Trudeau's Heritage Minister： Every website available in Canada must get a government licence
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Stephen Gilbeau is a radical environmental extremist and foreign-funded lobbyist who is now the Heritage Minister, and the number two item on his mandate letter is to bring in internet censorship. He s got 23 items that Trudeau told him to accomplish. Number two: censor the internet. And over the weekend, oh boy did he let a rip.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I have incredible footage for you from Stephen Gilbeau, the
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former environmental extremist, foreign-funded lobbyist, who is now the Heritage Minister.
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And the number two item on his mandate letter is to bring in internet censorship. He's got
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23 items that Trudeau told him to accomplish. Number two is censor the internet. And over
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the weekend, oh boy, did he let a rip. I'll show you the footage and show you some of
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the reaction to it. I guess I'll tell you about it because you're listening to the
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podcast, but may I invite you to see it with your own eyes, which I think is powerful.
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In fact, I show a picture of him being arrested, Stephen Gilbeau, the new Heritage Minister.
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau's Heritage Minister announces that every website in Canada must
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now get a government license. I guess he really does, like China and Iran. It's February 3rd,
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and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
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consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I
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have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Hey, did you see this on CTV over the weekend? Yeah, but sir, to be fair, you've got an agency
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that wants to enhance its scope of powers to determine what's a trusted news source. So the
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first question will be, who's to define that? You've got a lot of these groups... No, this is a
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recommendation, Evan. It's not... The CRTC hasn't decided anything. Okay, but they're recommending that.
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They're recommending that content providers have to register and get a license. So how will this
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work? How are you going to regulate websites? How are you going to register all that? Do you buy
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these recommendations? Well, I mean, one of the recommendations... So you're talking about a couple
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of different things here, but as far as the licensing is concerned, is if you're a distributor of content
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in Canada. And obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization, the requirement
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probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google. So there would have to be some
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proportionality embedded into this. But we would ask that they have a license. Yes. Just like right now,
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with the old system in Canada, distributors needed to go to the CRTC and to have a license.
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That scruffy guy is named Stephen Gilbeau. He's a new member of parliament, and he's been appointed to
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cabinet as the heritage minister. He's awful. A lifelong environmental extremist from Montreal,
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where he ran the foreign-funded lobby group called Equiter. He was basically a full-time anti-oil,
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anti-pipeline activist. I was worried he was going to be appointed environment minister,
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but I think there must have been someone in the government. I don't know who that is,
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but I'd like to meet that person who said, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's just too extreme, even
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for the party of Gerald Butts and Catherine McKenna. So they did something probably even worse,
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actually. They put him in as heritage minister. Now, that's normally a pretty junior ministry.
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It's a fun ministry, because you get all the cultural industry sucking up to you as minister
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24-7, because they're all looking for grants and bailouts and other goodies. So if you're fine with
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that morally, it's probably the most fun position in the whole of the government. Non-stop invitations
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to gala events, red carpet events, movie premieres, C-list Canadian celebrities, all the goodie bags,
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all the little comped, you know, free stuff, everyone flattering you, everyone begging you.
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You get to play being a billionaire. You get to play being a casting director, but with someone else's
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money, Harvey Weinstein would have loved it. I don't know if Stephen Gilboa likes that kind
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of stuff. I think he's more of a radical activist than just a glad hander. And Trudeau has given him
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a very specific mission. Censor the internet. You know, every cabinet minister has a job description,
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a to-do list called a mandate letter. Gilboa has 23 jobs in his mandate letter. But on the list,
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the second item, the second priority out of 23 is to regulate the internet, to censor it.
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And I don't know if you can see the fine print here, but the censorship that Gilboa has been
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ordered to do by Trudeau is very specific, incredibly specific, weirdly specific, to give the government
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the power to knock things off the internet within 24 hours of a complaint. And I'm sorry,
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life doesn't work like that in a free country. Imagine some member of parliament out at a bar on a
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Saturday night, see something on their smartphone they don't like, like maybe this video on YouTube,
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and drunk dials YouTube and says, take that down. I imagine the drunk dialed call would sound a little
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bit like this. And I got screeched in, so really amazing. But the funny thing is, so you think
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like it's amazing, you got screeched in, you hear all these facts about Newfoundland, and what the hell
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are they doing now? They're fighting about the facts about Newfoundland. And did they really get them
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right? So what's the discussion now, boys? Well, we were talking about is St. John's the oldest city in
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North America. And there's some debate about that. He was saying that it could be at Missouri. But we firmly
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believe it is, because there's nobody from Missouri here. But you know, I actually gave
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them some real advice. I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons,
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if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.
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Okay, so now YouTube has 24 hours to take down this video? There's no time for a trial, or even to let the
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person know anything's afoot. It's really nuts. It's un-Canadian. We don't do anything immediately
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in the law unless there's an imminent harm to life or limb. In real life, unless there's like a
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rampaging murderer. Well, in a fair court, things take time, weeks, months, even years if they're fair.
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Gilboa has specifically been told to be unfair. You know, the whole judge, jury, executioner in 24 hours,
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it reminds me of what Trudeau said he likes best about China. Not their history or their culture
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or their language or their art or their architecture or their food or anything like that. The thing he
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likes best about China is their basic dictatorship, which he specifically says lets them do things
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without wasting time on things like being fair. There's a level of admiration I actually have
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for China. Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around
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on a dime. Yeah. So as you know, last week, a panel of lobbyists and insiders handpicked by Trudeau
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wrote an enormous report demanding the total regulation of all media in Canada, from cell
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phones to streaming sites like Netflix, who they really seem to hate for some reason. Even though
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Netflix spent a billion dollars in Canada last year, that's pretty great. I think the reason the
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liberals really, really hate Netflix is that it is a huge success with people voluntarily. People pay,
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depending on your plan, up to seventeen dollars a month. And they do it willingly. And they do it
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en masse. I see credible reports that 6.5 million Canadian homes have Netflix. Remember, that's homes,
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households. So, you know, there's what, two or three people per home? That's pretty much half of
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Canadians choose to pay to watch Netflix. Compare that to the number I showed you the other day from the
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CBC's own annual report, where barely one percent of Canadians watch CBC News flagship show, The
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National, and not many more watch their other stuff. So yeah, I think it's jealousy and frustration on
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the part of the liberals that people actually like or even love Netflix and voluntarily pay for it,
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whereas no one watches Trudeau's state broadcaster and the government has to force you to pay for it
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by extracting the money through your taxes. So liberals hate Netflix for reasons of rivalry and
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jealousy and inferiority complex. But they also hate Facebook, YouTube, Google, Twitter for a different
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reason. They aren't just rivals for entertainment, which all those media are. They're rivals for
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political information. That's where people get their news these days. Trudeau hates that if he can't
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control that. And Guilbeau, a lifelong radical activist, he hates that with the heat of a thousand
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suns. He wants to ban websites that aren't trustworthy. Well, I think the CBC is untrustworthy.
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I know they are. They lie all the time about Donald Trump, about global warming, about Russia, about oil and
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gas industries. They definitely lie about Trudeau. But that's just my opinion. Others would disagree.
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They would say the CBC is full of truth. And in a free country, we get to disagree. Everyone gets
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their say. The viewer decides at the end, I don't want to ban the CBC. I don't want to have to pay for
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it anymore. But Guilbeau and Trudeau literally want to ban ideas they don't like. That's their licensing system.
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So they're at the point where they will literally send police after authors and tell them they have to
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register their books with the government. The knowledge that you would have or not
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have of the of the election act, the Canada elections act, when you are planning the book
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and you the the new third party rules, because I believe there's some comments on yourself
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as well about that. Did you give any consideration of saying maybe I should
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register as a third party for this circumstance? Or maybe I shouldn't
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because of my interpretation of what I'm going to do? Or did you not make that determination?
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Yeah, it's not a coincidence that my book is being investigated at the same time as this web censorship.
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But let's look at that CTV clip again. Guilbeau doesn't say a lot, actually. I don't know if he's simply not
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well briefed or if he's just practiced at being a fog generating machine, a BS-er. Evan Solomon is pretty much
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the best interviewer in Ottawa when it comes to cutting through the fog machines. He always was the most
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effective at getting through the BS emanating from Catherine McKenna. Here's Evan Solomon asking
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Stephen Gilbeau what constitutes a trustworthy news source. Okay, so here's another concern.
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I'll just raise some of these red flags. There is a concern that the panel wants to regulate
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international companies as well. So let me take an example of a controversial site like Breitbart.
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How would the government force a company like Breitbart? I don't know, the New York Times, Mother
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Jones, the Daily Mail. How would they force those companies to comply with rules of Canadian content,
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discoverability? And if they don't comply, what happens? Will Canadians be blocked from accessing
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international sites? I don't think that's what's recommended in the report that these sites be
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blocked in Canada. Frankly, I'm not sure I see what the big deal is. I mean, we have an incredible
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number of international corporations that are operating in Canada in all sorts of sectors, in the
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financial sector, in the construction sector, in the energy sector. And these companies comply with
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Canadian rules and laws. We're a sovereign state and what is true of Canada is true of the United States
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and it's true of France and Great Britain and Japan. So we're not asking these companies to do
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this extraordinary things that no other companies have been asked to do before. We're asking them to
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simply abide by by the rules and regulations that we have in our country. But I like that Solomon
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mentioned Breitbart.com. You know those guys we interviewed, Joel Pollack and Alan Bocari and others.
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Breitbart's a huge website and it's conservative and Solomon knows it drives leftists like Gilbo
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crazy. But he also makes the point about the New York Times and others too. Who gets to decide?
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That's a good question. We did not get a good answer. But the key passage was this one where
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Gilbo after dodging for a bit admits, yeah, yes, every single website in the world needs to be
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licensed if it is to be watched or read or clicked in Canada. Let me talk about the scope of this new
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regulatory body, the new regime. In order to make Canadian content what they call discoverable,
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easy to access, there'll be the imposition of requirements on what you guys call shares or
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aggregators, content creators. I'm going to read you what it says in the report. Links to the websites of
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Canadian sources of, quote, accurate, trusted and reliable sources of news with a view to ensuring
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the diversity of voices. Question, sir. Who will determine what trusted news sources are? The
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government? Is it appropriate for the government to determine what's a trusted news source?
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First thing I have to say is this is a panel that was created by our government in 2018.
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They went across the country. They've met hundreds of people, experts. They've received
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close to 2,000 submissions as part of their work. And these are recommendations for the government.
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As you said initially, there's 97 of these recommendations. So we will be – so it's not
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the government of Canada saying this is what we're going to do. This panel is making recommendations to
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us and we will be studying these recommendations very closely. I've heard some people say that,
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oh my god, you know, the government is going to decide what we see on the web. Hold on a second.
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Canada is not about to take over the World Wide Web. That's not what we're talking about here. Not at all.
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So he started off with a lie. He implied this isn't a government commission. And he said he'll study
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their report. And he said he wouldn't take over the World Wide Web, which actually no one accused him of
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doing. But Evan Solomon is smarter than your average journalist. So he simply asked the question again,
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instead of accepting that BS. Yeah, but sir, to be fair, you've got an agency that wants to enhance
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its scope of powers to determine what's a trusted news source. So the first question will be, who's to
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define that? You've got a lot of these groups – No, this is a recommendation, Evan. The CRTC hasn't
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decided anything. Okay, but they're recommending that. They're recommending that content providers
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have to register and get a license. So how will this work? How are you going to regulate websites?
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How are you going to register all that? Do you buy these recommendations?
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Well, I mean, one of the recommendations – so you're talking about a couple of different things
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here – but as far as the licensing is concerned, is if you're a distributor of content in Canada,
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and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization, the requirement probably wouldn't
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be the same as if you're Facebook or Google. So there would have to be some proportionality
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embedded into this. But we would ask that they have a license, yes. Just like right now,
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with the old system in Canada, distributors needed to go to the CRTC and to have a license.
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Oh, so they will have to register with the government companies, big and small. Just all of them. So big
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companies like Facebook and little ones, I guess anyone on the internet, because you don't have to
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have a company to have a million followers on a social media platform or to set up your own website.
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Listen to this. I'll just raise some of these red flags. There's a concern that the panel wants to
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regulate international companies as well. So let me take an example of a controversial site like
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Breitbart. How would the government force a company like Breitbart – I don't know, the New York Times,
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Mother Jones, the Daily Mail – how would they force those companies to comply with rules of Canadian
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content, discoverability? And if they don't comply, what happens? Will Canadians be blocked from accessing
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international sites? I don't think that's what's recommended
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in the report, that these sites be blocked in Canada. Frankly, I'm not sure I see what the big
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deal is. I mean, we have an incredible number of international corporations that are operating in
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Canada in all sorts of sectors – in the financial sector, in the construction sector, in the energy
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sector. And these companies comply with Canadian rules and laws. We're a sovereign state. And
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what is true of Canada is true of the United States, and it's true of France and Great Britain and Japan.
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So we're not asking these companies to do this extraordinary things that no other companies have
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been asked to do before. We're asking them to simply abide by the rules and regulations that we have in our country.
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But Minister, digital world is different than ship and logs, and you know that.
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So in a way, he does seek to take over the World Wide Web. I mean, they mentioned Breitbart earlier.
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They're based in Los Angeles. Breitbart has reporters around the United States. And all you have to do
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here in Canada is to click on it. Do you think that Breitbart in Los Angeles – lovers of the First
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Amendment, by the way – do you think they're going to come up to Canada and fill out paperwork and
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register with Stephen Gilboa and get a license? You think they're going to do that? And when they
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don't, and when a billion other internet companies around the world laugh at Stephen Gilboa – well,
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they won't even laugh because they won't even be listening to them. They won't even care. They
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won't even hear about this. What's he going to do about it? He's going to sue them? Where? For what?
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They're not here. The only people who are here that Gilboa and Trudeau can punish are Canadians.
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So what's he going to do to us? Well, I think he might ban these websites like China does,
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building their great firewall of China. That's what little tyrannies like China. It's a big
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tyranny in North Korea and Pakistan do. They want to license the internet too. The world sort of laughs
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at them. So they ban the internet. So yeah, Facebook shut out of the lucrative ad market of Pakistan,
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or whatever. Twitter is heavily censored there. So basically, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, China,
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places like that, they blindfold their own people because their people won't stop looking at things
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the government doesn't want them to look at. So they block their own people from learning about
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the world. In China, where it's most developed, it's called the Great Firewall of China.
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You know, I started tweeting about this incredulously yesterday. And people who aren't
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Canadian were shocked by it. People who are Canadian are now used to it, which is very sad.
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We should stay shocked. It goes without saying that not a single Canadian civil liberties or
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journalism group has any objection to this, just like they didn't have a word to say about me being
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grilled for writing a book. But look at this. A senior executive at Facebook saw my tweet
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and replied to me, this sounds odd, he says. And he put that confused smiley face. Here's his biography,
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director of product at Facebook, learning, leading trust integrity for ads and business products,
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two-time startup founder, Trails and Mountains fan, CFA. Now, I wrote back to him on Twitter saying,
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thanks for the retweet. Trudeau and his cabinet don't care much about civil liberties, but they obsess
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about being seen as cool by Facebook executives like you. Your tweet alone could stop this,
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and your lawyers could under the USMCA for sure. I think that's how it's going to go. I think Canada
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will accept this censorship. What, you think the NDP and the blocky people are going to oppose it and
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bring down the government over it? All the media is for it. They were bought off last year for 600
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million bucks. Pretty cheap. So what's a license to them? They know they're already approved. They
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also know who won't be approved, and they're fine with that too. I scanned the media hard for feedback
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from the 121 conservative MPs. I saw very little. So let me give the few who spoke out some credit.
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This is Michelle Rempel in Question Period last week. Mr. Speaker, yesterday a government-appointed
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panel enthusiastically recommended that the government should control what news coverage
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Canadians should be allowed to see. Under this Liberal plan, the Liberals would be able to force
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all news sites to prominently link all of their coverage to Liberal government-approved websites.
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This would have an instant chill effect on free speech and diversity of thought in the Canadian
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media ecosystem. Does the government think that Canadians are too dumb to think for themselves?
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And here's Aaron O'Toole, the leadership candidate. He says,
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I'm offended by the idea that media organizations must please Justin Trudeau or face government sanctions.
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This is no place in a free country. Help me fight Trudeau's agenda to control what news you see.
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I think this is my favorite response. It's not from a federal MP. The other 119 Tories were silent.
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I think Andrew Scheer was busy at some dairy meeting or something. But this is from an Alberta cabinet
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minister who says the Trudeau Liberals have quickly gone from paying off journalists to regulating who
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is free to speak. It's clear they have no tolerance for opposing views. It's dangerous, unconstitutional,
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and the public needs to speak up while it's still free to do it. Tough stuff. That's great stuff.
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That's Devendration. I hope he's not pressured to take that down. That's bold talk for a cabinet minister,
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even a provincial cabinet minister. But where's everybody else? I mean everyone else. If you need
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help to imagine what the response should be like, what do you think would have happened if Stephen
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Harper had said he was going to force websites to get licenses? What do you think would have happened
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if a liberal author, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, had been interrogated on Harper's watch? Other than
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Rex Murphy and the National Post, I haven't seen any mainstream media reaction to my interrogation
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because they're sort of fine with it. And they're sort of fine with being licensed. They're sort of
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fine with censorship because they know that they please the masters enough to be on the right side
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of things. They're cashing the checks. As I mentioned, before Stephen Gilboa was an MP, he was an
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environmental extremist. Here he is being arrested after illegally scaling the CN Tower in some weird
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stunt against fossil fuels or whatever, as if he doesn't ride a chauffeured limousine now. But
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he's an extremist willing to break the law. And now he's in charge of making the law. Do you doubt
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he'll abuse him? Oh, I didn't tell you. He hates rebel news and he hates me personally. He even once
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implied that I, as a Jew, support Nazis or something. Here's just a few of his bizarre attacks on me and
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rebel news over the years. He's unhinged. He's imbalanced. And now he thinks he's my boss?
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He wants to censor me. He wants to license me. How do you think that's going to end? Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. I tell you, half the time at The Rebel here, we spend fighting against censorship.
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That's not our purpose. We started The Rebel to tell the news. Our motto is telling the other side
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of the story. But I mean, just think about it. Today we have news about licenses the government
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wants to put on news media. You saw when I was interrogated by the election commissioner for
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writing a book. And one of the most alarming trends that I see is when police become politicized and block
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our journalists. I just want to be a journalist. I just want to tell the stories. But I find half our
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time and half our money is spent fighting the government. Here is one of the most disconcerting
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moments of this censorship. This was a few weeks back when our friend David Menzies went to ask a
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question to Ron McLean of Hockey Night in Canada. Maybe you don't care about sports. Maybe you don't
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care about Don Cherry. But this is how it looked. Take a look. Hey, Ron. How are you doing?
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I'm great. How are you doing? Good, sir. I'm just wondering, how do you feel about
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the ratings for Hockey Night in Canada plummeting since Don Cherry was fired?
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I wouldn't know, sir. Excuse me. I'm in a public place. Ron, why did you throw Ron under the bus?
