Rebel Roundup： Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte
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Rebel Commander himself, Ezra Levent, reveals the details of his recent interview with Elections Canada about his book, The Libranos: What the Media Won t Tell You About Justin Trudeau s Corruption, a book that accuses the Prime Minister of corruption.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at some
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of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
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This just in, folks. Apparently it's against the law to publish a critical book about a Prime Minister
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during an election campaign. Oh, and apparently it is also against the law not to register such a book
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with the government? Just wait until you hear about the shakedown Ezra Levent is getting at the hands
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of those censorious thugs who comprise Elections Canada. Say, do you know there are more than 50,000
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bogus refugee claimants in Canada that are supposed to be deported already, but for some reason they're
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still here? Yep, another fiasco on the immigration front. Sheila Gunn-Reed will try to make sense of it all.
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And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get them every second of every day.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to a protest and counter-protest outside
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the U.S. consulate in Toronto last Saturday in which a grieving man who lost his sister on flight 752
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was actually mocked and shouted down by a bunch of communists, socialists, Antifa punks,
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and public sector trade unionists. No, folks, it doesn't get any lower than that.
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Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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Oh, I know that. And I'm just asking you to confirm that not a single other loving book of Trudeau is
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being investigated. But once we're done, if you believe that there should be complaints that are...
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No, because I'm not a censor like you. I'm not a bully and a censor. I'm not a bureaucrat looking to justify
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my budget like you. I go out and earn my living every day, fella.
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You call in authors to grill them about a book criticizing your boss. Think about who you are.
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We call the director of Rebel News Network Limited.
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Yeah, who happens to be the author of the book.
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I think there's going to be a chapter about you two fellas in the next edition.
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I wrote a book called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's Corruption.
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During the election, it hit number two on the Amazon bestseller list with rave reviews.
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Justin Trudeau did not like that. So over Christmas, I received this letter
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from the government by registered mail, accusing me of breaking the law and demanding that I meet
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with investigators. And if I didn't, I'd get in deeper trouble. You can read that letter for
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yourself at SaveRebelNews.com. So last week, I went to Ottawa to be interrogated at the high
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security headquarters of Elections Canada. I was curious, were they really serious? Were they
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really going to investigate me and prosecute me and fine me, maybe even jail me for writing a book
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that criticized their boss during an election? Yes.
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Well, this just in, folks. Apparently and inexplicably, it is against the law to publish
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a critical book about a prime minister during an election campaign. Oh, and apparently it is
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also against the law to not register such a book with the government. Oh, by the way,
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we're not talking North Korea or Venezuela here. No, we're talking Canada and the censorious
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thugs who comprise Elections Canada. With more on this story is our rebel commander himself,
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Ezra Levent. Ezra, that interrogation you received by two bureaucrats who are ex-RCMP officers
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that used to specialize in terrorism. It is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen.
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Judging by the view count, our audience would agree with that. Take us down this path. What is the
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nub of this story? Are they just, and when I say they, I mean their ministerial masters, ultimately
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Justin Trudeau. Are they just so upset that you have found a way within the rules to promote a book
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with election style signs that they find offensive? Look, the best time to publish a book about an
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election is before the election. It doesn't make a lot of sense to publish a book after the election.
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And I learned in this interrogation that there were 24 books on Trudeau published at the same time as
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mine. Now, I only knew of a few of them. Aaron Wary, a leftist at the CBC, John Iverson, a liberal at the
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National Post. And I asked these interrogators, I said, well, if publishing a book in the election is
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wrong, have you gone after these two guys? Or is it just because my book was critical? Well, that's
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what I learned that they were, they had, I'm not going to use the word spied, but they had compiled a list
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of 24 books. But they acknowledged they were only going after me, even though all of the books were
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the time the same. There is an exemption in the law for books and the promotion of books, obviously.
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And we promoted our book our way. The other 23 books promoted their books their way. I've seen books
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promoted on TV, on billboards, on bus, like stop bus ads, on radio. Like there's so many different ways
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to advertise. We advertised about five different ways. One was, I thought, sort of cheeky. It was,
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it looked like an election lawn sign, but it said, buy the book. Right. And it was promoting the book.
