Progress Report on the Lockdown Battle
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Summary
Restaurants are a big part of the landscape in many cities, and they have been hit hard by the lockdown. Ezra takes a look at the impact of the lockdown, and calls for the government to let the rest of the population go out.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I look at a little diner in Toronto called Fran's Restaurant that shut down.
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I didn't go there a lot, maybe five times in my life. I wouldn't say it was a great restaurant.
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It was good enough. It was a diner. But I feel a small hole in me now that it's gone because a
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restaurant, a diner, a place in the neighborhood, it's not just a building. It's the backdrop to
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your life, really. 10,000 of these places have been killed, not by the virus, but by the
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Tonight, a progress report on the lockdown battle. It's December 17th,
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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. The only thing I have to say to the
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government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I'm watching with despair places that I know and love that are part of my life are being closed down
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forever because of the lockdown, not because of the virus. The virus has hit seniors' homes,
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hit them hard, but it has left pretty much most other people unscathed. Most provinces make it hard
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to find statistics like these. You can see why. Here's Alberta's statistics to show that literally
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only 20 people out of the 760 deaths in Alberta were for people who didn't have serious comorbidities.
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It's a fancy way of saying they were already very, very sick with heart disease, liver disease,
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diabetes, dementia, whatever. The average victim had three or more such serious diseases before the
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virus killed them. Average age, 82. I am not minimizing or downplaying the meaning of those who died at that
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age or with those comorbidities. I'm just saying it is a narrow sliver of the population. Protect them,
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how about? Let the rest of the world be free. Since when did we ever quarantine the healthy?
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Never. I saw this today. Fran's Restaurant closes at Young and Front Streets. I live in Toronto. I like
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France. So just a couple months ago, it's a local institution, comfort food, fairly inexpensive.
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That diner feeling, they went for that old timey feeling. Everybody knows the place. It's part of the
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landscape. It's part of the neighborhood and it's gone. Of course it is. Can you imagine the rent
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they're paying downtown Toronto and they can't survive without letting people in? Like there's
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such a large space that they're not allowed to let people into the tables. They're not built for
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takeout and delivery. They're built for 100, 150 customers in the restaurant at a time. They're done.
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They're gone. They're gone forever. They survived a lot of things over the years, recessions,
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ups and downs. They survived past viruses, SARS, if you remember that one. But they actually weren't
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done in by the virus. They were done in by the politicians' lockdown. 55 jobs lost and the
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dreams of the owners and the neighborhood is lessened. What is it about a city that gives it
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character? The residential neighborhoods? Sure, I guess. But those are places where families
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nest with themselves. But when people want to go out to be in the city to feel like they're
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part of the larger place, the geography, they go to places with other people. They socialize. They
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make memories that are rooted to the geography. Restaurants are a big part of that. Your favorite
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place isn't necessarily the best place. Fran's Restaurant is not the best restaurant in Toronto.
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Frankly, it wasn't even that good. But it was a place that you knew and you loved because it was a
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symbol of where you lived and a mnemonic for all the good times you had there, all the people you
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went there with. There used to be a popular radio host named Dick Clark who used to say the pretty
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phrase, music is the soundtrack of our lives. I like that. It's true. When you hear a song that you
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love, often it's because of you thinking of something that happened to you where you were when you heard
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it, when you heard it first, or maybe it reminds you of what happened once when you heard it.
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Music is the soundtrack of our lives. Well, a city's restaurants and other places like that are the
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set of our lives, like a movie set, where things happen to us. Celebrations, victories, defeats,
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plans, hopes, lonely nights, lovely nights. It doesn't happen in a restaurant. It happened in a
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particular restaurant, in that restaurant. That's where you lived your life. That's where you
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yourself merged with the geography. A city is not a hotel. We're not transient tourists. We're rooted
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to the ground. Some institutions have been in the city for centuries. Old churches, bridges, schools.
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It's almost impossible to even imagine of France without the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Imagine
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it without that. That's why the torching of the Notre Dame church felt like such a grievous wound. It wasn't
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a building that was being burnt. It was the city itself. Nearly a thousand years of weddings and
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funerals and coronations and crusades. A restaurant is not as grand as a church, but to the people who
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work there, it is just as meaningful for the neighborhood that sees it as a touchstone, a local
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icon, a local landmark. It's what makes a neighborhood a neighborhood. And to have them die, well, things live and
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die. But this was not a natural death or even a death from a sickness. This was a killing.
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France, not anymore it's not. What's your favorite restaurant? How's it doing? Not even your favorite
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one. Just one that was the backdrop to your life. The set upon which you lived your life that marks
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your place. Look at this. Look at this story. Picture life without restaurants, industry asks Canadians for
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support, with more than 10,000 already closed. 10,000. 10,000 neighborhoods with a boarded up store,
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unemployed people, dashed dreams, lost life savings. And for everyone else, what's left in the neighborhood
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when the places are gone? Oh, go to a drive-thru like McDonald's. They'll always be open.
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Don't worry about them. And Costco and Walmart, I'm sure Amazon will be in the food delivery business in
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the next year or so to pick up the pieces. Just the local people are having trouble. People who
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live in the neighborhood too. People who build the neighborhood with you, who see your kids.
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And those kids grow up into teens. And they grow into adults who then have their own kids and take
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their own kids to their old favorite places. How much fun is that? Taking your own kids to the places
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you loved as a kid. That's gone. In 10,000 neighborhoods. And for what?
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Here's part of that story in the paper. A restaurant industry group is asking Canadians
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to imagine life without local restaurants after it says the country lost more than 10,000 eateries
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since the introduction of pandemic lockdowns. In an effort to help them survive, Restaurants Canada
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is calling on customers to support their local food and drink establishments this holiday season
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by buying gift cards, ordering takeout or delivery, and dining in where possible.
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Yeah, sorry, that's not going to do it, Restaurants Canada. That's not going to save them. Only
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ending the political lockdown will save them. Sorry, don't worry about it. I mean, you're not going
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to make anyone sick. People are getting sick at home or in private gatherings. Here's the stats
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posted by one American restaurateur. No one's getting sick in restaurants. Restaurants are where young
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people go. And families. Yeah, some seniors too. Okay, let them stay away if they're worried.
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Waiters and waitresses and bartenders are usually young. Very little risk of the virus. Why are we
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punishing them again? There's no sense to it. How many mayors and premiers and public health officers
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have shut down restaurants just as a show of force, just to show that they're doing something, anything?
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Let me know in the political class, the ruling class shuts themselves down. Without pay, I mean.
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Without pay, I mean. I mean, the ruling class has had a six-month staycation, but they've been paid.
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They're loving this. Hey, do you think Brian Pallister, the premier of Manitoba who's locked down his
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province, do you think he's going to spend a miserable Christmas in snowy Winnipeg with no restaurants
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allowed? Or do you think he just might jet down to his Costa Rican getaway, as he has done so many
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times before, while he was lying about it so many times before? Great restaurants down there, I hear.
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They're not closed. Here's the elite billionaire's gated compound in Palm Beach, Florida, where John
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Torrey, Toronto's mayor, has a winter home. All the restaurants are open there. Florida's great.
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Weather's gorgeous. John Torrey has sneaks away to his place here too, in the past not telling anyone,
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pretending he was up in Toronto by tweeting as if he was. Do you really think John Torrey,
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the Toronto mayor's going to stay in the miserable city he made miserable, along with the rest of us?
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And you think that either of those two men, just to name two of hundreds, do you think the travel
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quarantine rules would apply to them? Yeah, no. People are fed up. Here's a restaurant workers revolt
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in California. They're not asking for coupons or takeout or whatever their timid Canadian counterparts
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are doing. They want to work. They want to open. We're helping people in Canada who want to
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open. I don't know if you've been to our website, iwillopen.com, where we tell their stories,
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try and get them customers. And if they get lockdown fines, we fight the fines for them
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at fightthefines.com. Today, I asked our team to count up how many cases we've taken or are
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intaking right now. Do you remember when I said I wanted to take 1,000 cases? Well, between our legal
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cases in Canada, Australia, and the UK, we now have exactly 334 cases we've taken or are intaking.
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334. We're one-third of the way to 1,000 cases. I think it's important. Do not pay the fines. Do not
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submit. Do not comply. Do not go quietly. If you're going to go, go down fighting. We'll help you.
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Don't be a victim. Don't be a casualty. Don't be the next Fran's restaurant. And hey, it's not just
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on the shoulders of the hardworking restauranteurs and waiters and waitresses and bartenders. What
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about you, my friends? What about you? You who have lived your life in these places. Why are you
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Well, I am on a lot of political party lists. I swear I don't sign up to them. People put me on
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those lists as some sort of prank, I assume. But I actually enjoy seeing what the different political
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parties have to say, and especially when the Liberal Party writes to me using my first name.
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It feels so personal. But let me show you an email I received just yesterday, and it was marked
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Far Right Politics. So I thought, oh, they got something to say. The Conservative Party hasn't
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changed, Ezra. Wow, they know, they really know me. In his parting words as Conservative leader
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just four months ago, this was Andrew Scheer's message to his successor, challenge the mainstream
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media. Don't take the left-wing media narrative as a fact. Please check out smart, independent,
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objective organizations like the Postmillennial or True North. And I would agree with that advice.
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But then look at this. Aaron O'Toole has taken him up on that divisive call to promote Far Right
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politics. And then look, I'm just skipping ahead. Just this week, O'Toole granted an exclusive
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end-of-year interview to the Far Right True North Initiative, which now Toronto has described as an
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anti-immigration right-wing think tank. It goes on to rant and rave conspiracy theories, and then
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naturally, ask for your money. And I was tempted to donate, but I already am a donor to the True
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North. So no need to try and persuade me. I'm in. But putting aside my joking, since when do party
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leaders and political parties demonize and attack journalists? Just, I mean, I thought that was
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something only the evil Donald Trump did. And I thought the rest of the media was just mortified
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that he would call the media the enemy of the people. Here we have a sitting prime minister's
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political party targeting his demonization on any, I'm not even going to call True North Far Right.
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They're not. They're slightly to my left. I regard myself as conservative. I think True North are
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conservative. Frankly, their views on immigration are in line with 90% of Canadians who think
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immigration levels are high enough. But the demonization for profit of True North,
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post-millennial, and of us is something stunning to see. And the either passive reaction or the
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celebration of this by the rest of the media is even more amazing. Joining us now is the man who scored
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that end of the year exclusive interview with Aaron O'Toole. The far right, Andrew Lotney joins me now.
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Andrew, I don't think you're far right. I think you're conservative. You have had a storied
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journalistic career. You've been with the Sun Chain. You've been a radio host on a mainstream
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radio station. You're with True North. Like you've done a lot of journalism. To call you far right,
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I don't even take that as an insult really. But to demonize you and to say you're beyond the pale,
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that's a little creepy coming from the government.
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Yeah, and I must apologize, Ezra. Sorry if I'm a little bit out of sorts today. I started a drinking
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game when I saw that email yesterday. I took a shot every time the email said far right, and I had
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passed out by like 8.32 p.m. So I'm still sleeping off the hangover this morning from that. It is a
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demonization. You're right to point that out because what the liberals are saying here is that the
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audience that I have, the audience that you have, the audience that Postmillennial have,
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they don't deserve to hear what politicians are doing. They don't deserve to hear from political
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leaders. They're saying to Aaron O'Toole, you should just ignore a portion of Canadians. And
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that's very telling because that's revealing that the liberals have decided to ignore a portion of
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Canadians. We saw this during the last federal election when the liberals had banned me from
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covering their press conferences and campaign stops. At one point, police even pulled me over
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because I was trying to figure out where the campaign was going because they weren't sending
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me their press releases. So the liberals are now upset that the conservatives aren't taking their
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approach, which is to just marginalize huge chunks of the Canadian population and say,
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you don't have a place in civil society. You know, that's a very thoughtful way of looking at it.
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I'm thinking, you know, who has the message? Who has the message to tell Aaron O'Toole? Who's the
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filter, the journalist? Who's the audience? So you talked about this press release, this fundraiser
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really, denying a huge swath of Canadians. So that's a very good point. But look at the other two parts to
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that, the filter. The liberals are saying Aaron O'Toole has the right to speak. They're not yet saying he
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doesn't. But he only can speak to our approved middlemen, our approved filters, the CBC, if they'll
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have him, CTV Global, some mainstream newspapers, and that's it. So they're not just marginalizing
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the audience. That's a very good point you make. But they're telling Aaron O'Toole he's only allowed
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to send his message to people who the liberals know will treat it a certain way. And finally,
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they're in their own way trying to bully Aaron O'Toole. This is an attack on him. The whole purpose
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of this is to attack him. So Aaron O'Toole, you can't talk to who you want to as an audience. You
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have to talk to the journalists, we tell you to, and you cannot have your message go to
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conservative grassroots. Every layer of this is illiberal, isn't it?
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It is. And you and I talked a few weeks back when the Global Conference for Media Freedom took place,
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the virtual version of it, about how, on one hand, the liberals talk this big game about press freedom,
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but in practice, they don't actually respect the diversity of voices. It's the only form of
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diversity Justin Trudeau doesn't like, diversity of opinion. So what's happening here is the liberals,
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who, by the way, are still fighting Rebel and True North and me in court. It's important to note this.
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Our case against the Leaders Debates Commission is still ongoing. They're still spending tens of
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thousands of dollars to deny our press freedom, to cover future election debates and other events.
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And what the liberals are doing is, you're right, saying that we only regard as legitimate media
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the people that we've approved. And the timing of this fundraising email from the liberals is quite
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unique because this week there was actually a draft policy sent out to members of the Parliamentary
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Press Gallery, which is this Ottawa clique that the Trudeau government has basically outsourced media
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accreditation to. And this draft policy would exclude True North and Rebel and Post Millennial and other
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independent media outlets from covering any government events. And what they say in this draft policy is,
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quote, accreditation is a privilege, not a right, unquote. Now, what they're actually doing
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is limiting and curtailing press freedom in a way that the liberal government very much approves of,
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because the liberal government thinks that press freedom is something that's actually a privilege
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and not a right. So it is timely that this now comes, this fundraising email from the liberals,
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the same week as we are institutionalizing this very idea that certain people don't have a right
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to be journalists in Ottawa. Wow. Again, you nailed it. That's exactly the point. But it is a right.
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Of course, I'm familiar with our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2B, which includes freedom of
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expression, freedom of the press. It was also in Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights. And of course,
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the idea of free speech did not start in the 60s. It goes back centuries to the United Kingdom,
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to John Milton, Areopagitica. Freedom of Speech has, I mean, and he wrote his great pamphlet
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against the licensing. The idea in London back then was you needed a license in advance before
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publishing a pamphlet. And John Milton... Yeah, and if I may, sorry to interrupt there, Ezra,
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but people need to understand that government does not grant rights. Government can protect them.
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Government can prevent against the abridgment of them. But government itself does not give these
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rights. These rights are enumerated, not because government has decided they're important,
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but they're enumerated because government has agreed to recognize that they are important. But
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our government is falling short of that. Yeah, you're right. I was simply trying to make the
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point that these rights are ancient, centuries, maybe even older. But it's funny you mentioned
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the Parliamentary Press Gallery. They get their power from the Liberal Speaker of the House. So
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this isn't just their... I mean, I don't care what my rivals at the Globe and Mail have to say,
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or the CBC have to say. I do my own thing. But their only power over me comes from the Speaker of
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the Parliament, of the House, who's a Liberal. But you know what I did? Andrew, I saw your piece on
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this. I saw what you guys at True North have been writing about this. So I looked up. Take a look at
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this. This is the membership of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. There's hundreds of people on here
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actually. Tons from the CBC, tons from CTV. You can see that. But look here. There's the People's
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Daily. That's controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. There's someone from Ittar Tass. That's
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controlled by Vladimir Putin. There's the Ukrainian National News Agency, which is also state-run.
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There's several reporters from Vietnam's state agency. So the so-called keepers of journalistic
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ethics say you and me, independent Canadian citizens, are not allowed to go to our own
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parliament to report on the goings-on. But literally foreign government agents from Russia,
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China, Ukraine, and Vietnam are absolutely accredited. Step right in. They meet the free
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speech ethical standard. That is crooked, my friend.
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Yeah, and I remember you telling me a while ago that you had to, in order to cover something
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happening in Canada, do an end run around the Canadian accreditation regime and go through the
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U.S. State Department, which was part of the event that was going on. And it's actually quite shameful
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that that's what this has had to come to. It's quite shameful that when the Canadian government
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and the British government were doing that initial global conference for media freedom,
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our accreditation came from the British government. And next year, when the Canadian government is
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co-hosting it with Estonia, you better believe I'm going to hope that the Estonian government
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accredits me because I don't have faith that the Canadian government will. And there's something
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very insidious about this, which is that on one hand, people are saying, well, you know,
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the government's not denying you the right to say whatever you want. It's they're denying you
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access to certain things. But the whole point is that the government can't use the idea of a free
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and independent press as being a counterbalance against bad government if they're going to
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themselves restrict access to covering that government. You know, when we went through the
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ordeal at the Leaders Debates Commission, it wasn't that we expected to be moderators. It wasn't we
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expected to have our own questions asked in the debate. We wanted a chance to stand there with
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our colleagues across the industry, get in line and ask a question or two. And we did,
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but it took a court order to make that happen. And I don't want to rehash something that's older
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because this is still ongoing. And that's why I think it's very much still relevant. So when the
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Liberals are fundraising and trying to score a few bucks off saying, you know, how dare Aaron O'Toole
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talk to the far right, true north or whatever the case may be, what this is actually a symptom of
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is a longer standing process of delegitimizing anyone that doesn't view the world the way the
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Liberals do. And they do this not just through maligning people, but actually trying to close
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off the walls of government. Yeah. Well, they're trying to un-person you and me. Instead of saying,
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I disagree with you, or we have, we're journalists from a different perspective. They're saying, no,
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no, no, no, no. You're not even a journalist. You're barely a citizen. In fact, propagandists
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who are not citizens have more rights than you. It's deeply disturbing. The worst part of it is no
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one in the establishment seems to care. Other than that federal court judge, that federal court judge
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that ordered you and David Menzies and Kian Bexte into that leader's debate. By the way,
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there was no other interveners in the room that day. There was no civil liberties association
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in the room. There was no, you know, no lawyer from the CBC or CTV or Global Mail. It was your
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lawyers and our lawyers. Silence from all the people who normally claim to stand up for civil
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liberties. That's the depressing part. It's not that the Liberals are behaving like Liberals. We know
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that. Where's everybody else? Last point to you. Yeah. And just when I talk about this parliamentary
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press gallery, a draft policy going around, it's important to know that this
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policy which says media accreditation is a privilege and not a right, this isn't written
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by bureaucrats. This isn't written by the Trudeau government. This is written by journalists
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who are in the club and want to lock the door behind them. There is a protectionism that's
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taking place here, which is why a lot of mainstream media journalists, I think, aren't standing up
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because they don't want to share the space in line. They don't want to allow competitors
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in the room to lose their comparative advantage. Yeah. Well, we'll keep up the fight. I know
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you will too. Hopefully we'll have more victories. It's embarrassing to Canada that we need to go to
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court to get a judge to tell our government the freedom of speech is the law. But if necessary,
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we'll keep going back. Great to see you, my friend. Keep up the fight.
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And you too. Merry Christmas to all of your listeners. Thank you. And to you too. There you
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have it. Andrew Lawton, one of the good guys, that's for sure. He got a year-end interview with
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Aaron O'Toole and the liberals say he should not have had that opportunity. I don't think Trump
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ever said such a thing. And if he did, he would have been excoriated. Trudeau does it? Yeah,
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no problem. Stay with us. More ahead. Hey, welcome back on my show last night. Bruce writes,
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real journalism only happens in rebel news and the few outlets haven't sold their soul to Trudeau.
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CBC is also boring. So fewer people listen or watch it. Well, that's the thing. I've always said my main
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criticism of the CBC and the media party in general. It's not even that it's liberal. It's
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the sameness of it all. You know, you're literally flipping global, CTV, Toronto Star. And is there
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any different? It's all the same message track. No diversity of opinion. Diversity of every race and
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sexuality and gender and all that. But is there any diversity of thought? Gilly writes, trust the CBC
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to take a story that would make a great thriller and turn it into a nothing burger. The China Files
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should be the headline. And the MSM has a chronic case of willful ignorance. Shameful. Yeah. And I'm
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not even looking for credit. I mean, we know we broke the story. Our viewers know it. And the other
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journalists writing about it know it. What was funny there, first of all, the appalling interview by
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Vazia Kapilos, who let her boss, Francois Philippe Champagne, get away with a bunch of fibs. But
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it's the tweet that says it was broken first by the Globe and Mail, not by the Globe and Mail and
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others that they claimed that the Globe and Mail was first. They knew that's a lie. And my main takeaway
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was we can see they're lying. We know they're lying. And so what else are they lying about? You have to
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assume that they're lying about everything. Since whenever we catch them, they show no compunction.
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That's our stories for today, our show for tonight. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at
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Rebel World Headquarters, do you at home? Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.