Rebel News Podcast - Don't be fooled： Gerald Butts is “going to keep running the Liberal operation”

00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels by the Million. You're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show,

00:00:05.200 The Ezra LeVance Show. Today, we go through Gerald Butts' resignation. I say two things.

00:00:10.880 Number one, I don't think he really resigned. I think he's still going to run this show.

00:00:15.160 In fact, the liberals say he might even run their campaign. And number two,

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00:01:12.480 Tonight, Gerald Butts, Trudeau's right-hand man, says he did nothing wrong but resigns.

00:01:17.740 I don't believe either part of that, do you? It's February 19th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:23.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:28.820 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:32.900 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my

00:01:37.500 bloody right to do so.

00:01:44.180 Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's principal secretary, resigned yesterday. Here's a tweet by Trudeau's

00:01:50.300 executive director of communications and planning, Kate Purchase, with Butts' full statement.

00:01:57.080 It was a lengthy, self-serving statement, as you can see, saying he did nothing wrong,

00:02:03.500 and he was a saint, and he never had an impure thought, and he didn't know anyone else in

00:02:09.500 the government who ever has, but he's resigning anyways because of some anonymous accusation.

00:02:15.620 Yeah, sure. Let me read part of it. Recently, anonymous sources have alleged that I pressured

00:02:23.340 the former Attorney General, the Honorable Jolie Wilson-Raybould, to assist SNC-Lavalin with

00:02:28.580 being considered for a deferred prosecution agreement. I categorically deny the accusation

00:02:33.960 that I or anyone else in his office pressured Ms. Wilson-Raybould. We honored the unique role

00:02:41.120 of the Attorney General. At all times, I and those around me acted with integrity and a singular

00:02:46.240 focus on the best interests of all Canadians. I love me. Oh, I added those last three words, sorry.

00:02:54.440 Is that really what happened? That this was all just an anonymous rumor, all this stuff we've been

00:03:00.140 talking about for weeks now? It's all fake. There was no pressure on Jolie Wilson-Raybould? No,

00:03:05.960 no, no, no, no. The former Attorney General? No, no. Everything's fine. The federal lobbyist registry

00:03:12.500 actually shows that, in fact, there was enormous pressure brought to bear. SNC-Lavalin, a corrupt

00:03:18.680 Quebec engineering firm, caught paying $48 million in bribes in Libya to scam government contracts.

00:03:25.160 They really were being prosecuted, and the lobbyist registry really shows that SNC-Lavalin

00:03:30.580 lobbied just about everyone in the Liberal government, including a bunch of cabinet ministers,

00:03:34.980 including Gerald Butts personally, and they say right there on the lobbyist registry that they

00:03:39.640 are lobbying to have the criminal charges dropped against them. 50-plus meetings. Yeah, that's

00:03:45.060 pressure. And remember, Trudeau never denied putting pressure on Jolie Wilson-Raybould. He just used

00:03:51.500 really weird lawyerly language to say he never directed her to take a particular decision. Remember this?

00:03:58.260 The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false. Neither the current nor the previous

00:04:05.580 Attorney General was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office to take a decision in this

00:04:13.880 matter. The allegations reported in the story are false. At no time did I or my office direct the current

00:04:24.200 or previous Attorney General to make any particular decision in this matter? But not necessarily direct,

00:04:30.620 Prime Minister. Was there any sort of influence whatsoever? Yeah. As I've said, at no time did we

00:04:37.400 direct the Attorney General, current or previous, to take any decision whatsoever in this matter.

00:04:44.720 That was Trudeau's first alibi, and I don't think anyone in the country believed it. So he went

00:04:49.980 through a whole bunch more alibis, you'll recall. He said Jody Wilson-Raybould was obviously fine with

00:04:56.260 everything, because after all, she was still in his cabinet. In our system of government, of course,

00:05:03.760 her presence in cabinet should actually speak for itself.

00:05:07.520 Huh. Yeah. Well, the day Trudeau said that, Raybould Wilson quit. She obviously saw it and said,

00:05:14.820 yeah, no. And she hired a former Supreme Court judge as her lawyer. So fancy that. Now, Trudeau

00:05:21.120 tried out several more weird excuses. He said it was all Scott Bryson's fault. See, Scott Bryson was a

00:05:27.780 cabinet minister who quit because of another scandal that actually involves interference in the courts,

00:05:32.840 too. And so obviously, Trudeau had to move Jody Wilson-Raybould out of the Justice Department

00:05:37.460 because of the cabinet shuffling. I mean, obviously.

00:05:43.280 We move forward with the cabinet shuffle. One of the senior members of our team stepped down,

00:05:51.920 and we had to move things around on the team. If Scott Bryson had not stepped down from cabinet,

00:06:00.940 Jody Wilson-Raybould would still be Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

00:06:08.940 Really? Did anyone in the country believe that? So it was essential that Scott Bryson remained in

00:06:15.240 cabinet or Jody Wilson's whole career was there? That doesn't even make sense. Who wrote that? Did he

00:06:20.400 come up with that? I bet he came up with that by himself. It's that dumb. And then there was this

00:06:25.820 gorgeous question and even gorgeser answer. I've tried this question out when I'm asked about chores

00:06:32.300 around the home. Look at this and tell me if you think this is an excuse. You might put it in your

00:06:36.840 personal repertoire of excuses. Mr. Can you just tell us the reasons that Mr. Wilson-Raybould gave you

00:06:42.700 for why she decided to resign from cabinet? Do you want me to answer that question in English?

00:06:48.240 I'm just trying to remember. Okay. As a government, we take very seriously our responsibility to grow

00:06:56.580 the economy, to invest in jobs, to invest in a strong future for Canadians. That's exactly what we do.

00:07:02.520 Oh, that is so perfect. Sweetheart, it's 11 p.m. You're just getting home from work now. Where

00:07:10.580 the heck were you? You weren't answering your calls. Ooh. Do you want me to answer that in English?

00:07:21.020 Have you been drinking? It's 11 o'clock. You're just coming. Have you been drinking?

00:07:25.400 Um, what's the line? I've been working at, like, that's just so amazing, that excuse-ology from

00:07:32.640 Justin Trudeau. I have absolutely got to, Ezra, you didn't take the garbage out this week. We missed

00:07:37.900 garbage pickup day. Now it's going to stick around for another week and stink. Why didn't

00:07:41.680 you take the garbage out? Um, do you want me to answer in English? Um, what's my line? That

00:07:50.920 is so amazing, that excuse. Would you not say that is the best answer you've ever seen in

00:07:57.840 politics? And Trudeau, after going through all these alibis, after first denying that he

00:08:02.920 talked about this with Jody Wilson-Raybould, and then admitting that, well, okay, maybe, okay,

00:08:07.900 fine. Okay, fine, we did talk about it, but I didn't pressure her. His story seemed to

00:08:12.420 change again and again. Do you want me to answer in English? He was asked about a parliamentary

00:08:17.340 investigation, and he said, oh, yeah, how's up for MPs to decide? But then the liberals

00:08:21.680 shut that down at his direction. Can I show you this? Look at this. Some Trudeau liberals

00:08:27.820 started telling journalists, off the record, they were so brave, that Jody Wilson-Raybould was

00:08:32.680 getting a bit happening for an Aboriginal woman. Um, and that, uh, maybe that's really the 1.00

00:08:39.460 problem here. And they moved in to blame the victim, attack the whistleblower mode. One

00:08:44.660 of Trudeau's Montreal cronies, some idiot, I'm sorry, I gotta say it, named Anthony Housefather.

00:08:51.040 He got really weird, and he thought he'd help the boss, because the, um, do you want me to answer

00:08:57.020 in English? Wasn't really working. So Anthony Housefather said, Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired

00:09:03.280 because apparently just a month ago, they discovered that no one had detected this.

00:09:10.740 She doesn't speak French too well. Yeah, that's the ticket. Remember this?

00:09:14.400 There's millions of reasons that people can be shuffled from one position to another,

00:09:19.980 um, including the fact, for example, that there's a lot of legal issues coming up in Quebec,

00:09:24.700 and the prime minister may well have decided he needed a justice minister that could speak French.

00:09:30.220 Hmm. So they apparently didn't, didn't know that she didn't speak French when they hired her,

00:09:36.520 and they apparently didn't know she didn't speak French until, amazingly, she rejected their

00:09:43.080 pressure to drop charges against SNC-Lavalin, and then they really needed to fire her because she 0.98

00:09:48.660 didn't speak French, and I guess all the translators are gone for the day. Yeah, the liberals have not

00:09:53.620 had this bad a week since Trudeau's India fashion show, but that's the thing, that India fiasco was

00:10:00.160 bad, and of course they brought along a convicted terrorist in Trudeau's entourage to India, so it was

00:10:05.120 bad, it was embarrassing, probably cost us dearly in terms of trade and diplomatic allies, same with the

00:10:11.080 current China fiasco. China still is holding two Canadians hostage over there, sounds like they're

00:10:16.180 going to execute a third Canadian, so that's awful. But other than some fashion crimes in India, 0.89

00:10:24.260 there were no crimes committed there by Justin Trudeau, no crimes that I know of. But how about

00:10:29.800 pressuring an attorney general to drop criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin? Is that a crime?

00:10:37.220 I mean, to remind you of the obvious, SNC-Lavalin is a company that's used to bribing their way

00:10:43.700 through any problematic politicians in Libya, 48 million. Oh, in Canada too. Look at this clip of

00:10:48.940 our friend Solomon Friedman, a senior criminal lawyer in Ottawa, explaining to CTV's Don Martin

00:10:53.660 that SNC-Lavalin is so corrupt and does this so many times that they are legally not eligible to be let

00:11:00.700 off the hook in any special remediation agreement. It's just not applicable. That's what SNC-Lavalin was

00:11:06.840 lobbying for to be let off the hook for prosecution. But that's not what the law allows, according to

00:11:11.020 our friend Solomon. Well, one of the reasons that all of this smells so much is that, I mean, first

00:11:16.800 of all, the deferred prosecution regime in and of itself smells. But if you look at it and you look

00:11:21.840 at what does it take to qualify, you start going through, there are a list of factors. So one of the

00:11:25.860 things is, has the company or its representatives been convicted in the past? Guess what? They have.

00:11:31.240 How high up, in terms of the company hierarchy, does the corruption go? Well, in the case of SNC-Lavalin,

00:11:37.780 to the very top. How serious are these allegations or previous convictions? Well, they're bribing

00:11:43.460 officials to get the Montreal hospital project, right? So when you look at this list of factors,

00:11:49.360 have reparations been made, really? Have the people of Libya been made whole for the hundreds of

00:11:53.640 millions of dollars that were stolen from the citizens to enrich the Gaddafis? Of course not. So SNC-Lavalin 0.91

00:11:59.240 would never qualify for one of these arrangements by the letter of the law.

00:12:04.780 Huh. So it would take friends in high places to make that happen?

00:12:08.400 Maybe a little undue influence, maybe some pressure, maybe some directing, all those things

00:12:12.000 that we're hearing about. It's not a surprise when you look at the law. This is not a law

00:12:15.600 that a company like SNC-Lavalin, given their past track record, could ever qualify for.

00:12:22.300 Hmm. So was there any corruption here? I mean, criminal corruption. I mean, we know

00:12:26.780 there was unethical political behavior. We know there was cronyism. But was there an actual crime

00:12:33.320 committed? Well, we had a two-year criminal trial of Mike Duffy over some expense claims

00:12:38.180 that Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper's chief of staff, voluntarily paid back to the government

00:12:42.040 for him. Would you say that this SNC-Lavalin business is more or less severe than that? And by the

00:12:49.820 way, Mike Duffy was acquitted, of course. Here's a question that I haven't seen asked by any media

00:12:54.380 party journalists. Has anyone in the prime minister's office been contacted by the RCMP

00:13:00.680 about any of this? Any staff? Have they asked any questions of the 50-plus people that SNC-Lavalin

00:13:07.860 lobbied? Including, by the way, David Lamedi, the Montreal MP that Trudeau just appointed as

00:13:13.240 its new attorney general and justice minister. Now, I ask that because I'm not sure if it makes

00:13:18.260 sense that Gerald Butz would just resign for no reason, that I did nothing wrong and so I must

00:13:24.840 resign? Would he do that? We know he's the de facto prime minister. Just weeks after the government

00:13:31.900 was elected, liberal MPs reported that Trudeau himself told them to take anything coming from

00:13:37.280 Gerald Butz as if it were from Trudeau himself. Trudeau said, do what Gerald Butz says as if I

00:13:46.440 myself said it? That's incredible. That kind of blank check delegation, Stephen Harper would never

00:13:52.600 have said that about anyone. There's only one prime minister who has that authority, but Stephen

00:13:58.560 Harper would never have delegated that to his staff, or Trudeau did, because with Trudeau, it's just a

00:14:04.660 shortcut because Butz is micromanaging and making all the decisions anyways. And remember, Justin Trudeau

00:14:09.880 himself later confirmed this with the ethics commissioner when he was taking the bribe from the Aga Khan for

00:14:15.940 that secret $200,000 family vacation on Billionaire Island in the Bahamas. I don't actually think the

00:14:21.880 Aga Khan was trying to bribe Trudeau. I think it was sort of the other way around. Trudeau was trying

00:14:25.400 to get free stuff. Trudeau's excuse was that he couldn't have been lobbied or subject to corruption

00:14:31.100 or a bribe because Trudeau actually never knows what the substance of any details of anything are.

00:14:37.020 He's just there to shake hands and slap backs and build relationships. The real work is done by others,

00:14:42.000 as in Gerald Butz, as in Justin Trudeau said, I can't be guilty of a conflict of interest because

00:14:46.760 I go through life so clueless. He actually made that argument. You can read that yourself.

00:14:52.000 So back to Gerald Butz, the de facto PM, why did he resign again?

00:14:57.560 If he did nothing wrong and nobody did anything wrong, then why leave?

00:15:02.260 Why was Jody Wilson-Raybould fired as a justice minister and the attorney general if nothing was

00:15:07.420 wrong? Sorry, I don't believe that Scott Bryson line. And then why did she quit as veterans minister 1.00

00:15:12.220 if nothing was wrong? And why is she still consulting with a former Supreme Court justice as her lawyer

00:15:19.080 if nothing's wrong? Sounds like a lot's wrong. And why Gerald Butz himself? He was one of those

00:15:25.860 lobbied by SNC-Lavalin. Sorry, this resignation doesn't actually answer any questions. It asks

00:15:32.820 more questions. And like I say, the liberals will brazen anything out. They're not weak like

00:15:37.500 conservatives. They don't fire cabinet ministers for drinking $16 orange juices like Stephen Harper

00:15:43.260 did. Today, the news is that Harjeet Sajam, the defense minister who's the new veterans minister

00:15:48.400 to, he racked up $161,000 worth of personal photography. As in, that's how much tax dollars

00:15:59.420 he spent on having people take handsome pictures of him on the job as a politician. Our veterans

00:16:05.300 have to sue for benefits, but apparently the Department of Defense has all the money in the

00:16:09.120 world for selfie shots for that glory hound. Do you think Harjeet Sajam will quit over it

00:16:15.640 or be fired over it like Bev Oda at her $16 orange juice? That's $10,000 $16 orange juices

00:16:22.940 if you can. Of course not, because liberals never explain and never apologize. So why would

00:16:28.900 Gerald Butz quit? No apology, of course, no contrition, no taking responsibility, adamant

00:16:35.340 that he's as pure as the driven slush. Then why? Why did he quit? We know that Gerald Butz

00:16:41.540 is pretty much the opposite of clean when it comes to graft or grifting. As Vivian Krause

00:16:46.520 herself has documented, Gerald Butz literally stayed on the payroll of an anti-oil lobby firm

00:16:51.820 called the World Wildlife Fund even after he went to work for Trudeau. He got paid more

00:16:56.380 than a third of a million dollars U.S. As in, he was taking money from an anti-oil lobby

00:17:02.140 group and not disclosing it publicly while he went to work for Trudeau in Ottawa. That's

00:17:08.060 shocking. Imagine if someone was working for a party leader and being paid a third of a million

00:17:12.740 bucks on the side by an oil company and keeping it secret. Or even moving from Toronto to Ottawa

00:17:18.360 to officially become Trudeau's principal secretary. Gerald Butz billed taxpayers $127,000 just to move

00:17:27.260 down the highway. It's a four-hour drive. $127,000. And he hid that from the public and he covered it up

00:17:35.840 when people tried to find out through access to information. And then he attacked reporters who

00:17:39.600 reported it. And then he grudgingly repaid part of it. So he says. Do you see what I mean? He wasn't

00:17:45.560 clean. He wasn't above corruption. He was the ambassador of grift. He was the leader of entitlement

00:17:52.600 personally. He was the one who approved Trudeau putting not one but two personal family nannies

00:17:59.500 on the public dime. Who does that? Trudeau's a millionaire. Why can't he pay for his own nannies?

00:18:05.660 Gerald Butz approved the trip to Billionaire Island. And then he quarterbacked the legal defense.

00:18:10.720 It lost. Of course, Trudeau has been convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act again and

00:18:15.040 again and again with no consequence, of course. So if the prime minister's best friend since college,

00:18:21.000 his personal buddy, and his principal secretary, look at them with their sandals there.

00:18:26.180 If Gerald Butz was personally on the take in the ways I've just described, if he's cashing

00:18:33.260 checks from lobbyists, as the manner I've just described, if he's paying himself 127 grand

00:18:37.760 moving expenses, what did he have moved by Rolls-Royce or something? If he's approving Trudeau's

00:18:45.680 personal indulgences, he is the one who set the tone for corruption, set the standard for corruption,

00:18:51.720 showed the tolerance for corruption. Is it any surprise that SNC-Lavalin

00:18:55.300 that thought they could play with the Canadian government just like they played in Libya?

00:19:00.360 Oh, and the moral preening. I just have to read you one more excerpt from his self-serving letter.

00:19:04.880 Gerald Butz says,

00:19:05.660 I also need to say this, and I know it's a non sequitur, our kids and grandkids will judge us

00:19:10.540 on one issue above all others. That issue is climate change. I hope the response to it becomes the

00:19:15.300 collective, non-partisan, urgent effort that science clearly says is required. I hope that happens soon.

00:19:20.380 What? What? What? Well, you know he was a global warming lobbyist, right? You know he was paid to take that

00:19:29.440 position by the World Wildlife Fund. You know they kept paying him even when he went to Trudeau's office.

00:19:34.320 But what a bizarre thing to put in a resignation letter, except, number one, to switch the subject,

00:19:39.200 and number two, to show how moral he is. And sure, if maybe he broke a few eggs along the way,

00:19:44.880 well, you have to to make an omelet. Except, of course, the only thing his global warming crusade

00:19:49.780 has done is lay off Canadian workers. It hasn't changed the weather. It hasn't moved the dial on

00:19:55.300 Canada's global warming emissions, if that's what you care about. They're flat.

00:19:59.420 Donald Trump has reduced America's far more than Canada, and he's not even trying.

00:20:04.280 This is just more moral preening from Gerald Butts that excuses everything. Yeah, he's throwing a bone

00:20:11.320 to his lobbyist friends. Gerald Butts will do anything for his lobbyist friends. I mean, I've shown you

00:20:16.280 this document before. It's the U.S. Rockefeller Brothers Fund campaign against the oil sands. They call them

00:20:21.700 the tar sands. And you can see all the Canadian front groups that they were paying. You can see the

00:20:27.520 World Wildlife Fund in the top right corner. That was Gerald Butts' lobby group. And you can see Greenpeace

00:20:32.180 at the bottom. And you see the Sierra Club in the bottom right. And the Pembina Institute in the

00:20:36.660 bottom right. Butts placed all of his fellow lobbyists from these groups in high places in

00:20:42.860 Trudeau's government. He appointed Marlo Reynolds, the head of Pembina. That's the chief of staff to

00:20:48.300 the environment minister now. Butts appointed the head of the Sierra Club to be the chief of staff to

00:20:54.420 the minister of energy now. He appointed the former president of vice president of the Tides

00:21:01.680 Foundation to be deputy director of policy for the PMO. So he's all about placing lobbyists in high

00:21:09.620 office. They are his personal friends. They all took foreign money together, as you can see in that

00:21:15.300 document. Oh, and they were all being investigated together by the CRA, the Canada Revenue Agency,

00:21:20.360 for violating the Income Tax Act by laundering political donations through their charity numbers

00:21:25.380 for political work. And then one day, Gerald Butts simply ordered the Canada Revenue Agency to stop

00:21:30.720 their audits. Just order them. Just stop it. Hey, guys, just stop auditing my friends, he said.

00:21:35.960 And the CBC cheered this news, of course. And Gerald Butts later proposed to change the law,

00:21:40.780 of course. But his friends had all broken the law. They were being audited and found to have broken

00:21:46.380 the law. And the law, I mean, the Income Tax Act. But Gerald Butts simply told the CRA to back off.

00:21:51.560 And they did. And the media cheered. And that's your saint. That's your innocent as a lamb public

00:21:56.200 servant. Gerald Butts was corrupt. Oh, it was gross how many conservative insiders were on Twitter

00:22:03.180 praising Gerald Butts today for being such a hardworking public servant. We salute him.

00:22:10.000 But he wasn't a public servant. He was a very private servant, very highly paid political partisan.

00:22:15.400 who double-dipped as an anti-oil sands lobbyist even when he worked in Ottawa.

00:22:20.840 He was the chief corrupter of Ottawa personally, and for his friends, and for his allies.

00:22:28.000 But look at this from the newspaper today.

00:22:31.660 Along with Chief of Staff Katie Telford, Mr. Butts has been at Mr. Trudeau's side since he ran for the

00:22:37.520 Liberal leadership in 2013, and was a key architect of the party's election victory in 2015. The two top

00:22:43.900 aides had planned to take a leave of absence from the PMO this summer to run the October

00:22:50.840 election campaign. A senior government source said no decision had been made on a replacement

00:22:56.420 for Mr. Butts. The source did not know whether Mr. Butts would now play a formal role in the campaign.

00:23:01.360 Oh, so Gerald Butts was going to leave the PMO anyways in just, what, three months from now?

00:23:08.500 And he was going to run the campaign. He was going to quit anyways. And he still might?

00:23:13.940 So this resignation thing, it's not even real?

00:23:17.820 Everything with these people is a lie. They've changed their alibi a half dozen times about

00:23:25.240 Jody Wilson-Raybould. Now I hear that Wilson-Raybould met with the cabinet today,

00:23:29.560 but she still won't talk to the journalists outside. Who knows what they've said to her,

00:23:34.840 what they've offered to her. We probably won't ever know. The media's attention span here is

00:23:39.060 almost spent. I mean, take this just for an example. Here's just an example. Here's Bill Morneau,

00:23:45.380 the finance minister who was also convicted of violating our ethics codes. Here he was today

00:23:50.940 commenting on Gerald Butts. Well, what I can say is I have an enormous amount of respect for Jerry

00:23:56.380 Butts, and I know Jerry has an enormous amount of respect for Canadian institutions. My sense is

00:24:01.740 that he's decided, and I think appropriately, to defend himself against, you know, people saying

00:24:08.200 things that just aren't true. Well, hang on. Gerald Butts said he doesn't have anything to

00:24:15.260 defend himself about, that he did nothing wrong, but Bill Morneau said Butts quit to defend himself,

00:24:19.940 which is it. What did that mean? But hang on. Bill Morneau himself was personally lobbied by SNC

00:24:26.080 Lavalin just a few months ago with his chief of staff in the room, as you can see. He was personally

00:24:34.100 lobbied. And they meant more than once. Why didn't a single journalist ask Bill Morneau that? What did

00:24:42.000 Bill Morneau do after that lobbying meeting? Did he follow up with anyone? I mean, you can't blame a

00:24:49.020 guy for taking a meeting, but did he do anything? Did he follow up with the prime minister, with the

00:24:55.720 justice minister? Did he act? Did he run an errand for SNC-Lavalin? Zero curiosity from the media party.

00:25:02.860 We're almost done this whole story, aren't we? They're almost through this. The media is getting sleepy.

00:25:09.060 You're getting sleepy. Unless the RCMP does something, I think Stephen Harper probably

00:25:16.140 would have lost the last election, or at least lost a majority, whether or not that Mike Duffy

00:25:21.060 trial had happened. But the RCMP's showy trial against Mike Duffy, which resulted in an acquittal,

00:25:27.000 was enough to feed the media to destroy Harper and give Trudeau a majority. Harper's corrupt.

00:25:31.240 Harper's a scandal monk. No, he's not. Oh my God. The RCMP could investigate these fiascos,

00:25:37.100 and they might lay charges if SNC-Lavalin did what they normally do, which is to

00:25:41.960 bribe people and corrupt the system. If Trudeau's cronies act like they normally act, if Gerald

00:25:48.320 Butts took the same fond view of corruption as he usually does, but unless that happens,

00:25:53.660 unless the RCMP investigate and lay charges, and it might, but unless it does, I'm not sure

00:26:00.500 what else would have spooked Gerald Butts so badly, but unless that happens, this story's

00:26:05.940 done, folks. And if you think for a moment that Gerald Butts isn't going to continue to

00:26:10.920 run the whole liberal operation, both in the party and in government, I don't think you've

00:26:14.520 been paying attention to him or his cronies. Stay with us for more from Parliament Hill next.

00:26:21.080 Can you tell me, are you a white supremacist?

00:26:42.520 Oh, look at me. Do I look like a white supremacist? No. I am a Canadian, and that's how we roll.

00:26:52.600 All right.

00:26:53.120 In the United, we stand.

00:26:55.100 Thank you.

00:26:57.520 There you have it. That's our Kian Bexty, who has been riding on the United We Roll convoy

00:27:06.080 all the way from Alberta. Today, they reached Ottawa. Now, I see that the usual suspects on the

00:27:11.860 left are denouncing the convoy as racist or Nazi or whatever, which is just baffling. I think Kian

00:27:18.860 made a great point by going to that black supporter and saying, are you a white supremacist? Because 0.97

00:27:24.300 after all, that's what Bob Ray says, the disgraced former NDP Premier of Ontario. That's what

00:27:29.040 Maclean's Magazine says. That fellow there seemed to disagree. Well, joining us now live via Skype

00:27:36.080 from in front of Parliament Hill is Kian Bexty himself. Kian, great to see you, and welcome to

00:27:41.720 Ottawa.

00:27:43.120 Thank you. It's good to be here. It's a little cold, though.

00:27:46.220 Now, you have made the lengthy journey all the way from Red Deer. How long was it in terms

00:27:53.040 of days and hours, and do you know how many kilometres it was, too?

00:27:58.060 We left last Wednesday, I believe it was, and it was over 3,000 kilometres. I was checking

00:28:03.880 Google Maps every now and then. It was basically a several thousand-kilometre-long parade. It was

00:28:12.180 one of the most spectacular things I've ever witnessed. The support across the country for

00:28:16.320 this convoy was unbelievable. People lining up and down the streets to see this parade,

00:28:22.440 basically. It was great to see the supporters, but it was also great to see people who were neither

00:28:28.000 supportive or unsupportive of Alberta's oil sands and the West's oil and gas industry.

00:28:33.880 They just came out to see the message, and I think they heard it loud and clear.

00:28:37.800 Yeah, I mean, we were just playing some of your footage from along the way.

00:28:41.480 I saw some fireworks. Was that just coincidental, the fireworks, or was that actually in support

00:28:46.820 of the convoy?

00:28:48.280 It was absolutely in support of the convoy. I couldn't believe it. I was in the bus for the

00:28:52.200 first half of the trip, and in the second half of the trip, I was in what they called the rover

00:28:56.220 vehicle, which was leading the convoy by about four kilometres, scouting out what the road looked

00:29:01.020 like so that all the truckers could be aware and prepared, and also was picking up donations along

00:29:05.800 the way. And we got to, I can't remember what the name of the town was. It's on my Twitter.

00:29:11.280 And there was just a crowd of about 20 people standing there in the total dark, and they were

00:29:15.500 holding boxes of apple fritters, and we just pulled over. I said a few words to the crowd about how

00:29:21.340 important Alberta's oil and gas industry was to the west, and also to the east. And we took some

00:29:27.440 pictures, got back in our car, and got ready to go. And then all of a sudden, fireworks started

00:29:31.540 going off, and there was flares set off on the sides of the roads, lined along the snow ditches.

00:29:38.180 And then the convoy came through, and we got some video there. It was honestly one of the most

00:29:42.680 amazing moments of my life, actually, to see that happen. It was beautiful.

00:29:46.780 Well, that's incredible, and there's some mighty impressive trucks there. Now, you guys actually

00:29:51.180 arrived on Parliament Hill today, and then it got a little bit strange. I saw on your Twitter feed

00:29:58.340 the police cordoned off Parliament Hill, said you could only stand in the snow drift, but the hard-left,

00:30:06.580 violent, masked Antifa thugs had this well-protected, well-shoveled place to stand. We'll show a picture

00:30:15.660 from your Twitter. It was so weird, and I thought, since when is that a thing? And then I want to

00:30:23.020 show a clip. You were safe across the entire country. You went in small towns and big cities,

00:30:29.660 but on the most policed square mile in Canada, Parliament Hill, you were assaulted. You personally

00:30:35.800 were assaulted by Antifa, and police just sort of let it happen. Here, we'll play a clip of that right

00:30:41.340 now. Can you tell me, can you tell me why you're here? Hey, get that guy, get the police.

00:30:55.000 That guy just f***ing assaulted me. He just threw my phone on the ground and smacked my arm, and my

00:31:05.400 phone's busted. Um, Kian, what did police do? I mean, thankfully you weren't actually hurt. I think

00:31:11.360 you were more sort of startled, and maybe your phone is damaged, but, like, there were a lot of cops.

00:31:17.100 There's a lot of cops right there. They would have known the convoy was coming. I know the convoy

00:31:21.460 was in touch. Did the police do anything? There was about 40 police officers on the street right

00:31:27.720 there, right around me. There was heavy police presence, and right next to me, within four

00:31:33.680 meters of this happening, uh, there was a female police officer who was standing there. As you can

00:31:38.840 see in that video, I approached her immediately after, uh, and they stood there as this thug sunk

00:31:44.360 back into the crowd. Um, this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me. It's the

00:31:49.180 first time I've ever been up close and personal with these Antifa thugs. I was a little bit

00:31:53.300 unimpressed, but what I was really disappointed with was the inaction from the police officers.

00:31:58.940 I went and spoke to them afterwards and asked how I go with, go ahead with filing a report

00:32:03.140 to them, and they said, do it over the phone. I understand it's busy, but what's the point

00:32:07.700 of having this heavy police presence there if they're not willing to go into this middle of

00:32:12.440 this Antifa crowd and pluck that little juvenile delinquent out of it, who, who damaged my property 1.00

00:32:19.360 and punched my hand. It's a hundred dollars of damage, by the way, to replace my phone. It's

00:32:24.280 a little bit disappointing. Um, so, you know, the police did a good job keeping, uh, the party

00:32:31.240 separate after that happened. Actually, they kind of kicked into high gear after that. But when,

00:32:36.020 when that event went down, uh, there was just no action. I was kind of disappointed.

00:32:40.660 Well, we'll cover the cost to, to fix your phone. Um, and if folks want to chip into any of the

00:32:46.380 costs, including obviously you had to pay for your own hotels along the way and cell phone service

00:32:51.920 and meals. Um, the ride itself, uh, was provided by the convoy, but we covered those things. If folks

00:32:58.220 want to see all your footage and if they want to chip in, we'll, we'll obviously cover the damage

00:33:02.580 to your phone key and, uh, folks can go to rebelconvoy.com. Um, who met and spoke with the

00:33:10.560 convoy. I saw a few clips today. It looked like both the conservative party and Maxime Bernier's,

00:33:17.580 uh, in person attended. Did Andrew Scheer attend also?

00:33:23.360 Andrew Scheer was there. He gave, uh, I only caught the first section of his speech there.

00:33:28.400 It was, you know, they both did a good job. Maxime and Andrew Scheer, Maxime and Andrew Scheer,

00:33:32.940 both spoke to the crowd, talked about scrapping bill C48, uh, and 69 scrapping the carbon tax.

00:33:39.400 You know, they're sort of on the same team with that. They both rallied the crowd, but you could

00:33:42.960 see, you could actually see a line of division in the crowd. Um, some people were berating Maxime

00:33:47.740 Bernier saying that he's destroying the conservative movement, a bunch of, uh, well, that's their own

00:33:52.880 opinion, I suppose. Um, and then the other group was so happy to see Maxime, very excited. Uh, Andrew

00:33:59.700 Scheer, like I said, I wasn't there at the end of that speech to hear how people, how he was received,

00:34:04.080 but they both had a very similar message and the crowd, uh, was applauding and cheering all the way

00:34:10.080 through. Well, I'm glad, I'm glad both were there. Um, Maxime Bernier and Andrew Scheer, uh, to be

00:34:17.080 candid, Andrew Scheer in the past has turned his nose up a bit at grassroots events like this. And

00:34:21.960 in fact, Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan has been a big booster of this convoy. Jason Kenney,

00:34:28.280 uh, a little bit of a reluctant supporter. In fact, he, he made one tweet and then he chided,

00:34:34.100 uh, the, the convoy. I, I, I don't understand what's going on there, but it looked like a great

00:34:39.820 trip. Now, obviously those trucks have to drive back. I understand you'll be flying back from

00:34:44.620 Ottawa. Um, what happens next? It looked great. Um, you did some great coverage. There was a little

00:34:51.300 bit of mainstream media coverage. The CBC smeared it, of course. Um, what happens next for this movement?

00:34:58.280 Well, uh, the convoy is departing Ottawa, I believe tomorrow. Uh, there, there was initially

00:35:06.060 planned that this rally would be held twice. I haven't heard confirmation, uh, and it's going

00:35:10.300 to be held today. Well, it already was held today and tomorrow it will be held again. That was the

00:35:14.500 initial plan. I don't know if that's going to happen again. Uh, today was, but from what I talked

00:35:20.180 to the convoy leaders, uh, today was a success for them. I mean, it was a huge success. I don't know if

00:35:25.140 they need a repeat, uh, tomorrow. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I have to confirm

00:35:28.740 that. Uh, but after they leave, they're going to, they told me they were going to be traveling

00:35:32.640 back through every town that they came through originally, thanking them for thousands of

00:35:37.780 dollars of donations that they provided the, the apple fritters, the pizzas. Um, there was

00:35:42.580 one town that just set up an impromptu barbecue. It was donated by a construction company in

00:35:47.180 Sault St. Marie, uh, Sault St. Marie. Uh, so they're just going to go say thank you on

00:35:51.480 behalf of all of Alberta, on behalf of all the oil sands and oil sands employees. Um,

00:35:58.180 on, on behalf of the entire, all of Western Canada, really, they're going to go pay their

00:36:02.660 respects and say thanks. Yeah. Well, listen, we're so glad that you were on the trip, not

00:36:07.520 only for your journalism, but also representing the rebel because we of course support the

00:36:12.320 oil and gas industry. Uh, I think we helped light the fire on this issue even two years

00:36:17.900 ago when we had our big stop the carbon tax rally, um, at the Alberta legislature in December

00:36:23.540 of 2016. I think that's when the, uh, center of gravity in the conservative movement was

00:36:28.780 well, maybe we better go along with this carbon tax. Preston Manning was talking about a carbon

00:36:33.340 tax. Michael Chung, Patrick Brown, we're talking about carbon tax. So I feel like we have a little

00:36:39.020 bit of a role that we played here and you're continuing in that good tradition. So thanks very

00:36:43.660 much for that. Kian. No problem. It was a pleasure. All right. Well, and by the way,

00:36:47.840 I want to let our viewers know, and I told you this personally on the phone earlier, Kian,

00:36:51.800 if we can find the identity of that Antifa thug who assaulted you, we will sue him both in civil court

00:37:00.780 and we will press the police to press criminal charges against him because it's unacceptable. And I

00:37:07.200 think it's really gross how the left wing thinks that they can just punch conservative reporters,

00:37:13.020 conservative activists, just as a matter of course. And by the way, I think that,

00:37:16.960 that the political left has normalized that even Gerald Butts and, and these critics call implying

00:37:24.280 that the convoy was Nazi or whatever they said, they've basically given license to people to be

00:37:29.440 violent. If we find the identity of that thug who hits you, I promise you, we will hold them to

00:37:34.260 account. I appreciate that as it means a lot. I think we have some leads. I took a lot of footage

00:37:40.720 and there was cameras rolling everywhere. Uh, I saw a few Ottawa press gallery reporters taking

00:37:46.460 pictures of the exact location. I'm going to follow up with them. Uh, to be fair, I looked at

00:37:51.940 his Twitter and it's almost entirely, uh, in opposition to this convoy calling this convoy of

00:37:57.620 racist. So my, uh, I don't have high expectations, but there was a lot of convoy attendees that had

00:38:03.800 their cameras out. So we'll follow up with them. All right. Good luck. Thanks so much for taking the

00:38:08.160 time. That's Kian Bexty who joined us via Skype from a cell phone. As you can tell right there

00:38:13.840 on Parliament Hill, you can see the center block in the background. Well, I'm delighted that we

00:38:19.580 covered that and Kian gave up the last four or five days on that convoy. You can see all of his

00:38:24.740 reports at rebelconvoy.com. Stay with us more ahead on the rebel.

00:38:38.160 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about the CBC story that 9 million troll tweets

00:38:43.500 influence Canadians on politics. Karen writes, exclamation points. Yeah, that's exactly what

00:38:50.520 Gerald Butt said. Paul writes, it's the Canadian version of Russian collusion. These Trudeau

00:38:56.660 liberals are getting desperate. Yeah. Well, I, I followed up with the, one of the CBC reporters who

00:39:04.180 did that story. I was very surprised that he answered me and maybe I should do a follow up

00:39:08.380 video. He sent me every single name he tested for what the trolls engaged with. And the only

00:39:16.660 journalists he tested were on the right. The only scandals he word checked were ones that would suit

00:39:22.780 the narrative that Russians are trying to interfere. Like the whole thing was a setup. The whole thing

00:39:27.740 was a setup. I should probably go deep on the subject, but neither the CBC report nor the Twitter

00:39:33.680 data are accurate. Both are fake news spin. And Twitter still hasn't gotten back to me about why

00:39:39.160 they won't let me see my own data. I think they're liars. I'm sorry. On my interview with Joel

00:39:44.660 Pollack, Robert writes, I think Joel Pollack has the right take on the border wall. I tell you, if that

00:39:50.320 thing's not built, Trump's done. Not only is he done from his base that will be demoralized, but

00:39:54.420 obviously millions more illegal migrants will come in and they vote Democrat for all the free stuff. 0.99

00:39:59.960 On the resignation of Gerald Butts, Jan writes, I think Butts is taking the fall for JT. They need

00:40:06.260 to keep JT in there. Butts is on his speed dial. Yeah, don't think for a second that Gerald Butts

00:40:11.160 is going to retire now to, you know, the island of Elba or something. It's just not going to happen.

00:40:17.960 On the Venezuela videos, Marg writes, I was very interested in Venezuela, but I couldn't find any

00:40:22.640 meat in the videos the reporter presented. No background info, just fluff. If there was more

00:40:27.300 in-depth coverage, I didn't find it. And the two-minute clips didn't draw me to search for it.

00:40:32.600 Marg, I appreciate your criticism and I think there's some truth to it. The lady who was down 0.98

00:40:37.800 there, Annika Ernstein Rothstein, if I'm saying her name right, actually haven't had the pleasure to

00:40:42.920 meet her in person. I've interviewed her via Skype before. When I saw her down there, I contacted her

00:40:48.540 online and said, whoa, give us some vids. I think she was a little new at it. And I think she was

00:40:55.780 sort of figuring it out. And she didn't know go too long, go too short, go too deep or not. I think

00:41:00.680 it was just nice having someone there. And she certainly had the right attitude. But I do agree

00:41:04.880 with you. The videos was a little bit short. And hey, grounds for improvement. And maybe that's why

00:41:09.580 our people didn't really support that crowdfunding initiative. But I give Annika full marks for the

00:41:14.420 courage to go to Venezuela in the middle of what could be a civil war. I mean, it's one of the most

00:41:19.640 dangerous cities in the world, Caracas, even in peacetime. So I was really glad she went. I'm glad she did

00:41:24.540 videos for us. But I think you're right. I think the videos could have been a little meatier.

00:41:29.240 Speaking of which, this morning, our new British reporter, Janice Atkinson, had an exclusive

00:41:36.880 interview with Marine Le Pen of France. So we should have that up for you in a couple days. We just

00:41:42.680 got to make sure we get the translations correct. How's that for an exciting world story? Until next

00:41:47.440 time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep

00:41:51.280 fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - February 20, 2019

Don't be fooled： Gerald Butts is “going to keep running the Liberal operation”

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