Rebel News Podcast - March 20, 2023


EZRA LEVANT | Maybe CSIS can put aside its important global warming work to focus on Chinese spies for a bit?


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

166.11705

Word Count

8,211

Sentence Count

579

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary

A photo taken 130 years ago and taken now shows the same sea level. That photo is the most hated photo on the internet, in the eyes of fact checkers. I'll show you why they hate that photo so much, and what they're trying to do to cover it up. And then I pivot somehow from that to the latest China revelations.


Transcript

00:00:00.360 Hello, my rebels. I have sort of a double-barreled monologue today. First, I'm going to talk about
00:00:05.480 this meme, you've probably seen it, of a little naval fort in Sydney, Harper, Australia. A
00:00:12.340 photo taken 130 years ago and a photo taken now and showing the same sea level. That is
00:00:18.300 the most hated photo on the internet in the eyes of fact checkers. I'll show you why they
00:00:24.020 hate that photo so much and what they're trying to do to cover it up. It's so weird. And then
00:00:28.440 I'm going to pivot somehow from that to the latest China revelations. I do make a
00:00:32.520 connection. You'll bear with me as I show it to you. I think it's a good show today. We
00:00:35.960 also have a great guest. Let me invite you to see the video version. I want you to see
00:00:40.220 this fort, this naval fort. It's called Fort Denison. The photo is so powerful you can see
00:00:46.380 why the fact checkers hate it. To see it, go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe, eight
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00:00:59.780 All right, here's today's show.
00:01:07.260 Tonight, maybe CSIS can put aside its important global warming work to focus on Chinese spies for
00:01:22.100 a bit. It's March 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:28.700 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:40.500 Hey, I want to talk to you about China's dictatorship undermining our democracy, just so many different
00:01:46.360 parts of the democratic establishment. But look at this first. I wonder if you've ever seen this
00:01:53.540 meme on Facebook or Twitter. That's Fort Denison, which is in Sydney Harbor in Australia.
00:02:03.780 There are three pictures over 130 years suggesting just a few inches of sea level rise in more than 100
00:02:13.280 years. Here's another one. There's a lot of versions of this meme. Here's another shot.
00:02:22.600 It's pretty clear, and I find it convincing. It's surprisingly hard to find this meme if you search
00:02:29.680 for it, actually. I went to Google, which was probably my first mistake, and the first 10 items
00:02:37.300 are actually rebuttals to the meme. You can't find the meme, but the first 10 things you see are,
00:02:44.480 it's false, it's false. Well, let me read what's supposedly false before you tell me it's false.
00:02:49.020 Can I make up my own mind? Let me click on some of the links. This is from the Australian Associated
00:02:55.700 Press. AAP fact check, trusted, accurate, and impartial. Yeah, if you have to tell me that,
00:03:02.940 I'm pretty sure it's not true. Here's what they wrote in there. Fact check. Fort Denison picks
00:03:09.840 no indicator of sea level rise. Hey, guys, don't believe your lying eyes. Sea level is no indication
00:03:16.420 of sea level. You have to understand that. Surely you believe in science, right?
00:03:23.620 Here's the independent, which doesn't really live up to its name, does it? Sydney sea level image spread
00:03:29.980 by climate change deniers debunked. It is not possible to gauge sea level rise simply by comparing
00:03:37.100 two images of a location side by side, experts said. Oh, is that what the experts said? Okay,
00:03:42.620 well, I better stop doing that then. Here's the Associated Press. Photos of water at Sydney Harbor
00:03:48.420 Fort do not refute sea level rise. Now, refute is sort of a matter of opinion, actually. But AP is doing
00:03:55.800 a fact check saying, do not believe in that, people. That is wrong to believe. Now, here's
00:03:59.920 Reuters. They're the worst. It is not possible to gauge sea level rise simply by comparing two images
00:04:05.880 of a location side by side, experts told Reuters, despite claims being made online. And here's Snopes,
00:04:12.780 the original left-wing fact checkers. As we have previously reported, these types of oversimplified
00:04:18.340 memes are meant to discredit science. They're meant for that? Are you a mind reader? Can you tell me
00:04:25.280 what was in the mind of the people and what they're meant to do? And isn't science a process?
00:04:30.240 It's not a point of view or an ideology or a person, doesn't it? Isn't science meant to be challenged all
00:04:35.600 the time and it's always improving? Here's politi-fact. You get my point here. No, two photos don't reveal
00:04:45.020 sea levels. Don't prove climate change is a hoax. And then they say, if your time is short,
00:04:52.240 water's edge photographs don't show changes in sea level over time. Global sea levels are rising and
00:04:57.340 climate change is the primary reason. They don't show what you think they show, but just trust us,
00:05:05.120 okay? Just trust us because we're called politi-fact. And this is what is a little bit dark
00:05:11.020 about this. The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and
00:05:16.200 information on its news feed. Read more about our partnership with Facebook. They'll tell you how
00:05:22.300 to think and they'll tell you what to think. Here's USA Today. Like, boy, are they concerned about this
00:05:28.360 photo. I mean, I think this photo must be quite powerful if they're so terrified of it.
00:05:33.820 But the claim is false. The pictures of the meme don't demonstrate a lack of sea level rise
00:05:38.520 over the claimed period of time. The water line at the harbor fluctuates daily due to changing tides
00:05:43.740 and the photos don't include any information about the tidal stage at the time the photos were captured.
00:05:49.760 So you don't know that they're false is what you're saying. Your theory is that the first photo
00:05:54.880 might have been misleading because of tides or whatever, or that there were different tide phases,
00:06:01.020 but they don't know that. They're the ones cooking up conspiracies. They're the ones with the
00:06:05.880 unproven theories. Really weird. But this is what is served up also positively, if you Google that.
00:06:15.560 It's on kids' news. Digital pictures of warmer worlds show water reaching landmarks. That's right
00:06:24.640 winger Rupert Murdoch and his news corp propagandizing fear to children. So this is kosher.
00:06:30.740 This will be in the first 10 results. Oh my God, the Sydney Harbor is going to be completely flooded.
00:06:38.740 Coasts everywhere will be flooded. That is scientifically valid for sure.
00:06:46.700 And that won't be fact-checked. We've learned that fact-checkers are funded by the Pentagon,
00:06:51.740 which I think is really creepy, and the Secretary of State, basically America's foreign ministry.
