Rebel Roundup： Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte, Sheila Gunn Reid
Summary
A mashup of clips and interviews from Ezra Levant and Kian Bextie's time on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's post-debate press conference, including a question that went viral around the world, and a call-in question from Ezra to the Prime Minister about climate change.
Transcript
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back
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on the very best commentaries of the last week from our favorite rebels. I'm your host, Sheila
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Gunn-Reed. I'm filling in for the ever-intrepid David Menzies as he's out on the road chasing
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all the election and campaign news wherever he might find it. Tonight's Rebel Roundup, well,
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it's a bit of a Frankenstein monster of clips and interviews we've stitched together
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over the past very eventful week here at The Rebel. Everyone in the company was just so busy this
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week that it was hard to nail anybody down for a sit-down interview, including myself. So you'll
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see my hair change, my clothing change, and even the location change over the course of this week's
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Rebel Roundup. But we're giving the subscribers the show they paid for. We're not letting you down.
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Our Rebel team went to federal court to fight the government for access to the leaders
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debate, and we won that David and Goliath battle for free speech. Kian Bexty joins me to talk about
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his question to Trudeau that was eventually seen around the world. Then the outrage mob tried to
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shut down Ezra LeVant's book signing in Edmonton this week. However, two dozen or so cranky losers and
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their high-profile slacktivist enablers were unable to metaphorically burn the boss's book. Ezra joins me
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tonight in an interview we filmed right after our guerrilla book signing. Then, finally, your comments
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on Ezra's live stream from outside the Princess Theatre in Edmonton, where he announced our legal plan
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to fight back against the deplatforming bullies. Those are your Rebels. Let's round them up.
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Hi, Mr. Trudeau. Since your multiple use of blackface became an international scandal, Canada's
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international reputation has been irreparably harmed. Have you reached out to any African
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leaders or any leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your conduct?
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Canada will continue to engage in a positive, constructive way around the world, standing
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up for human rights, engaging with leaders right around the world, because we know that
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promoting our values and prosperity for everyone around the world is good for Canadians and creates
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So that didn't answer the question at all. Have you spoken to any African leaders or leaders
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from the Middle East to apologize for your personal conduct?
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I have continued to engage with leaders around the world in a responsible way during an election
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campaign. My focus is connecting with Canadians, as I was able to tonight. And I was very pleased
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to see so many of the questions turned to the environment. In all sections, there was a clear
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contrast between those on stage who don't think we should be fighting climate change and those
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of us who do. And again, we are the only party with a clear plan to fight climate change.
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And that journalistic axe murdering of the most powerful man in Canada was done by my friend
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and colleague, Kian Bextie. It's exactly why the Liberals worked so hard to keep him and David
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Menzies out of the debates and out of the post-debate scrums like what you saw right there. I predict
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that clip will be the most viral video, the most viewed exchange between the Prime Minister and a reporter
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in this entire election. That is, if it isn't already. Now joining me now is our top gun, Kian Bextie.
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Hey Kian, I wanted to ask you, besides having that opportunity to ask the Prime Minister a question,
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I wanted to ask you, it's a strange question, but about the social dynamics of being allowed in.
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How were you treated by the other journalists? I know when I sometimes go to press events, they sort
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of treat you like the turd in the punch bowl, they tolerate your presence, but they're not making idle
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chit-chat with you and they'd prefer if you didn't ask a question. How were you treated by the other
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journalists? So when I got there, they didn't want to let me in. They didn't want to let David, myself,
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and Andrew Lawton in. The security guard said, do you have your accreditation? And we said, no,
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we have a court order. And they'll be printing our accreditation when we get inside and show them
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the court order. And they said, well, unless you have your accreditation in hand, you're not coming
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in. So we needed to work with the PPC staff who were there to go in, grab our badges, come out to
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give them to us so that we could get in. It seemed like totally needless bureaucracy as it tends to
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be with government. And maybe it was to just make our lives a little bit difficult or maybe this is
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how they actually operate. Either way, it was annoying. We got inside. A lot of folks just kind
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of looked up, didn't recognize us, I think. But a few people gave us those glances where they're like,
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do I know you? Like, have I seen you somewhere? Evan Solomon from CTV, he kind of stared at me for
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a second, squinted, and then he looked away. Andrew Lawton, he got a really warm reception from
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conservative spinsters who were there to, spin doctors who were there to react in real time to
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the debate. They were hugging him and all that. They kind of just ignored us, David and I, but whatever.
