EZRA LEVANT ｜ The National Post announces a “capitalist manifesto” — brought to you with a $35M government grant
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A company that takes a $35 million a year bailout from Justin Trudeau is doing a series of articles on the beauties of the free market and capitalism. It s almost like Bombardier or some other crooked companies giving an ethics class. I m talking, of course, about the National Post, the largest recipient of Trudeau s media bailout. Oh, the irony.
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Hello, my rebels. I saw the funniest thing today. A company that takes a $35 million a year
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bailout from Justin Trudeau is doing a series of articles on the beauties of the free market
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and capitalism. It's almost like Bombardier or some other crooked companies giving an ethics
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class. It's just too much. I'm talking, of course, about the National Post, the largest recipient
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of Trudeau's media bailout. Oh, the irony. Holy moly. That's today's show. Let me invite you to
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become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus, though. You can see the video version. Just go to
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And besides just getting the video version, you also support Rebel News. We rely on that
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eight bucks a month to keep us independent. We will never take a government bailout like
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the National Post does. All right. Here's today's show.
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Tonight, the National Post announces a capitalist manifesto brought to you with a $35 million
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government grant. It's December 15th. This is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody
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Gee, yesterday I criticized my former friend David Frum. Today I'm criticizing my former employer,
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the National Post. I don't think I spent a lot of time gossiping about things, and it's not personal.
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I think these are genuinely public interest stories. I think it's just that I've been around
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so long, and Canada is a small enough place I've had interactions with some of these newsmakers.
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In the case of the National Post, I was on their editorial board for about two years right after
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they started. And for several more years, I wrote op-ed columns for them too. I've had a chance to get to
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know their founder, Conrad Black, and some of their best columnists. I enjoyed my time there. I have no
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grievance or grudge relating to those years. It was a great time to be in the newspaper business,
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sort of like it would have been a great time to live in the world's most important and populous
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and wealthy and Christian city in the world, Constantinople, in March of 1453. Of course,
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the city was sacked by the Turks two months later. That's what working in newspapers was like back in
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1999 or so. You could see this thing coming over the horizon called the internet, but you didn't
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really know what it was going to do to you yet. That's what it was like back then. But yeah,
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different media have coped with the internet in different ways. The New York Times and the
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Washington Post were bought by billionaires as collectibles. Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man,
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bought the New York Times, which is sort of odd. It gives him a powerful political seat at the
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table, especially in matters of foreign affairs and Mexico-America relations. That's why Jeff Bezos,
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one of America's richest men, the owner of Amazon, that's why he bought the Washington Post.
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He wants politicians in America to be scared of him, not the other way around.
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The Globe and Mail has always been controlled by Canada's richest family, the Thomson.
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Don't think for a second this is done selflessly. Once upon a time, it was done in part for riches.
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Owning a newspaper could be quite profitable back in the pre-internet era, but now that every newspaper
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is losing money, the reason to own one is for power and prestige, not to make money. It's sort of
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pitiful that no one wants to buy many other Canadian media outlets like Canada's biggest
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magazine called McLean's. I think I told you the lawyer for McLean's magazine told me a few months
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ago that the entire company has shrunk down. Now it just has 14 employees. How the mighty have fallen.
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That used to be Canada's biggest and most important news magazine. It used to be published every week.
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It was very current. Now it's a monthly that no one cares about. It used to have a million readers
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a week. I just checked their advertising rate card today and they claim they still print 118,000
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copies. They don't disclose how many of those are given away for free. I mean, seriously, would you
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subscribe to it? 118,000 copies. That's it. In a country of nearly 40 million souls.
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I guess a lot of them just go to dentist offices just to gather dust. So unlike the Washington Post
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or the New York Times, McLean's doesn't have any prestige, doesn't have any political power left.
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So what billionaire would buy it as a collectible, as a bauble, as a curiosity? Well, no billionaire
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would, but a millionaire rents it. McLean's magazine and St. Joseph's Media, the company that bought
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McLean's at fire sale prices from its former owner, they found themselves a benefactor in Justin Trudeau.
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If no one else will buy McLean's out of pity or as a collectible, well, Trudeau will in the form of
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the perpetual media bailout. He's a renter, not a buyer. Trudeau is now the single largest benefactor
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to McLean's more than any other advertiser. So whereas Jeff Bezos uses his financial stake in
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the Washington Post to influence the White House and influence Congress, Justin Trudeau uses his
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financial stake in McLean's to influence voters and the media. Two sides of the same corrupt coin,
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except that at least Bezos uses his own money. Trudeau uses our money to give himself a dollar
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store version of Pravda. But the genius of Trudeau's plan is that McLean still pretends to be
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independent. They're not wholly owned by Trudeau like Pravda was owned by the Kremlin. So Trudeau
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actually gets more bang for the buck. He has corrupted the press, but he still gets to free ride off their
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historical reputations as independent journalists. You might remember I did a story a couple months ago
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above the 1,500 media companies that divided up a special $61 million pre-election payout from Trudeau
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just weeks before the last election, and they all kept it a secret. I didn't know 1,500 people
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could keep a secret. I didn't know 15 people could keep a secret. Two people can barely keep a secret.
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But I guess there's honor amongst thieves. None of them wanted the world to know they were all in the
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take. Anyways, all this brings me to the case of Post Media, the largest newspaper company in Canada,
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the largest recipient of Trudeau's newspaper bailout. Only the CBC gets more, and they're wholly owned by
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the government. So that's, I guess, their explanation. Post Media is so weird. They're not even Canadian.
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Do you know that? They're controlled by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey hedge fund. Did you know
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that? So these New Jersey boys are skimming all the money out of Post Media. They couldn't care less
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about editorial quality. I've just got to read this to you. This is a quote from Chatham's main man in
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Toronto, Paul Godfrey, who I rather like, by the way. He chairs Post Media, and he gave this interview
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to Toronto Life. He was asked about Post Media's rapid decline editorially, and if he is actually proud
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of what they publish, here's the exchange. You're in the middle of another round of job cuts. At what
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point are you diminishing the print product so much that you're hastening its decline?
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It hasn't happened yet. Are our papers as good as they used to be? No, but they haven't become
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unacceptable. They haven't become unacceptable. That's quite a thing to say. That's quite a backhanded
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compliment. Honey, how do I look today? Honey, does this make me look fat? How did I do my big
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presentation today? You're not as good as you used to be, but you haven't yet become unacceptable?
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That is so classic. You got to give Paul Godfrey full marks for a sense of humor. That reminds me,
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I got to just show you this goofy, you know, remember that comedy? Remember that show called Dumb
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Dumb and Dumber. It reminds me of this scene. I want to ask you a question straight out, flat out,
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and I want you to give me the honest answer. What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and
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a girl like me ending up together? Well, Lloyd, that's difficult to say. We really don't hit me with
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it. Just give it to me straight. I came a long way just to see you, Mary. Just least you can do is
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level with me. What are my chances? Not good. You mean not good like one out of a hundred? I'd say
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So there's a chance. I say all this because one of the reasons the National Post is in decline is
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because it has become a newspaper more focused on pleasing the powers that be and applying for
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government grants rather than doing great journalism in the interest of its viewers,
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readers. It's Trudeau's mistress now, and it sort of shows. They're grantrepreneurs, not
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entrepreneurs. It's a different mindset. So I saw this today. It's a tweet from National Post.
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Follow our new series that raises a toast to the miraculous free market. Starts December 18th in
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the National Post. Or read it online now. A toast to the miraculous free market. Except what do they
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know about that? Because instead of living by the free market, they live on government handouts.
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How do they write that with the straight face? Look at that language. The Capitalist Manifesto.
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That sounds so butch. So revolutionary. Celebrate capitalism. Except they celebrate socialism or
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maybe crony capitalism or whatever it is when you rely on the state to fund you. And then you claim to
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give good, honest critiques to that same politician. Yeah. Look, newspapers have to give their money from
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somewhere. I get it. For a long time, newspapers got a lot of their money from ads. For example,
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from car dealerships. I remember the Sun chain of newspapers would have dozens of different pages
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of ads from different car companies. So it was probably true that the Toronto Sun or any other Sun,
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Calgary Sun, Amazon, probably weren't too critical of car companies. Big advertiser. I remember when I was
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working in the National Post 20 years ago, they took a run at one of the airlines. I forget if it was
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Air Canada or Canadian. I don't know if you remember that airline back in the day. I forget which one.
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And I was told that they got a phone call from that airline saying, if you keep bashing us,
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don't expect those glorious full page ads. So you're always in some sort of competing pressure
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when you have advertisers here at Rebel News. We don't really have ads. We make our money from
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crowdfunding. The average size of a donation is just over $50. We simply don't have any advertisers
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like that who could or would call us up to make an editorial demand like that. And even if they did,
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they probably know that we would fire them before they could fire us. And we probably do a story
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about it. So the Post really has just one benefactor now who counts. Justin Trudeau. I mean, let me make
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a confession and look into your heart and you tell me what you think. If someone truly, truly, really,
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no make-believe, actually offered me $35 million a year. And I mean, if it really happened,
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not just a thought experiment, it would be very hard for me to say, no, I won't take so much money
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that for the rest of my life and the rest of my children's lives and their children's lives,
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they'll be set forever. No, I won't cash that check. I'll continue the hardscrabble effort of
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earning our revenue $50 at a time. Look, I won't lie to you. If such a bizarre alternative universal
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universe event happened, I would be morally challenged. It would test my mettle.
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But I hope, I hope that if I took a $35 million a year bribe that everyone saw as we see post me,
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I hope that if I were to do that with whatever remaining integrity I had or whatever remaining
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shame I had, I hope that I wouldn't rub it in my viewer's face about being a super capitalist
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who believes in the glory of the free market. Now, I did read the article. I clicked the link
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and, you know, it's good enough. I encourage you to read it. It wasn't bad. It was the global
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historical case for capitalism, how it raised everyone up, not just the richest. I think that's
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a really important point, isn't it? I mean, the poor person today in, say, New York City lives a
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life that, I don't know, in many ways could be comparable to how J.D. Rockefeller lived 150
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years ago. The life expectancy of a poor person today in, say, New York, their life expectancy,
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the health care they get, the food they eat, both its nutritiousness, its cheapness, its variety,
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the entertainment you get, the travel you can do cheaply. That's capitalism that lifted not just
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the rich up, but the poor out. The poor, the hungry, the working classes, they have been the
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chief beneficiaries of capitalism, not just in America and Canada, but especially in the poorest
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parts of the world. Think of India. Think of China. It's also why so many people who are working class
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vote conservative. I don't necessarily mean the party of that name, but just they think
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conservatively because they have a stake in things now. They have a house that they own, perhaps,
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maybe a truck and a boat, too. They have what, in the not-so-distant past, only the rich have.
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I think the case for capitalism really does need to be made. I'm just not sure if the National Post
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is in a position to do it. Right now, capitalism has a bad name, in part because the most conspicuous
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capitalists are, in many ways, the most evil. Disney Corporation and the NBA and all those
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millionaire basketball players, they suck up to China and they stay silent about human rights
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abuses in China. The richest companies of 2021, the big pharmaceutical companies, but they didn't
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make their billions through free enterprise. They had governments buy huge tranches of not yet fully
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tested drugs for them, give them a very uncapitalistic waiver on liability. You cannot sue them. I mean,
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if anyone else made a product that kills people, you sue the company. Think of tobacco companies.
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But Pfizer and Moderna and the rest of them, they have the best of all worlds. No liability for any
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injuries or deaths they cause, plus government contracts, unlimited, plus the worst of it, government
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is forcing citizens to buy and inject their stuff. Sorry, that is not capitalism. That's something else.
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I don't know. Fascism, I think. Jeff Bezos, he got rich from his own smarts, but he got double rich
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because governments banned his mom and pop shop competitors in your neighborhoods this past year
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or two. You had to go with Amazon. The local store down the street was forced closed. No wonder young
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people are turned off by capitalism. They've never actually seen it, except in the corrupt version that
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they see outside on their TVs. Sure, I'm glad the National Post is dressing up as a capitalist for
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one day a year as if they actually live the freedom lifestyle. It's like Halloween for them. They get to
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wear a costume and forget about their reality as corporate welfare buffs. Sure, good for them.
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And I guess it's not like any real young people in college or high school are reading the National Post
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and relying on the National Post to rebut the Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez way of thinking.
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So really, no harm done, except to the remaining reputation of what was once a great newspaper
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run by a great newspaper man. Now it's just like Erin O'Toole. Controlled opposition one millimeter
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more conservative than the liberals. Sorry, that's not enough to pretend that you're capitalist
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or conservative anymore. Especially not when you line up for your gift from Trudeau's hand.
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So today, we are going to be introducing to the public, and we have legislators who are going
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to help us with this, a new piece of legislation for the upcoming legislative session called Stop
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Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act, the Stop Woke Act. And it's something that
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will do a number of things that are very important. One, it will put into statute the Department
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of Education's prohibition on CRT in K-12 schools. No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids
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to hate our country or to hate each other. Well, that is a press conference earlier today
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by Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis. I think he's the best governor in America. Not only does he do a
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bang-up job on lockdowns and the pandemic, and he's brought a science-based approach, not a fear-based
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approach. He's doing very well in the polls because of that. His economy is booming because he hasn't
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locked it down. But he's rather adept at taking on issues that, well, other people talk about, but no
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one really does anything about. One example is what's called critical race theory. You may not
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understand what the word critical race theory is. Critical theory is applying Marxism to other fields
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besides labor and capitalism. I mean, you have the class system, the owners versus the workers.
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Critical theory applies that same thinking to gender. For example, you have men who oppress
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women. Apply that to race, and you have white people who oppress black people. It's Marxism
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transposed onto other fault lines in society. In other words, it stokes racial division the same way
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Marxism stokes economic division between workers and managers, for example. Now, you wouldn't
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think that critical race theory is a big deal in Canada. We did not have slavery of any substance.
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We abolished slavery many decades before the United States did. We were part of the British Empire that
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went to war for 50 years against slave trading ships. The Royal Navy, of which Canada was a part,
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fought against slavery. We didn't have the same Jim Crow laws. The Klan was never a major fact in Canada.
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In fact, we were the destination of the Underground Railroad. So, I was startled to learn that critical race
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theory, in fact, is being imported into Canada, sort of treating us like a branch plant, a copycat of what
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may be a real issue in the United States, but has no roots here. Well, it's finding roots. Joining us now to
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talk about this is Dr. Theresa Pierre, the president of parents as first educators of parents' rights groups
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based here in Ontario. Dr. Pierre, pleasure to have you on the show. Thanks for being here.
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Well, it's my pleasure. I mean, I have always thought of critical race theory as an inherently
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American thing, because it's part of the black experience merged with Marxism. And I get it. I
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may disagree with it, but I can see how there are grievances and there is some healing that needs to
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be done. I'm not going to weigh in. I'm not an American, but I get it, even if I disagree with it.
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Canada, it feels like they're grafting on someone else's solution to a problem that we don't have.
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Um, I mean, I think that racism is a problem throughout the world and in every society. Um,
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but I think you hit the nail on the head when you point to it being transplanted from Canada to the
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States. Um, of course there are, uh, issues of racism that are present in our society. Um, but
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this is, um, the, what they're advocating is really to kind of turn it into our, our race,
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a divide, like race divide, like to deepen it further. And, um, this is, uh, you know,
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what, one of our criticisms of the project is, is, you know, why are you going to try to heal
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something, um, with more division? Why are you going to, um, you know, try to, um,
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make things better by stoking division between, uh, children of different races?
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Well, let's, uh, start there. What exactly is being taught in Canada? I mean, I've actually
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learned more about American critical race theory because there's been a real political battle.
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And I think it was one of the reasons why the Republicans had a surprise win in the gubernatorial
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race in the state of Virginia. Uh, the Republicans were 10 points behind just a year ago in the
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presidential election and they won it largely on this issue. So I feel like I know what's
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going on in the States. Can you give us a bit of an inventory or a status report? What is the state
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of these courses, these classes, this ideology in Canada? Can you give us some specific examples?
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Um, yes, uh, we have, um, we have it being rolled out in classrooms and we've seen that,
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um, through the, the blog of Samuel say he, um, uh, reported on the teaching of it in the
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Peel district in Ontario. And I'm having, you know, trustees from across the country saying
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they're getting in services on this and, you know, they, um, they want a parent's help to
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try to push back against the school boards that are doing that.
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Okay. You mentioned Peel district. That's a, that's a, uh, area outside the Toronto proper.
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Um, right. And you, you mentioned you're getting calls across the country. What is an in service?
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You said, use that word. I'm not a, I'm not a teacher. I don't know what that word means.
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What is, when you say it's coming in as an in service, what does that mean?
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Um, um, what it means is that, um, in the case of trustees, they're, they're bringing
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in speakers, um, often at quite an expense to inculcate these teachings of, uh, critical
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race theory, um, and lay it out. So the trustees can understand how oppressive they are, um, being
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and, um, to try to get them to change policies and to adjust things in the schools.
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Uh, Dr. Pierre, pleasure to meet you today. Thanks very much for your time.
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Okay. There you have it. Dr. Teresa Pierre, head of parents as first educators. Stay with us more ahead.
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Well, listen, I appreciated, uh, our last guest spending some time with us. I just didn't feel
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like I got the answers I need, but we will continue on that story. If critical race theory is being
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taught in our schools, I'd like to learn how, and in what ways I'd like to hear examples of it. I know
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those examples are out there and I'm sorry we just didn't get them today. I hope my questions were
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not too pressing or too persistent, but I just want to know the facts. Anyways, here's some reader
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feedback or viewer feedback. Chainsaw 2100, not sure if that's the name your mama gave you, says,
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I quit my security job because I refuse to ask for vaccine cards. It's just wrong. Well, I salute you
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and I say you're very much a small minority. I don't know if you remember when I was talking to
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Alexa Lavoie about, uh, Jordan Peterson's comment. The troubling reality is that most people plunked
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into Nazi Germany in the thirties would have just gone along with it. Every other force in society,
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every person in the media, every institution, the laws, you would go, it's very hard to swim
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against the current. Very hard. Anthony Richard says, started following Rebel more with COVID
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nonsense and Alexa's doing a great job showing us what happens in Quebec. Perhaps the worst
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province in Canada, measure wise. Alexa is great. She's always a source of interesting stories.
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She's got quite a personality herself. We're so very proud of her. That's why she won the ambassador
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award for reaching out to people that Rebel hasn't really spoken to.
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Perseus 09 says, I've shared this story before and I wish to share it again. Here again, during an
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interview not that long ago, a Holocaust survivor was asked, if you knew then what you know today,
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how would you have dealt with the Nazis during the war? The man answered this way, if we only met them
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at the door with kitchen knives and fire pokers, the Holocaust would never have happened. History teaches
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us many lessons, and this is one of them. By doing nothing, you are granting these tyrants permission
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to destroy innocent lives including your own. How far are you willing to go to stop this tyranny?
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What has to happen before you take action, even if it means doing the unthinkable?
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But when would they have had fire pokers in the night? At what stage in the game?
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When it was the brown shirts and the paramilitaries running around the streets?
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Or when it was the police authorized by laws passed by the Reichstag? At what point? Because
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there were some illegal riots. Kristallnacht was illegal torching in the synagogues and
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Jewish businesses, for example. But as I mentioned the other day,
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the Nuremberg laws that created racial segregation, fired Jews from jobs, for example,
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that was a lawful law, passed lawfully. It was a moral, evil law, but it was passed. So who would
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you take the knives up against? The police? The politicians? That's the trouble when the entire
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society goes off the rails. How do you fight back? Do you try and fight back from within the society?
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That's one of the things we grapple with here. I mean, we like to use the law. We like to go to
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court. We like to represent people. But what happens if the law itself is changed and you have
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to fight within a law that is innately immoral and tilted against you? It's a terrible question
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because that Holocaust survivor's point is correct. At a certain point, you have to say,
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I am no longer going to limit myself to acting within the law. I'm going to use a knife and a hot
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poker, he said. But what is that point? And will you, in fact, have the opprobrium of 99% of people
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who say, now you're the violent one. Now you're the cause of this ruckus. I do not believe we are
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as far down the road as that Holocaust survivor says. We are not yet there.
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The Holocaust didn't happen overnight, though. Hitler took power in 33. Second World War didn't
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start till September of 39. The Holocaust itself didn't really get started till 1940. And the worst
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of it was 43, 44 even. So it took a decade to get there. I put it to you that we are more than a day
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into that decade. More than a week, more than a month. I'm not saying we're a year down that road
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in terms of how far they went. But we have had lawmaking by decree. We have had courts rubber
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stamping these decrees. We have the demonization of minorities. We have forced internment even just
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for a few weeks. How far down that decade-long journey that Nazi Germany made, how far down that road
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have we thought? I don't know. It's a terrible question. I hope we don't go any further.
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I don't propose the pokers and the knives strategy. But I understand the sentiment.
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Because look at what happened when no one pushed back until the end.
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That's our show for today. Sorry to end on such a sad and fatalistic note.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
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And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with Sheila Gunn-Reed's report on Justin Trudeau's
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choice of in-flight movies. You'll get a chuckle out of that. All right. See you tomorrow.
