Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m curious about a few things but I’m worried I’ll get in trouble for asking about them

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I've got a question for you. Did you hear that there is a shortage

00:00:03.740 of baby formula, like food for really, really little babies, in America and Canada? How did

00:00:11.340 that happen? I'll talk a little bit about how it happened and the bizarre fact that it hasn't been

00:00:17.380 solved. You don't think Donald Trump would have solved that in a second. But as I was looking at

00:00:22.140 that, I came across a factoid that Bill Gates has invested in an artificial human milk company

00:00:30.900 to make synthetic human milk. And after gagging a little bit, I read the story and I'll talk to

00:00:38.760 you about these two things and whether or not they're related. That's today's show. Let me

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00:01:19.420 Here's today's podcast.

00:01:35.140 Tonight, I'm curious about a few things, but I'm worried I'll get in trouble for asking about them.

00:01:41.140 It's May 11th and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:44.720 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:49.580 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:53.640 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:58.540 right to do so.

00:02:04.960 Gasoline prices are so high, I can't even believe it. I see it as a car driver when I fill up in

00:02:11.600 the pumps. But of course, I don't see it in everything else that is trucked or driven before

00:02:17.300 it gets to me. Food, anything in a store, really. But it's a reason for inflation.

00:02:23.920 And what are you going to do? Drive only two-thirds of the way to work? Only take the kids to school

00:02:28.740 three days a week? There are certain things that have what economists call price inelasticity of

00:02:34.660 demand. It's a fancy way of saying no matter what the price is, you still have to buy it.

00:02:40.640 With normal things, the price goes up. You consume less of it. You switch. You go without. You find an

00:02:46.040 alternative. But you can't do that with gasoline. That's why politicians love to tax it so much. 1.00

00:02:52.280 That pain you feel at the pump is the inelasticity. You just have to fill up with gas no matter what.

00:02:58.200 Maybe 1% of us can switch to taking a bus or riding a bike, at least in the summer. But it's

00:03:05.140 not realistic for most of us. Just out of curiosity, I checked what Tesla electric cars are going for

00:03:10.600 these days. Look at this article here. The headline is pretty recent. Entire Tesla lineup gets fresh

00:03:18.920 roundup price increases in Canada and the U.S. I checked. And the Tesla Model 3, that's their cheapest

00:03:27.320 car. It starts at 60,000 Canadian. That's a luxury price. And of course, that's only if you can get

00:03:34.260 your hands on them. Tesla only had 12,000 Model S's available for sale in all of Canada all of last

00:03:40.220 year. My point is, there is no electric alternative. And you can't bike in the winter here. And unless you

00:03:46.740 live in some very specific neighborhoods, in a few of our big cities, you really can't use public

00:03:53.000 transit. And it wouldn't work anyways for families. Trudeau likes that, by the way. He likes the pain

00:03:59.880 of energy poverty. He's counting on it. He wants you to feel the pain so badly when you use gasoline

00:04:05.940 that you will make better choices, as he calls it. Here's a clip of him a few years back on this

00:04:11.840 very question. But will Canadians expect to pay higher fuel prices with the carbon taxes?

00:04:17.100 I think one of the things we've seen across the country is that the incentives that come from

00:04:24.680 better choices, making choices to be cleaner and greener, is exactly what we want.

00:04:31.640 So he wants high gas prices. He literally wants them. He calls it pricing pollution,

00:04:37.040 pricing carbon. Those are euphemisms for making you pay more for energy, the stuff of life. No one

00:04:42.600 else wants to pay more. He himself doesn't pay more in his life. His energy use is all paid for

00:04:48.180 by taxpayers. But do you know what you need to buy even more than gasoline? Do you know what you need

00:04:55.780 to buy so badly, it will drive you mad. It will put you into a panic if you cannot buy it.

00:05:03.520 Food, of course. And even more precise than that, baby food. I mean, babies can't eat the same thing

00:05:10.280 as grown-ups, obviously. And especially with newborns. Mother's milk is nature's solution, 0.91

00:05:16.740 but some mums cannot breastfeed for a variety of reasons. They rely on baby formula, which is a 0.99

00:05:24.180 special digestible substitute that attempts to replicate the nutritional value of mother's milk.

00:05:30.640 And I can't even believe this is happening. There is a shortage of baby formula in America.

00:05:37.000 This is from yesterday's New York Times. A baby formula shortage leaves desperate parents searching

00:05:45.700 for food. Some parents are driving hours at a time in search of supplies. Others are watering

00:05:52.380 down formula or rationing it, hoping for an end to the shortage. By the way, it's happening in Canada

00:05:57.700 too, not just the U.S. Here's a headline. U.S. baby formula shortage impacting Canadian families,

00:06:04.620 experts say. It's terrifying. Watering it down? Watering down baby formula? Let me read just a few

00:06:12.880 sentences from that New York Times article. Marichella Marquez looked at the last can of baby

00:06:20.240 formula in her kitchen on Tuesday and handed her three-year-old daughter, who suffers from a rare

00:06:25.200 allergic esophageal disorder. A smaller than usual portion of the special nutrition she needs to stay

00:06:31.880 healthy. Ms. Marquez has been calling suppliers all over Texas, asking about any new shipments.

00:06:38.320 Right now, they are out of it completely, she said. I'm desperate. Ms. Marquez lives outside San

00:06:45.460 Antonio, a city that has seen the nation's highest rate of formula shortages. 56% of normal supplies

00:06:51.600 were out of stock as of Tuesday, according to the retail software company, Data Assembly,

00:06:58.200 amid a nationwide supply crunch that has left parents scrambling to feed their children.

00:07:04.360 So it's not even the gasoline. You know, gasoline, there's no shortage of gas. It's just extremely

00:07:10.580 expensive. Here, there is literally no stuff. There's a shortage of baby formula. Money will not

00:07:17.040 actually even solve this problem for you, though you'll need money to buy gas to drive around for

00:07:21.840 hours to find this. Here's the Washington Post. It's a big story. The baby formula shortage is an

00:07:29.940 outrage. A sane country would fix it. Look at that picture there. Empty shelves? That's a Soviet-era 0.82

00:07:37.340 thing, not an American thing. Babies and their well-being have never been much of a priority in the

00:07:44.380 United States. But an alarming shortage of infant formula and the lack of a national mobilization

00:07:50.000 to keep babies fed provides a new measure of how deeply that indifference runs. Formula has been

00:07:56.920 in short supply since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back then, customers who could afford it

00:08:02.700 stockpiled formula to limit their trips outside. A manufacturing and delivery cycle that takes between

00:08:08.640 12 and 16 weeks from start to finish didn't keep pace. Okay, but that obviously hasn't been a factor

00:08:15.000 in a year, right? That was a factor back then when there was a lockdown. But there has been a

00:08:22.340 shortage in the past year, not in 2020, as the supply chain broke down. That's stuff that Donald Trump

00:08:30.700 excels at. He's a doer. He's a fixer. He knows all about supply chains and logistics. You can't build

00:08:36.940 a skyscraper without that kind of planning and logistics. Do you really think the mentally

00:08:43.500 declining Joe Biden knows anything about the real world? Or do you think any of his team do? I don't

00:08:49.780 think so. Freight delays held up crucial ingredients like many other industries. Formula manufacturers

00:08:57.000 struggle with labor shortages. And as 2021 turned into 2022, a spate of severe winter storms slow

00:09:04.200 deliveries of products to store shelves. The worst blow came in February when Abbott Nutrition recalled

00:09:10.720 formula made in its Sturgis, Michigan plant. Two babies who drank formula from the plant died of

00:09:17.320 bacterial infections, and others were hospitalized. Although bacteria wasn't found in the samples

00:09:23.040 they drank, Abbott announced the recall as a precaution. All right. But that's all cleared up now.

00:09:29.820 I mean, here's the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom. You often find the best reporting

00:09:34.200 overseas. FDA review. It's about the FDA. You know, why is the biggest baby formula plant in U.S. still

00:09:43.300 shut down after three months? Abbott says plant is safe and was not responsible for the bacteria

00:09:49.140 that killed two kids. But FDA refuses to reopen it as parents across U.S. struggle to feed their babies.

00:09:55.620 Abbott Labs claims its Michigan plant is not responsible for bacteria that killed at least

00:10:01.560 two infants. The baby formula manufacturer alleged an FDA investigation revealed infant formula produced

00:10:08.600 at our Sturgis facility is not the likely source of infection. Abbott claims products from the

00:10:14.400 facility did not cause any bacterial outbreak. The plant still remains closed. Despite the findings,

00:10:20.480 after shutting down in February, amid a major product recall, Abbott says it's working closely

00:10:26.260 with the FDA to restart operations at the plant, as parents across the nation are struggling to get

00:10:31.060 formula for their babies. I won't read any more than that. The Daily Mail is actually great,

00:10:36.200 aren't they? It's summarizing the whole story in point form. But did you hear it? The FDA won't let

00:10:41.180 them reopen the plant. But can I show you a story from just eight days ago on CNN? Eight days ago. Look

00:10:48.000 at this story on CNN. Lab-grown human milk. Maybe just three years away. Breast milk is the perfect 0.63

00:10:58.220 food for babies, but not all mothers are able to best feed. And with adoption or surrogacy, parents

00:11:03.440 don't have the option. Enter BioMilk. The North Carolina-based startup is working to create

00:11:10.200 human milk outside of the body, from burgers to breasts. The idea first came to co-founder and chief

00:11:17.460 science officer Layla Strickland in 2013. After she heard about the world's first lab-grown burger,

00:11:25.840 the cell biologist by training Strickland wondered if similar technology could be used to culture human

00:11:31.160 milk-producing cells, she tells CNN business. Let me just read a little bit more. I find this

00:11:37.940 stuff really gross. Sorry. BioMilk is not the only company hoping to create a new kind of milk for

00:11:43.880 babies. Turtle Tree, based in Singapore, and the United States is culturing stem cells to create milk

00:11:49.940 components from a range of mammals, including humans. While New York-based Helena is using microbial

00:11:58.360 fermentation to grow proteins found in human milk. By taking dairy farming out of the equation,

00:12:05.700 BioMilk says its product could make feeding babies more environmentally sustainable.

00:12:12.660 Producing one kilogram of packaged formula creates between 7 and 11 kilograms of carbon dioxide.

00:12:19.420 According to one estimate, BioMilk is still running studies into its own carbon footprint.

00:12:24.800 The promise of a greener alternative to formula has attracted investment from Bill Gates.

00:12:31.960 Breakthrough Energy Ventures, alongside other investors, the Climate Focus Fund

00:12:37.400 helped BioMilk raise $21 million in October 2021. With this funding, Strickland says BioMilk

00:12:44.260 is focused on expanding and making more milk.

00:12:47.900 We consider ourselves now in our second trimester, she says. That's so gross.

00:12:54.080 Lab-grown milk and lab-grown meat. 0.52

00:12:58.960 Look at this. Bill Gates, rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef.

00:13:04.140 We spoke to the Microsoft co-founder about his new book, The Limits of His Optimism,

00:13:09.120 the Tech Breakthroughs and Energy Policies We Need, and how his thinking on climate change has evolved.

00:13:14.200 That's just a year ago. And here's the World Economic Forum pushing the same thing.

00:13:24.220 They're talking about making food in a lab using stem cells of animals.

00:13:29.760 What are they doing? This is Frankenstein stuff.

00:13:32.260 But they also just 3D print food, too. Take a look at this.

00:13:37.000 We are creating a matrix here, which is a plant-based matrix, but we are ordering the fibers as if they were muscular fibers.

00:14:02.480 So we are micro-extruding these filaments so that the plant-based stick has at the same time the appearance and the texture of an actual beef stick.

00:14:18.600 All right, so the machine is finished now.

00:14:20.720 When we tear this apart, you see the fibers, because we are trying to replicate what is inside the muscle.

00:14:50.700 We are trying to replicate what is inside the muscle of an actual animal.

00:14:51.700 What do you think?

00:14:52.700 What do you think?

00:14:53.700 I like it.

00:14:54.700 I like it.

00:14:55.700 Yeah?

00:14:56.700 Yeah.

00:14:57.700 Yeah.

00:14:58.700 Yeah.

00:14:59.700 Yeah.

00:15:00.700 Global population is growing. We will be around 10 billion by 2050, and the meat consumption is growing globally.

00:15:14.700 So we really need a solution, and we need to provide alternatives to meat.

00:15:24.700 What's going on here? Why is Bill Gates behind so many of these weird projects?

00:15:30.700 Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future.

00:15:37.700 Sure, do you doubt for a second that these billionaire oligarchs eat anything other than the finest meat, wagyu beef from Japan?

00:15:47.700 They eat whatever they want.

00:15:49.700 I mean, it's not like Bill Gates has a lot of respect for life.

00:15:53.700 I mean, ask his wife about that.

00:15:56.700 You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you. Did that play a role in the divorce at all in this process?

00:16:10.700 Yeah, as I said, it's not one thing. It was many things. But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no.

00:16:20.700 And you made that clear to him?

00:16:22.700 I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.

00:16:27.700 Did you?

00:16:28.700 Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt. And here I'm an older woman. My God, I feel terrible for those young women. It's awful.

00:16:51.700 I felt that the moment you walked in. He was awful. Yeah. And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?

00:16:58.700 Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to answer. Okay. But I made it very clear how I felt about him.

00:17:07.700 Pretty sure if you're fine with pedophile rapists like Jeffrey Epstein, you don't really care about animals or whatever it is that Bill Gates claims to care about. He doesn't care about people, does he? 0.85

00:17:20.700 Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? Here's another one. Here's another story. Bill Gates now owns more farmland than anyone in the U.S. Conspiracy theorists want to know why. Really? Are only conspiracy theorists curious about this? You're not interested in that question? You don't want to know?

00:17:42.920 Yeah. Yeah. If you're not naturally curious about why Bill Gates has suddenly bought up more farmland than anyone else in America, you lack any intellectual curiosity.

00:17:54.120 But left-wingers will scold you for asking about it. Since when did left-wingers, by the way, run to do damage control and PR for billionaire oligarchs? Isn't that weird, too?

00:18:05.160 Is it about green living or something? That's what Bill Gates says. But I don't think he really cares about the environment, as Elon Musk showed us the other day.

00:18:18.480 Bill Gates is taking a massive short position against Tesla stock, the electric car company. Gates doesn't just fly in private jets. He owns a private jet company.

00:18:28.220 It's not about a greener world. It's about his bizarre fetishes and his desire to control people like we're ants in an ant farm. Plus, you've got to say, the guy's just weird.

00:18:41.460 Bill Gates has been busy in his second life as a billionaire philanthropist. On Tuesday in China, he took the next step in his crusade against poverty and disease by showing the room a jar of poop.

00:18:54.380 This is a container of human feces.

00:18:59.380 Yeah, no thanks. He's obsessed with poop. I mean, I'm sorry, I've got to show you this. Yuck. 0.74

00:19:05.680 It will grow to every corner of the earth that needs it because it makes money every day.

00:19:13.140 It's water.

00:19:16.480 You know, you can't actually find out answers about this, at least not easily. I mean, try Googling these things.

00:19:21.340 You won't find a lot of news about the story. You'll find rebuttals to the story that you can't see.

00:19:27.320 Fact checks to the story. Fact checks paid for by Bill Gates.

00:19:33.200 Just a reminder, Bill Gates, who has paid more than $300 million to media outlets, much in the same way that Justin Trudeau has done.

00:19:40.980 You really can't ask him tough questions. You really can't ask him questions at all.

00:19:46.020 It's a miracle. Those reporters who asked him about Jeffrey Epstein is still alive.

00:19:50.620 I mean, you can't ask questions about him. You can't have questions for him directly.

00:19:55.000 They're sort of lost in the fog. I mean, how does a guy who carries around a jar of poop

00:19:59.520 and who hangs out with pedophiles get to be the boss of the world?

00:20:03.400 But let me close with three clips of Bill Gates himself, the guy who says he has all the answers,

00:20:11.420 the guy who tells us to obey, admitting he actually knew nothing.

00:20:16.780 Look at this from just a week ago.

00:20:18.720 An mRNA, you know, we could even speed it up a bit faster.

00:20:23.380 There had never been a commercial product using mRNA.

00:20:25.780 And so it's wild that it was so fast.

00:20:29.780 Even the non-mRNA vaccines worked very well.

00:20:33.040 Probably the two best are the Pfizer and Moderna that are both mRNA.

00:20:36.120 But even the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, there's a lot of good vaccines.

00:20:41.440 The vaccines are imperfect in two very important ways.

00:20:47.080 One is they don't block infection.

00:20:48.740 We were hoping that the vaccine would create enough antibodies in your upper respiratory tract,

00:20:55.340 including your nose and throat, that vaccinated people wouldn't get infected.

00:21:00.340 And part of the impetus to say, OK, even young people who don't get very sick should get vaccinated

00:21:06.620 is if you can take them out of the transmission chains.

00:21:09.580 That drops the numbers very rapidly.

00:21:12.420 Well, once Omicron comes along, the vaccine is not reducing transmission hardly at all,

00:21:19.920 particularly about three or four months after you take the vaccine.

00:21:22.280 So we need to fix that.

00:21:24.260 And there's good ideas about how to do that.

00:21:26.840 The other thing is duration.

00:21:28.760 You know, we're seeing through a variety of the data, Israel data, UK data,

00:21:34.060 that particularly if you're in your 70s, within four or five months of taking the vaccine,

00:21:39.660 the protection really is going down.

00:21:42.420 Weirdly, for young people, that protection does not seem to go down.

00:21:46.380 And we've seen this with previous vaccines.

00:21:48.480 Like the flu vaccine actually doesn't work that well in the elderly.

00:21:52.300 We're going to create some new flu vaccines that are much better.

00:21:56.080 And so, you know, the RNA vaccines are a miracle, but they weren't perfect.

00:22:01.520 And so next time, I think we'll have much better vaccines and better therapeutics as well.

00:22:08.700 Hang on.

00:22:09.380 So, so is it a vaccine if it doesn't stop transmission?

00:22:13.960 And is it a vaccine if it only works for a short period of time?

00:22:18.900 Here's another clip from the same conversation.

00:22:20.520 Take a look.

00:22:20.820 It wasn't until early February when I was in a meeting that experts at the foundation said,

00:22:26.500 there's no way, you know, this, there's been too much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this.

00:22:36.080 And then at that point, we didn't really understand the fatality rate.

00:22:40.760 You know, we didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.

00:22:51.000 So that was a pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast as it needed to.

00:23:01.180 So, so you acknowledge, we've known for actually more than two years, it only affects the elderly, but you still insisted that it be jabbed into every young person.

00:23:09.960 You knew that.

00:23:11.100 But you wanted to jab every young person.

00:23:14.340 Look at this one.

00:23:15.720 If, if all we would have had to do was say a 45 day lockdown, I think we would have gotten pretty good compliance.

00:23:25.140 It says the lockdown starts extending out.

00:23:29.560 And, you know, the lockdown hasn't dropped the cases to zero.

00:23:33.780 You know, so the counterfactual of, okay, how much worse would it have been if we hadn't had this lockdown is unclear.

00:23:40.300 There was a lot of uncertainty about, for example, school shutdowns.

00:23:44.980 To this day, you know, there's still arguments about how many cases that avoided.

00:23:51.520 It's pretty clear because young people don't get sick from the disease very often that we probably, if we knew everything we know today, we would have shut schools down a lot less than we did during this pandemic.

00:24:07.700 I mean, yes, it's tricky for the elder adults.

00:24:10.100 It's tricky in a lot of ways.

00:24:13.820 And you mean by that high school and under.

00:24:15.440 Exactly.

00:24:16.880 You know, for college, going virtual tends to work awfully well.

00:24:21.760 The infection levels are a little higher as you get up into that age group.

00:24:25.980 But K through 12, we have a learning deficit that will take us a long time to erase that.

00:24:33.040 And sadly, it's a deficit where the inner city is where it's almost two years.

00:24:39.020 Suburban schools less.

00:24:40.240 Private schools, in some cases, like my kids, almost no deficit at all.

00:24:46.980 So you knew it would hurt children.

00:24:49.020 You knew it would hurt minority children the most.

00:24:52.180 But you didn't say a thing.

00:24:55.120 You knew all this.

00:24:57.120 And by the way, if you or I had said any of those things on YouTube or Facebook a few months ago, indeed, even today, you and I would be deleted for disinformation.

00:25:07.380 Bill Gates is saying things as if they've only recently been discovered.

00:25:13.680 He's still pushing vaccines that he admits don't work.

00:25:17.140 I've never seen him speak out against the lockdown, by the way.

00:25:20.980 In fact, one of his big lessons, he says, is that we needed to lock down harder and faster like Australia did. 0.99

00:25:28.580 Bill Gates is weird. 0.99

00:25:29.940 He's likely a child rapist, given his association with Jeffrey Epstein. 0.99

00:25:33.400 He's got a God complex, that's for sure. 0.99

00:25:36.440 But most of all, he's just wrong.

00:25:40.440 But as someone with $100 billion, he's immune to the consequences of being wrong.

00:25:47.140 He was wrong with the pandemic, and we survived, sort of.

00:25:52.680 He now wants to take control of our food.

00:25:55.880 And I don't know if we'll survive that.

00:25:59.800 And yeah, asking questions about it doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist.

00:26:04.340 It makes me a skeptic about a dishonorable man.

00:26:09.520 Stay with us for more.

00:26:10.620 Well, the Ontario election is underway, and I am depressed.

00:26:21.280 At least on the federal scene, in the figure of Pierre Pauly, you have someone campaigning for freedom.

00:26:29.220 And he has standing as a Harper MP and a member of parliament.

00:26:35.360 And I think he's really resonating with the grassroots.

00:26:38.100 I look at the incumbents in the province of Ontario.

00:26:41.860 Doug Ford has been atrocious in his lockdownism.

00:26:44.940 But if you look at the two mainstream opposition parties, the Liberal Party and the NDP, they're worse.

00:26:50.580 The Liberal Party is making one of their central campaign pledges to bring back masks for schoolchildren.

00:26:57.040 Well, there are some smaller parties that are challenging the election.

00:27:01.920 The other day we told you more about the New Blue Party and Jim and Belinda Karajalios.

00:27:06.380 Well, another smaller party that believes in freedom is led by our friend Derek Sloan.

00:27:11.960 It's called the Ontario Party.

00:27:13.240 And he joins us now via Skype from north of Orillia.

00:27:17.480 Derek, great to see you again.

00:27:18.400 How are you?

00:27:19.620 Really good.

00:27:20.360 Thanks for having me today.

00:27:21.600 Well, tell me about the campaign.

00:27:23.780 The Ontario Party, it's a new party, only a few months old, if I'm not mistaken.

00:27:29.800 Thrown into your first election, are you a candidate?

00:27:32.840 And how many other candidates are running?

00:27:34.640 So I am a candidate.

00:27:36.880 The party was actually founded in 2018, and they ran five candidates in the last election.

00:27:43.100 We expect to have about 100 candidates, maybe more by the time the cutoff tomorrow for candidates.

00:27:49.560 And I am running in my home riding of Hastings, Lennox and Addington, which I represented up until recently as a federal member of parliament.

00:27:57.660 And who's the incumbent there that you're challenging?

00:28:00.520 So the incumbent is actually retiring.

00:28:03.940 His name is Daryl Cramp.

00:28:05.800 So the new person running for the PCs is, again, a previously unelected member.

00:28:12.780 And so hopefully that'll give us a leg up in that race.

00:28:15.660 Yeah.

00:28:16.720 Well, I find it depressing that Doug Ford, who calls himself a conservative, has been anything but.

00:28:24.860 But the latest polls show that he's fairly strong.

00:28:27.860 What are your goals?

00:28:28.820 I didn't know that the Ontario Party had contested the last election.

00:28:33.220 Thank you for that information.

00:28:35.440 Fielding 100 candidates, what do you hope to achieve?

00:28:39.920 I look at the federal level, and I admire Maxime Bernier, and I know he comes in second or third in a lot of places, and that means something.

00:28:49.500 But he didn't punch through anywhere, including in his own seat.

00:28:52.720 What do you hope to achieve on Election Day?

00:28:55.620 So we hope to win some seats.

00:28:57.540 Obviously, we're fighting to win generally, but we're definitely going to be focusing resources on key seats that we think are winnable.

00:29:05.960 Our hope is to win some seats.

00:29:07.200 I think it's very important to have a voice in Parliament or the legislature, as the case may be.

00:29:12.600 And we've seen that even with one voice, you know, federally or even provincially, a lot can happen.

00:29:17.940 A lot of good information can get out there.

00:29:21.100 Now, you yourself are fairly well-known.

00:29:23.680 You were an MP, and then you ran for the leadership of the Conservatives in the last time around.

00:29:28.140 Are there any other candidates on your team that may be publicly known, star candidates, if I can use that phrase?

00:29:36.100 Yeah, so we have some really good candidates.

00:29:39.780 And just to give you the sense of the type of people that want to put their name on the line, we have multiple doctors.

00:29:46.680 We have multiple veterinarians.

00:29:48.500 I think we have six engineers that are running.

00:29:51.140 But in terms of actual sort of name brand candidates, we do have Rick Nichols, who is a multiple-time PC member of MPP from Chatham-Kent, Leamington, who is running under the Interior Party.

00:30:04.180 We have Tom Marazzo, who is a very high-profile leader, veteran as well, of the Trucker Convoy.

00:30:11.460 And he's running for us.

00:30:12.660 We have Bridget Belton, who is a Trucker Convoy leader as well.

00:30:19.700 We have Kristen Nagel, who's a well-known nurse that will be putting her name forward.

00:30:25.320 And there's many others.

00:30:26.400 I don't want to, you know, suggest that the other candidates are not worth supporting either.

00:30:31.220 But those are some of the more prominent ones, and it'll be exciting to see how this plays out.

00:30:36.900 Great.

00:30:37.800 Listen, here's a question I would put to Randy Hillier.

00:30:40.300 In fact, I did put this to Randy Hillier the other day.

00:30:42.620 It's a question I would put to the Karahaliosas, if they were here right now. 1.00

00:30:46.140 And it goes to splittism.

00:30:48.400 And I know that everyone has a different opinion on things, and there's also personal disagreements.

00:30:53.340 But between the New Blue Party and the Ontario Party, I see a lot of similarity in the basic philosophy of freedom and opposing the lockdown.

00:31:03.860 But I can't help but feel that if there even is a chance of punching through in a riding or two, that if there are two smaller, non-established, freedom-oriented parties, anti-lockdown parties, that whatever freedom vote there is is going to be split between the two of them.

00:31:24.100 What do you think of that?

00:31:26.140 You know, I couldn't agree more.

00:31:27.740 I think we need to have more unity.

00:31:29.060 I can say on our part that we've reached out to the New Blue on multiple occasions.

00:31:33.420 We published actually publicly a proposal that we sent to them privately, and that was not answered.

00:31:40.340 And if they say the opposite, they know my phone number, I'm ready to talk any time, I'd be happy to work together.

00:31:47.740 Obviously, we're coming very close to this upcoming election, so it may be something for another time.

00:31:52.880 But I think at the very least, there should have been some kind of arrangement to not run candidates against, you know, prime candidates of the other party.

00:32:00.760 And we would have been happy to do that.

00:32:02.740 In fact, even though we haven't heard back from them, we're not planning on running a candidate against, for example, Belinda.

00:32:09.040 We think that she deserves the respect to run unopposed.

00:32:14.240 Unfortunately, they haven't taken that tack, and they're running a full slate against even some of our stellar candidates.

00:32:19.780 All of that aside, I do feel, though, the approach needs to be a positive, uplifting approach.

00:32:25.740 We've tried to do it that way, and I would really caution some of the other groups.

00:32:29.580 Let's not do the, you know, character assassinations.

00:32:31.980 Let's not do, you know, the mudslinging. 1.00

00:32:34.540 Let's focus on the target.

00:32:35.980 Let's focus on where we want to take Ontario.

00:32:38.320 We've had enough destruction the last couple of years to last a lifetime.

00:32:41.940 Let's focus on rebuilding the province.

00:32:44.300 Yeah.

00:32:44.560 I know you've got to run, and we've got you.

00:32:46.540 Literally, you pulled over on the side of the road to take this Skype interview.

00:32:49.280 I appreciate that.

00:32:50.140 So I know I only have you for a couple more minutes, but something happened to you.

00:32:54.060 You told me just before we turned the camera on.

00:32:55.940 Just today, you were permanently banned from Twitter for a political tweet.

00:33:03.260 Actually, it's this tweet here where you were retweeting something from Rebel News,

00:33:08.060 and we were just commenting on Teresa Tam and her latest public rumination.

00:33:14.200 You didn't say anything offensive or racist or violent or anything that traditionally would be considered wrong.

00:33:22.220 You just had some, I don't know, political opinion on the lockdown that wasn't approved.

00:33:26.980 I find this troubling because you're a political candidate leading a political party.

00:33:31.180 I think everyone should have freedom of speech, but a political leader in a campaign, in the middle of the campaign to be suspended,

00:33:40.420 is awfully meddlesome, especially when Twitter allegedly is going to be liberated now by Elon Musk calling for free speech.

00:33:49.460 What do you make of this, and what should we make of this?

00:33:52.980 Well, Twitter and Facebook have limited us.

00:33:56.260 Twitter banned us permanently.

00:33:57.680 Facebook has not allowed us to use advertising dollars for political purposes,

00:34:02.040 which, of course, is a huge deal in the middle of a campaign.

00:34:05.820 Yes, it's political interference.

00:34:08.240 We're, of course, going to be looking into all options, even legal options here to address this.

00:34:13.440 But, you know, it's funny now.

00:34:14.720 This is the second time that Teresa Tam has gotten me into trouble.

00:34:17.600 And, frankly, it's outrageous to see the type of censorship that we're seeing on Twitter.

00:34:24.880 Our party, of course, is going to fight against that.

00:34:27.260 And I'm glad to be able to be, you know, at the forefront of this.

00:34:31.780 And I know that many others have been censored on Twitter as well.

00:34:34.900 But in the middle of an election campaign, very disturbing when, you know, a new party needs to break ground and to reach people.

00:34:41.520 It's very disturbing to see that they're shutting down the conversation.

00:34:45.780 Yeah, I find it very confusing.

00:34:46.920 I think just the other day, Elon Musk mused that he would let Donald Trump back on.

00:34:52.200 And Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter boss, says it was a mistake to kick him off.

00:34:56.720 And, you know, I don't think either of those men speaks for Twitter today.

00:35:02.380 They're sort of the past, ghost of Twitter past and ghost of Twitter future.

00:35:07.280 But Twitter today, I don't know.

00:35:10.160 I just, Twitter is based in San Francisco.

00:35:12.280 You've got a foreign company that is literally interfering in a Canadian election.

00:35:18.060 This is the kind of thing that is supposed to set off alarm bells.

00:35:21.500 I don't know.

00:35:21.820 I guess the fact that it's a woke San Francisco censor rather than a Chinese or a Russian bot means we're supposed to be OK with it. 0.60

00:35:29.740 Have you have you reached out to Twitter?

00:35:32.020 Have you tried to appeal this?

00:35:33.560 You mentioned you might take legal action.

00:35:35.280 I recommend you do.

00:35:36.720 What are you what are you doing to fight this?

00:35:38.420 Because if they can do this to you, they can do this to anyone.

00:35:40.720 So we did do the appeal process and they actually got back to us today and said that because we've had multiple strikes against us, that this is a final shutdown.

00:35:50.340 The interesting thing is, is that the strikes before where we were pulled off, we appealed those and won.

00:35:56.580 So it appears that the strikes count even if you win your appeal in terms of, you know, three strikes, you're out.

00:36:02.860 So very, very unfortunate.

00:36:05.100 Yeah, well, that is interesting.

00:36:06.880 Well, listen, thanks for stopping by.

00:36:08.180 I know you're busy.

00:36:08.700 I appreciate you pulling over to do an interview with us.

00:36:11.180 I wish you good luck on the campaign trail and we'll keep watching your Twitter battle.

00:36:14.820 I think that's very important.

00:36:16.420 Thanks for being with us today.

00:36:18.860 Really glad to be here.

00:36:20.020 And I know that our fight against the digital ID and some of these other health freedom issues is really pushing the wrong buttons at the high levels there in Twitter.

00:36:28.180 So we'll take our fight to the ground.

00:36:30.840 Right on.

00:36:31.700 All right.

00:36:31.940 There you have it, Derek Sloan, the boss of the Ontario Party.

00:36:34.860 Stay with us.

00:36:35.880 Your letters to me are next.

00:36:38.700 Hey, welcome back.

00:36:45.680 Your viewer mail.

00:36:46.860 Karen Icahn says, thank you, Rebel, for ramping up awareness of the most essential issues in Canada.

00:36:52.680 The Trudeau crime government must be exposed.

00:36:56.020 Carbon.

00:36:56.940 What about the billions of tons speared by all those jets doing the geoengineering?

00:37:02.160 We've seen a less than 30 flying over our land here in B.C. every day, burning the blue sky to gray by noon.

00:37:08.940 Here in the rural area, we must have SUVs.

00:37:11.300 Tiny soy boy cars and Teslas would not work in a real life scenario.

00:37:16.280 Got a lot of things in there.

00:37:17.840 And I appreciate the compliment.

00:37:19.820 I don't think that contrails, like the condensation behind a vapor trail, I don't think that that's geoengineering.

00:37:31.300 I acknowledge that sometimes there's cloud seeding.

00:37:34.260 I grew up west of Calgary and farmers would seed the cloud to try and squeeze rain out of it.

00:37:38.920 But I don't believe that regular contrails or vapor trails are, I think you called it geoengineering.

00:37:46.060 I just disagree with you on that.

00:37:47.320 I don't think that's accurate.

00:37:48.900 Also, in regards to Trudeau, I do believe that he has committed a crime.

00:37:54.000 I believe that his, and I believe the RCMP believes that too.

00:37:58.300 And I say that based on their assessment of his corruption in the Aga Khan Millionaire Island thing.

00:38:03.960 But other than that specific allegation of crime, which the RCMP said they would have made had it not, you know, looked bad or something.

00:38:13.580 I'm reluctant to say that Trudeau is a criminal.

00:38:16.640 As I say before, we can disagree with him. 0.65

00:38:18.880 We can despise him.

00:38:19.780 We can think he is unethical, immoral, improper and bad for the country.

00:38:23.140 But we don't want to say that what he does and says is illegal because we don't want to criminalize our political differences.

00:38:29.540 By the way, if we ever did, we would be the first to be arrested.

00:38:32.600 So I do think that Trudeau did commit a crime by taking effectively a bribe from the Aga Khan.

00:38:42.460 But I don't want to broadly say that Trudeau is a criminal.

00:38:47.980 Jared 144 says the roads keep getting worse and we need trucks and SUVs just to avoid unnecessary damage and premature repairs.

00:38:56.680 That's a good point.

00:38:57.800 You know, I really had never looked into pricing of Teslas, but I did today.

00:39:03.180 Sixty grand for that baby model.

00:39:05.720 I mean, that is a rich person's car.

00:39:08.260 And even if you have the dough, you know, only 12,000 Model 3s were sold in Canada all last year.

00:39:14.700 It's just not a real solution.

00:39:16.080 S.G.J. says, why are you allowed to be a minister with a criminal record?

00:39:25.000 Yeah, that's a good question.

00:39:26.380 I mean, I know for a fact that the RCMP vets members of Cabinet because they're privy to national secrets, economic secrets, diplomatic secrets, national security secrets, military secrets.

00:39:38.140 And, of course, we're part of the Five Eyes spy cartel, the United States, UK, us, Australia, New Zealand.

00:39:45.900 And so we share the secrets of our closest allies.

00:39:49.700 Do you really want a convicted criminal in that cabinet?

00:39:54.660 Now, that's something that a curious person might ask.

00:39:57.400 But I don't know if I've seen a single journalist ask Trudeau about the wisdom of putting a convicted criminal in there.

00:40:05.160 Well, that's the show for today.

00:40:07.320 Until tomorrow, I want to leave you with a new video of the day from our newest hire, Juan Mendoza Diaz,

00:40:14.260 who is in Florida covering one of the most interesting politicians in the world.

00:40:19.520 Ron DeSantis, honoring victims of communism and mandating that that story be taught in class.

00:40:29.060 Here's Juan Diaz.

00:40:31.200 I'll see you tomorrow, everybody.

00:40:32.700 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:33.500 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a conference in Miami, Florida at the Freedom Tower to give honor to the victims of communism.

00:40:43.020 During the conference, he also signed bills that would give funding to the Freedom Tower,

00:40:47.120 make November 7th Victims of Communism Day,

00:40:51.040 and ensure that high school students in the state of Florida would learn about the evils and horrors of communism.

00:40:57.000 Freedom is not free, that you have to fight for your rights,

00:41:02.840 and that there are a lot of people out there that would love nothing more than to put you under some form of oppression.

00:41:09.860 And so we're going to maybe talk about the budget, but before that, we actually have a great piece of legislation.

00:41:16.280 that we're going to sign here today, and I couldn't think of a better place to sign.

00:41:21.300 Today, I am signing HB 395, which will officially designate November 7th as Victims of Communism Day

00:41:30.680 to honor the more than 100 million people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world.

00:41:37.840 We want to make sure that every year, folks in Florida, particularly our students, will learn about the evils of communism,

00:41:45.520 the dictators that have led communist regimes, and the hundreds of millions of individuals who suffer, and continue to suffer, under the weight of this discredited ideology.

00:41:57.520 Next July will mark the 10-year anniversary of the killing of my father at the hands of the Cuban regime, but sadly, my father was not the only one killed that day.

00:42:12.520 But sadly, my dear friend, my father was not the only one killed that day, but sadly, my father was not the only one killed that day, but sadly, my father was not the only one killed that day.

00:42:27.520 My friend, my father, my father, my father was not the only killed him, was not the only killed that day, but my friend had a baby 32 years old, was also killed 10 years ago,

00:42:39.900 as thousands of Cubans before them, during these six decades.

00:42:46.480 Actually, as also some Cubans after them, as last July 11th, when Juris Laurensia was shut down in the street just because he was filming

00:42:57.040 a peaceful protest. Actually, while we talk today, at least 1,000 Cubans are suffering

00:43:06.240 political prison just for peacefully marching, demanding freedom, demanding the end of communism.

00:43:15.120 The same evil that now is going to be taught at the schools in whole Florida, also to commemorate

00:43:27.920 all the victims. Actually, I'm now looking at the room and I'm recognizing victims of communism

00:43:36.920 while I talk. It's time to stop this process, this factor of victims that is the communism.

00:43:48.440 What this legislation represents, what this freedom power represents, we've got to be willing

00:43:53.640 to speak out when we see things that aren't consistent with our values in our own country.

00:43:59.240 And most recently, having the federal government set up a disinformation bureau in the Department

00:44:04.200 of Homeland Security is wrong. What they are doing to try to stifle dissent, to try to elevate

00:44:11.000 a chosen political narrative that's endorsed by the regime, and to try to marginalize dissenters

00:44:18.280 is not what a free society is all about. And what they will use that for, I believe,

00:44:23.560 is to feed the social media platforms with what they want to be censored and not want to be censored.

00:44:30.360 I'm just thankful that Elon Musk is taking over Twitter.

00:44:41.160 He's going to open it up. And when he first did the offer, the board tried to fend it off because

00:44:47.640 I think it was a great offer financially. And then, of course, if you look, his tracker with companies

00:44:53.000 is probably second to none. So he's going to improve the company for sure. But they were worried about

00:45:00.360 him being in control and then them losing control of the narrative because a lot of the stuff that's

00:45:06.920 been censored over the last few years has turned out to be true. When you look at a lot of the stuff,

00:45:12.200 I mean, there were guys and they were hammering me because I said kids needed to be in school in 2020.

00:45:17.880 And they had all these people saying all this stuff. Now, no one will even admit that they wanted the kids

00:45:23.160 life, even though many people did, including in Florida, who were fighting for politics reasons.

00:45:28.920 So you see all these different things. And that, I think, is really what some of these social media

00:45:34.440 platforms have become is they want to enforce one viewpoint and one narrative. And then if you speak

00:45:41.800 out against that, maybe you'll be suspended, maybe you'll be totally deplatformed, maybe your post will

00:45:47.160 be will be censored or even do it for satire sites like the Babylon Bee. And in fact, that's one of

00:45:53.480 the reasons why I think Musk was interested in doing the Twitter. So the opposition, what he was trying

00:45:58.600 to do was not rooted in business judgment. It wasn't an economic objection. It was an objection

00:46:05.800 for them losing control of the narrative. I think it's a good thing that they lose control of the narrative.

00:46:11.000 I think it's a good thing that Americans are able to speak out. And particularly when a lot of these

00:46:16.600 false narratives are trying to be shoved down the throat with some of these, some of these major

00:46:21.480 companies. And so we, we may be clear in Florida, like our pension happened to have Twitter shares,

00:46:26.840 we would have had standing to pursue action against the board of directors if they violated their

00:46:31.800 fiduciary obligation. So we let it be known we were, we were willing to do that. The board of

00:46:37.080 administration sent all the board of directors for Twitter a letter. And I think that they realized,

00:46:42.440 well, I just floored a lot of people who were watching this. And so being able to accept it and

00:46:47.320 go forward was the right business judgment to make. I think our, our pension fund is going to make like

00:46:52.360 15 million dollars out of that transaction, which is, which is positive for our, for our pensioners.

00:46:57.960 But I think more important to me than just the dollars and cents is doubling down on, on free expression.

00:47:05.080 You know, there's no orthodoxy that, that the government can impose on us. We're able to speak,

00:47:10.200 speak our mind. And, and that disinformation bureau needs to go the way of the buffalo.

00:47:15.960 We need to eliminate that. That is a, that is a big danger to free expression in this country.

00:47:20.600 Okay. We're going to get going.

00:47:28.280 Oh yeah, of course, of course. All right. So this is the victims of communism. Thank you all.

00:47:36.920 For more coverage on the state of Florida, please stay tuned to Rebel News on social media.

00:47:50.600 For more coverage on the state of Florida, please stay tuned to Rebel News on social media.

00:48:01.240 We'll be honest with you.

00:48:02.620 Questions for coming along.

00:48:04.480 Take care.

00:48:12.980 We'll be glad to be.

Rebel News Podcast - May 12, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m curious about a few things but I’m worried I’ll get in trouble for asking about them

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