Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ As usual, foreign critics of Trudeau are more effective than Canadian critics

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'll take you through six speeches in Europe denouncing Justin Trudeau,

00:00:08.320 and they were wonderful and bracing and passionate and strong. How come we need foreign politicians 1.00

00:00:16.460 to do what our Canadian opposition won't? I'll take you through six examples, but before

00:00:21.880 I do, I want to invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. You know, you're going

00:00:25.160 to hear these speeches. One of them, or maybe two of them, are in a foreign language.

00:00:30.000 So I regret that there's captions on the screen. You won't be able to get it. That's just

00:00:36.240 one of many reasons I'd like to invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber so you

00:00:40.980 get the video version of this podcast, because I just want you to see the passion of all these

00:00:46.860 European politicians. I want you to see with your eyes. I know you're listening on a podcast

00:00:50.840 because you probably can't watch. Maybe you're driving or walking or something, but please

00:00:54.560 consider going to rebelnewsplus.com, clicking subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get

00:00:59.400 my video show every day, plus weekly shows from four of my teammates. That's a lot of content.

00:01:05.340 And remember, we don't get any money from Trudeau. So this is the dough we live on. If you don't

00:01:10.460 mind, we'd love your support. All right, here's today's show.

00:01:12.960 Tonight, as usual, foreign critics of Trudeau are more effective than Canadian critics. I'll show you

00:01:35.780 six examples. It's March 25th, and this is the Answer to the Man Show.

00:01:42.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:45.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:49.820 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:54.720 right to do so.

00:01:55.720 I've shown you many times how when it comes to truly critical journalism about Justin Trudeau,

00:02:06.700 you won't find it in the mainstream media in Canada. You'll have to go to U.S. journalists or

00:02:12.700 U.K. journalists. The Daily Mail in London is particularly good, even the U.K.'s Piers Morgan.

00:02:19.280 Lots of U.S. media criticized Trudeau, even liberals like Bill Maher.

00:02:25.040 Justin Trudeau. What? You're laughing. But Justin Trudeau, I mean, I thought he was kind of a cool

00:02:32.220 guy. I mean, I started to read what he said. This is a couple of weeks ago. He was, or maybe this is

00:02:38.160 September, but he was talking about people who are not vaccinated. He said they don't believe in

00:02:43.880 science. They're often misogynistic, often racist. No, they're not. 0.88

00:02:47.260 That was not smart of him at all. Right. He said, but they take up space.

00:02:52.640 And with that, we have to make a choice in terms of a leader as a country. Do we tolerate

00:02:57.780 these people? It's like, tolerate these? Now you do sound like Hitler. And recently he talked

00:03:03.360 about them holding unacceptable views. Wow. I'm surprised to hear that Trudeau said

00:03:09.700 those things. You didn't see the black face? I mean, he's, he's, he's, no, I'm kidding about 1.00

00:03:16.660 that. I'm not, I'm not, I mean, I was not a good look for him. But I, I mean, come on.

00:03:23.500 I mean, that's, I think what gets under people's skin.

00:03:26.560 You won't see that on the CBC. Of course, the best or worst example of all this is during the 2019

00:03:35.580 election when it fell to Time magazine to break the story of Trudeau in blackface. Although it

00:03:42.100 quickly emerged that most of the Canadian mainstream media had the same pictures.

00:03:47.000 They were just sitting on them covering up for Trudeau. I learned a lot that day.

00:03:51.460 Well, what goes for foreign journalists goes to a large extent to foreign politicians too.

00:03:58.920 I like Pierre Polyev's speeches in parliament against the Trudeau liberals. And that's almost

00:04:06.040 about it. How many other conservative MPs can you name that really give Trudeau or his cabinet a run

00:04:13.760 for the money on things like civil liberties or, or the lockdowns or anything really? We've had timid

00:04:20.520 conservatives, self-loathing conservatives, non-conservative conservatives. And sometimes

00:04:27.260 we have to be reminded of that by seeing how other countries do it. And that's what we saw this week

00:04:34.400 as Trudeau went on another junket to Europe. I'm not sure why he's back over there. Canada really isn't

00:04:40.880 a big player in the Ukraine-Russia war. We don't have a large military. Our sanctions against Russia are

00:04:46.880 largely ceremonial. There's no oligarchs who do banking here. There are no logo oligarchs with

00:04:53.780 villas in BAM for Whistler. But Trudeau likes it better over in Europe because he doesn't have to

00:05:00.980 deal with the real Canadian problems, many of which he's caused. And he can badmouth us and we're not

00:05:06.340 there to answer. These are anxious times and people are looking for leadership and solutions.

00:05:14.400 Unfortunately, we're seeing a rise in cynical populists who are trying to exploit these anxieties.

00:05:22.880 They pretend to have easy solutions that play on people's fears. Even in Canada, where 90% of people are

00:05:35.560 vaccinated and our motto as a country is peace, order and good government, we saw anti-vaccine and anti-government

00:05:45.460 protests devolve into illegal occupations of our communities and blockades of our borders. The leaders

00:05:53.020 of those convoys were effective in turning citizens with real anxieties against the system best suited to

00:06:02.820 allay those concerns. Yeah, as always, he's the victim. Well, let me show you how it's really done. Let me show

00:06:09.780 you the voices of half a dozen European politicians who scorched Trudeau in a way that surely stunned

00:06:19.380 Trudeau. He's just not used to it in Canada. The NDP who were supposed to oppose him, well, they'll let

00:06:26.220 Trudeau do anything. And the conservatives will let Trudeau do almost anything. Tell me they stood

00:06:30.720 something they stood up against in the last two years that was important. So watch this. Let's start

00:06:36.320 with the first one. Christine Anderson, a German member of the European Parliament. We've interviewed

00:06:41.380 her a few times on Rebel News. Take a look at this speech. She just let it rip. Based on article 195,

00:06:51.040 doubt that it would have been more appropriate for Mr. Trudeau, prime minister of Canada,

00:06:55.680 to address this house according to article 144, an article which was specifically designed

00:07:02.660 to debate violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, which is clearly the case with

00:07:09.620 Mr. Trudeau. Then again, a prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship, who

00:07:17.060 tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists,

00:07:23.160 just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy, should not be allowed to speak in

00:07:30.100 this house at all. Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy. Please spare us your presence. Thank you. 0.98

00:07:41.400 Well, that's incredible. And you'll notice that there was a fair number of MEPs in there, and she got an

00:07:46.280 applause. Contrast that to the nearly empty room that Trudeau spoke to. Well, here's what Gerald

00:07:54.180 Butts had to say about that. Gerald Butts is not used to criticism. He points out that 125,000 people

00:08:01.260 liked and retweeted this thing, millions of views. He says in a skeptical way that that's totally normal,

00:08:08.760 implying that that's fake. No, Gerald, I know you're not used to it because you only travel in your own

00:08:14.540 circles, but millions of people despise Trudeau. It's not personal. It's what he's done to the country

00:08:21.100 and our civil liberties. Here's the next member of the European Parliament to take a run at Trudeau.

00:08:27.900 Take a look at this.

00:08:51.100 Thank you.

00:09:19.660 Nekada symbol modern world the table is the violation

00:09:27.060 of your liberalization in the past months

00:09:31.420 of a symbol of Jesus' knitted

00:09:42.500 And if you have to block the bank accounts, you can't pay children's schooling,

00:09:49.500 you can't pay them, you can't pay them, you can't pay them,

00:09:53.500 you can't pay them, you can't pay them, you can't pay them,

00:09:58.500 you can't pay them for their homes.

00:10:01.500 For you are maybe liberal methods.

00:10:05.500 However, for many countries, this is the biggest dictatorship.

00:10:11.500 Be confident that the citizens of the world,

00:10:15.500 united, can stop every regime that wants to destroy the freedom of citizens,

00:10:22.500 any bombs, any harmful pharmaceutical products.

00:10:27.500 Thank you.

00:10:28.500 Wow, wow, that's me Slav Kolakusic, if I'm pronouncing it right.

00:10:32.500 He's a member of the European Parliament from Croatia.

00:10:35.500 You know, I don't know that language, but I think the word Sloboda is how they say freedom.

00:10:40.500 Wow.

00:10:41.500 You know, it's quite something for people from the former East Bloc, sorry,

00:10:44.500 Warsaw Pact countries, Eastern Europe, who went to the Soviet Bloc, to speak.

00:10:48.500 Those people have within their lifetime's memories the knowledge of what an authoritarian regime is like.

00:10:53.500 I mean, the Berlin Wall only fell 30-odd years ago.

00:10:57.500 It's incredible to have them scorched true, though.

00:10:59.500 We don't see that kind of opposition in our own country.

00:11:02.500 Let me take you to the next member of the European Parliament, Bernard Zimniak from Germany.

00:11:08.500 President, honourable members, we keep discussing here our European democratic values that underpin all of our actions.

00:11:19.500 I worked in Syria and Pakistan for many years as a diplomat, and therefore value democracy very highly.

00:11:28.500 Now, the invitation to Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, is an invitation to someone who's been trampling on democratic rights,

00:11:39.500 who's been cracking down on people who protested against disproportionate corona measures,

00:11:50.500 people who were supporting a non-sanctioned movement coming under criticism.

00:11:57.500 So, clearly, the values of democracy being despised by this individual.

00:12:04.500 Let us not give someone like this any speaking time in this house of democracy.

00:12:09.500 Wow. A disproportionate COVID. I like that phrase.

00:12:14.500 I mean, I don't think these MEPs are against any reaction or program or policy to deal with the pandemic, but he's right.

00:12:23.500 Canada's the only country that I know of that has a no-fly list for its own citizens.

00:12:28.500 You can't even fly or take the train domestically in the second largest country in the world.

00:12:32.500 I think that was very passionate.

00:12:33.500 Now, let me mix it up. This is actually from a little while ago.

00:12:36.500 This is an Irish senator, Sharon Keegan, if I'm pronouncing it right.

00:12:41.500 I didn't see this reported anywhere, actually, until yesterday.

00:12:46.500 Have you seen any of these video clips on the CBC?

00:12:49.500 Yeah, I'm sure they'll publish it just like they published the blackface. 1.00

00:12:54.500 Here's Irish Senator Sharon Keegan. Take a look.

00:12:58.500 We've always been at the forefront of speaking up for those who have been oppressed.

00:13:02.500 We recognise the interconnectivity of the countries of Europe and the world at large, and that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

00:13:11.500 We've had calls in this House to address serious human rights abuses occurring in all places over the world, from China in the East to here in the West, and addressing the issues in our own country as well.

00:13:23.500 So I find it odd that we've heard nothing of what has been a well-publicised, high-profile, peaceful protest being violently suppressed and dispersed by armed government forces.

00:13:36.500 Ranks of uniformed and armoured military figures, stripped of their badges and ID tags, converged on protesters.

00:13:45.500 An officer on horseback trampled over a disabled woman.

00:13:48.500 Around 200 arrests were made, and over 60 vehicles seized by the state.

00:13:53.500 It sounds like something you'd see from Russia, or actions which we'd condemn in Hungary or Poland, but instead it is happening in the supposedly liberal democracy of Canada, and so no condemnation has been forecoming.

00:14:08.500 In order to legally permit this level of force, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the Emergency Act of 1988, the first time this Act has ever been used since it replaced the War Measure Act of 1914.

00:14:24.500 And not being satisfied with merely dispersing protesters, the state froze the finances associated with certain individuals and companies believed to be involved in the protests.

00:14:35.500 These are people who committed no crime, who have not been convicted lawfully in court, and who the government decided to punish anyway, because they might have been connected with a protest which was inconvenient to the government.

00:14:51.500 It was an unprecedented act by the state against its citizens, which should be roundly condemned.

00:14:58.500 So leader, I'm asking you to write to the Canadian ambassador, Nancy Smith, and condemn the excessive force used by the government on the overreach that is happening there to its citizens.

00:15:10.500 Authoritarianism is a threat to democracy, no matter whose foot the boot is on.

00:15:16.500 Wow.

00:15:17.500 Wow.

00:15:18.500 Wow.

00:15:19.500 Wow.

00:15:20.500 Is she ever great.

00:15:21.500 Hey, why is that not in the Canadian news?

00:15:23.500 Hey, let me throw something at you. 0.96

00:15:25.500 If that speech had been given against Stephen Harper when he was Prime Minister, do you think it would have been buried by the Media Party too?

00:15:33.500 I'm going to go back to the European Parliament now.

00:15:36.500 Here's a Romanian member of the European Parliament.

00:15:39.500 And I think it's relevant that he's from a country that used to be under Soviet domination.

00:15:44.500 Here's Christian Teres, if I'm saying his name right.

00:15:46.500 Take a listen to him.

00:15:48.500 And with the Prime Minister of Canada, the way he's behaving right now, he's exactly like a tyrant, like a dictator.

00:15:54.500 He's like Ceausescu in Romania.

00:15:57.500 If even you doubt, if you raise doubts about the vaccines, you're outcasted.

00:16:05.500 What's the difference between what he does and what happened under the Inquisition?

00:16:10.500 See, on one side they say, well, we should not believe in God.

00:16:14.500 But on the other side they say, believe in science.

00:16:16.500 We don't have to.

00:16:17.500 Science is not about belief.

00:16:19.500 Science is about measurements, conclusions, hypotheses and arguments.

00:16:26.500 We got to a point right now where even if you say something, if you raise any doubts, you're already considered, you know, as whatever, you know, they label you in very different ways.

00:16:39.500 This is not okay.

00:16:40.500 And I have to tell you, you know, that when I saw the protests in Canada, you know, the way the truckers over there reacted, you know, I got in touch with some of them.

00:16:52.500 Others contacted me.

00:16:53.500 I congratulated them and I want to use this opportunity to thank them.

00:16:57.500 And I hope this movement for freedom and for rights is spreading all around the world, because at the end of the day, we have to make sure that all these elected officials, they understand that they were elected in those offices to work for the people, not to behave like masters of slaves.

00:17:16.500 Thank you.

00:17:17.500 I understand that clip was from a few weeks ago.

00:17:20.500 I tell you, it's bracing to hear this kind of talk and I, you know, there's something funny about the Canadian media.

00:17:27.500 Of course, if this was Stephen Harper being scorched, this would have been huge news domestically.

00:17:31.500 But there's something about Canada.

00:17:33.500 I think that sometimes we have a bit of an inferiority complex.

00:17:36.500 So when a Canadian makes it big somewhere else, even if his ties to Canada are very tenuous, you know, so many in Canadian establishments say, oh, well, he was born and raised till the age of three in Canada.

00:17:49.500 That's a win for Canada. 0.93

00:17:51.500 We're always looking for a Canadian angle anywhere around the world.

00:17:54.500 Oh, he mentioned Canada.

00:17:55.500 Oh, did you hear Elon Musk mention Canada?

00:17:58.500 Oh, did you see Canada?

00:17:59.500 This like we're anytime someone else notices us, we focus on it.

00:18:06.500 You'll notice that hasn't been the case here.

00:18:08.500 The whole world noticed Trudeau's crackdown of the trucker rebellion.

00:18:13.500 But it's like the media party censored it.

00:18:15.500 I want to leave you with a very quick clip.

00:18:17.500 I'll only show a little bit of this because it's all for all say.

00:18:19.500 And I'm afraid I know of an English translation.

00:18:21.500 This is a French member of the European Parliament.

00:18:23.500 I'm told that a number of other members of the European Parliament wished to condemn Trudeau, but they were removed from the speakers.

00:18:30.500 So here's just a very quick clip of the French MEP Virginie Joron.

00:18:35.500 Bonjour, et nous voilà au Parlement de Bruxelles.

00:18:41.500 Nous attendons donc Justin Trudeau qui va faire son speech.

00:18:45.500 Donc il y a quelques députés en fait, pas beaucoup.

00:18:50.500 Beaucoup plus de public que de députés.

00:18:56.500 Donc là je pense qu'il arrive.

00:18:58.500 Le voilà.

00:19:02.500 Donc aussi pour l'honorer, j'ai mis ce t-shirt.

00:19:05.500 Voilà, moi je pense plutôt à tous ces Canadiens qui ont subi...

00:19:13.500 You know, my French is not very strong, but you can see her shirt, which was in English.

00:19:18.500 She's for truckers and she's for freedom. 0.99

00:19:20.500 Pretty cool that she was wearing that in the European Parliament.

00:19:23.500 Look, I don't like when Canada is being bashed on the world scene.

00:19:29.500 But I don't think any of these people had anti-Canada feelings in their hearts.

00:19:34.500 I don't think they were against the people of Canada.

00:19:38.500 I think each one of them was speaking more out of shock and surprise and even sadness.

00:19:43.500 You heard that one MEP who said Canada used to be the great symbol of liberalism, of a modern country, like a role model.

00:19:52.500 I think every single one...

00:19:54.500 In fact, the louder they raged, it was because something and someone they cared about had obviously fallen so far.

00:20:02.500 I wish that our own checks and balances in this country cared that much about how far we've fallen.

00:20:09.500 Not just our media, which is bought or rented by Trudeau.

00:20:13.500 But frankly, even opposition MPs who are all too often really just controlled opposition, micro-opposition,

00:20:23.500 and really in no substantial way stopped Trudeau's agenda.

00:20:28.500 Stay with us. An interview with one of the few journalists who's critical of Trudeau.

00:20:34.500 That's next.

00:20:47.500 Well, if you were to ask me which of our journalists here at Rebel News I love the best, that would be an impossible question to answer.

00:20:52.500 It would be like asking me which of my children I love the best.

00:20:55.500 Even if you secretly have an answer, you never say it. You love them all equally.

00:20:58.500 Well, I'll say it.

00:20:59.500 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, is my favorite.

00:21:01.500 And Avi Yamini, our star in Australia, is incredible.

00:21:05.500 He wins the Viewer's Choice Award every year and there's a reason why.

00:21:09.500 But if I were to look outside of the family of Rebel News, one of the journalists I most admire and most closely follow,

00:21:17.500 who writes such interesting things, not only has sharp opinions but actually goes into the field to find the news.

00:21:24.500 The one journalist who's not already a rebel, who I just love to follow, is Rupa Supermanian.

00:21:30.500 She joins us now via Skype from Ottawa.

00:21:34.500 As you know, she's a freelancer with the National Post and with Nikkei.

00:21:37.500 And Rupa, I got to say, I'm a super fan and I don't care who knows.

00:21:41.500 I love your work and I really got to know your work during the Trucker Rebellion when you went down into the streets and met the truckers.

00:21:49.500 And I've been hooked ever since and I want to ask you about a story.

00:21:54.500 The Toronto Star had this huge front page story that claimed to tell the real story behind the Trucker Rebellion.

00:22:01.500 And one of the things they said was that police found loaded guns in the trucks on Parliament Hill.

00:22:08.500 And we were just one inch away from an armed revolution.

00:22:12.500 The Star put that on their front page, but it turns out there weren't any guns at all.

00:22:16.500 The Star just made that up.

00:22:18.500 Well, yeah, I was really struck by that because I remember, you know, there was during the protest, there was a lot of speculation that that there were weapons,

00:22:31.500 the potential weapons in the trucks and that there could be a violent there could be violent incidents and so on and so forth.

00:22:42.500 And there was a lot of a lot of that stuff happening during the protests.

00:22:46.500 And then the Toronto Star's, Justin Ling, had a fairly big sort of a post-mortem of the protests about a week ago.

00:22:56.500 And there was this almost a throwaway remark, I would say, where he says, in quote,

00:23:03.500 "...fears that there were weapons inside some of the trucks proved prescient, a police source said loaded shotguns were found."

00:23:10.500 And in brackets, while truckers can legally transport registered firearms in their vehicles, guns must be securely stowed and are not permitted to be loaded.

00:23:20.500 Now, this goes against what the Ottawa police chief, interim chief Bell said yesterday that where he said that no firearms were found during the clearing of the convoy protest.

00:23:34.500 And so this goes against what the Toronto Star was claiming.

00:23:39.500 Now, maybe the reporter's source, you know, wasn't very credible.

00:23:44.500 I don't know what the inside story there is, but it certainly, you know, is yet another claim that has essentially fallen by the wayside in the last couple of weeks.

00:23:56.500 We've had, you know, we now know that most of the funding for the protests came from within Canada.

00:24:05.500 These were average Canadians giving small amounts of money in support of a cause that they really felt strongly about.

00:24:17.500 And then you had the arson, the attempted arson.

00:24:22.500 If you recall, there was this allegation that a downtown apartment building on Lisker Street, in fact,

00:24:32.500 where a couple of people broke into the building and tried to set the building on fire, trapping the residents of the building.

00:24:40.500 And then it was immediately blamed on the protesters.

00:24:43.500 And then you had our political elite in the media class immediately jump in and, you know, and say that this was the this was directly related to the truckers and the protesters.

00:24:56.500 Without even allowing the facts to, you know, without even allowing the police to fully investigate the matter.

00:25:04.500 Let the let the facts come to light first before we jump to any conclusions.

00:25:08.500 That wasn't the case at all. You had the mayor, you know, saying explicitly that the protesters were behind this attempted arson.

00:25:18.500 Now we know that the that the arsonists had the alleged arsonists had nothing to do with the protests.

00:25:26.500 And so, you know, these you know, you've seen a series of claims in the last couple of weeks that have just fallen by the wayside.

00:25:36.500 Right. And then really puncturing that narrative that was in place to paint the protesters and the truckers as violent insurgents and insurrectionists.

00:25:48.500 And and, you know, and that they were here to cause violence and overthrow the government and so on and so forth.

00:25:56.500 Yeah. You know what? I'm so glad you brought up all those other examples that arson was specifically used as a rationale for why we need extreme policing.

00:26:07.500 And oh, my God, dark foreign forces, whether it was Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump or or both of them were funding and organizing this whole thing.

00:26:16.500 The CBC actually had a commentator suggest that.

00:26:20.500 And on this firearms thing that the Toronto Star got wrong.

00:26:25.500 Now, maybe they were told a fake thing by a cop.

00:26:28.500 I'm skeptical that reporter Justin Ling has a habit of playing fast and loose with the truth.

00:26:33.500 Here's the thing, Rupa, you know that if that were true, they would have laid charges because they've laid absurd charges over trivial nothings.

00:26:42.500 You know, Tamara Lich spent weeks in jail for incitement to mischief, which I've never heard of anyone being held without bail for that in my life. 1.00

00:26:53.500 So if they're willing to prosecute people for incitement to mischief or hand out hundreds of tickets for parking violations,

00:26:59.500 you bloody well better believe that if they actually found loaded guns in any violation, they would have obviously made charges, obviously had press conferences.

00:27:09.500 It was sort of an obvious lie, but when you put it all together, the fake arson claim, the fake claim of foreign funding, the fake Putin connection, the fake guns.

00:27:21.500 I think it's fair to say that everything the media party accused the truckers of, you know, conspiracy theories, making things up.

00:27:32.500 The media party itself did the media party being the journalists and the politicians who were too closely associated with other there.

00:27:39.500 It's like they're projecting.

00:27:41.500 They were the ones indulging in conspiracy theories, not the truckers.

00:27:46.500 It's quite something.

00:27:47.500 Yeah, I mean, what's extraordinary about this is that, you know, as journalists or really anyone really for that matter, must allow for the facts to emerge first before you jump to any conclusions and before you paint an entire group of people as, you know, in a certain way.

00:28:07.500 And that was that was what was extraordinary about this, that we, you know, that many people immediately decided that that the truckers and the protesters were responsible for all of these things and that they were violent and that they were up to no good.

00:28:24.500 And when, in fact, they were just here peacefully protesting, it was a peaceful civil disobedience, you may not like the issue, you may not agree with them.

00:28:33.500 But they were here for three weeks and think about the fact that they were here for three weeks in the downtown core and maybe apart from some graffiti that I may have seen at a bus shelter and a couple of other places.

00:28:46.500 I, you know, I didn't see anything and not a single glass had been broken, nothing had been damaged, you know, as many people pointed out during the protests, you know, the streets were clean and, you know, you know, they were collecting garbage and shoveling snow and so on and so forth.

00:29:08.500 So, and so, you know, this goes against all of the stuff that we kept reading about in the news and what was being reported and now that the dust is settling a little bit on the protests, the facts are coming out and the facts are saying that, you know, much of the reportage on the protest was just, you know, was one-sided, perhaps, you know, big chunks of it may have been incorrect.

00:29:37.500 You know, and, but, you know, my question is, will the journalists who perpetuated this narrative, who promoted this so aggressively, will anyone in the media actually take a step back and say, hey, you know, did we get, you know, did we get this wrong and why did we get this so wrong, you know, what happened here, will there be that introspection?

00:30:01.500 Now, that's the question I have, and, you know, I'm not saying that any one of us is perfect, but I think that, but, but, and I think anybody, you know, I think everybody needs to do that, you know, just take a step back from the situation and just, and really evaluate one's own conduct in that, in, you know, in, in, in, you know, bringing out the story and did, did you, did you do due diligence?

00:30:27.780 Did you, you know, did you report the facts as objectively as possible?

00:30:33.840 And I, I, you know, I'm afraid that large sections of the media didn't do that.

00:30:39.120 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:30:40.220 Huge sections.

00:30:41.160 I would say the majority.

00:30:42.100 You know, it's funny when you say, will there be any retrospective analysis or, or sober second thought of postmortem, I think is a good word.

00:30:52.860 A few weeks ago, there was a panel discussion of journalists in Ottawa, and I think you participated by sending in a video, if I'm not mistaken, where the journalists talked about how, how mean they were treated by the truckers.

00:31:06.560 Um, I wasn't there myself, but I followed a reporter from True North who was sort of live tweeting him.

00:31:12.160 And it was that in this enormous story, which was a huge national story, but I think it was the largest world story about Canada in years.

00:31:23.800 I mean, there were people all over the world that were in there.

00:31:26.640 I know that because, and I'm sure you were doing media hits all over the world, just like our reporters were, not just in America, but all over Europe and elsewhere.

00:31:34.680 Like it was the biggest story around.

00:31:36.860 And afterwards for the journalists, I think Evan Solomon was one of them and I can't remember who else, for them to get together and the subject matter of their conclave was how mean they were treated.

00:31:48.560 It just showed a, a solipsism, a self-centeredness that they just don't get it.

00:31:54.260 And I see another panel discussion coming up with Rosemary Barton, uh, the, the chief reporter for this, uh, the political reporter for the CBC.

00:32:02.220 It literally has mean tweets as the, as the subject of the, they're going to talk about mean tweets.

00:32:10.120 I, I wonder if any of them ever think, well, have we done anything wrong?

00:32:16.100 Could we improve?

00:32:18.000 Um, so many establishment institutions have lost credibility in the last two years.

00:32:23.380 I think journalists, uh, are amongst the worst.

00:32:28.400 I don't see any sense of, uh, self-awareness from what I call the media party, the government funded media, the state broadcaster.

00:32:36.200 I don't know. You're in Ottawa. I'm, I'm not in the belly of the beast.

00:32:40.360 What do you, what's your sense?

00:32:41.840 Like Justin Ling in the Toronto star had a huge error.

00:32:45.540 I don't see any correction, let alone a termination.

00:32:48.520 No, the only people who are held to account are people like us, you know, the independent voices out there.

00:32:54.500 Um, you know, we're, we're, we're scrutinized like nobody else out there.

00:32:59.580 And, um, uh, and that's unfortunate.

00:33:02.460 I think everybody should be held to account where independent voices, mainstream media, whoever our politicians, uh, but it, but it seems to be just really, you know, this, this, I'm, you know, I'm trying to be hopeful.

00:33:18.120 I'm trying to be hopeful and optimistic that there's going to be some, um, you know, self, self-reflection, some introspection.

00:33:25.740 Um, and, and, you know, and I would say that even within the mainstream media, I think there are voices of dissent.

00:33:32.520 Perhaps they're fearful of speaking out, um, you know, I, I, uh, you know, you, you'd have to be completely blind to not see just, just how one-sided the, the mainstream coverage of the protest was, you know, what was, what I consider to be one of the most important cultural moments in this country's, uh, recent history.

00:33:54.020 And, uh, here was an opportunity to actually objectively cover it and, you know, bring out all aspects of it.

00:34:00.840 Sure.

00:34:01.260 Report on the Pat Kings of the world, but also report on the thousands of people who showed up, uh, you know, honest Canadians who really felt, um, left out in, in the conversations that we've been having the last couple of years during the pandemic.

00:34:16.460 These are people who've lost their jobs, they've, uh, um, you know, their, their, their relationships, uh, you know, broken down with, they've lost friends and families.

00:34:28.420 And so, you know, uh, you know, uh, you know, it's just that it was the, the coverage of it was so incredibly one-sided as if to, um, double down on this narrative that everybody had bought into, which was the official, the, the government narrative, uh, which was Trudeau's narrative.

00:34:43.920 It was Trudeau who set the, uh, set the ball rolling, uh, you know, before the protesters even arrived, he, he, um, you know, using very divisive language, he, uh, called them racist and misogynist and that they were really beyond the pale and not worth engaging with.

00:35:00.940 And, uh, that kind of set the motion.

00:35:02.900 Now, if you are the media, I would say, you know, um, push back against that, challenge Trudeau on his statements.

00:35:09.620 And I, I, and I don't think the journalist who, um, who was interviewing him for that, um, you know, uh, was interviewing him back in December when he made those comments really pushed back.

00:35:20.280 Now, I, I, it, this was a French language show, so, you know, my French isn't the greatest, so I'm not sure, you know, how exactly it all panned out, but I didn't really get a sense that he was being challenged on those views.

00:35:32.280 And, um, and, and, and, and so that basically set the ball rolling and everybody basically, you know, was, um, you know, uh, you know, in, in lockstep, the media was in lockstep with the government and everybody was, uh, you essentially sounding the same.

00:35:49.220 And, and when, when everybody sounds the same, uh, I don't know about you, but I immediately just, um, you know, I, I, I can't breathe, you know, I know something is up, you know, and I really start questioning what I'm hearing, what I'm seeing.

00:36:04.240 And that's, that's what happened with me.

00:36:06.120 You know, I just wanted to go and check it out for myself and make up my own mind, which is what I did.

00:36:11.220 And I think that's what journalists should do.

00:36:13.580 Um, make up your own mind and report the facts as objectively as you possibly can.

00:36:18.460 Yeah.

00:36:19.220 Well, I tell you, I sure am glad that you did that.

00:36:21.360 And I'm glad you have the forum of the national post that publishes your articles.

00:36:25.640 Uh, we'll have to talk about other subjects, uh, in future visits.

00:36:29.980 Uh, I love your take on the liberal NDP coalition.

00:36:33.520 And of course, uh, watching how the Ukraine Russia war is spilling over into Canada with cancel culture for anyone with a Russian sounding last name.

00:36:44.180 You've written some great columns in the post about it.

00:36:46.360 We'll have to get into those another time.

00:36:48.080 But what a great chance to catch up with you, Rupa.

00:36:50.480 We love your work.

00:36:51.900 Keep it up and look forward to talking to you again soon.

00:36:55.100 Thanks, Ezra.

00:36:55.820 Thanks for having me.

00:36:56.720 And it's a pleasure to be here again.

00:36:58.380 Right on.

00:36:58.860 Thank you.

00:36:59.280 There you have it.

00:36:59.820 Thank you.

00:37:00.220 Rupa Supermania.

00:37:00.620 She's a freelancer who writes for the National Post, Nikkei, and other places.

00:37:05.000 Stay with us.

00:37:05.940 More ahead.

00:37:06.360 Hey, welcome back.

00:37:19.180 Your viewer mail.

00:37:19.960 Someone nicknamed MetaBan talks about the Jerry Diaz bribery scandal and says, could this go much deeper?

00:37:28.640 He not only supported the vaccine mandates, he pushed other union leaders to do the same.

00:37:33.980 Well, that's the thing.

00:37:35.060 I keep coming back in my mind to the fact that the union will not say who the bribe payer was.

00:37:41.620 Why?

00:37:42.000 You think if they have any loyalty, personal affection, or protectiveness, it would be to their long-time president.

00:37:49.280 So they've sacked him.

00:37:50.660 They're investigating him.

00:37:52.100 So surely that's the nuclear worst-case scenario.

00:37:55.520 Why are they protecting someone else unless that someone else is powerful or important or implicates others?

00:38:02.760 That's so bizarre to me, and I don't think this should fall just to uniform to investigate.

00:38:07.080 I think we need police on this one or a judicial inquiry.

00:38:09.940 What else has been compromised?

00:38:12.600 Like I say, Jerry Diaz isn't just some lobbyist or advocate.

00:38:16.160 He's in his own way a kind of judge, judging which of his union members he'll fight for and grieve for and which he'll sell out.

00:38:26.220 I think a lot of those things have to be overturned and reexamined.

00:38:29.720 Michael Kansenbach says, corrupt.

00:38:32.960 All past contracts with auto companies need to be looked into now.

00:38:37.240 Yeah, well, listen, the business corruption is for sure an issue.

00:38:42.140 But the fact that people were fired or grievances weren't pursued is much more worrying to me.

00:38:50.260 Yeah, I mean, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars stolen, purloined.

00:38:55.740 Yes, yes, of course that happened.

00:38:57.560 But in some ways, individuals being forced to get a jab or forced to be fired, in some ways I think that's morally even more repugnant.

00:39:08.240 Ava Redd says, real journalism, digging up dirt and exposing it. 0.99

00:39:13.060 Thank you.

00:39:13.680 Well, you know, if you could be referring to so many stories we're working on, I should tell you that we did not discover the news about Jerry Diaz.

00:39:25.900 The union announced the investigation.

00:39:29.520 And for a while, they kept it covered up.

00:39:32.240 So it really was their own announcement.

00:39:34.700 We didn't dig into that.

00:39:37.380 Listen, we're always doing access to information requests and we're going out and asking things.

00:39:41.360 But a lot of these, you know, a lot of these stories, I think they require a whistleblower.

00:39:47.540 I mean, if someone pays a bribe and someone takes a bribe, how are you going to know about that?

00:39:53.300 That's not going to show up in an access to information request.

00:39:56.280 That's not going to be the answer if you ask someone a question.

00:39:59.500 They're not going to suddenly say, oh, you got me.

00:40:01.960 You need someone on the inside to break the cone of silence.

00:40:08.420 And I hope we see more of that.

00:40:10.100 Well, that's our show for today and brings us to the end of the week.

00:40:13.560 I hope you enjoyed or if not enjoyed, at least appreciated our coverage of so many things.

00:40:18.960 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, let me say goodbye and keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:25.080 And let me leave you with our video of the day from Sheila, who looks through federal data that shows minority business owners are not held down by systemic racism in banking, despite what the government might say.

00:40:37.480 I thought this was an interesting study.

00:40:39.080 I'll leave it with you and I'll see you on Monday.

00:40:41.040 Bye-bye.

00:40:41.340 Do you remember this announcement?

00:40:43.100 Last year, the Liberals said they were bringing in this new program, the Black Entrepreneurship Loan.

00:40:48.920 Let's look at it.

00:40:49.820 As part of the first phase of the loan fund, the government is investing $33.3 million and the Business Development Bank of Canada is investing $130 million.

00:40:59.880 As part of the second phase, the Royal Bank of Canada, BMO Financial, Scotiabank, CIBC, the National Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Vancity and Alternative Savings have committed an additional $128 million.

00:41:11.140 The Black Entrepreneurship Fund is administered by the Federation of African-Canadian Economics, a federally incorporated not-for-profit.

00:41:20.040 FACE was created by several prominent not-for-profit Black-led business groups, namely the Africa Centre, Black Business and Professional Association, Black Business Initiative, Cote de Neige Black Community Association and Group 3737.

00:41:35.240 So this loan program is administered by these other organizations, but it's funded in part by the feds and then a bunch of banks.

00:41:42.240 Is any of this necessary?

00:41:43.400 Justin Trudeau seems to think so.

00:41:45.360 He's the system.

00:41:46.180 His party is quite literally the system and power longer than any other party in the last 100 years.

00:41:51.000 If racism exists in the system, he did it.

00:41:54.260 But he tweeted this the other day because it was some sort of day-to-end systemic racism, I think.

00:42:00.880 It's up to everyone to come together and reject all forms of racism, discrimination and hatred, and to take action whenever and wherever we see it.

00:42:09.840 Today, let's recommit to doing that and let's continue to build a future that's fairer for everyone.

00:42:16.100 But is all this special treatment for racialized minority groups in the financial system even necessary to undo a system of evil taking place? 0.98

00:42:24.780 The answer is no, and the federal government's own data shows it quite clearly.

00:42:30.300 Someone actually decided to ask the Liberals to show their work on this topic.

00:42:35.840 Arnold Veersen, the Conservative MP from rural northern Alberta, is using his order paper opportunities very wisely these days.

00:42:43.420 He asked the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion,

00:42:48.820 with regard to government measures to address systemic racism in Canada since January 1st, 2016,

00:42:53.680 has the government conducted research to identify and quantify the specific barriers preventing Black, Indigenous, and other minority communities from receiving equal access to financial services?

00:43:06.440 Now, here's what Arnold got back, and we should be happy about this because it shows we're actually inclusive.

00:43:13.460 The answer from the government is 52 pages long, half of it is in French, of course,

00:43:17.180 but it's really good news about the kind of country we live in that you won't hear the Liberals ever telling you or the mainstream media ever talking about.

00:43:26.020 Take a look at this.

00:43:27.200 Immigrant owners are less likely than Canadian-born owners to seek financing from any source,

00:43:32.100 but their applications are just as likely to be approved as those of Canadian-born owners.

00:43:39.240 Thus, the study finds weak evidence to suggest that access to financial capital is a more serious issue among immigrant-owned small and medium enterprises

00:43:49.340 than among small and medium enterprises with Canadian-born owners.

00:43:55.200 That's fantastic news.

00:43:56.620 There doesn't really seem to be any systemic racism lurking around our financial systems,

00:44:01.520 but let's keep going because the next bunch of numbers here, also really interesting.

00:44:07.440 39.4% of businesses with 1 to 499 employees that were majority-owned by Indigenous persons did not request financing in 2017.

00:44:17.820 The following reasons were cited for not requesting financing.

00:44:21.800 Financing not required, 96.2%.

00:44:25.460 Thought the request would be turned down, 1.7%.

00:44:30.780 Applying for financing is too difficult or time-consuming, 0%.

00:44:34.600 Cost of financing is too high, 0%.

00:44:36.500 Unaware of financing sources available to the business, also 0%, and other 2.1%.

00:44:44.420 Let's keep going.

00:44:47.160 58.6% of businesses with 1, 2, 499 employees that were majority-owned by persons who are from a visible minority group

00:44:56.520 did not request financing in 2017.

00:44:59.940 The following reasons were cited for not requesting financing.

00:45:03.080 Financing not required, 86.8%.

00:45:06.480 Again, these people didn't seem to think that their request would be turned down.

00:45:13.060 Thought the request would be turned down, just 1.7%.

00:45:17.220 Applying for financing is too difficult or time-consuming, 2.9%.

00:45:20.600 Cost of financing is too high, 1.7%.

00:45:24.720 Unaware of financing sources available to the business, 3.3%.

00:45:28.180 And other at 3.6%.

00:45:31.520 Now, here's where things really get interesting.

00:45:34.900 The comparison to the overall general entrepreneurial population.

00:45:40.560 In comparison, 52.9% of all businesses owned by anybody, really, of any background or color, if you care about those sorts of things,

00:45:50.900 with 1 to 499 employees did not request financing in 2017.

00:45:55.440 The following reasons were cited for not requesting financing.

00:45:58.860 Financing not required, 91.1%.

00:46:02.280 Thought the request would be turned down, 1.3%.

00:46:06.160 Applying for financing is too difficult or time-consuming, 1.9%.

00:46:10.380 Cost of financing is too high, at 1.1%.

00:46:13.400 Unaware of financing sources available to the business, 1.2%.

00:46:17.060 And other 3.4%.

00:46:20.420 So, as you can see here, basically throughout the general entrepreneurial population and when it is segmented by immigrant status or racialized demographic,

00:46:35.120 there seems to be no real difference with the entrepreneurs thinking that they would be turned down for financing.

00:46:44.400 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:46:45.580 There are real racists out there.

00:46:49.280 Not a lot, but I mean, just look at Justin Trudeau.

00:46:52.280 The good news is he's the exception, not the rule.

00:46:55.200 However, the Liberal Party, where you can do blackface so many times you forgot and still remain not only the leader of the party but get re-elected as the Prime Minister,

00:47:04.480 well, that seems to be the real stronghold of systemic racism in this country that the rest of us are accused of.

00:47:10.680 For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:47:15.580 Well, for Rebel News.

00:47:22.840 We'll see you after that.

00:47:29.000 Certain comments are notừng they had.

00:47:31.380 This is an easy one.

00:47:32.320 Just look at everyone's clubs before the faction.

Rebel News Podcast - March 26, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ As usual, foreign critics of Trudeau are more effective than Canadian critics

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript