EZRA LEVANT ｜ German spy agency conceals truth on COVID lab leak... for five years
Summary
The German spy agency knew the coronavirus came from China as early as 2020, and kept it a secret for five years. Why? And why did they keep it secret? Ezra takes a break from the daily drama about tariffs and taxes to talk about a story out of Germany about how they knew the virus came from a lab leak in China.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. I'm going to take a bit of a break from talking about tariffs. I mean,
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that story never stops, but I saw a crazy story out of Germany that says their spy agency knew
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back in 2020 that the virus came from the lab leak in China. You weren't allowed to say that,
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but they knew it for five years. I'll go through that, and then we'll talk to
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Sam Cooper about the latest in Trudeau's awful, awful fundraising, friends. I'll get into it
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Tonight, the German spy agency knew the coronavirus came from China as early as 2020. So why did they
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keep it a secret? It's March 12th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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I'm going to take a bit of a break today from the daily drama over tariffs and taxes and all that.
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I've been appearing on several U.S. shows every day trying to push a different agenda,
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the U.S. and Canada getting closer, no tariffs, doing lots of business, being friends, not fighting
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in a quarrelsome way. Alas, it's apparently not in Mark Carney's interest or the mainstream media's
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interest. They see the value in fighting against Trump. I honestly don't think Trump realizes that
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the Canadian government is negotiating in bad faith, that the Canadian government has a moral
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hazard. The worse they can make things with Trump, the better their election chances are. I'm not sure
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if Trump knows that. Anyways, I was on Dave Rubin's show today. It's a big show. I taped Ann Coulter's
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show yesterday. That should be airing pretty soon. I'm, you know, doing as much Trump-adjacent
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media as I can. I'm actually recording Charlie Kirk's show, if you've heard of him. My goal is
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to get the ideas into Trump's circle. But let me talk about something else for today. I saw this
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story today in various German media outlets. I'm going to quote from the Deutsche Welle, which is the
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German state broadcaster, like their version of the CBC. Here's their story. Just so you know,
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when I say BND, that's the German spy agency, sort of like Germany's CIA. So here's the story.
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COVID pandemic likely unleashed by lab mishap, Germany's BND. Germany's spy agency thinks an
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accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media saying. Evidence it collected
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allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But that sort of hides the
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news. Or as we say, it buries the lead. Because it's not really news in 2025, five years after the
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crisis, to tell us this. What's actually the news here is not the facts about Wuhan. We already knew
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that. The news here is that the BND knew this five years ago and kept it secret. That is the news.
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Wouldn't you agree? Funny now, that's not in the headline. That's weird. It's very CBC-ish of them
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to hide that from the headline. I'll read some more. Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND,
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concluded that the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic in 2020 could well have
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been triggered by an accident at a Chinese laboratory that does virus research, German media reported on
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Wednesday. According to reports in the German papers Suddeutsche Zeitung and Zeit, the BND based
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its conclusion on the analysis of material from the public domain and that it collected in the course
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of an investigation with the codename Saarema. The material, some of which came from the Wuhan
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Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese cities where the pandemic is believed to have started,
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indicated that there had been some risky research methods used there, compounded by breaches of public
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safety rules. The report said, the paper said there was evidence that Wuhan researchers carried out
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so-called gain-of-function experiments in which viruses occurring in nature are manipulated. Such
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research can cause changes in the way a virus causes illness, its transmissibility, and the types of
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hosts it can infect. There were also indications there had been numerous violations of safety
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regulations at the lab according to the reports. So there it is. Gain of function. You know what that
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phrase means, right? It's when scientists on purpose try to mutate and weaponize viruses to make them worse,
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to make them into weapons, into deadly, deadlier than they are. Let me read some more.
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The BND reached its conclusions as early as 2020. The paper said, giving them a likelihood rating of 80% to 95%,
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but the assessment was kept from the public at the time. Yeah, you don't say. Now you don't get any more certain than
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80% to 95% about anything in life, do you? Especially about something complex like a pandemic.
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they kept this a secret for years, not just a secret. The government
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They buried the truth, but that wasn't all they did. They said the lie,
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knowing it was a lie, and we're only finding out now that they knew it was a lie.
