A politician swore at a politician, and the media is apoplectic. Well, obviously the police are investigating, but I think that Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau just might be cry bullies. I'll show you the tape of the hecklers in question.
00:07:31.160I'm sure all of us in this house are used to vigorous debate, certainly during question period,
00:07:35.580but there is a line that should be not crossed, especially when it comes to using unparliamentary language.
00:07:40.580The Prime Minister used an obscenity, and it was not fuddle-duddle, in describing the official opposition.
00:07:46.440I would ask the Prime Minister to stand and apologize for that language.
00:07:55.720I can say during question period, there was a number of things that was flying back and forth.
00:08:01.980I did not hear what the Prime Minister said, but all I can say is I heard a number of lies on this side as well.
00:08:09.080So those are things that should not be said in this House of Commons.
00:08:12.440And as I said before, during question period, to follow some decorum in this House of Commons,
00:08:19.720to watch what we're saying to each other, so that we reflect what Canadians want in this House of Commons.
00:08:25.080Okay, so that in Parliament where you're not supposed to use unparliamentary language.
00:08:29.480And there was that time a few years back where he called Peter Kent a piece of SHIT.
00:08:34.060Well, Mr. Speaker, my honourable colleague, if she had been in Durban, would have seen that, in fact, Canada was among the leaders in creating the...
00:09:32.560Police in Peterborough say they are actively investigating a protest that resulted in the profane heckling of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh during a visit to the central Ontario city earlier this week.
00:16:51.480I have a question from Tamara Ugolini from Rebel News.
00:16:54.120Mr. Trudeau, the only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.
00:17:09.200This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government.
00:17:14.320Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and why?
00:17:17.960First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the Press Gallery and the Consortium of Networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism and the important information that is shared with Canadians.
00:17:35.120The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic
00:17:54.920and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of understanding of basic science.
00:18:07.940And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization, your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
00:18:22.640And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we take about the kind of country we want to see.
00:18:32.080And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day.
00:18:42.720But make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.
00:18:52.640So you have an abusive government, increasingly violent against its own people, verbally abusive against its own people, you know, seizing bank accounts, martial law.
00:19:01.760So, you know, that's all fine, but you can't swear back.
00:19:08.440Here's what, here's what Jagmeet Singh said to reporters once he recovered from hearing the F word.
00:19:12.880He said it was more of an aggressive and a bit on the violent side in terms of the language that was being used.
00:19:20.140It would rank among our worst experiences.
00:19:22.780What it does remind me is there's a level of polarization that's going on in politics, which is troubling.
00:20:15.220Here's what the former head of CESIS told Parliament just yesterday.
00:20:19.420I really do think that political correctness has reached the point today where it's almost impossible to have a conversation about a whole raft of issues.
00:20:28.260And if you're frustrated with government and with society to begin with, and it's not helpful.
00:20:33.380And I don't think that attacking views is helpful by anybody.
00:21:24.700Information laundering is really quite ferocious.
00:21:39.120It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious.
00:21:42.320By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet.
00:21:44.880So disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious.
00:21:50.160It's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, when Rudy Giuliani shared that in town from Ukraine.
00:21:58.140Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain.
00:22:01.140They're laundering disinfo and we really should take note and not support their lies with our wallet, voice or vote.
00:22:25.980The treasure trove of commentaries, many of them musical, by Nina Jankiewicz that are just right out there.
00:22:34.680The New York Post, one of the best headline writers in the business.
00:22:39.260They had this cover story a while back.
00:22:41.320They called her Scary Poppins, not Mary Poppins.
00:22:45.160And the New York Post again today, a great column by our friend Ben Weingarten.
00:22:49.440And the headline is, you couldn't have picked a worse minister of truth than Nina Jankiewicz.
00:22:55.980But actually, I think she is the perfect minister of truth in the Orwellian sense that she'll do anything, say anything to flatter the regime.
00:23:06.780And joining us now via Skype is our friend Ben Weingarten, who writes for The Federalist and is with the Claremont Institute.
00:23:38.960And this is a, in some ways, ridiculous topic, but in other ways, one of the most important topics when it comes to what I've cast as a war on wrong thing that's been going on in America.
00:23:50.560Nina Jankiewicz, we recently found out in testimony, I believe, from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, is chairing, serving as the czar of the so-called Disinformation Governance Board, the DGB, within the Department of Homeland Security.
00:24:07.820And according to DHS, this department is not operational, except that it's coordinating all of its work with a slew of other clearly operational bodies, including the DHS and other government agencies.
00:24:23.000And Jankiewicz herself is, of course, the last person to serve as an arbiter of truth in an organ that should not exist in the U.S. governmental system, period, full stop.
00:24:33.520We do not need disinformation governance boards.
00:24:35.680We certainly don't need them housed within the DHS, that is, with an inherently domestic focus.
00:24:42.340And this is, of course, the last administration to be telling us to be trying to separate truth from fiction when it's been one of the greatest purveyors, for example, of what it cast as disinformation with respect to the coronavirus, for example, and then ended up flip-flopping and promoting it as the truth.
00:25:00.180And Jankiewicz herself, of course, perfectly reflects this administration on three levels.
00:25:06.280The first is that she is the last person to be an arbiter of truth because she herself has been a prolific purveyor of disinformation.
00:25:15.120This is someone who is a Russiagate collusion monger who's promoted the work of Christopher Steele, told the untruth that the Steele dossier, which is at the core of the entire Russiagate fraud, itself was funded by Republicans.
00:25:27.880Not true. This is someone who is also partisan, something that you wouldn't want if you were supposed to have a neutral arbiter of truth, which, of course, again, the U.S. government shouldn't be in the business of.
00:25:39.000This is someone who was said, tweeted, hashtag, I'm with her with respect to Hillary Clinton and quoted Hillary Clinton in 2016 with this ill-fated statement that the most dangerous thing, I'm paraphrasing here about Donald Trump, would be that he would embolden and empower ISIS.
00:25:54.080When, of course, Donald Trump helped destroy ISIS, ultimately, someone who claimed, of course, this is the biggest promoter of untruth here, someone who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, when, of course, that was an American information operation, in effect.
00:26:10.520The New York Post reporting there has been vindicated, someone who was an ardent defender, actually, of Hunter Biden's work with Burisma, as well as a defender of Joe Biden, who she claimed in a November 2020 piece in Foreign Affairs was uniquely suited to combat disinformation and called for the creation in that article of a counter-disinformation czar, basically lobbying for the creation of a position in which she now sits.
00:26:37.320Last but not least, last but not least, as for free speech, this is someone who wants people, blue checkmarks like her, enlightened blue checkmarks like her, to be able to add context, so-called, to tweets, that is to be able to edit tweets, conferring their wisdom upon them and batting down the disinformation of politicians they don't like or commentators they don't like, and who also said that she shutters, this is her word, shutters, to think about free speech absolutists purchasing social media platforms.
00:27:04.640So on every level, in terms of herself being a partisan hack, it would seem, based upon her public positions, and then on the fact that she is not devoted to free speech, clearly, on each one of these bases, that makes her the worst minister of truth, but also the perfect minister of truth for this regime.
00:27:24.500And this ministry that she's going to be overseeing is supposedly tasked with combating mis, dis, and malinformation regarding irregular migration, that is illegal immigration, particularly from our southern border, and then Russian disinformation going into the midterm.
00:27:38.940So as I ask in this piece, does that mean that if you bring up the fact that the Biden administration has engaged in sovereignty, eviscerating policies with respect to our southern border, and that that thus provokes or compels people to rush those borders, are you a purveyor of dangerous disinformation?
00:27:57.500What about if the equivalent of the Hunter Biden laptop story fell into our laps tomorrow?
00:28:02.480Would the DHS and other agencies cast that as Russian disinformation going into a midterm election, thus interfering in that election?
00:28:09.340All of these questions are open questions, and they deserve more than scrutiny.
00:28:16.220But even more broadly, the war on wrong thing that it's part and parcel of, which we've talked about here before, should not exist.
00:28:22.600You know, and the thing is, all of it, she puts to a show tune.
00:28:27.840It's just like, it's all creepy and crazy to begin with.
00:28:32.020I mean, here's a clip of her saying that, I mean, the blue checkmark, just FYI for folks, is there's so many people on social media.
00:28:38.860But if you're a brand that can be confused, or if you're a celebrity and there's people copycatting you, most social media lets you get a little blue checkmark to say you're verified, you're legit.
00:28:49.400But it's not necessarily a function of how large your audience is, though that is a factor.
00:28:58.240But it's not an endorsement of what you have to say.
00:29:02.100It's not an endorsement that you're a keeper of the truth.
00:29:04.000It's really just, this is like a VIP user of this social platform.
00:29:09.500Here she is saying anyone with a blue checkmark, as if it's, as if it is some moral status that you have a unique perspective on the truth, should be able to go in and correct anyone else in the world.
00:29:22.020Like she would be the, the editor for your own private thought.
00:29:27.480And I am eligible for it because I'm verified, but there are a lot of people who shouldn't be verified, who aren't, you know, legit, in my opinion.
00:29:36.420I mean, they are real people, but they're not trustworthy.
00:29:39.300Anyway, so verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets.
00:29:50.880And so just as a easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the 60 lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary of state and his news conferences, something like that.
00:30:19.700Adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on a tweet.
00:30:31.100I don't know who this lady, Nina Jankiewicz, wanted to grow up to be, but I think maybe she thought there was like some Veep or some House of Cards show that she would be perfect for.
00:30:47.360Or sometimes it was just weird, like this strange one, where she sings, who do I have to sleep with to get ahead?
00:30:53.020Why is she rich, famous, and powerful?
00:30:57.180While I'm still stuck here singing Christmas songs for all of you, what does it take to be famous and powerful?
00:31:05.460Santa, if you're listening, please tell me what to do.
00:31:08.940Who do I find to be famous and powerful?
00:31:12.260I don't know, it just feels like a joke.
00:31:16.200Now, I know there were some hearings on Capitol Hill where the head of Homeland Security was asked about her, but she herself has not appeared before any confirmation hearings, am I right?
00:31:28.560She's, I guess, a low level enough hire that she's not subjected to hearings like a judge would be or an agency head?
00:31:39.220Yeah, my understanding is this is a non-confirmable type of position.
00:31:43.580And that is one of the reasons why I think one of the dangers that we've seen in the evolution of the executive branch, creating all of these positions that are not subject to, in effect, the consent of the governed.
00:31:56.540That's why they create these czarships, and that's what she serves as.
00:32:01.880And I agree, there's a level of this which is, one of my friends, David Reboi, out there, he has this blog, this substack, and he's kind of gone with this.
00:32:22.140But it's deathly serious because, and this is what I've been trying to emphasize when I write and speak about this, as wild and outlandish as it is that this person is running this ministry, this ministry exists.
00:32:36.220It does have power because it is coordinating across the government.
00:32:39.400And the DHS put out a terrorism advisory bulletin back in February, which said that the U.S. faced a heightened threat environment fueled by mis-, dis-, and mal-information.
00:32:51.340And particularly around, of course, contentious, heated topics like election integrity, Chinese coronavirus policies, and immigration when it came to refugees primarily coming from Afghanistan, it referred to.
00:33:03.840So they have tried to associate, debate, really, views that do not comport with the regime's views on heated, contentious issues that are supposed to be hashed out in a Republican system like ours.
00:33:17.780They've said that if you're on the wrong side of those issues, you might be on the side of the dangerous, the terrorists.
00:33:22.500I guess ultra-MAGA, as Joe Biden has cast some Americans.
00:33:26.820And they have this whole apparatus that's being built to pursue it.
00:33:30.300And it started with, as we've talked about before, the creation of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, which was put out back in June of last year,
00:33:40.420which called for the need, a whole-of-government effort to confront the long-term contributors to the great domestic terror threats,
00:33:48.180fueled by, again, mist and disinformation and assaults on, essentially, democracy, efforts to undermine the institutions and democracy.
00:33:58.740But the thing is, the institutions themselves are doing that undermining, and they're trying to cast critics of it who observe what we all can see with our own eyes,
00:34:07.320the ridiculousness here, the late republic nonsense, themselves as a danger, rather than that the institutions themselves are basically serving as a danger to the country, our liberty and justice.
00:34:18.180Yeah. You know, it used to be that in politics, we just called each other wrong.
00:34:24.700You're wrong. You're factually wrong. Your facts are wrong, or your opinion is unreasonable.
00:34:29.700That's how it used to be. But the remedies for being wrong are a correction or a rebuttal, a debate.
00:34:37.320But those ideas are no longer in vogue in the left, so they've replaced, well, you're wrong, or I disagree with,
00:34:44.220that is misinformation, disinformation, malinformation. I haven't heard that one before.
00:34:49.320Because then you're saying, well, I don't have to fact-check you. I don't have to do the work of debating you.
00:34:53.980I don't have to challenge you. We're not going to interact.
