Rebel News Podcast - CRTC wants to regulate companies that make short news videos — like The Rebel Media

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Canada's TV regulator wants to regulate the internet now, too.

00:00:04.620 Specifically, companies that make short news videos.

00:00:08.080 Gee, I wonder if they mean the rebel.

00:00:10.260 It's January 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:14.800 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:18.580 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:22.680 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it

00:00:26.280 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:30.000 February next month will mark the four-year anniversary

00:00:36.800 that Canada's government regulator for TV and radio and phones,

00:00:40.680 called the CRTC, or the Canadian Radio, Television and Communications Commission.

00:00:45.680 Well, four years ago next month, the CRTC killed

00:00:48.600 the only conservative TV station in Canada called the Sun News Network.

00:00:53.360 Well, they're back. Here's the CRTC's news today.

00:00:57.060 They have published something called their written submission

00:01:00.920 to the Legislative Review Panel.

00:01:04.580 Written public submission.

00:01:05.920 It's a wish list sent to a group of elite political insiders

00:01:09.660 that Trudeau has asked to update the internet rules in Canada.

00:01:13.200 I'll tell you more about this elite group in a moment.

00:01:16.260 Anyways, you will not be surprised to learn that the CRTC,

00:01:18.720 the same people who euthanized the Sun News Network,

00:01:21.940 now want the power to regulate the internet, especially the news.

00:01:26.720 They specifically mention short news videos and audio podcasts,

00:01:30.220 like what we specialize in here at The Rebel.

00:01:32.740 We've produced about 11,000 short videos in the past four years,

00:01:36.700 and you know this show is made into a podcast, too.

00:01:39.240 I don't know if you know that.

00:01:40.060 And collectively, just on YouTube alone,

00:01:43.500 our videos have been watched more than 300 million times,

00:01:46.360 probably about 400 million by now.

00:01:48.380 About 2 billion minutes of video have been watched combined.

00:01:53.300 As you know, we're the largest YouTube news channel in Canada,

00:01:56.140 measured by the number of followers we have.

00:01:57.920 We have more than CTV or Global or even the CBC State Broadcaster.

00:02:01.540 So, yeah, I really can't think of anyone else in Canada

00:02:05.080 who they could possibly be talking about, can you?

00:02:09.700 Because they already regulate CTV and Global and CBC as regular broadcasters.

00:02:15.280 So, who do you think they mean

00:02:16.560 when they say they want to regulate short online news videos in Canada?

00:02:20.680 And they specifically say they want to make sure

00:02:22.660 that people who produce short news videos produce, quote,

00:02:26.900 accurate, independent, and trustworthy news and information.

00:02:30.640 And look, we're highlighting it here.

00:02:32.720 They use that phrase again and again in their document.

00:02:35.400 I'm going to get into the details in a moment.

00:02:36.940 Now, by the way, I totally agree with that goal.

00:02:39.640 We put a lot of emphasis on accuracy here at The Rebel.

00:02:42.140 That's why we usually show you our sources.

00:02:45.220 We show you a photo.

00:02:46.520 We show you a video.

00:02:47.580 We show you excerpts from documents, as I'm doing now.

00:02:50.040 When we make an argument, we have our evidence.

00:02:52.140 I just showed you the cover of the CRTC report,

00:02:54.720 and I'll show a quote, and I'll show you more quotes in a moment.

00:02:57.140 I showed you the panel of elite liberals,

00:02:59.600 and I'll show you more about them in a moment.

00:03:01.520 I'll get into that.

00:03:02.380 We value accuracy in providing evidence.

00:03:05.840 It's why we so often send journalists to the scene of stories,

00:03:08.560 even overseas, like just for one example,

00:03:10.700 when we sent David Menzies to cover the Mexican migrant caravan on the scene,

00:03:14.940 or when we sent Jack Buckby and Martina Marcota 0.63

00:03:17.740 to cover the Paris Yellow Vest protests.

00:03:21.820 Accuracy.

00:03:23.060 We fact-check our stuff.

00:03:24.340 We lawyer it when necessary,

00:03:25.520 and on the rare occasions when we get something wrong,

00:03:27.920 we correct it.

00:03:28.540 So yeah, accurate.

00:03:30.300 We share that goal.

00:03:32.600 The second goal is independent.

00:03:34.640 Well, I put it to you that we are the only,

00:03:37.440 or maybe one of the only,

00:03:39.080 independent news outlets left in Canada

00:03:40.700 because we don't take money from the government.

00:03:43.240 The CBC does.

00:03:45.220 Now all the private sector TV companies do,

00:03:47.300 and the newspaper and radio companies do too.

00:03:49.580 They're taking part of Trudeau's $595 million slush fund.

00:03:53.780 So we here at the Rebel are pretty much the last independent people left.

00:03:58.100 Everyone else is on Trudeau's payroll,

00:03:59.680 just like the CRTC,

00:04:01.200 just like Trudeau's legislative review panel.

00:04:03.920 And their third word there,

00:04:05.260 they had accurate, independent,

00:04:07.100 and the third one was trustworthy.

00:04:09.060 It was the last part of their CRTC phrase.

00:04:11.140 Well, trust is a matter of opinion, don't you think?

00:04:14.140 I don't trust the CBC.

00:04:15.980 To me, they're extremely biased.

00:04:17.360 They're anti-Trump.

00:04:17.900 They're pro-Trudeau.

00:04:19.560 They're anti-American.

00:04:20.680 They're pro-UN.

00:04:22.020 They're anti-military.

00:04:22.980 They're pro-terrorist.

00:04:23.860 They're anti-Christian. 0.99

00:04:25.120 They're pro-Muslim.

00:04:26.820 I could go on, but I don't trust the CBC at all.

00:04:29.460 In my mind, they're biased activists.

00:04:31.340 But I'm sure the CBC staff don't trust me or us here at the Rebel.

00:04:35.140 And that's fine.

00:04:36.520 Part of a free society is letting individual viewers make their own choices.

00:04:39.440 I mean, that's what a political election campaign is about, isn't it?

00:04:43.320 A bunch of parties all competing,

00:04:45.260 and there is not one elite expert panel who decides.

00:04:47.840 Every single one of us gets to decide, and we have the right to choose wrongly. 0.98

00:04:51.560 By the way, Canadians have the right to vote for that fool, Trudeau, and he has the right 1.00

00:04:56.380 to be a fool. 1.00

00:04:57.600 The mainstream media gets things wrong all the time. 1.00

00:04:59.960 That's human nature.

00:05:00.620 I can't believe anyone would ever trust the CBC again after their Xi'an Gomeshi scandal.

00:05:05.580 And by that, I mean the scandal of the whole CBC covering up for him for years.

00:05:08.660 So yeah, I believe that individual grown-ups can make their own decisions about what's trustworthy

00:05:13.600 or not.

00:05:14.120 And even if I disagree with someone, that's freedom too.

00:05:16.800 I mean, the David Suzuki Foundation literally has 21 registered lobbyists lobbying Ottawa

00:05:23.540 against the oil sands, against...

00:05:25.340 Here's a list of them.

00:05:26.000 I'm showing you, this is from the official Ottawa Lobbyist Registry.

00:05:30.360 I bet the CBC never shows you that.

00:05:32.960 And the David Suzuki Foundation, they're paid to do this lobbying by foreign donors, but

00:05:37.340 the CBC still lets David Suzuki go on TV as a trustworthy sort.

00:05:40.900 He's not trustworthy.

00:05:42.160 He's not accurate.

00:05:42.980 He's not independent either.

00:05:44.120 I hate the fact that I have to pay for him, but it's up to Canadian news consumers, that

00:05:47.860 means citizens, whether or not they like to believe his propaganda.

00:05:51.140 Could you imagine, though, that the people who propose to ensure all of this, to ensure

00:05:56.020 the accuracy, to ensure the independence and trustworthiness, that they're coming from

00:06:00.120 the government.

00:06:01.660 And of all the different government departments to come from, they're from the biased government

00:06:05.920 agency, the CRTC, that already killed the Sun News Network.

00:06:09.900 I literally would rather trust a stranger on the street than would I trust a Trudeau appointee

00:06:15.400 when it comes to news.

00:06:16.520 But of course, I don't want to trust anyone other than my own judgment.

00:06:19.100 And because isn't that what being a grown-up in a free society is about, to make up your

00:06:23.200 own mind, even if you're wrong.

00:06:25.520 And who is this panel of elite experts anyways?

00:06:27.800 Well, here they are.

00:06:28.900 This is the list of this legislative review panel.

00:06:31.980 They're all Ottawa insiders, mainly at least.

00:06:35.460 They're lawyers, mainly.

00:06:37.680 And this is how you know they care about accuracy and independence and trustworthiness.

00:06:43.760 Well, you know that because they're good liberals.

00:06:45.820 You see that Janet Yale, the one who chairs this whole thing?

00:06:49.240 Well, here's from public records.

00:06:52.640 She has donated.

00:06:53.900 This is a list of her political donations over the years.

00:06:56.920 She has donated thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars

00:07:03.920 to the Liberal Party, going back years.

00:07:08.640 If you look carefully at this list, you'll see she mixes it up once in a while.

00:07:12.160 Once she gave money to the provincial liberals, just for diversity, and she once even gave

00:07:16.580 money to the NDP.

00:07:18.660 Now, that was more than 20 years ago, so I'm sure Trudeau will forgive that one NDP act

00:07:23.680 of disloyalty.

00:07:24.880 Tons of donations to the liberals from the other expert panel, too.

00:07:28.400 They're about as independent as Justin Trudeau's independent senators.

00:07:31.940 You have to be from the CBC to be gullible enough to believe that these people are independent.

00:07:36.920 Anyways, I have nothing against Janet Yale.

00:07:38.780 She's the head of this review committee. 0.98

00:07:41.820 She used to be the CEO of the Canadian Cable Television Association, so I bet she hates

00:07:46.380 internet companies like us that are eroding cable TV viewership.

00:07:50.540 But even if she wasn't a former lobbyist for our competitors, even if she wasn't the largest

00:07:55.640 liberal donor I've ever come across, frankly, even if she actually was interested in accuracy,

00:08:01.120 independence, and trustworthiness for the news, why on earth should anyone in this country

00:08:04.760 care what she thinks?

00:08:06.960 Why should anyone in this world have to defer to her taste, or her politics, or her aesthetic

00:08:13.240 sense, or her sense of humor, or anything?

00:08:15.060 Or to put it more bluntly, who the hell is she? 1.00

00:08:18.420 But look at what the CRTC is proposing.

00:08:20.220 I'm going to read to you from their legislative proposals.

00:08:22.600 Let me quote some of it.

00:08:23.680 Some of it is quite Orwellian.

00:08:25.000 Some of it's contradictory.

00:08:26.480 Some of it's just laughable.

00:08:27.500 But the meaning is still crystal clear.

00:08:29.780 They intend to regulate voices on the internet that they don't like.

00:08:34.460 But it's not just my right to speak to you that's going to be eroded.

00:08:37.860 It's your right to hear me or anyone else, and your right to make up your own mind about

00:08:41.040 what's trustworthy or not.

00:08:42.640 Now, this is a 21-page filing.

00:08:44.620 21 pages.

00:08:45.360 So I'm obviously not going to read it all.

00:08:47.020 But here are some key parts.

00:08:48.940 I'll start by reading.

00:08:51.420 Their headline is, ensuring there are accurate and independent news and information sources.

00:08:55.640 And they say, the fundamental freedoms and democratic rights that underpin the interactions

00:09:02.040 between Canada's citizens and its institutions are best maintained when these institutions

00:09:06.560 are verifiably held to account in an open and transparent way.

00:09:11.900 Canada's broadcasting system, including news and information programming in particular,

00:09:15.960 plays a significant part in this system of accountability.

00:09:19.780 Well, hang on.

00:09:20.660 They're mixing things up.

00:09:21.760 See, our fundamental rights and democratic freedoms,

00:09:24.080 those are our rights as citizens against the government.

00:09:28.800 That's what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is about.

00:09:30.620 It protects us from government infringement.

00:09:33.880 It doesn't give anyone power over anyone else.

00:09:37.020 It certainly doesn't give the government power over the media.

00:09:40.040 They were using word trickery there, weren't they?

00:09:42.680 They used the language of the Charter of Rights,

00:09:45.700 which was drafted to be used against people like the CRTC.

00:09:49.100 See, they've twisted that charter language to suggest that the CRTC government should have

00:09:55.240 power over private media institutions to hold them to account.

00:09:58.980 Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.

00:10:00.260 We have the right to hold the government to account, including the CRTC.

00:10:04.040 And what does it mean to have a TV station or a YouTube channel verifiably held to account

00:10:08.580 in an open and transparent way?

00:10:10.040 What on earth does that mean?

00:10:11.120 I mean, here at the Rebel, we make videos.

00:10:14.140 Okay, people can watch them or ignore them.

00:10:16.020 On YouTube, you can like something or dislike it.

00:10:19.800 You can leave a comment.

00:10:20.700 If there's anything legally wrong, I suppose you could sue.

00:10:24.620 YouTube itself has some terms of service.

00:10:27.080 They have some of their own rules.

00:10:28.660 But where on earth does the government of Canada come in to verify what?

00:10:33.760 To verify what?

00:10:34.480 Well, their next line gives a hint.

00:10:36.100 Let me quote.

00:10:36.460 When elements of this system are left unchecked and offer false or misleading information to

00:10:42.860 Canadians without strong, accurate, independent, and trustworthy sources of rebuttal, the ability

00:10:47.620 of Canadians to fully exercise their democratic rights suffers.

00:10:52.700 Elements of this system, if they get out of control.

00:10:55.040 Is that code for people who say things the government doesn't like?

00:11:00.300 Is that elements of the system?

00:11:02.180 Left unchecked.

00:11:02.960 What does that mean, left unchecked?

00:11:04.120 Unchecked by whom?

00:11:05.400 By the government?

00:11:07.460 But we don't believe, as Canadians, that the government should be a check on the people.

00:11:11.520 We believe that the people should have a check against the government.

00:11:15.480 I mean, if we're committing some crime, come at us.

00:11:18.180 But the CRTC are not police or prosecutors.

00:11:22.000 They're TV and radio cops.

00:11:24.160 They hate things for political reasons, not criminal reasons.

00:11:27.420 What they really mean is censorship.

00:11:30.340 In the year 2000, here's an old story.

00:11:32.100 Broadcast regulators shut down someone who is an extremely popular tough love personal advice radio host named Dr. Laura Schlesinger because of a few political complaints.

00:11:43.480 They just banned her from the airwaves in Canada because she had the wrong views about personal relationships. 1.00

00:11:49.580 I'm not making that up.

00:11:50.260 Maybe you even remember that.

00:11:51.440 A few years later, they shut down an entire radio station in Quebec, Chois FM, because the host was telling risque jokes in the manner of Howard Stern, who was also banned from Canada's airwaves, by the way.

00:12:03.020 The listeners of that Quebec radio station fought back.

00:12:05.880 I don't know if you know that.

00:12:07.460 Did you ever catch this when it happened about 15 years ago?

00:12:10.500 Take a look.

00:12:11.080 A casual glance would tell you it's a rock concert.

00:12:14.000 But another look reveals a rally for choice, or in this case, Chois.

00:12:18.180 They love their free speech and they want to tell the governors, we like Chois, we love Chois, we want Chois, and we will have Chois.

00:12:25.880 We are not it!

00:12:27.360 We are not it!

00:12:28.780 We are not it!

00:12:30.260 We are not it!

00:12:31.160 It's doubtful that so many people have ever traveled such a distance to voice their support for a radio station, but for much of this crowd here on the Hill today, the real issue is free speech, and as many as 10,000 of them have gathered here to demand loudly that the federal government restore Chois FM's right to be on the air, and by extension, the rights of Canadians everywhere to hear whatever they wish.

00:12:50.900 We broadcast what they want, and the case is, is the CRTC and five people put there by the government liberal could determine what are the limits to freedom of speech we don't believe.

00:13:03.720 That's amazing, what a spirit of free speech.

00:13:08.920 10,000 people marching on Parliament Hill against liberal censors.

00:13:14.340 You heard that guy at the end there.

00:13:16.320 He was against the liberal censors, and the government blinked.

00:13:19.340 Chois FM is back on radio.

00:13:21.260 They've been going strong ever since, but Trudeau has attacked Chois FM again recently, by the way, calling them Islamophobic.

00:13:27.740 Now, that's his new favorite insult, but you see my point.

00:13:32.100 The CRTC killed Chois FM, literally put it out of business, but it was reborn.

00:13:37.940 The CRTC killed the Sun News Network, and I suppose you could say it was reborn on YouTube and on paywall shows like this one, beyond the reach of the CRTC censors.

00:13:47.000 So now, the CRTC wants to extend their reach in the name of accuracy, independence, and trustworthiness, you see.

00:13:53.560 I mean, Trudeau owns the CBC, and that's more than half of all the news journalists in Canada.

00:13:59.380 He's renting most of the rest of the private journalists in Canada with his $595 million bailout.

00:14:05.240 So, he wants to regulate the last few holdouts like us here at the Rebel.

00:14:11.260 But back to that line in the CRTC report.

00:14:14.100 When elements of this system are left unchecked and offer false or misleading information to Canadians without strong, accurate, independent, and trustworthy sources of rebuttal, the ability of Canadians to fully exercise their democratic rights suffers.

00:14:27.420 Really.

00:14:29.320 So, how does it work, then, with the government ensuring trustworthy sources of rebuttal?

00:14:36.340 How can the government choose its own critics?

00:14:39.400 Or how can the government choose the critics of its critics?

00:14:41.920 How can the government regulation lead to more rebuttals as opposed to less?

00:14:47.200 When the CRTC shut down the Sun News Network, they obviously weren't interested in its strong views and strong rebuttals to the government.

00:14:55.780 The CRTC just wanted fewer voices, not more voices.

00:14:59.700 They just want all the voices to be the same.

00:15:02.560 And, by the way, that was under Stephen Harper.

00:15:04.000 Imagine how it will be under these liberals.

00:15:08.100 Okay.

00:15:09.180 Let me read you some more.

00:15:11.040 Here's where the rubber really hits the road.

00:15:12.700 I'm reading from the CRTC report again.

00:15:15.680 Canadians already make use of various sources for audio and video news and information content, including both traditional broadcasters and a wide range of online content services.

00:15:26.380 That's us, people.

00:15:27.880 In the future, Canadians are likely to continue to rely on both traditional and online news and information sources, many of the latter of which may be unknown at this time.

00:15:36.340 Okay, that's sort of obvious.

00:15:39.200 I don't know if we need to pay government bureaucrats to write this, but get this next part.

00:15:43.080 Ready?

00:15:44.180 In such an environment, Canadians will need the means to determine which sources provide trustworthy, verifiably accurate news and information and are independent of political or other influence.

00:15:56.800 Educational efforts related to digital literacy will be key to giving Canadians the tools they need to make these determinations themselves.

00:16:07.760 Imagine the hubris.

00:16:09.100 We're all on the internet.

00:16:10.100 You, me, if you're watching this, you're on the internet.

00:16:11.580 Most of us have been on the internet for years, some for decades.

00:16:14.000 But the CRTC liberal appointees in the year 2019 think it's necessary for them to teach us to figure out how to use the internet and what to believe.

00:16:26.340 Somehow we've managed to survive to the year 2019 using the internet without their advice.

00:16:32.620 I don't know, it's a miracle that we managed to do it without them telling us how to do it.

00:16:35.780 But they really, really need to give us the means to determine which sources are trustworthy.

00:16:41.920 And really, who better to tell us who to trust than a bunch of liberal hacks?

00:16:46.140 Who better to teach us how to think about, I don't know, Trudeau than Trudeau's appointees who donated to Trudeau and who will review the media during Trudeau's election campaign?

00:16:55.060 Who better to trust than them?

00:16:57.240 And they repeat it, just to be clear, because they said that Canadians need to make those determinations by themselves.

00:17:02.900 But I know that sounded a little bit too freedom-y, so they wanted to clarify, and they said right after that, they wrote,

00:17:10.220 However, ensuring that Canadians have access to accurate, independent, and trust-worthy news and information sources should also be an explicit outcome for Canada's broadcasting system.

00:17:22.120 Oh, okay.

00:17:23.060 So what they're saying is, we'll trust the citizens, but if they don't get it right, we'll have to get it right for them.

00:17:29.240 One way is for the government to tell people which journalists to trust.

00:17:34.180 Like I say, it's upside down.

00:17:35.420 This is inverted morality here.

00:17:37.060 The government holding the media to account, using the charter as a tool, even though that was designed to hold the government to account.

00:17:43.820 You couldn't write this stuff as fiction.

00:17:45.220 No one would believe it.

00:17:45.980 It's too Orwellian.

00:17:47.240 Let me quote.

00:17:48.080 This is what they plan on doing.

00:17:49.040 And they plan on encouraging and helping Canadians identify those sources that adhere to appropriate journalistic standards.

00:18:03.980 Oh, okay.

00:18:04.640 I got it.

00:18:05.300 So Jian Gomeshi, David Suzuki, the revolving door between the media and the Liberal Party, that's all good journalism.

00:18:11.880 And the fake news at CBC and, frankly, CNN and, increasingly, CTV and global.

00:18:18.200 That's all high-quality journalism.

00:18:20.260 I mean, really, if you're talking about great journalism, this is your standard.

00:18:25.720 The one that the entire country wants to know.

00:18:28.800 What shampoo do you use?

00:18:31.940 What a disappointing answer this is going to be.

00:18:34.540 Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.

00:18:37.940 Yeah, I mean, that's appropriate journalistic standards.

00:18:43.300 That's good.

00:18:43.820 That's accurate.

00:18:44.540 That's independent.

00:18:45.600 That's trustworthy.

00:18:47.620 But us asking tough questions, well, there better be a CRTC warning on top of that.

00:18:52.880 And here it is.

00:18:54.680 Here's their proposal.

00:18:56.520 Here's what they want in black and white.

00:18:58.100 They say, new legislation should continue to enable the CRTC to develop co-regulatory approaches to encourage content providers, including certain online services, to adopt journalistic codes and practices.

00:19:12.900 Oh, okay.

00:19:14.460 So they want to regulate the Internet.

00:19:16.200 Just that.

00:19:17.700 Just that.

00:19:18.880 Content providers, that means us, of course.

00:19:20.700 Online services, that means us, of course.

00:19:22.300 Or maybe they mean YouTube and the web hosting companies that we rely on, or Facebook or PayPal or whatever.

00:19:28.500 But just that.

00:19:29.460 They just want to regulate journalistic codes now on the Internet.

00:19:33.060 No big deal.

00:19:33.780 Nothing to see here.

00:19:35.460 Hey, did you see his cool socks Justin Trudeau's wearing?

00:19:38.100 Look, there's a squirrel over there.

00:19:41.580 Now, we know this is going to happen.

00:19:43.660 And we know why this is happening.

00:19:44.780 Because Trudeau has promised this.

00:19:46.820 Look at this story from almost exactly a year ago.

00:19:48.980 When Trudeau warned Facebook that if they didn't shut down news websites that he disagrees with, that he calls fake, well, he'll go ahead and regulate them.

00:19:58.200 That's what this CRTC demand is.

00:20:00.640 It's Trudeau keeping his threat to regulate the Internet.

00:20:04.100 It's a 21-page manifesto for the government takeover of the Internet.

00:20:07.840 That's all it is.

00:20:09.860 And the mainstream media doesn't really mind.

00:20:13.420 Here's an online search I did today on Google News.

00:20:16.760 Just type in CRTC, sort by news, and there's just one item on this.

00:20:24.740 Just one item, precisely one story, and it's on an obscure tech magazine called Mobile Syrup.

00:20:31.540 Okay, good for them.

00:20:33.400 That's it in the entire media.

00:20:34.760 There's not a peep in the CBC.

00:20:37.380 They don't mind one bit.

00:20:38.860 You go to the CBC search engine, you type in CRTC, they don't have any story about this at all.

00:20:45.540 They just don't have it at all.

00:20:47.500 They have some story about Brian Adams mocking the CRTC.

00:20:51.800 They don't talk about this.

00:20:54.140 The CBC likes this.

00:20:56.460 This will muzzle their competitors, as in us.

00:21:01.480 Now, I've read a lot to you today from this document, but let me read the summary of the document written by them themselves.

00:21:07.700 To show you the plan, because you're not going to find this on any other media in Canada, except there's a paid service called Black Box Reporter, which is a small website based in Ottawa.

00:21:18.340 I have to give them credit.

00:21:19.480 I've got a lot of time for them.

00:21:20.740 But they're small, and their story was behind a paywall.

00:21:23.560 But give them full marks for talking about this.

00:21:25.180 I like them.

00:21:25.660 Anyways, you won't get this from any media that the CRTC calls accurate, independent, or trustworthy, which tells you that what the liberals mean by accurate, independent, and trustworthy isn't what you and I would mean by accurate, independent, and trustworthy.

00:21:39.160 So here's the plan.

00:21:40.800 Let me quote.

00:21:42.780 New legislation should grant the CRTC explicit statutory authority, as well as flexible tools to regulate services, both domestic and international, including online service providers who offer audio or video services in Canada,

00:22:05.900 and benefit from the creative, economic, and social advantages of operating in this market.

00:22:13.220 Such an approach would aid in ensuring that all players contribute in an equitable and effective manner to achieving the public policy outcomes established for new legislation, including the promotion and discoverability of Canadian content.

00:22:29.580 So just that.

00:22:30.480 That's all they want, people.

00:22:31.580 I mean, come on.

00:22:32.200 They want new laws to give more power to the CRTC in laws, but also to give them lots of discretion, flexible tools, so they can do what they like without having to check back with parliament.

00:22:45.060 They want to go after anyone giving audio or video services.

00:22:48.060 That's us.

00:22:49.480 Even international companies.

00:22:51.000 That's bizarre.

00:22:52.240 And everyone has to be equitable.

00:22:54.100 What?

00:22:54.600 And everyone has to follow Trudeau's preferred public policy outcomes.

00:22:58.040 That's a fancy way of saying follow his politics.

00:23:02.200 And if you don't, well, look, look, the CRTC had no problem shutting down Schwa FM.

00:23:08.220 They had no problem euthanizing a $50 million conservative TV network owned by a Quebec billionaire, Pierre-Carl Pelletot, while Stephen Harper said and did nothing.

00:23:20.500 Do you really think the CRTC would hesitate for a second to kill a conservative news channel owned by some rabble like us?

00:23:28.520 With Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts egging them on?

00:23:31.880 Oh, they will.

00:23:32.780 They just told us they will.

00:23:34.540 They just told us how they will.

00:23:37.260 This will happen in the year 2019.

00:23:40.560 Mark my words.

00:23:42.380 Stay with us for more.

00:23:43.340 Well, they say the carbon tax is designed to change our social behavior, to have us make better choices, in the words of Justin Trudeau.

00:24:07.340 Well, if that's to reduce our carbon footprint, that's just the entryway to a whole world of social modifications our government can do.

00:24:17.200 And I see news that I find on ClimateDepot.com of a member of parliament in the United Kingdom who proposes a meat tax.

00:24:26.700 Let the meat cake.

00:24:28.540 Green MP demands meat tax.

00:24:31.500 Oh, of course, in the name of stopping climate change.

00:24:35.640 Let me read you just the first headline, first sentence.

00:24:38.060 A Green MP has called on parliament to impose a tax on meat to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce climate change.

00:24:44.620 Carolyn Lucas told delegates at the Oxford Farming Conference,

00:24:47.780 an overhaul of Britain's agri-industrial food system is needed because it is in crisis.

00:24:53.820 Did you know that?

00:24:54.860 And it's favoring consolidation at the expense of human health, ecology, and the livelihoods of farmers. 0.78

00:25:01.000 Well, joining us now to talk about this is the man who brought this to my attention and many other people on this side of the Atlantic,

00:25:06.180 our friend Mark Morano, who is the curator of ClimateDepot.com.

00:25:10.380 Hey, Mark, good to see you.

00:25:11.560 I tell you, I give remarks for chutzpah going and saying this to farmers.

00:25:18.740 At least she has the courage of her convictions.

00:25:21.820 Let's find the silver lining here.

00:25:24.480 Yeah, well, this is actually a meat tax.

00:25:27.200 Going after meat consumption for global warming has been around for a long time.

00:25:31.580 And it started as a social movement, Meatless Mondays.

00:25:34.820 You have the whole vegetarian movement.

00:25:36.700 Al Gore claims to be a vegan.

00:25:38.140 You have people like Paul McCartney, the ex-Beatle, out there encouraging, you know, no meat consumption,

00:25:43.840 all because of concerns over climate.

00:25:46.220 You have a whole movement to push insects as a replacement source of protein.

00:25:50.740 And that's a serious movement, people pushing bugs as Earth-friendly.

00:25:54.040 Oh, my God.

00:25:55.520 It's everything else.

00:25:56.680 But here's the thing.

00:25:57.920 In 2007, I believe it was, the United Nations came out and said that cow emissions were more harmful to the planet

00:26:03.600 than the entire transportation sector combined, planes, trains, automobiles.

00:26:09.120 And then a few years later, another study came out, a peer-reviewed study showing that actually grazing cows on grassland

00:26:16.860 helped reduce nitrous oxide, another greenhouse gas.

00:26:20.340 They're worried about the methane from the cows, the belching and the farting causing global warming.

00:26:26.000 But then they're also saying a new study came out and said that cows are good for the Earth

00:26:30.440 because it reduces nitrous oxide by the way the cows are grazing on grassland.

00:26:35.740 So you have, again, a contradictory study, two different things happening.

00:26:39.560 But the general consensus among the climate activists is that meat eating is bad, agriculture is bad,

00:26:46.400 let's tax it to death. 0.98

00:26:48.320 And that's where they're going.

00:26:49.460 This is a big step in England.

00:26:50.860 It's out in the open.

00:26:51.820 They're pushing it hard.

00:26:52.760 And there's been proposals like that in the United States to make all kinds of just increases in everything,

00:26:58.720 the cost of everything.

00:27:00.460 Same thing.

00:27:01.080 They want to get rid of coal, oil, gas, make it more expensive.

00:27:04.060 You want to get rid of meat, make it as expensive as possible.

00:27:07.840 Well, I have no doubt that they'll do it, and they'll do it in the name of global warming,

00:27:12.820 but they'll do it really for social control and the tax benefits, too.

00:27:16.680 You know, I used to be chummy with the head of a deli here in Toronto called Kaplansky.

00:27:21.720 And he had a great line about meatless Mondays.

00:27:24.420 He said, aren't Mondays tough enough already?

00:27:27.660 And I just thought that was just a great line.

00:27:30.600 Of course, he was a real meat aficionado.

00:27:34.380 I want to say you mentioned Al Gore.

00:27:36.340 You mentioned Paul McCartney.

00:27:38.640 And I admire McCartney's music.

00:27:40.460 And you have to admire Al Gore's grift, I guess.

00:27:46.620 I wouldn't call it capitalism.

00:27:48.100 I mean, he got a huge payday from the government of Qatar when they bought his TV network off him to create Al Jazeera America.

00:27:56.420 But those are extremely wealthy people.

00:28:00.080 I have never, and I know some vegans, and I find them to be people, and I'm making a judgment call here, but I've been around for a while, and I've met a lot of vegans.

00:28:09.740 And every last one of them is sort of a postmodern wealthy liberal who has no religion in their life.

00:28:20.080 So it's like they've checked all the boxes on wealth and achievement, and they're looking for some sort of meaning.

00:28:30.340 I guess the other way of saying that is I've never met a poor person who's a vegan.

00:28:34.160 I've never met anyone in the third world who's a vegan.

00:28:36.440 I don't even think that exists.

00:28:38.700 I think that being a vegan and going meat-free, except in the extremely rare case where there may be some medical reason,

00:28:46.180 I think it is absolutely just a political statement, some sort of preening of some sort.

00:28:55.340 I think it's fake.

00:28:56.700 I think it's completely fake.

00:28:57.740 What do you think?

00:28:59.240 Absolutely.

00:29:00.100 There's actually a movement to make your dogs and your pets go vegan and go meatless and not allow them to eat meat.

00:29:07.820 This is all about ideology, and as you mentioned, the ideology is matched to very wealthy people.

00:29:14.220 You mentioned a religion.

00:29:15.160 Actually, at Climate Depot a few days ago, there was an incredible essay by two professors from some kind of Bible college in Texas,

00:29:24.560 and they just laid waste to the environmental movement and how basically it is the new religion for urban atheists.

00:29:32.480 And it went through and explained how, and specifically on meat, Ezra, it talked about how this is a very,

00:29:37.660 it's deeply rooted sort of in the religious tradition of deprivation, depriving yourself to serve God and to be more holy,

00:29:48.900 except here you're doing it in service of the climate, in service of the earth.

00:29:53.220 They talk about the Catholic tradition of not eating meat on Mondays, and they're comparing it now.

00:29:57.840 And they actually said that the green ideology is being imposed, and people are accepting it as essentially to many things that medieval clerics,

00:30:07.500 they're worse than medieval clerics.

00:30:09.200 In other words, they are imposing an austere lifestyle on people where you're not allowed, if you follow the religion, of course, of the greens,

00:30:18.280 you're not allowed to fly, to turn your thermostat up, to even use coal or oil or gas, to own a car and have an SUV.

00:30:25.400 These are all sins.

00:30:26.660 But, of course, the leaders of the movement, well, they can do whatever they want because they're important.

00:30:31.160 They're too important to be hamstrung down by the actual rules of this.

00:30:35.060 But they are trying to get a legion of people to impose this kind of self, I guess I'm looking for the word deprivation on themselves.

00:30:46.560 They're just trying to deprive themselves, a very monastic tradition. 0.94

00:30:49.740 You sort of deprive yourself of all pleasures, and that's sort of what the modern greed movement has evolved into.

00:30:55.300 Yeah.

00:30:56.000 You know what?

00:30:56.640 I respect self is a word, flagellation in one case is when you hit yourself, and abnegation, I think, might be another word. 0.90

00:31:05.280 When you're trying to purify your own lusty or corporeal or hedonistic impulses to make yourself, to fix yourself psychologically, emotionally, religiously towards God, I can understand that.

00:31:20.100 But being a vegan, it's almost like, what are the three rules to being a vegan?

00:31:25.560 Number one, tell everybody.

00:31:27.100 Number two, tell everybody.

00:31:27.920 Number three, like it's just, it is only about staring and lecturing and hectoring others.

00:31:33.760 It's sort of the opposite of a religious self-denial and self-mortification.

00:31:40.980 And I think it was Lord Moncton, your friend in the UK, who made the distinction to me that this is different than a religion.

00:31:47.060 This is a superstition.

00:31:48.380 And I love to think of those three armed massive wind turbines as three armed crucifixes that have replaced the cross, the crucifix in Christianity.

00:32:00.200 Well, now we have a three armed cross in the superstition of global warming.

00:32:04.260 And whereas in our religious tradition, we have the Garden of Eden, the time before sin.

00:32:10.160 Well, that's the Industrial Revolution.

00:32:12.160 Before that, when we were just hunter-gatherers, that was this golden era, except for, of course, it wasn't a golden era in real life.

00:32:19.420 It was a time of poverty and deprivation and hunger and disease and discomfort and fear.

00:32:27.240 Life expectancies were 30 before the Industrial Revolution.

00:32:32.640 So the religious superstitious analogy works for environmentalism.

00:32:38.980 But in every single way, the new green superstition is flawed and inferior to the Judeo-Christian West it tries to replace. 1.00

00:32:48.220 Yeah, in fact, this last week, Donald Trump gave his big speech in immigration.

00:32:53.260 The rebuttal was done by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran for president.

00:32:57.880 And he actually said that we seek a fossil-free world because the Earth will be uninhabitable if we don't get rid of fossil fuels.

00:33:05.280 So that's the apocalypse.

00:33:06.920 It's going to be uninhabitable if you do get rid of fossil fuels.

00:33:10.360 And this is where that superstitious belief comes in.

00:33:12.760 They believe that the things that have powered human ingenuity and civilization are now evil, and they're making the Earth uninhabitable.

00:33:21.360 That's a superstition.

00:33:22.340 You can't argue with someone like that.

00:33:23.680 Yeah, but notice how he reaches for the archetypical Christian-Jewish idea of an apocalypse, of a final battle. 0.87

00:33:31.600 You know, we're doomed.

00:33:33.500 The world's going to—

00:33:34.140 Unless we save ourselves.

00:33:36.140 Our salvation comes from getting rid of fossil fuels.

00:33:39.660 We can save ourselves if we're willing to—

00:33:41.700 Oh, there's so many similarities.

00:33:42.980 When you purge religion from the public square, don't think that you've purged religion from people's hearts.

00:33:48.060 They need something.

00:33:49.340 And all the little rituals, like Catholicism in particular, but Judaism too, and a lot of religions have little rituals that are physical, that are tactile,

00:33:59.300 whether it's rosary beads or, you know, sometimes the more Orthodox Jewish traditions,

00:34:05.740 there's lots of little things throughout the day that you would say, well, why do you do that?

00:34:09.420 Why do you, you know, have this kind of bread and that kind of—

00:34:13.580 And it's to infuse a little bit of the holy in every—

00:34:17.340 So infuse a little bit of religion in your day-to-day.

00:34:19.920 So we have lots of rituals in Judaism and Christianity and other religions too.

00:34:24.420 And environmentalism does that too, Mark. 0.99

00:34:27.060 Sorting your garbage. 0.99

00:34:29.620 Composting. 1.00

00:34:30.100 But instead of elevating us, instead of making us holy, you're handling your garbage. 0.99

00:34:37.040 Or the semi-religious edict, don't flush if you just pee.

00:34:41.560 Like, I swear, that's a whole environmentalist movement.

00:34:44.640 So instead of being cleaner, holier, better, the environmental religion makes us gross.

00:34:51.100 It does, yeah.

00:34:54.640 This is—I mean, it's an anti-technology, revert back to our old—the good old days,

00:35:00.800 which, as you said, never existed in the first place.

00:35:04.020 And it's also the apocalyptic tone.

00:35:07.780 Everything is doom and gloom of the future.

00:35:10.540 And they try to—but here's what's different about it.

00:35:12.760 They're doing all this in the name of science.

00:35:15.440 So in a way, they've not only perverted religion and turned it to superstition in their hearts 0.80

00:35:20.600 now, but they've also perverted it—science—on such a level that no previous scares have

00:35:26.680 come close to, because now everything is scientist—science demands we do X, Y, Z.

00:35:33.340 As though the scientists now are the new, you know, new religious clerics who issue edicts

00:35:38.760 from up high.

00:35:39.540 That's what it's become.

00:35:40.360 Yeah.

00:35:41.020 The new priesthood.

00:35:41.980 And talk about an appeal to authority.

00:35:45.240 There's just one more thing, and I know we've been going on about the religion thing for

00:35:48.860 a bit, but when you said that there's a movement for some vegetarian extremists to make their

00:35:56.020 pets, to make their dogs in particular vegetarian, I mean, it's one thing if a person wants to

00:36:01.980 mortify themselves and to deprive themselves, if that's some way of cleansing them.

00:36:09.300 You know, it's one thing to do something to yourself.

00:36:12.460 And I say again that vegetarianism is about bragging to your friends.

00:36:16.620 It's not about self-improvement in most cases.

00:36:18.900 But an animal is an animal.

00:36:21.200 And if you're approaching this from a moral point of view, an animal was made by God or

00:36:26.180 by nature.

00:36:26.740 And its natural instinct and its place in the world is to eat meat, as is a lion's place.

00:36:34.660 To force a lion to be a vegetarian is the worst anthropocentrism, and that's an arrogance

00:36:42.540 unbounded.

00:36:43.680 And it's a form of cruelty.

00:36:45.520 You can't make a lion a vegetarian. 0.81

00:36:47.580 And that's just so gross.

00:36:50.740 And that's what happens when you replace fashionable politics, when you use fashionable politics

00:36:57.840 instead of even nature, even science, let alone religion.

00:37:02.040 I think there's something deeply wrong with people who are vegan.

00:37:05.620 I'm sorry.

00:37:06.360 And there's probably some vegans who are watching this who are getting very mad at me and saying,

00:37:10.160 I'm a good person.

00:37:10.900 And I'm sure you are.

00:37:12.840 But I would say that vegan politics is a crypto religion that, at the heart of it, is anti-human

00:37:20.960 and anti-life.

00:37:21.760 I'm sorry I do believe that.

00:37:22.960 And if I've hurt your feelings, viewers, I apologize.

00:37:26.040 But I mean that.

00:37:27.160 Back to you, Mark.

00:37:27.880 Well, I interviewed the Princeton bioethicist, Peter Singer, years ago.

00:37:34.140 And I was at an animal rights conference.

00:37:35.700 And the message of this conference was that animals and humans are equal.

00:37:39.220 We have no business.

00:37:40.120 We can't call them pets.

00:37:41.700 Actually, even Petco now, the major food chain here, calls them animal companions when you

00:37:46.300 get a form and you buy like a hermit crab or something.

00:37:49.040 They no longer call them pets.

00:37:50.500 So the animal rights movement has made progress in our language, the political correctness. 0.56

00:37:54.420 But basically, I said, how can you ban?

00:37:57.160 And this was a question of the conference.

00:37:58.600 How can you ban humans from eating animals when you don't ban other animals from eating animals?

00:38:04.900 Now, since that time, they are trying to, at least animal companions, not pets.

00:38:08.560 They're trying to get them to stop eating meat.

00:38:10.620 But you can't be equal with an animal.

00:38:13.640 But unless you're going to stop, as you mentioned, lions from eating meat or other animals from

00:38:17.520 eating meat or eating other animals, then we have no business trying to act like we're

00:38:21.680 equal with animals.

00:38:22.640 If they're saying that humans are different and we're at a higher plane, then that's sort

00:38:27.060 of going against the whole thing.

00:38:28.420 And that sounds like a very biblical perspective, that humans are above animals.

00:38:31.540 And that's not something they want to concede.

00:38:33.460 But what they want to do is they want to stop humans from engaging in behavior that animals

00:38:38.420 do.

00:38:38.600 But at the same time, they don't seem to want to ban animals.

00:38:41.420 I don't know of any movement to ban wild animals from eating other animals slash meat.

00:38:46.080 And that's one of the hypocrisies of this whole movement.

00:38:48.260 But yet somehow we're equal to animals and we shouldn't view ourselves above them.

00:38:51.880 This is according to the hardcore animal rights activists.

00:38:54.620 Yeah, you know, you're making me, I haven't thought about this in a very long time, but

00:38:58.980 in my book, Ethical Oil, I talk about some of the deep green, that's what they call the

00:39:03.860 deep green, and then sort of a made up word that I saw them use, ecosophy, sort of ecological

00:39:10.940 philosophy, where they regard humans as a cancer on the planet.

00:39:15.980 And if you look at the writings of Maurice Strong, the late Canadian globalist who was behind

00:39:21.280 Ontario Hydro, who was the chairman of the Rio Conference, I think was at in 92, and

00:39:26.920 the architect of the Kyoto Protocol, Maurice Strong, who was the deputy secretary general

00:39:32.720 of the United Nations, he, in one of his various books, he's got five kids himself, by the

00:39:38.180 way, but in one of his various books, he mused about a societal collapse where the world's

00:39:47.720 population would plunge by 90, 95 percent, and there would be wars like a Mad Max post-apocalyptic

00:39:55.180 scenario, and that only a few back-to-the-earth types like himself, of course, would survive.

00:40:01.380 He regarded that as sort of an ideal future of, he wanted to see civilizational collapse.

00:40:09.200 He actually said so.

00:40:11.200 This is the same guy, by the way, who mused publicly about having to have licenses before

00:40:18.460 humans are allowed to have babies.

00:40:20.780 I think there is some, and I'm sure I'm going to get mail from viewers who are mad at me

00:40:25.560 because they consider themselves gentle vegetarians or gentle environmentalists, but to them I

00:40:31.400 would say if you follow the logical path far enough, you will get to the inevitable conclusion

00:40:37.360 that Maurice Strong himself did.

00:40:40.340 Last word to you, Mark.

00:40:41.420 I know this was an unusual conversation.

00:40:43.460 It didn't go the path I had planned.

00:40:45.100 I was going to talk more about meat taxes and what's the likelihood, and when we see them

00:40:49.160 in Canada, too, and we just started talking about the immorality, and I think that's fine.

00:40:53.600 Give me one last word on meat taxes and morality.

00:40:57.180 Well, what I was about to say is what you said about it's ironic because on one hand, they

00:41:01.160 warned that unless we put global warming in check, billions of us will die.

00:41:05.040 Cities won't be inhabitable.

00:41:06.260 The earth, Bernie Sanders just said this week, the earth won't be inhabitable.

00:41:09.160 But on the other hand, they want that.

00:41:11.960 On the other hand, that's a good thing, right?

00:41:14.900 Interestingly enough, this whole immigration debate in Washington right now, I have a 2013

00:41:21.860 study from a peer-reviewed journal claiming that global warming will cause agriculture in

00:41:28.460 Mexico to collapse by 2080 and cause mass migration up to nearly 10% of the Mexican population to

00:41:34.640 move to the U.S. On the other hand, we have activist Bill McKibben claiming that global

00:41:40.100 warming will reduce, that increased illegal immigration will reduce global warming because

00:41:45.540 the more Mexicans and Latin Americans that come to the United States, they'll live a wealthier 1.00

00:41:50.160 life and thus will have less kids and be less resource attentive.

00:41:53.880 So on one hand, global warming causes more migration.

00:41:57.520 And on the other hand, more migration causes less global warming.

00:42:00.780 It's that same contradiction.

00:42:02.180 Global warming will kill us all. 0.79

00:42:03.460 And on the other hand, we want global warming to kill us all.

00:42:05.780 You can't keep track.

00:42:07.100 They're all over the place with their predictions and their philosophy even.

00:42:10.800 Yeah.

00:42:11.400 It's unlike any other religion I've heard of.

00:42:13.440 But basically, the global warming cult basically lets you say or do anything you want because

00:42:18.540 they can always point to some kooky study that says this or it says the opposite.

00:42:23.040 They can always.

00:42:23.520 And that's why it's so attractive to politicians.

00:42:25.400 It's got that mystic aura to it.

00:42:28.440 It has the priesthood, the scientists who they can, who they'll say anything on demand for cash.

00:42:34.460 And I don't know, they, it's most bizarre.

00:42:38.460 I think a lot of grassroots citizens are waking up to it, but I would say that the global warming

00:42:43.480 cult is most strong in Canada, especially in our prime minister and our cult-like environment

00:42:48.880 minister.

00:42:49.520 You don't even know the half of it, Mark.

00:42:52.840 Our Catherine McKenna, our environment minister is, is truly a cult-like member of the thing.

00:42:59.500 And one day when you come to Canada, we'll give you a fuller briefing on it.

00:43:02.520 But until then, I appreciate you taking the time to be with us on TV.

00:43:06.320 Thank you, Rester.

00:43:07.160 Appreciate it.

00:43:07.600 All right.

00:43:08.060 Cheers.

00:43:08.460 Well, there's our friend, Mark Morano from ClimateDepot.com.

00:43:11.860 That conversation went a bit of a different path, but I hope you don't mind.

00:43:14.780 And give me your thoughts if you have counterpoints on vegetarianism.

00:43:17.920 Perhaps I was a bit rough on you, but I didn't mean to be rough on you.

00:43:20.780 I meant to be rough on the ideology.

00:43:22.920 Stay with us.

00:43:23.840 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:43:36.300 Hey, welcome back.

00:43:37.060 Back on my monologue yesterday.

00:43:38.060 I think Soros admired Hitler's basic dictatorship.

00:43:42.780 The irony is that Prime Minister Butz is working with Soros, but he claims his political opponents are alt-right Nazis.

00:43:49.600 Now, I don't think that George Soros is a Nazi, but I think that he collaborated with him in the form of riding his bicycle around Budapest as a teenager, serving summonses to fellow Jews to get on the death trains. 0.86

00:44:02.960 I know he admits he did that.

00:44:04.960 He said it was the most exciting time of his life, and then he later told 60 Minutes he has no compunction about doing that.

00:44:09.780 So I'd say he's a Nazi collaborator based on those facts. 0.79

00:44:12.560 I wouldn't say he's a Nazi.

00:44:14.120 But I also would point out that he does not like Jews or the Jewish state.

00:44:17.280 And although he himself has a vestigial Judaism, he was born a Jew, he finances anti-Israel lobby groups.

00:44:25.460 It's bizarre.

00:44:26.520 It's bizarre.

00:44:27.500 It's unnatural.

00:44:28.500 It's anti-Western.

00:44:29.480 It's against the very system that gave him life.

00:44:31.800 But that's the left for you.

00:44:34.280 Ryan writes,

00:44:35.040 If Trudeau should lose the next election, would Soros put some money towards the conservatives in the next election?

00:44:41.000 Soros could play both sides of the aisle.

00:44:43.200 That way, he'd have a good plan B, just in case plan A doesn't work out.

00:44:47.860 Well, Soros has so many tentacles, and this is not conspiracy theories.

00:44:51.240 I encourage you to go to his website called opensocietyfoundations.org.

00:44:56.940 He'll tell you what he's up to.

00:44:58.760 He'll publish the details.

00:44:59.660 I showed you various links to it yesterday.

00:45:01.500 He brags about spending $32 billion so far.

00:45:05.040 That's not some wild-eyed, crazy person saying that.

00:45:08.580 That's them saying what they do.

00:45:10.800 And they detail who most of their grants go to.

00:45:14.900 And, of course, Soros has tried to influence politics in America, and has been largely successful,

00:45:20.720 but not successful in getting Hillary Clinton elected.

00:45:23.200 So I think he's decided to colonize Canada instead as his next best thing.

00:45:28.680 On Shakespeare's sonnets, Zuzanna writes,

00:45:31.700 I never wanted to have kids until I met my late husband.

00:45:34.040 I admired his self-confidence, quick-wittedness, and aloofness that I couldn't have for myself,

00:45:39.060 but wanted to repeat into the next generation that I had a child with him.

00:45:42.920 Now that he's gone, every once in a while I get a glimpse of his qualities through our son.

00:45:47.240 It's like getting a wink and a quick hello from him.

00:45:49.480 I am so thankful to see that spirit go on.

00:45:51.840 Isn't that a beautiful thing to say?

00:45:56.200 And that is exactly what Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago.

00:46:01.320 I encourage you to pick up a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets.

00:46:06.000 You can find it online.

00:46:07.160 You can find it.

00:46:07.540 I got it on an app on my phone.

00:46:09.120 It's a free app.

00:46:10.080 It's free.

00:46:10.620 And the first dozen or so sonnets are his arguments for having kids.

00:46:16.260 And that's a beautiful story you just told.

00:46:18.720 Thank you for sharing that.

00:46:20.580 On the new set for the show, Graham writes,

00:46:23.440 Seeing that fancy-schmancy new set makes me think maybe Ezra took a slice of that warm $595 million Trudeau pie.

00:46:30.240 Thank you for your flattery.

00:46:37.560 I should tell you that, I mean, you probably know this, that this is a computer-generated background.

00:46:44.360 I am not actually standing in a gorgeous loft overlooking Toronto's downtown with the CN Tower behind me.

00:46:53.480 I am in a one-story industrial building in a low-rent part of town in a closed box with no windows.

00:47:02.900 And that's simply a green screen behind me, which is exactly what it sounds like,

00:47:06.980 onto which the computer projects that gorgeous set.

00:47:11.280 So I am sorry to disappoint you, or maybe I am thrilled to relieve you of your suspicion

00:47:18.040 that this is actually a million-dollar set.

00:47:22.040 It ain't!

00:47:23.600 And you know what?

00:47:24.600 I'm glad.

00:47:25.860 Because being super cheap and having a computer-generated background,

00:47:32.260 instead of actually paying downtown rents,

00:47:35.120 is exactly why The Rebel will reach our fourth birthday next month,

00:47:40.080 while so many other media companies go out of work.

00:47:42.880 I remember when we started.

00:47:44.240 We started in my own living room four years ago.

00:47:47.220 And I knew we wouldn't stay there, but I knew we would never go fancy.

00:47:50.060 Because one thing I learned when I was a much younger man,

00:47:53.040 when I started to work for Ted Byfield and Link Byfield at the Alberta Report,

00:47:56.520 is that there was no sense spending a dollar if it couldn't be detected as value by a reader.

00:48:03.300 As in, why would you have a fancy office?

00:48:05.940 How does that improve the product?

00:48:07.320 Why would you spend money on perks that cannot be valued and seen by the end reader?

00:48:15.020 And I think there's something to that.

00:48:17.020 We only have used office furniture here.

00:48:20.340 We do buy good computers, but you have to.

00:48:23.940 But even our cameras are rather cheap.

00:48:26.140 Maybe they're too cheap.

00:48:26.920 Maybe we should upgrade a bit.

00:48:28.160 But I think maybe you were joking.

00:48:31.060 I think you sort of know that that's not a real background.

00:48:34.120 And I think you sort of know that we would never take the money.

00:48:36.480 And you probably know that the money hasn't been pursed out yet at all.

00:48:39.560 But it gave me a good opportunity to tell you that, no,

00:48:43.060 this is a computer-generated set.

00:48:45.060 And we will never take government money.

00:48:46.880 And let's be honest, no government money would ever be offered in any event.

00:48:50.860 Well, that's our show for the day and for the week.

00:48:52.760 It is great to be back in Toronto.

00:48:53.960 I was away for far too long over the Christmas break.

00:48:56.900 The missus wanted me to go on vacation.

00:48:59.400 I hadn't really taken one in a year.

00:49:01.180 And I did have a couple of business trips I had to jam in there too.

00:49:04.400 But it's great to be back.

00:49:05.900 And until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:49:09.100 to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:49:23.960 We'll be right back in time.

00:49:26.840 We'll be right back.

00:49:26.900 We'll be right back.

00:49:27.400 We'll be right back.

00:49:27.660 We'll see you in the next week.

00:49:28.340 We'll see you next week.

Rebel News Podcast - January 12, 2019

CRTC wants to regulate companies that make short news videos — like The Rebel Media

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