Justin Trudeau admits to using pandemic to launch “Great Reset” of the world
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Tonight, the mask slips, and Justin Trudeau admits he wants to use the Pandemic as an excuse to reset the world and remake it in the image of the United Nation's Agenda 2030 agenda, led by the UN.
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Hello, my friends. I saw a little clip circulating on YouTube of Justin Trudeau talking about the
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great reset of Agenda 2030 and using the pandemic as an excuse to obtain both. Well, I tracked down
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the original press conference where Trudeau said those things, and I'll take you through it.
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Tonight, the mask slips, and Justin Trudeau admits he wants to use the pandemic as an excuse to
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reset the world and remake it in the image of the United Nations. It's November 16th,
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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'm publishing it is because it's my
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I saw a slightly grainy video on Twitter like someone had recorded a TV show from their cell phone.
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It was very short, just 30 seconds long. Here, take a look.
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Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum
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on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs. Canada is here to
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listen and to help. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to
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accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global
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challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
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That's incredible, isn't it? It's almost like a conspiracy theory about Justin Trudeau,
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except it was said by Justin Trudeau. Here's what I tweeted about it.
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I thought this was supposed to be a conspiracy theory, but here it is, straight from Trudeau's
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mouth. The pandemic is the excuse for a great reset of the world led by the UN. As of mid-afternoon
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today, that tweet had nearly three million impressions. That's the number of people who looked at it.
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More than two million people stopped to actually play the video. Millions. It was retweeted by
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all sorts of people in Canada and abroad. Why? Well, it's sort of obvious. He admits that he is
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exploiting the crisis of the pandemic for other political purposes. I mean, we know that. He took
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the pandemic as an excuse to shut down parliament, to shut down press conferences, to keep journalists
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away from him, to pass a budget. What am I saying? Without passing a budget, he borrowed more and
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spent more money than Canada did to fight both world wars combined. His public health officer
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issues a series of ever more bizarre edicts, whipping up fear and panic, demonizing anyone
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who disagrees with her as racist, and generally keeping people in a state of submission, confusion,
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worry. You're locked down. National unemployment is a staggering 9%, but Trudeau thinks this is the
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perfect moment to announce that he's raising immigration to record levels. 1.2 million
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foreigners coming, half of whom Trudeau admits will be uneconomic, will immediately go on social
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services and welfare. And those who do work, well, they'll be driving down wages as they compete for
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Canadians already desperate for work, and they'll drive up housing prices too. So yeah, we already knew that
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Trudeau was exploiting the crisis for his political ends. We just never knew that he thought about it in
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those terms also, that he was consciously sneaking through whatever he could as fast as he could in the
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name of the pandemic. Now a lot of things make more sense, don't they? Well, it was pretty easy to find the
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original source video that had been clipped to a 30-second cut for that tweet. It's from this. The United Nations
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itself, the actual name of the event that was filmed there was hybrid press briefing by the Secretary
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General, along with the Prime Ministers of Canada and Jamaica, Justin Trudeau and Andrew Holness.
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They briefed reporters on the meeting of financing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in the
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era of COVID-19 and beyond. So you got it right there, what they were doing. And the thing about Trudeau,
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when he's giving speeches to foreign audiences, there's two things about it. First, he thinks probably
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accurately that no one overseas knows how much he's despised here at home. So for example, he can go to
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Davos to the World Economic Forum to talk about what a feminist he is, while back at home we all know that he
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sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.
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Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly in a
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professional context, can experience it differently, and we have to respect that and reflect on that.
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He can hold himself out as a great white hope for all the third world, whereas here at home we know he
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casually wore his racist blackface costume so many times, he lost count of it so many times. It literally
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happened in three different decades of his life so many times, he literally had a costume kit
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at home, ready for use on a moment's notice. Like some people, I don't know, have a tuxedo in the
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closet just in case. Trudeau has a blackface costume just in case. I wonder if he's ever even thrown it
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out. So some foreigners might actually believe him, though come to think of it, I'm not sure anymore.
