Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Crazy stories about how far vaccine mandates go — some will make you laugh, some will make you cry

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today's podcast is about a little history lesson of why you don't let the king or the speaker of the house or the government ban MPs from sitting in parliament, even during a time of a plague, even when the king really, really, really hates the MPs.

00:00:21.920 I'll talk to you a little bit about King Charles in 1642. And before you say that's boring, old fashioned stuff, I said, no, it's not. It's a lesson for why we don't let people kick out MPs from parliament lightly.

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00:01:02.860 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:15.200 Tonight, I've got some crazy stories about how far vaccine mandates go. Some will make you laugh and some will make you cry. It's October 28th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:30.200 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:36.340 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:40.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:51.440 We don't teach history anymore, so we forget many lessons. We forget the reasons for why we do things, for our customs.

00:01:58.460 We forget the struggles of the past and the price we paid for them.

00:02:03.540 And so the lessons that we learn through suffering are forgotten and we throw them away not knowing what we're doing.

00:02:09.640 I could literally be talking about anything from how a culture deals with sexuality to civil liberties to foreign affairs.

00:02:18.860 I mean, go read the 1911 poem by Rudyard Kipling called Dane Geld and tell me we're not making every one of those mistakes today in our foreign policy with China.

00:02:27.620 And frankly, every enemy.

00:02:29.680 It really is true.

00:02:31.380 Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

00:02:34.840 Do you really think we're in unprecedented times?

00:02:37.760 Do you really think we're the first people to grapple with certain things with a plague, with the flu?

00:02:45.320 We're not.

00:02:46.800 We're just probably the morally weakest generation to deal with anything tough.

00:02:51.420 I mean, 20 years of safe spaces and trigger warnings.

00:02:55.400 Are you surprised by how our culture is handling things and, hey, you just wait until these insane woke lawyers become insane woke judges.

00:03:04.360 Good luck to all of us then.

00:03:05.480 And I say this because I think of our parliament and how it has totally been neutered.

00:03:11.960 Do you think this is the first time that this has happened?

00:03:16.280 Do you think that this time, the pandemic of the 2020s, is the first time in history the governments preferred to rule by fiat rather than through public debates and votes in the House of Commons?

00:03:27.580 Do you think it's the first time that governments have tried to keep MPs from sitting in parliament?

00:03:34.640 Even the first time parties have tried to keep out their own MPs.

00:03:37.960 Do you think in the 800 or so year history of parliaments in the UK that no one thought, I can cook up a scheme to keep out my political rivals?

00:03:48.160 And I say all of this because the political fashion, the political excuse of the particular moment is that some MPs are not vaccinated, or at least they don't want to answer that personal question.

00:04:00.360 They're not sick.

00:04:01.580 They don't have COVID.

00:04:03.100 They're just not vaccinated.

00:04:04.180 By the way, as you know, being vaccinated doesn't mean you're not sick either.

00:04:09.960 You can be vaccinated and carry the virus and get sick.

00:04:12.520 I think the whole question is like that Abbott and Costello skit who's on first, or you've probably seen this meme on Facebook.

00:04:19.120 You know the one.

00:04:20.840 The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.

00:04:27.500 I know you think that doesn't make sense, but who are you to question St. Dr. Teresa Tam or Anthony Fauci?

00:04:35.260 You know, they just made a Disney movie about him.

00:04:37.560 He's so great.

00:04:39.000 He's so wise.

00:04:40.260 For some reason, the movie didn't include the deeply disturbing news just this past week that he approved medical experiments on dogs.

00:04:48.920 So horrific that I dare not tell you the details of how painful and pointless the experiments were, other than that the dogs howled in such agony that they were debarked before the torture because it was upsetting the scientists.

00:05:03.540 That's the satanic priest we're following here. 0.91

00:05:05.980 It's not science, people, because you're allowed to question science.

00:05:10.260 But what did they do in the last parliament to be beset by a real plague?

00:05:17.920 Do you think maybe there's anything we can learn from that?

00:05:21.020 And I mean a real plague, a plague that killed one in six people, not one in a thousand.

00:05:27.360 You know, so far there's been about 28,000 COVID deaths in Canada, and I regret that.

00:05:32.220 I am skeptical of that number because it includes anyone who died for any reason who happened to test positive for COVID within the 28 days before the death.

00:05:40.820 I wonder if they even include traffic accidents in that.

00:05:44.500 So I am skeptical of that reason, but let's accept it nonetheless.

00:05:47.760 If we accept that statistic, and we know that there's around 38 million Canadians, and we know that fewer than one in a thousand Canadians have died from COVID,

00:05:56.440 and those that have their average age is 80, and they were on average very sick or very fat.

00:06:00.820 So not even one in a thousand people in Canada have died from it.

00:06:04.600 Compare that to the last plague in the 1660s in the United Kingdom that killed 15% of the people it touched.

00:06:14.060 Now that's a plague.

00:06:15.140 So what did they do with their parliament in a real plague that was really devastating people?

00:06:21.560 Did they send their MPs and their Lords, or whatever exactly they were called, members I think they were called,

00:06:28.840 did they send them home?

00:06:31.040 Of course they didn't have Zoom or Skype then.

00:06:33.480 They didn't have telephones or telegraphs even.

00:06:36.320 So what did they do?

00:06:38.540 Well here's a quick line or two from the UK National Archives.

00:06:41.980 Here's what their government did, and I'm just reading from their government website here.

00:06:45.740 Charles II, that was the king, and his courtiers, left in July for Hampton Court, and then Oxford.

00:06:53.720 Parliament was postponed and had to sit in October at Oxford, the increase of the plague being so dreadful.

00:07:01.780 Court cases were also moved from Westminster to Oxford.

00:07:07.660 Okay, so they didn't close for a year or two like we did.

00:07:12.560 They just moved down the highway 60 miles from London to Oxford.

00:07:17.740 Parliament was shut for a few months, but then it opened up again in Oxford.

00:07:21.600 Same thing with court cases.

00:07:23.960 They didn't just shut down.

00:07:26.780 I'm sure they kept out anyone who obviously had the plague.

00:07:31.040 And by the way, I think if someone is sick, they should not go to work.

00:07:33.880 I mean, I had a regular cold 10 days ago.

00:07:36.680 I took a COVID test.

00:07:38.120 It wasn't COVID.

00:07:39.800 I stayed home anyways.

00:07:41.360 I didn't want to cough and wheeze on people.

00:07:43.980 I think you generally should stay home out of courtesy if you're sick.

00:07:47.400 Same thing with the plague.

00:07:49.680 Same thing with COVID.

00:07:51.680 But understand, Trudeau's parliamentary committee is saying that if you're an MP who is not vaccinated,

00:07:58.440 you may not come into parliament to take your seat.

00:08:00.900 So you can be fit as a fiddle.

00:08:02.460 You can be healthy as a bull.

00:08:03.820 You can, in fact, be more immune than a vaxxed person because you may have got sick and then recovered naturally. 0.71

00:08:10.120 But you are still banned from taking your seat in parliament?

00:08:13.060 Yeah, no, that's what I mean about learning from our history over the centuries.

00:08:20.040 Do you doubt that kings or would-be kings tried to cook up some scheme to ban MPs from the parliament?

00:08:26.280 Oh, you bet they did.

00:08:27.560 Hey, did you ever wonder what that's all about?

00:08:29.620 The fancy ceremony in the opening of parliament with all the strange antics and people with strange names like this one always made me laugh.

00:08:38.040 The gentleman usher of the black rod.

00:08:40.920 Isn't that funny?

00:08:41.820 And the whole ceremony of closing the door in his face three times.

00:08:47.640 You know, there's this whole, it's like they're doing a puppet show or an old play.

00:08:51.580 What's that all about?

00:08:53.620 Probably some musty, fusty, old-fashioned stuff, right?

00:08:56.640 We don't need to learn about that, right?

00:08:59.020 Well, in 1642, King Charles came to parliament with armed men and he marched right up to parliament.

00:09:07.960 400 troops he had.

00:09:09.060 He attempted to arrest five members of parliament.

00:09:13.880 The king did.

00:09:15.180 Here's a painting of it.

00:09:17.220 The Speaker of the House is the one on the bent knee.

00:09:19.780 And he was begging the king's pardon but refusing to help the king arrest the five men.

00:09:26.200 He sided with parliament against the king.

00:09:29.180 It was a showdown.

00:09:30.980 It actually led to a civil war in the end.

00:09:34.000 So, yeah, you know what?

00:09:36.600 Members of parliament have a historical right to be in that bloody parliament, even if the king himself tries to arrest them for any good reason or bad reason.

00:09:47.300 You just can't.

00:09:49.360 This is what I mean about learning lessons so hard, so painful the lessons.

00:09:55.160 And in that case, they were a cause of a civil war.

00:09:57.280 Imagine not knowing that and then saying, sure, yeah, just because Justin Trudeau doesn't want to let an MP in the parliament.

00:10:03.640 It's good enough for me.

00:10:04.300 I mean, there's a plague out.

00:10:05.840 Just ask Teresa Tam. 0.98

00:10:07.440 She says so.

00:10:08.400 So that's enough for me.

00:10:09.620 Really?

00:10:10.660 They fought a civil war over that.

00:10:12.320 I wonder if these new rules could ever, would ever be used to keep out other people for any other reason to, say, keep your political enemies from sitting in parliament.

00:10:26.100 Here's what Maxime Bernier said today.

00:10:28.060 He said, if the House of Commons can expel MPs who made the personal choice of not being vaccinated, can it also expel those who refuse to use politically correct pronouns and reject wokest dogma?

00:10:40.000 Is cancel culture compatible with democracy and a free society?

00:10:43.820 You know, that's a good point.

00:10:45.220 I sort of wish that Aaron O'Toole had made that point.

00:10:47.840 I think he's right.

00:10:49.800 I say again, these people being kept out, these MPs, they're not sick with COVID.

00:10:55.080 They're not sick at all.

00:10:56.060 They might be more immune than any vax person.

00:11:00.080 It's just an excuse to keep them out, name them, shame them.

00:11:04.580 And what does the great conservative leader Aaron O'Toole have to say?

00:11:07.560 The leader of the opposition.

00:11:09.560 Is he actually opposing anything these days?

00:11:12.000 Well, you try to make sense of this for me.

00:11:13.860 Take a look.

00:11:15.260 Today, the conservative caucus met.

00:11:17.300 I put forward a plan and the caucus agreed to respect and abide by new rules which require parliamentarians attending the House of Commons and Senate to be vaccinated.

00:11:28.880 At the earliest opportunity, a question of privilege will be raised in the House of Commons to challenge the improper conduct and precedent set by the Board of Internal Economy in their meeting on October 19th.

00:11:42.880 Only the House of Commons itself can determine its composition and its conduct, both before the Speaker or House rules and after they rule.

00:11:56.080 The entire conservative caucus will respect and abide by all the rules and all health guidance.

00:12:04.300 What?

00:12:04.740 What?

00:12:04.900 So there are unvaxed conservative MPs, I take it, and O'Toole has, in a private meeting, whipped them into submission.

00:12:14.620 So he has got them to promise not to go into parliament, but he's mad about privilege or something.

00:12:21.340 Did you understand any of that?

00:12:25.260 So he has forced new rules on his own people, but he's challenging the fact that Trudeau's people had the same rules first.

00:12:32.240 He's really excited about this.

00:12:33.900 Maybe Trudeau will give Aaron O'Toole a cabinet seat.

00:12:36.680 That's all he really seems to want.

00:12:40.300 At least in the Commonwealth country of Australia, their legislators have some courage and an Aussie sense of humor.

00:12:47.200 I want to show you this report from Avi Amini in Melbourne, Australia.

00:12:51.160 That's the capital city of the state of Victoria down there.

00:12:53.740 I'm not going to show you the whole thing, but here, watch a few good minutes of this, of this rebel parliament by real sitting legislators.

00:13:02.100 Take a look.

00:13:02.620 We've been around for 23 years, never segregated anyone, never discriminated against anyone, and we didn't want to start doing it now.

00:13:10.940 Breaching of a public health order can now be a two-year prison term.

00:13:16.400 It's interesting having the parliament guys out.

00:13:18.580 It's good having them here.

00:13:20.480 They're giving themselves ongoing lockdown powers, and this is going to, instead of ending in December, this is going to roll right through 2022.

00:13:27.260 This is what every parliament is lacking.

00:13:29.680 Avi Amini here in Melbourne, Australia, for an unprecedented story.

00:13:40.040 This is what, I don't know, we can only describe it as a shadow parliament.

00:13:44.100 In fact, probably a rebel parliament.

00:13:46.120 We have three members of the upper house that have been banished because they refuse to show their vaccine passports.

00:13:55.440 They even refuse to show their medical, their private medical history.

00:13:58.740 Let's check out what's going on here.

00:13:59.880 Here we go, we've got a member of parliament, Catherine Cummings, opening the door. 0.99

00:14:10.160 How are you doing?

00:14:10.960 Want to come in?

00:14:11.520 Is this the parliament?

00:14:12.240 This is parliament in the basement of a rebel parliament.

00:14:16.940 Rebel parliament, we'll go with that one. 0.99

00:14:19.240 Australia is in such a terrible place, and it's about to get worse.

00:14:23.160 The premier of that state of Victoria, Dan Andrews, who, by the way, has done secret agreements with the Communist Party of China.

00:14:31.520 We'll talk about that another day.

00:14:32.880 He's bringing in permanent emergency powers for himself, really like a Castro-style permanent revolution.

00:14:38.420 It's getting awful down there, but at least you can say there is some opposition by someone, somewhere, just not here in Canada.

00:14:48.320 Oh, well.

00:14:50.180 It's no big deal, right?

00:14:51.440 It's just democracy.

00:14:52.560 It's not life or death or anything.

00:14:54.480 It's not like anyone in our past has fought and sacrificed for it.

00:14:57.940 I'm sure we'd be fine without democracy.

00:15:01.160 Not life and death, you know.

00:15:02.960 I think maybe it actually is life and death.

00:15:05.200 I see that British Columbia has fired 4,000 nurses and doctors.

00:15:10.420 They were working great.

00:15:12.660 They were heroes until last week.

00:15:14.580 No problem.

00:15:15.760 Many of them have natural immunity.

00:15:17.260 They got the COVID and recovered.

00:15:18.740 But they're sacked now because of politics, not medicine.

00:15:23.100 Gone.

00:15:23.440 I did not know that British Columbia had 4,000 surplus nurses and doctors, extras, that the system could do without.

00:15:32.340 I didn't know that.

00:15:33.680 I didn't know the NDP treated working people that way.

00:15:37.380 I didn't know they treated union members that way.

00:15:39.620 I didn't know they treated the Medicare system that way.

00:15:42.400 Now I know 4,000 people canceled.

00:15:47.380 The 4,000 people with the most courage, isn't that interesting?

00:15:50.100 And the most ethics.

00:15:51.040 What happens if you take the most courageous, most ethical people out of a system?

00:15:54.360 What are you left with?

00:15:56.200 Well, what are you going to be left with on the public health side?

00:15:58.260 Let's just talk about that.

00:15:59.480 You take 4,000 doctors, nurses, orderlies out of a hospital.

00:16:02.300 What does that mean?

00:16:03.320 You're going to cancel 10,000, 100,000 surgeries and exams?

00:16:10.920 I bet that one move alone will kill more people in British Columbia than COVID has done.

00:16:21.740 But don't worry.

00:16:24.200 Because their premier, Horgan, what good luck that he himself will get his own cancer surgery fast-tracked.

00:16:33.500 Faster than anything you or I could get.

00:16:36.280 Thank God for that.

00:16:37.840 Stay with us for more.

00:16:38.960 Oh, we're so very busy.

00:16:52.980 By the time you're watching this, I am actually, because we're recording this slightly earlier in the day,

00:16:57.340 I am going to be at Canada Christian College with a special town hall faith and democracy conference featuring Glenn Beck, Dr. Julie Panessi, the ethics professor who, in a very courageous stand, was sacked by her university, Western Ontario, and is now working with the Democracy Fund.

00:17:18.820 So we're having a town hall about the crisis we're in, so much going on, as you may know, Rebel News has teamed up with the Democracy Fund to crowdfund, not just the Fight the Fines tickets over the last year and a half, but to try and fight some of these vaccine mandates, vaccine passports.

00:17:38.180 In fact, we have a petition at fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:17:43.140 You can also read about the cases we have.

00:17:46.280 And if you like, chip into our legal fund.

00:17:49.020 You'll get a charitable receipt for that from the Democracy Fund.

00:17:52.360 I want to go now to really our most active storyteller in regards to fighting back against these forced vaccines.

00:18:02.320 I'm referring to our chief reporter, my friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who joins us now.

00:18:06.440 Why, skip Sheila, how are you doing out there?

00:18:08.400 I'm great.

00:18:09.120 It was a very, very busy afternoon so far, just dealing with fight vaccine passports cases.

00:18:15.200 For me, it's so many of these people that we're meeting through fight vaccine passports.

00:18:21.420 These are the people who truly make the world go round.

00:18:24.100 These are the people who bring you energy, make sure that your shelves in the grocery store are stocked by keeping supply chains open.

00:18:31.320 These are the productive, useful people of the world, the middle class, and they're under attack by these vaccine passports. 1.00

00:18:40.240 Yeah.

00:18:40.520 Oh, you're exactly right.

00:18:41.520 These are the people who, while everyone else was either cowering at home or luxuriating at home,

00:18:48.840 these are the folks who were driving around, delivering you your food at home, working the hospitals, working the grocery stores, driving the trucks.

00:18:57.800 These were the actual working people.

00:18:59.620 And they were treated as heroes, and now they're being treated as zeros. 0.94

00:19:05.240 They are literally being thrown out despite a career, in some cases, of decades.

00:19:13.340 Yeah.

00:19:14.100 I find it, I can't even believe it.

00:19:16.980 And I'm an observer.

00:19:17.800 Thank God I have my own job here at my own place.

00:19:20.780 But I can imagine the feeling of powerlessness if you are an employee.

00:19:26.440 And let's say you have a certain skill set.

00:19:28.660 Let's say you're a jet pilot and you're 50 years old.

00:19:34.220 Okay.

00:19:34.660 So you've got a very particular skill set.

00:19:36.440 You could go work for the other airline.

00:19:37.820 Oh, but guess what?

00:19:38.660 They've got a vax mandate, too.

00:19:39.940 What are you even going to do?

00:19:42.560 Well, in the case of the Alberta firefighters that we are helping through FightVaccinePassports.com,

00:19:49.200 they are literally heroes.

00:19:51.480 They rush into burning buildings.

00:19:53.440 And if you are in a car accident, you're bleeding on the street, they rush up to help you, too.

00:19:59.940 And they, of course, take precautions to prevent communicable disease transmission.

00:20:06.400 They still take those precautions with coronavirus and all sorts of blood-borne illnesses.

00:20:12.160 And with this group, there are people who won't take the vaccine.

00:20:17.760 There are people who cannot take the vaccine.

00:20:20.460 And there are others who are saying, I took the vaccine, but I am against medical coercion.

00:20:27.340 And as firefighters, they're a brotherhood.

00:20:30.240 They have to work together.

00:20:32.160 Each other's lives are in their hands.

00:20:34.420 And so they have this brotherhood where they are going to stick together.

00:20:38.660 And I'm so proud that we're able to help them because they have the fight.

00:20:42.620 They even had the lawyer.

00:20:44.200 They just needed the money.

00:20:45.560 And that's where the Democracy Fund came in.

00:20:48.040 Well, thank you for saying that.

00:20:49.220 And after our interview, I will, you know, I like these days on my show, Sheila, I show a YouTube video from elsewhere in the company.

00:20:57.380 We tack it on the end of the show.

00:20:59.700 And that's the one we're choosing.

00:21:03.380 You know, firefighting really is a brotherhood.

00:21:05.440 And I think we learned a lot about that on 9-11.

00:21:08.200 Just by the way, and we can put some B-roll of it up right now, I learned that the actor, Steve Buscemi, who's got that real funny-looking face, like, he's quite a character.

00:21:21.640 You'll recognize him immediately.

00:21:23.320 He was a firefighter before he was an actor.

00:21:25.580 I don't know if you know that, Sheila.

00:21:26.520 And he went back to help.

00:21:31.300 Like, he went to help on 9-11 as a fireman because of that fraternity.

00:21:36.820 And it really is, you know, imagine someone who will run into a burning building.

00:21:46.520 Everyone else runs out.

00:21:47.740 They run in.

00:21:49.000 And like you said, they deal with people who may be sick, may have this disease or that disease.

00:21:55.160 They're not even thinking of that.

00:21:56.720 I mean, they are thinking of that in terms of taking precautions.

00:21:58.580 And now we're going to sack these people as if they are dangerous to us.

00:22:03.980 This is a moral inversion.

00:22:06.460 You know, I'm not that religious, Sheila, but I keep finding myself using that word satanic because I know that when you flip morality upside down, I'm not really religious, but I just feel that that word fits. 0.99

00:22:18.140 When you take the most noble and selfless amongst us, and I'll put firefighters in there.

00:22:23.520 You're bloody right.

00:22:24.040 I will.

00:22:24.360 And you say, no, no, no, you are the dirty, unclean, risky ones who are risking us.

00:22:30.740 You're the enemy.

00:22:32.300 What?

00:22:33.380 What?

00:22:33.880 It's like I'm looking at a photographic negative.

00:22:36.020 True is false and false is true.

00:22:37.760 That's why I use the word satanic.

00:22:39.600 It's a shorthand for a complete moral inversion.

00:22:43.520 Yeah.

00:22:43.800 And as Albertans in particular, we've learned the value of our firefighters, I think, over the last decade.

00:22:51.220 As entire forest communities burned down, Slave Lake, for example, they were able to evacuate just, I think, everyone from that community.

00:23:00.740 Fort McMurray burning down.

00:23:03.300 Firefighters are rushing in.

00:23:04.960 Nobody died in the fire.

00:23:06.540 Somebody did die on the highway during the evacuation.

00:23:09.000 That is in no small part due to our first responders.

00:23:12.940 In the case of, you know, our northern communities, they are also, the people there are very highly trained in safety because of the oil patch.

00:23:22.040 But, I mean, these people truly are our heroes.

00:23:26.140 And they are facing termination.

00:23:29.560 They're being, as you say, treated as unclean, dirty, and irresponsible.

00:23:33.440 They're being treated as people who don't care about their community when their lives are on the line in defense of the community every single day.

00:23:42.080 Yeah, it's outrageous.

00:23:43.380 All right.

00:23:43.760 So, you connected with the firefighters and with the lawyer.

00:23:48.020 I think it's Derek Fromm in that case.

00:23:50.020 And the Democracy Fund will bankroll the legal fees there.

00:23:55.900 Now, you told me just before we turned the camera on that there were several other cases the Democracy Fund is helping on the vaccine passport file.

00:24:02.400 Tell me what they are.

00:24:03.960 Okay.

00:24:04.720 So, off the top just today, we are helping some folks who work for Metrolinx.

00:24:10.960 That's the commuter rail line, I believe, in Ontario.

00:24:14.700 And then we have CNRL, the people who keep our supply chain, or sorry, CNRL, the Canadian Natural Resources Limited.

00:24:23.360 We are helping some folks from there who are facing termination because of the vaccine passport on December 1st.

00:24:31.720 And we must remember, these people were also deemed essential workers by the Alberta government at the beginning of the pandemic because they truly are.

00:24:39.280 If you want to flick on your light switch or heat your house or gas up your vehicle, an essential worker, an energy worker, made that happen.

00:24:46.860 They are being put out of work.

00:24:49.040 And CN workers, we are helping them.

00:24:52.340 We initially reported on their threat letter that they sent to their employer, and then we absorbed their lawsuit into the Democracy Fund.

00:25:01.400 And, again, these people, as we approach the Christmas season, they keep the supply chains open.

00:25:07.700 If there's toys for your kids for Christmas on the shelves, CN played a role in that, and these workers played a role in that, more importantly.

00:25:16.520 And they're going to be put out of work if they don't either get the jab or produce their vaccine status.

00:25:24.300 And there's two sides of that there.

00:25:26.160 So, there are some people, again, who can't or won't get the vaccine.

00:25:29.600 And then there are others who said, I'm just not giving you this information.

00:25:33.820 It's not yours. 0.78

00:25:34.500 And you have never mandated me to get any vaccine.

00:25:36.820 So, why are we starting now?

00:25:38.560 Yeah.

00:25:39.740 So, the firefighters, Metrolinx, that's sort of the commuter rail in the Toronto area.

00:25:46.620 CNRL, that's an oil sands company.

00:25:49.780 And then CN Rail.

00:25:52.120 Yes.

00:25:53.140 That's a lot of cases.

00:25:56.640 That's hundreds of people, Ezra.

00:25:58.560 Yeah.

00:25:58.780 That's hundreds.

00:26:00.100 Yeah.

00:26:00.600 Well, and that's the thing.

00:26:02.220 When we started to conceive of our FightVaccinePassports.com project a couple months ago, I thought if we can fight back in certain institutions, we could fight for one client.

00:26:15.780 But if we got the rules changed, potentially that could help everyone at that institution.

00:26:20.780 Now, I want to tell you, my great frustration has been the delay.

00:26:23.920 And sometimes it's because lawyers move slowly.

00:26:28.420 But that's not the case here.

00:26:30.140 I want to give you an example.

00:26:31.000 I was talking to one of our lawyers who's working on the B.C. case.

00:26:34.700 We filed that lawsuit over a month ago.

00:26:39.700 And the court just sat on it.

00:26:43.620 They didn't issue it.

00:26:45.740 We had to write letters to the chief judge and say, can you accept this lawsuit?

00:26:52.100 We filed it.

00:26:53.040 And then we gave it to the attorney general.

00:26:55.040 Ten days have passed.

00:26:56.300 They haven't even replied.

00:26:57.420 So they're ragging the puck, as they say.

00:26:59.960 They're slow walking that because they know every day they delay, people collapse and get the jab.

00:27:06.420 I think the justice system, the court system, the attorneys general are deliberately making this as hard as possible to sue.

00:27:15.520 And I'm frankly, it reduces respect for the administration of justice to have these things go so slow.

00:27:24.980 I also have another reason for why these things go so slowly.

00:27:29.980 And it is because there is, in some instances, union involvement here.

00:27:34.900 With the CN workers, some of them are contractors.

00:27:37.780 Some of them are represented by a union.

00:27:39.640 And some of them aren't.

00:27:41.140 But with Metrolinks, these guys are teamsters.

00:27:45.080 With the firefighters, they have their own union.

00:27:47.900 And so what happens is, when there's a union involved, the unions are choosing to grieve these cases individually.

00:27:57.620 Now, they will deny the grievance, naturally, because the unions are siding with the employers in this case.

00:28:03.680 But we have to go through that grievance process before our lawyers get involved.

00:28:09.200 Because once you become a union member, you sort of give up your rights to do all your legal rights to the union.

00:28:17.540 And you expect the union to act on your behalf.

00:28:20.480 They just aren't.

00:28:21.740 There are a handful of courageous unions out there.

00:28:25.160 That's true.

00:28:25.640 It's shocking to me how many unions are what are called in the labor union, in the trade union biz, yellow unions, company unions.

