Rebel Roundup | Highlights from the WEF, UFC champ defends Canadians, Trudeau plummets in polls
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Rebel News Weekly Roundup is a weekly show where we recap the top news stories from the past week in the world of politics, economics, entertainment, and social media. This week, we look at some of our favorite clips from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Oh, hey, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, depending on what part of this beautiful country
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that you're in. And it's pretty frosty still in some parts of it, including my own.
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Welcome to the Rebel News Weekly Roundup. This used to be a daily show hosted by David Menzies and
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a rotating cast of characters, including myself, but I think you'll agree with me.
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David Menzies is the best man-on-the-street journalist in this country, and it would be
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an absolute travesty to the pursuit of journalism in this country to continue to keep
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that force of nature inside a studio every single day. So we tightened up the show. We're just doing
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the show on Fridays now where we recap the week, and it is hosted by me because I do most of my work
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from the desk where I'm at, right, Jared? This is where I do all my writing, all my filming,
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so it's easier for me to just flip on a camera and talk to you guys. So we're going to talk about the
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news of the day and end of the week. And as you know, there's absolutely nothing happening in the
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world, and the Rebel News team is sort of just sitting on our hands waiting for news to come to
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us. Of course, you realize that sarcasm because we are ripping it up in our World Economic Forum
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coverage in no small part, thanks to the team on the ground there, which includes the boss,
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Ezra Levant, Avi Yamini, went to Davos, Switzerland, all the way from Australia, which I understand is
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a very onerous trip. I think it took them almost two full days. And then we've also got Kian Simoni,
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who's a producer on the ground there, and Lincoln Jay. So they're working so hard over there. We're
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going to look at some of their best work. And special shout out to the team in Toronto, but also
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across the country, our diligent team of writers and journalists and producers and social media
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content creators, they're all working behind the scenes watching all the World Economic Forum live
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streams. Because these people say crazy things when they think only their elite buddies are watching.
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Well, it's not just their elite buddies anymore. Rebel News is watching. And so we're doing our very best
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to bring you accountability journalism from on the ground in Davos, Switzerland. You can see all of
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their reports and support, I think, some of the most important independent journalism we've ever done
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at wefreports.com. I mean, we're really outside of True North, although, and this is no offense to our
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friends at True North, we're a little more rambunctious than they are on the ground. And we're really the
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only independent journalists with any sort of reach whatsoever on the ground there outside of our
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friends at True North. Although I think we're going to continue to inspire other people to come next
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year. Let me tell you how you can get involved. And then I'll, we'll just get to the clips. Let's look
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at some of these clips. And I'll, I've got some things to say, as I generally do. I'm full of
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opinions, and I'll share them as they come. But I want to tear through some of these clips today,
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because, I mean, the journalism speaks for itself. And I don't have to lead all my horses, you watchers,
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to water to make you drink. You know exactly what these people are saying about you and your lives
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in these clips. So if you are watching us on YouTube, thanks so much. 1.6 plus million sets
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of eyeballs over there. We don't want to abandon you. However, YouTube is a censorship platform that
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completely demonetized us. And they will also routinely erase your comments. I know some of
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you out there might think that I'm doing it or we're doing it. It's not. If your comment has been
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erased on YouTube, look at the big tech oligarchs to hold them responsible, we didn't do it.
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But if you want to watch us on a less censorious platform, wherein actually you can support us,
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read chats that fall under that and even sometimes clever free ones. So get chatting, get talking to
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each other and you might just see your chat read by me on air. So let's get into the news.
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Deputy Prime Minister Krista Freeland, hot off a terrible week, wherein her security people
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roughed up and illegally arrested David Menzies for the crime of journalism on a street.
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She, as you know, was on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum. And so this is like a
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homecoming week for her. She was at the World Economic Forum bragging about decarbonization.
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I've got opinions as an Albertan about decarbonization. Let's let, oh, she got a new dress.
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What a relief. It's conservative blue. She's wearing her Ukrainian ribbon. Of course she is.
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But anyways, let's listen to Christy Freeland with her brand new World Economic Forum dress. Tell us
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about the successes of decarbonization here in Canada.
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This is a hugely transformative moment in the whole global economy. I think that right now we're
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living through a moment which is comparable only to the industrial revolution itself. In terms of the
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energy transition and the way we need to retool all of our manufacturing. That is huge. Canada's
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strategy, Borge, is to say, look at these two trends and let's see how we can use them to play to Canada's
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strengths. And our view is there's a lot that Canada can offer to the world in this moment. You know,
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we have the critical minerals and metals that you need to build a green economy. We have a lot of clean
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energy. 85% of our grid is already clean and we are investing heavily in building more clean energy.
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We are a country that believes in manufacturing, has manufacturing know-how and capacity. And then you
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guys spoke about industrial policy. You know, the thing that is new about industrial policy is we
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are developing our economies, growing our economies at a time when we also need to accomplish the green
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transition. And I spoke yesterday to a very significant international business leader who is also a big
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investor in Canada. And he said to me, all the countries in the world need to be very careful
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that decarbonization does not mean deindustrialization. I thought that was an extremely smart comment.
