Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canadian universities allow 'outrageously' antisemitic groups to set up encampments

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to take a short break from talking about these anti-Semitic hate camps

00:00:07.880 in our universities, and I want to show you another aspect of university. I want to show

00:00:13.040 you some university graduates from a school I bumped into online, actually. It was just a

00:00:19.320 little video I saw on Instagram, of all things. I want to show you this video. I think you'll find

00:00:24.220 it astonishing, and that's why I want you to see it, not just hear it. You've got to see these kids,

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00:00:54.220 Tonight, have you been on campus lately? Let me show you a university that caught my eye.

00:01:15.460 It's May 28th, and this is The Astral Advance Show.

00:01:21.240 Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:01:33.040 Hey, look at this video for a moment.

00:01:35.100 Hello, my name is Jacob, and my concentration is environmental science and sustainable business.

00:01:40.020 Hi, my name is Lex, and my concentration is the performance of self.

00:01:44.340 Hi, I'm Gabrielle, and my concentration is creative direction, production, and narrative

00:01:47.940 through the arts, performance, and written work.

00:01:51.140 Hi, my name is Karina Gomes, and my concentration is in journalism and Latin American studies

00:01:57.300 with an emphasis in human rights, collective memory, and political violence.

00:02:01.920 Hi, my name is Stephanie Lee, and I studied the sociology of environmental communication.

00:02:06.820 I'll play a bit more of it for you in a moment. I just came across the video by chance,

00:02:12.000 and it got me thinking. I'd be nervous going to university these days, not just because I'm Jewish

00:02:18.980 and some universities have allowed outrageously anti-Semitic groups that explicitly support the

00:02:25.200 terrorist group Hamas to set up encampments in the hearts of universities, including here in Toronto

00:02:30.720 at Canada's largest university, where they literally blockade people based on their religion

00:02:36.400 and saying, if you're a Jew, they stop you from passing.

00:02:40.420 We're on what? On indigenous property?

00:02:43.740 On indigenous property. Everywhere you go is indigenous land.

00:02:47.060 Okay, so you're on it there.

00:02:48.460 So just a second, you're on it too.

00:02:49.720 And you have not been there.

00:02:50.740 Get out of the way. Get...

00:02:51.860 You know, are you touching me?

00:02:53.220 You just touched me.

00:02:54.340 I did?

00:02:54.800 You just touched me.

00:02:55.460 I touched you.

00:02:56.340 Okay, now move away. Move away. 1.00

00:02:58.920 I'm not... I'm not...

00:03:00.400 Exactly. Don't engage. Don't...

00:03:02.120 We're not worth your time.

00:03:03.300 I walk here every day before you eat.

00:03:05.260 The university has handed over their property to these guys, who I have no idea who they are.

00:03:12.300 I don't even know if they're students, right? And they're in charge. They're in charge of letting

00:03:17.660 people in, letting people out. Exactly. So let us in. So let us in. Don't give them out, right?

00:03:23.200 Most of the people in these encampments aren't even students, of course. They're professional

00:03:28.580 organizers, well-paid and well-directed. But the university administrations either support

00:03:34.240 these encampments or really don't oppose them. It's not just in Canada. Of course, you'll recall

00:03:39.220 the hearing in front of the U.S. Congress a few months ago when the presidents of Harvard,

00:03:44.280 MIT, and Penn, some of the best schools in America, said that, you know, you have to take

00:03:49.660 those anti-Semitic chants in context. Ms. McGill, at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews

00:03:56.440 violate Penn's rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?

00:04:00.420 If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment. Yes. I am asking, specifically

00:04:09.980 calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?

00:04:16.680 If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.

00:04:20.840 So the answer is yes. It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.

00:04:25.400 It's a context-dependent decision. That's your testimony today. Calling for the genocide of 0.51

00:04:30.080 Jews is depending upon the context. That is not bullying or harassment. This is the easiest

00:04:36.020 question to answer. Yes, Ms. McGill. So is your testimony that you will not answer yes?

00:04:44.100 If it is, if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment. Yes.

00:04:51.320 Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide? The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable,

00:04:58.580 Ms. McGill. I'm going to give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer.

00:05:03.960 Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's code of conduct when it comes to bullying

00:05:10.440 and harassment? Yes or no?

00:05:14.860 It can be harassment.

00:05:16.980 The answer is yes.

00:05:18.460 So yeah, these pro-terrorist camps are bad, but it seems like daily life on campus can be

00:05:25.240 terrifying too. I mean, many of the activists in these encampments are actually professors.

00:05:31.800 Imagine going to class under them. I went to university in the 90s, a full generation ago.

00:05:38.000 Even then I could see things really start to change. I happened to love Shakespeare in high school,

00:05:43.560 so I signed up for English literature as one of my options in my first year university at

00:05:50.340 University of Calgary, allegedly a more conservative school. But it wasn't learning and loving the greatest

00:05:56.800 writer English has ever known. It was all about critical theory. Back then it was feminist critiques.

00:06:04.680 Everything had to be looked at through the lens of sex. I wasn't in women's studies. I was in English, but they didn't teach 0.99

00:06:13.400 English. They taught women's studies. What a disappointment for me. Obviously, I dropped the class, but that made me sad.

00:06:20.460 I would have loved to have had a real Shakespeare professor who was a real expert on the subject

00:06:25.460 teach me something I cared about. Not a political battle about feminism that I wasn't interested in.

00:06:32.980 Of course, as you probably know, feminist women's studies has been devoured by gender studies. 1.00

00:06:41.740 And if you're curious what the difference is, it's transgenderism. Now, feminists are the ones being 1.00

00:06:47.580 silenced and bullied at the hands of men who claim to be women. I don't think these departments are even

00:06:53.620 called women's studies anymore. I just looked at random at the University of Calgary and actually for a few years

00:06:59.480 now, it's called Gender and Sexuality Studies.

00:07:04.640 Three years ago, they erased the word women. On Women's Day, no less, let me read from the student paper there.

00:07:12.520 This change was officially declared on March 8th during the International Women's Day panel, which celebrated the 0.96

00:07:18.440 Gender and Sexuality Studies program and the continued importance of advancing

00:07:23.100 gender and sexuality scholarship alongside equity, diversity, and inclusion across the university.

00:07:30.740 Got it. So we advance women by erasing the word woman and then erasing women's places, women's bathrooms, 1.00

00:07:40.580 women's sports, women's prisons, even refuges for women like rape shelters. Men get to come into all 0.97

00:07:47.980 those places now because that's progress, that's gender studies. I just don't know what you could study these days 1.00

00:07:55.400 that isn't insane. They're even queering math, to use their phraseology. I'm not kidding. When I was in school,

00:08:03.900 women and men had reached parity in law school. It was 50-50. And back then, women were already around 60% of med school. 1.00

00:08:13.600 I think that's a victory for equality, don't you think? At the same time, there was a huge emphasis

00:08:18.600 on pushing and promoting girls and young women in education. For example,

00:08:23.160 not calling upon boys just because they raised their hands to answer a question first.

00:08:29.700 Well, fast forward 30 years, and the boys have got the message. They just don't

00:08:34.240 like school anymore. They don't go to university anymore. Back to the video I showed you a minute ago.

00:08:39.060 I'll play it in full in a moment. It's from New York University's Gallatin School. I just came across

00:08:46.600 it randomly. It's in Manhattan. It's a small school, just 2,000 students, part of NYU. And according to

00:08:53.540 the best stats I could find online, it's 70% female. I actually think it's way more. 1.00

00:09:01.040 Now, part of me would say, that's pretty cool if you're a young man. Two girls for every guy,

00:09:07.200 as the Beach Boys used to sing. But no, I think it's probably about 80% women. And

00:09:13.040 it's sort of incredible. Take a look at the video.

00:09:17.320 Hello, my name is Jacob, and my concentration is environmental science and sustainable business.

00:09:22.640 Hi, my name is Lex, and my concentration is the performance of self.

00:09:26.160 Hi, I'm Gabrielle. My concentration is creative direction, production, and narrative through the

00:09:30.600 arts, performance, and written work. Hi, my name is Karina Gomes, and my concentration

00:09:36.680 is in journalism and Latin American studies, with an emphasis in human rights, collective

00:09:41.900 memory, and political violence. Hi, my name is Stephanie Lee, and I studied the sociology

00:09:47.600 and environmental communication. Hi, my name is Reed, and I study music business and gender studies.

00:09:52.760 Hi, my name is Dominique, and I studied care politics with a minor in disability studies.

00:09:58.920 My name is Elliot Wright, and my concentration is art as a social mechanism.

00:10:03.180 Hi, I'm Georgia, and my concentration is dramatic writing and theatrical adaptation.

00:10:07.820 My name is Noah Loyacano, and my concentration is equilibrium or negotiated paradox.

00:10:14.020 Hi, my name is Sophie Lopez, and my concentration is titled queering and decolonizing theater practice.

