Trudeau proposes new Internet censorship — and neither Conservatives nor the media object
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Justin Trudeau's campaign platform proposes new internet censorship, and neither the Conservatives nor the media object. Plus, a look inside Justin Trudeau's yearbook. Subscribe to The Vance Show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I talk about something that has not been reported in any Canadian media
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other than the lucky people who live in Sault Ste. Marie.
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Justin Trudeau has announced a new censorship provision in his campaign platform.
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You'd think that would be of interest, but apparently only lucky Sault Ste. Marie citizens
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know about it, because that's the only newspaper that's written about it.
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I'll take you through it today, based on a foreign newspaper reporting it.
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Folks, before I get out of the way, can you do me a favor and go to premium.rebelnews.com?
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And you're going to want to do that because, oh, do I have some images to show you on the
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second half of the podcast, where we sit down with Justin Trudeau's yearbook, brought in
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by our friend Candace Malcolm. Oh, you've got to see it. Yeah, you can engage in the theater
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of the mind that is the podcast, but you've got to see the viz. And you can by becoming
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a premium subscriber. Premium.rebelnews.com is eight bucks a month. Give her. Okay, here's
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the show. Tonight, Justin Trudeau's campaign platform proposes new internet censorship,
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and neither the conservatives nor the media object. It's October 2nd, and this is The
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Podcast for The Vance Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer
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I know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing
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I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right
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What a terrible few days it's been for freedom of speech. First, our friend Andrew Lawton was
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kicked off the Liberal campaign bus for, well, they wouldn't say exactly. They said he wasn't
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accredited, which is weird because there really isn't any such thing as media accreditation in
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Canada. It's not like being a doctor or even a certified plumber. He's just become a journalist
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by doing journalism, and Andrew has been a journalist for more than a decade. In fact,
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If you were Prime Minister, what would your plan be on a carbon tax? Is it something you would
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consider? I have said, like all different parties, including Mr. Harper, that we need
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some sort of price on carbon pollution. But the mechanism through which we do that should be up to
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various provinces because they've already taken the lead on that. And what the federal government
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needs to do is coordinate that and oversee the implementation.
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So that's an accredited journalist in my books and apparently in Justin Trudeau's books. But Trudeau's
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had a rough go of things lately, and he can't risk having a journalist around who isn't fully compliant
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to the Unifor Union's pro-Trudeau campaign, or at least part of the massive media bailout. So Andrew
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was banned. And then it got weirder when police literally pulled him over to the side of the road
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to grill him. And of course, it got a lot worse this week when Andrew Scheer did the same thing to
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our own David Menzies. Kicked him out of a press conference that was open to all media.
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As this is not a public event, and you're not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to
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leave this. How do you get to be accredited media? You need to be accredited by the campaign. You're
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not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to leave, please. And why is that? You're not
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accredited media. This is a private event. We are going to ask you to leave, please. No, you keep saying
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that, but why am I not accredited media? I'm not doing an interview right here right now. You can get in
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touch with our press office. Well, that's what I was invited for. You are actually not invited. You are not
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accredited media. We're going to ask you to leave. You can get in touch with the press office and
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learn more about it. Is this the Andrew Scheer event or the Justin Trudeau event? Mr. Menzies,
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I'm going to ask you to leave, please. You're not accredited. What is he announcing that you don't
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want to? Who are you by the way? I'm with the campaign. You're welcome to step outside here. I'll
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stay here. That enforcer is actually my former employee, Jamie Ellerton, now working for Andrew
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Scheer, using the word-for-word excuse Trudeau used with Andrew Lawton. You're not accredited
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because you're not accredited. And just like Andrew Lawton had interviewed Justin Trudeau
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before, David Menzies has interviewed conservatives hundreds of times before. It was weird. And
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then the handcuffs was just the new low. And then comes news of Justin Trudeau's new censorship
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policy. Here it is being reported in the U.S.-based Breitbart.com. Justin Trudeau's party demands
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big tech hate speech crackdown. Of course, what he means is cracking down on speech that
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he hates. And we'll be the first to go at the rebel. We and Andrew Lawton, I guess.
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It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories
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while we work with the international community to protect our robust immigration system.
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Here, let me read from Breitbart's article. Say, have you seen this story in any Canadian
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media? I'm just kidding. Of course not. I mean, it's the same reason we all have to rely
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on Time Magazine, an American magazine, to break the blackface photos and the Daily Telegraph
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of the U.K. to go deeper into the bizarre blackface night at Justin Trudeau's school where
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he thought our Canadian media had been completely tamed. And all it took was $600 million.
