Rebel News Podcast - Calgary academic apologizes, pays up after falsely calling a Rebel reporter a “Neo-Nazi”

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I do a bit of a victory lap.

00:00:04.560 We had a legal victory on Friday against someone who was calling us a Nazi.

00:00:08.780 I'm a big free speech guy, but when you call someone a Nazi, it's a very factual statement. 1.00

00:00:13.080 It's a defamation, and it can have real consequences.

00:00:17.160 You get deplatformed. You get punched in the face.

00:00:20.260 Well, we finally pushed back against some lefty, and the results were spectacular.

00:00:24.920 I can't even believe it.

00:00:26.720 Anyway, I'll give you the details in a moment.

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00:00:40.140 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:46.520 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:00:48.840 Tonight, a Calgary academic apologizes and pays cash for falsely calling our reporter a Nazi.

00:01:05.240 Is this a way to fight back against the left?

00:01:07.280 It's November 25th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:12.760 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:16.380 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:20.440 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:26.320 I'm not sure if you saw this.

00:01:33.360 Three million people did see it, but if you're not on Twitter, you probably didn't.

00:01:38.300 On Friday, an academic at the University of Calgary published this apology on Twitter, where it will remain for 30 days.

00:01:47.460 It says,

00:01:48.660 I apologize to Ms. Sheila Gunn-Reed for my tweet on June 12, 2019, using the term neo-Nazi.

00:01:56.140 I retract the allegation without reservation and regret any harm I may have caused to Ms. Gunn-Reed or her family.

00:02:01.920 I had no basis for making the allegation against her in particular, and acknowledged that it is false in regards to her.

00:02:10.740 And he also agreed to pay Sheila $1,200.

00:02:13.920 And of course, he has to bear his own legal fees.

00:02:16.060 The guy's name is David Barrett, and he's a minor bureaucrat at the University of Calgary.

00:02:22.120 Apparently, he's the aquatic ecology lab coordinator.

00:02:25.720 So, I'm guessing, you know, government worker, environmentalist.

00:02:29.680 I'm guessing he's just a garden variety leftist who was triggered by something Sheila said one day.

00:02:34.900 And instead of ignoring her, or responding to her, I mean, if you're an expert in ecology,

00:02:42.520 surely you could muster some scientific facts or arguments, right?

00:02:46.980 But for some reason, and I'm assuming that reason is just laziness,

00:02:50.780 and the fact that so many other leftists do the same thing,

00:02:53.320 this guy thought the right thing to do was to call Sheila a neo-Nazi. 0.59

00:02:58.040 But that's not true.

00:02:59.820 And it's deeply defamatory.

00:03:01.340 She's not a neo-Nazi.

00:03:02.380 These are what neo-Nazis look like.

00:03:05.460 She's not a neo-Nazi.

00:03:06.440 She's not a Nazi of any variety.

00:03:09.200 I'm starting to wonder if anyone under 40 even knows what an actual Nazi still is.

00:03:16.400 Sheila does not believe in the superiority of the Aryan race.

00:03:20.220 Sheila does not believe in the extermination of Jews,

00:03:22.960 in the creation of a fascist European superstate, a Reich.

00:03:27.920 You know, Sheila does not idolize Adolf Hitler.

00:03:31.980 I think that's a working definition of a neo-Nazi, I think.

00:03:37.060 In fact, Sheila's pretty much the opposite of all those things. 0.99

00:03:39.480 Sheila has helped lead two trips to Israel,

00:03:42.800 both of which included visits to the National Holocaust Memorial and Museum there called Yad Vashem.

00:03:48.220 And when she was in Poland a couple of years ago,

00:03:52.280 covering the UN Global Warming Conference in that country,

00:03:55.800 she decided to make the trip to a concentration camp at Auschwitz

00:04:00.760 and make a very touching video from there,

00:04:03.820 including where she described how awful it is for leftists to use Holocaust or Nazi imagery

00:04:09.040 to merely insult political rivals.

00:04:11.440 Take a listen.

00:04:11.780 The concentration camps are a testament to the real, tangible evil that humanity is capable of. 0.56

00:04:21.220 And the word Nazi should only be used to describe Nazis, that very real evil. 0.68

00:04:31.060 So yeah, don't call Sheila a Nazi or a neo-Nazi or anything like that.

00:04:35.300 It has a very specific meaning.

00:04:36.640 It's not a generic insult like calling someone an idiot or even the anti-female slur calling someone a bitch.

00:04:43.780 Those are mean words, but they're obviously just generic insults and they're not really defamatory.

00:04:48.920 They're more just insults.

00:04:50.320 They don't contain a very specific factual meaning.

00:04:52.780 If you are a Nazi, that means something very specific.

00:04:55.720 And it's not a matter of opinion if you're a Nazi.

00:04:57.660 Is he either true or false?

00:04:59.200 And these days it means something especially terrible again.

00:05:01.700 And it also has immediate real-world consequences.

00:05:04.800 People are fired for that accusation.

00:05:07.020 Obviously, I know it's a lie, so I wouldn't fire Sheila.

00:05:11.720 She's not going to be de-platformed by me for that lie.

00:05:15.120 But she could be de-platformed in other ways, on social media.

00:05:18.340 For example, she could be banned from renting facilities, either at the Rebel or even in her own life.

00:05:24.620 She could be physically attacked, since the left has this motto, punch a Nazi. 0.97

00:05:29.360 But, of course, they don't really know what a Nazi is, other than someone they really don't like.

00:05:33.900 Someone they want to punch.

00:05:34.960 So it's universal on the left.

00:05:37.060 You can do violence against someone if you simply call them the word Nazi first.

00:05:42.620 We will hunt monsters.

00:05:46.840 And when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions,

00:05:53.120 we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the meat and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.

00:06:03.380 Yeah, that's a mob right there. 0.99

00:06:07.800 And we're not going to let that defamation take root against our people.

00:06:12.600 We already have some leftist thugs who hit our reporters, including Sheila, this guy here, Dion Buse. 0.74

00:06:19.000 We're just not going to let it happen again.

