Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Here comes the rematch in the battle between Trudeau and the truckers

00:00:00.400 Hello, my Rebels. I want to tell you that the trucker convoy debate is coming back.

00:00:05.180 The media is trying to defame the truckers, of course, and they see an opportunity, the upcoming

00:00:09.880 commission of inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act. I want to tell you a little

00:00:15.480 bit about that act and our plans for how we're going to cover it. That's on today's podcast.

00:00:21.060 Before I get to that, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.

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00:00:54.200 we don't take a dime from Trudeau, and it shows. That's all at rebelnewsplus.com. All right, here's

00:00:59.540 today's podcast. Tonight, here comes the rematch in the battle between Trudeau and the truckers.

00:01:21.020 It's August 8th. This is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:38.220 The trucker convoy in February was the most important political moment in Canada in decades.

00:01:45.280 In my mind, it rivals, it exceeds perhaps, for those of you who are old enough to remember it,

00:01:52.740 the people of Canada voting down the Charlottetown Accord, which was put to a national referendum.

00:01:58.400 That was a constitutional deal that every major political party, every major media outlet,

00:02:04.260 every major bank and corporation, every fancy person said we had to do.

00:02:08.880 But the people said no in a referendum. That was about 30 years ago.

00:02:15.960 The reason I make that comparison is that the unanimity in Canada in regards to the pandemic

00:02:20.600 and the lockdowns was total amongst the ruling classes. That's why the first thing to break

00:02:25.660 under the pressure of the convoy was the leader of the conservative opposition, Aaron O'Toole. But

00:02:30.220 all three words there were counterfeit. He didn't lead.

00:02:33.740 He wasn't conservative and he did not oppose. The truckers showed leadership. I wouldn't

00:02:39.440 necessarily call them conservative, but rather concerned with civil liberties and personal

00:02:43.760 freedom and limited government. That could include true classical liberals, libertarians,

00:02:49.280 anyone concerned about bodily autonomy and privacy and opposing opposition. Well, that was the main

00:02:55.760 point, wasn't it? The truckers broke the national spell so many had been under. Truckers were

00:03:03.500 proof that no, we didn't all agree to the madness. And there were so many of them, not just in Ottawa

00:03:09.460 and Windsor and Coots, Alberta, but along the highways cheering them on. It was a reminder that

00:03:14.700 the media and politicians, the political media industrial complex had created a false consciousness

00:03:20.340 where everyone pretended to agree because everyone thought everyone else agreed. So they were

00:03:26.720 bullied into silence. The truckers broke the fever. I truly believe Rebel News had a part in that. We

00:03:34.240 were the honest chroniclers of that story. We had our chief videographer, Mocha, embedded in that

00:03:41.000 convoy as early as Calgary and traveled with it to Ottawa. We covered it in Coots. In fact, we holed up with

00:03:47.980 them for weeks as they had a standoff with Trudeau's RCMP at the border crossing between Alberta and

00:03:53.740 Montana. And of course, we absolutely dominated the media coverage of the main event in Ottawa.

00:03:59.920 Two of our newer reporters, Lincoln Jay and Alexa Lavoie, covered it on the ground for more than three 0.77

00:04:05.700 weeks straight without a day off. They knew that they were recording history. While the CBC and CTV and

00:04:12.200 Global News and the bailout newspapers hid from the big bad mean truckers, we talked to them,

00:04:17.920 interviewed them, showed them, showed what was really happening. And permit me to share with you

00:04:22.920 my one minute presentation to the truckers. I was asked by them out of the blue to speak. I didn't

00:04:27.900 really want to take over their stage, but I did say a few words. And in retrospect, I'm so glad I did.

00:04:34.180 And I really was honored to be asked to be on that stage and to be received as warmly as I was. It

00:04:39.100 really was a personal highlight for me. So permit me to share it.

00:04:43.100 Everybody recognize this guy?

00:04:47.440 Does anybody know the name Ezra Levant?

00:04:53.060 Does anybody know the name Ezra Levant?

00:04:59.160 Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Ezra Levant of Rebel News.

00:05:04.580 Thank you very much.

00:05:06.700 Hello, everybody.

00:05:09.100 It is cold today.

00:05:11.320 It is cold today.

00:05:13.220 Almost as cold as Justin Trudeau's heart.

00:05:18.280 It's great to be here.

00:05:20.480 And on behalf of Rebel News, I salute you.

00:05:24.040 And I say keep speaking truth to power.

00:05:27.100 But I want to tell you what excites me the most about this crowd.

00:05:30.840 I see a lot of cameras.

00:05:33.240 A lot of independent journalists.

00:05:35.160 Because when people say, what do we do about the media, I say you become the media.

00:05:41.500 That's what you do.

00:05:42.500 The media acts like a party.

00:05:48.120 The media party.

00:05:49.720 It's a subsidiary of the liberal party.

00:05:53.060 So you've got to tell the story yourselves.

00:05:55.860 Everyone who is here, everyone who is along the road, has to bear witness and testify to what they saw.

00:06:04.340 Because there's two competing narratives.

00:06:06.960 The government says you're racist.

00:06:10.480 The government says you're sexist. 0.98

00:06:12.760 The government says you're violent.

00:06:14.100 In the meantime, I've never seen a more diverse group of Canadians.

00:06:20.100 But far from violence, people want to not be violated anymore.

00:06:29.500 Justin Trudeau says you're extreme.

00:06:32.200 But he's the one who has violated our civil rights.

00:06:36.880 He says you're a fringe. 0.64

00:06:39.700 Well, that's a pretty bloody big fringe. 0.96

00:06:44.660 Boy, it was cold.

00:06:46.180 It was wonderful.

00:06:47.100 And it was brutal.