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But even, I mean, what's the purpose of the book? Well, I criticize Justin Trudeau. I think he's
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corrupt. That's actually the name of the book, The Libranos. What the media isn't telling you about
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Justin Trudeau's corruption. Right. I think that Justin Trudeau's corrupt. And that's not just an
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insult. I try and make the case in the book. I talk about SNC-Lavalin, for example, which, I mean,
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that's not even controversial anymore. He was convicted of four counts of conflict of interest.
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So, um, for various offenses, um, for taking the free Bahamas trip. So it's not, it's not even a
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radical book. Yeah. What is radical is the idea that police can tell a journalist, an author,
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broadcaster, he can't criticize the prime minister in an election. There was two things that, that
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really stuck with me in the one hour interrogation. One was them asking me, um, why I didn't register
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my book with the government. Now, I, I mean, I'm 47 and, and so I, I still remember life before the
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Soviet Union fell. I was, like, so I remember things before 1989 because I was a teenager and I was very
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interested in, in the Soviet Union when I was even a teenager. And I learned, I knew this, that in the
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Soviet bloc, I don't know if you know this, um, and I'm getting old, so I forgot it was either
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Romania or Bulgaria. If you owned a typewriter, you had to register your typewriter with the police.
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Come on. And I don't know if you know this about typewriters in the pre-computer age. Each typewriter
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is slightly different how the keys hit. It's almost like a fingerprint. Absolutely. So you had to give
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a sample of the typing to the police and they kept it. So if ever some illegal publication were
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to be found somewhere, they could match the typewriter fingerprint of that propaganda to
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their government registry of typewriters. That is a true story. You had to, a typewriter was
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considered so dangerous. You had to register it with police as if it was a gun. And in Canada, in 2020,
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to have two senior veterans of the RCMP who worked on terrorism files, these are senior cops, in a
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closed room at a high security location in Ottawa, tell me that I had to register my book with the
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government, like I'm some Soviet dissident in Romania in the 80s. If we're that far gone, I'm not radical,
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they're radical. And if that's the law, we have to smash this law. And when I mean smash the law,
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I mean deliberately break and then appeal and have the law struck down. And as I said to these cops,
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they need to be told by a judge that what they're doing is wrong.
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But you know, Ezra, for us here at The Rebel, and by extension our audience, this is very much
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deja vu all over. Just last year, we had our own beloved Sheila Gunn-Reed go through the same
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nonsense, but on a provincial basis in Alberta with her Notley book. That case ultimately ended up going
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nowhere. What I'm getting at here though, Ezra, is that is this a matter of the process is the penalty?
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We are going to incur perhaps tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting this. So even if
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the government has a no hope or case, they have an endless trough of taxpayer dollars to fight us
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just to make life miserable and economically disadvantageous for us.
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Yeah. You know, it's funny you say that because just yesterday, or a couple days ago, it was released.
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You know, when we fought the debates commission, Trudeau's handpicked committee of who gets to,
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how the debates are run in the election. So they banned you and Kean Bextie. So we went to federal
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court. We spent $18,000 on that emergency application. I know that sounds like an enormous
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amount of money. It is. I mean, our lawyers were working all weekend and then all Monday,
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and then they sort of collapsed. $18,000, a lot of money, but they were two lawyers and they had an
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assistant and they worked. I didn't, I paid crazy illegal bills and I was pretty pleased. I thought
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it was fairly modest. And we won. Yeah. So we had two lawyers and they cost us $18,000.
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It was revealed two days ago that the government, for the same fight, two, three days work,
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paid $131,000 for five lawyers. Now, I don't even know how they could bill that much. How can you spend,
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what's that, seven times as much money? How can they spend seven times more than us? Well,
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the short answer is because it's not their money. It's just taxpayers' money. They're just throwing
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buckets of money. It's like throwing another bale of $100 bills on the bonfire. So $18,000 for us is
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a lot of money. That's a salary for someone for almost half a year. That's, you know, you could
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buy a lot for $18,000 in a little company like ours. So it was, now thank God our viewers helped us.
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Yes. $131,000 for the government, it's, who cares? There's a billion more where that came from.
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So I think you're right. I think they're trying to wear us down and the time. Like I flew to Ottawa,
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I went to this meeting and I flew back. Even though the meeting itself was an hour,
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I had to get there a little bit in advance and then I had to leave time for the airport.
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So I spent at least six hours plus the flight to Ottawa on this thing in the middle of the day. I had
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to pre-record my show the day before. So I, like that, that is a hassle. So it's the hassle,
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it's the cost. Now I was thinking about it. I was thinking, what were they trying to accomplish in
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there? Um, I think they were trying to trap me to get me to, to say things that would, uh,
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be used against me, myself. I think, I think a normal person would have been intimidated.
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And I'm not saying that I'm particularly brave. I've just seen it before. So it's,
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it's like if you see a haunted house with the lights on, you're not as scared anymore because,
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okay, so over there, there's a jack in the box and over there, the, it's like, it's like if you
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watch a movie to the end, you know how it's going to end. So, but if, if I hadn't been through these
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kind of interrogations before, I probably would have been scared because they let me through, oh,
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high security, buzz in, sign in. I'd like, so they pretended it was like some bunker. It was in a
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small windowless room. There was the two of them. They were stone faced, you know, they were,
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so this is in your, so I think that like, I, I'm just so numb to that theater.
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Maybe I should, in fact, I was sort of cracking some jokes. I said, oh, do you need permission to
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ask your mom? And I, I made some jokes. Um, so I, maybe they were trying to make me scared.
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I wasn't. I, in fact, my number one thing going on in my mind, David was don't swear. Don't swear.
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Cause I, sometimes I swear, David, and I don't like it when I swear, I get mad.
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And I just thought, Ezra, don't swear. Don't swear. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
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Cause I was so mad at the idea that two cops are asking me about a book. I mean, how can you sit,
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like you either laugh or you cry or you swear. I didn't swear and I didn't cry. I laughed a little
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bit, but the most important thing I did was I recorded it because I know that no one would have
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believed me what happened. If I just said, well, I went, I was summoned by the government to be
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grilled for an hour about my book. People say, oh yeah, or you don't mean that, or you're exaggerating.
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Oh sure. Ezra. Well, the video doesn't lie. No. And, uh, again, more days of it reminded me of the,
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uh, famous, uh, Alberta human rights tribunal, a case involving you, which you also video recorded,
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which was remarkable. Ezra might be too early in the game. Cause of course,
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this video just debuted on Wednesday night, but, um, where are the book publishers of Canada?
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Where are the periodicals, the newspapers? Uh, I mean, this idea of a book registration process,
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uh, surely they have some skin in the game. Are we going to see any solidarity or is it, uh,
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oh, it's the rebel. Let them fry. Well, my phone hasn't stopped not ringing all day.
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Uh, I've received two phone calls all day today and they're both from my wife just asking me,
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you know, about errands and you're going to pick up some ground beef and stuff like that. So,
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I, uh, I've received a single invitation to go on a talk show, Carleen Nation in Mississauga. She's
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great. I'm going to go on the show. Um, and actually it looks like Glenn Beck in the United States.
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Fantastic. But, um, and I'm not looking for the attention. I'm not looking also to provide free
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content to my competitors. I'm very busy here at Rebel News, but you would think that this story
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would be of interest to journalists, publishers, civil libertarians, people worried about the
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surveillance state, people worried about, uh, overweening power of government, people worried
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about freedom, people worried about a democratic discourse. Like there's a lot of professors, academics,
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poets, uh, critics of the government on the left. Yeah. I'm a critic of the government on the
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right. But if any critic can be hauled into the, uh, interrogation, surely anyone who is adverse to
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Trudeau should be worried. I have, uh, and I'm not looking for personal praise. I, I don't need it.
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Um, and I actually don't think I need the help from these groups. Thank God, rebel viewers. Like I said,
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we raised 18 grand to fight Trudeau last time. I'm sure we'll raise it again this time. Thanks God,
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uh, our viewers are amazing. But the Canadian Civil Liberties Association was actually
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founded to stop this sort of thing. Canadian Journalists for Free Expression was actually
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founded to stop this. Canadian Association of Journalists, Penn Canada, Amnesty International,
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Reporters Without Borders. What's that? Five groups right there. Not a peep. And again,
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I mean, it'd be nice to have allies. Uh, I'm not looking for a personal friend. Like I'm not looking
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for a buddy or a drinking partner or anything. It would just be nice to, to know that there was
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someone else in Canada who cared enough about free speech to fight. Now, let me say our friends just,
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John Carpe, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, I haven't talked to him about this. Um,
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so I'm sure he would help if I asked him. I want to note that he cares about free speech,
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but I think I just went through the entire list of one civil liberties groups in Canada that actually
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cares about free speech. It's lonely in a way, David.
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David, Rebel News has become a public interest law firm for freedom because we have so many cases
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in which we are the target that we decide to fight back and also to protect journalists. Like you have
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been, uh, I mean, I'm upset about this because I, when we hired you at Rebel, we, it was not my
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contemplation that you would be a human punching bag, but you have been attacked on at least three
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occasions that I can think about. And by the way, we're suing in all three, as you know,
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it is not, that's not my favorite thing to do. I would rather spend that money hiring staff. I would
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rather spend that money on anything else, but it's just wrong. You were attacked by Jonathan
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Yaniv with a cane. You were attacked by some manager at the Radisson Toronto East. You were attacked by
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police, believe it or not, in New York region. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And we're going to fight back.
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Normally a journalist is roughed up by police and civil liberties groups are squawking about it. Not for
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you and not for us. So we have to fill that void. So we're, we're news reporters and we're opinion
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commentators. And sometimes we're activists, we're book publishers, but we're also a public interest law firm
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because we have to be, because no one else is. And that's our destiny and that's fine.
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No, you're right. I mean, on the physical assault front, uh, Ezra, I mean, you have mainstream media
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types that make it a federal case of some drunken Lugan goes by on camera and does the vulgar blanker
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right in the, you know, where, and that becomes a cause celeb getting hit over the head with a steel
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cane. Eh, not so much. Um, Ezra, I guess, I mean, there's so many angles to this. And by the way,
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I urge you folks, if you haven't seen this video, uh, I know the year is young, but it's to me,
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it's the best video of the year so far. You've got to check it out. A little crystal ball gazing for
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you, uh, Ezra, especially since the, uh, Alberta jihad by that bureaucrat against Sheila went nowhere.
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Um, what do you think is going to happen, especially now that these two individuals have the glare of
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publicity, uh, cast on them? Yeah. You're talking about the two interrogators. Yes. Um,
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there are at least five people, uh, working on my file. Okay. I know this because I've had letters
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from them. Uh, I won't bore you with their names, but I can count at least five. Um, they wouldn't
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tell me if there's any more. So maybe there is more. Um, the two interrogators in the room,
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one of them in particular, Tim Mackin is his name, seemed very, very resolved, very certain that I had
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broken the law with this book. Yeah. So if he is a judge of that organization, they're certain, like,
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this is not some lark. This is not some flight of fancy. They sure seem like they're going to prosecute.
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And, um, as you correctly pointed out, when the Alberta election commissioner went after Sheila Gunn
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Reid for her bestselling book, Stop Notley, the whole time I kept thinking, nah, this is just a crank.
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This is just some kooky guy. And in the end, he dropped it. Yeah. This doesn't feel like that.
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Hmm. This doesn't feel like it's driven by some weirdo or some kook, like, like in Alberta, that the
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election commissioner there was really kooky. He had been fired before. He had been, like, he was a
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subject of great scandal and controversy. So it was like he was some eccentric guy who was abusing power.
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This feels like a more an institutional war that's made deliberately and calmly. That's far more
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worrisome than some kook. Like in Alberta, it was like some, someone put a wild man in charge of a
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bureaucracy and it flamed out. Yeah. This seems more deliberate. Even the nature of these two guys,
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30 year RCMP veterans who had both worked on terrorism files. Like why would you, first of all,
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that's pretty heavy duty. Like those are, that's, that's a guy 30 years on the job.
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That's a guy at the height of his investigative detective powers, right? Like they're not,
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they're not putting the interns. I jokingly called one guy an intern because he couldn't answer any
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questions. I said, do you want to go talk to your mom or something? So look, I mean,
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let me just leave. I mean, we were talking here quite a while and I know you have to go, but
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one of the investigators and his name was Tim Mackin and it's almost like he invited me to
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unsay something I had said. I had said the obvious truth, which is I published my election book
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to coincide with the election. Like the other, I mean, hello, you know, it's, it's why you publish
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a Christmas book before Christmas in January. It's in the remainder bit, you know, it's like, you know,
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hey, I got about, it's February 15th. I got this Valentine's Day card. No. So he, in the interrogation,
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he sort of said, do you want to rephrase your earlier statement that you timed the book for the
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election? Like he, he made it really clear to me that by saying the obvious, well, of course,
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I published my election book during the election because it's about elections, that that would
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convict me. And it's almost like he was inviting me to amend my alibi, which first of all, I'm not going
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to do, I'm not going to lie. Second of all, that would be stupid to pretend like, like it's, that
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would, it would be insane to publish a book about the election, not during the election.
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The other 23 books didn't do that. So I'm not going to lie. He thinks that the truth is a crime
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or breaking the elections act. One of us is deeply, deeply wrong, David. I think it's him,
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he thinks it's me. I think we have to go to a court and get a judge to sort it out. And in fact,
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we have no choice, do we? Well, I mean, I suppose they could drop the case. But if these guys
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prosecute me, and I think what would happen is they would convict me internally,
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and then I would appeal that to a real court. I just, I mean, I have a lot of criticisms of Canada.
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I think we're going in the wrong direction in a bunch of ways. I think our judiciary is a problem.
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But even in Canada, with all its problems, I have got to believe that there is no judge in this country
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that would say, yes, we should register books with the government the same way Romania registered
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typewriters with the government. I will trust any judge in Canada to smack down these weird censors.
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And I say, let's have that trial as soon as possible. Yeah. Ezra, an amazing story. And
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we're going to come through this 100%. And there you have it, folks. I mean,
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welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2020. It's funny, isn't it? Someone like Omar
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Cotter, $10.5 million check, speaking engagement next month at Dalhousie. And Ezra Levent writes a
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book critical of Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts and the rest. And that's deemed to be, oh, I don't
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know, an act of terrorism. Absolutely incredible. But we'll keep you posted with this story as it
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progresses. Keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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RCMP and border security officials intercepted 56,515 illegal immigrants in the past three years.
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These are mainly Haitians and Nigerians crossing at Canada's southern border. And according to a new
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report by Black Locks Reporter, an inquiry of ministry also revealed that most of them
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are still here. There are 52,109, quote, irregular migrant arrivals that remain in Canada, wrote
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staff of the Parliamentary Budget Office. Now, funding for the Immigration and Refugee Board
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has increased 56% since 2017, from $82.9 million in 2017 to $129.4 million this year.
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And the Black Locks report I'm citing today also quotes Michael McDonald, the associate deputy
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immigration minister, as saying the Immigration and Refugee Board was hiring, quote, several
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hundred new employees to speed up the hearings. And yet the backlog remains nearly unabated.
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A total of 648 illegal immigrants were deported last year, according to that inquiry of ministry.
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Similar, quote, removals totaled 495 the previous year. So to be clear, that was an increase of
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nearly $50 million per year to the Immigration and Refugee Board to expedite these appeals,
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only to see an additional 150 people illegally in Canada finally deported from Canada.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Has any government spent so much money to deport so few illegals?
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And meanwhile, the backlog of phony baloney claimants stands at more than 50,000 people,
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which makes you wonder, will these irregulars actually get deported before they die of natural
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causes? Don't bet on it. And with more on this disgraceful story is the host of The Gun Show,
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Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
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It is always a pleasure. But Sheila, your video really depressed me. I'm thinking,
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why even bother having borders? Why even bother having IRB hearings? After all,
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when tens of thousands of illegal aliens, yes, that's right. I said it. Illegal aliens simply come
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into the country. We may as well stop throwing money at this problem. And I guess subscribe to that
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leftist claptrap of open borders and nobody is illegal. What do you have to say?
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Well, that's exactly it. I mean, we've got 52,000 people illegally in this country waiting.
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They're under deportation orders. So they've already gone pretty well as far through the system as you can.
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And they're awaiting deportation. We're deporting almost none of them. And they're entitled to
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another appeal and another appeal until appeals are exhausted. And then we finally deport them
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if we can find them. And that's another thing. People sometimes don't show up to their appeal.
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And then they have a baby in the country. And then the baby gets birth rate citizenship. And then the baby
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sponsors their illegal parent into the country. So a lot of things can happen in that two year long
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wait between the time that these people are ordered deported and then they get to that final appeal
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before they're eventually shown the door. And as you rightly pointed out, the government said,
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OK, well, we've got this big backlog. The answer to the backlog of dealing with illegal migrants is not
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dealing with what's creating the illegal migrant situation. And that's a border that's a colander,
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but that we need more bureaucrats to deal with this so that they spent 50 million dollars on more
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bureaucrats and they only expedited 150 more immigration hearings. And that's that's the the net result.
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They deported 150 more people last year and they got, you know, 50 million dollars in resources.
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Yeah. And I think, Sheila, it all comes down to political. Well, you mentioned birthright citizenship.
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Well, the UK got rid of that nonsense in the early 80s under Margaret Thatcher. So we have to look at
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doing that, too. And but for the issue at hand, let's just dial it back to how these people come into
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Canada in the first place. Now, we've seen through the infamous rocks and road that they just stroll over
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the border. The RCMP or the Border Service Agency guards say, stop, you're committing a crime. They
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don't care that they want to commit the crime and declare refugee strategy status rather. But when I
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look at the US Canada safe third party agreement, Sheila, it clearly states that refugee claimants are
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required to request refugee status in the first safe country. Now, that would be the US if they're already
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coming from the US. Now, there's this little asterisk. There is exemptions such as unaccompanied minors,
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people who might face the death penalty in a state that has it. So, you know, always great that
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we'll welcome murderers into the country. But the thing is, Sheila, with these exemptions,
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there's no way there's more than 50,000 people that qualified for this asterisk. So what's going on here?
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Well, they're abusing this loophole, like you say, where they're supposed to make asylum in the first
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safe country that they land in. Now, about a year ago, the government pretending to be doing something
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about this said, okay, we will automatically rule out anybody who's made an asylum claim in the United
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States, had the asylum claim there fail, and then run from a deportation order by crossing into Canada,
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and then making an asylum claim here. Well, as it turns out, that's only caught about 400 people,
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because the illegal migrants, most of them crossing out one border crossing at Roxham Road,
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from mainly Haiti and Nigeria. So nowhere where there's an act of war going on or, you know,
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religious persecution. Well, let me correct that. Nigeria does have some religious persecution of
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Christians, but that's not what these folks are claiming. They're not bothering to make that
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a first initial asylum claim in the United States that would preclude them from ever coming into
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Canada. They're using the United States as just a launching point to get into Canada because they're
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not even bothering to country shop. They're just trying to get to Canada because they know that our
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system will allow them at least two good years before we even get to finally dealing with people
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who are here illegally. So, I mean, there's a perception that the Liberals tried to do something,
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but really they made a teeny tiny two week in legislation that really had no impact. It's a
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statistical rounding error, 400 people out of, you know, 52,000. And really, if we had taken,
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this is the point of making my video, if we had taken that 50 million dollars per year that the IRB
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got in increased funding and just put up a fence at Roxham Road where all the problems are happening,
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boy, we would actually see an impact in what's going on in the immigration system. Instead,
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we just leave Roxham Road wide open and then deal with the fallout after the fact and then
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wonder why we can't fix any of it. You know, and Sheila, as you mentioned, the vast majority of these
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claimants are coming from Haiti and they're coming from Nigeria. The U.S. is a Western democracy,
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perhaps the greatest democracy in the world. And there is no persecution of those people in the
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U.S. And yet I see this narrative being displayed that because of the Trump administration,
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they're fearful for some kind of deportation or incarceration, you name it. And that kind of
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plays into the leftist agenda, especially here in Canada, that, you know, well, we better say,
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give them a lifeline. It's just more of the Trump derangement syndrome on display. But
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you raise a good point. I would have loved to have seen that 50 million go not to bureaucrats,
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but to bricks and build a fence or a wall. When you go to the people that you deal with on this file,
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Sheila, and say, why not that? Why not a wall? Why not a fence? What is the answer? Or what do you
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suppose their answer would be? Well, walls are pretty Trumpy, aren't they? You know,
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Justin Trudeau has painted himself from the very beginning of Trump's presidency as the anti-Trump.
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When Trump was cracking down on illegal immigration and immigration from failed states where
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the U.S. government cannot verify anybody's immigration records, their identities, whatever,
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and terrorist hotbeds, when Trump said, OK, well, you know, we can't make sure you are who you say
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you are. We don't want you coming into the country until we can. Justin Trudeau tweeted out, you know,
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everybody's welcome to Canada. And one tweet collapsed our immigration system. And Donald Trump is pro wall.
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He's building some wall, not enough wall in my estimation. But he did campaign on a wall. So
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Justin Trudeau can't go around building walls because, you know, that's pretty Trumpy. You know,
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they only like to have walls around Liberal Party events, but not to protect the Liberals. They
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don't like to have walls to protect Canadians. You know, it is astonishing. No, you make a great point.
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And I've got the bruises to show it when it comes to a Liberal press conference, when it comes to
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cordoning off the undesirables and the deplorables, like me. Yeah, you know, fencing and thugs guarding
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the fences work really well, don't they? But, you know, Sheila, what is the end solution for this?
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Because even if you buy into the fact, oh, we're Canadian, we're too polite to build a wall or a
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fence. These people have gone through the process. They've been determined as you do not qualify.
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And yet more than 50,000 of them are still in this country. As you said, a great percentage
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unaccounted for. We just don't know where they are. I mean, this is absolute incompetence
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to the highest degree by the people that should be safeguarding our borders. So what's going to happen
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moving forward? Nothing. Nothing's going to happen. It's just going to keep getting worse.
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I mean, the Liberals are not going to change this. They're counting on demographic changes
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in Toronto to make sure that Toronto always stays Liberal. They're not going to address this issue.
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They have done nothing really tangible in four years to address the issue. It's a Liberal created
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problem by and large. But we've seen that there are basically human traffickers in New York State
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helping people come into Canada. I've heard absolutely nothing about Canadian officials
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trying to track down and crack down on human traffickers in the United States, helping people
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break laws to get into our country. Nothing tangible is being done. And I don't see it happening
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in the reasonable near future as long as there are Liberals in charge. And frankly,
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I don't see much happening when Conservatives could ever be in charge because they seem to think
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that this is a political hot potato that they aren't going to touch. And really, the people this hurts
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the most, besides everyday Canadians, it's the actual legal immigrants who are trying to do things the
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right way, who see our country as a bastion of freedom. They're trying to come in the front door
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and they've got to wait in the same immigration queues as people who are just having the RCMP
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carry their luggage across the border at Roxham Road.
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You know, I think you're right, Sheila. We have to wrap here. But, you know, the way the government
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is demonstrating its authority, it's kind of like on the lines of a wrestling referee,
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you know, giving endless warnings to the bad guy, which are always ignored. And the
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referee saying, if you ignore my eighth warning, I'm going to warn you a ninth time to behave.
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And I think the long game, Sheila, is simply what you alluded to, that the Liberals here and the
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Democrats in the US, this is about changing the demographics. And it's about, hey, remember who was
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easy on you and your father and your grandfather to allow you in illegally. All we ask is that every
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four years, you mark Democrat in the US, you mark Liberal in Canada. That's all we want as payback.
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And this is kind of scary because, you know, if a country, Sheila, and I'm sure you agree with this,
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if you don't have sovereign borders, you really aren't a country at all.
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No. And, you know, for people who want the welfare state, you can have one of two things. You can have
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a welfare state, or you can have open borders, but you can't have both. And one day, the Liberals are
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going to be mugged by the reality of this. But unfortunately, it's going to be Canadians who are
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Yep. That's Canada in 2020, where the makers subsidize the takers, as per usual. Sheila,
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a great commentary, although depressing. So thank you so much for weighing in on it here on Rebel Roundup.
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You too, now. And keep it here, folks. More to come after this.
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Hey, how you doing there? This fellow? Who is this fellow, sir, that's got a side in my face?
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Let me see. Stupid. This is my sister. She's killed in the plan. Islamic government killed in that plan.
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This is a victim from the airline 752? Yes, yes, yes. That's my sister. That's two children.
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What do you make of this person throwing out there? Why you do like that? This guy isn't good.
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Sir, why don't you take off your burqa so I can see who you are?
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What the f*** off? What are you doing? What the f***ing what are you doing? You piece of s***.
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I'm not talking to you. I'm interviewing this gentleman right now.
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Folks like to separate because you're now pushing into each other.
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That is my sister. That's an Islamic government killed. That is in this one.
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So, sir, what is it that you're here trying to say?
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I just come over there. I said, Jesus, you guys, don't do the buying sides. Both sides.
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Islamic government is the same s***. Iran government is the same s***.
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He, 14 years, killed the people. He talked a lie. He shoot to the purpose of that people.
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He killed that two children and one my sister. Look at that.
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No. He says that to us all the time so he can have a taste of his own medicine. Got it?
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You know, I don't think the word deplorable cuts it when describing the odious behavior of socialists,
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communists, Antifa thugs, and if you can believe it, members of public sector unions,
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who put on a supposed peace rally outside the US consulate in Toronto, demanding that America stay
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out of Iran. How odd there was only one actual Iranian there, from what I could see,
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as part of that rally. Meanwhile, the counter-protest against these US haters is where I found several
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members of the Persian-Canadian community, including that grieving man who lost his sister on flight 752.
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But when I tried to interview him about his loss, the commies and the unionists and the Antifa trash
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actually shouted him down and chanted, lock him up. Like I said, deplorable isn't a harsh enough word
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to describe their actions. In any event, here's what some of you had to say.
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Imagine being at a protest defending a regime that is literally shooting their own citizens
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protesting in the streets on the same day. Yes, Serenity Now.
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How odd that the people who escaped from Iran want nothing to do with it, but the homegrown
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uber-progressives championing communism think Iran is a fantastic place to live.
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Yes, Ray, I didn't see the mainstream media covering this, and I had a feeling of deja vu
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from a couple of years ago when we were covering the hijab hoax protest by the Asian-Canadian
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community. In both cases, a CBC news van was driving down University Avenue, slowed down to
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take a look, and then sped away. Apparently, covering either of those events just doesn't
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I feel so bad for that man who lost his sister and the children. His grief is not
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ideological like those lefties. Oh, I agree. He was clearly in pain, and
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those lefties mocked him and shouted him down. Gee, whatever happened to that bogus leftist saying of
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That guy that called you a fascist doesn't know what a fascist is. I'm a CUPE member,
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and it makes me sick that we have members who support terrorist attacks and other activities.
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Thank you for doing a thankless job. I appreciate seeing reality as it happens, uncensored.
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Well, you are most welcome, Sarah. We just try to live up to our motto here at The Rebel,
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In France, it is exactly the same situation, same attitude from the same kind of people.
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No knowledge, no arguments, no courage, just insulting good Iranian people.
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Well, sorry to hear that, HXKXRX. Let's hope that in this new decade, sanity returns to Western
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democracies, and that regime change occurs in Iran. Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel
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Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey, folks, never forget,
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without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.