00:10:19.620 Yes. Hi, my name is Maya, and my concentration is journalism, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis.

00:10:26.960 Hi, I'm Eloise. I'm graduating with a concentration in philosophy of science and theater.

00:10:31.920 My name is Amina, and my concentration is titled The Criminal Mind, which is surrounded on criminology

00:10:37.520 and applied psychology. Hi, my name is Juliana. My concentration is international business

00:10:43.080 and fashion through sustainable development. Yay!

00:10:46.080 Woo! 0.99

00:10:46.420 Now, the tuition and expenses for this school, as you can see, are just over $95,000 a year U.S. money.

00:10:57.660 That's $130,000 Canadian dollars a year.

00:11:03.940 Let's watch that video just one more time and think about that tuition.

00:11:07.400 Hello, my name is Jacob, and my concentration is environmental science and sustainable business.

00:11:13.100 Hi, my name is Lex, and my concentration is the performance of self.

00:11:16.960 Hi, I'm Gabrielle, and my concentration is creative direction, production, and narrative through the arts,

00:11:22.080 performance, and written work.

00:11:23.820 Hi, my name is Karina Gamas, and my concentration is in journalism and Latin American studies,

00:11:30.100 with an emphasis in human rights, collective memory, and political violence.

00:11:34.200 Hi, my name is Stephanie Lee, and I studied the sociology and environmental communication.

00:11:39.940 Hi, my name is Reed, and I study music business and gender studies.

00:11:43.700 Hi, my name is Dominique, and I studied care politics with a minor in disability studies.

00:11:49.360 My name is Elliot Wright, and my concentration is art as a social mechanism.

00:11:53.620 Hi, I'm Georgia, and my concentration is dramatic writing and theatrical adaptation.

00:11:57.860 My name is Noah Loyacano, and my concentration is equilibrium or negotiated paradox.

00:12:04.480 Hi, my name is Sophie Lopez, and my concentration is titled queering and decolonizing theater practice.

00:12:10.620 Hi, my name is Maya, and my concentration is journalism, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis.

00:12:17.400 Hi, I'm Eloise. I'm graduating with a concentration in philosophy of science and theater.

00:12:22.060 My name is Amina, and my concentration is titled The Criminal Mind, which is surrounded on criminology and applied psychology.

00:12:29.420 Hi, my name is Juliana. My concentration is international business and fashion through sustainable development.

00:12:36.300 Yay! 0.99

00:12:37.200 I had to jot down some of those. Just unbelievable.

00:12:40.980 The performance of self. I guess so.

00:12:44.680 So, sociology of environmental communication, queering and decolonizing theater practice.

00:12:54.580 I think the theater is already pretty queered, as it is, judging by the last 10 Broadway shows I've seen. 1.00

00:13:01.980 Of course, there's a critical race studies component for all of these students, if that weren't already obvious.

00:13:08.820 Here, you can see it on the university website.

00:13:11.680 I spent some time poking around that website, just out of morbid fascination.

00:13:17.220 I'm not sure how many years it takes to get a degree in the performance of self.

00:13:23.660 I don't know. When I went to school, the typical degree is four years.

00:13:27.040 So, that's more than half a million dollars Canadian to get your degree.

00:13:31.820 Who has that kind of money to spend on this?

00:13:35.000 Who would spend it on their kid to do that? 0.98

00:13:37.320 I mean, I admit my desire to study Shakespeare as a one-class optional course back in the 90s.

00:13:45.040 That was a pleasant indulgence. It was sort of a luxury.

00:13:49.520 I wouldn't want a degree in Shakespeare, though.

00:13:52.240 What could you do other than be a professor, I suppose?

00:13:55.000 But it would be nice to study it alongside business or law or whatever else.

00:13:59.540 Who would study all those made-up studies for years that we just saw in the video?

00:14:05.440 And who would spend that kind of money on it?

00:14:08.100 And do they expect that they'll be making six-figure jobs teaching that?

00:14:12.780 Or what do you do with those degrees?

00:14:16.240 I would say it's the feminization of academia. 1.00

00:14:20.520 I mean, like I said, 70% girls here. 1.00

00:14:22.840 But as I said before, that implies that this strengthens women. 1.00

00:14:26.840 That's the word feminine means. 1.00

00:14:29.000 I don't think it does.

00:14:30.720 It's obviously very trans and very racially conscious.

00:14:35.100 It's right in their website.

00:14:36.640 But conscious in the service of what?

00:14:39.520 What do these people do at the end of their studies?

00:14:44.440 And who really pays for that?

