EZRA LEVANT ｜ We beat Justin Trudeau in court today!
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We beat Justin Trudeau in federal court yesterday, and we beat him again today. I want to tell you all about it. It's on today's podcast, too! Subscribe to our new video version of the podcast, "Rebel News Plus," where you get access to all the latest news and views from the Rebel News Network. It's 8 bucks a month, plus you get a 20% discount when you subscribe.
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Hello, my friends. What an incredible 48 hours it's been.
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We beat Justin Trudeau in federal court yesterday, and then we beat him again today.
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I want to tell you all about it. It's on today's podcast.
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I want to invite you to get the video version of the podcast, too.
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We call it Rebel News Plus. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com.
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We don't take any money from Justin Trudeau, and I think that's why he doesn't like us.
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If Trudeau had his way, there'd be only two kinds of journalists in Canada.
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Those who are paid by the government and those who are banned by the government.
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If I had to choose between those two, I know which side I'd be on.
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Tonight, we beat Trudeau in court today. I'll have all the details.
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It's September 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Yesterday, we had a three-hour emergency trial, a hearing at the Federal Court of Canada.
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It was our application to get the court to order Justin Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission to let in our Rebel News reporters.
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You might recall that last year, Kian Bextie and David Menzies applied to go.
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We went to the federal court in 2019, and we won.
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I thought, well, let's do it again, but not just with two reporters.
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So we sent 11, which I think weighs about a ton.
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And as you might guess, they were all rejected by Trudeau's debate commission.
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But they did it different this time, because last time, the Federal Court of Canada said this was outrageous.
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So in the last two years, this debates commission has obviously taken that to heart.
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And they thought, well, we will be so rigorous, there's no way a judge will let us, force us to take in the rebels.
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So instead of having a two-line email saying, sorry, guys, you can't come with really no explanation,
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they sent us like 10-page, deeply researched lawyer's letters for every one of our applicants.
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Instead of having secret rules, they published their outrageous rules right online.
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They clearly have spent the last two years thinking, how can we stop rebel news?
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In fact, we were the only media outlet referred to by name in the application process.
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You know, the Americans have a concept of bill of attainder.
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A bill of attainder is when you pass a law targeting one guy.
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Like, let's say you wanted to target Bill Gates and take all his money.
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That's really what Trudeau's Debate Commission did to us.
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They had this whole system designed just to stop us.
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They did all sorts of opposition research, digging up old things that all our reporters
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might have written about or tweeted about in the past.
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Another Justice Department lawyer was in Toronto.
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There were about 2,000 people watching the hearing on Zoom.
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I don't know, but I think that's got to be one of the largest watched, most watched court
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cases in Canadian history, other than the Supreme Court cases, which are televised.
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And I had a good feeling about it because the judge was asking skeptical questions of the
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And frankly, I think the government talked too long.
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I understand that they filed 2,000 pages of submissions to the judge the night before.
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And I know that because the judge, the very first thing she said when the trial was on
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was, why did you send me 2,000 pages to read last night?
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There's no way I could have humanly accomplished that.
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I think the judge was sort of upset with Trudeau's lawyers from the very beginning and it went
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Anyways, the trial went three hours and the judge said, I'll let you know the results tomorrow.
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So I went to bed last night with a good feeling, but I didn't want to get my hopes too high.
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In fact, I sort of drafted two emails, one if we won, one if we lost.
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But this morning we got the news and here it is.
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See for yourself, the ruling from the federal court.
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Now she didn't get into her deep reasons because she just wanted it quick.
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She ordered them to accredit all 11 of our journalists in the manner that all other journalists
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Now, because of the COVID rules, some journalists are in person.
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Alexa LaVoie will be our journalist going in in person.
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And what made it feel so great is knowing that Trudeau spent, what, a million and a half
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dollars, seven lawyers, two years scheming for that day.
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And I love the fact that the judge was Newfoundland.
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I know it shouldn't matter, but I really like that, that a judge who probably is considered
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sort of an outsider, you know, Newfoundland, as opposed to being in the center of the country
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I love the fact that a Newfoundland judge struck down, you know, Ottawa Trudeau and his
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I have to tell you, that made me feel pretty good.
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But, uh, my question is how come this keeps happening?
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And by the way, the actual chief commissioner of the debates commission, his name is David
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He was our former governor general who had an illustrious career as a professor, a scholar,
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And now he's running this ragtag operation as an errand boy for Trudeau.
