Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau brought in martial law in Canada, but he says he supports Covid protesters in China

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Incredible show today. But boy, it's a show, not a tell. I want to show

00:00:04.160 you these videos. I've got about 20 videos from the streets of China showing what I think is the

00:00:09.900 greatest uprising there since Tiananmen Square. Many of them are in the Chinese language, but

00:00:13.720 it's the video I want to show you. So I will explain each clip as I go through them today

00:00:18.300 on the podcast, and I'll do my best. But really, if you're ever going to get a subscription to the

00:00:23.100 video version of the podcast, now is the time. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. It's

00:00:29.080 eight bucks a month. And believe me, you're going to see videos on my show today that you will not

00:00:34.580 see elsewhere. It's videos of a mass popular uprising across China. And these are Chinese

00:00:41.640 source videos. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. All right. For those of you who are enjoying the audio

00:00:47.100 experience, here's the podcast. Tonight, Justin Trudeau brought in martial law in Canada, but he

00:00:52.700 says he supports COVID protesters in China. It's November 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:59.080 He's ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:14.080 There's the greatest popular uprising in China since Tiananmen Square going on right now.

00:01:20.800 It's unbelievable. Phrased another way, it's hard to believe, given the censorship and disinformation

00:01:26.280 from that regime. They're very clamped down on the internet. But it's also true that a great number

00:01:31.700 of Chinese people have cell phones with cameras on them, and there's just so many people filming so

00:01:38.060 many protests and posting them in such clever ways, it might be impossible for them to be stopped,

00:01:44.220 even by the million or so official censors and thought police that work in that country.

00:01:49.860 It really is thrilling to watch. And despairing, too. My hopes were so high back in 2019 when freedom

00:01:57.400 lovers in Hong Kong marched peacefully in the streets in defiance of Beijing's plans to bring

00:02:03.100 Chinese law into that free city. I thought maybe their people power would win. No, they were crushed.

00:02:11.020 Stalin said that power comes from the barrel of a gun. You could have all the peaceful protests you like,

00:02:17.200 but if you're up against a brutal totalitarian regime, they just don't stop based on a conscience.

00:02:23.540 Remember, China is a basic dictatorship that doesn't need to worry about rules. I mean, ask Trudeau.

00:02:29.740 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing

00:02:40.580 them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast as we need to

00:02:46.180 start, you know, investing in solar. I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must

00:02:51.320 dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.

00:02:55.040 Yeah, you see how he said what was on his mind and then tried to spin it. That was Harper's talk.

00:02:59.820 But it was Trudeau who invoked martial law. It was Trudeau who said just last week that

00:03:04.740 protests calling for political change are immoral and wrong. Oh, until he tried to correct himself,

00:03:10.700 like with that China thing. In terms of responding to their demands or legitimizing them by engaging,

00:03:19.460 I'm highlighting that I'm worried about setting a precedent that a blockade on Wellington Street can

00:03:23.900 lead to changing public policy. People need to be heard, but we need to get that balance right.

00:03:31.040 And then she agreed that I need to be cautious and I don't want to set any bad precedents.

00:03:35.240 Okay, so fairly self-explanatory. There's a willingness to discuss, but you were concerned

00:03:42.760 about setting a precedent where a blockade could equal a change in public policy. Is that fair?

00:03:50.960 Yeah. I think we have a robust functioning democracy and protests, public protests are an important part

00:04:00.700 of making sure we're getting messages out there and Canadians are getting messages out there and

00:04:05.340 highlighting how they feel about various issues. But using protests to demand changes to public policy

00:04:15.540 is something that I think is worrisome. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kerr.

00:04:20.800 Although, sorry, to a certain extent. No, no, please go on.

00:04:22.780 Yeah. Protests, if you're out protesting that the government is shutting down a safe injection site or

00:04:28.080 something, you are asking for changes in public policy. But there is a difference between

00:04:33.020 occupations and saying we're not going until this has changed in a way that is massively disruptive

00:04:44.780 and potentially dangerous versus just saying, yeah, we're protesting because we want public policy to

00:04:52.900 change and we're trying to convince people to get enough of them that politicians will listen to

00:04:57.240 enough people saying, okay, I'm going to lose votes if I don't change this. That's the usual way

00:05:03.180 protests can be effective in our democracies. I've seen different explanations for what sparked

00:05:10.520 these protests in China. A zero COVID policy where entire cities are locked down because of a handful

00:05:18.700 of cases. Remember, COVID these days is really not much more than the common cold. The new variants are so

00:05:25.420 harmless by contrast with the original. By the way, the common cold is a coronavirus. We've known them

00:05:32.240 just by different names for years. But these authoritarians have used COVID zero as a way to

00:05:38.360 control everything, anything. I mean, a way to force everyone to constantly test themselves, constantly

00:05:43.920 submit to being prodded, to be banned or permitted based on their personal health or at least whatever

00:05:50.680 some tests said. Zero COVID. I believe it. And how zero COVID stopped fire trucks from stopping a

00:05:59.680 particular residential fire. I totally believe that was a reason for the uprising. And of course, the

00:06:05.260 massive Apple, iPhone and computer factory, there's a company in China called Foxconn that makes Apple

00:06:11.760 products. Huge protests there. Did you know that Apple computers, so cool, so hip, so fashionable,

00:06:17.740 so progressive, so exquisitely liberal, that they use Chinese labor to put together your phones and 1.00

00:06:24.460 computers to save, I don't know, 100 bucks a phone? And what does Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, have to do

00:06:30.880 to get China to let them operate there and sell their phones there? Well, Tim Cook has disabled Apple

00:06:37.280 functionality only in China to help the police crack down on these protests. For example, they turned off

00:06:43.740 functions on iPhones. If you have an iPhone or an Apple product, they have something called AirDrop.

00:06:50.660 It lets you share documents with people who are physically near you. You don't need their number

00:06:55.120 or email address. It's great for sharing things during protests when you're near people. You just

00:06:59.900 type AirDrop and give it to people. Tim Cook stopped that for these Chinese protests. He's on the side 1.00

00:07:05.380 of Xi Jinping. He's against the people. So much for that old Apple ad from the 80s so long ago about

00:07:13.600 freedom.

00:07:14.300 Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the information purification of the victims.

00:07:22.300 We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology where each worker may bloom,

00:07:31.420 secure from the pests, obeying contradictory force. Our unification as a force is more powerful

00:07:40.020 a weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people with one will, one resolve, one cause.

00:07:50.400 Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.

00:07:56.260 On January 24th, Apple computer will introduce Macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be like

00:08:12.140 1984. Yeah, now Apple really is big brother. You know, Apple is musing about banning Twitter

00:08:20.560 from its app store, basically meaning that no one with an iPhone will be able to use it.

00:08:26.340 Elon Musk is talking too much about free speech, you see. Apple has been asked by the U.S. government

00:08:32.440 to ban China's social media app called TikTok from the app store. Like I say, Apple is on China's side. 0.98

00:08:38.480 So is Google, of course. So is Facebook, of course. I don't know if you remember, but Mark Zuckerberg

00:08:42.780 actually asked Xi Jinping to name Zuckerberg's own child. What kind of weirdo creep does that? 0.81

00:08:52.420 Outsources naming their own child to a foreign dictator? Xi Jinping is a murderer and a tyrant, 1.00

00:08:58.380 but even he was creeped out by that request and he refused to do it for Zuckerberg. He said no. 0.96

00:09:04.860 I've been watching these protests unfold a little bit on Twitter,

00:09:08.220 but mainly on TikTok itself, which is bizarre because TikTok doesn't appear to be censoring

00:09:15.200 these videos in North America. Now, of course, it censors them like crazy in China.

00:09:21.660 I don't know. Maybe it wants to see who is watching them in North America. Remember, TikTok

00:09:25.380 is a giant spy machine. It tracks everything you do or say. It tracks your other apps. It tracks your

00:09:31.640 gestures and your eye movements. It spies on you. So maybe it's a giant honey trap. They want to see

00:09:37.540 who's watching it. Maybe. I don't know. I'd like to show you a lot of short videos that I downloaded

00:09:43.580 from TikTok. I shouldn't be on that app. They're spying on me, but I want to show you these videos.

00:09:50.820 Some of them are as short as five or 10 seconds long. Some of them have only Chinese writing on

00:09:56.280 them. So, of course, I don't know exactly what they mean. And I couldn't speak to the veracity of

00:10:00.960 these clips anyways. I don't know who made these. Some of these might be government propaganda.

00:10:06.080 They come from or through a government-controlled social media app. But I can't believe that China 0.99

00:10:11.860 would want the world to see this kind of uprising. I don't understand why I can see these on TikTok.

00:10:19.560 Some of these have very amateur or even childish writing on them. That's the nature of TikTok.

00:10:23.440 That's just how they are. That's citizen journalism in 2022, I guess, from a foreign country.

00:10:28.140 Some of these might, for all I know, be from a different city or even a different year. So I don't know

00:10:34.520 the quality of what I'm showing you. But this seems real to me, and it certainly seems more real to me

00:10:40.100 than any reports you're going to get from Trudeau, CBC, or Toronto Star.

00:10:45.420 There are some interesting things in these videos. I'll show you a bunch.

00:10:48.800 For example, some people are holding up literally blank pieces of paper,

00:10:52.520 blank protest signs, and shouting, you know what I want to say, and literally being arrested for that

00:10:58.660 because everyone knows what they want to say. And that's done to get around censorship both online

00:11:04.560 and in person, I think. They're trying to stay ahead of artificial intelligence. China's the world 0.94

00:11:10.820 leader in AI. That's the only way to do censorship at scale, as they say. You really couldn't censor a

00:11:18.440 billion or more people all typing things together. You would need machines to do that. You couldn't do

00:11:25.280 that with just human police. Now, machines can learn, but maybe people are still quicker.

00:11:33.240 This is fascinating, and the fact that it's happening at the hands of Chinese people is amazing 1.00

00:11:38.000 to me because it certainly has not happened because of anything Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau or Jacinda

00:11:44.100 Ardern or any other pro-Chinese politicians in the West has done. So now, in no particular order,

00:11:51.720 I'm going to show you a bunch of TikTok videos, and I'm going to give you some very quick thoughts

00:11:57.840 in between. And let me just tell you right now, these aren't in order. Some of them are really

00:12:03.140 goofy and amateur, but I think that's life online in a dystopian time, isn't it? Here, let's run

00:12:10.320 through them, and if they get too boring, I'll cut this short. Let's take a look at some of these

00:12:13.980 videos. There's a few I put in from Twitter, but most of them are from TikTok, which is a weird

00:12:18.920 thing to do, by the way. Here, let's take a look.

00:12:20.840 Here, let's take a look.

00:12:50.820 was that honking i didn't see any trucks but that's honking

00:13:07.740 justin trudeau brought in martial law in canada deployed the riot police seized bank accounts

00:13:14.860 because of honking they're honking in china i love it i wonder if they knew anything

00:13:19.900 about the canadian trucker convoi i bet that was censored in china but that's the only tool they

00:13:25.840 have honking their horns boy that's a feeling of freedom isn't it all right here's the next video

00:13:43.040 that's a very short video isn't it less than five seconds long but imagine these head-to-toe

00:13:49.420 hazmat suit thugs walking around just shouting at people just with sticks just hitting things

00:13:56.600 now this next video if i understand is a man who was banned from re-entering his apartment

00:14:02.040 because his pcr test was positive so he's literally sleeping at his shop he holds up

00:14:07.920 some sort of paper in chinese obviously i don't know what it means but take a look at this

00:14:12.920 i like this guy take a look

00:14:15.300 like this

00:14:21.240 he said

00:14:35.320 Now, I don't know if that is related to the protests.

00:14:58.240 When I was searching for Chinese protests that came up,

00:15:00.600 it looked like there was a fence around Isham.

00:15:02.640 Maybe that's not got to do with the protests, but I certainly liked his passion.

00:15:07.200 He was a businessman trying to make a go of things.

00:15:09.680 Protected from whom?

00:15:11.200 I don't know.

00:15:12.000 Let's go to the next one.

00:15:12.960 It seems to be more on point.

00:15:15.920 Historic protests are taking place across China.

00:15:18.720 Here's what you need to know.

00:15:20.160 For the first time since the start of the pandemic,

00:15:22.480 large protests have broken out in multiple Chinese cities,

00:15:25.600 opposing the country's zero COVID policy.

00:15:28.160 The rare and historic demonstrations were triggered by a fire in western

00:15:32.480 China last week that killed at least 10 people in a residential building.

00:15:36.640 It happened in Urumqi city in Xinjiang region, which has been under lockdown since August.

00:15:42.000 Many protesters blamed COVID rules for hampering rescue efforts

00:15:45.760 and preventing residents from escaping the burning building.

00:15:48.960 For the first time, some protesters have openly called for the country's leader,

00:15:53.600 Xi Jinping, to step down.

00:15:55.520 Xi Jinping, to step down.

00:15:58.080 Normally, saying that out loud in China could get you jailed.

00:16:01.120 In some footage, hundreds of protesters could be heard saying they want freedom,

00:16:05.200 not PCR tests.

00:16:06.720 At a prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, where President Xi studied,

00:16:10.960 students called for democracy and the rule of law.

00:16:14.240 Some protesters were taken away by police.

00:16:16.960 Many others have taken up a silent but powerful form of dissent,

00:16:20.640 holding up pieces of blank paper.

00:16:22.720 It's a protest against China's censorship and a show of grief for those who perished in the fire.

00:16:33.680 Will China change its mind on its zero COVID policy,

00:16:36.480 what the country's leader do next could have major public health and political consequences.

00:16:42.480 I think that was a report from Vice News, and I salute them.

00:16:46.000 I think that was a very honest and candid report, very tough to do journalism in China.

00:16:50.640 I don't think that reporter is actually in China.

00:16:53.760 I don't think he would be allowed to broadcast that, but he gathered that footage.

00:16:57.680 I thought that was an excellent report, and I find that credible.

00:17:00.480 Wasn't that interesting about the blank signs and still people being arrested?

00:17:05.200 He mentioned Tsinghua University, which is the Harvard of China, so they say.

00:17:09.840 The fact that they're talking about democracy is incredibly encouraging to me.

00:17:14.560 All right, let's take a look at this next one.

00:17:16.560 This is from Shanghai, which for the longest time was the most Western oriented city,

00:17:21.760 the most freedom oriented city in China. Take a look.

00:17:24.880 Then the big smoke Chef came in. 0.89

00:17:31.440 Cheers.

00:17:33.440 See we at this point,

00:17:35.840 if you think thataciub is the longest-natural corporation,

00:17:38.400 what happens to Алain Street.

00:17:39.760 This is the real thing if you want toari.

00:17:41.600 At this point, you're going to be police fielding to Antarctica,

00:17:44.720 on the main matter.

00:17:46.320 But you needed anyone.

00:17:47.680 And the aim to embarrass

00:17:50.080 Africa.

00:17:51.200 James,

00:17:52.360 iler.

00:17:53.360 i think that was in a barbershop i think he was telling cops to get the heck out we don't need

00:18:13.560 your kind here and by your kind like as in you police that's more courage than i thought you

00:18:20.620 might find in a totalitarian regime and the fact that it was filmed very interesting to me here's

00:18:26.980 one from chengdu china which is the uh the panda bear capital actually used to be part of tibet

00:18:33.360 until it was annexed by another chinese state it's a major city chengdu um it's very interesting to me

00:18:40.020 that there's unrest there take a look

00:18:41.400 no more censorship we want freedom they didn't learn that from joe biden or justin trudeau or

00:19:00.420 jacinda ardern did they because all three of those western leaders don't use that language they don't 0.97

00:19:05.760 say no more freedom they say more censorship in fact they're trying to censor elon musk isn't

00:19:11.900 that amazing i wonder who taught them about freedom i wonder if it's just innate innate human condition or

00:19:18.580 if they're managing to find information through the great firewall of china as they say now this video

00:19:25.860 i don't know if this is current i just found it yesterday but these huge internment camps by the

00:19:32.200 way they were built in canada on a much smaller scale we saw hotel quarantines in airports they had a

00:19:38.360 large quarantine facility in australia you might know several of them i don't know if this is right now

00:19:44.560 or if this is footage from a year ago but this is a chinese internment camp for people allegedly with

00:19:51.600 covid take a look

00:19:52.480 again a five second clip that's the nature of tiktok some funny music that i think that was the music

00:20:07.980 from um some uh sci-fi i think uh some old show a little sense of humor is it real i don't know but

00:20:17.640 do they really have covid jails i don't know i think they might they have all sorts of jails in

00:20:24.360 china here's another video uh taken on the street let's take a look at what this is like these are

00:20:30.400 very different cities these are around the whole country beijing chengdu shanghai i think there's so

00:20:36.980 much that it could overwhelm people but then again ai is watching everything and everyone take a look

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00:21:54.280 Now, obviously, I support these people.

00:21:56.280 It looked like that was the apartment building that had the fire,

00:21:58.280 and if I understand what was going on there,

00:22:00.280 they were tearing down some sort of barricade.

00:22:02.280 It's interesting to me that they were all wearing their masks,

00:22:04.280 whether out of COVID compliance

00:22:06.280 or to hide their identity from ubiquitous closed-circuit TVs

00:22:10.280 that have more closed-circuit TVs in China than the rest of the world combined.

00:22:16.500 I should say one thing I mentioned.

00:22:18.320 I started this show how Justin Trudeau's praising in some way these protesters.

00:22:23.720 Of course, he declared martial law on our own.

00:22:25.600 Those protesters, by knocking down that barricade,

00:22:29.460 did more physical damage than all the trucker convoys across Canada combined.

00:22:36.160 There simply was no physical damage or vandalism

00:22:38.820 or tearing things down done by the Canadian truckers.

00:22:40.960 Trudeau brought in martial law.

00:22:42.720 These Chinese freedom fighters, who I totally support,

00:22:45.120 have just there gone further, and yet Trudeau pretends he's on their side.

00:22:50.060 Here's another video.

00:22:50.920 I want to go through a few more of these.

00:22:52.100 Some of them are sort of short, some are long,

00:22:53.720 and again, some of them are of different quality than others.

00:22:56.040 Some have jokey words on them.

00:22:57.820 I'm just trying to get information from China,

00:23:00.440 and TikTok seems like the app to do it,

00:23:02.580 even though it is a spyware app from the People's Liberation Army.

00:23:06.060 Okay, let's take a look at this next clip.

00:23:08.820 Now, Foxconn, as I mentioned earlier,

00:23:34.080 is the giant company that manufactures your Apple products in China,

00:23:39.600 your cell phones, your laptops.

00:23:41.020 That is extremely important to China, not just economically,

00:23:44.580 but strategically, that technical know-how.

00:23:48.620 So to have a kind of strike there or protest there

00:23:51.620 is a grave threat to the regime.

00:23:54.740 And by regime, I guess I could be referring either

00:23:57.260 to the People's Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party,

00:23:59.360 or to Tim Cook and his regime.

00:24:03.440 Tim Cook isn't just against these protesters

00:24:06.080 because his boss Xi Jinping wants him to be.

00:24:09.520 Tim Cook is against these protesters

00:24:11.060 because they're threatening the production at his Chinese factories.

00:24:15.820 Tim Cook would crush them if he could.

00:24:18.220 Like I say, he's already removed the airdrop function

00:24:20.600 so they can't communicate amongst themselves.

00:24:22.660 Here's a quarantine center, according to this TikTok video.

00:24:27.500 Again, I don't know the date on this.

00:24:29.720 I only discovered this yesterday.

00:24:31.540 Theoretically, this could be old footage,

00:24:32.980 but we do know this existed either now or before in China.

00:24:36.360 Take a look.

00:24:36.800 It's a claim that it's an enormous COVID center

00:24:49.740 with tens of thousands of capacity.

00:24:52.420 Is it true?

00:24:53.260 I don't know.

00:24:54.320 Like I say, it's hard to get real information.

00:24:56.740 It's hard to get Western journalists.

00:24:58.360 We have to rely on social media.

00:25:00.740 Now, I'm going to show you a video,

00:25:01.980 and I'm having trouble figuring this out.

00:25:03.460 But is this people in the cattle car,

00:25:06.640 or am I seeing things incorrectly?

00:25:08.880 Take a look.

00:25:14.800 Is that people?

00:25:19.520 Is that people being treated and trucked like animals?

00:25:24.000 I'm not sure if I saw that right.

00:25:25.820 I have a terrible shock. 0.59

00:25:29.000 It almost is like Nazis putting Jews and others to be killed 0.95

00:25:33.300 in cattle cars, 0.98

00:25:34.440 taking them to a concentration camp,

00:25:36.380 a death camp, God forbid.

00:25:37.780 I don't know exactly what that was,

00:25:39.680 but it looks terrifying, doesn't it?

00:25:41.740 Here's another video from another city in China.

00:25:44.380 I do not know which one.

00:25:45.460 Let's just take a look.

00:25:46.160 Let's just take a look.

00:25:47.500 Let's just go.

00:25:48.280 Let's go!

00:25:54.480 Let's go!

00:25:55.200 Let's go!

00:25:59.300 Let's go!

00:26:01.000 Good morning.

00:26:28.420 that's stunning that's the most dramatic video of the ones i've shown you so far i do not know

00:26:51.780 which city that is in but actually attacking throwing things poking with the homemade spear

00:26:59.020 i guess at those health nazis those health stormtroopers remind me of the white clad

00:27:05.880 stormtroopers in star wars but they're much more evil here don't you find it incredible that

00:27:11.880 ordinary chinese people are driving them back and that they are indeed retreating i won't be long 1.00

00:27:16.760 won't be long before they deploy the tanks chanaman square style this is the most amazing

00:27:21.920 uprising since chanaman square a generation ago i'll just play a few more clips and i again

00:27:28.100 i don't know what city that was in that could be frankly there's so many large cities in china a

00:27:34.580 city the size of toronto is common there's probably a hundred cities or dozens of cities the size of

00:27:41.100 toronto or vancouver throughout china and they all have a similar dreary look the smog in the air

00:27:47.820 the the soviet style apartment buildings the the they feel dystopian but there was a whiff of freedom

00:27:56.460 in the air let's take this look at this next video oh you cannot say then no

00:28:01.420 there are thousands of these videos on the internet

00:28:31.400 who knows who took them who knows how they made it to the internet do they use a vpn to get through

00:28:37.820 the great firewall of china here's another interesting photograph uh again these are unarmed people they

00:28:44.340 don't have the second amendment and they don't have firearms mao saw to that the first rule of

00:28:50.520 totalitarians is after the revolution seize all the guns that's why the people of hong kong were

00:28:56.220 sitting ducks you know um bahatma gandhi mohandus gandhi and his passive resistance it only worked

00:29:03.460 because the people he was resisting were british and although they were colonialists and imperialists

00:29:09.960 and militarists they were also in the bottom classical liberals the people who freed the world of

00:29:16.660 the scourge of slavery these are the people who believed in the dignity of everything you cannot

00:29:22.680 sacrifice yourself and have that work against a stalin or a mao or a xi jinping or a hitler 0.99

00:29:28.580 it only works against a queen victoria and i think it's fascinating that these chinese 1.00

00:29:35.700 democracy activists are willing to stand up with nothing but a piece of white paper take a look

00:29:40.600 i remember that video sorry i i introduced it improperly that purports to be someone quarantined in

00:30:01.940 their cab their taxi because allegedly they're sick and can't go home to their apartment can't

00:30:08.320 literally they put tape around him like he was like that was his house i'm going to show just a

00:30:16.140 couple more again i i don't want to put too much authority in these that one video on mass of people

00:30:21.700 driving back the white hazmat suited health police was actually incredible wasn't it some of these are

00:30:27.500 just little vignettes the kind of thing you see from citizen journalists who are doing a better job

00:30:32.780 than the official journalists let's just watch a couple more next one

00:30:36.940 is that something out of mad max it looks like it's some crazy dystopian vehicle actually if i'm reading

00:30:53.720 that right that was some sort of anti-covid spray that they were just driving down the street

00:31:01.300 and spraying everybody here's a i'll show you one more video and we'll watch it together and try

00:31:09.880 and understand what's going on in this crazy country in this crazy time final video

00:31:13.600 what even are they doing so you got got this guy full hazmat

00:31:43.400 and then a bunch of people not with masks sticking out their tongue and poke poke poke poke poke poke in

00:31:49.600 their mouth but what's he even doing with it they're leaving immediately doesn't look like like he he can't

00:31:55.080 be getting some result he can't be documenting things they're just going through this degrading

00:32:00.780 form of invasion and torture what even is that i don't know but you can imagine

00:32:07.260 that that's more invasive and more punitive than anything we put up with here in the west it's

00:32:14.220 the worst of the west of the worst of what they did in melbourne and montreal and toronto the worst of it

00:32:20.200 all and they've been ramping it up they literally have a covid zero approach and add on to that even

00:32:28.600 harsher censorship and harsher authoritarian police than we've ever had in the west

00:32:33.360 no wonder they're rising up this is an incredible moment and i hope that they have success and i hope

00:32:40.360 they are not crushed under the jackboots of the communist party as they were at chanaman square

00:32:44.760 a generation ago that's our show for today stay with us after the break we'll talk to franco

00:32:52.700 terrazzano of the taxpayers federation about a special sweet deal that quebec has for the carbon

00:32:58.800 tax and then your letters to me

00:33:00.860 well i'm not sure if i'll ever believe anyone ever again when they say trust the science because what

00:33:14.000 they really mean as dr fauci showed us is what what they mean is trust me i am the physical corporeal

00:33:22.100 representative of all science and to disagree with me is not just to be politically different

00:33:28.160 or have a different opinion it's to be unscientific we heard a lot of that during the covid

00:33:33.240 uh years and i think the same sort of hocus pocus science is at play with the theory of man-made

00:33:41.780 global warming just like there were strange rules about how covid well here's an example remember when

00:33:47.600 you would go into a restaurant and you could take off your mask when you were sitting down

00:33:51.760 but if you stood up you had to put your mask on because the virus knew if you were standing or

00:33:57.720 sitting same thing on an airplane you had to wear your mask except for if you were having peanuts or

00:34:02.940 coffee or water then the virus knew not to attack you well that same sort of fuzzy thinking is for

00:34:10.460 global warming science here's what i mean global warming is such a menace carbon dioxide is so dangerous

00:34:16.940 that we have to tax you at the gas pump but and this is the science part here we have to tax you

00:34:25.840 a different amount in quebec than if you're in another province say alberta it's like those funny

00:34:32.200 covid rules carbon dioxide is different in quebec you know and it reacts differently to different

00:34:37.900 tax rates if you think i'm kidding well our new guest our next guest has a press release on the subject

00:34:43.740 that explains the math not the so-called science i'm talking about my friend franco terrazzano

00:34:49.960 with the canadian taxpayers federation franco i'm not sure if my analogy worked perfectly but i think

00:34:54.700 it does people who say the science says we have to levy this tax on you when you fill up at a gas pump

00:35:01.580 oh but that amount is different province to province that doesn't sound very sciencey

00:35:05.760 that sounds very political to me tell me about your latest press release

00:35:09.100 well you don't need to be a scientist to know that carbon taxes don't work and and look here is the

00:35:15.040 latest proof that trudeau's carbon tax was all about politics not about the environment so here's

00:35:21.320 what we found starting next year every single province but one will have to pay trudeau's higher

00:35:28.640 carbon tax rate and who is which province is the one province that won't be paying as high of a

00:35:33.940 carbon tax rate you guessed it it's quebec so next year every single province will have to pay

00:35:41.120 a carbon tax that's 14 cents per liter of gasoline that's the trudeau government's mandatory minimum

00:35:47.960 carbon tax every province but quebec because in quebec their requirement is that the carbon tax

00:35:54.580 stays above five cents per liter of gas so you have trudeau giving quebec a special deal on carbon tax

00:36:02.740 and giving taxpayers in every other part of canada every other province higher gas prices and higher

00:36:09.520 home heating bills well help me understand i mean i first of all this is shocking but not surprising

00:36:16.620 if you get me it's it's the audacity of it it's like those covid rules that only apply you know when

00:36:22.480 you're not drinking water or eating peanuts on the plane but what was the so-called explanation how do

00:36:30.180 they finesse this for these people are so terrified of global warming they think we're all going to die

00:36:35.200 but they they're not terrified enough to give quebec a break why what is the if they were here right now

00:36:40.720 they'd say oh no no no franco you don't understand the reason we're doing this for quebec is what how

00:36:47.240 would they fill in that blank how would they try and explain this favoritism is is is carbon dioxide

00:36:54.020 different in quebec would they try and make a scientific argument what would they say to justify

00:36:59.180 this ezra the politicians haven't given any explanation no no no they're trying to sweep

00:37:06.120 this under the rug i bet you they want canadians not to know about this special deal so the politicians

00:37:12.540 haven't given canadians any explanation as to why quebec is getting a special deal while everyone else is

00:37:18.220 getting higher gas prices and heating bills but you know all those smart folks on twitter all those

00:37:23.580 pundits here's what i'm hearing from them they're saying well franco don't you know quebec has a cap

00:37:28.840 and trade carbon tax scheme well yes we did know that but you know who else has currently a cap and

00:37:36.320 trade carbon tax scheme nova scotia and nova scotia is also reducing emissions but that didn't matter for

00:37:43.860 the trudeau government because just last week the trudeau government said it doesn't matter you still

00:37:49.300 have to pay our higher carbon tax rate beginning next year so nova scotia has a very similar cap and

00:37:56.480 trade carbon tax as quebec but it didn't matter for the trudeau government the people in nova scotia

00:38:01.560 are getting bullied into higher carbon taxes while it certainly looks like trudeau is playing favorites

00:38:07.360 uh with quebec and i think bc has a kind of cap and trade at least i thought they did and alberta has

00:38:14.300 its own industry kind of cap and trade a special industry carbon tax this whole thing is hocus pocus

00:38:20.480 it's it's it really is the opposite of science and the fact that for example alberta's massive force

00:38:27.520 the canada's massive boreal force which are a huge carbon absorber again i'm i'm playing into their

00:38:34.180 hands by pretending that there's some science here but obviously canada's enormous number of trees

00:38:39.000 absorbs so much of the world's carbon but that pretends that there's science here just like

00:38:44.720 the covid crazy rules pretended that there was science there i don't know i'm excited that you

00:38:50.240 discovered this how did you find it where did you find the revelation that quebecers will pay 0.53

00:38:55.820 really one-third the amount that the rest of the country where like where was that buried

00:39:00.640 well you know it's it's mostly just because this is something that the canadian taxpayers federation

00:39:05.560 is always following i mean we're hammering the government about its economically painful

00:39:10.940 carbon tax all the time and when last week when the trudeau government announced that it's raising its

00:39:16.320 carbon tax bills in atlantic canada well it just kind of occurred to us that the only place that the

00:39:22.660 trudeau government isn't requiring to pay its higher carbon tax rate is quebec but ezra i'm so glad you

00:39:29.500 brought up british columbia because british columbia has essentially been what is it the pace car for

00:39:35.120 all the people who want to push carbon taxes well british columbia has had the highest carbon tax in

00:39:41.740 canada for years and what happens with emissions well emissions in british columbia have continued to go

00:39:48.200 up and up and up if you look at the federal government the first year of the federal government's

00:39:54.000 carbon tax before you had politicians locking down the economy uh in 2020 well the first year of the

00:40:00.100 federal government carbon tax emissions went up there as well why are emissions going up even though

00:40:05.500 they bring in a carbon tax because the trudeau government is punishing necessities people need

00:40:11.240 gasoline to get to work people need natural gas to heat their homes during the cold winter months and

00:40:16.980 you know what canada makes up such a minuscule uh percentage of global ghg emissions that even if

00:40:23.740 the trudeau government brought all of our industries to a screeching halt which some days it seems like

00:40:29.100 that's what's what's going on here it would cause a ton of pain for working canadians for working 0.92

00:40:35.180 families but it wouldn't do like almost nothing for the global environment so while canada continues to

00:40:42.000 raise the tax bill on canadians we've also seen many other countries including many of our peers do

00:40:48.280 the right thing and reduce gas taxes you know what's so incredible is if you actually look at

00:40:55.040 what the un framework convention on climate change they actually have some scientific papers

00:40:59.880 they acknowledge that none of this franco will actually work none of this will actually stop the

00:41:08.240 world's temperature from changing i mean if you look at the language used by trudeau he doesn't say

00:41:14.480 stop climate change he doesn't even say slow it down the verb they always use is combat climate change

00:41:22.580 it's the action because even they acknowledge there will be no victory over global warming even if

00:41:29.520 every car was taken off the road in every country in the world that would not stop global warming

00:41:36.740 according to the united nations framework convention on climate change the un's global warming people

00:41:43.300 to them global warming is a wonderful perpetual excuse to extract taxes and regulations from people

00:41:51.460 but as you've shown except on their favored province of quebec franco it's great to see you again the

00:41:57.940 story on your website which is a great website taxpayer.com is trudeau giving quebec a special deal on

00:42:05.620 carbon tax and it has the links to the sources there i encourage you to check it out franco thanks

00:42:10.480 for your time today my friend thanks for having me on all right our pleasure there you have it franco

00:42:15.020 terrazzano of the canadian taxpayers federation stay with us more ahead

00:42:19.100 hey welcome back here's a friendly letter hi ezra my wife and i have been supporters of rebel for a long

00:42:29.680 period of time overall we've been impressed with your thorough and objective coverage of events that are

00:42:34.140 either distorted or ignored by any other news source recently you went on an anti-miller tirade

00:42:40.300 on air we were more than disappointed we were outraged mr miller is a courageous dedicated and

00:42:46.080 brilliant lawyer and his recent dust-up with enterprise canada should have been dealt with

00:42:50.240 in-house not prejudged by you in a negative fashion it is significant that after all his hard

00:42:55.520 work fighting for freedom and the trucker convoy he was thrown under the bus and not allowed to

00:42:59.460 cross-examine trudeau on the last day of the hearing mr miller deserves better than to be

00:43:04.640 publicly humiliated by you on air in view of the fact that he has been sued for defamation of character

00:43:09.620 why not let the legal system deal with it if he is vindicated down the road it will not matter

00:43:15.240 your public attack on his credibility will still stand passion and brilliance are a rare combination

00:43:19.660 in today's world people who care should exercise loyalty and stick together when i was employed by a

00:43:24.140 trade union visiting logging camps a camp took cook told me something that is worth repeating when

00:43:29.480 you're a cook you're only as good as your last meal in your book this also applies to lawyers i guess

00:43:35.180 you have a lot of power and influence and hopefully will exercise it more judiciously

00:43:38.740 in the future disappointed but still a loyal rebel murray and nancy cantala okay it started friendly and

00:43:46.060 then it got critical but as you know i wrote to you personally thank you for that letter

00:43:50.480 i disagree with the the the plain meaning of your letter which is i shouldn't criticize people on

00:44:00.620 our side but i think that's wrong i am a conservative i would only vote conservative i

00:44:07.460 that's no secret that's where i stand but i believe i have a special duty to call out conservatives when

00:44:13.740 they're not being conservative when they get it wrong not in a gotcha way not to exaggerate anything

00:44:19.860 but our principled opposition to jason kenny the conservative premier in alberta doug ford the

00:44:26.720 conservative premier in ontario erin o'toole the conservative leader of of canada it was principled

00:44:33.700 and it was because they weren't real conservatives you wouldn't really trust me if i abided what

00:44:38.600 jason kenny did to pastor arthur pavlovsky and said oh let's ignore it because he's on our side

00:44:43.880 what's my side i'm actually not a party member of any party haven't been for over a decade

00:44:48.380 my side is my conscience and my duty to our viewers to tell them what i think is going on

00:44:54.680 and i think we were actually instrumental in removing jason kenny and to a degree erin o'toole

00:45:00.700 who were disastrous during the pandemic i think we're trusted because we're in no one's pocket

00:45:05.920 we're certainly not in the liberal pocket but we're also not in any other party's pocket

00:45:10.540 there's people we clearly like but we are beholden to no one that's part of our crowdfunding model

00:45:15.900 there's no boss out there who can simply call me up and say stop criticizing him or fire that there's

00:45:21.840 just no one it's it's a mass support that's what gives us our freedom in the case of brendan miller

00:45:28.020 you say i went on a tirade i don't think i did in fact i spent as much time praising brendan miller

00:45:32.820 and saying he was the mvp of the whole commission than criticizing him and my criticism was i think

00:45:38.840 gentle and it said look this guy's been going full tilt for a month he's obviously stressed out

00:45:44.000 sleep deprived and he got it wrong and he wanted to get it right like we all did but we gotta call

00:45:51.140 it out and he's got to correct it i know what it's like to be falsely called terrible names like nazi

00:45:57.160 it's a terrible name i can i suppose brush it off more easily because i'm jewish but imagine calling

00:46:02.420 some guy even if you never met him before just some guy you picked out on the internet calling him

00:46:07.100 a nazi that's not fair and we know that because when it's done to us it hurts so i think brendan

00:46:13.220 miller made a mistake there and i think it behooves me to to call it like i see it so i disagree with

00:46:18.560 you i'm not a party man i used to be way back when but i have a different job now it's to call it like

00:46:24.640 i see it occasionally you might even hear me praise a liberal it's possible if they do the right thing

00:46:30.120 here's another letter hey ezra i could be wrong but from all the news clips i've seen jt never actually

00:46:36.920 uses the word unvaccinated when insulting our people he used the word unvaxxed i know there 0.99

00:46:42.860 is a lot of talk out there about perjury in his commission testimony but i wonder if in a court of

00:46:47.220 law not that any judge would let it get that far if his legal team would simply say there's a

00:46:51.460 difference between the two terms they might say that one can be unvaccinated but not an anti-vaxxer

00:46:55.800 and vice versa i know from general context we infer these reference the unvaccinated and it's probably

00:47:01.460 accurate but if it's enough to find him guilty of perjury in a court of law is another question

00:47:05.660 unless we have that silver bullet where he uses the phrase unvaccinated then we would likely lose

00:47:11.120 at a court of law even if we win in the court of popular opinion which we may not want to factor in

00:47:15.780 the people unsupportive of our views anyways that's just some of my thoughts calvin from st

00:47:19.920 catherine's calvin thanks for writing i don't think you're going to beat justin trudeau by

00:47:25.460 criminalizing him and i think he lied but you i he does say anti-vaxxers he says oh i don't hate

00:47:34.380 unvaccinated i hate anti-vaxxers he's he's pretending there's an important difference it's

00:47:40.760 like people who say oh i don't hate the jews no no no i don't hate the jews i just hate israel and 0.73

00:47:46.100 zionists i'm fine with the jews oh really it's maybe a distinction without a difference

00:47:51.340 um you're not going to get trudeau on a legal technicality in a court of law and we wouldn't want

00:47:56.820 it that way anyways because don't think what comes around doesn't go around if you can get

00:48:03.160 justin trudeau fired by criminalizing his political talk you can get any conservative fired for the

00:48:09.580 same and don't think it wouldn't be disproportionately used against conservatives that's why i'm against

00:48:14.020 all these ideas of a private prosecution of trudeau or trudeau the traitor charging with treachery

00:48:20.500 it's not going to work there's no silver bullet you got to go out there and do the hard work of

00:48:25.780 democracy knocking on doors campaigning fighting in the court of public opinion you're not going to

00:48:30.320 dislodge justin trudeau through a trick and we wouldn't want that way because don't think those

00:48:35.180 tricks wouldn't be used against us tenfold thanks for your great letters today until tomorrow on behalf

00:48:41.940 of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

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Rebel News Podcast - November 30, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau brought in martial law in Canada, but he says he supports Covid protesters in China

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