TAMARA UGOLINI | Trudeau's investigation of foreign interference is too little, too late
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Our ethics-violating Prime Minister is set to appoint a special rapporteur to investigate foreign interference in Canada, and later persecuted Pastor Artur Pawlowski on how Canada continues to spiral into totalitarianism with the jailing of not only political prisoners, but conscience prisoners too.
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Tonight, our ethics violation-yielding Prime Minister is set to appoint a special rapporteur
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to investigate foreign interference in Canada, and later persecuted Pastor Artur Pawlowski
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on how Canada continues to spiral into totalitarian abyss with the jailing of not only political prisoners,
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I'm Tamara Ugolini, guest hosting, and you are watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be appointing a special rapporteur
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to investigate how the Chinese Communist Party has been working to undermine and infiltrate
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our country's democracy by meddling in our electoral process.
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I'm announcing that I will be appointing an independent special rapporteur
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who will have a wide mandate and make expert recommendations on combating interference
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In Canada, we believe deeply in the values of freedom, openness, and dialogue.
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These values are not universally shared by every government around the world.
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Indeed, I don't know if in our lifetime we've seen democracy in a more precarious place.
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Many state actors and non-state actors want to foster instability here and elsewhere
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We have long known, and an independent report confirmed it again last week,
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that the Chinese government and other regimes like Iran and Russia
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have attempted to interfere not just in our democracy, but in our country in general,
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whether it's our institutions, our businesses, our research facilities,
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Trudeau makes it sound like he is taking it seriously,
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but our intelligence agency, that's CSIS, flagged these concerns to Trudeau a long time ago,
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which seemed to fall mostly on deaf ears, that is, until now.
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But of course, who was expecting this same prime minister that has admitted himself
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he admires China's basic dictatorship to take this kind of interference seriously?
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After all, it has been reported that 11 Toronto-area riding candidates
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the most publicly scrutinized of which is Han Dong, in the riding of Don Valley North.
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That's why here at Rebel News, we launched a campaign at firedong.com,
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and we even sent a billboard truck to Dong's riding
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to bring awareness to this flagged security threat,
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and keep the pressure on other elected officials
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and uphold our electoral process with integrity.
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This is not the kind of security threat that we should be taking lightly
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That's why I've tasked Minister Mendicino to launch later this week
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a new foreign influence transparency registry in Canada.
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We need to make sure there is transparency and accountability
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from those who advocate on behalf of foreign governments,
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while protecting communities who are often both targeted by attempts at foreign interference
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and who feel targeted when xenophobia and fear-mongering
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overtake legitimate concern for our democracy and national security.
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It's very important that we start with this consultation
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any time we're talking about registries of foreigners in our country.
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Now the leader of the opposition, that's Pierre Polyev,
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is taking a hard stance on this as well, as he should,
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and pointing out the fallacies in Trudeau's response
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to these sweeping election interference claims.
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It is actually incredible that we have this uprising at our intelligence body.
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They must be very worried about how the prime minister
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is working against the interests of his own country and his own people.
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He's covered it up, even encouraged it to continue.
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And so they are so concerned about how the prime minister
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and in favour of a foreign dictatorship's interests
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that they are actually releasing this information publicly.
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He's against a real investigation into the foreign interference we know happened,
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but it's exactly what he did with Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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She spoke out against him helping a liberal company get off criminal charges.
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A respected admiral spoke up against liberal corruption
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in the issuance of multi-billion dollar contracts.
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we are somehow supposed to trust that this same Prime Minister,
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who, while embroiled in scandals with the WE Charity,
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resulting in the forced resignation of Finance Minister Bill Morneau,
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effectively shut down democracy by proroguing Parliament in the summer of 2020.
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And not because of some extraordinary circumstances,
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but rather to hide from accountability in these scandals.
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Well, we were expecting him to take this kind of warning seriously
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to investigate and determine an appropriate course of action.
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Trudeau and his cabinet have countless ethical violations on their file.
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Canadian agencies overseen by other Chinese descendant appointees,
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have previously evaded the privacy of Canadians
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for data collection and compliance measuring initiatives.
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And this same Prime Minister is arguably responsible
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for the largest, truly Canadian, grassroots protest movement
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His words and actions were responsible for further riling up
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already frustrated and infringed upon Canadians
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his own citizens, as fringy with unacceptable views.
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The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa
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or who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing
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after two years of being ignored by all levels of government
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with legitimate COVID-19-related restriction concerns
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Trudeau invoked unprecedented war and counter-terrorism legislation
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to completely trample on constitutional rights and freedoms,
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Indeed, I don't know if in our lifetime we've seen democracy
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You know, that same judge tasked with investigating
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and determining whether or not Trudeau was justified
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against his government's perpetual chartered rights violations.
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The liberal supporting judge who determined that,
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yes, of course, Trudeau was justified in this invocation
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despite the fact that CSIS testified to the opposite.
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It sounds like Pierre Polyev has the very same concerns.
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that Beijing gave $200,000 to the Trudeau Foundation?
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he hired the former CEO of the same Trudeau Foundation
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We need to bring home control of our democracy.