Rebel News Podcast - June 18, 2019


Is the CBC taking secret payments to give out special favours？


Episode Stats

Length

36 minutes

Words per Minute

164.54051

Word Count

6,075

Sentence Count

360

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

A Canadian chef who invented a lobster bisque recipe. The BBC gets a quarter of a billion pounds from the EU. And the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act. Is the CBC taking secret payments in return for special favours?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels. Today, my show is about lobster bisque.
00:00:03.800 Sounds delish, but this one will leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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00:00:22.800 I want to show you this chef who invented a lobster bisque recipe.
00:00:26.140 I want to show you him on a CBC program.
00:00:28.180 That's important for the story.
00:00:30.420 And you get the video version with the premium subscription.
00:00:33.880 That's at the rebel.media slash shows.
00:00:35.460 Okay, here's the podcast.
00:00:37.660 You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast.
00:00:41.020 Tonight, is the CBC taking secret payments in return for special favors?
00:00:46.200 It's June 17th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:50.980 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:54.560 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:58.900 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.
00:01:04.760 I saw a strange story out of the UK the other day about their BBC state broadcaster.
00:01:14.860 Believe it or not, they're actually worse than our CBC in terms of their bias.
00:01:19.520 Here's the story I saw.
00:01:21.060 It's in the Daily Telegraph.
00:01:23.000 BBC admits receiving millions in grants from European Union and councils.
00:01:30.200 I'll read a little bit.
00:01:30.760 The BBC received millions of pounds from the European Union and local authorities over the past four years.
00:01:35.800 The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
00:01:38.420 Here's some more.
00:01:39.100 Look at these details.
00:01:40.740 The news prompted MPs to raise questions about the BBC's impartiality when its journalists report on events in the EU.
00:01:48.460 The BBC admitted in a letter to a Tory MP that it has received nearly £3 million in grant money from the European Union over the past four years.
00:01:57.200 Other grants, totaling £16 million, came from local authorities across the UK.
00:02:03.680 The money was spent on research and development projects.
00:02:06.000 The broadcaster also disclosed that its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, borrowed over £141 million from the European Investment Bank since 2003.
00:02:18.500 Of that figure, £30 million is still due to be repaid by the end of May this year.
00:02:22.480 These figures are disclosed in the commercial arm's annual report,
00:02:25.900 while the BBC's annual report does not make clear where the grant money comes from.
00:02:29.720 Now, holy cow, I did not know that the BBC borrowed £141 million.
00:02:37.480 That's almost a quarter of a billion dollars in Canadian money.
00:02:40.600 Now, of course, I didn't know this. How would I know that?
00:02:42.760 I'm a Canadian.
00:02:43.500 But it looks like most Brits didn't know it either, because it looks like the BBC tried to hide it.
00:02:48.700 But not completely, of course, but as you can see, it was tucked away in an obscure financial document,
00:02:53.920 not the BBC's main disclosure.
00:02:55.180 And the Telegraph story goes on a fair bit, but they make the obvious point.
00:02:58.340 If you borrow a quarter of a billion dollars, pounds, dollars, from the European Union,
00:03:04.900 and the number one political story in the UK is about the European Union,
00:03:09.320 and politicians who want to leave it in a Brexit, it's fair to say that you're compromised.
00:03:15.340 You've got a quarter of a billion reasons to like the EU.
00:03:18.840 And even if you're not explicitly running favours for the people who have bailed you out year after year,
00:03:24.140 the people who are paying your salary, of course it's going to be subconscious.
00:03:27.860 It's part of your total package of knowledge and feelings about anything.
00:03:33.020 The EU likes you.
00:03:34.960 They like you so much they're lending you a quarter bill.
00:03:37.460 They like you so much they're making everything in your life possible.
00:03:40.540 Your paycheck, your company, your office, a career that lets you chase your political dreams.
00:03:46.100 Yeah, that's a bribe, people.
00:03:48.600 There's a reason why, for example, we require politicians to register any outside interests,
00:03:53.340 gifts, or businesses, and we limit those, because who pays the piper calls the tune.
00:03:57.780 It's why Justin Trudeau was convicted of four counts of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act
00:04:02.360 when he took a secret $200,000 vacation on Billionaire's Island in the Bahamas and then lied about it.
00:04:08.900 We need to know who's paying the prime minister on the lowdown,
00:04:11.640 because, as it happens, the billionaire in question, the Aga Khan,
00:04:14.880 he applies for massive grants every year from the Canadian government.
00:04:19.040 The public needs to know about secret deals like that.
00:04:21.780 So I saw that incredible news.
00:04:24.820 The BBC took a quarter billion dollars in credit from the European Union,
00:04:28.360 and a whole bunch of things suddenly made sense to me,
00:04:31.560 such as why the BBC is so hostile to Brexit,
00:04:34.200 why they are so bitterly opposed to Nigel Farage of the Brexit Party,
00:04:37.520 why they stack all of their TV panels in favor of the EU.
00:04:40.800 I mean, I'll be honest, if you gave me a quarter of a billion dollars,
00:04:44.040 I might be persuaded to say those things, too.
00:04:46.660 And so I immediately thought, does our CBC in Canada do the same thing?
00:04:52.120 And how would we ever know?
00:04:56.460 They routinely black out access to information requests.
00:04:59.260 They outright refuse to divulge anything touching on their editorial work,
00:05:02.780 as if that's some sort of state secret or something.
00:05:05.240 For example, they refuse to even just divulge the salaries
00:05:08.080 of all the government journalists who work there.
00:05:10.180 They know Canadians would be appalled.
00:05:12.460 Back when Jian Ghomeshi, when that whole scandal broke,
00:05:15.260 and it came to light that the CBC had been actively protecting Ghomeshi,
00:05:19.300 and they'd actually set up a war room of senior managers
00:05:21.760 with the express purpose of discrediting Ghomeshi's many accusers,
00:05:26.680 we made a request to find out how many other sexual predators were at the CBC,
00:05:30.800 how many settlements of sexual misconduct for their staff.
