Rebel News Podcast - April 30, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Elon Musk bets a trillion dollars on a Mars colony for 1 million people


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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to change the subject from our terrible and sad politics to an amazing
00:00:05.460 story of Elon Musk's new pay package at SpaceX. It's just unbelievable. One of the terms is he
00:00:13.300 has to get a Mars colony set up with one million citizens. Would you like to be a citizen of Mars?
00:00:21.300 Well, now's your chance. Anyhow, very interesting. I'll take you through it today. But first,
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00:01:12.860 Tonight, the Earth's leading citizen is betting a trillion dollars that he can start a colony
00:01:19.340 on Mars and that one million earthlings will go there. It's April 29th and this is C.S. LeVant
00:01:26.060 Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. Hey, I want a little bit of a change of pace. We're
00:01:44.040 talking about gross politics all the time. It's a bit depressing. Let us take a break from the
00:01:48.960 squalor of the real world and daydream a little bit to talk about the earth's leading citizen
00:01:56.500 and i don't even think i have to tell you who that is it's obviously elon musk
00:02:00.880 he's had an amazing life from paypal to tesla to the boring company which makes tunnels
00:02:07.260 to buying x used to be called twitter to x ai and now spacex which is in the news today
00:02:15.940 SpaceX is his spaceship company.
00:02:17.880 It's privately held right now, but he's getting ready for an IPO to take it public to allow
00:02:22.660 investors to come in.
00:02:25.120 Now, I confess I was a skeptic of Elon Musk a decade ago.
00:02:28.780 I was a skeptic of anything that got government grants and had an eat your spinach vibe, which
00:02:34.180 is how electric vehicles struck me a decade ago, that they were a curiosity, really, that
00:02:39.840 were heavily subsidized and made no economic sense on their own.
00:02:43.160 But it wasn't Elon Musk who asked for the subsidies.
00:02:47.380 It was the big three automakers who were trying to keep up with him.
00:02:51.440 Musk himself is not an anti-development extremist in the mold of Greenpeace or, say, Greta Thunberg.
00:02:58.300 He believes in electric energy, which, of course, is in many places like burning coal or burning natural gas.
00:03:05.600 But he's a big believer in solar, and he believes that's the solution.
00:03:10.160 I've come to understand his views, and I think his views have actually changed over time as well.
00:03:15.040 Needless to say, I'm a super fan.
00:03:17.180 And as much as the left has been horrified by his coming out as a freedom activist, I think many people love it.
00:03:23.240 I think he really has saved the world in many ways, culturally, morally, by protecting freedom of speech on such an important platform as Twitter.
00:03:33.620 He spent about $100 million of his own money in the last U.S. presidential election.
00:03:39.800 Nothing George Soros hasn't done, but it was spectacular to see Elon Musk do it, to try and get people to vote for Donald Trump, to stop Kamala Harris and all that she meant.
00:03:51.900 I think that by doing so, he helped save the country, probably saved himself.
00:03:57.220 I think Elon Musk, like Donald Trump before him, would have been arrested, would have been stripped of his companies, would have been the target of lawfare, like they were doing to Trump.
00:04:06.220 Remember, they arrested Trump.
00:04:07.400 They raided Trump.
00:04:08.280 They had stitch-ups where he was charged with made-up offenses.
00:04:12.700 They would have done that to Elon Musk, too.
00:04:14.200 Absolutely, they would.
00:04:16.620 They didn't.
00:04:17.900 And so Elon Musk is safe for now.
00:04:20.440 He's the richest man of all time, but he doesn't live like it.
00:04:25.040 As far as we know, he doesn't have giant mansions or private islands like many other billionaires do.
00:04:30.560 He flies in a private jet for reasons of security and speed, but he doesn't live large.
00:04:37.740 He's always on the go.
00:04:38.640 He's always working.
00:04:40.160 I don't know if he is even capable of taking a vacation.
00:04:43.960 In a way, he's like Trump that way.
00:04:46.260 And like Trump, he always gives a running commentary on the world and his views in it.
00:04:51.000 I think that's one of the most interesting things about Trump is if you want to know
00:04:54.500 what he thinks, just stick around a minute and he'll likely tweet it.
