SHEILA GUNN REID： The Russian scare of the Freedom Convoy is debunked again, this time by the Justice Department
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True North's Cosmin Jerja joins me to talk about his new expose on the infection of woke culture at Chorus Media, and how the Trudeau Liberals tried to smear the anti-vaccine "Freedom Convoy" as being some sort of "Kremlin-funded" group funded by Russia.
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unfortunately, no, it's me, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I'm filling in for Ezra tonight in the
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Now, tonight, my guest is True North's Cosmin Jerja on an expose that he has recently done
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on the infection of woke culture at Chorus Media.
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The Liberals' claims about the Freedom Convoy being some sort of Kremlin operation continue
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to be debunked, this time by the government's own bureaucrats.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Another lie about the Freedom Convoy falls apart, and with it, yet another excuse to invoke
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the Emergencies Act falls apart simultaneously, too.
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I will never not use this next clip at every opportunity I have.
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It's of a CBC tinfoil hat kook accusing the working-class uprising of the anti-vaccine mandate
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Freedom Convoy of being some sort of Kremlin operation, and as always with the CBC, you paid
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I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with
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Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors
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could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating
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Now, that CBC contributor, Wackadoo, made that allegation up out of whole cloth, and the
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CBC had to retract not one, but two stories accusing the Freedom Convoy of being foreign-funded,
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but still it was, the insane groundwork the Trudeau Liberals needed to invoke a counter-terrorism
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law, the Emergencies Act, on the truckers and supporters of the Freedom Convoy last February
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after the Liberals ran out of patience with the boisterous, weeks-long demonstration against
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Because the Liberals, as I'll inform you here, aren't actually against foreign funding of
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They're against foreign funding of activism for causes they don't like.
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The Liberals put a stop to the audit of environmental charities who were credibly accused of taking
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And it's something the Allen Inquiry in Alberta was able to confirm, that foreign-funded activism
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But now, even the Liberals' own government bureaucrats admit there was no substantial Russian funding
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On the government's submissions to the Public Order Emergency Commission, and that is the
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official examination into the government's use of that counter-terrorism law.
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The Department of Justice yesterday acknowledged Russia had no involvement in the Freedom Convoy.
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False claims of large amounts of foreign funding and disinformation by Russian agents were
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Government lawyers wrote the Public Order Emergency Commission.
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There was no evidence foreign state actors or foreign governments were conducting any disinformation
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campaign against Canada in relation to the convoy.
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Federal lawyers wrote, in closing submissions to the commission, multiple messages in support
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of the Freedom Convoy emanated from individuals believed to be located outside Canada, wrote lawyers,
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Certain sectors of the American political sphere amplified elements of the convoy emergency.
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Cabinet had repeatedly pointed to foreign involvement as justification for invoking the Emergencies
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CBC reported, I believe, on the 14th of February or the 13th of February, that there was foreign
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Attorney General David Lamedi testified April 26th at the Joint Committee on the Declaration
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But the thing about the Emergencies Act is that you just can't whip it out for bouncy
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castles, extended traffic snarls and peaceful anti-regime protesters who are committing the
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crime of embarrassing you internationally and ultimately inspiring the world to do the same
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The Emergencies Act has never been used before, not even for 9-11, not for mass murders or killings,
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The threat to Canada to invoke the Emergencies Act has to rise to Section 2 of the CSIS Act.
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And Section 2B reads that a threat to Canada can mean foreign-influenced activities within
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or relating to Canada that are detrimental to the interests of Canada and are clandestine
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or deceptive or involve a threat to any person.
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I guess there was none of that, though, and the government knew it.
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David Lamedi's own people knew it, even though he was saying something totally different in
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public and basing his speculation on CBC's flawed reporting.
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And let's not forget about how extreme that non-existent foreign threat was beyond the
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alleged foreign financing and alleged foreign manipulation and alleged foreign organizing
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If you asked the Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and his equally inept colleague,
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the Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, the man who actually oversaw the explosion
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of illegal gun violence during his tenure as Toronto Police Chief, the Border Guards.
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The CBSA, those two guys said they needed additional tools to be able to stop, I guess,
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You see, instead of Canadians rushing the White House to burn it down like what happened two
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centuries ago, Americans, drunk on January 6th frenzy, would be coming here to join the
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Freedom Convoy to cause mayhem in the streets of the orderly nation's capital.
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Those streets are normally occupied by civilized, boring, work-at-home federal bureaucrats who
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Only two Freedom Convoy sympathizers were intercepted at the border under the Emergencies Act, according
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The Canada Border Services Agency, that's the CBSA, claimed it needed emergency powers to
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Canada Border Services Agency reported they have had limited use of the Emergencies Act,
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having only turned two individuals away from ports of entry under the new authority to
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do so, read confidential minutes of a February 20th meeting.