00:06:21.740 So we sued David Barrett.

00:06:23.820 Well, first, actually, we sent him what's called a libel notice, which is sort of a warning, a serious warning.

00:06:29.120 And we served it on him with the process of a warning.

00:06:31.760 And he ignored it.

00:06:33.480 He did nothing.

00:06:34.040 I think he either thought we weren't serious, or maybe he just froze and didn't know what to do.

00:06:38.340 Or maybe he thought if he just hid under the bed, it would all go away.

00:06:42.200 He didn't correct anything.

00:06:43.780 And my theory here is that it's because he made the defamatory comment, as a lot of people do online,

00:06:48.620 with a feeling of at least partial anonymity, like he was part of a larger mob.

00:06:53.220 There's that mob psychology that can take over.

00:06:56.220 I remember a few years back, remember when there was a riot in Vancouver after the Stanley Cup, if I recall?

00:07:01.120 And it was crowded on the streets.

00:07:04.120 And people blended in with each other, and they lost their individual identity.

00:07:07.940 And like a herd of gazelles or something, they just followed everyone else.

00:07:11.260 And they rioted.

00:07:12.180 You see this?

00:07:12.680 They smashed and they looted shops.

00:07:16.880 And I remember one case.

00:07:18.280 I did a show about this on Sun News.

00:07:21.340 One girl went into a smashed clothing store and looted it.

00:07:25.620 And I remember afterwards when she was identified and arrested, she said she didn't even want what she took.

00:07:32.180 It wasn't even her size.

00:07:33.900 It wasn't to her taste.

00:07:34.820 But everyone was just in this mania.

00:07:37.560 And she lost her mind for that moment.

00:07:39.820 And so she just stole like everyone else. 0.99

00:07:41.800 I think she was telling the truth.

00:07:43.860 I don't think, by the way, that that's an excuse.

00:07:46.800 Not at all.

00:07:48.180 It's animalistic, isn't it?

00:07:49.920 It suggests that we are not in control of ourselves.

00:07:52.260 We're like gazelles in a herd or birds in a flock.

00:07:55.080 We're just following.

00:07:56.060 That is a dehumanizing defense to say, I lost control.

00:07:59.380 No, you didn't.

00:08:00.500 The answer is not to give in.

00:08:03.040 The answer is to defy the mob, to think for yourself, to apply your own morality, even if the world around you is going mad.

00:08:10.340 But I can see how it could happen.

00:08:12.200 You think that for a moment you are anonymous, you are hidden, you are part of a larger ant colony.

00:08:17.880 Just one ant amongst thousands and what you do isn't your own will and it doesn't matter anyway since that shirt is going to be stolen by someone else in about 30 seconds if you don't take it.

00:08:28.600 I think that mob mindset takes root on Twitter.

00:08:32.400 And we were pulling this David Barrett out of his anonymity, pulling him out of the herd and saying, we know your name.

00:08:39.680 We know who you are.

00:08:41.480 We know where you live and where you work.

00:08:43.380 And we are holding you personally accountable.

00:08:45.100 And now we invite you to come to court and explain to a judge why you think Sheila Gunn-Reed, the Philo-Semite, is a Nazi and why you said that to thousands of people.

00:08:55.100 And I think he sort of panicked at first.

00:08:58.840 He hoped it would just go away if he hid under the bed, but we didn't go away.

00:09:01.940 So he didn't even do what we asked him to do freely.

00:09:04.900 So we only sued him after he ignored the libel notice.

00:09:10.420 Then he started to pay attention.

00:09:12.180 And by that point, we insisted on a settlement, the apology, the correction, symbolic $1,200 payment to Sheila.

00:09:18.720 Sheila wrote a short tweet about this news.

00:09:22.100 You can see it here.

00:09:23.980 Dave called me a neo-Nazi on Twitter.

00:09:26.700 That tweet cost Dave $1,200 in damages to me.

00:09:29.920 Plus his pinned apology tweet.

00:09:31.700 Plus his own legal fees.

00:09:33.180 He wanted our agreement to be confidential.

00:09:35.200 It is not.

00:09:36.080 Don't be a Dave.

00:09:38.160 That's a good point.

00:09:39.300 Barrett wanted to keep it a secret that he had to pay Sheila.

00:09:42.380 But we insisted that it be public because we want to deter other people from doing the same thing.

00:09:47.240 I mean, in the grand scale of things, $1,200 isn't a huge amount of money.

00:09:51.400 He probably spent more than that on his own lawyer.

00:09:54.220 But the whole point is deterrence.

00:09:56.340 I'm pretty sure David Barrett will personally not smear Sheila again anytime soon.

00:10:02.260 Or if he takes a run at her, he'll be factually accurate.

00:10:05.320 But it's an important lesson to everyone else in the world.

00:10:08.220 Feel free to take a run at Rebel News.

00:10:10.740 Feel free to take a run at our people.

00:10:13.340 There's lots to criticize.

00:10:14.840 We'd love a debate, actually.

00:10:15.940 But don't call us Nazis or it'll cost you $1,200 for a tweet.

00:10:21.780 When you look at it that way, it's a lot of money.

00:10:24.380 Anyway, Sheila sent me the traffic analytics of her tweet.

00:10:28.400 And you see that number in the middle there?

00:10:30.960 This is as of yesterday.

00:10:32.220 So it's actually higher now.

00:10:33.180 As of yesterday, more than 3 million people had read that one tweet alone.

00:10:42.360 It's that part there that says impressions.

00:10:44.500 At times, people saw this tweet on Twitter.

00:10:47.400 Just her one tweet.

00:10:48.900 Now, she wrote several tweets about this.

00:10:50.580 So did I.

00:10:51.420 David Barrett's own apology was probably seen half a million times.

00:10:54.520 I believe that the case of Sheila Gunn-Reed versus David Barrett

00:10:57.960 has been seen by at least 5 million people.

00:11:02.520 Maybe as many as 10 million people.

00:11:05.800 I mean, we know 3 million saw that one tweet alone.

00:11:08.160 I'm astonished by these numbers.

00:11:11.360 I mean, Sheila's 3 million was just 48 hours worth.

00:11:14.640 It's incredible.

00:11:15.340 For comparison, I don't know if you remember,

00:11:17.100 I once had a tweet retweeted by Donald Trump himself, the president.

00:11:21.140 And that wasn't even seen 2 million times.

00:11:23.400 So what's going on here?

00:11:25.640 I mean, it's pretty common for a lefty to call a conservative a Nazi.

00:11:29.360 I'm sorry to say it's their go-to insult.

00:11:32.520 It's a joke, but it's sad.

00:11:34.620 There's even means about it.

00:11:36.020 Everyone I don't like is Hitler.

00:11:38.820 It's sad because, first of all, it diminishes what Hitler and the Nazis really were. 0.64

00:11:42.300 It takes away from the gravity of actual Nazis to call anyone you don't like a Nazi.

00:11:46.340 And, of course, it tarnishes Sheila, who is actually a supporter of Jews, who loves Jews.

00:11:54.660 So why did 5, 10 million people watch this?

00:12:00.360 And it's so funny because Barrett could have simply apologized and corrected when we first wrote to him,

00:12:05.600 and it would have been no big deal.

00:12:07.280 He would have saved his money and the humiliation of being a national embarrassment.

00:12:10.520 Well, it's because leftists calling conservatives Nazis, that's not rare.

00:12:15.340 That's common.

00:12:17.560 But a conservative fighting back, well, that is rare indeed.

00:12:20.760 That's what's amazing here.

00:12:22.400 That's what's news here.

00:12:23.600 Someone who isn't just going to take it anymore.

00:12:26.620 It's part of our larger stop deplatforming strategy.

00:12:30.320 I told you about our lawsuit the other day to sue the leftists who bullied the theater owner in Alberta

00:12:35.460 to cancel two book signings we had to rip up our contract.

00:12:38.940 I think it's the same thing.

00:12:41.700 The professor, this professor here, Nancy Lavelle at U of Alberta,

00:12:47.460 like David Barrett at U of Calgary, should have known better.

00:12:51.160 I mean, if she disagrees with us, she should be able to use her words.

00:12:54.700 She's a professor.

00:12:55.520 She's obviously smart.

00:12:56.480 So why not debate us or ignore us or have a counter event?

00:13:00.720 But to demand a theater, cancel a book signing?

00:13:03.260 I bet she hadn't even read my book.

00:13:04.940 Why was she against it?

00:13:05.960 I'm not going to call her a Nazi.

00:13:08.120 But that actually is one of the things Nazis did. 0.83

00:13:10.520 They burned books they disagreed with.

00:13:12.960 That's a Nazi move. 0.93

00:13:14.420 I'm 100% sure that Nancy Lavelle was like David Barrett. 0.61

00:13:18.920 Thought she was anonymous or sort of anonymous.

00:13:21.460 Was just following the herd.

00:13:22.780 Wasn't really thinking.

00:13:23.900 I'm sure she probably thinks this is fake.

00:13:26.480 We're somehow not serious.

00:13:28.640 I'll let you know.

00:13:29.700 But I can assure you, inducing breach of contract is a real thing.

00:13:33.880 And we're suing her for it and everyone else who did the same.

00:13:36.960 And we're suing for defamation too.

00:13:38.600 I think they used the word Nazi as well.

00:13:41.240 Let me give you a preliminary report on how that lawsuit is going.

00:13:45.000 Those two book signings last month were canceled.

00:13:47.600 You might remember.

00:13:48.680 But just last week, we had two great town hall meetings in Alberta.

00:13:53.660 This is the one from Edmonton.

00:13:56.140 And we had another one in Calgary.

00:13:58.680 And so same cities as the book signings, right?

00:14:01.620 This was about Western alienation, not my book.

00:14:04.180 But we advertised this event in the exact same way we advertised the book signings.

00:14:09.220 A website, emails, videos, Twitter.

00:14:11.440 I literally did not see a single person trying to get these latest two events canceled.

00:14:19.500 Not one tweet even.

00:14:21.660 And I didn't hear a single word from either hotel in Calgary or Edmonton that they had been pressured to cancel us.

00:14:27.160 It just didn't happen.

00:14:28.000 Now, maybe there's some other explanation for why no one tried to de-platform us.

00:14:34.280 But I think it's cause and effect.

00:14:36.800 I think it's because of our lawsuit.

00:14:38.220 I mean, the de-platformers were successful just last month.

00:14:41.940 They won, right?

00:14:43.720 They had us banned.

00:14:44.840 They had us run out of town.

00:14:46.840 Why wouldn't they be enthused, encouraged, emboldened from that victory?

00:14:51.020 Why wouldn't they try and do it to us again?

00:14:53.360 Especially so soon thereafter.

00:14:55.280 Like I say, it's a very good experiment because so many of the variables are the same.

00:15:00.740 Same cities, same advertising, same type of event, just barely one month later.

00:15:07.000 But this time it was quiet as crickets.

00:15:10.780 I believe that our stop de-platforming lawsuit has scared them off from doing it again.

00:15:17.000 I truly believe that has what stopped the de-platforming already.

00:15:22.360 We haven't even gone to court yet.

00:15:23.580 This is good.

00:15:26.200 Let the leftists ignore us, or better yet, debate us, or hold contrary events of their own.

00:15:31.920 But stop inducing people to breach contracts with us.

00:15:35.920 And I believe that Sheila's settlement against David Barrett will do the same.

00:15:40.840 Do you want to criticize us?

00:15:42.080 Great.

00:15:42.740 I like that.

00:15:43.740 That's called a debate.

00:15:44.700 I can give you 10 legitimate criticisms against us, our ideas, our company, The Rebel, against

00:15:50.320 me personally.

00:15:51.020 Heck, I might even invite you on the show.

00:15:52.860 If you can express criticism of me and our ideas articulately enough, come on the show.

00:15:57.460 Let's have an argue-bargie. 0.53

00:15:58.860 Let's get back to that, where we used to debate each other, not cancel events and call each

00:16:03.960 other Nazis.

00:16:04.540 And by the way, it's not even a two-way street.

00:16:06.560 I've never in my life ever heard of conservatives de-platforming a leftist.

00:16:11.360 Have you?

00:16:11.860 Never even once.

00:16:13.540 Not once in my life have I heard of a conservative physically attacking a liberal, especially a

00:16:19.620 liberal reporter.

00:16:20.680 In the manner that each one of these videos here shows our reporters being attacked in

00:16:24.940 some way, I think every single one of our reporters that we've had has been attacked

00:16:32.200 in some way by the left.

00:16:35.360 I've never seen it the other way around.

00:16:37.460 This guy here, by the way, it's still continuing.

00:16:39.720 This is the manager of the Radisson Toronto East, attacked both David Menzies and our cameraman,

00:16:46.620 Efren.

00:16:48.140 So we're suing them for assault.

00:16:50.340 We offered them a very easy settlement, including just if they said sorry, but they refused to.

00:16:58.760 I'd rather settle, but they won't.

00:17:01.360 I think a judge has to tell them they can't hit people, so we're going to court.

00:17:05.700 And I think we have to do this.

00:17:07.200 I think we have to do this.

00:17:08.000 We have other lawsuits afoot as well, not because we want to sue.

00:17:11.260 In fact, sort of the opposite.

00:17:12.900 I'd rather spend all these hundreds of thousands of dollars when you add it up.

00:17:17.380 I'd rather spend it on more reporters.

00:17:20.560 Actually.

00:17:21.640 But I think we have to do this.

00:17:23.100 We have to stop these people from demonizing us as Nazis.

00:17:26.760 We have to stop them from physically attacking our reporters and cameramen.

00:17:30.980 We had to go to court when Justin Trudeau's hand-picked elections commission banned us from

00:17:35.560 the elections debate.

00:17:36.320 I think we just have to, because no one else is going to stand up for us.

00:17:39.980 So we're going to keep doing it.

00:17:41.400 I think I've come to terms with that.

00:17:43.280 After nearly five years, we've had no help from the people who should be helping, from the

00:17:48.300 Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Association of Journalists or the

00:17:53.680 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression or for Penn Canada or for Amnesty International

00:17:59.320 or any of these groups, Reporters Without Borders.

00:18:02.320 None of them.

00:18:03.280 Okay, fine.

00:18:04.420 Okay, fine.

00:18:05.920 So we'll do it ourselves.

00:18:07.160 That's fine.

00:18:08.300 Rebel News does journalism.

00:18:09.500 You bet we do.

00:18:10.460 And we also fight to protect journalism, whether you're calling us Nazis, deplatforming us or

00:18:15.000 punching us.

00:18:17.480 Fair enough.

00:18:19.160 We'll fight.

00:18:19.940 I think it's one of the reasons people like us, because we put our money where our mouth

00:18:23.800 is.

00:18:24.360 We fight back.

00:18:25.900 We don't bend the knee.

00:18:28.040 And we're sick of turning the other cheek.

00:18:31.180 And the fact that five or 10 million people read Sheila's news tells me there's an awful,

00:18:37.580 awful lot of Canadians and Americans and Brits and Australians, too, who want our team to 1.00

00:18:44.280 finally take the gloves off and not just turn the other cheek every time.

00:18:49.840 Stay with us for more.

00:19:02.520 Well, did you know that from the election to when Justin Trudeau rolled out his new cabinet

00:19:09.080 was about a month, and Trudeau went about a month without taking a single question from

00:19:17.060 the media.

00:19:18.160 Now, that's not shocking, but what is rather telling is that the media itself was fine with

00:19:24.660 this and didn't mention Trudeau's being absent without leave as the country lurches

00:19:29.740 from problem to problem.

00:19:31.820 But let's take a moment and look at some of the changes in Trudeau's new cabinet.

00:19:37.080 He lost a few stalwarts.

00:19:39.340 Joining us now via Skype from Ottawa to talk about some important changes is our friend

00:19:44.320 Manny Montenegrino, the boss of Think Sharp.

00:19:47.520 Manny, great to see you again.

00:19:49.040 Yeah, great to be with you, Ezra.

00:19:50.580 Thank you.

00:19:51.380 Now, you have zeroed in on some of the more important changes, especially for our viewers

00:19:56.560 in the West.

00:19:57.960 Why don't you start off with the new Natural Resources Minister, Seamus O'Regan?

00:20:05.920 Sure.

00:20:06.300 Thank you.

00:20:06.920 I found it very peculiar that we certainly do know that there is a problem with the West.

00:20:15.320 There is a separation movement in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:20:20.080 And we hear the media, we hear the Prime Minister Trudeau saying, I have to address this.

00:20:26.200 And so you look to see what is the evidence that he really means what he says.

00:20:31.460 Well, he appointed Seamus O'Regan to Natural Resource Minister.

00:20:37.240 Now, this job, this ministry, his job is to see that the natural resources that are abundant

00:20:44.660 in Canada, and there are all sorts, oil, gas, mining, trees, coal, etc., etc.

00:20:51.380 And this element of our GDP is about 20%.

00:20:56.860 So it's a big deal.

00:20:58.260 Natural Resource Minister is a big deal.

00:21:00.200 And his job is to get that natural resources to market.

00:21:03.580 And Seamus O'Regan is appointed as the minister.

00:21:09.580 And Seamus O'Regan has done advertising and has said that he wants no resources moved from

00:21:18.060 the land and no resources.

00:21:20.900 And well, just go with a clip, Ezra, and you'll see.

00:21:23.800 Sure, here's a video.

00:21:25.680 Because climate change, the greatest challenge of our time, will decide the fate of polar bears,

00:21:30.820 walrus, whales, and all living things, including us, we will help change the way we use and

00:21:37.240 produce energy.

00:21:39.200 This will be the most important chapter of WWF's history.

00:21:44.220 Together, let's shape a healthier world for our children and our grandchildren.

00:21:50.420 Come with us for a living planet.

00:21:53.800 Manny, it's not just that he was saying climate change is the number one issue.

00:21:58.540 It's that he was doing so for a registered anti-oil sands lobbyist group that's registered

00:22:04.820 with the lobbyist commissioner in Ottawa to attack the oil sands.

00:22:08.860 He's not even just musing.

00:22:10.800 He is campaigning there.

00:22:13.360 Yeah, exactly.

00:22:14.220 So, Ezra, everybody is asking.

00:22:16.880 The media has asked.

00:22:18.620 The premiers from the West have asked, we want to see a sign that you really care about

00:22:23.780 healing the divide in Canada.

00:22:26.480 And this is not the sign.

00:22:28.300 In fact, this is a greater declaration of war than we've already had.

00:22:32.740 So that is very disturbing, especially if you are in the resource industry.

00:22:39.180 And that includes more than oil and gas.

00:22:41.000 It includes all other types of resources.

00:22:42.640 This is a declaration of war.

00:22:44.540 There are enough people, a cabinet, that are going to fight against the resources of Canada.

00:22:50.500 You don't need to have the resource minister fighting against himself.

00:22:54.600 Yeah.

00:22:55.040 You know, Seamus O'Regan is a very weak cabinet minister who has been given jobs.

00:23:01.460 And frankly, he was a veterans minister.

00:23:03.760 He failed there.

00:23:04.780 He was the Aboriginal affairs minister.

00:23:06.280 He was famous for this one unbelievable Twitter picture.

00:23:11.420 It was quite something.

00:23:12.240 He was in a private plane flying high above the land.

00:23:16.060 And it was a picture of him looking very pensive.

00:23:18.800 And it was like he was writing poetry.

00:23:20.900 I will never stop.

00:23:22.600 This is my...

00:23:23.440 It was so tone deaf that this white, great white savior flying above Aboriginal people, 0.98

00:23:30.220 he was our hero.

00:23:31.920 It was so tone deaf.

00:23:33.820 This guy lurches from crisis to crisis.

00:23:38.140 He bungles everything he touches.

00:23:40.220 I put it to you that if he were not part of Justin Trudeau's wedding party,

00:23:46.220 he was one of...

00:23:47.300 He wasn't the best man, I don't think, but he was...

00:23:49.400 You can see in this picture here, he's one of the group of drunks

00:23:52.720 that went out to party at his bachelor party.

00:23:55.600 If you look at this picture, half the people in it are either Gerald Butts,

00:24:00.680 his principal secretary, top advisor, or cabinet ministers.

00:24:04.720 It's as if if you didn't know Justin Trudeau in his blackface college days, 0.98

00:24:10.860 you're not part of Canada's leadership team.

00:24:13.440 It's so nepotistic, it's gross.

00:24:17.020 Yeah, well, there are two points.

00:24:18.480 I mean, first of all, you're absolutely right.

00:24:20.560 It is nepotism.

00:24:21.840 You might...

00:24:22.640 You forgot this one fact that Seamus Regan did attend the...

00:24:28.160 What is now known as the illegal island that the prime minister and his family

00:24:33.600 vacationed twice with the Aga Khan. 0.65

00:24:36.560 So he was there as well.

00:24:38.040 So there is a very...

00:24:39.900 He's weak.

00:24:41.860 You know, you would expect a very strong minister,

00:24:45.340 because it's going to be hard at that table where climate change seems to be held by many,

00:24:53.160 many ministers.

00:24:53.780 You needed a strong minister to fight, minister resources, to fight for the resources in Canada.

00:25:00.140 And what we've got is the weakest minister and a person who has advocated against any form

00:25:06.680 of exploration, any form of resource development.

00:25:09.460 So in my view, the hand is already in.

00:25:12.640 There's nothing more to see.

00:25:14.100 You've appointed a minister and the minister is extremely weak.

00:25:17.160 And so on that basis, on the unity of Canada, on what we see, which is very alarming out west,

00:25:24.340 and I'm just surprised that the media has not said, hey, wait a minute.

00:25:29.160 This is not a strong resource minister.

00:25:31.380 This is not a guy that's going to be fighting at the table for Alberta, for Saskatchewan,

00:25:35.660 for the West, for forestry, for mining, for Yukon mining, for Ontario Northern mining.

00:25:43.320 This isn't the strong minister that's going to fight for them.

00:25:45.960 Yeah.

00:25:46.460 Let's talk about another cabinet minister, Christia Freeland, who for some reason, I don't get it.

00:25:53.580 She's such a media darling. 0.99

00:25:55.420 When I think of Trudeau, I think obviously he's really antagonized the West, and I'm

00:25:59.900 a Westerner at heart, so that bothers me.

00:26:02.040 But I think one of the legacies of Trudeau's first term has got to be his disastrous foreign

00:26:07.840 affairs, whether it's China.

00:26:10.240 We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the hostage-taking of the two Michaels.

00:26:14.640 India, the disastrous costume party tour.

00:26:18.360 Saudi Arabia.

00:26:19.500 India, you know, just country after country, we've bungled. 0.80

00:26:25.260 I don't understand why she's considered a hero.

00:26:27.920 She was out-negotiated by Donald Trump.

00:26:31.220 Tell us what you think of her being put in charge of intergovernmental affairs, but also

00:26:36.580 being allowed to keep the NAFTA file, which you'd think you'd get her off that Trump team 1.00

00:26:42.300 hates her.

00:26:42.860 Why are they keeping her on that? 0.55

00:26:44.200 Well, I'm less focused on the NAFTA.

00:26:47.380 I think she has pretty well nothing to do with the NAFTA file.

00:26:51.140 It's been handled by all the experts around her, and it's her legacy that she believes

00:26:56.900 it makes her strong.

00:26:58.800 I'm going to focus again, as I did with Seamus O'Regan, on the West.

00:27:03.280 This is point number two, Ezra.

00:27:05.220 I mean, how serious is the prime minister in seeking to have bridged the divide that's

00:27:11.240 building in Canada?

00:27:12.500 And that is the appointment of Krista Freeland.

00:27:14.700 Well, again, I go back to the history.

00:27:17.920 She is not, she's a very divisive person.

00:27:22.100 She has, in her role as a foreign minister, has created great division.

00:27:29.200 And let's go through it.

00:27:30.160 You talked about the NAFTA.

00:27:33.040 I mean, she literally insulted the president of the United States while in NAFTA by going

00:27:41.380 to a tyrant seminar and likening the president to a tyrant, to the point that I'm told by

00:27:49.500 my people in Washington that she wasn't even allowed on the premises in the White House. 0.87

00:27:54.980 And they're so upset about her.

00:27:57.480 So here she did.

00:27:58.920 And that was gratuitous.

00:28:00.120 There is no need to be insulting the president when you're doing the biggest trade deal Canada's

00:28:04.560 ever had.

00:28:05.220 But she did.

00:28:06.120 That's a divisive mentality.

00:28:08.640 But that's not where I stop.

00:28:10.380 You look at the gratuitous email that she made against Saudi Arabia.

00:28:17.200 And that was for no purpose at all.

00:28:18.980 A Saudi citizen was administered Saudi justice.

00:28:22.860 And she sat and gave a gratuitous email. 0.96

00:28:26.520 And everyone, even the diplomatic community, have said, what was that all about?

00:28:32.440 But it was gratuitous.

00:28:33.760 It was divisive.

00:28:34.920 And that cost $5 billion to Canadians.

00:28:38.000 And we don't even have an ambassador.

00:28:40.040 We still don't have an ambassador in Saudi Arabia.

00:28:43.320 So that was there is no purpose to do that.

00:28:45.980 I mean, there are many, many nations that don't have the rule of law of Canada.

00:28:49.700 We see what's happening in Hong Kong and there's silence.

00:28:53.060 But that was gratuitous against Saudi Arabia.

00:28:55.320 That's country number two.

00:28:56.780 We know that there's issues with Russia and you've mentioned with China.

00:29:01.280 Our foreign minister, Krista Freeland, was not even allowed to speak to the highest orders

00:29:07.500 in China with the two Michaels.

00:29:09.640 Now, if you look at those three incidents in her duties as foreign minister, the only conclusion

00:29:16.280 you can come from that is she's a very divisive person by nature. 1.00

00:29:20.760 It's her way or the highway.

00:29:23.480 And this has caused great trouble.

00:29:25.080 How you think you could put her in the role when you have, you know, open sores out west

00:29:30.840 to heal them from a person that has not shown any capability of healing great divides is beyond me.

00:29:39.520 This just leads me to conclude, Ezra, that the prime minister really doesn't care about solving

00:29:45.740 the problems at west because Krista Freeland is the last person, I would put.

00:29:50.440 There are many, I mean, capable people that are in the Liberal cabinet that would have done

00:29:55.200 a better job.

00:29:56.840 She is probably the last person because of her track record. 0.94

00:30:00.080 So there's strike number two.

00:30:02.580 Yeah.

00:30:03.060 You know, Krista Freeland was a journalist and a pop author.

00:30:06.900 She sort of wrote a book about the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

00:30:11.000 She was given a job at Thomson Reuters to start their new high-tech digital project, spent tens

00:30:17.300 of millions of dollars, basically fired everybody who knew what they were doing because she was 1.00

00:30:23.060 so sure she did.

00:30:24.680 In the end, it was such a mess up that they shut down the whole project and fired everybody.

00:30:30.620 That was what she did right before she came back up to Canada.

00:30:33.680 And, I mean, of course she's wasting our money, but the idea that she knows better,

00:30:38.280 don't, you know, don't listen to the diplomatic hands, don't listen to people who've done it before.

00:30:44.820 I think that style that wrecked her multi-million dollar project at Thomson Reuters,

00:30:50.900 we see that in foreign affairs.

00:30:52.620 I just want to play one quick clip for you, Manny.

00:30:55.700 It's her certainty that she's right combined with her naivete.

00:30:59.880 Hey, here's a clip I've shown our people ten times because it's so funny.

00:31:04.460 The Chinese gave Trudeau a nickname, Little Potato, and she was so pleased with this. 0.99

00:31:10.240 She thought it was such a compliment, she bragged about it on TV.

00:31:14.100 Here, take a look at this.

00:31:15.020 We're quite proud the Prime Minister has been given a fond nickname in China.

00:31:21.240 He is called Pudou, which I believe means potato.

00:31:26.120 And he's, I can't say the Chinese word, it's cyan, Pudou, little potato,

00:31:30.880 because his father, Pierre Elliott, Pudou, was senior potato.

00:31:36.160 So we feel we are off to a great start.

00:31:39.520 Well, Manny, she's no longer in charge of the Chinaphile, 1.00

00:31:43.120 and they put in someone who is very sophisticated in Chinese relations,

00:31:48.280 who would never say anything so dumb.

00:31:50.700 But my worry is that he is absolutely in the pocket of Beijing.

00:31:55.520 His name is Francois-Philippe Champagne.

00:31:59.980 He worked with Jean Chrétien before.

00:32:02.680 He worked for Chinese investors before.

00:32:05.800 And here's some interesting stories that were dug up.

00:32:09.520 He has done work with Chinese propaganda media before.

00:32:15.940 He's done interviews with government-run Chinese networks,

00:32:21.400 praising China as modern and responsible and secure and sophisticated.

00:32:28.080 So he's not going to be a bumbler like Chrystia Freeland,

00:32:33.380 but he's absolutely in the tank for Beijing.

00:32:37.000 So that's the third person that I was going to speak about,

00:32:42.220 how I find it odd that you put that person in the role of foreign affairs minister

00:32:49.440 when you have this, what I'll call, inherent conflict with China.

00:32:55.040 So, you know, Ezra, when I look at the totality of all the appointments,

00:32:59.980 I mean, you know, let's start from the beginning.

00:33:02.600 They increased the cabinet by five.

00:33:05.520 Yeah.

00:33:06.280 And they lost 27 seats.

00:33:08.440 And, you know, they shrunk their caucus, but they increased the cabinet.

00:33:12.620 Yeah.

00:33:12.920 And I went into it.

00:33:15.120 Why would he do that?

00:33:16.540 And it's a very simple answer.

00:33:18.100 And because obviously ministries cost money, it's going to cost a lot more money to run

00:33:23.540 these ministries.

00:33:24.280 And I looked into the particular type of ministries that he's created, these new ones.

00:33:29.040 And I'll just name two.

00:33:31.400 One is just absolutely laughable.

00:33:33.380 And that is a minister of middle-class prosperity.

00:33:36.620 You know, this is Mona Forche from near where I live, Vanier, Ottawa.

00:33:43.100 And she's now the minister of middle-class prosperity. 0.99

00:33:46.380 Now, for four years, all Justin Trudeau has been talking about is middle-class, middle-class,

00:33:51.360 middle-class.

00:33:52.120 The middle-class has now diminished in its net worth and it's losing ground.

00:33:58.160 So the answer is create a portfolio for that, although I've been focusing on that for four years.

00:34:03.860 It just seems absurd.

00:34:05.040 The other ministry that I just shook my head at, and I think I tweeted on it, and that is

00:34:10.960 Joyce Murray, was appointed to minister of digital government.

00:34:18.840 Now, I don't know what that means.

00:34:22.060 I don't know why we need a ministry for that.

00:34:24.240 We have a lot of capable bureaucrats that can handle that. 1.00

00:34:26.980 But that's a ministry that's created.

00:34:28.460 And I guess a 73-year-old woman that is going to run a digital government, I would have expected 1.00

00:34:36.580 to see, you know, one of the 30-something young women that are in cabinet there to run 1.00

00:34:43.260 that department because, you know, the new digital society kind of escapes people my age.

00:34:49.100 And certainly I know a bit.

00:34:50.280 I don't know many people that know as many as 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds, these bright young

00:34:54.600 female MPs that were elected, certainly could have been part of that decision. 1.00

00:35:01.280 But the reason why these were created, Ezra, it comes down to the box that the prime minister put

00:35:07.200 himself in 2015, and that is a parity government.

00:35:11.320 So he needs to have a parity, but he's shifted away.

00:35:18.000 Yeah, you mean gender parity, right?

00:35:19.660 Yes, of course.

00:35:20.620 That's a great observation because look at the heavy portfolios.

00:35:24.360 Finance, a guy.

00:35:26.340 Foreign affairs, a guy.

00:35:27.980 Natural resources, a guy.

00:35:30.580 Immigration, a guy. 0.90

00:35:32.320 All the heavy substantive stuff is by males.

00:35:35.340 But you're right, he has to have, so he sets up these fake portfolios.

00:35:40.180 He has another one, the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion, Bartish Chagher.

00:35:44.520 I saw she was interviewed yesterday and was asked, do you have a staff for this?

00:35:49.580 Do you have a bureaucracy?

00:35:50.460 What does it mean?

00:35:51.040 And she didn't know yet.

00:35:53.440 It was nothing but tokenism to get that fake gender equality. 1.00

00:35:57.700 Right, and it comes down to the point, and let's look at it overall.

00:36:02.320 And I don't know why the media doesn't look at this and say, hey, wait a minute.

00:36:06.020 What's happened in the last four years?

00:36:07.840 We started with four very known, strong women in the liberal government. 1.00

00:36:14.880 I mean, they were out there, focused, and everybody knew of them.

00:36:19.420 Krista Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, dropped down to intergovernmental, which I don't even know who was the last intergovernmental.

00:36:27.440 I mean, it was Trudeau himself, if I'm not mistaken.

00:36:30.640 Well, see, I don't know, and I follow politics very quickly.

00:36:33.460 That's how low that is on the totem of ministers.

00:36:38.380 So she's been demoted.

00:36:40.360 Catherine McKenna, we had an election on climate change.

00:36:43.880 She's been demoted.

00:36:45.100 She's been demoted.

00:36:46.240 I mean, this is a climate change election.

00:36:48.480 That is the issue that people went to the polls for, and the minister that ran that ministry is now infrastructure, which is the pouring of cement and creating a CO2.

00:37:01.160 But so she's been demoted.

00:37:03.660 Jody Wilson-Raybould, we know she's not there.

00:37:06.420 Jane Philippot, we know she's not there.

00:37:08.100 So if you look back a few years, these four women that were basically the face of the gender parity cabinet are all gone, and they're all been substituted by very strong men.

00:37:21.540 And I guess they sat there and said, oh, well, this is terrible.

00:37:25.040 80% of the strong portfolio are all men.

00:37:27.440 We're not at gender parity.

00:37:29.100 Let's create three or four new cabinets, and we'll just assign some ladies to them, and everybody will be happy. 1.00

00:37:35.220 Nobody will be asking a question.

00:37:36.700 Well, to me, that is the epitome.

00:37:39.760 That is the definition of sexism. 0.51

00:37:42.460 That is, you know, if I said to you that I had a company and my goal is to have gender parity, and I'm in the media telling everybody that, but my board of directors, my vice president, my president, and every senior manager is a man.

00:37:59.240 However, I employ a lot of women as secretaries and so on and so forth in lesser capacities. 0.99

00:38:03.840 I mean, that isn't what gender parity is about. 0.99

00:38:06.700 I mean, equality is putting people, women, in the strongest positions as possible.

00:38:10.820 And this prime minister in one election has completely gone furthest away from it and to an insulting point by giving, you know, females titles, ministry titles like the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.

00:38:28.600 What does that even mean?

00:38:29.780 She doesn't even know what that means.

00:38:31.540 So I don't know why the media hasn't said, hey, wait a minute.

00:38:36.020 I mean, this is fake Trudeau.

00:38:38.140 I mean, we've seen so many fake aspects of his feminism, and we don't want to get through it.

00:38:44.100 His whole concept of inclusion and gender and everything that he's talked about, and he's worn blackface. 0.68

00:38:52.060 So this is just a continuation of the insults to Canadians with respect to what he talks about as gender parity, and it's just so obvious.

00:39:02.500 Yeah, wow.

00:39:03.460 That's a very good point.

00:39:05.140 That's a very good analysis, Manny.

00:39:06.720 As always, it's such a pleasure to catch up with you.

00:39:09.460 We appreciate your smarts, and I look forward to keeping in touch with you as Parliament, when it resumes.

00:39:18.260 And let me ask you one question.

00:39:20.840 This is what I've been wondering about.

00:39:22.120 I was just in Alberta talking about Wexit, and I ask people, do you think that Trudeau will actually build the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion?

00:39:34.960 He brags about buying the old pipeline that was 70 years old.

00:39:38.880 No one cares about that.

00:39:40.440 That was happily pumping away.

00:39:41.880 Do you think, Manny, that he will push through the pipeline over objections, whether they're environmentalist objections, court objections, aboriginal objections, NDP objections?

00:39:53.700 Do you actually think he will build the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, or do you think that's just another fake?

00:40:02.180 It's not going to happen.

00:40:03.560 Ezra, I'm going to stick to my prediction.

00:40:05.480 I had a friend in 2017.

00:40:09.300 Absolutely, he's going to build it.

00:40:11.220 Absolutely not.

00:40:12.460 I mean, it's now been three years, and there is no evidence.

00:40:17.820 I mean, you look at just – I always look for – I'm the lost sailboat now in the Atlantic Ocean looking for some animal to bring me – a dove to bring some form of sign of land.

00:40:34.740 To see that there's going to be some type of change in this government.

00:40:39.620 But when I look at – see Miss Oregon, and I look at Christina Freeland's appointment, I look at these are not going to be helping the West.

00:40:49.960 These, to me, are signs that we're moving more and more adrift from land, and we are not going to see that pipeline built, in my opinion.

00:40:57.340 I cannot see it happening.

00:40:58.900 And you know what, in all – and here's what's happened with this minority government, and I'm so, so concerned about it. 1.00

00:41:06.320 But if Gerald Butz and the prime minister have lost their spine with respect to the attack on oil and attack on pipelines, they'll find their spine in the minority government with the bloc or with NDP.

00:41:26.760 And they can sit there and say, well, you know, it wasn't us.

00:41:30.020 It was them.

00:41:31.180 And they'll get their – they'll get what they want, but they'll get to blame.

00:41:34.220 As Justin Trudeau has done with everything, he'll blame the – what I'll call the diminution of Canada on someone else.

00:41:43.260 Ezra, we – 10 years ago, and I tweeted this in 2012, but I said we are – we've never been so strong as a nation.

00:41:52.940 Quebec bloc was down.

00:41:55.780 The Western separation was down at its lowest core, and we're now back at the highest.

00:42:01.700 And this is not – this is not accidental, everything.

00:42:05.460 And unfortunately, I think on the Wexit thing, it will – it will – I can't see any light.

00:42:14.340 I don't see – I haven't seen one demonstrative act.

00:42:18.100 I mean, to sit there and ask to have, you know, not ask strong Western leaders for guidance for him, and he's not gone to them.

00:42:30.080 There are a lot of good people out West that can give the Prime Minister some frank discussion, and he goes to his, you know, typical, but I'll call the liberal side of the equation out West, which is already heard in Ottawa.

00:42:43.060 But he hasn't done it.

00:42:44.440 He hasn't done it.

00:42:45.220 So I don't think – I don't think it will be built.

00:42:47.340 I just – I don't see how it can be built.

00:42:49.520 Yeah.

00:42:50.400 Very interesting and very depressing.

00:42:52.640 Manny Montanegre, it's great to see you again, my friend.

00:42:55.040 No problem, Ezra.

00:42:55.980 All right.

00:42:56.460 There you have it.

00:42:56.960 Manny is the CEO of ThinkSharp, and he joined us today from Ottawa.

00:43:01.320 Stay with us.

00:43:01.880 More ahead on the run.

00:43:10.480 Hey, welcome back.

00:43:11.420 I'm in Monologue Friday about global warming activist Steve Lee visiting schools.

00:43:15.380 As Lisa writes, parents need to keep their kids at home on the day he visits.

00:43:20.340 Yeah, well, Lisa, will parents even know if he's visiting?

00:43:24.400 Or will they just hear, oh, we're having an assembly or a, you know, a guest speaker?

00:43:29.800 Will they even hear about it?

00:43:31.020 And if they do, will they even hear the truth?

00:43:33.080 He's a little propagandist.

00:43:35.760 Daryl writes, just teach our kids the basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:43:40.140 Stop indoctrinating our kids.

00:43:42.540 Yeah, Daryl, sounds like you haven't been in a school lately.

00:43:45.240 Oh, my God.

00:43:45.900 They don't even speak – teach spelling.

00:43:47.780 They don't.

00:43:48.500 They don't even teach spelling anymore.

00:43:50.340 And don't even get me started on that, please.

00:43:51.900 K. Rick writes, the problem here is not Steve Lee, but the government's that give him

00:43:57.240 carte blanche to enter schools and spread off this propaganda.

00:44:00.880 Remember, a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.

00:44:03.400 Well, you are so right.

00:44:04.480 And they know it.

00:44:05.240 I mean, his project's called the 3% because he wants to hit a million school children,

00:44:11.420 which he says is 3% of Canada's population.

00:44:14.420 He's right.

00:44:14.800 And they're in school today.

00:44:16.940 There's young, impressionable kids hearing from a kid that authorities like their teachers

00:44:22.200 like.

00:44:22.840 There's no other side to that story.

00:44:24.640 Even, frankly, if only one in 100 of the people he talks to have a switch flipped on

00:44:29.540 and become environmental activists, that's 10,000.

00:44:32.540 He's replicating.

00:44:33.760 I mean, yeah, we've got to push back.

00:44:35.140 And I think that should start in Alberta.

00:44:38.260 I think in Alberta, this propaganda should not be allowed into government schools.

00:44:45.500 That's my view.

00:44:46.780 All right, folks, that's our show for today.

00:44:48.400 Until tomorrow, on behalf of Rebel World Headquarters, good night.

00:44:53.080 Keep fighting for free.

00:44:53.960 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - November 26, 2019

Calgary academic apologizes, pays up after falsely calling a Rebel reporter a “Neo-Nazi”

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