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Trudeau was so certain that he was going to win the corrupt election to get Canada a temporary seat on
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the United Nations Security Council, but he just didn't. He was a total flop, despite probably
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spending about a billion dollars on his vanity campaign when you add in all his foreign aid
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spending. So maybe they're wise to him overseas after all. Or maybe black leaders in Africa just
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don't like a racist in blackface. Just a hypothesis there. But there is something else whenever Trudeau
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speaks to the foreign press. Whether it's that he's trying to impress them, or that he somehow
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thinks we back home won't hear him, Trudeau gets weirder than normal, more extreme than normal.
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It was that way in this super gross article in the New York Times shortly after his election
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that Trudeau said, quote, there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. Yeah, go to hell, buddy.
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Was he trying to impress New Yorkers about how cosmopolitan he was? Was he telling them what
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he thought they wanted to hear? Or was he finally free of mere Canadians who he weirdly thought
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wouldn't read his comments, so he was just truly being himself? Who knows? But that's, I think, what
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we had here again in his pandemic press conference at the United Nations, trying to please foreigners
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and feeling unfettered by mere Canadian citizens. Let me show you a few more clips from that same
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press conference. What you saw in that Twitter video was just 30 seconds. Here's more. I'm going to cut
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out the parts in French where he basically repeats his English points. And I'm going to cut out the
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other participants. Here are some key Trudeau clips. The fight against COVID-19 is far from over.
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In many parts of the world, including Canada, the number of new cases is rising and quickly. We must do
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everything we can to flatten the curve as much as possible. That means following public health
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recommendations and using all the tools available, from wearing masks to social distancing, too,
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in Canada, downloading the free COVID alert app. So far, so boring. Of course, he himself doesn't
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follow those rules. Here he is at a Black Lives Matter protest on Parliament Hill. I mean, look,
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if there's a woke photo op, he's not going to miss it because of some social distancing rule,
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Lizzie. I'll skip to his boring boilerplate and I'll just go to the new stuff here.
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Around the world, the pandemic has worsened longstanding challenges of poverty, inequality,
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and climate change. Last spring, Canada convened a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Holness of
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Jamaica and the Secretary General to discuss a global response as we build a better, more equitable
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system. In May, we agreed to look at six urgent areas of action to mobilize financing, and today,
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with over 60 international partners, we've continued that important work. Hey, did you know that, did you
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know that Trudeau, instead of focusing on Canada and the crisis here, and I don't just mean the health
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crisis, if it even amounted to that, but I mean the economic crisis that he and the rest of the political
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class caused. Did you know that he was actually instead working with foreign leaders to put together a
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bailout for foreign countries? What, the CBC didn't bring that to your attention? I mean, it's been five
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years since Trudeau promised clean water on Canadian Indian reserves, but hey, they don't get a vote for
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the who, they don't get a vote to decide who's on the UN Security Council, do they? They don't vote for
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who gets a Nobel Peace Prize, do they? So instead, Trudeau spent his time and our billions on foreign
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schemes like that. And none of it worked. He did not get on the Security Council, but everyone took his
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money. A fool and his money are soon parted, the saying goes. Trouble is, he's the fool, but it's
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our money. All right, here's the next clip. From ensuring equitable access to vaccines, to providing
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more time for distressed countries to make bilateral debt payments, including Caribbean and small island
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states, we're working on concrete options that will help build a more resilient world for the short,
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medium and long term. The global community must not give up on the 2030 agenda for sustainable
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development and the SDGs. In fact, we should seize this opportunity to do even more. Earlier this
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morning, I announced that Canada will invest an additional $400 million in humanitarian and
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development funding to fight COVID-19, with even more in the years to come. We will make sure that
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women and girls who've been disproportionately impacted by the consequences of COVID-19 benefit
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from this new funding. We must listen to the needs of small island developing states and other
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vulnerable countries and help carry their voices to the World Bank, the G7, the G20, and other
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organizations this fall. Did you know that? Did you know that Trudeau was prioritizing, what was that,
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small island countries? Is he vulnerable? What about our own vulnerable communities? His own province,
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Quebec, where 61% of all Canadian deaths from the virus have happened, including in his own riding,
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why is he taking our money and spending his time worrying about small island countries that are
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vulnerable? Quebec has had more COVID deaths than all other provinces combined, even though Quebec only
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has a quarter of the population. Why? And why hasn't a single reporter even asked him that question?
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I think we would ask him that question, but Trudeau has the RCMP frog march our reporters away from
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press conferences, and the rest of the media gets the message pretty quick. Here's some more.
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Thank you very much. Just briefly to add, we know that in a time of crisis, it is a natural human
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inclination to want to hunker down and look inward and protect each other and protect ourselves.
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And you think later about your neighbors and other countries around the world. Well,
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this particular crisis requires us to make sure that we are working together as a global community,
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because no country can eliminate the COVID-19 virus until all countries eliminate the COVID-19 virus.
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No country can come out and restore economic prosperity unless we also have a global restoration
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of economic prosperity. Canada has long understood that, and that's why we're continuing to step up
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with hundreds of millions of dollars towards COVAX, towards global financing, towards debt relief,
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towards all the things that we can do. But we also know that we need to include more countries in that.
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And that's why this initiative with Jamaica and the Secretary General is all about convening
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decision-making bodies from G7 to G20, from the World Bank to the IMF, to be part of understanding
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exactly how we can best make sure that we all get through this and to the other side as quickly as
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possible. Lots in there that's just not true. China, the source of the virus, the source of virus
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information, they're booming again. They don't have 9% unemployment like we do. They're going full tilt.
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And they did something interesting. When the virus hit them in Wuhan, they banned flights from Wuhan to
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other Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai. They quarantined Wuhan as regards to the rest of
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China. But they never stopped flights from Wuhan to the rest of the world, including to Canada.
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And neither did Trudeau. Trudeau waited months after Trump restricted China flights before Trudeau did the
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same. And Trudeau never actually closed the flights from China. We tracked them every day during the
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pandemic. Same thing with Roxham Road. As Kee and Bextie found out, they're operating as normal there.
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Anyone can walk right over, even if they have a virus, especially if they have a virus.
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But the bigger point is one Trudeau glossed over. He talks about totally eradicating a virus.
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That just doesn't happen. It won't happen. It can't happen. Flu viruses always come and go.
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There are always places where they are infectious. If your plan is to wait until the entire world is at
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zero flu viruses, instead of living normally, protecting the vulnerable, but letting the
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rest of us live our lives, if your mindset is a forever lockdown, well, that's nuts. But I guess
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it also suits the crisis opportunism of Trudeau, doesn't it? There's a deep state when it comes to
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the military-industrial complex, isn't there? The generals, the defense contractors. And we saw in the
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case of Trump, there's the FBI and the CIA in the deep state too. But there's also a deep state when it
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comes to the public health officials. They love this pandemic. They're having the time of their
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lives. Bill Gates is positively giddy about his plans to jab everyone in the world, every one of us.
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Here's Anthony Fauci on how he wants masks to continue, how he wants the restrictions in life
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to continue, even if there is an alleged vaccine. He loves this. But once the process is complete,
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does that mean they can take off their masks? They don't have to social distance?
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You know, I would recommend that that's not the case. I would recommend you have an added
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area of protection. Obviously, with a 90 plus percent effective vaccine, you could feel much
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more confident. But I would recommend to people to not abandon all public health measures just because
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you've been vaccinated. Because even though for the general population, it might be 90 to 95 percent
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effective, you don't necessarily know for you how effective it is.
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What's this agenda 2030 business that Trudeau mentioned? What's this great reset business?
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Did you ever hear about it on the campaign trail either in this last Canadian election or the one
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before it? I don't think you did. Partly and unfortunately, because Stephen Harper himself
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signed on to it in 2015. Take a look at this. September 2015, last months of the Harper campaign,
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let me read this. In September 2015, Canada and all other 192 United Nations member states adopted
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the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the UN General Assembly. This initiative is a global call
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to action to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
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A lot of code words there, but my point is Harper signed on to this. Climate action,
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responsible consumption and production. What does that mean? It means globalism. It means socialism.
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It means open borders. It means replacing local sovereignty with supranational organizations. It
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means more of the UN and less of Canada. It's exactly what the World Economic Forum talks about too.
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You heard Trudeau use that word reset. That's their phrase, the Great Reset. Use the crisis to level down
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the capitalist democracies. Remember I showed you that creepy World Economic Forum video the other week?
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That's part of the Great Reset. Look at this headline. I own nothing. Have no privacy. And life has never been
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better. No privacy. You own nothing. Come on, guys. Get to loving it. Look, this is the sort of thing
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that used to be spoken about only by conspiracy theorists. One world governments, the UN, not local
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parliaments, making decisions. Open borders migration, global reset, no privacy. You'll own nothing.
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I sort of like the 30-second version that I found on Twitter. It really sums it up well. Here,
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take a look at it one more time. Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable
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while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.
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Canada is here to listen and to help. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our
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chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global
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challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change. I think that's what Justin Trudeau
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is really about. Disappointingly, it's what Harper was about, too, at least enough to sign on to it
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back in 2015. I have no reason to think that the new conservative leader, Erin O'Toole, is against it
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either. I think this is the ruling class versus the people, just like always, just like this whole pandemic is,
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Justin Trudeau has cracked down on independent journalists like no other prime minister in
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recent memory. In fact, not since the War Measures Act and Trudeau's appointed censors in the media
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has there been a government so hostile to contrary points of view. We learned that firsthand at last
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year's Media Freedom Conference in the United Kingdom. I attended, along with Sheila Gunn-Reed
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and her friend Andrew Lawton from True North. And Sheila and Andrew were actually blocked from a press
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conference at the Media Freedom Conference by Chrystia Freeland, the co-chair of the conference. Here,
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Okay, so, um, Glover Mail, um, Global, um, CTV, Al Jazeera, CBC, and the National Conference.
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That's, let's take us to the room and we can see if we can go.
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No, we're not going, Brittany, we're just not. We're all going.
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Well, thankfully, and perhaps miraculously, the other journalists there were so stunned
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by this censorship at a Media Freedom Conference that they actually refused to go in without
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Sheila and Andrew. A rare moment of solidarity, perhaps because the journalists there were
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not from the Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal Mean Girls Media Party.
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Well, it's been a year, actually more, and there is a sequel to that Media Freedom Conference.
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Instead of being held in London, England, Canada is co-sponsoring it with the African country
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of Botswana. Now, I'm not making fun of Botswana. I happen to know that it is one of the most
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successful countries in Africa in terms of the rule of law and the Western values like freedom
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and speech. So although they're perhaps not up to our Western levels, they are probably
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the best of the bunch. The question is, is Chrystia Freeland up to Botswanan standards
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of freedom? Well, this year, the conference is not being held in person because of the coronavirus.
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So instead, journalists around the world are participating via Zoom. Our own Sheila Gunn-Reed
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is. But now we go to our friend Andrew Lawton, who attended with Sheila and I last time in London,
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England. And he joins us now via Skype. Andrew, great to see you again. How's the conference so
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far? You're not in sunny Botswana. You're in your own home. But is it worth attending so far?
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Yeah, last year it was in London, England. This year I'm celebrating it in London, Ontario. So not
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quite the same backdrop for the conference. But nonetheless, it's amazing how in the last year and four
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months or so, so little has changed. I think the big takeaway that I experienced, I know from talking
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to you and Sheila, you had the same experience last year, was that it really seemed to be about
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window dressing, not about an actual tangible effect on free speech. And so far, that's the
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exact experience. I mean, just take a look at the very first session this morning. Now, this was going
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to be and I still think is the most important session of the conference. It was where the representatives
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of the various countries were getting together to talk about what they see as the key issues for
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media freedom and how they're going to address them moving forward. And it was closed to the media.
