Rebel News Podcast - Canadian media “fact check” Trump — but not Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Canadian media now have regular fact checks about Donald Trump.

00:00:04.560 Why don't they do fact checks about Justin Trudeau?

00:00:07.600 It's June 21st and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:15.920 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:19.780 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.500 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.460 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.

00:00:36.940 I saw this story on Global News yesterday.

00:00:40.980 Fact check.

00:00:42.820 Donald Trump overstates scope of order on border policy that keeps families together.

00:00:48.140 Can I read just a few sentences, the first few sentences from that article?

00:00:51.580 U.S. President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the scope of his executive order

00:00:57.900 that would halt his administration's policy of separating children from their parents

00:01:02.100 when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.

00:01:06.640 That's what Global News calls news.

00:01:08.860 They're not calling it an editorial.

00:01:11.180 Donald Trump is lying.

00:01:12.520 That's what misrepresenting means.

00:01:14.520 Now, that might be your opinion, and it might be a reasonable opinion,

00:01:18.100 but that's being reported as a fact in a news story.

00:01:21.420 Can you recall a single instance over the past two years where a report about Justin Trudeau starts off?

00:01:26.840 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is misrepresenting, I don't know, his budget,

00:01:30.780 which claims it'll be balanced, but it's not.

00:01:34.400 I mean, even once a story like that?

00:01:35.880 Let me read one more sentence from this Global News story.

00:01:37.660 He suggests the order is a permanent solution,

00:01:40.960 but the president is contradicted by his own Justice Department,

00:01:43.980 which describes the effort as stopgap and limited by a 21-year-old court settlement

00:01:48.340 under which the federal government essentially agreed not to detain immigrant minors longer than 20 days.

00:01:54.780 Again, the analogy there would be Trudeau says he's balancing the budget,

00:01:59.380 but the Parliamentary Budget Office contradicts him,

00:02:02.740 saying he's actually never balanced the budget and his deficit is skyrocketing, blah, blah, blah.

00:02:06.740 I mean, again, it's a reasonable point of view, but it's a point of view.

00:02:11.400 It's not straight news.

00:02:12.480 This was published as straight news on Global.

00:02:15.900 And my bigger point is when I saw this, I wasn't thinking, well, are they right or wrong?

00:02:21.280 But what would it take to get even 10% of that skepticism and criticism

00:02:27.740 that Canadian journalists have for a foreign president

00:02:31.160 to point even 10% of that skepticism and criticism and accountability at our own government leaders?

00:02:39.720 Here's the tweet that pointed me to this story.

00:02:42.280 Donald Trump says the executive order he signed is a permanent solution

00:02:45.120 to keep migrant children with their families.

00:02:46.680 Not so, though!

00:02:47.800 Oh, now, good stuff.

00:02:51.160 You guys are doing great, holding a foreign leader to account for his foreign voters.

00:02:56.360 But can we please get the odd fact check about Justin Trudeau or Rachel Notley

00:03:00.280 or formerly Kathleen Wink?

00:03:02.300 Can we get any of that?

00:03:03.140 I mean, whether it's about pipelines for Trudeau or Trudeau and NAFTA

00:03:06.640 or global warming or carbon taxes or the dairy cartel or terrorism or whatever.

00:03:11.120 I mean, have you ever, ever even seen just once such a thing?

00:03:14.260 Well, global news is awful, CTV is awful, but nothing matches the Toronto Star.

00:03:19.340 They truly have Trump derangement syndrome.

00:03:21.380 Check this article out just today.

00:03:23.500 Donald Trump said 71 false things in 17 days.

00:03:28.620 His dishonesty is increasing.

00:03:31.260 Wow, 71 false things in 14 days?

00:03:35.460 That's like five a day.

00:03:37.040 That's a lot.

00:03:38.720 Okay, let's go through the list.

00:03:39.720 Let's just start from the top.

00:03:40.600 Let's scroll down a bit.

00:03:42.060 You see they list them here.

00:03:44.220 Okay, the first one, very first one.

00:03:46.520 Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn't paying them enough.

00:03:50.880 I think a really long strike would be a great idea.

00:03:53.160 So that's the quote.

00:03:54.800 And the star says that's false.

00:03:57.860 Okay, well, what's false about that?

00:03:59.600 That Trump thinks a strike would be a good idea?

00:04:01.520 That Bezos is not paying them enough?

00:04:04.320 That some employees want a strike?

00:04:06.760 This is literally the first item in the list of lies, lies, lies.

00:04:10.800 And I'm sorry, I just see an opinion.

00:04:13.980 I mean, you could disagree with Trump.

00:04:16.020 Now, here's a page from the Washington Post's own union website showing they're angry and

00:04:22.100 there's a picket and they're in contract talks and it doesn't seem to be going well.

00:04:27.280 Here's a story about it in a major newspaper.

00:04:30.760 How is this even a thing?

00:04:33.600 I thought you had some scandal here.

00:04:36.160 Okay, let's just look at the next one.

00:04:37.180 Maybe that one's just a weird one.

00:04:38.940 Let's look at the next one here.

00:04:41.220 Democrats can fix, this is again, this is a Trump statement that they're calling a lie.

00:04:46.300 Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with Republicans 0.75

00:04:51.120 on new legislation for a change.

00:04:52.680 So this is a Trump statement they're saying is a lie.

00:04:56.480 How on earth is that even true or false?

00:04:58.640 I mean, it's an opinion.

00:05:00.100 Democrats can work with Republicans.

00:05:02.260 It's not even a dare or a challenge.

00:05:04.400 It's not even a thing.

00:05:05.360 I mean, it happens to be a fact that families are separated, adults from kids.

00:05:09.340 If someone's detained for a crime, it happens not just to migrants, but to Canadians too.

00:05:13.780 If you go to jail, your kids don't go to jail with you.

00:05:16.740 And here's Hillary Clinton making the case for this longstanding law four years ago. 1.00

00:05:22.660 We have to send a clear message.

00:05:24.080 Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay.

00:05:28.620 Should they be sent back?

00:05:29.460 Well, first of all, we have to provide the best emergency care we can provide.

00:05:34.480 We have children five and six years old who have come up from Central America.

00:05:39.560 We need to do more to provide border security in southern Mexico.

00:05:44.340 So you're saying they should be sent back now?

00:05:45.580 Well, they should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults and their families are,

00:05:50.340 because there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back.

00:05:54.560 But I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.

00:06:00.160 I'm just showing you this is an issue that administrations of both political stripes have grappled with.

00:06:05.520 So how is Trump's comment about Democrats and Republicans should work together?

00:06:09.100 How is that a falsehood?

00:06:10.440 How is it a lie?

