Rebel News Podcast - February 20, 2020


Scheer tables non-confidence vote: Does it stand a chance?


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

162.30486

Word Count

2,859

Sentence Count

197

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

A free audio-only version of The Ezra Levant Show featuring your host, Kian Bextie. This episode is brought to you by The Rebel, a Canadian political podcast produced by Ezra Levant and co-hosted by yours truly. In this episode, Ezra and Kian discuss: Why Canada s economy is heading into a recession. Why Trudeau s Alberta senator pushes to get P.J. Goodson out of prison. And why the people blocking the arteries of our nation are not representing any band, tribe, or anything of the sort.


Transcript

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00:01:08.640 Tonight, Canada inches towards an economic recession.
00:01:22.380 Andrew Scheer makes a bid to lead the CPC in the next election.
00:01:25.920 And Trudeau's Alberta senator pushes to get pedos out of prison.
00:01:30.440 And Kian Bextie, well, I'm hijacking The Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:33.820 It's February 19th.
00:01:34.960 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:40.600 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:44.640 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:50.500 Blockades have gridlocked this country for weeks now, and there's absolutely no sign of them letting up.
00:02:00.460 Canada has been negotiating with Indians for centuries.
00:02:03.180 Historically, we've always known whose side everybody is on.
00:02:06.860 We've had the political class negotiating on behalf of the crown, and across the table from them is tribal leadership.
00:02:12.860 Canada has always met somewhere in the middle, and that's how we've gotten things done.
00:02:16.520 But this time, that won't be the case.
00:02:19.280 The negotiations once were taking place in public, and Canadians knew what was going on.
00:02:24.160 Now, that's not the case, and recordings are being kept secret between the two parties.
00:02:29.600 The fate of Canada's economy is being debated by a prime minister who has already declared his loyalty to Indians before the crown.
00:02:37.780 Trudeau was elected to govern on behalf of the crown, a duty he has brazenly abandoned.
00:02:42.520 But that farce doesn't even come close to the illegitimacy of the bad actors that he is negotiating with.
00:02:49.480 The people cutting off the arteries of our nation are not representing any band, tribe, or anything of the sort.
00:02:56.700 The people extorting our country on behalf of supposedly the Wet'suwet'en are all gringos.
00:03:03.120 How could that be?
00:03:04.240 It's almost like this chaos is being caused by opportunists.
00:03:08.260 Environmentalists who put on moccasins for the first time just yesterday, for the first time in their lives, are trying to take advantage of Trudeau's weaknesses.
00:03:17.220 This is Emma Jackson.
00:03:18.400 She's Alberta's resident criminal environmentalist.
00:03:21.300 She is the OG oil tanker bowling pin.
00:03:24.860 She's been hanging off of bridges for so-called climate justice since before I was even in the reporting business.
00:03:30.220 All of a sudden, guess who's been organizing rail blockades in Alberta?
00:03:34.360 Oh, this has nothing to do with her climate activism.
00:03:37.440 Remember that.
00:03:38.080 This is all to do with the Wet'suwet'en.
00:03:40.780 Of course, not the 85% who voted in favor of coastal gasoline.
00:03:45.020 Just the 15% who agree with her radical agenda.
00:03:48.660 I was tipped off that this whole national hostage situation wasn't authentically Indian when I traveled up to the Crown Land just south of Smithers, B.C., west of Houston, B.C., the area that these Caucasian blockaders call traditional Wet'suwet'en territory.
00:04:04.920 Yeah, what I would suggest is you guys just go and then maybe come back later and fight.
00:04:13.720 Okay, it's quarter after 12 now.
00:04:16.000 You know what?
00:04:16.560 Do some investigating and I'm sure you'll come across.
00:04:28.880 Oh, okay.
00:04:29.580 Yeah.
00:04:30.140 Okay.
00:04:30.980 All right.
00:04:31.880 Okay.
00:04:32.340 All right.
00:04:32.980 Could I ask one question before we go?
00:04:35.940 You guys are using tires and gasoline.
00:04:39.280 Is that hypocritical at all given that you want to stop a pipeline?
00:04:42.080 No.
00:04:42.260 We're going, uh, we're, we're directing you to the hereditary chiefs now so you can go.
00:04:48.440 Isn't that weird?
00:04:49.660 When a decision needed to be made, whether they would talk to me or not, they consulted with the white people running the show in the teepee.
