Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau dumps millions more into online censorship, especially against anyone who disagrees with his approach to Ukraine

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through the latest censorship move by the Trudeau liberals.

00:00:06.840 It's in the name of fighting disinformation. But what's disinformation? Aren't we allowed to

00:00:12.660 disagree about information in society? Aren't we allowed to have more than one point of view?

00:00:17.140 Isn't the clash of ideas what brings out the truth? Since when did the government get to

00:00:21.940 term anyone who opposed it disinformationists? I'll take you through the latest news.

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00:00:57.580 Here's today's podcast.

00:01:14.060 Tonight, Justin Trudeau dumps millions more into online censorship, especially against anyone who

00:01:20.960 disagrees with his approach to Ukraine. It's July 26th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:27.580 I saw this news release late last week. It's a press release from the government of Canada.

00:01:48.660 It says, projects launched to help strengthen Canadians' resilience against harmful online

00:01:56.220 disinformation. Now, that really is Orwellian, isn't it? I mean, I can tell you some real online

00:02:02.140 harms. Scams that try to trick you into giving your passwords or giving your credit card information.

00:02:09.240 There's a ton of those online, which tells me that they work. Identity theft, phishing, as it's called,

00:02:15.980 when you're tricked into entering a password. Pretty obvious online harm. Being tracked and spied on by

00:02:24.740 malware or spyware, sort of like the Arrive Can app, but by people even less trustworthy than Trudeau.

00:02:32.340 Ransomware, have you heard of that? That's when your files are hacked and you have to send money,

00:02:37.080 usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to pay the thieves to release your data. It's blackmail.

00:02:44.040 Obviously targeting children, child porn. That's a horrific online harm. And then there's recruiting

00:02:51.140 terrorists and promoting terrorist propaganda online using the internet. ISIS was pretty good at that. 0.89

00:02:57.000 Their videos were terrifying and professional and very persuasive. They scared their enemies

00:03:03.800 and recruited terrorist soldiers from around the world. Would you agree with me that all of those

00:03:09.560 things are indeed genuine online harms? They're scams and crimes and illegal misconduct. They use the

00:03:19.120 internet and some of which are really tailor-made for the internet. Online harms, just like the words say.

00:03:27.040 But that's not what Trudeau is focused on. None of those things. I mean, take a look at his press

00:03:34.000 release again. He says he's targeting disinformation. Disinformation, as in facts that are wrong or

00:03:42.520 opinions that are unreasonable or things taken out of context, which isn't really internet specific,

00:03:49.280 is it? I mean, if you want disinformation, pick up any newspaper, turn on any TV or radio station,

00:03:54.960 read any magazine, listen to any conversation, because disinformation is just a modern way of

00:04:00.720 saying, I disagree with you and your facts. You're wrong. To which, historically, the response was,

00:04:07.160 well, I disagree with you, and I think you're the one who's wrong. And then you haggle it out. In fact,

00:04:12.720 our entire modern democracy is set up that way. We call it checks and balances. We have an official

00:04:18.920 opposition whose full-time job, by the way, is to oppose. Our election campaigns, our election debates,

00:04:26.340 they're designed to have a clash of ideas. I say you're wrong. I say you're wrong. It includes facts

00:04:32.420 and arguments and opinions. Our entire legal system, our entire court system, is based on two opposing

00:04:39.760 visions, prosecution and defense, plaintiff and defendant. Both are dead sure they're right,

00:04:46.160 and that the other side is wrong. Wrong at best, lying at worst. So why the sudden push to destroy

00:04:53.620 the idea of two sides of an argument? To destroy one of those sides of the argument and saying it's

00:04:59.400 disinformation. And surprise, the side that is to be destroyed, the side that is being equated to a harm

00:05:05.980 like terrorism or crime, is the side that happens to disagree with Justin Trudeau.

00:05:10.660 Here, let's read a bit from this press release. Credible information is fundamental to a healthy

00:05:17.480 democracy and a strong society. Canadians should have access to diverse and reliable sources of

00:05:24.100 information so that they can form opinions, hold governments, public institutions and individuals

00:05:30.000 to account and participate in public discourse. Now, it's tough to disagree with most of that. I like

00:05:37.480 the word diverse. That means a variety of points of view. We don't really have a lot of variety in our

00:05:44.000 news these days, do we? I mean, all the mainstream media agree, for example, with the theory of man-made

00:05:50.500 global warming. And all agree that the solution to changing the weather is a carbon tax. And all the

00:05:56.920 mainstream media agree that we need open borders, mass migration. And all the media agree that the

00:06:04.240 pandemic justified an unprecedented destruction of our civil liberties tantamount to martial law and

00:06:10.200 that after 50 years of talking about my body, my choice, that it was not, in fact, your body and that

00:06:17.060 you did not have a choice. You had to be jabbed with a vaccine that was not fully tested on people and

00:06:23.080 won't be for years to come. And if you don't, you'll lose your job and lose your access to broader

00:06:28.660 society. Do we really have a lot of diversity in Canadian journalism? Do we really? And I haven't

00:06:35.200 even talked about anything controversial, like abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers for any

00:06:40.800 reason or no reason until the moment of birth. Is there a lot of diverse facts and opinions on really

00:06:46.060 anything of importance in Canadian media? But they use two phrases there, credible information,

00:06:53.640 reliable sources of information. Credible means believable. But don't different people have

00:07:00.720 different opinions about what's believable? I mean, Trudeau is a CBC man, or more accurately,

00:07:06.440 the CBC or Trudeau's man, like this gal who has since been promoted. Remember this?