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There was a weird dynamic there because I think everyone sort of knew that we weren't going to be
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pushed around anymore. Everyone knew that we were there because the judge said, David Keehan,
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you have a constitutional right to be allowed into this room. So here we were.
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Yeah, I thought, I heard that there was some, a little bit of friendly reception for Andrew,
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but not for you. And I think maybe, and I'm not speaking that this is not a critique of Andrew's
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work. He's a great journalist, but we have no problem firing on our own team if our own team,
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our own team, isn't doing things that are conservative. I think we serve as like a gut check
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for the conservative movement when they sort of stray towards Alison Redford country.
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And I fully believe that when you went to get into the event, they had to absolutely know who
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the heck you were. You guys were in federal court in the morning. They should have been
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ready and waiting to deal with you. The fact that you had to get the PPC people to help you out
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just speaks to how spiteful and malicious the debate organizers are that they just pushed it
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right to the very last limit. I wanted to ask you, you were so calm when you were asking Trudeau that
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question. You didn't stumble, your voice didn't break. I would be full of nerves just because of
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all the pressure that was on you. I mean, all the journalists are looking at you eating their lunch.
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You're looking at the most powerful man in the entire country. And you're going to ask him a
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question. This is really your one shot. I mean, if he loses, this is your one shot to ask him a
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question as a prime minister. What was that like for you? My heart was racing. I mean, it has been in the
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works for months, right? Like we've had me and David flying across the country following his campaign
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for months, dozens of flights, hundreds of hours of work. We fought a federal court case. We paid
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thousands and thousands of dollars to be able to get there. And finally, everything worked out. I was
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at the front of the line. I had my bags sniffed by RCMP sniffer dots. And I skipped questions from
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leaders before Justin Trudeau so I could stay at the front of the line so I could be there to ask him a
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question. And everything just lined up perfectly. Don't get me wrong. I wasn't super calm. Maybe my
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voice sounded like that. And I'm glad it came across that way. But my heart was certainly pounding
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outside of my chest. It's kind of funny. It was in the same way as when I confronted that ISIS terrorist
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in Enderby. My phone was in my breast pocket recording the confrontation. And if you go watch that video
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again, it sounds like post-editing was done to add a heartbeat to make the sound effects super,
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like to make it really, you know, intense. But no, that was actually just my heart racing.
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And it seemed, it was sort of similar asking a question of our prime minister as it was confronting
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an ISIS terrorist. They were both equally as hard to get to. Um, yeah. The faces of the journalists,
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I don't know if you've closely examined that clip of you, the faces of the journalists behind you,
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you can tell they're pissed off. And you know, I've seen online people saying, well, how the heck did
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Rebel get the first questions? I don't know. Hustle and hard work. The same way you get all of our
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stories. I left the debate early. Uh, like I quit live tweeting halfway through. Well, not halfway through,
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maybe three quarters of the way through so that I could get in line first, get my bag stamped,
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get everything ready so that I could go up those escalators in the Canadian Museum of History.
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Uh, and, and I was there first in line because I, this is, this was our one shot, right? This was our
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one opportunity to ask him a question. And although he didn't really answer very well, I'm glad that he
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did answer it. There's a lot of speculation online because, uh, before him, I asked a bloc leader a
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question, the leader of the Bloc Québécois. And the bloc leader was like, oh, I'm not answering you. My answer
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is that I will not answer. And I was like, come on, man. Like you're not even supposed to be here.
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Like answer the question. It was a simple question. Um, and then all the pundits, the lefties from
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Canada land and all that were like, oh, Kian, Kian introduced himself and his publisher to the
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block leader, but he didn't do it to Trudeau. If Trudeau knew who Kian was, he wouldn't have answered
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a question either. Trying to like, they're trying to deal with this reality, right? That the one opportunity
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that we had to do this, it just blew up, right? It blew up in the left's face. It blew up in
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Justin Trudeau's face. Imagine if we were able to ask questions at every scrum, you know, like
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these people would lose their minds. They wouldn't be able to handle it because we were the only people.
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Andrew asked a good question too. We, uh, Andrew and I dealt with what questions we were going to be
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asking the prime minister before he came so that we weren't overlapping because we wanted to make sure that
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this was, uh, uh, efficiently spent question asking. Um, but besides us, nobody asked any difficult
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questions. So my, my thoughts are if we were able to be at every scrum asking these questions,
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they would all be blowing up in this same way. Well, and that's exactly why they continue to try to keep,
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um, you and Andrew Lawton out. Now, Andrew Lawton, he really did ask a great question. He asked if he
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would now with this court order in hand from a federal court be allowed to cover the liberal
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campaign and Justin Trudeau refused to answer him twice. Um, I think it was a great question because
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it revealed Trudeau to be someone who doesn't believe that the charter of rights and freedoms
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applies to everybody equally, including conservative reporters. But I've seen some of the fallout online,
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um, fallout, what a, that's not the right word to use, but I've seen some of the pushback from the
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poutine press. And normally I wouldn't call David Aiken the poutine press. Um, he's pretty middle of
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the road. He's fair both ways, tracks spending. But he called Andrew's question a wasted question,
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implying that it was selfish and that Andrew was attacking this elite club of journalists that he wanted
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to join. Um, I thought it was very telling because that's a question that they all should have been
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asking since the Trudeau liberals started blocking Andrew. They have access to Trudeau every single
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day and they should have been asking that question. Instead, Andrew had to go to court and spend
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thousands of dollars to be able to ask that question. I think it says a lot about the mainstream media.
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I said the exact same thing to Ezra. Uh, David Aiken's tweet there is spoken like someone who's
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never been denied his constitutional right to do his job ever. He's never, he's never,
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he's been a mainstream media journalist his entire life. I mean, I mean, even with his time with son,
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he, he's a middle of the road guy. He doesn't anger anyone by stepping on anyone's toes. I think the
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most out there he's gotten is when he asked Trudeau if he was going to resign that kind of blew up. Um,
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but he's never, you know, he's never had to work for anything in his life. And I, I, I'm sure,
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I'm sure he followed some scoops and he interviewed some people and he went to school. Maybe I don't
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even know his history, but he's never been denied the right to do his job by the entirety of an industry,
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two industries that both the journalist and, uh, the, the journalist industrial complex that the
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parliamentary press gallery just sort of promotes. They've not denied him anything. And, uh, on the
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flip side of that, politicians have never denied him. If he wanted to get onto the CPC campaign or the,
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uh, Liberal Party of Canada campaign at any time in his career, he would have been able to do that.
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Uh, so that's, that is why he said what he did, because he just doesn't understand what we were
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fighting for. And, uh, to further that point, Andrew Lawton asking that question was entirely
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valid. It was the most important issue of the day. The, uh, True North and Rebel were trending on
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Twitter. Um, it, it, it was the topical political question of the day. I, I know you're not supposed
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to make the story about yourself as a journalist, but the story was already about True North. It was
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about Rebel. It was about Andrew Lawton and David and I not being able to get into the room, not being
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able to, uh, do our jobs. That was the story and asking a question on that was totally valid. And
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David Akin, um, just doesn't understand that. Well, and I thought it was strange, actually. I thought
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maybe one of the journalists there might have a moment of intellectual curiosity, seeing that Rebel
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and True North are literally trending online, that over three million people were following, like,
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that's one in 10 Canadians, uh, were following Ezra's tweets about the federal court hearing.
