Rebel News Podcast - Canada’s liberals are copying the anti-Trump “resistance” in their war against Doug Ford

00:00:00.000 Tonight, that crazy anti-Trump resistance movement?

00:00:03.860 Canada's liberals are copying it in their war against Doug Ford.

00:00:07.940 It's September 14th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:16.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:20.180 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.900 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.860 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.

00:00:37.500 I read a story today on a website called iPolitics and it got me thinking about the kind of political campaigns we're going to see in Ontario politics and federal politics.

00:00:47.160 Can I take a few minutes on this story?

00:00:48.640 The headline is, MP says only liberals can protect cities from conservative belligerence and contempt.

00:00:57.040 Let me read the first few sentences.

00:00:59.860 A Toronto area MP says only a re-elected liberal government can protect Canadian cities from the contempt and belligerence of conservatives.

00:01:07.200 Okay, so nothing really out of the ordinary there.

00:01:09.700 I'll read some more.

00:01:11.200 On the sidelines of the Liberal caucus retreat in Saskatoon Thursday, Spadina Fort York MP Adam Vaughn told iPolitics that any skepticism about his party's 2019 election strategy of running against former Prime Minister Stephen Harper should be put to rest because people like Ontario Premier Doug Ford are reminding voters of Harper's ways.

00:01:32.020 And we'll make the contrast with Justin Trudeau even more powerful.

00:01:35.780 Just for those who don't know, Adam Vaughn is this guy.

00:01:40.020 He used to be a TV journalist in Toronto as his dad was before him.

00:01:43.540 And I think he really, really misses being on TV every day.

00:01:47.020 And he has a rapport with other journalists, of course.

00:01:49.000 So he gives outlandish quotes that clearly weren't vetted by the party, but they seem to abide it.

00:01:54.100 Maybe they like it.

00:01:55.040 And here he's saying Stephen Harper is still pulling the strings behind the scenes, still trying to run the country.

00:02:02.960 Here, let me read a little more here.

00:02:05.360 Vaughn argued that Ford's tactics are a carryover from the Harper government, pointing out that many of his former staff are now running the back rooms at Queen's Park.

00:02:13.740 People in Toronto know that Harper is behind the scenes, that Ford is on the forefront, and that the only thing standing between Toronto and the deep blue sea is a liberal government up in Ottawa that's prepared to fix things in Toronto rather than break them, Vaughn said in a blistering attack on the Tories.

00:02:30.840 Do you really think that Stephen Harper is behind the scenes in Toronto, this quarrel that Adam Vaughn is talking about?

00:02:37.740 For our viewers outside of Ontario, as you may know, the city of Toronto has 47 city councillors, 47.

00:02:46.080 And they are each very, very important.

00:02:48.200 Just ask them.

00:02:49.760 And they each feel the need to weigh in on every question of importance or unimportance.

00:02:54.000 And they each need to introduce their guests at City Hall and proclaim, I don't know, National Vegetarian Sandwich Day or whatever it is today.

00:03:02.140 I mean, it's really like 47 different one-man political parties.

00:03:05.000 Nothing gets done, but nothing gets done very slowly, very noisily, and very expensively.

00:03:10.060 Doug Ford, the new Ontario Premier, he knows all about this because he used to be a city councillor in Toronto.

00:03:16.200 He lived it, and so did his late brother, Rob Ford, who was a councillor until he became mayor and he died of cancer.

00:03:22.880 Can I show you my favourite Rob Ford video?

00:03:25.500 So this is Doug's brother.

00:03:27.060 Rob talked about the gravy train, that was his phrase.

00:03:29.200 All these city councillors, but also their hangers-on, the staff, the lobbyists, the bureaucrats, even the journalists, really.

00:03:36.660 Adam Vaughn's kind of people.

00:03:38.400 Look at this great video that Rob Ford did once about all that gravy.

00:03:43.280 I've got all the free passes for councillors.

00:03:46.560 I call them free perks that are tax-free, which is costing the taxpayers millions of dollars.

00:03:51.960 So, let's start off.

00:03:55.340 Free zoo pass.

00:03:57.580 Toronto Zoo VIP pass.

00:04:00.400 The VIP named on this card and his or her family will be granted parking, admission, and rides at the Toronto Zoo without charge.

00:04:08.580 I can bring everybody in my family here to the zoo for free.

00:04:13.760 The average person has to pay $15, $20 to get in, $10 or $15 to park, $5 or $10 a ride.

00:04:22.080 The poor average family's paying $200.

00:04:24.660 Councillors that are getting paid $100,000 get to get in for free.

00:04:29.160 It's absolutely wrong.

00:04:31.000 That's just the tip of the iceberg.

00:04:34.520 47 freeloaders.

00:04:36.160 Did you know they got VIP passes to the zoo?

00:04:39.260 And all those other cards were different freebies.

00:04:41.640 That's why they're fighting so hard for their jobs, because all those perks.

00:04:47.100 And an election is coming up just next month.

00:04:48.800 So, Doug Ford said, you know what?

00:04:50.300 Mighty Los Angeles, an amazing city, a huge city, a sprawling city.

