Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC refuses to even be accountable to the House of Commons over the resources they waste

00:00:00.000 cbc refuses to be accountable even to the house of commons about the extent of the resources

00:00:19.220 they are wasting manipulating the public then robbie picard joins me to discuss his

00:00:24.380 pro oil and gas cross canada bus tour it's september 30th 2022 i'm sheila gunn reed

00:00:30.900 but you're watching the ezra levant show

00:00:33.640 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:00:39.880 you know i saw this tweet in my inbox this morning and it was very very interesting 0.66

00:00:52.420 it's about katherine tate the head of the canadian broadcasting corporation who doesn't actually

00:00:58.180 spend very much time in canada producing canadian content in fact since being given her role back in

00:01:05.180 2018 tate's resided largely in brooklyn new york with her husband in a 5.4 million dollar home

00:01:11.300 but as one of those so-called essential workers she was allowed to commute back and forth across

00:01:16.500 the border at the same time her organization published many many screeds condemning unnecessary

00:01:21.980 travel and maligning truckers who didn't want to get vaccinated to cross the border for their job

00:01:27.280 as i don't know some sort of russian operatives i do ask that because uh you know given canada's

00:01:34.160 support of ukraine in this current crisis with russia i don't know if it's far-fetched to ask but

00:01:40.820 but there is concern that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest

00:01:48.500 grows but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset anyway back to that interesting tweet i

00:01:53.740 saw in my email inbox it was from norman specter he's a former journalist former ambassador to israel

00:01:58.860 a former federal civil servant and ironically a sometime panelist at the cbc and he tweeted out

00:02:05.580 this article in french from le devoir katherine tate the that's the new york city residing head of the cbc

00:02:12.520 she had invited newsroom employees to participate in a march in memory of the victims of residential

00:02:17.640 schools this thursday despite as le devoir writes their duty of restraint written in black and white

00:02:24.720 in the public broadcaster's journalistic standards and practices i'm not questioning the value of this

00:02:32.420 day but from a journalistic point of view there's a clear discomfort in being invited to participate

00:02:37.380 said an employee of the newsroom of the ottawa station who requested anonymity for fear of

00:02:45.100 reprisal from his employer well well well there you go isn't that interesting so many interesting

00:02:50.360 things that's definitely why we don't hear more of of people breaking ranks at cbc it's apparently not

00:02:56.300 the sort of workplace where you can speak your mind freely to management no is it but let's keep

00:03:01.420 reading from this le devoir article all employees of the station all sectors combined received

00:03:07.320 an email on tuesday a copy of which was obtained by le devoir inviting them to participate in the

00:03:14.080 orange shirt march in recognition of the national day of truth and reconciliation organized by cbc's

00:03:20.960 indigenous offices equity and inclusion department and radio canada's diversity and inclusion department

00:03:27.340 the event was intended to raise awareness of the legacy of residential schools and honor

00:03:33.280 thousands of thousands of survivors i see this invitation as a lack of consideration or lack of

00:03:40.000 understanding of journalistic work said the employee with whom le devoir spoke he recalled impartiality is

00:03:47.960 one of the fundamental principles of journalistic standards and practices

00:03:51.880 asked once again about inviting journalists to take sides by participating in this event

00:03:59.240 cbc radio canada management responded through its spokesperson leon marr that journalists are an

00:04:06.000 integral part of cbc radio canada and that this is why they receive these communications their status

00:04:12.280 as journalists then requires them to consider our journalistic standards and practices before making

00:04:18.000 the decision whether or not to participate in such an event so management invites them to participate in

00:04:26.340 an event that may violate the journalistic standards and practices of impartiality then the journalists feel

00:04:32.600 intimidated to the point where they speak out but only on the promise of anonymity what happens if they

00:04:39.960 don't go march in this thing are they fired shamed bullied maybe who knows apparently the workplace

00:04:47.720 environment at cbc is so toxic that you don't feel empowered to resist these sorts of things publicly when

00:04:55.020 they violate your conscience but this all got me thinking about how cbc quietly influences the public

