Rebel News Podcast - A federal judge AGREES to fast-track our lawsuit against Trudeau’s media censorship

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I am announcing a big plan. It's a big campaign, and we always have

00:00:04.700 big plans around here, but this one seems particularly important. We just got permission

00:00:09.600 from a judge of the Federal Court of Canada to be fast-tracked to have an urgent hearing of our

00:00:14.840 trial against Justin Trudeau for his illegal censorship of us, banning us from attending

00:00:19.800 press conferences. So I take you through the latest in this, and I tell you about our campaign.

00:00:25.440 It's going to be a big battle, I'll tell you that. By the way, we also have a trial date now,

00:00:29.120 which is sort of cool. I'll give you all that details in the moments ahead, but first,

00:00:32.860 let me invite you to become a premium subscriber. Go to rebelnews.com. It's eight bucks a month. It's

00:00:37.760 not that bad. It's less than Netflix, or 80 bucks if you buy for the whole year in advance. Okay,

00:00:43.140 here's today's show.

00:00:48.520 You're listening to our Rebel News Podcast.

00:00:50.820 Tonight, a federal judge approves our request to fast-track an urgent lawsuit against Justin

00:01:04.920 Trudeau's media censorship. I'll give you all the details. It's May 26, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:10.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:16.040 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:20.100 The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I publish it, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:30.980 I have big news. The Federal Court of Canada has just approved our request to fast-track

00:01:36.340 an urgent lawsuit against Justin Trudeau's Privy Council Office for illegally banning our reporters

00:01:42.280 from asking him questions during his daily press conferences.

00:01:46.040 Now, as you know, the courts are closed during the pandemic.

00:01:49.240 Only genuine emergencies and urgent matters are being heard, so we had to apply for special permission

00:01:55.340 for our lawsuit to be classified as urgent.

00:01:59.180 Frankly, I didn't know if we had a chance, but Judge Angela Furlanetto, 0.75

00:02:03.760 a special kind of judge called a proth-a-notary,

00:02:07.360 heard our request by conference call.

00:02:10.080 And there were not one, not two, but three lawyers

00:02:13.060 for Trudeau's government on the other side of the lawsuit.

00:02:16.240 And wouldn't you know it,

00:02:18.180 the court agreed with us.

00:02:19.720 Our entire lawsuit, all the steps and stages,

00:02:23.360 will be done in the next seven weeks.

00:02:25.200 Normally, a case like ours takes literally years

00:02:28.480 to work its way through the courts.

00:02:30.600 And this isn't just a quick emergency injunction.

00:02:33.160 This is the full process condensed into a month and a half.

00:02:37.780 Affidavits, cross-examination.

00:02:39.900 It's the whole hearing process.

00:02:42.060 So here's the exact wording of her order issued just yesterday.

00:02:46.540 This application shall be heard on July 13, 2020,

00:02:51.600 commencing at 9.30 a.m. for a duration of three hours by Zoom video.

00:02:56.420 The party shall provide a joint proposal

00:02:58.540 as to the steps leading up to the hearing of this matter

00:03:01.840 by no later than May 27, 2020.

00:03:05.160 So it's rolling.

00:03:05.920 This is very exciting.

00:03:07.160 I've asked our lawyers to request that the Zoom trial be made public

00:03:11.060 because normally people can sit in the courtroom and watch.

00:03:14.240 That's how it was at the federal court last October

00:03:16.740 when we sued Trudeau for illegally banning us from the election debates,

00:03:20.460 and we won that one.

00:03:21.820 It's quite an experience sitting right there in the courtroom,

00:03:24.120 but obviously that's not practical for most people

00:03:26.320 even when there is no pandemic.

00:03:27.940 So I think that everyone and anyone

00:03:29.760 will be able to watch this hearing on the Internet,

00:03:32.840 just like I will be doing.

00:03:34.860 Mark that in your calendar now.

00:03:36.120 Seriously, 9.30 a.m. Eastern time on July 13th.

00:03:40.100 Three-hour trial.

00:03:42.160 Now, July still sounds like an awfully long time from now,

00:03:45.000 given that they're banning our reporters every single day.

00:03:48.600 Even this very morning, Trudeau's personal staff

00:03:51.720 ordered the RCMP to physically eject our journalist,

00:03:56.640 Kian Bexte, from the press conference in Ottawa.

00:03:58.980 See, Kian has been calling into a special phone number 1.00

00:04:01.980 that journalists are invited to use to pose questions to Trudeau.

00:04:05.760 A solid month, Kian has been calling in every day, 1.00

00:04:09.340 and Trudeau blocks him every day.

00:04:11.380 Let me read to you from my affidavit in the lawsuit that we filed last night.

00:04:15.540 You can see this whole affidavit and the rest of our lawsuit at letusreport.com.

00:04:21.020 I really encourage you to go there and read our lawsuit for yourself

00:04:24.140 and actually go through my affidavit where I outline Trudeau's misconduct.

00:04:28.100 Let me read from paragraph 24.

00:04:29.500 As of May 22, 2020,

00:04:33.580 P.M. Trudeau has conducted 58 daily briefings with phone-in questions.

00:04:38.740 The Privy Council has made 217 phone-in selections.

00:04:43.560 Some reporters have been chosen repeatedly,

00:04:45.660 sometimes two or three days in a row, as follows.

00:04:49.260 Now, look at that.

00:04:50.080 Some reporters have been called on 13, 15, 17 times.

00:04:54.420 That is not random.

00:04:56.240 I also note that five out of six of Trudeau's favorite reporters

00:05:00.140 just happen to be from Quebec.

00:05:01.860 That's where Trudeau himself is from.

00:05:04.060 In fact, four media companies have been given 60% of all the phone-in questions.

00:05:09.100 And shocker, three out of those four companies are Quebec Media.

00:05:13.420 Look, I've got no problem with Quebec Media.

00:05:15.840 Quebecers are better than the rest of Canada because, you know, we're Quebecers.

00:05:22.100 Yeah, we know you feel that way.

00:05:25.320 And the sixth reporter works in Ottawa.

00:05:27.840 I'm just saying, no one from British Columbia or the West or even from Toronto is on that list.

00:05:34.620 It's all Trudeau's little club.

00:05:36.320 No wonder the questions are such softballs.

00:05:39.220 They're his personal friends.

00:05:40.800 They're not going to ask him tough questions.

00:05:43.080 Once, you know, about a month ago,

00:05:44.560 they let someone from a small outlet called the Parvasi Media Group in Toronto to ask two questions.

00:05:51.000 So he's from what's traditionally called the ethnic media.

00:05:53.640 So they let him in to the club for one day.

00:05:57.520 But take a look.

00:05:58.260 Here's the homepage of the Parvasi Media Group.

00:06:01.160 Their website is literally a huge picture of Justin Trudeau.

00:06:06.680 So, yeah, their reporter was given a day pass to come and praise Trudeau.

00:06:11.520 These are not real questions.

00:06:13.980 They're bailout grant applications.

00:06:16.520 Listen to this one.

00:06:17.200 It made me laugh out loud.

00:06:18.080 You're speaking to us every day.

00:06:19.560 The deputy prime minister is either having meetings or speaking to us.

00:06:23.220 Dr. Tam is speaking to us virtually every day.

00:06:25.260 What are you guys doing to prevent burnout?

00:06:27.280 I mean, there's no way you can continue at this pace.

00:06:29.860 Are you drawing up some sort of rota?

00:06:31.860 Can you imagine asking Trudeau with a straight face how he's working so hard

00:06:36.220 when he's the only world leader who's staying at home during the crisis?

00:06:40.680 That's what happens when 90% of Canada's media is on the take, either working for the CBC state

00:06:46.560 broadcaster, which gets $1.5 billion a year from Trudeau, or working for a newspaper, which

00:06:51.960 are now dividing up a $600 million bailout for them, too.

00:06:55.640 So not a single question by any independent reporters.

00:07:00.120 Not one.

00:07:00.680 So Kian got on a plane and flew from Calgary to Ottawa to try and put his question in person.

00:07:07.740 And Trudeau literally directed the police to physically twist his arm behind his back

00:07:12.860 and frog march him off the property. 1.00

00:07:14.680 Can you imagine the media party meltdown if Stephen Harper had ordered the police to physically

00:07:20.140 eject a liberal journalist who hadn't done anything wrong other than try and ask a question?

00:07:24.980 You know, whatever you think of Donald Trump, he lets CNN and the New York Times into his

00:07:30.880 press conferences, and he spars with them every day.

00:07:33.700 He's not a coward about it like Trudeau is.

00:07:36.340 And by the way, we're not actually suing Trudeau himself for not talking to us.

00:07:41.340 As I mentioned, we're suing the Privy Council office because they're the nonpartisan civil

00:07:45.960 service that operates that phone call line that journalists are told to use.

00:07:50.220 If Trudeau is too cowardly to answer our questions after we ask them, that's fine.

00:07:55.940 But for the nonpartisan independent bureaucracy of professional civil servants, to discriminate

00:08:01.860 against any reporter based on partisan stripe is simply illegal.

00:08:05.720 It's against the law for the bureaucracy to do liberal party errands or conservative party

00:08:10.220 errands.

00:08:10.920 Same goes for the RCMP, by the way.

00:08:13.280 So the lawsuit is on.

00:08:14.960 It's a go.

00:08:16.040 I think Judge Ferlinetto is right.

00:08:18.040 Don't you?

00:08:18.380 It's urgent.

00:08:19.040 Too bad not a single media party journalist thinks the same.

00:08:23.800 They don't support us, but they're not nonpartisan either.

00:08:27.560 They've become advocacy journalists, every one of them.

00:08:30.920 Their journalist union called Unifor actually has a huge super PAC.

00:08:36.500 It's a campaign organization that spends their union dues campaigning for Justin Trudeau in

00:08:42.200 the election.

00:08:42.660 So Trudeau gives journalists a bailout, and journalists campaign for Trudeau with their

00:08:49.020 money.

00:08:49.700 It's just a big cycle.

00:08:51.080 Are you surprised that they're fine with keeping out the handful of independent journalists

00:08:55.680 out of their little club?

00:08:57.020 So that's the news today.

00:08:58.640 We've got an urgent lawsuit on track.

00:09:00.940 I think it's big news.

00:09:02.420 We successfully cleared the first hurdle.

00:09:04.640 The judge agreed that our lawsuit is urgent, and she's already scheduled the three-hour

00:09:09.700 trial.

00:09:10.060 That'll be heard by another judge.

00:09:12.320 Hopefully, you'll be able to watch it from the comfort of your own home.

00:09:15.300 We already have submitted some of our legal filings, actually over 800 pages worth, if

00:09:20.620 you're really curious.

00:09:21.420 So that includes my affidavit, which was filed last night, and it has an 11-page sworn statement

00:09:28.180 by me, and then hundreds of pages of factual exhibits, they're called, like the transcripts

00:09:34.560 of all the media party questions to Trudeau.

00:09:36.780 So many softball questions from his personal friends.

00:09:39.880 Go to letusreport.com if you want some light bedtime reading.

00:09:44.460 So it's on.

00:09:45.460 The battle is on.

00:09:47.200 At least three government lawyers will be fighting against us.

00:09:50.500 Last time we sued the feds, in October, they put five lawyers on the file, and they billed

00:09:56.340 taxpayers $131,000.

00:09:59.480 We still beat them.

00:10:01.000 I acknowledge that this is an uphill fight, and it's by no means certain that we'll win.

00:10:06.440 But we have a secret weapon.

00:10:08.580 The same two young legal eagles who beat Trudeau like a drum back in October, they're on the

00:10:14.700 file for us again.

00:10:15.780 Now, this is going to be a much bigger fight, and Trudeau is going to do anything he can do

00:10:19.620 to win.

00:10:20.500 He was humiliated when he lost the last lawsuit against us.

00:10:23.500 I truly expect Trudeau will spend up to half a million dollars of your tax money fighting

00:10:29.380 against us just to stop us from asking him questions.

00:10:32.940 I've asked our lawyers for a rough estimate of how much it'll cost for them to fight.

00:10:38.120 The work they put in so far, plus the next seven weeks of preparation, plus the trial itself,

00:10:43.020 they have estimated that it will cost approximately $40,000.

00:10:48.780 That's a lot of money.

00:10:50.020 But if you know anything about trials, you know that's actually a pretty reasonable fee.

00:10:54.040 So I'm grateful to our free speech lawyers.

00:10:56.560 They're going to be outspent 10 to 1 by Trudeau's lawyers.

00:10:59.940 And of course, we have to crowdfund that by ourselves.

00:11:02.200 We certainly won't be getting any help from the Civil Liberties Association or any journalism

00:11:06.340 club.

00:11:06.780 And of course, we don't take any government money.

00:11:09.340 The whole world is on Trudeau's side.

00:11:12.440 He pays the other journalists.

00:11:13.800 They obey him.

00:11:15.700 Look, someone's going to ask real questions.

00:11:17.740 Someone has to defend the public interest, to be skeptical of government power, to challenge

00:11:22.440 the groupthink.

00:11:23.380 Trudeau refuses to take a single question from any independent journalist.

00:11:27.960 He's scared to.

00:11:28.740 He doesn't know what to answer.

00:11:30.980 What's worse is he's corrupted the civil service, turning them into his partisan errand

00:11:34.960 boys.

00:11:35.460 That's the real problem here.

00:11:36.680 And that's what we're asking the federal court to stop yet again.

00:11:41.440 Please visit LetUsReport.com to read all the details.

00:11:45.020 And while you're there, please help me crowdfund the $40,000 I'm going to need to hold Trudeau

00:11:50.200 to account.

00:11:51.480 We live in a free country.

00:11:53.620 Journalists shouldn't have to go to court to be able to attend a press conference.

00:11:57.460 But it's come to that.

00:11:58.320 If you can help out, whether it's $5 or $500, I'd sure appreciate it.

00:12:03.180 It feels like we're doing this for everyone, not just for ourselves.

00:12:06.380 This is for freedom in the press, for all media.

00:12:09.360 But we're there in court alone.

00:12:12.300 Please be there with us, at least morally.

00:12:15.620 Go to LetUsReport.com.

00:12:17.260 Let Us Report.

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00:12:29.180 Welcome back.

00:12:29.700 Well, sometimes I like to look at how the virus is doing in places that are not the media capital

00:12:35.240 of Canada.

00:12:36.060 Here in Toronto, people are obsessed with the virus and in Montreal, too.

00:12:39.800 But how about in more severely normal parts of the country that the media companies are

00:12:43.880 not so dense in?

00:12:44.900 And I like to look at Saskatchewan because it's one of my favorite provinces.

00:12:47.840 And I just checked today.

00:12:49.040 And you know how many virus cases there are in the capital city of Regina, about a quarter

00:12:54.440 million people?

00:12:56.480 Zero.

00:12:57.960 As in none.

00:12:59.860 Do you know how many cases are in Saskatoon, the other major city in that province, all

00:13:03.600 around a quarter million people, six, six in the whole place, I put it to you, you have

00:13:07.740 a greater chance of dying from hitting wildlife on the highway than you do from dying of

00:13:14.160 the virus.

00:13:14.580 So the question arises, why is the whole country on a reopening schedule that seems like it

00:13:22.600 was drafted in a, oh, I don't know, a senior's home in Montreal or Toronto, a virus hotspot?

00:13:29.460 Why haven't other provinces just said, we're done?

00:13:33.380 Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton is our friend Lauren Gunder, who made this very

00:13:36.860 point in Post Media.

00:13:38.940 His article is entitled, Don't Let Quebec and Ontario Hold Back Other Provinces.

00:13:44.240 Lauren, great to see you again.

00:13:45.840 I'm sad for the deaths in Ontario and Quebec, but I should say even in those provinces, they're

00:13:51.100 very concentrated, often in seniors' homes.

00:13:53.780 We saw a headline in the Toronto Star, 82% of the deaths have been in seniors' homes.

00:13:58.540 Makes me very sad, but it tells me, if you're not in a senior's home, this was really no 0.98

00:14:02.820 worse than the flu.

00:14:04.900 Yeah, the statistics are interesting, and I have been pushing this now for two months.

00:14:10.400 Let's look at the stats, let's look at the stats, let's look at the stats, because the

00:14:14.000 statistics are where you find the risk factors in all of this.

00:14:18.460 And, you know, early on, maybe I was a little too optimistic because people didn't know, even

00:14:23.880 really smart people didn't always know where this virus was going to go.

00:14:27.860 But as you say, you know, it's largely been confined to seniors' homes, which is horrible.

00:14:35.520 It's awful.

00:14:36.260 And, you know, the pain that you feel when you watch people who cannot say goodbye to

00:14:43.280 their grandparents or their elderly parents, who have to wave through the window, and the

00:14:48.100 last time they're going to get to hold them or talk to them or whatever was months ago,

00:14:52.360 and they didn't know that was going to happen.

00:14:53.860 That is just so heartbreaking to see.

00:14:56.860 So please, when I say this has been confined mostly to seniors' homes, don't get the wrong 0.99

00:15:02.780 impression that I think it's trivial as a result of that.

00:15:06.620 It's certainly not.

00:15:07.700 But it informs our strategy for dealing with the infection, or at least it should.

00:15:13.800 And the thing is, you know, we talk here in the introduction about Toronto and Montreal.

00:15:18.740 Toronto and Montreal aren't even close to the same levels of infection.

00:15:23.180 Montreal has many times, four times more infection than Toronto does.

00:15:28.480 I mean, Toronto is, of course, the panic capital, the hipster capital of the country. 0.90

00:15:37.280 So we're, you know, in Toronto, they're worried about, oh, my plastic bag might choke a squirrel

00:15:42.620 somewhere in Algonquin.

00:15:44.680 My plastic straw could kill a turtle.

00:15:48.120 You know, my SUV is going to melt the ice cap.

00:15:51.640 This infection is going to destroy society.

00:15:53.920 You know, calm down.

00:15:56.020 Calm down.

00:15:56.820 Look at the statistics.

00:15:58.360 And when you look at the statistics, Montreal was well, was very much better than New York

00:16:04.620 City.

00:16:05.780 And Toronto is very much better than Montreal.

00:16:07.860 So it is many times better than New York City ever was.

00:16:11.680 But you don't get that out of most of the coverage.

00:16:14.020 The coverage is, it's happening there.

00:16:16.240 It's coming here.

00:16:17.460 My God, we have to get ready for it.

00:16:19.480 Yeah.

00:16:19.860 And that's part of the reason you will see people go to the grocery store, not just with

00:16:24.840 a mask on, but with gloves as well.

00:16:27.940 And they jump out of the way when you push your cart anywhere close to them.

00:16:31.940 And they cringe by the soup cans.

00:16:35.660 It's an overreaction.

00:16:37.900 Did we know that going in?

00:16:39.620 No.

00:16:39.940 And do I fault public health officials for doing what they did in March?

00:16:44.860 No, I don't.

00:16:46.160 I wish they had done it now in hindsight.

00:16:48.540 I didn't know this in January.

00:16:50.140 I wish in January they had done some of these things much, much earlier, like shut off foreign 1.00

00:16:55.020 travel from hotspots and really isolate people who were suspected of having the infection.

00:17:01.680 I think that would have reduced the widespread or the outbreak a great deal in Canada.

00:17:07.420 So, yes, are there things we can do better and faster?

00:17:10.880 Yes, of course there are.

00:17:11.980 But I don't fault people for not knowing that even Theresa Tam and other public health officials,

00:17:17.840 who would have guessed this would come here like this?

00:17:20.280 Right.

00:17:20.500 And the thing is, we saw such terrible imagery coming out of China.

00:17:24.420 And like the Soviet Union in Chernobyl, we didn't know, well, is it 100 times worse? 0.88

00:17:29.900 Or is it just their reaction that's 100 times worse?

00:17:32.840 So, there was that added level of mystery and malice.

00:17:38.320 But I think we're through that now.

00:17:39.980 I just saw today a statistic that showed 96% of the mortalities in Italy were accompanied

00:17:45.740 by an underlying, as they say, a comorbidity.

00:17:49.460 And in fact, three quarters of them were accompanied by three or more underlying conditions.

00:17:55.080 So, you had people who were obese, smokers, who were diabetic and over 80.

00:17:59.340 Well, okay, I still feel really, really badly.

00:18:03.720 I mean, some of those pictures of Italian churches where the priests were doing mass blessings of caskets

00:18:09.700 because there had been so many people dying in a small village within a couple of days.

00:18:14.360 That's really heart-wrenching.

00:18:16.400 I'm not trying to diminish that in any way.

00:18:19.000 But it does give you an idea of whether or not you want to shut down the entire economy

00:18:24.340 if nobody under 40 is getting really sick and almost no one under 70 is dying.

00:18:31.180 So, that's why the statistics are so important.

00:18:34.520 I'll give you another statistic.

00:18:36.180 In Ontario, where, of course, people are panicked again because the daily infection rates went up slightly.

00:18:43.200 There are two reasons that I can see for that.

00:18:45.480 One is Ontario was very slow to start mass testing.

00:18:49.420 That's a big mistake.

00:18:50.880 That can't happen again.

00:18:52.080 But they are testing now at a much more ferocious rate.

00:18:56.040 And so, you're going to catch more positives when you do more testing.

00:19:01.220 That's number one.

00:19:02.620 Number two is, of course, Ontario has opened up its economy a bit.

00:19:07.320 And that might tend to lead to more infections initially.

00:19:11.980 It did in South Korea, which has handled this very well.

00:19:15.180 They had slightly higher, slightly elevated infection rates after they opened their economy.

00:19:19.300 It did it in Germany, which has handled this very well, too.

00:19:22.060 So, you have to sort of expect that.

00:19:24.420 But then you look at that, what's the park in Toronto?

00:19:26.640 Trinity Bellwoods, I think it was called, where they had lots of people on the lawn.

00:19:31.520 And media outlets went and took pictures from the lawn level.

00:19:35.100 Yeah.

00:19:35.220 And when you get down and you shoot through a crowd, it looks far more crowded than it probably really was.

00:19:42.600 What I've looked for and could not find was a drone image from the same park.

00:19:47.700 Because that's when you can tell whether people are social distancing or not.

00:19:50.720 But Ontario has almost 80% of the people who have had COVID in Ontario are now recovered.

00:20:01.340 That similar figure for Quebec is 30%.

00:20:04.740 So, the virus is still very active in Quebec.

00:20:08.700 It's not nearly as active in Ontario.

00:20:11.060 So, the fact that the CBC panics or the Toronto Star panics, they still, my goodness, it's going to kill us still.

00:20:19.620 It means they're not looking at the statistics and trying to put this all in perspective.

00:20:24.320 So, not only is it unfair to BC and Alberta and New Brunswick.

00:20:29.300 New Brunswick, again, there's one case in New Brunswick that's unresolved.

00:20:35.140 This person's still sick.

00:20:36.900 But they're self-isolating at home.

00:20:38.480 How much risk are you at if you go out in public in New Brunswick?

00:20:44.060 Not much.

00:20:45.120 So, why shouldn't you be able to go out in New Brunswick?

00:20:47.880 And they have opened up their economy even more than any other province.

00:20:52.520 So, this is the reason why I wrote a piece on the weekend that said we can't allow the panic that's in Ontario

00:20:59.900 and the real infection that still exists in Quebec to hold back the rest of the country.

00:21:05.080 Because the rest of the country, the city of Edmonton with a million people has fewer than 50 active cases.

00:21:12.140 They are all self-isolated or an institution.

00:21:15.660 So, if I go to the grocery store, how much risk am I at of contracting COVID-19?

00:21:22.580 Very, very little, if any at all.

00:21:25.800 So, this is the kind of sense.

00:21:29.040 When the Prime Minister says again and again and again that he's listening to the experts, he's listening to the scientists,

00:21:34.580 if he is still thinking the whole country should be locked down, then he's not listening to the experts and he's not listening to the science.

00:21:40.640 He's not looking at the stats in the way he should be looking at them.

00:21:43.800 Yeah. Well, a friend of a friend of a friend, so that's what triple hearsay, is friends with Justin Trudeau.

00:21:50.540 And he tells me that Trudeau obsesses over social media and just really follows it.

00:21:56.780 And since he's really locked in his own house, he rarely emerges.

00:22:00.600 He's a bit of a recluse.

00:22:02.080 His own family doesn't live with him.

00:22:03.560 I think his source on the world is either very revved up or submissive subordinates or Twitter.

00:22:13.540 And if you are to determine your worldview by Twitter, you would be terrified, I think.

00:22:19.360 I think he needs to get out and about a bit.

00:22:21.700 But let me ask you one last question.

00:22:23.760 Because, I mean, as you know, not a single Canadian under age 20 has died, thank God, from this.

00:22:31.200 And there's 8 million Canadians in that age category.

00:22:34.660 So, like I say, you're more likely to be hit, you know, hit a car and die, hit a moose on the highway and die than if you're under 20.

00:22:43.000 So why are we shutting down schools?

00:22:44.680 Why are we shutting down playgrounds?

00:22:46.060 But it's not just that it's the over 80s or over the 90s.

00:22:49.600 It is, are you institutionalized?

00:22:52.880 If you're 85, 90, even 100, and at home, you're going to be fine.

00:22:58.620 So it's not even the age, it's are you in a senior's home?

00:23:02.680 And here's a question I have for you about this.

00:23:04.800 So to say this kills people over 80 or over 90, yeah, but the real variable I think you're looking at is are you in an institutional home?

00:23:14.580 And even more so, one in Quebec.

00:23:16.520 Well, what is it about these institutional homes and what is it about them in Quebec?

00:23:20.620 I have a theory at this point, it's just a pure hypothesis, pure speculation, but I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm sure you are too. 0.97

00:23:29.340 Let me throw it at you, and if it's a dumb idea, puncture this balloon. 0.97

00:23:34.240 Quebec is the most left-wing province when it comes to euthanasia, right to die, do not resuscitate. 0.98

00:23:42.980 And especially in some of these seniors' homes where the patients or the grandparents, the clients, whatever you want to call them, sign, and the family sign, do not resuscitate.

00:23:54.700 If things are going bad, give them palliative care and wish them Godspeed into their final journey.

00:24:00.940 I wonder, I mean, we've heard some reports about bad hygiene and super spreader staff going from place to place.

00:24:08.640 We've heard some bad reports, but I wonder if it's because families send away their grandparents, goodbye, oh yeah, if he has a problem, I don't want to spend 50 grand in meds fixing him, do not resuscitate.

00:24:24.100 I wonder if that, and the culture of death, and the culture of euthanasia and assisted suicide, is a factor in the fact that anyone who got really sick in their 80s and 90s, the nursing home should say, oh sorry, he's gone.

00:24:39.200 Yeah, that certainly could play into it.

00:24:42.700 It would be really interesting to see a formal inquiry into this that was truly independent, that actually did ask real experts whether or not they, what they thought happened and why it happened.

00:24:55.180 Why was it so much worse than Quebec? 0.90

00:24:56.560 I know we were told that, you know, Quebec's spring break was so much earlier than the rest of the countries, and a lot of Quebecers went to Florida and New York and France, where at least two of those were hot spots at the time, as it turned out.

00:25:10.200 So I think that's going to play into it.

00:25:11.980 I do also think that sort of secular equivalent of what you're talking about, the secular half of that coin, is that Quebecers have a profound belief in the state.

00:25:24.580 And they believe that they can turn over the care of their aging relatives to the government, either directly in government homes or indirectly in government supervision of private seniors facilities.

00:25:40.000 And that's going to be the best for them.

00:25:44.220 Government care is the best care.

00:25:46.880 And that doesn't always turn out that way.

00:25:48.940 They don't want to go home the same way.

00:25:50.700 You know, there isn't the thought that we should keep grandma close by.

00:25:55.380 And I think that there is more of that in other provinces.

00:25:58.720 The survival rate, too, is interesting.

00:26:02.100 And this, I have no clue why this has happened, but the survival rate of people who are over 80 and contract COVID in Alberta is among the highest anywhere in the Western world.

00:26:14.840 And I don't know why that is, because we have had outbreaks in homes that got out of control.

00:26:21.120 Mackenzie Town, for instance, in Calgary, had a lot of deaths, in excess of four dozen deaths.

00:26:29.080 But none of those care homes, there were 28 or 29 in Calgary that had outbreaks at one point or another.

00:26:38.060 None of them now have really serious problems.

00:26:40.780 Many of them still have active cases, but they're not spreading it to other residents in the home.

00:26:47.060 And so I'd be interested to see afterwards.

00:26:49.180 Let somebody take a look at all this.

00:26:51.140 Why did it happen?

00:26:52.300 And certainly the culture of death is probably part of it.

00:26:56.040 Faith in government is probably another part of it.

00:26:59.080 And slow reactions.

00:27:01.200 It just seems to me like there's that one case, it was Huron Centre, is what it was called, in suburban Montreal, where the staff got frightened about COVID and abandoned the home for five days.

00:27:13.780 Oh, my God.

00:27:14.460 Before the owners stepped in and did anything really significant.

00:27:19.900 And it required the Quebec government to take over the home in order to get any care at all.

00:27:24.880 People had been left in soiled diapers for four and five days.

00:27:29.000 Oh, my God.

00:27:29.720 They died for it.

00:27:30.520 And to blame that on a virus is not even, that's not factual.

00:27:33.640 Well, no, exactly.

00:27:34.040 And people should go to jail for that.

00:27:35.980 Yeah.

00:27:36.260 Oh, my God.

00:27:37.540 People should go to jail for neglect, you know, negligent care in a case like that.

00:27:43.240 And I think that will smarten up people the next time the disease comes around, too.

00:27:48.700 And it's something like this.

00:27:50.300 Either COVID-19 in the second phase or something similar to COVID-19 will come around again.

00:27:56.200 Yeah.

00:27:56.380 And we were ready for SARS-2.

00:27:59.480 SARS was very small, though, and we were ready for a small outbreak of something similar.

00:28:03.720 This was a large outbreak of something similar.

00:28:06.100 We simply have to follow Taiwan's lead. 1.00

00:28:09.040 Taiwan has had almost no infection.

00:28:12.080 They're 38 miles across the Straits of Taiwan from China, and they've had virtually no infection and eight deaths.

00:28:19.020 Eight.

00:28:19.520 In a country of 24 million people.

00:28:21.180 And that's because when they heard something was going on in China, they said, yeah, this could be bad.

00:28:26.180 So we are going to test everybody who comes in from China. 1.00

00:28:29.380 We're going to put everybody who comes from China into isolation. 1.00

00:28:32.480 We're going to enforce the isolation with the technology on modern smartphones.

00:28:37.640 And we are going to check them out three or four times while they're in their 14-day quarantine period.

00:28:44.240 Make sure they haven't gone anywhere else.

00:28:46.560 And as a result, that Taiwan has not closed its schools.

00:28:50.020 It hasn't closed its restaurants, hasn't closed its manufacturing, hasn't shut down its banks, hasn't done any of the sort of stuff that much of the rest of the world does.

00:28:57.780 And it has the lowest infection rate of a modern industrialized country.

00:29:02.200 So it can be done.

00:29:03.480 Yeah.

00:29:03.780 Yeah, they're just great.

00:29:04.860 They learned their lesson the hard way.

00:29:06.700 And they were not burdened by the disinformation of the World Health Organization.

00:29:11.120 And they were not burdened by political correctness.

00:29:13.520 They weren't burdened by this notion that if we say something's bad in China, oh, that's racist.

00:29:18.620 You mustn't say, no, something was bad in China.

00:29:21.720 It could have been something bad in the United States.

00:29:25.780 I mean, maybe this started in the States.

00:29:27.300 Maybe you could have said, something's bad in New York.

00:29:29.580 We have to take action.

00:29:31.160 It's not racist to identify where the source of the problem is and to take action.

00:29:36.280 Yeah.

00:29:36.640 Wow.

00:29:37.340 Well, listen, great to talk to you, my friend.

00:29:39.020 And let me once again recommend your piece in Post Media.

00:29:41.480 I'm reading the version that was published in the National Post.

00:29:43.640 The headline is, don't let Quebec and Ontario hold back other provinces.

00:29:47.620 And let me just read the subtitle they gave it, the deck, as it's called.

00:29:51.980 There have been 12 deaths in Edmonton, 1 million residents, and nearly 1,500 in Montreal, 2.3 million residents.

00:29:59.700 It makes no sense to treat those two cities the same, just as it makes no sense to treat different provinces or regions the same.

00:30:05.780 What a great point.

00:30:06.940 Great to see you, my friend.

00:30:07.860 Stay healthy.

00:30:08.500 We'll talk to you soon.

00:30:09.200 You too.

00:30:09.540 All right.

00:30:10.240 There you have it.

00:30:10.620 Lauren Gunter, senior columnist for the Edmonton Sun.

00:30:13.480 Stay with us.

00:30:14.040 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:30:23.360 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about what happens when the people stop listening to the elites.

00:30:27.880 Sherry writes,

00:30:28.520 Oh, you're so right.

00:30:44.700 I just saw today a report from Italy where it was horrific, they said.

00:30:50.960 Well, 96% of the virus deaths in Italy are now attributed to an underlying cause.

00:30:58.020 Now, that doesn't make it any better.

00:30:59.620 Those people died.

00:31:00.900 But blaming that on the virus created a panic in the West.

00:31:05.480 Rex writes,

00:31:06.840 Wow, Cruella de Villa with a $95,000 pay increase in two years. 1.00

00:31:12.420 Yeah, I don't know how that, I mean, these public health officers, many of them are medical doctors,

00:31:18.480 obviously not Dr. Tedros Adhanom of the World Health Organization.

00:31:22.240 How do you get to be the head of the World Health Organization but not be a doctor?

00:31:25.760 These public health doctors like Teresa Tam and de Villa there, they don't see patients.

00:31:31.060 That's not their job.

00:31:32.020 They just are sort of politicians with an MD.

00:31:35.320 So imagine getting paid $300,000 just to go on TV and say, wash your hands and don't go to the park.

00:31:44.500 On my interview with Sam Goldstein about an update of our fightthefines.com campaign, Paul writes,

00:31:49.280 People need to be louder than the poutine media.

00:31:53.440 Protests are one way to do that. 0.97

00:31:55.440 Let your MPs and MPPs know how you feel.

00:31:57.880 If we leave this to the politicians and hope they do the right thing, we will soon have no rights.

00:32:02.340 Count on it.

00:32:02.860 I really feel that this fight the fines campaign has been a shining moment for what we've done here at Rebel over the last five years.

00:32:12.800 And we've had some very interesting battles.

00:32:15.400 And thank you for letting me tell you our letusreport.com battle today.

00:32:21.760 I just wanted to just get that big message out there.

00:32:24.760 I'm going to obviously email that video much wider than just the paywall.

00:32:28.640 So forgive me for giving some of the good stuff away for free.

00:32:31.320 Sometimes we do that.

00:32:32.140 Sometimes we take a whole monologue from behind the paywall and put it out there if we think it'll bring more people to subscribe.

00:32:38.860 Or in this case, we need some help to crowdfund the lawsuit.

00:32:42.740 I think this is one of the most important things we've done.

00:32:46.180 Partly because the government overreach is so insane.

00:32:49.060 But mainly because no one else is doing it.

00:32:51.400 Where's the civil liberties groups?

00:32:53.040 And you know what really grosses me out about this lawsuit we have to do at the federal court?

00:32:57.280 Where's all the media freedom groups?

00:32:59.540 Where's all the press freedom groups who, if Donald Trump or Stephen Harper would look even cross-eyed at a journalist?

00:33:06.320 They'd say, oh my God, stop harassing the press.

00:33:08.320 They literally escorted Kean Bextie off the property simply because he wasn't a liberal. 0.77

00:33:13.180 And the media said, oh yeah, get that bum out of here. 0.99

00:33:15.940 The rest of the media are in the tank.

00:33:18.740 That's why we're doing this lawsuit.

00:33:21.280 That's our show for today, everybody.

00:33:23.220 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:33:27.680 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:29.860 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 27, 2020

A federal judge AGREES to fast-track our lawsuit against Trudeau’s media censorship

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