00:04:55.160 They can survive with just 15 city councillors.

00:04:59.520 Mighty Boston, a prestigious city, a banking city, city of the eastern seaboard.

00:05:05.620 They survive with, I think, just 13 councillors, plus the mayor.

00:05:09.080 Seattle, city of the new Pacific Northwest, city of, I don't know, Boeing and Apple.

00:05:16.600 They have nine city councillors.

00:05:19.760 Dallas, mighty oil patch city.

00:05:23.020 They got 14 councillors.

00:05:24.380 Maybe Toronto can get by on, say, 25 instead of 47.

00:05:30.120 Anyway, so he passed this law, which is obviously very popular with the people.

00:05:33.560 If you had a chance to get rid of excess politicians, wouldn't you?

00:05:37.340 I mean, is there any voting bloc, any party in the world that wouldn't go for less politicians

00:05:41.360 if they could?

00:05:42.020 Not just to save money, but to make the city function, actually, on a daily basis.

00:05:45.860 Imagine a meeting with 47 different people quarreling.

00:05:48.180 Anyways, a far-left judge overruled Doug Ford's shrinking of the city council, saying it was illegal.

00:05:54.860 Obviously, it wasn't.

00:05:55.900 Our Canadian constitution clearly says cities are the creature of provincial governments.

00:06:01.320 That's the word that's used, which means that provinces can change them, amend them,

00:06:05.040 theoretically even fire every mayor in the province.

00:06:07.360 It's their right.

00:06:08.860 That's just the law.

00:06:09.940 If you don't like it, change the law.

00:06:11.700 But a far-left judge thought he would change the law without running for office on that mandate.

00:06:17.180 So Ford just invoked the Notwithstanding Clause, which overrules a judge.

00:06:20.000 Again, perfectly legal.

00:06:21.340 It's right there in the Constitution.

00:06:22.500 Other governments in Canada, especially Quebec, have used the Notwithstanding Clause dozens

00:06:26.220 of times.

00:06:26.760 This is a perfect case for it.

00:06:28.480 A partisan judge making a clearly erroneous ruling for clearly political purposes.

00:06:32.860 Here's Ford hitting back.

00:06:35.000 We're taking a stand.

00:06:36.820 If you want to make new laws in Ontario or in Canada, you first must seek a mandate from

00:06:44.860 the people, and you have to be elected.

00:06:47.600 Because it is the people who will decide what is in their best interest for this great province.

00:06:57.380 Just in case anyone ever tells you that the Notwithstanding Clause is against the Charter

00:07:02.200 or it's rebuking the Charter, just remind them it's part of the Charter.

00:07:07.920 Section 33.

00:07:09.060 Anyway, okay, back to Adam Vaughn.

00:07:10.880 And he thinks this is all some Stephen Harper conspiracy theory, that Stephen Harper is still

00:07:16.000 calling the shots or pulling the strings or something, that the minute details of who

00:07:20.700 gets the Toronto Zoo VIP pass is what keeps Stephen Harper up late at night, always has.

00:07:26.640 Stephen Harper, who pretty much spent most of his life in Calgary obsessing over Toronto

00:07:30.500 City Hall.

00:07:30.920 Stephen Harper, prime minister for nine years, who visited countless foreign countries, went

00:07:35.080 to foreign summits, made grave decisions about war and peace and trade and alliances.

00:07:39.480 What he's really doing in his retirement years is war gaming City Hall issues in Toronto. 0.64

00:07:45.620 What a kook that Adam Vaughn is. 0.95

00:07:47.160 But let me just quote one more time from that story. 0.57

00:07:50.280 He called Ford, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and Alberta Tory leader Jason Kenney, Harper's

00:07:55.480 apostles, who share the former prime minister's approach to cities.

00:07:59.500 I think he's a little crazy, that Adam Vaughn, and I think he's a bit weird.

00:08:03.420 And I can see why he was fired as Trudeau's parliamentary secretary for intergovernmental affairs. 0.81

00:08:07.760 He's a bit insane when it comes to premiers he doesn't like, Doug Ford, Jason Kenney's

00:08:11.740 probably going to be Alberta's next premier.

00:08:13.320 You can't quarrel that way if you want to get along with, you know, governmental.

00:08:17.360 So he was fired from that.

00:08:18.480 He's a bit weird to obsess over Stephen Harper, to suggest you're going to campaign in the

00:08:23.420 next federal election against Stephen Harper, because some of his former staff are now

00:08:27.400 working with Doug Ford and they're reigning in Toronto politicians and there's a legal quarrel

00:08:30.860 over it.

00:08:31.140 That's a bit navel-gazing, a bit self-serving, a bit Toronto-centric, not sure if fishermen

00:08:35.020 in Newfoundland or oilmen in Alberta or foresters in BC will really care.

00:08:38.860 Now, I don't really think that Adam Vaughn is right.

00:08:41.960 I don't think Justin Trudeau is going to try to run against Stephen Harper in the next

00:08:45.120 federal election.

00:08:46.420 It's just too much of a stretch.

00:08:47.500 It's just too obviously desperate.

00:08:49.440 Stephen Harper has had a very low profile since he left public office three years ago.