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And yet, not a single one of them stuck a microphone in your faces and asked you, hey, what is it like
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to have to take the government to federal court to get access to a debate in a free country? That never
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happened. And I was quite frankly, pretty shocked about it. Well, it's because these journalists, uh,
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right there, they're in bed with the left, whether or not they are both, uh, whether or not they're out
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about it or not is a different story. But Antifa's whole shtick, uh, and these like hard labor leftists
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who absolutely hate us, their whole shtick is that no journalist should report on us or share our news
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without also, uh, explaining how awful we are, how controversial we are. Um, Mercedes did it, uh,
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with Global News. I know she apologized afterwards, which was good of her. I, I, um, but she, she,
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she stopped and corrected herself to make herself wrong. That was the part that I thought was quite
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interesting was she went, she said Rebel and True North were in federal court today. I mean,
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True North was in federal court today. Like she stopped and made herself wrong just for the sake
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of cutting us out of the fight for freedom. Yep. And then ending by saying we were controversial.
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It was actually really funny because, uh, the, the anchor, the news anchor who had no idea who I was
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because I didn't say hi, Kian Bexy from Rebel, uh, when I was talking to Trudeau, the anchor who was in
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studio, uh, thought that this was a crazy question. She was like, oh my God, can you believe Trudeau's answer
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to that? He was talking about climate change in response to black. Like it just didn't make any
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sense. Uh, and then she talked, she was throwing to Mercedes. She was on the ground knowing exactly
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what was going on. And Mercedes is like, oh my God, studio, like, like better quiet down,
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not talk about the rebel. It was, it was pretty comical. And then she got cut off when Andrew
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Cher came out. So that was, uh, good. So she couldn't go on blabbering about how awful we are.
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Now, I guess my final or final couple of questions is, um, you're going to the French
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language debate. Yes. I had no intention to, but the judge said, uh, we were, we had to be accredited
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to go. Uh, so we will, we'll most definitely be there now that we're allowed. Um, I, I was worried
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that I wouldn't be able to ask questions at the French debate, but then I realized, well, at the
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English debate, um, half the questions were in French. It wasn't an English scrum. It was a
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bilingual scrum. So I'm just going to go there and ask questions in, in English. And maybe I'll
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have a French question in my back pocket and I'll, uh, just butcher the hell out of it and be like,
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bonjour, Mr. Trudeau. Uh, and then I'll just go on and, you know, see what he, see what he has to say.
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But my, my plan so right now is to ask questions in English. I already have a few that I think are
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going to sting. And where can people find all of your incredible reports from the road? I know
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you're briefly home today, it looks like, but you are working from the road every single day. You're
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Skyping in from airports. Where can people find those reports? Uh, folks can see me on Twitter
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at TheRealKeon. That's where I was live tweeting the debate and it's where I'll live tweet the next
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debate, although it'll be harder with the translations that we'll have to do. So it won't be as, as frequent.
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Uh, TheRealKeon on Twitter is the best place, hands down, to see things as they happen.
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I upload all of our questions that we ask immediately from there. Uh, but you can also
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go to campaign2019.com. Uh, that's our website. Uh, it's a great website. It's a great name.
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Um, people can go there to see what we've covered, what we're going to cover,
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why we're doing it, that kind of thing. So that's, uh, where I would send them.
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And they can pitch in to cover the cost to send you to all these far-flung places to jump out of the
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bushes and scare some liberals. Kian, here's to you making Justin Trudeau short circuit like my
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Roomba robot that ate yarn that one time at the, uh, French language debate. Thanks for Skyping in.
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Thanks so much, Sheila. Stay with us more up next after the break.
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Well, the first thing I want to say though is that everybody here should give themselves a round of applause.
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Because you all refused to be bullied by the 30 troublemakers in this city who bullied an immigrant
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businessman into losing thousands of dollars tonight. It wasn't cheap for us to rent that place.
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And they bullied him. And they threatened him. And by proxy, they threatened all of you. And yet,
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all of you are here tonight standing up for freedom, standing up for a right to free speech,
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standing up for a right to have a book signing. Isn't that a crazy thing? Those people downstairs
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call themselves anti-fascists. Can you believe that? All right. And those people, those people,
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the one guy who bothered to show up when it's so cold, they call themselves anti-fascists, but they came
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here tonight to do a metaphorical book burning of a Jewish author. You know, give me a break. But those
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are the exact same people who sent targeted complaints about my book, Stop Not Leave.
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I didn't do a book signing, so they couldn't protest my book signing. So what they did was they sent
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complaints to Rachel Notley's basically a hired gun. He's part of a creative bureaucracy called the
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Elections Commissioner. And it was basically their job to control free speech during the election period.
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And the free speech they tried to control was my book. I wrote a book called Stop Notley. It was a
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bestseller. I think it went a little higher than yours. That's right.
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And we have been embroiled in a battle with the Elections Commissioner. They demanded that I sit
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down and be interrogated for writing a book and releasing it during an election period in a free
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country. You know, it's really disgusting. And where were our so-called allies in the Civil Liberties
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Association? Penn Canada takes $75 a year from me. Then they say they're supposed to defend a journalist.
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I never heard from them. The Canadian Civil Liberties people. Canadian journalists for free
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expression. Every time we're banned, de-platformed, our books are attacked, we become the target of
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investigations. We don't hear from any of them. 600 million bucks goes a long way.
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Darn right it does. But it's a lot of silence, doesn't it? So they've tried to de-platform me.
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And this last attempt at de-platforming my book by using this weaponized elections,
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Commissioner, it wasn't the first time. Who remembers when Rachel Notley threw me out of
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the legislature using an arms chair? Who remembers how we fought back and we won?
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Those are the same people who targeted Mr. Brar tonight. And they're not going to stop. They're
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never going to stop until we stop them. Until we hold them legally accountable for their bad action.
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And it stops now. It was a night for freedom, but it was also a night for us to finally stand up to the
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bullies. And not just the bullies who are bullying us, but the bullies who are bullying small businesses
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and the bullies who are bullying severely normal people. Joining me now is Canada's newest anti-bullying
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activist, Ezra Levant. I'm never on this side of the microphone. Tonight, it'll be the next day,
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by the time everybody's seeing this, we held our book signing, Hell or High Water?
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Yeah, you know, I really like these two sort of obscure, artsy, old-fashioned theaters in Alberta.
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One's in Calgary, one's in Edmonton. The Calgary one's called The Plaza. The Edmonton one's called
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The Princess. They're owned by the same guy, an immigrant from India named Mike Brar. Friendly guy.
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We've done events in both theaters before. We had the Climate Hustle Canadian premiere, sold them out.
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And even when I lived in each city, I remember going to those theaters,
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either for cheap second-run movies or for obscure movies. Like, it's fun. Everyone likes those old
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theaters that are a little quirky. And because we had two successful events with them before with
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The Rebel, it seemed a natural place to do the book launch for my book, The Libranos, which we talked
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to Mike, the owner. He said, yeah, it sounds no problem. He doesn't take any point of view in politics.
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And I said, you know, some people, you know, they might not like our criticism of Trudeau.
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And he said, in 30 years, I've never canceled a show. So I thought, okay, this guy's for freedom.
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You gotta be, if you run a movie theater. Like, if you're a prude or a censor,
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you don't go into the movie theater business. Anyways, everything was going great. We were
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selling hundreds of tickets. But then some NDP activists started bullying Mike Brar. And I say
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NDP activists, I would have thought it might be pro-Trudeau activists who don't like my book.
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But I think it's just Rachel Notley has-beens and losers. And when I mean losers, I mean,
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for example, Jessica Littlewood, who is a MLA in your neck of the woods, and then she lost. So I think
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that's technically a loser. And now she's on Twitter like shouting at Mike Brar and trying to
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de-platform us. And I think her main target was us. But I mean, she shouts at us. I don't even care.
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I don't even hear it. But she shouts at a severely normal businessman. He's, whoa, what's happening?
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And that's the thing. These people were too cowardly to come for you and me. So they went after this Mike
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Brar guy, this movie theater in Preserio. And they scared the living daylights out of him.
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I talked to him on the phone last night. I said, Mike, come on, don't be worried. We'll hire a
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couple of private security guards. We'll tell the cops to keep an eye peeled. These people are just
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rattling your cage. Like they're not, like they're cowards. Like Antifa are, without their masks,
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they're completely cowards. They're losers. And he said, Ezra, I can't even sleep at night. I'm so
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stressed. And he said, his phone was ringing off the hook. I said, just don't answer your phone.
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You can't, I guess you can't tell that to a guy who runs a movie theater.
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So I didn't know how it was going to go down. I said, look, Mike, I got a contract with you.
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Just do it. I said, dude, what's the worst that can happen? Well, I didn't know what he was going
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to do. So we showed up anyways and they didn't unlock the place. And we had hundreds of people.
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So we just hoofed it a couple blocks over to Rosie's Bar and Grill and they didn't care.
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So we did our book signing there. Um, I'm a little bit mad at the movie theater owner,
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Mike Brar for not staying true to like, if you own a movie theater, you should be a free speech guy.
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Yeah. And he said to me for 30 years, he hasn't buckled and he knows us because he did events
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with us before. So he has no excuse, but however mad I am at him, I'm furious for the people who bullied
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him into that decision. And in his defense, he's not built for fighting. You and me are maybe.
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So that's why I blame the bullies and you jokingly call me an anti-bullying activist,
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but that's actually the case. And isn't it funny that the tolerant left who are so against bullying,
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they're the ones who bullied. And the fact that he's Indian is, is irrelevant other than
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if the shoe were on the foot, it would be super relevant to them. And you know, you remarked that
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I'm Jewish and we're banning a Jewish author's books while calling yourself anti-fascist. It's a bad look.
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Yeah. I mean, obviously it's because I'm conservative and I criticized Trudeau. It's not because I'm Jewish.
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And Mike Burrard just haven't known the venue. It's not because he's East Indian. But I tell you one
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thing, it's like you said, it's not a good look. And the great book burners of the 20th century were
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the Nazis. Mao Zedong burnt books too, by the way. So, I mean, you and I had lunch today with our
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Edmonton legal eagle and we came up with a plan and I shared it a little bit tonight with the people here
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and they sure liked it. And it was this. I mean, I literally brought with me the contract that we
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signed with Mike Burrard and the credit card receipt showing that we paid for it. Like, I have the
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proof here that I got it. This is a contract and I paid for it. In fact, I haven't even gotten a refund
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yet. And so Mike Burrard breached the contract. So I would have a legal remedy to sue him for damages
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or whatever. And I might do that. But like I say, he's not the worst person in this story. The worst
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person are those who induced him to breach the contract. And here's the thing, Sheila, and this
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is what our lawyer confirmed for us today. That's against the law. To induce someone to breach a contract,
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you are now liable to the person who lost. So Jessica Littlewood, Progress Alberta,
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all these lefties who were so brave on Twitter, who basically screamed at this man until he buckled.
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Every one of them induced the breach to contract. And I am going to sue them all.
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I don't care if there are 100 of them. I will sue all of them because I want them to have a public
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education in the court of law that you cannot act that way. You cannot bully a man so bad that he
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breaks his contractual obligations. That is un-Canadian. And these people don't know it. Their
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mamas didn't teach them right. So we need the courts to teach them right. Now, a lot of the
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threats, they were social media threats to Mike Brar. And a lot of the haranguing and harassing,
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they were social media threats. But when push came to shove and when the rubber meets the road,
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we had what, one loser? We had one loser show up. And we also had some of our people who actually
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incidentally happened to be late. And they opened the theater at 530. Oh, there was a lot of bad
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behavior tonight. You make a good observation. So all these people, I mean, Mike Brar said his phone
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was hanging off the hook. They never showed up. They didn't. And the only guy who did show up was just a
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perennial crank that everybody knows in town, like the village idiot. Rickshaw Dave is his nickname.
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He really is the village idiot. He doesn't like me. And I've seen him. Well, you know what, if he
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liked you, there would be a problem because he's so, he's a crank. And everyone in town, oh, there's
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Rickshaw Dave. Like, so he was the only one. We had two private security just to, like I said to Mike Brar,
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the impressorio, I said, look, you got nothing to worry about. We'll bring private security. I called the
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cops. There was a whole police van, a bunch of cops there. There was nothing to be worried about.
