EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police investigate Rebel News for alleged 'hate crime'
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Hello, my friends. Crazy show today. I can't believe it. Rebel News is being investigated
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by police for a hate crime. It's unbelievable, but it's happening. I'll tell you our plan to
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fight back. I'd like to show you what we're being charged for. It's an ad that ran on a
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billboard truck. So I want you to see it with your eyes, not just hear me describe it.
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Rebel News stay alive, because as I'll show you today, our enemies want to kill us. All
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Tonight, Rebel News is being investigated by police for a hate crime. I'll tell you the
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terrible details on how we're fighting back. It's June 20th, and this is The Ezra LeVance
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I've got some breaking news. It's another censorship battle, probably our biggest one ever. I need
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your help to save free speech in Canada. The Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News
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for running these ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck. The ads were
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created by a group called Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of Our Streets and Campuses. It's a bit
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of a mouthful, but it tells you everything. They're anonymous because they know they'd face retaliation
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for speaking out. That's how bad things are these days. The ads just show actual footage of what the
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pro-Hamas gangs have done to Toronto, including committing real crimes ignored by the police
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and politicians. In the case of this particular ad, the images included pro-Hamas gangs shutting
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down the streets in downtown Toronto. Here's the official police announcement declaring those ads
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Islamophobic and suggesting that a hate crime has been committed, a crime. The Toronto police don't
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think the pro-Hamas street gangs themselves are committing hate crimes. They think the ad we ran on our
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truck is a hate crime. In Trudeau's Canada, you're allowed to support terrorism. You're not allowed to
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criticize terrorism. That sounds more like 1984 than 2024. Here, let me give you some more background and then I'll
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tell you how you can help us fight back at a special website we've set up called savethetruck.com.
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But it's really about more than just a truck. It's about cancel culture and the weaponization
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of hate speech laws and two-tier policing. I've hired a lawyer and we're obviously going to fight
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because this is still Canada, not Gaza. We still have free speech here for now. It's actually pretty
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serious. If convicted under the law for a hate speech, I could be jailed for up to two years
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just for running that ad. And don't think they won't try. Our Rebel News reporters have been arrested
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by Toronto police several times just for asking Hamas supporters questions. The police hate us because
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we're not silent and obedient, which is what they've told the Jewish community to be. The police chief isn't
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dumb. He's doing what his political bosses want. Here's Toronto's mayor denouncing the truck. No surprise,
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she's a pro-Hamas NDP mayor, an extremist who refused to attend key Jewish community events this year.
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It goes much higher than the mayor though. Here's a tweet by a pro-Hamas Trudeau member of parliament
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who wrote, there needs to be an investigation and there needs to be justice. Can you imagine that same
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member of parliament hosted a Holocaust denier on parliament hill, but she wants us prosecuted for hate speech?
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Other Trudeau supporters joined in too, including Trudeau's personal friend, Mohamed Faki. He owns a chain
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of restaurants called Paramount Foods and he notoriously said he doesn't want Jews as customers. This is the guy
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calling for a hate speech investigation. He's even put a $25,000 bounty on my head. Easy, Mohamed,
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you're not in Lebanon anymore. But the Toronto police are a full-on DEI police force. They're woke.
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Six months ago, Trudeau had a highly irregular meeting with Toronto's police chief, Myron Demkew. Demkew's
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office refuses to release any notes from that meeting, but it's pretty clear. Since that meeting,
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the police have not arrested pro-Hamas street gangs in the city because they're Trudeau's political base.
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Oh, by the way, there are other billboard trucks driving around Toronto too. Here's one with pro-Hamas
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and anti-Semitic ads on them. Police are fine with those. Only people who say things that criticize Trudeau
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or his Hamas allies get investigated by police. Trudeau truly is turning Canada into a banana republic
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or Gaza if he could. I think I know why people feel so desperate that they're taking out anonymous
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ads on our truck. They feel completely abandoned and ignored by the institutions they used to rely on.
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They want to speak out because no one is speaking for them. I know the feeling. The reason we bought
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the truck in the first place is because all the truck companies we used to work with, we used to
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rent the trucks, they told us they're too scared to criticize Hamas because they're worried their trucks
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will be attacked and their drivers could be injured. Police should be embarrassed that they're
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investigating the messenger instead of understanding the message. Just a few weeks ago, masked Hamas gunmen
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shot at a Jewish girls' school in Toronto. The Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto has thugs
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checking if students are Jews or not before letting them pass. There was an insane eight-hour anti-Semitic
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hate march outside a Thornhill synagogue. Hamas supporters walk through Jewish residential
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neighborhoods in North Toronto shrieking at Jews in their homes. This happens every day. The police
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just stand there and do nothing. Sometimes they actually bring the Hamas gangs coffee like this when
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they blocked a road into a Jewish residential neighborhood. We've used our billboard truck
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to talk about these issues for months including our campaign to deport foreign nationals who support
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Hamas. We also have a campaign against Trudeau's crazy plan to bring thousands of Gaza refugees to
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Canada. In the case today, we were running the ads for another group of loyal Canadian citizens
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who felt totally abandoned by the police and politicians. Real Canadians express themselves not
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by shooting schools or taking over campuses. They run ads on trucks like ours. It's called free speech.
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You can look it up in our Charter of Rights. I've been fighting against censorship my whole life.
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I'm not going to stop now. There's a crime wave in Toronto and across Canada and it's not ads from
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scared citizens worried about Hamas gangs. It's the Hamas gangs themselves. I'm going to fight this
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like hell. You know I will. We're going to take the truck out again because I'm a free man in a free
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country. At least for now. I have broken no laws and if the Toronto police think they can bully us into
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silence, we'll bring it on. I still believe enough in our country and even in our courts to know that
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this trumped up censorship will not stand. If you want to help me, I need your help. I need your help
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to pay for our lawyer to fight this police investigation. If you want to help save me and
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save our truck, go to savethetruck.com and at that same page you can sign up for email updates so I
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can let you know what happens as this proceeds. I was born and raised in Canada and so was my dad
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and so was his dad all the way back to 1903 before Alberta was even a province. This country is built on
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free speech and I'll be damned if some Hamas thugs and their obedient shills in Trudeau's police force
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think they can scare me into silence. If you want to support me and I need your support, go to
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savethetruck.com. You won't just be saving a truck or even just saving me. You'll be saving
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freedom of speech in our great country. Go to savethetruck.com. Thanks.
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You hear me criticize the regime media or the mainstream media or the subsidized media,
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but you do hear me once in a while single out excellent journalists such as Steve Chase
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and Bob Fyfe of the Globe and Mail. Not only did they do great journalism about the firing of Jody Wilson
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Rabel at the hands of Justin Trudeau, but they've been excellent on the China files. They really have
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taken stories and thrust them into the center of our political discussion in a way that smaller or
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independent media just simply don't have the power to do. That said, I think it's accurate to say that
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citizen journalists and independent journalists have done the lion's share of the reporting,
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even if they don't have a prestigious platform like the Globe and Mail. The Bureau, which is a
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new independent substack, has done excellent work on Chinese interference and foreign interference in
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Canada. But if I had to name the single person who has done more digging into China's and by China, I mean
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the Communist Party of China and their attempt to interfere in our democracy. If I had to name the
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number one journalist in the country, it would be our guest today, Andy Lee, who has an uncanny ability to follow
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the money, to follow the social media, including deep into social media apps that most of us don't know
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anything about their Chinese social media. Joining us now is our friend Andy Lee. Andy, I'm heaping praise on
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you, but it's not just to puff you up. You are an indispensable read. I follow you closely on Twitter.
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Welcome back to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me back. It's been a while and a lot's gone on.
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Everything you've said has borne fruit. Everything you warned about has come true. If you're like me,
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you hate saying I told you so because you've always been warning us of bad things.
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Yeah, I mean, this isn't a nice time to say I told you so, unfortunately, because, you know,
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a lot of people were hoping that certain people would be exonerated of some serious accusations
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during the inquiry. And that happened to a degree when we had Justin Trudeau's special rapporteur,
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David Johnson. He says some things that exonerated some individuals who were named specifically by Sam
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Cooper and the Bureau, that being that Handong, you know, had a hand in foreign interference,
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and that we have these at least 11 candidates in the GTA alone that seemed to have been the
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beneficiary of foreign interference from the People's Republic of China. So unfortunately,
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that inquiry didn't seem to go deep enough. We don't know if David Johnson saw the same files
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that were released in the recent report by the NSI cop. So we don't know if he saw the same documents,
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or if he saw a sanitized version of documents. And he also said that he had time constraints.
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So maybe he didn't view the same information. But two vastly different reports surfaced in whatever event.
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And, you know, the most recent one was a very, very firm that yes, you know, these allegations, there was
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definitely substance behind them. And this was brought up. So that's kind of where we're at now is
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trying to reconcile. Well, how are people coming to different conclusions? And we saw that by, you know,
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party leaders the other day, we had Elizabeth May saying that she wasn't concerned at all. And then we had
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Jagmeet Singh come up and say something totally different. And he felt that somebody should be charged with
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treason and that Handong should not be allowed to rejoin the caucus. So there's a lot going on. And we don't
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get to see the documents, which is really, really important for us to do the digging ourselves. Sometimes
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retroactively, you can go back and find the things that weren't detailed in the reports. And we've done that a
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number of times. We did that. And Rebel News published that when Michael Chong was targeted. And they said that
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there was no evidence, you know, they suspected it was a PRC state-sponsored campaign. But we actually
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went into WeChat and we found the exact factors and traced it directly back to the PRC.
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And WeChat is one of those Chinese social media that I think most Canadians don't know anything
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about. It's amazing you can navigate them. I want to push pause on you for one second, Andy,
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because you said so many things because you're in the center of it. But I just want to recap for some of
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our viewers who are maybe more casual followers. Your reference to David Johnston is he was the
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hand-picked cleanup crew that Trudeau said, oh, he'll look into these interference accusations and
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get to the bottom of it. And he gave an all clear. It was only when the, I suppose, deep state of
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Canada's security intelligence services said, that's insane. We've got to leak the truth that this
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committee was struck to look into it. And there's been shocking allegations. And you're referring to a
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report that has not yet been released. And so we have this strange situation where we have to rely
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on other people reading the report and interpreting it. And Elizabeth May says there's nothing to worry
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about. Jagmeet Singh says there's traitors. Trudeau's pretty mum on it. I just wanted to,
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am I accurate in sort of summarizing how this story has gone from nothing to cover up to holy moly,
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there's a lot there. Yeah, well, I think it was always cover up and a lot of people tried to
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discredit the reporting that came out and discredit the CSIS leaks. And we've heard this all along that,
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you know, intelligence is not evidence and it was just information gathering and they're not
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substantiated. Well, now these claims are looking fairly substantiated. So somebody has been vindicated.
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It certainly hasn't been hand on. That's for sure. You know, good for Sam Cooper for sticking to his
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guns. Of course, he's got these lawsuits against him for his reporting, unfortunately. It was really
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disappointing to see people and also other journalists turn against one of their own.
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Yeah, well, I mean, you know, he was he was ostracized. And again, a lot of people tried
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to downplay the information and say that, you know, it was just a memo and then it wasn't something
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that was seen or it was something that was maybe not seen by the right people. It was something that
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was not taken seriously. So I wanted to expand and I wanted to give them even more firepower,
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specifically about the allegations on Handong and given that he has this lawsuit against him.
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And so one of the, you know, the allegations that we've heard is that we had foreign international
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students who were bused into Handong's riding to vote for him in his liberal nomination contest
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and that they weren't from his riding and that perhaps they were directed to do this by the consulate.
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But again, that's very vague, right? There's no details. So what we did is we went and we found the
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actual academy. And when I say we, I say the people like me and I have several people who
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helped me as well. We go into WeChat, we look for the exact details. So we did find details on that
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academy. It was called the NOAC Academy. It used to be New Oriental International College.
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It's based in Markham. But when you really dig into it, it's got very, very close ties to the
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People's Republic of China and officials in China. They go to, you know, events hosted by Tencent and things
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like that. And so this was the academy, one of the places that bused the students in.
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You know, they've got reviews from the consulate right on their website. And the other fascinating
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thing about this particular academy is that Justin Trudeau himself has visited there and he's invited
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And Handong has been there. A lot of the Liberal Party have been there. So, you know, there was a
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briefing somewhere that said, hold on, we think that this academy has assisted this candidate in
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doing something that's illegal, right? That's breaking election rules. You can't just get
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students to go vote in whatever riding they want in a Liberal nomination contest. So at some point,
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and they would have known what academy it was, and they would have known that it was the academy
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that they all visited, the NOAC Academy. So that was something fantastic that we've been working on.
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And I was so glad that that came up. And especially, you know, that the Prime Minister is aware of this
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academy. So I can't say who saw the briefing, but somebody definitely saw it, saw that this was the
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academy that was implicated and decided that this was a nothing burger. You know, knew the people,
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he knows the CEO and decided that this wasn't important and discounted it and allowed him to
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run and didn't disclude him from the nomination contest. Let me ask you a question. It's really wild,
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the amount of cover-up. It's crazy that the PRC, the People's Republic of China, has a connection with
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that actual school. There's so many things that you can imagine they did through that institution.
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But let me ask you about something that I think how this story has evolved. And you tell me if I've
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got this right. I think the early versions of this story were, oh, there was help for certain pro-China
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MPs, or certain pro-China candidates, get rid of some candidates that were critical of Communist
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China put in friendlier ones, but that the role of the Canadian candidates was pretty passive.
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They just sort of sat back while the People's Republic of China did the heavy lifting. But what
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I think I'm hearing now, Andy, tell me if I'm wrong, is that there has been active participation
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by these Canadian MPs. So it's not just, oh, gee, that election went better than I thought. I'll be
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me now. It's, oh, that election went better than I thought. Now I will actually collude with, assist,
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brief, help, be actively engaged with the foreign entity, whether it's China or Iran or others,
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we don't know. So it seems to me, and tell me if I missed, listen, you're so deep in this stuff,
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you would know better than me. But there's the idea of traitor and treason. Those are words that I
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almost never use. I see them being used by serious people now. That suggests people are actively helping
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foreign countries. They're not just passively accepting help. They're giving help. Am I wrong?
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Yeah. I mean, we talked about this a little bit when Olivia Chow, and we did a great article about
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this and Olivia Chow and her race and how she accepted help from this United Front group who's
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affiliated with the United Front, very, very close to Chinese diplomats, very, very close to the Chinese
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government. And she was just kind of like, well, this is the game that you have to play. You have to
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get their support. So yeah, I mean, that's passive, but we're talking about an entirely different level
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where the accusations are that, you know, there was some tit for tat, we'll help you get elected
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and throw our support and get our groups to throw their support behind you. And then maybe you're
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going to do something for us. Now, we don't know exactly what that looks like, right? Does that look
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like abstaining from voting on the Uyghur genocide? Right? Is that the help? Plugging the Beijing Olympics?
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Is that the help? Maybe keeping quiet about, you know, certain investments that are tied to,
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we just found one that, and I'm digging into this, and this is just fascinating because it's
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somebody that Justin Trudeau knows. And she actually accompanied him on his 2017 trip to China.
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You know, her company is now actively working with the People's Liberation Army,
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their military in Xinjiang, right? So, you know, what does that look like? So we don't have a really
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good definition, but we do see serious people who, you know, do know the difference between treasonous
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and not treasonous dipping into that territory where, you know, we might actually be looking at
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something that's prosecutable, even though we have very, very weak laws right now. And, you know,
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somebody was named as directly colluding, and it was a former MP. I'm not going to say who it was
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exactly, but we do know that there was a foreign MP who rallied on behalf of a certain mayoral candidate
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that we did a article on, you know, and delivered a letter to the embassy on behalf of this mayoral
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candidate who has very, very close ties to the Chinese government. And he was caught by that
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and caught up in that. Why he was specifically lobbying for this particular person who happens to
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be, you know, charged with fraud and embezzlement. It's questionable, right? It's a good question to
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ask. How do you find yourself with a letter from somebody who's facing very, very serious charges
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and hand delivering it to, you know, PRC diplomats? And of course, he's not there anymore. But I mean,
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yeah, it's very, very serious. And they're making jokes about it, right? Boohoo. No, it's not boohoo.
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It's not boohoo to Kenny Chu, right? Kenny Chu, there's a very excellent chance that he lost his
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seat because he tried to bring in a foreign agent registry. And that's not just speculative anymore.
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We've traced some of those ties and looked at the campaigns. There's no doubt that there was one
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against him. Did it end up ultimately costing him a seat? It's hard to say, but it certainly
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contributed to it. And one seat is too much to be lost because of foreign interference.
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Even if it wasn't effective, this campaign, it sounds like it was very effective. It's dead
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wrong and has to be called out. And like you suggest, maybe it hasn't been called out. Maybe
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that's part of the collusion itself. Andy, what's the best way to follow your stuff? Tell me your
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Twitter account again. So I'm Real Andy Lee Show. Real Andy Lee Show. That's A-N-D-Y-L-E-E
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Show. And I follow you. You've got a huge follower count. And I think it's because you do real research.
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I mean, you like to fight. You're great on Twitter and I enjoy following it. But the number one thing I
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like about your Twitter account is you, as the kids say, show the receipts. You bring the receipts,
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you have the proof, as the kids say. And I think you have been ahead of the curve on this. We've got
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to go now, but please keep in touch with us. And if you have the time, I know you're so busy on this
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file. We would love to publish more of your work on the website because it really, you've been a year
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or two ahead of things. It's great to see. I'm glad you still got that fighting spirit. And it sounds like
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like the good guys are finally catching up on this story. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fascinating time
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for sure. We're definitely trending in the right direction. I'm looking forward to see what Justice
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Hogue is going to do with this information. I definitely think that she deserves more time
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to reexamine it. And maybe she wants to recall some people that she's already examined and put them back
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up on the witness stand based on new information, which she's trying to obtain right now. And yeah,
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I'm really, really glad that again, because so much of this is it's murky for us, right? Because
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it's redacted or it's vague. We don't get the specifics, right? We don't see the briefings.
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So it's really, really nice to be able to pinpoint and say, hold on. Well, this was,
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this was the academy that busted the students for hand on. And these are the ties to the PRC.
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So this is where the allegations stem from. So this is evidence backing the intelligence finally,
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right? And so the more that we can actually do that and pinpoint that, even if we're in the dark,
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the more that we can, you know, help, you know, people understand and legitimize the intelligence,
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and hopefully to a point where we can get some actual action on it, and maybe even prosecution.
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We're going to have to leave it there. Andy Lee, great to see you again, folks. Again,
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that's real Andy Lee show on Twitter. I highly recommend.
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Hey, welcome back letters. Wes Brown says, I like Pierre, but isn't it a bit early for a biography?
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Let him win the election first, at least. You know, I see your point, as in, you're saying,
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if he wins, that's an if, and the big chapter of his life is yet to be written. So yeah, you're right.
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But I think it's pretty standard fare that when a politician is about to run for that final
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Game of Thrones, they publish a book or have someone write a book about them. So either it's a
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autobiography, almost always ghost written, or it's a biography written by someone who,
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I'm not going to say is sympathetic, but has access to them. Because voters want to know.
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I think millions of Canadians are getting used to the idea that Pierre Polyev might be our next
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Prime Minister. And for those who like to read, and for those who want to go a little deeper,
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and those who really like him, or those who are worried, I think they will want to read a book.
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And I'm just so glad that Andrew wrote it. I mean, don't you think that's better than if, say,
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Rosemary Barton or Althea Raj from the CBC did? I meant what I said. I'm thrilled that it was a
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good guy who wrote the book and not a bad guy. Franz Anton Mesmer says, don't hold your breath.
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Where's the heartbeat law? Why hasn't he announced the UN migrant quotas? Why won't he decriminalize
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gun owners? I could go on and on. Okay, you're saying that, if I can quote the Bible, don't put
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your trust in princes. You're saying, don't have a hagiography, which is the word that Andrew used
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yesterday. That's a great word. You're right. He's not perfect. And one of the things that,
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one of the ways politics has sometimes been defined is the art of the possible. And that's not just some
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airy-fairy slogan. It means, what can you do? There's certain things you want to do, but you cannot.
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What do you want to do that you can? It's not everything. It's like a Venn diagram. Here's
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what's possible. Here's what you said you would do. How much of that loop can you get overlapping?
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And there are certain things that I don't know if Pierre Polyev will be able to do at all. For
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example, a lot of people note that the Senate is still dominated by Justin Trudeau's picks because
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Stephen Harper didn't fill the Senate on his way out the door. So I think there's going to be a
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constitutional crisis. Pierre Polyev is going to have a massive mandate if things hold up in the
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polls. But the Senate, unelected, unaccountable, appointed for life, partisan, in some forms
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corrupt, is in the position to say no to everything. It could be a crisis.
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D.L. Carbino says he is a conservative, not small c conservative, told the trucker convoy to go home
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after three days. Controlled opposition. You know, there's another saying I'm going to use, which is
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don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. It's related to don't put your trust in princes.
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Here's what I know about Pierre Polyev. And as I said to Andrew, I've known Pierre Polyev since
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he was a student. He's talked about freedom and conservative ideas consistently. Now you're
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saying that he told the truckers to go home. I don't remember the exact details of that,
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but I'm sure you're right. Still, what a change from Aaron O'Toole, who banned all his MPs even
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talking to truckers. There's only one way to know what Pierre Polyev would be like in power,
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and that is for him to get into power and for us to observe. And do you know the rebel news
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obligation when there's a conservative in power? I think you do because it's what we do
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when we've had Jason Kenney veer off course, or Doug Ford veer off course, or other conservatives in
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name only. We hold them to account. So I am not here to pitch Pierre Polyev to you as a choice. I
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don't have a party membership in any party. I don't want to because I want the freedom that I have to
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criticize any and all politicians of all stripes. And you know that we do. That's our show for today.
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I hope you check out SaveTheTruck.com. It's been a big and busy day for us today. I've never been the
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target of police investigation like this before. I've never had a police chief, not just the department,
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but the chief tweet out that he's coming to get me. I mean, I think a normal person would be a bit scared.
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Um, but I happen to know the law enough to know that it's, it's, we haven't done anything wrong,
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and we certainly haven't broken that law. It would be as ridiculous as the police chief saying he's
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coming to accuse me of murder. God forbid. I mean, I just haven't done that. There's no case. He's full
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of it. He's clearly a political puppet. Ain't gonna happen. So I think check out the details at
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SaveTheTruck.com. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.