Rebel News Podcast - After the week’s events, where do we go？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. What a great show today. An interview with our friend Andrew Lawton about

00:00:04.200 the possible curfew in Ontario and the for sure curfew in Quebec. Do you think there's going to

00:00:09.700 be a curfew where you are? We'll talk a bit about it. And before that, I give you sort of our battle

00:00:14.240 plan for the year 2021. It's going to be harder than last year. Sorry, it just is. Hey, before I

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00:01:11.320 Tonight, after the week's events, where do we go? It's January 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant

00:01:16.820 Show.

00:01:17.200 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500

00:01:24.020 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:28.680 government, the why I publish it, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:37.960 If you put aside trivia and minutia, Donald Trump was one of the great presidents. Don't

00:01:44.000 talk to me about his rough style or his insults. That's what leftist media do, or low information

00:01:50.100 voters who just want to be safe so they repeat the one message track they know. Oh, did you

00:01:56.140 hear him five years ago say the word pussy? I mean, get serious. Do you know how crude Lyndon 1.00

00:02:02.940 Johnson was in both word and deed? Oh my God, you should Google it. Have you forgotten what

00:02:09.860 Bill Clinton did in the Oval Office? Don't Google it. Do you think that Teddy Roosevelt

00:02:16.320 was the kind of guy who drank from teacups with his pinky in the air? Get serious for

00:02:22.460 a moment. The largest economic renaissance since Ronald Reagan, by some measures even

00:02:27.460 better than Reagan did, reinvigorating the military both with money and respect, and pressuring

00:02:33.240 NATO allies around the world to do their share too, including us. Are you happy with Canadian

00:02:38.460 defense spending as it is right now? Well, they're moving up, and they're moving

00:02:42.240 up substantially, and they're starting to do very well economically, and that has something

00:02:46.500 to do with it. And yeah, they're getting up to a level that's getting to be very acceptable.

00:02:52.380 They have been under the 2%, obviously, but they're moving up. We discuss it. I'm satisfied.

00:02:58.920 I'm sorry, Mr. President.

00:02:59.920 Mr. President, you've called member countries and allied countries in the past delinquents

00:03:05.500 for not meeting the 2% standard. Where would you put Canada in that as they're not?

00:03:09.480 Slightly delinquent, I should say, Canada, but they'll be okay. I have confidence. Just

00:03:13.760 slightly delinquent. Some are major delinquents. Some are way below 1%, and that's unacceptable.

00:03:22.100 And then if something happens, we're supposed to protect them, and it's not really fair, and

00:03:26.720 it never has been fair. Mr. President, Canada does not meet the 2% standard. Should it have

00:03:32.520 a plan to meet the 2% standard?

00:03:35.220 Well, we'll put them on a payment plan, you know? We'll put Canada on a payment plan,

00:03:38.980 right? I'm sure the Prime Minister would love that. What are you at? What is your number?

00:03:43.720 The number we talk about is 70% increase over these past years, including, and for the coming

00:03:50.500 years, including significant investments in our fighter jets, significant investments in our

00:03:57.460 naval fleets. We are increasing significantly our defense spending from previous governments that

00:04:02.880 cut it. Okay. Where are you now in terms of your number? We're at 135? 1.3. 1.4. 1.4.

00:04:13.180 And continuing to move on. They're getting there. They know it's important to do that. And their

00:04:19.540 economy is doing well. They'll get there quickly, I think. And look, it's to their benefit.

00:04:24.240 Yeah, no wonder the world's leftist leaders are glad Trump is gone. Absolutely unleashing

00:04:29.520 American energy. You know, when I published my book, Ethical Oil, The Case for Canada's Oil Science,

00:04:33.680 about 10 years ago now, America was the world's largest importer of oil. Just a staggering amount of

00:04:41.300 oil. Much of it coming from America's enemies in OPEC. And of course, every barrel coming in from

00:04:47.960 an enemy meant 50 or 100 bucks per barrel going out to that enemy. Now America is a net energy

00:04:55.420 exporter. I can't even believe it. But it's through fracking, through drilling offshore in the Gulf and in

00:05:02.080 Alaska, from coal. Just amazing. Taking on China was so key. It was China that destroyed the rust belt. 1.00

00:05:10.740 With its unfair trade practices absorbing all the factories. Trump put hundreds of billions of

00:05:17.140 dollars on tariffs on China, which drove companies out of China, some of them back to America in many

00:05:23.940 cases. Who would ever thought that was possible? Apple actually started to manufacture computers in

00:05:31.060 America again. Not all of them, but some. The steel plants and auto plants that were actually

00:05:36.980 opened in America. Were it not for the exaggerated virus, which slowed the economy down last year,

00:05:44.200 Trump most likely would have won the election on the economy alone. And then add to that something

00:05:49.660 that exceeds every other Republican president, including Ronald Reagan. The most impressive list

00:05:55.700 of judges who respect the Constitution ever appointed by any president. Three great conservatives on the

00:06:03.460 Supreme Court, plus countless lower court and appeal judges. Truly magnificent judges. Credit to Mitch

00:06:09.320 McConnell, too, for pushing them through. But most credit to Donald Trump for nominating them and

00:06:13.920 standing by them. And I haven't even mentioned foreign affairs yet. Putting China in its place, yes, but 0.70

00:06:20.020 neutralizing North Korea more than any president has done. Boxing in Iran, cutting off Obama's bizarre

00:06:26.940 extortion payments to Iran. And just in the past few weeks even, really, practically ending the Arab-Israeli

00:06:33.740 crisis. There are now formal and warm peace deals between Israel and Bahrain, and Israel and the United

00:06:41.040 Arab Emirates, and Israel and Sudan, and Israel and Morocco. So many peace deals where one would have been

00:06:49.480 incredible. And it's peace for peace, not peace for land or peace for some temporary payoff. And speaking of

00:06:56.520 Muslim countries, no more wars. Trump didn't start any new wars. He just didn't. He brought troops home, which the

00:07:04.380 military deep state did not like one bit, and they tried to thwart him. And despite the media party lies about him

00:07:11.000 being a Russian stooge, he just wasn't. He actually brought in tougher sanctions on Russia and kept Russia contained. It didn't

00:07:17.880 invade other countries like it did under Obama and George W. Bush. A most consequential president, a hugely

00:07:24.600 successful president. Who cares what the media says? A president with coattails, too, by the way. He brought

00:07:29.680 congressmen with him in 2016 and 2020. It was when he wasn't on the ballot in 2018, and just a few days ago in

00:07:37.440 Georgia, the Republicans had setbacks. The reason they hate him the most, of course, is that he wasn't part of

00:07:44.740 the establishment. He was when he was just a celebrity billionaire real estate developer. Then they all loved

00:07:50.460 him, especially Hollywood. But when he wanted to displace the Washington permanent ruling class, the deep

00:07:56.720 state, oh, they hated him, they undermined him, they trapped him, they smeared him, they undid him. It truly is a

00:08:02.320 miracle he accomplished so much as an outsider. There is a rage and a vengeance in the

00:08:08.220 Democrat Congress now. Trump will be gone in 12 days, and yet they're seething with calls to impeach

00:08:14.300 him just once more for old time's sake to literally kick him in the tush as he leaves. That's vengeance. 0.96

00:08:21.060 It's petty. And it's not about healing or building or reaching out to the 75, 80 million people who voted

00:08:26.360 for Trump. And again, it is a sign of what they'll do to you and me in a second if they could. Now, we're

00:08:34.000 Canadians, of course. We have American viewers, but we're based in Canada. We don't actually have any

00:08:38.260 American staff these days, even though we use American platforms like YouTube for our company.

00:08:42.520 We care about America. And Trump's battles benefited us as side effects. His battle against the UN and

00:08:49.440 its global warming craziness, his hard line against carbon taxes, his true battle against terrorists.

00:08:55.180 He ended ISIS. He's not an accommodationist with them like Trudeau was. All that benefited us too.

00:09:01.280 Now that's gone. I don't know how badly the Democrats down there can hurt us directly,

00:09:06.720 except through social media censorship like YouTube. But now Canada will get much worse

00:09:12.280 and will sync up with the worst instincts in the American left. I note as just one example

00:09:18.760 that Ilhan Omar, the anti-Semitic ingrate, the congresswoman from Minnesota, she is buddies

00:09:26.540 with our own Ahmed Hassan. Imagine the two of them working together even more than they are now.

00:09:31.280 You know, Donald Trump did not visit Canada once as president, except for those occasions where

00:09:36.860 there was some multilateral conference in Canada, like a G7 meeting that he had to come to and that

00:09:43.800 he left right afterwards. As in, he never came up here on his own just to meet Trudeau one-on-one

00:09:49.100 just to come to our country. What a shame. Dang. Imagine if we had actually worked with him 1.00

00:09:53.880 on joint projects for our benefit, for our mutual benefit, especially in energy and infrastructure

00:09:59.560 and military matters. How many lost opportunities? Now Trudeau probably will work with Biden and

00:10:05.600 Harris on things that undo us. Censorship, carbon taxes, things like that. But let me tell you

00:10:11.420 what's on my mind. Besides keeping our freedom of speech and freedom of the press,

00:10:15.020 we will obviously cover American politics as we always do. We cover world affairs and the UK and

00:10:20.840 Australia too. We might even wind up hiring a reporter in America though. It's a large place,

00:10:25.240 probably too large for one person to do it justice. Maybe we'll hire someone or even team up

00:10:29.780 in some way with some existing media outlet down there in some sort of a partnership because there

00:10:34.980 are more and more alternative news sources down there as the mainstream media lurches to the

00:10:39.200 censorious left. But mainly, I think my message to you today as both a commentator and as the

00:10:44.960 president of Rebel News, the Rebel commander, is that we have an enormous amount of work to do here.

00:10:50.620 We have to talk about Canadian news and the Canadian crisis, especially the pandemic and what it has

00:10:57.120 allowed politicians and bureaucrats to get away with. The lack of democracy. First of all, they wanted

00:11:03.360 to shut down parliament altogether. They half-half. The permanent state of emergency. That's legally

00:11:09.520 the state we're in. The new taxes and spending and borrowing, of course, but much more importantly,

00:11:14.260 the diminution of our freedoms. For heaven's sakes, they're bringing in curfews in Quebec like the 1.00

00:11:19.280 War Measures Act. But the War Measures Act was in reaction to an actual bombing spree, the FLQ

00:11:25.100 terrorist group. Now it's just because some public health nurse says so. And the politicians all agree

00:11:32.520 they all agree. Show me a single opposition party, liberal or conservative, that is against the

00:11:38.580 lockdown. Show me one. I don't mean individuals like Randy Hillier, the independent MPP in Ontario,

00:11:44.280 and I think I just listed them all, haven't I? I mean anyone with the Office of Official Opposition,

00:11:49.740 the Office, the official critic, anyone official. Is there anyone other than Pierre Polyev, who I wish

00:11:55.800 ran for the leader of the Federal Conservatives, Pierre, who is an excellent finance critic and who I think

00:12:00.760 we all have seen in action? Can you tell me a critic who is criticized or an opposition politician who

00:12:06.360 is opposed? I can't. And it's almost been a year. And there lies our mission, I think.

00:12:13.920 To tell the news that is being ignored or covered up by the media party. News of the pain of the lockdown,

00:12:19.800 the economic and human cost of things. Stupid rules like police with guns patrolling toboggan hills. 1.00

00:12:27.000 More chilling things like police breaking into houses and physically dragging out people from homes like 1.00

00:12:33.020 this one in Gatineau, Quebec.

00:12:34.560 No sinner! No sinner! No sinner! No sinner! No sinner! No sinner!

00:12:40.180 Where you going?

00:12:42.180 Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

00:12:46.180 Don't pump him up!

00:12:48.180 He can't breathe all right?

00:12:50.180 He can't breathe all right?

00:12:52.180 He can't breathe all right?

00:12:54.180 Hey! 0.99

00:12:56.180 Don't pump him up.

00:12:58.180 Stay here, stay here.

00:13:00.180 Hey, you can't do this!

00:13:02.180 Don't pump him up!

00:13:04.180 Don't pump him up!

00:13:06.180 Okay, calm down, calm down.

00:13:08.180 don't that

00:13:26.580 hey

00:13:31.780 You have to put your clothes on there!

00:13:33.780 This is how I'm going to come out.

00:13:35.780 Hey no, what are you doing? 0.99

00:13:37.780 Hey, they're going to be killed! 0.99

00:13:41.780 What the hell is it? 1.00

00:13:43.780 Get the f*** out in there! 1.00

00:13:45.780 Jesus Christ! 0.99

00:13:47.780 It's going to be worse, I don't know.

00:13:49.780 You can make things worse!

00:13:51.780 Yes!

00:13:53.780 What are you gonna do now?

00:13:55.780 Stay there! 0.92

00:13:57.780 You have to get a shoe for the others.

00:13:59.780 Why are you gonna get a shoe?

00:14:01.780 Hey, that's what I'm going to do!

00:14:03.780 How are you going to do?

00:14:05.780 You don't have to shoot at the house!

00:14:07.780 You don't have to shoot!

00:14:09.780 I'm going to go to the sergeant!

00:14:11.780 No, I'm not going to shoot!

00:14:13.780 No, I'm not going to shoot!

00:14:15.780 Don't you see that!

00:14:17.780 Don't you see that!

00:14:19.780 Wait, Antoine, Antoine!

00:14:21.780 You don't have to take a call!

00:14:23.780 Oh my God!

00:14:25.780 I'm going to ask you to do that!

00:14:27.780 No!

00:14:29.780 It's just to collaborate!

00:14:31.780 Hey, what are you going to do?

00:14:33.780 Oh my God! 1.00

00:14:35.780 You're going to shoot me! 1.00

00:14:37.780 You're going to shoot me! 1.00

00:14:39.780 You're going to shoot me! 1.00

00:14:41.780 You're going to shoot me! 1.00

00:14:43.780 You're going to shoot me! 1.00

00:14:45.780 Close the door! 1.00

00:14:46.780 Close the door! 0.99

00:14:47.780 I don't want to see those people anymore!

00:14:49.780 I can't do that without getting angry!

00:14:51.780 But I don't want to just be angry!

00:14:53.780 I don't want to be kooky!

00:14:54.780 Or indulge in fantasy!

00:14:55.780 Like QAnon!

00:14:57.780 Or obscure Canadian theories!

00:14:59.780 I don't know!

00:15:01.780 They talk about arresting Mike Pence!

00:15:03.780 Or arresting Justin Trudeau!

00:15:05.780 And how there's a secret plan!

00:15:07.780 And follow the plan!

00:15:09.780 Like there's going to be some miracle! 0.98

00:15:11.780 That's foolishness! 0.90

00:15:13.780 That's self-deception! 0.62

00:15:15.780 I want to tell the news as it really happens!

00:15:17.780 I want to give you our honest view on that news!

00:15:19.780 And I want to help in small incremental ways

00:15:21.780 that we can make a difference!

00:15:23.780 Like our important Fight the Fines project!

00:15:25.780 Where we hire lawyers to defend people against lockdown fines!

00:15:28.780 And we crowdfund the cost of those lawyers!

00:15:30.780 That's such a big project!

00:15:32.780 We just actually today hired a full-time paralegal professional

00:15:35.780 to help keep track of it all!

00:15:36.780 It's such a big part of what we do now!

00:15:38.780 Or our I Will Open campaign!

00:15:42.780 Where we try to help individual companies to open back up to survive!

00:15:46.780 Next week, we expect to file a major constitutional challenge

00:15:50.780 to one of the province's lockdown rules!

00:15:53.780 I hope to do more of the same!

00:15:55.780 I want to do sane things!

00:15:57.780 Not crazy things!

00:15:58.780 Things you would expect civil liberties groups

00:16:00.780 like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to have done!

00:16:03.780 Or the opposition parties to have done!

00:16:05.780 Or maybe even other media to have done!

00:16:07.780 But none of them have done them!

00:16:09.780 In December, people kept saying,

00:16:12.780 Oh, I hope 2021 is going to be better than 2020!

00:16:15.780 Of course it won't be!

00:16:17.780 Trump is gone, so that dam is broken!

00:16:20.780 The pandemic will be made permanent!

00:16:22.780 The lockdowns will be made more vicious!

00:16:25.780 And if you thought enforcement of masks was illiberal and punitive,

00:16:30.780 well, get ready for the enforcement of vaccines!

00:16:33.780 Get ready for vaccine passports! 0.72

00:16:35.780 Get ready for the loss of your freedoms if you don't comply to Bill Gates and his globalist friends,

00:16:40.780 who were all kept out by Trump, but who are now right in the center of things!

00:16:46.780 We're going to be busy in Canada!

00:16:48.780 We care about the world!

00:16:49.780 We still report from America and the UK and Australia,

00:16:52.780 where we now have permanent journalists in London and Melbourne!

00:16:56.780 We will do civil liberties work, we will do journalism, and in our own way we will become,

00:17:01.780 in a small way, the grassroots official opposition and critics,

00:17:08.780 not because it's our job, but because others aren't really doing theirs!

00:17:13.780 So let's get to work!

00:17:16.780 Stay with us for more! 0.71

00:17:29.780 Hey, can I show you a story from CTV, which is Canada's largest private broadcaster?

00:17:33.780 Take a look at this!

00:17:34.780 The headline itself gets me, before I even read the story,

00:17:38.780 Ontario's top doctor eyes curfew to curb the spread of COVID-19 as cases surge.

00:17:46.780 Ontario's top doctor, what do they mean by top doctor?

00:17:49.780 Is it the smartest?

00:17:50.780 I know every year the medical schools, they have a gold medalist who got the top score.

00:17:55.780 So is it the smartest doctor, is that what they mean by top?

00:17:58.780 Is it the tops in terms of, you know, an innovator, a remarkable surgeon

00:18:03.780 who's trying new techniques and really knows?

00:18:05.780 Is that what they mean by top?

00:18:07.780 Maybe tops in terms of customer service, voted by his patients as best bedside manner.

00:18:14.780 Is he a doctor that really makes patients come first?

00:18:17.780 I don't know, there's a lot of ways to mean top doctor,

00:18:20.780 but let me show you what CTV means by top doctor, I'll read a little bit.

00:18:25.780 As case numbers and deaths related to COVID-19 in Ontario climbed to new heights,

00:18:30.780 the province's top doctor said that implementing a curfew to prevent transmission of the disease is on the table.

00:18:36.780 That's one of the things we will consider,

00:18:38.780 Dr. David Williams, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health said Thursday.

00:18:43.780 Oh, that's what they mean by the top doctor.

00:18:47.780 A doctor who doesn't actually have any patients, who doesn't actually care for anyone.

00:18:54.780 What they really mean is a politician with an MD,

00:18:58.780 but not even a politician because no one voted for him and no one can vote him out.

00:19:02.780 He's not accountable in any meaningful way.

00:19:05.780 That's what they mean.

00:19:06.780 I'll read one more sentence.

00:19:08.780 His comments come a day after Quebec announced it would introduce similar action

00:19:12.780 starting this Saturday that could force residents to stay home from 8pm until 5am or risk a fine of up to $6,000.

00:19:20.780 Hey, I got a question for you and a question for our next guest who's standing by.

00:19:25.780 Do you really think that cheaters like Rod Phillips, the former finance minister of Ontario, who sneaked away to St. Bart's?

00:19:34.780 Or Joe Hargrave, the highway minister in Saskatchewan, who sneaked away to the States?

00:19:39.780 Or Tracy Allard, the cabinet minister in Alberta, who sneaked away to Hawaii?

00:19:43.780 Do you really believe that these people who would bring in a curfew, that you can't go out after 8pm?

00:19:50.780 Do you really think they'd follow up themselves?

00:19:53.780 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Andrew Lawton, the boss of the Andrew Lawton Show,

00:19:58.780 which you can find at AndrewLawtonShow.com.

00:20:00.780 Andrew, do you really think that the fancy people, the hobnobbers, the elites, do you really think they're going to be nighty-night lights out at 8pm like the rest of us are going to have to be?

00:20:13.780 Yeah, I believe it's lights out, but then it's crawling behind the hedges so that a glaring headlight of a police officer doesn't necessarily pick them up.

00:20:21.780 It's funny you mentioned travel because I was looking at the Quebec restrictions and one of the exemptions to it is if you're headed to an airport or a train station.

00:20:30.780 So if you get busted driving around the streets and you are breaking curfew and they say, where are you going?

00:20:36.780 You can actually say, I'm going to St. Bart's and that actually gets you out of the curfew, which I find interesting.

00:20:42.780 Yeah, you know, I've been thinking a lot about these trips to warm places.

00:20:47.780 Warm places. And by the way, I used to love going to warm places over Christmas, too.

00:20:52.780 I think a lot of Canadians did. It's a bit of a tradition.

00:20:54.780 Folks in the West go to Hawaii, California, Phoenix.

00:20:57.780 Folks in the East go to Florida, the Caribbean.

00:21:00.780 Not everybody, but, you know, there were a lot of affordable deals.

00:21:03.780 But you can't do it anymore unless you're part of the ruling lockdown elite.

00:21:08.780 Because in addition to, say, like you were going to have a week in the Dominican Republic, let's say.

00:21:12.780 OK, but now you have to be able to afford two weeks of quarantine upon your return.

00:21:17.780 So who has three weeks that they can use to take one week in the sun?

00:21:23.780 You've got to have one of those fancy lockdown jobs like a politician, a bureaucrat, a teacher's union member or something like that.

00:21:30.780 This is I hate to sound like a Marxist, Andrew, but this is very classist, this lockdown.

00:21:37.780 Let's say you have a factory job.

00:21:39.780 You can't get out of the factory or the office from nine to five.

00:21:42.780 You need to pick the kids up from school, make dinner for them and then do your shopping or whatever at 7, 8, 9 p.m.

00:21:49.780 This is a regressive curfew.

00:21:51.780 Put aside the fact that it's against civil liberties.

00:21:54.780 There's no scientific basis for it.

00:21:56.780 They just want to punish us.

00:21:59.780 And the effect on business as well, because a lot of the small businesses that have somehow managed to survive lockdown 1.0

00:22:07.780 and are in the midst of lockdown 2.0 trying to make their best go at things, they will have to shut down and restrict hours severely.

00:22:15.780 Businesses will have to restrict hours if there's a curfew.

00:22:17.780 Now, imagine you're a business owner who is allowed to stay open in some form and you don't have employees because you can't afford them.

00:22:24.780 You've had to lay them off.

00:22:25.780 So you're at your store from open to close.

00:22:27.780 Where are you supposed to go to get groceries after you're done work?

00:22:31.780 These 24 hour grocery stores that have become the lifeblood of some communities.

00:22:35.780 Well, those can't exist anymore because, oh, well, if you're out after 8 p.m.

00:22:39.780 in Quebec or whatever time Ontario sets, if they go down this terrible road, that is going to be illegal.

00:22:45.780 So the idea here that all of a sudden everyone's work schedules and work days have to be as flexible as they are for the rulers is the expectation.

00:22:54.780 And there's a real point of privilege here.

00:22:57.780 And again, I'm sounding like you as we talk about these terms that people on our side of things don't usually talk about.

00:23:03.780 But very few people considerably, if you look at the population, have the privilege of being able to work remotely and work from home.

00:23:10.780 I'm very fortunate that I get to I know you've got a studio, but if you really needed to, you might be able to do some of your work from home or remotely, at least for a time.

00:23:19.780 A lot of people don't.

00:23:20.780 You can't be a grocery store cashier.

00:23:22.780 You can't run a little convenience store.

00:23:24.780 You can't work in a factory.

00:23:25.780 You can't do all of these jobs which occupy the majority of the Canadian workforce remotely.

00:23:31.780 So you're right.

00:23:32.780 There's a big problem that these people actually don't matter to the government.

00:23:35.780 Yeah.

00:23:36.780 You know, I was looking at Quebec bringing in the curfew.

00:23:39.780 And again and again, the question is, where's the science?

00:23:44.780 Is this virus, is it like a vampire that only comes out at night?

00:23:50.780 You know, the Hollywood vampire when there's break of day, the vampire, like the idea that the virus suddenly is dangerous at night.

00:23:59.780 There is no science to it.

00:24:01.780 The consensus that I've been reading out of Quebec is that it's not about a scientific finding that the virus strikes at night.

00:24:09.780 It's just to bring home the seriousness of it, basically to show people how mad the government is.

00:24:16.780 We're going to punish you to get your attention. 0.54

00:24:19.780 I haven't seen any medical science either in Canada or in the UK where they've had curfews or in Australia where they've had curfews that shows there is any epidemiological science behind this.

00:24:34.780 And I think it's just politicians flexing muscles because they can.

00:24:39.780 They're the ruling class. 0.93

00:24:40.780 I do agree that this is not something with a medical basis, but I actually think it does something a little bit worse than what you're describing about just there to put the fear of God into people.

00:24:52.780 And that's that it allows enforcement in a way that we don't necessarily have under the current restrictions, because right now you're still allowed to drive down the street because you could be going to church.

00:25:03.780 If you're one of the 10 people that are allowed in the building, you could be going to the grocery store, you could be doing something essential.

00:25:09.780 Now police will have an opportunity to stop you and question you and force you to justify what's always been a right, which is to drive down the roads that your taxes pay for.

00:25:19.780 Now law enforcement has a mechanism and a supposed justification to force you to justify your own actions as a supposedly free person.

00:25:29.780 And that's the real danger of this curfew is that it's now making enforcement a lot easier by criminalizing a lot more things, benign activities.

00:25:38.780 If I'm driving around in my car for an evening, people in the country grow up doing this.

00:25:42.780 You just go for a drive.

00:25:43.780 You're not actually near anyone, you're not within breathing distance of anyone, but this will no longer be allowed.

00:25:49.780 And one of the things just from a pragmatic perspective, if you shrink the hours in the day that you're allowed to do something, you're actually congesting stores more.

00:26:00.780 You're congesting grocery stores more because now, well, instead of having 12 opening hours that people can shop in, you have to cram those same number of customers into 10 hours or eight hours, which is just absurd.

00:26:11.780 We are not actually doing anything other than theater, but it's not just about optics.

00:26:16.780 There's a real enforcement challenge that comes about here.

00:26:18.780 You know, that's very interesting.

00:26:20.780 That's a very thoughtful analysis.

00:26:22.780 We know a little bit about this because our friend Avi Yamini in Melbourne, Australia, we've seen video of him going through these checkpoints and he's had to furnish written permits to let him on the roads.

00:26:38.780 They literally have check stops like you're in a war zone.

00:26:42.780 We took a case, a civil liberties case of a Christian pastor who was going to help a disabled person.

00:26:49.780 And it was soldiers.

00:26:51.780 It was actually soldiers from the Australian Defense Forces on the street who said, tell us who you're going to see.

00:26:59.780 And he said, this is like a religious church, social work thing.

00:27:04.780 I'm not going to disclose that.

00:27:05.780 They refused to let this pastor help a disabled person if he didn't tell who he was visiting.

00:27:12.780 That's straight out of a World War Two, you know, you know, where's your papers?

00:27:19.780 Well, Quebec has that as well.

00:27:21.780 Quebec has a form.

00:27:22.780 If you're driving around because it's essential for your job, you actually have to have your employer complete this form that in fact verifies that you have to be out and about doing whatever it is you do.

00:27:33.780 Which means that, you know, there's going to be some bureaucrat that's going to look and say, well, actually, you could be doing that by Zoom or you could be doing that from home.

00:27:40.780 And of course, if you look on the Quebec government's website, it's only available in French.

00:27:44.780 So we can add a bit of discrimination in the insult to injury category on this.

00:27:48.780 You know, one more thing from Australia.

00:27:50.780 Let me throw this at you, Andrew.

00:27:52.780 I've seen drones, surveillance drones used in Melbourne and other Australian places.

00:27:59.780 I wouldn't be surprised if that's deployed here too.

00:28:02.780 You know, Andrew, like you, we've been doing reporting and opinion journalism in the last 10 months.

00:28:10.780 But I think that civil liberties are going to become more and more critical.

00:28:14.780 I think this is because it's not about the virus anymore.

00:28:17.780 I think it's about control.

00:28:19.780 It's about enforcement.

00:28:20.780 It's about normalizing an intrusion in our life that has never been permitted in Canadian history.

00:28:25.780 And what makes me especially scared is how the legacy media, the media party, as I sometimes call it, is so compliant, complicit, even supportive.

00:28:37.780 We see abuses by police that would normally shock liberal journalists.

00:28:42.780 They're fine with it.

00:28:43.780 They're almost cheering on police enforcement.

00:28:46.780 I really fear that there are so few of us fighting against this overweening government.

00:28:53.780 You're one of the good guys.

00:28:55.780 But really, we could count on one hand the number of folks who are actively engaged in defending civil liberties.

00:29:02.780 I'm nervous, but I think 2021 is going to be much worse than 2020.

00:29:07.780 And I'm not trying to be a pessimist.

00:29:09.780 I just think that's my observation and conclusion.

00:29:14.780 Sadly, I can't disagree with you.

00:29:16.780 And a lot of the official quote unquote civil liberties activists I found were very quiet in the early days of the lockdown or they were saying, well, you know, maybe it's not ideal.

00:29:25.780 But and a lot of them, I think, will have to start coming around to what people in independent media have actually been beating the drum about since earlier on in the pandemic.

00:29:35.780 Now that the curfew is being discussed, which is OK, well, this is a bridge too far.

00:29:39.780 But unfortunately, they've already sort of justified that idea that it's governments and public health officials that get to make these decisions.

00:29:46.780 And just one point, if I may, Ezra, and I hope I'm not taking too much of your ear and your viewers time here, is that doctors and public health officials are important.

00:29:54.780 They have a role to play in the system, but they have a singular focus.

00:29:58.780 It's the responsibility of politicians and other stakeholders like courts, like voters and citizens to say that, well, hang on, there are other considerations here like civil liberties.

00:30:09.780 For example, if you say to a doctor, I need to reduce obesity and that's their only metric, they could say, all right, well, we'll ban sugar, we'll ban fat, we'll ban this.

00:30:17.780 They don't care about all of the economic considerations, the freedom considerations.

00:30:21.780 You've given them one focus and they'll do that. The same is true in this pandemic.

00:30:25.780 Sure, we may be able to just put a padlock on everyone's front door for two weeks and we are all going to get down to zero cases.

00:30:32.780 Except the reality is that's not feasible for all of these other reasons that they don't care about because it's not their job to.

00:30:39.780 So the idea of complete deference, we're seeing the consequences of it when doctors are telling us that we'll be locked in our homes figuratively, but almost literally after 8 p.m.

00:30:49.780 Yeah, you're right. Ontario's top doctor. Well, he's not my doctor.

00:30:52.780 If I go to a doctor, first of all, he cares about me and he thinks about me as an entire person.

00:30:57.780 And second of all, I can take it or leave it when he gives me advice. I can even get a second opinion.

00:31:02.780 Don't tell me this guy's Ontario's top doctor. I never met him.

00:31:05.780 And as far as I know, he hasn't had a patient in a decade.

00:31:09.780 You know, Andrew, I want to tell you, you're getting my noggin jogging.

00:31:13.780 And I'm thinking, I want to study what the law is in Quebec.

00:31:17.780 And let me just tell you and really tell our viewers two things that are popping into my mind.

00:31:22.780 The first is we know that there's going to be cheaters galore.

00:31:25.780 And I swear on the altar of God that we will make it a high journalistic priority to catch the lockdown enforcers being lockdown cheaters.

00:31:37.780 Because I know that the fancy people will never stay home after 8 p.m.

00:31:41.780 But there's one more thing and I'm just thinking out loud here and I should probably think it to myself until I'm ready to roll.

00:31:48.780 If there are exemptions to be handed out for certain industries, and I think journalism is typically one of them,

00:31:56.780 then I'm going to inquire with our lawyers if there's some way where we can literally deputize hundreds or even thousands of people in Ontario

00:32:09.780 or whatever other provinces there are curfews, to be official rebel news citizen journalists.

00:32:16.780 We'd pay them a dollar.

00:32:18.780 And they would use their cell phone and their journalistic mission is catch politicians or catch cops.

00:32:24.780 And they would drive the streets.

00:32:27.780 Maybe they'd pick up groceries along the way.

00:32:29.780 I want to hunt the politicians and I want to give thousands of permits to citizen journalists.

00:32:36.780 I want to actively and using the law fight this curfew.

00:32:41.780 I'm just brainstorming with you, Andrew.

00:32:42.780 Don't mind me.

00:32:44.780 I like it.

00:32:45.780 And, you know, if I didn't have my own job doing my show, I might actually ask you for one of those permits.

00:32:50.780 It's a shame that you need a permit beyond God-given freedoms.

00:32:53.780 But this is the era we're living in now in 2021.

00:32:56.780 Listen, my friend, it's always great to see you.

00:32:58.780 You're one of the good guys.

00:32:59.780 We love talking with you.

00:33:00.780 We love cheering you on.

00:33:01.780 We love True North TNC.news.

00:33:05.780 Give me just one minute on what are you working on?

00:33:08.780 What stories are you about to publish?

00:33:10.780 Is there something you're doing that you want to bring to our viewers attention?

00:33:13.780 Yeah, I'm nervous about giving too, too much away.

00:33:16.780 But just to give you a little bit of a taste, I'm actually working on a story about government surveillance of citizens,

00:33:22.780 which I think will sadly dovetail on this discussion quite well.

00:33:26.780 All right.

00:33:28.780 Well, we'll certainly keep an eye at that.

00:33:29.780 And that's TNC.news.

00:33:30.780 That's the whole website.

00:33:31.780 And you're AndrewLawtonShow.com, right?

00:33:33.780 Absolutely.

00:33:34.780 Okay, we'll put those links in the website.

00:33:35.780 Andrew, I wish you so much strength and courage this year.

00:33:40.780 And to all your colleagues at TNC, I think this is the first time we've said hi in 2021.

00:33:45.780 We need guys and gals like there are over at your shop because there are too few of us. 1.00

00:33:50.780 So we give you much moral support.

00:33:53.780 And even I think I'm a monthly subscriber or something.

00:33:56.780 I'll have to check to make sure I'm chipping in.

00:33:58.780 Well, and I am of you.

00:33:59.780 And I know people see us as the competition, but there are too few of us to have that mentality.

00:34:03.780 But it wouldn't even feel crowded competition-wise until there were 100 folks like us because there's so much work to do.

00:34:11.780 Good luck, my friend.

00:34:12.780 Thank you.

00:34:13.780 You too.

00:34:14.780 I have it, Andrew Lawton of AndrewLawtonShow.com.

00:34:17.780 I got a check to make sure I'm a monthly giver.

00:34:20.780 I got a nice Christmas ornament from True North.

00:34:23.780 So I know I gave something last year, but I got to go and check to make sure I'm giving enough.

00:34:28.780 Because I tell you, imagine, God forbid, if there was no True North, if there was no Spencer Fernando, if there was no Rebel News.

00:34:36.780 I hate to even contemplate it.

00:34:38.780 So I want to support that guy.

00:34:39.780 All right, stay with us.

00:34:40.780 More ahead.

00:34:41.780 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:34:54.780 Corey writes,

00:34:55.780 Oh, and the solution to Facebook at all is easy.

00:34:58.780 Delete.

00:34:59.780 Well, I suppose that gets you out of Facebook.

00:35:04.780 But how is that a solution?

00:35:07.780 If they censor you and you don't want to be censored, how is censoring yourself a solution?

00:35:12.780 There's two billion users in Facebook.

00:35:15.780 It's the number one referral of traffic to our website.

00:35:18.780 Simply getting out of Facebook is not a solution.

00:35:21.780 Wanda writes,

00:35:23.780 Thanks for exposing the Conservative Party of Canada with a statement released by MP Michael Chong.

00:35:28.780 For an affairs critic like you, Ezra, I'm not impressed with his letter.

00:35:31.780 It doesn't speak for me as a CPC member.

00:35:33.780 Well, not just that.

00:35:34.780 What did it achieve?

00:35:36.780 I see today Adam Vaughn, who's a Toronto Liberal, I think he's a junior cabinet minister or something,

00:35:43.780 went on a big tear about connecting the Conservative Party of Canada with Donald Trump.

00:35:49.780 Showing a picture of Candace Bergen, the deputy leader of the Conservatives, wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

00:35:55.780 Showing Jason Kenney with Senator Cruz, Ted Cruz of Texas.

00:36:00.780 And so just because Michael Chong says, I hate Donald Trump more than you do,

00:36:05.780 that's not going to stop people from associating you with them.

00:36:09.780 You can't make your enemies into friends by turning your friends into enemies.

00:36:19.780 I don't expect that Michael Chong, who really is a Liberal, would have anything nice to say about Donald Trump.

00:36:25.780 That's not really his job. Donald Trump is gone in 12 days.

00:36:28.780 But seriously, trying to suck up to the media left is not going to motivate your base,

00:36:37.780 and it's not going to placate your enemies.

00:36:39.780 Why are you doing it?

00:36:41.780 Doug writes, 0.98

00:36:42.780 Old Joe Biden and his Democrats in the US are as crooked and corrupt as Trudeau and his Liberals are here in Canada. 0.99

00:36:48.780 Well, I'm going to say they're worse because they think bigger. 0.97

00:36:51.780 If reports last year were correct, the Biden family, including Joe Biden's brother and his son,

00:36:58.780 have received more than a billion dollars from China.

00:37:02.780 That's more even than Justin Trudeau would think of grifting.

00:37:06.780 That's our show for today.

00:37:08.780 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all this here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:37:12.780 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:13.780 Thank you.

00:37:14.780 Thank you.

00:37:15.780 Thank you.

00:37:16.780 Thank you.

00:37:17.780 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - January 09, 2021

After the week’s events, where do we go？

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