Rebel News Podcast - Canada’s “weirdo” foreign minister owes over $1M to a Chinese government bank. What could go wrong？

00:00:00.000 Hey, you rebels. You know, completely normal. Justin Trudeau's foreign minister has a million

00:00:05.820 dollar loan from the Communist Party-run Bank of China. I mean, who doesn't? Could happen to

00:00:11.160 anyone, really. I mean, what's in your wallet? Visa, MasterCard, American Express, $1.2 million

00:00:17.380 mortgage with the Bank of China. I mean, who amongst us doesn't have it? Just crazy, crazy

00:00:22.580 story. And then I talked to a left-wing feminist professor from the University of Alberta 1.00

00:00:26.960 who's being thrown out the window because she doesn't share the transgender ideology. 1.00

00:00:33.960 She's an old-school feminist who doesn't think trans women are biologically women. Oh, boy. 1.00

00:00:40.840 That's an interesting conversation, I thought. I hope you think so, too. Let me invite you to

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00:01:10.620 Tonight, Canada's foreign minister owes more than a million dollars to a Chinese government bank.

00:01:31.540 What could possibly go wrong? It's June 11th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:35.420 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:41.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:45.280 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:50.160 right to do so.

00:01:55.780 You know Francois-Philippe Champagne, right? That's Trudeau's pro-Beijing foreign minister.

00:02:01.260 You'll probably remember him from this disgraceful moment. The government of Taiwan had just made a

00:02:06.060 huge donation of clean, hygienic, high-quality face masks to Canada, unlike the government of

00:02:12.220 Communist China, which had bought up all of our good Canadian face masks in January and February and 0.88

00:02:18.320 then sold us shoddy Chinese-made face masks in return at inflated prices. So Taiwan was a hero, 0.99

00:02:26.340 the exact opposite of communist China. But when a conservative MP asked foreign minister

00:02:31.540 Champagne to thank Taiwan, he just wouldn't. He refused. He thanked all the countries who had

00:02:38.240 given Canada masks. But yeah, I mean the U.S. sells us masks. China and Taiwan, those are really the

00:02:44.080 three. And China's masks were shoddy, dangerous even, unusable. But Champagne just wouldn't say the 0.81

00:02:51.940 word Taiwan. Because China hates Taiwan and China takes the point of view that Taiwan isn't even a

00:02:57.240 real country because China keeps threatening to reconquer it. That's an insane point of view, of

00:03:01.960 course. But Champagne is so obedient to communist China, even now he just wouldn't even say the word

00:03:07.700 Taiwan. What a weirdo. Here, watch again. 0.98

00:03:10.720 This question is directed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. On March 28th, he personally

00:03:17.900 tweeted out a thank you to the People's Republic of China for donating PPEs to Canada. This tweet

00:03:25.140 happened within three hours of China announcing that gift. Now, as it turned out, many of these PPEs 0.87

00:03:31.400 were defective and could not be used. More recently, Taiwan donated half a million surgical masks to

00:03:38.680 Canada. And yet, here we are, two weeks later, and the Minister has yet to personally thank Taiwan

00:03:44.700 for its generosity. Will the Minister now thank this free and democratic country for its generous gift

00:03:51.800 to Canadians? The Honourable Minister.

00:03:56.040 Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank my colleague for the question. Indeed, we are very grateful to every

00:04:01.340 nation for helping Canada. This is a global pandemic which knows no border. We have been expressing our

00:04:07.360 thanks to many nations who have contributed. We will continue to do so. It is important at the time

00:04:12.680 of pandemic, Mr. Speaker, that we don't play politics, that humanity comes together. I can say

00:04:18.160 to my COVID foreign minister's call, the world community has come together to make sure that we

00:04:24.080 would make sure that supply chain would remain intact, that we would have transit up, that we would

00:04:28.680 have air bridges. And we will continue, Mr. Speaker, to work with every nation when it comes to health.

00:04:34.760 This is a public good that we want to work together.

00:04:37.080 We will go back. That is so creepy. What a weirdo. I'm sorry. What do they have on this guy? Is it

00:04:42.520 compromise? That's the old Soviet term for compromising material, like extortion stuff. I don't know what

00:04:49.040 China has over him. Or maybe he's just ideologically in the tank for communist China, like his execrable boss.

00:04:55.120 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing

00:05:06.320 them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.

00:05:09.680 Hey, let me contrast Foreign Minister Champagne's grotesque ingratitude. That's what that was,

00:05:13.920 ingratitude. He's an ingrate. He took the gift from Taiwan. Oh, you bet he did. But he wouldn't even 0.99

00:05:19.520 say thank you. It's like he made Taiwan come in the back entrance, the servant's entrance or

00:05:24.320 something. But look at this. Look at this contrast. The Chinese government donated a few masks to Canada.

00:05:28.640 Again, shoddy masks. And it's after Chinese operatives hoovered up every clean mask from 1.00

00:05:34.000 Home Depot and Canadian Tire in our whole country and shipped it to China while telling us coronavirus

00:05:38.880 wasn't contagious, don't you know? So that's what China did. But this is from the Chinese embassy in

00:05:48.000 Ottawa. On March 27th, Bank of China donates medical supplies, including 30,000 medical masks,

00:05:54.880 10,000 sets of protective clothing, 10,000 goggles and 50,000 pairs of gloves, followed by N95 medical

00:06:00.800 masks. Canada fighting against COVID-19. We are together. Yeah, no, you liars. We are not together.