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That's actually pitiful. Okay, so here's the story in Breitbart. The ruling Liberal Party
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of Canada, whose leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was recently outed for repeatedly
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wearing blackface, has pledged to force social media companies to remove hate speech within
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24 hours if it wins the upcoming Canadian election. And then Breitbart quotes from the Liberal platform.
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The Liberal platform, available on the party's website, states, social media can also be used
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to threaten, intimidate, bully, and harass people, or used to promote racist, anti-Semitic,
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Islamophobic, misogynist, and homophobic views that target communities, put people's safety
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at risk, and undermine Hamler's longstanding commitment to diversity. We believe that when
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social media platforms are used to spread these harmful views, the platforms themselves
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What's a harmful view? I agree that threatening people, if that means a threat of violence,
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that's wrong. We already have a criminal code provision against uttering threats. What's
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a misogynistic view? Is that when, say, Trudeau gropes someone and then gaslights them, gaslights
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his victim saying, oh, she just remembered it wrong?
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Like I said, I do not feel that I acted inappropriately in any way. But I respect the fact that someone
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Is that the kind of misogynistic view that Justin Trudeau wants to ban online? How can
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you put a real threat of violence in the same category as an opinion that undermines Canada's
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longstanding commitment to diversity? One is a crime that police need to get involved with.
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The other is some political opinion. But look at this. I'll read more from the Breitbart
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story because I can't read this from the CBC because they haven't reported on it.
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To help stop the proliferation of violent extremism online, we will move forward with
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new regulations for social media platforms, starting with the requirement that all platforms
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remove illegal content, including hate speech, within 24 hours or face significant financial
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So within 24 hours of the Liberal Party complaining to their friends at Facebook or Twitter or YouTube,
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those companies absolutely have to take down the content in question or face significant
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penalties. Now, I imagine that some illegal content, like a terrorist snuff film, for example,
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would be immediately evident. But in what other legal system that you can think of,
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is there an accusation, a trial, and a verdict, and maybe an appeal in 24 hours?
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In real life, if there is an accusation, it has its day in court. If there's an urgent crime,
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if there's an emergency, the police race over and stop any violence and detain someone dangerous if
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that's necessary. But then, if he's not dangerous, he's let out on bail if there's no real risk. And
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then everybody comes back to court after having had time to prepare, and a neutral judge in an open
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court has a hearing. That's how we decide if something is illegal in Canada. An accusation is
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definitely a part of it, but it's just the starting part. Then we have the middle part,
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and then we have the end part. We don't do it in 24 hours by threatening social media companies with
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a massive fine. It's clear they'll always lean in favor of the Liberal government's demands. I mean,
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not only are they liberal to begin with by nature, but these companies, they simply don't want to pay
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a million-dollar fine for not listening to Justin Trudeau. It's actually a shakedown, Trudeau
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shaking down the social media companies, but I think they like it. It just gives them legal cover for a
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massive political purge that they want to do now, but just couldn't justify. Trudeau is telling social
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media companies, censor my enemies in 24 hours, or I'll hurt you. It's exactly what he threatened
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Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO, with directly 18 months ago. Remember that? The Toronto Star actually
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reported that once, and then no one ever mentioned it again. Because they're all on payroll now,
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including the Toronto Star now. Toronto Star is getting $115,000 a week from Trudeau. That's where
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this is all headed. All media will either be paid by the government or punished by the government.
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Lawton, Menzies, Rebel News. I searched and I found only one story about this in Canada,
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written by this interesting-looking fellow, David Helwig, an old-school 1960s liberal who
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wrote this item in Sioux Today. That's a small publication for Sault Ste. Marie. Good story.
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There's about 70,000 Canadians who live in Sault Ste. Marie. In the form of David Helwig's story,
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they got more journalism than anyone who reads the Toronto Star or the CBC, didn't they?