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And Canada is absolutely determined that decarbonization for us will mean more jobs, more growth, more
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manufacturing. And we recognize government needs to play a role to make that happen.
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What on earth is that woman talking about? You know what, let's just take a minute to all just be
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glad that she was for once on stage in front of people, sitting like a lady with her legs crossed.
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And like, look, I'm, I'm not all that ladylike, but I know if I'm wearing a dress that I can't put my knees to
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my chest as she has in the past when she exposed our, uh, alumnus Ian Bexty to her underpants in an airport
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when she was changing her shoes. I've seen her, um, actually put her hair in a scrunchie while she was on the
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stage in London in the UK with the UK foreign minister. And, uh, I was just absolutely mortified
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at how uncouth this woman is. I say, as I'm sitting here in my lumber jacket and my sweatshirt, but
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like know your audience lady. So let that's a win. That's a win for all of us for Canadian dignity.
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She kept her legs crossed. So that's in the win category. Let's talk about the losses though.
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So she notes that, um, and you know, frankly, rightly so that we're living through a moment
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that hearkens back to the industrial revolution. She's right. Just not in the way she thinks,
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because during the industrial revolution, there was, um, a lot of people who were in the peasant
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class who couldn't afford, um, heat and food. And that's where we are in the pursuit of green energy.
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Uh, she says that green energy policies will inspire manufacturing. Uh, Ontarians let me know in the
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comment section. Remember when, uh, Dalton McGinty brought in the, uh, a whole slate of green policies
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in Ontario. And then all of your manufacturing fled to greener pastures, um, like Mexico,
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like the United States, like China, like your manufacturing sector went offshore because
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electricity was too expensive. I remember hearing from my cousins who were running their dryer in
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the middle of the night, because that was when it was most affordable because electricity just went
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whoop right through the roof. Um, she's bragging about the number of, uh, green electricity projects
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that are contaminating the grid. I've got opinions about this as an Albertan for those of you who
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are not from Alberta. Let me tell you, Alberta has roughly 800 years of some of the cleanest burning coal
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on the face of the earth under our feet. Uh, in some places you can pick it out of the ground. You can pick
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it under, out of the river bed. It's like, you know, like on the side where the river's cut through,
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it's there. You can see it. Uh, it's the reason why like at, at Wobbleman at Genesee, they,
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they strip mine. It's good. It's good. It's relatively close to the surface. We don't have to tunnel mine
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like they do in the United States. We don't do that here. It's so abundant and so close to the surface.
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And yet, thanks to the NDP and their accelerated coal phase out in conjunction with the likes of
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Christopher Freeland and the Liberal Party of Canada, uh, now, four years later, in a prolonged
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cold snap that is not unseasonably cold, just longer than normal, we are getting amber alert
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style emergency alerts to our phone telling us to don't use electricity. Use the microwave, not the stove.
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Unplug the block heaters on our vehicles, which makes your vehicle just freeze up and it's
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impossible to run. That's what we're getting. Um, and that's because our grid was contaminated with
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both green energy, but also green energy policies, because at the same time as the NDP accelerated their
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coal phase out, uh, they also brought in a carbon tax and, uh, policy uncertainty. So what's the solution?
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If you don't have coal, you've got to, you need reliable base load. Coal has always been our
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reliable base load. So what do you shift to natural gas? Well, natural gas plant takes up to 10 years to
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get up and running. So when they accelerated this, the grid was not prepared. We're still not caught up.
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And the regulatory uncertainty of having an anti oil and gas government, both in Ottawa, but also in Alberta
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at the time meant that no companies wanted to build those plants because you didn't know if you were going
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to be allowed to, um, if they would suddenly decide like how they decided they hated coal, that they would also
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all of a sudden hate natural gas too. And we're seeing some of that already. So, um, we are, we may
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have what you might describe as an abundance of green abundance of green energy, but an abundance of
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green energy means it only works like 2% of the time. And the rest of the time, a place that is
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oil rich, gas rich, and coal rich, um, is concerned now about catastrophic grid failures. Um, so do not
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listen to a word this woman says about the green energy transition, unless you do want to go back
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to the dark times of the, um, industrial revolution where you are, uh, just living in a house with a
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hundred other people sleeping on the floor and burning garbage to stay warm. That's where we're
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going to end up here. All right. On that dark note, let's move ahead to the next thing. This one was
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comical. This one was very comical to me. This is an anti-racism policy advisor. And if you watch the, um,
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name key at the bottom of the clip we're about to show you, he works for an assistant deputy minister in
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the federal government. This guy is one of ours. Like we're paying this guy's salary
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and he's bragging about DEI. That's diversity, equity, and inclusion. Although I like what Gavin
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McInnes says when he calls it D I E like a die. Um, he's bragging about, uh, how far we've come
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with D E I here in Canada. And then he totally makes something up just completely completely.
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But anyways, we're not only do we pay this guy's salary, we're probably paying for him to have a
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luxury vacation in Davos. It's not cheap. Um, anyway, let's hear it from this guy who now calls himself
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brown bear to introduce myself in a way that you can see me here and see how I've been showing up
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in this place. My name is Robert Beamish, but my spirit name is Ozawa Makwa, which means brown bear
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in Ojibwe. My father is Algonquin Métis and Irish. My mother is African Jamaican and indigenous Jamaican.
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So I get to bring these intersections and these lenses to my work and only the work I do in anti-racism,
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but my professional life, my personal life, how I, I navigate spaces and sit in the room and hear the
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conversations. And so I've been really thrilled to be able to go into sessions where we're D E I
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diversity, equity, and inclusion where racial equity was put on the table. But it was always also
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abundantly clear that this is on the table because it's profitable. And so we should all be doing this
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because you can make a profit. Inclusion is profitable. We've seen innovation increase by,
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by 20%, we've seen margins grow. We've seen employee satisfaction. And that's really encouraging
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to be able to have that kind of space for this. But I think of all the times when it wasn't profitable
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to be inclusive, where, where it wasn't profitable for a racial equity. And that wasn't on the table.
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And where it is on the table now, and we have this confluence, there is both this kind of harrowing
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feeling that I hope this stays profitable. I hope this stays profitable. And for a long time,
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I've seen examples where it wasn't profitable for certain people, and they were in the way of profit,
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and they experienced genocide. That's happened in Canada. Indigenous people were in the way of
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progression, and they experienced genocide. And so it's a really scary thing to be in the way of profit.
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Um, this guy works for us. I'm deeply embarrassed that he does. Let's talk for a second about what he
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just said there. He said, I've seen examples where it wasn't profitable for certain people,
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and they were in the way of profit, and they experienced genocide. What? This is Canada.
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We don't genocide the wokesters. Apparently, we send them to Davos to embarrass us on an international
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scale, like this guy just did. Like, what's his name? Brown Bear? Uh, we don't genocide wokesters.
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We elevate them beyond their skill set, as we've seen here. He works. This horrifies me, but it explains
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my farming business model. Let me go back a little. This guy is an advisor, Mr. Brown Bear, an advisor to
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the deputy minister for international trade. Are you a farmer concerned about getting your exports
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to market? Let's say you're a canola farmer, and you're just, you're like, is Trudeau going to annoy
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India again? Possibly, uh, ending, uh, our exports to that country, and canola, I think, is our single
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largest, um, we're the single largest exporter of canola in the world. Or are they going to, uh,
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embarrass us, and then all of a sudden, they won't take our grain or our pulses, as is the case again
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with India. Trudeau went to India, made an absolute idiot of himself, uh, just a complete jackass of
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himself. And then all of a sudden, Canadian farmers are dealing with the fact that we don't have an
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export market for pulses, chickpeas, which is, I mean, that's a staple in Indian food. Um, so anyways,
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I look at this guy and I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm out of canola and I've become the hay
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oligarch of Strathcona County, Alberta. Um, because, uh, how, how does anybody who needs to produce
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something and then move it offshore to international markets look at this and have any sort of
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confidence in the federal government to even maintain trade relations? What has any of this
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got to do with the price of canola in India, if you know what I mean? I'm, I'm, I'm just deeply
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ashamed. But anyways, we don't, the moral of the story, we don't genocide the wokesters. Um, we
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let them choose their spirit name, uh, uh, at a gathering of the world's power brokers and control
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freaks and elevate them in such a manner that they cause us shame on an international scale. So
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thanks Robert Beamish. Thank you. Uh, let's keep going. Um, so that was the, so we've gone from
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Krista Freeland, uh, just making things up completely. And then we've got, uh, Brown Bear,
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uh, just telling tales at a school and, uh, making me really happy that I spent, I sell specialty blend
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hay as a farmer now, and that can just be spread around locally to the stables around these parts.
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And I don't have to worry about how these people are going to harm my bottom line by just saying
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stupid stuff. And now we've got Javier Mille, um, Argentinian president and, uh, well, he looks like
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Teen Wolf. So that kind of appeals to me. I love, uh, uh, conservative politician with fun hair
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for sure. Um, and, uh, he went into the belly of the beast, the world economic forum and told them
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off right to their faces. And it was refreshing and beautiful. And, uh, I love that he was completely
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unafraid to be the skunk at the garden party. Let's roll this.
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Good afternoon. Thank you very much. Today I'm here to tell you that the Western world
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is in danger and it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values
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of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and
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thereby to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals
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willing to help others and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged cast,
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the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different
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versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments
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are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather,
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they are the root cause. Do believe me, no one better place than us, Argentines, to testify
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Imagine how shooketh the elites in the crowd were. They are still so annoyed on the internet. They're
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like, why is he here? Why did he come? Who is this right-wing radical? Of course, they're invoking
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the word fascism. Fascism is an expansion of government to encompass the private sector being
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just basically economic enforcers of government policy, which is what we see in the Western world
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from big tech, right? Like they enforce censorship through a wink and a nudge by both the Canadian but
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also the American governments. He's doing his best to shrink the reach of government in the lives
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of Argentinians. And I hope he does it. I mean, he's just elected. He seems to be on a pretty
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aggressive tangent of just cutting government. There's that fun video he did where he posted up
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all the things that the government does. And he just went through and ripped them off. I wish,
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like, I absolutely wish. I hope by the time he's done, the Argentinian bureaucracy fits on a postage
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stamp. But yeah, good for him going there and telling this conclave of globalist control freaks
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to stay out of everybody's lives. And the expansion of government to into a socialist state leads to
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poverty. And he is trying to bring Argentinians out of that. And good for him. Just so refreshing.
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Good for him. I'm sure he upset a few people in the crowd, but they have it coming. Let's go to
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some of our moments this week. Our, I mean, Ezra, Abby, Kian, Lincoln, Benji also from on the ground
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in Davos, Switzerland, where the control freaks are gathering to control. Let's play this video
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from Mark Carney. Now, Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England, former head of the Bank of
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Canada. Now the climate finance czar with the United Nations. Basically, he is the climate debanking
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guy. So he has this little organization wherein if you do not meet their DEI climate social credit
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scores, then they pressure financial institutions to not provide finance and insurance to major fossil
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fuel projects. So, um, I mean, it's just the social credit they would apply to you. They're already
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applying it to the people who might create a job for you. He's the guy doing that. Um, and because of
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his connections to the financial sector, he knows exactly how to do it. And he is also frequently
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floated, although he sort of plays coy, coy, cheeky about replacing Justin Trudeau as the leader
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of the Liberal Party of Canada. And, uh, as we'll get to it shortly, Justin Trudeau ain't doing so hot
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with Canadians, but also with his own party. So, um, anyways, there's a bit of a walk and talk here
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with Mark Carney. Let's show it. Um, and then I'll tell you what I think is happening here.
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Hello, how have you been? Where? Hey, watch out. Watch out. Watch out.
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I've got a couple of quick questions for you this year.
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Welcome. Welcome to the party. I've been here a couple of days, only been in three pints.
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Really? Nah, nah. I wouldn't have to do that. You know me.
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Um, listen, I've got a question for you. What, we got here. We can do whatever.
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We're the elites of the elites. Here, so let me ask you, let me ask you something. So, um,
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Justin Trudeau is struggling in the polls there. Um, what would your, what would your, I guess,
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advice be to Trudeau? Because you've got an election coming at least in the next couple of years.
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It's pretty good of you to follow Canadian politics that close to that.
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You guys are buddies. Talk to a Canuck. Talk to, I'm great. Nice to see you. But seriously,
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he needs help. He's down 20 points. He has a gender gap. Women are choosing conservatives
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more than liberals. I don't remember the last time that happened. What advice would you have
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with the, for the youngster? The, uh, going to a central banker for a political advice is never a
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good idea. Come on. We know that you're in the line, uh, you know.
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I heard you had a meeting the other day with, uh, the prime minister in Ottawa. Is that correct?
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Uh, I see the prime minister from time to time. In what capacity, may I ask?
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Uh, I, well, uh, I do a lot of work on, uh, climate, as you know. Uh, I'm sure a big fan of that.
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Do you ever, do you ever register as a lobbyist or is it just friendship?
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Sorry, I don't. When you meet with the, when you meet with the PM on climate,
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are you there on your own behalf or are you there on behalf of a company lobbyist?
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I, um, am the UN special envoy on, uh, climate action and finance, so.
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And what do you make? It's a bitter cold in Canada, down to minus 40.
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Uh, and Gilboa is saying go to electric cars. That doesn't work.
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And for a week, well, you've got to have, watch out, you've got to have the full, uh,
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you've got to have full capacity, right? And you've got to have, um, you've got to, you know,
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one of the things we're going to need to do, uh, in Canada, across Canada, um, and this is,
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you know, for the benefit of jobs in the country is, is build out the grid. You can't switch before
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you build it out, number one. Number two, one of the things you need, regardless of the
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form of energy you have, uh, we have is, um, is also to have what's called a capacity
00:28:48.760
So you think that Gilboa's plan is a little bit hasty since we haven't done those foundational
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things? Well, I think what's important is that, you know, whether it's, uh, in Alberta, Ontario,
00:28:58.680
Canada, Australia, for that matter, uh, is that you have to, yeah, you have to build,
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you have to build. And it's a, it's a time to build. And look, we're in a position, uh, where
00:29:11.160
we in Canada are in a position where we have been an energy superpower. We can continue to be an
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energy superpower. We've always, uh, we've always had, um, uh, the ability to develop new sources
00:29:25.880
of energy. But the PM said there was no market for natural gas. How do you feel about natural gas,
00:29:29.960
especially to relieve Ukraine and other Europeans from Russian gas? How come they are buying Russian
00:29:36.040
gas and Qatari gas, but Justin Trudeau won't let them buy Canadian gas? Well, we would have to get,
00:29:41.960
uh, to build the trains in order to do the, what are called LNG trains in order to get the gas to them.
00:29:47.960
Well, God, this is a long interview, isn't it? I'm enjoying it and I'm, and I'm doing my best to
00:29:51.800
be fair and friendly. If this was Canada, you could have him arrested. Did you see that? Your rival,
00:29:59.000
Christy Freeland had one of our reporters arrested. I think she did. I think she didn't say a word
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against it. Um, on the incident, um, as you guys know very well, Canada is a rule of law country.
00:30:15.960
Canada is a democracy. Operational decisions about law enforcement are taken by the police of
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jurisdiction. Quite appropriately, political elected officials have no role in the taking
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of those decisions. And that's why I don't have any further comment. It was the wrong thing.
00:30:37.080
It was absolutely the wrong thing. Thank you for saying that. Look, freedom of the press. I've,
00:30:42.200
look, I've, uh, I've been a public figure in Canada, been a public figure in the UK. I know you got to
00:30:49.080
answer tough questions and you guys, you know, you asked tough questions and that's fair. Well,
00:30:53.000
I want to thank you for saying that because I have to say, Christy Freeland has not yet said anything,
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uh, in the, in the vein that you have. She's been happy to let the cops do her work for her.
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And if she disagrees with the cops, she hasn't said so. Well, uh, I said what I said. So, but look,
00:31:09.320
the questions you were asking earlier about, uh, energy and I'm going to have to,
00:31:12.760
well, thanks for your time. I really appreciate it.
00:31:15.160
That's important. And I appreciate it. Good luck. Thanks. Come on. I feel like until,
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until next thing, until next. No, no, no. Take care. Thank you.
00:31:26.600
So what a cultural sea change from an old school liberal to Justin Trudeau's, uh,
00:31:37.560
hypersensitive, tyrannical version of liberals in Canada. Now I, he has said, Mark Carney has said
00:31:49.000
that he is not going to run for the liberals, but I think he is being courted very heavily.
00:31:56.040
And if I had to guess, uh, what we just saw there is him floating a thought bubble about whether or not
00:32:08.680
he should run because he is saying things that were not out of line with the liberal party of Paul Martin,
00:32:18.520
of John Christian, but they are in complete contrast to Justin Trudeau's version of liberalism.
00:32:28.600
So he defends the freedom of the press. He, uh, this is his second walk and talk with us. Avi Yamini got
00:32:36.520
him last year. Uh, you can see Ezra has a friendly rapport with him. I'm not sure that I agree with Mark
00:32:44.520
Carney on what he says about our energy industry in that. I don't think he's sincere when he says
00:32:52.440
those things, given his role at the United nations that we, you know, when he says we should have a
00:32:56.840
mix of energy and that includes fossil fuels and, and we should, uh, be an energy superpower. That's
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something that we haven't heard, uh, a politician say at the federal level since Stephen Harper days. Um,
00:33:14.440
so I'm not sure. I, I agree with what he's saying. I just don't agree that he's sincere when he says it,
00:33:19.480
but if I had to guess, I had to guess that man is seriously considering running to replace
00:33:26.760
Justin Trudeau. And, uh, I mean, it couldn't be worse. It couldn't be worse. And how strange,
00:33:34.880
I mean, that is a bit of a stick in the eye. What he did there by, yeah, he says he hasn't ruled it
00:33:42.040
out, but then he says, uh, I've ruled it out. That is a real, uh, passive aggressive. And as
00:33:50.360
Canadians, you know, people say we're nice, but I think we're probably passive aggressive and not
00:33:55.520
nice. Um, but that is a real passive aggressive way of firing a shot across the bow of someone who
00:34:02.820
would be a challenger for the leadership of the liberal party, Christia Freeland. He just
00:34:10.460
distinguished himself as vastly different from Christia Freeland, who is basically Justin Trudeau
00:34:18.100
2.0, uh, with messy hair and a bad dress. Um, he says he defends freedom of the press and he says he
00:34:26.880
supports a robust energy mix to make sure that Canadians don't freeze in the dark. Imagine
00:34:33.540
Albertans freezing in the dark after we threatened the rest of the country with it. But she says,
00:34:39.940
no, no, freezing in the dark is what's going to create jobs. And he's saying, no, that's not how
00:34:44.120
it's supposed to work. So who knows? Who knows? I think maybe that man sees opportunity and imagine
00:34:49.820
launching your leadership, a soft launch of your leadership for the liberal party of Canada.
00:34:56.860
And you did it with rebel news in a walk and talk on the streets of Davos with Ezra Levant of all
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people. Wild, wild. Okay. Let's move on to the next video because, uh, spotting these people on
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the street in Davos where everybody sort of looks the same. They all sort of have the same winter
00:35:15.560
jacket, that sort of kind of dressy, but warmer winter jacket. And they're all sort of wearing
00:35:21.100
these dark suits and the world's power brokers all kind of look the same. That's how they get away
00:35:26.460
with it. But our team is doing a really great job of spotting these, uh, cookie cutter versions
00:35:34.020
of oligarchs, um, and elites. And Ezra spotted the president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
00:35:43.640
and had a little walk and talk with him. So let's, uh, let's watch that.
00:35:47.580
Can I ask you a few questions about the foundation? Unfortunately, I'm running late
00:35:56.360
for something. I'll walk with you. One of the criticisms is Bill Gates is sort of a master
00:36:01.720
of the universe, but he's not elected at all, but, but he exerts a lot of power. How do you feel
00:36:07.260
about that? Isn't it a little undemocratic? Is Melinda still involved with the foundation
00:36:14.140
even after the divorce? But I did not like, uh, that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:36:22.300
How many times did Bill Gates actually visit Epstein? I've seen estimates that it was in the
00:36:28.060
dozens. Is that true? Why is it that Bill Gates is out free when others who were involved with Epstein
00:36:38.000
are being prosecuted, like even Prince Andrew's in trouble? How did Bill Gates manage to skate?
00:36:44.140
What was Bill Gates' involvement in the simulation for a worldwide pandemic
00:36:53.800
just months before COVID-19? Has he ever explained that?
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I was at a, uh, pavilion called We Lead. It was a women's rights organization in India.
00:37:07.400
They said that the Bill Gates Foundation was a funder. What are you doing poking around India like that?
00:37:18.980
Bill Gates says he thinks there's too many people in the world. He'd like to see
00:37:26.740
First, we've got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion.
00:37:34.120
Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services,
00:37:40.580
we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
00:37:43.400
And yet he's behind a lot of vaccine development.
00:37:48.900
How can you trust a guy to make medicine if he says there's too many people in the world?
00:37:56.160
Don't you think you have an obligation to be transparent?
00:37:59.760
I don't think I'm asking any questions that you haven't heard before.
00:38:05.520
Why don't you just clear the air on some of these things?
00:38:13.540
Bill Gates has given more than 300 million dollars to media organizations.
00:38:18.040
I think that's one reason he's been able to skate on the whole Epstein thing.
00:38:22.640
But don't you think just for the public interest,
00:38:25.560
you should have to answer some questions about the billions of dollars you spend
00:38:40.520
Or do you precisely come to Davos so your meetings are kept secret
00:38:49.100
Do you ever talk to the media or only media that Bill Gates buys?
00:39:11.140
Are you worried that if all the details come out
00:39:47.820
How much money has the foundation contributed to Davos?
00:39:51.720
I know that Klaus Schwab sells different tiers of participation.
00:39:55.160
How much money has the foundation put into the get-together this year?
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but he's one of the biggest agricultural landowners in America.
00:40:20.760
Does Bill Gates ever do an interview that's not scripted?
00:40:32.500
were conducted by anybody other than Ezra Levant,
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And I'm not just saying this because Ezra's my boss.
00:40:56.080
to have a slate of like question after question
00:41:30.420
You never know who you're going to come across.
00:54:45.360
All right. Let's get into some news back home. Let's just quickly breeze through this story from the Toronto Star. It's based on Abacus data polling.
00:54:56.180
And it says that Justin Trudeau and his Liberals hit new lows in support. If we breeze through it, we can see that in December, Conservative support plummeted 5%, but not below the Liberals.
00:55:12.000
They're already out in front of the Liberals about, it depends on where you would look, like 8% to 13%.
00:55:19.480
But right now, the survey found that the number of people who would consider voting for the Liberals hit a new low of 41%.
00:55:30.940
That's the same figure posted by the NDP and 13 points lower than the 54% of Canadians who would vote for the Conservatives.
00:55:43.660
And the poll was conducted between January 4th and January 9th.
00:55:54.540
Perceptions of Trudeau himself also suffered over the holiday season with 59% of those surveyed, another all-time low, having a negative view of the Prime Minister.
00:56:04.460
Only 24% of Canadians, Toronto, come to your senses, only 24% of Canadians would vote for the Liberals if a federal election were held now, compared to 41% for the Conservatives and 18% for the New Democrats.
00:56:20.460
So, what does this mean? What are my predictions here?
00:56:24.420
The Liberals are going to hang on as long as they possibly can, because above all else, their ideology is power.
00:56:33.140
They believe themselves to be the natural governing party of Canadians.
00:56:37.220
And if that means giving the radical NDP literally everything they want, then they're going to do it.
00:56:43.880
And we saw this with some of the national daycare, pharmacare, dental care programs that were NDP ideas adopted by the Liberals in an attempt to just hold on to power.
00:56:56.140
Because they know if that NDP, liberal coalition falls apart, we go to elections and it is a Kim Campbell-style decimation.
00:57:03.440
But for the Liberals this time, instead of for the Conservatives.
00:57:09.220
Well, if you ask Justin Trudeau, it's definitely not Justin Trudeau.
00:57:16.460
And Trudeau says that it is certain parts of the country and political parties, and they are instrumentalizing.
