EZRA LEVANT ｜ David Lametti reinstates government Twitter account after being sued by Rebel News
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Rebel News has an update on the court hearing in our lawsuit against David Lamedi, the former Trudeau Justice Minister, and a reminder of why we're doing things no one else in the whole country is doing, and why it matters.
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Hello, my friends. I want to give you an update on last night's court hearing in our lawsuit
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against David Lamedi, the former Trudeau Justice Minister. I think it's going really well. I can't
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even believe how well it's going. I thought we'd have an uphill battle, but holy cow, did we catch
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the guy with his hand in the cookie jar? I want you to see what we're up to. But first, let me
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invite you to get a subscription to what we call Rebel News Plus. It's eight bucks a month. You
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get the video version of this podcast, which I think is worth eight bucks. But more than
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that, you're helping Rebel News stay alive. We are doing things like this Lamedi lawsuit
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that no one else in the whole country is doing. Not the official opposition, not public interest
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law firms, not other media. We caught the guy sneaking out, and it's sort of amazing. Go
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to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. Thanks very much. Here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, David Lamedi's lawyers reinstate his government Twitter account just days after
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being sued by Rebel News. But we're not done yet. It's January 30th, and this is the Ezra
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LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. I've got news for you. Yesterday, from 4 till
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5 p.m., after I had taped my show yesterday, I sat in on an emergency court hearing in the
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matter of Rebel News v. David Lamedi, the former Trudeau justice minister. It's a lawsuit that we
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filed, if you can believe it, on Saturday. And we served it on the government on Sunday, and we had
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an emergency first hearing called a case management hearing on Monday at 4 p.m. That's moving pretty
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quickly, if you ask me. I didn't even know you could file things like that on a weekend.
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The judge was a pretty senior guy. Justice Simon Fothergill is his name. He said he hadn't had the
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chance to read all the material that we had filed, but his purpose yesterday was limited to putting
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things on a schedule to manage the case, as they say. And the main thing we were looking for was an
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emergency order to preserve the government records in Lamedi's possession. I'll tell you how that went
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in a moment, but please let me give you a proper update on the background, because it's really
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happened so quickly. I want to make sure you understand why we're doing what we're doing, why it's
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important. More is happening every day, it seems. So give me just five minutes to refresh your memory about why
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we're doing this. Last week was a disaster for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in a stunning, unequivocal,
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devastating court ruling. The Federal Court of Canada goes through the Emergencies Act, and how it was
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invoked by Trudeau two years ago to stop the truckers, and how it was used, and clearly ruled that what
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Trudeau did was illegal. Canada was actually not at risk of serious violence in the nature of a revolution
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or an invasion or something on an existential level like that, which is necessary for the invocation of martial law.
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Current authorities have enough power in existing laws to deal with any problems, and those problems were, to be
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clear, horn honking, and some traffic and parking violations. There was no violence. There was no
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insurrection. They didn't even really get out of their trucks. It was no January 6th moment, though
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Trudeau really wished it was. The bridge between Windsor and Detroit was blocked for, I don't know, a day.
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Regular police cleared it without an incident. The border between Coots, Alberta, and Sweetgrass, Montana
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was blocked for a few days, but it too was ended without incident. Both of those were resolved before
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the invocation of martial law, which obviously proves that martial law was not needed, which is one of the
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requirements for the Emergencies Act. Here, let me read to you Section 3 of the Emergencies Act, just so
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you can see with your own eyes the law that Trudeau clearly broke. I'm just going to quote the law. It's in
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plain English, national emergency. For the purposes of this act, a national emergency is an urgent and
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critical situation of a temporary nature that, A, seriously endangers the lives, health, or safety
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of Canadians, and yet is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a
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province to deal with it. That didn't happen. Or, B, seriously threatens the ability of the government
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of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of Canada, and that cannot
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be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada. That's all you need to know.
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Pretty clear, and pretty clear Trudeau didn't meet either of those tests. Trudeau, as usual,
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is a coward when the crunch comes. When the truckers came to Ottawa two years ago, Trudeau claimed he had
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COVID and went into hiding. Last week, when the federal court issued this ruling, he went into
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hiding again, sending out Chrystia Freeland to take the heat for it. She said the government was going
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to appeal this ruling. Good luck with that. But the world saw what happened. No wonder Trudeau is an
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all-time low in the polls. No one believes him on anything anymore. By the way, even his own base hates him.
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I think he has two bases left politically. He's got journalists and civil servants, I guess. Same
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thing. And then he has pro-Hamas voters. Did you see this clip? Apparently, this is outside a mosque
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in Montreal that he was visiting, of course. And when he came out, even mosque members hate him. No wonder
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he takes in as many foreign trips as he can. Canadians of all stripes love them. He just likes to go to
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Jamaica. Remember this clip? Shame, shame, Trudeau! Shame, shame, Trudeau! Shame, shame, Trudeau!
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By the way, the RCMP arrested and assaulted David Menzies for less than those people did
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Of course, it's the Prime Minister's job to decide whether or not to invoke the Emergencies
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Act, so it's a momentous decision really akin to declaring war on your own people.
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It would be one of the most grave decisions a government could possibly make.
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He would be advised by different people, by police, by the military, by national security
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advisors, but at the end of the day, it would be the Prime Minister's chief legal officer
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who would assess the law and ensure the government acted accordingly, and he would give advice
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And that advisor, that lawyer, is David Lemeny, the Justice Minister at the time.
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He's the one who was supposed to look at the Emergencies Act and said, yeah, that horn honking
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is loud, and those truckers are embarrassing my partisan team, so I'm going to ring a martial
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law alarm that has never been rung before, not even on 9-11.
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It's the worst thing that has ever happened to Canada, this horn honking.
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Seriously threatens the ability of the government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security,
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What was it, the bouncy castles that did it, or was it the hot tub that did it?
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And David Lemeny said, yeah, sure boss, no problem, we'll just use this very special
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If you recall two years ago, Lemeny claimed he had a secret legal opinion, he wouldn't
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tell us who wrote it, that justified invoking martial law.
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It's secret, he won't show us, but it's the proof that he should have done what he did.
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It's like that old American joke from 100 movies and TV sitcoms.
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Oh yeah, I have a girlfriend, you just don't know her, because she goes to a different high
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Trudeau fired him a few months ago, even though he lied for Trudeau.
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He fired him from cabinet, but he still stuck around as an MP.
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Right after the federal court ruling last week, he finally announced he was resigning.
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And going to a liberal connected law firm called Faskin Martineau.
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Honored to welcome Mr. David Lemeny, former justice minister and attorney general of Canada,
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A dedicated advocate for indigenous reconciliation.
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He's also deeply engaged in emerging technology, particularly artificial intelligence.
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He stole the justice minister's job away from the first indigenous justice minister in
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history, Jody Wilson Rabel, because he was willing to interfere in court cases for Trudeau,
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But I'm glad to learn that he's interested in artificial intelligence, because I don't think
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he's shown a lot of natural intelligence to you.
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As you know, as he was skulking away, as he quit parliament, he thought he would do one
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last disgraceful act and destroy all of his official state records on Twitter by pressing
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I'm not sure if it's something to brag about, but I think I've sued more politicians for
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misconduct on Twitter than anyone else in Canada.
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The main lawsuit was against Stephen Gilboa, the execrable environment minister, that shifty
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Because he blocked Rebel News on Twitter, thus denying our reporters access to important
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government announcements, as well as our ability to interact with the minister and other
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And here's the key point of why I mentioned that lawsuit that ended in Gilboa's abject
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He agreed never to block us again for the rest of his career.
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He agreed to pay us $20,000 in court costs, even though he forced taxpayers to pay that
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For two years, Stephen Gilboa and the government of Canada's lawyers argued that Gilboa could
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block whomever he wanted from his government Twitter account because it was actually his own
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That's what they argued for two years, even though his Twitter account had that official
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gray checkmark that comes from being a verified government account.
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And more obviously, it was run by two dozen civil servants using taxpayers' resources.
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So if that was the government's position for two full years, argued loudly and proudly in court,
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how on earth could we possibly trust David Lamedi not to destroy government records pertaining to his
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role as justice minister, especially and importantly, right as the federal court ruled that the
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Emergencies Act invocation was illegal and thus opening up the government and Lamedi to hundreds of
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lawsuits from people who had their bank accounts frozen.
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As I mentioned in my emergency live stream yesterday, a couple hours before that, Lamedi
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had reinstated his Twitter account in response to our lawsuit.
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We just caught him with his hand in the cookie jar.
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Which is pretty incredible when you think about it, how hard Gilboa fought for two years.
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But like I say, who could trust a liberal politician?
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If he said it was raining, I would go outside to check.
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Especially a liberal as slippery as Lamedi, who was willing to sell out the whole country.
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We need a court order ensuring that he doesn't take it down again tomorrow or next week or
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And to make sure that he doesn't go in selectively delete anything, including private direct messages
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to other cabinet ministers that we haven't even been allowed to see yet.
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Those private messages may well come out during the lawsuits that are bound to be filed
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So the hearing yesterday was almost an hour long.
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And it was interesting because it was only about whether or not the court would move
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on an emergency basis to grant a temporary order freezing the Twitter account until we
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have time to have a proper legal battle in court on the substance of it.
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And the judge yesterday was certainly open to the idea.
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He said, though, that he wanted to give Lamedi a few more days to hire a personal lawyer,
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not just the government lawyer who was standing in yesterday.
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But if you've seen our lawsuit at StopTheCoverUp.com, you know that the two plaintiffs are me
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and Rebel News and the two defendants are Lamedi himself and Lamedi as the representative
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So Lamedi says he hasn't had a chance to get a personal lawyer yet.
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So the judge is giving him until Friday at 4 p.m., at which time we'll have another case
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The government lawyer tried to argue that no interim injunction is necessary now.
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No special court order freezing things because, look, they've already complied voluntarily
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And I suppose in one sense it's true, but of course that could change in a heartbeat.
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I don't trust the liberals and I don't think you do either.
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But it was exciting and it was encouraging and it was affirming to know a few things.
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We made him reinstate his Twitter account, or at least it looks that way.
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Number two, we made a judge take this seriously enough that he's having case management hearings
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about it, including scheduling another one quickly for Friday.
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Number three, it really looks like either through a trial and a judgment or what's called a
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consent order where the bad guys just agree to a kind of plea bargain, looks like Lamedi
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actually might just agree to everything we're asking for in regards to his Twitter account.
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Now, there are some other things we're asking for in the lawsuit, but the Twitter thing was
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Number four, because no politician should be allowed to destroy public records.
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You'd hope they would follow the law because the public ought to be able to see the public
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records of a cabinet administrator and because anyone who needs access to those records for
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lawsuits or other reasons ought to be able to get them in the future through the normal
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processes, including the hundreds of pending lawsuits.
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We've beaten four other cabinet ministers in our Twitter lawsuits already.
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I think we've got a winning team of lawyers and we've got an open-minded judge.
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I feel like we're actually really doing things in the public interest, things that should be done,
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And if they thought to do it, they didn't quite know how to do it.
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And even if they knew how to do it, they couldn't do it for whatever reason.
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We had the viewers to support the campaign through crowdfunding.
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Let me show you this tweet by Ryan O'Connor, a freedom-oriented lawyer in the greater Toronto area.
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Fascinating to return to former Attorney General David Lamedi's posts about the Emergencies Act from 2022,
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during which he insisted that his invocation of the act respected the charter,
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after the federal court held last week that some emergency orders were unconstitutional.
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And you can see that he has a thread of tweets.
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He goes through Lamedi's statements from two years ago about the Emergencies Act
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and compares them immediately with the lawsuit.
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Don't you think that's an important exercise to compare what Lamedi said to what the court said?
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And look at O'Connor's last tweet in that interesting thread.
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You'll note that David Lamedi's Twitter account has been resurrected.
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This was a direct response to an urgent lawsuit which Rebel News brought last weekend in Rebel vs. Lamedi,
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and is an important temporary win for government transparency.
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either in a plea deal with Lamedi called a consent order
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or by smashing away at him in the court for two years, which I sort of want to do,
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who wants to skulk away to a private law firm and be done with Parliament,
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I'm just not sure he wants a two-year legal battle hanging over him.
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I think there's a real chance he'll just sign the plea bargain,
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take a consent order like his fellow Twitter lawbreakers,
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and move on and never show his face in public again.
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What a disgraceful way for a disgraceful minister to end a disgraceful public career.
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I'm proud that Rebel News, with the support of our viewers,
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We haven't even got the legal bill for the lawsuit yet.
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If you want to help us out, because we're not done yet, by the way,
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please go to StopTheCoverUp.com, because that's exactly what we're doing.
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Three quarters of the money spent, taxpayers' dollars,
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by the federal government on the Arrive Can app.
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Leith Maroof, the viciously anti-Semitic and racist activist who was hired by Trudeau to do anti-racism workshops.
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But he still has not disgorged the hundreds of thousands of dollars that he pocketed.
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The Toronto Gay Pride Parade, which has taken millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
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Well, surprise, they didn't do the things that they took the money to do.
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But instead of prosecuting them for theft, the government's just begging,
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pretty please, can we have our money back that you took from us under fraudulent conditions?
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And if you're caught, well, maybe they'll ask politely for it back.
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And whether or not you give it back is sort of up to you.
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Joining us now is the reporter who first broke the lid on this story years ago
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And her latest essay is called Pride Toronto Cashed Grant Checks Without Delivering Honest Provences.
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Well, you know, you were way ahead of your time on this because you called out financial shenanigans in Pride Toronto years ago.
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They called you, you know, and that's typical of the woke left.
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Well, Pride Toronto was a train wreck years ago.
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They sat down at the intersection of Young and Gerard and refused to go any further unless Pride met their demands.
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From that day forward, the police were banned from the parade.
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And I remember showing up at meetings and being called all kinds of names, even though I'm gay, too.
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So I knew it was an accident waiting to happen.
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And the last I left them was in, I guess, in 2020, just a year before I retired from the sun.
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And I had written about allegations of improprieties.
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They had this outrageous AGM where certain board members installed themselves on the board, just put themselves on like they're, you know, kings and queens for the day.
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And Michael Erickson, who owns Gladday Bookshop, headed up this meeting where they wouldn't answer any questions.
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They said that I was my articles were full of trash and they wouldn't address the improprieties.
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And lo and behold, here we find out that they took two point eight million dollars in grants just from the feds.
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This is not the city because the city gives them a sizable cash gift every year of about two hundred thousand.
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And I'm trying to connect the dots myself because they had lost so much money when they banned the police from the parade.
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They they used the grant money to pay staff salaries and to pay contractors to keep them as a going concern, which is just fraudulent.
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I mean, if you and I did that, we would not just be asked nicely return the money.
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We most likely would be prosecuted for fraud here.
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There were three separate grants, one million dollars from Public Safety Canada to develop better relations with the police.
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But then you say the one million dollar grant came with the agreement to allow police back into the parade.
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But in January of 2019, Pride members voted 163 to 161 to renege on the agreement and uphold the ban.
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And the excuse was, well, I was at that meeting, actually, and I thought, they're crazy.
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And they had all these radical lefty queer people, you know, saying no police.
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And it was around the time that Douglas MacArthur had been found out in the serial killings.
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And they used that as an excuse not to establish relations with the police.
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And remember, John Tory was mayor and I think he did a piss poor job, a very weak job of trying to bring everybody together.
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The police were banned and they have been banned to this day.
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You know, there was a time when I think police forces were inherently adverse to gay people.
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I mean, the vice squads that would raid the bath houses and whatnot.
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And and I suppose it was the same with other minority groups in the past.
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But I would think that in the 2020s, having police, especially police in uniform, attend gay gay pride parades is something that gay activists would want.
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Not only to make contacts in the police department in case they need help with something, but to show.
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If I was a gay activist, I would want to show the normalization of the gay community and how that in 2020 they're allied with the police and the police will help them if necessary to turn against the police.
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Like, I just don't get how that helps the gay community.
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And what I think what it is, is it's it's putting other agendas ahead of the gay agenda.
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I mean, listen, I'm not I'm not part of the gay community.
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But they were perfectly perfectly hypocritical.
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They were perfectly fine with having the police do the security for the parade so they could stand outside the actual parade march.
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And again, I was there covering it and they were perfectly fine with that giving free policing.
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That was, you know, donations in kind, which would have been about a million and a half for that one day.
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But gay officers, lesbian officers couldn't march in the parade.
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By the way, folks can find it at TNC dot news, where we love True North, where I recently spent some time at the World Economic Forum with your colleague, Andrew Lawton.
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Another one million dollar grant from the Federal Economic Development Agency.
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If you told me they were created to give grants to pride parades, I wouldn't have believed you.
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Was not studied by KPMG, but is thoroughly documented in an independent review by Pride Toronto member and York University ethics professor Tom Hooper.
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Hooper put together his extremely comprehensive review at pridegrants.ca.
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I mean, so again, he's a member of the gay community.
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He's and he's saying this, you know, just because you're a gay racist, you're not doing the anti-police.
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I mean, forgery in a financial context is a crime.
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They forged signatures from the Toronto District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the Assembly of First Nations, saying that, you know, these people were going after grants and that they supported the grants.
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You know, it was just I guess they were just so desperate for money and so desperate to keep going as a going concern.
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You know, as when I covered pride and I did it fairly extensively and covered their financials, there were so many people who said they should be cut off from government funding.
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Well, any organization that gets money from government does a few things.
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First of all, they ignore their real constituents and pay attention on the grant giver.
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In a journalistic context, that would mean you would ignore your readers and viewers and you would pay attention to what the politicians want.
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That's a terrible thing for a journalistic organization.
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And it would be a terrible thing for an advocacy group because you would do all sorts of strange things.
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And you would bend all sorts of, I don't know, it's just a really bad thing.
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But I can't help but think if instead of being a gay pride group, if this were a Christian organization or something that was less politically correct and forgery and fraud and grants taken for one purpose but used for another, this would be big news.
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And it wouldn't fall to just independent journalists like yourself.
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Like I could just imagine if some, I don't know, Canadian Council of Bishops or something was found to have stolen money.
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That would be front page of the Globe and Mail.
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But this, well, you know, we don't want to make a fuss.
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Can you please, pretty please just give the money back or at least some of it.
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Like I can't believe they're only asking for half a million dollars back when the whole million dollars was to get a deal with police.
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It's the lack of give a damn by auditors or police.
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Well, you know, the professor, Tom Hooper, went so far as to say on his website, and I urge your listeners and your viewers to go on his website because he was very thorough.
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He said that KPMG or anyone else did not study the fraud or forgery or investigate.
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And to me, that is the real issue that this organization has been allowed to do all these things, as you say.
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And the government's saying, oh, pretty, please give us a few dollars back.
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And we look forward to talking to you again soon.
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Your letters to me about my interview with Robert Krejcik at the beginning of the sort of politically rigged inquiry into foreign influence.
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Mary Ottoman says, the judge must be independent and chosen by Canadian taxpayers.
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Well, this is just like what Trudeau did with Judge Rollo, who did this sort of half real, half fake cover-up inquiry a year ago and said, Trudeau's A-OK.
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Well, then we had a real judge last week say, no, he's not.
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Rock Salt says, Trudeau has figured what many Ontarians already know when making inquiries about accessing their health care system.
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If you don't get the answer you want, call back the next day.
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Chances are you'll get a different person with a different answer.
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It looks like politicians have the same approach when looking for a judge.
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Yeah. I mean, and this judge is off to a terrible start, granting full intervener status to people like Han Dong, who have been accused of being in league with foreign governments, but only giving limited intervener status to the official opposition.
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Well, that's the show for today. I'm sort of excited how this whole Lamedi suit is going.
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I don't know what you think of it, but I think we, I think we, we caught the guy driving the getaway car.
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He was trying to make a hasty exit and no one was stopping him and we did.
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Well, until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.