00:05:33.640 Countless pages all blacked out.
00:05:37.740 If Harvey Weinstein had worked at the CBC,
00:05:39.680 he'd simply have used taxpayers' money to fight off his accusers,
00:05:42.600 and the whole thing would have been covered up, kept a secret.
00:05:46.000 Now, we know about some of the secret deals that go on at the CBC.
00:05:50.940 We know that David Suzuki, obviously,
00:05:53.260 has turned his access to the CBC's megaphone
00:05:56.000 into a multi-million dollar a year machine,
00:05:58.760 using the state broadcaster to promote his own businesses,
00:06:02.580 including his multi-million dollars a year foundation.
00:06:05.220 Suzuki's foundation is literally a registered lobbyist,
00:06:09.680 taking foreign funds to lobby the Canadian government,
00:06:12.620 while Suzuki uses his platform in the Canadian government.
00:06:15.740 So, just like Trudeau, he's in a blazing conflict of interest,
00:06:19.480 but like I say, he's at the CBC.
00:06:21.360 So, like Jian Ghomeshi did for so many years,
00:06:23.400 he's getting away with it.
00:06:24.380 By the way, Suzuki got away with being a creepy old lech, too,
00:06:28.580 a little bit like Jian Ghomeshi, as far as I know,
00:06:31.100 and didn't punch anybody.
00:06:32.260 But, as you know, when he would do speaking engagements,
00:06:35.020 he would have what's called a rider on the contract,
00:06:37.040 all these little rules.
00:06:38.160 So, he would call his female,
00:06:39.980 get his female assistant to call in advance
00:06:42.260 and lay down the rules.
00:06:43.680 And in the case that I discovered
00:06:45.640 of a junior college in Quebec,
00:06:47.980 I'm talking teenage girls,
00:06:49.540 David Suzuki had this really pervy demand
00:06:51.720 that all his bodyguards be teenage girls.
00:06:55.900 I swear to God, he had a female assistant.
00:06:58.580 And that's the move that Harvey Weinstein did.
00:07:01.080 He had his female assistant set up his encounters.
00:07:04.880 David Suzuki had a female assistant contact the school
00:07:07.800 and demand only girl bodyguards.
00:07:10.920 And so gross, that school complied
00:07:14.400 because, like Jian Ghomeshi,
00:07:15.780 no one challenges a creepy CBC perv.
00:07:18.420 The school literally told the girls what to wear.
00:07:22.280 They literally inspected how they were dressed that day.
00:07:26.060 And they had to impress the dirty old man himself.
00:07:29.020 And then after the speech, I swear to God,
00:07:31.180 it's right there in the records of the school,
00:07:33.700 the girls were invited to go up to the penthouse
00:07:36.500 to spend some quality time with the great man
00:07:39.080 after it's all over.
00:07:40.500 Everything I've just shown you
00:07:41.740 is from access to information documents
00:07:43.240 to that Quebec school, John Abbott College.
00:07:45.800 The CBC would never show you
00:07:48.340 all of Suzuki's pervy demands.
00:07:51.120 It's not just insiders like Jian Ghomeshi and Suzuki
00:07:53.920 who rung out the CBC for their private game.
00:07:56.800 Word gets out that if you're in the Canadian government
00:07:59.100 and you want positive coverage,
00:08:01.240 take your money and divert it to the CBC
00:08:03.920 and they'll basically read out whatever script you hand them.
00:08:06.520 But they'll keep it a secret from viewers
00:08:08.300 as in they're not going to call it an ad.
00:08:11.460 They'll actually accept cash to do the kind of news
00:08:14.140 that you pay for, but they won't label it an ad.
00:08:17.640 Look at this.
00:08:18.340 This is in a story in McLean's magazine a few years back
00:08:20.900 showing that a government agency
00:08:22.600 literally paid cash to the CBC and got in return,
00:08:26.140 they got news segments on the nightly news,
00:08:29.020 not ads, news.
00:08:30.360 Let me read a few lines from the contract
00:08:32.040 that the CBC signed with the government.
00:08:33.860 This is from McLean's.
00:08:34.600 It is CBC's intention, but not guarantee,
00:08:38.700 to produce a documentary segment for The National,
00:08:42.100 an online component on cbc.ca,
00:08:44.720 segments, plural, for nightly news on CBC.
00:08:48.380 Parks Canada shall pay to CBC
00:08:50.160 a cash contribution of $65,000.
00:08:53.280 Now, Parks Canada isn't the most partisan
00:08:55.940 of government agencies, but it's still political.
00:08:57.940 I mean, these days, it's run by Catherine McKenna,
00:09:00.980 one of the most extreme partisan in Trudeau's government,
00:09:03.640 and they literally paid cash
00:09:05.240 to order up nightly news coverage,
00:09:07.460 called news, not called ads.
00:09:08.800 And how did they know they could do that?
00:09:10.600 I mean, how did word get around?
00:09:12.100 It would be like going up to a cop and saying,
00:09:13.820 hey, can I pay you?
00:09:14.860 You would never do that unless you knew in advance
00:09:17.100 you wouldn't be arrested for that.
00:09:19.560 How did they know they could do that?
00:09:20.940 What other government agencies have paid
00:09:22.660 for positive news that we don't know about?
00:09:24.860 Does the finance minister do that?
00:09:26.720 Does the defense minister, does the immigration?
00:09:28.640 How often does this happen?
00:09:31.520 And by the way, is it just Canadians
00:09:32.840 or like that BBC story,
00:09:34.860 does our CBC take foreign money too?
00:09:37.360 Because it sure looks like it.
00:09:39.220 It sure looks like the CBC's coverage
00:09:40.780 of the oil sands could have been written
00:09:43.080 by any one of the OPEC countries,
00:09:46.760 bashing our Canadian oil sands at every term
00:09:50.100 because we're competitors to them,
00:09:51.660 bashing our pipelines,
00:09:52.680 but not saying a word against Saudi Arabia
00:09:54.680 or Iran or Venezuela
00:09:55.620 or any conflict oil countries in OPEC.
00:09:57.880 Isn't that funny?
00:09:58.620 I wonder if we'll ever know.
00:10:01.060 We know that liberal affiliated companies
00:10:03.780 like Bombardier and SNC-Leveland
00:10:06.120 routinely pay bribes secretly.
00:10:09.060 The CBC is weird that it actually made up a contract
00:10:11.740 to be bribed to give coverage.
00:10:14.860 Do you think they've ever taken cash on the side
00:10:17.280 like SNC-Leveland or Bombardier pays?
00:10:20.400 Do you think we'd ever find out?
00:10:22.060 I started poking around on the CBC's website
00:10:24.000 and I see that they're still selling access.
00:10:26.360 They actually advertise that they're doing this
00:10:29.180 if you look hard enough.
00:10:30.220 Let me give you a really trite example.
00:10:31.900 I just found this poking around today.
00:10:33.820 It's a show a little while back on the CBC television
00:10:36.680 called Recipe to Riches.
00:10:38.880 So it is a game show for amateur chefs or whatever
00:10:42.480 and the CBC ran this everywhere.
00:10:44.480 They ran the game show itself
00:10:45.460 and then they put outtakes of that game show elsewhere
00:10:48.520 into the CBC.
00:10:49.880 Like here it is on a CBC daytime talk show
00:10:52.980 a few years back called Steve and Chris.
00:10:54.840 I'll just show you the first minute.
00:10:55.920 So they had the show
00:10:57.460 and then they turned it into news on this other show.
00:11:02.220 Well, Christopher and I were glued
00:11:03.480 to Recipe to Riches last night.
00:11:04.860 Where'd we, Christopher?
00:11:05.320 Oh, I was.
00:11:06.520 It's a new show right here on CBC, guys.
00:11:08.160 I know you guys loved it.
00:11:09.320 Tell me, oh, hello.
00:11:10.540 Absolutely, right?
00:11:11.180 This show is rocking my world.
00:11:12.660 Totally.
00:11:13.380 Well, the episode was all about entrees last night
00:11:15.680 and it came down to two contestants.
00:11:17.240 There's Winslow and Melissa.
00:11:18.660 I was so stressed out.
00:11:20.260 Stressed.
00:11:20.780 Take a look, guys.
00:11:21.480 Have you reached a decision?
00:11:25.500 I think we have.
00:11:26.860 I think we have.
00:11:31.760 Winslow, Melissa, one of you will be crowned the winner.
00:11:37.740 The other will be going home.
00:11:41.000 Arlene.
00:11:42.180 Melissa, you are an inspiring competitor.
00:11:45.480 But, Winslow, you are the winner of this week's Recipe to Riches.
00:11:51.420 Everyone, please welcome last night's winner, Winslow Taylor.
00:12:03.080 Hello, everyone, my friends.
00:12:04.500 How are you, Winslow?
00:12:05.320 Welcome.
00:12:06.600 Get over here.
00:12:07.300 Come on.
00:12:07.720 Yeah, you wouldn't know it, but that whole thing was bought and paid for.
00:12:13.280 That whole thing, it wasn't real.
00:12:14.820 I mean, it was fake.
00:12:16.700 Fake's not the right word.
00:12:17.740 It was bought and paid for by Loblaws, but it looked like a show, right?
00:12:22.840 Loblaws.
00:12:23.320 You know who I'm talking about.
00:12:24.200 That crooked, liberal-connected company that got $12 million in free fridges from Catherine McKenna.
00:12:30.200 Loblaws.
00:12:31.140 You know, the crooks.
00:12:32.560 The crooked, liberal company that illegally engaged in price-fixing of bread for more than a dozen years,
00:12:40.420 colluding with other retailers to artificially jack up the price of bread.
00:12:45.040 Literally stealing money, stealing food from the mouths of the poor.
00:12:50.180 Obviously, they can spot a fellow crook when they see one, so like Parks Canada, they cut a deal with the CBC.
00:12:58.660 Now, we don't know how much Loblaws paid the CBC, and we don't know for what.
00:13:03.720 For the show, of course.
00:13:05.780 Did they also pay to push that show onto other shows in the CBC and pretend that it was news?
00:13:10.300 Probably.
00:13:12.060 Here's a copy of the CBC release.
00:13:14.680 This is what people like that friendly chef there from Jamaica had to sign.
00:13:18.700 It's a very long document.
00:13:20.380 I'm not sure how many contestants would have read the whole thing word for word.
00:13:24.020 It's very lawyerly.
00:13:25.060 I read the whole thing.
00:13:25.980 Let me show you a couple parts of this agreement.
00:13:27.800 This is the CBC document.
00:13:30.180 This is Section 12 here.
00:13:31.460 I understand that in addition to the above, the participant's release form will require me to grant the following rights to the producer,
00:13:40.460 which rights may be licensed to Loblaws and its licensees, assignees, parent-affiliated and subsidiary companies,
00:13:47.520 and authorized representatives, and which will require me to agree to certain conditions, obligations, and limitations,
00:13:53.840 on my ability to use my recipe, other recipes, and my name, image, personality, and likeness.
00:14:00.780 As in, if you go on the CBC show, if the CBC lures you onto the show with the promise of fame, guess what?
00:14:09.820 You just sold all your rights to Loblaws for everything.
00:14:13.400 Oh, and they get it for free from you.
00:14:15.940 Let me read.
00:14:16.960 For greater certainty, during such 18-month exclusive period, I will agree not to license, assign, or grant any right, title, or interest in the recipe,
00:14:26.000 or a modified version to a Loblaws competitor, as defined by producer in its sole discretion,
00:14:31.000 such definition to be said in the participant release form,
00:14:33.900 whether in association with my name, image, or likeness, or otherwise.
00:14:36.800 I also agree to restrictions on my ability to appear on television and other entertainment media,
00:14:42.320 and to restrictions on my right to sell license under grant rights to any other recipes within the same category to a Loblaws competitor.
00:14:50.120 So, Loblaws takes your recipe, gets to sell it, keeps the profits from it,
00:14:56.880 they get to use you and your photo, and you can't, not only do you not get paid,
00:15:02.080 you can't do anything for 18 months after the show.
00:15:05.940 So, you got this fame for being on the CBC?
00:15:08.260 Sucker!
00:15:08.980 You can't even sell it on TV.
00:15:10.560 See, Loblaws gets it for free.
00:15:13.180 Let me just read one more.
00:15:14.180 Here's what they sign.
00:15:15.560 I acknowledge that no fees, royalties, residuals, or other consideration will be payable to me
00:15:21.420 in respect of any broadcast, subsequent rebroadcast, or retransmission,
00:15:25.700 or any other use by the producer, or any assignees or licensees of the series, the materials,
00:15:30.960 or my likeness, or any part thereof, in any manner, or media now known or hereafter invented.
00:15:35.880 So, yeah, I know, you're shocked, right?
00:15:38.620 This multi-billion dollar company that steals bread money from the mouth of the poor.
00:15:46.200 That's, well, guess what?
00:15:47.100 They're also stealing recipes from up-and-coming chefs with no compensation.
00:15:51.720 That recipe and any others.
00:15:53.420 And they're not allowed to go on TV.
00:15:56.160 Yeah, I'm shocked that a company that knows how to rig the rules to get what they want from the liberals,
00:16:00.760 free fridges, get out of jail free for price fixing.
00:16:03.940 I mean, I'm shocked that they know how to rig the rules to get what they want from the CBC.
00:16:07.500 But what exactly did Loblaws want from the CBC?
00:16:10.460 I mean, slow down just for a second.
00:16:13.100 Did Loblaws really need some recipes?
00:16:17.000 Do you think they're short of recipes?
00:16:19.660 I'm pretty sure Loblaws doesn't need more recipes.
00:16:22.320 They've got thousands of recipes.
00:16:24.440 I'm pretty sure they have all the recipes they need.
00:16:25.740 I'm pretty sure they have their own professional kitchens.
00:16:27.520 I'm pretty sure they sell products from a thousand different food manufacturers,
00:16:31.240 each of whom has represented.
00:16:32.980 I'm pretty sure that's not what was actually for sale here.
00:16:36.940 I mean, yeah, they took it.
00:16:38.040 Of course they're going to take it.
00:16:38.880 They're not dummies.
00:16:40.640 What was really for sale was the CBC itself.
00:16:46.440 How much money did Loblaws give to the CBC?
00:16:48.800 Was it $100,000 for this?
00:16:50.520 Was it a million dollars?
00:16:54.960 I don't know.
00:16:55.720 Was it $10 million?
00:16:56.640 $10 million?
00:16:58.140 And do you think like that secret Parks Canada deal,
00:17:01.280 that it gave Loblaws the right to inject little pro-Loblaws stories into the evening news?
00:17:07.040 Because that's what Parks Canada bought.
00:17:09.440 Into the evening news.
00:17:12.160 Or more to the point,
00:17:14.140 not necessarily pro-Loblaws stories,
00:17:16.460 because that might look weird,
00:17:17.420 but to smother anti-Loblaws stories.
00:17:22.380 Loblaws doesn't need another recipe for lobster bisque.
00:17:27.100 They got one.
00:17:29.000 Loblaws needs a recipe for how to avoid a PR black eye after stealing bread from the poor for more than a decade.
00:17:36.000 Loblaws needs a recipe for how to not look like crooks when they get $12 million in free fridges from Ole Yeller.
00:17:43.360 That's what Loblaws is buying in their secret deals with the CBC.
00:17:49.060 Loblaws is buying fake news from the CBC,
00:17:52.840 just like the EU is buying fake news from the BBC.
00:17:56.360 And the prostitutes at the CBC are more than happy to rent themselves out by the hour.
00:18:05.520 Stay with us for more.
00:18:06.580 Welcome back.
00:18:21.400 Well, if you've been following my show for any amount of time here at The Rebel
00:18:24.780 and for years before that at the Sun News Network,
00:18:27.520 you'll know that I have a tradition on Remembrance Day to do two things.
00:18:31.080 I read Rudyard Kipling's poem about Tommy Atkins,
00:18:35.620 the soldier who is taken for granted by his countrymen,
00:18:38.540 and I lament the fact that you can set your stopwatch that for 24 hours precisely,
00:18:45.140 the media party pretends to care about veterans,
00:18:48.620 and then once that duty's done, they forget about them for the next 364 days.
00:18:56.040 I suppose this year there was an extra day when thinking about veterans
00:19:01.820 and respecting them was in vogue again,
00:19:04.240 namely June 6th, the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord,
00:19:11.940 where the combined Allied armies invaded Normandy,
00:19:15.600 liberating France and the rest of Europe from the Nazi grip
00:19:19.020 as the Red Army marched in from the east.
00:19:22.160 But wouldn't you know it, doing two days of quiet contemplation
00:19:26.800 was too much for some leftists in Canada,
00:19:29.300 and particularly that of the Victoria, the disgraceful Victoria City Council.
00:19:36.220 I think you've heard the news that on D-Day itself,
00:19:41.020 a Vancouver City Councilor named Ben Izzett moved a motion
00:19:44.800 demanding that the city no longer pay for memorial events such as Remembrance Day,
00:19:52.020 and that soldiers or the military itself should.
00:19:57.160 This he timed for D-Day.
00:20:00.120 Well, I have some news, as you may have heard,
00:20:02.720 the national shaming of Ben Izzett, turning him into a pariah.
00:20:07.500 Well, let me read the headline from this story.
00:20:11.120 Counselor sorry for causing offense with motion seeking federal money for military events.
00:20:16.220 Victoria Councilor Ben Izzett has apologized for the unfortunate timing of a motion amendment
00:20:23.160 seeking federal money for policing local military events such as Remembrance Day,
00:20:27.680 but said he's not sorry for bringing it up, whereas the kids say sorry, not sorry.
00:20:32.680 So he's sorry for offending you, as in he's not sorry for what he did.
00:20:37.500 He's sorry that you have such a thin skin.
00:20:40.480 And as he made it clear, he's just sorry for the timing.
00:20:43.420 He didn't mean for it to be on D-Day, but he did mean the motion.
00:20:48.120 One more line before I introduce our guest.
00:20:51.220 The comment he had, listen to this guy.
00:20:54.700 I'm not sorry for standing up for taxpayers.
00:20:58.760 I'm laughing because short weeks earlier,
00:21:01.200 this same counselor along with other counselors voted to give themselves
00:21:06.140 $10,000 worth of taxpayers' money for free meals,
00:21:12.340 because unlike you and me, they can't pack their own lunch to work.
00:21:15.600 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Lee Humphrey,
00:21:19.100 who is the founder of Veterans for the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:21:23.640 Lee, I wish that this were a rare, isolated incident,
00:21:28.980 but I see this sort of thing happening all too often.
00:21:32.320 Sadly, it seems like we've been through a period of time where we have a federal government
00:21:42.280 giving veterans benefits to a cop killer who was never a veteran.
00:21:47.740 We have city council making ridiculous decisions about supporting Remembrance Day events
00:21:55.820 and then timing it with a D-Day celebratory anniversary.
00:22:02.260 We have a federal government that rolls out an Afghan memorial in secret
00:22:09.600 and doesn't allow veterans or the families of the fallen to even know about it or attend.
00:22:16.340 It just seems like we have this dual message in Canada where, as you allude to in your intro,
00:22:23.180 you know, typically once a year, we see Canadians really consider and think long and hard
00:22:31.480 and remember what veterans have done for this country.
00:22:36.100 And it seems incredibly genuine.
00:22:38.040 But, you know, it's so quickly forgotten and we're back to these silly politics
00:22:43.740 and foolish games being played on the backs of veterans for no discernible reason.
00:22:52.000 You know, on D-Day, I remember doing my research for the monologue,
00:22:56.300 the staggering scale of the Canadian commitment to the Second World War,
00:23:01.500 I don't have the stats in front of me, but if I recall,
00:23:04.180 there were more than one million who served in uniform out of a total population at the time
00:23:08.700 of just over 10, 11 million.
00:23:10.860 So that would be like three and a half million Canadians today
00:23:13.880 were going to a war effort.
00:23:16.200 Just unbelievable.
00:23:18.540 A large loss of life, of course.
00:23:21.080 But talk about disproportionate service.
00:23:23.140 Like by the end of the war, depending on what source you look at,
00:23:26.580 we were the third, fourth or fifth largest Navy, Air Force.
00:23:30.040 Like we were in the first rank.
00:23:32.360 And we were there for the First World War, disproportionately.
00:23:36.980 And we were even there in the Boer War.
00:23:38.620 There were Canadians.
00:23:39.960 And many Canadians, and we served in Korea.
00:23:43.480 And many Canadians volunteered to serve in Vietnam, of course, in modern engagements too.
00:23:49.420 Afghanistan was a huge effort.
00:23:50.760 I guess by listing all these things, Lee, I'm saying,
00:23:53.420 I think there really is a Canadian tradition of military service,
00:23:59.040 even if the pop culture does not celebrate it the same way they do in the States.
00:24:04.780 Absolutely.
00:24:05.600 I mean, there's a quiet level of patriotism here.
00:24:08.680 We're not as overt in our patriotism.
00:24:11.120 And, you know, rarely at one of those events am I not thanked for my service
00:24:17.420 while I'm thanking those veterans that came before me.
00:24:21.580 So I do get the sense that, as a whole, Canadians,
00:24:25.920 and even the response to the city council, the Victoria City Council's decision,
00:24:31.700 was overwhelmingly anti-decision, their decision, sorry.
00:24:38.220 And you had a commercial entity, London Drugs,
00:24:40.900 stuffing up saying, you know,
00:24:42.500 if you guys are foolish enough to go forward,
00:24:44.680 but this will fully fund the $15,200 you need for Remembrance Day.
00:24:49.840 So, you know, there was an outpouring of support.
00:24:53.340 Now, this councilman, of course, initially labeled it as the alt-right.
00:24:57.380 And even in his apology, he suggested this was a perversion
00:25:01.640 of their ability to do their jobs as council
00:25:07.020 and that it was a smear campaign of the organized conservative groups.
00:25:12.800 And, you know, so there was no sorrow in his apology.
00:25:17.820 There was no actual apology.
00:25:19.840 But by and large, Canadians rose up
00:25:22.780 between D-Day and their decision to revoke this motion
00:25:28.200 on the 13th of June yesterday.
00:25:32.060 Canadians rose up as a whole, I think, in huge numbers
00:25:35.660 and said, no, this is wrong.
00:25:37.260 Yeah.
00:25:38.240 You know, I think that Canadians love it.
00:25:41.440 I mean, whenever I see even cadets on the street
00:25:45.060 or whenever I see people in uniform,
00:25:46.760 I sort of straighten up and I think, wow, there's someone.
00:25:51.420 The first thought I have is there's someone doing the right thing.
00:25:53.980 And my second is there's someone doing more than me.
00:25:56.920 And I don't know, maybe I'm projecting,
00:25:59.340 but I think a lot of people feel that way.
00:26:01.640 But obviously, there's the Ben Isitz of the world.
00:26:07.140 And I'm not going to get too partisan right now,
00:26:09.660 but I think the federal liberals have taken advantage.
00:26:13.000 Well, I mean, Justin Trudeau himself said
00:26:14.760 that veterans are asking for more than we can give,
00:26:16.980 he said, as he gives money to the likes of Omar Khadr.
00:26:21.380 I don't know.
00:26:22.000 I just would like to think that we love our vets
00:26:25.920 as much as the Americans do.
00:26:26.840 Let me give you a little anecdote.
00:26:28.760 Lee, last time I was down at SeaWorld in the United States,
00:26:32.560 before the big show,
00:26:35.120 every single time they say,
00:26:37.760 would every serving member of the forces or veterans
00:26:41.380 stand up for a ploy?
00:26:42.600 Like, they don't, that wasn't on any special day.
00:26:45.180 Every single show at the big killer whale tank there,
00:26:49.300 they start with a shout out to veterans
00:26:52.000 at so many of their amusement parks,
00:26:54.900 so many restaurants.
00:26:57.520 There's this, if you're a veteran,
00:26:59.380 you get a discount at the very least.
00:27:02.220 Airlines in the United States,
00:27:03.800 I was flying, I think it was United.
00:27:06.480 Veterans in uniform get to board the plane first,
00:27:09.960 no matter what class.
00:27:10.880 So it's just so ubiquitous,
00:27:13.320 this love and respect for veterans.
00:27:15.360 I don't think we have that here in Canada.
00:27:18.100 I think if someone were to start being that way,
00:27:21.140 a lot of people would join the parade.
00:27:24.780 Yeah, you know, it is different.
00:27:27.500 And I do remember in the mid-2000s,
00:27:29.700 being on vacation in Florida with my family,
00:27:33.500 and whether it was SeaWorld,
00:27:35.500 whether it was Disney, Universal Studios, etc.,
00:27:38.800 they all followed that same path, if you will,
00:27:42.720 and did a salute to serving members, veterans, etc.
00:27:47.240 And as I said, the Americans are somewhat more overt
00:27:54.040 in their patriotism and their support.
00:27:56.820 Canadians are quietly proud of their Canadian forces.
00:28:00.300 But if you remember back to the Yellow Ribbon campaign
00:28:03.720 and the Wear Red to Work on Friday's campaign
00:28:06.720 during the Afghan conflict,
00:28:08.980 it was wildly popular,
00:28:10.380 and we saw a huge upswing
00:28:12.080 in the number of civilians
00:28:13.720 attending Remembrance Day services.
00:28:16.100 So, you know,
00:28:17.920 I don't think you'll ever see the rah-rah
00:28:20.820 of the United States
00:28:22.080 as it relates to the military or veterans,
00:28:24.280 but you certainly see a level of support,
00:28:27.940 a subtle level of support,
00:28:29.460 whether it's a yellow ribbon on a car
00:28:31.080 wearing red to work,
00:28:33.020 support the troops'
00:28:35.160 loops on people's wrists,
00:28:37.160 that do say that Canadians,
00:28:41.040 by and large,
00:28:42.800 support veterans,
00:28:44.180 and the Izzets of the world,
00:28:46.540 the Izzets of Canada,
00:28:48.280 are a tiny minority
00:28:49.820 of people that,
00:28:52.500 I think,
00:28:53.220 truly hate the concept
00:28:55.220 of Canadian military history.
00:28:58.700 They want to erase Canadian military history
00:29:01.200 just as they erased
00:29:02.260 Sir John A. MacDonald's statue.
00:29:04.440 Yeah, you know,
00:29:05.080 it's that same town.
00:29:05.900 Yeah, it's that same town council.
00:29:08.880 They're so crazy,
00:29:10.520 which is funny
00:29:11.220 because, of course,
00:29:11.900 the Navy has a strong presence
00:29:14.260 in Victoria
00:29:15.260 and elsewhere on the island,
00:29:16.920 Nanus Bay.
00:29:17.600 I'm not sure if they're still
00:29:18.500 using that as a testing ground.
00:29:20.360 Like,
00:29:20.460 that's where the western coast
00:29:23.140 of our Navy is based.
00:29:24.620 You'd think they would just
00:29:25.560 have more respect
00:29:26.240 from just seeing
00:29:27.320 the activity
00:29:28.540 of their local,
00:29:30.000 you know,
00:29:30.980 city friends and neighbors.
00:29:32.940 Yeah,
00:29:34.280 approximately 40%
00:29:35.340 of the entire
00:29:35.980 Royal Canadian Navy
00:29:37.140 sits just opposite,
00:29:40.320 you know,
00:29:40.680 that little bottom piece
00:29:42.360 of Victoria Island.
00:29:44.140 And even closer to the city,
00:29:46.340 for close to three decades,
00:29:49.000 the 3rd Battalion
00:29:49.980 of the Princess Patricia's
00:29:51.180 Canadian Light Infantry
00:29:52.360 was located
00:29:53.620 at a place called
00:29:54.440 Workpoint Barracks
00:29:55.340 and we used to run
00:29:56.220 the boardwalk
00:29:57.080 almost daily
00:29:58.620 into Victoria
00:30:00.280 and back
00:30:01.100 and we interacted
00:30:02.220 with the citizens
00:30:03.000 and when we came back
00:30:04.260 from Croatia
00:30:05.000 in 1993,
00:30:06.960 veterans
00:30:07.820 and everyday citizens
00:30:09.480 had a lovely
00:30:10.560 welcoming home ceremony
00:30:12.040 for us
00:30:12.740 at the grounds
00:30:14.180 of the parliament.
00:30:14.740 So there's a long
00:30:16.340 military tradition
00:30:17.400 in Victoria City
00:30:19.680 and in that corner
00:30:21.380 of the island
00:30:22.100 that somehow seems,
00:30:25.000 you know,
00:30:25.920 to be forgotten
00:30:26.660 as if they want
00:30:27.780 to pretend
00:30:28.800 that the military
00:30:30.220 and the families
00:30:31.260 of the military
00:30:32.160 don't pump millions
00:30:33.840 of dollars
00:30:34.340 into that city
00:30:35.320 every year.
00:30:36.220 Yeah,
00:30:36.400 well,
00:30:36.500 I mean,
00:30:36.640 the money is one thing,
00:30:37.500 of course,
00:30:37.900 and the activity,
00:30:38.780 but just,
00:30:39.580 you know,
00:30:39.820 friends and neighbors,
00:30:40.640 you see people,
00:30:41.400 they're not strangers,
00:30:42.860 they're not like
00:30:43.300 some fictitious
00:30:44.140 or imaginary hypothetical.
00:30:46.620 You know,
00:30:46.920 there's one thing
00:30:47.780 to be anti-war
00:30:49.120 and you know what?
00:30:50.960 I'd say there's
00:30:51.940 a not small number
00:30:53.160 of soldiers
00:30:53.780 and veterans
00:30:54.340 themselves
00:30:54.820 who are anti-war.
00:30:55.760 In fact,
00:30:56.520 a lot of
00:30:57.580 Remembrance Day
00:30:58.680 poems
00:30:59.540 could be called
00:31:00.580 anti-war
00:31:02.140 but what Ben Isidt
00:31:04.420 did wasn't anti-war,
00:31:05.920 it was anti-soldier
00:31:07.720 and that's the difference.
00:31:09.920 You can be against
00:31:11.340 a war
00:31:11.880 that people have
00:31:12.640 to fight
00:31:13.180 but the people
00:31:14.140 who did fight it
00:31:15.120 and did make
00:31:15.760 a sacrifice,
00:31:16.640 that's a whole
00:31:17.220 different level
00:31:17.980 of gross
00:31:19.080 and I find
00:31:20.300 that troubling.
00:31:21.280 You know,
00:31:21.440 I want to ask you
00:31:21.960 a practical question,
00:31:22.860 and I appreciate
00:31:23.300 you coming on
00:31:23.860 our show so much.
00:31:25.340 I remember
00:31:26.000 a year or so ago,
00:31:27.340 we had trouble
00:31:28.200 giving away,
00:31:29.560 I know this sounds crazy,
00:31:30.500 we raised over 15 grand
00:31:32.020 for veterans
00:31:33.220 because we saw
00:31:33.760 there was a need
00:31:34.420 for a food bank
00:31:35.120 and we were turned down
00:31:36.780 by a number
00:31:37.920 of veterans groups
00:31:38.840 that were instructed
00:31:40.340 by the liberal government
00:31:41.460 not to accept donations
00:31:42.700 from rebel viewers.
00:31:43.620 It wasn't my money,
00:31:44.780 it wasn't hurting
00:31:45.960 my feelings,
00:31:46.960 like I don't know
00:31:47.600 why the liberal defense
00:31:49.540 ministry was instructing
00:31:50.820 all these charities
00:31:51.840 not to take the money,
00:31:52.660 I don't know how
00:31:53.120 that hurt me,
00:31:54.640 it hurt the vets.
00:31:55.820 In the end,
00:31:56.240 you helped us find
00:31:57.100 a veterans-oriented
00:31:59.020 program in Calgary
00:32:00.720 that we gave it to
00:32:01.380 and I thank you for that.
00:32:02.220 Is there something,
00:32:04.400 is there someone,
00:32:05.240 like I mentioned
00:32:05.780 in the States
00:32:06.440 the traditions they have,
00:32:08.020 like restaurants
00:32:08.580 have discounts
00:32:09.420 and parks have,
00:32:11.060 you know,
00:32:12.400 commemoration,
00:32:13.180 like is there anything
00:32:14.460 in Canada
00:32:15.200 that we could
00:32:16.480 be a part of?
00:32:18.000 Because it's,
00:32:18.800 you know,
00:32:18.960 we're not that far away
00:32:19.940 from Christmas
00:32:20.500 by the way
00:32:21.240 and I'd love to raise
00:32:22.660 some more dough
00:32:23.420 from our viewers
00:32:24.460 like we did.
00:32:26.000 Is there something you could,
00:32:27.140 or maybe it's something
00:32:27.960 we do.
00:32:29.080 Do you have any
00:32:29.580 practical advice?
00:32:30.740 Because I'm,
00:32:31.760 you know,
00:32:31.960 I'm talk, talk, talk,
00:32:32.860 but I'd like to do something
00:32:33.980 even if it's just 15 grand
00:32:35.760 or maybe it's 150 grand,
00:32:37.220 I don't know.
00:32:38.280 Do you have any advice
00:32:38.940 or do you need to think
00:32:39.640 about that for a bit?
00:32:41.540 Yeah,
00:32:42.060 I might want to think
00:32:43.340 about it for a little bit.
00:32:44.440 I know there's
00:32:45.040 an upcoming event
00:32:46.340 that's ironically timed
00:32:48.780 near the election.
00:32:50.380 It'll be the Saturday
00:32:51.180 before the election.
00:32:52.400 It's a non-partisan event
00:32:54.180 and it's called
00:32:55.300 Walk for Veterans.
00:32:56.460 They did it last year
00:32:57.520 in about half a dozen cities.
00:32:59.700 It's going to be expanded
00:33:00.700 to at least 12
00:33:02.500 of the larger cities
00:33:03.500 this year.
00:33:04.800 And it's a non-partisan event
00:33:06.900 where veterans
00:33:07.700 will be encouraged
00:33:08.600 to walk,
00:33:09.160 civilians to join them,
00:33:10.960 to have an opportunity
00:33:12.320 just to talk about,
00:33:13.780 talk to veterans,
00:33:15.540 get to know veterans
00:33:16.680 and get to understand
00:33:18.260 that they're members
00:33:19.000 of your community.
00:33:20.800 So maybe that's something
00:33:22.460 we could talk about,
00:33:23.540 you know,
00:33:24.460 offline
00:33:24.960 and I can figure out
00:33:26.260 a way to make
00:33:27.180 that connection.
00:33:28.380 Sure, yeah.
00:33:28.880 Well, let's have
00:33:29.400 that private conversation.
00:33:30.800 I don't want to put
00:33:31.880 a bona fide
00:33:33.120 veterans thing
00:33:34.640 in a pickle
00:33:35.900 by having
00:33:37.040 the Department of Defense
00:33:38.040 get all partisan
00:33:39.380 against them.
00:33:40.140 Like, I don't want
00:33:40.660 to cause a problem
00:33:41.760 for a group.
00:33:42.880 These guys are totally
00:33:43.720 outside of that.
00:33:44.780 All right, well,
00:33:45.340 you and me
00:33:46.080 can catch up privately
00:33:47.800 because I want
00:33:48.300 to do something
00:33:48.920 and that sounds
00:33:50.720 like something interesting
00:33:51.600 that we would film,
00:33:53.300 like interview.
00:33:54.220 It sounds like something
00:33:55.040 we could actually
00:33:55.920 participate in
00:33:56.880 as a walk ourselves.
00:33:59.200 It sounds like
00:33:59.660 it's something
00:33:59.920 we could email
00:34:00.500 our viewers
00:34:01.140 to tell them about
00:34:01.980 and I don't know
00:34:02.980 if there's something
00:34:03.480 we could do
00:34:03.960 to be part of it
00:34:04.780 but I just,
00:34:07.120 seeing this idiot,
00:34:08.280 Ben Isidt,
00:34:09.080 it's not enough
00:34:09.940 for me to get mad
00:34:11.060 at him.
00:34:11.680 I want to do something
00:34:12.900 to counter him
00:34:14.020 and I know you're
00:34:15.860 the guy to help
00:34:16.480 give me some tips
00:34:17.220 on that so I'll
00:34:17.860 follow up with you
00:34:18.380 later and maybe
00:34:18.940 when you and I
00:34:19.980 come up with a plan
00:34:20.900 and we check
00:34:21.960 all the ins
00:34:23.960 and outs of it
00:34:24.540 then we can come
00:34:25.120 back on TV
00:34:25.760 and tell our viewers
00:34:26.420 about it.
00:34:27.920 Yeah, that sounds great.
00:34:29.200 All right.
00:34:29.800 Well, listen,
00:34:30.200 great to see you again,
00:34:30.820 my friend
00:34:31.180 and I'm so glad
00:34:32.100 that you are
00:34:32.680 an advocate
00:34:33.180 for veterans
00:34:34.200 and for serving military
00:34:35.360 and just for,
00:34:36.340 you know,
00:34:36.760 it's not even that,
00:34:37.740 it's just decency.
00:34:39.060 I mean, for God's sakes,
00:34:40.500 on D-Day,
00:34:42.480 it's just unbelievable.
00:34:44.900 Well, I'm glad
00:34:45.300 you're fighting
00:34:45.740 for the good guys
00:34:46.500 and it's great
00:34:47.200 to see you again, Lee.
00:34:48.640 You as well.
00:34:49.360 Thanks, Ezra.
00:34:49.900 Appreciate all your help.
00:34:51.080 Well, it's my pleasure.
00:34:52.720 All right, folks,
00:34:53.180 there you have it,
00:34:53.620 our friend Lee Humphrey,
00:34:54.580 who is the founder
00:34:55.200 of Veterans
00:34:55.640 for the Conservative
00:34:56.240 Party of Canada.
00:34:57.660 He also has given us
00:34:58.760 interesting insights
00:35:00.600 into military conflict zones,
00:35:02.420 some of which he has
00:35:03.300 served in in the past.
00:35:05.540 Today, talking about
00:35:06.560 the treatment of veterans
00:35:07.380 and I will come back
00:35:08.560 to you
00:35:08.920 if Lee and I
00:35:10.440 can come up
00:35:10.880 with a plan
00:35:11.360 of how we rebels
00:35:12.840 can do something meaningful.
00:35:14.960 I'd love to do
00:35:15.580 something meaningful
00:35:16.360 and maybe it can be
00:35:17.800 even bigger
00:35:18.280 than the 15 grand
00:35:19.220 we gave away last year.
00:35:20.600 All right, stay with us.
00:35:21.520 More Head on the Rebel.
00:35:32.740 Hey, welcome back.
00:35:33.520 What do you think
00:35:33.800 about that story
00:35:34.360 about the CBC?
00:35:35.160 I got to tell you,
00:35:36.060 if any other
00:35:36.920 private sector newspaper
00:35:38.320 were to have been discovered
00:35:39.900 selling news stories
00:35:42.340 secretly,
00:35:44.460 they would have been
00:35:45.760 sacked from the top
00:35:46.660 to the bottom.
00:35:47.440 There would be investigations.
00:35:48.880 I don't even know
00:35:49.580 on what grounds,
00:35:50.800 but you better believe
00:35:52.040 there'd be investigations,
00:35:53.140 some sort of fraud
00:35:54.440 perpetrated on the reader.
00:35:55.640 I don't know.
00:35:56.480 But the CBC,
00:35:57.340 that's just their
00:35:58.120 business model.
00:35:59.820 It's gross enough
00:36:00.760 when it's Parks Canada
00:36:01.820 buying news segments.
00:36:03.160 I read it to you.
00:36:04.020 News segments for sale.
00:36:06.100 When Loblaws is doing it,
00:36:08.220 that's just gross.
00:36:09.900 You can't trust
00:36:11.040 a word the media party says.
00:36:13.540 All right, folks,
00:36:14.060 that's the show for today.
00:36:14.940 Until next time,
00:36:15.800 on behalf of all of us
00:36:16.680 here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:36:18.360 to you at home,
00:36:19.000 good night.
00:36:20.220 And keep fighting for freedom
00:36:21.560 while you still can.
00:36:22.340 We'll see you next time.
00:36:24.080 We'll see you next time.
00:36:25.280 We'll be right back.