Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ An off-duty cop criticizes Trudeau, so the CBC knows what to do to him

00:00:00.000 Tonight, an off-duty cop criticizes Trudeau, so the CBC knows what to do to him.

00:00:05.680 It's January 12th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:08.560 You're fighting for freedom!

00:00:11.400 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.95

00:00:23.220 Black Lives Matter is a U.S. corporation. 0.96

00:00:26.820 It's also a slogan.

00:00:28.340 It's a powerful and manipulative phrase.

00:00:31.640 What?

00:00:32.120 You don't think Black Lives Matter? 0.89

00:00:34.320 You're a racist for disagreeing with the tactics of a corporation by that same name.

00:00:39.340 But at the end of the day, Black Lives Matter is actually, it's a business. 0.97

00:00:43.940 And wow, what a business.

00:00:45.860 They made $90 million in a single year.

00:00:49.660 Isn't that incredible?

00:00:51.500 Oh, and their executives are accused of siphoning off millions of that for their personal use.

00:00:57.660 So, it's a little bit embarrassing.

00:01:00.360 They went on a real estate buying binge with the money, too.

00:01:03.400 I mean, if you ask questions about that, though, obviously you don't think Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:01:08.540 So, just shut up, you racist. 0.99

00:01:10.860 How dare you say buying a $6 million house isn't a charitable purpose that helps African Americans? 0.99

00:01:17.700 By the way, you'll note that the sources I was using there were liberals like the New York Times and National Public Radio and CNN.

00:01:25.420 That's where those headlines were from, at least in three cases.

00:01:28.000 So, it's not just a corporation.

00:01:30.040 It's a United States corporation.

00:01:32.040 And even if you take it on its own terms, even if you are willfully blind to its financial corruption, you must acknowledge that it is an American phenomenon.

00:01:40.940 It's not a Canadian thing.

00:01:42.140 We actually didn't have slavery up here.

00:01:45.640 We were where Black slaves ran away, too, to be free.

00:01:49.160 We were where the Underground Railroad ended.

00:01:52.040 When Canada banned the slave trade, it was so long ago, Canada wasn't even established as its own country yet.

00:01:57.960 We were a British colony.

00:01:59.200 There actually weren't really any Black people in the country in any numbers.

00:02:03.460 A census at the time showed there were a grand total of 16, one six, 16 Black people in all of Toronto.

00:02:09.920 There were some slaves in Canada, and I don't mean to be politically incorrect about it, but when slavery was banned in Canada, most slaves and most slaveholders were indigenous people.

00:02:22.840 It was a holdover from pre-colonial times.

00:02:25.280 Across the Americas, Indian tribes practiced slavery as a form of warfare and as a form of commerce.

00:02:32.420 I'm just telling you this because the Black Lives Matter narrative of slavery and reparations and Jim Crow laws, that's all a U.S. thing. 0.96

00:02:41.880 They tried to make it a Canadian franchise, but other than the stupidest or most manipulative people in the country, no one actually believes it's a Canadian story. 0.93

00:02:51.840 We're a story of harmony, actually. 1.00

00:02:53.300 Now, when I say stupid or manipulative people, obviously, I mean people like Justin Trudeau, the whitest of the white, the most privileged of the privileged politicians in Canada. 1.00

00:03:03.340 But like recognizes like. 1.00

00:03:05.700 He can spot a great grift when he sees it.

00:03:09.320 So, of course, he went out during the lockdowns, during the six feet of separation hysteria.

00:03:14.700 And, of course, he broke all the public health rules to take a knee to show everyone how woke he was.

00:03:21.280 And, of course, the only people worse than Trudeau are the ones who violate their oaths and violate their professional obligations to please him and obey him, by which I mean, of course, every police force in Canada.

00:03:33.060 The most incompetent and most corrupt RCMP commissioner in history, Brenda Luckey, seen here hugging Trudeau when he was under ethics investigations. 0.97

00:03:42.520 Brenda Luckey was hired precisely because she was corrupt and incompetent. 1.00

00:03:47.900 She's the opposite of Jody Wilson-Raybould, the most ethical and principled justice minister in memory, who refused to go along with Trudeau's attempt to scuttle a criminal prosecution of his bribe-paying friends at SNC-Lavalin.

00:04:00.120 Remember, Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired by Trudeau as justice minister because she wouldn't allow him to corrupt a trial.

00:04:06.680 Brenda Luckey remains RCMP commissioner and will continue to be in that position forever, precisely because she will literally let Trudeau do anything and everything.

00:04:18.820 It is her utter moral void that makes her so valuable to Trudeau.

00:04:22.660 It's a feature, not a bug.

00:04:25.280 Of course, it wasn't just the RCMP.

00:04:28.500 Police across Canada took a knee.

00:04:31.340 And, again, what does that mean?

00:04:32.320 That's not a Canadian thing.

00:04:33.640 It doesn't even make sense up here.

00:04:34.800 That was a thing started by professional athletes in the United States.

00:04:39.660 There was something they did in silent protest when, before their NBA or NFL games, the start of the game, they would play the anthem.

00:04:48.360 And taking a knee was a silent rejection of the anthem, a kind of, I don't know, anti-patriotic, anti-Americanism to be done when the anthem was played or sung.

00:04:59.620 It doesn't even make sense just to do it on the street in Canada.

00:05:04.280 What does that mean?

00:05:06.300 But, again, for Trudeau, what even does it mean for the prime minister himself to take a knee?

00:05:10.440 Who is he protesting against?

00:05:11.820 Himself?

00:05:12.580 Whose government is he protesting?

00:05:14.200 His own?

00:05:15.060 What exactly is he saying unjust?

00:05:17.280 It's just so incoherent.

00:05:18.580 It's so perfectly Trudeau, isn't it?

00:05:20.580 And what are the cops doing?

00:05:23.140 Are they protesting against themselves?

00:05:24.900 Were they protesting against the killing of a U.S. man named George Floyd in Minnesota?

00:05:33.480 Is that what they were saying in Canada?

00:05:35.340 They were protesting against American police or were they protesting against their own police force here in Canada?

00:05:42.260 Who knows?

00:05:42.920 Did they know?

00:05:44.200 It was all for show.

00:05:45.040 And it was all to market this amazing corporation called Black Lives Matter, 90 million bucks. 0.98

00:05:51.600 But my point, which has taken me quite a while, is that Canadian police engaged in political protests in a very partisan way, not to mention in a very stupid way, in a very commercial way. 0.97

00:06:01.040 But it was woke. 0.99

00:06:02.920 It was woke.

00:06:03.700 So that's fine.

00:06:05.640 There's not a country in the West where the police don't have a major display of pride-themed police cars or pride marches, too, which is odd because some of the biggest pride parades in the West literally ban police from attending.

00:06:20.440 It's sort of become an annual thing in Canada, hasn't it?

00:06:23.860 Here's Vancouver.

00:06:25.500 Vancouver Pride apologizes for not banning police from its parade sooner.

00:06:29.680 Sorry, everybody.

00:06:30.540 We should have been more anti-police.

00:06:32.440 Sorry it took us so long.

00:06:33.820 Can you believe that headline?

00:06:35.600 Here's another one from the CBC.

00:06:36.940 This is in Toronto.

00:06:39.060 Cops were banned from the gay pride parade.

00:06:41.520 Here's from Calgary, too.

00:06:43.680 Same in Calgary.

00:06:45.700 But that doesn't stop the police from loving them anyways.

00:06:50.400 And my point is that the police are very political, aren't they?

00:06:52.840 It's official all the way up to the chiefs.

00:06:55.200 Black Lives Matter, pride parades, whatever.

00:06:57.100 Police are doing political things in their uniforms.

00:07:01.320 We've talked before about Sir Robert Peel, the father of modern policing, and the reason why British cops are still called Bobbies.

00:07:09.620 Robert Peel came up with nine rules of policing back in 1829.

00:07:13.960 I'll read the first part of rule five to you.

00:07:17.480 The police seek and preserve public favor, not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to the law in complete independence of policy and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws.

00:07:35.020 Isn't that interesting?

00:07:36.540 It's in the police are neutral.

00:07:38.020 They don't express an opinion.

00:07:40.480 They just enforce the law.

00:07:42.860 That's why people can trust them. 0.70

00:07:44.400 By the way, it's critically important that black people and gay people trust police.

00:07:47.920 It's extremely important that they do.

00:07:49.540 And the police are absolutely neutral in their conduct towards black people and gay people and everyone else, of course.

00:07:56.140 But as I've shown you, Black Lives Matter, the corporation is a political organization and a massive money-making franchise.

00:08:04.620 It's tantamount to a political party.

00:08:06.640 Same thing with those pride parades. 0.79

00:08:10.000 They're not just simply gatherings of gay people.

00:08:12.700 They are political clubs, lobby groups, political battering rams, often used against the police themselves.

00:08:18.160 Of course, I don't have a problem with police interacting with black people, gay people, people of every background, and police officers themselves being recruited from every group.

00:08:27.060 That makes sense.

00:08:27.680 That's the point of Robert Peel's laws.

00:08:29.820 It shouldn't matter the race or religion of either the police or the citizens because police ought to be completely neutral no matter what.

00:08:37.000 But by participating in overtly partisan politics like Black Lives Matter and like these pride lobby groups, the police are obviously taking political sides.

00:08:48.720 Which brings me at long last to the news of the day.

00:08:51.640 It is about a police officer who made a political statement.

00:08:55.560 But it was different from the political statements I've talked to you about so far today.

00:09:00.700 The first and most important thing, I think, is that the cop involved was not wearing his uniform.

00:09:06.160 He was not on duty.

00:09:07.800 He was not at work.

00:09:08.860 He wasn't doing anything with the authority or in the name of the government or the police.

00:09:12.840 He wasn't breaking rule number five because he was at home making a social media post in his own name.

00:09:19.380 Actually, not even his own name.

00:09:20.640 The second thing, of course, and this is much more important, is that the cop involved here was not woke.

00:09:28.400 He was the opposite of woke, which I'm calling awake.

00:09:32.140 In fact, he was criticizing Justin Trudeau.

00:09:34.320 I know it's shocking.

00:09:35.240 I'm literally shaking.

00:09:36.660 I need to go to my safe space.

00:09:38.300 I've been triggered.

00:09:38.840 Someone made fun of Dear Leader.

00:09:40.760 Someone mocked the precious.

00:09:42.200 Here's how the government journalist at the CBC state broadcaster reported this crisis, this scandal.

00:09:50.960 BC Mountie's anti-Trudeau website raises concerns about discriminatory views within the RCMP.

00:09:57.540 Right there.

00:09:58.600 That's gorgeous already, isn't it?

00:10:00.820 They call him a BC Mountie, and he is.

00:10:03.800 But his comments were not made in that capacity.

00:10:06.720 But the headline leads you to think that they were.

00:10:09.080 They call the website anti-Trudeau, which is accurate.

00:10:13.220 But then they call that discriminatory.

00:10:16.000 Because you see, if you disagree with Trudeau and his policies, you are obviously a bigoted extremist.

00:10:21.320 I mean, just ask Trudeau himself.

00:10:22.480 I'll get into the story in a moment.

00:10:43.360 But who wrote this?

00:10:45.600 Was it that CBC conspiracy theorist?

00:10:48.760 You know the one.

00:10:49.400 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask.

00:10:59.220 But there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:11:10.640 No, not her.

00:11:11.240 It was a left-wing activist named Brady Strachan who spends his time heckling conservatives on Twitter, just in case you didn't know.

00:11:19.180 He was already a government journalist for the CBC.

00:11:21.180 He proves it every day.

00:11:22.160 Here he is on Jordan Peterson.

00:11:24.000 Peterson said,

00:11:24.680 And Brady knows his job is to defend Trudeau, especially against Jordan Peterson.

00:11:38.500 So he wrote right back,

00:11:40.220 I thought you were stopping Twitter and giving the phone to your staff so you wouldn't say misleading things.

00:11:45.320 What happened to that?

00:11:48.480 Here's another one.

00:11:50.320 What was Trump's election slogan again?

00:11:52.100 Make America a great dictatorship again?

00:11:54.680 Seriously, this is the guy mad that someone else has an anti-Trudeau website.

00:12:01.400 I saw this story on Strachan's Twitter feed.

00:12:05.860 Drunk men screaming, 0.96

00:12:07.800 Trump! 1.00

00:12:08.940 Attack young Muslim women on New York subway, cops say. 0.98

00:12:13.160 And did that really happen?

00:12:15.660 Or is that one of those Jussie Smollett things?

00:12:17.520 You know that black actor walking in Chicago late at night near his subway sandwiches?

00:12:21.820 Who said some Trump guys jump out of the dark and say,

00:12:26.420 This is MAGA country!

00:12:27.540 And they just happened to be carrying a noose at 3 a.m. in Chicago.

00:12:31.100 And they put it around his neck.

00:12:32.640 And he bravely fought them off.

00:12:34.900 Without ever dropping his subway sandwich.

00:12:38.460 And for some reason he left the noose around his neck until the police came.

00:12:41.580 Was it that kind of story?

00:12:44.560 You know, an obvious hoax that any journalist could see through in a second?

00:12:48.280 Why, yes, it was an obvious hoax.

00:12:50.920 Here's the truth of it.

00:12:52.860 Muslim college student made up Trump supporter subway attack story to avoid punishment for missing curfew.

00:12:59.280 So there goes Brady Strachan, Trudeau's journalist, spreading anti-Trump misinformation and hoaxes.

00:13:06.680 And that's fine.

00:13:07.680 Maybe he's not that smart to see through the scams.

00:13:10.120 But now that the scammer confessed, why hasn't Strachan tweeted an update or taken down the lie?

00:13:16.640 Well, because he's not really a journalist.

00:13:18.060 He's a Trudeau propagandist anyway.

00:13:19.700 Just a briefing on who he is.

00:13:22.140 Let's read the story now.

00:13:23.320 Or part of it.

00:13:24.200 It's a massive story.

00:13:25.440 It's a full-on character assassination piece.

00:13:28.020 I won't read it all.

00:13:29.320 But here's the headline again.

00:13:31.180 BC Meowty's anti-Trudeau website raises concerns about discriminatory views within the RCMP.

00:13:36.860 Police officers' satirical website pokes fun at Prime Minister LGBTQ plus issues and immigration policy.

00:13:43.740 Well, we can't have anyone poking fun at things, can we?

00:13:48.300 And then they have a picture which looks like it's poking fun.

00:13:52.560 That's the worst.

00:13:54.040 Here's the caption they put on the picture.

00:13:55.480 The RCMP are investigating after a police officer in Trail, BC launched a satirical political website called The Church of Trudeau, mocking the prime minister and funding of indigenous and LGBTQ plus communities.

00:14:08.680 And then they have the website churchoftrudeau.org, which sounds funny, you got to admit.

00:14:14.780 But if you go to churchoftrudeau.org, which I did, you can see that it's being taken down.

00:14:18.960 Another great free speech moment brought to you by Trudeau's enforcers.

00:14:24.760 But there's something called the Wayback Machine or the Internet Archive.

00:14:29.640 It takes snapshots of every page on the Internet and then archives them.

00:14:32.660 And here's what the site looked like before it was nuked, according to the web archive.

00:14:38.020 Liberal gospel and teachings for living your best socialist life.

00:14:43.720 The high prophet of the Church of Trudeau, Father B, shares with you his teachings on how to live your best socialist life in Canada through embracing left-wing liberal ideologies and best practices.

00:14:55.360 And it goes on like that.

00:14:56.680 It's not rude, actually.

00:14:58.600 I couldn't find any of those F Trudeau things. 0.97

00:15:01.800 It's a light satire, I think.

00:15:06.080 I mean, maybe he means it.

00:15:07.420 Brenda Luckey would say all of those same things with a straight face. 0.99

00:15:10.760 I mean, has the CBC ever thought of that, that this guy, like them, really does worship at the Church of Trudeau?

00:15:17.140 They think he's mocking them, but really, how could you tell?

00:15:21.820 So here's the story that they write.

00:15:23.680 A B.C. Mounties anti-Trudeau website is causing waves in a small West Kootenai community and raising concerns about political bias among the ranks of the RCMP.

00:15:34.700 The Church of Trudeau website was online last November and early December and featured theatrical performances by a man dressed up as multiple characters in what appears to be a satirical political commentary about the prime minister and what the site referred to as left-wing liberal ideologies.

00:15:49.720 But was it really making waves or did some left-wing loser send this to the CBC for them to stoke this up into a name and shame cancel culture moment to remind people not to dare challenge the precious one?

00:16:03.420 I mean, I know how hard it is to build up a following online.

00:16:06.520 Did this guy really go viral in the West Kootenai?

00:16:10.400 I don't believe it.

00:16:11.740 I believe the CBC concocted this whole story to please their master and to show how obedient they are.

00:16:18.300 And I bet Brady Strachan is going to get a promotion out of it, just like that Putin trucker gal got a promotion. 0.97

00:16:26.420 CBC News has confirmed the identity of the man in photos and videos on the website as Trail BC RCMP officer Brent Lord through a source familiar with the website and its contents.

00:16:37.780 That's great investigative journalism.

00:16:39.120 Very important to investigate this cop instead of say Trudeau's corruption.

00:16:42.580 CBC knows where the hot stories are.

00:16:45.240 RCMP says it's aware of the site and the matter is under review.

00:16:48.300 Real question, who asked the RCMP to put it under review?

00:16:54.100 I bet you a dollar the CBC did.

00:16:56.680 That's how they do journalism.

00:16:57.960 They're actually activists.

00:16:59.000 You saw Brady Strachan's activist.

00:17:01.360 I bet he complained.

00:17:02.920 And, you know, they typically complain and they write a story about their own complaints, but they style it as a wave of concern.

00:17:10.700 Let me keep reading.

00:17:11.180 In one of four videos CBC News has obtained, Lord plays the role of a character he calls Father B and professes to be the high prophet of the Church of Trudeau.

00:17:19.960 As he explains what the website is about, stating, our religion teaches the importance of socialism, of canceling everyone that offends anyone, of being woke and highly emotional.

00:17:28.300 Yeah, I think he nailed it. 0.96

00:17:30.480 And I think the CBC is too stupid to realize they are actually doing exactly what he said they would do, trying to cancel him. 0.98

00:17:38.660 The thing is, though, they're late. 0.96

00:17:39.920 The website was taken down late last year.

00:17:42.200 The CBC just wants to make sure this cop gets punished, fired, whatever.

00:17:45.700 But most of all, that he's used as an example.

00:17:48.680 You can go to a pride parade in uniform.

00:17:50.440 You can go to a Black Lives Matter rally in uniform.

00:17:54.020 You can take a knee in uniform.

00:17:55.720 But you'd bloody well better not criticize Trudeau, even gently, even in civilian clothes, even on your own time from your own home, or you will be smeared and destroyed by Trudeau's war room.

00:18:07.220 By the way, there's nothing racist or bigoted about the comments that I could find.

00:18:10.960 He's just poking fun at Trudeau.

00:18:12.340 Here, take a look at one clip from the CBC.

00:18:14.020 Hello and welcome to another episode of The Church of Trudeau.

00:18:18.720 If you haven't noticed, I'm excited because I want to share with you some information that was released not too long ago.

00:18:25.620 The Liberal government plans on bringing one, here, wait a second, wait a second, 1.5 million new immigrants to Canada over the next three years.

00:18:37.920 That means we potentially could have 1.5 million new liberals.

00:18:47.800 I'm so excited.

00:18:50.700 Our church needs the support.

00:18:52.520 The Liberal government needs the support.

00:18:55.240 Justin Trudeau needs and deserves, he deserves the support.

00:18:59.960 This is amazing.

00:19:01.340 It is our hope, the Church of Trudeau, we believe that all of the immigrants that come over will recognize that the one true political party in Canada to vote for is the Liberal government, obviously. 0.99

00:19:14.800 Yeah, we'd better kill them off, eh? 0.95

00:19:16.380 I don't really like cops being political, but I'm talking about cops running political errands as cops, like being the mask police or a health inspector, something they're not trained for, something they weren't hired to do, something they were atrocious at doing. 0.99

00:19:31.400 The police murdered their own reputations during the lockdowns.

00:19:34.660 They're gross when they go to Black Lives Matter rallies, an American fundraising scam that is politically irrelevant up here. 0.99

00:19:40.100 And the fact that the police are banned from Pride Parade shows how political those parades are. 0.95

00:19:47.440 So don't kid yourself.

00:19:48.660 Cops in Canada are political.

00:19:50.840 I mean, a fish rots from the head down, and no one is more political than Brenda Lucky. 1.00

00:19:55.800 But if you make a joke in your private life about Justin Trudeau, get ready to be destroyed.

00:20:03.920 Stay with us for more.

00:20:10.100 Stay with us for more.

00:20:40.100 More than 40% of Germany's energy comes from Russia.

00:20:43.600 And the Baltics, it's closer to 100%.

00:20:46.760 Russia has Europe hostage for its energy. 0.84

00:20:51.720 And not only does that make them politically vulnerable to Russia, but it is a source of hard currency that goes into Putin's war machine.

00:20:59.240 Trudeau has given billions of dollars to Ukraine and has spoken very harshly about Russia.

00:21:05.900 But he will not allow Canadian ethical energy to displace Russian conflict energy.

00:21:14.060 And in fact, when various European leaders asked Canada to export energy, especially in the form of natural gas through liquefied natural gas, LNG, Trudeau said, no, I'll give you some hydrogen.

00:21:29.220 I'll help you with an energy transition to green energy.

00:21:32.880 And by the way, there's no business case for Canadians to sell LNG.

00:21:37.560 Of course, they went ahead and did a deal with Qatar, an OPEC dictatorship. 0.91

00:21:42.880 Well, now comes Japan looking for the same relief.

00:21:46.940 And what will Trudeau say to the Japanese?

00:21:51.580 Joining us now from the capital city of Alberta, the oil and gas capital of the country, is our friend, Lorne Gunter, senior columnist with the Amity Sun.

00:21:59.880 Lorne, great to see you again.

00:22:00.840 How are you doing?

00:22:01.860 I'm doing well.

00:22:02.560 And you?

00:22:02.780 I'm fine.

00:22:04.260 You know, the crazy thing about the world energy industry is that you actually can never do away with conflict oil.

00:22:12.820 You can't do away with Iranian oil or Russian oil or gas.

00:22:17.580 Because even if you buy from a different source, the world demand is such that those other suppliers have to stay online.

00:22:26.240 But at least in terms of no one shutting off the taps for you, at least in terms of you know that your dollars are going to the good guys, not the bad guys.

00:22:35.220 I think it is morally and security wise and economically a better thing for the world to buy from Canada than from a military authoritarian regime.

00:22:46.060 Maybe I'm saying the obvious.

00:22:48.140 Well, you are saying the obvious, but it's not obvious to the people who need to be hearing it.

00:22:52.700 Includes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:22:54.340 And it's not just an economic or national security argument that can be made for this.

00:22:59.800 Our natural gas is cleaner than, for instance, other countries' natural gas and particularly China's coal.

00:23:07.500 So if we could export our natural gas to China or to India, India uses a lot of coal in power generation as well.

00:23:15.500 If we could displace some of that coal in their power grid with natural gas from Western Canada, then we would be improving the world's environment as well.

00:23:27.600 And I'm not, you know, I am not a big believer in the climate change hysteria.

00:23:32.920 I don't think that the climate is changing outrageously differently than it always has.

00:23:39.080 I don't think human beings are behind it.

00:23:41.560 But if you accept that that's the case, if you are going to buy into the global warming theory, then buying natural gas from democracies where they value the environment and they work hard to reduce the number of emissions created when they pump the gas out of the ground, then it's an environmental argument.

00:24:03.560 I mean, for instance, Norwegian, the Norwegians, we're going to get them shoved in our faces for the next five or six years because they are well ahead of us in going into electrical vehicles, EVs. 1.00

00:24:17.360 It's so much so that the Norwegian government, Norway is very long and narrow, and there are long stretches, hundreds of kilometers where there's very little population.

00:24:26.980 And the Norwegian government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars putting rapid charging stations in the middle of nowhere so that you can drive from the south end of Norway to the north end of Norway in your electric vehicle, and there are always convenient charging stations.

00:24:41.960 We're going to be told we need to do that too.

00:24:44.660 Ottawa has said it's going to build about 85,000 rapid charging stations at taxpayers' expense to fuel its EV mania.

00:24:57.420 Probably the best way to describe it is a mania.

00:24:59.880 And where am I going with EVs?

00:25:02.140 How do you think the Norwegians are paying for this?

00:25:04.900 They're pumping oil and gas out of the North Sea.

00:25:07.420 And when they sell that abroad, they say, well, our oil and gas is cleaner than the oil and gas that you can get from Venezuela or from Saudi Arabia or from any of the dictatorships that have gas and oil.

00:25:22.180 So therefore, we get credit.

00:25:23.940 We give ourselves credit for having sold oil and gas to these countries.

00:25:28.780 And we say we're helping the world's environment.

00:25:31.100 The Trudeau government are such cultists that they simply cannot allow themselves to do that.

00:25:38.960 It's wrong to sell any kind of fossil fuel.

00:25:42.060 It's terrible that we should be using carbon-based fuel of any sort.

00:25:46.620 We shouldn't be selling it to anyone.

00:25:48.400 It should be kept in the ground.

00:25:49.840 My goodness, we're just destroying the planet.

00:25:52.360 And that's the kind of hysteria that we're dealing with.

00:25:55.900 Well, let's talk about those two things.

00:25:57.940 Tell me what the deal is with Japan.

00:25:59.380 So what's the forum?

00:26:01.280 What's the request?

00:26:02.940 And give me a little more detail on the Japan ask.

00:26:06.740 Because Japan are the good guys.

00:26:08.340 They're our friends.

00:26:09.200 They're our allies.

00:26:10.480 Give us some background there.

00:26:13.500 I mean, they're our friends and our allies the way the Germans were after the war.

00:26:16.980 Well, I mean, yeah, 75 years ago, they certainly weren't.

00:26:20.500 But I think they're...

00:26:21.700 We're good with them now.

00:26:22.920 Yeah.

00:26:23.340 They're chums.

00:26:23.920 They're chums.

00:26:24.500 They're pals.

00:26:24.860 But the thing with Japan is you'll notice that recently, too, within the last couple

00:26:31.760 of weeks, they signed a new defense pact with the Americans and with the Brits.

00:26:36.660 It was very surprising that they went...

00:26:38.920 Americans, they've always had defense pact with.

00:26:40.760 But they have a new one now with the Brits, too.

00:26:42.460 Because they're looking at China, and they're saying China is going to be a growing threat.

00:26:48.420 It's a big threat now, but it's going to get worse over the next couple of decades.

00:26:52.860 And so we need to be able to be self-contained.

00:26:57.100 We're bringing back manufacturing that might have gone to China.

00:26:59.760 We're signing these new defense pact.

00:27:02.080 And we want to be energy self-sufficient, at least from the Chinese. 0.99

00:27:07.560 Like, they're not going to be self-sufficient with the resources they have in Japan.

00:27:11.080 But they can be no longer dependent on China in any way that way.

00:27:15.720 And so they want natural gas from France.

00:27:19.400 And the Prime Minister of Japan has come to Canada, here's a little aside, using two

00:27:26.920 large jets so that the bad guys don't know which one he's flying in.

00:27:32.320 But putting out all those emissions.

00:27:34.000 Anyway, he's come to Canada, looking the way that the Chancellor of Germany had come before

00:27:40.360 the end of last year, looking for us to sell them liquefied natural gas.

00:27:44.960 We've got a lot of it.

00:27:46.100 If we would just build a few more terminals, it's good.

00:27:49.300 It's clean.

00:27:49.880 It's easy to get out of the ground.

00:27:51.340 We have lots of it.

00:27:52.880 But I can't see that the Trudeau government is going to say to Japan, yes, we'll sign a

00:27:57.560 deal on LNG with you, when they wouldn't sign one with Germany.

00:28:00.720 And because Germany is really under the screws of Putin and the Russians, and we still wouldn't 0.75

00:28:08.660 even bail them up.

00:28:09.620 That's how bad we are as friends.

00:28:11.900 You came here looking, I'm sure, for commitments from Canada for more LNG export.

00:28:17.460 I know it is central to the expansion of your economy.

00:28:19.700 I'm wondering, Prime Minister Trudeau, what commitments you made to the Japanese in regards

00:28:25.060 to that, and whether or not you're looking at easing regulatory hurdles, so a project

00:28:29.180 like the Phase II expansion of LNG Canada can get approved and start shipping natural gas.

00:28:36.520 Obviously, we talked a lot about how Canada can be a reliable supplier, not just of energy,

00:28:42.100 but of critical minerals, of commodities and resources, including agricultural resources,

00:28:49.980 that the world is going to need as we move towards a net-zero economy around the world.

00:28:56.960 We're very excited about the LNG Canada project, which was the largest private investment in Canada,

00:29:03.420 a project led by Shell on the West Coast, in which a Japanese company, Mitsubishi, is a significant

00:29:10.800 partner, because we know that being a reliable supplier of energy is important.

00:29:16.880 And we're going to continue to look for ways to be that reliable supplier of energy.

00:29:22.260 But even as we do talk about things like LNG and other traditional sources of energy,

00:29:28.100 energy, we know the world is moving aggressively and meaningfully towards decarbonizing, towards

00:29:36.500 diversifying, towards more renewables.

00:29:38.620 And that's where the agreements that we've already seen develop between Japanese and Canadian

00:29:45.140 companies on hydrogen, on ammonia, on various new technologies are really exciting.

00:29:52.080 As I mentioned, there's going to be a number of Japanese CEOs coming to Canada

00:29:58.060 in the coming months from the Battery Association, an industry association around batteries in

00:30:04.200 Japan, very interested in becoming part of our battery supply chain, which was recently

00:30:09.740 recognized as the second most important in the world.

00:30:13.000 We're also going to be going to Japan with a trade mission in the fall that will continue

00:30:18.120 to deepen those things.

00:30:19.080 So there's a lot of conversations we've had, and Canada is going to continue to make sure

00:30:23.720 we're doing what creates good jobs in Canada and more sustainable, reliable futures for people

00:30:31.160 You know, I remember when I wrote a book, I wrote Ethical Law, and then I wrote a sequel

00:30:35.580 called Groundswell about fracking.

00:30:37.980 And I'm not going to go so far as to do to Trudeau what he said to the truckers.

00:30:43.860 He, the state broadcaster, claimed that the truckers were being organized by Vladimir Putin.

00:30:48.160 I don't know if you ever saw that clip.

00:30:49.440 You know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't

00:30:58.060 know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing

00:31:04.860 to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:31:11.180 I'm not going to say that Trudeau is in Putin's pocket, because I don't believe that.

00:31:14.940 But what would he be doing any differently if he were?

00:31:19.900 If the Germans and the Japanese said, please send us your ethical energy, send us your LNG, 1.00

00:31:28.080 send us your clean energy from Canada to displace, in Germany's case, Russian imports, and in Japan's 1.00

00:31:35.640 case, Chinese, Qatari, Saudi, Iranian imports, if Trudeau was a Putin agent, which he's not,

00:31:46.420 he would be doing nothing any differently, saying, no, we're not going to be competitors to OPEC

00:31:52.500 and Russia.

00:31:53.660 I find it staggering, and I'm embarrassed that Eastern Canada is fine with that.

00:31:58.520 Well, I would call Trudeau what Vladimir Lenin used to call people who helped out the communist

00:32:06.680 cause without really realizing it. 1.00

00:32:08.740 He used to call them useful idiots. 1.00

00:32:11.220 And I think Justin Trudeau is simply a useful idiot. 1.00

00:32:13.780 I don't think he's very bright. 1.00

00:32:15.280 I think he's caught up with sort of sophomore workshop class mentality about fashions on environment

00:32:23.980 and reconciliation and social programs and government spending.

00:32:29.080 And he's prepared to do whatever the Twitter level of intelligence is on any of that.

00:32:36.860 And that's not very deep.

00:32:38.980 And so, yeah, he's not that clever on energy.

00:32:42.200 He doesn't want to be seen as coming to Germany's rescue.

00:32:47.240 I think he really doesn't want to be seen as coming to Japan's rescue, because while

00:32:52.040 he may not be in Putin's pocket, he is still too cozy with the Chinese communists. 1.00

00:32:58.540 Like, he's still, like, I don't say he's in their pocket either, but he's a useful idiot. 0.99

00:33:03.020 He's somebody who does things that helps their regime stay in power without really understanding 1.00

00:33:08.540 that that's what he's doing.

00:33:09.840 And he doesn't want to upset, he still doesn't want to upset China.

00:33:13.080 Well, and he did say, unprompted, when he was running for liberal leader, China was the

00:33:19.380 country he most admires.

00:33:20.380 And he expanded on that, saying, because of its basic dictatorship, they can move quickly

00:33:24.940 on environmentalism.

00:33:26.280 That's actually the extended version of that quote.

00:33:29.380 A level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing

00:33:39.800 them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast 0.99

00:33:44.720 as we need to start, you know, investing in solar.

00:33:47.660 I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about, of having a

00:33:51.560 dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting.

00:33:57.080 Trudeau's rivals pounced on that.

00:33:59.180 Let me ask you one last thing, because Trudeau has talked about leaving it in the ground,

00:34:03.460 phasing out the energy sector.

00:34:05.280 And they're using the phrase, just transition, as in, we'll shut down these six-figure jobs

00:34:12.460 and we'll, you know, find something in coding or whatever.

00:34:16.140 We'll take, you know, 45-year-old guys who have been working in the oil patch for 20 years

00:34:21.000 and we'll just come up with a $100,000 job, I don't know, installing solar panels or something.

00:34:27.260 Danielle Smith is really digging in on this, and I think it looks good on her.

00:34:30.800 And I think it's what an Alberta premier needs to do, battle auto.

00:34:34.480 I wish Jason Kenney did it more, and I think it's doing really good for her.

00:34:39.120 It's proving implicitly the need for a sovereignty act to stand up for Trudeau.

00:34:43.120 But it's not just talking in the abstract.

00:34:45.020 People know.

00:34:46.220 And Rachel Notley, I think, is missing out.

00:34:48.180 She has not challenged the just transition.

00:34:51.600 I hate that phrase.

00:34:52.360 I hate using it, because it's a pack of lies.

00:34:54.700 It is an unjust transition.

00:34:56.920 You're destroying prosperity for a slogan.

00:35:00.240 But tell me how that whole just transition debate is going down in Alberta.

00:35:05.060 Well, not well.

00:35:07.520 There are an awful lot of people who probably were not impressed with Smith before the just transition came out,

00:35:14.240 who were worried that her sovereignty act was over the top,

00:35:17.220 who thought that she wasn't being serious enough in governing,

00:35:21.500 that she was focusing too much on anti-vaxxers.

00:35:24.240 And I'm not talking about people with political agendas.

00:35:28.420 I'm just talking about ordinary voters who are a little bit squiffy about it,

00:35:32.160 who I think this is just a gift for her from Trudeau,

00:35:35.940 that you're not going to get Rachel Notley standing up to Trudeau on a just transition.

00:35:42.360 A, because they were way too cozy when she was premier.

00:35:46.580 They were together a lot, talking about the environment.

00:35:52.240 They had some very similar policies.

00:35:54.840 There's lots and lots and lots of video and still photos of the two of them together,

00:36:01.360 Notley and Trudeau, smiling, laughing, shaking hands.

00:36:04.800 If I were the UCP campaign office, I would simply run an ad with pictures of Notley and Trudeau

00:36:09.780 over and over and over again.

00:36:12.000 Because the number one bumper sticker in Alberta is F Trudeau.

00:36:17.000 You can go on a highway, one in five vehicle has a bumper sticker or a decal, it says.

00:36:22.480 And my column tomorrow in the Alberta Suns, Edmonton and Calgary,

00:36:28.300 is about the fact that Notley herself had a just transition.

00:36:32.940 When they decided in 2016 that they were going to close the six remaining coal-fired power plants in Alberta,

00:36:39.300 they came up with money and a plan endorsed by the Alberta Federation of Labor

00:36:45.860 to transition coal workers out of the coal business and into other businesses.

00:36:52.760 Well, the number one grant that they gave away was relocation benefits.

00:36:58.280 They paid people to move away.

00:36:59.980 Well, how does that help in the transition from coal to non-coal

00:37:04.380 for all the communities that they're based on?

00:37:06.440 And then they had tuition grants, early retirement grants.

00:37:11.640 If you were within three years of retirement, they'd pay you to leave early.

00:37:15.300 And it didn't work.

00:37:17.060 The biggest thing out of their just transition on coal was unemployment.

00:37:21.760 And then the closing of small businesses in coal towns.

00:37:24.840 And then the depopulation of the coal town.

00:37:26.920 And I think she's been silent on just transition because she doesn't want people remembering

00:37:32.880 that she did exactly the same thing.

00:37:35.320 And if she were still the premier, I think she'd be on board with Trudeau talking up just transition.

00:37:40.260 Oh, yes.

00:37:40.920 We'll negotiate with Ottawa to get a fair deal for Alberta's oil workers.

00:37:45.120 We're going to be thrown out of business.

00:37:46.180 Well, how many times have you, in dealing with the patch, come across a welder who made $150,000 a year

00:37:54.980 because worked long hours, worked extra hard, and could get that kind of money in pipelines

00:38:01.900 or in refineries or in doing the work on service of rigs in the field?

00:38:08.660 You cannot find those jobs in green energy.

00:38:13.180 And the other thing about green energy jobs is oil and gas jobs, the best-paying jobs,

00:38:19.160 are closest to where the resources extract.

00:38:22.700 In green energy, the best-paying jobs are closest to where the energy is consumed.

00:38:27.920 And where is the energy going to be consumed disproportionately?

00:38:31.260 Ontario and Quebec, which happen to be two areas which vote heavily liberal. 0.89

00:38:35.500 So it is ridiculous. 0.78

00:38:38.460 And I think Smith has done herself a great favor. 0.89

00:38:41.220 She said the other day and got into a little bit of trouble that she wasn't going to invoke

00:38:44.920 her Sovereignty Act.

00:38:46.760 But there isn't a federal act to invoke it against.

00:38:50.360 I think she's done very well by saying the right thing.

00:38:54.120 She was much harder on Trudeau than Jason Kenney.

00:38:57.060 Unfortunately, Jason Kenney was never that harsh with Trudeau.

00:39:00.180 So Smith has been firm.

00:39:02.040 She has been in favor of Alberta.

00:39:03.820 She has defended the oil and gas industry.

00:39:06.800 And I think when the time comes, if she needs to, she'll bring in aspects of the Sovereignty

00:39:13.080 Act.

00:39:13.620 I've always maintained you really probably didn't need the Sovereignty Act.

00:39:16.820 There's lots of constitutional room that Alberta hasn't used for years that we could start

00:39:21.320 taking up space within the Constitution.

00:39:26.280 But nonetheless, I think she's done herself a great service.

00:39:29.460 And I think she's done well for the week and a half now that just transition has been around.

00:39:36.180 Well, that's good to hear.

00:39:37.220 You know, I remember Stalinist or communist art, which has a certain style to it.

00:39:45.860 And, you know, it's that revolutionary propaganda style.

00:39:50.740 But there was something common.

00:39:52.680 Yeah, that's right.

00:39:53.580 And a star and a sun and angular.

00:39:56.200 But there was a theme usually, which is the glory of labor.

00:40:03.160 Yes.

00:40:03.400 You know, the communists were not against factories.

00:40:07.820 They were not against coal, steel, ships, industry.

00:40:11.740 They just believed that the workers should control the means of production.

00:40:15.440 That's communism, is that the proletariat owns the factory. 0.69

00:40:18.820 They don't just work there.

00:40:19.640 But the new socialists don't believe in the factory.

00:40:23.720 They want to shut down the factory.

00:40:25.320 They want to shut down the coal.

00:40:27.020 They want to transition away from work.

00:40:29.320 That's not labor. 0.99

00:40:30.400 I mean, I think of the old Tory slogan in the UK, labor isn't working.

00:40:35.280 You know, I think a true socialist of 50 years ago would look at Rachel Notley and say,

00:40:39.800 you're shutting down the coal plant?

00:40:41.940 Are you Margaret Thatcher?

00:40:43.680 You know, shutting down the coal.

00:40:45.360 You're shutting down oil and gas, this heavy industry, all these men with tools.

00:40:50.980 You're shutting that down.

00:40:51.900 Who do you represent?

00:40:52.820 You're not labor.

00:40:53.780 You're something, but you're not labor.

00:40:55.360 No, that's right.

00:40:56.080 They have become the party.

00:40:58.340 NDP, provincially and federally, and the liberals, certainly federally, have become the party of the public sector.

00:41:05.720 It's who they are.

00:41:06.580 They're the public.

00:41:07.360 They're the party of the faculty club, the teacher's lounge, the staff room at the bureaucratic tower.

00:41:13.340 They, as they have increased the number of, the percentage of Canadians who are working in the public sector,

00:41:20.960 which is hospitals, schools, municipalities, universities, and federal and provincial government,

00:41:29.300 that's now about a quarter of the workforce.

00:41:32.040 And that is who the NDP are the party of.

00:41:35.760 They are the party of public sector work.

00:41:39.280 And it means they forgot the union guy.

00:41:43.380 They're not a union hall party anymore.

00:41:46.180 They're a faculty club party.

00:41:48.020 Yeah, it's incredible.

00:41:49.320 Well, Lauren, it's great to catch up with you, and I'm so glad you're on top of these issues.

00:41:53.620 We'll keep in touch and keep fighting for freedom out west there, my friend.

00:41:57.560 Will do.

00:41:58.180 All right.

00:41:58.600 There you have it.

00:41:58.960 Lauren Gunder, senior columnist for the Sun Newspapers in Calgary and Empton.

00:42:03.080 And stay with us.

00:42:03.800 Your letters to me.

00:42:06.760 Hey, welcome back.

00:42:07.980 Your letters to me.

00:42:09.060 Tyson Choner says,

00:42:11.740 Hey, Ezra, I don't blame you being cautious, but I highly doubt any amount of search tampering is going to break you.

00:42:17.500 It will slow down new viewers discovering you, sure.

00:42:20.320 But your existing viewer won't just forget about you randomly one day.

00:42:24.200 We have your site bookmarked in our browsers.

00:42:26.360 We receive your regular news articles.

00:42:28.380 You are a recurring charge on my credit card.

00:42:30.360 Come hell or high water, if your website is functioning, I will find you and support you.

00:42:34.260 Don't blame you for being cautious, but it's maybe a little overdramatic.

00:42:37.500 P.S.

00:42:37.880 No one trusts the search algorithms anymore anyways. 0.98

00:42:40.900 Even the dumb people are starting to notice. 0.91

00:42:44.260 Listen, I appreciate your loyalty and the energy and the effort you go to to stay informed. 0.99

00:42:50.100 But most people do not put that kind of effort into it.

00:42:53.260 You know, sometimes I'm in elevators, in skyscrapers, and there's a little screen in the corner.

00:43:00.820 Do you ever see this when typically a downtown office building?

00:43:04.100 They have a little screen with little news headlines.

00:43:07.060 I kid you not.

00:43:08.400 For some people, that is their sole source of news.

00:43:10.880 Or the quick bite between, you know, songs on the radio.

00:43:16.700 Most people don't read a newspaper.

00:43:18.400 Most people, fewer than 1% of Canadians watch CBC's The National.

00:43:22.520 It used to be four times that.

00:43:25.920 So you have your intensity really turned up.

00:43:30.840 Most people are not that intense.

00:43:32.860 And so when we are not on the first page of search results, when we are not allowed to trend, we do not reach the casual viewer.

00:43:44.440 Intense viewers like you will find us.

00:43:47.020 It's true.

00:43:47.780 But I want to go beyond just intense people.

00:43:51.080 I want casual news viewers to hear what we have to say.

00:43:54.680 And let me put it to you this way.

00:43:56.540 I use Google probably 10 times a day, maybe more.

00:43:59.640 How often do I click past the first page of 10 results?

00:44:04.780 Not that often.

00:44:06.280 How often do I go beyond the second page?

00:44:09.040 How often do I go beyond the 10th page?

00:44:11.180 I don't know if I've done that in over a year.

00:44:14.580 And so if the government can push Rebel News out of the top page, and by the way, the search companies are already doing that sort of thing to us.

00:44:23.500 Sure, we'll have good, loyal friends like you, but we will never be able to grow, will we?

00:44:27.820 Joe Boudreau writes, Ezra, your interview tonight reaffirmed why I will fully support Max Bernier and the PPC.

00:44:35.440 His comments about immigration and even more about bad conservative policies are enlightening.

00:44:39.920 I just wish you would be much briefer with your questions and allow your guests to explain.

00:44:44.160 You take too long to ask a question.

00:44:46.180 Guilty as charged, and it has ever been that way.

00:44:48.980 And I've been doing this show now for almost eight years, and I was at the Sun News Network for a few years before that.

00:44:56.020 And I have to tell you that criticism has been with me for more than a decade.

00:45:00.460 And I just get so excited.

00:45:03.240 I want to have a real conversation like I'm out for drinks with them, out for coffee or a beer or something, or over at their place.

00:45:09.860 So I don't want to just ask questions.

00:45:11.440 I thought I was okay at listening.

00:45:13.520 There were some questions I really let them give her without interrupting.

00:45:17.760 I confess.

00:45:18.920 I mean, listen, if you were sitting down with Maxine Bernier, or any of the other interesting guests we've had lately,

00:45:24.500 wouldn't you want to talk a lot, too?

00:45:28.960 I take your point, Joe.

00:45:30.280 I take your point, and I'll try and be better behaved.

00:45:32.500 I think, though, he had a chance to really say his piece.

00:45:35.940 The beauty of the long-form interview is not just a 30-second or even a two-minute soundbite.

00:45:40.660 I think we gave him more than half an hour.

00:45:42.360 So when he left here, we had a good hello and a good catch-up.

00:45:45.220 I think he really felt like he had a chance to talk about what he wanted to talk about.

00:45:49.140 Now, of course, we're interested in others, too.

00:45:51.180 Maxine Bernier is part of the political firmament.

00:45:53.540 We're always interested in what the Conservative Party of Canada has to say.

00:45:57.300 We're interested in what provincial political leaders have to say.

00:46:00.500 And, of course, I think that non-politicians are very important today, too.

00:46:05.280 But I thought it was a fun interview.

00:46:07.980 Anyway, that's our show for today.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 12, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ An off-duty cop criticizes Trudeau, so the CBC knows what to do to him

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