EZRA LEVANT ｜ Time to reflect on another big year： Thoughts from Rebel News’ world headquarters
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Rebel border reporter Jeremy Lafredo's trip to Moscow, Tucker Carlson's interview with the Prime Minister of Alberta, and more! Thanks to our sponsors, we have some amazing long-form interviews for you next week!
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Tonight, what an interesting week, what an interesting year.
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Some thoughts from Rebel News World Headquarters.
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It's December 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Well, hello, and it's almost Christmas. It's incredible.
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It's already Hanukkah. The two holidays are going to overlap this year, which they sometimes do.
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You probably have noticed that we always publish this show on statutory holidays and over Christmas.
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We do a long-form interview or something that's a little bit more evergreen and won't go stale immediately.
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We want to talk about general themes, but we like to do this show all year round.
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And the company's taking a bit of a break over Christmas.
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It's going to be my first time flying on a family vacation in three years, actually.
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We're going to take a week off, but doing a bunch of shows in advance, those long-form interviews.
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An amazing conversation about fossil fuel energy with Alex Epstein, who's so good.
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Harmeet Dillon. You probably recognize her from TV.
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We've got some amazing long-form interviews for you next week.
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And hopefully you'll have a chance to sit back with a cup of coffee or tea and watch those over your Christmas break.
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There are exciting things afoot here at Rebel News.
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A whole bunch of interesting and great things happen all at once.
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I don't know what you thought about our RussianReports.com.
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That was our special compilation page dedicated to Jeremy Lafredo's trip to Moscow.
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So we can tell you a few things we did to help with his security.
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One of the things is we actually waited until he was safe and out of the country before we published them because we did not want to alert Russian authorities that he was there on the ground until he was beyond their reach.
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We also made special arrangements in advance with a criminal lawyer in Moscow in case things went sideways.
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We did one or two things that we're going to keep in our back pocket in case we have to do it again.
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Very interesting reports from Jeremy, and it's not quite as black and white, this war with Ukraine, as either side's media would suggest.
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I thought his reports were fairly nuanced, and most importantly, they just followed the facts.
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So that was Jeremy in Moscow, and we'll talk to her in a moment later today.
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But while Jeremy is interested in the border between Russia and Ukraine, Katie Davis-Gort, one of our newest reporters based in Seattle, is interested in the border between Texas and Mexico.
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She is on a mission. We call it rebelborderreports.com.
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That's just an amazing story of hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the border.
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I will be going to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in less than a month.
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I'm going there to do journalism, to investigate, to see if I can pin down people who are there, including Canadians.
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Why are they making policies for the whole world outside of our proper political legislatures?
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Why do the oligarchs get to scheme and plan our lives away without ordinary people?
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And, I don't know, it was a bit of a personal highlight for me, as you saw on yesterday's show, an interview with the Premier of Alberta.
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I pressed her on questions I thought rebels would want to hear, not just what the standard media party questions are.
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But I asked her a lot about freedom, if you recall.
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Now, we work for our own conscience, and we work for your support.
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But it's nice when our Rebel News journalism is recognized by leaders in the industry as outstanding.
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And in just the last week, Jeremy Lafredo was on the largest cable show in America, Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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Our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, was on both the Laura Ingram show on Fox and Glenn Beck's show, talking about assisted suicide in Canada, including the disgraceful government of Canada suggesting to veterans that they kill themselves.
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David Menzies was on Fox talking about Busty Lemieux, that insane teacher in Ontario with the enormous prosthetic chest, just crazy, crazy stuff.
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I want to show you just a little clip of each, not the whole thing, but to show you our journalists on the big stage.
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Here's a quick clip of Jeremy and Tucker Carlson.
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Coming on, I'm certain you will be attacked as a tool of Putin, but let's ignore that and get to what you saw there.
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What would it look from the grocery store that sanctions are not hurting Moscow too badly?
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Yeah, I was on my way to Russia, and I saw the New York Times said that there's Soviet-era shortages.
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The Washington Post said something along the lines of that there's essential goods scarcity.
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Foreign policy, they put out a report that said that the economy in Russia is in a black hole that's, you know, a proportion that's never been seen before.
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And so, you know, I was a little nervous going there.
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And, you know, I went to rural areas outside of Moscow, and I went to grocery stores like you just saw.
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And, you know, things were cheap, and, you know, they had more things than, you know, the Whole Foods here in New York City.
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The goal is obviously to cause unrest, shortages, make people unhappy with the government.
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And at the end of the day, we want regime change in Russia.
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Here is Sheila just doing great work, shining a light of scrutiny on the, I hate to say the word, medical assistance in dying.
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She's running a national campaign to force the government to end this practice.
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Sheila, it seems to me that they're selling assisted suicide with a, you know, very sophisticated, fun, kind of adventurous message.
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Laura, I just want to thank you so much for your interest in this.
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Unlike the corporate media here in Canada that's been tainted by Justin Trudeau's bailouts at Rebel News, we're one of the few independent outlets that can still speak about these issues freely, but also with a sense of horror the issue rightly deserves.
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We see them align themselves with government on issues like climate change and BLM and reproductive issues.
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This is what it means to be woke in Canada now.
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So why wouldn't corporations align themselves with this next anti-human, anti-life thing?
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I just want to point out to you how extreme Canada is on this issue.
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Justin Trudeau's government has removed the 10-day wait time from when you ask for medical assistance,
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You can just verbally ask the state to kill you.
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To put this all into context, we had about 16,000 deaths in Canada related to COVID.
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Depends on how you count that, of COVID or with COVID.
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We know that there were 10,000 requests in writing for medically assisted suicide,
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and that doesn't take into account the deaths that occurred because somebody just verbally asked for it
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and received it on the very day that they asked for it.
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I think it was his first time on a big American channel, but David Manzies,
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he owns that story of the teacher with the prosthetic chest.
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It didn't seem like they got the joke when they sent the cop over to you.
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Oh, no, indeed, Tucker, and a pleasure to be with you.
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This is the thing about the uber-woke Halton District school board, Tucker,
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is that they're all down with radical transgenderism,
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including a teacher who dresses up as a grotesque caricature of a woman,
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as if he's a drag queen, but only for the kids in shop class to see that,
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not when it comes to their school board meeting.
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So when I came there, what happened after that is we received a letter,
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I am banned for life at the Halton District school board head office,
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They've said that in writing, so you're absolutely right.
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Canada is devolving into a police state with every passing week, my friend.
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So it's okay to wag the pathetic breast in the face of children in your classroom,
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but it's not okay to show up wearing them to a school board meeting.
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But Katie Davis-Court, I think this is her debut on Tucker Carlson with her reports from the El Paso border.
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You know, 90% of our journalists, obviously, are here in Canada,
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but we do have a couple of Americans, and it's interesting that the work is getting acknowledged.
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Were those pictures from the airport, I mean, would any person who landed at El Paso Airport have seen that?
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I'm just amazed that no one said anything until you.
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Right, Tucker, thank you so much for having me on.
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Now, I will tell you right now that it's not going to make much of a difference if Title 42 is halted or not.
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There is a clear invasion happening in El Paso, even with Title 42 in place, and it is shocking.
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I hopped off the plane at the El Paso Airport, made my way to baggage claim,
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and that's when I noticed more than 100 illegal immigrants sleeping on the ground with Red Cross blankets.
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Now, the facilities here in El Paso, they're all at max capacity.
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They cannot hold any more people, and so they are letting them out onto the street,
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sleeping in freezing conditions with their babies, whole families.
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So the airport has turned a portion of the facility into a makeshift holding center.
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And so I went around and I asked the people where they're from.
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They told me the Dominican Republic, Peru, Colombia.
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But what I found most shocking was one of them said to me,
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And I thought to myself, who gave you guys the permission to enter into the United States illegally,
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The Biden administration, they need to be held accountable for dereliction of duty
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And where's NBC News and the New York Times and the Washington Post?
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Why is it left to a Canadian news site to bring this information to Americans?
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I don't want to use the word cover-up, but I don't know another word to describe what we're seeing.
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And I'm grateful to you for showing us what's actually happening.
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So besides the week that just ended, it's a good time to review 2022 as a whole.
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I, like millions of Canadians, was not allowed on planes and trains and boats in my own country,
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Vaccine passports turned ordinary citizens into little SS officers.
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So-called conservatives like Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole and Doug Ford were enforcing
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hardcore lockdowns and violating civil liberties.
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And then in the midst of all this, Trudeau was re-elected, and not just re-elected, re-elected
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specifically on a platform of demonizing and taking away equality and showing intolerance
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towards those who made a different medical choice.
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It was the worst campaign, and he won and felt vindicated.
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I remember our Christmas party, if you could call it like that, last year, it felt like
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We found a restaurant in the greater Toronto area, a little conference center, that agreed
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to allow us to have a Christmas party without vaccine passports.
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No matter what you answer, you'll be allowed in.
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There were lots of little acts of kindness like that.
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It was like we were, I don't know, I won't say it was like we were hiding from the Nazis
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because, of course, the consequences to us was not a death camp, but to hide from the
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It felt like we were fighting all battles at once.
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It was, I imagine how it must have felt a little bit in the Battle of Britain.
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In early in the war when a handful of British Spitfire fighter pilots staved off the Luftwaffe
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What Churchill said was never had so much been owed by so many to so few.
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I'm not saying that, again, I'm not comparing what we did to the heroism and the physical
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courage of the Battle of Britain, but the odds, the long odds, fighting against the whole world
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and the tremendous solidarity and team spirit that came from that.
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That was exhilarating, even though we felt like we were surrounded.
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It was amazing to watch our young team come together.
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Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay, two of our new reporters at the time, they worked 23 days straight
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Sid Fazard and Kian Simone went down to the Coutts blockade, were embedded with the truckers
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for nine days straight, and they didn't pack their clothes on the way down.
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They just went there to cover the story for one night and ended up staying for nine days.
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Well, like I say, they knew it was a heroic moment.
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They knew history was in the making, and I think that rebel news helped to set Canada
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You know, there's that old Zen saying, if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around
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Well, if you have a trucker convoy, if you have people standing up for freedom, but the
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only reports of it are filtered through the haters in the media party and the propagandists
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at the CBC who claim that these are foreign-funded, Vladimir Putin-organized,
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bad actors with disinformation, my point is you could have had a wonderful trucker convoy,
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but if the coverage of it had been directed by Trudeau and his henchmen, it would have
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been a very different outcome than if there were citizen journalists, largely from Rebel
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I'll give credit to people like Andrew Lawton and Rupa Subramania and Viva Fry to name
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But Rebel News dominated the coverage, as you know.
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In the month of February, we had 400 million views and impressions of our Rebel News stories,
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more than in the entire previous year combined.
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You've heard me tell you that statistic before.
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It was a year's worth of eyeballs in one month.
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And the reason is we were telling the truth about the freedom movement.
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People realized that not everyone was in support of things.
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It was an organic, grassroots, populist uprising.
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Conservatives are taking back their parties, at least in the province of Alberta and federally,
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not yet in Ontario, although I hope that comes.
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We also, if you recall, created the Democracy Fund in 2021, and it really found its stride
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Right now, the Democracy Fund has eight legal staff, four lawyers and four paralegals.
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Just a reminder, the Democracy Fund came out of an idea that Rebel News started called
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Fight the Fines, when we helped ordinary people fight tickets and charges and even criminal
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Our very first client was Arthur Pawlowski, the Christian pastor from Calgary.
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There are now more than 2,100 cases across Canada, and it grew to be such a big project,
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It's no longer run by Rebel News, but rather by an independent CRA-compliant charity with
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its own board of directors, its own staff, its own budget.
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It's frankly one of the greatest things I've ever been involved with.
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The Democracy Fund didn't just help 2,100 people, including spectacular cases like Arthur
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It received intervener status in various courts of law, both in Windsor, for example, in one
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of the trucker cases and at the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.
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Of course, Rebel News covered that inquiry very intensively with our pop-up studio Airbnb
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in the city of Ottawa, where we were for more than a month giving intensive day-by-day coverage.
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That feeling of solidarity for being working on the streets of Ottawa and the biting cold
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Even those awful moments when our staff was attacked physically, in a way that forged a
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I think the number one characteristic for becoming a Rebel is not, did you get a journalism degree?
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Or even do you have a certain ideology is, are you willing to tell the other side of
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the story, even if the whole world is shouting at you to comply with them?
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Can you have enough confidence in yourself and your conscience to know that you may be
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right, even if the whole world tells you you're wrong?
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It's like Kipling said in his famous poem, If, can you keep your mind while those around
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Well, it's always tough to predict, but I am, I think that there is trouble on the horizon.
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I think the same forces of authoritarianism that were on the march with the lockdowns and
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then with the Emergencies Act, I think they're coming back.
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I think that the Alberta election will be an early test of freedom.
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I'm genuinely worried that Rachel Notley, the NDP premier who so devastated that province
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And I think that Danielle Smith, who I interviewed just this week, I think she has a lot of strong
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But I am worried that Rachel Notley and more importantly, the media party want to dethrone
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I think it's possible that we have another federal election in 2023.
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Remember, we had one in 2019 and then one in 2021.
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Of course, Jagmeet Singer, the NDP doesn't want one, but it may be in Trudeau's interest
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I think there's going to be a possible federal election.
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And the media party, which is the most powerful political party in the country, well, they
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I mean, just remember the other week there was this media party conference in Ottawa where
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reporters were calling for police to silence their online critics.
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Here's Rachel Gilmore and other media party insiders demanding that the cops arrest people
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We're not in a position to protect our journalists from this hate.
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And that's why I think the conversation has to be a bigger conversation.
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It has to be something that's talked about at a policy level, at a law enforcement level.
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You know, we don't have the tools to actually, you know, go after these people.
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It was gross how the public safety minister was there nodding along the whole time.
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Of course, that's just individual journalists wanting their personal enemies silenced.
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But Justin Trudeau has several censorship bills marching through Parliament very quickly
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Censorship bills are so bad that Facebook is even talking about turning off its news department,
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stopping all news stories because the rules that Trudeau is foisting on them are so onerous.
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Twitter has said that the rules that Trudeau is contemplating are the kind of rules
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And that's what Twitter said even before Elon Musk bought the company.
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I think that censorship is going to be the big battle of 2023.
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And remember what I said about Rebel News covering the Trucker Convoy with 400 million views and
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If you were Justin Trudeau and you already control 99% of the newspapers, radio stations,
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TV companies, and the digital news sites, the one or two that you don't control, that's
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You can't get them out of your mind because, you know, it's like having a dam with a single
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And if there is a hole in the dam, the water gets through.
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As long as there is one media company in Canada that is telling the truth, you can have all
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the TV stations and the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star telling the Trudeau line if
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So Trudeau wants to snuff out those handful of independent journalists left.
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And we are the biggest and the most influential of the independent journalists.
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Well, he'll face every ounce of ingenuity and fight we have.
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Revoluz is traveling again, not for vacations, but for work.
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You probably saw Drea Humphrey, Alexa Lavoie, and Tamara Ugolini, all of whom joined us during
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the pandemic, recently in Berlin at the World Health Summit.
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I mentioned that I'm going to the World Economic Forum in Davos looking for Klaus Schwab.
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I'll be there with our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, the great Avi Amini from Down Under.
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So we are doing some judicious traveling around the world.
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As you saw, Katie Davis Court is down in El Paso, and Jeremy Lafredo just got back from
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And most importantly, even if we're in interesting places from a tourism point of view, we are not
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As you can see, Katie is looking at the migrants crossing the border.
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Jeremy was interviewing people on the streets of Moscow.
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And when we are in Davos, we have one mission, and that is to hold those oligarchs to account.
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It's exciting, that's for sure, but I believe it's important journalism.
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And when was the last time you saw a CBC journalist or a Globe and Mail journalist go to Davos to
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So how do we measure success here at Rebel News?
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Well, I told you one way already, by measuring the number of views and impressions that our
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We were showing the world what was going on in Canada because they weren't getting that
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We don't just tell stories once in a while that can feel a bit voyeuristic.
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If you're just watching something but not doing something about it, I remember the moment
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I called up Arthur Pavlovsky when I saw him being abused by police for feeding the homeless.
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And I moved from being a voyeur saying, look at this, and showing the picture to saying,
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And I called up Arthur and he agreed to accept our legal help.
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That is, I think, one of the things that makes Rebel News special.
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One of the ways we stand out in Canada is we have a video news gathering style.
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We are out there with the camera pointing at the story that was important for covering
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But I think the real special sauce at Rebel News is that every once in a while we say,
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We spun that off in the Democracy Fund, for example.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed does a lot of that through access to information requests.
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I've written a number of books about Trudeau alone.
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But the reason we hold conservatives account is not just to show that we're independent
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But it's so that conservatives know that if their party starts to deviate, we're going
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And it's not going to be gotcha style journalism.
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But there is no conservative party in this country that can call us up and say, shut up.
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And I think that's one of the reasons why some conservatives are less comfortable talking
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Because they know if we criticize a conservative politician, it's going to be a good faith
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It's not going to be the kind of gotcha criticism from the left that their own supporters will
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If we're criticizing a conservative politician, odds are it's because that conservative politician
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Case in point, the aforementioned Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole.
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You know, I get a lot of positive feedback for the work we do here.
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All of our reporters tell me they get the same thing on the streets at rebel news events.
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As I mentioned, I've started flying again after being on the no fly list for being unjabbed.
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And even on Air Canada, something happens because one of the cases that we took during the lockdowns
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was the cases of the flight attendants who didn't want to get the jab and they wanted to grieve
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So the Democracy Fund helped the flight attendants to take their union to the Industrial Relations
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And wouldn't you know it, CUPE, the union involves bent the knee.
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And so I have to tell you that when I fly on Air Canada, I'd say about 50% or even more
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of the flights I'm on, a flight attendant saw that story and someone who probably wouldn't
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follow rebel news, but they knew that we were championing flight attendants as just one of
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I think I told you a few weeks ago, I went to Melbourne, Australia for Avi Amini's wedding.
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And it was a wonderful, it was actually my first foreign trip in three years.
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This week, I'm finally going on a vacation with my family, but that was a half business
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trip, half wedding trip, I suppose, to see Avi.
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And the first place I went to when I got out of the cab looking for my hotel room, I just
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And the guy said, you're with Rebel News, I couldn't believe it, halfway around the
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That's what I live for, more than the approval of a politician or another person in the
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If we are being viewed around the world by grassroots people, that tells me we're connecting.
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Everyone sees someone they recognize, maybe a minor celebrity, and say, oh, I'm such a big
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Or are you just having a fun moment because you recognize someone?
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I think just as important of how your fans treat you is how your foes treat you.
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And the reason I know Rebel News is so important is not actually because a flight attendant says,
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thanks for your help, or because some guy in a bar in Melbourne recognized me.
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But what tells me that we are on the right track, what tells me everything, is how the
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Not just the establishment conservatives, like Aaron O'Toole, but how the liberal government
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and the parliament and all the institutions of power try to silence us.
00:29:48.300
The case in point, the QCJO news license, the qualified Canadian journalism organization.
00:29:55.680
You can remember that that's a new journalism regulation in Canada, where journalism companies
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have to apply to the government to be approved.
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And if you are approved, you get all sorts of perks, including free money.
00:30:07.540
If you are not approved, not only do you not get access to press conferences, but Trudeau's
00:30:12.380
plan is to have the search engines, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, downrank non-QCJO
00:30:20.820
news license companies and uprank or boost his trusted friends.
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You could also call it the rebel news blacklist rule.
00:30:32.440
As you know, Trudeau and his friends denounce us.
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Here's him and Ahmed Hassan reading word for word the same denunciation of us in parliament.
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To see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.
00:30:53.620
Here is the disgraceful Justin Trudeau saying he simply will not answer any questions from
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us, even hours after the federal court said we are journalists and we are allowed in.
00:31:04.720
Remember this and his treatment of Alexa LaVoie?
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L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.
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Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.
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Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.
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Ma question est, plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.
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Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au vaccinal?
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Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre ou allez-vous
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J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir.
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But it's one thing for them to rig the rules against us, as in this QCJO news license.
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It's one thing for them to denounce us and be petty and not answer us.
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And our media party competition is silent about it.
00:32:18.640
It's a partial, only a partial compilation of how Trudeau and his henchmen and his allies
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Not just with mean tweets that Rachel Gilmour wants arrested.
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I'm talking about with fists and batons and even a gun.
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We've been through this so many times with you guys.
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The reality is organizations like yours, yours,
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that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation
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Your group of individuals need to take accountability,
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polarization that we're seeing in this country.
00:34:35.820
It's disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling
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I share my perspective on your organization this evening.
00:34:55.820
The likes of CBC and the other members of the media party,
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But they can't even give us the opportunity to ask one bloody
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No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility.
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To maintain a distance of at least two meters from another person.
00:36:44.820
It gives me a feeling of dedication to my staff who would suffer like that for the sake
00:36:50.820
Imagine the character of people who would endure that kind of violence and yet show up for
00:36:57.820
Those are very, very impressive people who work with me here at Rebel News.
00:37:04.820
We tell the other side of the story, something everyone used to believe in, but it's so rare
00:37:10.820
And every once in a while, we stop to try to make a difference.
00:37:16.820
And I think, well, my friends, I think we have.
00:37:21.820
You know, Rebel News turns eight years old in February.
00:37:25.820
It's hard to imagine how far we've come since then.
00:37:37.820
Well, you know the saying, you can curse the darkness or you can light a candle.
00:37:42.820
I am mourning the loss of the sun, best job I ever had, most amazing colleagues, most
00:37:50.820
I don't have tens of millions of dollars to start a new TV station.
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I don't have political connections to the CRTC.
00:37:57.820
I don't have a billion dollars a year in corporate welfare bailouts like the CBC gets.
00:38:11.820
Actually, it's pretty exciting because while being an official TV channel has its perks,
00:38:17.820
It's regulated by political hacks at the government CRTC.
00:38:21.820
It has bossy censors, politically collect wieners at the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
00:38:27.820
And, of course, you only get onto those TV sets that cable companies allow you to do.
00:38:32.820
And on the channel placement of their choosing and at the price they grudgingly agree to pay you.
00:38:42.820
For a medium that is quickly being eclipsed by the internet where you are seeing this now.
00:38:54.820
Netflix used to mail you copies of DVDs in snail mail.
00:38:59.820
Now it streams endless movies and TV shows direct to your home whenever you want them.
00:39:03.820
They're even making their own original movies now.
00:39:06.820
And there are countless competitors to YouTube and Netflix and Apple's iTunes.
00:39:11.820
All offering you the freedom and access and convenience that the traditional TV industry just doesn't have.
00:39:17.820
And that bureaucrats and politicians wouldn't allow anyways.
00:39:23.820
There's still tens of thousands of dollars for the fancy ones.
00:39:27.820
But this high definition video is being shot on a camera that cost a couple of thousand dollars.
00:39:34.820
I'm looking forward to getting out of this living room, by the way.
00:39:36.820
That's code for my wife has given me a direct order to get out of here.
00:39:40.820
But seriously, how much does it cost to set up a small studio or to do a show even from the street?
00:39:55.820
But for every person you see on camera, there's two behind the scenes.
00:40:03.820
Our viewers at home, as you know, the government would shut us down.
00:40:11.820
Activists on the left try and silence us and deplatform us.
00:40:20.820
And I promise you we will do everything we can to be successful in 2023,
00:40:24.820
to tell the other side of the story and maybe help fix the world.
00:40:29.820
Well, as I mentioned in the past week, we have had so many rebels covering so many big stories.
00:40:44.820
And my barometer for how big our stories are is if we get invited to the largest cable news show in America,
00:40:57.820
And I mention that because I know we've hit a big story hard.
00:41:01.820
If Tucker's team calls in from New York and says, hey, can we talk to one of those rebels?
00:41:06.820
Now we've had Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, two of our longest serving rebels, appear on Fox in the last week.
00:41:12.820
But we also had our two newest rebels on Tucker's show, Jeremy Lafredo, with his Russian reports.
00:41:19.820
And our next guest, Katie Davis-Corp, one of our newest rebels based in Seattle, Washington.
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Well, she is covering what can only be called an invasion.
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Hundreds of thousands of people pouring across an unguarded border.
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You can see her reports at rebelborderreports.com.
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I'm glad you're staying safe because it really is a kind of lawlessness there, isn't it?
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Sorry. So, Wendy, so I'm in El Paso and across is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is actually the murder capital of the entire world.
00:42:13.820
There is an invasion happening right now in the United States.
00:42:17.820
And President Biden, the lefty mayors seem to be doing absolutely nothing about it.
00:42:22.820
Well, let's put some numbers to that, because in Canada we have an open border called Roxham Road.
00:42:31.820
But at that border there near El Paso, it's not dozens.
00:42:41.820
A few hundred have been actually entering into the US daily.
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But more than 80,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the city of El Paso since late August.
00:42:51.820
So that is just a little bit over three and a half months.
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So they are just all over the streets of downtown sleeping.
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I mean, the footage that I think got you the invite on Tucker Carlson's show was just when you arrived in El Paso.
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You were just coming in from Seattle to El Paso to do the story.
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And before you went looking for the story, the story came looking for you.
00:43:17.820
Hundreds and hundreds of people just lying on the floor.
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Like, I've seen people sleep in airports because their flights are canceled because of the snow.
00:43:30.820
They were pedestrians who came across the border, had to sleep somewhere, and they just shoveled them into the airport.
00:43:40.820
So the holding centers are at full capacity and the airport has turned into a makeshift holding center.
00:43:45.820
And so I decided to go around and I asked people where they're from.
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And one of them had the audacity to say to me, who gave you permission to film us?
00:43:57.820
And I said, who gave you permission to enter into the United States illegally, which is a crime?
00:44:09.820
They're learning, you know, audacity right away.
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I guess they know how to operate in the United States.
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Now, you were, so you're in El Paso, which is in the Texas side, but you cross over and you sort of in this wilderness area.
00:44:27.820
And why don't you introduce this next clip of you discovering children?
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And that's the part that breaks my heart because, you know, these children are being used.
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They're being trafficked sexually, especially young women.
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The number of young women who are raped along the journey to get over the border is shocking.
00:44:50.820
The children are used as pawns because the traffickers who are called coyotes think, well, you have a kid, you're going to have special treatment when you're arrested.
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Tell us, set up this next video clip and then throw to the clip.
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Why don't you tell us what you saw and then we'll play the clip, Katie.
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So I was driving down the highway of El Paso and along to the right is the U.S. southern border.
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And I noticed a group of illegal immigrant children waiting on the side of the border.
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So I got out and I started asking them, you know, where they're from.
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So they had just illegally entered into a very accessible.
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And you can anyone can easily enter into this one part where they have removed a crate on the border side.
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And so they just easily walk along this wall and then enter through a hole and boom, you're into the United States.
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But what a lot of people don't know and what you mentioned earlier is that only 30 percent of the immigrant children coming into the United States are with their birth parents or biological families.
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Seventy percent are actually being trafficked and go missing.
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They are unaccounted for once they enter into the United States.
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So this is just the true definition of a humanitarian crisis.
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This should be the biggest story in America right now.
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And mainstream media refuses to cover it except Fox News.
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After the time this is the concept that goes back to here.
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These kids and these adults, men, women, children, people of all ages,
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they get across the border and then it seems to me that they're not really
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trying to be evasive because when they're picked up it's not like they're driven to
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the border and booted out. At least, correct me if I'm wrong, it's just like
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Roxham Road here in Canada. In fact, the crazy thing at Roxham Road is that the
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Mounties, the police, are luggage boys. They will literally help illegal border
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crossers carry their luggage if it's heavy. It's just so humiliating for the
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Mounties who have a great history of upholding the law. Is it the same there
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in the states that once they're across, they know they're not going to be booted
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out and so they want to be found because they want to get food, clothing, shelter,
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medicine. Is that an accurate statement? Very accurate. They actually wait for
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Border Patrol to come get them because to them, once the Border Patrol gets them,
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they are granted safety and pretty much asylum. So the United States government
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and just other NGOs, nonprofit organizations, bring them food, new clothing, provide them blankets,
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and they are treated actually better than the normal homeless person that you'd see on the
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streets. But something to mention is I am specifically here because Title 42 was going
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to expire except it was recently blocked by SCOTUS. The Biden administration wants to expire it,
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which means that anyone that comes into the United States will get pretty much be granted amnesty.
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And so the city of El Paso ended up declaring a state of emergency ahead of right before it was
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halted. And they actually deployed the Texas National Guard on the border, on the El Paso side of the
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border looking to see Udada Juarez, Mexico. And that did prevent a lot of the illegal immigrants from
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lining up. But what the Texas National Guard did was they actually directed the illegal immigrants
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to go down one mile and have Border Patrol pick them up, which they did, and then illegally brought
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them into the United States. And it's just a matter of time, probably a few days before they're just
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released into El Paso. You know, you said up to 80,000 of these migrants are in El Paso. I just
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Googled it. And El Paso has about 700,000 people. So it's a, it's a full size city, but 80, but more
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than 10% of the souls in that city right now are migrants. I don't, I don't know how that can even
00:49:30.900
work. Like just, just shelter, bathrooms, medicine. Yeah. Obviously there's no school. Like that's just
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such a shocking number. I remember a few months ago when Ron DeSantis flew some border crossers to,
00:49:45.660
I think it was Martha's Vineyard or some really fancy schmancy, uh, East coast liberal elite
00:49:51.160
tourist hideaway. Like it may be a hundred and the whole Martha's Vineyard went into panic mode
00:49:56.420
and you know, they bust them out and they, you know, they gave them like a bowl of soup and then
00:50:01.220
kicked them out. How dare you come to our tourist haven? Um, it's shock 80,000 in a city of 700,000.
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Uh, I can't believe other journalists are not there. I mean, that's one of the things that
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Tucker said to you is you're seeing stunning things. It's not like, like you literally just
00:50:19.080
stepped off the plane. You didn't have to go hunting for it. The story came to you. I can't
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believe that's not front page news and every newspaper across America. Yeah. Uh, me as well.
00:50:28.720
I mean, just my time being here, I've only been here for a few days and I've just had stories
00:50:33.540
fall into my lap left and right. I mean, I'm, I'm headed, I'm headed home tonight, but I'm
00:50:39.060
right before I leave, I'm going to go check out this spot where state troopers are actually
00:50:43.560
stopping semi trucks. They have about, um, a five mile line and they're checking for human
00:50:49.160
trafficking. So I'm going to go set up and see what I can find before that. But why isn't
00:50:53.240
that even on the news? They're just not, yeah, they're just not covering it as terrifying.
00:50:57.980
And by the way, some of those semis can be death traps. Obviously that's not, that's not a
00:51:02.420
way for humans to travel like, like cattle or cargo. Um, but that's how desperate these
00:51:08.140
folks are. And they've been given that hope by the Democrats just come across. Everything
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will be fine. And, you know, on the one hand, you got to admire the determination of people
00:51:17.380
who want to come to America, but this is a lawless way. It's a dangerous way. It's a disorderly
00:51:22.660
way. It disrespects those who came in the country legally and properly. It's not sustainable.
00:51:27.480
And I believe the Democrats are doing it for one reason only. They believe that these people
00:51:31.640
will become democratic clients, you know, eventually be democratic party voters or they'll be part
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of the democratic, you know, welfare state or whatever. I think that it is purely political
00:51:42.860
and it's, it, it's just shocking that the actual numbers now, Katie, we're so proud of the work
00:51:49.820
you've been doing there. We've set up a special compilation page. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong.
00:51:54.380
It's rebel border reports.com. Is that right? Yep. Rebel border reports.com. You guys can
00:52:00.680
go there and help donate to offset our travel costs because it's so important that independent
00:52:05.300
media is here on the ground showing you guys what the mainstream won't show you.
00:52:09.640
That's right. And in addition to your ticket, we brought a cameraman and I'm glad that the
00:52:13.660
cameraman's with you. Just an extra set of eyes because you're in sort of a wild place and just
00:52:18.680
have another person around gives me a degree of safety, feeling of safety. Katie, thanks for this
00:52:23.660
great work. And we'll keep watching your stuff, including your, your mission tonight to see those
00:52:28.800
semi-trailers. Uh, stay safe. Okay. Yep. Thank you, Ezra. We got about five more reports coming
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out. Wow. I can hardly wait. Thank you. There she is. Katie Davis scored. You can see why Tucker
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invited her on to tell this powerful story. Stay with us more ahead.
00:52:47.520
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me, Hal Lisnick writes about my interview with Danielle Smith and
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says, kaboom, you did it. Ezra, you broke the media party tonight with your Danielle Smith interview.
00:52:57.220
You're a class act. Danielle is the future to save Canada. Rebel is the real narrative. Thank you.
00:53:02.880
Well, I was grateful to have more than half an hour with her. And I, I asked some obvious
00:53:07.920
questions, but I also wanted to ask some questions that I knew only a freedom oriented journalism,
00:53:15.380
Bruce Atchison said, hi, Ezra. Thanks for interviewing Danielle Smith. Just having her on the
00:53:20.180
show proves she's willing to address the folks she once harmed in December, 2014. I helped on her
00:53:25.540
election campaign as the constituency secretary. During November, she got us delegates fired up
00:53:32.080
about her 500 day plan. All the while she plotted to cross the floor. I felt hugely betrayed and so
00:53:37.660
did our constituency. The only thing I disagree strongly about with Premier Smith is hydrogen.
00:53:42.840
It's inefficient to make it. Hydrogen is difficult to contain. It also makes steel brittle. Any leak would
00:53:48.140
cause an explosion hazard, much worse than natural gas. I wish she'd get off the green scam bandwagon.
00:53:53.920
I have to say I had the exact same reaction when she mentioned hydrogen, but I didn't want to take
00:53:59.680
up time debating her and giving my point of view. I can do that later. I can do that right now.
00:54:04.760
I knew I had only, actually, we were only scheduled for 20 minutes. I think we stretched it to 33 or
00:54:10.240
something. So I thought I'm not going to spar with her. I'm just going to try and get her to answer as
00:54:15.800
many questions as I can. And I'll analyze it and think about it afterwards. But yeah, you're right. I think,
00:54:20.880
I think she's buying into the narrative that we have to get past oil. We're not moving past oil and gas
00:54:26.060
and we shouldn't because it's, it's a bounty for the world. Nick Bonet, if I'm saying that right.
00:54:33.280
Hi, Ezra and Steph. I just finished listening to your interview with Danielle tonight and wanted to
00:54:37.720
thank you for taking the initiative and producing such a great interview with our Premier. I'm writing
00:54:41.560
tonight asking if you would consider making this content public. I know it is behind the paywall,
00:54:45.680
but I feel the more people can hear this interview and listen to her speak so candidly
00:54:49.120
and practically, always with the interests of Albertans in the forefront, the more momentum
00:54:53.120
she would build in her campaign and touch the hearts and minds of many more Albertans doing
00:54:57.520
a shift of dishwashing on New Year's Eve. That was priceless. When was the last time you heard a
00:55:02.400
politician premier at that talk like this? Cheers. And thank you for the enormous amount of work
00:55:06.420
you and your team do in bringing us the real news. Much appreciated. Merry Christmas,
00:55:10.620
happy holidays and all the best in 2023 to everyone there. That's a very nice letter.
00:55:15.540
The answer is yes. I wanted to give that interview first to our paywall people, to you,
00:55:21.680
because you're spending eight bucks a month and I want to, you know, treat you as priority
00:55:25.820
people because you, you pay the bills. We are, however, releasing it. I think a different clip
00:55:32.380
a day for three or four days and we've already put some of it up on Twitter. So we will put
00:55:36.140
the entire video up in its, you know, the full interview. It's more than 30 minutes,
00:55:41.340
but you got the, it was like a sneak preview that you got. Yeah, obviously we want it out
00:55:47.180
and soon people are going to be focused on Christmas anyway, so we want it out pretty quick.
00:55:52.800
But thank you for your kind words. Well, that's the show for today. Until tomorrow,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.