Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m going to share my feelings with you. No, please don’t turn the channel.

00:00:00.040 Hello, my Rebels. Today is a very unusual show.

00:00:04.600 I talk about my feelings. I know that is something a man should never do.

00:00:09.480 A man should bottle his feelings up and never talk about them. 1.00

00:00:14.040 I know that. But I'm going to break that rule just for today

00:00:17.800 so you'll hear some feelings. I'm sorry.

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00:00:52.380 Alright, here's my show about feelings.

00:00:58.120 Tonight, I'm going to share my feelings with you. No, please don't turn the channel.

00:01:13.140 It's September 3rd and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:15.420 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:21.300 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:25.380 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher,

00:01:29.220 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:35.980 Let me tell you a little bit about men talking about their feelings.

00:01:39.660 It's a bad idea. Always has been.

00:01:44.580 And men go to great lengths to avoid talking about their feelings.

00:01:49.400 Just ask a man. I don't mean a male feminist like Justin Trudeau or Gian Gomeschi.

00:01:56.260 They pretend to talk about feelings as a trick or a trap to seduce women.

00:02:01.260 I mean real men don't talk about their feelings. 0.83

00:02:03.900 Here's a scene from the great movie, movie should have won an Oscar,

00:02:06.820 called Talladega Nights, The Legend of Ricky Bobby.

00:02:10.460 Look, I know it's a comedy and I know the feelings banter here is a joke,

00:02:14.740 but it's funny precisely because it's true.

00:02:20.020 Hey Cal, I'm sorry about wrecking you today.

00:02:24.400 I mean, but that's for the team.

00:02:25.840 No, that's cool. That's cool, Ricky. That's cool.

00:02:27.800 You know, I was thinking though, one time it would be really awesome

00:02:32.000 if like you could slingshot me in for a win.

00:02:35.080 Yeah, but, okay, but if you won, how am I going to win?

00:02:40.240 Yeah.

00:02:40.980 Think about it.

00:02:41.620 No, I was thinking about it.

00:02:43.920 I mean, it's not like you're finishing 18th.

00:02:46.060 Nothing wrong with silver.

00:02:47.120 Nothing wrong with silver at all.

00:02:49.020 I'm just kidding you, man. I don't want to win.

00:02:53.720 I'll just bury it down inside.

00:02:55.580 Bury it deep down in there and never bring it up again.

00:02:58.340 It's painful and I love you.

00:03:00.600 Bury it deep down inside.

00:03:03.000 Here's a serious man, Blake Masters.

00:03:05.400 He's actually a high-tech executive.

00:03:06.980 He's now running for the Senate in Arizona.

00:03:09.520 Apropos of nothing, just some comment about guys liking things.

00:03:13.780 He tweeted this out the other day about how men love to solve problems

00:03:17.220 and talk about things more than talk about people.

00:03:21.020 And this made me chuckle.

00:03:22.280 He said, men will literally build functioning infrastructure instead of going to therapy.

00:03:28.680 I think a lot of feelings are sublimated into building towers or bridges.

00:03:32.940 I think the skyscraper race in New York City in the 30s was the focusing and sublimation of feelings.

00:03:41.520 It was how men were men back then.

00:03:44.380 Men will literally get into a sailing ship and cross the ocean in the Middle Ages to avoid an embarrassment.

00:03:50.540 Get this story about a man who accidentally farted in front of Queen Elizabeth I when he bent over.

00:03:59.420 Let me read from this historical memo.

00:04:02.800 John Aubrey, the diarist, tells a story about the Earl of Oxford.

00:04:07.820 When the Earl made a low obeisance to the Queen, he happened to let go of a fart,

00:04:13.440 at which he was so ashamed that he left the country for seven years.

00:04:18.560 At his return, the Queen welcomed him and said,

00:04:22.820 My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

00:04:26.080 Well, obviously she hadn't.

00:04:27.800 But imagine leaving the country for seven years rather than to talk about something embarrassing.

00:04:36.380 I don't know.

00:04:37.260 Men are supposed to do things, not talk about things. 0.99

00:04:40.540 Certainly not talk about their feelings.

00:04:42.080 But I have had a lot of feelings about the pandemic, not just thoughts and words.

00:04:47.180 I think we've done action, too, by the way.

00:04:51.840 We've helped more than 2,000 people through our Fight the Fines Civil Liberties project.

00:04:57.000 We just set up our vaccine consultations hotline,

00:05:01.520 where we're making lawyers available to ordinary people for free

00:05:04.120 to get a half-hour consultation about forced vaccines.

00:05:07.680 And our big new project is fightvaccinepassports.com,

00:05:12.080 where we're going to file 20 strategic lawsuits against vaccine passports.

00:05:16.020 We have signed up about half a dozen clients already for that.

00:05:21.340 And we'll be telling their stories in the weeks ahead.

00:05:23.600 I'm so proud of our Rebel News viewers.

00:05:25.380 I'm so thankful, who have chipped in more than $630,000 so far towards our goal of a million dollars.

00:05:31.260 You might have seen an email from me yesterday.

00:05:33.000 We're actually looking to hire 10 lawyers for battles to come,

00:05:37.600 in-house lawyers working full-time on this.

00:05:39.780 Now, I know you're probably thinking, okay, that's litigation, that's lawyering.

00:05:42.660 How's that really action?

00:05:45.020 Well, you're right.

00:05:45.880 I mean, it's a kind of action, I suppose.

00:05:47.340 We do journalism, too, telling the other side of the story, which I think is important.

00:05:52.100 But look, the real change has to come from the government, in the government, politically.

00:05:57.020 I fear that no governing political party in this country,

00:05:59.300 no official opposition in this country is standing for liberty.

00:06:02.380 I like the People's Party and Maxime Bernier,

00:06:05.360 and they're climbing in the polls so much so that pollsters are no longer snidely referring to them

00:06:10.920 just as other, but now by name.

00:06:13.120 But even the most robust polls show the PPC at around 6% or 7% nationally.

00:06:19.060 I saw one poll in Alberta that put them at 16%.

00:06:22.320 That's impressive.

00:06:23.980 But in our first-past-the-post system, you can come in second place in 100 ridings,

00:06:29.020 you still won't get a single seat in parliament.

00:06:30.940 We'll talk a bit more later today about Jason Kenney's latest move to reinstate mask laws

00:06:37.940 and to shut down bars at 10 p.m. as if scapegoating blue-collar workers is any way related to the virus.

00:06:44.840 So yeah, I don't have high hopes.

00:06:47.240 Our political class has failed us.

00:06:48.920 And if you saw my interview yesterday with Professor Bruce Pardee,

00:06:52.320 you'll know my views and his about failures in every part of the establishment,

00:06:55.960 like a net where every knot is broken.

00:06:59.560 I think that's why people are so upset, so desperate.

00:07:03.280 Look at the word desperate.

00:07:04.440 It comes from despair.

00:07:05.960 It's the opposite of hope, really.

00:07:08.860 Aspire, espoir in French, same root.

00:07:12.440 It's the saddest word in the dictionary, to give up hope, to give in to despair.

00:07:16.800 That's where we are.

00:07:17.660 But that's a feeling, not just a thought.

00:07:20.380 And that's why I wanted to make fun of men sharing their feelings a bit.

00:07:25.560 What do we do with our feelings?

00:07:27.440 We hide them in our muscles.

00:07:29.560 And how do we hide our feelings better?

00:07:31.740 We get bigger muscles.

00:07:33.340 We get bigger muscles.

00:07:34.760 But I don't just have thoughts and plans and words.

00:07:37.140 I have feelings too.

00:07:38.520 And I want to tell you about them, but please don't make too much fun of me.

00:07:42.820 18 months ago, I had a bit of fear in me.

00:07:45.040 I didn't know how bad the virus was, and I had seen plenty of terrifying videos from China, 1.00

00:07:49.880 some of which are now obvious to me that they were propaganda.

00:07:53.460 This man simply collapsing and falling down is obviously a hoax.

00:07:57.300 Coronavirus doesn't do that.

00:08:00.080 This was propaganda too.

00:08:02.280 This makes no medical sense.

00:08:03.860 It looks like stormtroopers are spraying the air above a road.

00:08:08.840 That's just not sensible.

00:08:09.920 That's not public health, even in China.

00:08:11.360 That was propaganda to make us afraid.

00:08:13.440 And we all were afraid in those early weeks.

00:08:16.480 At least I was.

00:08:18.260 But two weeks to flatten the curve didn't turn into a crisis.

00:08:20.800 The mighty U.S. Navy hospital ships that Donald Trump deployed to New York and L.A.

00:08:24.400 were never used.

00:08:26.220 And we now know that the early reports of mass deaths were caused by human decisions,

00:08:30.880 including euthanasia.

00:08:31.900 Quebec's inquiry into the matter shows that doctors and nurses euthanized COVID patients

00:08:37.840 just deciding to kill them with morphine, not help them.

00:08:41.180 That's why Quebec has half of Canada's COVID deaths, despite having just a quarter of the population.

00:08:46.060 That's why so few people actually know anyone who died from COVID.

00:08:49.160 And by know someone, I use Scott Adams' definition of have you personally talked to that person in the past five years.

00:08:55.280 So unless you knew a lot of 85-year-old Quebec nursing home victims, I'm guessing you probably don't know someone who actually has died from this pandemic.

00:09:04.640 By the way, they did the same thing in New York State, too.

00:09:06.860 So our fear and confusion in those early days and weeks gave way within for sure a couple months

00:09:15.420 because we knew the contours of the disease much better.

00:09:19.140 It was a disease we learned of the old, to be sure, but mainly of the old and already sick and, to be honest, of the fat. 0.98

00:09:27.040 And things were subsiding a bit in the summer, as coronaviruses do, as flus do,

00:09:34.020 until suddenly the fear machine revved up at the end of August last year, about a year ago exactly.

00:09:39.560 All at once, in unison, every province and city, it was like an orchestra,

00:09:44.560 within weeks every province and city had their mask laws out of nowhere.

00:09:47.700 There were no mask laws for the first six months.

00:09:50.540 In fact, the opposite. Here's Teresa Tam saying don't wear a mask.

00:09:53.300 So our advice right now is there is no need to use a mask for well, people.

00:09:59.040 Then suddenly every place made masks the rule all at once. Why?

00:10:04.340 Conformity. You could feel it, if that's a feeling.

00:10:08.660 I could sense that people wore the masks as a sense of tribe.

00:10:12.460 Whose team were you on?

00:10:14.500 Back then, Trump was still president. If you hated Trump, you were a masker. 0.98

00:10:18.520 If you hated Trump, you mocked his simpler suggestions for remedies, like hydroxychloroquine.

00:10:25.760 And at this point, a sour feeling came out.

00:10:28.560 Whatever solidarity there had been in the first month,

00:10:31.560 whatever relief there was in the months that followed when the virus subsided,

00:10:34.920 that we were going to get through it,

00:10:36.020 it was replaced by this political and personal division.

00:10:39.320 That's when we started seeing the scapegoating.

00:10:42.280 That's when people took it upon themselves to be mask bullies and mask police.

00:10:46.340 And as I've said before, none of them ever used the language of someone genuinely scared of getting sick.

00:10:52.480 No one ever said that.

00:10:53.760 It was all about compliance and obedience and submission.

00:10:57.240 Not a single mask skull that I have seen, and I think I've seen 50 videos,

00:11:01.780 not a single mask skull that says,

00:11:03.340 put your mask on, you'll get sick, or put your mask on, you'll make me sick.

00:11:07.220 None of them, because that's not why people felt the need to rage.

00:11:10.460 It was about compliance. It was about signaling what team you were on.

00:11:13.400 If you were part of the faceless blob, strength in numbers, solidarity,

00:11:17.320 or if you were part of the dissident individualists.

00:11:21.020 And that division, that us versus them pitting us against each other,

00:11:24.920 that was so key to rewire our society,

00:11:29.200 to prepare the way for vaccine laws,

00:11:32.400 to make us practice separating from our friends and neighbors and even our family,

00:11:36.780 to practice not going to church anymore, to funerals or weddings anymore.

00:11:40.880 It prepped us. It prepped us to distance from each other,

00:11:44.000 to even hate each other, to hate outliers,

00:11:46.600 to hate independent people who didn't want to submit, 0.80

00:11:48.800 to blame them as dirty, almost like animals, almost subhuman.

00:11:54.160 This was the front page of the Toronto Star last week,

00:11:56.440 a collage of hatred against those who aren't faxed,

00:11:59.700 implying they ought to be left to die, really. 0.99

00:12:01.360 It's just so gross. 0.94

00:12:02.160 I see a shocking story today about a woman who needs life-saving surgery in Alberta,

00:12:08.160 nothing to do with the virus.

00:12:09.860 But her doctor told her there would be no surgery if she didn't get the vaccine.

00:12:14.880 It was held over her.

00:12:16.180 Get the jab or you will be left to die.

00:12:19.220 A few months ago, Trudeau said we would never get this way.

00:12:21.740 I think we are very aware of the fact that these new variants,

00:12:25.600 in particular the Delta variant, are very concerning.

00:12:28.320 We see this.

00:12:31.160 We're seeing surges of COVID in several European countries

00:12:35.640 related to the Delta variant,

00:12:37.120 even if they already had high rates of vaccination.

00:12:40.140 That is why we're continuing to repeat the message

00:12:46.880 that in order to come back to a more normal way of living in Canada,

00:12:51.860 everybody should get vaccinated.

00:12:53.280 We see every day hundreds of thousands of people being vaccinated.

00:12:57.940 Vaccination is moving forward quite quickly.

00:13:01.780 We lead the planet in terms of first and second dose vaccines.

00:13:09.100 We do hope.

00:13:11.200 And we not to have to make this vaccination compulsory

00:13:16.140 because we see to what extent Canadians,

00:13:20.580 once given the proper information and the encouragement of doctors,

00:13:25.180 their peers and other community leaders,

00:13:27.000 are stepping up and getting vaccinated.

00:13:29.780 So we will continue to encourage and find ways

00:13:34.640 of enticing Canadians to get vaccinated.

00:13:37.520 Because yes, even if we have now reached 80% of eligible Canadians

00:13:45.000 having the first dose and 50% for two doses,

00:13:47.960 we still have a lot of work to do to get to a situation in the fall

00:13:54.320 where we can have a more normal situation,

00:13:56.200 a more safe situation for all.

00:13:57.960 I don't know if he believed that.

00:14:00.040 I don't know if he believes anything,

00:14:01.280 but obviously you can't count on him.

00:14:03.480 Doug Ford said the same.

00:14:04.620 Well, I've never believed in proof.

00:14:07.440 Everyone gets their proof.

00:14:08.820 When they get the vaccination, you're right.

00:14:10.200 Anything can be fraudulent.

00:14:11.380 Right down from money to certifications.

00:14:14.940 I just, no, we aren't doing it.

00:14:16.320 Simple as that.

00:14:18.200 And we're just going to move forward now.

00:14:20.640 He reneged.

00:14:21.380 Both have become absolute forced vaccine bullies.

00:14:24.720 Trudeau couldn't be clearer about us versus them

00:14:27.220 saying they and those people threatened his life

00:14:30.880 and that of his kid.

00:14:32.480 So the folks out there tonight shouting,

00:14:35.660 the anti-vaxxers,

00:14:37.100 they're wrong.

00:14:40.140 They are wrong about how we get through this pandemic.

00:14:45.120 And more than just being wrong,

00:14:47.800 because everyone's entitled to their opinions,

00:14:50.340 they are putting at risk their own kids

00:14:53.300 and they're putting at risk our kids as well.

00:14:58.400 That's why we've been unequivocal.

00:15:01.180 If you want to get on a plane or a train in the coming months,

00:15:04.700 you're going to have to be fully vaccinated.

00:15:06.500 So families with their kids don't have to worry

00:15:09.540 that someone is going to put them in danger

00:15:12.500 in the seat next to them or across the aisle.

00:15:15.340 And we know that the way to get through this as well

00:15:19.460 is to make sure that people can go into non-essential businesses

00:15:24.840 and feel safe that they're not going to catch COVID

00:15:29.020 from someone next to them.