00:07:12.160 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia,

00:07:19.220 I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be

00:07:26.600 continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:07:33.540 Now, is that credible? Is she a reliable source? Well, yes, she is. She's reliable in terms of

00:07:40.800 promoting Trudeau's messaging, sure. Say, this weekend we had almost a dozen journalists

00:07:47.360 in the field. Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa. We were covering thousands of truckers and farmers

00:07:54.600 who were rallying together in solidarity with each other and with the Dutch farmer rebellion

00:07:59.880 and the worry that those same issues will come to Canada. Huge event, huge convoys. We had huge

00:08:06.300 coverage. But have you seen anything about it at all? I mean, anything in the media party?

00:08:12.180 I have not. If these protests in all those cities I've listed had been synchronized global warming

00:08:20.560 protests led by Greta Thunberg, you bet they'd be covered by the CBC and the Toronto Star and the

00:08:27.860 Globe and Mail and everybody else. These huge rallies and convoys really happened. Can you call the CBC

00:08:34.500 credible and reliable when it absolutely ignores a major political story like that? Well, sure.

00:08:42.220 If you're Justin Trudeau, then they are reliable. You can rely on them.

00:08:47.620 But like I say, we believe in an adversarial system where we don't all have to agree.

00:08:53.780 Back to the government press release. They say,

00:08:55.880 the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, and the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs,

00:09:03.120 Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Dominique Leblanc, today announced over $2.4

00:09:09.080 million in funding for projects that will give Canadians the tools to identify online disinformation,

00:09:15.840 particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine.

00:09:21.580 Don't you think it's odd that the only thing the Minister of Heritage talks about is censorship?

00:09:29.900 I mean, name me one thing he's done for our heritage, for the culture, other than plot and

00:09:35.800 scheme how to silence you. He really is a Minister of Censorship, isn't he? Then again, in the book

00:09:42.020 1984 by George Orwell, the Ministry of Propaganda was called the Ministry of Truth, wasn't it?

00:09:46.600 Hmm. So they're going to be fighting disinformation about COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war.

00:09:54.600 Now, there is disinformation about every controversial topic in the world.

00:10:00.720 Why are those two topics the two that Trudeau is obsessed with? I think it has to do with money,

00:10:06.240 in part. There are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, trillions actually, with COVID-9 schemes.

00:10:13.400 And don't forget that Trudeau himself bought literally 400 million doses of the vaccine.

00:10:22.160 Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on lockdowns and his subsidies. There's a lot riding

00:10:28.200 on your obedience to the official narrative. And the war in Russia and Ukraine? Well, that I'm a

00:10:35.660 little bit more puzzled by. Of course, Trudeau has had lots of photo ops on the subject,

00:10:41.840 even Ukraine itself. And Canada has pledged money and weapons, but nowhere near the size and scale of

00:10:49.060 what the U.S. is doing. So much of Trudeau's Ukraine project has just been symbolic, I think.

00:10:55.800 I mean, Canada is not really an important country for Russia economically. The United Kingdom,

00:11:00.640 the U.S., Cyprus, Germany, those are important places in terms of Russia and its oligarchs.

00:11:05.740 None of those oligarchs are stashing money or assets in Canada. And as soon as Trudeau's sanctions

00:11:11.720 actually caught something valuable, the Russian natural gas pipeline turbines that were being

00:11:16.600 repaired in Montreal, Trudeau immediately caved in and let Russia have them back, literally amending 0.92

00:11:21.920 the sanctions. So I'm not quite sure why Trudeau is obsessing over controlling the messaging about the

00:11:28.020 Russian invasion of Ukraine, other than perhaps that NATO itself is obsessed, so he's just doing what

00:11:33.700 he's told on that. But you know, there's roughly 200 countries in the world. There are wars amongst

00:11:40.140 them all the time. Right now, Yemen and Saudi Arabia are at war. Syria is in a civil war. Iraq is at war,

00:11:47.700 civil war, and Iran's sort of undermining it. Much of the Maghreb region of Africa is in war.

00:11:53.920 Jihadists in a dozen countries, including Nigeria. I'd add the Mexican drug cartel wars, and I'd add Burma in 1.00

00:12:01.400 there too. And I'm not sure exactly what you'd call what's going on in Sri Lanka these days. But each

00:12:06.800 of these is a violent struggle. And each is accompanied by non-violent propaganda designed

00:12:13.940 to aid each respective side. Do you know who the good guys are in Yemen? Do you really? How about in

00:12:20.360 Mali? 20,000 people died last year in the war in Tigray? It's almost as many have died in Ukraine.

00:12:30.600 Tigray. That's part of Ethiopia. Can you find it on a map? Are you worried about disinformation?

00:12:39.200 Now, I'm not really. I just find it odd that the only disinformation that's being targeted by Trudeau

00:12:44.360 is the disinformation that he has a personal political stake in. I suppose it's normal to

00:12:50.360 counter foreign government propaganda when you're in a war, but Canada's not actually in a war.

00:12:56.800 And Trudeau's plans are to censor not Russian journalists, but Canadian journalists. Not to

00:13:04.080 somehow try to block Russian propaganda, but to demonize Canadian citizens as Russian agents and

00:13:11.500 censor Canadians here. It's just like Trudeau and Biden blaming Vladimir Putin for inflation 0.82

00:13:17.040 or gas prices. What a handy way to shift the blame for things that they've done and accuse

00:13:23.440 others of disloyalty. I find it odd. Let me read more. Today's announcement is the result of a special

00:13:30.960 call for proposals launched in March 2022. These projects are citizen-focused activities and funded

00:13:38.080 under Canadian Heritage's Digital Citizen Initiative. The initiative promotes civic news and digital

00:13:45.520 media literacy through funding third-party educational activities and programming to help

00:13:50.900 citizens become resilient against disinformation. Of all the people in the world, would you trust

00:13:56.740 government to tell you what journalists to believe and what journalists not to believe? Like,

00:14:02.200 really? The government's going to choose that for you? The press release quotes the censorship

00:14:07.140 minister saying, the best defense against Russian disinformation is Canadian citizens armed with

00:14:13.940 facts. These projects will give Canadian skills and tools to tell fact from fiction online.

00:14:19.500 We live and work better as a society when we have a common set of facts. It's by Pablo Rodriguez,

00:14:25.900 who calls himself the Minister of Heritage. I think it's good to have a common understanding with

00:14:31.220 people. But I also think it's important to be able to dissent, to critique, to disagree, to say,

00:14:37.580 no, I disagree with the mainstream way of thinking. Like I say, our whole system, our whole political

00:14:42.700 system, our whole legal system, indeed the scientific method itself, depends on challenging and refuting

00:14:49.680 things that were once the establishment consensus. Does the sun revolve around the earth?

00:14:55.520 That was once a government and church approved fact. Is the earth flat? So is that. It was disinformation

00:15:07.180 to claim otherwise. We need a reliable and credible source of information, not like that Galileo.

00:15:14.200 When he published disinformation, he was prosecuted and convicted in an inquisition in 1633,

00:15:20.280 and he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. You know, 1633 isn't that long ago. It

00:15:26.760 was 150 years after Columbus found America. But you can be much more current than that. Are women persons?

00:15:38.660 Should women have the right to vote? That's a controversy of about 100 years ago. 1.00

00:15:43.340 By the way, I don't know if you know this, but in Canada, status Indians under the Indian Act did

00:15:50.900 not have the right to vote in elections until the 1960s. Like I say, those were accepted truths 0.91

00:15:57.500 until then. Anyone who said otherwise was an unreliable, incredible troublemaker. It's disinformation to say

00:16:04.680 that Indians can vote. It's disinformation to say that women should vote. That was standard 1.00

00:16:10.300 establishment thinking until a few decades ago. Imagine the government demanding that you accept

00:16:17.480 their facts and even more so their sources. It's like Anthony Fauci declaring that he himself was

00:16:24.020 the science. So don't criticize him. There's a distinct anti-science flavor to this. So if they get up

00:16:32.920 and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about. But if they get up and really

00:16:38.620 aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there, there's a face,

00:16:43.720 there's a vice you can recognize. You see him on television. So it's easy to criticize. But they're

00:16:49.660 really criticizing science because I represent science. But look at this quote from another Trudeau

00:16:56.920 liberal cabinet minister, Dominique LeBlanc. In Canada and around the world, democracies are contending

00:17:03.000 with malicious actors seeking to weaken our institutions and undermine citizens' trust in

00:17:09.120 their government. Working with civil society, this program will give Canadians the tools they need

00:17:14.520 to identify disinformation and strengthen our democracy. So hang on, I thought this was about

00:17:21.480 fighting against the evil Russians about the war in Ukraine or silently accepting whatever Pfizer is

00:17:28.260 selling us this week. But it's not. Dominique LeBlanc drops the mask a little bit. He says it's to combat

00:17:36.540 anyone who undermines citizens' trust in the government, as in the Canadian government, as in Trudeau and

00:17:44.540 LeBlanc and Rodriguez themselves. It's nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine or Pfizer. It's everything to do with

00:17:53.940 silencing people who don't like Trudeau. You know, in the last election, just 32% of voters voted for

00:18:00.360 Trudeau. 68% of voters did not. And that's just of people who bothered to vote. Trudeau is even more

00:18:07.300 unpopular now. That's what this is about. It's not about Ukraine. It's about silencing Trudeau's critics,

00:18:16.160 not silencing Ukraine's critics. What's striking to me is how uniformly this has been accepted.

00:18:23.760 It's not even remarked upon. Have you seen any news about this? Like the trucker rebellion,

00:18:31.100 the media party is just pretending it's not even happening or that it's not newsworthy

00:18:36.780 because they're in on it. That's the QCJO, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization thing

00:18:45.200 that we were talking about before, that government journalism license. If you have that license,

00:18:51.940 you're by definition trustworthy and reliable. In fact, you get government money, Facebook and

00:18:58.800 Google money, access to all government events, and the algorithms of the internet are tweaked to boost

00:19:05.180 you. If not, not. You're marginalized, banned, and downranked online. So of course the 99% of the

00:19:15.640 journalists who are in the club are silent about the banishment and the punishment of those outside

00:19:20.740 the club. It's bizarre how large this whole operation is just to silence the small contrarian 1.00

00:19:27.920 voices like ours. I say again in case you don't remember from my previous 50 times, I'm opposed to the

00:19:34.140 Russian invasion of Ukraine, just like I was against their last invasion of Ukraine and their 0.99

00:19:39.460 invasion of Georgia, their hostage-taking of Europe, their natural gas. That's why I actually 0.99

00:19:47.080 wrote a book about it called Ethical Oil and a sequel called Groundswell. It's about fracking.

00:19:53.040 The only way to beat Russia, other than a nuclear war, I suppose, in which both sides would lose, 0.84

00:19:58.220 the only way to beat Russia is to take away their energy monopoly over Europe by replacing 0.77

00:20:03.580 conflict oil and gas from Russia and OPEC with ethical oil and gas from Canada. I wrote the book.

00:20:11.760 I saw this headline the other day. Trudeau says with Russia weaponizing energy, Canada looking at how

00:20:19.360 to supply Europe. But you know what? That's disinformation. See what I did there? If you actually

00:20:27.100 click on the link, read the story itself, you'll see it's just not what Trudeau said. That is

00:20:33.520 literally not true. It shows that Europe wants Canadian oil and gas. You bet. They want it very

00:20:40.660 badly. They want to be relieved from their hostage-taker, Vladimir Putin. But the only energy

00:20:45.900 Trudeau is contemplating sending to them is, get this, and I quote, the prime minister went on to

00:20:52.360 suggest that the projects down the line could be used to export hydrogen, a clean fuel alternative.

00:21:00.880 What? Hydrogen? Can you heat your home with hydrogen in the winter? Can you fill up your car's gas tank

00:21:07.320 with hydrogen? Can you use it in an airplane as jet fuel? Hydrogen? Have you ever heard of anyone

00:21:12.880 actually using hydrogen fuel for anything? Seriously, the only hydrogen I can even remember being used

00:21:20.640 was in the Hindenburg. That didn't really end well. So that's Trudeau being super helpful

00:21:26.460 and CTV lying about it. That's a bit of disinformation. But look, where there's money,

00:21:32.200 there are grifters. This press release from the government, a whole raft of companies have signed

00:21:39.480 up for some of that Trudeau cash. I guess there aren't authentic people willing to make those arguments

00:21:45.320 for free. The government has to pay people to make their arguments for them.

00:21:51.280 That really feels sketchy to me. Doesn't it feel that way to you?

00:21:55.860 You know me. I'm for ethical oil. I'm against conflict oil. I'm a private person. But when the

00:22:00.880 government of Alberta set up an official advocacy organization, a government advocacy organization

00:22:07.140 with a $30 million a year budget, it was a bit off. I mean, why didn't the companies, the oil companies

00:22:14.320 do that themselves? $30 million is a rounding error to them. Was it more authoritative when the Alberta

00:22:20.260 government did it? Was it more effective? Was it more cost efficient? Was it tougher? I don't think so.

00:22:27.100 I mean, I like Alberta defending its oil against foreign disinformation. And in that case, it really is

00:22:33.020 foreign disinformation. Foreign entities like OPEC and Russia lying about the oil sands. Greenpeace

00:22:40.460 lying about the oil sands and fracking to promote, say, OPEC and Russia by default. But having a

00:22:46.440 government agency in Canada tell you what to believe by necessity made it a weaker inauthentic voice.

00:22:53.180 I'm talking about Alberta's energy center. Well, Trudeau is trying that now. And though the media and

00:22:59.340 opposition just went nuts opposing Alberta's Canadian Energy Center, as they called it, I haven't heard a

00:23:06.620 peep from those same journalists or opposition about Trudeau's propaganda on. They love it. And the

00:23:14.220 grifters do too, of course. It's not the money I'm worried about. And it's not even the messaging

00:23:19.880 I'm worried about. I don't trust any government. When they try to hide their tracks using front groups,

00:23:25.620 I don't trust them even more. I trust them less. But what I'm worried about is that disinformation

00:23:32.860 and combating disinformation isn't their goal. It's their means to a goal. It's their excuse.

00:23:41.380 It's their way of demonizing Canadian critics of Trudeau. Nothing to do with Pfizer or Ukraine.

