The head of Canada s largest union is caught taking a $50,000 bribe from a company. Is that why he refused to fight against vaccine mandates? Or is it because he was bribed? And who else is paying bribes?
00:00:00.200Hello, my rebels. Today I take you through the crazy case of Jerry Diaz, until recently the president of Canada's largest private sector union called Unifor, taking a $50,000 COVID bribe.
00:00:13.820The union just suspended him for it, although they covered that up for a few weeks. I think it raises a lot of questions. Who else is being bribed? Who else is paying bribes?
00:00:23.540What decisions at Unifor were made because of this bribe? This is, in some ways, like discovering that a judge has been bribed.
00:00:33.040I mean, so many things have to be redone. I'll take you through it in today's show. I'm deeply troubled by it.
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00:01:19.760Tonight, the head of Canada's largest union is caught taking a $50,000 bribe from a COVID company.
00:01:32.140Is that why he refused to fight against vaccine mandates?
00:01:35.540It's March 24th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:37.760Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:43.720There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:47.780The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:02:59.980And if you're in any doubt about their political leanings, just look at their website homepage for the Unifor Media folks.
00:03:08.200You would be forgiven for thinking that that's the Liberal Party homepage.
00:03:12.100If you scroll down this Unifor Media page, you will see that these journalists, who present to you every day in the newspaper and every night on TV as neutral,
00:03:57.860So did Aaron O'Toole both abandoned their anti-CBC platforms immediately, but actually much more troubling is they tailored their political answers to policy questions to please the media.
00:04:14.020Let's see if Pierre Polyev can hold out against them.
00:04:17.640Here's what Pierre Polyev told Alexa LaVoie the other day.
00:04:21.060You said that you wanted to stop the subvention of CBC, and I also wanted to know your position on Radio-Canada, which is the version francophone of Quebec.
00:04:37.140The plan that I have for that is to be able to do during the campaign to the cheffery campaign.
00:04:42.380But it's true that I have to pay for the budget of CBC because it's a big gaspillage.
00:04:48.040It gaspillates a lot of money and almost everything that does the CBC English English English English English English is already available on the market.
00:04:55.780The government should only do what the market cannot do.
00:05:00.600But almost everything that we see at CBC, on the TV, on the Internet, is already available in other sources.
00:05:09.720So, I recognize that for RDI, it's a bit different because there's not enough options in French that exist in English.
00:05:20.780So, for the CBC, there's a lot of gaspillage.
00:05:57.760But did you think Unifor reporters would accurately report about Unifor, especially news that their boss took a bribe to promote the COVID agenda?
00:06:11.000But really, how is that any different from the media party that is bribed all the time by Justin Trudeau to follow his agenda?
00:07:08.980We'll face a hearing before the board as early as April.
00:07:13.820In a statement on Wednesday, his first in more than five weeks, Mr. Diaz said he would check into a rehabilitation facility for substance abuse issues.
00:07:23.280He said he has been coping with the nerve problem through painkillers, sleeping pills, and alcohol, all of which had impaired his judgment in recent months.
00:07:57.320Mr. Diaz was asked to participate in the investigation, but did not, the union said.
00:08:02.540In his statement, which was released as Unifor was holding its news conference, Mr. Diaz said he was unable to take part in the investigation on the advice of his physician.
00:08:29.440At a news conference, Unifor National Secretary-Treasurer Lana Payne said Mr. Diaz accepted the $50,000 from the supplier of the test kits at some point before January 20, 2022.
00:08:42.020Ms. Payne said an external investigation determined that, quote, on the balance of probabilities, he had breached the union's constitution by promoting the test kits in December 2021 and January 2022 to various Unifor employers.
00:08:59.280Mr. Diaz allegedly recommended the supplier's test kits directly to employers and got Unifor staff members to promote the supplier, she said.
00:09:08.660What's so incredible here is that the union will not say who the bribe-paying company is.
00:11:57.440It's simply not in the collective agreements.
00:11:59.820If you have a contract with someone that's signed and sealed, and then one side suddenly demands something extra, well, that's just not on.
00:12:10.960What are you going to give me for it in return?
00:12:12.800You want to crack open the agreement and add some jab requirement.
00:13:00.260The bottom line is, if an employer comes out with a mandatory vaccination policy, unless you have a bona fide medical reason, it will be deemed legitimate.
00:13:13.700So no religious exemption, for example, no exemption for conscientious objectors, and most obviously no objections for people who contracted COVID-19, got sick, then got better, and now have natural immunity.
00:13:26.840So you're just not even going to fight at all?
00:14:18.820It is so amazing in light of the bribery scandal.
00:14:24.040The head of Canada's largest private sector union is challenging other labor leaders to be more honest with their members and to support COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
00:26:36.400Well, I like to think that if we were in the United States, the First Amendment of their Bill of Rights would give us more legal defenses against government censorship than we have in Canada with our weaker charter of rights and our obedient courts.
00:27:03.220But sometimes I look at how the U.S. is treating the most effective journalists down there.
00:27:09.200I think, for example, Project Veritas that specializes in undercover stings.
00:27:14.900And I wonder, because look at this video recently released by James O'Keefe, the boss of Project Veritas.
00:27:21.680I think this is even crazier than what we put up with here in Canada.
00:27:27.220Project Veritas has just obtained documents showing the SDNY was spying on Project Veritas journalists well before the FBI raided the homes of our journalists last November,
00:27:39.300secretly reading our emails, concealing that from a court in our case against the SDNY.
00:27:44.680In November 2021, the FBI raids our homes and seizes 47 electronic devices, including cell phones, laptops and thumb drives.
00:27:56.580Within five days, U.S. District Court Judge Annalisa Torres ordered the Southern District of New York to pause its review of my devices.
00:28:04.660And within a month, ordered the SDNY to turn our seized materials over to a special master who had supervised the SDNY's review to protect our First Amendment and journalistic privileges.
00:28:15.320Recently obtained legal documents from Microsoft Corporation reveal that despite Judge Torres' orders between November 2020 and April 2021,
00:28:27.740the Department of Justice went to six magistrates and obtained a series of secret warrants, orders and a cepeda to surreptitiously collect privileged communications and contacts of eight American journalists, myself included, from Microsoft.
00:28:44.240The DOJ even sought and obtained numerous secrecy orders preventing Microsoft from disclosing the surveillance to anyone.
00:28:52.960The SDNY also went around Judge Torres and the special master and obtained two secrecy orders after the special master had been appointed.
00:29:02.640The SDNY's surveillance of Project Veritas journalists was done as part of the DOJ's unprecedented investigation into Ashley Biden's diary.
00:29:11.020The documents collected from these email accounts date back as far as January 2020, eight months before we even knew the diary existed.
00:29:20.720While the special master litigation proceeded, the government apparently misled the court by omission, by not disclosing that it had already obtained other privileged materials.
00:29:30.920The SDNY was ordered to turn over all materials to the special master.
00:30:25.740And, you know, this is unprecedented action here by the United States government.
00:30:30.500Just to take your audience back, Ashley Biden is the daughter of then presidential candidate Joe Biden.
00:30:38.020Project Veritas was sought after by a tipster who told us that they were in possession of a diary and that the contents of it are newsworthy.
00:30:46.380We obtained the diary as many news organizations would, and we attempted to corroborate the details of the diary.
00:30:55.820We then turned the diary over to law enforcement.
00:30:59.500And many of your audience may know that as a result of our journalistic action, President Biden's DOJ decided to execute search warrants on the homes of journalists, a trio of journalists, including our founder, CEO James O'Keefe.
00:31:13.300Now, that's a problem here in this country because journalists are afforded journalistic privilege.
00:31:18.940This is something that would not happen to The New York Times or to CNN.
00:31:23.800And as you just saw, we have just learned that despite those unheralded action, the Department of Justice went a step further and secretly obtained our emails, hundreds of thousands of email documents, our journalist source contacts, even our Uber information.
00:31:40.520They used a gag order to bound Microsoft to secrecy.
00:31:44.600And this is a problem because a federal judge told them that everything must go through a filter team and that they must use a supervisor known as a special master to oversee their investigation of us because we do have journalistic privilege.
00:31:58.480The DOJ didn't think we had journalistic privilege.
00:32:00.960A judge rejected that argument, and it seems the DOJ has decided to continue to go behind that judge's back and seek gag orders to bind Microsoft to secrecy.
00:32:10.540And thankfully, they told us what the government was up to.
00:32:15.580Because I saw on the screen there in that very well-produced segment by James O'Keefe that Microsoft was told, don't tell anyone we're going through your customers' records.
00:32:26.220Are you able to tell us how you were tipped off to that?
00:33:14.040We want to immediately go and let our client know.
00:33:16.380And they did so to us within hours because the Department of Justice relented.
00:33:20.520And they relented because they know they have no grounds to continue seeking gag orders on a tech corporation to seek journalistic privileged communication.
00:33:29.440So this could be happening in Canada because if it's happening in the United States to a multimillion-dollar media company, it could certainly happen to the average everyday citizen.
00:33:39.760Now, the fact that Ashley Biden, the president's daughter, it's her diary in question, it immediately makes me think of Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, whose laptop was a stunning trove of shocking e-mails and photographs and videos and just it was incredible.
00:34:02.100And we saw the tech companies censor that when the New York Post broke that story shortly before the 2020 elections, Twitter and others kicked into gear, suspended the account of the New York Post, one of the oldest newspapers in America.
00:34:16.960And you saw dozens of people, I call it the deep state, like former CIA and intelligence directors saying, no, no, that's just Russian disinformation.
00:34:24.800They managed to stop that Hunter Biden laptop from becoming widely discussed.
00:34:31.780I don't know if it would have turned the U.S. election, but it was certainly damaging.
00:34:35.780I immediately think of that when I hear that the president's daughter has a diary, too.
00:34:42.980Are you able to or have others or has Project Veritas, you say you tried to corroborate what was in the diary.
00:34:50.800Are you able to say what was in the diary that you thought was in the public interest?
00:34:56.180Well, you know, apparently by the virtue of these investigations and actions from the Department of Justice, we can only assume the diary is real.
00:35:05.460And, you know, the contents, you know, it's not only that we couldn't authenticate the diary.
00:35:10.280It's also that, you know, you can't authenticate the events being described in the diary.
00:36:00.780They wouldn't stand for it, as you are not standing for it.
00:36:05.640But I believe that if the FBI had raided the homes and the Southern District of New York had got all these secret warrants or orders to spy, I believe you would have heard from, for example, the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union.
00:36:21.120I believe you would have heard from all sorts of journalism professors, ethics professors.
00:36:25.860There would have been calls for inquiries, judicial inquiries, maybe a congressional inquiry.
00:36:32.940A lot of people who care about the independence of journalists and protecting the First Amendment would have been rightfully outraged had this happened to, say, CNN or The New York Times.
00:36:42.900Have you at Project Veritas received any support from free speech groups or journalistic groups?
00:36:50.960Have they come to your aid in a way that we know they would have come to the aid of CNN?
00:36:57.660It would be nice to see more support from some of these organizations.
00:37:02.220Some of these organizations, however, have spoke up in our support.
00:37:05.300The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday issuing a statement calling for the Department of Justice to immediately halt their review of seized devices and communications,
00:37:17.260calling this a suppression, excuse me, of these warrants unprecedented action.
00:37:23.340In the past, the Reporters Committee actually filed something to the court on our behalf, calling for more transparency on this matter.
00:37:32.360But again, it would be great to see more support, the Office of Government Accountability.
00:37:36.980There's a litany of other freedom of press.
00:37:38.940There are dozens of these or so organizations, and they have not spoken up on our behalf.
00:37:43.380And aside from a few individuals in the media, which I do give them credit, mainstream media journalists have spoken about this matter, there's been largely silence on this.
00:37:53.060So I hope other reporters who are listening to this is aware that, you know, the pendulum often swings back and forth.
00:38:00.060There's always going to be someone who is in charge of government who, quote, may see your activities as a threat.
00:38:05.920But and other journalists just speak up about this.
00:38:08.400This is an abridgment to the First Amendment.
00:38:10.880And if they don't speak up on this, they will be next.