00:05:00.940 in much the same manner as they overtly influence some of the free-thinking employees that remain

00:05:07.820 there for some reason and how cbc feels emboldened to just get away with it all forgetting that they are

00:05:13.720 supposed to be impartial because canadians from all side of the political spectrum are the ones footing the

00:05:20.380 bills at cbc not just left-wing radicals this week an order paper question rolled across my desk and it

00:05:28.600 speaks to just how the cbc sees itself beyond criticism to the point of defying parliamentary

00:05:34.520 rules and at cbc they think their activism is none of the business of the people who are paying for it

00:05:40.480 all it's activism that violates their own standards and that's fine and also not answering to parliament

00:05:46.160 that's fine too rules are for the rest of us not friends of the liberals like the cbc this week a

00:05:52.460 conservative mp shelby cramp newman hit a bunch of government agencies with order paper requests

00:05:59.480 inquiring how many people are working in the social media departments at those respective agencies now

00:06:04.780 many agencies responded for example that's how i know that the department of fisheries and oceans

00:06:11.180 had 13 people involved in drafting a tweet reminding people not to eat lobsters that wash up on the beach

00:06:19.740 during hurricane fiona no matter how hungry they are apparently it's illegal so federal ministries

00:06:26.820 responded to the order paper query and order paper queries legally compel agencies to provide information

00:06:33.580 before the house of commons within a statutory amount of time unless there's some sort of extraordinary

00:06:40.420 circumstance preventing the information from being divulged but not the cbc when they were asked

00:06:46.680 how many full-time employees were working at the cbc in their brainwashing i mean social media

00:06:53.080 departments they couldn't answer that question how does any grown-up accountable company not know how

00:07:00.620 many full-time employees are working in a specific department i mean in the private sector where you're

00:07:06.080 beholden to the bottom line and not reliant on constant subsidies this is something that you would

00:07:11.180 definitely know you'd have to and if your shareholders asked you for it you would indeed provide it but not

00:07:20.380 the cbc look at this the information requested is not readily available to provide the information as

00:07:27.580 requested the corporation would need to undertake a manual search how are these employees getting paid

00:07:35.220 if you don't know how many of them work at the company anyway cbc then gave 14 single space pages of

00:07:42.840 social media accounts including youtube instagram tiktok linkedin twitter and facebook that they manage

00:07:48.480 and it's not just for the shows that nobody watches that i didn't even realize existed in many

00:07:54.260 circumstances but it's also for the talent too on instagram 128 separate accounts are managed by the cbc on

00:08:00.800 facebook 235 accounts are managed on twitter 208 separate accounts are managed linkedin five i suppose

00:08:09.840 we should be grateful for the low number there on pinterest they've got nine on youtube 69 separate

00:08:18.020 accounts there's one cbc reddit account thank goodness and then to make sure that your kids are

00:08:24.580 sufficiently brainwashed there are two snapchat accounts from cbc and 11 tiktok accounts that they

00:08:32.480 manage by my rough chicken scratch math i think that's close to 668 separate social media accounts

00:08:38.840 that cbc barfs into the ether every single day each one of the people managing those accounts is fully

00:08:45.340 funded by you but you don't get to know how many people are doing that boring obscene brainwashing work 0.54

00:08:52.400 but that's a lot of opportunities to manipulate the narrative for cbc isn't it and if you think i'm

00:08:58.060 exaggerating when i say manipulate the narrative i'm not cbc accused the trucker convoy of being

00:09:05.540 russian disinformation twice and cbc had to retract those allegations twice it's a lot of social media

00:09:15.380 accounts though to make sure the lie goes all the way around the world before the truth has time to put

00:09:19.320 his pants on right don't you think you're entitled to know who these people are how many of them there

00:09:25.480 are and how much they make or do you just pay for it all and shut up i know what cbc wants you to do 0.67

00:09:33.540 if they had their way nearly 700 accounts would be the only things left on the internet telling you what

00:09:40.880 to think and what to say and what's acceptable stay tuned for an interview i recorded with robbie

00:09:47.260 picard from oil sands strong while he was on his cross-country pro oil sands bus tour up next after

00:09:54.600 the break

00:09:55.040 robbie picard from oil sands strong what are you doing here today so i'm here in red deer um i'm parked in

00:10:12.740 parking lot and i am selling uh t-shirts hoodies and toques um and promoting the new project oil

00:10:19.220 and gas world magazine and it has been awesome it is i've i've interviewed uh the premier jason kenney

00:10:25.980 i've interviewed tons of other politicians and we have the first issue it's still a sample issue of

00:10:30.840 oil and gas world magazine but it's pretty much done we have some editing to do and we're working on

00:10:35.080 the second issue and uh it's been amazing i'm taking this uh 1977 i actually was told to call it

00:10:41.460 a bluebird school bus that's been converted because that sounds better so it's a bluebird bus

00:10:45.340 i'm taking it across the country on a very slow pace interviewing canadians about oil and gas

00:10:50.240 um connecting ottawa and also hyper focusing on justin trudeau's failure to address the energy

00:10:56.320 crisis in europe particularly germany now in red deer today this is the canada strong and free

00:11:02.260 networking conference what's been the reception from the crowd it has been amazing um there's this

00:11:07.980 new movement with conservatives that they feel that they have not been properly uh heard and

00:11:14.280 represented in mainstream media and i'm surprised it's coming from all walks of life so it's nice to

00:11:19.860 see that there's a new initiative to tell all sides of the story and i'm happy that i'm contributing in

00:11:26.560 my small way by reaching out i've had people come up to me today quite emotional saying like they've

00:11:31.100 i i i'm hyper focusing too not just on oil sands but uh and oil and gas but also on the communities

00:11:37.340 that have been brutalized when they shut down the coal and i find it really odd that government

00:11:44.240 regardless of what stripe would come in and say look we're going to shut down your industry

00:11:47.200 promise you jobs and literally ruin your lives and then there might be a slow economic turnaround as

00:11:52.580 you adjust but it's caused a lot of damage particularly uh you know in the parkland county region

00:11:58.140 um so i'm finding that quite intriguing um this uh project with this magazine the digital and the

00:12:03.700 video it's not just about ceos we'll have definitely interview everyone and we're getting all kinds of

00:12:08.620 requests but the but it's about telling all the stories and i'm really happy to tell stories of

00:12:13.200 regular people like me yeah you and me regular people families uh and it brings a lot of joy and

00:12:21.120 the project's been a lot of fun it's fun i'm starting to join the bus now i went shopping i got new

00:12:25.420 bedding for it it's a mess inside right now because i've got to kind of organize it but

00:12:28.920 yeah i'm really enjoying it i haven't slept in it yet but i will probably start sleeping it probably

00:12:32.780 tomorrow um and as i inch up my way through these towns so you've told me before but maybe for people

00:12:38.500 who don't know what inspired the bus tour here so the main there's two okay so the one was when

00:12:45.820 pierre pauliev wore uh this logo in ottawa and the carlton liberal association implied that he was a

00:12:51.980 white supremacist implied that we were white supremacist and that really bothered me not to

00:12:56.380 the point where i need to go and like scream and yell but i just thought like what kind of narcissistic 0.98

00:13:00.500 douchebag loser would label an organization without even meeting them and i have like i mean all 0.87

00:13:07.620 sand strong has you know millions of reach like one like last month we had over 37 million i can 0.86

00:13:12.060 fight back and and people that know me though that's not true but i thought about it what if there

00:13:15.620 was someone else who didn't know people in media couldn't fight back and and that could have

00:13:19.840 permanently damaged their brand and that's happened like if you remember like tommy hill figure they

00:13:24.880 said his brand was racist and he said something on oprah's show that never happened but the damage

00:13:30.000 that that did and oprah had to come out and say no that didn't actually happen so i don't appreciate

00:13:35.420 the privileged people of ottawa that have been that live in that recession-proof community whose

00:13:40.460 decisions affect everyone here in alberta doing that and the other reason is kind of simple i i'm really

