Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2021


Smoking out the lockdown politicians who left Canada for Christmas (and tried to hide it)


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

165.47057

Word Count

5,795

Sentence Count

403

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Jason Kenney fires all the lockdown cheaters in his caucus, and we'll show you what we're up to next because we ve got a naughty list of politicians on the naughty side, and there's still a lot more politicians out there who are still a little naughty.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, a bit of a surprise. Well, not a surprise, really. We knew it was coming.
00:00:04.780 Jason Kenney wiped out all the lockdown cheaters in his caucus. He tried to avoid it. He had a
00:00:11.620 press conference where he took an enormous amount of heat, and he knew he had to scorch the earth
00:00:16.800 to get out of it. He fired so many cabinet ministers, caucus members, and even his own
00:00:21.360 chief of staff. We'll tell you how it happened, and we'll show you what we're up to next,
00:00:25.460 because we've got a naughty and nice list, and there's still a lot more politicians on the naughty
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00:01:04.700 Tonight, the people turn against the lockdown bullies. It's January 4th, 2021, and you're watching
00:01:27.640 the Ezra LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:34.860 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
00:01:40.460 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:44.800 Hello, and welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas or Hanukkah vacation. It was very
00:01:56.420 stressful for many people, but I put it to you that whatever you did over your lockdown Christmas,
00:02:03.040 it wasn't as stressful as this. Take a look at this two-minute video clip from Gatineau, Quebec.
00:02:10.680 Hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't come on!
00:02:24.740 You can't breathe, chain away.
00:02:29.140 Try it.
00:02:32.440 Don't come on.
00:02:33.720 Check it out, check it out.
00:02:37.900 Don't come on.
00:02:39.280 Okay, calm down, calm down.
00:02:45.280 Okay, we're calm.
00:02:49.280 Don't do that.
00:02:51.280 We're people.
00:02:55.280 Hey, hey, hey.
00:02:57.280 Hey, hey, hey.
00:02:59.280 Get inside.
00:03:01.280 Get inside.
00:03:03.280 Get inside.
00:03:05.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:03:07.280 Hey, let's go.
00:03:09.280 Oh, no, no, no.
00:03:11.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:03:13.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:03:15.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:03:17.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:03:25.280 It's worse.
00:03:27.280 No. Yes.
00:03:29.280 Then what are you going to do now?
00:03:31.280 Stay there.
00:03:33.280 I have a shoe!
00:03:35.280 I have a shoe!
00:03:37.280 I have a shoe!
00:03:39.280 Hey, you are so dumb!
00:03:41.280 Come on, George!
00:03:43.280 Hey, you have no right to shoot from the house!
00:03:45.280 You have no right to shoot!
00:03:47.280 Yes, I'm right, Sergeant!
00:03:49.280 No, I haven't shot!
00:03:51.280 No, I haven't shot!
00:03:53.280 Don't give me that!
00:03:55.280 Don't give me that!
00:03:57.280 Antoine, Antoine!
00:03:59.280 Antoine, Antoine, Antoine!
00:04:01.280 Do you have a mandate?
00:04:03.280 Yes, I'm going to have a mandate.
00:04:05.280 No!
00:04:07.280 Hey, what? You have taken me to the door!
00:04:09.280 We have taken the camera in the tabernacle!
00:04:11.280 You have taken your children!
00:04:13.280 Excuse me, Madam.
00:04:15.280 If you have a problem, your job is on the road.
00:04:17.280 It's better!
00:04:19.280 You don't agree with the police?
00:04:21.280 You have the resources you want to take?
00:04:23.280 Close the door!
00:04:25.280 Just a shocking video.
00:04:27.280 According to the Journal de Montréal,
00:04:29.280 it was a neighbor who snitched on this family
00:04:33.280 for having a quiet dinner in
00:04:35.280 with a grand total of six people in the house.
00:04:39.280 Well, there were six police dispatched to the scene,
00:04:42.280 violently pulling a man out of the building,
00:04:45.280 forcing him face down in the snow and the asphalt.
00:04:48.280 You'll notice the police themselves were not all wearing masks.
00:04:51.280 The shouting, the screaming, literally pulling a man out of his house.
00:04:56.280 They did not have a search warrant, if you wonder.
00:04:59.280 I put it to you that if that video were not in French and English as it was,
00:05:03.280 but rather if it were in Chinese or the Persian language Farsi,
00:05:07.280 if that video came to us from China or Iran,
00:05:10.280 we would call it evidence of a police state of brutality.
00:05:15.280 Well, my friends, this wasn't from there.
00:05:17.280 This was from Canada.
00:05:19.280 It's now January 4th.
00:05:21.280 That video came out on New Year's Eve
00:05:23.280 and I have yet to see a single politician speak out against this.
00:05:27.280 Granted, I'm not following the French language politicians,
00:05:30.280 but where is the rest of the civil libertarians?
00:05:34.280 Where are the opposition parties whose duty it is to oppose?
00:05:38.280 I grant you that this happened in Gatineau, Quebec,
00:05:41.280 but it's similar things across the country,
00:05:43.280 whether it's threatening to taser a young man on a skating rink in Calgary
00:05:48.280 or simply slapping a company-destroying fine on a small business.
00:05:53.280 People are starting to get upset.
00:05:55.280 This video from Gatineau was so shocking, I tweeted it.
00:06:00.280 And take a look at this.
00:06:01.280 This may not mean anything to you,
00:06:02.280 but according to Twitter analytics,
00:06:04.280 my one tweet was seen more than 10 million times in my 10 years
00:06:11.280 on that time-wasting social app.
00:06:14.280 I've never had a tweet seen by 10 million people before.
00:06:18.280 Even Donald Trump Jr. retweeted it as a cautionary tale.
00:06:23.280 Imagine that.
00:06:24.280 Well, the Gatineau police, they made excuses for their officers.
00:06:29.280 That's the instinct of all police.
00:06:31.280 And their excuses falling apart saying that,
00:06:34.280 well, they didn't have time to put a mask
00:06:35.280 and their police were assaulted so badly they had to fight back.
00:06:38.280 No, people weren't buying it.
00:06:43.280 And so during this period,
00:06:45.280 when we were watching these shocking videos that had come home,
00:06:49.280 people started to ask,
00:06:51.280 where are our politicians?
00:06:53.280 Has anyone seen Justin Trudeau lately?
00:06:56.280 Has anyone seen Jagmeet Singh lately?
00:06:59.280 Has anyone seen any of the fancy people
00:07:02.280 who were part of the ruling class locking us down lately?
00:07:05.280 The police chief that ordered this police misconduct,
00:07:09.280 where's he over this cold, dreary Christmas?
00:07:13.280 Christmases in Canada can be cold and dreary anyways,
00:07:17.280 but add the lockdowns, not able to visit family,
00:07:20.280 not able to go to restaurants.
00:07:23.280 And people started making inquiries
00:07:25.280 about what politicians were traveling where.
00:07:28.280 Not because we're anti-travel,
00:07:30.280 but because as the politicians always said,
00:07:33.280 are we really all in this together?
00:07:37.280 And names started to be smoked out from people
00:07:40.280 who were perhaps careless about their sneaky plans.
00:07:43.280 And that's the first thing I want to tell you.
00:07:45.280 Every politician who left Canada during the lockdown,
00:07:49.280 these are the lockdown implementers,
00:07:52.280 every single one of them themselves
00:07:55.280 tried to misdirect or fake the fact,
00:07:59.280 fake that they were still here where they were gone.
00:08:01.280 Rod Phillips, the former finance minister of Ontario,
00:08:04.280 did that with a deceptive broadcast pretending
00:08:07.280 that he was in Canada on Christmas.
00:08:09.280 And so it was with Tracy Allard,
00:08:12.280 the municipal affairs minister of Alberta,
00:08:15.280 someone with very little political track record,
00:08:18.280 a first term MLA from Grand Prairie.
00:08:21.280 She thought she's had such an exhausting year
00:08:24.280 that she jetted off to Hawaii.
00:08:27.280 I have no problem with jetting off anywhere or to Hawaii.
00:08:31.280 I do know that we're told not to engage in, quote,
00:08:34.280 non-essential travel by both provincial and federal governments.
00:08:37.280 And from a practical point of view,
00:08:39.280 even if I chose to go to Hawaii,
00:08:41.280 I'd have to quarantine for two weeks upon my return.
00:08:45.280 Who could afford a vacation plus a two-week quarantine
00:08:49.280 other than the ruling class that gets paid no matter what?
00:08:53.280 The political class, the bureaucracy class.
00:08:55.280 I'd love to go to Hawaii myself,
00:08:57.280 but I can't take a vacation plus a two-week added-on vacation.
00:09:02.280 No one real can do that.
00:09:04.280 Imagine a cabinet minister enforcing an emergency lockdown,
00:09:10.280 thinking things were so non-emergent
00:09:13.280 that she could just scupper off to Hawaii.
00:09:16.280 Well, pressure started to build.
00:09:19.280 And on New Year's Day,
00:09:21.280 Jason Kenney, the premier himself, did something quite odd.
00:09:24.280 He had a press conference where he was the star,
00:09:28.280 not Tracy Allard, the disgraced cabinet minister,
00:09:32.280 whose excuse was,
00:09:33.280 well, it's a family tradition.
00:09:35.280 Don't you see how important this family tradition is?
00:09:37.280 We all have our family traditions, Tracy.
00:09:39.280 And we've all had to give quite a few of them up.
00:09:41.280 For some reason, Jason Kenney,
00:09:44.280 rather than putting out a press statement firing her,
00:09:46.280 rather than making her face the cameras,
00:09:49.280 as Rod Phillips did in Ontario,
00:09:51.280 Jason Kenney himself had a press conference.
00:09:54.280 Now, the first thing he said was quite thoughtful.
00:09:56.280 He said,
00:09:57.280 we shouldn't lock down the travel industry.
00:09:59.280 We can travel safely.
00:10:00.280 There are ways to do it.
00:10:01.280 And it's so important for our Alberta economy,
00:10:03.280 because of WestJet.
00:10:04.280 Here's part of that.
00:10:05.280 All of this is to say that Alberta has sought to support
00:10:08.280 and facilitate safe travel during the COVID era.
00:10:12.280 We've done so as part of our effort to protect
00:10:15.280 both lives and livelihoods.
00:10:17.280 Completely shutting down travel would result
00:10:20.280 not only in tens of thousands of more job losses,
00:10:24.280 but would likely result in the financial collapse
00:10:27.280 of Canada's airline industry,
00:10:29.280 which is essential,
00:10:31.280 an essential part of a modern economy.
00:10:33.280 For Alberta, that is particularly the case for WestJet.
00:10:38.280 If all or almost all travel was to be suspended,
00:10:42.280 I do not believe that WestJet could survive.
00:10:45.280 And the failure of that company would, frankly,
00:10:48.280 be a catastrophe for Alberta's economy
00:10:51.280 and for our prospects of recovery
00:10:53.280 and economic diversification in the future.
00:10:56.280 I agree completely.
00:10:58.280 In fact, I think that there are too many restrictions on travel.
00:11:01.280 There's no need for many of the rules against planes.
00:11:05.280 And by the way, once you're on a plane,
00:11:06.280 you can take your mask off and have a drink of water
00:11:09.280 or coffee or peanuts or whatever.
00:11:11.280 I mean, the idea that you have to go through social distancing
00:11:14.280 and wear masks, but then you take it off for an hour.
00:11:17.280 It's ridiculous.
00:11:18.280 But I agree with him on the travel,
00:11:19.280 but that really wasn't the point.
00:11:22.280 No one's against Hawaii.
00:11:23.280 No one's against travel.
00:11:24.280 People are against lockdown brutalizers,
00:11:28.280 then skipping town to avoid their own lockdown.
00:11:31.280 They're against ministers who shut down restaurants in Alberta
00:11:35.280 going to restaurants in Waikiki instead.
00:11:39.280 And here's where Jason Kenney went off the rails.
00:11:42.280 He said it was sort of his fault
00:11:45.280 that he didn't make this clear enough to his own people.
00:11:49.280 Here, take a look.
00:11:50.280 This past Tuesday afternoon,
00:11:52.280 I became aware that Minister of Municipal Affairs Tracy Allard
00:11:56.280 had traveled to the United States before Christmas.
00:11:59.280 I immediately contacted the minister
00:12:01.280 and asked her to return to Alberta,
00:12:03.280 which she did immediately, arriving back yesterday morning.
00:12:06.280 I should be clear that while away,
00:12:09.280 Minister Allard continued to work on her important responsibilities.
00:12:13.280 I was on calls and participated in virtual cabinet committee meetings
00:12:17.280 in recent days in which she was an active participant.
00:12:20.280 I've also become aware that a few MLAs, political staff,
00:12:25.280 and senior government officials have traveled abroad in recent weeks.
00:12:29.280 In doing so, I'm assured that they have complied
00:12:33.280 with all relevant public health orders and legal requirements.
00:12:36.280 Nevertheless, I recognize that those of us in positions of public trust
00:12:41.280 must maintain a higher standard in our personal conduct
00:12:46.280 than is expected of the folks in the general population,
00:12:50.280 in the general community.
00:12:52.280 And here I take responsibility for not having clearly set out
00:12:56.280 or communicated a policy against international travel
00:13:00.280 for senior decision-makers in government.
00:13:03.280 I should have done so.
00:13:06.280 To be blunt, I'm not in the habit of tracking or regulating
00:13:10.280 what the people who work for me do on their personal time.
00:13:14.280 I believe that these individuals acted in what they believe to be good faith,
00:13:19.280 have complied with the legal requirements,
00:13:21.280 including the COVID public health orders.
00:13:24.280 But for those of us in leadership, I acknowledge that is not good enough.
00:13:29.280 We should be here at home, plain and simple,
00:13:34.280 if we carry a position of public trust.
00:13:36.280 Oh, the press were enraged.
00:13:39.280 Not just the leftist media party that always hates Jason Kenney,
00:13:43.280 but conservatives like our friend Rick Bell of the Calgary Sun.
00:13:46.280 No one could believe the tone deafness to it.
00:13:49.280 And in my mind, it's because even the United Conservative Party,
00:13:53.280 which I put it to you as Canada's most conservative provincial government,
00:13:56.280 even they live in a capital city surrounded by the ruling class,
00:14:01.280 by government bureaucrats, by people who love the lockdown.
00:14:04.280 At worst, they just stay home and watch Netflix while collecting their paychecks.
00:14:09.280 So I think that there is a disconnect between the rage felt by small businesses,
00:14:14.280 working class people, people whose lives have been negatively impacted by the lockdown,
00:14:19.280 and the ruling class that said, oh yeah, go off to Hawaii.
00:14:22.280 We had set up a website called fireallard.com, and we were making campaign plans.
00:14:29.280 In fact, over the weekend, I reached out to the largest radio station in Grand Prairie, Alberta,
00:14:34.280 where we happened to have more than 3,000 rebel supporters.
00:14:37.280 We were going to get radio ads, we were going to get billboards,
00:14:40.280 we were going to do lawn signs.
00:14:42.280 I thought that Jason Kenney was going to pull the plug on Tracy Allard on January 1st, but he didn't.
00:14:47.280 He let the wound fester for three full days.
00:14:52.280 And then today, a bloodletting of the sort I haven't seen, well actually in memory,
00:14:59.280 Jason Kenney sacking every single one of his caucus who took foreign trips.
00:15:06.280 Tracy Allard was just the beginning of it.
00:15:08.280 Others were stripped of their cabinet and even committee positions.
00:15:13.280 And most stinging of all, Jason Kenney sacked his own chief of staff.
00:15:19.280 Let me read a little bit from his release.
00:15:21.280 And this time, Kenney wisely put out a statement in writing
00:15:24.280 rather than subjecting himself to the punching bags of the media.
00:15:27.280 Kenney said,
00:15:29.280 Albertans have every right to expect that people in positions of public trust
00:15:32.280 be held to a higher standard of conduct during COVID-19.
00:15:35.280 Over the weekend, I have listened to Albertans who are sending a clear message
00:15:39.280 that they want real consequences to these actions.
00:15:42.280 Oh, and I have not seen consequences like these in a long time.
00:15:46.280 Sacking a cabinet minister, sure.
00:15:48.280 Demoting more than half a dozen, that's quite something in one move.
00:15:52.280 But losing his own chief of staff,
00:15:54.280 that's the one painful part of this for Jason Kenney.
00:15:57.280 But I think he's proven that he will not accept this lower ethical standard.
00:16:01.280 I say again, there's nothing wrong with going to Hawaii.
00:16:03.280 Nothing wrong with wanting a vacation.
00:16:05.280 Nothing wrong with wanting to go to a restaurant.
00:16:06.280 I want all those things too.
00:16:08.280 The difference is when you are the jailer of the community,
00:16:11.280 you can't then escape from your own jail and go off to some paradise.
00:16:16.280 Over the weekend, it was made even more difficult for Jason Kenney
00:16:19.280 by the fact that Justin Trudeau,
00:16:21.280 well, he took a bit of a different media management approach.
00:16:25.280 He found out which of his MPs had been traveling overseas,
00:16:31.280 and he made them resign, not in press conferences,
00:16:35.280 but in little statements on Facebook and Twitter.
00:16:38.280 Trudeau didn't get involved with the mess of it.
00:16:41.280 He put the mess on the MPs.
00:16:43.280 One after the other, they all resigned.
00:16:45.280 He let the air out of the balloon first,
00:16:47.280 before the media could do it to him.
00:16:49.280 Kenny knew he had to act if corrupt Libranos like Justin Trudeau
00:16:53.280 do the right thing on this.
00:16:55.280 Well, Jason Kenney certainly had to, and that's what happened today.
00:16:58.280 I should tell you, at the same time we put up a website for fireallard.com,
00:17:03.280 we heard about another cabinet minister, this one in Saskatchewan,
00:17:07.280 the Minister for Highways, Joe Hargrave,
00:17:10.280 who had an even more laughable excuse.
00:17:12.280 Tracy Allard said, well, it's a family tradition to go to Hawaii.
00:17:15.280 We've been doing it for 17 years.
00:17:17.280 Well, Joe Hargrave didn't even come up with that.
00:17:20.280 He said he went down to Palm Springs over Christmas
00:17:23.280 to do an important business deal, selling his property.
00:17:26.280 But already there's cracks forming in that story,
00:17:29.280 and CTV today shows that, in fact, when he went down to Palm Springs,
00:17:33.280 his house was not yet even for sale, according to public records.
00:17:37.280 I think Joe Hargrave is telling a porky.
00:17:40.280 It'll be interesting to see if he sticks around.
00:17:42.280 If you want to sign our petition, go to firehargrave.com.
00:17:45.280 If he's not sacked by Premier Scott Moe by tomorrow,
00:17:49.280 we're going to ramp up our campaign that was aimed at Tracy Allard,
00:17:52.280 and we're going to deploy it to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
00:17:55.280 By the way, for those of you who follow us closely,
00:17:57.280 you'll know that the church in Prince Albert,
00:18:00.280 the big church that ministers especially to Aboriginal people,
00:18:03.280 that does some incredible social work, that church has been hit with a $14,000 lockdown fine,
00:18:11.280 the largest in Canada.
00:18:13.280 Imagine the disconnect between Prince Albert and the church getting hit with a $14,000 fine,
00:18:20.280 while the cabinet minister enforcing the lockdown jets off to Palm Springs.
00:18:25.280 That cannot stand.
00:18:27.280 And if Scott Moe doesn't do the right thing by tomorrow,
00:18:30.280 we're going to deploy on the ground there.
00:18:32.280 We have lots of supporters in Prince Albert,
00:18:34.280 who I think will see the irony here, even if Joe Hargrave doesn't.
00:18:39.280 I note that Doug Ford still has a few lingering problems.
00:18:43.280 His deputy chief of staff was in Miami over the lockdown.
00:18:46.280 His spokesman was traveling within Canada.
00:18:49.280 I wonder if he will be held to a higher account.
00:18:52.280 I note that in Manitoba, Brian Pallister, his right-hand man,
00:18:56.280 well, he made the front page of the Winnipeg Free Press today
00:18:59.280 because he went to visit his family across the country.
00:19:02.280 Look, rules for me and not for thee,
00:19:04.280 I'm fine with visiting family and friends
00:19:06.280 and doing whatever you want in your private time.
00:19:08.280 But don't throw the rest of us in jail for him.
00:19:12.280 The Liberals, they're smarter than these Conservatives.
00:19:15.280 They're getting out of it quickly, aren't they?
00:19:18.280 They're not having splashy press conferences to be eaten alive.
00:19:21.280 But let me leave you with this.
00:19:24.280 If you are a small business person or just a private citizen anywhere in Canada,
00:19:29.280 and from now forward, well, in the past as well,
00:19:33.280 if you have been hit with a fine, an arrest, a ticket,
00:19:37.280 for breaking the lockdown while one after the other politician confesses to breaking the lockdown,
00:19:45.280 I hope you'll go to fightthefines.com.
00:19:49.280 Just today we had a big meeting with a bunch of lawyers and paralegals and journalists,
00:19:54.280 and we're going to ramp up our campaign because for any Canadian to be hit with a lockdown fine,
00:20:03.280 after what we've seen from Tracy Allard and Joe Hargrave and Ron Phillips and the rest of them,
00:20:10.280 for any ordinary citizen to be slapped with a $1,000 fine is an outrage,
00:20:16.280 and we will defend them all.
00:20:20.280 Go to fightthefines.com if you have one, or if you know of someone,
00:20:24.280 go to fightthefines.com and have them fill out our form.
00:20:27.280 All right.
00:20:28.280 That's my monologue for today.
00:20:30.280 Up next, my friend, Spencer Fernando.
00:20:32.280 Now you're going to notice something.
00:20:34.280 I recorded this interview with Spencer earlier today before I had a haircut.
00:20:38.280 So please forgive my bushy hair for the next 15 minutes.
00:20:43.280 Here's Spencer.
00:20:56.280 Well, there's so many levels to what's wrong about these lockdown cheaters.
00:21:02.280 And by the way, if you have your family over, if you want to live your life,
00:21:05.280 if you want to open your business, I do not consider you to be a lockdown cheater
00:21:10.280 because you did not impose these brutal lockdowns on the community.
00:21:16.280 They were done by the ruling class, by politicians claiming there to be an emergency.
00:21:22.280 So if your jailer, if your prison warden, if the one who is using these emergency powers
00:21:29.280 in an unprecedented way to stop you from traveling, visiting people, going to a restaurant,
00:21:35.280 if that person who wields that weapon then gives themselves a secret get-out-of-jail-free card,
00:21:45.280 a secret excuse to go to Hawaii or Las Vegas, to go to restaurants, to live life on a beach
00:21:52.280 while jailing the rest of us, that is a lockdown cheater.
00:21:57.280 And let me now bring in our friend Spencer Fernando, who has an excellent article about this.
00:22:01.280 I encourage you to visit SpencerFernando.com.
00:22:04.280 Here's the headline.
00:22:05.280 While politicians travel the world on the taxpayer's dime,
00:22:09.280 police acting on political orders raid home where family was gathered.
00:22:15.280 And joining us now is Spencer Fernando.
00:22:18.280 When I saw that video, Spencer...
00:22:21.280 Well, first of all, Happy New Year. Good to see you.
00:22:24.280 And I know you're joining us from snowy Winnipeg and not some gorgeous beach in Costa Rica.
00:22:29.280 When I saw that video of the house raid in Gatineau, Quebec,
00:22:34.280 I thought if that were in the Chinese language or in the Persian language,
00:22:39.280 we would be outraged at how they do things in China or Iran or under Vladimir Putin's Russia.
00:22:46.280 But that was in Gatineau, Quebec. That was in Canada.
00:22:49.280 That's happening here.
00:22:51.280 Police, without a warrant, busting in someone's home because there's six people,
00:22:55.280 dragging them out on the street, putting them on the ground, arresting them.
00:22:59.280 That is happening here.
00:23:02.280 Yeah, again, you know, it's one of the many things that if you told people a year ago
00:23:06.280 what was going to happen, I don't think people would believe it.
00:23:09.280 It would have sounded crazy.
00:23:10.280 But yeah, this is something you expect to see in an authoritarian state, not a democratic country.
00:23:15.280 And it's made all the worse by the fact that these politicians are flying around the world
00:23:19.280 on the taxpayers' dime and they're living it up.
00:23:22.280 And then they impose these orders on us and say,
00:23:24.280 oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to send the police after you.
00:23:26.280 We're going to punish you.
00:23:27.280 We're going to fine you.
00:23:28.280 We're going to insult you.
00:23:29.280 We're going to talk down to you.
00:23:30.280 And then they go fly away to places where many of those lockdowns don't really exist the same way.
00:23:35.280 Yeah.
00:23:36.280 I mean, in Alberta, where I'm originally from, Tracy Allard said, well, we have a wonderful
00:23:41.280 tradition of going to Hawaii every year.
00:23:44.280 It wouldn't be so nice if police busted into her Hawaiian home and did that to her.
00:23:50.280 So she, now I know that she's not responsible for the police in Gatineau, but every province
00:23:55.280 and territory in Canada has a similar approach to lockdown.
00:23:59.280 It's the ruling class.
00:24:00.280 Let me throw one more thing at you, Spencer.
00:24:02.280 There's a two week quarantine when you get back.
00:24:05.280 So anyone who can go on a vacation, let's say you go for one week to Hawaii or one week
00:24:10.280 down to Florida.
00:24:11.280 It's a nice vacation.
00:24:12.280 Well, now you've got to spend two weeks at home when you get back.
00:24:15.280 So you've got to be part of that ruling class because most people don't have an extra two
00:24:20.280 weeks of vacation time they can burn up to go on a vacation.
00:24:25.280 So it truly is this ruling class of politicians and bureaucrats who are loving the lockdown.
00:24:33.280 They're actually in many ways the only ones who can go on vacation while the rest of us can't.
00:24:39.280 Yeah.
00:24:40.280 And you know, it's, you know, you know, talk about Tracy Allard talking about her tradition.
00:24:45.280 Well, the government has told everyone to give up all their traditions, right?
00:24:48.280 Oh, you meet every year for Christmas.
00:24:50.280 Well, sorry, Christmas is canceled this year.
00:24:52.280 You can't do that.
00:24:53.280 The tone deafness of all of this.
00:24:55.280 And then you see, I mean, this is, you know, I think we'll probably talk about it, but we
00:24:59.280 saw in Manitoba, here in Manitoba, you know, with a top bureaucrat, David McLaughlin, or top
00:25:04.280 advisor to Pallister.
00:25:06.280 He was given permission to travel to Ottawa during the Christmas break and then an exemption
00:25:11.280 from quarantine requirements when he comes back home.
00:25:14.280 So these are supposedly conservative governments that are supposed to be limited government,
00:25:20.280 respect individual rights, respect taxpayers, and they're acting just as bad as liberals.
00:25:24.280 Well, that's the crazy thing is I was completely certain in my bones that when Jason Kenney
00:25:31.280 had his New Year's Day press conference to address the case of Tracy Allard jetting off
00:25:36.280 to Hawaii.
00:25:37.280 And by the way, she posted a deceptive Christmas video of herself that was tagged as if she
00:25:44.280 was still in Alberta.
00:25:45.280 I don't think that was a coincidence.
00:25:47.280 So Jason Kenney having this.
00:25:49.280 Who among us has not made the mistake of accidentally tagging a preloaded tweet while we're off in
00:25:54.280 the Caribbean or somewhere else?
00:25:55.280 I mean, it happens to everybody.
00:25:56.280 Yeah, you're right.
00:25:57.280 I was so certain that Jason Kenney, who I know pretty well, who used to be the head of
00:26:02.280 the Taxpayers Federation, who used to take on, you know, politicians for living that lifestyle.
00:26:08.280 Mm-hmm.
00:26:09.280 I was sure he was going to sack her.
00:26:11.280 And the thing is, Spencer, Justin Trudeau has sacked a number of MPs from positions.
00:26:21.280 Jagmeet Singh has fired Nikki Ashton, who's an opposition NDP MP from a critic portfolio.
00:26:29.280 So the parties of the left, who I think are ethically challenged, even they know that they
00:26:37.280 have to show some remorse here.
00:26:40.280 They have to discipline their world travelers.
00:26:44.280 If Justin Trudeau is making a junior cabinet minister resign and Jason Kenney doesn't, that's
00:26:51.280 what's boggling to me.
00:26:53.280 I thought he would be cleaner than clean on this stuff.
00:26:56.280 I don't know why he's incurring this PR wrath.
00:26:59.280 It's not his fault.
00:27:00.280 He didn't go to Hawaii.
00:27:02.280 I don't know why he's incurring such a bloody nose on behalf of some first-term MLA cabinet
00:27:10.280 minister who I don't think one in a hundred Albertans has heard of.
00:27:14.280 Why is he torching his reputation for her?
00:27:17.280 Well, now it's up to, I think, 11 who have left.
00:27:21.280 So I think it's getting to the point where, you know, people would say, okay, if you fire
00:27:25.280 her, then you've got to punish the rest of them.
00:27:27.280 Right?
00:27:28.280 So he's probably thinking, well, I can't do that.
00:27:29.280 I'll lose too much support.
00:27:30.280 He should do that.
00:27:31.280 Obviously you should punish everybody, but, uh, he's probably scared.
00:27:34.280 He's going to lose too much caucus support or something.
00:27:36.280 And then the weird thing is I'm, I'm seeing some of them talk about this almost as if
00:27:40.280 it's, it's like a principle, right?
00:27:42.280 Like, oh, well, we believe people have the freedom to travel.
00:27:46.280 Well, that's very nice.
00:27:47.280 But I mean, if you believe people have the freedom to travel, shouldn't you also be,
00:27:51.280 you know, defending the freedom to, oh, let's say, open up your business or meet with your
00:27:54.280 family or gather with people if you freely choose to do that.
00:27:58.280 So it's this double standard of, oh, we're totally defending the ironclad right to travel
00:28:02.280 around the world.
00:28:03.280 But when it comes to freedom within your own country, no, sorry, you're totally locked
00:28:06.280 down.
00:28:07.280 So again, it's a very odd that his principle only kind of rears its head when it comes to defending
00:28:12.280 the privileges of other politicians.
00:28:14.280 Yeah.
00:28:15.280 And by the way, I'm completely pro travel too.
00:28:17.280 I haven't been to Hawaii in years, but I would absolutely love to go.
00:28:20.280 I bet there's a lot of deals now because a few people are traveling.
00:28:24.280 But not only is the quarantine in effect that I mentioned, but guidance from the federal
00:28:30.280 and provincial government says, do not engage in non-essential travel.
00:28:34.280 And even one of our, two of our staff, three of our staff who traveled for work, for journalism,
00:28:43.280 they were sentenced to two weeks at home in quarantine.
00:28:45.280 So they really mean it.
00:28:47.280 So that's the thing.
00:28:48.280 It's the hypocrisy.
00:28:49.280 You can't have the person who's brutally enforcing the rules on the rest of us then avail themselves
00:28:55.280 of the travel.
00:28:56.280 I am pro travel.
00:28:57.280 I say lift more restrictions.
00:28:59.280 Don't.
00:29:00.280 But that's the thing.
00:29:01.280 These folks can't have it both ways.
00:29:02.280 Let me ask you.
00:29:04.280 Do you think that in the wake of all these lockdown cheaters, and again, I'm not calling
00:29:09.280 ordinary citizens lockdown cheaters.
00:29:11.280 I'm calling the enforcers of the lockdown who then cheat.
00:29:15.280 I'm calling them the cheaters.
00:29:17.280 Do you think that will loosen up enforcement against the regular Joe?
00:29:22.280 Like, does Jason Kenney's government or any other government really have the moral authority
00:29:28.280 to crack down on a restaurant that opens up now, now that we know that they're sneaking
00:29:33.280 off to restaurants in Vegas or Hawaii?
00:29:36.280 Well, I don't think they have the moral authority to do it, but I suspect they will
00:29:40.280 continue to do so.
00:29:41.280 I think if anything, we're seeing that, you know, across the political spectrum and including
00:29:45.280 many conservatives who we thought would be better, it's just total hypocrisy.
00:29:49.280 They're all on team politician, not team the rest of us, right?
00:29:52.280 We're all in it together.
00:29:53.280 Well, I guess they were talking about themselves and their other politicians, not us.
00:29:56.280 So, you know, I would suspect they're going to continue being hypocrites.
00:29:59.280 They haven't really faced any punishment.
00:30:01.280 They don't seem to be really afraid of what the public's going to do in terms of getting
00:30:04.280 rid of them.
00:30:05.280 I mean, you don't see the, you know, you don't see the UCP talking much about recall legislation
00:30:10.280 lately, right?
00:30:11.280 That's off their website.
00:30:12.280 They're not talking about that.
00:30:13.280 So I think they're just going to continue.
00:30:16.280 They're just going to continue being hypocrites and hope that when vaccines get rolled out
00:30:20.280 that people will forget about all this and go back to normal.
00:30:23.280 But I don't think people are going to forget, especially conservatives.
00:30:26.280 I think, I think conservative parties are really underestimating how many conservatives
00:30:31.280 in the country feel betrayed by the people who are supposed to represent them.
00:30:34.280 And I don't think that's going to be forgotten.
00:30:36.280 I think you're right.
00:30:37.280 You know, I mean, I think Jason Kenney is my favorite premier.
00:30:40.280 I say that not just personally, but politically.
00:30:43.280 I think Alberta is my favorite province.
00:30:45.280 Even though I live in Ontario, it's my home.
00:30:47.280 It's where I come from.
00:30:48.280 And I like its spirit.
00:30:50.280 And I think that by criticizing Tracy Alder and the other cheaters, I think that that's
00:30:57.280 a healthy criticism that has to be brought by conservatives to parties that have the word
00:31:04.280 conservative in their name.
00:31:05.280 And I don't think the right approach, certainly not for journalists like us and for yourself,
00:31:10.280 is to bite our tongues because it's our side.
00:31:12.280 In fact, that's where we have to prove that we're principled.
00:31:15.280 You, I mean, you're one of the few independent journalists out there, and our friends at True
00:31:21.280 North, for example.
00:31:22.280 We have to be the keepers of the flame when conservative parties go off the rails.
00:31:27.280 Otherwise, we have no credibility when we go after the liberals.
00:31:30.280 And by the way, what's the point of having a conservative party that acts like a Trudeau
00:31:35.280 party?
00:31:36.280 So that's my thinking.
00:31:37.280 Last word to you, Spencer.
00:31:39.280 Yeah, I agree.
00:31:40.280 I think independent media has actually really raised its credibility in the last few days,
00:31:44.280 seeing how it's going after.
00:31:45.280 It goes after everybody, right?
00:31:47.280 I mean, that's the whole point.
00:31:48.280 I spend most of my time going after Trudeau.
00:31:50.280 But right now, Trudeau is not in the news that much.
00:31:52.280 It's, you know, conservative parties acting like hypocrites.
00:31:55.280 And that's what needs to be covered.
00:31:56.280 And that's what needs to be criticized.
00:31:58.280 So again, as you said, you don't have any credibility if you only criticize one side,
00:32:01.280 and then let other people get away with the same thing.
00:32:03.280 So I think it's been good for independent media to show that it really is credible,
00:32:07.280 unlike the establishment.
00:32:08.280 Yeah, I think you're right.
00:32:09.280 Well, Spencer, you're one of the best.
00:32:11.280 And I frequently visit your site, SpencerFernando.com.
00:32:15.280 I'd encourage all of my viewers to do the same.
00:32:17.280 Thanks for your time today.
00:32:18.280 Keep up the fight out west, okay?
00:32:20.280 All right, take care.
00:32:21.280 All right, there you have it.
00:32:22.280 Spencer Fernando.
00:32:23.280 Stay with us.
00:32:24.280 More ahead.
00:32:25.280 I believe that this lockdown is the greatest civil liberties crisis in Canada,
00:32:42.280 other than the internment camps of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War,
00:32:47.280 I think you can make the case, other than the Indian Act, which continues to violate the
00:32:52.280 civil liberties of status Indians.
00:32:54.280 Other than those two racist documents that limit people's civil rights, I think the lockdown
00:33:02.280 today is the greatest infringement on our property rights, our mobility rights, our expression
00:33:06.280 rights, our rights of assembly and association.
00:33:08.280 I think it's outrageous.
00:33:10.280 And I see that not a single opposition party in the country is standing against it.
00:33:15.280 And I see not a single civil liberties group standing up against it, other than the Justice
00:33:19.280 Center for Constitutional Freedom, our friend John Carpe.
00:33:22.280 To me, that is the issue of 2021.
00:33:25.280 Not the virus.
00:33:27.280 We'll learn to live with the virus as we do with the flu season every year.
00:33:30.280 The problem of 2021 is standing up for civil liberties when the world won't.
00:33:34.280 Our petition at FireAllard.com helped give a nudge to Jason Kenney to do the right thing
00:33:40.280 after he resisted for three days.
00:33:42.280 We have to fight for civil liberties because I believe in many ways the opposition parties
00:33:48.280 in this country, and federally too, have failed to do their constitutional job of opposing.
00:33:55.280 That's their title, official opposition.
00:33:57.280 So oppose already.
00:33:59.280 They're not opposing.
00:34:00.280 And we need opposition.
00:34:02.280 That videotape out of Gatineau, Quebec, should have turned your stomach.
00:34:07.280 For 48 years, I've been a pro-police advocate, almost fanatic.
00:34:11.280 I can't even say that anymore, because to me, I see police as the enforcers of this lockdown.
00:34:15.280 And I think that is something that is burning a century worth of goodwill.
00:34:19.280 That's my pledge to you in the year 2021, is that we will not just tell the other side
00:34:24.280 of the story, but we'll fight for the people that no one else will.
00:34:28.280 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to UNO, good night.
00:34:33.280 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:34:35.280 Be fishing for a great day.
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00:34:41.280 Thank you so much for watching.
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