00:06:47.920 It went from a festival atmosphere to a Banana Republic-style crackdown.

00:06:53.140 For God's sakes, they shot our reporter, Alexa. 1.00

00:06:56.260 You just fight and throw this.

00:06:59.860 You just fight and throw this.

00:07:01.160 Oh! 0.60

00:07:03.900 Ow! 1.00

00:07:05.160 Ow! 1.00

00:07:07.720 There you go.

00:07:10.660 You all right?

00:07:11.380 You got shots.

00:07:14.120 Take care.

00:07:15.020 Bring her out. 1.00

00:07:15.620 Bring her out. 1.00

00:07:16.140 Come on.

00:07:17.200 Oh, my God.

00:07:17.920 No!

00:07:21.700 Trudeau did that.

00:07:22.820 And he seized hundreds of bank accounts of his political enemies.

00:07:26.460 And he arrested his political enemies in the style of Hugo Chavez or Vladimir Putin.

00:07:32.620 And in the end, he went full tin pot dictator.

00:07:36.100 He went full Fidel Castro.

00:07:37.520 He invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act, bringing in a form of martial law.

00:07:42.740 And he even desecrated the image of the Mounties.

00:07:45.760 And they were happy to go along with it.

00:07:47.820 Mounted police stomping on peaceful protesters.

00:07:51.020 A disgraceful image that flashed around the world. 0.95

00:07:53.980 The whole world saw what a petty little, violent little, thin-skinned little dictator he is. 0.95

00:08:00.400 What a small man Trudeau is.

00:08:03.520 But we made a difference.

00:08:04.760 We really did.

00:08:05.340 I know this because 400 million people saw our stories on YouTube, Rumble, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the other mediums that were on.

00:08:13.780 It was equal to our entire viewership for the whole year, 2021, in one single month.

00:08:18.400 The CBC's average monthly online reaches about 320 million.

00:08:22.280 So we were actually, for that story, even larger.

00:08:25.760 Which is why Trudeau failed.

00:08:27.480 And the truckers won.

00:08:28.400 Trudeau and his media shills tried to paint them as violent, as insurrectionists.

00:08:32.440 They tried to borrow the U.S. narrative of a violent uprising on January 6th.

00:08:38.240 Instead, the only violence was at Trudeau's hands, despite several media hoaxes and even outright propaganda like this classic.

00:08:44.960 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia,

00:08:52.700 I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows,

00:09:03.720 but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:09:06.160 That's the CBC.

00:09:09.940 She got a promotion.

00:09:12.060 So it was a huge win for the truckers.

00:09:13.700 It broke the fever and marked the beginning of the end for many vaccine mandates.

00:09:17.300 And most importantly, it knocked out the fake conservative opposition leader who was not conservative,

00:09:22.780 did not oppose, and did not lead.

00:09:25.000 I think it had paternity over Jason Kenney being thrown out, too.

00:09:28.780 It woke us up, and Trudeau's overreaction, stomping on us with horses, slandering us all as racists and whatever he says,

00:09:37.200 it just looked so desperate and so obviously untrue to so many Canadians.

00:09:40.600 His bullying of Tamara Leach, the Métis grandma, who was thrown in prison for almost two full months while awaiting a minor mischief charge,

00:09:48.480 that didn't turn her into an odious outcast. 0.85

00:09:51.580 It made her a hero, a martyr.

00:09:53.300 It showed her true colors and Trudeau's true colors.

00:09:56.320 And as I'll tell you later in the show, we went to Geneva, Switzerland today to file a human rights complaint against Trudeau and his thugs at the UN Human Rights Council.

00:10:06.060 Air Canada is saying that they had canceled my flight and then rebooked my flight.

00:10:16.860 Initially, I was to take a 6 a.m. flight from Edmonton to Montreal, where I would have an eight-hour layover.

00:10:25.020 Before I headed to Geneva and in Montreal, I would catch up to Sarah Miller, who was flying in from Calgary.

00:10:31.900 We took the cheapest flights, obviously.

00:10:34.020 But instead, a last-minute cancellation, delayed my flight by half an hour, and I'm being sent from Edmonton to Vancouver, where I will have a little bit of a layover.

00:10:44.840 And then from Vancouver, I will go all the way to Montreal, where I will have another layover.

00:10:52.180 I will catch up to Sarah Miller, and then we will take the red-eye to Geneva.

00:10:56.420 When we get to Geneva, we'll quickly head to our hotel, throw off whatever luggage we have.

00:11:02.000 I really don't have all that much.

00:11:03.380 And then we're going to head to the United Nations to hand-deliver our complaint, and maybe, maybe, the UN might do something.

00:11:18.760 Sheila Gunn-Reed for Rebel News, and I'm here in Geneva, Switzerland today.

00:11:22.560 Actually, I'm right in front of the United Nations complex.

00:11:26.180 That's those buildings right behind me.

00:11:29.100 Now, why?

00:11:29.820 Why am I here?

00:11:31.340 Well, I'm here because of all of your help and all of your donations to humanrightscomplaint.com.

00:11:37.800 Because of your donations, we were able to have one of the best human rights lawyers in the entire country of Canada,

00:11:43.600 Sarah Miller, meticulously draft a formal complaint detailing the human rights abuses happening in Canada

00:11:50.980 under the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

00:11:55.100 We've seen arbitrary arrests and detentions of peaceful protesters.

00:11:59.980 We've seen pastors arrested multiple times, churches seized, journalists assaulted, just trying to do their job,

00:12:06.860 and banking denied.

00:12:08.560 It's all in our complaint.

00:12:10.900 Now, I'm a United Nations skeptic, too.

00:12:12.940 I don't trust them, but I also don't trust Trudeau.

00:12:16.940 And someone has to do something.

00:12:19.680 The UN routinely speaks up when Russia or Cuba or Venezuela cracks down on political dissidents.

00:12:26.500 The UN should speak up this time, too, even if it is Justin Trudeau.

00:12:31.360 Now, some of you might know Sarah Miller as Pastor Art Poloski's longtime lawyer.

00:12:35.800 She recently secured a major victory for him at the Alberta Court of Appeal,

00:12:40.560 where she was able to have the contempt findings against Pastor Art completely tossed out. 0.62

00:12:47.420 Go! And don't come back without a warrant.

00:12:50.260 Out, Nazi! Out! Out! 0.99

00:12:54.580 Sarah Miller, I said it before, I'll say it again, she's one of the best in the country. 0.81

00:12:59.020 She flew here with me to present our formal complaints and all of her supporting materials.

00:13:04.720 This is important, and we don't want this to be ignored.

00:13:08.280 That's why we came in first.

00:13:09.620 And I've personally had about 24 hours of travel time just to get here today.

00:13:14.280 We grabbed the cheapest flights that we could find.

00:13:17.240 We're going to deliver our complaints, and then I'm headed right back home.

00:13:20.860 Now, maybe the UN acts, maybe it doesn't.

00:13:23.500 But we can at least say that we did something when nobody else was.

00:13:28.760 By the way, did you know the UN has a special rapporteur for human rights defenders,

00:13:33.920 and that person has a special focus on gender?

00:13:37.380 Maybe she would be surprised to hear about the treatment of Tamara Leach, 0.99

00:13:42.060 the peaceful Métis grandma who was recently held for 49 days on minor mischief charges

00:13:48.380 because she protested Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, her nation's capital.

00:13:53.820 Now, to support this very important trip, please visit humanrightscomplaint.com.

00:14:00.020 And thanks again to everybody who's already made this important work possible.

00:14:04.680 For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:14:07.020 More with Sheila later in the show.

00:14:09.340 So that was a huge victory in February.

00:14:13.540 But Trudeau's trying to undo it.

00:14:15.360 He's trying to revise history.

00:14:17.060 Look at this pack of lies in the Trudeau state broadcaster, the CBC.

00:14:23.580 Police still investigating officers' donations to Freedom Convoy fundraiser.

00:14:28.040 Now, the fact that out-of-control politicized police chiefs are still threatening anyone

00:14:33.840 who privately made a donation is outrageous and gross.

00:14:37.020 And unacceptable and very banana republic to have an ideological test to be a cop.

00:14:41.400 The Ottawa police are amongst the worst police in the country.

00:14:44.340 Remember this abuse?

00:14:46.100 For what?

00:14:47.080 Hey! 0.99

00:14:48.000 What are you doing?

00:14:50.300 Hey! 0.99

00:14:50.920 Hey! 0.99

00:14:51.920 That's assault!

00:14:53.340 I've got it all on video.

00:14:55.000 What's wrong with you?

00:14:56.600 You failed to ID.

00:14:59.160 Yeah, he failed to ID.

00:15:00.340 Get back! 0.96

00:15:00.720 Hey! 0.99

00:15:02.160 Get back! 0.96

00:15:02.920 Get back! 0.96

00:15:03.860 We're back.

00:15:04.820 We're filming.

00:15:05.440 We're doing our part.

00:15:07.020 It's all on video.

00:15:12.100 No, don't say anything.

00:15:13.780 Don't say anything.

00:15:14.900 You know what a goof is? 1.00

00:15:15.820 You're a fucking goof. 1.00

00:15:17.820 Hey, Ritz! 1.00

00:15:18.660 Ritz, stand down!

00:15:19.960 You're gonna attack me?

00:15:20.740 Stand down! 0.73

00:15:21.760 Stand down!

00:15:22.780 What am I doing?

00:15:23.480 No, it's peaceful.

00:15:24.620 What am I doing?

00:15:25.220 Let them do it.

00:15:25.780 Let them do it. 1.00

00:15:26.460 You're gonna attack me, you fucking goof. 1.00

00:15:28.160 You're fucking not doing shit. 1.00

00:15:31.360 Touch me, punk ass. 1.00

00:15:32.800 This is going right to the media. 1.00

00:15:35.060 YouTube.

00:15:35.980 What's your name and badge number?

00:15:37.760 What's your name and badge number?

00:15:41.160 What's your name and badge number? 1.00

00:15:42.800 Give me a fucking shit! 1.00

00:15:45.500 What's your name and badge number? 1.00

00:15:47.760 Yeah, you're assaulting him! 0.99

00:15:48.500 Look, they're hurting an old man!

00:15:50.140 A Canadian citizen!

00:15:52.560 It's communism!

00:15:54.680 This is communism!

00:15:55.720 He's scared!

00:15:58.600 Communist! 1.00

00:15:59.480 You stand with the communist fucking government! 1.00

00:16:02.580 Call your police chief. 1.00

00:16:03.900 He'll back you up.

00:16:05.740 Call the police.

00:16:06.640 Call your police chief. 0.98

00:16:08.900 So gross. 0.96

00:16:10.440 But look at this.

00:16:11.120 This is what I mean. 0.91

00:16:13.640 Okay, so the story is the Ottawa police are a disgrace.

00:16:17.660 But here's the thing, quote,

00:16:21.160 Where did donations come following the declaration of the protest as being illegal?

00:16:28.080 What?

00:16:28.900 What does that mean, the declaration of the protest as being illegal?

00:16:32.860 A declaration?

00:16:34.760 Is that a thing?

00:16:35.820 Like a declaration of independence?

00:16:37.400 Or when you're crossing the border at customs and you declare that you have, you know, maybe a bottle of liquor you have to pay tax on?

00:16:45.200 Declaration.

00:16:45.840 Well, I do declare.

00:16:46.680 What does that mean?

00:16:47.660 Declaration.

00:16:49.540 Is that a thing, to declare something illegal?

00:16:52.420 Is that how it works in Canada, according to the CBC state broadcaster?

00:16:56.860 Who gets that power?

00:16:59.360 Well, actually, a court does.

00:17:00.640 Courts can make a declaration resolving some sort of dispute.

00:17:04.840 Declaratory relief, it's called.

00:17:07.080 It's often one thing on a list of items a court might do after a trial.

00:17:11.220 And that's a point.

00:17:12.180 After a trial.

00:17:13.120 A prosecutor cannot declare you guilty of a crime.

00:17:16.940 A policeman cannot declare you guilty of a crime.

00:17:20.240 A prosecutor can make an allegation.

00:17:22.420 A cop can charge you with a crime, can accuse you of them.

00:17:26.500 But you're called the accused.

00:17:28.300 You're not called the illegal one, the guilty one.

00:17:31.060 That only happens after your day in court, after a trial where both sides are represented and a neutral judge considers the facts in the law.

00:17:38.540 A neutral judge like Arthur Pavlovsky finally got in Alberta in front of the court of appeal where all the calumnies and accusations and allegations against him, the declarations that he was illegal.

00:17:52.920 They were all thrown out as baseless, as unwarranted.

00:17:56.540 The courts did make a declaration.

00:17:58.200 You bet that he was not guilty.

00:18:00.220 The cops and the prosecutors were in the wrong.

00:18:02.680 That's how the CBC covered that, by the way.

00:18:05.640 Take a look at this.

00:18:06.700 Ha! 0.89

00:18:07.020 This is how they covered that.

00:18:08.260 A Calgary-based street pastor, his brother and a cafe owner, all of whom flouted public health restrictions for months, have seen their contempt of court sanctions set aside by the Alberta Court of Appeal. 0.95

00:18:24.600 No, you wicked liars.

00:18:27.080 That's what it means when the court throws it all out. 0.99

00:18:30.500 It means you did not flout the law.

00:18:33.020 Now, you're making the accusation, the allegation after it had just been heard and thrown out by three of the highest judges in the province. 0.98

00:18:41.920 The malicious, wicked CBC are liars, aren't they? 0.89

00:18:45.880 In literally the story that says he didn't break the law, their first line is that he broke the law. 0.94

00:18:51.420 But back to the trucker story on the CBC that I'm talking about today.

00:18:54.760 Donations to the protesters were made through the site GoFundMe starting February 2nd,

00:18:59.500 the same day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the protest was, quote, becoming illegal.

00:19:06.720 Shortly after, the City of Ottawa and Ontario government declared separate states of emergency,

00:19:11.960 freezing access to any funds raised on the platform for what was then termed an illegal occupation by Premier Doug Ford.

00:19:19.960 Oh, OK, so it wasn't the court.

00:19:21.820 It's not even a cop.

00:19:22.940 It's not even a prosecutor.

00:19:24.340 It's two politicians, Justin Trudeau, said the protest was becoming illegal, whatever that means.

00:19:30.880 What does that mean?

00:19:32.440 I know what it could mean if it turned into a riot.

00:19:36.780 Anyone there, part of the riot, that would be illegal.

00:19:39.280 Riots are illegal.

00:19:40.560 The Riot Act, you ever heard that phrase, read the Riot Act, you're telling people they're about to become illegal.

00:19:46.280 That didn't happen.

00:19:48.440 It was not illegal.

00:19:49.500 Well, it didn't get violent.

00:19:52.200 It didn't become illegal.

00:19:53.960 Only violence was from the cops. 1.00

00:19:57.360 I think that's just the dumbest, laziest Prime Minister in memory mouthing off, you're becoming illegal. 0.99

00:20:03.180 And Doug Ford calling it an illegal occupation. 1.00

00:20:05.560 Well, hang on a second.

00:20:06.920 Is it the occupation now or the protest that's illegal?

00:20:10.520 Or does it even matter to the fact-free CBC, which is illegal because Doug Ford declared it so?

00:20:18.800 Is that the law?

00:20:19.920 Is that how it works in Canada?

00:20:22.180 They also found some professor named Michael Kempa who apparently teaches students,

00:20:26.840 and he thinks that those declarations make it illegal.

00:20:30.660 Let me quote him.

00:20:32.560 Police can donate to whatever political causes they like, providing that they're not criminal in nature, he said.

00:20:38.700 The real concern is whether the donations came following the declaration of the protest as being illegal.

00:20:45.340 Any donations made after the protests were clearly deemed illegal would be troublesome, according to Kempa.

00:20:53.460 Oh, he's a very wise man.

00:20:55.480 So it was a declaration, and it was clearly deemed illegal.

00:20:59.820 That's what a professor says, because this guy who teaches criminology says when a politician says you're illegal,

00:21:09.100 you're illegal or you go to jail or whatever.

00:21:11.580 Is that how it works in the criminology department? 1.00

00:21:14.680 God, they're stupid. 1.00

00:21:17.240 Or maybe they just think you're stupid. 1.00

00:21:19.480 It was not an illegal protest. 1.00

00:21:22.960 No court said so.

00:21:25.440 No prosecutor alleged it.

00:21:27.360 No cop has testified to it.

00:21:30.040 It's just a pack of lies on Trudeau's CBC, of course. 0.99

00:21:33.400 They're professional liars. 0.86

00:21:34.560 Which brings us to the exciting news coming up.

00:21:40.000 As you may know, the Emergencies Act, the form of martial law, has a provision where, if it is ever invoked,

00:21:45.300 there must be an independent inquiry into whether or not it was justified, appropriate to invoke martial law.

00:21:51.400 And that is coming.

00:21:52.700 That's coming next month to Ottawa.

00:21:54.780 Did you know that?

00:21:57.020 Now, Trudeau has tried to rig the rules, of course.

00:21:59.500 He's unethical.

00:22:00.200 His terms of reference for the inquiry, imagine that, Trudeau gets to write the rules for how Trudeau was investigated,

00:22:06.860 focused not on his abuses, not on his misconduct, his seizing of bank accounts, his violent police,

00:22:12.640 his saying we shouldn't tolerate each other.

00:22:15.280 On sent que la sécurité est accrue autour de vous.

00:22:17.700 On sent que c'est plus dangereux peut-être en ce moment pour vous?

00:22:21.800 On est dans un moment difficile parce qu'on est en train de prendre des choix importants.

00:22:27.200 On est en train de décider que, oui, on va s'en sortir de cette pandémie par la vaccination.

00:22:33.460 Puis on en connaît tous, des gens qui sont en train d'hésiter un petit peu.

00:22:37.900 On va continuer d'essayer de les convaincre.

00:22:39.780 Mais il y a aussi des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.

00:22:43.280 Qui sont extrémistes.

00:22:44.300 Qui ne croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes, souvent racistes aussi.

00:22:48.740 C'est un petit groupe mais qui prend de la place.

00:22:53.900 Et là, il faut faire un choix en tant que leader, en tant que pays.

00:22:57.460 Est-ce qu'on tolère ces gens-là ou est-ce qu'on dit, bien, voyons.

00:23:01.280 Non, non.

00:23:02.520 Il pense qu'il est en train de mettre les truckers en train.

00:23:05.280 Il pense que c'est ce que l'Emergence Act requires.

00:23:07.600 C'est comme ça qu'il a rigue les règles.

00:23:09.440 Si vous pouvez voir ici, il est even going à travailler misinformation.

00:23:13.480 Donc, il va essayer de mettre Rebel News et True North en train.

00:23:17.360 Parce qu'ils ne sont pas propagandises pour eux comme le CBC.

00:23:20.380 Ils vont essayer de faire la blame pour Trudeau's violence et ses bank seizures et ses martiales.

00:23:25.780 Ils vont essayer de blame les victimes, les peacefules protestantes et les independentes journalistes.

00:23:30.880 And the media party, the liars in the media, are going to help him.

00:23:37.400 Well, not us.

00:23:38.400 In fact, we're going to do the opposite.

00:23:39.920 We're going to literally set up camp in Ottawa, not on the street.

00:23:45.280 We're going to set up camp in Ottawa during the entire Commission of Inquirer.

00:23:47.920 We're going to live stream it every single day.

00:23:51.060 We're going to have nightly live streams and commentaries about it.

00:23:55.260 We're going to cover it more and better than anyone else in Canada did,

00:23:59.660 just like we covered the trucker convoy itself.

00:24:01.700 And more and better than the CBC and the other liars who tried to defame the truckers last time and will again too.

00:24:08.860 I don't want to give away all of our plans, but here are a few.

00:24:12.100 We're going to rent an Airbnb in Ottawa for our team for the whole duration.

00:24:17.080 Some of us will be there for the whole time.

00:24:19.440 Some of us will come and go for a few days or a few weeks.

00:24:21.980 It'll be a temporary rebel office and living compound.

00:24:26.220 We're going to have journalists and editors and camera people there every single day.

00:24:30.500 We'll have our own studio.

00:24:32.080 We're going to have a special website, truckercommission.com,

00:24:36.000 exclusively dedicated to covering the story, to rebut the lies, to tell the truth.

00:24:41.800 We're still working on the plans and some of the plans I don't want to give away until we do it.

00:24:46.540 I don't want to give the CBC and Trudeau warning, but that's my message to you today.

00:24:52.740 Rebel News earned our stripes by telling the other side of the story in the convoy in February

00:24:58.140 when we reported in a manner that the media party did not.

00:25:03.820 We won that battle.

00:25:05.120 They're trying to have a do-over, and it's up to us to speak the truth.

00:25:09.160 I wanted to tell you that on this special day, a day when Sheila Gunn-Reed was literally traveling

00:25:14.600 halfway across the world to fight for our civil liberties.

00:25:18.280 She's next.

00:25:31.400 Welcome back.

00:25:32.420 I tell you, something's wrong in the country where Tamara Leach, 0.58

00:25:35.340 a peaceful grandma who simply was a political critic of Justin Trudeau,

00:25:42.140 is thrown in prison again and again before she's even had a trial on inciting mischief.

00:25:47.600 It just, it strikes you in your bones as un-Canadian.

00:25:51.060 We're a country that gives literally accused terrorists and murderers bail.

00:25:56.720 And if it was just Tamara Leach, that would be one thing. 1.00

00:25:58.780 But what about Pastor Arthur Pawlowski?

00:26:01.320 Also, almost exactly the same amount of time in prison before a trial on the substance of his charges.

00:26:07.540 Again, no criminal record ever.

00:26:09.240 A peaceful pastor who spends his weekends feeding the hungry 50 days in prison.

00:26:14.380 SWAT team-style arrests on the highway.

00:26:17.740 And it's not just him.

00:26:19.000 Once, it's a mistake.

00:26:20.340 Twice, you know, it's troubling.

00:26:22.200 But three times, Pastor James Coates and Grace Life Church being seized by hundreds of police.

00:26:27.360 And then there's the church on the vine.

00:26:29.940 Churches, but not just churches, peaceful political critics.

00:26:34.380 And after a while, you start to see a pattern.

00:26:36.480 And that pattern is we are violating human rights.

00:26:42.480 Canada, which thinks of itself as a modern human rights-respecting progressive country,

00:26:47.280 in fact, one of the most lenient countries in the world when it comes to crimes,

00:26:50.280 has been positively a banana republic when it comes to cracking down on peaceful protests. 0.55

00:26:57.920 My God, they actually shot our reporter, Alexa Lavoie, in the leg.

00:27:01.740 Remember this terrible moment?

00:27:05.060 So what do you do when you see this pattern and no one seems to care?

00:27:10.320 The opposition was silent for so long in this country.

00:27:13.180 The courts were silent for so long.

00:27:14.760 The media was atrocious, cheering on the lockdowns.

00:27:18.440 No institution in our own country, no checks and balances worked.

00:27:23.320 Well, we decided to make a long shot.

00:27:26.220 We decided to file a human rights complaint of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

00:27:33.240 Now, I know I'm a critic of the Human Rights Council of the UN.

00:27:37.780 They normally have people like China and Iran on them, criticizing free countries like America.

00:27:43.120 The UN in itself is an undemocratic place, authoritarian and globalist.

00:27:48.580 But still, this is the one institution of the UN that claims to care about political freedom and basic human rights.

00:27:54.660 And so it was that we commissioned one of our favorite lawyers, the lawyer for Arthur Pawlowski himself, Sarah Miller,

00:28:01.900 to draft a formal human rights complaint against the Canadian government and go to Geneva, Switzerland with our chief reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:28:12.400 and file and lodge this complaint at the UN and demand that they investigate this repeated and persistent pattern of violating the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

00:28:25.140 And so today, after nearly 24 hours in an overseas journey, Sheila and Sarah landed and did just that.

00:28:35.080 Sheila joins us now via Skype from Geneva, Switzerland.

00:28:38.440 Sheila, great to see you.

00:28:39.920 Thank you.

00:28:40.840 I know you're going on about one hour's sleep or two hours sleep in the last day.

00:28:46.700 I thank you for that.

00:28:47.760 And you're headed right back.

00:28:49.480 This is no vacation.

00:28:50.600 You are there to deliver this complaint.

00:28:54.340 And you did that today with Sarah Miller.

00:28:56.580 We definitely did.

00:28:57.920 We went, we landed, we went to our hotel, one of our rooms wasn't even ready, but we were on a mission.

00:29:04.180 We just changed our clothes and went back out to the UN complex.

00:29:08.060 We found the building of the UN Human Rights Council and we went there with our complaint.

00:29:13.780 And I must tell you, I only saw the 15-page draft that Sarah sent.

00:29:20.860 Now, they only actually won an eight-page draft, but she's asked her details.

00:29:25.680 So hers was 15 pages.

00:29:27.900 But her supporting evidence that she provided filled up, and I mean filled up, a three-inch binder, a white three-inch binder.

00:29:35.860 That was our complaint.

00:29:37.640 So it had her legal complaint and then all the supporting evidence of the infractions on human rights by the government and all levels of government, not just Justin Trudeau, over the last two years.

00:29:51.820 And really, ultimately, it came down to if you want civil rights in Canada, you better agree with the government.

00:29:58.700 Because once you broke ways with the government on any issue, how many people you should have in your church, how many people you should have in your house, who do you get to serve your burgers to?

00:30:09.980 Once you did that, the government came for you and you risked incarceration, financial ruin, being cut off from your bank account, and not just one incarceration, but repeated incarceration.

00:30:22.200 And that's one of the things Sarah points out in her complaint is these are arbitrary detentions.

00:30:27.200 People being imprisoned for things that you would never see the inside of a jail cell for.

00:30:32.660 So, like you, Ezra, I'm a critic of the United Nations.

00:30:36.460 I'm a skeptic of everything they do.

00:30:38.160 They don't even allow me in their conferences anymore.

00:30:40.580 But these are the people who complain at Saudi Arabia for their treatment of Christians.

00:30:47.220 These are the same people who complain at China for their treatment of religious minorities and peaceful protesters.

00:30:53.600 So now, maybe they need to level those same criticisms at Justin Trudeau.

00:30:59.120 And one of two things that's going to come of this, the United Nations is going to discredit itself further, or they will embarrass Justin Trudeau.

00:31:07.580 And I'm fine with either one.

00:31:09.380 Yeah.

00:31:09.480 Well, I also had only read the 15-page cover letter, which is very interesting.

00:31:14.900 And by the way, folks, you can read that 15-page letter at humanrightscomplaint.com.

00:31:21.940 I had not seen the thousand pages of evidence that Sarah Miller put together.

00:31:26.900 We'll have to get our hands on another digital copy of that and put that on humanrightscomplaint.com so people can see it.

00:31:34.040 I haven't looked at it myself.

00:31:36.120 I'm delighted but not surprised that Sarah would be so diligent.

00:31:39.980 She's been Arthur Pawlowski's lawyer for more than two years.

00:31:43.440 Very meticulous.

00:31:45.600 Tell us a little bit about the journey because you live in northern Alberta, about half an hour outside the city of Edmonton.

00:31:51.680 And you had a very circuitous route, and I want people to know it because I just want people to know the lengths you went to.

00:31:58.800 And then you met up with Sarah halfway through, and you both went to the U.N. headquarters in Geneva together.

00:32:05.520 I want our people to know the lengths you went to to hand-deliver this complaint today.

00:32:12.360 Well, and I don't think I'm talking out of turn when I say that Sarah is very ill.

00:32:15.520 So when I finally did meet up with Sarah in Montreal, she was not feeling well, but she said this is a journey that she had to make.

00:32:23.320 So we did it.

00:32:25.120 But, yeah, in the middle of the night, normally I have to get up quite early to go to the airport anyway because I live so far from the Edmonton airport.

00:32:32.560 So I would have been getting up at 3 to catch a flight at 6 a.m.

00:32:36.580 But sometime in the middle of the night, Air Canada rebooked my flight.

00:32:41.100 My flight was supposed to go from Edmonton early in the morning to Montreal.

00:32:45.500 I would have a substantial layover there, which is fine.

00:32:49.200 We saved a bunch of money, and I was going to go hang out with Alexa Lavoie.

00:32:52.580 No harm, no foul.

00:32:54.320 Except then they rebooked my flight.

00:32:57.180 They sent me at 6.30 in the morning to Vancouver, the opposite direction, then laid me over there for two hours.

00:33:05.380 Then they sent me back to Montreal, laid me over there for about two hours, and then they boarded us on the plane, and then the plane was delayed on the tarmac for, I don't know, an hour and a half, two hours.

00:33:16.540 So it was just a real ordeal.

00:33:18.640 But we got here, we hit the ground running, and we did what we came to do.

00:33:22.440 I'm adding up all those different parts of the journey.

00:33:25.300 It sounds like it was almost 24 hours, and that's not fun, spending 24 hours in planes and airports.

00:33:31.940 It looks like you are at the hotel now just to catch your breath, but I know you've got to go back out and film another story about the UN, so thank you for that.

00:33:40.920 Now, when I spoke to you this morning, you said that the UN Human Rights Council is a very foreboding place, razor wire, high security place.

00:33:50.760 They did accept the document.

00:33:53.800 They filed it and stamped it and gave you a certified receipt, which is important.

00:33:59.420 So they have accepted service of the complaint.

00:34:02.600 I'm very glad to hear it.

00:34:03.920 But tell us a little bit about the building.

00:34:05.500 I've never been to Geneva.

00:34:07.940 I hear it's beautiful.

00:34:09.300 You have this imposing UN presence there.

00:34:14.020 We always think of the UN headquarters at New York City, because that's where the General Assembly is.

00:34:19.620 That's where a lot of the news is.

00:34:21.300 But they have a very big cluster of offices in Geneva, too, don't they?

00:34:26.520 They do.

00:34:27.220 This is one of their UN hubs.

00:34:28.820 They have more sort of a similar facility in Bonn, Germany.

00:34:33.900 But, you know, out front of the UN building, it's kind of fun.

00:34:38.840 There's fountains, there's kids playing, and there's sculptures.

00:34:42.160 By the way, it's also forbiddingly hot outside.

00:34:44.600 It's 33 degrees.

00:34:47.340 But the building itself, again, surrounded in razor wire, you can't get into the building or near the building unless you pre-book a guided tour.

00:34:57.680 Well, we are not here for a guided tour.

00:34:59.680 We came here to hand deliver a human rights complaint.

00:35:03.100 But the building itself, yeah, it's like this white granite castle, almost like a cathedral to globalism.

00:35:15.000 And as a remark to you in an email, or maybe it was in a conversation the other day, the building itself has that Art Deco feel that reminds me of the building in the Ghostbusters or in Rosemary's Baby.

00:35:26.580 It's sort of stacked on top of itself, Art Deco feel, dedicated to, you know, evil.

00:35:32.340 And there might be some of that happening here.

00:35:35.100 But the video that I'm planning to run out and film is just to walk people around the UN complex and show them what you can see when you go down there.

00:35:44.100 Yeah.

00:35:44.300 I mean, there was this utopian moment after World War I, Woodrow Wilson, they really wanted to have a world government.

00:35:52.460 And they thought that this Geneva headquarters for the, it was going to be for the League of Nations, as it was called back then.

00:35:57.980 They really thought they were going to have a global empire.

00:36:00.980 Of course, that fell apart when it faced reality.

00:36:03.600 I don't know, like you, I mean, we are full-time critics of the UN because we think it's being colonized by the bad guys.

00:36:12.240 I mean, China runs four of the agencies.

00:36:15.720 When you have Iran and North Korea on the Human Rights Council criticizing others, you have to be skeptical.

00:36:22.900 But what I tell people is, well, it's Wayne Gretzky who said you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

00:36:28.800 I know you say that sometimes too.

00:36:31.380 Yep.

00:36:31.540 But we've got to take these long shots because at the very least, as you say, Trudeau will hopefully be asked to reply.

00:36:38.480 And he'll probably have some BS letter he sends out.

00:36:41.620 So at the very least, he'll know that people are looking.

00:36:44.420 And you know, Trudeau, in some ways, I think he loves other countries more than he loves Canada.

00:36:49.960 By that, I mean, he's always trying to impress other people who don't know the truth about him.

00:36:56.320 So that's why he goes to Davos, Switzerland, to hobnob with the World Economic Forum.

00:37:01.620 That's why he loves going to New York to the General Assembly.

00:37:04.120 He loves going to L.A. and New York and these conferences because they don't know what he's actually like.

00:37:10.620 So if the fancy people in Switzerland know what he's really like in this 15-page cover letter and 1,000 pages of evidence, maybe that will prick him more than some Canadian in Canada criticizing him.

00:37:25.480 And at least we've let the record know that someone is opposing him, even if he's had such a free pass for the last two and a half years.

00:37:34.920 You know, in the past, Canada has been forced to respond to these sorts of complaints.

00:37:40.660 Do you remember when the special rapporteur, that's what they have, the special sort of investigators and people who come and have conversations,

00:37:50.040 there was a special rapporteur on Indigenous rights that came to Canada to do an investigation?

00:37:57.420 Well, wouldn't you know it?

00:37:58.840 There's a special rapporteur for the treatment of human rights activists with a special focus on gender.

00:38:09.240 Now, normally I don't care about special focuses on gender, but boy, doesn't Tamara Leach fit the bill there? 1.00

00:38:15.800 Well, she's an Indigenous, yeah, Indigenous woman, you know, that's the thing the UN and Trudeau claim to care about. 0.98

00:38:25.040 Well, we saw from Jody Wilson-Raybould's treatment that Trudeau's a liar on that stuff.

00:38:29.440 Well, Sheila, I'm so grateful to you for making the journey, and it's very arduous.

00:38:33.300 And please give my best regards to Sarah Miller, who I understand is really feeling ill,

00:38:37.700 but she had accomplished her mission of delivering, I think in a legal term we'd call that service of the document.

00:38:45.000 We served the document, it was stamped received, so it's official now.

00:38:49.000 They can't claim, oh, we lost it in the mail or we lost it in the email.

00:38:53.040 And I know you're coming straight back.

00:38:55.520 I want to say to the folks out there, I believe this is an important project,

00:38:58.980 even though I believe it's unlikely to score a true hit on Trudeau.

00:39:05.560 I think this is worth doing.

00:39:07.020 It's the kind of thing that if we don't do, no one else will do.

00:39:09.900 And if you share my views on that, and if you are thrilled to see Sheila, our chief reporter, in Geneva,

00:39:16.720 after such an arduous journey, I would not be smiling if I had 24 hours on a plane, Sheila.

00:39:21.940 You're a good egg.

00:39:22.580 Friends, if you are proud of Sheila and proud of Sarah Miller, who's been one of the best lawyers on our whole team,

00:39:30.840 please go to humanrightscomplaint.com, read the 15-page cover letter.

00:39:35.220 We'll upload the 1,000 pages of evidence there, too.

00:39:38.200 And please help us cover...

00:39:39.160 And the receipt.

00:39:40.040 And the receipt.

00:39:40.580 Let's put the receipt on there, too.

00:39:41.400 Thank you.

00:39:41.900 Thank you.

00:39:42.620 And help us cover the cost of their economy-class airfare and their economy-class hotel.

00:39:48.880 This is not a luxury vacation.

00:39:50.080 It's not a vacation at all.

00:39:51.120 But between the legal fees for the drafting, the journey, and the other costs, we need tens of thousands of dollars.

00:40:00.020 If you can help us, please do.

00:40:02.100 Sheila, safe journeys.

00:40:03.180 I can hardly wait to see your videos.

00:40:05.740 And I look forward to having you back safe and sound in Canada, too.

00:40:10.180 Thanks very much.

00:40:10.880 And thanks to everybody who makes this important work possible.

00:40:13.420 We couldn't do this without all of their support.

00:40:17.140 And, you know, I speak to the people that we're helping through Fight the Fines and the people being helped by the Democracy Fund every single day.

00:40:26.100 The people that Sarah works with every single day.

00:40:28.240 And I know that even just doing this is a great moral support for them, knowing that we know, and thousands of other Canadians know, that their human rights were violated.

00:40:38.740 Yeah.

00:40:39.320 Well, thanks for fighting so hard.

00:40:41.060 There she is, Sheila Gunn-Reed from Geneva, Switzerland.

00:40:45.040 We'll keep you posted.

00:40:45.920 And all of Sheila's videos on this journey will be at humanrightscomplaint.com.

00:40:50.800 All right.

00:40:51.180 Stay with us for more.

00:41:03.940 Hey, welcome back.

00:41:04.960 My friend David Menzies covered the show on Friday.

00:41:07.440 I was traveling.

00:41:08.020 I actually met with supporters in Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, and I'm going to keep traveling, meeting with our producers club and other donors, people who kept us strong during the pandemic.

00:41:18.680 I haven't been able to fly until just about a month or so ago, like many of our viewers on Trudeau's no-fly list.

00:41:25.600 Still can't travel abroad without the two-week quarantine upon my return.

00:41:29.620 So David hosts the show on Fridays, and I'm so glad he did, but I'm delighted to be back in the chair.

00:41:35.180 I'm excited about today.

00:41:36.420 Sheila Gunn-Reed in Geneva and one of our other reporters in The Secret Mission that I think we'll be able to tell you about tomorrow.

00:41:43.260 So much going on here.

00:41:44.220 Thanks for your support, as always.

00:41:45.860 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubble World Headquarters, to you at home, goodnight.

00:41:50.760 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:41:51.780 To increase prosperity and improve public health, but also to build back better.

00:42:02.240 If the demands from the farmers are not met, what do you think happens next?

00:42:07.900 I think the farmers will explode.

00:42:09.640 I'm afraid it will be a civil war.

00:42:13.500 Civil war is going to start.

00:42:16.140 Up till a civil war?

00:42:17.420 I don't know.

00:42:17.960 I think there's going to be farmers today or tomorrow, they go to their homes and they say,

00:42:30.100 if you don't come there, we come to you.

00:42:32.140 Well, I know the farmers a bit, and if they draw a line in the sand, they draw a line in the sand.

00:42:37.920 But I think there's going to be a small civil war.

00:42:47.640 I can imagine it's going to be a lot of mayhem.

00:42:50.960 Quick announcement from myself.

00:42:55.820 Head on over to farmerdocumentary.com, where you can purchase tickets to watch our Rebel News new premiere titled The Boer Dutch Farmer Rebellion,

00:43:07.240 hosted by none other than Sheila Gunn-Reed, and a Q&A session with myself, Lincoln Jay, who was with me in the Netherlands,

00:43:14.060 to cover the Farmer Rebellion, and Kian Simone, who is the writer and producer of this new premiere.

00:43:21.840 So, farmerdocumentary.com.

00:43:23.800 This is for Wednesday the 10th of August, and then on the Friday will be the release of the actual premiere.

00:43:31.400 So if you can't make the Q&A session and the cinema screening, you can watch it there.

00:43:37.300 farmerdocumentary.com.

00:43:38.960 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - August 09, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Here comes the rematch in the battle between Trudeau and the truckers

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