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The very first session of the media freedom conference in which politicians talk about what
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they're going to do for media freedom. And I still don't know what happened behind those doors,
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with the exception of a press release from the foreign ministry, from Francois-Philippe Champagne's
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office. So a lot of the same problems that we had last year, which was, you know,
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Western governments like Canada and the UK wanting to focus only on the issues taking place in the
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third world and not their own violations of press freedom on home soil.
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Yeah. And I'm so glad you're there because you have been personally banned by Justin Trudeau from
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attending the federal leaders debate. You were in court alongside our own David Menzies and Kian Bexte.
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All three of you were banned from the federal leaders debate. So yeah, I'm sure Botswana has
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things to work on. And I'm not trying to pick on them. I actually, from what I understand from both
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reading and also people who know Africa, Botswana is one of the better places if you believe in
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freedom. I'm not picking on them. Canada is the one that's falling down, that's sagging. Let me ask you
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this. One of the things I found odd about last year's Media Freedom Conference that I attended
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with you in London, England, was that they had lots of little secret back doors for censors.
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Like I accidentally bumped into the foreign minister of Pakistan, who is one of the most
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censorious bullies around. And he bullies Twitter to censor people in the West. And he cracks down on
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dissidents in Pakistan itself. I literally bumped into him by accident. Let me just show people,
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I try to tear a strip off him. This is me from last year. Take a look.
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Shorty. I see there are lots. There is one. Yes. Very quick one. Thanks. Actually,
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I'm not going to be directed by you. I'm going to ask a question to the Pakistani gentleman.
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No, you're not. Yes, I am. Because it's a Media Freedom Conference and you're not going to shut down
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questions about a censor. You censored me, sir. I have a Twitter account in Canada. And because I
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wrote something that introduced some Pakistani blasphemy law, you complained to Twitter,
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which took down my tweet in Canada. So can you explain why your Islamic supremacy in Pakistan
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is silencing my personal and journalistic freedom in Canada? And I know it happens in the United
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States, too. And frankly, you sure should be embarrassed to invite a censor like this.
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But back to the thug. Who the hell are you to censor me in Canada? Answer.
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Now, I don't like... I know you don't because you don't like free speech.
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Now, okay. Would you like to not say free speech?
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Now, I'll just respond to you, sir. First of all, do you want your sentiments to be respected?
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Now, just look at the tone and the tarot of the doctor. Is that the correct way?
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Shame on you and shame on you for inviting him.
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All right, Andrew, I just wanted to show you that because I had fun mouthing off to them.
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If I was a Pakistani citizen, that would have been the last you ever seen of me.
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I guess it's hard to detect if there's interlopers like that because literally the Pakistani foreign minister was on no official program.
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I went into a room just to sit down by myself, and it was like a secret session.
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I guess there's no way to find out about those secret sessions if you can only see what they show you on Zoom, right?
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You can't actually go around the corridors and accidentally discover a secret censor.
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Well, that's, I think, the most important point of this.
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And virtual conferences really have the one thing to them that you don't really get the news value out of, which is the official program.
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Whenever I've been at an actual event or summit, the real stories are the people you talk to, the things you overhear, the things you see, or, as we've learned firsthand from last year, the process of being excluded from certain things.
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You know, when I got my note from the foreign office last week that I had been accredited, you know, it really isn't that big a deal when all the accreditation is, here's a link to log on from your computer.
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Knowing how the government has treated us independent journalists in general in the last year.
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And that's, I think, the big problem here is that Justin Trudeau spoke this morning, and he talked about his government's unrelenting commitment to free speech.
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And he talked about how his government's always going to stand up for it.
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No one's there to ask him about the fact that the government is fighting you and I in court ongoing against our press freedom.
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No one's there to ask about the investigation into your book on the election, the Leveranos.
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No one's there to ask about the time that I was literally detained at roadside by police while trying to cover a Justin Trudeau campaign event,
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because they wouldn't let me on the media bus, even though I was prepared to pay whatever mainstream media reporters went.
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And again, I want to stress, these are not on moral equivalence to people who are risking their lives in some parts of the world.
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And I'm not saying it is, but I am saying that it's very convenient when the Canadian government is trying to get you to look at all of these things overseas
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without really any introspection as to its own lack of commitment to press freedom.
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Yeah, it's pretty gross that Trudeau tells a crowd in Botswana how much of a hero he is for free speech while he still has you and me in court.
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They're still trying to kick us out of next election debate.
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They're still fighting our judicial review of that.
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And of course, they had police escort Kian out of Rideau College.
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I forgot about the police pulling you over when you were trying to cover the liberal campaign last time.
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It's embarrassing to me that so many Canadian journalists allow Trudeau to get away with it.
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One of the things I found most surprising about last year's Media Freedom Conference was that it was largely outsourced to a media oligarch named Pierre Omidyar,
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But it was so weird that a government-to-government conference had delegated, had contracted out the list of speakers, the themes, to a private player who I find that very odd.
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Like, do they have any special favored journalists or favored companies here?
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Have you detected the Omidyar group or his advocacy organization, Luminate?
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And in fact, from a branding perspective, it just seems like Canada, Canada, Canada.
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And there's a part of me that wonders, and I want to make clear that this is a speculation in some way on my part, if Canada was really the only one that wanted this.
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Because last July, it was this bilateral event pushed by the Canadian and UK governments.
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This year, the UK government is involved in a peripheral sense, but is not co-hosting or co-sponsoring.
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The Canadian government brought the Botswanaan government on as co-host.
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But the emcee of the event was Francois-Celipe Champagne.
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The platform it's on is the Canadian government's platform.
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So in a lot of ways, it seems like Canada is the one pushing this.
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And I'm going to certainly try to figure out what it is that Canada is really getting out of this.
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But I almost think this might be, again, one of these Justin Trudeau pet projects now to try to get some cred on the international playing field.
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I mean, how about save that money and actually give us free speech at home instead of having a foreign Potemkin village about just how free our media is here?
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One of the things that I found most disappointing last year is that they hated fake news.
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And I was thinking one man's fake news is the other man's, you know, scoop or revelation.
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And the whole point of a diversity of voices is that the reader gets to decide.
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Both politicians are calling each other liars and fakers.
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And at the end of the day, it's very democratic because the voter gets to choose.
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And the viewer gets to decide who's got it right or maybe a mix of all.
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So this focus on fake news seemed to me to have nothing to do with freedom in the press.
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In fact, sort of the opposite, because if you accept the concept of fake news, it implies that you have to do something about it.
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So I think jamming fake news into a media freedom conference is actually a bit of a Trojan horse.
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Are they still obsessed with that this year, Andrew?
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And in fact, the one event that I peeled away from to come and do this was one of the panels, which was looking at the very question of disinformation.
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And I will say the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression had, I thought, a very good position on this.
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And what she had said, Irene Kahn is her name, is that governments should not be essentially outsourcing or privatizing these disinformation roles to tech companies,
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which is something that we see happening in Canada, potentially on hate speech, where the federal government wants to put regulations in effect that will basically force social media companies to take down so-called hate speech.
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And that actually really clouds your ability as an individual tech platform user to speak freely, because now the government is deputizing Facebook or Twitter or Google.
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And I actually thought her position on this was a very sound one.
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And conversely, there was a Facebook human rights director, which is in and of itself a bit of an odd position, a Facebook human rights director on the panel that said, no, no, no, tech companies are entirely able to deal with this.
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But then actually later on in the same panel had kind of changed her mind and said that, you know, governments need to adopt universal international standards on this and adopt this international framework on regulation.
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So there is really this concern that I think all roads are leading down to governments having to become the arbiters of what can be posted online and what can't be.
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Yeah. You know, the idea of governments hosting a media freedom conference, because who do journalists have to be free from?
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The threat of censorship. I mean, I take it that these days some of the threat is from social media companies, but generally in terms of criminal prosecutions, in terms of being banned like you and I have been, the threat is from governments.
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Having governments, especially Trudeau, sponsor, convene, organize and screen a media freedom conference is like inviting your local butcher to run a vegetarian conference.
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Well, and let me say to that point, Ezra, that, you know, the Canada-UK committee gave an award to the Association of Belarus Journalists and or the Belarus Association of Journalists, rather the UK-Canada Media Freedom Award.
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And when the gentleman accepting on behalf of the organization spoke, he had, you know, some horrific things that Belarusian journalists have had to deal with trying to report on what's happening in their country.
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And one of the key takeaways was saying that one of the tools that censoring governments use to deny press freedom is revocation of accreditation, of denying one's recognition or identity as a journalist.
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And again, people in Belarus, again, have to deal with different stakes than we do in Canada.
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I get that. But that particular tactic is exactly what's being used by Justin Trudeau's government.
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And it was therefore fascinating when Francois-Philippe Champagne afterwards says it's shocking to hear of such things happening and why these Belarusian journalists need to be recognized or rewarded for their bravery.
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I agree that they do, but I wouldn't be so shocked when that's a tactic that your own government is employing.
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Any foreign minister who for years carries over a million dollars in personal mortgages from the government of China's Bank of China is not someone I would look to for advice on freedom.
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I'm referring, of course, to Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada's foreign minister.
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Well, listen, Andrew, it's great to catch up with you.
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I know Sheila's at the conference digitally as well, so we'll let you get back to it.
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I thought they would ban you and Sheila, but like you say, it's just a Zoom link.
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It's not like they're giving you inside access like we had last time.
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We're actually still in court together fighting against the debate commission's ban.
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And so this is a battle that we are still fighting, and I know you are, too.
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He's also a member of the Independent Press Gallery, just like we are here over at The Rebel.
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Instead of reading your letters, I want to show you a very exciting video, a new contributor
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to Rebel News, Kimberly Klasick, the Republican hero who ran for Congress in Baltimore.
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Now, she didn't win, but she started a whole national conversation about how black Americans
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didn't have to vote Democrat because Democrats have done nothing for their communities in
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She did an amazing job, and now, well, she's agreed to do videos for Rebel News.
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So let me say goodbye to you now, but let me leave you with Kimberly Klasick's first video
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So Saturday started out very peacefully in Washington, D.C.
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I should know I was there, but unfortunately, two unwanted groups showed up, and that would
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And then, of course, all hell broke loose, but we'll talk about that.
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Hi, I'm Kim Klasick for Rebel News in Baltimore, Maryland.
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at the Million Maga March with a bunch of Trump supporters from all over the country.
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People came from California, Massachusetts, just to show their support for President Trump.
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President Trump even drove through with his motorcade.
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He probably didn't want to because, let's face it, that was probably a security nightmare
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And then, at 2 p.m., after I left, of course, Antifa and BLM showed up to rain on everyone's
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Now, we can all agree on this one thing because it's a fact.
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This only happens in Democrat-controlled cities because these outside instigators, these domestic
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terrorists, understand that they can only get away with this in Democrat-controlled cities.
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Now, I was surprised to see President Barack Obama in a 60-minute interview actually admit
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that all of this started before President Trump took office.
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I don't see him as the cause for our divisions and the problems with our government.
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But they preceded him and, sadly, are going to likely outlast him.
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Now, people say, well, how can you blame President Barack Obama, but you don't really hold President
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And the local Democrat leaders would have listened to President Barack Obama had he said,
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Because, in his mind, it's all in the name of racism.
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Now, racism does exist, but not to the extent in which Democrats want you to believe.
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But now, there are innocent families and people being caught in the middle of extremist
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groups basically fighting each other over what?
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No one ever talks about what it is they need or what.
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So, after all the bads that we saw in Washington, D.C., as we saw all the videos come out on Saturday
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We saw way more than 21 people engage in violence.
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But again, this is what happens in Democrat-controlled cities.