Media union Unifor is trying to block conservative newspaper columns — after I wrote one for the Globe & Mail
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Unifor, the media union that s campaigning against Andrew Scheer, is now trying to block conservative columns in newspapers. I'll prove it to you because it happened to me. That's today's story from Ezra Levant's show on The Rebel.
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Hey folks, in today's show I tell you a strange story about Unifor, the big labor union representing journalists.
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Now we all know that Unifor has dedicated themselves to destroying Andrew Scheer and the conservatives in this campaign.
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But we always assumed that meant it would be through polls and campaign ads and things like that.
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We didn't know that they were working within the newsrooms of Canadian companies to censor conservatives by stealth.
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I'll prove it to you because it happened to me.
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Tonight, Unifor, the media union that's campaigning against Andrew Scheer,
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is now trying to block conservative columns in newspapers.
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It's September 18th, 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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This week, The Globe and Mail published an article by me about media freedom,
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the liberal government, and us here at The Rebel.
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I wrote about how I had to be smuggled into a Canadian government press conference
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because the Canadian foreign minister blocked me from that same conference
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I wrote about how Sheila Gunn-Reed was banned from a press conference in London
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and in that case, other journalists were so disgusted they refused to come
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So, um, Glover Mail, um, World War, um, CTV, Al Jazeera, CDC, and the National Economic Council.
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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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I also mentioned in my column about Kian Bextie being banned from our own Canadian embassy
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The Prime Minister's office has agreed with the Canadian press gallery
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that your organization's views are not welcome.
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That column in the Globe and Mail, by the way, was so popular,
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my name became the third most popular item on social media trending in Canada.
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Now, if you're a regular rebel viewer, nothing in that op-ed was news to you.
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Censorship, free speech, liberal corruption, those are some of our regular themes here.
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But having a column about those things in the Globe and Mail brought those facts
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to the attention of people who probably had never seen them before.
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The Globe and Mail is a fancy newspaper, the newspaper of record for, say,
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I bet a lot of people who read the column had never even heard of the rebel before,
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I admit I read probably more than 100 criticisms of my op-ed,
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but not one of them, not one, challenged a fact that I actually wrote.
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Or really even challenged my conclusion that the liberals don't believe in media freedom.
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If anything, I think leftists nodded their head.
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Because in 2019, leftists don't debate anymore.
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They don't try to convince you to change your mind.
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They don't try to convince bystanders to change their mind.
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They put their energies into silencing any other points of view.
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I mean, isn't that where you usually see defenses for freedom of the press?
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I remember not too long ago when the ironically named Canadian journalists for free expression
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actually had a petition to ban Donald Trump from coming to Canada to speak.
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And by extension, ban any journalist who wanted to report on him.
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All of that is the opposite of free expression, isn't it?
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And even if my article was radical or controversial, and again, I read a lot of criticisms of it,
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and no one actually challenged anything I said,
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isn't the comment section of the newspaper four controversial opinions?
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I mean, does it all really have to be eat your spinach lectures from David Suzuki
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about how he and Greta Thunberg can jet around the world,
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but you should use a paper straw and feel guilty for driving a car?
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I mean, isn't a guest column, a guest column in a newspaper actually supposed to be a bit controversial?
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The Globe and Mail has run things much more controversial than the defense of free speech.
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A defense of authoritarian government, of one-party rule in China, of the diminution of freedom.
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It wasn't quite called that, but it was called China Watch,
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and it was a multi-page supplement in the Globe and Mail,
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bought and paid for by the government of the People's Republic of China.
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Here's the Chinese embassy in Ottawa bragging about it.
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You can see it at the bottom of the page there, opening a new chapter.
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It was actually written by China Daily, which is run by the Communist Party.
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So that's what the embassy says, and you can see a picture of what it looked like.
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It looked like a special section in the newspaper.
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Now, it did say something on the top like sponsored content or whatever the new phrase is for ads.
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Now, I acknowledge that this is different from an editor choosing to run an op-ed from the Chinese Communist directly.
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This was a way of saying if you want to run your op-eds, Communist China,
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But my point is, there really wasn't a lot of clucking about that, was there?
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Oh, and here is an op-ed on the same page as me.
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It was an editorially curated column by the Chinese ambassador just a few months ago.
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Now, I think it's safe to say that the Globe and Mail doesn't agree with Communist China at all.
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They have been the toughest newspaper in Canada on Communist China other than the Epoch Times.
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Not just tough on China itself, but their agents and apologists here in Canada.
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In fact, the Globe and Mail is being sued right now by a liberal politician because the Globe and Mail criticized his pro-China extremism.
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But the Globe at least allows another point of view.
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But they do carry on a conversation which is different from a one-way monologue like you see at the CBC State Broadcaster.
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My point here is not to criticize the Globe, but to point out that all of those screamers who were mad that I was published in the Globe,
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well, they didn't really have a beef with the Globe publishing Chinese communist propaganda.
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But then I read a media gossip site called Canada Land, and I realized it wasn't just complainers on the outside, on Twitter,
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they're mad that the Globe and Mail ran my piece on media freedom, union bosses at the Globe were mad too.
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But he's the point man for Jerry Diaz's campaign against the conservatives.
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A few months ago, Jerry Diaz, the president of Unifor, the union that represents global mail journalists and journalists at many other media companies,
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well, he announced, as you can see, look at the picture at the bottom,
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They were going to fight Andrew Scheer and conservatives using their journalists' own union dues.
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They were going to campaign as a registered third-party campaign group.
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It's what's called a super PAC in the United States.
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So get this, the Unifor union, the campaign group that said they're going to be Scheer's worst enemy,
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they wrote a letter from within the Globe and Mail, from that shop steward, Mason,
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demanding that the Globe ban me from writing anything in the newspaper ever again.
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They're fine with Communist Party propaganda sections.
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Unifor didn't quarrel when Omar Khadr, a convicted confessed terrorist, was given op-eds in Canada.
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Op-eds that didn't even mention he was a terrorist.
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As part of Jerry Diaz's campaign against conservatives,
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has Unifor also been blocking other conservative op-eds?
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I don't know, from me, from the Taxpayers Federation maybe,
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Is Unifor now censoring the media from within media companies
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We know that Jerry Diaz and Justin Trudeau are close friends.
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Trudeau put Diaz on his NAFTA negotiating team,
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which was a diplomatic disaster, but Diaz wanted his PR moment.
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Was trying to block me at the Globe a personal favor to Justin Trudeau or Gerald Butz?
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Here's the letter that was sent by Unifor Shop Steward to the Globe and Mail.
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Union rejects management's decision to publish Ezra Levant guest column.
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I mean, I know for a fact that many Unifor Union members supported my op-ed,
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or either they supported the substance of it, what I said,
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or they supported the fact that the Globe published it,
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or they just liked the fact that the Globe was hosting a national debate about censorship.
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Now, I'm not going to name those individual journalists at the Globe who said so.
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They had the courage to indicate their support publicly.
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they might want to delete those old tweets now before they're punished by their union.
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But my point is, I know for a fact that union headline is a lie.
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Yesterday, a guest column appeared in the Globe and Mail's opinion section
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And the fact that it was published represents a serious error in judgment.
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Now, I should tell you that I have written for the Globe and Mail,
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I used to work for the Toronto Sun and the Calgary Sun and the National Posts,
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but I have written for the Globe and Mail more than a half dozen times.
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But only since this Unifor campaign, to be the Conservatives' worst nightmare,
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It is a campaign tactic that they didn't use before they launched their campaign.
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Anyways, then the shop steward goes into personal smears.
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Not only do we have a multiracial staff, but we have a mix of people on camera.
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Two of every kind of person you can name, regardless of race, religion, sex,
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sexual orientation, national origin, whatever the list is today.
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Here's key in interviewing a transgender activist in a friendly setting.
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Not to be rude, but we have much more diversity, racially, other ways like that,
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if that's important to you, than the Unifor Media Union at the Globe and Mail does.
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I really don't care what race or sex or religion they are.
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But it sure seems Unifor does, or at least the signer of this letter, Mason Wright,
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I'm not going to make a Klan joke here, but he's so white, he's pink.
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He's a junior editor, but boy, does he play tough guy.
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I think the chance that he wrote this letter is pretty close to zero.
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Now, I asked him, and I asked Jerry Diaz, who wrote it, and they wouldn't tell me.
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And I said, well, did you write this letter, or did Jerry Diaz?
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Anyways, by the way, on the subject of Mason Wright,
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it's a name you've never heard before and will probably never hear again.
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I went on his LinkedIn page just to see who is this guy.
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And I saw that he liked, do you see that there?
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He liked a column by the Globe and Mail's editor-in-chief, David Walmsley,
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So Mason Wright pretended to care about media freedom just a few months ago.
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Or at least he wanted to suck up to his boss, David Walmsley,
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because he's now signing a letter to that same David Walmsley editor
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But then again, I don't think Mason Wright actually wrote this censorship letter.
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I think Jerry Diaz and his super PAC did, and Mason Wright didn't deny it.
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Maybe it was even written by the liberal war room itself,
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given how close Jerry Diaz and Justin Trudeau are.
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I'll read just a little bit more from this letter that was officially signed by Mason Wright,
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The rebel does not practice responsible journalism
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in accordance with any reasonable standards of integrity.
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Publishing his undisputed claim of being a persecuted journalist
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legitimizes his viewpoint and is harmful to the credibility of the Globe and Mail,
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as well as the reporters and editors we represent.
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You know what's harmful to the credibility of reporters and editors?
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Setting up a partisan campaign group to try to beat the conservatives in an election campaign
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where you're claiming to be nonpartisan reporters covering the conservatives
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and then boasting about it and registering that with Elections Canada.
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Trying to censor people at all is embarrassing to journalists anytime.
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But what do they mean about my undisputed claim of being censored?
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I showed you earlier the videotape of each of the censorship interactions I mentioned.
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like when Rachel Notley sent a sheriff to kick Sheila Gunn-Reed out of the legislature in Alberta.
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Is Jerry Diaz and his errand boy, that junior web editor of the Globe,
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Even the Globe and Mail wrote an editorial condemning Notley's censorship of us,
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But that was before Jerry Diaz's super PAC, right?
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Is Jerry Diaz saying that was a lie or something?
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Is there anything at the Globe that Jerry Diaz won't try to wreck in his vendetta against Andrew Scheer?
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Let me skip to the last line in Jerry Diaz's letter.
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On behalf of our members, we strongly reject management's decision to publish this article,
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Mason Wright, unit chair for the Globe and Mail, unit executive.
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He said he was writing on behalf of his members.
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I want to show you the Globe and Mail's org chart.
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You have to scroll way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way down.
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Someone who thinks that liking his boss's LinkedIn post will maybe get him ahead.
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I hope David honestly noticed I liked him on, hey, boss, I liked you on LinkedIn.
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I don't believe that Mason Wright actually wrote a word of it.
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He just passed it on from Jerry Diaz, who was running the show at the Globe, or trying to.
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I had nine questions on it, like, why didn't you consult your members?
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Why didn't you object to the Chinese ambassadors column?
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Are you going to punish the Globe workers who supported the op-ed?
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I don't expect that Mason Wright, this junior baby editor, will be allowed to reply to me.
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I sent a version of that email to Jerry Diaz, too.
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Mason Wright just sent me a few insults I was sort of embarrassed for.
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He's obviously not the person who's actually writing the letter here.
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Unifor is a registered campaign super PAC, third-party campaigner with Elections Canada.
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Now, until today, we thought that would only mean that they would use their members' union dues,
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just their money, to buy TV ads and billboards and leaflets and polls, you know, campaigning on the streets.
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Jerry Diaz and his third-party campaign group intend to campaign, but not normally.
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They intend to campaign within the media companies they operate, hidden from view, sabotaging me.
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But who else have they stopped that we don't know about?
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Oh, and none of this will be reported as a campaign expense or a donation in kind in their elections Canada return.
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As Trudeau himself has taught us, following the law is just for the little people.
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I learned about the Unifor campaign within the globe and this letter from a left-wing media gossip site.
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But instead of criticizing us, they believe in deplatforming us, too, just like Unifor.
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So Canada Land ran a breathless story about this letter.
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But, and there's an irony here, while they think they got the scoop, they actually missed the huge scoop here.
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It was personally commissioned by the paper's editor-in-chief, according to newsroom sources.
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How my op-ed got published, that's the interesting news here.
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And the shocking answer is, the editor asked for it.
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Isn't the editor getting the column, is there another way that a column might get published?
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Canada Land thinks it's embarrassing to the globe to publish a controversial op-ed, even though, like I say, it isn't actually controversial at all.
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The gossip item doesn't actually waste a single word criticizing or disagreeing with what I said in it.
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They think it's a story that I was published at all.
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That's what newspapers do, especially the comment section.
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Writing about that, well, in the media business, we call that a dog bites man story.
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But they were blinded by their rebel derangement syndrome, so they missed the big scoop here, the man bites dog story.
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It's not news that a newspaper ran a controversial op-ed.
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And, by the way, today they ran two letters in response.
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I've been published there a half dozen times before, just like the Chinese ambassador.
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What's news, the big scoop, is that the Unifor Union campaign is actively trying to interfere with the election
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by killing op-eds from within newspapers in a favor for Jerry Diaz.
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I guess for that we have to thank the gossips at Cannelland.
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They showed us what was supposed to be a quiet move.
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Jerry Diaz's campaign, their third-party super PAC, is quietly pressuring editors across Canada,
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we can only presume, not to run conservative points of view.
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They won't disclose it on their campaign accounts.
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They falsely claim it's in the name of all their journalists when they never asked.
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And when I asked them, both Mason Wright and his boss Jerry Diaz,
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Unifor claiming its journalists all support censorship.
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Well, moving from the swamp of Jerry Diaz and his union henchmen
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to the freest province in Canada, I think they're free again,
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is my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, who joins me by the side of the Freedom Highway.
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Our brand new Libranos billboard went up today.
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It's along the side of Alberta's Freedom Highway, Highway 2, Alberta's busiest highway.
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This billboard behind me will get 1.3 million impressions.
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So that's 1.3 million times every single month where we can spread the news
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about the truth of Justin Trudeau's corruption and cronyism.
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It's just such a big image, and we have the cover of the book,
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and most importantly, how people can get it at thelibranos.com.
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Not just that it tells the other side of the story, unlike the CBC and their poutine journalists.
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I like the fact that it is going to irritate the Gerald Butts of the world.
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His face is right behind you right now because they don't believe that grassroots citizens can have a say.
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Either the state-run journalists of the CBC, the bailout journalists, and no one else.
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They are probably going to try and prosecute us the same way Rachel Notley initiated
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and, frankly, continues to this day under Doug Schweitzer, Jason Kenney's red Tory attorney general.
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I think, in short, this billboard is going to make all the right people angry.
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Yeah, I do, too, although it's making all the right people excited,
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as I was here earlier today when the billboard was going up,
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because I love to see the old billboard come down, and I love to see the new one go up.
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So, like you say, the grassroots are pretty excited about it,
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but I also checked something before I came down to look at the billboard today,
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and that's that your book is number two in nonfiction in all of Canada on Amazon.ca.
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So, not just leading the charts in political books,
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but you're number two in all nonfiction books right now, today.
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And that just shows that people are really hungry for the truth,
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They can't trust the mainstream media to tell them.
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They trust us to give them the truth, and they're coming to us for it,
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because they know it's not available anywhere else.
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they're not getting it in the mainstream media.
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Either the mainstream media has mildly reported on it or has ignored it altogether.
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There's a lot of sweeping things under the rug happening right now.
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Yeah, you know, I'm grateful that people are buying the book.
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Of course, people who are longtime viewers of my show on The Rebel,
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not much in the book will come as news to them,
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because, of course, we cover the subjects every day.
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But this book is designed to be a quick read for people who want to know more about Trudeau,
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but haven't had a chance to learn, because maybe they're reading the Toronto Star,
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The book, it's only about, I think it's 138 pages.
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It's a little different in the electronic form.
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It's $7.50 for an e-book, $15 for the paperback.
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My goal is to have as many Canadians as possible read it,
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because you're just not going to get this info other places.
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While you're out there in Alberta, we've got a team of two young folks in Ontario driving a caravan.
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It's a vehicle towing a big stack of Libranos lawn signs.
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And if people want to get our lawn signs, just like the lawn signs for your book, Sheila, Stop Notley,
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You know, we invite people to make a donation to offset the cost, not just the cost of the billboard,
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but this young couple going across the country.
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We've got to pay for their gas and their hotels and stuff like that.
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But if you don't have the $10, we'll give you the thing for free.
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I joked when I put it up in front of my house yesterday.
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I never thought I'd have a picture of Justin Trudeau on a lawn sign.
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But in the context of the Libranos, you're darn straight.
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You know, I was talking to someone in the office today.
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I'm getting 1,000 of those lawn signs shipped to me because it was so much fun during the Stop Notley campaign
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to be Googling around, giving out those signs, talking to our supporters, hearing their stories
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that I wanted to be a part of the sign delivery process.
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So I'll be taking care of at least some of northern Alberta because it's just so much fun.
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So while it is a lot of work and our two little helpers, they're going to be exhausted every night
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They're going to meet a lot of great people and they're going to hear a lot of really great stories.
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And by the way, I mean, I haven't really introduced them yet.
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We've asked them to do little video travelogues along the way.
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And you can actually see the route they're going to take.
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Remember we had that United We Roll convoy that came from the west to the east.
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So you're out there in Alberta with some signs.
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These youngsters are going to be coming and they're going to be going west and they're going to be in Ontario.
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Some places that we haven't really spent enough time in the past, we're going to hit it all.
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And I really encourage people to come out because we'll probably be fairly close to you wherever you are.
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We don't have plans to get there, but never say never.
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I know the stories you would tell, Sheila, of, you know, people coming and hanging out.
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I wouldn't call it a picnic, but people come and hang out for a couple hours and banter with fellow rebels.
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I remember you said you had a lot of fun and people would even bring you donuts or gifts and baking and stuff like that.
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Yeah, I would get these little personalized gifts from people.
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It was really touching because they could see how hard we were working to spread the news about how terrible Rachel Notley was.
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People who follow my Twitter account would show up with beef jerky because they know I eat a lot of meat.
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And, you know, it's nice to speak to the people.
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I feel like I speak to the people every single day when I'm doing my job from my home studio.
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But it is way better to get out there into the world to talk to those people.
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And I think that's why what Sian and David are doing, why that's so exciting,
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is because they get to go from coast to coast to coast, wherever the news is, chasing it right now,
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holding Justin Trudeau to account during this election campaign.
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Well, listen, I want to thank you for what you're doing.
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We also have plans for what we call those Jumbotron trucks.
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The book, number two on Amazon.ca, that's a pretty cool feeling.
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And you were kind enough to me, Sheila, not to mention that your books have gone to number one
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But if folks want to go to buy the book on Amazon, you can help get the rankings up.
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No, I feel pretty good about our coverage, especially compared to what I call the poutine coverage of the CBC.
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I mean, I just want to show our viewers what I'm talking about.
00:31:16.740
When a CBC journalist named David Cochran, when Trudeau said, here's some poutine.
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When we cut off that clip sort of early there, he actually tucked his cell phone away and started to eat to please his master.
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He didn't like the polite thing to do would be thank you and then put it down because you're not such a cheap tart that you can be bought off for a dinner.
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Like you're a little bit more of an expensive date.
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But David Cochran there, I mean, buy the guy a $5 poutine and, you know, he'll do whatever you want him to do.
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And in case you missed it, Trudeau himself was clarifying by saying, we liberals take care of the CBC.
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And so you and I and hundreds of other Canadians have started calling journalists poutine journalists or give that man a poutine.
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They've taken to Twitter to whine about just how mean the average citizen is being to them.
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Now that we've seen this transactional relationship between Justin Trudeau and the CBC caught on camera.
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I'm sure these sorts of interactions happen all the time.
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I'm not saying they're exchanging greasy hockey rink food for good coverage, but we know the liberals get favorable coverage from the CBC because the CBC received funding from the liberals and promises of more funding from the liberals.
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So, you know, it was, I think for the first time, we saw that moment of honesty and that moment of clarity where it was out in the open for everyone to see.
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Yeah. And the CBC journalists, they're not enjoying the fact that the truth is out.
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Yeah. Let's put it back up on the screen for a second.
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Katie Simpson, one of the government journalists, she's complaining.
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And then and here's what she quotes is so shocking.
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When are you going to ask Trudeau some tough questions instead of just eating poutine?
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That's a good question. I think because Katie Simpson is a plus size woman, she thinks that maybe they're making fun of her being husky.
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I'm husky, too. But they're not making fun of your size, lady.
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They're making fun of the fact that you were absolutely for sale for the price of a poutine.
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And she's she's a cry bully. Katie Simpson and the rest and David Cochran and the rest of the government journalists are vicious when they are on the attack.
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But the first person to say, oh, I see you, you're for rent for a poutine.
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Are you calling me fat? I can't take this bullying.
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That's a cry bully for you. And I ain't buying it.
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Well, if that were the worst thing that ever happened to me in the course of my job as a journalist, I think I would be doing pretty darn good.
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David was accosted by that deranged maniac at the hotel.
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I was punched. He is routinely jostled about one of our cameramen.
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If this happened to Katie Simpson, she would be hospitalized in a coma for three weeks for having some sort of conniption.
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For us, it just happens in the course of our job.
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People are critical of Katie Simpson because they can see how she treats Andrew Scheer.
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She treats Andrew Scheer in a parking lot because he was done answering questions.
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And yet we see her colleagues receiving poutine and not even asking a single question.
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And she wants to flip it on the people who are being critical of her instead of just a little introspection about the quality of the work they're doing.
00:35:35.680
Yeah. We just played a little montage while you were talking, Sheila, of all the times our journalists were physically attacked,
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including when that loser, Dion Buse, punched you out at a New Democrat rally in Alberta.
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Yeah, I'm not going to cry too many tears for a journalist being said, hey, you took a poutine to be a liberal.
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Uh, because that's actually true and that's legitimate.
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And every single person she's complaining about actually pays her salary unwillingly.
00:36:09.780
I'm glad a thousand lawn signs are coming to you.
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The paperback version is $15 or a little bit less even.
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If you want something for free, and I get it, you can get a lawn sign.
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I encourage you to chip in $10 to cover the cost.
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But if you're an Albertan who's still hurting from the oil patch, being destroyed by Trudeau, we'll give you a lawn sign for free.
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In fact, we'll give you a hug and a handshake too.
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But like an arm's length shoulder hug, and we'll give you a lawn sign.
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Sheila, when you get the signs there to northern Alberta, we'll have another map for folks there.
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I'm not sure if Kian's going to be distributing, but there's a lot of lawn signs for everybody.
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I'd appreciate it if you'd chip in a tenner, but it's not necessary.
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I can't wait to hear their stories about how they despise Justin Trudeau.
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I think it's a great way to fight back and annoy all the right people.
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And all those folks driving north and south in Alberta, keep your eyes peeled for that mighty, mighty billboard.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about the good boy media getting poutine from Justin Trudeau.
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Repeaters in Trudeau's media entourage are not reporting.
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Not an honest and ethical repeater in the group.
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Bought by Trudeau and his scavengers using taxpayer dollars.
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Yeah, you know, you can't really be an accountability journalist if you're taking something from the person you're there to hold to account.
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Whether it's $1.5 billion that the CBC gets, $600 million that the uniform media gets, or even just poutine.
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I don't blame Cochran, David Cochran, the CBC journalist, for what Trudeau did to him, handing him poutine.
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I blame Cochran for taking it, actually putting his cell phone in his other hand to enable the taking of it, and then eating it for Justin Trudeau's pleasure, smiling and joking.
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A more self-respecting journalist who wasn't on the payroll would have said, thanks, and put it down.
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You don't take a gift, and the reason Trudeau wanted to see him eat it right there is because when you pay a bribe, the other person has to take it.
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He can't drop it on the ground, take it, eat it, enjoy it, I want to see the irrevocable proof that you take things from me, and even that wasn't enough.
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Imagine the humiliation that a normal journalist would feel when being told by power, we got you in our back pocket.
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But a government journalist revels in that, because that's who he pleases.
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Not only is that my moral goal, the day I stop doing that is the day everyone quits subscribing to our premium channel or giving to our crowdfunding.
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I must answer to our viewers or I'm out of business in a week.
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He must please Justin Trudeau, especially in this crucial campaign, or he's out of business.
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What would be the point of asking Justin a question?
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If you're protected by a bubble, you aren't accountable.
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You know, the other day there was a woman who was not an official reporter who managed to attend a reporter's scrum and stood right next to David Cochran.
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And she asked a tough question to Justin Trudeau.
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We make sure that Corrections Canada keeps the safety of all prisoners at the top of mind every step of the way.
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We do that in a way that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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We continue to apply all the necessary laws to keep Canadians and people in our corrections facilities safe.
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They are rapists in women's prisons and you just force them.
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Yeah, and he also forced the police to stop reporting the sex with criminals and he has not announced it.
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We're going to take questions from the media now.
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That's when Trudeau passed an order that anyone who identifies as a woman gets to go to a woman's prison.
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So that Jonathan Yaniv, who pretends to be a woman, he could just say, I'm a woman, and he can be put in a women's prison with female guards and other female prisoners.
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He can even choose the sex of the prison guard who searches him, who examines him, who watches him on closed circuit TV.
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Justin Trudeau made that weird, weird decision.
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But by the way, all the other journalists mocked her, including David Cochran, who called her angry and shouty.
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Hey, she was a better journalist than you, Mr. Putin.
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Carol writes, I don't understand how so many women fall into the grasp of creepy Justin.
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To fall under the enchantment or fall under an illusion is one thing that's psychological, but you were so right.
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How do they fall into the physical grasp of him?
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Because he does this move, and let me explain it to you again, and it's essential that the move is done in public.
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At this best moment of her life, one of the best moments of her life, this Bianca, I don't want to try and pronounce her last name, forgive me.
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The best moment of her life was when she won the tennis match.
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But this is her crowning moment back in Canada.
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And at that precise moment, a powerful man, the prime minister, comes up to her and puts her in an extremely uncomfortable position.
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In real time, cameras rolling, everyone's smiling.
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Push back at this creepy, pervy, middle-aged guy and turn a beautiful moment into an embarrassment or submit and comply.
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See, if Trudeau, a 47-year-old man, were to encounter that 19-year-old teenager for the first time in private, and he went up to her like that, she would push back.
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She would say, back off, or I got my rape whistle or something.
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But Trudeau is in a power imbalance betting match.
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And that's why he does it at his cabinet swearing-ins.
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Because for her to, he wouldn't, I don't think he would try that in private at first.
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He does it in public because they don't want to make a scene.
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We never did get an answer to the question, did Justin Trudeau ever spend time with Jeffrey Epstein?
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.