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He's presided over Trudeau's little scheme twice.
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And, and he's, why is he allowing his reputation of a dignified, successful, scholarly man to
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be sullied like this in, in the sunset of his life?
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I looked at the debates commission and my old friend, Deborah Gray is on it.
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Remember the very first reform party MP from Alberta.
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They mocked her, they marginalized her, they taunted her, they called her an outsider.
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And now she's part of Trudeau's debates commission doing the same thing to us.
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I think Deborah Gray and David Johnston should resign and disavow the disgrace of the commission.
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And yesterday, the lawyer for Trudeau said, we can accredit these people right up until
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Well, today they suddenly sprung a new one on us.
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They sent us an email just before noon Eastern time saying, oh, by the way, you have to either
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Oh, they just sort of made that up out of the blue.
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Well, Alexa Lavoie, our in-person point person on this, got a rapid antigen test, shows negative.
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She sent it in and they said, no, we don't accept that.
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You need to take one of those fancy PCR tests that takes 24 to 48 hours to get back.
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You have to take a test that will get the results after the debate is over.
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Our lawyer called up the judge, gave notice to the other side, and they had a case management
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And believe it or not, Alexa managed to get a PCR test that was negative in like an hour.
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But only when we went back to the judge, disturbed the judge who had already issued her ruling.
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Only then did Trudeau's lawyers accept Alexa's rapid PCR test.
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Could you imagine these extreme lengths they went to?
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I would call that tantamount to contempt of court.
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You're ordered to accept rebel journalists and you keep coming up with new excuses and
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And I give thanks to our lawyer, Chad Williamson, who was on the file.
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Chad also asked if the debate commission would even call on our questioners.
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Look, Rosemary Barton, who is a Trudeau fangirl, it's just awful.
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You know, here she is taking selfies with Trudeau.
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And remember, she was the one who sued the Conservative Party of Canada in court.
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All the themes of this debate today are lefty themes.
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I know there's nothing in there about Trudeau's foreign policy disasters, whether it's China
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and the two Michaels who are now in jail there over a thousand days or Afghanistan.
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Trudeau called the election the day Kabul fell and he's abandoned Canadians over there.
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It's going to be a junk debate, which is why it's so important to our reporters and them.
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And I thank you, our viewers, for sponsoring us through your crowdfunding.
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Where were some of the civil liberties groups, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, PEN Canada, Amnesty International?
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Where are all the so-called journalists and civil liberties groups?
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Well, how about just other working journalists?
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Are you telling me that if Stephen Harper had banned 11 journalists who were called liberals,
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that that wouldn't have been the trial of the century if Harper had banned it?
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Well, Trudeau's paying all these other journalists.
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I should tell you, the debate is incredible because all the party leaders who are involved
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in the debate tonight, O'Toole, Jagmeet Singh, the Bloc leader, Blanchet, Annamie Paul of
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the Greens, they didn't say a word about us being kept out.
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They're excited about the fact that Maxime Bernier is kept out, even though Bernier has
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higher support in the polls than Annamie Paul of the Greens or than the Bloc Québécois.
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Yeah, don't for a minute think that Aaron O'Toole or the other major party leaders believe
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They didn't in the case of Maxime Bernier and they didn't in the case of Rebel News.
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And instead of having a guest tonight, I'm going to invite you to tune in to our 11 reporters.
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Our other 10 reporters will be on the phone system for accredited journalists.
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Now, you'll have to count with me and watch with me to see if our reporters are even allowed
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Trudeau's lawyer made us a promise, but a Trudeau promise and 35 cents will buy you a pay phone
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I want to thank you for helping us crowdfund this lawsuit.
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By the way, if you want to see the 2000 pages that Trudeau's lawyer dumped on the lap of
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this judge the night before the trial, you can actually find them on our website, letusreport.com.
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But the government, Trudeau certainly loved, I mean, imagine the cost of filing 2000 pages.
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Like I say, Trudeau spent a million and a half dollars trying to censor us.
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I would like to say thanks to Candace Malcolm of the Independent Press Gallery who stood up
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But I guess we weren't alone because we had you on our side.
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I'm going to say goodbye now, but I'm going to invite you to tune in for our live stream
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of the debate and hopefully of our journalists asking great questions.