EZRA LEVANT ｜ A conversation with a Media Party insider — it's quite revealing!
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A conversation I had with a liberal media insider on the Ezra Lebron show. It's a fun one, but it's also a revealing one. I think it's a very revealing one, because it reveals a lot about how mainstream journalists think about the world and how they fit into it.
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Hello, my rebels. I had a fun back and forth on Twitter with a bona fide liberal media party
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reporter from Global News. I had fun, but more importantly, I thought it was really revealing
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a little bit of a peek into the mind of a mainstream journalist and how they think they
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fit into the world, what they think their role is with regards to the opposition, with regards to
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Trudeau. I really, I really thought it was illuminating. I'll take you through the tweets
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and I'll show you a few video clips too. Before I do, let me invite you to become a member of Rebel
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Tonight, a conversation with a media party insider. It's quite revealing. It's June 2nd and this is
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the Ezra LeBan show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
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government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I saw the most astonishing comment the other day coming from a charter member of the media party.
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It truly was a work of art. I think it should be in a museum of some sort. It just captures the essence
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of the sneering media elites and how they see themselves versus how the rest of us see them.
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It's on Twitter. So, it was meant as a sort of sneer, a kind of virtue signal, as most tweets are,
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a sign of status. It was a journalist who was replying to Pierre Polyev. Here, here's what
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I go around liberal media and speak directly to Canadians. That's how I won seven elections in an
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urban Ontario riding. Our message of affordability and freedom is resonating with people and will
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unite our country and defeat Trudeau. Now, if you know Pierre Polyev, you know that that's actually
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true. He does lots of viral videos on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook. Here's an example.
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What's this thing really worth? I mean, it says 25 cents on it, but what is the intrinsic value of
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this quarter? They're fun. They're catchy. He has a good voice. He's got a bit of a dramatic flair.
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They're smart. I checked his YouTube page and it says that on that platform alone, he's had 42 million
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views. That is a lot. So he's right. He does go direct to the people and it's often brainy videos,
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long videos, not just little short sound bites. By smart, I mean videos like this one. This is a 10
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minute speech on the history of money. Take a listen for one minute.
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Money, of course, is merely a technology by which we transport value over time and space. And without
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it, our species would have to consume in the present everything that it produces. Most species do.
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They have to eat what they kill right away, lest it be stolen or spoiled. Sure, squirrels can squirrel
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away a little bit. A good habit the government should learn from. But most species have to use
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it or lose it. We developed a technology that would allow two people who were exchanging things
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to go ahead with their exchange, even if each did not have the ability to supply the other with
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something that the other wanted. They could simply use this technology called money in order to transport
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the value between each other across time and around different geographies.
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I thought that was interesting. I watched more than just that minute. You can find it easily.
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It's a very interesting speech on money as a technology. I never thought of it that way.
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How money has changed over time and how we should protect money from being devalued. I enjoyed the
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speech. I saw it actually because it was tweeted by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. Jack's pretty smart.
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He's interested in finances and he retweeted Pierre Polyev. So yeah, it's true. Pierre Polyev goes around
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the media. Partly because you know there's not one in a hundred journalists in Ottawa who understand
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money or monetary policy or inflation or the devaluation of a currency or anything smart like that. I mean,
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come on. I mean, you've got the left wing bias to deal with. Sure. But I think bigger than that
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sometimes is ignorance out of the hundreds of journalists that cover Parliament Hill. How many
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do you think truly understand economics more than just like a first year college student mumbling
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about Karl Marx or how well real socialism just hasn't been tried yet? So good for Polyev. And by the way,
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here's the short video that was attached to his tweet just for context.
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I'm undefeated in seven consecutive elections in a big Ontario multicultural city. That's because
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I don't try to go through the liberal media to get my message out. I'll go around them. I deliver my
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message to millions of people through social media that we're seeing in the tens of thousands who've
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been coming out to my rallies. People who have never voted conservative before in their lives.
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Secondly, I win because I campaign on our strengths. And our biggest strength right now is that we are
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the low tax, low inflation party that will make your dollar go far enough to buy a home, afford groceries
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and fuel up your car. That's why it's important that we have a leader with an impeccable track record
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on taxes and the cost of living. We can't elect someone who has a record of raising taxes.
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I've been cutting taxes, fighting inflation and making the empowering the working class my entire
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life. And we'll win an election with that message. Thank you. So that's a campaign act, really. As you
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know, he's running for the Conservative Party of Canada leader. His comment about not raising taxes,
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I think that was a bit of a jab at Jean Charest and Patrick Brown, both of whom are happy carbon taxers.
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But Rachel Gilmour, a journalist with Global News, seemed to take it a little bit personally when
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he said go around the media. She replied on behalf of her team. It felt like her team being the media.
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She said, never let any politician tell you that going around the media as a whole allows them to
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speak more clearly to you. It allows them to speak unchallenged, not the same thing. Hang on, hang on.
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Now, she doesn't appear to like the fact that Polyev wants to talk to people directly. She
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says it makes it less clear or something. She says it's not true that it's more clear.
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How is that possible? I mean, how does that even work as an idea? If you hear directly from anyone,
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a politician, how could their message be unclear or at least less clear than if you had a media
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filter, a middleman? That's literally what the word media means. It's the plural of the word medium,
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which is Latin for middle. It is a Latin word. In fact, how can hearing someone directly
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be less clear than hearing from them via a middleman? Now, a politician might lie. He might
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deceive. He might need to be rebutted or corrected. That's all true. But then say that because that's
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what Rachel Gilmore actually meant. She didn't mean that she was capable of or even interested in
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reporting what Polyev said even more clearly than how Polyev said it. Polyev's a clear speaker.
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What she meant was she really needs to be there in her mind to help you interpret Polyev. There's
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nothing with him being unclear. It's she has to be there to correct Polyev, to rebut him.
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To challenge him for you. She used that word because apparently you can't do that for yourself.
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You'll be helpless without her deep wisdom. And of course, you can trust her. I mean,
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she's not going to add in her own agenda. But I immediately thought,
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Pierre Polyev has a good sized platform on social media. He has 380,000 followers on Twitter alone,
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for example. That's about the same size as Rebel News has. But Trudeau has more than 6 million
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followers on Twitter. And Trudeau is a master of photo ops and video ops and social media statements.
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He very rarely has genuine in-person extended unscripted press conferences where reporters
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can ask him questions at length and follow up. And even on those rare occasions where he does do those,
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he strictly limits which reporters are even allowed in. I mean, he had police frog march
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our former reporter, Kian Bextie, out of a press conference just because he didn't like the look
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of him. Sorry? I'm going to ask you to review pictures right now. You want to review my pictures?
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If you don't show me, I'm going to escort you out. I'm not showing you my pictures, man.
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Okay. This isn't Hong Kong. Okay. Let's go. You're not welcome to this site. I'm actually,
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let me in. No, I'm telling you, being in charge of the site, you're not welcome. Okay. I'm going
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to ask you to leave or we'll be escorting out. I'm, yeah, I don't have an intention to leave. I
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want to ask a car here. Do you have a car here? Sorry, what? Do you have a car here or did you walk
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in? I walked in. Okay, let's go. Are you going to arrest me? I'm going to escort you out.
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So he's not arresting me. Okay, let's go. Don't touch me. I will. This is Ottawa, Canada,
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2020, when Justin Trudeau is having his RCMP throw out a journalist for no reason, because
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I wouldn't show him my phone. Trudeau literally had his bodyguards beat up David Menzies just
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on site. I'm on a side. I'm on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot touch me. No Russian
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working. We're suing the police for that, by the way. Has Rachel Gilmore ever said the
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same thing to Trudeau or the liberals? That she has to be there to make it clearer and to
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challenge them. Now, I haven't seen her say that. I mean, I don't follow her closely.
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She doesn't seem to like Pierre Paglia. And I don't think she brings clarity or even facts
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to bear. She's just a partisan, as most of the media party are. Here's just an example from
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about a year ago, a year and a half ago. Paglia had tweeted, stop the great reset.
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And Gilmore wrote, huh, the great reset, the language a Tory MP is using here, is a debunked
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conspiracy theory. The conspiracy alleges that a cabal of elites has long planned for the pandemic
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so that they could use it to impose their global economic control on the masses.
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Okay. Yeah. It's, it's not a conspiracy though, Rachel. It's, it's literally the name of the
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World Economic Forum's project to use the pandemic to reshape the world. That's what they say.
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This is the World Economic Forum website I am showing you right now. And in case you think it's
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just like one webpage, here is the bestselling book written by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the
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World Economic Forum called The Great Reset. And it's about COVID-19 and using it to reset the world.
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I mean, here is Justin Trudeau literally using those words. And I know that this is a video from
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Gilmore's own TV station, Global News. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.
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This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually
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address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
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So I'm not sure if we're actually getting more clarity from Gilmore on either the Great Reset or
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what it means or who said it, we're getting an attempted rebuttal to Polyev, which is odd.
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Normally, journalists hold powerful people to account. And no one is more powerful than a
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sitting prime minister. And Justin Trudeau is very authoritarian. It's weird that a journalist
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would put so much effort into holding the opposition to account. I mean, sure, they're politicians
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too, and they could be government. So sure, I asked them questions. But when was the last time
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you saw Gilmore spar with Trudeau in that same way, essentially calling him a liar? Have you ever
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seen him? So I tweeted just out of the blue, I was just scrolling on my phone. And I said,
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real question, when was the last time the media party challenged Justin Trudeau?
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It's a real question. And she said, back to me, Ezra, you unblocked me for this? To do a lame
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media party jab? Come on now. Okay. Now, she does work for Global News. I can use another word. If
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you want, I can say legacy media, corporate media, liberal media, whatever. But my question stands
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unanswered. I said, can you think of a time in the past seven years that the legacy media,
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corporate media, whatever, truly challenged Trudeau?
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I can think of a couple when Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired by Trudeau. Remember, she was trying to
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stop Trudeau and the crooked Gerald Butts from corrupting a criminal trial to get their friends
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at SNC-Lavalin out of trouble for fraud. So the media were actually mad at Trudeau for a few months
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over that. It's true. The Globe and Mail. Maybe the Kielberger scandal, remember them? That's that
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corrupt weed charity? But not even really. They were really mad at the Kielbergers. They grilled
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the Kielbergers. And the finance minister was the fall guy for that. I don't know if you remember
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Bill Morneau because he took like some free trip from them or something. Trudeau's own family was
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enormously enriched by that fake charity. I think his mom and his brother or who, I forget, his wife,
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the whole family was in for six figures. They never gave the money back and they weren't fired for that.
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They didn't pay a price. It's always someone else who pays a price for Trudeau's wrongdoing.
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I mean, you could say blackface, but I don't think so. It was forgotten in about 24 hours. The media
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still reports with a straight face when Trudeau rails against racism. In fact, it was pre-forgotten.
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As you know, all the Canadian media really had those photos and videos of Trudeau in blackface.
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They sat on them. It took an American media company to break the silence in the election. I mean,
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Rachel Gilmore works for Global News. This is how Global News challenges Justin Trudeau.
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So I guess the first thing I should ask you is, are you feeling lucky?
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The entire country wants to know. What shampoo do you use?
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What a disappointing answer this is going to be. Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.
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Anyways, Rachel Gilmore was enjoying the banter with me, I guess, but she still didn't answer my
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question. She wrote back to me, cute that Ezra unblocked me after months so he could fire out
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this absolutely scorching roast. Hi, Ezra. Missed you. I wrote back, look, it's not a roast.
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I really do want to know when you believe you challenged Trudeau.
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Now, normally media party types don't talk to me at all, really. I mean, why would they? It's like
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cats and dogs. They work for a Trudeau-aligned, Trudeau-regulated, Trudeau-sponsored media outlet,
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and I work for an independent media outlet. It doesn't take a dime from any government.
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I suppose both companies could look the same on the face of them. We both have news websites,
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but we couldn't be more different in purpose, culturally. They're the insiders. They're part
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of the team, the cool kids. We're the outsiders. We don't really mix with them, but I don't know.
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She was bored, or maybe she was trying to get more Twitter followers from engaging with me,
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because I'm 20 times the following as she does. So she kept at it, which, again, a little bit of
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a surprise to me. She said, oh, sorry, am I the media party? I didn't realize you were referring
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to me. Feel free to watch global news any night or read our website any day to see us hold powerful
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people accountable. Because when we call into press conferences, she says, we don't just ask about
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ourselves. Well, that's the thing. We're not allowed to call into press conferences. They ban us.
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When we do actually get involved in press conferences, and we do outside the federal
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government, we're not allowed in any federal government press conference. We do ask, I think,
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great questions, often the only real question. Just a quick example comes to mind. It was just a few
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weeks ago when we were at the Conservative Party of Canada's leadership debate in Edmonton about a
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month ago. We asked all sorts of questions, everything from gun control to about Israel.
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So I think we asked about Huawei and carbon taxes, a question about environmental technology from
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Tamara Ugolini. I heard the media party question to every candidate. It was really weird. They asked
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the same question to every candidate, in French, of course. How can you win if you don't support the
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UN position on global warming? That's the only thing they asked, I swear. That's the only thing
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they asked. It's true we often talk about being banned from press conferences when we're banned from
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press conferences because we don't believe that it's the government's right to ban journalists from press
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conferences. We think it's a violation of our civil liberties. And by the way, two federal court judges have
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agreed with us back to back. So I think a real journalist who cared about freedom would say
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there's a problem with us being censored. A government aligned journalist is glad that the
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riffraff is kept down and sort of laughs at us. Oh, you guys keep complaining that your rights are
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violated. Yeah. It's a class thing, a little bit. It's a snob thing. It's a club thing. I was having fun,
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though. I mean, when do I get to debate left-wing journalists? They normally don't talk to me. So I
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wrote, I really want you to answer my question with more than just insults. On what issue have
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you challenged Trudeau? You've replied again and again without answering. How can I ask this any more
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sincerely? And I said, if someone were to ask me, how have you challenged conservative politicians? I'd
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have lots of specific examples, especially for Doug Ford and Jason Kenney. If you can't name an example
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of how you've challenged a sitting prime minister, you just might not be a real journalist. I mean,
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seriously, if you've asked me how I've challenged Jason Kenney or Doug Ford, my answer would be 20
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minutes long. What am I saying? It would be an hour long. And it would be immediate. I wouldn't have to
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stop and really think long and hard to think of an example of it. She just wouldn't answer. I don't
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know. I mean, it was getting boring. She said, Ezra, I gave you examples and you immediately stopped
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responding when it doesn't suit your narrative. But yes, I'm the one who might not be a real journalist
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according to your implication. But what examples? Now, she finally did give me some examples.
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She said, this took me seconds. Not sure why I need to validate my work to people who
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clearly have no interest in actually reading it, though. You can see the tweet to a few stories.
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You see there's a few links there. And you see the top of an image there. That's this one here. It's
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an interesting subject. I care about this subject. The headline in her story is the government is still
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months away from introducing its promised online harms legislation after missing its self-imposed
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100-day deadline in early February. Okay, got it. So I replied, you're standing up to Trudeau
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by demanding that he bring in his censorship law sooner? Wow, you sure speak truth to power.
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Or I guess she finally figured out that she had to come up with something. So she wrote this.
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For the record, in recent months, I've covered C-18, promises missing from the budget,
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residential schools and failures to meet climate targets. My newsroom got nominated for a Michener
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thanks to my colleague's tireless work exposing sexual misconduct in the military. Okay, so I dug up
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her story on C-18. That's the online news law that regulates journalists. So a form of censorship for
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Trudeau's enemies like us who won't be accredited and subsidies for Trudeau's friends like her who will
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be accredited. Here's the story. Feds to force tech giants like Facebook, Google to pay for news with
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new bill. Now, I really can't find anything challenging to the government about it. I read
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the whole story. And then way down in the story, Gilmore has the same complaint as before.
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She's worried that unregulated media like us will be able to get paid by this deal that the government's
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cooking up. So she's challenging Trudeau if burying a sentence halfway down and otherwise glowing news
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story can be called challenging. She's challenging Trudeau to crack down harder on journalists like
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us. She says, when pressed on whether the obligation to share profits with credible news organizations
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could lead these digital platforms to favor non-news content such as meme pages that can spread
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misinformation on their platforms, the senior officials said they start from the premise that
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digital platforms want to ensure the services they offer to Canadians are healthy, inclusive,
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and provide reliable information. So, whoa, you sure held Trudeau to account there, sister,
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by demanding that he crack down on freedom even more than he is. You really do speak truth to power.
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You're like Woodward and Bernstein. You keep taking on that Pierre Paglia. He's the threat. And you keep
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polishing Justin Trudeau's shoes. Maybe he'll notice you. So she said, I mean, her other points are a laugh,
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really. Residential school, residential schools have been closed in Canada for a generation.
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Stephen Harper apologized for them more than a decade ago. There's been compensation.
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How is a news story in 2022 demanding more wokeness from Trudeau challenging him? I'm sorry,
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that's not accountability journalism. How's a story demanding that he go even harder for global
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warming challenging him? I mean, it's just, there's nothing there. I wrote obscure insider boutique
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policy items always from the left. That's not challenging Trudeau. That's enabling him.
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He likes that. We've had a two-year bonfire of civil liberties, foreign policy disasters,
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and we're in high inflation. And you chide him for not Trudeau-ing harder. That's the thing. If you
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ask, how did the media challenge the government over the last two years during the lockdowns,
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the pandemic? There is an answer. They did challenge the government to be worse, to go harder against
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us, to be more vicious, to be more unfree. I suppose that's a kind of challenging as in egging
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them on to do worse, ratting out people. In a healthy democracy where the media wasn't owned or
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rented by the government, you might have had a journalist here or there ask questions about
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freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, shutting down churches, ordering people not to go outside.
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You might have. Not to egg them on. Not to ask the government to limit people. You might have
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had real journalism, but telling the government to go harder ain't journalism. To be a snitch. I mean,
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how many news stories were there like this one? As it happens also from global news. Remember this one?
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Some residents of a North York neighborhood are upset. A private school appears to be open,
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despite province-wide lockdown. Yeshiva yesterday, HaTorah, says it closed except for junior high
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morning afternoon prayers. COVID-19 Toronto. Ontario lockdown. I remember that story. I remember
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that global news reporter was literally running around the school, running around the neighborhoods,
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hunting for Jews who were going to that Jewish school, which also, as she mentioned, is a synagogue.
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I'm sorry, that is not journalism. That's sort of secret police stuff. You're literally doing the
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government snitching. If global news were around in Holland in the 1940s, they would have been the
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ones saying, check in the attic. Check in the attic. That's their challenging journalism. I don't know. It was
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fun to banter with a media party type for a while. I had other things to do. I got to work for a living.
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She really thinks that she challenges Trudeau. I really think in her mind, she believes she
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challenges Trudeau by egging him on to go harder. She really thinks that she helps the rest of us
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by telling us that the Great Reset isn't a thing. It's debunked. It's a conspiracy theory and that it's
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essential that she be that filter for Pierre Polyev on that issue and others so we can get a clearer
00:27:45.780
picture. I enjoyed the back and forth. My feelings aren't really hurt by her little tweaks. A few
00:27:51.600
hours later, she came up with a line she wanted to say. She said, Ezra, I'm worried about your blood
00:27:56.880
pressure. Is there something that brings you joy? Fresh air? Bubble tea? Scribbling on a magazine?
00:28:03.980
Cutting of Trudeau? Maybe you find something that's kinder to your mental health than replying to my
00:28:12.680
hours-old tweets that don't even mention you. Well, I appreciate her concern for my health. Believe
00:28:19.400
it or not, my blood pressure's always been very good. Same with my cholesterol. I'm always pleasantly
00:28:25.380
surprised when I hear that. But I like the fact that she cares about me and makes me feel warmer
00:28:30.580
towards her. Rebel News does bring me joy, but that's not the word I would choose for how I feel
00:28:36.760
about Rebel News. It gives me satisfaction. I guess it's a kind of joy. It gives me a feeling of
00:28:42.340
accomplishment. It gives me a feeling of worth, of meaning. Joy isn't really the feeling. I get that
00:28:49.120
in other parts of my life. It's the deep satisfaction of knowing that without a penny from the government,
00:28:56.380
we have built up a media company that millions of Canadians and people around the world rely
00:29:02.980
to tell them the other side of the story. Quite often by simply turning on our cameras and just
00:29:10.080
showing the unfiltered world. And that by doing so, we give people an alternative to just flipping
00:29:17.260
back and forth between CTV Global and CBC, all of which are indistinguishable from the other.
00:29:23.780
And frankly, sparring with the odd media party reporter who still debates with me is fun.
00:29:32.600
I mean, most of them just want to censor. Though it seems Gilmore sort of wants that too.
00:29:41.400
Well, I'm born and raised in Alberta and I've always sort of considered myself an Albertan at
00:29:57.280
heart, but I am unable to go back to my hometown unless I drive, which is just impractical. I can't
00:30:03.040
take a train and I can't fly. I have some hope that with the WestJet CEO talking about getting rid of the
00:30:09.620
mandates and others in the tourism industry saying the same thing, that maybe the establishment is
00:30:14.940
running out of patience with Justin Trudeau. But really, why would he care? He likes to show
00:30:19.060
he's boss. So I miss what's going on in Calgary. I haven't been out there in quite a while.
00:30:24.860
But the good news is we've got a great battalion of rebels in Alberta and in Calgary in particular.
00:30:31.360
And of course, there's a lot of news that goes on out there. Of course, the big trucker
00:30:36.180
rebellion, the big convoy in January, February was on its way to Ottawa, but there were other
00:30:42.240
trucker convoys and blockades in the country too. There was one at the Windsor Bridge for a few days
00:30:48.180
at least. There was a very exciting one at the border between Alberta and the United States in
00:30:55.100
the border town of Coots. As you probably remember, we had a few reporters embedded in that blockade and
00:31:02.780
we have released a documentary called Trucker Rebellion. The coot, the story of the coot's
00:31:09.740
blockade. And we have now had two premieres of this film in a real movie theater in Calgary.
00:31:17.640
Joining us now to talk about how that went and other news from Calgary, like Justin Trudeau's
00:31:23.300
visit there, is our friend Celine Glass from The Rebel Out. Wes, Celine, great to see you again.
00:31:29.060
Thanks for coming on the show. I want to talk about a few things. First, tell me what it was
00:31:34.340
like at the film premiere. It was like a real film festival kind of thing, right? We had the movie
00:31:39.940
and then the stars and the personalities behind the movie got up on stage and answered questions,
00:31:45.940
right? Yeah, absolutely. This is the second showing that we've actually had in Calgary. And
00:31:52.340
it was, there's a lot more people. There's a lot more people that wanted to get involved by merch and
00:31:58.580
they're actually at like actively asking if they had any more room in the theater for people to come in
00:32:04.420
and actually take a part of the viewing and be a part of it. It's a really big community in Calgary,
00:32:10.180
and there's definitely a lot of rebel supporters here. Yeah. I mean, the theater holds 350 people.
00:32:16.420
We've sold it out twice. It's in the Canyon Meadows, which is in the southern part of the city.
00:32:20.980
And I think we're going to see if we can get that movie running all the time, not just at sort of
00:32:26.100
fun red carpet style meet and greet events, but just like regular go to the movie and like you would
00:32:32.500
go to any other movie. I think people want to see it and they want to see the story told by our side,
00:32:38.740
not by the government side. So that's great. So you were at this red carpet event last night,
00:32:45.460
but you scooched away quickly with some other rebels because as our trucker rebellion was underway
00:32:51.940
in the theater, Justin Trudeau was landing in Calgary. He, he hates to do it. He does it very
00:32:58.900
rarely. He usually just comes to town for a fundraiser, grab the cash and go because he hates Alberta and
00:33:05.940
the feeling is sort of mutual. Tell me a little bit about what it was like when Trudeau touched down.
00:33:12.020
And I understand you've got some video clips of, of some protests too.
00:33:16.020
Yeah, absolutely. So like, yeah, like you said, uh, Sydney and I, uh, we, we left pretty early,
00:33:23.700
uh, into the premiere. We didn't, I think the movie had just started and then we, we got that tip and
00:33:28.580
we literally left immediately, uh, to go down there directly. And by the time we got there,
00:33:33.380
it was, it was a couple hours, uh, to 10, which is the time that his plane was supposedly, uh,
00:33:38.820
touching down in Calgary. And there was already about 20 to 30 people stationed out there, uh,
00:33:43.940
protesting. I understand we've got some footage, including someone who used a Libranos
00:33:49.700
protest sign. That makes me feel good. Let's take a look at that.
00:33:53.220
Yeah, cool. So what's happening? Is he not showing up?
00:33:57.780
No, he's a coward. He's taking the back door. What would your message be if he were to show up?
00:34:09.780
Well, you know what? Uh, I think that is how a lot of Calgarians feel about him. Um,
00:34:26.820
so how long were they there and did Trudeau come by? Where exactly was that?
00:34:31.380
Yeah. So this was at, uh, the Fairmont downtown Calgary and, uh, he did not show up. At least we
00:34:37.780
did not see him out. We did check out, um, the building. We went around a few times and there are
00:34:43.220
so many different access points. He could have used any number of those back doors. Uh, and it's not
00:34:48.100
surprising, obviously. It's not just the crowd that was there that deterred him. Um, I really think that
00:34:53.140
he's a coward and that he's just not willing to, to face the music at this point. Um, but people were
00:34:58.340
there until like, I think 1 AM, maybe a little bit longer. There was still a crowd by the time that we
00:35:03.540
were rolling out, you know, uh, Justin Trudeau security had come and gone. And you know,
00:35:08.260
all the staff that we talked to, all the police officers just denied that there was literally
00:35:12.820
anything happening at all, which is just steeped in, you know, in hypocrisy and it's ridiculous.
00:35:18.980
Yeah. Well, you know what? I've stayed at that hotel before and in other hotels where there were
00:35:23.060
protests outside and I bet that Trudeau could hear those chants from inside. So could everyone else
00:35:29.540
in the hotel, I'm sure. But you know what? It's, it's funny cause we haven't had a lot of democratic
00:35:34.500
checks and balances on Trudeau. Normally you have a vigorous opposition. You have a oppositional media,
00:35:40.820
you have courts that hold the government to account. Uh, you have, uh, a lot of institutions
00:35:46.580
serving to counter the prime minister and give ventilation to the views of the grassroots. But
00:35:51.700
in the last two years until Aaron O'Toole was given the boot, um, really there was no opposition
00:35:57.300
to Trudeau and the lockdowns by none of the premiers either. The media was a hundred percent
00:36:02.180
on board, all the courts, all the colleges of physicians and surgeons silenced any dissident
00:36:08.020
doctors. So I think part of the anger there, and there was some anger, there's some coarse
00:36:12.660
language. Part of it's because for two years, there's been no way to speak back to Trudeau,
00:36:18.900
especially when he does tyrannical things like invokes a former martial law. So I have a lot of
00:36:24.020
sympathy for those folks. I understand you have one more clip from the protest. Is that right?
00:36:36.180
We have rebel news Sidney Fouzard here. What's going on? Well, uh, not much so far. Everybody's
00:36:41.060
waiting for Trudeau. Uh, there's some speculation that he's going to use this entrance, that entrance.
00:36:45.540
People don't actually know which way he's going to come from. Uh, we are hoping that he's going to be,
00:36:49.940
of course, right front and center. Uh, that way, you know, these protesters can voice their concerns,
00:36:54.340
of course. Uh, but if he doesn't show his face, well, I think that this goes to show that he is
00:36:58.180
in fact a coward. Well, that was an update from our Sidney Fouzard, rebel news reporter.
00:37:06.340
And we have the police here making sure that the door is open. The access is open. The secret
00:37:12.660
service is in the middle, I believe. Uh, we have a sign that says, uh, authorities infringing on the
00:37:21.220
charter of vital freedoms must be jailed. Hi. And then we have a construction worker
00:37:29.940
locked in jail and, uh, lots of protesters with flags.
00:37:34.660
Now I've seen it in Ottawa where the secret service and the police would set up an access
00:37:43.940
port and act like Trudeau is going to come here, but it would be actually a setup. They would actually
00:37:51.300
get him sneaking from the, um, back door. Are we going to see something like that here tonight?
00:37:57.620
We don't know. We'll see. Me, Sidney Fouzard and Sally Gallus are here to cover it for you for rebel
00:38:06.020
news. Yeah, no chance say he would go in that front door. I, I know that building fairly well.
00:38:11.620
There, there are so many exits and entrances to it for security reasons. It would be nuts for him to go
00:38:16.660
in. Um, I, I heard our reporters say rebel news, rebel news. I'm guessing that was because other media
00:38:23.540
are as despised as Trudeau himself. And if we didn't identify ourselves as independent media,
00:38:29.540
if people might've thought that we were government media, like the CBC or bailout media,
00:38:33.940
they might've been as hostile to us as they were to Trudeau. That's what I think.
00:38:38.980
Yeah, there was actually, uh, there was one camera stationed, uh, a couple blocks over to the left.
00:38:45.220
Uh, and we don't know where they were from or which, uh, mainstream media outlet that they
00:38:51.780
represented, but they stayed away from the crowd and they tried to film secretly, you know,
00:38:56.500
for whatever reasons, I don't want to make any assumptions. Um, no fake news here or anything
00:39:01.700
like that. But, uh, the people in the crowd, the protesters were outing him and he was, you know,
00:39:06.740
waving back and being belligerent, like on his own accord. I have, um, a little clip that'll be in the
00:39:13.300
full report where, uh, I was already kind of off to the side, uh, monitoring one of the back entrances,
00:39:18.740
hoping to catch Trudeau sneak in. And, um, and yeah, I, I videoed him. It was pretty funny.
00:39:25.700
Well, I mean, I think Trudeau likes traveling to foreign countries because he doesn't have
00:39:30.500
protesters in foreign countries. They don't know the truth about him. So they treat him like he's
00:39:35.140
some sort of a dignitary. They don't know how undignified he is. Um, but even then, um, you know,
00:39:42.420
he seems like a second rater people like his, Hey, look at my socks move. Doesn't really have the same,
00:39:47.300
uh, doesn't hit the same as it did in 2015. I think that he prefers those foreign travels
00:39:53.140
just to get away from the fact that wherever he goes in Canada, people express their hate for him.
00:39:58.180
And I, and you know, some people say we must crack down on shouting and swearing,
00:40:02.740
and this is terrible. I say it's a form of, it's like a safety valve. People have to be able to
00:40:08.020
express themselves. And the more you bottle people up, like literally people were bottled up in their
00:40:12.900
homes for a year. Uh, now they're being threatened with censorship. If you don't let people let off
00:40:18.180
some steam peacefully and democratically, that's when you get into trouble with violence, which of
00:40:23.380
course we do not want. Well, Celine, I appreciate you joining us today. And thanks for rushing out
00:40:27.460
last night, leaving the film premiere to go and record that. Um, uh, appreciate you taking the time
00:40:33.700
today. Yeah, no problem. Uh, my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure too.
00:40:40.100
There you have it. Celine Glass from our Calgary office. Stay with us. Your letters to me.
00:40:44.660
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Yesi Trudeau Mundos says, Trudeau's speeches are always
00:41:05.220
completely devoid of substance. In the end, basically nothing is said except for I'm doing it anyway.
00:41:10.740
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, remember he is a thespian. He's an actor. Um, he was a drama teacher in school
00:41:19.940
and I, I would, there's a few of his speeches you can find on YouTube. They're hard to find
00:41:26.020
of before he was an MP, he would go speak to teachers unions or whatever. And it would just
00:41:30.500
sort of be vacuous hallmark card cliches, strung one to the next. And there's lots of little feel
00:41:36.900
good buzzwords. And at the end of the speech, you say, what did I hear? Was there anything in there?
00:41:40.820
Other than a guy just sort of parading back and forth and sort of middle-aged, uh, female teachers
00:41:46.180
cooing about how, how hunky he was. It was, it was a pretty lame way for him to make a living
00:41:51.700
at 30,000 bucks a pop. Most of it from public sector to clients like teachers.
00:41:57.220
Um, but remember he is an actor, so he's a bit of a BS-er. He can memorize a few lines,
00:42:02.180
a few talking points, and he has, he's good at it. He's, he's good at projecting emotion like a good
00:42:07.460
actor is. But there's not a lot of there, there. I guess that gets back to what I was saying. I mean,
00:42:12.260
do you really think Justin Trudeau could give a 10 minute speech on the history and meaning and uses
00:42:16.820
of money without any notes as Pierre Polyev did? It's unthinkable. I think we're going to have an
00:42:24.020
excellent contest if Pierre Polyev does win the conservative party selection. You're going to
00:42:30.020
finally have a choice. In Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole, you had two sort of square guys, um, who
00:42:36.020
tried to be cool kids in Ottawa. They tried to do what the CBC wanted. They tried to, okay, if I say
00:42:42.420
I'm for global warming, will you accept me in the club? Hey, Rachel Gilmore, will you say I'm cool if I
00:42:47.700
do exactly what you say? And the media party and the other parties accepted all the concessions,
00:42:54.340
but of course they stabbed them in the back of the election. Of course they did. In Pierre Polyev,
00:42:58.100
I'm hoping you have a contrast, a conservative who doesn't try and be a liberal, conservative who
00:43:02.340
tries to be conservative, and gives people a real choice. I think it could work. G. Williamson 61 says,
00:43:10.740
this is devastating to some seniors who have poured their life savings into their homes to finance a
00:43:16.340
better retirement when they're ready to move to seniors communities. You're talking about the
00:43:20.660
proposal to have a tax on home equity. Oh, exactly. Listen, it's bad for everybody. It's bad for
00:43:26.980
seniors who want to sell. It's bad for young people who want to buy. The only people who like it are the
00:43:31.860
tax man. Jessica Abrams referring to the home equity taxes, they will own everything and they still won't
00:43:40.180
be happy. Yeah. I mean, I keep thinking of that creepy, creepy motto. You'll own nothing and you'll be
00:43:45.860
happy. That's a World Economic Forum motto. It's so weird how if you agree with the Great Reset,
00:43:53.060
if you agree with Build Back Better, if you agree with all their plans, then you're a good guy. If
00:43:58.260
you agree with them, if you disagree with them, then it's a conspiracy theory. It doesn't even exist.
00:44:05.460
You got to pick a lane. I mean, do they want to do these things or not? How you feel about it is the
00:44:13.380
second question. But there's a very, I mean, it's that Rachel Gilmore thing. The Great Reset is a
00:44:18.740
debunked conspiracy theory, unless you agree with it, in which case, no, it's fine. Yeah,
00:44:24.180
I don't think we're getting a lot of clarity or a lot of depth from the media. They really are
00:44:27.780
a perfect fit for Trudeau, aren't they? That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of
00:44:33.060
us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom. Let me
00:44:37.300
leave you with a fun video from Avi Amini, our Australia Chief Correspondent. He bumped into
00:44:43.300
another influencer in Davos last week, and they've had a back and forth online. Here's Avi's latest
00:44:49.860
chapter. I'll see you tomorrow. G'day, ladies and gentlemen, Avi Amini from Rebel News with my good
00:44:54.580
mate. The real Rukshan, buddy, are you jet-lagged? I'm almost getting over it. I'm almost there.
00:45:01.140
We've had a hectic couple of weeks because we just got back from Davos covering the World Economic
00:45:07.460
Forum, highlighting and exposing some of the elitist and biggest hypocrites of our planet. If
00:45:12.660
you haven't seen the reports, they're all at wefreports.com. And in fact, we also have a long-form
00:45:18.340
mini-doco coming over the next few days. But why, Rukshan, are we here today?
00:45:25.860
Well, on that trip, one of the hypocrites we unraveled was Naz Daly.
00:45:35.700
Do you think it's cool that you're standing here and you're being employed,
00:45:38.820
like you're getting paid by the World Economic Forum to promote their product?
00:45:43.060
I'll tell you what's cool. This is the video. How are you guys? Give me, give me.
00:45:45.860
You know what's really cool? Is that all this was done for no money.
00:45:53.300
I'm selling myself for free because I have opinions.
00:45:57.540
You push the climate change agenda. You push a lot of these work agendas.
00:46:02.820
We've done more for climate change than you have.
00:46:07.540
We've done more for climate change than you have.
00:46:25.060
I'm not the one standing here pretending that I stand for all these things.
00:46:35.620
As you just witnessed, Naz had every opportunity then and there
00:46:41.300
to engage in the conversation and defend his hypocrisy.
00:46:44.980
But instead he ran away and waited a week to edit and cut out the most vital part that destroys his narrative.
00:46:54.260
I'm not the one standing here pretending that I stand for all these things.
00:47:01.140
Well, we're not going to play the whole five minute video from Naz because it's just him promoting how great his company is at the climate change agenda.
00:47:09.780
And, you know, this is a guy that travels around the world to make one minute videos all the time.
00:47:17.140
But if you want, you can check out his video on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, all the socials and get involved in the conversation yourself.
00:47:24.100
That's right. And here we'll cut down the most crucial bits. Let's start.
00:47:31.700
I was walking down the street at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland when one guy came to me with a microphone.
00:47:45.140
Why do they always act like victims when reporters literally walk up to them and ask them basic questions?
00:47:51.940
And on top of that, don't you love it how he blurs out my face, blurs out your face, blurs out the branding of Rebel, saying he's doing it for our protection, even though we're the ones that posted it.
00:48:05.540
Because we believe in what we stand for and we can defend ourselves in a conversation, unlike Naz.
00:48:12.980
Let's be clear. The only reason why Naz Daily blurred all that out is because he doesn't want his millions of followers to find us to search the video and to see what he cut out.
00:48:27.140
That's why it's so important for you guys to share.
00:48:30.020
He showed his true colors with his second question.
00:48:33.780
You push the climate change agenda. You push a lot of these work agendas.
00:48:39.140
We've done more for climate change than you have here.
00:48:43.860
We've done more for climate change than you have.
00:48:48.580
If I am polluting the planet by flying to talk about climate change at a conference.
00:48:55.620
How did you get here? Naz Naz, how did you get here?
00:49:10.020
The entire foundation of the climate change narrative that's shoved down our throats all the time by Naz Daily and some of his mates at the World Economic Forum is purely based on guilt.
00:49:25.940
They want us to feel guilty about flying and eating meat while they tell us that we should own nothing, be happy and eat bugs.
00:49:40.500
I haven't had anything to eat today, thank you.
00:49:53.620
So why should we feel guilty about the things that we enjoy doing?
00:49:59.460
But the same guy who asks about your carbon footprint.
00:50:05.860
Flew to the same conference from Australia with six different people on six different intercontinental flights.
00:50:15.060
This is my personal favorite because, yes, we did fly a team of six of us down.
00:50:20.900
But our job there, our mission was to expose people like Naz.
00:50:28.100
You decide, wefreports.com, check out all the stories there and you tell us.
00:50:32.580
But we weren't there falling for his guilt activism.
00:50:41.140
But Naz and his friends, they pretend to care about climate change while causing such a massive carbon footprint for their event.
00:50:52.340
And if they actually believed in all this bull that they're spitting out there to the public,
00:50:56.980
why didn't they just do all this stuff on Zoom?
00:50:59.300
They've been telling us for two years now that we can just work from home and everything will be great.
00:51:03.780
Why don't they just practice what they preach, work from home, have these meetings and not create this massive carbon footprint?
00:51:11.860
They ripped Davos in half for a one week event.
00:51:16.660
They built Davos for a few days and they're going to rip it all down.
00:51:20.660
And when Avi made that one point, he cut it out.
00:51:23.620
I'm not the one standing here pretending that I stand for all these things.
00:51:28.500
Flying is responsible for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:51:33.060
While eating meat is responsible for 15% of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:51:54.420
And that photo that he shared of us, that's fantastic.
00:51:59.140
So he's trying to trip us out with guilt activism.
00:52:08.980
Flying is responsible for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:52:17.540
But if you work it out, 80% of the planet eats meat.
00:52:24.500
So per person, the emissions are far greater for the people flying planes.
00:52:30.420
And then if you have somebody like Nasdaily, who probably flies a hundred times more than
00:52:37.380
the average 11% who fly in the world, here's a hundred times, a thousand times more emissions
00:52:49.380
It is by far the most sustainable conference I have been to.
00:52:53.140
Every company there was working to save the planet.
00:52:56.660
I don't know if Nas truly believes that the people at the World Economic Forum are trying to
00:53:05.220
But the irony is, have an event with such a large carbon footprint and then to justify it by saying
00:53:13.060
that there's signs around here that promote the climate agenda is just laughable.
00:53:18.260
Look, Rukshan, I don't know if Nas is a bad person.
00:53:22.420
But he's certainly sold out to the worst people on the planet.
00:53:26.340
And however he's justifying it is, like you say, it's laughable.
00:53:35.540
And if you really had any integrity, well, you would have stood there and talked to me
00:53:42.260
And then later cutting it up, editing it, the most important part of it that destroyed your
00:53:49.300
narrative, you would have left it in there, but he didn't.
00:53:51.620
And that's why it's so important for you guys at home to get involved in the conversation and
00:53:59.380
Don't let Nas get away with the lie because he has millions of followers.