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Now we're just finding out that the government knew the truth and lied to us and tried to
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gaslight us, as they say. Here's Deutsche Welle reporting that the FBI knew the truth, too.
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They stopped keeping quiet about it in 2023, again, once the worst was over. And the CIA
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admitted the same thing this January. The CIA says lab leak most likely source of COVID outbreak,
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of course. But for years, not only were you mocked by every establishment journalist and denounced by
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every public health expert and politician, but you were positively banned from publishing online that
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COVID was a Chinese bioweapon. If you said that on YouTube, you would violate their community
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guidelines and you could have your video canceled, your whole account could be struck. Same in Facebook,
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same in every social media. You weren't even allowed, you know, I remember my book, China
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Virus, it was suspended because it contradicted officials. What does that mean? If you said that
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this was a Chinese bioweapon, you would be positively silenced. Now, these German and American spy agencies
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are not quite saying that it was a bioweapon. They don't use that word, but they're saying,
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using other words, they're saying it was a Chinese government lab that specialized in gain of
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function. That's a bioweapon. So for years, you were not just mocked for speaking the truth, but
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more than that, you were punished for saying the truth. And yet the government knew the whole time
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that it was true. That's the meaning of today's German news. Their spy agency knew within weeks.
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So never let them ever tell you what is true or not. Never let them have the conceit that they are
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the arbiters of truth or not. That they have moral superiority over you. That they're better at
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figuring out the world than you and your ability to divine what is true or not. And the worst of all
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are those so-called fact checkers. Many of them with government contracts to silence dissidents.
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Never trust them. Never forget what they did. Many of them are still in power. Many of them still
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want to use that power over you. They're trying to silence you and censor you. Even now, do not forget that.
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You know, there's a saying, you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested
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in you. And I love that because it suggests that you are going to be involved one way or the other.
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Do you want to be active or passive? And I think that applies, especially with foreign interference.
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You may not want to think about what Iran is doing here in Canada or what the People's Republic of
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China is doing. Or for that matter, other powers, both friendly and not so friendly. But Canada is a
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prize to be won economically, politically, in terms of our resources. I mean, it pains us to quarrel with
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our American cousins, but that shows that something valuable is here. And I mention that because,
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as you heard me say the other day, I don't know if we were on guard enough for Chinese interest in the
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liberal leadership race. There's a lot of news about China. And of course, we certainly don't want to
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make the mistake of confusing a Chinese Canadian who is a loyal Canadian citizen who's just ethnically
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Chinese or comes from China with an agent of the People's Republic of China. In fact, sometimes, as we've seen,
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that the greatest democratic activists, the pro-Canada activists in Canada that are targeted
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by the People's Republic of China are Chinese Canadians themselves. So we have to be careful,
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we have to be thoughtful, but we have to be on guard. And someone who studies foreign interference
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in Canada from China, Iran, and others is our special guest today. What a pleasure to have him come
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back on the show. I'm talking about Sam Cooper, who is the journalist behind the investigative news site,
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thebureau.news. And it really is a must-visit website. I don't say that about a lot of websites.
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I say that about Black Locks, the Ottawa-based research journalists. And I say that about our
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guest today. Sam Cooper, great to see you again. Thanks for joining us.
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Sam, I want to ask you one question about the liberal leadership race, and I just alluded to it.
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What was so interesting in the leadership race is that Mark Carney, who I don't think a lot of
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Canadians know very well. I mean, he was the head of our Bank of Canada, but that was decades ago.
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And he's spent a lot of time overseas in London and New York. And we've never seen him in the House
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of Commons because he's never been elected. And suddenly this guy goes from a private individual
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who I don't even know how strong his connections are to Canada, to be frank.
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And he's catapulted to prime minister all in an internal process by the Liberal Party that is done
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online. It wasn't ballot boxes with paper and pencils and scrutineers. It was just done online.
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And as we said in our program a few days ago, 400,000 people registered to vote, but only 150,000
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were qualified to vote. And I just can't stop thinking, Sam, that that process could have been
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susceptible to Chinese or Iranian or other influence. Imagine choosing a prime minister.
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Forget about 11 backbench MPs. A prime minister. Sam, what do you think? And I know that we're in
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the realm of speculation, so we don't want to go too far. But this thing has question marks all over,
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at least to me. What do you think? Take it away. I would agree with you. Absolutely. I can break
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down about three points. I mean, first of all, your concern that a prime minister could be chosen
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effectively through foreign interference or at least significant influence, that came up in the
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Hogue Commission. That came up in the testimony of MP Michael Chan. And in fact, I have the documents.
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They didn't all, you know, they didn't all come out at the Hogue Commission, everything I know.
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But documents did say that leadership campaigns are very susceptible to foreign interference. And
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that is because the rules around leadership campaigns are not as rigorous. You don't have
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Elections Canada overseeing it. It's up to the parties. And Ezra, you know, I know you saw,
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as I did and many others noticed. There were two candidates rejected by the Liberal Party. We don't
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exactly know why, but there were strong suggestions that potentially India or other nations could have
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been interested in those candidates. Those candidates certainly didn't seem to agree. But what else mounted
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was that it was overtly recognized, I suppose, due to my work that put the spotlight on Canada's
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election threat monitor, they disclosed that Chrystia Freeland was the target of significant
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disinformation or cyber attacks, rather reputational attacks on WeChat, which, as you know, was the
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very same vector used to attack conservative MP Kenny Chu. And I said to you before, as I've said to
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others, I, you know, why was Chrystia Freeland attacked? She took some very strong regulatory
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measures against a bank that is connected allegedly to Chinese individuals related to the Chinese
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state and money laundering. And Mark Carney, he wasn't attacked. And I, in my own open source
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research, have recognized that he appears to be quite a favorite in Chinese media. So you have Chrystia
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Freeland attacked in a Chinese media sort of vector. Mark Carney appears to be very supported. So
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that tells you, where did those 200 or 300,000 extra membership votes go? That's a very live
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question. I think we need to know more. Yeah. And there may be a perfectly legitimate
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explanation. It might actually be an excellent explanation. Maybe they encountered some foreign
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source who was a foreign computer trying to meddle. We should know about that. So maybe it was a success
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to keep out 200,000 plus voters. But if we don't know anything about it, I think all we can do is
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fill in the gaps with our own imagination. And as you say, it's not pure speculation because we know
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from the past what has happened. And if China would go to the lengths they did to knock out individual
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MPs or to install individual MPs, well, the prime minister is the greatest prize of all. I want to throw
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one more thing at you. And again, we're in the realm of speculation because we don't have the
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inside information. I looked at the results district by district. The Liberal Party was kind
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enough to put meticulous data on their website, every single vote, all 150,000 of them. And then
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they did the percentages. And I started going through it and I saw, wow, almost every district has not the
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exact number of votes, but the percentage was, it didn't deviate much. What I'm saying is Mark Carney
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got around 86% in every single district, in the north, in the south, in the east, in the west, in
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French Canada, in English Canada, in the rural parts, in the urban parts. And obviously not the exact same
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number, but it was astonishing to me. There was no variation. There was one riding, you know, where I think
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he got a low of 75% and one where he was in the 90s. But everything, the bandwidth was so narrow.
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And I thought, what are the odds of that? And then I looked at Chrystia Freeland's own district. And you'd
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think if there would be any place in the country where she would do well, it would be in her own
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district. Only 188 votes for her in her home riding. Same with Karina Gould. Only 190 votes. I'm not
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talking percent. I'm talking total votes. And I tell you, Sam, I sound like I'm hollering into the
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wind like a crazy person. I know it might sound that way. But one of the problems is I think you
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would probably need Karina Gould or Chrystia Freeland to complain about it for any facts to come out.
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Because I have no standing. You have no standing. Like you said, this is an internal party vote.