00:04:58.260 Actually, there was this very funny moment at the White House today.
00:05:01.060 Actually, a NASA executive was there.
00:05:04.420 and there was a question about an office lease.
00:05:08.560 It doesn't even matter what the question was,
00:05:10.380 but Trump looked at the NASA executive
00:05:12.780 who happened to have big ears.
00:05:15.180 I just got to show this clip to you.
00:05:17.120 Here, take a look at Trump in the Oval Office.
00:05:19.500 Are you considering relocating NASA's headquarters
00:05:22.700 out of D.C. once the lease is up to states
00:05:25.500 like Texas, Ohio, and Florida?
00:05:27.160 Well, the best man to tell you that
00:05:28.760 is the man standing right over here.
00:05:30.360 You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours?
00:05:33.100 He's got great hearing, you know, he's got super hearing.
00:05:37.200 Trick of the trade, sir.
00:05:38.400 Now, that guy's a good sport, but that's why Trump is so wonderful.
00:05:42.680 He will tell you exactly what is on his mind and what's likely on a lot of other people's minds,
00:05:48.100 but he's the only one audacious enough to say it.
00:05:50.020 Well, Elon Musk is similar, too, and he talks about politics and he talks about the world.
00:05:54.860 He's interested in the whole world.
00:05:56.100 And he's become sort of friends with our friend Tommy Robinson, which is, you know, very risky politically for a big shot like Elon Musk to do.
00:06:06.460 In fact, last year at a big rally Tommy Robinson had in London, Elon Musk came in via satellite.
00:06:12.580 Here, take a look at it. Here's a small excerpt from his speech.
00:06:16.300 You may notice this T-shirt that I'm wearing as great British author George Orwell.
00:06:20.520 What would Orwell think? I think that's generally a good way to look at these things.
00:06:25.200 He would want freedom of speech.
00:06:27.200 He would want the people to know what's real.
00:06:30.520 He'd want the people to fight against government oppression and fight for the truth and fight for the future of Britain.
00:06:37.720 I tell you, Elon Musk, he's high up on a lot of enemies lists, but he can get away with things because he is the world's richest man and a very powerful man.
00:06:46.620 And, of course, we all know about Starlink.
00:06:49.740 That's his satellite-based internet company, which is amazing if you haven't tried it.
00:06:53.980 But there is a Star Shield version of it, which you may not have heard of, which is the military satellite. So he is absolutely essential for so many countries' national security. He sort of reminds me of the comic book character Tony Stark, Iron Man, who is an inventor and an industrialist as well as a superhero.
00:07:16.320 own. It's been socially important for Elon Musk to come out in favor of Tommy Robinson and others
00:07:23.220 like him, because the thing about bullying and social peer pressure, it only works when the
00:07:29.740 bullies are powerful, when they have sort of a moral persuasion, when they, by disparaging someone,
00:07:35.660 cause you to say, oh, I'd better not talk to them. But how can you be more powerful than Elon Musk
00:07:40.920 socially? So it's really made it hard for people to try and marginalize Tommy Robinson and others
00:07:45.980 when Elon Musk has normalized them.
00:07:48.820 I checked, and there's different websites out there
00:07:51.300 that purport to measure wealth of billionaires
00:07:53.900 even on a daily basis.
00:07:55.460 I checked the Bloomberg page.
00:07:57.700 He's worth about $650 billion today,
00:08:00.960 which is US money, of course.
00:08:02.060 It's close to a trillion Canadian.
00:08:04.120 He will surely be the first American trillionaire.
00:08:07.960 If you look at the list, it's interesting.
00:08:09.640 The top eight richest men in the world are American
00:08:12.180 and they all made their money in tech.
00:08:13.940 You can keep going down the list.
00:08:15.320 18 out of the top 25 are American. It's not even close. There's one person from China, I think one
00:08:21.980 or two from India. I mean, that speaks to America as well, doesn't it? About how America has the
00:08:28.880 culture of freedom and entrepreneurship. Still, it hasn't quite been snuffed out yet. Now, this
00:08:34.860 monologue is not a hagiography or just fan fiction about Elon Musk, even though I am a fan for
00:08:40.780 various reasons. I want to talk about some news. And I think the news is sort of amazing and a
00:08:46.420 little bit unbelievable, but I believe it. It feels like I was reading a science fiction novel.
00:08:51.300 I mean, I mentioned SpaceX, which delivers about 80 to 90% of all mass to orbit. That's one of the
00:08:59.360 measurements of sending rockets into outer space is, well, how much did you lift up there? Was it
00:09:04.980 just a pound? Was it a ton? I mean, that's the expense and the effort. How much mass can you
00:09:10.480 get to orbit. Well, when measured that way, SpaceX delivers 80 to 90% of all mass to orbit,
00:09:17.000 more than all other countries and companies in the world combined, times 10. Hey, but don't knock it.
00:09:24.180 In Canada, we just spent $200 million on a Nova Scotia spaceport. Bring your own rocket to our
00:09:30.840 lovely concrete cement pad. That was just crazy. Well, SpaceX is a private company, as I mentioned,
00:09:37.740 but it's looking to go public, which means selling shares to the public. It'll probably be the
00:09:42.560 largest IPO in world history in terms of the amount of money raised. I think everyone in the
00:09:49.460 world will want in on this deal. But of course, when you sell shares of your company, it means
00:09:55.000 that you yourself have a smaller slice. The pie might be larger, but your slice of it,
00:10:01.400 the fraction of it gets smaller which brings us to this news in advance of the ipo
00:10:08.600 um elon musk and spacex filed certain things with the securities and exchange commission
00:10:14.360 including about elon musk's compensation believe it or not he only makes about 55 000 a year at
00:10:21.300 spacex you heard me right 55 000 not 55 million or even 55 billion here's the headline the wall
00:10:28.900 Street Journal. SpaceX's IPO will help Elon Musk consolidate power. Investors welcome it. His fans
00:10:36.160 don't mind another moonshot pay deal and almost total control. So let me read a little bit.
00:10:40.440 Because like I say, when he sells shares to others, they'll get certain rights. But as you can see by
00:10:45.080 the headline, he's trying to protect his power in the company. I'll explain why. Tesla's shareholders
00:10:51.220 already give Elon Musk leeway, entertaining the billionaire's whims as he plows money into robots
00:10:56.620 and blessing a $1 trillion pay package
00:10:59.220 that will pay out if he hits long shot targets.
00:11:01.900 He is poised to have even more sway
00:11:03.980 at his rocket maker, SpaceX,
00:11:06.240 which is aiming to go public in June.
00:11:08.920 Now, just absolute incredible milestones.
00:11:12.700 I mean, it's almost,
00:11:13.560 I feel ridiculous even saying them.
00:11:16.480 Like one of them for Tesla,
00:11:21.580 which he was passed by the Tesla shareholders,
00:11:24.060 was he gets certain share vesting milestones if he can do things with a company like get it up to
00:11:30.040 an eight trillion dollar valuation the world's largest companies right now are about three
00:11:35.380 trillion dollars it's like apple and companies like that so elon musk has to make tesla bigger
00:11:42.380 than any company in the world eight trillion dollars of value and more importantly 20 million
00:11:50.140 cars on the street, 10 million self-driving cars, a million robot taxis, and a million of those
00:12:00.200 humanoid robots. And if he doesn't meet these milestones, he doesn't get paid. That's how Tesla
00:12:06.720 is encouraging him. Tesla owners loved it. Well, here's what SpaceX shareholders and the board
00:12:15.340 offered him, that SpaceX must reach a market value of $7.5 trillion. Again, quintuple what it is now.
00:12:26.300 Imagine if he does both, makes Tesla worth $8 trillion and SpaceX worth $8 trillion. I mean,
00:12:31.840 the largest wealth creator in the history of the world. But the milestones beyond just selling are
00:12:38.640 incredible this is the one that gets me i mean the the huge valuation is one thing but he needs to
00:12:46.420 get a permanent human colony on mars with at least one million people living there
00:12:56.300 so we're not talking about a little space station with four astronauts we're not talking about like
00:13:01.840 a little moon rover and and like a hut a million people that would be moms and dads grandmas and
00:13:09.620 grandpas that would be not just scientists but it would be you know people working at a drive-thru
00:13:15.080 it would be clerks it would be janitors a million people that is a fairly large-sized city
00:13:21.940 it's crazy but he has to do that to get his big payday at spacex i and that's in writing that's
00:13:34.280 the disclosure of the securities and exchange commission here's another idea that he has to
00:13:40.080 meet another milestone is the operation of space-based orbiting data centers people are
00:13:47.680 building all these data centers on earth. Of course, he wants to make space based data centers
00:13:54.220 because you wouldn't have to cool them the same way. It wouldn't crowd people. You could use solar
00:13:59.840 power. I don't even know what these words mean, but it needs at least a hundred terawatts of
00:14:06.000 compute capacity. That's they talk about compute. I honestly don't know what that means. I think it
00:14:11.480 means brain power for ai and uh one of the news sites i read today said that's equivalent
00:14:18.440 to a hundred thousand one gigawatt nuclear reactors in terms of energy and computing i
00:14:25.260 don't even i can't even fathom that but that's what like he's got to not only get a million
00:14:30.320 people on mars but he's got to get the equivalent of that much solar power operator maybe the
00:14:36.520 nuclear reactors. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like I'm in a science fiction novel and
00:14:43.920 we're talking about the lead character, which is sort of true. I mean, it sounds like a joke,
00:14:49.480 but so does driverless cars and robots and reusable spaceships that land back on earth
00:14:54.120 for reuse. But he's done that. When I was in Austin, Texas a few months ago, I used Uber on
00:15:01.180 my phone, and up comes a driverless car. First time in my life I'd seen one. First time in my
00:15:08.120 life I got in one. I tell you, it takes a little bit of getting used to, but by the time the drive
00:15:12.940 was over, it was pretty cool, and it's a real thing. His Tesla deal says he needs to have a
00:15:19.900 million robot taxis. Do you think he'll reach some of his other goals? I don't know. I'll tell you
00:15:27.740 one thing there's only one country in the world in which it could happen and that's the united
00:15:31.620 states of america for now at least and just stop and think for a second how close the world came
00:15:37.760 to electing kamala harris and the destroyers stay with us more ahead
00:15:43.300 you know i'm old enough that i actually had a chance to meet and get to know a little bit
00:15:56.740 Alan Borovoi, who for decades was the leader of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Now he
00:16:03.940 was a liberal man, but in the best sense of those words, he wasn't a partisan, he certainly wasn't
00:16:09.780 woke, and he understood that the civil liberties movement had to get involved in the tough cases
00:16:16.300 because they couldn't afford to turn their nose up if someone was offensive or odious. That's where
00:16:22.460 the front line of civil liberties law was i remember something he said and i've always
00:16:26.600 remembered it now i think it's been 20 years or 30 years since i heard him say this he said
00:16:31.020 freedom of speech is the gift you have to give your opponents if you want it for yourself he
00:16:37.740 also called freedom of speech the strategic freedom upon which the others are built i mean
00:16:43.040 just think about that for a second what use is freedom of assembly what's the use of getting
00:16:47.640 together in a town hall, let's say, if you don't have the free speech to use it? What's the use
00:16:52.620 of voting if you didn't have free speech in a campaign? He was very smart and I very much miss
00:16:57.820 him because I think the model of those legacy civil liberties groups is now woke and they won't
00:17:05.780 touch you if you are conservative or right wing or whatever. I think really the establishment
00:17:13.100 civil liberties movements have been in a crisis. And we saw that, by the way, during the COVID
00:17:17.660 lockdown. So I could only imagine what Alan Borevoy would have said about those. The Canadian
00:17:22.300 Civil Liberties Association was absolutely silent. They were MIA. They were AWOL, absent without
00:17:28.340 leave during the huge battle of our generation. And I say all this because I really wish there
00:17:32.980 had been more civil liberties groups active in some of the key tests of our freedom in the last
00:17:38.580 generation, the trucker convoy being, I think, the most notable amongst them. And because of some
00:17:45.160 horn honking and some parking violations, the entire country was put under a form of martial
00:17:50.220 law. Hundreds of bank accounts were seized. Peaceful protesters were jailed, sometimes in
00:17:55.500 solitary confinement. This happened to our friend Tamara Leach. And it was just a disgrace. And I
00:17:59.960 lament the passing of the great old 60s berkeley era civil liberties uh bosses like alan boravoy
00:18:08.900 but there is some good news out there yesterday you might recall we spoke with lisa bildy she's
00:18:13.660 the new executive director of uh the free speech union of canada fsu canada it's a fairly new group
00:18:20.100 i'm familiar with their organization in the uk and they're excellent i'm really glad they're
00:18:24.820 putting down roots here you know me i love the democracy fund that's a civil liberties group
00:18:29.580 that we helped get going during the pandemic.
00:18:32.300 But I think the archetype,
00:18:34.640 really the role model for me at least in Canada
00:18:40.100 is a group that's been around for about a dozen years.
00:18:43.020 So they're relatively new compared to the Civil Rights Association.
00:18:45.440 You probably know who I'm talking about.
00:18:47.040 I'm talking about the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:18:50.320 And I'm so glad they were active during the trucker convoy.
00:18:55.740 And so it's a pleasure to welcome back to the program
00:18:58.440 one of their lawyers who we've had on before. He's based in Hamilton, but of course he operates in
00:19:03.520 other cities too. His name is Hatim Kier, and he joins us now via Zoom. Hatim, great to see you
00:19:09.260 again. Hi, Ezra. Thanks for having me. Well, it's our pleasure. You know, civil liberties are tough
00:19:14.220 because it's easy when you're the one who wants your civil liberties, but what about when people
00:19:19.400 disagree with you? That's the hard part. That's what Alan Borevoy was saying when he said freedom
00:19:24.120 speech is the gift you have to give your opponents and that that's that's when we're tested do we
00:19:29.000 really support free speech um or is it just we only support free speech for ourselves can you
00:19:34.460 tell our viewers about a case that i think tests this principle it's the city of ottawa and i'm
00:19:41.820 sure they have some good reason for doing it but every time i see censorship afoot i think
00:19:47.760 of the worst case scenario tell us a little bit about what the city of ottawa is planning to do
00:19:52.820 and what you guys at the JCCF are doing in response?
00:19:56.780 So the city of Ottawa has just passed their safe access bylaw.
00:20:01.780 And what the bylaw does is it allows certain kinds of institutions,
00:20:06.600 schools, places of worship, childcare centers,
00:20:09.840 healthcare centers, and residential care centers
00:20:11.800 to apply for, to be designated a social infrastructure
00:20:19.040 which has safe access points,
00:20:20.880 which essentially means there's no protest zones for 50 meters surrounding those access points.
00:20:30.380 So the bylaw prohibits all sorts of things that are already illegal, like obstructing the access to the property.
00:20:37.560 But probably the most concerning thing is it prohibits demonstrations,
00:20:42.580 which are defined as one or more people in a place primarily for the purpose of expressing an opinion.
00:20:49.520 So it could just be a person holding a sign would be prohibited for 50 meters from the access point to the designated facility.
00:20:57.580 You know, that's very concerning. I know section 176.2 of the criminal code off by heart, which is an obscure section, but it prohibits disturbing churches, synagogues, mosques. You're not allowed to, quote, disturb them. And that makes sense. There's some sense to that.
00:21:16.880 And that word disturbance in there. And that's very different from a peaceful person standing with a sign out front. And I think you're so right to be concerned, especially if they define a demonstration as just expressing an opinion, and to do so even if you're on your own. A one-man demonstration. I'm sort of chuckling at the idea of that.
00:21:41.720 Let me ask you this, because in the past, labor unions have opposed rules like this because they can imagine it being used to shut down strikers.
00:21:53.880 You know, sometimes people on strike, they protest at their particular place of work and they maybe even slow down a car getting in or out for a minute, make them wait.
00:22:03.840 It's a little bit of a hassle, but it's I suppose it's a Canadian tradition.
00:22:07.280 In the past, labor unions have been very worried about these anti-protest rules because, you know, unions protest from time to time.
00:22:16.060 Who supports this bill and does anyone other than you guys oppose it?
00:22:20.720 It's not a bill, sorry, it's a policy or a bylaw.
00:22:22.800 Who supports it and who opposes it?
00:22:25.000 So actually the only thing there's an exception for is our labor unions.
00:22:30.360 Oh, really?
00:22:30.900 So they've got a favor for their friends.
00:22:32.900 Right. So the city council has now voted on this. It happened last week. And basically, the council was overwhelmingly in favor of it. There were a few councillors who tried to amend the bylaw to remove the prohibition on demonstration, for example.
00:22:52.400 So then it would just prohibit these more sort of obstructive behaviors. But that was voted down. And ultimately, the bylaw has now been approved.
00:22:59.120 So it's it's just come into force.
00:23:01.800 As far as I'm aware, it has not been implemented yet because it depends on organizations actually applying for a safe access point.
00:23:10.640 But, you know, I doubt it'll be long until that happens.
00:23:13.820 You know, I've there have been a lot of protests against Jewish synagogues, against Jewish schools in the last two and a half years.
00:23:21.980 and they've concerned me but i have even though i'm jewish i've resisted the call
00:23:27.960 for new laws because i've always said look we have laws on the books if there's uttering threats if
00:23:34.200 there's harassment if there's mischief if there's trespass all of these things are already caught
00:23:40.340 under the law and by the way stalking or or uh i think they call it besetting the law i don't think
00:23:47.380 the law uses the word stalking it uses some those are already on the books so if if someone was
00:23:53.300 doing threatening behavior if someone was stalking you we don't need a new city bylaw to deal with
00:24:00.600 something that the criminal code has contemplated in many cases for centuries i mean the laws
00:24:05.280 against uttering threats or trespass go back almost to time immemorial we don't it's not like
00:24:11.300 in 2026 the the city of ottawa counselors have discovered a hole in our in our criminal code
00:24:18.960 that only they can patch what are your thoughts on that i mean if there was a problem cops have
00:24:24.840 a lot of tools don't they including disturbing the peace breach of the peace those are pretty
00:24:29.840 vague catch-alls cops can already fix these problems with current laws am i right to say that
00:24:36.880 Yeah, I think so. A number of the subsections in this bylaw prohibit obstructing or hindering access to a location. And that's almost mirroring the language of the offense of mischief as well, which includes obstructing access or enjoyment of the use of property.
00:24:54.640 um yeah you know i i agree with you azra i'm always wary when there's new laws like this
00:25:00.180 being introduced because the the sort of the the ancient laws you know the oldest criminal
00:25:05.860 prohibitions the the common law all these kinds of things already capture the the rights that
00:25:11.580 people have and ought to enjoy you know the rights to property the right to enjoy their
00:25:15.360 their property and sort of peace without disturbance um so what this bylaw ends up
00:25:20.860 doing in my in my view is it is it's redundant it copies those laws that already exist uh but
00:25:26.980 then it goes farther by prohibiting demonstrations and also uh you know just because it's it's kind
00:25:32.940 of humorous i'll bring it up but also prohibits uh causing or permitting a bass noise or an
00:25:39.180 unusual noise or a noise likely to disturb the peace so no strange sounds are permitted
00:25:44.460 at these access points either unusual it's so vague you know one of them i mean i i haven't
00:25:50.400 practice law in decades but i like to dabble in the ideas that i remember in law school
00:25:54.460 um you know one of the things our constitution protects us against is uh uh laws that are vague
00:26:02.280 if a law is vague you can't know how to follow it and and there's that phrase void for vagueness
00:26:08.380 if someone said hey ezra stop making all those unusual sounds i would what what does that mean
00:26:15.160 is my voice unusual is it if i yodel i mean that's sort of unusual i mean it i don't it just
00:26:22.800 seems like such a catch-all um was there any consideration in city council debates
00:26:32.520 to the chart of rights like did they even talk about it did they even acknowledge that there may
00:26:38.500 be the right to protest even if people don't like i'm not saying the right to use loudspeakers to
00:26:44.700 shout down a church or a mosque or a synagogue i i agree with section 176 2 of the criminal code
00:26:50.780 but did anyone say hey guys we might be going too far or was it just the unions
00:26:55.200 who had their charter rights protected uh i mean so the the council did reference the charter
00:27:01.380 uh you know they they had these comments about you know we respect the right to protest but also
00:27:07.260 it's about balancing the right to uh to safe access is what they called it um there were a
00:27:13.400 few councillors who, you know, someone did try proposing an amendment that would have removed
00:27:19.260 demonstration from the bylaw. But the vast majority of councillors voted against that. And then the
00:27:25.240 vast majority of councillors approved the bylaw as it currently stands. Yeah, I'm not too surprised.
00:27:30.760 I mean, Ottawa was ground zero for violating our civil liberties during the trucker convoy. I mean,
00:27:36.960 I was there for a few days, but I watched it very carefully every day.
00:27:40.980 And there was no trespass.
00:27:44.080 They didn't go into Parliament.
00:27:45.860 They didn't go into private property.
00:27:48.600 They honked their horns until a court ordered them to stop,
00:27:52.640 and then they stopped.
00:27:54.380 And the overreaction by the government was astonishing.
00:27:57.880 It was the overreaction for 50 years.
00:28:01.540 The only comparable reaction was the War Measures Act in October crisis 56 years ago.
00:28:09.960 And I don't know, I just think Ottawa, sometimes they think, maybe it's like the ruling city, that they can tell the peasants not to protest.
00:28:19.300 I don't know, I don't think it's a good look, and I think this has echoes of their censorship from four years ago.
00:28:25.260 I hope you guys will stay on the file. And if any of these institutions request this bubble zone, I hope you guys will be there to inspect it and push back as appropriate.
00:28:38.380 Yeah, we'll be keeping a close eye on this. And if anyone in Ottawa ends up running into this bylaw, you know, I invite you to go to jccf.ca and find the intake page there and let them know your story.
00:28:50.380 There he is, Hatim Kier, lawyer for the Justice Center, keeping an eye on our civil liberties.
00:28:55.500 Thanks for taking the time with us today.
00:28:57.760 Thanks for having me.
00:28:58.620 Right on.
00:28:59.440 Stay with us.
00:29:00.200 Your Letters to Me next.
00:29:07.660 Hey, welcome back.
00:29:08.640 Your Letters to Me.
00:29:10.040 Selena Barber on Mark Carney's so-called Sovereign Wealth Fund says,
00:29:14.620 let Carnage and Brookfield start with the $6 billion they owe Canada in taxes.
00:29:18.640 Hey, that's a good point.
00:29:19.540 they've hidden their money from taxes they've moved their headquarters out of Canada you might
00:29:23.760 recall I went to the Isle of Man in Bermuda trying to track down their offices they were really just
00:29:29.600 mailboxes ways to avoid taxes it was really gross Brian McIntyre says I don't get it shouldn't it
00:29:36.200 be called the sovereign debt fund the new Marxism slush fund borrow buy high sell for less and lose
00:29:44.100 money carnianomics just keep your greedy grubby hands off canadian pensions it i don't know what
00:29:50.780 it's going to come of that because we don't have a wealth fund we are in the hole so much
00:29:54.520 come countries with wealth funds have huge surpluses usually from oil and gas carney has
00:30:01.020 tried to kill the oil and gas industry and we don't have a surplus john gonsalva says leblanc
00:30:07.500 said today there's no projects approved to date let that sink in but we are moving at speeds never
00:30:13.160 seen before. Let's leave it as we will never see it. Yeah, there's certain words that Carney uses
00:30:18.360 like we're catalyzing this, transformational investments, moving at a speed never seen before
00:30:25.560 in general. He just has his set of BS jargon like Justin Trudeau did. It's all BS. This time it just
00:30:32.620 comes in a different kind of suit. Anyway, that's our show for the day. Oh, what a difference. Let
00:30:37.500 me just say what a difference between a man of action like Elon Musk and a man of process and
00:30:42.300 bureaucracy like Mark Carney, eh? It's our show for the day. Until next time, on behalf of all
00:30:48.020 us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.