“Disastrous weekend”： Trudeau gives $50M to a U.S. comedian — and Notley nationalizes the oil patch
Summary
Justin Trudeau gives $50 million to an American comedian, and Rachel Notley nationalizes Alberta s oil patch. It s December 3rd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau gives 50 million tax dollars to an American comedian and
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Rachel Notley nationalizes Alberta's oil patch. It's December 3rd and this is
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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What a disastrous weekend Rachel Notley nationalized Alberta's oil industry like she has wanted
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to do her whole life really like every socialist or communist dreams of doing.
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Even Pierre Trudeau's national energy program didn't do what she did. Here take a look.
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And so, after listening carefully to industry leaders, to experts and to Albertans, here's
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what I've decided to do. Beginning on January 1st, the province of Alberta will mandate an
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across-the-board reduction of 325,000 barrels per day in production, or roughly 8.7%.
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So, it's like the dairy cartel supply management, but for oil companies, except that supply management
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was requested by the dairy companies because it makes them rich by keeping out cheap foreign
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and domestic competitors. That's the only way it works. There has to be two parts to supply management.
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There's a limit on the amount of milk that Canadians are allowed to produce. It's a centrally planned economy.
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It's outrageous. It's un-Canadian. It's un-capitalist. You need to have a permit called a quota for the right
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to even milk cows. It's like the old-school taxi companies. You had to buy a permit, often called a medallion,
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where you just weren't allowed to drive a cab. But that's the thing. It has to be enforced by keeping out rivals.
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I mean, Uber pretty much destroyed the cab companies because anyone's allowed to drive an Uber. But back to the
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dairy analogy, Canadians aren't allowed to produce milk without government permission. But foreign milk
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is kept out by massive tariffs, too. That's essential to the whole scheme working. In Canada, we put huge
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import taxes, tariffs, on American cheese and milk and yogurt, so much so that people actually smuggle
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contraband U.S. cheese across the border. There's such a price differential, and they resell that
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American contraband cheese for a huge profit. It really is as lucrative as drug deals because it's
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a controlled substance, just like drugs. Here's an amazing story I keep showing people and telling
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people about, and they always think I'm making it up. But Google it for yourself to see the truth of it.
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The headline here, Cop Sentenced for Cheese Smuggling. Let me just read a little bit.
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A Niagara Regional Police officer who has been convicted of a large-scale cheese smuggling
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operation and breach of trust has been sentenced to four months in jail. Scott Heron, 42, appeared
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for sentencing Friday in the Superior Court of Justice in Welland. It's a real story. But under Rachel
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Notley, we have the worst of all worlds. We're literally banning Albertans from producing oil and gas.
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But we're not keeping out foreign oil and gas at the same time. Here's a news report about the 80,000
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barrels of Saudi oil we're importing to Canada every day. So that's conflict oil, of course, and there's no
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gender analysis or carbon dioxide analysis or any of that regulatory burden that Justin Trudeau and
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Catherine McKenna and Rachel Notley put on Canadian oil. And of course, we're paying world prices for that
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Saudi oil. Now, that goes to our east coast, including the big refinery in St. John, that the
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Energy East pipeline was supposed to feed Alberta oil to instead. It's not just Saudi oil. They're
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the worst, obviously. But here's a chart. This is about a year old. I'm trying to find a more recent
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version, but it's close enough. This is from the National Energy Board of Canada. This shows oil imports
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imports to Canada. Oil imports. I'm serious. You've heard of the phrase, carry coal to Newcastle. You've
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ever heard that? It refers to the city in England, Newcastle, that was famous for its coal industry.
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You'd have to be nuts to try to sell coal to Newcastle. Take coal to Newcastle. It became a
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well-known phrase, at least in the UK. Well, imagine trying to sell oil to Canada. That's how bizarro
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we are. We're actually importing foreign oil and paying more for it than we get for our own oil. So
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hold this chart up just for a minute there. So you can see these different bars of different years.
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So this is hundreds of thousands of barrels per day that we import. I mentioned that the Saudis
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now sell us 80,000 barrels per day, all coming in by tanker ship, of course. And no one calls for a
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ban on tanker ships off the Atlantic coast now, do they? But look at the biggest change.
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Do you see the dark blue bars at the bottom that just get huge? That is US oil imports to Canada,
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from the United States. The next biggest, the pink there, is Saudi Arabia. Then green is Algeria.
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But what on earth is going on with the US? Well, they become a huge source of oil imports to Canada.
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I'm not even kidding. We sell our Western Canadian oil to the US at a greatly discounted rate, about
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half price, because of all the pipeline blockades. And then they sell oil back to us at world prices
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that they ship to us by trains. Remember that oil train explosion in Lac-MĂ©gantic a few years back in
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Quebec? That was US oil coming in by train from North Dakota. Now, I'm not saying that's why it
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exploded. I'm not saying anything bad about the oil of the trains here. I'm just pointing out how
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ubiquitous oil trains from America to Canada are. That's all coming in by rail, of course,
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because Trudeau and Notley have opposed not only the oil sands, but any pipelines. You see my point
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here? I'm against Soviet-style command and control of our oil economy. I don't like the dairy cartel
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either. But at least the dairy cartel does what it says it will do. It bans competitors to the cartel,
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both foreign and domestic. But Rachel Notley just banned her own Alberta oil companies. She didn't
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ban foreigners. She literally is punishing only Canadians and rewarding Americans and Saudis.
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And what is so gross is that Canada's so-called conservative politicians are supporting this. What
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is going on? Jason Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party, says he supports this.
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What on earth is going on? It's pretty obvious what's going on. He will say or do anything to
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avoid media criticism until his election. He is terrified of the media. I've known Jason for 20
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years, more even. We both lived in Edmonton when we were both in our 20s. We were part of the snack pack,
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as we called ourselves in the Reform Party days. Remember, he used to be the head of the Taxpayers
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Association. He would be apoplectic, the 1990s era, Jason Kenney. He would be apoplectic at the idea of
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nationalizing the economy, especially done by true radical NDPers. But he won't say that.
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Now, just a reminder, this is an NDP MLA named Rod Loyola. He and Jason Kenney together
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support Rachel Notley's command and control. Look at this.
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That really is Rod Loyola. And he really is a Rachel Notley MLA. And he really did have a
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celebration of Hugo Chavez. And Rachel Notley really just did command Alberta oilmen and
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only Albertans not to produce oil. Do you think that'll make foreign investors more or less likely
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to pour billions of dollars into Alberta's oil patch? Do you think that'll make it more or less
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likely that companies will move either just across the border to Saskatchewan, in the case of conventional
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oil or fracking, or just to the United States? Look at this graph here. This is from the U.S.
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Department of Energy, and it is up to date. You can see that line. That's U.S. oil production.
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As you can see, it grew because of the advent of fracking. It started to really grow around 2012.
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That's fracking. But then, under Barack Obama, it started heading down, didn't it? Look at that,
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2015, 2016. But when Trump took over 2016, 2017, he really fired the starter pistol. He approved
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pipelines. Do you remember that? He approved the Dakota Access Pipeline, and they built it within
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a few months. And he approved drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and he approved
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the U.S. shipping oil overseas that used to be banned. So, in just one year, American oil production is up
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21 percent. By far the biggest producer in the world, more in Russia, more in Saudi Arabia. And it's just
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getting going. Oil analysts predict that the United States will be a net energy exporter in five years.
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That includes natural gas, coal, pipelines, fracking, whatever. They're just going full tilt down there.
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And we just passed a law banning oil production in Alberta, but only in Alberta. We're not banning
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oil imports. We're doing a favor for our competitors, our rivals. And in the case of Saudi Arabia, our enemies.
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And Jason Kenney went along with that. And Andrew Scheer. Well, I really don't even know what he said.
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Here's a tweet he did. Premier Rachel Notley's drastic and extraordinary announcement this evening
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lies squarely at the feet of Justin Trudeau. My statement. Okay, well, let's take a look at that statement.
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I'm not going to read the whole thing, but here's the gist of it. The situation in Alberta's energy
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sector has become a national economic crisis. A severe lack of pipeline capacity, a direct result
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of Justin Trudeau's failures on several major pipeline projects, has led to a sharp decline
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in the value of Alberta's resource that is threatening tens of thousands of jobs. I'll read just a little
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bit more. This has forced Alberta to take matters into its own hands. Premier Rachel Notley's drastic
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and extraordinary announcement this evening lies squarely at the feet of Justin Trudeau.
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Trudeau, it goes on like this for a while, but he never actually says if he's for it or against
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it. He just never actually says. He doesn't say. He doesn't say that he likes it. He says it's
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Trudeau's fault. Okay, sure. Yeah, me too. I agree, in part. But I think he's fine with this too,
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or at least it's cleverly written so that once you've read it, you really have no idea what you've just read.
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You've forgotten it immediately because it was like, I don't know, salt that's lost its saltiness. What
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what even is it? I think that's a metaphor for most of what Andrew Scheer says and does these days,
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I'm afraid. You think that such an aficionado of supply management and cartels, which Andrew Scheer is
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on the dairy side, would at least understand a cartel only works if you keep out rivals. Otherwise,
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you're just doing your competitor's job for them. Now, I get that coming from Rachel Notley. She's
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always opposed to the oil and gas industry. That's her on the left there. So she's against tar sands,
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tankers, pipelines, no problem. But what's the excuse for Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney?
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All right, so that's the news from the West. But how about from the center of the universe,
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Justin Trudeau's world? He just finished jet setting down to the G20 summit. So obviously,
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the man needs a day off. Seriously, he's been back in Canada for a couple of days, but
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he needs a day off, people. We're probably coming up on two full months of extra days off,
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personal days, me time for Justin Trudeau in 2018. He is the laziest man on Parliament Hill,
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but he found the energy on the weekend to type this tweet. He said,
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Hey, Trevor Noah, thanks for everything you're doing to celebrate Nelson Mandela's legacy
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at the Global Citizen Festival. Sorry, I can't be with you. But how about Canada pledges 50
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million dollars to edu-cannot-wait to support education for women and girls around the world?
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Work for you? Let's do it! What? What? What? For those of you who don't know, Trevor Noah is a
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South African-born comedian who now has a late night talk show in the United States. According to the
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latest TV ratings, nobody watches it, by the way. Here's the ratings for last week.
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In the entire United States, just 240,000 people watched it. So it's like a small YouTube channel.
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But Trudeau just said, Hey, hey, Trevor Noah, it's Justin Trudeau, super fan.
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Um, how about 50 million dollars from Canadian taxpayers? I'll tweet this to you. And will you
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like it and retweet it and invite me on your show? That is, that's a childish fangirl. That is not a
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grown-up. That phrasing, does it work for you? Let's do it! How about asking instead, does it work for
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Canada? And let's do it? Let's let us do it? Is Trevor Noah some sort of decision maker in Canada
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now? Some vacuous celebrity who reads cue cards? If things didn't work for Trevor Noah, would we fix
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things or change things? That is a 50 million dollar tweet right there. 50 million dollars. Veterans,
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injured veterans in Canada, are asking for more than we can give, as Trudeau says. Albertans can go
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pound sand. The Oshawa General Motors plant is closing, but Trudeau, in a tweet, just threw 50
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million dollars at some lame U.S. B-list comedian. Trudeau does that a lot though, doesn't he? His last
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virtue signaling tweet about opening up our borders, that has cost Canada more than a
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billion dollars according to the parliamentary budget officer. So I suppose his 50 million
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dollar tweet is only the second stupidest tweet Trudeau has done as prime minister.
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That's Canada in 2018. Leftists nationalizing the oil patch, conservatives refusing to fight them,
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and our man-child prime minister jet-setting around the world throwing tens of millions of dollars
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at celebrities. And my friends, 2019 isn't going to be any better. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. We've been telling you for about a week now about the United Nations Compact for
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Migration. It's not quite a treaty, but it is an agreement, and countries have already signed on to
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it. Next week there's a meeting hosted by the United Nations in Marrakesh, Morocco, but it's mainly a
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formality because the deal is already done. Canada has said that it will be going full guns on this. In fact,
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Canada has had a leadership role on it. When asked about it in question period a couple weeks ago,
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Justin Trudeau was dismissive of any concerns and said that it's only the rebel media who cares.
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The world is seeing unprecedented levels of men, women, and children displaced by war and by
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persecution. Our government is proud to have taken a leadership role on the global compact. This is
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the first time the international community has worked together to develop a comprehensive set of
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principles to better manage this phenomenon. It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in
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peddling rebel media conspiracy theories while we work with the international community to protect
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our robust immigration system. Well, joining us now is someone who understands mass migration more than
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most. She's been on the show a few times. Her name is Alessandra Bocchi. She's based in Milan,
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Italy, and has spent a significant amount of time in North Africa documenting the migrant flow to that
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continent. And she joins us now via Skype from Milan. Alessandra, what a pleasure to have you
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back on the show. Thanks for taking the time. Thanks for having me. Well, you are the only person I know
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who has actually reported on mass migration from North Africa. We talked about this once before,
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but can you give our viewers a bit of a recap? Where were you in North Africa? How long were you there?
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And what were you studying? I went to North Africa to work as a journalist. I got my first job there in
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Tunisia, in the capital of Tunis. And I worked for various Arab newspapers. One of them was a Libyan
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newspaper. And there I was reporting a lot on the migrant crisis because Libya is a transit country for
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most of the migrants coming into Europe at the moment. I know that even though you're back in
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Italy now, you obviously have a lot of contacts in North Africa, especially in Libya. Before we talk
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about the impact of mass migration on Europe, can you tell us a little bit of what it's done to the
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stability of North Africa? What being the gateway to the Mediterranean has done to Libya?
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Yes. So actually, the corporate media or the establishment media has it all wrong when it
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comes to North Africa. And they completely ignore the voices on the ground regarding this issue.
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All the Libyans I spoke to, and these are Libyans who are journalists or come from
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specific civil rights organizations, actually oppose mass migration because it's hurting
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Libya. It hurts any transit country. But right now, Libya is the main one. And I wrote an article
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on this for the New Arab. It's an Arab newspaper on how there's this demographic replacement taking place
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in southern Libya. And actually, these sub-Saharan African tribes or militias or mercenaries are taking
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control of key municipalities in southern Libya and are kidnapping families. And it's completely
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underreported. And I think the corporate or establishment media doesn't want to report on
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this issue because it would destroy their entire narrative that really Europe should open its
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arm to mass migration. And if it doesn't do so, it's racist when actually most countries oppose it,
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not because they hate the migrants or, you know, they're racist. It's just like a basic security issue.
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Yeah. You know, it's interesting. That reminded me, when you talk about how
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the Arab population of Libya does not like the colonization by sub-Saharan African migrants,
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you reminded me of the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, who obviously is himself Latino,
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saying that this migrant caravan from El Salvador and Honduras was unwelcome and that they
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were causing social unrest and that they had to leave. That was certainly off narrative too,
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because it's tough to call the mayor of Tijuana a racist. Let's talk about the European side because,
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of course, living in Libya might be a goal for some, but getting to the holy grail of European,
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of Europe in general, the welfare, the free stuff, the free housing, the free monthly payments,
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that is the desired outcome for hundreds of millions of people looking at Europe right now, isn't it?
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Yes. Right now, I mean, things are gradually changing now that we have this sort of populist
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resistance to mass migration, I would say. But the damage in some cases is already done,
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and it seems that the people who are pushing for this agenda have not backed down. In fact,
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they have doubled down on what they want, which is to have unlimited migration throughout the world,
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but which will mainly impact Europe at the moment. Yeah. Well, here in Canada, it's terrifying to us
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because, of course, we take all of Donald Trump's rejects, literally. I'm not saying that as an insult.
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People who are rejected by the American system are welcome just to walk up here. And, of course,
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Trudeau and Hassan fly in plenty of migrants too. But let me, Alessandro, I don't know if you've had
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a chance to go through this quasi-treaty, but I want to read a couple of passages to you. I want to
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read you in this, this is from the document itself. It calls on the host countries to, quote,
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facilitate access to procedures for family reunification for migrants at all skill levels.
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Like that's only about 10 or 12 words, but it's so powerful that each migrant who gets his toe into
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Italy or Greece or Germany or France under this UN deal must be facilitated to bring over all
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their family from Africa or Asia or wherever, regardless of language skills, regardless of
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JAWS skills. I mean, those are the words at all skill levels. So each migrant who comes gets to bring
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more migrants who get to bring more. It's an endless chain, isn't it? Yes. And also I would say that word,
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those words at all skill levels shows that they will accept lower skilled immigration as well,
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as well as higher skilled immigration, lower skilled immigration hurts the working class people
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receiving the immigrants because of course the price of labor goes down and it's unfair competition.
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Then high skilled immigration actually hurts the country of origin where those migrants are leaving
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because there's a brain drain. So it's a lose-lose situation. Yeah. I want to talk about what I think
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is the most Orwellian part of this migration compact. They talk about giving new human rights,
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the human right to migrate, the human right for migrants to have national and local health care. Like
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there's the word rights appears 112 times in this document. Always the rights of the migrant, never the
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rights of the domestic host population. But what actually scares me, Alessandra, and I'd like your opinion on this,
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because Tunisia and Libya, they're not the worst places in the Arab world, but you couldn't call
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them completely free. But here's what's terrifying about what European countries are signing on to. And
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you're a journalist who's worked in authoritarian places. What do you think of this? Again, I'm quoting
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from the compact here. Governments must, and I'm just going to read about three sentences to you,
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Alessandra, I'd like your view on this. Governments must promote independent, objective, and quality
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reporting of media outlets, including internet-based information, including by sensitizing and educating
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media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology, investing in ethical reporting standards
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and advertising, and stopping allocation of funding or material support to media outlets that
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systematically promote what they call intolerance, xenophobia, racism, and other forms of discrimination
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towards migrants. So this isn't just a migration document. It's a media strategy, advertising,
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training journalists, re-educating journalists, deciding what is quality journalism, and punishing
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those who don't meet the government standards. What do you think of that part of this compact?
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Well, obviously what they mean by ethical standards is nobody can disagree with this strategy. So
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someone like myself who is contesting their agenda, not because I'm a racist, not because, you know,
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I dislike migrants. Actually, I make the case that it hurts migrants as much as it hurts the host
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nations, and it hurts the countries of origins where these migrants leave as much as the host nations.
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But I would be obviously seen as someone who doesn't report on the issue in an ethical and informed way,
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when actually I've spoken to people on the ground who are Africans, who are Arabs, who are Europeans,
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who have all told me the same thing. It's just the elites in every country which see things differently.
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If you talk to just common people, it could be a shop owner, it could be a taxi driver, they will
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all tell you the same thing. They're actually very reasonable, they're very common sense,
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they make a lot of sense. So it's really crazy and aurelian what this document is pushing.
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Just before we turned on the camera, you mentioned to me that Italy, which is now led by an interesting
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coalition government. It's populists of the left and the right. And I find that fascinating. I follow
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your interior minister, Matteo Salvini online. I find them fascinating. Migration is a big deal for
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him. Over the weekend, a populist anti-migration party had success in Spain called Vox Espana.
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So I see this rebellion brewing in Italy. You told me just before our interview started that this UN
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compact is actually being put to the Italian people through their parliament. Now tell us a little bit
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about that. I think that's a great touch of democracy. Our government has not had a vote or a debate on it.
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What is Italy doing? Because I know Salvini is very skeptical of mass migration. Tell me about Italy.
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So I would say that it's a case of democracy, but not really direct democracy, because most people
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in the country oppose mass migration. But the Five Star Movement has been sort of schizophrenic
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on the issue of immigration. So they have the majority of seats in the parliament. However,
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they do not have a clear position on this issue. But the president of the chamber, who is from the
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Five Star Movement, is in favor of the global compact initiative. So it's unclear how the parliament will
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vote on this case. But the League and a few other right-wing parties are obviously opposed to it.
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However, it's not sure whether they have a majority to oppose the vote overall. So for now, Italy will
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not be signing the global compact agreement. It will not be going to Marrakesh to do so. But the
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legislation still might pass in parliament. And the problem is that the people who are in favor,
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it says it's non-binding. This is the main argument we hear in favor of this global compact document.
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It's not binding. You know, the governments and the nations can do whatever they like.
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And the first question that comes to mind is, if it's not binding, then why is it there in the
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first place? Like, why shouldn't they create it in the first place? Second of all, it's really a trick,
00:28:20.700
because in many constitutions in Western Europe, including Italy, for example, in Italy,
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in the Constitution, the 10th point says that all issues regarding refugees and migrants must be
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subject to international law. So in this case, if the global compact agreement is signed, it means that
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Italy will have to subscribe to those laws. So it's a trick. So if you read the global compact,
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it says it's non-binding. The national governments can do what they like. But then a lot of these national
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governments who signed this treaty have laws that say that issues regarding refugees and
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migrants are subject to international laws like the global compact. Does that make sense?
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It absolutely makes sense. And although that's explicit in Italy's constitution,
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according to what you've just told us, even here in Canada and even in the United States,
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now they are not going to sign it, but in Canada, our judges, our refugee tribunals,
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our politicians always say, well, our international obligations, well, international law, well,
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we promised the UN. So it's a de facto treaty, even if it doesn't go through the same scrutiny
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of a treaty. Alessandra, you and I have talked about this conference before, and I know you're busy.
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You're finishing your studies in the next week. But maybe we can talk to you while the conference is
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going as sort of an expert. Maybe we could Skype to you. We're sending a reporter from Canada,
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our own David Menzies. We're sending him to Marrakesh. The UN is trying to keep him out,
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but we're trying to get him in. If you had one question or one theme that you recommend
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David would ask people at this Marrakesh conference, whether it's NGOs or diplomats or
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politicians, again, they're going to try and keep him out. But if he does get in,
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what kind of questions would you recommend that David put to these diplomats and bureaucrats?
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Well, you caught me off guard. But I would say two main questions. The first one is,
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how do they intend to combat human trafficking, which is mainly hurting the migrants who fall
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victims to slave trades if they have this open border policy, while at the same time they claim
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that national governments can control their borders? That makes absolutely no sense. Second of all,
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what I just mentioned about many of the countries saying that the proponents of the agreement say that
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it's non-binding, including the global compact document. However, many countries like Italy have
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laws which explicitly say that matters that deal with refugees and migrants are subject to
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international law, which means it is binding. Those are two great themes, and I'll make sure
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to pass that on to David. That's great advice. And you would know, you've actually worked in the
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region. Alessandra, it's great to see you. Thank you for your time. Thank you for having me.
00:31:22.780
Well, it's always a pleasure. And let me say to our viewers, if you want to help us cover the cost of
00:31:27.820
David and the videographer we're sending with him going to Morocco, we're flying the cheapest
00:31:34.300
economy flights we can book, staying on the cheap. Everything is low cost, but it's still going to
00:31:40.780
cost several thousand dollars to get to Morocco from Canada. And if you want to help chip in,
00:31:45.580
please go to rebelun.com. I guarantee you we will be the only Canadian media and one of
00:31:52.700
maybe the only foreign media too going there that will ask skeptical questions. They're going to
00:31:58.380
try and keep us out. I'll tell you that right now. But as Sheila Gunn-Reed has proved, you can still do
00:32:02.860
great skeptical reporting even without official credentials. So that's rebelun.com. And that's
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just next week. All right, stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:32:22.700
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday on how journalists see themselves.
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Muta Ween writes, the media isn't the enemy of conservatism. The media is the true enemy of truth.
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Well, the word media, of course, comes from the Latin word for middle, medium, middle, midi.
00:32:45.340
But instead of being the middleman, it's a filter, it's a sensor, it's a spinner.
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So it's no longer a clear lens. It's a distorted lens. And you just can't trust it, can you? The
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good news is we all now can be little journalists in our own right. We can record the news on our
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cell phones. We can read and write the news on Facebook and Twitter. The trouble now, though,
00:33:08.700
is that big media is teaming up with social media to silence citizen media. And that's the big fight,
00:33:17.340
censorship, don't you think? Paul writes, I hold journalists in high regard. I just don't think
00:33:22.460
many of the people calling themselves journalists are actually journalists. Most people calling
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themselves journalists today are propagandists and political activists serving the far left
00:33:30.220
instead of the truth. I would consider Tommy Robinson, for example, to be more of a journalist than the
00:33:34.540
people from Britain's news media who were covering his last trial. Yeah, I mean, I've shown you the
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video before, I'm pretty sure. When we were at his last trial, I brought along some friends with me,
00:33:45.180
Andrew Lawton, Candace Malcolm, Cassandra Fairbanks, Abby Amini. And so they were not familiar to the
00:33:51.420
mainstream media in the UK. They knew me, but they didn't know my friends. Just to recap, I think
00:33:57.100
some of you have seen this. So Andrew Lawton went in the court ahead of me. He got there about half an
00:34:00.780
hour before me. He was sitting in front of the other journalists. He wasn't eavesdropping on them. He was
00:34:05.500
just, you know, he was like two feet away from them. And they were colluding with each other in advance of
00:34:10.060
the trial saying, oh, let's only say there were a couple hundred people here. We don't want to give
00:34:14.700
Tommy too much credit. There were 2,000 people outside. So Andrew Lawton, because the media let
00:34:20.340
their guard down, because the mainstream media in the UK didn't know who he was, they thought he was
00:34:24.300
just in on it or they just thought he was ignoring them. Andrew Lawton observed the media party in the
00:34:31.020
UK harmonize and coordinate on how they were going to smear Tommy Robinson together. They had to. You
00:34:38.820
couldn't have the Daily Mail saying there was a thousand people, the Daily Telegraph saying there
00:34:44.100
were 2,000, and the Mirrors saying there was only 500. They had to get their story together. So
00:34:49.300
they did that in front of Andrew Lawton. So that's a great example. But don't think it's any better here
00:34:55.120
in Canada. On my interview with Anthony Fury on the cost of illegal border crossers, Brad writes,
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General Motor employees and Alberta oil workers should forget about applying to EI. Hop the bus to
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Roxham Road, New York, and enter Canada as an irregular border crosser. Life will be better.
00:35:14.000
You're not even kidding. You've got a free hotel room. I mean, they're buying that hotel for migrants
00:35:20.560
in Toronto, right? Sheila Gunnery did a story the other day about how you can get 50,000 bucks a year
00:35:26.380
in benefits as an illegal migrant. And you won't be deported for years. I've just in the last couple
00:35:33.960
days. Read stories about a law-abiding, tax-paying, educated, successful entrepreneurial family
00:35:40.220
in Calgary, just south of Calgary. Not criminals. Came here lawfully. They're being deported by Trudeau.
00:35:47.760
Whereas anyone just walks across the border from New York State and they can stay for 10 years. I mean,
00:35:54.320
they won't have a hearing for 10 years. You know, seriously, if you are in Canada and you follow the
00:36:00.360
rules and you'd be kicked out, why wouldn't you just go around and walk in? I mean, really,
00:36:06.240
it's turning law-abiding people into suckers. That is a big reason why trust is falling. And you,
00:36:12.740
I tell you, for those open borders, open immigration types, they don't understand. They're poisoning the
00:36:17.680
well. Even people who are pro-immigration, even new immigrants themselves, are so grossed out by this
00:36:24.640
double standard, this separate illegal way in the country. I think they're really torching
00:36:31.560
any public appetite for immigration. Yeah. But if Andrew Scheer doesn't speak up about it,
00:36:36.540
you know, we're just going to keep lurching in that direction, won't we? I should just say,
00:36:40.640
in passing, I saw on the weekend that a new party won for the first time representation in Spain. The name
00:36:48.820
of the party is Vox España. I can't say I know too much about it. I watched some of their campaign ads
00:36:54.640
and read a little bit about them yesterday. They're pro-Spain. They're against the separatists.
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And they're anti-migrant. They want to stop the waves of immigration storming into Spain, including
00:37:09.640
the little enclave in North Africa and Gibraltar and places like that. I think when you push people
00:37:16.320
so far and you show that you don't respect the rules and the establishment is not with the people,
00:37:22.400
people smash the establishment. It just happened in Spain. It's happening throughout Europe. And in a way,
00:37:29.280
the protest riots in Paris are part of that. If you haven't yet seen them, I encourage you to go to
00:37:35.220
rebelfrance.com. We sent Jack Buckby and Martina Marcotta to Paris this weekend. Sounds like a lovely weekend,
00:37:41.860
doesn't it? Well, yeah. They had tear gas sprayed at them and they were fire hosing other protesters.
00:37:50.080
You really got to check out that coverage. It really was incredible reporting. Frankly,
00:37:54.000
the best reporting I've seen in the world on those Paris riots. And you should remember,
00:37:58.900
those riots are in large part against Macron's carbon tax. So check that out on Rebel France. That's it for
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today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,