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Other than that, no one cares. Now, I find that odd. I find that sad. I think it's the death of
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journalism. But every remaining journalist has made their peace with that because the industry is so weak,
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it's been taken over by vultures. If this were the 1990s before the internet devoured newspapers,
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when newspapers still made money, lots of money, when TV stations were strong before video devoured
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them, the idea that Trudeau could throw a few hundred million dollars at all the publishers in
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the country and buy them all off, the idea that the entire media unions would endorse and campaign
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for candidates was unthinkable. But the remaining journalists are so shell-shocked and so worried
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about their personal financial futures, they've sold out. They've made the decision they would
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rather be able to write in a very narrow political bandwidth permitted by their masters and have a
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safe government subsidized paycheck than enjoy the freedom that used to be the bedrock of journalism
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in any creative industry. Journalists always said they cared about free speech. What they really
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always meant was they cared about their own free speech, not so much about others. But
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now they've decided they don't even really care about their own free speech,
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at least not more than they care about a few dollars. Free speech is an abstract belief,
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won't pay their rent or grocery bill. There was this super gross moment the other day,
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Rosemary Barton asked about the oil and gas industry and called it a dying industry. Did you catch that?
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You see Jessica's kids working in the oil and gas sector. I mean, Jessica's...
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Jessica, do you see your kids working in the... I mean, but do you, is there, is that,
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is it fair to say that's a dying industry because it has to be?
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Yeah. No, Rosemary, I know that was what your platonic boyfriend keeps saying. But back in real
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life, every single authority in the world forecasts that the demand for oil and gas and coal will
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remain strong for the foreseeable future. Everyone drives. China and India want to drive too. They want
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electricity too. No one is decarbonizing. That's a kooky thing that autistic teenagers from Sweden talk about,
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but it is not real life. No, oil and gas jobs are thriving around the world, Rosemary.
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They're only in trouble in Canada because of the political meddling. No, it's actually media jobs
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that are dying, but not even. It's just that Rosemary Barton's, well, those kind of journalists,
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they no longer have a monopoly. So more people are getting their news from Rebel News and Andrew
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Lawton and David Menzies and a thousand other citizen journalists than from some boring liberal
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legacy media. Rosemary Barton would be out of a job were it not for Trudeau's largette.
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The rest of the media party has made the same deal with the devil. It's their industry that's dying.
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It's not oil and gas. They're not journalists anymore. They're in the PR business. I mean,
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you saw, remember that desperate, desperate young CTV reporter in Ottawa who was mocking Kian?
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Remember his softball questions for Catherine McKenna.
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What is your message to those like this gentleman here and people who will never listen to what
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you're saying today? When you hear the president of the United States say what he said recently about
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why are they going after plastic straws? How difficult is it to combat the mudding of the
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waters when you have people advocating? When I speak to conservative supporters, or at least those
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who claim to be, they say the carbon tax has to go. When you talk to constituents, what are they saying
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about the carbon tax? Do they understand what the carbon tax is and who initially came up with it?
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Yeah, that's a job application. That's not an interview. That's called, can you hire me as your
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press secretary after the election so I can stop doing stories that nobody watches for 50 grand a year
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at CTV? And can you give me a 35-hour-a-week job for 120 grand a year, please? He's no journalist.
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That, my friends, is why no one in Canada, other than one colorful character in the Sioux, is running about
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Trudeau's new plans for censorship. Well, you've got us around, at least until they shut us down on
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24 hours notice. Stay with us. We'll talk about more censorship next.
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Welcome back. Well, we're talking about censorship. I have breaking news. Let me read to you a tweet
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by a reporter for an independent online Canadian news site called The Post Millennial. You know some
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of their contributors, including our friend Barbara Kane. Let me read to you from Siddak Ahuja,
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who writes from Montreal. He says, very odd to be questioned by the RCMP just now for photographing
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the Trudeau campaign bus. I told them I was a journalist with The Post Millennial. They told me,
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quote, stick to media events. Really. Since when do we live in a society where the police tell reporters
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what they can and can't report on? Very troubling. This comes on the heels of our own David Menzies
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being handcuffed by RCMP at an Andrew Scheer event, which was the most bizarre part of it. And our next
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guest is the editor-in-chief of True North, whose reporter Andrew Lawton, an old buddy of ours,
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was not arrested, thank God, but was pulled over and questioned by police on the highway for
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following the liberal campaign. Joining us now in studio is Candace Malcolm. Candace, great to see you.
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Thanks for having me, Ezra. Well, it's nice to see you. And I don't want to talk too much about
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censorship before we move on to your big scoop. But give me a few thoughts on the treatment that
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Andrew Lawton endured, that David Menzies endured, and now it looks like Siddhaq Ahuja. I don't know
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him well, but if his report is accurate, I find that troubling. Absolutely. The police have no business
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telling a journalist what they can and cannot report, period. And the fact that we're seeing this over and
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over again in election, it's troubling. It should be alarming to every journalist in the profession.
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And it's sad, Ezra, that there are a couple of outlets that lean right editorially. You know,
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there's thousands of outlets in Canada that lean to the left, thousands of journalists anyway,
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dozens of outlets. And, you know, if anything happened to them, I'm sure there would be solidarity
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amongst the journalist class. But when it happens to someone who comes from an outlet that might lean
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right or have a right-wing editorial position, the media just doesn't care, by and large. The
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journalists ignore it. And it was unfortunate, I thought, that the conservatives did the same thing,
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because the liberals were doing it. And it was totally, totally, totally unacceptable.
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And, you know, we were ringing the alarm bell the way that Andrew Lawton was being treated.
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And then to see the conservatives do the same thing was very disappointing. And I will know it
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was a little funny that when it happened with the conservatives, you saw the Toronto Star writing
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about it, you saw something about it in McLean's, whereas all those journalists had completely ignored
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it when Trudeau was doing the exact same thing to us the week before.
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Not just ignored it. You know, you made me think. I mean, about a month ago,
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I had an op-ed in the Globe and Mail. I was very grateful for it. I was surprised by it.
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They let me write about this marginalization, this censorship. And I wrote it very carefully,
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because the Globe and Mail is a pretty prestigious audience. I criticized the Globe and Mail,
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but I have to tip my hat. They gave me 800 words.
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The Unifor Union tore a strip off their own editors, wrote a letter of complaint that I should
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not even have been allowed to complain in their pages. So not even did, they didn't, let alone
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show support for our marginalization. They didn't want me to complain in their pages about the
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marginalization. I find that the most troubling part. Yes, I don't like what politicians are doing.
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Yes, I don't like what the cops are doing. But where are all the journalists who are supposed to care?
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Right. And that's the question. You know, they don't want, maybe it's the competition. Maybe it's
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because they kind of have a monopoly over the ideas. They decide, you know, what is left, what is right,
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and what gets reported on. And the fact that there's so many independent outlets, they feel
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threatened, obviously. And then they just don't really trust people who have a conservative worldview.
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And it was so unfortunate because so many Canadians do have that worldview. And the fact that
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Canadians who come from a conservative position or conservative persuasion aren't allowed to
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have reports geared towards them, aren't allowed to have stories told in a voice that appeals to
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them. It's very, very concerning. It's a sad state of journalism in this country.
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Yeah. I mean, that's right. I don't claim that the rebel speaks for everyone, but we do tell
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a side of the story. And there seems to be a demand for it and a demand enough that the true north
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and the post-millennial, I think there's room on the right, but not according to the establishment.
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Last question on this, because I want to move on to your news. And you've brought evidence and
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artifacts with you today. I can hardly wait to get into it. But just one last thing. If it were
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Stephen Harper, the prime minister, or Doug Ford, the premier, or Jason Kenney, the premier,
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who was ordering journalists out, who was telling the cops to shoo away journalists on the left,
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journalists from the far left Toronto Star, from Rabble or Press Progress or whatever,
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I don't think the establishment would be this quiet, do you? I don't think Unifor would say,
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No. I mean, this is what they accuse Trump of doing. What they accuse Trump of doing that's
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like half-based in fantasy is what Trudeau is actually doing. And unfortunately, what Scheer did
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to your journalist the other day, I mean, having someone cuffed was just awful to see.
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I've never seen it before in Canada. It was so awful to see. But, you know,
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just the idea that when Trudeau was running for office in 2015, he was criticizing Harper for
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kicking someone out of a rally. He wasn't a journalist. He was just a citizen. And Trudeau
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repeated himself over and over again that he respects journalists and that he's always going to be
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open to journalists. You know, it's just four years ago and how conveniently that's been scrubbed
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from the record. Journalists don't bring it up. They don't talk about the fact that not only is
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Trudeau acting like a dictator, but he's a complete hypocrite because it's exactly the opposite of
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what he was saying four years ago. Yeah. I keep saying soon there will only be two kinds of
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journalists allowed, those that are paid by the government and those that are punished by the
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government. It'll all be government, either approved or banned, just no independence. I fear that's
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coming true quickly. All right. Let me put that aside because, I mean, I wanted to talk because
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you're the editor-in-chief of True North, so it's great to have you here and we're fans of yours
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anyways. But you, besides just being the editor-in-chief of True North, you do real digging and you have
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brought with you today two books. And why don't you just show the cover, show the cover and we'll have
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a close-up later. You've brought yearbooks. Yeah. So these are the yearbooks from West Point
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Gray Academy, which is the very small private school on the west side of Vancouver that Justin
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Trudeau taught at for just a brief time. He was there for a little over two years, Ezra. So,
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you know, we can go through these yearbooks. They're kind of go back to a different time. I don't know
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that schools still put together yearbooks like this in this sort of digital age, but this was before
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Facebook. This is before social media. And, you know, you can just kind of see a picture of what
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it was like at this school. And one of the things that I just find so interesting, Ezra, is how many
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times Justin Trudeau's photo appears in these yearbooks. You know, he was a teacher. He was not a
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student. This isn't from his high school. This is as an adult man, a 28, 29-year-old teacher. You know,
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you see his face over and over and over again, goofing around, roughhousing with the students,
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wearing different costumes. His picture appears about a dozen times in each yearbook.
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Probably more than any other students. More than the students.
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This is not on the cover, but that's a surprise. Well, take me through these. I see you have some
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sticky tabs. Yeah, sure. So, well, I mean, first of all, the most incriminating thing of all,
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obviously, is the picture of him wearing blackface, which is right here.
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He does it all the time. Yeah, but this is the first instance. And, you know, it's interesting because
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it's surprising that this hasn't come out before, Ezra. But when you're looking through the yearbook,
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you know, the picture, it's kind of right in the middle. It almost blends in because there's a
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black background here. You could see how someone even looking for it might miss it. It took me a
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few times flipping through to even find the damage. But, you know, aside from that, there's a lot of
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other things that stand out about Justin Trudeau. So, here he is. I spoke to a couple of students who
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attended the school, and they told me that Trudeau was kind of known at the school for being the
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Ultimate Frisbee coach. Now, you know, Ultimate Frisbee is probably not a thing at a lot of
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schools. But here he is in two years in a row. There's pictures of him kind of dressing up.
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There he is with his arms around the students. Here he is wearing a kilt, and they're doing some
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kind of a human triangle there. He's wearing a kilt, but none of them are wearing kilts.
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Right, right. That's weird. Yeah. And then let me just find the next year, because this is the one
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that I included in my son column here. And hang on. On this picture at the top here,
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he's got his arm around a girl. I tell you, maybe it's the 2019 Me Too era. I would never put my arm
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around a girl who was not my wife or my daughter. Like, that's a little bit handsy.
00:22:55.680
Well, Trudeau is really chummy with the students. And honestly, it seems like he is a student.
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When you look at these, this is the next year with the Ultimate Frisbee team. So, here he is here
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with a big Mickey Mouse hat on with his face painted. Here he is down here wearing a black
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Afro wig, also with face paint, again with the kilt. And here he is up here just sort of playing
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in roughhousing with the students. He's in more pictures than any given kid.
00:23:19.420
Yeah. And then this is funny, too, because they wrote a little poem about the team.
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And they described Justin Trudeau as a loudmouth maniac. This is the Prime Minister of Canada.
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You know, that's how they described him, a loudmouth maniac.
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That's so funny. Which is interesting. But, you know, again, I spoke to the students
00:23:35.960
at the school. And one of the things that was really interesting, Ezra, is that he didn't
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really have a teaching job. He was at the school. He was kind of a backup.
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But he was a mascot. Just like he is as Prime Minister.
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He was a mascot of the Ultimate Frisbee team. But he didn't have a class that he taught every
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day. He kind of floated around. Because that's too much work.
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He was kind of like a backup teacher. So, he was the backup drama teacher.
00:23:58.040
He was a yearbook instructor. Interestingly enough, he taught a yearbook class.
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A class called Yearbook? I didn't know that was a class.
00:24:10.000
Yeah. At this private school, it was. And so, you know, it's interesting, because he
00:24:13.980
would have been the one that was editing it. And, you know, all the pictures of him, and,
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you know, he was editing it. So, this is the only picture in the whole yearbook I could
00:24:21.340
find of him actually teaching something. And the caption says, Mr. Trudeau loves to teach
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French to kindergarten students. And again, he's wearing the kilt.
00:24:31.840
So, they're at crotch height. And he's wearing a kilt. Now, to wear the kilt regimental style,
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there's nothing but net under there. It's just all fresco. It's just freezy breezy.
00:24:43.420
He looks like he's a pirate with a kilt. Now, maybe that's a traditional Scottish shirt.
00:24:50.840
Why is he wearing a kilt when he's teaching French to kids? Is it always dress-up day
00:24:57.240
Well, you know, that's really... I mean, maybe you could say he just had a lot of school
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spirit and he was a fun guy. But, you know, this is the person who became prime minister
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of the country. And, you know, a major fact on his resume, he likes to say that he was
00:25:09.360
a teacher. But, you know, Esri, it doesn't really seem like he was a teacher at the school.
00:25:13.020
It just seems like he was more like a camp counselor there as a PR stunt, you know, having
00:25:18.160
the former son, the son of the former prime minister there, you know, teaching kids, you
00:25:24.520
know, French is his native language. And he's teaching French to five-year-olds. That's
00:25:29.500
not really teaching. That's something that anyone could really do. So, again, you know,
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all the pictures, all the fun that he's having, it really just, again, kind of makes it concrete
00:25:40.980
that Trudeau was not a serious teacher at the school. He's not a serious person. He wasn't
00:25:45.400
someone who you would ever guess would one day lead Canada and become the prime minister,
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especially when this is his biggest thing on his resume that he likes to point to that
00:25:55.080
We've got a lot of sticky tabs there. Are there other things that are interesting to see?
00:25:58.940
Well, I was just going to kind of... Oh, this is interesting. The West Point Grey Gala,
00:26:03.620
so the blackface photo came from the gala in 2001. This is the year before. You can tell
00:26:09.040
that Trudeau was there to raise money for the school, and they brag about it. They brag
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about the fact that he brought in over $100,000 and that he was the emcee. Here it says, the
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theme was James Bond. Who better to fit the role than none other than Mr. Trudeau, who came
00:26:23.060
equipped with a tux martini glass and a plastic gun? And here he is holding a gun, holding a
00:26:29.780
gun. You know, he's surrounded by women. He looks like kind of like a creepy kind of
00:26:33.320
womanizer. Yeah, and there's a woman down, there's a couple women down on his knees.
00:26:36.320
Down on his knees. He's got the gun up to the woman's bare chest here. And, you know, I just
00:26:41.220
thought it was kind of funny because when Trudeau's blackface scandal came, the liberals quickly
00:26:46.540
announced a gun ban, right? And that was how they were changing the channel. Well, you know,
00:26:50.300
here's oblivious Justin Trudeau bringing a gun to a school event a few months after the Columbine
00:26:55.280
massacre, Ezra. So this is really, you know, it's not in line with Trudeau's brand here.
00:27:00.840
Well, this is very interesting. Are there any other photos of note or other passages?
00:27:07.100
No, just again, you know, here's Trudeau having fun. He went on the ski trip. You know, he's
00:27:11.720
not teaching. Yeah, we've got the ultimate Frisbee thing.
00:27:17.820
He was like a friendly buddy who was always up for a gag. Blackface several times. There's
00:27:24.440
the official blackface at the Aladdin dinner, even though Aladdin in the story is not black.
00:27:33.980
Blackface on the Frisbee team, always a costume. Even when it's not costume time, he'll wear the kilt.
00:27:43.460
I didn't know he didn't actually have a class. That's sort of sad.
00:27:48.100
Well, and he claims that he was a math teacher, but he's not listed at all on the math. Oh,
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here he is. He taught senior newspaper. So that's, again...
00:27:56.720
Teaching newspaper, teaching yearbook, those are things.
00:28:01.500
Like when I was in high school, I was in the newspaper club. I was not on the yearbook club,
00:28:05.620
but those are clubs. That's not something that you teach. That's not a scholarly endeavor. That's
00:28:14.140
Right. And there is a page. I don't have it marked, but it's for the math at the school,
00:28:20.000
and it doesn't show Dustin Trudeau. So as best I can tell, he was not involved whatsoever with the
00:28:26.300
math. So I don't know. Everyone's digging into Andrew Scheer's past as an insurance broker to
00:28:30.840
find out whether or not he was actually properly licensed or whatever. And Trudeau claims that he
00:28:34.920
was a teacher. Again, just flipping through these yearbook photos, Ezra, there's no mention of him
00:28:39.880
teaching math. There's no mention of him teaching pre-law, which he's also said that he did.
00:28:44.120
I don't even think that that's a course in high school. And no one's digging into his past to
00:28:51.300
question his credentials and say that he wasn't really a teacher, definitely not a math teacher
00:28:58.220
Yeah. You know, the most interesting thing about the whole blackface story, there were two
00:29:02.820
interesting things about it in my mind. First, it was broken by Time Magazine, a foreign media that's
00:29:07.940
not on the Unifor Union, not on the payroll. So they're independent. Maybe that's why.
00:29:14.120
They broke the story. But then, after they broke the story, instead of all the media sending
00:29:19.460
a dozen reporters out to West Point Grey to dig up what you've just dug up, they sent
00:29:25.440
them after the guy who handed the yearbook to Time.
00:29:29.040
The Globe and Mail put literally five reporters, and the CBC put also five reporters to say,
00:29:34.800
who was the guy who blew the whistle, who leaked it? The CBC, they called it a leak. It's
00:29:40.420
not a leak. It's right here in a public yearbook.
00:29:43.560
The Globe and Mail and the CBC were more interested in who the hell said this than they were about
00:29:49.560
Right. Who embarrassed Canada by bringing up the past of our prime minister? I mean, it
00:29:53.740
was the prime minister himself who made the decision to paint his skin like a racist and
00:29:58.120
prance around, be pictured in the yearbook. That wasn't the person who had one of these
00:30:03.900
yearbooks. And I'll be honest, I'd heard rumors that there was a picture of Justin Trudeau wearing
00:30:09.340
blackface. I'd heard rumors for years about it, and I was just unable to find it. And
00:30:15.280
so, it's not like it was something that just kind of came out of left field. People talked
00:30:19.680
about it. They knew that it existed. You know, 500 people were at the gala where he wore that
00:30:24.780
ridiculous costume. That kind of stuff gets around and people remember it. So, again, you're
00:30:30.280
right. The fact that the CBC put more questions to the person who made this picture public
00:30:35.040
as opposed to the actual individual who did it, you know, they let it slide. And right
00:30:40.520
after it happened, Ezra, a bunch of media companies went out and started talking to people, found
00:30:46.020
people who were quickly willing to forgive Trudeau to say, oh, it's no big deal. And
00:30:49.520
they just played that over and over. Canadians saying, oh, it's no big deal. Oh, it happened
00:30:53.280
20 years ago. Oh, he was a kid. And it made people think, yeah, you know, it's not that
00:30:58.520
big of a deal. It was the liberals who their entire campaign strategy was to dig up dirt
00:31:03.380
on conservatives, things that they had tweeted, things that they had said 10, 15 years ago.
00:31:07.760
And then, you know, this picture really just kind of backfired against the liberals. It made
00:31:12.540
it so that they couldn't really do their strategy anymore, which was trying to dig up dirt on
00:31:16.440
conservatives to show how, you know, racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Muslim they are.
00:31:22.560
Yeah, it's incredible. Well, listen, thank you for bringing these artifacts in and showing
00:31:27.320
me them. I've learned more in person with you in the last 10 minutes than I did from reading
00:31:32.160
any issue of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, or watching the CBC. It's incredible to me, but
00:31:38.120
I salute you and True North. And it's no surprise that your reporter was harassed because you guys
00:31:46.320
ask questions that you're not supposed to, which is frankly part of the job of a journalist.
00:31:50.080
Absolutely. And, you know, it's not going to stop us. Trudeau stopping Andrew Lawton from
00:31:53.800
getting on the bus is not going to stop us from reporting. We're going to continue to expose
00:31:57.100
things about Trudeau, things about the liberals throughout the rest of the campaign.
00:32:00.400
Yeah. Well, it's great to have you here. Good to see you. Keep up the fight. The campaign
00:32:03.600
still is a couple of weeks to go. I look forward to your reporting on this and on the subjects.
00:32:08.280
All right. There you have it. Our friend Candace Malcolm, she's the editor-in-chief of True North,
00:32:13.060
which you can find. I usually say tnc.news. That's their website. And, of course, our good
00:32:19.520
friend Andrew Lawton works there along with other friends of the channel, including Anthony
00:32:36.020
Hey, folks. On my monologue yesterday, Liz writes,
00:32:38.780
Regardless of the event, I would prefer for journalists to be allowed to get a question
00:32:42.680
in if they can. This is election time, weeks before voting day. It is imperative that the
00:32:47.120
press have access to politicians and that they get to ask whatever they bloody well want.
00:32:51.200
Yeah. Well, not just that. But as I said about Andrew Scheer, if you can't handle David Menzies,
00:32:56.840
the menzoid, if you can't handle the menzoid, you're not ready to handle negotiating with
00:33:03.700
provincial premiers, negotiating with public sector unions, negotiating with Donald Trump,
00:33:11.180
a trade deal, or Xi Jinping, or Vladimir Putin. If you can't handle a tough question that you
00:33:20.260
probably have been briefed on, and then if not, you should be able to answer anyways,
00:33:24.020
if you can't handle David Menzies, you're not ready to be prime minister of a G7 country.
00:33:28.200
Edward writes, I am so glad Ezra had kept the copy of the video, which easily debunks the assertion
00:33:35.360
that this was a private event, and anyone with an open and fair mind can easily see
00:33:39.140
Scheer saying his events, plural, are open to everyone. Yeah. Speaking of that, it was at a
00:33:47.460
Legion Hall. I think it was in Halifax. And Andrew Scheer was specifically asked by a young student,
00:33:53.840
will you let the rebel in? And her question got applause. Remember that? So Andrew Scheer pandered
00:33:59.720
the applause to the young girl. Imagine telling that young girl, no. I mean, he would lose her
00:34:04.900
heart forever and everyone in the room. So he pandered under the slightest of pressure. It's
00:34:09.240
like when he was on TV with Evan Solomon. Evan Solomon said, will you do what the UN says?
00:34:13.680
I'm feeling momentarily uncomfortable, so I'll say yes. A 14-year-old schoolgirl says,
00:34:19.580
will you let the rebel in your event? There's a lot of clapping in the Legion. So Andrew Scheer says,
00:34:23.600
oh, there's no way I can say no to this 14-year-old schoolgirl, so I'll say yes.
00:34:28.180
How about just tell the truth? How about say what you believe? If you want to let the rebel
00:34:32.100
in, how about say that? If you don't, how about say that? I think you should have a good reason
00:34:36.660
why not to. It's not very conservative why not to. That's just embarrassing.
00:34:41.400
Uncle Bob writes, your last clip last night of Wendy reminded me a singular incident where a
00:34:46.720
rebel reporter on her own participates in an extremist website is immediately dismissed.
00:34:51.620
And now the entire rebel news is considered racist and white supremacist, whereas the CBC
00:34:56.620
had a star interviewer who beat up multiple women known to management but prevaricated in
00:35:02.280
firing him. And the state broadcaster is not considered misogynist and anti-feminist, which
00:35:06.940
they certainly are not. But according to their standards, they must be. Yeah, that's a great
00:35:11.940
point. I mean, I remember the very minute when Faith Goldie disclosed to me what she had kept
00:35:18.700
secret to me. A reporter had learned of the fact that she went on this neo-Nazi podcast. Obviously,
00:35:25.100
I didn't know about that. Faith didn't tell me, I don't follow neo-Nazi podcasts. Faith showed me
00:35:29.900
on her phone an email from a reporter. And I remember the moments. It was a 15-second
00:35:35.600
conversation. She said, I think I have to resign. I said, no, I'm going to fire you. And that's all it
00:35:43.780
was. I said, come to the boardroom and you can say your goodbyes to the staff. And she was out of the
00:35:48.380
office in five minutes. Whereas Gian Gomeschi, everyone at the CBC knew exactly who he was and
00:35:57.300
what he was doing. And they either turned a blind eye or actively covered up and tried to discredit
00:36:02.820
the accusers because he was their star. That is something they should have to live with because they
00:36:09.820
abided it. On my interview with Tommy Robinson, Jan writes, Tommy Robinson is destined to do greater
00:36:16.440
things. Now people will start putting the pieces together with what's happening with Boris and
00:36:20.280
realize that not only was Tommy right, they were wrong about him. Absolutely brilliant to create
00:36:24.460
this thing. Jan, I'm not as sanguine as you are because Tommy has been debarked. He does have a very
00:36:34.400
restricted YouTube channel left and he's got that website tr.news, but he's kicked off Twitter,
00:36:38.860
kicked off Facebook, kicked off most social media, kicked off PayPal even. So he can fight. Although
00:36:45.240
as you heard him say, he needs a little bit of time to get his feet under him. But he used to have
00:36:50.580
direct access to a million people and now he doesn't. I think they've hobbled him. Look, we support
00:36:57.100
his freedom and we find him very interested and we'll keep reporting on him. But it's not the same as
00:37:01.520
him having his own voice. Well, that's the show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at
00:37:07.620
Rebel World headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.