00:13:46.140 enjoying taking a break and driving a bus and i want to i want to tell the stories of canadians

00:13:51.980 uh that are not necessarily heard or listened to and provide them a platform and i like i like the

00:13:58.560 the deep dive that i'm able to do with this magazine i can tell stories that aren't like about

00:14:03.060 cooking and canning and family and and i want to i want to go a little deeper because i do believe that

00:14:08.320 uh there's such a disconnect between toronto ottawa montreal and the rest of canada and sometimes

00:14:14.480 we're completely different two different nations um so i'd like to kind of give people a voice and

00:14:19.480 the the new thing is like uh our prime minister had a chance to once to could you imagine the i heard a

00:14:26.860 low estimate of what would mean if we did the lng to europe and it's like a quarter of a trillion

00:14:32.560 dollars every year i think that's low we could have probably added a trillion dollars to our economy

00:14:38.800 and outside of our economy think about what we would contribute to world peace a hundred percent

00:14:43.960 i mean there's all this talk about dictators uh russia putin and we could provide environmentally

00:14:50.700 stable and they talk about like the united nations uh saying that we need to have better relations with

00:14:57.240 our indigenous uh you know residents of the country and there's nothing better for economic

00:15:03.040 reconciliation for indigenous people than resource development particularly the say the two first

00:15:07.160 nations in british columbia of course fort mcmurray and across and i think that energy will provide

00:15:13.140 that so if the united nations actually cares about the indigenous people of this country as a metis person

00:15:17.920 i think they would double down on energy development for our country and um it like look germany is

00:15:25.220 smarter country than we are when it comes to technology they know what green energy did they they developed

00:15:32.540 it they did it fast and now they're going back to fossil fuels they're going back to natural gas and

00:15:37.840 it really really suck if they have to go beg putin to get energy so they don't freeze this winter

00:15:43.800 and um i think there's been a one good thing i think there's an energy wake-up call i think these so-called 0.96

00:15:49.760 environmentalists are realizing there's no such thing as green energy and it's moronic to shut down

00:15:55.520 natural gas propane fossil fuels um and i think i think there's a bit of a switch it's unfortunate

00:16:02.720 though that our prime minister comes from second generational wealth um doesn't understand that in

00:16:07.760 business you need to market and fight for business and uh this was an opportunity it's unfortunate that

00:16:13.340 he was the face but i do believe that there's a fight in province-wide to make this work now you've

00:16:20.300 mentioned brand a couple of times and the business case and you are i think systematically undoing

00:16:28.800 just you and your little bus all the damage that the mainstream media quite frankly has inflicted on

00:16:36.020 the reputation of oil and gas um and the green movement the foreign-funded green movement you would

00:16:43.120 think that this is work that should have been done by deep-pocketed billion-dollar multinational

00:16:47.520 companies who are benefiting from canadian oil and gas but they haven't really been in the fight

00:16:51.880 it's fallen on activists like you yeah you know what and i'm not going to sugarcoat it okay uh when i

00:16:57.200 stood up to jane fonda the amount of money that saved the industry like they should have you know a little

00:17:02.480 bit more uh generous i mean the that triggered the premier at the time richard notley to denounce her

00:17:08.700 visit it triggered uh the left-wing green premier exactly it also triggered um the all the indigenous

00:17:15.880 communities in fort mcmurray to speak out against her visit she got booed at the airport they missed

00:17:20.940 she missed her flight she wasn't welcomed and standing up to her there's not been a celebrity

00:17:25.880 visit since i mean you can say greta but greta visit was pretty low-key and i'm proud of that i'm proud

00:17:31.860 that we fought back um so i think that there needs to be a lot more of that and you're going to see a lot

00:17:37.520 more of that now lastly where can people keep track of your travels because you're selling t-shirts

00:17:44.360 to fundraise for your trip you're going to be all over the place you're going to be in small towns

00:17:48.420 and big cities all across the country how do people find you um go to oil sandstrong.com and i'm don't

00:17:54.280 like asking but i'm going to ask we have a 500 mystery pack which means you're going to get a

00:17:57.900 couple big shirts probably too big for you and a bunch of other stuff you can give it a christmas

00:18:01.380 presents we're going to unload all the shirts that we have and you contribute 500 bucks which helps pay for

00:18:06.420 this trip which is very expensive um mostly i fund oil sandstrong through my company robbie

00:18:12.260 card media i treat it like a client but i'm going to be trying to you know drum up a little bit more

00:18:18.220 and we're going to hire a couple staff and then please check out oil and gas world magazine um and

00:18:24.120 subscribe for the print edition um the online will always be free i want this to be free but if you

00:18:29.640 want to help out it'll be uh ten dollars plus shipping a month and you get a beautiful magazine and

00:18:34.340 some mystery shirt or something whichever we're trying to unload that month wave extra and that

00:18:38.680 would really be helpful so if you go to our page we've set it up oil sandstrong mystery thing 500

00:18:43.080 bucks um i don't think we're going to do a go fund me at or go give send go at this moment but we'll

00:18:48.780 see how it goes but um it helps and we this is also i want to be very clear this is not a fast

00:18:54.360 moving thing i'm going to inch my way along i will park in ottawa but i'm not going to i'm going to be

00:19:00.100 hopefully we'll be interviewing parapolyev on the bus and i'm going to be talking to stories but this is a more

00:19:04.100 of a um sort of a launch of a magazine digital slash print magazine that is going to tell the

00:19:09.440 stories of average oil working canadians and then a little bit of fashion i've actually got a fitness

00:19:15.320 guy in there that he's going to be teaching oil workers that work at site how to work out and we

00:19:20.180 actually filmed the video with him like pumping weights he's gonna say this is what you should do

00:19:23.880 on your six days off so it's not just about promoting oil it's about promoting the beauty of the

00:19:28.620 interesting culture um i've reached out to funky banjoko who's um one of our counselors she's going

00:19:34.660 to be talking about multiculturalism and uh i i'll be featuring uh mayor bowman um he's our mma fighting

00:19:41.220 mayor who kicked butterbean in the head and knocked him out there's a lot of cool stuff happening great

00:19:46.060 thanks robbie thank you for having me

00:19:47.580 well friends we've come to the portion of the show where we take your viewer feedback unlike the

00:20:02.940 highly unaccountable cbc as i alluded to in my mono actually as i proved in my mono we actually care what

00:20:09.760 you think about the work that we're doing and we welcome your ideas and opinions on the stories that

00:20:15.260 we cover now some of the best ways to make sure your comment gets to us is just right here that's

00:20:21.000 why we put this up but if you leave a comment on one of our rumble videos we have mr producer and

00:20:27.640 ms producer who go looking for those and they send them over to me or ezra as the case may be

00:20:33.400 now the letters today on ezra's interview with our friend manny montanegrino on trudeau

00:20:40.760 snubbing italy's newly elected female prime minister gordtron writes canada's brave leader

00:20:50.220 has a unique taste for the democracy types he admires most yeah that's uh hinting at justin

00:20:56.220 trudeau i think it was back in 2013 2014 he said that one of the reasons that he admires china and that

00:21:04.560 one of the reasons china is his favorite dictatorship is their ability to turn on a dime with regard to 0.95

00:21:12.640 going green as though china's going green and they can turn on a dime when it comes to everything because 0.82

00:21:20.040 they don't consider the civil liberties and rights of the people of china so the government can just react

00:21:26.500 however they want but imagine being somebody that's thought about what their favorite dictatorship

00:21:34.320 might be i know what my favorite democracies are but i've never thought about what my favorite like

00:21:39.760 my highest ranking dictatorship it's quite crazy uh wild bill says she scares moisture boy yeah justin

00:21:48.860 trudeau i remember when he said um that we should avoid speaking moistly i think he should avoid

00:21:55.000 speaking at all however yeah uh italy's new female prime minister she does scare him and that's why 1.00

00:22:04.660 you know the the left are so quick to malign her too justin trudeau is doing his best to ignore her

00:22:10.240 but the left is actively campaigning to label her something that i don't think she is and i'll tell

00:22:17.120 you why i don't think she is the things that the media and the left although i'm probably repeating myself

00:22:22.520 uh say she is and it's because she campaigned on three things god family and country now for that

00:22:35.820 the left is calling italy's new female prime minister a fascist or a neo-fascist or a crypto-fascist

00:22:43.820 but here's why i don't think she's a fascist although i'm willing to be wrong i'd just like to see

00:22:50.240 evidence to the contrary two of the thing three things that she campaigned on as her central 0.55

00:22:56.340 platform the cornerstones of her campaign are the things fascists fear the most family and god

00:23:07.400 because any dictator whether fascist or communist they require unwavering loyalty

00:23:18.060 or allegiance to the state whether that is ideology that compels it or fear of reprisal that compels it

00:23:28.980 but when you have family and when you have god you have something the people are more loyal to

00:23:37.440 always than the state it's one of the reasons why most communist dictatorships immediately scratch out

00:23:44.120 god and replace religion with the state is because they need people without a moral compass without 0.99

00:23:52.220 another allegiance except for that which is only only to the state keith talk says lol i don't think

00:24:00.280 anyone with any intelligence cares what trudeau thinks the people of canada congratulate her well i mean

00:24:06.600 yeah of course i i think more and more like as normal people we we definitely don't think trudeau

00:24:12.320 speaks for us but at the same time he does have an obligation to speak on behalf of the government of

00:24:18.640 canada and congratulate her and let us never forget that this is the guy who sent a glowing eulogy

00:24:26.460 when fidel castro died the dictator of cuba so at the very least he could say something about

00:24:37.020 you know what a great leap this would be for feminism he doesn't even have to 1.00

00:24:43.740 thank her but he could thank feminism and i think he cares about that but he's just just so petty and

00:24:53.980 shallow that he couldn't well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in

00:25:00.180 thank you to everybody in studio in toronto working to put the show together everybody who works behind

00:25:05.080 the scenes to get the show to you thanks for bearing with me as i put the show together for

00:25:10.220 ezra tonight and as ezra always says keep fighting for freedom it's the values you look at western

00:25:18.720 values in western society and these are values we could all relate to but they're old world values

00:25:25.160 values of grit and community and perseverance

00:25:30.300 it's a place where you can make a living with your back and your hands and a little bit of hard work

00:25:37.300 and it's a place of opportunity and i think as albertans were fiercely protective of that

00:25:43.300 the world's energy crisis has been grabbing newspaper headlines in a nutshell we're running short of petroleum resources

00:25:50.160 and the prices are zooming upwards my colleagues in the government and i have come reluctantly to believe

00:25:56.760 that the price of oil in canada must go up this was alberta origin of the alberta separatist movement

00:26:02.720 begins with the election of pierre trudeau as prime minister it was it was a deliberate and malicious

00:26:08.240 targeting in the west which suited pierre trudeau just fine just like it suits justin trudeau just fine

00:26:13.620 sunny ways my friends blackface there is an actual hostile government that was alberta 0.70

00:26:21.220 why did your dad give everyone in western canada the middle finger really in politics you do have

00:26:27.380 to make uh big decisions and whenever you make this big decisions there's gonna be people who agree with

00:26:32.180 it and people who don't disagree with it plenty of people want to leave this country it's not the kind

00:26:39.140 of idea you'd expect to hear from someone who wants to win power and hold power it's a it is a radical

00:26:47.140 idea and you would normalize the discussion and so maybe alberta wouldn't have to go because maybe the 1.00

00:26:55.140 rest of the country and the rest of the world would say whoa don't go will you accept these changes

00:27:01.140 instead that's what happened for for back there's no maple leafs west of the manitoba borders why do we

00:27:06.740 why do we have a maple leaf by unilateral decision on the canadian flag think of how the american colonists

00:27:14.740 were in 1775 that's how a lot of albertans are today

Rebel News Podcast - October 01, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC refuses to even be accountable to the House of Commons over the resources they waste

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