00:06:07.440 You lied about the virus. You shut down flights from Wuhan to your own cities of Beijing and Shanghai,

00:06:12.480 but you kept the flights to Canada. You lied about the virus while you bought up all our supplies.

00:06:17.440 And then you gave us a fraction of a fraction of those supplies back and they were shoddy and dirty,

00:06:21.200 but you wanted a pat on the head and you charged us money. Taiwan gave us half a million clean masks

00:06:27.200 and you won a prize for giving us 30,000 masks. You crooked commies. But look at this. The Communist 0.99

00:06:34.640 Party of China propaganda, that message was tweeted at, do you see it there? 9.48 a.m. on March 28th.

00:06:43.200 9.48 a.m. And look at this. At 12.31 p.m., not even three hours later,

00:06:49.440 Champagne issued a gushing thank you to the commies by name. He named them. Thank you for this donation.

00:06:57.360 In the face of a global pandemic, supporting each other is not only the right thing to do,

00:07:00.960 it's a smart thing to do. Okay, got it. A gushing personal thank you, not only for the masks,

00:07:07.440 but he went further and claimed that China was supporting us and that they were doing the right

00:07:12.000 thing and the smart thing. Not just, hey, thanks for the 30,000 masks, but a larger endorsement of

00:07:18.560 China's attitude and policy too. I'm only surprised he didn't call them daddy, which he normally does. 0.99

00:07:24.880 Contrast that with his utter refusal to even say the word Taiwan when repeatedly asked about it

00:07:30.320 by an MP. But did you notice that Chinese embassy tweet?

00:07:35.040 It was tooting the horn of a donation nominally made by the Bank of China. Now the Bank of China is

00:07:41.200 one of that country's largest banks and it is owned by the government. It's owned by the Chinese

00:07:47.360 Communist Party. So it's not, it's not their central bank, although it does have some power to print

00:07:52.000 currency, if you can believe it, but mainly it's just a big Communist Party bank over there. That's

00:07:56.960 what it is. So it's no surprise that its tweet was published by the Chinese embassy. They're basically

00:08:02.480 the same thing. So Francois-Philippe Champagne broke every speed record in Ottawa by publishing an

00:08:09.280 official thank you in less than three hours to a Chinese government bank. Well, would you look at this?

00:08:15.280 Big story in the Globe and Mail. And I mock them for being part of the media party.

00:08:21.280 But how can I dispute that the Globe and Mail has consistently had the strongest coverage of

00:08:25.360 China policy in Canada in the mainstream media? I think it's a big reason why they've been 1.00

00:08:29.840 almost all but shut out of Trudeau's morning press scrums too. Did you know that? Trudeau is punishing

00:08:34.880 the Globe and Mail for reporting things like this. Take a look at this. Foreign Affairs Minister has two

00:08:42.240 mortgages with state-run Bank of China. Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne has two

00:08:49.040 registered residential mortgages with the state-owned Bank of China in London, which the opposition says

00:08:54.720 opens him to personal financial vulnerability at a time when relations with Beijing are at a standstill.

00:09:00.880 Mr. Champagne, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015, bought two apartments in London,

00:09:06.560 one in 2009 and one in 2013, while he was an executive with Amec Foster Wheeler PLC,

00:09:11.680 the British multinational construction and engineering giant. The mortgages were initially

00:09:16.160 valued at $1.7 million and the current balance is $1.2 million. So Canada's foreign minister literally

00:09:23.120 owes the Chinese government more than a million dollars. But here's my favorite part of the story.

00:09:28.880 Mr. Champagne said he had a temporary work permit for the United Kingdom

00:09:32.000 and was unable to get a loan from a British bank?

00:09:38.400 Are you telling Porky's, is that true, that a senior executive for a multinational

00:09:46.000 construction giant, extremely wealthy man, jet setter, worldwide player,

00:09:50.240 he couldn't get a mortgage or a secured loan? You've got the property and you can't get a loan in London.

00:09:58.400 Really, the financial capital of the world, in many ways even more so than New York or Hong Kong.

00:10:02.400 London, home of every bank imaginable. London, multinational city where senior executives

00:10:07.280 from the whole world come to work for a period of time. There wasn't any other bank in that massive

00:10:12.080 city, that banker's city, that would provide a mortgage to a rich man secured against a rich condo.

00:10:18.240 He had to go to China? Is that the truth or is he lying again, the liar? 0.59

00:10:26.400 Here's a nugget from that Globe story that points out just how crazy that lie is. 0.62

00:10:30.640 Data from UK Finance, a trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector,

00:10:35.760 showed that for 2018, the Bank of China was the 53rd largest mortgage lender in the United Kingdom,

00:10:43.840 with a 0.1% share of the country's mortgage market when measured by value of mortgages outstanding.

00:10:49.520 So there were 52 other banks that people would more regularly use.

00:10:55.760 No one needs to get a loan from the Communist Party of China to buy a mortgage in London.

00:11:00.000 London is the most financed city in Europe, probably the world seriously. London does more

00:11:06.480 financial commerce in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Moscow, all of them combined. It is the boss

00:11:12.400 of finance. It is sophisticated. But they just couldn't loan money to buy two condos for this

00:11:18.400 man. He had to go to China. Scout's honor. Is any of this normal? No, of course it's not normal,

00:11:26.080 but it is being normalized. That is very different. I say, do you think there are any liberal MPs or even

00:11:32.160 cabinet ministers who have loans from other dictatorships like Iran or North Korea even?