00:06:55.560 That's really weird that the Pentagon, which is supposed to be fighting bad guys in other
00:07:00.560 countries, is fighting ideas in American and Canadian elections. It's really weird. In Canada,
00:07:06.800 here are two recent Twitter files written by Matt Taibbi demonstrate this. We know that at Rebel News,
00:07:12.820 we were fact-checked by the U.S. Department of Navy, by military contractors at the University of
00:07:17.800 Arkansas at Little Rock. It's so weird. And the only way I can explain that, I don't think anyone from
00:07:23.720 Rebel News has ever even been to Arkansas, is it was probably just a quid pro quo done for Canada.
00:07:28.740 Trudeau probably didn't want to be seen getting Canadian spies to spy on us. So he probably said
00:07:35.440 to America, can you spy on Rebel News? And we'll spy on some Americans, and we'll do each other a favor
00:07:40.120 and not break our own laws that way. Oh, and here's, speaking of spies, here's CSIS,
00:07:47.920 Canada's Security and Intelligence Service. Story in the CBC, of course, climate change is posing
00:07:53.140 a serious threat to Canada, and B.C. in particular, Intelligence Service says.
00:08:00.620 Significant parts of the province could be lost to rising sea levels, according to CSIS.
00:08:06.180 Okay, so you sent out your spies, and this is what they spied. You got some secret sources,
00:08:13.220 some secret documents. Canada's spy agency says climate change is threatening the nation's
00:08:19.140 prosperity and security, and has identified British Columbia as a region of particular concern.
00:08:24.300 A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, that was prepared in
00:08:29.620 April 2021 and only recently disclosed to the Canadian press, spells out several concerns presented
00:08:34.680 by global warming. They include looming threats to water and food security, Arctic sovereignty,
00:08:40.520 and coastal security, the latter of which could greatly impact British Columbians. According to
00:08:45.360 the report, rising sea levels could cause irretrievable loss of infrastructure and even entire communities
00:08:51.040 with the potential to destroy significant parts of the westernmost province.
00:08:56.360 So that photo of the fort in port, in the Sydney port, that was disinformation. But this insane
00:09:04.940 fear-mongering, that entire communities will be swallowed up. That's just good spy craft.
00:09:12.020 And by the way, I don't think food is at risk because of global warming. The warmer the temperature,
00:09:17.040 the better crops grow. I think that it's because of carbon taxes or Trudeau's new scheme of nitrogen
00:09:22.880 taxes on farmers. And in Canada, the price of food is, I don't know, double than in the United States
00:09:30.000 when you're talking about milk and butter and cheese and poultry and eggs because of our cartels.
00:09:33.800 If you actually cared about food security, you would get rid of these marketing boards and cut the price
00:09:39.020 of those staples in half. And I will believe any of this is a threat when celebrities and politicians
00:09:44.440 stop buying homes on the scene, like Barack Obama's gorgeous Pat in Hawaii, in Al Gore.
00:09:52.320 Or when Trudeau stops being Canada's single largest CO2 emitter from all his private jetting.
00:09:57.160 That same CSIS that was terrified of the truckers is telling us they're terrified of global warming.
00:10:04.760 So we know what they've been busy doing instead of countering Chinese spies. They're worried about
00:10:09.360 the truckers. They're worried about global warming. And by the way, of all the places in the world that
00:10:15.000 would benefit from global warming, Canada is the best. Even the UN itself says that. I mean,
00:10:19.740 it is cold here. And I don't know if you've been to the North. I've been to Inovic. I've been to
00:10:23.440 Yellowknife, Whitehorse. I've been to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. 90% of our country is hard to
00:10:29.640 live in. It's so cold. There is no agriculture in the North because the permafrost, the soil
00:10:34.340 literally never unfreezes. It was so warm a thousand years ago that there were grapes grown
00:10:41.040 in Newfoundland. The Vikings came over. They called it Vinland. If you're ever in Newfoundland,
00:10:46.460 I encourage you to visit Lanzo Meadows where the Viking community was founded. It was like the
00:10:51.920 Caribbean back then. Imagine how nice that was. As Patrick Moore reminds us, all life loves warmth.
00:11:02.760 Most of the huge cities in the world are in the tropics for a reason. Most plant and animal life
00:11:08.680 is in the tropics for a reason. It's the most abundant, the most diverse there too. More people
00:11:14.000 die from cold than die from heat. There's a reason why, other than Moscow and Edmonton, you don't have
00:11:19.820 million person cities in the far North. People don't do well when it's cold year round and there's
00:11:26.340 no food to eat and it's just hard. Yeah, Canada could do well under global warming. I wish it was
00:11:32.860 happening more than, what, a degree, a century or whatever the pace is. So yeah, CESIS, pretty useless.
00:11:41.160 Now, I'm not quite done because I just wanted to tell you those stories,
00:11:44.520 but apparently CESIS has changed direction and they know which way the wind is blowing. The greatest
00:11:51.400 threat to Canada is no longer global warming or truckers. It's actually China again and I'm glad.
00:11:57.760 I'm glad they've decided to pay attention to actually spy threats. I believe China is a threat,
00:12:04.620 but I think it's so obvious. But for some reason, CESIS has kept pretty quiet as mice about it ever
00:12:11.160 since Trudeau was elected. Think of CESIS like you think of the RCMP. Utterly compromised and
00:12:17.480 undermined by Justin Trudeau. Trudeau installed Brenda Luckey at the RCMP to protect him, not to
00:12:24.340 enforce the law, but to protect him from having the law enforced against him. David Vigno at the CESIS,
00:12:31.740 same thing, was installed by Trudeau to protect him. This photo shows you everything you need to know.
00:12:38.180 A photo on the state broadcaster. Look, he's Trudeau's man, the head of CESIS. But the good
00:12:45.340 news appears to be that there are still some individual spies, as he says, who are worried
00:12:49.260 about, you know, hostile countries, not truckers of global warming. Imagine a spy agency taking
00:12:56.420 people and resources off the China beat and putting them on saying, hey, read the Greenpeace website
00:13:03.240 and come back with a listicle of the top 10 scary things about global warming. It's so embarrassing
00:13:09.660 that grown-ups would do that. Hey, maybe they should hire Greta as a CESIS agent. Let me read the story.
00:13:17.960 Foreign interference is the greatest strategic threat facing Canada's national security,
00:13:22.440 CESIS says. This is a story in the CBC, so you know it's true. The Canadian Security Intelligence
00:13:28.840 Service is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the, quote, greatest
00:13:33.360 strategic threat to national security. In the statement provided in French to CBC Radio Canada
00:13:38.200 on Friday, a CESIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the Chinese population,
00:13:44.020 but from the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, which is deploying a strategy aimed at geopolitical gains
00:13:49.320 on economic, technological, political, and military fronts. Quote, to do so, it uses all the state
00:13:55.000 powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and
00:13:58.980 sovereignty of the country, said the unnamed spokesperson. Yeah, well, no one said and no one
00:14:05.080 thought that the threat to Canada was from ordinary Chinese citizens. It's obviously the basic
00:14:09.300 dictatorship that's the threat, and the basic dictatorship is actually the only part that Trudeau
00:14:14.200 says he deeply admires. There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic
00:14:24.640 dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to
00:14:30.400 go green as fast as we need to start, you know, investing in solar. I mean, there is a flexibility that
00:14:35.900 I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.
00:14:40.100 So yeah, thanks Officer Obvious of CSIS, but I guess he's afraid of being called racist.
00:14:45.540 Now, CSIS is not the only spy agency that is worried about China infiltrating Canada. The US
00:14:54.140 deep state has its problems too, but not enough to bury their concerns about China. Look at this
00:14:58.880 story also in the CBC. It's almost like they're paying attention now. US ran secret probe into China's
00:15:04.600 operations in Canada, new book alleges. The United States ran a secret probe into national security
00:15:11.240 threats posed by Chinese overseas operations. The two alarming conclusions about Canada alleges a new
00:15:16.500 book co-authored by a former RCMP and military intelligence official. The book says the project
00:15:22.000 codenamed Operation Dragon Lord led to an unnerving takeaway that Beijing's activities in Canada
00:15:27.060 represented a security threat to the United States. Wow. And did you see this just a few days ago? Did you
00:15:33.160 read about this? Did you see this in the Globe and Mail or the CBC? The AUKUS Alliance, AU, K, US,
00:15:42.540 Australia, UK, and United States. There used to be something called CANZUC, and there was all these
00:15:51.740 different acronyms. Have you heard of the five I's? That's Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand,
00:15:56.760 and Britain. Those were like the super friends. There's NATO, which had a ton of countries, but the
00:16:01.560 inside circle was the five I's. Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. That's
00:16:07.620 gone. It's not gone. But the cool kids have set up their own club. They call it AUKUS. It's only got
00:16:14.340 three countries. Australia, US, and UK. Here's Rishi Sunak, the new prime minister of the UK, tweeting
00:16:20.580 about it. Protecting our people, defending our values, guaranteeing our long-term security.
00:16:28.100 AUKUS. Canada's not in there. Neither is New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau have
00:16:34.180 taken both countries out of their American orbit and put us in a Chinese orbit. You know, I'm a
00:16:39.660 little bit tired of the racism card being played by Trudeau. It's all he has. He's into the feminism
00:16:44.320 card and the transphobia card. But the liberals aren't tired of it yet. Here's Gerald Butts. He keeps
00:16:49.920 making the same Chinese food tweet. Here he is two years ago. He said, we're getting close to the
00:16:57.860 point where Bob Fyfe or Steve Chase at the Globe and Mail could see someone having dim sum and turn
00:17:03.040 it into a Globe and Mail front page. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Here he is just trying that line out again this
00:17:09.980 year. Pretty soon, the press will be auditing Uber Eats records for excessive Chinese food orders.
00:17:16.400 How much Golden Palace is too much Golden Palace? Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Gerald Butts keeps making
00:17:24.040 Chinese food jokes, but you're the racist one. But of course, the greatest victims of Chinese
00:17:31.380 dictators and their infiltration in Canada are Chinese Canadians. And the greatest victims of
00:17:37.240 Chinese dictators in the world are Chinese people themselves. Mao murdered more Chinese people than
00:17:42.180 Hitler killed. Estimates are up to 85 million people killed by Mao. They're Chinese people.
00:17:50.340 Look at this story in the CBC. Alleged meddling by China's government goes deeper than elections.
00:17:56.500 Hong Kong pro-democracy group in Canada. And here's the point. The people in Canada being bullied and
00:18:02.740 victimized are Chinese Canadians. Sorry, Gerald Butts. Sorry, your racism card doesn't work.
00:18:07.860 Sherry Wong says Chinese poor Canadians deal with surveillance intimidation from Chinese government.
00:18:14.020 And here's the story. Quoting Sherry Wong, executive director of the Alliance of Canada-Hong Kong. Let me
00:18:18.940 read what she says. Wong, whose organization describes itself as a pro-democracy group that seeks to empower
00:18:26.340 Chinese Hong Kong community groups to take political action, says foreign interference extends outside of
00:18:31.940 elections. Quote, we have seen a lot of different types of interference into Canadian society, Wong said.
00:18:36.280 I think the most obvious one would be surveillance and intimidation of dissidents and diaspora members.
00:18:41.460 We often live in a culture of fear, worrying that if we anger Beijing, then our families back home would be threatened.
00:18:47.300 She added diaspora members are worried that if they voice their concerns and their job promotions,
00:18:53.700 their businesses, their social relationships would be at risk as well.
00:18:57.680 Wong says those concerns are also common for Chinese people born in Canada.
00:19:01.000 Trudeau. It's getting bad, isn't it? But you know what? I'm still betting on Trudeau.
00:19:06.600 I mean, why would he change?
00:19:09.700 Why would he confess? Why would he admit doing anything?
00:19:12.160 Well, who's going to make them? The Supreme Court?
00:19:15.020 They haven't even heard a single lockdown case yet. They're too busy.
00:19:18.900 Is the justice minister going to hold them to account?
00:19:21.180 He already got rid of Jody Wilson-Raybould because she said no.
00:19:24.420 Now he's got a yes man named David Lomatti. Who's going to stop him?
00:19:27.140 Brenda Luckey of the RCMP? David Vigno of CSIS? He's more worried about global warming?
00:19:32.100 Who's the media going to stop him?
00:19:33.660 I admire what Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase are doing these days.
00:19:37.640 But how many, as Stalin said, how many divisions does the Pope have?
00:19:44.080 I mean, the media has influence, but no power.
00:19:48.780 Trudeau has already told you that is all he respects.
00:19:51.040 Raw power. The basic dictatorship of China.
00:19:54.420 I am impressed with some of the reporting on this issue, but so what?
00:20:00.020 It sells newspapers.
00:20:02.220 I don't know, maybe it scares some liberal backbenchers,
00:20:04.520 but Jagmeet Singh is fully committed to propping up Trudeau.
00:20:09.360 And congrats to that one CSIS agent who's becoming a real whistleblower.
00:20:13.560 I bet he will be ferreted out and punished.
00:20:17.080 Not by the CSIS or the RCMP, but by Chinese intelligence.
00:20:20.700 They're probably better.
00:20:21.440 Show me where in eight years Trudeau has ever been held to account.
00:20:25.780 He'll brazen this out like he always does.
00:20:29.240 Do you doubt it?
00:20:31.660 Stay with us for more.
00:20:32.780 Well, if you know anything about hockey, amateur hockey in Canada, many parents do,
00:20:51.580 you know that in Canada there are girls who play on boys' teams.
00:20:55.960 But that only lasts for a certain period of time until the players get to a certain age,
00:21:02.520 after which point in time the physical differences of these athletes after puberty become too pronounced,
00:21:09.440 and the girls have their own league.
00:21:11.400 There's nothing wrong about it.
00:21:13.220 It's in fact right to keep the sportsmanship alive.
00:21:16.300 And I think that same sexual difference, the difference between the sexes, is pronounced,
00:21:22.220 especially in certain sports.
00:21:24.900 In some sports, I'm not sure how big the difference is, but I remember a few months ago
00:21:30.000 when the British singer, commentator, pundit, and amateur athlete declared that for one day
00:21:39.860 he identified as a woman, and then he went ahead and broke every British weightlifting record for women,
00:21:48.640 and then he said, I'm not a woman anymore, I'm a bloke again,
00:21:51.840 making the point that although he wouldn't be a top competitor amongst men,
00:21:57.800 he could be the strongest woman in the UK just by declaring him to be that.
00:22:03.480 I think that powerlifting is one of the sports where the sex difference is probably the most pronounced,
00:22:10.840 at least at the elite level, and so it is the least sportsmanlike to have transgender male-to-female athletes
00:22:20.860 competing against biological female competitors.
00:22:26.260 That's my point of view, but let's talk to someone who is actually a competitive powerlifter.
00:22:32.100 We're joined now via Skype from London, Ontario, by April Hutchinson,
00:22:36.640 who is with the Canadian Powerlifting Union.
00:22:39.260 What a pleasure to meet you, April.
00:22:40.580 Thanks for taking the time to come on the show.
00:22:43.100 Thank you very much, Ezra.
00:22:44.520 Tell me a little bit about powerlifting.
00:22:46.960 Is there any difference between powerlifting and weightlifting?
00:22:50.320 Is it the same thing?
00:22:51.460 What would a powerlifting contest be like?
00:22:54.880 So, the difference between weightlifting, which is actually in the Olympics, powerlifting consists of three lifts,
00:23:04.360 the bench press, the squat, and the deadlift.
00:23:08.740 Basically, you have three attempts at each lift during a competition,
00:23:13.580 and whatever your best lift in all those three lifts gets totaled together for an overall sum,
00:23:20.040 and that's basically which will give you a first place, second, or your placing within the competition.
00:23:26.520 Now, I can imagine that performance-enhancing drugs are screened,
00:23:33.740 because that, especially in powerlifting and weightlifting, there is a culture of people who are juiced,
00:23:39.180 and then there's the natty, the natural culture.
00:23:41.900 And I suppose both of them, if everyone's on the same, you know, terms,
00:23:46.320 they can both be competitive, but you have to have a level playing field.
00:23:50.280 Is the Canadian Powerlifting Union, do they screen for performance-enhancing drugs?
00:23:57.760 Yeah, so my federation is a tested federation.
00:24:00.760 There are federations that you can enter, for example, the Canadian Powerlifting League,
00:24:06.200 which they have non-tested leagues, but specifically the Canadian Powerlifting Union is a tested federation.
00:24:13.700 So that means when I go to compete, like I went to Worlds last year,
00:24:17.220 and I got drug tested after my competition, and there's also out-of-meat testing, so very random.
00:24:24.680 You're put into an athletic pool in which they can show up at your workplace, your gym,
00:24:28.680 kind of like surprise element of getting tested, right?
00:24:32.460 And I think that makes sense because, again, if someone was taking performance-enhancing drugs
00:24:37.960 and someone was not, it would ruin the sportsmanship of it.
00:24:40.680 Like you say, there are leagues where people can do what they like, and everyone knows that.
00:24:45.020 I would imagine that the natural athletes would be in the same league because it would just be too unfair.
00:24:51.940 I'm just guessing this. I'm not a power lifter myself.
00:24:55.540 And the reason I ask about this is because it seems to me the whole idea of having a natural league
00:25:01.440 without, you know, performance enhancements is you're trying to keep it fair.
00:25:07.560 And when a man says, I identify as a woman, and a man has a different muscle structure, bone structure, weight,
00:25:15.880 every single thing about him is different and has been his whole life,
00:25:19.700 maybe he decided to identify as a woman a few weeks or months ago,
00:25:23.400 I would imagine that that degree of physical unfairness would dwarf anything
00:25:29.060 that someone on a performance-enhancing drug would have.
00:25:32.640 It just strikes me as the exact same unfairness that you're changing the terms.
00:25:38.600 Everyone else is a natural athlete on the same footing,
00:25:42.700 and then you have a man saying, oh, I'm a girl for today,
00:25:45.960 and there's no way he's not going to dominate.
00:25:49.720 Yeah, exactly. It's hypocritical.
00:25:52.320 It's, yeah, so that's the thing.
00:25:55.420 With my union, the Canadian Powerlifting Union, right now,
00:25:58.480 I'm not sure if you read up on it, but there's basically no transgender policy.
00:26:02.820 Like, there is, but the only thing they have to do to compete is to show up at a competition
00:26:09.180 with their passport that says what sex they are, either male or female.
00:26:14.920 So, you know, so this transgender athlete in my category basically has a passport
00:26:21.040 that states that she is a female.
00:26:23.160 So, I mean, and we all know how easily that can be obtained to switch over your passport.
00:26:29.120 It's a couple of doctor's notes and psychological assessments.
00:26:33.740 And that's about it.
00:26:35.160 So that's the policy today.
00:26:37.220 Now, I did have a phone call with the International Powerlifting Federation.
00:26:41.780 They do have a more extensive transgender policy,
00:26:45.140 which is basically monitoring of testosterone levels.
00:26:48.720 Now, the monitoring, I believe, would have to be over a matter of a four-year period.
00:26:54.960 It does, it is a little bit more difficult for a trans-identifying athlete to compete.
00:27:00.340 But again, like I asked the doctors today, the chief medical doctor, I said,
00:27:04.600 well, what about the muscle mass, the lung capacity, even just the grip strength, right?
00:27:11.220 The hands, like, the list goes on and on.
00:27:14.500 So, specifically, the powerlifter who I competed against or was going to compete against transitioned at 22 years old.
00:27:23.700 So, full-blown puberty, a full-grown biological male.
00:27:28.060 Yeah.
00:27:28.800 I mean, I'm just trying to think of Mike Tyson or some enormous man who had a certain size and a bone and muscle.
00:27:38.740 Well, sure, okay, he could transition, but there's no way that's not going to be an inherent genetic advantage over a natural woman.
00:27:46.720 You know, we were talking to Linda Blade, Coach Blade, about this a few weeks ago.
00:27:50.120 And what brought it to our attention was a court case where the judge said,
00:27:54.780 oh, well, there are disadvantages to being a male-to-female trans athlete as well,
00:27:59.300 including none of his reasons made sense to me other than for politics.
00:28:05.380 Well, there's the risk of suicide and depression and the inability to find a gym that can accommodate you.
00:28:11.620 And I thought, those may well all be things, by the way, but they have nothing to do with the essential competition,
00:28:18.360 which is on the sport itself.
00:28:22.120 All of those were political accoutrements, not the fairness of the sport.
00:28:27.600 So, let me ask you, you said you started talking about a competitor.
00:28:33.060 You said you were going to compete against, you're using the pronoun her.
00:28:39.060 Did that happen?
00:28:40.240 And if not, why not?
00:28:41.400 What happened?
00:28:42.180 You said you were going to compete against someone.
00:28:44.300 How did that end?
00:28:46.480 So, at nationals, the nationals were held in February this year,
00:28:50.520 this past year, in British Columbia.
00:28:53.340 So, I competed in my category between 40 and 50.
00:28:57.440 So, there's another category.
00:28:58.820 We do have categories for people called master's categories.
00:29:02.560 I'm turning 47, so I lifted between 40 and 50-year-olds.
00:29:07.580 I also signed up for the open category, which is ages 20 up to age 39,
00:29:14.200 in which the trans-identifying athlete was competing in.
00:29:18.380 I did not show up for that competition.
00:29:21.580 I simply did not give them any warning.
00:29:24.020 I didn't show up as my way to protest and to boycott.
00:29:28.660 I do know that Linda Blade and ICFS were there to protest.
00:29:32.800 20 protesters did show up to silently protest.
00:29:36.780 But, yeah, that's all I could think about doing, right, at that time,
00:29:40.900 is to not show up, just to show that I definitely did not agree with that.
00:29:44.300 And how did the trans-athlete do in that competition?
00:29:49.360 The athlete placed a third, so bronze medal.
00:29:53.500 This athlete also is number two in Canada for the open class,
00:29:58.880 also takes the Alberta bench record and deadlift record.
00:30:04.000 You know what?
00:30:04.880 I mean, I started by mentioning Zuby, who as a joke said,
00:30:08.080 I'm now going to break every record.
00:30:09.540 And I think it's only a matter of time before men who are uncompetitive against men
00:30:16.420 just say, well, I can get attention and kudos and I can win.
00:30:20.980 And this is so politically acceptable and normalized now.
00:30:24.520 And so it's not just coming in third or second.
00:30:27.360 Like, how long would it be before first, second, and third are all trans athletes?
00:30:34.020 Like, as the case of Zuby shows, you could be ranked, you know, 1,000 on the men's list.
00:30:41.320 You could be ranked 10,000, but you would be, and this is not a disparagement of women.
00:30:46.940 It's just the difference between the sexes.
00:30:48.900 You could be competitive amongst the women.
00:30:51.360 How long before there are no women left in women powerlifting?
00:30:55.800 Because you've got a dozen former blokes just seeing who is the, you know, that old joke,
00:31:03.600 the tallest short guy, who's the strongest of the weak men who've moved over to the women's league.
00:31:10.560 Like, it can't be long before other grifters say, well, this is how I'm going to come in
00:31:14.820 for second or third also.
00:31:16.420 I think we're watching the sunset of women's sports.
00:31:20.960 It's very true.
00:31:21.800 And that's, this is the thing that's very disheartening is I actually had a conference
00:31:26.580 call with the IPF, the Powerlifting Federation president this morning with three chief medical
00:31:31.940 doctors.
00:31:32.980 And he actually said to me, well, you know, there's only one transgender in your, in your
00:31:39.280 union, April.
00:31:40.320 It's not like there's a team of eight.
00:31:42.260 So it was almost like this, let's just brush it off until like, there's a whole team.
00:31:46.440 And I said to him like, well, is that what we need?
00:31:50.460 Like, are we going to like, are we going to wait for that to happen?
00:31:53.900 Because if we don't set precedence now, if we don't do something now in 20 years or maybe
00:31:58.260 even 10 years, there will not, there will be no female sports.
00:32:01.840 And I thought that was a very weak, weak approach.
00:32:05.880 And, and just going back on that note that you said about the judge and they ruled about,
00:32:10.420 you know, the high risk suicide with transgenders.
00:32:13.300 Um, I actually wrote a letter to my union expressing to them, you know, I'm a recovering
00:32:19.260 alcoholic as well.
00:32:21.040 Um, I got sober before COVID as powerlifting literally helped save my life and helped me
00:32:26.060 with my sobriety.
00:32:27.520 Alcoholism is actually a medical, medical condition.
00:32:30.820 Um, so I feel like they're putting away, like putting aside, say my mental health issues,
00:32:35.960 all the other women's mental health issues, because we all lift for a reason.
00:32:40.100 Um, there actually is high suicide rates in general with athletes because we are overachievers.
00:32:46.340 You know, if we don't make podium, who knows if someone might feel suicidal, right?
00:32:51.160 We all have our personal reasons.
00:32:52.820 And I just feel like we've just like told us all to be quiet.
00:32:56.520 Like women's rights don't matter.
00:32:57.980 We've just been told to be quiet.
00:32:59.420 I've been reprimanded for speaking out against this.
00:33:02.280 I've been silenced.
00:33:03.060 I've been actually warned by my federation, be quiet, stop posting stuff on social media.
00:33:08.600 Um, you know, and that judge's rationale is basically forcing you and the other female
00:33:15.760 competitors to be part of this athlete's therapy.
00:33:19.960 And, and of course we don't know why this trans, so, so you are not there.
00:33:24.240 You're not a person in your own right.
00:33:26.400 You, you have a bit part.
00:33:28.340 You're a supporting actress in the transgender athlete show, a reality show about his life
00:33:35.080 that you have, your part is to be therapy for him.
00:33:37.560 I think this whole thing is, is a kind of therapy.
00:33:42.040 Now you say your protest has been social media and other media.
00:33:46.380 And, and at the moment you declined to compete.
00:33:50.720 I, I wonder why more women athletes don't do that.
00:33:54.560 Is it because they're not thinking politically?
00:33:57.800 They're not used to conflict.
00:33:59.340 They've been working so hard for this.
00:34:01.560 They don't want to give up on the big day.
00:34:03.780 Like, why is it that so many women are going along with this?
00:34:08.060 Even in the case of Leah Thomas, the swimming transgender athlete, changing in a changing
00:34:14.980 room when he's buck naked.
00:34:16.900 I'm saying he, cause he's still got his twig and berries.
00:34:19.200 He's standing naked in the change room, observing the women in the change room.
00:34:23.720 They're still going along with this.
00:34:25.100 There are athletic clubs on campuses where the athletes are, you know, two to a room
00:34:31.340 and they're assigning women to travel with male transgender to male to female transgender
00:34:35.900 athletes.
00:34:36.780 I can't believe what female athletes are putting up with.
00:34:40.800 And I, is it out of fear?
00:34:42.300 Is it out of conformity?
00:34:43.940 Is it out of, are they afraid of being called bigots?
00:34:47.220 Why are so few females?
00:34:48.780 Cause I would imagine you could shut this down if you had a general strike at a, at a
00:34:54.460 tournament.
00:34:54.780 If every woman simply stood there and folded their arms and said, we're not going to compete
00:34:59.480 against this unfairness, you would break the back of it, but you need a union.
00:35:03.560 Like it's called the power lifting union, but you need a union of members in the union.
00:35:08.940 Yeah.
00:35:09.540 Well, that's the thing.
00:35:10.660 It's a, so power lifting is an individual sport.
00:35:13.580 So it's not like we're a team, like a rugby team where we can all just not show up.
00:35:18.180 It's obviously to everyone's, you know, personal choice, but there's a bunch of different
00:35:22.680 underlying things here.
00:35:23.780 There's the fact that some people, it doesn't affect them.
00:35:28.660 So they're like, well, if it doesn't affect me and my lifting, why should I even get involved?
00:35:33.080 We also have, I mean, there are a fair amount of power lifters in the union that are LGBTQ
00:35:38.160 or supporters, which is fine.
00:35:41.160 And I think that's great.
00:35:42.600 And I'm all for inclusiveness, but when it comes down to sports, I think they're getting
00:35:46.020 it mixed up.
00:35:46.800 I think they're, because obviously they want to be included.
00:35:50.100 Right.
00:35:50.380 But I mean, we're talking about science here.
00:35:52.640 We're talking about male and female.
00:35:54.640 We're talking about bodies together.
00:35:58.560 Biology.
00:35:59.180 We're not talking about, I don't think gender should even have been brought into this in
00:36:02.660 the first place.
00:36:03.580 But, and I think that's, again, for me, like I told you, I posted some stuff on my social
00:36:09.180 media, I literally tweeted, save women's sports, those three words.
00:36:15.360 My federation took a screenshot of that and said basically that that is hate speech.
00:36:20.780 Jeez.
00:36:21.420 Hate speech.
00:36:22.400 Now, standing up for women is hate speech.
00:36:25.040 I would never have thunk it.
00:36:26.520 Now, I hear that you were, made an appearance on the largest cable news talk show in America.
00:36:33.680 Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News.
00:36:35.120 I've had the pleasure of appearing on it.
00:36:36.320 Whenever I go on that show, my phone blows up afterwards because so many people see it.
00:36:40.180 I mean, when you, when three, four, five million people watch a show, you can really tell, here's
00:36:45.000 a, here's a clip of your appearance on that show.
00:36:47.980 Take a look.
00:36:48.660 April, thank you.
00:36:49.300 And I'm sorry to laugh.
00:36:50.160 This is actually a very sad story.
00:36:51.660 And I'm just wondering how you feel about it.
00:36:54.920 Well, thank you for having me, Tucker.
00:36:58.200 How are we feeling?
00:36:59.140 The women of powerlifting are, we're outraged.
00:37:01.760 We're angry, we're hurt, we're offended.
00:37:04.980 We're basically every emotion except for happy.
00:37:09.380 I just don't, I know you're not supposed to criticize trans anybody, but here's a guy
00:37:14.140 who's horning into your sport and wrecking it.
00:37:17.060 Like, I don't know why he has to be a hero.
00:37:19.040 That's appalling.
00:37:19.800 Who would do something like that?
00:37:20.800 What's this guy's problem, do you think?
00:37:22.720 Um, you know what?
00:37:25.280 I don't even know if it's so much, uh, the person, right?
00:37:28.540 It's, it's the policy.
00:37:30.240 So at the end of the day, the policy is allowing him to compete.
00:37:35.140 April, what was it like being on that show?
00:37:37.460 Did other athletes reach out to you with their stories?
00:37:40.420 Did you have offers of help?
00:37:42.340 And here's a question for you.
00:37:44.100 Have you been interviewed by CBC, CTV, Global News, or other Canadian media?
00:37:49.020 So, yeah, it's true.
00:37:52.020 My, my phone basically blew up after Tucker.
00:37:54.960 And honestly, I, I think I did a little video.
00:37:58.160 I took a screenshot of all the people like that messaged me.
00:38:01.440 I mean, from all around, like, especially America, but, um, just like a crazy amount of
00:38:07.780 support.
00:38:08.180 I've had lifters from around the world.
00:38:10.880 I've had actually people, I had a trans identifying, uh, male actually reach out to me and say,
00:38:16.280 I am so sorry for what is happening to your sport.
00:38:20.020 Um, people of the LGBTQ community.
00:38:22.480 I mean, just everyone I've actually never had maybe one negative message, um, about
00:38:29.340 since I've started this kind of platform, uh, fighting for fairness and women's sports.
00:38:33.280 It's all been very, very positive.
00:38:36.060 Um, and again, going back to the other thing, um, I mean, I think the people, I've had a lot
00:38:42.040 of inboxes, right.
00:38:42.980 But I know a lot of people feel the same way as myself, but they just, they're too afraid
00:38:46.820 to speak up basically.
00:38:47.700 Right.
00:38:48.060 But no, it's been very supportive.
00:38:49.880 Very, very much so.
00:38:52.000 And how about on the media side?
00:38:53.540 I think that Tucker takes a real interest in Canada, which I think is good because sometimes,
00:38:58.360 uh, it takes a foreigner to care about something before Canadians do.
00:39:04.060 It's sort of funny that way.
00:39:05.200 Have you been interviewed by CBC, CTV, Global, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, any of the
00:39:11.360 mainstream media, have they talked to you?
00:39:14.920 Well, I, I don't see CBC interviewing me, um, probably cause they know we're right.
00:39:22.280 But have they, but you know, in, in fairness to them, have, have they, uh, have, have, because
00:39:28.180 it's, it's a very newsy subject.
00:39:30.420 You have a lot of credibility and standing.
00:39:32.600 You are an athlete, um, you're, you're taking a tolerant view towards the other side.
00:39:38.220 You've said you are tolerant of LGBTQ and, and, and you're not hostile.
00:39:43.800 You just standing up for women's sports.
00:39:45.480 You would seem to be a perfect CBC interviewee.
00:39:50.380 And you're saying they've, they've just never reached out.
00:39:52.360 They've never talked to you, even though you've gone on the biggest American show, they're
00:39:55.980 just not talking to you.
00:39:57.760 Yeah, I, I have not had any requests.
00:40:00.120 I have done a true North, um, which was great.
00:40:03.580 Um, but no, I, I actually said that I'm more than willing to go on any media platform to,
00:40:10.080 to share my, to share my side and to stand up for women's rights.
00:40:13.840 I am, I'm all for it.
00:40:15.160 I'm again, I'm, I'm very respectful.
00:40:18.280 I'm a very compassionate person.
00:40:19.880 I just want our message to be heard and, you know, yeah, I mean, I'm more than willing
00:40:25.200 to speak to any other, any other media.
00:40:27.520 Yes.
00:40:27.960 I'm sure you are, but they don't want to hear your point of view.
00:40:30.660 Uh, is there a place where people can get in touch with you or follow you or, or, or,
00:40:35.480 or what, hear your thoughts on things?
00:40:37.500 Do you have a website or even a Facebook page?
00:40:40.440 Yeah, I have, um, I mean, my, my Twitter, I just started a couple months ago since I actually
00:40:45.240 started this whole, um, working with save women sports.
00:40:48.660 Uh, so it's literally, um, I think it's under Lee underscore, underscore Christina.
00:40:54.240 And then I also have my Instagram, which is basically just my name, April Hutchinson.
00:40:58.760 Great.
00:40:58.900 Well, we'll put links to those underneath this video so folks can follow along because it
00:41:03.340 sounds like you're doing, uh, competing, which is very exciting, but you're also standing
00:41:08.940 up for, for women's rights and first the whole idea of sport itself.
00:41:12.700 Well, listen, what a pleasure to talk with you.
00:41:14.620 And I'm glad to hear true North interviewed you.
00:41:17.040 They're good people too, but like us, they're independent.
00:41:20.220 They're small compared to the big guys.
00:41:22.040 And so I, I'm not surprised they talked with you.
00:41:24.440 I'm glad they did.
00:41:25.220 They're great people over there, but you know, um, it, I find it disappointing that the big
00:41:30.800 media have not talked to you and I don't think they will because I don't think they are truly
00:41:35.060 open-minded.
00:41:35.720 I don't think, I don't think they care about women's sports.
00:41:39.260 I think in the pecking order, um, they would care about women's sports against white, straight
00:41:46.120 men.
00:41:47.540 But when it comes to the hierarchy of political correctness, I'm afraid you're not in top
00:41:53.780 spot anymore.
00:41:54.560 And what a shame.
00:41:55.920 April, I've enjoyed talking with you and congratulations on going on Tucker.
00:41:59.000 And if more news happens, if you spot things or something good or bad happens, don't be shy
00:42:04.480 about reaching out.
00:42:05.080 We'd love to have you on again.
00:42:07.060 Yeah, for sure.
00:42:07.800 Thank you very much.
00:42:08.740 All right.
00:42:08.980 Nice to meet you.
00:42:09.520 There she is.
00:42:10.140 April Hutchinson, a competitor in the Canadian powerlifting union.
00:42:14.520 Stay with us.
00:42:15.120 More ahead.
00:42:27.540 Hey, welcome back.
00:42:28.660 Your letters to me.
00:42:29.480 Lynn says, I, like many others, thought you promised to help the Cooch protesters with their
00:42:33.860 justice problem.
00:42:34.580 What is happening to these four in jail shouldn't be happening in Canada, and especially in Alberta.
00:42:39.220 The rebel needs to be putting pressure on Smith and Shandro to get this taken care of
00:42:43.320 because they are in the remand system and they are not even receiving the rights they
00:42:46.620 would get in jail.
00:42:48.000 One of them had to cut out the toes of his shoes because they didn't give him shoes to
00:42:52.180 fit his size 15 feet.
00:42:53.680 They're having trouble with getting lawyers.
00:42:55.520 I think the rebel could put on pressure by just reporting on the situation.
00:42:59.820 I'm glad you raised that with me.
00:43:01.340 Rebel News and also the Democracy Fund, between the two entities, are defending approximately
00:43:07.940 30 truckers.
00:43:09.740 The most prominent case are three truckers in Lethbridge, including a town councillor in
00:43:18.080 one of the nearby towns there.
00:43:19.800 And I've had the pleasure of meeting all three men that attended at court in Lethbridge.
00:43:25.500 Just today, literally today, the Democracy Fund is defending another trucker protester who
00:43:33.580 was accused of swerving his car dangerously towards a policeman.
00:43:38.520 I'm pretty sure that's a lie.
00:43:41.120 I think it was a lie propagated by Jason Kenney to try and demonize the truckers as violent.
00:43:46.160 So he's being represented by the Democracy Fund.
00:43:49.300 There's a number of others who are being represented either by Rebel or the Democracy Fund.
00:43:54.460 You are referring to four truckers who have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
00:44:01.420 And the question is, is that something contemplated by Rebel's offer to help people in court?
00:44:08.960 We were offering to help people who were civilly disobedient.
00:44:12.500 But the charges of conspiracy to commit murder feel outside that scope.
00:44:19.260 Now, I have, through a middle person, middleman, offered to meet with the families to talk,
00:44:24.820 to learn more about the case and to review disclosure, because if it is just a pack of lies
00:44:31.440 designed to demonize the men, and if it's so obviously just a bunch of lies,
00:44:36.780 then that, I think, would change the calculus.
00:44:39.560 But I remember when I personally got on the phone to the men in that saloon on the phone,
00:44:44.800 I said, we will defend you against charges for your protest.
00:44:48.920 But that did not include conspiracy to commit murder.
00:44:53.320 There's just no way I would have, that my agreement to help the men charged with the
00:44:58.080 peaceful protest would cover conspiracy to commit murder.
00:45:01.200 I'm just sorry.
00:45:01.660 I'm just not going to.
00:45:04.100 Unless, the one asterisk being, if it's such a clear, fake frame up just designed to demonize
00:45:11.840 these men.
00:45:12.500 And I've asked for more information in that regard.
00:45:15.540 I have not received it.
00:45:16.520 But if I receive information that convinces me that this conspiracy to commit murder is
00:45:24.420 just fake, the charges are fake, it's all trumped up, then I certainly would consider defending
00:45:31.700 them.
00:45:32.080 But let me close as I open, which is between Rebel News and the Democracy Fund, the two
00:45:37.680 entities are defending over 30 truckers.
00:45:40.780 And in fact, we are in court today.
00:45:43.720 And Rebel News is there to report it.
00:45:46.760 So I'm open to more information.
00:45:48.740 But I think I might have told you we also turned down a biker gang that asked for financial
00:45:55.000 help.
00:45:55.320 Sorry, we are not providing financial help to hire a lawyer for a biker gang.
00:46:00.100 I'm just not going to do it.
00:46:01.320 That's not what our donors had in mind.
00:46:04.040 It's certainly not what I had in mind.
00:46:05.800 I'm not demonizing these men.
00:46:07.140 But I'm saying I need more information before I can confirm in my mind that it is something
00:46:12.220 that we promised to defend.
00:46:14.160 God forbid, may it never happen, and it didn't happen.
00:46:16.780 But if someone was shot and killed, I'm not going to defend a guy for murder.
00:46:20.640 That's just outside the scope.
00:46:21.900 And I'm not equating the two, but I'm giving you an extreme example of something that would
00:46:26.860 never have been contemplated and would never have been done.
00:46:30.260 Richard says, I would like you to ask a question of Pierre Polyev, a question of the MSM
00:46:34.860 chooses not to ask.
00:46:35.960 It can be a deciding factor for some.
00:46:37.800 Here's my question.
00:46:38.500 Mr. Polyev, if you win the next election, are you going to conscript Canadians to help
00:46:42.140 Ukrainians fight the war against the Russians?
00:46:44.120 This is a very important question.
00:46:45.900 Maxime Bernier doesn't favor it.
00:46:47.600 What is Pierre's opinion?
00:46:50.660 I don't know his opinion on that, but I would be shocked.
00:46:54.620 I would say that is less than a one in a thousand chance he would say yes.
00:46:59.040 To bring in conscription.
00:47:04.500 Now, maybe some Canadian soldiers would be deployed to train Ukrainian soldiers in the
00:47:12.060 use of, say, the leopard tank.
00:47:13.280 But that's different from conscription.
00:47:16.320 You use the word conscript, which is to use the force of law to compel people to join the
00:47:22.240 military, to go and fight and possibly die in Ukraine.
00:47:26.020 That would never happen.
00:47:28.540 Trudeau himself would never do that.
00:47:29.940 So I, I'm, and believe me, if I had a sit down interview with Pierre Polyev, which I don't
00:47:37.100 know if I will, will get, I would not make that one of my top 10 questions.
00:47:40.800 I just would, I might ask him about Ukraine in general, but I'm not going to ask about
00:47:43.720 conscription because it's so unlikely to happen.
00:47:46.980 Stephen says, hey, Ezra, why do you not have a journalist in the maritime provinces?
00:47:50.780 All we have is the MSN, which I obviously don't trust.
00:47:53.400 Keep up the good work.
00:47:54.780 It's a good question.
00:47:55.860 And I have a good answer.
00:47:56.980 Budget reasons.
00:47:57.700 If I had my way, I'd have someone in the Atlantic.
00:48:00.080 If I had my way, I'd have someone in the North.
00:48:01.800 I'd have someone in the prairies, not just Alberta, but Manitoba's a skyscraper.
00:48:05.200 We did have someone, but she had to withdraw for personal reasons.
00:48:10.220 Having Drea in Vancouver and having Alexa in Montreal has been a real benefit to our company,
00:48:14.880 but it's a matter of budget.
00:48:17.720 We simply do not receive ad money from Facebook, or sorry, pardon me, from YouTube.
00:48:23.180 We do not receive government money from Trudeau.
00:48:25.460 We don't want it.
00:48:26.220 There are many sources of income that are banned because of political correctness, so we have
00:48:31.900 to live off crowdfunding.
00:48:33.320 And it's a miracle we're able to maintain a company of over 40 people.
00:48:37.060 I think we have 47 staff.
00:48:38.780 To be able to do that without ads, without government money is, frankly, unique in Canada.
00:48:43.860 I just don't think we have the budget to roll out a person in the Atlantic.
00:48:49.320 We have been out there to cover stories before.
00:48:51.980 And the Democracy Fund has helped a church in the lockdown.
00:48:55.220 So we have been out there.
00:48:56.960 But you're right.
00:48:58.060 We don't have a full-timer, and I just don't think we can afford it.
00:49:02.080 Well, my friends, that's our show for today.
00:49:03.640 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:49:07.800 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:49:09.940 We'll be right back.