Rebel News Podcast


EZRA LEVANT ｜ I have found the worst journalist in Canada. You’re not going to believe this guy — and of course he’s with the CBC


Summary

A new cricket factory is being built in London, Ontario, and it says it produces 9,000 metric tons of crickets a year for human consumption. Can they really be eating the bugs? And why does the CBC say it's a good idea to eat bugs?


Transcript

00:00:00.220 Hello, my friends. Today I want to tell you about a new cricket factory.
00:00:03.640 They're making an insect farm in London, Ontario.
00:00:06.300 Now, that is not new. That story came out a few months ago.
00:00:08.700 We already covered it in Rebel News.
00:00:09.880 But what is new is a bizarre attempt by the CBC to say,
00:00:14.220 no, no, no, it's all conspiracy theory.
00:00:15.980 No, no, no, no one has to eat the bugs.
00:00:18.440 When the factory itself says it is for human consumption,
00:00:21.740 I'll take you through the CBC's fake fact check
00:00:25.780 that in itself is a conspiracy theory.
00:00:28.600 I think I found Canada's worst journalist.
00:00:30.880 You're not going to want to miss this one.
00:00:32.720 Hey, folks, I want you to do something more.
00:00:34.360 Today's story is very visual, and I don't mean to gross you out.
00:00:37.060 It is pretty gross.
00:00:38.500 But I want you to see all these videos I'm going to show promoting eating bugs.
00:00:44.560 And obviously, if you're listening on your podcast,
00:00:47.660 you're just going to have to use your imagination.
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00:01:20.840 about this super gross bug factory.
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00:01:25.420 All right, here we go.
00:01:26.300 I'm going to tell you about the bugs.
00:01:32.080 You're listening to our latest podcast.
00:01:42.300 Tonight, I have found the worst journalist in Canada.
00:01:45.420 You're not going to believe this guy.
00:01:47.040 And of course, he's with the CBC.
00:01:48.600 It's August 30th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:52.260 You're fighting for freedom!
00:01:55.260 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:01:58.260 I saw this tweet a while back.
00:02:09.160 It's from a construction company called Ellis Dawn.
00:02:12.240 And it went viral, probably the only time
00:02:14.200 that's ever happened to this construction company.
00:02:16.980 They were bragging about finishing a big factory construction
00:02:20.260 in London, Ontario.
00:02:21.720 You can see a picture of that factory in the tweet.
00:02:24.260 And here's what they wrote.
00:02:25.320 Quote, they said,
00:02:26.880 the world's largest cricket production facility
00:02:30.820 is officially complete.
00:02:32.780 Aspire Food Group's new plant in London, Ontario
00:02:35.220 is ready to produce 9,000 metric tons of crickets annually
00:02:40.620 for human and pet consumption.
00:02:44.460 Learn more here.
00:02:45.660 And indeed, you can click that link to learn more.
00:02:49.520 But hold up.
00:02:50.440 Crickets for human consumption?
00:02:52.620 That's what they say.
00:02:53.520 Can that really be true?
00:02:56.200 Well, if you click the link, it appears to me
00:02:58.040 that takes you to a story
00:02:59.080 in the Canadian manufacturing magazine.
00:03:02.060 You can see it for yourself.
00:03:04.080 Aspire Food Group completes production
00:03:05.720 of manufacturing facility.
00:03:07.400 Let me read a few lines without gagging.
00:03:10.600 Aspire's new plant will reportedly produce
00:03:12.400 9,000 metric tons of crickets every year
00:03:14.460 for human and pet consumption.
00:03:16.200 On May 26th, Aspire Food Group announced
00:03:18.740 that it has completed construction
00:03:20.540 of its alternative protein manufacturing facility.
00:03:24.000 London, Ontario is now home
00:03:24.980 to the world's largest cricket production facility.
00:03:27.920 Aspire's new plant will reportedly produce
00:03:29.840 9,000 metric tons of crickets every year
00:03:32.280 for human and pet consumption.
00:03:34.800 That's about 2 billion insects
00:03:36.200 to be distributed annually across Canada
00:03:38.620 and throughout the United States.
00:03:41.380 Aspire also reports that it already has orders
00:03:43.880 for the next two years.
00:03:46.340 Crickets are currently being explored
00:03:47.740 as a protein-rich superfood.
00:03:50.500 They contain fiber, excuse me,
00:03:52.880 and are already found in grocery stores
00:03:54.740 and restaurants
00:03:55.500 and have a smaller environmental footprint
00:03:57.220 than traditional protein sources.
00:04:00.040 I am so grossed out.
00:04:01.680 I was thinking about this story today
00:04:03.500 and I was literally gagging.
00:04:05.440 They couldn't be clearer.
00:04:06.580 It's for humans.
00:04:07.540 They said so in the tweet.
00:04:09.340 They said so in the article.
00:04:10.560 I'm sorry, I gagged a bit there.
00:04:12.040 And they link to the company
00:04:14.480 that owns the factory, Aspire Food Group.
00:04:17.440 And you can click on it
00:04:18.800 and this is their website.
00:04:20.100 And if you click about us,
00:04:21.960 they say we are global industry leaders
00:04:24.120 in advanced insect agriculture.
00:04:27.980 At the bottom of the page
00:04:29.100 is a timeline of the company
00:04:30.360 and it starts in 2012
00:04:31.680 when some students from McGill
00:04:34.480 entered into a left-wing globalist project
00:04:36.420 hosted that year by Bill Clinton
00:04:37.980 called the HULT Prize.
00:04:40.420 H-U-L-T Prize.
00:04:41.680 I'd never heard of the HULT Prize before.
00:04:44.020 I went to their website.
00:04:45.320 It's a left-wing incubator, really.
00:04:47.860 Here they describe themselves
00:04:49.300 as what is the HULT Prize?
00:04:51.200 The HULT Prize challenges
00:04:52.100 young people around the world
00:04:53.220 to solve the planet's most pressing issues
00:04:56.080 through social entrepreneurship.
00:04:58.960 What does that mean?
00:04:59.880 Well, I don't know.
00:05:00.940 Here's the head of national directors
00:05:02.860 in the HULT Prize Foundation.
00:05:04.960 He's a World Economic Forum global shaper.
00:05:08.140 I think that's what the HULT Prize is.
00:05:09.740 It's sort of globalism, left-wingism,
00:05:12.420 but lots of billionaires behind it.
00:05:14.420 A lot of it seems to be
00:05:15.620 about getting people
00:05:16.260 to eat really weird foods.
00:05:18.900 This year, for example,
00:05:19.920 a team called Chilk,
00:05:22.740 which they say is
00:05:24.480 making the best-tasting,
00:05:26.620 most functional,
00:05:27.540 and coolest alternative dairy
00:05:29.360 in the world.
00:05:31.300 Or Propel Foods,
00:05:32.680 which they say is
00:05:33.520 repurposing invasive species
00:05:36.760 and plants
00:05:38.220 to create modern foods
00:05:39.600 for the modern diet.
00:05:40.940 Are you getting a theme here?
00:05:42.860 Well, here's how
00:05:43.760 the London Crickets Factory,
00:05:46.160 how their own CEO
00:05:47.220 tells his Cinderella story.
00:05:48.860 It's a two-minute video
00:05:49.720 by the CEO
00:05:50.560 of that bug factory in London,
00:05:52.980 explaining that absolutely
00:05:54.240 this is to feed crickets
00:05:56.440 to people.
00:05:57.640 Take a look.
00:05:58.120 In 2013,
00:06:00.780 I was pursuing a joint degree
00:06:02.100 in medicine as well as an MBA
00:06:03.660 at McGill University.
00:06:04.920 Two months into the program,
00:06:06.320 I got an email
00:06:07.020 that I didn't realize
00:06:08.040 was going to change my life.
00:06:09.400 This was actually an email
00:06:10.600 that brought my attention
00:06:11.960 to the HULT Prize,
00:06:13.480 the world's largest
00:06:14.380 business prize competition.
00:06:16.540 In 2013,
00:06:18.020 the problem was food insecurity.
00:06:20.680 We started looking at this problem
00:06:22.540 and looking at it
00:06:23.420 from all dimensions
00:06:24.300 until we came across
00:06:25.780 an incredible insight.
00:06:28.660 And that is that
00:06:29.420 over two billion people
00:06:31.540 already consume insects
00:06:33.380 as part of a diet.
00:06:34.840 So we thought to ourselves,
00:06:36.280 what if we can come up
00:06:37.640 with a way
00:06:38.160 to farm insects
00:06:39.800 on a year-round basis
00:06:40.900 in a cost-effective way?
00:06:45.260 The judges have selected
00:06:47.120 from McGill University,
00:06:49.800 Aspire.
00:06:51.000 We ultimately proceeded
00:06:52.760 to defeat
00:06:53.660 20,000 teams
00:06:54.840 from around the world
00:06:55.720 and actually win
00:06:56.780 the 2013 HULT Prize.
00:07:00.500 And that gave rise
00:07:01.640 to our company, Aspire.
00:07:04.580 Insects,
00:07:05.700 compared to any other form
00:07:07.140 of livestock,
00:07:08.300 use less land,
00:07:09.840 less water,
00:07:10.900 less energy,
00:07:12.080 and produce a negligible amount
00:07:14.040 of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:07:15.540 They provide incredible nutrition
00:07:17.260 for those who experience
00:07:18.520 food security.
00:07:19.780 And on the other hand,
00:07:20.940 they happen to be
00:07:21.680 tremendously sustainable
00:07:22.880 for our planet.
00:07:24.860 We devoted our resources
00:07:26.560 to launching our beta facility,
00:07:28.920 the most advanced,
00:07:30.280 innovative insect farming technology
00:07:32.500 in the world.
00:07:34.060 You can literally copy
00:07:36.280 and paste this farm
00:07:37.420 anywhere in the world
00:07:38.900 and ensure you're going
00:07:40.460 to get the same yield
00:07:41.920 and the same high-quality product
00:07:43.660 every single day.
00:07:45.980 It is our belief
00:07:51.480 that insect protein,
00:07:53.460 given that it's already
00:07:54.420 widely consumed
00:07:55.280 around the world,
00:07:56.360 it is food.
00:07:57.500 And it will be part
00:07:58.860 of our food culture
00:08:00.060 in the U.S.,
00:08:01.160 regardless of whether
00:08:02.160 or not we are a part
00:08:03.280 of making that history
00:08:04.540 a reality.
00:08:05.200 Oh, of course,
00:08:14.400 I'm sorry,
00:08:14.900 I forgot to mention it,
00:08:16.040 but of course,
00:08:16.840 I'm sure you assumed
00:08:18.720 that in addition
00:08:19.380 to getting that
00:08:19.980 Clinton prize money,
00:08:22.160 Justin Trudeau
00:08:22.940 chipped in
00:08:23.700 eight and a half million
00:08:25.420 of your tax dollars
00:08:26.600 for insect agriculture,
00:08:28.400 and I think a couple
00:08:29.220 more grants, too.
00:08:30.140 I think it's over
00:08:30.560 10 million now.
00:08:31.400 So regular farmers
00:08:33.640 raising beef on a ranch,
00:08:36.160 farmers growing real crops,
00:08:38.420 they're facing huge new taxes
00:08:40.500 from Trudeau,
00:08:41.320 not just carbon taxes,
00:08:42.520 but now Trudeau's weird
00:08:43.600 war on farms,
00:08:45.120 including his war
00:08:45.780 on fertilizer.
00:08:47.020 We saw this
00:08:47.640 in the Netherlands, too,
00:08:48.520 the bizarre and anti-human
00:08:49.700 war on farming.
00:08:50.680 Who goes to war
00:08:51.520 against farmers?
00:08:53.300 But that's the weird thing.
00:08:54.460 Why is everyone pushing
00:08:55.380 the end of beef,
00:08:56.640 the end of real food?
00:08:57.680 Why are they pushing
00:08:58.480 synthetic fake food,
00:09:00.620 fake meat,
00:09:01.400 meat made in a lab,
00:09:03.180 meat made from bugs?
00:09:04.980 Why do you suddenly
00:09:06.220 see these everywhere?
00:09:07.860 I mean, for example,
00:09:08.660 here's the World Economic Forum
00:09:10.440 pushing the idea
00:09:11.360 a few years back.
00:09:12.700 Watch this whole thing.
00:09:31.400 of General and Farm
00:09:40.820 to be a really young man
00:09:41.820 look at those
00:09:42.780 who have been
00:09:44.240 considered
00:09:44.860 to be a good
00:09:56.200 women.
00:09:56.840 Thank you.
00:10:26.840 That's nuts.
00:10:30.840 Algae?
00:10:31.840 Bugs growing dead chicken meat in labs?
00:10:35.840 Who is behind this madness?
00:10:38.840 Here's another infomercial by the World Economic Forum.
00:10:40.840 It's too long for me to show you the whole thing.
00:10:42.840 But here's the first half of it.
00:10:43.840 You get the feeling.
00:10:47.840 It's not normal that you try and create a high-technology company
00:10:50.840 that's farming millions of insects right in the heart of London.
00:10:53.840 But insects are just, nature's perfect.
00:10:55.840 Up-cycling machines that create organic, natural protein
00:11:00.840 that we can feed to animals, eventually maybe humans.
00:11:05.840 What people don't realise is there's a huge disconnect
00:11:07.840 between what we eat and how we feed what we eat.
00:11:11.840 All farm fish that we create are dependent upon wild-caught fish to feed them.
00:11:16.840 We feed fish to chickens.
00:11:19.840 All animals need to eat fats and proteins to grow, just like we do.
00:11:24.840 Now these proteins come from two sources traditionally.
00:11:27.840 That's fish meal and soya protein.
00:11:29.840 Now soya protein is one of the biggest causes of deforestation in the rainforest.
00:11:33.840 And fish meal means that we are dredging our oceans empty of small pelagic fish,
00:11:42.840 which are the base of the global food web.
00:11:44.840 There's only so much rainforest we can cut down.
00:11:49.840 There's only so much oceans that we can actually deplete
00:11:51.840 until we get to a really dangerous pinch point.
00:11:53.840 We have the dual forces of a growing population with an increase in demand for protein.
00:12:02.840 There's a moment in your life where you just think enough is enough
00:12:04.840 and you have to do something about it.
00:12:06.840 So they're saying this is about overpopulation and climate change.
00:12:09.840 They're trying to make regular food look gross
00:12:12.840 and trying to make gross bugs and synthetic food look good.
00:12:16.840 And that just happens to be a major mission of one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates.
00:12:23.840 Gates has one of the highest carbon footprints in history of all time.
00:12:27.840 I mean, he juts around, but he wants the rest of us to live smaller.
00:12:31.840 In fact, he doesn't want many of the rest of us to live at all.
00:12:34.840 Here he is at a TED talk a few years back saying we need to cull the world's population.
00:12:41.840 At least that's what I take from him.
00:12:42.840 It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet.
00:12:46.840 And somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
00:12:51.840 It's been constantly going up.
00:12:54.840 It's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all.
00:12:59.840 So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling and falling all the way to zero.
00:13:04.840 This equation has four factors, a little bit of multiplication.
00:13:08.840 So you've got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero.
00:13:12.840 And that's going to be based on the number of people, the services each person's using on average,
00:13:18.840 the energy on average for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy.
00:13:26.840 So let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.
00:13:31.840 Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero.
00:13:35.840 Now that's back from high school algebra.
00:13:38.840 But let's take a look.
00:13:40.840 First we've got population.
00:13:42.840 The world today has 6.8 billion people.
00:13:45.840 That's headed up to about 9 billion.
00:13:47.840 Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services,
00:13:54.840 we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15%.
00:13:57.840 But there we see an increase of about 1.3.
00:14:01.840 Gates is bizarre on this stuff.
00:14:03.840 He's buying up America's farmland, but he's not making beef on it or ranching.
00:14:08.840 He's promoting the grossest things, including drinking sewage water that's recycled.
00:14:14.840 What a super gross man.
00:14:16.840 I mean, it's madness that we let such a misanthrope, someone who truly is against mankind.
00:14:22.840 He's in charge of our vaccines.
00:14:24.840 That's crazy.
00:14:25.840 He's creepy and diabolical.
00:14:26.840 If you don't take it from me, take it from his wife.
00:14:29.840 Listen to why she divorced him.
00:14:31.840 You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business
00:14:36.840 or some kind of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you.
00:14:41.840 Did that play a role in the divorce at all in this process?
00:14:45.840 Yeah.
00:14:46.840 As I said, it's not one thing.
00:14:48.840 It was many things.
00:14:50.840 But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:14:54.840 No.
00:14:55.840 And you made that clear to him.
00:14:57.840 I made that clear to him.
00:14:59.840 I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.
00:15:02.840 Did you?
00:15:03.840 Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was.
00:15:06.840 And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.
00:15:10.840 He was abhorrent.
00:15:12.840 He was evil personified.
00:15:15.840 I had nightmares about it afterwards.
00:15:17.840 So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt.
00:15:21.840 And here I'm an older woman.
00:15:23.840 My God, I feel terrible for those young women.
00:15:25.840 It's awful.
00:15:26.840 You felt that the moment you walked in?
00:15:27.840 I didn't realize that.
00:15:28.840 He was awful.
00:15:29.840 Yeah.
00:15:30.840 And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?
00:15:34.840 Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to answer.
00:15:40.840 Okay.
00:15:41.840 But I made it very clear how I felt about him.
00:15:43.840 Anyways, back to the World Economic Forum, one of Gates' favorite hangouts.
00:15:46.840 Here's another video they did about how we should eat bugs.
00:15:50.840 Thank you for watching.
00:15:52.840 Tell me what you did about progress.
00:16:18.780 Thank you.
00:16:48.780 Thank you.
00:17:18.780 They want you to eat bugs.
00:17:23.500 They say insects deserve to be part of your diet.
00:17:28.040 I didn't know insects deserved that.
00:17:29.760 So it's billionaires like Bill Gates, plus creepy Bond villain types like Klaus Schwab,
00:17:34.820 the head of the World Economic Forum.
00:17:36.220 What we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, president of Argentina and so on,
00:17:48.320 is that we penetrate the cabinets.
00:17:50.040 No wonder Trudeau gave a huge government grant to that London insect farm.
00:17:55.180 Trudeau is a World Economic Forum super spreader.
00:17:59.160 And Christa Freeland, the finance minister who cut the check, is literally on the board of the World Economic Forum.
00:18:04.580 Maybe at a World Economic Forum meeting, Christa Freeland or Justin Trudeau might have bumped into David Rosenberg.
00:18:13.140 Who's he?
00:18:13.540 Well, he's one of the world's leading eat the bugs entrepreneurs.
00:18:17.260 Oh, and wouldn't you know it?
00:18:18.340 He's on the board of directors of Aspire, according to this document I found today from Industry Canada.
00:18:25.080 You can see his name there.
00:18:28.360 And he just happens to be a key World Economic Forum leader.
00:18:33.120 They love him.
00:18:34.080 They say David is a member of the World Economic Forum, where he is honored as a young global leader and was a technology pioneer.
00:18:44.260 All right, so so far all we have is a weird story about an insect farm getting millions of dollars from Trudeau.
00:18:49.720 At the same time, Trudeau declares war on real farms.
00:18:52.300 We see that Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum are obsessed with getting people to eat gross things like bugs and algae and synthetic food.
00:19:00.420 And the insect farm in London, Ontario, has a board member who is a World Economic Forum hero.
00:19:05.920 And in fact, the whole insect farm company, Aspire Food Group, got its start with a globalist grant handed out by Bill Clinton.
00:19:13.440 So those are the facts, as told by every document I've shown you.
00:19:17.200 Many from the company's own website, many from the World Economic Forum's own website, showed you the Industry Canada documents.
00:19:25.480 No speculation, no guesses, just the facts.
00:19:29.320 And this story's interesting, isn't it?
00:19:31.080 I mean, I'm interested in it.
00:19:32.740 Bugs?
00:19:33.140 We did a Rebel News story about it a few weeks back, and others in the media wrote about it, too.
00:19:39.320 And it's so interesting and troubling.
00:19:41.660 And you paid for it all.
00:19:43.000 I mean, they really do want you to eat the bugs, even if you don't want to.
00:19:46.300 They'll take your money to give to the bug farmer.
00:19:48.680 Okay, but look at this.
00:19:49.520 I told you that my monologue today was the story about the worst journalist in Canada.
00:19:54.680 And I will keep my promise.
00:19:56.040 Look at this.
00:19:56.860 It's from the CBC.
00:20:00.040 How a London, Ontario cricket plant found itself at the heart of an international conspiracy theory.
00:20:05.140 Seven days after the factory was built, it was falsely implicated in a global conspiracy.
00:20:11.560 And this story is written by this guy, Colin Butler, who they say is a veteran journalist
00:20:17.660 with 20 years' experience in print, radio, and television in seven Canadian cities.
00:20:22.840 Oh, I bet he is.
00:20:23.700 Let me take you through his story, but just in case you're counting, we haven't even got
00:20:28.960 past the headlines, and he's already said conspiracy theory twice, and the word false once.
00:20:35.220 Let's go through it.
00:20:36.080 Let me read a few paragraphs in a row where I'm sure Colin will present his evidence to
00:20:41.340 support his claim that this is fake news and a conspiracy theory.
00:20:44.660 Ready?
00:20:44.780 A London, Ontario cricket factory that produces insects used as pet food has found itself at
00:20:51.560 the heart of a sweeping international conspiracy theory, whose purveyors claim a cabal of shadowy
00:20:57.140 elites are trying to force the population to eat insects as part of a sinister totalitarian plot.
00:21:03.080 The conspiracy theory has been circulating for months, amplified and published by hawkers
00:21:08.360 of online misinformation in Canada and elsewhere in English and Chinese, often with the falsehood
00:21:13.820 growing, more sweeping, or outrageous with each iteration.
00:21:17.740 These, though spreading the myth, aren't just online bloggers and anonymous social media
00:21:22.080 accounts.
00:21:23.080 The falsehoods are also spread and tweaked by a number of political operators to suit their
00:21:27.560 agenda, including the Alberta separatist movement and politicians like a sitting MP and a conservative
00:21:32.020 party of Canada leadership hopeful.
00:21:33.720 CBC News charted the history of how this conspiracy theory grew, from a single tweet by an Ontario
00:21:40.680 construction company to being used as rhetoric in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership
00:21:45.080 campaign.
00:21:46.160 Okay, so he said it's a pet food factory.
00:21:51.640 But that's not what Ellis Don, the company that built the factory, said, was it?
00:21:56.180 They said it was for humans and pets.
00:21:59.380 That's what won the original million dollar grant from Bill Clinton.
00:22:04.680 That's what their whole mission is.
00:22:06.800 That's literally the case made by the president of the bug farm in his own video.
00:22:14.260 Why tell such a weird lie in the very first sentence?
00:22:17.840 Why say it's just for pets?
00:22:20.880 I counted the CBC and Colin use the word conspiracy theory literally 20 times in the story.
00:22:27.740 They say fake or false literally 15 times.
00:22:30.780 I counted.
00:22:31.440 We're well into the story.
00:22:32.820 And all he's done is make insults and assertions.
00:22:35.760 He hasn't yet shown you a single factual error.
00:22:38.240 In fact, he hasn't referred to a single fact himself, has he?
00:22:41.680 Now, how many facts did I show you?
00:22:44.340 Tweets, documents, photos, videos, industry, Canada records, 10, 15, 20?
00:22:49.720 All of them from the primary sources themselves.
00:22:53.420 But you can sort of tell the purpose of this article already, can't you?
00:22:56.360 I mean, the words conservative party appear four times in the story, even though it was
00:23:01.960 the liberal party that gave the bug farmer his grants and the liberal party that's actually
00:23:06.140 declaring war against nitrogen, fertilizers, and regular farms.
00:23:10.280 It's weird.
00:23:10.760 It's almost as if the CBC aren't real journalists, but are government journalists hired to smear
00:23:15.480 Trudeau's enemies and cover up for Trudeau's scandals and to hide the bug factory's true
00:23:20.920 nature for some reason.
00:23:23.320 Let me keep reading.
00:23:24.140 The information was picked up a week later by Awakening Canada, a Facebook group that
00:23:28.700 posts misinformation about the pandemic and conspiracy theories about the World Economic
00:23:33.300 Forum.
00:23:34.960 The June 17 post was published shortly after midnight asking, are you guys ready to eat
00:23:40.100 some crickets?
00:23:40.980 Welcome to Communist Canada.
00:23:42.460 It got 10 shares among the page's 4,600 followers.
00:23:46.440 Eight hours later, the false information, what false information, was repeated by Mike McMullin,
00:23:54.380 a London, Ontario political candidate who ran for the People's Party of Canada in the last
00:23:58.140 federal election and a candidate for city councilor in this October's municipal elections.
00:24:02.720 He posts the same Ellis Don tweet on his Facebook page with the caption, Klaus Schwab and the W.E.F.
00:24:08.600 The Post gets 29 shares amongst his 1,900 followers.
00:24:14.160 There's a growing number of people who think our country is messed up and our politicians
00:24:18.300 are puppets.
00:24:19.220 McMullin told CBC News when asked Thursday about the Post, a lot of people are concerned that
00:24:23.900 they're going to get them to eat bugs.
00:24:26.480 OK, so they're smearing all of Trudeau's enemies, the People's Party.
00:24:30.380 A little bit later on, they smear Leslyn Lewis, Cheryl Gallant, the MP, the Alberta Prosperity
00:24:35.680 Project, any poor schlub with a Facebook page that the CBC hates.
00:24:39.800 But, I mean, we're pretty deep in this story yet.
00:24:42.880 Have you found the conspiracy theory yet, the fake news part yet?
00:24:48.000 Are you guys ready to eat some crickets?
00:24:50.520 Welcome to Communist Canada.
00:24:52.040 That was what they said was a conspiracy theory.
00:24:54.340 But that's not really a theory.
00:24:56.420 It's a sarcastic reaction to a bug factory advertised as being for human consumption.
00:25:02.900 So what's the conspiracy theory?
00:25:04.440 What's the false fact?
00:25:05.920 Are you ready to eat bugs?
00:25:07.660 It's a question.
00:25:10.480 The factory owner hopes the answer is yes.
00:25:12.760 What's the fake part again?
00:25:13.820 What's the conspiracy part again?
00:25:16.660 Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum people must be pleased.
00:25:20.320 Well, you know they are because David Rosenberg, one of the Bug Factory's board of directors,
00:25:26.580 he's a member of the World Economic Forum.
00:25:28.460 I'm sure he's pleased that his factory is built.
00:25:31.080 Again, what's the conspiracy theory part again?
00:25:33.420 What's the false part?
00:25:34.480 I'll read some more.
00:25:35.100 On June 18th, a similar post appears on Black Sheep Truth Media,
00:25:40.220 a Facebook group that features numerous conspiracy theories with the caption,
00:25:43.800 the planned food shortages now offers a solution not to worry now there will be plenty to eat, folks.
00:25:51.500 The information has been reaching more people with at least 292 shares and 164 comments among the page's 30,000 followers.
00:25:58.680 It is also flagged as false information by Facebook after being singled out by independent fact checkers.
00:26:04.660 First of all, there is no such thing as an independent fact checker.
00:26:07.500 They're all political operatives whose job is to censor dissident media that's off the official narrative,
00:26:13.300 but call themselves fact checkers so they appear less partisan.
00:26:15.960 But again, what's the factually false part?
00:26:20.040 Planned food shortages.
00:26:21.340 Okay, that's a theory.
00:26:22.740 But is it not the plan in the Netherlands, for example, to shut down farms in the name of global warming?
00:26:28.880 That is the plan.
00:26:29.820 That's why the farmers are reacting.
00:26:31.460 Is it not Trudeau's plan to do something similar?
00:26:34.240 I mean, here's a story in Bloomberg, pretty mainstream media, in fact, Democrat media.
00:26:41.020 Trudeau spars with farmers on climate plan, risking grain output.
00:26:47.880 Canada wants to cut fertilizer emissions, but farmers say it could result in less food.
00:26:54.140 So I suppose it's a matter of opinion whether or not less food is an intended consequence or an unintended consequence.
00:27:01.480 But it's pretty clearly going to be a consequence if you farm less.
00:27:07.800 Reducing farming will reduce the amount of food.
00:27:11.060 That's what happened in Sri Lanka.
00:27:13.060 That's why they had a bit of a civil war there.
00:27:15.540 So again, what's the conspiracy theory that the CBC thinks they've caught?
00:27:20.460 Simply clucking in disbelief that anyone would be worried about eating bugs.
00:27:24.960 That's not journalism.
00:27:26.180 It's not fact checking.
00:27:27.260 It's not exposing a conspiracy theory.
00:27:29.280 And the fact that the very first sentence in this article, the CBC reporter lied.
00:27:34.180 He claimed that this factory was only for pet food.
00:27:36.280 When the factory's builder and owner said it was for people food.
00:27:40.800 It shows you can't trust the CBC.
00:27:43.000 The fact checker here is actually the liar here.
00:27:47.420 This weird CBC story is so long, I'm not going to read it all.
00:27:50.720 It's really just Colin Butler complaining that people are saying things he doesn't like and he can't censor.
00:27:56.660 I'll read some more on July 3rd, the falsehood is published in the Calgary-based Western Standard in a column titled,
00:28:03.920 If Canadians Want to Eat Crickets, We Wouldn't Be Forced to Subsidize a Cricket Farm.
00:28:08.480 The column has been shared at least 450 times to 130,000 followers.
00:28:12.740 Okay, what's the falsehood?
00:28:14.360 It's an opinion.
00:28:16.060 And I think it's actually reasonable, don't you think?
00:28:18.060 You don't need subsidies to be a farmer for things people actually want to buy.
00:28:24.060 It's not even a factual statement that's true or false.
00:28:26.840 It's an opinion.
00:28:28.340 How is that a conspiracy theory?
00:28:30.280 What a kook this guy Colin Butler is.
00:28:32.400 What a liar.
00:28:33.620 What a shill for his boss, Justin Trudeau.
00:28:36.180 And Chrystia Freeland, the World Economic Forum stars.
00:28:39.220 Here are some more so-called fact checks on so-called conspiracy theories.
00:28:43.320 This is incredible.
00:28:43.940 She published the false information again in a link to the Western Standard column on August 7th with the caption,
00:28:51.240 It's interesting that Trudeau invested millions in cricket farming to fight a food shortage long before Putin invaded Ukraine.
00:28:57.740 They're talking about Cheryl Gallant.
00:28:59.000 Gallant did not respond Thursday or Friday to a request for comment from CBC News.
00:29:04.000 On July 9th, federal conservative leadership hopeful Leslie Lewis wrote a blog post with the heading,
00:29:09.140 Is Animal Meat Being Phased Out?
00:29:11.500 that hints the cricket plant is part of a larger plan by the federal government to phase out meat.
00:29:17.160 The post has been shared thousands of times on social media,
00:29:19.720 including among groups that share fake news and conspiracy theories,
00:29:22.840 such as the Druthers Community Group.
00:29:26.400 Lewis did not respond Thursday or Friday to a request for comment from CBC News.
00:29:31.400 Well, I'm glad Cheryl Gallant and Leslie Lewis know better than to talk to the wicked liars
00:29:34.840 at the CBC State Broadcaster.
00:29:37.140 But again, those aren't even factual statements.
00:29:39.300 They're musings.
00:29:40.160 They're reflections.
00:29:41.400 Is animal meat being phased out?
00:29:45.340 I mean, that idea has been proposed many times by left-wing groups.
00:29:49.220 I think it's a fair question.
00:29:50.980 I think it's a good question.
00:29:52.780 How is asking a question
00:29:54.540 a conspiracy theory?
00:29:56.860 How is it a false fact?
00:29:59.220 This Colin Butler is stupid.
00:30:02.020 Or maybe he's not stupid at all.
00:30:04.420 He's just malicious and he knows his job is to smear any enemy of Trudeau
00:30:09.120 in the world economic forum, not to report.
00:30:12.220 Whether or not it's interesting that this bug factory
00:30:14.300 was in the works before Ukrainian wheat exports were put in jeopardy,
00:30:18.980 I suppose that's a matter of opinion.
00:30:20.600 I actually don't see a connection myself.
00:30:22.960 Maybe it's interesting.
00:30:24.440 Maybe it's not.
00:30:25.440 But how is saying, hmm, that's interesting,
00:30:27.420 how is that a false fact?
00:30:29.560 Other than they want to smear a conservative MP.
00:30:32.340 I'll read some more.
00:30:33.460 CBC News shared the timeline of the conspiracy theory's growth
00:30:36.780 with Alison Meek, an associate professor of history
00:30:39.860 at King's College and Western University in London, Ontario,
00:30:42.740 who studies conspiracy theories.
00:30:45.760 She said the false information taps into a growing
00:30:48.180 anti-government sentiment playing on the fear and isolation
00:30:51.280 many felt during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic
00:30:54.360 when authorities were imposing sweeping lockdowns
00:30:56.780 and health restrictions that upended many people's daily routines.
00:31:01.020 Okay, so we've got an expert to tell us what to think
00:31:04.880 and what not to think.
00:31:06.020 Is there any group more discredited these past two years than experts?
00:31:09.940 But is this professor of history knowledgeable about this bug farm?
00:31:14.520 Has she even Googled it?
00:31:16.140 Has she watched its videos like the one from its CEO?
00:31:19.180 Did she look up its board of directors like I did?
00:31:22.480 What is she an expert in?
00:31:25.240 Other than mocking the little people as being stupid.
00:31:29.400 Isn't she actually the stupid one here?
00:31:32.160 I'll read some more.
00:31:34.100 The internet has been a real boon to conspiracy theories, she said.
00:31:37.980 It's free.
00:31:39.100 You reach like-minded individuals,
00:31:40.480 and it can be twisted to fit whatever the agenda is,
00:31:42.780 whether it's the Great Reset or World Economic Forum or state politics.
00:31:46.060 She said, while fact-checking conspiracy theories can be exhausting,
00:31:50.660 it must be done to keep those who propagate the lie
00:31:53.440 from dominating the conversation with false information.
00:31:57.720 Do you think that nutty professor knows that David Rosenberg,
00:32:00.860 a key part of the bug factory's corporate structure,
00:32:04.860 is, I mean, he's a director of the board.
00:32:07.440 Do you think she knows that David Rosenberg is, in fact,
00:32:09.980 a member of the World Economic Forum?
00:32:11.460 Is that the lie she's talking about?
00:32:14.020 Do you think Colin Butler does?
00:32:15.580 Do you think they spent a minute actually looking into the facts here?
00:32:18.280 I don't see any evidence of it.
00:32:19.420 They're just calling names.
00:32:21.680 Now, I'm at the bottom of their article now,
00:32:23.360 and I'm still waiting for a false fact.
00:32:26.760 The only lies here were from the CBC,
00:32:29.120 and they're, dial-a-quote, fake experts.
00:32:31.460 And the only conspiracy theory here
00:32:34.720 is the government journalists trying to cover up
00:32:37.920 what the bug factory itself publicly brags about
00:32:42.420 and what the World Economic Forum publicly lobbies for.
00:32:47.620 What a disgrace they are.
00:32:50.440 Stay with us for more.
00:32:51.380 Welcome back.
00:33:04.320 Well, for those of you who have been watching our show
00:33:06.660 since the beginning of the pandemic,
00:33:08.340 you'll know the city, Nuremberg.
00:33:11.580 It's a German city.
00:33:13.500 It's a city that had several touch points with the Nazi regime.
00:33:18.300 The so-called Nuremberg laws were a system of racial laws
00:33:24.020 that said what, for example, Jews could or couldn't do,
00:33:27.800 including whether or not they could be doctors,
00:33:30.480 whether or not they could marry non-Jews, the Nuremberg laws.
00:33:34.640 After the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials
00:33:38.060 put the Nazis on trial for crimes against humanity.
00:33:42.020 Emerging from that was something called the Nuremberg Code.
00:33:45.980 One of the outcomes of those trials
00:33:48.760 was to review what doctors had done during the Nazi regime,
00:33:54.520 especially in concentration camps, in death camps.
00:33:57.940 Dr. Mengele, for example,
00:33:59.760 who conducted atrocious, torturous experiments on Jews and others,
00:34:05.920 horrific experiments on twins, for example,
00:34:09.460 positively infecting Jews with diseases to study it.
00:34:13.100 Doctors did the most diabolical things,
00:34:17.140 and it helped whitewash what the Nazis were doing.
00:34:20.780 The Nuremberg trials and the Nuremberg Code
00:34:22.940 emanating from the Holocaust
00:34:25.060 set forth our modern understanding of medical ethics,
00:34:30.080 including what rights the patient had
00:34:32.740 to not just consent but to inform consent
00:34:36.160 and ongoing consent and the right to remove that consent.
00:34:39.580 That's what the Nuremberg Code is,
00:34:42.800 and it's relevant to anyone who has studied
00:34:45.980 the last two years as patients,
00:34:49.500 ordinary Canadians have had their informed consent removed,
00:34:53.040 as Canadians have been pressured into taking vaccines.
00:34:57.780 Some of them took them willingly,
00:34:59.260 but many did not want to
00:35:00.960 and were coerced into doing so.
00:35:03.580 Did it touch upon the Nuremberg Code?
00:35:05.920 Well, it most certainly did.
00:35:08.720 And Leslyn Lewis,
00:35:10.880 one of the candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada,
00:35:13.380 mentioned this in a mass email the other day,
00:35:16.400 which I thought was very thoughtful
00:35:17.660 and very bold and very principled.
00:35:20.600 But people who know less than her
00:35:22.860 about the meaning of the Nuremberg Code
00:35:25.500 pounced,
00:35:27.020 claiming that she was diminishing the Holocaust somehow
00:35:30.820 by referring to it, just the opposite.
00:35:32.700 She was remembering the Holocaust and the lessons from it
00:35:36.260 that too many have forgotten too soon.
00:35:37.820 I saw another leadership candidate,
00:35:40.080 Scott Aitchison,
00:35:40.820 went on the hunt,
00:35:42.040 claiming that Leslyn Lewis was intolerant somehow
00:35:45.840 for referring to it.
00:35:47.300 Brian Lilly,
00:35:48.060 the disgraced former rebel,
00:35:50.060 now with Toronto Sun,
00:35:51.760 said that Leslyn Lewis' comments were unacceptable.
00:35:54.280 No, Brian is wrong yet again.
00:35:56.780 And I thought I would invite Dr. Lewis on the show
00:35:59.380 to talk about the Nuremberg Code,
00:36:02.080 how it's appropriate to refer to it
00:36:04.240 in the case of medical ethics,
00:36:06.360 and why I think she was right
00:36:08.040 and her critics were wrong.
00:36:09.100 Dr. Lewis joins me now via Skype
00:36:11.380 from her home in Dunville, Ontario.
00:36:13.860 Dr. Lewis,
00:36:14.400 great to have you on the show.
00:36:15.940 We're fans of yours all the time,
00:36:17.620 but I felt pricked into action here.
00:36:19.820 I felt that you were unfairly smeared.
00:36:22.280 Did I more or less accurately sum up
00:36:24.240 the background story?
00:36:25.320 Yes, I think you did,
00:36:28.740 and I really appreciate this opportunity
00:36:30.520 to speak with you about what the purpose
00:36:34.040 of that birthday wish to the Nuremberg Code was.
00:36:36.940 So that comms that I put out, Ezra,
00:36:39.180 was on the birthday of the Nuremberg.
00:36:42.020 And I really wanted to highlight
00:36:43.960 just how Canada has deviated from that
00:36:47.580 and how we should be careful
00:36:49.660 because that code,
00:36:51.380 we don't need to have another Holocaust.
00:36:53.840 And I pray to God that we will never have anything
00:36:56.780 so brutal and egregious as the Holocaust
00:37:00.240 for us to actually invoke the code
00:37:03.420 and to learn from it again.
00:37:05.180 I believe that the code
00:37:06.440 is an international legal principle
00:37:08.660 that came out of one of the worst dehumanization
00:37:13.560 of people to the point where people would say,
00:37:17.480 well, you know, the Jewish people,
00:37:20.020 some of them, their skin were the same color
00:37:22.220 as the people who were oppressing them.
00:37:24.080 But the hatred was so deep
00:37:25.980 that they created a racial group
00:37:29.060 and said these people are different
00:37:30.940 and measured the size of their heads
00:37:33.600 and did atrocious things.
00:37:34.940 That wasn't really what I was focused on.
00:37:37.620 I was focused on the legal principle
00:37:40.280 that came out of that
00:37:42.260 so that we would never do that again.
00:37:44.700 And so I took that legal principle
00:37:46.800 and I looked at whether or not Canada deviated from it.
00:37:51.340 And I looked at the experiments
00:37:52.520 that we conducted on young indigenous children
00:37:56.500 and so many things were so wrong with that experiment.
00:38:01.520 Even when the children were deemed to be malnourished
00:38:04.220 and doctors wanted to intervene
00:38:06.580 and give them vitamins,
00:38:09.820 the authorities, our government said no
00:38:12.780 because they are part of a control group
00:38:15.240 and you will ruin the experiment.
00:38:17.840 So they watch these children suffer.
00:38:20.620 And I wanted to highlight that.
00:38:22.560 And the reason why I highlighted the two other cases
00:38:24.720 is because I know that then sometimes
00:38:27.180 when people will go down the path of saying,
00:38:29.800 oh, well, you know, our country's so bad.
00:38:32.220 No, our country is the greatest country in the world
00:38:35.360 and we learn from our mistakes
00:38:37.240 and we are not perfect.
00:38:39.020 And that's why we need to analyze our history
00:38:43.640 rather than tear it down.
00:38:45.360 And that's why I highlighted the Willenberg,
00:38:47.480 Willowbrook case and Tuskegee
00:38:50.820 because in Willowbrook,
00:38:52.240 the parents also thought that,
00:38:54.200 well, actually the doctor said
00:38:55.740 that the parents were given consent
00:38:57.260 even though those parents were told
00:39:00.320 that if you don't sign on to this program
00:39:03.140 for your children, these experiments,
00:39:05.160 we won't treat your children.
00:39:06.900 We won't give them,
00:39:07.820 they won't be able to stay in this hospital.
00:39:10.140 So those parents were compelled
00:39:11.840 and they didn't know that the children
00:39:13.720 were being injected with hepatitis.
00:39:16.100 So they didn't even know
00:39:17.100 what the source of the injection was.
00:39:18.780 Same thing with Tuskegee, Ezra.
00:39:20.820 In the Tuskegee experiment,
00:39:23.220 both black and white men were treated.
00:39:25.600 The white men were treated
00:39:26.620 and the black men were given placebos
00:39:28.680 and watched and then sent out in the community
00:39:32.100 to infect others.
00:39:33.880 And children were born with syphilis
00:39:37.460 and were told,
00:39:38.560 and these men suffered dramatically.
00:39:41.260 And when they went to other doctors,
00:39:43.260 the doctors were not permitted to treat them.
00:39:45.300 They were told that they would lose their license
00:39:48.380 if they treated these men
00:39:50.020 because once again,
00:39:51.440 same as in Canada,
00:39:53.200 they were part of a human experiment
00:39:56.300 and they were a control group.
00:39:58.000 And so they needed,
00:39:59.360 they could not be treated.
00:40:00.520 And this is egregious, Ezra.
00:40:03.060 And on the birthday of Nuremberg,
00:40:05.580 I thought it was very important to highlight it.
00:40:08.420 Now, a few of my supporters contacted me
00:40:10.440 and said,
00:40:10.800 oh, you didn't mention COVID.
00:40:12.100 And they were very disappointed
00:40:13.560 because to be honest with you,
00:40:16.420 Ezra,
00:40:16.860 the purpose of the post
00:40:18.560 wasn't about COVID at that time.
00:40:20.220 It was to highlight
00:40:22.540 how fragile our rights can be
00:40:25.580 and how something as important
00:40:28.280 as the legal instrument of the Nuremberg Code
00:40:30.760 was deviated on three occasions
00:40:33.840 in North America for decades.
00:40:36.900 You know what?
00:40:38.080 Those cases are fascinating and terrifying.
00:40:41.920 I'm familiar with the Tuskegee case.
00:40:44.300 They literally injected men with syphilis,
00:40:47.480 claimed to be helping them,
00:40:49.020 but did not, as you said,
00:40:50.600 they let them get sicker and sicker
00:40:52.220 as part of a grotesque experiment,
00:40:54.480 clearly violating the Nuremberg Code.
00:40:56.920 The Nuremberg Code was part of the verdict
00:40:59.160 in these crimes against humanity trials.
00:41:01.720 Like it was,
00:41:02.600 the judges contemplated
00:41:04.420 what the doctors had done
00:41:05.520 and said no doctors should ever do that again.
00:41:08.100 It's interesting you say
00:41:09.220 some of your supporters said,
00:41:10.400 why didn't you mention COVID?
00:41:11.560 If you are standing by the Nuremberg principles,
00:41:13.820 people can infer
00:41:16.680 how this applies to our own situation.
00:41:19.020 Right now, literally right now,
00:41:21.320 the University of Western Ontario
00:41:22.820 is saying to young, healthy men and women
00:41:25.920 who already had two shots,
00:41:27.720 if you don't get the third shot,
00:41:29.220 which by the way,
00:41:30.320 is not health policy anywhere in this country,
00:41:33.160 just some bureaucrats said,
00:41:34.340 if you don't get this third health shot,
00:41:36.220 regardless of whether your doctor advises it,
00:41:38.860 we will punish you by banishing you
00:41:41.160 from this university.
00:41:42.480 That is so clearly against the Nuremberg Code.
00:41:46.720 And I think the reason there was a freak out
00:41:48.860 by Brian Lilly and Scott Aitchison
00:41:50.680 is because you're speaking the plain truth.
00:41:53.680 And instead of explaining
00:41:54.860 why the third booster shot should be mandatory,
00:41:58.480 they just want to throw insults at you instead.
00:42:02.000 I thought,
00:42:03.020 I think anyone who remembers
00:42:04.540 the Nuremberg Code and the Nuremberg trials
00:42:06.880 is doing a better service
00:42:09.160 to the memory of the Holocaust
00:42:10.160 than people who say,
00:42:12.400 how dare you invoke them?
00:42:13.440 I don't know.
00:42:13.740 I was very proud of you
00:42:15.260 and very glad that you talked about it.
00:42:18.680 Well, thank you, Ezra.
00:42:20.120 I never invoked the Holocaust.
00:42:22.280 I don't believe that
00:42:23.880 you can compare anything to it.
00:42:25.960 Just like chattel slavery,
00:42:27.680 I never compare anything to it
00:42:29.160 because the grotesqueness of what happened
00:42:32.840 is just, it's incomparable.
00:42:36.940 And so I never invoke it.
00:42:39.520 I am, I was trained as an international lawyer.
00:42:43.120 So a legal principle coming out of a trial
00:42:45.540 is something that I would always engage in.
00:42:48.740 And legal principles are historical precedents.
00:42:52.560 It sets the parameters
00:42:55.180 of how we should behave.
00:42:57.600 And so it's very, very logical
00:42:59.900 on the eve of the Nuremberg Code
00:43:02.980 to bring up these things.
00:43:05.300 And so I don't know why
00:43:06.580 they were so angry with me,
00:43:09.600 but I do know that
00:43:10.840 people like Mr. Achenston,
00:43:13.840 they have a lot of bigotry
00:43:15.500 around social conservatives.
00:43:17.380 And when people who support me
00:43:20.940 are referred to like the fringe,
00:43:23.280 it just tells them.
00:43:24.340 And to be honest,
00:43:25.440 on the 10th,
00:43:26.180 we will see who the fringe is.
00:43:27.700 We will see whether or not
00:43:29.600 I just have a fringe representation.
00:43:32.320 And I'm convinced that we don't.
00:43:33.720 There are a lot of people
00:43:34.880 who have questions, Ezra,
00:43:36.800 and their questions constantly
00:43:38.540 are dismissed as conspiracy theories.
00:43:41.660 And that's why we're having
00:43:42.860 so many problems right now,
00:43:44.260 because government officials
00:43:45.800 don't feel that it's necessary
00:43:47.500 to answer people's questions.
00:43:49.160 They feel that they can just
00:43:50.120 pat them on the head.
00:43:51.080 Oh, it's OK.
00:43:52.340 Go away with your conspiracy theory
00:43:54.200 and then demonize
00:43:55.680 and label anybody
00:43:56.860 who wants to stand up
00:43:58.680 and have truthful,
00:44:00.200 honest discussions.
00:44:01.420 Yeah.
00:44:01.820 Well, I tell you,
00:44:02.980 you're exactly right.
00:44:04.200 And I see the CBC
00:44:05.760 referred to you recently
00:44:07.500 talking about,
00:44:08.820 oh, no one is asking anyone
00:44:10.500 to eat crickets or eat bugs.
00:44:12.800 And it's absurd.
00:44:15.420 The so-called fact checkers,
00:44:17.200 the ones accusing everyone else
00:44:18.880 of believing in a conspiracy theory.
00:44:20.200 I read that so-called fact check
00:44:22.140 in the CBC.
00:44:23.100 It's about that London area
00:44:25.440 cricket food factory.
00:44:28.100 And right in the primary document,
00:44:30.660 the tweet from the firm
00:44:32.800 that built the factory,
00:44:33.960 it says for human and pet food.
00:44:37.740 The word human comes first.
00:44:39.820 Literally, the factory itself
00:44:41.640 boasts that it's crickets
00:44:43.820 for people to eat.
00:44:45.580 And then the rest of the article
00:44:47.040 is the CBC saying,
00:44:48.460 oh, you'd have to be crazy
00:44:49.660 to think we want people
00:44:50.780 to eat crickets.
00:44:51.720 Well, the factory builder
00:44:53.300 just said so.
00:44:55.300 You know what?
00:44:56.040 I think instead of answering
00:44:57.360 questions people have,
00:44:58.520 they're smearing them.
00:44:59.680 And that's not making
00:45:00.800 the questions go away.
00:45:01.840 I just brought in that
00:45:02.660 crickets thing as an example
00:45:03.960 of what you're talking about.
00:45:06.200 The elite's not actually
00:45:07.100 answering questions.
00:45:08.160 Hey, let me get back
00:45:08.880 to the leadership race
00:45:09.840 for a minute.
00:45:11.060 We're coming down
00:45:11.940 to final days.
00:45:12.900 I think party members
00:45:14.700 have until September 6th
00:45:17.320 to return their ballot.
00:45:19.060 Is that correct?
00:45:19.720 Like, that's just a week away.
00:45:21.720 That is just a week away.
00:45:23.300 That is just a week away.
00:45:24.580 And we will be picking up ballots
00:45:27.240 because we don't want them.
00:45:28.420 We want every vote to count.
00:45:30.140 And so if people do have
00:45:31.200 their ballots,
00:45:31.800 we will send a courier.
00:45:33.040 And we also have drop-off locations
00:45:34.780 so that we could amass
00:45:36.020 those ballots
00:45:36.600 and save on some of the courier costs
00:45:39.160 because we are fiscal conservatives.
00:45:40.540 So we'll find the most prudent way
00:45:42.060 to get it in.
00:45:43.940 Well, the results will be released,
00:45:46.600 I believe, four days later in Ottawa.
00:45:48.420 I'll be there with some
00:45:49.220 of the Rebel team.
00:45:49.880 I think it's going to be very exciting.
00:45:52.020 You are more seasoned as a candidate
00:45:54.880 than you were last time.
00:45:56.060 You've had a term
00:45:56.780 as a member of parliament.
00:45:58.640 This is not your first rodeo,
00:46:00.680 as they would say.
00:46:02.560 Now that we're coming
00:46:03.420 into the final days,
00:46:05.060 how do you think
00:46:06.060 the campaign has gone?
00:46:07.420 Not just for you,
00:46:08.280 but in general.
00:46:09.260 How would you describe
00:46:10.260 the race this time
00:46:11.440 as opposed to the last contest?
00:46:14.920 Ezra, it was very important
00:46:16.320 for me to be able
00:46:17.920 to articulate
00:46:18.700 certain policy positions
00:46:20.360 that I felt that
00:46:21.360 were being buried
00:46:22.540 in our party
00:46:23.920 and that weren't
00:46:25.260 being given a voice.
00:46:27.100 And so that was
00:46:28.360 one of my main objectives
00:46:29.740 is making sure
00:46:31.180 that people have a voice
00:46:33.020 and that they know
00:46:33.860 that they have representation
00:46:34.960 in parliament.
00:46:36.500 And so there are many issues
00:46:37.700 that, as you would say,
00:46:38.980 you rub the genie bottle
00:46:41.000 and the genies
00:46:41.620 out of the bottle now.
00:46:42.660 And so now
00:46:43.360 we have to have
00:46:45.000 these discussions.
00:46:46.080 And so I'm very,
00:46:46.740 very proud of myself
00:46:47.700 for that
00:46:48.120 because I've traveled
00:46:49.040 to 10 provinces
00:46:49.940 and three territories
00:46:51.380 and I've heard
00:46:52.300 the concerns of people
00:46:53.400 and it just doesn't seem
00:46:55.000 that many parliamentarians
00:46:56.400 are in tune
00:46:57.460 with some of the issues
00:46:58.760 that people find
00:46:59.780 that are very,
00:47:00.560 very important to them,
00:47:01.660 such as our sovereignty,
00:47:03.080 which is a primary issue
00:47:04.240 right now.
00:47:05.160 Yeah.
00:47:05.540 Well, we're certainly glad
00:47:06.700 you're in the race.
00:47:07.600 I think you've raised
00:47:08.500 a lot of interesting issues
00:47:09.660 and you've done so
00:47:10.360 in a politically incorrect way.
00:47:12.700 What I mean by that
00:47:13.320 is you're not more worried
00:47:14.520 about what will he say
00:47:15.500 or she say.
00:47:16.160 You just say it.
00:47:17.340 And I think that really
00:47:18.140 clicks with people.
00:47:19.560 I look forward to seeing you
00:47:20.880 in Ottawa.
00:47:21.700 Will you be in Ottawa
00:47:22.500 for the announcement night
00:47:24.260 on September 10th?
00:47:26.120 Absolutely.
00:47:26.740 And I look forward
00:47:27.220 to seeing you there too, Ezra.
00:47:28.620 Right on.
00:47:29.080 Well, it's a pleasure
00:47:29.840 to have you on the show
00:47:30.700 and I just wanted to talk
00:47:32.360 about this Nuremberg Code
00:47:33.500 because I think it's important
00:47:34.800 that everyone,
00:47:35.340 it's not just a Jewish thing,
00:47:36.740 of course,
00:47:37.040 it's for anyone
00:47:37.860 who cares about ethics,
00:47:39.020 but the fact that
00:47:40.000 some of your opponents
00:47:40.740 were trying to flip it around
00:47:41.760 on you,
00:47:42.480 I thought I had a,
00:47:43.720 I wanted to weigh in
00:47:44.820 on and have a good
00:47:45.440 discussion with you
00:47:46.540 about it.
00:47:46.840 Folks, I do encourage you
00:47:48.000 to look up the Nuremberg Code
00:47:49.500 and to read the rules
00:47:51.300 of medical ethics
00:47:52.160 that were devised
00:47:52.980 by the court
00:47:53.640 after the Holocaust.
00:47:55.480 Very interesting,
00:47:56.880 especially in the light
00:47:57.660 of current events.
00:47:58.860 Dr. Lewis,
00:47:59.340 pleasure spending time
00:48:00.260 with you.
00:48:00.860 Your website is
00:48:01.540 LeslynLewis.ca
00:48:03.280 and we'll see you
00:48:04.520 in just over a week
00:48:05.220 in Ottawa.
00:48:06.620 Awesome.
00:48:07.240 Thanks again, Ezra.
00:48:08.660 Pleasure having you.
00:48:09.440 There she is,
00:48:10.180 Dr. Leslyn Lewis.
00:48:11.160 Stay with us.
00:48:11.960 More ahead.
00:48:23.540 Welcome back.
00:48:24.860 Your letters to me,
00:48:25.840 Exorcism Earth says,
00:48:27.420 someone tell me the difference
00:48:28.920 between the Democrat disposition
00:48:30.500 and the Communist disposition.
00:48:32.620 Pro tip,
00:48:33.380 there isn't any.
00:48:34.740 Well, look,
00:48:35.260 there used to be
00:48:36.180 some moderate Democrats.
00:48:37.820 I mean,
00:48:38.060 you have to go back
00:48:38.820 a fair bit in time
00:48:39.940 and I think that's what
00:48:41.220 Ina,
00:48:42.080 the council member
00:48:43.200 from New York City
00:48:43.980 was saying.
00:48:45.040 You know,
00:48:45.380 15,
00:48:45.900 20 years ago,
00:48:46.620 the Democrats
00:48:47.120 weren't all AOC radicals.
00:48:50.160 They weren't all
00:48:51.200 Ilhan Omar radicals,
00:48:53.120 socialist radicals,
00:48:54.740 woke radicals.
00:48:55.840 They were still moderates
00:48:57.040 in the Democratic Party.
00:48:59.060 I mean,
00:48:59.340 there used to be,
00:49:00.020 it's hard to believe,
00:49:00.620 there used to be
00:49:01.240 pro-police,
00:49:02.300 pro-military Democrats.
00:49:03.800 I mean,
00:49:04.340 look,
00:49:04.640 JFK himself
00:49:06.080 fought hard.
00:49:08.480 I mean,
00:49:09.220 Russia,
00:49:09.620 the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:49:10.840 He was a hardline
00:49:11.940 anti-communist.
00:49:14.260 Bruce Atchison says,
00:49:15.260 let's hope and pray
00:49:16.260 more people cash in
00:49:17.160 their reality checks
00:49:17.880 like this interview,
00:49:19.220 E.D.
00:49:19.360 You're talking about
00:49:19.920 Ina,
00:49:20.540 the councilwoman.
00:49:21.320 I really liked her.
00:49:22.180 I mean,
00:49:22.780 she,
00:49:23.420 to go from being
00:49:24.380 a Democrat
00:49:24.860 to a Republican
00:49:25.940 in New York
00:49:26.480 is very hard to do.
00:49:27.780 I hope you enjoyed
00:49:28.640 the interview.
00:49:29.100 I mean,
00:49:29.240 afterwards I thought
00:49:29.980 maybe that was
00:49:30.760 a long,
00:49:31.540 deep dive
00:49:32.160 into something
00:49:32.800 very just New York-y
00:49:34.140 and very city council-y.
00:49:36.140 But I just,
00:49:37.180 I want to say,
00:49:38.660 I think she's going
00:49:39.820 to go on to big things.
00:49:41.220 Like a lot of people say
00:49:42.100 AOC's going to go
00:49:43.140 on to big things.
00:49:43.980 That's probably true.
00:49:45.260 I think Ina Vernikov,
00:49:46.760 I might too.
00:49:47.900 I hope so,
00:49:48.700 actually.
00:49:49.820 That's our show
00:49:50.420 for today.
00:49:51.320 Until tomorrow,
00:49:52.020 on behalf of all us
00:49:52.740 here at Rebel World
00:49:53.440 Headquarters,
00:49:53.980 don't eat the crickets.
00:49:55.260 Don't eat the bugs.
00:49:56.740 I'll see you tomorrow.
00:49:57.740 Hey guys,
00:49:58.380 Katie Davis-Court
00:49:59.000 reporting for Rebel News.
00:50:00.580 I am on the ground today
00:50:01.660 at the Edmonds-Kingston
00:50:03.060 Ferry Terminal
00:50:03.860 trying to bring light
00:50:04.980 to an issue
00:50:05.680 caused by Governor Inslee's
00:50:07.400 vaccine mandate
00:50:08.440 for state workers.
00:50:09.580 Now,
00:50:10.100 in October of 2021,
00:50:12.280 thousands of state workers
00:50:13.400 were fired
00:50:13.940 for not getting vaccinated
00:50:15.240 and among those,
00:50:16.720 hundreds belong
00:50:17.420 to the Department
00:50:18.040 of Transportation,
00:50:19.360 which significantly
00:50:20.240 impacted manpower
00:50:21.500 for Washington state ferries.
00:50:23.220 Now,
00:50:23.660 a shocking PDR request
00:50:24.780 obtained by the
00:50:25.440 Washington Policy Center
00:50:26.580 earlier this year
00:50:27.440 revealed that the week
00:50:28.780 before the vaccine mandate
00:50:29.920 took effect,
00:50:30.760 the Washington State
00:50:31.340 Department of Transportation
00:50:32.560 deliberately cut back
00:50:34.320 on ferry services
00:50:35.200 to try and hide the fact
00:50:36.680 that the disruption
00:50:37.800 would be caused
00:50:38.560 by the termination
00:50:39.340 of hundreds of employees
00:50:40.620 due to the vaccine mandate.
00:50:42.760 Now,
00:50:42.880 on August 11th,
00:50:43.840 the CDC issued
00:50:44.760 new COVID-19 guidance,
00:50:46.300 which stated that
00:50:46.880 the unvaccinated
00:50:47.860 are under the same guidance
00:50:49.180 as the vaccinated.
00:50:50.060 And despite the updated
00:50:51.700 guidance to treat
00:50:52.540 the unvaccinated
00:50:53.480 equally to the vaccinated,
00:50:55.380 Washington State Governor
00:50:56.340 Jay Inslee
00:50:56.960 has yet to rehire
00:50:57.860 the thousands of state workers
00:50:59.080 that he fired in 2021,
00:51:00.920 which would predominantly
00:51:01.820 solve the staffing crisis,
00:51:03.200 not just within
00:51:03.820 Washington State ferries,
00:51:04.940 but across all departments
00:51:06.300 impacted by the mandates.
00:51:07.780 Due to the mandate firings,
00:51:09.040 there hasn't been
00:51:09.640 enough manpower
00:51:10.560 to efficiently run the ferries.
00:51:12.260 Now,
00:51:12.960 over the past few months,
00:51:14.100 I have received
00:51:14.920 dozens of messages
00:51:16.540 from angry passengers
00:51:17.780 about boats being canceled
00:51:19.260 and delayed
00:51:19.880 on a near daily basis.
00:51:21.520 So I decided to wake up
00:51:22.880 at the crack of dawn,
00:51:24.340 head down to the ferry terminal,
00:51:25.860 investigate for myself,
00:51:27.240 talk to the average commuter
00:51:28.880 to get the real story
00:51:30.080 and find out what's really happening
00:51:31.720 at Washington State ferries.
00:51:33.460 Let's see what they have to say.
00:51:34.820 How often would you say
00:51:35.920 that the boats are delayed?
00:51:38.300 About every day.
00:51:40.840 Every day?
00:51:41.300 Yeah.
00:51:42.500 And it's impacting everyone.
00:51:44.260 Everyone.
00:51:45.240 Yeah, so I was up
00:51:46.120 on Orcas Island
00:51:46.680 a couple weeks ago,
00:51:47.840 grew up there.
00:51:49.120 Ferries were great
00:51:49.900 growing up for decades.
00:51:51.860 And then they did
00:51:52.440 the reservation system
00:51:53.500 already kind of
00:51:54.240 threw a loop in things,
00:51:55.460 but definitely more recently
00:51:56.320 since COVID,
00:51:57.700 everything's gone
00:51:58.520 completely whack-a-mole.
00:52:00.460 And there's never been
00:52:01.420 like a good explanation
00:52:02.340 exactly for why.
00:52:03.140 It definitely seemed
00:52:03.700 like it got weird
00:52:04.580 as soon as mandates
00:52:05.620 started to come into play.
00:52:06.440 The workforce affected
00:52:07.840 by the mandates
00:52:08.680 and then they had
00:52:09.420 all a bunch of excuses
00:52:10.500 about what the actual
00:52:11.740 problems were,
00:52:12.460 but it was definitely
00:52:13.480 coinciding with when
00:52:15.180 those mandates started.
00:52:16.680 I think that we have
00:52:18.080 a problem with Inslee.
00:52:20.540 And what do you think
00:52:22.220 of the vaccine mandate?
00:52:23.700 I think it's awful.
00:52:25.700 I think a lot of people
00:52:26.640 lost their jobs
00:52:27.820 that were important
00:52:29.140 to Washington State.
00:52:30.560 They have left.
00:52:32.140 They've gone to other states.
00:52:34.000 They aren't going to come back.
00:52:36.420 I leave here at 12.30
00:52:39.700 in the afternoon
00:52:40.300 and not get home
00:52:41.240 until 7.30 at night
00:52:42.520 to go 80 miles.
00:52:44.000 It's, you know, ridiculous.
00:52:47.020 What do you think
00:52:47.480 is the cause of the delays?
00:52:49.100 Oh, it's from the government
00:52:50.820 of Inslee
00:52:51.180 about the pandemic
00:52:53.000 of the COVID virus.
00:52:55.560 I think what I heard
00:52:56.640 from one of the ferry workers
00:52:57.480 is when it first started,
00:52:58.920 the mandates,
00:53:00.300 they had 300 ferry workers
00:53:02.000 quit or retire
00:53:03.040 and only had 200 people
00:53:04.800 in reserve.
00:53:05.620 So it got called up.
00:53:06.620 So it still got less people.
00:53:08.540 But four and a half hours,
00:53:09.820 I was literally on the boat.
00:53:11.200 It was leaving
00:53:11.620 four and a half hours
00:53:12.540 after my original scheduled time
00:53:14.200 that I had a reservation for.
00:53:16.080 So, yeah, it's crazy times.
00:53:17.880 Have you noticed
00:53:18.440 anyone else complaining
00:53:19.380 about the wait times?
00:53:20.860 Everybody.
00:53:22.080 Everyone I talked to in line,
00:53:23.960 they don't understand
00:53:24.860 what's going on.
00:53:26.340 So I explained to them
00:53:27.560 and then they said,
00:53:28.400 why does it drive around?
00:53:28.940 Well, if you drive around,
00:53:30.300 that's two hours
00:53:31.060 from Kingston to Edmonds.
00:53:33.040 Right.
00:53:33.600 So it's either way,
00:53:34.860 you gotta wait.
00:53:35.900 I think the only way
00:53:37.120 that the wait times can change
00:53:38.880 is if we bring back the workers
00:53:40.800 who really want to work,
00:53:42.460 we protect them
00:53:43.780 and not force them
00:53:45.620 to get a vaccine in their arm
00:53:47.400 that they do not know what it is.
00:53:50.020 What would you say
00:53:50.560 to Governor Inslee
00:53:51.220 if he was here?
00:53:52.540 Just stopping the mandates,
00:53:56.360 stopping the emergency powers,
00:53:58.280 be our governor,
00:54:00.180 don't try to be our president again.
00:54:01.920 You know,
00:54:02.860 try to be our governor,
00:54:03.640 please.
00:54:04.560 Please be our governor.
00:54:06.340 As in,
00:54:07.960 every in Washington state
00:54:08.940 except for Seattle.
00:54:10.720 Governor Inslee sucks.
00:54:12.440 That's my opinion.
00:54:15.880 I'm glad he rehired them.
00:54:17.820 No, he hasn't rehired them yet.
00:54:19.660 Should,
00:54:20.020 do you think he should?
00:54:20.980 Sure.
00:54:21.720 Yeah.
00:54:22.680 He should get rid
00:54:23.580 of his emergency powers,
00:54:25.300 go back to normal,
00:54:26.800 get more people in the schools,
00:54:28.120 get more ferry workers,
00:54:29.080 so that way everybody
00:54:30.360 can be held by the ferry,
00:54:31.840 especially on the weekends.
00:54:32.860 I don't understand
00:54:33.700 the ferry,
00:54:34.740 this is a good paying job.
00:54:36.360 It's a great job.
00:54:37.460 They have a pension.
00:54:39.200 Where's all,
00:54:40.060 where's all the people at
00:54:41.260 that need jobs?
00:54:42.640 I know you just can't
00:54:43.680 go on a ferry boat
00:54:44.480 and be qualified right away.
00:54:47.260 Yeah.
00:54:47.520 Yeah.