Rebel News Podcast - Elections Canada fined me $3,000 for writing a book critical of Justin Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I got something in the mail yesterday I did not want to get.

00:00:03.780 I was convicted by Justin Trudeau's election commissioner of two offenses for publishing a book called The Libranos.

00:00:11.340 I'll read you the violation citations.

00:00:13.880 They actually get into how my cover makes Trudeau look like a soprano and how that's really mean.

00:00:22.020 They actually say that's one of the reasons.

00:00:25.300 I broke the law and they're fining me $3,000. You can't make this stuff up, people.

00:00:28.140 So, I'd love it if you saw the video version of this because I actually take you through the citation letter.

00:00:33.400 I show you their art critique. It's quite something.

00:00:37.940 The podcast is great because I think you can make sense of the whole thing, but the video is even better.

00:00:42.760 Just go to rebelnews.com and click on subscribe.

00:00:45.360 It's $8 a month, which is not that much.

00:00:48.180 And we live off that funds because we don't get any from Trudeau, I'll tell you that.

00:00:52.340 Okay, here's today's podcast.

00:00:58.140 You're listening to our latest podcast.

00:01:08.340 Tonight, I've been convicted by Justin Trudeau's elections commissioner for publishing an illegal book.

00:01:14.860 It's January 22nd and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:18.360 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:24.140 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:28.220 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:34.080 It's been an extremely busy week here.

00:01:41.440 We're doing so much legal work in our Fight the Fines project.

00:01:46.220 So much business work, small business work, helping entrepreneurs in our I Will Open campaign to boost shopkeepers who are at their wit's end and just want to open in the face of the lockdown.

00:01:57.600 So much going on, as you know, over the months we've hired new talent.

00:02:01.640 We just rolled out a new reporter, Lincoln Jay.

00:02:04.200 He had his first video yesterday.

00:02:05.680 It's pretty fun.

00:02:07.000 And in the middle of doing that journalism and public interest law and citizen activism,

00:02:12.740 we got hit last night with a conviction by the chief elections commissioner in Canada, Justin Trudeau's main interrogator, inspector, prosecutor for election crimes.

00:02:28.780 Of course, we didn't commit an election crime.

00:02:31.060 They're talking about my book, The Libranos.

00:02:33.680 And you might recall about a year ago, I was interrogated by Elections Canada about that book, and I was certain they had forgotten about it.

00:02:41.280 Well, they didn't forget about it, and I got the letter yesterday convicting me and fining me.

00:02:46.180 Now, I put together this video.

00:02:48.320 It's about 10 minutes long, and I put that out on YouTube today.

00:02:51.920 So I hope you don't mind me showing it to you tonight.

00:02:54.480 And also, I just think it's a very important thing that you need to know about, not just about our company, but about the state of free speech in Canada,

00:03:02.280 how election laws are being used to silence independent critics.

00:03:05.880 I just think this is an important video, and I want to show it to you now.

00:03:08.820 Now, stay there, because I'll come back on the other side of this prepared video with some additional thoughts.

00:03:13.700 So take a look at this.

00:03:17.680 Late yesterday, I received this envelope by Priority Mail.

00:03:21.320 It's from Justin Trudeau's elections commissioner.

00:03:23.580 In it was two letters.

00:03:25.920 I have been convicted of two counts of breaking the law, and I've been fined a whopping $3,000

00:03:32.420 specifically for comparing Justin Trudeau to Tony Soprano, and for publishing a book that compares them.

00:03:42.080 It's this book, which was the number one Amazon bestseller in Canada, The Libranos,

00:03:48.620 What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's Corruption.

00:03:51.560 They convicted me under sections 352 and 353 of the Elections Act.

00:03:57.640 Check this out from the conviction letters.

00:04:00.120 It's actually the largest part of their rationale.

00:04:03.360 I'm guilty, they say, because, quote,

00:04:05.660 The book's title reference to Libranos, which was clearly designed to create an association between the name of a registered party and The Sopranos,

00:04:15.380 a mafia-themed television show, and to link the party to corruption.

00:04:20.060 They also say the drawing on the cover is an illegal election activity.

00:04:27.140 It's based on the original poster for the TV show, The Sopranos.

00:04:30.440 They say that's illegal because it's too mean.

00:04:33.200 Quote,

00:04:33.400 The police say that's against the law, so I have to pay $3,000 in fines.

00:04:47.120 I know you find this hard to believe, so I've put a copy of the two letters online at SaveRebelNews.com.

00:04:54.980 Go there and read them for yourself.

00:04:57.460 Now, these convictions and fines came as a surprise to me because the trial was done in secret.

00:05:03.240 I was not invited to the trial.

00:05:04.960 I did not even know about it.

00:05:06.660 I was not allowed to send a lawyer to the trial because they didn't know about it either.

00:05:10.260 This is nuts.

00:05:11.660 I knew they were hunting me because they interrogated me a year ago,

00:05:16.020 but I really just assumed they had dropped the whole thing because it was so crazy.

00:05:20.960 Remember this?

00:05:21.860 Before the pandemic, last year I was summoned to Elections Canada, their headquarters,

00:05:27.780 and two 30-year veterans of the RCMP,

00:05:31.100 officers who used to work on terrorism cases and drug cases and money laundering, things like that.

00:05:37.840 They interrogated me for an hour.

00:05:40.480 Now, I knew it was a setup, so I wore a hidden camera,

00:05:44.400 and I turned the tables on them.

00:05:46.620 Remember this?

00:05:47.740 I've got a question for you.

00:05:48.700 I've answered a few of your questions now.

00:05:50.560 Have you investigated any of the other authors who published books about Trudeau at the exact same time as me?

00:05:57.520 Have you investigated John Iverson's book or Aaron Wary's book?

00:06:02.000 There's over 24 books that were published around that period.

00:06:04.740 You haven't answered my question.

00:06:05.720 Have you investigated John Iverson or Aaron Wary's books?

00:06:08.520 I haven't.

00:06:09.780 Have you?

00:06:10.420 I haven't.

00:06:10.860 Yeah.

00:06:11.200 Is anyone in your office investigating any other books about Justin Trudeau or just the book that's critical of him?

00:06:16.460 Today we're here about Rebel News Network Limited.

00:06:20.180 Oh, I know that.

00:06:21.400 And I'm just asking you to confirm that not a single other loving book of Trudeau is being investigated.

00:06:29.640 But once we're done, if you believe that there should be complaints that are...

00:06:32.660 No, because I'm not a censor like you.

00:06:34.660 I'm not a bully and a censor.

00:06:36.960 I'm not a bureaucrat looking to justify my budget like you.

00:06:40.560 I go out and earn my living every day, fella.

00:06:42.360 You call in authors to grill them about a book criticizing your boss.

00:06:50.860 Think about who you are.

00:06:52.340 We call the director of Rebel News Network Limited.

00:06:56.120 Yeah, who happens to be the author of the book.

00:06:58.420 I think there's going to be a chapter about you two fellas in the next edition.

00:07:01.960 I specifically asked the cops if I could see the complaint against me, and they said no.

00:07:12.740 Can I see the complaint against me?

00:07:16.620 The letter that you received?

00:07:18.300 No.

00:07:19.000 I presume that you're investigating me based on a complaint.

00:07:22.220 Well, this is still part of the investigation, so we'll have to, once the investigation's been completed, the Commissioner will have to make a decision.

00:07:31.740 At that point, she'll have to decide if that is releasing or not.

00:07:35.540 It's not something that usually is released, no.

00:07:37.660 So it's a secret complaint?

00:07:39.440 It's not a secret complaint.

00:07:40.640 It's just a complaint that's part of the investigation.

00:07:43.120 And to keep the integrity of the investigation right now, you'll understand that we can't share everything that we have.

00:07:50.340 Oh, I don't want everything that you have.

00:07:52.060 I just, if I'm here to meet a complaint, but you won't show me the complaint, how can I possibly meet the complaint?

00:08:00.860 How can I possibly respond to something that you won't show me?

00:08:06.580 Well, I think the letter was quite clear on what the infraction is alleged, and this is what we want to clarify with you.

00:08:15.040 Well, did you generate the complaint, or was it from an outside party?

00:08:18.980 No, we didn't generate the complaint.

00:08:20.900 Okay, so someone external to your office generated the complaint?

00:08:26.820 That is usually the case.

00:08:28.320 Is that the case in this case?

00:08:29.740 Yeah.

00:08:30.460 Yeah, we did not generate the complaint.

00:08:31.840 Okay, was it the Liberal Party that generated the complaint?

00:08:34.260 We can't go into that, sir.

00:08:35.680 So you won't tell me who the complaint is?

00:08:39.820 The complainant is, is that the secret?

00:08:41.420 Yeah, no, not at this point.

00:08:42.660 So at what point do you tell me who the secret complaint is?

00:08:45.380 The commissioner is the ultimate responsible person for the investigation and how this is decided.

00:08:53.940 So how do I know what I've, what conduct has been complained about if you won't tell me?

00:08:59.080 They told me that I should have registered my book with the government like they do in China.

00:09:05.000 The knowledge that you would have or not have of the election act, the Canada Elections Act, when you are planning the book and you, the new third party rules, because I believe there's some comments on your stuff as well about that.

00:09:21.260 Did you give any consideration of saying, maybe I should register as a third party for this circumstance, or maybe I shouldn't because of my interpretation of what I'm going to do, or did you not make that determination?

00:09:38.400 Tim, I appreciate the question.

00:09:39.980 Yeah, I absolutely did think about that at great length.

00:09:45.500 Do you want to share any of those thoughts?

00:09:49.020 Well, sure, some of them.

00:09:49.800 I mean, I thought the day I register with the government to write a book is the day we no longer are the true north strong and free.

00:10:04.280 And if Elections Canada's commissioners are stupid enough to prosecute me for writing, publishing, and promoting a book about an election during an election, then that's an important fight to have.

00:10:18.500 Because we need to roll back these pencil neck bureaucrats and their blackface boss. 1.00

00:10:24.760 And we need to remind them that we're still a free country.

00:10:28.040 So I thought about it long and hard, Tim.

00:10:30.080 So that was a year ago, and I hadn't heard from them in about a year.

00:10:35.240 I assumed that they had dropped the case after I published that hidden camera video showing what they had said to me behind closed doors.

00:10:41.880 But I guess not.

00:10:43.100 They were just moving at the speed of government really slow.

00:10:45.940 So, you know, this is all illegal, in case you were wondering.

00:10:49.920 The Elections Act itself says that books and the promotion of books, so ads, billboards, whatever, they're exempt from this creepy censorship.

00:11:00.640 Books don't count as election advertising.

00:11:03.040 Here's Section 2 of the Elections Act.

00:11:07.060 Election advertising does not include the distribution of a book or the promotion of the sale of a book for no less than its commercial value if the book was planned to be made available to the public regardless of whether there was to be an election.

00:11:22.460 So my book meets all those tests, and the promotion of it is exempt under the law.

00:11:28.540 And, of course, Section 2 of the Charter of Rights guarantees my freedom of speech in the press, too.

00:11:33.160 So this is just Trudeau attacking anyone who embarrasses him, and they're themselves breaking the law.

00:11:39.380 They're violating my rights.

00:11:42.000 I have to tell you, I'm not going to pay the $3,000 in fines.

00:11:45.240 I'm sorry.

00:11:46.220 I'm just not going to pay the $3,000.

00:11:48.700 I do not accept a punishment for writing a book criticizing Justin Trudeau.

00:11:55.040 There is not one factual error in the book.

00:11:57.700 It's not defamatory.

00:11:59.400 I know Trudeau hates it, but grow up, you pampered twit.

00:12:04.460 I'm going to appeal these convictions because, obviously, it's a political setup, and it's a sign of Trudeau's censorship plans to come.

00:12:11.240 Just last week, Trudeau's government told the Globe and Mail they intend to set up an entire new government bureaucracy in charge of censorship.

00:12:20.740 And, obviously, their first target is rebel news.

00:12:23.520 They really aren't hiding it anymore.

00:12:25.180 I'm going to appeal these illegal convictions, and I'm going to help other journalists, even though most other journalists these days are fine with censoring conservatives and are fine with cancel culture.

00:12:34.820 I'm going to challenge the constitutionality of this entire law so that no other author will ever be interrogated by police and convicted in a secret trial and fined $3,000 for criticizing a politician of any stripe.

00:12:50.780 That constitutional challenge is going to cost me a lot more than $3,000.

00:12:54.960 There's no way a constitutional challenge against the government will cost less than $100,000, but I'd rather spend $100,000 fighting for freedom than $3,000 paying off a bully like Trudeau.

00:13:09.500 If you can help me, please go to SaveRebelNews.com, read the conviction letters for yourself, and please chip in to our legal defense fund.

00:13:17.240 I hope we win, and if we lose, and we'll appeal, and if we lose again,

00:13:22.740 I have to tell you now, I simply will not pay.

00:13:26.540 I just will not pay.

00:13:28.400 The law does give Trudeau the power to seize our assets if I don't pay, to take our computers, or to raid our bank account, or even, I guess, take our books in satisfaction of their fine.

00:13:42.740 Do you doubt Trudeau would actually do that?

00:13:45.360 He'd probably want to take the camera I'm talking in right now.

00:13:48.940 I mean, what would Tony Soprano do to me?

00:13:51.160 Censorship isn't coming.

00:13:54.000 Censorship is already here.

00:13:56.500 We at Rebel News are the canary in the coal mine.

00:13:59.320 If we don't fight back now, you could be next.

00:14:04.120 Please go to SaveRebelNews.com to read the convictions and to help us crowdfund our legal appeal and constitutional challenge.

00:14:12.000 Thank you.

00:14:12.380 What do you think of that?

00:14:16.380 You can see the letters of conviction at SaveRebelNews.com.

00:14:21.220 They say that the Libranos itself is campaigning, and they point out that one of the many tools we used to promote the book was with lawn signs.

00:14:31.420 It's true.

00:14:31.900 But as I mentioned in that video, both books and the promotion of books are specifically exempted under this election law.

00:14:42.160 Probably whoever put that exemption in knew that Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedom exempts free speech anyways.

00:14:47.880 You can't ban books, ban newspapers in an election.

00:14:51.560 That's nuts.

00:14:52.880 But I guess if you are the one critic of Justin Trudeau who publishes books in an election, as opposed to the 23 Trudeau lovers, you're going to get the full brute force of the law.

00:15:02.300 You know, it reminds me of—my point is that came out of the blue yesterday.

00:15:06.500 I really thought they had dropped it.

00:15:08.060 They didn't let us know there was a hearing.

00:15:09.700 They didn't invite us to make our case.

00:15:11.200 It was really a star chamber.

00:15:13.060 It reminds me of what we went through in Alberta under Rachel Notley.

00:15:16.040 Can I read to you an email that I sent to a friend?

00:15:19.060 Because—and I won't say his name, but this is what I wrote to him, so it's fine.

00:15:26.240 2020 was a terrible year by many measures.

00:15:28.060 The pandemic wrecked a lot of things.

00:15:30.460 And I think some people think, well, at the end of the year, new year, new year's resolutions, new you, lots of—but no, no, 2021 is not going to be better.

00:15:39.120 I think it's going to be worse.

00:15:40.180 And this is what I wrote to my friend.

00:15:43.060 I said, I think 2021 will be worse than 2020.

00:15:47.260 Biden and the deep state have the White House on both sides of Congress.

00:15:51.520 Trudeau's worst instincts will be unleashed.

00:15:54.520 The Canadian and American parties on the right are in turmoil.

00:15:58.860 The media has never been more compromised.

00:16:02.180 Much of the population has been shocked into fear and obedience because of the pandemic.

00:16:07.460 There are too many financial interests that love the lockdown to let it go easily.

00:16:11.740 I think this is the year we must take a stand for freedom.

00:16:16.200 I don't even mention the censorship that Justin Trudeau is publicly committed to.

00:16:21.180 So I think in the days and weeks ahead, unfortunately, our own survival will become the news because we are the pointy edge of the spear for free speech in this country.

00:16:30.300 And we're the first people Trudeau is going to try and blunt.

00:16:32.700 I mentioned it was being such a busy week.

00:16:35.220 I didn't even tell you about a phone call I had with the Attorney General's office.

00:16:40.280 And I'll get more into that next week.

00:16:41.860 There's just too much to tell you about all at once.

00:16:44.460 I only have so many hours a day to tell stories, make videos, run the company and things like that.

00:16:50.580 But I truly believe that 2021 will be the watershed year.

00:16:55.120 As my old friend John O'Sullivan used to say, it's easier to fight in the first ditch than the last.

00:16:59.720 I think we're long past the first ditch.

00:17:02.260 We're not at the last ditch yet, but it is time to fight.

00:17:05.220 I hope you support us in the SaveRebelNews.com project.

00:17:08.940 We're going to have to do a constitutional challenge there. 0.74

00:17:11.340 And next week, I'll tell you more about this phone call I had with the Attorney General.

00:17:15.500 I fear that this is the first of a long series of censorship attacks against us.

00:17:21.080 Anyways, that's what I'm going to pass as my monologue for today.

00:17:24.740 Up next, I sit down with Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com to talk about what Joe Biden's are going to do.

00:17:41.880 Well, the transgender executive order was just one of a dozen high-profile and symbolic changes

00:17:51.020 that the new president, Joe Biden, passed on his very first day in office.

00:17:57.840 But I want to go deep on one of the themes of Joe Biden's first day.

00:18:03.020 Of course, you know he banned the Keystone XL pipeline, or at least said he would revoke the permit for it.

00:18:09.960 Whether or not that will actually take effect, I don't know.

00:18:12.360 I learned that TransCanada, or TC, has actually shut down construction on the pipeline, so they're taking it seriously.

00:18:20.140 But there's many other things there, including about fracking and drilling.

00:18:25.860 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Mark Morano, boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:18:30.680 Mark, how are you doing down there?

00:18:32.060 The golden age of Trump is over with a disappointing first day of Biden, isn't it?

00:18:39.100 Expected and disappointing first day of Biden.

00:18:41.180 And yes, the golden age of Trump is over.

00:18:42.820 Now it's, I mean, this is an assault that's going to well exceed anything President Obama did in eight years,

00:18:49.000 what the Biden-Harris administration is going to do.

00:18:51.220 We are in it, we are under it, and we are going to be crushed in America in terms of our energy and energy regulations.

00:19:00.540 You know, I just don't get it.

00:19:01.640 I mean, you and I have been talking about energy and the environment and pipelines and global warming for years,

00:19:07.800 and it was rather miraculous when last year, or just over a year ago,

00:19:12.720 the United States went from the world's largest importer of energy

00:19:16.840 to breaking even, the world's largest producer of energy,

00:19:20.880 and now it's actually a net exporter.