00:34:56.480I'm going to just swallow everything up that you've said, and I'm going to cancel it and eradicate it.
00:35:02.300And the fact that you would even dare disagree with me, I'm going to call it disinformation, and now I'm going to call you disloyal.
00:35:11.120I'm going to put you in some homeland security category along with China, Russia, and terrorists.
00:35:16.380And instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of answering your points, I'm going to say anyone who even engages in those points is morally wrong.
00:35:26.860It's not a war room debate. It's not one of these fake fact-checks where the corporate media says, well, you can't disagree with us.
00:35:35.220It's like a nuclear fact-check because it's government-weaponized, and there's going to be some government response.
00:35:44.180Facebook, social media is going to be ordered to take it down.
00:35:47.780You'll be condemned by government, not just the private sector.
00:35:51.440I think that this whole disinformation industry is simply censorship of anyone who disagrees with the regime.
00:36:00.340Yeah, essentially what they're saying is the science is settled.
00:36:03.600If you don't disagree with us, your ideas are dangerous.
00:36:09.380We threaten to use the full force of the public sector and private sector power because oftentimes now they're working in tandem with the private sector that has embraced the regime ideology, works with the regime.
00:36:22.240Of course, in some ways, corporate America itself has become like an arm of the administrative state in its embrace of wokeism and diversity, inclusion, equity, DI, as opposed to DEI.
00:36:32.140By critical race theory and the rest of it.
00:36:36.560It's because they do not want to debate.
00:36:39.380They have given up on reason and persuasion, and they're going to force to try to drive their political opponents into submission.
00:36:47.880They want to demoralize their opposition.
00:36:50.080They want to scare their opposition into remaining silent.
00:36:53.560And that's why I think it's so imperative to speak up, because this is really going to have civilizational consequences if this effort continues to stand and continue and the long march continues through the institutions.
00:37:07.300You can see all the World Economic Forum types synchronizing on this stuff.
00:37:11.740You can see Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, Justin Trudeau.
00:37:15.160So the other day in Parliament in Canada, Ben, it was revealed that a military aircraft was spying on the trucker convoy, flying overhead, probably collecting, you know, electronic data, signals, intelligence on, you know, probably ID'd every person in the crowd using their cell phone, probably logged all that info, hoovered up all the call.
00:37:38.760I don't know what, it was a military spy plane.
00:37:41.920For months, the government denied that happened.
00:37:53.700He lashed out, accusing the question asker, who is a member of Parliament, a member of Her Majesty's loyal opposition, whose job it is to ask questions of the government, called that disinformation.
00:38:08.080So it's just the go-to insult, because I guess calling people racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic isn't quite enough, because that doesn't shut anyone up.
00:38:19.320But saying that's disinformation, now, oh, I'm scared to even repeat it, because there's something foreign and hostile to the information.
00:38:28.800It's so bizarre and so cheap to see him use that in Parliament against the fact that his own government has admitted.
00:38:38.280That just shows what this whole disinformation BS is.
00:38:42.040It's just a new version of calling someone racist, but in a way that the words they say become toxic in a foreign affairs kind of way.
00:38:50.900The truth is, they don't fear disinformation.
00:38:55.860What they really fear is truth, truth speakers.
00:38:59.460They want to silence and muzzle them, because those who speak the truth boldly and courageously threaten their power and privilege.
00:39:07.960And all around the world, there have been movements rising up, populist movements, nationalist movements rising up against our progressive, globalist, internationalist, davoisi, whichever adjective we want to use, the global ruling class, so to speak.
00:39:23.040And they can't tolerate that, but the whole reason that there's been this populist nationalist uprising is precisely because of the failures of these rulers to do what the people want.
00:39:35.840And just on a very practical basis, if you ask the question, is your life better than it was 10 years ago?
00:39:41.000If the answer is no, you have to be responsive to the public.
00:39:45.900And they want to act as if the public doesn't matter, and that's just an impediment to their rule, and we the people can't take it anymore and aren't going to stand for it, but consequently they have to cast those who would dare speak up as a danger, try to delegitimize them, chill and silence them into submission, and that's why it's imperative not to, not to cower.
00:40:06.720Well, it's incredible, and just because she smiles and sings doesn't make it any less terrifying.
00:40:11.700In fact, I think that makes it absolutely terrifying.
00:40:13.900There's a real Hunger Games vibe to what she's doing.