00:15:30.540 And that means we're going to work with provinces and territories

00:15:34.260 who want to move forward on vaccination certifications,

00:15:38.820 on vaccination passports,

00:15:40.420 so that everyone can be safe.

00:15:42.580 And what's more,

00:15:43.200 the federal government has announced

00:15:44.680 we're going to pay for the development of those privileges

00:15:48.640 that you get once you get vaccinated

00:15:51.060 because everyone needs to get vaccinated

00:15:53.880 and those people are putting us all at risk.

00:15:58.220 And Aaron O'Toole is siding with them

00:16:00.880 instead of with Canadians who did their part and stepped up.

00:16:06.020 He's talking about personal choice.

00:16:08.260 What about my choice to keep my kids safe?

00:16:11.100 What about our choices to make sure

00:16:13.280 we're getting through this pandemic as quickly as we can?

00:16:16.360 Those people, those people.

00:16:17.900 Oh, you mean Canadians?

00:16:19.360 Is that who you're talking about?

00:16:20.200 Millions of Canadians?

00:16:21.480 Maybe 10 million Canadians.

00:16:24.200 Bonnie Henry, the BC public health tyrant, 1.00

00:16:26.760 never elected in her life,

00:16:28.000 but loving every minute of her celebrity.

00:16:30.060 She wrote a loving book about herself.

00:16:31.520 She's living her best life.

00:16:33.040 She's not done yet on the stage.

00:16:34.800 She announced a doctor.

00:16:36.880 She announced that she will ban non-vax people 1.00

00:16:39.080 from all walks of life in BC,

00:16:40.960 even if they're medically unable to take the vaccine

00:16:43.400 because they might die from the vaccine, for example,

00:16:45.480 in an allergic reaction.

00:16:47.440 I do.

00:16:47.740 I was also asking about,

00:16:49.320 I'm just curious about exemptions.

00:16:51.000 I haven't had a whole chance to look at all the details here,

00:16:53.560 but if someone cannot be immunized,

00:16:55.780 is there an exemption?

00:16:56.940 If someone does not want to use the vaccine

00:16:59.460 due to religious reasons,

00:17:01.200 is there an exemption?

00:17:02.340 And will there be exemptions

00:17:04.620 for people traveling

00:17:05.580 from outside of the province

00:17:08.260 into British Columbia,

00:17:10.140 or how do they follow the same guidelines

00:17:12.540 as British Columbians?

00:17:13.800 Yeah, so the short answer is no.

00:17:16.260 This is a temporary measure

00:17:18.120 that's getting us through a risky period

00:17:20.280 where we know that people who are unvaccinated

00:17:22.900 are at greater risk

00:17:24.240 of both contracting and spreading this virus.

00:17:26.680 So if there are those rare people

00:17:29.560 who have a medical reason

00:17:30.880 why they can't be immunized,

00:17:32.720 these are discretionary events

00:17:34.960 that we're talking about.

00:17:36.280 So they will not be able to attend those events.

00:17:38.800 By the way,

00:17:39.180 hundreds of Canadians have died from the vaccines.

00:17:41.500 I bet you didn't know that.

00:17:43.420 In Ontario alone,

00:17:44.480 more than 100 young people

00:17:45.600 have been rushed to hospital

00:17:46.820 for heart problems from the vaccines.

00:17:49.940 Imagine saying to them,

00:17:51.440 you need to take your second dose,

00:17:53.500 even though you might die from it,

00:17:54.700 or you will be banned from school and work

00:17:56.640 and gyms and public meetings and weddings.

00:17:58.440 That's what BC is saying.

00:18:00.680 Imagine calling yourself a doctor

00:18:02.100 and saying that

00:18:02.840 to millions of Canadians.

00:18:06.460 But I can see why.

00:18:07.700 I'm not dumb.

00:18:09.700 A poll by Leger shows

00:18:11.220 that this is a very popular position

00:18:13.200 for politicians to take.

00:18:15.500 I mean, demonized people for 18 months,

00:18:18.440 us versus them,

00:18:19.580 compliance, fear,

00:18:21.460 the other, those people.

00:18:23.460 You can identify them

00:18:24.380 because they're not wearing a mask.

00:18:26.000 They're not flying the flag of obedience,

00:18:27.820 which is what the mask is.

00:18:29.100 And if they think they can hide it amongst us,

00:18:30.840 we'll give them a passport

00:18:32.680 they must show

00:18:33.540 to merely travel in their own country,

00:18:35.280 merely travel on their own street.

00:18:38.080 So 18 months of prepping people

00:18:39.740 to hate and fear

00:18:40.840 and marginalize

00:18:41.780 and judge

00:18:42.320 and scold. 1.00

00:18:43.720 And it's liberals and conservatives,

00:18:45.780 both.

00:18:46.000 It's every party doing this.

00:18:47.040 And here we are.

00:18:48.380 A majority love the new tyranny.

00:18:50.880 That's what Leger says

00:18:51.780 to strip citizenship rights

00:18:53.220 from citizens.

00:18:54.880 You know,

00:18:55.140 Omar Khadr,

00:18:55.940 the Al-Qaeda terrorist,

00:18:57.780 he's allowed to fly on planes.

00:18:59.180 You know that.

00:19:00.020 I know that

00:19:00.580 because I saw him

00:19:01.300 on my flight last year.

00:19:02.620 I saw him with my eyes.

00:19:04.620 He will be allowed

00:19:05.640 to fly on planes,

00:19:06.840 but I will not

00:19:07.680 in my own country.

00:19:10.420 So here's my feelings part.

00:19:12.440 I said I'd tell you my feelings.

00:19:13.620 I should just do some exercise instead

00:19:17.700 or maybe,

00:19:18.560 I don't know,

00:19:19.100 mow the lawn.

00:19:21.320 What do we do with our feelings?

00:19:23.200 We hide them in our muscles.

00:19:25.420 And how do we hide our feelings better?

00:19:27.600 We get bigger muscles.

00:19:29.080 We get bigger muscles.

00:19:30.460 Yeah, I should do

00:19:30.920 what those guys are doing.

00:19:32.320 But here's my feelings.

00:19:34.120 You know how Trudeau lies

00:19:35.180 about who he is?

00:19:37.300 How he says he's an anti-racist,

00:19:38.860 but we discovered

00:19:39.420 he actually dresses up

00:19:40.300 in racist blackface

00:19:41.420 so many times he lost character.

00:19:43.160 You know how he says

00:19:43.760 he's a feminist, 1.00

00:19:44.800 but he actually admits 0.87

00:19:46.760 he sexually assaulted

00:19:47.920 Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.?

00:19:49.760 This lesson that we are learning in,

00:19:52.280 and I'll be blunt about it,

00:19:53.880 often a man experiences

00:19:55.600 an interaction as being benign

00:19:58.420 or not inappropriate,

00:20:00.640 and a woman,

00:20:01.780 particularly in a professional context,

00:20:03.660 can experience it differently,

00:20:04.960 and we have to respect that.

00:20:06.560 And you know how

00:20:07.020 the entire establishment in Canada

00:20:08.580 pretends to be against bullying?

00:20:11.680 And to care about

00:20:12.820 your mental health?

00:20:13.680 Bill, let's talk.

00:20:14.460 You know that whole

00:20:14.880 propaganda month

00:20:15.620 or whatever it's called?

00:20:17.700 When people say,

00:20:18.660 be kind,

00:20:20.300 and you know how the left says

00:20:21.480 they care about minorities

00:20:23.080 and civil rights

00:20:24.840 and protecting marginalized people?

00:20:26.560 You know how Trudeau

00:20:27.440 and the entire establishment say,

00:20:30.340 they're pro-choice.

00:20:31.840 Keep your laws off my body. 0.96

00:20:35.520 I'm starting to feel

00:20:37.160 that might not be true,

00:20:38.560 that like Trudeau himself,

00:20:41.600 maybe Canadians

00:20:42.520 have been faking it,

00:20:44.720 have been lying about who they are.

00:20:47.300 Maybe Canadians don't actually believe 0.52

00:20:48.960 in pro-choice,

00:20:49.960 keep your laws off my body. 0.96

00:20:52.060 Maybe they don't actually believe

00:20:53.120 in protecting minorities

00:20:54.340 or people with medical

00:20:55.820 or religious

00:20:56.260 or conscientious differences.

