Rebel News Podcast - March 05, 2021


Erin O'Toole hires ex-Huawei VP to run Conservative Party strategy


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

159.95172

Word Count

4,461

Sentence Count

300

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Aaron O'Toole just hired the VP of Huawei Canada to run the Conservative Party's issues management and research team. I thought it was a joke, I thought, frankly, someone was trolling me. No, it's not. I'll show you the proof in a minute.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Some crazy news today. I can't even believe it. Aaron O'Toole just hired the
00:00:05.600 vice president of Huawei Canada to run the conservative issues management and research
00:00:11.240 team. I thought it was a joke. I thought it was just gossip. I thought, frankly,
00:00:16.120 someone was trolling me. No. Aaron O'Toole took Meng Wanzhou's top guy in Canada and said,
00:00:22.600 that's the guy for me. I'll show you the proof in a minute. Hey, before I do, let me invite you to
00:00:27.540 become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this. I wish you would,
00:00:31.940 because today I want to show you the LinkedIn page, the resume of this Huawei VP. I want to
00:00:37.900 show you some tweets that Aaron O'Toole was making about Huawei while he was secretly negotiating with
00:00:44.640 this VP. It's pretty gross. To get the video version, just sign up at rebelnews.com and click
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00:00:56.660 one from Sheila Gunn-Reed, David Menzies, Andrew Chapados, and frankly, you're going to get the only
00:01:03.820 independent news left in this country, I'm afraid to say. All right, here's today's podcast.
00:01:08.180 Tonight, Aaron O'Toole hires the vice president of Huawei Canada. What on earth is he thinking?
00:01:30.120 It's March 4th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:32.380 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:38.140 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:42.200 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
00:01:47.080 right to do so.
00:01:52.820 I thought it was a bad joke. It's not. Aaron O'Toole has just hired Huawei's former vice
00:01:59.440 president in Canada to run the Conservative Party's most important department. Jake Enright,
00:02:05.740 who was the vice president at Huawei, is now in charge of Aaron O'Toole's research and issues
00:02:11.660 management. I can't even believe it. I had heard the rumor and thought, no way. But it's true.
00:02:18.520 They're even bragging about it. Here's the Ottawa-focused news site iPolitics. It's in a story about
00:02:24.760 Hill Movers, as in movers and shakers. Let me quote the story.
00:02:30.340 And other staff are heading back to the Hill after a brief hiatus in the private sector.
00:02:34.740 Jake Enright, who started a new gig this week handling research and issues management for
00:02:40.160 the Conservatives. Since May 2019, he had worked for National Public Affairs, and he also served
00:02:45.760 briefly as vice president of corporate affairs for Huawei Technologies.
00:02:50.180 But that's not quite true. Here's Enright's LinkedIn page, his own resume. You can see he was
00:02:58.440 hired in June of 2018 as the director of corporate affairs for Huawei Canada. I bet that paid pretty
00:03:05.520 well. He was in charge of corporate affairs in December of 2018, which is when his boss, the
00:03:12.560 company's CFO, and the daughter of the president, her name is Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Vancouver
00:03:19.080 on charges of fraud. And immediately after that, the Chinese dictatorship kidnapped two Canadian
00:03:25.360 civilians, seizing them right off the streets of Beijing as retribution, Michael Kovrig and Michael
00:03:32.000 Spavor. Enright was the director of corporate affairs for Huawei Canada during this crisis. As you can see
00:03:39.520 by his resume, he left the position the very next month. But not because he quit in disgust with Huawei
00:03:47.060 and in solidarity with Canada, he left his position as director because he accepted a promotion. The very
00:03:53.500 next month, he accepted a promotion to become the key architect of Huawei's propaganda war here in Canada
00:03:59.060 against our country, against the two Michaels, and in defense of the dictatorship. He got the promotion
00:04:05.120 immediately after the two Michaels were kidnapped. He was made VP. For nearly a full year, he worked for that
00:04:13.260 Chinese Communist Party front company, a company that got its start by hacking into Canada's great tech
00:04:20.080 hope. Nortel, remember them? Huawei stole their intellectual property and helped bankrupt them.
00:04:27.700 That's who Jake Enright worked for. Huawei is accused of crimes. It's why Meng Wanzhou is under house arrest in
00:04:35.820 Vancouver. Huawei is untrustworthy. They're an arm of the dictatorship. They spy. I'm not saying that
00:04:42.480 Jake Enright is a criminal. He didn't commit fraud, and he didn't kidnap anyone. And I don't think he's a
00:04:48.040 communist. Sort of the opposite. He probably got paid a lot of money to be Huawei's point man on this.
