Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ The Media Party sends an open letter to Justin Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the media party has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:00:20.440 Folks, you are not going to believe the hypocrisy and the double standards that are found in

00:00:28.260 that letter. It's Thursday, September 8th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:40.220 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:43.540 Well, that was one humdinger of an open letter that was published the other day by members

00:00:57.940 of the media party. It's a joint letter, actually, signed by 48, count them, 48 media organizations

00:01:05.640 and associations. It was sent to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, and other political

00:01:11.680 leaders. And the letter, quote, demands action on the growing harassment and abuse of journalists

00:01:18.740 in Canada, end quote. Oh my, it would seem that the media watchdogs who now exist as lapdogs

00:01:26.680 are in a most disagreeable mood, despite being very well taken care of by their kennel master,

00:01:34.260 Justin Trudeau. Then again, I suppose even the tiniest and most domesticated chihuahua might

00:01:41.660 yelp out a bark or two if it's pissed off, right? So how about we dissect this missive, shall we?

00:01:50.460 It begins, quote, Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, end quote. Well, of course Justin is dear. He's the media

00:01:58.120 party's sugar daddy. More than a billion annually for the vastly unwatched CBC. More than 600 million

00:02:06.140 annually to the rest of the mainstream media because these outlets can't seem to sell subscriptions and

00:02:13.340 advertising in sufficient volume to stay afloat. And gee, I wonder why that would be. Needless to say,

00:02:21.960 sucking from the government teat is immoral and unethical. Simply put, how can you objectively 1.00

00:02:28.320 cover the latest scandals erupting in this liberal government when you are also receiving payola

00:02:35.080 from Prime Minister Blackface himself? But I digress because the media mutts are barking mad.

00:02:42.700 Apparently, the practice of journalism these days is getting increasingly dangerous. Oh, you don't say.

00:02:49.280 Right. And apparently, Master Trudeau is not protecting his minions as he should be in these

00:02:56.380 uber-violent times. Yes, first they want bucks. Now they want bodyguards and even a dash of

00:03:03.160 Big Brother to, you know, monitor things. You see, not a week goes by in Canada in which a journalist

00:03:11.880 isn't slaughtered in the course of duty. Okay, not slaughtered, would you believe, beaten to a pulp.

00:03:18.360 Um, how about slapped on the wrist? Um, harsh language, anyone? Yes, it's F-bombs and mean tweets

00:03:26.860 that the sluggos and the MSM are enduring. And this will not be tolerated. These are special 0.99

00:03:34.440 people after all, folks. Anyway, the letter goes on to state, quote, we are writing in relation to the

00:03:41.600 increasing and alarming online hate and harassment targeting journalists and journalism as a

00:03:47.640 profession. This is a global problem, which threatens not only the safety and well-being

00:03:53.460 of journalists, but the proper functioning of democracy itself. Many countries are now working

00:04:00.500 on plans to fight back. We are calling on Canadian police and policymakers to do the same.

00:04:06.780 For the most part, these attacks are aimed at racialized and female journalists who are 0.98

00:04:13.780 experiencing an increasing number of targeted vile threats of violence, end quote. Is that true,

00:04:22.460 by the way, racialized and female journalists are receiving the brunt of this harassment? Or is this 1.00

00:04:28.600 yet more critical race theory being jammed down our throats? The letter goes on, quote, we are asking

00:04:35.560 police forces to take several immediate steps to address the current incidents and to work with

00:04:42.560 our organizations to combat abuse of journalists and all victims of online hate and harassment, end quote.

00:04:51.140 So if you read between the lines here, folks, these journalists and journalism organizations are calling

00:04:58.240 for censorship. They are calling for a further enhancement of what is already a society resembling a police

00:05:07.420 state. That's an odd thing for those in the press to clamor for, wouldn't you say? Oh, and be careful what you

00:05:15.000 wish for, guys. The Trudeau liberals are already hell-bent on censoring the Internet as is. Me thinks some of the

00:05:22.560 signatories to this letter might not like the final result. The open letter drones on, quote,

00:05:31.360 first, many of the threatening emails use similar language, the language commonly used by domestic

00:05:38.460 extremist groups, end quote. Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop the clock. Who are the so-called domestic extremist

00:05:47.840 groups? They are not identified in the open letter. What a reckless use of language by these scribes.

00:05:54.440 You see, the way journalism works is that you make a statement and then you back it up with a fact or an

00:05:58.980 example. So again, who are these domestic terrorist groups? I think they are referring to the freedom

00:06:07.420 convoys of the last several months. Yeah, that was one hell of a terrorist group on Wellington Street in

00:06:14.080 Ottawa, wasn't it? Especially if one believes bouncy castles and hot tubs are weapons of mass destruction.

00:06:22.360 Oh, by the way, isn't it interesting how the media loaves phantom domestic extremist groups, but

00:06:28.540 they really kind of dig international terrorist groups. Case in point, our homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist

00:06:35.140 Omar Khadr, he killed an American ally and partially blinded another. So we locked them up for life,

00:06:42.220 of course. Oh, no, we didn't do that. Justin Trudeau, who never met a jihadi he didn't adore,

00:06:48.680 cut little Omar a check for 10.5 million because this murderer had his feelings hurt. Please find me 0.71

00:06:57.000 the doofus who coined the phrase, crime does not pay. The online letter at points gets comical,

00:07:04.380 folks. Check out this line, quote, on several occasions, journalists from our organizations

00:07:09.940 have experienced difficulty reporting incidents of harassment to police, waiting hours on the phone,

00:07:17.180 and in some cases being treated insensitively or dismissively by officers, end quote. Oh my God in

00:07:26.320 heaven, these reporters were put on hold and they were treated in an insensitive fashion? Gee, it really

00:07:33.700 is a war zone out there for these scribes, I'll tell you. Then come the demands, which can be summed up

00:07:40.540 as follows. They essentially want a thought police force, one that will take action on, quote,

00:07:47.380 journalists who have become targets of hate and harassment, end quote. And this will, quote,

00:07:53.940 protect journalists and thus democracy, end quote. Oh, please guys, get over yourselves. Taxpayer funded

00:08:03.480 journalists receiving nasty tweets is akin to an attack on democracy? Surely an insurrection. And

00:08:12.040 besides, have these sluggos ever heard the rhyme that begins with sticks and stones may break my bones? 0.99

00:08:19.300 Aside from the usual suspects, such as the CBC and Torstar, the latter being more concerned with running

00:08:27.580 its online casino other than publishing newspapers these days, well, there are notable signatories to

00:08:35.020 this open letter. For example, there's Canada Land, which despite its moniker is not a theme park,

00:08:41.540 although it can resemble a house of horrors at times, and the Canadian Association of Black

00:08:47.620 Journalists. Now, I didn't even know this organization existed. And I wonder what their

00:08:53.380 position is on their benefactor's habit of, you know, donning black face. And of course,

00:09:00.300 there's the media party's very own beloved union, Unifor, aka the resistance. Say guys, how's

00:09:08.380 Unifor's former president, Jerry Diaz, doing? You remember Jerry, don't you folks? He allegedly accepted

00:09:16.000 $50,000 from a supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits. And then he promptly put himself into a mental

00:09:23.500 hospital because he's not a fraudster, you see. He's sick or the devil made him do it or something

00:09:30.220 like that. Now, to gin up the crimes against humanity narrative against members of the media

00:09:36.540 party, check out this recent column in the Toronto Star headlined, quote, death threats,

00:09:42.560 racist taunts, vows of violence inside the increasingly personal attacks targeting Canadian

00:09:50.480 female journalists, end quote. Oh my, that sounds serious. But wait a minute. This must be a misprint.

00:09:58.620 This column was allegedly written by Grant LaFleche. Surely this is not the same Grant LaFleche who

00:10:05.580 maliciously defamed Alicia Herter of St. Catherine's last year. Alicia, you see, figured out a way to 0.94

00:10:12.440 keep her salon open within the COVID rules at the time by reinventing her salon as a film production

00:10:19.580 studio. Well, Grant LaFleche and all the other COVID Karens out there, they lost their minds over

00:10:27.000 Alicia's ingenuity. But LaFleche went a wee bit too far. You see, he wrote that Alicia was part of a group

00:10:34.920 calling for, quote, the firing, arrest and even beheading, end quote, of Dr. Mustafa Herji, the acting

00:10:44.200 medical officer of health for Niagara region. Just one hitch. Alicia made no such death threats. 0.71

00:10:52.680 And thanks in part to LaFleche's hit piece, she became the target of death threats. Check it out.

00:11:00.780 You should be the one beheaded because you're damn stupid not to understand that we're going 1.00

00:11:05.640 through a pandemic. And this is bloody ridiculous that people like you are the ones that are causing 1.00

00:11:10.640 the problem. Get a life. Stay home. Wear a mask. Be so short distance. Stop being a jackass. 1.00

00:11:21.420 So there you have it. This woman thinks that you should be beheaded. You've reached out to police, 1.00

00:11:26.920 I understand, Alicia, as well you should. What's been the reaction? The police tell me that because

00:11:32.340 it's cyber and because these most of these people's threats to burn down my building and do all that,

00:11:37.000 it's cyber. Even though I found their identities, the police say because it's cyber, there's nothing

00:11:41.220 concrete they can go after. But the minute I shared that meme, there's something concrete enough that

00:11:46.500 the next time they reached out to me was to ask me about the meme that I shared. But they aren't

00:11:51.000 reaching out to me about any of the threats on my person or my child or my house. It's really interesting.

00:11:55.940 Listen, I'm just doing a story on chrome barbering and I came across some of your pieces and there

00:12:04.660 was one in which the story is kind of implicating Alicia Herter in terms of giving a death threat

00:12:13.020 to Niagara's acting medical officer of health.

00:12:17.320 Sorry to not do that, Mr. President. I don't really have any comment for you.

00:12:20.860 Oh, okay. It's your story though, isn't it? I mean, I'll read it to you. It says,

00:12:24.940 opponents of Niagara.

00:12:26.220 You don't have to read too much the story, Mr. Menzi. The story does not implicate Ms. Herter

00:12:31.380 in anything other than the post that she made. You're well aware of that.

00:12:34.540 Well, did she make a post? Sir, didn't she make a post advocating for violence or death?

00:12:44.660 Huh. Hang up. He's very busy. 0.98

00:12:47.580 Yeah. So Grant LaFleche decrying a personal attack against females is kind of like a fox mourning the

00:12:54.900 passing of those birds who once upon a time resided in the chicken coop. One of the birthing persons LaFleche

00:13:02.620 holds up as an example of being attacked is Rachel Gilmore of Global TV. Rachel Gilmore was the subject 0.88

00:13:09.340 of some mean tweets. And this is apparently akin to journalism's day of infamy. Just ask Rachel.

00:13:16.860 Now, make no mistake. Does Rachel Gilmore deserve online nastiness and threats? Of course not. 1.00

00:13:24.500 And anonymous threats from social media trolls. Those are wicked and it's cowardly. 0.98

00:13:30.460 But I get the idea that Gilmore, who I had never heard of before, is almost thankful for this barrage

00:13:38.220 given that she is milking it for all that it's worth in terms of raising her profile. By the way,

00:13:44.320 folks, for a laugh, check out the Rachel Gilmore parody account called Raquel Crymore. Here's a beauty. 1.00

00:13:53.200 Quote, anyone else feel we should get medals when we get boosted? We are, after all,

00:13:59.000 saving the people of the world when we do. So a little recognition would be great. I'd love to add

00:14:04.940 that to my Tinder profile. End quote. This was surely posted in response to the tweet the real Gilmore

00:14:12.700 had pinned on her Twitter account. She's wearing a tank top and displaying a part of her arm where she 0.98

00:14:19.800 was most recently jabbed. Who does that? Who posts their medical history online? What sort of vapid and

00:14:28.240 vacuous person thinks that getting jabbed is some sort of an accomplishment? Well, two things to be

00:14:35.240 grateful for. Rachel didn't experience a wardrobe malfunction and she wasn't posting the results

00:14:40.380 of her most recent pap smear test. Thank goodness. Oh, another thing to be thankful for, the parody of

00:14:47.660 Rachel's medical virtue signaling. It seems to have done the trick when it comes to getting that 1.00

00:14:54.020 dumbass tweet unpinned. But at the end of the day, despite the bluster of this drama queen supreme, 0.99

00:15:02.080 she's never actually been physically harmed. As a reporter, she should know that social media,

00:15:09.280 it's not the real world. It is a biosphere of the bizarre. It is populated by trolls whose bark

00:15:16.260 is worse than their bite. So can we move on from Rachel Gilmore's day of infamy already?

00:15:24.400 Andy Warhol once said that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I think Raquel Crymore,

00:15:30.380 or I mean Rachel Gilmore, is now at the 14 minute 59 second mark of her fame. Hopefully she'll just go 0.95

00:15:39.040 back to, you know, tweeting photos of extreme weather as proof of climate change. Oh, by the way, I don't

00:15:46.260 want to give you the wrong idea that there's no such thing as actual physical brute force violence being

00:15:54.260 carried out against Canadian journalists. Because there is. And yes, we have video evidence. I speak

00:16:02.240 of my colleagues and yours truly. Over the years, we have been repeatedly physically assaulted simply

00:16:10.560 for doing our jobs. How about what happened to my beloved colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed at an Edmonton

00:16:17.120 Women's March, no less, back in 2017? Check out how a worm of a man named Dion Buse sucker punched Sheila

00:16:25.760 right in the face. 1.00

00:16:28.080 As in Levent, fuck you. 1.00

00:16:31.440 Okay, so wouldn't you say that it would be feminine? No, no, no, I'm just asking you a question. Do I seem 1.00

00:16:36.860 unreasonable to you? Because they seem really pleasant. I think, am I coming across as pleasant

00:16:41.860 right now? Yeah, absolutely. We're just trying to have a conversation here. I'm having, I'm trying to have a

00:16:46.180 conversation with you. Go away. Get out of my fucking face. I will break your camera. You do not have the

00:16:50.620 right to. Whoa. You don't have the right to film me everywhere you go. Was there a media outcry about

00:16:59.220 that assault? Nope. Crickets. Actually, the CBC would later publish a glowing puff piece about Dion

00:17:06.980 and his Edmonton guitar business. By the way, Dion Buse now goes by the name Dion James. Gee, I wonder why

00:17:16.060 that is. But keep in mind, if you are in the market for a handcrafted guitar, you might want to steer

00:17:22.940 clear of this guy's shop, given that he is a misogynist after all. And how about my colleague

00:17:29.660 Drea Humphrey? She was covering the prime minister visiting B.C. during last year's election campaign.

00:17:36.340 Even though she was outside practicing journalism, she was somehow deemed to be a threat and was actually

00:17:43.400 picked up by some Trudeau hired goon and moved aside as if she were a little China doll. Check 1.00

00:17:50.200 it out. You talked about Canada's last wrongs, the past things they haven't done right. When will you

00:17:56.040 speak out about the 20 vandalized churches? They're burning churches and vandalizing them and you're not

00:18:02.080 calling it a hate crime. Here's the deal, folks. Law enforcement can't really get handsy with a person

00:18:09.100 unless that person is under arrest. Another thing, did the signatories of the open letter freak out

00:18:15.820 about this incident, especially since they are so concerned about female and racialized journalists

00:18:23.380 being attacked? Because it doesn't get more female and more racialized than Drea Humphrey, 1.00

00:18:30.300 a black woman with indigenous heritage. But suddenly identity politics, well, they go out the window

00:18:37.100 when it comes to Drea Humphrey, not because of what she looks like, but due to her thoughts and her

00:18:43.320 reporting. Drea is not down with the woke revolution, so it's a matter of nothing to see here, folks.

00:18:51.160 Move along. Move along. Then there's what happened to Alexa Lavoie in Ottawa last February when some

00:18:58.000 trigger-happy cop thought it would be a good idea to shoot some sort of canister at Alexa's thigh. 1.00

00:19:04.240 Thank God it was her thigh, not her head, for I fear we would be speaking of Alexa in the past tense

00:19:11.500 had that been the case. Check out this disturbing footage.

00:19:18.500 Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing?

00:19:24.820 Hold him. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

00:19:31.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:33.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:35.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:37.820 You just fight and throw this!

00:19:39.820 You just fight and throw this!

00:19:41.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:43.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:45.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:47.820 Oh! 0.60

00:19:49.820 There you go. You alright?

00:19:51.820 Got shot.

00:19:53.820 Take care.

00:19:55.820 Bring her out! 1.00

00:19:57.820 Oh my God!

00:19:59.820 Oh! 0.60

00:20:01.820 Oh! 0.60

00:20:07.820 Now the day after I attended a press conference

00:20:09.820 with Alexa at Ottawa Police

00:20:11.820 Headquarters, I asked Acting

00:20:13.820 Chief Bell what the status

00:20:15.820 of the investigation was

00:20:17.820 in terms of Alexa being shot.

00:20:19.820 He pulled the Sergeant

00:20:21.820 Schultz routine.

00:20:23.820 I don't see nothing!

00:20:25.820 Yeah, even though this story

00:20:27.820 had gone viral the world over

00:20:29.820 Chief Ding Dong Bell had

00:20:31.820 no knowledge of it.

00:20:33.820 How's that possible?

00:20:35.820 Oh, it gets worse.

00:20:37.820 After the Q&A session concluded,

00:20:39.820 the Chief went on to praise

00:20:41.820 the members of the mainstream media

00:20:43.820 for their coverage of the Freedom Convoy

00:20:45.820 and he noted that police investigations

00:20:47.820 had already been launched

00:20:49.820 vis-à-vis the verbal abuse

00:20:51.820 reporters received.

00:20:53.820 Yeah, apparently some demonstrator

00:20:55.820 called Evan Solomon a soy boy

00:20:57.820 and that hurt the feelings of Mr. Soy Boy

00:21:01.820 or I mean Mr. Solomon.

00:21:03.820 But a reporter being shot?

00:21:05.820 Well, that's not really a crime.

00:21:07.820 It's a bit of a nothing burger

00:21:09.820 because I guess Alexa Lavois

00:21:11.820 is not a state-approved and state-funded journalist.

00:21:15.820 And of course, no outcry from the 48 signatories

00:21:19.820 of that open letter on this particular file.

00:21:23.820 Finally, not to go all Rachel Gilmore on you,

00:21:26.820 but I have assembled a highlight reel or rather

00:21:29.820 a low-light reel.

00:21:31.820 It regards the various attacks on yours truly.

00:21:34.820 Not Twitter attacks, mind you,

00:21:37.820 but old-school physical attacks.

00:21:40.820 Let's start things off

00:21:42.820 with a bottle to the head in Kingston.

00:21:44.820 What are you doing back here, man?

00:21:46.820 Pardon me?

00:21:47.820 What are you doing back here?

00:21:48.820 We're on a public street, ma'am.

00:21:49.820 What are you doing here?

00:21:50.820 Why are you here creeping on our protest?

00:21:52.820 We don't want you here.

00:21:53.820 We ran you off before from the park.

00:21:55.820 We will do it again.

00:21:56.820 Yeah, you were physically violent, so...

00:21:58.820 No one was physically violent with you.

00:21:59.820 No one touched you.

00:22:00.820 Don't...

00:22:02.820 Get out of here.

00:22:03.820 It's a public park.

00:22:04.820 It's...

00:22:05.820 Come on.

00:22:06.820 Whoa.

00:22:07.820 Let's move over.

00:22:08.820 Oh, you're a tough guy behind that mask, aren't you?

00:22:10.820 Get out.

00:22:11.820 Oh, and you too.

00:22:12.820 No one was physically violent with you.

00:22:13.820 No one touched you.

00:22:14.820 Unbelievable.

00:22:15.820 Now, folks, they say Hogtown is going to the dogs

00:22:18.820 under the testosterone challenge, Mayor Tory, these days.

00:22:22.820 We have evidence that that is indeed true.

00:22:25.820 Please move.

00:22:26.820 Move.

00:22:27.820 I don't like myself being killed. 0.76

00:22:29.820 You know I have the right to actually smash that camera? 0.68

00:22:31.820 Hey.

00:22:32.820 Right now?

00:22:33.820 I wouldn't do that.

00:22:34.820 I have the right to smash that.

00:22:35.820 Hey, hey.

00:22:36.820 Don't do that.

00:22:37.820 By law, I have the right to smash that.

00:22:38.820 Do you have the right to smash that camera by law?

00:22:39.820 Yeah.

00:22:40.820 Yeah, by law, you know I actually...

00:22:41.820 Hey, hey.

00:22:42.820 what law, are you quoting her?

00:22:43.820 bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh MON. 0.92

00:22:57.820 He'll punch the cellphone out of my hand. 0.80

00:22:59.820 Then there was my encounter with the trans grifter known as Jonathan Jessica Yaneve Simpson and its mother. 0.98

00:23:09.820 here's some footage of just one of the five blows delivered to my head and shoulders via a steel cane 0.95

00:23:18.700 you're not going to go closer look and that hey hey don't you touch me don't you touch me you're

00:23:27.020 not going to go closer get away don't you you better not you better not no you make contact 0.66

00:23:35.500 you're going to go to jail you are going to go away i know hey don't touch me you're going to jail 0.99

00:23:42.300 jonathan why do you take why do you send sexually explicit messages to young girls 0.68

00:23:57.900 but folks i've saved the worst for last it's the worst because this assault came at the hands of

00:24:03.660 law enforcement the very people who are sworn to protect us i speak of what happened to me last

00:24:10.060 december as i stood on a sidewalk in downtown toronto to hopefully pose a question to the prime minister

00:24:17.260 the context was this trudeau at the time was telling canadians not to get together with friends and

00:24:22.540 family at christmas time due to covet yet he threw a fundraising dinner for himself at a jam-packed

00:24:30.380 restaurant we were not permitted inside the eatery like the state appointed and approved mainstream

00:24:36.780 media so ace cameraman lincoln jay and i we waited outside our goal was to ask mr trudeau about the

00:24:44.300 apparent double standard in terms of christmas time get-togethers everybody there knew who we were

00:24:52.460 my rebel news mike flash was on display everyone knew we posed absolutely no threat whatsoever to the

00:25:00.300 prime minister but check out what happened to me at the hands of justin's royal canadian mounted

00:25:07.260 henchman huh look around huh look around huh yeah you'd like to see that i wouldn't like to see that at all

00:25:16.380 it means a lot of paperwork

00:25:19.500 what are you doing get off me hey i can hey this is assault i'm on a side what is this i'm on a sidewalk

00:25:36.300 you know folks i received the three c's thanks to that assault that night

00:26:07.020 cuts a concussion and covet no i do not exaggerate because a few days later after years of not claiming

00:26:16.060 a single sick day here at rebel news i was diagnosed with the coronavirus and that's because it turned out 0.51

00:26:24.780 that half of these pigs that's right i called them pigs were covet positive and where was the outcry 0.76

00:26:32.700 by journalism incorporated where was the open letter denouncing this behavior oh actually quite the 0.97

00:26:40.460 opposite occurred most of the mainstream media avoided this story but some were actually gleeful

00:26:49.020 about the physical assault let me present an excerpt of ezra levant's superb monologue from december 19

00:26:57.740 it's shocking actually okay so forget the smears by that editor who frankly i've never heard of

00:27:03.580 um put aside the smears she she actually did say that it looked bloody awful but not david aiken

00:27:13.180 uh he was trying to turn her around on this he said google david menzies and arrest this is how

00:27:20.380 he pays his bills what so david aiken is saying that david menzies wanted this for for profit

00:27:31.260 that this is what david menzies does for for money that david menzies expected this wanted this planned

00:27:39.020 this provoked this and by the way david aiken is still suggesting that david menzies was arrested

00:27:46.700 menzies was not arrested he was mugged by the police not arrested by them not charged by them

00:27:53.340 show you another tweet here another journalist alan fryer chimed in and said to david aiken

00:27:58.780 shouldn't matter david this should not happen in canada so alan fryer's saying there's doesn't

00:28:04.140 matter what david menzies was going to ask but aiken doubles down he says like i said i'm i'm curious

00:28:11.500 the only journalist in scare quotes i've seen treated this way in 20 years of covering political

00:28:18.220 leaders as menzies it's his shtick fundraising theater he gets arrested all the time 0.85

00:28:28.060 will i say again that he wasn't arrested last night and a better journalist would have known

00:28:32.780 that than david aiken now to tell you the truth folks those david aiken tweets i found hurtful to me

00:28:40.940 that's because 10 years ago david and i worked at sun news together i was frequently a guest on his

00:28:47.180 show we were colleagues indeed i would consider him to be a friend but to defame me this way to put

00:28:55.900 journalist in scare quotes as if to suggest that i'm not a journalist despite having a degree in

00:29:03.100 journalism and working for almost four decades straight as a journalist what's the deal with

00:29:09.260 that and another thing if i was a frequent guest on david sun news show back in the day and he thought

00:29:17.820 i wasn't a journalist then why the hell was i a guest on those shows all those times in the first place

00:29:24.620 doesn't make sense but that's the thing isn't it sun news did not receive government funding oh on the

00:29:31.660 contrary the network was denied a license by the crtc that would have allowed it to continue broadcasting

00:29:40.140 not the right ideology you see so the government in the sense killed it but david aiken landed at global

00:29:48.540 news which is now a recipient of filthy lucre courtesy of the justin truder liberals tell me folks would you

00:29:58.460 a colleague would you throw a friend under the bus as a way of virtue signaling to your sugar daddy

00:30:06.540 because that's exactly what david aiken did doesn't make me mad it kind of makes me sad bottom line

00:30:15.020 forgive me if i take that open ladder by the mainstream media types with a shovel full of salt

00:30:22.300 because it all boils down to this folks if you hurt the feelings of a government funded left of center

00:30:30.620 media party journalist by a nasty name calling either online or in the field that is unforgivable

00:30:40.300 and violators must be punished however should a right of center independent journalists get physically

00:30:49.980 assaulted well keep up the good work i simply cannot believe what's happened to my profession

00:31:11.900 folks remember once upon a time when ontario premier doug ford was

00:31:15.900 so against a carbon tax that he actually took the federal government to the supreme court over the

00:31:22.860 issue and why wouldn't he ontario is a manufacturing province after all a carbon tax is poisonous when

00:31:30.620 it comes to industry alas ford was unsuccessful in his court challenge against the feds but get a load of

00:31:38.380 this in the aftermath the progressive conservatives have concocted their own made in ontario carbon tax

00:31:47.660 what the hell how can this be and in order to shed light on this disturbing situation is jim carahalios

00:31:56.460 the leader of the new blue party of ontario hi jim how you doing there good and thank you dave for having

00:32:03.180 me so we can get to the bottom of this and correct some of the history that's been reinvented or rewritten

00:32:09.660 by the ford pc government yeah in fact jim that's important uh because speaking of history one of the

00:32:15.820 campaign slogans from 2018 that the pcs used was ontario open for business why would this party now be pro

00:32:25.820 carbon tax which of course is anti-business well they claim they're not and when i was running in

00:32:32.940 the last election and belinda was running even the candidates we were running against were saying oh

00:32:37.260 we're not we're not for the carbon tax and yet let's go back doug ford wins the pc leadership on

00:32:43.420 ax the carbon tax promise he comes in he gets rid of cap and trade it was probably

00:32:49.100 the last good thing he did well maybe slashing toronto city council two good things he did in the

00:32:54.060 first five minutes he was in office and then it all went south from there but he got rid of cap and

00:32:59.980 trade and he replaced one carbon tax in ontario with two dave and he spent 200 million dollars

00:33:07.580 in court telling everyone that he was fighting this cash grab the justin trudeau carbon tax but before

00:33:14.220 the supreme court ruled he cut a deal with justin before he even got the decision from the supreme court

00:33:21.500 he cut a deal with trudeau and it was reported in even the mainstream media that trudeau had signed

00:33:27.260 off on doug ford's industrial carbon tax and so now in ontario we have two carbon taxes we have trudeau's

00:33:34.460 consumer carbon tax and we have doug ford's industrial carbon tax and to make matters worse

00:33:40.540 i wrote an op-ed three years ago that surprisingly dave the the financial post wrote it and you know back

00:33:47.500 then we were still hoping that maybe the ford government would turn things around we said hey

00:33:51.740 your approach in court is wrong you're throwing the argument in court you've got three legal tests

00:33:57.740 you're conceding two of them they didn't care they stuck with the same legal approach which was to

00:34:03.260 throw the case in court he knew he was going to lose because they didn't try and he introduces

00:34:08.060 industrial carbon tax before that supreme court decision came out on a nice little handshake sweetheart

00:34:13.660 deal with justin trudeau well first of all jim why in the world is an ontario conservative allegedly

00:34:20.460 premier doug ford getting into sweetheart deals with uh prime minister justin trudeau in the first place

00:34:27.660 well we're going to go on five years of seeing that with the exception of maybe two or three months

00:34:31.900 in the beginning when he got rid of cap and trade but something happened and what happened is we're

00:34:37.180 seeing the real doug ford and we're seeing the real ontario pc party they are a wing of the justin

00:34:42.140 trudeau federal liberal party and the first writing on the wall before covet before we had

00:34:47.260 lockdowns was the capitulation on the carbon tax and so the real shame here dave is you know he's got

00:34:55.340 people out there like ministers and mpps rewriting history saying well we were forced into it from

00:35:01.020 justin trudeau we lost the supreme court case so we might as well tax ontarians and industry through the

00:35:06.700 roof since we threw the case in court but the real shame here dave is let's say we get a pierre paulie

00:35:13.900 of prime minister one day because he's going to win the leadership let's say we get a conservative

00:35:18.620 government one day federally and let's say they keep their commitment to ax the carbon tax i know i'm

00:35:24.460 counting on a lot dave maybe i'm being too optimistic but let's just say

00:35:28.940 if they get rid of that federal carbon tax we're going to still be stuck in ontario with an industrial

00:35:33.740 carbon tax at the provincial level that the federal government sometime in the future is

00:35:39.100 not going to be able to get away with so pierre paulie of instead of endorsing doug ford congratulating

00:35:44.060 doug ford on a majority government should be pushing doug ford to get rid of his industrial

00:35:49.260 carbon tax and let justin trudeau do the tax and spend policies but this pc government they're exactly

00:35:55.500 like the justin trudeau government and the liberal party and they love the tax and spend

00:35:59.580 absolutely baffling and almost unbelievable jim and yet i saw in the popular press uh ontario

00:36:06.300 environment minister david pacini says i'm no fan of the carbon tax but he said the government has

00:36:13.420 no choice they have to put this carbon tax in it was for reasons i couldn't understand jim can you

00:36:21.180 explain what he means by the government having no choice and is that really a genuine argument when it

00:36:27.500 comes to this carbon tax in ontario well they're very good at theater the pc government they love

00:36:32.780 the theater and they get the talking points but one thing you can count on whether it's lockdowns

00:36:36.860 whether it's the ontario sex ed curriculum whether it's on critical race theory or whether it's the

00:36:42.540 carbon tax that everything they say every statement they put out is deceptive and hiding the truth of

00:36:48.700 what's really going on and that's not true that they had no choice number one they had a choice

00:36:53.100 to properly fight trudeau's carbon tax in court it was the federal government impeding on provincial

00:36:59.740 jurisdiction there was a three-part test do you know what they did in court dave i sat there and i

00:37:04.620 read the the over 100 page submission from the ontario lawyers that were tasked with it from the pc

00:37:10.780 government right from the premier's office they conceded that carbon pricing is the only way

00:37:17.420 to regulate emissions and it must be done to reduce emissions in canada because there was a matter of

00:37:22.940 national emergency and they conceded that carbon pricing was the only way to do it so what they

00:37:28.540 did was in three stages of the test they conceded the first two they said to the court yeah justin's

00:37:34.140 right on part one and two of the test the only difference they had to disagree with in court was

00:37:40.140 to say to the judge we're fine with carbon pricing but we just don't like justin's carbon price we want

00:37:46.300 to set our own that's a bit lower if you go to court on that argument dave you're going to lose

00:37:51.660 you've already said that everything that justin's doing is a good idea it's necessary it's needed

00:37:57.020 it's a matter of national liberty so they threw the court case and they knew they were going to lose

00:38:01.660 but they did 200 million dollars worth of theater to tell doug ford's voters that he was fighting it

00:38:07.020 in court and then like i said before the supreme court ruled they cut the deal with trudeau to put

00:38:11.900 in an industrial carbon tax and then even after the supreme court ruled and they threw the case

00:38:17.260 he still has a choice he could say no to trudeau we are not putting an industrial carbon tax in ontario

00:38:24.460 if you want to tax people because the the supreme court has given you the green light even though the

00:38:30.460 conservatives threw the case then you got to do it justin and he should be supporting the conservative

00:38:36.300 party or max bernier in the ppc in the political fight to axe the carbon tax that's the proper

00:38:42.780 principled approach to this so that one day when the liberals are defeated federally we can get rid

00:38:48.380 of the carbon tax across the board instead doug ford has made it harder to get rid of the carbon

00:38:53.180 tax because now we have trudeau's consumer carbon tax and we've got the ford pc's industrial carbon tax

00:38:59.900 two carbon taxes instead of one and if we ever get rid of it at the federal level we'll need a

00:39:05.260 provincial government to get rid of it at the provincial level he's made it worse dave unbelievable it is

00:39:10.780 truly the worst of both worlds uh jim and you know that's disturbing too the fact that they would

00:39:15.820 have spent 200 million dollars on political street theater uh to use your words jim it reminds me of

00:39:22.380 many years ago it was when the liberals were running the province and um again for political street

00:39:28.300 theater and it was a a very popular thing to do but it was a no-hoper the transport minister uh going

00:39:35.500 to court against uh the 407 electronic highway to get out of that contract um and the government's

00:39:43.020 own lawyers saying no the contracts aren't glad until 2098 you cannot do it they did it anyways they

00:39:50.060 lost and it was all about spending money to make them look good this is what this reminds me of but

00:39:54.700 jim when we get down to the nitty-gritty numbers the current tax as i understand it forty dollars per ton

00:40:00.860 today that's going up to sixty five dollars in 2024 so less than a year and a half away by 2031

00:40:09.660 one hundred and seventy dollars a ton up from as i said earlier the current price of forty dollars a

00:40:16.060 ton jim what does this mean for the average ontario consumer because people can say well it's a carbon tax

00:40:25.020 to industry but we all know when their costs go up industry is certainly going to pass these costs

00:40:31.180 along are they not well industry that's exactly right the industry doesn't care it's not like

00:40:36.700 they're making industry pay for it with no impact on the consumer the guys in the c-suite are just

00:40:41.740 going to pass the tax down to the consumer raise their prices we see it at the gas pumps and we're

00:40:47.660 going to see it in other prices ontarians are already suffering with inflation because of the

00:40:52.860 tax and spend policies of justin trudeau and doug ford and the impact of repeat lockdowns and

00:40:58.060 all the other mismanagement we're seeing federally and provincially with governments walking hand in

00:41:03.580 hand and what they're doing trudeau and ford and now this carbon tax as it goes up people are going

00:41:08.700 to be hit even more even harder and affordability is going to get worse and what is necessary who would

00:41:15.340 have thought dave that we've got a pc government who replaced one carbon tax with two like can you it's

00:41:20.540 it's so it's ridiculous and then the industry dave like you said they're fine with it because if they

00:41:26.460 hire the right lobbyists they're going to get the shell game back with a subsidy half a billion dollars

00:41:32.780 a few million dollars and they'll get the subsidy back from the ford pc government but the consumer

00:41:38.540 at the bottom is not going to get any relief their prices are going to keep going up and government

00:41:44.060 spending is going to keep going up and that's the real tragedy here well you know jim that reminds you

00:41:48.380 of the other 2018 campaign slogan remember for the people this sure doesn't sound like it's for any

00:41:55.260 person that i know living in this province and you know again jim i don't i'm having a hard time

00:42:02.460 connecting the dots in terms of finding out how the ford government thinks this is a political win

00:42:09.500 thinks this is popular i go back five years ago when sneaky patrick brown was the leader of the pc party of

00:42:14.940 ontario um he threw uh social conservatives under the bus by saying he'd get rid of the radical sex

00:42:20.860 ed curriculum uh only to backstab that community by saying no it's perfectly fine and then he threw

00:42:27.740 the fiscal conservatives under the bus i believe his first speech after becoming leader at the canadian

00:42:32.380 club he said that they were he would he would be responsible for a maiden ontario carbon tax and jim

00:42:39.100 the room you could hear a pin drop and finally somebody from the peanut gallery went no so that 0.78

00:42:46.140 was he was the architect i think of his own demise was once there were no more conservatives to throw

00:42:51.500 under the bus the conservative party threw sneaky patrick under the bus so again jim i come back to

00:42:57.340 how does the ford government thinks this is a good idea when it comes to the people of the province who

00:43:03.420 ultimately elect these uh ministers so what we're seeing with what you just described because after

00:43:10.540 patrick brown made that announcement we i started the acts the carbon tax campaign doug ford campaign

00:43:15.740 on that for leader pierre paulia's campaigning on that and trying to bridge off of it running for

00:43:20.540 federal leader but what we've seen with the ontario pc party is at its core they can't shake their liberal

00:43:27.340 values and their love for justin trudeau they can't so what they've done with doug ford is let's just

00:43:32.300 change the rhetoric let's lie let's tell people that we're against the carbon tax we've got no other

00:43:37.580 choice we're just powerless all we are is the government all we are all i am is the premier

00:43:43.420 of ontario and they've been running on that script for just over four years and it falls on us dave at

00:43:49.980 the new blue party to get the truth out because global news is not going to ask the right questions

00:43:54.780 and they're not going to call me for comment and they're not going to call anyone that's going to set

00:43:58.460 the record straight and thanks to you dave for giving me the opportunity to talk about it

00:44:02.060 it falls on us and sooner or later it's going to run out for the doug ford pcs there's only so long

00:44:08.220 that you can conceal what you're really doing and our job at the new blue party is to keep moving

00:44:13.420 forward and keep exposing what's really going on and what they're really putting in place not the

00:44:19.100 rhetoric that they're doing to satisfy conservative voters and distract them quite frankly you know and

00:44:24.540 i think the real tragedy here jim is that um well certainly if the new blue party were to come to

00:44:29.820 power i know you would access tax right off the bat but when it comes to the other major parties

00:44:34.940 whether it's the liberals or the new democrats they're not going to access tax you know we expect

00:44:41.020 the conservatives to act differently but it's like the uh the tagline for the old abc detergent ad

00:44:48.460 can you tell the difference i can't tell the difference i don't know how we got here it's very disturbing

00:44:54.620 and you know it it reminds me of the uh lyric from the famous who song jim meet the new boss same as

00:45:03.500 the old boss jim last word goes to you well there was hope with the pcs and even those that thought you

00:45:12.220 know they're not very good on social issues they don't really have a backbone but fiscally they're

00:45:16.220 going to take care of business and doug ford kept campaigning on acts the carbon tax for leader he did

00:45:21.660 it in 2018 in the general election and he got more votes than any other party and premier in ontario's

00:45:27.900 history 2.3 million votes and it was largely on the back of that acts the carbon tax promise the campaign

00:45:33.340 that we led and the pcs tried to destroy me and my family in court and then what did we see we saw

00:45:41.500 this pc government and this ontario pc party they're fine with vote rigging inside their party and even on

00:45:48.780 fiscal issues they are just in lockstep with the justin trudeau liberals and we don't have to wait

00:45:55.100 to get to government dave the new blue party's got a lot of work to do every day and we're going to keep

00:45:58.460 moving forward and hold them to account and let them know they can't get away with these mainstream 0.99

00:46:02.860 media lies that they're feeding global news and the others we're going to let ontarians know and thank

00:46:07.740 you to you dave for having me on to remind people because everything old becomes new again and an op-ed

00:46:13.340 from three years ago that i wrote is still going to be around and and the acts the carbon tax narrative is still

00:46:18.220 going to be around because it's a principle that conservatives depend on and the new blue party

00:46:22.300 is going to be there for right of center voters well jim i think i speak for a lot of our audience when

00:46:27.340 i say thank you for being the watchdog when it comes to these shenanigans it looks like the media party

00:46:33.420 they've morphed into government approved and funded lapdogs and i want to thank you for speaking the truth

00:46:41.340 and uh keep your eye on this government uh right now i think i probably speak for most of my audience

00:46:47.980 again when i say i feel like i've been a victim of bait and switch here jim i thought conservatives

00:46:55.340 were against carbon taxes uh i thought uh doug ford meant it when he said open for business um but this

00:47:03.180 looks like monkey business to me my friend and uh like i said please keep us appraised of any more

00:47:08.780 shenanigans going on with this government well thanks dave for having me and we're on it every

00:47:14.220 day dave working hard thank you so much and folks that was jim carahalios the leader of the new blue

00:47:21.340 party of ontario keep it here more of the ezreal event show to come right after this

00:47:37.660 well folks lots of feedback regarding ezra's monologue last night on europe going into energy

00:47:45.180 conservation mode aka rationing because well russia is not going to play ball when the gales of november

00:47:53.740 come early f torres 59 writes i very much doubt the queen of the eu will follow these mandates well

00:48:02.860 that is the thing uh it's always one law for the one law for me when you are an elitist be it patrick

00:48:11.660 brown in the kingdom of brampton or claude schwab uh over at the world economic forum they always make 0.66

00:48:18.780 sure they are well taken care of when the rest of us are not camcom writes have the power and

00:48:26.860 communications companies cut their services off first uh you know that's interesting uh if it if

00:48:34.220 you're talking about mainstream media i think that is one so-called luxury we can get along with just

00:48:42.300 fine without in fact it might even improve many people's lives canadian rumble guy writes to make

00:48:49.900 a long story short they want us living in caves and eating bugs that's the future they want you know

00:48:57.420 it does seem that way doesn't it i mean they want to transform it would appear the first world into the

00:49:03.580 third world instead of lifting up the third world to first world standards and for all those people 0.98

00:49:10.780 in europe who laughed at donald trump years ago when he warned them don't be dependent on russian energy

00:49:19.260 well who's laughing now well that wraps up tonight's edition of the ezreal event show thank you so much

00:49:26.940 for tuning in i believe my colleague sheila gun reid she'll be hosting for ezra tomorrow in the

00:49:33.180 meantime have a good night and as always stay sane all right jason so for people who are not familiar

00:49:39.900 with yourself or even your party let us know a little bit about what the bc libertarians stand for

00:49:46.220 that's a good question the frequently the frequent answer to uh what's what's a libertarian are are you

00:49:52.780 liberals the answer is actually libertarians are the original liberals they're classic liberals

00:49:57.980 but a libertarian stands for the charter of rights and freedoms this is it we stand for everything that

00:50:04.140 charter stands for guaranteed by the supreme court of canada we stand for uh your free uncoursed choice

00:50:12.140 and we stand for the principle of non-aggression meaning it's my body my choice you cannot force me to

00:50:18.140 make a decision against my will that seems to have worked well throughout history and it's gone poorly

00:50:23.900 when that principle has been broken well we've seen it broken many times over the last two years

00:50:29.340 so how does uh what your party stands for translate into why you decided to run in this by-election

00:50:38.540 i chose to run in this by-election because in 2020 i saw that unprecedented restrictions would learn

00:50:46.380 lead to unprecedented harm and i was concerned that this would the the restrictions would lead to

00:50:52.380 more harm than good how'd i do unfortunately i don't take any joy or any pride in that and i wish

00:50:59.180 that i was wrong in 2020 i i i called for a an evidence-based return to normal here we are today in 2022

00:51:09.500 two and a half years after two weeks to flatten the curve and our government has made the decision

00:51:16.300 to impose orders and mandates that have led to the very thing that they were trying to prevent

00:51:23.580 hospital overwhelm we have hospitals that are absolutely in a state of chaos at the moment we

00:51:30.940 have uh rising hospital wait times we have ambulances people are waiting five i just talked to a lady right 0.62

00:51:36.700 now she said she waited five hours i read a story the other day that people are waiting 12 hours sometimes

00:51:42.060 the ambulance isn't even coming to pick them up so we have this hospital overwhelm increasing wait times

00:51:48.860 we have we have babies dying a recent story out in barry baby just died waiting um so you're absolutely

00:51:56.380 right what would you be able to do uh as a voice if you were elected in these areas well two things that

00:52:04.540 myself and the bc libertarians stand for uh one we are calling for uh an immediate reconsideration of

00:52:12.700 the health worker injection mandate because one of the main reasons why there is an understaffing

00:52:20.460 at the hospitals and hospital worker burnout is because our province has made the decision to fire

00:52:28.380 the people they've previously lauded as heroes our frontline workers so we are calling to rehire our

00:52:35.580 heroes that's a slogan i i chose from one of the parties at one of the other advocacy groups so that's

00:52:41.340 what we're calling for let our health workers go back to work and and get to the job of caring for 1.00

00:52:47.980 people in our community particularly in my community all communities um because i we have an elderly

00:52:53.980 community in south surrey they need that care please let our health care workers go back to work

00:52:58.780 please secondly we want to put an end to the bc health care monopoly british columbia is one of the

00:53:06.620 only places in western civilization where it is prohibited for you to pay for private private medical

00:53:15.260 health care we believe that you should have a free choice you should have a choice to pick between

00:53:20.540 public health care and private whether or not you pay out of your pocket or whether you choose

00:53:25.180 medical or you have private medical insurance that choice itself deep deep prohibiting decriminalizing

00:53:32.300 i guess paying for private medical would alleviate the the wait list and release the burden on the

00:53:39.260 healthcare system so that's why we stand for that free choice we we stand for uh eliminating the bc 0.96

00:53:47.100 government healthcare monopoly what is something specific maybe an issue or concern that you think

00:53:52.540 relates to people in south surrey specifically where you're riding well it doesn't relate specifically

00:54:00.940 to south surrey i think this is a concern for everyone in all communities across canada and it is the

00:54:06.300 rapid rising cost of living particularly for families and people on a fixed income this is a real concern

00:54:15.180 this is a real issue that arose because our current government federal is chosen to print a crazy

00:54:21.660 amount of money i know that's not specific to this community but is it is greatly affecting us the

00:54:26.380 the cost of housing the cost of food the cost of fuel um i stand for i stand for the repealing of

00:54:34.300 the carbon tax uh the government cannot balance the checkbook how can we expect them to fix the

00:54:40.780 environment without with a tax i think that's ridiculous i stand for uh repealing uh the the liquor

00:54:48.060 taxes i think most people be very very disappointed to know that more than half the price of their adult

00:54:54.860 beverage is going back into the government coffers and what are we seeing for these things so i'm standing

00:55:01.100 for essentially basic human rights basic dignity i'm standing for uh i'm standing for the uh something

00:55:12.140 that i'm standing for lowering the cost of living through something that is controllable that is

00:55:16.780 manageable that is lowering our taxes that are going away for services that we're not getting in

00:55:23.180 return many people believe that so our community is very very concerned about this cost of living we're

00:55:29.820 very very concerned about the travel restrictions we're concerned about mandates that are affecting

00:55:35.420 hospital wait times i'm i'm calling for a basic fundamental evidence-based return to sanity our

00:55:42.940 government has is continuing with orders and policies and mandates uh expecting different results

00:55:51.820 it's two and a half years later it's time to return to sanity all right uh in the description box below

00:55:58.540 you'll see see links with more information about this upcoming race but let people know where they

00:56:03.740 can go to find out more information about yourself well you can go to libertarian.bc.ca uh there's a

00:56:10.220 by-election page where you can read me read more about me read more about the platform please connect

00:56:15.500 with me send me a message i would like to know your concerns if you live in south surrey connect with me

00:56:21.180 i want to know what your top concern is i want to know uh what i can do to help you in this community

00:56:26.620 jerry humphrey for rebel news and jason bax

Rebel News Podcast - September 09, 2022

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