Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Free Speech in Canada from Justin Trudeau to CB Radio

00:00:00.040 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:05.060 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.980 Justin Trudeau's jihad on non-approved journalists continues, which is to say, 0.98

00:00:17.820 if you are not a government-approved journalist sucking from the taxpayer teat, 0.87

00:00:22.860 then the Trudeau liberals are hell-bent on eliminating such dissenting voices. 0.94

00:00:28.060 And yes, folks, we're talking Canada, not North Korea or Cuba, or that country Justin so admires, China.

00:00:36.380 Adam Seuss has all the latest news on Trudeau's quest to curtail freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

00:00:44.300 And as the saying goes, everything old is new again, and I speak not of fashion, but rather a method of communications,

00:00:52.220 namely the CB radio. Sid Fizzard explains why this old trucker staple might be a way of maintaining freedom of speech

00:01:02.360 in these increasingly censorious times.

00:01:06.560 And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters almost every minute of every day,

00:01:11.500 and I'll share some of your responses about my story regarding an Ontario entrepreneur

00:01:17.060 who has converted his truck to run on ammonia.

00:01:20.820 Translation, as the cost of gas rises ever upward to that ominous $2 a litre benchmark,

00:01:27.320 Roger Gordon only pays $0.25 a litre for his fuel.

00:01:32.680 Nice! 0.94

00:01:33.820 Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.

00:01:36.400 Aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre,

00:01:50.720 ou allez-vous encore diaboliser mon média?

00:01:54.340 J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir, j'ai plus rien à dire.

00:01:59.400 I won't call it a media organisation, your group of individuals need to take accountability

00:02:06.140 for some of the polarisation that we're seeing in this country.

00:02:11.660 The level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship...

00:02:21.740 Are you kidding?

00:02:22.740 What is this?

00:02:25.520 Everybody vandalise churches.

00:02:27.360 They're burning churches and vandalising them, and you're not calling it a hate crime.

00:02:33.100 You deserve a government that's going to continue to say, get vaccinated.

00:02:39.020 And you know what?

00:02:40.540 If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.

00:02:43.980 But don't think you can get on a plane or a train beside vaccinated people. 1.00

00:02:48.420 Can you believe the chutzpah, the sheer, unmitigated gall?

00:02:53.380 Well, Prime Minister Trudeau blames the independent media for the polarisation in Canada?

00:03:01.240 Well, I will say this.

00:03:02.700 I've never seen our dominion so polarised, not in my lifetime.

00:03:07.180 But when it comes to the architect of this polarisation, Justin Trudeau, please look in a mirror.

00:03:16.200 Joining me now from Calgary is Adam Seuss.

00:03:19.380 Good day, my friend.

00:03:20.320 How are you doing?

00:03:21.340 Wonderful.

00:03:22.100 How are you doing?

00:03:22.480 I'm doing great.

00:03:23.880 Adam, that clip in your report dating back more than seven years ago, in which Justin Trudeau

00:03:29.920 confesses his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China, that never gets old, my friend.

00:03:37.260 And we can tell that with his ambition to censor the internet and discredit independent media,

00:03:45.080 that he has every intention of embracing the policies of a dictator.

00:03:50.560 Adam, this month marks the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was ratified by Justin's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

00:04:00.940 Is there not a sense of perverse irony here that the biggest threat to those charter rights and freedoms is Justin Trudeau?

00:04:10.060 Yeah, 100%.

00:04:12.060 I mean, when you look at this guy's term in office, that comment he made about an admiration for basic dictatorship was probably one of the only times he was saying what he meant.

00:04:22.140 Generally, if Justin Trudeau says something, the opposite occurs.

00:04:25.860 If he celebrates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it's when he's trampling it.

00:04:29.240 If he says he's going to make houses more affordable for families, the average price of house doubles.

00:04:33.520 It goes on and on.

00:04:34.540 If he says he's going to address clean drinking water for Indigenous communities in Canada, they don't get addressed.

00:04:41.440 He is every bit the nightmare of 1984 Orwell, where what he says is functionally the opposite of what he does in every single case whatsoever.

00:04:51.440 So for him to have the audacity, and it wasn't just him.

00:04:54.800 This was a concerted effort.

00:04:56.260 It was a number of his key ministers sharing about that as though they are some sort of champions of freedom, as though they've been the ones advocating for our fundamental rights precisely while they've been trampling on them.

00:05:10.120 Pierre Elliott Trudeau was one of the last people to implement.

00:05:13.240 Back then it was called the War Measures Act, not the Emergency Measures Act.

00:05:16.220 They brought in martial law effectively.

00:05:18.380 His son is now doing it as well.

00:05:19.900 But Pierre Elliott Trudeau is now seeming the moderate compared to the stuff that Justin Trudeau is doing.

00:05:25.600 And that is a shocking statement.

00:05:27.260 For many, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the prime minister we look back to as one of the worst, as certainly one who caused a lot of problems for this country, certainly one who alienated the West to a degree never before felt.

00:05:38.980 But now he's looking like he wasn't half bad compared to the old chip off the block.

00:05:44.780 No, 100 percent.

00:05:45.860 It's very disturbing, Adam.

00:05:47.980 And, you know, I can't help but think, you know, people ask me if you ever did get a chance to ask Justin Trudeau a question.

00:05:54.820 What would it be?

00:05:55.820 And I think for me, Adam, it would be this.

00:05:58.180 And it's a question the mainstream media should have asked beginning about two years ago, that now that we see how China is behaving on the world stage, for example, the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur Muslims,

00:06:11.680 what was done to Hong Kong, what is being threatened to be done to Taiwan, given that COVID-19 originated out of China and has caused the world economy trillions upon trillions of economic damage. 0.89

00:06:28.440 Mr. Trudeau, are you still an admirer of the basic dictatorship of China?

00:06:33.780 Yeah, that would be my question, Adam.

00:06:36.060 First of all, why won't anyone in the media that does have access ask him that?

00:06:40.960 And secondly, what do you think his answer would be?

00:06:44.080 Yeah.

00:06:44.600 So, I mean, I think we have a situation where those who are allowed in, and this has been our experience,

00:06:51.000 anyone who's going to ask tough questions or if they suspect a media outlet, not even an unfriendly media outlet,

00:06:56.380 but a media outlet that is going to actually ask questions that people want answers to is going to show up.

00:07:02.640 They don't disclose the location for events.

00:07:05.780 They simply shut the door.

00:07:08.420 They have, instead of a location, they have a phone number to call, and then they vet you, and then they might let you in.

00:07:13.460 The other thing that we've seen is they'll do media pooling, which sort of makes sense if you're the president on an airplane or if you're in an extremely secure environment,

00:07:22.140 but they're doing this for every single event. 0.75

00:07:24.460 When there's large banquet halls with people coming, they're afraid that he's going to say something ridiculous like that China comment.

00:07:30.600 They're afraid that he won't have an answer for questions on the fly.

00:07:33.480 We've attempted to cover numerous events, and they simply exclude anyone.

00:07:36.900 So I think the people there, they're getting their government handouts.

00:07:39.440 Unlike us, we're independent journalists.

00:07:40.920 We can ask those questions.

00:07:42.220 But they're getting government handouts, and they know if they start asking tough questions, they're going to be excluded.

00:07:47.280 A few outlets have started on occasion to ask questions.

00:07:50.500 We're also seeing some organizations start to say, well, we've kind of crossed the line here.

00:07:54.880 I think people can smell, the sharks can smell the blood in the water, so to speak, particularly with this coalition with the NDP.

00:08:01.280 Justin Trudeau is vulnerable.

00:08:02.380 He's leaning towards the end of his political career in Canada, very likely, but who knows with what's going on.

00:08:09.640 But that does seem to be, hopefully, the way things are headed.

00:08:12.440 I don't think, one, I don't think you could get an honest answer out of Justin Trudeau on that question.

00:08:16.520 If you did, it would probably be something along the lines of the Jean Charret question.

00:08:21.760 He was, the answer he gave when he was asked about his work with Huawei, and then lots of the troubling sort of connections there, where he, ultimately, I'm sure Justin Trudeau was going to work for the Chinese in some way, shape, or form after politics, whether it be through a think tank or some other organization. 0.60

00:08:38.240 He's going to be getting funding from them, so I doubt he would say anything to malign his own handlers.

00:08:43.820 And really, this sort of shapes out the media won't ask questions because Trudeau pays them, and Trudeau is very much beholden to the Chinese and very likely hopes for further relations with his Trudeau Foundation with them.

00:08:56.340 So he's beholden to them and not willing to criticize anybody.

00:08:59.440 We need a politician who's actually willing to talk to media, answer tough questions, and hold some people accountable, particularly if they're doing terrible things like spying on countries and executing genocides on Uyghur populations. 0.94

00:09:11.400 Yeah, you know, I'm sure the Mandarins in Beijing just love Justin Trudeau.

00:09:17.220 You might be right.

00:09:17.780 He might have a job for life post-prime ministership with the Chinese government.

00:09:24.560 But, you know, Adam, it's worse than what you say.

00:09:27.300 You had some clips in your report that are about to prove what I'm saying.

00:09:31.840 It's not just that we're excluded.

00:09:33.560 It's not just that we have doors slammed in our face.

00:09:36.420 But in the case of our beloved colleague, Drea Humphrey in Vancouver, myself here in Toronto back in December, we were actually manhandled.

00:09:46.640 I mean, they moved Drea out of the way like she was a little China doll, picked her up and moved her on a public sidewalk with me. 1.00

00:09:53.820 They basically beat me up and infected me. 0.98

00:09:57.980 What I'm getting at before we talk about things like Bill C-11 and whatnot, Adam, this is Banana Republic kind of crap. 0.97

00:10:07.680 You know, the idea of the RCMP working as the Royal Canadian Mounted Henchman and laying a beating on reporters who ask insensitive questions. 0.94

00:10:17.880 Did you ever imagine this would happen in Canada?

00:10:21.180 No.

00:10:21.820 And, you know, it's actually particularly shocking to me.

00:10:24.940 Obviously, I was heartbroken to see what happened to you as well as to Drea.

00:10:28.820 But it's how quickly this Justin Trudeau use of police as a means of political oppression, as a political tool of force, how quickly while the world looked on at horror and what happened in Ottawa with people getting trampled by horses, guns being pointed at peaceful protesters, a nightmare situation.

00:10:49.940 But the police around the country, under the likes of Mayor Jyoti Gondek, sought to emulate those standards.

00:10:59.400 So the damage, I think, is far reaching.

00:11:02.260 An independent journalist, Devlin Gannon, was aggressively arrested here in Calgary.

00:11:06.600 So the implications of this sort of Banana Republic leadership, these progressive politicians like Jyoti Gondek, I mean, even Jason Kenney to an extent, they certainly seem to feel emboldened.

00:11:17.280 Well, if Justin Trudeau can do this, we can use our police force to hammer people down as well.

00:11:21.860 And that's troubling because when people start to question whether they can trust the police, when longtime supporters, back the blue type folks are saying, well, you've crossed a line here, guys.

00:11:31.240 When the police themselves are so thoroughly divided, half of them at least probably don't want to do this stuff anymore, but they're just trying to put food on the table.

00:11:39.080 You've got a problem in your country.

00:11:41.240 And there needs to be – we need at some point some sort of moral standard, whether it's the police, whether it's a police chief, whether it's a mayor, a premier, or the prime minister of this country.

00:11:50.680 Somebody needs to have some principles and say, no, the criminal code is going to be respected.

00:11:55.360 The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is going to be respected, particularly to usher away all these rights and bring in all these abuses for a COVID-19 situation that has very low rates of death is completely unjustifiable and entirely concerning.

00:12:12.000 No, indeed.

00:12:12.380 And I think what's even more concerning, despite the censorship, despite us being locked out, the physicality, it's this thing they're cooking up now, Adam, the Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization license.

00:12:27.620 That in itself is offensive, that this government thinks that journalism should be some kind of licensed profession.

00:12:37.120 And if you don't have their license, you are verboten to have an opinion.

00:12:41.780 But what makes it doubly offensive, Adam, is the fact, look whose letterhead is on the correspondence when it comes to independent media organizations, the Canadian Revenue Agency.

00:12:56.000 In all my life, Adam, I've never seen the CRA, or by its former name, Revenue Canada, politicized as kind of a pit bull watchdog at the behest of the government.

00:13:09.320 If you want anyone to be apolitical, it's the tax man.

00:13:13.400 This is really serious stuff, wouldn't you say?

00:13:16.240 Yeah.

00:13:16.480 Well, if you want anyone to be apolitical and not have a conflict of interest, it's media.

00:13:20.680 It's the tax man.

00:13:21.900 It's the police.

00:13:22.820 It's all these people who have become the most politicized arms of government under Justin Trudeau.

00:13:28.480 And it's extremely problematic.

00:13:30.580 And this is not new for anyone who's studied history.

00:13:34.840 When people are inclining towards totalitarianism, they increase gun restrictions.

00:13:39.240 They limit media access.

00:13:40.860 They limit who's allowed to call themselves media.

00:13:43.780 These are all things that we can, if you study history, you can see these patterns leading up to very many of the troubling instances.

00:13:50.580 I was talking with Arthur Pawlowski yesterday about this, and he very much admits when he's using the language of Gestapo and those types of languages, he's talking about, and his family witnessed it firsthand, the steps leading up to the horrific thing that happened.

00:14:06.160 He's not saying that what's happening right now is comparable to some of the most horrific instances in history.

00:14:11.080 He's saying this is the pattern that has followed, whether it be in Vietnam, whether it be in Germany, whether it be in Honduras, wherever it is, Venezuela.

00:14:18.100 They restrict freedoms.

00:14:19.200 They restrict the media's capacity to ask questions.

00:14:22.080 And now the fact that we have the CRA effectively saying not only is the government going to be giving handouts to these preferred media outlets in the tune of billions of dollars, and no one watches these guys, by the way, very few people.

00:14:35.960 It's not a good return on investment for Canadians.

00:14:38.480 But also, the other outlets aren't going to be eligible for these tax receipts, for subscription services, these types of things.

00:14:45.800 It is so narrowly focused on excluding certain voices, particularly ours, other independent media outlets that dare ask tough questions instead of just cheerleading.

00:14:56.800 For it to be entering into this sort of economic realm, we saw it already with bank accounts being frozen with the trucker convoy.

00:15:03.840 Now they're taking it to this extent.

00:15:05.320 They're going after our wallets.

00:15:06.860 They're going after our freedoms.

00:15:08.540 If you aren't concerned about this right now, you simply are not paying attention.

00:15:13.040 As I mentioned, there is hope that people are starting to wake up.

00:15:16.460 Justin Trudeau's popularity is plummeting.

00:15:18.520 He's dependent on a volatile NDP coalition right now, which a couple days after they entered, the NDP is criticizing the liberals and conservatives for working together, which is absurd.

00:15:28.520 But we are in a very problematic time right now.

00:15:31.240 And anyone out there, whether it be a civil liberties advocate, a progressive, whoever you are, should be concerned about this because these are very much the freedoms that people move to Canada for.

00:15:40.920 People are coming here, not just for jobs, not just for security, but they're coming here for this promise of freedom.

00:15:47.500 They have been for a long time.

00:15:49.260 That's part of what made Canada so great.

00:15:51.280 And those freedoms are rapidly evaporating under Justin Trudeau.

00:15:54.440 Well said, my friend.

00:15:55.720 You know, I can't help but agree with you in terms of, you know, the power the CRA has, Adam.

00:16:04.320 I'm not making a joke.

00:16:05.500 I'd rather be in trouble with the mob than the CRA. 1.00

00:16:08.620 The CRA can give you an economic death sentence.

00:16:11.420 I can go to my bank and find out my account has been frozen thanks to an order from the CRA.

00:16:16.400 And the fact that it's becoming politicized, that the prime minister has a direct channel to the taxman and basically goes through his Rolodex.

00:16:25.100 Let's see, Sheila Gunn-Reed, Ezra Levant, Adam Seuss, David Menzies, et cetera, et cetera.

00:16:30.040 Lock them out.

00:16:30.940 And I don't think that's beyond the realm of possibility, Adam, the way things are going in this country.

00:16:38.580 Oh, I think it's entirely within the realm of possibility.

00:16:42.300 There has been quite a bit of international backlash and attention brought to this.

00:16:46.240 People are generally outraged.

00:16:48.160 And for many, this crossed the line.

00:16:49.420 But unfortunately, Canada basically politely asked for our freedom and got it.

00:16:54.240 We didn't fight for it.

00:16:55.400 So there is a general sense of sort of happiness and eagerness to go along among Canadians.

00:17:02.680 And that's why we're seeing the people who are speaking out against this first and foremost were often people from Eastern Europe, people from Vietnam, people who have seen this sort of thing firsthand.

00:17:12.460 And Canadians really need to wake up because it is only a matter of time before someone has – and I'm not talking about overt racism or advocating for violence or any of those types of things.

00:17:21.520 But it's about time someone is going to have a nuanced opinion about government overreach or the freedom of speech rights that we should have.

00:17:30.640 And they're going to have their bank accounts frozen.

00:17:32.300 That, under Justin Trudeau, is his intention very much.

00:17:34.960 He wants people who don't agree with him not to be able to pay their bills.

00:17:37.940 And, you know, Adam, I also get this profound feeling, you know, as a saying goes in Las Vegas, the fix is in.

00:17:46.400 And I speak of that, you know, secret cabal that analyzed Rebel News content.

00:17:54.260 They looked at 276 of our most recent reports, found out less than less than 1% was news.

00:18:01.960 Heck, our name is Rebel News.

00:18:03.780 Not only is it news, it's news that the mainstream media dare not report because they don't want to bite the hand that feeds.

00:18:12.800 And, again, this is shocking.

00:18:15.560 By what benchmark are they defining news?

00:18:18.480 And who are these people, Adam?

00:18:20.320 Who are these nameless bureaucrats that are determining what is and isn't news and who does and does not get a qualified Canadian journalism organization license?

00:18:31.460 You know, I bet they're related to the same people who determined that we weren't eligible for the leadership debates.

00:18:37.100 And guess what?

00:18:37.820 A federal court ruled that they were wrong. 0.97

00:18:40.320 This is ridiculous.

00:18:41.100 You know, I might agree with you that only 1% of the time we're covering a story, other media outlets are there. 0.76

00:18:47.320 That indicates to me not that we're only doing 1% news, but that we are doing news and no one else is covering it.

00:18:52.920 The amount of times that I see media outlets and everyone at Rebel, I'm sure you can attest to this as well, media will show up for five minutes of an eight-hour event, or they'll show up for three minutes before the event begins.

00:19:04.180 They get one shot and they roll out.

00:19:05.720 We've talked about this before, but we saw an anti-Castro regime, anti-communist regime protest in Calgary with a couple hundred people show up.

00:19:13.520 They showed up at the beginning when the organizers were there, got a shot of about seven or eight of them, and then said that it was a protest for vaccines to be distributed in Cuba.

00:19:24.680 It was absolutely unbelievable.

00:19:27.020 So by their absurd metric of other outlets aren't covering this stuff, yeah, they're probably right.

00:19:31.920 But looking back at our last 276 stories, there are live streams of leadership events with no commentary provided.

00:19:41.920 There's probably a dozen of those.

00:19:43.520 There's speeches where we just captured the speech and posted it without comment.

00:19:47.060 That's original news content by the very definition.

00:19:50.200 They aren't even making an effort anymore.

00:19:51.860 Saying only 1% of 276 stories is news, it's laughable, it's comedy.

00:19:57.360 And it is the type of thing that you would see in a banana republic. 0.87

00:19:59.820 You know, Adam, from what you just said, you've given me an epiphany.

00:20:04.000 Because I was looking through this, 276 reports, I was looking at the reports, I go, how can this not be considered news?

00:20:10.440 Less than 1% is actual news.

00:20:13.120 And you know what it is, my friend?

00:20:14.480 I think you've stumbled on something.

00:20:17.440 If these nameless bureaucrats see, oh, I don't know, impolite, insensitive questions directed at Justin Trudeau or the federal government,

00:20:26.520 that therefore disqualifies it as being legitimate news.

00:20:30.980 Could that be what they're basing this benchmark on, Adam?

00:20:35.160 Seems like, I mean, pastor, incarcerated, political prisoner for 51 days.

00:20:39.660 Well, they're Christian, so that's not news.

00:20:42.260 Daring to ask questions.

00:20:43.800 Showing up when no one else will show up.

00:20:45.540 Covering these protests.

00:20:46.800 Literally, the amount of times that I've seen little sort of oddball protests with like 30 people,

00:20:52.580 and all the media outlets are filming them, some environmental protest, whatever it might be.

00:20:56.780 God bless them, everyone has a right to protest.

00:20:58.480 I'm in favor of that, except apparently freedom folks under the injunction in Calgary.

00:21:01.560 But regardless.

00:21:02.540 And then thousands of people show up with mainstream media, literally parked there, filming.

00:21:09.200 And they pack up their cameras and leave.

00:21:11.140 They don't get the shot.

00:21:12.000 We even saw media outlets recently at an event for Pierre Pagliav that had about 7,000 people there.

00:21:19.520 Mainstream media said hundreds showed up.

00:21:22.900 It's just like less than 1% of what they do is news might be a believable standard.

00:21:28.680 Now, everyone has their biases.

00:21:30.240 Everyone has their perspectives and opinions.

00:21:32.320 We don't pretend otherwise.

00:21:33.540 But to pretend that CBC is doing all news and we're doing less than 1% news, it's absolutely laughable.

00:21:39.900 I, for one, am happy, and it's sad to see the journalistic integrity for so many fall apart in this country.

00:21:45.420 There are still journalists out there doing important work, asking tough questions, but they're few and far between.

00:21:50.440 It certainly seems to be discouraged in the industry.

00:21:52.860 I'm very happy to be with Rebel News because I'm encouraged to go out there, find stories, ask tough questions, do research, get informed,

00:22:00.020 and then present that information to the public in as unedited a way as possible.

00:22:04.860 We'll intro it.

00:22:05.800 We'll give our opinion a little bit.

00:22:07.280 And then we let the people judge for themselves.

00:22:09.040 And I think that's why people appreciate us.

00:22:11.020 I think that's why people watch us.

00:22:12.380 And I think that's why mainstream media numbers across North America and, in fact, around the world are absolutely doondilling while independent media outlets are taking over.

00:22:19.760 And I don't think Justin Trudeau can stop it.

00:22:22.440 And I'll go one step further, Adam.

00:22:24.100 I think a lot of the hate-on we receive from members of the mainstream media and mainstream media organizations, it's basically jealousy, quite frankly.

00:22:33.300 They resent the freedom we have that we can go after Justin Trudeau and his cabal with tough questions because they dare not bite the hand that feeds.

00:22:43.360 And I'll tell you, with your crowd estimates, that always kills me.

00:22:46.660 I know most journalists, myself included, I failed grade 11 math.

00:22:52.300 Unless they're writing for the business pages, they're not exactly a whiz with numbers.

00:22:57.460 But even I can tell the difference between hundreds of people and thousands of people.

00:23:02.040 But at the end of the day, what do we see from this government?

00:23:06.580 Because they don't like us, they don't like our ideology, they don't like our quest for the truth.

00:23:11.840 It's demonization, it's censorship, it's even violence.

00:23:17.060 This is despicable. 0.99

00:23:18.220 Like I said, Banana Republic crap is on our shores right now, Adam. 1.00

00:23:23.680 Last word goes to you. 0.97

00:23:24.840 You know, the thing that's encouraging for me is we've just continued to grow.

00:23:31.800 Justin Trudeau thinks he's beating us up, but we're just growing.

00:23:37.480 We're resilient.

00:23:38.280 We aren't backing down.

00:23:39.400 This is real journalism.

00:23:40.540 Real journalism gets to work when the people who you are supposed to be holding accountable tell you that you're not allowed to hold them accountable.

00:23:47.460 So very much Justin Trudeau may think he's dealing a death blow here, but Canadians know better.

00:23:53.000 We know better.

00:23:53.740 We're going to continue to work and we're only going to continue to grow.

00:23:57.660 Justin Trudeau, every time he launches one of these attacks against us, I'm out in public.

00:24:02.440 I can go to the mall.

00:24:03.400 I can go to wherever I may be.

00:24:05.200 People come up to me and talk to me about Justin Trudeau attacking rebel news on a daily basis when I'm out in public.

00:24:13.080 People are listening to this story and they're not listening on behalf of Justin Trudeau.

00:24:16.780 They're listening on behalf of independent media.

00:24:18.720 And I have a pretty good feeling that Canadians have got our back.

00:24:22.500 100%.

00:24:22.940 And Adam, we're in, I'm sure, for the fight of our lives with the passing of Bill C-11 and when it does get passed.

00:24:29.940 But that's a story for another day.

00:24:32.060 Have a great weekend, my friend.

00:24:33.760 Thanks for having me.

00:24:34.400 Appreciate it.

00:24:34.880 You too.

00:24:35.520 You got it.

00:24:36.060 And that was Adam Seuss in Calgary.

00:24:38.960 Keep it here, folks.

00:24:40.020 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:42.900 The convoy drew international attention towards the peaceful fight for civil liberties here in Canada, despite Trudeau's efforts to thwart dissent.

00:24:53.960 This success may partially be thanks to CB Radio, both in terms of navigating the convoy as well as the conveyance of messaging without government or big tech consent.

00:25:03.520 Notably, there was an increase in CB radio sales during the pandemic.

00:25:07.300 Meanwhile, the government continues to restrict media on all fronts.

00:25:11.520 But this communications platform provided a separate world for truckers and convoy supporters to communicate with each other without a third-party overlord, as emphasized by the notable entrepreneur Elon Musk, when he stated that CB radios are free from government and media control.

00:25:27.080 Well, folks, who'd have thunk it?

00:25:28.840 A communications device that was all the rage in pop culture back in the mid-70s is now perhaps a tool that Canadians can use to preserve freedom of speech?

00:25:40.860 And really, does that not speak volumes when it comes to the censorious behavior of both the Silicon Valley tech giants and big government in the 21st century?

00:25:53.400 And joining me now from Calgary is Sid Fazzard.

00:25:57.480 Hey, Sid, how you doing?

00:25:59.320 Hey, doing all right. How's everything down there?

00:26:01.380 Everything is great.

00:26:02.520 You know, Sid, I absolutely loved your piece because, you know, more than 40 years ago, trucker culture briefly became part of pop culture, thanks to a slew of trucker-centric movies and TV shows and even hit songs.

00:26:17.280 But isn't it amazing that here we are in 2022 and people are rediscovering citizen-ban radios not out of a thirst for nostalgia, Sid, but rather as a means of maintaining their freedom of speech?

00:26:32.980 What's your take on this, my friend?

00:26:34.640 Well, we're seeing a reliving of an old technology that's CB radio, and I don't mean to offend when I say old.

00:26:43.280 It's just been replaced by much more broad means of communication.

00:26:47.580 However, it is interesting.

00:26:48.800 It did make a bit of a comeback during the pandemic as people were locked in their homes.

00:26:52.580 And inevitably, it is an alternative means of communication aside from what we regularly move towards, such as social media, through our phones and the Internet, basically as one and the same.

00:27:04.520 So it's interesting to note that people are putting in more interest to these external sources of communication, and hopefully more of them will be seen.

00:27:13.140 Well, as a matter of fact, Sid, when you think about it, in a sense, the CB radio is the great, great, great granddaddy of the Internet, the idea.

00:27:22.680 And it was a phenomenal thing, you know, back when I discovered CB radios, not as a user, but as watching all those various trucker shows, that you can just go onto the airwaves as Joe Blow, say a hail, and some distant stranger, although not too distant, there's a range to the radios, of course, would strike up a conversation.

00:27:47.220 It was kind of like an email or texting dialogue going back and forth, albeit audio.

00:27:53.920 But the thing is, as we are being censored increasingly by the Silicon Valley tech giants and by government, this might be an alternative for some people in which to communicate without having Big Brother, you know, wading in to stymie the communication.

00:28:15.960 Oh, that's exactly it.

00:28:17.840 And just think about an entire city.

00:28:19.760 We all have our cell phones.

00:28:20.920 Well, what if those cell phones were replaced with walkie-talkies and you had a certain number of channels and the hundreds of thousands of people around you were all using these walkie-talkie systems as well?

00:28:30.380 Just put in your head what that might sound like, what kind of communication would happen.

00:28:35.460 It'd be a bit of a wild west.

00:28:37.280 But that's exactly what free speech provides.

00:28:40.620 It's not censored by the government.

00:28:42.500 Now, of course, on a CB radio, whatever you're broadcasting can be heard by anyone around you.

00:28:47.560 So you might still have some caution laid out there.

00:28:51.200 But at the end, at least you are able to say what you want to say.

00:28:54.560 You know, and when you use that term wild west, I can't help but think, Sid, going back some 15 years ago when we saw these Silicon Valley tech platforms emerge, you know, the YouTubes, the Twitters, the Facebooks.

00:29:07.500 If you recall, my friend, it was a matter of, hey, come one, come all.

00:29:12.440 This is the wild west of free speech.

00:29:14.700 Give us your content for free.

00:29:17.200 Wow, what a business plan.

00:29:18.860 And then when they, you know, attained critical mass, Sid, suddenly they became picky and choosy.

00:29:27.380 And they pointed to those of right of center, typically, you, you, you, you, out.

00:29:33.540 We're not interested in your brand of free speech.

00:29:37.460 Don't you find that remarkable how really the creation of these tech giants, it was really a matter of bait and switch, I think, Sid?

00:29:45.500 Yeah, it's incredibly unfortunate.

00:29:48.840 And as they've solidified their foundation and they're not so worrisome of being at a loss when it comes to finances, especially with the gains they've made in marketing online and the money they're pulling in from that, we are the commodity that they're going after.

00:30:03.840 And it's a shame because, like you said, YouTube, back in the day, you could go on there and you would see all sorts of things, maybe some stuff you shouldn't have seen because it was just so outlandish.

00:30:13.400 But at least everyone got to see what was really going on.

00:30:15.980 And one of the byproducts of their marketing efforts towards us as individuals is that we're encapsulated in this world that is an expected world that they can advertise to us in.

00:30:29.420 And it prevents us from wanting outside intervention.

00:30:31.820 Yeah. And, you know, I'm just thinking, Sid, this might come across as a stupid question, but I don't think so, given the type of censorious thugs we have in Ottawa. 0.99

00:30:41.760 We see with Bill C-11, the Trudeau liberals want to regulate and censor the Internet. 0.97

00:30:48.480 They want to try to put a muzzle on independent media outlets like ourselves.

00:30:53.980 And I'm wondering if CB radios were to take off, if the sales really ramped up, would you put it past this government not to come up with regulations that would govern the use of CB radios?

00:31:10.580 Honestly, it would not surprise me in the least.

00:31:12.760 However, any time you try and shut something down like that, it'll pop up in another place in a different way altogether.

00:31:19.320 So they can try.

00:31:20.940 But I think for the time being, they're just not going to worry about it so that they can focus on the Internet that we're all using so freely.

00:31:27.920 Yeah, I guess if CB radios are legislated out of existence, what else do we have left?

00:31:34.760 Smoke signals, I guess.

00:31:36.040 We do have a lot of pigeons in our downtown areas.

00:31:40.780 Maybe we can put them to do.

00:31:43.220 That's right.

00:31:44.040 I wish I could figure out how to train a pigeon to fly somewhere.

00:31:47.780 I have just an idea that if I was sending a pigeon to you, Sid, with a little note taped to its leg, it probably ends up in Florida as opposed to Calgary.

00:31:58.460 So I don't even know how that works.

00:32:00.260 But once again, just a great piece.

00:32:02.880 And of course, you made the point in your video that the Freedom Convoy, the CB radios, were integral.

00:32:10.920 And for good reason.

00:32:12.200 We saw how all sorts of threats in terms of the online universe were happening in Ottawa, including the potential of having your bank account suspended if you were to donate to the Freedom Convoy.

00:32:27.520 So I suppose when it comes to an old school communications technology like the CB radio, Sid, necessity is the mother of invention.

00:32:38.200 That's absolutely it.

00:32:39.460 And well, I guess we'll see where things go.

00:32:41.920 As you know, as we all know, technology is advancing more rapidly by the day.

00:32:46.580 So who knows what we'll have at our disposal in the next few years.

00:32:50.260 Well, there you go.

00:32:51.380 Well, I got to tell you, Sid, I mean, back in the mid 70s, I was in junior high school in Newfoundland.

00:32:57.120 To show you how big trucker culture was, and of course, the CB radio is intrinsically linked to it.

00:33:04.100 I won a provincial riding contest, came in second place.

00:33:07.620 I won $300, Sid, which in 1975 currency was a fortune for a junior high schooler.

00:33:15.120 I almost bought a CB radio, even though I didn't have a car or a driver's license. 0.88

00:33:21.100 That's how much of a loser I was.

00:33:23.540 And I'm going to give myself a Barry Horowitz pat on the back for winning that contest.

00:33:27.700 But in the meantime, I never dreamed that CB radios in this day and age of cell phone technology, the Internet, etc., would come into the vernacular again.

00:33:40.660 And I got to say, it's a sad story that because of a government, because of silicon tech giants that are all about censorship, we're talking about this in the first place.

00:33:52.440 Last word goes to you, Sid.

00:33:53.660 Oh, I just want to, I guess I would say for everyone to keep looking for new ways of finding information, especially even though we all find ourselves involved in the Internet and our phones.

00:34:05.140 There are real physical ways of communicating that are entirely different that we should at least be aware of.

00:34:11.840 There you go.

00:34:12.640 Well, Sid, as they say in the CB universe, 10-4, rubber ducky.

00:34:17.020 I'm going to put the hammer down and move on to another segment.

00:34:21.640 Thank you so much for that piece, Sid.

00:34:24.100 It really brought me down memory lane.

00:34:26.600 Oh, absolutely.

00:34:27.420 Avoid the chicken poops.

00:34:28.960 Thank you.

00:34:29.920 And that was Sid Fazzard in Calgary.

00:34:33.000 Keep it here, folks.

00:34:33.840 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:34:39.020 In the greater Toronto area today, gas is about $1.79 a litre as it inches ever upward to that $2 a litre barrier.

00:34:48.940 But when it comes to my guest, Roger Gordon, he really doesn't care about the price of the pump because his Ford F-350, it doesn't run on gasoline or diesel.

00:35:01.840 It runs on ammonia.

00:35:03.560 And that means Roger is paying about $0.25 a litre.

00:35:08.520 Wow.

00:35:09.160 Now, let's delve into what Roger is doing right now with his truck to get these incredible fuel savings.

00:35:17.620 Roger, as I said, this is your Ford F-350.

00:35:21.240 It's a 2001 model.

00:35:24.020 And unlike other Ford pickup trucks that would run on gasoline or diesel, yours runs on ammonia.

00:35:31.680 Ammonia, tell us what gave you the inspiration to go the ammonia route.

00:35:37.180 We were creating ammonium, using it for the pharmaceutical business.

00:35:40.820 And in 2010, we applied for a patent for a machine.

00:35:45.620 In the following years, we've tried to find somebody to partner up with us that's bigger than us.

00:35:51.260 A billionaire from Canada came.

00:35:53.000 He was going to partner up with us.

00:35:54.840 He tries to contact Trudeau.

00:35:56.780 Trudeau won't reply to him.

00:35:57.760 But before Trudeau became prime minister, he sent emails to us praising Green NH3.

00:36:04.360 After he became prime minister, he wouldn't praise us anymore.

00:36:07.740 He wouldn't reply to us.

00:36:08.580 Well, folks, as Bob Barker used to say, the price is right.

00:36:13.180 Heck, $0.25 a litre for fuel these days.

00:36:16.120 That just might be the bargain of the century.

00:36:19.520 And yet the Trudeau Liberals, for whatever reason, are simply uninterested in this fossil fuel alternative.

00:36:26.140 I wonder why.

00:36:28.540 In any event, you had plenty to say about Roger Gordon's quest to promote ammonia as a fossil fuel alternative.

00:36:36.880 Kenton Sully writes, doesn't matter.

00:36:39.300 Government will eventually tax this fuel and bye-bye savings.

00:36:43.700 You know, unfortunately, I fear you are correct, Kenton.

00:36:46.220 If ammonia were to catch on, you can bet your set of wheels that it would be taxed.

00:36:52.420 In fact, as the number of electric cars ramps upward, trust me, governments will apply a kilometre tax to EV drivers.

00:37:01.840 Hey, the tax man never misses an opportunity to reach into our wallets, folks.

00:37:07.560 Brian Lee writes, sounds good to me, but if government doesn't like it, they will discredit you and probably try to buy the patent so they can make it disappear.

00:37:19.420 Wouldn't be the first time.

00:37:21.260 Unfortunately, I think that is a valid premise, Brian.

00:37:25.640 After all, look what the Trudeau Liberals are doing right now to make the independent press disappear.

00:37:32.420 Mike Pierce writes, weird, ammonia is based on the most abundant element in our atmosphere.

00:37:40.000 I never associated its use as a fuel, mostly for water disinfection combined with chlorine.

00:37:47.300 Wow, I'm not a fuel expert by any means, Mike.

00:37:50.720 But if ammonia is viable, you gotta love that price, 25 cents a litre.

00:37:57.380 The only other way to get fuel that cheap would be to hop in a Delorne with the optional flux capacitor and go back in time to the 1970s.

00:38:07.760 Freedom First writes, never mind a billionaire investor, he should crowdfund this.

00:38:13.340 Obviously, in some way, the government can't get their paws on it.

00:38:17.960 You know, I like how you're thinking Freedom First, but as we saw with the Freedom Convoy,

00:38:22.880 let's just make sure the crowdfunding portal won't go rogue. 0.96

00:38:26.420 Yeah, I'm looking at you, GoFundMe, you pathetic censor. 0.68

00:38:31.480 And Stevie writes, diverse energy has always been the solution. 0.94

00:38:36.380 The one-size-fits-all energy solutions suit the global elites who want to dictate human behaviors.

00:38:43.700 Climate change, like censorship, is all about limiting your options.

00:38:48.860 Well, I can tell you this much, Stevie.

00:38:50.580 The Trudeau Liberals are allegedly all about diversity.

00:38:53.760 And Justin has proven this several times by donning blackface. 1.00

00:38:59.420 Yikes.

00:39:00.640 But these cats are most certainly not about a diversity of opinion.

00:39:05.660 And if ammonia-based fuel doesn't fit into their climate change plans for whatever reason,

00:39:11.700 then it will be ignored or maybe even demonized.

00:39:15.160 Because, folks, that's how our federal government rolls these days.

00:39:20.380 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:39:23.020 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:39:24.300 See you next week.

00:39:25.120 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:39:29.780 Good night.

00:39:30.200 Good night.

00:40:00.200 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - April 23, 2022

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Free Speech in Canada from Justin Trudeau to CB Radio

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