Justin Trudeau's jihad on non-approved journalists continues, which is to say, if you are not a government-approved journalist sucking from the taxpayer teat, then the Trudeau Liberals are hell-bent on eliminating dissenting voices. And yes, folks, we re not talking Canada, not North Korea or Cuba, or that country Justin so admires, China. Adam Seuss has all the latest news on Trudeau s quest to curtail freedom of speech and freedom of the press. And as the saying goes, everything old is new again, and I speak not of fashion, but rather a method of communications, namely CB radio. Sid Fizzard explains why this old trucker staple might be a way of maintaining freedom in these increasingly censorious times. And finally, a story about an Ontario entrepreneur who has converted his truck to run on ammonia.
00:03:23.880Adam, that clip in your report dating back more than seven years ago, in which Justin Trudeau
00:03:29.920confesses his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China, that never gets old, my friend.
00:03:37.260And we can tell that with his ambition to censor the internet and discredit independent media,
00:03:45.080that he has every intention of embracing the policies of a dictator.
00:03:50.560Adam, this month marks the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was ratified by Justin's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
00:04:00.940Is there not a sense of perverse irony here that the biggest threat to those charter rights and freedoms is Justin Trudeau?
00:04:12.060I mean, when you look at this guy's term in office, that comment he made about an admiration for basic dictatorship was probably one of the only times he was saying what he meant.
00:04:22.140Generally, if Justin Trudeau says something, the opposite occurs.
00:04:25.860If he celebrates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it's when he's trampling it.
00:04:29.240If he says he's going to make houses more affordable for families, the average price of house doubles.
00:04:34.540If he says he's going to address clean drinking water for Indigenous communities in Canada, they don't get addressed.
00:04:41.440He is every bit the nightmare of 1984 Orwell, where what he says is functionally the opposite of what he does in every single case whatsoever.
00:04:51.440So for him to have the audacity, and it wasn't just him.
00:04:56.260It was a number of his key ministers sharing about that as though they are some sort of champions of freedom, as though they've been the ones advocating for our fundamental rights precisely while they've been trampling on them.
00:05:10.120Pierre Elliott Trudeau was one of the last people to implement.
00:05:13.240Back then it was called the War Measures Act, not the Emergency Measures Act.
00:05:16.220They brought in martial law effectively.
00:05:27.260For many, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the prime minister we look back to as one of the worst, as certainly one who caused a lot of problems for this country, certainly one who alienated the West to a degree never before felt.
00:05:38.980But now he's looking like he wasn't half bad compared to the old chip off the block.
00:05:55.820And I think for me, Adam, it would be this.
00:05:58.180And it's a question the mainstream media should have asked beginning about two years ago, that now that we see how China is behaving on the world stage, for example, the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur Muslims,
00:06:11.680what was done to Hong Kong, what is being threatened to be done to Taiwan, given that COVID-19 originated out of China and has caused the world economy trillions upon trillions of economic damage.
00:06:28.440Mr. Trudeau, are you still an admirer of the basic dictatorship of China?
00:06:33.780Yeah, that would be my question, Adam.
00:06:36.060First of all, why won't anyone in the media that does have access ask him that?
00:06:40.960And secondly, what do you think his answer would be?
00:07:08.420They have, instead of a location, they have a phone number to call, and then they vet you, and then they might let you in.
00:07:13.460The other thing that we've seen is they'll do media pooling, which sort of makes sense if you're the president on an airplane or if you're in an extremely secure environment,
00:07:22.140but they're doing this for every single event.
00:07:24.460When there's large banquet halls with people coming, they're afraid that he's going to say something ridiculous like that China comment.
00:07:30.600They're afraid that he won't have an answer for questions on the fly.
00:07:33.480We've attempted to cover numerous events, and they simply exclude anyone.
00:07:36.900So I think the people there, they're getting their government handouts.
00:08:02.380He's leaning towards the end of his political career in Canada, very likely, but who knows with what's going on.
00:08:09.640But that does seem to be, hopefully, the way things are headed.
00:08:12.440I don't think, one, I don't think you could get an honest answer out of Justin Trudeau on that question.
00:08:16.520If you did, it would probably be something along the lines of the Jean Charret question.