00:11:39.600 I know that would be crazy, right? That would never happen, right? Like 0.1% chance of that happening,

00:11:47.920 right? Yeah. Well, that wouldn't be any crazier than the man in charge of negotiating for the freedom

00:11:54.640 for the two Michaels, literally being held over a million dollar barrel by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:12:01.040 That would never happen, right? Stay with us for more.

00:12:16.720 Well, about 40 years ago, the mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau said it was no more possible for the

00:12:23.520 Olympics to lose money than for a man to get pregnant. It was a joke. And of course, the joke was on him, 0.73

00:12:30.480 the Olympics lost a lot of money. Well, if that mayor were around today, that joke would likely

00:12:36.720 be illegal. Let me quote to you from an article in the Edmonton Journal. This is amazing. Quote,

00:12:43.760 the university has said it's perfectly okay to fire people for doubting that men can get pregnant, 1.00

00:12:49.520 for doubting lesbians can have penises. The implications are very dangerous because this 0.99

00:12:54.400 is a live issue in our contemporary Canadian democracy. It's not a joke anymore. Our next

00:12:59.200 guest is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, my own alma mater,

00:13:04.160 who was fired from an administrative position because she doubts that men can get pregnant.

00:13:11.440 She is a feminist. In fact, I think she's the polar opposite to rebel news on most ideological issues. 1.00

00:13:19.040 But she has been sacked by political correctness. Nonetheless, Professor Kathleen Lowry joins us now.

00:13:26.240 Professor Lowry, thank you very much for joining the show today.

00:13:29.200 Hi, thank you for having me. Did I accurately summarize what happened? I see a copy of your letter

00:13:34.720 in the Edmonton Journal. You were fired because you wanted to talk about feminism

00:13:40.720 and that women, biological women, are different than trans women. Am I correct? 0.95

00:13:46.880 Well, yes. But there's actually been developments since then that I think are even more interesting.

00:13:53.120 So I want to quickly dispense with what's been in the news so far because on my dismissal back in March,

00:14:01.200 my faculty association is backing me up because it wasn't handled according to proper disciplinary

00:14:07.760 procedures. So I think on that I'm likely to prevail. I think the faculty association just has sort of

00:14:14.800 an airtight case. But what's happened since then, what's happened with all the publicity around this,

00:14:20.080 is there's a kind of burgeoning round two. So the burgeoning round two is once this was in the news,

00:14:26.000 a colleague, students, and particularly student journalists from the University of Alberta

00:14:31.200 Gateway newspaper started combing through my social media history. So I always comment on social media

00:14:37.920 under my real name, and particularly they've combed through my social media history on a site called

00:14:42.960 Spinster. So it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek name. Spinster is something like gender-critical,

00:14:50.160 feminist, uh, uh, Twitter. And I, I think this, this next stage, I think is going to be the more

00:14:57.360 interesting stage because I think it's not, it's not going to turn on, um, it's not going to primarily

00:15:03.360 turn, I don't believe, on my academic freedom, which most of the discussion so far has been framed

00:15:08.240 in terms of, in terms of, but it's actually going to raise issues about what any Canadian can say

00:15:14.560 about gender and gender identity. So, um, let me, I'm just going to go. Is it okay if I just keep

00:15:22.400 sort of? Yeah, please. We, we want to learn. Can I just read one more? Before you do, Professor,

00:15:27.760 may I read just one more line from the Edmonton Journal? Because I'm up to speed with your case

00:15:32.160 as far as that article, but can I just give one more fact to our viewers, uh, before you go deeper?

00:15:37.280 Because I, I, uh, our viewers are likely new to this. So I'm just quoting, um, from what you told

00:15:43.840 the journal. I think it's very on point and then please do continue. Um, because I think this is

00:15:48.720 what you got in trouble for and correct me if I'm wrong. This is you in the journal. I said on the

00:15:53.040 first day of class, we're going to read material in this class that are currently out of fashion in

00:15:57.760 academia. You certainly don't have to agree with me since this is a university. I think it's important to

00:16:03.280 be exposed to this is important literature you should be aware of. So basically you took

00:16:08.480 the traditional feminist point of view as opposed to the transgender point of view and, and you let

00:16:13.840 your students know, you know, they might find it disagreeable. So that was what got you in trouble

00:16:18.960 stage one. I just, am I correct in that? Well, you know, I, I can't know because the complaints are

00:16:24.720 confidential, but I don't think it was actually any students in that course. I think it was students

00:16:29.200 who heard that I kind of existed as a gender critical feminist who complained because I,

00:16:33.520 the students, even the students who by the end of the course didn't agree with me, um,

00:16:38.560 they all really appreciated being exposed to this literature. So the students who actually were

00:16:44.560 in a learning situation were, were not traumatized by being in a learning situation. But there,

00:16:50.720 I think my problems come from a much greater number of students who are traumatized to learn

00:16:56.000 that I, that I exist on campus and I'm, and I have bad thoughts.

00:17:00.320 So step one was the academic administrative position firing and you're staying here in phase

00:17:05.440 two, which is the mob combing through your historic tweets.

00:17:10.000 This one, this one I think is really going to be interesting because I think, you know,

00:17:14.080 the mob is coming for me and there's really, there's no way they're not going to get me. And it's not

00:17:19.760 because I've said anything terrible or hateful, or I think that trans people should be bonked on the head. 0.98

00:17:24.960 It's because gender critical feminism is in direct collision with gender identity ideology and 1.00

00:17:32.080 particular gender identity ideology as is enshrined in bill C-16. So I don't, your viewers, I mean,

00:17:38.720 your viewers, listeners may not know what bill C-16 is. It's a, it's a bill that was introduced in 2017

00:17:46.160 that added gender identity and expression to, to the grounds on which people couldn't be discriminated

00:17:53.600 in the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. So, um, the critical part, so, so now gender identity

00:18:02.480 is kind of, is being treated very reverentially. Now that's quite different from the sort of

00:18:08.720 traditional feminist approach to gender. So the traditional feminist approach, which now gets 1.00

00:18:13.040 called gender critical or radical feminism, but in the olden days used to be just feminism.

00:18:17.600 Um, the old approach to gender was biological sex is real. People is, are born, it's a boy or a girl. 0.92

00:18:25.040 And, and then societies kind of place gender expectations on these people who were born.

00:18:31.280 And these gender expectations tend to be hierarchical and tend to contribute to the oppression of women. 1.00

00:18:38.160 So that, you know, men are supposed to be leaders and, and women are supposed to be docile followers, 0.83

00:18:42.560 those kinds of expectations. So, um, the feminism of a generation ago said, look, this is wrong. We,

00:18:49.520 people are born and we shouldn't put these kinds of gender expectations on them. What we should do is we

00:18:54.240 we should abolish gender. So the attitude to say a little boy who enjoyed tea parties and wearing 0.99

00:19:00.080 tutus would be, well, you know, knock yourself out. You're a little boy. Are you there who enjoys

00:19:05.920 tea parties and, and tutus. And the, I, the, the idea that feminists had was that this process would 1.00

00:19:12.080 be liberatory. If we stopped expecting people to fit gender, gender identity categories,

00:19:19.840 people would be happier and society as a whole would become better. Now this has really changed

00:19:26.160 and it's specifically, and it's now changed, not just in, in academic discourse and a lot of popular

00:19:31.440 discourse, but it's now changed in Canadian law. So this means we have to have a kind of reverential

00:19:39.120 embrace of gender stereotypes. So that same little boy born now who likes tea parties and wants to wear

00:19:44.720 a tutu. You say, oh my gosh, you, your gender identity is that of a girl. So you were born in 0.99

00:19:51.040 the wrong body and we, we understand, we're going to affirm your gender identity and we're going to 0.96

00:19:55.920 raise you as a little girl. So people who don't feel they fit into the category of, of gender stereotype

00:20:05.120 girl or gender stereotype boy, those people are now called non-binary, which an, an older feminism would 0.70

00:20:11.600 have said, that's everybody. I mean, no one can fit perfectly into the categories of gender because

00:20:17.920 the categories of gender, their expectations are so rigid. So, um, I'm guessing that, that your

00:20:23.520 audience might be a little bit older, but I remember my, so some of them might recognize

00:20:27.440 this reference. It's one I like to use a lot. Um, my dad was a big fan of the 1970s NFL player,

00:20:34.320 Rosie Greer. And some of you might remember Rosie Greer, you know, is a huge, successful NFL player,

00:20:39.280 very macho, but he also published this book called Rosie Greer's needlepoint for men. So,

00:20:44.400 so Rosie Greer was not, but I mean, old fashioned feminism would say everybody is non-binary. 1.00

00:20:50.960 Professor, could I jump in for a second? Some of our viewers are, are not as, uh, familiar with the

00:20:56.800 academic, uh, academic phraseology. Can I ask you, um, really the sharp, uh, front, uh, uh, the, the,

00:21:05.440 the conflict between your point of view and the transgender view, can I see if I can sum it up in,

00:21:10.960 in more plain language? And you tell me if I'm doing a disservice to it, because I, I understand

00:21:15.760 what you're saying. And we're familiar with C16. We remember when Dr. Jordan Peterson was worried

00:21:21.360 about, and it's almost like you're echoing those worries, but would you say that the difference

00:21:25.840 between your point of view, uh, uh, as a feminist and the current point of view of gender identity?

00:21:33.360 And, and tell me if I've got you wrong, I'm just trying to put your views into plain language,

00:21:38.000 which was obviously I'm going to lose some nuance, but that you believe that women are women,

00:21:43.760 even if they express their gender differently. So you could be a more masculine expression,

00:21:50.080 maybe a lesbian of a certain style, but you're still genetically, biologically a woman. That's 1.00

00:21:55.600 your view. And you use the example of a boy who likes tea parties. He's still genetically,

00:22:00.960 biologically a boy. Maybe he's gay or whatever. That's one point of view. And the new point of view 0.61

00:22:06.400 is a biological male saying, no, no, no. I am actually a woman. Let me into women's sports. 0.67

00:22:13.280 Let me into women's prison. I'm not even saying this is a gender expression. I'm saying I am a woman. 1.00

00:22:19.040 Am I oversimplifying or getting it wrong? Well, no, you're not. And actually there's

00:22:23.680 some inherent contradictions to it. The, the, the sort of erasure of sex is a real problem,

00:22:29.520 but the, the legal, and that does, that is something that people say that I am literally

00:22:34.960 a woman, but the legal language is just about gender identity. So the language in bill C 16 doesn't

00:22:40.560 say sex is literally changed. It says that, um, gender identity and expression, you, you can't

00:22:50.000 um, you can't discriminate on its basis, which I fully agree with, but it, the way it's being

00:22:54.480 interpreted is you also, you cannot have a critical perspective on gender because gender is the thing

00:23:01.280 that you must, you must embrace and affirm. So does that make sense?

00:23:06.160 I think so. I, I have to say, I, I'm not strong in, uh, academic vocabulary, but I, I've listened

00:23:14.480 very carefully to what you have to say. And I, I think I understand it. I, may I ask you about

00:23:20.480 you because you, you obviously think about this stuff all the time. And I think, I think our viewers

00:23:26.640 would, would say, even if they may have differences of opinion with you, they can, they can immediately

00:23:31.920 assess as I do that. You care about ideas. You care about debating and that you'd be willing to

00:23:37.280 talk to anybody about these ideas. That's sort of your job. Um, but it sounds like the people who

00:23:43.440 are disagreeing with you don't believe in discussion, debate, arguing. There's certain

00:23:48.800 red lines they don't even want to talk about. Am I getting that part right?

00:23:52.080 Well, you are, but it almost doesn't, doesn't matter how they feel. What matters is what the

00:23:58.720 law says. And, and right now, um, or at least how we're interpreting, uh, Bill C-16 right now,

00:24:06.240 at least one interpretation of Bill C-16 would be that gender criticism, because it doesn't 0.96

00:24:14.000 affirm, it does, it's not reverential towards gender identity, that, that is, that should be illegal,

00:24:20.560 that that is hate speech. So to go back to, so, so ever since Bill C-16 was passed,

00:24:26.560 there's been a real campaign against gender critical feminists. So they've been no platform, 0.94

00:24:31.280 they've lost their, they've lost their jobs, they've been kicked off Twitter, they've been

00:24:35.200 kicked off Facebook. Um, and I, I think in my view and in the view of gender critical feminists like me,

00:24:41.760 this is kind of the central feminist struggle of our era. So the idea that, um, gender is not

00:24:50.400 something to celebrate. It's something to be quite wary of because it, it tends to be, uh, a structure

00:24:59.520 of oppression and, and the way it works as a structure of oppression tends to harm women. 1.00

00:25:05.920 I think, you know, everything that we see from Bill C-16, all the implications of these bills,

00:25:11.520 Bill C-16, this is just true. So the things you've mentioned about trans identified men in women's

00:25:17.520 prisons, about trans identified men in women's sports, about the way that the, the criticism of,

00:25:24.720 of gender critical feminists falls very, very heavily on women. So there's, there haven't been 1.00

00:25:31.120 a lot of no platform men. And actually I would say Jordan Peterson is, is unusual because he's not,

00:25:36.640 and he's kind of a patriarch. Um, his case was very famous, but the, and very celebrated,

00:25:43.360 but there are dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of women who have been harmed.

00:25:47.680 You know, I, I agree with that. And, and I, I know you would be surprised how many feminists 1.00

00:25:53.200 I know because I'm not particularly a feminist myself, but I see the erasing of women from, 1.00

00:26:00.400 from certain spheres and I can, and it irritates me and I'm not a feminist. I can only imagine how

00:26:05.280 it irritates a champion of women and a feminist. And as you go through the list, Facebook, Twitter,

00:26:11.920 deplatforming. We know the case of Megan Murphy and the, and the library in Toronto. The irony is that

00:26:17.920 I think I'm on the polar opposite of the spectrum of you, but all of those same things I see is

00:26:22.320 deplatforming. You're, you are a feminist as you've described yourself and you're facing deplatforming 1.00

00:26:29.280 and firing from college. I have a question for you. Have you had any assistance, either legal

00:26:34.560 assistance, media assistance, PR assistance? Is anyone coming to help you against the mob?

00:26:40.400 Well, I mean, the media has been great. Actually people, people see this and they're concerned.

00:26:47.200 Um, my, at least on fight number one, my faculty association really backed me up, but they,

00:26:51.760 they don't take a position on my gender critical views. This, I don't know. I mean, I don't know.

00:26:57.120 This is where I say it's going to be very interesting to see this, how this unfolds because,

00:27:02.080 um, students are looking for gender critical content and they're going to find it.

00:27:07.120 So what is going to happen with that gender critical content? Definitely a lot of people

00:27:11.440 from what they've seen already, they think I should be charged from hate speech with hate

00:27:14.640 speech crimes. They think I should be dismissed from my position as a university professor.

00:27:20.080 So is, is, I mean, the, the one thing I, I hate in a way I hate that this has happened. I mean,

00:27:26.160 of course I hate that this is happening to me. Like I have a mortgage. I don't want to lose my job.

00:27:29.520 I don't want to go to jail. On the other hand, this has happened to so many women 1.00

00:27:35.360 quietly flying under the radar. So I'm so fortunate in a way that there's been so much attention to my

00:27:41.040 case. So whatever happens, whatever happens to me, it's going to happen in the public eye. So it's

00:27:47.600 going to happen in the public eye. And, and I think that it's not, you know, the first case,

00:27:53.520 number one, people talked a lot about academic freedom, but the, what's, what's happening right

00:28:00.400 now is about the right, not just of academics to talk about, um, whether gender identity is

00:28:09.280 something that we should be really reverential towards. Uh, but can anyone express gender 1.00

00:28:18.480 critical views? Can, can anyone express concerns about the policy implications of this? So, um,

00:28:25.840 I have one example that, that I like to give that has to do with the university. Can I give

00:28:32.560 that example? Yeah, of course. Okay. So, you know, people have, and I think quite rightly,

00:28:38.000 people are concerned about men and women's prisons. People are quite rightly concerned about men and 1.00

00:28:42.160 women's sports. People are quite rightly concerned about, um, so-called gender affirmative 1.00

00:28:48.240 therapies being used on children before they really are at an age to have a sense of who they

00:28:55.200 want to be, um, what, what their gender and sexuality is going to look like. Some of the

00:29:00.320 consequences of some of the therapies that are currently being advocated are, are really terrible.

00:29:04.960 You know, they, they, they can have the impact of sterilizing children. Some of the puberty blocking

00:29:10.480 drugs that are used are carcinogenic. They definitely are going to have bad effects on children's health.

00:29:15.920 So there's all of those concerns, but let me just give you a, um, a more, perhaps a less,

00:29:22.000 I mean, a less drastic concern, but a concrete example of, of, of the things that worry that I

00:29:31.280 think should worry us all. Okay. So my university has recently passed a new equity, diversity,

00:29:38.480 inclusivity policy regarding hiring and what it, what it mandates. And I'm the only person

00:29:44.960 on the general faculty's council to have voted against it. And you might think this is surprising,

00:29:49.200 like as a feminist, why would I be against, you know, I'm certainly not in favor of an all white 1.00

00:29:53.920 male university. So why wouldn't I support this? The, the language in the policy says that, um,

00:30:01.840 in any hiring situation, whether academic, administrative support staff, if you have two

00:30:08.000 equivalently qualified candidates, you should hire the one who is historically underrepresented 1.00

00:30:16.640 in within the university. So there's examples that we could think of that, that, I mean, you,

00:30:22.800 your, your viewers might not agree, but let's say I would agree, but I would say if you,

00:30:27.120 they're equivalently qualified and there's a white guy and, uh, and an indigenous woman,

00:30:36.160 then hire the indigenous woman. I wouldn't have a problem with that. With gender identity 1.00

00:30:42.800 being enshrined in the law and now in policy, the way it is, what happens if there are two candidates,

00:30:49.520 one is an indigenous woman and the other one is a, a person who identifies as non-binary

00:30:57.040 and uses they, them pronouns. Now, certainly in terms of historical underrepresentation,

00:31:04.240 the non-binary person using they, them pronouns is much more historically underrepresented because

00:31:10.400 that identity didn't exist before about five years ago. So as the policy is written now, does that mean

00:31:17.040 you hire that person over an, an indigenous woman? Is, is that, is, I mean, the policy sort of lays out

00:31:26.640 all of these identities on a, on a perfectly flat surface and just says, well, let's, let's make sure

00:31:32.800 we pick a mix of them. I think it makes such a mockery of the whole history of social justice

00:31:40.720 across the 20th century. I think it makes such a mockery of the series of struggles that we've had

00:31:47.760 to become a more just society. And I, trans rights activists often figure their struggle as the last

00:31:53.920 in a cumulative series. So we had colonial people rebelling against imperialism. We had the civil

00:32:00.240 rights movement. We had the women's movement. We had the gay and lesbian liberation movement. We had

00:32:05.520 the disability rights movement. And I actually offer a course, I've offered a course for many years,

00:32:08.960 where we read both theorists and movement literatures from all of those movements.

00:32:13.840 When you get to, I think this trans rights activism, I think, I think one of these things

00:32:19.200 is not like the others. One of the ways it's not like the others is, and this is something I think

00:32:24.480 your viewers or anybody who is politically interested will, will really feel kind of on that, on, in that,

00:32:31.920 the hackles on their back of their neck, which is, it's predicated on something that's absurd. It's

00:32:37.600 predicated on the idea that biological sex isn't relevant in human affairs. It's predicated on the

00:32:44.160 idea that you can change biological sex. Now, the fact, Bill C-16 says we all have to say that the sky

00:32:53.200 is green and the grass is blue and you're in big trouble. And the big trouble is not a joke. The big

00:33:00.000 trouble is coming from you right now, that you're in big trouble if you don't say that. I think that's

00:33:05.360 worrisome on its own merits, but I also think there's, if you think about it in terms of the

00:33:10.800 history of social justice movements, all of the ones I mentioned up to that point, so anti-colonialism,

00:33:17.120 civil rights, women's movement, gay and lesbian liberation, disability rights movement, they all

00:33:22.560 asked us to make, they all asked us to kind of get a grip. They asked us to make, to have a better

00:33:28.560 apprehension of life as it really is. They, each of them said, look, the imperialism is exploitative

00:33:38.160 and colonized people can rule themselves. It said the racial caste system in the United States is

00:33:46.560 unjust and it's bad policy in terms of, it just doesn't fit people. The women's rights movement

00:33:51.840 said this, you know, all of these. So all of these were, were, were saying, let's, let's grapple more

00:33:59.200 fully with reality. Right. Sorry, go ahead. Says, says, let's ignore reality. And, and by saying,

00:34:08.880 we are the accumulation of everything that's gone before. I think it's a terrible insult to all those