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The Act allowed the agency to prohibit Americans from crossing the border into Canada to attend
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what became the illegal assembly under the Act.
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It is unclear police have these powers under common law, the Department of Public Safety
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The Emergencies Act provided additional authority that had a direct influence on protest participants,
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Neither the Public Safety Department nor Border Services Agency publicly disclosed only two American
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John Ozoski, now retired agency president, avoided mention, isn't that convenient, of details
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in November 16th testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission.
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Was it your understanding many U.S. or foreign nationals were coming into the country to participate
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in the protest, asked lawyer Alexander Hine, counsel for the commission.
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We turned away people that intended to come and participate in the protest, replied Ozoski.
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There was no ability for us to stop people from coming in and foreign nationals from coming
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in to participate in that protest if they were otherwise able to enter, if they met all other
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Except there were just two people, just two people, not people, only two.
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That information probably would have been relevant to his testimony, to the size of that so-called
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You know, just suspend all the civil liberties of all Canadians, seize bank accounts of protesters,
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Two Americans with obviously no criminal records because they otherwise met all the entry requirements,
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to come into Canada, and who were coming here to what?
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Thanks for stopping that terrorism from happening, guys.
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Now maybe, maybe, I can direct you people to do something to deal with the constant influx
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of illegal border crossers just walking into the country at Roxham Road?
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The government never has its priorities straight, do they?
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True North's Cosmin Georgia joins us after the break.
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Go broke, as they say, but that's not entirely true if you're a member of the mainstream media
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You can go as woke as you want and as broke as you want, and you can just go jangling hat
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Chorus Entertainment last week published a sustainability report, and it's not just sustainability with
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regard to environmentalism and those goals, but also with regard to diversity.
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And this company, Chorus, it's been going broke for a very long time, but that's fine because
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Justin Trudeau has all of your money to give them.
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Joining me now to discuss his expose into Chorus Entertainment's new woke policies is Cosmin Georgia
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Cosmin, thanks for joining us, and thanks for your careful eye to these sorts of crazy stories.
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What does their sustainability policy, what does it entail?
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So this report, it's an annual report that Chorus Entertainment has produced, I think, for
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Now, for those of you who don't know, Chorus Entertainment owns a bunch of media companies,
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both in terms of producing TV shows, but they also own Global News, which is a major news
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Now, this report essentially sets out to align all of these subsidiaries of Chorus along what
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are called Environmental Social Development Goals.
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Now, these are closely borrowed from the United Nations, which has SDG goals, and they've promoted
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that worldwide, both in the private and public sector.
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So this is an attempt to essentially align behind this ideological perspective.
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That means giving employees diversity, equity training, inclusion training, subjecting them
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So it's a sort of grab bag of this environmental progressive left ideology subjected on what
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Yeah, this is really just, you know, the, I don't want to say the CBC-ification of Global
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News, but really that is what it is at the end of the day.
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And I don't think people really understand just how big Global News is.
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They are very difficult to avoid if you're consuming any sort of Canadian media, because
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not only do they own Global News, but they also own so many of the local news stations
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I believe media in Canada is owned, 80% of the media in this country is owned by a handful
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of companies, very wealthy Canadian families and individuals control most of the media narrative
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So it's concerning to see when you have all of these companies uniting under this umbrella
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and going in the exact same direction, which is a progressively woke direction, and you
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I mean, we saw it with coverage from Global News on the Freedom Convoy.
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We see it with their coverage of conservative leader Pierre Polyev.
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It's very troubling from a media observation perspective to see this monopoly that's being formed
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Yeah, it's almost like a re-education camp for the employees of Global News so that their
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viewpoints are nearly completely homogenous if they know what's good for them.
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Now, I want to talk to you about just how diverse Global News really is, because when I saw your
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article, it just piqued my curiosity because they have this focus on diversity.
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And so I thought, who's running the show down there?
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Definitely not a person that the mainstream media or the wokesters would consider a diversity
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And it's my understanding he's a middle-aged white guy based on what I can find out about
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But at the end of the day, regardless of his ethnic background, and I don't really care
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about those things, but the left tells me they do.
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And as it would turn out, he's overseen the decrease in stock value over at Chorus of about
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And so instead of focusing on fixing that and making this a profitable company, that doesn't
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really seem to be the focus of what's happening at Chorus whatsoever.
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And it's interesting that it's called a sustainability report, but the question remains, what are they
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Are they sustaining their business practices, their profitability, you know, their responsibility
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Are they sustaining their responsibility to Canadian viewers who need quality journalism?
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And look, you know, Global News has produced some very fine journalism.
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I know here in British Columbia, they covered the money laundering situation.
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They've recently done some great reporting on the Chinese interference.
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So I feel really bad for some of the journalists there who have veteran journalists, quite frankly, who
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have spent their careers putting out excellent work.
