00:04:54.800If it popped up on our radar at all, it would be because every now and then they put out some press release about malaria or Ebola and they kind of keep their nose clean.
00:05:02.780But then COVID came along. And just as the COVID pandemic empowered a wave of public health officials in this country who had only ever had meaning and purpose from distributing condoms to high school students found all of a sudden they had tremendous power and they effectively became the de facto heads of government in places across the country.
00:05:24.280And now we have on a global scale, a World Health Organization that has had a similarly emboldened sense of self in the last four years, which is a bit of a wind up to what's happening in May when countries from around the world will descend on Geneva, Switzerland.
00:05:41.020All world domination tends to start and end in Switzerland for some reason, but they'll descend on Switzerland, on Geneva, and they will put forward what they hope to become a pandemic treaty, a pandemic treaty.
00:05:53.840Now, a treaty implies an agreement between states. This is what they hope to accomplish. So as of right now, it's a draft treaty. It's a proposed treaty. It's a proposed agreement. But if you look at what they have proposed, there are things that people should be very concerned about.
00:06:09.420They talk about making the World Health Organization the body that sits at the helm and declares a public health emergency, which you may think, OK, what's the big deal?
00:06:19.180Well, this also means that countries who sign on to this are saying they undertake to follow the WHO's recommendations.
00:06:26.980If the WHO says shut down your border, countries are essentially committing to doing that.
00:06:32.100If the WHO says, hang on, you need to mandate vaccination, countries are committing to doing that.
00:06:37.340Now, any international relations expert will say, well, hang on, no, these agreements don't force countries to do anything. They're not binding. But at the same time, we are foolish to turn away and turn a blind eye to countries saying they want to do this and willingly saying they are going to do this.
00:06:55.340What else does the draft agreement say? That countries will commit to censoring what they call disinformation misinformation. And this is something that we're all supposed to shrug our shoulders at. Now, when people like Lesley Lewis, who's a Conservative Member of Parliament, have spoken out about this, the media and the Liberals will just dismiss them as conspiracy theorists. Here's one exchange in the House of Commons where Justin Trudeau faces some questioning about this.
00:07:22.620Mr. Speaker, May 22 to May 28, representatives from 194 countries will meet in Geneva at the World Health Assembly to discuss the WHO Global Pandemic Treaty and to vote on amendments to the international health regulations.
00:07:45.720Why didn't this Prime Minister establish a public health inquiry into our COVID response
00:07:52.880before considering signing amendments to the international health regulations?
00:09:32.080So, you know, those stickers, you still see them on grocery store floors every now and then.
00:09:36.200It's a bit of an artifact of a bygone era.
00:09:38.460But all of that, we had to orient our lives around it. Restaurants had to pull tables out because of it. And it was, oh, well, likely not based on scientific data, Anthony Fauci is admitting. And again, I don't think Justin Trudeau wants Teresa Tam to make those same admissions in Canada about social distancing, vaccine mandates, border closures, shutdowns, and so on.
00:09:58.800Sean says someone should open a COVID-themed restaurant like 10 years from now.
00:10:04.340Well, actually, I have opened a COVID-themed restaurant because it's no restaurant at all.
00:10:08.660The restaurant's all closed during COVID.
00:11:16.760And I say, well, if it's so insignificant, why bother doing it at all?
00:11:20.540But why is it you find this one to be of particular concern?
00:11:24.520Well, this is part of the plan for the next time around, yes? So I think it goes like this.
00:11:33.520The WHO takes responsibility for driving the boat. They get authority to declare when a public health emergency happens, and they get to make recommendations that will be binding.
00:11:47.440And the countries will promise to put the binding recommendations into place in their own countries.
00:11:53.840Now, as you say, the control is basically still in the hands of the individual governments in those countries, but the game here is that I think those governments will use the WHO's recommendations as cover for their own decisions, as in, well, I'm sorry, but the WHO has recommended lockdown, so you have to stay in your house, and we're sorry, but it's out of our hands.
00:12:21.520So in this way, they're sloughing off responsibility for making the hard calls,
00:12:26.460even though hard calls is what they want to make.
00:12:29.060Governments are always anxious to avoid responsibility.
00:12:31.940And this is one of the ways they're going to do it.