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You just hit me. You just hit me. I'm trying to get around you. You're holding me back. I'm
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trying to do my job. No, you're not trying to do your job. I'm in a public place, officer. Yes,
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you're not allowed to hit me like that. I didn't hit you. I got it on camera, okay? Perfect.
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Listen, you can sit there and film me, but you can't shove the microphone in my face. Okay,
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then I'll be on my way. No, you won't. Not in here. Are you kidding me? I note that Ron McClain
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himself, who I regard as a bit of a coward, but he never said, stop talking to me, stop harassing me.
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In fact, Ron McClain went on to promise that he would do an interview with David Menzies. He hasn't
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kept that promise, but he had no time to say to the police, help, help. I'm being asked questions.
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Note that this is on a public sidewalk at a public facility, and that David himself is polite. I
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mean, is he annoying? Well, if you don't want to be asked questions, I suppose any journalist is
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annoying. And these police physically shove him around, knock him down. And by the way,
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they changed their excuse about three times. Well, we're going to do something about it. In fact,
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we have filed a lawsuit against the York Regional Police. Now, those are words I never thought I
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would say in my life, suing the police. What am I, some Antifa hippie, some leftist activist? No.
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I'm someone who says, you can't push our reporters, you can't knock our reporters down
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because you're protecting some CBC or some Rogers TV celebrity. That's not how we roll in Canada.
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And if you need a judge to tell it to you, so be it. And joining us now is our friend,
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David Menzies, very good. I'm taking a real risk here. You know, I live in the New York region,
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right? Next time I get pulled over, I think they might throw the book at me now. But anyways,
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it's important to stand up for that. There's two ways it could go. One is they say, oh,
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huh, they're fighting back. We might have to explain ourselves in front of a judge.
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Let's actually do our jobs and be cops now instead of weird enforcers. The other is, yeah,
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maybe they're going to hit you with a vengeance and maybe us too. Well, you know, time will tell,
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of course. But Ezra, I think it's important to parlay on your point. This is not about being
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anti-cop, certainly. This is actually about being pro-rule of law. Police officers are to uphold the
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law, but they can't break the law in upholding the law. What they did to me, let's see, there was
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assault. There was forcible confinement. You noted the trail of lies in changing their story three times
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as to why they were detaining me. One was an alleged, an allegation that I had assaulted them,
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which was me just trying to get around them. The second one was trespassing while we were on public
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streets. This was a Rogers hometown hockey event. There were pavilions which were open to the public.
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I didn't even go to the pavilions. I was on the streets of Vaughan, Ontario. And then, of course,
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there was them saying where it was almost like the Minority Report Thought Crimes Unit,
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we're trying to prevent you from harassing Ron McClain as though that's somehow a crime in itself.
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Yeah, and the one guy saying, you're not a journalist, the implication there. You know,
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no one is allowed to do an assault. And just because they're wearing a uniform and a badge and a gun
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doesn't let them make an assault. If you had started swimming, it's unthinkable, but if you had gone up
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to them and started swinging punches, oh, you bet they'd have every right, as any private citizen
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would, to physically defend themselves, and they're cops so they're packing heat. But you were packing
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nothing other than a microphone. And it's almost like they were instructed in advance by Rogers and
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Ron McClain's staff, watch out for David Menzies, he's a really bad man, and silence him now. I'm just
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guessing because when we actually saw Ron McClain, he never once asked for you to be silenced. Those
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cops did his dirty work for him. Oh, you know, Ezra, you don't have to guess because Rogers did indeed
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have a discussion with the police once they got Ron to the area where he was doing autographs and
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selfies. I was outside waiting patiently because I knew we'd have to go back to the portable broadcast
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booth. And there was a fellow from Rogers, first name was Kevin, and it was almost like a huddle in
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football. There was about eight or nine York Region cops and I was filming through the window.