00:04:54.420 None of that is illegal, but it is disgraceful. Would you go to work for your country's enemy?
00:04:59.860 So gross. But he made his choices. What on earth is Aaron O'Toole doing hiring him as the head of
00:05:07.680 research and issues management right before a looming election campaign? Aaron O'Toole just hired
00:05:13.500 Meng Wanzhou's right-hand man in Canada to be O'Toole's right-hand man in Canada. Aaron O'Toole just
00:05:19.600 hired the man who spent a year strategizing against Canadian interests to strategize for O'Toole.
00:05:25.740 What is going on? Aaron O'Toole fired Derek Sloan from the caucus? Aaron O'Toole fired Pierre
00:05:32.700 Polyev as finance critic? O'Toole's getting rid of strong conservatives, and I note that both Sloan
00:05:38.980 and Polyev were tough critics of China. So O'Toole is clearing out Canadian patriots like that
00:05:44.840 and hiring a lobbyist for the Communist Party's favorite tech company. Here's Enright's official
00:05:52.100 lobbyist registry in Canada. I don't even understand how that's possible since it would be illegal under
00:05:58.340 the Accountability Act for Enright to have actually lobbied then, given he had worked in the government
00:06:03.400 within the previous five years. I don't know. Maybe he was just registering out of an abundance
00:06:07.140 of caution. But look, none of this is really about Enright. There's a lot of people in Canadian society
00:06:13.120 who would sell out to China for a few pieces of silver. Our universities do. Hollywood does.
00:06:18.640 A lot of businesses do. It's pretty common. China can buy the loyalty of a lot of people.
00:06:25.640 But what's Aaron O'Toole's excuse? You know, there's more than 37 million people in Canada.
00:06:31.380 Millions of them are conservatives. Was the vice president of Huawei Canada really
00:06:35.940 the most qualified Canadian for the job? There was no one else in our whole country who could do it?
00:06:41.720 Literally the VP in charge of the company during the kidnapping of the two Michaels.
00:06:47.440 O'Toole saw that on this guy's resume and decided, that's the guy I want handling our most sensitive
00:06:53.100 political files. So O'Toole sees Pierre Polyev and Derek Sloan and thinks, they're embarrassing.
00:07:00.080 They're a PR mess. Get rid of them.
00:07:03.100 But he sees Mung Wan's old servant and says, that's my man.
00:07:05.880 And they're bragging about it to a Parliament Hill news website?
00:07:10.200 Just two weeks ago, you know, the conservatives were saying they don't trust Huawei.
00:07:14.620 Here's a tweet they made. Our allies don't think it's safe to work with Huawei.
00:07:19.580 You see, that's what they tell party members when they're asking for your donations.
00:07:23.660 Look at the date of that, February 17th. Today's March 4th. There's no way.
00:07:28.960 They weren't already negotiating with Huawei's guy to come over to run the conservative party.
00:07:33.380 There's no way. They weren't saying one thing in private to the Huawei guy and another in public
00:07:39.140 to get conservative party donors. Look at this tweet from three weeks ago.
00:07:44.460 A conservative MP was outraged that a liberal party activist went to work for Huawei.
00:07:49.740 At that same time, Aaron O'Toole was surely whining and dining Huawei's former VP to come work for him.
00:07:56.800 What, did they think you wouldn't find this out?
00:07:58.900 What? I'm shocked and grossed out, but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised.
00:08:03.720 Aaron O'Toole is untrustworthy.
00:08:06.540 He said he was against cancel culture, but he's been a practitioner of it.
00:08:10.080 He said he's against the carbon tax, but now he says he's for a net zero carbon policy.
00:08:15.540 He says he's against Huawei and China, but now he just hired their top man in Canada
00:08:20.480 to run the conservative party.
00:08:22.140 I'm starting to think we can't trust a word he says, except for when he says he wants your donations.
00:08:27.920 That I believe.
00:08:29.820 So fair enough. If you want to go give Aaron O'Toole money, click on conservative.ca.
00:08:35.700 And there's a big donate button right there.
00:08:37.420 I think he needs your donations because I can't imagine this Huawei guy works cheap.
00:08:42.520 He must have been making around half a million bucks a year working for China.
00:08:46.220 So if you're excited by this new hire, if you're glad Huawei's VP is now Aaron O'Toole's VP,
00:08:52.660 if you think this Huawei lobbyist is a better representation of conservative values than Pierre
00:08:57.760 Pallier or Derek Sloan, click on conservative.ca and give generously.
00:09:02.240 But if you're sort of sick of O'Toole and his lies, and you actually want to fight back
00:09:06.260 against Huawei and China, I have a better idea for you.
00:09:10.020 Sign our petition at banhuawei.com.
00:09:12.620 We'll deliver it to the government of Canada.
00:09:15.900 It sounds like we need to deliver it to the opposition in Canada too.
00:09:19.220 We have to let them know that this is not okay.
00:09:21.760 We are not going to accept this.
00:09:23.800 They need to rescind this job offer.
00:09:28.000 Go to banhuawei.com and sign it if you know.
00:09:31.880 If you actually think Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party,
00:09:36.240 if you actually think they're evil and we should fight against them,
00:09:40.460 not hire their leftovers, seriously, go to banhuawei.com
00:09:45.820 and we will deliver this petition to the government of Canada
00:09:48.760 and to Aaron O'Toole telling them to ban the Chinese spy company
00:09:53.520 just like many of our allies have done.
00:09:57.620 Or, you know, visit conservative.ca to help pay the salary
00:10:00.980 of a former Chinese intelligence asset.
00:10:04.600 That's what Aaron O'Toole wants you to do.
00:10:07.960 Stay with us for more.
00:10:09.020 Well, for a couple of weeks, we've been telling you the story
00:10:22.760 about the Grace Life Church just outside of Edmonton.
00:10:26.880 They have decided that they're going to be just like Walmart,
00:10:31.560 just like Costco, those churches of commerce.
00:10:35.820 Grace Life Church is a real church though,
00:10:37.600 unlike Costco and Walmart,
00:10:39.780 they're not allowed to have more than a handful of people within.
00:10:44.220 Well, they have decided to defy that discriminatory law.
00:10:50.080 And as a result, the government of Alberta
00:10:52.700 arrested and jailed their pastor, James Coates,
00:10:59.220 because he refused to say,
00:11:01.620 I will not open.
00:11:02.700 He's been in a maximum security prison in West Edmonton for more than two weeks.
00:11:08.900 And today there was a bail hearing to see just how long he would stay in.
00:11:14.300 Joining us now via Skype from outside the courthouse
00:11:17.060 is our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, chief reporter who was there today.
00:11:20.040 Sheila, how are you doing?
00:11:21.720 Hey, Ezra.
00:11:22.440 I'm great.
00:11:22.900 This is one of the weirdest bail hearings,
00:11:24.820 or I guess bail appeals, that I've ever had to tune into.
00:11:27.760 And I've done a lot of WebEx court lately,
00:11:31.080 and things were very strange.
00:11:33.020 It was very busy, very loud on the call,
00:11:36.580 because there were over, at one point,
00:11:39.560 400 regular citizens who were tuning into the call,
00:11:43.540 because there's so much public interest
00:11:46.760 in what's happening to Pastor James Coates.
00:11:49.460 However, you wouldn't really know that
00:11:51.540 if you got all your news from the mainstream media,
00:11:53.520 because they stopped caring about Pastor Coates
00:11:56.920 once their, I suppose, their bloodlust
00:11:59.060 for seeing Christians taken away in handcuffs
00:12:01.820 was sort of satiated after Pastor Coates was arrested.
00:12:06.780 And they didn't then, the RCMP,
00:12:09.660 they didn't then subsequently arrest
00:12:12.200 the replacement pastor, Jacob Spence,
00:12:14.900 in the following weeks since,
00:12:16.660 the two following weeks since he started holding services
00:12:19.920 at Grace Life.
00:12:20.760 When no more arrests were made,
00:12:22.440 the mainstream media stopped paying attention.
00:12:24.960 When this is getting more outrageous than ever,
00:12:27.900 that this pastor has ticked over two weeks
00:12:31.560 in a maximum security prison
00:12:33.420 for the crime of holding services to his flock,
00:12:38.700 which is his constitutionally protected right.
00:12:41.020 Yeah, and I know that not a single outbreak
00:12:43.160 has been traced to this church
00:12:45.160 for those who would try and pick nits.
00:12:49.540 I used to be a practicing lawyer,
00:12:51.760 I haven't practiced in over a decade,
00:12:53.660 but I remember from law school
00:12:55.520 and my brief experience in the courts
00:12:58.240 that when someone has a bail hearing,
00:13:02.700 when they're arrested and brought to a judge,
00:13:05.100 the default is that they be set free until a hearing,
00:13:10.120 but that bail can be denied for one of two reasons.