00:14:47.140 Well, in the United States, where this school is, Joe Biden has pledged to forgive student debt.

00:14:52.820 So all the young men who said, yeah, no thanks, I think I'll become a tradesman.

00:14:58.080 Or I think I'll start a small business.

00:15:00.960 They have to pay their taxes to pay off the student loans of those kids at Gallatin.

00:15:08.360 In a way, I don't care what rich kids do with their own money or with their parents' money.

00:15:13.120 I mean, when I was at Columbia University, which is almost as expensive,

00:15:16.920 and at Harvard and other places where spoiled brats throw away their opportunities to be cool and edgy 1.00

00:15:23.600 and support Hamas, when I was at Columbia, I'm just so glad I met the two normal kids at the school. 0.95

00:15:30.440 Remember these twins?

00:15:31.600 What's your name?

00:15:32.420 I'm Keelan Cornegay.

00:15:33.320 Nice to meet you.

00:15:33.840 What's your name?

00:15:34.400 Bailey Cornegay.

00:15:35.420 You guys are twins, you say?

00:15:36.980 I can tell.

00:15:37.840 You look pretty sporty.

00:15:38.540 What's your opinion?

00:15:39.560 I'm from Canada.

00:15:40.820 I've come down here.

00:15:41.700 I got some opinions as an outsider.

00:15:43.240 You guys are students here?

00:15:44.340 Yes, sir.

00:15:44.760 Where are you from originally?

00:15:47.160 Georgia.

00:15:47.940 Georgia.

00:15:48.380 I'm guessing if he's from Georgia, you're from Georgia.

00:15:50.500 Well, give me a straight up.

00:15:52.000 You guys seem like regular guys.

00:15:54.220 Yeah, I mean, if you ask me, it's not my favorite thing in the world.

00:15:57.560 You know, I'm not going to say you can't protest, but I think that it's honestly like they're just

00:16:03.380 disrupting so much, to be quite honest.

00:16:05.520 It's just like finals are all messed up.

00:16:07.900 Classes are messed up.

00:16:08.740 We're going virtual, stuff like that.

00:16:10.520 These things have just like, it just kind of stresses the regular student out.

00:16:13.900 Like, especially with like the football on top of it.

00:16:16.600 We're like going, doing this and that.

00:16:18.080 And this is all going on.

00:16:19.520 We have to worry about whether we can get in through this gate, that gate.

00:16:22.480 We're all closed off.

00:16:23.720 It's like, it kind of feels like we don't have our own.

00:16:26.840 It's not our school anymore, in a way.

00:16:28.780 Let me ask you this.

00:16:29.900 I know that there's protests, but then there's been some, what I would call, anti-Semitic actions.

00:16:36.040 Are you aware of any Jewish kids or other kids who think, I don't want to even go to

00:16:40.600 school anymore because I feel like it's not my place?

00:16:44.140 That's what all the professors, like that's why we're all doing a bunch of virtual stuff

00:16:47.120 now because these Jewish kids are scared.

00:16:50.320 You know, that's the problem.

00:16:51.240 That's what I think.

00:16:51.800 I think it's all great when people, you know, express their rights and stuff like that.

00:16:56.860 But like, I feel like this is just taking a step forward.

00:16:58.720 Just a step a little too far.

00:17:00.180 You know, the anti-Semitic stuff is like just not, it's not cool.

00:17:03.000 Yeah, they were the exception at Columbia, not the norm.

00:17:06.620 But what are we producing in our universities, in Canada, in Calgary, in Toronto, anywhere

00:17:13.160 in the West, other than weaponized leftists?

00:17:17.840 They were smiling and joking and looked almost cuddly, those kids from Gallatin.

00:17:23.260 But their ideologies are, if not pointless, they're vicious.

00:17:29.700 Hey, what do you think Vladimir Putin thinks?

00:17:31.700 If he were to see that video or China's Xi Jinping, they're busy making soldiers and engineers

00:17:40.140 and mothers. 1.00

00:17:42.500 I know what Hamas would think.

00:17:45.060 They would think, those students are our allies.

00:17:49.360 There are men or women, really, on the inside.

00:17:54.360 Stay with us for more.

00:17:55.500 You mentioned the free market.

00:18:03.560 Yeah, there might be some bonuses, but guess what?

00:18:05.660 You do a bad job, you get a pink slip.

00:18:07.560 You do a bad job, you get a pay cut, right?

00:18:09.860 You do a bad job, you polish off your resume.

00:18:12.200 But that's not what's happening in government, okay?

00:18:14.960 In government, for those executives who are paid for by the taxpayer, all it seems they have

00:18:19.700 to do is show up twice a week to work with their shoes tied, and they get a taxpayer-funded

00:18:24.140 bonus.

00:18:29.420 Well, speaking from personal experience, one of my favorite hobbies, and I recommend it

00:18:34.420 if you can afford it, is suing the Trudeau government.

00:18:38.100 Now, I don't do so in my personal capacity, but Rebel News, we like to take the government

00:18:42.400 to task, and they're often impervious to other forms of persuasion.

00:18:47.960 So if you can get in front of a federal court judge, you just might get a little justice.

00:18:52.320 We've done that a few times.

00:18:53.600 You might remember, for example, when Trudeau's hand-picked debate commission kept Rebel News

00:18:59.660 journalists out of the leaders' debates, or when Stephen Gilboa and other cabinet ministers

00:19:04.440 thought they could block Rebel News from access to government Twitter accounts.

00:19:09.420 We went to court, and we won.

00:19:12.260 I was joking about it being a hobby.

00:19:14.140 It's actually a very expensive thing to do, but if we don't do it, who will?

00:19:19.760 And that's surely the question that our friends at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation asked themselves

00:19:24.700 when the government kept stonewalling their legitimate requests under the access to information

00:19:32.460 rules.

00:19:33.320 Joining us now is our friend Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who has

00:19:40.080 just filed the lawsuit.

00:19:42.500 Franco, congratulations and thank you.

00:19:45.360 It's actually tough to take on a big Goliath, but you guys are the right people to do it.

00:19:51.660 Tell us about your lawsuit.

00:19:52.820 What's it for?

00:19:53.820 When did you file it?

00:19:55.140 How can we help?

00:19:56.880 Well, so we just filed it on Friday.

00:19:59.480 Our lawyers did, right?

00:20:00.420 So we wanted to know how much in bonuses president of the CBC, Catherine Tate, and the other senior

00:20:07.400 executives are taking in bonuses, right?

00:20:09.880 Because this is a matter of principle.

00:20:12.440 Taxpayers pay more than a billion dollars every single year to fund the CBC.

00:20:16.820 So we are owed transparency from the state broadcaster.

00:20:20.600 But not only that, the CBC is required to follow the access to information laws, but at least

00:20:27.000 in this case, they're blatantly breaking the rules by keeping this information from taxpayers.

00:20:32.380 And that's why we filed a legal challenge with the information commissioner to force the CBC

00:20:37.480 to come clean with taxpayers and tell taxpayers how much in bonuses their president Tate is taking,

00:20:43.840 along with the other senior executives.

00:20:46.320 That's a very smart way to do that.

00:20:47.860 We've done that before.

00:20:48.860 Instead of going straight to federal court, you go to the information officer who has some

00:20:54.620 court-like powers, if I'm not mistaken.

00:20:58.060 They can order better and further disclosure.

00:21:00.820 Am I right in that?

00:21:02.560 Well, and Ezra, we've also used this before, right?

00:21:05.360 Remember when somebody, who was it, stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel room during the

00:21:10.560 Queen's funeral in London?

00:21:12.180 Remember when the Trudeau government wouldn't confess who it was?

00:21:15.800 Well, we also filed a legal challenge then with the information commissioner.

00:21:20.080 And when the prime minister's office knew that they were going to lose, they finally

00:21:24.180 fessed up and admitted that it was Trudeau who stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel room.

00:21:29.640 So we are going to look for the exact same type of results in the sense that we want to

00:21:34.240 make the CBC finally come clean with taxpayers and tell us how much in bonuses is Catherine

00:21:40.240 taken, how much in bonuses paid for by the taxpayers are their senior executives taking?

00:21:45.860 Yeah, good for you.

00:21:47.120 And you know, I'm glad you're doing this.

00:21:49.720 I think there's something really creepy about people who work for the federal government

00:21:54.700 getting tax money who keep a secret how much they're paid.

00:21:59.020 There is no national security reason for this.

00:22:02.940 There is no reasonable expectation of privacy.

00:22:05.760 In fact, many provinces, for example, have something called a sunshine list, where everyone

00:22:11.220 who makes over, for example, $100,000, it's disclosed.

00:22:15.060 If doctors or police officers or even teachers have to disclose how much they get from the

00:22:22.160 taxpayer, surely the bossy CEO of the state broadcaster can answer that question too.

00:22:30.020 And you know what's even worse than all of this, Ezra?

00:22:33.820 The fact that the CBC confirmed to our lawyer that they have the records on the bonuses being

00:22:40.020 paid out to the senior executives.

00:22:41.740 So they have the numbers.

00:22:43.220 They are just stonewalling the release of the information to the public, to the taxpayers

00:22:47.680 who are paying their salary.

00:22:49.500 Not only that, Ezra, but you'll remember that the CTF got another access to information

00:22:55.140 requests from the CBC, showing that it handed out $15 million in bonuses in 2023 to 1,100

00:23:02.740 staffers.

00:23:03.940 So the CBC apparently was fine to release the bonus amounts for its 1,100 staffers.

00:23:09.480 But Tate doesn't want the public to know about how much in bonuses, taxpayer-funded bonuses,

00:23:15.960 she's taken from us Canadians, along with the other senior executives.

00:23:19.720 So that's why we filed the information or the challenge with the information commissioner

00:23:23.380 to drag this information into the light.

00:23:26.340 You know what?

00:23:26.980 I think you've got a good shot at it.

00:23:29.300 I have another theory.

00:23:31.160 I mean, of course, the CBC wants everyone else to be accountable, but not themselves.

00:23:36.240 They wouldn't accept this kind of access to information stonewalling from other agencies.

00:23:41.740 It's incredible how they use it for themselves.

00:23:44.100 But here's my theory, Franco.

00:23:45.580 I think that Catherine Tate has a personal reason for this, too. 0.59

00:23:50.540 Not just she doesn't want people to know how much money she's making at our expense, but 1.00

00:23:55.720 I don't know if you remember.

00:23:56.900 I'm sure you do.

00:23:58.120 She went to Parliament and lied through her teeth.

00:24:01.920 She said, oh, no, no, no.

00:24:03.680 No, we don't do bonuses here.

00:24:05.240 You don't understand.

00:24:06.040 Here's a flashback.

00:24:07.040 Let me play for you a clip of her.

00:24:09.320 I don't know if she was under oath, but it's not a good idea to perjure yourself when you're

00:24:14.900 before Parliament, which is actually a kind of court, if you can believe it.

00:24:18.900 Parliament is a kind of a court when they're examining you, and you better not lie.

00:24:23.600 Here's Catherine Tate telling an obvious porky. 1.00

00:24:27.540 It is not my decision to award performance pay.

00:24:31.240 It is, in fact, the decision of the board of directors, and that decision comes at the

00:24:36.200 end of the fiscal year.

00:24:37.560 We have another two months before we reach the end of the fiscal year, and as I have

00:24:41.820 also said in public, everything is on the table.

00:24:45.360 So we will see at the end of fiscal year, based on results and where we are financially.

00:24:50.580 So as a CEO, you do not make the decision.

00:24:53.760 You have no say in whether or not bonuses are granted.

00:24:57.820 All of the management team measures and analyzes our results on an annual basis, which are published

00:25:06.520 very clearly in our quarterly reports.

00:25:07.940 As the CEO, you have no say in whether or not bonuses are given.

00:25:11.780 All of the management team presents to the board of directors the results of our year against KPIs,

00:25:19.600 key performance indicators that have been tracked throughout the year.

00:25:23.240 And based on the analysis and the results, the board of directors makes its decision.

00:25:29.920 It's very simple.

00:25:30.800 Will she be given a bonus in 2020?

00:25:32.700 It's not my decision whether I get a bonus or not.

00:25:36.440 Franco, I think that she is worried.

00:25:38.800 I mean, what a dumb idea to try and pretend that there's no bonuses.

00:25:41.960 There's always been bonuses. 0.96

00:25:43.660 You know she was giving herself a bonus. 1.00

00:25:45.740 Why lie about it when you know you're going to get caught?

00:25:48.320 I think that's another reason she's stonewalling on the records. 0.98

00:25:51.820 What do you think, Franco?

00:25:52.580 Well, first of all, that word salad, right?

00:25:56.380 Performance pay or at-risk pay or whatever Tate wants to call it.

00:26:00.440 I mean, everyone knows that those are just other words for a bonus.

00:26:04.300 But not only that, remember I just spoke about how the CBC disclosed that they handed out $15 million

00:26:09.960 in taxpayer-funded bonuses to 1,100 staffers.

00:26:13.940 Well, on the CBC's own records that we got from the access to information requests,

00:26:18.680 the CBC's own records, guess what word they use?

00:26:22.600 Bonus, bonus, bonus, bonus.

00:26:25.080 So even the CBC knows that they're handing out bonuses.

00:26:28.460 Of course, they're handing out bonuses.

00:26:30.080 But here's the big thing, right?

00:26:31.680 You have Tate, who gets more than a billion dollars from taxpayers every year to fund the CBC,

00:26:37.360 and Tate is still claiming that they are chronically underfunded.

00:26:41.480 So at a time when they're begging for more cash, claiming that the cupboards are bare,

00:26:45.880 look, in all likelihood, you have these CBC executives still handing out taxpayer-funded

00:26:51.880 bonuses, and that's completely wrong.

00:26:54.460 Yeah.

00:26:54.680 You know, you've done good work on this stuff before.

00:26:57.360 I got to tell you that if someone is just rocking in the free market and just doing a great

00:27:03.300 job, I love the idea of giving them bonuses because it's not my money.

00:27:07.560 I mean, if I'm a shareholder, like, look at the case of Elon Musk.

00:27:10.520 There was a guy who said he wanted his compensation to be based on reaching certain performance levels,

00:27:17.620 and no one thought he could possibly do it to multiply the size of Tesla tenfold. 0.73

00:27:23.180 Everyone thought he was nuts.

00:27:24.560 The guy did it.

00:27:25.380 So he gets the biggest bonus in history.

00:27:29.060 His shareholders voted for that.

00:27:31.720 None of my business.

00:27:33.240 Right, Franco?

00:27:34.100 But if it's a taxpayer-funded position, it is my business.

00:27:39.180 The crazy thing is these folks give themselves bonuses no matter how poorly they do.

00:27:45.020 Elon Musk's bonus was because he multiplied by ten the value of his company.

00:27:49.260 Catherine Tate has presided over the decline of CBC viewership, and you've also done this

00:27:55.320 examination on the Bank of Canada bonuses and the CMHC, the Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

00:28:02.780 These are abject failures who, if they were in the private sector, they would be fired.

00:28:08.540 They wouldn't be getting bonuses.

00:28:09.940 Am I right?

00:28:12.100 Ezra, totally.

00:28:13.840 I mean, you mentioned the free market.

00:28:15.460 Yeah, there might be some bonuses, but guess what?

00:28:17.320 You do a bad job, you get a pink slip.

00:28:19.480 You do a bad job, you get a pay cut, right?

00:28:21.780 You do a bad job, you polish off your resume.

00:28:24.120 But that's not what's happening in government, okay?

00:28:26.880 In government, for those executives who are paid for by the taxpayer, all it seems they

00:28:31.420 have to do is show up twice a week to work with their shoes tied, and they get a taxpayer-funded

00:28:36.060 bonus, right?

00:28:37.080 I'm glad you mentioned some of the other failing government agencies, like the Bank of Canada

00:28:41.500 and the CMHC.

00:28:42.720 The Bank of Canada has one job.

00:28:45.120 Keep inflation low and around 2%.

00:28:47.320 They completely failed at their job, no matter tens of millions in bonuses for the Bank of

00:28:53.480 Canada in recent years.

00:28:55.340 Or how about the CMHC, right?

00:28:57.260 According to their own website, their number one objective above all else is housing affordability.

00:29:02.580 Well, newsflash, Canadians can't afford to own a home. 0.95

00:29:06.180 No matter, CMHC rubber stamps tens of millions of dollars in bonuses in recent years.

00:29:12.000 So here's a thing that the government should do today, and the taxpayer-funded bonuses going

00:29:18.540 to these failing government agencies.

00:29:20.560 I tell you, it's incredible.

00:29:23.720 I'm so glad you're doing this.

00:29:24.900 Not enough people sue the government.

00:29:26.500 And I know that sounds hilarious to say, it's a weird thing to say, but I think sometimes

00:29:31.160 nothing else moves the needle.

00:29:34.000 I mean, when David Lamedi shut down his Twitter account, but it wasn't his Twitter account,

00:29:38.680 it was the Justice Department Twitter account.

00:29:41.320 No one else stopped him.

00:29:42.520 Everyone was squawking about it.

00:29:43.680 Rebel News took him to court.

00:29:45.200 He stopped.

00:29:46.320 You're going to court.

00:29:47.180 I know one thing about going to court, Franco. 0.78

00:29:49.540 It's expensive.

00:29:51.000 Even if this happens really smoothly, it's going to cost thousands of dollars.

00:29:55.060 How do people help you sue the government to get these records?

00:29:59.140 Well, you know, thank you for mentioning that.

00:30:01.220 I mean, first of all, we're going to keep fighting until taxpayers get the results that

00:30:05.260 they deserve, full transparency.

00:30:07.080 But folks, you can head over to taxpayer.com.

00:30:09.580 You can donate there.

00:30:10.480 You can check out our newsroom.

00:30:11.480 You can sign some petitions.

00:30:12.640 And of course, we always appreciate the support because we never have, never will take a penny

00:30:17.800 from the government.

00:30:18.760 Yeah.

00:30:19.260 Well, and that's why we can trust you because you're not being paid on the down low by the

00:30:24.740 government, which it's incredible to me to this day that 99% of the journalists in this

00:30:29.580 country take government money and they don't disclose that when they're reporting on the

00:30:33.640 government.

00:30:34.200 It's a total conflict of interest, which is why you guys are the best.

00:30:37.940 Franco, great to see you.

00:30:38.880 Good luck in this case.

00:30:39.860 Please let us know.

00:30:40.780 I'm sure you'll let the whole world know how it goes.

00:30:43.760 I think you've got a good chance here.

00:30:46.060 It's in the public interest.

00:30:47.320 There's no reasonable expectation of privacy.

00:30:49.880 She fibbed in parliament and is covering it up. 0.97

00:30:54.000 Boy, you're onto something here.

00:30:55.800 I think you got a tiger by the tail.

00:30:58.140 Good luck to you.

00:30:59.520 Thanks, Ezra.

00:31:00.160 Appreciate it.

00:31:00.680 All right.

00:31:00.860 There you have it, Franco Teresano of the Taxpayers Federation.

00:31:04.220 Stay with us.

00:31:04.800 Your Letters to Me next.

00:31:21.580 Hey, welcome back.

00:31:22.600 Your Letters to Me about my visit to the little rally outside the Jewish Girls School.

00:31:27.980 Michael Mortimer says, love the line, you were very good on Twitter, but have you done

00:31:33.180 anything?

00:31:34.140 No action mouthpieces, constantly passing the buck, afraid of stepping on feelings and allowing

00:31:39.300 the law to run amok.

00:31:41.180 Yeah, that guy, the Solicitor General, by the way, I mean, I looked it up to double check.

00:31:45.860 They're basically in charge of police and prisons.

00:31:49.100 He's the guy who should be saying, why are we not arresting people for obviously breaking

00:31:53.640 the law?

00:31:54.160 And I don't mean some hate speech law.

00:31:56.120 I mean, trespass, mischief, uttering threats.

00:31:59.500 There are even some laws against masks during certain unlawful protests.

00:32:06.520 Why aren't we enforcing any of the laws?

00:32:09.500 Mason Galgee said, didn't Ford say during his first run for premier that he would not allow

00:32:14.920 anti-Jewish hate, like the Al Quds Day hate fest in his, Ontario.

00:32:19.440 I guess we're not in Ford's, Ontario.

00:32:21.260 That would be an interesting clip to see or hear.

00:32:23.200 And he says, hey, that's a great idea.

00:32:24.560 We should dig that up.

00:32:25.300 Thanks for the advice.

00:32:26.400 You know, the move that that Solicitor General Michael Kersner deployed on me that I hated

00:32:32.160 the most was not, oh, I wear a Jewish yarmulke.

00:32:36.540 I'm doing a good job.

00:32:37.540 That's your private life, buddy.

00:32:39.120 Your public life, you're the Solicitor General and you're sleeping on the job.

00:32:42.700 But when I pressed him, he said, well, what about that Arif Varani?

00:32:45.880 That's the name of the federal justice minister under Trudeau.

00:32:49.280 And I have no time for Arif Varani.

00:32:52.180 But it's not Arif Varani who runs the Toronto Police Service or the York Regional Police or

00:32:57.180 the Peel Regional Police or the Calgary Police or the Edmonton Police or the Vancouver Police

00:33:02.560 or the Montreal Police.

00:33:05.300 It's those police forces which are under their city commissions, but also in the case of Ontario,

00:33:13.320 there's the Ontario Provincial Police.

00:33:15.600 Doug Ford and that guy, Michael Kersner, made the decision to stand down.

00:33:20.520 And the prosecutors answer to provincial attorneys general.

00:33:24.220 We don't have federal prosecutors for provincial offenses or to enforce the criminal code in

00:33:33.700 the main.

00:33:35.260 He's passing the buck to the liberals. 0.91

00:33:37.980 It's sort of gross. 0.77

00:33:39.420 That's our show for today.

00:33:40.740 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel News Headquarters, to you at home,

00:33:44.060 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:46.100 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - May 29, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canadian universities allow 'outrageously' antisemitic groups to set up encampments

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