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And Kevin is sort of ordering them around. And then what happens, the nice cop comes out to me
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and he's saying, oh, by the way, we're going to organize an interview with some Rogers employee.
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And meanwhile, I see them sneaking them out. So he was doing, that was their big master plan.
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He was causing a diversion so that they could sneak him out. But I was looking over his shoulder all the
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time and I didn't fall for it. How bizarre that taxpayer paid police. And I don't know what a cop
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makes these days. It wouldn't surprise me if they're around the $100,000. For sure.
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a year cops and they're probably making overtime for working at night like that,
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or who knows what this shift is like. And you see, and I saw there was a lot of them.
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Wow. It must be nice to be a media company that can have a hundred grand a year
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cops with guns doing your PR for you and taking out critical, competitive journalists. That's so
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weird. It's so inappropriate. I was so upset when I saw them knock you down and then say, oh,
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be careful, buddy. Be careful, buddy. It almost reminded me
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of a scene of a group of young thugs taking on something. It reminded me of the opening scene
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of the movie The Joker a little bit. And I'm bothered when anyone hits a rebel reporter. We sued
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the guy who hit Sheila Gunn-Reed a couple of years back. We sued him for years and we got him.
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When a cop hits your people unprovoked, unprovoked, you got to take your foot down, put your foot down. And we
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are. And we have filed a lawsuit and it is on a website now. What's the website?
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Stanwithdavid.ca. And there's a promo going up very shortly. It might already be up, Ezra,
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where it says, as you rightly pointed out, this is going to cost us tens of thousands of dollars
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to pursue. The York Regional Police, of course, have the endless taxpayer trough to get their legal
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fees from. And yeah, you're right. I mean, this is not, and I don't want to say to anybody that
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that is pro-law enforcement. This is not an anti-cop thing. This is anti-bad cop,
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or at least anti-cops behaving badly. And you know, I want to add another thing. You mentioned
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all these police that were there. Who was footing the bill? Were they there on duty,
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meaning the taxpayer was indeed paying their salaries? Or were they paid duty cops? So they're
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off duty, but they're in uniform, and Rogers is paying the $87 an hour, whatever that fee is.
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Because there was tons of cops. And when they escorted Ron back, it was quite an amazing visual.
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It's like a donut where the outside are the police officers, about eight or nine of them. And Ron is
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the jelly in the donut. And me walking alongside of them. It was surreal. And another important
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point, as you mentioned too, Ron at no time said, no interviews. I don't want to talk to you. I feel
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like you're harassing me. Because the very next week, Ezra, I went back down to Ancaster, a suburb of
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Hamilton. There was another Rogers hometown hockey there. And to my incredible surprise and delight,
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Ron on camera, and you can watch this video, folks, says, you know, my word of honor, I will give you an
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interview. But you know, not right now. Fair enough. He's busy. He's doing a broadcast. It's been exactly
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two weeks to the day since I last spoke to a Rogers communications person. I'm wondering,
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you know, surely they're not going to just, you know, play out the clock on this and wait for
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hockey season to end. He said my word of honor. So here, let's show that clip right now. Take a look
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at this. I really appreciate you coming out. I would love to do an interview with you. We're in the midst
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of a live broadcast. So if you're an interview with our publicity anytime. Well, whether or not he
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actually does an interview with you goes to what his word of honor means. But for the purposes of
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our lawsuit against the York Regional Police, it shows that you were not doing anything bad because
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he not only, Ron McLean not only doesn't think you were harassing him, he positively invited you to
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meet with him. So any pretext, any excuse there is gone. I'm hoping that this lawsuit, because it's a
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civil lawsuit, will smoke out the communications they had between Rogers and the cops. What did
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Rogers tell the cops? What did the cops promise Roger? Yes. Rogers. That's very interesting to me.
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When we sued, when Sheila got hit by that thug, Dion Buse, I don't remember the exact amount,
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but it was over 30 grand. These cops, as you point out, it's York Regional Police,
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they're, I don't know, they're probably a billion dollar organization. I'd have to check.
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They're full of lawyers. Taxpayers money. I think if it goes all the way, there's just no chance this
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is going to be less than $50,000. And I mean, listen, we have a lot of legal bills around here,
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but I know what it costs us to take on Sheila's assaulter. Every one of these cops will get a lawyer.
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All their lawyers will be paid by the taxpayer. They'll probably try and rag the puck. They'll
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probably try and drag it out. I don't know what's going to happen here, but I think this is the right
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thing to do. I want them to recognize what they did to you was wrong. If they don't recognize it,
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I want a judge to tell them what they did was wrong. I mean, you weren't grievously wounded,
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but you don't knock a man down. There's some damages there. And I want to know their communications
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with Rogers and in reverse, because I think that Rogers probably, as you suggest, has some,
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well, we know that you saw Rogers coordinating the cops with your own eyes. I'd like to see that
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part of the iceberg under the water that is not visible right now. I think, look, you're not
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grievously wounded. Yeah. But that's not the point. These are cops, and they can't shove reporters
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down because some fake celebrity like Ron McLean says so. Standwithdavid.ca. It's going to cost us
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a lot of money, but I think we have to do it. And you know what, Ezra? This is not a cash grab. I know
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there's a cliche. Everybody's suing somebody for some amount of money. He says it's not about the money,
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and of course it's about the money. Well, if we win, we're not going to, we surely won't recoup our
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costs of it. Yeah. But it is the principle, and it is setting a standard, a benchmark moving forward,
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allows us to practice journalism. And just last month too, of course, you know, I went down to the
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candlelight vigil for Iran's ex-terrorist in chief Soleimani. And I mean, it was hard to believe I was
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in Toronto as opposed to Tehran. But we had a Toronto police officer telling me that if I dare
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utter the word terrorist one more time, he is going to sue me for breach of peace. And I said to him
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on camera, I mean, I can't call Osama bin Laden a terrorist. Yeah, I think he said he was going to
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arrest you. Here, let's take a look at that clip. Yep. So I can't call a terrorist a terrorist?
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You're not in this sort of environment. No, you can't, okay? Because that's going to incite a breach
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of the peace. And that is Canadian law. Am I clear? If I was to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist,
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that would be against... Am I clear? I know you're not clear, sir. I don't,
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I can't call Osama bin Laden. And it incites a breach of the peace. You will be placed under
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arrest. Terrorist? Oh, what are we going to be arrested for? What am I going to be arrested for,
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sir? All right. Well, we can't sue the entire world. I didn't like what that Toronto cop did,
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but at least he didn't shove you to the ground like in York regional police. Like that, that Toronto cop
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is awful. Yeah. And I think we have unfinished business with him. David, thanks for doing the
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journalism you do. You have been attacked by Jonathan Yaniv. We'll talk about that lawsuit
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later. You've been attacked by a manager at the Radisson Toronto East. You take a lick and you
00:37:59.900
keep on ticking. But it's my duty as publisher and boss of Rebel News to push back. And so I want our
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viewers, really, I want you to read the lawsuit. Yeah. So go to standwithdavid.ca. And I know you're
00:38:13.820
already a supporter of Rebel if you're watching this because it's a premium channel. But if you
00:38:20.380
want to help me push back against the cops with this lawsuit, we could sure use your help. So go
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to standwithdavid.ca. Thanks, David. Thank you, Ezra. And I just want to thank our viewers. They've
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always come through for us in the past. And without you, we are nothing. So my thanks in advance.
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There you go. Hey, folks, what do you think about all this censorship happening at around the same
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time? You've got my interrogation as an author. You've got this plan to license websites. I think
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that's basically going to be Justin Trudeau's second term. He hates what little objections remain in the
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media to him. He is offended that Canadians took away his majority. And so he wants to silence the
00:39:07.340
few of us who still criticize him. I think it's going to be dark days ahead. That's the show for
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today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep