Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Is everyone being extra anti-Russian to obscure the fact we're still friendly with China's dictatorship？

00:00:00.400 Hello, my friends. Did you know they're trying to ban the letter Zed or Z as our American friends said?

00:00:07.180 That's going to be tough to do because I don't think you can ban a letter.

00:00:11.140 I don't think it works that way. It's not really owned by anyone.

00:00:15.220 The letter Zed is very ancient. I'll tell you a little bit about the letter Zed and who's trying to ban it.

00:00:21.280 You're going to laugh and cry.

00:00:23.460 And I'll compare that craziness with how we treat real threats in life,

00:00:27.540 like those coming from communist China. I'll outline a few.

00:00:31.660 Oh, it's a tangled web. That's ahead.

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00:01:08.760 Tonight, is everyone being extra anti-Russian to obscure the fact that we're still abiding

00:01:31.320 the Chinese dictatorship? It's March 31st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:35.920 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:41.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:45.800 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:50.420 bloody right to do so.

00:01:51.680 You know, I have a letter Zed in my name, which isn't that common. I haven't played Scrabble in a

00:02:03.620 while, but Zed and Q are the high-value letters because they're rare. You know, Zed is an ancient

00:02:10.500 letter, not like some of the newer letters. Here's the ancient Greek letter Zeta. Here's the ancient

00:02:18.640 Hebrew letter Zion, which is related to Zeta. Here's the Arabic version Zayn. Pretty ancient. I mean,

00:02:26.780 those are some of the oldest languages around. Compare that to a newcomer, like the letter W. 1.00

00:02:35.020 I mean, did you know? Did you ever think about it? I'm sure you haven't. I'm sure you don't have that

00:02:40.840 much time on your hands to think about letters, but W, literally just two U's together. It's only

00:02:47.820 been accepted as its own letter for a few hundred years. In other words, Zed is a serious letter.

00:02:55.220 It's an important letter, if I do say so myself. I mean, think about it. Zipper, zinger, frozen,

00:03:02.860 frazzled. All the fun words. Maze, daze, haze. But I regret to report to you that the letter Zed

00:03:10.180 or Z, as our American friends call it, is now being banned. The letter, the alphabet. I didn't

00:03:20.220 know you could do that. Because for some reason, the Russians have been putting the letter Zed 0.52

00:03:26.780 on their military vehicles in the Ukraine war. Now, they call that letter Z in Russian. I'm not

00:03:33.760 pronouncing it right. You know, it depends on who you ask. The Zed means different things.

00:03:40.460 Z-a-po-be-du, if I'm saying that right, to victory. Z-a-po-be-du means west. I don't know

00:03:45.380 what it stands for. Everyone has a different opinion. You can see, though, the letter Zed

00:03:49.760 all over the place. It's a symbol for the war. I get it. You know, reminds me of Winston Churchill

00:03:58.300 during the Second World War. Churchill used to make the V symbol with his fingers, standing

00:04:04.080 for victory. I guess that was an early meme. I regret to inform you, though, that the letter

00:04:11.500 Zed, Z, Zeta, Z, whatever you call it, is now zapped. It's frozen. I know that sounds zany, 0.92

00:04:20.420 but it's true. It started with what I thought was a joke on Twitter. This is a tweet from the

00:04:29.540 foreign minister of Ukraine. I call on all states to criminalize the use of the Zed symbol

00:04:38.580 as a way to publicly support Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Zed means Russian 0.59

00:04:45.820 war crimes, bombed out cities, thousands of murdered Ukrainians. Public support of this 1.00

00:04:51.880 barbarism must be forbidden. Now, I am not in favor of an authoritarian ruler invading a neighboring

00:04:59.500 country, which is what Putin has done. But I am also not in favor of an authoritarian ruler

00:05:05.440 telling neighboring countries that they must criminalize peaceful political expression.

00:05:11.000 I can't help notice that Ukraine has banned opposition political parties that disagree with their

00:05:19.240 president. I can't help notice that Ukraine has banned media that disagree with their president. And

00:05:26.320 now they want to regulate political speech in other countries, including the use of a letter of the

00:05:32.540 alphabet. I just think it's extra weird, given that Ukraine abides the notorious Azov

00:05:40.700 battalion, which has a Zed in it. And they just happened to use Nazi imagery, including the

00:05:46.360 occasional Nazi swastika. There's a Zed in the word Nazi, too. I can't help but notice, you'd think

00:05:54.440 that's all hyperbole, but it's actually happening. They're banning the letter Zed. Some German states

00:06:01.620 plan to criminalize use of Zed symbols supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Here's part of the story.

00:06:08.720 In Germany, officials plan to prosecute those who display the Zed symbol as a way to show support

00:06:16.420 for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Nancy Fazer, the interior minister of the state of Berlin,

00:06:23.500 announced Monday that authorities will be in charge of cases where the Zed symbol is being

00:06:28.580 used to promote Russia's war atrocities. Well, of course, Germany will do a lot of showy things like 0.90

00:06:35.860 this to distract from the fact that they buy about 40 percent of their energy from Vladimir Putin and

00:06:41.960 Gazprom, despite Trump's warnings not to do so. Do you remember the German chancellor named Gerhard

00:06:48.280 Schroeder? I don't know if you remember him. He was the chancellor of Germany for seven years,

00:06:52.600 fairly long time, like a prime minister or president of a country. And then afterwards, what did he do?

00:06:57.500 He went to work for Vladimir Putin. I don't know if you know that. He's the chairman of a large Russian 0.98

00:07:05.480 energy company called Rosneft. Just huge, huge company would be like being the president of Exxon.

00:07:12.720 And just last month, he joined the board of Gazprom, Russia's huge natural gas company that sells to

00:07:19.900 Germany. This would be like if Bill Clinton or something went to work for Putin. Like it's that shocking.

00:07:25.140 And he still remains polite company in Germany. This is happening now. I mean, Schroeder has not resigned

00:07:32.440 during the war. He's been promoted. German society is fine with that. So, yeah, go ahead and ban the letter 0.69

00:07:40.420 Z. Right on. Makes you feel better while you're burning that Gazprom gas. And I tell you all of this, I tell you

00:07:48.620 about the letter Z being banned and anyone with a trace of Russia in them being purged and canceled

00:07:55.500 to contrast it with the total willful blindness towards China, a country with exactly 10 times

00:08:03.140 the population of Russia. Did you know that? And exactly 10 times the GDP of Russia.

00:08:08.000 Maybe that's why we're not getting tough with China. Because whatever you can say about Putin, violent,

00:08:15.440 brutal, authoritarian, imperialistic, undemocratic, whatever you can say about Putin,

00:08:21.620 you can say tenfold about China. Whether it's their treatment of Tibet or Hong Kong or the Muslim Uyghurs 1.00

00:08:28.060 in Xinjiang or their threats to the independent country of Taiwan or their espionage and undermining of us 0.63

00:08:33.820 in Canada and America in the West, frankly. And yet we treat China as an honored guest

00:08:38.780 as if they're moral heroes. I'm talking about the dictatorship here.

00:08:44.020 I mean, talk about banning the letter Z.

00:08:47.300 The opposite, you know, you know they use Greek letters to describe variants of the COVID-19 virus

00:08:52.880 that came from China, that China lied about. You know, there's the Delta variant. You know,

00:08:57.600 that's a Greek letter, right? The Omicron.

00:08:59.480 Those are Greek letters. And they were going through the Greek alphabet.

00:09:03.940 And the next letter they were supposed to use was the Greek letter spelt in English XI,

00:09:11.140 which is usually pronounced Xi or Ksai. That's the Greek letter. But it happens to be spelled

00:09:17.700 in English the same way as Xi Jinping's last name, Xi. That's the dictator of China. So the World Health

00:09:24.900 Organization and the media and everyone just skipped the letter Xi in Greek because it looked like Xi Jinping

00:09:32.940 out of deference to the tyrants. So they're banning Z, but they're also skipping over Xi or Xi. 0.94

00:09:40.220 But look at two pieces of news here about China. Here's the first one. Hong Kong has for years had a high

00:09:48.540 court of appeal made up of some of the finest judges from around the Commonwealth, as in Hong Kong's tip-top

00:09:55.760 court like our Supreme Court in Hong Kong. So it wasn't just Hong Kongers. It drew on judges from around

00:10:01.520 the world, including from the United Kingdom and including from Canada. I think that's wonderful.

00:10:05.680 There was something lovely about that. But of course, the laws underneath that court of final appeal,

00:10:11.880 they've changed, right? That was the cause of the uprising in Hong Kong in 2019 and the crushing of democracy

00:10:19.120 there in 2020 by the communists while the world was distracted by China's virus. So all of a sudden, you have 0.95

00:10:25.720 the finest, fairest judges in the world, like truly amazing. But they were presiding over a court in an authoritarian

00:10:35.580 dictatorship. And the laws they were implementing are illiberal. They're vicious, bully dictator laws.

00:10:41.580 It doesn't work, right? And it's getting worse all the time, right? So the democracy activists in Hong Kong,

00:10:49.220 if you don't know, they've been rounded up and charged and jailed. Basically, it's been getting worse

00:10:54.080 and worse and worse. So look at this news from Reuters here, but it's everywhere. It's news just yesterday.

00:11:01.720 Interesting story, I think. Two senior British judges, including the president of the UK Supreme Court,

00:11:09.160 resigned from Hong Kong's highest court on Wednesday because of a sweeping national security law imposed

00:11:15.560 by China, cracking down on dissent in the former British colony. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't care 0.94

00:11:23.340 how much money they're paying you, how prestigious the gig is. You know, you're Xi Jinping's enforcer now.

00:11:34.300 Let me read a little bit. Robert Reed, who heads up Britain's top judicial body,

00:11:40.360 said that he and colleague Peter Hodge would relinquish their roles with immediate effect

00:11:46.200 as non-permanent judges on the Hong Kong court of final appeal.

00:11:50.720 I have concluded in agreement with the government that the judges of the Supreme Court cannot continue

00:11:57.100 to sit in Hong Kong without appearing to endorse an administration which has departed from the values

00:12:03.900 of political freedom and freedom of expression, Reed said in a statement. Obviously, he's referring

00:12:08.900 to the UK government that he consulted with. But look at this. Local lawyers said the resignations

00:12:15.800 would likely put pressure on the 10 other foreign court of final appeal judges to quit. Six of these

00:12:21.700 are British. Those judges who also also from Canada and Australia are most mostly retired senior jurists

00:12:31.660 in their home countries, unlike Reed and Hodge, who are still serving. Yeah, that Canadian they're 0.95

00:12:38.180 talking about? That's Beverly McLaughlin, our former chief justice for years here in Canada.

00:12:45.360 I checked this morning to see if she had resigned. No, no. She's staying. She's staying in solidarity

00:12:52.220 with Xi Jinping. Look at her. So proud of standing with dictators. That's so gross. 1.00

00:13:01.320 You know, McLaughlin outrageously claimed that Canada is a genocidal country. She said that. I'm serious. 0.98

00:13:09.200 Here's a story in the Globe and Mail that day, but there's many others.

00:13:11.780 But isn't it funny that Xi has not used the word genocide to describe her new patrons,

00:13:18.800 the Chinese Communist Party? That's odd. Sort of puts all of her rulings against freedom in Canada

00:13:26.000 in a new light, doesn't it? That's weird. Imagine that. You can't use the letter Zed.

00:13:33.340 But you can be a judge enforcing China's brutal laws on its own people, and you're still polite company. 0.94

00:13:40.320 Look at this hilarious news from Alberta. Let me just tell you one more story that I think is sort

00:13:46.520 of related. It's a tweet. We are thrilled to share that TransPod has confirmed $550 million

00:13:54.500 U.S. finance for the construction of the Alberta TransPod line in Canada to connect the cities of

00:14:02.540 Calgary and Edmonton with fast, affordable, and sustainable ultra-high-speed transportation.

00:14:09.680 And then it continues, the Alberta project will create, now this is incredible, 140,000 new jobs,

00:14:17.420 and at $19.2 billion to Alberta's GDP, while reducing travel time from Edmonton to Calgary

00:14:23.420 by more than one-third, and improving affordability by almost half the price of a plane ticket.

00:14:32.620 Well, 140,000 new jobs, eh? To connect Edmonton and Calgary with the railway.

00:14:39.060 Now, there's only about 800,000 people working in each city, I checked.

00:14:42.560 So, it's 160,000 between the two of them. So, almost 10% of the people are going to work on this

00:14:50.000 railroad. It's monorail. That's quite something. $19.2 billion in GDP, eh? Just for putting a railway

00:14:57.160 between Calgary and Edmonton, eh? You know, I checked, and the entire agriculture industry in Alberta

00:15:03.280 is only half that valuable. What are they making this monorail out of? Gold? I've driven that highway

00:15:11.760 a hundred times. The two cities are about three hours apart by car, a little bit less if you speed,

00:15:17.500 which I do. Most people travel by car. It's not bad, about two and a half hours, three hours.

00:15:23.060 For those in a big rush or wealthy, they can take a little low-frills plane back and forth.

00:15:28.680 But WestJet and Air Canada both do it. It's really a half-hour flight. I checked today. It's about

00:15:35.640 250 bucks, to be fair. It's not cheap, but you're really not going to be much faster if you take a

00:15:43.560 bullet train than, you know, half an hour in the air. I've been on bullet trains before. I actually

00:15:49.260 took one from Shanghai Airport to the Shanghai City Center. It was pretty exciting. We went over 300

00:15:54.660 kilometers an hour for a brief moment. It was pretty cool. But bullet trains generally don't

00:16:00.260 make money anywhere, including in China or Japan, even though you've got tens of millions of people

00:16:05.500 in each city that you're connecting. So there's so many people, but connecting Calgary and Edmonton,

00:16:11.180 billions of dollars to do what a great highway, bus companies, two airlines, even Uber does. I don't

00:16:17.680 get it. And you're saying this is going to employ as many people as the oil and gas industry, really?

00:16:22.540 I'm going to call you the worst insult I can call you. I'm going to call you a monorail salesman.

00:16:30.480 Do you know what I mean? You know, a town with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel.

00:16:35.920 No one knows how he got it, and dangd if he knows how to use it.

00:16:42.200 Mule. The name's Landley. Lyle Landley. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea.

00:16:48.420 Probably the greatest... Oh, it's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville idea. 0.88

00:16:55.460 Now, wait just a minute. We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville. Just tell us your idea,

00:17:00.520 and we'll vote for it. All right. I tell you what I'll do. I'll show you my idea.

00:17:06.280 I give you the Springfield monorail.

00:17:09.240 Monorail. I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map.

00:17:17.860 Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail.

00:17:22.360 What'd I say? Monorail.

00:17:24.280 What's it called? Monorail.

00:17:25.940 That's right. Monorail.

00:17:27.340 That was a great Simpson episode. Now, there's been hucksters promoting monorails and high-speed rail in Canada and the United States for decades, for generations.

00:17:41.060 You know, California has a high-speed rail project. Lots of people in California, LA, San Francisco, voters approved the idea back in 2008,

00:17:49.600 and they assigned a $9 billion U.S. government bond to it, but it's still not built, and the price tag is now $80 billion U.S.

00:17:59.720 But boy, does it have a lot of people getting rich off it.

00:18:03.540 Here's a story in the LA Times, though. This is what it sort of looks like.

00:18:07.920 Delays, half-built tracks and bridges, abandoned, political promises to make it work.

00:18:14.520 Yeah, what a laugh.

00:18:15.820 But I saw this. Now, this story is a few years old.

00:18:20.140 Chinese firms want in on America's first bullet train.

00:18:24.580 Asian companies would bankroll the $68 billion project that will connect LA to San Francisco.

00:18:31.260 Now, I note that that price tag was what it cost in 2015 when the story was written. It's higher now.

00:18:37.480 China, eh? So China wants in. 0.97

00:18:41.080 Well, what do you know?

00:18:42.840 Look at this story from Global News.

00:18:44.960 $550 million secured to help finance ultra-high-speed hyperloop between Edmonton and Calgary.

00:18:52.040 Okay. So where did they get that dough from? We heard about that dough from the company.

00:18:55.300 And, of course, where's the rest of the money going to come from?

00:19:00.320 Because these things are billion-dollar projects.

00:19:02.960 That's not going to come from taxpayers like it did in California, did it?

00:19:06.940 Let me read.

00:19:38.140 The high-speed transportation system is being developed to carry passengers and cargo

00:19:50.600 in a low-pressure tube environment.

00:19:55.200 It's 1,000 kilometers an hour.

00:19:57.220 Described as an aircraft without wings, the vehicles would be powered by electrically-driven magnetic propulsion,

00:20:05.020 according to the company.

00:20:06.060 Yeah.

00:20:06.220 Getting in a low-pressure tube to go 1,000 kilometers an hour.

00:20:09.980 You first, mate.

00:20:12.100 But what was that part there?

00:20:13.760 China East Resources Import and Export Company?

00:20:19.720 So they're going to own this monstrous monorail, eh?

00:20:24.680 Who on earth are they?

00:20:27.400 Well, here's their website.

00:20:28.980 This is what they say about themselves.

00:20:30.240 They say, established in 1993, China East Resources Import and Export Company is a wholly state-owned company

00:20:39.640 with independent legal status.

00:20:42.020 Oh, okay.

00:20:43.060 So the Chinese government wants to own the monorail, you know, for the... 0.98

00:20:48.340 Monorails are for thieves and grifters, suckering people like in that Simpsons cartoon. 0.97

00:20:55.100 They don't make money or save money, never have. 0.62

00:20:57.780 Even in dense places like Japan and China and California, they certainly won't work in sparse Alberta,

00:21:04.520 connecting two cities that are already very well connected by road and air.

00:21:08.900 This is a scam, obviously.

00:21:11.860 Most trained fetishes are.

00:21:14.820 But given that the power behind the scenes is the communist dictatorship of China,

00:21:20.080 I think this isn't just an IQ test and a can-you-hold-on-to-your-money test.

00:21:29.940 I think this is a moral test or a political test of Justin Trudeau,

00:21:36.380 but mainly of Alberta's premier, Jason Kenney.

00:21:39.900 You going to accept this?

00:21:43.320 Huh.

00:21:44.000 I wonder if he's up to that test.

00:21:46.800 Stay with us for more.

00:21:47.740 Well, for about 18 months, the following was considered a Republican Party far-right QAnon conspiracy theory,

00:22:08.060 so much so that Twitter suspended the account of the New York Post,

00:22:13.400 a newspaper more than 100 years old,

00:22:15.840 for daring to publish that indeed Hunter Biden's laptop was not only real,

00:22:20.860 but it contained damning facts about Hunter Biden and his dad.

00:22:25.020 Well, here's CNN now.

00:22:27.800 It seems pretty clear that Hunter Biden was trading on his father's name to make a lot of money.

00:22:33.960 They're saying what would have got you suspended during the 2020 election campaign.

00:22:40.180 Why are they finally talking about it knowing that it's true when they've denied it for a year and a half?

00:22:46.120 Joining us now by Skype from the greater Los Angeles area is our friend Joel Pollack,

00:22:50.800 senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:22:52.620 Joel, you and I know that because we read the story in the New York Post a year and a half ago.

00:22:57.220 We watched as the media censored any stories about it,

00:23:00.980 and as CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times ridiculed it,

00:23:04.880 as PBS said they only talk about important news, not distractions,

00:23:09.140 why suddenly are the liberal media talking about the Hunter Biden laptop?

00:23:15.780 Well, I think there's an indictment looming,

00:23:18.140 because we've seen leaks about a grand jury investigation

00:23:21.560 that's collecting information that could lead to the indictment of Hunter Biden.

00:23:25.920 And there have also been stories about back taxes that he's paid to the IRS.

00:23:30.560 So clearly some of the loose legal ends are starting to come together.

00:23:34.300 He may not face charges on some of the investigations,

00:23:39.180 for example, paying back taxes to the IRS,

00:23:41.960 and usually a prelude to reaching some sort of settlement that doesn't involve prosecution,

00:23:46.140 although people can still be prosecuted and have to pay back taxes.

00:23:48.680 But I think there are leaks coming out that suggest the investigation is far broader than people had imagined.

00:23:55.320 You also have John Durham investigating the origins of the Russian collusion investigation.

00:24:00.680 So there are a lot of things happening at once.

00:24:03.540 And that could be a reason a lot of this reporting is coming out,

00:24:07.080 because of the leaks and because the newspapers want to get ahead of a story

00:24:10.160 that they had denied for years that they had suppressed during the election.

00:24:14.460 They don't want to look like they were complicit in any cover-up.

00:24:19.200 So they're trying desperately to get as much information out as possible

00:24:22.300 in the event that Hunter Biden is, in fact, indicted or faces some other sorts of penalties.

00:24:27.460 But I think the other reason is that Joe Biden is now looking vulnerable.

00:24:31.000 His approval rating is hovering in the low 40s, high 30s in some polls,

00:24:34.500 but he's at the lowest point of his presidency.

00:24:37.240 He doesn't seem to be able to handle anything,

00:24:39.100 whether it be inflation crisis, the high energy prices,

00:24:43.240 the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:24:44.620 He doesn't seem up to the job.

00:24:46.500 He nearly launched World War III on his trip to Europe.

00:24:49.240 He was making gap after gap.

00:24:51.240 And so I think there are people within the media who decided he's no longer useful.

00:24:55.320 His main job was to make sure Donald Trump didn't come back for a second term.

00:24:59.160 He achieved that with big help from the media, Silicon Valley, and so forth.

00:25:03.960 And now he's basically outlived his usefulness.

00:25:06.300 So it may be that the media are indicating to the Democratic Party

00:25:09.720 that he needs to start preparing a backup plan,

00:25:12.080 and Kamala Harris is not that plan.

00:25:13.980 So this is potentially building up to a moment where Biden will simply decide

00:25:18.620 he's had enough, he wants to enjoy his retirement, and he's leaving,

00:25:22.280 rather than face embarrassing questions about his own financial interests,

00:25:26.380 how deeply entwined his finances were with those of his corrupt son,

00:25:30.100 and whether he is compromised by his business doings with the Chinese government

00:25:33.260 and other foreign business partners.

00:25:35.180 You said so many things there.

00:25:37.300 I mean, let's go back to the beginning.

00:25:38.320 You say that there may be a prosecution of Hunter Biden.

00:25:41.300 And it's funny, because for the entire Trump administration, we heard,

00:25:45.360 oh, the walls are closing in on Trump. 0.61

00:25:47.520 The walls are closing in on Donald Trump Jr. and the crooked family.

00:25:51.940 We learned everything, every allegation.

00:25:54.800 And of course, there was no prosecution.

00:25:56.940 There was no there there.

00:25:58.480 And it's incredible that there has been so little mainstream media coverage of Hunter.

00:26:05.660 But it but you're suggesting there might actually be a prosecution.

00:26:09.000 And we're just barely a year into Biden's administration.

00:26:12.180 That's incredible.

00:26:13.140 And I think that had this kind of information been known to the general public a year and a half ago,

00:26:19.260 I truly think it would have made a substantial difference in the election 2020.

00:26:24.060 I just I mean, look, I'm not an American.

00:26:25.760 I'm not on the ground there.

00:26:26.800 But to charge a president's son and his entire livelihood has been renting out his father's influence and not not from far away.

00:26:37.440 He's on Air Force One or Air Force Two, as it was going to China.

00:26:41.020 He's he's traipsing around Ukraine where his dad comes in and issues threats to his political opponents.

00:26:48.620 Hunter Biden is like a barnacle on the SS Biden.

00:26:52.760 He is nothing without his dad.

00:26:54.080 I mean, I guess you could say the same thing about the Trump kids, but but they weren't they were in the business side of the dad, not the political side.

00:27:03.200 Well, the difference between the two families is that the Trump family became wealthy outside of politics and Biden family had no independent wealth.

00:27:10.560 They became wealthy through Biden's political career and the various members of his family, his brother, his son, various other relatives.

00:27:19.960 They have become wealthy by advertising their connections to Biden.

00:27:23.160 And that's how they have obtained foreign government contracts.

00:27:25.700 That's how they have obtained domestic government contracts.

00:27:28.420 That's how they have been able to get paid simply for connecting one person to another, which is lobbying.

00:27:32.920 That could be another charge.

00:27:34.240 Hunter Biden's face.

00:27:35.160 He is essentially a foreign agent.

00:27:37.880 He was acting on behalf of various foreign actors in an unregistered way.

00:27:41.960 Now, that's not a crime that's usually prosecuted, although it is a crime, but it has been prosecuted in the recent past.

00:27:48.040 Remember that the Department of Justice went after Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for allegedly doing that.

00:27:55.220 And so, look, I think this is a very important point of vulnerability for the Biden administration.

00:28:00.520 It's also an important vulnerability for the media and for Silicon Valley, because the campaign of censorship that they undertook in 2020 was unlike anything we've ever seen in American history and haven't right before an election.

00:28:11.140 The public had a right to know whether one of the candidates had potentially corrupt business relationships with foreign powers that could then use those relationships to control the president.

00:28:18.500 And all of that information was suppressed.

00:28:20.820 We were told it was Russian misinformation.

00:28:22.860 We were lied to about the intelligence community's assessment of it.

00:28:26.180 We were just fed all these complete lies.

00:28:29.360 And then if you tried to actually share the truth on Twitter or Facebook, your account was suspended.

00:28:33.500 Even journalists who didn't agree with where all this was going, who didn't like the fact that it was going to help Trump if it got out, they tried sharing the article to criticize it, and they found their own accounts were suspended.

00:28:44.620 There was no debate allowed about these issues.

00:28:46.520 So it was really the beginning of a dark age of censorship in this country, and the media are not just complicit in it, they actually tiered it on.

00:28:54.860 So they're trying to bury that now under a slew of coverage, and you see it not just reaching the highbrow pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, but it's also on the nightly news and the networks.

00:29:04.880 So there's now no one who can say they're not aware of it.

00:29:06.880 But certainly before the November election, when it came out in mid-October in 2020, there was nobody who was aware of it outside of the conservative media because the rest of the media pressed it.

00:29:16.520 You said something very terrifying about five minutes ago.

00:29:21.520 You said, you know, could Joe Biden be replaced?

00:29:25.820 And there's different ways he could be replaced.

00:29:28.100 I don't know if it would be possible to lean on him and have him voluntarily resign using health as an excuse.

00:29:35.480 I don't know.

00:29:36.240 I mean, there is a—your American constitution in terms of removing a president is different than our methods up here in Canada.

00:29:45.060 But, of course, the vice president, I guess one of the vice president's main job is to be the president in waiting.

00:29:51.340 I don't think there's a lot of constitutional duties accorded to the VP.

00:29:56.500 And the idea that Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from me, that's actually just as scary to me.

00:30:03.760 Let me show you this video that Kamala Harris said.

00:30:07.160 It reminds me of a kid who didn't read a book being asked to stand up and give like a book report.

00:30:13.020 And I've been there.

00:30:14.400 Or if you remember Mr. Bean in that funny movie where he was asked to describe Whistler's mother, the painting, he said, well, my first point.

00:30:23.080 And I'm almost done now.

00:30:24.620 Like just to take zero knowledge and stretch it for a minute.

00:30:30.000 That's a heck of a thing.

00:30:31.560 Here's Kamala Harris doing that, talking about Jamaica and the pandemic.

00:30:36.580 There's not a lot else said here, but she says it very lengthily.

00:30:40.740 Take a look.

00:30:41.940 We also recognize, just as it has been in the United States for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic.

00:30:53.340 So to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health, but also the economy.

00:31:15.160 I don't quite know if I learned anything there.

00:31:18.420 I don't think anyone in the audience did either.

00:31:20.720 But that's an amazing way of talking.

00:31:23.340 I suppose just that utter fog machine does less harm than the gaffe machine of Joe Biden.

00:31:32.180 I mean, in a matter of a few days, as everyone knows, Biden said he'll meet a chemical weapons attack in kind, that there has to be regime change in Russia.

00:31:44.700 And he implied that American troops either have been or will go into Ukraine all in the course of a week.

00:31:50.800 Those are dangerous gaffes.

00:31:52.020 I actually don't think Kamala Harris would make those gaffes because she would just say nothing again and again and again. 1.00

00:31:59.600 Yeah, she's not viewed as competent. 0.99

00:32:01.820 She ran one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern political memory. 1.00

00:32:05.660 Had all the tickets.

00:32:07.920 She had all the constituencies prepared to back her, checked all the boxes.

00:32:12.440 She had all the Hillary Clinton donors in her back pocket.

00:32:14.880 She was the heir apparent, basically.

00:32:17.140 But she ran such a terrible campaign. 1.00

00:32:19.160 I followed her on the campaign trail for a while.

00:32:21.060 And there was a lot of enthusiasm initially behind her effort.

00:32:23.620 But she did basic things to mismanage the campaign, even putting the stage in the wrong place at events and things like that. 1.00

00:32:29.400 So she just couldn't connect to people.

00:32:31.240 She never had a message.

00:32:32.080 And that's been the pattern of her management throughout her career.

00:32:36.680 If you look at the various jobs she's held, she was district attorney in San Francisco, which began to descend into a morass of petty crime and decay.

00:32:45.120 She was California attorney general.

00:32:46.820 She presided over the beginning of a crime wave. 0.66

00:32:49.300 She didn't really achieve much except for persecuting First Amendment rights of journalists who were pro-life and of organizations that contributed to conservative causes. 0.59

00:32:57.860 I mean, that's basically all she's done is just do politics. 1.00

00:33:00.660 She doesn't do management.

00:33:02.060 She barely does communication. 0.99

00:33:03.940 And she's been reliant on the beneficent patronage of America's liberal establishment. 0.69

00:33:09.720 That's basically how she has arrived where she is.

00:33:12.160 She's very good at failing upwards.

00:33:13.600 The problem is that when you're in the president's job, there's no room for failure at all.

00:33:17.580 So I think people are very nervous about her speaking over.

00:33:20.360 Joe Biden likes her because she's the only person less popular than he is.

00:33:23.380 Well, I mean, it's a long time.

00:33:28.200 I mean, he's old.

00:33:29.480 I don't think he's firing on all cylinders.

00:33:33.300 It's not just how his brain moves physically.

00:33:36.720 He seems weak like he has to be like they have to like a very old airplane.

00:33:42.600 It needs about six hours of maintenance for every hour of flying.

00:33:46.920 It does.

00:33:48.060 And so when he's out there, every minute is precious.

00:33:50.040 When he was in Europe having pizza with the troops, it looked like he was gumming the pizza.

00:33:56.920 And even physically, he looked not quite there.

00:33:59.540 And I'm not saying this to make fun of him.

00:34:02.220 I mean, Lord knows I'm not the fittest person around either.

00:34:06.460 I have plenty of problems.

00:34:07.940 But I just think that he's going to get worse.

00:34:12.820 Like no one gets – he's nearly 80.

00:34:15.120 You're not going to be better at 81 than you are at 79.

00:34:19.000 I forget the exact age he is.

00:34:21.500 It's not age so much.

00:34:23.980 Confucius said, if I can quote the great Chinese philosopher, that essentially all a good ruler needs to do is sit facing the right direction.

00:34:31.660 You don't need to be energetic.

00:34:33.180 You don't need to be young.

00:34:34.140 You don't need to be strong.

00:34:35.060 But you have to have the right orientation.

00:34:37.440 And the problem with Biden is he has the wrong orientation.

00:34:39.780 Now, you can get away with that if you're young and vigorous and you can still take care of the things that government has to do, even if your overall philosophy is incorrect.

00:34:48.400 That was, in a sense, Bill Clinton's secret.

00:34:50.280 I mean, he was young and dynamic and charismatic.

00:34:52.960 And even though a lot of his ideas were poor, he was able to fake it through his eight years.

00:34:57.520 And Newt Gingrich and the Republicans really set the agenda after 1994, the last six years of Clinton's presidency.

00:35:02.600 And although his moral example ended up nearly crumbling in his presidency, he was able to make up for it.

00:35:10.300 He appointed the right people.

00:35:11.640 He was energetic and he was perceived as being a leader, even though many of the decisions he made were wrong.

00:35:16.780 With Biden, he's got the wrong orientation.

00:35:18.720 He's being controlled by the left.

00:35:20.120 He's become a Bernie Sanders Democrat, basically by default, because that's the voter base of the Democratic Party now.

00:35:26.740 That's where the party is.

00:35:28.160 And he doesn't have the vigor he needs to run the rest of the government.

00:35:32.060 You know, you can get away with bad left-wing policies, but if you make the trains run on time, people will forgive you for that.

00:35:38.780 He's not involved in administration in that way.

00:35:41.120 He doesn't have the energy.

00:35:42.100 So he can't compensate for bad policies with good administration.

00:35:45.940 And that's the problem.

00:35:47.860 Look, in the Canadian system, anyone could replace the leader.

00:35:51.100 If Justin Trudeau were to take a walk in the snow, as we call it in Canada, and step down, there would immediately the other members of parliament in the Liberal caucus,

00:36:02.060 would vote and choose an interim leader, they would choose.

00:36:06.020 And then they would probably have a leadership race, and that person would become the prime minister.

00:36:10.380 So that's how it's done in Canada.

00:36:11.840 Now, America, the Constitution says it goes from the president to the vice president, and then the third in line is the Speaker of the House, if I'm not mistaken.

00:36:20.000 Like, it's not up to the party.

00:36:22.160 Like, it's not up to party bigwigs or donors or Democrats.

00:36:26.040 It's sort of fixed in stone.

00:36:28.020 Am I right?

00:36:28.460 There's this pecking order.

00:36:30.260 And Kamala Harris is number two, and Nancy Pelosi is number three.

00:36:32.700 Is that right?

00:36:33.160 Yeah, it gets difficult.

00:36:38.080 There's an order of succession, which happens in case of terrible things.

00:36:42.300 So if Joe Biden passes away, then Kamala Harris, and if she passes away, and there's no replacement in time, because there are procedures to replace a vice president, then it does go to the Speaker of the House, and so on and so forth.

00:36:54.880 I think then it goes to the president pro tempura of the Senate, and then it goes to various cabinet members.

00:36:59.500 So they have this long line of succession in the event of an emergency, you know, in the event of sort of a nuclear war, and all the cabinets meeting at the White House, they have this designated survivor who's not supposed to go where the other ones go in case they're all wiped out by a bomb.

00:37:11.740 Then there's one person left to leave the country.

00:37:13.380 So there is this bizarre succession, but that's not really how we elect our leaders.

00:37:17.820 You know, when this kind of thing plays out over time, you know, if you lose the president, the vice president moves up immediately, then there's a vacancy.

00:37:24.580 You see, in the vice presidency, you fill the vacancy.

00:37:26.680 There's a process for doing that through the House and the Senate.

00:37:29.320 So, you know, it gets a little complicated, but generally, because a presidential election is, in a sense, an election separate and apart from our legislative election, you can't just easily remove a president or a vice president.

00:37:42.680 Well, it really would have to be both at the same time to kind of decapitate the government.

00:37:46.060 You can't do it so easily.

00:37:47.560 A president can resign, but then the vice president would become the president.

00:37:50.120 If a vice president leaves, we saw with Spiro Agnew under Nixon, you replace the vice president with the new vice president, having the federal court, it gets a little tricky.

00:37:59.920 The problem here is that the president's incapable of doing his job, most people agree.

00:38:04.480 Once he resigns, the vice president moves up, but she's incapable of doing her job for entirely different reasons. 0.99

00:38:09.980 And so they don't have a third person in waiting, and there's no procedure for making that person the third.

00:38:15.920 You know, if Republicans win Congress in November, they win the House specifically, which it looks like they will, then Kevin McCarthy, the Republican, would be Speaker of the House.

00:38:23.860 Because if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris leave office at the same time, conceivably, it could happen that a Republican, Kevin McCarthy, takes over as president because he's the Speaker of the House.

00:38:34.040 Democrats are not going to let that happen.

00:38:35.440 So they're going to start to plan for some kind of procedural succession.

00:38:40.380 What I mean by that is they're going to arrange the steps in order that they need to do to replace Kamala Harris with somebody, to replace Joe Biden once Kamala Harris moves up, or to find someone else to do it instead of Kamala Harris, whatever it is.

00:38:52.680 But a lot of Democrats are already campaigning for the job, I believe.

00:38:55.920 Pete Buttigieg is moving around behind the scenes, trying to get himself elevated out of the cabinet and into the executive vice presidency or presidency.

00:39:03.060 And I think Democrats basically have to go through all these procedural calculations.

00:39:06.980 But there are all kinds of consequences as to whether they do it before or after January 20th, because January 20th, the next coming January 20th would mark two years into the term, which is halfway.

00:39:17.700 If they do it after halfway, there's all kinds of consequences for whether he can run for another term.

00:39:22.680 You know, versus before, it's very complicated.

00:39:25.800 So it's not like a parliamentary system where you have a majority party that can just elevate somebody into the leadership role.

00:39:30.980 This is very, very tricky.

00:39:32.920 And so Democrats are starting to look ahead a little bit.

00:39:35.640 Maybe that's one of the reasons you're seeing all these Hunter Biden stories.

00:39:38.340 Media are plotting the Democrats to act.

00:39:40.940 In many ways, the Democrats are run by the media.

00:39:42.940 They're not just a party that has media bias working in their favor.

00:39:46.820 In many ways, the media give their cues to the Democratic Party.

00:39:50.640 And I think the media are telling the Democrats, you have to solve this succession problem sooner rather than later.

00:39:56.000 Last question before I appreciate your time today.

00:39:59.560 If you had to guess, and I know it's always tough to speculate.

00:40:03.020 Do you think that Joe Biden will complete his first term?

00:40:07.940 No.

00:40:08.640 Pardon me?

00:40:09.660 No, you won't.

00:40:10.920 Well, that was a very quick answer.

00:40:12.700 That's a very quick answer.

00:40:13.660 Do you think it'll be for health reasons?

00:40:16.300 I think he'll leave after the mid-term elections, yeah.

00:40:19.380 Wow.

00:40:20.380 Well, very exciting.

00:40:21.640 Never a boring moment.

00:40:23.300 Things are so momentous these days.

00:40:24.760 Joe Pollack, great to see you again.

00:40:25.800 Thanks for your time.

00:40:27.000 Thank you.

00:40:27.660 There you have it.

00:40:28.300 Senior Editor at laurenchow of Breitbart.com.

00:40:30.300 Stay with us more.

00:40:30.980 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:44.100 Your viewer mail, Joan Giesbrecht, says maybe Trudeau wants to give us all a Tesla.

00:40:50.140 That would solve the problem.

00:40:53.500 I don't know if it would.

00:40:55.060 There's just not that many Teslas out there.

00:40:57.520 I mean, there's usually delays in getting them, and good for Elon Musk.

00:41:01.300 You just, there's not a million Teslas for Canada.

00:41:05.320 And there's certain things about Teslas that are environmental.

00:41:07.880 I'd be lying if I said otherwise.

00:41:10.180 But, you know, the massive battery, the rare earth metals to make it, the cost is a huge part of it, and how to dispose of it afterwards.

00:41:21.380 But also, a lot of electricity in Canada still comes from fossil fuel sources, natural gas, or even coal.

00:41:29.520 I'm not sure if anything will actually change the temperature of the world.

00:41:33.980 In fact, I'm sort of sure it won't.

00:41:36.140 I used to follow the UN's global warming projects much more closely.

00:41:39.900 Even the UN itself, their Framework Convention on Climate Change, as they call it, they say that even if all of their emission requests were met, even if we basically shut down all automobiles, all airplanes, basically shut down fossil fuel use, that would not reduce the temperature of the world at all.

00:42:01.460 It would imperceptibly slow the growth of temperature over a century.

00:42:08.760 But it's not going to cool the world.

00:42:10.760 So it'll do nothing but enrich people who have schemes and scams, just like that pod train.

00:42:18.580 Someone nicknamed This Is My Freedom says, it is obvious who is in power.

00:42:23.100 This is all a part of Klaus Schwab's Great Reset Plan.

00:42:27.240 Isn't it convenient how everything is lining up?

00:42:29.760 COVID, vaccine mandates, supply chain, fuel costs, hyperinflation, and now Russia, Ukraine.

00:42:36.080 This is all pre-planned.

00:42:38.280 I don't know if it's pre-planned, but, you know, the saying of the left, I suppose it's a Leninist idea, never let a crisis go to waste.

00:42:46.160 They're using the crisis as an opportunity to have their lockdown, seize control of things, whether it's censorship or economic control.

00:42:53.940 Sean DeLapp says, I would be far more concerned about Biden than Putin.

00:43:00.320 Well, as you heard Joel Pollack said, he answered immediately without hesitating.

00:43:05.580 He thinks that Joe Biden will not serve out his term.

00:43:08.240 I thought that was very interesting.

00:43:10.480 That's our show for today.

00:43:12.060 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:43:16.240 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:43:17.060 And let me leave you with our video of the day from Alexa Lavoie, talking to a former Dragon's Den host named Vincenzo Goodzo, commenting on Jean Charest's aspirations to be prime minister.

00:43:29.560 This is an interesting one.

00:43:30.860 All right.

00:43:31.140 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:43:31.700 Bye, everybody.

00:43:32.100 Vincenzo Goodzo, also known as Mr. Sunshine, was present at Mr. Jean Charest's event in Montreal for the Conservative Party of Canada's leader race.

00:43:44.800 In 2018, Mr. Goodzo joined the cast of the CBC reality show Dragon's Den.

00:43:52.680 He also owned several businesses, including the famous Goodzo movie theater in Quebec.

00:43:58.200 In 2022, following the departure of the Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Vincenzo Goodzo hinted that he might be interested in running for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

00:44:13.880 I spoke with Mr. Goodzo, who, for his part, supported Jean Charest's candidacy.

00:44:20.980 Here is the interview he gave me.

00:44:23.580 So, we know that Mr. Charest was the premier of Quebec, but for the Liberal Party, now he's running for being the leader of the Conservative Party.

00:44:33.360 What do you think about that?

00:44:34.880 Well, look, I think you got to remember there's, in some provinces, there is no Conservative Party, provincially speaking, right?

00:44:40.680 So, at the time that he came into provincial politics, the Federalist Party that regrouped all of the Federals, no matter whether you were Liberal, Conservative, whatever, was the Liberal Party of Quebec.

00:44:52.640 So, I mean, if you wanted to defend the unity of Canada in Quebec, the only party that could do that was the Liberal Party of Quebec.

00:45:01.820 And so, being its leader was just a legitimate transition towards that.

00:45:06.700 The other thing is, as a leader of that party, he did implement very Conservative-minded fiscal policies and so forth.

00:45:15.720 So, you know, it's not the label.

00:45:18.080 I think in BC, if I remember well, there's the Liberal Party of, or Manitoba, one of the provinces out west, there's a Liberal Party that's more Conservative than maybe most Conservative parties, right?

00:45:28.560 So, the label doesn't really mean anything.

00:45:31.820 And we know that his name was involved in the Mathuré investigation.

00:45:37.120 We know that a lot of Quebecers have lost their trust for Mr. Charest.

00:45:42.860 Is that the case for you?

00:45:44.340 No, I mean, I wouldn't have supported him.

00:45:46.180 And I'm here as co-chair of the fundraising for Quebec for his leadership.

00:45:50.720 So, you got to remember, you know, I'm a Quebecer-Canadian of Italian origin.

00:45:55.860 So, if there's anybody who's been labeled all kinds of stuff because of my success in business, it's me.

00:46:01.660 So, I guess, you know, it's one of the sad things.

00:46:05.760 But what I am happy about is that he wasn't found innocent.

00:46:09.200 He was just not at all accused of anything, which is, I think, what's important here.

00:46:13.240 It's not a question of, you know, they went after him and, you know, they couldn't find him guilty.

00:46:17.980 The idea was they didn't even go after him.

00:46:19.460 I mean, there was nothing to say about that.

00:46:22.920 And at the end of the day, I think, you know, that ultimately it's already hard enough.

00:46:27.080 Public life is hard enough that if we have to keep grudges on stuff like that, it just doesn't make sense.

00:46:33.280 I think, you know, at the end of the day, we have a potential leader of a party and a potential prime minister who can unite the country,

00:46:40.220 who can explain, you know, to Quebecers why, you know, we have to unite with Alberta and the rest of the country and why we're one country.

00:46:46.840 He was, you know, Captain Canada in the 95 referendum.

00:46:51.000 So I have no problem supporting him.

00:46:54.160 So why more him than Mr. Pierre Paulyer or Mr. Brown, example?

00:46:59.620 So Mr. Brown, I really don't know very well.

00:47:02.100 But Mr. Paulyer, as much as I'd go and have a beer with him and watch a hockey game,

00:47:08.260 truth of the matter is, you know, Justin Trudeau or Pierre Paulyer, for me, is the same thing, just wearing a different blazer.

00:47:14.360 At the end of the day, I think both of them are very well coached to repeat or to deviate and not answer the questions.

00:47:21.720 The other problem is, you know, I've always said, so when I wanted to run as leader in the last campaign,

00:47:27.060 somebody said to me, but you have no political experience.

00:47:28.980 I said, well, for the politicians we've had in the last two years, I'm hoping we're putting somebody with zero political experience.

00:47:34.900 And the truth of the matter is that Jean Charest has had the good fortune of being a politician,

00:47:40.020 but he's also had the good fortune of being in public, in private life, sorry.

00:47:43.040 And so, therefore, he knows what it is to be on both sides of that life versus Mr. Paulyer has been a career politician.

00:47:51.540 And it's a little strange to say to somebody at 42 years old, you're a career politician.

00:47:56.100 It means you haven't done anything else.

00:47:57.500 So how could you have really empathy for Canadians? 0.90

00:48:00.540 How could you understand what the average Canadian does or doesn't do or paying a mortgage, let's say,

00:48:06.380 for an average Canadian when every one of your salaries had a Canadian flag on it because you were an employee of the state, in all intents and purposes?

00:48:14.420 And I think that that's what got us into the trouble we're in today, right, is that we've elected de bon parler, as we would like to say.

00:48:22.500 We've elected people with a lot nicer hair than I have.

00:48:25.700 But that doesn't make them great administrators of public funds.

00:48:29.440 And we've seen that both Trudeaus have indebted us more than ever.

00:48:33.520 And it happens every time.

00:48:35.480 The Conservatives go in, we fix up stuff, and we finally turn the corner.

00:48:40.680 And all of a sudden, we lose an election.

00:48:42.620 The Liberals go back and use our hard work and use it against us and then re-indebt us by a few hundred billion dollars.

00:48:48.700 For being involved in the past, in the Conservatives and in the leadership, why you were not in this race now?

00:48:59.180 So, I mean, you know, COVID has had a huge impact on all my family's finances.

00:49:04.360 I mean, we lost $14 million and so forth.

00:49:06.880 And while, you know, it's not a problem in the sense that, you know, we've managed to save les meubles, as we'd like to say,

00:49:14.280 the truth of the matter is, I would still like to put back the things the way they were pre-COVID.

00:49:18.720 So, I've given myself a three, four-year window to re-establish and put back things so that, you know,

00:49:25.440 my oldest son will be 28 years old by then.

00:49:28.080 You know, my dad will be a little older.

00:49:29.560 And so, hand off the business to family, and then maybe I will jump into the political arena and hopefully, you know, do some good.

00:49:37.820 Did you support Mr. Aaron O'Toole before he was, like, wiped out from the Conservative Party?

00:49:44.380 So, I supported Aaron during the leadership race.

00:49:47.920 I was his co-chair also as a fundraising for Aaron.

00:49:52.180 So, I did think Aaron would be a good leader and a good prime minister.

00:49:57.980 I think that, unfortunately, what you also need in politics is a leader that's willing to make his decisions

00:50:06.180 and not rely on communication experts, as I like to call them.

00:50:11.580 And I think that there was some misguided advice given to Aaron,

00:50:18.180 and I think that made him stumble during the election and so forth.

00:50:21.780 We ended where we were.

00:50:22.580 So, was I willing to cut him off and force a leadership race?

00:50:29.440 I thought it was a little early, but, you know, the Pierre Polyev team made sure that that happened.

00:50:36.560 And so, you know, I'm just hoping people remember that normally he who kills the king never becomes king, right?

00:50:42.200 And so, I think, you know, Pierre's done that twice.

00:50:45.720 His team has done twice toppled leaders.

00:50:48.380 I don't think it's right.

00:50:49.420 For my last question, did you support the Freedom Convoy that was in Ottawa?

00:50:54.340 So, I would tell you that I supported the initial idea of them going there and making a point.

00:51:02.220 I would have loved for them to behave like the one that went to Quebec City,

00:51:07.660 which is, we'll be here for the weekend, we'll leave, we'll come back.

00:51:11.320 I think, ultimately, you know, it was a slippery slide that occurred.

00:51:17.360 And I think that was, I think what is interesting about what happened in Ottawa is how no government representative actually reached out to those people.

00:51:28.300 Nobody gave them the time of day.

00:51:30.960 Everybody, you know, in French, they say,

00:51:33.700 and they pretend as if nothing was, and they're just going to go away.

00:51:38.320 And that is the Trudeau way, right?

00:51:42.820 I mean, Trudeau just does what he wants.

00:51:44.600 He does his monkey show.

00:51:45.880 And then, you know, then we get in trouble and everybody.

00:51:48.640 So, I would say that I supported the idea.

00:51:52.000 I supported the spirit of it.

00:51:54.200 But at a certain point, you know, there are citizens in Ottawa.

00:51:57.820 Those people have the right to live.

00:52:00.740 And there's no reason to do bonfires and none of that.

00:52:04.960 But, I mean, if they really wanted to bother Trudeau, they should have gone in front of his home and not in front of homes of other people, per se.

00:52:13.420 But the spirit of it was, I think, well-intentioned.

00:52:16.360 I think it just derailed at a certain point.

00:52:18.540 But that happens often when, you know, you're not willing to put your foot down and say, okay, enough is enough.

00:52:26.880 Versus the Quebec one, I think, was way more efficient.

00:52:30.100 You know, three days and then they left.

00:52:32.460 And I think it's Salah Ebranli, Monsieur Legault, I see that he started changing his tune very quickly.

00:52:39.380 So, yeah.

00:52:40.400 Thank you very much for your time.

00:52:41.900 Thank you.

00:52:42.240 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - April 01, 2022

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