EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster does their best to smear Elon Musk
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Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster does their best to smear Elon Musk. It's so lame and it's so awful, it's done by one of the worst journalists in the entire Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who was recently chided by their own ombudsman for his lack of ethics. Well, he's at it again.
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Hello, my friends. I want to take you through the CBC's latest hit job, a smear against
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Elon Musk. And it's so lame and it's so awful. And it's done by one of the worst journalists
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in the entire Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who was recently chided by their own ombudsman
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for his lack of ethics. Well, he's at it again. I'll take you through it line by line.
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Tonight, Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster does their best to smear Elon Musk. It's December 12th,
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You know, I'm on Twitter and TikTok on my phone and both track me through my phone. I'm the same
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person, whatever I type, whatever I search for, whatever I read, whatever I say into my phone,
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both apps get the same information for me. So it's amazing to see the difference between what those
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two social media platforms serve up to me based on their algorithms of the information I'm giving
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them because I'm giving them both the same info. And I should tell you that there's about 100 times
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more raw anti-Semitism and anti-black racism on TikTok than there is on Twitter. I mean, deep pro-Nazi
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stuff like old Hitler speeches done up in a cool meme or Holocaust denial stuff or more often
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Holocaust romanticization stuff. I can't tell you how many times Nazi war songs have been served up
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to me on TikTok. Obviously, I'm Jewish. I'm not a Nazi. I am not searching for this stuff. It is being
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pumped at me. And that was before the October 7th Hamas terrorist rape and murder spree in Israel.
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That added a whole additional layer of more up-to-date anti-Semitism to my TikTok feed, but not my Twitter
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feed. Sometimes I laugh when people publish ads. They take a screenshot of an ad that shows up on a
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website they're watching and they complain about that ad. Usually they say, oh, all these dating sites
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are these sexually suggestive sites. And it's funny because that person obviously doesn't realize,
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of course, that the ads served up on any given website are personalized. They're tailored to the
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individual users. So if you're getting ads to meet single women in your area, it may be you. Not the
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website you're on. You may have been Googling that. But I promise you, as a Jew, I am not searching
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for Nazi stuff or anti-Black stuff on my phone. And if it were the algorithm responding to me, I would
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imagine that Twitter would be serving up the same stuff too. But it is not. My point is TikTok
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really is a pipeline of cultural propaganda, hate, anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism, pro-Chinese Communist
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Party, and pro-Hamas ideas, and actually pro-transgenderism. There's no escaping it on TikTok. And it goes
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right into the minds of young people in the West. Young kids aren't really on Twitter talking politics.
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They are on TikTok, which is controlled by Communist China. Which leads me to our story today.
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I don't know if you remember a few months back, but Blacklock's reporter broke the news. CBC's
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in-house ombudsman, who usually just whitewashes the state broadcaster's ethical lapses, was so grossed
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out by one CBC story that they actually chided their own reporters for smearing Trudeau's enemies
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as conspiracy theorists. The reporter's name in question is Jonathan Montpetit, and he's really
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Trudeau's hatchet man at the CBC. You can look through his stories over the years. Here's his
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homepage on the CBC website. They call him an investigative journalist, but I don't think that's
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quite accurate. He just calls himself that to make himself seem classier, I think. He's really just a
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mud thrower, rehashing left-wing gossip about conservatives, never doing investigations of the
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government, God forbid, or of the left. He just goes after conservatives, Trudeau's enemies list.
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Let me just pick one of his examples. This one here. Can you imagine? Inside the fundamentalist
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Christian movement that wants to remake Canadian politics. Really? I mean, seriously? We've got
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thousands, tens of thousands of pro-jihad extremists, most of them Muslim, marching in our city streets,
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calling for violence. That's what an intifada revolution is. Calling to exterminate the Jews.
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But the CBC's Trudeau hatchet man thinks a sleepy Christian church is the extremism problem in Canada.
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Here's another one. I'm just picking these almost at random. How the American anti-LGBTQ hate machine
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is posing a threat to Canadians. Hate machine. Is there a machine that says hate? Is that even a news
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story or a news headline? These are editorial, these are tweets, really. They're extremist gossip
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rebranded as investigations. Here's another one. It's on climate change. On climate change,
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Quebec's parties propose leaving the hard work for future generations. Sorry, that's not an
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investigation. That's an op-ed. And they're often bigoted and extremist. And they're all partisan.
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The partisan takes pretending to be journalism. The one that was so bad that Montpetit called out on
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it by his own company was this one that mentions Rebel News and other conservative media. Canada's
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convoy movement waved the Dutch flag. Then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs.
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Yeah, except it's not a conspiracy theory that the Canadian government wants us to eat bugs.
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They say they do. And they're giving government grants of taxpayers' money to, for example,
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there's a factory that produces insects as food, both for pets and for people. But here's the
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headline, far-right media. Conservative politicians stoking misinformation about an early plan to cut
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emissions, except it's not information. It is literally the stuff Trudeau brags about. It took me
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about 30 seconds of investigation to find this press release on Google. This is literally the
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statement put out by Trudeau's cabinet about the big insect farm that they are using your tax dollars
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to support. I say insect farm because they want you to eat them. My point is Jonathan Montpetit isn't
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actually investigating anyone or anything. Certainly he's not speaking truth to power. He's not
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investigating the liberal government. He works for the government. He works for power,
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smearing powers. Critics is a, you know, he calls them kooky or goofy conspiracy theories. He uses
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the word misinformation, but only for Trudeau's enemies. See, Trudeau himself never says anything
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false. And he and the CBC call himself an investigative reporter as he does it. I bet he wears a little
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toy sheriff's badge too, because he's an investigator. He's not a smearer. No siree. It's like those fact
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checkers who are just really opinion columnists, but they call themselves fact checkers to imply that
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they're above the rest of the journalists who actually do journalism. Here's what the CBC's
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own ombudsman said about that article by Montpetit calling everyone who hates, or who everyone he hates,
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a disinformation. Here's what the ombudsman said. I will take this opportunity to stress to programmers
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at CBC. They assume a great responsibility when they choose the huge terms such as misinformation
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and disinformation in their stories. When they do so, they had better be right.
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Because if it turns out down the road that the information proved to be correct, they can do
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great damage to their reputation. As I often remind them, precision is key, and labels should be
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employed with great caution. Sometimes it would be safer to say that there is no evidence for
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something rather than proclaiming it to be false. I wonder why they didn't name Jonathan Montpetit in the
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ombudsman report about his story. Anyways, Montpetit, Trudeau's hatchet man, was at it again today,
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going after Trudeau's latest enemy, Elon Musk and Twitter, now known as X. It was a pretty boring,
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extremely long, it was 2,000 word long story in the CBC that I think was actually written to please
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Trudeau and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, more than actually get anyone normal to read it. But let's go
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through it a bit. I want to show you the anatomy of a smear job, and I just printed it out. It's so long.
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And by the way, it's huge. It's so American. It doesn't actually cite any Twitter users or any problems
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in Canada or any experts in Canada. It really feels like they just downloaded the Democrat talking points
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to take on Twitter. Let's just go through it. The headline, Bell Media, Angus Reid, and other
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Canadian brands halt ads on X amid extremism concerns. Advertisers increasingly reticent since
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Elon Musk took over platform a year ago. Okay, I'm excited. We're talking about extremism in Canada
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in December 2023. So we're talking about jihadists, right? We're talking about people saying death to
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the Jews, maybe the people behind the Molotov cocktail attacks and the shooting of the schools
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and synagogues in Montreal. No, no, that's not the extremism concerns. The extremism concerns are
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Jonathan Montpetit's extremism concerns. Pay no attention to the riots on the streets. Pay no attention
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to people wearing machine gun earrings and saying Hamas did nothing wrong. That's not of interest
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to Jonathan Montpetit, who has not done a single investigation into that. No, he knows where the
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real extremism is. By the way, I've gone through this article, and he does, I mean, he's never
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criticized radical Islam. He doesn't find them extreme, or if he does, he doesn't dare say it. But he
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sure goes after the Jews, which again is a Trudeau kind of move. You'll see in the story ahead,
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he talks about libs of TikTok, which is an account that basically just republishes some of the goofy
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things that liberals say on TikTok, by the way. It's run by an Orthodox Jewish woman named Chaya
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Rechik, Jewish. He attacks a Jewish YouTuber from the United Kingdom named Carl Benjamin,
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sometimes known as Sargon of the Cat. He goes after Mike Cernovich, all of them foreign,
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none of them extremist or racist in any way. They're just conservatives, but that's the extremism.
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But I think the key lie in this, I've already told you the main lie in the article.
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This was not an investigation by Jonathan Montpetit. That's not the essence of this story.
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This was Jonathan Montpetit using his CBC letterhead to contact advertisers and basically,
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in the guise of interviewing them, actually threaten them. I've seen this email before.
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We see that you're advertising next to racist accounts. Will you cancel your advertising?
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I'm doing a story on this. I need your reply in two hours. That's not actually journalism.
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It pretends to be journalism, and the signature field in the email claims that Montpetit is a
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journalist, but that's not journalism. That is pressing a company to, boy, that's making the news,
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that's manufacturing the news, pressing an advertiser with false information ginned up by the CBC,
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which is a competitor to Twitter. So CBC has two conflicts of interest. They're government-run,
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so they run errands for Trudeau. And second of all, they're a competitor with Twitter. And so
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this is not a news story. They have made the news, which is they have a couple of tweets that they
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think are mean. They call up advertisers, and they basically say, we are going to embarrass you
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in a story we're going to run tomorrow. You've got two hours to avow or disavow Elon Musk. And most of the
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advertisers have been conflicted first. They say, okay, fine. Okay, fine. You're right. You're right.
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We'll quit. Ta-da! You've just created the news story. That's not investigative journalism.
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That's a shakedown. Look at the caption on the photo there. X, formerly known as Twitter,
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amid the unchecked rise in hateful content. Is that true? Has there been an unchecked rise in
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hateful content? Is there any source for that information? In fact, it's the opposite. Elon Musk
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has shown that the number of hateful or bigoted or anti-Semitic tweets has declined. And it not only
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has declined since he took over, but is lower than other social media apps. Not only did the
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investigative journalist at the CBC not provide any facts, he provided disinformation. The fact is
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that Twitter has far less hateful content than the other platforms, especially TikTok, which for some
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reason the CBC itself continues to use. And by the way, the CBC is on Twitter. That's where I found this
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story. I say again that this whole thing is being called an investigation by CBC News, but they really
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didn't investigate, did they? They just called up advertisers and threatened them. And again and again
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in this piece, they call Elon Musk an anti-Semite. You can see here Elon Musk's seeming endorsement of
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anti-Semitic and other far-right conspiracy theories, but they don't actually name one.
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I don't think Elon Musk is an anti-Semite at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure he's not. He went to Israel
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recently and he toured the areas that were attacked by Hamas terrorists, and he actually met with a
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family member of someone who was held hostage, who gave him a necklace with the names of the victim.
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And Elon Musk has said he will wear that necklace, sort of like dog tags, until that person is free.
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Justin Trudeau hasn't gone to Israel. Elon Musk did. Justin Trudeau hasn't stood in solidarity in that
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manner with the victims of terrorism. He's actually run interference for the terrorists. Justin Trudeau
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remains the only G7 leader who has not visited Israel out of solidarity, other than the Japanese
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prime minister. I think this is the CBC projecting its own anti-Semitism. And the funny thing is they
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never actually name what Elon Musk did that was anti-Semitic. But look at further down, they talk
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about one of their experts, the Tech Transparency Project, a watchdog group. Okay, so we got investigative
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reporters, we've got fact checkers, and we've got watchdogs. So that's your signal that you're not
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supposed to look into who they are because they're better than you. Just like Jonathan Montpetit isn't
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a mudslinger, you see, this is investigative journalism. So who is the Tech Transparency Project?
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A watchdog group. Again, I did my own investigative journalism using a machine called Google,
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and in less than 30 seconds I found their website and I found their About Us page for who pays for
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them. And George Soros pays for them. And then Soros' mini-me, Pierre Omidyar, also an internet
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censor, pays for them. So the CBC state broadcaster wants to gin up hatred for Elon Musk. They want to
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call him a hater. But what's their source? They don't have, they're not a source themselves,
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they didn't do any investigating themselves. They contracted out their journalism to George
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Soros, who has a bit of an adversity with Elon Musk, but they didn't disclose that. Jonathan
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Montpetit quoted the Tech Transparency Report Project, but it's not very transparent, is it?
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Don't you think it's relevant that the CBC is quoting George Soros in an attack on Elon Musk,
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but doesn't tell you it's quoting George Soros? Jonathan Montpetit didn't do his investigative
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journalism, or rather, of course he did. He just hid that fact from viewers. The next paragraph,
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in addition, Samsung ads were spotted in the feeds of libs of TikTok, which LGBTQ advocates say
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stirs up anti-trans hatred. Okay, so you yourself don't have any facts, but someone who you don't name,
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LGBTQ advocates, you don't say who they are, say that libs of TikTok, which is run by a Jewish woman,
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stirs up hate. You don't have any proof of it. You don't actually mention anyone you say.
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Didn't we just read the ombudsman telling Jonathan Montpetit that he has a duty to be precise
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and not just name call and smear? I think it's pretty obvious that Jonathan Montpetit doesn't
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listen to any executive at the CBC. He only listens to what the PMO tells him to do.
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Samsung's Canadian office did not respond to several emails sent by CBC News requesting comment.
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They weren't requesting comment. They were demanding action. If Samsung didn't immediately
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cancel their ad campaign, the CBC would smear them, as they just did. I'll scooch down a little bit.
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Pathways Alliance, which they're going after some oil and gas companies, had ads appear in Carl
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Benjamin's feet. Benjamin has been kicked off other social media platforms in the past for making
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racist and misogynist comments. Now, first of all, Carl Benjamin himself is Jewish. And second of all,
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I think I'm familiar with the instance, and it was a joke he told. But again, the CBC calls him a
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hater, does not give you, the viewer, the information, does not cite what he was kicked
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off for. This is in violation of what the ombudsman just told this little liar to do. But
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the thing about liars is they don't really respond to calls to tell the truth because otherwise they
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wouldn't be liars. Jonathan Montpetit is Justin Trudeau's most reliable liar at the CBC. And to hell
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with what the ombudsman says and to hell with any journalism ethics. They're going to call him an
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investigative reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But there really isn't any Canadian
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content here at all, is there? They're citing foreign experts and foreign donors and foreign
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websites about foreign companies like Samsung. But this is what the CBC gets 1.5 billion taxpayers
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dollars for a year. What's funny, my favorite part of the story is that the B'nai B'rith, which is one of
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the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby groups, community groups in Canada, it's actually over 100 years old.
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They call themselves Canada's oldest civil liberties group. They refuse to quit Twitter just because the
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CBC tries to bully them. I think the B'nai B'rith is a little bit tired of the CBC. And they're probably
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confused about why the CBC is going after the B'nai B'rith and going after Elon Musk instead of going
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after the actual hate in this country. But then again, the actual anti-hate network that is funded by Trudeau is
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being pretty silent in the last two months too. I just want to quote from Michael Mostyn, the CEO of
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B'nai B'rith, who said, despite his organization's concerns about anti-Semitism on social media, it had
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no plans to stop advertising on X. That's what they call Twitter now. B'nai B'rith has made a conscious
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decision to remain on social media, he said in an interview. And the funny thing is, so has the CBC. So has
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Jonathan Monpetit. Why is the CBC still on such a hateful platform? It's a bit weird, eh? For the CBC and their
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hate journalist Jonathan Monpetit to be on Twitter telling other companies to get off Twitter. It's almost like they don't
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mean it. I just want to read one more. They went after Bell Media, of course. They're trying to shake
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down all the advertisers. Bell Media suspended advertising on X after it was informed that an
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ad for a subsidiary, the news division of Quebec TV network Nouveau, appeared in the feet of the far
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right fitness leader. And they're not really clear of which far right fitness leader they're referring
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to. I don't know who they mean. Is there a far right way of being physically fit? I don't know.
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The ad appeared over a post that called journalists priests of ruin and featured the slogan,
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all journos are bastards. Well, I would stop for a second and say that doesn't make you right-wing
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to hate journalists. It makes you Canadian. I think most Canadians don't trust journalists and
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smear assassination attempts like this are the reason why. But again, look at the devious and
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deceptive language. Bell Media suspended advertising on X after it was informed. That's the passive voice.
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It's like saying mistakes were made. By whom? What mistakes? Bell Media canceled their ads after it was
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informed. By whom? And what did that information say? Wasn't Jonathan Mompentee just emailing them
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and telling them that if they didn't quit, he'd do a story about him, was it? See, the CBC is not a
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neutral player of the game here. They are a party to the story. They are a stalking horse for Justin
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Trudeau. The laugh is they call rebel news activists, and sometimes we are, while they themselves have taken
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it upon themselves to be part of the ad boycott, to instigate an ad boycott against Elon Musk. But they
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don't have the courage to admit it's in their, uh, that they themselves did it. Bell Media was informed.
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Passive Tense was informed. They were informed by you. How unethical can you get? Let me skip ahead where
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Mompentee says social media users from TikTok to X are being exposed to a deluge of different
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Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes. Is that a fact, the Islamophobia? I know Trudeau says
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that all the time, but is there really a rise of Islamophobia in Canada? Have you seen any anti-Muslim
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hate marches? Have you seen people throwing Molotov cocktails at mosques or shooting at mosques or
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tearing down pictures of kidnapped Muslims? Have you seen any of that? Because I haven't, but Trudeau says
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it and the CBC says it again without proof. They just assert it. But let me finish the sentence.
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Social media users are being exposed to a deluge of different Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes,
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some of them perpetuated by people like Elon Musk, the owner of X. And again, they don't have any
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examples of that. But where is, so they mentioned TikTok in passing. So where's the investigation
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of TikTok? You'd think it would be a very sexy target. It's the number one app for young people
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in the world. It's absolutely got young people obsessed. It's controlled by the government of
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China. And by every measure, it really is a tornado of hate and transgenderism and pro-Hamasism.
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So where's the investigation into that? Well, in the same place that Jonathan Montpetit's investigation
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into extremist mosques is. It doesn't exist. This is not an investigative piece. This is an attack
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against Elon Musk. And it's almost completely done through foreign sources, foreign experts,
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foreign people they cite. They make another citation later in the article, the global project against
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hate and extremism. And how do they describe that expert source? A non-profit that monitors
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far-right activity and has worked with Twitter in the past. Okay, so do they follow far-left activity?
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Do they follow extremism on the left like Antifa? No, that's just not interesting and not newsworthy.
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Again, 30 seconds worth of Googling and you can see that they're funded. And they're alumni of the
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George Soros funded Southern Poverty Law Center. Again, not a Canadian source, but again, the money
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going back to Soros. It's so crazy that the people who tell you George Soros is definitely not into any
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conspiracy, so he's definitely not the boogeyman the right says he is. All of their sources are Soros
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funded and none of them are disclosed. I'll just read a little bit more because it's getting boring.
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This whole article is quite boring. On November 15th, Musk endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy
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theory drawing widespread condemnation, including from the White House. Which one? Can I see the
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conspiracy theory? I can't because I'm not allowed to see it. I have to take the CBC's word for it. Now,
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maybe it is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, or maybe I just have to believe this serial liar who's
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already been called out on it by his bosses. I'll just read one last. I think I think the lawyers
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probably added this at the bottom of the article. These companies and organizations were not the only
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ones whose ads appeared in the feeds of extremist accounts. I guess Chaya Raychik of the Jew behind
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Libs of TikTok is an extremist now. CBC News also revealed several hashtags and extremist accounts on X
00:25:48.640
that contain no ads at all. Oh, so just throw that in. But we don't have the information.
00:25:53.360
They don't publish their work. They don't show how many tweets they went through or how many times
00:25:57.440
they had to search and search again to get just the perfect snapshot of all this hate.
00:26:02.160
Look, you just can't trust the CBC. They are a state broadcaster in the worst sense of that word.
00:26:08.960
And you have to pay for it. They hate you. They lie to you. Here's their chief mudslinger,
00:26:16.240
Jonathan Montpetit, who was actually being called on the carpet before for doing exactly this,
00:26:21.520
for not being precise, for smearing Trudeau's enemies, for not giving viewers the information.
00:26:27.120
He was just called out on this like a month ago, and he's back doing it because he doesn't answer to
00:26:33.120
the readers, and he doesn't answer to journalistic ethics, and he certainly doesn't answer to some
00:26:38.080
toothless ombudsman at the CBC. He knows who signs his paycheck every two weeks.
00:26:44.720
Justin Trudeau. And it shows. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:26:49.360
Hey, welcome back. Well, the UN Framework Commission on Climate Change, if I've got that right,
00:27:04.320
that's a fancy way of saying the UN Global Warming Conference, is wrapping up in Dubai,
00:27:10.320
in the United Arab Emirates. There's a lot of interesting things about that. The first is that
00:27:15.120
the Emirates, of course, is a fossil fuel superpower in a fossil fuel region. It's near Saudi Arabia and
00:27:23.680
Iran and Qatar and all these oil and gas rich regimes. And as you may know, the United Arab Emirates
00:27:31.760
has become famous in recent years for its international airlines. Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai. These are not
00:27:40.400
enormous places population-wise, but each of them have enormous airlines. You've probably heard of
00:27:47.760
Emirates Airlines based in Dubai or Etihad in Abu Dhabi or Qatar Air. These are some of the largest
00:27:54.400
airlines in the world, some of the most successful, and obviously some of the most long-range flights
00:28:00.720
span the whole world connecting through their capital cities. I should tell you, having recently
00:28:06.240
been in the United Arab Emirates, that nothing in that place moves without fossil fuels. For one thing,
00:28:12.640
it's in the middle of the desert. When I was there earlier this summer, it was in the mid-40s Celsius.
00:28:19.360
That's extremely hot, and everything is air-conditioned. In other words, as our friend Alex Epstein says,
00:28:28.320
it's not climate change, it's climate mastery. Through fossil fuels, they have been able to master
00:28:36.080
the desert, use energy to desalinate the sea for drinking water, and cool it so people can live and
00:28:42.800
travel. It's actually a city that would be impossible with fossil fuels. So what an ironic destination
00:28:49.840
for the COP meeting, conference of the parties, which is what they call these UN climate gatherings.
00:28:55.600
Now, early in the summit, the chair of the conference said, look, fossil fuels aren't going
00:29:01.520
away any time in the near future, and that caused a bit of a ruckus. That was his point of view, but
00:29:07.520
inside, tens of thousands of delegates were talking about just that, banning fossil fuels. I understand
00:29:14.480
it was actually one of the largest UN global warming conferences ever in terms of the count of delegates,
00:29:20.720
and why not? Who wouldn't want to go to Dubai? It's like Vegas in Arabia. Well, one of our friends
00:29:27.680
was there, and he was there to critique, not to support. He is, I think, the leading watchdog in
00:29:35.840
the free world when it comes to what's going on at these global warming conferences. I'm pleased to be
00:29:40.560
joined now by our friend Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com, who just got back from Dubai. Mark, great to see
00:29:46.320
you again. Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it. And I might add, I am a big believer and fan of Dubai and
00:29:53.360
that city. I mean, it reminded me there's no crime, beautiful architecture, no crumbling infrastructure,
00:30:01.520
safe, no homeless, no needles, kids running around 10 o'clock at night, their parents could be a block
00:30:08.160
away. It's just a model city. It reminds me of what Western cities could actually achieve
00:30:15.680
when they don't let the woke agenda get in the way of, we need the needles for the drug addicts.
00:30:21.120
We need the homeless park over here. We need the homeless encampments. We're not going to spend the
00:30:27.360
money on infrastructure. It is probably the prettiest city I've ever been to, a marvel of both economics
00:30:34.240
and architecture. I, you know, I long for that in the Western world, whether it's Canada, the US is
00:30:39.920
an amazing city. And would you agree with me? And I think you would, that it is all based on heavy
00:30:46.080
industry, fossil fuels, steel, which can only be made by coal. Like it is a kind of city that Ayn Rand's
00:30:55.280
novels would be written about. That's what I thought of. Yeah. In fact, I went up the longest,
00:30:59.520
the tallest building in the world and that amazing fee. It takes you one minute to go 144 stories to
00:31:05.360
the top. And it's, it reminds me of what say the United States, the 1950s, the idea of just that
00:31:13.520
uninhibited economic growth without all this, you know, there's no agenda like, oh, you know,
00:31:20.480
we got to have massive, endless environmental impact statements and bureaucratic and what's the
00:31:25.360
carbon footprint. No, they're building stuff because it's the right thing. And it's just
00:31:30.560
unbridled. I hate to say unbridled because you think of unbridled capitalism, which apparently is
00:31:34.720
a negative term, but unbridled development that I just wish the West would once again embrace.
00:31:40.080
We're going the opposite way. Everything is going to be about limits, austerity, regulations and cutting
00:31:46.640
back. Whereas I got to tell you, the United Arab Emirates did not get that memo. And as you mentioned,
00:31:51.920
the cop president didn't get it because he, he, he ridiculed the UN. Actually, the cop president
00:31:58.880
was from the United Arab Emirates, Al Jaber, Sultan Al Jaber. And he literally said there was no science
00:32:05.600
to support the net zero, 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can lead by example. And like I said,
00:32:10.480
from the beginning, I accepted to come to this, to this meeting to have a sober and a mature conversation.
00:32:18.560
We do not, I'm not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. I am here factual
00:32:23.120
and I respect the science. And there is no science out there or no scenario out there that says that
00:32:30.640
the phase out of fossil fuel is what's going to achieve 1.5. 1.5 is my North Star. And a phase down
00:32:39.280
and a phase out of fossil fuel, in my view, is inevitable. It is essential, but we need to be
00:32:49.240
But the real serious and pragmatic doesn't take into account that we are in. I mean, I, I respect
00:32:57.160
that you've done a lot of hard work preparing for this cop and that you've listened to the science.
00:33:01.880
The science is very acute now. We don't have any time. They say six or seven years. We've got to peak
00:33:08.680
by 2025 the latest in fossil fuel. And your company is investing in a lot more new fossil fuel. And that's,
00:33:19.640
Ma'am, you've, you've just accused me of something that is not correct. I'm sorry, I don't take it.
00:33:27.640
I read that your company is, is investing in a lot more fossil fuel in the future.
00:33:31.960
Yes, ma'am, you're reading, you're reading your own media, which is biased and wrong. I am telling you,
00:33:36.920
I am the man in charge and it is wrong, ma'am. You need to listen to me, please.
00:33:40.680
I'm very, I'm very pleased to hear it. I'm very pleased to hear it.
00:33:43.480
It is wrong. You guys write a lie and you believe it.
00:33:47.480
And he's right. You know how we know, right? The UN scientists admitted it. It was in the
00:33:52.120
Climategate emails, Ezra. They said it was pulled from thin air. It's a political goal. The whole
00:33:57.080
idea of the two degree or 1.5 degrees Celsius. So he was way ahead of it. Of course, he was vilified
00:34:02.760
by the media and he ended up, his spokesman started it backtracking. He backtracked,
00:34:07.960
tried to act like it didn't happen. They had to, they had to go with the narrative in the end. So
00:34:11.960
sadly, he backed away, but, but there was a moment of truth that was nice.
00:34:15.960
Isn't that interesting? I want to say one more thing about the United Arab Emirates
00:34:19.160
before we really dig into the conference, which is there are no pro Hamas riots or rallies or hate
00:34:25.640
marches in the streets there. In fact, I saw an image the other day of them lighting a Hanukkah
00:34:30.520
menorah in the United Arab Emirates. And that's a way in which the UAE is superior to even our own
00:34:38.040
cities in the West where these anti-Semitic hate marches are on the prowl. That's just a personal
00:34:42.680
observation on my part, but let's get back. I'll also add there was a lot of nativity scenes set
00:34:47.720
up. I'm sorry, not nativity scenes, Christmas trees, Christmas scenes, no nativity scenes and no
00:34:52.440
crucifixes, but everywhere you went was Christmas steam. So they're open for that. And one last point,
00:34:58.040
even if you look it up, LGDPQ marriage, you know, people say, oh, it's a repressive Muslim
00:35:03.320
dictatorship. No, even that, even the worst critics have very little to say. They have a lot of old
00:35:08.280
laws, which apparently aren't enforced. So it's not like they're jailing and imprisoning that I was
00:35:12.920
able to see or even research. It really is an amazing city that the West could learn a lot from.
00:35:20.200
Well, we're both fans of Dubai. And I think, I mean, you tell me, if I'm not mistaken, this was the
00:35:27.640
largest turnout for any of these conference of the parties. And I can understand why. First of all,
00:35:32.200
the city can handle it. Dubai has the infrastructure for it. It's got the air
00:35:37.240
connections. I just mentioned how Emirates, one of the largest airlines in the world, is based in
00:35:40.840
Dubai. But everyone wants to go. Everyone has heard about Dubai, seen the Burj Khalifa,
00:35:46.280
the tallest building in the world, seen the buzz. So who wouldn't want to go? And that's one of the
00:35:52.120
things about these annual UN conventions is that it's like a annual reunion of all the fancy people,
00:35:57.880
the diplomats, the bureaucrats, the lobbyists, the politicians, the press. They, you know,
00:36:02.280
they go from exciting city to exciting city. And Dubai is one of the most exciting cities in the
00:36:06.360
world. Like I say, one of the most carbon intensive cities in the world. But hey, they don't care.
00:36:10.680
They're going for their fancy trips, luxury hotels. So tell me what they were talking about while they
00:36:16.840
were scolding, while they were enjoying the fruits of carbon intensive energy. Tell me what some of
00:36:24.840
their kooky ideas were. And I don't know if you had an eye on Stephen Gilboa, Canada's environment
00:36:30.280
minister. I don't think he's a player anywhere around the world. I don't think really anyone takes
00:36:35.000
him seriously. Only in Canada, he thinks he's sort of a big deal. He recently had to pay us $20,000 for
00:36:41.800
blocking us on Twitter. I don't know if you followed that whole shenanigans. I did say that. Yes, I did.
00:36:46.680
So let me know if Gilboa showed up on anyone's radar. But why don't you tell me some of the
00:36:52.360
highlights and lowlights of the past week? Well, this summit, I call it the Great Reset Summit.
00:36:57.240
It's building on what they were doing last year in Egypt, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
00:37:04.360
This summit began right before with two important things. Number one, 200 medical journals urged
00:37:10.680
the World Health Organization to declare climate part of a public health emergency. Number two,
00:37:17.000
UN delegates signed onto a letter against natural gas for the Western world, particularly the United
00:37:21.720
States. It opened with a call to phase out all new coal production. This was endorsed by Al Gore,
00:37:29.560
by John Kerry. And this was pretty frightening because coal is the most strategic of all the energy
00:37:35.960
sources. A country with coal in the United States, of course, is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
00:37:40.760
You have your own domestic supply that doesn't require any kind of importing and begging
00:37:48.440
hostile regimes or even friendly neighbors for any of your energy. They're going after what would be
00:37:54.200
considered the ultimate national sovereignty energy source. And we're giving it away. It's not like the
00:38:00.360
UN is imposing it on us. We're begging the UN to include this in their treaty. And when I say begging,
00:38:05.960
I mean the entire US delegation. Then you had Kamala Harris, our vice president of the United States,
00:38:11.400
come and pledge from tens of millions that the Biden administration has given to this UN climate
00:38:15.960
slush fund to $3 billion plus. What is the UN climate fund? It is literally the United Nations picking
00:38:23.640
the poor nation's leaders, dictators in many cases in Africa or South America,
00:38:28.120
who are best able to keep their citizens locked in poverty. They're the leaders who are going to get
00:38:33.880
the most of the UN climate fund because they're doing a good job. They're making Mother Earth smile
00:38:38.920
by socialist policies, by authoritarian policies that crush economic growth, crush energy development.
00:38:45.800
And they're the ones that are going to get this money. And so it's the white, wealthy Western world's
00:38:49.880
way funneling money through the UN to keep people of color in the developing world locked in poverty so that
00:38:56.600
we can have, you know, the Earth will smile at us. And in addition, Financial Times critically reported
00:39:04.120
about this conference, because Ezra, one of the other themes of this conference was a radical expansion
00:39:08.360
of the carbon offsetting programs. Well, these offsetting programs, according to the Financial Times,
00:39:14.200
again, not, you know, some obscure publication, were locking up land from wealthy nations through their
00:39:19.960
emissaries, locking up up to 25% per nation in the poorest nations in Africa, locking up 25% of the land,
00:39:28.600
so that they, so that white, wealthy Westerners in Europe and the US can pat themselves on the back and
00:39:33.560
say they're buying offsets. They're not allowing the poor nations to develop their own and have access
00:39:39.400
to their own natural resources. That was just for openers of where this conference began, Ezra.
00:39:44.360
Well, let me ask you a question, because I've been looking at opinion polls very deeply in Canada,
00:39:48.600
but also in the United States too. And I feel like public opinion is shifting on a number of issues,
00:39:55.800
shifting towards taking care of number one, as in, can we afford groceries? Can we afford cost of living?
00:40:01.960
Can we afford, in Canada, housing is in a crisis. Houses in Canada are twice as expensive,
00:40:07.800
proportionately, as in the United States. You can imagine how difficult it is for young people to get
00:40:12.760
into that first house. It really is something. And I see there's fatigue in the United States with,
00:40:19.080
for example, funding the war in Ukraine. And you add all these things together and people,
00:40:25.160
I think that if we're not in a recession officially, we're as good as in a recession.
00:40:30.840
I think inflation is making it hard for people to live. And what I've seen in polls in both countries,
00:40:38.120
especially in Canada, is that climate change as an unprompted priority is extremely low.
00:40:46.520
I don't have a particular poll in mind, but typically the first three items are all costs of
00:40:51.000
living. Housing prices, grocery prices, inflation, which is all describing the same thing, really.
00:40:56.600
And you have to go much, much lower before someone says, oh, I care about climate change, because
00:41:00.920
it was just sort of a luxury item that you would say you cared about that to virtue signal when
00:41:06.760
everything else in your life was going well. But when things in your life are not going well,
00:41:11.160
you don't talk about that. So my question to you is, given what I think is a souring of the mood
00:41:19.480
in North America and a lot of European parts too, Geert Wilders, who won the Dutch elections a couple of
00:41:26.440
weeks ago, his number one issue is stopping mass immigration. His number two issue was stopping
00:41:33.560
you know, taxes, carbon taxes, nitrogen taxes. So I think everywhere I look, people are sort of
00:41:39.240
saying that whole carbon tax, global warming thing, it is not important to us right now.
00:41:45.160
Is that reflected in any way in the conference you just attended?
00:41:49.240
Yes, but you're not going to like the answer. It absolutely is. And this is why, Ezra, the UK
00:41:56.280
Guardian a few days ago had an exclusive article of the United Nations IPCC climate scientists now
00:42:05.640
wanting, instead of being an advisory role like they've been since 1988 when the panel was formed,
00:42:11.000
they want the power to implement policy. They're no fools. They know what happened with COVID. They were
00:42:18.840
jealous about what happened in COVID, all the stuff they had wanted for years they could never get
00:42:23.080
through democracy. And they realized they got it all, the same policies were imposed upon the public
00:42:29.320
in COVID, during COVID, lockdowns and vaccine mandates, etc. And so what they're now doing,
00:42:35.400
and I think it's a direct recognition of everything you just said, they know even recent polling right
00:42:39.640
before that showed the American public doesn't buy the climate change scare anymore and they're not
00:42:44.280
willing to spend money on it. They know that that's why they want to bypass democracy. And that is why
00:42:51.800
they want to make this, the 200 journals want to make it a medical issue. And then you have IPCC
00:42:56.440
scientists, I call them now science dictators, literally openly with their names put to quotes,
00:43:03.080
according to the UK Guardian saying, we no longer want to be an advisory role. We want to implement
00:43:08.040
policy. We want to be able to impose these because we're in a climate emergency, direct copy from
00:43:14.760
COVID. So yes, they are aware of it, Ezra, and they are trying to go about it. And we also had the horror
00:43:21.480
of during this conference, CNN Travel posted an article basically saying that travel is coming to an end,
00:43:30.040
we got to stop tourism, and we need, quote, carbon passports. Not making that up carbon passports
00:43:37.080
in order to limit people's travel. And at the same summit, Ezra, they had people, I went to the
00:43:43.320
fashion. Yeah, I'm the official Rebel TV fashion correspondent now. They had red carpets, they had
00:43:48.600
multiple sustainable clothing events. I interviewed exclusive interview with the fashion maven there
00:43:54.520
asking about this C40s report about limiting people by 2030 to three new items of clothing
00:43:59.960
per person per year. This was, of course, funded by Mayor Bloomberg, by Ikea, by Google. And the
00:44:07.080
answer that the UN representatives gave was, well, it depends. If you get basically cockroach or some
00:44:13.400
kind of organic hemp clothing, you can get more than three items a year. But if you're getting any
00:44:18.200
synthetic fabric, you're not going to be allowed. They know that they are coming and they are doubling down
00:44:23.720
on these restrictions. They're calling daily, they were calling for a phase out of all fossil fuel
00:44:29.880
fuels globally. So they know the window's closing and they know there's blowback and they're doubling
00:44:35.400
down using the COVID model. You know, I'm glad you were there doing these interviews and we'll have
00:44:39.560
to keep an eye peeled for when you publish those and we'll perhaps embed them on our website.
00:44:44.920
As you know, Mark, as we've seen you there, we have attended a great number of these global warming
00:44:50.120
conferences over the years. However, the UN, at the request of the Liberal government, has banned
00:44:55.720
Rebel News from being formally accredited. Now, that doesn't stop us. We go and report from the
00:45:02.200
outside. We report from the alternative events. That's our style. We're sort of guerrilla citizen
00:45:07.800
journalists like we did with Albert Bourla at the World Economic Forum. Trouble is, you can do that in
00:45:13.160
Switzerland. That's where we got Albert Bourla, because Switzerland is a free country and the police are
00:45:18.360
very respectful of civil liberties. However, this year in Dubai, last year in Egypt, next year in
00:45:25.240
Azerbaijan, those are partly free countries. Now, you and I just praised United Arab Emirates at
00:45:31.640
great length, but the kind of guerrilla journalism that we do is actually not permitted in the United
00:45:38.200
Arab Emirates. And so this is the second year in a row we could not attend because we would be
00:45:45.720
arrested. And I don't think Azerbaijan, I haven't looked into it closely, I don't think Azerbaijan is
00:45:50.840
is a free country by any stretch. So I just want to explain to our viewers why we're not there,
00:45:56.760
because we would be arrested and we were told in Egypt we would be jailed. And I certainly didn't
00:46:02.040
want to put our journalists in that position. I will have more to say on the credentials issue later
00:46:09.320
this year when we seek legal remedy. Anyway, I just wanted to explain to our viewers why we ourselves
00:46:14.600
were not there. It's because we need the accreditation to exist in those countries,
00:46:19.640
whereas we don't need that accreditation to be in free countries where we've been recently.
00:46:24.600
Hey, last question for you, Mark, and thanks for letting me just explain myself.
00:46:29.720
In the past, there have been good guys or sort of good guys at these conferences. When Donald Trump was
00:46:35.080
president, the United States took a very different approach when Stephen Harper was prime minister.
00:46:40.840
Is there any world leader or any delegation that's speaking truth to power? I don't know what
00:46:48.120
Hungary's delegation says. I can guess based on the, you know, Hungary first orientation of Viktor Orban,
00:46:56.040
is there any country that was standing up for its citizens, for free use of energy,
00:47:02.680
for common sense and science? Are there any good guys here?
00:47:06.920
Well, the closest good guy, and again, kind of ironic, is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is being
00:47:12.760
vilified, led in a New York Times article, for trying to block a global deal to end fossil fuel.
00:47:19.000
So they're doing it, they're not necessarily doing it out loud and pumping their chest,
00:47:23.320
but they're inside essentially trying to torpedo all of this utter virtue-signaling nonsense with real
00:47:29.320
effects. So I hate to say it, but kudos goes to Saudi Arabia right now, which we're going to end up
00:47:34.360
all being dependent on our oil because they're the only ones who won't be shutting down due to the
00:47:39.800
Isn't that ironic? Well, listen, Mark, it's great to catch up with you. I'm glad you're back safe and
00:47:43.000
sound. And hopefully next year, we will be there in Azerbaijan with you. We just need that credentialing
00:47:50.040
that Trudeau has been personally blocking. All right, folks, stay with us. More ahead.
00:48:04.680
Boy, the CBC, eh? I mean, they're just acting like this is their final battle. I mean,
00:48:10.360
they have an atrocious CEO who... Did you see this clip the other day? They announced 600 layoffs right
00:48:16.760
before Christmas, which is very nice of them. And the president refuses to say she won't give
00:48:20.760
herself a bonus. And I see in La Presse today that she just flew off on a junket to Australia.
00:48:26.200
She just fired 600 people. And then she went on a junket to Australia. Just look at this clip
00:48:31.400
the other day with Adrian Arsenault. Just curious about something. I'm going to
00:48:34.840
presume no bonuses this year. I mean, the Canadian taxpayer federation said a freedom of information
00:48:39.880
request showed 16 million were paid in bonuses in 2022. Can we establish that that is
00:48:45.560
not happening this year? It's too early to say where we are for this year. We'll be looking at
00:48:51.800
that like we do all our line items in the coming months. So there's a chance bonuses could still
00:48:58.200
happen at a time when jobs are being cut? Again, I'm not going to comment on something that hasn't
00:49:03.640
been discussed at this point, so. Yeah, the CBC, they're so gross. They know they're in deep trouble.
00:49:09.160
Their own staff hate them, by the way. So they know their only chance is to have Trudeau reelected. So
00:49:14.360
they're going to do anything they can. Their main enemy, of course, is Pierre Polyev. He's on the
00:49:18.120
ballot. But Polyev's main opportunity is social media and especially through Twitter. That's why
00:49:23.240
they're trying to demonize Twitter. Anyways, here's a couple of letters to the editor from my interview
00:49:29.160
with Sheila. SuperluckyTA says, I have great respect for Danielle Smith. She is an honest person
00:49:35.800
who cares about the normal development of Canada, not just Alberta. Well, I think you're right. I think
00:49:41.000
she is pro-Canada, but her job is to be pro-Alberta, even if that puts her at odds with other provinces,
00:49:48.760
which it generally does not, or with the federal government, which it often does. And this is by
00:49:52.920
nature. If you've ever looked at the Constitution Act, which used to be called the British North
00:49:58.680
America Act in 1867, the law that basically set up Canada, Section 91 and Section 92, not to get too
00:50:07.560
technical, outlined the different powers that the feds had and that the provinces had. So for example,
00:50:13.880
under Section 91, those are the federal powers. That would be like the criminal law.
00:50:18.120
So that's why we have one criminal code for the entire country, not a different one province by
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province. In the United States, that's a little bit different. Obviously, currency, international
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matters like telecommunications, for example, and pipelines and railways. On the provincial side,
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you have more local affairs like hospitals and schools. Anyway, I don't mean to get too technical
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there. My only point is that by design, the powers of the government are split up. So by nature,
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you're going to see the feds in the province clashing over who has the authority to do certain
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things, the environment being a great example. Is that a federal jurisdiction? Is it a provincial
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matter? So it is normal for a premier to fight against the feds. And that doesn't mean they're
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unpatriotic. In fact, it might mean they're being very patriotic and very loyal to the Constitution.
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Don't mind me for a little trip down BNA Act lane. It's now called the Constitution Act of 1867.
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Next letter, on my interview with Sheila regarding Elon Musk, Sean DeLapp 8587 says,
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Elon Musk reinstating Alex Jones to Twitter is the best thing that he's ever done.
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I think that might be overstating it. I'm glad of it because, you know, I don't know if I ever told
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you this story. We were briefly assigned a manager, you know, minder, babysitter by YouTube who allegedly was
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going to help us. She did not help us at all. But she was like a human liaison with YouTube,
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so we didn't just have to fill out forms online. And I asked her once if there was ever a path back
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for someone once they were banned from YouTube. Like, is it a life sentence? Or if someone did something
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wrong or dumb or neither wrong nor dumb, but just against YouTube's weird rules, could they ever come
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back? Was there parole or probation or second chance? Was there redemption? And the answer was no.
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The answer was no, absolutely not. And I do think that's the only time in history
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that liberals or leftists believed in a life sentence for anything.
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Because they know the people they're banning are the people they actually hate,
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conservatives, skeptics, non-conformists, populists, people like Alex Jones.
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So it is wonderful to see him reinstated, our old friend and alumnus Tommy Robinson reinstated.
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And I think it's good. Now, you say it's the smartest thing Elon Musk ever did.
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I'd have to ask you by what measure, because I bet you that that will end up costing
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Musk tens of millions of dollars in ads being pulled by Democrat-oriented ad agencies,
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being pressured by agitating advocates like Jonathan Montpetit of the CBC. So it probably
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felt pretty good for Elon Musk to do it, but it'll hurt him in the pocket. But good news
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is he's the world's richest man. And as you heard him say the other day, he just doesn't care
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if advertisers are trying to blackmail him. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night,