00:06:12.680 Democrats should work with Republicans.

00:06:14.260 That's an opinion.

00:06:15.040 You could agree or not.

00:06:16.040 Well, the star puts that in their fact check as false.

00:06:19.880 I think they're crazy.

00:06:21.700 Let's go to the next one.

00:06:22.940 Again, they're quoting Trump.

00:06:24.100 They're saying this is a lie.

00:06:25.920 We've done more.

00:06:27.120 I don't say this in a bragging way.

00:06:29.160 Actually, some of the haters actually say this.

00:06:31.700 We've done more in 500 days.

00:06:33.200 So now it's 510 days than any 500-day president first term by far.

00:06:39.360 Okay, so he's bragging.

00:06:42.280 Trump has done a lot, by the way.

00:06:44.180 Maybe you don't like it.

00:06:45.140 But how can you deny he's done a lot?

00:06:47.640 Huge tax cuts.

00:06:49.820 Tons of judges' appointment, if you care about that.

00:06:52.300 That whole North Korea meeting.

00:06:54.620 Getting America out of the Iran deal.

00:06:56.660 Moving the Israeli, the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

00:07:00.780 Renegotiating NAFTA.

00:07:01.900 Getting tough with China. 0.79

00:07:03.100 Pulling out of the global warming thing.

00:07:04.980 And now, unfortunately, fighting with Canada over tariffs.

00:07:09.000 Changing immigration laws.

00:07:10.240 I'm not saying you have to like any of this.

00:07:11.700 But how can you deny he's doing a lot of things?

00:07:14.060 But look at the lame explanation the star gives for calling this a lie.

00:07:17.680 So underneath his statement there, this is the proof it's a lie.

00:07:22.640 Trump's critics are not saying this.

00:07:25.600 What?

00:07:26.720 So Trump said, some of the haters say this.

00:07:30.400 And the star says, no, they're not.

00:07:32.480 But, okay, both Trump and the star aren't even talking about actual people.

00:07:37.220 Who are they talking about?

00:07:39.140 It's just a figure of speech.

00:07:40.420 I'm sure there is a critic of Trump somewhere who has said Trump's done a lot of things.

00:07:46.680 Why would the star be so weirdly nitpicky?

00:07:49.580 It's not even a factual statement.

00:07:51.120 Trump said his critics said he's busy.

00:07:57.100 Busted! 0.66

00:07:57.860 You're a liar!

00:07:58.940 They're not saying that, man!

00:08:02.080 Is that all you've got?

00:08:04.620 Is that all you've got?

00:08:05.600 And you've got 71 of these?

00:08:08.360 And you're really proud of this investigative journalism.

00:08:11.200 Trump made a tweet, and it's not true, man.

00:08:14.060 Okay, here's another one.

00:08:15.760 Look at this.

00:08:16.440 This is Trump's statement.

00:08:17.520 So you get what we're doing here.

00:08:18.700 It's a Trump statement, and the star says it's a lie.

00:08:21.200 Here's Trump.

00:08:22.560 When I was talking to President Obama, he essentially was ready to go to war with North Korea.

00:08:28.440 He felt you had to almost go to war.

00:08:32.660 Okay.

00:08:33.920 Now, he said that's what he was talking to Obama about.

00:08:36.460 I don't think anyone else would know if that's true or false, other than the two people in that conversation.

00:08:41.180 But we actually know that's not false, because Obama would say those things publicly, too.

00:08:45.560 Look at this story.

00:08:46.400 I just pulled this out of random.

00:08:48.320 This is from the Daily Telegraph, a very prestigious newspaper.

00:08:53.020 We could destroy you, Obama warns, erratic North Korean leader. 1.00

00:08:58.580 This is from 2016.

00:09:00.020 Let me read a little bit more.

00:09:02.240 President Barack Obama delivered a stern warning to North Korea on Tuesday, reminding its erratic and irresponsible leader that America's nuclear arsenal could destroy his country.

00:09:13.520 Yeah, so Obama said destroy, and Trump used the word go to war.

00:09:20.760 And so you're saying he's lying?

00:09:23.820 Is that the best you got?

00:09:25.500 Again, you can dislike Trump.

00:09:28.440 You can disagree with him.

00:09:30.300 You can have a different opinion.

00:09:31.980 You can fact check him.

00:09:33.940 He's not always right.

00:09:35.080 No human's always right.

00:09:36.220 But seriously, this is what you call a slam dunk.

00:09:38.380 In your face, Donald Trump.

00:09:40.960 Oh, did you hear?

00:09:42.820 Donald Trump just said good night.

00:09:45.000 But it was actually still twilight or dusk.

00:09:49.060 Technically not night.

00:09:50.880 And he said good night.

00:09:51.700 We nailed that liar.

00:09:53.640 Look, this is crazy.

00:09:54.580 This is one of the reasons why no one trusts the media anymore.

00:09:56.860 I mean, we need a good, strong oppositional media.

00:10:00.600 But this is kooky.

00:10:01.520 I'm not saying Trump always gets it right.

00:10:03.600 I'm just saying that being so breathless about such trivia.

00:10:08.440 Obama said destroy.

00:10:09.620 Trump said war.

00:10:10.960 There's no difference there.

00:10:12.720 And you're pretending this is so momentous.

00:10:14.900 It's like the boy who cried wolf in Aesop's fable.

00:10:17.600 The mainstream media has been crying wolf about Trump every day for two years, even before he was president.

00:10:24.100 Okay, we get the message.

00:10:26.260 The media hates Trump and will say anything hostile about him.

00:10:30.760 And this craziness, it tickles the Democrats.

00:10:33.540 They love it.

00:10:35.080 It turns off Republicans.

00:10:37.540 But independents, people who aren't with one party, I think they just tuned out the media and they discount it all now.

00:10:43.860 I mean, this whole Russia collusion narrative, the inquiry has spent tens of millions of dollars.

00:10:49.540 It's been going on for a year and a half and they still have no evidence of collusion.

00:10:53.280 They've got a few minor players on tax evasion and whatnot.

00:10:59.140 But where's the Russia part?

00:11:01.020 Oh, and then this porn star, Stormy Daniels, that's going to take Trump down any minute now or whatever it is this week. 1.00

00:11:07.720 I tell you, it's not news.

00:11:09.440 And maybe it's a reason why CNN's ratings have plummeted.

00:11:12.440 And the CBC's ratings are so low, they won't even release them publicly.

00:11:15.200 I'm guessing less than 400,000 people watch the CBC's flagship show, The National, at night.

00:11:21.640 So about the same as us on our rebel YouTube page, really.

00:11:25.620 But it's not just the lameness of these critiques, how they're either nitpicking or just challenging matters of opinion.

00:11:32.980 Trump said he's awesome, but no, he's not, man.

00:11:36.360 Look, it's this.

00:11:38.460 This is the real deal.

00:11:39.300 What would it take for our Canadian media to have a similar fact check of our own leaders?

00:11:43.940 I mean, I get it.

00:11:44.760 We're all interested in Donald Trump.

00:11:46.280 I sure am.

00:11:47.200 He's the most important politician in the world and the most powerful and the most entertaining.

00:11:51.720 And he has a big impact on Canada.

00:11:53.340 I get it.

00:11:53.800 I'm the same way.

00:11:54.380 But, you know, shouldn't Canadian media also, you know, occasionally, once in a while, fact check our own guy?

00:12:04.140 I mean, just for example, yesterday, Trudeau said this.

00:12:08.100 What's going on in the United States is Rome.

00:12:12.420 I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring.

00:12:18.240 Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada.

00:12:22.000 He's talking about that detention of kids thing.

00:12:24.040 Okay, but what about the fact check of what he said there, that that's not the Canadian way, that the fact is actually, you know, in Canada, we detain children.

00:12:35.800 Did you know that?

00:12:37.040 I'm not going to even source a journalist here.

00:12:39.160 This is, you see, this is the website of the Canada Border Services Agency.

00:12:43.740 This is the official government of Canada report.

00:12:46.520 Scroll down to where it says minors.

00:12:48.540 Do you see that?

00:12:49.860 We detain kids.

00:12:51.440 We detain them by the dozen, by the hundred, over the course of the year.

00:12:55.700 We detain them with their parents. 0.86

00:12:57.420 We detain them on their own, without their parents.

00:13:00.380 We detain kids, as you can see.

00:13:02.440 Highlight it for a second there.

00:13:03.820 Zero to five years old.

00:13:06.600 Can we show that?

00:13:07.300 There we go.

00:13:09.620 Age.

00:13:10.120 Do you see it says age there?

00:13:11.940 We are detaining children of tender years.

00:13:15.260 For the first quarter of last year, 34.

00:13:18.860 In the second quarter of last year, so January, February, March, 34.

00:13:22.040 April, May, June, another 34.

00:13:24.640 July, August, September, 19.

00:13:27.320 I'm just going with the children of tender years.

00:13:29.560 Zero to five years old.

00:13:30.280 The toddlers.

00:13:31.680 Scroll down a bit more.

00:13:33.040 This is from the official government website.

00:13:34.460 The Liberal Party website.

00:13:35.400 Not the Liberal Party.

00:13:35.860 The Liberal government website.

00:13:37.840 Look how long we detain some of these kids.

00:13:40.680 180 days.

00:13:41.260 180 days.

00:13:42.660 That's six months.

00:13:43.600 That's half a year.

00:13:44.540 For kids.

00:13:45.780 This is for kids.

00:13:46.600 Do you see that?

00:13:47.240 For kids.

00:13:49.100 That's longer than some convicted rapist spend in actual custody in Canada.

00:13:54.320 I've seen rapists get out of jail in three months.

00:13:57.840 Now, maybe there's a good reason for keeping these kids in jail for six months.

00:14:02.500 I'm not saying don't do it.

00:14:03.880 Maybe there's a reason.

00:14:05.280 Maybe there's not a reason.

00:14:07.760 Probably is worth some journalism.

00:14:09.460 But don't you think our preening, self-righteous prime minister could use a little fact check?

00:14:17.200 Here he is again.

00:14:18.760 What's going on in the United States is Rome.

00:14:22.900 I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring.

00:14:28.720 Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada.

00:14:32.380 Well, tough guy, it actually is the way we do things in Canada.

00:14:35.800 And I just proved it to you.

00:14:37.200 Can we get a little fact check on that?

00:14:39.440 Not 71 lies that are about trivia, but how about just one fact check about the five-year-old who spent six months in a Canadian prison for whatever reason.

00:14:49.280 Maybe it's a good reason.

00:14:51.480 I don't know.

00:14:53.000 But no one thinks Trudeau needs a fact check.

00:14:56.860 You know, the other week, an old news story came to light about Justin Trudeau.

00:15:00.140 This is an editorial from the Creston Valley Advance.

00:15:03.420 Trudeau groped a young female journalist in Creston, B.C. in 2000.

00:15:08.040 He wasn't an MP yet, but he was a grown man.

00:15:10.700 And he later told her he wouldn't have groped her had he known she was a national journalist.

00:15:16.920 He apologized to her after the fact.

00:15:19.100 But really, it was more, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were important and could embarrass me later.

00:15:23.600 Not a peep about this story on the CBC or CTV or any major Canadian media.

00:15:30.960 It was everywhere in foreign countries, by the way, even BuzzFeed.

00:15:35.900 The Sun in London, England.

00:15:38.220 The Hill.

00:15:39.100 Major paper in Washington, D.C.

00:15:40.640 Daily Telegraph.

00:15:42.980 It was such big news because, you know, Trudeau is such a preening male feminist. 1.00

00:15:47.920 He claims he's part of the Me Too movement.

00:15:50.420 Not a word in Canada.

00:15:54.040 Look, let's keep talking about Trump.

00:15:55.480 Me Too.

00:15:56.100 Let's just not be insane like the Toronto Star is.

00:15:59.420 Let's criticize him.

00:16:00.440 Let's debate him.

00:16:00.980 Let's follow him.

00:16:01.480 I support him.

00:16:02.100 You know that.

00:16:02.780 You can disagree with me.

00:16:04.560 But do you think it might be nice if, you know, maybe once a year, like on a special holiday,

00:16:07.920 like Halloween or Valentine's Day or something, just one magical day a year,

00:16:13.460 we could have the odd fact check of Trudeau by CBC or Global or even the Toronto Star.

00:16:18.700 Or not 71 fact checks.

00:16:20.360 Can we just get one a year?

00:16:22.460 Yeah, no.

00:16:23.660 Look, it hasn't happened yet.

00:16:25.840 I don't think it's going to happen.

00:16:28.520 Oh, well.

00:16:29.260 I guess you'll just have to keep watching us here at The Rebel.

00:16:32.440 We'll keep doing it with the few resources we have.

00:16:36.320 There's more fact checking you'll get elsewhere.

00:16:38.760 Stay with us for more.

00:16:39.700 Well, long-time viewers of The Rebel will know that we are constantly under attack for censorship,

00:17:00.440 not just by private plaintiffs suing us for, I don't know, a human rights commission or defamation,

00:17:06.740 but by the tech companies themselves.

00:17:10.760 And what I mean by that is Facebook banning us from posting Tommy Robinson, for example,

00:17:16.460 or YouTube restricting access to our videos.

00:17:20.460 Well, sometimes conservatives try to fight back.

00:17:23.980 For example, PragerU, which has a very popular YouTube channel, has sued YouTube Google.

00:17:29.860 But it's hard to be successful when the terms of service or contract with a tech company

00:17:36.560 basically say, take it or leave it if you don't want to be censored by us.

00:17:41.640 Start your own service.

00:17:43.240 Trouble with that, of course, is the whole attraction of a Facebook or YouTube is that

00:17:49.080 everyone else is already on there.

00:17:51.400 You could have the freest platform in the world if you like, but if you're there alone,

00:17:54.740 what's the point?

00:17:55.480 Which brings us to a very interesting lawsuit brought against Twitter.

00:18:00.420 In this case, it's by a white supremacist who claims he was banned because of his political

00:18:06.300 views, and he surely was.

00:18:08.060 But he's suing, saying Twitter claims they're a free speech platform and he wants to hold

00:18:14.260 them to it.

00:18:15.280 And he's won his first round in that battle.

00:18:18.920 Joining us now to talk about the case and its ramifications is our friend Alan Bokhari.

00:18:23.800 He's the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.

00:18:28.040 Alan, it's great to see you again.

00:18:29.140 Thanks for joining us on this.

00:18:31.680 Hi, Ezra.

00:18:32.500 Hi.

00:18:32.900 So, yeah, like you said, it's a very interesting case.

00:18:36.220 And you don't have to agree with Jared Taylor's views.

00:18:40.180 I mean, like you said, he's a white supremacist, and that's pretty bad.

00:18:43.400 But the case will still have ramifications for Twitter and whether, you know, other people

00:18:49.940 say, you know, ordinary conservatives or right-wingers can also suit the company.

00:18:53.840 That's right.

00:18:54.580 I mean, in a way, the fact that he's a white supremacist, the fact that I think most right-thinking

00:18:59.420 people would find his views either odious or beyond the pale.

00:19:05.060 You know, there's a saying in law, you know, hard cases make bad law.

00:19:10.740 But I think when it comes to free speech, you've got to dig in on the hard cases.

00:19:15.040 That's why the ACLU in the United States would defend neo-Nazis, and they would send a Jewish 1.00

00:19:20.720 lawyer or a black lawyer to make the point, we don't agree with this guy.

00:19:25.080 But if we don't fight in the first ditch, it's a lot easier to fight in the first ditch

00:19:28.680 than the last ditch.

00:19:29.320 I think we've got to fight for the Jared Taylors, even if we disagree with them, if we're going

00:19:34.040 to have the Ezra Levance and the Alan Bakaris, and even people further to the center than

00:19:40.440 us.

00:19:43.120 Yes, absolutely.

00:19:44.500 Tell me a little bit about the facts here.

00:19:46.120 Tell me a little bit about the facts.

00:19:47.320 And this was just a preliminary legal skirmish, wasn't it?

00:19:51.700 Yeah, so it's not the whole case.

00:19:53.160 He hasn't won yet, and he could still lose his case.

00:19:55.360 Twitter could still say they banned him legitimately.

00:19:57.640 What this case was, was Twitter brought a motion to dismiss the case entirely, and they

00:20:04.360 lost that.

00:20:05.020 So the judge said that it's possible to sue Twitter on the basis that they falsely advertise

00:20:11.080 that they have unconscionable contracts.

00:20:12.780 So they claim they can ban people for whatever reason, whenever they like, at any time.

00:20:18.440 And the judge said, you know, that's a fair basis that people can sue Twitter on, and they

00:20:23.040 can also sue Twitter on the basis that they claim to be a free speech platform, whereas

00:20:27.200 they're actually not.

00:20:28.840 So there's a false advertising element there as well.

00:20:33.200 And that's interesting, because it now means that Twitter can't just dismiss these cases,

00:20:37.800 and other people can now potentially sue Twitter on the same basis as Jared Taylor.

00:20:40.920 Yeah, I mean, we've talked about this before, and you've really helped clarify things for

00:20:46.600 me on this.

00:20:47.840 Is Twitter, is Facebook, is YouTube a platform onto which anyone can say what they like, sort

00:20:54.500 of like a telephone company, or a theater that could be rented?

00:20:58.540 I mean, you could have a play by Shakespeare one day, you could have an opera the next day,

00:21:03.880 the theater just rents you the space.

00:21:05.960 That's a platform.

00:21:07.420 But the other is a publisher.

00:21:09.580 Are you taking responsibility, and are you exercising judgment over the contents of what

00:21:14.980 is said on the platform?

00:21:16.960 We would find that bizarre in a telephone if AT&T or Verizon or whatever they're called

00:21:22.820 in the UK, Vodafone, would say, no, no, you're not allowed to talk about that on our telephone

00:21:27.460 lines.

00:21:27.880 We would find that bizarre for a phone company.

00:21:31.300 But that's sort of what Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Amazon are saying, aren't they?

00:21:34.980 Well, they're really actually trying to have it both ways.

00:21:38.860 And it's quite interesting.

00:21:39.560 If you read the transcript of this exchange between Twitter's lawyer and the judge, Twitter's

00:21:45.180 lawyer is essentially arguing that, like a newspaper, he actually explicitly compares

00:21:49.580 Twitter to a newspaper and says, you know, if they don't want to publish someone based

00:21:54.540 on, you know, completely arbitrary factors, then they have that right.

00:21:58.380 But also, at the same time, Twitter's lawyer is claiming that they have Section 230 protection,

00:22:03.260 which means they're a platform.

00:22:05.220 And platforms aren't held legally liable for the content posted by their users, whereas

00:22:09.080 a newspaper is held liable for the content they publish.

00:22:12.260 So Twitter and all the social media companies are trying to have it both ways.

00:22:15.360 They want to have the legal exemptions that come with being a platform, whereas also having

00:22:21.700 the privileges that come with being a publisher, which is to say they can ban anyone whenever

00:22:26.340 for whatever reason.

00:22:28.980 And it's actually Twitter's lawyer made some bizarre statements during the trial.

00:22:32.440 It's quite amusing when you read the transcript.

00:22:34.360 The judge pressed them on the point and said, you know, does that mean, you know, Twitter could

00:22:38.720 potentially ban people on the basis that, you know, they're gay or they're black or they're

00:22:43.720 a woman? 0.80

00:22:44.660 And Twitter's lawyer essentially argued, yes, they could.

00:22:46.920 They had that right.

00:22:47.720 But Twitter's making these bizarre, bizarre claims about what they have a right to do

00:22:53.180 and what they have a right not to do.

00:22:54.860 And they're essentially saying, well, we have the rights for a publisher, but we also have

00:22:57.600 the right, the protections of a platform.

00:23:00.080 Well, I mean, there's an analogy here.

00:23:03.360 In the United States, there have been some high profile cases of a pizza parlor and a bakery,

00:23:09.120 a fancy bakery where the baker does artistic inscriptions.

00:23:15.200 And it's been a cause celebrity, so it's gone very high up in the courts.

00:23:20.660 Can a Christian baker be compelled to write an artistic message celebrating gay marriage,

00:23:28.620 even if he opposes it for religious reasons?

00:23:30.540 So the left so often says, bake the cake.

00:23:33.400 That's sort of as in you are compelled to, it's discrimination for you not to.

00:23:37.920 And yet Twitter is making the argument that says it's private property.

00:23:42.640 We can do what we want.

00:23:43.560 You cannot compel us to do business with someone.

00:23:46.340 And there are two very different point of views.

00:23:48.820 As you so correctly point out, Twitter's having it both ways.

00:23:51.840 They like to be virtue signalers.

00:23:55.380 And, you know, the fact that they're allowing Peter Fonda to publish such obscene things

00:24:01.460 about, you know, Melania Trump, Barron Trump.

00:24:06.520 It's like they're so political.

00:24:09.680 I don't know.

00:24:10.360 I just, they're trying to have it both ways.

00:24:12.200 But let me ask you this.

00:24:13.060 Sorry, I'm thinking of so many thoughts at the same time.

00:24:15.800 Actually, another great example.

00:24:17.240 Just yesterday, Twitter took over 20 hours to delete a tweet from Occupy Wall Street NYC,

00:24:22.760 which was essentially advocating the murder of immigration agents, ICE agents.

00:24:29.160 I said, you've got to, you should stab the ICE agents and pull out.

00:24:32.600 They're still beating hearts as a warning to other ICE agents.

00:24:34.840 And they took over 20 hours to delete that.

00:24:36.580 And they only deleted it after we pointed it out to them.

00:24:39.100 We reached out to comments.

00:24:40.020 And then they deleted it.

00:24:41.380 I saw that.

00:24:42.240 That was shocking.

00:24:42.760 That was tantamount to a terrorist post.

00:24:45.280 And they deleted the tweet, but they didn't shut down that whole account, did they?

00:24:49.260 Yeah, it's still tweeting.

00:24:50.280 Like, it hasn't even had a temporary ban.

00:24:51.680 It's still going strong.

00:24:53.260 So, yeah, apparently, if you defend the murder of government officials in America,

00:24:57.800 you can keep your Twitter account in some cases.

00:25:00.700 You know, the other day on my noontime show,

00:25:03.720 I played a great excerpt from a parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom.

00:25:10.860 They were grilling Google's head of counterterrorism.

00:25:16.720 And viewers might be saying, why would Google have a head of counterterrorism?

00:25:19.140 Well, jihadis use Google and YouTube to promote their messages.

00:25:23.760 And so, I think it makes sense to have them.

00:25:26.680 Every question, and I watched, we played about 15 minutes of interactions.

00:25:31.300 They weren't grilling him on stopping Islamic terrorism that besets the UK.

00:25:36.740 They were grilling him about Tommy Robinson and demanding again and again that he censored Tommy Robinson.

00:25:44.200 Now, I don't even think he knew who Tommy Robinson was.

00:25:46.840 He said, I'm not familiar with that.

00:25:48.080 I got to look into it.

00:25:48.800 I mean, he never, they were pressured.

00:25:50.220 Probably five different Labour MPs, and there might have been a Conservative too, frankly.

00:25:54.820 And he just said, I'm sorry, I don't know that.

00:25:56.360 I'll get back to you.

00:25:57.780 The extreme pressure on him, I mean, I don't know how he withstood it.

00:26:03.140 So, on the other hand, you got to acknowledge that these companies are under public pressure

00:26:08.760 and probably private pressure to do government dirty work for them. 0.74

00:26:13.760 And in Canada, there was a story in the Toronto Star, Alam, I don't know if you saw it, where Justin Trudeau, our Prime Minister,

00:26:21.240 privately threatened Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, that if she didn't crack down on fake news, as he called it,

00:26:28.700 before the next federal election, so he was very explicit, this was political censorship,

00:26:33.000 he would do it to Facebook if Facebook didn't do it itself.

00:26:36.600 I'm not defending Silicon Valley.

00:26:38.140 I'm just pointing out that a lot of their nasty work is basically contracted out censorship from governments, isn't it?

00:26:45.980 Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:47.040 And, you know, I will actually defend Silicon Valley on this.

00:26:50.100 You know, some of the reforms they've been making have been fairly moderate compared to what some politicians

00:26:55.060 and some newspapers have been demanding.

00:26:58.800 And when Justin Trudeau says fake news, he probably means you guys, right?

00:27:02.300 He probably means the rebel.

00:27:03.040 That's what he thinks is fake news.

00:27:04.980 And what American leftists think of as fake news is, you know, Breitbart and Infowars and conservative media in general.

00:27:11.860 And as he said, in the UK, they want to send to Tommy Robinson because, you know, he's a huge problem for them.

00:27:16.740 Even the conservative government probably wants to send to him.

00:27:19.160 It's under their leadership that he's being locked up.

00:27:23.740 So, absolutely, they're facing pressure from governments.

00:27:26.160 And I think there's – well, they're facing pressure from governments on the one hand and from their advertisers on whom they rely for revenue on the other.

00:27:34.560 So, the only real way to fight back against these guys is to apply pressure from the grassroots and pressure conservative politicians and right-wing politicians to counter this narrative from the left-wing establishment

00:27:47.180 that these platforms have to become these censored spaces.

00:27:51.060 Yeah.

00:27:51.600 That's the only way I can think of fighting back.

00:27:54.820 Well, I hope that's not the only way because just the same way as your conservative leaders in the United Kingdom are quite timorous,

00:28:02.580 ours in Canada are too.

00:28:04.240 In fact, they've decided the path of least resistance is to throw right-wingers under the bus.

00:28:09.800 I mean, even in the United Kingdom, I very much admire Nigel Farage, but I know that he is worried that if he would dare to defend Tommy Robinson,

00:28:17.860 he would be called far-right also.

00:28:20.200 I think in Canada, our conservative politicians are so afraid that they would absolutely throw the rebel under the bus rather than be associated with us.

00:28:28.940 Americans, I think, are bolder.

00:28:30.680 But if we have to rely on politicians, Alan, I think we're doomed.

00:28:34.120 Last word to you.

00:28:34.860 I want to ask you, what's the next step in this Twitter lawsuit by Jared Taylor?

00:28:41.640 Does this thing have a chance of winning?

00:28:43.840 I mean, does he have a good lawyer?

00:28:45.440 Is the court a good court that will give him a fair hearing?

00:28:50.320 Yeah, his lawyer is very good, Noah Peters.

00:28:52.760 And I've met Noah personally, and he's a fantastic lawyer.

00:28:56.420 And I think he makes the same point I made earlier, that, you know, it's not about Jared Taylor's views, whether you agree with him or not.

00:29:02.960 It's about does Twitter have the right to ban anyone for whatever reason.

00:29:06.960 And I think they have a fairly strong case because they did essentially kick Taylor off for his political views.

00:29:12.720 There was no allegation of harassment or abuse or anything like that.

00:29:15.680 Some of the excuses they've used to kick off other right-wingers.

00:29:18.840 So I think it's certainly one to watch.

00:29:22.140 Yeah, well, that's for sure.

00:29:22.980 Well, I'm so glad you're covering this beat.

00:29:24.480 I really appreciate your time, Alan.

00:29:26.420 It's great to see you again.

00:29:28.660 Thank you.

00:29:29.320 All right.

00:29:29.640 There you have it.

00:29:30.120 Alan Bocari, he is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.

00:29:33.560 And I think he's one of the most important journalists covering one of the most important beats there is right now.

00:29:38.960 I think that is the front lines of censorship against conservatives.

00:29:42.900 So it's something definitely to keep an eye on.

00:29:45.140 Stay with us.

00:29:46.020 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:29:54.480 Welcome back.

00:29:59.040 Well, an interesting turn of events.

00:30:00.860 The Conservative Party of Canada won a by-election in Quebec in the riding with the interesting name of Chicoutimi Le Fjord.

00:30:10.360 In fact, it wasn't just a win.

00:30:11.640 It was a trouncing.

00:30:12.680 The Conservative candidate, Michard Martel, won an outright majority.

00:30:17.480 Very rare.

00:30:19.000 52.8%.

00:30:20.720 The Liberal Party falling to 29.5%.

00:30:23.780 And very interesting to me, the NDP in the single digits, 8.6%.

00:30:30.540 Well, what does this mean for Andrew Scheer?

00:30:33.640 What does this mean for the Liberals?

00:30:34.720 And what was the issue that put the Conservatives over the top?

00:30:38.300 Well, I have no clue because I'm not plugged into the Quebec scene.

00:30:42.780 But I have a friend who sure is.

00:30:45.060 His name is Eric Duem, and he joins us now via Skype.

00:30:47.960 Eric, great to see you again.

00:30:49.040 Welcome back to the program.

00:30:50.020 It's nice to have you on again.

00:30:51.760 Always fun to talk to each other, Ezra.

00:30:54.040 You are plugged into Quebec, obviously.

00:30:56.100 You're a very popular talk show host.

00:30:58.620 You're a journalist.

00:30:59.780 You get involved with things.

00:31:02.380 Can you tell me, was this a surprise to you?

00:31:05.720 Because it's coming as a surprise to English Canada.

00:31:08.340 I know it's a surprise in English Canada.

00:31:10.360 But those who have been following this by-election closely were not surprised for several reasons.

00:31:15.960 First off, we have to say that the Conservative candidate, Mr. Martel,

00:31:20.020 is somebody very, very well known in the region, very well appreciated.

00:31:23.900 So the importance of having a local star candidate was certainly one factor.

00:31:28.620 The other factors are also, Ezra, that for six months, he's been campaigning almost alone

00:31:34.720 because the Liberals took a lot of time to choose their candidate.

00:31:37.680 And the third thing also we have to look is that the NDP and the Bloc Québécois, who had that seat not that far away,

00:31:46.820 like not the last election, but the one before, the NDP won during the orange wave here in Quebec.

00:31:52.500 And before that, it was a Bloc Québécois constituency for a few elections.

00:31:56.840 Those two parties were in the single digit, the NDP at 8% and the Bloc at 5%.

00:32:02.960 So the fact that both parties are practically disappearing outside of Montreal right now

00:32:08.500 means that it's the two-way race between the Liberals and the Conservatives.

00:32:12.960 And in English Canada, you have to understand, a lot of people don't like Justin Trudeau and the Federal Liberals.

00:32:19.120 It's been going on for ages.

00:32:21.360 It's like in Alberta, I think we're the only place where we're so skeptical of the Federal Liberals

00:32:25.920 and their centralist approach.

00:32:27.960 And when it's a one-on-one fight, the Conservatives in rural Quebec and in different regions of Quebec will always win.

00:32:35.140 So that's something to take into account.

00:32:37.240 And English Canadians need to understand this is not an accident.

00:32:40.100 It could be, it doesn't mean it's going to happen everywhere next year for the federal election.

00:32:44.660 But if the campaign is going well, and if it's a one-on-one between the Liberals and the Conservatives

00:32:50.180 outside of Montreal, Conservatives could win easily 30 to 40 seats with such a strategy.

00:32:56.900 Well, that is amazing.

00:32:58.860 That is news to me.

00:33:00.260 I'm very glad to hear it.

00:33:01.580 I would have, I thought that Jagmeet Singh, the new NDP leader, you know, it was interesting

00:33:11.680 to me, his choice.

00:33:13.200 He's obviously not resonating in Quebec the same way that Thomas Mulcair or Jack Layton did.

00:33:19.340 Not at all.

00:33:20.140 And the religious signs in Quebec, you know that there's been a huge debate with the Charter

00:33:24.200 of values and everything we had over the last few years and the Commission, Bouchard-Taylor

00:33:29.280 and the reasonable accommodation debate that we had in Quebec on identity.

00:33:33.520 Right.

00:33:33.700 The fact that somebody arrives here and is so, you know, for him it's so important to show

00:33:41.580 us his religious background.

00:33:43.900 People didn't appreciate that.

00:33:45.300 I don't think the NDP could be a factor anymore in Quebec.

00:33:48.900 The other thing also, the Bloc Québécois is disappearing, Israel. 0.79

00:33:52.160 You and I have known the Bloc Québécois in the good old days when the Bloc was the official

00:33:56.280 opposition in Ottawa and was winning 40, 50, 52, 54 seats easily in Quebec.

00:34:03.220 Well, those days are gone, gone, gone.

00:34:05.400 The Bloc Québécois now wouldn't win a single seat if there was a general election currently

00:34:09.920 in Quebec.

00:34:10.560 So that's something changing.

00:34:12.080 And it's hard for English Canadians to understand how come people who usually vote NDP and Bloc

00:34:17.980 Québécois over the last decade or two, how could they switch to the Conservatives and

00:34:22.320 ignore the Liberals?

00:34:23.840 You have to understand that the political spectrum is not split the same way it is in

00:34:27.720 English Canada.

00:34:28.840 For many of us, the first thing that is the most important is constitutional.

00:34:33.200 We want to make sure that provincial rights are respected.

00:34:36.220 When we talk about the federal Liberals, we're talking about the centralists in Ottawa.

00:34:39.800 We think that Ottawa knows best, and that's not really appreciated in our region.

00:34:44.700 So it's not necessarily a left and right split.

00:34:48.040 It's more a centralist versus decentralist approach that we have.

00:34:51.620 And that explains why people who usually are Bloc Québécois supporters or NDP supporters

00:34:56.220 switch from those parties directly to the Conservatives, and they don't even consider for a second

00:35:01.040 Justin Trudeau or the Liberals.

00:35:02.560 That is so interesting to me.

00:35:04.960 I have one last thing I'd like to run by you, Eric.

00:35:07.560 And you've really illuminated things for me here.

00:35:09.760 I observed that Justin Trudeau, who's really thrown open the border between New York State

00:35:18.300 and Quebec at a little stretch of road called Roxham Road, and there's thousands and thousands

00:35:24.320 of fake refugees. 0.61

00:35:26.280 They're obviously fake.

00:35:27.140 They're coming from the United States. 0.54

00:35:28.620 There's no such thing as a refugee from the United States.

00:35:31.140 And they're deliberately crossing illegally.

00:35:33.360 And it's so often that the RCMP and the border guards have set up a little semi-permanent

00:35:39.380 camp.

00:35:40.600 When Justin Trudeau decided to put those migrants on a bus and send them to Toronto, I thought, 1.00

00:35:49.080 isn't that interesting?

00:35:50.820 Maybe Quebecers are fed up with it so much that Trudeau wants to push the political pressure

00:35:56.120 to Toronto.

00:35:57.420 It's very odd to me.

00:35:58.940 And so I had a theory.

00:36:00.300 It's just a hypothesis.

00:36:01.660 I don't know.

00:36:02.280 Maybe you can tell me that one of the quiet issues under the radar is that Quebecers don't 1.00

00:36:08.900 like this open borders, don't like this sanctuary province idea that has been foisted on them

00:36:15.000 by Trudeau.

00:36:16.080 It's part of the religious accommodation issue.

00:36:19.220 It's part of the...

00:36:21.720 That's my theory, is that maybe that was part of the vote against Trudeau.

00:36:27.340 You tell me if there's any truth to that.

00:36:29.420 It's not even a silent issue, Ezra.

00:36:32.040 It was very vocal.

00:36:33.440 And actually, the Conservatives, during that by-election, had Andrew Scheer and their member

00:36:37.900 of Parliament responsible for public safety, Pierre Paulus, who's an MP here in the Quebec

00:36:42.680 City region.

00:36:43.300 They went to the Roxham Road in St. Bernard de la Colle, and they've campaigned out there.

00:36:48.580 They were far away from the constituency where the guy got elected.

00:36:51.920 But it's an issue that is so important and that resonates so badly that the Conservatives

00:36:56.280 went to that border to show the problem of what the Liberals are doing, the lack of political

00:37:03.380 leadership to support and to respect our borders.

00:37:07.080 And that was very, very clear that the Conservatives have been using that.

00:37:12.540 You also have to understand, Ezra, that even the provincial Liberals, they're going in an

00:37:17.540 election, a general election in Quebec on October 1st.

00:37:21.320 The provincial Liberals, they know that this issue is not good for them.

00:37:25.820 And they're pushing against Ottawa.

00:37:27.820 They're doing it even publicly now, putting limits to say, look, we have way too many refugees, 1.00

00:37:33.040 illegal refugees, we don't know what to do with them. 1.00

00:37:36.560 You know, we're not going to take them anymore, find a solution in Ottawa.

00:37:40.200 So even the provincial Liberals are now fighting against the federal Liberals because they know

00:37:43.740 they could be hurt during a provincial campaign that is coming in a few weeks.

00:37:48.860 So it's going to be a very interesting thing.

00:37:50.840 And we know that during the summertime, Ezra, the number of illegal immigrants that cross the 0.50

00:37:55.600 road are much higher than during wintertime.

00:37:59.440 Obviously, it's easier to cross when it's plus 30 than when it's minus 30.

00:38:03.420 So we're going to see a lot of those illegal immigrants all over the summer. 1.00

00:38:07.720 And that could really, really hurt the Liberals, you know, in October 1st for the general election.

00:38:13.280 So they're pushing Trudeau.

00:38:14.520 And that's why Trudeau felt the pressure of his own allies in Quebec.

00:38:18.200 And he took those buses and sent them in Ontario.

00:38:20.420 But what I saw in Ontario with the last provincial election, I'm not sure that all Ontarians wish

00:38:26.680 to have a sanctuary of illegal refugees neither.

00:38:30.340 Yeah.

00:38:30.620 Well, that is fascinating.

00:38:32.080 I tell you, I've learned more from you in the last nine minutes than I have learned in

00:38:36.800 nine months on the subjects of Quebec and open borders from the mainstream media in English

00:38:43.540 Canada.

00:38:44.200 Last word to you, Eric.

00:38:45.700 I just want to add one thing.

00:38:46.980 Another thing also that is important, and it went almost silent in English Canada, and

00:38:51.220 I think it's very important to share it with your viewers, Ezra, is that the former leader

00:38:55.820 of the Bloc Québécois, Michel Gaultier, came out in favor of the Conservatives a few weeks

00:39:01.420 ago, and he went campaigning in that constituency for that by-election.

00:39:06.480 It's very unusual in Canadian politics, think about it, that you will see a political leader

00:39:11.780 of a party supporting another party, leaving his party, and campaigning against his former

00:39:18.220 party.

00:39:19.180 It's very, very unusual.

00:39:21.020 And it helps a lot of former Bloc Québécois supporters and voters to now cross from the

00:39:26.120 Bloc Québécois to the Conservatives, because one of the former leaders did it.

00:39:30.300 So that's also something that you have to keep in mind in English Canada.

00:39:34.880 And Andrew Scheer and the MPs from English Canada need to understand that there is a

00:39:39.680 lot of constituencies that could lead to their victory if they want to be back in power. 0.99

00:39:44.400 And the road to victory for them is probably in those constituencies in Quebec.

00:39:48.800 Well, that is amazing.

00:39:50.520 Thank you so much for this detailed briefing.

00:39:54.160 It's fascinating.

00:39:55.320 We're going to keep a close eye on Quebec.

00:39:57.060 And thanks for making yourself available.

00:39:59.840 I know you're so busy.

00:40:00.800 You do your own media work there.

00:40:02.200 So we're grateful to steal a few moments of your time.

00:40:04.680 Merci, mon ami.

00:40:05.720 I appreciate that.

00:40:07.580 Merci, Ezra.

00:40:08.520 Au revoir.

00:40:08.980 Okay.

00:40:09.520 Au revoir.

00:40:10.280 Forgive me.

00:40:11.040 My French accent is terrible.

00:40:13.400 Well, that's our good friend Eric Dehem.

00:40:14.880 Isn't that fascinating?

00:40:16.840 It fills me with a little bit of hope, with a little bit of hope.

00:40:19.620 And if Justin Trudeau loses a riding in his home province of Quebec, well, maybe we just

00:40:25.700 do have a chance to dislodge the guy in 2019.

00:40:29.100 Wow.

00:40:29.940 All right.

00:40:30.440 Stay with us.

00:40:31.220 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:40:43.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:44.100 On my monologue yesterday about the revealed costs of Justin Trudeau's trip to India, Ryan

00:40:48.280 writes,

00:40:48.800 If Mr. Harper had spent this amount of coin on a trip, plus had bad negotiations with

00:40:53.540 India, there would be so much outrage by the Canadian media and liberal politicians

00:40:56.820 alike.

00:40:57.600 The left-leaning media would hold this story in the public eye just as long or longer than

00:41:01.040 the scandal on Mike Duffy.

00:41:02.580 They'd be crying for him to resign immediately, but not with little potato.

00:41:06.240 They know the hand that feeds them.

00:41:08.500 You are exactly right.

00:41:09.840 Imagine.

00:41:11.080 Like, India is the biggest democracy in the world.

00:41:13.700 We don't have a ton of trade with them, but we could.

00:41:16.180 Especially agriculture, they got over a billion mouths to feed. 0.96

00:41:20.780 Energy, they're buying so much oil from Iran, wouldn't it be great if they bought some of

00:41:25.000 our ethical oil instead?

00:41:26.800 Imagine burning bridges with the largest democracy in the world.

00:41:30.600 Part of the British Empire, they speak English, they have a democracy that's analogous to us

00:41:35.440 because they come from the British.

00:41:36.520 Imagine just burning that because you just couldn't control yourself.

00:41:40.860 You invited a convicted assassin.

00:41:44.140 That's almost unbelievable.

00:41:45.480 If someone were to pitch a script to a fictional movie and said, and the prime minister invited

00:41:51.520 an assassin who was convicted of trying to murder an Indian cabinet minister in India,

00:41:55.780 people would say, no, that's too much.

00:41:56.900 No one's going to believe it.

00:41:57.740 That's just too on the nose.

00:41:59.720 Yeah, that's real life.

00:42:01.880 Anthony writes, wow, Canadians paid $1.5 million to be embarrassed.

00:42:06.380 Yeah.

00:42:06.600 Yeah, I just keep thinking of some of those line items.

00:42:11.560 But to me, I've bought tickets to India before.

00:42:16.140 I personally, here at the Rebel, I personally bought the four plane tickets for our staff

00:42:22.360 to go to India a couple years ago.

00:42:24.180 I was really scared about buying those tickets because I can't, like, that's so far away,

00:42:30.300 right?

00:42:32.120 And we found out for $1,200.

00:42:33.500 And I think it was Air Canada.

00:42:35.060 We just bought, you know, more than two weeks in advance and economy.

00:42:38.520 And yeah, it's not a comfy ride.

00:42:40.800 You got to stand up and stretch.

00:42:41.900 They give you a meal.

00:42:42.480 They give you drinks.

00:42:43.880 You snooze.

00:42:46.220 $1,200.

00:42:48.620 And some of those people were spending $20,000.

00:42:53.020 There's no private sector company, not even a big law firm, not even a bank.

00:42:57.840 You think an assistant, a junior assistant at a bank would be allowed to bill $20,000

00:43:02.920 for a first-class flight from Canada to India?

00:43:06.340 No, no, no, no.

00:43:08.980 Well, it's only money.

00:43:11.440 Jude writes,

00:43:13.040 $17,000 for a special chef?

00:43:15.060 Did he hire a plane to haul Alberta beef, a few sheep, maybe a couple of hogs, a flock

00:43:19.200 of chickens, a muskox, and finally a moose?

00:43:21.580 What the hell?

00:43:22.920 Well, no.

00:43:23.640 I mean, I don't know if you saw yesterday.

00:43:25.080 I listed all the fruits and vegetables and groceries.

00:43:27.520 They're like $1,000 in groceries.

00:43:29.660 But how come it costs $17,000 for a chef?

00:43:32.540 I mean, okay, let's say you know a chef and he loves India so much he wants to come along

00:43:37.640 and be part of it.

00:43:38.820 And let's say you can somehow justify this.

00:43:41.100 I don't know how you justify.

00:43:42.480 It's like bringing an Indian cuisine chef from Canada to India without that coming across 0.78

00:43:47.620 as an insult.

00:43:48.400 I don't know how you justify it.

00:43:49.540 But if he's your buddy and maybe he's told you a lot about India and he's your like personal

00:43:57.460 helper, outer, explainer for, okay, fine.

00:44:01.160 So why are you paying him?

00:44:02.400 Like if he's so important, if he's like this, like let's say, I know this, I'm just trying

00:44:08.000 to come up with a scenario here.

00:44:09.660 Let's say you went to an Indian restaurant so much and you got to know the chef and he

00:44:13.080 became a good friend and he said, you got to go to India, man.

00:44:15.700 And let me tell you about India.

00:44:16.640 And every time you talk to the chef, he was promoting India.

00:44:19.000 And he thought, well, you know what?

00:44:19.920 I'm finally going to India.

00:44:20.640 Why don't you come?

00:44:21.520 Because I'd love you next to me and help.

00:44:22.980 Like you'd be like my personal private tour guide.

00:44:24.800 I'm just making up a scenario.

00:44:27.220 Okay.

00:44:27.640 Then I could maybe understand him coming with the prime minister to help, like be a helpful

00:44:30.940 guide.

00:44:31.380 But why are you paying him $17,000 and why is he not either chipping in $1,200 for his

00:44:38.480 own flight or why are you paying him $17,000?

00:44:43.880 And from what I see, he prepared one meal.

00:44:47.300 Well, because it's Justin Trudeau and nothing's good enough for the young prince.

00:44:51.840 But hey, you military veterans, you're just asking for more than we can give.

00:44:58.160 Unbelievable.

00:44:59.400 Folks, that's our show for today.

00:45:00.580 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and

00:45:04.400 keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 22, 2018

Canadian media “fact check” Trump — but not Trudeau

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