Media Party proposes BANNING competitors after survey shows lack of trust in Media Party
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A new survey by Edelman Canada shows trust in the media, and indeed all establishment institutions, is plummeting. It s incredible, though, because they go on to blame the people, not the journalists. What are you, crazy?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today I look at a new study by Edelman Canada. That's a PR firm. And it
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says that 52% of Canadians say journalists lie. Like not just have a bias, but actually
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lie. It's incredible, though, because they go on to blame the people, not to blame the
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journalists. What are you, crazy? I'll take you through it. That's ahead. Before we go
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Tonight, the media party discovers that people don't trust them, and they blame the people.
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It's February 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
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A new survey out by a PR and lobbying company called Edelman shows trust in the media, and
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indeed all establishment institutions, is plummeting. Half of Canadians simply don't believe a word
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the media says. But look at this headline in the Toronto Star about it. Epidemic of misinformation
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is eroding trust in institutions, and media finds a new survey. Just stop there. I mean,
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that's your whole story right there. The poll shows that people don't trust the media, and the headline
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in Canada's largest newspaper is, it's the people who are wrong. It's misinformation that causes people
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not to trust us. They would never for a second even think that they weren't trustworthy. No, no,
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no. It's misinformation. And they threw in that word epidemic, because why not? I mean,
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people seem to get scared when you say pandemic these days, but that would be too on the nose to
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say pandemic, so let's just call it an epidemic. So people don't trust the media, and the media knows
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why they don't have to engage in any introspection. The people are stupid and gullible. That's why they
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don't trust the media. Otherwise, for sure they'd trust the media, and their distrust of the media
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is not based on any good reasons. It's like a sickness. It's like an epidemic, really. They need
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to be cured of it, because obviously the media hasn't done anything to warrant being distrusted.
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Yeah, even if this headline shows exactly, it just, the headline alone, you don't have to read
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anymore. It shows exactly why the media is so distrusted, isn't it? Information bankruptcy.
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That was the rather bleak assessment offered this week by Lisa Kimmel, chair and CEO of Edelman
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Canada, on the findings of the communication firm's 2021 trust barometer. Isn't that funny again?
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We are in an actual bankruptcy in Canada. Trudeau's racking up a debt to equal every other debt,
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every previous prime minister ever incurred combined, including to build a railway and fight two
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world wars, but it's an information bankruptcy that they want to talk about. They'd never say Trudeau is
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making us financially bankrupt. In Canada, trust in business rose to 61% in May 2020, but has since
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declined to 56%. Trust in government shot to 70% in May, from 50%, and has since declined to 59%.
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And trust in the media sits at 54% down from 58% last spring. So the beginning of the pandemic,
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people looked to the institutions, to the government and the media for help, and they realized that the
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government and the media were of no help and couldn't be trusted and were pretty much just in
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it for themselves. I'd say that's not a misinformation pandemic. I'd say people are actually pretty
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perceptive. Nearly half of those surveyed in Canada believe journalists are purposely trying to
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mislead them by making statements they know are false or exaggerated. 52% think news outlets are
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more concerned with supporting an ideology than informing the public. And 52% think the media is
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not doing well at being objective and nonpartisan. My response is just 52% to 48% of people really
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think the media isn't false, exaggerated, or biased. This next slide is my favorite.
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Think back on the last year. Donald Trump was a serial liar who made a campaign against the media
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a centerpiece of his presidency, denouncing news outlets as fake news and an enemy of the people.
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There were the endless lies around the outcome of the U.S. election, and we've seen the science and
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public health advice around COVID-19 falsely called into question. So Trump was a liar. Not Trudeau,
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not Teresa Tam, not Patty Hajdu, not Doug Ford or John Tory or whoever. It was that evil Donald Trump.
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He's the only liar, and he's the reason Canadians don't trust Canadian media. Hey guys, you're doing it
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again. You're doing the thing that makes people not trust you anymore. You're lying and exaggerating
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and running partisan errands for Trudeau again. I love how the Star uses that same language about
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health and sickness and cleanliness and dirtiness. Only one in five Canadians have good information
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hygiene. That's defined as engaging with news, avoiding information echo chambers, verifying
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information, and not spreading information you haven't confirmed. So the CBC and the Toronto Star and
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the media party, you're expected to believe that they are not an echo chamber, and that their
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one point of view is not an outlier, and they are not just spinning for Trudeau. I'm serious.
