Rebel News Podcast - March 06, 2019


South Dakota shows us one way to handle foreign environmental extremists


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

164.52098

Word Count

8,528

Sentence Count

645

Misogynist Sentences

29

Hate Speech Sentences

41


Summary

South Dakota just passed a law that will allow them to charge environmental extremists who try to block oil pipeline projects in their state. Why can't Canada do the same thing in our own province? Ezra Levant explains why.


Transcript

00:00:00.040 Hello, my rebels. I've got an exciting story for you today. I learned a new word today, new phrase,
00:00:05.740 and I learned about it in a bill before the legislature in South Dakota. It's Senate Bill
00:00:13.080 189, and it creates the offensive riot boosting, and I'll just tell you what that means. It means
00:00:21.360 fancy pants out-of-state environmental extremists coming into a state to block pipelines. Well,
00:00:27.060 guess what? They are now on the hook in a very serious way in South Dakota. It is a great law.
00:00:33.200 I go through it in detail, and I say, we need a law like that up here in Canada. So, you know,
00:00:39.320 get your pens and paper out. You're going to learn a little something about riot boosting. Anywho,
00:00:44.380 that's the show for today, and I just want to say you really should watch it because I'm going to
00:00:47.800 show you some maps today, and I'm going to show you a ton of pictures of Kristi Noem, the governor of
00:00:55.740 South Dakota, hunting varmints and things. And I know it's just a richer experience than just
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00:01:31.300 to do, here is my audio only monologue about riot boosting. Tonight, the great state of South Dakota
00:01:44.220 shows us the way to handle foreign environmental extremists. It's March 5th, and this is the Ezra
00:01:50.180 Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's
00:01:56.940 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
00:02:02.280 government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:02:12.240 North Dakota is a pretty big oil-producing state these days, and that's just happened in the past
00:02:18.420 decade or so. The Bakken geological formation, which you can see on this map, is a huge source
00:02:24.420 of oil. It's shale oil, so it's fracked, and it's amazing. I know this because it must be amazing
00:02:31.420 because Quebec chooses to import it by railway train from North Dakota instead of bringing in
00:02:39.080 Alberta or Saskatchewan oil by pipeline. As you can see on the map, the Bakken formation actually
00:02:45.940 extends well into Canada, and it's a pretty big deal up here too, but all the pipelines that would
00:02:52.560 have helped bring that Canadian Bakken oil to market may have been shut down. Energy East would
00:02:59.500 have been perfect, by the way. The Keystone XL pipeline too. Now, Obama vetoed that one, and then
00:03:06.680 an Obama judge slowed it down. It'll get back up in time, but in the meantime, like I say, there are
00:03:12.500 plenty of railways getting rich off moving Bakken fracked oil, including to Canada. It was Bakken oil
00:03:20.480 that blew up in Lac-Mégantic, by the way. I got nothing against North Dakota or Bakken or fracking
00:03:26.300 or even against railways. I got nothing against buying things from Americans. I'm envious of them
00:03:31.400 actually, and that's my point today. Why can't Saskatchewan sell its Bakken oil that we fracked
00:03:37.020 to Quebec? Because North Dakota, by the way, doesn't pay equalization payments to Quebec,
00:03:44.540 but Saskatchewan and Alberta do, but we can't sell our oil. And it's going to get worse. It's almost
00:03:50.440 like Trudeau is a lobbyist working for North Dakota. I played this clip for you yesterday.
00:03:56.680 It's Catherine McKenna boasting about Bill C-69 and all the new regulations that will apply to new
00:04:02.620 industrial projects, but only in Canada. None of these will be applied to foreign oil imports,
00:04:09.520 either from North Dakota or from Saudi Arabia. Remember this?
00:04:14.300 Project decisions will be based on science, evidence, and Indigenous traditional knowledge.
00:04:19.880 We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts of a proposed project.
00:04:24.500 Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could
00:04:28.620 affect our communities and health, jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do
00:04:34.220 a gender-based analysis. Yeah, they're not doing a gender-based analysis on their oil imports, are
00:04:40.100 they? Yeah, so while Canada's oil and gas industry is bleeding, North Dakota's is actually setting new
00:04:46.600 records. 1.4 million barrels of oil per day. That's more than some OPEC countries. There aren't even a
00:04:58.500 million people living in North Dakota. Well, I'm jealous. What can I say? I'm jealous of North Dakota.
00:05:04.240 But there are some things we can learn from the Dakotas. And let me now turn my eye to South Dakota.
00:05:09.400 As you can see, the Bakken doesn't extend that far south, but another oil and gas deposit called the
00:05:15.220 Williston does. It's just a fraction of their northern sister state. It's not a big deal, except in one way.
00:05:21.940 Pipelines. They love building pipelines in South Dakota. They're like the opposite of us here in
00:05:28.520 Canada. They love being next to North Dakota. They're not jealous like we are in Canada, where
00:05:34.980 Quebec likes to take equalization payments from Western oil, but doesn't like to take the actual
00:05:39.880 oil. In South Dakota, I think they sort of brag about being next to North Dakota. And they really
00:05:45.280 play up how they're so connected. I like that solidarity. Now, obviously, they're getting rich
00:05:49.760 off it, too. But they're friends. And look at this map. That's the Dakota Access Pipeline.
00:05:57.040 So it's a big pipeline that takes North Dakota Bakken oil. And as you can see, it obviously goes
00:06:02.600 south through the state of South Dakota. And you see that yellow shape that straddles the border there?
00:06:10.480 That's the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. It's pretty big. That's where there were enormous
00:06:16.060 protests during the Obama years trying to stop a key pipeline called the Dakota Access Pipeline.
00:06:23.840 Huge protests, even larger than what we've seen in Canada, by the way. We actually haven't seen any
00:06:30.560 huge pipeline protests other than temporary hour-long parades in Burnaby and Vancouver. In Standing