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And now this company is getting them tangled up in, you know, Stalinistic ideological sweat
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sessions instead of letting these very brave journalists do their work, do the reporting
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that this country needs and hold the government to account.
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You know, that is true that there are some really great journalists left in mainstream media.
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When I hear about Chorus, I always think, how do we get Roy Green out of there?
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How do we airlift that poor man out of that company?
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But the remaining good journalists there, their good work is tainted by these policies, but
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So, you know, that was one thing you noted in your piece was this company is losing money
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The guy who's responsible for the loss in share price seems to not be facing any consequences.
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But instead of fixing it, they just go hat in hand to the federal government and demand
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And they will get it as long as they publish news that is favorable with regard to the liberals.
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It's an interesting situation because global news, well, Chorus is essentially going to the
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government right now asking to be included in the $600 media bailout.
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Now, that bailout was some adjustments to the Income Tax Act, which allowed print publications
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Now, that excludes broadcasters like Global News and various radio subsidiaries, of Chorus.
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So it makes me wonder, are these sustainability reports a means for them to curry favor with
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the government, saying, look, hey, we're making these changes that are obviously very much endorsed
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You know, that's a great point that, you know, it appears as though Chorus is aligning themselves
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or their company goals with that of the government, as you say, to, you know, be able to prove
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We're doing all these good things that you really like and we're reporting favorably on
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Wouldn't that be great if you would give us some money?
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But, you know, this is just the media bailout for print, but there are other ways that broadcasters
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in this country get their hands on federal cash.
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You know, they got wage subsidies to support themselves during COVID as though the news ever
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And, you know, there are also grants that are given to publishers for things like climate
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You know, it's funny you see this climate change journalism shoehorned into your local
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Well, it's because a lot of times these publishers are given grants to publish beats that the government
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cares about and then they say it's supporting local journalism.
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Yeah, and, you know, a former CRTC vice chair, Peter Menzies, put it perfectly to me when
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I asked him about all these subsidies going on from the government.
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It creates a situation where these media companies rely on the liberals remaining in power.
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Now they have a codependent relationship, as he explained it.
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And, you know, to discuss that local journalism stuff, what you're talking about with the
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climate reporters, that's the local journalism initiative.
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As I mentioned earlier, around 80 percent of the media, including local news outlets, are
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owned by a handful of mega conglomerate media companies.
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You know, there might be some small community prints, but these are all corporate news, which
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They all have the same agenda at the editorial level.
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So it really astounds me when the government tries to claim that they're saving local journalism.
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Well, local journalism has been gone for a very long time, whether we like it or not.
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We live in a completely different media ecosystem today.
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So that's just an excuse for them to put money in the pockets of their friends who own these
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You know, that's never been more true than it is in Alberta.
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If you look at the we have you know, we have the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Sun and
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Those are our local journalism, and they're all owned by the same company, publishing the
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And the paper continues to shrink and shrink and shrink and shrink because nobody's advertising
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And instead of fixing the problem, I think that's the problem with the media bailouts is
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these companies are never going to get what's coming to them and they're never going to fix
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the problem because they are protected from the market correction they so rightly deserve.
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And to point to another story I recently did, the Saltwire Network, which is one of the
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major media companies out on the East Coast, similar thing happened, right?
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They took money from the local journalism initiative and they've all just recently announced that
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they're cutting newspaper deliveries to rural communities in Nova Scotia, I believe.
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So it makes me question, what was that money for?
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I thought you're supposed to sustain local journalism, but these companies, these communities
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that are so cut off from everybody else, whether because they have, you know, bad internet service,
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now they're not even getting their daily or weekly paper.
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So it's just a total sham and they're cutting jobs, yet they're taking all of this money.
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Now, Klausman, you are an independent journalist.
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You work for one of those companies that does not take any money from Justin Trudeau, True
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Because you do some of, I think, the best investigative journalism in the country.
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And besides keeping a careful eye to what the other media is doing, you also do, I think,
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some of the Lord's work, paying attention to what's happening at the school board level
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I think you're doing work that parents can't do when you're paying attention to, you know,
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these educational policies that are exceptionally woke and weird.
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Well, that's very kind of you to say, and I appreciate that.
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But if people want to check me out, you can go to tnc.news and find my articles there.
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Or you could follow me on Twitter at CosminDZS.
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I started a Substack, which is outeredge.substack.com.
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And it's a weekly newsletter that covers dissident news from around the globe.
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You know, like I said, watching the media, but also watching those school boards
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Ezra's letters unceremoniously read by me up after the break.
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Now, unlike the mainstream media, we actually care about what you think about the work that
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And this is where Ezra normally reads your letters to him.
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But he's not here, so you'll have to deal with me reading them.
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Our first letter comes from Bernd Haas, and he writes to us on Ezra's show about Justin
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Trudeau's attacks on Internet freedom and his pursuit of Internet censorship.
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We have courts to deal with harmful rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation, be it from
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You know, that is true, that we do have courts to deal with violent rhetoric, but I don't
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think we should have courts that deal with misinformation and disinformation.
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As I mentioned in my monologue, there are actually provisions in the CSIS Act that deal
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with foreign-influenced terrorism in Canada, although I believe the supply of that does not meet the
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demand. But I don't think that we want judges telling people on the Internet that they can only
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tweet true things, because as you know, over the last two years, there were a lot of people
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tweeting or posting things that ultimately ended up being true.
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However, they were censored by big tech along the way.
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I don't think we want our legal system to become just the enforcement arm of big tech censors.
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Gord Tron writes, he's, I suppose, Trudeau, he's actively working to destroy Canada and its people
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while he does all he says we need to change worse than any other Canadian.
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They need to live the lives to set an example of what they want onto us.
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You know, that's really true. And we see this with the environmentalist movement.
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They jet set around the world and then they pat themselves on the back while buying carbon offsets
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that the rest of us can't afford. And they claim that they're saving the environment because of it.
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And Justin Trudeau, he claims to be a male feminist, right? When somebody says they're a male
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feminist, that's my cue to leave. I guess things are about to get a little handsy.
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But Justin Trudeau says that he's a male feminist, but he's the guy firing powerful women
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who speak truth to power to him and groping female journalists in the famous Kokanee grope.
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The world's elites, they really are hypocrites.
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He says there are too many people on the face of the earth and that humanity were just a bunch
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of maggots. But he has five kids and he lives on the beach. And so I'm going to start taking these
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people seriously when they start taking themselves seriously. So I think the good news is I'll never
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Woofious, if that's even your real name, writes, speaking of blaming the victim,
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my one question to Prime Minister Trudeau would be,
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why did he cut the widow's pension from 66% down to 60% right before the pandemic starter?
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What did he know about the virus he wasn't telling the rest of the country?
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You know, the Liberals do this sort of stuff all the time. They say they care about the vulnerable
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and then they do things to harm the vulnerable. And if you look at the Liberals, the only time they're
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ever fiscally conservative is when it's on issues that they don't actually care about.
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You see this all the time at Veterans Affairs. The Liberals spend money all over the place,
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just handing out money, making it rain all over the developing world. But when Canada's veterans,
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with whom we have a sacred covenant, ask for help from the Veterans Affairs, they are so often,
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as we are recently hearing, either ignored or as my veterans friends say, deny, deny, deny.
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I guess until they die or they're offered medical assistance in dying. The Liberals, like I said,
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the only time they're fiscally conservative is when it comes to people and things that they don't care
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about. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for
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bearing with me as I muddled my way through hosting the show today. Thanks to everybody behind the board
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in studio here in Toronto. And as Ezra always says, keep fighting for freedom. David Menzies for Rebel News
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have all been won. So for example, this ticket here, it's called Royal Riches. The top prize is
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$75,000. And there are, I believe, five top prizes of $75,000. Or are they? Because here's the situation
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in Ontario, folks, all five of those prizes could already have been won and claimed. And yet people
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are still buying these tickets with the hope of buying a ticket that will give them the $75,000
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when they have absolutely zero chance of that occurring. That is shameful because in other
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jurisdictions, what the Lottery Corporation will do is remove all the remaining tickets from sale. But
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apparently not the OLG. That's not how they roll. Indeed, Miss Lissick said in her report,
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we noted that OLG is not ensuring that Ontarians are aware of whether any top instant scratch ticket
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prizes are still available at the time of a purchase of open packets of scratch tickets. End quote.
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Her report goes on to say, previous consumer research conducted by OLG showed that a prize amount
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of $100,000 or greater was considered by the public to be a life-changing amount and that consumers
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were less likely to purchase instant scratch tickets once all the top prizes have been claimed. Well,
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of course. I mean, why would you buy something promising you great riches when all those prizes
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have been eradicated? Now, the OLG, I love this. This is what they said in a statement. Quote,
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quote, OLG is committed to openness and transparency in the sale of its products and encourages customers
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to contact us should they have any questions or concerns. End quote. Yeah. So when it comes to
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a lack of transparency, when it comes to selling these tickets, the OLG says they're all about
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transparency and openness. Does that make sense to anyone? Now, we did reach out to OLG, but at time of
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recording, they hadn't responded. No surprise there, especially when it comes to the issue of fairness
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and social responsibility, which OLG bases its lotto monopoly on in the first place. But as the evidence
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shows, folks, the chances of the OLG doing the right and responsible thing, well, I think the odds of that
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happening would make even the most reckless gambler cringe. For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies.