Rebel News Podcast - Another day, another three Coronavirus mistakes Trudeau is making

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I go through the latest shenanigans from Justin Trudeau. The word

00:00:04.860 shenanigans is too light because what he's doing has life and death consequences. He's just

00:00:09.520 announced he's going to send millions of dollars to fight the coronavirus in Greece, apparently.

00:00:16.100 That's more important than Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Halifax,

00:00:20.520 I guess. So here's the show. Before I get out of the way, let me invite you to become a subscriber

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00:00:32.380 has a show every week and David Menzies. You can get that at rebelnews.com. Okay, here's

00:00:37.500 the podcast.

00:00:42.760 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:00:45.120 Tonight, another day, another coronavirus mistake Trudeau is making. It's March 20th,

00:00:59.120 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:00.680 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:06.500 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:10.580 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:15.460 right to do so.

00:01:21.540 Every day, I go to two websites, torontopearson.com and yvr.ca.

00:01:27.760 Those are the websites for the Toronto and Vancouver international airports. And every day,

00:01:33.240 I see direct flights to those cities from China. There aren't as many as before, but every day,

00:01:39.820 there are flights from Beijing and Shanghai and usually a place called Xiamen. I'm not even

00:01:45.740 particularly bothered by flights from Hong Kong, even though that's officially part of China,

00:01:51.320 or flights from South Korea, which has had a lot of cases of coronavirus, because Hong Kong,

00:01:56.380 and especially South Korea, have done a very good job of suppressing the coronavirus,

00:02:01.480 unlike communist China, which has only done a very good job of suppressing information about

00:02:07.280 coronavirus. My preference would be that there would be no flights from these places, but I

00:02:12.580 accept that some flights might be necessary for Canadians to make, but I simply don't trust 1.00

00:02:17.020 Chinese companies like China Eastern Airlines, which flies to Canada every day to properly screen

00:02:23.760 people, either for their citizenship status or for their purpose in coming to Canada,

00:02:30.500 or if they have an infection, a fever, whatever. And frankly, it's not their job. They're an airline,

00:02:36.980 not a health authority, not a consulate. The people in charge of health authorities are the

00:02:43.020 governments, usually. Our Canadian constitution gives that power to the provinces, but the federal

00:02:48.300 government is in charge of airlines and airports, and they simply haven't done it. The most they've

00:02:54.520 done is have lots of brochures cleverly published in English and French. Gee, I guess, I sure hope that

00:03:01.800 people in Xiamen and Shanghai speak English or French when they land, and I hope they're smart enough to

00:03:07.900 know if they're sick, and I hope they're honest and obedient enough to follow the advice on those

00:03:13.000 brochures, because there ain't nothing else. We had our friend David Menzies go to Toronto's Pearson Airport

00:03:18.220 yesterday to see how that screening was going. Can you tell me what they did? Like, did they take your

00:03:24.300 temperature, for example? Yeah, no, no, they didn't take, no, no, no. Coming through customs, was it the same as

00:03:30.720 usual, except for the pamphlet and the, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Were all the guards here and the employees, were they

00:03:38.820 wearing gloves and masks when you went through customs? Um, most people wear masks, yeah. But not everybody then?

00:03:46.020 Everybody, no. Do you, um, did you expect that security would be heightened right now here in Toronto?

00:03:51.500 Yeah, I did, I did. But you didn't see anything? No, not really, yeah. Are you shocked? The passengers landing from these foreign 1.00

00:03:59.600 countries are shocked? Did you see the passengers from Pakistan the other day who, who says they're 1.00

00:04:04.760 expecting more screening in Canada? Because even Pakistan is doing more than us. You just said off 1.00

00:04:09.220 camera, man, they're doing more screening in Pakistan than here in Toronto, Canada. Screening in Pakistan

00:04:14.200 than here, everywhere. They have those monitors, they scan your fever and everything. Even in, like, a

00:04:20.760 smallest airport, when I landed in Multan, it's not even a big airport. I was in Karachi, Lahore, and Multan.

00:04:26.480 All the airports, they have those scanners. They're scanning everybody. Even, I went to a hotel. They're, like,

00:04:33.240 disinfecting everywhere. I got on the bus. They have disinfectant big gallons in their hand. They're

00:04:38.440 washing your hands with it and washing your suitcases with that. And here, I don't see that.

00:04:43.440 Pakistan is a third world country. Less cases than, than Canada. US and Canada has much more cases. I'm coming 1.00

00:04:51.200 from Pakistan. I was there for two weeks. You see a lot of precautions, much more measures,

00:04:58.960 than, than a Western world. Like, you know, Canada, we have much more resources. We are, we are far ahead

00:05:07.680 of those countries. But still, I didn't see that. Here's what they're doing in India. Someone at the

00:05:12.800 airport was found with symptoms. So he was denied a flight. He was sent home till April with indelible

00:05:20.180 ink stamped on his hand. Now, of course, it's possible that he could scrub it off. But at least

00:05:26.700 that's a real thing, a real attempt, isn't it? We're not even doing that. I'm glad India's doing 1.00

00:05:32.060 that. Maybe they won't send that guy over here. Because we certainly wouldn't send them home,

00:05:37.120 now, would we? The joke is we're using the word screening. But a screen stops things like a screen

00:05:44.800 door, for example. There is no screen at our airports, giving someone a brochure, or even just

00:05:50.280 asking them a question with no consequences. That's not screening anything. We still don't take anyone's

00:05:55.780 temperature. We still don't detain anyone dangerous. We just don't. There's no screening despite the lies.

00:06:02.420 Our precious resources for our border services officers and for our public health officers

00:06:07.420 to ensure that they can do the important job the Canadians require of screening all arriving 1.00

00:06:11.880 passengers. Here's the problem. People distrust government to begin with. And when the liberals

00:06:16.440 are saying there's enhanced screening and no foreign flights, but there is not enhanced screening,

00:06:22.060 and there are foreign flights hourly often, and people start to realize that, then trust in government

00:06:27.380 falls even lower. That's not good. Trust in the media falls, too, when journalists are obsessed

00:06:32.340 with calling people racist who just have questions.

00:06:35.680 Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus? There are reports of dozens of incidents of

00:06:41.440 bias against Chinese Americans in this country. Your own aide, Secretary Azar, says he does not

00:06:47.700 use this term. He says ethnicity does not cause the virus. Why do you keep using this? A lot of people

00:06:53.160 say it's racist. It's not racist at all, no. Not at all. It comes from China. That's why. It comes from

00:07:00.120 China. I want to react here. Yeah, please, John. Yes.

00:07:03.460 Yeah, that's just a journalist more interested in dunking on Donald Trump and calling citizens

00:07:08.400 racist who talk about China, who want to actually just learn about the facts. This journalist doesn't

00:07:13.380 care about the facts. In Canada, where our journalists so badly want to be part of that

00:07:17.000 resistance to Donald Trump, our Canadian journalists spend half their day criticizing

00:07:21.800 Trump's response to the virus. But he's the leader of a foreign country. And for some reason,

00:07:26.400 those same Canadian journalists don't bring the same scrutiny to Justin Trudeau himself.

00:07:30.460 It's almost like they're bought and paid for, which they are. And that's a problem.

00:07:36.120 Even the National Post, a newspaper I rather like, ran this credulous story about how the city of

00:07:41.860 Wuhan, China, is now completely virus-free. And how do they know? Do they have a reporter in Wuhan?

00:07:48.820 No, they do not. The Chinese government told them there's no cases in Wuhan. So they

00:07:53.840 ran that propaganda without corroboration or even skepticism. I certainly think it's newsworthy

00:07:59.340 that the Chinese government says Wuhan is now virus-free. That is news for a newspaper,

00:08:04.560 but not because of the truth of the thing. The opposite. It's news because it's proof that

00:08:09.820 China is still obviously lying. I follow about a dozen Chinese dissidents on Twitter. And here's

00:08:16.420 the latest from one of them. A hospital in Wuhan lined up out the door. Who knows why?

00:08:21.680 Who knows for what? That's the thing. You can't trust the Chinese government and you 1.00

00:08:25.640 don't have your own sources. But our media trusts the Chinese government. They're about as credible

00:08:30.540 as Bill Blair is. But here comes news today. Justin Trudeau has decided to spend millions of

00:08:35.840 dollars solving the problem of coronavirus in Greece. I am not even kidding. Ottawa to roll out

00:08:46.140 foreign aid as part of the fight against COVID-19 spread. The Canadian government will soon roll

00:08:50.980 out millions in foreign aid spending to help combat the spread of COVID-19 abroad, particularly in

00:08:58.700 refugee camps and developing countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould.

00:09:03.400 Last week, the government announced clients has pledged $50 million to the World Health Organization

00:09:09.460 and other bilateral aid as part of a larger billion-dollar coronavirus response package.

00:09:14.060 Some of the foreign aid money, which comes from a special crisis fund, is expected to start flowing

00:09:18.160 to organizations in the coming days. Days, really. So we're literally sending money to Greece,

00:09:25.120 that's part of the European Union, to fight the virus there. The European Union is a $20 trillion

00:09:31.100 a year economy. They're as big as the United States economically. They're 10 times bigger than we are

00:09:39.600 economically. And we're sending them money to fight the virus there instead of fighting it here.

00:09:45.160 And they'll get the money in days? Let me read some more. We can't prioritize one population over 0.83

00:09:52.400 another because it doesn't matter who you are, where you live, or what your socioeconomic background

00:09:56.640 is. The virus doesn't care about those things. Well, the virus doesn't care about those sort of

00:10:00.240 things. But you'd think a Canadian leader representing Canadians should care about those sort of things,

00:10:04.700 as in should care about Canadians. That's their job. Let the European Union take care of the European 0.82

00:10:10.260 Union. Here's a news story from February 2nd about Canada sending foreign aid to China

00:10:15.840 to help them with the virus. We're sending medical equipment there that we need now. We sent it there.

00:10:24.260 Then a week later, this is February 9th, Trudeau said he would send more aid to China. And then a week

00:10:30.600 later, China's dictatorship praises Trudeau. How appropriate that this is published in Canada's

00:10:36.500 state broadcaster, this report of that. Canada's response to the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak

00:10:41.260 is winning unusual praise in China, a development that federal government sources here say is part

00:10:46.860 of a broader re-engagement strategy aimed at repairing strained relations between the two countries.

00:10:51.740 News reports in Chinese state-run media, official government statements and messages posted by

00:10:55.740 Chinese citizens online. All suggest a warming trend in the Canada-China relationship, a relationship

00:11:01.820 that's been very tense since the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wenzhou in Vancouver in 2018.

00:11:08.840 No mention of the two Michaels held hostage. It's the CBC.

00:11:15.000 We weren't stopping flights from China. We weren't screening people's temperatures when they landed from

00:11:21.000 China. We're still not. But we're literally sending plane loads of precious medical equipment

00:11:27.360 to China, the richest country in the world, where all that equipment was made in the first place,

00:11:31.840 offer some praise from some dictators and some propaganda outlets. They haven't released the

00:11:36.300 two hostages they took 15 months ago, but they said something nice in their propaganda media about us,

00:11:40.900 so there's that. So we're suckers. We're always suckers in Canada, but usually it just costs us money 0.98

00:11:46.780 in self-respect, not lives. But the world now knows if you can get on a plane to get here,

00:11:52.200 which doesn't seem very hard, you can stay here whether or not you have a fever.

00:11:57.540 Trudeau says he won't deport you even if you're a criminal, even if you're illegal.

00:12:02.800 And so the number of people crossing at Roxham Road is increasing. It's now close to

00:12:06.660 100 a day. And again, Bill Blair lied. He said they were being quarantined,

00:12:13.020 but they weren't. We later heard from Chrystia Freeland that they weren't, but maybe

00:12:17.440 they would be quarantined, but just not yet.

00:12:20.120 The federal government and Minister Mendicino, who will organize housing for these asylum seekers,

00:12:32.380 because we understand that it is one thing to isolate for 14 days. And at the federal government,

00:12:41.620 we have understood that we must take responsibility for that. And so that's what we're going to do,

00:12:48.680 to organize housing, to be sure that it is possible for these asylum seekers to be in quarantine.

00:12:59.980 Now, I note that today, Trudeau said they're going to temporarily close Roxham Road. Do you believe

00:13:07.340 that? I'll believe it when I see it. So where do we stand? Foreign flights arriving hourly.

00:13:14.880 No screening of foreigners, if by screening you mean taking a temperature, if someone's sick, 0.85

00:13:21.880 quarantining them. There's no wall at Roxham Road, just a little speech about one. And even though

00:13:28.720 we're short on medical supplies here in Canada, there's always enough to send to China. And even

00:13:35.020 though we're about to have the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, there's always

00:13:39.220 more money to send to Greece. If this is the incompetence with which our government is operating,

00:13:47.400 it's pretty clear we can't rely on them for anything. Certainly not for telling the truth.

00:13:54.160 Stay with us for more.

00:13:55.180 Well, I've told you before, and now you know the proof of it. If there's one voice to follow

00:14:13.000 for sober-minded analysis of the U.S.-Chinese relationship, and we in Canada can learn from

00:14:19.500 it too. It's our next man, an expert, an author, an analyst, a scholar, Gordon G. Chang. And I ask

00:14:28.120 you, if you're not following him now on Twitter, go and do it right now. Twitter.com slash Gordon G.

00:14:34.320 Chang. His prophecies about China have all come true. I call them prophecy because he really is

00:14:39.220 like a prophet. But his analysis is what keeps me coming back. And joining me now via Skype

00:14:44.240 is Gordon Chang. Great to see you again. I'm sorry that we're talking in the midst of such a crisis,

00:14:50.640 but so many of the things you predicted based on China's conduct, their Communist Party,

00:14:57.520 unfortunately, they've come true.

00:15:00.360 Oh, thank you so much, Ezra. And yes, the Communist Party has reacted with secrecy.

00:15:05.620 They suppressed information about the virus that'll allow it to spread around China and to leave China

00:15:12.280 and become a pandemic. And now, you know, the Communist Party is trying to blame the United

00:15:17.640 States for spreading the virus to Wuhan, intimating germ warfare. I can't think of how China could have 0.94

00:15:25.760 handled this any worse. Yeah. About a month ago, Donald Trump wrote two tweets in a row praising Xi Jinping,

00:15:35.480 and I thought it was a little bit over the top. But I also know that Trump sometimes flatters

00:15:40.440 people he's trying to negotiate with. We saw that with Kim Jong-un. And I saw this tweet,

00:15:45.640 and it made me cringe a bit because it was so loving. And I thought, maybe he's getting something

00:15:50.080 in return that we don't see. That's how Trump was towards China. But I think he's very much changed

00:15:56.180 his tune since high level diplomats and bureaucrats in the Chinese Communist Party have started

00:16:02.220 circulating this conspiracy theory. How has that changed the American stance towards China, if at all?

00:16:10.440 Yeah. The three tweets from the foreign ministry last Thursday, which, as I mentioned,

00:16:17.320 one of them intimated germ warfare, one of them calling U.S. officials immoral, one of them twisting

00:16:23.000 the testimony of the CDC director, Robert Redfield. I think that they have changed the way that American

00:16:29.900 officials look at China. And we're not hearing this over-the-top praise for Xi Jinping or China.

00:16:37.400 And I think that's an important rhetorical shift. Like you, Ezra, I cringed whenever I heard Trump

00:16:45.220 refer to Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-un, the North Korean ruler. But I think those days are over. And China has

00:16:53.020 pushed Trump and the U.S. in directions it does not want to go. And Trump, as he intimated a number of

00:17:00.440 times this week, is actually trying to defend the U.S. against this irresponsible, false, and highly

00:17:07.960 dangerous information, disinformation campaign from Beijing.

00:17:12.640 I noticed that for months Trump was calling it the coronavirus, including in those tweets of praise

00:17:20.120 to Xi Jinping. I think he's saying Chinese virus as a specific rebuke. That's my sense of it. I mean,

00:17:29.160 I know it irritates some people. And I can understand if someone is Chinese-American, you know,

00:17:34.480 the word Chinese refers to not just the country and the language, but it also refers to the

00:17:38.780 authenticity. I can imagine it doesn't feel great. But in my mind, it's just Trump slapping back in

00:17:46.160 his own bully pulpit. Is that how you take it, too?

00:17:50.180 That's how I take it as well. It's not only President Trump. It's also Vice President Pence,

00:17:56.340 Secretary of State Pompeo, using various formulations of either Wuhan virus or Chinese virus.

00:18:02.800 I'm Chinese-American. I'm sensitive to these things. I'm not offended at all. On the contrary,

00:18:10.220 I am really pleased that President Trump is defending my country against this very explosive

00:18:17.160 and inflammatory campaign by Beijing. And we Americans, whether we're Chinese-Americans or not,

00:18:23.240 have got to understand that Beijing means us harm. We have a common enemy. We've got one president.

00:18:29.300 He's defending us. It's important for us to get in line and support his efforts.

00:18:34.420 Wow, that's very powerful. I know you're in great demand, so I'm going to set you free quickly.

00:18:39.520 You're doing so many interviews, and I love the fact that we have had a window into your thinking

00:18:45.320 for really years. And now you're, I mean, you're everywhere I look. I see, I saw you very briefly

00:18:52.340 at the CPAC convention in Washington. I see you on media everywhere. I'm thrilled that your advice

00:18:58.320 is being widely sought, and I feel like you're sort of our guy because we've been talking to you for so

00:19:03.180 long. Let me ask you one last question. And again, I learned this from your Twitter feed,

00:19:07.960 which I can't recommend highly enough. You've been talking about a long-term change, not just solving

00:19:13.420 the problem, but decoupling the U.S. economy and supply chain from China. Can you explain a little

00:19:21.180 bit what you mean by that? Well, the United States is, as people have always said, was highly

00:19:27.580 interdependent with China, especially with commerce and investment. We have seen the downsides of that,

00:19:34.480 though, because Beijing, for instance, and this is Xinhua News Agency, beginning of this month,

00:19:39.260 official media outlet, has been threatening to cut off the supply of pharmaceuticals and medical

00:19:44.760 protective gear and to throw the U.S. into what it called, quote-unquote, a mighty sea of coronavirus.

00:19:52.340 So we have to understand that we should not allow ourselves to become so highly dependent

00:19:58.000 on a country and a regime like China's. You know, as people said, America buys somewhere,

00:20:06.340 is dependent on 80 to 97 percent of its antibiotics from China. We see similarly high percentages,

00:20:14.660 in other areas. For instance, we go back to 2008, where China sold the U.S., adulterated hefrin.

00:20:23.040 Hefrin killed dozens, actually sickened hundreds of Americans. So we've got to understand that

00:20:31.880 in this new era, we have got to start making our own goods that are critical. And this is the reason

00:20:39.360 why the USMCA, the successor to NAFTA, is so important. We need to bring manufacturing back

00:20:45.180 to this side of the Pacific. Yeah, very interesting. You know, you just made me think

00:20:49.220 about OPEC. A few years ago, America was dependent on dictatorships and regimes that mean harm to America

00:20:56.760 for oil. Now America is self-sufficient. And that's not just good economically, it's good strategically.

00:21:03.220 I think that maybe the same thing could happen with those other critical strategic goods,

00:21:11.040 not only to make America independent, but it could be an economic boom the same way as domestic oil

00:21:16.560 production is too. I'm going to start thinking about it the same way, ethical production in America

00:21:21.500 versus risky conflict production in China. You've helped me clarify that, Gordon. I know you've got

00:21:28.860 a run. Thank you so much, as always, for your time. And one last shout out for folks who are not yet

00:21:33.860 following Gordon G. Chang on Twitter. You're doing it wrong. You will learn more from him in one tweet

00:21:40.800 than you will from an entire article in a mainstream media newspaper. Gordon, good luck out there. Keep up

00:21:45.400 the fight. Thanks so much, Ezra. I really appreciate the platform. Well, it's our pleasure. There's another

00:21:52.080 call for you right away. We'll let you go. Take care, my friend, and good luck. Bye-bye.

00:21:56.420 Bye-bye. That's our friend Gordon Chang. I feel like he's our guy because we've been talking to him

00:22:01.480 for so long before this crisis, and he's an indispensable commentator. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:22:15.320 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about suing the Chinese communist government for the

00:22:19.040 coronavirus. Brad writes, yes, just like the Germans and the Japanese, China should pay retribution for 1.00

00:22:24.160 their actions. I appreciate what Joel Pollack said, is that, you know, the Versailles Treaty,

00:22:30.200 which demanded Germany pay reparations to France, et cetera, that was an irritant that in some ways led

00:22:37.100 to the Second World War. But at the very least, I think we need to have it in hand as a bargaining

00:22:43.100 chip with China. That's how Sudan is treating reparations. That's how Muammar Gaddafi treated reparations.

00:22:50.240 When they want something from us, we can say, well, you have to give us something that we want.

00:22:55.860 I think those lawsuits should be filed. Michael writes, China needs to pay countries reparations

00:23:03.320 as they covered up this pathogen causing massive damages. Well, that's the thing. I'm not blaming

00:23:08.300 China for being the source of the virus. We don't know if their secret virus lab in Wuhan created it.

00:23:15.600 We don't have any evidence to that effect. We can't blame them for that. We can blame them for

00:23:21.820 covering it up and delaying our own reaction to it. Doug writes, thanks for your journalism and

00:23:27.920 thanks for getting on this government for their inadequate screening in airports. They should be

00:23:31.340 disinfecting the baggage too. Listen, I think that there have been so many flights from China in the

00:23:37.180 last two months. There's probably been hundreds that I think that horses left the barn already.

00:23:46.040 I think there are so many cases of the virus that have come in from China undetected because there's

00:23:51.800 no screening. But, you know, we should still probably shut the barn door, don't you think?

00:23:57.580 Well, that's our show for today. Thanks for watching. We'll have more videos over the weekend

00:24:02.940 and then the show will resume again on Monday. We're doing our best to operate in these conditions.

00:24:07.760 A lot of our people are working from home. I think that the rebel is as important as ever

00:24:12.100 because we have to be a good faith critic of what this government is doing

00:24:16.560 because certainly the rest of the media aren't. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at

00:24:21.920 Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Stay healthy and keep fighting for freedom.

00:24:27.580 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - March 21, 2020

Another day, another three Coronavirus mistakes Trudeau is making

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