00:19:23.580 This was unthinkable just a decade ago.

00:19:26.240 I remember when I wrote my book, Ethical Oil, The Case for Canada's Oil Science,

00:19:29.920 the whole premise was, let's displace OPEC conflict oil imports.

00:19:34.840 Well, now, America, through fracking largely, but other things too, is so strong.

00:19:40.720 Why would Joe Biden want to kneecap, really, one of the two most important industries in America?

00:19:47.480 I would call tech the other important industry, but energy, fracking, pipelines, oil.

00:19:53.700 That is the backbone of the recovery.

00:19:56.620 Why would Biden want to undo that?

00:19:59.940 Well, two words, climate emergency.

00:20:02.480 But actually, let me take a moment there.

00:20:04.100 You said the import, the American exports for the first time over imports.

00:20:09.020 We are not only energy independent, we're energy dominant in the United States,

00:20:12.640 and Donald Trump helped accelerate that for the first time since Harry S. Truman was president in 1952.

00:20:18.860 That's what we're talking about when we're talking about how unprecedented this is.

00:20:23.300 1952 was the last time.

00:20:25.340 So Biden is literally going to come in and take this all away.

00:20:29.160 Now, keep in mind, President Trump's strategy was unique among Republicans.

00:20:34.360 This was a blue-collar, middle-class, rust-belt state strategy that was going to basically tell

00:20:40.900 the workers and the residents of these people, these states,

00:20:46.020 that they were not only going to get cheap, affordable energy,

00:20:48.340 but they were going to have expanded job opportunities, and America was going to be dominant.

00:20:52.000 And it actually came true.

00:20:53.540 Of course, COVID upended all that at the time.

00:20:56.200 But interestingly enough, Joe Biden looks at the legacy that Trump left on energy,

00:21:01.860 and he sees nothing but a horror show.

00:21:04.500 And his first and pretty much number one task domestically is going to be to just shut down

00:21:12.340 every accomplishment that we've achieved on energy independence over the last 10 years,

00:21:16.540 including what Obama couldn't shut down.

00:21:18.940 These were trends Obama couldn't even stifle, like the fracking revolution.

00:21:21.860 You know, I know who would be cheering for this, alternative sources of oil production.

00:21:29.940 So that would be mainly OPEC countries, because shutting down Keystone XL

00:21:33.840 cuts off almost a million barrels a day that would come from Canada,

00:21:37.700 which I regard as ethical oil.

00:21:39.580 Shutting down fracking, closing off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,

00:21:43.460 other things like that, would shut off American ethical oil. 0.57

00:21:47.460 So who's left?

00:21:48.660 Mexico is a declining producer.

00:21:50.320 So you got Venezuela, you got Iran, you've got, you know, 0.54

00:21:56.200 really a lot of the bad guys in the world are in OPEC.

00:21:59.100 Qatar, Russia's not in OPEC, but it's a major oil producer.

00:22:02.680 So is that a reason?

00:22:04.920 I know why they would be cheering.

00:22:06.340 They would be cheering because you're taking American and Canadian production off the table.

00:22:10.580 That means America's going to be buying more OPEC oil at higher prices

00:22:15.140 because there's going to be less production, you know, supply and demand.

00:22:17.940 So I get why the bad guys would cheer this.

00:22:21.540 But other than the insane ideologues, why would any American cheer this?

00:22:28.040 I mean, even if you don't like oil and gas, surely you got to see there's jobs and tax revenues

00:22:32.420 and balance of payments issues here, too.

00:22:34.540 It's a great question.

00:22:36.960 I mean, I think it's an ideological grip that they actually believe.

00:22:41.320 It's an arrogance, too.

00:22:44.240 They want to come in and transform everything.

00:22:46.940 And they believe they can be in charge and they can set it out on paper through bureaucracy.

00:22:51.780 We're going to have Biden, the Treasury Department, not lending to fossil fuel companies.

00:22:56.200 We're going to have the Education Department getting new grants.

00:22:58.420 Every agency is going to be involved with teachers so they can indoctrinate kids.

00:23:03.400 You're going to have Interior, EPA, State Department, Defense Department.

00:23:08.640 Every department now is going to be all in on Biden's strategy.

00:23:11.800 Now, interestingly enough, it's even worse than you laid out there, Ezra,

00:23:15.260 because if you look at people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they'll say, like,

00:23:19.240 most of the wars in America have been fought over energy supplies, over supplies for, you know, coal or oil.

00:23:25.440 And this is, you know, this is why we have to get off fossil fuels.

00:23:28.700 Well, that's that's theoretically a reason if you can't do it domestically.

00:23:32.760 We proved we could do it domestically.

00:23:34.480 As you said, ethical oil, we don't rely on conflict energy.

00:23:37.700 The other problem, and here's the shocker, which I think people don't realize,

00:23:42.200 is if we actually go more solar, wind and electric cars,

00:23:46.300 which is the way we're being mandated in the United States now, what does that mean?

00:23:50.200 We are swapping not only energy independence, but energy dominance for what?

00:23:54.800 For getting rid of plentiful energy for higher energy costs and for energy rationing and blackouts.

00:24:00.920 But the main thing is we are swapping it for mineral rare earth dependence on China and Russia

00:24:07.660 with companies operated in Africa that have human rights violations that make Amnesty International in horror.

00:24:14.140 So we are getting rid of our dominance and energy independence.

00:24:17.400 And we're swapping it for dependence on China and Russia for rare earth minerals and mining.

00:24:23.580 So it is just unbelievable.

00:24:25.120 And then here's the topper.

00:24:26.220 The cherry on the top of all that is John Kerry, the new climate envoy,

00:24:29.560 claims that climate change is a national security risk that will lead to more wars

00:24:33.080 as they're taking policies that will guarantee more endless wars in the Middle East and other places over conflict of energy

00:24:40.820 as we hamstring our own domestic energy and then rely on mining and other energy for the new mandates for solar, wind and electric cars.

00:24:48.740 Mind boggling.

00:24:49.640 Yeah, well, and it's not a small thing that the first president in memory to not start a new war

00:24:57.280 is the same president who brought domestic energy production to its highest height.

00:25:02.140 So it's just absurd to me that we would be shifting the balance of power back to OPEC and Russia, crushing American jobs.

00:25:12.040 And by the way, Trump did not go to war for oil.

00:25:15.760 He actually was a bit of a peacenik, but not in a surrenderist way.

00:25:21.440 All the peace deals he negotiated in the Middle East, neither America nor Israel gave up anything to the bad guys. 0.65

00:25:27.120 It was peace for peace, which was a genuine warm peace.

00:25:31.460 I'm worried that that's over, too.

00:25:33.100 Now, let me ask you, we know about the Democrat hate for fracking.

00:25:38.640 That's well established.

00:25:40.100 They don't like drilling.

00:25:40.920 We've talked about that.

00:25:43.780 We talked about the Global Warming Convention in the United Nations and how Biden's sending America back into that.

00:25:51.260 But what about what exactly is the Green New Deal?

00:25:56.040 Is that just a phrase that encompasses all of this?

00:25:59.440 Is there something specific?

00:26:01.080 Because I know that both AOC and the squad are strong for Green New Deal.

00:26:06.760 So is Bernie Sanders.

00:26:07.760 Biden gave it his own nickname, but it's the same sort of thing.

00:26:11.900 What does it mean?

00:26:13.480 Well, and that's a great question.

00:26:14.860 It means whatever you want it to mean.

00:26:16.140 I mean, the original Green New Deal was from Senator Markey and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interviews in the House.

00:26:23.800 And that was a laughingstock, you know, talking about farting cows and getting rid of airplanes and taking high-speed rail instead.

00:26:31.840 And then they tried to sanitize that a little bit.

00:26:34.700 But the Green New Deal at its core is a Marxist ideology dressed up in green on America.

00:26:41.560 And it's a central planning aspect of every aspect of our lives from gender to race to economics to status to development to transportation to home building to the kind of car you drive to what we eat, food, agriculture, mandated diets to transportation.

00:27:00.380 Just on down the line.

00:27:03.220 It's a complete—it's what the U.N. has paid lip service to with their treaties, you know, complete transformation of every aspect of our lives.

00:27:09.860 Well, the Green New Deal actually lays out that transformation.

00:27:13.520 And that's—it's an amazing thing to read because it's a blueprint for bureaucrats to plan every aspect of your life.

00:27:20.140 Now, what does that sound like, Ezra?

00:27:22.780 Sounds awfully like the COVID lockdowns.

00:27:25.680 And that's why I mentioned John Kerry.

00:27:27.500 He's actually said there is no difference.

00:27:30.480 The parallels between COVID and climate are striking.

00:27:33.340 And he is all in on the Great Reset.

00:27:35.640 So they are going to use—the Green New Deal, basically, is an extended lockdown with those kind of restrictions on our life as they transform us. 0.94

00:27:44.220 And, you know, it's going to happen rapidly with our transportation and particularly even our diets now.

00:27:49.660 They are going to go after meat-eating, and they've been—had that in the targets for years.

00:27:53.500 But the Green New Deal gives them carte blanche to renew society in a bureaucratic way that's an old Soviet system dream. 0.91

00:28:00.920 Wow.

00:28:01.340 You know what?

00:28:01.860 And you keep seeing these super gross little videos and fake news stories about you can eat bugs.

00:28:08.260 Look at these bugs.

00:28:09.280 And I keep gagging and retching and think, who is saying this?

00:28:13.420 But, frankly, it's the World Economic Forum is one of the people saying that.

00:28:17.140 Those are the same Great Reset people.

00:28:18.820 Well, that's that Davos get-together for all these lefty billionaires.

00:28:23.580 Super gross.

00:28:24.620 Last question to you.

00:28:26.260 I am—I have the lowest expectations imaginable.

00:28:30.500 I feel like everything has been lost.

00:28:32.540 The presidency has been lost, both houses of Congress.

00:28:34.960 I'm worried that the Supreme Court will be packed.

00:28:36.740 I'm worried about everything.

00:28:38.420 But, you know, where there's life, there's hope.

00:28:42.380 And there is another set of elections in two years for Congress and for part of the U.S. Senate.

00:28:49.180 And in the meantime, there are some Democrats in red states who might say, well, you know, I don't want to shut down fracking in my state.

00:28:58.440 You know, you even have Senator Manchin in West Virginia.

00:29:03.280 That's a real coal state.

00:29:05.020 You have—you know, Pennsylvania has really done well by fracking for natural gas.

00:29:08.560 Is there a chance that some of these more extreme and idealistic utopian plans will be scuppered by any more pragmatic elements in the Democratic Congress?

00:29:22.820 Or are there no such elements of any size?

00:29:26.220 Well, I mean, yes, absolutely.

00:29:27.900 The number one person who you're referring to would be Senator Manchin of West Virginia.

00:29:31.800 He's already—he actually campaigned with a shotgun in his ad shooting the old cap-and-train bill from 2009, back when President Obama was president.

00:29:42.080 So that's how he was elected in West Virginia.

00:29:44.240 However, there's enough turncoat Republicans, if you will, from Lisa Murkowski to Mitt Romney to Susan Collins, that it's just possible.

00:29:52.440 All they have to do—keep in mind, this is where I find the naivete of people in Washington and people who should know better.

00:29:59.240 They were like, well, we're just going to pass this little bit right now.

00:30:02.720 It's not that bad, and we're forbidding this.

00:30:04.280 Whether you're talking seatbelt laws or two weeks to flatten the curve or the income tax, you can look through American history.

00:30:11.700 What I think they're likely to do is, for the reasons you outlined, it's very possible people like Senator Manchin could stop a more radical version.

00:30:18.940 They're going to get it through a lighter version, and it's going to have the support probably of Mitt Romney and a few other key Republicans.

00:30:25.460 And what's going to happen is, they're going to lay the framework.

00:30:29.240 And once it's in, then the bureaucrats go to work, and then the judges fail to prevent it.

00:30:34.040 Just think how many judges have failed to prevent lockdown restrictions, how many judges failed to look at the voter fraud allegations.

00:30:40.560 The judges are failing us.

00:30:42.160 Our Constitution is failing us.

00:30:43.480 So I expect them to get something in on the Green New Deal, and then it's going to grow bureaucratically on its own, which is how every other progressive policy has passed.

00:30:53.220 I don't expect them to pass the most radical bill and the most extreme version of this bill on the first go-around, but they won't need to.

00:31:00.200 They just need to get the camel's nose in, and it's going to be much more than the camel's nose, but this is going to go forward, and they're going to go nuts on this.

00:31:06.840 And it's going to be like Obamacare.

00:31:08.240 You're going to have Republicans.

00:31:08.900 I will repeal the Green New Deal. 0.86

00:31:10.480 And I want to curse right now, but I won't.

00:31:12.300 But bull blank, because once this passes, it's in, and we're going to have to deal with it.

00:31:17.660 Wow.

00:31:17.880 Well, it's been four wonderful years under Trump.

00:31:21.180 I miss him already.

00:31:22.300 I miss his mischievous sense of humor.

00:31:24.380 I miss his tell-it-like-it-is bluntness.

00:31:27.740 The style that turned people off, I really found it refreshing.

00:31:32.020 But over time, while his personality quirks will fade into the mists of time, his policies will, you know, the wisdom of his policies and the success of his policies will remain.

00:31:45.940 I truly believe that America will come to miss Donald Trump very much as the true nature of the Democrats reveals itself.

00:31:53.140 Mark, I'm so glad you're down there fighting hard every day.

00:31:56.720 Well, thank you, Ezra.

00:31:57.660 Just one note on Donald Trump.

00:31:59.300 I've always – my only critique of him, I think is fantastic, is he didn't change the narrative and a few other key things.

00:32:04.940 He should have submitted the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate where it would have failed much harder to get us back in.

00:32:10.000 He should have done a National Climate Commission to change the narrative.

00:32:12.600 He should have placed a whole bunch of scientists in it, NOAA and NASA.

00:32:16.620 He didn't.

00:32:17.360 So he did a lot – he fell short on a lot of things that would have been much longer impact.

00:32:22.560 Instead, within a year or two, a lot of his legacy could be crushed by this progressive radicals that have taken over.

00:32:29.480 Right.

00:32:29.820 There's a very interesting point about the Kyoto Protocol.

00:32:31.840 It was never ratified as a treaty which is required under the U.S. Constitution.

00:32:35.940 But what judge is going to turn it?

00:32:39.020 You know, the conservatives on our Supreme Court will recuse themselves.

00:32:42.260 I don't stock in oil and gas, therefore I recuse myself.

00:32:45.440 We have Judge Alito doing that now.

00:32:47.340 The Supreme Court's not going to help us.

00:32:49.140 Republicans are not going to help us.

00:32:51.040 We're on our own.

00:32:51.840 That's what I'm trying to tell you.

00:32:52.800 That's my cherry kisses today.

00:32:54.640 Well, I look forward to keeping in touch with you in the months ahead.

00:32:58.120 You're always on top of the news better than anyone when it comes to this issue.

00:33:01.540 Great to see you again, my friend.

00:33:02.840 Thank you, Ezra.

00:33:03.460 All right, there you have it, Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com.

00:33:06.580 You've got to go to that website.

00:33:08.460 It is seriously a one-stop shop for anything about global warming, climate, carbon taxes, and the like.

00:33:14.980 And there's technical information there, but I find the site very readable, very user-friendly.

00:33:21.560 Stay with us.

00:33:22.260 More ahead.

00:33:33.460 Hey, welcome back.

00:33:35.680 Your letters to me.

00:33:36.700 Sometimes we have love letters.

00:33:37.700 Sometimes we have hate letters.

00:33:39.360 I'm not sure which one this falls into.

00:33:40.720 Don writes, I just dropped in to see how many more answers still on the site.

00:33:45.420 Talking to people that I actually thought Donald Trump was good and makes my skin crawl.

00:33:50.160 And you can't come here and lie either.

00:33:52.480 If any of you want the truth, fact check it through Snopes.

00:33:55.840 Biden has done nothing to sports wake up.

00:33:58.640 Oh, the sports thing.

00:34:00.800 You're referring about the Biden transgender rule.

00:34:04.160 Hey, I'll give Don credit.

00:34:07.080 She has some grammatical challenges, but at least she wants to engage in some debate or banter or even just insults. 0.94

00:34:15.160 I'm not quite sure what, but at least she's still in the I will engage with my opponent's phase of the leftist's trajectory.

00:34:22.940 Soon it's, I don't want to debate you.

00:34:25.980 Then it's, I don't want to hear you.

00:34:28.520 And then it's, no one should be able to hear you.

00:34:31.600 And then it's, you shouldn't be able to talk.

00:34:34.360 That's how cancel culture goes. 1.00

00:34:35.900 So she's still in the first step, and I like that about her.

00:34:40.260 Bruce writes,

00:34:41.940 Worse than ruining women's sports is the perverts claiming to be women infiltrating women-only places like showers and changing rooms. 0.99

00:34:48.620 Yeah, of course, not all transgender people are like that.

00:34:51.040 But many predators see that calling themselves transgender gets them in all sorts of places they couldn't get before.

00:34:58.200 Right now in Canada, it's been this way for several years.

00:35:01.180 If you simply declare yourself to be transgender, you can be a male convicted of a crime, but serve you a term in a women's prison with other women. 0.99

00:35:11.700 David writes,

00:35:12.740 I've been looking forward to this book by Patrick for over a year.

00:35:15.440 I bought my copy on Monday.

00:35:16.920 I've only had time to read the foreword so far, but I hope to get to it soon.

00:35:19.700 You're talking about Patrick Moore's new book.

00:35:22.640 You know, he's such a clear communicator.

00:35:24.200 I really like him, and I'm looking forward to finally being able to have that speech in Regina, Saskatchewan, to which we sold over 1,600 tickets.

00:35:33.120 That's our story for now, our show for today and for this week.

00:35:37.980 We'll probably have some news over the weekend, you know, because I think there's going to be some anti-lockdown protests.

00:35:43.040 Keep checking back on the site.

00:35:44.220 I'll be back on Monday.

00:35:45.640 Until then, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:48.960 We'll probably have some time.

00:35:51.960 I'll see you next time.

00:35:57.380 Bye-bye.

00:35:59.680 Bye.

00:36:00.900 Bye.

00:36:02.340 Bye.

00:36:02.540 Bye.

00:36:04.780 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 23, 2021

Elections Canada fined me $3,000 for writing a book critical of Justin Trudeau

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