Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Bringing you every moment from the Trucker Commission

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Maybe you can hear the traffic in the background. I'm not in the studio. I'm

00:00:03.740 actually on the street, the intersection of Wellington and Bay Street in downtown Ottawa,

00:00:08.720 outside the public inquiry into Trudeau's invocation of martial law. We are here not

00:00:15.700 just today, but for the next six weeks, covering this commission of inquiry, making sure that

00:00:21.120 Trudeau is not able to flip the script and put the truckers on trial. The whole purpose of this

00:00:25.860 commission is to hold his feet to the fire for his invocation of martial law. I'm here,

00:00:31.520 and over the course of the next six weeks, 15 Rebel News journalists will cycle through. It's

00:00:35.920 going to be very exciting. It's a visual story, too, and that's why I want you to go to rebelnewsplus.com.

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00:00:47.580 which I think is so valuable. So go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:55.860 Tonight, the Trucker Commission of Inquiry gets underway in Ottawa, and Rebel News will be there

00:01:08.520 every day. It's October 13th, and this is The Ezra LeVance Show.

00:01:12.920 You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:25.860 I'm in Calgary this morning, but by the time I land in the afternoon, I will be in Ottawa. I will be 0.61

00:01:33.940 going to our special Airbnb studio. We have rented a private home for the duration of the Trucker

00:01:42.180 Public Order Commission of Inquiry. That's the judicial inquiry into Justin Trudeau's use

00:01:49.460 of a form of martial law under the Emergencies Act. Let me just backtrack a bit and give you some

00:01:55.120 background. As you remember, in late January and February, thousands of truckers spontaneously

00:02:01.060 converged on Ottawa and other places too, like Windsor, Ontario and Cootes, Alberta,

00:02:06.480 to protest against the violation of our civil liberties inherent in the vaccine mandates and

00:02:12.320 other lockdown laws. It was beautiful because it was so real and so authentic and so Canadian and so

00:02:18.460 organic. There was no master organizer of it, certainly no political party. Every political

00:02:23.740 party in Parliament, both government and opposition loved the mandates and the lockdowns. None spoke

00:02:30.000 against it. Every judge in every court supported them. Every mainstream media outlet absolutely

00:02:35.640 propagandized for it. The colleges of physicians and surgeons hunted down any doctors who dared have a

00:02:42.000 second opinion and the police enforced it all. But these truckers alone, working class, 1.00

00:02:47.600 independent-minded Canadians from all across the country, from every racial and ethnic background,

00:02:52.920 from Quebec, it was wonderful to see so many Quebec truckers converged in a very peaceful way

00:02:59.280 in Ottawa. And Trudeau was embarrassed and shocked and he tried to demonize them as violent and he whipped

00:03:06.580 up misinformation and hoaxes, trying to blame them, saying they were violent, they were not violent. In fact,

00:03:11.860 crime in Ottawa decreased as the truckers occupied. I use the word occupy very loosely. I went down there

00:03:19.040 and there were a few blocks of the city where the truckers took up most of the road, but they always

00:03:25.100 left a lane free for emergency vehicles. And I should tell you, having been down there myself, it was the

00:03:30.820 police that shut down the downtown. It was police that blocked the roads because they didn't want anyone

00:03:35.920 else to come. It was not an occupation. It was a peaceful protest in the nation's capital. Not a

00:03:42.560 single act of violence reported, let alone charged. It was beautiful. It was patriotic. It was hot tubs

00:03:49.140 and bouncy castles. It was people spontaneously singing the anthem and waving Canadian flags. I have

00:03:54.380 never been to such an event in my life. It felt like a festival of patriotism. And it was wonderful.

00:04:01.860 One of the highlights for me was when I was asked by the truckers to stand up on their

00:04:05.840 stage and give a few words. Here's a speech I gave about how I felt that moment that the truckers had

00:04:12.480 an enormous victory. Take a look at my one minute on the stage at the trucker convoy.

00:04:18.060 ...to not be violated anymore. Justin Trudeau says you're extreme, but he's the one who has violated

00:04:27.100 our civil rights. He says you're a fringe. Well, that's a pretty bloody big fringe.

00:04:34.740 Let me close by saying this. Someone asked me this morning, what's the point? What's going to happen?

00:04:46.000 Why did we all gather in Ottawa? Is he going to listen? Is he going to resign? Is the governor

00:04:52.700 general going to ask him to step down? No. He'll hold on to power as hard as he can.

00:04:58.180 Let me tell you what I think the point is. The point is the convoy itself. To show that

00:05:06.480 you're not alone. To show that you're not the crazy one they are. To show that you're not

00:05:13.400 the crazy one there. You already achieved your goal just by being here. And the fact that millions

00:05:27.180 of dollars came into the GoFundMe for the truckers, even if they would have cancelled that, it was

00:05:34.820 still a success. Because it was a measurement of how much people cared. You have succeeded

00:05:42.820 just by being here.

00:05:46.820 He got the fight. Congratulations to the organizers. But really, it was millions of Canadians along the way in the convoy

00:05:58.820 and watching today from home. Tell them what happened. Tell them what you saw. Because they

00:06:06.820 will not hear the truth from anyone else. Keep up the fight, everybody. Keep fighting for freedom.