00:06:37.860 Rock, it really was an army. Thousands of people. And they camped out for weeks with Obama's full
00:06:45.780 support, by the way. He basically canceled the pipeline that was a done deal regulatorily
00:06:52.160 by allowing violent protesters to stop it. It's like Trudeau does, really. And remember when our
00:06:58.820 friend, the filmmaker, fellow McAleer, actually went to Standing Rock? It was total lawlessness.
00:07:03.900 Remember this?
00:07:04.540 Can I see your press knife? I don't have it. The press place was closed.
00:07:09.980 Can we see your footage there? Sorry.
00:07:11.820 It's open now. Yeah, we're going to have security.
00:07:13.900 Are you with the, um, I mean, I'm with the press.
00:07:16.940 Hey, hey, hey, let go. Let go. Let go. Let go of that, sir. Let go. Sir, let go of that.
00:07:21.660 Let go. Let go. Let go. Let go. Let go. He's in the wrong place to ask that kind of stuff.
00:07:26.620 Let go of the microphone. Let go of the microphone. You've got to let go of the microphone. Let's go to
00:07:31.100 the press box. That's my property. Let go. Let go. Well, I guarantee you. I spoke to Mike.
00:07:34.780 This is not going to be filmed. This is not going to be filmed. This is not going to be filmed.
00:07:36.380 Yes. I have my own camera operate. Hey, wait a minute. Make sure, can you make sure his is
00:07:41.500 deleted? He's filming this right here. He's taking it with him. You guys don't have a press pass.
00:07:46.060 I don't, I have no. Uh, you can see there was a ton of people there. Most of those vehicles
00:07:53.180 had out of state license plates. There were no cops to be seen. I'll get back to that in a moment.
00:07:57.420 Anyways, that's how it was going to be. Um, they were going to block the pipeline,
00:08:02.380 just like they blocked pipelines up here. It was obviously funded by professional
00:08:05.580 environmentalist groups. Those were not local South Dakotans there. Um, just like in Canada,
00:08:11.980 most protesters weren't Dakotans. Most weren't Aboriginal. The same thing up here. Same thing.
00:08:17.420 Exactly. Uh, they were going to cut off the Bakken just like they've cut off the oil sands.
00:08:25.420 And then Donald Trump won the election. And in his first week as president, he signed an executive
00:08:31.260 order clearing those hippies out of the way, proceeding with the construction of the Dakota
00:08:35.740 access pipeline. And by the way, he revived the Keystone XL too. Although like I say,
00:08:39.820 an Obama judge has since delayed it. So that pipeline, the Dakota access pipeline,
00:08:44.380 the one I showed you on the map there with the yellow Indian reservation, that pipeline got built
00:08:49.580 immediately. By the way, Trump green lit it, as you can see here in January of 2017.
00:08:56.380 It was operational by June of 2017, five months later, less than five months. Let me read a great
00:09:06.300 little story from Forbes that was published on the first anniversary of the pipeline.
00:09:10.780 Whatever happened to the Dakota access pipeline? The Dakota access pipeline has much to celebrate
00:09:17.180 on its first year of service. This was written, um, June of 2018. For proponents, it shows once again
00:09:23.820 that oil can be safely transported in significant volumes. It also shows that the project created
00:09:29.580 nearly 10,000 jobs during construction, which pumped millions of dollars into local communities.
00:09:34.460 Landowners received $189 million in easement payments last year, while state and local
00:09:40.540 governments received a combined $55 million in property taxes. That's amazing. Just, I think
00:09:49.020 that's probably the largest property taxpayer in the state. I mean, obviously it's got a great safety
00:09:54.380 record. I mean, it's a state of the art pipeline built in 2017. And most importantly, it has allowed
00:10:01.660 North Dakota to become as big as an OPEC country. That could have been us. But we elected Justin
00:10:08.700 Trudeau. Again, I am so jealous of both South and North Dakota. And of course, taking all that oil
00:10:14.540 off of railways and putting it in a safe underground pipe, that's just smart. And it eases demand on the
00:10:21.500 railways. So that helps farmers who need to ship stuff on railways. So it's win, win, win all around.
00:10:26.700 Yes, I'm jealous. I wish that was us. I wish we had the Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick. I wish
00:10:33.180 we had the Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat. I wish we had Keystone XL going all the way down to
00:10:37.900 Texas. I wish we had the Trans Mountain extension. We've got none of that. We're missing our moment.
00:10:43.500 You know, America is not the world's largest oil producer. It's now a net exporter of oil. I never
00:10:48.220 thought I would see that in my life. It's happened in a couple of years. Pretty soon it just won't need
00:10:55.100 our oil sands. Thanks, Trudeau. But let me tell you something I just learned about South Dakota today.
00:11:05.420 Like I say, they have a tiny fraction of the oil and gas activity compared to the Northern,
00:11:11.260 the North Dakota. But they're not jealous. They like being part of the action. They like building
00:11:17.820 pipelines. They respect their Northern neighbors. They get some of the benefits too. But look at this.
00:11:22.460 This is my favorite news of the day. Look at this bill proposed by the new Republican governor of
00:11:30.700 South Dakota named Kristi Noem. It's Senate Bill 189, if you're keeping track. And I'll just read it.
00:11:38.460 For an act entitled, an act to establish a fund to receive civil recoveries to offset costs incurred by riot
00:11:49.180 boosting. To make a continuous appropriation, therefore, and to declare an emergency.
00:11:55.820 Riot boosting. Have you ever heard that term before? I haven't. It's exactly what it sounds like,
00:12:03.500 though. Let me read a little more. It's a pretty short bill. It's only three pages, this proposed law.
00:12:09.100 One page is practically all just definitions. They define riot. We all know what a riot is.
00:12:14.060 And then they define riot boosting. I love that word. Here, let me read about riot boosting.
00:12:22.060 In addition to any other liability or criminal penalty under law, a person is liable for riot boosting
00:12:31.660 jointly and severally with any other person to the state or a political subdivision in an action for
00:12:38.700 damages if the person participates in any riot and directs, advises, encourages or solicits any other
00:12:50.380 person participating in the riot to acts of force or violence. Does not personally participate in any
00:12:58.940 riot but directs, advises, encourages or solicits other persons participating in the riot to acts of
00:13:05.660 force or violence or upon the direction, advice, encouragement or solicitation of any other person
00:13:12.940 uses force or violence or makes any threat to use force or violence if accompanied by immediate
00:13:18.380 power of execution by three or more persons acting together and without authority of law. Okay.
00:13:23.500 Now, I think that's pretty plain English. It was a little bit repetitive, actually. First of all,
00:13:28.300 it says that riot boosting doesn't replace any existing crime. It creates a new offense. Second,
00:13:35.820 it says that riot boosting means if you whip up a riot, if you direct it, if you advise it, if you
00:13:40.460 encourage it, those are the words, you don't actually have to be a rioter yourself. You just have to incite it.
00:13:46.460 Or if you're part of it and there are three or more of you and you threaten violence and you have the
00:13:49.900 power to do to immediately do it, they're going to get you for riot boosting. So this is going
00:13:55.740 after the Gerald Butzes and the Sephora Berman to the world, the World Wildlife Funds, the Green
00:14:02.540 Pieces, the Sierra Clubs. This is going after that Standing Rock Reservation mass riot. Because all
00:14:09.820 of a sudden, riots aren't about fundraising opportunities for Greenpeace anymore. That's
00:14:13.900 what they do, right? They commit a crime and then they fundraise off. No, no, no, no. Now, under this riot
00:14:19.260 boosting law, if you're going to have some violent protest, it just became a horrible, horrible trap
00:14:26.860 for your environmental group. Penalties, offenses, legal troubles, huge fines. Let me read some more.
00:14:34.860 A person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state, South Dakota, for riot boosting that
00:14:43.740 results in a riot in this state, regardless of whether the person engages in riot boosting
00:14:48.780 personally or through any employee, agent, or subsidiary. Holy cow, how awesome is that? See,
00:14:56.460 the Tides Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, as are many other eco-extremists.
00:15:01.340 Sephora Berman's group is in Washington State, I believe. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund obviously is
00:15:05.820 in New York. But now all of them are liable in South Dakota if they boost riots in South Dakota.
00:15:14.060 I love it. I'm going to read some more. It's a very short bill. I've almost read the whole thing to you.
00:15:18.460 The plaintiff in an action for riot boosting may recover both special and general damages,
00:15:24.780 reasonable attorney's fees, disbursements, other reasonable expenses incurred from prosecuting the
00:15:30.300 action, and punitive damages. A defendant who solicits or compensates any other person
00:15:37.260 to commit an unlawful act or to be arrested is subject to three times the sum that would compensate
00:15:45.020 for the detriment caused. Triple damages?
00:15:51.500 So if you do a million bucks worth of damage to a pipeline,
00:15:53.980 get ready to pay triple that. Three million. Yeah, Greenpeace can stay away. Just one more
00:16:02.220 quote. It's a short law. I've read almost the whole thing to you. There is established in the
00:16:07.180 state treasury the riot boosting recovery fund. Money in the fund may be used to pay any claim
00:16:14.860 for damages arising out of or in connection with a riot, or may be transferred to the pipeline
00:16:20.220 engagement activity coordination expenses fund. So companies can be compensated. I like that.
00:16:27.260 So I think this contemplates either a private prosecution from a pipeline company or the state
00:16:32.220 of South Dakota going after the bad guys and putting their cash in a piggy bank for anyone who was harmed.
00:16:39.340 How amazing is that? Hey, I have a very, very, very simple question for you. If you were Greenpeace,
00:16:45.900 if you were Zipporah Berman, if you were any of these hucksters on the hard left, would you do your
00:16:52.300 rioting in South Dakota anymore once this law is passed? Or would you go somewhere else without a riot
00:16:58.940 boosting law, like maybe Portland, Oregon? Yeah, exactly. That proposed law, that bill is the handiwork of
00:17:08.940 this woman, Kristi Noem, the amazing new governor of South Dakota. Smart, tough. I can't get enough of
00:17:19.180 these pictures of her hunting and weightlifting and shooting varmints because all I can imagine is how
00:17:28.700 in my daydreams, she would personally go out there and personally arrest and handcuff these soy latte
00:17:37.820 drinking vegetarian peaceniks with her bare hands and throw them into the clink, the hoose gal. Now,
00:17:46.300 maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just thinking of that great TV show called Man Tracker. Did you ever see
00:17:51.420 that one? Or that strong, silent type cowboy? He tracks down them city boys in the forest and
00:17:59.100 rounds them up. Except this gal's a governor, not a reality TV star. I wish we had a premier like she
00:18:06.780 is a governor. I wish we had riot boosting laws in Canada. I love saying that. Riot boosting. Maybe
00:18:14.060 Saskatchewan can pass a riot boosting law. Not that there's a lot of environmental protesters in
00:18:20.940 Saskatchewan. Maybe Alberta can too, once Rachel Notley is defenestrated next month. Maybe Doug Ford
00:18:27.500 should too. You know, I have personally witnessed with my own eyes sabotage by the Sierra Club
00:18:34.380 committed against the Line 9 oil pipeline owned by Enbridge near Hamilton. I was there,
00:18:39.740 this footage, I took it when I was at the Sun. And then there's the Rexton riot. I didn't take
00:18:48.140 this footage, but I did attend later on. This is the Rexton riots here. There's a Rexton riots in New
00:18:53.100 Brunswick a few years back, also whipped up by the Sierra Club. I have seen sabotage all over Ontario,
00:18:59.580 and the police do nothing because they don't have the riot boosting laws. Yet we might not have the
00:19:05.020 pipelines like South Dakota does, and that probably won't get us the pipelines. We probably have to
00:19:11.100 wait until Trudeau's gone. But there is no reason why self-respecting Canadian provinces on their own
00:19:16.220 can't pass riot boosting laws, just like my new superhero, Kristi Noem is doing in South Dakota.
00:19:25.100 Who knows? Maybe if we ask her nicely, she'd come up here and help us arrest that David Suzuki
00:19:33.420 and his band of dirty hippies, personally, consume for riot boosting. Hey, a felican dream. Stay with us for more.
00:19:43.260 Hey, welcome back. I want to show you, I mean, Twitter is so amazing. I watched in real time
00:20:03.260 as a woman smashed the historical world record for deadlifting 500 pounds. Let me show you the
00:20:13.820 tweet. I'll read it and then we'll play the video. It's by Zuby, a rapper who says, I keep hearing
00:20:20.060 about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019. So watch me
00:20:26.460 destroy the British women's deadlift record without trying. P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting
00:20:35.820 the weight. Don't be a bigot. And then we'll click the video and show you.
00:20:39.420 That's 500 pounds. I should tell you that that same man, he's a man, if you didn't get the joke yet,
00:20:56.460 he's a man saying he's identifying as a woman. He went on to break every single women's weightlifting
00:21:03.580 record bench presses. He was lifting over 500 pounds and he was saying he was stunning and brave
00:21:10.940 throughout. He did it as a joke, but that's the thing. That joke has become reality in many sports
00:21:19.100 competitions. And joining us now via Skype from Montreal to talk about it is our friend Barbara
00:21:23.820 Kay, a columnist at the Post Millennial and National Post. Great to see you again, Barbara. That was a joke
00:21:28.860 by a rapper. That guy, Zuby. He's an amateur weightlifter. He's pretty good at it, obviously.
00:21:33.980 But he showed that he could be the number one weightlifter in the UK if he just lied about being
00:21:39.740 a woman. That lie is happening every day, though. It is. Unfortunately, in powerlifting, in weight
00:21:48.540 wrestling, running, cycling, all the individual sports, real women are losing out to men who identify as
00:21:58.540 women or who say they identify as women. These biological men would be middle of the pack or
00:22:05.340 nobody's in a men's contest, but they are on the podium with medals in a women's competition. And
00:22:15.100 our sports associations are saying that's okay because it's all about inclusion. Yeah. How ironic
00:22:21.420 that's truly Orwellian to say inclusion means driving women's out of women's sport. Let's put up on
00:22:25.980 the screen your article for the Post Millennial. Canadian sports experts embrace misogynistic
00:22:32.940 practices to please trans activists. And you can see there, it's just so obvious, you can see a
00:22:39.420 biological woman getting crushed in a sprint by a biological man who says, no, no, no, no, no,
00:22:46.060 no, no, I'm a girl. And if you don't agree I'm a girl, you're a bigot. This is happening throughout
00:22:51.740 Canada, isn't it? Yes, it's happening in Canada, in the United States. It's happening everywhere in
00:22:58.700 the West. And it will pretty soon, if it isn't already, come to a crisis point where either the
00:23:05.180 women athletes themselves, I saw one, I saw one tweet, I think it was somebody quoting a young girl
00:23:12.060 who said she was so discouraged and demoralized because in the tryouts she knew, she says, I won't
00:23:18.060 make it. I know who's trying out. So, you know, there were two people ahead of her, both biological
00:23:23.820 males. And so she knew she wasn't even going to get into the into the heats. So that girl is probably
00:23:28.540 going to leave that sport very discouraged. And to me, this is in the sporting world, what I consider
00:23:34.620 pretty criminal that she should, that a girl with talent skills obviously, you know, would have done
00:23:41.260 probably pretty well otherwise has actually been erased from the sport. Yeah. I mean, the whole
00:23:47.900 concept of sportsmanship, I mean, if it was win at all costs, if this was like a military mission
00:23:54.060 where you must succeed, you must do anything, sure, cheat, lie, do what I mean, there are still
00:23:59.420 laws of war. I mean, we're not terrorists, we're not pirates, but that's not what sport is. Sport is not
00:24:06.220 win at all costs, do whatever it takes, cheat. There are some places, some extreme areas of life
00:24:11.260 where that is appropriate. Not sport, sportsmanship, sportsmanlike. These are words we take out of sport
00:24:17.500 into the rest of life to mean a fair competition where the best person wins. Well, yeah. Go ahead.
00:24:24.860 That's the logo. That's the logo of the sporting world is literally play fair. And you know,
00:24:30.220 you've seen, look, we know what a big business sports is. We've seen the hundreds of thousands of fans
00:24:35.900 that go out to watch these games. People take sports extremely seriously. They pay big money.
00:24:41.340 And even in the amateur world, people will come out for junior, you know, for young people's leagues.
00:24:48.540 This is, they take it very, very seriously. And the one thing that drives them nuts is cheating,
00:24:52.780 right? I mean, you, someone cheats, people get hysterical because it's, it's, that's not what
00:24:59.580 they came for. And it's the one place left in the world where it is a level, supposedly a level
00:25:04.780 playing field. So this is where the rubber hits the road. I mean, really we have to deal with this
00:25:09.900 craziness or else we're, we're basically driving women out of sport. Yeah. And it's that pure
00:25:15.740 meritocracy where everyone knows the rules of the game. And if you can win under those rules,
00:25:21.020 people salute. It's one of my favorite things about the meritocracy of sport is how it integrated parts
00:25:27.020 of America because black athletes in a level playing field, no cheating, no biases could be
00:25:33.820 extremely successful. In fact, disproportionately successful in some sports because it was fair.
00:25:40.620 And here we're undoing the egalitarianism of sport. And by, I mean, everyone knows the rules.
00:25:48.300 Everyone's on the same playing field. Now show your courage, your endurance, your practice.
00:25:53.420 This just destroys that. That's not even sport anymore.
00:25:57.420 Yeah, you're right. And listen, categorization is what makes for a, for a level playing field.
00:26:03.820 For example, in the Para Olympics, which is of course for disabled athletes, there are something
00:26:10.620 like 36 categories. If you're in a wheelchair, if you're not in a wheelchair, if you have the use of
00:26:16.700 both your legs or one of your legs, you know, they, they break it down into, if you have the use of
00:26:21.660 your forearms, but not your whole arm. And, and so they make it very, very even so that you won't
00:26:27.580 have one disabled athlete who's less disabled than someone else competing against him. So why are we
00:26:33.420 not doing the same thing? I have no objection to their opening up two new categories, trans women
00:26:39.340 and trans men. I have no problem at all with that. And let trans women compete against trans women,
00:26:45.020 trans men compete against trans men. I mean, it would be foolish in a way because there'd be so few,
00:26:50.940 but that at least would level the playing field. Yeah. So, and I suspect you wouldn't have a lot
00:26:55.580 of people enter it because they're only entering it to win. This is an out to, to build on your
00:26:59.500 Paralympics analogy. It would be as if a fully abled, like a non-disabled athlete said, you know what,
00:27:06.860 I'm not winning, but I'm going to go compete in the Paralympics against those guys in wheelchairs.
00:27:13.740 And I'm going to crush her. It's, I mean, by the way, there are people that do identify as trans
00:27:18.940 abled. They actually, there are people that are able bodied that sit in wheelchairs because they
00:27:24.300 identify as disabled. And that is actually, maybe there's fewer of them than transgender people,
00:27:31.420 but that is a true, uh, kind of dysphoria. And they would not be allowed. I sure hope they
00:27:37.740 wouldn't be allowed into the Paralympics. Jeez. You know, when I think of this,
00:27:42.460 this is serious now because soon there will be no such thing as women's sport. I mean, uh,
00:27:48.700 this is coming younger and younger. Wouldn't surprise me soon if this hits high schools and
00:27:53.660 guys would joke like that Zuby, that rapper that we opened with lifting 500 pounds. He was doing it
00:27:59.420 as a prank to make a point as a joke. He wasn't actually entered into a contest. He was just at his
00:28:04.460 gym, as you can see. But how long before some 16 year old prankster guy says, you know, I'm not
00:28:11.020 really good enough to make, uh, the men's team, but I got to crush it against the girls. That's not,
00:28:15.580 that's not a hypothetical. Here's a story from the Daily Mail where the Australian women's national team
00:28:25.100 lost seven to zero to an under 15s boys team. So this is the best women in all of Australia.
00:28:34.060 And they lost seven zero to, to, to some young teenagers and I'm not blaming them. I'm not
00:28:38.300 laughing at them. I'm just saying that's biology. It's demonstrably. I mean, it's so demonstrable.
00:28:45.020 It's so obvious. Uh, when you get ideologues making the rules for sport, then you're in a very bad
00:28:52.700 place. And I was, uh, motivated to write that, uh, that piece because the Canadian center for ethics,
00:29:00.540 ethics in sport, a kind of ironic name, uh, just issued guidelines, uh, to be used in amateur sport,
00:29:08.060 uh, in universities and 56 universities have now taken on these guidelines as their operating manual
00:29:14.220 for trans sports or trans people in sports. Um, and they have reduced the, what, what were the
00:29:21.740 gate keeping, uh, kind of standards used to be that you, you know, you couldn't go into the sport
00:29:28.140 as a trans person, unless you had been on hormones for a year or two to show that you were really
00:29:33.580 committed to transitioning. Now, according to the Canadian center for ethics and sport,
00:29:37.980 uh, you are not even allowed to ask a person. If they say I identify as a woman, I am a woman,
00:29:43.820 I'm a girl. You're not even allowed to ask how long have you been in this position? And, uh,
00:29:50.300 can you offer some proof that you've been socially transitioning or are you on hormones? You're not
00:29:54.860 even allowed to ask if they're on hormones and they don't have to be on hormones in order to compete.
00:29:59.500 Not only that, but somebody is allowed to compete one season as their biological sex. If that,
00:30:06.460 maybe they're good in one sport as, as their biological sex. And then they're allowed the
00:30:11.020 next season to compete as the, as the sex they allegedly identify, uh, with so that they can
00:30:17.100 actually go back and forth. So, so what kind of a trans person, uh, is that? Well, that's a trans trans.
00:30:23.740 That's a trans trans. Don't you know? You know what? I'm not even kidding. Zuby,
00:30:27.740 that that's the name of that rapper who listed lifted 500 pounds at the very beginning of the
00:30:31.900 segment. According to what you've just described, the rules you've just described by the center for
00:30:36.860 ethics and sport, he could, he could show up and actually make that prank real without,
00:30:44.300 without getting his twig and berries cut off without going on any meds. He could really do what
00:30:50.140 he did there. That's insane. You know, Barbara, the, the, the TV show Seinfeld has been off the
00:30:55.660 air for, I don't know, 15 years or so, but I remember when Kramer, the goofy guy, uh, well,
00:31:02.060 let me let the clip do the talking. Here's a clip of Kramer, uh, foreshadowing the future of sport.
00:31:08.140 Take a look.
00:31:20.140 So Kramer, a 40 year old man, six feet tall, bravely dispatches a bunch of school children,
00:31:43.740 and he's so proud of himself. That's, that was a comedy. That was a fiction. That was a,
00:31:50.380 that was a lark. That was what an idiot that is the state of sport today. Now that was age,
00:31:57.180 but really there's no difference. Age, gender, weight category. Like you say, category that joke
00:32:03.100 is reality. Yeah. I mean, look, it's, I'm not saying that every single biological male, uh,
00:32:10.240 is going to win automatically, you know, any sport that he goes into that that's, that's not the case,
00:32:16.560 but the, but the case is that he, he had the odds of him doing much, much, much, much better than if,
00:32:23.520 if that biological male were competing against his genetic peers, uh, are, you know, very much enhanced.
00:32:31.360 And certainly the odds of getting a medal are very much enhanced. I, I don't understand, um,
00:32:39.920 how, and these, a lot of these people making these rules are men. Um, they're not the ones that are
00:32:46.880 being threatened. Male athletes don't have to worry about trans men taking away their medals,
00:32:52.480 uh, and they're making the rules for women. And they're saying inclusion, uh, they say they are
00:33:00.160 women. We're taking them at their word, but they're really saying we are privileging psychology,
00:33:05.840 feelings over, uh, physiology and, and the body. But sports is not about feelings. Sports is about
00:33:13.760 the human body and its limitations. And, uh, when you have an entire category, one whole species,
00:33:19.840 half the species, uh, is, is, is genetically one kind of human being and, and the other,
00:33:25.920 that's your categorization. That's what you start with. So, uh, this is just a travesty of justice for
00:33:31.680 women. Barbara, you've been very generous with your time, but I'd like to show one more image
00:33:36.000 because, uh, it's two overlapping bell curves. And I'm just going to keep this up on the screen for a
00:33:42.480 minute. So a bell curve is just a standard distribution and this is for height. So if you
00:33:48.560 have a thousand women, your average woman is, let's say five foot four or whatever it is. And if you have
00:33:55.920 a thousand men, let's say your average man is five foot nine or whatever. Now you're going to have
00:34:01.280 some distribution. That's what a bell curve is. As you can see, um, a couple of standard deviations
00:34:07.040 to the left, you have really short people and to the right, very tall ones. Put that up just for one
00:34:12.000 more second. Cause I want to show there are obviously some men, and this is for height, but this could apply
00:34:18.400 to strength, speed, whatever. Um, there are obviously some men have quote female height and
00:34:27.180 some women have male height. There are obviously some men shorter than some women and your average
00:34:32.260 woman isn't that much shorter than your average man. But remember, we're talking about sports. We're
00:34:37.660 talking about the elites. So we're talking about the top 1%, the top 1% of 1%, the best in the world.
00:34:44.240 So you're talking about people all the way over on the right hand side of the distribution.
00:34:48.980 And so go over to 185 centimeters high. This is in centimeters, apologies. So the number of women
00:34:55.520 who are six feet tall is so small compared to the number of men. How about six foot six? How about
00:35:03.560 seven feet tall? Seven feet tall is not even shockingly rare. It's not even rare in the NBA. I don't even
00:35:11.960 know if there's a seven foot tall woman in the world. So that's my point is that when you're
00:35:16.860 talking about ordinary differences between ordinary people, your average woman's a couple
00:35:20.780 inches shorter than your average man. Your average woman's a little bit less strong than your average
00:35:25.280 man. And like I say, there's some women who are stronger than men. But when you're talking about
00:35:29.200 the elites, the fastest runner, the strongest lifter, you're way, way, way over to the right on this
00:35:36.200 distribution. Do you see my point, Barbara, that it's not discrimination?
00:35:39.180 The fastest woman in the world isn't going to win against the fastest man. She's going to win
00:35:48.480 against the lowest 10% of men. She can beat the slowest 10% of men, but she can't get anywhere
00:35:57.580 near. Look, it's not just height. It's musculature. It's heart capacity. It's lung capacity.
00:36:04.720 And it's all those things combined. One athletic association, by the way, this was even quoted
00:36:12.020 by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, even quoted one athletic association that admitted
00:36:18.180 that males in general have a 10 to 12% advantage of physical strength and speed over women. So
00:36:25.580 they actually admit it and then say, but it's not enough of an advantage to override the need for
00:36:36.240 inclusion. That's basically their stance is that it's more important to accommodate a psychological
00:36:44.980 need, a feeling, than the need to level the playing field for women. And that is so shocking to me
00:36:54.700 that I do not understand. I've been tweeting my article to the sport minister at Kirstie Duncan,
00:37:01.180 you know, several times and saying, do something about this, you know, because she would have the,
00:37:06.100 she would have the authority to take that set of guidelines and tear them up, which she should do.
00:37:11.160 Yeah. I got one last question. You've been very generous with your time and thanks for listening
00:37:14.500 to me go on about the two bell curves. Okay. That was important. How's this going to end? Because I
00:37:21.880 know, um, there's a, I mean, women's sport, we're, we're taught that women's sport, that women have,
00:37:29.240 you know, women can do it too, girls do it too, uh, women's league, girls league. It's great. I mean,
00:37:34.040 women have really only had full access to sport for only a few decades, if that's, I mean, the first
00:37:39.920 woman who ran the Boston marathon, that wasn't until only about 50 years ago. So the era of women
00:37:45.060 in sport has been very brief. I think it's coming to an end. I mean, how will moms and dads of girls,
00:37:54.920 how will they react when it's effectively women's sport? I mean, I'm not even talking about the elite
00:38:00.340 athletes. I'm talking about girls in high school, girls in college who just want to have a sport,
00:38:05.420 camaraderie, sportsmanship, physical exercise, team spirit. And then some loser guy says, oh yeah,
00:38:12.560 I'm one of the girls now. Oh, and by the way, I'm coming to your change room. How will this react?
00:38:17.320 Because so far I haven't seen a lot of reaction from the normals. Yeah. It's been almost like people
00:38:23.380 are paralyzed because they're so afraid of being called transphobic that they don't quite know how
00:38:29.120 to deal with this. But I think it's very encouraging that Martina Navratilova, arguably one of the
00:38:37.200 greatest athletes of all time, who was kicked off her group, Athlete Ally, this advocacy group for LGBT,
00:38:45.540 which by the way, is one of the consulting groups for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
00:38:49.580 They kicked her off the editorial board and they withdrew her ambassadorship because she said,
00:38:55.620 this is cheating. She said, it's cheating for biological males to be competing against women.
00:39:01.640 And I hope Martina will take up this cause and tell young athletes, you're not transphobic
00:39:10.120 if you're acting in your own interests. It's not up to you to make the world perfect for transgendered
00:39:19.100 people. It's not up to you to include these people at your sacrifice, with you sacrificing
00:39:28.120 your careers, your ambitions to their feeling or their psychological state. I mean, I really hope
00:39:36.280 she does this and I hope other athletes come on board too. Not just women athletes, men, male athletes
00:39:41.960 that understand that women are getting, you know, shafted here. And I think maybe if some big names
