Rebel News Podcast - Best of 2020： Most Popular Rebel Stories

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels, and I hope you're having a good Christmas time.

00:00:04.380 Hopefully you're having a chance to take a break from a busy year, or maybe

00:00:07.640 you're still on staycation and have been for many months. Either way,

00:00:12.060 it's a pleasure to have you listen to the podcast. Over the days ahead, we have

00:00:16.020 the best of the Rebel compilations of some of our favorite videos

00:00:20.340 this past year. I hope you enjoy them. We'll be back with original

00:00:23.960 programming very early in the new year, but I think a lot

00:00:28.140 of these videos you're about to hear today and the next few days

00:00:31.200 may well be new to you because they were on our YouTube channel, but they

00:00:36.120 were not on my show, The Ezra LeVant Show. So I hope you enjoy these

00:00:39.920 because I think most of them may be new for you, and they're really some of our best work.

00:00:44.320 So without further ado, here are the best of the Rebels

00:00:48.060 shows from 2020. And just

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00:01:15.200 Tonight, the top videos of 2020. What were the most popular things watched by our viewers?

00:01:37.100 It's New Year's Eve, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:39.820 You know, Rebel News has published close to 20,000 videos since we were born. I don't know the exact

00:02:06.980 number. It's got to be higher than 15,000. So many, I don't even have time to watch them all.

00:02:11.220 I have to confess, 10 or 15 a day. We've geared down a little bit over the Christmas break, but

00:02:15.040 we'll be right back at her in January. You never know what's going to go viral. Something you just

00:02:20.620 are certain is going to rocket, sort of flops. Other things, you just shock that they take off like a

00:02:26.400 rocket. And how does it happen? Well, luck, chance, a great headline, a great thumbnail.

00:02:33.060 Well, often the algorithm works if it's something that Google is promoting that day or something

00:02:39.140 Google is suppressing that day. As we know, in early 2017, YouTube, Google, and the rest of the

00:02:45.480 tech giants decided to suppress and demonetize conservative content. So any video that gets

00:02:51.420 hundreds of thousands, let alone a million views, has got to be great because it's fighting against

00:02:56.940 the algorithm. And I want to show you three top videos of the year 2020. These aren't number one,

00:03:03.220 two, and three in a row. Actually, two of our top videos were about a young man named Jeremiah in

00:03:08.900 Alberta, a young farmer who was taken out of his combine and just beaten by police. But these three,

00:03:14.720 I think, they're in the top five or six of the videos. And I think they show sort of a spectrum

00:03:19.120 of the work we've done. So if you want to see our top 10 videos, you can go to our YouTube page and

00:03:26.420 they're listed. But let me introduce to you three videos that I think you'll find very interesting,

00:03:32.820 and they are amongst our top videos of 2020. I just want to be clear that we had a couple others

00:03:38.040 that we selected these instead. The third one is when I was summoned by two ex-RCMP officers to

00:03:49.180 an interrogation at Election Canada headquarters over my book, The Libranos, and I brought my hidden

00:03:59.160 camera along. Remember this? I wrote a book called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About

00:04:05.280 Justin Trudeau's Corruption. During the election, it hit number two on the Amazon bestseller list

00:04:09.940 with rave reviews. Justin Trudeau did not like that. So over Christmas, I received this letter

00:04:15.980 from the government by registered mail, accusing me of breaking the law and demanding that I meet

00:04:21.660 with investigators. And if I didn't, I'd get in deeper trouble. You can read that letter for yourself

00:04:27.140 at SaveRebelNews.com. So last week, I went to Ottawa to be interrogated at the high security

00:04:33.920 headquarters of Elections Canada. I was curious, were they really serious? Were they really going

00:04:38.940 to investigate me and prosecute me and fine me, maybe even jail me for writing a book that criticized

00:04:45.480 their boss during an election? Yes. The senior investigator actually told me that by choosing

00:04:52.720 to publish my book during the election, that made it an illegal campaign activity. Here, take a look.

00:04:58.580 You did a blurb online that I watched, and you speak about, of course, that it was released in

00:05:06.180 time for the election. Which, if that's your position today, that wouldn't allow you to have

00:05:12.760 the exemption for advertising for a book. Yeah, I think I know why they told me I wasn't allowed

00:05:19.740 to videotape my interrogation. And just to be clear, because of the security features in this area

00:05:25.940 here, I know video recording will be allowed. Thanks for the suggestion, but one thing I've

00:05:31.300 learned from kangaroo courts is that no one will believe how bad they are unless they see it with

00:05:36.580 their own eyes. So instead of telling you how it went, let me show you. I recorded almost an hour of

00:05:42.960 footage, so I'll put it online in a series of videos. This is the first. I'll put the rest up at

00:05:48.760 saverebelnews.com. And while you're there, please consider helping me cover my legal bills,

00:05:54.780 because these guys are deadly serious. They have at least five federal investigators on the case.

00:06:00.600 How many investigators are on this file? You're, so far, it's four people that have been in touch

00:06:05.180 with me from your office, plus an anonymous email. It's, like, how many people do you have on this

00:06:11.740 project? It has some flows. It all depends. So it might even grow larger than four people?

00:06:16.740 No. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how many there actually are on the file. We've been asked today

00:06:22.660 to meet with you and to collect the facts that we'll give back to the main investigator, which

00:06:26.880 is Louise Panton, who will write up her report based on the knowledge that we have so that she

00:06:33.480 can inform the commissioner, so he can make an informed decision as to if there was, in fact,

00:06:38.060 a breach of the law. Four cops plus the boss. And I really mean cops, former senior RCMP officers.

00:06:47.740 My interrogation was conducted by Tim Macken, a 30-year veteran of the RCMP, where he worked on

00:06:54.080 terrorism cases. And Paul Couture, also a 30-year veteran of the RCMP, who also worked on terrorism

00:07:01.980 cases. That's who was interrogating me. They wouldn't give me their business cards, but I managed

00:07:07.520 to take a photo of their ID. So yeah, I have to lawyer up. If you can help me, please do at

00:07:13.480 SaveRebelNews.com. Anyways, when we sat down, I actually asked the first question to the cops.

00:07:20.100 What exactly was the complaint against me? I'd come all the way to Ottawa to defend myself against some

00:07:25.600 complaint, but they hadn't shown it to me yet, so I didn't know what I had supposedly done wrong.

00:07:30.920 Take a look at this. Can I see the complaint against me? The letter that you received? No. I presume

00:07:39.080 that you're investigating me based on a complaint. Oh, the complaint. Yeah. Well, this is still part

00:07:42.520 of the investigation, so we'll have to, once the investigation's been completed, the commissioner

00:07:50.020 will have to make a decision. At that point, she'll have to decide if that is releasable or not. It's not

00:07:55.100 something that usually is released, no. So it's a secret complaint? It's not a secret complaint. It's

00:08:00.020 just a complaint that's part of the investigation. And to keep the integrity of the investigation

00:08:05.860 right now, you'll understand that we can't share everything that we have. Oh, I don't

00:08:10.280 want everything that you had. I just, if I'm here to meet a complaint, but you won't show

00:08:16.220 me the complaint, how can I possibly meet the complaint? How can I possibly respond to something

00:08:22.100 that you won't show me? Well, though, I think the letter was quite clear on what we're, what the

00:08:29.260 infraction is, is alleged. And this is what we want to clarify with you. Well, did you generate the

00:08:36.200 complaint or was it from an outside party? No, we didn't generate the complaint. Okay, so someone

00:08:40.820 did not generate the complaint. So someone external to your office generated the complaint? That is usually

00:08:46.940 the case. Is that the case in this case? Yeah. Yeah, we did not generate the complaint. Okay. Was it the

00:08:51.780 Liberal Party that generated the complaint? We can't go into that, sir. So you won't tell me who the

00:08:56.740 complaint is? The complainant is. Is that the secret? Yeah, no, not at this point. So at what point do you tell me who the

00:09:04.500 commissioner is? The commissioner is the ultimate responsible person for the investigation and how

00:09:11.220 this is decided? So how do I know what I've, what conduct has been complained about if you won't

00:09:17.860 tell me? Now, this went on for some time. They kept referring to their Christmas time letter to me

00:09:24.260 about the complaint, but not the complaint itself, if it even exists. So I got a little bit lippy, I admit.

00:09:30.500 They were conducting a secret interrogation of me based on a secret complaint. So I told them two

00:09:36.340 could play at that game. I have my secrets too. Like my name. My name is Paul Couture, spelled C-O-U-T-U-R-E.

00:09:45.620 I will ask my colleague to please identify himself for the recording. My name is Tim Macken. And sir,

00:09:51.380 could you, uh, just for recording, advice where you are? Well, it's a secret. I'm, I don't know if I can tell you

00:09:58.820 that secret. Just for the recording we have with us, Mr. Levant, who registered at the front office.

00:10:07.860 I, uh, I saw when he registered, so. I suppose I should have left the meeting right there. It was

00:10:12.580 obviously a trap. These two cops kept saying the door was unlocked and I could just walk out. I'm here

00:10:19.620 under protest. I believe that this is contrary to the statute and I think it may actually be

00:10:31.140 contrary to, uh, the Constitution. Um, and I just wanted to put, I just want to put it on the record.

00:10:37.780 You're here, you're here under free will? Under protest. You understand that you can leave at any time, sir?

00:10:42.900 Yes, but I've also. You're free to answer or not the questions that we may have. We're here to have a

00:10:46.980 discussion to clarify, um, the issues that were mentioned in the letter, uh, to your attention.

00:10:52.580 Do you have a copy of the letter in front of you or? I actually do, sir. Thank you. Okay,

00:10:55.700 that'll save me from digging it up. Yeah. Um. So, understand that, uh, the door's unlocked. You can

00:11:00.420 leave at any time. You're certainly free to stay or, or to leave. We have no issues with that. But I wanted to

00:11:06.100 find out more from them. I mean, who ever heard of an author being interrogated by police? That's how

00:11:12.900 they do it in China or Iran, not Canada. So they wouldn't show me the complaint. Okay, well, what

00:11:19.700 documents did they expect from me? Were they going to go through my editorial notes? What did they want

00:11:26.100 from me? What documents, if any, do you want from me? At this point, I'm not sure. We need to have a

00:11:35.060 conversation to understand, uh, what your point of view was on, on the actual signs and, and determine,

00:11:41.860 uh, when they were actually, uh, produced and to what, uh, to what means. And from there, we'll see

00:11:50.020 later if, if you have any documentation that you want to provide us, we'll be more than happy to,

00:11:54.660 to accept whatever you want to provide. Well, I don't want to provide you anything because I think

00:12:00.020 this is an unlawful investigation. I think it's political in nature. Uh, I think it's probably

00:12:06.420 unconstitutional. So I don't want to provide you with anything. I'm here under protest. I didn't

00:12:13.860 want to come here, but your letter made it clear that coming here would reduce any penalties. So it

00:12:22.500 makes sense for me to come here, but I come here under some duress. So I'm asking you if you want any

00:12:28.340 documents and you're dancing around, do you want my doc? I don't want to give you anything,

00:12:34.660 but I'm asking you if you want my documents and you won't say so. Why are you being so strange about

00:12:42.820 this? Do you want any documents or not? We don't know if we need documents or not right now at this

00:12:48.100 point. Okay. So you don't want any documents at this point? Not today.

00:12:53.700 Do you know now if you will want documents at a later day? I am not the lead investigator in this file,

00:13:01.060 sir. I'm here to gather some facts for today and report back to the lead investigator and

00:13:05.460 if she determines that she would want an offering. So you don't know anything. You don't know anything.

00:13:10.900 It felt like a Kafkaesque nightmare. Why did they call me there? It felt like they were playing games.

00:13:16.900 What do you think? Who was pulling the strings? These 30-year RCMP veterans. Well, they sounded like

00:13:24.260 errand boys for someone else. I was getting a bit frustrated. Will you subpoena my documents if I

00:13:30.820 don't give them to you? I can't speak on that, sir. I'm not the lead investigator here. So you might subpoena

00:13:37.220 my documents. You won't rule it out. Like I said, I'm not the lead investigator in this file.

00:13:43.620 It sounds like they sent the sandwich boy down. It sounds like they sent the intern down. Are you

00:13:47.460 his boss? Can you answer any of these things? Like, do you want documents or not? Why can't you just say that?

00:13:57.540 So, Mr. Levant, why don't we just cross the first portion, which is if you are representing

00:14:04.020 Rebel News Network. That's a secret. Because you said it was a secret. Yeah, I'll tell you my secret

00:14:10.820 if you tell me your secret. And the thing is, you actually have an obligation to tell me your

00:14:15.140 secret. Your secret is, what's the complaint here? How can I push back against the complaint you

00:14:20.260 won't show me? How do you think that's going to look in court when we take this to a judicial review?

00:14:26.580 You invited me down here. You won't tell me what documents you want, or if you even want them.

00:14:32.020 You won't tell me who complained. You won't show me the complaint. And you're saying it's a secret.

00:14:40.660 Do you know what that looks like? I'm here to answer a secret complaint. How can I answer if I don't see it?

00:14:45.540 Do you want to take a break and get some permission from your mom or whoever to show me the document?

00:14:54.020 Do you need to meet with the boss? No?

00:14:59.860 So you've been instructed not to show me the complaint.

00:15:02.100 I said the complaint is part of the investigation, and it's not something that we release while the investigation is ongoing.

00:15:10.660 So how can I possibly respond to a secret complaint?

00:15:17.940 We have indicated what is part of the complaint. There's not a word in here from the complaint.

00:15:22.900 This is your words. Yes.

00:15:24.980 So frustrating, but here's the weirdest part. We all know that writing books during elections is not illegal.

00:15:30.740 In fact, that's when many political books are published. There were plenty of pro-Trudeau books

00:15:36.100 published at the same time as mine. The Election Act specifically exempts books and the promotion of

00:15:42.340 books from the law. And in their threat letter to me, they actually quote the section that proves I'm

00:15:47.460 exempt. Look at this. I have never seen a letter of accusation, a threat letter before, from any public

00:15:57.140 authority that contains within it a defense against the accusation. I'm talking about the paragraph on

00:16:07.220 the second page by Milain Gijoux that says, as you may know, the definition of election advertising in

00:16:15.460 the Act contains examples of some communications that could promote or oppose a registered party or

00:16:20.100 candidate, but that do not constitute election advertising. Among those examples, these examples is

00:16:25.940 one that applies to the promotion of the sale of a book, if the book was planned to be made available

00:16:30.180 to the public, regardless of whether there is to be election. So right in your letter,

00:16:36.100 you show me that books and the promotion of books are exempt. I've never seen a cop pull me over and

00:16:43.540 say, you were speeding, but I got to tell you, my radar gun's broken, so you probably weren't speeding.

00:16:48.900 You say, you accused me of breaking the law, but right in your own letter, you show that I'm not.

00:16:54.580 So why am I here? We are not investing in the book, nor the contents of the book.

00:16:59.140 You have the, and it says right here, or the promotion of a book. The promotion of the sale

00:17:04.580 of a book is exempt. We need to determine if the signage was actually promotion of the book,

00:17:09.620 or was it political advertising? There's three words on the sign. There's three words on the sign.

00:17:16.340 You need help figuring out what they mean? You can't understand what that sign means.

00:17:28.820 Look, we promoted the book in a dozen ways. Posters, coffee mugs, t-shirts, videos, fun lawn signs,

00:17:37.460 a giant billboard, and the law exempts it all. Books and the promotion of books. Now several times

00:17:45.140 these cops said that they weren't actually interested in investigating my book, just my

00:17:50.580 promotion of the book that said, buy the book. But after initially denying it, these guys really did

00:17:56.260 grill me about my book itself, and even about our staff at Rebel News, and how we hire them. For example,

00:18:04.180 they asked me about my planning for the book. Not for the advertising, but for the book.

00:18:09.620 Well, that's something that you may want to discuss with us or not, to see if the book had

00:18:13.860 been planned ahead of time, or for the purpose of the election. That's something that...

00:18:18.740 Hang on, planned ahead of time. What's the basis for that question in the law?

00:18:24.180 Well, the law says that if the book is exempted, regardless of whether there was to be an election,

00:18:31.380 or available to the public? Yes, so what's this planned ahead of time business?

00:18:37.860 You just made that up. It's right here, sir. Well, how can you publish a book without planning

00:18:43.300 it ahead of time? Do you think it just happened spontaneously? With the timing of the elections,

00:18:47.060 for the purpose of the elections. You know we have fixed election days, more or less.

00:18:51.620 I certainly do.

00:19:02.100 So he's asking why I wrote my book when I did. Justin Trudeau's police are asking me

00:19:10.260 why I wrote a book about Justin Trudeau, when Justin Trudeau was in an election campaign. They

00:19:15.780 asked me all sorts of questions about the book. Can we speak about your communications plan for the

00:19:19.860 book, your marketing for the book? Well, um, I'll listen to your questions. To see clarity? I'll

00:19:26.260 listen to your questions. We just wondered if you had a communication plan or a marketing plan.

00:19:33.060 What was your marketing plan, sir? Did you do it all yourself? Did you have a team? Remember,

00:19:37.060 these guys weren't asking out of curiosity. They were building a legal case against me. But

00:19:43.700 why only against me? I've got a question for you. I've answered a few of your questions now.

00:19:48.500 Have you investigated any of the other authors who published books about Trudeau at the exact same

00:19:54.740 time as me? Have you investigated John Iverson's book or Aaron Wary's book? There's over 24 books that

00:20:01.300 were published around it. You haven't answered my question. Have you investigated John Iverson or Aaron

00:20:05.700 Wary's books? I haven't. Have you? I haven't. Yeah. Is anyone in your office investigating any other

00:20:11.060 books about Justin Trudeau or just the book that's critical of him? Today we're here about

00:20:16.500 Rebel News Network Limited. Oh, I know that. And I'm just asking you to confirm that not a single

00:20:24.900 other loving book of Trudeau is being investigated. But once we're done, if you believe that there should

00:20:29.620 be complaints that are... No, because I'm not a censor like you. I'm not a bully and a censor. I'm not a

00:20:35.460 bureaucrat looking to justify my budget like you. I go out and earn my living every day, fella.

00:20:44.180 You call in authors to grill them about a book criticizing your boss. Think about who you are.

00:20:50.260 We call the director of Rebel News Network Limited. Yeah, who happens to be the author of the book.

00:20:56.580 I think there's going to be a chapter about you two fellas in the next edition.

00:21:06.340 Do you have any more questions there? Certainly do. Oh, he wasn't lying. They weren't even half done.

00:21:13.940 They started asking me questions like, why at Rebel News do we hire people who criticize Justin Trudeau?

00:21:21.220 I'm serious. All right, so moving forward. So for the book, you seek volunteers that,

00:21:32.580 and without going back to the tape to get the exact quote, that

00:21:36.420 wanted to have had a certain view on Trudeau and Gerald Butz, and believed in free speech,

00:21:47.540 and that were embarrassed by the Prime Minister Trudeau in blackface, and you saw that specific

00:21:53.300 type of person. Is that correct? Why are policemen asking an author and journalist and broadcaster

00:21:58.900 about the political leanings of our staff? I want to go back when you were doing your recruiting

00:22:05.140 for people and how you described it. Can you go over that again for me, who type of people you're

00:22:12.180 looking for? So in that, you were seeking these people for what purpose? Could you explain to us

00:22:21.220 the type of people you were seeking? What was the purpose? At one point, one of the cops told me,

00:22:26.500 he has me dead to rights. He said I'm guilty. In fact, he told me exactly what I said that he thinks

00:22:32.580 convinced me. And he even offered me a chance to unsay it. So when you came to your decision,

00:22:39.460 you're going to author a book, release a book, in time for the election, and I don't have your own

00:22:45.140 words, but online you, when you received a letter from Madame Gigou, you did a blurb online that I watched,

00:22:54.500 and you speak about, of course, that it was released in time for the election.

00:22:58.180 Which if that's your position today, that wouldn't allow you to have the exemption for advertising for

00:23:07.060 a book. So that's why we wanted to clarify that with you. Perhaps you were misspoken when you spoke

00:23:12.180 online? Or, so we're here to try to clarify. So it's not about the signs anymore. That was a

00:23:18.420 misdirection and interrogation trick. It's about the book. That I dared to publish a book during the

00:23:24.180 election. So this cop says, I broke the law. You heard him. About 40 minutes into the interrogation,

00:23:30.180 the one cop asked me why I didn't register my book with the government. He said that. I'll let you hear

00:23:36.900 his exact words and my answer to them. The knowledge that you would have or not have of the election act,

00:23:43.060 the Canada elections act. When you are planning the book, and you, the new third party rules,

00:23:52.500 because I believe there's some comments on your stuff as well about that. Did you give any

00:23:56.820 consideration of saying, maybe I should register as a third party for this circumstance? Or maybe I

00:24:03.620 shouldn't, um, because of my interpretation of what I'm going to do? Or did you, um, not make that

00:24:11.060 determination? Tim, I appreciate the question. Yeah, I absolutely did think about that at great length.

00:24:20.020 Do you want to share any of those thoughts? Well, sure, some of them. I mean, I thought,

00:24:25.940 the day I register with the government to write a book is the day we no longer are the true north strong

00:24:36.900 and free. And if elections Canada's commissioners are stupid enough to prosecute me for writing, 0.99

00:24:46.660 publishing, and promoting a book about an election during an election, then that's an important fight to 0.99

00:24:52.340 have. Because we need to roll back these pencil neck bureaucrats and their blackface boss. And we 1.00

00:24:59.540 need to remind them that we're still a free country. So I thought about it long and hard, Tim. This cop

00:25:05.220 asked me if I had any message to take back to his boss, the commissioner. What would you have said?

00:25:12.420 Here's what I said. I don't even understand what I've been accused of doing. I don't understand who

00:25:18.020 accused me. I don't understand when. So this is a, frankly, this is a star chamber that is illegal.

00:25:27.620 I'm here because really I wanted to ask a few questions about what you're going to do if I

00:25:31.540 don't give you documents. You wouldn't answer. I wanted to ask who complained. You wouldn't answer.

00:25:36.180 I wanted to see the complaint. You wouldn't answer. I wanted to check you guys out, learn a little bit

00:25:41.780 about how many folks are on the file. You didn't really answer, but I can count. I guess my message

00:25:48.020 to the commissioner is, I don't even know who it is, to be honest, but that'll change.

00:25:58.260 I guess my message is, every ounce of energy I have, every dollar I have and can raise,

00:26:09.940 every trick of the trade I can deploy, I will deploy to smashing this law. And I think you know

00:26:18.180 that's true. I think we'll have books and billboards and TV videos and lawn signs. And we'll do all

00:26:28.180 sorts of crazy things in defense of free speech and freedom of press. And we'll do it all.

00:26:36.180 And it's not what I really want to do. I want to live my life and do my journalism. But if you guys

00:26:42.340 are going to put me through a trial because I wrote and published and promoted an election book during

00:26:48.180 an election, I'm going to do everything I can to show you and the country that's not Canadian. 1.00

00:26:56.420 You're being un-Canadian by summoning an author to your offices. You're being un-Canadian, 0.82

00:27:01.540 and you need a reminder. All right, this video is too long already. I'll do a second video with

00:27:05.780 more excerpts from the interrogation. But let me give you a quick glimpse of what's to come.

00:27:10.180 You want to undertake not to raid the offices of Rebel News?

00:27:23.940 Do you know the country you're in, Paul?

00:27:25.860 Yeah, it got worse. I'll have another video for you soon. But look, I need help. I thought this was

00:27:31.860 going to be a joke. No, I don't think so anymore. You heard that one cop. He told me twice that I'm

00:27:37.380 guilty. Once for choosing to write a book during an election, and once for not registering my book with

00:27:44.340 the government, he's going to prosecute me. I need to hire lawyers. And I have. The same legal eagles

00:27:53.540 who beat Trudeau last time when the debates commissions tried to censor us. Remember that?

00:27:57.940 Trudeau banned our Rebel News journalists from the leaders' debate. A federal court judge told Trudeau

00:28:03.860 that's illegal. But it still cost us $18,000 to win. Now this fight is going to be bigger than

00:28:10.900 that. I think they mean to break me and to break Rebel News, one of the few independent voices left

00:28:16.580 in the Canadian media. Well, we'll see about that. If you can help, please go to SaveRebelNews.com and

00:28:23.620 chip in whatever you can. We will need it for the legal fight. And stay tuned. We'll have part two of

00:28:30.100 my interrogation video up soon. Thank you. Well, I hope you liked that video. Our next video is one

00:28:36.340 that I'm so proud of. It was such a team effort here at Rebel News. David Menzies had gone down

00:28:41.540 Toronto City Hall. It's called Nathan Phillips Square so many times, because there was sort of

00:28:45.460 a shantytown, an Antifa-style shantytown there. And they had this illegal encampment. City Hall

00:28:53.620 security and police were kicking David out, but letting the protesters live there overnight. Well,

00:29:01.300 I wouldn't stand for that. So we got a team of private security, our lawyer, and five cameramen,

00:29:07.380 and we went down there to put things right. Here is one of the most exciting days of the year for us.

00:29:12.180 Take a look. We're going to go there. David's going to try and do journalism. Ideally, we're done in

00:29:18.820 half an hour because nothing happened. What would you like us to do?

00:29:26.340 off my land. That's what I would like. We've got another gender. Touch my elder. Your elder? 1.00

00:29:32.340 What you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here. I need to ask you to leave.

00:29:37.220 Okay? And what have I done to cause a disturbance? You're causing disturbance.

00:29:51.940 That in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully. So if that is not

00:29:58.500 true, we need to know it. Give me a hug. I love you. I love you.

00:30:18.820 Don't run away from love. Don't don't run away from love. Don't run away from. Oh, don't run away from love.

00:30:27.220 What's your purpose here?

00:30:31.220 I'm a cameraman.

00:30:33.220 Are you going to stop me instead of them trying to block me?

00:30:36.220 I'm asking you. Can you answer me?

00:30:38.220 I don't have to provide you anything.

00:30:40.220 Just like they don't have to provide anything to you.

00:30:43.220 I'm not harassing them. They're following me.

00:30:45.220 Can you please stop?

00:30:47.220 No.

00:30:48.220 We just came here to see what's going on. You guys are getting violent right away.

00:30:51.220 We evolved through love and diversity.

00:30:53.220 That's what we do!

00:30:55.220 We evolved through love and diversity.

00:30:57.220 Listen to the chant.

00:30:58.220 Folks, welcome to John Torre Strano.

00:31:00.220 Hey, get off me. 1.00

00:31:02.220 Don't slap my hand away.

00:31:04.220 Don't slap my hand away.

00:31:05.220 What do you mean? Huh?

00:31:07.220 I will trespass you for non-compliance.

00:31:11.220 I need you to stay back.

00:31:13.220 So this isn't probably the best time to be coming here and doing this.

00:31:16.220 I understand what you're trying to do.

00:31:18.220 So for today, City Hall Security and their staff, they're trespassing you, okay?

00:31:23.220 So we're going to have to escort you off the property.

00:31:29.220 Our purpose is to do journalism.

00:31:31.220 And we're going to make this a fight for civil liberties.

00:31:34.220 We shouldn't have to hire all these security and lawyers.

00:31:38.220 But we're not going to concede that we can be kicked off City Hall.

00:31:42.220 We don't live in Iran or China.

00:31:44.220 We don't clear out from City Hall because some cop tells us to.

00:31:49.220 So I don't want to come across as threatening to the police.

00:31:52.220 But what happened yesterday when our people were driven out of the public square by the police

00:31:58.220 will never happen again on my watch with this company.

00:32:01.220 But we're just going to be so compliant with the law that we're going to force the government to reveal itself.

00:32:07.220 Are they really just trying to get rid of us because they don't like the cut of our jib?

00:32:11.220 If so, that's illegal, that's unconstitutional.

00:32:14.220 So that's what's happening.

00:32:15.220 I'm over-talking.

00:32:16.220 Let's go down there and do it.

00:32:19.220 All right, let's go downtown.

00:32:22.220 Aaron is coming with all sorts of legal precedents in hand.

00:32:27.220 Just in case, not if the protesters attack us, but if City Hall attacks us in real time.

00:32:33.220 We're going to meet our security detail at Old City Hall, then we'll walk across the street.

00:32:38.220 And hopefully we'll be done in half an hour.

00:32:41.220 Hopefully it'll be uneventful.

00:32:43.220 But if the city and the police have other plans, we're as ready as we can be.

00:32:52.220 What we're doing today is sort of like a symbolic march.

00:33:01.220 We're going to go there.

00:33:03.220 David's going to try and do journalism.

00:33:06.220 Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.

00:33:09.220 It's not even that interesting a story.

00:33:11.220 It's a bunch of tents.

00:33:16.220 Well, you may recall, folks, that yesterday I went to Nathan Phelps Square.

00:33:21.220 It has been commandeered by a group that's primarily composed of indigenous and black people.

00:33:30.220 And evidently, we're not allowed to be on the square.

00:33:34.220 It is like the Antifa autonomous city in Seattle, but it's even amped up a little more because it's right where the seat of government is here in the municipality of Toronto.

00:33:45.220 Toronto City Hall.

00:33:46.220 We were told by police that if we didn't exit the square, we would be arrested and charged with trespass.

00:33:54.220 And yet, they're turning a blind eye to the squatters.

00:33:58.220 Not only that, folks, the city is aiding and enabling them by putting up porta-potties for their comfort.

00:34:05.220 But we don't take no for an answer here at Rebel News.

00:34:08.220 We fight for freedom and I'm right now with the commander himself, Ezra Levent.

00:34:13.220 What did you make of our experience yesterday, Ezra?

00:34:15.220 It was completely unacceptable, David.

00:34:17.220 You know me.

00:34:18.220 I have my own show, but I let you do most of the field work in Ontario.

00:34:22.220 But I saw you went to Kingston, Ontario on the weekend and we had one security guard with you.

00:34:28.220 The police were not there and you were swarmed by Antifa.

00:34:31.220 Our security guard did a good job and pulled you out of there.

00:34:34.220 But it was outrageous that the police were not there.

00:34:37.220 It is unacceptable that the police who dismissed our private security yesterday did not protect our journalists.

00:34:44.220 In particular, they swarmed one of our cameramen, Mocha.

00:34:48.220 And it's doubly unacceptable to me that the same City Hall police and security that allows a unhygienic, unlawful, violence-prone squatters camp,

00:35:03.220 literally on the plaza in front of City Hall, they abide that, but they tell peaceful, law-abiding journalists to skedaddle?

00:35:11.220 No.

00:35:12.220 So we are back here today with seven security guards and our lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg.

00:35:21.220 It's absurd.

00:35:23.220 We have a team of seven, eight, nine, ten people plus five.

00:35:28.220 We've got 15 people here today just to assist you doing a story.

00:35:34.220 So we're going to go into this camp now and you're going to do a normal story.

00:35:38.220 What I'm going to be looking for, and so will our lawyer, is will John Tory's politicized police, who have ignored this illegal encampment,

00:35:49.220 will they try to crack down on you, on me, on our professional licensed insured security?

00:35:57.220 If so, we have a serious problem.

00:36:00.220 Let's go to the front steps of City Hall and let's let you do journalism.

00:36:07.220 We're going to be so compliant with the law.

00:36:09.220 We're going to be professional.

00:36:11.220 We're going to be lawful.

00:36:12.220 We're not going to cause a scene.

00:36:14.220 We're going to be so perfect in our conduct that the police will literally have no cause to eject us other than political bias.

00:36:24.220 We're controlling every other variable.

00:36:27.220 There are ten people here now!

00:36:34.220 Alright, here they go.

00:36:35.220 Well folks, we are at literally the scene of the crime.

00:36:38.220 This is the illegal encampment.

00:36:40.220 It's supposedly a circle.

00:36:42.220 It's not quite geometrically correct.

00:36:45.220 But this is where we were yesterday.

00:36:48.220 And evidently there's a phony baloney rule that I think people and even media are allowed to be outside the circle.

00:36:57.220 But we can't venture inside the circle.

00:37:00.220 Now here come the umbrellas.

00:37:01.220 You can tell there's not a raindrop in the air today.

00:37:04.220 It's a nice sunny day in Toronto.

00:37:06.220 So this is going to be to attempt to block our cameras so, you know, we can't capture their crimes on video.

00:37:15.220 It's a typical Antifa 101 tactic in massaging the narrative to their liking.

00:37:23.220 Also, as you can see, as I alluded to earlier, we got a couple of porta-potties established by the city.

00:37:28.220 So not only are the police coming in and John Tory saying you cannot be here, it is illegal.

00:37:36.220 They are making these squatters have a comfortable place to be.

00:37:42.220 It should also be noted that despite this illegal occupation, there is 0.0 police presence.

00:37:52.220 And then we have one solitary security guard there.

00:37:57.220 Notably, he is behind a steel wall of sorts, a temporary steel fencing.

00:38:03.220 Very funny that, isn't it, folks?

00:38:05.220 The left is typically against building walls so that a country can maintain its sovereignty in terms of illegal aliens coming to the country. 0.98

00:38:17.220 But when they are threatened at City Hall, walls are very effective indeed.

00:38:23.220 Now, as you can see off camera too, this is where they start shoving umbrellas and whatnot into our faces.

00:38:30.220 And they start complaining, don't touch me, and that this is an assault on them.

00:38:35.220 Here's this guy, as you can see.

00:38:38.220 I don't know what he's got.

00:38:40.220 They don't want free speech.

00:38:43.220 They don't want freedom of the press.

00:38:45.220 They don't want freedom of expression.

00:38:50.220 They want tyranny.

00:38:52.220 They...

00:38:53.220 Not to spread lies and...

00:38:55.220 Oh, is that right?

00:38:56.220 What's the truth, ma'am?

00:39:00.220 See, again, you ask them a question, and they can't answer it.

00:39:04.220 They respond with vulgarity.

00:39:06.220 A conversation when people are against you.

00:39:08.220 They don't want anyone to hear the true story.

00:39:09.220 Well, maybe, ma'am, if you put your umbrella down...

00:39:12.220 By the way, why is it that you people don't want your encampment filmed?

00:39:17.220 You people in the encampment, ma'am.

00:39:20.220 This is an occupation.

00:39:21.220 Who is you people?

00:39:22.220 Oh, it's an occupation.

00:39:23.220 Okay, well, we're dealing with semantics right now.

00:39:25.220 You're on my land.

00:39:26.220 You're on my territories.

00:39:27.220 Who are you, colonizer?

00:39:28.220 Can I see a deed, please?

00:39:29.220 Pardon me?

00:39:30.220 Can I see the deed? 0.99

00:39:31.220 You don't need to see my f***ing deed. 0.98

00:39:33.220 Do you know what the history is? 0.99

00:39:34.220 Are you able to respond to a question without profanity?

00:39:37.220 Are these your lands?

00:39:38.220 Were you your original person of these lands?

00:39:41.220 Are these your lands?

00:39:42.220 Well, I believe this is a public square, ma'am.

00:39:45.220 Do you know that these are not your lands?

00:39:47.220 Does somebody come up into your home and take up your space?

00:39:50.220 Does somebody come into your home and they can dictate how you run your household?

00:39:54.220 So, what would you like?

00:39:55.220 What would you like us to do? 1.00

00:39:57.220 F*** off my land. 1.00

00:39:58.220 That's what I would like. 0.99

00:39:59.220 What about all these other people on your land?

00:40:01.220 They're protesting against you.

00:40:02.220 Okay.

00:40:03.220 This is not public space.

00:40:04.220 This is Anishinaabe territory. 0.84

00:40:05.220 Okay.

00:40:06.220 I don't want to get into history.

00:40:07.220 I want to get into current events.

00:40:08.220 If you want to abolish the police, ma'am, who do we call when the bad guys harass people

00:40:13.220 are? 0.79

00:40:14.220 The bad guys can get the f*** out of here. 0.97

00:40:16.220 It's your people that did this, had this mindset in here. 0.92

00:40:19.220 Our people were peaceful people before they came here.

00:40:22.220 You know, I think you're probably a nice lady. 1.00

00:40:24.220 If someone were to criminally harass you, harm you, who would you call if you abolish the

00:40:29.220 police, ma'am?

00:40:31.220 Well, I'm interviewing an umbrella again.

00:40:33.220 So, like I said folks, as you can see, that is their main goal.

00:40:37.220 They have a big red and white sign that says abolish the police, not defund the police.

00:40:44.220 Well, why are you getting in our way, sir?

00:40:46.220 By the way, this is another tactic, folks.

00:40:50.220 They walk an inch away from us and then they play the victim card.

00:40:56.220 You know, oh, here's silent sound again.

00:40:59.220 Don't touch me! 1.00

00:41:00.220 Don't f***ing touch me! 1.00

00:41:02.220 So, anyways, it's getting testy as you can see. 0.98

00:41:07.220 Now, where, where, and you'd think, now you'd think with an illegal occupation like this,

00:41:13.220 there would be a police presence.

00:41:16.220 But Mayor Tory has called off the cops, it would seem.

00:41:21.220 We are probably a four-minute drive from police headquarters.

00:41:26.220 What are you doing? Don't f***ing touch me! 1.00

00:41:28.220 Sir, what's your purpose here? 0.99

00:41:30.220 My purpose here is to do some journalism.

00:41:33.220 Alright, so right now what you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.

00:41:38.220 I need to ask you to leave, okay?

00:41:40.220 What have I done?

00:41:41.220 You're causing disturbance.

00:41:43.220 I need you to leave the property.

00:41:44.220 And what have I done?

00:41:45.220 Causing disturbance, sir.

00:41:47.220 I need you to leave the property.

00:41:49.220 You have been cautioned, and I've said it.

00:41:52.220 It is loud and clear.

00:41:53.220 You have been cautioned.

00:41:54.220 I need you to leave the property.

00:41:56.220 I've been trespassing, okay?

00:41:58.220 For causing disturbance.

00:41:59.220 You have the property act, you have been cautioned.

00:42:01.220 Which section of the acts?

00:42:02.220 I don't have to tell you, but...

00:42:04.220 You have to tell me what grounds I violated, ma'am.

00:42:07.220 Causing disturbance, sir.

00:42:08.220 Look it up.

00:42:09.220 I have to look it up, ma'am.

00:42:11.220 Hey, is that that wacky tobacco that's legal now?

00:42:14.220 It smells for your own mind.

00:42:16.220 Listen to your heart, decolonize your mind.

00:42:20.220 What does that mean, ma'am?

00:42:22.220 Smells like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, actually.

00:42:27.220 But, uh...

00:42:28.220 It's a free country.

00:42:29.220 It's found in you guys.

00:42:30.220 We can do that if we want.

00:42:32.220 Oh, is that right?

00:42:33.220 Is that your idea of freedom?

00:42:34.220 Shutting down the media, sir?

00:42:36.220 Huh?

00:42:38.220 I thought we weren't allowed inside your sacred circle, sir.

00:42:41.220 We're outside of your sacred circle.

00:42:43.220 Because you're disruptors.

00:42:45.220 You're antagonizers.

00:42:46.220 I'm just standing here talking.

00:42:47.220 You're the one disrupting.

00:42:48.220 No, I'm not.

00:42:49.220 You're disrupting by coming in and going against what we believe.

00:42:53.220 Which is to abolish the police.

00:42:55.220 I'm not touching.

00:42:56.220 She's touching me.

00:42:57.220 How does that help anyone?

00:42:58.220 How does that help any...

00:42:59.220 Army?

00:43:00.220 So, as you can see...

00:43:02.220 Hey, hey, hey.

00:43:03.220 Don't touch the equipment.

00:43:04.220 Don't touch them.

00:43:05.220 You punched the microphone.

00:43:06.220 You punched the microphone.

00:43:07.220 I didn't do nothing wrong.

00:43:08.220 I got my hand in front of your camera.

00:43:10.220 Sir, if you didn't do nothing wrong, that means you did something wrong.

00:43:13.220 You used a double negative.

00:43:14.220 I'm sorry you're not educated.

00:43:16.220 Hey! 0.99

00:43:17.220 Hey! 0.99

00:43:18.220 Take your hand.

00:43:19.220 Take your hand.

00:43:20.220 Don't even go.

00:43:21.220 Everybody back off.

00:43:22.220 So, you can see it's open season.

00:43:26.220 Don't touch me.

00:43:27.220 And you're the one that punched my microphone, sir.

00:43:30.220 What?

00:43:31.220 That's vandalism.

00:43:32.220 Don't touch me.

00:43:33.220 That's good.

00:43:34.220 So, anyways.

00:43:35.220 Don't touch me.

00:43:36.220 I'm not sure how much we're capturing folks, but this is...

00:43:39.220 Yep.

00:43:40.220 Yep.

00:43:41.220 This is par for the course with these Antifa wannabes, you know.

00:43:46.220 Do you feel harassed?

00:43:47.220 Do you feel ambushed?

00:43:48.220 I think this is the definition of harassment.

00:43:51.220 Don't touch her.

00:43:52.220 You can't...

00:43:53.220 Don't touch her.

00:43:54.220 Oh.

00:43:55.220 Oh, hi.

00:43:56.220 We've got another gender... 1.00

00:43:58.220 Don't touch my f***ing elder. 1.00

00:43:59.220 You're elder? 0.99

00:44:00.220 You're elder?

00:44:01.220 I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish.

00:44:06.220 So, again, I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish, aside from making themselves

00:44:11.220 look like infants.

00:44:13.220 How are you?

00:44:15.220 You told me, my friend.

00:44:17.220 I don't know.

00:44:18.220 You look...

00:44:19.220 Sounds like we're all pretty sick, aren't we?

00:44:20.220 No.

00:44:21.220 Get out of here.

00:44:22.220 We're all sick, my friend. 0.91

00:44:24.220 Get out of here, man. 0.99

00:44:25.220 Don't touch me. 1.00

00:44:26.220 Don't f***ing touch me. 0.99

00:44:27.220 I'm in a public square, man. 1.00

00:44:28.220 Let's go.

00:44:29.220 Come on.

00:44:30.220 Let's go.

00:44:31.220 Let's go.

00:44:32.220 Let's go.

00:44:33.220 Let's go. 1.00

00:44:34.220 Don't f***ing touch me. 0.99

00:44:35.220 I did do it. 0.99

00:44:38.220 No.

00:44:39.220 Don't touch me.

00:44:40.220 Stop! 1.00

00:44:42.220 What the hell? 0.98

00:44:44.220 Stop. 0.99

00:44:45.220 Don't touch my guy.

00:44:47.220 Come on, man.

00:44:48.220 Come on! 0.61

00:44:50.220 Don't touch me again, buddy.

00:44:51.220 Come on! 0.61

00:44:53.220 Come on! 0.61

00:44:55.220 Don't touch me again, buddy.

00:44:57.220 Come on! 1.00

00:44:59.220 I'm a child, you motherfucker! 1.00

00:45:05.220 Don't touch women! 1.00

00:45:07.220 Don't think our women is not okay! 1.00

00:45:09.220 Touch me!

00:45:11.220 We won't stoop to your level!

00:45:13.220 You got that now?

00:45:15.220 How dare you?

00:45:17.220 We will not stoop to your violence! 1.00

00:45:19.220 You f***ing demons! 0.99

00:45:21.220 We've been separated from some members 0.99

00:45:23.220 of our team.

00:45:25.220 It is completely

00:45:27.220 lawless here.

00:45:29.220 Oh, there's some police right there.

00:45:31.220 Let's see if I flog them over,

00:45:33.220 if they do anything.

00:45:35.220 Hey, police! 0.79

00:45:37.220 Police! Police!

00:45:39.220 Look at this!

00:45:41.220 Look at this! I guess they have to

00:45:43.220 enforce the Bay Street

00:45:45.220 clear lane or something.

00:45:47.220 Cops are running away

00:45:49.220 from the crime!

00:46:07.220 Hi, officers.

00:46:09.220 We're here today with seven private

00:46:11.220 professional insured security

00:46:13.220 so we could do journalism.

00:46:15.220 We briefed ourselves on

00:46:17.220 various laws

00:46:19.220 and we were compliant throughout.

00:46:21.220 We went through the law.

00:46:23.220 No swearing, no troublemaking.

00:46:25.220 And we simply stood in there

00:46:27.220 to report.

00:46:29.220 And our security did their best,

00:46:31.220 but they were overwhelmed

00:46:33.220 and there was a fisticuff.

00:46:35.220 I'd like to go back

00:46:37.220 and calmly stand in the town square

00:46:39.220 and do a five-minute news report.

00:46:43.220 But I was driven out

00:46:45.220 despite spending thousands of dollars

00:46:47.220 on private security.

00:46:49.220 Now that you guys are here,

00:46:51.220 I wonder if I can walk back

00:46:53.220 into the town square of my city

00:46:55.220 peacefully in compliance

00:46:57.220 with all laws

00:46:59.220 and exercise my right

00:47:01.220 as a journalist.

00:47:03.220 Alright, you don't have to put that

00:47:05.220 in my face.

00:47:07.220 So, we were talking to the security

00:47:09.220 over there, right?

00:47:11.220 They were saying that some of the words

00:47:13.220 you guys were saying and using

00:47:15.220 were antagonizing the crowd there.

00:47:17.220 It's not true.

00:47:19.220 I didn't even talk to them.

00:47:20.220 Did you say anything to them?

00:47:21.220 I didn't say, not a word.

00:47:23.220 The security weren't even there.

00:47:25.220 So, the security didn't hear anything.

00:47:27.220 The security never came to help.

00:47:29.220 They were always at least 100 feet away.

00:47:31.220 So, they physically could not have heard things.

00:47:33.220 I proactively went to the security

00:47:36.220 to ask for assistance.

00:47:37.220 I was told I had to leave

00:47:39.220 under the trespass

00:47:41.220 and I said, what have I done?

00:47:43.220 And she couldn't say it.

00:47:44.220 So, what I'm saying here is,

00:47:46.220 and I'm happy to go alone

00:47:47.220 or send David alone.

00:47:48.220 The reason we brought seven people with us

00:47:51.220 is because our journalists

00:47:53.220 were threatened yesterday

00:47:55.220 and I thought, I can't have our journalists

00:47:57.220 being beat up.

00:47:58.220 So, will you either allow me

00:48:01.220 or hopefully walk with me

00:48:03.220 so I stand in front of my city hall

00:48:06.220 as a journalist

00:48:08.220 and do a five-minute news report

00:48:10.220 in front of my city hall

00:48:12.220 completely compliant with the law

00:48:14.220 and separated by a band of blue steel

00:48:17.220 from the protesters?

00:48:18.220 Right.

00:48:19.220 So, right now, I got to talk to the city hall security again.

00:48:23.220 They advised me that they had trespassed you guys

00:48:26.220 from the property.

00:48:27.220 Do you guys want to do your journalism?

00:48:29.220 Yeah.

00:48:30.220 We don't take offense to that.

00:48:32.220 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:48:33.220 I think you could fix this

00:48:35.220 by letting us go out.

00:48:36.220 Those guys won't...

00:48:37.220 How far?

00:48:38.220 Like, I don't see...

00:48:39.220 I want to stand...

00:48:40.220 Why don't you guys, like, stand...

00:48:42.220 Because this is my city...

00:48:44.220 Let's look about here...

00:48:45.220 No, no, no.

00:48:46.220 I'm going to go on the other side of the ramp.

00:48:48.220 I'll keep 20 feet away from the bad guys.

00:48:52.220 And I'm going to use my Section 2B charter right

00:48:56.220 to report the news in my city.

00:48:58.220 So, you're free to report the news.

00:48:59.220 That's not the problem at all.

00:49:00.220 And I'm also free to stand on the town square.

00:49:03.220 Explain it to me.

00:49:04.220 So, see that stairwell that's going down?

00:49:06.220 Is that where you want to set up?

00:49:07.220 That's not bad.

00:49:08.220 Yeah.

00:49:09.220 Sure.

00:49:10.220 So, I don't see a problem with that.

00:49:11.220 Great.

00:49:12.220 I'm going to tell you right now.

00:49:13.220 Yeah.

00:49:14.220 If the situation starts to explode,

00:49:16.220 and security wants you to leave,

00:49:18.220 then I'm going to have to ask you, right?

00:49:20.220 Well, I'm sorry.

00:49:21.220 I want to tell you the law says...

00:49:22.220 The law doesn't talk about situations.

00:49:24.220 The law talks about people.

00:49:25.220 I'm not going to explode.

00:49:27.220 David's not going to explode.

00:49:28.220 My cameraman aren't going to explode.

00:49:30.220 And my professional licensed security

00:49:31.220 certainly aren't going to explode.

00:49:33.220 There are some explosive people in here,

00:49:35.220 but the law touches explosive people,

00:49:37.220 not explosive incidents.

00:49:39.220 And I'm not leaving because some guy explodes at me.

00:49:42.220 The law also touches about breaching of the peace.

00:49:46.220 I haven't breached the peace at all.

00:49:48.220 If you want to take the position, officer,

00:49:50.220 and I know you don't,

00:49:51.220 that a peaceful, quiet news report

00:49:53.220 on the town square is breaching the peace,

00:49:56.220 that's a law that needs to be tested.

00:49:58.220 Let's just go and do some journalism, officer.

00:50:00.220 Let me speak to the security.

00:50:01.220 Give me a quick second.

00:50:02.220 Sure.

00:50:03.220 If you also want to call Colonel Sanders,

00:50:05.220 he has about as much authority as these mall cops,

00:50:08.220 but you do what you've got to do.

00:50:09.220 We've all got to work together.

00:50:10.220 We've all been here together.

00:50:11.220 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:50:12.220 You're the best.

00:50:13.220 I like that guy.

00:50:14.220 I like him too.

00:50:16.220 I'm going to do a news report on my town square

00:50:19.220 where I pay taxes every day.

00:50:21.220 That's just happening.

00:50:22.220 Whether I do it with the cops, with the security,

00:50:24.220 or by my lonesome, it's happening.

00:50:26.220 All right, we spoke to the security there.

00:50:39.220 They said that at 1234, they trespassed all of you guys.

00:50:45.220 So here's what I'm going to do.

00:50:48.220 I'm going to walk there now.

00:50:51.220 And that'll go one of three ways, I think.

00:50:54.220 One is I'll go by myself and I'll probably get attacked.

00:50:58.220 That won't be good.

00:51:00.220 The other is you come with me and I don't think they're going to lay a glove on you.

00:51:05.220 But I know how tough it is to be a cop these days.

00:51:07.220 They're filming everything.

00:51:08.220 They're going to try and get you.

00:51:09.220 It's tough.

00:51:10.220 The third is you arrest me.

00:51:12.220 Oh, I don't want that to happen.

00:51:14.220 But I am ready for that to happen.

00:51:16.220 Because the only reason I'm here with 15 of my friends

00:51:20.220 is because we were shooed away from the town square yesterday

00:51:23.220 and thought the president of the company himself is going to come down and prove

00:51:27.220 that in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.

00:51:32.220 So if that is not true, we need to know it.

00:51:35.220 And if I get personally attacked, we need to know it.

00:51:38.220 If I get arrested, we need to know it.

00:51:40.220 So I'm going to do that now.

00:51:42.220 I'm going to do it whether or not you guys are there.

00:51:44.220 Well, the thing is, I did mention that to them.

00:51:46.220 And they don't launch you on the property right now.

00:51:49.220 You know what?

00:51:50.220 1-800, I don't care.

00:51:51.220 I mean, their opinion matters not at all to me.

00:51:54.220 What I'm saying is, why don't you shoot some footage from here

00:51:57.220 and get what you can get here while we're standing here

00:52:00.220 and make sure that you guys are safe right now.

00:52:03.220 Right?

00:52:04.220 Because I'm a free citizen and that's my town hall.

00:52:07.220 That's my town square.

00:52:08.220 That's the answer.

00:52:09.220 Why there's no other answer to it.

00:52:11.220 I'm explaining to you what security told me.

00:52:13.220 If you're not happy with their...

00:52:14.220 I'm not interested in playing legal games with mall cops, officer.

00:52:17.220 So unless you have any last minute things to say,

00:52:20.220 I am now going to walk with my bravest cameraman and David.

00:52:24.220 I'm going to walk to the stairs.

00:52:26.220 I hope I don't get beat up.

00:52:27.220 I hope I don't get arrested.

00:52:29.220 Those are two possibilities.

00:52:31.220 I hope you guys will just walk with me to the stairs.

00:52:34.220 I'll do five minutes of journalism and then I'll call it a day.

00:52:37.220 Just to be clear, if I get a trespass...

00:52:39.220 So Mocha, are you coming?

00:52:40.220 Just to be clear.

00:52:42.220 I thought that was a magnificent performance of, I guess, outdoor lawyering.

00:52:48.220 We're asserting ourselves.

00:52:50.220 You can already hear the moans from the sacred circle of the autonomous city.

00:52:55.220 And we're being met with the mall cops, for lack of a better term.

00:53:01.220 Ezra Levant here for rebelnews.com.

00:53:04.220 I'm standing in the town square of Toronto.

00:53:08.220 Corporate security, we're trespassing you from the property for causing disturbance.

00:53:13.220 I haven't caused a disturbance.

00:53:14.220 Stop lying, please.

00:53:15.220 Please stop lying.

00:53:16.220 Please don't lie on TV.

00:53:17.220 You're interfering with this peaceful demonstration.

00:53:20.220 Please don't lie on TV.

00:53:21.220 You gotta go.

00:53:22.220 Please don't lie.

00:53:23.220 You gotta go.

00:53:24.220 You have to go.

00:53:25.220 No, I don't.

00:53:26.220 Leave the property.

00:53:27.220 Well, here's my lawyer.

00:53:28.220 You can talk to him, okay?

00:53:29.220 I'm...

00:53:30.220 Okay.

00:53:31.220 I'm going to keep doing my work.

00:53:32.220 If you guys want to interfere...

00:53:33.220 What's your name?

00:53:34.220 What's your name?

00:53:35.220 Show me your ID.

00:53:36.220 I don't believe you.

00:53:37.220 Show me your ID.

00:53:38.220 Well, right here.

00:53:39.220 This is my...

00:53:40.220 Right here.

00:53:41.220 I can't see your name.

00:53:42.220 Stop hiding your name.

00:53:43.220 Yusuf Kassam.

00:53:44.220 Yes, sir.

00:53:45.220 And what grounds are you ejecting me?

00:53:46.220 I'm asking you to leave.

00:53:47.220 You've already seen my ID.

00:53:48.220 Asking me to leave is in the grounds.

00:53:49.220 All right.

00:53:50.220 Talk to my lawyer or talk to one of the kids.

00:53:52.220 Okay, sir.

00:53:53.220 They trust you now.

00:53:54.220 I'm not leaving.

00:53:55.220 Let me just do my report and then I'll get out of here.

00:53:57.220 If you want to arrest me, go ahead.

00:53:58.220 I'm not leaving.

00:53:59.220 Ezra Levant here for rebelnews.com.

00:54:01.220 I'm standing in a very strange place.

00:54:04.220 Normally, it's the town square of my own city.

00:54:08.220 But today, it's an encampment, a rather gross, urine-soaked encampment of protesters.

00:54:13.220 Rather incoherent.

00:54:14.220 We sent reporters here yesterday to try and have a conversation with them, but it was not useful.

00:54:19.220 Well, then mall security, I'm calling them mall security because that's what they are, told our people to leave.

00:54:26.220 Now, that's not what the law says.

00:54:27.220 What disappointed me the most is that a Toronto City policeman said if we didn't leave, we would be charged under the trespass laws.

00:54:38.220 Now, I contacted Aaron Rosenberg, our lawyer, and we went through the trespass laws very carefully.

00:54:44.220 And he confirmed that there are certain grounds you have to violate before being trespassed, and we didn't violate those.

00:54:51.220 So today, this morning, we had a staff meeting going through those laws, and we came back.

00:54:56.220 Well, you saw the footage of the mini-riot that happened, and our seven private security guards were actually attacked.

00:55:03.220 And I don't blame them for saying, we've got to get out of here.

00:55:05.220 The cops weren't around.

00:55:06.220 Luckily, four of Toronto's finest did finally come.

00:55:11.220 And after some attempts at negotiation, I told them one of three things is going to happen.

00:55:16.220 I'm going to come back down here, myself, alone, and get beat up.

00:55:20.220 I'm going to come back down here with their protection.

00:55:23.220 Thank God, that's what we're doing.

00:55:24.220 Or the third option is they'd arrest me.

00:55:26.220 I'm very glad it's ending without arrest, although the day's not done.

00:55:29.220 That's about it for me.

00:55:30.220 This isn't an interesting story.

00:55:32.220 I mean, these protesters are a rent-a-mob.

00:55:34.220 They're not interesting in any way.

00:55:36.220 What is an interesting story is how John Tory's Toronto has rolled out the red carpet for lawlessness

00:55:43.220 and is cracking down on journalists peacefully doing their profession.

00:55:48.220 What have we learned today, folks?

00:55:49.220 Do we have free speech in Canada?

00:55:51.220 I think we do.

00:55:52.220 But it's kind of like Diet Coke or free speech light, if you will.

00:55:57.220 It's not the full meal deal.

00:55:59.220 It's not the First Amendment like our American cousins have.

00:56:04.220 We got our little five minutes and then we get the bum's rush.

00:56:10.220 I'm not blaming the individual police officers.

00:56:13.220 This is the bailiwick of John Tory and his spineless leadership in the city of Toronto.

00:56:20.220 I regret that our private security took some punches.

00:56:25.220 I have to say Toronto's police did the right thing in the end.

00:56:30.220 I understand Toronto police wanting to negotiate, wanting to have a diplomatic solution.

00:56:39.220 But that's not how it is between a bank robber and a bank teller.

00:56:44.220 That's not how it is between a fireman and a fire.

00:56:47.220 There's right and wrong and there's lawful and unlawful.

00:56:50.220 And committing acts of journalism in the public town square, that's lawful.

00:56:56.220 All right.

00:56:57.220 What a great day.

00:56:58.220 Thanks, everybody, for your support.

00:57:00.220 If you want to help cover the cost of our seven private security, it's a big bill.

00:57:04.220 Go to JournalistDefenseFund.com.

00:57:08.220 Thanks, officers.

00:57:09.220 Well, our number one video of the year in so many ways, great reporting, story of the year,

00:57:17.220 and it actually got more views than anything else we did this year,

00:57:20.220 was Kian Bexty going to a Black Lives Matter Antifa rally in little Innisfail, Alberta,

00:57:27.220 a small town.

00:57:28.220 I don't think most people have ever heard of it.

00:57:30.220 It has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, which is a radical American movement.

00:57:36.220 There were never slaves, black slaves in Innisfail.

00:57:40.220 There were never slaves in Alberta.

00:57:42.220 It's a bizarre grafting of a U.S. concept onto Canada for political profit.

00:57:48.220 Kian went there, and this amazing video was the result.

00:57:52.220 Take a look.

00:57:53.220 I'm here in Innisfail today where a protest is planned, a Black Lives Matter protest,

00:57:57.220 backed by Antifa, as they tend to be across North America.

00:58:01.220 The community here in Innisfail is anxious.

00:58:03.220 They're concerned and they're worried that, one, violence could break out, as it tends to do.

00:58:08.220 In Edmonton, they smashed the window of a cop car, left graffiti everywhere.

00:58:12.220 Some businesses, just on the drive in here, we've seen that their windows are all shuttered.

00:58:17.220 They have no idea how to respond to this because it's bullying at the end of the day.

00:58:21.220 These folks are coming in from large cities to tell the people of Innisfail that they are racist.

00:58:26.220 That's obviously not true.

00:58:28.220 I've spoken with the minority groups here in Innisfail and they've told me that they love it here.

00:58:32.220 The people are the nicest people that they've ever met and they've never once experienced racism.

00:58:36.220 But that's not going to stop the radicals with Black Lives Matter to come into this community

00:58:41.220 to intimidate them and try to re-educate them.

00:58:44.220 So the people here in Innisfail are concerned, one, of violence, but two, the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

00:58:49.220 They've done a pretty good job at keeping central Alberta clean from viral infections.

00:58:54.220 And they're worried that this protest full of young people who have been mingling at other protests across Alberta

00:59:00.220 are going to bring it into this community, which is largely senior.

00:59:04.220 This could impact the lives of the people here in Innisfail.

00:59:08.220 If an old person over the age of 85 got this infection,

00:59:12.220 their chance of survival is not near as high as these selfish youth who are protesting for pretty much no reason.

00:59:18.220 We're going to see if they can actually come up with a reason for why they're protesting.

00:59:21.220 If they have an example of actual racism here in Innisfail.

00:59:25.220 Like they say, it's just riddled with racism here in Innisfail.

00:59:29.220 So we're going to actually go see if they have any examples of that happening.

00:59:35.220 You're coming to speak at the protest. Why is it important to have this protest here in Innisfail?

00:59:39.220 Well, I'm not sure if I'm actually going to be speaking per se.

00:59:42.220 It's just to support other councillors that have a message to get out there and support the anti-racism.

00:59:48.220 Can you give me an example of racism here?

00:59:50.220 Examples? I personally have seen, like I have some close friends that they've exhibited, you know,

00:59:58.220 whether they are black or of another culture, just being uncomfortable.

01:00:04.220 You know, you go to some of these soccer games, you go to hockey games, you go to any public event.

01:00:10.220 And there is that level of just feeling a little bit less comfortable.

01:00:14.220 And I really want Innisfail to make everyone feel comfortable.

01:00:17.220 Are you from Innisfail?

01:00:18.220 I'm not. I'm from Calgary.

01:00:20.220 Okay. Drove in for the party.

01:00:22.220 Absolutely.

01:00:23.220 Okay. Could you give me an example of police brutality in Innisfail?

01:00:26.220 I'm actually not going to talk to any media today. I'm sorry. That's just not something.

01:00:31.220 There's lots of media and people talking to media over there.

01:00:34.220 As far as my quote on anything, I'm not going to give one.

01:00:37.220 You're at a protest. What's your point here if not to spread your message?

01:00:41.220 I'm here to show support. That's all.

01:00:44.220 To stop police brutality in the town of Innisfail with 7,000 people?

01:00:47.220 To stop police brutality in general.

01:00:50.220 Are you here to support the rally?

01:00:52.220 Yes.

01:00:53.220 Okay. Would you be able to give me any examples of...

01:00:55.220 F*** off, you racist piece of s***. Get the f*** out of here, you f***. 1.00

01:00:59.220 Are you a Nazi? 1.00

01:01:00.220 F*** off, Nazi. 1.00

01:01:01.220 I'm not a Nazi. 1.00

01:01:02.220 Do you have an example of racism or police brutality here in Innisfail?

01:01:10.220 I don't know.

01:01:12.220 I don't know if anything's happened in Innisfail, but I do know there were threats against a small, little group.

01:01:17.220 Did you forget to say you said Rebel News, or are you okay with that?

01:01:19.220 I really don't care. 0.99

01:01:21.220 It's just you that has a stick over their butt. 0.99

01:01:23.220 What is Black Excellence? 0.99

01:01:24.220 Black Excellence actually is...

01:01:26.220 We are...

01:01:27.220 For some of our students, we actually have this...

01:01:30.220 Show is that...

01:01:32.220 Black people excellences. 0.98

01:01:33.220 What would you...

01:01:34.220 How would you respond to a shirt that said White Excellence?

01:01:37.220 White people, yeah. 0.83

01:01:38.220 The white people always promote excellence. 0.97

01:01:39.220 They don't need to be promoted, but we promote black excellences. 0.91

01:01:42.220 Hi there.

01:01:43.220 Are you from Innisfail?

01:01:44.220 Huh?

01:01:45.220 Are you from Innisfail?

01:01:46.220 This is Rebel Beattie.

01:01:47.220 I wouldn't talk to him to follow you.

01:01:49.220 It's okay.

01:01:50.220 Don't worry about her.

01:01:51.220 Are you from Innisfail?

01:01:52.220 I'm from Canada.

01:01:54.220 Doesn't matter.

01:01:55.220 Sure.

01:01:56.220 Okay.

01:01:57.220 But not from Innisfail.

01:01:58.220 The reason I want...

01:01:59.220 No, the reason I ask is I just want to know if you have any example of systemic racism

01:02:03.220 in this town.

01:02:04.220 Why did you choose this town specifically?

01:02:06.220 I don't want to answer that.

01:02:08.220 Thank you.

01:02:09.220 I know.

01:02:10.220 Yeah?

01:02:11.220 Yeah, I just told her.

01:02:12.220 Like, don't talk to him.

01:02:13.220 You shouldn't talk to them, I don't think.

01:02:14.220 But you go ahead.

01:02:15.220 Any example?

01:02:16.220 It doesn't matter.

01:02:17.220 I know.

01:02:18.220 Yes.

01:02:19.220 Black ones too. 0.90

01:02:20.220 Black community is hurting right now. 0.99

01:02:21.220 I know the natives are suffering.

01:02:22.220 I know everyone is suffering in their own way.

01:02:24.220 But I just want an example of race...

01:02:25.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:26.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:27.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:28.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:29.220 It doesn't have to be equal?

01:02:31.220 It doesn't have to be equal?

01:02:32.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:34.220 It doesn't have to be equal.

01:02:35.220 He's all human.

01:02:37.220 This rally in particular is about anti-police brutality, and we're wondering if there's

01:02:54.620 an example of police brutality against black people specifically or any visible minority.

01:02:58.860 I haven't seen any brutality from police in Innisfail.

01:03:02.700 I actually know that most of the police in Innisfail are very personable.

01:03:08.860 Could you give me an example of police brutality or racism here in Innisfail?

01:03:12.560 Well, I just moved to Innisfail, so I haven't seen any sort of police brutality, why are

01:03:20.320 you at an anti-police brutality rally?

01:03:23.080 Well, I've seen or experienced myself some situations with police that have made me rather

01:03:28.160 uncomfortable.

01:03:29.160 Your poster says it's a white people problem, racism.

01:03:31.880 Do you think that that statement might be racist itself?

01:03:33.880 I'm not going to have any comments for you.

01:03:35.880 If you don't have any examples of police brutality, do you have any examples of police brutality

01:03:39.060 against black people in Canada at all?

01:03:40.440 I'm not going to make any more comments to you guys.

01:03:42.440 I'm sorry.

01:03:43.440 There are people over there that would love to make a comment.

01:03:45.440 I'm not one of them.

01:03:46.440 It sounds like you don't really have any examples of police brutality.

01:03:48.440 You just kind of want to be here and hold a sign.

01:03:50.440 I'm not going to talk to media.

01:03:51.440 They're bullying the small town people into what their ideation is and how they should

01:03:56.780 feel about this issue.

01:03:58.600 And most of the people, particularly in Innisfail, are seniors.

01:04:01.280 There's a lot of senior population here.

01:04:03.280 They should be listening to them.

01:04:05.280 Coming here to tell me I'm racist.

01:04:06.280 I came to the protest because I...

01:04:08.280 I saw a poster that said people here that live here are racist.

01:04:12.280 Oh, you've seen the poster?

01:04:14.280 Not this one.

01:04:15.280 No, no, I...

01:04:16.280 No, this one doesn't say anything about racism.

01:04:18.280 Right?

01:04:19.280 This has nothing to say about racism.

01:04:22.280 Yeah.

01:04:23.280 What?

01:04:24.280 Oh, you cringe your face when you see that.

01:04:25.280 Why?

01:04:26.280 Well, I've just seen that symbol in other places that makes me a little uncomfortable

01:04:29.280 because it's a very violent, aggressive...

01:04:31.280 So this is why you need to ask yourself, why are you here to come witness this?

01:04:35.280 Why am I here to come witness this?

01:04:37.280 Because this is a small town and this kind of thing is not really something we like to

01:04:42.280 see.

01:04:43.280 What kind of thing?

01:04:44.280 What kind of thing?

01:04:45.280 A gathering of people from...

01:04:46.280 You're really not giving me information.

01:04:47.280 I'm telling you what I'm here for.

01:04:48.280 She's referring to the pandemic that is risking the lives of Lars...

01:04:51.280 Probably the biggest one in Alberta.

01:04:52.280 Okay.

01:04:53.280 One story.

01:04:54.280 Yes.

01:04:55.280 Why are you here?

01:04:56.280 I...

01:04:57.280 To support...

01:04:58.280 To support...

01:04:59.280 For myself.

01:05:00.280 I'm here to represent myself as a black person.

01:05:02.280 How about this?

01:05:03.280 To represent to the locals.

01:05:04.280 How about this right here?

01:05:05.280 What is your message to Innisfil? 0.97

01:05:08.280 To bring up these things, talk to each other, and kill the racism.

01:05:14.280 Where's the racism?

01:05:15.280 Can you give me a specific example of racism?

01:05:17.280 Racism is when...

01:05:18.280 Right now.

01:05:19.280 When you've seen this, what does this mean to you?

01:05:22.280 Why am I...

01:05:23.280 What is this...

01:05:24.280 Because that...

01:05:25.280 I've seen that symbol left in other places that...

01:05:28.280 Initiate...

01:05:35.280 Up to this point, I was over on the side there, thinking this is great.

01:05:40.280 This is peaceful.

01:05:41.280 No problem.

01:05:42.280 And I'm all for peaceful rallies, protests.

01:05:44.280 I've done it all across the country.

01:05:46.280 A fellow comes up on a...

01:05:48.280 On a motorcycle.

01:05:49.280 And...

01:05:50.280 And all of a sudden, they are swarmed and surrounded and intimidated.

01:05:53.280 This...

01:05:54.280 This is what Innisfil doesn't need.

01:05:55.280 We don't need intimidation.

01:05:57.280 And we don't need the movement of Black Lives Matter that are intimidating in our town.

01:06:02.280 That's what...

01:06:03.280 Don't touch me again.

01:06:05.280 Don't touch me again.

01:06:06.280 Don't touch me again.

01:06:07.280 Don't touch me again.

01:06:08.280 And what happened to the coronavirus?

01:06:09.280 Do you see anybody social distancing here?

01:06:11.280 All of a sudden that's gone.

01:06:13.280 I've got businesses over here that have moved their vehicles because they're worried.

01:06:17.280 And are they worried because there's been peaceful protests?

01:06:20.280 Because they're worried because they're intimidated.

01:06:22.280 They have an intimidation factor and that's wrong.

01:06:25.280 Black Lives Matter!

01:06:27.280 Black Lives Matter!

01:06:28.280 Black Lives Matter!

01:06:29.280 Black Lives Matter!

01:06:30.280 Why would you come to Innisfil, which is like a sweet, polite town of elderly people

01:06:36.280 that are afraid of COVID and you inundate them?

01:06:40.280 I mean, I feel so sad.

01:06:42.280 This is...

01:06:43.280 The people of Innisfil are wonderful.

01:06:45.280 I mean, I've lived in this town for 40 years and if anything, I've seen nothing but acceptance

01:06:49.280 for colored people and in fact, usually an interest in them because there isn't a lot.

01:06:52.280 I grew up here and I experienced a ton of prejudice growing up here.

01:06:55.280 Sorry, as a white person, do you experience prejudice?

01:06:58.280 As a minority, I experience a lot of prejudice.

01:07:01.280 What's...

01:07:02.280 Sorry, what's your...

01:07:03.280 You're not a visible minority.

01:07:04.280 Could you elaborate?

01:07:05.280 I'm gay.

01:07:06.280 Okay.

01:07:07.280 And this is a gay rally or a Black Lives Matter rally? 0.81

01:07:09.280 It's a rights rally. 0.85

01:07:10.280 Okay.

01:07:11.280 Alright, so...

01:07:12.280 Could you give me examples of that prejudice?

01:07:14.280 None.

01:07:15.280 Okay.

01:07:16.280 Yeah, well, racism exists. 0.87

01:07:18.280 There's no doubt about that.

01:07:19.280 But to say that it's systematic, institutional, that actually has to be laws against people

01:07:25.280 for the color of their culture that says you can't get ahead.

01:07:28.280 And in fact, I see in North American democratic countries, we make sure that people actually

01:07:33.280 have extra rights so that they aren't being left behind.

01:07:37.280 Well, I think everybody has the right to their free speech and I think everybody's allowed

01:07:42.280 to exercise it perfectly fine.

01:07:43.280 But you got him holding a sign that says silence and violence and a lot of the time, everybody

01:07:48.280 knows by now, if you have a contrary opinion to the left wing, then you're silenced.

01:07:53.280 You're removed from Facebook, you try to report anybody for their violence on the other

01:07:57.280 side and nothing gets done about that.

01:07:59.280 There's a clear worldwide agenda going on here that involves media and governments on

01:08:03.280 left wing governments all around the world.

01:08:05.280 Every UN country, it's all the exact same politics that are going on in the world right

01:08:08.280 now.

01:08:09.280 It's hard to even say what's going on, but things certainly aren't getting better.

01:08:12.280 That's for sure.

01:08:13.280 I don't think that tribalizing people helps.

01:08:16.280 The more groups that have been coming out over the last few years, the more problems

01:08:19.280 there's been.

01:08:20.280 I think that there's more problems now than there had been since the last 15 years before

01:08:24.280 lately.

01:08:25.280 And why is it Black Lives Matter only comes out during election season?

01:08:29.280 That's a really good question.

01:08:30.280 They've been talking about them for four years, and now they're back out in the public again

01:08:33.280 because it's an election coming up again.

01:08:35.280 This is a political agenda.

01:08:37.280 If you go to Black Lives Matter... 0.84

01:08:39.280 No, I'm not saying that.

01:08:42.280 I'm not saying that.

01:08:43.280 I'm saying the organization itself seems to have political motives behind it.

01:08:46.280 Do you have none?

01:08:47.280 No, I don't.

01:08:49.280 Could you give me an example of racism here in Innisfail?

01:08:52.280 I'm not from Innisfail.

01:08:53.280 I'm from Alder Flats.

01:08:55.280 I grew up with redneck racists.

01:08:57.280 So yeah, it does exist.

01:09:00.280 But you're not a racist?

01:09:01.280 No.

01:09:02.280 I do not.

01:09:03.280 Get that thing out of my face. 1.00

01:09:04.280 You're too close.

01:09:05.280 You can interview me without being intrusive.

01:09:08.280 Okay.

01:09:09.280 If you just had an example of racism though, that'd be great.

01:09:11.280 So stop walking closer to her, right?

01:09:13.280 I could give you a thousand examples of racism that I've...

01:09:16.280 I just want one example.

01:09:18.280 Please, please.

01:09:19.280 How do you do that?

01:09:20.280 We just want to tell the world how racist it is here in small town Alberta.

01:09:24.280 It's racist for you to feel the need to come here and say you're not racist.

01:09:30.280 That's racist.

01:09:31.280 We're not telling you our story. 0.99

01:09:34.280 No, you're white. 0.96

01:09:35.280 So you're supposed to be silent. 0.98

01:09:37.280 That's the most racist thing you've said today.

01:09:40.280 Thank you for confirming.

01:09:42.280 I don't know if you heard...

01:09:46.280 Was that recording there?

01:09:48.280 I don't know if you heard that.

01:09:49.280 She said that everything here was literally created by slaves.

01:09:52.280 Which is obviously not true.

01:09:54.280 Canada abolished slavery over 200 years ago, I think it was now.

01:09:59.280 And this town isn't even a hundred years old.

01:10:02.280 I don't think.

01:10:03.280 Alberta at least is about 115 years old.

01:10:05.280 And it was created well after slavery was abolished in Canada.

01:10:08.280 So they clearly have no idea what they're talking about.

01:10:10.280 The people who built this country are the elderly people in the seniors' home on the south end of town. 1.00

01:10:14.280 100%.

01:10:15.280 100%.

01:10:16.280 They built this country.

01:10:17.280 Their parents built this country.

01:10:18.280 They were the pioneers, the homesteaders, built this country.

01:10:21.280 Slavery did not build Alberta.

01:10:22.280 No.

01:10:23.280 No, it absolutely did not.

01:10:24.280 And that's probably one of the biggest sources of aggravation.

01:10:31.280 I was in the store here for a few minutes before all this gong show started.

01:10:35.280 And the people here are angry that they're being told by people from out of town that they're racist.

01:10:42.280 That they don't understand.

01:10:44.280 The fact that no frills let this happen on their property.

01:10:46.280 Do you feel they betrayed their own town?

01:10:48.280 It's not these folks that are going to be shopping at that no frills tomorrow.

01:10:50.280 100%.

01:10:51.280 And I think even the staff, and I won't speak for them, but I do feel...

01:10:56.280 And some of the customers that were in there, and I engaged with them a little bit.

01:11:00.280 They're angry.

01:11:01.280 They're angry that these people are here.

01:11:03.280 That they're intending to educate us and tell us these things.

01:11:07.280 Yeah.

01:11:08.280 And that was the term that I saw on a poster that was telling them all to come to this.

01:11:13.280 Thank you so much for your time.

01:11:14.280 Thank you.

01:11:15.280 I appreciate you chatting with me.

01:11:16.280 It was a very delightful conversation, unlike most that I've had.

01:11:18.280 I appreciate Rebel.

01:11:19.280 You guys are truthful and authentic, and that's a breath of fresh air.

01:11:24.280 Should I not have the freedom to hear and see reporting that is different from mainstream media?

01:11:29.280 Let them do their job.

01:11:31.280 Hey.

01:11:32.280 Always cut your back, brother.

01:11:34.280 Always.

01:11:35.280 Would you be able to tell me what is important about this?

01:11:37.280 Why is it important that we rally here in Innisfil?

01:11:40.280 I think these rallies serve kind of two different functions.

01:11:44.280 I think part of it is in support of the peaceful protesters in the States being met with military force by their current leader.

01:11:56.280 And I also think it's kind of just a big, you know, flip off to racism kind of a thing.

01:12:01.280 And I think it's about recognizing Canada has a lot of its own problems with reconciliation now being part of the curriculum since 2007.

01:12:11.280 It's a really important step just acknowledging what has happened.

01:12:14.280 But I also see a lot of people denying that there is anything going on.

01:12:18.280 And I'm not saying that things are as bad as they were in the 20s by any means.

01:12:22.280 But I think you're just frankly incorrect if you think that there aren't racial problems here in Alberta, even in Innisfil.

01:12:29.280 Are you from Innisfil?

01:12:30.280 No, I'm from Lacombe actually.

01:12:32.280 Yeah.

01:12:33.280 Could you give me an example of police brutality here in Innisfil?

01:12:36.280 I can't because I'm not from Innisfil. 1.00

01:12:38.280 There's assholes everywhere. 1.00

01:12:40.280 And when you grow up in life, you're always going to meet people that don't agree with you, that are rude or ignorant. 1.00

01:12:46.280 And that's life.

01:12:49.280 Canada, I'm so sad because we are not a racist nation.

01:12:53.280 There are racist people in Canada, but we are not a racist nation.

01:12:57.280 Would I be able to ask you a quick question about just your speech there?

01:13:00.280 Could you give me an example of systemic racism here in Innisfil?

01:13:05.280 You just came to give a speech.

01:13:06.280 Can you give an example of it?

01:13:07.280 I'm absolutely not giving.

01:13:08.280 Thank you.

01:13:09.280 You don't understand consent, eh?

01:13:12.280 Consent is being public and everyone has to be asked.

01:13:15.280 And deciding I don't have to do anything you asked.

01:13:18.280 Didn't tell you you had to.

01:13:19.280 I was just asking you questions.

01:13:20.280 Yes, and I said no.

01:13:21.280 Could you give me an example of actual racism here in Innisfil?

01:13:28.280 Nothing?

01:13:29.280 Been looking for 23 years?

01:13:31.280 Been looking for 23 years?

01:13:32.280 I've lived here for almost 22 years now and I haven't seen any. 0.99

01:13:34.280 I've seen shitty people. 0.99

01:13:35.280 Holy mackerel! 1.00

01:13:36.280 White people have never seen racism!

01:13:38.280 No, but, so like, I've lived in Innisfil my entire life.

01:13:43.280 Or like, just west of town and then recently I've lived in town now.

01:13:48.280 I've never seen racism.

01:13:49.280 I have a lot of, I probably know 50 Syrian refugees about.

01:13:53.280 Well, they're from Syria, then they went to Lebanon, now they're in Canada.

01:13:56.280 But they've been here for about two years, some longer, some a bit shorter.

01:14:00.280 One guy worked at Tim Hortons for about a year and a half and I've asked him, like, have you ever experienced racism?

01:14:03.280 He's like, no.

01:14:04.280 He's like, I've never, yeah, his first name is Mohammed and he's never experienced racism. 0.99

01:14:08.280 He's like, I've met shitty people, but like, every service job you have shitty people. 1.00

01:14:11.280 He's like, there's shitty white people, there's shitty black people. 1.00

01:14:13.280 What do you think the reason is for these radicals to come into this community to re-educate you? 1.00

01:14:19.280 Why did they pick Innisfil?

01:14:21.280 Well, Brittany Beauvais, she made a post on Facebook about doing the protest and then they're like, I forget exactly what happened.

01:14:28.280 They got denied or something.

01:14:29.280 There's a lot of backlash.

01:14:30.280 Yeah, there's a lot of backlash.

01:14:31.280 Because of COVID.

01:14:32.280 She cancelled.

01:14:33.280 Understandable.

01:14:34.280 Yeah.

01:14:35.280 And then it got trending on Twitter and now everyone's here and I'm just like wondering.

01:14:38.280 Like, there's quite an old population in Innisfil here.

01:14:41.280 Like, there's an old folks home on the south end of town.

01:14:43.280 Like, why are we exposing everyone to COVID right now?

01:14:46.280 Like, it is a problem.

01:14:47.280 Do you think it's selfish?

01:14:49.280 Uh, maybe.

01:14:50.280 There's an argument for it to be selfish and unselfish.

01:14:52.280 I think there's a lot of police brutality.

01:14:54.280 There's seen a lot of...

01:14:55.280 Here in Innisfil, though, have you seen an example of police brutality, honestly?

01:14:58.280 I have not, not...

01:14:59.280 Why didn't you show up to counter protest?

01:15:01.280 No, no.

01:15:02.280 I'm not counter protest.

01:15:03.280 I'm just here because...

01:15:04.280 We live here.

01:15:05.280 Yeah.

01:15:06.280 This is their town.

01:15:07.280 It doesn't matter.

01:15:08.280 Even if it's their town, I'm allowed to come here.

01:15:09.280 Anytime.

01:15:10.280 What?

01:15:11.280 I didn't hear it.

01:15:12.280 Yeah.

01:15:13.280 You don't have to hear it.

01:15:14.280 He's a free man.

01:15:15.280 You're like...

01:15:16.280 Could you explain what brought you here?

01:15:18.280 I'm...

01:15:19.280 My name's Kian.

01:15:20.280 From...

01:15:21.280 With whom?

01:15:22.280 I'm from Calgary.

01:15:23.280 I'm from Calgary, too.

01:15:24.280 Nice to meet you.

01:15:25.280 Yeah.

01:15:26.280 So, you're telling me I'm not allowed to come here because he lives here?

01:15:29.280 I didn't say that.

01:15:30.280 Yeah.

01:15:31.280 You just said it, like, a few minutes ago.

01:15:32.280 No.

01:15:33.280 I was just wondering why...

01:15:34.280 Why...

01:15:35.280 You're saying...

01:15:36.280 Why did you pick Innisfil?

01:15:37.280 Why did you pick Innisfil?

01:15:38.280 Because we can.

01:15:39.280 Because you can.

01:15:40.280 You came here to re-educate these people specifically.

01:15:42.280 I can go anywhere in Canada any way I want to.

01:15:44.280 How are you re-educating other people to assert that Black Lives Matter?

01:15:48.280 Like, if people...

01:15:49.280 That's not the message here.

01:15:50.280 That's not what...

01:15:51.280 That's not what people are saying here.

01:15:52.280 They're saying that people...

01:15:53.280 They're saying that people here in Innisfil are specifically racist.

01:15:56.280 That's interesting.

01:15:57.280 I haven't heard any...

01:15:58.280 Are you from Innisfil?

01:15:59.280 Are you from Innisfil?

01:16:00.280 I'm not giving you any information.

01:16:01.280 I'm sure you're not from Innisfil or else you wouldn't be protesting here.

01:16:04.280 That's a man.

01:16:05.280 That's a man.

01:16:06.280 That's a man.

01:16:07.280 That's a man.

01:16:08.280 That's a man.

01:16:09.280 That's a man.

01:16:10.280 That's a man.

01:16:12.280 That's a man.

01:16:13.280 That's a man.

01:16:14.280 That's a man.

01:16:15.280 That's a man.

01:16:17.280 Well, that's our show for today.

01:16:18.280 Thanks so much for watching.

01:16:19.280 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodnight.

01:16:23.280 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 01, 2021

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