EZRA LEVANT ｜ Federal court rules against our COVID jail Charter challenge (but we're fighting back)
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Rebel News loses in court today, and we're going to appeal. Here's why we think we have a chance at an appeal, and why it's a good one. Today's episode is a 10-minute summary of the ruling.
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Hello, my Rebels. We had a setback in court today.
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The Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada dismissed our charter challenge of the hotel COVID jails.
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Well, we're not going to take that lying down. We're going to appeal.
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If you want to learn more about the ruling, you can find it at nocovidjails.com.
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But what comes next is about 10 minutes of me going through the ruling.
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And hopefully I cover enough bases to give you a feeling for it.
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And like I say, if you want more about this court ruling, you can go to nocovidjails.com.
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We lost our COVID jail charter lawsuit in the federal court. We're going to appeal. I'll give
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you the details. It's June 18th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Terrible news. This morning, a judge on the federal court of Canada ruled that Justin Trudeau's airport
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COVID jails are legal. Rebel News went to court challenging that law under the Charter of Rights
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and Freedoms. We hired two of the best constitutional lawyers in Canada. I spoke with the lawyers this
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morning. I have instructed them to appeal this ruling to the federal court of appeal.
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Trudeau, through the unlimited resources of the Justice Department against us, it's really a David and Goliath battle.
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I hope you'll help us cover the cost of our fight. Please go to nocovidjails.com.
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If you want to help, by the way, you'll actually get a charitable tax receipt for that from the Democracy Fund
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so you can deduct it from your taxes. Please help if you can.
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Let me tell you a little bit about what happened, and then I'll tell you why I think we have a chance
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on appeal. The judge, Chief Justice Paul Crampton, ruled that jailing healthy people, law-abiding people,
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citizens who have done nothing wrong, jailing them for up to three days, and billing them
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thousands of dollars for the cost of it, is just a minor inconvenience, not an important violation
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of our liberties. I'm guessing he himself hasn't had to stay in one.
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And the fact that the quarantine makes no sense from a health point of view, it's no
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safer to send someone to a hotel for three days, where they will have contact with many
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people, as opposed to sending them straight home by themselves.
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Well, the judge didn't mind. He actually wrote that it's Canadians' duty to suffer through
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such indignities to save lives, even though the government provided no evidence that these
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costly schemes have saved lives. In fact, there was evidence that the COVID jails are dangerous,
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whether it's COVID outbreaks at these COVID hotel jails, or cases of alleged rape there that the judge
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acknowledged. Justin Trudeau and the rest of the ruling class themselves don't have to follow these
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rules. The president of the CBC, for example, flies back and forth to Canada from her home in New York
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City every week. She doesn't quarantine anywhere, certainly not in an airport hotel. Trudeau himself
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just got back from a week of boozy parties in Europe, violating every quarantine rule, mask rules,
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social distancing rules. And when he came back to Canada, he reportedly spent a few hours in one of
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these COVID airport hotels and then just left. So yeah, rules are for the little people.
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We sued the government because we had sent our then reporter, Kian Bextie, to report in Florida.
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And he had to come back to Canada through one of these COVID jails in Calgary. When he was in the
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hotel, he came into contact with no less than 14 people, as opposed to just taking his own car home
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from the airport. It's ridiculous. Our lawyers did an excellent job. Sarah Miller and Robert Hawks ran
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circles around the government's lawyers. In cross-examination, they were able to get some
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incredible admissions from the government's witnesses. And they really grilled the health
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bureaucrats the government sent out to defend the law. But in the end, Crampton sided with the
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establishment and against the people. I've read the ruling. In my opinion, it's a political document
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designed to make this problem go away. And fair enough. If the entire media and entire
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political establishment and the airline industry itself seem fine with all this and the other awful
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parts of the lockdown, so why would a top judge go out on a limb by himself and what? Become a pariah
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at all the Ottawa cocktail parties? Our lawyers were in court alongside lawyers from the Justice
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Center for Constitutional Freedoms. And there were a handful of other individuals who sued on their own.
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All of our cases were bundled together and heard at once. But I note there wasn't a single lawyer in
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court from a liberal civil liberties group. There were no tourism or travel or business groups. No
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chambers of commerce there. No political group. No opposition political party. Nobody. Nobody who we
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ought to rely on in society to protect us from authoritarian measures. I think the government got the message
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loud and clear. No one important cares about this. Well, I care about it and I hope you care about it too.
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So we're going to appeal. Here's what Justice Crampton said. Like times of war and other crises,
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pandemics call for sacrifices to save lives and avoid broad-based suffering. If some are unwilling to
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make such sacrifices and engage in behavior that poses a demonstrated risk of the health and safety of
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others, the principles of fundamental justice will not prevent the state from performing its essential
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function of protecting its citizens from that risk. Exactly what sacrifices has anyone from the ruling
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class made? A judge or Trudeau himself? Trudeau? The judges? They haven't lost a day's pay. In fact, for Trudeau,
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his workload has been a lot lighter than usual, hasn't it? I mean, the government has had a nice long
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staycation. The entire ruling class has had the time of their lives. Imagine comparing what's going
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on to a war. The only comparison I see is to war profiteers, people who love the new rules and are
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doing just fine by them. And what health and safety benefits exactly did the judge mean? I read the
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ruling. There's no evidence that these COVID jails have stopped anyone from getting sick. The government
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doesn't even try to collect any such data. But we know that there have been outbreaks at these
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very same COVID jails. Outbreaks of the virus there, of course there are. What's so weird is,
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if you land in Canada and you have the coronavirus, you are not sent to one of these hotels. Only
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healthy people are sent to these quarantine hotels. I'm serious. The law is a joke and this government is a
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joke and this judge stood by him. Well, we're appealing. Section 7 of our Charter of Rights
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guarantees life, liberty, and the security of the person. I think a court of appeal could be
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persuaded that detaining our reporter for no provable benefit deprives him of his liberty and
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isn't in accordance with the principles of justice. It's arbitrary. It's overly broad. Section 9 of the
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Charter guarantees that Canadians can't be arbitrarily detained. You're healthy. You've done nothing wrong.
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Why should the government be able to scoop you up for three days? And then there's the law itself,
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the Quarantine Act. It delegates certain powers, but Trudeau's cabinet in issuing these orders just to
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detain people, they far exceeded those powers. It's just not in there in the law to let them do what
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they're doing. You can read the whole ruling for yourself at our website, nocovidjails.com. It's
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over 130 pages long. Frankly, it's a very frustrating read. But you'll see the importance of our participation.
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You know, if you read the ruling, rebel news and our arguments and our facts are mentioned more than
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50 times in the ruling by the judge. If we hadn't been there, our ideas and arguments would not have
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been put to court. Some of them were made by other lawyers, to be sure. But we had unique points that
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we made. And I think our lawyers were also the most effective at grilling the government's own
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witnesses. There were other excellent lawyers in the room, but I think ours were the best and made
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the most interesting points. So if you think we have to continue the fight to appeal, please help us.
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I've already told the lawyers to start working on the appeal. We've spent about a hundred thousand
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dollars on this so far. And I know that's a huge amount of money, but there was so much cross
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examination. All the government experts took a lot of time. I'm sure an appeal will probably
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come close to $50,000 more. This is a civil liberties case though. So you'll get a charitable
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tax credit for anything you can chip in at NoCovidJails.com. So that's a plus. Thanks for your help.
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We have to do this because everyone else in society who's supposed to be doing this,
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they're not doing this. We have to fight for freedom.
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Welcome back. Well, the whole point of science is to test a hypothesis, run an experiment, see if the
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facts are in line with your theory. And if not, adjust your theory and test again. If you've got
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it right, are you sure you've got it right? If you're wrong, what can you learn from it? That's
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the process of all progress. And yet all those basic principles, in fact, the very root of the
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word science to observe, has been thrown out during the pandemic as the science has been treated more
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like religion or as I would call it, superstition. And yet the scientists have been so wrong so often
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on everything from masks to vaccines. Yesterday, one MP had a little summit in Ottawa with three experts,
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including people who have spent their lives in various related fields like immunology,
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criticizing the mainstream scientific narrative, a political narrative masquerading as science.
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The MP is Derek Sloan, and he had three people from the scientific medical community with him.
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Derek joins us now via Skype from Ottawa. Derek Sloan, great to see you. Thanks for being here.
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Did I accurately describe your summit yesterday of three scientific, I'm not even going to call
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them dissidents because they're just people asking questions with what scientists are supposed to do?
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Yeah, that's a good, good summary of it. It was a summit on censorship, scientific censorship.
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And oddly enough, right in the middle of our live stream, which was an official parliamentary press
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conference that was being broadcast on CPAC. We also did a Facebook Live to capture it as well.
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Facebook shut it down about halfway through, right in the middle of Dr. Bridal's presentation. So
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censorship is alive and well. And you're right, we're living in a time of sort of a medical priesthood
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where, you know, the people at the top, whether it's Dr. Tam or others, sort of tell us
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what the hidden knowledge is. And we just have to go along with it. But that's not how science really is.
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And I was proud to host these doctors yesterday.
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Yeah, I watched about half of it on YouTube live stream. And the whole time I was thinking,
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because we've been through YouTube censorship before. I mean, I understand Facebook censors.
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YouTube is just as bad. They have a whole list of things you're not allowed to say on YouTube,
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including about other remedies like hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. I just don't know enough about
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those alternative prescriptions, but they're not, they're not like wacky homemade things. They're,
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you know, long standing medicines used for other ailments. The fact that YouTube, a bunch of woke,
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you know, tech leftists are telling scientists and doctors what they can and cannot say,
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I find very odd. This does not apply to any other ailment. I can tell you, if you look at YouTube's
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rules, it only applies to COVID-19. You just can't talk about the most important subject in the world
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in a way they don't like. But here's the thing. As of right now, that entire press conference you had
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yesterday is still available on YouTube, on CPAC's channel. And it has about 140,000 views.
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So I wonder if YouTube is saying, well, maybe we're not going to censor an official press
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conference by a member of parliament in the parliament of Canada. I tell you, if that was
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on our channel, Derek, it would be taken down by now. I wonder what's going on there. And I'm not
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looking for them to censor it at all. I'm just sort of stunned that they haven't because they censor so
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many others. Well, I think it would be a red line for social media to actually censor a parliamentary
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process. I mean, CPAC is kind of our official, I mean, it's not owned by the government, but it's our,
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you know, our equivalent of C-SPAN, right? It does, it plays all official, you know, parliamentary
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proceedings in the House of Commons committees and otherwise. It would be, I believe YouTube is,
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you know, afraid of crossing that line. I mean, if they're censoring democratic processes in our
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House of Commons, I mean, that is, that is extreme beyond any measure.
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Well, I agree with you. However, as you just mentioned, Facebook just did it. And I am quite
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certain that there will be very little, if any, concern expressed by any authority on that, whether
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it's the Speaker of the House or anything. I don't know. Maybe there's a point of privilege in there
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for you. Why is Facebook censoring a, I mean, you have what's called parliamentary privilege. I mean,
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I know this was not in the chamber of the House of Commons, but it was on the precincts of the House
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of Commons. You have special privileges as an MP. You can, for example, stand up in parliament and
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defame someone. Not that you would, but that's legally protected. This is an emanation from parliament,
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official parliamentary event. And Facebook, based in California, just said, no, no, you can't hear
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from Canadians. You can't hear. What's that by, but foreign political meddling?
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Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, the censorship level is extreme. And, and, you know, in a,
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in a normal time, I'm sure I could ask for unanimous consent from the House to, to censor,
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uh, face, uh, censure, you know, C-E-N-S-U-R-E, uh, you know, Facebook for what they've done.
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Uh, my guess is if I tried to do that, I would not get unanimous consent.
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And, um, but listen, in normal times, there's all kinds of things we could do, uh, to address this,
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but instead the liberals are bringing forward the opposite types of things like Bill C-10.
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And, uh, you know, they're talking about hate speech legislation, uh, for online regulation.
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So the liberals are doing the opposite of what needs to be done. The censorship that we're
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seeing is right in front of our face and we need to act. Yeah. Well, I, I think that in,
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in your case in particular, I don't think you would find any assistance from the liberals or even
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from the conservatives who threw you out of the party on even more ridiculous grounds. Let me ask
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you this. We sent a reporter, Drea Humphrey, just outstanding, a young reporter from Vancouver. We
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flew in Ottawa for this and we sent a videographer, Catherine from Toronto. So we, we went to great
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lengths and went, you know, literally to great lengths to be there. Um, who else was there from
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the media? Because you're an MP, there's not a lot going on in Ottawa these days. You had three
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qualified experts talking about the issue of our time, talking about censorship, including at the
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hands of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I mean, again, I didn't watch the entire
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press conference, but from what I could see, there was a single question put on like a phone call to
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you and that's it. I haven't seen any coverage of it. Were there any media there?
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So basically no. Uh, so the CPAC of course is, is operated by the big television companies. So there
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were, there were some cameramen and so on from the big companies because they, they have to, you know,
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broadcast these types of things. Um, no, we, we were ghosted. There was, there was a question from,
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from, from, uh, from a reporter from a, from iPolitics.ca. I believe someone from the Western
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Standard reached out to us after the fact. Um, but no, uh, there was not mainstream media coverage.
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And in fact, Ezra, I'm thinking about doing a whistleblowers, uh, sort of summit for people in the media,
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because, uh, both Dr. Bridal and myself have been reached out to, uh, from some members of the media
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who say, listen, we'd like to be covering more of what you guys are doing, but our editorial boards
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are preventing it. I am going to be soon issuing a call to other members of the media to confidentially
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give me their information so we can do something similar that we did with the medical whistleblowers.
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Well, the thing about medical whistleblowers, I mean, if you're, for example, you have the associate
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professor of immunology, he's got some protection. In fact, he started his remarks yesterday by saying
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that his administration at least stood by him. He's got tenure. It's tough to dynamite out a
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tenured professor from university. I mean, they can be mean to him, but good luck firing a professor.
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Um, journalists are not the same. There's no such thing as tenure for a journalist.
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Journalists are sacked every day and no one cares. So I don't know if you'll find the same
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courageous journalists coming forward because they'll be fired immediately. Um, I want to get
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back to what Facebook did to you as, as I noted, and I'm not trying to jinx it. Um, CPACs, that's the,
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that's the cable company, the, the nonprofit, uh, consortium of for-profit cable companies
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that broadcast everything on Parliament Hill. I think I got that right. So they, they sort of broadcast
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anything, anyone, that's the job. Yes. And YouTube hasn't shut them down. Good. I don't want them to,
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but Facebook did. I think you've got to do so. I don't, I'm not telling you what to do. I just think
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you gotta, I think you've got to not let that pass. No one else will care about it. None of the other
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parties. Um, I think Facebook should be sensitive right now to its political meddling because the
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government is saying, Oh, don't worry about it. We're just going to regulate, we're just going
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to regulate social media, but we'll never misuse it to silence our opposition. Like Facebook turned
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off the feed of an opposition MP who is criticizing, you know, the government narrative. And how is that
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acceptable? I don't know. I don't know what tools you have at your disposal as an ordinary MP, but I
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just, I mean, I know what I could do if that was done to me, nothing, but maybe you can do something
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by virtue of your standing as an MP. Yeah. I really like what you're saying. And no, I'm not going to
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let this go. And I've been thinking of different ways to address it, maybe with a question in question
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period or some other, uh, you know, question to the speaker. Yeah. I think the speaker, I mean,
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I think the speaker, uh, should be appalled. I mean, he's a liberal obviously, but the speaker
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should be, uh, I think, I forget the name of the new speaker, um, should be appalled that any one
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of his MPs of any party is being silenced. The speaker represents the MPs. Absolutely. Yeah. No,
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I, you know what? I think there's, I mean, listen, this is a very big issue. If, if all of parliament
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wanted to do something about this, they could, uh, you know, with respect to the speaker, I'm going to
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look at some of my options. My guess is that they would say that, that Facebook is outside of the,
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the, the, the, the ambit of the house of commons. So, you know, if, if, um, you know, the, the
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privilege as he would see it is, is related to me being able to speak in the house of commons,
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whether or not social media, uh, you know, transmits that it would be outside of that
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immediate scope. But I will think about this and I will see what I can do to raise awareness on this
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issue because you're right. It's, it's really appalling. And it's not the first time we've seen
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this. I remember they, they censored a meeting that governor DeSantis had, but it wasn't,
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it wasn't in, uh, you know, the, the legislature. It was, it was a meeting of elected officials and
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appointed individual individuals discussing official business. But this was something on
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parliament Hill that was, uh, you know, an official press conference that was covered by CPAC and,
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uh, you know, Facebook shut it down halfway through now. It still is actually up in Facebook on two
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parts, but you're right. Uh, I've never had that happen before where they just, you know, we had
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thousands of people watching live and it just, the numbers just started going down and then it
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was zero and then it was off. Um, so very bizarre, never had that happen before. And I will do
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whatever I can to, uh, to continue raising awareness and, uh, and get some answers on this.
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You know, I mean, Facebook, they're odious. Mark Zuckerberg is a God complex, you know, all these
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tech giants, these oligarchs, they are what they are. But the fact that, I mean, you mentioned
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someone from iPolitics called and I called in to ask a question. I heard that and we had our people
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there. Um, I find that more troubling because at least in America, when you have a right wing or a
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left wing or a dissident or an unusual political character, they're covered by the media. Uh, the
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media might mock them. The media might attack them. But I think that the, uh, you use the word ghosting
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they, you know, the absolute pretending you don't exist. It's not like they're busy.
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There's nothing going on in Ottawa. They've had the laziest 18 months of their life.
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Um, they could have called in, they could have watched it on YouTube and called in. None of them
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did it. I think it's a form of de-platforming you. Just like when Maxime Bernier was arrested,
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there was either silence on that or cheering. I think there's something deeply wrong with our
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media party that, that they're, they are acting like liberal partisans and that they can't restrain
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their hatred towards conservative populist dissidents like you and Maxime Bernier. So they think,
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well, I could either attack him, but that gives him more oxygen. I'm just going to pretend he doesn't
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exist. I think that's a really, really broken media system that won't you. I mean, forget about
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you. You had three of the most interesting speakers I've heard on the pandemic completely cut off.
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Yeah, no, you're totally, you're totally right. And, uh, yeah, I mean, listen, um, the media is
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supposed to, uh, you know, uh, air, uh, you know, the non-mainstream views, right? Like, I mean,
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they're not supposed to just be a mouthpiece for the government. That's, I mean, that's a communist
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country, right? If the media is just a mouthpiece for the government and not actually, you know,
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holding them to account or, or, or airing things that are being brought up by people who are
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dissenting, I mean, they're not doing their job and it's clear that they're complicit. Uh, you know,
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I believe a lot of rank and file in media are, are starting to get frustrated by this. And hopefully,
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when I opened my whistleblowers forum for them, we can, we can find a way to address this more broadly.
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Yeah. Well, listen, I'm glad you did what you did yesterday. And I'm glad we sent our reporter
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from halfway across the world to come and be there. Uh, that's the length we went to cover it.
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Uh, the rest of the media party couldn't bother walking down the street. Derek Sloan, great to
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see you. Thanks for your time today. Absolutely. Talk to you soon. Right on. There you have it,
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Derek Sloan. Uh, by the way, at least until it's taken down, we will have the entire press conference
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embedded on our website from CPAC's own YouTube channel. I'm quite certain that if we were to upload it
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to our own YouTube channel, we would get what's called a strike. We would be suspended for two
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weeks, but we can embed on our website, CPAC's channel. And if they're shut down, it'll just
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leave a little hole on our website, but we won't be hurt. So check out the whole thing there. Stay with
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us more ahead. Hey, welcome back. I I'm disappointed that we lost in federal court today. I really
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thought we had a chance the way the hearing went, the government had so many terrible admissions.
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They, they really were on the back foot the whole time. I think this is a very political decision.
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Hopefully the federal court of appeal will apply the law as I think it ought to be
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strengthening our right to due process, strengthening our right to be free from
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arbitrary detention. And of course, same to the government, the quarantine act just simply
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doesn't allow you to do this, to imprison healthy people for three days, just because it just doesn't
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let you do that. So if you want to help us go to nocovidjails.com. Now, yesterday I talked at
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length about Andrew Neil. He's the excellent journalist at GBnews.uk. That's that new British
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news site. And I was talking about how he was fighting him back against cancel culture. And I
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was sort of leading up to it. But last night he did a five minute monologue on his response. He's so
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smart. Instead of describing it to you, let me show it to you in full. So I'm going to say goodbye now,
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but don't go away. Here's five minutes of Andrew Neil explaining how he's fighting against cancel
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Welcome back. Tonight, a Media Watch special. We ask companies boycotting GB News for peddling hate.
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Now, since GB News launched on Sunday night, our young and diverse team of reporters across the
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country have covered. Nissen's plans to invest more in Sunderland, regeneration of Skegness,
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whiskey production in Hoyk, pressures on the hospitality sector in Newcastle, the pollution charge
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in Birmingham, house building and brick house, flooding in Bedfordshire, Scotland's fan zone
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in Glasgow, the struggles of the wedding industry in Ipswich, COVID infection rates in Bolton,
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that's a hotspot, vaccinations in Abergavenny, the debate over Irish language lessons in Belfast,
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and of course, Wales's wonderful Euros win in Cardiff. Now, some of these stories you won't see on other
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news channels. All of them are important to the communities involved, and not a scintilla of hate
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in any of them. We've interviewed the Chancellor of the Exchequer, reported on growing anti-Semitism
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in London, and covered the country's many mental health problems. Again, not an iota of hate in sight.
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Indeed, the only hate this channel has broadcast was when we showed film of a BBC Newsnight reporter
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being attacked by a baying anti-lockdown mob, and we condemn that unreservedly.
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Yet a number of companies, some of them well-known brands, have decided to stop advertising
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on GB News. They've bowed to pressure from a fringe group called Stop Funding Hate,
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a misnomer if ever there was one. It's quite remarkable that serious, important executives
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in well-established companies can be so easily cowed. They've all taken the knee to stop funding
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hate. It's important that they, and you, realise to whom they are in thrall. SFH doesn't stand
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for a liberal, inclusive society. It's dominated by far-left agitators and cranks that push for
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advertiser boycotts of any media organisation with which it disagrees. Its default position is to
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smear anything it takes against as a peddler of hate. In GB News' case, SFH started rounding up
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the lynch mob four months before we'd even started broadcasting. So I don't think we're talking open
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minds here. If advertisers want to see real hate, they should have a look at the social media postings
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of SFH supporters. They smear and threaten businesses and people who won't do their bidding with words
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like vile, scum, toxic, and many more words that we can't repeat here tonight. Yet through fear or
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ignorance, some companies do as SFH bids. Woke nonsense has reached the boardroom, and corporate
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capitalism is becoming the useful idiot of bigots bent on censorship. Now, I understand that in some
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cases it was not the bosses of the brands that pulled their ads, but their advertising agencies.
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Fair enough. There's still time for you to have a word with your agencies, who work for you after
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all, and risk doing you huge harm. But all these brands should understand that this boycott business
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can play both ways. GB News viewers are incensed with advertisers who've taken against us for no
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reason. Many have written to these advertisers to tell them so. And our numbers, our viewers are
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growing for three nights in a row. This show has been the number one rated show in its time slot on
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any news channel available in the UK. And if you add our audiences, our friends, our allies, our
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sympathizers, together we can muster millions of supporters on social media. It's not a good idea to be on
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the wrong end of them. We will not go there. We have more important work to do. We want to provide
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a high quality news channel which reputable advertisers are proud to use and which delivers
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great results for them. So far, not a single example of hate has been given in evidence to
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justify the boycott of this channel. But this program issues a standing invitation to the bosses
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of any company or agency that thinks to the contrary, to come on air. We'll look at your
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examples. If you have them, we'll discuss them together. Our studio door is open. Because you're
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in the politics business now. And that's where you are when you succumb to political pressure.
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And then, like politicians, you have to be held to account. And that's tonight's Media Watch.