Rebel News Podcast - DAILY ｜ Trucker Convoy Updates

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Rebel News daily live stream.

00:00:19.300 However, this is not a live stream.

00:00:21.320 We had a major technical difficulty in Toronto HQ today, but that is not the problem of our

00:00:27.160 viewers.

00:00:27.580 So, relying on a little bit of quick learning on my side and Alberta Ingenuity, my friend

00:00:35.000 and co-host Adam Sosa and I are going to do what is normally the live stream.

00:00:39.660 We're going to pre-record it, but we are going to do what we always do, and that's talk about

00:00:43.220 the news of the day in an unscripted way.

00:00:45.820 Unfortunately, because this is not live, we will not be able to interact with our viewers,

00:00:51.100 which is one of the great things about the Rebel News live stream.

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00:01:26.880 to one of those other platforms that I just mentioned.

00:01:29.940 So those are Rumble, Odyssey, and SuperU.

00:01:32.780 And I'm trying a little something new with my broadcasting software.

00:01:36.360 So bear with me if you wouldn't mind, everybody, as Adam and I kick off the show.

00:01:42.760 Adam, how's it going, by the way?

00:01:44.520 You had a very exciting Monday morning in the sky, did you not?

00:01:49.020 Yes, I did.

00:01:49.560 It was a bright and early morning.

00:01:51.360 We get up pretty early, do our calls and all that kind of stuff.

00:01:54.080 But we were up, and we were up for a couple hours before the light even came out.

00:01:57.820 But we went up in the helicopter, covered the truck convoy that is making international

00:02:03.620 headlines, actually being covered by other news agencies.

00:02:07.660 Unbelievable.

00:02:08.580 Certainly not with the same level of detail and integrity that we're covering it.

00:02:12.940 As you know, MoCA, our own MoCA, is embedded with that truck convoy.

00:02:16.420 But yeah, we got to take this unique perspective and fly overhead and watch the group as it

00:02:21.900 began to gather.

00:02:23.340 And as they started to roll out, we then made our way out on foot and drove over and got

00:02:28.780 to wave at some folks as they were driving by.

00:02:31.240 So it was definitely a pretty cool day.

00:02:33.520 Yeah.

00:02:33.620 You saw them too, right, in Edmonton.

00:02:35.700 So what was that like?

00:02:36.860 Yeah, I did.

00:02:37.660 I saw them as the trucks were coming from the West, rolling into Edmonton, picking up the

00:02:42.960 Edmonton truckers.

00:02:43.940 And I have covered convoys in the past.

00:02:47.280 I covered many of the United We Roll convoys, the smaller ones, and then I sort of covered

00:02:52.000 the big one as it kicked off.

00:02:54.600 And there's something so great about a truck convoy.

00:03:00.060 And it feels as though sometimes society needs to be reminded of the lessons of the movie

00:03:05.400 Armageddon.

00:03:06.560 And that is when all the fancy people and the politicians and the academics didn't know

00:03:10.540 what to do.

00:03:11.100 They send in the blue-collar guys to save the world.

00:03:15.020 And that is so often the case when the academics can't admit they're wrong.

00:03:19.880 The politicians are playing political games.

00:03:21.900 It's always the normals, the rig hands, the truckers, the construction workers, the truckers.

00:03:28.360 Those are the guys who end up saving the world when everybody else makes a mess of it.

00:03:32.680 So here's to those truckers.

00:03:34.320 And if people want to follow, by the way, our reports, we have a reporter, actually two

00:03:39.660 of them, embedded in the convoy, Mocha Bezergin.

00:03:44.420 Sorry, Mocha, I say your name wrong every time I say it.

00:03:47.200 But Mocha Bezergin, he's on the convoy.

00:03:49.520 You can follow his reports at convoyreports.com.

00:03:52.300 And you can support his independent journalism because all along the way, the mainstream media

00:03:55.900 is going to talk about the truckers and talk about who they are, but they're never going

00:04:01.520 to actually talk directly to them or their supporters.

00:04:04.540 And I can see the demonization of the truck convoy is reaching a fevered pitch as it makes

00:04:10.520 its way closer and closer to Ottawa.

00:04:13.420 So Mocha's journalism is, it's incredibly necessary to debunk the mainstream media narratives about

00:04:22.960 the convoy and who's on it and who's supporting it.

00:04:25.400 100%.

00:04:27.180 I love what you were talking about earlier.

00:04:30.160 And it's so funny.

00:04:30.840 I was not particularly a fan of this movie.

00:04:33.580 And spoiler alerts, if you haven't seen it, but this Don't Look Out movie, that's basically

00:04:37.300 just like a giant metaphor for climate alarmism.

00:04:40.340 But it's funny, like, and this is a massive spoiler, so don't pay attention.

00:04:43.740 But they're sending this, like, American soldier patriot cliche guy, again, massive spoiler

00:04:50.000 alert, to blow up and destroy the comet.

00:04:52.540 And then the Apple tech guy's like, oh, well, we can mine it instead.

00:04:55.800 So they turn this guy around and stop him from completing his heroic mission to blow up

00:05:00.580 the comet.

00:05:01.020 Like, the blue collar soldier type class guy is going to take care of business.

00:05:05.200 And then the big tech think tank politicos mess everything up for absolutely everyone.

00:05:11.880 And I won't say how it ends, but yeah, yeah.

00:05:15.020 That was two hours of my life.

00:05:16.560 I'll never get back that movie.

00:05:17.760 I know, right?

00:05:18.360 The only good thing is, and again, spoiler alert, everybody died at the end.

00:05:27.760 And I was like, you know what?

00:05:28.720 They all had it coming, so it's fine.

00:05:30.400 We should get to the news of the day, though.

00:05:33.260 Yes.

00:05:33.480 And again, I'm trying something a little nifty with my broadcasting software, so let's see

00:05:40.040 if this works out.

00:05:42.800 All right.

00:05:43.560 So from Black Lock's reporter today, the government flies hip-hop to the Arctic.

00:05:51.360 Department, there's nothing these people won't waste your money on.

00:05:55.240 The Department of Canadian Heritage is billing taxpayers to fly hip-hop dancers, rappers, and

00:06:00.160 African drummers to Nunavut to observe Black History Month in February.

00:06:04.640 Accounts show documents detail nearly $83,000 in funding, including talent fees for one senator

00:06:13.420 to visit Nunavut.

00:06:15.620 This is not something I wish to discuss with you, said Stephanie Bernard, I bet not, of

00:06:21.080 Iqaluit, president of the Nunavut Black History Society, that successfully applied for subsidies.

00:06:26.900 I'm surprised they even had to apply, by the way.

00:06:28.860 Bernard declined to comment on access to information records detailing grants to the club that

00:06:33.420 totaled a quarter million dollars since 2019.

00:06:37.760 What are they doing with all that money?

00:06:41.940 Adam, help us.

00:06:44.100 And you know, when I first originally saw $83,000, I was like, that's not bad considering the government's

00:06:49.800 involved.

00:06:51.100 That is how bad things have gotten.

00:06:53.440 Wasn't it $80,000 that embroiled Paul Martin in the scandal that ended his political

00:06:58.840 career?

00:06:59.840 Yeah.

00:07:00.140 And now, how far have we come?

00:07:01.600 That $83,000 is how much they spent on sending a hip-hop troupe to the coldest parts of the

00:07:08.120 country.

00:07:08.560 I just, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

00:07:12.480 And it's so emblematic of how willy-nilly they'll throw money around.

00:07:18.640 Like, God forbid they help a veteran out whose limb was blown off, fighting for freedom,

00:07:23.760 liberating a country.

00:07:24.740 We don't have any money for those people.

00:07:27.040 But $83,000 to fly a hip-hop group up there, no problem.

00:07:30.900 $10 million for a terrorist, no problem.

00:07:33.220 That stuff, like, enough to say that those things are equivalent by any stretch of the

00:07:37.080 imagination.

00:07:37.460 But we've lost something of the core sensibilities of the country.

00:07:42.220 Inflation is absolutely skyrocketing.

00:07:44.240 Government spending is contributing to that. 0.94

00:07:46.220 And this is just so emblematic of the type of ridiculous thing. 0.57

00:07:50.420 Frankly, I'm sure there's probably someone within those communities who does hip-hop themselves. 0.91

00:07:56.200 It's a small town.

00:07:57.480 You don't see small-town rural Alberta getting a million dollars from the government to fly

00:08:02.620 Garth Brooks in.

00:08:04.000 They could have had a local person do a show, and everyone would have enjoyed it, and it

00:08:08.620 would have been authentic local hip-hop culture on display.

00:08:11.320 But, no, they did this.

00:08:14.180 It's the most liberal government thing I've heard of, possibly.

00:08:19.780 Adam, there are 7,700 people in all of Iqaluit.

00:08:25.460 7,700.

00:08:28.260 This one club has gotten from the government a quarter of a million dollars alone since 2019.

00:08:38.340 What are they doing with this money?

00:08:40.660 I'm literally picturing, like, all of them decked out and pimped out Cadillacs, with Snoop

00:08:47.140 Dogg blaring, rolling down the streets, all gold rims.

00:08:50.980 That's what they should have.

00:08:52.960 But given how government assets are allocated, I'm imagining that no one's life has improved,

00:08:59.580 and that they got one massively overproduced performance or two out of it.

00:09:04.780 I can't imagine that it is ameliorating the lives of Black communities there by any stretch

00:09:11.200 of the imagination.

00:09:12.060 I can virtually guarantee that those funds are not accomplishing that in any way, shape,

00:09:16.700 or form.

00:09:17.900 I'm interested to know what Stephanie Bernard, president of the Nunavut Black History Society, 0.90

00:09:23.260 makes every year.

00:09:25.760 I bet you.

00:09:26.680 I bet you don't want to talk about it.

00:09:28.620 Yeah, no kidding.

00:09:29.640 I bet you it's somewhere totaling a quarter of a million dollars since 2019.

00:09:34.780 I'm willing to bet.

00:09:36.080 Like, you're the head of this group that's getting a quarter million dollars, and someone's

00:09:40.760 like, what is going on here?

00:09:42.240 This is taxpayers' money.

00:09:43.300 I don't want to talk about that.

00:09:44.380 But, uh, excuse me?

00:09:47.180 I think we should do an information request on that.

00:09:49.040 Let's do it.

00:09:50.400 Yeah.

00:09:50.980 I mean, the thing is, it's a club, so it's a grant, so I can't really find out.

00:09:56.720 But I would still like to see what her application looks like, because she would have to make 0.98

00:10:03.580 an application.

00:10:04.540 Apparently, they applied for it, which is actually surprising, because they're just, usually

00:10:08.300 they're like, this is somebody else's money.

00:10:11.840 It's fine.

00:10:12.540 That's usually what they're like.

00:10:13.840 But, um, well, they spend more than this on a cover page.

00:10:17.140 So, like, the amount, honestly, isn't that shocking to me.

00:10:19.260 And that's sad.

00:10:19.860 It should be.

00:10:20.720 Like, the level to which we've swayed from sensible spending concerns is so dramatic.

00:10:27.840 Now we're like, well, it's like, it's only like a few million dollars, or it's only a

00:10:31.260 few extra million of these, a few extra million of those.

00:10:34.180 It's only one Toblerone bar going missing, or one airplane full of alcohol.

00:10:40.100 Yeah.

00:10:41.260 It's just my stolen Toblerones.

00:10:43.320 This is symptomatic of both society at large.

00:10:46.820 But I mean, it's, it's more like, it's so Justin Trudeau.

00:10:50.840 Well, and you know, like, if you're looking for government handouts, just name yourself

00:10:56.200 the president of a marginalized group society.

00:11:00.140 And it doesn't matter that you are in a place of 7,700 people where almost everyone's indigenous,

00:11:08.400 by the way.

00:11:09.400 If you are, you know, in charge of the Black History Month society, here's a quarter of

00:11:14.480 a million dollars.

00:11:15.200 It's fine.

00:11:15.560 It's just taxpayer money.

00:11:16.520 It's no big deal.

00:11:17.160 While the cost of groceries is out of control up there.

00:11:20.340 And there, you know, could be other things done to address what it's like to live in a

00:11:25.480 marginalized community like Iqaluit.

00:11:28.060 But you know, we're, we're doing this stuff.

00:11:29.940 We're flying hip, well-paid CanCon hip hop artists up there.

00:11:33.640 And the, like, the other thing here is like, like hip hop is massive in indigenous communities.

00:11:39.260 It just is.

00:11:40.160 In fact, there's a bunch of indigenous hip hop artists.

00:11:44.300 It would make like a little bit more sense.

00:11:46.780 Like that, like Superman.

00:11:47.900 I don't know if you're familiar with him.

00:11:49.020 I think he's from the United States, but incredible indigenous hip hop artists.

00:11:53.260 If there was at least some sort of connection where there's like enrichment within the indigenous

00:11:57.500 community and, or people within that community are getting paid and creating art or something.

00:12:03.640 You could see, I mean, I'm not that I'm really in favor of that kind of spending, but you could

00:12:07.940 at least be like, oh, okay.

00:12:09.940 But this is just like, we're flying in folks.

00:12:12.600 Then we're dropping a quarter million dollars on a concert.

00:12:15.540 Yeah, it's, it's, it's nonsense.

00:12:17.560 And it's pretty self-evident why she didn't want to talk about it.

00:12:21.720 I don't want to talk about it.

00:12:23.160 Don't ask me these tough questions.

00:12:25.440 Now, next story, moving on to something that's still YouTube safe for now.

00:12:31.300 However, I anticipate this to be changing very, very quickly.

00:12:37.360 Fight Club.

00:12:38.220 I don't know if you can see this, but Fight Club's ending for the Chinese release was changed

00:12:44.040 to this.

00:12:45.460 And now I'm waiting for someone to fanfic a sequel based on the censored ending.

00:12:50.780 So the censored ending, if I can bring it up and if everyone would be so kind as to bear

00:12:56.360 with me here, um, Adam, do you remember the, uh, sorry, the original ending of Fight Club?

00:13:04.280 Yeah, everything blows up and it descends into anarchy and yeah.

00:13:08.680 I mean, yeah, go ahead.

00:13:11.720 I was just going to say though, but I mean, and I'm sure you're going to get there, but

00:13:14.160 maybe we should just read this first out there and talk about this and then juxtapose it to

00:13:18.640 the intention of the entire film.

00:13:20.640 We're talking about films a lot today.

00:13:22.920 Yeah, this is, uh, it looks as though there's a little bit of, uh, Chinese authoritarian snitch 0.85

00:13:29.680 culture happening here.

00:13:30.960 But anyways, this is the new ending to Fight Club.

00:13:34.920 Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested

00:13:40.840 all the criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding.

00:13:44.640 After the trial, oh, they went all the way to trial.

00:13:47.760 Tyler was sent to a lunatic asylum, receiving psychological treatment.

00:13:51.740 He was just discharged from the hospital in 2012.

00:13:55.900 So, um, he's out now, I guess that's the moral of this story.

00:14:00.260 Like, is, I, I know there's a blue check mark there, but is that definitely real?

00:14:04.940 Because it sounds so crazy.

00:14:07.220 Like, I mean, I believe it's China, so it sounds so crazy. 0.98

00:14:09.880 So that's right.

00:14:10.600 I mean, the entire purpose of that film is how, like, I mean, people may disagree, but

00:14:16.480 like a homogenized, structured, uh, single use friend, consumptive society without substance

00:14:24.560 is fundamentally unnatural and defies our human nature.

00:14:29.880 And when we're subjected to that for so long, we, we create escape mechanisms, um, which would

00:14:36.480 be Tyler Durden.

00:14:37.260 Um, so the entire purpose of the film is that humans can't survive in Chinese culture. 0.99

00:14:42.480 Uh, and I don't mean traditional Chinese culture, I mean, communist Chinese culture, um, human

00:14:47.280 beings cannot survive in that environment.

00:14:48.840 That's the point of that film.

00:14:51.120 And, and they've, they've tweaked the end.

00:14:53.940 Like, I mean, if people aren't seeing through that tweak at the ending, so their implication

00:14:58.540 is that he was creating these clues not to reveal to himself that he's Tyler Durden, but

00:15:04.120 that he was trying to reveal to the Chinese authorities what the ploy was, I mean, that's

00:15:09.720 some creative writing.

00:15:11.420 Yeah.

00:15:11.900 They just basically, uh, they went, so it ends, apparently I'm reading this on the express.

00:15:20.340 Uh, the ending saw him kill off his fictional, fictional alter ego before watching many buildings

00:15:26.400 implode, implying the plan to bring down civilization had begun.

00:15:29.960 And I think they were going to destroy, like, everyone's credit records to sort of reset who

00:15:35.360 and what people were.

00:15:36.760 However, while the new version in China does end with the narrator murdering Durden, the

00:15:43.220 explosion was replaced with a black screen and a message saying what happened next in the

00:15:48.560 newly altered plot.

00:15:50.600 Wow.

00:15:51.160 Was the Pixies song still playing?

00:15:54.080 Where is my mind?

00:15:56.000 Over the black screen.

00:15:58.100 I've seen the movie a few times.

00:15:59.620 I know the soundtrack.

00:16:00.420 It's okay.

00:16:01.180 But, uh, is that, was I, if that song was still playing over top of that, that is absolutely

00:16:07.060 hilarious.

00:16:08.560 Yeah.

00:16:08.860 So I guess in the Chinese version, uh, Fight Club's new edited conclusion sees the state

00:16:17.140 as the ultimate winner over the people who are disruptors, um, which is, I guess, the

00:16:23.040 story of China, um, with a healthy dose of snitch in there too, but, you know, a little

00:16:30.780 bit.

00:16:31.200 So that's fun.

00:16:32.640 Um, and again, I don't know how long, I mean, we can joke about what China's doing, but, 0.94

00:16:38.580 uh, big tech censors, the internet all the time.

00:16:41.220 There are things that we cannot talk about on YouTube because YouTube will nuke our channel.

00:16:46.120 And really, how is that any different than what China's doing with this movie Fight Club? 0.98

00:16:51.500 If there are certain things that we know to be true, medical studies, scientific studies,

00:16:58.900 even people's personal anecdotes where we've seen supporting documents, but we can't share

00:17:04.540 those on YouTube because they go against the official narrative that YouTube wants out

00:17:08.140 there.

00:17:09.020 How is that really any different than what China's doing? 0.60

00:17:11.080 Really?

00:17:11.440 Yeah.

00:17:11.680 I mean, go ahead.

00:17:13.540 No, I was going to say you're, you're absolutely dead on there.

00:17:16.680 Like realistically, we, our stream carries on, but in the YouTube version of the stream

00:17:22.080 and the, and the China version of the stream, it cuts off and everyone learned their moral

00:17:26.280 lesson about the topic we're not supposed to talk about.

00:17:29.680 It's a different, it's a different ending.

00:17:31.520 YouTube has a different ending, just like China does of this story that we're telling. 0.98

00:17:35.620 And it's hauntingly how similar it is because it's about it aligned with their values and

00:17:41.320 aligning with their convictions, which is what they changed this entire film to align

00:17:46.480 with their convictions, to align with their values.

00:17:48.540 So.

00:17:49.120 Yeah.

00:17:49.300 We all get the fight club treatment.

00:17:51.500 Isn't that weird?

00:17:52.300 I mean, we have to make YouTube trailers for our videos that are not even all that particularly

00:17:57.700 spicy.

00:17:58.540 They just happen to be particularly accurate.

00:18:01.000 And we have to just make trailers to direct people to go to other platforms where they

00:18:07.380 can find our work.

00:18:08.340 And that's exactly what people have to do with this movie.

00:18:10.600 You know, you can watch the Chinese version or you can get the bootleg original American

00:18:15.200 version somewhere along the way.

00:18:16.880 If you live behind the censorship wall of China.

00:18:23.420 Anyways, we should move along.

00:18:25.420 I just want to say his name was Robert Paulson before we move on.

00:18:28.220 And that's the last thing.

00:18:30.840 We should move along.

00:18:32.400 And you know what?

00:18:33.300 We're like 20 minutes into the show and nothing catastrophic has happened.

00:18:36.700 We're doing okay, Adam.

00:18:37.560 You're doing great.

00:18:38.200 Thank you.

00:18:39.960 Next thing.

00:18:43.340 It's about the absentee rates in schools.

00:18:49.580 And I've got some opinions about this because I don't think the I think these are artificially

00:18:54.960 high absentee rates, but we'll get to the story and then we'll give our opinions as we

00:18:58.700 tend to do.

00:18:59.820 So this is 111 Ontario schools are reporting staff and student absence rates above 50 percent.

00:19:07.000 New data by the education ministry shows 337 schools reported staff and student absence

00:19:13.320 rates above 30 percent.

00:19:15.340 Gosh, that's a lot.

00:19:17.900 More than 100 Ontario schools, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:20.660 Let's keep reading.

00:19:22.060 The data includes all absences, not just those that might be related to COVID-19, making it

00:19:27.580 tough to gauge the impact of the Omicron variant on Ontario's school system now that the

00:19:32.460 province is no longer publicly reporting cases in schools.

00:19:38.020 For me, I think bring myself back onto the screen here.

00:19:43.920 I think this has a lot to do with how everybody freaks out when you have the sniffles and you

00:19:49.820 have to go home.

00:19:50.640 Like you can't just go to school with a pocket full of Kleenex.

00:19:56.760 Now, the second you have like you clear your throat and they're like calling your parents

00:20:02.460 to come pick you up, even though it's like, no, it's just a dry throat.

00:20:05.560 It's the furnace going all the time.

00:20:06.840 It's minus 30.

00:20:07.520 And so everybody freaks out and everybody goes home.

00:20:10.960 And so you have these enormous absentee rates, but it's just an overreaction to the fact

00:20:16.740 that if someone clears their throat, everybody thinks they have the Delta variant, not just

00:20:23.800 the Omicron sniffles.

00:20:26.020 Yeah.

00:20:26.460 And I don't know if we want to politely say goodbye to our friends on YouTube per the

00:20:31.600 edit now and really get into this.

00:20:34.140 Is that the...

00:20:35.000 Unfortunately, friends, we're going to now talk about things that big tech has decided

00:20:42.220 we aren't allowed to talk about, even though they are honestly held opinions supported by

00:20:47.380 evidence and facts.

00:20:48.480 We just can't do that.

00:20:49.600 So if you are watching us on YouTube, we don't want to abandon you.

00:20:52.680 We want you to join us on either Odyssey, Rumble or Super U, three neutral platforms that

00:20:59.100 don't care about your politics and we don't care about theirs.

00:21:02.060 So if you would just take a second to migrate over there and we will.

00:21:05.000 We'll continue the conversation over there.

00:21:07.540 And since this is pre-recorded, we don't have to wait for that cut to happen.

00:21:11.160 So Adam, take it away.

00:21:12.600 So whenever I say we have to transition over, I'm obviously going to say something we can't

00:21:15.840 say on those other platforms.

00:21:17.240 It's incredible that we saw absolutely massive absentee rates in December 2019 when the government

00:21:25.040 of Canada shut off our pandemic response system after the Wuhan military games.

00:21:30.540 And we're not allowing while other countries to test those people to be tested because

00:21:35.280 heaven forbid anyone imply that this originated in China, which seems to be almost the borderline

00:21:40.660 scientific consensus now.

00:21:42.420 But we saw these massive rates of kids not attending school, people being sick.

00:21:48.580 I was sick at that time as well.

00:21:50.040 And this was before, I think, March of that year.

00:21:52.420 They really started talking about the scale of this.

00:21:55.900 But we had serious sickness, but no one was talking about that.

00:22:00.200 It wasn't part of the government narrative.

00:22:01.520 No one was reporting on that.

00:22:02.760 Now, when we want to make Omicron or Delta or whatever they want to call it these days

00:22:06.380 scary, now we're reporting on these facts.

00:22:09.940 The amount of twisted reporting like this, even with an interview I did the other day,

00:22:14.280 they're talking about students, post-secondary students going back to schools.

00:22:18.080 And there's no coverage of these hundreds of students who've been excluded from their

00:22:21.320 education.

00:22:22.160 But the Calgary Herald did a piece on a group of students starting a petition so that those

00:22:26.400 students aren't allowed back to go to return to their school.

00:22:30.160 That's the coverage they're providing.

00:22:31.760 I think that this is the sort of last bit of fear mongering as things start to shift.

00:22:37.700 We've talked about this before.

00:22:40.220 There's a few politicians who have been sort of outspoken and have been pushing back a

00:22:45.300 little bit against us and have made some strong claims.

00:22:47.720 But generally, everyone from Ford to Kenny to just about everyone, with the exception of

00:22:52.980 maybe Scott Moe, who pushed back a little bit, not very much, but a little bit, they've

00:22:58.700 all been complicit.

00:22:59.900 Now the tide is changing.

00:23:02.180 They aren't saying anything that the UK government or Fauci, who have been big-time abusers,

00:23:07.980 aren't saying as well.

00:23:09.620 So now they want to parade as these heroes who are liberators, and they're giving us

00:23:14.400 our freedoms back.

00:23:15.180 So I think this, with the tide changing, these are those last little bits of fear mongering

00:23:19.960 that these people who, not all of them, but some of them are still getting money from

00:23:23.620 the federal government, very often most of them.

00:23:25.920 They still want to pay their dividends, but they don't want to completely alienate their

00:23:29.200 base as the tide is shifting.

00:23:31.420 So they're going to start sharing these.

00:23:33.380 It isn't quite the horror stories you're hearing from before, but it's still sort of

00:23:38.020 subtle implications that things are very, very bad.

00:23:42.060 Frankly, the reason that so many people aren't in school and the reason absenteeism is so

00:23:46.600 high is because over the past two years, what we've told these kids and what we've told

00:23:51.480 their parents is that school does not matter.

00:23:54.080 If you don't feel like coming to school, don't come to school.

00:23:58.020 You can learn just as much at home.

00:24:00.300 Socialization doesn't matter.

00:24:01.900 If there's even a, I mean, how many deaths are there actually in Canada with no comorbidities

00:24:06.820 under 14?

00:24:08.620 Like, minimal.

00:24:10.840 Like, I think it's maybe 20, maybe not even that.

00:24:13.200 I think those, I think the 23 figure is comorbidities, but it's very, very low.

00:24:17.700 Um, but what they've done is despite the risk that you, if you're in that age group and you're

00:24:22.540 healthy, you're not likely to get very sick for two years, we've been telling them at any

00:24:27.220 drop of a pin for any excuse, school doesn't matter.

00:24:30.380 So these kids will grow up with that mentality.

00:24:33.140 It's, it's going to affect them permanently.

00:24:35.640 Um, and then parents as well, oh, well, they're a little bit sick.

00:24:38.880 Oh, they have a little bit of a stomach ache.

00:24:40.480 Oh, uh, today they're not really doing anything at school.

00:24:42.980 They've, I think they've shifted the entire mentality.

00:24:44.980 So it's one part they've undermined education on a fundamental level and the value of it.

00:24:49.220 And another part, just the last little sort of tidbits of fear mongering from people who've

00:24:53.620 been heralding, uh, some of these, uh, unilateral, uh, uh, sort of solutions like vaccines and

00:25:00.060 nothing else the whole way through.

00:25:02.360 Yeah.

00:25:02.900 This articles like this are like the death rattle of the locker downers.

00:25:08.200 For example, I think it's like 11 paragraphs down.

00:25:11.220 They indicate that actually maybe even weather might be a problem.

00:25:14.660 This might have been something you wanted to put up earlier.

00:25:18.220 There was a snowstorm.

00:25:20.240 Yeah.

00:25:20.600 On the day we checked.

00:25:22.480 That, um, during the time in which they took this data, all buses, all buses were canceled

00:25:29.480 on a Friday due to, uh, the cold driving up the absence numbers because the vast majority

00:25:36.400 of rural students ride the bus.

00:25:39.640 Yeah.

00:25:40.160 And their parents often leave for work earlier.

00:25:42.420 I, if I didn't work from home, my kids wouldn't have been at school like four days last week.

00:25:47.720 Yeah.

00:25:48.120 They're like, interestingly, just a sub note, just a little footnote.

00:25:51.760 Absenteeism was driven up 100% by a weather, inclement weather.

00:25:56.460 We don't know if it's COVID, but, but incidentally just a little footnote.

00:26:00.720 Yeah.

00:26:01.440 There were 16 schools that were completely closed.

00:26:04.780 Not even the bus is not running, but completely closed.

00:26:08.080 For example, my daughter goes to school in like suburbia, but we live way rural because

00:26:14.160 it's the closest, nicest Catholic high school for her.

00:26:16.820 Um, and, um, on the days where they're, the school buses aren't running, there are literally

00:26:23.880 no rural kids at the school.

00:26:25.240 They just don't come because if it's too dangerous for the school bus, it's obviously too dangerous

00:26:29.580 for your parents.

00:26:30.320 And the parents often leave before the kids get on the school bus anyways.

00:26:33.440 But this, these articles are a death rattle.

00:26:36.200 These are like the final grasps at power by the teachers unions that want continued lockdowns.

00:26:44.540 And they're trying to find any data, just shoehorning it all in there, um, to make it fit.

00:26:50.860 Well, I was talking to Pastor Arthur Pawlowski about this.

00:26:54.440 This very much seems like, uh, don't get me wrong.

00:26:57.160 There are, uh, there are certain people at least wise enough, or at least with the survival

00:27:00.980 instinct, um, I'd put sort of Jason Kenney.

00:27:03.740 I mean, I think for many people, Jason Kenney a month or two ago would have said enough is

00:27:07.980 enough.

00:27:08.460 He's starting to say that stuff now, but the tide is clearly changing.

00:27:12.780 Um, but, but for many of these people, Justin Trudeau included, GOT, Gondek, these people

00:27:18.360 who absolutely will not concede that maybe they were wrong.

00:27:22.460 Um, I was talking with Pastor Arthur Pawlowski about this and even his, his ridiculous arrest

00:27:27.620 there, where they don't even know quite what they arrested him for.

00:27:29.740 And they're figuring it out.

00:27:30.820 It's like a wounded animal lashing out.

00:27:34.500 Like it's irrational.

00:27:36.080 It's angry.

00:27:36.520 Like every six minutes, Justin Trudeau's tweeting, go get vaccinated.

00:27:39.940 Um, again, we get it.

00:27:41.120 You bought too many vaccines.

00:27:42.120 You really want to sell them.

00:27:43.120 You want to drop with Pfizer when you're done destroying Canada.

00:27:45.760 Um, we understand we get what you're, we get what you're doing, but like it's, it's

00:27:51.200 so evidently just this, this sort of wild thrashing because, and like we've said repeatedly,

00:27:57.000 it is very much a religion.

00:27:58.880 I've heard numerous people say this.

00:28:00.180 I know Matt Brevner did like the vaccine is their baptism, hand sanitizers, their sacrament.

00:28:06.040 Um, and this is a religion and now their religion is starting to fall apart.

00:28:09.880 It's hardly lasted 2000 years as promised.

00:28:12.240 It's, uh, it's, it's falling apart right before their eyes and they can't deal with it

00:28:16.000 because they've, this is the first thing they believed in beyond their own comfort and

00:28:19.660 hedonism in a long time.

00:28:21.000 Um, and now it's starting to fall apart.

00:28:23.400 Uh, so that's why they're lashing out like this.

00:28:26.900 We should move on to the next story and I wish I had put this in the first part of the

00:28:31.200 show, but I'm just learning my software, um, after several years of operating it.

00:28:36.880 Um, this next article, uh, comes under the, uh, of course, like it's, I was just going to

00:28:45.720 swear, I was going to say no Sherlock, um, but, uh, most countries failing to crack down

00:28:54.360 on corruption, new report says, including Canada, you will, I think we would be able

00:29:00.500 to deter corruption and influence peddling, um, much, uh, more ferociously.

00:29:08.360 I think maybe it's the right word.

00:29:09.640 If we actually had real penalties for ethics violations, um, this article goes on to say,

00:29:17.360 um, transparency internationals, 2021 corruption perceptions index, which measure, which measures

00:29:25.300 the perception of public sector.

00:29:27.460 So this is government corruption.

00:29:28.620 According to experts and business people found that increasingly rights and checks and balances

00:29:33.480 are being undermined, not only in countries with systemic corruption and weak institutions,

00:29:37.660 but also among established democracies, um, it cited Pegasus software, which has been linked

00:29:45.760 to snooping on human rights, activists, journalists, and politicians around the globe, uh, Western

00:29:50.780 Europe scored best overall, which is odd.

00:29:54.440 Um, even Canada, apparently the United States, which slipped over recent years, hit 67 points

00:30:03.100 in 2020, but held that score this time, but slipped a couple of places to 27th.

00:30:09.380 So what was it before?

00:30:11.200 Doesn't say, um, sorry, I don't know how to scroll on that.

00:30:17.000 Um, it says in that time, 23 countries, including the U S Canada, Hungary, and Poland have declined

00:30:27.340 significantly on the index, while 25 have improved, improved significantly.

00:30:32.980 Those 25 include Estonia and Armenia.

00:30:36.020 Um, and they, then they go on to cite their data sources like the world bank, the world economic

00:30:42.500 forum.

00:30:43.120 Okay.

00:30:43.900 China, China is in first place.

00:30:46.120 Yeah, no big deal.

00:30:47.200 China is doing fine.

00:30:48.240 Um, but you know, just this past week, we had the leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, taking

00:30:56.460 a free rocking chair for his brand new baby and not realizing that that was a bad idea

00:31:01.280 after his wife, I think she took like a sponsorship for her Instagram and they got this brand new

00:31:08.180 rocking chair.

00:31:09.620 Um, and he didn't really think anything wrong with it until Instagram users who are often

00:31:15.360 not known for their political savvy pointed this out to him, that it was a bad idea.

00:31:20.040 And then we have Justin Trudeau's several ethics violations, putting pressure on the AG, firing

00:31:25.680 her when she stands up to him and getting, I don't know, a couple hundred dollar fine here and there. 0.99

00:31:31.540 Bill Morneau, the finance minister, just accidentally forgot to declare his French villa.

00:31:37.000 Um, the, we, the entire we scandal giving a multimillion dollar sole source contract to

00:31:45.480 your longtime friends and frequent employers of your friends and family as speakers, as

00:31:51.360 though teenagers ever cared what Margaret Trudeau ever had to say about anything.

00:31:57.420 Like that should have been our first clue that this whole thing was a bit off, but giving

00:32:02.920 them a multimillion dollar sole source contract to administer a nearly $1 billion handcrafted

00:32:08.540 just for them, student bailout program and nothing comes of it.

00:32:13.600 And then you win the next election.

00:32:15.280 Um, yeah, of course we're slipping in the corruption index.

00:32:20.000 It's right there in front of us and there's no penalties for any of it.

00:32:23.680 You can be completely corrupt and win the next election.

00:32:27.420 No big deal.

00:32:27.920 And it has a lot to do with the media, by the way, and they not holding the powers that

00:32:32.520 be to account.

00:32:33.660 Well, it has a lot to do with the media and like, this is the sad thing.

00:32:36.780 And this is the sad reality that's dawned on me.

00:32:39.480 It has a lot to do with the Canadian people.

00:32:42.200 Like that's the sad reality.

00:32:43.820 Well, the more people voted for the conservatives than the liberals.

00:32:46.980 And obviously there's some issues there with how, uh, the elections are managed and representation

00:32:51.380 for certain regions, um, which is pretty self-evident if they're, they're like, if you have the

00:32:58.080 more dispersed conservative area, also voting in greater numbers, usually the representation

00:33:03.640 tries to increase the sort of input or value of voters who are very spread out so that they

00:33:10.320 can have some sort of influence.

00:33:11.800 But in this case, in this most recent election, the spread out conservative voice got even

00:33:16.800 more numbers and represented even more of the country and they still didn't win.

00:33:21.800 Um, now that there's demographic shifts and there's a redrawing of borders and there's

00:33:25.800 lots of reasons for that, but it's nevertheless extremely problematic.

00:33:29.020 So it's not to say a majority of people support or voted for Justin Trudeau, but the fact that

00:33:34.600 what was it 39 or 37% or something like that of Canadians went along with everything that

00:33:42.760 he has done and don't get me wrong, the media is incredibly complicit because if this were

00:33:46.600 a conservative politician or anybody else, they would have dragged them for this insane

00:33:52.020 stuff.

00:33:52.460 I mean, this is a guy who has been caught repeatedly wearing blackface and they basically covered 0.86

00:33:56.920 that up.

00:33:57.400 It was only made public on social media really until mainstream media was basically forced

00:34:01.920 to talk about it, um, sexually assaulted allegedly a girl and then said that she clearly misremembered

00:34:07.920 it, um, has, has bumped and shoved people in parliament, um, and not necessarily apologized

00:34:14.040 for it.

00:34:14.780 Um, and then the scandals, like the scandals, SNC-Lavalin, um, obviously we know, uh, uh,

00:34:21.040 Wilson-Raybould, like it's, the amount of scandals is more than all other leaders in the history.

00:34:28.700 He, it mirrors his debt, like the, the, the degree to which he's increased the debt of

00:34:32.640 the country, um, is mirrored by the degree to which he's increased the scandal in the

00:34:37.640 office of prime minister of Canada.

00:34:39.920 I don't understand how anyone, anyone can still support this guy, but they do.

00:34:45.500 And now the latest string is just this incessant barrage of divisive and hateful language.

00:34:51.300 Like I don't use terms like you're a bigot or you're a, you're discriminatory, but Justin

00:34:57.140 Trudeau is a bigot by all characteristics and by all definitions based on his conduct.

00:35:02.520 He literally says we shouldn't tolerate a group of people.

00:35:05.460 We shouldn't tolerate this community. 0.96

00:35:06.900 And he says they're misogynists, they're bigots.

00:35:09.380 He's launched a campaign of rhetoric and all of this stuff, categorically unacceptable. 0.68

00:35:14.180 We can go on and on and on.

00:35:16.040 Um, this is just the start of it.

00:35:17.740 We're not even talking about the economy, inflation, foreign relations, complicit relationships

00:35:22.160 with China.

00:35:23.120 Um, it's incessant, but no one dares question him.

00:35:27.340 Kings didn't have this much leisure.

00:35:29.800 Kings didn't have this much free space back in the day.

00:35:32.800 Someone would have showed up at the castle by now, but this guy, for some reason, Canadians 1.00

00:35:37.020 keep voting for him.

00:35:38.000 Canadians keep liking him for him.

00:35:39.240 And to your point, on the one hand, Canadians have to be accountable because you can't just

00:35:43.620 say, well, the media told me that.

00:35:44.740 But on the other hand, the media is simply not doing their jobs.

00:35:49.200 Even, and we're going to talk about Aaron O'Toole shortly here, but even Aaron O'Toole

00:35:53.360 gets tougher questions.

00:35:55.800 And Aaron O'Toole, the wild thing is he's just bowing his head and kowtowing to basically

00:36:00.580 what Justin Trudeau says.

00:36:02.140 He's marching in line and the media attacks him, even though he's the nothing and never

00:36:06.840 be prime minister opposition leader that nobody wants and everybody wants replaced because

00:36:11.580 he'll never win, period.

00:36:12.920 I think, I think he knows that.

00:36:14.140 That's why he's so defensive right now.

00:36:16.000 But the reason that they go after him, when he's trying to play along and play nicely,

00:36:22.700 it's a massive distraction.

00:36:24.580 You never hear media going after Trudeau when he's saying the same things because he gets

00:36:28.860 a free pass.

00:36:29.820 No doubt you have the state media bought and paid for, and I'll stop soon.

00:36:33.240 But when we had the court case to ask questions at the leadership debate and the terminology

00:36:39.860 that came up, and this was a federal judge, the defense basically saying that we shouldn't

00:36:46.000 be admitted said that, well, this is state funded media.

00:36:49.460 It's not state media.

00:36:50.600 There's a distinction.

00:36:51.420 The judge said, well, I think that's wishful thinking.

00:36:54.300 If the majority media party in the country are receiving funding from the government and

00:37:00.040 have to meet certain values checks established by the government to get their payouts, that's

00:37:05.600 state-controlled media.

00:37:06.700 And how often do we see an increase in freedom and a decline in corruption when the media is

00:37:11.760 bought and paid for in history?

00:37:13.260 I'm going to say never.

00:37:15.160 You know, that's an excellent point.

00:37:17.600 And to just speak to how Justin Trudeau doesn't even care.

00:37:25.120 He doesn't care about the laws that are on the books.

00:37:27.120 But he also, to your point about the leadership debates, he doesn't even care when a judge

00:37:35.640 says, no, you're wrong.

00:37:39.020 These people are journalists, and they are allowed to ask you questions and hold you to

00:37:44.240 account, and you do not have the right to decide who is and isn't a journalist.

00:37:49.720 He still refused to take our questions in the leadership debate.

00:37:55.520 He completely disrespected Alexa.

00:37:59.320 As you know, Trudeau doesn't care for women who disagree with him, so that should come 1.00

00:38:04.040 as no surprise.

00:38:05.400 But he disrespected the judge that reprimanded and scolded his government, slapped their hands

00:38:11.360 two years in a row, or two elections in a row, I should say.

00:38:15.720 That just speaks to how much he respects the court system and the laws, and he should be the

00:38:21.820 guy setting the example.

00:38:23.340 And to your point about the media, when Justin Trudeau did that to us, when we had to take

00:38:30.300 him to court for a second time, it was near conformity in the media about how the government

00:38:37.600 was right to decide who is and isn't a journalist, which flies in the face of your duty as a journalist.

00:38:45.340 You are to hold the government to account on behalf of the people, not hold your competitors

00:38:52.980 in the media space to account on behalf of your paymaster of the government.

00:38:57.200 But that is what Justin Trudeau has done to the state of affairs in Canada.

00:39:01.380 He so polluted it with other people's money that the whole system is dishonest.

00:39:07.920 And when you say, we don't want to be a part of that system, we don't want to take your money.

00:39:11.960 We want to answer to the people, our supporters, and we want to ask questions they want answers

00:39:16.580 to.

00:39:17.320 We're smeared at by the mean girls in the media party. 1.00

00:39:21.680 It's that whole, it's like classism all the time, that there's some dignity in taking handouts

00:39:29.760 from the government and indignity in relying on the people who consume your product to support

00:39:36.520 you.

00:39:36.760 It's completely upside down.

00:39:38.820 Yeah, it is entirely.

00:39:40.020 And you know, the wild thing about that is while we're seeing Pastor Archer and some of

00:39:43.740 these people brought up on contempt of court charges, not only did that judge rule that

00:39:49.360 we were journalists and we were to be admitted, when we brought up the concern after the fact

00:39:54.320 and stated that, well, our concern now is they'll let us in, but they'll intentionally

00:39:57.840 screen us for questions or they'll refuse to answer questions.

00:40:00.580 She put out a statement saying, well, this was not an element that was discussed during

00:40:05.380 the court ruling.

00:40:06.540 She expects that we'll be treated fairly and as any other journalists.

00:40:11.000 So the judge who just ruled on this said that a federal judge and the prime minister of

00:40:15.760 Canada then refused those terms.

00:40:18.600 I mean, if that's not contempt of court, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a judge, but if that's

00:40:22.700 not contempt of court, certainly opening up your church when there's some sketchy restrictions

00:40:28.400 in place that aren't really quite clearly defined, it's not as though Pastor Archer received

00:40:32.700 a direct ruling directed at him.

00:40:34.820 Justin Trudeau effectively did because his council, his committee that he basically handpicked

00:40:40.500 were the ones trying to exclude us.

00:40:42.840 But yeah, this is so symptomatic.

00:40:45.760 And again, broadly, we're talking about government corruption here, but the tail follows the head,

00:40:50.260 so to speak.

00:40:50.920 And you look at the one liberal candidate who managed to win here in Calgary, who Justin

00:40:58.080 Trudeau came and did an event with, they tried to hide that event from us.

00:41:01.320 Of course, we obviously found it and we covered it.

00:41:03.980 But look what's happening.

00:41:05.840 That's the earmarked poster child candidate that he promoted in Calgary.

00:41:12.660 He stole off someone's property.

00:41:15.120 There's also allegations, and again, these are just allegations, but he was involved in some

00:41:19.340 sort of CERB scam to help a family with like 12 people in the family, I believe, all collecting

00:41:25.480 CERB.

00:41:26.360 And he was sort of involved in that.

00:41:27.760 I think they're just allegations at this point.

00:41:29.560 But I'm sure we're going to be hearing stories of George Chahal likely for the foreseeable 1.00

00:41:34.820 future, because it seems like any one of these insider liberal elites who are friends with

00:41:39.260 Justin Trudeau, this is what they do.

00:41:41.020 They just do things they're not supposed to, and they get away with it and no one dares

00:41:44.340 question them.

00:41:45.020 They are very much the Libranos, the political elite, the Laurentians, who nobody dares ask 1.00

00:41:51.120 questions about because, well, they're just a little bit above the law.

00:41:55.680 Meanwhile, if you're a working class stiff, someone on a truck convoy, let's say, a pastor, 0.85

00:42:01.040 well, you're fair game.

00:42:03.200 Yeah.

00:42:04.460 The handpicked candidate for the Liberals, I think in Calgary, Skyview.

00:42:09.200 Um, if you haven't heard about this at home, friends, it's probably because you've been

00:42:13.800 paying a little bit too much attention to the mainstream media.

00:42:17.020 He just was levied a $500 administrative penalty assessed by Elections Canada.

00:42:25.040 So they've decided he was guilty.

00:42:26.860 And I'll take that for what you will, because, uh, elections bureaucracies are sort of a quasi

00:42:32.420 judicial thing where sometimes in the case of Ezra Levant, they just find you guilty.

00:42:37.260 They don't even let you participate.

00:42:39.740 But this was pretty cut and dry, considering the homeowner caught this Liberal candidate

00:42:46.180 snatching Conservative Party literature out of his mailbox on a video doorbell and then

00:42:54.160 putting his own in there.

00:42:55.940 So how many other homes did he do this to?

00:42:58.500 Who knows?

00:42:59.240 But we know at least one, which is a serious violation of elections laws in Canada.

00:43:04.200 Um, and fortunately this homeowner caught it all on his video doorbell and it went public,

00:43:12.040 but I'm sure this happened.

00:43:14.060 I think it's a fair, uh, suspicion that it probably happened in dozens of other households and

00:43:20.240 people were probably thinking, well, I'm not even going to vote for the Conservative.

00:43:23.940 Nobody from the Conservatives ever even came by.

00:43:26.240 They're not entitled to my vote.

00:43:27.680 All I got was literature from the Liberals.

00:43:29.380 So I'm going to vote for that guy.

00:43:31.040 How much, how much of that happened to swing this pretty close ride?

00:43:34.860 And based on his comments, what he said, and this was the excuse that came out a couple

00:43:39.780 of days later, was that the polling station information on the Conservative literature

00:43:45.360 was wrong, which if I, I apologize if I'm incorrect, if I remember correctly, it actually

00:43:49.220 was correct.

00:43:49.860 Yeah, but I, I think it, I think the information actually was correct.

00:43:53.320 I could be wrong, but I think that they, there was a confusion and the, the information

00:43:57.180 turned out to actually be correct.

00:43:58.420 But so he, in saying that, he admitted that this was not a one-off thing.

00:44:04.540 He was saying that, oh, well, structurally we, we realized, we looked at several of them

00:44:11.140 and all the information was wrong.

00:44:12.900 So we ran around to fix them.

00:44:14.400 That, I mean, I'm not saying he admitted that directly, but he said, oh, well, this was

00:44:17.920 our reasoning for doing this.

00:44:19.160 We noticed that they had incorrect information.

00:44:21.360 He didn't call the candidate in Skyview for the Conservative Party to let them know.

00:44:25.400 He's like, oh, he's such a nice guy, sunny ways.

00:44:28.500 So he just went around, he went ahead and cleaned it up to fix a problem for her.

00:44:32.180 Presumably, like you said, at numerous locations, but yeah, that's how they roll.

00:44:36.440 That is the new sunny ways in Canada, sunny ways for the elite.

00:44:40.660 How hauntingly similar is this to the, you go to Cuba, everyone's living in poverty and then

00:44:45.520 you can see Che Guevara's house up on the hill.

00:44:47.380 And then Fidel Castro's mansion on the hill.

00:44:51.060 They're the sunny ways, saviors of the people.

00:44:54.620 Meanwhile, they're marginalizing, excluding people.

00:44:57.160 Don't get me wrong.

00:44:57.760 It got worse in Cuba.

00:44:58.720 They literally had places to get rid of people. 0.97

00:45:01.320 If they didn't love the right kind of people, they'd round them up and kill them.

00:45:05.300 But regardless, the leadership in this country, they're living in their palaces.

00:45:10.520 The rules don't apply to them.

00:45:12.320 For the rest of us, costs are becoming insurmountable.

00:45:14.640 There's no political accountability beyond elections, basically.

00:45:19.280 And even that, the media skews those so dramatically.

00:45:22.300 So yes, corruption is rampant in this country.

00:45:25.100 And it comes down to people to wake up and it comes down to media to start doing their

00:45:30.040 job.

00:45:30.860 Not a Tory, not a story, as they say.

00:45:34.380 Yeah.

00:45:35.520 Let's skip ahead to the next one.

00:45:38.660 Joe Biden is devolving into something very terrible.

00:45:44.140 I think he's at the point in his cognitive degeneration where he is getting testy with

00:45:50.240 people and angry.

00:45:53.060 And that tends to happen with people in cognitive decline.

00:45:56.820 So I'm going to see if I can full screen this.

00:46:00.100 Oh, look at me go. 0.99

00:46:01.180 So this is him calling a Fox News reporter a son of a bitch for asking a question that 0.98

00:46:09.280 apparently, according to polling data, is the top of mind issue for all Americans right 0.98

00:46:17.460 now.

00:46:17.840 And it is inflation and the cost of living.

00:46:21.720 Like it affects people, whatever you think about China, whatever you think about Omicron,

00:46:26.680 lockdowns, whatever.

00:46:27.960 People care about the cost of living on all sides of the political spectrum.

00:46:31.760 So Peter Doocy, I think it's Peter.

00:46:34.360 I don't know which one, which Doocy it is, because the dad also works for Fox.

00:46:38.820 But he asked a question about this and Biden went into his angry Alzheimer's mode.

00:46:48.160 So maybe let's just take a listen.

00:46:49.920 Hopefully we can hear it.

00:47:06.760 That's a great asset.

00:47:08.820 More inflation. 1.00

00:47:11.160 What a stupid son of a bitch. 1.00

00:47:18.440 So as I watched this, I thought, could you imagine? 1.00

00:47:22.540 I always think like, let's replace the president and imagine if Trump said it.

00:47:26.240 Yeah.

00:47:26.540 Could you imagine what would happen on social media if Trump had called a reporter on a 1.00

00:47:31.920 hot mic, a stupid son of a bitch? 1.00

00:47:34.480 Could you even imagine? 1.00

00:47:36.140 Even if Trump would have been like, the son of a bitch. 1.00

00:47:43.020 But no, Biden is like, you stupid son of a bitch. 1.00

00:47:46.700 Like, he's saying it. 1.00

00:47:49.320 Like, it's like, it's like the pissed off grandpa that everyone kind of knows is there, but he's

00:47:54.400 got the nice farmhouse. 1.00

00:47:55.720 So everyone kind of puts up with him being like, that stupid son of a bitch. 1.00

00:47:58.800 And this is the president of the United States. 1.00

00:48:00.980 Like, it's absolutely unbelievable.

00:48:04.280 And I mean, this is getting a bit meta, but like, we saw Russian aggression towards the

00:48:12.760 Ukraine peter out significantly when Donald Trump was there.

00:48:16.760 That's just true.

00:48:19.440 It was a massive story.

00:48:21.140 Donald Trump was elected.

00:48:22.580 And it could be a lack of reporting.

00:48:24.320 Who knows?

00:48:25.080 I doubt it because they would have reported extremely critically on anything under Trump.

00:48:28.780 For sure.

00:48:29.180 But so it could have been that.

00:48:30.900 But it seems as though things petered off.

00:48:34.200 Now we have Grandpa Biden.

00:48:35.920 I'm going to say it's Sleepy Joe.

00:48:38.780 And all these internet, like China is pushing back and they're more boisterous than ever. 0.88

00:48:43.620 They're editing Fight Club.

00:48:45.040 That's sacrilege.

00:48:46.760 I don't mean they're doing a lot more.

00:48:48.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:49.980 Let's not forget that.

00:48:50.680 They took over Hong Kong.

00:48:51.900 They're going to take over Taiwan, I bet. 0.94

00:48:55.100 Russia is getting frisky.

00:48:58.600 You know, Iran is feeling emboldened. 0.54

00:49:01.180 North Korea is doing missile testing.

00:49:04.640 The world is far less safe in one year because of Joe Biden.

00:49:10.800 And when a reporter asks a reasonable question that American families,

00:49:16.760 you know what, now that you mention it, and now that I've seen it again for the 30th time,

00:49:24.280 because I want that to be my ringtone a little bit.

00:49:26.960 But as I'm watching it, I think maybe he was aware that the mic was on.

00:49:32.720 Oh, he was.

00:49:33.460 I don't think that he forgot.

00:49:35.060 I think that he said that on purpose. 1.00

00:49:37.280 It wasn't like a Trump like that, son of a bitch. 1.00

00:49:40.140 It wasn't like that at all. 1.00

00:49:41.120 It was.

00:49:42.120 And that's the shocking thing.

00:49:44.080 I don't begrudge.

00:49:45.520 Like, unless someone says something overtly racist or bigoted.

00:49:48.800 Like, if someone leans off mic and drops an F-bomb or something, mistakes happen.

00:49:54.240 You don't want to hear my hot mic moments.

00:49:56.260 Okay.

00:49:56.700 You're a person.

00:49:57.760 That's okay.

00:49:58.180 I don't care.

00:49:59.040 But this is the president of the United States.

00:50:01.560 Like, we're not big sticklers on decorum.

00:50:04.560 But you're the president of the country.

00:50:07.880 You're sitting ex cathedra, so to speak.

00:50:11.440 You're doing an official presser as the president of the United States.

00:50:15.640 And this was 100% categorically Joe Biden saying to Fox News,

00:50:20.200 it's like he's mad all the legacy liberal media is drying up.

00:50:23.960 Joe Rogan, Jordan B. Peterson, Fox, all these other outlets are growing.

00:50:29.900 He was just saying that.

00:50:31.440 It was an F-U to Fox. 0.94

00:50:34.000 And it's not as though the guy brought up some ridiculous, 0.76

00:50:40.280 I mean, maybe it's not even ridiculous, but as though he said something about Hunter. 0.80

00:50:44.320 Like, he didn't make some cheap shot.

00:50:46.220 If he would have come out and said something about Hunter and Joe Biden's protecting his kid 1.00

00:50:49.840 and he says, you son of a bitch, it's kind of whatever. 0.99

00:50:52.760 But no, he's asking about inflation. 1.00

00:50:54.800 He's just asking about inflation.

00:50:56.620 And you're from Fox News.

00:50:57.980 You've asked me a question I don't like.

00:51:00.180 We're more corrupt than ever and we're not accountable, 1.00

00:51:02.480 so you're a stupid son of a bitch. 1.00

00:51:04.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:51:04.780 Yeah.

00:51:05.160 My kids can't watch the stream.

00:51:06.960 They normally watch the stream.

00:51:07.600 No, no, no.

00:51:08.700 No.

00:51:09.780 No.

00:51:12.080 The, I mean, it's just, I think about how the media was apoplectic

00:51:17.740 when Trump would sometimes just pass over Jim Acosta and just like point at someone else

00:51:28.080 and take that question, not take a question, but just pass over Jim Acosta, who for some

00:51:33.660 reason thinks that he has to have 10 questions every press conference for some reason.

00:51:40.380 When he did that, everyone would lose their mind.

00:51:43.000 It was an attack on the American democracy.

00:51:46.180 Yeah.

00:51:46.360 But Biden does this and they're like, that's just Joe.

00:51:49.480 He's like that.

00:51:50.740 Yeah.

00:51:51.100 He's just like that.

00:51:52.240 Come on, man.

00:51:52.920 It's Joe.

00:51:53.640 Come on, man.

00:51:54.540 Come on, man.

00:51:55.040 Okay, let's move ahead to, what do I got on here?

00:52:00.600 Oh, Aaron O'Toole.

00:52:02.860 Speaking of failing politicians, Aaron O'Toole yesterday, it was a rollercoaster ride with

00:52:10.520 him a little bit because he started off the day unable to decide if he liked the truck

00:52:17.300 convoy to Ottawa or if he didn't like the truck convoy to Ottawa and he was sort of like waiting

00:52:22.620 for the mean girls in the media party to decide to tell him what to do, whether he would fall

00:52:30.340 down on the side of forced vaccinations or not, which seems like a crazy thing to say

00:52:36.260 about a conservative politician, but he literally did not know how to respond when somebody asked

00:52:41.240 him about it.

00:52:41.560 So we'll go to that and then we'll go to very quickly later on in the day.

00:52:45.560 And I'm not sure what happened first here, if it was the cart or the horse, but later

00:52:51.560 on in the day, conservative politicians like Martin Shields from Alberta here, and I think

00:52:58.700 Pierre Polyev also showed, and Glenn Motts also, again, conservative from Alberta, showed

00:53:04.700 support for the convoy and said that they were going to go to Ottawa to meet the convoy.

00:53:09.500 So I don't know if that's what, I don't know if Aaron O'Toole flip-flopped or if those

00:53:15.540 guys forced him to flip-flop, I'm not sure, but I feel like Aaron O'Toole's probably losing

00:53:19.460 control of his caucus anyway, which is probably the thing.

00:53:21.540 I can assure you that they are in panic mode trying to lock things down there 100% because

00:53:27.680 Aaron O'Toole's neurotic at this point.

00:53:29.940 He thinks everyone's coming for them, for him, for the leadership, which...

00:53:34.820 He's not wrong. 0.53

00:53:35.840 No.

00:53:36.020 Might be one of the smartest things he's doing lately.

00:53:39.700 Yeah.

00:53:39.900 Okay.

00:53:40.260 So this is it.

00:53:41.140 So this is a tweet from our friend Andrew Lawton at True North.

00:53:46.800 Let's see if I can...

00:53:48.400 Several of your MPs have tweeted out support for the convoy.

00:53:53.580 One of them saying that he felt the Prime Minister had a vendetta against people who were unvaccinated.

00:54:00.260 Do you support the convoy, its goals, its objectives, even though the Canadian Trucking Alliance

00:54:05.860 says this could be disruptive?

00:54:07.580 And to follow, again, repeat Louis' question, will you meet with them when they come to Ottawa?

00:54:12.680 We've been talking to the Canadian Truckers Alliance, Glenn, for several months.

00:54:16.560 We've seen a crisis in the supply chain coming for several months, and we've proposed policies

00:54:22.720 to try and help alleviate that.

00:54:24.580 The most important of which is vaccines, and we encourage everyone to get vaccinated and

00:54:30.240 to get boosted.

00:54:31.400 And how can we use those tools alongside the other tools to make sure that we don't see

00:54:37.600 shortages on grocery store shelves?

00:54:39.660 Because here's the reality.

00:54:41.420 When there's a shortage of products, the costs go up, and Canadians are already 60% worried

00:54:47.520 about paying their grocery bill.

00:54:49.720 So we can't have policies that make that even worse, and we can't raise taxes.

00:54:53.940 So that's what we've been advocating for responsibly the last few months, Glenn, is to try and tackle

00:55:00.480 the supply chain crisis, encourage vaccination, not ignore problems and divide the country

00:55:05.540 like Mr. Trudeau does.

00:55:07.460 You didn't answer my question about whether you...

00:55:09.900 Yes, I did, Glenn.

00:55:10.900 You didn't say whether you...

00:55:11.580 Vaccines are a critical tool.

00:55:12.500 You didn't say whether you'd meet with them.

00:55:13.500 And we need to make sure we keep store shelves full.

00:55:15.840 Maybe you can answer in response to my next question, sir, you can say whether you'd

00:55:20.480 That's why last week, Glenn, when the policy of the federal government for

00:55:23.760 less than 24 hours reversed on the situation with trucking.

00:55:28.300 The government was floating whether they could actually change their policy to address the

00:55:33.520 supply chain shortage, and they decided not to.

00:55:36.980 I've always said getting vaccination levels up, but also using rapid tests and other tools

00:55:42.900 to make sure products get to store shelves, that's what a government needs to do. 0.99

00:55:47.360 And that's what we'll continue to advocate for.

00:55:49.120 You and other Conservatives have called for reasonable accommodations for truckers in particular

00:55:54.780 who are unvaccinated and who could lose their job, and that policy, according to you,

00:56:02.180 could have widespread implications on our economy.

00:56:04.400 But now that there are unvaccinated truckers rolling into Ottawa, you won't say whether you

00:56:09.480 support them.

00:56:10.120 You won't say whether you will meet with them.

00:56:12.400 So what should Canadians think about your position?

00:56:15.180 Do you not support the trucking convoy?

00:56:16.940 I support getting as many people vaccinated as possible, including truckers. 1.00

00:56:22.900 And I've probably, with the exception of a few doctors who are on TV every day, I've probably

00:56:28.360 encouraged vaccination more than any Canadian.

00:56:31.660 And that's our most critical tool to reduce the severity of COVID, but also to get this public

00:56:39.400 health crisis under control.

00:56:40.680 I've also said there's going to be opportunity to use rapid tests and a range of issues to

00:56:46.540 tackle real issues.

00:56:48.580 We have a supply chain crisis right now that is helping fuel inflation, in addition to Mr.

00:56:54.380 Trudeau's spending and other policies.

00:56:56.640 How can we tackle that by prioritizing vaccines, prioritizing public health, but reducing pink 1.00

00:57:03.740 slips and getting goods on shelves?

00:57:06.200 I think that's what governments at all levels have to do.

00:57:08.520 So what's your message then to truckers who have maybe spent the past month thinking that

00:57:15.880 you kind of have their backs and calling for reasonable accommodations and rapid tests?

00:57:20.560 And again, you still won't answer.

00:57:21.920 Will you meet with them when they come to Ottawa?

00:57:23.740 Do you support their efforts and coming all the way here?

00:57:27.240 What's your message to truckers who might be disappointed that you are dodging questions and

00:57:32.000 when you won't say whether you'll meet with them?

00:57:34.320 Well, let me be crystal clear.

00:57:36.360 We've been meeting with the Canadian Trucking Association for several months.

00:57:41.200 In fact, we've written the minister on this.

00:57:43.680 And at every occasion, I encourage truckers to get vaccinated.

00:57:48.360 That's the best way to keep supplies flowing.

00:57:51.640 And that's how we have to tackle this pandemic.

00:57:54.840 Get as many people vaccinated as possible.

00:57:56.980 And also use all the other tools that we have to make sure we don't see shortages on shelves.

00:58:02.400 Because what happens with shortages means prices go up.

00:58:06.700 And at a time we have record inflation, Canadians can't afford that.

00:58:10.020 That's why I'm calling for a break today for Canadian families. 1.00

00:58:12.920 But let's be crystal clear, we can advocate for vaccines, but also advocate for people

00:58:19.000 to not lose their house or their home or their livelihood, if we can come up with a way to

00:58:24.740 tackle the supply chain crisis in a way that's practical.

00:58:28.380 Mr. Trudeau's government flip-flopped a week or so ago.

00:58:31.780 They attack me with all regularity.

00:58:34.220 They don't provide solutions.

00:58:35.900 And they're raising taxes on Canadians, 60% of which, that's millions of people already

00:58:42.200 saying they're struggling to pay their grocery bills.

00:58:44.620 So let's give them more money in their pockets and let's tackle the supply chain shortage at

00:58:48.580 the same time.

00:58:54.320 It's like he's doing his best impression of a cat on the fence and it turned out worse

00:58:58.560 than that movie Cats.

00:59:00.140 Yeah.

00:59:00.840 It's so, and like you watch his eyelids fluttering.

00:59:05.320 He's like channeling his anger through his eyelids.

00:59:07.600 This, when he does this and this, it's charming when Trump does stuff with his hands.

00:59:12.680 But I, and Ron DeSantis does it too.

00:59:15.880 And I kind of, I kind of like it, but this like, I don't, I don't like when Aaron O'Toole

00:59:21.720 does it.

00:59:22.240 It's almost like how I know he's lying.

00:59:24.060 Like it's his poker tell.

00:59:25.900 Well, Jason Kenney has the same thing.

00:59:27.940 You can tell when he's actually saying something and you can tell when he's reading a script.

00:59:32.980 This 100%.

00:59:33.980 And I'll give like Jason Kenney, I think he's a little bit better at it than Aaron O'Toole.

00:59:37.780 Like Aaron O'Toole looks like the kid who did none of the work on the class project

00:59:42.540 and has been handed the notes and is like nervously reading them.

00:59:47.320 And then someone asks him like a sensible question about it.

00:59:50.180 And he gets super defensive because he didn't do the work.

00:59:54.100 He didn't do his book report.

00:59:55.820 That's for sure.

00:59:56.860 That's what this reads like to me.

01:00:00.280 100%.

01:00:01.300 What, what are you doing in conservative politics?

01:00:06.040 Like we, and furthermore, like, I'm sorry, but the, the conservative war room, the conservative,

01:00:11.580 like many of you making those decisions, they're the worst, like Aaron O'Toole, do yourself

01:00:16.620 a favor from everything.

01:00:18.580 I hear you're a decent guy.

01:00:20.880 Your conduct publicly doesn't necessarily exhibit that because you haven't stood up for people's

01:00:24.880 fundamental rights, but from what I hear, decent family, man, you seem like a nice guy.

01:00:30.500 I dare you to just come out to a conference and to one of these press things and be yourself.

01:00:36.740 Say words that you mean, hold your convictions.

01:00:40.740 You're not going to be the leader of the party moving forward.

01:00:42.980 You're never going to be prime minister of the country.

01:00:45.260 It's not happening.

01:00:46.440 It's not, that's not for you.

01:00:48.000 Um, but you could still be a decent guy who's liked, um, but you have to stop this, like

01:00:54.740 come out and say words.

01:00:56.100 You believe the people in this country who are rising stars are saying what they believe

01:01:01.100 in getting in a bit of trouble and they don't care.

01:01:04.140 Pierre Polly ever came out and supported the truck convoy.

01:01:06.480 He's a political rising superstar.

01:01:08.060 The people in this country, like I said, who are going to form further conservative governments,

01:01:13.020 um, are the people who are saying no, enough is enough. 0.98

01:01:15.900 This is ridiculous. 0.95

01:01:16.560 I'm not bloody Justin Trudeau. 0.97

01:01:17.680 There's nothing wrong with being conservative.

01:01:19.740 You're like, Hey media, I'm pretty much Justin Trudeau.

01:01:23.940 Well then go, go run for the liberal party.

01:01:25.860 Or like I said, be yourself, come out, say words.

01:01:29.280 You mean who cares if the media wants you to say something that's absolutely terrible to

01:01:34.640 get the reaction that they want.

01:01:36.680 Don't say it.

01:01:37.640 Who cares?

01:01:38.820 Yeah.

01:01:39.500 Who cares?

01:01:40.100 You could say everything exactly how Justin Trudeau says it in exactly the way he says

01:01:46.380 it, but you're not flying the right flag.

01:01:49.300 Period.

01:01:49.900 That's it.

01:01:50.600 You could say everything the same.

01:01:52.280 You could even be more progressive and more liberal, but it doesn't matter.

01:01:54.860 It has nothing to do with ideas.

01:01:56.480 It has nothing to do with policies.

01:01:58.280 It has nothing to do with principles.

01:02:00.100 It has to do with banner loyalty.

01:02:02.240 And that's what the media party has, banner loyalty.

01:02:04.680 You're not going to win them over.

01:02:05.920 I know lots of politicians in this country talk about getting new bases.

01:02:09.860 Well, forget that.

01:02:11.480 Conservatives have a big base.

01:02:12.960 They got more votes than the liberal in the last election.

01:02:15.620 Stop pandering to people who are never going to vote for you and start talking about real

01:02:19.560 ideas and real principles.

01:02:20.860 And that's the only way that we're going to get this country back from Justin Trudeau.

01:02:23.660 He answered that question, though, exactly like Justin Trudeau, as in he didn't answer

01:02:28.680 it at all, which is like a Trudeau thing.

01:02:31.420 And so I never want to hear a conservative politician who supports Aaron O'Toole complain

01:02:36.560 that Justin Trudeau doesn't answer questions in the House of Commons or whatever, because

01:02:41.320 your guy literally just did that.

01:02:43.520 And I don't want to hear them complain that Justin Trudeau flip-flopped on the vaccination

01:02:48.540 issue for truckers when in one day their leader literally did the same thing, where he couldn't

01:02:55.040 say if he was going to support the truckers in the morning, but by the afternoon he's

01:02:58.280 like, oh, dang, I better, after he's seeing the thousands of people who are normally conservative

01:03:04.160 supporters lined up on the road supporting the truckers.

01:03:08.400 The truckers, as I said on Twitter the other day, they're the actual official opposition.

01:03:13.480 The truckers, the supporters, they're the actual official opposition to Justin Trudeau.

01:03:18.540 Those bad mandates because the conservative politicians are like, sleep at the switch here.

01:03:24.580 It's crazy.

01:03:25.240 They don't, they, Ralph Klein used to say the secret to his political success was to be able

01:03:34.480 to see where the parade was marching and run and jump in front of it and lead it.

01:03:40.140 That's, that's smart because that's populism, right?

01:03:43.020 Like you're seeing where the people want to take society and you have to be the vehicle,

01:03:48.580 the political vehicle to make that happen.

01:03:50.280 Yeah.

01:03:51.080 That's really smart.

01:03:52.920 Aaron O'Toole could be that guy, but he's not.

01:03:56.060 The people are marching.

01:03:58.060 They need somebody in front to be the political face of this social movement.

01:04:03.720 But he is too scared of Rosie Barton, I guess, than his own voters.

01:04:09.760 I don't know if you saw it.

01:04:10.560 There was another Andrew Lawton tweet the other day though, but he said like the way politicians

01:04:14.220 answer questions is the wife comes in and says to her husband, hey honey, have you done

01:04:18.340 the dishes?

01:04:19.220 And the husband says, I support clean dishes.

01:04:21.320 I think it's important that we have clean surfaces to eat off of, so forth, so on.

01:04:25.600 But they don't actually say an answer to the bloody question.

01:04:28.880 And that's what people want.

01:04:29.920 They want people who speak like people.

01:04:32.940 They don't want people who sound like scripts or, like I said, who sound like they're reading

01:04:37.140 a report that they didn't write.

01:04:39.800 Realistically, to be a leader, and the conservatives have to realize this, they have to stop hiring

01:04:46.800 ridiculous UK firms to make memes that don't make sense in Canada.

01:04:52.380 There's no amount of international hiring you're going to do that's going to make you appealing. 0.93

01:04:58.620 You need a person who is being themselves and that the majority of Canadians agree with.

01:05:04.980 Yep.

01:05:05.620 That's what you need, common sense.

01:05:07.460 Let's get to the second half of Aaron O'Toole's day.

01:05:11.700 Yes.

01:05:12.780 Because things changed rapidly, and I think it had to do with public sentiment and not

01:05:18.820 anything that he actually believed in.

01:05:20.920 So let's take a look at this.

01:05:22.720 He's talking away.

01:05:24.580 Rockers show up on Parliament Hill, sir.

01:05:26.300 Will you meet them, yes or no?

01:05:27.540 We've been meeting with them for the last few months, and I will continue to meet this

01:05:32.640 week and into the weekend with truckers and with the industry, both individual people

01:05:37.700 suffering, but also the industry.

01:05:40.660 Three weeks ago, Evan-

01:05:41.580 But I'm talking about the so-called Freedom Convo.

01:05:44.860 That's a problem, which would actually tackle the supply chain shortage.

01:05:48.960 Mr. Trudeau's making inflation worse through his overspending, through his lack of attention

01:05:54.600 on issues like the shortages, and with the fact that he's continuing to just divide people

01:06:00.240 and not deliver on the essential things we need in this pandemic.

01:06:03.500 Oh, I can't.

01:06:04.800 Even when he says he's going to meet with them, he can't even be clear that he's going

01:06:10.580 to meet with them.

01:06:11.520 He's the worst. 1.00

01:06:12.460 He's the worst. 0.96

01:06:13.360 And normally I don't sympathize with Evan Solomon on much, but I felt his pain when he

01:06:18.260 dropped his head after having to ask the same question twice and still get the Justin Trudeau

01:06:25.380 answers that aren't really even answers.

01:06:28.180 And this is why bureaucracy doesn't work.

01:06:32.080 It's like, hey, are we going to buy those tanks?

01:06:33.900 It's like, we're in support of the idea of defending the nation.

01:06:38.280 I want to be clear.

01:06:39.400 I'm going to say- 0.99

01:06:40.260 We're in support of killing bad guys. 1.00

01:06:42.560 Full stop, period. 1.00

01:06:43.980 In support of it.

01:06:45.360 Now, we're going to strike some committees and have some conversations.

01:06:49.700 But the thing is, that happened behind the scenes.

01:06:53.400 And then the politicians used to make big promises and maybe not deliver on them.

01:06:57.040 Now it's gotten so bad, and Justin Trudeau is largely to blame, but the vapid bureaucracy

01:07:03.180 that happened in Ottawa behind the scenes is now also how they talk.

01:07:07.900 And it's so just boring and painful.

01:07:11.800 Like, literally that scene, I'm actually not getting audio from those videos, but I have

01:07:15.160 seen it.

01:07:15.980 When I wasn't getting the audio there and I'm just seeing their faces move, Aaron O'Toole

01:07:19.880 looks like a puppet.

01:07:21.520 Like, you can tell his eyes are just like, this is what I'm being told to say.

01:07:26.020 The wild thing here is the Conservatives have a significant investment in these sort of

01:07:32.960 think tanks to get, well, maybe not external think tanks, but in their own war room at

01:07:36.580 the very least.

01:07:37.860 He doesn't say anything that he's just simply saying.

01:07:40.180 And we do need a leader who says something without scripting it.

01:07:42.880 But they spend all this time and they're like, this is what we're going to have him say.

01:07:47.400 And he goes out there and says it.

01:07:50.380 I think part of the reason that we don't really maybe like his hand gestures and how he talks

01:07:54.960 is because most of what he says is not intelligent.

01:07:58.440 It's not what people want to hear.

01:08:00.420 And it's not his fault.

01:08:02.040 Like, he's literally saying what he's told to say.

01:08:04.720 No, don't get me wrong.

01:08:05.360 He's the leader and it's his fault insofar as he's going along with it.

01:08:08.280 I'm not excusing him.

01:08:09.400 But like, he's literally reading what the people, all the Conservatives together have

01:08:14.380 made this group and they're the people who make the decisions.

01:08:16.680 And this is the message we're trying to get out.

01:08:18.520 And then he goes and tries to get that message out as best as he can.

01:08:21.460 But it's a really bad message.

01:08:23.220 It's a really, really bad message.

01:08:24.880 And you have to be one heck.

01:08:26.220 Yeah, you have to be one heck.

01:08:27.760 I mean, and somehow Justin Trudeau sends it, sells an even worse message.

01:08:31.660 But we've called him a car salesman.

01:08:32.880 Not that there's anything wrong with car salesman, but more a Moderna salesman since the get-go.

01:08:37.520 Justin Trudeau is like a sleazy salesman.

01:08:39.280 And he sold himself to a big part of the country.

01:08:41.900 Aaron O'Toole, maybe he's too nice a guy to be a sleazy salesman.

01:08:46.240 But the fact is, he's sharing bad ideas.

01:08:48.500 And that's why he's not popular.

01:08:50.080 And people can tell that he doesn't have any convictions or he doesn't share his convictions

01:08:53.980 because from the morning, they'll have an adverse reaction.

01:08:57.120 And then some smart folks in a room sit together and they're like,

01:09:00.300 oh, we had an adverse reaction.

01:09:01.520 We need to get more social credit score for Aaron.

01:09:03.640 We're going to say something different now.

01:09:05.640 Or we're not sure where to rest on this issue.

01:09:08.760 So Aaron O'Toole, our instruction to you is say nothing.

01:09:11.620 Say words, but don't actually say anything.

01:09:13.540 Because we, the think tank behind you, have not decided what you think yet.

01:09:18.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:19.520 Yeah, so true.

01:09:20.580 Now, we are past the hour.

01:09:23.020 We've got actually one good politician that we can talk about.

01:09:26.320 Or not good politician, but not particularly bad.

01:09:28.920 Because I don't want to forget the locker-downer prior version of Scott Moe.

01:09:36.240 He still needs to be held accountable for that, the churches he fined, the churches he closed.

01:09:42.720 But Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said, says strict lockdown.

01:09:50.980 So COVID-19 restrictions cause significant harm for no significant benefit.

01:09:56.020 Well, yes, I tend to agree.

01:09:59.100 But where's the apology, Scott Moe, for the churches that you issued $14,000 in fines, even more than that, too, for singing,

01:10:09.540 holding them responsible for outbreaks that may have come from a local casino.

01:10:14.380 That the casino wasn't closed, though, because that's essential, but church wasn't.

01:10:18.040 And he has said, lockdown and vaccinations do not seem to be stopping the transmission of the Omicron variant,

01:10:27.280 which is true, but you can't say it on YouTube.

01:10:29.620 But at the same time, we're seeing all Omicron with a much quicker cycle of infection,

01:10:33.760 and it seems to be less severe than previous strains, particularly if you're vaccinated and have had your booster shot.

01:10:39.180 I don't know if that's true.

01:10:40.080 But anyways, 74% of Saskatchewan residents over the age of 60 have had their third dose.

01:10:47.600 And Moe talked about other countries around the world, which is good, because if you look at Israel,

01:10:54.200 they're like three, four months out from where we are on just about everything.

01:10:58.180 So if we want a good predictor of what's going to happen here, we should be looking there.

01:11:01.940 And they are overrun with Omicron, as it would turn out.

01:11:04.700 And he says, the other countries are starting to talk about how they're going to live with COVID

01:11:09.620 as we move forward through the next number of weeks and months and ultimately into eternity,

01:11:13.440 and how we are going to get our life back to a much more normal semblance of normal.

01:11:21.140 Which, I mean, great.

01:11:23.440 Thank you.

01:11:24.560 But if you had said this before Christmas, you were a conspiracy theorist.

01:11:30.140 Yeah.

01:11:30.840 And this is the thing is, like I said, the tide is changing now.

01:11:34.060 And I tweeted this out the other day.

01:11:35.620 If these politicians who arrested pastors caused people to lose their livelihoods,

01:11:41.600 didn't say, well, companies, if you're finding these people, you have to pay them severance.

01:11:44.960 We're talking about a big percentage of the population here, like 15%, 20% of the population,

01:11:49.720 depending where you are.

01:11:50.660 And among those, thousands and thousands of people have absolutely lost their livelihoods,

01:11:55.300 didn't receive employment insurance, didn't receive severance,

01:11:58.320 many of them literally losing their homes over this.

01:12:02.620 And politicians literally pouring out propaganda-like rhetoric that we have not seen in Canada,

01:12:10.580 Justin Trudeau, the worst offender, since the internment of the Japanese in the World War.

01:12:15.620 Like, these politicians, these corporations who did this, if they think that, oh, well,

01:12:22.360 it turns out Rebel News was right all along, and these people who were saying this,

01:12:25.500 everything we've said this whole time is now what everyone is starting to say.

01:12:29.340 And like I said, they're acting like we weren't saying it all along, or like we were wrong,

01:12:33.720 and it's just now becoming right.

01:12:35.640 No, it was always accurate, because our narrative has not changed,

01:12:39.080 because we have been following the evidence.

01:12:41.180 We've been following the story where it leads us not where we wanted to.

01:12:44.040 You guys have not been following the facts.

01:12:46.120 You reacted dramatically, and people suffered.

01:12:49.340 If you think that you just get to go back to normal,

01:12:52.380 and leave these people in the dust, it's not going to happen.

01:12:56.840 We are going to tell you these stories.

01:12:59.140 And I'm not threatening anything, and someone said you're threatening them.

01:13:01.160 I said, no, I'm threatening journalism.

01:13:03.100 We're going to tell the stories.

01:13:05.260 For those people who maybe work at the CBC or some of these outlets, this is what journalism is.

01:13:09.760 You expose corruption.

01:13:12.020 You expose corporate and political bullies.

01:13:14.440 And you get the stories out there so that these people can be held accountable.

01:13:18.620 You don't get to go on with your lives while you've ruined these other people's lives,

01:13:22.880 thousands of people's lives.

01:13:24.320 You're going to be taken to court.

01:13:26.060 You're going to be held accountable.

01:13:27.420 And we're going to tell these stories.

01:13:29.080 We're going to do information access requests.

01:13:31.820 We're going to investigate.

01:13:33.280 And we're going to find you all out.

01:13:35.160 This doesn't finish when you guys say, well, COVID isn't a major threat anymore.

01:13:39.160 We will be on you.

01:13:40.520 And this is not a threat.

01:13:41.300 This is a promise.

01:13:42.040 As journalists, we will be on you for decades.

01:13:45.280 Decades.

01:13:46.500 I'd say you have maybe like two days left.

01:13:50.380 And then it's too late because the tide's changing.

01:13:53.080 Every politician across this country, you have two days.

01:13:56.940 I'm making up an arm trade deadline.

01:13:58.960 Come out.

01:13:59.880 Apologize.

01:14:00.900 Say you were entirely wrong.

01:14:02.540 Say the corporations that you enabled to fire people without severance or employment insurance

01:14:06.900 must hire those people back.

01:14:09.140 Fix all the wrongs you have done.

01:14:11.020 And it's not going to be okay if you do it in six months when all the pressure is shifted.

01:14:15.380 If you're not on the vanguard of fixing this problem, you're going to be exposed as perpetrators of these grave injustices.

01:14:24.240 And like I said, I'm sure Sheila will follow me up on this.

01:14:26.840 We're not going to stop.

01:14:28.020 This is not a six-month thing.

01:14:30.660 This is not a one-year project.

01:14:31.800 We are going to be reporting on this for the foreseeable future and beyond.

01:14:37.900 Unlike the mainstream media, we are out there in the field talking to the people whose lives have been absolutely ruined.

01:14:44.140 We know the personal effects of these bad government decisions.

01:14:50.020 And our politicians do not get to treat us like we're hard of remembering, like they can rewrite history to turn themselves into some sort of wait-and-see pragmatists that they never were.

01:15:03.040 They overreacted, it destroyed lives, it caused early deaths through despair and lockdown, it took two years of children's lives away from them, businesses ruined, hopes and dreams ruined, marriages ruined, addictions.

01:15:19.740 They don't get to pretend, and they will be held to account through investigative journalism, accountability journalism, at the ballot box.

01:15:31.600 They don't get to rewrite history here.

01:15:35.300 And while I appreciate Scott Moe resisting, being really the only resistor in the country right now to the Omicron freakout, he freaked out pretty hard pretty early at the beginning of this.

01:15:49.740 And I'm not hearing an, I'm sorry, I was wrong.

01:15:52.800 And that's what a good and decent person would do.

01:15:56.620 And I'd like to think that Scott Moe is that guy.

01:15:59.560 So Adam gave you a timeline, 48 hours.

01:16:02.620 48 hours.

01:16:03.420 Let's get moving.

01:16:03.800 And I just want to say, finally, the amount of people that you and I have looked in the eye as they wept, the amount of people who had to stop an interview for a hug because they couldn't quite get the words out, these aren't extremists.

01:16:17.920 These aren't political activists.

01:16:19.320 These are people with religious medical exemptions, people who are uncertain and maybe want to wait a little bit, people unwilling to get the vaccines for various reasons, or some of them vaccinated but on principle unwilling to participate in a discriminatory system.

01:16:32.740 They have wept.

01:16:33.720 They have lost everything.

01:16:35.620 And we have been the ones, while other media outlets were sleeping, who were there for them.

01:16:39.940 We're the ones who looked them in the eye.

01:16:41.380 We're the ones going through thousands of heartbreaking emails.

01:16:44.020 And I just want to say more than that, because this is more than just a plug for one of our campaigns.

01:16:50.240 This is the primary, as I think Sarah called it, Sarah Miller, access to freedom and justice in this country.

01:16:57.540 Movements.

01:16:57.780 This is fightvaccinepassports.com.

01:17:00.280 Go there and make a donation.

01:17:02.040 Because these people who we meet face-to-face, who tell us their heartbreaking, tear-filled stories, they cannot fight back against WestJet alone.

01:17:10.780 They can't fight against these massive rail companies.

01:17:13.240 They can't take on the government alone.

01:17:15.600 But they aren't alone.

01:17:16.700 They have you in their corner.

01:17:18.200 You guys have donated, and it's been absolutely incredible.

01:17:21.060 I think we're closing in on almost $2 million at fightvaccinepassports.com.

01:17:26.240 And these people are now getting exceptional, world-class lawyers that they simply could not afford because of your generosity.

01:17:32.840 And they're taking these bullies, these tyrants, these political heads, these corporate CEOs to court, and they're holding them accountable.

01:17:40.580 And these people did not see this coming.

01:17:43.000 It's like the truck convoy.

01:17:44.400 It is coming.

01:17:45.300 It has momentum.

01:17:46.000 And millions of Canadians are on board, saying enough is enough, and more and more are coming.

01:17:51.660 Please go to fightvaccinepassports.com, sign the petition, donate, and give these people a fighting chance.

01:17:56.840 So, as I said, for decades to come, we can hold these people accountable.

01:18:00.820 These people are not going to get a free pass.

01:18:02.440 And as I said in my tweet, there'll be no exemptions.

01:18:06.000 Yeah, and before the hate emails come, none of that money comes to us at Rebel News.

01:18:11.160 It goes directly to the Democracy Fund.

01:18:12.980 It's CRA-compliant charity.

01:18:16.180 We're pretty uptight about making sure that everything over there is CRA-compliant.

01:18:20.460 You'll get a charitable tax receipt.

01:18:22.600 And all the money that goes into the Democracy Fund has to be used for the civil liberties education and initiative that the charity exists to perform.

01:18:34.820 That's it.

01:18:35.440 That's all it does.

01:18:36.420 And for me, being able to offer people that help, like, when you're talking to someone on the very worst day of their life, they've lost their job, they don't even know how they're going to tell their family because of a vaccine mandate.

01:18:51.160 And you're able to say, I know this is terrible, but I can connect you with one of the best lawyers in the country who's going to fight like a lion for you.

01:18:58.960 These are people who are so in the throes of despair.

01:19:06.080 And for our donors, Adam and I, we hear the thank yous, but they're not really our thank yous to get.

01:19:14.420 They're the thank yous that belong to the donors.

01:19:16.920 The people that you're helping on the worst day of their life, they don't think anybody cares.

01:19:21.000 Their government just destroyed their life.

01:19:22.980 Their employer just, you know, enacted a vaccine passport. 0.83

01:19:27.440 These are people of morals.

01:19:30.240 These are people of ethics.

01:19:31.640 They are the people you want in management positions, and yet they're being run out.

01:19:36.460 They don't think anybody cares about them until you say there are thousands of strangers cheering for you and they want to help.

01:19:44.660 It's the moral boost that these people need on the worst day of their life.

01:19:50.460 And that's what, you know, every single donation to the Democracy Fund does.

01:19:55.340 So I think I say this on behalf of Adam, too, and everybody at the company and everybody over at the Democracy Fund.

01:20:01.520 Just thank you, everybody, so much for those donations.

01:20:03.880 You don't even know the difference that you're making in someone's life.

01:20:08.240 We are way, way over time.

01:20:10.280 I'm surprised.

01:20:11.020 I didn't think we would be able to pull this off, Adam.

01:20:15.580 I was confident.

01:20:16.760 I was confident.

01:20:17.540 Well, you know what?

01:20:18.480 Someone's got to be confident in me.

01:20:20.720 Adam, thanks so much for co-hosting with me today as we experimented on something a little bit new.

01:20:27.300 Thanks to everybody in studio who are going to take the couple of files that I give them and turn it into a functional show, hopefully, for our viewers at home.

01:20:36.580 Thank you to our viewers who tuned in and are patient with us as we go through some technical difficulties over, I think, probably the next 24 hours.

01:20:47.180 And thank you to everybody who contributes, both at the Democracy Fund but also at Rebel News to keep the lights on.

01:20:53.680 Thank you for supporting our independent journalism.

01:20:55.980 I think it's more important than ever.

01:20:58.560 And as David Menzies says, stay sane.

Rebel News Podcast - January 25, 2022

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