00:04:57.360 Not a surprise though, climate activism is disproportionately white.
00:05:02.320 Given this cause has been orchestrated by white girls around the globe, it was only a matter of time before Greta co-opted the cause.
00:05:10.040 She's pledged support, her support, and the four million people who are following her to the rail blockades here in Canada.
00:05:16.800 Of course, she's pretending like she has been concerned with the plight of indigenous people for some time.
00:05:21.760 But we all know that this sick 17-year-old just enjoys watching developed countries freeze in the dark.
00:05:27.840 I can just picture her face when she hears that there are pipeline shortages.
00:05:32.860 But don't worry, even though the country's facing fuel shortages, farmers are getting turned away at grain elevators because they are at capacity due to rail closures.
00:05:41.560 And premiers are facing threat of citizens' arrest at their houses from terrorist groups like Extinction Rebellion.
00:05:48.220 Rest assured because Prime Minister Blackface is working extra hard today.
00:05:52.060 Extremely hard, actually.
00:05:53.560 Extremely, extremely hard.
00:05:54.700 Too bad he's not working super-duper ultra-hard because maybe then we'd see some Mounties doing their job for once.
00:06:01.560 He has been meeting with his like-minded friends, so I guess we shouldn't worry.
00:06:06.000 They had a teepee talk in Ottawa yesterday, excluding anyone with a brain from offering an opinion.
00:06:11.880 This really made conservatives mad, understandably, and Scheer has finally been able to show some strength for once.
00:06:17.940 See, Quebec is upset already.
00:06:20.020 They're talking to provincial police, instructing them to remove blockades.
00:06:23.200 That gave Harper with a smile the go-ahead to put on a serious face and fill up the leadership vacuum left by all of the other incompetents running the House of Commons.
00:06:32.660 As Prime Minister, as I said, I would direct the ARCMP to enforce the law to ensure that our railway system can operate.
00:06:39.620 I mean, we have a situation.
00:06:40.640 We have ideologically motivated protesters and activists who have, in many cases, have no connection at all with the First Nations community.
00:06:50.360 And they are threatening the jobs of thousands.
00:06:53.980 These protesters, these activists, may have the luxury of spending days at a time on a blockade, but they need to check their privilege.
00:07:02.600 They need to check their privilege and let people whose job depends on the railway system, small business, farmers, do their jobs.
00:07:11.320 After seeing Scheer act like a leader for once, his loyalists were kicking it into high gear.
00:07:16.380 Now, I can't tell if they are actually seriously this desperate to save and defibrillate their dairy defender, but they sure seem serious.
00:07:25.980 A non-confidence motion was added to the House of Commons order paper earlier today.
00:07:32.140 After announcing his resignation, Andrew Scheer has just made a bid to lead the party again into the next election.
00:07:38.620 This wasn't just any old member of parliament putting forward a motion of non-confidence.
00:07:43.020 This was Andrew Scheer himself saying that the government needs to fall, and it needs to fall right now before he leaves the party.
00:07:49.180 The party put forward a motion of non-confidence, and just like we expected, Andrew Scheer himself was the one behind it.
00:07:57.880 We knew that this was going to happen.
00:07:59.680 Where have I heard this before?
00:08:01.020 I want to tell you a story from 1979.
00:08:04.040 It's when Joe Clark defeated Pierre Trudeau, and Pierre Trudeau announced his resignation.
00:08:09.260 In late November of 79, Pierre Trudeau said that he would be stepping down as leader, and it seemed like it was to bide his time.
00:08:17.400 It was to take the heat off of him after the disastrous election of Joe Clark.
00:08:21.480 After the liberals lost an election, they thought that they could win.
00:08:25.300 After Trudeau announced his resignation, his caucus voted unanimously to keep him on.
00:08:30.720 Hmm, I wonder where I've heard that before.
00:08:33.400 That's the exact same thing that happened to Andrew Scheer.
00:08:35.420 He announced his resignation amid scandal, and, well, his caucus said, you should stay on.
00:08:40.320 It would be a shame, just as they said to Pierre Trudeau, it would be a shame to lose someone of such high-quality leadership
00:08:47.240 in a time when the Prime Minister is so incapable, just like Joe Clark was, just like Trudeau was.
00:08:53.980 Joe Clark had a minority government, and Trudeau had a minority government.
00:08:57.640 Well, just after Pierre Trudeau announced his soon-to-be resignation, guess what?
00:09:01.780 Pierre Trudeau orchestrated a vote of non-confidence, and Joe Clark's government collapsed.
00:09:06.000 And wouldn't you know it, the liberals, amid Trudeau's sagging popularity, well, they ran the campaign without Trudeau really at the forefront of it.
00:09:13.140 They more ran the campaign against Joe Clark, rather than running it with Pierre Trudeau on the masthead.
00:09:18.640 They won that election, and they formed Pierre Trudeau's last-majority government.
00:09:23.000 Just after Scheer's resignation, I went to his writing to ask people if they even knew who he was.
00:09:28.320 We're wondering if you could tell us who he is.
00:09:33.000 I don't know.
00:09:34.500 Never heard of him?
00:09:35.120 No.
00:09:36.000 Of course.
00:09:36.920 Johnson?
00:09:37.760 Yeah, no.
00:09:38.500 No idea.
00:09:39.380 And I called it then.
00:09:40.440 His resignation looks like it was just a stunt.
00:09:43.040 Now, who knows if this will pass?
00:09:44.640 Likely, it won't.
00:09:45.640 The NDP are flat broke and are in no position to conduct an election.
00:09:49.140 And the Bloc, well, they have more seats than they could ever hope to get.
00:09:52.080 The only people that want this government to fall right now are the Conservatives.
00:09:55.500 And fair enough.
00:09:57.000 If Scheer couldn't win against PM Blackface, how is he going to win against PM Blackbeard?
00:10:02.360 My faith in the Canadian electorate is at an all-time low.
00:10:05.280 And my faith in Scheer successfully contesting an election is even lower.
00:10:09.100 Now, stay tuned for more.
00:10:09.940 We're bringing Andrew Lawton from True North on the show.
00:10:12.060 Now we have Andrew Lawton from The Andrew Lawton Show with True North.
00:10:28.320 He's joining us on the show today.
00:10:30.140 Andrew, how are you doing?
00:10:30.840 Hey, good to be with you, Kian.
00:10:33.120 I'm doing well.
00:10:33.620 Yourself?
00:10:34.520 Well, I'm doing well.
00:10:35.760 We're doing a story on the show on the railway blockades that have been gripping the nation.
00:10:41.820 And I want to hear from you how you think our political leadership is handling this situation,
00:10:47.760 namely Trudeau excluding Andrew Scheer from a pretty high-level meeting that he actually included
00:10:54.240 Elizabeth May in, of all people.
00:10:57.100 How do you think conservative voters are going to respond to being excluded from that meeting?
00:11:03.180 Well, I think you're being very generous when you say, A, political leadership and B, handling,
00:11:07.800 because I don't think either it's really accurate right now.
00:11:10.460 We have no leadership on this issue in Canada.
00:11:13.200 And I think it's also safe to say we have no handling of the situation right now.
00:11:18.480 I mean, these situations are so critical in Canada.
00:11:22.020 You have, forgetting about the job losses at VNCN, albeit temporary, you've got goods
00:11:28.560 that can't get across the country.
00:11:30.140 You've got people that can't do their jobs.
00:11:31.860 You've got public safety issues.
00:11:33.980 And all of this, I think, is entirely preventable if the law is enforced.
00:11:39.880 And, you know, despite the fact that I am not a great ally of Justin Trudeau,
00:11:44.180 these situations are the things that, for me, are not partisan situations.
00:11:48.340 These are areas where I think everyone should get behind the prime minister
00:11:52.020 if the prime minister is actually doing something which right now isn't happening.
00:11:57.620 So the fact that this multi-partisan meeting ends up being this mean girls routine
00:12:03.080 where Andrew Scheer has to stay on the other side of the lunchroom
00:12:05.940 while Elizabeth May and Yves-Francois Blanchet and Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau talk
00:12:11.080 is absolutely ridiculous.
00:12:12.920 And it's offensive not just to conservatives, but I think to all Canadians
00:12:16.540 because it shows that Trudeau is putting partisanship above actual solutions.
00:12:21.740 Well, Scheer's response to this has been to file a motion of non-confidence in the House of Commons.
00:12:26.280 Do you think that that is a proportionate response to pull the whole government down
00:12:29.660 as a result of these negotiations and even Scheer not being included in the meetings?
00:12:35.040 And secondarily, do you think that there's any chance that this will actually pass?
00:12:39.060 Well, no.
00:12:41.220 I think the fact that the other leaders were in the meeting and Scheer wasn't
00:12:45.100 indicates that we have a de facto coalition government here.
00:12:48.980 As far as whether it's a proportionate response,
00:12:52.180 I don't see the non-confidence motion as being justified because of the meetings
00:12:57.180 and because of the exclusion of the conservatives.
00:12:59.280 I see it as being justified because of the Liberals not wanting to enforce the law right now.
00:13:05.180 I mean, in question period today, you had Trudeau blaming the Ontario government saying,
00:13:09.580 oh, you know, that rail blockade in Ontario, that's Ontario's problem.
00:13:13.580 Well, no, this is a national crisis right now.
00:13:16.020 And when the government is talking about de-escalation instead of enforcing the law,
00:13:20.440 I think we're past that point where we can say that the government deserves anyone's confidence on this.
00:13:26.100 These rail blockades have started in British Columbia, I believe, and Ontario,
00:13:32.640 and it's started to move and spread to Quebec and Alberta.
00:13:36.460 And Quebec and Alberta is what I want to talk about because Quebec and Alberta don't like to take much.
00:13:42.220 They don't put up with much.
00:13:43.580 And the premier of Quebec, the first minister, is already speaking with provincial police,
00:13:49.340 trying to coax them into breaking up this blockade.
00:13:52.520 Now, in Alberta, the provincial police is, of course, the RCMP,
00:13:56.840 and Jason Kenney's government has already been talking about rearranging their position in Confederation.
00:14:02.600 Do you think that this is a pretty prime pedestal for Jason Kenney to launch a new provincial police force?
00:14:12.440 Well, yeah.
00:14:13.260 I mean, you have to look at this in the broader context of other issues that are going on.
00:14:17.680 Western alienation is a big thing.
00:14:19.380 I know you and I saw each other a couple of months ago in Red Deer at a conference that was focused on raising that question.
00:14:26.420 And certainly for Albertans, ultimately whose energy independence relies on a national pipeline network
00:14:33.460 and a national flow of energy from west to east,
00:14:36.760 there is a huge problem here when the government is saying that,
00:14:39.840 you know, we're going to let anyone in the country who wants to just set up camp on a rail station to make this point,
00:14:46.020 we're going to let that fly.
00:14:47.860 We're not going to stop that.
00:14:49.080 So this is, I think, a failing of the government on the First Nations file,
00:14:53.360 a fail of government on the energy file,
00:14:55.780 and yeah, a fail of the federal government on the Alberta file as well.
00:15:00.540 Well, that's about all the time we have today.
00:15:02.600 Thanks, Andrew, for joining us.
00:15:03.960 To all the viewers at home, you can catch up with Andrew Lawton's new show,
00:15:07.680 the Andrew Lawton Show at tnc.news.
00:15:11.220 Thanks for joining us, Andrew.
00:15:13.140 Hey, my pleasure.
00:15:13.960 Anytime.
00:15:14.200 Anytime.
00:15:14.320 Anytime.
00:15:19.080 Now I want to talk about Paula Simons, who has been fighting very, very hard for Canadians,
00:15:28.840 as long as you're a child pornographer or a first-degree murderer.
00:15:32.440 See, Paula, in her infinite sober wisdom, thinks that Canadians are just spending too much time in jail.
00:15:38.520 One-size-fits-all justice doesn't just undermine the essential independence of our courts and our judges.
00:15:44.740 It often leads to manifestly unjust outcomes.
00:15:48.040 What we should hope for in our Canadian democracy is that we appoint qualified, well-trained, thoughtful judges
00:15:54.280 whom we can trust to apply their legal skills, their personal morality, and their common sense,
00:16:00.320 whom we can trust to analyze both the facts of a specific case and the text of the criminal code
00:16:05.520 and pass a sentence that is just.
00:16:08.920 Who knows what the motivations are for Alberta's lone Laurentian.
00:16:13.840 Maybe getting pedophiles out of prison is just a bonus for Paula.
00:16:17.960 Maybe she's trying to create a soft landing for her railway-blockading comrades
00:16:22.260 should they ever find themselves in the business end of a cop car.
00:16:26.580 Now that's about all the time we have here on the Ezra Levant Show.
00:16:29.700 I'm Kian Bexie.
00:16:30.380 This was my first time hosting the show, and I hope that you enjoyed it.
00:16:33.200 And I know that Ezra usually ends these shows by saying,
00:16:35.880 keep fighting for freedom at the end, but I think I need my own tagline.
00:16:39.880 So I'll take suggestions at TheRealKian on Twitter, just direct message them to me.
00:16:43.680 But in the meantime, I don't know, how about this?
00:16:46.820 It's been 193 days since Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
00:16:51.460 Thanks for tuning in.
00:16:52.160 Thanks.
00:16:53.260 Bye.
00:16:54.160 Bye.
00:16:58.740 Bye.
00:17:06.380 Bye.
00:17:06.920 Thank you.