Rebel News Podcast - June 27, 2023


EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators, but what about the Conservatives？


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

157.46523

Word Count

4,573

Sentence Count

279

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The Liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators, but what about the conservatives? Ezra Levenveen and Ira Levenvenkamp have a petition to be delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for him to fix something that needs fixing.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. You know, we love to take on Justin Trudeau. We do it every day,
00:00:04.860 but every once in a while we have to keep our Conservative Party friends in line. We've got to
00:00:09.460 hold them to account, because if we don't, who will? I mean, listen, the media party will
00:00:13.720 criticize Conservatives all day long, but it's bad faith criticism. When we have a criticism of
00:00:18.960 Conservatives, people say, hang on, what's going on there? And I think they pay attention because
00:00:23.280 they regard us as keepers of the flame. Today we have a petition for you to be delivered to
00:00:28.780 Pierre Polyev. I'll tell you why, because there's something wrong in the party that he can fix.
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00:00:58.780 Tonight, the liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators. But what about the conservatives?
00:01:19.920 It's June 27th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:23.840 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:38.140 For months, we've had devastating revelations of the depths of the Chinese Communist Party's
00:01:43.520 influence in Canadian politics. The corruption is throughout the Liberal Party. It's not just
00:01:49.120 Liberal MPs like Han Dong and Liberal Senators like Yuan Pao Wu. It goes all the way up to the Trudeau
00:01:55.860 family themselves. Justin Trudeau's brother, Alexander Trudeau, personally accepted a six-figure
00:02:02.600 check from the Chinese government to the Trudeau Foundation. Absolute corruption, and it goes straight to
00:02:08.720 the top. The whole country, including the normally liberal-friendly media, have been appalled by Trudeau's
00:02:14.980 corruption and their gross attempts to cover it up, first by hiring a close family friend, David
00:02:20.100 Johnston, to cover it up, only to learn that Johnston himself was utterly compromised by China.
00:02:26.100 There have been some really awful moments, like when this Liberal MP tried to attack an honest journalist
00:02:32.560 for reporting on the corruption.
00:02:34.140 Cooper, to you now. On March 22nd, you published an article with the headline,
00:02:39.640 Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing the two Michaels.
00:02:48.000 Do you stand by this headline?
00:02:51.040 I don't write the headlines, but I stand by the story. I know that Global News stands by the story,
00:02:57.320 and there is a legal procedure underway, and the story speaks for itself, and the statement of defense
00:03:07.000 speaks for itself. The story stands.
00:03:08.900 Thank you. So, despite the fact that the article used the term allegedly at least about ten times,
00:03:14.720 you chose to frame the headline, or the newspaper chose to frame the headline,
00:03:19.140 excluding that language in the headline. Was that done on purpose?
00:03:22.840 I said at the outset I won't speak to editorial processes or legal procedures,
00:03:31.180 but I can assure the Honourable Member that legal vetting and editorial vetting of these stories
00:03:38.960 is extremely rigorous, and that's all I'll say about that matter.
00:03:43.000 Why didn't you include allegedly in the headline, Mr. Cooper?
00:03:46.380 Sorry?
00:03:46.900 Why did you not include allegedly in the headline?
00:03:49.200 This is a matter for editorial procedures and legal vetting procedures.
00:03:55.560 Okay. Did you review the transcript from the supposed conversation between MP Dong and the Consular General?
00:04:02.780 I told the Honourable Member at the outset that I'm not going to speak to editorial processes,
00:04:09.400 identification of sources, or legal procedures around this story, and I'll repeat it again and again.
00:04:16.160 Thank you. And will you table the supposed transcript that we've learned from the Right Honourable David Johnson's report does exist?
00:04:24.840 If you have or haven't reviewed that, I understand you won't talk about it.
00:04:28.300 Will you table that with this committee, the transcript, please?
00:04:32.920 I didn't prepare any materials around that question, and I'll stand.
00:04:39.380 And as I told the Honourable Member, I'm not going to speak to...
00:04:43.360 So gross.
00:04:45.400 Justin Trudeau is even worse, of course.
00:04:48.860 His security advisor says her top priority is hunting down the whistleblower who leaked the news about the Chinese spying.
00:04:57.280 She's not too concerned about the Chinese corruption itself.
00:05:00.220 It's the whistleblower who told the media about it that Trudeau wants to get.
00:05:05.300 Now, the Conservative Party has done pretty well on this issue.
00:05:08.440 Here, take a listen.
00:05:09.480 But unfortunately, there's no common sense in Justin Trudeau's Ottawa.
00:05:12.820 We see today that his ski buddy, cottage neighbor, family friend, and member of the Beijing-financed Trudeau Foundation
00:05:23.040 came out and did exactly what I predicted, help Trudeau cover up the influence by Beijing in our democracy.
00:05:32.120 We know that Beijing interfered in two elections to help Trudeau win.
00:05:35.700 We know that Beijing gave $140,000 to the Trudeau Foundation with the express purpose of buying the love and the loyalty of Justin Trudeau.
00:05:46.800 And we know that Trudeau has been briefed on these matters for years and done absolutely nothing about it except try to keep it quiet
00:05:53.600 and name-call anyone who spoke out about it.
00:05:58.620 And then in order to further sweep the matter under the rug, he put his friend, his ski buddy, his cottage neighbor,
00:06:07.640 and Trudeau Foundation member David Johnston in charge of today's whitewash attempt.
00:06:16.100 But Conservatives are not buying it.
00:06:18.240 We need a full public inquiry to get to the bottom of Beijing's interference in our democracy.
00:06:25.180 And that's what I will deliver when I am Prime Minister.
00:06:28.460 There will be a full public inquiry into this mess.
00:06:32.060 And in the meantime, we will continue to push for a real foreign influence registry that exposes anyone
00:06:37.720 who does paid work on behalf of a foreign dictatorship to manipulate our politics.
00:06:43.700 It's just common sense.
00:06:46.520 Let's bring it home.
00:06:47.420 Let's bring home control of our democracy back into the hands of the Canadian...
00:06:52.180 All right.
00:06:52.840 But here's the thing.
00:06:54.860 The Chinese Communist Party doesn't just target the liberals.
00:06:58.960 They target Conservatives too.
00:07:02.240 About a dozen years ago, a Conservative member of Parliament named Bob Deckert had an affair with a Chinese spy
00:07:09.120 who was working for the state broadcaster Xinhua.
00:07:12.240 But get a load of this guy, a Conservative senator named Victor Oh.
00:07:18.280 Senator Victor Oh says Chinese Canadians need to fundraise to sue messy reporters.
00:07:25.560 Seriously, let me read a little bit here.
00:07:27.880 A Canadian senator said he wants Chinese Canadians to set up a national foundation
00:07:31.880 that would focus on raising money to fund lawsuits against messy reporters
00:07:36.360 and politicians who try to smear the community.
00:07:39.880 Holy cow!
00:07:41.660 Well, let me read just one more sentence.
00:07:43.360 A video of Conservative Senator Victor Oh making the remarks was uploaded to the social media platform WeChat on June 5th,
00:07:52.480 showing him addressing a group at what was described as the Montreal Chinese Community United Center.
00:07:58.640 The Canadian press obtained the video, which showed Oh saying in Mandarin that, quote,
00:08:03.580 we need to raise money to cover the cost for people affected by all of these unreasonable reporters
00:08:08.220 who try to smear Chinese and discredit Chinese.
00:08:11.100 But did you catch that one part?
00:08:14.880 Not the part about hunting down reporters who uncover Chinese Communist Party corruption.
00:08:19.600 The part about him being a conservative.
00:08:23.220 As in, he sits in Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party in good standing.
00:08:28.560 He's not a liberal.
00:08:31.300 Why is this allowed to happen?
00:08:33.420 For months, Pierre Polyev himself has been pounding away at Trudeau and the liberals.
00:08:39.220 And the whole crooked Trudeau family and all the corrupt liberal MPs and senators.
00:08:45.320 And Polyev was actually brilliant at going after David Johnson, hired by Trudeau to handle the cover-up.
00:08:52.440 I mean, get a load of this.
00:08:53.920 David Johnson is a ski buddy, chalet neighbor, family friend, and member of the Trudeau Foundation.
00:09:02.040 He has no business in this job because it is a fake job that he is incapable of doing impartially.
00:09:08.620 And none of his recommendations can be taken seriously because he's in a conflict of interest.
00:09:12.400 And frankly, it's incredible that he didn't even mention the Trudeau Foundation in his report,
00:09:19.120 even though publicly available intelligence showed that the dictatorship in Beijing had given money to the Trudeau Foundation
00:09:29.460 for the express purpose of buying the love and loyalty of Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:09:35.980 Now, Johnson's part of the Trudeau Foundation, so of course he wouldn't want to investigate himself.
00:09:43.180 But frankly, that's why he should have recused himself.
00:09:46.620 Pierre Polyev was in sync with the spirit of the times.
00:09:49.820 Canadians are sick of selling out to China.
00:09:54.100 They're sick of the corruption.
00:09:55.580 Canadians are especially sick of politicians and businesses who sell out to Communist China.
00:10:00.420 And yet this whole time, a pro-Chinese Communist Party senator is on Polyev's Conservative Party team.
00:10:10.440 Now, senators are appointed, and unless he's convicted of a serious crime, he will be in the Senate until he turns 75, which is actually next year.
00:10:20.400 Polyev didn't appoint Senator Victor Oh.
00:10:23.160 Stephen Harper did that for whatever reason.
00:10:25.720 But Pierre Polyev controls who is in his Conservative Party caucus, who's in the party at all.
00:10:34.800 How can Pierre Polyev mock David Johnson and Han Dong and the rest of the Chinese Communist Party assets,
00:10:43.400 but then smile and shake Victor Oh's hand and be fine with all the things he said
00:10:49.000 and his plans to sue reporters for uncovering Chinese Communist Party influence?
00:10:53.640 How bizarre. A sitting senator threatening to silence Canadian reporters.
00:10:59.440 That's very Chinese Communist Party of him, isn't it?
00:11:03.440 But look, the thing about being a Conservative is you have to have standards, and you have to follow them yourself.
00:11:10.080 Liberals make a virtue out of hypocrisy.
00:11:12.920 Liberals break their own rules all the time.
00:11:15.300 It's part of the liberal identity, but Conservatives have to stand for something.
00:11:19.880 It's part of being Conservative, and you cannot criticize Justin Trudeau on Monday,
00:11:24.840 and David Johnston on Tuesday, and Han Dong on Wednesday, and U.N. Pow Wu on Thursday,
00:11:29.480 but then shake hands with Senator Victor Oh on Friday.
00:11:33.020 You just can't if you're a Conservative.
00:11:35.840 Pierre Polyev has to kick Victor Oh out of the Conservative Party.
00:11:40.260 I know that means the Conservatives won't have his vote in the Senate,
00:11:44.960 but look, the Conservatives are massively outnumbered in the Senate anyways.
00:11:48.820 They lose every vote every time already, so it's not like it's going to make a difference.
00:11:53.680 But what makes a difference is that Polyev has to show he doesn't stand for the kind of bullying
00:11:58.640 and corruption that Victor Oh has come to represent.
00:12:01.720 If you agree that Victor Oh has got to go, sign our new petition at kickhimout.ca.
00:12:14.580 We'll personally deliver that petition to the Conservative Party.
00:12:18.240 They simply have to kick out Victor Oh as a signal that they mean what they say about Chinese Communist Party interference,
00:12:26.720 and as a signal to the many Chinese Canadians who have been bullied by the Chinese dictatorship,
00:12:32.920 even bullied here in Canada, including by diplomats at the Chinese embassy.
00:12:38.400 The Conservatives need to show that not everyone in the establishment is compromised.
00:12:43.020 Not everyone has been bought off by Beijing.
00:12:47.440 Let Justin Trudeau woo the Chinese Communist Party vote.
00:12:51.480 And there is that vote in Canada.
00:12:53.120 Let Trudeau have it.
00:12:54.700 And it is, you know, who knows, maybe hundreds of thousands of voters.
00:12:59.600 But let Pierre Polyev be the party of Chinese democracy activists and Hong Kong and Tibetan and Uyghur freedom activists.
00:13:09.340 And more importantly, the party of Canadians, regardless of race or ethnicity.
00:13:14.500 The party that stands up to bullies, both foreign and domestic.
00:13:19.380 Go to www.kickhimout.ca.
00:13:23.780 Just because liberals are hypocrites doesn't mean Conservatives should be too.
00:13:31.160 Go to kickhimout.ca.
00:13:33.780 Well, Canada is not the only place where free speech is under attack.
00:13:50.180 In fact, it's under attack around the world, including in places that should know better,
00:13:55.000 places that have centuries of traditions of freedom of speech.
00:13:58.640 I think of Canada, of course.
00:14:01.460 I think of the United Kingdom, the United States, despite their First Amendment.
00:14:05.460 New Zealand, particularly harsh free speech lockdowns, if you will.
00:14:11.160 And as you saw the other day in my broadcast, Ireland, home of so many writers and poets,
00:14:18.460 home of so much comedy, including offensive comedy.
00:14:22.120 Could you imagine the Irish without free speech?
00:14:27.020 It's unthinkable, but it is being thought as a bill before the Irish Parliament right now, as I described,
00:14:35.540 that would ban hurt feelings and insults and even the possession of some digital asset,
00:14:42.280 like a meme or an email or an online joke.
00:14:44.920 Merely possessing something insulting could be a crime in Ireland.
00:14:51.540 Joining us now to talk about this is Alex Sheridan, the director of Free Speech Ireland.
00:14:58.220 He joins us now.
00:14:59.480 Alex, what a pleasure to meet you.
00:15:01.980 Could it really be that the land of so much comedy and culture and criticism and humor
00:15:08.480 and the limerick, for goodness sakes, could it be that Ireland is ending its glorious history of free speech?
00:15:18.120 Have I got it wrong from this side of the pond?
00:15:21.820 No, it's actually probably one of the most draconian hate speech bills which is being proposed yet within Europe or indeed the West.
00:15:29.940 This new hate speech legislation will even criminalize the mere possession of hateful content.
00:15:36.460 This could be a meme on your phone.
00:15:38.620 This could be a book that you have in your house.
00:15:40.720 This could be even a message or a diary that you're writing to yourself.
00:15:44.540 And even if you do not communicate any of these ideas or material or talks to anyone,
00:15:51.680 you can still be prosecuted and imprisoned for up to two years.
00:15:55.700 And the onus will be on yourself to prove that you have no intention to spread or communicate that material.
00:16:02.300 Alex, here in Canada and in other jurisdictions too, it's probably the same in Ireland,
00:16:06.180 To be convicted of a crime, you have to have the mental element,
00:16:10.580 mens rea, as they say in Latin, the guilty conscience.
00:16:13.860 So this law, and I read the law, I went through it in great detail on the show the other day,
00:16:18.840 it feels like it's not even the kind of law that is Irish at all.
00:16:24.700 The fact that merely possessing something on your phone or your computer,
00:16:29.740 you know, even if you don't have a guilty mind, even if you don't mean to hurt anyone,
00:16:35.580 the fact that it could, future tense, you know, it is likely to cause some offense,
00:16:42.260 even if you didn't mean for that to happen.
00:16:44.500 That's how my reading of the law looks.
00:16:46.940 It removes a guilty conscience.
00:16:49.640 Am I wrong?
00:16:50.160 You're not wrong.
00:16:53.220 It even goes even a step further than that.
00:16:55.320 So it deals a lot with a thing called incitement to hatred.
00:16:59.320 And one section of the bill also says that even if you were successful in inciting hatred or not,
00:17:07.560 you're still guilty of an offense.
00:17:09.780 So you could say something, you may not mean it, you may offend nobody,
00:17:14.800 but the fact that you said it, you can still be prosecuted.
00:17:17.180 Yeah, and truth is not a defense here if I read the law properly.
00:17:22.760 And I want to be careful because I'm not an Irish lawyer.
00:17:25.480 I went to law school in Canada.
00:17:26.880 I have a lot of experience with Canadian censorship,
00:17:29.440 but I'm relying on you, Alex, to tell me if I'm wrong.
00:17:32.860 Truth is not a defense.
00:17:34.700 Is that correct?
00:17:36.060 Well, the onus will be on you.
00:17:38.040 So truth can be a defense just so long as they accept that you are telling the truth.
00:17:42.340 So, for example, like, how are you meant to explain to somebody that you had no intention to communicate an idea or a mean that you haven't responded?
00:17:51.580 What I mean by truth is a defense is you can say something incredibly insulting that if it's true,
00:17:58.140 like sometimes the truth is hurtful, sometimes the truth is insulting.
00:18:01.780 If you say something that's true, it may well be offensive or even hateful.
00:18:09.340 But, I mean, I know in Canada I was prosecuted under a hate speech law in the province of Alberta,
00:18:15.340 and truth was not a defense.
00:18:16.920 I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.
00:18:18.900 This was over a dozen years ago now.
00:18:20.840 Truth and fair comment were not defenses.
00:18:23.120 That's what I mean by truth is a defense.
00:18:24.700 If you say something awful or offensive, but it was a true statement, is that legal in Ireland?
00:18:31.840 It may actually be illegal.
00:18:33.620 So the bill is currently being debated in our upper house, the Irish Senate.
00:18:38.120 And even one of the government senators, a few of them have actually broken ranks on this,
00:18:43.240 brought up the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
00:18:45.440 So cartoons which would have been considered highly offensive to Muslims,
00:18:49.560 but resulted in a violent act towards the cartoonists.
00:18:52.860 That was brought up as a point of consternation and worry, concern,
00:18:58.560 that this actually might open up arguments to prosecution under the bill.
00:19:02.280 Not just that.
00:19:03.320 You've had multiple senators, multiple politicians who've been in opposition,
00:19:06.740 very worried about any gender critical ideas,
00:19:10.320 any ideas to do with maybe the criticism of immigration,
00:19:14.120 and believing that they actually might be open to prosecution of the bill.
00:19:17.480 They were to mention such things outside of the parliament,
00:19:20.360 where they'd have parliamentary privilege.
00:19:21.900 And the same would go for anyone who isn't a politician,
00:19:24.980 and they wouldn't have the same gross neck or courage to speak up
00:19:28.380 in the same way that somebody who is an elected legislator would.
00:19:31.160 I saw a brief excerpt of a speech by, I believe it was a Green Party politician in Ireland,
00:19:38.060 who said, and this was quite incredible, we'll play a clip of it now,
00:19:42.040 who basically said,
00:19:43.440 every law infringes on your freedom,
00:19:46.280 and we're just doing that here.
00:19:48.240 It's for the common good.
00:19:50.120 Here, let me play a clip of that.
00:19:51.580 This was such an astonishing worldview
00:19:53.800 that government exists to reduce your freedom.
00:19:58.640 I suppose in some ways there's some truth to it,
00:20:01.440 but she was embracing that as a feature, not as a bug.
00:20:05.460 Here, take a look at this.
00:20:06.480 When you think about it,
00:20:08.500 all law, all legislation is about the restriction of freedom.
00:20:12.800 That's exactly what we're doing here,
00:20:14.360 is we are restricting freedom,
00:20:16.280 but we're doing it for the common good.
00:20:18.200 You will see throughout our constitution,
00:20:20.640 yes, you have rights,
00:20:22.120 but they are restricted for the common good.
00:20:25.160 Everything needs to be balanced.
00:20:27.720 And if your views on other people's identities
00:20:30.600 go to make their lives unsafe, insecure,
00:20:36.480 and cause them such deep discomfort
00:20:38.920 that they cannot live in peace,
00:20:41.000 then I believe that it is our job as legislators
00:20:44.380 to restrict those freedoms for the common good.
00:20:47.540 Please tell me that this is not desired
00:20:50.740 or demanded by the Irish people.
00:20:53.420 Please tell me that these politicians
00:20:55.600 are just imposing their own view.
00:20:57.920 I saw some news coverage that suggested
00:21:00.300 that Irish people aren't clamoring for this.
00:21:04.120 These are just politicians taking advantage.
00:21:06.920 What's the truth?
00:21:08.000 Have the Irish people given up their love for freedom?
00:21:11.000 The truth is, no.
00:21:12.340 Actually, there is an overwhelming majority
00:21:14.280 of Irish people who are still in favour of free speech.
00:21:17.620 Now, I actually attended a meeting there recently in London
00:21:20.520 with multiple free speech activists
00:21:22.300 from all around the world
00:21:23.380 discussing on how we might fight these censorship bills,
00:21:27.600 such as coming in in Canada,
00:21:29.080 coming into Germany, Brazil.
00:21:30.360 And when we communicated to the other activists
00:21:33.840 that in Ireland,
00:21:34.560 actually the overwhelming majority of people
00:21:36.140 are against this stuff,
00:21:37.840 people from Germany or even Australia
00:21:39.800 were actually quite astounded saying,
00:21:42.060 well, there's actually a cultural issue back home
00:21:43.880 where we don't think the majority of people
00:21:45.860 support free speech.
00:21:47.640 In Ireland, we recently had a public consultation
00:21:50.060 which was to see if the people wanted to bring in
00:21:53.360 such hate speech laws as started by the government.
00:21:55.560 73% of responses said,
00:21:58.300 no, we don't want hate speech laws.
00:22:00.220 What's more, in 2018,
00:22:02.100 65% of the Irish people voted to remove
00:22:04.460 the blasphemy laws from our legislation,
00:22:06.280 which made it illegal to criticise God.
00:22:08.560 This shows that the Irish people
00:22:10.100 have no appetite for restrictions on speech.
00:22:12.840 And what's more,
00:22:13.760 and last week debated in the Irish Senate,
00:22:16.100 we have five different senators
00:22:17.640 say that this is the most correspondence,
00:22:20.060 whether by mail, phone call or email,
00:22:21.800 they have received over a single legislative topic
00:22:24.680 in their entire career.
00:22:26.020 We had one extra senator
00:22:27.780 who's been there for 30 years
00:22:29.800 who said that this is the second most,
00:22:32.080 their first being mobile for baby homes,
00:22:33.920 which was a irredefining issue.
00:22:36.480 So hundreds and hundreds,
00:22:38.260 if not thousands of emails
00:22:39.420 that they're getting each.
00:22:40.880 This is not a popular issue in Ireland,
00:22:43.520 but unfortunately the Irish government
00:22:44.980 looks like it wants to dig its heels in
00:22:47.180 and it does not want to look weak
00:22:48.680 after proposing this legislation
00:22:50.240 so they may not back down.
00:22:51.800 Alex, it's great to talk with you.
00:22:53.240 Unfortunately, we have a bit
00:22:54.400 of a rough internet connection.
00:22:55.980 I hope we can pick up this conversation
00:22:57.680 another day
00:22:58.640 because we want to hear you clearly on this
00:23:01.520 and we want to learn more about it
00:23:03.240 and we want to learn
00:23:04.480 if there are other allies
00:23:06.660 for free speech in Canada.
00:23:08.460 I fear that many voices
00:23:10.240 that in the past
00:23:11.220 would have defended free speech
00:23:13.020 no longer do.
00:23:14.100 Either they're media voices
00:23:15.320 that have been colonized
00:23:16.860 and corrupted with government bailouts
00:23:18.420 so they just do whatever
00:23:19.540 the government says now
00:23:20.640 or they're just either
00:23:22.740 gone woke themselves
00:23:24.640 or are afraid of the woke mob.
00:23:27.960 So in Canada,
00:23:28.760 which used to really embrace
00:23:30.340 freedom of speech,
00:23:31.260 I mean, when I was growing up
00:23:32.440 and I'm not that old,
00:23:34.200 but there's very few voices now.
00:23:36.240 Let's keep in touch, Alex,
00:23:37.740 and let's connect
00:23:38.840 when we have a stronger
00:23:39.780 internet connection
00:23:40.660 because this is important
00:23:42.320 and it's not just important to Ireland.
00:23:44.460 People around the world
00:23:45.760 want to see a global resistance
00:23:49.040 to this global order of censorship
00:23:51.540 and it really is global.
00:23:52.800 You had Jacinda Ardern
00:23:54.600 and Macron,
00:23:57.380 Emmanuel Macron
00:23:58.100 and Justin Trudeau
00:23:59.640 and all these other
00:24:01.040 authoritarian liberals
00:24:03.860 signing declarations
00:24:05.860 about internet censorship.
00:24:07.160 it's a global campaign
00:24:10.280 to censor grassroots people
00:24:13.080 and I hope there's
00:24:14.240 a global resistance to it too
00:24:16.860 and it looks like
00:24:17.360 you're part of that.
00:24:18.300 Alex Sheridan,
00:24:18.780 I hope we keep in touch.
00:24:21.080 Okay, thank you very much
00:24:22.180 for having me, Ezra.
00:24:22.900 Well, it's our pleasure.
00:24:23.900 There's Alex Sheridan.
00:24:24.880 He's the director
00:24:25.400 of the Free Speech Ireland,
00:24:27.580 which is very much needed.
00:24:29.180 I promise we'll get back
00:24:30.260 in touch with Alex
00:24:31.420 when we have a stronger
00:24:32.400 internet connection with him.
00:24:34.840 Stay tuned.
00:24:35.640 More ahead.
00:24:36.260 Hey, welcome back.
00:24:49.580 Your letters to me.
00:24:50.520 This is about my chat
00:24:51.280 with my friend Andrew Lawton.
00:24:52.820 Grandma G67 says,
00:24:54.820 if these big companies
00:24:57.360 don't start downsizing
00:24:58.580 and do what you're doing,
00:24:59.960 they won't survive.
00:25:00.960 You actually listen
00:25:01.660 to your subscribers too.
00:25:02.680 You do journalism,
00:25:03.420 but these other companies don't.
00:25:04.960 You know, it's interesting.
00:25:06.420 I was thinking about radio
00:25:07.460 in this country.
00:25:08.100 I remember growing up
00:25:08.920 and talk radio
00:25:09.700 was where the excitement was
00:25:11.760 because you never knew
00:25:12.660 who was going to call in.
00:25:14.240 And this was in the early days
00:25:15.520 of cell phones,
00:25:16.160 but you would get truckers,
00:25:17.240 you would get people on the road,
00:25:18.100 you would get people
00:25:18.660 obviously calling from home.
00:25:20.500 Also, talk radio
00:25:21.860 was sort of the wild west
00:25:23.540 and there were some truly
00:25:24.680 conservative voices there.
00:25:26.060 But I think talk radio
00:25:27.600 was homogenized
00:25:28.880 and baudelarized
00:25:30.460 and vanillified.
00:25:33.580 Either the conservative
00:25:35.060 firebrands retired
00:25:36.260 or they were worried
00:25:37.280 about being canceled
00:25:38.640 so they sort of became
00:25:39.720 woke themselves.
00:25:40.720 I think that happened
00:25:41.380 to a few of them
00:25:42.340 like my old friend Charles Adler.
00:25:43.700 I think he's just gone so woke
00:25:44.800 I don't recognize him anymore.
00:25:47.500 But mainly it's the companies.
00:25:49.040 When radio stations
00:25:49.800 are owned by huge
00:25:50.840 mega corporations
00:25:51.720 like Bell Canada,
00:25:53.620 which owns CTV
00:25:55.380 and a bunch of radio stations,
00:25:56.900 they're not going to be
00:25:58.280 controversial at all.
00:25:59.760 There's woke as they can.
00:26:01.920 So their radio hosts
00:26:03.040 have to be just sort of
00:26:04.140 bland and corporate
00:26:05.220 and who wants to listen to that?
00:26:07.260 Especially now that you can
00:26:08.280 listen to anything
00:26:09.300 on your Spotify
00:26:11.040 or however you get your podcasts,
00:26:13.880 you can do that in your car too.
00:26:15.400 So if it's not interesting,
00:26:16.800 why would anyone listen to radio?
00:26:18.800 I don't know.
00:26:19.400 I'm worried about the CRTC
00:26:20.580 regulating us
00:26:21.500 because they might try
00:26:22.320 and make us vanilla too.
00:26:24.620 Mike Traynor Music says,
00:26:26.980 Andrew is an excellent speaker.
00:26:30.140 Rebel and True North
00:26:30.980 will be around for a long time.
00:26:32.820 Well, from your mouth
00:26:33.440 to God's ears,
00:26:34.040 I really like Andrew.
00:26:35.600 And he's conservative,
00:26:37.720 but he's got a very warm heart.
00:26:40.440 And I think he's just
00:26:41.920 one of the most likable guys
00:26:43.200 in the business.
00:26:44.240 And I really admire
00:26:45.020 what he's doing
00:26:45.600 with the folks at True North.
00:26:47.620 The Hot Mask 1979 says,
00:26:50.320 I've known about
00:26:51.000 Justin Trudeau's indiscretions
00:26:52.440 with one of his students
00:26:53.300 for a few years.
00:26:54.420 It ticks me off
00:26:55.180 that Parliament
00:26:56.020 is just getting around
00:26:56.840 to this conversation now.
00:26:58.780 No wonder Justin Trudeau
00:26:59.620 is trying to protect people
00:27:00.660 like Paul Bernardo.
00:27:01.940 Maybe they have
00:27:02.600 a few things in common.
00:27:04.560 I think you're going
00:27:05.480 too far there.
00:27:06.800 I think a lot of people
00:27:07.860 have heard the rumors
00:27:08.640 about Justin Trudeau
00:27:09.840 at that British Columbia
00:27:11.700 private school,
00:27:13.100 but it's just rumors.
00:27:14.420 And you're right,
00:27:15.340 there hasn't been
00:27:15.960 a proper investigation into it.
00:27:17.640 And mainly,
00:27:19.420 no one in the mainstream media
00:27:22.320 has had Trudeau
00:27:23.560 in an interview
00:27:24.100 and just put
00:27:24.640 a straight up question to him.
00:27:25.900 I think they're embarrassed
00:27:27.080 or shy,
00:27:27.900 but they shouldn't be.
00:27:29.260 I mean,
00:27:29.720 think about Bill Gates,
00:27:31.500 the American super billionaire
00:27:33.880 who has enormous power,
00:27:36.640 but there are still
00:27:37.600 some journalists,
00:27:38.440 I think of Anderson Cooper,
00:27:39.640 who ask him about,
00:27:41.220 for example,
00:27:41.880 his affiliations
00:27:43.140 with the child rapist
00:27:44.440 and pedophile predator
00:27:46.120 Jeffrey Epstein.
00:27:47.900 So Bill Gates,
00:27:48.500 powerful guy,
00:27:50.300 Anderson Cooper,
00:27:51.600 you know,
00:27:51.840 mainstream journalist,
00:27:52.760 but he had the courage
00:27:53.880 to put questions
00:27:54.700 to Bill Gates about it.
00:27:56.100 And I think we need
00:27:57.760 a mainstream journalist
00:27:59.620 who has the opportunity
00:28:01.160 to have a face-to-face
00:28:02.160 with Trudeau,
00:28:02.640 not that Trudeau can run off,
00:28:04.160 but on a set and say,
00:28:05.660 look,
00:28:06.200 can you answer us
00:28:07.180 once and for all,
00:28:08.540 why were you let go
00:28:10.540 from a private school
00:28:12.240 mid-semester,
00:28:13.200 which is very rare
00:28:14.100 for a teacher?
00:28:15.080 There's a lot of innuendo
00:28:16.140 out there.
00:28:16.620 Can you answer it?
00:28:17.480 The fact that not a single
00:28:18.780 mainstream journalist
00:28:19.860 would ask that question
00:28:20.880 shows you how much
00:28:22.720 in collusion they are
00:28:23.580 with the liberals
00:28:24.040 or much worse,
00:28:25.940 that they know the truth
00:28:27.140 and don't want to ask about it.
00:28:28.280 But I don't think you can assume
00:28:29.380 the answer to that question.
00:28:31.920 That's our show for today.
00:28:33.600 Until tomorrow,
00:28:34.600 on behalf of all of us
00:28:35.540 here at Rebel World Headquarters
00:28:36.720 to you at home,
00:28:37.940 good night
00:28:38.300 and keep fighting for freedom.
00:28:44.100 Good night.
00:28:44.660 Good night.
00:28:44.700 Good night.
00:28:45.520 Thank you.
00:29:02.080 Thank you.