00:22:23.840thing where the powers that they exercised are going to be powers that they exercise
00:22:28.100regularly whenever they think it's justified. And believe me, if you have power, the state is going
00:22:33.720to use them. All right, Bruce Party, it is a fantastic piece in the National Post, WHO Health
00:22:39.760Treaty, a convenient cover for more government overreach. You are the best one on the army
00:22:44.600against the technocrats. So we're glad to have you, Bruce. Thanks so much. Thanks, Andrew. Good
00:22:49.640All right. Thank you as well. And I should play this clip, by the way. So Tedros Adhanom is the non-doctor who, I mean, he's got a PhD, but he's not a medical doctor at the helm of the WHO. I wanted to play this clip from him for your benefit right now.
00:23:04.900We cannot kick this can down the road.
00:23:11.620If we do not make the changes that must be made, then who will?
00:23:18.720And if we do not make them now, and when?
00:23:22.100When the next pandemic comes knocking, and it will,
00:23:29.080we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively, and equitably.
00:23:34.900And for enhanced international cooperation, the pandemic accord, a generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect that left our world vulnerable, but move forward with a shared commitment to meet shared threats with a shared response.
00:23:57.140That's why we say the pandemic accord is a generational agreement.
00:24:01.420That is Ted Ross teeing up the pandemic accord at last year's World Health Assembly now coming
00:24:09.140this year. To be honest, we haven't made a decision. I was wondering if it would be worth
00:24:13.660going to Geneva to cover it. And then I looked up the price and it was like even to stay at like
00:24:19.640some weird mid-level like residence in, it was going to be like $750 a night. So maybe we skip
00:24:26.380out the World Health Assembly in Geneva. You never know. We can, maybe I can stay in a,
00:24:31.700on Geneva, we'd have to stay in France if we wanted to do the commute every day. But
00:24:36.240nevertheless, that was Tedros. Now he's going to be in Davos next week. I was looking at the agenda
00:24:42.100for what presentations people can see at the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
00:24:47.520And one of them is this, preparing for disease X with fresh warnings from the World Health
00:24:54.460organization that an unknown disease X, because X is like the menacing letter. If they called it
00:24:59.920like disease blue, no one would give a hoot. But disease X could lead to 20 times more fatalities
00:25:09.140than the coronavirus pandemic. So what novel efforts are needed to prepare healthcare systems
00:25:13.700for the multiple challenges ahead? So here we have a bunch of people and we'll be monitoring
00:25:18.800this session. You can follow it along from home as well. Them talking about this mystery disease
00:25:23.580that no one's ever heard of, that WHO actually identified in 2018, that we're already saying,
00:25:28.400oh, it's going to be 20 times worse than COVID, so let's get ready. Well, in the same breath,
00:25:33.260we are hearing public health officials admit that their measures for COVID were not even rooted in
00:25:38.720science in many cases. So we can look at the agenda just very briefly, because we are going
00:25:44.460to be reporting from Davos next year, or next week rather, maybe next year, who knows. But next week,
00:25:50.120And there are a number of sessions that I'm incredibly curious about.
00:25:54.280One of them is talking about the future of freedom of expression.
00:25:58.240Now, in the past, when they talk about freedom of expression, it's not spoken about as a positive, really.
00:26:03.980It's spoken about as something that is getting in the way, these absolute rights and freedoms.
00:28:28.480So, I mean, the media's role in this cannot be at all overstated.
00:28:33.100The media, I mean, when you're talking about something happening in the Middle East, the media is, to some extent, our only glimpse at what's happening there.
00:28:41.320And we've seen the framing on Israel issues to just be absolutely disastrous.
00:28:46.920And, you know, CBC not calling Hamas a terror organization, which is a statement of fact.
00:28:55.900And, you know, media that does false equivalency. At one point, they referred to the agreement by Israel to release prisoners in exchange for hostages as a hostage exchange, which is just, again, an absurd thing here.
00:29:09.780But you've talked about the media really being particularly brazen on this.
00:29:14.560They're very brazen. We just saw, I don't know if you saw it on X, Honest Reporting had done an expose of some Reuters and Associated Press journalists in Gaza laughing about, you know, looking at some of the atrocities of October 7th and laughing.
00:29:38.520Gaza is filled with so-called journalists. We know that some of the journalists that the New York Times employed actually accompanied Hamas on the rampage, the pogrom of October 7th.
00:29:51.5207th. In other words, they knew about it in advance. They wanted to capture it as it happens.
00:29:57.680And it was clear that from the familiar way in which they were palling around with the Hamas
00:30:06.440fighters, that they are actually supporters of Hamas or likely supporters of Hamas. And
00:30:13.400as I've said many times on social media, and in my column that you cited,
00:30:21.520The very words from sources in Gaza should send alarm bells ringing in any mainstream news outlet because there is no such thing as a report out of Gaza that is inherently trustworthy.
00:30:38.260Not that they always give false news, but you can never be sure that they're not giving false news because no reporter is allowed to report from Gaza without censorship by Hamas.
00:30:53.420And so no reporter is free to publish what they want from Gaza unless it goes through Hamas censorship.
00:31:04.860And as well, many of the journalists, the so-called journalists in Gaza are actually not journalists.
00:31:11.340They are simply working for Hamas in the capacity of stringers for other, you know, bigger companies.
00:31:18.920But they are, in fact, agents for Hamas.
00:31:21.440I only speak about, you know, four or five lines of Arabic. So I have to rely on other translations when I see Arabic footage. But I have seen at least three or four clips from within the last few months, which are presented as some of one of those journalists that you were just describing interviewing people. And when they start to criticize Hamas, the interview gets quickly and abruptly ended.
00:31:45.000So when the people in Gaza are saying, well, hang on, Hamas is using us as shields, the interview ends.
00:31:50.960So you're right. There is no, you know, unbiased commitment to truth there, which is, I think, a big part of it.
00:31:57.020A lot of these are activists wearing press vests.
00:31:59.860Yeah. And of course, you know, you expect biased reporting from Al Jazeera.
00:32:04.300You know, that's that's that's their job.
00:32:06.360But when it comes to New York Times, BBC, CNN, we just saw a story out of CNN.
00:32:14.780Some of their Middle Eastern stringers were posting disgustingly anti-Israel stuff on social media.
00:32:24.720They've lost control of the journalistic situation over there, it seems to me, since they have decided to accept stuff coming out of Gaza without verifying.
00:32:35.560And when you see the BBC doing that and the CBC, it's really sickening because there's a long history of this.
00:32:43.800They know very well that a lot of reports are doctored or they're complete fiction, complete fiction.
00:32:51.020And as we've seen in the whole Palestinian movement in the last several decades, you know, truth in journalism is not a value.
00:32:59.840It's not a Middle Eastern value in regimes that are not democratic, and none of them are except Israel.
00:33:08.040I mean, you'll get honest reporting out of Egypt and some of the bigger, the more stable entities there.
00:33:16.360But from the West Bank or Gaza, you really have to verify anything you hear out of there.
00:33:22.580And in fact, I remember in a column I wrote some time ago, I remember there was a report from Matty Friedman, one of the top journalists on this scene, who recounted the anecdote of a West Bank politician checking with an Israeli journalist to see if what he was being told by his own journalists in the West Bank was true or not.
00:33:47.000He just, a rumor that there was an assassination plot.
00:33:50.820He didn't know whether to believe it or not.
00:33:52.120So he checked with Israeli journalists.
00:34:29.540So tell me what Pallywood is for people that aren't familiar.
00:34:33.560Pallywood is an actual news producing industry in the West Bank and Gaza.
00:34:41.020And it's like Bollywood in the sense that it's fake stuff, but it's an actual industry.
00:34:48.980There are producers and directors and actors and extras, all kinds of industry norms going on that actually are producing fake news.
00:34:59.840So if they want to show that an Israeli struck, say, a site, then they will produce it.
00:35:12.080They will actually create a scene and produce it with fake dead people on stretchers.
00:35:16.420And suddenly an ambulance comes screeching up.
00:35:19.400You know, somebody hails an ambulance to come screeching up four seconds later.
00:35:23.000so it's it's um it's it's and then they produced it as news uh the famous mohammed aldura affair
00:35:32.780in 2000 um that was highly contested it was shot by a palestinian stringer who was also well known
00:35:41.080in hollywood industry of making fake news but he had sent a 59 second clip that purported to show
00:35:48.240that during the Intifada that Israeli snipers had actually targeted and killed a 12-year-old boy
00:35:55.320by the name of Muhammad al-Dura. When the 23 minutes of raw footage was seen by other journalists
00:36:03.780and skeptics presented a very different picture and eventually there were lawsuits over this and
00:36:10.440eventually the IDF concluded and reported there was no way that child could have been hit by an
00:36:16.180Israeli bullet because of the angle of the bullet and all that but that was one of the bigger stories
00:36:21.540but they're very consequential these stories like the Janine massacre the Janine massacre you may
00:36:26.580remember in 2002 when they were trying to get to the source of the all the suicide bombers
00:36:32.420they had a ground operation into Janine the first reports out of the West Bank were a massacre of
00:36:38.740500 civilians, and that story stuck. In the end, after many reports and many actual
00:36:46.500investigations, it was concluded that 53 civilians were killed and 23 IDF soldiers who had done a
00:36:54.740ground invasion in order not to kill civilians, and as a result were ambushed, their own soldiers
00:37:01.300got killed, but they were trying to prevent civilian deaths. But these stories are used
00:37:06.260as propaganda again and again and again. And the images are extremely emotive. So
00:37:13.780this industry is extremely harmful. It's called lethal journalism. It is lethal because people
00:37:21.860die over it. Osama bin Laden used the Mohammed al-Dura story in his own propaganda because he
00:37:28.660could see that the picture of this boy huddling behind his father, apparently being targeted by
00:37:35.780israeli bullets which was not the case they are made into martyrs they are remember that little
00:37:42.020boy uh the syrian boy lying in the sand that little two-year-old boy and these images have
00:37:48.580an incredible effect well and i recall i seem to recall that there was evidence that emerged later
00:37:53.940that that boy had been moved i mean it was still a tragedy but the photo had been to some extent
00:37:58.900stage to make a bigger point from that it's it's not hard to see that uh this whole palestinian
00:38:08.340issue this whole israel is is a very much um an emotional thing and a lot of the people that are
00:38:16.820active in it uh when you corner them and you ask them you know to state why they don't even know
00:38:23.300why they're part of a herd uh in fact the toronto sun just had a piece out today saying some of
00:38:28.340these protesters are being paid um to be part of these protests but anyways there's a lot of
00:38:33.140hysteria involved uh in these protests because this issue has uh you know Palestinian activists
00:38:43.940on campuses for example they're there for years and years not they're not very good at studying
00:38:48.420but they're very good at propaganda this is this is they're paid for this uh you know there's a
00:38:53.940lot of foreign funding of these movements in the West. It's a very deep rabbit hole, Andrew, and
00:39:01.380you know we could spend hours on this. But in terms of the journalists, the irresponsible journalism
00:39:07.700that is attached to this subject, it's just remarkable how far these media outlets will go
00:39:16.580to push a narrative that is harmful to Israel. They are lock, stock and barrel,
00:39:22.580committed advocacy journalists rather than um objectives it's just not journalism simply is not
00:39:30.660what you it's not what it should be it's not what true north does uh it is it is uh pure it is
00:39:38.340getting to be pure propaganda um in too many of formerly respectable uh outlets so it's yeah
00:39:46.900we're lucky to have a few um outlets in canada like the national post true north uh the epoch
00:39:53.220times that uh that is i what i consider to be journalism that verifies sources actually fact
00:40:01.700checks you know does basic stuff well yeah what should be uh you know used to be basic and second
00:40:08.660nature anyway and the only area where you could say uh that can rival the israel hatred in much
00:40:15.700much of the media is in academia, as we've seen in the last few months. And I just very briefly
00:40:20.600wanted to ask you about this story, because I understand you're writing about it this week in
00:40:23.540another piece. There is now a class action lawsuit against so far six major Canadian universities,
00:40:29.980Queens, York, Concordia and Montreal, TMU, which used to be Ryerson before Ryerson's name became
00:40:36.400a hate crime, and the University of British Columbia facing claims that Jewish students
00:40:41.540are unsafe on their campuses. I mean, look, that's a difficult thing to refute with just
00:40:48.140raw footage we've seen of what's happened on these campuses, isn't it?
00:40:52.140Yeah, I always felt that lawsuits were the way to go. I was promoting the idea years and years
00:40:58.620and years ago. I said, the only way these universities are going to change if it hits
00:41:02.520them in the pocketbook. These particular class actions are by a law firm, but they are in
00:41:11.520in partnership with the Lawfare Project, which is a pro bono legal fund for fighting anti-Semitism
00:41:20.480around the world. They do phenomenal work and they just had a very big success
00:41:26.760against a restaurant in Toronto, an owner of a restaurant, for defaming in defamation suit
00:41:34.240against a Canadian media personality who was also a Zionist and was targeted on social media.
00:41:41.080So unless lawsuits make these institutions pay out big time, and the one against McMaster is what, $77 million, and the more that are targeted, the better, because just a couple have to win, and you'll see the whole culture of university will be forced to change, and that's the only way this is going to be happening.
00:42:05.920Just as in the States, that president was not going to – Claudine Gay from Harvard.