In the name of the Pandemic, the federal and provincial governments are spying on us, and I don t think we'll ever be able to get that malware out. I'll take you through two examples: The CoVid Alert app downloaded by more than 6 million Canadians has been used by the government to track other cell phones with the virus, and it would contact trace you to let you know if you've been near other people who had the virus too. And Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?
00:00:00.000Hello, my Rebels. Today, I want to give you two examples of how the pandemic is being used as an excuse to bring in what I fear could be irreversible elements of a surveillance state.
00:00:12.640In the name of the virus, the federal government and provincial governments are spying on us, and I don't think we'll ever be able to get that malware out.
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00:01:08.460Tonight, the pandemic is being used as an excuse to set up a permanent surveillance state.
00:01:14.720I'll give you two examples. It's May 18th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:18.240Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:23.800There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:27.900The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:33.760You know what a ratchet is, right? It's a tool, actually a family of tools, really, where you move a wrench or another lever in both directions, but it only has an effect one way.
00:01:49.640Like, here's a jack for lifting up a car.
00:01:52.600You move the lever of the ratchet back and forth, but the car you're lifting doesn't go up and down and up and down.
00:01:57.820It just goes up, or you switch it, and then it goes down.
00:04:14.740A COVID alert app downloaded by more than 6 million Canadians has been used for data collection, says a federal panel.
00:04:22.020Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had promised users' privacy would be respected when the app was launched 11 months ago.
00:04:27.780The government of Canada has begun to broadly consider how the COVID alert app could potentially extend beyond a government's service to Canadians and the public health systems,
00:04:39.120towards a tool that will also support Canadians and businesses in our economic, social and mental health recovery and restoration, wrote Cabinet's App Advisory Council.
00:04:56.520The council, in a first interim report, said Cabinet, quote,
00:04:59.100has consulted Statistics Canada regarding any data of value they may be collecting, e.g. the number of mobiles in Canada and best methodologies and practices for the calculation of data that could be applied to the government of Canada's current approach, e.g. app downloads.
00:05:16.120I thought Trudeau said this was all private.
00:05:19.420The report did not identify what information was sought from 6.3 million of 33 million Canadian mobile device users who downloaded the app.
00:05:28.680It will be critical for individuals and businesses in Canada to have trust in the app's ability to support the safe return to work sites and universities, their reopening of businesses, and their use of modes of transportation, including public transit, wrote the council.
00:05:46.800That it'll be used for those good purposes?
00:05:48.580I thought we were told it wouldn't be used for any purposes.
00:05:51.360But remember Doug Ford himself, the Premier of Ontario, boasting that one time that he could track people who landed at the Pearson International Airport and went into the city.
00:07:21.660Some subgroups within Canada's population may be less inclined, able, or willing to download the COVID alert app, said the council, including students.
00:07:53.940It's every government, conservative or liberal.
00:07:58.360There are authoritarians in every party.
00:08:00.780This is from the Alberta Institute, a group I want to learn a little more about.
00:08:04.420I like the cut of their jib from what I can see.
00:08:06.060They saw news that the government of Alberta had put out what's called a requisition or a request for proposal, an RFP.
00:08:13.040That means the government asked companies to send in pitches, proposals, prices on a project to spy on families going out camping this summer by using spy drones.
00:08:28.760Now, the backlash today has been so strong, the government has already deleted it, but not before the Alberta Institute took a screenshot of it to, quote,
00:08:38.940provide airborne intelligence surveillance reconnaissance, including live electro-optical and infrared video.
00:09:41.260So not the kind of folks who would be off-roading or hiking in the wild on summer weekends.
00:09:47.740But even that five people a day, as you can see, is down 80% from flu season.
00:09:53.560So there is no panic, no crisis, no justification for this.
00:09:56.580But still, this idea is new, using the pandemic as an excuse to justify and establish spying on citizens in the countryside, from afar, using aircraft, drones, collected by private companies that are outsourcing spying on people without a warrant.
00:17:49.100Other than that, for a cop to stay, stop filming at a public street, a public protest about an event in the public interest.
00:17:57.220When someone is coming to protest, they, through their conduct, invite media scrutiny.
00:18:04.140And for these police, these officious intermeddlers to inject themselves, actually not even to inject themselves.
00:18:10.580They didn't, they weren't even part of your conversation with the trans.
00:18:12.840They came up afterwards because they hate you because, and they knew your name because they follow you on Rebel News because you are the only journalist, one of the few journalists, Rebel News is one of the few journalism organizations that scrutinizes and criticizes these lockdown bullies.
00:18:29.780So they hate you for a pre-existing reason, and they were just trying to shut you up and make some excuse up.
00:18:37.420In fact, I want to touch upon what you just said, Ezra.