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Besides being able to hold the government accountable on behalf of the people, I love
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access to information investigations because I like knowing I was definitely right. To think that
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government bureaucrats are so often a bunch of weirdo control freaks using their overinflated
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salaries to focus on the most bizarre things that literally nobody cares about.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed for Rebel News and I love a good I told you so as much as the next girl.
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And when I say that Justin Trudeau and the people around him are a bunch of paternalistic
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weirdos and fake feminists, well, it's kind of nice to be able to show you that fact in a
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government document. We're currently going through an enormous document package on the use of the
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government challenger jet fleet. It's an ongoing project that we do year after year, wherein we
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show you the high-flying ways of Justin Trudeau and his senior cabinet ministers and VIPs.
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And there are so often liquor-soaked bashes up in the sky where they treat the executive fleet of
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jets like a limo on a bachelorette party night. Today, however, I'm not telling you about the
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thousands upon thousands of your dollars that Justin Trudeau and his friends spend on booze in
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the sky, nor the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spend on food, but rather how the in-flight movies
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are causing controversy. At least two of them were deemed not suitable for our female governor
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general at the time, Julie Payette. Now, for some reason, the Department of National Defense sent us
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the list of movies available to the prime minister and his VIP friends to watch when they're on the
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government challengers. The DND didn't even send us the whole list. They just sent us the B and C titles.
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And I don't know why they did this. I don't know if they're sending me this stuff to waste my time
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because I have to read it, but you know what? I did read the list. And frankly, it's kind of heavy
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with Leonardo DiCaprio content, so read into that what you will. The beach is on the list and Blood
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Diamonds on there, too. Anyway, I thought it was sort of curious. Something piqued my interest.
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There are two movies on the list whose titles I can't know now because they were deemed inappropriate,
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as in the movies were listed as something Justin Trudeau could watch, but they were deemed
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inappropriate for the Governor General Julie Payette to watch when she was on the flight.
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Good gracious, what are those titles? What did those movies have in them? And why do these
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government bureaucrats think they need to go about the business of pre-censoring movies
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for the Lady Governor General? I'm pretty sure she can make her own mind up about what she wants to
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watch on a flight. Think whatever you want about Julie Payette, and I certainly do. But the Queen's
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representative in Canada at the time is an autonomous adult woman who doesn't need a feminist
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government and their bureaucratic enablers telling her what she can't cast her pretty little eyes upon,
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that it might angry up her blood. Also, again, I'm just dying to know what those movies were,
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and specifically what genre they fell under and what rating were they given. R, X, triple X.
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Feminism for Justin Trudeau is when you fire prickly women you can't control, and wherein you
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have bureaucrats tell other women what they can't watch on a flight.
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It is so important that we all understand that it's not only that men can be feminists,
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it's that men should be feminists as well. And I am proud of that. Being a feminist for me means
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recognizing that men and women should be, can be, must be equal, and secondly, that we still have an awful
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lot of work to do. He for she is a UN movement that I hope all of you go up and sign up for,
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of men standing up for women, men shutting down some of those negative conversations that we get
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in locker rooms, in bro culture. We need to know that we are better than that.
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Still, going through this document package is an enormous task. This is the same document package
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where we discovered that a challenger had indeed gone to Barbados last Christmas, but it was for a
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military purpose, which is weird because the bureaucrats should have just told everybody
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and the conspiracy theories would not have run rampant last Christmas. And there's so much more
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to get through. Lots of little tidbits like this one here. But doing these sorts of investigations,
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so time consuming, and it is expensive. We have somebody who helps us read through these research
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documents. But the truth is we have to physically lay eyes on every single page. Filing takes time
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and it takes money. And then appealing takes time and money when they deny the initial filing.
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This one alone has taken a year. And I'm just now getting through the documents. If you'd like to
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support this sort of government accountability journalism that really nobody else is doing, we have a very
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special fund where you can donate. It's at rebelinvestigates.com. We don't get big bucks like
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the CBC to do stories nobody watches. We rely on the support of viewers like you at home to ask
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questions nobody else will. And thanks again to everybody who donates to make this sort of work
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possible. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Are you like me? Are you just dying to know what movies Justin Trudeau was watching that were deemed
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inappropriate for the lady Governor General, Julie Payette? If you'd like to help me find out that
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information, please donate at rebelinvestigates.com. I'm going to do my best to file for that
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information. If they block me, I'm going to appeal. I must know the answers to these questions. Again,