like the, you know, the President's Choice magazine or the CAA Automobile Association magazine.
00:36:52.720 Like they're all on there.
00:36:54.580 Yeah, you found it.
00:36:55.580 Excellent.
00:36:55.860 So, and I, so we got this list and I should say the same day we got it, Canada Land did.
00:37:02.400 So, yeah, pump this up.
00:37:03.680 So, so I should say we take credit, but we should share the credit with Canada Land.
00:37:07.320 They had the same idea literally the same day we did.
00:37:10.760 Pump that list up so I can take a better gander at it.
00:37:15.260 Because even trade magazines are on this.
00:37:17.300 Like Fresh Magazine or Energetic City or Exclaim, Mining Life, The TIE.
00:37:24.080 So, so the, and, and just scroll a little bit to the right because I think it shows the dollar amount.
00:37:29.560 Yeah.
00:37:30.000 So look at, so you see those, like you've never even heard, like what's Fresh Magazine?
00:37:34.380 Is that like Joe Fresh or something?
00:37:36.420 Look at the CAA.
00:37:37.280 You see that?
00:37:38.340 See, that's the Canadian Automobile Association.
00:37:40.660 They're literally getting journalistic media.
00:37:42.840 Yeah, scroll down so we can see a little bit because David, the little box with David and me is blocking it.
00:37:49.560 CAA Manitoba.
00:37:51.920 CAA, Wedding Bells Magazine.
00:37:53.760 Oh my God, they got 126 grand.
00:37:56.400 CAA Magazine, 278 grand.
00:38:00.160 Vintage Fire Truck.
00:38:02.220 The Nigerian Canadian newspaper.
00:38:05.420 The Nipawa Banner and Press.
00:38:08.140 Edible Vancouver.
00:38:09.080 That sounds like it's like a restaurant review.
00:38:11.420 Well, they got 70 grand.
00:38:15.040 Al Watan Arabic Weekly, 18 grand.
00:38:18.020 Calgary's Child.
00:38:19.840 Now, I'm not knocking these.
00:38:21.460 I'm just saying I didn't know there were 1,500 media companies.
00:38:26.440 These are the ones who are getting hundreds of millions of like magazine sports, HRI.
00:38:34.800 I don't even know what these are.
00:38:36.100 Ad busters.
00:38:36.640 That's like a campaign group.
00:38:39.140 Keep scrolling down.
00:38:41.420 Ezra, what do you think the circulation is for Vintage Fire Truck Magazine?
00:38:45.580 Yeah.
00:38:45.960 By the way, that sounds like a great magazine.
00:38:48.480 I would read it once and then I would say, okay, I now have enough knowledge about vintage
00:38:52.740 fire trucks to last me the rest of my day.
00:38:55.080 I mean, I'm actually not knocking these guys.
00:38:58.760 I mean, for all I know, Sage Magazine, 138 grand are good people.
00:39:02.380 Greenhouse Canada, for those who can't get enough about greenhouses.
00:39:07.700 Security products and technology news.
00:39:09.660 So that's a trade magazine.
00:39:11.420 Groundwater Canada.
00:39:12.820 Do you like the ground?
00:39:13.660 Do you like water?
00:39:14.560 All right.
00:39:14.980 We got it.
00:39:15.740 Manure.
00:39:16.420 Manure Manager.
00:39:17.620 Oh, boy.
00:39:18.420 Manure Manager.
00:39:19.140 53 grand.
00:39:19.940 I think that's a secret nickname of the Toronto Star.
00:39:23.780 Potatoes in Canada.
00:39:24.880 I'm obviously an annual subscriber to that.
00:39:27.360 Can't get enough potato news.
00:39:29.860 Top crop.
00:39:31.260 Fenestration review.
00:39:32.180 That is a fancy way of saying windows.
00:39:36.200 Look, I'm having some fun.
00:39:38.140 I'm joking around.
00:39:38.900 But this is the list of just, I think it's just in one year, there's Canadian firefighter.
00:39:45.800 I love the firefighters.
00:39:47.260 I love pro firefighters.
00:39:48.400 Is that separate from vintage fire truck?
00:39:50.260 Oh, yeah.
00:39:51.520 You know, anyways.
00:39:54.260 I guess if you're a fireman, you're in the house, the firehouse, so long with you.
00:39:59.700 You know what?
00:40:00.080 I fly these days a fair bit.
00:40:01.880 I'd probably read that.
00:40:04.520 All right.
00:40:05.180 I'm just having too much.
00:40:06.220 What's Azure get?
00:40:08.280 I've heard of that one.
00:40:09.620 Yeah.
00:40:09.760 Scroll down a little bit.
00:40:15.100 $304,000.
00:40:16.340 $304,000.
00:40:17.240 Yeah.
00:40:17.640 So if you gave me $304,000, I mean, first of all, if it was Trudeau money, I wouldn't
00:40:22.040 take it.
00:40:22.480 Because if we ever took a dollar from Trudeau, no one would ever trust us again.
00:40:27.340 And I wouldn't blame him.
00:40:28.780 So I'm just going to put it on the record.
00:40:30.160 We will never take money from Justin Trudeau ever.
00:40:32.700 How can you take money if you're in the business of covering Trudeau?
00:40:36.080 How can you take money from Trudeau?
00:40:37.600 Business in Vancouver, $426,000.
00:40:39.940 Unbelievable.
00:40:40.780 So do you think they're ever going to go hard on Trudeau?
00:40:42.640 Oh, no.
00:40:43.060 And by the way, there's plenty of blame to go around, Ezra.
00:40:45.960 As our friend of the New Blue Party noted, Jim Carahalios, Doug Ford's PC government gave
00:40:53.380 Torstar a gambling license that is potentially worth a half billion dollars a year.
00:41:00.380 Why would that be?
00:41:01.820 Because Doug and his great late brother, Rob, they used to refer to Toronto Star reporters
00:41:07.040 as maggots.
00:41:07.980 Now they're getting a half billion dollar license a year.
00:41:11.520 So try to explain that.
00:41:13.820 Thanks for showing that, Efron.
00:41:14.820 You found that very quickly also.
00:41:16.420 I appreciate that.
00:41:17.180 My point of showing that is that soon, like I say, like it used to be that the newspaper
00:41:23.040 business was very free.
00:41:24.620 The magazine business was very free.
00:41:26.520 There was always some subsidies of books.
00:41:30.380 And TV was regulated by the Canadian Radio Television and Communications Commission.
00:41:39.020 But now, as we just showed you, every newspaper, every magazine, including like the Automobile
00:41:46.140 Association, including Trademark, every bloody one of them is paid off.
00:41:52.120 They're all bought off.
00:41:53.040 So you're either a friend of Trudeau's and you get the cash or you're an enemy of his
00:41:59.140 and you get banned either outright or through this discoverability provision I just showed
00:42:03.680 you.
00:42:03.900 And Ezra, they need the money.
00:42:05.440 And by the way, a test for any print publication, and you probably know this being the publisher
00:42:10.720 of Western Standard, Once Upon a Time.
00:42:12.920 When you go through it, you want to see this is a sign of economic health.
00:42:19.100 60% of the content should be ads, 40% editorial.
00:42:24.260 And the precise opposite is true now.
00:42:26.200 And in fact, the ratio is far worse than that.
00:42:28.620 You go through McLean's, Ezra, McLean's magazine.
00:42:31.640 That used to be a frequency of 52 times a year.
00:42:35.440 They're down to 12 times a year.
00:42:37.020 You look at a 48-page magazine.
00:42:38.920 There's maybe five pages of ads.
00:42:41.140 And even amongst those ads, you'll see ads for the Blue Jays, ads for Rogers.
00:42:44.960 Those don't count.
00:42:46.100 Those are called house ads because McLean's is owned by Rogers.
00:42:50.420 So when you don't have advertisers buying in, when you have subscribers going into freefall,
00:42:57.380 you need this money and they will sell their soul.
00:43:01.560 Ethics and morals have nothing to do with the argument if you're on the brink of bankruptcy.
00:43:06.280 Well, I'm looking at our petition page right now.
00:43:10.600 It now has 42,787 signatures.
00:43:15.280 And that's at stopthecensorship.ca.
00:43:17.960 I'd like to encourage people to watch it.
00:43:20.020 Let's just take a quick stretch and watch an ad.
00:43:24.640 We've got an upcoming documentary.
00:43:26.400 I'm very excited about it.
00:43:27.400 So we've covered the persecution of Canadian churches for years.
00:43:32.680 And we're doing a bravura, if I'm saying that word right, a presentation of it in a documentary.
00:43:38.280 And I would like to show you a little trailer teaser for it right now.
00:43:47.100 What's the, what's the, oh, okay.
00:43:49.780 Yeah, that's perfect.
00:43:52.640 Go ahead and play it at your leisure.
00:43:55.480 That's me discussing it.
00:43:58.380 So I'll say goodbye here and we'll say hello there.
00:44:00.720 Well, I think there's been a, we're like a boiling frog for a while.
00:44:23.760 I think our freedoms have just been slowly stripped from us and, and, and so slowly over
00:44:29.620 time that we didn't even realize it.
00:44:31.640 And so when something like a health order is put in place that takes away your freedoms,
00:44:36.920 it's not shocking to people.
00:44:38.460 And it really should be shocking to people that there is a pastor in jail right now.
00:44:53.760 Do you understand English?
00:44:57.400 Get out of this property.
00:45:04.860 Praise you for the Lord Jesus Christ as we've experienced the cost of serving him.
00:45:10.980 He is worthy.
00:45:12.200 He is worthy.
00:45:13.280 He is worthy.
00:45:19.920 All right, Mr. Stevens.
00:45:21.280 Yes.
00:45:21.660 Right now, we're just doing our job.
00:45:23.380 Okay.
00:45:45.900 This officer can repent today and turn to Jesus Christ.
00:45:49.320 That's good news.
00:45:50.220 That's our upcoming documentary.
00:46:10.740 You can learn more about it at savethechristians.com.
00:46:13.240 In fact, we're crowdfunding to do it real theatrical quality.
00:46:16.940 I mean, we do great stuff all the time, but we're often racing like it's news.
00:46:21.100 So we want to be fast, but now we're going to take our time and do a great documentary
00:46:25.600 video about the war on pastors, which started in, in, in this new fever pitch during the
00:46:30.620 lockdowns.
00:46:31.160 Lockdowns are over.
00:46:31.780 They're still going out for the pastors.
00:46:32.960 In fact, the new focus is if you dare protest against these drag queen story hours.
00:46:37.660 Yes.
00:46:37.920 You get arrested.
00:46:38.840 Hey, I want to show you just a couple more quick things on the censorship issue, and then
00:46:42.520 we're going to talk about one other quick thing today.
00:46:44.040 You know, here's a, here's a nice speech by Rachel Harder.
00:46:50.680 I think that's her name.
00:46:51.680 She, she was elected under, under a different name.
00:46:54.980 I think she got married.
00:46:56.660 So I'm, so I forget her married name.
00:46:59.380 Let's just take a look at Rachel Thomas.
00:47:03.160 Thank you.
00:47:03.960 I remember she was elected as Rachel Harder.
00:47:06.080 Here she is opposing the censorship bill C-11.
00:47:09.320 Take a look.
00:47:10.120 Questions and comments.
00:47:11.040 The Honourable Member for Lethbridge.
00:47:14.380 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:47:15.780 Mr. Speaker, what we just heard from the government is that they've moved closure on
00:47:19.780 Bill C-11 and our discussion with regard to the amendments that came back from the Senate.
00:47:25.420 Closure means that they are shutting down debate.
00:47:27.880 Now, I find this rather interesting because really Bill C-11 is a censorship bill.
00:47:32.760 So we have a government that has moved a censorship bill, and now they are moving censorship on
00:47:39.120 that censorship bill.
00:47:40.180 So talk about a government very committed to censorship.
00:47:43.500 They're not only wanting to censor what Canadians can see and hear and post online through Bill
00:47:48.240 C-11, but the government is also wanting to censor us as opposition members and our
00:47:53.360 ability to speak about this bill.
00:47:55.740 It should be further noted that the Quebec government, under Premier Legault, issued an
00:48:00.520 open letter asking to be heard with regard to this legislation because they have significant
00:48:05.560 concerns.
00:48:06.560 And they asked that this bill be referred to committee, and it was not.
00:48:11.120 So not only was committee not permitted, but now thorough debate is not permitted.
00:48:19.740 Talk about a government committed to shutting down voices, not only the voices of the individuals
00:48:26.660 in this House, but the individuals that would exist online and have something to say within
00:48:32.060 that space.
00:48:32.800 Why is this government so hell-bent on shutting down freedom?
00:48:36.640 The Honourable Health Minister.
00:48:39.480 The Honourable Health Minister.
00:48:40.480 The Honourable Health Minister.
00:48:41.480 Speaker, let me start by thanking all members of this House for having spoken so long and
00:48:46.980 so well on the matter of this bill, including members of the other House.
00:48:51.480 I have information, Madam Speaker, that within this House, we spent 34 hours debating that
00:48:58.600 bill, plus an additional 22 hours in committees.
00:49:02.480 In the Senate, they spent 18 hours debating the bill in their chamber, plus an additional 65
00:49:11.480 hours clause-by-clause debates in the Senate.
00:49:15.720 Now, Madam Speaker, this is history, because this is the longest-ever time that the Senate
00:49:22.360 took clause-by-clause looking at the bill.
00:49:25.880 So it's historical, the amount of time and effort that members of this House, members of
00:49:30.600 the Parliament, spent on that bill.
00:49:32.760 That's indeed very important, because it's an important bill.
00:49:36.100 We look forward to bringing it forward for Canadians.
00:49:38.600 Do you want to remind me?
00:49:39.600 Wow.
00:49:40.600 Hey, guys, we spent a few hours going through it.
00:49:42.600 I mean, we went through clause-by-clause.
00:49:43.600 We didn't accept any of the amendments.
00:49:45.600 That's right.
00:49:46.600 We spent a lot of time.
00:49:47.600 We didn't accept any amendments, including amendments put forward by some independent-minded
00:49:50.600 liberals.
00:49:51.600 Yep.
00:49:52.600 But guys, we're ignoring you completely.
00:49:54.600 Yep.
00:49:55.600 We're ramming this through.
00:49:56.600 We are nationalizing the entire internet.
00:49:58.600 And due to it, what we did to CanCon TV and radio.
00:50:01.600 But, like, enough's enough with your bloody debating.
00:50:03.600 What do you think this is?
00:50:04.600 Some sort of parliament or democracy or something?
00:50:06.600 You have had hours and hours in the Senate.
00:50:10.600 Yeah.
00:50:11.600 Why don't you just shut up and let us control the internet?
00:50:16.600 I mean, why don't you just obey?
00:50:19.600 By the way, I don't think 99% of Canadians understand that what they say, do, write, think,
00:50:28.600 watch, share on their Facebook page, Twitter page, YouTube, I don't think they realize that
00:50:33.600 that is now going to be controlled by the government.
00:50:35.600 Now, most of them will never run afoul of it.
00:50:37.600 But anyone who becomes a problem will be algorithmed out of existence.
00:50:42.600 And I read to you the provision of law that does so.
00:50:44.600 Over to you.
00:50:45.600 No, I think you're right, Ezra.
00:50:46.600 I mean, if I went down to Young Dundas Square, where we go often to do Streeters, and said,
00:50:52.600 what do you think of Bill C-11 that looks like it's going to be passed?
00:50:57.600 I would be surprised if even one person knew that.
00:51:00.600 And I'm not mocking people for being out of touch.
00:51:05.600 Everyone's working, they're supporting their families.
00:51:07.600 Yeah, why would they follow C-11?
00:51:08.600 What even is C-11?
00:51:10.600 No one even talks that language.
00:51:12.600 Exactly.
00:51:13.600 And if you are getting your news from mainstream media, this is not a front page red alert item,
00:51:20.600 because they're complicit.
00:51:21.600 They want it to go through.
00:51:23.600 So, you know, there's a built-in shrouding of this story.
00:51:29.600 So why would you know about Bill C-11?
00:51:32.600 And by the way, I'd like to ask our viewers, if you can, to get a comprehensive understanding
00:51:37.600 of Bill C-11.
00:51:38.600 Ezra, I think it was you on New Year's Eve.
00:51:41.600 You were overseas at the time.
00:51:43.600 You posted that fabulous video.
00:51:45.600 It tells you everything you need to know.
00:51:48.600 So if you go to the December 31st, I think was the date, Ezra LeVant's video on Bill C-11,
00:51:54.600 you will see how chilling this legislation really is.
00:51:58.600 So on the one hand, Trudeau is regulating the internet through the CRTC.
00:52:06.600 On the other hand, he is paying a whole new cottage industry to denounce criticisms of him and his favorite ideas as disinformation.
00:52:18.600 Disinformation.
00:52:19.600 And disinformation, I mean, I've heard that word before this latest fad.
00:52:24.600 When I was a kid growing up, I used to read, I know it sounds funny, but a magazine called Aviation Week in Space Technology,
00:52:30.600 because it was really cool when you were a kid to see a magazine about cool fighter jets.
00:52:35.600 And that's what it was.
00:52:36.600 It was just like a magazine about fighter jets.
00:52:39.600 I mean, that sounds sort of nerdy, but I think a lot of boys are into that.
00:52:42.600 And that's why I first discovered the word disinformation.
00:52:46.600 And there was a debate in this magazine because the U.S. military would deliberately put false information out about the capabilities of their fighter jets to confuse and confound Soviet spies.
00:52:58.600 What's the speed of a jet?
00:53:00.600 What's the range of it?
00:53:01.600 How much, how many missiles can it hold?
00:53:03.600 How many bullets?
00:53:04.600 And the U.S. government would put out sort of harmless lies, harmless domestically.
00:53:09.600 But it would be to hopefully trick the commies.
00:53:12.600 And that was called disinformation.
00:53:14.600 That's when I first heard the word.
00:53:15.600 Interesting.
00:53:16.600 Deliberately putting false information out to confuse someone.
00:53:20.600 And it was obviously a legitimate part of spy versus spy.
00:53:24.600 Trudeau has taken that word and now uses it for anyone who disagrees with him.
00:53:30.600 That's not disinformation.
00:53:32.600 It's not disinformation to disagree with him.
00:53:35.600 It's an opinion.
00:53:36.600 Yes.
00:53:37.600 It's the other side of the story.
00:53:39.600 And by the way, saying that your critics are disinformationists implies that you always have your facts straight.
00:53:44.600 When in fact, Trudeau gets them wrong a lot of times.
00:53:47.600 A lot of his statements about the vaccine being 100% safe and effective and stops transmission.
00:53:53.600 All of that was wrong.
00:53:55.600 I'm not even going to call it disinformation because I think Trudeau believed it at the time.
00:53:58.600 Disinformation, like I say from my childhood reading these magazines, was a deliberate attempt to trick someone.
00:54:04.600 Trudeau's critics are not trying to trick anyone.
00:54:07.600 They're trying to push back.
00:54:08.600 So here he is.
00:54:09.600 I'd like to show you an announcement where not only is he passing a law that will allow him to regulate the Internet, but he is also spending millions of tax dollars on the disinformation industry, by which I mean people who will go around and accuse his critics of being disinformationist.
00:54:26.600 Unbelievable.
00:54:27.600 Take a look at this.
00:54:28.600 Do we have it teed up sort of?
00:54:29.600 Canada is investing to support the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and other groups that are promoting free, fair and inclusive elections globally.
00:54:40.600 We're fighting harmful content online and promoting inclusivity in the digital world.
00:54:47.600 In 2022, we chaired the Freedom Online Coalition, which helped defend Internet freedom and addressed Internet shutdowns perpetrated by Iran.
00:54:57.600 We've also bolstered the G7 rapid response mechanism aimed at countering foreign threats to democracy, including disinformation.
00:55:06.600 And today we can announce that we're investing over 50 million dollars more in projects and initiatives to strengthen democracy around the world.
00:55:16.600 Do you really think that Justin Trudeau, who invoked martial law, deployed riot horses, shot our reporter, Electra Lavoie, because there was some horn honking going on that embarrassed him?
