EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau brought in martial law in Canada, but he says he supports Covid protesters in China
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Justin Trudeau has declared martial law in Canada, but he says he supports COVID protesters in China. Ezra Levenant explains why this is a bad idea, and why we should be worried about what China is doing to our democracy.
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Hello, my friends. Incredible show today. But boy, it's a show, not a tell. I want to show
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you these videos. I've got about 20 videos from the streets of China showing what I think is the
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greatest uprising there since Tiananmen Square. Many of them are in the Chinese language, but
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it's the video I want to show you. So I will explain each clip as I go through them today
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on the podcast, and I'll do my best. But really, if you're ever going to get a subscription to the
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eight bucks a month. And believe me, you're going to see videos on my show today that you will not
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source videos. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. All right. For those of you who are enjoying the audio
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experience, here's the podcast. Tonight, Justin Trudeau brought in martial law in Canada, but he
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says he supports COVID protesters in China. It's November 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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He's ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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There's the greatest popular uprising in China since Tiananmen Square going on right now.
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It's unbelievable. Phrased another way, it's hard to believe, given the censorship and disinformation
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from that regime. They're very clamped down on the internet. But it's also true that a great number
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of Chinese people have cell phones with cameras on them, and there's just so many people filming so
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many protests and posting them in such clever ways, it might be impossible for them to be stopped,
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even by the million or so official censors and thought police that work in that country.
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It really is thrilling to watch. And despairing, too. My hopes were so high back in 2019 when freedom
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lovers in Hong Kong marched peacefully in the streets in defiance of Beijing's plans to bring
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Chinese law into that free city. I thought maybe their people power would win. No, they were crushed.
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Stalin said that power comes from the barrel of a gun. You could have all the peaceful protests you like,
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but if you're up against a brutal totalitarian regime, they just don't stop based on a conscience.
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Remember, China is a basic dictatorship that doesn't need to worry about rules. I mean, ask Trudeau.
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing
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them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast as we need to
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start, you know, investing in solar. I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must
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dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.
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Yeah, you see how he said what was on his mind and then tried to spin it. That was Harper's talk.
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But it was Trudeau who invoked martial law. It was Trudeau who said just last week that
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protests calling for political change are immoral and wrong. Oh, until he tried to correct himself,
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like with that China thing. In terms of responding to their demands or legitimizing them by engaging,
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I'm highlighting that I'm worried about setting a precedent that a blockade on Wellington Street can
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lead to changing public policy. People need to be heard, but we need to get that balance right.
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And then she agreed that I need to be cautious and I don't want to set any bad precedents.
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Okay, so fairly self-explanatory. There's a willingness to discuss, but you were concerned
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about setting a precedent where a blockade could equal a change in public policy. Is that fair?
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Yeah. I think we have a robust functioning democracy and protests, public protests are an important part
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of making sure we're getting messages out there and Canadians are getting messages out there and
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highlighting how they feel about various issues. But using protests to demand changes to public policy
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is something that I think is worrisome. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kerr.
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Although, sorry, to a certain extent. No, no, please go on.
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Yeah. Protests, if you're out protesting that the government is shutting down a safe injection site or
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something, you are asking for changes in public policy. But there is a difference between
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occupations and saying we're not going until this has changed in a way that is massively disruptive
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and potentially dangerous versus just saying, yeah, we're protesting because we want public policy to
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change and we're trying to convince people to get enough of them that politicians will listen to
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enough people saying, okay, I'm going to lose votes if I don't change this. That's the usual way
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protests can be effective in our democracies. I've seen different explanations for what sparked
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these protests in China. A zero COVID policy where entire cities are locked down because of a handful
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of cases. Remember, COVID these days is really not much more than the common cold. The new variants are so
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harmless by contrast with the original. By the way, the common cold is a coronavirus. We've known them
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just by different names for years. But these authoritarians have used COVID zero as a way to
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control everything, anything. I mean, a way to force everyone to constantly test themselves, constantly
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submit to being prodded, to be banned or permitted based on their personal health or at least whatever
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some tests said. Zero COVID. I believe it. And how zero COVID stopped fire trucks from stopping a
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particular residential fire. I totally believe that was a reason for the uprising. And of course, the
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massive Apple, iPhone and computer factory, there's a company in China called Foxconn that makes Apple
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products. Huge protests there. Did you know that Apple computers, so cool, so hip, so fashionable,
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so progressive, so exquisitely liberal, that they use Chinese labor to put together your phones and
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computers to save, I don't know, 100 bucks a phone? And what does Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, have to do
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to get China to let them operate there and sell their phones there? Well, Tim Cook has disabled Apple
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functionality only in China to help the police crack down on these protests. For example, they turned off
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functions on iPhones. If you have an iPhone or an Apple product, they have something called AirDrop.
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It lets you share documents with people who are physically near you. You don't need their number
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or email address. It's great for sharing things during protests when you're near people. You just
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type AirDrop and give it to people. Tim Cook stopped that for these Chinese protests. He's on the side
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of Xi Jinping. He's against the people. So much for that old Apple ad from the 80s so long ago about
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Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the information purification of the victims.
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We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology where each worker may bloom,
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secure from the pests, obeying contradictory force. Our unification as a force is more powerful
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a weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people with one will, one resolve, one cause.
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Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.
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On January 24th, Apple computer will introduce Macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be like
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1984. Yeah, now Apple really is big brother. You know, Apple is musing about banning Twitter
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from its app store, basically meaning that no one with an iPhone will be able to use it.
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Elon Musk is talking too much about free speech, you see. Apple has been asked by the U.S. government
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to ban China's social media app called TikTok from the app store. Like I say, Apple is on China's side.
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So is Google, of course. So is Facebook, of course. I don't know if you remember, but Mark Zuckerberg
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actually asked Xi Jinping to name Zuckerberg's own child. What kind of weirdo creep does that?
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Outsources naming their own child to a foreign dictator? Xi Jinping is a murderer and a tyrant,
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but even he was creeped out by that request and he refused to do it for Zuckerberg. He said no.
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I've been watching these protests unfold a little bit on Twitter,
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but mainly on TikTok itself, which is bizarre because TikTok doesn't appear to be censoring
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these videos in North America. Now, of course, it censors them like crazy in China.
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I don't know. Maybe it wants to see who is watching them in North America. Remember, TikTok
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is a giant spy machine. It tracks everything you do or say. It tracks your other apps. It tracks your
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gestures and your eye movements. It spies on you. So maybe it's a giant honey trap. They want to see
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who's watching it. Maybe. I don't know. I'd like to show you a lot of short videos that I downloaded
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from TikTok. I shouldn't be on that app. They're spying on me, but I want to show you these videos.
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Some of them are as short as five or 10 seconds long. Some of them have only Chinese writing on
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them. So, of course, I don't know exactly what they mean. And I couldn't speak to the veracity of
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these clips anyways. I don't know who made these. Some of these might be government propaganda.
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They come from or through a government-controlled social media app. But I can't believe that China
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would want the world to see this kind of uprising. I don't understand why I can see these on TikTok.
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Some of these have very amateur or even childish writing on them. That's the nature of TikTok.
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That's just how they are. That's citizen journalism in 2022, I guess, from a foreign country.
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Some of these might, for all I know, be from a different city or even a different year. So I don't know
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the quality of what I'm showing you. But this seems real to me, and it certainly seems more real to me
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than any reports you're going to get from Trudeau, CBC, or Toronto Star.
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There are some interesting things in these videos. I'll show you a bunch.
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For example, some people are holding up literally blank pieces of paper,
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blank protest signs, and shouting, you know what I want to say, and literally being arrested for that
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because everyone knows what they want to say. And that's done to get around censorship both online
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and in person, I think. They're trying to stay ahead of artificial intelligence. China's the world
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leader in AI. That's the only way to do censorship at scale, as they say. You really couldn't censor a
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billion or more people all typing things together. You would need machines to do that. You couldn't do
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that with just human police. Now, machines can learn, but maybe people are still quicker.
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This is fascinating, and the fact that it's happening at the hands of Chinese people is amazing
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to me because it certainly has not happened because of anything Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau or Jacinda
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Ardern or any other pro-Chinese politicians in the West has done. So now, in no particular order,
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I'm going to show you a bunch of TikTok videos, and I'm going to give you some very quick thoughts
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in between. And let me just tell you right now, these aren't in order. Some of them are really
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goofy and amateur, but I think that's life online in a dystopian time, isn't it? Here, let's run
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through them, and if they get too boring, I'll cut this short. Let's take a look at some of these
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videos. There's a few I put in from Twitter, but most of them are from TikTok, which is a weird
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thing to do, by the way. Here, let's take a look.
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was that honking i didn't see any trucks but that's honking
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justin trudeau brought in martial law in canada deployed the riot police seized bank accounts
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because of honking they're honking in china i love it i wonder if they knew anything
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about the canadian trucker convoi i bet that was censored in china but that's the only tool they
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have honking their horns boy that's a feeling of freedom isn't it all right here's the next video
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that's a very short video isn't it less than five seconds long but imagine these head-to-toe
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hazmat suit thugs walking around just shouting at people just with sticks just hitting things
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now this next video if i understand is a man who was banned from re-entering his apartment
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because his pcr test was positive so he's literally sleeping at his shop he holds up
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some sort of paper in chinese obviously i don't know what it means but take a look at this
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Now, I don't know if that is related to the protests.
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When I was searching for Chinese protests that came up,
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Maybe that's not got to do with the protests, but I certainly liked his passion.
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He was a businessman trying to make a go of things.
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Historic protests are taking place across China.
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For the first time since the start of the pandemic,
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large protests have broken out in multiple Chinese cities,
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The rare and historic demonstrations were triggered by a fire in western
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China last week that killed at least 10 people in a residential building.
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It happened in Urumqi city in Xinjiang region, which has been under lockdown since August.
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Many protesters blamed COVID rules for hampering rescue efforts
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and preventing residents from escaping the burning building.
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For the first time, some protesters have openly called for the country's leader,
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Normally, saying that out loud in China could get you jailed.
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In some footage, hundreds of protesters could be heard saying they want freedom,
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At a prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, where President Xi studied,
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students called for democracy and the rule of law.
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Many others have taken up a silent but powerful form of dissent,
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It's a protest against China's censorship and a show of grief for those who perished in the fire.
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Will China change its mind on its zero COVID policy,
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what the country's leader do next could have major public health and political consequences.
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I think that was a report from Vice News, and I salute them.
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I think that was a very honest and candid report, very tough to do journalism in China.
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I don't think that reporter is actually in China.
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I don't think he would be allowed to broadcast that, but he gathered that footage.
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I thought that was an excellent report, and I find that credible.
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Wasn't that interesting about the blank signs and still people being arrested?
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He mentioned Tsinghua University, which is the Harvard of China, so they say.
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The fact that they're talking about democracy is incredibly encouraging to me.
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This is from Shanghai, which for the longest time was the most Western oriented city,
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the most freedom oriented city in China. Take a look.