00:08:21.760He was, the answer he gave when he was asked about his work with Huawei, and then lots of the troubling sort of connections there, where he, ultimately, I'm sure Justin Trudeau was going to work for the Chinese in some way, shape, or form after politics, whether it be through a think tank or some other organization.
00:08:38.240He's going to be getting funding from them, so I doubt he would say anything to malign his own handlers.
00:08:43.820And really, this sort of shapes out the media won't ask questions because Trudeau pays them, and Trudeau is very much beholden to the Chinese and very likely hopes for further relations with his Trudeau Foundation with them.
00:08:56.340So he's beholden to them and not willing to criticize anybody.
00:08:59.440We need a politician who's actually willing to talk to media, answer tough questions, and hold some people accountable, particularly if they're doing terrible things like spying on countries and executing genocides on Uyghur populations.
00:09:11.400Yeah, you know, I'm sure the Mandarins in Beijing just love Justin Trudeau.
00:09:33.560It's not just that we have doors slammed in our face.
00:09:36.420But in the case of our beloved colleague, Drea Humphrey in Vancouver, myself here in Toronto back in December, we were actually manhandled.
00:09:46.640I mean, they moved Drea out of the way like she was a little China doll, picked her up and moved her on a public sidewalk with me.
00:09:53.820They basically beat me up and infected me.
00:09:57.980What I'm getting at before we talk about things like Bill C-11 and whatnot, Adam, this is Banana Republic kind of crap.
00:10:07.680You know, the idea of the RCMP working as the Royal Canadian Mounted Henchman and laying a beating on reporters who ask insensitive questions.
00:10:17.880Did you ever imagine this would happen in Canada?
00:10:21.820And, you know, it's actually particularly shocking to me.
00:10:24.940Obviously, I was heartbroken to see what happened to you as well as to Drea.
00:10:28.820But it's how quickly this Justin Trudeau use of police as a means of political oppression, as a political tool of force, how quickly while the world looked on at horror and what happened in Ottawa with people getting trampled by horses, guns being pointed at peaceful protesters, a nightmare situation.
00:10:49.940But the police around the country, under the likes of Mayor Jyoti Gondek, sought to emulate those standards.
00:10:59.400So the damage, I think, is far reaching.
00:11:02.260An independent journalist, Devlin Gannon, was aggressively arrested here in Calgary.
00:11:06.600So the implications of this sort of Banana Republic leadership, these progressive politicians like Jyoti Gondek, I mean, even Jason Kenney to an extent, they certainly seem to feel emboldened.
00:11:17.280Well, if Justin Trudeau can do this, we can use our police force to hammer people down as well.
00:11:21.860And that's troubling because when people start to question whether they can trust the police, when longtime supporters, back the blue type folks are saying, well, you've crossed a line here, guys.
00:11:31.240When the police themselves are so thoroughly divided, half of them at least probably don't want to do this stuff anymore, but they're just trying to put food on the table.
00:11:41.240And there needs to be – we need at some point some sort of moral standard, whether it's the police, whether it's a police chief, whether it's a mayor, a premier, or the prime minister of this country.
00:11:50.680Somebody needs to have some principles and say, no, the criminal code is going to be respected.
00:11:55.360The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is going to be respected, particularly to usher away all these rights and bring in all these abuses for a COVID-19 situation that has very low rates of death is completely unjustifiable and entirely concerning.
00:12:12.380And I think what's even more concerning, despite the censorship, despite us being locked out, the physicality, it's this thing they're cooking up now, Adam, the Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization license.
00:12:27.620That in itself is offensive, that this government thinks that journalism should be some kind of licensed profession.
00:12:37.120And if you don't have their license, you are verboten to have an opinion.
00:12:41.780But what makes it doubly offensive, Adam, is the fact, look whose letterhead is on the correspondence when it comes to independent media organizations, the Canadian Revenue Agency.
00:12:56.000In all my life, Adam, I've never seen the CRA, or by its former name, Revenue Canada, politicized as kind of a pit bull watchdog at the behest of the government.
00:13:09.320If you want anyone to be apolitical, it's the tax man.
00:13:13.400This is really serious stuff, wouldn't you say?
00:13:40.860They limit who's allowed to call themselves media.
00:13:43.780These are all things that we can, if you study history, you can see these patterns leading up to very many of the troubling instances.
00:13:50.580I was talking with Arthur Pawlowski yesterday about this, and he very much admits when he's using the language of Gestapo and those types of languages, he's talking about, and his family witnessed it firsthand, the steps leading up to the horrific thing that happened.
00:14:06.160He's not saying that what's happening right now is comparable to some of the most horrific instances in history.
00:14:11.080He's saying this is the pattern that has followed, whether it be in Vietnam, whether it be in Germany, whether it be in Honduras, wherever it is, Venezuela.
00:14:19.200They restrict the media's capacity to ask questions.
00:14:22.080And now the fact that we have the CRA effectively saying not only is the government going to be giving handouts to these preferred media outlets in the tune of billions of dollars, and no one watches these guys, by the way, very few people.
00:14:35.960It's not a good return on investment for Canadians.
00:14:38.480But also, the other outlets aren't going to be eligible for these tax receipts, for subscription services, these types of things.
00:14:45.800It is so narrowly focused on excluding certain voices, particularly ours, other independent media outlets that dare ask tough questions instead of just cheerleading.
00:14:56.800For it to be entering into this sort of economic realm, we saw it already with bank accounts being frozen with the trucker convoy.
00:15:08.540If you aren't concerned about this right now, you simply are not paying attention.
00:15:13.040As I mentioned, there is hope that people are starting to wake up.
00:15:16.460Justin Trudeau's popularity is plummeting.
00:15:18.520He's dependent on a volatile NDP coalition right now, which a couple days after they entered, the NDP is criticizing the liberals and conservatives for working together, which is absurd.
00:15:28.520But we are in a very problematic time right now.
00:15:31.240And anyone out there, whether it be a civil liberties advocate, a progressive, whoever you are, should be concerned about this because these are very much the freedoms that people move to Canada for.
00:15:40.920People are coming here, not just for jobs, not just for security, but they're coming here for this promise of freedom.
00:16:05.500I'd rather be in trouble with the mob than the CRA.
00:16:08.620The CRA can give you an economic death sentence.
00:16:11.420I can go to my bank and find out my account has been frozen thanks to an order from the CRA.
00:16:16.400And the fact that it's becoming politicized, that the prime minister has a direct channel to the taxman and basically goes through his Rolodex.
00:16:25.100Let's see, Sheila Gunn-Reed, Ezra Levant, Adam Seuss, David Menzies, et cetera, et cetera.
00:16:55.400So there is a general sense of sort of happiness and eagerness to go along among Canadians.
00:17:02.680And that's why we're seeing the people who are speaking out against this first and foremost were often people from Eastern Europe, people from Vietnam, people who have seen this sort of thing firsthand.
00:17:12.460And Canadians really need to wake up because it is only a matter of time before someone has – and I'm not talking about overt racism or advocating for violence or any of those types of things.
00:17:21.520But it's about time someone is going to have a nuanced opinion about government overreach or the freedom of speech rights that we should have.
00:17:30.640And they're going to have their bank accounts frozen.
00:17:32.300That, under Justin Trudeau, is his intention very much.
00:17:34.960He wants people who don't agree with him not to be able to pay their bills.
00:17:37.940And, you know, Adam, I also get this profound feeling, you know, as a saying goes in Las Vegas, the fix is in.
00:17:46.400And I speak of that, you know, secret cabal that analyzed Rebel News content.
00:17:54.260They looked at 276 of our most recent reports, found out less than less than 1% was news.
00:18:20.320Who are these nameless bureaucrats that are determining what is and isn't news and who does and does not get a qualified Canadian journalism organization license?
00:18:31.460You know, I bet they're related to the same people who determined that we weren't eligible for the leadership debates.
00:18:41.100You know, I might agree with you that only 1% of the time we're covering a story, other media outlets are there.
00:18:47.320That indicates to me not that we're only doing 1% news, but that we are doing news and no one else is covering it.
00:18:52.920The amount of times that I see media outlets and everyone at Rebel, I'm sure you can attest to this as well, media will show up for five minutes of an eight-hour event, or they'll show up for three minutes before the event begins.