00:20:59.700 Maybe Canadians don't actually believe 0.52

00:21:01.280 in anti-bullying.

00:21:02.860 Sort of looks like Canadians 1.00

00:21:03.940 love bullying.

00:21:06.800 We've all seen the videos.

00:21:08.860 Canadians love it.

00:21:09.800 It makes them feel righteous

00:21:11.280 and superior

00:21:12.020 and safe

00:21:12.740 and on side with authority

00:21:13.920 to pick on other people.

00:21:16.180 Maybe that means

00:21:16.700 they'll be picked on last

00:21:17.780 if they do the picking on.

00:21:20.480 That's what I'm feeling.

00:21:21.520 I'm feeling a sense of sorrow

00:21:22.660 and loss.

00:21:23.740 I've told you before

00:21:24.580 about my feelings about police.

00:21:26.620 How for the first,

00:21:27.680 oh, I don't know,

00:21:28.340 45, 47 years of my life,

00:21:30.100 I was pro-police.

00:21:31.180 But for the last 18 months,

00:21:33.520 I've seen police abuse

00:21:34.840 peaceful protesters

00:21:35.960 and even rough up

00:21:37.280 our own rebel journalists,

00:21:38.320 even arresting them.

00:21:40.120 And I'm very sad to say

00:21:41.320 I cannot truly call myself

00:21:42.580 a police booster right now.

00:21:44.200 I have to work hard

00:21:45.120 to remember

00:21:45.520 that not all police are bullies.

00:21:47.200 Some police are indeed

00:21:48.060 very good guys.

00:21:50.740 Well, that was just police

00:21:51.960 and now here I am

00:21:52.760 at the age of 49.

00:21:53.800 I have a sense of loss,

00:21:55.600 a sentimental question,

00:21:57.560 a nostalgic question.

00:21:59.840 Were Canadians,

00:22:00.700 all these years

00:22:01.640 where my friends and neighbors

00:22:02.720 was the towns and cities

00:22:04.340 in which I live,

00:22:05.180 were they really

00:22:06.460 who I thought they were?

00:22:08.720 Was Canada really the place

00:22:10.400 I thought it was?

00:22:13.200 Did we really care

00:22:14.080 about protecting people?

00:22:15.160 Did we really care

00:22:15.860 about the civil liberties

00:22:16.880 and charter of rights?

00:22:18.620 Did we really care

00:22:19.280 about letting people

00:22:20.020 do their own thing,

00:22:21.480 about having privacy

00:22:22.620 and choice?

00:22:23.980 are we really a place

00:22:26.380 that will set up

00:22:28.480 a very real system,

00:22:31.080 a legal system

00:22:32.320 of apartness,

00:22:34.740 of vaccine apartness?

00:22:36.420 You know how you say

00:22:38.980 apartness in Afrikaans?

00:22:41.400 They pronounce it

00:22:42.260 apartheid,

00:22:43.500 but not based on race,

00:22:45.040 although a disproportionate

00:22:46.700 number of the non-vaxxed

00:22:47.820 people in Canada

00:22:48.620 are minorities,

00:22:49.520 by the way.

00:22:51.040 Now, I still have some hope.

00:22:52.660 I have to.

00:22:53.280 I'm not completely despairing.

00:22:55.960 I think I'm built

00:22:56.660 to have a little bit of hope.

00:22:57.980 I feel in my heart

00:22:59.120 that if we had a leader

00:23:00.400 anywhere who was willing

00:23:01.700 to fight back

00:23:02.280 and make the case

00:23:02.880 for freedom and privacy

00:23:04.120 and limited government

00:23:04.820 and for defrocking

00:23:05.800 these fraudulent priests 0.56

00:23:07.180 of the new 0.64

00:23:07.560 biomedical security state,

00:23:09.220 I feel like if someone

00:23:10.240 stepped forward

00:23:10.940 and showed leadership,

00:23:12.100 they would have followers soon

00:23:13.880 as Ron DeSantis

00:23:15.000 showed in Florida.

00:23:16.280 When he started,

00:23:17.200 it was not easy.

00:23:17.980 The first two weeks

00:23:18.720 he took a lot of flack

00:23:19.720 and then people

00:23:20.560 got behind him

00:23:21.240 and now he's winning.

00:23:23.560 I don't mean a nobody.

00:23:25.400 It has to be someone

00:23:26.760 in a position of authority,

00:23:28.300 someone in the establishment

00:23:29.760 already to make a difference.

00:23:32.080 A judge,

00:23:33.160 a premier,

00:23:33.660 an opposition leader,

00:23:34.780 someone in a high station

00:23:36.340 in life,

00:23:36.800 but I see no one there,

00:23:38.280 just no one.

00:23:40.480 And that is me talking

00:23:41.580 about my feelings.

00:23:42.660 That is why I'm sad.

00:23:44.740 But it's not a trifling sadness

00:23:46.620 about some particular event.

00:23:49.740 It's a deeper sadness

00:23:51.060 that has caused me

00:23:51.920 to look back

00:23:52.500 at my 49 happy years

00:23:54.400 as a Canadian

00:23:55.020 and think,

00:23:56.160 was it real?

00:23:58.140 Or was it fake?

00:24:01.200 Stay with us for more.

00:24:03.660 Thank you.

00:24:09.080 Thank you.

00:24:09.680 Thank you.

00:24:10.220 And good morning, everyone.

00:24:10.620 As Premier noted,

00:24:11.640 the COVID-19 pandemic

00:24:12.560 has changed

00:24:14.240 and our response to it

00:24:15.420 needs to change as well.

00:24:16.680 COVID-19 has become

00:24:32.780 essentially a pandemic

00:24:33.820 as the Premier said

00:24:35.820 of the unvaccinated.

00:24:37.360 And that means

00:24:37.840 that the path out

00:24:39.020 is still clear.

00:24:40.500 But the Delta variant

00:24:42.220 is causing a concerning

00:24:43.560 rise in hospitalizations

00:24:44.840 and we need to be able

00:24:46.440 to respond to it.

00:24:48.340 COVID-19 vaccines

00:24:49.460 continue to provide

00:24:50.860 excellent protection,

00:24:52.140 even against Delta.

00:24:53.480 And I want to thank

00:24:54.200 the 2.6 million Albertans

00:24:56.980 who have chosen

00:24:58.540 to roll up their sleeves.

00:24:59.980 Now, yesterday,

00:25:01.360 we reached the critical milestone

00:25:03.140 of having 70%

00:25:04.540 of our eligible population

00:25:06.740 here in Alberta

00:25:07.460 fully vaccinated.

00:25:09.020 So that's 70%

00:25:10.420 of all of us

00:25:11.320 who are 12 and older.

00:25:12.940 And that's truly

00:25:13.640 an amazing achievement,

00:25:14.900 especially when you consider

00:25:15.780 that we have

00:25:16.860 a much younger population

00:25:17.960 than other provinces do.

00:25:19.860 The problem

00:25:20.580 is that we still have

00:25:22.280 30% of the population

00:25:23.600 without full vaccine protection.

00:25:26.740 And the Delta variant

00:25:27.680 is moving through them

00:25:28.800 faster than previous forms

00:25:30.460 of the virus

00:25:31.020 and faster

00:25:32.680 than we expected

00:25:34.160 even up to a few weeks ago.

00:25:35.580 That's Alberta's disgraced 1.00

00:25:37.420 Health Minister

00:25:38.140 Tyler Shandro

00:25:39.320 announcing more restrictions

00:25:41.120 in Alberta.

00:25:42.060 Not yet a vaccine passport,

00:25:43.980 but you know

00:25:44.600 that's coming.

00:25:45.640 In fact,

00:25:46.380 just the other day,

00:25:47.880 Ontario Premier

00:25:49.000 Doug Ford claimed

00:25:50.060 that every province

00:25:51.660 in Alberta

00:25:52.220 wanted the feds

00:25:53.660 to bring in

00:25:54.240 a vaccine passport.

00:25:55.420 Here's Doug Ford

00:25:56.680 saying that.

00:25:57.640 For the past three months,

00:25:59.940 along with Canada's

00:26:00.920 other premiers,

00:26:02.480 I've called on

00:26:03.060 the federal government

00:26:03.740 to develop

00:26:04.340 a national vaccine passport.

00:26:06.680 Now, Doug Ford, 0.98

00:26:07.400 it's a notorious liar. 0.98

00:26:08.640 Just weeks ago, 0.98

00:26:09.660 he was saying

00:26:10.100 he would never bring in

00:26:11.140 a vaccine passport.

00:26:12.260 So I don't know

00:26:13.000 how much we can put,

00:26:14.680 how much credit

00:26:15.700 we can give to him

00:26:16.540 when he says

00:26:17.020 that's the case.

00:26:17.780 But it wouldn't surprise me.

00:26:19.800 I should note,

00:26:21.200 and you can see

00:26:21.740 by the chart

00:26:22.340 on the Alberta government's

00:26:23.420 homepage,

00:26:24.740 the number of ICU beds,

00:26:26.540 intensive care unit beds

00:26:28.340 in the province of Alberta

00:26:29.760 has been shrinking

00:26:31.600 pretty much every day

00:26:33.540 for the last two months

00:26:34.680 from a high

00:26:35.380 of 260 ICU beds

00:26:39.120 just, you know,

00:26:40.040 in May

00:26:40.520 to around 200

00:26:42.860 or below

00:26:43.700 in August.

00:26:46.140 Why would the health minister

00:26:47.860 in the middle

00:26:48.380 of a so-called emergency,

00:26:49.720 I mean,

00:26:49.920 he's the one who says

00:26:50.740 it's an emergency,

00:26:52.680 why has he closed

00:26:54.100 more than 20%

00:26:55.140 of all the ICU beds

00:26:56.460 in the province?

00:26:58.140 I mean,

00:26:59.100 I'm not an expert

00:27:00.400 in health care management,

00:27:02.980 but if we're

00:27:03.600 in an emergency,

00:27:04.960 don't you need ICU beds?

00:27:06.940 That's pretty basic stuff.

00:27:08.900 But because,

00:27:09.920 specifically referring

00:27:11.200 to hospitalization

00:27:12.440 and the number

00:27:13.080 of beds taken,

00:27:14.160 that excuse 0.98

00:27:15.740 was the reason

00:27:17.260 they are bringing

00:27:17.860 back more restrictions.

00:27:19.240 I put it to you

00:27:20.020 that a less incompetent

00:27:21.480 health minister

00:27:22.060 who was not closing

00:27:23.160 hospital beds

00:27:24.240 in the middle

00:27:24.580 of the pandemic

00:27:25.160 would not have

00:27:26.100 to punish Albertans.

00:27:27.380 Joining us now

00:27:27.960 via Skype from Calgary

00:27:29.420 to talk about this

00:27:30.200 is our friend Adam Sose,

00:27:31.560 our reporter

00:27:32.100 in that city.

00:27:33.280 Great to see you again,

00:27:34.100 Adam.

00:27:34.980 Thanks for having me.

00:27:36.260 I have never heard

00:27:38.000 of this shutting down

00:27:39.880 20% of the province's

00:27:42.020 ICU beds

00:27:42.920 in the middle

00:27:43.600 of a pandemic.

00:27:45.020 I mean,

00:27:45.820 the billions of dollars

00:27:47.320 that have been

00:27:47.900 thrown around

00:27:48.820 willy-nilly 0.99

00:27:49.400 on foolish 0.99

00:27:50.640 and useless things, 0.98

00:27:52.560 excuse me.

00:27:53.540 Surely,

00:27:54.240 we can agree

00:27:54.840 that an ICU bed

00:27:55.980 is probably 1.00

00:27:56.760 the least dumb 0.99

00:27:58.660 way to spend money. 0.98

00:28:00.300 And if you need

00:28:00.900 to build an extra

00:28:01.660 10, 20, 30, 50 ICU beds

00:28:03.940 to avoid locking

00:28:05.240 down the province,

00:28:06.080 so do it.

00:28:07.520 I've never heard

00:28:08.500 of a health minister

00:28:09.320 closing ICU beds

00:28:11.280 in the middle

00:28:11.760 of a pandemic.

00:28:12.520 What gives?

00:28:12.980 I mean,

00:28:14.740 Tyler Shandro

00:28:15.240 has not necessarily

00:28:16.040 been making

00:28:16.560 the best choices

00:28:17.380 as of late.

00:28:18.340 One could somewhat

00:28:19.460 glibly joke

00:28:20.320 that they have

00:28:21.160 reallocated the money

00:28:22.340 towards lotteries

00:28:23.420 and gift cards

00:28:24.200 for those willing

00:28:25.240 to get vaccinated.

00:28:26.780 The only thing

00:28:27.460 that I can possibly

00:28:28.320 think of is

00:28:28.900 when they scare us

00:28:30.340 with these startling

00:28:31.100 numbers,

00:28:31.580 saying ICU beds

00:28:32.520 are at such and such

00:28:33.520 a capacity,

00:28:34.660 reducing the number

00:28:35.480 of ICU beds

00:28:36.540 certainly helps

00:28:37.800 that narrative.

00:28:38.820 But this is

00:28:39.380 a nonsensical decision.

00:28:40.960 This government

00:28:41.400 is spending

00:28:42.160 too excess 0.97

00:28:43.700 on ridiculous things 0.97

00:28:45.020 and they're being 0.91

00:28:45.760 rightfully criticized

00:28:46.760 unfortunately.

00:28:47.680 You should never

00:28:48.160 give NDP supporters

00:28:49.240 a righteous reason

00:28:50.440 to criticize you,

00:28:51.300 but they're being

00:28:51.920 rightfully criticized

00:28:52.840 for closing down

00:28:54.300 these rooms

00:28:56.140 during what they're

00:28:56.940 purporting to be

00:28:57.600 this incredible emergency.

00:28:59.840 Yeah,

00:29:00.040 I mean,

00:29:00.260 normally I wouldn't

00:29:00.800 believe what the NDP

00:29:01.560 says either

00:29:02.120 to be honest,

00:29:02.680 but the chart

00:29:03.900 I just showed you

00:29:04.500 came straight

00:29:05.100 from the Alberta

00:29:05.760 government's own

00:29:06.520 COVID website.

00:29:08.000 So,

00:29:08.560 I mean,

00:29:08.920 if they're confessing it,

00:29:10.140 I think we can take

00:29:10.960 it as the truth,

00:29:11.960 very frustrating.

00:29:13.320 But other than

00:29:14.760 mask restrictions,

00:29:17.140 mask laws,

00:29:18.280 is there anything

00:29:19.380 that's different

00:29:20.120 in Alberta?

00:29:21.180 Are there any other

00:29:22.140 rules other than

00:29:23.460 forced masking?

00:29:25.700 Yeah,

00:29:25.980 there are.

00:29:27.000 So,

00:29:27.360 some slightly good stuff,

00:29:29.400 mostly very bad stuff.

00:29:31.100 On the bad front,

00:29:32.140 there is the

00:29:32.780 absolutely arbitrary

00:29:33.840 closure of alcohol

00:29:35.380 sales at bars

00:29:36.520 at 10 p.m.

00:29:37.880 as though,

00:29:38.360 I think Sheila

00:29:38.840 joked,

00:29:39.220 the boogeyman

00:29:39.840 COVID monster

00:29:41.200 comes out

00:29:41.740 after 10 o'clock

00:29:42.640 only.

00:29:43.420 So,

00:29:43.580 you're going to

00:29:43.840 see these bars

00:29:44.600 that have been

00:29:45.200 struggling to stay

00:29:46.280 open,

00:29:46.980 finally starting

00:29:47.740 to make some

00:29:48.400 money.

00:29:48.880 They're going to

00:29:49.180 be able to

00:29:49.520 stay open,

00:29:50.100 but they very

00:29:50.540 specifically will

00:29:51.300 not be able to

00:29:52.040 sell alcohol,

00:29:52.880 which is extremely

00:29:53.980 problematic.

00:29:54.800 We've also seen

00:29:55.720 this $100 gift card

00:29:57.940 for people willing

00:29:58.700 to get vaccinated.

00:30:00.200 Now,

00:30:00.460 for most folks

00:30:01.340 in Calgary,

00:30:01.980 that probably

00:30:02.420 doesn't make a

00:30:03.100 difference.

00:30:03.660 But for young,

00:30:04.560 impressionable people,

00:30:05.640 an extra $100,

00:30:06.220 or for people

00:30:07.460 perhaps in

00:30:08.080 marginalized communities

00:30:08.960 who $100

00:30:09.540 could really make

00:30:10.380 a difference,

00:30:11.040 they're clearly

00:30:11.620 targeting people

00:30:12.720 and coercing them

00:30:13.920 in a way through

00:30:14.520 a bribe to get

00:30:15.720 these vaccines.

00:30:16.580 So,

00:30:16.740 that's problematic.

00:30:17.920 The one place

00:30:18.580 that they have

00:30:19.160 stepped back from

00:30:20.000 is with regards

00:30:20.820 to schools.

00:30:21.620 They are leaving

00:30:22.260 it to the

00:30:23.060 discretion of schools

00:30:24.020 to make those

00:30:24.580 decisions.

00:30:25.440 Unfortunately,

00:30:25.920 we have seen

00:30:27.720 schools tend,

00:30:28.740 with the rare

00:30:29.180 exception,

00:30:30.040 to err more on

00:30:31.080 the side of

00:30:31.720 mandatory masking,

00:30:33.240 vaccination for

00:30:34.640 employees,

00:30:35.080 things like that.

00:30:36.220 You know,

00:30:37.420 I'm just thinking

00:30:38.300 about the decision

00:30:39.880 to ban alcohol

00:30:41.220 at 10 p.m.,

00:30:42.300 because at 10.01,

00:30:43.660 that's very,

00:30:44.280 very deadly,

00:30:44.860 but at 9.59,

00:30:45.840 it's perfectly safe.

00:30:46.860 I know one place

00:30:47.740 where they don't

00:30:48.200 have any rules

00:30:48.900 banning alcohol,

00:30:49.960 and that's on

00:30:50.520 the patio

00:30:51.060 of the Sky Palace,

00:30:53.340 where Tyler Shandro

00:30:54.700 and his cronies

00:30:55.400 look down on people

00:30:56.440 like so many ants

00:30:57.400 in an ant farm.

00:30:59.300 I think it's

00:31:00.240 disgraceful that

00:31:01.220 the province

00:31:01.980 is caving in.

00:31:03.440 I think the only

00:31:04.580 saving grace

00:31:05.240 is it's not

00:31:05.800 further,

00:31:06.160 but who's

00:31:06.460 kidding whom?

00:31:06.920 They're going

00:31:07.160 to go.

00:31:07.940 I mean,

00:31:08.180 I actually do

00:31:09.140 believe Doug Ford

00:31:10.040 when he says

00:31:10.480 all the provinces

00:31:11.120 want in to this

00:31:12.860 VAX passport.

00:31:14.940 I hope Alberta

00:31:16.260 can resist going

00:31:17.180 further down the

00:31:17.840 road.

00:31:18.600 I hope it can

00:31:19.440 become sort of

00:31:20.140 the Florida

00:31:20.700 of Canada

00:31:21.940 in terms of

00:31:22.640 freedom and

00:31:23.440 allowing business

00:31:24.220 to proceed.

00:31:25.260 I think the slap

00:31:26.240 at bars is an

00:31:27.300 outrageous attack

00:31:28.340 without any

00:31:29.240 scientific basis.

00:31:30.580 That's what I think

00:31:31.140 bugs me the most,

00:31:32.300 is these are just

00:31:32.900 performance.

00:31:33.440 It's public

00:31:34.460 health theater.

00:31:36.340 I know from

00:31:37.400 other jurisdictions

00:31:38.120 that bars being

00:31:39.620 open, that is not

00:31:40.760 a place where

00:31:42.060 these things are

00:31:42.800 being spread.

00:31:43.820 The food service

00:31:44.580 industry is frankly

00:31:45.400 the industry other

00:31:46.620 than the health

00:31:47.100 industry that's

00:31:47.620 most hygiene

00:31:49.300 oriented.

00:31:50.460 It's just complete

00:31:51.060 BS.

00:31:51.440 Last word to you

00:31:52.140 on this subject.

00:31:54.000 Then I want to

00:31:54.440 switch and talk

00:31:55.280 to you about some

00:31:55.700 good news.

00:31:56.400 Actually, let's do

00:31:56.860 that now.

00:31:58.060 Enough talk about

00:31:58.820 these health 0.58

00:31:59.240 fascists. 0.88

00:31:59.720 Let's talk about

00:32:00.280 some good news.

00:32:01.100 Adam, I want

00:32:01.480 to give you

00:32:01.800 credit.

00:32:03.540 When arsonists,

00:32:06.080 Antifa thugs, 0.94

00:32:07.540 anti-Christian 1.00

00:32:08.160 bigots across 0.95

00:32:08.920 this country

00:32:09.500 were torching

00:32:10.660 churches, burning

00:32:12.560 churches, vandalizing

00:32:14.080 churches, most

00:32:16.540 people did

00:32:16.920 nothing.

00:32:18.100 The media

00:32:18.660 downplayed it.

00:32:20.100 Justin Trudeau

00:32:20.740 said almost

00:32:21.220 nothing about it

00:32:21.940 other than he

00:32:22.400 found it

00:32:22.760 understandable

00:32:23.560 that it was

00:32:24.480 happening.

00:32:25.580 The police

00:32:26.260 really did their

00:32:27.540 best to hide it.

00:32:28.340 It was not

00:32:29.360 called terrorism.

00:32:30.460 It was not

00:32:30.900 called a hate

00:32:31.460 crime.

00:32:32.600 It was just

00:32:33.380 accepted.

00:32:34.840 That was

00:32:35.300 normalized.

00:32:36.420 But not

00:32:37.080 you.

00:32:38.280 You personally

00:32:39.580 went to the

00:32:40.380 local Indian

00:32:41.040 band that

00:32:41.580 suit Tina 0.99

00:32:42.140 Nation, as

00:32:42.760 it's called,

00:32:43.540 that abuts

00:32:44.060 the city of

00:32:44.680 Calgary, and

00:32:45.940 you talked to

00:32:46.680 them about

00:32:48.220 their church.

00:32:48.900 Now, their

00:32:49.180 church had not

00:32:49.700 been torched,

00:32:50.880 but their

00:32:51.500 church was in

00:32:52.080 desperate need

00:32:52.600 of repair, and

00:32:53.220 so you thought,

00:32:54.140 well, let's pay

00:32:54.560 it forward.

00:32:54.960 Let's fix it up.

00:32:55.600 Why don't you

00:32:55.860 tell us about it,

00:32:56.660 and then we'll

00:32:57.080 play a clip of

00:32:57.780 how it went

00:32:58.240 down.

00:32:59.700 You know, I

00:33:00.340 mean, it was

00:33:00.760 such an honor,

00:33:01.760 and it just

00:33:02.240 seemed to work

00:33:02.900 out so

00:33:03.200 organically.

00:33:03.920 It all started

00:33:04.560 when we were

00:33:04.780 covering the

00:33:05.240 Calgary Stampede.

00:33:06.660 We went to

00:33:07.040 the Elbow River

00:33:07.780 Camp, which is

00:33:08.640 where the

00:33:09.660 First Nations

00:33:10.180 communities share

00:33:11.000 their culture.

00:33:12.220 One of the

00:33:12.700 first people I

00:33:13.280 spoke to, we

00:33:13.960 started talking

00:33:14.660 about residential

00:33:15.360 schools, started

00:33:16.600 talking about the

00:33:17.440 situation with the

00:33:18.120 arsons across the

00:33:18.900 country, and almost

00:33:20.320 immediately she said,

00:33:21.380 well, my grandpa,

00:33:23.420 with some of the

00:33:23.940 elders, actually built

00:33:24.760 the church at

00:33:25.420 Tsuatina, so that

00:33:26.240 is our Catholic

00:33:27.120 church that we

00:33:27.980 own as a

00:33:29.140 First Nation, and

00:33:30.560 she invited us

00:33:31.300 out to go visit.

00:33:32.580 So we went out, we

00:33:33.460 spoke with herself,

00:33:34.880 some other members

00:33:35.700 within the community.

00:33:36.520 They shared the

00:33:37.140 history of the

00:33:37.940 church and how

00:33:38.480 integral it is to

00:33:39.340 their community.

00:33:40.260 And throughout that

00:33:40.980 conversation, at one

00:33:43.040 point she said, you

00:33:43.640 know, it would be

00:33:44.100 nice if we could do

00:33:44.920 something.

00:33:45.740 The church has seen

00:33:46.560 better days.

00:33:47.560 It would be

00:33:47.820 incredible if we

00:33:48.520 could do something

00:33:49.160 to kind of restore

00:33:49.920 the church to its

00:33:50.660 former glory.

00:33:52.820 I immediately

00:33:53.660 looked at K2, the

00:33:55.580 videographer,

00:33:56.540 often comes out

00:33:57.180 with me, and I

00:33:57.980 gave him kind of a

00:33:58.680 nod.

00:33:58.940 I think he knew

00:33:59.360 what I was thinking

00:33:59.900 immediately, and I

00:34:00.740 knew that our

00:34:01.340 rebel supporters

00:34:02.460 would be 100% in

00:34:03.920 favor of helping

00:34:05.020 this church and

00:34:06.100 letting people know

00:34:07.360 that places of

00:34:08.160 worship deserve to

00:34:09.000 be respected and

00:34:09.820 honored.

00:34:10.600 And in no time, we

00:34:11.680 started work on the

00:34:12.640 church.

00:34:12.960 We finished that

00:34:13.880 work thanks to your

00:34:14.720 incredible generosity.

00:34:16.040 Less than 24 hours,

00:34:17.460 we raised funds for

00:34:18.620 that church.

00:34:19.640 The roof went on

00:34:20.520 this week.

00:34:21.060 They did an

00:34:21.440 incredible job.

00:34:23.160 We also managed to

00:34:24.080 get a pest control

00:34:24.900 company out there.

00:34:26.500 They actually had

00:34:26.940 about a $1,400 tab

00:34:28.800 for getting rid of

00:34:29.480 pest control, and I

00:34:30.660 want to extend a

00:34:31.180 great thanks to

00:34:31.900 Peregrine Pest

00:34:32.640 Control because they 0.96

00:34:33.320 actually discounted

00:34:34.440 that entirely.

00:34:35.600 Zero dollars.

00:34:36.760 Wow.

00:34:36.960 There was a window.

00:34:38.120 Go ahead.

00:34:39.120 Go keep talking.

00:34:40.300 Yeah, and so

00:34:41.160 incredible.

00:34:41.980 Another Calgary

00:34:42.660 business, actually,

00:34:43.460 there was a window

00:34:44.080 that was broken in a

00:34:45.180 break and enter not

00:34:46.360 long ago.

00:34:46.900 It wasn't a

00:34:47.340 vandalism.

00:34:47.960 Someone broke and

00:34:48.620 slept there and

00:34:49.340 left.

00:34:49.600 But I called a

00:34:50.880 Calgary glass

00:34:51.420 company.

00:34:51.820 They wanted no

00:34:52.400 credit.

00:34:52.840 They just wanted to

00:34:53.620 altruistically repair

00:34:55.340 the window, so they

00:34:56.060 came out and measured

00:34:56.800 it.

00:34:57.020 It ended up being an

00:34:57.720 older-style window, so

00:34:58.700 they had to custom

00:34:59.360 make it.

00:35:00.020 They're making that

00:35:00.840 window now.

00:35:01.320 They're going to

00:35:01.580 replace that also at

00:35:02.640 no charge.

00:35:03.280 So the church is in

00:35:04.360 much better shape than

00:35:05.400 we found it, certainly.

00:35:06.720 Well, that's amazing.

00:35:07.600 All credit to you.

00:35:08.820 You talked to the

00:35:09.900 chief.

00:35:10.600 You did everything.

00:35:11.420 It's sort of like a

00:35:12.560 government negotiation.

00:35:13.800 I mean, the chief is

00:35:14.880 analogous to a mayor.

00:35:16.380 You know, that's the

00:35:18.120 political boss.

00:35:19.080 You made sure you had

00:35:20.540 your, quote, permits.

00:35:21.700 You know, you talked to

00:35:22.320 the chief.

00:35:22.720 You talked to the folks.

00:35:23.940 You were there.

00:35:24.900 You handled it very

00:35:26.020 carefully, which is the

00:35:26.960 right thing to do.

00:35:28.100 And there's some great

00:35:29.340 footage.

00:35:29.780 You guys made good use

00:35:30.620 of the drone.

00:35:31.100 Let's just take a quick

00:35:31.920 look at how that actually

00:35:33.500 went down.

00:35:34.320 So, Regina, as I

00:35:35.560 mentioned, first of all,

00:35:37.500 thank you so much for

00:35:38.400 welcoming us out here

00:35:39.340 again, for meeting us

00:35:40.360 here.

00:35:40.960 We set the fundraiser

00:35:42.280 goal to try and replace

00:35:43.480 the roof, and we

00:35:44.840 actually surpassed it in

00:35:46.200 about 18 hours.

00:35:47.480 So we are going to go

00:35:48.360 ahead on August 30th and

00:35:49.860 31st, we'll be out here

00:35:51.400 replacing that roof.

00:35:52.840 Because we far surpassed

00:35:54.280 the goal, once we get the

00:35:55.100 roof off, if we find any

00:35:56.240 other problems, we're going

00:35:57.260 to be able to take care of

00:35:58.320 that as well then.

00:35:59.560 As we mentioned, we're

00:36:01.000 going to be replacing the

00:36:01.820 back window here.

00:36:03.180 A company is going to

00:36:04.540 come out later this

00:36:05.220 afternoon and measure it

00:36:06.180 up and get some glass

00:36:07.360 made, and we just spoke

00:36:08.620 with Steve, who came out

00:36:09.660 and checked out the

00:36:10.180 facility, and Peregrine

00:36:11.580 Pest Control is going to

00:36:12.400 be taking care of the

00:36:13.220 pest problem out here.

00:36:14.520 So we're very happy to be

00:36:15.600 able to help.

00:36:16.680 You mentioned last time

00:36:17.660 there would mean a great

00:36:18.300 deal to this community to

00:36:19.540 get the church back in

00:36:20.760 working order, but we've

00:36:21.780 been able to do more than

00:36:23.000 we even hoped originally.

00:36:24.340 What does this mean to

00:36:25.240 you in the community?

00:36:26.580 Oh, we're so grateful.

00:36:28.660 You know, we thank God

00:36:30.220 that we've got people like

00:36:31.560 you to come and help us.

00:36:33.180 Because this is our house

00:36:35.160 of worship, like I said,

00:36:36.520 and we need to try and get

00:36:38.760 it in better shape, and we

00:36:41.520 really, so we're really

00:36:42.660 grateful.

00:36:43.460 Well, I tell you, I'm so

00:36:44.820 proud of our Rebel viewers

00:36:46.560 for donating to fix up that

00:36:49.400 church.

00:36:49.700 That's a positive thing to do

00:36:51.340 in reaction to the hate

00:36:53.400 crimes and the arson.

00:36:54.660 But Adam, I want to say the

00:36:55.900 lion's share of the credit

00:36:57.000 for actually making it

00:36:58.280 happen goes to you.

00:37:00.060 because, I mean, our

00:37:00.760 donors, obviously they put

00:37:02.220 the dough forward, but

00:37:03.920 without your careful

00:37:05.220 negotiation, finding the

00:37:07.020 roofer, talking to the

00:37:08.700 chief, making sure, like

00:37:10.020 that, there's a lot of, I'm

00:37:11.660 going to say, red tape

00:37:12.680 there that you got through

00:37:14.040 to make it happen.

00:37:15.400 And you made a lot of

00:37:17.620 people's lives just a little

00:37:19.300 bit better.

00:37:20.060 So congrats.

00:37:21.680 Well, and thank you so

00:37:22.480 much, Ezra, for allowing us

00:37:23.740 to do this without Rebel,

00:37:25.160 without you saying yes, go

00:37:26.420 for it, and your

00:37:26.940 passionate response.

00:37:28.400 This would not have

00:37:29.040 happened.

00:37:29.420 So I want to extend the

00:37:30.140 thank you to you as well for

00:37:31.240 making this a possibility.

00:37:32.340 Well, listen, it's, I mean,

00:37:33.420 I did next to nothing

00:37:34.280 myself, but thank you for

00:37:35.480 doing things to our

00:37:36.280 viewers, and I would like to

00:37:37.260 do more positive things like

00:37:38.500 that.

00:37:38.720 As some of our viewers know,

00:37:40.360 we have donated over $200,000

00:37:43.260 Canadian to Christians in the

00:37:45.480 Middle East, especially in the

00:37:46.740 Nineveh Plain of Iraq.

00:37:48.720 Our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:37:49.740 went there to look at how

00:37:50.940 our money was spent.

00:37:51.680 You can see that information

00:37:52.720 at savethechristians.com.

00:37:54.520 So we do like to do some

00:37:56.360 pure charity work that's not

00:37:58.540 political at all, although

00:38:00.520 right now the bulk of our

00:38:01.900 charitable work is political.

00:38:03.580 It's civil liberties work

00:38:04.740 defending Canadians.

00:38:06.300 Our work is never done.

00:38:07.480 The world always needs

00:38:08.520 fixing, and that is

00:38:10.440 something we do here.

00:38:11.260 Besides just the business

00:38:12.660 of Rebel News, we do also

00:38:14.500 do some charity too,

00:38:15.620 actually, and Adam, thanks

00:38:16.720 for being a part of it.

00:38:18.220 Hey, my pleasure.

00:38:18.800 Happy to do it.

00:38:19.420 All right, there you go.

00:38:20.540 A happier note to end our

00:38:22.680 Alberta broadcast on today.

00:38:24.380 Thanks, Adam.

00:38:24.940 Stay with us.

00:38:25.520 My final thoughts ahead.

00:38:37.760 What a busy week.

00:38:38.880 One of the busiest weeks

00:38:39.840 of my life.

00:38:41.680 You know, it's incredible.

00:38:42.580 Rebel News is at the front line

00:38:45.580 of the issues of the day.

00:38:47.520 We tell the other side of the 0.91

00:38:48.620 story in the pandemic about

00:38:50.580 the election, about vaccine

00:38:52.800 passports, about the world.

00:38:54.820 And when I say world, we have

00:38:56.440 a growing team in Australia,

00:38:57.620 and we have a new reporter in

00:38:59.280 the United Kingdom, and I think

00:39:00.440 they're doing great too.

00:39:01.940 And I want to let you, my

00:39:03.320 mainly Canadian premium show

00:39:04.940 viewers, know that both the

00:39:06.540 UK and Australia pay their way

00:39:08.220 through crowdfunding.

00:39:09.520 I mean, we would support our

00:39:11.220 talent there anyways, but I want

00:39:13.060 to let you know that Australia

00:39:14.180 is a very passionate part of

00:39:16.320 Rebel News and very active.

00:39:18.520 And in fact, if you see the

00:39:20.000 news from Australia, you know

00:39:21.220 it's even worse there than it

00:39:23.240 is here.

00:39:24.580 So we're very busy

00:39:25.620 journalistically, but we're

00:39:26.680 even busier legally, not only

00:39:29.480 on our own fights.

00:39:31.360 For example, the Election

00:39:32.440 Debates Commission has banned

00:39:33.700 us again, but mainly on fights

00:39:36.260 for other people working in

00:39:37.960 concert with the Democracy

00:39:38.940 Fund.

00:39:40.140 The Fight the Funds project is

00:39:41.540 still going strong.

00:39:42.420 Now there's going to be a lot

00:39:43.780 more fines again, I think.

00:39:45.740 But this vaccine passport, 0.55

00:39:47.280 forced vaccines, people

00:39:48.360 getting fired over it, people

00:39:49.760 getting banned from living in

00:39:51.200 places.

00:39:51.840 I even see reports of, you

00:39:53.800 know, people losing custody of

00:39:55.320 children over it.

00:39:56.080 And now we have this case in

00:39:57.180 Alberta of someone being

00:39:58.500 denied life-saving surgery

00:40:00.140 that's got nothing to do with

00:40:01.280 COVID because they're not

00:40:02.100 vaxxed.

00:40:03.080 I think we are in just terrible

00:40:05.040 times.

00:40:06.260 But however sad I am about

00:40:08.960 that, and forgive me for doing

00:40:10.100 a monologue about my feelings

00:40:11.420 today, I think we have to keep

00:40:13.640 fighting because we have to.

00:40:15.740 I mean, I think of some of the

00:40:17.780 Jewish Proverbs.

00:40:20.300 One is, it's not up to you to

00:40:22.700 save the world, but neither are

00:40:24.700 you free to do nothing.

00:40:26.600 I think that's a good one.

00:40:28.860 Another is, and you've probably

00:40:30.600 heard this one before, if not you,

00:40:33.920 then who?

00:40:34.620 And if not now, then when?

00:40:39.220 So these are some of the ideas

00:40:40.780 that guide me as we fight on.

00:40:43.880 I appreciate your support, the

00:40:45.820 fact that you're watching the

00:40:46.780 show.

00:40:47.420 Although we've made it free to the

00:40:49.600 public during the course of the

00:40:50.760 election campaign, it probably

00:40:51.840 means that you're a supporter of

00:40:53.460 ours, eight bucks a month or more,

00:40:54.940 so thank you for that.

00:40:56.620 If you want to support any of our

00:40:58.180 legal projects for the civil

00:41:00.300 liberty side of what we do, you know

00:41:02.620 you'll get a charitable tax receipt

00:41:04.200 for that, so hopefully that can

00:41:05.600 make it easier for you to give.

00:41:07.380 I truly want to hire 10 full-time

00:41:10.200 lawyers to fight these battles, and

00:41:11.760 I know you might be thinking, Ezra,

00:41:13.040 enough with the lawyers.

00:41:14.360 Well, that's the only way I know

00:41:16.760 how to fight, so that's what we're

00:41:18.340 doing.

00:41:19.460 If you have ideas, keep sending

00:41:20.920 them in, keep watching, keep

00:41:22.540 sharing our videos, keep talking.

00:41:25.260 I feel like this is the darkest

00:41:26.840 time in Canada since the Second

00:41:28.640 World War, and the only reason I

00:41:30.720 would say that was darker is

00:41:31.840 because so many thousands of

00:41:33.040 people died in combat, but

00:41:35.000 actually, in terms of civil

00:41:36.380 liberties and pitting Canadians 1.00

00:41:38.080 against each other, setting aside

00:41:39.940 the death toll of the Second World

00:41:41.480 War, which cannot be set aside, but

00:41:43.660 if you exclude that part of the

00:41:45.200 calculation, we are in a darker

00:41:47.400 time right now than we were then

00:41:48.960 living in Canada domestically.

00:41:51.880 That's our show for today and for

00:41:53.160 the week.

00:41:53.500 Don't let me get you down.

00:41:54.900 Don't let me get you down, because

00:41:56.680 I promise you that we'll continue to

00:41:58.220 fight until the very end.

00:41:59.760 You know we will.

00:42:01.040 Until next week, on behalf of all

00:42:02.940 of us here at Rebel World

00:42:03.920 Headquarters, to you at home,

00:42:05.100 good night, and keep fighting for

00:42:06.940 freedom.

00:42:07.240 We'll see you, everybody.

00:42:10.720 Bye-bye.

00:42:12.060 Bye.

00:42:12.640 Bye-bye.

00:42:13.120 Bye-bye.

00:42:13.980 Bye-bye.

00:42:14.800 Bye-bye.

00:42:16.040 Bye-bye.

00:42:16.180 Bye-bye.

00:42:16.640 Bye-bye.

00:42:19.100 Bye-bye.

00:42:23.300 Bye-bye.

00:42:27.840 Bye-bye.

00:42:28.040 Bye-bye.

00:42:28.800 Bye-bye.

00:42:29.380 Bye-bye.

00:42:32.380 Bye-bye.

00:42:34.340 Bye-bye.

00:42:36.420 Bye-bye.

Rebel News Podcast - September 04, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m going to share my feelings with you. No, please don’t turn the channel.

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