00:34:14.960 previous movements as if each of those movements was also asking us to accept an absurdity. So I,

00:34:21.680 I, you know, I, I, I'll finish in a second, but I just want to say, um, I've been, I've been on,

00:34:31.120 on the left my whole life. I, I can remember in junior high school, I went to junior high in the States

00:34:36.960 and I can remember military recruiters coming to my junior high in 1984 and me and my little feminist

00:34:43.520 friends, we asked why are gays and lesbians not allowed in the U S military. So these are things

00:34:49.920 I've been thinking about my whole life. And I just think where we are now, this is not what I signed

00:34:56.000 up for. Well, that's fascinating. I have to say, I think some of the things you've said on our show

00:35:02.960 here today could put you in some political jeopardy, but calling out absurdity sometimes does. You may,

00:35:09.120 you made me think of the Jonathan Yaniv case who presented himself to immigrant women of color

00:35:14.880 who were estheticians and demanded to be waxed. I mean, it's so absurd. Right. And you just made me

00:35:21.920 think of them. And until it, until it came really out into the public eye and it was dragged down into

00:35:27.520 the public eye by a really courageous, um, blogger named Gallus Mag. Um, she's, she's been so important.

00:35:36.400 And, uh, until it was dragged down into the public eye, the BC human rights tribunal

00:35:41.600 was on Jonathan Yaniv's side. It was helping him harass those immigrant women of color. 0.99

00:35:46.240 He co-opted it. He hijacked it. It's so wrong. It's so wrong. 0.83

00:35:49.680 Well, it's very interesting because I think, I mean, and I know when our producer contacted you,

00:35:56.720 he said you, you, you noted the difference in ideology between you and me, and that's fine.

00:36:02.080 Well, I actually, I, I, you know, I, I was kind of horrified to be honest. And I,

00:36:07.200 I hastened to say that I was a supporter of, um, the boycott divest sanctions, hoping that you guys

00:36:14.400 would be put off, but you weren't. And, um, and I feel like in a case like mine, it's about free

00:36:20.960 expression. It would be very hypocritical of me to say, Oh, I'll, I'll speak to media, but not you.

00:36:26.560 And I also said that I was, I did think it was terrible that you all were not given press

00:36:32.160 credentials at the federal leaders debates last year, because I think, you know, you're not my

00:36:39.120 cup of tea, but you're somebody's cup of tea. So, so you should be allowed to, to cover, you know,

00:36:45.840 you guys are journalists. If the government is deciding which journalists are allowed to cover

00:36:50.480 events, that's, that's not a, that's not a happy world.

00:36:53.280 Well, thank you. You know, I remember the great, the late great, uh, civil libertarian,

00:36:58.000 Alan Boroy, he said, free speech is such a strange thing. You have to give it to your

00:37:02.000 opponent if you want it for yourself. And I always try to think of that. Well, let me ask you this.

00:37:06.480 Uh, if the mob is coming for you and it sounds like they are,

00:37:10.320 and if they're digging through old social media comments, they'll probably find something that

00:37:14.640 irks someone. Um, let me just put an invitation out there and it'll sound strange,

00:37:19.840 strange. But if you need help, if you need help with a lawyer, one of the things we like to do is

00:37:27.200 crowdfund civil liberties lawyers. And I just want to put an offer out there. I mean, if your faculty

00:37:33.280 association doesn't help you, and maybe they are, if you get sacked, God forbid, and I, I mean,

00:37:38.720 the way you describe it, they're coming for you hard. I know this sounds like strange bedfellows,

00:37:43.440 and it most certainly is. And although I, you know, concede that I don't agree or even understand

00:37:50.240 everything you're saying, that's not the point. The point is that you don't cave into the mob.

00:37:56.800 So I just want to put an offer out there and you don't have to accept it here, but God forbid,

00:38:00.480 if you need it, we'll crowdfund a lawyer for you. We'll crowdfund a lawyer for you.

00:38:04.400 That's very nice. I'll stay in touch. You know, you, you may know that this is an issue that's been

00:38:09.200 really controversial in gender, gender critical feminist circles. So I know there were some

00:38:14.800 feminists in the States who spoke at an event at a, at the Heritage Foundation. I don't know if you

00:38:20.880 heard about this. I didn't hear about that. No. Yeah. The Heritage Foundation hosted an event

00:38:26.160 for gender critical feminists. And there was a lot of criticism about how could you work with 0.99

00:38:29.200 Heritage Foundation? And it was really because no one else offered, you know, so, so I, that's been

00:38:36.560 another thing that's been distressing as someone who's always been on the left is, is the left is

00:38:44.320 not extending a hand at all to gender critical feminists. And, and what are we, what are we 0.90

00:38:50.960 supposed to do? Yeah. So that's, that's actually a live issue in and of itself, but they, you know,

00:38:57.440 hopefully it won't come to that, but I, I have to say, honestly, I'll keep you all in line.

00:39:01.520 Okay. Well, hopefully it won't come to that. And the fact that your article, I mean,

00:39:04.960 you mentioned the media has been at least somewhat sympathetic. I learned about your case through

00:39:09.120 the Edmonton Journal in a fairly sympathetic piece. Um, listen, I wish you all the best and

00:39:13.600 I thank you for talking with us today and having a bit of a, go ahead. Yeah, no, it was a pleasure.

