Justin Trudeau's Liberals propose a new law that could censor the internet in order to fight a pandemic that threatens to spread across the globe. Ezra and his co-hosts discuss why this is a bad idea, and what it could mean for the fight against the spread of the Global Flu.
00:13:10.780Okay, so this is a lab that collects deadly viruses that have already caused problems in the world, like SARS.
00:13:17.620And the Americans were so concerned about the shoddy conditions at this lab that deals with highly infectious and dangerous diseases in Wuhan, China,
00:13:26.640that they dispatched two science diplomats, which is something I've never even heard of before.
00:13:32.360And then these science diplomats were sending warnings back to Washington about the potential for this lab to cause a plague.
00:13:40.140So naturally, Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is now engaging in a research project with this dangerous Chinese laboratory
00:13:47.800and relying on scientists on the ground in Wuhan, China, to do all the research.
00:13:56.020This is from the Canadian government website that lists a series of grants to study this new coronavirus.
00:14:03.520To contribute to global efforts to address the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak,
00:14:09.500on February 10, 2020, the Government of Canada launched a rapid research funding competition.
00:14:15.780Canada's researchers were quick to respond, submitting hundreds of applications in just a week.
00:14:22.040It looks like the Canadian government, in an effort to move fast instead of smart,
00:14:29.040seems to be giving Canadian tax money to, well, possibly the bad guys of the outbreak.
00:14:35.400Here's this grant headed by a researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
00:14:41.180The grant itself is to develop a form of rapid testing for the virus in places where resources are limited, like poor countries.
00:14:49.580It's a noble idea, but unfortunately, it includes collaboration with what is possibly the researchers who are the source of the coronavirus disease.
00:18:46.160You know, you said something earlier about how Americans pick up our story faster than our Canadian,
00:18:52.740I think you said colleagues, I think rivals or competitors might be a different word.
00:18:56.640It's funny because every day Justin Trudeau has a very softball press conference.
00:19:02.600It couldn't be more opposite from the Trump press conference every day where basically journalists line up trying to outdo each other in insulting or gotcha-ing him.
00:19:14.140I don't think they succeed, but they obviously do since they keep doing it.
00:19:18.060Compare that to the absolute tongue bath that Trudeau gets because he shuts out rebel news reporters.
00:19:26.600I would send you or Kian or David Menzies or even go myself in a second.
00:19:33.120And my point being, all right, fine, so let's find the news where it is.
00:19:37.200The news actually is probably not going to be broken by Justin Trudeau because he's not really in the driver's seat.
00:19:43.000He's sort of lazing about at home for the last month.
00:19:45.760So it's not like those press conferences, there'll be any source of news there.
00:19:49.560So the fact that we're banned from his press conference, it's like when we're banned from those global warming UN events that you always go to.
00:19:57.940In a way, I mean, I'm not going to say it's good to be banned, but it forces you to do some real reporting.
00:20:05.140I should tell you, Sheila, that I've had two private contacts from rival journalists who talk to me privately, but I don't want to name them publicly because they'll get in trouble with their bosses.
00:20:16.640I believe that at least two other journalists in Canada are following up on your scoop.
00:20:21.820Now, whether or not they'll give you credit for breaking it is a completely different matter.
00:20:25.460But both of them told me they're following you, which is, I think, their way of saying good on Sheila.
00:20:30.740Well, we do something that other journalists generally don't do.
00:20:35.400So when we have access to information documents or we find documents that are sitting on a government website somewhere, which is how we got this, it was out there.
00:20:45.480It wasn't something that we had to ask for.
00:20:47.880We just had to be curious enough to find it.
00:20:53.100But when we have documents or when we find these things on these government websites just hanging to be plucked off the information tree, we link back to it.
00:21:02.200We show everybody our source documents so that they can check for themselves.
00:21:08.720And I don't just mean the public check for themselves.
00:21:11.460I think this information is important information that all Canadians should have so that they can make appropriate decisions about the competency of our government.
00:21:21.100And I'm I'm I'm happy and I don't need the credit.
00:21:26.280I'm happy that there are other journalists, rival journalists willing to take the information we found and the sources we link to and run with it.
00:21:35.660The more eyeballs that get on this work, I think the better it is for the Canadian public.
00:21:41.300So I don't get too uptight about the fact that they don't link back to my work the way the world's largest cable news network did for me today, which is kind of personally exciting.
00:21:54.940And I wish I had spent more time on my appearance now that that video is going to go viral.
00:22:00.220But whatever, live and learn, live and learn.
00:22:02.700You know, the fact that Trudeau would send this much money to a Chinese government institute that created or at least released this virus shows that there is no change in worldview, no change in ideology, no change in foreign policy stance whatsoever.
00:22:22.800Despite the biggest calamity one could imagine, Trudeau is still thinking about, oh, shovel money to foreign countries, including countries richer than us.
00:22:34.360China can be trusted, including their militarized virus lab.
00:22:39.960There's so many embedded assumptions that would and how many people would have been involved with that grant?
00:22:48.020You've got the people who proposed it, the people who reviewed it, the people who approved it, the people who announced it.
00:22:53.520I think altogether there were probably 20 or 30 different pairs of eyes looking at that grant.
00:23:00.800And none of them said, guys, this might be a bad idea.
00:23:05.360And that tells me that the entire culture of the Canadian government and academia is still so totally beholden to China, to communist China and to communist Chinese science, despite everything.
00:23:24.680I did a little bit of an Internet experiment for myself in all of this.
00:23:30.360And I haven't seen the Canadian government say anything critical of the Chinese government's handling of the virus at all.
00:23:38.600You would think now, especially since American intelligence has weighed in with what they think has gone on in Wuhan and specifically at this virus lab,
00:23:48.460you would think that the Canadians would just follow along, but they haven't said anything.
00:23:52.840And there's another layer in all of this.
00:23:55.680Do we even know if the two Michaels being held by the Chinese government are still alive?
00:24:04.840And while the Chinese government is, for all intents and purposes, completely responsible for this plague and still holding two Canadian political prisoners,
00:24:14.920why the heck are we giving them a dime to do any sort of research?
00:24:19.240Struggling Canadian taxpayers out of work because of the Chinese government should not be giving a penny to the Chinese government.
00:26:04.020I think Justin Trudeau's love affair with China is actually going to hurt our economic recovery from what China has done to us with this virus.
00:26:10.740I think the United States returning manufacturing to the continental United States will trigger a renaissance in American manufacturing.
00:26:24.320And we're not going to see that happen in Canada.
00:26:27.280We're just going to have entire industries dry up and die because we won't detach ourselves from China even after all of this.
00:26:37.000Yeah. I think in a way, Trudeau's probably still campaigning for his UN Security Council seat.
00:26:42.860And maybe he's too afraid to speak against China because he wants their vote.
00:26:46.420I'm not even kidding. To him, that's more valuable than anything else we've discussed.
00:27:20.980On my monologue yesterday about Trump suspending payments to the World Health Organization, Paul writes,
00:27:26.040a corrupt organization controlled by China and the UN that describes the World Health Organization and the Liberal Party.
00:27:32.280No wonder they're so in love with each other.
00:27:33.600Yeah, as I said to Sheila, it's incredible to me that the Trudeau government has not moved one inch away from their pro-China, globalist, deep state, public health, weird worldview.
00:27:44.720Like, this has not shaken them in any way.
00:27:47.380They still believe in giving foreign aid to the Chinese government at this virus lab that caused the whole thing crazy.
00:27:53.540Neil writes, the last thing Canada needs is direction from another corrupt entity.
00:27:59.280We already have a crippling one in Ottawa.
00:28:01.620Yeah, well, the thing is, the theory is, at least if you have a corrupt politician in Ottawa or Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver,
00:28:10.620at the end of the day, they're a Canadian.
00:28:12.620But when we're taking instructions from the United Nations and its World Health Organization agency, they don't have Canada's best interests at heart.
00:28:24.680You can have terrible domestic politicians, a terrible mayor, a terrible premier, for example.
00:28:30.460But at least at the end of the day, they're part of your country.
00:28:33.020Suzanna writes, Taiwan is not a member of the World Health Organization and has much better results in fighting this virus than the countries who are members.
00:28:56.780Well, I think Trudeau likes being lied to.
00:28:58.920He likes delegating his thinking to someone else, an expert, and, of course, he still is lobbying for that U.N. Security Council seat.
00:29:06.020That's what I think is behind this, too.
00:29:08.460Until next time, my friends, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, stay healthy, and keep fighting for freedom.