EZRA LEVANT: CBC is absolutely paranoid about what ordinary Canadians think of it — I'll show you their internal emails
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Summary
Sheila Gunn-Reid s scoop about how the CBC handles racism and sexism on their website is quite something. And the lengths they go to protect Wendy Mansley after she was accused of using the N-word is shocking.
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My Rebels, today I take you through Sheila Gunn-Reid's scoop,
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about how to handle commenters on their website
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And the lengths they go to protect Wendy Mansley
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to the TV version of the podcast we call Rebel News Plus.
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It's June 16th, and this is The Answer for LeVance Show.
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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.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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42 pages of internal CBC emails panicking about what Canadians think about them
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and scheming ways to get Canadians to stop saying things the CBC didn't want them to say.
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You've never seen a more thin-skinned, hypersensitive, politically correct bunch of censors than the CBC.
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They really are gross, and reading the emails, you can feel cancel culture and action.
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They're canceling you and anyone else like you who would criticize them.
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If you haven't seen Sheila's report on the subject, I really encourage you to do so.
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You can find it on our website or on a special compilation page we've made called rebelinvestigates.com
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that has a ton of interesting scoops, just like this one.
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Real investigations, not just punditry, but real digging.
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You know, it's funny, the Parliamentary Press Gallery, they've banned Rebel News and other conservative reporters,
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even though it has a long history of accrediting state broadcasters from actual dictatorships, including China.
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We object to that. We want to be accredited to report our own Parliament, but get real for a moment.
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There are no press conferences on Parliament Hill where they hand out scoops like this,
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where they invite you to look through 42 pages of secret emails.
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If you're going to a government press conference, you're going to be given government talking points.
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I suppose a real journalist could stand up and ask pointed questions,
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but again, most of the Parliamentary Press Gallery are really just government journalists.
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So really, government press conference, government journalists, you're not going to get news like that, are you?
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So Sheila did a great job of going through these 42 pages, but I want to talk about just one part of it,
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because I want to talk about how the CBC, which claims to be against racism and sexism,
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I want to show you how they do it, and this is going to shock you.
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He claims to be anti-racist, but he's dressed up in blackface so many times, he's lost count.
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He claims to be for reconciliation with Aboriginal people,
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except he fired Canada's first Indigenous justice minister for being too ethical.
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He mocked people from a northern reserve with mercury poisoning in their water.
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Thank you very much. Thank you for being here tonight.
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People in Rocky Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning.
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I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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And of course, Trudeau claims to be a feminist.
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But when he was asked about sexually assaulting a reporter named Rose Knight, remember he said this.
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Responsible for my side of the interaction, which certainly, as I said, I don't feel was in any way untoward.
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But at the same time, this lesson that we are learning in, and I'll be blunt about it,
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often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate.
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And a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently.
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They claim they're against sexism and especially against sexual violence.
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But remember, when multiple women, not connected to each other, started making independent accusations
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that the CBC star Xi'an Gomeshi was physically and sexually violent with them,
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Senior managers at the CBC set up a war room, a crisis management center,
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not to solve the problem, not to investigate the problem and stop it and end the madness
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and to dig into these complaints, but the opposite.
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To dig up dirt on the accusers, to discredit the accusers.
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Senior CBC spin doctors, many of whom are still there to this day,
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instead of fighting against a violent sexist named Xi'an Gomeshi, they defended him.
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Imagine working there at the CBC and thinking you're a feminist.
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Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Justin Trudeau, all the leftist men who say they're feminists.
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They're just doing it as a trick, as a misdirection.
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You know, Wendy Mesley is Peter Mansbridge's ex-wife.
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That place has always been about nepotism, always has been.
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Mesley was given a bizarre, obscure show about left-wing conspiracy theories called The Weekly.
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It was just once a week, and it was really mopping up the leftovers of U.S. talk shows a week or two
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after they were done, when something was newsy down there.
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Maybe a month later, Wendy Mesley would pick it up.
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Seriously, scrolling through her shows, you can see them here called The Weekly.
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You'd wonder, why is this even on something called Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?
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I mean, there were a few Canadian stories, for sure.
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But mostly it was just left-wing conspiracy theories about American politics, especially about Trump.
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Like, could Don Jr. bring down the White House?
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Or is Jared Kushner going to leave the White House?
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Or is Rudy Giuliani going to get in trouble now?
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Every one of these stories is a little bit kooky, gossipy, conspiracy theory.
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Another theme is, this was all paid for by Canadian tax dollars.
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Hey, I'm all for criticizing powerful politicians.
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But why did Wendy Mensley never criticize, you know, Canada's powerful politicians?
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Wendy Mensley said more about Stormy Daniels than she did about Rose Knight, the woman Trudeau molested.
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She said more about Don Jr.'s activities than about Trudeau's family activities, including
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business deals that his brother had with the Chinese and Iranian dictatorships.
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I wonder why Wendy Mensley never held Canadian politicians to account.
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So that's who she's been for the past few years.
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She has a job for life there, as any ex of Peter Mansbridge would.
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But her weird show was tucked away on a day and a time in the schedule where no one's really
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The federal government cut your funding for research.
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Rebel Media came in and did a crowdfunding project for you, raised about $200,000.
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After Charlottesville and the riots, the protests there, many people cut ties with Rebel Media,
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including the Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, saying that it could be seen as giving hate
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So I'm wondering, why do you go on Rebel Media after Charlottesville?
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But I do wonder, if you've noticed that Rebel Media, for example, does seem to be fond of you.
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It's been accused, of course, of being supportive of white supremacist views.
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Ezra Levant, they have a million subscribers on YouTube, 150,000 followers on Facebook.
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I never understood why Conservatives would go on that show.
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Anyways, as you can see, Wendy Mansley made a living not only being a conspiracy theorist
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of the hard left, but also by calling anyone she didn't like racist.
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I won't get into all the examples, but it was a major theme of hers.
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But how does that work when you, Wendy, are a woman of privilege who owes her position to
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her first husband, who would have been retired a long time ago, and sorry to say it, how long
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do you really think you're going to get away with it to be a woke anti-racism activist when
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I mean, how long do you think it's going to work for you before you wind up on your own
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I mean, you're calling everyone racist just because when do you think you're going to
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Except for, in her case, it wouldn't be a false charge.
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Incredibly, in staff meetings, Wendy Mansley would use the N-word, the derogatory swear
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word against black people, repeatedly, despite people expressing their comfort with it.
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Despite black people being in the room, she would use the N-word.
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Who talks that way in private or in staff meetings?
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Well, listen, Gian Gomeschi used the CBC as a giant conveyor belt for young, naive, desperate
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women who would do anything to move up a rung on the ladder of showbiz.
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He used the CBC as a giant dating service, preying on audience members and interns.
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I guess what I'm saying is the CBC condoned that sort of thing, defended that sort of thing
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Why wouldn't they do it for Peter Mansbridge's ex?
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And just to be clear, Wendy Mansley was not fired for saying the N-word.
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She said the N-word repeatedly, and everyone in the CBC knew it.
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She was only suspended when it became public news.
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In the meantime, it was just like Gian Gomeschi.
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They made excuses for her, probably tried to discredit any black person or other ally who
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said, yeah, maybe tone it down with a KKK talk, Wendy.
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And to think she dared to call Jordan Peterson or Maxine Bernier intolerant.
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But here's what Sheila Gunn-Reed found in those emails.
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The CBC refused to publish in the news stories the N-word that Wendy Mansley kept saying in
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They refused to let the world know what she shamefully did.
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They thought they could pretend it was something else, that they could cover it up.
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But when people in the comments section on the CBC website wrote it, when they did the
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reporting that CBC was trying to stifle, those comments were immediately deleted.
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The CBC said it broke the rules by being demonstrably false or a language that is potentially harmful.
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Seriously, Wendy Mansley drops the N-word again and again.
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But anyone who mentions it, who does the reporting in the comments section, they're banned.
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Even if they're reporting it as a fact, which they did, the fact that Wendy Mansley said it,
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The second thing to know is that besides deleting comments from the public that told the truth,
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the CBC simply were not going to report the story to vast swaths of their audience.
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If I'm reading this email right, there wasn't a single story in Radio Canada.
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That's what French language CBC is called, Radio Canada.
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There wasn't a single story permitted in French about the N-word incidents.
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That's what social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever.
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The CBC simply were pretending that the biggest racism scandal in recent memory in national journalism
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They were just going to close their eyes and cover their ears and pretend it didn't happen
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To their chief accuser, their chief slanderer, who called everyone else racist,
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Just last night, here's CBC's chief censor, Brody Fenlon.
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Why CBC is turning off Facebook comments on news posts for a month.
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Social media attacks on our journalists and the subjects of our stories is something we take seriously.
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For sure, just like Wendy Massey, she's allowed to attack you.
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When they do an investigation, that's what they call it when they attack you.
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Again, the word attack is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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Here's a left-wing radical named Dion Buse attacking Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Okay, so wouldn't you say that it would be dumb in it?
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I think, am I coming across as pleasant or anything?
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I'm having, I'm trying to have a conversation with you.
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You don't have the right to film everywhere you go.
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Here's the Toronto police attacking our reporters.
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Here's the Montreal police attacking our reporters.
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What this clown Brody Fenlon in CBC means is not an attack.
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That's what he's going to stamp out. What a loser.
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There is ample evidence the mental health of many Canadians is fragile and in need of attention
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after 16 months of pandemic lockdown, school closures and economic uncertainty.
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Some recent articles on the well-being of reporters tasked with covering a crisis they're also living through
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have many of us looking in the mirror to take stock of our health.
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Compounding the stress and anxiety of journalists is a vitriol of harassment
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many of them face on social media platforms and, increasingly, in the field.
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For journalists, a platform like Twitter can be a great way to find sources and promote their work,
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Increasingly, reporters are also physically attacked.
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I haven't seen a CBC reporter physically attacked.
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But if by attacking you mean mean words, no one attacks Canadians more than the CBC.
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No one pits Canadians against each other based on race or sex or sexuality or whatever more than the CBC.
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They hate what the first letter C stands for their name.
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Right now they're on a waging war against Canadian identity, against Canada, against John A. MacDonald.
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They're the ones pitting us against each other.
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They're the ones trafficking in conspiracy theories while they accuse everyone else of that.
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And they're sick of you complaining about them and their bitterness.
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So instead of changing who they are and what they do, instead of looking in the mirror,
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instead of providing more balance or reflecting on their own misconduct,
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they're not just going to moderate comments anymore.
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So what's the point of Facebook with no comments?
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The CBC wants you to be a passive receptor of their views.
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You can't talk back because that's a bigot's move.
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No wonder no one listens to them anymore except one guy, Justin Trudeau.
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Look, if one guy gave me $1.5 billion a year, he'd be pretty sure I'd listen to him.
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I'm pretty sure I'd consider silencing any public riffraff who was mean to the guy giving me a billion and a half a year in the comments.
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This isn't just the CBC silencing ordinary Canadians, so this is the CBC showing the template for everyone else in the media when Stephen Gilboa's new internet censorship rules come in.
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By the way, it was a small detail, but, you know, her show was canceled, Wendy Masley.
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And judging by her Twitter feed, Wendy Masley actually has not been fired for her racist outburst.
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I think, and I'm trying to find out, I think that bigot is still on the payroll.
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I think maybe they're just waiting to shut down all the comments before they give her a new show.
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That was the Calgary police arresting yet again,
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jailing yet again, putting behind bars yet again,
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a Christian pastor, this one named Tim Stevens.
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I couldn't help but notice the three words on the car,
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I think they should be prosecuted for false advertising.
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The dumbest cops in Canada are from Aylmer, Ontario.
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young Ocean Weisblatt for the crime of skating on a public rink
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Who would put a dad behind bars in a police car?
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The Calgary police force are as much a disgrace
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And I know that's just like a race to the bottom.
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There's another one we have of an Australian mum
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being arrested on the sidewalk by pandemic police
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But my God, we've got to arrest this Christian pastor
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when you're inspired by vigilance, courage, and pride.
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Well, joining me now is the man who was on the scene
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I mean, there are a lot of different groups in society
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Sports teams in the NHL and other professional leagues
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I know they're clearing the way for the Calgary Stampede,
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We saw that the premier and the health minister themselves
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enjoyed a good party over a bottle of Jameson's whiskey
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Why are they going so hard against Christian pastors
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They did arrest a restaurateur up in Mira, Alberta,
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compared to the neutrality or passivity elsewhere
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or answer to that question is discrimination and bigotry.
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and these key conditions in much more egregious ways,
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Police say that there's no violations taking place.
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I mean, Maxime Bernier was arrested the other day
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you'll be lighter in the wallet if you come to down.
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That doesn't mean you'll go on a shopping spree.
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and a white supremacist to object to the lockdowns.
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They are people who are marching in thinly veiled,
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white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests,
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I think it's pretty clear that these are politically directed police,
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which used to be the most conservative city in Canada.
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I mean, you care, and I care, and Sheila Gunn-Reed cares,
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and the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms cares.
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But I think I've just listed everyone who cares.
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and it's similar that the people who are coming out
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and sharing their experiences talking about this persecution
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very often come from countries where these freedoms don't exist
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We're very privileged in Canada, Alberta, and Calgary.
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These freedoms are something that must be guarded vigilantly.
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It's so perfect that you brought up that specific clip.
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I was actually going to suggest it would be the perfect clip to play.
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he says, well, I'm not really one to circumvent the judicial process,
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but certain times they're sort of accepted to it.
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He's basically himself in that video admitting openly
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that he is willing to circumvent the just course of law.
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When you witness the conduct of these judges in court
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They're not adhering to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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You know, I've been thinking about the mass failure
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and police commissions and police oversight boards.
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It's not just a failure of civil liberties NGOs.
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It's not just a failure of business lobby groups.
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It's not just a failure of Christian associations.
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Like most Christian churches are silent or condemning the ones that are open.
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It's not just a failure of the opposition parties.
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I guess what I've just done there is showing you
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that in the past would have been like a network,
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But what happens when nine out of ten knots in the net break?
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that you need all those little knots in the net
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And I tell you that nine out of ten of those knots have failed.
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very few of which have even been debated in Parliament,
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And we're really right up against authoritarian regimes.
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There are so few voices standing up for the freedoms
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And it's about time that we as citizens get together
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and put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
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You know, let me quote to you from Professor Bruce Pardy.
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then I think there's something broken with you.