00:39:48.620 get together and start, you know, promoting this cause, that some sanity might return to these
00:39:55.400 associations. Permit me to tack on 60 more seconds and I'm sorry. I love to chat with you, Barbara,
00:40:01.500 and you make me think of so many things. I see in the news today that a largely Muslim school in the
00:40:09.520 United Kingdom has succeeded in banning the LGBTQ curriculum from the class. They simply had a protest,
00:40:18.360 and then they took all their kids out and the school board caved and no one called anyone a
00:40:24.560 homophobe because they're Muslim. And I think maybe that's where we'll see this is when some trans
00:40:32.080 athlete says, I'm joining the halal girls hijab team. And all the, all the Muslim men said,
00:40:40.980 ah, no, you ain't. And that maybe that's a strong enough counterforce. I mean, I literally today,
00:40:47.140 I saw this news about the school in the UK that said, all right, so much for the LGBTQ curriculum.
00:40:53.100 If they won't stand up for that LGBTQ curriculum against Islamic Sharia teaching, they're certainly
00:40:59.680 not going to, I think that's where the trans agenda. Well, you know, this whole thing,
00:41:05.700 intersectionality, uh, sometimes it's very hard to choose, you know, between your, uh, victim classes,
00:41:11.860 right? So, uh, but you're absolutely right. Nobody said boo about the fact that, you know,
00:41:18.200 nobody called them homophobic because they were Muslim. And, uh, as we know, uh, when Christians do
00:41:24.300 it, uh, they are called homophobic, but you, you know, you're right. This whole thing is about,
00:41:29.820 um, about victimhood and who's, who's got the rights and who's got, you know, an inclusion,
00:41:36.300 inclusion. Uh, you can't include everybody. Sometimes you have to make a choice. Sometimes
00:41:40.600 you have to choose the side you're on. And if it's women's sports, choose women. Yeah. That's
00:41:44.780 the message. Robert, you're great. Thanks for giving so much of your time. I love talking with
00:41:48.980 you. You're always writing the most interesting things. Let's put your column up on the screen just
00:41:52.320 for one more moment. It's published in the post millennial. The headline is Canadian sports
00:41:57.500 experts. Embrace misogynist practices to please trans activists. Barbara Craig, great to see you
00:42:03.620 again. Thanks, Ezra. All right. Stay with us more ahead on the rebel.
00:42:20.300 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about Canada being on the brink of a recession. Paul writes,
00:42:25.820 the Trudeau liberals have crippled the energy sector, botched trade negotiations, and sorry,
00:42:32.100 are pushing ahead with an idiotic carbon tax, have run up a mountain of debt, etc. The mainstream media
00:42:37.500 has been covering for them at every turn. So of course they're surprised. Yeah. And of course,
00:42:43.220 the strange thing about journalists is that their own industry, uh, I suppose we're in it too,
00:42:49.040 is utterly being crushed, not by the waxing and waning of the economic cycle, but by technological
00:42:56.760 change. Um, you don't have to get your news from the mainstream media anymore. You can go elsewhere,
00:43:02.540 either that's more convenient or that doesn't hate you like the mainstream media does. So yeah,
00:43:08.000 the funny thing about journalists is in some ways they're utterly disconnected with economic reality,
00:43:13.940 especially if you work for the state broadcaster. But also I, I find in my experience, journalists are
00:43:18.900 so illiterate and innumerate about economic matters. I mean, I think even most business writers
00:43:26.680 in journalism don't know anything about business. Um, so yeah, I think that part of it is to,
00:43:32.000 they're immune from things like a factory closing until of course they all get laid off
00:43:36.580 at Buzzfeed or vice. And I think that journalists like to pretend they're just
00:43:41.700 observers hovering over the world, not of it, not in it. So yeah, I, I just think mainstream media
00:43:48.300 journalists are overwhelmingly, um, inappropriate guides or warnings or canaries in the coal mine
00:43:56.260 for an economic recession. I think we're heading into one. Now, maybe I'm just a pessimist,
00:44:01.440 but what convinced me we're going into a recession was Donald Trump's Buy American executive order,
00:44:06.120 which by the way, no Canadian journalists have written about. So that just goes to my first
00:44:10.840 point. They're clueless. Harley writes, recession and 60 cent dollar are coming sooner rather than
00:44:17.080 later. Should be just in time for the election. Yeah, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. You know,
00:44:22.760 of course it's not about him. Of course it's about us. The economy is all of us. And, um, but again,
00:44:28.600 you know, I, I look at his inner circle there, they're sheltered from the economic reality of the
00:44:33.960 world. Most of Trudeau's cabinet have never had a real job in the private sector. Um, they're
00:44:39.480 full-time scammers like Maryam Moncef. They're full-time government hangers on like Catherine
00:44:44.660 McKenna, full-time lifelong politicians like, like Ralph Goodale. There's no actual private sector
00:44:51.560 entrepreneur. Even the women we've been talking about lately, Jody Wilson-Raybould, uh, Jane Philpott,
00:44:56.860 those are lifelong public sector types. So they just don't know, don't care about the private
00:45:03.700 sector. They're so insulated from it. You know, I've talked to you before about a test that Charles
00:45:09.640 Murray does. He says, how thick is your bubble? And what he means by that is, do you ever meet how
00:45:14.380 the other side goes? And I think, I think most people in the Trudeau caucus and the Trudeau cabinet
00:45:20.480 have never been on a factory floor other than maybe for a second at some solar scheme plant.
00:45:26.720 Like they, like, I don't think they know what real working people are like. Not, not that I'm
00:45:30.940 particularly working class. I mean, I'm, I'm in the media myself, but my point is that I think there's
00:45:37.000 such an isolation and an insulation. Um, there it's like, it's like those kids in the, you know,
00:45:43.180 the virus containment bubble, the bubble boy that never is allowed to, to go into the world. I really
00:45:48.340 think Trudeau lacks any connection to the real world. All political parties do generally, but I think
00:45:54.420 Trudeau's is the worst. All right, next letter. On my interview with Manny Monagrino on the
00:45:58.300 resignation of Jane Philpott and the SNC-Leveland scandal, Marjorie writes, why is it the women are
00:46:04.240 the ones standing by their principles and ethics and we have not heard from any of the men? Where
00:46:08.220 are they? There must be some liberal party who are ready to resign over the shenanigans of Justin
00:46:14.000 and his latest scandal. I'm still waiting for someone like Mark Garneau to lead a revolt.
00:46:17.480 Yeah. I don't know why Mark Garneau isn't, he's, he's a name that I would think of also. Um, I,
00:46:24.800 here's a theory. I think first of all, it just is a coincidence that the justice minister, the
00:46:30.940 attorney general herself is a woman. Um, so it's not like of all the people who fought back, it was a
00:46:36.780 woman. No, that the pressure was put on a woman and she had the courage to resist. And I think,
00:46:43.060 uh, my theory is that she was, that she had a lot of heart to heart talks with people
00:46:50.320 she could trust in Ottawa as a genuine friend. Now, you know, the saying, if you want a friend
00:46:55.660 in Ottawa, get a dog. But I think that, I think that some politicians actually have
00:47:01.680 heart to heart friends and I'm not, I'm not disparaging, but I, I'm not condescending. I'm
00:47:07.000 saying, I actually think that Jody Wilson-Raybould confided in Jane Philpott along the way here.
00:47:14.820 Right? Because they're both in cabinet so they can talk about cabinet confidences.
00:47:19.060 I think Jody Wilson-Raybould said, what do I do? What do I do with the bosses? Like, I think,
00:47:24.380 like, wouldn't you say, who can I possibly talk to? Well, you got to talk to someone who's also in
00:47:29.940 cabinet. Well, that's a small number. Okay. Maybe not that small. There's 30 of them, but you're not
00:47:34.180 going to talk to some airhead like Marianne Monsaf or some cult-like zombie follower like
00:47:39.520 Catherine McKenna. So maybe you talk to Jane Philpott, the, the other grownup who, again,
00:47:44.260 maybe they're friends because they're women. But I think, I think that Jane Philpott and Jody
00:47:49.780 Wilson-Raybould had been talking about this for months. And I think Jane Philpott knows a lot more
00:47:56.840 about the scandal than we realize. And I think she saw, oh, Trudeau's just going to brazen this out.
00:48:03.060 This is so bad. It's getting worse. I'm sick of this. And I know what they've done. And they're
00:48:07.240 lying. And she, she, she just said enough of that. So I think it might be a coincidence that
00:48:13.400 they're women. I share your disappointment in Mark Garneau. But look, most politicians are just
00:48:21.000 politicians. They're looking for the odds. If the odds turn against Trudeau, if he looks like he's
00:48:25.520 going to fall, watch for everybody to abandon ship other than the ultimate cult leaders, like,
00:48:30.160 or cult followers, like I put Catherine McKenna in that category. Um, yeah, it's a, it's a little
00:48:37.120 bit disappointing that there haven't been more. Betty writes, what will Gerald Butts say on Wednesday?
00:48:42.840 Will he testify that all Canadians, and especially Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are Nazis?
00:48:48.240 Yeah, that's what makes it tough. Because, uh, Trudeau's a privileged white male and Gerald Butts is a
00:48:53.900 privileged white male. They're both from Montreal. They're both, uh, elites. It's a little bit tough for them
00:48:58.500 to play the male feminist card against two women, or the race card. I'm not sure if Jane Philpott is
00:49:03.880 Aboriginal. I'm not sure. I know, obviously, Jody Wilson-Raybould is. So, yeah, what are they going
00:49:08.160 to do? Um, and of course, they were star candidates in their own way. And they were both recruited by
00:49:14.720 Trudeau and Butts in there directly. So, yeah, I don't know how they're going to do it. And here's
00:49:19.180 the thing. Um, I think that, as I mentioned, both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott know a lot
00:49:25.460 more than they have revealed. And if Gerald Butts lies, why wouldn't he lie? If he lies
00:49:34.540 and they have the proof of it, I think they're going to nuke him again. I think they're going
00:49:40.880 to nuke him again. And maybe someone else will quit if they say, oh, you're still not coming
00:49:44.120 clean. Anyways, we'll find out soon enough tomorrow, right? Walter writes, I commented on
00:49:50.620 the CBC website on the article about Jane Philpott resigning. They disabled my comment. All I stated
00:49:55.080 was, Ezra Levant was right about Trudeau all along. Unbelievable. And here's a screenshot.
00:50:02.680 You can see it there. It says content disabled. You can see the CBC headline at the top,
00:50:08.520 Jane Philpott resigns from cabinet. You can see the comments below. And you can see Walter Craig says,
00:50:13.700 Ezra Levant was right about Trudeau all along. You can see that content was disabled. Now,
00:50:18.220 I understand disabling content if it's profane, if there's swears in it, maybe if it's spam,
00:50:23.940 like a commercial ad for something, if it's very abusive, or even if it's off topic.
00:50:29.820 But the CBC is literally going through its comment section. Imagine that. So they're hiring
00:50:34.020 someone. The CBC is taking your tax dollars to hire someone to go through the comments. Okay,
00:50:40.860 get rid of any F words, get rid of any profanity, get rid of any junk spam, but also get rid of anyone
00:50:47.220 who thinks Ezra's good. Just get rid of them. Holy moly, thin skin. Hey guys, if you give me 1.5
00:50:56.620 billion dollars a year, I'd be too happy rolling around like Scrooge McDuck in the 1.5 bill to care
00:51:06.380 if you said, you know, Ezra, one of your critics is right. Okay, man, you can be right. And I'll have
00:51:13.160 the 1.5 bill. That's what I'd say if the rules were reversed. Imagine how panicky, thin skin,
00:51:19.360 hypersensitive, just paranoid you are. If you can't let a Canadian citizen, a taxpayer who helps
00:51:26.460 fund their 1.5 billion, if you can't even let them say, you know, Ezra's right. Censor him. Oh my gosh.
00:51:34.560 I think they're in a panic. Well, folks, that's our show for today. What do you think about riot
00:51:37.740 boosting? What do you think about kristinoma? I'm too excited about both, I admit it. But boy,
00:51:42.940 wouldn't it be great to get one of those laws here in Canada. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all
00:51:46.840 us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.