Media Party wants Trudeau to crack down on non-bailout media — like Rebel News
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The media that are taking Trudeau s bailout money are asking him to crack down on non-bailout media, saying we can t be trusted. Not only did he not walk them back, but the newspapers are demanding that sort of licensing.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through a very strange and fairly private letter sent by Canada's media organizations, the big newspapers and the CBC, to the Trudeau government asking for them to bring in more regulations to determine who is and isn't a trusted media source.
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Hang on, I thought Stephen Gilbeau sort of walked those comments back. No, no, no, no, no. Not only did he not walk them back, but the newspapers are demanding that sort of licensing. I'll prove it to you.
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Tonight, it's official. The media that are taking Trudeau's bailout money are asking him to crack down on non-bailout media, saying we can't be trusted. 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 publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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You know where you're not likely to see any bad news about the billionaire media tycoon Michael Bloomberg?
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The guy who's just trying to buy the presidency through the Democratic Party?
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You won't see any bad news about him, no critical news about Bloomberg on Bloomberg.
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Bloomberg is actually a pretty big media company named after him, Bloomberg News.
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Pretty reputable. Of course, it tilts left, as all media do, but it's a real company.
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Ever since Michael Bloomberg, the man, threw his pint-sized hat into the ring, Bloomberg, the media empire, hasn't criticized him.
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Of course not. They're not allowed to. He's the boss.
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And he's made it crystal clear, only attack Trump.
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Bloomberg, the man, built his own media company called Bloomberg News.
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There are so many other media companies in America, it probably won't make a real difference,
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other than people won't be able to trust Bloomberg, the company, quite as much anymore.
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In fact, Bloomberg has now made his company the issue.
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Maybe other media will start doing stories about just how deeply in bed with communist China
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The guy makes Justin Trudeau look like a Sinophobe.
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I have literally never even seen a Chinese diplomat say something this crazy.
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The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public.
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When the public says, I can't breathe the air, Xi Jinping is not a dictator.
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He has to satisfy his constituents, or he's not going to survive.
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No government survives without the will of the majority of its people.
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I mean, when Trudeau says that, he sounds dumb and naive.
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When Bloomberg says that, it sounds terrifying, because we know he's not dumb and naive.
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But my point is, Bloomberg the man says, trust Bloomberg, the company, which says, trust Bloomberg
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And while it's all a bit much, and Bloomberg has more than $60 billion he can throw at other
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He could pretty much just buy every single TV station and newspaper in America.
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If he really wanted to, he's got enough money, though there are antitrust rules that would
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I'm not so sure it would work, because people would resist.
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But my obvious point is, if you want bad news about Bloomberg the man, you'll have to look
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somewhere else besides Bloomberg the media company.
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So what about in Canada, where 99% of all newspapers are now on Justin Trudeau's payroll?
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Name me a single newspaper, and I'll answer, because it's easy.
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Because there was already an oligopoly of a few big companies controlling everything.
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So if you name the Calgary Herald, or the Edmonton Journal, or the Ottawa Citizen, or Vancouver
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Sun, Vancouver Province, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, National
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Post, Toronto Sun, Edmonton, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Sun, they're all just one company, right?
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And that company gets $140,000 a week from Justin Trudeau.
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I don't have time to read out all the names of the weekly newspapers or specialty newspapers
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owned by PostMedia, and that's just one company.
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But there are only a handful of companies that cover, seriously, 99% of all the media.
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The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the regional BC papers, the Atlantic papers.
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99% of the newspapers in this country are part of the bailout.
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He's huge, but he's just one guy with one company.
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If he buries bad news about himself, you'll probably hear it from someone else.
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But what about in Canada, where I swear I do not exaggerate, 99% of the media are in
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And by that, I mean they have all taken the plunge and taken Justin Trudeau's government
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It's exactly what I said would be impossible for Bloomberg, even though he's so rich, because
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he literally would not be allowed to buy 90% of American media, because it would be an
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Oh, and they have a lobby group, as you would expect.
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The CBC gets another $1.5 billion direct from Trudeau.
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It's your money, so they're adverse to your interests, and they lobby Trudeau to get it.
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And look at the main story on the front page, as it were, of their lobby group's website.
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Media companies call on Parliament to support policies that favor trusted sources of original
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Like Bloomberg, they don't report embarrassing things about Bloomberg.
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When Canada's media cartel announces their plans that are adverse to consumer choice, or
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to freedom, or to competition, they're not going to shout it out to you.
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They'll put it on their lobbyist website and target it to Parliament.
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Not on the front page of the newspapers that, you know, go to mere citizens.
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I'm sorry, but the newspapers don't value you anymore.
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You used to be the center of things in the media.
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But neither of those things are really true anymore.
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You probably get your news for free, probably on the internet.
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And sure, your eyes are still worth something to advertisers, very much so, but probably not
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to companies buying half a page of ads in a printed newspaper.
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Probably do a Facebook ad or a Google ad or something like that.
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So you aren't really even part of this discussion anymore, other than the source for tax dollars
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that Trudeau will extract from you and give to newspapers that you don't even read anymore.
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It was started by the sister of Joel Solomon, the creator of the Tides Foundation.
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These companies used to actually compete against each other once upon a time.
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They used to compete against each other, hammer and tong.
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They're allies because they have the identical self-interest now, working together to pressure
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Justin Trudeau's government to give them more of your money.
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They're allied to press Trudeau to give them things that they can't convince you to give
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They want Trudeau to favor them and they'll return the favor like Bloomberg to Bloomberg.
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Favor them over the handful of holdouts who don't take the bailout.
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That's Candace Malcolm and Andrew Lawton and friends.
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The total number of staff at all four of these independent media I just named, including us,
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In the whole country, we're the 1%, but not the richest 1% as that term is often used.
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And that's what the media party wants to change.
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Here, let's go through this weird lobbying letter.
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I don't think it was on the front page of your newspaper that you might have read.
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It was just on the front page of their lobbying website, although they were talking about you
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and what you'd be allowed to read and what you wouldn't.
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Here, let me go through this letter that was sent to Parliament.
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Media companies call on Parliament to support policies that favor trusted sources of original
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They think that they're the only trustworthy ones.
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They're the only ones that Justin Trudeau can trust to give them his money, your money.
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So if that's what they mean by trust, the only newspapers that Trudeau can trust, they're
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Remember, he keeps trying to censor us, either by calling the cops on me for writing a book
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about him or banning us at the Rebel and our friends at True North from the leaders debates.
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So it's, I suppose, true that the media party are the only trustworthy media if it's Trudeau's
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trust that counts as opposed to your trust that counts.
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That we, the 1%, the tiny band of rebels and our allies, we're the only trustworthy ones
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that you can trust not to be paid off by the people we're supposed to be holding to account.
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How can you take money from someone you're covering?
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They keep talking about who's trustworthy, and they have decided who will decide.
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As a result of those discussions, CBC Radio Canada and the Winnipeg Free Press launched
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a pilot project in Winnipeg, sharing resources on weekends and cross-linking trusted news content
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on their websites to better serve that community.
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The group is continuing to explore other areas of possible collaboration.
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So it's Trudeau's CBC, the official state broadcaster with government journalists.
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And they'll promote those voices using government money?
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The journalism being produced every day by people in your community is important.
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Now more than ever, we encourage you to support Canadian media in your community.
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A strong democracy depends on diverse sources of trusted news.
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If by that you mean different points of view, we're different than the other guys.
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I don't trust the CBC or the Toronto Star or many of the other media on the bailout now.
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Many Americans don't trust Bloomberg media's reporting anymore.
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But at least in America, they have other choices.
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And in America, Bloomberg hasn't asked the government to favor his personal company.
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And that's what these Canadian grifters just did.
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Now they're trying to decide who is or isn't trustworthy.
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And they want Trudeau to enforce their definition.
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They want to change the laws and the policies of Trudeau's government to favor them.
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Earlier this month, the Heritage Minister, Stephen Gilboa, a longtime Trudeau ally, a convicted criminal, by the way, radical environmental activist for years.
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He went to CTV to talk about government licenses to prove you're trustworthy.
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To be fair, you've got an agency that wants to enhance its scope of powers to determine what's a trusted news source.
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So the first question will be, who's to define that?
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They're recommending that content providers have to register and get a license.
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Well, I mean, one of the recommendations, so you're talking about a couple of different things here,
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but as far as the licensing is concerned, is if you're a distributor of content in Canada,
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and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization,
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the requirement probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.
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So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.
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Do you really think that was a gaffe, a mistake?
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The second item on Gilboa's official to-do list, his mandate letters sent to him from Trudeau,
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It's his job description, according to Trudeau.
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Still, it was a bit startling to hear it spoken that way.
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Like I say, normally this sort of weird lobbying and censorship isn't published to the population at large.
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Like I say, Bloomberg, the company, doesn't report bad things about Bloomberg, the man.
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And this was a case of the media actually reporting bad things about the plans for the media.
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So Gilboa was sent back out the next day to try to clean up the damage.
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What we are saying is that we will not ask news organizations to have license.
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And I refer people to the report, which does make an independent panel that makes a recommendation
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that on the issue of discoverability, media organization would need to have a license.
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But that, we're not, and media can be confusing.
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I recognize that because the report talks about media,
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but not necessarily in the sense necessarily of news agencies.
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And maybe you saw the odd pundit squawk about what Gilboa was saying.
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They said so in their government-trusted, government-funded, controlled opposition kind of way.
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All those pundits I showed you there who were saying, this is outrageous.
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Yeah, well, two days ago, their bosses all wrote to Trudeau asking for exactly what Gilboa had proved.
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What he had suggested, new policies to favor them, the trustworthy ones.
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I've said it before, 99% is not enough for Trudeau.
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He wants the last of us 1%ers, the 1% independent media.
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Soon there will be only two kinds of journalists in Canada.
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Those working for Trudeau, like Urbach, Selle, and Coyne there.
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For another four years, and we can't stand that.
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So I'd like to talk about who we're running against.
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A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians.
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Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns,
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of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.
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Holy moly, that's Elizabeth Warren taking off the gloves this week in a Democratic presidential primary debate.
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After that, joining us now via Skype to talk about it is our friend Joel Pollack,
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I see that had the highest debate ratings of any Democratic debate, I think, ever.
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I think the ratings were high because people wanted to see Mike Bloomberg.
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They wanted to see the new entrant into the field.
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And I also think they were anticipating this kind of a fight.
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Bernie Sanders had been hinting at it for days that this was a billionaire trying to come in and take control of the party.
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And if there was one thing you knew about Bernie Sanders, it's that he would not stand for a billionaire buying out the presidential election.
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So I think this was a highly anticipated fight virtually on the eve of the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder heavyweight boxing championship in Las Vegas,
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And very much in that style, right out of the gate, Elizabeth Warren jabbed Michael Bloomberg right between the eyes.
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He got in a few good punches of his own, particularly at the expense of Sanders,
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noting later on that what a wonderful country America is because the best-known socialist in America has three houses and is a millionaire.
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Obviously, he had been keeping that powder dry, but he really delivered it well.
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Mary Bloomberg, would you like to admit that the question was about socialism?
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The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.
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Well, you'll miss that I work in Washington, House 1.
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And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.
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I think a lot of Democrats, pundits, Democrat pundits, thought Michael Bloomberg was not
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quite prepared, not ready for obvious questions that were coming his way.
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My theory is that when you're worth $60 billion and the president of a company that's named
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after you, you don't have a lot of skeptics or dissidents in your world.
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It's been a while since he's been mayor of New York, where everyone's a critic.
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I think maybe he just wasn't ready for the rough and tumble.
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There's another argument, which is that he actually did exactly what he needed to do.
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Now, this is not a view I share, but it is a pretty good argument, which is that all he
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needed to do is draw out the worst in the other candidates and survive.
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The only person who he did not manage to draw into a confrontation was Pete Buttigieg.
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Pete Buttigieg remained focused on Bernie Sanders.
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And I thought that showed some smart thinking on his part, because Bloomberg is not on the ballot
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on Saturday when the people of Nevada, in the Democratic Party at least, go to vote in their
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Now, you might think it's kind of dumb for Bloomberg to go on stage before a caucus or
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a primary where the result is going to be he loses with 0% of the vote.
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But Buttigieg understands that Bloomberg may be around for a while, and his real challenge
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Sanders is the frontrunner, and Buttigieg is trying to say, look, I'm the real alternative
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I'm not going to waste my time attacking Michael Bloomberg.
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I'll leave that to the others, but I'm going to go after the frontrunner.
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All the other candidates spent their time attacking Michael Bloomberg, and he was able, in a sense,
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Perhaps he actually did win the debate because he will be around again next week.
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Then he's around on Super Tuesday when all the other candidates have essentially punched
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themselves out, all of them except Pete Buttigieg, who, despite whatever other flaws he has as
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a candidate, is running a very polished campaign.
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He's doing everything you would need to do to win the state.
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Not polling very well, though, because I don't think people are warming to his message,
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It's almost an Obama-type, hopey-changing message 12 years after the fact.
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So it's not really clear what he stands for, and I think that's fundamentally his problem.
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But he is running an incredibly well-organized and disciplined campaign, and you saw that
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But Sanders and Bloomberg came to fight, and Sanders especially.
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And you can see he really let Bloomberg get under his skin very early on, as well as Buttigieg.
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When Buttigieg was attacking Sanders, Sanders almost flew into a rage on stage.
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He was trying to get everybody to look angry, unhinged, lacking the leadership temperament.
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Some of it, by the way, I don't think was actually correct.
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Some of the attacks against him weren't 100% factually correct.
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He just withstood it and delivered his message.
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There was one thing he did very poorly, which was on the issue of women making accusations
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inside of his company and the non-disclosure agreements he made them sign.
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You know, Trump would have handled that very differently.
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Here, let's play a clip of it just so our viewers know what you're talking about.
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For sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.
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So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure agreements
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None of them accused me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.
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There's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them.
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They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.
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And when you say they signed them, and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and
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tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now okay with you?
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I don't know what the truth beneath it is, but it looks bad.
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I thought it was very poor debating form for him to be drawn into that subject.
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I'd like to know the truth about Elizabeth Warren's investments in the fossil fuel industry,
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or I'd like to know about how she flipped houses and took advantage of people who went
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You know, he had to counter with something, instead of which he gave them more information
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And watching all that and being right there in Las Vegas, my eyes kind of glazed over because
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I don't think there's anything of real public interest in that discussion, but it does make
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And so I don't think that it was that interesting a point in terms of policy debate, but it was
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certainly interesting in terms of the political struggle.
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And polls since the debate have shown that the only real change was that Bloomberg's favorability
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I remember back four years ago when Donald Trump was amongst a dozen plus contenders.
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And after a while, they all turned their guns on him.
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And just simply being the subject of their attention, he, it was like, he was the only
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He had so much charisma, so much style, so entertaining, so outrageous that he took up
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He has all the money in the room, but I don't know if he has, if being the center of attention
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I think Bloomberg is pitching himself as a safe alternative to Trump, and it helps him
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that Sanders is doing so well, because I think Democrats who don't like Sanders will eventually
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He just has the most independent staying power.
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I think, surely on the merits, Amy Klobuchar is probably the best non-Sanders candidate.
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The problem is she has very little money, and she's peaking too late.
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She did very well in New Hampshire, but she came to Nevada a few days later and had to
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She didn't have offices there before, I don't think.
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That's all well and good, but it's a bit late in the game.
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Elizabeth Warren had five offices there back in September.
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And by the way, you might see Elizabeth Warren do quite well in Nevada, not just because of
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that organization, but because, as we mentioned earlier, she came out fighting in the early
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The media pundits decided that Donald Trump was the winner of the debate.
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And sometimes I agree, the Democrats do so poorly that Donald Trump's the real winner.
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I think the Democratic Party as a whole won that debate, because I think if I were a Democratic
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voter watching that debate, I would feel that finally the candidates were showing some energy,
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And that's what Democratic voters want to see most.
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They want to see that their leaders are willing to fight.
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So I actually think the debate was good for the Democrats, even though they spent all
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Those attacks will help Trump, there's no doubt.
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And the candidates said things that will appear in Trump campaign ads also, no doubt of that.
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But I think that since the Democratic Party is simply trying to convince itself that it
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can fight in this election after the debacle of impeachment, after the good economic numbers,
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you know, they almost didn't talk about the economy at all.
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They didn't talk about foreign policy at all in this debate.
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And so Democrats are just trying to convince themselves they have the staying power.
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In that regard, I think the debate was a big win for Democrats, because Warren and the
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I see today that Bernie Sanders was asked about Michael Bloomberg.
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And obviously, he wasn't going to give Bloomberg a positive review.
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But he said something that I got to think is true.
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He said Donald Trump would chew Bloomberg up and spit him out.
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I mean, he's just Trump, as you mentioned earlier, would have parried and thrusted and
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cut back against Elizabeth Warren, as he did with Hillary Clinton.
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But maybe that's my desire, not not a true prognostication.
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And I think the only threat to Trump on the debate stage is Amy Klobuchar, because she has
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a style that is so different that she could end up reframing the debate the way she wants
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None of the other candidates seems to understand how to do that.
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Klobuchar didn't do very well in the last debate either, because she allowed Pete Buttigieg
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And I think she had an unfortunate moment in a television interview in Nevada where she
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was asked the name of the Mexican president and couldn't remember.
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It also didn't help that one of the debate questions was about that.
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But when she's on her game, she can change the debate.
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And it's simply because she has such a different style to everybody else.
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And I think it's one that Trump would have trouble with.
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Bernie Sanders going after Trump toe to toe doesn't make Bernie look better.
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And you can see that every time he fights anyone on stage.
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They've really tried to dispel rumors that he's unhealthy.
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They're not really being completely transparent about his medical problems.
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So, Bernie versus Trump on stage, I think Bernie comes off worse.
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Bloomberg, I think, was a deer caught in the headlights for most of the debate.
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Again, his strategy, I think, was just to survive and draw out the other attacks.
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And he did come back with a few zingers against Sanders.
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When is this Super Tuesday where so many of the states vote at once and it will really shake out the third, fourth, fifth place folks from the race?
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There are a few other big primaries after that.
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But California and Texas both vote on Super Tuesday.
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After that, you've got Michigan and Florida, Arizona.
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And I think the last big one is Pennsylvania at the end of April.
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I'll be home in California because that's where the state will be voting in Super Tuesday for the first time.
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And so I'll be reporting on the ground in California.
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Well, Joel, thanks so much for joining us and taking the time away from things over there.
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And we look forward to keeping in touch with you.
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Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large of Breitbart.com.
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I can't believe how quick Super Tuesday is coming up.
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On my monologue yesterday about the illegal blockades, Kaelin writes,
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If the police don't enforce the law, is it not legal for people to do citizen's arrests?
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Basically doing what the cops were supposed to do in the first place.
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I didn't hear anybody suggesting this, so I was thinking that this might be the next legal step.
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Ordinary citizens have many powers that we generally leave to the police.
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For example, you can perform a citizen's arrest.
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Now, you have to be careful, and I don't generally recommend it.
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They just cleared the junk off the railway tracks that was a danger.
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So this wasn't even policing on the part of private citizens.
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I wouldn't recommend that you try and arrest someone for standing on railroad tracks,
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because I just think that I don't think that that would stand a strong chance of being legally successful.
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You have to be very careful when doing a citizen's arrest,
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Clearing blockades, though, in a nonviolent way, I say thumbs up.
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And in fact, the rebel will provide legal advice, a lawyer,
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to any Canadian who nonviolently clears off a blockade
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Personally, I hope the eastern Canada blockades increase.
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What better way to send a message to easterners and people in big cities?
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and Jagmeet Singh called racist a few days ago.
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He still doesn't have any plans for making the blockades come down.
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I think the reason Trudeau chose to act was, first of all,
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you don't think he's going to work on the weekend, do you?
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So he wanted to go skiing, so he had to solve it today.
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Number two, certain critical things for eastern Canada,
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like propane deliveries, were about to run out.
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I think there's some real problems starting to happen if these blockades continue.
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I don't want people in Atlantic Canada to be freezing in the cold.
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We've already seen more than a thousand layoffs.
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But I will admit that it's sort of a karmic outcome,
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that the parts of this country that voted so overwhelmingly
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for the climate change parties, the liberals and the Bloc Kippur and the NDP,
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I need my propane, let the diesel power trains go.
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No, it's almost like they didn't mean it when they said
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It's almost like all they meant was Alberta can suffer
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Sean writes, I'm not sure if anyone is going to get this email,
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but I want you to know I live in a small town in Ontario, northern Ontario,
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and I'm more than willing to lend my services to clean up any blockade.
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And so my number one piece of advice, just as a friend,
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I believe that it is, in my own amateur opinion,
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that it's lawful to take junk off a railroad track and move it away.
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I think you're doing a good thing because you're removing a danger.
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What bugged me so much is that the police in the northern Alberta crossing there
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were standing by and it fell to private citizens right in front of the police
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but absolutely clear the junk off railroad tracks.
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And if you get arrested or hassled, we will supply you with a lawyer.
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I should recommend to you, in closing, a video that Sheila Gunn-Reed just published today.
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She was in Alberta meeting with some of those lads that cleared the tracks in Alberta.
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And we gave each of them a case of beer on us, a way of saying attaboy.
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And if any of them has any legal troubles, we'll send them a lawyer as well.
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We'll see you on Monday and we'll have YouTube videos on the weekend.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,