EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau dumps millions more into online censorship, especially against anyone who disagrees with his approach to Ukraine
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Justin Trudeau wants to make Canada more resilient against online disinformation, and he's doing it by targeting anyone who disagrees with him. It's Orwellian, isn't it? And it's a good thing we don't get any money from the Trudeau Liberals.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through the latest censorship move by the Trudeau liberals.
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It's in the name of fighting disinformation. But what's disinformation? Aren't we allowed to
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disagree about information in society? Aren't we allowed to have more than one point of view?
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Isn't the clash of ideas what brings out the truth? Since when did the government get to
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term anyone who opposed it disinformationists? I'll take you through the latest news.
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau dumps millions more into online censorship, especially against anyone who
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disagrees with his approach to Ukraine. It's July 26th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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I saw this news release late last week. It's a press release from the government of Canada.
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It says, projects launched to help strengthen Canadians' resilience against harmful online
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disinformation. Now, that really is Orwellian, isn't it? I mean, I can tell you some real online
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harms. Scams that try to trick you into giving your passwords or giving your credit card information.
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There's a ton of those online, which tells me that they work. Identity theft, phishing, as it's called,
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when you're tricked into entering a password. Pretty obvious online harm. Being tracked and spied on by
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malware or spyware, sort of like the Arrive Can app, but by people even less trustworthy than Trudeau.
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Ransomware, have you heard of that? That's when your files are hacked and you have to send money,
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usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to pay the thieves to release your data. It's blackmail.
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Obviously targeting children, child porn. That's a horrific online harm. And then there's recruiting
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terrorists and promoting terrorist propaganda online using the internet. ISIS was pretty good at that.
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Their videos were terrifying and professional and very persuasive. They scared their enemies
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and recruited terrorist soldiers from around the world. Would you agree with me that all of those
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things are indeed genuine online harms? They're scams and crimes and illegal misconduct. They use the
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internet and some of which are really tailor-made for the internet. Online harms, just like the words say.
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But that's not what Trudeau is focused on. None of those things. I mean, take a look at his press
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release again. He says he's targeting disinformation. Disinformation, as in facts that are wrong or
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opinions that are unreasonable or things taken out of context, which isn't really internet specific,
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is it? I mean, if you want disinformation, pick up any newspaper, turn on any TV or radio station,
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read any magazine, listen to any conversation, because disinformation is just a modern way of
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saying, I disagree with you and your facts. You're wrong. To which, historically, the response was,
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well, I disagree with you, and I think you're the one who's wrong. And then you haggle it out. In fact,
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our entire modern democracy is set up that way. We call it checks and balances. We have an official
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opposition whose full-time job, by the way, is to oppose. Our election campaigns, our election debates,
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they're designed to have a clash of ideas. I say you're wrong. I say you're wrong. It includes facts
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and arguments and opinions. Our entire legal system, our entire court system, is based on two opposing
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visions, prosecution and defense, plaintiff and defendant. Both are dead sure they're right,
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and that the other side is wrong. Wrong at best, lying at worst. So why the sudden push to destroy
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the idea of two sides of an argument? To destroy one of those sides of the argument and saying it's
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disinformation. And surprise, the side that is to be destroyed, the side that is being equated to a harm
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like terrorism or crime, is the side that happens to disagree with Justin Trudeau.
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Here, let's read a bit from this press release. Credible information is fundamental to a healthy
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democracy and a strong society. Canadians should have access to diverse and reliable sources of
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information so that they can form opinions, hold governments, public institutions and individuals
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to account and participate in public discourse. Now, it's tough to disagree with most of that. I like
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the word diverse. That means a variety of points of view. We don't really have a lot of variety in our
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news these days, do we? I mean, all the mainstream media agree, for example, with the theory of man-made
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global warming. And all agree that the solution to changing the weather is a carbon tax. And all the
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mainstream media agree that we need open borders, mass migration. And all the media agree that the
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pandemic justified an unprecedented destruction of our civil liberties tantamount to martial law and
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that after 50 years of talking about my body, my choice, that it was not, in fact, your body and that
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you did not have a choice. You had to be jabbed with a vaccine that was not fully tested on people and
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won't be for years to come. And if you don't, you'll lose your job and lose your access to broader
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society. Do we really have a lot of diversity in Canadian journalism? Do we really? And I haven't
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even talked about anything controversial, like abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers for any
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reason or no reason until the moment of birth. Is there a lot of diverse facts and opinions on really
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anything of importance in Canadian media? But they use two phrases there, credible information,
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reliable sources of information. Credible means believable. But don't different people have
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different opinions about what's believable? I mean, Trudeau is a CBC man, or more accurately,
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the CBC or Trudeau's man, like this gal who has since been promoted. Remember this?
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I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia,
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I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be
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continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.
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Now, is that credible? Is she a reliable source? Well, yes, she is. She's reliable in terms of
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promoting Trudeau's messaging, sure. Say, this weekend we had almost a dozen journalists
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in the field. Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa. We were covering thousands of truckers and farmers
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who were rallying together in solidarity with each other and with the Dutch farmer rebellion
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and the worry that those same issues will come to Canada. Huge event, huge convoys. We had huge
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coverage. But have you seen anything about it at all? I mean, anything in the media party?
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I have not. If these protests in all those cities I've listed had been synchronized global warming
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protests led by Greta Thunberg, you bet they'd be covered by the CBC and the Toronto Star and the
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Globe and Mail and everybody else. These huge rallies and convoys really happened. Can you call the CBC
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credible and reliable when it absolutely ignores a major political story like that? Well, sure.
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If you're Justin Trudeau, then they are reliable. You can rely on them.
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But like I say, we believe in an adversarial system where we don't all have to agree.
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Back to the government press release. They say,
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the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, and the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs,
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Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Dominique Leblanc, today announced over $2.4
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million in funding for projects that will give Canadians the tools to identify online disinformation,
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particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine.
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Don't you think it's odd that the only thing the Minister of Heritage talks about is censorship?
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I mean, name me one thing he's done for our heritage, for the culture, other than plot and
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scheme how to silence you. He really is a Minister of Censorship, isn't he? Then again, in the book
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1984 by George Orwell, the Ministry of Propaganda was called the Ministry of Truth, wasn't it?
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Hmm. So they're going to be fighting disinformation about COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Now, there is disinformation about every controversial topic in the world.
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Why are those two topics the two that Trudeau is obsessed with? I think it has to do with money,
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in part. There are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, trillions actually, with COVID-9 schemes.
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And don't forget that Trudeau himself bought literally 400 million doses of the vaccine.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on lockdowns and his subsidies. There's a lot riding
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on your obedience to the official narrative. And the war in Russia and Ukraine? Well, that I'm a
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little bit more puzzled by. Of course, Trudeau has had lots of photo ops on the subject,
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even Ukraine itself. And Canada has pledged money and weapons, but nowhere near the size and scale of
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what the U.S. is doing. So much of Trudeau's Ukraine project has just been symbolic, I think.
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I mean, Canada is not really an important country for Russia economically. The United Kingdom,
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the U.S., Cyprus, Germany, those are important places in terms of Russia and its oligarchs.
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None of those oligarchs are stashing money or assets in Canada. And as soon as Trudeau's sanctions
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actually caught something valuable, the Russian natural gas pipeline turbines that were being
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repaired in Montreal, Trudeau immediately caved in and let Russia have them back, literally amending
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the sanctions. So I'm not quite sure why Trudeau is obsessing over controlling the messaging about the
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Russian invasion of Ukraine, other than perhaps that NATO itself is obsessed, so he's just doing what
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he's told on that. But you know, there's roughly 200 countries in the world. There are wars amongst
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them all the time. Right now, Yemen and Saudi Arabia are at war. Syria is in a civil war. Iraq is at war,
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civil war, and Iran's sort of undermining it. Much of the Maghreb region of Africa is in war.
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Jihadists in a dozen countries, including Nigeria. I'd add the Mexican drug cartel wars, and I'd add Burma in
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there too. And I'm not sure exactly what you'd call what's going on in Sri Lanka these days. But each
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of these is a violent struggle. And each is accompanied by non-violent propaganda designed
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to aid each respective side. Do you know who the good guys are in Yemen? Do you really? How about in
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Mali? 20,000 people died last year in the war in Tigray? It's almost as many have died in Ukraine.
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Tigray. That's part of Ethiopia. Can you find it on a map? Are you worried about disinformation?
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Now, I'm not really. I just find it odd that the only disinformation that's being targeted by Trudeau
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is the disinformation that he has a personal political stake in. I suppose it's normal to
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counter foreign government propaganda when you're in a war, but Canada's not actually in a war.
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And Trudeau's plans are to censor not Russian journalists, but Canadian journalists. Not to
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somehow try to block Russian propaganda, but to demonize Canadian citizens as Russian agents and
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censor Canadians here. It's just like Trudeau and Biden blaming Vladimir Putin for inflation
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or gas prices. What a handy way to shift the blame for things that they've done and accuse
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others of disloyalty. I find it odd. Let me read more. Today's announcement is the result of a special
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call for proposals launched in March 2022. These projects are citizen-focused activities and funded
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under Canadian Heritage's Digital Citizen Initiative. The initiative promotes civic news and digital
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media literacy through funding third-party educational activities and programming to help
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citizens become resilient against disinformation. Of all the people in the world, would you trust
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government to tell you what journalists to believe and what journalists not to believe? Like,
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really? The government's going to choose that for you? The press release quotes the censorship
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minister saying, the best defense against Russian disinformation is Canadian citizens armed with
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facts. These projects will give Canadian skills and tools to tell fact from fiction online.
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We live and work better as a society when we have a common set of facts. It's by Pablo Rodriguez,
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who calls himself the Minister of Heritage. I think it's good to have a common understanding with
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people. But I also think it's important to be able to dissent, to critique, to disagree, to say,
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no, I disagree with the mainstream way of thinking. Like I say, our whole system, our whole political
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system, our whole legal system, indeed the scientific method itself, depends on challenging and refuting
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things that were once the establishment consensus. Does the sun revolve around the earth?
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That was once a government and church approved fact. Is the earth flat? So is that. It was disinformation
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to claim otherwise. We need a reliable and credible source of information, not like that Galileo.
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When he published disinformation, he was prosecuted and convicted in an inquisition in 1633,
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and he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. You know, 1633 isn't that long ago. It
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was 150 years after Columbus found America. But you can be much more current than that. Are women persons?
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Should women have the right to vote? That's a controversy of about 100 years ago.
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By the way, I don't know if you know this, but in Canada, status Indians under the Indian Act did
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not have the right to vote in elections until the 1960s. Like I say, those were accepted truths
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until then. Anyone who said otherwise was an unreliable, incredible troublemaker. It's disinformation to say
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that Indians can vote. It's disinformation to say that women should vote. That was standard
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establishment thinking until a few decades ago. Imagine the government demanding that you accept
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their facts and even more so their sources. It's like Anthony Fauci declaring that he himself was
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the science. So don't criticize him. There's a distinct anti-science flavor to this. So if they get up
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and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about. But if they get up and really
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aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there, there's a face,
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there's a vice you can recognize. You see him on television. So it's easy to criticize. But they're
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really criticizing science because I represent science. But look at this quote from another Trudeau
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liberal cabinet minister, Dominique LeBlanc. In Canada and around the world, democracies are contending
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with malicious actors seeking to weaken our institutions and undermine citizens' trust in
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their government. Working with civil society, this program will give Canadians the tools they need
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to identify disinformation and strengthen our democracy. So hang on, I thought this was about
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fighting against the evil Russians about the war in Ukraine or silently accepting whatever Pfizer is
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selling us this week. But it's not. Dominique LeBlanc drops the mask a little bit. He says it's to combat
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anyone who undermines citizens' trust in the government, as in the Canadian government, as in Trudeau and
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LeBlanc and Rodriguez themselves. It's nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine or Pfizer. It's everything to do with
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silencing people who don't like Trudeau. You know, in the last election, just 32% of voters voted for
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Trudeau. 68% of voters did not. And that's just of people who bothered to vote. Trudeau is even more
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unpopular now. That's what this is about. It's not about Ukraine. It's about silencing Trudeau's critics,
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not silencing Ukraine's critics. What's striking to me is how uniformly this has been accepted.
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It's not even remarked upon. Have you seen any news about this? Like the trucker rebellion,
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the media party is just pretending it's not even happening or that it's not newsworthy
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because they're in on it. That's the QCJO, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization thing
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that we were talking about before, that government journalism license. If you have that license,
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you're by definition trustworthy and reliable. In fact, you get government money, Facebook and
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Google money, access to all government events, and the algorithms of the internet are tweaked to boost
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you. If not, not. You're marginalized, banned, and downranked online. So of course the 99% of the
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journalists who are in the club are silent about the banishment and the punishment of those outside
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the club. It's bizarre how large this whole operation is just to silence the small contrarian
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voices like ours. I say again in case you don't remember from my previous 50 times, I'm opposed to the
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Russian invasion of Ukraine, just like I was against their last invasion of Ukraine and their
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invasion of Georgia, their hostage-taking of Europe, their natural gas. That's why I actually
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wrote a book about it called Ethical Oil and a sequel called Groundswell. It's about fracking.
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The only way to beat Russia, other than a nuclear war, I suppose, in which both sides would lose,
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the only way to beat Russia is to take away their energy monopoly over Europe by replacing
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conflict oil and gas from Russia and OPEC with ethical oil and gas from Canada. I wrote the book.
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I saw this headline the other day. Trudeau says with Russia weaponizing energy, Canada looking at how
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to supply Europe. But you know what? That's disinformation. See what I did there? If you actually
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click on the link, read the story itself, you'll see it's just not what Trudeau said. That is
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literally not true. It shows that Europe wants Canadian oil and gas. You bet. They want it very
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badly. They want to be relieved from their hostage-taker, Vladimir Putin. But the only energy
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Trudeau is contemplating sending to them is, get this, and I quote, the prime minister went on to
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suggest that the projects down the line could be used to export hydrogen, a clean fuel alternative.
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What? Hydrogen? Can you heat your home with hydrogen in the winter? Can you fill up your car's gas tank
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with hydrogen? Can you use it in an airplane as jet fuel? Hydrogen? Have you ever heard of anyone
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actually using hydrogen fuel for anything? Seriously, the only hydrogen I can even remember being used
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was in the Hindenburg. That didn't really end well. So that's Trudeau being super helpful
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and CTV lying about it. That's a bit of disinformation. But look, where there's money,
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there are grifters. This press release from the government, a whole raft of companies have signed
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up for some of that Trudeau cash. I guess there aren't authentic people willing to make those arguments
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for free. The government has to pay people to make their arguments for them.
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That really feels sketchy to me. Doesn't it feel that way to you?
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You know me. I'm for ethical oil. I'm against conflict oil. I'm a private person. But when the
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government of Alberta set up an official advocacy organization, a government advocacy organization
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with a $30 million a year budget, it was a bit off. I mean, why didn't the companies, the oil companies
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do that themselves? $30 million is a rounding error to them. Was it more authoritative when the Alberta
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government did it? Was it more effective? Was it more cost efficient? Was it tougher? I don't think so.
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I mean, I like Alberta defending its oil against foreign disinformation. And in that case, it really is
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foreign disinformation. Foreign entities like OPEC and Russia lying about the oil sands. Greenpeace
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lying about the oil sands and fracking to promote, say, OPEC and Russia by default. But having a
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government agency in Canada tell you what to believe by necessity made it a weaker inauthentic voice.
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I'm talking about Alberta's energy center. Well, Trudeau is trying that now. And though the media and
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opposition just went nuts opposing Alberta's Canadian Energy Center, as they called it, I haven't heard a
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peep from those same journalists or opposition about Trudeau's propaganda on. They love it. And the
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grifters do too, of course. It's not the money I'm worried about. And it's not even the messaging
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I'm worried about. I don't trust any government. When they try to hide their tracks using front groups,
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I don't trust them even more. I trust them less. But what I'm worried about is that disinformation
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and combating disinformation isn't their goal. It's their means to a goal. It's their excuse.
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It's their way of demonizing Canadian critics of Trudeau. Nothing to do with Pfizer or Ukraine.
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You heard how Dominic LeBlanc defined it. And from there, denying those disinformation critics,
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their civil rights, denying them the license to practice journalism, perhaps even putting them one
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day on a sort of security watch list. It's a form of McCarthyism. Back then, the Russians really were
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the bad guys. It's so weird to see so-called liberals bring back McCarthyism as a way of demonizing and
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silencing their own domestic critics. Really weird to me. Stay with us for more.
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Today was an enormous day. Tamara Leach, the Métis grandma who peacefully helped organize the trucker
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convoy in January and February. Well, as you know, she was seized under a national warrant,
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the kind of thing reserved for, I don't know, murderers on the loose. She was seized, brought
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from Medicine Hat, where she lives, to Ottawa, a journey that takes a number of hours, but they
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managed to stretch it out into a week. She was put before a justice of the peace, not a judge,
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not even a lawyer, just some guy who kept her in prison. And it was only today that a real judge
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heard the matter again from scratch and said, no, the woman can go free. And it was a good day for
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freedom. It feels like a little bit of an echo of Arthur Pavlovsky's good day for freedom last week.
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Unfortunately, both Arthur Pavlovsky and Tamara Leach had to serve weeks in prison before they got the
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good news. But Sheila Gunn-Reed was covering the entire trial today via remote, via video feed. I
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really recommend you read her Twitter stream. We've also collected them in a written article on Rebel
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News. And Sheila joins me now via Skype from her headquarters in Edmonton. Sheila, great to see you
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again. I really enjoyed your Twitter feed today. I was riveted by it. I couldn't refresh.
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Click, click, click. I was waiting for the updates. And obviously, I wasn't alone.
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It looked like tens of thousands of people were following along in real time, maybe even more than
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that. I've never seen such Twitter engagement on your feed before. I think people were riveted.
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I think so, too. I think, you know, for the layperson to tune into court, it can be a little bit
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difficult. And it even is for me, and I do court reporting all the time, to sort of weave through the
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legal language. But what we saw in court today was an actual judge making an actual ruling on the
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actual evidence before him. And this judge just ripped apart the assessment of the prior justice
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of the peace, a non-lawyer who had ordered Tamara Leach's bail revoked and sent her back to jail at the
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end of June. Today, it marked 49 days of incarceration for her on minor mischief charges,
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minor stuff that, as a 49-year-old person with a non-criminal background, she would likely not even
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spend a day in jail for what she's done. But she's approaching 49 days in jail. And the last thing I
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heard that judge say today was, Madam Constable, take off those shackles.
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Yeah. You know, it's been a while since I practiced criminal law. I haven't practiced any law in over
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a decade. But when I was a law student, one of the things young kids do is they take the most minor
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cases in court to sort of practice being a baby lawyer. It's good education. And so we had shoplifting
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cases. We had the most minor, you know, a mischief charge, a vandalism charge. And you very quickly
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learned that if it's generally a good person who hasn't done something wrong, not only will they
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get no jail time, not only will they get no fine, they'll most likely not even get a criminal record.
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It'll be dispatched with a discharge, a conditional discharge. That is, they have to do a few conditions,
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some public service, or even what's called an absolute discharge. That's basically, in golf,
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they call them mulligan. It's the judge saying, look, I don't know what you were thinking. You're
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a good person. Do not go down this road. This way lies bad news for you. I am going to give you a
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second chance. Fly straight. And basically, every case we had was of the gravity of Tamara Leach's case.
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Oh, inciting mischief. Well, don't do that again. Young lady, I don't want to see you in this court again.
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Instead, 49 days in prison. 49 days of hard time. You know, you get day parole in Canada. My math is
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right after one-sixth of your sentence. So 50 days, that's like a one-year prison sentence,
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a one-year prison term for inciting mischief. And of course, she hasn't even been tried or convicted
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yet. What a disgrace. What an absolute disgrace. Not on her, but on the prosecutor, on the police,
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on the police who ordered the national warrant, on the medicine police for complying, on the fake
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judge, justice of the peace, and on this disgraceful prosecutor who our friends at True North
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revealed has donated $17,000 to Trudeau and who clearly was auditioning for a judicial appointment
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by Trudeau. Disgraces all around, other than today's judge, seem to set things right.
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Yeah, today's judge actually took the prior justice of the peace to task. He basically said the justice
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of the peace erred in taking everything the crown said. He used the words as gospel. He didn't even bother
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to drill down. He didn't bother to examine. So that when the crown said, oh, somebody facing
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Tamara Leach's charges could face, if convicted, a maximum of 10 years in prison. Maybe, but that's
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not what, in reality, that is not what people with no criminal record, after 49 years on the face of
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the earth, that's not what they face on minor criminal convictions like this. The only thing,
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the judge looked, and he said, I looked, because the other, the justice of the peace didn't. The only
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time he could ever find somebody even remotely in line with this was a case called Dubé, and that
00:30:24.880
person basically ground through mischief the entire Quebec electrical system to a halt, causing
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catastrophe. That person got jail time. Tamara Leach would never see time behind bars. He said if she
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were convicted of everything, she would, at the maximum, get time served right now.
00:30:44.040
Yeah. Well, I'm so glad you were there covering it. It's funny, because when Arthur Pawlowski was
00:30:52.540
charged and convicted, and when he was losing, the mainstream media loved it, and they demonized it,
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and they wrote about it. But when he won, I saw the tiniest little mentions in the mainstream media.
00:31:06.000
And Tamara Leach was demonized. It's hard to demonize a Métis grandma from Medicine Hat,
00:31:11.580
but they did their best. And today on her victory day, it's quite something to watch the mainstream
00:31:17.000
media, who really were a torch-bearing mob coming to get her. It was the media that was the mob,
00:31:25.820
not the truckers. It's the media that were baying for blood. And you know what? The worst media in the
00:31:31.120
country, the Ottawa Pampered Press Gallery. Oh, they're the worst. And I'm just so glad that
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you were there covering it to provide the other side of the story. Never believe a word the CDC
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says. Never believe a word that the mainstream newspapers say. You just can't. They lied to you
00:31:47.380
about the trucker rebellion in the first place. Do you really think they would tell you the truth
00:31:51.240
about the trial? You know, there are a lot of times during this hearing today and yesterday
00:31:56.600
where the judge basically had to remind the Crown, and I suppose by extension, the mainstream media,
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who also, like the justice of the peace before this judge, repeat everything the Crown says without
00:32:09.120
any sort of skepticism, had to remind them that she is not charged with sedition. She's not charged
00:32:14.860
with inciting a riot. She's not charged with rioting. She's charged with very minor things under the
00:32:20.540
law. And basically, the judge had to remind the Crown several times today and yesterday,
00:32:25.820
settle down. Quit acting like a drama queen. This is very minor stuff. You should not be asking to hold
00:32:33.420
this woman up until her trial date, which is not said. It could be two years out to hold her until her
00:32:40.360
trial date on causing really what amounts to an extended traffic snarl in the nation's capital.
00:32:46.580
Yeah. Well, it's quite something. All the things we were told to respect,
00:32:52.000
we were told to respect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Until Arthur Pawlowski's ruling last week,
00:32:58.200
that Charter of Rights and Freedoms was about as, well, it was completely useless to come to it.
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It hasn't rolled back a single lockdown measure at all. We were told to respect the independence of
00:33:12.160
the prosecution. Oh, so you take the top liberal donor in Ottawa and you let him run rampant against
00:33:17.540
the Métis grandma. We're told to respect the courts. So you throw a non-judge, non-lawyer,
00:33:24.720
justice of the peace who has no idea what the hell he's doing, and he throws someone in prison for two
00:33:29.420
months. All the things, the Ottawa police, the most disgraceful police in the country under their
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thuggest chief. All the things we were told to respect and look up to, every one of them is ashes.
00:33:41.080
And people wondering why there's no trust left. Well, because of the treatment of this woman.
00:33:46.960
Who would you trust? Would you trust the crown prosecutors again? Would you trust the police?
00:33:50.480
Would you trust the justice of the peace? Would you trust politicians? Would you trust the media?
00:33:57.700
Well, and that's why the convoy formed in the first place. It's because all the institutions failed.
00:34:04.600
The police failed. The courts failed. The doctors failed. The politicians failed. People's employers
00:34:10.240
were forcing them into vaccine mandates. Everything failed. And so the truckers decided they were going
00:34:16.800
to sort this out for themselves. And it continues. You know, it continues until today. Now, finally,
00:34:23.120
a judge, somebody trained in law, looked at this and said, settle down. These are minor charges.
00:34:29.340
She's not a danger to anybody. And basically, I don't care about your feelings. She gets to go free.
00:34:35.400
Yeah. Well, I'm so glad you were in there. And so many people followed your live tweeting and we
00:34:40.260
compiled them on the website. For folks who want to read it, go to rebelnews.com. It's on the website or
00:34:46.760
go to Sheila's Twitter feed, which is also a fun way to read it as in chronological order. Great to see
00:34:52.340
you, my friend. Thanks for doing such good reportage. You really are telling the other
00:34:56.120
side of the story. Thanks, boss. All right. There you have it. Sheila Gunn-Reed. We don't
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call her our chief reporter for nothing. Stay with us. Your words to me next.
00:35:05.560
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Petty McKay says, God has won the victory with the help of
00:35:22.240
his servants, Ezra Levant, his team, the lawyers involved in the case, an honest judge, and many
00:35:27.440
prayers. Praise God. It really did feel miraculous. And I was starting to lose hope. I really was. How
00:35:33.580
many lawsuits have failed in the last two years? This was the first major victory.
00:35:38.980
Del French says, never thought it would happen. I thought the courts were just as corrupt as the
00:35:44.500
politicians. Well, maybe not. All these COVID fines should be taken to court and all the cops involved
00:35:50.020
should be fired. They should know better and they didn't. They should be looking for another job,
00:35:56.820
No. I think police were an enormous disappointment over the last two years.
00:36:04.540
I think good cops who didn't want to be mask enforcers and health inspectors either retired,
00:36:10.940
were shuffled out of the way, or some of them were fired, the ones who spoke out. I think the worst
00:36:16.220
of the policing traits were rewarded. Anyone who liked being a bully, people who liked the vagueness.
00:36:24.140
I mean, imagine arresting someone for not having six feet of separation from someone else,
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a quasi-scientific rule that was proven not to have any underlying research basis.
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I think police really lost a lot of trust over the last two years. It'll be a long time to recover.
00:36:44.180
And that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
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I'm Jeremy Lofredo for Rebel News in New York City. We're going to see how New Yorkers feel
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about replacing traditional animal-based proteins like chicken and beef with more experimental,
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sustainable, low-carbon proteins like crickets, mealworms, and bugs.
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The fact that the ruling class wants to replace nutritious meat and other animal proteins with
00:37:08.720
insects has been deemed as conspiracy theory as recently as last year. But more recently,
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the elite and their obedient friends in the media have been pushing the idea of replacing supposedly
00:37:17.740
dirty, unsustainable meat with bugs, crickets, mealworms, you name it. The World Economic Forum,
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the thought leaders of the global agenda, have recently gone into overdrive, pushing the bugs
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as food narrative. The WEF explains that eating insects can reduce climate change and that insects
00:37:33.900
quote, deserve a role in our diets. In regards to eating bugs, the WEF explained their goal is more
00:37:39.580
than just publishing articles on the topic. They wish to change public perception and change public
00:37:44.200
regulatory policy. They wrote that we, meaning them, need to quote, overcome the last major
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barriers, which are preconceived ideas about insects as a source of food and legislation with regard to
00:37:54.160
the use and consumption of proteins derived from insects. They argue that by 2050, the world's food
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supply will need to feed another 2 billion people. Insect farming for food could offer an environmentally
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friendly solution to the impending food crisis. According to this article, insects are quote,
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a credible and efficient alternative protein source requiring fewer resources than conventional breeding.
00:38:14.200
and a healthy ingredient that is highly digestible. PBS, which has received millions of dollars from
00:38:19.480
the Gates Foundation, as recently as last week aired a new documentary pushing the bug eating agenda.
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The documentary edible insects was promoted on their social media as being quote, a tasty look
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at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet. Last year, Time Magazine,
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a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum, which had an entire magazine edition last year called
00:38:38.760
The Great Reset, featured an article in their not so subtly titled 2030 edition, which called for the
00:38:44.040
eating of insects to save the planet. The WEF partner said they are healthy and sustainable and asked why
00:38:49.000
humans don't eat more bugs. In the article, readers can learn that the plan to feed everyone bugs is
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already being undertaken on the world's most vulnerable. International aid agency Catholic Relief
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Services, whose president and CEO is a partner of the World Economic Forum, is already giving cricket-based
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meals, which according to Time are fiber-rich, to hungry people and adding it into their initiative to
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supply children with more nutritious and sustainable school lunch programs. What do regular people think of this?
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Since regular people have little say or control over the decisions of our regulatory agencies,
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they'll likely have little say if crickets get introduced into our everyday foods or not.
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What do you think about eating insects instead of meat?
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I think any way we can cut back eating meat is important.
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Well, personally, I hate bugs, so I wouldn't, no.
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Well, to save the planet, I might give it a consideration and maybe try it, but I hate bugs.
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You would support it if they started phasing out some animal proteins for bug proteins?
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Too many animals being butchered, contributing to climate change, and we don't need all of it.
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I'm more concerned about the fires in our food processing plants, takeover of our farmland
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We've lived how many thousands of years with farming and animal husbandry, and suddenly
00:40:17.640
I'm sure that they're going to be targeting kids because it's going to be a cool factor
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Many adults that we've spoken to so far support the idea of eating crickets because they think
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I've lived through 40, 50 climate hysterias in my life.
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Manhattan was supposed to already be covered with water.
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I don't see any rich people stopping their purchase of waterfront properties.
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Given what's happening in Holland with the farmers, this is all coordinated, without a
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Well, it's your choice to do what you want to do, but you shouldn't put it in old foods.
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You should let people choose what they want to do with this shit.
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The government says a lot of shit that it's not true all the time, so you never really
00:41:09.340
I think anything to help the climate, and I think the government should support it.
00:41:15.120
If I got a burger that was like a cricket burger, I'd be pretty concerned.
00:41:20.360
It's actually probably a bit healthier and cleaner of protein than what you would get
00:41:24.500
I think it would be hard to get people to hop on board.
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A lot of people, there's a stigma against eating bugs, essentially, I feel like, considered
00:41:36.160
kind of nasty or just undesirable to a lot of people.
00:41:39.160
So there would need to be a messaging campaign that explains that bugs are actually clean and
00:41:47.760
How do you feel about the government using taxpayer funds to incentivize more cricket
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and mealworm industrial farms and desensitivize ranchers from raising cattle, chickens, and
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If that were to happen, I would think that would be really cool.
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How do you feel about substituting out chicken and beef animal proteins for mealworm, crickets,
00:42:10.440
I mean, I think if people have that interest, as I understand it, it's a very robust source
00:42:20.660
On the other hand, I'm not for being in a position as a consumer, an American consumer,
00:42:28.300
being forced necessarily to get down a path such as insects and other high-protein sources.
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They're not going to have insects on your plate.
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Whoever you are that's about to make this happen or trying to make this happen, I'm pretty
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sure you're not going to be the ones eating this stuff or these things that you're trying
00:42:52.880
I feel that it's something that should be explored, and I think it could really help
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If it's less burdensome on the environment, I don't think it's a bad idea.
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If you refuse to succumb to the World Economic Forum's new plan for the future of food, go to