00:13:13.640 One is a flight risk,
00:13:16.440 as in will someone run away from the jurisdiction
00:13:19.240 and not be found?
00:13:20.920 Clearly that doesn't apply to Pastor Coates.
00:13:23.680 He has a family.
00:13:25.360 He has a church.
00:13:26.620 He has shown no interest in fleeing.
00:13:29.080 His roots are in the community.
00:13:30.480 There's no chance he's a flight risk.
00:13:33.260 The second is, is he violent?
00:13:35.620 That's why when someone who is a killer
00:13:39.300 or an accused killer is arrested,
00:13:41.940 they don't let him out,
00:13:42.900 even if he's not a flight risk,
00:13:44.300 because they're worried he'll commit violence.
00:13:45.960 Although I must tell you,
00:13:47.400 there are some violent offenders
00:13:49.680 and even accused terrorists
00:13:51.540 who are still granted bail.
00:13:53.520 I don't know why, therefore,
00:13:56.380 he remains in jail without bail,
00:13:59.200 because he is not a flight risk.
00:14:00.900 He is not a danger.
00:14:02.080 This is actually the dictionary definition
00:14:06.020 of a political prisoner.
00:14:10.480 Well, I can tell you the Crown's arguments
00:14:13.420 for why they are not lifting those bail conditions,
00:14:18.500 because it really does come down
00:14:19.760 to the discretion of the Crown.
00:14:21.180 They could remove these bail conditions at any time,
00:14:23.700 and that's the thing.
00:14:24.780 Pastor Coates has been granted bail
00:14:27.040 if he agrees to the bail conditions,
00:14:29.700 but the bail conditions are the reason
00:14:31.080 he's there in the first place,
00:14:32.180 and that's because he is not going to turn away
00:14:35.260 85% of his congregants
00:14:38.120 to meet some government target.
00:14:40.680 Now, very interesting stuff today
00:14:42.860 in a routine bail hearing.
00:14:44.580 The Crown prosecutor is not being identified
00:14:48.180 because she says that she is receiving threats
00:14:53.380 from peaceful Christians.
00:14:55.280 So we have a secret prosecution,
00:14:57.120 is what you're saying.
00:14:59.040 Bingo.
00:14:59.700 So this Crown prosecutor is withholding her identity.
00:15:03.580 The judge is fine with it
00:15:06.100 because the whole idea of having an open court system
00:15:10.160 where you can see the judge,
00:15:11.700 you can see the Crown,
00:15:13.080 and you can see the defense,
00:15:14.300 and you can see the accused,
00:15:15.800 is so that you have confidence
00:15:18.640 that there are no such things
00:15:20.500 as secret trials in a free and liberal democracy.
00:15:23.080 Yet, they withheld her identity today.
00:15:25.900 I've never heard of that before, by the way.
00:15:27.500 I mean, you have mafia gangs.
00:15:29.780 You have Hell's Angel gangs prosecuted.
00:15:32.280 I have never before heard of a prosecutor being hidden.
00:15:36.220 And I have to tell you,
00:15:38.540 I'm not saying it didn't happen.
00:15:40.460 I have no knowledge of this
00:15:41.580 other than what you've just told me.
00:15:42.760 But if it's true,
00:15:46.000 did she report it to the police?
00:15:47.860 Have they given her security?
00:15:49.680 Because that's what you do.
00:15:50.920 I wonder if she even reported it to police
00:15:53.460 or if this is some drama queen activity on her part
00:15:57.100 to try and flip the moral emphasis
00:16:02.320 of instead of, oh, poor pastor, two weeks in prison,
00:16:06.820 poor me, government bully.
00:16:08.640 I'm the real victim here, Your Honor.
00:16:10.820 I'm the victim because my political persecution
00:16:14.500 of this pastor has been condemned by the public.
00:16:18.100 She's trying to flip the morality again.
00:16:20.520 You know, putting a pastor into prison
00:16:23.780 sounds like upside down justice.
00:16:26.240 And having a prosecutor say,
00:16:28.080 I'm a victim is upside down justice.
00:16:30.200 I can't believe this is happening in Alberta.
00:16:33.320 It's crazy.
00:16:34.580 And again, you make a great point.
00:16:36.000 I mean, there are prosecutors
00:16:37.120 who are prosecuting organized crime,
00:16:40.600 Hell's Angels, the mafia,
00:16:42.580 and their identities aren't hidden.
00:16:44.800 So why is her identity being hidden?
00:16:47.260 And surely she has access to sheriffs and bailiffs
00:16:50.760 and all kinds of security.
00:16:53.580 And if it is indeed happening to her
00:16:54.980 that she is being threatened,
00:16:56.820 I mean, that's outrageous.
00:16:57.940 But there are remedies for that
00:17:00.220 that don't require secret bail hearing
00:17:03.280 crown prosecutors.
00:17:05.160 Now, she also argues
00:17:07.500 that there is a substantial likelihood
00:17:10.000 of endangerment to the public
00:17:12.460 if Pastor Coates is released
00:17:14.740 because he will continue to hold
00:17:16.440 the maximum capacity services
00:17:18.560 instead of meeting that 15% target.
00:17:21.700 Now, on the flip side,
00:17:23.540 James Kitchen from the Justice Center
00:17:24.980 for Constitutional Freedom,
00:17:26.100 so Pastor Coates' lawyer,
00:17:27.860 he's saying they've held capacity services
00:17:30.880 since July.
00:17:33.620 So there's historical evidence
00:17:35.320 that there is not a problem
00:17:37.500 with COVID at this church.
00:17:38.940 And if you needed to prove
00:17:40.300 that he wasn't an endangerment,
00:17:42.040 well, we've got six months
00:17:43.620 of the height of the pandemic
00:17:45.240 to demonstrate that it is not a problem.
00:17:48.500 And the crown prosecutor,
00:17:50.500 the secret crown prosecutor, by the way,
00:17:52.620 she said that if they don't
00:17:53.960 make Pastor Coates abide by these conditions
00:17:59.300 that violate his religious freedom,
00:18:01.500 that it will undermine the justice system
00:18:05.800 to release him without conditions.
00:18:07.240 And James Kitchen argues on the flip side again
00:18:10.260 that for normal people,
00:18:11.580 the imprisonment of a Christian pastor
00:18:13.320 on a matter of conscience
00:18:15.140 is truly what is drawing the justice system
00:18:17.860 into disrepute.
00:18:18.720 It's actually something Kitchen called
00:18:20.440 in his argument
00:18:21.520 an embarrassment to the court.
00:18:24.040 So that's what happened today.
00:18:25.540 The judge is going to withhold his decision
00:18:28.000 until 9 a.m.
00:18:29.380 I've been in communication with the church.
00:18:31.340 They're not sure if they're going to be
00:18:32.480 down here rallying again,
00:18:34.220 but either way,
00:18:34.860 we're going to be all over this covering it.
00:18:36.340 Well, Sheila, there's one more point,
00:18:38.140 and I don't know if James Kitchen,
00:18:40.140 the lawyer for the church, mentioned it,
00:18:42.020 or maybe it's obvious.
00:18:44.480 Keeping Pastor Coates in jail
00:18:46.840 so that the church will not be at full capacity
00:18:51.320 doesn't make sense as an argument
00:18:54.240 because the church is at full capacity
00:18:57.360 even though he's in jail.
00:18:59.860 So it's not like,
00:19:00.940 oh, Your Honor,
00:19:01.640 we got to keep this political prisoner in jail
00:19:04.120 because if he gets out,
00:19:05.980 the church will be full.
00:19:07.140 No, the church is full now.
00:19:08.580 You've been there the last few weeks.
00:19:10.920 They're staring down the government,
00:19:14.400 and the government is the one blinking.
00:19:16.140 That church is packed,
00:19:17.560 and if they arrest the next pastor,
00:19:19.820 someone else will take his place,
00:19:21.080 and it'll be packed,
00:19:22.220 and they arrest him.
00:19:23.280 They'll have to arrest every single one.
00:19:24.740 They'll have to start building new prisons,
00:19:26.240 but the actual,
00:19:28.200 put aside morality,
00:19:29.860 put aside public health,
00:19:32.660 just from its own logic,
00:19:34.180 saying, Your Honor,
00:19:35.480 if he's let out,
00:19:37.800 then the church will be full,
00:19:40.040 fails.
00:19:41.220 Because the church is full now.
00:19:44.240 There is no correlation
00:19:45.880 between him being a political prisoner
00:19:48.420 and the church being full or empty.
00:19:50.060 It will be full no matter what.
00:19:52.100 Well, I'm disgusted with this whole concept
00:19:55.020 of a secret prosecution.
00:19:56.740 Frankly, that sounds unconstitutional to me,
00:19:59.120 and it also sounds like political games,
00:20:01.480 and it also sounds like a bit of BS
00:20:03.300 because I simply don't believe
00:20:04.860 that the most pacifist,
00:20:06.380 peaceful people in the province,
00:20:08.260 namely that Grace Life Church,
00:20:10.080 are more scary than,
00:20:12.080 as you mentioned,
00:20:12.860 Hells Angels,
00:20:13.920 terrorist groups,
00:20:15.080 gun gangs,
00:20:15.860 drug gangs
00:20:16.500 that are prosecuted all the time.
00:20:18.360 I think it's frankly
00:20:19.360 a deep embarrassment,
00:20:20.620 not just that Pastor James is in jail,
00:20:23.040 but that the government of Alberta,
00:20:25.060 including Jason Kenney,
00:20:27.060 who I think is a good premier,
00:20:28.740 and Casey Madhu,
00:20:29.620 who I think is a good justice minister,
00:20:31.480 but how long can I say that
00:20:32.940 if this prosecutor
00:20:34.300 tries the tricks that she's doing?
00:20:36.560 After a certain point in time,
00:20:37.880 you say,
00:20:38.160 Where does the buck stop?
00:20:39.540 And you're sending a secret prosecutor
00:20:41.340 to cry victim
00:20:42.620 and to make illogical arguments
00:20:44.700 like we've got to keep
00:20:45.440 a Christian man in prison
00:20:46.480 lest the church be full.
00:20:47.820 The church is full.
00:20:48.940 This is a deeply embarrassing moment
00:20:51.260 for the province of Alberta
00:20:52.400 and let the world know.
00:20:54.060 The fact you say
00:20:54.840 that hundreds of people
00:20:56.260 watch this via Zoom
00:20:58.240 tells me
00:20:59.340 that just because
00:21:00.860 the media party
00:21:01.820 and the political establishment
00:21:03.560 hate Christians
00:21:04.820 and love the lockdown,
00:21:06.240 the rest of the world
00:21:07.240 does not agree.
00:21:08.480 And I hope that this
00:21:09.800 burns down
00:21:12.140 the popularity
00:21:13.580 of whatever politician
00:21:15.460 stands with it.
00:21:16.500 And so I would say
00:21:17.280 to all my friends
00:21:18.240 in the Alberta government,
00:21:19.820 and I have plenty of them,
00:21:21.480 I would say
00:21:22.280 own it
00:21:22.880 or disown it.
00:21:24.560 And by the way,
00:21:25.620 you own it
00:21:26.720 until you disown it.
00:21:29.320 This could absolutely
00:21:30.780 stop
00:21:31.360 this afternoon.
00:21:32.920 If
00:21:33.440 that
00:21:34.280 Crown prosecutor
00:21:35.280 was told
00:21:36.140 drop these conditions,
00:21:37.980 this is outrageous,
00:21:39.160 you are opposing
00:21:40.040 the release of this man
00:21:41.260 more ferociously
00:21:43.180 than the Crown
00:21:43.900 normally opposes
00:21:44.760 the release of sex offenders
00:21:46.040 and child violators.
00:21:48.080 That's what they're doing here.
00:21:49.300 I mean,
00:21:49.700 what Pastor Coates
00:21:50.680 is behind bars for
00:21:51.940 is telling the truth.
00:21:53.780 Because all day,
00:21:55.520 sex offenders,
00:21:56.580 recidivist criminals
00:21:57.580 stand up in these
00:21:58.380 law courts,
00:21:58.960 look a judge in the face,
00:22:00.440 lie,
00:22:01.140 the judge knows
00:22:01.960 they're lying,
00:22:02.640 the Crown knows
00:22:03.340 they're lying,
00:22:03.860 and they say,
00:22:04.360 oh, let me out,
00:22:05.560 I'm not going to
00:22:06.280 commit another crime.
00:22:07.420 And what's the worst thing
00:22:08.800 that those guys do?
00:22:10.620 Repeat the horrible crimes
00:22:12.160 that got them put in jail
00:22:13.060 in the first place.
00:22:14.140 What's the worst thing
00:22:15.500 that Pastor Coates
00:22:16.520 is going to do?
00:22:17.760 Say service on Sunday.
00:22:19.260 That's it.
00:22:19.960 That's it.
00:22:20.800 That's the worst
00:22:21.440 he's going to do.
00:22:22.080 I see your point.
00:22:22.980 Because he wouldn't
00:22:24.160 lie to the judge.
00:22:25.400 Yeah, the judge says,
00:22:26.260 just tell me you're not
00:22:27.040 going to go back to church
00:22:28.220 and I'll let you go.
00:22:29.660 He says,
00:22:30.060 sir, I can't lie.
00:22:31.320 I know everyone else
00:22:32.340 in this whole justice system
00:22:33.380 lies to you,
00:22:34.180 but I just can't.
00:22:36.060 So I got to tell you,
00:22:37.080 I will go back to charge.
00:22:38.180 Oh my God,
00:22:39.060 we've got a criminal.
00:22:40.720 Keep him in prison.
00:22:42.100 Mr. Rapist,
00:22:43.020 what do you have to say?
00:22:43.700 You're on there.
00:22:44.500 I swear I won't do it.
00:22:46.980 You know what?
00:22:47.860 This is bringing
00:22:49.960 the justice system
00:22:51.380 into disrepute.
00:22:53.200 And by the way,
00:22:55.320 this secret prosecutor business
00:22:57.640 cannot stand.
00:22:59.620 And I don't know
00:23:01.000 who approved that,
00:23:02.900 but it must become undone.
00:23:05.360 And that is a subject
00:23:06.680 for an investigative journalist
00:23:08.680 to work on
00:23:09.560 because we do not,
00:23:11.000 and who,
00:23:12.380 who,
00:23:12.680 is it a lie?
00:23:13.760 Is it a fake?
00:23:14.500 Is it a drama queen moment?
00:23:16.020 Did she report it to security?
00:23:18.460 You know,
00:23:19.000 you're at a courthouse.
00:23:20.160 There's plenty of cops around
00:23:21.500 if you're feeling scared.
00:23:22.720 Was the threat by phone or email?
00:23:24.640 Or was it in person?
00:23:26.060 You know,
00:23:26.380 you can track phone and email
00:23:28.000 and in person
00:23:28.740 pretty easily these days.
00:23:30.560 So I am skeptical.
00:23:32.040 I think it's a lie
00:23:33.460 by a government
00:23:34.480 that doesn't know what to do
00:23:35.820 because they are face-to-face
00:23:37.920 with their moral superior
00:23:39.660 and they just can't make
00:23:41.780 the pastor blink.
00:23:43.060 This is outrageous
00:23:44.040 and I will dedicate myself
00:23:45.800 and I know you will too,
00:23:46.960 Sheila,
00:23:47.720 to burning down,
00:23:49.060 metaphorically speaking,
00:23:50.420 sorry,
00:23:50.760 don't call the fire department
00:23:52.160 secret prosecutor,
00:23:53.740 to burning down
00:23:54.620 their edifice of lies
00:23:55.860 by which they are
00:23:57.040 imprisoning this pastor
00:23:58.840 with a more brutal imprisonment
00:24:02.600 than serious violent criminals get.
00:24:05.000 I think I've told you this before.
00:24:06.540 My very first day
00:24:07.700 I was ever in court
00:24:08.680 as a baby lawyer
00:24:09.680 when I was in law school,
00:24:11.140 when I went to docket court,
00:24:12.520 I saw a man convicted
00:24:13.860 of sexual assault
00:24:15.280 against a child
00:24:16.160 and I saw him get
00:24:17.260 a sentence of 30 days
00:24:18.540 which meant under parole
00:24:20.120 he would be out
00:24:21.120 in maybe 10 days.
00:24:22.560 This pastor has served
00:24:23.860 more hard time
00:24:24.960 than that convicted
00:24:26.300 sex offender
00:24:27.580 that I saw
00:24:28.240 when I was in law school
00:24:29.400 in my first visit
00:24:30.420 to criminal court
00:24:31.220 and that is what's
00:24:33.700 bringing this court
00:24:34.500 and this justice system
00:24:35.940 in a disrepute.
00:24:36.660 Last word to you, Sheila.
00:24:38.420 You know, Ezra,
00:24:39.060 that's a really excellent point
00:24:40.260 that I think is being missed
00:24:41.320 in all of this.
00:24:42.780 What the pastor
00:24:43.700 is in jail for
00:24:45.020 is not a jailable offense.
00:24:47.400 If he is found guilty
00:24:49.040 in May,
00:24:50.520 two months from now,
00:24:51.960 of violating
00:24:53.140 the public health order
00:24:54.160 that saw him arrested
00:24:55.320 the first time around,
00:24:56.560 it is not a jailable offense.
00:24:58.800 So why is it
00:24:59.840 a jailable offense before?
00:25:01.660 This is absolutely
00:25:02.700 without precedent.
00:25:03.900 They're holding him
00:25:04.920 behind bars
00:25:05.780 for something
00:25:06.520 that if he were found
00:25:07.520 guilty of it,
00:25:08.460 they could not hold him
00:25:09.380 behind bars.
00:25:10.200 What a great point.
00:25:10.920 You know what?
00:25:11.660 This is the kind of thing
00:25:12.700 that when it happens
00:25:13.400 in China or Iran
00:25:15.060 or Russia
00:25:16.020 or Venezuela,
00:25:17.660 you and I
00:25:18.440 and frankly,
00:25:19.940 Jason Kenney
00:25:20.540 and Casey Maddu
00:25:21.400 would rail about
00:25:22.600 and yet it is happening
00:25:23.980 in the capital city
00:25:25.020 of a province
00:25:26.060 whose motto is
00:25:27.140 strong and free.
00:25:28.740 I think that's becoming
00:25:29.800 false advertising.
00:25:30.740 You stay on this story,
00:25:31.840 Sheila,
00:25:32.100 and we will too out here.
00:25:33.300 All right.
00:25:33.640 Great to talk to you.
00:25:34.300 Thanks for being there today.
00:25:36.080 Thanks, Ezra.
00:25:36.760 All right.
00:25:37.140 There you have it.
00:25:38.080 If you want to join
00:25:39.000 our petition,
00:25:39.760 go to freepastorjames.com.
00:25:43.440 I can assure you
00:25:44.560 that we will be back
00:25:45.680 at the church this weekend
00:25:46.940 to document any more activity
00:25:49.140 by the government.
00:25:51.200 Stay with us,
00:25:51.920 Maureen.
00:26:03.680 Hey, welcome back.
00:26:05.020 Boy, there's a lot going on.
00:26:06.400 I'm so glad Sheila was there
00:26:07.780 at that hearing today,
00:26:09.520 that bail hearing in Edmonton.
00:26:11.140 There's two reasons
00:26:11.860 someone doesn't get bail.
00:26:13.440 They're a danger,
00:26:14.900 like they're violent,
00:26:15.640 they're a murderer,
00:26:16.300 a rapist, whatever,
00:26:16.940 who might commit
00:26:17.680 that crime again,
00:26:18.360 or a flight risk.
00:26:20.120 Pastor Coates is
00:26:20.680 neither of those things
00:26:21.720 and yet he sits in jail
00:26:23.300 longer than actually
00:26:24.600 convicted violent people do.
00:26:26.380 The fact that it's
00:26:26.920 a secret trial
00:26:27.580 is super gross in my mind.
00:26:29.640 But speaking of gross,
00:26:30.820 what do you think
00:26:31.100 of Aaron O'Toole
00:26:31.740 literally hiring
00:26:33.080 the former vice president
00:26:34.680 of Huawei Canada
00:26:35.580 as his own VP?
00:26:38.780 I mean,
00:26:39.340 I'm not saying
00:26:39.900 that it should be a crime
00:26:41.040 to work for Huawei Canada.
00:26:42.340 I'm not saying that.
00:26:43.840 But it sure shows
00:26:44.620 bad judgment
00:26:45.340 and frankly,
00:26:46.580 a lack of loyalty
00:26:47.600 to Canadian interests.
00:26:49.420 Huawei is an arm
00:26:50.540 of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:26:52.840 It's controlled by them
00:26:54.240 and it's a security asset
00:26:55.500 of the Chinese state.
00:26:57.840 I mean,
00:26:58.320 if you really want
00:26:59.220 to work for Huawei,
00:27:00.480 I'm not going to say
00:27:01.300 go to jail.
00:27:02.780 But what's Aaron O'Toole
00:27:04.020 doing saying,
00:27:04.780 yeah,
00:27:04.960 that's the guy for me?
00:27:06.540 I can't believe it.
00:27:08.500 I can't believe it.
00:27:10.020 If you want to sign
00:27:10.580 our petition,
00:27:11.120 go to banhuawei.com.
00:27:12.400 All right,
00:27:12.580 that's our show for today.
00:27:13.960 Until tomorrow,
00:27:14.700 on behalf of all of us
00:27:15.540 here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:27:16.780 to you at home,
00:27:17.740 good night.
00:27:18.300 And keep fighting for freedom
00:27:19.440 and don't give in
00:27:20.780 to Huawei.
00:27:22.060 What is that?
00:27:23.400 We'll see you next time.