00:18:40.560The ostensible policy reason, I would think, of a protest is to get the message out to as many people as possible.
00:18:46.880Even if you hate little old Rebel News, that's besides the point.
00:18:50.500We're going to get this message, whatever their message was, out to far more people than them just screaming on a roadside, you know, and honking their horn.
00:19:00.140So it goes against the very idea of having a protest in the first place.
00:19:04.480But this officer, I think he was making up things that goes along.
00:19:09.660You know, I know a little bit about the law of criminal harassment, and you have to repeatedly, on multiple occasions, stalk someone or beset them in a manner that is threatening to them.
00:19:22.700None of those, and there's several other elements.
00:19:24.620I don't have the criminal code in front of me.
00:19:26.640But for him to say you having a mutually voluntary conversation with a public protester in your capacity as a public interest journalist, where you're not threatening, you're not stalking, where you had already left, he is lying.
00:19:43.420I think he and his boss there were trying to come up with reasons to paper over their pure distaste for you.
00:19:49.820But they live in a still-free country.
00:19:52.860I've got to tell you, David, I'm so mad at their misconduct.
00:19:55.160I think 99% of journalists would have fled, saying, oh, please don't charge me, officer.
00:20:00.460I think you know enough to stand your ground.
00:20:03.240But it's not enough just to stand your ground.
00:20:05.140And I'm glad we put the names of those two cowards.
00:20:07.800You know, I'm embarrassed to call them cops.
00:20:09.540They're destroying trust and respect and any admiration for the police.
00:20:13.460I have to say, the amount of damage that the police of this country have done to their reputation last year and a half will take decades to rebuild.
00:20:20.780And these are amongst two of the worst.
00:20:22.780I don't think it's enough for you to have stood your ground.
00:20:25.160Because two armed cops threatening you with arrest.
00:20:28.740And one of them, even for a moment there, said, if you continue to ask questions.
00:20:34.620I think it behooves you and us to file an official complaint against those cops with whatever the Police Complaints Commission is in Aylmer.
00:20:43.220I don't think those cops did anything worthy of a lawsuit.
00:20:45.980They didn't assault you, as has happened to our people before.
00:20:50.340They didn't falsely imprison you or handcuff you or falsely arrest you.
00:20:54.280But their unprofessional, misleading...
00:20:59.000I mean, you were bloody right when you said, you're almost harassing me, officer.
00:21:51.560Because they follow your journalism and they're angry that they can't do things in the shadows.
00:21:57.080And one of the things that Rebel has done over the last 14 months is shine a light of public scrutiny on police forces that think they can get away with it.
00:22:03.700And we've talked about this in our staff meetings.
00:22:08.080When you measure something, sometimes you change it.
00:22:11.080And what I mean by that is if you hadn't been there with our cameraman, Sid, to film what was going on, the police misconduct would have likely have been greater.
00:22:19.240And whenever we, you know, I know this from various weekend protests in Hamilton, in Toronto, even in Montreal.
00:22:26.700When our camera goes on, the police all of a sudden are very well behaved because they know the public will see it.
00:23:45.980You know, the Aylmer police really are one of the most disgraceful police forces in Canada.
00:23:50.580I will not say they're worse than Montreal because I don't think any police department in Canada is more corrupt.
00:23:57.260But Aylmer sure is trying hard to get that low title.
00:24:03.180Well, David, you have the full support of our team.
00:24:05.580Luckily, in this case, the police were restrained, probably by their own cowardice, from touching you, from arresting you, from proceeding.
00:24:13.600They just thought they could bully you, and you were resistant to their threats.
00:24:18.100But that is not good enough conduct for police.
00:24:21.500And I look forward to your filed complaint, and we should do another segment when you do that.
00:24:25.960But 14 months into this lockdown, into this pandemic authoritarianism, the best police have either been reassigned or quit, and the worst police are loving their new boundless powers.
00:24:40.300And it is terrifying, and I have to wonder how much more of this before we truly start to meet the definition of a police state.
00:24:50.620Imagine two cops saying, if you ask more questions, you will be arrested.
00:25:11.320And it always makes me want to go back next Sunday and see if the counter-protest with the trans community is there and interview them again.
00:25:18.300Because we don't bend our knee, and I want to thank you for going to bat for Sid and I and getting that complaint process.
00:25:30.420But these are cops that are either too dumb to understand the Charter of Rights and our constitutional freedoms, or they're lying through their teeth about it.
00:25:39.080And my question is, what's the agenda?
00:27:54.680I think the issue is, what are you doing attacking a church on the same weekend as thousands of people are meeting for a politically correct protest?
00:28:02.280It's just like last summer when you had all the Black Lives Matter protests.
00:28:05.240And Justin Trudeau himself went out to take a knee.