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if you think thataciub is the longest-natural corporation,
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At this point, you're going to be police fielding to Antarctica,
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i think that was in a barbershop i think he was telling cops to get the heck out we don't need
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your kind here and by your kind like as in you police that's more courage than i thought you
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might find in a totalitarian regime and the fact that it was filmed very interesting to me here's
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one from chengdu china which is the uh the panda bear capital actually used to be part of tibet
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until it was annexed by another chinese state it's a major city chengdu um it's very interesting to me
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no more censorship we want freedom they didn't learn that from joe biden or justin trudeau or
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jacinda ardern did they because all three of those western leaders don't use that language they don't
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say no more freedom they say more censorship in fact they're trying to censor elon musk isn't
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that amazing i wonder who taught them about freedom i wonder if it's just innate innate human condition or
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if they're managing to find information through the great firewall of china as they say now this video
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i don't know if this is current i just found it yesterday but these huge internment camps by the
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way they were built in canada on a much smaller scale we saw hotel quarantines in airports they had a
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large quarantine facility in australia you might know several of them i don't know if this is right now
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or if this is footage from a year ago but this is a chinese internment camp for people allegedly with
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again a five second clip that's the nature of tiktok some funny music that i think that was the music
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from um some uh sci-fi i think uh some old show a little sense of humor is it real i don't know but
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do they really have covid jails i don't know i think they might they have all sorts of jails in
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china here's another video uh taken on the street let's take a look at what this is like these are
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very different cities these are around the whole country beijing chengdu shanghai i think there's so
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much that it could overwhelm people but then again ai is watching everything and everyone take a look
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It looked like that was the apartment building that had the fire,
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It's interesting to me that they were all wearing their masks,
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or to hide their identity from ubiquitous closed-circuit TVs
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that have more closed-circuit TVs in China than the rest of the world combined.
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I started this show how Justin Trudeau's praising in some way these protesters.
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Those protesters, by knocking down that barricade,
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did more physical damage than all the trucker convoys across Canada combined.
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There simply was no physical damage or vandalism
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or tearing things down done by the Canadian truckers.
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These Chinese freedom fighters, who I totally support,
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have just there gone further, and yet Trudeau pretends he's on their side.
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and again, some of them are of different quality than others.
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even though it is a spyware app from the People's Liberation Army.
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is the giant company that manufactures your Apple products in China,
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That is extremely important to China, not just economically,
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So to have a kind of strike there or protest there
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And by regime, I guess I could be referring either
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to the People's Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party,
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because they're threatening the production at his Chinese factories.
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Like I say, he's already removed the airdrop function
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Here's a quarantine center, according to this TikTok video.
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but we do know this existed either now or before in China.
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It's a claim that it's an enormous COVID center
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Is that people being treated and trucked like animals?
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It almost is like Nazis putting Jews and others to be killed
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Here's another video from another city in China.
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that's stunning that's the most dramatic video of the ones i've shown you so far i do not know
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which city that is in but actually attacking throwing things poking with the homemade spear
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i guess at those health nazis those health stormtroopers remind me of the white clad
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stormtroopers in star wars but they're much more evil here don't you find it incredible that
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ordinary chinese people are driving them back and that they are indeed retreating i won't be long
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won't be long before they deploy the tanks chanaman square style this is the most amazing
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uprising since chanaman square a generation ago i'll just play a few more clips and i again
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i don't know what city that was in that could be frankly there's so many large cities in china a
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city the size of toronto is common there's probably a hundred cities or dozens of cities the size of
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toronto or vancouver throughout china and they all have a similar dreary look the smog in the air
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the the soviet style apartment buildings the the they feel dystopian but there was a whiff of freedom
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in the air let's take this look at this next video oh you cannot say then no
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there are thousands of these videos on the internet
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who knows who took them who knows how they made it to the internet do they use a vpn to get through
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the great firewall of china here's another interesting photograph uh again these are unarmed people they
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don't have the second amendment and they don't have firearms mao saw to that the first rule of
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totalitarians is after the revolution seize all the guns that's why the people of hong kong were
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sitting ducks you know um bahatma gandhi mohandus gandhi and his passive resistance it only worked
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because the people he was resisting were british and although they were colonialists and imperialists
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and militarists they were also in the bottom classical liberals the people who freed the world of
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the scourge of slavery these are the people who believed in the dignity of everything you cannot
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sacrifice yourself and have that work against a stalin or a mao or a xi jinping or a hitler
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it only works against a queen victoria and i think it's fascinating that these chinese
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democracy activists are willing to stand up with nothing but a piece of white paper take a look
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i remember that video sorry i i introduced it improperly that purports to be someone quarantined in
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their cab their taxi because allegedly they're sick and can't go home to their apartment can't
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literally they put tape around him like he was like that was his house i'm going to show just a
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couple more again i i don't want to put too much authority in these that one video on mass of people
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driving back the white hazmat suited health police was actually incredible wasn't it some of these are
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just little vignettes the kind of thing you see from citizen journalists who are doing a better job
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than the official journalists let's just watch a couple more next one
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is that something out of mad max it looks like it's some crazy dystopian vehicle actually if i'm reading
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that right that was some sort of anti-covid spray that they were just driving down the street
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and spraying everybody here's a i'll show you one more video and we'll watch it together and try
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and understand what's going on in this crazy country in this crazy time final video
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what even are they doing so you got got this guy full hazmat
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and then a bunch of people not with masks sticking out their tongue and poke poke poke poke poke poke in
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their mouth but what's he even doing with it they're leaving immediately doesn't look like like he he can't
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be getting some result he can't be documenting things they're just going through this degrading
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form of invasion and torture what even is that i don't know but you can imagine
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that that's more invasive and more punitive than anything we put up with here in the west it's
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the worst of the west of the worst of what they did in melbourne and montreal and toronto the worst of it
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all and they've been ramping it up they literally have a covid zero approach and add on to that even
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harsher censorship and harsher authoritarian police than we've ever had in the west
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no wonder they're rising up this is an incredible moment and i hope that they have success and i hope
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they are not crushed under the jackboots of the communist party as they were at chanaman square
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a generation ago that's our show for today stay with us after the break we'll talk to franco
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terrazzano of the taxpayers federation about a special sweet deal that quebec has for the carbon