00:39:19.280 Thank you. Okay. Well, uh, I wish you good luck and, uh, we'll be keeping an eye on things and I

00:39:25.200 challenge you to take me up on my offer should you need it. I mean, you might actually be the person

00:39:33.200 to stand up to the mob and win. And if we can help you do that, uh, right. Well, it's, it's very,

00:39:39.680 you know, anything is possible because it's, it's, it's such, it really is such strange times.

00:39:45.760 Strange times. Yeah. Well, thank you so much, professor. And a pleasure to meet you.

00:39:49.840 Okay. All right. A pleasure to meet you as well. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Well, that's professor

00:39:53.440 Kathleen Lowry and associate professor of anthropology at the university of Alberta. Stay with us.

00:39:59.200 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday. Lewis writes your monologue on the British 0.57

00:40:12.160 and Canadian struggle against slavery was most welcome and an antidote to the current maelstrom

00:40:16.000 of lies, violence, and madness. In my home province of Nova Scotia, slaves fleeing America were helped 0.87

00:40:21.200 by a movement called the underground railway. People who offered shelter and food to those in flight painted

00:40:26.160 their chimneys white with a black band around the top so that people would know to stop for

00:40:32.000 refreshment and welcome. I remember my grandparents' old home in Granville Ferry still had this symbol of

00:40:39.840 support for freedom back in the late fifties when I was a boy. Oh, that is such a wonderful story.

00:40:47.600 Thank you very much. I'm going to do more research into this. I learned so much

00:40:51.600 preparing yesterday's video and it just got me fascinated. I just, listen, I was fairly attentive

00:40:59.040 as a school boy. I'm not saying always, but I paid attention. I liked history. I just didn't

00:41:05.280 learn any of these things. I didn't know we abolished the slave trade in the 1790s. You know, what's that?

00:41:10.480 Almost more than 150 years before Canada was even formally, you know, independent. I didn't,

00:41:16.560 I didn't know that the British Empire paid, took a 200 billion or whatever dollar loan to redeem

00:41:22.640 every slave in the empire. I didn't know that. Did you know that? Why didn't you know that?

00:41:27.280 Well, we weren't taught that. Susan writes, I did not learn that in any history class in school.

00:41:32.720 Thank you for doing the research and opening our eyes. I am now feeling much prouder to be a Canadian,

00:41:36.720 despite what the media analysts tell us. Well, isn't that the truth? And I can assure you that the

00:41:42.080 people who are spray painting and rioting and looting and smashing don't know that. The trouble

00:41:46.240 is, I think even if they knew that they wouldn't care, it wouldn't stop them. On my interview with

00:41:50.720 Ryan Gerdusky on his book, They're Not Listening, Craig writes, President Trump and Brexit were just

00:41:56.240 the beginning as the EU collapses and Canada is poised for a major political nationalist revolution

00:42:01.040 against our current dictator, Justin Trudeau. Well, now you use the word dictator with some artistic

00:42:05.680 license, but I have to say, can you name for me any other leader in the G7? I'm not including

00:42:11.920 the G8's Vladimir Putin, but in the G7, you know the countries I'm talking about? Italy, France,

00:42:17.840 the United States, Canada. What are the other G7 countries? You know, I think India might be one

00:42:23.920 of them. Sorry, I forget all seven G7s. So accepting there out, China and Russia, can you tell me any

00:42:33.200 leader of the G7 that is suspending parliament the way Trudeau has? That is bringing in censorship

00:42:43.680 of the internet like Trudeau repeatedly promises? That is banning journalists, investigating journalists,

00:42:49.200 having RCMP march journalists at a press conference like Trudeau has? I can't, I can't. So it's an artistic

00:42:57.760 license to call him a dictator, but not by much. All right, that's today's show. What do you think

00:43:03.840 of the conversation with the professor from U of A? I didn't understand a lot of her feminist jargon.

00:43:10.000 I'm sorry, it was jargon, it's academic jargon. But I could understand pretty clearly she was in trouble

00:43:16.880 for saying that, you know, calling trans women women is like calling the sky green. That, 0.83

00:43:24.160 that I could understand. And although, and then she wanted to make the point that she

00:43:28.400 has a different opinion on me than Israel. Okay, so what? It's got nothing to do with you don't

00:43:33.760 sack a professor because the Twitter mob says you're not gender friendly enough or whatever.

00:43:38.800 Yeah, absolutely. We'll crowdfund a lawyer for her if she gets sacked. Don't you think? 0.99

00:43:42.960 That's what I mean. That's what, that's what free speech means. It's a, it's such a paradox. You have

00:43:48.800 to give it to your opponents if you want it for yourself. And I really feel like in the last few months,

00:43:53.680 rebel news has done civil liberties work in that vein. I'm so proud of all the cases we've handled

00:43:59.200 in terms of the pandemic. Most of those people are working class people would never even think of 1.00

00:44:04.400 rebel news. It wasn't in their, you know, world, but we have come to help them. I have become enthused

00:44:10.080 with this work. And I think our viewers have too, because they've supported it through crowdfunding.

00:44:14.800 I don't understand. I don't agree with much of what that professor says,

00:44:19.520 but I will actually put my money where my mouth is and crowdfund a lawyer for her defense, 1.00

00:44:26.720 should they come to sack her. Isn't that funny? That's our show for today until tomorrow. On behalf

00:44:33.440 of all of us here at rebel world headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 12, 2020

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