00:55:28.600 Do you really think that Justin Trudeau has any role at a strengthening democracy conference?
00:55:34.600 And when he says he wants to stop harmful content online and defend Internet freedom?
00:55:41.600 Well, you can't do those two things at the same time, because defending Internet freedom means you've got to listen to things you don't like to hear.
00:55:47.600 And he calls anything he doesn't like to hear harmful.
00:55:50.600 Yeah, harmful to his political ambition.
00:55:52.600 You know, that is exactly the note I made, Ezra, harmful content online.
00:55:56.600 As always, the devil is in the details.
00:55:58.600 So what is the definition of harmful?
00:56:00.600 Does he consider fair criticism of his government and his government policies as being harmful?
00:56:08.600 I mean, that's a hell of a word to pin down, isn't it?
00:56:11.600 Yeah.
00:56:12.600 I think that today is a dark day for Internet freedom.
00:56:18.600 I would like to promise you, our viewers, that we are going to fight this, not just editorially and journalistically and politically, but also legally.
00:56:27.600 We've had a team of lawyers with one of our favorite law firms being studying this for actually a year now as it's worked its way through the parliament, including the Senate.
00:56:38.600 And we will challenge this because who else will?
00:56:42.600 Yeah.
00:56:43.600 Do you think the Toronto Star is going to challenge this?
00:56:45.600 Do you think the CBC is going to challenge this?
00:56:47.600 C-18 is another one of these four censorship bills that Trudeau is pushing through.
00:56:53.600 It would require Google, YouTube, Facebook to pay money to Trudeau's favorite journalists.
00:56:58.600 I think you might see some Internet companies pushing back on that, but I do not see the same pushback on C-11.
00:57:04.600 Actually, that's not true.
00:57:05.600 Twitter filed a brief with the government, and this was before the Elon Musk took over.
00:57:09.600 So this is even the old Twitter said what Trudeau is planning to do is they've only seen it in North Korea.
00:57:17.600 We're going to fight.
00:57:19.600 If you want to help us fight, I'd be grateful.
00:57:22.600 I'd like to encourage you to go to StopTheCensorship.ca in our final minute, and I'll tell you what the latest count there.
00:57:28.600 43,252 signatures.
00:57:31.600 So I think when we started the show, we had 42,000, like I think we were exactly 1,000 lower.
00:57:40.600 So I think we've added 1,000 names on this petition in an hour.
00:57:44.600 So that's pretty cool.
00:57:46.600 You know, and I just want to say, Ezra, I mean, I actually went to journalism school way back in the early 80s when the world was a lot more normal.
00:57:53.600 And I wonder if any of my journalism professors were alive today.
00:57:58.600 It was at Ryerson.
00:57:59.600 I can't remember what they call it now, some new woke name.
00:58:02.600 But I remember one professor, and he was outraged.
00:58:05.600 He came in one morning, he had the Globe and Mail in his hand, and there was an advertisement on page three.
00:58:11.600 And he goes, how can they do this?
00:58:14.600 That is the most important page after page one.
00:58:17.600 What would they say today with that mindset that you are taking money from a government that you should be covering without bias?
00:58:29.600 And what would they say about a government implementing a bill like C11 that's going to get rid of and curtail all their ne'er-do-wells, the ones that don't sign on with the government funded journalism program?
00:58:43.600 They wouldn't believe it.
00:58:44.600 They would not believe it, Ezra.
00:58:46.600 And that's how far we've come in 40 years.
00:58:49.600 Yeah.
00:58:50.600 Well, I mean, I think it's very simple.
00:58:53.600 Journalists who claim to be idealistic actually are bought off just for trinkets.
00:58:58.600 Like just so, so easily.
00:59:03.600 I can't believe how cheaply they're bought off.
00:59:05.600 But I guess when they said they were for idealism and for freedom of speech, that was just so that they could feel morally superior to the rest of us.
00:59:13.600 They just care about getting free money from Trudeau and under some of these other bills getting free money from big tech.
00:59:20.600 They never really meant it.
00:59:22.600 And we know they never really meant it because none of them stand up for freedom of speech for people they disagree with.
00:59:26.600 I think journalists are just as cowardly as politicians.
00:59:29.600 Oh, yeah.
00:59:30.600 And just as money grubbing and just as corrupt.
00:59:33.600 And although this is a very big deal in my mind today, I think you will see very little coverage of it in the mainstream media tomorrow.
00:59:48.600 Or probably cheerleading coverage in certain circles.
00:59:52.600 And by the way, Ezra, you've used I think the term crowdfunding four times today on the show.
00:59:56.600 And this is what I have to say.
00:59:58.600 Why can't the mainstream media, why can't CBC, if they're so important and so relevant to Canada, why don't they adopt our business model?
01:00:07.600 We ask for money, as you've said before, this is the most honest way there is, I think, to raise money.
01:00:13.600 If you want to contribute to Rebel News, great.
01:00:15.600 If you don't, you can see almost all of our content except what's on premium content behind the paywall.
01:00:21.600 So why don't they get off their teasters and actually put some effort into raising money from people as opposed to suckling on the government teat?
01:00:34.600 Yeah.
01:00:35.600 Well, David, we have been fighting for freedom of speech all eight years of our company's existence.
01:00:40.600 Yeah.
01:00:41.600 And, of course, all of us in our own ways even before then.
01:00:43.600 I think back to 2006, I think it was, when we published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the Western Standard magazine.
01:00:54.600 I think it was 2006.
01:00:56.600 So that is now, what's that, 17 years I've been in the free speech battle in a very personal and significant way.
01:01:03.600 And I don't intend to stop.
01:01:04.600 I think freedom of speech is a fundamental freedom.
01:01:07.600 It's a strategic freedom.
01:01:08.600 It's a freedom upon which all other freedoms are based.
01:01:11.600 In fact, I know this because in our Constitution we have dozens of rights laid out.
01:01:16.600 But we only have a handful of them called fundamental freedoms because they're more important than the rest.
01:01:21.600 The rest depend on them.
01:01:22.600 Here's an example.
01:01:24.600 What use is an election if you don't have freedom of speech?
01:01:27.600 Exactly.
01:01:28.600 You can't campaign.
01:01:30.600 You do not have a free election if you don't have free speech.
01:01:32.600 So free speech has to be first.
01:01:34.600 You don't have, like all the other rights and freedoms enumerated in the Constitution depend on those fundamental freedoms.
01:01:40.600 And we got to keep fighting for them.
01:01:42.600 By the way, the loss of these freedoms didn't happen overnight.
01:01:45.600 Didn't even happen in the eight years since Justin Trudeau's PM.
01:01:49.600 They've been eroding and corroding for decades, I think.
01:01:53.600 So I think it will take a decades long battle to bring them back.
01:01:56.600 My friends, it is now 2.03 PM Eastern Time, 12 noon 03 in Calgary Mountain Time.
01:02:02.600 David, thanks for hanging out with me today.
01:02:05.600 It was an honor.
01:02:06.600 As we did this emergency broadcast.
01:02:07.600 And Efron, thanks for working at the control room there and getting things so speedily.
01:02:13.600 I'll be doing my show tonight on the CBC on a different matter, on their drag kids.
01:02:20.600 They have this whole focus on teaching children of tender years, like as young as nine, about sexuality and drag queen-ness.
01:02:30.600 Look, even Freud, that sex fiend, talked about a period of latency.
01:02:35.600 Like you don't talk to children of tender years about sexuality unless you are a pedophile.
01:02:40.600 I'm sorry.
01:02:41.600 There's no other, like what are you doing?
01:02:43.600 It's not about gay or straight.
01:02:44.600 It's what the hell are you doing talking to young kids about sex?
01:02:50.600 Are you some sort of perv?
01:02:51.600 And in the case of the CBC, the answer is yes.
01:02:54.600 And I'll show you some of their grossness tonight.
01:02:57.600 Jeez.
01:02:58.600 And I mean, you're paying for it.
01:03:01.600 You should at least see what they're doing.
01:03:02.600 Our tax dollars hard at work yet again, Ezra.
01:03:05.600 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home,
01:03:09.600 goodbye and keep fighting for freedom.