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There was one crank there. And all those tough losers on Twitter evaporated. You know what,
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though? They were so brazen slash stupid to use their real names. And I got all their names.
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And I'm coming from Mike Brar. He's not built for fighting. I am. And I am coming. Let me just look
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right in the camera and say this. I am coming for every single person who induced this breach of
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contract. I will hunt you forever. From Ezra's lips to our lawyer's ears to God's ears.
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Well, I think that's a wrap. Stay with us more up next after the break.
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If you and me were unafraid to stare down Justin Trudeau and make him bend the knee,
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do you really think we are going to give in to street bugs like Rick Sonday?
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Oh no. Now again, you and I, we're all here. Mike Brar came in and I'm not being too mad at him
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because he's, he just wanted to rent a theater. But what happened? A breach of contract is what
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happened. I have a contract for this theater tonight and it was breached by Mike Brar.
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But Mike Brar wasn't the root of the problem, was he? All the people who threatened Mike Brar,
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Jessica Littlewood, the failed NDP MLA, Progress Alberta, the street thugs for Rachel Notley,
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they were the ones who threatened Mike Brar. I knew that because he told me.
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Don't forget the mayor. So what can I do about that? I'll tell you,
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I used to be a lawyer back in the day. I don't know which is more disreputable,
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a lawyer or a journalist. I'm a bit of both. But I know this,
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there is a civil lawsuit for a tort called inducing a breach of contract. If you know there's a contract
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between two people and you interfere and you cause someone to breach the contract, you,
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the interferer, have a civil action against you.
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And here's the thing about those NDP. They're so stupid or brazen, whichever one,
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that they thought they would do this in public on Twitter, on Facebook, in emails.
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They were so proud of what they were doing that many of them did it in their own names
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because they have never been held to account before. Well, guess what? That changes tonight.
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Well, that's my boss, Ezra Levant, refusing to be bullied by the, like I said, two dozen or so
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NDP thugs and activist losers in Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta and a city of over one
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million people. We're done being deplatformed. We're taking a fight to these people and we're going
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to make them pay legally. We're taking back the streets, as they say. On that video, TCZ writes,
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Jason Kenney needs to fire 10,000 of these government mammary gland sucking civil servants in Edmonton
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that were hired by Notley. You know, it's true. Premier Jason Kenney needs to do that for several
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different reasons to trim down that Edmonton civil service that was fattened up by far left-wing
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socialist premier Rachel Notley to inflate her employment numbers. Kenny needs to do it, of course,
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for economic reasons, but he also needs to do it to drain the swamp or drain the muskeg in Alberta parlance.
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Many of those people are activist appointees who are working within the system to sabotage
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Jason Kenney's plans to get our province back on track and they've got to go. Tuggy Waffles writes,
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the left is weak, perverted and pitiful, but they are cruel, deceitful and scheming. Tuggy,
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I saw that happen firsthand in Edmonton. The keyboard warriors who bullied an immigrant businessman named
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Mike Brar into breaching his contract with us didn't actually show up to put a face to their online
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bullying and, as you put it, scheming. One probably mentally ill person showed up as cannon fodder.
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He was the only person who showed up to make trouble for us last night. Jerry Berry writes,
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what this deplatforming garbage proves is just how effective the rebel really is. The hard left is
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afraid of the rebel precisely because they champion free speech and are good at it. Keep doing what you're
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doing rebel. We absolutely will keep doing what we're doing. We're going to keep fighting for
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freedom, but we can't do it without the help and support of people like you at home through your
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donations to help us in our legal battles, but also through our supporters. Like last night, supporters
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who were unafraid to show up to the book signing, knowing full well that Antifa had threatened to show
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up and cause all kinds of trouble. Severely normal people who could have decided to do any number of
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less controversial things on a cold Thursday night in the capital city said, no, we're fighting for
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freedom. And for me, that was something that was incredible to be a part of. Well, folks, that wraps up
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another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thank you, David, once again, for trusting me with your show.
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Thanks folks at home for tuning in. Thank you, my friends in the office for stitching together this
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creature of a show and bringing it to life. See you all next week. And remember, without risk, there can be no glory.