Rebel News Podcast - “Disastrous weekend”： Trudeau gives $50M to a U.S. comedian — and Notley nationalizes the oil patch

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Justin Trudeau gives 50 million tax dollars to an American comedian and

00:00:06.360 Rachel Notley nationalizes Alberta's oil patch. It's December 3rd and this is

00:00:11.500 The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:18.120 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:22.200 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:25.800 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.

00:00:29.280 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my

00:00:33.680 bloody right to do so.

00:00:40.080 What a disastrous weekend Rachel Notley nationalized Alberta's oil industry like she has wanted 1.00

00:00:45.320 to do her whole life really like every socialist or communist dreams of doing.

00:00:49.800 Even Pierre Trudeau's national energy program didn't do what she did. Here take a look.

00:00:55.180 And so, after listening carefully to industry leaders, to experts and to Albertans, here's

00:01:00.180 what I've decided to do. Beginning on January 1st, the province of Alberta will mandate an

00:01:06.380 across-the-board reduction of 325,000 barrels per day in production, or roughly 8.7%.

00:01:13.580 So, it's like the dairy cartel supply management, but for oil companies, except that supply management

00:01:21.180 was requested by the dairy companies because it makes them rich by keeping out cheap foreign

00:01:28.780 and domestic competitors. That's the only way it works. There has to be two parts to supply management.

00:01:35.660 There's a limit on the amount of milk that Canadians are allowed to produce. It's a centrally planned economy.

00:01:41.740 It's outrageous. It's un-Canadian. It's un-capitalist. You need to have a permit called a quota for the right

00:01:47.580 to even milk cows. It's like the old-school taxi companies. You had to buy a permit, often called a medallion,

00:01:53.100 where you just weren't allowed to drive a cab. But that's the thing. It has to be enforced by keeping out rivals.

00:01:59.500 I mean, Uber pretty much destroyed the cab companies because anyone's allowed to drive an Uber. But back to the

00:02:05.820 dairy analogy, Canadians aren't allowed to produce milk without government permission. But foreign milk

00:02:12.940 is kept out by massive tariffs, too. That's essential to the whole scheme working. In Canada, we put huge

00:02:20.940 import taxes, tariffs, on American cheese and milk and yogurt, so much so that people actually smuggle

00:02:27.340 contraband U.S. cheese across the border. There's such a price differential, and they resell that

00:02:31.900 American contraband cheese for a huge profit. It really is as lucrative as drug deals because it's

00:02:37.580 a controlled substance, just like drugs. Here's an amazing story I keep showing people and telling

00:02:43.260 people about, and they always think I'm making it up. But Google it for yourself to see the truth of it.

00:02:48.220 The headline here, Cop Sentenced for Cheese Smuggling. Let me just read a little bit.

00:02:54.460 A Niagara Regional Police officer who has been convicted of a large-scale cheese smuggling

00:02:59.340 operation and breach of trust has been sentenced to four months in jail. Scott Heron, 42, appeared

00:03:04.540 for sentencing Friday in the Superior Court of Justice in Welland. It's a real story. But under Rachel

00:03:11.980 Notley, we have the worst of all worlds. We're literally banning Albertans from producing oil and gas.

00:03:18.140 But we're not keeping out foreign oil and gas at the same time. Here's a news report about the 80,000

00:03:25.660 barrels of Saudi oil we're importing to Canada every day. So that's conflict oil, of course, and there's no

00:03:33.980 gender analysis or carbon dioxide analysis or any of that regulatory burden that Justin Trudeau and

00:03:40.060 Catherine McKenna and Rachel Notley put on Canadian oil. And of course, we're paying world prices for that

00:03:45.500 Saudi oil. Now, that goes to our east coast, including the big refinery in St. John, that the

00:03:51.900 Energy East pipeline was supposed to feed Alberta oil to instead. It's not just Saudi oil. They're

00:03:57.500 the worst, obviously. But here's a chart. This is about a year old. I'm trying to find a more recent

00:04:01.580 version, but it's close enough. This is from the National Energy Board of Canada. This shows oil imports

00:04:07.820 imports to Canada. Oil imports. I'm serious. You've heard of the phrase, carry coal to Newcastle. You've

00:04:13.500 ever heard that? It refers to the city in England, Newcastle, that was famous for its coal industry.

00:04:19.180 You'd have to be nuts to try to sell coal to Newcastle. Take coal to Newcastle. It became a

00:04:24.620 well-known phrase, at least in the UK. Well, imagine trying to sell oil to Canada. That's how bizarro

00:04:30.460 we are. We're actually importing foreign oil and paying more for it than we get for our own oil. So

00:04:35.980 hold this chart up just for a minute there. So you can see these different bars of different years.

00:04:41.420 So this is hundreds of thousands of barrels per day that we import. I mentioned that the Saudis

00:04:45.820 now sell us 80,000 barrels per day, all coming in by tanker ship, of course. And no one calls for a

00:04:51.580 ban on tanker ships off the Atlantic coast now, do they? But look at the biggest change.

00:04:56.460 Do you see the dark blue bars at the bottom that just get huge? That is US oil imports to Canada,

00:05:03.660 from the United States. The next biggest, the pink there, is Saudi Arabia. Then green is Algeria.

00:05:11.900 But what on earth is going on with the US? Well, they become a huge source of oil imports to Canada.

00:05:17.660 I'm not even kidding. We sell our Western Canadian oil to the US at a greatly discounted rate, about

00:05:24.460 half price, because of all the pipeline blockades. And then they sell oil back to us at world prices

00:05:33.820 that they ship to us by trains. Remember that oil train explosion in Lac-Mégantic a few years back in

00:05:40.700 Quebec? That was US oil coming in by train from North Dakota. Now, I'm not saying that's why it

00:05:46.700 exploded. I'm not saying anything bad about the oil of the trains here. I'm just pointing out how

00:05:51.500 ubiquitous oil trains from America to Canada are. That's all coming in by rail, of course,

00:05:59.820 because Trudeau and Notley have opposed not only the oil sands, but any pipelines. You see my point

00:06:05.260 here? I'm against Soviet-style command and control of our oil economy. I don't like the dairy cartel

00:06:11.260 either. But at least the dairy cartel does what it says it will do. It bans competitors to the cartel,

00:06:18.700 both foreign and domestic. But Rachel Notley just banned her own Alberta oil companies. She didn't 1.00

00:06:26.380 ban foreigners. She literally is punishing only Canadians and rewarding Americans and Saudis. 0.97

00:06:35.420 And what is so gross is that Canada's so-called conservative politicians are supporting this. What

00:06:39.900 is going on? Jason Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party, says he supports this.

00:06:45.020 What on earth is going on? It's pretty obvious what's going on. He will say or do anything to

00:06:50.460 avoid media criticism until his election. He is terrified of the media. I've known Jason for 20

00:06:55.500 years, more even. We both lived in Edmonton when we were both in our 20s. We were part of the snack pack,

00:07:00.380 as we called ourselves in the Reform Party days. Remember, he used to be the head of the Taxpayers

00:07:04.300 Association. He would be apoplectic, the 1990s era, Jason Kenney. He would be apoplectic at the idea of

00:07:13.420 nationalizing the economy, especially done by true radical NDPers. But he won't say that.

00:07:20.460 Now, just a reminder, this is an NDP MLA named Rod Loyola. He and Jason Kenney together

00:07:27.420 support Rachel Notley's command and control. Look at this.

00:07:30.060 That really is Rod Loyola. And he really is a Rachel Notley MLA. And he really did have a

00:07:47.180 celebration of Hugo Chavez. And Rachel Notley really just did command Alberta oilmen and 1.00

00:07:53.420 only Albertans not to produce oil. Do you think that'll make foreign investors more or less likely

00:08:00.860 to pour billions of dollars into Alberta's oil patch? Do you think that'll make it more or less

00:08:06.140 likely that companies will move either just across the border to Saskatchewan, in the case of conventional

00:08:12.380 oil or fracking, or just to the United States? Look at this graph here. This is from the U.S.

00:08:18.220 Department of Energy, and it is up to date. You can see that line. That's U.S. oil production.

00:08:26.700 As you can see, it grew because of the advent of fracking. It started to really grow around 2012.

00:08:32.140 That's fracking. But then, under Barack Obama, it started heading down, didn't it? Look at that,

00:08:38.780 2015, 2016. But when Trump took over 2016, 2017, he really fired the starter pistol. He approved

00:08:47.980 pipelines. Do you remember that? He approved the Dakota Access Pipeline, and they built it within

00:08:53.500 a few months. And he approved drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and he approved

00:08:59.580 the U.S. shipping oil overseas that used to be banned. So, in just one year, American oil production is up

00:09:09.100 21 percent. By far the biggest producer in the world, more in Russia, more in Saudi Arabia. And it's just

00:09:17.020 getting going. Oil analysts predict that the United States will be a net energy exporter in five years.

00:09:23.020 That includes natural gas, coal, pipelines, fracking, whatever. They're just going full tilt down there.

00:09:28.620 And we just passed a law banning oil production in Alberta, but only in Alberta. We're not banning

00:09:37.980 oil imports. We're doing a favor for our competitors, our rivals. And in the case of Saudi Arabia, our enemies. 1.00

00:09:48.140 And Jason Kenney went along with that. And Andrew Scheer. Well, I really don't even know what he said.

00:09:54.140 Here's a tweet he did. Premier Rachel Notley's drastic and extraordinary announcement this evening

00:09:59.980 lies squarely at the feet of Justin Trudeau. My statement. Okay, well, let's take a look at that statement.

00:10:05.260 I'm not going to read the whole thing, but here's the gist of it. The situation in Alberta's energy

00:10:10.380 sector has become a national economic crisis. A severe lack of pipeline capacity, a direct result

00:10:15.340 of Justin Trudeau's failures on several major pipeline projects, has led to a sharp decline

00:10:19.580 in the value of Alberta's resource that is threatening tens of thousands of jobs. I'll read just a little

00:10:23.740 bit more. This has forced Alberta to take matters into its own hands. Premier Rachel Notley's drastic

00:10:29.420 and extraordinary announcement this evening lies squarely at the feet of Justin Trudeau.

00:10:33.260 Trudeau, it goes on like this for a while, but he never actually says if he's for it or against

00:10:39.580 it. He just never actually says. He doesn't say. He doesn't say that he likes it. He says it's

00:10:51.260 Trudeau's fault. Okay, sure. Yeah, me too. I agree, in part. But I think he's fine with this too,

00:10:57.580 or at least it's cleverly written so that once you've read it, you really have no idea what you've just read.

00:11:04.220 You've forgotten it immediately because it was like, I don't know, salt that's lost its saltiness. What

00:11:09.740 what even is it? I think that's a metaphor for most of what Andrew Scheer says and does these days,

00:11:19.820 I'm afraid. You think that such an aficionado of supply management and cartels, which Andrew Scheer is

00:11:28.060 on the dairy side, would at least understand a cartel only works if you keep out rivals. Otherwise,

00:11:36.620 you're just doing your competitor's job for them. Now, I get that coming from Rachel Notley. She's

00:11:42.780 always opposed to the oil and gas industry. That's her on the left there. So she's against tar sands,

00:11:48.140 tankers, pipelines, no problem. But what's the excuse for Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney?

00:11:54.940 All right, so that's the news from the West. But how about from the center of the universe,

00:12:01.740 Justin Trudeau's world? He just finished jet setting down to the G20 summit. So obviously,

00:12:08.060 the man needs a day off. Seriously, he's been back in Canada for a couple of days, but

00:12:14.460 he needs a day off, people. We're probably coming up on two full months of extra days off,

00:12:20.460 personal days, me time for Justin Trudeau in 2018. He is the laziest man on Parliament Hill,

00:12:27.260 but he found the energy on the weekend to type this tweet. He said,

00:12:32.700 Hey, Trevor Noah, thanks for everything you're doing to celebrate Nelson Mandela's legacy

00:12:39.100 at the Global Citizen Festival. Sorry, I can't be with you. But how about Canada pledges 50

00:12:48.140 million dollars to edu-cannot-wait to support education for women and girls around the world?

00:12:53.980 Work for you? Let's do it! What? What? What? For those of you who don't know, Trevor Noah is a

00:13:02.140 South African-born comedian who now has a late night talk show in the United States. According to the

00:13:08.140 latest TV ratings, nobody watches it, by the way. Here's the ratings for last week.

00:13:14.780 In the entire United States, just 240,000 people watched it. So it's like a small YouTube channel.

00:13:25.020 But Trudeau just said, Hey, hey, Trevor Noah, it's Justin Trudeau, super fan.

00:13:31.100 Um, how about 50 million dollars from Canadian taxpayers? I'll tweet this to you. And will you

00:13:37.260 like it and retweet it and invite me on your show? That is, that's a childish fangirl. That is not a 0.62

00:13:44.940 grown-up. That phrasing, does it work for you? Let's do it! How about asking instead, does it work for

00:13:53.420 Canada? And let's do it? Let's let us do it? Is Trevor Noah some sort of decision maker in Canada

00:13:59.820 now? Some vacuous celebrity who reads cue cards? If things didn't work for Trevor Noah, would we fix

00:14:08.140 things or change things? That is a 50 million dollar tweet right there. 50 million dollars. Veterans,

00:14:16.540 injured veterans in Canada, are asking for more than we can give, as Trudeau says. Albertans can go

00:14:23.260 pound sand. The Oshawa General Motors plant is closing, but Trudeau, in a tweet, just threw 50

00:14:30.620 million dollars at some lame U.S. B-list comedian. Trudeau does that a lot though, doesn't he? His last

00:14:39.980 virtue signaling tweet about opening up our borders, that has cost Canada more than a

00:14:46.300 billion dollars according to the parliamentary budget officer. So I suppose his 50 million

00:14:52.060 dollar tweet is only the second stupidest tweet Trudeau has done as prime minister. 0.99

00:14:57.820 That's Canada in 2018. Leftists nationalizing the oil patch, conservatives refusing to fight them, 0.98

00:15:07.260 and our man-child prime minister jet-setting around the world throwing tens of millions of dollars

00:15:12.940 at celebrities. And my friends, 2019 isn't going to be any better. Stay with us for more.

00:15:19.900 Welcome back. We've been telling you for about a week now about the United Nations Compact for

00:15:42.380 Migration. It's not quite a treaty, but it is an agreement, and countries have already signed on to

00:15:50.700 it. Next week there's a meeting hosted by the United Nations in Marrakesh, Morocco, but it's mainly a

00:15:56.700 formality because the deal is already done. Canada has said that it will be going full guns on this. In fact,

00:16:05.420 Canada has had a leadership role on it. When asked about it in question period a couple weeks ago,

00:16:11.020 Justin Trudeau was dismissive of any concerns and said that it's only the rebel media who cares.

00:16:18.780 Remember this clip?

00:16:19.900 The world is seeing unprecedented levels of men, women, and children displaced by war and by

00:16:26.300 persecution. Our government is proud to have taken a leadership role on the global compact. This is

00:16:32.780 the first time the international community has worked together to develop a comprehensive set of

00:16:37.660 principles to better manage this phenomenon. It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in

00:16:43.260 peddling rebel media conspiracy theories while we work with the international community to protect

00:16:49.500 our robust immigration system. Well, joining us now is someone who understands mass migration more than

00:16:56.860 most. She's been on the show a few times. Her name is Alessandra Bocchi. She's based in Milan,

00:17:02.700 Italy, and has spent a significant amount of time in North Africa documenting the migrant flow to that

00:17:09.980 continent. And she joins us now via Skype from Milan. Alessandra, what a pleasure to have you

00:17:15.180 back on the show. Thanks for taking the time. Thanks for having me. Well, you are the only person I know

00:17:22.300 who has actually reported on mass migration from North Africa. We talked about this once before,

00:17:29.660 but can you give our viewers a bit of a recap? Where were you in North Africa? How long were you there?

00:17:35.740 And what were you studying? I went to North Africa to work as a journalist. I got my first job there in

00:17:43.020 Tunisia, in the capital of Tunis. And I worked for various Arab newspapers. One of them was a Libyan

00:17:50.060 newspaper. And there I was reporting a lot on the migrant crisis because Libya is a transit country for

00:17:58.060 most of the migrants coming into Europe at the moment. I know that even though you're back in 1.00

00:18:04.060 Italy now, you obviously have a lot of contacts in North Africa, especially in Libya. Before we talk

00:18:10.060 about the impact of mass migration on Europe, can you tell us a little bit of what it's done to the

00:18:16.220 stability of North Africa? What being the gateway to the Mediterranean has done to Libya?

00:18:22.140 Yes. So actually, the corporate media or the establishment media has it all wrong when it

00:18:28.780 comes to North Africa. And they completely ignore the voices on the ground regarding this issue.

00:18:34.860 All the Libyans I spoke to, and these are Libyans who are journalists or come from

00:18:40.140 specific civil rights organizations, actually oppose mass migration because it's hurting

00:18:46.140 Libya. It hurts any transit country. But right now, Libya is the main one. And I wrote an article

00:18:54.460 on this for the New Arab. It's an Arab newspaper on how there's this demographic replacement taking place

00:18:59.580 in southern Libya. And actually, these sub-Saharan African tribes or militias or mercenaries are taking

00:19:07.420 control of key municipalities in southern Libya and are kidnapping families. And it's completely

00:19:14.940 underreported. And I think the corporate or establishment media doesn't want to report on

00:19:20.220 this issue because it would destroy their entire narrative that really Europe should open its

00:19:26.060 arm to mass migration. And if it doesn't do so, it's racist when actually most countries oppose it,

00:19:30.940 not because they hate the migrants or, you know, they're racist. It's just like a basic security issue.

00:19:37.820 Yeah. You know, it's interesting. That reminded me, when you talk about how

00:19:41.180 the Arab population of Libya does not like the colonization by sub-Saharan African migrants,

00:19:51.900 you reminded me of the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, who obviously is himself Latino,

00:19:58.620 saying that this migrant caravan from El Salvador and Honduras was unwelcome and that they

00:20:04.780 were causing social unrest and that they had to leave. That was certainly off narrative too,

00:20:10.700 because it's tough to call the mayor of Tijuana a racist. Let's talk about the European side because,

00:20:17.180 of course, living in Libya might be a goal for some, but getting to the holy grail of European,

00:20:24.540 of Europe in general, the welfare, the free stuff, the free housing, the free monthly payments,

00:20:32.220 that is the desired outcome for hundreds of millions of people looking at Europe right now, isn't it?

00:20:40.380 Yes. Right now, I mean, things are gradually changing now that we have this sort of populist

00:20:46.860 resistance to mass migration, I would say. But the damage in some cases is already done,

00:20:53.340 and it seems that the people who are pushing for this agenda have not backed down. In fact,

00:20:57.820 they have doubled down on what they want, which is to have unlimited migration throughout the world,

00:21:04.540 but which will mainly impact Europe at the moment. Yeah. Well, here in Canada, it's terrifying to us

00:21:10.300 because, of course, we take all of Donald Trump's rejects, literally. I'm not saying that as an insult.

00:21:16.140 People who are rejected by the American system are welcome just to walk up here. And, of course,

00:21:20.700 Trudeau and Hassan fly in plenty of migrants too. But let me, Alessandro, I don't know if you've had

00:21:26.460 a chance to go through this quasi-treaty, but I want to read a couple of passages to you. I want to

00:21:33.180 read you in this, this is from the document itself. It calls on the host countries to, quote,

00:21:40.300 facilitate access to procedures for family reunification for migrants at all skill levels.

00:21:49.180 Like that's only about 10 or 12 words, but it's so powerful that each migrant who gets his toe into

00:21:58.940 Italy or Greece or Germany or France under this UN deal must be facilitated to bring over all 0.97

00:22:07.020 their family from Africa or Asia or wherever, regardless of language skills, regardless of

00:22:14.060 JAWS skills. I mean, those are the words at all skill levels. So each migrant who comes gets to bring 1.00

00:22:21.980 more migrants who get to bring more. It's an endless chain, isn't it? Yes. And also I would say that word, 0.99

00:22:29.500 those words at all skill levels shows that they will accept lower skilled immigration as well,

00:22:35.100 as well as higher skilled immigration, lower skilled immigration hurts the working class people

00:22:41.500 receiving the immigrants because of course the price of labor goes down and it's unfair competition. 0.94

00:22:48.780 Then high skilled immigration actually hurts the country of origin where those migrants are leaving

00:22:54.300 because there's a brain drain. So it's a lose-lose situation. Yeah. I want to talk about what I think

00:23:02.060 is the most Orwellian part of this migration compact. They talk about giving new human rights,

00:23:09.660 the human right to migrate, the human right for migrants to have national and local health care. Like

00:23:14.940 there's the word rights appears 112 times in this document. Always the rights of the migrant, never the

00:23:22.140 rights of the domestic host population. But what actually scares me, Alessandra, and I'd like your opinion on this,

00:23:28.220 because Tunisia and Libya, they're not the worst places in the Arab world, but you couldn't call

00:23:33.660 them completely free. But here's what's terrifying about what European countries are signing on to. And

00:23:40.620 you're a journalist who's worked in authoritarian places. What do you think of this? Again, I'm quoting

00:23:46.700 from the compact here. Governments must, and I'm just going to read about three sentences to you,

00:23:54.060 Alessandra, I'd like your view on this. Governments must promote independent, objective, and quality

00:24:00.380 reporting of media outlets, including internet-based information, including by sensitizing and educating

00:24:08.780 media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology, investing in ethical reporting standards

00:24:16.780 and advertising, and stopping allocation of funding or material support to media outlets that

00:24:24.220 systematically promote what they call intolerance, xenophobia, racism, and other forms of discrimination

00:24:31.020 towards migrants. So this isn't just a migration document. It's a media strategy, advertising,

00:24:41.100 training journalists, re-educating journalists, deciding what is quality journalism, and punishing

00:24:48.780 those who don't meet the government standards. What do you think of that part of this compact?

00:24:54.380 Well, obviously what they mean by ethical standards is nobody can disagree with this strategy. So

00:25:01.180 someone like myself who is contesting their agenda, not because I'm a racist, not because, you know,

00:25:08.220 I dislike migrants. Actually, I make the case that it hurts migrants as much as it hurts the host 1.00

00:25:13.980 nations, and it hurts the countries of origins where these migrants leave as much as the host nations.

00:25:19.500 But I would be obviously seen as someone who doesn't report on the issue in an ethical and informed way,

00:25:26.620 when actually I've spoken to people on the ground who are Africans, who are Arabs, who are Europeans,

00:25:31.660 who have all told me the same thing. It's just the elites in every country which see things differently.

00:25:37.340 If you talk to just common people, it could be a shop owner, it could be a taxi driver, they will

00:25:43.100 all tell you the same thing. They're actually very reasonable, they're very common sense,

00:25:48.060 they make a lot of sense. So it's really crazy and aurelian what this document is pushing.

00:25:55.900 Just before we turned on the camera, you mentioned to me that Italy, which is now led by an interesting

00:26:01.820 coalition government. It's populists of the left and the right. And I find that fascinating. I follow

00:26:08.380 your interior minister, Matteo Salvini online. I find them fascinating. Migration is a big deal for 0.91

00:26:14.700 him. Over the weekend, a populist anti-migration party had success in Spain called Vox Espana.

00:26:22.780 So I see this rebellion brewing in Italy. You told me just before our interview started that this UN

00:26:34.380 compact is actually being put to the Italian people through their parliament. Now tell us a little bit

00:26:42.140 about that. I think that's a great touch of democracy. Our government has not had a vote or a debate on it.

00:26:49.580 What is Italy doing? Because I know Salvini is very skeptical of mass migration. Tell me about Italy.

00:26:57.100 So I would say that it's a case of democracy, but not really direct democracy, because most people

00:27:01.980 in the country oppose mass migration. But the Five Star Movement has been sort of schizophrenic

00:27:08.140 on the issue of immigration. So they have the majority of seats in the parliament. However,

00:27:15.740 they do not have a clear position on this issue. But the president of the chamber, who is from the

00:27:22.780 Five Star Movement, is in favor of the global compact initiative. So it's unclear how the parliament will

00:27:29.980 vote on this case. But the League and a few other right-wing parties are obviously opposed to it.

00:27:39.180 However, it's not sure whether they have a majority to oppose the vote overall. So for now, Italy will

00:27:45.180 not be signing the global compact agreement. It will not be going to Marrakesh to do so. But the

00:27:51.180 legislation still might pass in parliament. And the problem is that the people who are in favor,

00:27:58.060 it says it's non-binding. This is the main argument we hear in favor of this global compact document.

00:28:05.260 It's not binding. You know, the governments and the nations can do whatever they like.

00:28:11.420 And the first question that comes to mind is, if it's not binding, then why is it there in the

00:28:15.820 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,

00:28:26.300 in the Constitution, the 10th point says that all issues regarding refugees and migrants must be

00:28:35.340 subject to international law. So in this case, if the global compact agreement is signed, it means that

00:28:41.820 Italy will have to subscribe to those laws. So it's a trick. So if you read the global compact,

00:28:46.860 it says it's non-binding. The national governments can do what they like. But then a lot of these national

00:28:51.420 governments who signed this treaty have laws that say that issues regarding refugees and

00:28:56.940 migrants are subject to international laws like the global compact. Does that make sense?

00:29:01.580 It absolutely makes sense. And although that's explicit in Italy's constitution,

00:29:06.780 according to what you've just told us, even here in Canada and even in the United States,

00:29:11.580 now they are not going to sign it, but in Canada, our judges, our refugee tribunals,

00:29:16.220 our politicians always say, well, our international obligations, well, international law, well,

00:29:21.980 we promised the UN. So it's a de facto treaty, even if it doesn't go through the same scrutiny

00:29:27.820 of a treaty. Alessandra, you and I have talked about this conference before, and I know you're busy.

00:29:36.220 You're finishing your studies in the next week. But maybe we can talk to you while the conference is

00:29:43.740 going as sort of an expert. Maybe we could Skype to you. We're sending a reporter from Canada,

00:29:49.020 our own David Menzies. We're sending him to Marrakesh. The UN is trying to keep him out,

00:29:53.020 but we're trying to get him in. If you had one question or one theme that you recommend

00:30:00.940 David would ask people at this Marrakesh conference, whether it's NGOs or diplomats or

00:30:08.140 politicians, again, they're going to try and keep him out. But if he does get in,

00:30:11.820 what kind of questions would you recommend that David put to these diplomats and bureaucrats?

00:30:20.460 Well, you caught me off guard. But I would say two main questions. The first one is,

00:30:28.220 how do they intend to combat human trafficking, which is mainly hurting the migrants who fall

00:30:33.100 victims to slave trades if they have this open border policy, while at the same time they claim

00:30:41.500 that national governments can control their borders? That makes absolutely no sense. Second of all,

00:30:47.420 what I just mentioned about many of the countries saying that the proponents of the agreement say that

00:30:55.420 it's non-binding, including the global compact document. However, many countries like Italy have

00:31:01.580 laws which explicitly say that matters that deal with refugees and migrants are subject to

00:31:08.460 international law, which means it is binding. Those are two great themes, and I'll make sure

00:31:13.580 to pass that on to David. That's great advice. And you would know, you've actually worked in the

00:31:17.900 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

00:32:08.700 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.

00:32:28.700 Muta Ween writes, the media isn't the enemy of conservatism. The media is the true enemy of truth.

00:32:36.860 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.

00:32:51.820 So it's no longer a clear lens. It's a distorted lens. And you just can't trust it, can you? The

00:32:57.980 good news is we all now can be little journalists in our own right. We can record the news on our

00:33:03.420 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

00:33:26.140 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

00:33:40.860 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,

00:35:01.800 General Motor employees and Alberta oil workers should forget about applying to EI. Hop the bus to

00:35:07.520 Roxham Road, New York, and enter Canada as an irregular border crosser. Life will be better. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 0.92

00:36:12.740 I tell you, for those open borders, open immigration types, they don't understand. They're poisoning the 1.00

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.

00:37:02.260 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 0.99

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

00:38:06.140 today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:38:10.480 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - December 04, 2018

“Disastrous weekend”： Trudeau gives $50M to a U.S. comedian — and Notley nationalizes the oil patch

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