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When they say a news echo chamber, it's hard to believe, but they are not talking about themselves.
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Hey, can I give you a reminder about who the Toronto Star is? Toronto Star, Canada's largest
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circulation newspaper, is officially socialist in its orientation. It's hardwired right into its
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corporate constitution, actually. They call it their Atkinson Principles, named after their socialist
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publisher from about a century ago. You can find these Atkinson Principles very quickly on their
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website. They're proud of it. You can see the newspaper has broken them down into six different
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categories. I'll just quote from a couple of them. Here they're talking about social justice,
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redistributing wealth. The Star publisher was certain that many of Canada's ills could be
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resolved by a fairer redistribution of the nation's wealth. Yeah, they're talking about socialism and
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just taking money and giving it. Here's an example. He favored public ownership of gas,
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electric light, electric power, coal mines, oil wells, timber, pulp and paper, telephone,
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telegraph, telegraph, radio, television, railways, airlines and streetcars. Got it. All right, that
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explains a lot. The government should own all media, all communications, all factories, all utilities.
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Got it. It checks out. The Toronto Star is keeping to that mission. And they're certainly leading by
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example. I mean, the Star itself takes $110,000 per week, per week from Justin Trudeau. So the thing
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about that, though, is that when a media company is owned by the government, people can sort of tell
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that it no longer holds that government to account. At best, it's play fighting, controlled opposition,
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as the kids say. Reading about the Atkinson principles, Atkinson styled himself as a gadfly
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against the governments of the day. He was a gadfly from the left, of course, but he was a pain in the
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neck for them. But whether you're right wing or left wing, if you are paid by the people you're
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covering, you don't really cover them anymore, do you? Except maybe covering them with kisses,
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as the Toronto Star does for Justin Trudeau. Such media like the CBC that has wholly been owned by the
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government since the beginning, they try to give the simulation of being independent and accountability
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oriented by going after, say, Donald Trump, even though Trump isn't the president anymore. They're still
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talking about him even in this article. They won't go after Joe Biden in the same way, of course. Listen, all
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politicians lie. They don't mention his lies, but mainly they don't go after Trudeau because Trudeau
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gives the Toronto Star $110,000 a week. So even in this article, they're railing against Trump.
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I'll be honest, if someone gave me $110,000 a week, I'd probably only have nice things to say about
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them too. But do you see my point? This is why no one trusts them. Let's look at the 8 of them study
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directly. Let me show you page 16. 49% of people say journalists and reporters are purposely trying
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to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations. So that's not even
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about bias. They say journalists are deliberately trying to trick people. That's not saying he is
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left-wing or right-wing or he has a clear opinion or bias. That's saying they are tricksters. They are
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liars. That's shocking. 52% say they're biased. Most news organizations are more concerned with
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supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public. And to that,
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I say just 52%. And 52% say the media is not doing well at being objective and non-partisan.
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And let me close with what I think is just incredible. Such a lack of self-awareness here.
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Just a total lack of any hint of responsibility for this or any responsibility at all. On page 18,
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there's a graph that shows that because some people have poor information hygiene, we talked
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about this, they are less likely to want to be vaccinated. That's their test. And how do you
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know that they have poor information hygiene? They're using that, oh, you're dirty. You haven't
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been vaccinated. You have poor information hygiene too. Do you see the trickery here? Well, they know that
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people who don't want to be vaccinated have poor information because they don't want to be
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vaccinated. It's a loop. It's a logical circle. They're dumb because they don't want a vaccine.
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They don't want a vaccine because they're dumb. A proof is a proof, as Chrétien used to say.
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It is completely unthinkable. The thought has never crossed their mind. In the media party,
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all of them, and I'd include the star in Adelman in that, that maybe people actually have real reasons
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not to get the vaccine. And that, in fact, people worried about the vaccines might actually be
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better informed than those who simply do whatever Teresa Tam or Justin Trudeau says to do this week,
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which is likely different than what they said last week. I mean, according to the star and this study,
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listening to Teresa Tam tell you to have a mask on during sex, that's good personal hygiene and good
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information hygiene. That's being super smart. Thinking she's a kook, though, that's misinformation.
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I mean, remember this? I think the public has to know this is one of the worst case scenarios in terms
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of an infectious disease outbreak in that their cooperation is sought. If there are people who are
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non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people in mandatory
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settings. It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other
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setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken. Yeah, if you're a bit worried about our experts,
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if you're worried about these things, they call that misinformation. You know, I've been covering
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protests in one form or another for most of my adult life, going back decades, actually. Most of the
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protests on the left are full of people, I'm sorry, and it's my number one question I ask,
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why are you here? And most people I've ever met at a left-wing protest, when you say, why are you here?
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They can't tell you why they are there. They can't. I'm not being mean. I'm just an observation.
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It's my number one question of protest. So why are you here? So what message do you have? And they don't
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know. They just show up to be part of the club. Maybe someone at school said to come. Maybe, you know,
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I mean, they know a few lines about global warming, hate the tar sands, whatever. They're
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a rent-a-mob who can't articulate any position. I don't think they're deep information. I think
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they're low information voters. You could say they have poor information hygiene if I was a person
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on the left. But my observation is that anti-lockdown activists are actually the opposite.
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They'll talk your ear off. They read much more than the average person does. And I'm not saying that
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they're all correct. There is misinformation out there. But boy, I would stack the average
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anti-lockdowners knowledge about things like PCR tests and false positives and herd immunity and the
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risks of vaccines. I would stack their knowledge against the knowledge of the mainstream media
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on those subjects any day. So maybe they have a real reason for not wanting the vaccine other than
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just being dumb. I can think of some real reasons. If someone's under 40, the risk posed by the virus
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is approaching zero. Whereas the risks of the vaccine themselves that were rushed to market and
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haven't been put through the normal testing that medicines and vaccines do. There's lots of reasons
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to be against a vaccine rushed to market promoted by Bill Gates. Besides, they're just stupid.
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I saw this video from an anti-lockdown protest at Edmonton on the weekend. An anti-lockdowner
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was being a bit rude towards some media party journalists. And the media party journalists,
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boy, they complained about it. I mean, I'd say what comes around goes around a bit. The media party
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called these specific protesters all kinds of names, including specifically calling them racist.
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But look at this. It's from Bailey Nitti. If anyone is interested in what it was like being a
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journalist at yesterday's protest, here's some raw footage. Okay, let's take a look. Let's watch.
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We're a voice in particular, is it? Let's stop normalizing narcissists who are living the power
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hell out. I was there for the riots that you caused with your actions. You caused this problem
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because you're misreporting the truth. That's what's going on. You know that. Six feet. You won't move
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back. Fake news. Fake news. Get out of here. You guys are disgusting. You're propaganda. Get out of here.
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You're liars. You're liars. You're liars to the people. You're liars to the people. You know it.
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If you don't know it, you're not doing your research. Yeah, put the camera on me. Great. What are you
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going to edit? You're liars. Your fridge is full. You're liars. You're going to be held accountable
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for your lies. You're going to be sued. You're going to be held accountable for all of your lies.
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So a couple of guys who are clearly mad. The first guy in sunglasses said, you're here for the riots.
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Did you catch that? He was referring to the black that all, the fact that all these media reports
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said, racist, racist, racist are coming. So Black Lives Matter came to challenge the anti-lockdowners
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because the media said the anti-lockdowners were racist. So he was calling out the media
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for sensationalizing it, for misinformation, for smearing him and the others as racist. At least
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that's what I gather. He called it disgusting propaganda and lies. He didn't swear. I don't
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think he particularly shouted. They were outdoors and it sounded like there was some noise there.
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The whole encounter with him lasted about 30 seconds. No swearing, no assaulting, no threatening,
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no touching. And then another guy was angry, talking about a full fridge, obviously referring
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to people who are unemployed or poor because of the lockdowns. I heard the word prostitutes
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thrown in there by someone, which is something the media get called from time to time. It's
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not friendly. It's an insult for sure. And that's it. About one whole minute of raw feedback from
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people whose lives have been shattered by the lockdowns and the media that's cheering
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the lockdown. So yeah, maybe it was a bit unfair and maybe it was a bit mean towards the journalists,
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but you can see the reaction by the media party to grubby people talking back. They weren't swearing,
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they weren't threatening, they certainly weren't assaulting anyone, as many of our conservative
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reporters have been assaulted, some of them repeatedly. The media says the people are the problem.
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You don't trust us? You must be misinformed. You say we're biased? How dare you? We insult you,
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we call you racist and dumb, but you speak back and call us disgusting? How dare you? Yeah,
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like I say, I'm shocked that only 52% of people call the media liars. Aren't you? Stay with us for more.
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Mr. Garneau. Mr. Speaker, I abstain on behalf of the government of Canada. Mr. Garneau, abstention,
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abstention. Mr. There you have it, Mark Garneau, a cabinet minister and actually a former leadership
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rival to Justin Trudeau, bravely abstaining in the House of Commons on a motion to condemn the Chinese
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Communist Party treatment of the Uyghur ethnicity, a Muslim group in Xinjiang province, to call that a
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genocide. Well, Mark Garneau and the entirety of the cabinet bravely abstaining. They'll neither say it
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was or it wasn't a genocide. They didn't have that same ambiguity when it comes to Canada being a
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genocide. Here's a quick recap of Justin Trudeau not hesitating at all. He says it rather matter-of-factly
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in just a few moments. It's no big deal. Yeah, sure, we engaged in genocide here.
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We accept the findings of the commissioners that it was genocide. Yeah, of course. Canada commits
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genocide. China? Well, we're not going to go there. Joining us now to talk about this is our
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friend Spencer Fernando, the boss of spencerfernando.com. Great to see you again. Thanks for joining us today
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from Winnipeg. You know, if you think it's a genocide, say so. If you don't think it's a genocide,
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say so. Make your case each way. But to bravely run away is, I think, the most pitiful thing I've
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seen from a pitiful parliament in a year. Yeah, I mean, you know, if this was a different
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prime minister, the best they could say was, okay, we're trying to, you know, maintain some sort of
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strategic ambiguity when we talk to China. Say, oh, well, the government didn't say you committed
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genocide, just the House of Commons. But this isn't any prime minister. I mean, this is Justin Trudeau.
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You know, we've all seen him when he said he admired China. It was the country he most admired.
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So it just, you know what, it just doesn't add up for this government to say, oh, well,
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we're just being smart about it. No, I mean, this is a guy who every chance he's had to kind of get
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in line with public opinion on China, he avoids it every single time. You know, there's not really
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any exceptions to that. And so it's very interesting to see liberal MPs, the vast majority of them voting
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for the motion, after what I'm guessing was a bit of a lobbying effort from Trudeau internally to get
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them to do otherwise. So there's some who are showing some courage today, which is good to see.
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Yeah, you're talking about the backbenchers who just could not show their faces to their ridings,
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backbenchers who have claimed to care about minorities and civil rights. It's bizarre to me. I mean,
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just a week ago, the news came out that Justin Trudeau's government had approved $4.8 million
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as a gift, a kind of foreign aid to Huawei, the Communist Party connected tech company.
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Trudeau wasn't abstaining on that. He wasn't wishy-washy on giving $4.8 million in foreign aid,
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essentially, to the world's largest economy. He's resolute on that. When the Canadian military
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wanted to cool off joint training projects with China, he was furious with that. But to actually
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call them, to call it genocide by its proper name, he won't even show up. I find that odd.
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I just think that if you can't say the name of your foreign policy, if you can't say it,
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if you're literally hiding from the House of Commons, that in itself is probably a sign that
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you're doing it wrong, if you can't bear the consequences of it for or against, if you're
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literally hiding under your desk, I think that's a sign you're off course. What's the payoff?
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I just don't understand this as a kind of diplomacy. Almost two and a half years after the kidnapping of
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the two Michaels, surely Trudeau knows this does not work.
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Yeah. There's a few things I think about. One is that if you look back at Trudeau's history,
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his father was very much obviously pro-communist and pro-China, a big fan of dictatorships,
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communist dictatorships. So I think that a lot of that was instilled in Trudeau from a young age.
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And I think he really can't break out of it. I think that's still his mindset.
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I think at his core, he's much more of a, you know, pro-dictatorship or pro-China than he is
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pro-Western civilization, for example, you know, pro-Canada, the Anglosphere, the US, the UK,
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that history. And I think he just can't break out of it. And then I think there's some people who,
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and it's not necessarily that they're bought off or anything, but I think there's some people who are
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unable to adjust to how China's changed. You know, I think around 20, you know, 2005, 2010,
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you know, you could be forgiven for thinking, well, China's probably going to, even though
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the Communist Party will still be in charge, they're probably going to become a little more
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democratic, a little more open. You know, it's going to be more like kind of a normal country.
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It's going to be fine. And it just hasn't turned out that way. China's getting more and more
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authoritarian, more bullying of their partners, the people in the region, their human rights abuses,
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you know, obviously what's happening with the Uyghurs, the genocide there, it's getting worse and worse.
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And I think people, some people just can't really accept what China's become and are just kind of
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caught in some sort of fantasy world and just hope, oh, we just won't talk about it. It's all
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going to go away. And of course, history shows that never works.
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You know, one thing that comes to mind is Joe Biden. Of course, his family does a lot of business
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with China. But in a recent town hall with CNN, Joe Biden made a kind of defense for China. I think
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he had just spent two hours on the phone with Xi Jinping. And he said the most astonishing thing,
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he said, China and its dictators have to be this way because it's expected of them. It's just who
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they are culturally. And just like an American president has to be American, a Chinese. Here,
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here's it in its own words. I think this was stunning. He basically said, yeah,
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they say that's their culture. And who am I to disagree? Here's a clip of that.
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You know, Chinese leaders, if you know anything about Chinese history,
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it has always been the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven't
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been unified at home. So the central to vastly overstated, the central principle of Xi Jinping
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is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he
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does based on that. I point out to him, no American president can be sustained as a president
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if he doesn't reflect the values of the United States. And so the idea, I'm not going to speak
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out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in Western mountains of
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China and Taiwan trying to end the one China policy by making it forceful. I said, and by the way,
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he said he he gets it. Culturally, there are different norms at each country and they their leaders are
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expected to follow. So Spencer, I think that some of it is Trudeau's own natural pro-China ideology.
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And you're so right. He inherited from his dad. His brother shares that. His brother published his
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last book on China and the publisher was the Chinese government. That's how tight his brother is.
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But I think Joe Biden coming in with the pro-China point of view, I think Trudeau is going to completely
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harmonize his China policy with that of Joe Biden. I think that's that's they're tracking each other
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on this Uyghur issue. Yeah, we'll see. You know, what we've seen from Biden so far is a little bit
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contradictory. On the one hand, I saw his comments in the town hall, which, yeah, it seemed kind of
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almost a justification in a way, which in a way is kind of insulting to Chinese people, right? Like to say,
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you know, it's like the same argument people used to make in the past, like, oh, you know, certain
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cultures or countries just aren't compatible with democracy. And people said that about a lot of
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European countries that have now been democracies for, you know, more than half a century. So I
00:26:08.900
think and just look at Taiwan, right? I mean, ethnically, the exact same as China. And you've
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got a very functioning democracy with human rights, you know, just across, you know, the Taiwan
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straight there. So I think it's it's important to to not fall into that idea that some place is just
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all democracy just doesn't work. But, you know, the flip side is, you know, the Biden administration,
00:26:28.300
the Trump administration had declared China's actions a genocide. And one of Biden's top officials
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was asked, well, does the Biden administration think that? And they said, yes, we stand by that
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that call. So somewhat contradictory so far. But, you know, to be honest, even the Biden administration
00:26:43.680
has shown more courage than the Trudeau government on China so far. Now, I care about this issue because
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I'm very interested in China and I see them as a global rival to the West. But I think some folks
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don't know what the word Uyghur mean. It's a strange sounding word. It looks strange when you
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read it. I don't think many people know Uyghurs. It's a small community. And when you explain it,
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you know, it's a faraway place, faraway land. And yeah, there's a lot of tough things in China.
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So on, I mean, I think that the way China is treating the Uyghurs is atrocious. And I think
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there's a lot of evidence that they have prison camps, labor camps, there have been violence and
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mass rape, for example. But to some Canadians, it is such an abstract, faraway pretend issue in terms
00:27:42.060
of their daily lives. Where, you know, is their work being shut down because of the lockdown?
00:27:47.600
Are they going to run out of pandemic benefits? When will their kids be allowed to go back to
00:27:53.420
school? Are we going to have to wear masks and be afraid all the time? Should I be worried about
00:27:58.200
not getting a vaccine? So part of me thinks that this is only for people who follow politics as a
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hobby and that severely normal people who don't know where Xinjiang is, don't know what Uyghurs are.
00:28:10.520
It's actually in some ways a welcome distraction for Trudeau because he doesn't have to talk about
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his vaccine failure. What do you think of that? Yeah, possibly. Although I think if you look at the
00:28:21.160
way the Liberal cabinet is responding by abstaining, it shows that they know this isn't good politically.
00:28:27.360
I mean, they couldn't just outright oppose it because they know they get a huge backlash.
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Most Liberal MPs are voting, you know, voting for the motion, of course. And then I think this will
00:28:36.560
have long-term, you know, issues with Trudeau. I'm already seeing people on Twitter saying things
00:28:40.940
like, you know, Trudeau can't talk about Islamophobia or feminism or colonialism ever again
00:28:45.960
because every time he does, he's just going to be reminded, well, I guess you kind of took the
00:28:50.320
coward's way out when it came to talking about the Uyghurs, right? So I think this does hurt the
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Liberal Party for sure, especially Trudeau, the divide between him, his cabinet, and then many Liberal
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MPs. But yeah, it's not the biggest issue for most Canadians right now, for sure. And I think
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if you look at the polling numbers, the Conservatives are still struggling. Aaron O'Toole is still
00:29:10.880
struggling. So yes, this is an issue. You have to take a strong stand, have to stand up for what's
00:29:15.800
right. But just from a political perspective, yeah, you're going to have to talk about the issues
00:29:20.680
that most people are thinking about. Yeah. I tell you, these are dark days in so many ways.
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I hope that, you know, I mean, we sometimes lament the state of affairs in Canada, but I think we can
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all thank our lucky stars that we're here and not in Xinjiang, as many parts of the world get darker.
00:29:38.760
Spencer Fernando, always a pleasure. Thanks for joining us today. I want to give your website one
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more shout out. It's spencerfernando.com. My favorite thing is you are quick with the news. I often learn
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00:30:01.600
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independent and it shows. So keep up the great work, Spencer. All right, take care. All right,
00:30:41.140
Hey, welcome back on my show Friday. Jay writes, the lockdowns are destroying the world. The governments
00:30:45.560
need to finally admit that the science was wrong. The virus is not deadly to the vast majority of
00:30:49.740
the population. Well, you say the lockdowns are destroying the world. Most of the world is not
00:30:54.800
locked down this way. It just isn't. It's, I think, the luxurious, wealthy countries of the West. And
00:31:02.000
again, not every place. I mean, Florida is practically open. It depends on your local politician,
00:31:07.040
which isn't science, is it? Jameson writes, the media has a lot of blame for this. They thrive on bad
00:31:13.360
news. As long as there is anger and fear, people will continually flock to the media.
00:31:17.300
You are so right. And, you know, the media feasted on Donald Trump for four years. They need something
00:31:21.980
else to be exhilarated and furious and shocked by, don't they? Bruce writes, the problem with Bill
00:31:31.280
Gates and other rich folks is they've got a God complex. They feel that their money makes them wiser
00:31:35.500
than the average person. Well, it's a few things. They, I mean, it is true they've achieved enormous
00:31:41.300
and amazing things. And I would trust Bill Gates about computer software. I sure would. And about,
00:31:48.460
you know, the things he is great at. But he's not great at everything. He's not a scientist. He's not
00:31:55.520
a doctor. He's not a climatologist. So someone who's great at software then think, well, I'm the best in
00:32:01.860
the world. Therefore, my opinions on other subjects are to be listened to. I think there is that God
00:32:08.440
complex. I think also when you're that rich and powerful, you're surrounded by yes men. It's the
00:32:15.240
emperor has no clothes. The emperor's new clothes. No one has the courage to say to the big boss,
00:32:22.560
you're actually naked because no one wants to get on his wrong side. And of course, finally,
00:32:29.300
there's just plain old money. You can buy your way anywhere. So I think that you see it with Bill
00:32:34.820
Gates. You see it with Mark Zuckerberg. You see it with George Soros. Elon Musk is now the richest man
00:32:40.720
in the world. So far, it seems like he lacks that God complex. He likes being a bit of a troublemaker,
00:32:46.680
which I prefer. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubble
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World Headquarters, I hope. Good night. Keep fighting for free.