Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT： In-depth breakdown of all four of Trudeau's online censorship bills and attacks on freedom of speech

00:00:00.400 Hello, my friends. Today, I'm going to do my best to outline the four ways Justin Trudeau

00:00:07.080 is coming to censor you, the four bills stacked up like dominoes, one after the other, that

00:00:12.760 he intends to bring in to silence and censor you. Bill C-11, C-18, C-36, and the Online

00:00:20.000 Harms Act. That sounds like a lot of legal jargon. I'll do my best to explain it. And

00:00:24.680 if you watch it and it's a half an hour long, I'll take you through the laws and I'll show

00:00:30.180 you how Trudeau is colonizing what was once a very free place, the internet. Anyways, let

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00:01:32.320 Tonight, I have a message for Canada's friends around the world. We are now the most dangerous 0.99

00:01:37.680 place for freedom of speech, and we need help. It's April 6th, and you're watching the Ezra Levant

00:01:42.820 show. I'm afraid that Canada is now the most dangerous place in the world for freedom of

00:02:03.260 speech. Look at this insane press conference just this week from the provincial legislature

00:02:08.620 in Ontario. This new legislation in Ontario is designed to keep the 2SLGBT community safe.

00:02:15.700 Drag artists, their audiences, the business, and the facilities that host those drag performances

00:02:20.600 have been put at risk. And unless we put forward a strategy to protect them, Ontario's social,

00:02:26.960 economic, and cultural richness is under attack. We have to protect that. The proposed legislation

00:02:32.900 does two things, and I will go through them. Firstly, it enables the Attorney General to create a 2SLGBTQI plus

00:02:41.820 community safety zone to prohibit within 100 meters of the property any homophobic, transphobic act of

00:02:49.460 intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate

00:02:55.940 propaganda within the meaning of the criminal code. It also comes with a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted

00:03:04.520 successfully. Secondly, the act creates an Ontario 2SLGBTQI plus safety advisory committee to provide

00:03:12.920 recommendations to the provincial government on how to improve safety for our community and to prevent

00:03:19.000 further hate. We need to be able to have the government publish an annual report and an update

00:03:24.800 on the progress of this work. It is that critically important. Our community is scared, but we're not

00:03:31.440 going to take it lying down. We're going to stand up and rise up where we can to fight back because we

00:03:36.540 have to. Everything is on the line, and we need government action to be much more visible, much louder.

00:03:43.080 Doing nothing, saying nothing is simply not good enough. This private members bill is supported by

00:03:48.860 many prominent drag artists, not just in Canada, but I suspect that it will be supported by drag

00:03:54.560 artists and the LGBT community around the world in short order. In case you missed it, she wants 0.93

00:04:00.020 massive fines and even jail for being merely, making merely offensive remarks or protests. Now you probably

00:04:07.740 didn't notice it, but I just called her a she instead of they them. So I just broke her proposed law 0.92

00:04:13.240 right there. I misgendered her. That's offensive to her. It's pretty clear that she is offended

00:04:18.840 all the time. You could say she's offended for a living, but there is no human right not to be

00:04:24.080 offended. That's a counterfeit human right, which now takes precedence over real human rights like

00:04:28.880 freedom of speech and freedom of thought. Canada's great history of civil liberties is coming to an

00:04:34.140 end. Here's another example from just a few weeks ago. This is Jody Gondek, the mayor of Calgary,

00:04:40.460 Canada's fourth largest city, announcing the same sort of thing that anyone who says something she finds

00:04:45.860 hateful or vitriolic or lying should be arrested and fined. We had a drag brunch at the rec room in

00:04:55.940 the north of Calgary by our community of drag queens in Calgary who have done amazing work promoting

00:05:03.880 inclusion and really raising awareness of how important it is to be a welcoming community.

00:05:08.640 Unfortunately, some members of our population thought it would be a good idea to protest this

00:05:14.260 event, which is, I'm just going to use my opinion, a horrible thing to do. I was very happy that CPS was

00:05:20.840 there to provide a buffer and to ensure that everyone was safe and that the show could go on.

00:05:26.400 My question is, do we have the ability when a protest is rooted in hatred to ticket people and

00:05:33.600 shut this down? How does it work? Some might say the mayor was hateful and vitriolic and telling

00:05:39.520 lies. Those are not crimes, by the way. That mayor publicly demanded that police arrest a pastor

00:05:46.060 named Derek Reimer because she found him offensive. So they arrested Derek Reimer and jailed him for

00:05:51.940 being offensive. Maybe that's why the cops were so weird about it.

00:05:55.140 Mr. Reimer, you are currently under arrest for breaching your 200-meter no-go condition.

00:06:02.060 200 meters? Yep.

00:06:02.980 It's 200 meters.

00:06:04.600 No, unfortunately.

00:06:05.600 Excuse me, you didn't want 200 meters.

00:06:08.600 How do you calculate how you cut by these 200 meters?

00:06:11.840 He is nowhere near 200 meters.

00:06:15.060 Where's the measuring tape? Excuse me, we're in the parking lot town.

00:06:19.060 It's so far away, it's not lawful.

00:06:22.060 Listen, we don't have a measuring tape. We're down here.

00:06:26.980 It's absolutely unlawful.

00:06:28.980 I'm not to say anything. Anything you seem to give out evidence against you?

00:06:31.980 What are the exact meters from that library?

00:06:34.980 What are the exact meters from that library?

00:06:37.980 What are the exact meters, the distance, from the library square we have it right now?

00:06:41.980 What's your back?

00:06:43.980 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:06:51.980 There are a lot of arrests of peaceful political critics in Canada these days.

00:07:18.980 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski was jailed for a month and a half for keeping his church open during the lockdowns.

00:07:25.300 Justin Trudeau invoked martial law and had peaceful trucker protesters arrested and jailed for the sin of embarrassing him on the world stage.

00:07:33.540 He also seized the bank accounts of hundreds of other peaceful critics of his regime.

00:07:38.620 In his defense, he did try to warn us about his beliefs even before he was elected.

00:07:42.940 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.

00:07:57.020 When a politician says he admires communist China precisely because of its basic dictatorship, we should believe him. 1.00

00:08:04.940 When Fidel Castro of Cuba died, Trudeau wrote a eulogy like a son might write about a father.

00:08:11.900 I mean, it really is insane.

00:08:13.580 Let me quote some of it.

00:08:14.940 It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba's longest serving president, as if Castro were elected again and again.

00:08:24.380 Fidel Castro was a larger-than-life leader who served his people for almost half a century, a legendary revolutionary in order.

00:08:33.020 In order, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.

00:08:39.500 Cuban healthcare is terrible, but that's like saying, well, Mussolini made the trains run on time.

00:08:45.500 While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro's supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people,

00:08:55.340 who had a deep and lasting affection for El Comandante.

00:08:58.940 Is that what his detractors say from their prison cells, the political prisoners?

00:09:04.860 That he was just a lovable old dictator who really had their best interests at heart when he jailed them? 0.89

00:09:10.780 So gross. 0.57

00:09:11.900 But here's the thing. 0.95

00:09:12.940 Arresting peaceful protesters, deploying not riot police to stomp on your critics, seizing bank accounts, it looks awful.

00:09:22.300 It's messy.

00:09:23.500 It so obviously is a political move designed to stifle political dissent.

00:09:28.300 But if you're going to silence someone, the way to do it in 2023 is much different from how Castro did it a generation ago.

00:09:37.500 And Trudeau knows that.

00:09:39.340 And while his allies, as I showed you, are having noisy press conferences where they absolutely make it clear that they're all about silencing their political enemies,

00:09:47.020 Trudeau is generally smarter than that.

00:09:49.260 You see, the truly modern authoritarian uses the internet, not the police, to censor people wherever possible.

00:09:56.940 When you take over the internet, there are no shocking TV images of cops beating up your opponents.

00:10:03.660 It's all done online.

00:10:05.740 There's really nothing to see.

00:10:07.820 And that's what I want to warn the world about today.

00:10:09.740 That's the message that everyone who loves or even just likes Canada needs to know.

00:10:16.540 Justin Trudeau has embarked on a massive legislative program to censor the internet.

00:10:21.820 He's doing it in four stages, the first of which is about to become law within weeks.

00:10:27.580 Trudeau has four laws set up like dominoes.

00:10:30.540 The first leads to the second, which leads to the third, and so on.

00:10:33.580 He's doing it in stages.

00:10:35.420 If he were to do it all at once, I think people might panic and rise up.

00:10:38.540 But he's doing it incrementally.

00:10:41.100 The first domino will fall in weeks, maybe even days.

00:10:45.020 Later this month, Trudeau's majority in the Senate will approve Bill C-11, which amends the Broadcasting Act.

00:10:52.700 In a way, this is the most important stage, the first domino, because until now,

00:10:57.340 the federal government in Canada has not been able to regulate what's on the internet.

00:11:01.340 Until now, only regular television and radio have been regulated by Trudeau and his hand-picked sensors at the CRTC.

00:11:10.140 That's the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission.

00:11:14.460 It even sounds archaic, doesn't it?

00:11:16.060 What's a radio television, by the way?

00:11:18.220 Is that like a moving picture or something?

00:11:20.620 Anyways, that dinosaur regulator, which has been an utter failure and has driven so much talent out of Canada,

00:11:27.580 they will now control the internet by declaring that social media companies are now broadcasters

00:11:34.060 and can be regulated like TV stations.

00:11:37.500 This enactment amends the Broadcasting Act to, among other things, add online undertakings,

00:11:44.060 undertakings for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the internet,

00:11:48.140 as a distinct class of broadcasting undertakings.

00:11:50.460 See, in the past, the government could only bully radio and TV stations into silencing voices

00:11:56.860 the government didn't like.

00:11:57.740 About 20 years ago, the Liberal government refused to renew the license of a politically

00:12:02.780 incorrect radio station in Quebec called Chois FM, effectively killing it.

00:12:07.420 It was only saved when 50,000 listeners marched in the streets of Quebec City,

00:12:13.020 and another 5,000 went all the way to Ottawa to protest this censorship outside Parliament.

00:12:18.620 Now, the government finally relented.

00:12:20.540 I want to show you a news clip from that Parliament Hill protest. Look at this.

00:12:24.540 His refusal to renew the license of a Quebec City radio station.

00:12:31.740 A casual glance would tell you it's a rock concert, but another look reveals a rally for choice,

00:12:37.020 or in this case, Chois.

00:12:38.380 They love their free speech, and they want to tell the governors, we like Chois, we love Chois,

00:12:43.580 we want Chois, and we will have Chois.

00:12:51.660 It's doubtful that so many people have ever traveled such a distance to voice their support for a radio

00:12:56.140 station, but for much of this crowd here on the Hill today, the real issue is free speech,

00:13:00.460 and as many as 10,000 of them have gathered here to demand loudly that the federal government

00:13:04.700 restore Chois FM's right to be on the air, and by extension, the rights of Canadians everywhere

00:13:10.060 to hear whatever they wish.

00:13:11.260 We broadcast what they want, and the case is, is the CRTC and five people put there by the

00:13:19.340 government liberal could determine what are the limits to freedom of speech we don't believe.

00:13:24.140 Amid the shouts of Liberté, shock jock Jeff Filion, accused by the CRTC of making disparaging remarks

00:13:34.140 about the mentally ill.

00:13:35.180 They don't listen to people. They have to listen to people. They have to make law and rules for people, 0.56

00:13:42.860 and they are forgetting that. That's bad.

00:13:44.780 I think you would have to be a Quebecer, listening to it, because of the way we talk to each other,

00:13:52.860 and the way everybody talks on other radio stations.

00:13:56.060 If Chois FM's appeal to Paul Martin fails, it will pursue an appeal in federal court,

00:14:00.700 but in all likelihood, the station will still be off the air by August the 31st.

00:14:04.860 That is Quebec City's loss, certainly according to these fans, but there are

00:14:08.540 controversial radio broadcasters right here in Ottawa who say they also feel the chill.

00:14:13.340 The fact of the matter is that more and more radio stations are going to fuzzy stuff.

00:14:17.020 They're going to lifestyle stuff. They are afraid to deal with the real issues of the day,

00:14:20.940 because you get hung strong, put in bed, and the skin of your collective butts pulled over your head.

00:14:25.580 That's incredible, and it was incredible to see other media support Chois FM, but these days,

00:14:31.500 the mainstream media takes the lead in censoring and canceling voices they don't like. So,

00:14:36.700 that's the main threat of C11. It declares that Facebook and Google and YouTube and Twitter,

00:14:41.020 Netflix and the rest of them are broadcasters, and they have to do what the government says,

00:14:45.980 or they'll be punished like Chois FM was. You can see the outlines of what Trudeau plans to do

00:14:51.420 with his new powers. Look at section 9.1 called conditions, as in Trudeau can now put conditions

00:14:58.220 on these internet companies if they're going to operate here. Let me read.

00:15:01.020 The commission may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions

00:15:08.140 on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings that the commission considers appropriate for

00:15:13.180 the implementation of broadcasting policies set out in subsection 3.1, including conditions

00:15:18.380 respecting. And then there's a long list of things. If I were Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk,

00:15:23.660 I might object to a few of these conditions, like this one, the provision to the commission

00:15:30.140 by persons carrying on broadcasting undertakings of any other information the commission considers

00:15:35.900 necessary for the administration of this act, including financial or commercial information,

00:15:40.940 information related to programming, information related to expenditures, information related to

00:15:47.420 audience measurement, other than information that would identify any individual audience member. So,

00:15:52.780 now social media companies, including Elon Musk's privately held Twitter, may have to answer any

00:15:59.340 private business question put to them by Trudeau. There are 16 items in this list of conditions,

00:16:04.860 but here's the one that really worries me from a censorship point of view. It's subsection E.

00:16:10.300 Trudeau can make orders regarding, quote, the presentation of programs and programming services

00:16:16.540 for selection by the public, including the showcasing and discoverability

00:16:21.340 of Canadian programs and programming services. So, Trudeau can order Twitter or Facebook or Google

00:16:26.700 or YouTube to alter the algorithm, to interfere with what you can find. Trudeau can force social

00:16:32.940 media companies to showcase whatever content he wants and to alter the discoverability of it. So,

00:16:38.940 he can boost his friends and have these companies hide his enemies. I wonder what he'll do to Rebel News.

00:16:45.500 The reality is organizations, organizations like yours, yours, that continue to spread misinformation

00:16:55.900 and disinformation. I won't call it a media organization. Your group of individuals need to take

00:17:03.580 accountability, polarization that we're seeing in this country. It is disappointing to see the

00:17:08.940 conservatives engage in peddling, engage in peddling, rebel media, rebel media, conspiracy theories.

00:17:20.860 Yeah, he really, really can't stand rebel news. I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that

00:17:28.300 there is a really important decision we take about the kind of country we want to see. And I salute all

00:17:35.100 extraordinary hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me

00:17:41.820 tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range

00:17:49.900 of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do. See, that's the thing. Trudeau is smarter generally

00:17:57.100 than those two transgender activists I showed you earlier. They rage at their opponents. It's so 0.95

00:18:01.500 clear they're motivated by ideological hatred for their opponents and for the idea that anyone could

00:18:06.060 even be allowed to oppose them. But Trudeau uses vague language and made up ideas like misinformation

00:18:11.900 and disinformation, which is basically what he calls anyone he dislikes. And Trudeau spends tens of

00:18:17.100 millions of dollars on activists who denounce his enemies as misinformation and disinformation.

00:18:22.940 Now, despite his occasional relapses where he rages against rebel news, Trudeau usually stays calm on

00:18:29.580 this file. He's going to delegate the actual censorship to his handpicked CRTC regulators and they're going to

00:18:36.460 order social media companies to do the actual dirty work for him. And so how would the public even know?

00:18:43.580 If they type in trucker convoy or drag queen story hour into the search engine and the first 50 results are

00:18:50.300 CBC stories, how many Canadians would even know it was the result of a government order affecting the

00:18:55.500 discoverability algorithm? Trudeau's regulators can simply order social media companies to make it

00:19:00.540 impossible to find rebel news or other online critics. It's brilliant in a way. Trudeau doesn't even have

00:19:06.460 to actually order us shut down. He doesn't have to silence us. He can just make it so no one can find us.

00:19:12.860 No one can hear us. And they don't even know they're being kept away from us. That's C-11. 0.90

00:19:20.300 It's terrifying on its own because it's the gateway. It effectively nationalizes social media. Now it's

00:19:27.020 all under Trudeau's control. 16 items. So it's not just C-11. It's what comes after C-11 that's

00:19:33.020 terrifying. Because once Trudeau has the power to regulate the internet, only then will he reveal what

00:19:39.180 he's really going to do with it. And as we saw during the trucker convoy, he will suspend civil

00:19:43.820 liberties if it suits him politically. So C-11 is just step one. But Trudeau already has another bill

00:19:51.420 in parliament called C-18 or the Online News Act. And just like C-11 makes social media companies

00:19:57.980 broadcasters for Trudeau to regulate, C-18 creates a new thing called digital intermediaries. Here's how

00:20:05.660 that's defined in C-18. Digital news intermediary means an online communications platform,

00:20:11.500 including a search engine or social media service that is subject to the legislative authority of

00:20:16.140 parliament and that makes news content produced by news outlets available to persons in Canada.

00:20:21.660 So that's a fancy way of saying any sort of search engine and social media platform that

00:20:27.820 every social media platform has search engines, by the way. So it's not just explicit search engines

00:20:32.940 like Google, but YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I mean, just type it in. If you go to Google right now

00:20:41.740 and you type in Trudeau blackface or carbon tax or whatever, the list of what shows up is what's

00:20:50.460 regulated. It returns with a list of links for news stories, right? Just the headline, maybe the first

00:20:56.140 sentence and a link to click if you want to see more. Now, as you know, that's how the internet works.

00:21:00.940 Things linked to other things for free. No one has to pay for a link. No one gets paid for a link.

00:21:05.340 People generally love getting linked to since it sends traffic to what you're doing and saying.

00:21:10.220 If a bunch of people post a story to Facebook about a rebel news item, we like it because they

00:21:16.540 click the link and come to our website and that's good for us. In fact, many news companies pay

00:21:21.580 to promote themselves on search engines. Sometimes you see little ads show up in the search rankings,

00:21:26.140 marked as ads. So obviously, if newspapers are advertising on Facebook or Google, it's because

00:21:31.260 they see value in it. But what C18 does is it forces search engines and social media companies to pay

00:21:40.540 any news organization that they would link to. They're literally going to be compelled

00:21:46.140 to pay those companies to link to them. Here's how liberal MP Lisa Hefner put it.

00:21:51.740 She said, I will always support quality fact-based and local Canadian journalism in a fair digital

00:21:57.740 marketplace. This bill makes it harder for big digital platforms like Facebook and Google

00:22:02.300 to steal local journalist articles and repost them without credit on one of their networks.

00:22:07.260 Without credit. It's a link to them. Listen, I'm no fan of Facebook or Google. But linking,

00:22:13.500 you're linking to a story. You're not stealing the story. You're just putting the headline up

00:22:17.500 and you're sending traffic to the story. What that liberal MP just did was disinformation,

00:22:22.860 wasn't it? But look at your language. The government will support quality fact-based

00:22:28.540 journalism. Well, what does that mean? Well, again, it means only journalism that Trudeau likes

00:22:35.260 will be subsidized. It's right there in the law. Let me quote,

00:22:37.660 eligible businesses designation at the request of a news business. The commission must, by order,

00:22:44.380 designate the business as eligible if it, A, is a qualified Canadian journalism organization

00:22:50.860 as defined in subsection 248.1 of the Income Tax Act. Okay, that qualified Canadian journalism

00:22:58.700 organization designation is really a Canadian news license. If you have it, it means Trudeau trusts you.

00:23:06.700 If you don't have it, he demonizes you as misinformation. Rebel News applied for that

00:23:12.220 QCJO status and the government reviewed hundreds of Rebel News stories and bizarrely declared that

00:23:18.780 what we do is not news. What? It's called Rebel News. We're not about sports or weather or cooking.

00:23:26.140 They literally said more than 99% of what we do isn't newsy. Now that's bizarre and we're legally

00:23:31.580 appealing that decision. But it's pretty obvious why we were denied, but hard left-wing media groups

00:23:37.580 like the Tides Foundation-backed National Observer get the designation because they're in step with

00:23:43.180 Trudeau's regime. So C11 commandeers the internet. Let's Trudeau manipulate the algorithm. Let's him

00:23:50.460 regulate the internet. C18 makes Facebook and Google and other search engines and social media companies

00:23:57.500 pay money to journalists in Canada, but only to the journalists that Trudeau approves,

00:24:03.900 not the ones he doesn't like. That's handy, isn't it?

00:24:08.940 By the way, Facebook has said that if they're forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to link

00:24:13.980 to Trudeau's favorite journalists, Facebook just won't link to Trudeau's favorite journalists.

00:24:19.020 They say news is not a moneymaker for them. I believe it. And if Trudeau really thinks it's

00:24:23.500 stealing to link to the Globe and Mail or whoever, then Facebook will stop doing it. Google is

00:24:28.860 considering doing the same. And Trudeau calls that blocking news sites. Got it. So if you link to a

00:24:35.100 news site, you're stealing. If you don't link to them, you're blocking them. The only solution is to

00:24:40.060 give hundreds of millions of dollars to Trudeau's hand-picked cronies, I guess.

00:24:44.220 Not to Rebel News. We don't have the government news license. So that's C-18. It's Trudeau's

00:24:51.260 second censorship bill. C-36 is the third one. It was actually introduced in the last parliament,

00:24:57.740 but it didn't get passed into law before the election was called. Trudeau has said they'll

00:25:02.300 reintroduce it. It's terrifying because it doesn't just deal with money and algorithms and big companies

00:25:08.140 anymore. It gets right into what you can say or can't say. And it has jail terms.

00:25:13.900 And huge fines if you don't say the things Trudeau likes. It is targeting individual users. Let me

00:25:20.380 read to you the formal name of C-36 and you'll get the picture. An act to amend the criminal code

00:25:27.580 and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another act, hate propaganda,

00:25:33.260 hate crimes and hate speech. Yeah. Trudeau calls people haters all the time. Islamophobes,

00:25:39.820 transphobes, racist, whatever. He usually just means those as insults, but now he means them as crimes. 0.96

00:25:47.340 So if you oppose him, he'll call you names and charge you with crimes. If you don't believe me,

00:25:52.700 read the bill just to start. Hate propaganda is already in our criminal code. I should just remind

00:25:58.780 you. Section 318 of our criminal code already makes it a crime to advocate for genocide. Section 319

00:26:04.300 makes it a crime already to incite hatred. But C-36 goes much further. It's a pretty short law,

00:26:11.660 but it tries to criminalize feelings, including hate, which is human feeling. They define it. They say

00:26:19.020 hatred means the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or

00:26:26.940 disdain. They're passing emotion laws now. It's totalitarian to pass laws telling people what

00:26:33.340 emotions they can feel or what they can think. You can't tell someone to simply turn off being upset.

00:26:39.340 Try doing that with your wife or husband if you're arguing with them. Oh, just stop being upset.

00:26:43.340 Try to order them not to feel bad. They'll feel worse because you're not listening to them.

00:26:47.980 Hatred often comes from a sense of an underlying grievance. If you don't deal with that underlying

00:26:53.420 problem in some way, you can ban hurt feelings all you like, but it won't work. In fact,

00:26:58.860 you'll probably make people more hateful. So Trudeau has defined the feelings you're not allowed to have.

00:27:05.660 And now they're going to ban those feelings. You see, they've decided to regulate the internet.

00:27:10.140 They've got their bureaucrats in the CRTC regulating the internet through C-11. They're getting the big

00:27:16.460 tech companies through C-18. But C-36 is where they really come for you. And I mean you. Let me read.

00:27:22.780 Communication of Hate Speech, Section 13. It is a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause

00:27:29.580 to be communicated hate speech by means of the internet or other means of telecommunication in

00:27:34.860 a context in which the hate speech is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual

00:27:41.820 or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination. So it's a future tense crime.

00:27:48.060 Who knows if something will foment hate? I'm pretty sure that these activists are going to say

00:27:54.620 everything could foment hate. These people are professionally offended all the time. It's their

00:27:59.020 job and their hobby and their sense of identity. For the purpose of subsection one, a person who

00:28:04.140 communicates or causes to be communicated hate speech continues to do so for as long as the hate

00:28:09.580 speech remains public and the person can remove it or block access to it. That's in the law. That means

00:28:15.020 if you tweeted or Facebook something years ago, even when you were a kid, you are still guilty of

00:28:21.500 that hate crime today. There's no statute of limitations. You know, in real courts, there's

00:28:27.820 the idea of being able to confront your accuser, to look them in the eye and challenge them,

00:28:32.620 not in this kangaroo court. Trudeau is literally setting up a secret court. Complaints about hate

00:28:38.060 speech can be made in secret and these secret complainants can get up to 20 grand for their

00:28:44.940 complaints. It's a new industry. They're paying people to be upset. Let me read this. Non-disclosure of

00:28:51.980 identity commission. The commission may deal with a complaint in relation to a discriminatory practice

00:28:58.300 described in section 13 without disclosing to the person against whom the complaint was filed

00:29:03.180 or to any other person, the identity of the alleged victim, the individual or group of individuals who

00:29:08.620 has filed the complaint or any individual who has given evidence or assisted the commission in any way

00:29:14.620 in dealing with the complaint. If the commission considers that there is a real and substantial risk

00:29:19.500 that any of those individuals will be subjected to threats, intimidation or discrimination.

00:29:25.020 So we got secret courts, secret witnesses, secret complaints. It could be a rival. It could be

00:29:31.180 an ex. It could be a disgruntled former employee. It could be a political prankster. It could be a

00:29:35.420 business. You can be sued forever endlessly and you will never know by whom and they get 20 grand a pop.

00:29:42.380 You can be ordered to pay huge fines and order to pay compensation of not more than $20,000

00:29:48.460 to any victim personally identified in the communication that constituted the discriminatory practice.

00:29:54.540 But there's something in here even more amazing. The concept of pre-crimes.

00:29:59.980 You know, like that Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. Even if you haven't done anything yet,

00:30:05.100 you can still be prosecuted. I'm not kidding. Let me read. Fear of hate propaganda offense or hate crime.

00:30:11.500 Section 810-0121A. A person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a

00:30:19.340 provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit

00:30:25.020 an offense under Section 318 or subsection 319. Those are the feelings crimes. An offense under

00:30:32.300 subsection 430. That's mischief under the criminal code. Or an offense motivated by bias, prejudice or hate,

00:30:38.860 based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical

00:30:44.060 disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other similar factor. So

00:30:51.180 even if someone hasn't broken the law yet, hasn't done anything bad yet, but you think they might

00:30:56.940 do something mean about your gender identity, you can go to court and hit them first. And if a judge says

00:31:03.020 your fear is reasonable, he could lock up the person you're afraid of, even if that person hasn't done

00:31:09.980 anything to you, won't do anything, will never do anything, you can still get an order issued

00:31:17.100 against him. Do you think this just might be abused? Getting your opponents locked up before they even

00:31:23.180 say anything? This law lets them put you under house arrest, have a curfew, have any firearms you have seized,

00:31:31.020 put an ankle bracelet on you to monitor you, ban you from drugs or alcohol, things that normally

00:31:36.700 only happen to convicted criminals actually did something wrong. Not to free crimes for thought

00:31:42.140 crimes. So first there was C11 that let the government regulate the internet. Then there was

00:31:47.020 C18 that commandeered the big tech companies in the search engines. And now there's C36, but they

00:31:53.260 saved the worst for last. The Online Harms Act is the fourth bill. It hasn't been introduced yet in

00:32:00.700 parliament or given a number. So C11 uses a slow and dumb bureaucracy called the CRTC. C18, same thing, 0.92

00:32:08.380 C36 includes huge fines and jail time, but at least involves some judges. But none of those are tough

00:32:16.780 enough or peanut enough for Trudeau. He really wants to censor the internet. So his final bill out of the

00:32:22.540 four creates a new internet censorship office with the Orwellian name, you're not even going to believe

00:32:29.500 this, the Digital Safety Commissioner of Canada. Hey, are you being safe online? Let me read a

00:32:36.540 line or two about this Digital Safety Commission. This is from the government's own website.

00:32:41.180 The act should provide for the establishment of the Digital Safety Commissioner,

00:32:45.740 whose functions are to, and there's a list here, oversee and improve online content moderation

00:32:51.980 by administering and enforcing obligations, engaging with and considering the particular needs of,

00:32:58.380 and barriers faced by groups disproportionately affected by harmful online content, such as women

00:33:04.620 and girls, indigenous peoples, members of racialized communities and religious minorities, and of LGBTQ2,

00:33:13.260 and gender diverse communities and persons with disability, and supporting platforms and

00:33:20.460 reducing harmful content affecting peoples in Canada, engage in partnerships, education outreach activities,

00:33:27.100 and research to help fulfill the policy objectives of the act. So you've got an ultimate,

00:33:32.380 unaccountable, hunter-killer to silence anything harmful. And by harmful, they mean whatever this

00:33:40.380 censor doesn't like. They just love talking about gender equity, don't they, and gender diversity.

00:33:45.980 So the cabinet minister who introduced this idea, his name is Stephen Gilboa, and he gives an example

00:33:52.940 of how this could be used. Here, listen to him. Earlier, I think that Canada has a world-renowned public

00:33:58.380 service, and it's integral that we don't attack them to try and score political points. Everybody in

00:34:06.780 this country, and especially elected officials, have, I think, a responsibility, a duty to ensure that we

00:34:15.180 protect our institutions, and that the last thing we should try and do is to somehow diminish them

00:34:24.780 just in the hope that we could score points. We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating

00:34:31.660 from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.

00:34:38.860 I have seen firsthand, alongside other Canadians, the damaging effects harmful content has on our families,

00:34:47.340 our values, and our institutions. His first example is you can't criticize politicians. He just comes out and says it.

00:34:53.500 And what power should this tyrant have? Well, he can literally delete or block any website he likes.

00:35:04.060 Trudeau's cabinet minister actually called it the nuclear option.

00:35:08.700 Could we envision having blocking orders? I mean, that's...

00:35:12.060 That's... Maybe. It's not... You know, it's a... It would be... It would likely be a last-resolved

00:35:23.740 nuclear bomb in a toolbox of mechanism for regulators.

00:35:31.340 Oh, my God. Trudeau proposes extreme ideas like website takedowns within 24 hours. No time for any sort of real hearing.

00:35:38.700 If Trudeau or his team don't like something, they'll just order a social media company to take it down within 24 hours,

00:35:44.860 and it must come down within 24 hours.

00:35:48.060 I've just got to read to you

00:35:50.140 from some of the social media companies' letters to Trudeau worried about this.

00:35:54.380 These were released in an access to information request.

00:35:57.180 I want to show you a letter from Twitter.

00:35:59.180 Now, let me emphasize, this is from Twitter before Elon Musk bought it.

00:36:04.140 So this is when Twitter was pretty pro-censorship itself, I have to say.

00:36:08.940 Twitter wrote a private memo to Trudeau

00:36:11.980 warning that this idea was literally the stuff that North Korea does.

00:36:17.020 They actually made that comparison. Here, I'm going to read just a little bit from their letter.

00:36:21.100 Issue, 24-hour takedown requirements.

00:36:23.740 Twitter opposes the recommendation of a time limit on addressing any content flagged by any person in Canada

00:36:29.820 as harmful content. The proposed time limit does not allow for judicious, thoughtful analysis in a

00:36:35.180 manner that balances the right to freedom of expression in Canada with the right to freedom

00:36:39.340 from discrimination and prejudice. According to existing research and analysis, the proposed system

00:36:45.420 has a high probability of negatively impacting marginalized, racialized, and intersectional groups.

00:36:50.380 More information from Professor Susie Dunn at Dalhousie University can be found here.

00:36:54.620 The 24-hour proposal should be abandoned. Content should be addressed as quickly and as possible

00:37:00.540 and within the scope of existing Canadian jurisprudence. Terms of service and rules

00:37:05.180 by the online communications service providers. Further, any standard applied in the digital world

00:37:11.180 should also be applied in real life. For example, law enforcement should be required to both launch

00:37:15.660 an investigation within 24 hours of flagging as well as remove any hateful content, graffiti on a

00:37:21.260 statue, for example, that appears within 24 hours across the country. She's just pointing out how

00:37:26.380 insane, how insane the idea is. And here's Twitter comparing Trudeau's proposal to China and North Korea.

00:37:35.260 Issue, website blocking. The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the digital safety commissioner

00:37:42.380 to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other

00:37:48.300 services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments,

00:37:53.900 China, North Korea, and Iran, for example, under the false guise of online safety, impeding people's 0.68

00:38:00.620 rights to access information online. Now look, my video is already too long. Frankly, it could be double

00:38:06.540 this size. There's so much to show you. But hopefully you see the scope and scale of the problem we have in Canada.

00:38:13.740 Four censorship bills. That's more than Trudeau has about inflation or the war in Ukraine or anything

00:38:20.540 else. He's obsessed with censorship. And they're like dominoes, C-11, then C-18, then C-36, then the

00:38:27.100 Online Harms Act. Each one building on the censorship of the one before him. Each one building a censorship

00:38:32.860 regime whose only comparison in the world is places like North Korea and Iran. Trudeau has the support of the

00:38:40.860 NDP. So these simply will become the law. And it's not like any of the mainstream media are actively

00:38:49.420 opposing this. The opposite. They're really excited about Trudeau forcing big tech to pay the money for

00:38:55.980 linking to them. The media have been bought off again. Canada's in trouble. Our free speech is in trouble.

00:39:03.580 And the watchdogs who are supposed to be on guard are all sleeping. I promise that we here at Rebel

00:39:10.140 News will do what we can. And I see that as doing three things. First of all, keeping you up to date

00:39:16.220 on the state of censorship in Canada. So just reporting the facts. Say, have you heard about any of this

00:39:22.140 on the CBC or the Toronto Star? Yeah, I didn't think so. Second of all, making the arguments for why this is

00:39:30.780 morally wrong, legally wrong, impractical, and downright un-Canadian. So we'll give you the facts 0.97

00:39:36.060 and then we'll give you the arguments. The third thing is what Rebel News does best sometimes.

00:39:42.460 Actually stepping in and fighting the good fight. All week I've been speaking with constitutional

00:39:47.500 lawyers about how to fight this censorship onslaught in court. Because if we don't do it, who will?

00:39:53.740 I have commissioned an expert litigation law firm to prepare to fight these bills in court. In fact,

00:40:02.620 we're already working on the lawsuit. We're not even waiting for the bills to be officially

00:40:06.460 proclaimed. We're working on it now. We already know how bad they're going to be.

00:40:11.420 We will sue Trudeau in court and hold him to the charter of rights. I know it's an uphill battle.

00:40:19.900 We will be outspent 10 to 1. They will have a swarm of lawyers there to fight against us.

00:40:26.220 But I know we can win because we beat him twice before on censorship fights. In 2019,

00:40:32.220 he banned us from attending the election debates. We went to federal court and we won. He tried again

00:40:37.660 in 2021. He banned us again. And when we sued him, he literally had seven government lawyers against us.

00:40:43.900 But we won again. Twice we beat Trudeau on free speech against long odds. Maybe there's some hope

00:40:51.180 left. If you want to help us, please go to stopthecensorship.ca. I think this is the battle

00:40:59.820 of 2023. What the trucker convoy was in 2022, the internet freedom battle is this year. Help us if you

00:41:07.740 can. Learn the facts, learn the arguments, and then help us take this Castro mini-meet to court.

00:41:15.420 Thanks for your help.

00:41:16.220 Hey, welcome back. You know, I'm still working on my anti-censorship battle. There's so many parts

00:41:33.900 to it. And I haven't even talked about fighting the city censorship and the province level censorship.

00:41:39.980 And then there's big tech censorship on its own. Really, I think censorship is the issue of our

00:41:44.780 age. One of the reasons why censorship is so important for Trudeau is because it was social

00:41:51.420 media and citizen journalism that told the truth about the truckers. All the media party was in

00:41:56.700 lockstep. I mean, you can count on one hand's fingers, Rupert Subramania, and I think I'm done

00:42:03.100 with the entire list of journalists in mainstream media outlets who were open-minded towards the truckers.

00:42:08.700 The people who told the trucker story were the citizen journalists, primarily, if I may say so,

00:42:12.780 rebel news journalists. At one point, I remember one day, we had 17 different journalists covering the

00:42:18.940 convoy and the truckers across the country. This is when everywhere from Windsor to Ottawa to

00:42:23.980 Coutts, Alberta, even in Vancouver, I remember. So that's why Trudeau's obsessed with censoring the

00:42:29.260 internet. Because the internet is where all the interesting stuff is gone. Now that the regime media is so

00:42:35.420 bland and homogenous and just parroting government talking points. Trudeau has four ways he's coming

00:42:42.380 to get us and you. I want to work on this a little bit more. This is sort of my first attempt to put it

00:42:47.980 all in one pot. It's about a half hour monologue. I hope you didn't find it too complicated or too

00:42:54.860 detailed. But I want to prove to you that we have a problem and I want to go to court to fix it.

00:43:00.220 That's the show for today. We'll be back tomorrow with a special Easter Friday edition.

00:43:08.140 Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home,

00:43:11.820 good night, happy Passover to those who follow it, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:43:20.940 Good night.

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Rebel News Podcast - April 07, 2023

EZRA LEVANT： In-depth breakdown of all four of Trudeau's online censorship bills and attacks on freedom of speech

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