00:28:37.720 They walk, talk, and act like unions, but they're actually in league with the corporation.

00:28:45.220 Unifor is the worst example of that.

00:28:46.960 Their boss, Jerry Diaz, is a total political ally of Justin Trudeau and probably sees himself with a political future beyond.

00:28:54.820 So he's selling out his members to Trudeau.

00:28:58.380 And I think so many of these unions are taking the company's side against their own people.

00:29:03.580 It's super gross.

00:29:05.220 We've seen a little bit of fight back here and there, but not much.

00:29:08.340 Some police unions.

00:29:09.860 We saw it in the Melbourne area, Australia construction unions.

00:29:15.020 Hopefully some of these folks will be turned around.

00:29:17.080 But I tell you what, we are lawyering up.

00:29:19.500 I think we have about a dozen cases now.

00:29:22.240 We'll keep freshening up our website at fightvaccinepassports.com because we have many stories to tell.

00:29:30.560 But I want to let our viewers know we're extremely busy.

00:29:32.600 We have more lawyers than ever, more lawsuits than ever.

00:29:35.460 We are trying to stop it.

00:29:36.960 Look, it's in the hands of these judges.

00:29:38.920 I don't know what they will do.

00:29:40.560 I am pessimistic, but at least by God, we're trying.

00:29:42.960 Well, and I should tell you that some of our efforts are already making a difference.

00:29:47.820 For example, with regard to CN, their deadline initially was the end of October.

00:29:52.840 Leighton got involved, fired off a threat letter.

00:29:55.340 That deadline has been shuffled back to November 15th.

00:29:59.600 That's Leighton Gray QC, the lawyer on that case.

00:30:02.400 Yes, sorry.

00:30:03.080 I've talked to him so much today.

00:30:04.780 We're on a first name basis and I assume everybody else is too.

00:30:08.380 But Leighton Gray, he fired off a threat letter to CN in defense of the employees there who

00:30:15.100 didn't want to divulge their vaccination status.

00:30:18.040 CN blinked and they moved that date back and he thinks they're going to blink again once

00:30:23.220 he sends another letter.

00:30:24.580 So happy to hear that.

00:30:26.340 And hopefully we'll see.

00:30:28.060 I mean, it's actually the maniacs on the other side.

00:30:31.820 British Columbia went ahead and sacked 4,000 nurses and doctors.

00:30:35.920 Insane.

00:30:37.060 Insane.

00:30:38.380 I think a lot of it is just they're testing to see what they can get away with.

00:30:42.840 And if they're ever called on it, like Leighton Gray and the CN workers are calling them on

00:30:46.360 it, they say, oh, we were just seeing what we could get away with.

00:30:49.020 Yeah, we know that's insane.

00:30:50.500 So I think the fact that so few people are standing up to it.

00:30:53.240 And that's why I'm so damn mad at Aaron O'Toole, the wicked coward of the Conservative

00:30:57.880 Party, who if he simply followed his job description, it's in his title, official opposition.

00:31:05.000 If he simply opposed, in not a crazy way or a wild way, but just in a principled way, if

00:31:12.200 he took a page out of Ron DeSantis' playbook.

00:31:15.520 Ron DeSantis is not anti-vax.

00:31:17.100 He's personally vaxed.

00:31:18.760 He's set up vaxes all across Florida.

00:31:21.540 He's got into monoclonal antibodies, which is another absolutely legitimate therapeutic.

00:31:27.860 Ron DeSantis is not an anti-vaxxer.

00:31:32.360 He's just not a freedom-smashing statist.

00:31:36.880 And if we had seen just a modicum of opposition from our opposition leaders and a modicum of

00:31:42.680 conservatism from our conservative parties, I think we could have stopped a lot of this

00:31:47.640 because people, I think the other side realizes what they're doing is insane.

00:31:52.020 It's just that no one has stood up to them yet.

00:31:56.320 Well, and I think for normal people who might be vaccinated, they're not against the vaccine,

00:32:02.920 and they don't know how all of this affects them quite yet.

00:32:06.740 And you haven't even given a thought to, you know, your neighbors or your friends or your

00:32:11.600 family being medically coerced at the threat of losing their job.

00:32:15.260 Let me just tell you that these people that we are helping through FightVaccinePassports.com,

00:32:21.280 these are the people who make the world go round.

00:32:24.200 These are the people who make sure that everything you need is at the store when you want it.

00:32:29.100 These are the people who make sure that the gas is in the pump when you need it.

00:32:33.740 These are the people, in the case of Metrolinx, they are there when you need to get to work.

00:32:39.320 They take you to work, and they're going to lose their jobs.

00:32:42.560 So even if you don't care about medical coercion, a lot of people are about to be mugged by reality

00:32:49.200 if thousands of these people who make sure the world goes round, if they get laid off

00:32:54.740 and they're not there to bring you what you need and take you to work.

00:32:59.220 Yeah, and by the way, we're seeing what's happening in the United States with supply chains

00:33:03.900 grinding to a halt.

00:33:06.200 Gee, I wonder what will happen if you knock out 100,000 people from essential industries in Canada.

00:33:11.340 Gee, I wonder if that will make more shortages or less.

00:33:15.560 I wonder if things will work better or worse.

00:33:17.600 We already see thousands of exams and surgeries canceled in British Columbia.

00:33:22.040 Sheila, these are the worst of times.

00:33:23.760 It's bringing out the worst in many people, but it's also bringing out the best in some people,

00:33:29.520 the best in our viewers who have chipped into the Democracy Fund legal defense possibility.

00:33:35.360 Sheila, I think you're doing a great job.

00:33:36.760 As always, you were really the leader in the journalism behind our Fight the Fines initiative

00:33:41.920 that was helping people with lockdown tickets, this vaccine stuff.

00:33:45.460 And again, it's an uphill battle, and I don't even know if we're going to win any of them.

00:33:48.860 But we have to fight, and you're doing a great job.

00:33:51.380 Thank you for that.

00:33:52.180 And we've got to tell the story of all these because we've been so busy getting it done.

00:33:55.820 We've got to show our work, so to speak.

00:33:57.620 We've got to show our viewers and show the Democracy Fund donors what we've done.

00:34:02.060 And I'm not saying that it's enough, what we've done.

00:34:05.020 I'm not saying it'll even work.

00:34:06.560 But I just want to show people that we have not been idle these last months.

00:34:10.760 Well, for me, I really find a passion in this work because I see my own family in so many of these.

00:34:17.080 But I want to tell our viewers at home and donors to the Democracy Fund,

00:34:22.000 the gratitude of these people for your donations is overwhelming.

00:34:26.320 They feel alone.

00:34:27.260 They're facing the worst days of their life.

00:34:29.940 They're about to lose everything.

00:34:32.060 And they don't know what to do.

00:34:33.740 They're up against multibillion-dollar companies or the government.

00:34:37.700 And because of donations to the Democracy Fund, they have some hope and they have the ability to fight.

00:34:43.360 So I want to thank everybody at home for that.

00:34:46.020 Well, there you have it.

00:34:46.600 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, absolute top gun.

00:34:50.760 Great to see you, my friend.

00:34:51.680 Thanks for your help.

00:34:52.960 Thanks, boss.

00:34:53.700 There you have it.

00:34:54.780 Stay with us more ahead.

00:34:55.940 Hey, welcome back.

00:35:10.020 Your feedback.

00:35:10.880 Someone with a nickname, how about no, says, ha-ha, is this the Babylon Bee?

00:35:15.380 What kind of halfwit would rely on a George Soros fact-checking outlet, let alone one called good information?

00:35:23.120 Yeah.

00:35:24.600 That's just so funny, isn't it?

00:35:26.260 Sometimes people say, you've got to change the name of Rebel News.

00:35:29.840 You've got to call it Truth News.

00:35:31.500 Like, I probably still get, I mean, we're seven years into it.

00:35:35.240 The name, we're not changing the name, people.

00:35:39.280 People don't like Rebel News.

00:35:40.560 It sounds too negative.

00:35:43.160 Some people thought it had to do with the U.S. Confederacy.

00:35:47.140 They were called rebels.

00:35:48.420 Some people think it has to do with Lucifer, who rebelled against God.

00:35:52.340 No, that's absolutely not what it is.

00:35:54.120 It's just, we have a rebellious spirit.

00:35:56.000 We're rebelling against the establishment narrative.

00:35:58.740 We're rebelling against the media party.

00:36:00.380 We're even, in our early days, rebelling against the technology of the old line TV companies.

00:36:06.480 We went all internet.

00:36:07.840 That's what rebel means.

00:36:09.160 But it's just our spirit that we're willing to zig when anyone else is willing to zag. 0.63

00:36:13.680 But people say, no, change it to Truth News.

00:36:16.020 No, no, no.

00:36:16.560 If you call yourself Truth News, people say, oh, boy, you sure are sensitive about that.

00:36:22.260 You sure want people to think you're the truth, and you just sort of mention it.

00:36:25.180 It's like, if I may use an analogy, it's like Justin Trudeau and his fake feminism.

00:36:30.800 When I see guys, male feminists, talk about how feminist they are, I think, yeah, we all

00:36:36.300 believe in treating women equally, and we all have that understanding.

00:36:42.500 The fact that you won't shut up about what an ally you are tells me you're actually running

00:36:47.600 pretty hard on the subject, and you're preempting questions about it.

00:36:51.080 Whenever I see a male feminist, I think it's Justin Trudeau, Harvey Weinstein, Xi'an Gomeshi, 0.80

00:36:57.200 it makes me say these people are not that.

00:37:00.660 And so, the good information company.

00:37:04.460 Yeah, I think you just told us what you're not.

00:37:08.420 Harkle says, this is like Darth Vader starting a rehabilitation center for injured rebel soldiers.

00:37:13.380 Yeah, you know, I'll give Axios credit.

00:37:17.120 They did do a little bit of due diligence into who the people behind this.

00:37:21.440 Democrat activists, fake conservatives like the Bulwark.

00:37:24.720 But let me tell you something.

00:37:28.680 They will absolutely succeed.

00:37:31.500 Because what we've learned over the last couple of years is that Canadian media companies,

00:37:36.220 with pretty few exceptions, us, True North, Spencer Fernando, Blacklocks, have I listed them all?

00:37:42.420 Well, every other media company will take the cash.

00:37:47.540 They take it from Justin Trudeau.

00:37:49.140 They take it from Google and Facebook.

00:37:51.000 They absolutely will take it from George Soros.

00:37:54.080 And if you don't think that Soros is giving money and expecting something in return,

00:37:58.800 well, then I've got to bridge to sell you.

00:38:00.820 Tech Gantua says, Soros creating a fact-checking organization that's like Jeffrey Dahmer opening a vegan restaurant.

00:38:08.300 Yeah, well, I mean, that's another analogy.

00:38:10.960 And I just, I'm worried about the weaponization.

00:38:14.220 Listen, I'm fine with some ordinary person or even extraordinary person calling us names, saying we're fake.

00:38:21.860 I don't believe we are.

00:38:22.940 You can have a difference of opinion.

00:38:25.020 But that's not what this is about.

00:38:26.600 This is about that official label, then, being used to silence you, deplatform you,

00:38:33.860 shut down your account on YouTube, Twitter, or other social media.

00:38:37.060 They don't just want to make the accusation that we're fake.

00:38:39.460 I think they're fake.

00:38:40.260 It's that if they put millions of dollars behind their fact-checking institute and label their enemies as fake,

00:38:47.980 their enemies will disappear.

00:38:49.440 That's why they're doing it.

00:38:51.200 Well, that's our show for today.

00:38:53.300 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:38:57.360 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:58.980 And let me leave you with a video of Tim Mowen from Alberta, who is a libertarian and a firefighter,

00:39:07.980 and he is a man of courage, who is organizing other firefighters to fight back.

00:39:13.440 And you know what?

00:39:14.660 We're backing him through the Democracy Fund with a lawyer to fight.

00:39:18.580 I'll leave you with that video.

00:39:19.780 Good night.

00:39:20.680 We're going silent for an hour.

00:39:22.000 We are there to back our people who are fighting for us against this mandate.

00:39:26.380 That is what we're doing here.

00:39:28.500 How long, Sons?

00:39:29.280 It'll be one hour.

00:39:30.820 We are aiming to walk over there in about five minutes.

00:39:32.940 Once we get over and set up, we're going to stand there for one hour.

00:39:35.040 I got my headphones.

00:39:36.800 I'm putting it all up.

00:39:37.380 A little Bob Marley myself.

00:39:39.240 I'll stand up.

00:39:40.520 Get up.

00:39:41.140 They're not anti-vax.

00:39:42.240 In fact, many of them have been vaccinated, and they're standing with their brothers in

00:39:46.200 support of this because, I mean, some of them have medical conditions that are legitimate

00:39:50.080 that prevent them from taking this vaccine.

00:39:52.400 Some are currently, you know, on leaves of absences because of injuries they've suffered

00:39:56.800 on the job, and they're being demanded to vaccinate before they come back to work

00:40:00.680 in four months.

00:40:01.900 This is a contentious issue.

00:40:03.140 It will create division if the unions fight for this issue.

00:40:09.400 You know, they can be pro-vaccine and anti-dismissal, but the current society doesn't allow for

00:40:17.500 that nuanced position.

00:40:19.260 You're either pro-science and pro-vaccine, or you're an anti-vax nut.

00:40:23.000 There's no ground anywhere else.

00:40:25.960 And the other thing is that these unions, you know, they largely support politicians that

00:40:32.340 support their causes, and those politicians, almost without exceptions, are also the most

00:40:37.900 pro-coercive mandate politicians out there.

00:40:40.800 So I suspect the unions don't want to ostracize the politicians that support them the most.

00:40:46.800 The 20 lawsuits that we are launching across Canada are the fundamental line in the sand

00:40:53.380 that we must draw to defend not only our freedoms, but to defend the very soul of the nation.

00:41:00.600 I urge you to consider going to fightvaccinepassports.com now and signing our petition and contributing

00:41:07.620 so that we can continue to provide the very best legal defense for the firefighters who are

00:41:13.480 once again leading the charge into battle, this time in court.

00:41:21.020 Adam Sos here for Rebel News, and today I'm going to be sharing with you the story

00:41:25.160 of some Alberta firefighters who are fighting back against vaccine passports.

00:41:30.840 Some are opposed for medical reasons, others for religious reasons, others still for ethical reasons.

00:41:37.040 They are getting together, and they are suing the government.

00:41:43.480 When we heard their stories, we knew we had to get involved, and we knew that because of

00:41:50.940 our generous supporters, we would be able to crowdfund excellent legal defense for these

00:41:56.200 firefighters. Thanks to our initiative, Run Through the Democracy Fund, a registered charity,

00:42:01.340 we are mounting 20 legal battles across this country in our effort to take down vaccine

00:42:07.440 passports.

00:42:14.400 In just a moment, you're going to hear from one of those firefighters, Tim Mowen. He joined

00:42:19.520 Sheila for an interview about his story and about his opposition to these mandates.

00:42:24.480 Now, the other big announcement I have, and this is just hot off the press, is that we have

00:42:29.620 been made an offer from the Democracy Fund, which is affiliated with Rebel Media and Ezra Levant.

00:42:35.440 They're fully funding our legal action.

00:42:40.400 To the tune of over $100,000, it needs to be.

00:42:44.080 So we're taking this thing all the way. We're never going to let this happen again.

00:42:48.200 They mobilized a group of firefighters who run into burning buildings for a living.

00:42:52.980 They messed with the wrong people.

00:42:55.280 After that, you're going to hear from Derek Fromm, the lawyer who is helping this lawsuit

00:42:59.240 at no cost to the firefighters, thanks to your exceptional generosity.

00:43:03.140 And finally, I'm going to let you know how you can continue to help this fight against

00:43:07.780 vaccine passports and keep these firefighters where they belong.

00:43:12.360 Employed, putting out fires, and saving lives.

00:43:15.940 Sorry guys, YouTube doesn't want you watching this content. They don't think you can handle

00:43:20.180 it. So if you want to see the real deal, you got to go to rebelnews.com as always, or

00:43:24.520 you can click the link in the description below.

00:43:29.740 Hey guys, firefighters never hesitate to rush into harm's way, but now they're asking for

00:43:35.340 our help to defend their medical privacy and their fundamental freedoms.

00:43:39.400 If you want to help, you can do so at fightvaccinepassports.com.

Rebel News Podcast - October 29, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Crazy stories about how far vaccine mandates go — some will make you laugh, some will make you cry

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