00:23:47.620 You heard how Dominic LeBlanc defined it. And from there, denying those disinformation critics,

00:23:54.900 their civil rights, denying them the license to practice journalism, perhaps even putting them one

00:24:00.040 day on a sort of security watch list. It's a form of McCarthyism. Back then, the Russians really were 0.92

00:24:09.280 the bad guys. It's so weird to see so-called liberals bring back McCarthyism as a way of demonizing and

00:24:17.520 silencing their own domestic critics. Really weird to me. Stay with us for more.

00:24:34.380 Today was an enormous day. Tamara Leach, the Métis grandma who peacefully helped organize the trucker

00:24:40.980 convoy in January and February. Well, as you know, she was seized under a national warrant,

00:24:47.180 the kind of thing reserved for, I don't know, murderers on the loose. She was seized, brought

00:24:52.580 from Medicine Hat, where she lives, to Ottawa, a journey that takes a number of hours, but they

00:24:58.700 managed to stretch it out into a week. She was put before a justice of the peace, not a judge,

00:25:04.700 not even a lawyer, just some guy who kept her in prison. And it was only today that a real judge

00:25:14.920 heard the matter again from scratch and said, no, the woman can go free. And it was a good day for 1.00

00:25:22.020 freedom. It feels like a little bit of an echo of Arthur Pavlovsky's good day for freedom last week.

00:25:28.240 Unfortunately, both Arthur Pavlovsky and Tamara Leach had to serve weeks in prison before they got the 0.99

00:25:34.540 good news. But Sheila Gunn-Reed was covering the entire trial today via remote, via video feed. I

00:25:40.780 really recommend you read her Twitter stream. We've also collected them in a written article on Rebel

00:25:46.780 News. And Sheila joins me now via Skype from her headquarters in Edmonton. Sheila, great to see you

00:25:52.720 again. I really enjoyed your Twitter feed today. I was riveted by it. I couldn't refresh.

00:25:57.740 Click, click, click. I was waiting for the updates. And obviously, I wasn't alone.

00:26:03.100 It looked like tens of thousands of people were following along in real time, maybe even more than

00:26:08.800 that. I've never seen such Twitter engagement on your feed before. I think people were riveted.

00:26:15.120 I think so, too. I think, you know, for the layperson to tune into court, it can be a little bit

00:26:20.200 difficult. And it even is for me, and I do court reporting all the time, to sort of weave through the

00:26:25.420 legal language. But what we saw in court today was an actual judge making an actual ruling on the

00:26:33.520 actual evidence before him. And this judge just ripped apart the assessment of the prior justice

00:26:41.540 of the peace, a non-lawyer who had ordered Tamara Leach's bail revoked and sent her back to jail at the

00:26:48.480 end of June. Today, it marked 49 days of incarceration for her on minor mischief charges, 0.80

00:26:56.940 minor stuff that, as a 49-year-old person with a non-criminal background, she would likely not even

00:27:04.180 spend a day in jail for what she's done. But she's approaching 49 days in jail. And the last thing I

00:27:10.660 heard that judge say today was, Madam Constable, take off those shackles. 1.00

00:27:14.860 Yeah. You know, it's been a while since I practiced criminal law. I haven't practiced any law in over

00:27:20.080 a decade. But when I was a law student, one of the things young kids do is they take the most minor

00:27:25.940 cases in court to sort of practice being a baby lawyer. It's good education. And so we had shoplifting

00:27:33.920 cases. We had the most minor, you know, a mischief charge, a vandalism charge. And you very quickly

00:27:40.400 learned that if it's generally a good person who hasn't done something wrong, not only will they

00:27:45.620 get no jail time, not only will they get no fine, they'll most likely not even get a criminal record.

00:27:52.220 It'll be dispatched with a discharge, a conditional discharge. That is, they have to do a few conditions,

00:27:59.260 some public service, or even what's called an absolute discharge. That's basically, in golf,

00:28:05.240 they call them mulligan. It's the judge saying, look, I don't know what you were thinking. You're

00:28:10.380 a good person. Do not go down this road. This way lies bad news for you. I am going to give you a

00:28:17.780 second chance. Fly straight. And basically, every case we had was of the gravity of Tamara Leach's case.

00:28:27.040 Oh, inciting mischief. Well, don't do that again. Young lady, I don't want to see you in this court again. 0.99

00:28:32.840 Instead, 49 days in prison. 49 days of hard time. You know, you get day parole in Canada. My math is

00:28:42.720 right after one-sixth of your sentence. So 50 days, that's like a one-year prison sentence,

00:28:49.280 a one-year prison term for inciting mischief. And of course, she hasn't even been tried or convicted

00:28:54.980 yet. What a disgrace. What an absolute disgrace. Not on her, but on the prosecutor, on the police,

00:29:03.160 on the police who ordered the national warrant, on the medicine police for complying, on the fake

00:29:11.040 judge, justice of the peace, and on this disgraceful prosecutor who our friends at True North

00:29:16.900 revealed has donated $17,000 to Trudeau and who clearly was auditioning for a judicial appointment

00:29:24.660 by Trudeau. Disgraces all around, other than today's judge, seem to set things right.

00:29:30.720 Yeah, today's judge actually took the prior justice of the peace to task. He basically said the justice

00:29:37.120 of the peace erred in taking everything the crown said. He used the words as gospel. He didn't even bother

00:29:44.680 to drill down. He didn't bother to examine. So that when the crown said, oh, somebody facing

00:29:49.160 Tamara Leach's charges could face, if convicted, a maximum of 10 years in prison. Maybe, but that's 1.00

00:29:59.320 not what, in reality, that is not what people with no criminal record, after 49 years on the face of

00:30:05.500 the earth, that's not what they face on minor criminal convictions like this. The only thing,

00:30:11.640 the judge looked, and he said, I looked, because the other, the justice of the peace didn't. The only

00:30:17.520 time he could ever find somebody even remotely in line with this was a case called Dubé, and that

00:30:24.880 person basically ground through mischief the entire Quebec electrical system to a halt, causing

00:30:32.160 catastrophe. That person got jail time. Tamara Leach would never see time behind bars. He said if she 1.00

00:30:38.160 were convicted of everything, she would, at the maximum, get time served right now.

00:30:44.040 Yeah. Well, I'm so glad you were there covering it. It's funny, because when Arthur Pawlowski was

00:30:52.540 charged and convicted, and when he was losing, the mainstream media loved it, and they demonized it,

00:31:00.480 and they wrote about it. But when he won, I saw the tiniest little mentions in the mainstream media.

00:31:06.000 And Tamara Leach was demonized. It's hard to demonize a Métis grandma from Medicine Hat, 0.99

00:31:11.580 but they did their best. And today on her victory day, it's quite something to watch the mainstream

00:31:17.000 media, who really were a torch-bearing mob coming to get her. It was the media that was the mob,

00:31:25.820 not the truckers. It's the media that were baying for blood. And you know what? The worst media in the

00:31:31.120 country, the Ottawa Pampered Press Gallery. Oh, they're the worst. And I'm just so glad that

00:31:36.240 you were there covering it to provide the other side of the story. Never believe a word the CDC

00:31:41.060 says. Never believe a word that the mainstream newspapers say. You just can't. They lied to you

00:31:47.380 about the trucker rebellion in the first place. Do you really think they would tell you the truth

00:31:51.240 about the trial? You know, there are a lot of times during this hearing today and yesterday

00:31:56.600 where the judge basically had to remind the Crown, and I suppose by extension, the mainstream media,

00:32:03.760 who also, like the justice of the peace before this judge, repeat everything the Crown says without

00:32:09.120 any sort of skepticism, had to remind them that she is not charged with sedition. She's not charged 0.75

00:32:14.860 with inciting a riot. She's not charged with rioting. She's charged with very minor things under the

00:32:20.540 law. And basically, the judge had to remind the Crown several times today and yesterday,

00:32:25.820 settle down. Quit acting like a drama queen. This is very minor stuff. You should not be asking to hold

00:32:33.420 this woman up until her trial date, which is not said. It could be two years out to hold her until her 0.93

00:32:40.360 trial date on causing really what amounts to an extended traffic snarl in the nation's capital.

00:32:46.580 Yeah. Well, it's quite something. All the things we were told to respect,

00:32:52.000 we were told to respect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Until Arthur Pawlowski's ruling last week,

00:32:58.200 that Charter of Rights and Freedoms was about as, well, it was completely useless to come to it.

00:33:05.800 It hasn't rolled back a single lockdown measure at all. We were told to respect the independence of

00:33:12.160 the prosecution. Oh, so you take the top liberal donor in Ottawa and you let him run rampant against

00:33:17.540 the Métis grandma. We're told to respect the courts. So you throw a non-judge, non-lawyer,

00:33:24.720 justice of the peace who has no idea what the hell he's doing, and he throws someone in prison for two

00:33:29.420 months. All the things, the Ottawa police, the most disgraceful police in the country under their

00:33:34.720 thuggest chief. All the things we were told to respect and look up to, every one of them is ashes.

00:33:41.080 And people wondering why there's no trust left. Well, because of the treatment of this woman. 0.93

00:33:46.960 Who would you trust? Would you trust the crown prosecutors again? Would you trust the police?

00:33:50.480 Would you trust the justice of the peace? Would you trust politicians? Would you trust the media?

00:33:56.260 None of them are worthy of your trust.

00:33:57.700 Well, and that's why the convoy formed in the first place. It's because all the institutions failed.

00:34:04.600 The police failed. The courts failed. The doctors failed. The politicians failed. People's employers

00:34:10.240 were forcing them into vaccine mandates. Everything failed. And so the truckers decided they were going

00:34:16.800 to sort this out for themselves. And it continues. You know, it continues until today. Now, finally,

00:34:23.120 a judge, somebody trained in law, looked at this and said, settle down. These are minor charges.

00:34:29.340 She's not a danger to anybody. And basically, I don't care about your feelings. She gets to go free.

00:34:35.400 Yeah. Well, I'm so glad you were in there. And so many people followed your live tweeting and we

00:34:40.260 compiled them on the website. For folks who want to read it, go to rebelnews.com. It's on the website or

00:34:46.760 go to Sheila's Twitter feed, which is also a fun way to read it as in chronological order. Great to see

00:34:52.340 you, my friend. Thanks for doing such good reportage. You really are telling the other

00:34:56.120 side of the story. Thanks, boss. All right. There you have it. Sheila Gunn-Reed. We don't

00:35:00.360 call her our chief reporter for nothing. Stay with us. Your words to me next.

00:35:05.560 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Petty McKay says, God has won the victory with the help of

00:35:22.240 his servants, Ezra Levant, his team, the lawyers involved in the case, an honest judge, and many

00:35:27.440 prayers. Praise God. It really did feel miraculous. And I was starting to lose hope. I really was. How

00:35:33.580 many lawsuits have failed in the last two years? This was the first major victory.

00:35:38.980 Del French says, never thought it would happen. I thought the courts were just as corrupt as the

00:35:44.500 politicians. Well, maybe not. All these COVID fines should be taken to court and all the cops involved

00:35:50.020 should be fired. They should know better and they didn't. They should be looking for another job,

00:35:55.460 like maybe shoveling snow.

00:35:56.820 No. I think police were an enormous disappointment over the last two years.

00:36:04.540 I think good cops who didn't want to be mask enforcers and health inspectors either retired,

00:36:10.940 were shuffled out of the way, or some of them were fired, the ones who spoke out. I think the worst

00:36:16.220 of the policing traits were rewarded. Anyone who liked being a bully, people who liked the vagueness.

00:36:24.140 I mean, imagine arresting someone for not having six feet of separation from someone else,

00:36:30.040 a quasi-scientific rule that was proven not to have any underlying research basis.

00:36:37.180 I think police really lost a lot of trust over the last two years. It'll be a long time to recover.

00:36:44.180 And that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:36:48.180 Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:51.600 I'm Jeremy Lofredo for Rebel News in New York City. We're going to see how New Yorkers feel

00:36:55.500 about replacing traditional animal-based proteins like chicken and beef with more experimental,

00:36:59.760 sustainable, low-carbon proteins like crickets, mealworms, and bugs.

00:37:03.960 The fact that the ruling class wants to replace nutritious meat and other animal proteins with

00:37:08.720 insects has been deemed as conspiracy theory as recently as last year. But more recently,

00:37:13.740 the elite and their obedient friends in the media have been pushing the idea of replacing supposedly

00:37:17.740 dirty, unsustainable meat with bugs, crickets, mealworms, you name it. The World Economic Forum,

00:37:23.800 the thought leaders of the global agenda, have recently gone into overdrive, pushing the bugs

00:37:28.240 as food narrative. The WEF explains that eating insects can reduce climate change and that insects

00:37:33.900 quote, deserve a role in our diets. In regards to eating bugs, the WEF explained their goal is more

00:37:39.580 than just publishing articles on the topic. They wish to change public perception and change public

00:37:44.200 regulatory policy. They wrote that we, meaning them, need to quote, overcome the last major

00:37:49.160 barriers, which are preconceived ideas about insects as a source of food and legislation with regard to

00:37:54.160 the use and consumption of proteins derived from insects. They argue that by 2050, the world's food

00:37:59.400 supply will need to feed another 2 billion people. Insect farming for food could offer an environmentally

00:38:03.840 friendly solution to the impending food crisis. According to this article, insects are quote,

00:38:09.300 a credible and efficient alternative protein source requiring fewer resources than conventional breeding.

00:38:14.200 and a healthy ingredient that is highly digestible. PBS, which has received millions of dollars from

00:38:19.480 the Gates Foundation, as recently as last week aired a new documentary pushing the bug eating agenda.

00:38:23.840 The documentary edible insects was promoted on their social media as being quote, a tasty look

00:38:28.360 at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet. Last year, Time Magazine,

00:38:34.040 a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum, which had an entire magazine edition last year called

00:38:38.760 The Great Reset, featured an article in their not so subtly titled 2030 edition, which called for the

00:38:44.040 eating of insects to save the planet. The WEF partner said they are healthy and sustainable and asked why

00:38:49.000 humans don't eat more bugs. In the article, readers can learn that the plan to feed everyone bugs is

00:38:53.620 already being undertaken on the world's most vulnerable. International aid agency Catholic Relief

00:38:58.400 Services, whose president and CEO is a partner of the World Economic Forum, is already giving cricket-based

00:39:03.740 meals, which according to Time are fiber-rich, to hungry people and adding it into their initiative to

00:39:08.500 supply children with more nutritious and sustainable school lunch programs. What do regular people think of this?

00:39:13.360 Since regular people have little say or control over the decisions of our regulatory agencies,

00:39:17.780 they'll likely have little say if crickets get introduced into our everyday foods or not.

00:39:21.220 What do you think about eating insects instead of meat?

00:39:23.980 I think any way we can cut back eating meat is important.

00:39:27.020 What do you think about eating bugs?

00:39:28.420 Well, personally, I hate bugs, so I wouldn't, no.

00:39:31.360 So you wouldn't eat them?

00:39:32.240 Definitely not.

00:39:33.020 Not even to save the planet?

00:39:34.940 Well, to save the planet, I might give it a consideration and maybe try it, but I hate bugs.

00:39:40.380 Instead of a steak or a burger, no.

00:39:43.300 You would support it if they started phasing out some animal proteins for bug proteins?

00:39:47.520 Definitely.

00:39:48.640 Yeah.

00:39:49.540 Yeah.

00:39:50.060 Too many animals being butchered, contributing to climate change, and we don't need all of it.

00:39:57.440 I'm more concerned about the fires in our food processing plants, takeover of our farmland

00:40:06.500 by billionaires.

00:40:08.260 We've lived how many thousands of years with farming and animal husbandry, and suddenly

00:40:15.540 we're supposed to go to crickets?

00:40:16.940 I mean, come on.

00:40:17.640 I'm sure that they're going to be targeting kids because it's going to be a cool factor

00:40:22.620 for them.

00:40:23.380 Many adults that we've spoken to so far support the idea of eating crickets because they think

00:40:27.720 it'll save the climate.

00:40:28.720 Oh, please.

00:40:30.160 Oh, please.

00:40:30.840 I've lived through 40, 50 climate hysterias in my life.

00:40:36.320 Manhattan was supposed to already be covered with water.

00:40:39.260 I don't see any rich people stopping their purchase of waterfront properties.

00:40:45.260 Given what's happening in Holland with the farmers, this is all coordinated, without a

00:40:51.580 doubt. 0.99

00:40:52.860 Disgusting. 1.00

00:40:53.740 That shit nasty. 1.00

00:40:55.200 Well, it's your choice to do what you want to do, but you shouldn't put it in old foods. 1.00

00:40:58.100 You should let people choose what they want to do with this shit. 0.99

00:41:00.100 But they say it'll help the environment. 0.99

00:41:02.080 Do you think it'll help the environment? 0.98

00:41:03.660 The government says a lot of shit that it's not true all the time, so you never really 0.99

00:41:06.780 know what don't. 0.99

00:41:07.940 Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

00:41:09.340 I think anything to help the climate, and I think the government should support it.

00:41:14.040 I'd be pretty questionable.

00:41:15.120 If I got a burger that was like a cricket burger, I'd be pretty concerned.

00:41:20.360 It's actually probably a bit healthier and cleaner of protein than what you would get

00:41:23.140 with those other kinds of meats.

00:41:24.500 I think it would be hard to get people to hop on board.

00:41:27.000 There would be some reframing to be done.

00:41:29.880 What do you mean by reframing?

00:41:32.280 A lot of people, there's a stigma against eating bugs, essentially, I feel like, considered

00:41:36.160 kind of nasty or just undesirable to a lot of people.

00:41:39.160 So there would need to be a messaging campaign that explains that bugs are actually clean and

00:41:45.300 healthy?

00:41:46.840 I would think so, yeah.

00:41:47.760 How do you feel about the government using taxpayer funds to incentivize more cricket

00:41:52.180 and mealworm industrial farms and desensitivize ranchers from raising cattle, chickens, and

00:41:56.820 meat in general?

00:41:58.620 If that were to happen, I would think that would be really cool.

00:42:01.660 Yeah.

00:42:02.000 How do you feel about substituting out chicken and beef animal proteins for mealworm, crickets,

00:42:07.400 bug proteins?

00:42:08.220 They say it'll help the climate.

00:42:09.800 Yeah.

00:42:10.440 I mean, I think if people have that interest, as I understand it, it's a very robust source

00:42:17.900 of protein.

00:42:18.900 I'm all for that.

00:42:20.660 On the other hand, I'm not for being in a position as a consumer, an American consumer,

00:42:28.300 being forced necessarily to get down a path such as insects and other high-protein sources.

00:42:37.900 I'd rather stick to the meat.

00:42:38.860 Hell no.

00:42:40.160 They're not going to have insects on your plate.

00:42:42.380 Whoever you are that's about to make this happen or trying to make this happen, I'm pretty

00:42:47.160 sure you're not going to be the ones eating this stuff or these things that you're trying

00:42:51.560 to manufacture.

00:42:52.880 I feel that it's something that should be explored, and I think it could really help

00:42:58.100 our planet.

00:42:59.260 If it's less burdensome on the environment, I don't think it's a bad idea.

00:43:02.280 If it's for the environment, definitely.

00:43:04.160 If you refuse to succumb to the World Economic Forum's new plan for the future of food, go to

00:43:08.100 IWONTEatBugs.com and sign our petition.

00:43:10.640 That's IWONTEatBugs.com.

Rebel News Podcast - July 26, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau dumps millions more into online censorship, especially against anyone who disagrees with his approach to Ukraine

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