00:06:12.820 I enjoyed being there. I was only there for a few days, but Rebel News reporters covered that convoy

00:06:18.820 more comprehensively than any other media organization. In Canada, we had reporters Lincoln Jay and Alexa Lavoie,

00:06:26.820 both fairly new to Rebel at the time. I think they worked 23 days straight in Ottawa. Alexa herself got shot

00:06:33.820 in the leg by a riot cop who clearly knew who she was and just hated the fact that she was telling the truth.

00:06:41.820 Take a look at this awful moment. This was the lowest moment in the seven and a half years of Rebel News.

00:06:47.820 This was the worst moment. Take a look.

00:06:59.820 Can you believe it? I called up Alexa 20 minutes after she was shot and I said, go to the hospital now.

00:07:13.820 the hospital now. And she said to me, no, I will stay to report on the rest of this protest

00:07:19.740 before I go. I can't believe her courage. But that courage was the same as all of our rebel

00:07:25.220 journalists, Celine Glass and Mocha Bazirgen, who embedded themselves with the convoys and went

00:07:30.720 across Canada. Sidney Fazzard, Kian Simone, who went down for nine days straight in the same set

00:07:37.160 of clothing to cover the Coutts blockade. David Menzies and Isabel Rivoche, who went to the

00:07:42.800 Windsor blockade. I'm not going to try and name everyone, Drea Humphrey. We had a total deployment

00:07:47.960 of our team. I remember one weekend we had 19 rebel reporters covering the truckers. It was

00:07:54.320 our time to shine, the moment we had been preparing for our entire company life. When we started,

00:07:59.940 our motto was telling the other side of the story. And our style was citizen journalism. And our rule

00:08:06.240 was take no money from the government. We didn't know it at the time, but the first five years of

00:08:11.620 Rebel News existence was practicing and training and preparing for this great crisis. For when it

00:08:17.360 came, we were the only major media organization. I call us major. We're tiny compared to the big guys.

00:08:23.540 But we had 19 reporters on the ground and it showed. All around the world, people looked for

00:08:29.560 the facts about the trucker convoy and they went to Rebel News, not the CBC, which is merely Trudeau

00:08:35.320 propagandist. Our journalists were on Fox News, Sky News, ITV, Deutsche Welle, all over the world. It

00:08:44.000 was a wonderful moment. And we helped tell the truth and stop the regime media from smearing this

00:08:51.540 protest, which was clearly their ambition. They wanted to say these people were terrorists. They

00:08:57.240 were extremists. They were white supremacists. They were violent. None of those things were true. 1.00

00:09:02.040 There was violence, as I mentioned, but it was violence against the truckers and against reporters.

00:09:08.020 There was no racism. In fact, many heroes of different backgrounds were born during the

00:09:12.600 trucker convoy. One of my favorites is Palminder Singh, the great Sikh trucker who showed just

00:09:18.500 how diverse this was. It was wonderful. Anyways, it was a disaster for Trudeau on a policy level

00:09:24.520 and a PR level. And he panicked. He made an unforced error. He brought in a form of martial law

00:09:30.960 under the Emergencies Act, a law that has never been used in Canada before and was intended

00:09:36.800 to fight off a war or a violent insurrection. Trudeau invoked it because there was some horn honking

00:09:45.200 in Ottawa by some truckers. What a pitiful excuse for a leader he was. And he overdid it. He deployed

00:09:52.360 horses to stomp on people. Remember this awful, awful moment that was shown around the world.

00:09:58.340 Oh, come on through. Come on through. What is happening here? Wow. What is this lady doing? 1.00

00:10:05.600 Trampling. Trampling horses. Trampling. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. What? Oh, my God.

00:10:13.820 That was dramatic, deploying horses to stomp on protesters. But there were countless small

00:10:19.740 moments of tyranny, things that belong more in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, China, not Canada. Remember when

00:10:26.400 this elderly man, five foot feet high, was physically abused simply because he honk honked his horn

00:10:33.500 in support? This was one of the most disgraceful moments I saw of police brutality at Trudeau's

00:10:39.540 direction. Remember this?

00:10:41.380 For what? Hey. What are you doing?

00:10:43.840 Failing to ID.

00:10:44.660 Hey. Hey. Hey. That's assault. I've got it all on video.

00:10:51.760 You failed to ID.

00:10:53.760 Yeah, he failed to ID.

00:10:55.080 And I went to turn away to walk away to the van. And I went to turn and he grabbed me by

00:11:03.100 the shoulders and then said, you are under arrest. I'm afraid to go out of the house. I'm afraid of

00:11:09.480 Of course, the great overreach was the invocation of martial law, seizing bank accounts. Apparently

00:11:15.940 only 200 of Trudeau's opponents had their bank accounts seized, which is atrocious. No one should

00:11:22.840 have. But those 200 spooked probably 2 million Canadians who thought, well, I'm a conservative.

00:11:29.260 I oppose Justin Trudeau. I may have donated to the truckers. I may have donated to the Conservative

00:11:34.320 Party or Maxime Bernier's People Party. Am I going to have my bank account seized? We don't

00:11:39.460 know the total number, but it wouldn't surprise me if billions of dollars was withdrawn from

00:11:45.940 Canadian banks and relocated to the U.S. or another jurisdiction with the First Amendment

00:11:51.460 beyond Trudeau's reach. Luckily, even some of Trudeau's own senators were shocked and appalled

00:11:57.940 by his misconduct. And they balked and they refused to support the Emergencies Act when it went to the

00:12:02.740 Senate. And Trudeau had to walk it back. But the spell was broken. The false consciousness that

00:12:09.380 all Canadians supported the lockdowns and vaccine mandates and Trudeau's brutal language. That was

00:12:14.540 broken. I mean, this was actually considered acceptable. Remember when Trudeau said, do the

00:12:19.480 unvaccinated take up too much space? Should we even tolerate them? Aren't they just misogynistic? 0.98

00:12:25.860 Here's a few video clips that were considered normal and that, if anything, got cheerleading

00:12:30.860 from the media party. None of these atrocious, bigoted statements I'm about to show you

00:12:35.700 were condemned by the media. They loved it. Remember these?

00:12:38.860 Des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.

00:12:41.860 Ils sont extrémistes. 0.99

00:12:42.980 Qui croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes, souvent racistes aussi. C'est

00:12:47.860 un petit groupe, mais qui prend de la place. Et là, il faut faire un choix en tant que leader,

00:12:54.940 en tant que pays. Est-ce qu'on tolère?

00:12:58.100 Get vaccinated. And you know what? If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.

00:13:04.220 But don't think you can get on a plane or a train besides vaccinated people and put them 1.00

00:13:09.620 at risk. We need to be strong in the decisions we're taking going forward.

00:13:15.740 Truckers pierced that balloon, not just the thousands of truckers, but the hundreds of thousands,

00:13:20.400 maybe even a million Canadians who went out along the highways and overpasses to watch them and see

00:13:25.360 them. And they weren't just watching and seeing this amazing democratic phenomenon. They themselves

00:13:30.720 were realizing that they had been lied to by the regime media, that there was this artificial

00:13:36.240 unanimity. Trudeau kept saying 90% of people support this. 90% of people took the jab. I don't

00:13:41.920 believe that statistic is true, actually. But if it is true, it's because people were forced to on

00:13:46.480 pain of being terminated. The people who went out to cheer for the truckers, this was their way of

00:13:52.480 proving that they weren't the crazy ones, even though everyone said they were. But Trudeau,

00:13:57.600 who was destroying our civil liberties, was the crazy one. A lot of good things started to happen.

00:14:01.920 Justin Trudeau, of course, showed his true face. He bared his fangs. And I think people don't look

00:14:07.840 at him the same way since. Aaron O'Toole, who initially told his caucus never to talk to the truckers,

00:14:14.320 he was thrown out by his conservative caucus that was sick of him being a liberal Me Too.

00:14:20.400 Jason Kenney, who bizarrely became one of the most abusive enforcers of the lockdowns,

00:14:25.520 he was thrown out by his party as well, replaced by Danielle Smith just last week, who has repeatedly

00:14:31.520 said that the lockdowns were a civil liberties disaster and who, in fact, said she would apologize

00:14:37.440 to Albertans who were punished by the lockdowns and the mandates. The truckers did a lot of things.

00:14:42.960 And Trudeau didn't forget that. Trudeau is a vengeful man. He has vendettas. He wants to get

00:14:49.680 even. It's one reason why he extended the ban on travel for unvaccinated people longer than any other

00:14:57.920 country in the Free West. Only China and countries that abusive and totalitarian, North Korea, had those 0.71

00:15:06.160 kind of punitive rules against the unvaccinated as long as Trudeau did. Trudeau failed in large part

00:15:13.120 because of our coverage, but now he's getting a do-over. This judicial commission that I referred

00:15:18.800 to that is now six weeks in the going to run in Ottawa. If you actually look at the mandate,

00:15:25.520 the terms of reference, you'll see that what was supposed to be putting Trudeau on trial

00:15:32.400 for his violation of our civil liberties. Well, Trudeau has told the judge, nah, I'm not much

00:15:38.000 interested in that, mate. I want you to put the truckers on trial. I'm going to read now from the

00:15:43.680 official mandate letter that was given to the judge by Trudeau.

00:15:49.280 A, the evolution and goals of the convoy and blockades, their leadership organization

00:15:54.720 and participants. Let me back up a bit. Let me read the preceding line. The commissioner must

00:16:00.960 examine issues to the extent relevant to the circumstances of the declaration and measures

00:16:06.080 taken. So Trudeau is ordering the judge to focus on these things. The evolution and goals of the

00:16:14.320 convoy and blockades, their leadership organization and participants, the impact of domestic and foreign

00:16:19.760 funding, including crowdsourcing platforms. C, the impact role and sources of misinformation and

00:16:26.720 disinformation, including the use of social media. Hang on, none of those things there have anything

00:16:31.920 to do with what Trudeau did. Putting the truckers on trial for misinformation is a laugh. I mean, the CBC

00:16:39.200 went with this crazy story of misinformation and foreign meddling. Look at this nut bar. By the way,

00:16:47.040 she is since being promoted at the CBC. Here she is saying that Putin, Vladimir Putin was behind

00:16:54.000 the truckers. I'm laughing, but it's so deeply embarrassing for the regime media. Remember this?

00:16:58.720 Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia. I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask,

00:17:05.600 but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows,

00:17:13.920 but perhaps even instigating it from the outset. She's being promoted. But my point is this trucker 0.80

00:17:20.160 commission has been instructed by Justin Trudeau not to scrutinize too closely Trudeau himself,

00:17:25.920 but rather to put the truckers on trial and their misinformation, as if misinformation or as if

00:17:33.680 the trucker leadership in some way would justify the suspension of our civil liberties. You know,

00:17:41.520 Trudeau doesn't really believe in the rule of law. We know this from countless examples. I'll give you

00:17:46.560 a few of them. He doesn't believe that norms about sexual assault apply to him. You'll remember when he

00:17:52.160 was caught having sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, BC, he just shrugged and told journalists,

00:17:58.560 well, she experienced it differently. Remember that? This lesson that we are learning in, and I'll be

00:18:04.880 blunt about it. Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate,

00:18:12.720 and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently, and we have to respect.

00:18:18.320 He's been doing it his whole life. He gets away with things. You know, he tells the story of

00:18:23.920 when his own family had a run-in with the police. His father just made a few phone calls

00:18:28.640 as a child and made the whole thing go away. He was grown up believing that he was above the law.

00:18:33.360 Remember this shocking interview? I think this was with Vice. He got in a terrible, terrible car

00:18:37.600 accident, and his truck tumbled, and a Sucretes box went flying across the highway. And when the

00:18:45.680 police were helping him clean up and tow, they opened up the Sucretes box, and there's a couple of

00:18:49.840 joints inside. So he was charged with possession. When he got back home to Montreal, my dad said,

00:18:59.360 okay, don't worry about it, reached out to his friends in the legal community, got the best

00:19:05.440 possible lawyer, and was very confident that we were going to be able to make those charges go away.

00:19:11.280 We were able to do that because we had resources. My dad had a couple connections.

00:19:16.320 You don't have to reach back into ancient history. Trudeau fired his attorney general,

00:19:21.120 Jody Wilson-Raybould, the first Indigenous justice minister in Canadian history,

00:19:25.360 because she wouldn't let him rig a criminal trial for bribery and corruption of his pals 0.74

00:19:31.840 at SNC-Lavalin. He literally fired the justice minister because she wouldn't let him meddle in

00:19:38.640 that trial. Remember that? And of course, his repeated corruption and violation of the

00:19:45.680 Conflict of Interest Act. He just won't stop taking gifts and benefits, a hundred thousand dollars

00:19:51.280 on a secret vacation on Billionaire Island in the Bahamas. He is rebuked again and again and doesn't

00:19:57.680 give a damn. Why should he? The laws are for the little people. Even Rebel News shows that he doesn't 0.98

00:20:03.600 care about the law. Twice, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission banned our reporters

00:20:09.280 from going to cover those debates. Twice, the federal court ordered us in. And when our reporter,

00:20:14.160 Alexa Lavois asked him about that, he didn't care. He simply did not believe that he had to obey a

00:20:21.440 judicial ruling merely hours old. Remember when Alexa and Tamara put questions to him? Here's a

00:20:26.320 reminder of that. The only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal

00:20:31.760 court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.

00:20:37.200 This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government. Do you still insist

00:20:43.520 on being able to make that decision and why? First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by

00:20:51.680 the press gallery and the consortium of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism

00:20:59.600 and the important information that is shared with Canadians. The reality is organizations

00:21:07.440 organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science

00:21:17.440 around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic and be there for each

00:21:24.400 other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of

00:21:33.440 understanding of basic science. And quite frankly, I won't call it a media organization, your group of

00:21:42.320 individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this

00:21:50.400 country. And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we

00:21:57.520 take about the kind of country we want to see. And I salute all extraordinary hardworking journalists

00:22:03.760 that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure

00:22:12.240 that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing

00:22:19.360 that you guys do. Yeah. So Justin Trudeau, why would he think this judicial inquiry about his misconduct

00:22:25.120 during the truckers is of any interest to him? His goal is to pervert it, to turn it around and put the

00:22:30.640 truckers under the microscope rather than his own conduct. It's my mission that he does not succeed with

00:22:38.320 that. I believe that Rebel News journalists helped foil Trudeau's propaganda plans when the convoy came to

00:22:44.240 town. I know this to be a fact because we had such an enormous viewership of our videos and tweets and

00:22:51.120 Facebook posts and Instagram posts. We had more eyeballs on our coverage of that story than we had

00:22:58.160 in the entire year of 2021. People were interested and they were interested, as our motto says,

00:23:04.160 in the other side of the story. That's why we're going back to Ottawa. We've rented the Airbnb. We've

00:23:10.880 turned it into a local studio. I'm going to be there as many days as I can. We've got 15 Rebel News

00:23:16.720 reporters who are going to rotate through this little Airbnb. They're going to stay there in the

00:23:20.640 Airbnb. We're going to use the living room of this Airbnb as a little studio. We're not just going to

00:23:25.280 analyze what's going on in this commission of inquiry. We're going to have reporters on the

00:23:29.680 streets. We're going to interview witnesses and lawyers. I should tell you, we know there are a few

00:23:34.320 good guys on the inside of this commission. Keith Wilson, a lawyer for the truckers. He's with the

00:23:41.360 Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. Alan Hohner, also a lawyer for some truckers. He's with

00:23:46.880 the Democracy Fund. Both of them have been granted intervener status with this commission of inquiry.

00:23:54.080 So it's not just government lawyers engaging in a Trudeopian cover-up. There's a couple of lawyers 0.65

00:24:00.960 whose mission is to elucidate, not obfuscate. So if you're wondering what we're up to, well,

00:24:07.280 there's a lot going on in Rebel News. We have a team of journalists going overseas right now to

00:24:11.760 cover the World Health Organization Summit at the giant United Nations Conference in Berlin.

00:24:16.800 That's very important. In fact, some of our best reporters are headed over there. Guillaume Ra and

00:24:21.360 Alexa Lavoie, Tamara Ugolini, Ed Crawford, and of course, Drea Humphrey. So we've got five journalists,

00:24:29.840 three on-air talent and two producers and video editors. So we're covering the World Health

00:24:34.000 Organization in Berlin right away. But we are going to put through 15 different reporters over the

00:24:40.000 next six weeks in Ottawa. And if you can help me out, please do, you know, renting that Airbnb

00:24:46.400 for a month and a half, that big, that location, that close to the inquiry. It's about $15,000.

00:24:53.440 And when you add in the other costs of supporting our team, flying them there, helping keep them

00:24:58.560 going. You know, we have other costs in the city, whether it's Ubers or food and just getting our

00:25:05.840 people in and out because no one's going to do all six weeks together. I think we're going to wind up

00:25:10.000 spending about $30,000 covering this Trucker Commission. And if you want to follow the Trucker

00:25:16.480 Commission or help us chip in to cover it, please go to truckercommission.com. Anyways, I'm here in

00:25:22.000 Calgary reporting, recording this. I've got to go right away. I'm going to get on a plane right now.

00:25:27.360 I'm going to fly to Ottawa and I'm going to join our head of video, Efron Monsanto,

00:25:32.640 and our wonderful young reporter based in Ottawa, William Diaz Bertheon, who's on the ground already.

00:25:38.320 So when I see you next, I will be in our nation's capital and I'll tell you what the Airbnb is like.

00:25:43.680 So goodbye from Calgary and I'll see you in a minute from Ottawa.

00:25:53.760 Well, hello. When I recorded my monologue this morning, I was in Calgary. That's where we were

00:25:58.720 doing the documentary premiere of our movie called Ungovernable. It was about Alberta sovereignty.

00:26:04.720 That was a great event last night. Started the day in Calgary. I'm here in Ottawa. It's not nighttime

00:26:10.480 yet. I'm standing in front of 395 Wellington Street, the intersection of Wellington and Bay.

00:26:17.520 This is the Library and Archives of Canada, which is the forum for the Commission of Inquiry,

00:26:24.720 run by a judge into Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act. And with me is our friend

00:26:31.920 William Diaz Bertheon, our on-the-ground Ottawa reporter who has been here all day. In fact,

00:26:37.440 he lives in Ottawa, so he's become quite good at spotting politicians on these streets,

00:26:42.800 running after them and putting great questions to them. William, I think you've been doing an

00:26:45.840 amazing job and you've continued that today. Great to see you. Good to see you too, Ezra.

00:26:49.920 Now tell me a little bit about how the day has gone. I want to tell you one of the most exciting

00:26:54.320 things to me. I don't have it in my pocket. Oh, I think I do. I'm talking about the accreditation.

00:27:00.560 I'll show you mine. The accreditation of 13 Rebel News journalists. And I see you have yours as well.

00:27:11.040 That feels great. So we are officially part of this process. Yeah, no, exactly. So we're basically

00:27:16.880 sitting in the media room alongside all the other mainstream media reporters. I know Western Standard

00:27:21.360 also got accredited, so we're going to be able to see them. So you know it's great. We have access

00:27:25.120 inside the building. We're able to scrum the people coming out when Omar al-Jabra is going to show his

00:27:29.920 little face in the building. When Justin Trudeau is going to be here as well. We're also going to be

00:27:33.440 able to scrum them. I don't think they're going to be happy to see us, Ezra. Right, because they do

00:27:37.440 their best to block us. They've blocked us from the leaders debates, although twice the federal court

00:27:42.080 is accredited to us. You know, the fact that I'm talking about this, I shouldn't have to talk about

00:27:46.800 this. We're in a free country and we have the right to ask questions of our political leaders.

00:27:50.800 The fact that the government is so obsessed of restricting questions gives us a hint

00:27:55.440 about how badly needed this inquiry is. Justin Trudeau simply doesn't believe in civil liberties.

00:28:02.000 And the fact that you and I will have a chance to put questions to him will infuriate him. And

00:28:07.360 frankly, it'll infuriate a lot of the media party because remember, they are the ones who have blackballed 0.90

00:28:12.080 us from the parliamentary press gallery. Tell me about some of the scrums you actually started.

00:28:18.880 I saw the video clips. Why don't you set up the Tamara Leach clip and then we'll talk about the 0.95

00:28:22.480 Keith Wilson clip. And because there's a story behind both. Go ahead and tell us what happened

00:28:27.280 when you saw Tamara Leach. Yeah, so basically Tamara Leach was coming 0.99

00:28:32.000 into the building after one of the recess that were there. And I saw her and she saw me,

00:28:36.080 so she kind of came and shook my hand. But she didn't talk to any other reporter. I think because

00:28:40.000 of her bail condition, she's not fully allowed to talk to reporters, which I find absolutely outrageous.

00:28:46.560 You know, in Russia, it's not even that bad. It's Vladimir Putin's Russia, right. So she couldn't

00:28:51.280 talk to the reporter, but her lawyer actually agreed to speak to me. And later on, I asked him if he

00:28:56.000 could give us an interview and he agreed to have the interview. So I started doing an interview with

00:28:59.280 him. And you see in the video, about two minutes after, not even two minutes after I started questioning

00:29:03.600 him, some mainstream media reporters, CTV, National Press, Global Mail, CBC News reporter,

00:29:10.000 come around us and actually came to the scrum that I initiated. That was pretty funny to watch, yeah.

00:29:15.360 Well, that's pretty fun. Let's take a quick look at that Tamara Leach interaction. 1.00

00:29:18.480 That was a brief one, but here's how your Keith Wilson interview went. We won't play the whole thing,

00:29:46.720 but I want to show the point you made. You, no one was talking to these people. You went up to them

00:29:52.160 and it, I would say it was a benefit to the other media that Rebel News and you in particular showed

00:29:58.960 them who the newsmakers were. They would have ignored these people. I don't know why the rest

00:30:03.200 of the media keeps us out other than ideological differences. And maybe they think we're a competitive

00:30:07.680 threat. Yeah. Well, I think it's because we ask tough questions, right? You talk about the media,

00:30:11.520 but I think there's more to the media. There's also the government and above it,

00:30:15.840 right? You got Omar Aljaba that I always put a mic up to his face and he's not able to answer

00:30:19.760 a single question. He's not used to questions that aren't so loving. Yeah. Well, you saw,

00:30:23.600 you saw him have a meltdown, a literal meltdown. When I saw him for the fourth time in front of

00:30:27.440 parliament, he was meltdown. He said, I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you.

00:30:30.800 I never saw him scream before. And that's the first time he actually scram at me.

00:30:34.160 Let's take a quick look at that for those who don't remember. Take a look.

00:30:36.640 You know, I don't want to talk to you. I really don't want to talk to you.

00:30:38.720 Why don't you want to talk to Canadians that you're supposed to represent?

00:30:42.160 Canadians every day. No, you don't because we've got a million viewers watching us on YouTube

00:30:45.920 and you absolutely refuse to answer the question. Why do you have so much contempt for conservative

00:30:49.440 Canadians? I don't want to talk to you. You don't want to? No. Is it because it's too hard? 1.00

00:30:54.880 Oh yeah. Yeah. Too difficult?

00:31:00.160 Why do you have so much contempt for conservative Canadians across the country to the point that you

00:31:04.400 refuse to even address them when we ask questions? I love Canadians. It's just you do so much harm to 1.00

00:31:09.680 Canadians with your misinformation. What did I say that was misinformation? Name me one thing.

00:31:13.920 But I wish you all with your career. One thing. I wish you all with your career because

00:31:17.280 this is a great job for you. This is incredible, folks. Name me one thing that was misinformation.

00:31:26.640 Just one.

00:31:30.240 Well, that's exciting. I'm thrilled that we're here. I'm going to be here. I want to tell you

00:31:34.240 that every night we can we're going to have a live stream on the day's experiences. So we are going

00:31:40.560 to we just came from the Airbnb. We rented a really big Airbnb just a few blocks away from this building.

00:31:48.160 It couldn't be closer. Like it's so fast to walk here. It's faster than taking a cab. And we did that

00:31:52.880 on purpose. So we're very close access to here. It's got four bedrooms. So we're going to rotate

00:31:58.000 through Rebel News journalists for the next six weeks. And and we've got a little mini TV studio

00:32:03.600 set up in there. So every day we're going to talk to people, talk to reporters, talk to witnesses and

00:32:08.000 look as well. Right. We're going to have a daily live stream. We're going to be able to explain

00:32:11.440 exactly what exactly happened during the day and what what you need to know about the inquiry.

00:32:15.760 Yeah, I'm very excited. This is a big project for Rebel News. I mean, just booking this Airbnb alone

00:32:20.800 was about fifteen thousand dollars, which sounds shocking. But when you realize we're getting it for a month

00:32:25.520 and a half and it's right downtown and we're using it as a studio, I think it's a good investment.

00:32:30.240 We're going to cycle through 15 different reporters and producers. So we might actually have to get a

00:32:37.040 few more press accreditations. And it's not just witnesses and lawyers. I mean, there's a lot going

00:32:44.480 on. There's going to be street protests. You were here and you said there were protests on the street

00:32:47.760 this morning. Is that right? Yeah, this morning there were about five people that were here this morning

00:32:51.120 with a Canada flag to basically protest, you know, the federal government. Same thing as we saw during

00:32:56.240 the convoy. And I just want to mention one more thing. As you know, we love the Democracy Fund.

00:33:02.480 That's a registered CRA charity that supports a lot of trucker lawyers. And Alan Honor, one of the lawyers

00:33:10.720 for the Democracy Fund, he actually received intervener status. So has the JCCF, by the way.

00:33:17.280 So there are some good guys on the inside. We already mentioned Keith Wilson. I just want to show you a clip

00:33:23.200 of Alan Honor's statement today from the Democracy Fund. Take a look at this guy. My name is Alan Honor and I am

00:33:29.840 the litigation director for the Democracy Fund. The Democracy Fund is a registered charity and a civil liberties

00:33:37.520 organization. As you've heard, we're sharing standing with the JCCF and with Citizens for Freedom.

00:33:43.440 Our interest in this inquiry arises from our legal work. In February of 2022, we sent lawyers to Ottawa

00:33:53.280 and to Windsor to provide demonstrators with legal information about their rights when protesting,

00:34:01.520 as well as the limitations of those rights. Around the same time, we were granted intervener status

00:34:08.640 as a friend of the court at the Superior Court of Justice in Windsor over the Ambassador Bridge injunction

00:34:17.600 proceeding. Currently, we represent dozens of persons who have been criminally charged in relation to the

00:34:25.440 protests at Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts. And we represent thousands of others who've been charged under the

00:34:33.520 quarantine act or provincial offenses related to the pandemic. We've also brought applications between

00:34:41.520 before Superior Courts and the Federal Court of Canada, challenging laws related to the pandemic.

00:34:49.200 Our objective is to participate in the fact-finding process of this inquiry, particularly as it relates to

00:34:56.000 uncovering the truth about why the federal government invoked a public order emergency and how they used

00:35:03.440 their powers. From our perspective, the government did not meet the requisite legal grounds to invoke

00:35:10.400 a public order emergency for the same reasons you heard from Council for the Freedom Corps.

00:35:16.080 It follows that the extraordinary measures the government invoked were therefore inappropriate and

00:35:23.200 indeed outside their jurisdiction. Our questions and our submissions will focus on these central issues. Thank you.

00:35:33.200 Well, there's a lot going on. It's a bit of a drizzle here. You and I are getting a little bit wet, but

00:35:37.440 but we're both waterproof, so it's no problem. It's very exciting to be in the heart of Ottawa and to be

00:35:43.360 accredited to cover this and to have some good lawyers on the inside. Keith Wilson, Alan Hohner,

00:35:49.200 and I think there's a couple others. So I think this is a very important project for us because I think

00:35:54.080 that Justin Trudeau wants to use this inquiry to flip the tables, turn the tables and put the truckers on

00:36:00.000 trial, whereas the whole point of it is to put him on trial, a sort of trial, for his decision to suspend

00:36:05.680 our civil liberties. The regime media, the media party are going to try and help Trudeau turn it around on

00:36:11.520 the truckers. It's our job to shine a light of scrutiny on the truth and to ask the questions

00:36:17.680 that this commission should ask. Why did Justin Trudeau suspend our civil liberties? Why did he

00:36:23.840 deploy riot police against peaceful protesters? Why did he seize bank accounts? Why did he put us in a

00:36:29.440 form of martial law? That's what's interesting, not what some truckers said. Yeah, well, that's exactly

00:36:34.000 the point. You know, the point of the commission is not to see if the what the convoy protesters did

00:36:38.240 were illegal or if it was justified or if it was all right. It's see if Justin Trudeau's response to

00:36:43.120 a protest was justified if that was something legal to do. Well, William, we're so proud of your work on

00:36:49.440 the streets of Ottawa, en Francais and in English. You're doing a great job. I love your interactions

00:36:55.120 with the cabinet ministers, especially your best friend Omar Alcabria. Great to see you. I'll be here

00:37:00.320 today and tomorrow. And we're going to have Rebel News reporters cycling through

00:37:05.040 from Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa with my friend William Diaz Bertiom.

00:37:11.840 This is Ezra Levant. Back to the studio.

00:37:19.600 Well, when I said back to the studio, it's just me actually standing here in Ottawa because I didn't

00:37:25.280 go back to the studio. I'm here. Listen, I'm very excited to be here and William and our friend

00:37:31.680 Efron Monsanto and Kian Simone are here and more journalists on the way. We really are going full

00:37:37.920 tilt like we were during the convoy itself. If you want to help us out, go to truckercommission.com.

00:37:44.240 That's where we're going to compile all of our journalism from this event. So it's going to be a

00:37:48.560 very valuable resources for that alone. And if you want to chip in to help us cover our Airbnb and travel

00:37:53.760 and other expenses, please do. It's not a fancy Airbnb. It's just large enough that we can stay

00:37:59.600 there and have a little studio in the living room. So if you want to go to truckercommission.com,

00:38:05.040 I'd appreciate it. All right. Until next time, until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at

00:38:12.480 the Public Inquiry, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:16.160 We've rented a giant Airbnb right next to the Trucker Commission of Inquiry for the whole six

00:38:23.760 weeks. We are going to staff it with Rebel News journalists. We're taking shifts. 15 of our

00:38:29.280 reporters are going to cycle through this Ottawa studio and we are going to cover the Trucker

00:38:34.240 Commission of Inquiry as carefully and comprehensively as we cover the convoy itself. But I need your help.

00:38:40.720 Please go to truckercommission.com to help me cover the extraordinary costs of this important

00:38:46.560 journalistic mission. The Trucker Convoy was the greatest force for freedom in Canada during the

00:38:54.080 entire pandemic lockdown. They did more for freedom than any political party, any opposition leader,

00:38:59.920 any judge or court, any mainstream media. And they won and they did it in a beautiful, peaceful,

00:39:05.280 Canadian way, a very patriotic way with their bouncy castles and hot tubs. It was wonderful.

00:39:10.960 And Trudeau raged against it. He sent his riot police. He declared a form of martial law under

00:39:17.280 the Emergencies Act. He even started to seize the bank accounts of his political opponents. But the

00:39:22.080 truckers won. They made Trudeau blink. And another thing happened is that by using that form of martial

00:39:28.880 law, Trudeau started a process where he now has to answer for it in front of a judicial inquiry. Here's

00:39:35.760 the thing, that inquiry is starting now in Ottawa and we have to be there every day to cover it as

00:39:44.080 intensively as our Rebel News reporters covered the original trucker convoy in the first place.

00:39:50.000 Because this trucker inquiry, this judicial inquiry is being used by Trudeau to revise history,

00:39:57.520 to rewrite what happened in February, to try to demonize the truckers in a way that didn't happen.

00:40:03.680 Trudeau lost the first round and so he has rigged this inquiry to have a do-over. Let me prove it to

00:40:11.040 you. This judge can't inquire into anything he wants. He has to follow a list sent to him by Trudeau

00:40:19.040 himself. Let me read to you the five points that this judge is directed by Trudeau to look at. Isn't

00:40:26.080 that quite something? Trudeau can set the terms of his own review. Here's an example of what's going

00:40:32.080 to be done at this commission. The judge has to look into, A, the evolution and goals of the convoy and

00:40:39.520 blockades, their leadership, organization, and participants. B, the impact of domestic and foreign

00:40:46.240 funding, including crowdsourcing platforms. C, the impact role and sources of misinformation

00:40:53.040 and disinformation, including the use of social media. And there's two more points,

00:40:58.560 but those first three points, do you see what he's doing? Instead of Justin Trudeau himself being put

00:41:04.240 on trial for his abuse of our civil liberties, he's trying to flip it around and put the truckers on

00:41:09.760 trial. But the truckers didn't destroy our civil liberties. The truckers didn't seize bank accounts

00:41:15.120 or deploy riot horses against unarmed civilians. We have to be there every day during this commission

00:41:21.360 of inquiry to report what's being said, to rebut the lies, and to spread the word, just like Rebel

00:41:27.040 News did during the convoy itself. Rebel News was the most important news source for the entire world

00:41:34.000 during the truckers. In that month, we had 400 million views and impressions of all our videos and

00:41:40.320 stories and social media. That's as much as the state broadcaster, the CBC gets on any given month.

00:41:47.120 We helped save the truth and we have to do it again. Here's my plan, and I need your help for it.

00:41:53.280 We have rented an Airbnb right next to the judicial inquiry, and we have turned it into a temporary

00:42:02.880 Ottawa studio. Every day we're going to live stream the proceedings of this commission of inquiry.

00:42:09.920 We're going to have journalists both inside, we've been accredited, and outside the commission talking

00:42:15.600 to witnesses, talking to lawyers. They're probably going to be protesters. We'll film that too.

00:42:20.560 If you want to know what's going on in the commission of inquiry, you've got to follow it

00:42:25.920 at our specialty website, truckercommission.com. We're not just having a little studio. We are

00:42:34.400 sending, over the course of the next six weeks, 15 of our reporters, not all at once. We're going to

00:42:40.720 rotate them through two, three, four at a time in this Airbnb. All your favorite trucker convoy

00:42:47.280 correspondents, Alexa Lavoie, Lincoln J. In fact, people from other cities at Rebel News are coming to

00:42:54.000 Ottawa. I'm going to be there a lot too. It is our job to tell the truth about the truckers and to

00:43:00.480 stop Justin Trudeau and his hand-rigged commission from revising history. We can't let him get away

00:43:07.520 with it. Justin Trudeau has to answer for his bonfire of our civil liberties. He's trying to push it off

00:43:14.720 onto the truckers and make them explain themselves, but the truckers aren't the ones who seized the bank

00:43:20.720 accounts or deployed riot horses. We need to be there, but it's expensive. This Airbnb for six

00:43:28.000 weeks, a big Airbnb like that with four bedrooms for our journalists and room for our studio, that's

00:43:33.520 costing us about $15,000 to fly in or drive in our journalists and to keep them going for six weeks.

00:43:42.160 That's probably going to be another $15,000 too. We're going to have 15 journalists there.

00:43:48.240 I need your help to cover this. Unlike the CBC state broadcaster, I don't get paid

00:43:52.880 from Justin Trudeau. I can't just call him up and ask for more money. We don't have big advertisers.

00:43:57.920 We've been demonetized. It's 100% up to you. If you think Rebel News did an important job by telling

00:44:05.120 the truth during the trucker convoy, and I think we did, well then please help us tell the truth about

00:44:10.320 this trucker commission. Go to truckercommission.com and chip in to help cover the cost of our Airbnb,

00:44:18.000 our travel, and our 15 truth-telling journalists. You know, the commission of inquiry, I want to give

00:44:25.440 them a chance to do the right thing, but so far they're off to a weak start. They sent around this

00:44:30.640 bizarre email to other journalists saying, hey, let's have fun, people. Have fun. This is a deadly,

00:44:37.840 serious commission of inquiry into what Justin Trudeau did. Have fun. This is not about fun.

00:44:43.200 This is about truth, and it's about justice, and only Rebel News will give that to you. You simply

00:44:49.920 cannot trust the mainstream media. If you want to help me and my 15 journalist friends,

00:44:56.240 go to truckercommission.com. You can follow all of our reports there. You can watch our live stream,

00:45:01.520 see our interviews with the witnesses and the lawyers, and if you feel so moved, please help us

00:45:07.840 cover the costs of this extraordinary journalistic effort. Please go to truckercommission.com. Thank you.

00:45:17.280 We've rented a giant Airbnb right next to the Trucker Commission of Inquiry. For the whole six weeks,

00:45:23.920 we are going to staff it with Rebel News journalists. We're taking shifts. Fifteen of our reporters are

00:45:29.840 going to cycle through this Ottawa studio, and we are going to cover the Trucker Commission of Inquiry

00:45:35.600 as carefully and comprehensively as we cover the convoy itself, but I need your help.

00:45:41.200 Please go to truckercommission.com to help me cover the extraordinary costs

00:45:45.760 of this important journalistic mission. Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - October 14, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Bringing you every moment from the Trucker Commission

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