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EZRA LEVANT ｜ Did Mark Carney engage in extortion towards U.S. oil and gas companies？


Summary

The U.S. Congress is investigating whether or not Mark Carney s environmental group committed extortion in the United States, a kind of cartel-style shakedown. And I'll show you what the congressional investigation says, and some rather incredible revelations from Carney himself.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 An investigation into the U.S. congressional inquiry into whether or not Mark Carney's environmental group committed extortion in the United States, a kind of cartel mob-style shakedown.
00:00:14.540 Well, I'll show you what the congressional investigation says, and I'll show you rather incredible revelations from Carney himself, including stating in an interrogation that he is a British resident.
00:00:30.820 This was just a few months ago.
00:00:31.920 He said he's from Britain, not Canada.
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00:02:15.020 Tonight, serious questions are being asked by the U.S. Congress.
00:02:19.000 Did Mark Carney engage in extortion towards U.S. oil and gas companies?
00:02:25.480 It's March 26th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:02:27.720 You're fighting for freedom!
00:02:30.960 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:02:42.640 Mark Carney is being very sketchy about his vast wealth and how he got it.
00:02:47.940 I have nothing against vast wealth.
00:02:50.080 I do have a few questions about how Carney could have amassed such wealth while working for the Bank of England and then the United Nations and then as an economic advisor to Justin Trudeau for five years.
00:03:02.480 Seems like it would be a real conflict of interest to have an inside track on so many government plans while also running a major company called Brookfield, which is like a smaller version of BlackRock, making huge investments, making divestments, moving capital around, picking winners and losers.
00:03:21.420 You know, it's one thing to do those challenging tasks if you're in the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism.
00:03:26.520 But what if you have sort of a secret cheat code that you literally know what the Prime Minister of Canada is going to do, what he's going to say, what's going to be in the upcoming budget?
00:03:37.420 Because not only does he tell you, but he asks you, because you're his special economic advisor, how can you at the same time do business in Canada, as Brookfield did, and with the government of Canada, when you have the government's secret plans?
00:03:54.520 Same with his ongoing relationship with the British government and the United Nations.
00:03:59.880 It's possible to get rich running a massive investment fund.
00:04:04.080 It's inevitable to get rich running a massive investment fund if you get to shape the government rules under which you operate.
00:04:11.760 That is the definition of a conflict of interest, which is why I think Carney was so touchy when he was asked a week or so ago about whether or not he's going to disclose just what his current assets are.
00:04:25.200 What companies does he own?
00:04:26.920 Does he own foreign companies that are competitors to Canadian companies?
00:04:31.040 Has he invested, say, in green tech companies, windmills, solar, electrical vehicles, that sort of thing?
00:04:37.680 It seems pretty certain that he has.
00:04:39.940 That's been his focus for a decade.
00:04:42.160 He won't tell us, though, and he won't sell his stock.
00:04:45.300 How can he be Prime Minister making decisions about those very things while having those stocks?
00:04:50.080 I've more than complied with all the rules, and I've more than complied with all the rules in advance, well in advance, months and months in advance of the requirements that were set up and that currently operate, by the way, requirements that Mr. Polyev voted for when he was part of Mr. Harper's government.
00:05:07.620 That's the first thing.
00:05:08.300 The second is that I have divested all my assets, with the exception of cash and personal real estate, house and a cottage, into the blind trust, as is the root.
00:05:23.980 It's a blind trust.
00:05:24.840 I can't, what that means, for those who don't follow this, I have no control over it anymore.
00:05:31.500 It's a blind trust.
00:05:32.560 I have no control.
00:05:33.100 I cannot divest anything from it.
00:05:35.220 I can't change that.
00:05:36.360 The trustee manages it accordingly.
00:05:39.220 I have set up ethics, or sorry, screens for Brookfield and a company called Stripes that I used to be on the board of.
00:05:50.280 I've set those screens up already, well in advance.
00:05:53.680 They'll be administered by the Clerk of the Privy Council and the Chief of Staff, and as well, I have already filed, months and months and months and months and months in advance, with the ethics commissioner, all the detail of when the divestitures happened, all the details of those assets.
00:06:13.380 So, again, I've complied with all the aspects.
00:06:16.300 I've over-complied, in fact, well in advance, and this is the system we have.
00:06:20.980 And I'm proud that we have it because it draws a sharp contrast with what other countries have.
00:06:28.320 But that's not being honest.
00:06:30.480 He knew exactly what stocks he just put into that blind trust.
00:06:35.100 It would be like if Elon Musk were to put his stocks into a blind trust, well, everyone would know he still has Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink.
00:06:42.580 It would be absurd to pretend that he didn't.
00:06:44.420 Now, right now, Elon Musk is in charge of cutting government waste in contracts.
00:06:49.840 Obviously, he couldn't be put in charge of NASA or automobile policy.
00:06:54.400 He'd have to sell his stock first.
00:06:56.060 That's actually what Trump's cryptocurrency czar did when he was appointed.
00:07:01.680 David Sachs is his name.
00:07:02.860 He literally sold all of his cryptocurrency before he took the job of cryptocurrency czar.
00:07:08.960 Take a look.
00:07:09.300 I sold all my cryptocurrency prior to day one of the administration because I didn't want to even have the appearance of a conflict.
00:07:17.220 And by the way, I could have waited.
00:07:18.580 I didn't have to do it like that.
00:07:20.560 But I decided to do it and take it upon myself to do that because you just know that when it comes to crypto, there's going to be a lot of fluctuations in the market.
00:07:28.060 You never want someone to be able to point at one of those fluctuations and say somehow that the cryptos are benefited from that and create a conspiracy theory, which is exactly what basically happened.
00:07:36.880 So, first of all, I got rid of all my cryptocurrency prior to day one.
00:07:40.840 Kraft also sold all this crypto.
00:07:43.200 And Kraft is the venture firm that you funded.
00:07:44.780 Right.
00:07:44.960 That's done a lot of great work supporting founders here in Southern Valley.
00:07:47.520 Right.
00:07:47.540 So, we basically sold, I think it was around $200 million of crypto, of which around $85 million was personally attributable to myself.
00:07:56.140 And we cleared that before day one, paid taxes on it, and basically so there wouldn't be a conflict.
00:08:01.880 I think he probably gave up a billion dollars worth of likely profits just to take the job.
00:08:07.360 That's principles.
00:08:08.780 What a different mentality Mark Carney has.
00:08:11.880 He refuses to sell.
00:08:13.340 He refuses to put Canada first.
00:08:15.400 And he takes umbrage at being asked about his wealth by the peasants.
00:08:20.180 Mark Carney has a new answer now, bizarrely.
00:08:23.120 He says he's only got some real estate or something.
00:08:25.780 What do you make of this?
00:08:26.760 I own nothing now.
00:08:28.280 I came into public life at a time of crisis.
00:08:31.460 I put my hand up because of the crisis, because of what's represented by that bridge,
00:08:37.100 what's represented by the threats to these good men and women of Unifor and their colleagues across Southwestern Ontario and across Canada.
00:08:46.180 I came in.
00:08:47.580 What I've done is put all my affairs in order well in advance.
00:08:52.220 I own nothing.
00:08:53.160 I own nothing but cash and personal real estate.
00:08:56.820 So and that's not going to change in public life.
00:09:00.920 That's not going to change.
00:09:01.800 It's it's it's it's actually quite straightforward.
00:09:05.720 So then just to just to be clear that going forward, you have no potential equity stake, no potential stock options or any other potential future payments that you currently anticipate could come from either Striker Brookfield.
00:09:17.220 So what I have is cash, personal real estate and their assets that were all those assets were divested into a blind trust, which is managed by a trustee.
00:09:26.080 And I don't it literally means exactly what it says.
00:09:30.120 I don't know what's in it.
00:09:32.000 Yeah, his story keeps changing.
00:09:34.060 It's happening a lot with Mark Carney, isn't it?
00:09:36.320 But today I want to talk about something very different, something very surprising that I haven't seen the mainstream media talk about a lot.
00:09:43.380 Mark Carney is being investigated by the U.S. Congress for participating in mafia style conduct.
00:09:51.160 They use the word cartel, collusion, shaking down corporations, essentially extorting them to follow Carney's extremist green policies.
00:10:01.640 Now, I mentioned yesterday something called G-Fans, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
00:10:09.720 It's just an awful name, I think, on purpose to make people bored and not look into it anymore.
00:10:16.640 Carney is obsessed with net zero and he's bet billions on it.
00:10:20.520 He's also made it Canada's policy to bet billions or tens of billions on it through his advice to Justin Trudeau.
00:10:27.740 So part of that is shutting down the oil sands and coal, he calls that a transition.
00:10:33.360 The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, G-Fans, is an independent private sector-led initiative focusing on mobilizing capital and removing barriers to investment in the global transition.
00:10:47.020 It really is opaque.
00:10:49.240 But what if people don't want to go along with that transition, which basically means shutting down oil and gas and coal?
00:10:54.820 What if people have realized that if you just build wind turbines and solar panels, they don't work reliably?
00:11:02.020 They don't work when it's dark or when it's not windy or when it's too windy.
00:11:06.080 Do they need a backup in the form of reliable energy like coal or natural gas or nuclear?
00:11:11.600 What if people have realized that these new forms of energy are extremely expensive and that they're leading to energy poverty?
00:11:17.560 That's obviously hard on individuals like pensioners, but it's hard on industry too.
00:11:23.820 A major reason why, for example, steel companies have less the UK.
00:11:28.000 You need a lot of electricity for steel and aluminum factories.
00:11:31.920 You just can't compete with China and India and South Korea if you're obsessed with net zero, taking your own country's carbon use down to zero.
00:11:40.500 You can't do it.
00:11:41.300 And I mentioned the UK because that's where Mark Carney really got revved up about this stuff.
00:11:45.160 But here's what's new, or at least new to me.
00:11:48.940 Here's what's shocking, or at least shocking to me.
00:11:51.360 The way that Mark Carney has gone about pushing net zero on companies has involved threats.
00:12:00.220 The same way a cartel would make threats.
00:12:02.980 A shakedown, like a mafia hit.
00:12:05.260 Again, that word cartel, like a drug cartel.
00:12:07.980 And while Mark Carney was actually an advisor to the Canadian government for years, he was being investigated at the same time by the U.S. government just last year, just a few months ago.
00:12:19.780 Here's Thomas Massey, a congressman from Kentucky.
00:12:22.880 This was just last year.
00:12:24.300 I'm going to play a four-minute clip for you, if you don't mind.
00:12:28.120 And the reason I want to play all four minutes is that if I cut anything out, I think I'm going to have to just say it again in my own words anyways.
00:12:34.620 And I want you to hear it from the guy who's leading the charge, one of the guys leading the charge against Massey in Congress.
00:12:42.360 Massey is, as you may know, the most avid small government advocate in the entire Congress.
00:12:48.280 He's pretty much a pure libertarian in my view.
00:12:51.140 Listen to what he says about how G fans and net zero types use cartel-like behavior.
00:12:56.680 That's that mafia-style shakedown, not a mafia hit so much, it's a mafia, you know, a threat to push their ideology into companies instead of having companies follow their lawful mission, which is to promote shareholder value.
00:13:10.760 So watch four minutes, watch it through, and then I'll be right back on the other side.
00:13:14.740 The American economy has grown into the strongest in the world on the foundation of free market capitalism.
00:13:19.480 That's because competition results in lower prices and more and better goods and services for all Americans.
00:13:26.260 As the legendary economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman explained, quote,
00:13:31.440 there has never in history been a more effective machine for eliminating poverty than the free enterprise system and the free market.
00:13:39.140 Collusion, on the other hand, raises prices and reduces both output and consumer choice.
00:13:44.540 Thus, antitrust law aims to protect competition and prohibit collusion.
00:13:48.880 In fact, the Supreme Court has described collusion as, quote, the supreme evil of antitrust.
00:13:56.220 Despite these longstanding economic and legal principles, the climate cartel is engaged in anti-competitive collusion to impose radical environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, goals on the American people.
00:14:08.780 In his testimony to this committee, Andrew Behar highlighted the three C's of collusion.
00:14:14.000 They collaborate, convene, and coordinate.
00:14:17.540 Gee, it's like you wanted to say the word collusion, but you didn't say it, so you asked chat GPT to give me an alliteration to go to the thesaurus and find three words that are like collusion but not collusion.
00:14:31.380 These were his words, collaborate, convene, and coordinate with other members of the climate cartel to impose their ideological agenda on the American people.
00:14:40.160 This climate cartel consists of left-wing activists, dominant financial institutions, and the groups and initiatives that facilitate the collusion among them.
00:14:49.380 Specifically, groups like Climate Action 100 Plus expressly require the investors who join them to pressure the companies they invest in to, quote, decarbonize and reach net zero emissions.
00:15:01.360 Asset owners, like California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPairs, and asset managers, like Arjuna Capital, then use the investments they control to force companies to disclose their carbon emissions, to reduce their carbon emissions, and to adopt governance mechanisms that enforce these commitments, even though these commitments are bad for investors and consumers.
00:15:23.180 The climate cartel engages in a series of escalating pressure tactics to force American companies to act against their own self-interest and adopt its desired left-wing policies.
00:15:35.160 First, the climate cartel leverages its investment holdings to demand meetings with corporate management.
00:15:40.920 If corporations refuse to cave, the climate cartel then escalates to filing shareholder resolutions demanding that companies take action.
00:15:48.560 Groups like Climate Action 100 Plus then, quote, flag these resolutions, drawing greater attention to them and making them even more effective.
00:15:58.080 If companies still fail to bow to its demands, the climate cartel then seeks to replace members of their boards of directors.
00:16:05.060 Notably, the climate cartel did so at ExxonMobil in 2021, replacing three directors with members of its own choosing.
00:16:12.460 The climate cartel's commitment and demands reduce output and raise prices for American consumers.
00:16:17.040 There's no way to reach, quote, net zero, without reducing production and diminishing the American standard of living.
00:16:24.720 These negative impacts are especially pronounced in the fossil fuel, aviation, and agricultural sectors.
00:16:31.400 In other words, the very industries that allow Americans to drive, fly, and eat.
00:16:36.640 For example, the climate cartel has said that fossil fuels must, quote, stay in the ground to reduce carbon emissions.
00:16:43.640 Similarly, the climate cartel has called for reducing the number of airplane flights by 12 percent and capping passenger air travel to 2019 levels.
00:16:54.020 Likewise, the climate cartel has called for cutting American beef consumption roughly in half because, quote, cows are the new coal.
00:17:02.120 This sort of anti-competitive collusion has been illegal under the U.S. antitrust laws for more than a century.
00:17:07.460 Yet the Biden administration has refused to take action to enforce the law and protect American consumers.
00:17:13.980 In today's hearing, we will investigate the climate cartel, its anti-competitive collusion, and the harm it continues to inflict on the American economy and people.
00:17:23.740 That's the truth about ESG, environmental, social, and governance.
00:17:27.580 He's talking about corporations replacing their duty to shareholders, which is to make the company worth more.
00:17:34.000 That's the job of a company.
00:17:35.940 He wants to replace it with a socialist, environmentalist ideology.
00:17:39.800 That's what Mark Carney wants to do.
00:17:41.340 That's what G-fans wants to do.
00:17:43.060 That's what ESG wants to do.
00:17:44.640 And that's why Thomas Massey is worried.
00:17:47.420 It's a violation of what's called the fiduciary duty.
00:17:50.700 The president of a publicly traded company cannot act like he owns the company himself.
00:17:55.420 He can't loot it for himself.
00:17:57.480 He can't take the money for himself or make it run his personal errands, obviously.
00:18:01.820 But it's no different if he takes the money or directs the company to follow his own ideological whims, his own politics, as opposed to running the company for the benefit of shareholders.
00:18:11.240 That's what ESG really is.
00:18:13.800 I showed you last night when I put that question to a head of a massive asset management company called State Street.
00:18:19.980 I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and I bumped into the boss of State Street, and I asked him about ESG.
00:18:25.480 ESG and State Street is deep into it.
00:18:28.200 I was so surprised.
00:18:29.780 He was obviously a bit panicked by politicians and attorneys general poking around at the kind of extortion and shakedowns going on in the name of environmentalism.
00:18:39.540 I mean, a whole bunch of states are divesting, not just because it's bad business to invest in an ESG kind of company, but because you're sacrificing a rate of return for ideology, but it's a kind of extortion.
00:18:52.280 Make these environmentalist commitments or else, or else we'll wreck your company or else we'll get investors to bail on you.
00:19:02.160 That's the extortionate behavior that Thomas Massey is talking about.
00:19:07.140 A threat, a cartel, a mafia style, no nice company you got here, shame if anything would happen to it.
00:19:14.020 And that's why, let me show you this headline.
00:19:17.200 I miss this.
00:19:19.080 This is a headline from just four months ago.
00:19:20.980 I guess we were all busy.
00:19:21.880 Look at the date on it.
00:19:22.880 This was November.
00:19:25.080 I was busy thinking about Trump's tariffs.
00:19:27.800 I was following Trump's announcement from Mar-a-Lago.
00:19:30.440 But look at this.
00:19:31.400 Let me read the story a little bit from Axios.
00:19:34.200 Eleven states sue biggest money managers over alleged coal collusion.
00:19:40.880 Let me read a little bit.
00:19:41.800 I'm going to read a few excerpts.
00:19:44.700 A group of 11 states led by Texas sued some of the world's biggest money managers,
00:19:48.860 alleging they illegally colluded to drive down the supply of coal and drive up the price of electricity.
00:19:55.260 The suit against BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, filed in an East Texas federal court,
00:20:02.040 alleges the money managers rolled up huge stakes in coal companies
00:20:05.160 and then worked together to advance environmental initiatives that meant producing less coal.
00:20:10.180 Isn't that a weird thing to do?
00:20:13.020 All three firms have participated in initiatives to gather money managers
00:20:16.800 and use their influence to drive environmental policy.
00:20:20.660 Vanguard was previously a member of the Net Zero Asset Managers,
00:20:24.240 formed to push for Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
00:20:28.100 It left Enzim in 2022 amid pressure on money managers over ESG investing.
00:20:34.100 State Street and BlackRock remain signatories.
00:20:36.640 BlackRock's international unit is also part of Climate Action 100+,
00:20:42.040 a similar initiative after the parent company pulled out and transferred the participation earlier this year.
00:20:48.140 State Street pulled out of CA 100+, earlier this year as well.
00:20:52.240 So these are all the groups that Mark Carney lobbies, that he's part of, that he pushes.
00:20:59.320 That's what this whole G-Fans thing is.
00:21:02.780 That's why the State Street boss was so agitated when I asked him about ESG in Davos the other year.
00:21:09.580 Can I ask you a little bit about State Street and ESG?
00:21:13.520 Are you pulling back from it the same way BlackRock is?
00:21:16.320 No. And why don't we just set this up formally?
00:21:21.180 But no, we're not pulling back from it.
00:21:22.500 Well, what about critics like Elon Musk who say it's a kind of reverse racism?
00:21:29.120 Elon's got his opinion.
00:21:31.420 What about shareholders who say you're putting other goals ahead of your fiduciary duties?
00:21:36.120 You're putting cultural Marxism or affirmative action.
00:21:39.000 Those may be political values, but they're not designed to get a maximum rate of return.
00:21:44.080 If there's firms that are doing that, I don't know that.
00:21:47.440 That's not how we do it.
00:21:48.320 We have one focus, which is shareholder value, period.
00:21:51.000 Well, then how, you just told me, though, you're sticking with ESG.
00:21:55.860 We're sticking with value.
00:21:57.280 It's about value, not values.
00:22:00.240 Can I ask you about state governments that are pulling their funds out of ESG firms,
00:22:05.160 like the state of Florida, for example.
00:22:07.140 Are you worried that State Street will be hit by divestment
00:22:10.480 from companies that are rejecting ESG?
00:22:13.500 So we only focus on creating value for our shareholders.
00:22:17.800 And if you look at our track record, that's all that we've ever done.
00:22:20.940 And what we focus on is what do long-term investors need to be thinking about?
00:22:25.860 What are the kinds of risks they need to be thinking about?
00:22:28.240 And they need to make the decision.
00:22:29.680 That's what we've always done.
00:22:31.260 What were your goals here?
00:22:32.980 I'm done.
00:22:33.360 Okay.
00:22:33.620 And I think that's the question that really miffed Larry Fink from BlackRock,
00:22:39.100 though he didn't answer any of my questions.
00:22:40.580 He hated that one when I put it to him a few months ago.
00:22:42.940 Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's plan
00:22:45.780 and get rid of DEI and ESG in your companies?
00:22:51.740 BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways.
00:22:55.960 You're authoritarian.
00:22:57.520 You're anti-populist.
00:22:58.760 You're top-down.
00:22:59.440 Are you going to change it all in light of the U.S. presidency?
00:23:05.600 How has Donald Trump...
00:23:07.400 Have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?
00:23:12.080 Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?
00:23:19.280 Why are you running away from simple questions?
00:23:21.820 Just answer a question.
00:23:22.680 Have you talked to President Trump yet?
00:23:24.080 All right, so back to our man, Mark Carney.
00:23:27.760 I want to read to you some of the research put together by David Clement
00:23:31.380 at the Consumer Choice Center for this.
00:23:34.100 I'm going to read to you a number of his posts on the subject.
00:23:37.000 So thanks to him for doing the work.
00:23:38.820 On April 17, 2024, so less than a year ago,
00:23:43.300 Mark Carney, in his capacity as the co-chair of GFANS,
00:23:46.960 was deposed by staff members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
00:23:53.040 in their investigation into corporation adoption and imposition of ESG.
00:23:58.880 Here are some takeaways.
00:24:00.340 Did you know that?
00:24:01.560 Did you know that Carney was deposed by Department of Justice lawyers?
00:24:07.620 They reported every time Donald Trump farted,
00:24:10.800 but they don't tell you that Mark Carney was grilled
00:24:13.480 by Judiciary Committee lawyers.
00:24:17.200 That's interesting.
00:24:17.880 I didn't know about that.
00:24:19.680 Let me read some more from the same Twitter thread.
00:24:23.540 Carney's role as a U.N. climate finance envoy and GFANS co-chair
00:24:28.340 was predicated on ensuring the firms would commit to net-zero policies
00:24:32.020 to effectively decarbonize.
00:24:34.460 He was active in pushing carbon markets,
00:24:37.060 putting a price on carbon emissions as a measurement
00:24:39.520 of whether firms were adhering to the Paris climate goals.
00:24:45.100 And that's what he's going to do to Canada, by the way.
00:24:48.320 His stated goal was to, quote,
00:24:50.580 develop a common approach for transition plans for financial institutions.
00:24:54.660 And the critical thing that that does
00:24:57.060 is it incentivizes the financial institution to do what they do best,
00:25:00.760 which is to think about if I am funding,
00:25:02.920 either through an investment or lending, a reduction in emissions,
00:25:05.880 I'm taking a view on whether that will be successful.
00:25:08.840 Now, I should tell you, this wasn't the normal, regular congressional testimony
00:25:14.680 in an open forum where congressmen ask questions
00:25:18.120 and they do a little grandstanding for the cameras.
00:25:20.440 It wasn't that.
00:25:21.520 I've actually participated in that.
00:25:23.180 That's really fun.
00:25:25.060 He was being deposed by staff lawyers.
00:25:27.760 This is a serious business.
00:25:29.440 They were investigating him for illegal practices.
00:25:33.340 Did you know that about your new prime minister?
00:25:36.120 Look at this part, thanks to David Clement.
00:25:38.080 He reveals his role in pressuring financial institutions
00:25:42.140 to limit lending and funding of both capital and assets
00:25:46.800 if they do not strictly adhere to the goal of limiting climate emissions.
00:25:50.780 He agrees with the statement that, quote,
00:25:52.320 More than half of the world's coal reserves need to stay in the ground
00:25:56.160 in order for the world to be in line with Paris climate accords.
00:25:59.760 This is what they mean when they mean transition off oil, off coal, off gas.
00:26:03.880 This is what net zero means.
00:26:06.380 Stopping the economy.
00:26:07.780 Leaving it in the ground.
00:26:08.720 Just stopping coal mines.
00:26:10.220 Stopping oil sands.
00:26:11.260 He would do that by forcing them to stop by a kind of financial blackmail.
00:26:16.740 As a UN official, as Trudeau's advisor,
00:26:19.940 as the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management,
00:26:21.960 and now as prime minister, he is in a war, a jihad.
00:26:26.500 He's so obsessed with it, it's like a religious crusade for him.
00:26:30.100 He is against carbon.
00:26:32.800 I'll read some more from David Clement.
00:26:34.660 Carney mentions that a company that does not have a transition pathway
00:26:38.060 to decarbonize is on the, quote, wrong side of climate history.
00:26:42.620 He remains adamant that carbon prices are necessary commitments
00:26:45.460 that every country must adopt in order to achieve the goals of net zero.
00:26:50.080 He wants this for every country, but strangely enough,
00:26:52.680 he's never tried to pressure China to do it.
00:26:55.760 That's odd.
00:26:56.940 They're a larger emitter than the rest of the world combined.
00:27:00.760 Maybe that's why China gave Brookfield a quarter billion dollar investment last year.
00:27:05.800 I mean, that was really good for Mark Carney,
00:27:07.240 but maybe that's why Mark Carney really lays off China.
00:27:11.840 Maybe that's why Xi Jinping poses for photos.
00:27:15.100 What does Mark Carney have to say to Xi Jinping?
00:27:17.360 I'd like to know.
00:27:19.060 But this one's a stutter.
00:27:20.420 Look at this.
00:27:21.840 This is very interesting.
00:27:23.960 As of April 2024, less than a year ago,
00:27:28.140 he was not living in Canada.
00:27:31.260 He was living in the UK as an advisor to the prime minister of the UK.
00:27:36.020 His words.
00:27:36.880 I didn't know that.
00:27:38.280 I knew he was an advisor to Trudeau.
00:27:40.100 So he said in his testimony to these lawyers that he was an advisor to the British PM as well.
00:27:47.900 Oh, my God, what a conflict of interest.
00:27:49.800 Let me read his verbatim testimony.
00:27:51.440 I live in a country, and remember, I'm in the UK.
00:27:56.700 I'm the former governor of the Bank of England.
00:27:59.480 I am the prime minister's advisor.
00:28:01.620 It is the law in the United Kingdom to transition to net zero.
00:28:04.660 It is the requirement of the government to come up under law,
00:28:07.300 which has subsequently been litigated and found to bind,
00:28:10.340 to come up with the policies that are consistent with the transition with what the UK has set up.
00:28:15.340 So if you're a company that has decided to just ignore that,
00:28:19.120 well, it looks like you're on the wrong side,
00:28:21.060 at least of climate history in the United Kingdom.
00:28:24.440 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:28:28.320 So it's true.
00:28:30.980 His own legal testimony less than a year ago was that he was a resident of,
00:28:35.600 that he lived in the UK, that he was a Brit.
00:28:39.080 But he said, I just read you his verbatim testimony that he was an advisor to the government
00:28:44.920 of the United Kingdom, and that leaving carbon in the ground was the law
00:28:49.320 and certainly the moral thing to do.
00:28:52.660 Mark Carney was a British citizen, he is a British citizen,
00:28:57.460 British resident less than a year ago.
00:29:00.720 When did he move back here?
00:29:04.120 Has he even moved back here?
00:29:11.180 Now, that U.S. Congressional Committee, the Grilled Carney, issued its report.
00:29:15.040 Again, they did so just before Christmas,
00:29:16.900 when the world was paying attention to Trump and his pronouncements from Mar-a-Lago,
00:29:20.480 or at least I was.
00:29:22.120 Few people, I think, caught the importance of this back on December 13, 2024.
00:29:27.040 I mean, what a terrible time to make an announcement.
00:29:29.100 Everybody's, you know, in politics and journalism, at least,
00:29:32.760 are already thinking about Christmas.
00:29:34.620 It was called Sustainability Shakedown.
00:29:37.120 How a climate cartel of money managers colluded to take over the board
00:29:41.100 of America's largest energy company.
00:29:43.920 In terms, staff reported the Committee of the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives.
00:29:47.480 Can I read the first 200 words from the executive summary to you?
00:29:51.900 It sums it up, and wait for that funny word, G-fans.
00:29:55.580 So can you give me two minutes?
00:29:56.680 I want to read it to you.
00:29:57.500 In U.S. antitrust law, competition is always favored over collusion.
00:30:04.800 The largest money managers, however powerful they may be,
00:30:07.860 cannot collude to, quote,
00:30:09.420 preempt the working of the market by deciding for themselves
00:30:12.300 that customers do not need that which they demand.
00:30:16.600 This is especially true when their conspiracy shrinks the production
00:30:19.800 of the affordable energy products relied upon by millions of Americans.
00:30:23.960 In the 118th Congress, the Committee has investigated the adequacy of U.S. antitrust laws
00:30:44.520 in light of increasing commitments among left-wing environmental activists
00:30:49.400 and major institutional investors to impose environmental, social, and governance ESG goals
00:30:55.120 on the U.S. economy.
00:30:57.300 The Committee's oversight has revealed substantial evidence that a, quote,
00:31:00.760 climate cartel of big institutions from the big three asset managers
00:31:05.160 to blue state public pensions to the proxy advisor duopoly
00:31:09.260 collude to pressure American businesses to commit to, quote, net zero
00:31:13.740 and scale down disfavored production through climate coalitions,
00:31:20.420 including the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, GFANS,
00:31:27.380 the Net Zero Asset Management Initiative series, and Climate Action 100 Plus.
00:31:31.640 Investors form coordinated pressure campaigns to target U.S. companies
00:31:36.760 and demand that they disclose, reduce, and enforce net zero climate commitments.
00:31:41.500 When companies refuse to surrender and comply,
00:31:45.320 the climate cartel colludes to fire company board members
00:31:48.220 and replace them with climate cartel-aligned members.
00:31:51.580 Okay, I'm going to stop there.
00:31:53.960 But let me skip ahead to the very end of the summary
00:31:56.500 and read what this looks like in real time.
00:32:00.440 What does it mean to threaten and extort and collude
00:32:02.920 and join together to compel a company to do something contrary to their legal duties?
00:32:07.840 Well, this congressional investigation focused on how Mark Carney's group,
00:32:12.040 along with the others, along with BlackRock and State Street,
00:32:14.880 went to war against ExxonMobil.
00:32:16.500 That's America's largest oil company.
00:32:18.740 It also happens to own Canada's large oil company, Imperial Oil.
00:32:22.700 So let me read a little bit here.
00:32:24.300 Before the ExxonMobil board refreshment,
00:32:27.420 that's what they're calling it when these climate extremists burrow into ExxonMobil,
00:32:32.340 the climate cartel threatened BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors
00:32:39.420 to join Climate Action 100 Plus
00:32:41.460 after the asset managers initially refused to join Climate Action
00:32:47.440 because they were, quote, concerned with collusion
00:32:51.080 and believed that, quote, engaging alongside other investors
00:32:54.540 may trigger regulatory issues.
00:32:56.760 Twenty-six climate cartel members threatened to pull multi-billion dollar contracts
00:33:01.600 which led BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors
00:33:04.680 to join the initiative and its pressure campaign against ExxonMobil.
00:33:11.320 So they knew it was against the law,
00:33:13.080 but they didn't want to lose billions of dollars.
00:33:16.100 So they went to war against Exxon.
00:33:18.360 If they can roll Exxon, they can roll anyone.
00:33:22.680 Now, look, I'm all for shareholders expressing themselves.
00:33:25.020 I really am.
00:33:26.580 And if investors want to take their own money
00:33:29.720 and invest it in a weird way,
00:33:32.300 a way besides making profit, well, good for them.
00:33:34.600 I don't care.
00:33:35.800 I mean, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream,
00:33:37.480 now it's owned by Unilever,
00:33:38.940 one of the world's largest conglomerate,
00:33:41.040 $200 billion Canadian.
00:33:43.040 But, I mean, they sold out to get rich, of course,
00:33:45.300 but when they were small,
00:33:47.420 being left-wing snobs was part of the brand.
00:33:50.800 It was one of the things that they were actually selling
00:33:53.000 to their customers, that snob appeal.
00:33:55.280 That's fine.
00:33:56.180 Why would I be against that?
00:33:57.380 It's their own money.
00:33:59.860 Shareholders can do with their money what they want.
00:34:01.560 Customers can do with their money what they want.
00:34:03.960 But that's the thing about BlackRock and State Street
00:34:06.380 and Mark Carney's Brookfield and GFans.
00:34:09.600 They're not using their own money.
00:34:10.900 They're using investors' money
00:34:13.640 as a battering ram against the companies themselves.
00:34:17.160 They're not pushing for more profits.
00:34:19.000 They're not pushing for a company to be more efficient.
00:34:21.860 They're not reining in waste within the company
00:34:23.880 or a CEO misusing perks like a private jet or whatever.
00:34:27.440 They're not acting in the interests of the shareholders at all.
00:34:30.840 They're putting their own personal politics first.
00:34:33.800 They're hijacking their investors' money
00:34:35.760 and using their investors' money to push for their own agendas.
00:34:38.540 That's a kind of theft.
00:34:41.100 But this report from Congress shows it's worse than that.
00:34:45.440 That's ESG no matter what.
00:34:47.100 But this whole investigation is about extortion.
00:34:53.860 These companies, including Mark Carney's GFans,
00:34:59.060 engaged in extortion to do it.
00:35:02.700 As Massey called it, a cartel.
00:35:06.860 They take that seriously in America.
00:35:10.100 Mark Carney's GFans cartel is one of the major focuses
00:35:13.220 of this congressional investigation.
00:35:15.100 They accused him of operating illegally,
00:35:19.320 contrary to the law, to extort outcomes from companies.
00:35:23.560 And believe me, Mark Carney is profiting
00:35:26.260 every which way he can from all of this.
00:35:29.900 And now he's prime minister.
00:35:31.560 No election, no parliament.
00:35:33.120 He just parachuted in.
00:35:35.120 And he's not going to sell his holdings.
00:35:37.640 Isn't that weird?
00:35:38.480 Why would he?
00:35:39.820 He knows how to make a killing by pressuring companies
00:35:42.320 to do what he wants, by being an advisor to the UN,
00:35:44.840 an advisor to the British PM, an advisor to the Canadian PM,
00:35:48.140 and then using that access as a battering ram, too.
00:35:52.640 He's not actually a businessman.
00:35:54.900 He's never run a business in his life.
00:35:58.280 He's a shakedown expert.
00:35:59.720 He's an extortion expert.
00:36:04.420 And isn't it strange, it was in his deposition
00:36:07.000 that we learned that he considers himself a Brit,
00:36:10.820 without question, just a few months ago.
00:36:14.240 You heard him.
00:36:15.700 He lives in the United Kingdom.
00:36:18.120 Well, now he lives here, I think,
00:36:21.360 and he and his cartel are coming for you.
00:36:23.780 Say, you think that maybe, just maybe,
00:36:26.440 we should vet this guy before he takes over everything?
00:36:32.280 Stay with us for more.
00:36:33.380 Well, for those of you who remember my life
00:36:47.560 as a broadcaster before Rebel News,
00:36:50.060 you'll remember that I was with the Sun News Network.
00:36:52.820 And that's where we first tried out different projects
00:36:55.480 involving crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, events.
00:36:59.300 And one of the battles we had very early days,
00:37:02.440 and this is more than 10 years ago now,
00:37:04.460 because this was at the Sun News Network,
00:37:06.680 was when we saw that the city of Nanaimo
00:37:09.400 on Vancouver Island,
00:37:12.700 their city council ripped up a contract
00:37:15.580 signed with a Christian group
00:37:17.320 that had signed a contract
00:37:19.180 with the Nanaimo Conference Center.
00:37:22.320 It was a, it's a neutral building.
00:37:24.240 It's a conference center.
00:37:25.340 Anyone in Nanaimo can rent it.
00:37:26.920 They paid the money.
00:37:29.320 They paid their fee.
00:37:30.300 It was just an ordinary conference.
00:37:32.280 And some anonymous person made a complaint
00:37:34.860 to City Hall about that.
00:37:36.960 And all these aldermen started disparaging Christians
00:37:40.540 in the craziest of ways.
00:37:42.960 And they did this all on camera, by the way.
00:37:45.280 I mean, they're so proud of their City Hall
00:37:47.380 that they televised their proceedings,
00:37:49.880 which is how I learned about this.
00:37:52.460 And they were comparing Christians to Boko Haram,
00:37:55.660 the terrorist group in Nigeria.
00:37:57.820 And they were saying they were crazy and dangerous.
00:38:01.040 So they ripped up the contract
00:38:03.020 and they were sort of narrating
00:38:05.620 their human rights abuse in real time.
00:38:08.580 So Rebel News, well, we weren't around then.
00:38:11.240 So then it was Sun News Network.
00:38:13.280 We jumped on the case
00:38:14.460 and we went to work in Nanaimo.
00:38:18.020 We had public meetings.
00:38:20.000 We had rallies.
00:38:21.040 We did an opinion poll
00:38:22.740 and we got behind the one alderman on city council
00:38:26.420 who was not anti-Christian.
00:38:29.580 It was an election year.
00:38:31.600 The bad guys were thrown out.
00:38:33.440 The guy we backed became mayor.
00:38:35.740 The mayor who presided over the anti-Christian bigotry,
00:38:39.860 he came in third.
00:38:41.500 It was so exciting.
00:38:43.400 We really helped free Nanaimo
00:38:45.340 from a crooked group of bigots.
00:38:47.460 And we practiced a lot of the things
00:38:50.460 that we use all the time now at Rebel News,
00:38:53.360 crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, citizen journalism.
00:38:56.160 It was sort of a prototype of what was to come.
00:38:58.360 I wasn't quite sure where it would go back then.
00:39:00.780 I think this is 2014 now I'm talking about.
00:39:03.640 Well, here we are, 2025,
00:39:05.160 and we're giving her every day.
00:39:06.960 We're in battles like that every day.
00:39:08.900 But my point of telling that story
00:39:10.600 is not just to share a little story with you,
00:39:12.460 but to reminisce about Nanaimo,
00:39:14.620 which is a lovely city on Vancouver Island.
00:39:17.500 And I used to go there quite often.
00:39:20.080 And so what a delight today to introduce to you
00:39:24.120 the latest person to join our merry band of rebels.
00:39:28.680 And she is lucky enough to live in Nanaimo,
00:39:33.120 one of my favorite places.
00:39:34.520 Please join me in welcoming Katrina Panova.
00:39:37.840 Katrina, great to see you again.
00:39:39.100 You're known online as Cat Canada,
00:39:41.160 and now you're a rebel.
00:39:42.440 Yes, thank you for having me, Ezra.
00:39:45.420 It's always an honor to join you on your show.
00:39:48.120 And I appreciate the opportunity to contribute
00:39:50.680 to the efforts of Rebel News and for Canada
00:39:53.980 for the project that's ahead of us.
00:39:55.820 Well, thanks very much.
00:39:56.960 As our viewers know,
00:39:58.240 because we've only announced this a couple of days ago,
00:40:00.100 we set up that third-party campaign group
00:40:03.080 because Elections Canada demanded we did.
00:40:06.060 As you know, Elections Canada prosecuted me
00:40:08.160 when I published my book, The Libranos.
00:40:10.100 They said it was a campaign expense.
00:40:13.440 I said, no, it's not.
00:40:14.320 It's a book.
00:40:15.380 And they went after the lawn signs as well,
00:40:17.480 saying that's an illegal promotion in the book.
00:40:19.220 I said, that's all allowed.
00:40:20.780 I was convicted.
00:40:21.960 And so you know what?
00:40:23.320 We did try fighting it for five years in court.
00:40:26.220 But in the end, I didn't win.
00:40:29.980 So I don't want to be charged again with partisan conduct.
00:40:33.620 So we've set up this, you know, it's actually in my own name.
00:40:37.680 It's called For Canada.
00:40:39.400 So it's a separate thing from Rebel News.
00:40:41.280 It has its own bank account, its own stuff.
00:40:44.800 And we're going to put the partisan stuff in there
00:40:47.760 so we don't get in trouble.
00:40:50.520 And if that sounds too shy or deferential,
00:40:54.880 it's really my goal is to avoid being just crushed by Elections Canada.
00:40:59.440 And I've discovered that it's a really fun way of participating in election too.
00:41:04.160 So Kat, one of your projects is to work with Rebel News in general,
00:41:08.220 but also to help provide services for Canada, that's the third-party group,
00:41:15.580 tweeting, circulating videos.
00:41:18.340 Really, we're in a campaign, aren't we?
00:41:22.020 Yes, Ezra, we certainly are.
00:41:24.220 And once again, I really appreciate the opportunity to contribute to that
00:41:27.940 because it's something that I do as a hobby, basically.
00:41:33.460 It's a passion of mine to fight for this country,
00:41:36.020 to fight for the freedoms in our country.
00:41:38.220 To not let it fall into the hands of the likes of, you know,
00:41:41.600 WEF globalist bankster types like Carney.
00:41:44.760 And so when I was given this opportunity to join,
00:41:49.160 it was just such a resounding yes for me
00:41:50.960 because as Daniel Smith said, this is an election of our lifetime.
00:41:55.540 And I feel like this is one last chance that we have to save this country
00:41:59.360 and to return it to a safe, prosperous Canada that we all once knew and loved.
00:42:05.420 And I want to bring that back.
00:42:06.720 And I want to pour my heart and soul into this so that my children and everyone's children
00:42:12.920 have a bright future in Canada.
00:42:15.520 Well, that's amazing.
00:42:16.520 And it shows every day.
00:42:17.460 I'm a fan of your work.
00:42:18.700 I followed you on X or Twitter, as it used to be called, for years.
00:42:22.880 And one of the things you've told me, in fact, we were talking on the phone yesterday.
00:42:27.620 One of the things you said to me was that your belief in freedom was informed by the fact that when you were a little girl,
00:42:33.960 you actually were born and grew up in the former Soviet Union.
00:42:38.360 So you know what it's like to come from a place that's with an authoritarian government,
00:42:43.400 without privacy, without civil liberties, where the government was large and abusive.
00:42:48.760 Maybe talk for a minute about that.
00:42:50.440 And it's my observation from the pandemic and the lockdowns,
00:42:54.600 that the people who were most alert and alive to the risk were people who had more recently come from the Eastern Bloc,
00:43:02.980 because within their lifetimes, they could remember authoritarianism.
00:43:08.920 Yes, that's right.
00:43:10.080 I come from Soviet Union.
00:43:11.840 I grew up there.
00:43:12.760 I was 11 years old when my family basically sold everything they owned in an attempt to bring us to a country
00:43:20.460 that's free and democratic like Canada.
00:43:24.340 And I may have been young when I was there,
00:43:27.780 but I've pressed my mom for all the stories that she could remember and tell me about what it was like living in a communist,
00:43:35.460 tyrannical country like the Soviet Union, where there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech.
00:43:42.360 Everything was a deficit, basic necessities, food items, clothing, et cetera, you name it.
00:43:48.760 And people were living, you know, in a very demoralized situation.
00:43:53.700 And so when the pandemic hit and I started to see similar policies coming down from our government,
00:44:02.680 from this liberal government that resembled policies and just, you know, things that the communist Soviet Union did,
00:44:12.980 I was sounding the alarm bells like crazy to anyone who would listen.
00:44:18.040 I got on social media.
00:44:19.660 We were all locked down during the lockdowns.
00:44:22.200 And so I had time on my hands and I was just trying to push out as much information about that as possible,
00:44:26.940 because it was really worrying to see the censorship and the tyranny that was being foisted upon us by the liberal government.
00:44:35.660 So it was very worrisome to see.
00:44:38.480 And that's when I was following your work closely as well, because you guys were doing amazing work.
00:44:43.320 You received a lot of trouble from authorities for it.
00:44:46.200 I remember seeing police raids, et cetera.
00:44:48.720 That was scary to witness.
00:44:50.220 I could hardly believe that that's what was happening in front of my eyes in a country that my parents gave up everything for to bring us here,
00:44:57.580 only to watch our freedoms basically dissolve because there was a flu going around.
00:45:02.480 And I certainly also received a lot of flack for it.
00:45:05.820 I was called every name in the book.
00:45:07.400 I was called a tinfoil hatter, a nut job for trying to sound the alarm bells.
00:45:12.180 But I could not stay silent because I'm a mother of two children now.
00:45:15.920 And I wanted to know that I've done and said everything I could to make sure that this doesn't happen permanently in this country.
00:45:24.100 I want to live in a free country, not a tyrannical one.
00:45:27.320 Well, that's music to my ears.
00:45:28.760 And that really is our core belief.
00:45:30.740 You know, at the end of every one of my shows, I say, keep fighting for freedom.
00:45:34.180 And it's more than just a tagline.
00:45:36.740 It's how I would summarize the central belief system at Rebel News.
00:45:40.960 I mean, we believe in other more specific policies.
00:45:44.720 But in terms of if I had to sum up our philosophy, it's freedom.
00:45:49.340 And so we're so glad to have you join us.
00:45:51.520 A lot of your work is sort of behind the scenes or or when you yourself are not the star.
00:45:56.960 You're you're a social media guru.
00:45:59.000 You're working on tweets and memes.
00:46:01.220 But I'm hoping that from time to time you'll take a microphone and go out into the world.
00:46:06.120 I mentioned Nanaimo.
00:46:07.140 I started with a little anecdote about our campaign there.
00:46:09.860 I understand, for example, that the Conservative Party campaign is coming.
00:46:13.300 There is coming out to Nanaimo on Friday.
00:46:15.580 And it's really fun to go out to record a rally, but also to do what we call streeters or man on the street interviews, just asking people why are you here.
00:46:25.800 And and the reason I love streeters is they're fun and they're sort of easy to do, frankly.
00:46:30.480 But you never know what you're going to get.
00:46:32.800 You never know.
00:46:34.340 You can't.
00:46:34.860 I mean, sometimes you sort of think, oh, I know what this guy's going to say.
00:46:38.260 But so often you're completely surprised.
00:46:40.940 Someone might look like they're a real lefty, but actually they've got a great freedom oriented story.
00:46:46.400 And and you're out in the world and it's all spontaneous.
00:46:50.000 To me, streeters are super fun.
00:46:51.720 David Menzies is the king of streeters.
00:46:53.960 And so there are some big shoes to fill.
00:46:57.000 But I hope that from time to time on Vancouver Island, when there are things near or in Nanaimo, that you'll be our feet on the ground.
00:47:06.160 We have Drea Humphrey, who's on the mainland.
00:47:08.040 But of course, it's a couple hours by ferry to get across.
00:47:12.260 So hopefully you'll be able to fly the flag a little bit.
00:47:14.340 And I think you'll get a lot of positive reaction.
00:47:17.040 David was telling me about when he was at the conservative rally.
00:47:20.220 He said that dozens, maybe even hundreds of people came up to him for selfies and to say hi.
00:47:28.240 Obviously, David's a character, but it's also the Rebel News brand.
00:47:31.240 People know that we're on their side.
00:47:32.800 So I'm hoping you'll be a great part of the team.
00:47:34.940 I know you will because I've been following your work online for years.
00:47:37.880 And I just thought I'd take a minute to introduce you more formally.
00:47:41.740 I know we've talked before, but to our Rebel viewers and to let them know that you're joining us pretty much full time right now.
00:47:48.860 And perfect timing because of the campaign.
00:47:50.980 Last word to you, Kat.
00:47:52.900 Yeah, thank you for that, Ezra.
00:47:54.500 I appreciate the introduction.
00:47:55.900 It really means a lot.
00:47:56.920 It's an honor to be here.
00:47:58.240 And yes, to stretch my legs a bit and to do something that I don't typically do, which is streeters, would be amazing.
00:48:04.960 I've been wanting to do something more.
00:48:08.280 And in addition to what I already do, which is, like you said, mostly behind social media stuff.
00:48:13.320 So I'm really excited to do that.
00:48:14.440 And I've had a chance to ask Pierre, Paul, you have a question once.
00:48:18.620 It'll be fun to do that again and to participate in all the election goings-on that are happening in and around Nanaimo.
00:48:28.080 I'm honored to contribute my efforts to this.
00:48:29.940 Well, you're very kind.
00:48:32.020 You know, obviously, your obligations to your family comes first.
00:48:35.300 I know you've got a couple of kids.
00:48:36.740 One of our teammates, Tamara, has five kids.
00:48:39.380 Sheila's got three.
00:48:40.160 Drea's got kids.
00:48:40.780 So there's a lot.
00:48:41.540 And obviously, that comes first.
00:48:43.220 So obviously, you have obligations there.
00:48:45.740 But it's my hope that with a little bit of notice, you can head out into the world.
00:48:50.260 And I would love to see you put questions to Pierre Pauliev.
00:48:53.420 Not just because I want to know what he thinks.
00:48:55.880 But I think a well-crafted question put to Pierre Pauliev and his answer can actually shift the coverage.
00:49:04.620 We've seen that already.
00:49:05.500 The other day, Alexa Lavoie asked Pierre Pauliev about if the liberal contest itself might be rigged.
00:49:13.800 Because who were the 250,000 voters who were disqualified?
00:49:17.680 Is it really likely that, you know, Karina Gould and Christopher Freeland only got less than 200 votes in their own districts?
00:49:28.440 Putting that controversial question to Pierre Pauliev and having him answer it turned it into news that other people talked about.
00:49:36.820 It was a really fun thing.
00:49:38.320 So coming up with thoughtful questions, you know, they really try and keep us out of Mark Carney events.
00:49:43.800 And I don't know our likelihood of getting into those.
00:49:46.160 He will come to Vancouver Island, and I hope you'll give it a shot.
00:49:49.000 But even putting questions to Pierre Pauliev can change the course of the campaign.
00:49:53.440 Anyways, we'll talk more in the weeks ahead.
00:49:55.760 It's great to have you on the team.
00:49:56.920 Thanks for taking the time to join the show.
00:49:59.420 And good luck out there on Vancouver Island.
00:50:01.960 It's a beautiful place in the country.
00:50:03.940 Thanks for having me, Ezra.
00:50:05.160 Our pleasure.
00:50:05.840 There you have it.
00:50:06.360 Katrina Panova, the latest rebel.
00:50:09.720 Stay with us.
00:50:10.780 Your letters to me next.
00:50:23.100 Hey, welcome back.
00:50:24.140 Your letters to me.
00:50:25.100 Mick Viss says, elbows up.
00:50:27.720 Justin Trudeau had this in his little mind when he used his elbow on a female colleague in the House of Parliament.
00:50:33.880 He intentionally wanted to physically hurt her.
00:50:36.080 Very low class.
00:50:37.160 Let's go, Pierre.
00:50:38.000 Let's go, Barbara.
00:50:39.800 Yeah.
00:50:40.220 I mean, I forgot about that moment until you reminded me.
00:50:43.080 I mean, Justin Trudeau is not afraid to get handsy, to elbow people, to grope people.
00:50:49.080 Ask Rose Knight.
00:50:49.960 He sexually assaulted her in Creston, B.C.
00:50:52.640 And I hate to say it.
00:50:54.300 Justin Trudeau learned that from his father, Pierre Trudeau, who beat Margaret Trudeau.
00:50:58.620 That's not a rumor.
00:50:59.460 Margaret Trudeau herself talks about it.
00:51:01.700 Daisy writes, at least we know which party the oil and gas companies won't be supporting.
00:51:07.880 Well, in Canada, corporations are actually not allowed to donate to political parties.
00:51:13.100 Now, they could, I suppose, set up a third-party campaign group, but I don't know of any oil companies to do.
00:51:19.780 Michael Mathias says, let me guess.
00:51:21.780 Once these pirates crash the fuel industry, they will buy it up and sell the fuel abroad at significant profit.
00:51:27.160 See, now you're thinking like Mark Carney.
00:51:29.720 Huh.
00:51:30.220 What do you think of the congressional inquiry I took you through a little bit today?
00:51:34.100 Pretty incredible, eh?
00:51:36.220 That's our show for today.
00:51:37.840 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:51:41.720 And keep fighting for freedom.