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So it's not like Elections Canada could take a look. I feel like, and again, there may be perfectly
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reasonable explanations for why Chrystia Freeland, after 10 years in politics, only got 180 votes in
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her hometown. But boy, I mean, I tried to use AI to do some statistical analysis. And I'm not a
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mathematician or statistician. But the answer I got on AI was that the results in Chrystia Freeland's
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riding, well, I'll just say it, Grok, which I really put through the paces, that's an AI engine,
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said it was a 2.7% chance that those numbers were the way they are. And they had the different
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factors in there. Sam, I won't go on this tangent any longer, because we don't know the facts. I just
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feel we sure need some reassurance here. I just feel like I've watched a bank robbery,
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and no one rang the alarm, Sam. Well, I mean, that's some great data parsing. I haven't taken
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that step myself. But if you see probabilistically, if you see, you know, the same percentages upwards
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of 80 across the board, as you're saying, and I was struck by the lowness of Ms. Freeland's
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overall totals. She's the one with years of experience and the name in politics. And on the
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other hand, I'm just looking, you know, a pattern recognition, putting together Mr. Carney, as you
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said, coming out of nowhere, with, of course, a great global reputation. But put that together
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with the facts that it seemed that the Justin Trudeau's top aides just coagulated around Mr. Carney,
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and it seemed ushered him towards that leadership. So you do, you know, with my investigative mind,
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there are questions worth raising there. And those data points you raise, that only increases
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sort of the, you know, the spidey sense is tingling a little bit, I'd say.
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What I liked about the Grok response to me, that's that AI engine, is that it said, by the way,
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there may be liberals who were punishing her for sort of detonating Justin Trudeau. And, you know,
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maybe there was a bandwagon effect. So they, I felt like the AI was actually quite reasonable,
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more reasonable than me, because I'm, I'm a bit of a critic. Anyways, I won't spend more time on
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that subject. And I thank you for engaging with it. I think we're both a little bit in the dark,
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because unless one of the four candidates were to make a fuss about it, I don't think the Liberal
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Party would look into it. Can I add one more thing? Just you're, you're triggering something
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in my mind, and others have raised it. There was a lot of, you know, mysteriousness around how it
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appeared. Mark Carney had taken Chrystia Freeland's job, and it appeared even Mr. Trudeau himself was
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stunned and shocked when, when that didn't happen. And then another set of events happened. Some have
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commented, it looked like Mr. Trudeau in his speech, I think, in front of Rio Cottage, had the face of a
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man that was betrayed. So I, again, I don't want to get into speculation. What I'm suggesting is there's
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a lot of interesting pieces moving around. I do think it warrants certainly more investigative
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probing or more commentary that we'd hear, that, than we'd hear out of the usual Ottawa
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politicos. Yeah, it felt like an inside job. I mean, and remember, and I'm thinking again to the
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case of Handong, where you had foreign nationals bust in, the Liberal Party rules, they quote,
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tighten them up a bit, but even under their Titan rules, foreign nationals with permanent
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residents were allowed to vote, and people as young as 14 years old. I mean, there's a lot of
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questions there, but because we only have questions and no answers, I think it's best we, we move on to
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your huge scoop, which I want to get to. But thanks very much for letting me bounce some ideas off you on
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that. I just, I just can't get over how, it felt like I was watching someone flip a coin and get
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heads a hundred times in a row. And I felt like saying that, that's not natural. And, and I don't
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know, I feel like I'm shouting into the wind, but here, but let me get, let me switch gears. I thank
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you for talking to me about those. And, and I think we both have to acknowledge we only have
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a little bit of information. There may be a perfectly good explanation behind it, but I just,
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I don't feel like giving the liberal party the benefit of the doubt. Let me, let me move on to
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you, to your big scoop, and I've got it in my hand here, and folks can read this on your website,
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thebureau.news. Headline, exclusive Chinese narco suspect caught in private meeting with Trudeau,
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investigated by the DEA, that's the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, linked to Panama, Caribbean,
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Mexico, says police sources. And I'm just going to read the first sentence, and then I'd love it if
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you took it away. Shocking new details are emerging about a major Chinese organized crime suspect
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who met privately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a police source who
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confirmed recent reporting from the Globe and Mail. The individual, Paul King Jin, is allegedly
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implicated in money laundering operations spanning the Western Hemisphere, and has been a target of
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multiple failed major investigations in B.C. Sort of incredible that we're only hearing about this
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now that Trudeau's gone. What do you think, Sam?
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Well, I mean, it is incredible that we're only hearing that detail after Mr. Trudeau was at the
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door or out the door. But Ezra, you know, that type of meeting was the subject of my book,
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Willful Blindness, published in 2021. And so I was, you know, I would say the journalistic subject matter
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expert on the poster boy of Chinese fentanyl money laundering networks, Mr. Paul King Jin,
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this alleged narco that I didn't know was captured in RCMP surveillance in a private meeting with Mr.
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Trudeau. However, that's a great detail. Kudos to the Globe and Mail for picking that up. And so I built
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upon that story. I went back to a source and said, yes, indeed, they were aware that this surveillance
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found Mr. Trudeau there. But what I did know, Ezra, was that I have reported for years that
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another individual in that private meeting is a senior former People's Liberation Army official.
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I know you know something about PLA officers coming to Canada and the concerns that raises.
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Well, look, even if you're a former PLA officer, CSIS will track you in Canada, the RCMP will track
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you. And so I knew that this extremely powerful, wealthy PLA veteran is believed, and I'm not going
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to name the name the name in this broadcast, but is believed by Canadian police intelligence to be
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involved in sort of security networks tied to Beijing that are involved in interoperability with Chinese
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organized crime. And again, let's focus on Mr. Jin. My information, which I added in this story, is that
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he's a frequent flyer. He's going down to Mexico. He's going down to Panama, which, as you know,
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Panama is of great concern to the U.S. government for Chinese influence, alleged Chinese illicit
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financial activity. This man, Paul King Jin, involved in alleged human trafficking, sexual
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prostitution, you know, activities in a hotel in Richmond, not specifically this hotel. But what I
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want to say is, again, let's talk about the questions surrounding a proven fact that Mr. Trudeau,
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for a reason that we don't know, is in a private conference room with what Canadian and U.S. law
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enforcement believe is an extremely important figure in Western Hemisphere money laundering,
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drug fentanyl, commodities trading, and that there are other apparently very politically connected
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individuals in that room. And so what did, why was Mr. Trudeau there? I've never heard, you know,
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when I, I'll tell you this, I asked previously the Prime Minister's office why this People's Liberation
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Army veteran who was in that room with Mr. Jin and Mr. Trudeau donated to Justin Trudeau. And all I got
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back was what I would call boilerplate, the PMO saying, we follow all Elections Canada donation rules.
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Yeah. Boy, you know, it's, there's so many things that I, it's interesting that this is only coming
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out now. I wonder what else will come out and what else will never come out. I feel like the RCMP
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had a lack of curiosity during Trudeau's term. I mean, a few things come to mind, for example,
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the SNC-Lavalin matter, where they put so much pressure on the Justice Minister of the day,
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Jody Wilson-Raybould not to prosecute their buddies at SNC-Lavalin that she quit over it or she was
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fired. And we never heard from the RCMP on that or a half dozen other similar matters where the RCMP
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just sort of shrugged. And, and again, that may be because there was no fire under that smoke. But I,
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I just feel like maybe we don't have the same checks and balances that they do in the U.S.,
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for example. I, I don't know. I'm, and I don't want to just be speaking through my partisanship
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because I'm obviously a critic of Trudeau. So it's not like I want all my enemies to be
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investigated and all my friends not to be. But boy, what you talk about here, I suppose there's
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nothing wrong with a meeting. And if the election donation laws were followed, I suppose that's
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fine. But my God, it stinks, doesn't it? Holy mackerel.
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It stinks a lot. And Ezra, I can tell you, because I have the capacity to talk to law enforcement
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experts in Canada and the United States at a high level. Look, again, I'm, I'm not specifically a
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critic of Mr. Trudeau, but I can tell you with a hundred percent confidence, my sources, and I've
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now quoted them, say that the, there are more than one meetings of Mr. Trudeau with known Chinese
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organized crime suspects. And these come in the context of political donations meetings.
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Paraphrasing from memory, one of the quotes in my recent stories, a Canadian policing expert said,
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look, he is not, or they are not accusing Mr. Trudeau of corruption, but we would have to be
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naive to, to think that people of extreme wealth, so in the billion dollar range and connected to
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Chinese organized crime would not be seeking influence with a Canadian leader. So why do these
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meetings continue? And Ezra, I'll tell you one more thing. Look, two data points. Again, one of my
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sources in a recent story said there was a Fintrack study, you know, Fintrack, the Canadian financial
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watchdog, 900 million transacted from a Hong Kong currency exchange into Canadian banks. And they,
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that is my police sources knew a number of suspects involved were seen in meetings with Mr. Trudeau.
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Again, these are suspects that are related to China. They are related to CSIS investigations,
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RCMP organized crime investigations. And my last point is, again, in that Hogue commission,
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where some things much like a whale, maybe they, they touched the surface, but we don't see the
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whole thing. The RCMP admitted for some reason, they, we heard about a money laundering investigation,
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which was believed to connect to Chinese state activity. The RCMP said they didn't pursue it because
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essentially there are so many money laundering networks and, and, and investigations. Their
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answer was they didn't think they'd make an impact looking into it, which again, if we're talking about,
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you know, that doesn't prove anything, but it looks a little bit smoky in, in my view.
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Yeah. You know, I, I just compare the reaction by the Canadian government to China putting a 100%
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tariff on Canadian canola. I don't hear any squawking, let alone countervailing tariffs. And I,
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and I think over the years, Canada has been pretty lenient on China, even when they had two Canadian
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hostages. I don't know. I, and I, I just, I feel like foreign influence in this country, as I started
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the show, I mean, you may not think about it, but it sure thinks about you. And I'm glad you're out
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there, Sam. And I want to thank you for spending the time and thanks for letting me throw you the
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curve ball of those election results. I just, I'm running them through my brain and I just can't
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make sense of them. And I'm, and I'm glad that you weighed in as far as you could. Sam, thank you for
00:29:28.460
joining us, folks. If you're not reading it, you got to, you got to start going to thebureau.news.
00:29:34.940
You will see some of Sam's work percolate into the mainstream. So I'm glad that he has
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the ear of, of, of a lot of people, but I think it behooves you to brief yourself on what he's up
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to in his investigations. And we're so grateful to you, Sam. Thanks for taking the time.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me on Doug Ford and the tariff war. Jesus Christ 7120,
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Premiers have no authority to impose any tariffs on a sovereign country. Their jurisdiction is only
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provincial. What the heck is going on in Canada these days? High taxes, provincial trade,
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bans, no job opportunities, back and forth with America. Yeah, I don't like it one bit. Obviously,
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I don't want Canada being roughed up by anyone, including Donald Trump. But boy, oh boy, is the
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Canadian side so obviously just trying to make a big fight out of this. John Douglas says,
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No thanks for Ford telling Alberta what to do. As a politician, he's doing a terrible job.
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Yeah, could you imagine if Alberta said, Hey, Ontario, take one for the team. And to punish America,
00:30:53.240
don't sell them any cars or some weird thing like that, it would just be so outrageous. But then
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again, have you seen any media or government or establishment people call out China for their
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100% tariffs on Canadian canola? John Doe says, The real reason is why is Parliament still prorogued?
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Do the Liberals need the Conservative premiers to do their job for them? Or is the trade war not
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important enough for Carney because they're still trying to figure out how to remove the carbon
00:31:18.820
rebate while increasing the carbon price on 10 out of 10 households? Yeah. You know what,
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we are in a democratic lacuna, if I'm using that word right. It's so funny how the left accuses the
00:31:31.860
right, including Donald Trump, including, you know, any conservative premier or prime minister being
00:31:36.260
fascist and anti-democratic. We are existing in a democratic nullity. Our parliament has been
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dissolved. It has not been recalled. I do not trust the method by which Mark Carney was selected. I want
00:31:50.320
to know where the quarter million rejected votes are. And I'm sorry, I don't believe the statistical
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likelihood of Mark Carney getting pretty much the same vote in every single district, French or English,
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North or South, rural or urban, you know, right wing, left wing, whatever, including in the riding of
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University of Rose Hill. I'm sorry, I don't like Chrystia Freeland much, but I do not believe that after 10 years in
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politics, she only got 188 votes in her entire district over over 100,000 people. I don't believe
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that. And I don't think you do too. But that is the democracy we're in. Mark Carney was just
00:32:25.940
installed. He was just selected, injected. It is a soft coup, certainly not democratic. And the fact
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that they haven't recalled parliament is even worse. My friends, that's the show for tonight. Until
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tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night. And keep fighting