A Chinese diplomat mocks Trudeau — and accidentally tells the truth
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Summary
A Chinese diplomat mocks Justin Trudeau and accidentally tells the truth. It's March 29th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show, and I want to tell you why it's so important that you listen to it. I'll read the tweet to you and give you some background context.
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Hello, my Rebels. I follow a lot of Chinese Communist Party Twitter accounts because I
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want to see what the bad guys have to say. And I was shocked that one of them tweeted something that,
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well, I completely agree with. He was tweeting about Justin Trudeau. I'll read that tweet to
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Tonight, a Chinese diplomat mocks Trudeau and accidentally tells the truth. It's March 29th,
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I want to show you an incredible statement by a Chinese diplomat. It's quite something,
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very undiplomatic. Stay with me. I'll show it to you in a few minutes. But first,
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let me just give you a reminder of where we are with China. You know, sometimes someone makes fun of
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you or insults you, and they do it in a subtle way, sort of a passive-aggressive way, maybe an
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ambiguous way. I have a friend, a former editor of mine, who would joke that he was often asked what
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he thought of friends' works, like a play or a book. And he would sometimes have to come up with a
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subtle and ambiguous answer to the question because he didn't want to embarrass them when they said,
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so how do you like it? And he said his favorite line was, you've done it again. I like that. Isn't
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that great? He doesn't actually say anything, but he wasn't lying either. I think Barack Obama was the
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master of that sometimes, where he just quietly posed, giving someone the middle finger. I could
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be overthinking it, but it seems to happen so much. You know, we have 10 fingers. We're always using
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them sometimes distractedly. If every moment of my life was photographed, you might catch me for a
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second where it looks like I was flipping someone the bird. Obama seems to have done that at strategic
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times. China has been engaging in diplomacy for centuries, millennia really, like Persia, like
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the Ottoman Turks. China was into diplomacy and subtle speaking and symbolism before Columbus was even
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born. Think of Marco Polo. So the Chinese know what they're doing more than say, I don't know,
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Christia Freeland. Restoring, refreshing, strengthening the Canada-China relationship.
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We're quite proud. The prime minister has been given a fond nickname in China. He is called
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Tudou, which I believe means potato. And he's, I can't say the Chinese word, it's young,
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Tudou, little potato, because his father, Pierre Elliott, Tudou, was senior potato.
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Yeah, Justin Trudeau, they're calling you little potato. You've done it again. China knows what
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they're doing. Here's how they handled Obama when they were mad at him. Now, U.S. President Barack
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Obama's arrival in China for the G20 summit got off to a bumpy start as he didn't receive the red
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carpet treatment usually offered to world leaders. Our Oh Si-young has more.
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Was it a carefully calculated snub or a simple mishap on the behalf of the Chinese?
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As President Obama arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou on Saturday,
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no rolling staircase had been prepared for his exit from Air Force One.
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Instead, he had to make his way out from a little-used exit.
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There are also altercations between U.S. and Chinese officials as Obama got off the plane
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and U.S. reporters were told to move. A Chinese official was heard shouting,
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this is our country, this is our airport. President Obama later downplayed the situation.
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Yeah, the country that is obsessed with feng shui and saving face knows exactly what they're doing
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in diplomacy. They know how weak Canada's liberals are. Remember when a senior Chinese communist came
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to Canada and stood right next to Stéphane Dion, who was in cabinet at the time. And a Canadian
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reporter asked a fairly standard question of China. And he absolutely tore a strip off her saying,
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basically, how dare you ask questions like that? And Stéphane Dion, the cowardly liberal,
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just stood there and took it. Hi, Minister Dion. Amanda Connolly with iPolitics.ca. Thank you for
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taking our questions today. There are no shortage of concerns about China's treatment of human rights
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and its advocates, such as the Hong Kong booksellers, and its detention of the Garrett's,
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not to mention the destabilizing effects of its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea.
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Given these concerns, why is Canada pursuing closer ties with China? How do you plan to use that
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relationship to improve human rights and security in the region? And did you specifically raise the case
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of the Garrett's during your discussions with the foreign minister today?
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I want to make a response to the questions asked by this journalist about China.
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I have to say that your question is full of prejudice and against China and arrogance where I don't know
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where that come from. And this is totally unacceptable. Yeah, that's not even the hidden snub,
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is it? That's full-out disrespect, a bully taking our lunch money again and again, and we're just
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accepting it. That's been Trudeau's approach. It's really embarrassing. Despite the kidnapping by the
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Chinese dictatorship of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, Trudeau just won't stop loving the bullies. He
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trains their soldiers at our bases. He gives money to their virus research institutes. He just gave
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4.8 million dollars to Huawei, a gift to one of the richest tech companies in the world that just happens
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to be controlled by the Communist Party of China. He even thought it would be a really smart idea to sign up
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for a contract with Chinese army for their version of the vaccine. I kid you not, Canada still remains
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the one five eyes ally not to ban China from making our 5G network. Is there nothing Trudeau won't do for
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China? Even at the show trial of the two Michaels just this month, Trudeau refused to send our ambassador
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to China to the trial. A dozen other countries sent their diplomats to the trial as a sign of solidarity
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with us, but our own ambassador just didn't go. He didn't go. He sent some junior underling, you know,
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mustn't get offside with China. And the grossest of all was then when the opposition conservatives put a
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motion condemning China's genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, Trudeau refused to
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show up to vote. He wouldn't vote for it or against it. He didn't even show up. All he did was send
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the Mark Garneau to say, we abstain, but the whole cabinet just hid. What a coward. It's almost like
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Trudeau meant what he said when he told us that he loves China's basic dictatorship. There's a level
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of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually
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turn their economy around on a dime. But you know, that wasn't good enough for China, and they've
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started turning on Canada. Well, they did years ago. They put sanctions on our agricultural exports,
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for example. But now they've started putting sanctions on individual Canadian MPs and other
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officials. So Canada has responded in the most modest way possible. Sanctions against minor
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Chinese officials. Trudeau says he won't allow goods made by slave labor by Uyghurs into Canada,
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but the Global Mail shows that ban is just not happening. No goods have been stopped at all. It's fake.
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But China is outraged nonetheless, and they've lost emotional self-control, which is odd for a country that
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values saving face. But I'm not sure. Was this deliberate, or was this a rogue diplomat trying
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to impress his bosses in Beijing? I don't know. But look at this. Just look at this tweet.
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Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada,
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and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US. Spend thrift!
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You don't really hear some of that language a lot. A capitalist running dog. That's weird,
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Cold War-era communist language, sort of Stalinist language. But look at the pure derision,
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the mocking, the diminishment of him, calling him a boy. You don't see that a lot from diplomats.
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It's not very diplomatic, is it? Now, this diplomat, Li Yang, or I think it might be said Yang Li,
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he's based in Brazil. So it's a bit odd in some ways for him to be weighing in on Canada, unless
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they just wanted a diplomat who couldn't be kicked out of Canada to do that, not that Trudeau would
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ever kick him out. So what have we here? We have Trudeau who hasn't actually done anything to China.
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We haven't withdrawn our diplomats or kicked out any of theirs. We haven't cut off their trade,
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even though they've cut off ours. We haven't kicked out any of the 100,000 privileged sons and
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daughters of the Chinese Communist Party who are studying in our universities, taking out places
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that Canadians might take, keeping out, you know, we don't keep out Chinese goods dumped in our market
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like cheap Chinese steel. We haven't kept out China's Huawei from our 5G. We're still in the Asian
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Infrastructure Investment Bank. We're putting our money into building infrastructure in China.
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We haven't even thought of boycotting China's upcoming Olympics.
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None of that, none of that, just a fake ban on Xinjiang cotton. But you know what?
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I have to agree with this communist diplomat from Brazil. So look at that tweet just one more time.
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Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada
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and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US. Spendthrift, that last part is quite true,
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isn't it? You know what? I think this little commie is right. I think he's rooted on diplomatic,
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but by gosh, there's some truth entered. I think that if Trudeau really does manage
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to unhook Canada and China, if he really does start to push China away from us, the dictatorship,
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untangle us from their companies, if he really did that, which he has not yet done and frankly doesn't
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look like he's going to do, it really would be Trudeau's greatest achievement. Stay with us,
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Well, we've been covering the lockdowns across Canada. Our office is based here in Toronto, but as you know,
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we've been covering the church lockdowns in Alberta. We've had reporters at the Grace Life Church
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outside Edmonton, a Baptist church down in Calgary. We've been covering the Diner Rebellion, the
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Whistle Stop Diner in near Alberta. We've covered things in Toronto pretty well, too, because we're
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based here. But only in the last few weeks have we been going to Montreal. I think we should have gone
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there earlier because they actually still have a curfew at night. I think that's the only place in North
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America that does. Treats adults like children, treats healthy people like sick people, treats innocent
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people like criminals. It's actually crazy. We have a guy out there called Yankee Pollock. He's
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based out there. He doesn't do a lot of on-camera work for us. He's mainly a web, social media guy.
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But at night he goes out and documents the curfew. And they started, they haven't been rough with him
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physically, but they've detained him and given him thousands of dollars in tickets. And he would show
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us the craziness out there, especially police clapping down on the Orthodox Jewish community. We've been
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covering a lot of Christian churches in Alberta and other places, in BC and Ontario. But for some
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reason they're focusing on the Jews, or at least the Orthodox Jews in Montreal. So the last couple of
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weekends we've sent a fairly big team from Rebel News and they're starting to know us. The individual
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police recognize us now, certainly recognize Yankee, our Montreal reporter. They're clearly watching our
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videos. And by the way, we have signed exemption certificates. We comply with the law. We have a
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letter from the Montreal police confirming it. We followed all the rules. We're exempt from the
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lockdown under the, under the rules. The police know that, but they've arrested our people again and
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again. And this weekend they actually handcuffed our reporters. You know, Efron Monsanto, I had a video.
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He has reported for us from Poland, from Mexico, even from Hong Kong during the democracy protests.
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He has never been arrested anywhere. He has never been handcuffed anywhere except in our own country.
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And there's this weird thing, like Efron Monsanto, I haven't asked him, but I think he's Christian
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based on the name. And Mocha Beziergan, he's Muslim. And Lincoln Jay, he's Christian, I think.
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So we have people from different backgrounds. Yankee Pollock is Jewish, but of our whole team that is
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going out to Montreal, other than Yankee, no one, no one is actually Jewish. And Yankee's just there.
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He's not there in a Jewish capacity. He just happens to be a Jew, like Lincoln happens to be Christian.
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It's not relevant. We're covering the news. Rebel News is not inherently a Jewish organization. In
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fact, other than Abiyamini, I don't think we have any on-camera talent who is Jewish.
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It's just not our central focus. Our focus is on civil liberties, on Canadian politics,
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a little bit on Australian politics. It's just so weird because the police in Montreal keep saying,
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oh, there's Jew media. There's the Jew media. Are you a Jew? And at first,
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the first time I heard that, I thought, did we mishear that? Did they say it in some other way?
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What do they mean by that? But it's happening again and again, even as they handcuff our people.
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I find it extremely unnerving. And we're going to fight back like hell. And in fact, we're not going
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to let it roll. I mean, the lockdown to the great outrage, the fact that they're adding this weird
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layer of you're a Jew, you're a Jew, is I think really creepy. But we're not done yet. So I think we're
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going to go back to Montreal until we get this thing fixed. And obviously, we're going to fight
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the fines for Yankee and Mocha and Efron and Lincoln and all our other people out there who've been
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getting these outrageous fines. Illegal fines. Our people are exempt. Anyhow, enough ramble for me.
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Let me throw to some outstanding videos taken by these young men. And I can assure you, just like we
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stayed with it in Alberta until we won for the whistle stop and stayed with it until Pastor Coates was
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let out of jail. We're not going to ease up in Montreal. Perhaps the creepiest thing I heard
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from Montreal was something Mocha told me over the phone. He said that the police said to him,
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you're not allowed to ask us questions. None of the other media do. Mocha said the cop said that to him.
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As in, the other reporters never question. The other reporters are never skeptical. The other reporters
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never engage. The other reporters never doubt. They're stenographers, not reporters. Our rebel
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news reporters in Montreal are the first time any journalist has taken a critical eye to their curfew.
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The worst lockdown in North America. What they're doing to our reporters is an outrage. But the fact
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that the cop said you're the only media who acts like journalists is very telling. I'll say goodbye to
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you now. But here's some videos that our team did from Montreal. Enjoy these videos. But I know enjoy
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is the wrong word. If you're like me, they'll make you angry. But I promise you, we'll keep at it.
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I'll leave you with these videos. And I'll see you tomorrow. Keep fighting for freedom.
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You are targeting me because I'm recording right?
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Yes, I'm grabbing you because you have to grab me
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You're going to touch that mask with naked hands
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I'm not going to wear a mask that you touch like that
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We've been through this so many times with you guys
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Why did you arrest the two members of the media?
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Alright guys, once again, please go to lockdownreports.com
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Once again, we're showing you what's really going on
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The collective forces of this nation is perverted