00:19:05.720We've talked about this before, but we saw an anti-Castro regime, anti-communist regime protest in Calgary with a couple hundred people show up.
00:19:13.520They showed up at the beginning when the organizers were there, got a shot of about seven or eight of them, and then said that it was a protest for vaccines to be distributed in Cuba.
00:22:12.380And I think that's why mainstream media numbers across North America and, in fact, around the world are absolutely doondilling while independent media outlets are taking over.
00:22:19.760And I don't think Justin Trudeau can stop it.
00:22:24.100I think a lot of the hate-on we receive from members of the mainstream media and mainstream media organizations, it's basically jealousy, quite frankly.
00:22:33.300They resent the freedom we have that we can go after Justin Trudeau and his cabal with tough questions because they dare not bite the hand that feeds.
00:22:43.360And I'll tell you, with your crowd estimates, that always kills me.
00:22:46.660I know most journalists, myself included, I failed grade 11 math.
00:22:52.300Unless they're writing for the business pages, they're not exactly a whiz with numbers.
00:22:57.460But even I can tell the difference between hundreds of people and thousands of people.
00:23:02.040But at the end of the day, what do we see from this government?
00:23:06.580Because they don't like us, they don't like our ideology, they don't like our quest for the truth.
00:23:11.840It's demonization, it's censorship, it's even violence.
00:23:40.540Real journalism gets to work when the people who you are supposed to be holding accountable tell you that you're not allowed to hold them accountable.
00:23:47.460So very much Justin Trudeau may think he's dealing a death blow here, but Canadians know better.
00:24:40.020More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:24:42.900The convoy drew international attention towards the peaceful fight for civil liberties here in Canada, despite Trudeau's efforts to thwart dissent.
00:24:53.960This success may partially be thanks to CB Radio, both in terms of navigating the convoy as well as the conveyance of messaging without government or big tech consent.
00:25:03.520Notably, there was an increase in CB radio sales during the pandemic.
00:25:07.300Meanwhile, the government continues to restrict media on all fronts.
00:25:11.520But this communications platform provided a separate world for truckers and convoy supporters to communicate with each other without a third-party overlord, as emphasized by the notable entrepreneur Elon Musk, when he stated that CB radios are free from government and media control.
00:25:28.840A communications device that was all the rage in pop culture back in the mid-70s is now perhaps a tool that Canadians can use to preserve freedom of speech?
00:25:40.860And really, does that not speak volumes when it comes to the censorious behavior of both the Silicon Valley tech giants and big government in the 21st century?
00:25:53.400And joining me now from Calgary is Sid Fazzard.
00:26:02.520You know, Sid, I absolutely loved your piece because, you know, more than 40 years ago, trucker culture briefly became part of pop culture, thanks to a slew of trucker-centric movies and TV shows and even hit songs.
00:26:17.280But isn't it amazing that here we are in 2022 and people are rediscovering citizen-ban radios not out of a thirst for nostalgia, Sid, but rather as a means of maintaining their freedom of speech?
00:26:48.800It did make a bit of a comeback during the pandemic as people were locked in their homes.
00:26:52.580And inevitably, it is an alternative means of communication aside from what we regularly move towards, such as social media, through our phones and the Internet, basically as one and the same.
00:27:04.520So it's interesting to note that people are putting in more interest to these external sources of communication, and hopefully more of them will be seen.
00:27:13.140Well, as a matter of fact, Sid, when you think about it, in a sense, the CB radio is the great, great, great granddaddy of the Internet, the idea.
00:27:22.680And it was a phenomenal thing, you know, back when I discovered CB radios, not as a user, but as watching all those various trucker shows, that you can just go onto the airwaves as Joe Blow, say a hail, and some distant stranger, although not too distant, there's a range to the radios, of course, would strike up a conversation.
00:27:47.220It was kind of like an email or texting dialogue going back and forth, albeit audio.
00:27:53.920But the thing is, as we are being censored increasingly by the Silicon Valley tech giants and by government, this might be an alternative for some people in which to communicate without having Big Brother, you know, wading in to stymie the communication.
00:28:20.920Well, what if those cell phones were replaced with walkie-talkies and you had a certain number of channels and the hundreds of thousands of people around you were all using these walkie-talkie systems as well?
00:28:30.380Just put in your head what that might sound like, what kind of communication would happen.
00:28:42.500Now, of course, on a CB radio, whatever you're broadcasting can be heard by anyone around you.
00:28:47.560So you might still have some caution laid out there.
00:28:51.200But at the end, at least you are able to say what you want to say.
00:28:54.560You know, and when you use that term wild west, I can't help but think, Sid, going back some 15 years ago when we saw these Silicon Valley tech platforms emerge, you know, the YouTubes, the Twitters, the Facebooks.
00:29:07.500If you recall, my friend, it was a matter of, hey, come one, come all.
00:29:48.840And as they've solidified their foundation and they're not so worrisome of being at a loss when it comes to finances, especially with the gains they've made in marketing online and the money they're pulling in from that, we are the commodity that they're going after.
00:30:03.840And it's a shame because, like you said, YouTube, back in the day, you could go on there and you would see all sorts of things, maybe some stuff you shouldn't have seen because it was just so outlandish.
00:30:13.400But at least everyone got to see what was really going on.
00:30:15.980And one of the byproducts of their marketing efforts towards us as individuals is that we're encapsulated in this world that is an expected world that they can advertise to us in.
00:30:29.420And it prevents us from wanting outside intervention.
00:30:31.820Yeah. And, you know, I'm just thinking, Sid, this might come across as a stupid question, but I don't think so, given the type of censorious thugs we have in Ottawa.
00:30:41.760We see with Bill C-11, the Trudeau liberals want to regulate and censor the Internet.
00:30:48.480They want to try to put a muzzle on independent media outlets like ourselves.
00:30:53.980And I'm wondering if CB radios were to take off, if the sales really ramped up, would you put it past this government not to come up with regulations that would govern the use of CB radios?
00:31:10.580Honestly, it would not surprise me in the least.
00:31:12.760However, any time you try and shut something down like that, it'll pop up in another place in a different way altogether.
00:31:20.940But I think for the time being, they're just not going to worry about it so that they can focus on the Internet that we're all using so freely.
00:31:27.920Yeah, I guess if CB radios are legislated out of existence, what else do we have left?
00:31:44.040I wish I could figure out how to train a pigeon to fly somewhere.
00:31:47.780I have just an idea that if I was sending a pigeon to you, Sid, with a little note taped to its leg, it probably ends up in Florida as opposed to Calgary.
00:32:12.200We saw how all sorts of threats in terms of the online universe were happening in Ottawa, including the potential of having your bank account suspended if you were to donate to the Freedom Convoy.
00:32:27.520So I suppose when it comes to an old school communications technology like the CB radio, Sid, necessity is the mother of invention.
00:33:23.540And I'm going to give myself a Barry Horowitz pat on the back for winning that contest.
00:33:27.700But in the meantime, I never dreamed that CB radios in this day and age of cell phone technology, the Internet, etc., would come into the vernacular again.
00:33:40.660And I got to say, it's a sad story that because of a government, because of silicon tech giants that are all about censorship, we're talking about this in the first place.
00:33:53.660Oh, I just want to, I guess I would say for everyone to keep looking for new ways of finding information, especially even though we all find ourselves involved in the Internet and our phones.
00:34:05.140There are real physical ways of communicating that are entirely different that we should at least be aware of.
00:34:33.840More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:34:39.020In the greater Toronto area today, gas is about $1.79 a litre as it inches ever upward to that $2 a litre barrier.
00:34:48.940But when it comes to my guest, Roger Gordon, he really doesn't care about the price of the pump because his Ford F-350, it doesn't run on gasoline or diesel.
00:36:39.300Government will eventually tax this fuel and bye-bye savings.
00:36:43.700You know, unfortunately, I fear you are correct, Kenton.
00:36:46.220If ammonia were to catch on, you can bet your set of wheels that it would be taxed.
00:36:52.420In fact, as the number of electric cars ramps upward, trust me, governments will apply a kilometre tax to EV drivers.
00:37:01.840Hey, the tax man never misses an opportunity to reach into our wallets, folks.
00:37:07.560Brian Lee writes, sounds good to me, but if government doesn't like it, they will discredit you and probably try to buy the patent so they can make it disappear.