00:57:29.180
They're instrumentalizing divisions or intolerance into political advantage.
00:57:34.000
Same guy, by the way, same Justin Trudeau, who workshopped ideas and did public opinion polling about whether or not it would be politically advantageous to demonize the unvaccinated.
00:57:52.000
This guy is accusing other people of stoking political divisions for political advantage.
00:57:57.840
But anyways, let's roll this clip because I think he's talking about us here in Alberta.
00:58:04.460
In New Brunswick recently, there's been a lot of rhetoric about gender-affirming care, and the Premier is making a lot of comments about potentially scaling that back.
00:58:13.460
I'm wondering if you're worried about that rhetoric and whether you're worried the province will scale back gender-affirming care.
00:58:19.920
I think Canada is the best country in the world, in part because Canadians respect each other.
00:58:28.640
And in Canada, people are free to be who they are, to love whom they love.
00:58:34.000
It's something that our party and, quite frankly, millions of Canadians will always stand to defend.
00:58:40.740
Unfortunately, we are seeing in certain parts of the country, in certain political parties, try to instrumentalize divisions or intolerance into political advantage.
00:58:54.980
We're a party that will always stand with everyone, be there to defend people's rights, to be who they are.
00:59:02.760
And I think that's something that all Canadians expect of their governments.
00:59:07.600
We're a government that will always stand up for people's rights.
00:59:09.960
Well, given the challenges that healthcare is facing across the country and not no surprise in New Brunswick...
00:59:23.040
He's unpopular with parents of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
00:59:28.880
He is now losing support with suburban women, which were responsible, I think, in no small part with his election the last couple of times.
00:59:41.640
Apparently, middle-aged women like myself in other parts of the country don't vote for the jobs of their husbands and their sons.
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I'd rather vote for woolies than novelty socks.
01:00:01.400
But, you know, it's pretty rich from a guy who said demonizing and dehumanizing things about people who simply made a different medical choice during the great COVID scare to complain about others instrumentalizing divisions and intolerance.
01:00:23.240
That's the most intolerant man, I think, in this country.
01:00:27.360
He's always, always, just like how he's a feminist but also a groper, how he's an anti-racist but also a guy who wore blackface so many times that he can't keep count.
01:00:40.920
And I think finally, finally, some of women kind, people kind, what even is a woman, they're starting to see through it in some of the more traditional liberal voting parts of the country.
01:00:57.820
Maybe they weren't wrong to give us the vote after all.
01:01:04.200
Let's run this last clip and then we'll get to if there's, oh, yeah, Dave Shrigley, somebody, one of our writers points out that Justin Trudeau also claimed that the Freedom Convoy was sedition.
01:01:29.200
Anyways, forget what I just said because we'll talk about that in a second.
01:01:52.680
She was someone who was outspoken about the necessity for CERB.
01:02:00.920
We were talking about Mark Carney accused the convoy of being sedition, but now he cares about free speech.
01:02:05.460
Anyways, that's just hearkening back to our conversation about Mark Carney.
01:02:10.100
But anyways, let's talk about this liberal MP's spouse.
01:02:15.060
Sorry, I'm a little bit all over the place as we try to wrap up the show.
01:02:17.920
Lisa Heppner disclosed her husband, Michael Aitkins.
01:02:27.120
Faced a repayment order as he already had income and did not require COVID relief.
01:02:35.400
More than 1.1 million Canadians had, to date, have improperly claimed 2.1 billion in COVID relief.
01:02:43.440
So Lisa Heppner, who earlier praised the feds for rolling out the emergency response benefit that's colloquially known as CERB, to help Canadians, didn't comment on the matter.
01:02:59.540
I bet she didn't, was not just to help Canadians, it was to help her CBC cameraman husband, who never missed a day of work.
01:03:12.740
Anyways, this was first broken by Blacklock's reporter, who do incredible work, independent journalists.
01:03:21.500
And the state broadcaster, by the way, if they missed a day of work, most of them were sent home with full pay.
01:03:32.140
According to CBC, less than 20% of their employees, mainly those involved with essential operations, such as news presentation and news gathering, reintegrated into our office.
01:03:44.520
So now, she was also working at, when she ran this Heppner, she was working for CHCH in Hamilton, and she was also working hard every single day.
01:03:58.740
Then she ran for the Liberals, which is, I think, a lateral move when you work in mainstream journalism.
01:04:05.840
I often joke, like, when I say the media and the Liberals, but I, you know, like, I repeat myself.
01:04:12.800
Like, she was a journalist who's like, also, I'm your Liberal MP now.
01:04:17.020
But yeah, her husband, who was a cameraman for the CBC, took CERB illegally, even though he was working full time.
01:04:32.760
Let's also close out on this last little thing.
01:04:37.160
I'm not sure if we have any chats today to mention, but UFC champion, Sean Strickland, gave it to the Canadian media and the Canadian Liberals.
01:04:51.400
And Justin Trudeau, and he slammed gender ideology.
01:04:55.220
And I'm wondering what he's going to do after UFC.
01:05:00.040
Does he want a job as a Canadian politician or a media commentator?
01:05:04.240
I'm just curious, because he had a lot to say, and I wanted to hear it.
01:05:14.820
Court of gay and lesbian community in this city.
01:05:16.680
I did want to ask you something you wrote a couple of years ago.
01:05:18.740
You said, if I had a gay son, I would think I'd...
01:05:20.800
Oh, look, another, another, I'm saying the swamp, you guys, the swamp.
01:05:24.640
You become a champion, you become a star, and someone says...
01:05:29.240
I haven't had the chance to interact with a more diverse...
01:05:33.460
Well, no, I'm asking, I'm, this is a part of the, are you, are you a gay man?
01:05:37.940
If you had a son, then he was like, you know, you had a son, he was gay.
01:05:41.020
You'd be like, oh man, you don't, you don't want a grandkid?
01:05:43.780
Oh man, well, you did, you're a weak fucking man, dude.
01:05:46.100
You're like, you're part of the fucking problem.
01:05:50.460
Would you fucking, when he sees the bank accounts, like you're just fucking pathetic.
01:05:54.020
And, and the fact that, the fact that you have no fucking backbone and, and has he shut
01:06:00.440
down your fucking country and seized bank accounts, you asked me some stupid shit like
01:06:06.640
That doesn't really answer the question, but I did want to ask also things you said about
01:06:10.040
You said, uh, this past October when they announced the Bud Light sponsorship that you'd
01:06:13.780
go so hard on Bud Light in your next fight, they'll have to accept me or denounce
01:06:16.540
me when, uh, when they know what, and we'll know what they stand for.
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This guy's like, this Canadian is not that Canadian.
01:06:22.380
Are you still going to use your fight time to kind of speak on that?
01:06:35.220
And now all of a sudden people like you have fucking weaseled your way in the world.
01:06:47.180
Everything that is wrong with the world is because of fucking you.
01:06:50.680
And the best thing is, is the world's not buying it.
01:07:01.520
The world's not saying that world say, no, there are two genders.
01:07:04.720
I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, who they could fucking school.
01:07:08.820
I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, their sexual preference.
01:07:15.540
You want to look at the fucking enemy to our world?
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And it's that motherfucker right there asking these stupid fucking questions.
01:07:35.160
I should have warned everybody about the rough language, but where do we get that shirt?
01:07:50.120
I would not have said some of the things he said in the way in which he said them.
01:07:58.900
I wouldn't necessarily call a person an infection, although I would say that there's definitely
01:08:04.180
a mind virus polluting the young people and that mind virus is called gender ideology.
01:08:11.980
Like, let's throw out whether or not we agree with Sean Strickland and everything that he
01:08:18.160
But Sean Strickland, outspoken on these issues, wearing that shirt, do you honestly think that
01:08:29.780
if you ask a question about your personal hobby horse issue of gender theory and denounce
01:08:35.820
yourself to him as an ally of the community, did that journalist think, did he really think
01:08:43.660
that he was going to be the journalist that got Sean Strickland?
01:08:48.160
To admit that he was wrong and that he had a change of heart and you would see a kinder,
01:09:00.600
I have no idea, but it just furthers my theory about the absolute narcissism of these people,
01:09:06.740
that they can force you to adopt their worldview, that they can force you to use their language,
01:09:11.200
that they can force you to play along with their delusions, that men can just,
01:09:14.940
through the magic of surgery and hormones, become a woman, that people who have never
01:09:21.720
been a woman could tell you, I feel in my heart that I am a woman, even though they have
01:09:28.900
The absolute narcissism that they think they can bend nature, science, biology, and you to
01:09:38.380
their worldview simply by announcing that they are an ally. It's just, it's so comical. It reminds me
01:09:47.120
of the journalist who asked that question to Pierre Polyev while Pierre Polyev was just munched in that
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apple. And then that journalist got his ass handed to him on an international scale. These journalists
01:09:59.560
refused to learn like this one. Same thing happened to him. And it's just, you know, I just love seeing a
01:10:07.340
journalist, especially a bad journalist like that, just get put right into their place. We saw that
01:10:13.540
also with the CNN reporter. I mean, it happens in a multitude of ways. And we're seeing it more often.
01:10:21.140
And maybe, maybe they'll stop, but I don't think so because they are narcissists and they think
01:10:27.120
I'm going to be the one, I'm going to be the one to teach this racist, homophobe, fascist. I'll be the
01:10:35.840
one who asks them that pointed question that changes them deep inside their soul. I think we're going to
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see a lot more ax murderings of journalists, metaphorically speaking, before this is all over.
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Do we have any chats, Olivia? Okay, perfect. No chats. Let's wrap it up. See you guys next week.
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Thanks to everybody who tuned in on one of the platforms wherein you watched us. Thanks to
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everybody who engages in lively discussion. Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes on the team
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to put the show together. So it's available for you whenever you want to watch it. And, you know,
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as David Menzies always says, as he's out there struggling to hang on to his sanity, stay sane.