00:08:53.260 I don't think he's top of mind with voters and I don't think he's the enemy in the mind

00:08:56.800 of voters.

00:08:57.120 In fact, if people actually do think of Stephen Harper any more, it's probably with more fondness

00:09:02.000 than when he was in office.

00:09:02.980 There were no scandals, no trade wars, no fiascos like Trudeau in India or wherever he's gone

00:09:08.140 today.

00:09:08.720 I think the selfie culture of Trudeau, the narcissism, the racial and gender quotas, the Islamophilia,

00:09:14.060 I think is wearing thin.

00:09:15.520 Harper's anti-charisma looks better as it ages.

00:09:17.920 I think as Manny Montenegrito tells us, if Trudeau's going to run against anyone, he'll

00:09:22.200 be running against Donald Trump in the next election, not Harper.

00:09:25.160 That's why Trudeau's picking fights with Trump.

00:09:27.700 That's why Chrystia Freeland attended an anti-Trump rally in Toronto with this insane attack ad 1.00

00:09:33.660 calling Trump a tyrant and comparing Trump to communist China and Vladimir Putin in Russia.

00:09:40.460 I think that's a certainty that Trudeau's going to campaign against Trump.

00:09:45.100 It's going to be either you're for Canada and Trudeau or you're for Trump and the Yanks.

00:09:51.360 I think that's the pitch.

00:09:53.600 But watching the weirdness of Adam Vaughn and watching the antics of Toronto City Council,

00:09:57.920 something that is normally of no interest to anyone even a block away from Toronto City

00:10:01.100 Hall building itself.

00:10:02.040 But watching those insane antics dominate the national conversation so quickly, I think

00:10:06.300 I realize what we're in for now.

00:10:07.760 The anti-Trump mania, I think it's going to be a central theme of the left.

00:10:11.760 Of course, it already is.

00:10:12.820 I think the bigger one, though, will be the delegitimization of Doug Ford or any other

00:10:18.620 successful politicians.

00:10:19.940 When Jason Kenney wins this, I expect he will.

00:10:22.680 What I mean by that is the alt-left not working within the system, not accepting losing at the

00:10:29.260 polls, but gumming up the system with lawsuits, with protests, with riots even, the insanity.

00:10:35.700 I think that just like Canada's left is importing anti-Trump hysteria, they're going to now import

00:10:41.000 the tactics they've seen used against Trump by the resistance.

00:10:44.760 We're already starting to see it in this shrinking of the Toronto City Council debate.

00:10:48.940 The extremist judge shut down the lawful use of the notwithstanding clause.

00:10:54.000 Now, that's turned into a circus, a freak show.

00:10:55.920 Here, watch as the left-wing parties in Ontario, who were just given a drubbing in the provincial

00:11:01.300 election, watch how they make the legislature literally ungovernable. 0.97

00:11:06.300 The official opposition can come to the order.

00:11:11.840 The official opposition members can choose the control of the order.

00:11:15.560 That will start pouring.

00:11:24.580 That continued and it got worse and they could not proceed.

00:11:27.560 They had to be escorted out by security.

00:11:29.960 I'm talking about the opposition politicians.

00:11:32.000 That's not democracy stopping a legislature. 0.53

00:11:34.640 That's not quite a riot.

00:11:35.940 What it really is, is a lame Canadian copy of the U.S. left's tactics against Trump.

00:11:43.880 Just last week, we saw something similar deployed against Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme

00:11:49.120 Court, Brett Kavanaugh.

00:11:50.160 Remember this?

00:11:50.960 Shut this hearing down.

00:11:52.780 This hearing is an attack on women's rights and an attack on democracy. 0.98

00:11:56.800 Shut this hearing down now. 0.73

00:11:58.460 I urge you to shut this hearing down.

00:12:01.340 I'm not going to be the president and a threat for our democracy.

00:12:05.340 Indeed.

00:12:06.180 The tremendous design of a government to protect the people.

00:12:09.680 I have said to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:12:12.060 The Kavanaugh must not be put on the court.

00:12:14.600 It won't be put on the court.

00:12:17.140 Mark my words, that's coming here.

00:12:19.440 That's what they're going to do to Doug Ford.

00:12:20.840 Everything they've done to Donald Trump, they're going to do to Doug Ford. 0.99

00:12:23.280 I think the fools in Congress and the fools in the opposition in Ontario's legislature 0.99

00:12:27.800 know that their protests, whether it's just pounding on the tables or shouting, probably 0.99

00:12:31.620 actually won't stop Brett Kavanaugh from being appointed to the Supreme Court and probably

00:12:35.020 won't stop Donald Trump, excuse me, Doug Ford, from shrinking Toronto City Council.

00:12:38.840 But it does a few things.

00:12:40.040 It distracts.

00:12:40.280 It steps on the media coverage of the real successes of Trump, who has had many from

00:12:46.220 his economic boom to foreign policy.

00:12:48.860 And Doug Ford, who, although he's only been premier for a few months, he's already ended

00:12:52.080 cap and trade, stopped subsidies for green energy schemes, rolled back power prices, and

00:12:57.120 sacked an out-of-control board of a hydroelectricity company here.

00:13:01.620 Half a dozen real things.

00:13:02.580 So it distracts.

00:13:04.400 It bogs down Trump and Ford in litigation, just like lawyers did with Rob Ford, if you recall.

00:13:09.800 Doug Ford's brother, with all manner of nuisance suits, and most of all, it cements in the

00:13:14.560 public mind, Trump equals chaos.

00:13:17.200 Doug Ford equals chaos.

00:13:18.780 And surely Andrew Scheer will, too.

00:13:21.960 In fact, those candidates on the right mean law and order, but that's not what the street

00:13:26.220 team wants, the Antifa thugs.

00:13:28.600 They want chaos on the streets.

00:13:30.040 They want the public to associate conservative government with real pain, violence, the pain

00:13:34.280 of seeing your country or your province become a civil war zone.

00:13:37.380 That's what Black Lives Matter was about.

00:13:39.100 If you don't give identity politics movements what they want, you'll have riots.

00:13:42.800 That's what the Occupy Wall Street shanty towns were, not just in the States, but in Canada,

00:13:47.780 too.

00:13:48.400 I guess what I'm saying is the upcoming election will be about anything other than Justin Trudeau's

00:13:52.720 own achievements, because those achievements are so few and far between.

00:13:56.840 Other than legalizing marijuana, and please tell me, other than connected liberal insiders,

00:14:01.480 like the Liberal Party's former top financial officer who happened to own a major marijuana

00:14:05.420 company, who exactly was pushing for this?

00:14:07.680 Show me a mom with a school-aged child who's happy about marijuana now being more freely

00:14:12.500 available for her kids to have, as if it's not hard enough parenting teenagers already.

00:14:16.460 But other than marijuana, what can Trudeau run on?

00:14:20.480 His hated carbon tax?

00:14:21.920 His foreign policy flops?

00:14:23.720 His Syrian refugees? 1.00

00:14:25.260 Some accused of murder and sexual assault? 0.96

00:14:28.000 Look at this headline.

00:14:29.660 Quebec, known as a progressive province, is set to elect a party called the Coalition

00:14:33.800 Avonir de Quebec, CAC, based in large part on their opposition to open immigration and

00:14:38.960 their opposition to the Muslim head covering.

00:14:41.700 The hijab.

00:14:43.180 That's the mood of real people in Canada.

00:14:45.180 People aren't happy with Trudeau or provincial or municipal versions of Trudeau, which is

00:14:49.560 why Trudeau wants his foil to be not Andrew Scheer, but Donald Trump.

00:14:54.600 And when a conservative is accidentally elected like Doug Ford was, or perhaps CAC's Francois

00:15:00.520 Legault will be, don't let them for a minute govern.

00:15:03.280 Riot, instead protest, litigate, storm out of parliament, cause a ruckus, interfere.

00:15:06.780 That's what the left does.

00:15:08.460 They actually tried that out with some success on Stephen Harper, too.

00:15:10.880 They claimed, with zero evidence, that he stole the election through robocalls.

00:15:15.600 It was an early version of Russia hacking the election through Facebook ads used against

00:15:20.220 Donald Trump.

00:15:21.760 Both accusations were lies, but that was the point.

00:15:24.540 Anything to delegitimize conservatives. 0.78

00:15:26.540 It's dirty.

00:15:27.500 It's how the left fights, by which I mean it's how the media fights, too.

00:15:31.720 It's why I'm worried about Andrew Scheer, and to a degree, Jason Kenney, too, although

00:15:35.020 he's got such a head start, Kenny Andrew Scheer, they have Jeb Bush-itis, you know what I mean?

00:15:41.520 Nice guys, but that's actually the problem.

00:15:44.040 It takes a tough guy to beat the alt-left and the resistance.

00:15:47.480 Trump was so tough, many conservatives are still shocked by his demeanor, but we see now

00:15:52.520 that it works.

00:15:53.420 That's the only thing strong enough to stop Hillary Clinton and her embedded campaigners 1.00

00:15:58.180 in the media.

00:15:59.860 That's why we have a raucous hearing over Brett Kavanaugh instead of a polite hearing

00:16:03.320 over a far-left Democrat judge, which would have happened if Hillary Clinton won. 0.99

00:16:08.460 Doug Ford's classic style, ignore the media or berate the media, certainly go around the

00:16:12.540 media.

00:16:13.680 Always ignore their clucking and their shushing.

00:16:16.860 That's why we have Doug Ford as premier, not Andrea Horvath or the awful Kathleen Wynne.

00:16:23.200 Doug Ford's actually off to a great start, but that will not last.

00:16:26.080 The media, liberal, activist, protester, industrial complex is about to rev up.

00:16:30.580 The left wing has lost Ontario, or at least the legislature.

00:16:34.300 They still have the courts.

00:16:35.440 They still have the media.

00:16:37.200 They're going to lose Alberta.

00:16:38.760 They'll probably lose Quebec.

00:16:40.060 They'll do absolutely anything they can not to lose Prince Justin's re-election federally.

00:16:46.060 It's going to be brutal.

00:16:47.800 And it's going to be a lot tougher and smarter than Adam Vaughn's kooky advice.

00:16:53.500 Stay with us for more.

00:16:56.080 Welcome back.

00:17:11.600 Well, it's incredible what you can find when you ask the federal government for documents

00:17:16.160 that, you know, the CBC and CTV and Global Mail and the Media Party just won't ask.

00:17:21.800 You know they won't ask about certain sensitive questions.

00:17:25.360 Now, just because you ask the government for documents doesn't mean you'll get them.

00:17:29.860 The number one move with the Justin Trudeau government when it comes to access to information documents is delay.

00:17:35.660 We have some requests that have been delayed more than three years.

00:17:39.820 Of course, when they finally do cough up the documents, they often black them out, redact them, or simply, whoops, forget to send others over.

00:17:47.840 But still, you send in enough questions, you're bound to get some answers.

00:17:52.640 And Sheila Gunn-Reed has had a trove with them lately.

00:17:54.640 She joins us now via Skype from the Edmonton area.

00:17:59.100 Sheila, great to see you again.

00:18:01.020 Hey, Ezra.

00:18:01.500 Thanks for having me on.

00:18:02.500 You have been breaking news almost every day based on laser-focused questions about Syrian refugees.

00:18:11.500 Now, the fact that we're talking about this in 2018, and these refugees were rushed in in November, December 2015, goes to my point of how the government is slow-walking the facts, aren't they?

00:18:25.120 They really are.

00:18:26.080 And, you know, when we do finally get these documents, like you said, they're redacted.

00:18:31.560 So often we have to ask a couple different ministries and try to put together the story of the redactions by meticulously going through these documents and comparing different memos to really get the full story.

00:18:45.540 Yeah.

00:18:45.720 The fact that it takes three years, when in fact they're supposed to respond, I think, in 30 days, shows the depth of corruption in the transparency of this government.

00:18:55.660 And the fact that no other media care shows that they're going to get away with it, as they do with all their other ethics breaches.

00:19:02.220 I mean, I can't believe, I think it's seven, six or seven times now that liberal cabinet ministers have been found to be in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act.

00:19:11.440 And you wouldn't even know it.

00:19:13.660 I mean, Mike Duffy went through a whole criminal trial because Nigel Wright paid back money to the government that was in question.

00:19:21.960 And the crime there was paying back money and there was no crime in the end.

00:19:26.100 He was acquitted.

00:19:26.860 I can't believe what the media party lets the liberals get away with.

00:19:30.200 Here's a question for you, Sheila.

00:19:31.260 Before we get into the substance of what you found, you've had some huge scoops.

00:19:36.180 We're about to hear them.

00:19:37.420 Have any other media done what they often do when someone has a scoop, which is follow up on the story, take the story and run with it because it's such breaking news?

00:19:46.280 No, of course not.

00:19:48.260 I mean, and it's been that way all along with me and specifically with the rebel, even other people's stories.

00:19:54.760 Remember when we broke the story of the government buying luxury cars for so-called testing, environmental testing?

00:20:04.260 We broke the story.

00:20:06.340 The other media acknowledged that we broke the story.

00:20:09.820 And then they flatly admitted they just won't take these stories and they won't follow up on them because the breaking news came from us.

00:20:17.960 You know, that doesn't make any sense at all if your job is to tell the news.

00:20:23.960 I mean, a story is a story if it's factually true and interesting and newsworthy.

00:20:29.560 who tells the story is secondary.

00:20:34.400 It's actually irrelevant to the value of the news.

00:20:37.380 And, hey, take the story, steal it.

00:20:39.880 I mean, give us credit for it if you have any ethics, but steal it.

00:20:42.760 The fact that they would rather deny their viewers and audience the facts than to even tip their hat to our journalism shows why no one trusts the mainstream media anymore.

00:20:55.360 Well, and, you know, we make it really easy for them to steal our stories because we do something that the rest of the main or that the mainstream media doesn't do.

00:21:04.160 And when we file these access to information requests and when we get newsworthy documents back, we actually publish the documents so that the people who are watching our coverage, they can see exactly what we're telling them.

00:21:16.900 And the mainstream media, they can take these documents and run their own story, even spin it their own way.

00:21:22.680 But they refuse to do it because the information came from us.

00:21:26.160 And then they wonder why there's another round of layoffs plaguing the mainstream media.

00:21:31.000 And that's just the public prosecuting them for their dereliction of duty.

00:21:35.840 Yeah.

00:21:36.200 Well, we set up a website and it has one of these key documents right on there.

00:21:41.280 And that's useful for our viewers who want to go deep and see for themselves.

00:21:46.080 It's useful for skeptics who say that can't be true.

00:21:49.160 They can see the primary document themselves, and I think it's just good practice.

00:21:53.600 We've set up a website called 50,000.ca.

00:21:57.420 Now, there's no comma in it.

00:21:58.740 As people probably know, there's no commas in websites.

00:22:01.880 So if you just type in 50,000.ca, we've got one of your breaking stories.

00:22:09.340 Tell our viewers why 50,000.ca is the website name we've chosen.

00:22:13.920 Well, we discovered through access to information documents, despite the government's efforts to hide this from other queries, like those from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,

00:22:26.420 that $50,000 is the amount in cash aid, direct cash aid from the federal government provided to refugee families.

00:22:37.320 And the government used a family of four as their baseline when we know that there were more families of seven and eight and even nine coming than there were families of four.

00:22:47.700 So that's the name of the website, 50,000.ca.

00:22:51.820 And the reason I found it so outrageous was not only the fact that the government was actively trying to hide that,

00:22:58.420 and we could see it in the documents where they were editing their talking points in real time saying,

00:23:04.140 we're not going to tell the public this amount.

00:23:06.540 But it was so shocking to me that the government right now continues to fight Canadian veterans in court,

00:23:13.600 and Canadian service members have to use the food bank at Christmastime because we are not compensating them the way they need to be.

00:23:22.500 And I found it so outrageous, so I started a petition to the government asking them to treat Canadian veterans and active service members

00:23:29.720 as well as they treat migrant families who've done, I don't know, the hard work of landing on a plane or dragging their luggage across the border.

00:23:38.300 Yeah. $50,000 cash, that doesn't account for health care, education, welfare, medicine, any other social services they get.

00:23:52.220 That's just on the cash side.

00:23:53.760 What gets me is if the government is doing something and then actively hiding it,

00:23:59.540 and to me that's the biggest takeaway, to have confirmation that they're spending $50,000 cash per family

00:24:05.260 is shocking but not surprising, but I think the true proof of the lack of ethics in Trudeau's government here

00:24:14.000 is that they know what they're doing is so wrong in the eyes of the public,

00:24:19.340 but instead of changing what they're doing, their top priorities to hide it, to cover it up,

00:24:25.360 to deceive, to obfuscate, to get the fog machine going, that's right there in the documents.

00:24:32.720 The Trudeau's bureaucrats arguing, don't say $50,000, don't say the word, don't say the word,

00:24:40.880 don't make it easy for people to find out the truth about what we're doing.

00:24:44.460 That shows they know what they're doing is immoral.

00:24:48.360 Yeah, it shows for once, albeit gross, it's an admission, it's self-awareness that we don't often see

00:24:57.400 in this government that they realize that if the Canadian public knew this number,

00:25:03.560 that Canadian families who are going to work and dropping their kids off at daycare 0.69

00:25:07.720 and working really hard every day just to take home this same amount,

00:25:12.460 if they found out about this, they would be absolutely outraged.

00:25:16.380 And again, radio silence from the mainstream media,

00:25:19.440 but yesterday I did a story that uncovered exactly why that is.

00:25:24.300 The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ministry was actually actively looking to hire

00:25:31.480 unemployed and recently laid off journalists to act as spin doctors for Operation Syrian Refugee.

00:25:37.900 And of course, of course, word gets around in the mainstream media about who's hiring and why.

00:25:43.740 So, I mean, if all the coverage recently of the murder of Marissa Shen and Operation Syrian Refugee

00:25:53.320 feels a little bit like a cover letter for a job in the government, that's because it really is.

00:25:58.320 Yeah, that's a great point.

00:25:59.840 I mean, it's bad enough that the actual majority of working news journalists in Canada

00:26:06.760 work for the state broadcaster right now.

00:26:08.520 The CBC is larger in news reportage than all other private media combined.

00:26:14.400 So their direct effect is awful.

00:26:17.180 The effect it has on every journalist worried about losing their job is awful

00:26:20.680 because they're all tailoring their work to suck up to the CBC's ideological tone.

00:26:26.580 But then for this extra layer, we'll come work for the liberals directly.

00:26:31.120 And by the way, you'll probably make a lot more money working directly.

00:26:34.720 I mean, a communications director for a liberal cabinet minister is probably in the $130,000 to $150,000 range.

00:26:40.740 I know that sounds insane, but it's true. 1.00

00:26:43.260 So basically, the only people hiring in Canada for news journalists these days are the state broadcaster or the state.

00:26:51.640 And you can tell, I was just saying in Battleground earlier today, my live noontime show,

00:26:57.140 to get any controversial news about Canada, you need to go to the foreign press

00:27:02.340 because they're the only ones not trying to get a job with Trudeau or Trudeau's CBC.

00:27:07.180 Yeah, some of the most excellent reporting about the Syrian refugee responsible, 1.00

00:27:12.080 allegedly, for the murder of Marissa Shen has come from the South China Morning Post.

00:27:17.660 And the South China Morning Post, again, was breaking news about birth tourism

00:27:21.980 that's now become relevant in Canadian politics.

00:27:25.020 These are things the local reporters, where these stories are breaking,

00:27:29.940 aren't touching because they want to hold true to the government narrative.

00:27:34.200 The government, during Operation Syrian Refugee,

00:27:38.000 they were hiring media relations persons quicker than they were hiring CBSA officers

00:27:43.380 to screen people at the border.

00:27:45.200 Because for them, protecting the narrative was more important than protecting the Canadian public.

00:27:50.140 Isn't that incredible? And now there's a girl dead in Vancouver,

00:27:53.200 and one of Trudeau's Syrians is charged with first-degree murder.

00:27:55.980 You mentioned the South China Morning Post.

00:27:58.360 It's a very interesting newspaper.

00:28:00.260 I mean, it's a very, very old and reputable Hong Kong newspaper

00:28:05.060 that was really a leading business paper.

00:28:07.200 And it's maintained its reputation after Hong Kong was reabsorbed by communist China.

00:28:14.340 It's still, I think most people would say it's reputable, it's fair,

00:28:18.720 and it's independent because Hong Kong is treated differently than mainland China.

00:28:24.400 So they're used to pressure from governments trying to bully them.

00:28:30.500 Hong Kong is pretty free.

00:28:32.180 I'd say Hong Kong, even 20 years after being reabsorbed by China,

00:28:35.540 I'd say it's pretty free.

00:28:36.460 And I would say that their coverage of Chinese-Canadian issues,

00:28:40.760 that's why they're going so heavy on this,

00:28:42.580 because it was a Chinese-Canadian girl, Marissa Shen, who was murdered.

00:28:46.460 I'd say their coverage of the murder of Marissa Shen in Vancouver

00:28:49.920 is superior to that of Canadian journalists,

00:28:53.280 precisely because the Hong Kong newspaper is used to pushing back against governments trying to bully them.

00:28:59.900 And if they can push back against the Chinese Communist Party, 0.82

00:29:02.360 it's easy for them to push back against the losers in the Canadian government. 0.81

00:29:08.300 Isn't it interesting that the South China Morning Post is less like Pravda than the CBC right now,

00:29:15.720 especially with regard to any sort of critical coverage of the entire Syrian refugee issue?

00:29:24.900 Yeah, it's incredible.

00:29:26.360 And, you know, anytime there's a gaffe or an embarrassment,

00:29:30.300 whether it was Trudeau's people-kind comment,

00:29:33.520 whether it was news about him groping that female reporter in Crest in B.C.,

00:29:38.020 whether it was the news about his dancing in India fiascos,

00:29:43.360 everyone in the Canadian media circuit knew those stories.

00:29:46.760 They either said, oh, that's not news,

00:29:48.200 or they came up with intricate and complicated excuses for why they didn't cover it.

00:29:53.620 Each of those stories I just listed to you

00:29:55.660 was covered in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia

00:30:00.540 before it was covered by the mainstream media in Canada.

00:30:04.080 I should say each of those stories, we at The Rebel covered them,

00:30:06.800 but we are being marginalized in Canada in the ways that you've described.

00:30:11.040 Well, yeah.

00:30:12.000 I mean, but like we discussed earlier,

00:30:14.320 Canadian journalists are tailoring their coverage to act as resumes and cover letters

00:30:18.720 for jobs in the government, because that is the only secure place for a journalist right now

00:30:24.780 in this media landscape, unless you're an independent journalist offering something new

00:30:29.060 and, you know, for once speaking truth to power.

00:30:32.660 And that just doesn't happen in the mainstream media.

00:30:34.880 Yeah, it's very interesting.

00:30:35.900 Well, listen, we're grateful for all our supporters who make our independent journalism possible.

00:30:40.220 And for folks who haven't gone there yet, I recommend they go to 50,000.ca.

00:30:46.660 That's simply 5-0-0-0-0-0.ca to see that primary document

00:30:52.380 and to look elsewhere on our website for the rest of your great reports.

00:30:55.460 Thanks very much, Sheila.

00:30:58.140 Thanks, Ezra.

00:30:59.180 All right, there you have it.

00:31:00.180 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our Alberta Bureau Chief,

00:31:02.260 but of course she writes about things of national

00:31:04.100 and sometimes international importance.

00:31:06.820 In fact, I haven't finalized things with Sheila,

00:31:11.860 but I hope that she will be attending

00:31:13.400 the United Nations Global Warming Conference,

00:31:17.740 as happens every year.

00:31:18.860 This year it's in Poland.

00:31:20.520 Maybe I'm talking prematurely about it.

00:31:22.860 We've got to make sure Sheila's good to go for that. 0.99

00:31:24.720 But I hope she will.

00:31:25.600 She's gone to Bonn, Germany, and Marrakesh, Morocco.

00:31:29.600 So she is a Jill of all trades.

00:31:32.160 Stay with us.

00:31:33.100 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:31:36.820 Hey, welcome back.

00:31:46.500 On my monologue yesterday where I gave my predictions

00:31:48.440 about what won't happen if NAFTA expires

00:31:51.080 without signing a new deal, Bruce writes,

00:31:53.780 Trudeau is absolutely reprehensible.

00:31:55.800 Nothing but his ambition matters.

00:31:57.460 Thousands of Canadians could lose their jobs,

00:31:59.000 but they don't matter to him.

00:32:01.220 Well, you know, I thought maybe I'm getting this wrong.

00:32:03.580 Maybe I'm seeing what I, not want to see,

00:32:08.360 but what I expect to see from Trudeau.

00:32:10.040 Maybe I'm imposed projecting is the word.

00:32:13.940 But yesterday in Saskatoon,

00:32:16.580 Justin Trudeau was asked about Christia Freeland

00:32:18.260 attending this taking on the tyrant rally in Toronto.

00:32:23.780 And he said he approved of her being there.

00:32:25.580 That's, you can't mistake that signal.

00:32:28.520 Someone with a nickname, Revelation, writes,

00:32:33.740 Mexico and Canada will trade praises.

00:32:35.500 You watch.

00:32:36.720 Well, look, we'll always be culturally closer to America,

00:32:39.800 historically closer, linguistically closer,

00:32:42.780 economically closer.

00:32:43.760 Mexico is quite poor.

00:32:45.860 There's so many ways we'll be closer to America than Mexico,

00:32:49.080 even without NAFTA. 0.99

00:32:50.720 But what fool finds a pearl on the beach 0.99

00:32:54.320 and throws it back into the sea? 1.00

00:32:56.260 Do you know what I mean by that?

00:32:57.280 Canada had everything just by luck

00:33:00.780 because we're next to America.

00:33:02.380 And we've thrown it away.

00:33:03.680 We didn't need a quarrel with Trump.

00:33:04.980 Trump didn't care about Canada.

00:33:06.580 He never thought about Canada.

00:33:08.740 Trade, we had balance trade.

00:33:10.600 NATO, yeah, he gave us a little zing

00:33:13.460 because we didn't pay enough,

00:33:14.380 but it wasn't high on his agenda.

00:33:16.100 Germany was higher.

00:33:17.200 France, Britain, Mexico, China was higher on his agenda.

00:33:21.080 Iran, North Korea.

00:33:22.140 Why Justin Trudeau made a fight

00:33:25.180 with the biggest brawler in the world

00:33:28.060 is something I think historians will never understand.

00:33:32.020 On my interview with Breitbart's senior technology correspondent,

00:33:34.820 Alan Bakari, about the Google videotape,

00:33:37.460 Paul writes,

00:33:38.640 this Google video is all over the internet.

00:33:40.580 At this point, Google and the rest of the far-left big tech outlets

00:33:43.060 have been telling everyone they're not biased.

00:33:45.460 Nobody has been buying it.

00:33:46.500 And now Breitbart has proven the lie.

00:33:49.760 It is being shared on social media.

00:33:52.360 When you say it's all over the internet,

00:33:54.260 I think that's actually a statement of where you are looking, you find it.

00:33:58.600 But I don't think it's all over the internet.

00:34:01.180 I think it's only in places where maybe conservatives go

00:34:04.060 because although Alan did say the New York Times mentioned it

00:34:07.880 and I saw CNN mention it,

00:34:09.700 it has not received its proper place.

00:34:11.680 I put it to you that if, I don't know,

00:34:14.520 after George W. Bush had won,

00:34:17.080 there was a secret staff tape from ExxonMobil

00:34:20.580 talking about, ha-ha, we're going to get oil money.

00:34:22.940 Or the opposite, after Obama won,

00:34:25.520 if some conservative-oriented company

00:34:28.180 had this group cry in, die in, 0.53

00:34:31.600 and said we're going to, as a company, change, fight back,

00:34:35.280 that would be enormous news forever.

00:34:37.820 There would be investigations.

00:34:39.280 There would be shareholders' revolts.

00:34:41.100 There would be litigation.

00:34:42.380 So, yeah, I mean, this got more publicity than I thought

00:34:47.040 and Alan said that.

00:34:48.000 He said the New York Times covered it.

00:34:49.760 But I think that had this been roles reversed,

00:34:53.580 had this been some large publicly interactive company

00:34:59.320 lamenting Obama's win,

00:35:01.120 we would never have heard the end of it.

00:35:02.860 And I put it to you,

00:35:03.660 the CEO would already be fired.

00:35:06.400 Well, that's the show for today,

00:35:10.340 and that means for this week,

00:35:12.480 we have things over the weekend as usual.

00:35:15.020 I don't know if you checked it out yet,

00:35:16.480 but we've had a lot of good responses to my,

00:35:19.560 well, it was two hours,

00:35:20.880 sit down with Tommy Robinson last week

00:35:22.560 when I went to the UK for a few hours.

00:35:24.860 If you haven't seen that yet,

00:35:26.100 you can find that elsewhere

00:35:26.940 on our website,

00:35:28.660 therebel.media slash Tommy Robinson.

00:35:30.280 I encourage you to watch it.

00:35:31.700 Not just if you care about the UK.

00:35:33.260 Of course, if you care about the UK, follow it.

00:35:34.940 Of course, if you care about Tommy Robinson, follow it.

00:35:37.060 But follow it, watch it.

00:35:39.640 To know what's coming to Canada in five years,

00:35:41.260 I promise you,

00:35:42.480 whenever I go to the UK in return,

00:35:44.580 I think I have seen the ugly future

00:35:47.320 that we are on track for

00:35:49.020 if we continue on our path.

00:35:51.400 On behalf of all of us here

00:35:52.700 at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:35:53.780 to you at home,

00:35:54.340 good night,

00:35:55.620 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:01.300 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - September 15, 2018

Canada’s liberals are copying the anti-Trump “resistance” in their war against Doug Ford

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