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well i'm not sure if i'll ever believe anyone ever again when they say trust the science because what
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they really mean as dr fauci showed us is what what they mean is trust me i am the physical corporeal
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representative of all science and to disagree with me is not just to be politically different
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or have a different opinion it's to be unscientific we heard a lot of that during the covid
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uh years and i think the same sort of hocus pocus science is at play with the theory of man-made
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global warming just like there were strange rules about how covid well here's an example remember when
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you would go into a restaurant and you could take off your mask when you were sitting down
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but if you stood up you had to put your mask on because the virus knew if you were standing or
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sitting same thing on an airplane you had to wear your mask except for if you were having peanuts or
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coffee or water then the virus knew not to attack you well that same sort of fuzzy thinking is for
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global warming science here's what i mean global warming is such a menace carbon dioxide is so dangerous
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that we have to tax you at the gas pump but and this is the science part here we have to tax you
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a different amount in quebec than if you're in another province say alberta it's like those funny
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covid rules carbon dioxide is different in quebec you know and it reacts differently to different
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tax rates if you think i'm kidding well our new guest our next guest has a press release on the subject
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that explains the math not the so-called science i'm talking about my friend franco terrazzano
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with the canadian taxpayers federation franco i'm not sure if my analogy worked perfectly but i think
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it does people who say the science says we have to levy this tax on you when you fill up at a gas pump
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oh but that amount is different province to province that doesn't sound very sciencey
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that sounds very political to me tell me about your latest press release
00:35:09.100
well you don't need to be a scientist to know that carbon taxes don't work and and look here is the
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latest proof that trudeau's carbon tax was all about politics not about the environment so here's
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what we found starting next year every single province but one will have to pay trudeau's higher
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carbon tax rate and who is which province is the one province that won't be paying as high of a
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carbon tax rate you guessed it it's quebec so next year every single province will have to pay
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a carbon tax that's 14 cents per liter of gasoline that's the trudeau government's mandatory minimum
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carbon tax every province but quebec because in quebec their requirement is that the carbon tax
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stays above five cents per liter of gas so you have trudeau giving quebec a special deal on carbon tax
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and giving taxpayers in every other part of canada every other province higher gas prices and higher
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home heating bills well help me understand i mean i first of all this is shocking but not surprising
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if you get me it's it's the audacity of it it's like those covid rules that only apply you know when
00:36:22.480
you're not drinking water or eating peanuts on the plane but what was the so-called explanation how do
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they finesse this for these people are so terrified of global warming they think we're all going to die
00:36:35.200
but they they're not terrified enough to give quebec a break why what is the if they were here right now
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they'd say oh no no no franco you don't understand the reason we're doing this for quebec is what how
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would they fill in that blank how would they try and explain this favoritism is is is carbon dioxide
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different in quebec would they try and make a scientific argument what would they say to justify
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this ezra the politicians haven't given any explanation no no no they're trying to sweep
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this under the rug i bet you they want canadians not to know about this special deal so the politicians
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haven't given canadians any explanation as to why quebec is getting a special deal while everyone else is
00:37:18.220
getting higher gas prices and heating bills but you know all those smart folks on twitter all those
00:37:23.580
pundits here's what i'm hearing from them they're saying well franco don't you know quebec has a cap
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and trade carbon tax scheme well yes we did know that but you know who else has currently a cap and
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trade carbon tax scheme nova scotia and nova scotia is also reducing emissions but that didn't matter for
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the trudeau government because just last week the trudeau government said it doesn't matter you still
00:37:49.300
have to pay our higher carbon tax rate beginning next year so nova scotia has a very similar cap and
00:37:56.480
trade carbon tax as quebec but it didn't matter for the trudeau government the people in nova scotia
00:38:01.560
are getting bullied into higher carbon taxes while it certainly looks like trudeau is playing favorites
00:38:07.360
uh with quebec and i think bc has a kind of cap and trade at least i thought they did and alberta has
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its own industry kind of cap and trade a special industry carbon tax this whole thing is hocus pocus
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it's it's it really is the opposite of science and the fact that for example alberta's massive force
00:38:27.520
the canada's massive boreal force which are a huge carbon absorber again i'm i'm playing into their
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hands by pretending that there's some science here but obviously canada's enormous number of trees
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absorbs so much of the world's carbon but that pretends that there's science here just like
00:38:44.720
the covid crazy rules pretended that there was science there i don't know i'm excited that you
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discovered this how did you find it where did you find the revelation that quebecers will pay
00:38:55.820
really one-third the amount that the rest of the country where like where was that buried
00:39:00.640
well you know it's it's mostly just because this is something that the canadian taxpayers federation
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is always following i mean we're hammering the government about its economically painful
00:39:10.940
carbon tax all the time and when last week when the trudeau government announced that it's raising its
00:39:16.320
carbon tax bills in atlantic canada well it just kind of occurred to us that the only place that the
00:39:22.660
trudeau government isn't requiring to pay its higher carbon tax rate is quebec but ezra i'm so glad you
00:39:29.500
brought up british columbia because british columbia has essentially been what is it the pace car for
00:39:35.120
all the people who want to push carbon taxes well british columbia has had the highest carbon tax in
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canada for years and what happens with emissions well emissions in british columbia have continued to go
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up and up and up if you look at the federal government the first year of the federal government's
00:39:54.000
carbon tax before you had politicians locking down the economy uh in 2020 well the first year of the
00:40:00.100
federal government carbon tax emissions went up there as well why are emissions going up even though
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they bring in a carbon tax because the trudeau government is punishing necessities people need
00:40:11.240
gasoline to get to work people need natural gas to heat their homes during the cold winter months and
00:40:16.980
you know what canada makes up such a minuscule uh percentage of global ghg emissions that even if
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the trudeau government brought all of our industries to a screeching halt which some days it seems like
00:40:29.100
that's what's what's going on here it would cause a ton of pain for working canadians for working
00:40:35.180
families but it wouldn't do like almost nothing for the global environment so while canada continues to
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raise the tax bill on canadians we've also seen many other countries including many of our peers do
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the right thing and reduce gas taxes you know what's so incredible is if you actually look at
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what the un framework convention on climate change they actually have some scientific papers
00:40:59.880
they acknowledge that none of this franco will actually work none of this will actually stop the
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world's temperature from changing i mean if you look at the language used by trudeau he doesn't say
00:41:14.480
stop climate change he doesn't even say slow it down the verb they always use is combat climate change
00:41:22.580
it's the action because even they acknowledge there will be no victory over global warming even if
00:41:29.520
every car was taken off the road in every country in the world that would not stop global warming
00:41:36.740
according to the united nations framework convention on climate change the un's global warming people
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to them global warming is a wonderful perpetual excuse to extract taxes and regulations from people
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but as you've shown except on their favored province of quebec franco it's great to see you again the
00:41:57.940
story on your website which is a great website taxpayer.com is trudeau giving quebec a special deal on
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carbon tax and it has the links to the sources there i encourage you to check it out franco thanks
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for your time today my friend thanks for having me on all right our pleasure there you have it franco
00:42:15.020
terrazzano of the canadian taxpayers federation stay with us more ahead
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hey welcome back here's a friendly letter hi ezra my wife and i have been supporters of rebel for a long
00:42:29.680
period of time overall we've been impressed with your thorough and objective coverage of events that are
00:42:34.140
either distorted or ignored by any other news source recently you went on an anti-miller tirade
00:42:40.300
on air we were more than disappointed we were outraged mr miller is a courageous dedicated and
00:42:46.080
brilliant lawyer and his recent dust-up with enterprise canada should have been dealt with
00:42:50.240
in-house not prejudged by you in a negative fashion it is significant that after all his hard
00:42:55.520
work fighting for freedom and the trucker convoy he was thrown under the bus and not allowed to
00:42:59.460
cross-examine trudeau on the last day of the hearing mr miller deserves better than to be
00:43:04.640
publicly humiliated by you on air in view of the fact that he has been sued for defamation of character
00:43:09.620
why not let the legal system deal with it if he is vindicated down the road it will not matter
00:43:15.240
your public attack on his credibility will still stand passion and brilliance are a rare combination
00:43:19.660
in today's world people who care should exercise loyalty and stick together when i was employed by a
00:43:24.140
trade union visiting logging camps a camp took cook told me something that is worth repeating when
00:43:29.480
you're a cook you're only as good as your last meal in your book this also applies to lawyers i guess
00:43:35.180
you have a lot of power and influence and hopefully will exercise it more judiciously
00:43:38.740
in the future disappointed but still a loyal rebel murray and nancy cantala okay it started friendly and
00:43:46.060
then it got critical but as you know i wrote to you personally thank you for that letter
00:43:50.480
i disagree with the the the plain meaning of your letter which is i shouldn't criticize people on
00:44:00.620
our side but i think that's wrong i am a conservative i would only vote conservative i
00:44:07.460
that's no secret that's where i stand but i believe i have a special duty to call out conservatives when
00:44:13.740
they're not being conservative when they get it wrong not in a gotcha way not to exaggerate anything
00:44:19.860
but our principled opposition to jason kenny the conservative premier in alberta doug ford the
00:44:26.720
conservative premier in ontario erin o'toole the conservative leader of of canada it was principled
00:44:33.700
and it was because they weren't real conservatives you wouldn't really trust me if i abided what
00:44:38.600
jason kenny did to pastor arthur pavlovsky and said oh let's ignore it because he's on our side
00:44:43.880
what's my side i'm actually not a party member of any party haven't been for over a decade
00:44:48.380
my side is my conscience and my duty to our viewers to tell them what i think is going on
00:44:54.680
and i think we were actually instrumental in removing jason kenny and to a degree erin o'toole
00:45:00.700
who were disastrous during the pandemic i think we're trusted because we're in no one's pocket
00:45:05.920
we're certainly not in the liberal pocket but we're also not in any other party's pocket
00:45:10.540
there's people we clearly like but we are beholden to no one that's part of our crowdfunding model
00:45:15.900
there's no boss out there who can simply call me up and say stop criticizing him or fire that there's
00:45:21.840
just no one it's it's a mass support that's what gives us our freedom in the case of brendan miller
00:45:28.020
you say i went on a tirade i don't think i did in fact i spent as much time praising brendan miller
00:45:32.820
and saying he was the mvp of the whole commission than criticizing him and my criticism was i think
00:45:38.840
gentle and it said look this guy's been going full tilt for a month he's obviously stressed out
00:45:44.000
sleep deprived and he got it wrong and he wanted to get it right like we all did but we gotta call
00:45:51.140
it out and he's got to correct it i know what it's like to be falsely called terrible names like nazi
00:45:57.160
it's a terrible name i can i suppose brush it off more easily because i'm jewish but imagine calling
00:46:02.420
some guy even if you never met him before just some guy you picked out on the internet calling him
00:46:07.100
a nazi that's not fair and we know that because when it's done to us it hurts so i think brendan
00:46:13.220
miller made a mistake there and i think it behooves me to to call it like i see it so i disagree with
00:46:18.560
you i'm not a party man i used to be way back when but i have a different job now it's to call it like
00:46:24.640
i see it occasionally you might even hear me praise a liberal it's possible if they do the right thing
00:46:30.120
here's another letter hey ezra i could be wrong but from all the news clips i've seen jt never actually
00:46:36.920
uses the word unvaccinated when insulting our people he used the word unvaxxed i know there
00:46:42.860
is a lot of talk out there about perjury in his commission testimony but i wonder if in a court of
00:46:47.220
law not that any judge would let it get that far if his legal team would simply say there's a
00:46:51.460
difference between the two terms they might say that one can be unvaccinated but not an anti-vaxxer
00:46:55.800
and vice versa i know from general context we infer these reference the unvaccinated and it's probably
00:47:01.460
accurate but if it's enough to find him guilty of perjury in a court of law is another question
00:47:05.660
unless we have that silver bullet where he uses the phrase unvaccinated then we would likely lose
00:47:11.120
at a court of law even if we win in the court of popular opinion which we may not want to factor in
00:47:15.780
the people unsupportive of our views anyways that's just some of my thoughts calvin from st
00:47:19.920
catherine's calvin thanks for writing i don't think you're going to beat justin trudeau by
00:47:25.460
criminalizing him and i think he lied but you i he does say anti-vaxxers he says oh i don't hate
00:47:34.380
unvaccinated i hate anti-vaxxers he's he's pretending there's an important difference it's
00:47:40.760
like people who say oh i don't hate the jews no no no i don't hate the jews i just hate israel and
00:47:46.100
zionists i'm fine with the jews oh really it's maybe a distinction without a difference
00:47:51.340
um you're not going to get trudeau on a legal technicality in a court of law and we wouldn't want
00:47:56.820
it that way anyways because don't think what comes around doesn't go around if you can get
00:48:03.160
justin trudeau fired by criminalizing his political talk you can get any conservative fired for the
00:48:09.580
same and don't think it wouldn't be disproportionately used against conservatives that's why i'm against
00:48:14.020
all these ideas of a private prosecution of trudeau or trudeau the traitor charging with treachery
00:48:20.500
it's not going to work there's no silver bullet you got to go out there and do the hard work of
00:48:25.780
democracy knocking on doors campaigning fighting in the court of public opinion you're not going to
00:48:30.320
dislodge justin trudeau through a trick and we wouldn't want that way because don't think those
00:48:35.180
tricks wouldn't be used against us tenfold thanks for your great letters today until tomorrow on behalf
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of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom